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Suzanne is a nationally recognized family travel expert and an award-winning travel writer and editor. She is a frequent broadcast media guest expert who has appeared on CNN, NBC News, ABC News, and numerous TV outlets and has been quoted extensively in print and online media, including The New York Times, Forbes, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, NBCNews.com, Travel Weekly, Newsday, Real Simple, and Oprah.com, among others.
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Dr Barbara Louw developed a range of therapeutic tools
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Presentation for office assistants in counselling and health practitioners' offices on 3 May 2018. Please note that video clips and illustrations were removed to honour copy and distribution rights.
The Inter Trauma Nexus and Association for Supportive Counsellors and Holistic Practitioners (ASCHP) are committed to assist member to professionalize their practices and their services to their clients and the community.
Here is a brief overview of the presentation and the eBook for participants.
Information about Dr Barbara Louw is available on www.barbaralouw.com.
More detail about ASCHP is available on www.aschp.net and prospectus about our Continuous Professional Development (CPD) program is available om www.aschp-cpd.co.za.
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Training Dates 2018
Starting your own business/practice
23 January '18
08h00 – 15h30
Trauma & wellness in the workplace
20 February '18
08h00 – 15h30
Dealing with Posttraumatic Embitterment
20 March '18
08h00 – 15h30
Wholistic Wellness Model
24 April '18
08h00 – 15h30
Bookings (2 options)
- Via Quicket website for the session above.
Workshop fee: R 950- per person (No CPD points) or
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Venue: Integrity Academy, Domus Building (Office 111, First floor) 57 Kasteel Road, Lynnwood Glen, Pretoria
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The idea of starting your own practice can be exciting and overwhelming at the same time. You have the academic qualification, as well as the professional knowledge, but the business side is a daunting matter.
This is a business start-up solution for you! A one-day training programme with a start-up kit, providing you with:
- Practice and business registration options in South Africa
- South African Tax and other compulsory registration detail
- How and where to register your employees and payroll
- Detail about the financial maze of bank accounts; insurance, business plans and your accounting system
- Information about adequate open source soft ware that can save you a lot of money
The best part of this training programme is the personal attention, detail and opportunity to have your unique questions answered. Every participant receives…
- An attendance certificate
- A set of accounting books to get you started
- Accounting and payroll software
- Forms and templates for your new business
- Access to a monthly e-newsletter with relevant advice and updates
This course is presented for small groups in order to ensure each attendee receives individual attention.
Dates for 2017 wull be anounced shortly.
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Information about Inter Trauma Nexus' relationship with the Association for Supportive Counsellors and Holistic Practitioners (SAQA ID: 984)
Inter Trauma Nexus became an ASCHP registered CPD Provider at the end of 2017. This means we offer our own programs and these programs are registered at the Professional Body for certification.
The ASCHP is proud to serve as professional body for counsellors in SA who work on primary health care level. This professional body was recently registered at the South African Qualifications Framework - a statutory body for the implementation of the NQF (SAQA ID 984). The ASCHP provides a much necessary regulatory framework for counsellors in South Africa with reference to professional guidelines and ethical code. This could also make the Continued Professional Development training (CPD) acceptable options for other professionals such as teachers, pastors, social workers and psychologists.
The objective of the professionalization of the counselling profession include:
- The promotion of public understanding of, and trust in, the counselling profession.
- To promote pride in association for all professions
- Encourage social responsibility and accountability with the counselling profession relating to professional services communities and individuals.
- Promote the protection of the public from malpractice related to the fulfilment of the professional duties and responsibilities
- Encourage international leading practice and raising of esteem for the counselling profession
- Facilitate access to, and analysis of data related to professions
- Support the development of a national career advice system
CPD training stems from the NQF policy requires that all health professionals must comply with continuous professional development. Professional bodies determine the amount of CPD's required for professional members. The annual number of CPD points is determined by the category of registration. The value is that the training keeps the practitioner up to date with the counselling tools and techniques, and informs members of the latest research and legislation. All members are required to complete a certain number of CPD points per annum in order to maintain membership status.
Dr Barbara Louw, our CEO, is one of the facilitators who present ASCHP CPD training. She is involved in following CPD tour planned for 2018.
(Please note that these are not the only CPD training sessions presented by the ASCHP CPD.
The 2018 CPD Prospectus and CPD tour workshp registration form can be downloaded.
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Gone are the days of doing a three or four year degree or diploma to set your career path. Members of professional bodies in South Africa has to complete mandatory annual Continued Professional Development training.
There are a number of benefits to attend CPD training:
- The fact that you leave your office with the expectancy to learn new things creates anticipation that stimulates your mind to be open for fresh approaches, techniques and exciting original research in your field of practice.
- Attending such a workshop lets you to rub shoulders with colleagues and like-minded people and in so doing you enhance your professional network. This is a great opportunity to meet new people.
- Face-to-face training allows you to focus your attention on important knowledge without the interruption of the telephone, kid, students or clients, for a specific and limited time frame. This single-mindedness allows maximum absorption of information that is necessary for your professional enhancement and skills development.
- These training session should give you a new appreciation for have far you advanced, as well as challenge you to attempt new and creative strategies.
- CPD training is aimed at allowing you to apply new skills and research in your profession in personal and creative ways.
- The last benefit is the fact that this is an opportunity for you to share, formally or informally, what you have learned it practice. You contribution in a class/workshop/seminar or over a cup of tea with a colleague is most valuable.
I hope that next time you receive an invitation for CPD training that you will see the benefits for enhancing your career, as well as personal development.

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Kurdistan: A Land of Longing and Struggle Analysis of 'Home-land' and 'Identity' in the Kurdish Novelistic Discourse from Turkish Kurdistan to its Diaspora (1984-2010)
Galip, Ozlem
Date issued
Thesis or dissertation
University of Exeter
Reason for embargo
I need some time to get my thesis published.
A comparative analysis of 100 Kurdish novels (written in Kurmanji dialect) examines how Kurdistan, the homeland of Kurds and Kurdish identity, is constructed within the territory of Turkish Kurdistan and in its diaspora. Stateless, mostly displaced and constantly in movement, Kurds lack a real territorial homeland, yet base their national identity on the notion of Kurdistan as their mythical homeland. Kurdish novelistic discourse suggests that definitions of Kurdish identity and 'home-land' are relative, depending on ideology and personal experiences, and that 'Home', 'homeland' and 'landscape' as social constructs, are not static entities but change constantly over time. A humanistic geographical approach sees literature, particularly the novel, as an instrument of geographical inquiry into a society or a nation. Using that model, and employing textual and contextual approaches, the study shows how and why the nation/society is constructed and clarifies the sense of home-land and identity embedded in the texts. The novelistic discourse in which 'home-land' becomes an ideological construct is mainly shaped by the political views of the novelists. However, compared to the novelistic discourse in Turkish Kurdistan, the Kurdish diaspora novelists have gathered around more diverse ideologies and politics that have led to diverse 'home-land' images. The novelistic discourse in Turkish Kurdistan also offers more nostalgic elements whereas diaspora theorists and scholars had identified these as exclusive to the literary works in exile. It can be concluded that feelings of nostalgia are invoked as much by the reality of living in fragmented territory and in a situation of statelessness, oppression and domination, as they are when living at a distance, removed from such experiences. In other words, although living in home territories, the literary characters still experience a sense of migration and detachment from home, which is infused with alienation and loneliness as if they are physically away from their homeland.
Scalbert-Yucel, Clemence
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Rachel Freiman doesn't just play music, she becomes it.
One foot taps in rhythm to the music coming from the trumpet next to her. Her hand moves in staccato beats and her head bobs in time as she works with a younger student she tutors once a week.
``Just attack the note, don't be afraid of it,'' Freiman tells her student.
In November she was named this year's first-chair trumpet player for the All-State symphonic band.
The love the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High sophomore honors student has for the trumpet is as clear as the notes from her instrument.
Which makes it hard to believe that a few years ago, Freiman, 15, was ready to walk away from her musical career before it started.
Freiman, of Coral Springs, didn't like to practice the trumpet, which she has played for about six years. She was ready to quit band until her middle school band teacher and mentor, Danny Lieberman, encouraged her to stay with it.
``I saw some talent, and I said, `Rachel, you need to imagine the possibilities. You have talent and you ought to try to at least cultivate it and see if you can let it grow,' '' said Lieberman, the band director at Coral Springs Middle.
``In the interim, she got very good.''
Good enough to win first chair _ or the top trumpet player _ in the All-State orchestra, a group of the top musicians from around the state who gather and play one concert a year. She competed against hundreds of high school freshmen and sophomores around the state to earn this honor.
``That is an amazing feat, and needless to say I'm really thrilled and proud of her,'' Lieberman said.
Freiman credits Lieberman with getting her back into music, and to start practicing. ``[Music) is like everything now,'' she said.


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An ordinary man engages the circumstances of daily life, seeking to draw closer to the Mystery who gives meaning to everything.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Going Crazy for Christ
The service is "down" in our area. Why? Who knows. There was no snowstorm here. I was working merrily along when all of a sudden KLUNK. I called the tech support. Oh, it might be 24 hours. Will they deduct that from our bill? Right now I am using an old dial-up connection that we still have. I have spent hours the last two days dealing with technical problems involving dysfunctional computer programs and internet connections.
I was on the phone with this nice tcch support person with RAGE building up within me when suddenly something inside me said "offer...." I usually get angry at times like these because I think, "this is such a waste of time!" No. This is not true. What is the real meaning of this moment; what is being asked of my freedom right now?
And in that moment--waiting on the phone--I thought, "This is suffering. Think of the world of suffering you live in. Offer this stupid out-of-sortedness. It doesn't have to be meaningless. Someone is suffering now: maybe God wants you to help that person, to suffer with that person. Offer yourself to Him just as you are--don't feel like you have to manufacture a pious mood in order for it to have value. Offer the big ugly mess that you feel like you are right now." God I offer it to you. I offer this. I offer myself.
Did I go into a rapture of spiritual delight? Noooooo. The internet still doesn't work. But how can I call this suffering, this paltry inconvenience? Think of the people in Egypt, in Iraq, Afganistan, North Korea, starving people in Africa. Think of the people I know personally who are in real pain or real trouble right now. Can I really call this spoiled, pampered snit-fit that I am having suffering? What matters is that, here and now, it is "I" who am afflicted; the circumstances of this situation are calling on me to make a sacrifice, to recognize the mystery of my own life and to say, "Lord, this belongs to you, this moment belongs to you, 'I' belong to you."
The world is a communion of sacrifice. How little we understand of what God can build out of the circumstances we consider worthless. Love does not have to feel sweet. Anyone who has changed a poopy diaper knows that. The power of sacrifice is beyond our measure. Offer everything. When I offer, there is--however faintly it may seem--the recognition that "I," my circumstances, the whole world, belongs to Someone Else, to Christ--the Christ who suffered and triumphed and inaugurated the New Creation. It is His. I am His. Nothing is wasted, thrown away, lost, stupid, meaningless. Real life is the affirmation of this through sacrifice, through letting go of my idea, through the constant abandonment of my limited perspective, my measure, my attachment to my own expectations, including especially my expectations about myself. I am frustrated with myself. Offer the frustration. Do not cease to love, to aspire, to cherish ideals, to struggle, to do good, but remember that it all belongs to Him and that He shapes everything according to a plan that He knows is right for me.
God will change me, in time, in His way. God does not want to make me St. Therese of Lisieux. He wants to make me John Janaro. I don't know who John Janaro is, or who he is destined to become. God knows.
3 comments:
- Mols said...
AWESOME. Best post yet, it brought tears to my eyes. Thanks for persevering and writing something today! It's nice to know that other people have trouble passing over the chance to indulge in a "spoiled, pampered snit-fit" when there are simply sooo many opportunities to do so! =)But it helps to have constant reminders that we are an important part (through no merit of our own) of something so much bigger and greater. There are so many people out there with extreme suffering, extreme needs. We can help them, from the comfort of our homes. We don't need money or hairshirts. We simply need to say, "yes." Thank you! Hope your tomorrow is less than "Blah." =)
- February 3, 2011 at 9:58 PM
- Sarah said...
Thank you for posting this! Just what I needed to hear today!
- February 4, 2011 at 2:01 PM
- Maggie said...
Grateful for your insights!
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DFASS launches Time Travel concept at Denver International Airport
Published: 30/09/15
Source: The Moodie Report
By Dermot Davitt
USA. DFASS has opened a new watches, eyewear and fashion accessories store called Time Travel at Denver International Airport, B Concourse.
Time Travel offers upscale brands including Michael Kors, Nixon, Maui Jim, Prada, Ray-Ban, Furla, Longines, Tissot, Chopard, Montblanc and Tag Heuer. Product line-ups will be updated monthly to meet new fashion and technology trends, said the airport.
Denver is Time Travel's first location. The store design features LED runway lighting in the floors, a sensory ceiling with light displays and sounds of passing overhead aircraft, along with display cases and accents made from genuine salvaged aircraft parts.
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Into Thin Air: Average Company Loses $92.3 Million Annually to Mobile Fraud
Posted: Friday,February 13,2015
Last week, mobile identity company TeleSign and RSA, the security division of EMC, published a report on major corporations' losses due to fraud carried out on mobile devices. The survey also asked companies about what kind of authentication mechanisms they were currently using, as well as the preferences of their customers.
The survey asked 250 companies from across a wide spectrum of industry verticals, with average revenues of $2.5 billion. While the average loss due to mobile fraud was $92.3 million, accounting for roughly 3 percent of revenues, some companies reported that they lost as much as 25 percent of revenues due to mobile fraud.
That's high.
What are these companies doing to provide stronger authentication and security for their customers and employees? Unfortunately, only 17 percent reported using biometrics, but hopefully, this will change, as 47 percent of respondents said they were planning to require it in the future.
AGNITIO's KIVOX Mobile 5.0, with Voice ID technology, is able to perform natural speech authentication to accurately identify users and protect against compromise or fraud. The solution offers consumers not only security but also privacy and convenience.
Additionally, KIVOX Mobile 5.0 in embedded devices eliminates the need to communicate with servers, thereby minimizing risks associated with scaled attacks and centralized storage of personally identifiable information – giving end users greater peace of mind.
AGNITIO is committed to providing solutions for easy-to-use, yet strong authentication through the use of voice biometrics.
With the increasing reliance on mobile commerce and transactions, fraudsters are never far behind. AGNITIO concurs with the report authors that in the coming 2-3 years, next generation authentication technologies like biometrics will largely replace the user name and password as the primary method of authentication.
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The Zika outbreak in Brazil
Well, this is certainly not what I've experienced with the Zika outbreak. I am Brazilian, was based in Brazil until July 2017 (I am now in Lisbon) and in 2016 all my 4 pitches on the Zika outbreak in Brazil for The Lancet and The Lancet Infectious Diseases were taken as well as 2 for The Scientist. See below:
New data back early hypothesis for infectious microcephaly.
Triunfol M.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2016 Sep;16(9):1008-1009. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30281-X.
Microcephaly in Brazil: confidence builds in Zika connection.
Triunfol M.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2016 May;16(5):527-528. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30015-9. Epub 2016 Apr 18.
Concern over Zika virus grips the world.
Samarasekera U, Triunfol M.
Lancet. 2016 Feb 6;387(10018):521-4.
A new mosquito-borne threat to pregnant women in Brazil.
Triunfol M.
Lancet Infect Dis. 2016 Feb;16(2):156-7. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00548-4. Epub 2015 Dec 24
Sofosbuvir Shows Anti-Zika Activity In Vitro (The Scientist)
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Zika Infects Adult Neural Progenitors Too
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Found This While Surfing The net... Read lah... TQ..
- Never allow your partner or yourself to denigrate the other. (denigrate means, minimize: cause to seem less serious; play down)
- You must have personal respect and consideration for yourself. (I do and always do)
- Everyone deserves respect and love, but you can't expect to get it unless you give it. (This is true..)
- If you allow your partner to disparage you, expect to hear other damaging words.
- Whatever you are willing to accept is exactly what you're going to get.
- Be compassionate, understanding, forgiving and merciful.
Patience, kindness, consideration and thoughtfulness can never be in short demand.
- Never let a person use names or words to hurt or degrade you or your partner.
- Vow to protect yourself from thoughtless, rude, mean or punishing behavior.
- If destructive words are being used, for whatever the reason, it must Stop. If not, a relationship can't survive.
- Once you've reacted you can then be proactive.
- A controlled mouth shows a controlled mind. (Agree with this, although sometimes i can't control my mouth)
- Use words for empowerment, encouragement and positive recognition.
- Ask for respect. Quietly demand it.
- If your lover, partner, parent or friend can't exhibit self control over their mouth, seriously consider looking elsewhere for a relationship.
- Pick an appropriate the time to discuss important issues.
- This is particularly true if there is an emotional charge where feelings of anger or vexation need to be vented.
- NEVER enter into discussion of personal, private or intimate issues in public.
- Wait until you have privacy and the time to tackle issues.
- If a person makes a mistake, or does something that disappoints or angers you, belittlement or badmouthing them in front of others will only lead to further resentment, anger and frustration.
- Trying to discuss things in bed just before sleep, or while getting ready for bed is simply thoughtless, inconsiderate and a remedy for disaster.
- Trying to discuss anything when the other person won't cooperate or take the time to talk is a waste of time. If necessary make a date to talk.
- If the person keeps on delaying or avoiding conversation or discussion on issues that are important or significant to you, you may need to put it in writing and place it in their hands.
- Talking is good for closure of some issues. And, unless allowed, will create a wound that won't close.
- You can never truly waste your thoughts and words on the separated or departed. Life and thought continues.
- Romance doesn't just exist, you must make it happen. You must make a sincere effort to keep it alive to help your relationship flourish.
- Little things count, it doesn't have to be a dozen roses and champagne all the time.
- A favorite piece of candy in a pocket or a little note can mean a lot.
- Commit yourself to do something romantic every day.
- Show it. Demonstrate it. It's the accumulative total of all the little things that in end adds up to a super special love and romance.
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Rules Of Love (bla, bla bla...)
Found This While Surfing The net... Read lah... TQ..
Football Simulation Game
Currently playing two diffrent soccer simulation games. Championship Manager (Eidos) and Football Manager (Sport Interactive). Actually, CM and FM is under one roof before. But maybe due to some minor (or maybe big) issue, they splited up! I've been playing this series since the Championship Manager 97/98. It was a very good game by then. Now playing with two diffrent (but almost the same) game make it a bit difficult. I am currently managing Man. Utd for both team. Can't tell the diffrent for now, but will tell you once i've finished playing with my season one, for both game! Hehe...
The last "joint" game (Eidos & SI) i'd played were CM2003/2004. It was a great game. It is still in my PC, haven't got time to removed it. Runs the game on three league namely England, Italy and Spain. I am managing Man. Utd (Off course lah), Aston Villa (to try my tactics) and Real Madrid (aslo testing). Won the EPL (now BPL) for 6th consecutive season with Man. UTD and yes, WITHOUT CHEATING!!! Put Aston Villa into a decent position for 4 season (3 - 6th placing) and winning the League Cup and the UEFA Cup. As for Real Madrid, manage to win the Spanish Primera Liga 4 times, the Kings Cup 2 Times. Always failed to land the Champions League. Hehehehe... Oh, Man. Utd won the CL three times...
That is for CM03/04. The last game i played before swithcing to FM08 and CM08. You might asked what happen CM/FM2005, 2006, 2007? Simple, i really don't have time to play those game. Hehehehwe... Lame excuse? Ya... Okay... will continue this story again!!!
Once Upon A Time...
... i have my very own wall paper by my gf. Hahahaha... this pic was taken inside the airplane, and i was on my way home from KL after attending my convocation way back in 2005. I can't remember how did she get this pic? Did i gave her? Oh, some info about the lyrics. It's a local song sung by Danny F. Malinggi and it it one of my favorite numbers. Hehehe... Anyway, she's a very talented and creative girl. That's the other reason why i love her. TQ For the wallpaper... You can view much more of her creative idea at http://www.kadusmusic.com/


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Welcome to THE CULTURAL WORKER, a blog dedicated to arts of the people, from the radical avant garde and free jazz to dissident folk forms, punk and popular arts . The Cultural Worker celebrates revolutionary creativity and features a variety of essays, reviews, fiction, reportage, poetry and musings through the internet pen of this creative writer, journalist, musician and cultural organizer. Scroll straight down and you'll also find an extensive historical Photo Exhibit of cultural workers in action, followed by a series of Radical Arts Links. The features herein will be unabashedly partisan---make no mistake about that. The concept of the cultural worker as a force of fearless creativity, of social change, indeed as an artistic arm of radicalism, has always been left-wing when applied with any degree of honesty at all. No revolutionary act can be truly complete in the absence of art, no progressive campaign can retain its message sans the daring drumbeat of invention, no act of dissent can stand so strong as that which counts the writers, musicians, painters, dancers, actors, photographers, film and performance artists within its ranks. Here's to the history and legacy of cultural work in the throes of the good fight...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
by John Pietaro
This coming Sunday is MAY DAY, THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE WORKER. After more than 50 years of red-baiting against this global labor holiday, last year organized labor finally shook of the fear and marched in many cities along with comrades from the immigrants rights community and the wider Left. In NYC we had an amazing turn-out but the presence of two different May Day rallies, one specifically in honor of immigrant workers in Union Square and the other being simply worker-based and located in Foley Square, saw an uncomfortable rift in solidarity---what May Day is supposed to be all about. Happily, this year we are seeing a powerful alliance between the two organizing committees. I have been excited to be a part of the steering committee over the past few weeks, representing my union DC 1707 AFSCME, and watched as the plans have grown. This week there was a special joint press conference in which organizers from the two rallies sat together and offered a joint plan.
May Day in New York has an amazing heritage. In the 1930s and 40s, hundreds of thousands marched and rallied and the turn-out featured rank-and-file members as well as staff and leaders from all of the unions. Powerful cultural workers such as Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger offered rousing soundtracks to the proceedings and brilliant leaders and heads of state were counted among the guest speakers. The more moderate participants stood shoulder to shoulder with communists, socialists and anarchists (as they most surely did at work, anyway) and a decidedly radical message was the order of the day. Working people marched militantly and with great pride in their jobs, their unions, their progressivism!
The first blast of cold war chill changed all of this drastically and grand May Day parades quickly shrunk to small marches throttled by neo-fascist rhetoric and at times their violent assaults. The Left came under fire and was subject to HUAC hearings, blacklisting, public humiliation, detentions, and the worst kind of reactionary opportunism. The conformism of the 50s saw purges in the most radical of the CIO unions and by the time of the AFL and CIO merger, there seemed to be little chance of organized labor ever walking in the May Day light again. The Communist Party maintained annual May Day gatherings in Union Square Park but these too faded out by 2003. Several years ago, immigrants rights groups, under fire from Bush-era xenophobia, began to march and rally on May Day. Not subject to the average American fear of things "communistic", the immigrant activists reclaimed this day of the worker, recalling its significance in their homelands and teaching us a lesson in turn. By 2010, organized labor finally took the hint and lower Manhattan hosted a large and inspiring rally which, joined by some of the immigrants rights groups fresh from reveling in Union Square, forged a union, if you will, that was but a seed of what's to come.
This brings us to the here and now; radical arms of labor are working closely with highly active immigrants rights organizations in celebration of May Day. The Union Square rally will begin at noon and it will focus on radical calls for immigration reform; speakers, singers, poets and dancers are on the bill. But by 1PM, a large contingent of this group will march down to Foley Square---Worth St, near Centre St---where a mass gathering will be occurring. The forces of labor will be there alongside student groups, Left political parties and coalitions, feminists, peace activists, the No-Wal-Mart-in-NY collective and, yes, a swath of immigrants rights organizations. Speakers will come from all of these organizations and while progressive politicians are invited to be present, none will be allowed to speak on this event, by and for workers. And there will be music, including my own Flames of Discontent, plus an African drumming group, 1199's dance band GQ, the Reverend Billy and more. Here's a new, concerted vision for May Day in NYC and it will call on elected officials to end the attack on unions, immigrants and the poor. Sure, there may still be a level of division, but here's the first major vehicle for a united progressive stand, one which is inclusive and goddamned proud to be radical. It's a new day, comrades.
This Sunday, May 1st, join us as we celebrate May Day 2011!
This year, more than ever, the message of May Day as the Workers' Day is timely. Attacks on public services and the pension and health benefits of those who provide them continue unabated with some governors going so far as attempting to outlaw public sector unions.
Construction trades continue to suffer huge and long term unemployment with too many workers going months without work. Now the employers association has declared war on the trades in advance of June contract talks.
Private sector union members are finding their standards held blackmail to the threats of employers to outsource or move their jobs overseas. With more states attempting to emulate the viciously anti-immigrant legislation passed in Arizona even as the problems of wage theft from immigrants undermine the rights of all workers, immigrant workers continue to require our defense, as we struggle for a fair immigrant policy.
We hope you will join us in the fight for Labor Rights, Immigrant Rights, Jobs for All.
In Solidarity,
Barbara Bowen, Sonia Ivany, Wilfredo Larancuent, Kevin Lynch, Larry Moskowitz
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'Thewsreviews has generously allowed me to vomit my opinions of dubious consistency all over their website, this time with my short review of the Fujifilm X-Pro1. My thanks as always to Matthew.
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Boycott Workfare visit the Netherlands!
Update! Join in a quick online solidarity action with Doorbraak targeting the owner of the strawberry farm using the contact form on his website and tweet his mate Jan Broertjes the mayor of Midden-Drenthe who also supports workfare. More details on the poverty profiteering happening there in the blog below.
Two members of Boycott Workfare recently visited the Netherlands after an invitation from anti-workfare activists based there to share what we have been doing in the UK. We spent two days with Doorbraak, the group which organised the visit, giving talks in the evenings in Amsterdam and Leiden. In Amsterdam we stayed at one Doorbraak member's home which was just on the edge of the Jordaan district where unemployed people rioted back in the 1930s.
Doorbraak, which translates in English to 'breakthrough', was formed back in 2007 by people who had been involved in migrant struggles. They wanted to start a new group which brought together different groups of people on the different issues we face and 'turn the world upside down, organise from the bottom up!' (which rhymes in Dutch). Over the last 3 years they have been taking action against workfare in Amsterdam and Leiden, after militant research they had conducted about the crisis and how it was affecting people uncovered this issue. For some activists in the group who had been very involved in migrant struggles, they were now also acting from their own direct experiences.
Meeting Doorbraak, exchanging our stories of workfare and our actions against it was hugely enjoyable, informative, and inspiring. We had known nothing about how workfare has been playing out in the Netherlands or the grassroots organising which is challenging it and so the chance to meet people in person, discuss this and make connections was invaluable. The parallels between the destruction of welfare in the Netherlands and the UK, and the impoverishment and exploitation of claimants through workfare and sanctions in the Netherlands and the UK were striking. We would describe a government policy, scheme, or bullying tactic and hear of its equivalent in the Netherlands. But there are some key differences in how both countries implement workfare: in the Netherlands, workfare is organised separately by each local authority, so the schemes vary from place to place; and, unlike the UK, the Netherlands has forced labour centres in which hundreds of claimants are forced to attend and work.
We heard a number of horrific stories about workfare in the Netherlands which clearly illustrate the exploitation, racism, and undermining of workers rights of workfare. In one factory, disabled people who had been paid workers with rights and pensions had been sacked and claimants were now forced to cut up sponges all day for no wages. They were not given face masks to protect them from the dust. 80-90% of people on workfare in the forced labour centre in Leiden are migrants. Doorbraak members knew many of these people already from their migrant solidarity work, they had known them when the were locked up in detention centres and now trapped in the forced labour centres. The 'guards' of the centre will sanction their benefits if they heard the migrants speaking a language other than Dutch. We also heard how these 'guards' are ex-police and prison guards recruited for their aggressiveness.
During our trip Doorbraak received a report about a strawberry farm using workfare and taking poverty profiteering to new levels. The strawberry farm owner not only gets forced unpaid labour on his farm, but he receives a payment for each forced worker he takes on. He has also hired out the people on workfare to some of his friends for an hourly fee taking in yet more money. He also fraudulently claimed money from the government for making his workplace accessible to people with disabilities.
But we also heard of loads of inspiring actions and organising that Doorbraak and other groups do to challenge workfare. In Amsterdam we visited the office of De Bijstandsbond, a claimants union, located in what was once a squatted printing factory. The view from the roof is probably the best in Amsterdam. The group provide practical support for claimants dealing with benefit issues. At Doorbraak's HQ in Leiden we were able to take a tour of their actions through the props that were on display. One of their main props is a toilet which has become a well-loved mascot for the group and has placards to accompany it on actions reading 'Schijt aan dwangarbeid' (Sh*t on workfare) – which works really well as a chant as well – and 'Bruin 1? Doorspoelen graag!' (Brown one? Flush it down!). An effigy of the manager of the forced labour centre made from the sponges cut by the people on workfare which people were encouraged to pelt. The group has held May day festivals outside the Leiden forced labour centre which saw the centre close and the claimants get the day off. After these successful actions the group have been banned from going near the centre, with spotter cards with their faces kept by the security staff, but Doorbraak have heard from people inside that the atmosphere there improved as a result of the actions.
In another fun action saw the group respond to a competition organised by the forced labour centre calling for ideas on how to get more free labour – the prize being offered was free labour and office space. Doorbraak submitted their own proposal saying they would make propaganda against forced labour, collectively and without any money. Their proposal seems to have been ignored, but the group went ahead and held their own rival finale to the competition when the winner was announced (they also went ahead with their 'business plan' and made a set of 5 anti-workfare T shirts that they give to people on workfare for free). At another event saw a meeting of 40 people challenging a local politician who was responsible for workfare in Amsterdam calling them out on all their lies. Doorbraak also told us a story they had heard from a group in Berlin who they had invited to the Netherlands the previous year. The Berlin group has spoken with people at the job centre asking them to grade and review the advisors, so as to turn the tables for a change, and find out who the most hated advisor was. When they had a clear winner, the group visited the advisor and presented them with an award for being the most hated, complete with music and glitter. It turned out they got the wrong advisor but it's still a good video.
As well as contacts with the anti-workfare group in Berlin, Doorbraak also has links with a Paris group. Boycott Workfare has also made trips to Austria and Oldenburg, Germany and so together we are developing a loose network of groups across Europe against workfare. In both of the talks we gave in the Netherlands there was interest in strengthening these links and discussing co-ordinating European wide actions together.
Our short trip helped us to think about and understand workfare beyond the UK; we saw how similarly brutal and devastating welfare cuts and workfare schemes are being imposed across Europe. By learning from each others experiences and sharing ideas and tactics, building networks and solidarity, we can begin to challenge workfare on this scale.
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hey my names Chris :/
I'm being forced to work in City Furnishing Glasgow Tomorrow until June 3rd (4 weeks), do Tories really think forcing 25 million people to work for no pay will secure votes, these people are really out of touch HEY TORY i'm a voter now ask yourself can you see me and 25 million others like myself voting for you OMG these people have lost touch of reality let alone with normal people...
So yeah i finished my 1st week of the FORCED LABOUR/TORY camp called workfare, i decided to send a vacation form so now i'm on 2 weeks "paid" vacation from my workfare, 1 week after that and done... my contract says the 30th they aint gettin another day from me, i'll be back around the 23rd :)
when you whiff a workfare programme coming, get to the jobcentre quick and tell an advisor you're going on holiday soon but don't tell them when just tell them soon and tell them frequently...
However i was angry that LearnDirect forced me to sign my "data protection act form" & many others, even after telling her this was illegal, immoral and dickish of her to force my name & initially refusing only after i was issued of threats of sanctions and phone calls of saying i'm not participating in the course did i give in to her demands and signed...
However i was not to be deterred i've been sending LearnDirect informing them of this and when i got back today, my mum said i got a message from LearnDirect and they'll call back on MONDAY. Surely under duress my name should be bloody well ripped out of there computers you would think, cross my fingers and get back to ya'll...
OH yeah they got me lifting furniture removal for a private company this isn't charity, got scuffs and scrapes all over me...


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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Alica Keys f/Eve - Speechless
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Young Chris - PHILLY SH!T! [Official Video]
WEST PHILLY STAND UP!!! You've definitely got to be on that Philly Shyt to truly appreciate this one! This jawn is KNOCKIN'!!
REEEEEMIX!!!! I couldn't leave you without this one! LOL
Young Chris- Philly Shit Remix f/Eve & Meek Mills
REEEEEMIX!!!! I couldn't leave you without this one! LOL
Young Chris- Philly Shit Remix f/Eve & Meek Mills
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Monday, December 27, 2010
Teena Marie Dies In Her Sleep.... My Tribute [Video]
Yes she's really dead. Below you'll find my tribute to one of the best that ever did it. R.I.P Ms Teena Marie.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Message To The Messengers - Gill Scott Heron [Video]
Young Up and Coming Artists.....LISSSSSTEN....
Remember: KEEP THE NERVE, Keep The Nerve, keep the nerve.......
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Friday, December 24, 2010
Bryan J -Let It Snow [Video]
Video by Singersroom.com | More on Bryan J
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Avant - Kiss Goodbye
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
Tank - Scream
Lately Tank has been doing a lot of writing for other artist but he's finally decided to give to us like only HE can do with the soon to be released album titled Now Or Never. Scream is one of the tracks off that album, and I am soooooooo lovin it. Check it out and let me know what you think.
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Monday, December 20, 2010
Police Raid Waka Flocka's Home; Weed, Guns Found
NO HANDS - WAKA FLOCKA f/Roscoe Dash, Wale and T-Pain (The T-Mix)
SOURCE: (AllHipHop News) Police raided the Georgia home of Atlanta rapper Waka Flocka Flame this morning, in search of drugs, and reports of prostitution.
Waka's mother, Debra Antney, told TMZ.com that a number of Henry County, police officers raided the rapper's house and handcuffed Gucci Mane, who heads up the 1017 Bricksquad imprint.
Antney said police were looking for evidence of gangs, drugs and have found marijuana and weapons.
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DMX Gets Sentenced To A Year In Prison! GOT DAMN!!!
Click the link below to read the damn article. These people dun got me upset!
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Sunday, December 12, 2010
A MUST SEE!!!!!! Freemasonry In Hip Hop [VIDEO] Pt 1-3
It's still hard for a logical THINKing person to believe that all this Illuminati mumbo jumbo is actually real.....I know, and I understand. But you better get yourself together and you better do it real quick, because as hard as it is to believe, the TRUTH of the matter is that our music has been infiltrated and manipulated by the people who control the entertainment industry so that THEY can control us. But I bet you don't think you're being controlled at all. I bet you think that you want those fancy cars and designer clothes, shoes and jewelry [that you KNOW you really can't afford!]because you just desire nice things. WRONG!!! Problem is you'll get mad at me for saying that, asking who am I to tell YOU how you're thinking, like Im in your head....but you allow the Illuminati in your head everyday, and you also allow them to control how you think!! I don't know why so many people are in denial about this.
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You Do The Math [quote on royalties]
"If all of the million records are sold at full price with no discounts or record clubs, the band earns $2 million in royalties, since their 20 percent royalty works out to $2 a record. Two million dollars in royalties minus $2 million in recoupable expenses equals ... zero! How much does the record company make? They grossed $11 million."- by Courtney Love, June 14, 2000
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Saturday, December 11, 2010
Michael Jackson Breaking News [VIDEO]
okay well....it's not the official video but it's one that I made myself. If you haven't seen it yet, you've been livin under a rock. This is the best video since those Cheddar biscuits at Red Lobster, forget a piece of sliced bread!!! Hope you enjoy it!
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Hip Hop sites OnSmash, RapGodfathers Websites Seized By Authorities
This is only the beginning. I guess they'll be shutting this music blog down soon too. Here's my thing, if the labels GIVE sites like these the music, they do it for promotional reasons. They give the music to us, we play it on our internet stations, spin it in the clubs and yes, put it on our blogs and on youtube. The hope is that by giving potential consumers sneak peaks and maybe a song or two to download, they'll go ahead and buy the whole album when it's released. I don't see how it's copyright infringement if we're not selling it, or getting money for it in any kind of way. They GIVE it to us so that we may help expose the new music to YOU. We do what we're supposed to do with the music and get shut down for a reason that doesn't make any sense, because we're only doing what was intended for us to do in the first place! I think the reason they're giving is bogus, but aye.....that's just me. Anyway you'll find the story click the 'Read More' link below.
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Saturday, November 27, 2010
Professor Griff Dropping Knowledge - The Hip Hop Illuminati Pt 1 - 3
People think Im talking crazy when I speak on the presence of the Illuminati in our music and the music industry ESPECIALLY Hip Hop. Here is a three part piece of Public Enemy's Professor Griff speaking out on the evil that is taking place in the industry. Griff is not the only artist to speak out on the happenings in the industry, nor is he the first most people just don't listen. People need to start paying attention. Listen and LEARN....
Professor Griff - Illuminati runs Hip Hop Culture - 1 of 3
Professor Griff - Illuminati runs Hip Hop Culture - 2 of 3
Professor Griff - Illuminati runs Hip Hop Culture - 3 of 3
Professor Griff - Illuminati runs Hip Hop Culture - 1 of 3
Professor Griff - Illuminati runs Hip Hop Culture - 2 of 3
Professor Griff - Illuminati runs Hip Hop Culture - 3 of 3
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Marsha Ambrosius - Sex Tape Pt 1
You are in for a real musical treat. Marsha Ambrosius has put together a sensual mixed tape titled Sex Tape which was broken up into three installments. Marsha has taken such classics as Quincy Jones Secret Garden, Boyz II Men's Uhh Ahh, Marvin Gaye's Come Away With Me My Angel & Sensuality Pt 1&2 By The Isley Brothers to name a few, and she has sprinkled a little Ambrosius flava on them. All this to promote her forthcoming LP "Late Nights Early Mornings" which will be released on J Records in early 2011.
All I can say is listen and enjoy, I know I sure did!
Download Marsha Ambrosius Sex Tape Pt 1 Here
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Beyonce's I Am....World Tour TV Special
It was on ABC but in case you missed it, here it is...ENJOY!!!!
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 11/7/2010
N*E*R*D and Pitbull crack the charts, while Ice Cube gained nearly 20 spots on the chart. Devin The Dude is unable to crack the Top 200, but Pimp C hangs on.
It was more of the same on the charts this week. Lil Wayne's I Am Not A Human Being fell back to the #5 spot it claimed two weeks ago. The same week he released from prison, Wayne crossed the 400,000 mark with tracks featuring Young Money Records artists such as Nicki Minaj, Drake and Lil Twist. The rapper said in a letter to Billboard.com this week that he intends on promoting the album when he's released from prison later this month.
Eminem's Recovery jumped two spots down to #7. The Interscope/Aftermath Entertainment release has the possibility of reaching the three million mark by year's end.
Trey Songz slid one spot to #16 with his Passion, Pain & Pleasure. With potential to reach gold next week, Trey may now be Atlantic Records' biggest star in the wake of T.I.'s legal woes. The Petersburg, Virginia native's fourth album features Drake and Nicki Minaj.
N*E*R*D's Nothing received a Top 20 debut. The group's fourth album, released through Star Trak/Interscope Records, features T.I., as well as Daft Punk.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
T.I. f/Chris Brown Get Back Up
Love this song! This song is a direct response to all the quesions you had for T. I regarding his actions of late. This song pretty much sums up everything.
T.I. "Get Back Up" F/Chris Brown Download Here
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Saturday, October 16, 2010
Kerri Hillson 'Breaking Point' [Clean]
The ladies will appreciate this one. Kerri came with the real talk on this one. Every woman has a breaking point....for REAL! Yeah, this is a good one, ENJOY!
Download Kerri Hillson 'Breaking Point' Here
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2. Yet another summer dress I would like to have.
3. It's time for Dunkin Donuts to help a Celiac girl out, am I right?
4. I need this cord for my wireless camera remote. I think I'll need to make a trip here today.
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Qatar - no way.
Of course I want Australia to win the 2022 World Cup Bid, I'm such an Aussie optimist I still think we could win the 2018 as well - despite us pulling out some time ago.
For 2018 I'd be happy for Russia to get it. Spain/Portugal ho hum, but great for fans of course. And England - that would be nice for them but I feel no great excitement at an English World Cup.
But I'm only interested in 2022.
If Qatar win - it will provide further disgust with the game of football and it's administrators. It would be a disgrace, to the world, and to the environment. A win bought and paid for, both now and in the coming years. No model for a game supposedly setting the standards for the World of Sport.
How can the Head of the AFC Mohamed Bin Hamman be promoting so loudly and proudly his own country at the expense, and voting expense, of all Asian nations.
And the USA - can we really beat them? All Stadiums ready to go already - MSL crowds and Beckham, Henry and the like building the game over and over. Do they need a World Cup?
For us; we are a small nation, albeit attached to Asia and it's crucial timezones and population. Animosity from the other codes, maybe it will help to assist FIFA make their choice in our favour.
If they don't give the game to one of the wealthy countries such as Australia, perhaps the wealthiest country with the least developed football and football infrastructure in the World, this country may remain aloof from the professional World Game in a meaningful way forever.
Do such things matter? To FIFA?
Will FIFA look at what is good for the game, for them individually, who knows how they decide?
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The Atmospheric Reactivity Group of ICARE is equipped with a number of experimental facilities used for the investigation of the kinetics and mechanisms of atmospheric reactions relevant for atmospheric chemistry at different scales including gas phase and heterogeneous chemistry. The studies are performed using the most advanced experimental techniques, including low pressure discharge flow reactor coupled with mass spectrometry, flow tube for organic aerosol formation studies, high pressure turbulent flow reactor coupled with chemical ionisation mass spectrometric analysis, laser pulsed photolysis coupled with laser induced fluorescence, atmospheric simulation chambers.
Atmospheric simulation chambers, made of Teflon foil (cubic, parallelepipedic or hemispheric shapes). They are of different sizes : 200 to 7300 L with artificial light sources ; and, 3.4 and 80 m3, (HELIOS platform) with natural irradiation. To monitor the chemical composition over the course of the reaction, they are coupled with modern analytical techniques such as :
Turbulent flow reactor – chemical ionisation mass spectrometer (TFR-CIMS). The three components are the TFR with nitrogen as the carrier gas from a liquid nitrogen tank, the ionmolecule reactor with both positive and negative ionisation modes, and the quadrupole mass spectrometer. The working pressure and temperature ranges of the TFR are 50-760 Torr and 220-320 K, respectively.
Low pressure discharge flow reactor – modulated molecular beam quadrupole mass spectrometer (with electron impact ionization). The working pressure and temperature ranges are 0.2 – 10 torr and 220 – 370 K, respectively.
Pyrex double-walled cell (200 cm3), with four optical accesses for laser diagnostic applications (radical production by photolysis coupled to Laser Induced Fluorescence detection technique) is currently used to study elementary reactions involving OH radicals.
UV-visible absorption cell, Pyrex double-walled tube associated with a spectrophotometer, allows measurements of cross sections of atmospheric species.


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Adrian Family of South Africa
I am looking for info about the Adrian family in South Africa . My great grandfather's name was Aron Adrian who was born in the year 1878 ,he and his brothers and father was in the transport business between Cape Town and the Gold Mines in Johannesburg with ox - wagons .In the early 1900's he join the Railway in Adelaide , in the Province of the Eastern Cape , until he retired. His house was in Stockenstroom Street, Adelaide.His wife was Kitty Adrian. Between his documents we find the following names.Frank Adriaan , Ellen Adriaan, Agulhas Adriaan , Geduld Adriaan, Aron Adrian, Willem Adriaan, Adoons Adriaan, Daniël Adriaan, Minnie Adriaan, Tolly Adriaan, Japie Adriaan, George Jeggels , John Bennett and many other names and dates.


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Here, I'll set the scene:
It's our fourth year of going to Basilica Block Party hosted by Cities 97, and we are beyond pumped. Per usual, the July heat leads us straight to the food ticket booth so that we can stay hydrated. We get a piece of pizza and some drinks, run into some old high school friends, and walk around to check out the different stages. We're looking at the schedule deciding who we want to see most and when. Ultimately, we decide on first seeing Mat Kearney, staying a bit for O.A.R., and then heading to catch the tail end of Weezer.
|Lauren, Shelby, and Me
So we end up getting pretty decent spots for Mat Kearney. We get there a little bit early and listen to whoever was on before him, while more and more people pile in around us. Before we know it, we are belting out songs like "She's Got the Honey" and "Ships in the Night." Mat is absolutely killing it. And it has already made the books as one of the best nights as Basilica.
Eventually, Mat sings his final song and crowd shows their approval with an appropriate amount of whoops and hollers. And then it's over. The temperature is hovering somewhere around uncomfortably hot, and being in a massive crowd of people is not making it any better. We gaze longingly at blue guitar shaped fans that the people next to us were using to cool themselves off. Meanwhile, the people on the other side of us decided it would be a good idea to start elbowing people around them to box them out and have plenty of space (this is a game plan they decided to make out loud as we gave them dirty side glances for being rude concert go-ers*). But you have to make sacrifices. As people ran off in sight of food and hydration after Mat Kearney, we moved even closer, so that there was only a few people between us and the stage.
Finally, O.A.R. takes the stage with "Love and Memories" and a few other opening songs that I don't really recognize. My friends decide that they want to hear "Peace" and "Heaven." Everything is going great. Again, we are singing and dancing, enjoying a view we rarely get close enough for. A few songs in "Heaven" came on, and we were all excited to hear it. Then out of nowhere, I feel like I am going to see my pizza again. I turned to my friend Shelby, and I was like "I have to get of here, but you guys stay. I'll be just fine." Clearly, they could see on my face that I was not going to be fine, and they followed my out of the crowd like the awesome friends they are.
As I am pushing through this massive hoard of people, I can barely see where I am going. I'm seeing spots, and I can't figure out how I am actually still standing. Just when I think I am at the edge of the crowd, I feel a fence, and I look up to see I had reached a fenced in grass area surrounded my people. At this point, standing is barely an option, and I drop to the ground gripping the poles of the fence. I vaguely recall some women standing above me saying (read in snotty voice), "If she's going to throw up, will you please move her?" to my friends.
I know that I have to make it out of the crowd, and continue to push to edge of the crowd. I sat with my head in my knees right next to the fence that marks the boundaries of the concert area, as one of my friends went to get my water. And this is when it happened: I don't remember exactly what Lauren said, but it was something like "Is that Mat Kearney? Yeah, that's totally him right there." So we all look over, and sure enough he's standing only yards away from us on the other side of the fence. We watched as he talked to Cities 97 people, until some girl manages to get his attention and was taking a picture with him. I quickly assure my friends that I am good enough to get up and that we have to get a picture.
First Lauren managed to get a quick selfie with him, and when Shelby and I caught up, I asked him if it would be okay if we got one with him, too. I SAID WORDS TO MAT KEARNEY (I know that is the least eloquent way to put that, but that describes my mental state at this point). And then we snapped this awesome picture, which I am still a little disappointed isn't the best quality, but still. I have a picture with Mat Kearney now. Shelby kept saying that she was really sorry I had to get sick, but she was really glad that I did, because otherwise we would have never met him. And I agreed.
In reality, this probably occurred from being super dehydrated since it was so hot out, and I had barely had anything to eat or drink that day, since I took a 5 hour bus ride back into town that day. However, I would still like to think that it was meant to be so we could meet Mat.
Cheers to more years of Basilica Block Party ahead!
Have you had any unexpectedly amazing concert experiences?
(Also, shout out to Becky. We wish you could have been there to experience this one with with us. But I still plan on photoshopping you in on this pictures.)


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Last night my girl friend Amber came over for girl talk, and since there were no adult libations in the house, we went to our local Armenian liquor store to get something.
Amber likes vodka, and the Armenian store is the place to go, since vodka is very popular with Armenians. It seems that every type of vodka made in the world is available in the Armenian liquor store, with myriad flavors, and whimsical bottles. We got a citrus flavored variety since I had a large can of tomato juice in the refrigerator. I also have a large sweet Italian basil plant.
My friend and former chef at Birds in Hollywood, Chef John Farion, had come over to change the door on the refrigerator. Of course, as I was getting ice and then the tomato juice out of the refrigerator, I kept trying to open it on the wrong side. That made Amber and I laugh.
I had watered my sweet Italian basil plant and it was sitting on the counter. You know where this is going, huh? Me too. These drinks turned out really tasty, and I think you will want to add them to your next get together.
Recipe: Bloody Margarets
Summary: A take off on Bloody Mary and Margarita Pizza. Fresh basil anyone?
- 8 whole basil leaves
- 2 cups citrus or other good vodka
- 1 large can tomato juice
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
- Garlic Pepper
- Ice
- Moisten the lip of four tall glasses, then crust the edges in garlic pepper. If you don't have garlic pepper, or don't like pepper rimmed drinks, you can skip this step.
- Put ice in each glass, and one whole basil leaf in each glass.
- Put the vodka, tomato juice, Worcestershire, Tabasco and remaining ice in a nice pitcher. Rub the basil leaves together in your hands to release the oils, then roll up and slice finely in a Chiffonade. Add that to the pitcher and stir. Check for seasoning, adding more Tabasco or Worcestershire as needed.
- Pour this into the tall glasses and serve. There should be more left in the pitcher for refills.
Quick notes
You can make this in a pitcher or in individual tall glasses. The directions here are for a pitcher. This recipe is for four adults.
If you have little ones at home, who would like to have some, put the vodka directly into the glasses and not the pitcher.
Preparation time: 1 minute(s)
Cooking time: 1 minute(s)
Diet type: Vegetarian
Number of servings (yield): 4
Culinary tradition: USA (Traditional)
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Recipe by Adrienne Boswell.
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This has been a long time coming. Looong time coming. Too long. This is proof of how willing we are to live with imperfection and convenience for the sake of a little laziness and a little busyness. This is also proof that, eventually we'll get to it.
Believe it or not. Those are handles adorning our cabinets.
In the end, despite considering colourful options, despite procrastinating because we couldn't make a choice, in the end, we stopped by the big orange box and picked up the one we liked the best among their selection. It's nothing incredibly special, but it's classic with a bit of a swoop to it. These ones, to be exact:
(From Home Depot)
It's weird, having pulls. Every so often, I find myself reaching for a fork, our preferred method of opening the doors after our tape fell off, or opening two doors in order to open one. I definitely still open the sink drawer from the bottom with my foot.
It will take a while to adjust to normal living again, right? Good thing the kitty approves.
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Almost 20 years ago Johan Vriens bought an old monastery in Bever (the only town in Belgium without street names), which he renovated with enormous attention to detail into a B&B. Not just a regular B&B but a safe haven of rest for everyone who needs it, especially artists like writers & musicians who often go there on retreat, fueled by the delicious bio food served each day.
Johan invited me to stay for a couple of days and create my own documentary about this wonderful location. As a bonus I got to set up my "office" in the impressive chapel in which they regularly organise acoustic concerts.


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We're often asked how we taste wine at Argovino, especially by people who might want to use our reviews. We're happy to share the details, and we hope that other drinkers might find some insight in the reasoning behind them, too.
Perhaps most importantly, we don't taste blind. We've already explained why not in a longer article, but the main reason is that we're trying to duplicate the customer's experience as much as possible. We think that our reviews are useful when they align consistently with the preferences of consumers, and we don't think blind tasting is required for this to occur.
We do, however, try to create fairly uniform circumstances when we taste wines for the first time. For each flight, we use similar glasses placed on a white surface, so differences in color are apparent. We allow the wines to breathe for a short time, keeping the period constant by opening and tasting in the same order. We use water crackers - always the same brand - to clear the palate between wines.
Whenever possible, we taste wines together with other bottles of the same vintage, region, and composition. This is easy for, say, 2011 Mendoza malbecs; it's a little harder for red and white blends, where the exact composition can vary widely even when the same grapes are used. Even when the blends differ somewhat, we try to taste wine of similar styles together.
We don't use reference bottles the way Wine Spectator does. That is, we don't open a cabernet sauvignon that we've already given 90 points as a benchmark for a new flight of cabernets. To us, using a single wine as a benchmark makes little sense, since wines of a thousand different styles could all receive 90 points. We wouldn't want to compare every new bottle to a wine of just one style.
Virtually every wine we open is tasted more than once. The initial tasting happens under the controlled conditions described above. A second tasting of the wine -- preserved in the bottle with inert gases -- takes place with food. This is a critical step that has led us to revise scores and reviews several times. Most people have wine with food, so tasting wine only on its own misses a central part of the customer's experience.
Though we do refer to aging potential in our reviews, we do not give scores based on how a wine might taste years into the future. We know that some wines are intended to age and will offer a greater level of enjoyment long after we taste them. But a wine with plenty of potential will not always develop as expected, and we're reluctant to recommend a gamble to consumers. Our highest scores go to wines that are exciting to drink now and will likely be as good or better for years to come.
We think it's important to share these details, especially since we use the same 100-point scale as other sources of wine reviews. The scale's main asset is its accessibility; everyone knows what it means, and it makes comparisons between critics easier. But because of the way we taste, our points don't mean exactly the same thing as the points from Robert Parker or Stephen Tanzer.
And of course, the scores are just shorthand -- the tip of the information iceberg. We think the real value of our reviews is in the words, and we hope they provide the kind of information that you, the consumer, can use. Salud!


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The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) brings a worldwide collection of children's books to the iPhone and iPad. The largest collection of its kind, the ICDL spans the globe with thousands of children's books from 60 countries, in a wide assortment of beautiful languages with captivating illustrations. Meet the six Mongolian brothers in search of knowledge, the gray peacemaker cat that does something most unusual to the other cat's ears, or a version of the Three Little Pigs that you surely have never heard before.


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One morning this week, I awoke to a strange noise coming from the Mothership's canteen. Striking out to investigate, I found the hallways filled with an odd clicking noise. Fearing an attack by the Black Dog Armada, I slipped down the corridors and dive-rolled through the canteen door to find Gort sat at an old typewriter.
Recovering my breath, I asked him what he was doing. He was sat in a wheelchair, with his legs covered by a tartan blanket, a large bottle of whisky on the desk. He answered that his attempts to elicit the necessary fear for his experiments from the week before hadn't succeed, so he was attempting to write a terrifying horror novel.
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I asked him how far he had got. He pointed to the typewriter. Several pages repeated: "All work and no play makes Gort a dull boy. All work and no play makes Gort a dull boy". I patted him on the shoulder and told him to keep trying.
Creepshow is Stephen King and George Romero's homage to the EC pulp horror comics of the 40s and 50s. EC comics' horror titles were an anthology series covering gruesome tales of nasty individuals getting their grizzly comeuppance from supernatural monsters. So popular were these with children that it caused a huge controversy that was to neuter comics for a long time after. Hence, the opening of the film where an abusive father confiscates his son's copy of the fictional Creepshow comic. Over the following night, we see all the issue's stories evolve on screen.
|Hello. Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal saviour?
First off, we see a bizarrely-young Ed Harris learning about his new wife's family and their dark secret that is about to come back and haunt them, literally. There's not a lot of rhyme or reason to this tale and some moments, such as a rather-weird dance sequence, are outright bizarre. This, however, sets the tone for the film, with a whacky sense of black humour and an exploitation-esque drive to just put loads of cool stuff up on screen and see what sticks. In this case, it's a slightly-OTT zombie with telekinetic powers and a sudden, open ending. Either way, it's a silly bit of fun and a mission statement for a film that gets far better.
|I don'think this laser eye surgery has worked, you know.
Bizarrely enough, the next story stars Stephen King himself as a moronic yokel who finds a crashed meteor on his property. King not only looks deeply odd, but he also puts in a solid comedic performance. Yes, the humour is pretty base, but it is effective and there's a weird charm to the whole proceeding as the meteor slowly begins to turn King into a plant and he imagines how a doctor would react to his condition. There's a great technicolour feel and a memorably-dark ending.
|His wife's new haircut was something of a surprise
Next up is an abnormally-normal tale with an impressive cast. Leslie Nielson bursts into the home of Ted Danson and accuses him of sleeping with his wife. Nielsen has a nasty surprise in store for Danson, but the paranormal comes in to play when Danson gets his own back. The story has an awfully-80s look about it and some truly old-fashioned tech on display, which serves to undermine the narrative a bit; in addition, the climactic make-up effects are a little weak. This is a shame as it's a cracking story, brilliantly acted out by two talented actors. It always seems to be the comedians who make the best dramatic actors and this is no exception.
|Some of the new Muppets went down less well than others
Perhaps the most famous of the stories here is The Crate; the tale of a college professor who discovers a lost crate from an Arctic expedition in the 19th Century, containing a strange and extremely-dangerous creature. His colleague, however, sees the creature as an opportunity to escape an unhappy marriage to his deeply-unpleasant wife, Adrienne Barbeau. The excellent, noirish plot is somewhat undone by the creature, which is unfortunately reminiscent of Bigfoot from Harry and The Hendersons with a lot more teeth. The small, initial glimpses of the creature's eyes and claws are effective, and we somewhat wish that is all that had been seen. Still, it's hard not to appreciate the story's quality.
|His cockroach's new haircut was something of a surprise
The final tale is often considered the weakest, but this is perhaps due to it being so out of place with the rest of the stories. This is a slow, considered script that has more in common with Krapp's Last Tape than Tales From The Crypt. A mean-spirited, Howard Hughes-esque entrepreneur ruins his competitor's company and gloats over his subsequent death, yet his hermetically-sealed apartment is soon invaded by a plague of cockroaches. The final section is infamously the cheapest as the production was low on cash and the cockroaches were notoriously difficult to wrangle. E G Marshall puts in an amazing performance and the whole proceeding has a surreal scifi feel. Completely out of place, but still enjoyable.
The movie ends with the boy from the prologue getting revenge on his father in an appropriately ironic fashion. Overall, the film feels lightweight. Each episode has its flaws and its highlights, but none excel. Still, each is interesting in its own way and King manages to make Creepshow a fitting memorial to the comics that inspired a generation of horror fans and fabricators.


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