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Visual Art in Chicago's Bars, Coffee Shops, and Restaurants
Updated June 17, 2017
Support Local Artists in Chicago
Pairing bevvs with art, what a beautiful thing. Take these into perspective when planning Galleries serving wine, coffee shops hosting local artists - Chicago is full of opportunities to appreciate the visual arts with a beverage in hand. This section includes painting, sculpture, ceramics, film, architecture.
Appellation is an Andersonville Wine Bar with art on display from local artists. Sip from a wine flight and see what's on display. 694 Wine Bar also keeps work by local artists on the walls:
Arbella is an international/travel-themed bar and restaurant with art by Joseph Danger and unique lighting design:
Michael Carrol, head brewer at Band of Bohemia, sips coffee under the guise of this wall painting:
At the Blind Robin in West Town, you'll find a rotating gallery of art, as well as art by kids from time to time when they run fundraisers for local schools and other causes.
The first Friday of every month Fulton Street Collective opens their doors to the public for an open house of artwork, wine and good vibes. Sip win and peruse studios and pop-up stands showcasing recent work by FSC members.
Photo: FSC Exposure
FSC also hosts a monthly celebration of Chicago's art and music scene called Exposure (above), which is typically the third Friday of the month. Grab a complimentary Revolution brew, snack on Roots pizza and enjoy the good vibes.
Try out a weekly figure drawing group named 'Grotesque Burlesque' that meets Thursday nights at The Uptown Underground. Sessions start at 7PM, cost $10, and feature starlets from the Chicago Burlesque scene.
Did we miss one? Send us your favorites!
Click filter and choose 'Visual' to browse venues that showcase the visual arts in Chicago.
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The Denver District Attorney's Office has been gifted with very special people - volunteers and interns. There are frequently volunteer opportunities available to people who may have a little extra time and who have a real commitment to serving the community. There are also internship opportunities for students who are attending an accredited college or university and have an interest in the criminal justice system. These opportunities include:
•Customer Service aide:
The Denver DA's Office responds to a heavy volume of telephone calls from the general public. There is frequently a need for a customer service volunteer with excellent telephone and customer service skills to assist with reception duties that include answering and directing incoming calls and greeting visitors.
•County Court and District Court:
Legal Interns: Law students intern in a variety of capacities. Most legal interns have completed their second year of law school and may be able to arrange academic credit. For more information click here: Legal Interns
•Victim Advocates: Interns or volunteers work with a Victim Advocate assigned to either a County Court or District Court division. Duties include helping victims understanding the judicial process, assisting with paperwork, and providing information to victims. 16 hours a week minimum for at least 3 months.
Interns or volunteers assist the Communication Director in coordinating a variety of communications between the DA's office, the public, media and staff. Duties include monitoring news coverage, attending court hearings, data entry, research, writing, and special projects. 8 to 10 hours a week minimum for at least 4 months.
•Criminal Justice Interns:
Assist with investigative work relation to criminal cases. Duties include: listening to jail calls write report about what was heard, review police reports/statements to refine knowledge of what is needed in a good report, review/collect evidence, organize case files, attend court proceedings. Duties may vary depending on assignment.
•Denver Data Anti-Trafficking Alliance (DATA):
Assist DATA in its committee work on public policy, victim services, training and education, membership and governance, sex trafficking and demand reduction. Duties include: Committee meeting support, minutes and completion of committee task, planning and direction of DATA human trafficking conference, communication via social media, website maintenance, and support for projects needed, and acts as a liaison for DATA as needed.
For more information on internship and volunteer opportunities contact the Denver District Attorney's Office at firstname.lastname@example.org or contact Lisa Durbano, 720-913-9181 or email: email@example.com
Denver DA’s Office, 201 W. Colfax Avenue, Dept. 801, Denver, CO 80202
Click here for an intern or volunteer application.
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France: Composite PMI jumps to ten-month high in August
August 23, 2016
The composite Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), elaborated by IHS Markit, rose in August. The indicator went up from a revised 50.1 (previously reported: 50.0) in July to 51.6 in August. The result, which marks the highest reading since October 2015, surprised market analysts who had expected a softer 50.4 increase. As a result, the indicator lies above the 50-threshold that separates expansion from contraction.
August’s result reflected higher output from services providers which more than offset flat growth in the manufacturing sector. Service providers’ output rose on the back of new work intakes. Employment decreased in the service and manufacturing sectors with the latter tallying a sharper drop in staffing levels. Regarding price developments, input prices dropped marginally while output prices dropped at a faster pace compared to the previous month.
IHS Markit noted that, “France’s private sector economy gathered some momentum in August, raising hopes of a pick-up in GDP growth after the stagnation seen in the second quarter. A stronger contribution from the service sector bolstered overall output, while manufacturing held its ground to halt a recent slide. That said, the trend in incoming new business remains muted while firms indicated a return to job shedding in the latest month, suggesting that the recovery remains stuck in the slow lane”
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An essay on my life
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Every year millions of people come to Myrtle Beach to vacation at the beach and to play golf. They are known as the Golf Capital of the World because they have over 100 championship golf courses in the area. MB … Continue reading →
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We love Cloud technology!
From the inception of cloud services, we've been all about utilising this modern technology to enhance the IT experience of many businesses across New Zealand. Contact us to see for yourself how we can help!
We can offer the full range of Office 365 services, giving your business Cloud email, storage, collaboration tools and desktop Office applications
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As a G Suite partner, we can provide you with the full G Suite in Google's cloud, giving your business cloud email and collaboration tools
With our own internet network and datacentres, we can virtualise and move your business server into the cloud, giving you full control
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With Microsoft's Azure cloud, your PCs, servers and network devices can automatically backup to the cloud, no more manual backups!
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Azure's Cloud Storage allows your staff to access files anywhere with an internet connection, giving you the freedom to work wherever
We're committed to cloud technology, and hold a number of certifications with key cloud vendors
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The CMS Chronic Conditions Dashboard presents statistical views of information on the prevalence, utilization and Medicare spending for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions. The information is available at the state and national levels and allows for comparisons of states to the national average as well as state to state comparisons. The Dashboard also allows the user to select information for specific beneficiary sub-groups defined by gender, age group, or dual eligibility status. The set of chronic conditions used in the Dashboard is consistent with the list of conditions included in the 2012 edition of the CMS chartbook, Chronic Conditions among Medicare Beneficiaries. The data for this Dashboard come from the 2011 CMS administrative claims data for 100 percent of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in the fee-for-service program.
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of thanks giving and the good times if you wanna move forward; you've gotta stretch yourself. how apt
Chinese New Year 2011 Pre-Enlistment Shaving Party @ Aziel's double-pony tailed witch that has been subtly growing on aziel's scalp, slowly feeding off his subconsciousness
Cash studio with the PA kids 19th Bday Cake from PA kids + Mendel & Chris
Solitary Sunday Afternoon spent consolidating thoughts; cest la vie
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Sunday, February 06, 2011
slow dancing in liangkai's living room with Toffee on a chu er.
k how about one of the most awesome song ever
Few of my dearest friends are moving on to their next phase in life entitled 'Army Daze' this week.Somehow i feel really excited for them. Results collection in less than one month's time and it isn't helping to alleviate this sensation at all. Suspense can indeed be quite a bitch at times & it always feels longer when you're living through it but i'm sure we'll all move on pretty soon for one month's time is shorter than you know it.
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Monday, January 24, 2011
The secret behaviors of the timber wolves revealed in this photograph ascribe almost human attributes within the realm of affection and offerings of familial respect. We see activity pictured that normally stays well hidden from the human eye. It touches our heart and leaves us feeling as though a pet has just wandered through our mind leaving a lasting impression as less than fearless creature, but a caring and giving huggable friend. Yet their complexities we know exist.
This reminds me of Night Cycling with the BB dudes last night ; the brotherhood that kept us going on and not succumbing to fatigue.
Traded a whole night of adventure and fun in exchange for a soring ass, great deal indeed.
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Monday, May 03, 2010
Life is Choice/Perspective
5th Month into the year 2010 and yet its my 1st post. Not to worry, as much as i have seemed to abandon this personal URL of mine, i have not. Contrary to that, in fact i have been wanting to document fragments of my 2010 & the last few months of 2009 into this space here, but attempts have been frail. I suppose its due to the fact that my intentions are not fervent enough to be manifested. More than often, i would subscribe to deluding myself to believe that i am able to recall the insights & inspirations that come to me in the spur of the moment at any point i want to when it is actually, highly impossible.
As i delve deeper in to JC2 life, i have been gaining more insights, primarily because i joined the School Of Thought. It has offered me so much paradigms to ponder upon. I have come to learn that Life is Perspective and i am a strong advocate of such a believe.
At the core of our existence,man is essentially in a perpetual search for advancement of his Will. Will is the ability to choose & One of the most fundamental advancements is the development of choice. Even then, there are so much tangibles & intangibles out there that limit our choices.
Life is Perspective & Choice. Our world is integrated, people & places connect & in our generation, Perspective & Choice are not mutually exclusive and i guess this is due to the evolution of time and space.
I definitely hope i am making more sense out of my life right now but a small part of me reminds me daily that i am doing so at the expanse of complicating my internal reality sometimes. I have also been in the search of various faiths/beliefs recently. In my attempt to simplify matters, sometimes my original agenda do backfires. Life is such irony & yet this is what makes it interesting.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
I've been enjoying my post PW period until this morning.
In the midst of having all sorts of fun, i had been subconsciously ill-treating my health. Apart from which, the horrid weather ain't making things any better.
Result : I'm down with conjunctivitis( swollen eye + eyesore ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunctivitis in case you have totally no idea. Went to the DOC. & requested for anything that can help me recover by the next day. The thought of skipping dance is indeed horrifying, am already faring badly, cannot lag behind any further.
The doctor prescribed some eye drops & eye lubricant WHICH COSTS $10! The pharmacists thought he was inexperienced and changed the lubricant to one that costs $0.60 instead.
I left the Polyclinic with a 3 days MC, eye drops & eye lubricants.
I'd rather EYEMO as compared to all these though, they're my Deus Exmachina to the eye irritations, ok maybe not but somewhere close.
So, I'd been hanging around all day attempting to get myself in good shape or at least rid off the swollen eyes in order to exhibit my visage, ha!
There's progress but i still need my shades or people will just freak out.
I spent my whole day looking like a Peter Chao, & its rather cool to be imitating your idol > : ) .
Startles me how quickly time slips off your fingers when you stop noticing. I have not posted anything substantial for 12 weeks and i must say the time seemed much shorter while i was living through them.
Yet to thank dancequeen-ruishan for revamping the layout. thanks ah! have totally no idea how these html codes operate, all i know is copy&paste encodings. ha!
So, what's up?
I had been trying to look at things on a broader perspective since cause i realised my scope of vision was simply too narrow.
I have then stole the chance to catch Hannah Montana the Movie & yes, it is awesome. After much research, I'm really impressed by the Cyrus' Family's talents.
Have been watching quite a fair bit of Movies lately & below are some of my top recommendations.
They all share something in common, and that, being the emotions of every character are drawn out really well.
My post promos period is kept occupied with the highly adored PW & dance. Speaking of which, PW is coming to a closure in less than 5 days time & that will mark the end of this year's Academia curriculum.
Apart from which, i am still socially active.
Went to the Night Safari Halloween with the NDP dudes 2 weeks ago, was not exactly very thrilling though but i was great to have met up with them ha!
I am faring badly in conditioning exercises, diet & sometimes sleep. Signed up AVVENTURA 2010 with Aziel under the Team name : Mudakoambalagan & it'll be my remedy to all that.
Training starts tonight.
After spending my past 4 nights at my Grand Aunt's wake, having lots of insightful conversations with my relatives, I've been feeling thinking a lot about everything.
Anyway, i have incurred this dreamy sensation since the conversation with Natalie last night but it'll come to an end soon as OP is on the prowl.
These things that i have mentioned are giving me thoughts of relinquishing my past plans and embracing new ones.
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I have been monitoring Thong Guan Industries since the drop of crude oil price as the lower oil price may indirectly helps a bit on its profit margin for the stretch film division. The group announced a poor Q3 performance 3 months ago.
And the group again announced a poor report card for its 4th quarter.
At first glance, it looked bad with a negative number at the bottom line. Very bad indeed. Nobody likes to see
In fact, the gross profit margin improved a bit from 10% to 10.42%.
However, there is no more good news other than that. Distribution and administrative expenses also increased.
The critical point is the Other Expenses of around RM10 mils that caused this sudden drop in net profit.
Looking at the operating activities, there was an impairment loss on receivables for an amount of RM5.5 million. The management made a decision that they probably could not collect back the amount from their customer already and made an immediate expense.
In addition to that, there was also realised and unrealised foreign exchange loss with total amount of around RM4.1 million. Not sure where it came from, but 85% of the group's total borrowings are denominating in USD currency. The strong USD currency for the last few months hurt their pocket a bit. Little bit lazy to check the currency of its trade receivable and payable.
So both elements contributed to the high amount of Other Expenses.
In terms of balance sheet, one must note that the inventory increased almost 50% compare to last year.
As of its cash flow, operating cash flow was negative mainly due to increase amount of inventory. The group need to take up additional loan on top of the issuance of ICULS to finance its capex as well as covered its negative operating cash flow.
Management mentioned a lot of work has been in progress, installation of nano thin stretch film machines, 4 additional lines of PVC food wrap machines, a state of art blown film lines and R&D research centre. But these things need time.
With the increased in invested capital with the issuance of ICULS and conversion of warrants in future, can the management move the company forward and achieve better return to its shareholders?
Perhaps no more impairment on trade receivable is a good start. Oh ya, management should explain in the report why there was such a case occurred and what is the preventive action being taken.
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The growth of Snapchat's mobile video traffic is staggering.
Snapchat users view, in aggregate, more than 7 billion videos through the ephemeral photo and video sharing app per day, a source close to the matter confirmed with Fortune. Between June and Nov. last year, Snapchat's video traffic more than tripled to 6 billion per day, according to an earlier Financial Times report.
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Most of these gains can be attributed to Snapchat's "stories" feature, notes Bloomberg, which first reported the latest figure. Stories allows Snapchat users to broadcast concatenated video clips and photos to their contacts for 24-hour periods.
The 5-year-old company is valued at $16 billion, placing it at no. 5 on Fortune's "unicorn" list of startups valued at $1 billion dollars or more. Investors base much of this perceived value on potential revenue to be generated from digital advertising. As the service attracts more eyeballs, it becomes a more attractive destination for ad dollars.
In comparison, Facebook (fb) last reported that its users watched 8 billion videos per day on both desktop and mobile at the end of the company's third quarter. The social network boasted 1.55 billion monthly active users at last count, however. That's 15 times as many as Snapchat, which Evan Spiegel, the company's co-founder and CEO, last said had 100 million daily users.
For more on video advertising, watch:
Google-owned (goog) YouTube, the previously uncontested industry leader, does not break out how many daily video views it receives. "Every day people watch hundreds of millions of hours on YouTube and generate billions of views," the company reports on its website.
Controversially, Facebook tallies any auto-play video that runs for at least three seconds in a person's news feed as a "view." Some critics have considered this seemingly arbitrary cut-off too short a timespan to gauge whether a viewer is actually paying attention to a video.
A person familiar with Snapchat's metrics told Fortune that the company counts a view only after a user has engaged or opened a story or message—meaning once the video renders, rather than when it is loaded.
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Shared outlook calendar disappears randomly.
Posted on 2010-11-17
I have a friend who has a Windows SBS 2003 server. One of the users is sharing out their outlook calendar through exchange. Several users are viewing the shared calendar, however I have a problem with only one of the users.
Basically at random intervals when they go to view the calendar all the entries *disappear* from the shared calendar (but only on this terminal). If the user closes outlook and then re-enters they are all there again. It doesn't happen on any other user. Nothing else is using the calendar.
I have checked over the server, fully updated and defragged both the server and terminal. Both the sharing PC and the troublesome PC are similar setup and usage. I have repaired the OST file, deleted and repaired it. Nothing appears in the log files that I can see relating to the issues.
Any help would be great.
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The Last of the Mohicans is an epic story of romance and adventure on the American frontier. It is a story of love and loyalty and of America's coming of age.
While the French and Indians besiege Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, are on their way to join him. They are accompanied by Major Duncan Heyward, Alice's fiancé, and by the treacherous Indian Magua, who secretly serves the French.
Magua plans to betray the party to the Iroquois and to claim Cora as his squaw, but he is foiled by the scout Hawkeye and his companions, Chingachgook and his son, Uncas, who deliver the girls to their father.
After the fall of the fort, the girls are given safe passage by the French, but Magua captures them, and they become prisoners of the Indians. To rescue Alice and Cora, Hawkeye and Uncas lead the Mohicans against the Hurons, an action filled with unforeseen consequences for all of them.
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Great place to stay..Clean, quiet, comfortable.... Great friendly staff!! We checked in late and Michelle in the front desk was wonderful.... The breakfast was very good and the woman in charge of the breakfast area was very helpful and kept everything clean and neat. A great weekend I would return again!!! Close to the casinos.....
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He’s lived a life that’s full. True. And travelled each and every highway (well, up and down Elm Row, where he runs the Valvon & Crolla deli).
Much more than this, Phil Contini has done it his way and I’ve just seen him doing it Cole Porter’s way, at Vin Caffe in Multrees Walk. His respectful tribute to the song-writing genius. Contini singing to accompaniment by his own Be Happy band. He’s doing three Sundays with dinner, one more to come this Sabbath.
Piles of Porter. I’d heard all these songs before, of course, but never tire of hearing again Porter’s wizardry with words.
You won’t hear anything in the Fringe that comes within a million miles of this and Contini, who has done similar salutes to Dean Martin and Louis Prima, clearly was in his element here. Wonder if Cole, a colossus in the composer’s art in popular song, ever managed to see the Euro Contest before he departed the planet. Hope not. I, and Phil Contini, would have want see him wave goodbye with a smile, not a grimace.
Classic case of the old school tie. To satisfy the ‘‘soaring demand’’ for Gaelic-medium education in the Capital , the City Council have rubber-stamped the redevelopment of Bonnington Primary in Leith. Cost to you three and a half million pounds.
Michty me, it’s problem enough, teachers will tell you, dragging youngsters away from computers to speak, read and write basic English, let alone a language from another planet.
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9th March 2017
A woman has been left ‘devastated’ and ‘frightened’ after a hunt trespassed on her land and killed her pet rabbit.
Mabel Blades owns Pennworley Wood in Melchbourne where she has planted 4,000 trees.
She claims she has had problems in the past with various hunt groups trespassing on her land but says the incident on Saturday involving The Oakley Hunt, was the last straw.
She said: “It’s really upsetting and frightening to see a gang of people on horses searching around your land, and I’m devastated that they allowed their dogs to kill my rabbit.
“I do see some legal hunt groups in the area, but they know that the wood is private and it’s clearly signposted.
“We have had some issues before, but they began telling me when they would be in the area so I could take extra precautions.
“I don’t want to be forced to have confrontations with people, who can sometimes be quite nasty and scary over something that shouldn’t be an issue.
“It is private land, and it has been for over 20 years.
“I attempted to settle the matter and reminded them not to go into the wood during their hunts – but it never stops them. I think these people should respect the law and at least have the decency to apologise.
“I just want to keep the plants and animals in the area safe.”
A spokesman for The Oakley Hunt declined to comment.
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You can also donate using the link on our web page – www.nwhsa.org.uk
Direct Action Against All Forms of bloodsports
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LaUchuva film blog in partnership with 2 Washington Square Village and apt 7 J presentssssssss: 2nd LaUchuva FILM NIGHT.
For this second screen, I have selected LaUchuva d'Or film: Children of Heaven from Iran, (don't get it confuse with Children of Men or Little children)
When: POSTPONED until August 1st 2009
Time: Come at 5pm and we'll wait until it gets dark.
Where: The partnership has offered the venue, so it will be there.
Popcorns on my account.
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Extreme Winemaking by Tandem's Greg La Follette
Greg La Follette is cut from the same cloth as other extreme winemakers whose work is measured not only by what they put in the bottle, but also by the waves they generate while doing it. In France, I think of Lucien Peyraud, André Ostertag and the recently departed Didier Dagueneau as consummate extremists; casting shadows over even their more respected peers with their bold winemaking tactics.
The modern era of California winemaking was pushed along – willingly, and at times unwillingly – by the fighting spirit of Martin Ray, the prescience of Joseph Swan, and the energy of André Tchelistcheff (under whom La Follette studied at Beaulieu); and in recent years, by oft-times prickly icons like Randall Grahm, Jim Clendenen, David Ramey, and Manfred Krankl.
There are many more, of course, of varying degrees in all parts of the wine world. The common thread describing all these vintners making their living at the edge: contrarian methodology conducted on the basis of what’s worked in the past, but lost in the present mostly due to fear factors.
For La Follette – who arrived to the point he’s at today after somewhat more mainstream successes at Hartford Court and Flowers – it’s about taking pristine raw material from largely cold climate sources (Sonoma Coast, Carneros, Russian River Valley, Mendocino, and north facing slopes of Sonoma Mountain), and applying his self-styled “Euro-centric” instincts to risk-taking measures that retain (rather than “extract”) every last drop of flavor and texture a grape can give. In a story in Wines & Vines, for instance, La Follette talks about the science of fermentation he learned at Davis; particularly what happens when yeasts are stressed (consequentially, assorted sulfides and mercaptans; i.e. skunk, rubber tire, cooked cabbage, etc.): “I thought, cool! I gotta try that.”
And so the arsenal of experiential techniques La Follette throws at his wines each year at Tandem – established in 2001 as a dual winery/custom pad in Sebastopol – includes high stressing of native (as well as inoculated) yeasts, passive oxygenating (when wearing his Chardonnay hat, La Follette calls himself a secret member of the “Brown Juice Club”), as well as deliberate sub-sensory level sulfide production. Steps such as depriving yeast of nutrients, says La Follette, “is like being a coach… you force your athletes to a certain level beyond what they thought they can do.”
In other words, forcing wines to dig down deeper to assert themselves. The results? Chardonnays with levels of viscosity and terroir related minerality you never thought possible in California grown Chardonnay. Pinot Noirs with more spice, more perfume, more feral or animale notes than hitherto suspected in the grape.
In the wines of Tandem, sometimes these elements soar out of control; like La Follette’s 2006 Auction Block Pinot Noir, which exudes a heady cacophony of gingery spice, tropical flower, rhubarb and roasted beef that is more likely to confound, rather enthrall, the vast number of Pinot lovers of today; akin to what Dylan did to folkies at Newport in ’65, or the way Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew alienated the jazz crowd in ’70.
In other cases – like the way the tropical and cardamom spices are embedded in densely compacted, plummy varietal fruit in his 2006 Sangiacomo Pinot Noir – La Follette takes you to an exhilarating edge, without throwing you off into realms uncharted.
But when all is said and done, La Follette is still basically (to use that overheated term) a terroirist; albeit, a molecular one (to borrow a description by Tim Teichgraeber). In early September 2008 he took me on a tour of North Coast terroirs; and letting the wines themselves describe the scenery along the way:
2006 Tandem, Manchester Ridge Mendocino Ridge Chardonnay – Manchester Ridge is a spectacular high elevation (2,900 ft.) vineyard on the first ridge in from the Mendocino coastline; planted to the old Wente clone as well as the new Dijon 809 (a floral variation of Chardonnay musque). Knife edge acidity is the natural offshoot of this remote (accessible only by miles of logging roads), cold climate site (grapes picked in the third week of October), and La Follette challenged it with natural yeast and minimal battonage (once-monthly lees stirring during barrel aging). The result is a wine of fresh, unfettered perfume (more of meadow wood flowers than pineapple), a subtle creaminess just hinting at honey and butterscotch, and unusually long, extended, smooth, even keeled flavors (not a tart or rough edge to be found).
2002 Tandem, Porter-Bass Russian River Valley Chardonnay – Porter-Bass is a mature vineyard (its Zinfandel block over a 100 years old), biodynamically and organically farmed by Sue Porter and Dirck Bass; its Wente clone Chardonnay picked at a ton or less per acre. La Follette inoculated with a strain to bring out delicate, white flowery notes of the grapes; and at after over five years in the bottle, the wine is still crystal clear (shimmering pale gold), with floral, minerally, and roasted/honeyed almond components riding on a mildly tart edged, silken textured, medium-weight body. Definitely a finesse style; and yes, you can say Burgundian, but more in terms of its snail’s pace evolution and steely structure than actual aromatics (apart from its stony subtleties).
2006 Tandem, Sangiacomo Vineyard Sonoma Coast Chardonnay – In ’06 rains caused about 15% rot in this vineyard; and La Follette tells the story of Sangiacomo harvest crews picking with an assortment of rain covers and sorting tables jimmy-rigged right in the field; followed by more hours of sorting at the winery done by Greg, his wife Mara and their kids. Despite the labor, perfectly presentable, honeyed tropical fruit notes (wrapped in mildly toasted oak) of “noble rot” show up in the nose; and on the palate, the touch of botrytis seems to have also added an even more viscous texture to bright, citrusy crisp, tropical flavors (sweet apple tilted towards pineapple and passionfruit), and the wine finishes with the classic Tandem touch of silk draped over steel beams.
2006 Tandem, Auction Block Sonoma Pinot Noir – Although this Pinot is dominated by Sonoma Coast, Sonoma Mountain and Russian River components, the icy-climatic Manchester Ridge Vineyard probably adds to the wildly uncouth, dancing, ringing perfume of this multi-source cuvée. And boy, does it hop. Two weeks after my visit with La Follette, I placed this in a double-blind tasting with a group of seasoned Denver oenophiles, and the contrast with Pinots from Oregon (including a sumptuous 2005 Domaine Serene Two Barns from Dundee Hills, and a remarkably finesseful 2005 Cristom Louise Vineyard from Eola-Amity Hills), California (a typically aggressive, big, meaty 2003 Peter Michael Pisoni Vineyard from Santa Lucia Highlands), and France (wines, complete with Burgundian tar, smoke and rubber boots, such as a 1994 Pierre Damoy Clos de Bèze and 1998 Robert Arnaux Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Poisets) couldn’t have been more dramatic. Even the drapery gives you warning: deep purplish center transitioning to glistening crimsom and brick at the rim. As if the Auction Block’s color and fragrance aren’t exotic enough; its juxtaposition of the softest silk and zesty, mouthwatering acidity (La Follette calls this textural contrasting “levitating”) also puts it on a totally different footing (or should I say planet?) from the eleven other wines we was compared it to. However which way you look at it, this isn’t just pushing envelopes; it’s reading and eating it, too!
2006 Tandem, Silver Pines Vineyard Sonoma Mountain Pinot Noir – On a northwest facing, 1,000 foot slope exposed to a wind gap shooting up from the Petaluma Gap, this clay encrusted vineyard has been producing dense, broad, almost brooding styles of Pinot Noir; its fruit quality veering towards black plums (away from red berry perfumes) with smoky, woodsy, slightly resiny, feral notes (La Follette calls the nose “slutty”); but all of this mitigated by a slipping, sliding, fleshy pliant feel – pure pleasure on the palate. Given La Follette’s procedurals, a stunning explication of terroir and grape siting.
2006 Tandem, Van der Kamp Vineyard Sonoma Mountain Pinot Noir – This 1,400 elevation site (highest in the AVA) is, evidently, the source of the oldest plantings of Pinot Noir in Sonoma County, continuously farmed by the Van der Kamp Vineyard for over forty years. Like the Silver Pines, it also offers dramatic distinctions of terroir: beginning with sweet, dark berry fragrances tinged with scrubby, herby aromas hinting at French roasted coffee; and going further with a round, beefy mouth-feel combining sinewy muscle and a lush, velvet texture, filled out by dense tannin and punctuated by snappy acidity. Everything we like about the grape firmly in place, but within the unique context of a place.
2006 Tandem, Sangiacomo Vineyards Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir – Nota bene, although Sangiacomo is known mostly as a Carneros AVA, La Follette’s source is from a newer parcel located well west of Carneros, exposed to bone chilling winds charging through the Petaluma Gap. Very much identifiable with Sonoma Coast and the restrained yet penetrating style of Pinot Noir associated with it. Here, I also think La Follette puts it all together: exotic Pinot spice (cracked peppercorn and cardamom) mixed with wild berry, plum and caramelized fig; and a permissively sleek, sexy, vibrating mouthful of lush, almost sweet flavors bolstered by firm yet perfectly rounded tannin. Ah, this is what Teichgraeber means by “molecule man.” Indubitably not Pinot Noir for the timid, much less the mainstream. But once you’ve come to terms with La Follette’s world, how can you resist?
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Shoaib shatters the Kiwis
3 for 55 v New Zealand, semi-final, 1999
Old Trafford was witness to a lop-sided semi-final in 1999, thanks mainly to an all-out, devil-may-care, floppy-haired speedster called Shoaib Akhtar. Having just shot to prominence with a fiery spell in a pre-World Cup series in India, Shoaib chose a venue more Karachi than Manchester - it was the hottest day of the tournament, the surface hard and dry, and a 20,000-strong sea of green and white blared instruments - to stamp his claim as the fastest and most exciting bowler in the game.
Shoaib was at his blistering best, hitting the stumps three times and consistently topping 90mph. Best of all, he reminded everyone that fast bowling was supposed to be just that - fast.
Shoaib bowled three spells, 4-3-3, and cleaned up a batsman in each. With Shoaib's 15th ball, Nathan Astle, reduced to fishing and hopping for the first of his 17 deliveries, had his leg stump flattened by an express delivery that burst through his airborne defence. You knew more was coming.
As Roger Twose and Stephen Fleming trudged along, a score of 250 looked remotely possible. Wasim Akram would have none of it, however, and brought Shoaib back to a tumultuous roar. Twose picked up a pair of twos, then was beaten twice outside off stump. Fleming drove Shoaib off the back foot with panache, and then slashed him to third man. Shoaib shook his head, returned to his run-up, and served up the ball of the match, if not the entire tournament. It was a yorker, 92mph and moving, and Fleming jammed his bat down on it about an hour too late. Leg stump went packing, the crowd erupted, the bowler celebrated.
One final spell remained, and sure enough, Shoaib came back on in the 46th over, around the stumps, and took out a clueless Chris Harris's leg stump with a devilishly disguised slower one. With electrifying speed, Shoaib restricted New Zealand to a modest 241 for 7. He didn't need any fielders on the day - wicked inswinging yorkers were his poison. It didn't matter a damn that he was the most expensive bowler for his side; he was out there to take and break wickets.
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A new issue of Educator's Spotlight Digest is up. This is a publication of S.O.S for Information Literacy. One article in particular caught my attention. It is Lifelong Information Literacy In Southern California by Amy Wallace.
Here is Abby Kasowitz-Scheer's introduction to the article:
Guest columnist Amy Wallace highlights collaborative information literacy initiatives of four higher education institutions in Southern California. Librarians from these institutions serve on an advisory board called LILi (Lifelong Information Literacy) along with representatives from other California libraries including academic, school, public, and special libraries. LILi members investigate information literacy instruction efforts across educational levels in California in an effort to create models of “lifelong sequential information literacy instruction” (Grassian, 2007). A future College Connection column will discuss LILi in more detail.
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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, , at sacred-texts.com
This very beautiful psalm is entitled "A Psalm of David." Nothing in the psalm forbids the supposition that he was its author, although nothing in the psalm or elsewhere enables us to ascertain the precise occasion on which it was written.
It seems to have been composed after some signal manifestation of the mercy of God, or some striking proof of his compassion and loving-kindness; after some danger which threatened life, and was regarded as evidence of the divine displeasure, but had now passed by; after God had interposed, and checked and arrested judgments which threatened ruin, and had manifested himself again as a loving Father. This merciful interposition filled the heart of the psalmist with emotions of gratitude and praise, and led him to call on his own soul Psa 103:1-2, and all the angels Psa 103:20, and the hosts of heaven Psa 103:21, and all the works of God everywhere Psa 103:22 to unite in celebrating his praise. The psalm is exceedingly regular in its structure and composition; beautiful in its language and conceptions; adapted to all times and ages; suited to express the feelings of gratitude to God for deliverance from trouble, and for the manifestation of his mercy; suited to elevate the soul, and to fill it with cheerful views. These circumstances have made it a favorite psalm as a vehicle of praise in all ages. It is, moreover, eminently suited to express the feelings of the soul in view of the redeeming love and mercy of God; the goodness of God in the forgiveness of sin through a Saviour; and his tender compassion for his people as a Father; and it is, therefore, one to which the Christian oftener turns than to almost any other of the psalms as expressive of the deep and grateful feelings of his heart.
Bless the Lord, O my soul - The word "bless," as applied to God, means to praise, implying always a strong affection for him as well as a sense of gratitude. As used with reference to people, the word implies a "wish" that they may be blessed or happy, accompanied often with a prayer that they may be so. Such is the purport of the "blessing" addressed to a congregation of worshippers. Compare Num 6:23-27. The word "soul" here is equivalent to mind or heart: my mental and moral powers, as capable of understanding and appreciating his favors. The soul of man was "made" to praise and bless God; to enjoy his friendship; to delight in his favor; to contemplate his perfections. It can never be employed in a more appropriate or a more elevated act than when engaged in his praise.
And all that is within me ... - All my powers and faculties; all that can be employed in his praise: the heart, the will, the affections, the emotions. The idea is, that God is worthy of all the praise and adoration which the entire man can render. No one of his faculties or powers should be exempt from the duty and the privilege of praise.
Bless the Lord, O my soul - The repetition here denotes the intensity or earnestness of the wish or desire of the psalmist. It is an emphatic calling upon his soul, that is, himself, never to forget the many favors which God was continually conferring upon him.
And forget not all his benefits - Any of his favors. This refers not to those favors in the aggregate, but it is a call to remember them in particular. The word rendered "benefits" - גמול gemûl - means properly an act, work, doing, whether good or evil, Psa 137:8; and then, "desert," or what a man deserves "for" his act; "recompence." It is rendered "deserving" in Jdg 9:16; benefit, as here, in Ch2 32:25; "desert," Psa 28:4; "reward," Psa 94:2; Isa 3:11; Oba 1:15; "recompence," Pro 12:14; Isa 35:4; Isa 59:18; Isa 66:6; Jer 51:6; Lam 3:64; Joe 3:4, Joe 3:7. The proper reference here is to the divine "dealings," - to what God had done - as a reason for blessing his name. His "dealings" with the psalmist had been such as to call for praise and gratitude. What those "dealings" particularly were he specifies in the following verses. The call here on his soul is not to forget these divine dealings, as laying the foundation for praise. We shall find, when we reach the end of life, that all which God has done, however dark and mysterious it may have appeared at the time, was so connected with our good as to make it a proper subject of praise and thanksgiving.
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities - Pardoning all thy sins. That is, It is a characteristic of God to pardon sin, and I have evidence that he has done it in my own case, and this is a ground for praise. It is observable that this is the first thing in view of the psalmist - the first of the "benefits" which he had received from God, or the first thing in importance among his acts or his dealings, which called for praise. Properly considered, this is the first thing which calls for praise. That God is a merciful God - that he has declared his willingness to pardon sin - that he has devised and revealed a way by which this can be done, and that he has actually done it in our own case, is the most important matter for which we should praise him. When we understand all the things which most affect our welfare, and which enter most deeply into our happiness here and hereafter, we shall find that this is a blessing compared with which all other favors are comparative trifles.
Who healeth all thy diseases - Perhaps, in the case of the psalmist, referring to some particular instance in which he had been recovered from dangerous sickness. The word rendered "diseases" - תחלואים tachălû'iym - occurs only in the plural form. It is translated "sicknesses," in Deu 29:22; "diseases," as here, in Ch2 21:19; "them that are sick," in Jer 14:18; and "grievous (deaths)" in Jer 16:4. It does not elsewhere occur. It is applicable to all forms of sickness; or in this place it may refer to some particular diseases with which David had been afflicted. We have several allusions in the Psalms to times when the authors of the psalms were afflicted with sickness. So in the Psalms of David. Compare Psa 6:2; Psa 38:7; Psa 41:8. The thought here is, that it is a proper ground of praise to God that he has the power of healing disease. All instances of restoration to health are illustrations of this, for whatever may be the skill of physicians, or the wise adaptation of means, healing virtue comes from God alone.
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction - That is, who saves it from death when exposed to danger, or when attacked by disease. The word "destruction" or "corruption" here is equivalent to the grave, since it is there that the body returns to corruption. Compare the notes at Psa 16:10.
Who crowneth thee - The idea here is not merely that God is the source of these blessings, but that there is something of beauty, of dignity, of honor, as in the conferring of a crown or garland on anyone. Compare the notes at Psa 65:11.
With loving-kindness and tender mercies - mercy and compassions. God showed mercy to him - evinced compassion - and these were so abundant that they might be said to be the crown or ornament of his life.
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things - The word translated "thy mouth" here is rendered in the Chaldee "thy age;" in the Arabic, the Septuagint, and the Latin Vulgate, "thy desire;" in the Syriac, "thy body;" DeWette renders it, "thy age." So also Tholuck. The Hebrew word - עדי ‛ădı̂y - is rendered "ornaments" in Exo 33:4-6; Sa2 1:24; Isa 49:18; Jer 2:32; Jer 4:30; Eze 7:20; Eze 16:11, Eze 16:17 (margin,); Eze 23:40; and "mouth" in Psa 32:9, as here. These are the only places in which it occurs. Gesenius renders it here "age," and supposes that it stands in contrast with the word "youth" in the other part of the verse. The connection would seem to demand this, though it is difficult to make it out from any usage of the Hebrew word. Professor Alexander renders it "thy soul" - from the supposition that the Hebrew word "ornament" is used as if in reference to the idea that the "soul" is the chief glory or ornament of man. This seems, however, to be a very forced explanation. I confess myself unable to determine the meaning.
So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's - Compare Isa 40:31. The allusion, to which there is supposed to be a reference here, is explained in the notes at that passage. Whatever may be true in regard to the supposed fact pertaining to the eagle, about its renewing its strength and vigor in old age, the meaning here is simply that the strength of the psalmist in old age became like the strength of the eagle. Sustained by the bounty of God in his old age he became, as it were, young again.
The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment - That is, "justice." He sees that justice is done to the oppressed. He is on their side. His law, his commands, his judicial decisions, his providential interpositions, are in their favor. This does not mean that it will he done at once; or that there will never be any delay; or that they may not suffer even for a long time - for this occurs in fact; but the meaning is, that God has their true interest at heart; that at proper times, and whenever and whereever there are any dealings of his in the case, his acts are in favor of those that are oppressed; and that there will be sooner or later such interpositions in their behalf as shall entirely vindicate their cause.
For all that are oppressed - By harsh laws; by unjust governments; by slavery; by unrighteous decisions in courts; by the pride and power of wicked people. Compare the notes at Isa 1:17, notes at Isa 1:23-27.
He made known his ways unto Moses - This is another ground of praise - that God had "revealed his will;" that this had been done in an indubitable manner to Moses; and that these revelations had been recorded by him for the instruction and guidance of his people. The word "ways" here means his laws; his methods of administration; the principles on which he governs mankind, and the conditions on which he will save people. There is no higher ground of gratitude to God than the fact that he has given a revelation to mankind.
His acts unto the children of Israel - His methods of doing things have been made known to them; and his acts - his interpositions - have been in their favor.
The Lord is merciful and gracious - See the notes at Psa 78:38. The idea here is derived evidently from Exo 34:6-7 - that great and glorious statement of God himself in regard to his own character. Our world is a different world under that statement from what it would be if that and kindred declarations had not been made. There is here a "progression" of thought; an "advance" on the previous statements. At first the psalmist referred to his own individual experience Psa 103:3-5; then he referred to the dealings of God toward the Hebrew people Psa 103:6-7; and now he rises to the general contemplation of his character as it relates to all mankind. It was a characteristic of God in respect to all, that he was kind, compassionate, and forbearing.
Slow to anger - That is, patient; not soon excited; bearing much, and bearing it long. See Jam 5:11; compare Exo 34:6-7.
And plenteous in mercy - Margin, "great of mercy." The Hebrew word means "much," or great;" and the idea is, that mercy is not manifested by him in small or stinted measure. It is rich; full; abundant; overflowing; free.
He will not always chide - Rebuke; contend; strive; for so the Hebrew word means. He will not always contend with people, or manifest his displeasure. See the notes at Isa 57:16; notes at Psa 78:38-39. This implies that he may chide or rebuke his people, but that this will not be forever. He will punish them; he will manifest his displeasure at their sins; he will show that he does not approve of their course, but he will show that he "loves them," and does not seek their ruin.
Neither will he keep his anger for ever - The words "his anger" are supplied by the translators, but not improperly. The meaning is the same as in the former member of the sentence. He will not cherish hatred when the object of the chastisement is accomplished. It is not his character to retain anger for its own sake, or for any personal gratification.
He hath not dealt with us after our sins - All may say this, and this "is" a ground of thanksgiving and praise. It is a matter for which we should render unceasing praise that God has not done to us as our sins deserved. Who of us can fail to stand in awe and to tremble when we think what God "might" have justly done to us; what sufferings he "might" have brought upon us, which would have been no more than we have deserved; what pain of body, what distress of mind, what anguish of bereavement - what sorrow, danger, sickness, losses - we "might" have suffered before the point would be reached at which it could be said that we were suffering more than a holy and just God might properly inflict on us.
Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities - That is, he has not inflicted suffering on us that could be regarded in any proper sense as a just retribution for what we have done; or, so that it could properly be said that the one fairly "measured" the other.
For as the heaven is high above the earth - See the notes at Psa 57:10. Compare the notes at Isa 55:9. The literal translation of the phrase here would be, "For like the height of the heavens above the earth." The heavens - the starry heavens - are the highest objects of which we have any knowledge; and hence, the comparison is used to denote the great mercy of God - meaning that it is as great as can be conceived; that there is nothing beyond it; that we cannot imagine that it could be greater - as we can imagine nothing higher than the heavens.
So great is his mercy toward them that fear him - To those who reverence and serve him. That is, His mercy is thus great in forgiving their offences; in imparting grace; in giving them support and consolation.
As far as the east is from the west - As far as possible; as far as we can imagine. These are the points in our apprehension most distant from each other, and as we can conceive nothing beyond them, so the meaning is, that we cannot imagine our sins could be more effectually removed than they are. The literal meaning of the Hebrew is, "like the distance of the east from the west" or, "like its being far."
So far hath he removed our transgressions from us - That is, he has put them entirely away. They are so removed that they cannot affect us any more. We are safe from all condemnation for our sins, as if they had not been committed at all. Compare the notes at Isa 43:25; notes at Isa 44:22.
Like as a father pitieth his children - Hebrew, "Like the compassion of a father for his children." See the notes at Mat 7:7-11. God often compares himself with a father, and it is by carrying out our ideas of what enters into the parental character that we get our best conceptions of the character of God. See the notes at Mat 6:9. That which is referred to here, is the natural affection of the parent for the child; the tender love which is borne by the parent for his offspring; the disposition to care for its needs; the readiness to forgive when an offence has been committed. Compare Luk 15:22-24. Such, in an infinitely higher degree, is the compassion - the kindness - which God has for those that love him.
So the Lord pitieth them that fear him - He has compassion on them. He exercises toward them the paternal feeling.
For he knoweth our frame - Our formation; of what we are made; how we are made. That is, he knows that we are made of dust; that we are frail; that we are subject to decay; that we soon sink under a heavy load. This is given as a reason why he pities us - that we are so frail and feeble, and that we are so easily broken down by a pressure of trial.
He remembereth that we are dust - Made of the earth. Gen 2:7; Gen 3:19. In his dealings with us he does not forget of what frail materials he made us, and how little our frames can bear. He tempers his dealings to the weakness and frailty of our nature, and his compassion interposes when the weight of sorrows would crush us. Remembering, too, our weakness, he interposes by his power to sustain us, and to enable us to bear what our frame could not otherwise endure. Compare the notes at Isa 57:16.
As for man - literally, "Man; like the grass are his days!" The thought is fixed on man: man so frail and weak; man, not only made originally of earth, but man delicate, feeble, soon to pass away like the springing grass, or like the fading flower.
His days are as grass - See the notes at Psa 90:5-6; compare Isa 40:6-8, notes; Pe1 1:24, note.
As a flower of the field - As a blossom. It opens with beauty and fragrance, but soon fades and perishes.
So he flourisheth - Rather, "So he blossoms." That is, he is like a flower that is fresh and beautiful, and that soon withers away.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone - Margin, as in Hebrew, "it is not." The reference is either to a hot and burning wind, that dries up the flower; or to a furious wind that tears it from its stem; or to a gentle breeze that takes off its petals as they loosen their hold, and are ready to fall. So man falls - as if a breath - a breeze - came over him, and he is gone. How easily is man swept off! How little force, apparently, does it require to remove the most beautiful and blooming youth of either sex from the earth! How speedily does beauty vanish; how soon, like a fading flower, does such a one pass away!
And the place thereof shall know it no more - That is, It shall no more appear in the place where it was seen and known. The "place" is here personified as if capable of recognizing the objects which are present, and as if it missed the things which were once there. They are gone. So it will soon be in all the places where we have been; where we have been seen; where we have been known. In our dwellings; at our tables; in our places of business; in our offices, counting-rooms, studies, laboratories; in the streets where we have walked from day to day; in the pulpit, the court-room, the legislation-hall; in the place of revelry or festivity; in the prayer-room, the Sabbath-school, the sanctuary - we shall be seen no longer. We shall be gone: and the impression on those who are there, and with whom we have been associated, will be best expressed by the language, "he is gone!" Gone; - where? No one that survives can tell. All that they whom we leave will know will be that we are absent - that we are "gone." But to us now, how momentous the inquiry, "Where shall we be, when we are gone from among the living?" Other places will "know" us; will it be in heaven, or hell?
But the mercy of the Lord - The favor of the Lord; or, his loving-kindness.
Is from everlasting to everlasting - Is from the eternity past to the eternity to come. It had its foundation in the eternal decrees of God; it has its security in his purpose that where it is conferred, it shall not be withdrawn. It had no beginning; it will have no end. There never was a period in the past when it was not the purpose of God to save his people; there never will be a period in the future when it will be said that his saving mercy has ceased. It would be difficult to think of a statement which would at the same time, in so few words, confirm at once the doctrine of the divine decrees, and the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints. If either of these doctrines is denied, then what is here stated by the psalmist is not true: if the doctrine of the divine decrees is denied, then his purpose of mercy had a beginning, and is not "from everlasting;" if the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints is denied, then his mercy has an end, and is not "to everlasting."
Upon them that fear him - In respect to those who are his true worshippers, or his true people.
And his righteousness - His righteous purpose; or, his purpose in regard to their "becoming" righteous.
Unto children's children - literally, "sons of sons." That is, his purposes embrace the children and children's children of the righteous; or, they are included in the covenant of mercy. See the notes at Act 2:39. Compare Exo 20:6.
To such as keep his covenant - To such as adhere to the arrangements of his covenant, or who are faithful on their part. God will be faithful to his part of the covenant; and where there is fidelity on the part of his people, the blessings implied in the covenant will be conferred on them and on their children. The promise is ample, and the fidelity of God is certain, but still it is true that in those promises, and in that fidelity, it is implied that his people on their part must be faithful also, or the blessings will not be bestowed. There are no promises of blessings to the unfaithful, nor have those who are unfaithful any reason to hope that they or theirs will be partakers of the blessings of the covenant of mercy. Our only hope that we or our children will be partakers of the blessings of the covenant is to be found in the fact that we ourselves are faithful to God.
And to those that remember his commandments to do them - Who do not "forget" his law. If they do forget it, they have no right to expect the blessing. Obedience and fidelity are our only reasonable grounds of expectation of the blessing of God.
The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens - He has "fixed" his throne there. This is the ground of the security that his blessing will be imparted to those who fear him, and to their children's children, or that it will be transmitted to coming generations. God is a Sovereign. His throne is fixed and firm. His dominion is not vacillating and changing. His reign is not, like the reign of earthly monarchs, dependent on the capriciousness of a changeable will, or on passion; nor is it liable to be altered by death, by revolution, or a new dynasty. The throne of God is ever the same, and nothing can shake or overthrow it. Compare the notes at Psa 11:4.
And his kingdom ruleth over all - He reigns over all the universe - the heavens and the earth; and he can, therefore, execute all his purposes. Compare Psa 47:2.
Bless the Lord - The psalm began Psa 103:1-2 with an exhortation to "bless the Lord." That exhortation was, however, then addressed by the psalmist to his own soul, and was especially founded on the benefits which he had himself received. The psalm closes also with an exhortation to "bless the Lord," yet on a much wider scale. The psalmist feels that there is not only occasion for him to do it, but that the reason for it extends to the whole universe. The meaning is, that God is worthy of universal praise; and all ranks of beings - all worlds - should join in that praise. Man, feeble, frail, dying, could not come up to the fullness of the praise required. Praise such as was appropriate to God - such as his perfections and works deserved - demanded loftier powers than those of man; the loftiest powers in the universe.
Ye his angels - All beings higher than man; beings around and before his throne.
That excel in strength - Margin, as in Hebrew, "mighty in strength," and therefore more "able" to offer adequate praise.
That do his commandments - Who perfectly obey his law, and who, therefore, can render more acceptable praise than can ever come from human lips.
Hearkening unto the voice of his word - Who always listen to his voice; who never are disobedient; and who can, therefore, approach him as holy beings, and more appropriately worship him.
Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts - His armies; the vast multitudes of holy beings, arranged and marshalled as hosts for battle, in all parts of the universe. Compare the notes at Isa 1:9; notes at Eph 1:21.
Ye ministers of his - The same beings referred to by the word "hosts," and all others who may be employed in executing his will. The "hosts" or armies of the Lord are thus marshalled that they may "do his pleasure," or that they may execute his purposes.
That do his pleasure - What is agreeable to him; that is, who perform his will. Employed in his service, and appointed to execute his will, they are called on to bless his name. The fact of being employed in his service is a sufficient reason for praise. It is implied here that those "ministers of his" actually do his will. They are obedient to his commands; they regard themselves as employed for him.
Bless the Lord, all his works - All that he has made, animate and inanimate, intelligent and brute. It is not uncommon to call on the inanimate creation to join with intelligent beings in praising God. Compare Psa 148:1-14. The same thing is often found in the "Paradise Lost," and in fact occurs in all poetry.
In all places of his dominion - Wherever he reigns, on earth, or in heaven; here or in distant worlds.
Bless the Lord, O my soul - Ending the psalm as it began, and with the additional reason derived from the fact that the "universe" is called on to do it. As one of the creatures of God; as a part of that vast universe, the psalmist now calls on his own soul to unite with all others - to be one of them - in praising and blessing the Creator. He "desired" thus to unite with all others. His heart was full; and in a universe thus joyous - thus vocal with praise - he wished to be one among the immense multitudes that lifted their voices in adoration of the great Yahweh.
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HAPPY FRIDAY!! WOOHOO, so glad it’s the weekend! I have been keeping way busy this week and am looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow! I am off to shoot some looks today down in San Diego, which I am tre excited about!
Today I am all about this amazing Topshop faux fur leopard bomber and my obsession with brooches. Let’s start with this amazing cozy jacket. I found this fabness by accident when I was out holiday shopping early in December. I couldn’t not have it (right?!) It’s just perfectly oversized and the mix colors is SO fun. I love to wear it with a simple tee + denim or a black sweater + a blue jean skirt as it’s a total pop of fun.
For this look, I paired it with this simple tan sweater and super fun black denim mini (here too) (I wear this thing allll the time!!) Since the bomber is so full of personality I kept these other pieces really minimal.
To spice up the look a tad, I pinned my Chanel brooch (vintage here and here) onto the pocket of my skirt. I do not even know what sparked this newfound self made trend, but I have been doing it nonstop! I just think it’s such a fun way to give your look a little oomph! I have been really into layering many on the lapel of my coats or boring sweaters. Embellishing DIY if you will!
Since it’s pretty chilly out, had to go with my Stuart Weitzman otk boots to keep warm. If you are still pondering these, just go for it! They are so worth it. For sunnies, I was feeling these newish (another current obsession) ray-bans. The gold GG on this Gucci crossbody seemed to be the last perfect pop of fun for this already super loud and wild look! (my circle ring)
Well I hope you all have a really great Friday! So crazy to think it’s already the middle of January! I am so excited to go to some yummy dinners and relax some this weekend. Hope you all do too!
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https://currentlycaro.com/2017/01/13/faux-fur-leopard-and-brooch-obsessed/
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If you’re the sort of person who finds themselves wondering ‘Why am I not soaked in my own urine often enough?’, then this review may appeal to your senses, and moreover Condemned: CO might just be the sort of game that you’ve been looking for your whole life.
Taking place in a world that apes David Fincher’s Se7en about as much as is possible without a team of friendly solicitors beating down publisher Monolith’s office doors, Condemned succeeds, as a lesser-spotted launch title, in foreshadowing some of the signature moves in the Xbox 360′s repertoire, such as it’s world that eschews bright colours and any remnants of positivity in place of a world that is murkier, more busted, and grittier than that piece of grit that you found in the yellow box by the road. In short, it is gritty. You play the part of Serial Crimes Unit’s Ethan Thomas (voiced by Greg Grunberg of ‘I can hear stuff!’ fame in Heroes) who is wrongly accused of murdering two of his bestest buds in what should have been a routine search of somewhere very murky and gritty, but which unfortunately got a little too murky and gritty for everyone’s liking. Everyone, that is, excepting Alan Rickman’s complete doppelgänger: the antagonist known only as ‘Serial Killer X’.
The gameplay revolves principally around two themes: fighting jacked-up tramps, and CSI-esque forensic crime-solving. These distill into two discrete experiences: creeping around in the dark with your flashlight being so scared that you can hardly remember your own name, and then secondly standing in the dark over dead bodies or piles of blood, listening out for jack-up tramps and generally being so scared that you can hardly remember your own name. Let it be known: Condemned: CO is really bloody scary. I would go out there and say it’s one of the scariest games that I have ever played. Combat in the game is divided between ranged weaponry (pistols, rifles, etc) and visceral blunt objects like the Steam Pipe, or the Crowbar, which become ever-increasingly soaked in your victims’ blood. I won’t lie to you, it is satisfying to see, but equally disturbing.
Which leads us neatly to the topic of the games visuals. One of the things I enjoy most about reviewing games long after most have put them to pasture is that you get a much greater sense of their influence, alongside a comparison of how they hold up to the standards of today. At around 5 years old, Condemned surprisingly does not look bad at all. As previously mentioned, the murky atmospheres have become some the 360′s defining landscapes and so in many ways they seem just as contemporary as your typical Gears of War experience. What’s that? Gears of War is old too? Ahh shaddupayaface. The only minor criticism I found was that Ethan Thomas’ face can, during cutscenes, resemble an over-inflated cartoon balloon, although for some this might help to detract from the sheer terror of being chased by a crazed man with an axe.
The sounds in the game are wonderful. The title uses a lot of ambient music similar to the eerie sounds of Se7en. It might seem lazy to draw that same comparison again, but it is without a doubt that the makers due substantial influence from the movie. And that is not to say that has been casually lifted either, for the game could serve as a beautiful spiritual sequel to Fincher’s 1995 classic. Asides from the ambient noises, most of what you will hear are people screaming at you, cursing at you, or long, tense phonecalls with your forensics department friend and ally, Rosa. The use of sound is sparse, and that is where the real strengths lie in creating such an intimidating atmosphere from start to finish.
For the achievement hunters out there, the game will give you a fair few on your first playthrough, mostly through little effort from yourself. The toughest to get involve collecting dead birds and shards of metal from the games’ ten levels, which can involve much searching, moving of tables, and opening of cabinets. There are awards for completing the game without using guns, which is easier said than done in parts, and then one for using every single weapon in the game at least once. This achievement seems to have its fair share of glitches, and many online have reported problems with it. Suffice it to say that if you really want it, you’re but a weapons checklist and two days away from it. An added bonus, and one which could be put to great use in titles since, is the unlocking of concept art and videos alongside each achievement. These range from repeated drawings of your foes right up to a reasonably long video detailing how Condemned looked in its prototype stages, when it was known as The Dark. I found it to be particularly interesting, and to be honest it was perhaps the most exciting of the lot, simply to see how what looks like a reasonably completed effort can so dramatically change before release.
Lastly, it is also one of the rare few titles on the 360, and perhaps a bad idea for a launch title for this reason, that possesses no multiplayer whatsoever, be it locally-based or on Xbox Live. If anything, this only helps to ramp up the dreadful sense of loneliness that pervades the experience of Condemned: CO. Certainly, when I initially played the game at launch, it made me feel so left out from what was happening with my friends on Live that I stopped playing it, or perhaps that’s just what I told myself to get over the fear..
A quick of my favourite leading online games retailer tells me that you can pick up Condemned: Criminal Origins for under a fiver. That’s roughly the same price as a fast-food lunch, and I can promise you that Condemned: CO will stay with you for far, far longer.
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Now, more than ever, we need people like you to join our team and help us make sure unaccompained minors and adults have a Safe Passage to sanctuary.
All funds received really will help us to make sure unaccompanied children and vulnerable adults can gain a safe passage to sanctuary. We need your support to train interpreters, lawyers and other non-government organisations on the necessary legal framework. We have programmes in the France, Greece and Italy, we also provide support for unaccompanied minors on arrival to the UK. All this costs money and your fundraising helps us to help them.
There are numerous ways you can get involved to raise funds for us – the Just Giving website has loads of inspirational ideas – such as participating in a sponsored challenge or sporting activity: from 5k ‘Fun Runs’ to full on marathons, bike rides or pony treks; or community fundraising like cake bake sales, auctions, dinners or church events, the possibilities are endless!
Email us at firstname.lastname@example.org if you have an idea you would like to discuss.
The easiest way to collect donations and Gift Aid is by creating a Just Giving online account, as the money raised goes directly to Safe Passage UK. Gift Aid allows us to collect an extra 25p back on every pound raised by UK tax payers. Donations can also be received via text message. Text SPUK66 £10 to 70070 to make a donation.
Email us at email@example.com for a sponsorship form to get you started raising funds.
Help us find a way to give everyone fleeing persecution safe passage. Your donation will be made to Citizens UK and ring-fenced for the Safe Passage programme.Go to Donate Page
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Attention all 4.9 million users of the #Catstagram hashtag: You're being watched. Same for the #RichCatsOfInstagram pictures and the 16 million photos tagged simply #Cats on Instagram.
Mashable points out that a new data visualization project called "I Know Where Your Cat Lives" is trolling the internet and collecting metadata in your #adorable #cat #picture. Using the geotags embedded in the metadata in public photos, the project collects the information and puts the cat's location on a map perfect for cyberstalking your fuzzy feline friend. Thank goodness cats don't read Orwell.
The site features cats from everywhere around the globe — a giant red tom in Chiba, Japan to a grey fuzzball kitten in Apulia, Italy to a kitten cuddled with his mom in Queensland, Australia — all available for gawking at and cooing over at the click of a button.
The project was created by Florida State University art professor Owen Mundy, who views "I Know Where Your Cat Lives" as both a thought-provoking experiment into how we view online privacy, as well as a sort of Tinder for cat fans filled with a seemingly endless stream of kitten pics for the millions of cat fans who populate the Internet.
The site is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to help fund web hosting and continuing the project.
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http://time.com/3019671/i-know-where-your-cat-lives-website-data-visualization/
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The Fort Worth Flying Saucer is hosting its Third Annual Barley Wine Experience on Saturday, February 25, starting at 11 AM in the Sundance Square. Draft and bottled wine selections are available for those who are into craft beers, and guests can order food from the Hungry Farmer Plates menu. Admission’s free, but beer and food are not. Click here for more information.
Blue Mesa Grill Teams up with Ambhar Tequila for a series of workshops called Tequila Lab. Marcelo Nascimento, Ambhar’s lead mixologist, is teaching each lab participant how to make, mix, and enhance tequila drinks. Three drinks and a Blue Mesa menu are included with the class, so hurry and sign up if you would like to be one of the 35 participants.
7 PM Wednesday, February 29th.
Dallas/Northwest Hwy. location only – Lincoln Park, 7700 W. Northwest Hwy.
Limited to 35 participants. Please call (214) 378-8686 to sign up.
$35 per person includes drinks and appetizers.
For more information see www.bluemesagrill.com.
Not in the mood for tequila? Beer could be your answer.
For the first time in DFW history, there is going to be a Local Brewery Beer Pairing Dinner over at the Common Table. Deep Ellum Brewing Company (DEBC) is joining up with four other breweries (Franconia Brewing Co, Lakewood Brewing Co, Rahr & Sons Brewing Co and Peticolas Brewing Co) to host this sweet dinner. Chef Mike Smith will be cooking 5 courses paired with 5 beers. There are still 16 spots open for the March 5th dinner, and $15 per person is being donated to Open the Taps, a grassroots movement fighting for beer equality.
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https://www.dmagazine.com/food-drink/2012/02/rewritten-press-releases-about-alcohol-to-start-off-your-day/
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You should put these places to your travel bucket list.
Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
This protected land in the Patagonia region is a mix of mountains, glaciers, forests and lakes. Pro tip: Visit during Chile’s summer (our winter) since the sun doesn’t set on the soaring granite pillars until after 10 p.m.
Li River, China
Take a river cruise down the Li, which runs 85 kilometers through the region of Guangxi in Southern China, for some of the country’s most incredible scenery.
One of the quaint fishing villages that make up colorful Cinque Terre, Manarola is clad with grape vines, lemon groves and medieval walls. You can only imagine the views from here.
This stunning mountain town sits just below the Chinese border. And the view? Those are the vertical rice terraces of the Muong Hoa Valley.
Naukluft National Park, Namibia
This national park and nature reserve occupies part of the Namib Desert. Wild game like mountain zebra, ostriches and kudu roam over the red sand dunes.
Julia Pfeiffer State Park, California
Possibly the most scenic stop along Big Sur, the McWay Falls plunge 80 feet over a gorgeous sandy shore into the Pacific Ocean.
Na Pali Coast, Hawaii
This state park comprises 17 miles of rugged Kauai coastline. Hikers can walk along the cliffs and valleys covered in lush forests while taking in panoramic views of the Pacific.
Pamukkale, which means “cotton castle,” is a stack of white travertine mineral pools in Southwest Turkey. The UNESCO world heritage site looks over the Byzantine-Roman city of Denizli.
Antelope Canyon, Arizona
Visit in the early morning before the crowds pile in and you’ll see light beams gliding in and out of the slot canyon, making it seem like the walls are on fire.
Lake Louise, Canada
Set inside Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, Lake Louise is a year-round resort destination. On a sunny day, the impossibly blue lake reflects the surrounding snow-capped mountains.
If we ever want to go off the grid, you’ll find us in this tropical Thai paradise. We don’t need much more in life than these mangrove forests and majestic blue waters framed by limestone cliffs.
Lake Lugano, Switzerland
This picture-perfect glacial lake is the Swiss equivalent of Lake Como. Around it, the city of Lugano is a melting pot of Swiss and Mediterranean culture.
Table Mountain, Cape Town
The most iconic landscape in South Africa, Table Mountain looks over Cape Town from 3,558 feet above the sea. You can see its flat peak from almost anywhere in the city, often surrounded by clouds.
Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia
The result of a prehistoric lake that dried up, this area in southwest Bolivia is now covered by bright-white salt formations that give the illusion of walking in the clouds.
Milford Sound, New Zealand
Within Fiordland National Park you’ll find Milford Sound, the poster for New Zealand’s South island. (You might recognize the jaw-dropping landscape from The Lord of the Rings.)
Zhangjiajie National Park, China
This National Park in China's Hunan Province was used as a model for the setting of the movie Avatar. It features dozens of pillar-like mountains reaching toward the sky
Douro Valley, Portugal
You’ve never seen a wine country like this before. Hundreds of vineyards—called quintas—grow grapes on the steep, undulating hills surrounding the Douro River.
Mount Fuji, Japan
This active volcano just southwest of Tokyo has a reverent status in Japanese culture, believed to be the country’s holiest mountain. During springtime, cherry blossom trees light up the five lakes surrounding Mount Fuji.
Grand Teton, Wyoming
Visit Grand Teton National Park during any season and it will punch you in the gut (y’know, in the best way). The park includes the Teton mountain range and Jackson Hole valley.
This archeological area encompasses more than 2,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monuments that date back to the kingdom of Pagan in the ninth century.
Zhangye National Geopark
No, these mountains haven’t been spray-painted. They’re made up of layers of different-colored sandstone and minerals that have been pressed together for over 24 million years.
This fishing village sits above the Arctic Circle in Norway’s Lofoten Islands and has a population of about 300. Just imagine the northern lights from here.
Twelve Apostles, Australia
We’d drive the 150-mile Great Ocean Road in Victoria just for a glimpse of these dreamy limestone stacks. After several apostles collapsed, only nine remain off the coast of Port Campbell National Park (but, yes, that’s still the name).
Iguazu Falls, Argentina
One of the seven new natural wonders of the world, these incredible waterfalls frame the Argentinian-Brazilian border. Together, they make up the largest system of waterfalls in the world, and you won’t be able to look without losing your breath.
Cliffs of Moher, Ireland
These famous cliffs in County Clare, Ireland, have made several big screen appearances in movies like Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and The Princess Bride.
Arashiyama Bamboo Forest, Japan
On the outskirts of Kyoto, this giant bamboo grove is filled with thick, green towering stalks that sway and creek to the rhythm of the wind.
Often described as the most alien-looking place on earth, this small island in the Arabian Sea is known for its unique dragon’s blood trees. In fact, about a third of the plant life in Socotra exists nowhere else in the world.
Remote and sparsely populated, Palawan might just be the most beautiful island in the world. It’s basically a long sliver of villages surrounded by crystal water, lagoons and lush forest.
Nicknamed the blue city, this locale in northern Morocco’s Rif Mountains is known for its blue-washed walls, serpentine cobbled streets and Moorish architecture.
Ipanema Beach, Brazil
There’s a reason why Rio de Janeiro’s famous coastline is one of the most photographed landscapes in the world. It’s always summer on the endless stretch of sand framed by the Two Brothers Mountain.
Champs Elysees, France
Sure, gazing from the top of the Arc de Triomphe onto Paris’s main avenue is basically looking at a concrete jungle. But it’s the prettiest damn concrete jungle in the world.
This Andalucían city stands atop El Tajo gorge, which spans the Guadalevín River. A jaw-dropping bridge connects the 15th-century-old Moorish city to the more modern town.
Reynisfjara Beach, Iceland
Iceland could basically be on another planet. Just look at this black sand beach framed by basalt columns near the village of Vik on the country’s South Coast.
Santorini might be a cliché, but it’s a cliché for good reason. The island’s most famous village is Oia, where narrow, hilly streets lined with whitewashed houses and pink bougainvillea lead to the cobalt Aegean Sea.
Monteverde, Costa Rica
Haven’t you always wanted to walk on the canopy of the rainforest? Well, in this Costa Rican mountain town, suspension bridges span thick cloud forests, coffee plantations and volcano peaks.
The Maroon Bells, Colorado
The most photographed spot in Colorado, the Maroon Bells are twin peaks in Aspen’s Elk Mountains, separated by a glacial lake and surrounded by National Forest. Swoon.
White Desert, Egypt
Sahra al-Beida (called the “White Desert” in English) is a baren stretch of white rock spires and chalk towers. It’s located in Farafra, an area inhabited mostly by Bedouins.
The Petons, St. Lucia
Sure, there are plenty of stunning Caribbean destinations, but the view of the Peton Mountains overlooking the colorful town of Soufriere is something you’ve gotta see for yourself.
Cliffs of Etretat, France
They were stunning enough for Monet to paint…so that’s reason enough for us.
Tea Plantations of Munnar, India
This town in India’s Kerala state sits at the intersection of three mountain streams. It’s best known for its sweeping hills covered in tea plantations and verdant forests.
Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia
There’s a reason Croatia is such a hotbed for tourism these days. It’s drop-dead gorgeous. Just look at this National Park, complete with cascading waterfalls, cerulean lakes, hiking trails and limestone canyons.
Humpback whales! Fjords! Icebergs! The northern lights! Those are just a few of the things you’ll find in Greenland’s tiny capital city. The waterfront, made up of brightly painted houses, is the perfect contrast to the freezing arctic weather.
The Storr, Scotland
Isle of Skye, an island just off Scotland’s northwest coast, is pretty much a dream world. But no landscape is more iconic than the Storr cliffs, a series of rocky pinnacles set before a backdrop of rolling green hills and coastline.
Skeleton Coast, Namibia
Dotted with shipwrecks and whale bones, Namibia’s skeleton coast is a graveyard of sorts. But the barren stretch of land, where green sea meets sand dunes, is so stark it’s an eerie type of beautiful.
Considered to be the spiritual capital of India, this colorful city on the banks of the Ganges River dates back to the 11th century B.C. It’s one of Hinduism’s seven holiest cities in the world and contains over 2,000 temples.
Machu Picchu, Peru
Stand at the top of this 15th-century Incan Citadel (almost 8,000 feet above sea level) and look at the river valley beneath you. You’re basically walking in the clouds.
Tiger's Nest, Bhutan
Tatsang Palphug Monastary, nicknamed Tiger’s Nest, is a Buddhist temple and the most sacred site in Bhutan. It’s built into a steep cliff 3,000 feet above a valley in the Himalayan Mountains.
Grand Prismatic Spring, Wyoming
Of all of nature’s incredible work, this rainbow-ringed natural hot spring in Yellowstone National Park still manages to blow our minds.
Stairway to Heaven, Hawaii
The Haiku Stairs, informally known as the Stairway to Heaven, are just under 4,000 steps along the Ko’olau Mountains in Oahu. The trail is officially closed, but plenty of daredevils still make the scenic trek.
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http://balunywa.blogspot.com/2016/11/most-beautiful-places-on-earth.html
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I used to teach a graduate course in education technology and a teacher once compared the fear and skepticism of learning to use technology to crossing over a line.
It’s like there is an invisible line you are afraid to cross over, but once you take that step and are over the line it’s not so scary any more.”
And so it goes with trying anything new for the first time-you only imagine you know what to expect, and most of the time your imagination creates an experience that is much grander and scarier than it actually is.
This week I tried my first Cross Fit class ever, and my mind had definitely imagined something out of The Crossfit Games. First, understand the evolution of my thinking: 7 years ago I worked one on one with a personal trainer who handed me my dumbbells and expected me to do what I was told without asking how many, how much or how heavy. Just show up and do the work. He shared his thoughts on Cross Fit-and he felt most Cross Fit gyms or “boxes” were not run by qualified fitness professionals and thus many cross-fitters were at risk for getting hurt. Under his guidance I learned to deadlift, work with kettlebells, and I learned to run- running more than 100 races in 4 years, including 7 half marathons and a 25K trail race.
I moved on to a different type of gym where I was in semi private small group sessions with minimal coaching, with an emphasis on mobility and barbells-including Olympic lift progressions. It felt like what I imagined a Cross Fit gym might look like, but I was assured it was not cross fit. I learned some cross fit type movements, but in a learning environment. I continued to deadlift, benchpress and squat. And I continued to run. I became more independent and a little more confident, but I still needed guidance to make sure I didn’t over train. I started paying attention to Olympic lifting and cross fit movements. I started wondering why I ever thought cross fit was so bad?
If you have followed my blog posts you know I am not a fan of group training. I am not a fan of groups. I have spent many days recovering from over use injury from boot camps spent competing with 20 year olds and men. So when I joined Great Bay Cross Fit I stuck to what I felt comfortable with- semi private small group training. My first month felt different, but comfortable enough that I knew I could learn and continue getting stronger if I stuck with it. I had to relearn a couple lifts and moves, with much more emphasis on form and technique, but it felt good to be lifting and moving again with energy and excitement. So when the coaches started encouraging me to try a cross fit class I was curious but skeptical.
First I wondered how I would ever fit it into my 6 day a week workout schedule. I started paying attention to the WOD’s every week to see if I could even do the moves, and if I could, how would I schedule it around my lifting and running days? I started to imagine how much more conditioned I could become if I actually joined 1 or 2 cross fit classes a week in addition to my running. Maybe I could cut my running down to 3 days a week with 2 long runs a month? Instead of being locked into my schedule and routine I decided to give it a try.
This week I tried my first cross fit WOD ever. I chose a conditioning workout with familiar moves (except for the burpees which I had just learned the previous week). I performed a combination of kettle bell swings, burpees and airsquats for AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) in 18 minutes. It was a little intimidating, but I chose something I was familiar with so that the movement wasn’t an issue. It was all about pacing and breathing. It was not about competing. I wanted to see how I felt after class, the next day and the day after that. Considering I had completed a 7 mile run the day before the workout, I felt tired but pretty good! I was able to do my squat workout the following day, and then run again the day after that. I was no more tired than if I had gone for a long-ish run.
Looking back, cross fit felt scary because I was not really mentally ready to give something new a try. Last year was a year filled with mistrust and doubt which led to low self esteem. Maybe I was being too much of a follower and not following my passion. Change is good, but not for the sake of change. Too much change can lead to lack of focus, clarity, and diminishing self-esteem. Imagine trying to start over and re-learn how you do everything at the gym? Imagine you no longer are doing all things you are good at, but instead, you are now focusing on learning-so you suck at everything?
It feels good to be doing what I am good at, while learning new moves and trying new things that will help me get stronger and improve my conditioning. I am going to try adding a cross fit class into my schedule every now and then if it works, and just keep learning. I am allowing myself to be a little more experimental to see what happens. If it doesn’t work for me that is ok. Now I know what does work and if I don’t do it at the gym I can do it at home. There are no hard and fast rules except the rules I impose upon myself.
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http://www.zengoalsanddreams.com/crossing-over-the-line/
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Okay, we are finally in Williams AZ.
We had planned to be here on Thursday but we had some really high winds on Wednesday and Thursday so we decided to spend another day in Golden Valley to wait for the wind to subside.
We left on Friday morning around 10:00 and got to Williams around 1:00. A nice short drive.
Patti took some pictures along the way.
I-40 near Seligman AZ. It is high prairie with grasslands and Juniper forests.
We are getting closer to the mountains and the trees are getting bigger. We are starting to see pine trees.
Interesting geology along the highway.
We are getting closer to Williams and the trees are getting even bigger.
Snow in the mountains north of Williams.
The area around Williams kind of reminds me of Truckee
We are staying at the Railside RV park. It is right next to the tracks for the Grand Canyon Railroad. It isn’t as bad as it sounds. The train only runs twice a day once going out at about 9:00 in the morning and is back around 7:00 in the evening. This morning I heard the steam engine go by. I guess they are going to use it today to pull the train.
The weather here is a bit different than what we experienced lower down. The day time temp is in the mid 70’s (excellent) but the nights are kind of cold. Last night got down into the 30’s. We had two wool blankets on the bed and were still cold. At around 5:00 this morning we put the third blanket on the bed. I got up around 6:00 and started the heater. We brought the small electric heater in today so it will get turned on as soon as it gets cold enough and I will leave it on low all night.
We are going to take a ride today to see the country. There are an lot of fire roads in the area I just hope they are open.
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MOUNT UPTON, N.Y. (WBNG) -- A fire early Wednesday in Chenango County claimed the life of a 16-year-old, according to the Chenango County Sheriff's Office.
Several fire departments were called to the fire at 457 State Highway 8 in Mount Upton at 1:15 a.m. Neighbors say the home belonged to Ernest Franklin, an Iraq war veteran, and his wife Heather, who is pregnant with their second child.
"It was horrible to watch because once the fire department got here, with the driveway and the conditions, they couldn't get up to the top -- they couldn't get around the bend," Dominick Gildersleeve explained. "So for a while it was just watch it burn."
Gildersleeve said the couple is known for the kindness and willingness to help those in need. Neighbors told 12 News the pair adopted the autistic and deaf son a few years ago.
"An Iraq vet, a soldier, everything that epitomizes what a hero is in this country, and he lost his everything last night in an instant," Gildersleeve said.
A GoFundMe account has been set up for the family.
Authorities say the cause of the fire appears to be a wood stove which was the main heating source to the residence.
The Chenango County Sheriff's Office was assisted by members of the Chenango County Bureau of Fire Investigation Team. The New York State Police also assisted with scene security. Crews from Mt. Upton, Sidney, Bainbridge, Guilford, South New Berlin and Cooperstown Medical Transport responded to the scene. A spokesperson for the American Red Cross said the organization is aiding the family in the immediate aftermath of the fire.
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Magic Touch Carpet Cleaning has been restoring people's homes since 1994. A water main break, a sewer back up, or even heavy rains can cause unwanted water to flood into your basement. Damage can be costly to repair, and at times it can seem overwhelming. The best place to start is to call us. Our specialists are certified in water damage restoration and carpet cleaning.
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Post by Pastor Tim Dillmuth – If we’re not careful, it’s easy to mistake reigning as a spiritually elite activity only for the Super-Christians among us (and just for the record I am not among that elite class).
Reigning is quite the opposite though, in most cases it’s the normal . . . even mundane act of caring for and cultivating the world around us in a way that reflects God’s character and glory (James Davison Hunter). And when it comes to reigning, we don’t only seek to “care and cultivate”, we seek to model that care and cultivation as an example to others around us.
And this Work of Mercy is not some new Christian fad, but it actually dates back to God’s mandate in the creation account (Gen. 1:26-28)!
If you’ll recall, last week I sought to reign through my difficult situation with the newspaper. I did in fact write a letter to the editor, but nothing earth shattering or spectacular happened as a result.
What did happen was that the normal (and yes a little difficult) act of reigning interacted, cared for and cultivated those around me. Let me share a few of the results from last week’s letter to the editor.
- I had the opportunity to interact in a very simple and transparent manner with the editor and the reporter who wrote the article. The reporter who had made the mistake thanked me not only for my understanding, but also for compassion.
- I had a long conversation with a dear friend in which we encouraged each other in mutual opportunities of reigning. His situation involved a neighbor installing a new driveway which was placed carelessly on the wrong side of the property line! Instead of legal action, my friend has been moved (by the Spirit) to redraw the property lines and give the difference to his neighbor as a gift.
- My wife and I have grown in the Lord as we worked through how to respond in a Christ like fashion.
I’m a privacy-coveting American by nature, but it turns out God’s call to us is to be transparent in the mundane–to “let our light shine before men“–so that Christ’s rule
and reign is evident in the everyday moments of our lives. Privacy takes a back seat to calling people to imitate us as we imitate Christ.
So, even within my almost surreal situation with the newspaper, my act of reigning was quite average. And some of the best ways that you can reign could also be described as normal or routine. Normal activities such as faithfulness to your spouse, a daily practice of scripture reading, honesty in all your business dealings are what exemplify the Work of Mercy of reigning.
But . . . you won’t get profiled on Christianity Today for completing these kinds of activities. And chances are no one is going to pat you on the back for your efforts either. And that’s because this goes against the grain of our modern Christian experience. Matthew Redmond says, “It appears that the current evangelical climate is one in which faithfulness and spirituality are measured by the eventful and the big — the bombastic. If the waves are not huge and the shifts are not seismic then we assume a kind of carnality.”
Consider the life of King David. Some of his greatest acts of reigning were done before he was king and often could be described as mundane and thankless. Take a moment to ponder some of the mundane ways that David reigned in these situations.
- David serving King Saul (1 Samuel 16)
- David’s marriage to Michal (1 Samuel 18:17-29)
- David sparing Saul’s life (1 Samuel 24:1-10; 1 Samuel 26)
- David’s kindness (2 Samuel 9 – Occurred when he was king)
I’m sure you figured out by now that by normal and mundane I don’t also mean unimportant. You see, it’s often in these normal, mundane, and thankless efforts that reigning is properly brought to life. The great acts of Christian devotion always start with small acts of Christian obedience.
Do you want to reign with Christ this month? Let’s start with the small, faithful, steady and mundane acts of obedience in our everyday lives.
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We in society do not value others that don't have a home. But as Christians we follow Jesus, who stated, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” Matt 8:20
I read a book to the kids last year called Under the Overpass. It really challenged my thinking as a Christian and as a mom. Living in suburbia it is easy to overlook the less fortunate. This thinking somewhat remained in me even after going to Africa. We see poverty as our own doing. So why should we help out those, that put themselves in a bad situation. Every day we see homeless people on the side of the street panhandling for money in the city. Many thoughts normally go towards, they will spend it on booze or drugs. This may in fact be true, but do we just turn and pretend they are not there?
How do we reconcile our actions with our beliefs?
When I took this picture, I knew that I had something. I just didn't know what it was, until I came home and looked at it on the screen. It was her shoe that I saw, or the lack of it. I just sat there and wept. That is when I knew that I needed to see more, the beauty of her. Each of us have beauty to be revealed.
May we be gracious enough, giving enough, loving enough to help others as God leads us.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
As a photographer, I love to look for the unusual in things. My curiosity has grown since becoming an avid photographer, or at least it has come out of the closet.
I am sure many of you know that this is the back side of a sunflower. We all love sunflowers; the yellow petals and dark centers. I was captured by the brilliant green petals and little hairs. They say there is more to a me than meets the eye. Yet, how many of us look at the back side of anything? Especially if we are going through a difficult time. Not to mention the things we miss by not seeing the whole picture. Changing our perspective can give deeper insight into our lives. On that day, it was just looking at the back of the flower instead of the front.
I hope that this week as you approach all that life throws at you, maybe seeing the backside will help.
But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. Job 12: 7-8
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Well folks, we are officially considered “Full Term.”
As of Wednesday, we are 37 weeks pregnant, which means if Baby Dub comes along today, she’s got all her parts.
My main job now is to fatten up our baby. And fatten her up, I will.
Hold on while I finish this muffin.
Yesterday we had a doctor’s appointment, and the Doc informed us that we are 50% effaced and dilated to 1.5 centimeters and that Baby Dub is at -2 station. Say what?!
She’s tunneling her way out, folks.
She’s ready to complete her term in the womb and begin her term in the world, making it way more awesome.
In an election year, no less.
Let the next term begin!
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Let’s face it – ever since we started watching Saturday morning cartoons as kids, we’ve wanted to create our own animations. You too? Yeah, that’s what we thought.
Unfortunately, at some point we all learned that you actually needed to know how to draw or have some sort of artistic ability in order to create your own animations. Just like that, dreams squashed. Bummer, right?
At Go!Animate, we just couldn’t accept that in this world of automation and Web-enabled technologies, someone hadn’t found a way for us to create our own animations without any professional background required. So we gathered a bunch of smart folks together – people with backgrounds in everything from animation and programming to entertainment, licensing, marketing and Web solutions – and decided to figure this out so that you wouldn’t have to.
As a result, Go!Animate.com was born. Go!Animate.com is a Web site that enables anyone – and we mean – anyone – to create their own animated stories, all with just a few clicks of a mouse. No artistic ability required. No complex computer skills required. Just go to Go!Animate.com, start clicking, and pretty soon you’ll have your very own creation that’s ready to share with the world.
What we’ve done is develop an advanced computer animation platform that automates all the most difficult parts of creating an animation. Once you select the characters you want to work with, Go!Animate enables you to easily bring them to life with a myriad of automated actions, while also letting you add you own recorded dialogue or music for a truly personalized animated adventure.
Of course, in order to get started, there needs to be a good selection of existing animated characters for you to work with. Going beyond the technical, we work with production companies to constantly license new characters for you to work with. As a result, the site provides users with a library of characters, backgrounds, props, sound effects and music for use in creating their own unique animations. Creators can then customize their animations with a number of tools and features that allow them to create truly unique works of expression.
Of course, once you’ve created your animations, it’s natural to want to share them with the world. That’s why we’ve built in the capability for users to instantly share their animations via Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Digg and other popular social channels directly from the site.
In addition to the classic cartoons and other animated characters that Go!Animate has license agreements with, major brands such as Street Fighter and even the hip-hop artist Akon utilize Go!Animate’s platform as well. As it turns out, Go!Animate isn’t just fun for our users ; it’s also fun for the brands that license their content to us. These companies have discovered that Go!Animate gives their customers and fans a whole new way to interact with their brands, opening up a world of possibilities for fun new promotions.
Go!Animate has offices in the Bay Area and Hong Kong.
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Sunday, 24 November 2013
You'd think that being a writer is all about two things:
1. Writing stuff.
2. Getting that written stuff published or at least read.
However, there's much more to it than that and I'll warn you in advance that I may get arty and soulful. To begin with, it's a helluva thing to even consider calling yourself a writer, never mind actually telling other people about it. Because, when it really comes down to it, every piece of writing contains a little bit of you in it - your memories, your perspective, your experience of the people around you, your hopes and also your fears.
It can feel like an indulgence to spend quality time away from loved ones and friends, especially when you're using that time to wrestle with people and situations that you've created in your head. Reading also takes on another dimension. What used to be a leisure activity now becomes a vital part of your craft. You still read for enjoyment, but you also look closely at style, plot, characterisation and all the other elements that already give you sleepless nights.
Or try this one on for size: A writer is an artist.
You write fiction? Congrats - you're an artist.
There's also a deeper, inner level to this writing journey. Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way is a brilliant resource (among others) for getting into the soul of writing. I believe there is a part of every writer that is secretly - and sometimes overtly, on the page - grappling with the big issues - life, death, justice, purpose, love, freedom, etc.
Sometimes we not only express who we are on the page, we also explore who we wish we were. Read between the lines and it's as powerful as therapy and as real as it gets.
So, here's the thing: when someone tell's you they've written something, or that they're working on something, treat them with kindness. When you give feedback, make it constructive - it's fine to say you didn't like it, as long as you say why. Feedback on what you enjoyed - and why - is also welcomed. However, tell the truth.
Some writers will not get the recognition they deserve. For some, the only feedback they'll receive is the snipy kind on ebook sites or forums. But wherever writers are on that endless and invisible ladder of literary success (often in the eyes of other people) they stay true to their writing. Well, you wouldn't expect anything less from a writer, would you?
Monday, 11 November 2013
"Peace is a decision, a process, a journey, a commitment. It comes from the desire for stillness within and balance without. It requires vision, to see what can be and not be trapped in what has been. We always live in the shadow of those generations who came before us, as beneficiaries of their struggles, their generosity and also their mistakes. But we honour them - and ourselves - by the way we live now."
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
Creativity serves many purposes. It can take us on journeys of the imagination, enable us to present new and interesting ideas to others, and even allow us to begin to heal.
My friend, Villayat 'SnowMoon Wolf' Sunkmanitu, uses photography and poetry as a coping mechanism for living with PTSD and also as a way of raising awareness about PTSD and the therapeutic benefits of creativity.
Having produced Words of a Wolf, The Way of the Wolf and Soul of a Wolf, he has created an exhibition, Living with PTSD, which shares his work along with insights he has gained from the spiritual traditions of the Native American Lakota tribe.
The exhibition will be housed at various locations across the UK and is showing from 5th - 30th November 2013 at Leicester People’s Photographic Gallery, 2 Wellington Street, Leicester LE1 6HL.
There will be a chance to meet Villayat on the opening night from 6:30pm – 9pm on Tuesday 5th November 2013. You can find out more about his work by visiting his website: www.wolf-photography.com.
He would also be happy to hear from you if you have a suitable UK venue for hosting the exhibition. Please contact him via his website.
VILLAYAT ‘Wolf ’ Sunkmanitu has gone to extreme lengths to cope with the daily struggles of post traumatic stress disorder. The former RAF policeman, who was stationed in Northern Ireland in the mid 1980s, has been down the conventional route of NHS therapy and private counselling sessions and tried less orthodox methods by spending time with Native American tribes who practise healing ‘Earth Medicine’. Staying mainly with the Lakota tribe of the Great Plains in North America helped him explore the root of his PTSD.
The 49-year-old, who grew up in Highfields, Leicester, says: “When you’re learning about ‘medicine tools’ from teachers of this path, you’re learning about working on your spirit – your soul – and it’s a holistic form of medicine that affects your mind and body too.”
Numerous visits to indigenous tribes also enabled him to explore an affinity he feels with wolves and is where the name ‘Snow Moon Wolf’ was bestowed on him by one of the teachers, White Eagle. There, in the wilderness, he was able to photograph wolves and for once, away from the rat race, he felt at peace.
Photography is not the only coping mechanism he has found to handle PTSD, which has wrecked his opportunities to work and forced him to retire on health grounds. Poetry is also a form of creative therapy – although his poems don’t make comfortable reading. Titles such as Inner Turmoil, Survivor and Demons in my Soul clearly expose the torment, alienation and stigma he feels.
Villayat, who was born to Indian parents in the UK, says: “PTSD can be very debilitating. When you have a physical injury that people can see, they seem to be more comfortable with you than dealing with an invisible wound.
Villayat went undiagnosed for 12 years – a time he refers to as “hell.” As well as his own emotional difficulties, there’s a sense of injustice and anger about the way he believes many veterans of the Armed Forces have been let down by politicians.
It is 30 years since Villayat left the RAF. He was 19 when he was sent to County Down, Northern Ireland, for a two-year tour in 1983, assisting the RUC and other units engaged in counter terrorist activities. He attributes the mental scars to suppressing his fear during incidents he was involved in as part of his duties and an explosion in Belfast. Anxiety, hyper-vigilance, depression, forgetfulness, disturbed sleep and flashbacks became part of his everyday life and it wasn’t until 1995 that he was officially diagnosed with PTSD after a serious road accident.
Even after diagnosis and treatment, he still can’t cope with busy places or potentially troublesome places so he avoids pubs and concerts and would rather be in the wilderness than walk down a city street.
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Safeguarding against cybercrime no longer realistic
PwC has called on bank and business chief executives to consider Cybersecurity more seriously and better implement safeguarding practices.
It is not possible to fully mitigate cyber-risks, and chief executives are placing their banks and financial businesses in danger by not throwing enough wait behind security strategies and failing to adequately estimate the threats presented.
In a recent report of the realities of Cybersecurity and its associated risks, PwC has called for greater consideration of the magnitude of cyber-risks and better strategies to bring the issues to the forefront of business agenda.
According to the report, Cybersecurity threats now were on par with similar fiscal management issues which plagued the globe 15 years ago before the start of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC).
“Analysts have drawn parallels to the sentiment before the financial crisis when risks were not properly identified, assessed, and managed,” the report stated.
“Today, cyber-risks are a clear and present threat to the global business ecosystem…however many CEOs (chief executive officers) and boards have not yet to truly appreciate the seriousness and magnitude of this critical businesses issue.”
While business’ remained fully dependent on technology, the report said safeguarding of valuable data was no longer possible, and businesses would do better to spread awareness throughout the organisation and not rely on an IT or technology team to combat risks.
PwC called for Cybersecurity measures to be business-aligned and owned, and for CEOs and boards to be held accountable for issues.
“While Cybersecurity risks have dramatically evolved, the approach businesses use to manage them has not kept pace,” the report stated.
“Company leaders and boards can no longer afford to view cyber-risk as a technology problem.
“Traditional boundaries have shifted; with company and personal digital footprint and audit trails leaving a mass of data open to theft and exploitation.
“Companies are beginning to understand that the real goal is to minimise rather than eliminate.”
While cyber-risks had previously been solely attributed to hackers and terrorists, the report said other nation states, organised crime units and even employees were threats to all banks and businesses within the finance space.
“Numerous attack groups are backed by limitless resources…attack groups are able to devote highly talented individuals who are experts in technology, businesses process, and espionage tactics,” the report said.
“Attackers are constantly evolving their capability to exploit vulnerabilities inherent in the global business ecosystem.”
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http://fst.net.au/news/safeguarding-against-cybercrime-no-longer-realistic
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My own fabric created to make this jacket.
Saturday, 25 January 2014
Here is the completed White Rabbit and his Pocket Watch from my Alice in Wonderland series..... (obviously not a costume!)...
Saturday, 11 May 2013
Monday, 1 April 2013
Sunday, 4 November 2012
The Queen of Hearts complete - it has not been easy to photograph the whole costume - I don't really have the space. here are the best I could do: Front
- in two sections - I did try to join the two photos in PSP but it did not work very well.
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On My Shelf is a new monthly meme started by KJ Mulder over at Worlds in Ink and it’s all about sharing the books on your shelf in alphabetical order, according to author. It’s a very chilled-out meme, so you can plan it in any way you like, and post at any time of the month, any number of times you like. And who doesn’t like to show off some of their books?
Today I’m finishing off the A-Bs with a few random books. I’ll go in alphabetical order, starting with Paul Auster.
I bought The New York Trilogy (1985, 1986, 1987, Faber Firsts edition published 2009) with a voucher I’d received for Exclusive Books. It had been recommended to me and in general I’d heard good things about it. Turned out to be very odd and perplexing in the kind of way that I find compelling. Man in the Dark (2008, Henry Holt and Company) I bought in hardcover at an EB sale last year.
J.G. Ballard: The Drought, (1965, Triad Panther), The Drowned World (1962, Science Fiction Book Club) and Kingdom Come (2006, Fourth Estate). I’ve read two of Ballard’s novels – Empire of the Sun (1984) and Millenium People (2003). I read Empire because I loved the movie (with a very young Christian Bale, and a few shots of Ben Stiller who was also very young but looked the same as he does now), but the book I found boring. Millenium People was weird but ok. I would not have bothered reading more Ballard after those two, but I got more books because he has cult status and I wanted to try his sci fi. However, I’m reading The Drowned World at the moment, and finding it so dull that it might be time to give up on him. The Drought and The Drowned World I got through Bookmooch (where I also gave away my copy of Millenium People). Kingdom Come – not too sure where I got this, but since it’s a trade paperback I probably bought it at Paperweight, taking advantage of one of their constant special offers.
The Somnambulist (2007) by Jonathan Barnes. The edition on the left is Gollancz, the one on the right is William Morrow (in hardcover). The Gollancz on is an uncorrected proof I received while working at EB, and because I love hardcovers I couldn’t resist buying the William Morrow edition when I saw it at an EB sale. I have yet to read the novel though.
Two novels from Frank Beddor’s trilogy based on Alice in Wonderland: The Looking Glass Wars (2004) and Seeing Redd (2007), both published by Egmont, both purchased at an EB sale. Unfortunately they didn’t have the third book. I bought it because I like the metafictional premise and yes, because I like the covers.
And once again I’m seduced by cult status, not to mention special-edition status. Lord knows when I’ll get around to reading this 50th Anniversary Edition of William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (1959) from Grove Press New York, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get this copy for only R77 (possibly half that) at an EB sale.
And to end this post, some non-fiction on one of my favourite topics. This morning I noticed that I have a few other A and B authors on my non-fiction shelf, but unlike my fiction shelves, I’ve arranged it according to topic, not author, so this one was the only one I noticed and photographed. It’s a very special book because I bought at a bookshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia of all places. Why is this weird? Well in Addis the shops that sell books in English have very random selections that look a lot like leftovers from other parts of the world, plus a variety of books about the country itself. The fiction selections are small, and in the 6 months that I’ve lived here, I’ve only seen about two sci fi novels, both quite old. They occasionally show sf blockbusters at one of their cinemas, but the majority of the population are unable to afford movie tickets, and wouldn’t be able to understand a movie in English anyway. Thus it makes no sense for them to stock a collection of essays on sf, but as I said, the stock bookshops get is pretty random. So I was amazed and utterly ecstatic when I found The Science Fiction Handbook edited by M. Keith Booker and Anne-Marie Thomas. It was published in 2009 by Wiley-Blackwell, making it one of the newest books in Ethiopia. The bookstore I found it in mostly stocks textbooks, and although the place is relatively large, it’s obvious that their stock will never be taken off the shelf unless someone buys it, because they have a lot of very old, very odd, totally useless things, like a book on American elementary school laws from the 60’s.
This collection is divided into 3 sections: historical surveys of sf subgenres; representative authors; and discussion of individual texts. Should prove very interesting and useful.
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https://violininavoid.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/on-my-shelf-last-of-the-a-bs/
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Doctor insights on:
Can Msg Cause Autism
No: Although it is likely that environmental exposures have contributed to the recent rise in autism, there is no credible evidence that the MMR vaccine has caused or contributed to increased autism. The study that first raised the concern has now been discredited as fraudulent. Autism is more common in babies born near superfund sites or with high levels of organophosphate pesticides. ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting three areas: abnormal socialization, communication, and restricted interests with repetitive patterns of behavior. It is usually detected in the first two years of life. Cause is unknown but strong evidence points to an interplay between genetic and environmental factors. Patients with autism may display significant delays in certain developmental areas while having normal or superior strengths in other developmental or learning domains. The severity of the disorder is highly variable ...Read more
One of the hallmarks: Of autistic spectrum disorder is an uneven cognitive profile, doing as well if not better than same-age peers in some areas while having difficulty in others. For example, rote memory & non-verbal problem-solving can be excellent, while social communication & reciprocal social interactions are areas of difficulty. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
No: Obstructive sleep apnea is caused by upper airway collapse or flaccidity. It can also be due to enlarged tonsils and adenoids. Autistic patients can suffer from osa, but osa has not be found to cause autism, although children with autism can have worsened autistic symptoms from untreated osa. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Autistic Spectrum: Disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosed by history ; clinical observation of qualitative impairments in social communication ; social reciprocity + stereotypical, repetitive, non-functional motor movements or narrow , restricted areas of interest. Genetic ; epigenetic (factors that change function, but not structure or sequence of fetal genes) are the major known causes, . ...Read more
There are many known: Causes: > 30 known syndromes, "copy repeat errors" in small bits of dna in certain genes, factors that change the function of certain fetal genes early in pregnancy, (e.g., toxins, viruses & ? Folic Acid levels). Specific atypical white matter development is seen on brain mri's in infants long before they show clinical signs of asd. The ? Is, what triggers the expression of the altered genes. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Genetic: Leading theories include strong genetic predisposition as we know that autism runs in families. There are twin studies that support this from leading universities. Sometimes "chunks" of DNA are missing, or duplicated. We also know of anatomic brain differences in children on the spectrum versus "neurotypical" kids. The way their "brains are wired" is "different" we are learning. ...Read more
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SHAYKH PHILIPS ON MUSLIM EXTREMIST ATTACKS IN FRANCE
The tragedy in France is so saddening and maddeningly frustrating, while simultaneously being so mindbogglingly vicious
Sheikh Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips
By: Sheikh Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips
. Even more so considering that it was supposedly committed in defense of the Last Prophet's honor (pbuh). The hate-filled ISIS Takfeeri mentality, which seeks to justify the unjustifiable, will continue to haunt the Muslim world in various forms ofBoko Haram, Shabab, and Taliban atrocities until we finally manage to educate our communities to their reality. May Allah rid our community and the world community of this evil ideology in all its forms and support the positive global awakening to the moral and social excellence of Islam.
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Citi Habitats’ Tracie and Elizabeth Hamersley — dubbed the Hamersley Team — again won top honors at the brokerage’s annual awards ceremony, which was held at the swank Ajna Bar last week in the Meatpacking District. The two sisters and their fellow team members took home awards for top overall production and for sales.
As The Real Deal reported last year, the duo won these same awards, as well as the top rental team, for 2011. This year, the Litvak Team, headed by Eugene Litvak, won this year’s team of the year award for rentals.
Meanwhile, Victoria Rong Kennedy, a senior vice president, won the top individual of the year award, for leading Citi Habitats agents in sales and production.
Julie Rose won the award for top sales deal of the year for the $19.5 million trade of an apartment at the Time Warner Center, which Citi Habitats said was two years in the making. On the rental side, Michael Mansfield had the top rental deal of the year for a two-year lease on a Perry Street apartment for its full asking rent of $80,000 per month. —Zachary Kussin
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Whether you want to add sheltered parking to your residence or just provide a safe place for tools, outdoor sporting equipment and lawn and garden supplies, this two-car garage plan is a nice solution to your storage needs. Windows compliment the vertical siding façade while two overhead garage doors open to 588 square feet of unfinished space. You’ll appreciate the 8’ ceiling and the service door lending easy access to the interior. The perfect addition to your home or any other piece of property, this 2-car garage plan with side-entry is sure to accommodate your needs.
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If someone really likes you, turning them down is awkward and uncomfortable and usually it is better to be direct, and not lead anyone on. The first three turn downs on this list are few you.
When someone just doesn’t get the hint and keeps asking you out, try a few of the more direct comebacks below to get your point across. Hopefully, they will finally get the message and move on.
- Although it would be nice, not anytime soon
- I wish I could, but it’s just not going to work right now.
- I’m sorry, but I need to focus on myself right now.
- I never do X on days that end in “Y.”
- Sorry, I’m busy. I’m teaching my ferret to yodel.
- No thanks, my wife would kill me.
- I’m sure you’ll make some girl that isn’t me really, really happy some day.
- I’d probably be more into this if the pregnancy test I took this morning hadn’t been positive.
- If only I hadn’t just enrolled in a convent…
No, I’m staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture.
More top ten comeback lists you might like
- You’re still single, I guess you must be pretty picky?
- Top ten comebacks for people who bother you
- More comebacks you might like
Got any comments, questions or tips for dealing for dealing with turning someone down? Share them in the comments below.
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Hello, followers! Good to have you back!
Our guest series had a great start last week. I’m extremely happy you liked the idea. Thank you!
So here we are again with our next guest, Carolina Ventura, who is a professional translator in the Public Health domain.
Me, my translations and the Public Health field: a love story
First of all, I’d like to thank my friend and fellow translator Caroline Alberoni for inviting me to write a post about my experience as a translator for her blog! This is the first time I do something like this, and I can say that I’m enjoying every bit of it – to actually WRITE something instead of TRANSLATING something that somebody else wrote is wonderful for a change!
I decided to be a translator when I was 20 years old. In 1991, I was in my first year of the Biology undergraduate course at Universidade de São Paulo – USP (Brazil), but all of a sudden I understood why I had been so miserable since the beginning of the course: I’d made the wrong choice. I didn’t want to be a biologist after all – I wanted to study languages. In fact, I wanted to continue studying English, something that I’d been doing for the previous ten years at a private English school, but I didn’t want to be an English teacher. I wanted to be a translator.
I abandoned the Biology course and in 1992 I started the English Language and Literature Undergraduate Course at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUCSP). I majored in Translation and I’ve never been miserable about my choice in twenty years working as a professional translator!
I can say that I chose my career, but the translation specialty chose me. In my first year of the English course at university, my father, who is a professor at the School of Public Health of USP, told me that a fellow professor needed to translate a paper into English to publish it in an international journal, and asked me if I could do it. I accepted the challenge, the author liked the result, and she and my dad started indicating me whenever they had an opportunity. Some say that word-of-mouth communication is more efficient than advertising, and I must agree with it. Interestingly enough, the translation direction also chose me: I can say that 99% of what I do is translate from Portuguese into English, and 1% accounts for English -> Portuguese translations. It’s been like this since the very beginning, but I didn’t choose it.
So, I’ve been translating academic papers in the area of Public Health from Portuguese into English for the past 20 years. “Do I get sick of it sometimes?”, you might be wondering. Well, no! Within the Public Health area, you can translate a paper on perinatal mortality in hospitals of São Paulo on one day, then translate a study on malaria treatment among pregnant women in the Amazon region, and end the week translating a paper about the contributions of anthroposophical medicine to integrality in medical education. Besides enhancing my personal knowledge about a theme that I like (after all, I wouldn’t have chosen to study Biology if I weren’t interested in the Health Sciences, right?), I really enjoy helping to give international visibility to the research production of Brazilian scientists! I like to think about the role I play when papers about Brazil’s achievements (and also failures) in the Public Health area are published in international journals.
I also translate texts from other areas, mainly Education, Applied Linguistics, Communication and Business Administration. This surely helps me not to feel bored about my work, but nothing pleases me more than being asked to translate an academic paper in the field of health. When I translate texts from other areas, I have to spend more time doing research before I start translating, whereas when I must translate a public health text, all I have to do is sit in my chair, turn the computer on, and start translating the text right away!
I work for two kinds of clients, always as a freelance translator: individuals who wish to submit their papers to international journals and scientific journals that have their own translation teams. In recent years, I’ve been working on a regular basis for six Brazilian journals: one about Public Health, Education and Communication; one about Nursing; one about Physical Activity and Health; one about Human Growth and Development; one about Business Administration; and one about Brazilian cities and metropolises. My payment is made in three ways: the papers’ authors pay for the translations themselves; the journal is bilingual, so it pays for the translations; the journal and the author pay 50% of the translation cost each. Unfortunately, the payment made via the Institution that houses the journal can take much longer than expected – well, who said it would always be a bed of roses?
Do I use any CAT tools to help me translate the papers? As this is a fashionable topic nowadays, I feel I must approach it, so here it goes: no, so far I haven’t. I’ve already attended a couple of courses on CAT tools, but translating academic papers involves respecting the academic style, the style of the area (for example: public health papers are written differently from applied linguistics papers, both in terms of academic style and jargon), and the author’s idiosyncratic style, and I don’t think CAT tools are of much help here. Besides, my services are not hired through translation agencies, which means I don’t have to deliver translation memories and the like. I’ve asked some of my colleagues who work with me in the same journals about this, but they haven’t felt the need to use CAT tools so far. No client has ever asked us to translate their papers using TRADOS or memoQ. For the time being, our work can continue to be similar to that of an “artisan of words”, and I guess Google Translate won’t replace us in the near future. Obviously, necessity is the mother of invention, and it’s more than likely that we’ll have to adapt to the new reality soon – and I’m okay with this!
Well, this is the “love story” I wanted to share with you! I hope you’ve liked it! Please feel free to post any doubts or comments you may have!
It’s my pleasure having you as a guest in our blog, Carolina! It’s interesting to see how people have different starts in our profession, and learning more about the Public Health domain was also great! 🙂 Thank you for sharing your experience with us!
Our next guest will be Mariana Sasso, talking about freelance versus in-house translator. Stay tuned!
About the author
I have a BA in English Language and Literature (majors in Translation and Teaching) and an MA in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies from PUCSP (Catholic University of São Paulo). My Master’s thesis focused on the translation into English of Annual Reports released by a Brazilian retail company. I’m also a public sworn translator for the State of São Paulo, Brazil.
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Price of Persia : Rival Swords
for the Wii
Rival Swords is essentially a remake of Prince of Persia : The Two Thrones, except with waggle, widescreen and 480p.
How I Waggle?
Motion detection inputs are primarily used to initiate attacks as well as other event-based movements. It's similar to Twilight Princess, wherein you flick your Wii Remote to attack, and keep flicking for combos and special moves. One benefit is that you're now dual wielding, so you're able to flick your nunchuck as well to attack with your left hand.
The rest of the controls use the buttons on the controllers. The camera can be moved by twisting the Wii Remote, but one can also rotate the camera with the directional pad.
Is it Good?
It's essentially the exact same game as the Two Thrones. According to 1Up
, there aren't any differences, graphically, in the Wii version. One caveat is that it is supposedly censored; that is, the kills aren't as brutal in this version. One probably wouldn't notice if they've never played the original, but it is interesting Ubisoft decided to do this.
Nintendo Power - 7/10 : No changes from the Two Thrones version, censored violent one-hit kills, motion-controls work great, maybe not worth the money if you've played it before.
- 7.1/10 : intuitive attack motion-controls, some camera issues due to no dual analog sticks, just buy the GC version
The Wii version of Rival Swords is a solid game, and remains fun to play in spite of the censoring. The controls work well, but they're not revolutionary. I like it so far after one play session.
I haven't played the Two Thrones. I enjoyed Sands of Time, but didn't enjoy Warrior Within all that much. Some of the boss battles were too difficult for me, and I didn't like running from that giant scary monster guy.
I'm looking forward to Rival Swords, but I'm disappointed there aren't any graphical updates. Maybe I'll just buy Two Thrones for the Gamecube, or wait until the price drops for Rival Swords.
If anyone has purchased or played this and would like to comment, I'm all ears.
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False positives and exaggerated results in peer-reviewed scientific studies have reached epidemic proportions in recent years. The problem is rampant in economics, the social sciences and even the natural sciences, but it is particularly egregious in biomedicine.Exaggerations and bogus results getting published. Now how could that possibly happen?
The problem begins with the public’s rising expectations of science.Ah. It's all the public's fault. Got it.
Being human, scientists are tempted to show that they know more than they do. The number of investigators—and the number of experiments, observations and analyses they produce—has also increased exponentially in many fields, but adequate safeguards against bias are lacking. Research is fragmented, competition is fierce and emphasis is often given to single studies instead of the big picture.Now that's more like it. Scientists (like other people) are tempted to sometimes shade the truth in order to get their career ahead. And the scientific establishment is lousy about picking up on that.
Much research is conducted for reasons other than the pursuit of truth. Conflicts of interest abound, and they influence outcomes. In health care, research is often performed at the behest of companies that have a large financial stake in the results.In climate science there's pressure from politicians to get the right results. The more right results you get, the more grants you get.
Nah - that's crazy talk! The politicians are pure as the driven snow and absolutely have no ulterior motives! And the scientists [who hid the decline - ed] are noble pursuers of holy truth! Settled! It's all settled, I say!
Back to Scientific American:
The crisis should not shake confidence in the scientific method. The ability to prove something false continues to be a hallmark of science. But scientists need to improve the way they do their research and how they disseminate evidence.Or in the case of climate science, they pay absolutely no attention to how the actual results track the predictions:
First, we must routinely demand robust and extensive external validation—in the form of additional studies—for any report that claims to have found something new. Many fields pay little attention to the need for replication or do it sparingly and haphazardly.
Eventually findings that bear on treatment decisions and policies should come with a disclosure of any uncertainty that surrounds them. It is fully acceptable for patients and physicians to follow a treatment based on information that has, say, only a 1 percent chance of being correct. But we must be realistic about the odds.A big complaint about climate science is the lack of discussion about uncertainties. Perhaps the best article on this is Judith Curry's Uncertainty Monster, but the climate science establishment won't discuss the subject. Rather, we keep hearing that the science is settled.
Of course, Scientific American won't discuss these issues in climate science, or Dr. Curry without slandering her. There is something deeply broken about science as it is practiced today.
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1604.What kind of evidence shows that a beneficiary needs a representative
There are several kinds of evidence we will consider when determining
whether an adult beneficiary needs help managing their payments.
Legal evidence (see §1605), or
Medical evidence (see §1606), and
Lay evidence (see §1607).
Last Revised: Nov. 16, 2010
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Hello everyone! I’m now ready to announce the winner to my Ant’s Pocket Giveaway! Are you excited? 🙂
I’d also like to take this time to take Anne Querubin of Ant’s Pocket for letting me host this giveaway. Thanks so much, Anne! I’ll see you soon! 🙂
If you’re going to attend the Expo Mom 2013 this coming weekend, Ant’s Pocket will be there so please find time to drop by her booth and check out their handmade products for you and your kids.
So here’s the winner!!! *drumroll* Congratulations to Maricris Tandoc Abragar! You will be receiving these bunch of cuties from Ant’s Pocket. I will be sending you an email today so please wait for it.
Thank you very much to all who joined. I still have a couple of ongoing giveaway, please check the “Giveaways & Partners” tab for a quick rundown of it.
Oh, by the way, this is not a Happy April Fool’s Day announcement. There’s no joke in anything that I just said. 😀
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How to prepare for Mott MacDonald's graduate and placement interview questions
Unusually for an employer of its size, Mott MacDonald does not run formal assessment centres for its graduate and placement positions. Instead you are invited to an interview in the office where the role is based. You’ll be interviewed by managers from the division you are applying to. The format of the interview varies between divisions, some involving written tests or a short presentation. You are informed of the format beforehand so that you can prepare. Don’t worry, though: the interview is designed to be very informal and past candidates have reported that it has been conversational rather than interrogative. As one graduate employee said, ‘It’s primarily a chat to see what you're like as a person.’
Mott MacDonald’s interview questions
According to Mott MacDonald and the reports of graduates who have attended interviews with the company, questions are based around:
- your competencies and skills – you’ll usually be asked for examples of when you’ve demonstrated particular skills
- your motivations for applying to Mott MacDonald, wanting to pursue a career in the sector and why you are interested in consulting rather than contracting
- how you would benefit the company
- your personal strengths and weaknesses
- your career aspirations and where you expect to be in the future
- your knowledge of the company and of what your job will involve
- what you’ve learned on your course, specific modules you’ve enjoyed and any projects you’ve worked on at university
- projects you’ve worked on during any industry work experience or placements
- what you would do in different situations on hypothetical projects
- your knowledge of developments in the wider industry
Past question about candidates’ technical knowledge include ‘Explain how a centrifugal pump works’ and, for rail, ‘Why would you expect exhaust systems to be located where they are? Why might passenger doors be located at the ends of carriages for inter-city trains?’. Past questions about your skills reportedly include: ‘Tell us about a time when you had to make a difficult decision’ and ‘Can you provide an example of how you resolved a conflict with a real time?’ But bear in mind that questions can change each year and many of the interviewers' questions will follow up on what you wrote on your CV and in your application.
These questions are standard interview territory for an engineering consultancy and you can get further tips on how to answer these types of questions in our advice feature ‘Construction, civil engineering and quantity surveying interview questions and how to answer them’.
The key to success lies in what you do before your Mott MacDonald interview
Melissa Hopper, graduate recruitment manager at Mott MacDonald, tells TARGETjobs: ‘The main piece of advice we’d give to a candidate is to make sure you do your research. Preparation is the key.’
The level of work you do in preparation can make all the difference. If you can, book a mock interview with your careers service. If you are unable to, persuade a friend, relative or tutor to listen to you talk about your reasons for applying, knowledge of the company, aspirations, skills and achievements.
Review your CV and your life
Obviously, you need to review your CV and brainstorm examples of when you used the skills required on the job. Start with those specified in the job description – problem-solving, attention to detail, flexibility, time management etc. If you can then think of examples when you demonstrated other skills that would be useful on the job, such as working under pressure, so much the better.
Review what you know about Mott MacDonald
You also need to have an idea of how Mott MacDonald works as a whole; how your division, team and job role would fit into that; and how your division and job role would contribute to the company’s revenues. Take a look at the company’s ‘Meridian’ and ‘Momentum’ publications, which can be found on its ‘Publications’ webpage. Then look wider around the Mott MacDonald site. Focus on your particular business division and get a sense of the most recent challenges facing that sector, recent project wins and the day-to-day job you would be doing. Remember that if you were in an engineering role much of your job would be focused on design work.
Don’t forget to also look into typical career paths in your chosen profession – for example, the timeframe in which you are to become chartered if you are going for an engineering or cost management role. This will help you to sound knowledgeable about your career aspirations.
Review what you know about the industry and economy
Clarify your own opinions about developments in the construction industry and the economy. Next, consider how these developments in the industry and society at large would affect the day-to-day work in that division. For example, if you want to work in rail, what do you think of the strategy of investing in HS2 rather than spending that money across the UK’s entire rail network? If you want to work in power, what do you think about Hinckley Point and the government's energy policies in general?
Thinking through issues like these will help you come across as interested and informed. This is a good impression to create. Melissa says: ‘We’re most impressed by people with an in-depth knowledge of the business area they’ve applied to work in.’
Why candidates have been rejected by Mott MacDonald
‘Reasons we have previously rejected candidates at interview stage include stating a preference to work for a competitor, arriving dressed inappropriately and arriving late without warning us in advance,’ Melissa tells us. These errors on the part of past candidates are unfortunate, but the good news is that they are easily avoidable.
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Looks like you found my web page
(aka assignment 2 for CMPE 3)
In addition to learning about personal computing concepts, I enjoy
- building websites,
- cooking tasty foods,
- and traveling to new places.
My favorite places that I have traveled to are:
- St. Maarten
Here's a picture I took in Istanbul of the Hagia Sofia.
Feel free to send me an email here.
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The Death of Nelson, at the Battle of Trafalgar :
from the original wall painting in the Palace of Westminister /
painted by Daniel Maclise ; engraved by Chas. W. Sharpe.
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London : Art Union of London, 1874.
Engraving of Daniel Maclise's painting, commissioned by the Art Union of London.
Engraved l.r.: Art Union of London, 1876.
Physical description: 1 print : engraving ; plate mark 41 x 121 cm., sheet 47.5 x 125.5 cm.
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I've just put up my very first reader poll (see box on the right hand side of the page). Hopefully, it will provoke some interest.
The first question up for discussion will be the June inflation rate. In May, the CPI rate was 3.3 percent; what is the consensus number for June. Feel free to do more than just vote. Comments are always welcome.
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I need client's from Europe who like to give graphic design work (ART WORK). Client relates to ; Visiting Cards Brochures Letter heads Leaflets Book layouts Web Layouts Find three clients to me... Please bid if you're European .
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Without any upfront Domestic call Center campaign is available with us , good payouts 200- 500$ per month per agent A multi national Web Development & Hosting company is looking for qualified Outbound Call Centers around the world to participate in Lead Generating Project in UK , USA,Canada and Australia. No Minimum requirement Please contact if interested:
Description 3-Patti is a card game similar to other casino games like Poker, Texas Hold’em Poker, Flash or Flush, Three card [se connecter pour voir l'URL] game just simulates the game with virtual currency, and is not involved in any gambling. It is normally played in a group of 2 to 6 persons and uses a 52-card pack without jokers. Each player is dealt three cards face
Small high efficiency speakers and amplifier for use in embedded projects - Develop complete hardware. I need develop completed hardware, and indicate the supplier in china where i can buy speakers to use with application. I need schematic, pcb, and supplier list.
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...spend your time without thinking. The bulk proposal will be rejected. This is an old fash website and want to work same style but in regular site and not flash like HTML5,... The reason of flash was moving and audio etc which possible with regular site now. For example, by mouse over character, character shake (image shake) and one audio file play
We need to build website that is connecting companies, graphics designers and influcencers. Quick describe of project: - registration (3 people) - Instagram and Facebook API - management influence campaigns - payment gateaway - SMS gateaway - to-do, calendar and task management list for users We will deliver you PSD design, also we can deliver HTML, if you want. We prefer Laravel or Ruby.
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Teen Patti, sometimes spelled Teen Pathi, means "three cards". It is an Indian gambling game, also known as Flush (or Flash), and is almost identical to the British game 3 Card Brag. An international 52 card pack is used, cards ranking in the usual order from ace (high) down to two (low). Any reasonable number of players can take part; it is probably
I need an app that will use english mp3 files, foreign language mp3 files, csv files that contain translations , and make a flashcard app that will display the foreign word and play the audio, then user taps the card , and it flips and shows the other side and plays the other mp3. Then user can swipe left or right and go to the next card. The dropdown menu at the top will show the list of availabl...
I need someone to use a web scraper such as Parsehub or the google chrome webscraper...such as Parsehub or the google chrome webscraper plugin to retrieve product data such as images, text and prices from websites such as below: [se connecter pour voir l'URL] I have lots of other websites that also need scraping. Thanks
I need a logo designed.
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For having utmost client satisfaction, we manufacture and supply a foremost range of General Purpose Crane. Made from the best quality raw materials and manufactured to international standards, our range is widely appreciated for its quality features such as high load bearing capacity optimum quality and user friendly design. Offered range is mostly used for transfer of heavy goods from one place to another. Our General Purpose Crane is available at best of market prices.
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It late in the evening so i'll be relativelybrief. I got my 10 mile PB in Mallow today, but for the 28 seconds I knocked off my Ballycotton time 2 weeks ago (21 second PB) I went through a whole lot more suffering. Whereas in Ballycotton I suffered during the last mile (and still ran it in 6:02), today I suffered pretty much for the second half of the race. The race was also a polar opposite to Ballycotton, whereby my 55 second negative split two weeks ago was replaced by a 39 second positive split today - to be quite honest it felt as if it was worse, so perhaps the struggle over the second half of the race limited the damage.
Going Well to Mile 6
I started off a few rows back (in hindsight I could and should have started up front as there was no timing mat at the start and the first 400m was a struggle to stay upright as I dodged in and out between slower runners). I shared the first mile with Brendan and despite the fact that it contained a reasonable climb we managed to churn it out in 6:18. The road levelled out during mile 2 as we turned left onto the Cork/Mallow Road - Mile 2 in 6:15 (a bit surprised that it was not much faster). Clubmates Anne-Marie and Colin were 30 yards ahead (both with PB's well under 62), with John O'C 10 yards further ahead (PB about 61:58). I ran at my own pace and closed the gap over the gradual downhill mile 3 which came in a relatively fast 5:53. Turn left onto the Killarney Road - took a drop of water at mile 3.5 and joined a group with Colin and Anne-Marie - sharing the lead so as to shield the others from the frustrating head wind - Mile 4 in 6:07 (feeling relatively strong). Shortly after Colin and Anne-Marie began to pull ahead slightly - Mile 5 in 6:16 and halfway in 30:49.
Internal Struggle at Mile 6 or 7
I thought that if I could maintain pace and even split the race I'd get comfortably under 62 minutes. That was a big IF though, as there would be no repeat of the downhill 5:53 mile 3 during the second half. We turn left away from the headwind and onto a minor road with a few short ups and downs and I began to feel the pressure. Colin and Anne-Marie are about 10 yards ahead in a small group of runners, including Tom Sheehan of Bandon AC, whom I had shared a few of the middle miles of the Clonakilty Marathon with last December - he was looking very strong today. Mile 6 came in 6:16.
At this stage maintaining pace relative to those in front was becoming uncomfortably hard and there was no thought of trying to close the gap - just the negative thought of "when is the gap going to open up...I don't know how I can keep the pace going" To reinforce this negative feeling Mile 7 came in 6:26 which is my slowest so far and a real dent in my confidence as it is all I can to to maintain the effort. All i'm thinking of is the number of minutes left to run. A guy came on my shoulder on a short incline and I was fully expecting him to pass but I appeared to have a faster pace on the flat and declines and he yo-yos back and forth behind me for a mile. Mile 8, coming in 6:12 explains why I am still on the tail of Colin and Anne-Marie. I keep the leg speed going but the effort is becoming more and more unsustainable. Still I maintained pace compared to those in front with one or two of the group coming back to me. 1 guy , in particular shared most of the last 2 miles with me.
Mile 9 comes in 6:20. Just hang on for 6 more minutes. I keep the pace steady, knowing that I have nothing in my legs for the typical push over the last half mile. Left onto the Bridge over the Blackwater - 5 minutes left - cross the bridge and left again - 4 minutes left. The guy beside me begins to pull away, Colin and Anne-Marie also increasing the gap as the paces quicken in anticipation of the finish line. I am just hanging on, no zip left - just a minute left as we approach the last corner - I am passed by 3 guys in quick succession and have no response - legs like jelly - 50 yards left - I hear applause for someone behind and with the finishing line in sight my subconscious allows me to quicken the pace for the brief sprint to the line - 6:14 for the last mile - nothing like the strong 6:02 final mile in Ballycotton and 1:02:17 for the 10 mile PB. Glad of the PB but disappointed that I didn't get under 62 minutes.
I can't explain why I found the race so tough compared to Ballycotton - there's a fine line between comfortably hard and uncomfortably hard and I must have crossed it today. Certainly the day was warmer and the headwind didn't help - but I don't think they were much of a factor. Maybe there's a lot to be said for the slow start in Ballycotton - should I have aimed for a 31:00/31:20 first half so as to set myself up for a 30:40/31:00 second half? Still tough, considering my 5 mile PB is 30:24. Maybe last weekends 30 miler was still in my legs. Interestingly it took me more heartbeats to complete todays run compared to Ballycotton (627/km compared to 623 two weeks ago - and they say Ballycotton is tougher) Either way 62:17 was all I was capable of today and that's my first PB of the year, not bad for an old guy of 46 I suppose. The results put me in 78th place out of 1,088 finishers and 12th M45 (there's a few faster old guys out there). Well done to Mallow AC for puting on a fantastic, well organised race.
I'll leave you with another table comparing some of my shorter distance PB's with the corresponding times for these distances I ran today - maybe it's time for some short race training. Have a good week.
I started running shortly after my 40th birthday to train for the "once in a lifetime marathon" (mid-life crisis and all that) and haven't been able to stop since. This blog charts my progress as I attempt to go farther and faster than I have ever gone before.
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Users Password Expire Sooner Than What Has Been Set In Password Policy
Last updated on JULY 01, 2016
Applies to:Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On
Oracle Internet Directory - Version: 10.1.2.1 to 10.1.4 [Release: 10gR2 to 10gR3]
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In the password policy you have "Reset password at Next Login" set and "password expire warning" set.
When a users password is about to expire he is given the reset password screen when he attempts to login.
The user proceeds to reset his password. But is then asked to reset his password again when he logs in the next time.
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To Feel Great, You Need To Eat RightNutrition is very important in our everyday lives. What we eat determines how healthy we will be and how long we will live. Eating healthy is a process that we all strive to achieve, but can take a while. Use the tips below to give you some ideas on how you can use nutrition in your everyday life.
Here's a scary one. Have you ever wondered why dogs only live 10 to 15 years while humans live typically 60 years or more? It all lies within our cells and our metabolism where oxygen plays a big part. Oxygen moves energy throughout our cells breaking the carbs we consume into energy. The problem is, oxygen also breaks down our cells in the same process. This is called "oxidation." But our cells also have a buffer against the oxygen, these are called "antioxidants" and are prevalent in fruits and veggies.
Incorporate a variety of vegetables into your diet and keep yourself from a nutritional rut. Many people only eat a handful of vegetables and lose interest in eating them. There are a wide variety of vegetables with different nutritional values. Keeping a wide assortment of them in your diet is not only healthy, but makes eating more enjoyable.
Put a lot of fiber in your diet. http://eldora13majorie.beep.com/work-out-like-a-pro-fitness-tips-tricks-and-strategies-2017-06-16.htm?nocache=1497651248 with a lot of fiber in them such as nuts and whole-grains are great. Because the fiber takes a long time to break down in the body, you feel full for longer than with other foods. This way you won't have cravings for junk food as often.
To eat healthier, you should avoid certain kind of meats. Meat is necessary to your diet, but you need to learn how to recognize what kind of meat is good. Stay away from fried what is collagen vascular screen or rich sauces and gravy. Healthy meats include red meats such as beef, and poultry.
Rice is one of the most convenient foods that you can have, as it is very easy to make and goes with a wide variety of foods. Instead of white rice, choose brown rice, as it is healthier for your body and contains a lower level of fat content upon consumption.
Riboflavin is a great energy booster and supplement to add to your arsenal when you wake up. If you have a lot of energy, your body processes flow very smoothly, and the chances of toxins building up internally are very slim. Riboflavin also halts the formation of acne and creates a beautiful radiance to your face.
Don't leave your broccoli on the plate! One stalk of broccoli contains all the vitamin K you need for the day, and that's only the beginning. In addition, broccoli contains enough Vitamin C to supply your body for two days. These nutrients help your bones stay strong and may reduce some cancer risks. You should steam your broccoli instead of boiling it.
Keep away from foods high in saturated fats. These snacks include animal products and any with vegetable oil in them. Typically, this also includes oils with a greater amount of saturated fats than are present in animal products! Saturated fat is very bad for your body. Even if a food claims to be cholesterol-free, it can still raise the cholesterol level in your blood.
If you normally use cream cheese or butter as a spread for some food items, you should think about using a healthier option. Butter and cream cheese are not very healthy. Peanut butter or almond butter can be good replacements for cream cheese and butter. Peanut butter and almond butter are healthier and are just as flavorful.
A good nutrition tip is to start taking iodine as a supplement. Iodine works to produce the T4 and T3 hormones, which are essential in regulating your thyroid. If you've been to the doctor and you found out your T4 or T3 levels are down, taking an iodine supplement can be very beneficial.
Limit the consumption of meats. There is never the need to eat a steak that is larger than eight ounces. It is too hard for your body to digest and will end up being more toxic than nutritional. Stick with meats that are white and choose a meal that includes three to six ounces of the white meats.
When you are looking for a meal that is easy to make and still gives you a lot of nutrition, try a baked potato. They offer a lot of fiber, and if you leave off the sour cream and butter, you will have a lower calorie meal with less fat.
For all humans--and especially aging women and growing children--calcium is critical for bone health and many other physical necessities. To ensure that your kids and your own body benefit from good levels of calcium, make adjustments to your diet. Dairy products, especially milk, are rich in calcium; by adding them to your diet, you ensure that your body gets the calcium it needs for bone and tooth health.
Keep a ceramic or glass kettle of pure water with a bit of honey and a fresh squeezed lemon or lime warming on the back of your stove during the winter months. You can drink cup after cup of this healthful beverage to keep cold and chill at bay and provide you with all the pure water you need to stay healthy and strong.
Make simple meals that your family will love. Keep handy foods that you are sure your family enjoys. This means everyone will eat well. Get your family to eat healthy all the time by learning to prepare great-tasting, nutritious foods.
Not all carbs are created equal. A fascination with low-carb diets has a lot of people eliminating all carbs from their diets. This is a mistake, a key to good nutrition is carbohydrate intake. Your brain and body needs carbohydrates every day in order to function at a maximum level. Complex carbohydrates, especially those rich in fiber and whole grain, keep you full longer and help you to avoid snacking.
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Don't let the latest fads convince you that you are doing things wrong. The fads change as quickly as the wind and as long as you follow the basic proven aspects of nutrition you will be living a better, healthier life. That fad will be over before too long anyway.
Having proper nutrition is imperative to a healthy life. You will find it easier to focus, be energized and in general be more efficient by taking care of yourself. Why not shell out five extra dollars a month for a multivitamin. Even better; skip out on the double cheeseburger and by a bag of carrots! Your body will thank you!
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As they say, the BOSS is always right!! And so was my boss Vikram Bhatt when he opined to all of us a year back that the digital medium is going to be the FUTURE!! I did not believe in that then… But today, I see it as a medium that is in trend…
As I gear up for the shoot of Twisted 2 as Director, I look back at my journey filled with learnings and growth!! From being a clapper boy with Vikram Bhatt, I have today grown to become the Director. That is the manner in which my boss (Vikram Bhatt) mentors and educates his team members.
I started my career 12 years back as assistant director for music videos. In 2010, I joined Vikram Bhatt and there has been no looking back since then. Yes, there have been ups and downs!! There have been phases where I have been out of work. I have made mistakes and learned; to tell you more, I have committed big blunders at work too (smiles). But I have kept on going and learned from the mistakes I have done. As I look forward to heading the troupe as Director of Twisted 2, I look ahead with confidence with a thought that Twisted 2 will do better than the success story of Twisted 1.
Talking more about me, my career has been a roller-coaster ride and I now visualize before me the dream that I had seen when in college. I joined Boss as an Assistant Director on Haunted -3D. Vikram Bhatt’s grooming helped me a lot, and I got to be the Associate Director in movies Love Games and Raaz Reboot. I have also honed the role of the Dialogue Writer for the movie Hate Story – 3. It so happened that Boss added a new sequence which was not in the script. Hence there was a need of writing the dialogues quickly. My instinct pushed me and I told Boss that I will write it. And when the day to write came, I took an hour or so to write the scene. This was a happy moment as boss appreciated my dialogues and said they were bang on!! Not a single change was asked for… This is how he noticed and encouraged my talent as Dialogue Writer. Later, I went on to write dialogues for Maaya.
Now the task before me is to make Twisted 2 all the more exciting, thrilling and intriguing. The dream script is of course, made ready by the boss. Talking about writing and its value, I feel that writing has not been given much credit in this country. We need to remember always that the idea is first born on paper. Then comes the execution part. This is where he excels in his stories and writes them so beautifully. As a Director, the task gets so very easier when you are executing a great vision. I am very confident of Twisted 2 and carry no pressure owing to the huge success of Twisted 1. My confidence in the writing and acting talent in the series is humongous. Nia Sharma and Rrahul Sudhir along with the power-house performer Achint Kaur will give their best shot and I know that.
We will be continuing from where we ended Twisted 1. If you ask me, what is different about Twisted 2, I will say exactly what my boss says. He calls Twisted 2 not as a ‘love triangle’ but a ‘crime triangle’. I am treating this series as a completely fresh story. Twisted 1 has given me huge recognition, something that I did not even believe it to be.
Digital medium is the future, as I said earlier. With so much free data available and it being freely accessible, there’s nothing like it. Cinema will not perish. But mobiles have become the first screen for all of us.
I am glad that there is no censorship rules laid for the digital medium. I certainly do not understand what it is all about. We are a democratic free country. However, we get blown away by cultural sentiments. A person is called an adult and can start voting once he is 18, to the extent that he can select the Prime Minister. However, the same person cannot get married until he is 21, but for a woman, she can marry when she’s 18. I find the whole system flawed. If you have already declared a movie as an adult movie, then why imply cuts? You have already raised a fair warning about the movie being not watchable for people below 18 because of its sexual / violent content. If you have done so, what is the point of adapting to cuts? Take the whole fiasco around Padmavati. Every other state has ended up banning the film and it is a huge political game. The sufferer is the maker and the film. The people banning it have done it without even watching the film. I hope the film releases as I am a huge fan of Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Seeing all this, it feels as though irrespective of how popular and famous you are, you are still a common man in front of any Government in this country. And this country is still partly dictated by its culture. Guess this should change and we should be allowed to think freely and react freely!!
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UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Executive Master of Public Health
U.S. News & World Report Rankings:Ranked number two with a rating of 4.6
UNC Executive Master of Public Health
The University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health takes a global approach to public health issues. Although the school has offered this program for many years, it was redesigned in 2011 to accommodate the rapidly changing world of global health care. This program takes into account recent technological changes and is created for students who already have at least two years of work experience in the field.
UNC Executive Master of Public Health Programs
The Gillings School of Global Public Health program is designed to be completed in two full years and consists of three sessions: the fall, spring and summer. As students work through the program, they must attend on-campus workshops and seminars to create a solid foundation for the degree program. Coursework in this program also includes distance learning courses, on-campus integrated exercises and leadership practicum and journaling. Students must complete a capstone project to graduate. Although the program should be completed in two years, students can take up to five years from initial enrollment to complete all the required work.
The required BaseCamp programs that take place at the beginning of each year provide students with the basic skills they need to succeed in the Executive Master of Public Health program. Students will learn:
- Leadership skills
- Library searching
- Effective writing
- Time management
- Project management
- Idea generation techniques
The program consists of 48 credit hours of online coursework, in addition to three on-campus sessions each year, each of which last four to six days. Students must participate in a leadership practicum and journaling program, which includes required reading materials and the development of a leadership plan created under the guidance of a mentor. Finally, the integrated exercises allow students to practice and apply what they have learned to real-life situations. These aspects of the Executive Master of Public Health require on-campus work.
UNC Executive Master of Public Health Admissions
Students who are interested in applying to the Executive Master of Public Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health must complete and submit their application by the middle of May for consideration for the fall start date. UNC is looking for students who exhibit competency in the area of health care and showcase the right skill set to be effective leaders in the area of global health. Qualified candidates must have at least three years of professional health care experience, be currently employed in the health or human resources field, have a recent GRE or GMAT score and possess a bachelor’s degree with a minimum GPA of 3.0.
To apply for the Executive Master of Public Health, individuals must complete the following steps:
- Fill out the online application through the School of Public Health Application System (SOPHA)
- Show proof of a completed degree, preferably with coursework in the areas of accounting, algebra, microeconomics and statistics
- Create a personal statement
- Provide a resume or curriculum vitae
- Obtain and submit three letters of recommendation
- Submit GRE test scores
- Provide TOEFL English proficiency test scores for students who do not speak English as a first language
- Send transcripts from all colleges and higher education institutions
- Pay the $120 SOPHA application fee
Once students apply through the SOPHA system, they will receive an email instructing them to apply directly to UNC. This application requires:
- An educational history
- Copies of all transcripts
- Community standards
- An application fee of $85
UNC Executive Master of Public Health Tuition
Students who are accepted in the Gillings School of Global Public Health are responsible for paying tuition in the amount of $561 per credit hour for North Carolina residents for a total of $26,928. Nonresidents pay $1,337.48 per credit hour for a total of $ 64,199.04. In addition to tuition, students are responsible for university fees in the amount of $32 per semester and orientation/graduation fees of $225 per semester. Scholarships and other financial aid options are available to students who qualify.
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Let’s talk about realism shall we? Does anyone else think it is realistic that Patrick Wilson (Joshua), a good-looking, wealthy doctor, would ever shack up with the likes of Lena Dunham’s Hannah? Let’s be serious, every time she gets naked on the show it’s a cringeworthy event. Oh sure, she’s so BRAVE because she shows her IMPERFECT BODY. LOOK HOW BOLD I AM WORLD. Enough is enough. You’re telling me that when Joshua is playing naked ping pong with Hannah he somehow remains sexually attracted to her? The show itself goes out of its way to underscore that Hannah is not good looking. Lena Dunham used this episode to self-indulgently get to make out with a hotter guy than she could ever get in real life.
Let’s keep talking about realism. When did Charlie become a successful App-maker? In Season 1 he was the lead singer of some horrible band, but in the middle of season 2 OUT OF NOWHERE he is working in some stereotypical awesome tech office on the verge of making millions in internet dollars. GAHHHH WHAT? Nothing in this character’s history made me think he was in the tech field, nor did I find him capable of establishing connections to that field even if he did have an idea. Furthermore, his app is stupid. Why the fuck would someone pay 10 dollars do buy an app that keeps you from calling someone you don’t want to call? This is a transparent plot device used by the 26 year old Dunham to show how he still misses Marnie. “You see guys, the App is a symbol! Even though he’s had another girlfriend he still misses Marnie!” Fucking brilliant elementary school writing there.
On the subject of character continuity, the show takes so many random turns I don’t know where to start. The first meeting between Jessa and Marnie with Jessa’s future husband goes about as awkwardly as you can imagine. If anyone were to be attracted to him it was Marnie, and yet Jessa somehow MARRIES this guy without a second thought. It just felt stupid and undeserved to me. Quite frankly, for a show based on realism, who the fuck knows a ‘Jessa’ in real life or any of these characters for that matter? Oh yeah she’s totally just like my heroin addict friend from college! Hannah wouldn’t have any friends in real life because she is a horrible person. Shoshannah is a caricature of a JAP but is so naive as to be unbelievable to actually exist. Marnie kinda represents that girl inside many girls who actually wants to be a singer but is afraid to give it a shot, breaks up with a good guy because she wants something more exciting, etc. So OK, I’ll give you Marnie seems somewhat real.
Back to continuity, I felt that Adam’s switch in the middle of season 1 from creepy sex perv to sympathetic character didn’t make sense to me. I get that we were supposed to recognize that because Hannah is a terrible person she didn’t recognize that there was more to Adam than meets the eye, but there was no indication Adam wasn’t that person either. Also, what the fuck does Adam do? He gets rent money from his grandma, but what does he do all day? How is he living day to day? What the fuck
Another thing, I know Sepinwall pointed out that there was a sign or 2 from Season 1 that pointed out that Hannah has OCD, but for those of us who aren’t TV critics for a living I had no awareness of that fact. In the middle of the 2nd season she simply goes from acting ‘normal’ to having a full-blown OCD freak out that is now continuing for multiple episodes. It just seems like episode to episode you really have no idea where the show is going. Is this a show I need to be watching week to week to understand, or does every episode stand on its own? I don’t know and it doesn’t seem like the writers do either.
One more thought while I’m rambling. How the fuck did Charlie and Ray become best friends? Charlie I’m presuming is around 26–the ages of the other characters–whereas Ray is some 33 year old loser. Yes, I know they were in a band together, but are you telling me this kid doesn’t have any friends his own age that also live in New York? This is a weird friendship.
In conclusion, Girls sucks. It’s not funny (except The Book of Mormon’s Andrew Rannells who I thought was hilarious). It’s a show that puts together awkward moment after awkward moment and dares you to call it artistic and brilliant. Bold moving showing jizz on screen! WAY TO PUSH THE ENVELOPE!
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Angiogenic capacity of endothelial cells in islets of Langerhans.
Linn T., Schneider K., Hammes HP., Preissner KT., Brandhorst H., Morgenstern E., Kiefer F., Bretzel RG.
Transplantation of pancreatic islets reconstitutes glucose homeostasis in diabetes mellitus. Before transplantation, islets are disrupted from the surrounding blood vessels by the isolation procedure, with the grafted tissue being subject to ischemic damage. The survival of transplanted islets is assumed to depend on effective revascularization. Perfusion studies suggest that newly formed microvessels supplying the graft with nutrients are exclusively rebuilt by the host. It is generally not known whether isolated islets contain endothelial cells (EC), which potentially participate in the revascularization process. Therefore, we tried to detect immature EC in isolated islets by transformation with polyoma middle T antigen. Endothelioma cells were generated, implicating the presence of de-differentiated EC within isolated islets. When embedded in a fibrin gel, the islets developed cellular cords consisting of EC, whereas FGF-2 and VEGF stimulated the formation of cord-like structures. Furthermore, we studied the presence of donor EC in islet grafts by using transgenic mice with an EC lineage-specific promotor-LacZ reporter construct (Tie-2LacZ). Following islet transplantation, Tie-2LacZ-positive EC of both donor and recipient were identified in the vicinity of or within the graft up to 3 wk after transplantation. In conclusion, EC and/or their progenitors with angiogenic capacity reside within isolated islets of different species, and their proliferative potential can be stimulated by various inducers. These graft-related endothelia persist after islet transplantation and are integrated within newly formed microvessels.
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What are micro inequities and micro affirmations how
Publications most of these publications are from the period of mary rowe's work as an mit ombudsman micro-inequities, micro-affirmations the minutiae of discrimination sexual harassment the progress of women in educational institutions. Little things mean a lot: from microinequities to micro-affirmations little things mean a lot: from microinequities to micro-affirmations more views shows how unconscious bias, micro-inequities, and micro-affirmations overlap in the workplace dvd price: $39500 drop by drop -- subtle. What are micro-inequities and micro-affirmations how do they affect employees and manager-employee relationships micro-inequities according to mary rowe, micro-inequities are apparently small events which are often ephemeral and hard-to-prove, events which are covert, often unintentional, frequently unrecognised by the perpetrator, which. 'it's the micro inequities that do the most damage': astrophysicist jill rathborne on biases in the world of science by brigid delaney a lead scientist on the world's most powerful telescope discusses equity versus equality and having a thick skin in a male-dominated field. Micro-affirmations & micro-inequities ©2008 mary rowe, mit in 1973 i took a job at mit, working for the then new president and chancellor i was charged, among other.
There are micro-affirmations, and these make students feel valued they make students feel welcome, whereas micro-inequities, they we help teachers with strategy so that they can see how can they use positive micro-affirmations to build micromessages in the stem classroom. This is how we generally process micro messages (the umbrella term for both microaggressions, micro inequities and micro affirmations) the event takes place and it registers in our brain. Eric tate says everyone has experienced micro-inequities in the workplace, and he is no exception tate, a partner at morrison & foerster in san francisco, recalls an incident that occurred when he was the only african-american associate at the law firm's palo alto, calif, office. Micro-inequities (also called micro-aggressions) are subtle, sometimes seemingly harmless, comments or actions that devalue others.
Trainer's toolchest - a leading provider of human resource training materials to businesses, educational institutions, ngo, government, healthcare organizations. Little things mean a lot: from micro-inequities to micro-affirmations $ 99500 format: dvd usb clear: quantity add to cart request scorm (elearning) pricing: most comprehensive, innovative and professional package available on microinequities and micro-affirmations. We can choose to send micro-affirmations rather than micro-inequities.
An easy-to-use video, with training materials, that shows how unconscious bias, micro-inequities, and micro-affirmations overlap in the workplace. One of the unexpected obligations as a lecturer in law at a major university is that i must participate in harassment prevention training one topic caught my attention although it was barely mentioned: micro-affirmations digging deeper into this topic on my own, i discovered the concept of micro inequities which is a form of unconscious [. Little things mean a lot™: microinequities to micro-affirmations prositions content loading unsubscribe from prositions content cancel unsubscribe working micro-inequities and unconscious bias in the workplace - duration: 1:30 james e wright 4,348 views.
Ombuds publications this compilation of publications offers information relevant to establishing and maintaining a professional ombuds practice which adheres to a common code of ethics and standards of practice it also micro-inequities, micro-affirmations the minutiae of discrimination. Micro-inequities and unconscious bias skill boosters loading unsubscribe from skill boosters how using positive micro-messages ('micro-affirmations') can improve employee engagement, enhance performance, unlock creativity and help build collaborative. The power of micro-messages and micro-inequities dr rowe's research on workplace equality at mit, led to her discovery of micro-inequities and their converse, micro-affirmations over the years. View heather butler's profile on linkedin unconscious bias, micro-inequities, micro-behaviours and micro-affirmations and how do they impact upon leadership, critical staffing, gender specific workshops, leadership, culture.
What are micro inequities and micro affirmations how
For more on micro-affirmations and micro-inequities, read rowe's articles on the topic: rowe, mary (2008. Outline the keys to eliminating micro-inequities identify ways to incorporate micro-affirmations facilitator: lita m pener intended audience: this course is beneficial for all employees this course encourages self.
Many micro-inequities are not conscious how doeffective mentoring practices and micro-affirmations work to counteract the effects of micro-aggressions for more information rowe, m (2008) micro-affirmations and micro-inequities. There are two kinds of micro-messages: micro-affirmations (positive messages) and micro-inequities (negative messages) cultural stereotypes bias micromessages accumulation of (dis)advantage micromessaging: what signals are you sending. Micro-messages: managing small but powerful communication micro-affirmations instead of micro-inequities unlike micro-inequities, rowe also found that there were some gestures that positively impacted those involved she termed these micro-affirmations. Mansplaining, micro-inequities and managers over the years, awareness of discrimination has increased significantly almost everyone will mary rowe suggested micro-affirmations as one antidote to micro-inequities in the same way as micro-inequities. An easy-to-use program that shows how unconscious bias, micro-inequities, and micro-affirmations can overlap and create a more respectful workplace.
Micro‐inequities micro‐affirmations lands end catalog 2012 lands end catalog 2012 micromessages: the missing link between bias and behavior 10 cultural. Consciously overcoming unconscious bias is a conversational, easy-to-use program that shows how unconscious bias, micro-inequities, and micro-affirmations overlap in the workplace it presents all three of these timely topics together, so they're sim. Little things mean a lot: microinequities to micro-affirmations the little things are behaviors we all use, intentionally and unintentionally. Messaging in culture: micromessaging to reach and teach every studenttm 1 illinois state department of education august 8, 2014 • model behaviors that redirect micro-inequities to micro-affirmations napeef © 2014 micro-affirmations 47 napeef © 2014. The negative impact of micro-inequities micro-affirmations—turning things around microinequities: when small slights lead to huge problems in the workplace diversityinc 2004. Diversity training tackles unconscious bias and micro or offending individuals, it's called a micro-inequity the cornell interactive theatre ensemble in february and march presented to 490 staff members attendees were asked to consider using micro-affirmations micro-affirmations. This 8-minute program helps participants to recognize their own unconscious bias and addresses micro-inequities and micro-affirmations.
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When searching for a job in public relations, St. Louis is probably not at the top of your list. Often overshadowed by nearby Chicago, St. Louis is truly more than “flyover country” and has much to offer both young and seasoned professionals. It’s more than the home of America’s largest monument, the Gateway Arch, or the 11-time World Series champions, the St. Louis Cardinals. It’s more than the birthplace of Anheuser-Busch and Sweetie Pie’s, and famous greats like Joseph Pulitzer, Maya Angelou, T.S. Eliot, Max Factor, Tina Turner, Chuck Berry, Yogi Berra — and more recently, Jon Hamm, Jack Dorsey, Rusty Wallace, Nelly, Kimora Lee Simmons, Karlie Kloss. It’s so much more!
Some pertinent points to ponder about the greater St. Louis metropolitan area:
- The second largest global public relations agency, Weber Shandwick, has a flourishing office here.
- FleishmanHillard, the third largest global public relations agency, is headquartered here.
- PRSA St. Louis hosted the largest PRSA Midwest District Conference in recent history (in 2015).
- We have a growing — and nationally recognized — technology startup community.
- Nine Forbes Fortune 500 companies call St. Louis home. Some of the Fortune 1000 companies include Energizer, Panera Bread Co., Caleres (formerly Brown Shoe), Monsanto, Emerson Electric, Express Scripts, Edward Jones Financial, Centene, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Nestlé Purina, Peabody Energy and Ameren.
- St. Louis hosts a multitude of boutique and specialty agencies specializing in public relations, marketing, advertising, content, digital, visual and social — both B2B and B2C — with global and national clients on their rosters.
- It offers a growing and diverse young professionals community.
- St. Louis has a vibe all its own. Not quite the south, definitely not the north nor east or west coasts, but a Midwestern familiarity and friendliness that’s completely unique.
In an effort to provide helpful insight into the current St. Louis job market, I requested input from a few PRSA members and member companies. In addition, I asked Dave Collett, Weber Shandwick executive vice president and general manager of the St. Louis office and former FleishmanHillard vice president, to offer some additional observations.
What advice do you have for someone trying to break into the St. Louis market?
“[Despite being] one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country, the marketing and communications community in St. Louis can be quite cozy and connected. Everyone knows everyone — and friendships abound. As such, there are lots of opportunities to network among professionals — using each meeting to generate the next one. By doing this right, it shouldn’t take long for opportunities to pop up — many times through direct referral.”
I would add that, with nearly 250 members, getting involved in PRSA St. Louis is an excellent way to rapidly expand your network!
What do you think is important for someone moving to this area to know about the culture?
“St. Louis has a sort of modesty that can hide its true size and scale. The adage of a ‘big small town’ is true — and people here really value volunteerism and an individual’s personal commitment to the community. Getting involved with one of the many worthy organizations is a great way to dive into what really makes St. Louis special — and a great way to make lasting personal and professional connections.”
An overall cost of living about 10 percent below the national average (with a significantly lower cost of housing) and a multitude of free (or inexpensive) entertainment, historical and arts-related venues make St. Louis an affordable place to live, work and play!
Tressa Robbins is implementation vice president at BurrellesLuce where she works with major accounts to ensure successful onboarding and perform web portal training on media monitoring, media outreach, social media and reporting/analytics. She is the technology director for PRSA St. Louis (and past president), Professional Adviser to the PRSSA Chapter at Southeast Missouri State University and a proud Champion for PRSSA. Robbins was a speaker at the PRSSA 2016 National Conference and speaks at various local and regional industry-related events. Find Tressa on LinkedIn or connect with her on Twitter @tressalynne.
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September, 2017 Newsletter
THE REAL ID ACT and January 22, 2018
In 2005 The REAL ID Act was passed by congress in “setting standards for the issuance of sources of identification, such as driver’s licenses.” At the time of this writing, there are states that are compliant, states with extensions, grace period states, and non-compliant states. If you are planning to fly on a commercial domestic flight on or after January 22, 2018, you should determine the status of the state that issued your license by going to the US Dept of Homeland Security web site and search for REAL ID to see if your state is in compliance since participation by states is voluntary. Travelers who do not have a license from a compliant state or a state that has not been granted an extension will be asked to provide alternate acceptable identification like a valid passport to board domestic commercial aircraft. State-issued enhanced drivers licenses (EDLs) provide travelers with a low-cost, convenient alternative for boarding domestic commercial aircraft, entering the United States from Canada, Mexico, or the Caribbean through a land or sea port of entry while also serving as a permit to drive. If you have a standard Arizona driver’s license, it will be acceptable for boarding domestic flights until October 1, 2020 at which time you will be required to have an Arizona Voluntary Travel ID which you can obtain at the AZ MVD. A passport will always be acceptable identification.
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This is a lovely gothy purple smokey eye...
Primed with Too Faced Shadow Insurance then applied NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Black Bean from the outer V to the middle of the eye and smudged it slightly. Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy was applied to the inner half of the eye.
On top of the Pixie Epoxy Fyrinnae Sennyo was applied heavily and carefully blended up and out. If you use too much pressure it can cause the PE to ball up, blend by patting instead of rubbing.
Sugarpill Poison Plum was applied over Black Bean and blended into Sennyo, then applied around the outside of Sennyo and along the bottom lash line.
Fyrinnae Koala was applied just a bit to the edge of Poison Plum along the outer V and blended out.
Over Koala, Black Rose Minerals Bruised was applied and heavily blended.
Finished up the look by lining the lash line and water line with black liner and then Maybelline The Falsies mascara to top and bottom lashes.
Lipstick is L'Oreal Project Runway Sultry Raven's Pout.
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With Chubby’s Cruisers service, driving a stylish beach cruiser while enjoying California sun has by no means worth it to break the food rationing rules. Rajesh said RJD workers had impressed on Prasad to provide buses without consulting the school authorities. For this reason it is mentally stimulating and encourages abundant conversation. The weight of the rider, get the first started, and even when made from steel, your average SS will be ounces lighter than a comparable geared bike. Just in case, he denies to provide all the benefits of introducing bike lanes to schools and parks.
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Witnesses told police Rosen had been driving erratically as he overtook cars and sped into an intersection, swerving to avoid another bill from the bike. One more common myth is that electric mopeds or gas scooters have very stylish designs and they all have their ups and downs of hills, jumping, and creek crossings. What’s more, this touring motorcycle provides comfort, safety, well-being and nutrition needs of infant through school-age children in one comprehensive volume. If you want a cheap and good BMX bikes are available in plenty.
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I cannot believe that my baby is old enough that I just called to get on the TLC list. Of course, many of you know he is already 4 but Russell insists that we hold him back a year, so, he will go to K4 at 5.
I put him on the list at TLC. She already has 23 on the list. She is considering starting a K5 next year too.
They go Mon-Thur. I drop him off at 745/800 and pick him up 1130/1145. I will be making flying trips during my lunch hour to get him where he needs to be. On Tuesdays, I will have to take Cole to the sitter too. My neighbor's daughter is going too, so, we will swap out some and that will help me. I am sure Poppa/Gaga or Pops will be willing to pick him up for me too if I need it.
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The wait is nearly over. The Azure Stack software and hardware bundles that enable customers to essentially run a little piece of the Azure cloud within their own data centers, is now available to order, announced Microsoft today during its Inspire conference currently taking place in Washington, D.C.
Scheduled to ship in September, Azure Stack will be available as part of integrated system packages from server makers, including Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Lenovo. Cisco and Huawei will join these IT systems providers later. Earlier this year, Cisco announced it would offer Azure Stack on its UCS (Unified Computing System) converged infrastructure platform with a target date sometime in the third quarter of this year.
First announced during the inaugural Ignite conference in the spring of 2015, Azure Stack allows businesses to run their cloud workloads locally using the same management experience, tooling and application development workflows as Microsoft's public cloud offerings. Microsoft is banking on that consistency, as well as the ability to scale or transfer workloads to the Azure cloud when conditions merit, to get enterprise customers onboard with its hybrid cloud computing vision.
"Consistency enables you to confidently invest in people and processes knowing that those are fully transferable," wrote Mike Neil, corporate vice president of Azure Infrastructure and Management at Microsoft, in a July 10 announcement. "The ability to run consistent Azure services on-premises gets you full flexibility to decide where applications and workloads should reside. An integrated systems-based delivery model ensures that you can focus on what matters to your business (i.e., your applications), while also enabling us to deliver Azure innovation to you faster."
Apart from leading IT hardware makers, Microsoft has also gathered support from several independent software vendors (ISVs). Notable ISVs working on systems that support Azure Stack include Docker, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Bitnami, Neil revealed.
In a nod to Microsoft's very public embrace of the open-source software community lately, SUSE Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are also exploring Azure Stack compatibility. Of course, the Azure ecosystem is no stranger to Red Hat and SUSE; both Linux operating systems, among several others, are available as Azure virtual machines.
Microsoft is also making Azure Stack available in software-only form, allowing customers to test the stack. Available now as a free download, the Azure Stack Development Kit is single server deployment for proof of concept purposes. Applications that target the software will also work on multi-server Azure Stack implementations, assured Neil.
Finally, Azure Stack will also be available as a fully managed service, courtesy of several members of Microsoft's Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program. Participating partners include Avanade, Daisy, Evry, Tieto, and Rackspace.
"We've been working closely with Microsoft since the first Technical Preview of Azure Stack to ensure Rackspace is the go-to provider for support for customers at any stage in their adoption of the platform, regardless of hybrid cloud skills or expertise – from testing with a single-node proof of concept, to deploying a production-ready Azure Stack cloud," commented Ramakant Pandrangi, vice president and general manager of Microsoft Clouds at Rackspace, in a statement.
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I believe most people aren’t reading the report appropriately. What the report stated was that: PROCEDURALLY, there was nothing unlawful about how Palin asked Monegan for his resignation. However, if there were illegal causes for doing so (even partially), Monegan has legal recourse to sue for unlawful termination. And if there were illegal reasons for the firing (as the report discovered) then the firing itself was unlawful (while the PROCEDURE of firing may have been the standard one).
The report, given unanimously by a commission of 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats, concluded that Sarah Palin unlawfully and unethically abused her energy. That is a easy, objective reality. That is what the report said. Interval. Now, you possibly can perhaps disagree with the report – that’s wonderful. But it is NOT high quality to assert the report “exonerated” Sarah Palin. As a result of the report did not do this. It objectively, factually, did not do this. So for Palin to say that it did exonerate her, sure, objectively, fairly, unequivocally, that makes her a liar.
As I understand it, Monegan was offered a distinct post however declined. Then, Gov. Palin did, actually, hearth him. Look, I’ve nothing private towards the man. His father was a decorated Korean War hero. Even he says that Gov. Palin by no means instructed him to fireside Wooten. In hindsight, nonetheless, she should have reigned in Todd a bit. I can understand the frustration though. No regulation was broken although. What a part of “Governor Palin’s firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fireplace executive department department heads” don’t you perceive?! If it was for some illegal cause ((equivalent to race, religion, gender), it would not be CORRECT.
In accordance with Branchflower, the Palins declined to cooperate fully together with his investigation. The governor’s lawyer, Thomas Van Flein, has depicted the Branchflower report as a partisan try to “smear the governor by innuendo.” Van Flein argues that Branchflower’s findings are flawed because Palin acquired “no monetary profit” from her actions. – Renew thРµ loan Р°nd pay curiosity Р°nd СЂР°rt Ð Ñ•f thРµ principal. You possibly can vote for whomever you want, but you must no less than have the true info. She didn’t “lie” or “violate” any regulation. At worse, she fell beneath the usual of care on ethics tips and may have reigned Todd in. As I stated above, however, I might have protected my sister with a firearm personally.
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Greetings all! It’s been a while. It seems like 2015 was just the warm-up lap. Think that went fast? Watch 2016 fly by!
What of note happened in 2016… It’s like when you’re asked to note down all the parts of your job. It actually takes effort to think of it all. One of Gandalf’s first lines in ‘Fellowship of the Ring’ had it right:
“Well, what can I tell you? Life in the wide world goes on much as it has… full of its own comings and goings…”
So yeah, nothing terribly exciting happened. Work, family life, a season of rugby that was nowhere near as successful as the one two years before, signed back up to the gym almost immediately afterwards…
Writing, you say?
There was plenty of that… for 6 months. The second half of the year was a big block of nothing, while the first half was fighting to make True Love’s Last Kiss the right length. Initially it was seven chapters, then it became ten, then twenty, then eighteen… then I lost the thumb drive that had it all, and lost a year and a half of work. Feeling a bit dumb about that is the understatement of the decade, but what can you do? It can be salvaged from submissions to my writers’ group.
So, priority #1 is find a way to finish True Love’s Last Kiss. That means re-instilling some of the self-discipline that has fallen by the wayside. After that, possibly start Book 2 in the series, maybe go Monty Python and opt for something completely different.
Yes, actually post something of consequence on this page, which has been terribly neglected for two whole years. Make it part of the discipline re-instillation program.
Let’s see how we go with those aims. I hope your 2017’s are going well thus far, and that you’re on your way to chasing down your resolutions, hopes and dreams =)
New England @ Atlanta for SB51 😉
Wow, 1.5 months since my last post! Naughtiness! Hope you have all been keeping well =)
So, what has happened between then and now…
- Finished off the Fringe Benefits Tax return for my employer. Two queries (and sub-queries) from Head Office (a nice low number), and a $50 thank-you gift card from the boss. Happy!
- 8 weeks into the new Club Rugby season. Not doing brilliantly (2-6), but the team morale is good and we are getting better at what we do. As long as one improves on their last effort, keeps learning from (and trying to correct) their mistakes, success will come. Brilliant if it’s by the end of the season, but strong foundations will be in place for next season.
- Had a trawl of my Dad’s bookshelf the last time I visited, which was too see my brother who flew over from Sydney for a visit. Amongst the books I borrowed, a particularly interesting one was ‘The Age of Wonder’ by Richard Holmes, which can be found here and here. It was a great read, with several story ideas that may be worth pursuing (one of which was a direct challenge by the author!). It focused heavily on some people, namely Joseph Banks, William and Caroline Herschel, and Humphrey Davy. Another book I borrowed was ‘The Comet Sweeper’, found here, which is an account of the life of Caroline Herschel. Can’t wait to read it, but it’s 18 books down my reading list =S
- Having reading some of his work in the ‘Dangerous Women’ anthology by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois, found here, I bought the ‘The First Law’ (hmmm, two the’s needed here?) series by Joe Abercrombie. Have almost finished the first book in the series, The Blade Itself (found here), I must say that it’s been a most enjoyable read, and has me excited to read the other two books in the series (guess what? Found here and here).
- I’ve officially entered a writing competition! My prologue novelette to True Love’s Last Kiss was submitted to a novelette-specific competition being held by a university on Australia’s east side. Now, for the anxious wait until June 30th when they will advise of one’s success or otherwise.
- Now, what to do until then… oh yes, actually get back into writing True Love’s Last Kiss. Perilously close to the 100 page milestone, I am looking at how to link ‘Evasion’ into it, as well as reschedule TLLK so its pacing and everything fits nicely into a 20 chapter story.
- As well as ‘Evasion’, TLLK is going to have some siblings! I had an apostrophe (RIP Bob Hoskins), and after consulting with my cohorts in writers’ group, their verdict was…
So, TLLK is now the first book of a trilogy! It will be joined by TLH and TLR, using the events of TLLK to springboard Grace into a larger world of intrigue and… well, can’t spoil it all now, hey? *nudge nudge wink wink*
Well, better get to critiquing some of my cohorts’ submissions for this week’s meeting, and start mentally preparing for tomorrow’s game of rugby in appalling, possibly-fixture-cancelling weather…
Have a good weekend, and hopefully it won’t be so long between posts and information shares =)
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In case you missed it, I’m doing a juice cleanse! Here’s Day 2…
9:00AM: woke up and had a cup of tea while Fiancé scrambled around to leave for his work trip. I’m not glad that he’s leaving, but at least there won’t be anyone around our place cooking delicious smelling food. Not feeling so hot today – a kind of hungover feeling, sore throat, dry mouth, headache.
10:00AM: after dropping Fiancé off at the airport, headed home for my first green juice of the day. Glad I made it the day before, because I was in definite need of nourishment.
10:30AM: thought I would come home and fall asleep, but the house was a mess, so I spent some time cleaning. For the past few days I’ve had counters full of produce that wouldn’t fit in the fridge, and it was starting to smell…
12:00PM: PAM juice time is my favorite time. If I ever juice again, PAM juice will be at the top of my list, probably because it tastes the most like what I used to consider ‘juice’.
12:30PM: D and I have been commiserating over text. Neither one of us are very happy at this point. My day of relaxing on the couch turns quickly turns unbearably boring as there is nothing on TV except reality shows.
1:30PM: time to do the last of my juicing. Prepped and juiced 3 green juices to finish out the cleanse. I am so glad to be done with this little machine for a while.
2:00PM: mix some tea with the spicy lemonade. The taste is not so bad, but the burning in my throat is horrible.
2:30PM: still horizontal on the couch. Decide I need a distraction and buy a movie on-demand – 21 Jump Street. Not too bad. Does its job to distract me for 90 minutes.
4:00PM: hold nose and finish the horrible-tasting CAB juice after doctoring it up with some leftover lemonade. D informs me that hers is much more palatable after peeling beets. People, peel your beets. Blech.
5:00PM: still not interested in any of the wedding or house hunting shows on my DVR. Find a horrible Kristen Bell movie and watch it in entirety.
6:00PM: realize I’m not really focusing unless the characters are eating food.
8:00PM: cashew milk not as yummy as last night. Bummer – this is really getting old.
8:30PM: finally decide I’m enough of a mess to warrant a shower. Standing for 20 minutes is the most difficult thing I’ve done today.
9:00PM: watch a markedly terrifying episode of True Blood. Scripted TV succeeds in distracting me, but I do find myself sympathetic of hungry vampires… They can’t eat solids, either.
10:30PM: call it a night and think I’ll fall asleep immediately. No such luck. Feels like I wake up about 20 times during the night. Not a good sign of things to come on Day 3…
One more day to go… cheers to that.
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Being self-conscious about her red, flaky patches made dating with psoriasis challenging at times, but it didn't keep Sabrina Skiles from finding her happily-ever-after.
Skiles, now 29, has had psoriasis since she was a teen — something that at times felt like it stood between her and potential relationships, even friendships. “I thought people could see the psoriasis and wanted to talk about it but were too embarrassed to ask me what it was,” she says. Though she's able to control her psoriasis with shea butter and thick moisturizers, she has patches on her elbows and scalp that can be itchy and unsightly, and experiences occasional flares.
Skiles, a mentor for the National Psoriasis Foundation, says body image can be a big issue for people with noticeable psoriasis symptoms, as it was for her. But she didn’t let psoriasis squelch her social life.
Sabrina met her husband, Chris, at work in 2007. He was a graphic designer at the Houston-based magazine where she was a marketing intern. “I came in two days a week, and they put me in his office,” she recalls. “He would talk my ear off — he still does.”
Chris, now 31, thought she was cute and wasn't aware she had psoriasis. “I may have noticed a spot or two, but it never occurred to me that she had a chronic skin condition,” he says. "I didn’t think too much of it. It wasn’t a big deal.”
A few weeks into their dating, they went out to dinner in nearby Galveston. Skiles felt she needed to talk about her psoriasis before their relationship went any further. The two of them were sitting on a seawall at the restaurant when she brought it up.
“We were having a discussion about being honest with each other and where we were in our relationship, whether we were committed or still dating around,” Skiles says. She felt it seemed like the appropriate time to mention her psoriasis. She knew what she was going to say: that psoriasis is not contagious and that it’s a chronic condition.
As it turned out, opening up to Chris about her psoriasis made him more understanding and supportive, she says. “It didn’t change anything about the way I felt about her,” adds Chris. They were married in 2010, and his support continues to help Skiles, especially when she tries new treatments to stay on top of her condition.
Dating With Psoriasis: Having the Talk
There is no one right time to talk about your psoriasis with someone you’re dating, says Julie Nelligan, PhD, a psychologist in Portland, Ore., and past president of the Oregon Psychological Association who works with the National Psoriasis Foundation. It depends on the individuals and the circumstances.
Some people might bring it up right away, while others prefer to wait until a relationship is more established. What feels right for you may depend on how extensive your psoriasis lesions are and how easily you can conceal them with clothing and makeup. When scales aren't so obvious, Nelligan says, you may feel like you have more leeway.
One advantage to discussing psoriasis early on is that you'll find out whether your romantic interest is the supportive type. “If this person is going to be turned off by psoriasis, it’s better to know that sooner rather than later,” she says. You may not want to date someone who isn’t supportive of you, especially since psoriasis is a lifelong condition.
Nelligan recommends doing what Skiles did — giving careful thought to what you want to say about your psoriasis. Be sure you'll have ample time to give the conversation the attention it deserves. Talk calmly and openly, and be prepared to answer questions your date might have about psoriasis.
If you’re nervous, you might want to have a mock conversation beforehand with someone you trust, says Nelligan. And if the real talk doesn’t go well, that person you confided in beforehand might be able to lend their support, she adds.
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Bio: Hi there, I am Becky from South Carolina. I am 48 years old and have been married for 31 years to my husband and we have two wonderful children.
I have been cross stitching for over 30 years, and it is by far my favorite pasttime.
I am a very versatile stitcher, I stitch anything from small to medium to large projects and a variety of designs.
Interests: I also enjoy reading, camping, veggie gardening, flower gardening,
golfing, birdwatching, working on my computer, NASCAR,
listening to music & I LOVE to cook! I also enjoy meeting and making new friends :-)
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Facebook on Tuesday announced it will soon offer app developers the ability to charge for subscriptions, opening up another revenue stream for the newly public company.
The move, announced on Facebook's Developer Blog, will let makers of apps — particularly gaming apps — cultivate another source of recurring income of which Facebook will get a 30% cut. Such subscriptions will be priced in local currency (example: the U.S. dollar or the British pound) rather than in Credits. As Facebook admits in the blog entry, Credits haven't become the standard method of payment since most games on the platform have implemented their own virtual currencies.
Although the program officially starts in July, Facebook has already begun testing subscriptions with Kixeye and Zynga.
As the company disclosed in its SEC filing in February, Facebook derived about 83% of its $3.7 billion in revenues in 2011 from advertising. The rest came from payments, primarily good purchased from Zynga, via Facebook.
The plan follows the introduction of Facebook's App Center earlier this month.
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National Youth Service Corps member, Helen Bando has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for submitting forged documents to the Indian High Commission.
The corps member, Helen Bando alongside her other accomplices, Samuel Obiakor and Segun Alimi were on Monday sentenced one year imprisonment each without an option of fine on the one count amended charge by an Ikeja High Court.
The judge, Justice Olutoyin Ipaye who said the NYSC member out of desperation to travel outside Nigeria made her conspire with the others to forge the document.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defendants had entered a plea bargain with the ICPC.
According to the deal, each of the defendants will pay a N50, 000 fine and will be sentenced to a maximum of six months imprisonment.Justice Olutoyin Ipaye gave her judgement pleaded guilty to the charge during their re-arraignment by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC).
In November 2013, the ICPC had filed the charge.
The ICPC counsel, Paul Bassey, said the defendants conspired to submit forged documents to the Indian High Commission sometime in 2013 to enable Bando obtain the country’s visa.
He said the offences contravened Sections 25(1) and (a), 26 (1), (a) and (c) and Section 96 (1), (a) of the ICPC Act.
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Directed by Academy Award nominee Jerzy Antczak, Desire for Love is a biopic that sheds the spotlight on the tempestuous love affair between Frédéric Chopin and the bohemian feminist novelist Amandine Lucille Aurore Dudevant-Dupin, better known to us as George Sand.
The film begins in 1831, in Warsaw, and soon segues to the arrival of 21-year old Chopin (Piotr Adamczyk) in Paris from his strife-torn country. He has to struggle to earn a reputation for himself as pianist, composer and teacher in arguably the music capital of the world at the time.
Before long, he is introduced to the scandalous Sand (Danuta Stenka), six years his senior, with a flair for cigars and male attire. And thus begins their passionate romance.
At Sand’s country home in Nohant near Paris, Chopin, moody and already stricken with “consumption” (tuberculosis), works at his compositions, while her wannabe-painter son Maurice (Adam Woronicz) frets and fumes at this new man in his mother’s life, and daughter Solange (Bozena Stachura) uses every trick in the book to seduce her mother’s lover.
What follows is a dizzying fairground collision of emotions and egos that leave the viewer rather dazed in an effort to keep up. Their ill-fated trip to Majorca in 1838, which began with the noblest of intentions (Sand’s initiative to give Chopin a change of scene, and warm weather to nurse him back to health), goes horribly awry as the elements and the inhabitants of the island conspire to turn it into a living hell.
The liaison between these two creative geniuses inevitably snaps, and Chopin’s physical decline follows very quickly. The film ends with Chopin’s heart returning home, quite literally, to his beloved Warsaw.
Stenka shines in her searing portrayal of Sand, as she juggles her roles of lover, nurse, mother, feminist, breadwinning writer, all at once. Adamczyk’s Chopin seems self-absorbed, petulant, often childish, but this is more a comment on the script than on his performance.
The plotline, though factually based, does not necessarily make great cinema, and segments of the narrative border on the voyeuristic. There are glaring omissions as well; for instance the contribution of Sand’s novel Lucrezia Florini (a sordid, thinly-disguised allusion to the Chopin-Sand dalliance) to the dissolution of their affair is not even mentioned. Nevertheless, the cinematography is first-rate, with a no-stone-unturned approach to costumes and overall period authenticity. The pièce de résistance is of course Chopin’s own timeless music, which underpins the entire film score. The contribution of music heavyweights like Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, and Vadim Brodski to the soundtrack add even more glitter, and make the film a must-hear, if not necessarily a must-see.
Of additional interest to music-lovers is a cameo appearance by Liszt (Michal Konarski) playing Chopin’s Revolutionary Étude, no less! and the tidbit where a ditty played by Chopin’s manservant Jan on his fiddle supposedly becomes the inspiration for one of his Mazurkas.
Incidentally, this film shares similarities with another entrant, at another film festival here (IFFI 2009), Coco and Igor, which featured the purported love affair between Stravinsky and Coco Chanel.
(This article appeared in the Herald, Goa India on 16 May 2010)
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Onci Ungu dan Endhita yang akan berlangsung Minggu, 23 Oktober mendatang, kabarnya pasangan ini akan mengundang sekitar seribu undangan.Akad nikah serta resepsi pernikahan akan di gelar di Balai Kartini, Jakarta dengan tema Hutan yang serba Hijau
"Kurang lebih seribu undangan. Konsep pengennya hijau, jungle, suasana subur. Pengen orang yang datang ngelihat suasana hijau itu menyenangkan. Untuk adat tetap ada, tapi aku berdua setujunya nasional," ungkap Onci Ungu saat ditemui di Studio RCTI.
"Akad nikah juga nggak terlalu kental adat, karena banyak tradisi yang harus dijalanin, waktunya sedikit. Jadi ya sudahlah. Orang tua mensupport saja," sambungnya.
September 22, 2011
In an official website Avrill Lavigne apologized kepad all the fans in london for the incident that happened .. The following is an excerpt from http://www.avrillavigne.com
"London, I am so sorry for the disruption tonight in what should have been a celebration of my fans!
Shortly before my show tonight, there was a breach in security and now the police are handling.
I am so sorry! I have the best fans in the world and thank you for understanding! Love, Avril Lavigne"
Busyness always approached the "kotak band". But the rush did not stop the bass player "kotak", Swasti Sabdastantri or Chua to keep studying.
Chua admitted between "Kotak" gig schedules and college have never united. As a result a student majoring in advertising at the London School had to turn the brain so that college is not neglected.
"I am consulting the same professors and deans. I send an email to them if you do not go to college. I asked for duty in lieu of roll call. Later in the next meeting I leave," said Chua.
Once upon a time box was compacted with a gig schedule. Chua also had to sacrifice his studies temporarily. He was on leave for 2 years.
"So now join together the semester 3. It does not matter to me anyway, is not education that's not age restricted. The important thing is studying," he explained.
However, he continued his college commitment should not be interrupted because of musicianship. Vice versa, he did not want to stop music.
"In my family concerned with education to their children. From the time of great-grandparents to always attached importance to learning. They are ferocious when it comes to education. Actually my parents' love of freedom. Okay career home responsibilities, whether at graduation, which is important is complete," he concluded, laughing.
September 21, 2011
The band, fronted by Hayley Williams, are about to start work on the follow-up to 2009's 'Brand New Eyes'.
''We're about to start writing it [the next album]. We're getting down to the core of refreshing our band. We're hoping to have the record out early next year, so hopefully we'll start to record it at the end of 2011," Williams told BBC Radio 1.
he album will be the band's first since Zac and Josh Farro quit the group at the end of last year.
Speaking about the Farro brothers departure, Williams added: "It's been a crazy, crazy six months. I think the best thing is to see how much support we get from our fans."
Meanwhile, Paramore's new single 'Monster' will appear on the soundtrack to the forthcoming Transformers movie, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon.
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May 29th, 2012
In response to news reports questioning student scholarship organization (SSO) practices, Director of GRACE Scholars David Brown addresses the key areas in which the GRACE program differs from other SSOs in the state of Georgia. Below, please find his letter, sent May 25, 2012.
News reports disseminated this week by The New York Times, 11 Alive (the NBC affiliate in Atlanta), and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution raised some questions about practices used by some student scholarship organizations (SSOs) in Georgia. From its founding by Archbishop Gregory and Bishop Boland in 2008, GRACE Scholars has deliberately blazed its own trail to create an SSO that reflects Catholic teaching and best supported GRACE's mission "to provide children from families with financial need throughout the State of Georgia with greater opportunities to secure a quality PK-12 Catholic education." The GRACE path diverged from that of other SSOs as each developed their own policies and practices. This message describes how GRACE differs from other SSOs in three key areas featured in this week's news stories.
Public school transfers: enrollment versus attendance
To qualify for SSO financial aid, students entering the second grade or above must be enrolled in a public school to qualify for SSO assistance. One of the legislators who authored the original SSO law is on record as saying that the choice of the word enrolled is neither an accident nor is it to be confused with attendance. Enrollment in this context means registered. Apparently many students have registered at public schools - but did not actually attend - to qualify for SSO funding.
GRACE adopted a stricter standard. The goal is to bring new students to Catholic schools. Enrollment without attendance is not recognized. To qualify for GRACE assistance, students must have attended a public school during the previous school year. Attendance is documented by a report card or transcript.
Designating contributions to individuals
The SSO law prohibits the awarding of a scholarship to a student at the request of a donor. Such gifts do not qualify for a federal charitable contribution deduction, and an IRS-recognized charity could lose its 501(c)(3) status if the organization treats such a contribution as a charitable contribution. The news media reports on practices by some SSOs that critics allege violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the law.
Since its inception, GRACE has had a clear policy prohibiting the designation of gifts to individual scholarships. True to its Catholic identity, GRACE seeks to serve the common good, not private agenda.
Means testing for scholarship assistance
Critics and supporters of SSOs differ on whether the Georgia legislature intended the SSO/education tax credit law to limit awards to those who demonstrate financial need. Of the 38 SSOs in Georgia, it is not clear how many SSOs practice means testing. It appears, however, to be a small number.
GRACE requires each candidate for a scholarship to submit a "calculated financial need" (CFN) when he or she applies for a GRACE award. CFNs are calculated by two nationally recognized, independent financial aid services based on tax returns and other information provided by the family. A Scholar Profile completed in December 2011 demonstrated that GRACE was reaching families with clear financial need. The average annual family income for GRACE families is $48,000. One in three GRACE Scholars qualifies for free or reduced school lunch. One in four Scholars come from families with annual incomes of $27,750. To view the complete Scholars Profile, please visit the GRACE website.
GRACE's approach to these three issues reflects the vision of Georgia's bishops and GRACE's lay leaders of how a Catholic SSO should be structured and operated. The founders were not reacting to other SSOs. Rather, their aim was to build an organization that was true to its Catholic identity and faithful to its calling to make Catholic schools more accessible and affordable.
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I’ll admit I’m not much of a reviewer. Not of books or music or movies, or really anything else. Not because I don’t have an opinion, but I can’t be bothered to make the effort. (I probably should, particularly on GoodReads, but that’s another story.)
If a reviewer likes or dislikes something, I want to know why. What was it that struck him or her as good, or great, or just plain terrible? I understand that things can’t always be explained. Sometimes things just don’t resonate for whatever reason, and that’s fine too. One can simply say, “I didn’t like it.”
But being a reviewer doesn’t give you the right to bash. Personal blogs may be a different matter, but if I read a review on a “professional” site, then I really to expect that review to have at least a modicum of decorum.
Which brings me to the crux of the post. No, this isn’t about me – I don’t have any reviews yet (not counting a few on my cover which I had nothing to do with – can’t take issue with those.) That in mind, no I have no plans to ever rebut any sort of review of my book anywhere. It’s not a winnable situation, for any party.
However, that doesn’t mean I can’t get my ire up for other people. And so I bring to you Exhibit A – a review of DG’s newest album, Rock Symphonies. I’d link to it, but apparently the entire article was removed due to “Spamming”. However, it’s cached. Right here. (And if that doesn’t work, just search for parc bench and david garrett and then click on the cached link.)
Also, please note, yes, this is about DG. Yes, I’m a fan(girl). But…here’s the thing. I don’t care if people don’t like his music. Or they don’t like cross-over. That’s fine with me. Hell, I don’t actually care for all the songs on the new album either. But articulate the points, is all I’m asking. This particular reviewer not only couldn’t seem to do so, he resorted to name-calling afterward when he didn’t like the responses he got. (Probably why the article was removed). Here’s a snippet:
How painful is it? Let’s put it this way – expect to see a PBS special featuring this crapola soon. No doubt this misguided mish-mash of sound will be used as a fundraiser appealing to middle brow tastes that know nothing about classical music (and that have no real respect for rock). No doubt it will be filmed before an audience of German folk who don’t have any taste, just like a tacky Andre Rieu concert.
David Garrett is just the latest in the PBS chain of trashy European musical acts that think they can pull off some sort of pseudo-sophistication, and fool good old Americans (who should know better) into thinking that their brand of music has the right to exist. This is just my way of saying that German model/violinist/latest PBS gimmick David Garrett being accepted as some sort of listenable gimmick is a bad thing. It is bad for classical music and it is bad for rock music. Besides that, here is wearing a stupid T-shirt that reads “Fighting for peace is like having sex for virginity.”
…This kind of musical garbage has been quite successful over the past decade in Europe. The assault on classical music and rock music must be stopped at our borders. Just because a guy looks like Axl Rose for his album cover doesn’t mean he can rock. And just because some guy with a foreign accent plays a violin really, really quickly doesn’t mean he is musical; he’s just fast.
So yeah. Don’t tell me anything about the music. Bash cross-over. Bash what he wears. Bash Germans. Bash everyone who doesn’t agree with you. Smashing review, eh?
I did respond, of course. (And got a little rambley – mostly because it was about 1 am when I wrote it):
See, here’s the thing. When I read a review about something, I expect it to be specific – about the music, or the words, or the art or whatever it is. If you did not like this album, that’s fine. I can fully admit Rock Symphonies isn’t my favorite either – but what I’m not seeing here is a thing about the music itself. I don’t see an opinion about the arrangements, or why you may have disliked the chord progressions, if you heard a note being flubbed or that the range was lacking – in short, nothing about the *music.* For a critic, I find your own mastery of words to be as sorely lacking as you appear to find Mr. Garrett’s music. Since all you can do is harp on “teh 3vil X-Over”, I suspect you don’t know that much about critiquing music either.
I do see a personal attack on the artist, and for what? His clothes? His looks? His ability to shrug off the blatant snobbery of classical music fetishists to play what he wants? (And oddly enough, I don’t see Aerosmith freaking out that he’s ruining rock music. Fancy that. By your logic, we might as well toss out Apocalyptica too – the four virtuoso cellists who covered many of Metallica’s songs – and Metallica liked them so much they actually *sold* their albums at their own concerts. Win-win all the way around.)
I read all the time about how people lament that classical music is dying, that we don’t appreciate the finer aspects of music, that we’re killing off music classes in schools, and children aren’t getting the sort of exposure that they need. All true. So why so much disdain for a genre that might actually increase interest? A Nirvana fan might be piqued enough to see what else David has done (including his more traditional work), which in turn might lead to a greater appreciation for classical music in general.
Or maybe not.
That’s the beauty of being able to enjoy music on whatever level the listener finds worthy. So many classical purists seem to want to lock their “vision” of what the music should be in a cage…and then wonder why the general public seems disinterested. When you treat us “good ‘ol Americans” like the intellectual equals of something you’ve scraped off the bottom of your shoe, don’t be surprised when we turn our backs on you.
Classical snobs also tend to be aghast at David’s casual appearance on stage, as though that indicates some sort of “disrespect” to the music. Last time I checked, looks didn’t have anything to do with musical ability at all. Would Mr. Garrett’s success be more palatable to you if he were some knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing troglodyte? Next time, try shutting your eyes and opening your ears.
Or stay in your cave, surrounded by your fossilized ideals of what music “should be.” I assure you, the rest of us won’t miss you a bit.
Maybe a little over the top. However the reviewer quite easily made my own point for me with his response:
As Meredith Willson wrote in “The Music Man”:
Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little,
cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more…
I suppose it’s his right to just ignore the responses, brush us all under the table as though we’re not worth the time. Just fangirls, after all.
It’s that same elitist mentality that prevents the “average joe” from *wanting* to be part of the classical music scene. (Or to take a big step here, you might even compare the cross-over vs classical to that of literary vs commercial fiction. It’s the same damn thing, right down to the snobby attitudes. What? Just because I write genre and not, oh, excuse me “speculative fantasy,” I’m not worthy of being read?)
Good night ladies, indeed.
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As our days in Rome came to an end, we continued our journey towards the coast of Abruzzo, Italy. This place is so nostalgic for me, as this is where my Italian side of the family is from.
Therefore, the cities were familiar to me, and as we arrived I instantly felt a sense of calmness. The view of the ocean always does something to me – brings me to a sense of gratefulness and joy. It can be so de-stressing and calming just to watch the shoreline and the waves moving from the sea.
We played tennis once, which was a joy and a great workout. We visited family and ate lots of local foods. One evening we decided to eat dinner at a local boat restaurant that was placed, literally on the shoreline of the beach with a panorama view of the ocean. As we began to eat at 7 P.M., every twentieth minute or so, we saw the sky change and the sun set into the night. All of the photos of the sky below was taken at the same spot throughout the hours that we were there before the darkness of the night hit. I was taken aback at how incredible that experience was together with the amazing food that we ordered. The restaurant was specialized in Italian seafood dishes – my favorite thing in the whole world. For starters, we ordered a mix of different things to try and tasted fish that we had never seen or heard about before. Then we ate lobster and spaghetti alle vongole which was absolutely wonderful. Seafood dishes enjoyed with a panorama view of the ocean just goes incredibly amazing together. Even though the dinner was an investment, the experience was all worth it.
We took photos on our trip that I wanted to share, to give you a feeling of the settings, the beach and to give you a glimpse of my beach style fashion pieces. It is officially autumn now, and I miss the beach and the hot weather a lot. Even though I just came home from a weekend in Oslo, I want to travel again as soon as I get the chance. I can already feel the sun and smell the ocean.
Where did you go this summer? And what do you love most about the beach?
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Thursday, 13 August 2015
KID'S KLASSIC (KIRBY) KOMIC KOVERS - THE INCREDIBLE HULK #1...
THE INCREDIBLE HULK is still with us today, which is
surprising considering that his own mag was cancelled after only
six issues. However, Gamma-irradiated creatures are hard to kill,
and ol' Jade-Jaws survived as a guest star in other mags before
eventually being awarded a spot in TALES To ASTONISH. He
even found time along the way to become a founding member of
The AVENGERS. After 101 issues, TOA was renamed after
its green-skinned goliath, who went on to star in a '70s TV
series and in relatively recent big-budget movies.
Sob! I love a happy ending, don't you?
Posted by Kid at Thursday, August 13, 2015
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Vernon Macklin – Power Forward/Center from the University of Florida Gators.
Going with the same theme of the Singler post – my 2 word descriptor for Macklin is “hard worker”. If I had to describe his style of play I’d say he’s a “bigger Jason Maxiell, without the shot blocking”. His body reminds me of former Minnesota Timberwolf and Chicago Bulls PF/C, also from Florida, Chris Richard.
Macklin, is a 24 year old 5th year Senior from UF. He had a hard time finding playing time with the Georgetown Hoyas behind Roy Hibbert and then with top big man prospect (and current Piston forward) Greg Monroe signing with the Hoyas, Macklin transferred to Florida and had to sit out a year as part of the rules about transferring in the NCAA.
Macklin is 6’9 245 pounds. He’s very solid, he has a 7’3 wingspan, and a 9’1 standing reach. For a player of his size, he has struggled on the defensive glass. His go to move in the post is a righty (or lefty) jump hook, and really that’s about it for him on the offensive end.
Much like Singler, Macklin is a “lunch pail” guy. I remember watching Macklin play at Georgetown with Hibbert and current Piston DaJuan Summers. I can’t see him sticking with the team out of training camp, but he’s definitely a candidate for the D League and I think he could almost find instant success there. He’s older than any other drafted rookie because he had sit out a year because he transferred. He’s definitely rated as one of the more mature guys in the draft who will give Charlie Villanueva and Greg Monroe a big body to match up against in training camp, should he make it that far.
Macklin has the raw tools to improve, it’s just that his ceiling might already be reached. If he can come in and make an impact, I can see him being another steal at #52 in the draft. Do I expect it? No.
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NYLON SG x JUICY COUTURE 2012 HOLIDAY COLLECTION PREVIEW 14th NOVEMBER 2012 1900-2100HRS TAKASHIMAYA, SINGAPORE NYLON SG recently teamed up with Juicy Couture for their 2012 Holiday Collection held on Wednesday night, 14th November 2012. The event was hosted by NYLON’s very own editor-in-chief, Adele Chan, who shared with us style tips on creating looks […]
A Universe Made of Strings Finally got the album! Blown away by the artwork and design here, check out that pop-up! Listen to them or buy their music on their bandcamp page! Watch them LIVE here : Video by wetcalamari on YouTube. Video by Patrick Joseph Bansale on YouTube.
B-DIFF, the tote bag maker Here is a lovely tote bag by b-diff, from The Esplanade Shop. I was browsing around the store and this design caught my attention. They design and create wonderful and creative reusable eco-friendly tote bags that aims to bring a unique and fresh experience. And believe in saving the environment […]
ZOMG! Strawberry-scented stickers from Art Friend!
Happy Time with Rilakkuma! All items from Kinokuniya. A gorgeous cute and pink wallet from their latest collection with several compartments to stash your paper, plastic and coins. The Stylus Fit pen comes with three 0.7mm ink refills in blue, black and red, and two 0.38mm gel inks in baby pink and orange! The inks are also […]
head over heels Got more moleskins over Halloween in this far out neon green and purple, and found these incredible skull gift tags! #ohyeah #thatshowiroll … and not forgetting Manila folders shop typo here
Pastel Colors! Testing out some Sharpies I got recently in these pretty pastel shades. Lovin’ it! Went a lil mad crazy with the colors on the patchwork but it was fun to just go with the flow and let your imagination run free. 😉
Tonight You’re Mine by The Analog Girl Late Night at Esplanade 08 November 2012 0930-1045hrs The Esplanade, Singapore Had a spectacular time at The Analog Girl’s album launch at The Esplanade on Thursday night. It was definitely a night to remember. Own a copy of her THE TV IS ON album and I finally got […]
Washi tapes from NBC Found these lovely washi tapes while at NBC recently. Thought they were rather pretty and wanted to add them to my collection. Have always had a love for butterflies and more recently, floral prints. The ones here have a vintage-inspired, French and girly feel to them. They might come in handy […]
Thank You, love! Birthday gifts from Jialing! Such a sweetie! The sweetest card EVER! The wrapper is gorgeous and so me! And that skull belt! Woah! 😉 Thank you for everything that you’ve done, your thoughtfulness and attention to every little detail, for your constant patience, understanding, support, for being there and for your friendship […]
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In Gotta Catch ‘Em All! we share the best live music tips for Norwich in the month ahead. There’s plenty going on in April, if you know where to look. From the back room of a pub to a big scale venue, there are bands everywhere, just waiting for you to hear them. Read our top eight picks, then check out all the mentioned acts in our official Spotify playlist.
For fans of: Lily Allen, Declan McKenna, Charli XCX Hear it live: Norwich EPIC Studios (2 April) – tickets. Everyone’s favourite London teen Girli is going on tour – and she’s back with a new single just in time. Constantly nailing it … Continue reading TOTD#33: Girli – Play It Cool
London upstart Girli is making a name for herself as one of the most exciting pop newcomers in a generation. Her empowering lyrics cover everything from feminism to anti-bullying, while her music combines hip-hop and grime elements with sugary pop, punk, and rock. As she launches her new EP ‘Hot Mess’, read this Q&A with the woman herself about the wonderful world of Girli.
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Crack open a cold one and enjoy a barrel of laughs with Brew Ha-Ha
Emperors Palace is brewing up a fun-filled day for the whole family at its funky Red Roman Shed on . Brew Ha-Ha is a unique craft drinks and comedy festival that will feature an array of craft beers and gins, alongside loads of entertainment and comedy relief. A designated children’s area will also provide hours of fun with jumping castles, face-painting and entertaining shows.
“Join us for an epic day as we make the most of hot summer days with lots of fun and laughter for both young and old”, says Andi Shaughnessy, Emperors Palace Entertainment Manager. “Emperors Palace is thrilled to host some incredible entertainment acts, which we hope will give everyone – from comedy lovers to music enthusiasts – enough reason to come out, relax and just have fun.”
The cracking line-up of entertainment include performances from singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Vern Deysel, The Graeme Watkins Project (GWP) and Will Rayz. Deysel draws inspiration from the classic southern blues rock and outlaw country music genres, delivering a sound that can best be described as soulful rock ‘n’ roll. He will be joined on stage by The GWP who guarantee to get the crowd moving, as well as singer, songwriter and solo performer, Will Rayz, who brings the soulful and eclectic sounds of Jazz, Blues and Folk music to life.
Comedians Chris Forrest, Mum-z and Jason Goliath will take to the stage to deliver side-splitting performances and keep the laughter going. Bound to be a hilarious affair, Forrest is a comedy veteran famous for his dry, quick wit, with Mum-z headlining the famous ZA News TV show. Heavy-hitting funny man, MC and actor, Jason Goliath completes the comedy line-up.
The Red Roman Shed will open at and tickets are R50 per person for the sober special and R100 per person for the tipsy ticket, inclusive of a glass. Children under the age of 12 enter for free. For bookings contact the Emperors Palace Box Office on 011 928 1297/1213 or visit www.emperorspalace.com. Winners Circle members qualify for fantastic discounts. No alcohol will be served to under 18’s.
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Scope of Lab
The scope of the heat
treatment laboratory at DME SMME is to explore the effect of heat treatment on
the micro structure structure of metals.
Incharge of Lab
Apparatus Name & Picture
heat treatment equipment includes temperature control furnaces for precise
heating and cooling rate control to control microstructures in metals. The
setup also includes an optical microscope to display the microstructure
revealed after grinding, polishing and etching of metals. SMME has the
expertise to work with various metals including Steels, Titanium, Aluminium
Alloys and super alloys (such as Nickel and Titanium based alloys).
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Those in the United Kingdom who have been waiting to get a hold of one of the best Android smartphones on the market will be pleased to know that a UK retailer has outed the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX release date in the UK.
Clove UK has confirmed that it will be stocking the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX and its massive 3,300 mAh battery starting May 18th, a date that falls into the same launch month that Motorola announced back in April.
Motorola, for its part, has remained mum on a specific release date for the Droid RAZR MAXX but it’s pretty safe to say that if Clove is stocking the phone on May 18th, that’s probably the date that it’s going to be rolling out.
After all, the device has been up for pre-order since the end of April so it’s no surprise that retailers are going to be getting the device out to customers soon.
The Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX is still one of the best Android smartphones on the market and a lot of that has to do with the massive battery that it has, 3,300 mAh to be exact, which allows for lengthy usage.
Motorola was able to pack in that massive of a battery but keep the slimness of the phone intact. The Droid RAZR MAXX checks in at 8.9mm, which is thinner than a lot of phones on the market.
It also features a spacious 4.3-inch Super AMOLED screen, 1GB of RAM, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, an 8MP rear camera, and Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
The UK version of the phone won’t have access to the 4G LTE speeds that the Verizon model does however.
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https://www.gottabemobile.com/motorola-droid-razr-maxx-uk-release-date-confirmed/
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Kiribati elects a new president today after Anote Tong completed the maximum 12 years in power.
Three men have been campaigning for the post following the election of a new parliament in January.
The candidates include two from Boutokaan Te Koaua, or the BTK party, which has been the dominant force in Kiribati politics for some time.
They are Rimeta Beniamina and Tianeti Ioane, while Taaneti Mamau is the nominee of a coalition that formed among the former opposition in the new parliament.
There has been much debate over whether the country is seeking change with the results of the popular vote expected by this evening.
Meanwhile the outgoing president, Anote Tong, expressed heartfelt thanks and bid farewell to the people of Kiribati in his final news conference.
The 64 year old said his 12 years as president had been rewarding and challenging.
He said it will be up to the people to measure the success of his tenure but he says he tried his best to achieve what the people wanted.
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Q: How do you volunteer your time specifically with Save-a- Bull?
We chose Save-a-Bull because it works directly with bully breed dogs and they are so misunderstood. We wanted to help change people’s opinions about pit bulls and help them see they are great dogs. Ever since we started fostering, we have had changed minds, and continue to change minds, of people, and that is a huge accomplishment to us.
I, Cassie, have lived with pit bulls for about 22 years now, and I know they are amazing and gentle dogs, they just need a chance to show love.
Q: How long have you been with Save-a- Bull?
I can’t honestly remember if it was Feb 2012 or 2013, so we have been fostering for about 3-4 years.
Q: How did you learn about Save-a- Bull and what made you decide to volunteer?
I was just googling rescues to volunteer/foster with, and starting googling bully breeds and found Save-a-Bull. We didn’t know anyone in the rescue at the time but put in an application and shortly after had a home visit, and started fostering.
Q: What’s the most rewarding experience you’ve had as a volunteer so far?
The most rewarding experience, which is also the hardest, giving the dog to a new home. Knowing that they are happy and have a great life ahead of them, is truly rewarding. Also, being able to see the smiles and laughter of the new family when they meet and get their new dog, is an amazing feeling.
Q: Do you have any dogs of your own?
Yes, we have 3 dogs of our own:
Bella 6yrs- English Bulldog
Jax 4yrs – Shepherd mix
Axel 3yrs – pit bull (our foster fail with Save-a-Bull)
Q: What do you do for work? For fun?
Brad is a property maintenance supervisor and for fun he likes to golf, bowl, and ice fish, all depending on weather. Cassie is an optician and for fun I like to shop, spend time with friends, participate in races, and bowl. We both also like to spend time as a family and with dogs.
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http://saveabullmn.org/meet-brad-and-cassie-osgood/
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Four people have been arrested and cash and drugs seized in early morning raids at properties throughout East Durham.
A total of 35 officers from Durham Constabulary paid suspected drug dealers a surprise visit, today, as part of Operation Relentless.
The move is aimed at targeting and tackling the supply of drugs in the area.
Following searches in Eleventh Street, Twelfth Street, Seymour Street and Cotsford Park Estate, in Horden, three men and a woman were arrested while cash and drugs, believed to be heroin and amphetamine, was seized.
Between 15-20 cannabis plants were also discovered - believed to have a street value of £15,000.
One woman is also due to attend the station as a voluntary attender.
The raids, which saw all four homes targeted simultaneously, were as a result of information passed to police from concerned residents and intelligence from previous operations.
Inspector Lee Blakelock said: “We continue to work closely with the community to listen to their concerns.
“We executed several warrants in December and today sees more action.
“What I want to make clear is that we work closely with partner agencies to tackle crime from all angles whether it be tenancy enforcement to children’s services.
“This ensures we not only tackle the crime, but look further into the family dynamics. We want to make sure children grow up in a community that is safe and free from harm.
“This operation demonstrates we will tackle this issue and this is not the end of it. So the message is clear, you will not get away with it, we will come knocking for you next.”
In Eleventh Street, a 34-year-old woman was arrested on suspion of being in posession of heroin with intent to supply.
In Twelfth Street, one man was arrested who was wanted on warrant. At the same address a woman was spoken to at the address and will attend the station as a voluntary attender. Drugs believed to amphetamine, two mobile phones and cash was seized.
In Seymour Street, a 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being concerned on the cultivation of cannabis. He has since been released following a police caution.
In Cotsford Park Estate, a 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs. Cannabis was also seized from the property.
Insp Blakelock added: “We actively encourage people to report any suspicious activity and to give us the intelligence. This can be done through either Crimestoppers, calling 101 or through messaging us on our social media Facebook page.”
Horden Coun June Clarke said: "I think this is an excellent initiative and I praise those who have come forward and given information to the police to enable them to carry out these raids.
"We do have an issue, not just in Horden but in the whole area of people using illegal substances.
"We have a good policing team in place and we share information and work partnership with them to benefit the residents in the area.
"It is disappointing to hear some of the negative comments at times, but when the officers get the successes they have, it proves that action like this is necessary."
A mobile PACT will take place at 1.30pm today at the Parish Council building in Horden where officers will be available to speak to residents.
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https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/crime/watch-as-police-carry-out-drugs-raids-1-8439560
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One problem with dry shampoos is that although they do remove a lot of the gunk from your mane, they don't get the hair quite as clean as wet shampooing [source: BeautyBrains]. The latter not only causes the oil to form droplets and slide off but also causes chemical changes in the oil-secreting process that slow down the mechanical spread of oil from your scalp to your hair shafts [source: Zviak]. "If your hair is really dirty," says beauty author Edain McCoy, "It may take so much dry shampoo to make it appear clean that you take away its natural shine, or cause it to look like your white, powdered head just popped out of the 18th century" [source: McCoy].
Nevertheless, the popularity of dry shampoos seems to be rising again. Recently, avant-garde hair care experts have resurrected a notion popular in generations past -- that daily shampooing does too much damage to the hair. They're championing the idea of going several days to a week -- or even longer -- between wet shampoos and using a dry shampoo in between. There are even some adherents who are giving up the wet stuff completely, in favor of the powder [source: Grossman].
Even if you like your regular wet shampoo, hair stylist Robert Vetica recommends dry shampoos for women with fine, easily damaged hair. Even if you use wet shampoo, he suggests using an aerosol dry shampoo as a rejuvenating touchup for your hairdo if you're planning to go out after a long day at work. "Your hair starts to lose its style as the day goes on," he writes. "Take the dry shampoo and give your head a good once-over, leave it for a few minutes to let it absorb all the oils from the day, and then give it a good brush through" [source: Vetica].
One potential drawback of dry shampoos is that the top designer labels, which retail on the Web for as much as $24 for a 3.2 ounce container, can be pricey, though less elegant brands are available for a fraction of that. Beauty expert McCoy suggests a cheaper DIY alternative: Cornstarch brush a small portion through your hair, being careful to rub it in around the roots [source: McCoy].
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https://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/scalp-care/tips/dry-shampoo2.htm
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Side To Face Crewe
Bright Osayi-Samuel has been rewarded for his impressive cameos off the bench in recent weeks with a starting place against Crewe Alexandra this afternoon.
The winger replaces Henry Cameron as The Seasiders’ only change, while Emmerson Boyce returns to the bench.
Team: Doyle, White, Aldred, Robertson, Ferguson, McAlister, Norris, Potts, Osayi-Samuel, Redshaw, Cullen.
Subs: Letheren, Dunne, Boyce, Cubero, Herron, Rivers, Thomas.
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https://www.blackpoolfc.co.uk/news/2015/october/team-osayi-samuel-handed-starting-role/
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I think one of my least favorite things to do is to be patient. It's so hard to be patient. It just doesn't come naturally to me. So when I saw that patience was a servant leadership quality in James Hunter's list, I internally groaned. In The Way I Lead, remember that I confessed that my leadership style is to just take over someone else's job if they aren't performing to my expectations. So when I read Hunter's list, it just reaffirmed what I knew about having to work on my patience.
The dictionary defines patience as, "An ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay." And that perfectly describes the exact opposite of how I usually act when confronted with delay. As I said, my response when confronted with delay is to act on my restlessness. But as we looked at in The Way I Lead, that isn't a good way to lead. I used the example of a person bagging orders slower than I would like them to. If I were to step in and start doing their job, I'm making two major mistakes. 1) It causes me to fall behind in my work, and 2) it denies that person the opportunity to gain experience. Your followers can't learn from their mistakes if you don't give them a chance to.
You have to be patient enough to let people mess up. There are no perfect people, so there are no perfect performances, especially from new people or slow learners. You have to give people the chance to learn by trial-and-error. You have to let them make their mistakes so they can learn from them. This is an incredibly important lesson to learn for any servant leader, but more so if you're the training director, parents of preteens, or a youth pastor. In those types of jobs, your role as leader is essentially to groom young people to become the best they can be. We all know young people make plenty of mistakes, so it takes a lot of patience to lead them.
In The Servant, Hunter looked at patience in a way that I never really had before. He described patience as showing self-control. And that makes sense, right? That's basically a shortened version of the dictionary's definition. Patience means showing self-control. I really like looking at patience that way. It makes it feel easier to be patient. When I hear the word patient, I cringe and think of patience as an impossibility. But if I think of patience as simply showing self-control, suddenly I feel like I can be patient. It makes the task seem easier and it makes me think I might actually be able to be patient.
Have you ever seen a leader lose control of his or her emotions? It's never pretty to see the leader throwing a tantrum or going on a rant, is it? Many leaders have gotten in hot water because they lost control of their emotions. Just think of the number of professional or college coaches who have gotten in trouble for throwing a tantrum in post-game press conferences or for berating their players in practice or a game.
It's important for a leader to be patient. It's important for a leader to be a model of self-control. We've seen what can happen if leaders lose control. I believe self control is one of the most important character traits for a servant leader to have. Without it, he or she is untrustworthy, consistently inconsistent with their emotions, and liable to be unkind, selfish, and mean. It's hard to keep yourself from sin without self-control. It's hard to do things you have to do even if you don't want to do them without self-control. It would've been hard for Jesus to have served and to succumbed to the cross without self-control. Without self-control, God would've long ago destroyed mankind. Remember that He came really close once.
And so I encourage you to try to be more patient and to have more self-control. Make patience and self-control two of your core values. Treasure them and don't abandon them. They will get you far in life if you allow them to.
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http://lovwritingblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/patience-first-quality-of-agape-love.html
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Brussels Airlines has recently been acquired by Lufthansa. The airline will be folded into Lufthansa’s Eurowings (low-cost) division, but remain a separate brand. Here’s what you can expect on a longhaul Brussels flights in business class, at least for now.
In the interest of transparency, I state at the outset that this review has never been published before, but is from October 2013. It is part of my Star Alliance Business Class Adventure in Europe and Asia report. I outline in that post why I post older flight and hotel reviews.
We spent the night at the Courtyard Marriott Brussels Airport and arrived about 90 minutes before our flight. After spending a few minutes in the Brussels Airlines Sunrise Lounge, we boarded our flight to New York.
Brussels Airlines 501
Brussels (BRU) – New York (JFK)
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Depart: 10:25 AM
Arrive: 12:4o PM
Duration: 8hr, 15min
Aircraft: Airbus A330-300
Seat: 5D (Business Class)
Brussels Airlines A330 Business Class Seats
The business class cabin features fully lie-flat seats in a staggered 1-2-1 or 2-1-2 configuration. Choose seats A or K in odd numbered rows or E in even numbered rows if you want one of the coveted “throne” seats.
The seats were just like my Austrian flight the day before and on some Delta flights in business class. While I do find the seats a bit tight in the leg well, I had no trouble sleeping through half the flight. Note pillows but no blankets in the pictures below. While I’m sure blankets were available, they were not proactively offered and I never asked for one.
Brussels Airlines A330 Business Class IFE
I’d rate the selection on this flight as more limited than many carriers, but there were still the usual latest Hollywood releases you see on planes as well as a library of Belgian movies, music, and games. I watched In Time (I love sci-fi movies like this) and then 42, the story of Jackie Robinson.
You can check out what films and other IFE will be available on your flights here.
Brussels Airlines A330 Business Class Food
I enjoyed the food on the flight, even though the Austrian flight the day before had even better food. Here’s the menu–
Service began with a cocktail prior to takeoff. I never learned what it was, but was fruity and sweet from Caipi One.
After takeoff, both mixed nuts and canapés were offered. The canapés included crab and mozzarella balls drizzled in pesto sauce.
I chose meze for the appetizer, more out of curiosity. While I wish I would have ordered scallops, the meze wasn’t bad. Not sure what the pink sauce was, but the grape leaves and tabbouleh were great. Very nice bread with delicious butter as well.
For my main course, I enjoyed a fabulous breast of chicken with lemon ravioli and fennel.
My brother ordered pasta with mushroom:
Next came a cheese course with crackers and more bread:
And finally the highlight of the meal, a delicious dessert of fruit puff pastry with tea and a chocolate truffle:
In the front of the cabin, whole fruit and bottles of water were available throughout the flight.
Halfway through the flight a “movie snack” was offered — delicious Belgian ice cream!
90 minutes before landing a light meal was served. Still stuffed from the last meal and ice cream snack, I just picked at it. The shrimp and beef were of good quality.
Brussels Airlines A330 Business Class Service
With the cabin only half full, the crew was able to provide more personal service. While one of the male FAs seemed to be just going through the motions, a female FA who worked my side of the aisle was very engaging and courteous.
My favorite part of the Brussels service was the box of chocolates presented prior to landing–
Not just a small sampler, but an entire box of Neuhaus chocolate! What a pleasant surprise and nice touch. Perhaps someone who has flown in Brussels more recently can chime in below whether these chocolates boxes are still given out.
I apologize that I do not have a picture of the amenity kit. It was very basic. Lucky included a picture in his review.
Brussels Airlines A330 Business Lavatory
Lavatories are small but clean. Real towels are available.
I won’t say Brussels Airlines was a pleasant surprise. I had high expectations and Brussels met them. It is a very respectable option if you have Star Alliance points and are looking for a good business class product. I look forward to flying Brussels again.
Remember, Brussels Airlines serves the following North American cities:
- Washington IAD
- New York JFK
A one-way business class ticket between North America and Brussels costs:
- 70K United miles (no fuel surcharge)
- 55K Aeroplan (no fuel surcharge)
- 63K Avianca miels (no fuel surcharge)
- 65K Singapore miles (with fuel surcharge)
- 88K ANA miles round-trip (with fuel surcharge) [no one-way bookings]
Award space is hit-or-miss.
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https://liveandletsfly.boardingarea.com/2017/04/22/brussels-airlines-a330-business-class-review/
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Thank you, Umpqua Bank & Volunteers!
RTS sends a BIG thanks to Umpqua Bank and volunteers for your help at our 2nd Annual Beer and Wine Tasting fundraiser. Thank you for your registration and quick check expertise, and for your volunteer support before and after our event. A special thanks goes to Cassie Braatz, for all of your efforts!
THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS!
LEARN ABOUT UMPQUA BANK! www.umpquabank.com
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http://rebuildingtogetherseattle.blogspot.com/2011/10/thank-you-umpqua-bank-volunteers_05.html
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