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Q. What is the context of the chart? Which stock index or indices is it showing?
A. The index shown is one I constructed using several sub-indices and individual share prices. In summary, it covers Genoa (the Bank of St George) from 1509 to 1601, Holland (the Dutch East India Company) from 1602 to 1692, Great Britain (the East India Company, the Bank of England and the South Sea Company) from 1693 to 1788, and the United States (various indices of financial, transportation and industrial companies) from 1789 onwards. The index is constructed as an extension of the S&P 500, which began in its earliest form in 1923. The accompanying list of financial crises goes back somewhat further than the data on listed share prices, to include the histories of the banking houses of Northern Italy, notably the Medici bank in Florence. The sequence of Florence, Genoa, Holland, England and the U.S. broadly represents the shifts in the location of financial innovation and economic hegemony throughout the period, as outlined in, for example, historian Giovanni Arrighi’s book The Long Twentieth Century. The list of financial crises was partly inspired by Charles P. Kindleberger’s study Manias, Panics and Crashes.
Q. Given its upward trend, are you suggesting that investing in stocks pays off in the long term?
A. I don’t draw any statistical or economic conclusions from the chart. It is intended only as an illustration of financial history. I would highlight three technical reasons for caution: firstly, the index doesn’t include dividends, so it does not show the total return from owning stocks; secondly, it is not adjusted for inflation, so does not represent the real value of stocks relative to goods prices; and thirdly, like any long term index it has survivor bias, in other words it is given an upward bias as failing companies are replaced by successful ones in the index.
Q. Can you put the chart into current market context and what you expect to happen with the S&P 500?
A. I don’t have an opinion or a forecast on the current stock market, beyond the observation that over the past few years it has done a good job of proving the old dictum that bull markets climb a wall of worry. I would note that attempting to call major stock market tops has generally not been a fruitful activity for investors.
Q. What is the key point of the chart?
A. The key point of the chart, as mentioned above, is to be an illustration of financial history. It is a visualisation of the ebb and flow of market sentiment from a long term perspective, or what historian Fernand Braudel termed the Longue Durée. Much financial commentary is concerned with the very short term, and I believe it is useful and edifying to place market movements in a longer term context.
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https://trader535.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/a-history-of-share-prices/
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Brother Qadeer,I don’t understand your question. Can you elaborate please?
Next Next post: Biggest Bridge Slide Ever!!!
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Some nonprofits fear erosion of a key funding source — bequests from estates – as a result of the tax law President Obama signed Dec. 17, a measure that cuts both estate tax rate from pre-2010 levels and slashes the number of people subject to it, making it much easier for wealthy families to pass on money tax-free to their heirs and thus reduce funds for charities, Bloomberg reported Dec. 23 (see estate tax story).
The Wikimedia Foundation, parent organization of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, raised over $16 million in a pledge drive that began Nov. 14 and generated more than 500,000 individual donations, up from 230,000 donations during Wikipedia’s 67-day fundraiser in 2009, PC Magazine reported Jan. 2 (see Wikipedia fundraising story).
Instead of writing checks to support charities, a growing number of Canadians are starting their own charities, asking friends and family for support, and taking a much more active role in determining how the money is spent, The Globe and Mail reported Dec. 23 (see Canadian giving story).
The British government is considering asking for donations to charity whenever a customer uses an automated-teller machine or pays for items using a bank card, Bloomberg reported Dec. 29 (see ATM giving story).
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https://pj.news.chass.ncsu.edu/2011/01/03/nonprofits-fear-tax-law-changes-could-hurt-bequests/
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A balding detective and his rotund partner go up against a triad crime syndicate.
| One Of Sammo's Best!
Sammo Hung plays 'Fatty Dragon' a thrill seeking, crime fighting martial arts expert who is partners with the conniving and fast talking 'Skinny Tiger'(Karl Maka), together they take down criminals in their own compromising style.
One day they are assigned to one of the biggest cases in their careers, they must take down an known drug baron(played by the wonderful Lau Kar-Wing) and bring him to justice.
The Plot is very basic, with a rather pointless sub-plot in Singapore involving the two main characters and two local girls wanting to open a karaoke bar, but apart from that the rest of the movie is an extremely enjoyable action romp.
Sammo displays his skills proving once again why he's the best in the business, adding this time a little Bruce Lee flavour into the mix, with each fight scene having Sammo performing signature moves from all of Buce's films, it's also worth noting he's one of the best Bruce Lee imitators despite his large physique .
Karl Maka however provides most of the movies comedy, as he talks his way through out the film in a rather manic manner.
All in all this film really should be viewed for the action, not the story or acting. Also watch out for a fast and furious confrontation between a lightening paced Sammo Hung, and a knife wielding Lar-Kar Wing.
Much of the film was recorded in Singapore, but the rest was filmed in the New Territories and Hong Kong.
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Ah, you’re Number 1 Sammy, and I know you know that. It’s very nice to trust people, but I tend to be on the distrustful side myself, so I understand.
Maybe Man and Aunt Carol will bring you back something new to play with and bat around.
Hi Uncle J……I seem to sense who I can and cannot trust which Mom says humans do too – although we ALL can get that wrong once in a while!! LOL Yeah, I’m hoping when Mom and Aunt Carol go out shopping after they have lunch they just MIGHT find something fun for me too – after all, I’m trying to STAY spoiled!
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2019-04-20T06:43:01Z
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https://onespoiledcat.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/sams-aunt-carol/?shared=email&msg=fail
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*flips a table* THIS IS AMAZING!
this is like a softcore gabber track. lol. i like it!
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https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/16729
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Took more pics at the event. then vitaly came to pick me up and we hung out.
Did a shoot with Marie. Took all day but the pics came out great!
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2019-04-26T00:35:16Z
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https://fwee-prower.livejournal.com/29543.html
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As we always do Vaticon will be the best place to be for card games this weekend. We will be hosting The War of the Spark Prerelease, an Elemental Challenge in L5R, as well as a Pokemon Prerelease for the upcoming set Unbroken Bonds.
Join us at Vaticon in UCD for our biggest Magic event of the year! War of the Spark represents the epic conclusion of a years long story where the minions of Nicol Bolas will engage The Gatewatch and their allies in all out war for control of the multiverse!
Registration will open at 10:30 and Prerelease Packs will be distributed at 11:00.
Each participant will use the cards in his or her Prerelease Pack plus any number of basic lands from our land station to build a 40 deck with which to do battle against their fellow Planeswalkers.
There will be a prize pool equal to 2 booster packs x the number of player's in the tournament. Every player will get at least one prize pack and the remainder will be distributed among the players with a positive win:loss ratio.
Be the first to check out the new cards in Pokémon: Unbroken Bonds!
At prerelease you get 4 packs and an evolution pack in order to build a deck and get a chance to try the new set before it's even released!
Our Pokémon Professors will be about to help with building a deck and any other questions you may have during the event.
Prizes: There will be 3 booster packs per player in the prize pool for these tournaments. Each player will receive two booster packs at the tournament's end and the remaining boosters will be shared out among players with a positive win:loss record.
Hosted by Vaticon, UCD's student-run Convention, the Irishl5r Team are running an Elemental Challenge on the Sunday of the Convention.
Every participant will get some promos only available at Elemental Challenges, as well as the opportunity to acquire other prizes based on wins, with the overall victor at the end of the event receiving a free Bye for a future Elemental Championship.
The tournament will be 5 rounds of Swiss with no cut, with Registration running from 9am to 10am, and the first round starting at 10:15am.
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2019-04-23T20:46:58Z
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https://sites.google.com/vaticon.ie/vaticon25/card-games
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When I was a kid growing up in Southern Ontario, one of my favourite activities was to visit Bronte Creek Provincial Park. Back then, the park had a full working farm complete with horses, cows, sheep, goats, and chickens. If you were lucky, the retired farmer who ran the place would let you bottle-feed the lambs and operate the old-fashioned rutabaga peeler to feed the young bull. It was a magical place that helped inspire my interest in agritourism.
I began this agritourism project in 2010 when I took a break from working full-time in the software industry (you can see my LinkedIn profile here). I continued to work part-time, but also spent 20-30 hours per week visiting agritourism destinations in the Ottawa area and writing about them on this blog.
During that time, I rediscovered my passion for connecting businesses with consumers. It’s given me great satisfaction to assist in promoting small businesses and the rural side of Ottawa. Along the way, I have also learned a great deal about agriculture, tourism, social media, and this wonderful part of Eastern Ontario that I call home.
I’ve now returned to a regular job in high-tech, so I don’t have the same amount of time to devote to this project. However, I intend to keep the website running and to write the occasional article when I visit a new agritourism destination in the area. If you have any ideas for future articles, please contact me through the Contact page.
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https://agritourismottawa.wordpress.com/about-2/
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An Experimental Evaluation of Keyword-Filler Hidden Markov Models. Aren Jansen; Partha Niyogi. 16 April, 2009. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
Point Process Models for Spotting Keywords in Continuous Speech. Aren Jansen; Partha Niyogi. 19 September, 2008. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
Point Process Models for Event-Based Speech Recognition. Aren Jansen; Partha Niyogi. 27 February, 2008. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
Manifold Regularization and Semi-supervised Learning: Some Theoretical Analyses. Partha Niyogi. 23 January, 2008. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
A Probabilistic Speech Recognition Framework Based on the Temporal Dynamics of Distinctive Feature Landmark Detectors. Aren Jansen; Partha Niyogi. 1 June, 2007. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
A Geometric Perspective on Speech Sounds. Aren Jansen; Partha Niyogi. 27 June, 2005. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
Finding the Homology of Submanifolds with High Confidence from Random Samples. Partha Niyogi; Stephen Smale; Shmuel Weinberger. 12 November, 2004. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
Manifold Regularization: A Geometric Framework for Learning from Examples. Mikhail Belkin; Partha Niyogi; Vikas Sindhwani. 25 August, 2004. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
On Manifold Regularization. Mikhail Belkin; Partha Niyogi; Vikas Sindhwani. 20 June, 2004. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
Measuring the Functional Load of Phonological Contrasts. Dinoj Surendran; Partha Niyogi. 4 November, 2003. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
Regression and Regularization on Large Graphs. Mikhail Belkin; Irina Matveeva; Partha Niyogi. 4 November, 2003. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
Semi-supervised learning on manifolds. Mikhail Belkin; Partha Niyogi. 29 November, 2002. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
Locality Preserving Projections (LPP). Xiaofei He; Partha Niyogi. 29 October, 2002. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
Almost-everywhere algorithmic stability and generalization error. Samuel Kutin; Partha Niyogi. 25 March, 2002. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
Detecting and Interpreting Acoustic Features Using Support Vector Machines. Partha Niyogi; Chris Burges. 16 January, 2002. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
Laplacian Eigenmaps for Dimensionality Reduction and Data Representation. Mikhail Belkin; Partha Niyogi. 4 January, 2002. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
The interaction of stability and weakness in AdaBoost. Samuel Kutin; Partha Niyogi. 19 October, 2001. Communicated by Partha Niyogi.
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https://newtraell.cs.uchicago.edu/people/niyogi
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You never know what you're going to find when you arrive in Ærøskøbing, the cozy capital of the island of Ærø. On Friday night, there was a free rock concert on the town square by a band called the Ærø Boys. The Ærø Boys consist of the mayor of Æroskøbing, his brother, and his two sons.
Around 9 at night, I saw a police car come around the corner. This surprised me because a town resident once told me the police on this little island only work 9 to 5, Monday through Thursday, and take off early on Fridays. A few minutes later I saw the uniformed officer at the concert, chatting with friends, smoking a pipe.
The band rocked out to a mixture of Danish tunes and covers by American bands. Lynyrd Skynyrd will never sound quite the same now that I have heard "Sweet Home Alabama" sung with a Danish accent.
Five-hundred buglers are qualified by the US military to play "Taps," but with roughly 1,800 veterans and Iraq war soldiers dying every day, there aren't enough bugle players to keep up with all the funerals. So the military has come up with a solution: the digital bugle.
Anyone can play it. Even you. You just hold it up to your mouth, puff out your cheeks like Louis Armstrong, and discretely push a button on the bugle. A speaker concealed in the horn then belts out a pitch-perfect rendition of the smash funeral hit.
According to CNN, "The Pentagon tested the method for six months, before approving it for wider use last year, and reported that most families were satisfied with the experience."
This raises interesting questions such as: What the hell?!?!
We are at war and the Pentagon has just spent six months testing an artificial bugle? Is this good use of Pentagon time? Is President Bush going to play the fake bugle on Letterman before the November election? He and Bill Clinton could jam.
I have a better idea. Instead of inventing fake bugles to replace real ones, the Pentagon should invent a fake war to replace the one we're having. That way we wouldn't have so many funerals and we wouldn't need so many people to play "Taps."
I just had dinner with some friends at the Turntable -- the restaurant inside Seattle's "Experience Music Project" rock 'n' roll museum. During the time we were eating, we heard "Crash" by the Dave Matthews Band not once, not twice, but three times.
The museum charges $19.95 to get in. Cocktails in the restaurant are $7.50 each. With prices like that, can they not afford to invest in a few more CDs?
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Bouncy Castle Hire Croydon – Add some bounce to your party!
Hire the best Bouncy Castle in Croydon today!
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As you already know, we hire out bouncy castles in croydon, lots of them too! We have the biggest selection in the area, are fully registered and have a full public liability insurance.
All you need to do is give us a quick call or fill out the form below, choose the bouncy castle that you want us to set up in croydon and the date you need it.
Once you have done all that, we will make sure that we get everything locked in for your funtastic day!
Dont worry we have you covered if you need some extra toys too, anything from tug a war – ropes to extra large bouncy castles, you want it, we have it!
Also dont worry about the mess, we will build and secure the castle and take it back down and clean up after ourselves, we are great like that. Anything extra you might need for your special day in croydon, just let us know and we will make sure that we get it for you right away!
We have a huge ball pit that we can build up in your garden for your kids to have the birthday party of their lives! Just call one of our professional party planners today!
You can even specify which amount of balls and what size of them too.
Thank you so much for your time, we really hope that you have the best time of your life with our amazing toys.
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https://bouncycastlehirecroydon.wordpress.com/
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Broken Window, originally uploaded by smooveb.
I’m in an emotional fog right now, and it is easy to assume this is because of The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.
It is an odd book. It is about a community – a block really – the families, the gossip, The Lisbon Girls and the boys who watched them. It was an odd book in structure alone. Two weeks of reading, and I look down thinking What? Only page 144? and by 5 pm today, I was done. It wasn’t slow by any means, just… strolling, if reading may do so.
You get to know the Lisbon girls curiously, intimately, as the boys do: through things seen between curtains, memories pieced together by the crowd, knick-knacks noticed while passing bedrooms, invading bathroom cupboards. You feel for them, but know not what they’re feeling. You are a fly on the wall at dances, parties, acts witnessed in the dark. You can’t forget the Lisbon girls once they’re dead: you fall in love with them, their chains, and their mystery just as much as the boys did – do. You choose to acknowledge and proceed to ignore the same conclusion your peers have come to: “They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived – bound, in other words, for life.” You feel bound too, and admire Cecilia, Lux, Bonnie, Mary and Therese for having the courage to escape.
In only 250 pages you age a hundred years. Dear reader, you grow to know these girls better than you know your own family. The boys piece it all together for you. So let the girls leave, one by one, and don’t feel sad. You knew they were too good, too pure, too knowing for us when they got here.
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2019-04-24T04:20:58Z
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During the WHAT TEENS WANT conference held in October at the Marina Del Rey Marriott (just down the street from our office) I thought it VERY STRANGE that no games execs were speaking and no emphasis was on games at the conference.
There was mention of SECOND LIFE but basically in passing.
and 66 percent of those that play with their kids think it brings the family closer.
YET there was no GAMES SEGMENT at that conference...we wonder why???
MADE -- the TV show-- developed to create and share and validate ..
How are teens changing since the Millennial Generation? Chris and Kevin present on the future of teens in the post-9/11 era. They also take a look at Next Step’s 900,000 teens and how they react and engage in the media.
An Olympic champion talks about her experiences training for and competing in the Olympic Games, and how she makes choices in developing her personal brand.
WHAT TEENS WANT FOR XMAS -- NO GAMES ON GIRLS' LISTS!
WOW big surprise from this new poll that shows what Teens Want for Holiday Presents by Joyce Schwarz, blogging at www.hollywood2020.blogs.com. Marketers and entertainment execs should check this out....according to this source-- girls want more communication devices and boys will be boys and want games and game platforms!
Accessories are ALWAYS welcome !!!!!!!
BOYS VERSUS GIRLS -- very different!
According to the press release on Business Wire...In a recent TeenSpot (http://www.teenspot.com/) survey, co-developed with its ad rep firm, Gorilla Nation (http://www.gorillanation.com/2006/), thousands of teens were asked what was on their holiday wish lists this year.
The most requested holiday gifts among teen girls are: 1) iPod; 2) Cell phone; 3) Laptop; and 4) Digital Camera. For guys: 1) Playstation 3 (good luck getting one); 2) iPod; 3) Xbox 360; and 4) Nintendo Wii.
3) more consumer electronics are sold in the U.S. in the fourth quarter than in the previous three combined, and these lists show why.
Sales of traditional toys, which exclude video games and game consoles, fell 4 percent to $21.3 billion in 2005, from $22.1 billion in 2004, according to NPD.
But online sales of traditional toys surged 32 percent in 2005 compared to the year-ago period, according to comScore Networks, an Internet research percent of company. NPD estimates that online toy sales account for about 6 percent of total toy sales.
Toy companies are becoming family entertainment companies, manufacturing not only traditional toys but DVDs, computer games and electronics according to a recent report by Medill News Service.
Electronic toys and games already take up 35 percent of the whole toy market!
. It is expected that the market of hi-tech toys is growing 15% per annum during the next decade and will reach sales of US$ 146 billion up to 2015.
Especially, the toys using nanotechnology, artificial intelligence and wireless networking will march with the fastest paces. By 2015, these three technologies will have impacted 65% of all the toys and games.
The wireless, interactive and educational toys and games will become a major entertainment alternative for adults. The toys for people over 14 years old will take 40% of the total market share in ten years.
Far Removed From the Multiplex is the title of a 2 page spread that LA TIMES is featuring today on teens and movies....it's subhead says, "With an array of devices at their fingertips, youths don't always think of theaters as the place to see a flick."
click on thumbnail to see LA TIMES poll details on home-viewing stats.
Nearly half (47%) of respondents ages 12 to 17 say they would watch a movie on a PC, well above the interest in doing the same on a cellphone (11%) or video iPod and similar devices (18%). A similar share of those 21 to 24 said they would watch movies on a computer, although they are much less willing to do the same on a cellphone (6%) or video iPod (7%).
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2019-04-18T14:58:51Z
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https://hollywood2020.blogs.com/hollywood2020/teens_millennials/
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This week we looked at a case study involving Best Buy, and their struggle to keep up with the online shopping takeover. Best Buy was one of the leading electronics stores in the nation throughout the 2000’s. But with the explosion of online shopping, and lower costs online thanks to no need for a show room, Best Buy started losing customers. The unfortunate phenomena of “show rooming” saw customers come into fully stocked Best Buy stores with the sole intention of testing electronics. Then they would leave the store and proceed to purchase the vary products they spent an afternoon testing online for a lower price. As this became more and more frequent, the president of Best Buy resigned. Now this was due to an internal affair, but the timing was pretty awful.
Best Buy worked furiously to bring more customers into their stores, and they did this by creating a promotion that later became a permanent tactic within the brand. What was created originally as a holiday season sale, the low price guarantee, saw Best Buy stores nationwide matching any competitors prices, whether they be online or brick-and-mortar stores. This kept Best Buy afloat through the holiday rush, but even after they continued to offer the guarantee all year round they weren’t bringing in enough funds to make money. This led to the closing of many stores, and an increased focus on creating the best customer service possible.
From a PR standpoint I think Best Buy has done a pretty good job reinventing themselves and dealing with the changing times. Obviously this is an uphill battle, but they appear to be on the right track. Thanks to online reviews and the plethora of information available on the web, consumers these days think they know all there is to know about products. This is where Best Buy is working to help consumers and provide the best buying experience possible. But shouldn’t this have been their goal all along? I’m curious to see what their next move is.
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2019-04-24T07:51:44Z
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https://jklipana.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/best-buy-and-their-battle-against-online-shopping/
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Long before I visited Orchha I knew it was a great location for sunsets. In fact, I was completely oblivious that the place even existed until I one day stumbled across some photos of the sun setting behind the Chhatris.
At that very moment I knew it was somewhere I should look into further. Less than an hour later I realised just how much Orchha has to offer with the Chhatris, Fort, Chaturbhuj Temple, and Lakshmi Narayan Temple, plus the close proximity to world heritage sites such as Khajuraho and Sanchi. It didn’t take long for me to build out a 10 day itinerary that encompassed all of these and lot more besides, starting and ending in Bhopal.
Having now returned from Orchha, I thought it might be useful for others to know where the best locations are to capture the sunset with those Chhatris and the Betwa river in the foreground. I went on a few evenings to scout locations, the weather conditions were not perfect for sunsets so you might be faced with a more impressive scenes than I was during my stay in Orchha.
This is where the majority of people go to capture the sunset at Orchha. Here you have the classic view of the Betwa river in front and the scene dominated by the Chhatris.
As you can see from the above photo, the bridge is only just wide enough for a single vehicle, and there’s no barriers at the side of the bridge either. So, every time a vehicle tries to use the bridge in either direction, you need to walk back to the bank and get off it. This bridge is one of the major routes into the town, so it’s hugely busy. To be frank, it’s a quite dangerous.
The second issue is the barbed-wire fence to your left, which is the direction of the setting sun. This prevents anyone entering the Orchha Wildlife Sanctuary (more on that shortly), so you have to try and get far enough long the bridge to get the fence out of sight, whilst also trying to simultaneously ensure you’re not about to be bumped off into the river by a passing vehicle. I can’t swim, enough said about this option I think.
Because of the fenced off area right by the bridge to the west, another option is to go east, slightly further away from the Chhatris and shoot them with the bridge in the foreground (see above map for location).
For those not wanting any humans or vehicles in the sunset shot, this will pose some challenges, but if you embrace the situation it can work to your advantage I think. You do miss out on having so much of the river in the foreground, but it is at least safe. Here you can sit on the rocks, set up a tripod, and have a bit more of a relaxing experience.
Note : This area is rife with aggressive and confident monkeys, don’t leave any bags or camera equipment away from you as they will certainly come over and take things.
This wildlife sanctuary owns a good portion of the southern bank of the river Betwa immediately west of the bridge, which accounts for all that barbed wire fencing right by the bridge itself. I have to confess I didn’t visit this place, reviews were extremely mixed and there was quite a high entrance fee with camera. I’m also not convinced it would be the best place, you would be directly opposite the Chhatris but perhaps a little too close. I would love to hear from anyone that gives this location a try.
Ahhh. Once again,, great eye and well seen, my friend. I’ll take Option 1, the first photo I think. I do miss the Indian sunsets/sunrises. Thanks.
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Meave Warnock Sheehan first learned about oral history when she decided to take a graduate class at Rutgers University-Newark as part of a master’s program.
Meave's previous jobs have been in local journalism, education, and government. Recently, she has been enjoying finding out more about her family history and learning about photography. Her research interests include local history, military history, podcasting, and the performance of storytelling.
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http://oralhistory.columbia.edu/current-student-bios/People/meave-sheehan-2016
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This picture was taken a while ago. Its not such a great caption but I guarantee that this soup tastes a lot better than it looks. Spinach was not one of my favorite childhood foods. I would swallow my taste aversions for spinach and eat it anyways. Whenever I think of spinach, the first image that enters my head is Popeye The Sailor Man’s bulging biceps. Therefore, it was difficult for me to take spinach seriously. I grew up on spinach soup but I’ve always eaten the pre-made frozen packaged soups. That is when my dislike for spinach began to dissipate. Now I’ve been utilizing spinach,fresh and frozen in a lot of dishes such as sides,casseroles, salads, and now soup. But as I started to take an interest in cooking, I’ve tried to replicate these soups using actual produce. When made right, spinach soup has a creamy texture and a rich flavor. Its bright green color is a result of adding spinach just before blending.
While some people use fresh baby spinach to make this soup, I don’t. I tried making spinach soup that way before and it came out too watery for me. I prefer my soups deep,rich,creamy,velvety, and flavorful. This method didn’t achieve any of these desired textures. Perhaps I have missed the mark. I find it that the results from making this soup using frozen spinach is more satisfactory (at least in my rule book of cookery). Plus it tastes just as fresh and is just a nutritious. Generally, frozen vegetables contain more nutrients than their fresh counterparts because the nutrients are locked in when frozen. Like most of my soup recipes, spinach soup is not that much more difficult to make. I used zucchini and celery for creaminess instead of heavy cream. I suppose you can use a bit of non-fat sour cream or low fat milk for extra richness. The choice is obviously yours. You can enjoy this delicious soup with crusty whole grain bread or home made soup croutons which basically involves seasoning and toasting bread crusts. When doing so, please keep an eye on them so they don’t burn (guilty). Burnt food will ruin the flavors you are trying to enjoy in a dish.
Heat oil in large saucepan or Dutch oven. Sauté garlic, onion, celery and zucchini for 5 minutes. Add vegetable broth and fat-free/non-dairy milk. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Cool slightly, then transfer soup to a blender, working in two batches if necessary. Add remaining spinach and blend (if working in two batches, use half the remaining spinach with each batch). Blend until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.Garnish with chopped chives, soup croutons, or a dollop of fat-free plain Greek yogurt.
This entry was posted in Gluten Free, Soup, Vegetarian and tagged broth, Celery, Garlic, onions, soup, spinach, vegetarian, zucchini.
Traditionally, Chinese cuisines tend to concentrate more on vegetables and grains and less on meat/poultry. As it made its way towards the Western hemisphere, Chinese food has become increasingly popular in other parts of the world such as the Americas, Australia, Western Europe and Southern Africa. Chinese food has also become a specialty among the Jewish populace (I include myself), especially on Christmas and Passover eve (guilty). Don’t ask me why because I am unable to provide an explanation among this growing phenomenon.
Orange chicken is one of my favorite Chinese dishes. I order this dish every time I go out to eat at a Chinese restaurant. Unfortunately, like a lot of other ethnic cuisines these days, Chinese food, especially chicken, tends to be saturated in oil and loaded with MSG. As delicious as they are, as someone who is health conscious, I can’t overlook the unsavory nutritious facts. And I utterly loathe greasy food. But rather than permanently cancel out Chinese food altogether, I try looking for renditions that are not heavy in sodium and oil. That is how I’m still able to cling to the food I enjoy most whilst curtailing the calories,sodium, and fat content to my best ability.
For this recipe, I used skinless chicken breasts as they don’t nearly contain as much fat as chicken thighs and legs. Secondly, I used fresh orange juice from oranges rather than using concentrated orange juice. Yes, it may be more labor intensive to have to manually juice each orange but it saves you calories. I noticed that a lot of people like to use marmalade in the makings of orange chicken. Although I happen to like marmalade myself, it is loaded with sugar. While a bit of sweetness in crucial in a lot of Chinese dishes, I prefer to minimize the usage of sugar as much as I possibly can. I find that orange zest does just as a good job accentuating the tangy flavor in orange chicken.
But there is still that concern with MSG. A lot of Asian cuisines require soy sauce. Soy sauce does contain copious amount of MSG and sodium. So does teriyaki sauce for that matter. That is why we don’t normally use large dosages of soy sauce. I generally use low-sodium soy sauce. I like to use a small chili pepper for a bit of fiery sensation but you can leave it out if you don’t share my (heart) burning desire for some extra spice (I had to throw that lame pun in. Sue me). And don’t forget the veggies.
A heavily protein meal must be balance out with vegetables. I used assorted frozen Chinese vegetables. If you can’t find any at the frozen section of your supermarket, you can use chopped fresh peppers,celery,onion,broccoli, long green beans, bok choy, etc. Like most Chinese food, you should use a wok to cook the orange chicken in. This chicken serves well hot with whole grain rice or noodles. Garnish with chopped green scallions and toasted sesame seeds (optional).
In a small bowl, whisk cornstarch,orange juice,soy sauce,sesame seed oil and rice vinegar, until well combined. Set aside. Heat a large wok over medium- high heat. Add 2 tablespoons of the oil. Dredge chicken pieces in cornstarch. Place them in the wok and saute them for 1 1/2 minute or until a nice golden sear appears on each side. Remove from wok and set aside. Add the 2 remaining tablespoons of oil. When oil is hot enough, add the chopped onions and stir-fry until they turn glossy and bright, 1 to 2 minutes. Add garlic,ginger, and chili pepper and saute for another 2 minutes. Add the Chinese vegetables and stir-fry until they are glossy and tender. Add the broth/water and continue to stir-fry. Return the chicken to the wok. Pour in the orange juice mixture and continue to cook until thick and bubbly. Sprinkle with chopped green scallions and toasted sesame seeds.
This entry was posted in Gluten Free, Meat and tagged chicken breasts, Chinese vegetables, meat, orange chicken.
Despite its name, buckwheat is not wheat. It’s gluten-free, and it’s safe for people with celiac disease. Buckwheat and wheat are from completely different botanical families. Buckwheat seeds are technically the fruit of a plant called Fagopyrum esculentum. Although buckwheat is not a grain, it is sometimes referred to as a pseudocereal. For processing into food, buckwheat seeds must first be dehulled. The remaining seed material, called groats, can be ground into flour. Roasted groats are known as kasha. Buckwheat is high in protein and B vitamins and rich in phosphorus, potassium, iron, calcium, and lysine. A great source of dietary fiber, buckwheat helps lower cholesterol levels in the blood.
Growing up, I remember my grandmother serving buckwheat as a hot side dish along with some whole wheat farfalle (bow tie pasta). Ironically, buckwheat wasn’t exactly on the top of my favorite dishes until I’ve learned about other variations. A lot of people I know tend to serve buckwheat as a side dish which is fine. I’ve seen buckwheat being eaten as it is. Some people I know would also add some tomato sauce and cheese, or ground beef.
I know that I’m long overdue for a salad recipe. I do think buckwheat would make a great and nutritious addition to salads. I’m sure a lot of you discovered a variety of buckwheat salad recipes. I initially planned to make a buckwheat salad using apples,walnuts, and cinnamon. Instead, I’ve decided to make this salad more savory at the last minute. This salad can be eaten hot or cold. You can use produce outside of which I provide on this recipe. I don’t like abiding by the letter of the law when it comes to cooking. That is why I tend to create my own variation.
Add 4 cups water for every 2 cups buckwheat. Sprinkle a bit of sea salt in the water, bring it to a boil for a couple of minutes, then turn down to low and simmer for 15 minutes. Buckwheat is fully cooked when it is dry and fluffy. Do not stir the buckwheat while it is cooking.
Mix together the dressing by whisking the lemon zest and juice, balsamic vinegar, garlic, basil,paprika, oil, salt, and pepper. The pinch salt will bring the oil and vinegar together. Add vegetables to the dressing bowl and toss. Once the buckwheat is cooked, add it to the bowl. Add parsley, give it one last toss, and serve.
This entry was posted in Gluten Free, Salad, Side Dishes, Vegetarian and tagged buckwheat, Gluten-Free, Salad, side dish, vegetarian.
Cooking a dish that both meat eaters and vegetarians will compromise on can be difficult. I was once in a predicament where I hosted someone who neglected to mention that she was a celiac and a vegetarian. Normally, I would prepare something extra for my vegetarian guests but I was only informed about this at the least minute. Suffice to say, this poor girl did not have many options. I tried convincing her to eat some chicken so she wouldn’t starve throughout the entire meal but no avail. A guest leaving hungry is every hosts nightmare.
Most meat eaters I know are reluctant to try vegan dishes, especially those that require tofu. Tofu is persona non gratta in my household. We tend to eat vegetarian dishes during the week and save meat/chicken for the weekends,holidays, and special occasions. I generally prefer Shepherd’s pie made from ground meat. I one time ate a vegetarian version using ground soy beef. It didn’t work for me. I came across another version that even the meat-and-potato- types will appreciate. Like any other Sheppard’s pie, this vegetarian rendition is just as filling and plentiful. I made a sweet potato puree for the topping. I know people (some of whom are related to me) who have an aversion to sweet potatoes. I like the contrast of sweet and savory flavors combined. If you don’t, however, feel free to use red potatoes,Idaho potatoes, or rustic potatoes. Just omit the cinnamon and ground cloves factor. I used lentils in lieu of tofu. While lentils need 45 minutes to cook, I suggest that you grant yourself some time to prepare for this dish.
As a professed red blood male and a carnivorous meat-eater (that bit was exaggerated although he does like his meat), my hubby gave this recipe a thumbs up. In fact, we had to refrain ourselves from eating this entire dish. As we are in Holiday season,some of you may be hosting guests,friends, or family members with dietary restrictions. Even though, meat is traditionally served in most holidays, its nice to prepare something festive that vegetarians and vegans will enjoy as well. After all, isn’t Holiday season all about being nice and accommodating?
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Place potatoes in a pot with water. Bring to a boil on the stove top then reduce heat to medium to the potatoes continue to simmer. Let the potatoes cooks for about 20 minutes till fork tender.Once the potatoes have been cooked, drain them and add the non dairy milk, cinnamon, and cloves. Using a masher or a hand blender, puree till smooth. The puree should be a little watery. Set aside. In a cast iron skillet over medium heat, add 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Add in onions and saute till translucent. Add the garlic and saute for another 2 minutes. Add the carrots, celery, and mushrooms and cook for about 4 minutes util vegetables are fragrant and tender . Season with salt,pepper,cayenne pepper,cumin, and parsley. Add the lentils and stir in the Worcestershire sauce. Then pour in the wine. Cook for another 10 minutes until liquid is reduced. Transfer vegetables to a 9 inch greased baking dish. Spread evenly sweet potato puree over vegetables. Place the dish in the oven and let it bake for about 40 minutes till the tips of the potatoes turn golden brown. Increase heat at the end of cooking for more browning, if desired. Sprinkle the remaining 1 tbsp of chopped parsley on top of the pie to garnish. Serve hot.
This entry was posted in Gluten Free, Vegetarian and tagged carrots, Celery, dry red wine, Holiday season, lentils, meat-eaters, Mushrooms, Sheppard's Pie, vegan, vegetarian.
If you liked my Chocolate Lover’s Mousse recipe, you are in for a real treat. When I found out that there were healthier renditions I could use to make chocolate mousse while achieving the same consistency, I was elated. I have an irresistible weakness for chocolate and mousse is one of my favorite desserts. Aside for its creaminess and rich flavors, this chocolate mousse recipe does not require egg yolks nor additional creams or dessert whips. Instead, I used soy milk. You can use non-fat dairy milk as well. I also added a bit or orange zest as it will give this mousse a tangy flavor. I also used a bit of coffee and whiskey for some depth and richness. If you don’t like alcohol, you can leave the whiskey out. Some people like to also add walnuts to for that extra crunch but I didn’t. I’ve been using this recipe ever since I’ve learnt about it. This dessert is perfect for the health conscious (that doesn’t mean you should have 10 helpings in one day) and chocolate lovers like yours truly. And its really simple to make. Serve this chocolate mousse along with some fresh cut-up strawberries or cherries.
Place chocolate chips in a heat-proof bowl and set aside. Pour milk into a saucepan over medium-low heat. Remove from stove ones the sides start to bubble bubble (5-10 minutes). Be care as not to not allow the milk to boil. Pour milk into chocolate chips. Let them sit for a minute or 2 before whisking. Add some coffee,orange zest, and whiskey and mix till well combined. Set aside to cool. The chocolate mixture will thicken as it cools off. In the meantime, place egg whites in a standing mixture with the whisk attachment and beat. As its whipping the egg whites,add the cream of tartar and 1 teaspoon of sugar at a time. Beat till stiff peaks form. Fold in meringue with the chocolate mixture. Lay out 5 or 6 ramekins on a tray. Scoop in each mousse filling evenly. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for 6 hours to overnight in the refrigerator.
This entry was posted in Desserts, Gluten Free and tagged chocolate mouse, coffee, dark chocolate, Desserts, non-fat milk, orange zest, whiskey.
Its been a while since I’ve done an entry on fish. Fish dinners are one of my hubby’s favorite meals. Our tastes in fish differ. I tend to prefer salmon or sea bass whereas hubby is more partial towards tilapia. We switch off every week. Not only are they tasty if made right, they are also known as brain food. I borrowed this recipe from a chicken dish and it worked just as well with fish ( I’m a poet and didn’t even know it ;-). I used tilapia for this recipe but you can also use salmon,halibut, or sole as well.Like most of my fish recipes, this dish is very easy to prepare and only requires few basic ingredients that most of you already have. This fish serves well with steamed vegetables,mashed potatoes, or whole grain rice. This is a meal for two but you can double the ingredients.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lay out 2 pieces of tilapia in a baking dish. Drizzle with olive oil, a bit of lime juice, and sprinkle some parsley,salt, and pepper. Bake covered for 25 minutes. As the fish is cooking, place orange juice,soy sauce,ginger, and garlic in a small sauce pan. Simmer on low-medium heat till reduced by a half a cup. Drizzle over tilapia and serve hot.
This entry was posted in Fish, Gluten Free and tagged Fish, Garlic, ginger, orange, Parsley, Soy sauce, tilapia.
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Despite the international title, Patissiere Coin de Rue being in French, this is not a tale set in Paris, or even in France. Instead we are set up in Tokyo, Japan. Actually the title of the film is also the name of an elegant cafe where the finest cakes and pastries are made and enjoyed. For the record, the Japanese title is Yougashiten Koandoru which means the same as the French words. But let’s get on with the review.
Q: What’s wrong with my cake?
A: You work too slowly. Your cream was too runny. The syrup was uneven.
That’s not good news for the young woman, Natsume, who begged for a job at the elegant Patissiere Coin de Rue. She had come to Tokyo from Kagoshima following a boy from her hometown, who she considered to be much more than a friend and almost her fiancée. His name was Umi and he’d come to Tokyo earlier and landed a job at the Patissiere Coin de Rue because he wanted to become a better baker than she was. Only he left the Patisierre, likely because he wasn’t up to the task.
When Natsume, showed up and did not find Umi, she was at first disappointed. She was also in denial. He had written a letter to her when he left Kagoshima – ‘this is goodbye – I’m sure you’ll find another man‘, and so forth, a ‘Dear Joan’ letter if there ever was one, but she wasn’t ready to accept that he had left her.
At the Patissiere after getting the news that Umi no longer worked there, and no one knew where he could be found, Natsume asks for a job (they were looking for someone) and is given an opportunity. She’s to make a cake from scratch as her audition, a trial by fire as it were.
When finished, the patissiere staff all sampled it and no one jumped out of their shoes in excitement. It was a passable cake for a Christmas Sale – but not up to their exacting standards. So she was turned down. The proprietress sat her down and told that she should look for work elsewhere. She offered the young baker, a nice dessert to eat and to soften the after taste of being turned down.
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I listened, spellbound. It had been nearly 64 years since wartime secret agent Pearl Cornioley’s parachute jump into Nazi-occupied France, but her recollection of that night in September 1943 held me mesmerized.
As she spoke, Mme Cornioley, a legendary courier and Resistance organizer with Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE), conjured up a whole world of sharp, personal impressions from the dark days of World War Two.
It would become the world of “The Secret Fire”, my second novel.
“The Secret Fire” is set in London and Paris, during World War Two and in the present day. It is both a stand-alone thriller, and a sequel to my first novel, “The Malice Box”.
In 2007 and early 2008, I tracked down several veterans, all in their 90s, of Britain’s wartime intelligence operations in occupied France, seeking to root my story – a tale of love, betrayal and forgiveness, with a strong supernatural twist – as firmly and accurately as possible in the detailed, gritty reality of the period.
I felt honoured to hear their stories, and scared for my interview subjects even decades after the events. I was appalled at the risks they had run, and at the personal price even some of the survivors had paid.
I was grateful for the opportunity to share their memories, and to fold them, fictionalized and transformed, into my own work, alongside eye-witness accounts of wartime London that I’d found in museums and archives — some of them unread for years — and stories of World War Two told by my own parents.
I thought it would be a suitable tribute to try to recapture some of the past they had described to me, in a story that reflected their courage and sacrifice – one in which time itself is treacherous, and even the settled history of nations might be rewritten.
Pearl Cornioley, née Witherington, spoke to me in 2007, just a few months before her death, at the retirement home in central France where she spent the last years of her life.
The distinguished historian M.R.D. Foot, author of the official history of SOE, kindly met me for lunch at a Mayfair restaurant, and reminisced about flying into occupied France as an SAS intelligence officer – a mission he barely survived after hostile French farmers, wielding pitchforks, broke his neck.
A tough Cockney, Arthur Staggs, saw me at his comfortable flat in the Oxfordshire town of Thame to talk about his time as an SOE radio operator in the Lille region – and the terrifying experience of being captured by the Gestapo.
Mr Staggs survived weeks of Gestapo interrogation, and was eventually released, his cover story intact. One of his captors even gave him a half-apology, saying they’d thought he was an English agent.
As a result of his wartime experiences, though – the loss of brave friends, the constant strain of clandestinity, his time in captivity — Mr Staggs suffered from what doctors termed “nervous exhaustion” for seven years after returning home.
“The Secret Fire” tells the story behind those references – a tale mixing documented fact with fiction. Pre-war Parisian occultists pursue the secrets of the alchemical Great Work that is said to turn lead into gold, even as scientists in the same city – the Curie family to the fore – explore the transmutation of the elements by purely physical means, in their experiments with radioactive decay.
As war grips Europe, both kinds of secrets – the atomic and the alchemical – are sought by the Nazis, and the Allies mount a joint SOE-OSS mission to ensure neither falls into enemy hands.
Heading the mission is a young Horace Hencott. He’s aided, unbeknownst to him, by an array of selfless forces in rural England, for whom the Nazis are only the latest in a long line of threats against their island kingdom, dating back to the Spanish Armada.
Opposing him is the chilling, sadistic Isambard – an acolyte of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, and a leading operative in Himmler’s Ahnenerbe, sometimes known as the Nazi Occult Bureau.
The two men battle, in wartime Paris and through the subsequent decades, for the allegiance of double agent Peter Hale, in a contest that may shape the fate of the world – because time, like memory, can fade and flare in “The Secret Fire”, eddying and flowing in unexpected ways. Guilt and betrayal defy time. Forgiveness can melt its grip.
How different might the world be, Horace asks in the novel, if the Nazis were to manage to set off a weapon of mass destruction in London, just a few weeks after D-Day? Or if one of them could still do so today …?
In exploring such alternative histories, I was inspired by the speculation of eminent historians, for example in a 2004 BBC radio programme marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day, about what might have happened if the Normandy landings had failed. In “The Secret Fire”, I took their musings a step further. What if Himmler’s Ahnenerbe had acquired something akin to an atom bomb …?
In addition to my interviews with wartime secret agents – none of whom were privy to, or responsible for, any of the supernatural elements of my story – I also drew on many other sources.
At the National Archives at Kew, and in the reading room of the Imperial War Museum, perched up in the museum’s magnificent dome as though in a pigeon loft, I inspected eyewitness accounts, official reports and photographs of V-1 flying bomb attacks on London – the dreaded “robot bombs”, to use a contemporary phrase, which terrorized Londoners in the months following D-Day. I gathered as much information as I could about the June 30, 1944 V-1 explosion at Aldwych that features so centrally in “The Secret Fire”.
In rural Northamptonshire I met writer Jean Overton Fuller, who reminisced with me about her close friend Noor Inayat Khan, known in the French Resistance as Madeleine. An SOE radio operator based in Paris in 1943, Ms Inayat Khan was one of the inspirations for my character Rose Arden — a heroine of “The Secret Fire”, and the grandmother of Katherine Reckliss. The real-life Madeleine was betrayed, and sent to die at Dachau.
I read Madeleine’s SOE personal file at Kew, handling heartbreaking scraps of her life – her practice signatures for her false identity, official reports on her training as a clandestine agent, and a pencil-written note sent to London from the field asking for more radio crystals.
It was a privilege for me to gain these glimpses into the lives of people who lived through such extraordinary circumstances. I hope – at least in fiction – to have recaptured a few fragments of their remarkable pasts.
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As those of you who’ve been following the sensāsana Facebook page may know, I have announced my upcoming book, PAIN in the āsana — Cause, Care and Prevention of 8 Common Yoga Injuries, due for release in early 2018.
As part of my final research, I am compiling experiences of yoga practitioners who have sustained yoga injuries, as well as those who have sought yoga as part of their treatment program for existing injuries.
Those who take the time to complete the survey will receive a downloadable free gift at the end!
The more who fill out this survey, the more objective the results will be, and the more detail you share from your experiences, the more you may help others prevent, care for, and manage their injuries. You may even have the opportunity to be featured in the book with your story!
Next Yoga: Point + Process — pre-orders open!
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I think this describes the new cuisine that my restaurant is focusing on. Simplicity met with elegance is key; absolute perfection must always be met in both sight and taste….always. A more sober mise-en-table, a simpler decor and an absence of excess white gloves. Perhaps a surprise to regulars of the restaurant but a new direction paves the way for initiatives and new ideas.
A perfect example of this new concept but surprisingly one that has stayed popular on the menu is Langoustine Caviar. What more can you ask for?
The langoustines originally from Brittany are served on Langoustine cream, with a court-bouillon reduction of shellfish broth with hints of ginger and citrus at its side and topped with melon ball-shaped caviar from China.
The reason why I featured this dish is because I help serve almost 40 of these at each dinner service (not including lunch). The time and effort of making this dish ‘absolutely perfect’ is quite extravagant…so is the price.
First, I ask for the dishes from the service staff who have just cleaned them (they arrive in a stack of 30). The plates can only come into the station if there’s a rolled-out plastic cover on the marble so as not to scratch the bottom of the Bernardaud dishes made especially for the restaurant.
I take out the freshly made langoustine cream that has been reduced to about 200 g from the many liters it started out from. The interesting thing about this cream is that it tastes like langoustine; as if you were eating it in liquid form…a weird feeling when you try it for the first time.
Afterwards, I use cut out plastic shapes to put the cream in and spread the latter into the mold. This is used with a spoon to place the cream into the mold then a ruler to spread the cream so it forms (like you see above) a rectangular shape [or a square shape using a different mold in the picture below].
After all of them have been done, I wrap them in plastic film and let them harden a bit more in the fridge. Afterwards I take them out again; prepare a plastic cup filled with 2/3 white vinegar and 1/3 water that has been microwaved for 1 min and 30 seconds, take a cloth and wipe the dish. Yes, wipe. And it’s not your average general cleaning and conditioning of the dish. You must trace with your hand, the contours of the cream (making it sure it’s a perfect rectangle, or a perfect square). When the dish has been damped a little, you take the other side of the cloth and wipe it dry. But this is the part where you must pay most attention to; as there can be no sight of water condensation marks or fingerprints. It must basically be a clean mirror.
On my first day at work, I obviously fumbled on a couple of dishes. Swearing at myself, as I had taken out too much cream, but I must say practice makes perfect. Another challenge is leaving no mark at all on the dish. To be sure, I rely on the light so I take the dish in my hand, raise it to the light and check every corner of every dish – I do this because once I put it on the ‘pass’ where the plates go for final critic and send off, the Chef is checking them, and better be sure that they’re perfect than have him send it back. A big No-No.
Every dish has to be covered with another dish so that they do not over-dry since it’s very sensitive. After all dishes are done and filmed, they’re put in the refrigerator until service time.
Now…onto the langoustines. They are cooked for a very short period of time in a bouillon, cooled immediately and de-shelled for cutting. They are all cut in four perfect slices. In 1 tray, 12 are placed together in proportion to their size and color. During service, if there is a table of two, we pick the ones with the most resemblance in color of the caviar and the langoustine.
The langoustines however play a supporting role to the Caviar in this dish. The caviar is delicately placed onto the Langoustines using melon balls and a mother of pearl spoon to even out the edges. During service, when the langoustine dishes are reclaimed, I also use a toothpick to evenly put the caviar together (if need be) and make sure no bursted caviar are there.
Absolute perfection – in all the sense of the words.
I’m liking the new site….but I miss the high res pictures! You used to be able to click on them and see them nice and big….but not anymore 😦 can you fix that?
Awesome post. This was one of my favourite; hope more like it are on the way.
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Hello everyone, I’ve received the most recent installment of email stories and photographs from the Moncurs, currently serving in the West Africa Ghana Mission. As usual the email and photos are thought provoking, and extremely interesting. You will read stories and see photos about the Ghanantan Robbers, crooked government officials, a grateful hosptial staff, and the very moving history of a slave castle–all in one email. As I read these emails, each time I focus on how abundantly blessed we are. I look forward to the next batch of emails, as this next month will bring Christmas–once I suspect will leave a lasting impression. I recall my first Christmas as a missionary in South America, decades ago now, as though it were last year.
I have received the November update from Elder and Sister Moncur, serving in West Ghana Africa Mission. Below I have reprinted their email and photos, full of exciting experiences in the mission field. Each month seems to be a new adventure, with tales of vigilante justice, and of course the unusual traffic and driving conditions that exist there.
Prior West Africa Ghana Mission Posts you can visit are located here. Scroll down to see all six posts on this mission.
I don’t know too much about the Church or its history in Ghana. The Church website has some very interesting information. The Church first came to Ghana in the 1950’s in the form of missionary pamphlets, and grew rapidly from there. You can read a little about this history here.
The news flash, apparently official, The Millennial Star no longer shines. The Star’s bloggers were an eclectic group, producing some interesting reading during their run. The Advocate bids adieu to a sister namesake.
For my friends who frequent the Messenger and Advocate; but, do not journey further into the Bloggernacle (which by the way you really should) I’ve posted about one of the most tragic stories I have ever read on the Iraq war over at The Bloggernacle Times.
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Errors such as PXE-E61 are concerned with Preboot Execution Environment. Some of the motherboards support it. It is a fantastic boot mode that allows the computer search. With its help, you can look for and load the bootable operating system.
It is quite common to confront PXE-E61 error. Very often it is because of misconfigured setting in BIOS. It can be most commonly be caused by the failure of the hard drive. Some of the most common errors related to PXE are: Media test failures, exiting Intel Boot Agent, exiting Intel PXE ROM etc. Errors are visible even before when the computer starts. You may see it on a black coloured background, generally with additional text.
Change boot order in BIOS- This will help you in booting from the hard drive at the place of the network. BIOS will look for the operational system. A system that is installed on local hard drive. Most of the computers are set up this way only. Complete this step with care. When you change the boot order, then it restricts computer form booting from the network. You will not get any error messages related to PXE.
Ensure that it can detect hard drive and access BIOS. If you see PXE-E61 error then just Search Boot menu and ensure Boot Drive Order screen. You will see a hard drive that won’t read “NO Boot Drive”. Shut down your PC if the BIOS isn’t detecting any of the hard drives. Ensure the connection between HDD cables.
You want to boot from UB, then ensure that the device is bootable actually. BIOS will search for any other device to boot. It can try to use network by showing up PXE-E61 error.
Take help of ‘Rufus’ for making a bootable device of USB. Cross check whether the boot sequence is set to boot off the USB.
Type the BIOS and cut the PXE if not using. Generally, it is found on Boot menu, named ‘Boot to Network’ or the Ethernet.
If you have to use PXE for booting network, then just check that network cable is plugged in correctly. Without any proper connection, PXE cant communicates over networks. You will get the PXE-E61.
Just update network card drivers and fix error PXE-E61. When you have an outdated, corrupted or missing driver then beware because it can restrict system form accessing network. It stops the proper working of PXE.
Reset the BIOS and clear out the CMOS. When PXE-E61 is because of misconfigured BIOS setting, just reset it to the default option. The error will get cleared out this way.
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I get excited as November unfolds. The feeling originates from a number of sources, one of them being Thanksgiving episodes on television. Friends particularly mastered the art of the Thanksgiving stories, in that it understood the core of what brings us joy – relationships. One feels compelled to spend Christmas with family, whether or not that is an enjoyable time. Yet, Thanksgiving is about being with the people we love the most, legal ties or not.
As vital as the building of a friendship is to the meaning of our lives, it is also one of the most elusive aspects of our lives. Any number of us can name acquaintances, but a true friend – that’s something different. I remember a sociology class from college that espoused most friendships are based on proximity. I wanted to argue with the research. (And I think I did, actually.) Yet, the fact remains that it’s easier to be friends with someone we see on a regular basis than someone who lives far away. And if we are closely connected to someone at a great distance, there have to be some very strong ties that keep us bound together. Social media and technology can only do so much in maintaining a true friendship and not just a mere acquaintance.
My friends are important to me. I try to invest time, provide support, graciously receive help, and find times for just having fun. We all know that many friendships will fade over the years, and others will end more dramatically and harmfully. That’s life. Yet, in spite of the impact life will have on our relationships, I do believe that we have true soul friends in this world.
I am so grateful for my dear friends, especially the few I know to be soul friends. Even if not understanding my life’s journey, they still walked with me, and helped carry me when I stumbled. This past weekend was a bit of challenge for me emotionally, and in the midst of that challenge, my dear friend Beth unexpectedly sent me a care package (just like the ones I sent to my college kids earlier in the week). The picture above reveals the contents – some goodies from Trader Joe’s, and a beautiful infinity scarf with words from Pride and Prejudice, our favorite book. We live hours apart, and life is too full to talk or visit as much as we would like, but knowing that she is with me in spirit certainly lifts my soul.
Here is to finding and developing your own soul friends!
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Remove the blindfold and look at what is really happening in America Today.
This series of video reports provides background on the potential crimes, the subsequent coverup, and the corruption that infested the 2016 U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI.
But, remember to Follow The Money – the included internet links will help you.
Regardless of how many prominent individuals and organizations speak-out about this U.S. Government malady, the terrible trend toward war and the worse kind of governance continues unabated in America.
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Mads Fredrik Gilbert (born 2 June 1947) is a Norwegian physician, humanitarian, activist and politician for the Red Party. He is a specialist in anesthesiology and head of the emergency medicine department at the University Hospital of North Norway and Professor of emergency medicine at the University of Tromsø.
Gilbert has a broad range of experience from international humanitarian work, especially in locations where medical and political issues merge. Since the 1970s, he has been actively involved with solidarity work concerning Palestinians, and he has served as a doctor for several periods in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon for NORWAC. His efforts have been central to leading the city of Tromsø, since 2001 a twin town of Gaza, to claim to be the city that has sent more health workers to the Palestinian territories than any other in the world. His book on the Gaza War, Eyes on Gaza (2009), has been translated into several languages. Gilbert has been lauded as a "hero" in Norwegian media for his work in Gaza; his humanitarian work has been hailed by Prime Ministers Kåre Willoch, Jens Stoltenberg and Erna Solberg, and Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. On 6 May 2013, King Harald V appointed Gilbert as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav for his "wide-ranging services to emergency medicine." He has also done volunteer work at a kibbutz.
Gilbert has been the subject of controversy for his political activism. In November 2014, it was announced that Israel had indefinitely banned Gilbert from entering Gaza, officially for "security reasons", but according to Israeli intelligence sources because there allegedly had been revealed close ties between Gilbert and leaders of Hamas. The decision sparked outrage and the Norwegian government subsequently requested that the decision be reversed. The Israeli Foreign Ministry later clarified that the ban regarded setting foot in Israel, not Gaza. Israel, Haaretz wrote, is the only available transit point for entering the Gaza Strip when the Rafah border from Egypt is closed.
Gilbert was born 2 June 1947 in Porsgrunn, Telemark, to a family of French Huguenot ancestry. His father Mads Fredrik Gilbert was an electrician, while his mother was a nurse. His family soon relocated to his grandmothers one bedroom apartment in Oslo and he grew up in the borough of Majorstua until the age of 10 and later in Lambertseter. In the mid 1960s he enrolled in the Oslo Cathedral School. After finishing high school, he briefly studied veterinary medicine, however he switched to general medicine following an accident involving his younger brother. He graduated from the University of Oslo in 1973.
He describes growing up in a "very political household" with lots of political discussions. He describes his parents as well informed about the world and his father specifically as very well read. He describes his mother as an inspiration, who taught him to think critically and awareness about siding with the weak.
Gilbert's political activism was sparked by the Vietnam War, and he initially became a member of the Solidarity Committee for Vietnam (Solkom). He later joined the Marxist-Leninist SUF(m-l) and the maoist AKP(m-l), and was an active member (the latter party only accepted "active membership") during the 1970s.
He is currently a member of the revolutionary socialist Red Party, and has represented its direct predecessor, the Red Electoral Alliance, the electoral front of the AKP(m-l) in the Troms county council for three terms, from 1979 to 1987 (two terms), and from 1995 to 1999.
Since 1976, he has mainly worked at the anaesthesiology department at the hospital in Tromsø, the current University Hospital of North Norway (UNN). For a while he worked at Gravdal hospital in Lofoten. He did research at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, and received the dr.med. doctoral degree at the University of Tromsø in 1991 for a thesis on metabolism and blood circulation during anaesthesia. He became Professor of emergency medicine at the University of Tromsø and head of the emergency medicine department at the University Hospital of North Norway in 1995.
Following a skiing accident in January 2000, Anna Bågenholm was trapped for more than an hour in icy waters and was pronounced clinically dead, but survived after the resuscitation efforts of Gilbert and his team at the University Hospital of North Norway. Her body temperature was 13.7 °C, which represented the lowest survived body temperature recorded as of 2017. Gilbert was awarded Årets nordlending 2000 ("Northern Norwegian of the year, 2000", by the readership of the Tromsø newspaper Nordlys. Gilbert's breakthrough in treating extreme hypothermia has been chronicled in Cheating death : the doctors and medical miracles that are saving lives against all odds by Sanjay Gupta, as well as being featured in CNN's television program Another Day: Cheating Death. In 2013, Gilbert was made a commander of the Order of St. Olav for his overall contributions to emergency medicine.
Gilbert arrived on emergency assignment for the Norwegian Aid Committee (NORWAC) with the surgeon Erik Fosse to support the humanitarian effort at al-Shifa Hospital during the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict, a period when foreign journalists were barred from entering the Gaza Strip. As international media reported from outside the conflict zone, Gilbert maintained frequent contact with Norwegian media, as well as segments of the world press, including CNN, BBC, ABC and Al Jazeera.
Following a grenade strike to a Gaza City vegetable market on January 3, Gilbert sent an SMS text to his Norwegian and international contacts, with an appeal for all who read it to pass it on.
— Mads G, 3.1.09 13:50, Gaza, Palestine.
The ensuing response sparked reports of Gilbert's message on a global scale, and scores of declarations of support to the Norwegian Palestine Committee.
Asked about this incident in an interview with Al Jazeera, Gilbert said: "people in Gaza must know that they are not on their own, many people are with them, although we are not there but we are with them and they must not give up, for the people of the free world ponder on your patience and inspire from your strength. If you give up then the people behind you will give up..."
On January 5, after 10 days of the Israeli heavy air bombardment on Gaza strip, BBC news reporter Rushdi Abu Alouf in Gaza interviewed Gilbert on the situation inside Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital. Gilbert stated that an overwhelming majority of the casualties he had treated were civilians, and women and children alone made up 25% of the death toll, and 45% of the wounded.
On January 8, 2009, while in Gaza, Mads Gilbert was in a video which appeared on CNN which showed the brother of a Palestinian TV producer dying while Gilbert and another doctor worked to save him. This video became subject to controversy and accused that the scene was staged. World News and Features, the camera crew's employer, and the producer himself denounced the allegations. CNN also stated on their web site that they stand by the video. Two weeks later, the CNN published a video report on their website refuting the bloggers' allegations point by point. Two independent doctors who were shown the video said that they had no doubt that the hospital scene and Gilbert's work was genuine.
The doctors were "received as heroes" by the Norwegian public, and received praise from commentators from most of the mainstream political spectrum for their work during the Gaza War. On 11 January 2009, Prime Minister (now NATO Secretary-General) Jens Stoltenberg stated that he had called Gilbert and Fosse to "thank them and recognize the work they have done to alleviate the suffering of the people of Gaza since 31 December last year. They have not only taken on a difficult medical mission, but have also demonstrated great personal courage and compassion. They have been a voice to the world. The Government supports the work of the doctors and their organization. We will continue to support this important work."
Labour Party Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and former conservative Prime Minister Kåre Willoch both wrote endorsements for Gilbert and Fosse's 2009 book Eyes in Gaza; Kåre Willoch wrote that "Israel held journalists away while subjecting the people of Gaza to unfathomable suffering. But two Norwegian doctors were there. Their powerful narration throws a powerful spotlight on a brutality which also damages Israel, and impedes peace."
Among critics were the right-wing Norwegian Progress Party leader Siv Jensen who described Gilbert as a "local politician from Rødt [Red Party]", criticizing that he has been permitted without censorship to act as a voice of "anti-Israel propaganda." Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre condemned Jensen's attack against Gilbert and Fosse, calling it a "disgrace" and stating that Gilbert and Fosse "have shown great courage and acted in accordance with the best medical traditions, namely by helping the oppressed." Jensen was also criticized of hypocrisy and of supporting Israeli terror against Palestinians by former government minister Audun Lysbakken. Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg and Liberal Party leader Lars Sponheim also criticized Jensen; Erna Solberg lauded Gilbert and Fosse for "saving lives."
In the period that followed Gilbert and Fosse's extraction from Gaza, they continued to be covered in Norwegian and international media. In an open letter to the medical journal The Lancet, Gilbert and Fosse described the Gaza situation as a "nightmarish havoc", stating that they had "witnessed the most horrific war injuries in men, women and children of all ages in numbers almost too large to comprehend". Later on the Lancet editor in chief Prof Richard Horton distanced himself from two of the co-signers.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor responded to the Lancet report by criticizing Gilbert for "spreading vicious lies". In statements to Associated Press Palmor claimed, "Dr. Gilbert is notorious for his radical far left opinions and his systematic demonization of Israel. He has already accused Israel of almost every nightmarish crime in the book only to ignore the refutation of every one of his allegations", adding, "His stories are worthy of Dante's imagination but have been proved time and again to be far removed from reality. It is a pity that serious members of the medical profession should allow themselves to be dragged into an excessive of mad Mads".
In a response to these statements Gilbert stated: "This is a part of the propaganda war. We are not surprised and take this very calmly. We tell the truth and do not need to lie. If Israel think we are lying, they can just open the borders and let the world's press into Gaza. Then one will soon find out who is lying."
In 2009 he received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award together with Erik Fosse.
Mads Gilbert returned to Gaza and the al-Shifa hospital. The night between November 20 and 21, he wrote this report. A cease-fire was declared at 8 PM the same day.
In a statement made to Dagbladet in the wake of the September 11 attacks Gilbert stated: "The attack on New York did not come as a surprise with the politics the West has followed the last decades. I am upset by the terrorist attack, but I am at least as upset over the suffering that the US has caused. It is in this context that 5000 dead has to be seen. If the U.S. government has a legitimate right to bomb and kill civilians in Iraq, the oppressed has a moral right to attack the U.S. with the weapons they may create as well. Dead civilians are the same whether they are Americans, Palestinians or Iraqis." When asked if he supported a terrorist attack against the US he answered: "Terror is a poor weapon, but my answer is yes, within the context I have mentioned."
The incident was described by Nordlys editor Hans Kristian Amundsen as "probably the stupidest thing he's ever done", citing it as proof that Gilbert is a "hopeless politician". In an interview with the Norwegian news agency NTB in 2009, Gilbert described his own statements in the aftermath of 9/11 as "unwise and ill-considered", stressing that he is completely against terror against civilians.
Citing 'security reasons', Israel reportedly imposed a lifetime ban on Gilbert, who has treated casualties in Shifa hospital for 30 years, from entering Israel and from this reason entering the Gaza Strip from the Israeli border after the publication of an open letter in The Lancet, undersigned by 24 doctors and scientists including Gilbert, in which it was argued that Israel was adopting the rhetoric of a national emergency to masquerade a massacre of Palestinians, especially targeting women and children during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict. Later on The Lancet editor in chief Richard Horton said he regretted publishing the letter.
During the conflicts in Gaza in 2009 and 2014, Gilbert was accused by some in Norway and abroad of facilitating propaganda by Hamas. His work at the Al-Shifa Hospital has been particularly noted amid allegations of the hospital's use as a Hamas headquarter. According to Israeli intelligence sources, Gilbert was banned from entering Israel because there had been revealed close ties between Gilbert and Hamas-leaders.
The decision by the Israeli government sparked outrage in Norway and an official protest by the Norwegian government. On behalf of the government, Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Ministry Bård Glad Pedersen said that "Gilbert has for many years played an important role in assisting the Palestinian health care system, and his travels to Gaza are vital to continue this work." The Labour Party secretary Raymond Johansen said that "Israel's punishment of medical staff who make a vital contribution in a war situation seems like a desperate act."
The Israeli government later explained that the ban imposed on Gilbert did not regard the Gaza Strip, but rather Israel, where his presence is regarded as constituting a security problem and that the ban from entering Israel is not necessarily permanent. Given the Egyptian closure of the Rafah passage, the only way to access the Gaza Strip is via an Israeli point of entry, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz commented. Emmanuel Nachson, spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, however claimed that Gilbert was "welcome in Israel", contradicting other claims by Israel. He also denied reports that Gilbert was banned for life from Gaza, saying it was "not permanent".
Gilbert criticized and encouraged people to boycott Médecins Sans Frontières in 2006 for not taking a position on conflicts, saying he would "not give a dime" to the annual Norwegian TV-aksjonen, a national collection charity of the state broadcaster NRK.
Previously, in 2001, the leader of the Norwegian branch of Médecins Sans Frontières had sharply criticised Gilbert for voicing support to the September 11 terror attacks, stating that doctors with "such attitudes" could "never become a member of the organisation". On being a doctor as well as a politician, Gilbert has said the two roles are indistinguishable, and that "there is little in medicine that isn't politics".
Gilbert also worked against the training of new Norwegian medical personnel assigned to the ISAF forces in Afghanistan. His activism resulted in the ceasing of training of medical personnel at his medical department, and a following shortfall of qualified doctors in both the Norwegian military force and humanitarian effort in Afghanistan.
Since 1974, Gilbert lives in Tromsø. He explained that upon first seeing the town, he felt "intensely" that he had come home.
He is unmarried and has two daughters. He enjoys kayaking during the summer, and mountaineering during the winter, with the Lyngen Alps his favourite peaks. He describes himself as a "practising agnostic, with a recurring need for prayer".
Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse have written a book called Eyes in Gaza, which is an account of their time in Gaza.
^ Fosland, Arne. "Fem drept under bombing av sykehus i Gaza". Retrieved 27 July 2014.
^ "Gaza doc named Norway's person of year". The Local/AFP. 19 December 2014. Gilbert’s is a controversial figure in Norway, where he is considered to be on the far-left fringe of politics. Following the 9/11 attacks in 2001 he said he supported terror attacks against the US, saying western foreign policy justified them.
^ "Israel: Shifa Hospital Doctor Mads Gilbert Banned from Gaza Strip for Life for 'Security Reasons'". International Business Times. 14 November 2014. The doctor [Gilbert] was a co-author of a controversial letter in the medical journal Lancet on the recent Gaza conflict, which said that Israel was guilty of massacring Palestinians and deliberately targeting Palestinian women and children in their strikes on the territory.
^ "– Har tett kontakt med Hamas-topper". Dagen (in Norwegian). 22 November 2014.
^ a b "Derfor er Gilbert svartelistet av Israel". VG (in Norwegian). 21 November 2014.
^ a b 'Norwegian doctor banned from Israel, not Gaza, Foreign Ministry says,' Haaretz 17 November 2014.
^ a b Johansen, John Magne (27 February 2009). "Stjerneklart med Mads Gilbert". Stjerneklart. NRK. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
^ a b c d e Okkenhaug, Knut. "Gilbert ville slåss for Israel" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 21 July 2014.
^ a b c Duckert, Hege, Dagbladet.no (December 16, 2000). "Uværsdoktoren" (in Norwegian).
^ a b Mollan, Aud (January 9, 2009). "Livredderen fra helvete". Adresseavisen (in Norwegian). p. 38.
^ The Associated Press, International Herald Tribune (January 2, 2009). "Israel maintains ban on journalists entering Gaza".
^ "Refser Jensens Gilbert-kritikk" (in Norwegian). 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
^ The Telegraph (October 03, 2014) "Lancet editor apologises for Gaza article by scientists who circulated anti-Semitic video".
^ a b "Erik Fosse and Mads Gilbert honoured with the Freedom of Expression Tribute". Fritt Ord. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
^ "Gilbert angrer på terroruttalelse" (in Norwegian). Nordlys. January 12, 2009.
^ 'Israel bans Norwegian doctor from Gaza for life, report says,' Haaretz 14 November 2014.
^ 'An open letter for the people in Gaza,' The Lancet, Volume 384, Issue 9941, Pages 397 - 398, 2 August 2014.
^ 'Israel bans co-author of Lancet letter from Gaza,'The Times of Israel 14 November 2014.
^ Haaretz (October 03, 2014) "In Israel, Lancet editor regrets publishing open letter on Gaza".
^ "Gaza-legene tilbakeviser kritikken". NRK (in Norwegian). 12 January 2009.
^ "- Har aldri vært spesielt god i noe som helst". P4 (in Norwegian). 19 January 2009.
^ "– Ikke tvil om hvor nær Gilbert er Hamas". iTromsø (in Norwegian). 22 July 2014.
^ "Boikotter TV-aksjonen". 21 Oct 2006.
^ "Mangler 13 av 24 militærleger". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 16 October 2010.
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This has undoubtedly been a very difficult week for our university community. As expressed by President Gertler in his statement on the shooting in Québec City, our heartfelt condolences go out to the Muslim communities in Québec, across Canada, and here at home in Toronto.
Additionally, President Gertler issued a statement on Sunday expressing concern at recent events in the United States. He spoke on behalf of all of us when he said that targeting and restricting travel of individuals on the basis of their nationality or birthplace is antithetical to everything we stand for as an institution and a country.
Pertaining to the US travel restrictions, we are writing to highlight some information and resources in place to support our community. This information is also available on the Immigration at U of T website* which will continue to be updated as the situation evolves.
In case of an emergency, reach the 24-hour collect emergency line via Campus Police at 416-978-2222.
All other inquiries can be sent to hr.immigration@utoronto.ca.
UTSC international students can reach staff at the International Student Centre at 416-287-7518 or isc@utsc.utoronto.ca.
On a related note, as of February 1, 2017, the Federal Government has approved, by executive order, a Temporary Public Policy for those affected by the Executive Order of the United States, which allows them to remain temporarily in Canada by applying for Temporary Resident Status. Divisions looking to support students, faculty, and staff affected by the US travel ban should highlight this Temporary Public Policy. Specific questions can be directed to one of the contacts listed above.
Supporting US-based colleagues by hosting events previously scheduled for the US here at U of T.
*It is imperative that in our efforts to assist individuals that we do NOT provide immigration advice except through the contacts provided above. While well intended, unauthorized immigration advice can complicate matters for individuals and limit the University’s ability to assist in the future.
Thank you for all of your combined efforts to support our community and all those affected.
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If you’ve considered launching a new innovation to grow your top line, you’re not alone.
According to Forbes, 250,000 new products were introduced to the world in 2010 alone. We’re overwhelmed by so many new product entries, which range from sophisticated new technologies like the Nest thermostat and infomercial sensations like Pajama Jeans. To complicate things, brands are introducing new line extensions like Kraft Sizzling Salads, Disney Appmates, and a wealth of "new and improved" products from venerable brands like Gillette and Kleenex.
But the fact remains that the success rates of new product introductions and innovations have improved little over the last 20 years. Booz & Company reports 66% of new products fail within two years, and Doblin Group says a startling 96% of all innovations fail to return their cost of capital. This is due to a number of factors, including economic conditions, an explosion of consumer touchpoints, shifts in decision-making behavior, and the deluge of information marketers have to sift through to ensure they are up to speed with the latest trends.
Address head-on the number one reason for failure. You can’t fake it if an innovation has no clear or compelling relevance to people’s lives. Companies often refuse to acknowledge a new product or service idea serves no strongly identified customer need, and they try to retrofit their marketing to compensate. Start by identifying a relevant, resonant role you could play in people’s lives. Then develop offerings and experiences that deliver it in a peremptory way.
Focus on the most critical rule of thumb for growth today--customer acquisition. Get as many quality customers--even light, occasional users--as quickly as possible. More customers mean more sales, share, and with that, conversion to loyal, heavy users. In addition, new customers have a key attribute that every marketer should leverage--word of mouth. Forrester Research concludes the most valuable customer today is the one that may buy little but whose blog postings, online product reviews, and favorable word of mouth gets 10, 50 or 1,000 others to buy. The longer people are with a brand, the less they talk about it, but new customers are more likely to recommend a brand to their family and friends.
Face what you must really accomplish through Facebook. Nielsen reveals that the number one reason a Facebook user “likes” a brand is to receive a discount or special offer. Their research also shows 84% of users who “like” a brand on Facebook never return to a brand’s page after exercising the incentive that got them there. This means the typical marketer’s Facebook strategy is doing little to grow their customer base, and worse, it could be inadvertently and dramatically hurting their margins. Marketers must ask themselves: What--beyond a discount--will both incent new customers to like my brand and habituate their interaction with it?
Think faster. With the impatience of bosses and investors today, you can’t just obsess about how to quickly add quality customers. You also have to obsess about how to add them faster than anyone else in your category. Growing a customer base quickly is unlikely to come from building an e-commerce site and expecting people to find it only through search and blogs and Facebook. Getting lots of new customers quickly requires some sort of mass reach. From the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) to the World Advertising Research Center (WARC), the findings are quite consistent: Mass reach from traditional media is--at least for now-- still the most effective way to grow a customer base. It’s also the quickest way to jump-start search, online relationships, and e-commerce. Even the “most viewed” YouTube videos get their biggest jolt with a mention in mass media. The very thing that can’t be done in social media is what traditional media does best: jump-start conversations. Social media then fuels these conversations.
Don’t be fooled by the hype. Contrary to the buzz about the power of social media and apps, adding TV to the media mix still proves to be the most effective way to jump-start growth. One particularly interesting case is that of KAYAK.com, which launched only online and grew steadily over two years without mass advertising. Since adding TV to its marketing mix last year, sales experienced a dramatic lift. TV exposure can--even weeks later--drive a potential new customer to search for you.
For maximum ROI, perfect your mix. It’s a waste of time to debate whether TV or Facebook delivers it best. It’s more important to identify the ROI of the media mix that advances people through the purchase funnel--what medium best engages to drive a consumer to deeper engagement in another medium, and then habituates engagement or converts the interaction to a sale. Identify the mix that leads to the best conversion rate and then work continuously to improve it.
Map your measurement. Many marketers say they know the media or touchpoint path their consumer takes on their way to purchase--until asked to map it visually. Plotting the path takes a chart with a horizontal axis of touchpoints, and a vertical axis with the steps and stages of the buying process. Identifying the elements of each axis and then tracking the order and incidence of each forces marketers to confront what they know and don’t know, like: What is the entry point into people’s lives for a new category or product? Where and when can one maximize reach? Where are people falling off the path to purchase? What message is best at each touchpoint to move a person to the next stage of their decision-making? The ultimate benefit of mapping is identifying the mix of touchpoints and messages that drive the best conversion rate. It’s almost never one medium or message but a mix that, with the right analytics, can always be improved and optimized.
Prepare yourself: Your launch never ends. Marketers must face that their launch will be forever in beta, a state of continuous improvement that prevents the brand from losing momentum, or worse, stalling out. Studies confirm that marketers who assume their launch is over, who pull back, who stop innovating, or who let share of voice fall below their market share, do not fare well.
While embracing any one of these ideas can make a difference in the launch of a new initiative, really increasing one’s odds of success will come from bringing them together in a comprehensive strategic marketing plan. As so many successful company leaders have confessed: The best way to predict the future is to create it for yourself.
Every year there are thousands of new products that hit the market. The vast majority of them are failures. Making even one mistake can ruin your product launch. With so many intangibles in the process, it makes sense why there are so many things that can go wrong. Let’s look at some of them.
Assuming There’s A Need For Your Product - Just because you think that your product will be a success doesn’t mean that anyone else will. Poor research in the product development phase can lead to this problem. Will people choose your product over the competition? What makes your product different from the competition? These are questions with answers that should be determined long before a product can be brought to market.
Being Too Much Like the Competition - This is the single most repeated mistake that businesses make. There are always going to be some similarities between products, like Pepsi and Coke or Chevy and Ford. You still want to carve out as much of an identity as possible. If you are aware of the position that your product occupies in the market place, you should be able to avoid this.
The Product Doesn’t Live Up To Expectations - History is littered with products that were pushed into the market before they were ready. Companies think that they can overlook quality issues and just get it out there. Cell phone manufacturers are notorious for this. The thinking is that any software glitches can be ironed out after the product is in the hands of the consumer. All it does is cause ill will on the part of your customers.
Give your team a goal that is sooner than the one that you’re giving to the public. This helps to keep everybody motivated.
Constantly re-evaluate those goals. Since your internal goal will be sooner than your external one, you should have plenty of time to make it. If you’re always on top of your timeline, you won’t be caught off guard if there are delays.
Establish touch points. As you work toward your product goals, divide them into 5 or 6 smaller achievements so that you can keep an eye on your progress. For example: 20 days before launch, your plans for your launch event will be complete; 30 days before launch, your marketing materials will be complete, etc.
Poorly Defined Problem - Another avenue that can derail your launch is if your team is unsure about what problem your new product is supposed to address in the first place. If you and your team understand the problems of your customers differently, it may be difficult to get everyone together to solve that problem. If your team is confused about the purpose of the product, it will be impossible to solve the issue. This can also lead to conflict between members of your team. Either way, communication is the key to success. If you don’t think everyone is on the same page, ask them how they see the product solving the problem. Asking questions is a fundamental way to solve problems.
Ignoring The User - If you’re launching a new product, it only makes sense that you’d want to test the public for feedback. But this isn’t always the case. A lot of times, people who develop products don’t really care about engaging with customers. If you aren’t comfortable with the idea of doing prototype testing of your products with people who have never seen it before, then you need to have someone else do it. Ignoring users gives you a product that no one wants.
They’re Afraid To Fail - People will delay product launches over and over again out of fear. They think their item or service won’t be as good as what they competition is offering. They think that people will look down on them, and this makes them hold back. There is nothing more difficult than launching a product that is intended to surpass a favorite of customers. But really, what’s the worst that can happen? Yes, you can fail, yes, it might be expensive, but thousands of successful people have failed before you. You miss 100% of the shots that you don’t take. Failure can be a great teacher. Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, the company he started, only to come back and be much more successful than before. That failure was arguably the best thing that ever happened to him.
Too Many Distractions - One of the keys to a successful product launch is focusing on the task at hand. The time frame around the development and launch of your new product should be about nothing else but preparing for that launch. Eliminate as many distractions as possible; it’s key that you keep them to a minimum. Remind your team that the launch needs to be their focus as well. Put reminders of the product launch date everywhere so that no one forgets.
Developing a Product For Technology Most People Don’t Have - Sometimes a company will attempt to capitalize on the newest-cutting edge technology. There’s nothing wrong with that in theory, but if a platform is too advanced or too expensive, much of the general public won’t use it. Software designed for an operating system that only genius super-hackers use won’t get very much exposure. Conversely, don’t base your product on outdated, obsolete technology. Designing Commodore 64 game today probably wouldn’t be very lucrative.
Spending Too Much On The Launch Itself - The launch is the kickoff for your new product; don’t blow your whole budget on it. Your new product needs ongoing support to ensure that it is a success. You’ll want to continue to build on its awareness with a combination of advertising, social media, public relations, and other marketing techniques to help it succeed.
Phase 1 - Pre-Launch phase is where you build a list of prospective buyers in your target market. In this phase you create and tweak your sales process until it is very solid and you create a buzz around the product which will promote awareness.
Phase 2 – “Launch Day”, is the day that all your affiliates and JV partners will help to promote your product. To help increase sales, you put some kind of scarcity or deadline on your offer – so that you can get as many sales as possible.
Phase 3 – Post-Launch phase usually has two parts to it, first part is where you create an additional bonus or bonuses to prevent buyers’ remorse and reduce refunds. The second part is to figure out how you will continue making more sales so that your site will not just have the launch spike and then fade into the deep blue sea.
These 3 phases of product launches may seem simple, but the truth is only a few marketers are able to pull them off leaving those that have not followed this new product launch checklist well and truly down on sales and profits.
By following these 3 phases successful product launches should become the norm and not leave you scratching your head and wondering what else you need to do to increase sales.
Always thoroughly test your new product in order to discover any design, mechanical or electronic design flaws, errors or omissions. Failure to test your new product or service can lead to embarassement, a costly product recall, refunding customers or lawsuits due to dangerous products. New product testing should include both an Alpha Test and a Beta Test. This is commonly referred to as A/B Testing. If you are a software developer, below are the important steps in an A/B Testing.
Alpha Testing - The first testing should occur in-house with different operating systems and different hardware configurations. An alpha version may not yet contain all of the planned features, and may lack documentation. Use virtual systems or test drives to fully test software with various operating systems and patches. Thorough alpha testing will make beta testing run smoother.
Use people within your organization that are unfamiliar with your software. If you don't have anyone available in your organization consider asking family and friends.
Before moving an alpha product, to a beta product consider having an "ignorant" user do a complete install. Silently watching the tester, will give you a birdseye view into user habits and potential problems during the install process.
Beta Testing - Beta testing is considered the second phase of software testing. Beta tests are typically external tests to identify any performances issues or bugs prior to an official release. Beta tests can be open or closed. A closed beta test is used to control the number of users participating. An open test is open to anyone who has an interest in beta testing.
Beta testers are important because it is almost impossible for developers to test their software in all of the various conditions that might occur. Software should never be released without thorough beta testing. It is impossible to predict or test software on all kinds of hardware with other applications.
Week 1 - Alert 1st Group of Testers (34 testers) of beta availability. Bugs found and fixed.
Use all communication channels to solicit testers. Existing users are the best testers because they are familiar with software and use specific software features.
Layout Beta Test Expectations - Beta testers should have a good understanding of their role as a beta tester. Educating beta testers will go a long way to improving the quality of feedback that you receive. Provide details on the information they should provide any bug reports.
Know What to Ask - If a user reports a problem, ask the right questions, so that you can attempt to reproduce the problem.
Dialogue is Important - You should be sure that you have an open channel of communication with beta testers. Respond to their queries in a timely fashion (24 hours) and always thank them!
Forum - Create a forum for beta testers to post questions and concerns. Post file updates to the beta forum. Create a specific section of the website that contains beta information.
Use Exit Surveys in Beta - Use exit surveys in the beta version. This will not only give you statistical information about uninstalls, but will also provide details about why users uninstalled.
Weak Documentation - Be sure to mention any holes in the documentation, and where the testers can get any additional information that they might require.
Provide Upgrade Details - Be sure to provide details for users that are using an existing version of the software and looking to test the beta version. Double check prior to releasing the beta version that the user's data will remain intact through the upgrade. Also, check to make sure they have an adequate key or code for the beta version so that it does not expire.
Make Beta Versions Backwards Compatible - Can users go back to their old version if they do not like the new version? In other words will their registration key work in both the new and old version? Is there a drop dead date, which will prevent testers from using the software for an extended period? Be upfront about these issues so beta testers know what they are getting into.
Don't Rush It - It takes time to conduct a thorough beta test, don't rush it.
Many entrepreneurs fall into the trap that their first new product prototype will meet or exceed all expectations coming out of the gate. Taking a product from raw concept stage to finished and fully-functional prototype may not always end well for numerous reasons. I have known of numerous cases where the finished prototype failed to work or look like the original concept drawings. It was either poorly designed to begin with, it was too big or too small, failed to work properly and there wa no "Aha" moment when you first saw it.
You cannot compete effectively in a market by producing new products with just incremental changes. Your new product must leap the competition with new technology innovations that do not currently exist. It must be able to solve problems or fill needs that are not presently met by alternative products. Steve Jobs said it quite appropriately when he said that Apple makes products that "people lust for" and you must be prepared to "put a dent in the universe."
Finally, if you have created a truly unique and leading edge new product that is worth protecting, try to obtain trademarks and patent protection if possible. Investors will look at you and your new product more positively if you can show that you have filed the necessary paperwork to protect their investment.
OMG!!! Pinterest now has over 10.4 million registered users, 9 million monthly Facebook-connected users, and 2 million daily Facebook users, according to Inside Network’s AppData tracking service.
With gorgeous photography, and links to shopping sites, Pinterest is becoming an obsession for flocks of women. And they’re not afraid to show it, I mean, Like it. AppData and Facebook’s advertising tool show that over 97% of Pinterest’s Facebook fans are women.
The stunningly feminine fan base could be a telling proxy for Pinterest’s actual user base, which totals over 10.4 million considering that’s how many users follow the official “Pinterest” account.
Over 1/5 of its fast-growing Facebook-connected monthly user count use Pinterest each day. At the start of 2012 the daily user count was just 810,000, but now its at 2 million according to AppData. This week comScore said Pinterest hit 10 million U.S. monthly unique visitors faster than any independent site in history.
COMMENTARY: In a blog article dated February 1, 2012, I profiled Pinterest. I was very impressed and joined a few days later. Pinterest had 4 million users at the end of November 2011. This jumped to 7.21 million by the end of December 2011. Pinterest now has 10.4 million registered users and 9 million Facebook active users. Very impressive growth.
Copyright clouds are fathering around Pinterest. All the hype has also brought attention from another quarter: angry copyright owners. On sites like iStock, photographers are complaining that their pretty pictures are being used without permission in users’ collages. And to judge by Pinterest’s voicemail, the photographers are not the only ones upset.
In the bigger picture, the copyright questions echo disputes from an earlier era that pit legal rules against new forms of culture. These include a long-running lawsuit over a short flute sample in the Beastie Boys hit ‘Pass the Mic’ (the Beasties won) and a 2005 Supreme Court decision that shut down music-sharing site Grokster.
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Not trying to push anyone to be a vegetarian, or join me in pescaterian land, but buying quality meat products can be a budgetary drain, so in order to do it, you may have to simply consume less.
Just as this applies to shopping cheap in general, it can apply to shopping healthy. Dried fruit, grains, and whole wheat pasta are all great items usually available to buy in bulk and save cash in the long run.
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Manila: Two former Philippine officials have filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court accusing Chinese President Xi Jinping of crimes against humanity over his government's assertive actions in the disputed South China Sea, which they say deprived thousands of fishermen of their livelihoods and destroyed the environment.
Former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario and anti-graft prosecutor Conchita Carpio Morales said on Thursday that they filed the complaint with the tribunal last week, before the current Philippine president's move to withdraw the country from the tribunal took effect last weekend.
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I read through this novel much faster than the first as my kids’ excitement about Harry Potter kept growing! This is a truly magical book where friendships are just as important as spell-casting.
The kids immediately had me diving into the third novel when we finished this one. I hope they’re taking note of what it means to be a hero, and standing up for what’s right and admitting when you’re wrong.
Years later, I’ve watched most of the movies, but never read any of the other books, for no particular reason. I re-read parts of this novel with my then 4 year-old son and watched the movie. Again, I enjoyed the book but didn’t take it further than my son’s interest. I think the second novel, which we started together but never got very far, was too scary for my son and the novel was put down and forgotten.
I’ve just finished reading this novel again with my 6 year-old daughter and 8 year-old son, and I again loved it. But this time, both my kids are crazy for it!! We finished this book and have already started the next one!! Since we’re home for summer, I don’t know if we’ll be able to keep this up in the school year, but its exiting to read something that entertains the kids so much! They seem to be the perfect age for this book. While parts can be scary, it helps to be reading it aloud together so we can talk about anything that bothers them. In fact, while I’m writing this post, they interrupted me to ask to read more Harry Potter!! I love it!
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OK, it’s a thing and a very bad thing but I’ve been encountering a lot of misunderstanding about what it is (and what it isn’t). Drowning claims the lives of WAY too many children every year and real prevention comes down to supervision when kids are in the water. Delayed mortality from drowning has hallmark symptoms and parents need to know what those look like as well (and also when not to worry). OK, let’s talk about dry drowning (which, by the way, is not an accepted medical term – drowning is drowning, with or without mortality, see links below for more details).
In short, your child is not going to go swimming, swallow some water, have no issues in the water whatsoever, and then suddenly die without warning 4 days later from “dry drowning”. I know the stories you’ve been reading, they’re all over my newsfeed too. I know how the thought of losing your child makes you have actual physical chest pain because it does that to me too. I don’t have a pool at my house and that is intentional. I don’t want to take the risk that my kid could end up in it unsupervised. But I don’t want the kids of the world never going near the water again because their parents were frightened by a poorly researched Facebook article.
Remember that there is a lot of fake news and misinformation on the internet. Many authors do not care about delivering accurate, useful information. They care about the sensational headline. My major issues with the stories I’ve been reading lately are these: first, their misuse of the word “swallowing” when they mean aspiration. Second, their lack of discussion about REAL symptoms of actual drowning that parents should be watching for. Far too many kids die from drowning every year and it would be wonderful if the press would talk to some medical experts and get better information about drowning prevention out there to parents. Most of the stories I’ve read, however, give parents the impression that kids who have drowning with morbidity (the accepted medical term, check out the links below) swallowed some water, were fine for a few days and then suddenly died. It doesn’t really work like that. Drowning is more dramatic.
Here’s the deal, in brief: a human may experience inflammation in the lungs (pneumonitis) with massive fluid production and death after aspirating water. This is not the same thing as swallowing water and many people don’t understand the difference. Swallowed water goes into the esophagus and down through the digestive tract. Swallowing chlorinated pool water may make you throw up but it will not make you die of flash pulmonary edema. ASPIRATION is when the water goes into the trachea and down into the lungs. In this case, the patient in question will have an episode of distress after they come out (or are pulled out) of the water. You will see it and you will KNOW they are not OK. They will take longer to recover than they would after choking on a little orange juice at the dinner table. They will cough and gasp and sputter. They may even require intervention like CPR. And I’m pretty sure everyone understands that a child who is down in the water, gets pulled out, and requires resuscitation needs immediate medical attention, even if they seem to recover. If your child has an episode like this and then later continues to have coughing, vomiting, wheezing, chest or belly pain, or seems abnormally tired, we have a problem. Get to the ED. If your child goes swimming and does not have an aspiration event and afterwards they are perfectly fine . . . they are perfectly fine. Go ahead and go to the beach this weekend, people.
The key to preventing drowning? Supervision. There needs to be a designated child watcher. Just because there are ten adults present doesn’t mean one of them is paying attention to the kids. Have a plan. If it’s a party where you don’t really know anyone, this is not the time to make new friends. Watch your kids. If you’re watching them and they have an aspiration event, you will see it and you will get them the medical attention they need. If your child is participating in swimming activities when they are not with you, be the annoying parent. Ask questions about who will be supervising. Ask if anyone present has had lifeguard training. If you don’t like the answers you get, don’t send your kid. Hosting a pool party yourself this summer? Consider hiring a lifeguard.
OK, good talk! Oh, and wear sunscreen.
Lucky for me, the emergency medicine docs of the world have already knocked this topic out of the park so go read their stuff. You’ll feel better.
Very misleading article. There absolutely IS such a thing as dry drowning and you may have caused parents to relax while their little ones are around water. They need to keep their face out of their phones and WATCH their precious babies.
I’m sorry you feel that way. It’s not at all my intention to make parents complacent. On the contrary I am trying to stress the importance supervision around water. “Dry drowning” is not an accepted medical term and it is confusing to parents. Drowning with morbidity is real but it has hallmark symptoms. I have had moms in my office who are wanting to keep their kids out of water for the rest of their lives because of these stories when in reality, swimming lessons at an appropriate age would increase their safety. Water is to be respected but not feared and avoided. You are absolutely right the supervision is the key to preventing drowning deaths.
Did you read what she wrote? That is exactly what she said. You practically plagiarized.
That’s exactly what I just posted when I shared this to facebook. This article describes dry drowning while saying its not a thing? I don’t know anyone who thinks it means a child swallows water vs aspirates it. All the symptoms in this article are exactly the same symptoms from every “click bait” article.
I think that is what she said: WATCH your kids! Hire a lifeguard! Be the annoying parent! Nothing about this post makes me want to relax about my kids and swimming. The author is only clarifying medical conditions and terms. And if anything, she is reiterating how important it is that parents or adults in general supervise their kids while swimming.
I don’t usually negative comment. But I also have to agree. My Child gasped on some water the other day. I went over and gave her a hug to calm her down and she was playing a minute or so later. Later that day she got an all of a sudden chest cold and was tired from playing all day. now, luckily this was very poor timing, and it was in fact a quick come on cold. shes 9, and I didn’t think the chances were likely that it was more than that. But I called the nurse line just to be safe. They did in fact think dry drowning was a thing and had us get her vitals checked. it took maybe 10 minutes of our time in the pediatric ER. it was worth it! Keeping kids from water isn’t a good idea either, because they will find water one day. Your child is going to bump his head, it doesn’t doesn’t mean its a concussion or to wrap him in bubble wrap so that it never happens again. It also doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t watch out for signs of a concussion!. Its rare, its really rare. but somebody’s kid has died from this thinking it was nothing. Often the symptoms subside, but not always. I know your intent wasn’t to forget about the poor parents who suffer everyday from a loss that is just completely unimaginable without experiencing it first hand. I do, however, think some of those parents might disagree with how you went about this. I believe your intent was to say “have faith, have fun with your kids. There are scary things out there, we cant save them from everything. but having a habilitating fear will limit you and your kids from enjoying all life has to offer”. That I agree with!
You literally didn’t read the post did you? He/she LITERALLY said that there should be a designated adult watching the child AT ALL TIMES.
Exactly! Semantics of medically accepted or not are not important, education is. Saying it “isn’t real” and is confusing is literally just as bad.
How can you post that education is important while saying the “semantics of medically accepted or not are not important?” Education–including actual terms for conditions–is important.
Thank you so much for posting this. I’m so tired of every summer seeing all the dry and delayed drowning scare posts and tweets. It literally terrified me the first time I read about it. The last article I read about a kid dying at wolf lodge actually made me mad. It mixed up terminology, didn’t give enough information on anything, and was basically the blame game. Y’all, watch your kids. I’m at the pool nearly every day teaching my kids how to swim, and there are so many unattended, rowdy, obnoxious kids running around doing stupid things.
Thank you for this article. I watched my 3yr old granddaughter “drink” pool water several times, coughing each time (even to the point of vomiting once) which kept bringing the dry drowning thoughts to mind. I wish I had read your article beforehand!! As you stated, she is perfectly fine!
I agree with Audley. Dry drowning and secondary drowning are absolutely real and your article is misleading. Ask someone who has lost a child to “dry drowning” and this article is a slap in their face. I really appreciate your effort to help parents feel “less worried” about this rare type of drowning but please don’t sacrifice truth in your attempts to help us relax. Let’s don’t get caught up on terminology. Just because the specific term “dry drowning” is not an “accepted” medical term does not make it unreal. Most of us could care less whether the term is considered “accepted.” As a side note, the term “drowning with morbidity” is absolutely too confusing for most to understand. Keep it simple, yet truthful….. Let people know that dry drowning (however you want to call it) is real, educate them on the symptoms/warning signs then make them aware that there’s only a 1-2% chance that it will actually happen to them or someone they love.
They have only recently discontinued the use of “dry drowning, secondary drowning, etc” so that they could all be on the same page. But that doesn’t help when people don’t understand that drowning isn’t just done all at once. In cases where a child dies from dry drowning it wouldn’t even be considered drowning with morbidity, it would be fatal drowning which most people would assume meant they drown in the “normal” way. I agree with you 100%. Articles like this give a false case of security…dry downing is definitely a thing and parents need to be made aware, no matter what you want to call it.
Actually, these incidents only make up about 1-2% of all drowning incidents. Saying that there’s a “1-2% chance of this actually happening to them or someone they love is” is especially misleading. It’s like saying that 1 or 2 of 100 people you know will ahve this happen to them and that’s just plain wrong.
Amanda, do you understand what a 1-2% chance means? It means that 1-2 people in 100 will die this way. That would make it approximately 100x more common than suicide. Overall drowning deaths occur in about 1 in 1100 people, and *of these,* 1-2% are related to “dry drowning.” That’s 1 in 110000, or a .00001% chance; your estimate is literally off by over one hundred thousand.
The headline is misleading at best, the content of the article is very informative.
This is exactly what I’ve always heard described as dry drowning: it’s the lay man’s terminology for what you’re citing as drowning with morbidity. I’ll second that this article is misleading. While the few will believe swimming is to be avoided at all costs, the majority of people who have heard of dry drowning know it to be exactly as described in your article. And ironically enough, I saw your article title “Dry Drowning Doesn’t Exist” on Facebook. Now imagine the many other people who read the title, accept as truth that children can’t actually die from aspirating while swimming, and move on with that incorrect information. Because as parents, we’d much rather blindly believe that our kids can’t fall prey to something scary and accept this at face value than be well informed.
intrestion artical, however i feel it is missleading. not all kids show signs of aspiration. My daughter has what is called silent aspiration (dr diagonsed), there are times she aspirates and you have no idea until a few days later when she is sick.
She’s not saying that dry drowning doesn’t exist. In fact, she is very clear that (in its proper terminology) DOES exist. He is simply explaining why every parent shouldn’t assume a child is suffering from “dry drowning” just because they swallow water. I appreciate this article, because now I know the REAL symptoms to look out for, rather than the hysteria that the other articles are creating.
Thank you so much for this article. It makes sense to me now. My children are grown but I have 5 beautiful grandsons. Every time their parents take them to do anything with water I am sick to my stomach with worry. Thank you for clearing things up!
Did those of you who are complaining read the links posted at the bottom of the blog entry? The child who died most recently of “dry drowning” vomited for days. The child I first read about two years ago vomited, soiled his pants, and slept for hours in the middle of the day before he died. In each of the situations that I’ve read about, there were other signs that something was wrong. That is the point of the article; don’t worry that your child is going to suddenly die from drowning before you’re even aware that something is wrong. YOU WILL KNOW if something is wrong.
And for all of the hysteria over “dry drowning”, there are many, many more cases of actual drowning because children were not adequately supervised. That is the much greater risk.
This article was very reassuring to me; we have a swimming pool, and a nine-year-old daughter who is a very good swimmer but because of the sensationalist articles that my husband and I both read, we panicked every time she coughed in the water. I truly appreciated the explanation.
Your comment is condescending. I’m a lay person and know what aspiration is–one doesn’t need to be one of you “privileged medically educated” people to understand that term. I found the article helpful in explaining what was really occurring and I also don’t think she was adding to the hype or playing down the need for supervision and vigilance.
So, you’re anecdotal situation makes my comment condescending? Cool.
I agree with Vanessa. I’m fairly sure she was referring to the way you describe yourself as “us privileged medically educated” and refer to everyone else in the world as a “lay person” who couldn’t possibly know something about this subject. I think as someone in the medical field, you may want to revise your approach as to how you “inform” people in the future.
A number of people have found my originial title to be misleading or even offensive. This was never my intention so I have changed it. My intent in writing this piece is to reassure parents who have been asking me if they should literally never let their child go near a pool again. They fear that their child could have aspirated water and be at risk for mortality even with no symptoms whatsoever. I want people to have a better understanding of drowning in all its forms and still be able to enjoy the water with their children. I hope my edits make this piece less confusion. Cheers, readers!
In like some of the people that chose to comment I get what you are saying. I just got done having this conversation with my ex wife. To those who had the negative comments that is very unkind. This post was not done to create chaos.
Thank you so much for clarifying this! I’ve been aggravated with the ‘dry-drowning’ craze and misinformation for a couple summers now. You said it very well. I did not read through all the comments to see the negative ones. You just stated facts, that most people will understand if they had high-school biology.
Using Correct terminology is NOT misleading and is very important. People without medical backgrounds believe incorrect information all the time and a physician that cares enough to help educate their patients including explaining correct medical terminology are not arrogant. Continuing to use out of date and incorrect terminology about drowning is as bad as a physician that writes antibiotic rxs for viral illnesses because patients already believe they help. If a person has a drowning event it will be obvious. A more important thing is for parents to understand what constitutes supervision. As a general rule if you wouldn’t allow your child to play in your front yard without an adult specifically watching them then they should not be in the water without an adult in the water specifically watching them. A drowning event takes only seconds to happen and is virtually silent. A focus on more vigilant supervision could help prevent drowning tragedies from occurring in the 1st place.
This is really good information and will make people a little less paranoid if they actually read the article; however, I do not like the way it has been titles. It should say something more like, “Dry Drowning is not what you have been lead to believe it is”, or something along those lines. If I kept scrolling and didn’t read the article, I would think she was just saying that dry drowning doesn’t exist and is not to be of concern or something.
Thank you, appreciate the constructive feedback. I actually changed the title, can you see the new one? I’m new to this blogging thing.
Hi Dr. Kate, I thought this post was very good! You made an important point that active drowning poses a much greater risk to most children than delayed drowning, even though the latter is more sensationalized. Also, thank you for listing the signs/symptoms of aspiration. Prior to reading your article, I am not sure I would have recognized them.
Thanks for this post! Found it incredibly informative.
I agree that there has been a panic about dry drowning that is unnecessary. Unfortunately, your article includes inaccurate information about CPR, advice that could be fatal. It is never necessary to do CPR on a person with a pulse and doing so may kill them. A child in respiratory distress may require intervention such AR (NOT CPR!) or oxygen. It is a pretty irresponsible mistake to make in this article and ironic considering that the entire article is calling out others for spreading misinformation! Please fix it.
I didn’t say that dry drowning is common. I just said that there IS such a thing. I still feel the same way when I said your article is misleading. And to Blogging Father: my comment was not meant to be unkind or create chaos. My intent is to keep parents, grandparents, caretakers and sitters alert and aware of the possibilities.
Go google “Oprah and dry drowning”. You’ll find a link to a show she did several years ago about a mother whose son died after being in a swimming pool for a short time. He was asymptomatic except for feeling sleepy. She put him to bed early thinking he was just tired from swimming and being in the sun.
Why must every subject that is disagreed with be held in such contempt these days? I’m neither unkind nor trying to create chaos. Just simply trying to engage in meaningful conversation about an important subject that could either keep parents more relaxed than they should be or cause them to be neurotic and constantly worried. I’m hoping this subject and any conversations among us who are a part of it will do one thing: to keep us all alert, aware and informed.
Great article! I agree supervision is key! In addition to supervision, what are your thoughts on infant survival classes?
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There are some classics that are forced upon us, and some that we think “hey, that actually sounds quite good!” This list is the latter: classics I actually want to read!
If it’s one thing I love it’s a good crime story, even better if it’s true crime! I’ve not read any other of Truman Capote’s books but this book has shot to the top of my TBR pile and has been recommended to me so many times already.
As a Bates Motel fan, I think it would be a crime (boom boom!) to not read the original novel. I’ve been really getting into a horror/thriller mood recently, having read Carrie by Stephen King, and I think Psycho is going to be another great addition to my genre experiment!
The Great Gatsby is one of my favourite classics, and arguably Scott Fizgerald’s most famous work. This novel is probably his second best known, and so I’d love to see how it compares to the masterpiece that is The Great Gatsby!
A few months ago I went to visit Virginia Woolf’s property, Monk’s House, in Rodmell, Lewes. It was so eye-opening and inspiring to be in the same room as where Virginia lived, and not too far away from the spot where she died either. To the Lighthouse is one of her books that appeals to me the most, and I can’t wait to get reading!
Another writer whose work I’ve read before! I read On the Road by Kerouac last year and loved it, and so I really want to read his autobiographical novel, The Town and The City.
These are the top five classics I really want to read. Are these on your list too? Or do you have some you’d like to recommend to me? Let me know in the comments!
Not only one of my favourite classics, but also one of my favourite books of all time. I really, really recommend this book to anyone looking for a master class in writing, and also the representation of mental health in literature.
I never studied The Great Gatsby but I wish I did. Scott Fitzgerald’s well known novel is ripe with metaphor, imagery and symbolism which makes the whole reading process that much more enjoyable.
This was the book that inspired one of my all-time favourite films Kill Your Darlings, which fictionalised the murder of David Kammerer. This book, and the film, provides so much more context to the Beat Generation and the writers who created some of their most prolific work in this era.
Kaysen’s memoir is similar to that of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, which is probably the reason why I love it so much. Kaysen spent two years in a psychiatric hospital and goes into a lot of detail about her life there which makes the piece incredibly fascinating.
The tale of the Lisbon sisters is a tragic one, but fascinating to read none the less. I love how the story is told through the romanticised eyes of the boys that lusted after them. It’s such a unique device that really makes the book stand out.
So these are my recommendations for classic books, if you’re looking to expand your library more. Have you got any favourites you would like to recommend to me? Or have I missed out a few on your list? Let me know in the comments!
There seems to be a big divide between those who are “Youtubers” and those who have YouTube channels, the former having subscribers coming out of their ears and the latter being uncovered diamonds. Success is not a bad thing AT ALL, but there are a lot of hidden gems that you’ll thank me for signposting your way.
All of these channels have under 100,000 subscribers.
Whitney is a no nonsense kinda gal (with hysterical snapchat updates that are usually daily!), and speaks openly on gender studies, diverse books and has no problems calling out authors on problematic content! (See her review on Goodreads of November 9 by Colleen Hoover). She’s hilarious, inspiring and is incredibly creative. Check out her journal flip-throughs if you need convincing.
Hailey recently changed her YouTube channel name from HailsHeartsNYC to HaileyInBookland to reflect her deep love of Alice in Wonderland. In fact, you should subscribe purely for her Alice memorabilia haul. It’s awesome! Hailey posts regular videos such as hauls, reviews and unboxings. It’s a crime she hasn’t got more subscribers!
I’ve decided that Tasha is Queen of the Fangirls. Not only does she read a lot, but she also is a great lover of Once Upon a Time, one of my favourite TV shows. She uploads unboxings, reviews, hauls, tags, vlogs of book-ish events and so much more. You need to check her out because she is GOALS!
Raeleen has a fantastic mix between YA books, graphic novels and adult books. One of my favourite reads Night Film by Marisha Pessl was down to her recommendation! She’s un-apologetically honest about disliking some books, particularly those that are over hyped. Raeleen paves her own way in the BookTube community and that’s something that should be celebrated!
Lucy is not only the Queen of Contemporary, she’s also the Queen of Classics too! Her recommendations and reviews on all books, but particularly her classics, makes it inspiring to read books which we might find difficult. Lucy is such a pioneer of the UKYA book scene and her passion and love for books deserves to be recognised!
So these lovely ladies are the top five that I would pick for you to subscribe to. They really are a fantastic bunch with lots of differing opinions on books and all bring something unique to the BookTube table. Are any of these channels your favourites? Or do you have a favourite channel you think I’ve missed out? Let me know in the comments!
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All of us have been taught throughout our lives, whether we wish to admit it or not, whether we were willing participants or not. Some of the people who taught me, I remember more fondly than others. Some were good teachers. Experience itself can be a hard teacher. But there are some good teachers we can all recall. Two instances I remember: one was my grandmother, who taught me in Sunday School when I was very young. She and my mother made sure I knew about God, Jesus, and the Bible. Two, was my first grade teacher; as a little boy, I had a crush on her! 🙂 She was so tall and pretty. She loved us kids in her class a lot. Now, she could be tough when she had to be, but I fondly remember learning the alphabet and math under her guidance. (For the record, when I saw her years later, I discovered that she wasn’t as tall as I thought…but then again, I was a short first-grader!) I still love her; she was a second mama figure to us!
Good teachers are those who care about us, and want us to learn the right things. The rich young ruler, when he greeted Jesus, addressed Him as “Good Teacher” due to His reputation as a prophet and teacher. I find Jesus’s response wonderfully ironic when He answered him and said, “why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.” And, of course, Jesus is God!
The point is, Jesus does care about us, He loves us, and He wants to teach us. What we have to do is learn (and I do mean LEARN) to listen and to obey Him, when He teaches us.
Ever seen two bighorn sheep “go at it”? Our pastor used to live in the Rocky Mountains area, and he has seen them. He told me it is truly something to see these 600-lb rams go full-tilt at each other, and then you hear that “CRACK” as they collide. It’s the power in that sound that gets your attention. I’d only seen it on TV programs such as National Geographic specials or Marty Stouffer’s Wild America.
When I first saw this name for Jesus, I was curious. True, Jesus is not recorded in the New Testament as calling Himself by that name, but others did. Once God loosened his mute voice upon the naming of his son John, Zacharias the priest (the father of John the Baptist) praised God, saying “Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people, And has raised up a horn of salvation for us In the house of His servant David,” (Luke 1:68-69) I had thought “horn” in this case meant something like a musical instrument, but I was mistaken.
(69) Hath raised up an horn of salvation.—The symbolism of the horn comes from Psalm 132:17, where it is used of the representative of the House of David, and answers to the “Anointed” of the other clause of the verse. It originated obviously in the impression made by the horns of the bull or stag, as the symbols of strength. Here, following in the steps of the Psalmist, Zacharias uses it as a description of the coming Christ, who is to be raised up in the House of David.
And hath raised up a horn – A horn is a symbol of strength. The figure is taken from the fact that in horned animals the strength lies in the “horn.” Particularly, the great power of the rhinoceros or unicorn is manifested by the use of a single horn of great “strength,” placed on the head near the end of the nose. When the sacred writers, therefore, speak of great strength they often use the word “horn,” Psalm 148:14; Deuteronomy 33:17; Daniel 7:7-8; Daniel 7:21. The word salvation, connected here with the word “horn,” means that this “strength,” or this mighty Redeemer, was able to save. It is possible that this whole figure may be taken from the Jewish “altar.” On each of the four corners of the altar there was an eminence or small projection called a “horn.” To this persons might flee for safety when in danger, and be safe, 1 Kings 1:50; 1 Kings 2:28. Compare the notes at Luke 1:11. So the Redeemer “may be” called the “horn of salvation,” because those who flee to him are safe. In the house – In the family, or among the descendants of David.
69. horn of salvation—that is “strength of salvation,” or “mighty Salvation,” meaning the Saviour Himself, whom Simeon calls “Thy Salvation” (Lu 2:30). The metaphor is taken from those animals whose strength is in their horns (Ps 18:2; 75:10; 132:17). house of … David—This shows that Mary must have been known to be of the royal line, independent of Joseph; of whom Zacharias, if he knew anything, could not know that after this he would recognize Mary.
Many times, Christians and non-Christians alike point to the meekness and gentleness of our Savior. But do not be misled. Jesus is the mighty Horn of Salvation; only through Him can we be saved from sin. And as you’ll recall, He could be roused to righteous anger, too (just ask those moneychangers in the Temple!) Like the contemporary song states, “Our God is Mighty to Save”.
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when we were the only one who excited, to keep them in happy, shower them with love, but end up who hurts the most.
not knowing what is your mistake(s), been left without notice, tell me how can i write to tell you how hurt it is.
you know theres something wrong, so you asked him, but you got the silent slap. damn.
end up, you just walk away, like nothing happen. inside, how hurt you are, theres no one can heal them but yourself. you pick those broken pieces with tears in your eyes, your screamin’ heart.
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1 Response to 19th-beginning of 20th century: List of Jewish Political Prisoners from Belarus sent to Siberia .
Wow! What a History. I did not know about this. Thanks for posting.
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Two of which are wonderful, one of which is not.
Today at school, the entire high school chorus convenierunt (Latin for “they came together” – I’m starting to think in an ancient language, no joke) to sing our songs for the upcoming Christmas concert. Usually we are in two groups – the ninth and tenth grades have music together, same with the juniors and seniors – but today was the first day we actually sang as a whole group. It sounded glorious, heavenly, angelic – mainly due to the incredible musical talents of the juniors and seniors. I guess we little fresh(wo)men and sophomores need to work on our pipes.
Still, it was so much fun. We, the small group of fresh(wo)men soprano ones, clumped together, sang our little hearts out, and effectively botched the high notes. Together.
And about SPIRIT: CHRISTMASTIME AT MONTROSE HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN!!!!!!!!!!!! If you do not realize the importance of this message, let me fill you in: Decorated rooms, decorated poles in the cafeteria, cookie decorating, decorated foyer, inter-school Secret Santa, Advent wreath at Mass, class skits, the traditional Grinch movie-watching, Christmas concert music in Chorus, and Montrosians literally decking the halls with boughs of holly (falalalalalalalala). ‘Tis really the moooost wonderful tiiiiiiiime / of the yearrrrrrrr. Montrose is truly the place to be for holiday-prepping.
And about that Latin… I’m going to Classics Day for the JCL (Junior Classical League) at BU tomorrow, where we will skip a day of school (with the Latin teacher’s consent, of course) to attend lectures about such things as mythology, architecture, culture, wars, monsters, etc. Basically, it’s what “classy” (pun intended :P) people do. It heightens one’s state of class to such classy means that they become too cool for classes and have to attend lectures to learn about the Classical Ages. While listening to Classical music, because that too is exceedingly classy.
Pardon the deviation. I think I used just about every possible definition of “class,” including an overlap. Please comment if I missed a meaning. And yes, I am aware that a lecture is indeed a form of a class. I had no other use for such a meaning.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnddddd this talk of Latin has just reminded me that I STILL HAVE AN ASTOUNDINGLY APPALLING AMOUNT OF LATIN HOMEWORK LEFT. Sigh… off to work! I must be well-versed in Latin before I attend any classy Classical classes (hopefully with Classical music for a state of maximum class) tomorrow!!!
Wow. That title sure seems epic.
Ah, well. Truth to be told, it is but a homely case of sore throat. Perhaps a mild croup. Whatever it is, it sure as heck is annoying.
Today at school has been not that pleasant, voice-wise. Raising my hand in class was out of the question. Lunchtime chatter was also uncomfortable, as to make myself heard, I had to raise my fragile voice to an unbecoming croak not unlike a bullfrog’s soliloquy. It hurt, too.
Worst of all was Mass. Not being able to sing hymns bothered me to an extent that I found quite surprising. I tried singing once I got home, but that was even worse. It was almost traumatizing that I couldn’t control my voice. Alas, one ray of sunshine comes from this dreary post: I found that mild croup, while absolutely detrimental for singing pure high notes, actually increases one’s voice’s likeness to Adele, or perhaps Bonnie Raitt. While I haven’t really explored my lower range before, singing with a sore throat forced my hand and actually was rather interesting.
Really, I shouldn’t be singing at all. It probably is lowering my chances of a quick recovery.
Now I truly am rambling. Hopefully, tomorrow my voice will be better. A day talking like a toad was slightly fun, just for the feel of having a different voice, but I definitely like my normal voice better.
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Lessons learned from my grade school geography…..
I am writing this post on a flight from Boston to Las Vegas.
“I know how to fall”….
It is Father's Day 2018 and my dad is celebrating for the first time without my mom.
I have been thinking about time a lot recently.
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So far so good on the poetry front of 2019. As you can see, I’m a little bit of a broken record right now, obsessing about the weather. Yesterday Phoenix was colder than Anchorage – ALASKA! I moved away from Buffalo, NY because I did not enjoy dealing with the snow AND cold. This year it will be 20 years since we left it all behind. Mother Nature really had no need to remind me what I’m missing; I still do NOT miss it. Yesterday the #haikuchallenge word was manage and today it is blood.
There was rain on the 31st and some areas of desert saw snow, but the majority of the cacti in snow didn’t get posted until yesterday. Our tortoise did not venture out of his home at all yesterday and may be hunkering down all day again. I don’t blame him; I enjoyed the batch of pea soup New Year’s Eve night, again on the 1st and again yesterday. Still as my one poem states – I’m not sure my blood will ever warm again. Thanks for reading my rant about freezing in the desert. I hope everyone is keeping warm and having a productive 2019.
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2019-04-18T20:29:21Z
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If it's not already obvious, the group has been on hiatus for a number of years. We may start back up in 2014.
Subject: We covered radio communications, reconnaissance, and SALUTE reports. Later we hit the range and did some troubleshooting drills, such as ball-and dummy drills.
Subject: Planning and Reaction to Contact/Fire, handguns. An Army vet taught the former. Great class and excellent leadership & instruction. The handgun class was taught by a long-time member. Everyone did great.
Subject: Weapon familiarity, Classification AQT target shooting, , and a patrol through rough terrain. We field-stripped weapons while blindfolded, and had contests to see who could remove their firing pin the fastest. Fun stuff! During the patrol we had some unexpected excitement (incoming fire). Had a great turnout and there were lots of lessons learned.
Subject: Fundamentals of rifleman skills and fundamentals of patrolling. We had a few new folks show up, so we decided to cover the fundamentals.
Subject: Small unit tactics, advanced patrolling techniques, and actical movements. The latter covered crawling and movement into cover. Thanks to the instructors who taught each segment - you guys did great.
Subject: Close-Quarter Battle (CQB), a classroom session on rifleman skills, and fast-reaction shooting drills on the range.
Subject: Land Navigation. One of the best Land Nav classes we've had. We learned both old school (using map and compass) and new school (GPS).
Subject: Small Unit Field Tactics. Based on a professional course another member and I took. We primarily practiced movement and road crossings. Also performed shooting and movement drills. Everyone learned a lot despite the harsh weather.
Subject: Overnight FTX. Built shelters and did a midnight patrol. Cold but rewarding!
Subject: All day in the field! Training on danger area gap crossings, security, over-watch procedures, and casualty recovery training (drags, lifts, and carries). Also performed movement w/ shooting drills.
Subject: Emergency medical, fundamentals of radio communication, and basic patrol techniques. Had a great turnout! :) In the medical class, which was taught by a full-time paramedic, we learned how to perform manual resuscitation using intubation (oropharyngeal airway and Ambu bag). The radio class covered the pros and cons of using FRS, GMRS, and amateur radios. During the patrol we practiced road crossings and basic hand signals.
Subject: Hand-to-hand combat and field exercises (react to contact). Thanks to Wyrm and the members of NWODF for conducting this exercise. Learned a lot!
Subject: Readiness exercise and troubleshooting. During the readiness exercise, participants shot at steel targets located at 50 and 100 yards. At 100 yards, the targets correspond to 3, 4, and 6 MOA. Scores were recorded and full gear was worn. No zeroing was allowed beforehand. Participants also performed ball-and-dummy drills followed by quick-response drills and Australian Peel Back maneuvers.
Location: Graham HS running track (morning) and Champaign County (noon).
Subject: In the morning we did Physical Training (PT). It consisted of timed pushups, pull-ups, sit-ups, and running one mile. There was also a classroom session on physical health. Durign the afternoon we practiced field tactics.
Subject: Brief introduction to amateur radio (a.k.a. why you should get your ham radio license!), camouflage and concealment, and then quite a few hours of shooting on the range. The shooting consisted of Classification AQT and snap shooting.
Subject: CQB, zeroing the rifle, fundamentals of exterior ballistics, quick reaction shooting, and weak hand shooting.
Subject: Rifleman skills. The morning session was strictly classroom. We went over the fundamentals of shooting and critiqued dozens of shooting photos. During the afternoon session we put the skills to the test on the range. Buddy teams were assigned and shooters shot at 25 meters in a variety of positions. Everyone shot the Classification AQT at the end of the day. The high score was 200.
Subject: Weapons Familiarity and Hasty Ambush. Participants took turns assembling and disassembling weapons. Afterwards we patrolled the woods and practiced the hasty ambush.
Subject: Land Navigation plus a short course in tactics & strategies. Had a great turnout!
Subject: The fist segment was on shooting accuracy. Participants shot at "Classification AQT" targets, which require the rifleman to shoot 8 rounds in three different positions. The second segment was "radio communication." The instructor explained the concept of a "code card," which is more formally known as a "Counter Encrypting Operations & Intelligence" (CEO&I) card. A patrol was conducted that allowed each participant to practice using the CEO&I cards when communicating via radio.
Subject: Using a compass, measuring pace count, Army Qualification Test (AQT), and a patrol.
Subject: Bayonet training, range estimation, and a patrol. The M24 binocular with graduated reticule was used by participants to measure range. It worked very well. Also had some new members show up. Welcome!
Subject: Tomahawk training and basic rifleman skills.
Subject: Did a Physical Training (PT) exercise in the morning at Graham HS. This included running, pushups, sit-ups, and pull-ups. Everyone put in a great effort! After lunch we did CQB training. The afternoon was spent performing Fred's AQT on the shooting range.
Subject: The subject of the morning session was "Fundamentals of Knife Fighting." This was a first for us. It was taught by a member who has a lot of knowledge on the subject. We learned a lot, and no one got hurt! (We were using rubber knives.) The afternoon session consisted of two OPFOR drills. Got a bit scratched up by the briars! Had a good turn out, and met some new faces to boot. Thanks to all who showed up!
Subject: First aid / combat pistol, long patrol, hand signals, immediate action drills. The pistol fighting was taught by a very experienced person. ;) Had one of the best turnouts ever!
Subject: Standard assault, actions on the objective, and treatment of casualties. Had a great turnout. And radios worked very well!
Subjects: CQB/room clearing/urban. It was a challenging session, as participants had to recall & use skills learned in previous sessions. The basement floor because an icy mess, but it was worth it! Thanks to all who showed up.
Subjects: Raid, actions on the objective, and treatment of casualties. Also EPW search/handling/dealings. A cold but excellent session!
Subject: Training with NEODF. We left SW Ohio very early on Saturday morning, and arrived at the NEODF training grounds at 1015. Training included 3-plate target practice, land navigation, and codes/ciphers. It was excellent training, and I highly encourage anyone living in NE Ohio to check them out. Special thanks to Efraim for inviting us.
Subject: Night Ops. This was a first for us. Participants did a patrol at night, and practiced raiding a vehicle. The conditions were quite nasty (cold and wet), so there were a lot of lessons learned!
Subject: Close-Quarter Battle. Participants practiced the proper method for entering a structure. Thanks to Ghost13 for conducting this session for us!
Subject: This was a two-day joint training session with SWODF. The subject was Land Navigation. After the classroom portion, the participants measured their pace counts. They were then challenged to find the base camp using maps, compasses, and coordinates. The next morning (20-Aug) all participants performed peel-back drills under live-fire, including the Australian Peel Back. Special thanks goes to Ken E. of SWODF for conducting this session.
Subject: Two separate sessions were conducted: Physical Fitness Evaluation and Long Patrol. Had an excellent turnout, including a lot of new faces! The PT included timed crunches, sit-ups, pull-ups, and running (1.5 miles). The patrol included a tactical lunch. The patrol was very hot, but thankfully we had a very good medic who kept close tabs on everyone.
Subject: Patrol and Army Qualification Test (AQT). Fred's targets were used for the AQT, which simulates 100, 200, 300, and 400 yards at an actual shooting distance of 25 meters. I'm happy to report that the results were more encouraging than the last AQT. Looks like practice has paid off!
Subject: "The Raid." Participants raided a structure to find and rescue a captured comrade. The exercise was very fast-paced, and underlined the importance of excellent teamwork, preparation, and communication skills. Participants also practiced CQB shooting at silhouette targets. Thanks to all who showed up!
Subject: Ambush. Had a good turnout, and we learned a lot!
Subject: Cover and concealment. Though the turnout was less than expected, we had a great session.
We had one of the best turnouts ever. Thanks everyone!
Location: Saint Paris Public Library.
Subject: Amateur Radio Training. Every member of the militia should get his/her amateur radio license. This training session prepared each student to pass the Technician Class / Element 2 Exam.
Subjects: Cold Weather Survival and Tracking. On Friday evening we made shelters from materials found in the woods and slept in the shelters. The temperature got down to 18 °F, but each of us still managed to stay somewhat warm. On Saturday morning we practiced formations, hand signals, crawling, and rushes. In the afternoon we had a special session on tracking and counter-tracking. We all learned a lot. Many thanks to snettrecker of Northern Cincinnati for conducting the tracking session for us.
To read a more detailed account of what occurred during this training session, please visit this page.
Subject: Emergency Field Medicine. An EMT taught us the basics of emergency First-Aid. An excellent class!
Subject: CERT Training. Four members underwent 20 hours of training and received certificates.
Subject: Urban/indoor tactics. This included learning how to negotiating corners, doors, and windows. Our thanks and appreciation goes to Wyrm for conducting this training session for us.
In addition to the above activities, we conducted a "backpack inspection." Participants were encouraged to bring their fully-loaded packs, and all in attendance evaluated the contents of each. For a list of items to be considered for inclusion in your pack, please visit the Equipment List page.
Subject: Introduction to rifleman skills, hand signals, and battle drills. Had a great turnout, and met some new faces. Thanks guys!
Subject: Edible and Medicinal Plants. Participants spent a day in the brush with survivalism expert & author Sunshine Brewer to learn about edible and medicinal plants. We had an excellent turnout, and learned a lot. Thanks Sunshine!
Subject: Rappelling. We learned a lot. Plus it was a lot of fun. Our thanks and appreciation goes to The Constitutional Militia of Clark County for conducting this training session for us. My wife also participated. Click here for some pics.
Subject: Had a great turnout! After performing a patrol, each participant practiced shooting 1" targets at 25 meters (4 MOA). Fred's Guide to Becoming a Rifleman was used as a reference. We thought it would be easy, but it wasn't! Ball-and-dummy drills were conducted in an effort to "smoke out" flinching, bucking, jerking, and blinking. One participant demonstrated a huge improvement in his shooting ability.
Subject: Diagnosing shooting accuracy problems. The results from last month's AQT strongly suggested all participants are in need of more tutoring & practice while on the firing line. During this session, habits that impede shooting accuracy such as flinching, bucking, and blinking were "smoked out" (and hopefully cured) using the ball & dummy test. Fred's Guide to Becoming a Rifleman was used as a reference.
Subject: Army Qualification Test (AQT) and Cardiovascular Endurance Test.
Subject: Firearms safety review, precision shooting, and shooting under physical stress.
Subject: Cold Weather Survival Skills. Our first class on this subject! Learned how to build a lean-to and make a fire under wet and cold conditions. We camped outdoors in sub-zero temperatures.
Subject: Hand Signals and formations. Thank goodness the weather was cooperative!
Subject: The first half of training will consisted of professional classroom instruction on specific field strategies (ambushing, etc.) The second half of training consisted of field maneuvers and target practice. Our thanks and appreciation goes to the Preble County Unorganized Militia (http://commander_01oh.tripod.com/) for conducting this training session for us.
Subject: The first half of training consisted of classroom instruction on specific field strategies used against an enemy (cover and concealment, ambushing, etc.) The second half of training consisted of field maneuvers.
Subject: Basic Rifleman Skills. Skills taught included shooting positions (off-hand, sitting, kneeling, and prone), breathing, follow-through, focus, mindset, safety, trigger control, weapon handling, weapon conditions, and range commands. We also had a quiz on emergency communication procedures.
We met in John Bryan State Park, where we covered the basics of lat/long, UTM coordinates, and triangulation. Each participant also measured their 100 meter pace count.
Subject: We had a meeting from 0930 to 1200 to discuss communication issues during an emergency situation (rally points, ham radio frequencies, etc.), followed by target practice on the range. After lunch we had a written quiz on hand signals. After the quiz we practiced movement and hand signals in the field. Everyone did very well!
Subject: We practiced night shooting, night movement, and night maneuvers.
On 2-Apr-04 we went down to Knob Creek Gun Range for the weekend to witness the nation's largest machine gun shoot. The festivities also included an excellent gun show. Had an excellent time!
Subject: Urban (indoor) tactics and close range/multiple target acquisition. Our thanks and appreciation goes to the Preble County Unorganized Militia (http://commander_01oh.tripod.com/) for conducting this training session for us.
Subject: Ham Radio Training. We prepared students to take the "No Code" Technician's Class exam. A very special "thank you" goes to the founder of http://www.monix.net for his assistance in teaching the class. We owe you one!
Subject: Outdoor survival skills. Our thanks and appreciation goes to the Preble County Unorganized Militia (http://commander_01oh.tripod.com/) for conducting this training session for us.
Subject: Qualification shoot and quick/snap shooting.
Subject: Marksmanship, tactics, and fieldcraft - Part II. Field training only.
Subject: Marksmanship, tactics, and fieldcraft - Part I. Classroom only.
Skills taught included map reading, triangulation, understanding UTM coordinate system, and reading a compass.
Subject: We had a special session for everyone in July: Hand to Hand Combat. Subject matter experts traveled from NE Ohio to teach us this valuable skill. Our thanks and appreciation goes out to them.
Subject: Field Movement. Topics covered included crawling and formations.
Subject: Weapons Familiarity. It was a "hardware" class, wherein we studied mechanical features of commonly used weapons (handgun, shotgun, rifle). Terminology and theory of operation was covered for each weapon type, though primary emphasis was on rifles. Subject matter experts demonstrated field-stripping procedures, and students were encouraged to shoot each type of weapon on the firing range.
Subject: Basic Rifleman Skills. Skills taught included shooting positions (off-hand, sitting, kneeling, and prone), breathing, follow-through, focus, mindset, safety, trigger control, weapon handling, weapon conditions, and range commands.
Our thanks and appreciation goes to the Preble County Unorganized Militia (http://commander_01oh.tripod.com/) for conducting this training session for us. We had a great turn out!
We covered basic field equipment, including the medium A.L.I.C.E. pack and Equipment Belt.
On January 4th we made a trip to Radcliff, Kentucky to visit Gold Nugget Army Surplus, US Cavalry, and Mae & Jesses.
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2019-04-24T12:13:31Z
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http://champaigncounty.tripod.com/id4.html
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Description Four Nobel prize-winning scientists are guests at Kan's restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown. The dinner was hosted by Wells Fargo Bank, the California Academy of Sciences, and the producers of the television program, "Science in Action," on which three of the group have appeared. From left: William Shockley of Stanford University, George W. Beadle, University of Chicago president, Ransom M. Cook, Wells Fargo president (standing), and Owen Chamberlain and Emilio Segrè, both of the University of California.
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2019-04-22T18:58:25Z
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http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf1-00437.xml
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The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Mankind: Now Available!
Rudolf Steiner needs little introduction due to his enormous number of lectures and literary works (hundreds of volumes)- suffice it to say this work comes from the period in which he was still a theosophist and had not yet schismed from the post-Blavatsky order to form his own vaguely separate anthroposophy.
It speaks at length on human evolution from a mystic perspective, the manner of reality, and the concept of Christlike-ness; it is mostly notable for its statements on the development of human culture along occult lines.
Author styxhexenhammer666Posted on April 12, 2019 April 12, 2019 Categories UncategorizedTags anthroposophy, books, civilization, culture, human evolution, literature, philosophy, rudolf steiner, social engineering, steiner, theosophyLeave a comment on The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Mankind: Now Available!
The Remedial Uses of Hypnotism: Now Available!
While extremely short this work needed to be released in a modern edition because it is perhaps one of the best examples of claims made by proponents of hypnotism in its era; its efficacy at treating certain disorders is now beyond question but claims here that it works almost invariably and can cure everything from tuberculosis to asthma of course are now rendered into the same family as bloodletting and electroshock.
The arguments made against the comic use of mesmerism as entertainment, and its words about the use of hypnotism in crimes are both quite a good read.
Author styxhexenhammer666Posted on March 31, 2019 March 31, 2019 Categories UncategorizedTags alternative medicine, autosuggestion, books, healing, homeopathy, literature, medical history, medicine, suggestionLeave a comment on The Remedial Uses of Hypnotism: Now Available!
This little book is the result of the efforts of JCF Grumbine, who for his life led a Rosicrucian offshoot called the Order of the White Rose. It is partially philosophical in nature and dwells on the form of natural law and deific forces and things of that kind, but is essentially split into lessons each with a short sort of how-to “experiment” involving mindfulness and similar things.
It is, overall, dense but well written and contains material related to the spiritual side of electricity and magnetism, as well as telepathy.
Author styxhexenhammer666Posted on March 31, 2019 March 31, 2019 Categories UncategorizedTags 19th century, books, clairvoyance, grumbine, literature, mindfulness, philosophy, rosicrucian, rosy cross, telepathy, white roseLeave a comment on Clairvoyance: Now Available!
This short work is partially about nothing more technically supernatural than the topic of sleep paralysis, also known in colloquial terms at the time as the night-mare. This frightening topic is, literally speaking, not yet even quantified fully by science so I suppose that element is still of occult import; but of greater interest here are two other subtopics; herbal preparations for the condition, and a bit of back-story and lore regarding the older, demonic principle of the incubus supposedly responsible for such a phenomenon. This work is over 200 years old but displays a fairly advanced amount of rational insight.
Author styxhexenhammer666Posted on March 29, 2019 March 29, 2019 Categories UncategorizedTags books, demons, dreams, herbal medicine, incubus, literature, lucid dreaming, paranormal, pseudoscience, sleep paralysis, unexplainedLeave a comment on The Incubus: Now Available!
The Mind Telegraph: Now Available!
This fairly short work is another of the various bizarre releases of its era, which has little back story and content which fluctuates wildly from subgenre to subgenre. Supposedly based off an older German version (said here to be popular, but which may indeed not exist at all), it first lays out some philosophical principles tied with the use of willpower and psychic force, then launches off on a series of situational tales regarding the use of iron will and such- indeed, the author (or the avatar the author depicts) claims to have become miserable by having too much force of will, leading to a life utilizing it for money and fame, to the neglect of spirituality and wisdom, warning the reader to be wary of the use of true will, which is in part prefaced by a simple declarative refusal to surrender or back down.
Author styxhexenhammer666Posted on March 28, 2019 March 28, 2019 Categories UncategorizedTags 20th century, books, charisma, literature, mind telegraph, motivational, psychic arts, spiritism, telepathy, willpowerLeave a comment on The Mind Telegraph: Now Available!
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2019-04-22T08:00:24Z
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https://tarlwarwick.wordpress.com/
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Configuring a network service is not an easy task due to manual schemes that are deployed currently. This paper proposes a Plug-and-Play approach for service configuration and demonstrates its workability through various distributed computing technologies.
Raza, Syed Kamran, Pagurek, Bernard, & White, A. (2000). Distributed computing for plug-and-play network service configuration. In IEEE Symposium Record on Network Operations and Management Symposium (pp. 933–934).
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2019-04-24T09:55:31Z
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https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/10785
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I think I picked the wrong night to work late.
This is not going to be a fun commute.
PS; actually, the drive wasn't that bad. I was glad that I took a minute in the mostly empty parking lot to remind myself what driving iin snow is like though. Much brake-pumping.
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2019-04-20T02:37:27Z
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https://curgoth.livejournal.com/690666.html
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My name is Maddelyn, I’m a pre-service teacher in my third year attending the University of Southern Queensland. My university time has been inconsistent and long!
I started university enrolled in a Bachelor of Human services, I changed to Education, changed to Business and changed back to Education! I know it seems like a lot of jumping around, but this final change back to a Bachelor of Education seems to have set me straight and kept me on task for over a year and a half now. Personally, I think I needed to feel a little bit confused and misdirected in my studies to really understand what career and experiences I wanted to get out of university. Now I can confidently say there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and in my head, that light helps me to picture myself teaching in a primary classroom where I can hopefully extend and offer all my students the same confidence, acceptance, love and support as I have had throughout my learning journey.
I’m looking forward to the opportunity to debrief my days and experiences to you, blogging friends, and I hope you enjoy getting through the semester with me.
Hi Maddelyn, great to meet you! I hope you are enjoying your prac! We use Smart notebook in our classroom which is great to create lessons that can be interactive with ease of use rather than death by powerpoint! Hove fun!
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2019-04-24T04:51:48Z
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https://maddelynsedc3100blogs.wordpress.com/2017/07/19/first-blog-post/
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← 2018 is Almost Over. Get Your Praise On. You Still Have Time. Finish Strong! 2019 is around the corner. Be On Fire For God. Get Ready! Let’s Do This!
Blessings and Happy New Year. Sounds interesting, I’ll add it to my list. Thanks!
Blessings and Happy New Year to you. It was very interesting. Gave me something to think about. I had so many thoughts I couldn’t fit in one posts so I’ll leave that for another time 😊 You’re welcome. Thanks!
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2019-04-20T21:08:32Z
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https://joaynn510.wordpress.com/2019/01/02/okay-bird-box-netflix-fans-you-got-my-attention-i-watched-the-movie-boy-i-tell-ya-intrigued-i-was-and-of-course-i-found-a-message-in-it/
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About US – Royal Teacup Pups | Garri's Super Micro Teacup Puppies.
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We are a micro teacup breeder for years and specialized only for the tiny furry babies. We have the best qualities you can ever find the mini or teacups and you can always find your lifetime companion with us.
We are available to answer any questions regarding a puppy and/or our breeds anytime Monday through Sunday, 24/7 from facebook, email or phone.
The puppy shall provide you with a health record explaining what shots the puppy has had at the time of sale.
If, within 30 days of purchase, a licensed veterinarian determines that your dog has a congenital or hereditary defect which adversely affects the animal’s health or that your dog died from a congenital or hereditary defect, you have the same options as outlined in the above section.
Within two business days of a veterinarian’s certification of your dog’s illness, defect, or death, you must notify the user of the name, address, and telephone number of the examining veterinarian. Failure to notify the seller within two business days will result in forfeiture of rights.
Refunds or reimbursements shall be made no later than 5 days after the seller receives the veterinarian certification. Veterinarian certification shall be presented to the seller no later than five days after you receive it.
*These options do not apply where a seller, who has provided a health certificate issued by a veterinarian, discloses in writing at the time of sale the health problem for which the buyer later seeks reimbursement or to return the dog.
In a perfect world NO customer would ever need to use this guarantee; but we want you to know that our staff is here to help any customer in need.
Nanni Tonya’s Super Micro Teacup Puppies.
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2019-04-18T21:03:57Z
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https://microteacuptinypuppies.wordpress.com/about-us/
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2013 ART ON ICE: King Richard Brodeur is back in goal!
The annual “Art on Ice” Show will be in full action starting this weekend with new paintings by hockey legend, King Richard Brodeur. Inspired by his childhood memories of backyard hockey, he couldn’t resist putting himself back in goal for his painting, “Into the Night”. The show opens Saturday March 23 at the Birthplace of B.C. Gallery in Fort Langley. Visit with King Richard on Saturday or Sunday (Noon to 4 pm). The show continues to April 10, 2013.
This entry was posted in At the Gallery - NOW SHOWING, Gallery Artists in the news, King Richard Brodeur, The Art of Sports. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-24T12:39:58Z
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https://birthplaceofbcgallery.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/2013-art-on-ice-king-richard-brodeur-is-back-in-goal/
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Renting out your condominium is a complicated process.
2 Can a Homeowners Association Stop You From Renting Your House Out?
3 Can You Make a Profit Renting Your Home?
Renting out your condominium puts you in the position of becoming a landlord and adds complications to your business life. Permissions must be obtained from several sources, insurance must be altered, and your future plans must be considered before renting out your unit.
Are you current on your mortgage? If so, contact the lender to let it know you want to rent out your property. The mortgage may be issued on the basis of “owner-occupancy” and your terms may change. If you’re behind in your mortgage payments and are looking to undergo a short sale, your lender may object outright, or request that the rental payments be diverted to it.
Many Homeowners’ Associations (HOA) have rental terms that you’ve agreed to previously. Some do not allow rentals at all, while others limit the rental periods and how often you can rent the property out. Some won’t allow a unit to be rented until the owner has held title for a specific period of time. You may be required to pay a fee to the HOA for the privilege of renting out your property. Check your HOA documents before listing your unit.
If you were allowed to rent out your property according to the HOA documents when you purchased it, and the condo rules have changed to disallow or restrict rentals, you have the right to be governed under the rules in place at the time of your purchase. California passed a Senate Bill in January 2012 protecting the rental rights of unit purchasers prior to the bill being enacted.
Is your property co-owned? If so, your property partner must approve of a rental. For a contract to be legal, all owners must sign.
You may have the right to rent your unit under the current HOA rules, but you may also be subjecting your building to limitations set by government-backed loan providers. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) issues a list of FHA-approved condominium communities for which they will provide loans to buyers. They require that 51 percent of the units be owner-occupied. Renting out your unit may put your building in the FHA non-approved position.
Seal, Jann. "Can I Be Prevented From Renting My Condo to Someone Else?" Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/can-prevented-renting-condo-someone-else-44809.html. Accessed 24 April 2019.
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2019-04-25T16:03:57Z
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https://homeguides.sfgate.com/can-prevented-renting-condo-someone-else-44809.html
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For the last few months, I have been contemplating the possibility of creating a blog for my work, as a venue for my musings and short writing, an incubator for papers, and as a way to have conversations about games which are not limited by 140 characters. So here it is: Vagrant Cursor.
Starting a new blog is always daunting, because I already know how hard it is to keep it going. I already have a blog in Spanish, in which I focus on movies and TV, which has proved a great way of keeping up with my mother tongue. Talking about my love for movies more informally is also a good thinking break from my work, although it’s still related to the field of game studies.
The name? Well, my work focuses on adventure games, in which the text cursor or the arrow is allows players to wander around new worlds, explore them, manipulate the environment and talk to people. It also has a nice adventurous ring, and I like taking my work as an adventure.
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2019-04-22T20:29:23Z
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https://vagrantcursor.wordpress.com/2011/09/
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Games
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wordpress
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This entry was posted on enero 23, 2010 at 8:48 am and is filed under hallyu, Jeollanam. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa no sabes cuanto ame este dorama, sobre todo al personaje de Gu Jun Pyu!! mil gracias por publicar estas fotos!!
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2019-04-22T22:26:06Z
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https://daecorea.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/la-casa-de-gu-jun-pyo-en-boys-over-flowers/
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imdb
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Often, Japanese movies are slightly weird in a good and culturally intriguing way. This one is weird in a not so good way.
Based on a not very good novel, Birds intrigues for the first two reels, but falls away thereafter. The female and male lead, excellent as they are, are forced into too many tight plot corners, and their taut emotionality runs into histrionics.
Worth a watch, sure, but keep your expectations in check.
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Wow! Thought you were on strike!
Glad you are back! Of course it is the middle eastern cooking. I love it all…!
Happy 91st Birthday to your Mom. The salad looked yummy.
Hey Judy, enjoyed another of your cooking videos with your mom. What a blessing your mom is 91 and doing so well. You both are so cute together! Hope to see sometime soon!
Happy Birthday to your Mom! She is adorable. Love how this salad looks. I have to say as much of a fan of middle Eastern food that I am I have to say I have never really liked the versions of Tabbouleh I have tried in the past. This is the first Tabouleh I’ve seen that wasn’t dominated with the bulgar. Your version with all the lettuce and other veggies looks like a salad I would actually love. I am planning to make your version next weekend. Thank you for sharing.
So good to see you back! And, your video is terrific! I always enjoy seeing the two of you together cooking. Hope to try out your recipe soon.
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The magic of this dish is convenience, as is the case with most of Nigella Lawson’s family reality creations. I make this the day before sometimes and I’ve found the tomato or passata sauce seeps into the tortillas fluffing them and permeating more flavour. I will admit when making this for the first time I flapped about a lot like a virginal traditional lasagna maker with the kitchen turning into a complete bombsite, and I am actually one of those irritating clean as you go cooks. This probably was because the idea itself of a mexican lasagna sounded downright odd and alien and had me zig zagging in circles ejecting me deservedly out of my comfort zone. The dish in fact is based on the same principle of layering not dissimilar to an Italian lasagna, and although Nigella keeps it vegetarian as you can do, I added finely sliced chorizo and some waning scallions.
Also I omitted the jalapeno for a version of this for the children, although I stealthily add a very tiny pinch of cayenne to build up their taste buds and palate, and for the grown-up kids who are wary of spice use whatever chilli heat you are comfortable with. Halve the jalapeno quantity below or rocket the chillisphere by adding half a bird’s eye chilli either. If you aren’t a fan of goats cheese (incomprehensible) you will be happy to note the tart flavour can’t be detected, but it definitely adds a creamy and delicious dimension in terms of flavour to the dish. You will need the pinch of sugar if using cheap versions of tinned tomatoes too. It’s just as delicious re-heated the next day for leftovers.
Heat the oil in a pan over medium heat, add the onion and peppers and cook without colour for 2 minutes. Add the chopped garlic, tomato puree and paprika and fry for a minute stirring. Add the 2 jars of tomato sauce or passata or tins of tomatoes plus water, pinch of sugar and simmer for 15 mins.
To make the filling, mix the drained beans and sweetcorn in a bowl. Add most of the grated cheddar, crumbled goats cheese and coriander and mix together, reserving some cheese and scallions to sprinkle on the top before baking.
Pour a quarter of the tomato sauce into the base of your dish. Don’t be too generous, you haven’t won the lotto plus you need enough for the rest of the dish and a little for the top. Layer a tortilla over this, then the chorizo, then beans and sweetcorn salsa. Repeat the process like a traditional lasagna until the sauce and salsa mixture are used.
Cover the top tortilla with a little of the tomato sauce / passata and sprinkle with remaining cheese.
Bake in the oven for 30 minutes and cool for 15 minutes before slicing.
I love the idea of a spicy Mexican lasagna… will definitely have to give it a try! Loved your description of the initial chaos in the kitchen! You should have seen my kitchen the day I tried to make my own tortillas! Haven’t tried since!
This is so interesting and delicious! I love that it has a cake like shape too!
ooh – i’ve been wondering about this recipe in my copy of Kitchen. Lovely to see inspiration popping up in the Random Recipes!
This is the best Mexican lasagna I’ve seen…I just love all the ingredients!!! Perfect!
this is a really interesting dish! i would never have thought about turning those mexican flavors into lasagna form, how creative! and i just love the addition of the smoked paprika!
This looks amazing–I don’t have rapeseed oil, but do you think extra-virgin olive oil would work?
I’ve never made this but have come across versions of it a few times on different blogs and each time I tell myself it is something I have to make one day. I would definitely up the chilli heat and luckily I love goats cheese too!
While I have had tortilla lasagna before, your variation here does look a great deal better. The goat cheese, chorizo and the black beans are what has won me over. Glad you stepped out of your comfort zone and made this, it looks fantastic. Great Tex Mex dish!
Thanks for entering the Sweet Heat Challenge. Love the look of your Tortilla Lasagne and it would be very welcome at my tapas table, even if it is not very traditional!
Thanks Janice, maybe if it was portioned very small with toothpicks, it could just about pass as tapas in disguise!
Congrats on all the awards! The lasagna looks delicious.
It’s delicious too – a happy marriage of flavour!
Great recipe, have “filed” it for future use.
I have too, definately on my ‘make again’ list, thanks Bridget.
Extra chilli definately gives it the va va voom factor! Thanks Choclette.
Sheelagh, love this recipe! Flavorful, and what a treat with fresh summer corn. I also love your addition of chroizo. Yum!
Thanks, think I would put chorizo in everything if I had the chance!
The title and opening lines drew me here fast. Yesterday, I was posting about the differences in Mexican foods here and how cross-culture we are in the States. Where we are cross-cultural since we’ve always been a melting pot but we use to be significantly different within and between states. It so surprises me when things travel. Reading about Mexican Tortilla Lasagne from A Village Pantry – well that’s just a blast. All the way from Tex-Mex to Ireland with a mixed mix. I thoroughly enjoy the difference in phrases and get (wonderfully) lost in them. I’m sure my one-fifth Irish tries to sing the tune. I love the way you described being lost in the kitchen – out of your comfort zone. It’s so true – but you said it so poetically. It was a pleasure stopping by! Belated Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
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A warm welcome to FOS, a new open course for professionals in Higher Education who teach or support learning and are interested in learning with colleagues from around the world about flexible, open and social learning.
We start on the 13th of July and will learn together over five days and until the 17th of July! There will be plenty of opportunities to connect, communicate, curate, collaborate and create (5Cs) to identify valuable opportunities to trigger thinking and change.
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It’s been mild this November, and my collection of perennial herbs on the allotment is still looking fresh.
I picked a bunch of Rosemary, Sage, Winter Savoury, Oregano and Thyme.
Many herbs are very simple to grow successfully, even in pots. They are forgiving, and giving…they accept neglect and continue to provide beautiful, fragrant, interesting flavours throughout the seasons.
Pick up a healthy small plant at a garden centre, or a garden market stall, pot on into a slightly bigger pot, using compost and soil, or plant it straight in the ground, (remembering that not all herbs are hardy). If you keep herbs in a pot, water regularly, but sparingly. Some herbs are regarded as annuals but many will go on year after year. Growing herbs is an economical way of having herbs in your kitchen all year round.
Herbs have many medicinal powers as well as culinary uses.
Thyme can be infused as a tea (with a little agave) as a cough remedy.
Today I’m offering a recipe using fresh Oregano and Thyme, both herbs grow wild on the hills in Mediterranean countries. I remember driving through Greek Mountains with the heady fragrance of Thyme and Oregano coming in through the open windows with the warm breeze. Intoxicating.
Za’atar Flatbreads are an everyday bread eaten in many Middle Eastern Countries.
Here is my take on a Palestinian style flatbread…..
Za’atar flatbreads, served with hummus, vegan cheese and olives, rocket, radishes, tomatoes and spring onions, and a hot spicy lentil and tomato soup.
In a small jar of water.
They are undemanding. They want only a well-dug bed, and to be planted the right way up, with the little stalk protruding minutely above the ground.
They will accept whatever winter brings: the frost, the rain, the snow.
Next June and July they will be ready for harvest.
I love onions. I use them every day. However bad the day has been, I am revived by the fragrance of frying onions.
A Celebration of The Humble Bean.
Tips on cooking beans, with a simple recipe for bean pate.
You’ve just got to love beans!
It’s autumn here in the UK. I am lucky enough to have an allotment, and I love it at this time of year, its decked in autumn colour, bathed in hazy sunshine or shrouded in fine mist (or is that rain…?), and still abounding in fruitfulness. A few days ago, I stripped all the bean pods from the vines. The pods are slightly damp and bedraggled, and coloured musty shades of brown and yellow. I brought home a huge bin bag full of them, three different kinds: moonlight runner, scarlet emperor runner and borlotti. They look distinctly unpromising, which is why I am always struck by what I find inside. The pods split open easily, and inside, nestling in a smooth, silky, papery, white sheath, are lines of immaculate, shining, pristine beans.
The task of the next few days is to shuck them into bowls, then leave them in a warmish dry room (but not too near the heat otherwise they will split). Every time anyone passes, they perform a little ritual, which basically involves shuffling the beans around in the bowls. It’s quite musical and very therapeutic actually! To begin with, they sound dull and muffled. As the days go by, the rattle of the beans starts to change, until eventually it sounds like marbles rattling in a glass bowl. The sound, after a few weeks, becomes absolutely clear and bell-like.
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Publishers & Metacritic: Who’s to Blame?
Recently it was made aware that Obsidian Entertainment, the company responsible for the excellent game Fallout: New Vegas, was not given any royalties or bonuses for the game because the game failed to garner a high enough score on aggregate review site Metacritic. Aside from this being a terrible story for the talented developers over at Obsidian, it is also a ludicrous practice for a publisher to utilize. There has been a bevy of articles and opinion pieces on the situation, with a lot of the argument aimed at Metacritic. But is Metacritic really to blame, or should the pointed finger of the outraged public be directed towards someone else?
Let’s start things off by clarifying the problem: Obsidian Entertainment’s game Fallout: New Vegas was only to be granted royalties and extra bonuses to its developers if the game achieved a score of 85 or higher on Metacritic. This decision came from New Vegas’ publisher, Bethesda Softworks.Metacritic gathers online and print reviews from credited publications and gives an overall “Metascore” based on the averages collected from said gaming publications. Since Metacritic only has so many gaming publications it can draw from at any given time (take a look and read over what it takes to qualify to be a Metacritic-approved publication), the given Metascore is based on only a handful of people. Assuming a game reviewer is doing their job properly, then they are reviewing the game accurately and giving their honest thoughts and opinions about the title. So what the hell does this all mean? It means that 81 critics determined the fate of Obsidian’s developer’s bonuses.
Being a game reviewer myself as well as a Fallout fan, I find this story to be completely and utterly ridiculous. I must clarify that I DO NOT put any blame for this on the individuals who reviewed Fallout: New Vegas; they did nothing wrong and in fact can be completely omitted from further discussion. I do find faults, however, with the publisher, Bethesda, and Metacritic itself.
A Metascore alone should in no way sway a person’s choice one way or another.
I’ll avoid reiterating that numbered game reviews should be done away with, and say that consumers need to read before they decide. A review of a game is going to highlight the ups and downs of the title and should give you a multitude of insight on the game (How’s the story? Does it control well? What about the graphics? Are there any bugs to deal with?). 84 does not tell you about the game. Metacritic tries its best to create a Metascore that is indicative of a games quality, but a number can’t tell you how cool it was the first time you shot a ghoul in the head and saw it’s brains blast out the back of it’s cranium. This isn’t really the fault of Metacritic, but more an issue with us as consumers, wanting to get our information here and now. Taking the time to read why someone gave the game a 70 (Joystiq) instead of a 75 (1up) can’t be done with a Metascore.
A game’s performance should be the factor used to determine remuneration.
A quick search for New Vegas’ total income finds that the game has earned over $300 million. I’m not an industry insider or business analyst, but three hundred MILLION dollars sounds like a hell of a lot of money for one game to make. Clearly the game has sold well, so why hasn’t Bethesda given the game’s developers their due reward? Never mind the fact that New Vegas missed it’s Meta-goal by one point, but consider that the game sold millions of units, raked in lots of cash, and was generally positively reviewed. If 81 reviewers say the game is great with a Metascore of 84, then I guess the millions of gamers that bought the game don’t matter.
Not just anyone can write a review and be added to the aggregate for a game. You need to first meet Metacritic’s guidelines to qualify to be considered. But even then, certain sites are weighed more than others when determining the Metascore. This isn’t really a bad thing, since I would venture to guess that most gamers would want to hear what IGN says about a game over D+PAD Magazine. But even with this weighted system in place, things still aren’t entirely right with each Metascore. Not every site/magazine uses the 100 point scale that Metacritic does. Sure, Metacritic tries to convert scores as accurately as possible to fit their scale, but plenty is lost in translation. If you gave a game, say, a B, then what number value would you give it? 82? What about 85? 86? Metacritic has a system for getting this number from a letter grade, but where is the reviewer in this scenario? As a game critic myself, I’d be incredibly aggravated if someone translated my score to anything I didn’t fell was appropriate because that is my review they are talking about.No one should have a say in my review but myself. Metacritic is trying to do something great here, by offering the consumer an easy way to view an overall average rating for a game, but the system has flaws that rear their ugly heads the deeper you go. And when dealing with something as tremendous as a studio’s bonus paychecks, Metacritic just isn’t a reliable source for quality.
So where do we go from here? Unfortunately for Obsidian I think they are out of luck on getting their bonuses. But we as the gaming community shouldn’t settle for this practice. There are better ways to compensate developers than using the entirely subjective Meatcritic. Let’s take a look, shall we?
Metacritic needs to change its ways.
If this situation has shown us anything it is that Metacritic’s system for averaging games isn’t the greatest. Sure, they can be faulted to a degree as it is their system that I am in disagreement with, but I can’t give them flak for trying. A better formula for gathering a game’s Metascore would be to only use the same 20 or so publications for each game. Make this group comprised of bigger publications that cover all kinds of games, likeGame Informer or GameSpot, as well as more specific sites like RPG Fan. This way you have a nice pool of minds that know what they’re doing, have a background in the genre, and can be a credible source. Of course, reviewers need to always remain truthful and opinionated in order for this to work. If this course of action were taken then one could safely assume that each publications score would be weighted equally, therefore giving the most accurate and true Metascore.
Review publications can either bend to Metacritic or downright refuse them.
Much of the trouble with converting a site or magazine’s score to Metacritic is that it does not follow the same scale. Metacritic, again, uses a 1-100 scale to rate a game. If every game reviewer used a 1-100 scale to rate a game, then there would be nothing lost in the translation of scores (especially if the above solution is also practiced). But the 1-100 scale system has flaws as well. Can you tell me the difference between an 84 and an 85? So perhaps a better solution would be to tell Metacritic sayonara andnotbe one of their affiliated sites. If your scores are being interpreted incorrectly then why allow yourself to be misquoted? Though this solution is a bit farfetched it would eliminate the overarching problem of using a Metascore to judge a game’s quality.
Publishers need to stop looking at Metacritic. Period.
Because the Metascore of a game isn’t a true representation of a game’s quality, publishers need to stop using it. But this is easier said than done. A Metascore is an easy number to slap on a game and feed to the masses. “Did you hear, Halo 4 got a Metascore of 90. It must be amazing!” is a whole lot nicer to say than, “I read over at Kotaku that the new Halo game had great graphics but felt stale with the outdated gameplay and uninspired weapons.” I can’t say that I don’t understand where Bethesda was coming from by doing this, but this practice does a massive injustice to everyone: developer, gamer, and the general population. If you want to give a bonus to a development studio and base it off the game’s performance, use more concrete facts, not the opinions of a handful of people.
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Which brings us to the question posed at the beginning of this article: who is to blame? I can give you a beat-around-the-bush answer and say that it’s both the fault of Metacritic and the publisher (which it can be heavily argued is true), but I think the guild should be solely with the publisher. Shame on you for putting the fate of a person’s bonus in the hands of a group of subjective reviewers. Yes, Metacritic has its fair share of problems, and yes, Metacritic is a convenient way to sum up a game (albeit inaccurately), but it is in no way a means to base a game’s success. Bethesda should have more faith in it’s development staff at Obsidian. Any publisher for that matter should get into a method of paying out bonuses on a game’s financial and commercial success instead of critical reaction (even if it’s good!). Game reviewers do a fine job reporting on the quality and content of a game, but it is never a reviewer’s duty to be the deciding factor on a person’s compensation.
Very well-written and well thought out article here. I pretty much completely agree with you.
I am actually fine with the concept of paying bonuses for quality games over financial and commercial success though. At times, the marketing or license can be a reason for financial success over game quality. And too often great games do not sell as well as they should. So this can counteract that, but they obviously need a better system than metacritic to determine quality.
I think game designers should be given bonuses on the success of a game too, critically and commercially, but I feel even critically acclaimed games can simply not sell well. And though those developers are talented and deserving of a bonus, perhaps it is just not financially possible given the poor performance of the title.
I remember hearing about this, and I can’t believe that a company would rely on a Metacritic score, of all things, to dish out bonuses. Review scores are so subjective these days, and to me anything from 8/10 up is a *great* game and most likely worthy of a purchase. Hell, a 5/10 is supposed to be average, and there are some mediocre games that are still worth playing. I feel bad for those at Obsidian because they did make a very good (and bestselling) game, and it’s pretty weak for Bethesda to have scrapped their bonuses because of a slightly lower numerical number.
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The next morning, Five Section was sent out on its reconnaissance patrol, in preparation for an ambush at Gutter Tor. This was a place I was familiar with from a previous training cycle in May, in which I had spent three hours in the driving hail and rain waiting for an enemy that I was later to discover had been safely tucked up in bed back in camp at Lympstone.
This time the ambush was a lot swifter and fluid; a fast insertion, completion of tasking, and extraction back to the patrol harbour.
The following morning we had a Merlin HC3 helicopter pick us up; a fantastic experience. Standing behind the exhaust was the first time I had been warm in days. We were flown to Tregantle Fort near Plymouth where we RV’d with 1 Troop. It was a secure location and the troops got a hot wet (brew) and some much needed rest. That is except for 6 Section, who were tasked with a reconnaissance of Scraesdon Fort for the final deliberate attack named ‘Final Thrust’.
There was no let-up in the weather but in some ways this was a good thing as it masked the sound of our movement, and allowed us to move in more stealthily. The reconnaissance went well and we gathered all the appropriate information and made our way back to the secure harbour location.
On our return the preparations for the final assault began apace. This was to be the culmination of all the field exercises throughout the course and my training. Orders were given, ammunition distributed, communications checked and weapons oiled.
Our route took us over muddy, water-logged ground and required the crossing of numerous barbed wire obstructions in order for us to remain in dead ground.
The final leg included a rope climb in the dark, utilising our newly acquired vertical assault skills. At the top of the climb we were forced to squeeze through a small tunnel to access the dark underground passages of the fort. In complete silence we inched our way up to the final set of stairs ready to begin the assault. Stacked up, all thoughts of the exhaustion and cold of being in the field had dissipated and we waited in the darkness like fighting dogs waiting to strike. The anticipation of the battle to come was strangely exciting and just as the sun began to rise, the attack was initiated.
Following the brief given, my fire team provided fire support and casualty extraction, being called to rooms to move ‘casualties’ to safety. During the casualty extraction we made use of the infamous fireman’s carry and basha stretchers – hoofing (great), but a truly hard slog.
The dynamic then shifted and we were rotated into an assaulting role, relieving one of the other fire teams. We moved into a wooded area of the fort methodically clearing the enemy from each building. At one point an enemy was firing from a tiny room no bigger than a couple of square metres. Assaulting it safely would be difficult, so it was decided to throw a (practice) grenade in.
The noise from the explosion was accompanied with some choice expletives from the staff manning the attack position. It got the job done and after what seemed like minutes the two-hour long final assault finally drew to a close with those cherished words, “End Ex”.
Monday morning began with vertical cliff assault training. This is what many consider a key part of the Commando skillset, and is a feature of the training I take enormous pleasure in. In fact I enjoyed this element so much, it dissipated any issues I had with the harsh weather. Nevertheless, I was given a sharp reminder of how tough conditions were when whilst making a water crossing over the lake; the edges were covered in a thick layer of ice!
After the water crossing we were transported to the beginning of the field exercise. From the DOP (drop off point) we made a tactical insertion into the patrol harbour under the cover of darkness. The rain relented, but only to usher in sub-zero temperatures which in turn froze all of our wet equipment, including the trousers I was wearing for sentry duty.
Tuesday morning, and 4 Section was tasked to conduct a reconnaissance patrol to gather intelligence on a farmhouse approximately four kilometres from our position, ready for a troop-level attack later that night.
Throughout the day we attended O-Groups, prepared for battle, and cached our bergens ready for a rapid extraction.
The attack took place that night. Our section commander took us round a wall to the south of the farmhouse, which brought us perilously close to the enemy positions, so silence was key. We manoeuvred with stealth into our fire positions and when the assaulting section went loud we initiated the fire support.
The terrain was difficult underfoot with protruding rocks making the movement in the dark laborious and risky. Two members of the Troop picked up severe ankle injuries; one from the Royal Marine Reserve (RMR), and the other a 131 lad. Unfortunately, the RMR recruit could no longer continue, whereas the 131 member, Joe, managed to soldier on.
It’s interesting to observe how different people react under pressure, and field conditions really bring out your true personality. It seems there are those who develop ‘injuries’ and drop out; those who legitimately develop an injury which causes them to be taken off the exercise; or those suffer an injury but simply carry on and overcome the adversity. Joe exemplified the latter, showing true Commando spirit.
He had picked up a bad ankle injury, one that would have caused many others to call it a day, but he just kept smiling and got on with it. It was painful watching him struggle through but I fully recognized what was at stake and why he would put himself through such a hardship. On the way back to the extraction point some more RMR lads had to drop out, a sharp reminder of how easy it is for the course to end abruptly.
We were picked up by four-tonne trucks and moved to a wood block in the south of Dartmoor on standby for further tasking; a brief respite to get a few moments of shut eye.
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This entry was posted in MFA and tagged CCAD MFA, Claire Wiedman, Do, Fine Art Photography, Helen Hoffelt, Interactive Photography, Think on September 25, 2013 by wiedmance.
interesting confusion of the “I” viewer in these. This has nothing to do with these picture but thought you might enjoy.
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Despite the argument that catfish is inedible because they are bottom feeders and eat poo…I love it deep fried and in a taco. Soak catfish fillets in milk for about an hour – this will remove the “fishiness” and keep the fish moist. Cut the fillet into cubes. Coat in a mixture of flour, pepper, and old bay seasoning…deep fry. Serve with taco toppings. We had fresh avocado slices, greek yogurt, cheese, and salsa…Yummy!
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Florence is one of my favourite places. We spent some great days wondering the streets in the sunshine, frequently stopping at Grom for pistachio or hazlenut gelato. At night, stumbling home with full bellies after a few glasses of red listening to the sounds of street musicians. Sounds good right? Well let’s gloss over the heated argument I had with an Italian shop owner about a travel adapter.
Our travel guide had given us some poor recommendations. One occasion saw a pizzeria owner show us so much contempt – I can only assume I insulted both his wife and kids whilst ordering bread sticks in Italian. One balmy night in Florence, we headed South of the river to Gusta pizza. The pizzeria was small, packed with locals and tourists huddled round barrels with pizza on paper plates and delicious wine in plastic cups. The incredible pizzas were cooked right in front of you in big wood fired oven in the corner. We loved them so much we ordered two more and scoffed them down next to the imposing Pitti Palace. Whilst I’ll never replicate those pizzas, with the help of a pizza making class whilst in Italy, I’ve managed to make something quick and pretty tasty indeed.
Here’s my thin and crispy margherita. The trick, like all Italian cooking, is to keep it simple and use good quality ingredients. If you do have a pizza stone then brilliant, a slab from B&Q will do too. It helps to cook the pizza fast in a super hot oven to give a crispy, blackened base. If not a pizza pan with holes in will do. I use beer rather than just water which helps give a much needed, malty taste to the base, perfect for dipping your crust in some garlic mayo.
ONE First whisk the beer, yeast, water and oil in a bowl and add your flour and salt to the mix. TWO Get your hand in, making a claw shape with your hand and turning the dough like it’s a massive dial whilst rotating the bowl THREE Once roughly combined, oil a clean work surface and knead for 10 minutes FOUR I tend to divide the dough into 150g and make them into ball shape, Leave the balls to rise for 1 hour FIVE Whilst the dough is on its way empty the tin of tomatoes in a saucepan and roughly tear some basil in to it. Season with sea salt and black pepper and leave on a low heat for 25-30 minutes, stirring occasionally SIX Preheat your oven to as high as it will go with your stone in the oven!
SEVEN To get a really thin base, roll out your dough so its almost see through. When confident, stretch out a bit using your hands EIGHT (The tricky bit) I remove the pizza stone from the oven carefully using oven gloves and quickly spread over the dough NINE Top the pizza with a ladle full of sauce, scatter 5 large leaves of basil and tear the mozzarella over the base, covering the basil with the cheese TEN Cook for 7 minutes but keep an eye out, it will cook fast. Enjoy.
ELECTRIC MIXERS You can of course combine and knead the dough using an electric mixer by mixing on the lowest setting as you add the water using the dough hook. Then turning up the speed to the next setting for 3 minutes. BUT where’s the fun in that?
ONE Pre-heat the oven to 180C (fan) TWO Per person, simply slice an aubergine in two length ways and drizzle with a couple tablespoons of olive oil THREE Put into the oven, skin side down, for 25-30 minutes FOUR In the meantime get your self a brew and slice a tomato.FIVE Once you take out the aubergines, layer the sliced tomatoes on top along with some roughly torn up buffalo mozzarella SIX Bake for a further 5 minutes SEVEN When it comes out the oven scatter with torn basil leaves.
You can make this go further by serving half an aubergine each but with either a rocket salad on the side or perhaps couscous. Is also nice with a simple dressing made from extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
TIP! Quick word on aubergines, often you’re told to salt and leave them first, don’t worry! Most aubergines available in the shops aren’t bitter varieties so this is just not needed generally. There are times when its useful but this isn’t one of them.
Here we go, blogging on the bus!
I served with a salad of rocket, spinach and watercress with a lemon and olive oil dressing and a thick piece of toast. Adding herbs a spot of butter or a drizzle of honey would also be a good addition.
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Irony right? I feel like I never go to TGI Friday’s on an actual Friday, it’s usually Sunday or some random week night. But last night we settled on some amazing happy hour there. If you’ve never been to happy hour there its basically the jam, all appetizers are half price and full mugs of beer are $3.50. Bomb.
I went with 2 appetizers that are part of their Right Portion Right Price selection. BBQ chicken flatbread pizza and shrimp cocktail Simple but out of this world good. I couldn’t leave without ordering one of their delicious desserts though, I mean I was enjoying my night out so why not! Strawberry Shortcake=phenomenal. Lets just say I left feeling very, very full!
Breakfast was an old stand by. TJ’s waffles with lite syrup and a cup of coffee on the side. I ate half a cup of strawberry yogurt while I waited for my waffles to toast. Simple breakfast but it totally hit the spot.
Kelsey Runs is now on Facebook!! I finally bit the bullet and made the blog a Facebook page! Go me!
Saturday plans include making another batch of s’more bars for tomorrow, work, and a super sweaty workout.
Happy Saturday y’all! Enjoy your days!
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2019-04-22T05:30:54Z
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https://kelseyruns.wordpress.com/tag/twitter/
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© mihailomilovanovic - Getty Images The heavy carry exercise is a great full-body move, according to expert trainers Dan John and Tony Gentilcore. What if we told you there’s one movment you do on a daily basis that, when incorporated into your strength program, can help you take your strength and lifting abilities to the next level?
It’s this constant muscle tension that helps you build greater strength. Sure, you’ll get muscle tension anytime you deadlift a heavy weight - but the effect only lasts as long as it takes for you to pick the weight up and set it down. When you carry a heavy load for an extended distance, your entire body has to maintain that tension with every step you take.
© Westend61 - Getty Images Two gym athletes doing Farmers Walk with kettlebells Just make sure you're challenging yourself, once you master the form. When they say “heavy carries,” they mean heavy. For a farmer’s carry (see below), Gentilcore recommends aiming to haul roughly half your body weight, with an ultimate goal of shouldering your full body weight.
If you can’t carry the weight without hunching over or leaning to one side, check your ego and lighten your load. You’ll also want to make sure you’re not speed-walking your way through the set, as this means you’re not fully owning the movement - or reaping the full benefits.
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2019-04-22T10:27:29Z
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/fitness/the-most-effective-workout-move-youre-probably-not-doing/ar-BBOqF8y?li=BBnba9O
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I love Chinese food in the peninsula.
After lunch, it was the time for discipline.
I wore leather costumes and leather gloves.
"Do you need a punishment?"
When you are far away from my place, be a good boy!
Hotel alpha-in usually makes me feel good.
I enjoyed a session a lot.
I and your female friend humiliated you all time.
Walking the park was also fun.
I was happy to see you were so excited.
I'll give you orgasms many times over.
You are so lucky guy.
I enjoyed role play a lot.
I've looked forward to meeting you again.
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2019-04-19T12:58:10Z
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http://rammmy.blog45.fc2.com/blog-date-201608.html
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"We also want to assure all DACA students that we remain fully committed to ensuring a welcoming, safe and civil community for all IU students. As outlined on our DACA @ IU website, IU can and will take several steps to continue supporting all IU students, regardless of personal characteristics or documentation, that are within the bounds of the federal and state laws that bind us as a public institution. The administration's latest announcement also leaves many questions unanswered, and we will make every effort to better understand the decision and how we can continue to help our students. Our university will not waver in its longstanding commitment to the diverse and inclusive environment that is vital to an excellent education."
In short, it will be a challenging year for our community's commitment to values of equality, nondiscrimination, critical thinking, compassion, and freedom of expression. Faculty, staff, and students hold strong views that span a range of positions about many of the issues facing our country, and we expect robust and civil conversations and disagreements to occur on campus. Our faculty and student groups also traditionally invite a variety of speakers to campus, and some will certainly present views that will provoke disagreement, perhaps strong disagreement, and even protest.
As we think through these challenges, I write to remind our community that as a public institution, Indiana University is bound by the Constitution's First Amendment. The First Amendment has, at its core, a deep distrust of the power of any government to restrain speech or to judge ideas dangerous, and a trust in the power of our citizens to assure that truth displaces falsity in a world of open exchange. As a country, the United States has struck a different balance on issues surrounding speech than many other countries, and sometimes First Amendment values feel strongly in tension with values of equality and inclusion, or nondiscrimination principles. As a campus, we will work this semester to open opportunities to explore these constitutional tensions and choices even as we assure that our campus remains a place that protects the expression of diverse and strongly held opinions.
I look forward to these conversations because I trust our community's ability both to support its members, and to listen to each other in difficult conversations. We grow in our critical understanding as we do so. Let's engage each other with compassion, generosity, and creativity. And importantly, let's engage with those with whom we disagree most vehemently with the dignity and clarity that comes from the strength of values that have been tested through critical and moral engagement and deep thinking.
In the meantime, please find below a set of guidelines to help us think about our obligations as community members.
As a public institution, Indiana University Bloomington is bound by the requirements of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and Indiana Constitution Article 1 Section 9. As a university, we have a distinctive commitment to free inquiry and free expression that guides our teaching and research.
As the home and workplace of thousands of faculty, staff, and students, Indiana University Bloomington is committed to the physical safety of its community members and to their right to work and live without disruption.
As stewards of public facilities and grounds, Indiana University Bloomington is entrusted by the state with the protection of the campus physical environment.
As a public university subject to the requirements of the First Amendment, IU cannot and will not limit speakers or visitors to the university solely on the basis of their points of view or beliefs, nor will IU prohibit the expression of objections to speakers or their points of view. Both are essential parts of an environment of free and open expression. Constitutional protections for freedom of expression require that the university be viewpoint-neutral: that is, that we protect speech, and counter-speech, whether or not university officers or trustees (or other community members) agree with the content of that speech.
Indeed, the Constitution protects speech even if we vehemently disagree with it, and even if it is antithetical to our deepest values, such as words that one would consider hateful. There is no constitutional exception for hate speech.
With those principles in mind, it follows that the fact that a person is invited to speak at IU does not represent institutional or individual endorsement of that person's views or character.
IU may not exclude a speaker solely because of the mere possibility of-or threats of-disruption (the so-called hecklers' veto). However, any such threats may be the basis for additional security requirements, and will be taken into account in IU's overall evaluation of safety.
Consistent with the First Amendment, IU may impose reasonable restrictions on the time, place, and manner of speech for the purpose of assuring that the members of our community are able to learn, teach, and conduct research, that the administrative functions of the university supporting our mission can continue, and that invited speakers can speak without deliberate disruption.
IU requires that those who wish to invite speakers follow university protocols for the use of IU facilities. If you are a student group unsure of what those procedures are, please contact the Office of Student Life and Learning at iusll@indiana.edu . Faculty should work through their department chairs and deans.
Neither speakers nor protestors may disrupt the educational, research, or administrative functions or events of the university, nor may they remain without permission in non-public or closed areas of the university, such as assigned offices, studios, classrooms, and similar spaces.
IU will make every effort to protect invited speakers, their supporters, and protesters from physical harm or threats of physical harm, without regard to their views or the identity of their sponsors. We will not abide physical violence, threats of physical violence, nor destruction of property, and we prohibit the unauthorized possession or threat of using weapons of any kind on IU property.
Consistent with the First Amendment, IU may exclude anyone whose speech includes or incites specific threats of physical violence or destruction of property by the speaker.
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2019-04-24T17:49:37Z
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https://provost.indiana.edu/statements/archive/daca-free-speech.html
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The Buddhas : Hmmm, your intensity has decreased.
UN : Yes. Perhaps it is temporary. Also, I’m dealing with headache resulting from intense Daimoku.
The Buddhas : Was that your practice like fire?
UN : Don’t you think I’m steadier now? Practicing more like the flow of water?
The Buddhas : You do learn fast. What about your loudness?
UN : One of my seniors told me it’s the loudness of determination that matters more than the loudness of voice.
The Buddhas : Intelligent senior.
UN : Yes, have become less loud. However, there is this natural loudness that I’m not able to go below.
The Buddhas : Keep it natural.
UN : Ya, but my natural loudness is some notches above what I’ve seen around me.
The Buddhas : Keep it natural, not more, not less. Sometimes the natural flow will be soft. Respect that. Don’t make it loud when what’s coming out is soft.
UN : What about vice-versa?
The Buddhas : Don’t get the headache. That’s your limit.
UN : So, what you’re saying is for me not to keep the loud flow going to the extent of a headache, and to artificially soften it when I feel a headache coming in.
The Buddhas : When you feel a headache coming on is already one step too far. The flow will have signaled softness before that, and you will probably have missed the signal. Now the body sends a different signal, which it knows you won’t miss.
The Buddhas : Yes. Flow is subtle. Become as subtle as the flow of what’s coming from within you to understand the nature of your flow.
UN : What do I do about this heaviness in my thorax area and above?
The Buddhas : Describe it.
UN : Something wants to go up and is not able to. It’s stuck.
The Buddhas : Is it the element of air?
The Buddhas : You are suffering from a disturbance in the element of air in the chest, throat and neck area, it seems.
UN : Is it connected to my chanting?
UN : I can’t stop the flow. If it’s there, it will flow.
UN : Wow! Tell me all.
The Buddhas : Flow is blocked partly in your throat chakra. That is a result of suppression or prosecution.
UN : Prosecution? There’s nothing like the Daishonin’s prosecution in my life.
The Buddhas : Sure, not on that scale. On a miniscule scale – think hard?!
UN : Well my spiritual side doesn’t count at home. It’s worthless. In fact, till the longest time, it was a negative, and was punished. I had to hide it with shame.
The Buddhas : See, that’s persecution. Sure, not on the Daishonin’s level, but on a miniscule level.
UN : Hmmm, I do see now. Is it the cause for this blockage?
The Buddhas : Absolutely. You weren’t dealing with your situation till now. Blockage developed. You are dealing with things now by chanting regularly in spite of your immediate surrounding. Hence, blockage will go over time.
UN : Things are better in my immediate surrounding now. There’s more acceptance.
The Buddhas : That’s a sign that things are improving already. How long were you persecuted?
UN : Don’t use that word again and again. It’s on a miniscule level, not relevant for the outside world.
The Buddhas : Well, it has caused you a health issue, so you decide whether it’s serious or not. Also, how would your world like an unfit You, unable to function?
UN : I see your point. I’m dealing with it now, right?
The Buddhas : Just keep chanting wth full faith. Your immediate environment will first fully accept, and them will move with you. There needs to be no iota of doubt about this in your mind. Before you know it, this disturbance of air in your upper area will be gone, because the persecution has gone.
UN : Again you’re using that word. Stop.
The Buddhas : You’re an obstinate fellow, aren’t you. That’s actually good, because that’s why you’ve persisted. You’re almost through though, just keep going.
The Buddhas : Is that you, chanting profusely?
The Buddhas : How come so much?
UN : One work is stuck.
The Buddhas : Oh, so you need to be pinned down, to then chant profusely, is it?
UN : I do see a pattern there. I wish it weren’t so.
The Buddhas : Just chant, work stuck or no work stuck.
UN : We’re talking about profusely, remember?
The Buddhas : Right, yes. Let’s say, everything’s on track. Can you still chant profusely?
UN : You know the answer. Rephrase to ask what you wish to actually ask.
The Buddhas : Good. Can you still chant profusely with regularity?
UN : Now you have the right question. I get distracted by the good times. Chanting, yes. Profusely, yes, at times. Chanting with regularity, yes. Morning-evening, yes. Gongyo, yes. Chanting profusely with regularity, unfortunately, no. There, you have me.
The Buddhas : And when do you chant profusely with regularity, if at all.
UN : When there’s a pin-me-down.
The Buddhas : Try doing so without the pin-me-down having to push you to.
UN : Ok, I’ll try.
UN : Sometimes, I feel under-recognized.
The Buddhas : We recognize you.
The Buddhas : It’s ok to not blare one’s trumpet. You’re doing great.
UN : Then why these pangs?
The Buddhas : What will you get from worldly recognition? Tell us that.
UN : Nothing, I see that. I can’t carry it forward.
The Buddhas : So drop it and move on.
UN : My work is all so hidden. I’m busy all day. However, nobody sees what I do.
The Buddhas : Are you in it for the joy of doing, or for showing others that you do and what you do?
UN : I enjoy what I do. I’m thankful for it. Sometimes, I wish to show it.
The Buddhas : It’s a question of critical mass.
The Buddhas : Once good, meaningful work reaches beyond critical mass, the Universe is compelled to show it to as many as possible.
The Buddhas : …doing good, meaningful work,… …, yes.
The Buddhas : However, your focus must remain on your good, meaningful work.
UN : You mean the showing part is just a side-effect as far as I’m concerned?
The Buddhas : When you start focusing on the showing part, your good, meaningful work suffers.
UN : For lack of focus?
The Buddhas : Amongst other things. You do have an outlet, and are already using it to the max, btw.
The Buddhas : As in pressure-cooker safety-hatch for any frustration.
The Buddhas : Yeah, let it all out. Translate any frustration into intensity, length, stamina and output while chanting.
UN : As in shake the universe till it shakes.
UN : …show my work?
The Buddhas : And then don’t forget to keep your focus anchored on your good meaningful work.
The Buddhas : So now you see.
UN : Yes, I do.
The Buddhas : And what do you see?
UN: The effects of morning-evening Gongyo+Daimoku.
The Buddhas : And pray what are the effects?
UN: I didn’t see it earlier. Morning-evening binds the day.
The Buddhas : What was it like earlier?
UN : My practice was casual. There was no Gongyo. A little bit of Nam Mayo Ho Renge Kyo here, a little bit there.
The Buddhas : Did such effects come forth then?
The Buddhas : So what’s your conclusion here? You already mentioned the morning-evening binding effect. Anything else as significant?
UN : Gongyo amplifies Daimoku manifold.
UN : Tongue opens up. Daimoku becomes smooth. Clear. One can do fast, loud and clear Daimoku, if one then wishes. Gongyo sets a rhythm in one’s system, and Daimoku becomes a breeze.
The Buddhas : Good. Continue like that.
1st Buddha : There we go again.
UN : My chanting comes out with such force, that I’m afraid that I might pop an artery.
2nd Buddha : Ha! Priceless!
3rd Buddha : I’ll take this one, you two stay quiet. So, are you loud, intense, or both?
UN : Both. Such that the walls shake. And fast. Rapid.
3rd Buddha : You do it on purpose?
UN : I can’t help myself. It comes out that way.
1st Buddha : He can’t help himself, he says! Hahahahaha!
3rd Buddha : Quiet! Your soul’s been in a corner, is it?
3rd Buddha : And you’re a naturally very intense person?
3rd Buddha : Well, you’re just coming out now, that’s the way it is.
2nd Buddha : What about his artery that might pop? Hahahahaha!
3rd Buddha : Done with your jokes? We are putting a mechanism in place.
3rd Buddha : You won’t pop anything.
UN : How does this mechanism work?
3rd Buddha : As far as you’re concerned, the appropriate mechanism is in place. You won’t pop anything. You don’t need to know more.
UN : So I continue?
3rd Buddha : Just let it all come out.
1st Buddha : Yeah, make sure my eardrums pop.
2nd Buddha : The walls are going nowhere. It’s your walls that are shattering.
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2019-04-20T07:08:41Z
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https://shiftdynamics.wordpress.com/
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All the girls want to be style queens - except Dawn. Problem is, she's not really sure what she wants.
But as everything in her life starts to change, Dawn learns that sometimes not having the answers isn't such a bad thing after all.
This slim, novel in verse, tells the story of Dawn, a Year 6 girl, who does not feel she fits in. She’s not like Melissa Banner, the popular ‘style queen’. Coupled with this her parents are increasingly fighting and her older sister, Natalie, treats her as a servant and as an idiot. Things come to a head and Dawn’s dad moves out and her friend Emily is now with Melissa. Her life seems on a downward spiral…but then she meets Paul and things click.
This is a heart warming, gentle story about growing up and dealing with change and the value of friendship, acceptance and moving on. I enjoyed this book and read it in a single sitting. I’m sure others will enjoy it too. The design and layout of the book is to be mentioned – from the green writing throughout and the illustrations and graph paper background, this is a well designed book.
The book Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!) is realistic in the way Sherryl Clark shows the frustrations of Dawn’s life. It is a book mainly for girls aged 9 to 13. Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!) is written very cleverly in verse and I really enjoyed reading it. I would recommend it to any teenage girl who enjoys verse novels.
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2019-04-22T02:38:20Z
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http://home.iprimus.com.au/amy2072/verse_reviews/v_clark_sixth_grade_style_queen.html
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RE: The tariff classification of Handi Scribblers™ from China.
In your letter dated January 14, 2003, on behalf of The Little Tikes Company, you requested a tariff classification ruling.
The submitted samples, Item #33561, identified in the ruling request as “key chain Scribblers” and on their hang tags as Handi Scribbler,™ consists of two designs (pink and orange and blue and green) of a plastic encased toy pad that allows the user to write on the pad’s plastic surface with an attached stylus, and then erase the message by moving a lever up and down on back of the pad. The item measures approximately 3-1/4 inches in width x 4 inches in length x ¾ inches in thickness and features a plastic hook-like clasp for attaching to a belt or a backpack. The hook can not function as a key chain. Because of its size, it is clear the item has limited use. The item is a toy intended for the amusement of children three years of age and older.
The samples are being retained for training purposes.
The applicable subheading for Item #33561, Handi Scribbler,™ will be 9503.90.0080, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for “Other toys; reduced-size ("scale") models and similar recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds; parts and accessories thereof: Other: Other.” The rate of duty will be free.
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2019-04-19T04:25:21Z
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http://www.faqs.org/rulings/rulings2003NYI89970.html
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^ Bender, David (2009). Oxford Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (third ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 215. ISBN 978-0-19-923487-5.
^ Johannes Seidemann, World Spice Plants: Economic Usage, Botany, Taxonomy (Springer Science & Business Media, 2005), p. 159.
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2019-04-25T22:39:26Z
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https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88_(%E9%A3%9F%E6%9D%90)
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After getting through LB’s birthday weekend, it was cheering to get the news this afternoon that his ‘Colour’ painting is going to appear on the front cover of a Disability Studies textbook (confirmed in a heartwarming email from the publisher that generated more tears). Wow.
Approaching Disability, written by Rebecca Mallet/Katherine Runswick-Cole, will be published by Routledge next year.
And another demonstration of thought, engagement, outrage.
I was involved in a twitter discussion earlier today about how people respond to public expressions of grief/writings about death. This inevitably touched on what happened to LB, as I haven’t held back with expressing exactly how I feel. In real time. [A few choice phrases spring to mind.. cough cough.] The discussion ended with agreement that people (some/many?) want to express solidarity. People are helping, contributing and supporting in so many different ways.
The response to the fund/LB’s artwork has been phenomenal. My mum, Val, has been packaging cards, postcards and prints, beetling to and from the post office, maintaining a spreadsheet and monitoring ‘stock levels’. (There has been a slight delay with the ‘Colour’ prints but these will be sent out this week.) Little sis Sam has been giving us marketing advice, with other offers of help carefully logged.
Our total so far – estimated as we don’t have the current balance – is around £3,000.
After months of thought, discussion with various people and organisations, we’re launching LB’s Fighting Fund. On a rainy Saturday afternoon, eight days before LB’s birthday. In a week that included a remarkable development in the horrible space we’ve occupied for the best part of this year. The NHS Trust have commissioned an independent investigation into LB’s death. This was a puzzling development in some ways. Kind of brilliant news, but at the same time, not really something to ‘celebrate’. How could it be really? LB died. And crushing questions remain about why he died.
Anyway, today the fund and (more) action. To raise money towards the costs of legal representation at the inquest (which will be held at some point in the next year). Many people have said they want to help in some way and we hit on the idea of raising some of the money using LB’s remarkable artwork.
If any legal costs are recovered, or the artwork generates more money than the legal costs needed (because he was a cracking artist, after all, and any number of fridges/shelves/noticeboards across the country will be brightened with one of his postcards), any remaining money will be split between two exceptional charities; INQUEST.org and Oxfordshire Family Support Network (OxFSN).
To find out more details about the fund, click on the ‘about’ tab. To see our fundraising efforts, and the artwork available, click on the ‘fundraising’ tab.
I hope the information is clear. Please shout if it isn’t.
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2019-04-24T02:52:06Z
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We are becoming used to changing our plans, in fact, it’s getting to the stage that we should not even bother to make plans. We arrived in Feilding Monday afternoon and found Timona Park, a huge complex of large open spaces, rugby fields, soccer/football pitches, athletics tracks, pony club fields and much more all surrounded by a network of roads with large parking areas for self contained motorhomes around the edges with a river on the boundary.
The plan was to stay the night and then head off Tuesday morning to meet up with Pat & Sue in Alfredton where we would stay for a night or two before heading down toward Masterton for the Wairarapa Harvest Wine Festival this weekend. Well, you know what is coming don’t you? Yep, plans changed again! We woke on Tuesday morning to gale force winds rocking us around and on checking with Pat & Sue they too had terrible winds which is not conducive weather for travelling.
So we stay anther night here at Timona Park and…..dare I say it?…..plan to move on tomorrow, but this time to a park just out of Masterton, close to where the Wine festival is being held. Meanwhile we have a good look around Fielding as its been a very long time since we have been through here and I must say it is a very tidy prosperous looking small town.
So let’s hope this wind abates and we can get back on track.
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2019-04-25T22:34:13Z
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https://brvannini.wordpress.com/category/plans/
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Labor Day marks the end of routine free mornings transcending into wishy washy afternoons meandering into evenings that stir well beyond bed time.
As if in utter protest to the packed fall and strict schedules ahead, Graham joined us for the final two weeks of summer in which we stuck strictly to leisure.
We took to the road, rolling past vineyard after vineyard down south to Santa Ynez valley for a family vacation. Here we joined Graham’s parents, sister, brother-in-law and their two kids for five days of “ranching it”.
Mornings did come sooner than they should have with Grace waking before the sun rose. However her parents were in action protestation and so we stuck to the bed for morning family cuddles and coos. Once the sun began to rise through the misty morning we got up to a feast of fresh baked cinnamon rolls and piping hot corned beef hash.
With full bellies our little family meandered through the wheat colored grasslands of the valley; Graham and I watching as our girls interacted with the wonders of nature.
We returned to a better rested Belchers crew where we would discuss our options for the day – be it horse back riding, tennis playing or a light swim. All was done in a lackadaisical manner, thus fulfilling our motto of slow and easy does it.
Evenings were meant for freshening up into classy frocks to sip cocktails while watching the horses feed and the sun retire.
The trip was a glorious rotation of adventures all with proper respites in between.
We returned home for a few days to be spent in the comfort of our own cocoons. The girls embraced the familiarity of their room and rewarded us with sleeping in mighty late (7:30). Graham and I snuck away for a day date, took to hiking in the hills near the Pachetti Winery and then went wine tasting, of course. We hosted my mom before she jetted off to Europe with a carefree backyard dinner.
After four days at home, the pull of adventure got us up and moving again…albeit, slowly. We returned to the car for another trip this time way up north to Mount Shasta.
Some believe there are lemurians in Mount Shasta. After five days of complete bliss up there, I can’t help but wonder that they’re right. Or perhaps all the collective crystal shops pulled on my inner chakras. Whatever nonsense the hippies believe, they may just be onto something; Shasta begs for complete and total exhales.
We were quickly known by name at the local coffee shop, welcoming us in with sweet warm mochas. Once charged by caffeine, we’d take to the mountain where we’d either find new paths to follow or recommit to the old faithful hikes that have nurtured our entire relationship.
That may read a hyperbole – hikes nurturing our relationship. But there is one spot Graham and I have hiked since the beginning. We came just as wee ones dating and sharing our separate dreams of the future that were beginning to collide into one. We hiked there desperate for a child, discussing, praying and debating our options. We hiked there with Josie as a beautiful nine month old, passing her from one doting parent to the other. We hiked again this year as a family of four. Grace strapped to my chest with Graham following behind my footsteps, Josie strapped to his back. When we arrived to the top of our hike, there was a native american shaman singing. The girls sat and listened, intuitively quiet. It was a moving moment where I took the time to be thankful for all I have; my precious girls; my supportive husband.
The after hike glow lead to food comas and then leisurely naps. The house would fall silent and still as can be from 2:00 to 4:00. Restful peace. Then it was time for one last outing, usually blackberry picking and rock skipping on the sacramento river. Evenings brought on dinner out at easy restaurants in town then a walk home. Baths for the girls, followed by peaceful reading of books which lent to shut eye much sooner than at home.
The past 14 days have splendidly collided into one another and drifted us along to today. Schedules, work, school, business, volunteering, cleaning, decorating all calls louder than we can ignore. So, I say farewell to you dog days of summer. Thanks for being so damn rad.
What a lovely post of a wonderful fortnight. Thank you.
Hi Anne! I assure you that I have my tough days. And actually some of the two weeks included breakdowns, tantrums and sleepless nights (grace woke up a bunch throughout the night on a portion of our trip). However, I read the book, “Happiest Toddler on the Block” and I felt like it helped me a lot in terms of the concepts of “time ins” Time Ins being the opposite of time outs, where you devote chunks of time doing what the kids enjoy and interacting with their activities. Like today, I went on a two mile walk with the girls. I would’ve preferred to have them in the stroller the entire time but they wanted out so I got them out and we walked VERY slowly but they got to touch rocks and pick up grass, etc. I felt like it made them much happier. I don’t know. I’m just learning as I go. But, for sure, motherhood is tough and exhausting! You are an amazing mom! I have so much that I could learn from you!!
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2019-04-20T18:54:06Z
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https://kcinteriors.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/the-meandering-good-bye/
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"An intronic structure enabled by a long-distance interaction serves as" by Natalia N. Singh, Mariah N. Lawler et al.
Singh, Natalia N.; Lawler, Mariah N.; Ottesen, Eric W.; Upreti, Daya; Kaczynski, Jennifer R.; and Singh, Ravindra N., "An intronic structure enabled by a long-distance interaction serves as a novel target for splicing correction in spinal muscular atrophy" (2013). Biomedical Sciences Publications. 5.
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OREGON/Environmental groups and an Indian tribe are stepping up pressure on Portland-based Pacific Power. They're recruiting utility ratepayers into a fight over dam removal on the Klamath River.
The Bush Administration expects to sign a deal today with the utility company Pacificorp to begin tearing down four dams on the Klamath River by 2020. The 450 million dollar project would be the largest dam removal in history. Correspondent Ethan Lindsey reports.
The "King of Skiffle" was a musical hero to an adoring public.
This article is from the free online encyclopedia of Washington State History, History Link.
Grand Coulee Dam, hailed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" when it was completed in 1941, is as confounding to the human eye as an elephant might be to an ant. It girdles the Columbia River with 12 million cubic yards of concrete, stacked one mile wide and as tall as a 46-story building, backing up a 150-mile long reservoir, spinning out more kilowatts than any other dam in the United States. As gargantuan as it is, Grand Coulee is only part of the massive Columbia Basin Project, which includes four other dams, three storage lakes, and 2,300 miles of irrigation canals, snaking through half a million acres of desert.
Read the entire posting here.
WASHINGTON/Construction crews broke ground Friday afternoon on a new drinking water treatment plant on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. It's a key step in the eventual removal of two dams on the Elwha River.
Read more on the story.
NORTHWEST/We have a lot of old dams. Roughly 25-hundred hold back waters here in the Northwest. Even the sturdiest structures made from concrete and wood don't hold up forever.
Correspondent Elizabeth Wynne Johnson reports on the status of dam safety and why some groups are raising a red flag.
NORTHWEST/Removal of Marmot Dam on the Sandy River in Oregon is almost complete. But in Washington, two decades of efforts to remove dams on the Elwha River remain stalled. Still, as Tom Banse reports, there is some prospect of action.
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Leeteratur is leiterally "an acquent wi letters" (frae the Latin littera meanin "the ae written chairacter (letter)"). The term haes maistly come til identifee a collection o texts. The wird "leeteratur" as a common noon can refer til onie kin o writin, sic as essays; "Leeteratur" as a proper noon refers til a hail bodie o leiterar wark, global or anent the ae cultur. Monie a time there's confusion on the actual defineition o leeteratur an Leeteratur. The wird "leeteratur" can be baith singular an plural, juist like "Literatur". Sayin that, "leeteraturs" is plural forby. Houaniver "Leeteratur", wi emphasis on uppercase L, is a subset o the mair wide-reengin "leeteratur". "Leeteratur" is uised for onie written wark o byordinar intellectual calibre, whiles "leeteratur" can be oniething written. Sae, War and Peace bi Tolstoy is "Leeteratur" (singular) as weel as "leeteratur" (singular), but Charles Dickens's wark is pairt o "Leeteratur" (plural) as weel as "leeteratur" (plural). Mairanower a Harry Potter novel will be thocht on as "leeteratur" (singular) but nae as "Leeteratur" (singular) sith maist fowk wadna deem the beuks as intellectual or meaninfu eneuch at an academic level. Likewice the Harry Potter collection bi J. K. Rowling will be thocht on as "leeteratur" (plural) but nae as "Leeteratur" (plural). What is intellectual an meaninfu is subjective an aften controversial or dubious, but it daesna interfere wi the defineition abuin.
Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Literature.
This page wis last eeditit on 4 Dizember 2016, at 16:44.
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Ava Kelly: I think that what i do is an outlet for something that's already there. Supply and demand. That's there because somebody wanted it.
This is a good doc to watch. But with the producer growing up with privilege she didn't portray this very well. She made it out to be that these girls are so deprived and feel stuck that this was their easy outlet to a better life. No, these girls are from middle classed families not deprived. She makes is out to be industry is dangerous and wrong. But, by looking at it in this situation it isn't the case. These girls were there on their own free will. They have a roof over their heads and that scout books their gigs and goes with them to them. That scout does it in such a way that the girls are not forced into anything shady or put them in danger in anyway. If they want to leave or want out he lets them. These girls come to him not vise versa. So I didn't like how they were making it out to be that this industry is a bad situation. The material contradicts the theme of the Documentary. If you want to do a doc about this then use subject that fits your vision. Not the exact opposite.
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Annals of T'ai Chi: "Push Hands"
In Response to a Question: "What Does the Earth Say?"
Garrison, Steve. "William Stafford". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets Since World War II, First Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Donald J. Greiner, University of South Carolina. The Gale Group, 1980. pp. 292-299.
Stafford, William. West of Your City. Los Gatos, CA:Talisman Press, 1960.
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--. Weather: Poems. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969.
--. Allegiances. New York, NY: Harper, 1970. PS3537 .T143 A8 Robarts Library.
--. Temporary Facts. Athens, OH: Duane Schneider Press, 1970.
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--. Someday, Maybe. New York, NY: Harper, 1973. PS3537 .T143 S6 1973 Robarts Library.
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-- (With son, Kim Robert Stafford). Braided Apart. Lewiston, ID: Confluence, 1976.
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--. Stories That Could Be True: New and Collected Poems. New York, NY: Harper, 1977. PS3537 .T143 S7 John W. Graham Library at Trinity College.
--. Tuft by Puff. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1978.
--. Things That Happen Where There Aren't Any People. Brockport, NY: BOA Editions, 1980. PS3537 .T143 T44 1980 Robarts Library.
--. A Glass Face in the Rain: New Poems. New York, NY: Harper, 1982. PS3537 .T143 G5 1982 Robarts Library.
--. Roving across Fields: A Conversation and Uncollected Poems 1942-1982. Edited by Thom Tammaro. Daleville, IN: Barnwood, 1983. PS3537 .T143 R6 1983 Robarts Library.
--. Smoke's Way: Poems from Limited Editions, 1968-1981. Port Townsend, WA: Graywolf, 1983.
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You have a good eye. keep at it.
Thanks for the likes on my blog posts and for the follow!
I’ve enjoyed touring your site…you’ve got some beautiful photography. Thank you for sharing….
You have a good eye for landscapes. Keep it up! And thanks for following my blog.
I also wanted to let you know that I gave you some awards … not my cup of tea but at least, it gives me the pleasure to let the people know that I really like their work … and to let other know about it (so do not answer if you don’t like that 🙂 ).
Piękne fotografie rodzą się w głowie i duszy fotografa, a aparat pomaga je pokazać. Potrafisz zachwycić sposobem w jakim pokazujesz otaczający świat. To wielki dar !!!
Thanks for liking several recent posts. Have a great day.
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Paula Bennett has hit back at her party's plummeting polling.
The results of the latest Newshub-Reid Research poll were released on Monday, and things don't look good for the Opposition.
For the first time in the 12-year history of the poll (believed to be the country's most accurate), Labour is more popular than National at 47.5 percent to 41.6 percent.
It's a devastating nosedive for the party, but National's deputy leader is already in damage control mode.
"Over 41 percent while just over a year into opposition is doing pretty well in my book," she tweeted in response to Newshub's Political Editor Tova O'Brien.
"We will improve as the realisation of a failed KiwiBuild, higher taxes and rents under this Government continue to play out. Always room to improve but all things considered I'm proud to be a Nat."
© Image - Getty, video - Newshub. Watch: The latest Newshub-Reid Research poll spells bad news for National. That's despite polling showing Labour needs just one seat more to govern alone.
In a follow-up tweet, she denied AAP journalist Karen Sweeney's suggestion that the National's internal polling "must be rough".
Twitter users were largely sceptical of Ms Bennett's relentless optimism, although there were some messages of support.
"Forty-one percent is oblivion and you know it," wrote user @NZdrama_llama.
"You keep singing the same old tune, even though the trend is downward - sure stick to the plan," wrote @Colin_R_Gale.
Some opted for a more visual response, one user posting an image of the National Party logo on fire while another shared a photo of doomed passengers onboard the Titanic.
The poll is bad news for Ms Bennett's boss. Just 21.9 percent of voters said Simon Bridges is performing well, and more than twice as many think he's performing poorly.
He's also down in the Preferred Prime Minister poll, falling 3.9 percent to just 5 percent - lower than Judith Collins who has shot up to 6.2 percent.
The only other Leader of the Opposition to poll so low was Phil Goff, who scored 5.1 percent in the 2010 Reid Research poll.
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http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/paula-bennett-says-nationals-doing-pretty-well-despite-disastrous-poll/ar-BBTqS8s
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How long does it take for a submission to be approved?
Is there any way to remove the profile picture?
How Long Is The Art Submission Queue, On Average?
How to handle copying/reference work/tracing?
Can we have an option to downvote users :D?
Why do all my Filters reset every time I log in?
Make an option to disable image resizing.
Can we get a -Report- button :D?!!
Is there an Ignore function for submission comment sections?
HF screwing with artists descriptions?
Story search order is completely random?
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2019-04-25T14:44:40Z
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http://forums.hentai-foundry.com/viewforum.php?f=6&topicdays=0&start=100
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Note that the deadline to submit abstracts is January 23, 2009, at 5 pm EST.
On behalf of the Shafallah Center for Children with Special Needs, I would like to extend a warm invitation for you to submit abstracts for the 4th Annual International Shafallah Forum in Doha, Qatar from April 20th – April 22nd , 2009. For the past three years our Center has been delighted to welcome more than 250 experts in the field and Wives of Heads of State from all over the world to our Forum and we anticipate that this year’s Forum will be no exception.
The 4th Annual International Forum will bring together advocates, family members, scholars, members of government, and professionals from a variety of perspectives to explore the theme of /Achieving Independence/. Together we will explore how to overcome factors that perpetuate disability marginalization, including widespread poverty due to lack of access to education, opportunity, and unfair labor practices. We look to our work, cutting-edge research and programs, to promote independence through universal access to education, inclusive societies, innovative technologies, and poverty-reduction strategies – including micro-enterprise and encouragement of the corporate sector to value and include the disabled in the workforce.
The Forum will feature keynote addresses by global leaders, roundtable discussions, symposia, paper presentations, and exhibits. We welcome the submission of such presentations and have included more detailed information on the following pages.
A collection of 3 papers presenting the results of different programs/studies/experiences relating to a common research theme. Each should be presented by a different person. The symposium coordinator should provide details for the three papers following the instructions below.
A paper presenting the results of a program/study/experience on a particular topic. Papers will be grouped into symposia according to an identified theme. Individuals should submit title and abstract details for each paper offered following the instructions below.
Individuals may present their research on the form of a poster. Posters allow for more extended discussion with delegates interested in the content area of the poster. Posters should be attended by at least one author/director who can address questions related to the poster’s content. Individuals should submit title and abstract details for each poster presentation offered following the instructions below. Submission of poster collectives (related research) is encouraged.
Discussion about the interpretation of existing research, the state of knowledge in a particular area or the need for more or different kinds of research/programming/policies, can be as important as presenting the results of new studies. Individuals wishing to organize such roundtable discussions or debates should identify three or four speakers, who can each present a point of view. Where discussion and audience participation is the purpose, speakers’ presentations might be limited to 5 minutes. Where debate between the speakers is the purpose, presentations may be longer (10 minutes). Organizers should submit the details of the discussion or debate following the instructions below.
Individuals or groups that have a demonstration, specialized equipment, and/or materials that they would like to exhibit are invited to submit a proposal. Exhibits will be given a table with specific presentation time, where they will be asked to be present and are encouraged to leave materials/equipment out for attendees to peruse throughout the Forum.
Abstracts must be in English. Abstracts longer than permissible will be abridged at the discretion of the program planning committee.
*Abstract:* This should be no more than 200 words and describe the /Aim, Method, Outcomes, and Conclusions/ of the study using these headings.
*Type of presentation: *State whether (a) research-based paper with data or (b) review paper or (c) service description or (d) personal experience.
*List:* Authors, affiliations, e-mail addresses and titles of papers to be included in the symposium.
*Moderator: *Give the name and affiliation of the person who has agreed to moderate the symposium. Give the contact details for moderator (email, phone & address).
*Abstract:* Each paper should submit an abstract. This should be no more than 200 words and describe the /Aim, Method, Outcomes, and Conclusions/ of the study using these headings.
*Author(s):* Give the name and affiliation of each participant noting the moderator with an asterisk.
*Abstract:* This should be no more than 400 words and describe the background behind the issue to be discussed or debated and the views to be put forth by each speaker.
*Host: *Give the name, affiliation, e-mail, and phone of the person hosting the exhibit.
Please label the subject line: _Shafallah Forum Abstract_. Failure to do so may result in abstract not being viewed.
We Can Do received this announcement via the Intl-Dev email news list. All queries and applications should be emailed to Valerie Karr at the Shafallah Center, NOT to We Can Do.
VIKE – The Center for Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities is organizing an International Seminar on the Implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – with Special Focus on Disability in Development. The Seminar will be held in English and translation into Finnish will be available.
The seminar is open to all actors in the field. Especially persons with disabilities, organizations of persons with disabilities, government representatives, researchers, students, and other persons interested in the situation and rights of persons with disabilities, are warmly welcomed to participate.
The seminar registration will be handled through by receiving bookings via e-mail to seminar@vike.fi. Please submit your e-mail booking by 9th May 2008. In paying the registration fee – 40 € – each place for attending the seminar will be validated. Please note that the registration fee is non-refundable and that there is a limited amount of places. General assistance is available at the seminar location. Please inform the conference organizers if you have your own personal assistant as you book.
We Can Do learned about this conference through the AdHoc_IDC email discussion group, which focuses on the CRPD and disability rights.
The World Bank Group has released a new paper entitled “Disability and Poverty: A Survey of World Bank Poverty Assessments and Implications,” by Jeanine Braithwaite and Daniel Mont.
The paper surveys World Bank poverty assessment literature on the relationship between disability and poverty. It finds that it is difficult to accurately assess the link between disability and poverty because household surveys on consumption (used to assess consumption-based poverty) frequently don’t ask about the disability status of household members.
Also, it is difficult to define or measure “disability.” For example, simply asking if people are disabled misses many disabled people because they may wish to avoid the stigma of disability. Or,some people may assume that “disability” necessarily refers only to significant impairments. These people might not bother to report mild or moderate impairments.
Another complication in poverty and disability research is that many existing surveys do not account for the fact that people with disabilities have different consumption needs than other people. For example, they might need to spend income on Braille, wheelchairs, or other items that non-disabled people do not need. The money spent on these items diverts income from other consumption that could raise the living standards of the household. Thus, a disabled person with the same income as a non-disabled person may actually be poorer.
The authors suggest directions for further research into disability and poverty.
We Can Do learned about this paper via contacts within the World Bank.
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May 24, 2016 in crime, website.
June 2, 2014 in Uncategorized, website.
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A Family's Life | It's a delicious adventure….
Like everyone else that I know, one of Seyfi and mine`s new years resolutions is to eat more healthy. It`s not that we have a very unhealthy diet, but we have days where we can get a bit lazy, and eat anything, not thinking about the health benefits of it.
On this same track, we have decided that we should eat more vegetables, less meat, and try out as many new recipes as we can.
So far it is going really well. We both feel so much better, more energetic, and the girls are eating everything so far as well.
Part of the new foods we have been eating is brussels sprouts.
I have never really liked brussels sprouts, the are a bit stinky, and have an odd taste.
Growing up my brother and I used to share one, just to be able to say that we had at least tried one.
I found this recipe for them roasted with a Honey-Dijon sauce on them, they are so delicious! I swapped out the honey for agave syrup so that Ela could have some as well.
If you think you don`t like brussels sprouts, give this recipe a try, it just may change your mind!
Preheat oven to 375 C. Soak the cranberries in the boiling water for 5 minutes and then drain the water.
In a large bowl, mix the agave syrup, oil, mustard, salt and pepper. Add the cranberries, brussels sprouts and walnuts. Toss well.
Spread the dressed brussels sprouts in a single layer on a baking sheet. Roast for 30 minutes or until the brussels sprouts are tender, and the leaves are just beginning to brown.
With all the snow that has been falling in Turkey, and in Canada, I am really missing my white winters.
Our first winter in Belgium was a weird one, there was actually snow, and not just a little bit, but a lot of snow, it was wonderful. It also happened over the Christmas break, so we had a white Christmas.
Our landlord told us that it wasn’t normal, that in the past fifty years he could only remember one other winter like that one.
And for the past two years the winters we have been living the ‘real’ Belgian winter.
It’s cold, not freezing, but cold.
It’s damp, and often there is rain, and the rain is cold.
Worst of all, it is grey. There is a real lack of sun.
Now sometimes, like this weekend, the call for snow.
And sometimes, that snow comes!
And then within a few hours it quickly turns to rain, and we are back to our typical Belgian winter.
Now, I’m not complaining about living here in Belgium, I actually really love it, but one does get tired of the rain.
Think of me, getting out my rain boots and umbrella to walk to Alara’s school to pick her up.
She never has a snow day!
A grey day in Ghent….
Everyone is talking about this book, and I mean everyone!
Like I said, everyone is talking about this book, and now I am.
I’m going to start by saying, that I don’t typically read thrillers. I don’t like surprises, I don’t like plot twist that I can’t predict.
I don’t like dark books or mean characters.
Having said that, I loved this book.
It is about a couple who have fallen on many levels of hard times. Hard times in their relationship, hard times financially, and even hard times mental. Basically they are pretty unhappy people.
On the day of their five anniversary, the wife Amy, who is a bit of a ‘celebrity’ goes missing. The story is told from two points of view, hers and her husband’s, Nick.
I don’t want to say anything else about the plot for fear that I will give something away.
I do want to say that this book was a real page turner, I would recommend it to anyone who is in the mood for a good nail-biter/read.
Since reading the book, I have now recommended it to just about everyone that I talk to, and now, my friends, I am recommending it to you!
I think the sign of a good author is that after reading one of their books, you want to go on and read more of their books, Gillian Flynn must be a great author because I have just bought her first two books, and can’t wait to get into them!
For as much as I love reading, I also have a total fascination with authors, what is their process, how did they get started, any tips?
The other day, I opened my email, and there was an invitation to watch a live video chat with Philippa Gregory , one of my absolutely favourite authors!
Luckily, Seyfi took the girls for a walk, I made myself a cup of coffee and watched her chat.
She talked about her books, writing, and the new tv series that the BBC is making of the first three books of her cousins war series.
It was awesome! When could I have ever seen something like that otherwise.
I loved his book, and watching him talk was also very neat.
A Perfect Food Day… I hadn’t really ever consciously thought about it until I last week when I was listening to the Spilled Milk podcast and Molly and Matthew were talking about their perfect day of food.
Let’s put together our Perfect Food Day!
My perfect food day, doesn’t involve restaurants… It’s all food to be eaten at home with my family….
So what does a Turkish Breakfast include?
What doesn’t it include? Tomatoes, cucumbers, white cheese, hard cheese, olives, eggs, parsley, fried potatoes and peppers, honey, jam, butter, crusty bread, fresh orange juice, Turkish tea….
Something you may not know about me, I’m a sandwich girl. I personally think that a sandwich can be eaten anytime, anywhere. My two favourites are toasted tomato (best when eaten with my dad) and cheese, pickle and mustard.
For my perfect food day though… It would have to be a sandwich like this- whole wheat sliced bread, cheddar cheese, turkey breast (not lunch meat), tomatoe, lettuce, sliced pickles, mayonnaise, mustard, fries on the side with ketchup. San Pellegrino to drink….
In the Podcast, they also chose a snack. There are so many snacks to choose from, but if I had to choose one, than it would have to be nacho chips and some sort of salsa layered dip, or veggies and onion dip.
Dinner, yes, what’s for dinner. This one is easy, lasagna, caesar salad, garlic bread. Glass of red wine, probably a Pinot noir…. Easy.
What is your Perfect Food Day?
Write about if in the comments, or on your own blog, and put a link in the comments!
What a great summer we have had here!
We went to England and Wales for visiting and because I have started back to school and had some course work to do. I’m a student again! Loving it?!? It will make for an interesting year!
Alara has started piano lessons, and is doing really well. She has enjoyed her summer vacation, but is looking forward to seeing her friends at school!
Ela is crawling (all over) and standing up now! She’s such happy baby!
Here we are, heading into our last year here and Belgium. This summer has made us realize all the things we still need to do and see! You can believe that we will seeing everything that we get up to before our return to Turkey.
Joy the baker Podcast talked about some of my favourite things, book clubs, nail polish and autumn fashions.
NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour is the podcast that I have been listening to like crazy! So funny and interesting!
I can’t believe another Friday is actually here! Time goes by so quickly!
Our big news is that Ela is now rolling over from her back to her tummy! Such a big girl!
I love crepes, but why does it always auto correct to creeps? Anyway these look delicious!
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How do you describe things that are larger than life?
How do you describe the ocean the first time you stand and listen to its roar and watch its endless tide?
How do you describe the Rocky mountains when you take your first look at those towering peaks and seemingly never-ending ridges?
How do you describe the universe as you stand beneath the starry canopy and your eyes only can see the eternal void interrupted by trillions of stars and galaxies?
You don’t describe it, you admire it! You stand in awe of it, you wait in amazement because you cannot describe it! I feel the same way when I try to describe Keith Elder!
To many of us, when we first met him, he was larger than life; not only in size, but in spirit and experience.
As Mark Muirhead noted on my Facebook page he was; Big Heart, Big Stature, Big Handshake, Big Voice, Big Prayers, Big Dreams, Big Achievements and Bigger Rewards.
I would like to add; Big Friend, Big Husband, Big Father, Big Grand Dad, Big Brother, and Big Neighbor!
While his absence leaves a void in us, his legacy leaves us with big responsibilities to carry on the vision, the love, the prayers, the caring and the dreams, that he championed for us!
He left us with an example of how to preach the Gospel! He showed us that the message was better delivered with a hug, a tug on the shoulder, an open door, a forgiving heart, a tear in the eye and welcoming meal.
I don’t know that I ever had the privilege to hear him preach, but his message was always clear and precise and life changing: to him people matter, vision matters, and legacy matters.
He taught us how to live, how to dream and how to leave behind what really matters.
For many of us he was our greatest coach cheering us on! He’s left the field, but the game continues on! He left us his legacy and we honor it today!
Elder’s life has yielded so much good fruit of lives being changed. May his legacy continue to yield that same fruit!
Drama is like a rip current in the ocean. It will drag you away from the shores of your life and toward an ocean that has no borders. If you try to fight the drama it will sap your strength and eventually weaken you to your death. The only way to get away from a rip current is to swim parallel to the shore until you get free of it and then swim back to the shore. Rip currents are not wide just wild. If you keep your head and never lose sight of the shore you can eventually swim back to the shore. The same is true about drama. If you are not careful the drama will cause you to lose the focus of your destiny. All of a sudden you look up and realize you are fighting something that does not matter. Now you have no strength left to return to your destiny. Defeat and death then become your partners.
Drive has to have a destiny! Control the urge to fight and flitter away your future! To me a simple plan keeps me in focus to the things that need to be driving me.
Matthew 6:33 Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness….
What does the Kingdom and the King want out of me?
Where does the Kingdom and the King get the best benefit out of my life?
What is it that is keeping me from doing the right things for the Kingdom and the King?
I have found that in the process of living I can become so engrossed in the work of the Kingdom that I forget the King! Sometimes I have even found myself fighting for the Kingdom in ways that are not pleasing to the King. Righteousness must be practiced at all times for the Kingdom to be administrated as the King desires. We destroy the Kingdom when we become self-righteous and focus on the wrongs of others rather than the king.
The church or organizations we belong to is not the Kingdom. The leaders or the pastors of our churches are not the King. They are not the enemy either! The enemy is you! When you focus on anything other than the King and His Kingdom then you become an enemy. Be free to follow the King and determine to live in the Kingdom of Righteousness. The drama will go away and you will find the shores that bring peace.
Ministry Promotions and Elections should be determined my The Lord and not our Politics.
we give thanks, for your name is *near.
We* recount your wondrous deeds.
I will judge *with equity.
*putting down one and lifting up another.
shall *drain it down to the dregs.
*but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
While serving in a District office position several years ago I was approached with a question that made me think. The question was this, “How would you feel if you were voted out of office?” To be honest it took be back that it was even a subject of concern. My response was not meant to be cavalier but serious. I responded, “No one can vote me out. The body would simply be voting someone else in office.” I was elected to serve a two year term and each term a vote was to be taken on the office I held not the man who held the office.
Maybe I am missing something but I think too many times elected people fail to realize the position always belongs to the organization and not any one individual or group. The body has the right and responsibility to elect whom they feel should serve the organization. It seems like some have mistakenly thought when elected, that they were given the position until they changed their mind and heart about holding it. When elected to serve the body we should serve with humility and grace. Never are we to hold an office but to let the office hold us. We should serve the body with our heart and hold the position with an open hand and not a clenched fist.
Will it sting if ever we are not returned to a post? Of course it will! The flesh will always reject a challenge. But after a few days we will get back on track. The call on our life is not to a place, position or power but to Christ. Our call is to yield to the leadership and Lordship of Christ. There is no difference in Christs eyes to the positions we hold. He is looking to see if we are holding Him or something else.
So when a body of believers vote on those to serve in various places we should cast a ballot for that person whom we feel God is directing us. We should never vote against anybody we should vote for somebody. The body is responsible to elect the best qualified individual to serve the organization. That qualification is made by the Holy Spirit with everything else being secondary. We should not be divisive in our elections but prayerful and sincere. We should never cast a ballot lightly for people’s family and future will be affected. We should never feel pressured by friendships, alliances or threats when we cast our ballots.
The question should be asked, “Whom is The Lord placing His hand on and the Holy Spirit directing for me to cast my vote?
I have been in the ministry for thirty eight years. I feel like I have been somewhat successful in my ministry to the Church. I have served as volunteer, Sunday School teacher, youth leader, Royal Ranger leader, evangelist, pastor, church planter, sectional youth representative, community ministerial president, chairman of Teen Challenge of Alabama, chairman of Alabama Prison Ministries, Crisis Center Counselor, Alabama State Youth Director, Presbyter at large, National Speed the Light director, National Aim Director, Light for the Lost field Representative, Convoy of Hope Church representative, and on and on. I have led camps, conventions, revivals, churches, committees and boards. I have built buildings and organized ministries. I have rubbed shoulders with leaders in the highest offices of our fellowship and worked alongside some men who were great but chose to serve in difficult and hard places. I have had a good run at this thing and I am not done by any means.
But when I listen to some of the things purported by some of the qualifications of ministers I would have never been able to get off first base. If God has placed in you a passion to minister then do it where you are and move forward. Learn and grow into the work. Don’t be stymied by the opinions of others. Ministry is not rocket science it is service to The Lord and His people. I guess I have never been in awe of the fine oratory of some among us. I never have felt because others spoke well, knew more and had more talent than I, that I was disqualified to minister and serve.
The best advise I could ever give a person with a desire to be in the ministry is just get in where you are and with what you have. Every person has something that God can use to help others. I am not excusing laziness in study and preparation. I am not saying that if you have the opportunity to stretch your mind and skills that you should not do so. I am saying that ministry is available at any level and to any person who will commit themselves to God through serving others.
Not much more can be expected of a life well lived. Today we have the ability to live deeper, longer and higher than Paul in that we have modern technology, tools and travel at our disposal. But side by side most of us would fall far short of the success of Paul.
When God sets before us a work to do I hope when our time is served we fought the good fight, finished the job and kept the faith that was given to us.
1. Fighting the Good Fight!
To do the work of God you will always have to fight. It is a struggle to do the right thing. The biggest issue will be to fight the good fight and not just any fight. I have been amazed through the years at the men who fought everything that challenged them but it was the wrong fight. Sometimes that is because we are fighting with ourselves as to who we are and what we are suppose to do. There are just too many fights some people get themselves into to ever win the good fight. You can never win the good fight if you are fighting the wrong fight. It is not people we should be fighting. It is not issues we should be fighting. It is not even evil that we should be fighting. We are fighting for the purpose of Christ to be established in the world we are living in. We are fighting to know what it is Christ wants done. We can’t be fighting ourselves and others and ever fight the good fight. The fight is to work the works of Christ while we can and where we can and however we can.
2. I have Finished the Job!
It is not enough to start something and leave it unfinished. Your responsibility is to see the task finished. Christ on the Cross when He was about to die said, “it is finished!” Not His life, but the work He had come to accomplish. Death was not taking him until He finished. No sir, He had set His face steadfastly, firmly, stubbornly to finish His work. It drove Him to walk, work and witness until he had established His Kingdom in the earth. His part was finished but He handed off to us, the Church our part to finish. Paul said, “I fill up that which remains of the work of Christ!” He had to finish his part and so do you and I! Our task is to finish the task. We are to take the commission of Christ seriously. We are to obey the commission even to our detriment. We are to take the message of the Kingdom to every end of this world. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
We cannot come to the end of our time as individuals or as the collective Church and not have finished the task. We dare not waste the sacrifice of Christ on the selfishness of self-centeredness. We dare not waste the blood of the Martyrs, the plodding of the pioneers, the suffering if the missionaries on the laziness of those who snooze on the job. I certainly hope that when our shift is done we have finished more than we left unfinished.
This is not something mystical like wishing and speaking wealth and things into your life. It is not the comical way people profess their walk as people of faith. Proven by the homes they live in, the cars they drive and the clothes they wear. Sir, you are no more than a clown in the rodeo of life. One day one of the raging bulls of this world is going to gore you and leave you busted.
To keep the faith is to keep the truths and standards of the revealed Word of God. Men of God have been handed and delivered the truths of the Kingdom. These are eternal truths that change lives but the truths do not change. Here we have a key to the success and significance our lives have when we have run our race. Have we been true to the truth? Have we lowered the standards that God has raised? If you have changed the truth and lowered the standard Christ has given His Church you are a traitor to His work. Non of us have the right to change the truth or lower the standards of His Word. Culture, fads, leaders, organizations must heed the truth and honor His standards. When we work from the other side and make the truth and standards fit other people and ideas then we void the power of the truth and the strength of the standards.
The honor of a man of God when his work is done is not what many think. You will have no eternal honor because of the positions you have held, titles you earned, friends you made, buildings you built or races you have won. The greatest honor to a man of God is that he fought the battle, He stayed the course and He upheld the standard and lived the Truth!
I heard a thought or sermon one time about the dash between the dates on a gravestone. That dash represented the greatest part of the deceased persons life. It is what they did in that dash that validates the birth and gives value to the life of the corpse. Well today Pat and I are not crawling up into any caskets. We have a whole lot more to do and life to live before the end. But the dash for us represents a whole lot of struggles, growth, fun and adventures. Today we are celebrating the validation of our marriage and the value of its love.
In that ten years I worked at a steel mill, pulp wood Yard, hardware store, and a insurance company. Pat worked at sewing factories.
We lived in rental homes and struggled to pay our $55.00 a month rent.
We bought our first home, a trailer.
I committed myself to the call of ministry.
We were pastors of Grace Chapel. Assembly of God.
Pat got her Associates degree and became a x-Ray technologist.
We were elected District Youth Directors of Alabama.
Pat got her Bachelors degree at Evangel University.
We have lived in two homes and one of those I built.
We helped start a new ministry with a friend and we are presently doing such.
We have traveled the world together, built homes together, raised a family together and dreamed together. Life has been an adventure and it has been a struggle. We have had our ups and we have had our downs. There were days that we did not have the money for what we needed and there were days that we had enough money to share. We have had some defeats and failures but we also have won and succeeded at some things. We made a few enemies along The way, for which I am sad, but wow have we made some friends. We were never poor because we did not have any wealth or money. We never considered that being without was because of who we were. Our minds were set to move forward and do the best we could with the little we had. We felt that if we gave it all we had the results would be better than letting life push down. We never thought about giving up, letting up, but moving up. We never felt like we had to have more than we could afford or be bigger than who we were. We have always been amazed at how good, kind and gracious people have been to us.
We have never been anywhere close to perfect. We started out as two teenagers who had nothing but each other. I mean really nobody gave us a a chance that we could or would succeed. We have failed on so many levels in so many ways. But we have succeeded in enough places to be here today after forty years of marriage, healed, happy, healthy, and hopeful for the future that is in front of us. If the dash in these last forty years means anything it means that nothing in our future can stop us from having a future. The Lord has shined His face upon us. He has put His hand on us to bless us. He has given us His favor and His loving kindness for life.
Today is Fathers Day. This is the day that we celebrate dad. There is no doubt that dad deserves the day of celebration. So many times when we commemorate dad in our church services it is centered around what a dad should be and not what he is. It seems to take on the feel of coaching him up rather than thanking him for his role. It is really a total different feel for the mothers on their day. On Mother’s Day we have nothing but praise and highest honors. If only the rest of humanity could even get somewhere close to what a mother is then we would be highly esteemed. Now lest you think I have a problem with the praise on mothers let me say, mothers are worthy of every accolade we could give them. But could we give a little love toward daddy? Could we take a day to reflect on the struggles, challenges and unique journeys of the man who is a daddy.
When you think about the struggles of a man it may take a while. While he is a man he is still a boy. One who likes to explore because of the curiously he innately has by simply being male. That curiosity helps him develop into a man. Yet it is that same curiosity that leads him down some not so good roads. That is why boys needs daddy’s to guide and guard until the boy becomes astute enough to do so for himself.
A man needs challenges and championships to stretch him to become better. He finds his character being built in the stretching forward and competition with others. Truth is men have to deal with losing more than winning. They carry the weight of not being good enough, smart enough or rich enough. If you are second you are really just the first loser in this life. Men somewhere should be applauded for competing even though they did not win. The competing is what makes the champion not the trophy. The challenge is not the competition but the lack of appreciation after the losses.
Men are guardians, protectors, leaders, nurturers, lovers, fighters, competitors, followers, and even pin cushions. Yes, I said pin cushions! They have everything pinned on them and after a while they get testy with all the sticks. Our whole culture beats him up. He has to fight to wear he pants today but fight even more with others trying to put a skirt on him. He has no desire to take the women’s rights away but he really would like for them to leave his alone. Men were made to lead and when he has a collar put on him for others to lead him it causes a lot of confusion in him. Men have in them innately to guard and protect. It is confusing when they have to live with the fear of society wanting him to step back. The journey of each man is one in which he does not just carry his weight but all the weight of his family, career, and society.
Thankful we are for man who do a great job caring for others while few care for them. Thankful we are for the dads who did not leave when it seemed everybody left him. Thankful we are for the dad when temptation was present turned and went the other way. Thankful we are for the dad who got up early to go to a job he may not of loved because he had others he loved. Thankful we are for the dads who continued to lead when the world says sit down.
Takes Some Time, But Don’t Waste it.
I am sitting in a Wal-Mart in Easton, Maryland. I am sipping on a Starbucks coffee and enjoying the rain. I am enjoying the lawn chairs that are for sale. As a road warrior I have long learned how to enjoy the journey and to find soft spots along the trail. Usually I am looking for those hole in the wall restaurants to dine. Quiet places to refresh and reload from the business of life. Waste of time? Oh no, valuable time needed to do the grueling work I do of traveling. This week I dined on Rock Fish off the Atlantic, last week Crawfish from the Gulf in Lousiana and a few days before that, fish baskets in San Francisco. The travel is tough but the food is fantastic.
Now multiply that by the years you will live. What I am getting at is, are you spending your time in such a way that when you are passing from here to eternity you can be proud of where you spent it?
God gave you time and how you spend it will totally be up to you. Remember the time you got your first nice chunk of money? Someone might have said to you, “Don’t spend it all in one place or at one time!” Well that in your mind was impossible until later that day you had a bunch of busted toys, mangled receipts and empty billfold. Time like money goes faster than you think it can. But like money once time is gone you cannot make anymore. You lose the opportunity to hold that bride when she is gone. You lose that opportunity to go to a soccer game when he is grown. You lose the opportunity to listen to a parent when they are gone.
Busy? Sure, you are! But is your busy time the right time? Could you live with less and really have more? Will you keep losing moments for money!
Take all the time you need! No, I mean use all the time you have. Because you only have so many time chips to use and then it is time to cash it in.
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In case you missed the Lebanese Festival, we wrote a two posts on the successful event here and here. Recently, we received a few additional photos shared below.
Thank you to NC Museum of History for the photographs. And don’t forget to check out Cedars in the Pines at NC Museum of History before it moves to Tyron Palace in New Bern, NC.
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Agility-Boxers: Internationalization; What it means to me!
Bad Dog Agility: Episode 31: How Does Internationalization Impact Dog Agility?
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Trials of an Agility Neophyte: Internationalization – a Dog Agility Blog Action Day post!
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