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Dr. Ramzi Ben Amara
Since January 2016, Ramzi Ben Amara is the "Maghreb in Transition" project coordinator at the Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Sousse. Furthermore, he is teaching at the Centre of Anthropology of the same institution. His MA Dissertation focused on the development of Sharia-law in Nigeria before, during, and after the colonial time. In August 2011, Ramzi Ben Amara completed a PhD project on the Izala Reform movement in Nigeria at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. The title of his dissertation is "The Izala movement in Nigeria: Its split, relationship to Sufis and perception of Sharia Re-Implementation". Additionally, he was part of a project on "religious engagement" at the University of Cape Town, South Africa between September 2011 and October 2012, where he worked on Muslim activists in Nigeria. In 2013, Ramzi Ben Amara joined the German-Tunisian research group "The Maghreb in Transition" and started working on religious and political discourse in post-revolution Tunisia. His research interests include Islam in Africa, Sufism, Reform movements, Religious Activism and Islamic law.
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Dr. Moulay Driss El Maarouf
El Maarouf Moulay Driss, born 1981, received a scholarship from the DAAD in 2010, to complete his PhD on the local and global dynamics of Moroccan music festivals at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies. His research interests span several topics within Cultural Studies, including North African cinema, gender construction in the media, urban space and social movements, music and sub-culture, dirt and waste in popular culture. Immediately after his defense, he embarked on a research project, funded as it were by the Volkswagen Stiftung, that seeks to explore the hermeneutics of play in Moroccan childhood games. Currently he is an active member and coordinator of the DAAD program: "The Maghreb in Transition: Media, Knowledge and Power". El Maarouf also writes fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry. He is editor and co-founder of Moorings, a cultural Maghrebi revue in English
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Dr. des. Amir Hamid
Amir Hamid studied Anthropology, Arabic Language and Literature and Information & Communication Technology in Zurich (Switzerland) and Khartoum (Sudan). During his studies, he conducted extensive field research in North Africa and the Middle East. In 2017 he completed his dissertation on "Mediating Desire. Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī and the Circulation of Norms on Gender & Sexuality in the Transnational Muslim Public" at URPP Asia and Europe of the University of Zurich. Being a research fellow at the Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at LMU Munich, he coordinates the German-Moroccon-Tunsian research partnership "The Maghreb in Transition". His research interests include religion and media, the public sphere, Islamic Law and legal pluralism, the Anthropology of knowledge and science, gender, power and subjectivity.
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Dr. Salim Hmimnat
Salim Hmimnat, PhD in Political Science, is a Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies (IEA), University Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco. His current research focuses on two main interrelated areas: The first one covers the interaction between Islamist movements, political regime and modernization process in contemporary Morocco. In addition to many papers and chapters which already have been produced on the matter, a book will be published soon titled "The Religious Policy in Morocco (1984-2002) [in Arabic]. Casablanca: Afrique Orient, 2016. The second area has to do with the dynamics of Jihadist groups and Counter-Radicalization strategies in North Africa and the Sahel. He is presently working on a research project that deals with the policy-making process and mechanisms of the implementation of Morocco's Trans-national Religious Policy.
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Dr. Idriss Jebari
Idriss Jebari is a Moroccan postdoctoral fellow with the Arab Council for Social Sciences in Beirut. After completing his doctorate on the history of the production of critical thought in Morocco and Tunisia at the University of Oxford, he is now studying the dynamics of intellectual and cultural exchanges between the Maghrib and the Mashriq in contemporary Arab thought. He has published on the intellectual projects of several North African intellectual figures and on the engagements of intellectuals in public affairs from a theoretical and practical point of view.
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Abdelmjid Kettioui
I am a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at the Moroccan Cultural Studies Centre at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University in Fez. The narrative of my dissertation centers on geopolitics, faith and sexuality in English Barbary captivity narratives. Besides, I am interested in researching the politics and poetics of socio-political change after the MENA uprisings of 2011. I have given papers at a number of international conferences in Morocco, Germany and Austria. A paper on Thomas Pellow's captivity narrative (1739) appeared as a book chapter in Romanian-Moroccan Forms of Manifestation in the European Space (2014). Other papers from my dissertation are under review. I have taught English to secondary and tertiary students for 12 years now.
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Imen Yacoubi
Imen Yacoubi is a Tunisian researcher, translator, and associate professor of English Studies at the University of Jendouba, Tunisia. Imen had been a member in a number of projects across the Arab region, like The Trans-Maghreb Creative Writing Project, the Young Arab Analysts Network International. She became a fellow at Syracuse University in 2011 and 2013, and she had managed and participated in several projects with civil society in Tunisia related to women's rights and civic education ever since.
Her research interest revolve around around gender, arts, and culture.
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Manal Dao-Sabah
Manal Dao-Sabah is a Moroccan PhD candidate in Sidi Mouhammed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco. Her MA research paper was entitled "Women in the Moroccan Islamic Movement al-Adl wa al-Ihsan: Towards a New Model of Feminism". It tackled issues like Islamic feminism, Islamist women in Morocco and the possibility of discussing feminism within an Islam framework. Her current PhD project focuses on "politicized" interpretations of gender issues in Islam and the repercussions on these interpretations on women's (non-)participation in politics and decision making in Morocco. In her research paper, she discusses how the liberal wave initiated by Muslim thinkers like Mohamed Abed al-Jabri has paved the way to Islamic feminism and how Islamic feminism that started as a theory is being translated in (non-)action in Morocco. Manal dao-Sabah is also a high-school teacher in the city of Meknes.
Hafid Zghouli
Hafid Zghouli studied German Literary Studies and Oriental Studies at the University of Freiburg (Germany), where he graduated with a Master thesis on Heinrich Heine's poetical representation of the Orient and Occident. Between 2013 and 2016 he was research fellow at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) at the University of Marburg and gave seminars on modern Arabic literature. Currently he is a PhD candidate at the same Center. His PhD project explores strategies of resistance in the Moroccan postcolonial novel. He published an article on rap and street theatre as aesthetic forms of resistance in Morocco (German).
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Abderrahmae Yaalaoui
Abderrahmae Yaalaoui is a Doctor in Public Law at the University of Carthage. His thesis was on "The constitutional judge and the public opinion." He is currently teaching public law at the University of Carthage and political science at European University of Tunis. Had researches on the political situation in Tunisia since Revolution.
Taha Tayebi
Taha Tayebi holds a BA in English Studies from Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra Morocco in 2014. In 2017, he had his master's degree in Culture and Linguistics from the same university. Currently, he is a Ph.D candidate at Ibn Tofail University. His Ph.D thesis is basically about Secularism and Secular Political/ Social Movements through the Eyes of Moroccan Youth supervised by Dr. Soumaya Belhabib. He has been working on several topics within Cultural Studies including gender issues, resistance, feminist representations, and youth culture.
Fatima Zahra El Hajji
Ermiki Fatima-Zohra, a Ph.D. researcher in Moroccan Cultural Studies Center(MCSC) at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Faculty of Humanities Fez-Morocco. I am currently working on Religion and Politics, political Islam precisely. Find me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Nour-Sadate Benhima
Nour-Sadate Benhima holds a BA in English Studies from Sultan Moulay Slimane University (Beni Mellal, Morocco) and an MA in "Applied Language and Culture Studies" from Chouaib Doukkali University (El Jadida, Morocco). He is currently a doctoral researcher at the same university. His doctoral dissertation examines the impact of Mosques-based literacy programs on women in Rural Morocco. Nour-Sadate has taken part in a dozen of national and international conferences, both as presenter and organizer. His research interests span several topics within Language and Cultural Studies, including gender and adult education, gender construction in the media, urban space and social movements, and youth studies.
Ginan Osman
Ginan Osman, born in 1996, is a student and researcher at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Marburg. She studies Middle Eastern Studies with a major in political science and peace and conflict studies. With a strong interest in contemporary politics, she focuses on social movements as well as foreign policy issues in both her studies and research. In 2016/17 she studied at the École de Gouvernance et d'Économie (EGE) in Rabat, Morocco where she completed an intensive Arabic language program for the study of social sciences. Her bachelor's thesis covers Moroccan foreign policy in Africa. Some of her other interests include research on identity, nationalism, migration, peace, armed conflict and security. She also has a wealth of experience to draw from during her work under several politicians in Germany.
Lukas Mellinger
Lukas Mellinger is a student and researcher focusing on political science as well as peace and conflict studies at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Marburg. In 2016/17, he studied Arabic and political science at Ain Shams University and Cairo University in Egypt. His bachelor's thesis covers national identity in exile as a strategy of legitimacy in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. Further research interests revolve around forced migration, nationalism and national identity, social movements and questions of legitimacy.
Jamie Woitynek
Jamie Woitynek is a student and researcher at the Center for Near- and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Marburg. With a major in political science and gender studies and a large interest in Arabic Literature she seeks to combine feminist thought and cultural studies within an activist queerfeminist agenda. She also studied an intensive Arabic Language Program for Social Sciences at the École de Gouvernance et d'Économie de Rabat in 2016/2017. Her bachelor's thesis covers allegories of femininity in an Algerian novel and moments of adaption regarding potential contemporary queerfeminist ideas within it. Her research interests revolve around gender, culture, literature and politics.
Yosr Belkhiria
Yosr Belkhiria is a postgraduate at the institute of press and information science. Through her studies (master of media research and communication sciences in France and information sciences in Tunisia) her knowledge is multidisciplinary and diverse in the field of communication.
Her current work focuses on the medial treatment of events related to terrorism in TV and on journalism education in Tunisia after the revolution of 14 January 2011.
Omar Moumni
Omar Moumni is a professor of English and Cultural Studies at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences Sais- Fez, Department of English. He is the author of Ruptures in the Western Empire: White Female Captives and Cinematic Orientalism (2012), Postcolonial Matters (2013) and The Objectification of Women in Moroccan Advertizing (2015). He has a number of published articles and has contributed in scores of inter/national conferences. Omar Moumni is a visiting research scholar at New York University (NYU Steinhardt), Multinational institute of American Studies: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions (2016). His current research covers a variety of areas including Postcolonial Literature, Visual Culture and Gender studies.
Isabel Schatzschneider
Isabel Schatzschneider is a researcher and an activist in animal welfare, food ethics, environmental ethics and Islamic ethics. She has achieved her BA in Philosophy (London Metropolitan University), MA in Islamic Cultures and Societies (SOAS, London) and MA in Islamic Studies (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich). In 2011 Schatzschneider has joined as a researcher CILE (Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics) in Qatar. Later in 2013 she started to work for a well known NGO Schweisfurth Foundation in Munich. Here she had significantly contributed with her research on the German Halal market. Schatzschneider has written a number of articles covering areas such as Islamic law, ethics, food and environmental ethics, animal welfare and the global halal food market. In 2014 she worked as an academic researcher on politics and media in the Middle East at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. She is also a member in the foreign exchange program "The Maghreb in Transition: Media, Knowledge & Power". Currently she has a PhD research position on the topic "Animal Welfare Activism as a Form of Resistance in Tunisia and Morocco".
Tariq Bekkaoui
Tariq Bekkaoui is a researcher at the Moroccan Cultural Studies Center, Dhar El Mehraz, Fez. He got his MA on Orientalism and Occidentalism in 2016. He is currently preparing his PhD on Migration and Diaspora in the same institution. He has been involved in different activities, including seminars, workshops and conferences in Morocco and worldwide. He is a member of the Arab Council of Social Sciences (Beirut) and Diaspora Studies Research. His activities do also concern other academic areas such as Political Sciences.
Mounir Saidani
Mounir Saidani is Professor of Sociology at the High Institute of Human Sciences, Tunis AL MANAR University, Tunisia. He is interested in Socio-anthropology of Culture, Knowledge and Art, Socio-cultural Change in contemporary Tunisia and the Arab World. He published several books and articles in Arabic, French and English in Tunisia and abroad. He also translated books and articles in the field of his interest from French and English into Arabic. His latest publication is a 1418 pages Report on the Religious State in Tunisia 2011-2015, a collective work whom he is the general supervisor and the editor in chief. He is leading a multidisciplinary research unit working on "Knowledges, Cultures and Social Change".
Rim Kallel
Rim Kallel is a researcher and a feminist activist. Her research interests are: Feminism, Politics, Linguistics and Translation. She is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities of Manouba, Tunisia. She has an M.A. in European Studies, Governance and Regulations from the University of Bonn and the Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), Germany. In addition, she has an M.A. in Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics from the Faculty of Letters and Humanities of Sfax. She was part of a 10-month training program at UNESCO headquarters in Paris and continued to collaborate with UNESCO since then. Kallel is member of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD) as well. Her last publication in the Future of Europe Observer, entitled "Building Resilience: The Perception from Tunisia" (2017), provides a reading in the Tunisian-European relations within the framework of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP). Since 2015, Rim Kallel has worked as chief department of cooperation with regional groups in the Tunisian ministry of education.
Anna Antonakis
Dr. Anna Antonakis is a post-doctoral researcher based in Berlin, and working as a political scientist in the fields of gender, media and international relations. She studied political science at the Freie Universität Berlin and IEP Strasbourg and holds a PhD from the FU Berlin that she defended in June 2017. In her PhD she looked at different renegotiation processes of gender in Tunisia after the uprisings in the transformation period (2011-2014). She engages with Intersectional (gender) theory and theories of public and counterpublic spheres and is interested in the creation of different networks of (feminist) solidarities in a digitalized world. Her research interest in internet and society is closely related to the historical moment of the revolutionary uprisings in Tunisia, which she witnessed and analyzed on- and offline. Furthermore, her research focuses on media and representational politics, Feminist perspectives in International Relations, and comparative approaches. From 2013 to 2016, she was granted a fellowship in the project "Elite Change and New Social Mobilization in the Arab World" at the Institute for Foreign and Security Studies SWP in Berlin. Since 2017 she is the speaker of the working group "Gender and Politics" of the German Society for Political Science and Member of the section "Women and International Politics" at the grassroots Think Tank "Polis180" in Berlin. She has been affiliated with the "Maghreb in Transition" exchange program since 2015.
Ines Braune
Ines Braune is an assistant professor at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) at Philipps-University Marburg. She holds a PhD in Arabic Studies from Leipzig University and has a background in media studies. She has for a time been researching culture and media changes with a cultural studies perspective and long periods of field research in the Middle East. Having focused on everyday Internet practices of young Moroccans my PhD dissertation dealt with local appropriations of globally available resources. My current research is on Parkour as a mediatized cultural practice in the Arab world. Her research interests include cultural studies, media, youth and inequalities in the Arab world. She is co-editor of the open access journal Middle East Topics and Arguments (META).
Mathieu Rousselin
Mathieu holds Master's degrees in political science and in European studies from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (France) and from the College of Europe (Belgium/Poland) as well as a doctoral degree in international relations and political economy from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). His research interests include global environmental governance, social movement theory, critical theory and the study of democratisation processes. His work has been published in the Journal of Political Ecology, New Media and Society, Euxeinos, the European Foreign Affairs Review, Global Dialogues, Multitudes, the Journal of Contemporary European Research, WeltTrends and Science and Society. He is also the author of Widerstand (Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2014), a book in German language on contemporary capitalism critique in France. Next to his academic activities, Mathieu co-founded the Chios Institute of Mediterranean Affairs, an NGO dedicated to fostering cultural and academic exchanges between Mediterranean countries, which he also directed from 2008 to 2011. Since 2011, he has been involved in a number of teaching and training projects with the DAAD in Tunisia.


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text: What type of warrior cat will you be? Ever wondered what you might be if your a warrior cat? then find out in this quiz!! nightskyxx1 published on April 23, 2011456 responses 145 4.4★ / 5 Questions in vertical order Your mother enters the nursery with a few pieces of prey for you and your siblings, do you... Let your fellow kits take first pick then you eat what ever gets left over. Be the second cat to pick your prey. Pick the smallest piece, your to busy to eat at the moment. Let the weekest siblings eat first then you pick. Eat a shrew, its your best meal but you slowly eat it as if you scared of cats around you. You wait for ages, eating isnt much of a big deal anyway. Youd rather do something else. Let everyone eat even the adults. There more important. Oh noes! Windclan attack! even though your still a kit, the leader wants the eldest litter to fight but with warriors by there side. What do you do? FIGHT FOR YOUR CLAN!!!! you will fight with all your power and wisdom you have until every last windclan cat has left with a souveniour! Fight with the weekest bunch of your clan. They dont stand much chance against a group of windclan cats. After all with most of you there they dont stand a big chance of winning! Protect cats in the main clearing! the medicine cats den, nursery and elders dens are all a risk of being attacked! You dont fight in the clearing but on the borders where the leader is. You dont want to stay in the boring clearing where not much action is going on! You fight outside the nursery! You feel not as brave enough to go out more further. Your mother and fellow kits mean more to you. You stay in your own space, not in the clearing but in the borders where everyone else is fighting. Yes your still fighting but by yourself, if any cats come to you youll kill em! You fight in the borders and with as much Windclan cats as you can fight! Using all of your knoledge of skills you can think of hurting some Windclan warriors! Your mother calls inside the nursery for you and your siblings to go to bed. You appraoch your bedding, what do you do next? Well.... ill wait, till everyone else has gone to bed then ill be last but before the adult cats! Wait till my youngest siblings have gone to bed, then it will be me. But incase i will check to see if any one was coming from outside for no reason. Just have a little check at my bedding incase im gonna sit on thorns or anything else. Go to sleep of course! after all that fighting from windclan im busted out! if i ever want to become an apprentice i cant be lazy! ill think of what i might do tomorow then eventually ill fall to sleep. ill stay up!!! do heck with sleep! instead ill sneek out and leap onto a low branch, look out for any trespassers that might come in. i will stay up late, wait till everyone in the nursery is asleep and then listen for anything eventually i will curl up and go to sleep. You and your siblings are playing when the eldest suggest they go and play outside the borders next to the riverclan stream (sunningrocks.) you dont want to stay and have your body washed by your mother so you tag along. You get to sunningrocks and your siblings dare you to swim to the other side of the stream to riverclans border. What do youdo? Decline the offer with a a stern voice Are you mad!? why would i do that, i cant even swim.Call me what youlike but no way am i doing this! I might drown! and thus die! so noway Its not the right thing to do. You cant be forced to do something you dont wanna do! well.. if it will make me stronger... then ok sure, ill show you wimps how to swim like a proper warrior. Im not gonna show how week i am We are breaking the warrior code entirely! leaving camp when kits, having to swim across to riverclan borders! absaloutly not im going home. When you get older, it will be time to choose a mate. What kind of cat are you looking for? someone who knows what to do when theres a problem A kind and gentle cat. when something goes wrong she/he will always be reasurring Someone who knows good skills in order to survive. Like hunting, Fighting and caring. A cat who is strong. Shows no weekness on the outside but softness on the in. A cat with a good sense of humour. Whenever i want to share a piece of fresh kill with this person, she/he will be more than happy to be there for me. Someone who doesnt mind me taking over sometimes. Can be stern when i get over the top Um well.... myabe someone who can help out but i wont really need the assistance. Its your first time at a gathering! your not sure what its meant to be like and how to act, but a older apprentice is someone whos your friend so you just follow what she does. Finally the leaders begin to speak the clan news and the shadowclan leader announces that he scents thunderclan scent on there border. You blurt out loud before anyone can reply. What do you do afterwards? Blush and back away slowly to the back of the crowd Give a hawk eyes and dip your head in apologies shrugg and go "but i had to say it" Start to sweat and stammer while saying your sorry Wish that you hadnt done it and apologize to everyone especially the leaders. express your answer but before saying sorry or else you will sound rude. Stay silent and just stand there not moving. You are given a choice to join a new outsider clan, Ashclan. What do you do? decline the offer, you want to spend time with a real clan accept it. Youve got nothing better to do. Ask questions first then accept. Your curious. No way! i dont want to join your clan. Besides my friends and family are in my clan. shake your head and hiss. You dont ven no what its like and your life is way better than starting a new one! I want to carry on watching out for my family and friends. Absaloutly not! you love the life in your own clan! I want to hunt and fight with the clans i no!


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'Echoes End' - Wonderful family cottage set on a large lot with tall trees. This cottage is recently updated and located on Sturgeon Lake just 5km from the town of Bobcaygeon . Plenty of living space, large kitchen, vaulted ceilings and large windows offering nice views of the lake. This cottage is perfect for large or extended families.
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There are 4 bedrooms in this cottage. The Master bedroom has a King bed, flat screen TV, gas fireplace, ensuite and lake view. The Master also has the washer and dryer units. The second bedroom has a double Murphy bed with desk. The third bedroom has a queen bed and a double/single bunk combination. This bedroom also has access to the loft area. The fourth bedroom has a queen Murphy bed and walkout to patio. There is one 4 piece bathroom and one 4 piece ensuite bathroom.
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A study of mortality and the hare-as-Spirit-messenger.
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Contrary to what some think, the Hare is quite different than a rabbit. Besides obvious physical differences, the hare is more solitary and tougher than the rabbit. Hares don't live in warrens or have maternity nests. The young hares are born so well-developed that they can fend for themselves within a few hours of their birth.
The Hare travels swiftly between spirit realms, changing shape as need arises. Hare's limber grace lets you move safely in strange or chaotic environments, and through different social or spiritual realms, gaining valuable insight and wisdom from each one. [happywishingwell.com]
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Vintage Winter Fashion - Courtesy of Vogue
Vogue was founded in 1892 by Arthur Turnure and in 1905 the publication created to celebrate the "ceremonial side of life" was purchased by Condé Nast. The 1910s - 1930s illustrated covers were works of art. Helen Dryden, Georges Lepap (both of which are well represented in the collection below), Harriett Maserol, George Plank and Eduardo Benito created beautiful, striking illustrations for Vogue's covers. Even when Vogue started using photographs for their covers, they alternated between illustrations and photographs. Today, since it is currently -8 where I live in Wisconsin and the landscape is covered with fresh snow, I present to you winter fashion covers from those years. I hope they will inspire you to embrace winter in all its beauty. If you are interested in viewing more covers from this time period, I suggest either The Art of "Vogue" Covers by William Packer or you can peruse the Vogue UK online archive, which has covers dating back to 1916. If you click on any images below it will take you to their source page. I do not own any of the images - they are the property of Condé Nast and I present them for purely educational and aesthetic purposes.


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E-mail from the customer concerning a Concrete Floor Repair in NJ
Hi Chris,
I found your company on the web. I called into the office to get your email address. Is this a slab jacking project that you might have an interest in??
This is the building.
It measures 24′ x 30′ and has a slab that was poured in 2 sections of 12′ x 30′. The problem with the slab is that the back end has cracked and sunk down almost 5″ toward the rear.
We rented a backhoe and dug out under the slab to install a support.
We created a hollow for the insertion of a support column. We dug in about 6 feet. The cause of the sinking turned out to be settling earth beneath it.
There is a 4″ to 6″ gap between the floor and the earth. The entire slab seemed to be held up by the rebar.
We created a column using concrete block. The jacks were used to push the bricks down under the weight of the slab. The idea was that eventually we would hit solid ground to establish a foundation point. We went down about 6 feet before that happened. There are 18 blocks piled up on the load bearing column.
We were able to lift the slb up 4inches. However we lost some of that when we transferred that last block onto the column. ( I know there were better ways of doing this, but we were on a limited time schedule and this seemed to work at the time.) The net result was that we gained 2 1/2″ on the low point of the slab.
Here you can see where it rests now.
The good news is that the floor will be stablilized for a while. The bad news is that we still have a 4-6″ gap under a good part of the floor and it may sink again.
My questions are as follows:
- Is slab jacking a cost effective means to fix this problem ??. My fear is that it just might be too much money for this size and value of the building.
- Is there another solution that might be better ?. I have considered just knocking some holes in 2 or 3 sections of the slab and pouring a low slump concrete to fill in as much as possible.
- Or perhaps can I get away with using flowable fill. Will flowable fill support this load?.
Your comments and quote is welcome.
Please feel free to contact me. Call anytime during the day. I work at home.
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Saudi Arabia deplores Charlie Hebdo's continued 'mocking of Islam'
[RIYADH] Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, said on Wednesday it deplored the continued "mocking of Islam" by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The kingdom is "surprised, and deplored" the publication last week of a new cartoon of the Muslim prophet Mohammed, the state Saudi Press Agency said, citing a source at the foreign ministry.
"The kingdom does not find any justification for such deliberate abuse against Islam, which insults the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims around the world," the source said.
Freedom of opinion and expression do not justify "insulting religious beliefs," the source added.
Thousands of people around the world have demonstrated against the latest cartoon, which appeared in Charlie Hebdo's first issue since a January 7 attack on the magazine's Paris offices killed 12 people.
The gunmen, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, were later shot dead by police.
They said they were avenging previous Mohammed cartoons published by the magazine and considered deeply offensive by many Muslims.
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AUSTIN, Texas & STAINES, England, May 13, 2014 — Asure Software a leading provider of workplace management software solutions, today announced that its AsureSpace™ workplace management solutions will be featured in the new FM TV program for facilities management professionals, which will debut at the ThinkFM conference in London on May 13.
FM TV is a video content partnership between BIFM (British Institute for Facilities Management) and ITN Productions. The program will address the importance of facilities management to business, society and the UK economy, showcasing tangible results of strategically aligned facilities management practices. The Asure segment was filmed at Scottish Water in Glasglow, where AsureSpace solutions, including resource scheduling and integrated panel hardware solutions, work together to support the organization's agile working and hot desking program – the Asure solutions help optimize space and promote workforce agility, collaboration and engagement.
"The Scottish Water office not only exemplifies modern, dynamic design that combines aesthetics and functionality, but also the convergence of great design with strategic planning involving FM, IT and HR to help the organization manage top operating costs – real estate, technology and personnel – in a way that benefits employees," said Nigel Clarke, Asure Vice President & General Manager, EMEA & APAC. "Scottish Water took a progressive approach to workplace management, using Asure's workspace management solution for a hot desking program that enables agile staff to find and reserve work and meeting spaces via a cloud-based online reservation system, or via on-site kiosks and touchscreen panels."
"Our work with Scottish Water is a perfect example of the consumer trends we are seeing in the marketplace," commented Pat Goepel, Asure Software CEO. "Customers are using Cloud-based, SaaS solutions to help them understand and better manage when, where and how their global employees are working. In fact, today we serve over 5,000 customers in 78 countries, and we expect the need for global, localized solutions to continue."
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Asure Software, Inc., headquartered in Austin, Texas and with an office in Staines, England that serves the EMEA and APAC markets, offers cloud-based time and labor management and workspace management solutions that enable businesses to control their biggest costs – labor, real estate and technology – and prepare for the workforce of the future in a highly mobile, geographically disparate and technically wired work environment. Asure serves approximately 6,000 clients worldwide and currently offers two main product lines: AsureSpace™ workplace management solutions enable organizations to maximize the ROI of their real estate, and AsureForce® time and labor management solutions deliver efficient management of human resource and payroll processes. For more information, please visit www.asuresoftware.com.
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I've been a fan of Georgia Coote's work for some time. We have worked together on little writing/art projects before and I knew she would create something beautiful, imaginative and perfect for Lionheart Magazine. As I have said before, I am adamant that the magazine is printed and not merely online – this here blog is the online bit – and I really wanted a pull out for the middle, so readers can tak it to their walls (be careful with blue tak on renting places!), or just look at it, or whatever. I think it's a nice little addition to a magazine, and in fact there will be many bits you can snip and store away, or just keep the magazine as a whole, to flick through and use as a coffee mat. Georgia's design (above) will be one side of the pull out, then there will be another design on the other side, equally stunning. I am sure you will agree that it's a wonderful pattern; pretty yet strong and just the sort of print style I adore. I wish I could turn it into wallpaper and plaster all my walls with the design. Lionheart intense!
Georgia is currently working as a freelance designer, running art workshops for many different community groups.
This animal baby suit pattern is very sweet.
"I aim to make art accessible for all, and to show people skills that they can later develop and continue to use. The workshops have a relaxing atmosphere and provide encouragement and inspiration within the group."
"Some organisations I have worked with in the past include: SNAP, Maldon Mind,New Opportunities Havering, The YMCAand Chelmsford Mencap."
Georgia also makes jewellery.
Lovely summer dress pattern here.
I really like her little 'About Me' on her website:
"Pretty floral teacups, Raymond Peynet Books, Men with beards (well, one in particular), The Cha Cha Cha, Vintage fabrics, Being a redhead, Mountainous slices of cheesecake, Al Green's 'LetsStay Together', Surprise parcels in the post & Polka dots.
"I graduated from the Norwich School of Art and Design in 2006 after studying Contemporary Textile practices. Primarily inspired by pattern and the printing process, I am also inspired by conversational pattern design, a vintage colour palette and just about everything around me. I love to create quirky, warm designs that are uplifting and good for the soul. These designs can be applied to textiles, stationary, ceramics and all manner of surfaces. I live in Chelmsford, Essex with my graphic designer husband. He loves……. The smell of a new book, tinkering with technology, and a good hearty pie."
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Netherlands 181 (de Grooth 54, Nabi 4-52, Hassan 4-45) lead Afghanistan 107 (Mangal 41) by 74 runs
Twenty wickets fell on the first day of Netherlands and Afghanistan's ICC Intercontinental Cup clash at Amstelveen, as the home side gained a 74-run lead. Afghanistan are only playing their second match in this tournament, and their inexperience in foreign climes cost them dear when they were rolled for 107 in 36.5 overs.
Afghanistan produced what was thought to be an exceptional bowling display, with Hamid Hassan and Mohammed Nabi bagging four wickets a piece, to dismiss Netherlands for 181. But their efforts on the bowler-friendly wicket were soon over-shadowed by a calamitous batting performance, as Netherlands took no prisoners in their reply.
Afghanistan began woefully, losing four wickets within the first nine overs with ten runs on the board. Noor Ali failed to reproduce the form he displayed against Zimbabwe XI last week, as he was trapped in front off Mudassar Bukhari without scoring. Ahmed Shah soon followed him back to the pavilion after being run out for one by Daan van Bunge who threw in from wide mid off. Edgar Schiferli continued the rout by bowling Mohammed Shahzad for nine, then Asghar Stanikzai was caught low down by Wesley Barresi off Schiferli for a sixth-ball duck.
Netherlands were understandably chirpy in the field by this point, but a fifty partnership between Nowroz Mangal and Raees Ahmadzai brought some hope to the visitors. The storm wasn't calm for long however, as Ahmadzai played one straight back to Seelar who snapped him up, caught and bowled, for 27, with the score at 60 for 5.
Captain Mangal stuck in there resolutely as wickets fell around him; Peter Borren being the main culprit, dismissing Nabi for 13, who was caught by Bas Zuiderent, and the spectacular clean-up of Samuillah Shenwari, whose leg-stump was sent cartwheeling as he was bowled for 5. But Mangal's resistance finally came unstuck as he played straight to Zuiderent at cover point off Borren for 41.
It didn't take much for Seelaar to wrap up the innings, taking the final two wickets with considerable ease. He dispatched Shapoor Zadran leg-before with considerable guile, as the flighted delivery hit the back pad sending Zadran packing for 4. The final wicket came as Hassan skied a huge drive off Seelaar down the throat of Mark Jonkman on the long-off boundary.
Earlier, Borren was ruing the decision to bat first on what turned out to be a tricky wicket, as his side fell to 75 for 3 at lunch. If it wasn't for an impressive knock from Tom de Grooth, who scored 54 before caught and bowled by Nabi, the state of play at the end of the first day could have been very different.


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For years, I have been answering questions about web content optimization (WCO) and search engine optimization (SEO). (See this post from earlier this year.) Recently, I've had several calls with customers who want a definitive answer to the following questions:
- How does Site Optimizer handle bots?
- How do we make sure we aren't accused of cloaking?
In the past, we've worked with the Google team to get answers to these questions. Recently, Matt Cutts posted this video on cloaking, based on our discussions. (Shout-out to Patrick Meenan for his tireless efforts here. Thanks, Pat!)
Like most search-related answers, the video is a general overview of cloaking, but it contains all of the information we need to answer the questions above.
(Before I get into that, though, I have to mention how much Matt reminds me of Mr Rogers in this video. He seems so approachable and kind. I'd let him take care of my kids.)
Now let's get into things. In order to analyze Matt's points, I've transcribed the video to the best of my abilities and patience. I'll be quoting Matt, and then interpreting his comments in the context of web content optimization.
Point #1: You cannot target the bot specifically, and you cannot serve it different content.
"Cloaking is essentially showing different content to users, then to Googlebot. So imagine that you have a web server right here and a user comes and asks for a page. So you know, here is your user. [He's drawing on the whiteboard here.] You give him some sort of page and everybody is happy. And now let's have Googlebot come and ask for a page as well, and you give Googlebot a page. Now, in the vast majority of situations, the same content goes to Googlebot and users. Everybody is happy. Cloaking is when you show different content to users and to Googlebot and it is definitely high risk; that is a violation of our quality guidelines."
I think he makes the basic principle very clear here: you cannot target the bot specifically, and you cannot serve it different content.
What is key here are two concepts:
- What constitutes different content.
- What situations outside of the "vast majority of situations" are acceptable use cases for sending different content to different browsers.
Let's keep going as Matt expands on both of these concepts.
Point #2: Intent is important.
"Why do we consider cloaking bad, or why does Google not like cloaking? Well, the answer is sort of in the ancient days of search engines, when you saw a lot of people do really deceptive or misleading things with cloaking. For example, when Googlebot came, the web server that was cloaking might return a page all about cartoons, Disney cartoons or whatever, but when a user came and visited the page, the web server might return something like porn. And so if you do a search for Disney cartoons on Google, you will get a page that look like it would be about cartoons, you would click on it, and then you would get porn. That is a hugely bad experience. People complain about it. It is an awful experience for users. So we say that all types of cloaking are against the quality guidelines. There is no such thing as "white hat cloaking". Certainly when somebody is doing something especially deceptive or misleading that is when we care the most that is when the web spam team really gets involved."
In this section, Matt makes it clear that intent is important. The cloaking debate really centers around the issue of intentionally misleading and deceiving users. Like most Google initiatives, the purpose of banning cloaking is to ensure that the system has integrity and does no evil. When analyzing how web content optimization deals with bots, we need to keep this principle in mind.
Let's keep going.
Point #3: Testing with simple hash comparisons won't work for dynamic sites.
"Okay, so what are some rules of thumb, to save you trouble or help you stay out of a high-risk area? … Take a hash of a page — take all that different content and boil it down to one number [the hash] — and then pretend to be Googlebot. You know, with the Googlebot user agent. We even have a "fetch as Googlebot" feature in Google webmaster tools. So you fetch a page as Googlebot and you hash that page, as well, and if those numbers are different [i.e., the page hash taken from a browser versus the hash taken from the bot's perspective], then that could be a little bit tricky. That could be something where you might be in a high-risk area. Now pages can be dynamic — you might have things like time stamps, or the ads might change. So it's not a hard and fast rule."
Obviously, a simple hash of a dynamic page will not give you the answer to the cloaking question. Sites are so dynamic that this test in its simple form would simply not work for most pages. I tried this on 10 prominent sites and found that the hashes were completely different due to dynamic content such as ads and changing content. We need to keep searching for answers.
Point #4: Targeting the bot and serving it different content is a clear violation.
"Another simple heuristic to keep in mind is, if you were to look through the code of your web server [or in the WCO market, your friendly neighborhood automation vendor ], would you find something that deliberately checks for a user agent of Googlebot specifically, or Googlebot's IP address, specifically? Because if you're doing something very different or special or unusual for Googlebot — either its user agent or its IP address — that has the potential to, you know, maybe be showing different content to Googlebot than to users. That is the stuff that is high risk. So keep those kinds of things in mind."
This provides good guidance for web content optimization. Any WCO solution that is targeting the bot specifically and serving it different content is clearly violating the rules. At Strangeloop, we don't do this and I'm not aware of anyone that does in our industry. (I checked a number of other vendors while preparing this post.)
Next, Matt transitions to a few examples that are very relevant to our world.
Point #5: Serving different content to different clients, based on client needs, is okay.
"Now, one question we get from a lot of people who are white hat and who do not want to be involved in cloaking in any way, and who want to make sure that they stay clear of high-risk areas [that's me, and ostensibly, if you're still following along, it's you too]: what about geolocation and mobile user IDs, so you know, phones and that sort of thing? The good news, in an executive sort of summary, is that you don't really need to worry about that [geolocation/mobile user IDs], but let's talk through exactly why geolocation and handling mobile phone is not cloaking."
In other words, addressing different client needs is not cloaking. He continues with his example, but it is important to note that serving different content to users based on capabilities is clearly defined as acceptable. Like mobile phones have different capabilities, so do different browser versions.
For more clarity, let's examine Matt's examples.
Point #6: Treat Googlebot like any normal desktop browser.
"Okay Buy Viagra… so until now we have had one user. Now let's go ahead and say this user is coming from France. And let's have a completely different user, and let's say maybe they are coming from United Kingdom. In an ideal world, if you have your content available on a dot-FR domain or dot-UK domain or different languages because you have gone through the work of translating them, it is really, really helpful if someone coming from a French IP address gets their content in France. They are going to be much happier about that. So what geolocation does is, whenever a request comes in to the web server, you look at the IP address and you say 'Ah, this is a French IP address. I am going to send them the French language version or send them to the dot-FR version of my domain.' If someone comes in and their browser language is English or their IP address is something from America or Canada or something like that, then you say, 'Aha, English is probably the best message.' Unless they are coming from the French part, of course. [I like the shout out to my friends in Quebec.]
"So what that is doing is, you are making the decision based on the IP address. As long as you are not making some specific country the Googlebot belongs to– "GoogleLandia" or something like that — then you are not doing something special or different for Googlebot. At least currently, when we are making this video, Googlebot crawls from United States, so you would treat Googlebot just like a visitor from the Unites States. You'd serve up content in English and we typically recommend that you treat Googlebot just like a regular desktop browser, so you know, Internet Explorer 7 or whatever a very common desktop browser is for your particular site. So geolocation — that is, looking at the IP address and reacting to that — is totally fine, as long as you are not reacting specifically to the IP address of just Googlebot, just that very narrow range, and instead you are looking at what is the best user experience overall depending on the IP address."
This example really helps us understand our role in web content optimization. The goal is to provide the best user experience, and this can change depending on country or browser. Matt is asking us to treat the bot like we would any normal desktop browser. Don't do anything special for it.
His mobile example, next, provides further clarity.
Point #7: Case in point – Serving customized "squeezed" pages to mobile devices is fine.
"In the same way, if someone now comes in — and let's say they are coming in from a mobile phone, so they are accessing it in an iPhone or Android phone — and you can figure out, okay, that is a completely different user agent. It has got completely different capabilities. It is totally fine to respond to that [mobile] user agent and give them, you know, a more squeezed version of the website or something that fits better on the smaller screen. Again, the difference is, if you are treating Googlebot like a desktop user, so that user agent doesn't have anything special or different that you are doing, then you should be in perfectly fine shape. So, you know, you are looking at the capabilities of the mobile phone, you are returning an appropriately customized page, or you are not trying to do anything deceptive or misleading, you are not treating Googlebot really differently based on the user agent, and you should be fine."
Matt clearly states that it is okay to give the user an experience that is tailored to the browser's capabilities. This is strong endorsement of the fact that advanced web content optimization features, which only apply to one user agent, are perfectly legal and encouraged, so long as the bot is not treated in any special way.
He gives even more insight below.
Point #8: No, really, you can't treat Googlebot differently than you treat users. Ever.
"So the one last thing I want to mention — this is a little bit of a power user kind of thing — is some people are like 'Okay, I won't make the distinction based on the exact user agent string or the exact IP address range that Googlebot comes from, but maybe I will, say, check for cookies and if somebody does not respond to cookies, or if they don't treat JavaScript the same way, then I will carve out and treat that differently.' The litmus test there is: are you basically using that as an excuse to try to find a way to treat Google differently or to try to find some way to segment Googlebot and make it do a completely different thing. So again the instinct behind cloaking is: are you treating users the same way as you are treating Googlebot? We want to score and return roughly the same page that the user is going to see. So we want the end user experience when they click on the Google result to be the same as if they'd just come to the page themselves.
"So that is why you shouldn't treat Googlebot differently, and that is why cloaking is a bad experience, why it violates our quality guidelines, and that is why we do pay attention to it. There is no such thing as "white hat" cloaking. We really do want to make sure that the page the user sees is the same page the Googlebot saw.
"Okay, I hope that kind of helps."
Thanks, Matt. This does help.
To summarize:
- It is safe to provide different pages to mobile browsers, different locations, and different user agents, so long as the Googlebot user agent, its IP addresses, or its capabilities (i.e., no cookies) are not directly targeted.
- Treating the Googlebot like a desktop browser with the basic acceleration treatments one would apply to any generic browser is fine and encouraged.
- As I was just re-watching the video, another concept stuck out: content. Matt repeatedly says not to serve different content to Googlebot. The operative question here is: if Googlebot was a full-featured browser, would it see the same page (including images, etc.) as a normal browser? If we're not changing the content itself and only manipulating the way the content is delivered (through techniques like inlining or MHTML or DataURLs or whatever), then we're clearly not in violation.
- Intent is key. Something that is geared toward speeding up sites, and that has no intention of deceiving users, is safe so long as it abides by Google's rules and regulations.
I'm confident you are safe if:
- You don't target the bot or Google IP addresses specifically.
- You provide the basic features that apply to all browsers to all browsers, including bots.
- You save advanced features for the specific browsers for which they are built.
- You don't change the actual content (images, etc.) you serve to Googlebot.
- Most importantly, your intention is to speed up pages and not do evil.


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Bento #288 (L's Lunch) - Pinky Piggy
Tried out a new dish today from one of my bento book, sweet potato with honey. My kiddos at times are not so adventurous when comes to food. After much coaxing, they were willing to try it out, only if I cooked something that they like, that is - teriyaki chicken.


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ARGENTINE TANGO Classes
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Tuesdays Dec 5 – 19
(No class Dec 26th but price includes admission to Dec 26th milonga)
7:30pm – 8:30pm
Partners required
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Please join us for our 4 weekly Classes in Argentine Tango
price includes admission to our milonga following the lesson.
$55 Per Person
Tuesdays at 4015 Fraser Street, Vancouver, BC. (La Tangueria Esposito).
As usual, our classes work on improving your technique by providing you with elements that can be put together or used individually as the social dance floor dictates. Our classes are always fun.
Please register in advance – partners required (if you need a partner please email me and I can put you on the waiting list).
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Letting Go For Love...07:30
Emotions are the most complicated things in this world. They have a deep connection to your heart and thus they matter the most. Love is an emotion which is directly connected to one's heart. When a person's heart is happy, his whole body responds in a positive way. Hence, one can easily say that happiness is connected to one's heart.. to love.
Doesn't matter if your smile is my happiness
Your laughter my medicine,
Your heart beats my oxygen,
If you are all I have wanted all my life.
P.S: I am getting BANG ON back into the field of Blogging. Supp!! Apologizing before hand as a LOT of such emotional bits will be thrown your way! *winks* I am thinking about sticking a "Read at your on discretion" board on all my future emotional bits. What do you say?? *winks*
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People don't simply let go others for they are self absorbed, that's never love that is an obsession indeed. If one truly love some then he should let them go for their happiness. I loved how you've expressed it in your beautiful words :)ReplyDeleteReplies
True Deeshani. In the haste of acquiring what we love, we forget other's happiness. Thank you :)Delete
Very beautifully expressed Bushra :) I loved your take on LOVE... and yes love does mean sacrifice. To not let go is selfishness not love. Hats off to you! <3ReplyDelete
You have so beautifully expressed your emotions and my thoughts in this poem! Loved it! :)ReplyDelete
And you're absolutely correct - That #OneThingForLove is definitely letting go..!
Bushra, it's beautiful and of all the things you do for love, this is the hardest and requires courage, really! :-)ReplyDelete
Baby, love is respect, love is understanding, love is encouraging(:... sometimes you can love life and fall in love living it... sometimes you love the movement you spend with others but don't stick to them, you just want to have a good time with them... love is making things fun for someone else, doing special things without expecting anything in return... love maybe a illution, but its beyond yourself... you may fall in love with anything but just enjoy the process... I know how it is this process of letting go I did it last year and it was tough... but who ever I let go moved on he never wanted to come back even though at first that person wanted to... love is doing things without saying... love is exploring someone inside out and loving every bit of it... I hope people fall in love with people who deserve their love and not hurt oneself that much in the process... and love can be just respect, affection, friendship and care that will keep you sane and happy... love can be a halo that protects you from hating yourself, it can be your security... its very divine(:... lovely thought sweet heart (: God Bless you...ReplyDelete
Lovely thought dear.ReplyDelete
شركة تنظيف مسابح بالرياضReplyDelete
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Small white worms in your houseplant's soil are most likely the larvae of the fungus gnat. This gnat thrives in moist, shaded areas and produce a maggot larvae that may harm the root system of your plant. Once you treat the existing problem, there are cultural controls for preventing the return of the gnats. Always inspect a new houseplant for the worms before bringing it into your house, where the infestation may spread to the rest of your indoor plants.
Step 1
Remove the small worms by scooping out the top 1 inch of potting soil with a hand spade. Dump the discarded soil in a plastic bag, tie it in a knot, and throw it away.
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Apply an insecticide specially intended for indoor plants and targeted to fungus gnats to the soil and the plant itself. Follow the package directions for application.
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Replace the top inch of the soil with new, sterile potting soil. From then on, allow the soil to become slightly dry between waterings. Do not let the pot sit in standing water. Keep it in a well-ventilated, sunny spot.


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The Summers of My Life
The Good Ol' Summertime.
To a youngster, summertime is a release. Kids run for freedom when that last bell rings in June, as if they were a bird suddenly released from the confines of an aching metal ring, and the cage door was suddenly thrust open to the free air beyond. Ah, summertime. A time filled with campouts and fishing trips, mosquito bites and bee stings, crawdads and bullfrogs.
The summers of my life are the foothold of my childhood memories. Every summer brought the family vacation, a time when the 6 of us piled into the family station wagon and headed to parts unknown, with some general idea of what we wanted to do, but always doing more. We camped, fished and hiked everywhere. We even stopped and looked at the stupid stuff my mom wanted to see (sorry mom, but every single historical marker along the highway gets old after the first 5).
In the summer of 1969, I sat on the banks of the American River in Northern California and fished with a man that turned out to be Jimmy Stewart. We caught grasshoppers together and used them for bait. What a wonderful experience that was. It is a story that I love to tell, one that my grown kids now tease me about.
In the early 70's, my folks bought a Tioga motorhome. We took hundreds of trips in that thing, and in 1974 we drove from L.A. to New Hampshire to attend my oldest brother's wedding. That was the hottest summer of my life. Thank goodness for the cool waters of Lake Winnipesaukee.
In 1976, I was appointed to the position of Assistant Scoutmaster to my Boy Scout troop, and we led the boys on a 2 week cross country trek across the Sierra Nevada on the John Muir and Pacific Crest Trails. It was an exhilarating experience. I still keep in touch with some of the "boys" today. That was the trip where I accidentally stabbed myself in the leg and had to hike 20+ miles back to civilization to be stitched up. In the summer of '78, my dad and I repeated the same trip, fishing in the high Sierra streams and lakes. I was surprised at how well the old guy fared carrying a back pack.
The following spring break, we led the same bunch of guys down the Colorado River in canoes and kayaks. The scoutmaster "accidentally" stirred a giant moth into the big pot of chili he was making, and said nothing to the boys, with me being the only witness that was sworn to secrecy, and I was too hungry not to eat.
But my most cherished summer was the one of 1981. I was 24 years old, and Sammie and I were expecting our first child. We weren't married at the time, and we had just broken up over something that is now considered so trivial, that I can't remember what it was. She was due in November, and here it was late June. My mother figured that I needed time to think, to have some time away from the situation. Under the auspices of her brother, my Uncle Rudy, we set forth for a "manly time in the wilderness". It was just me, Rudy, his son Steve, and my two other cousins, Steven and Danny.
We all caravanned up to the Virginia Lakes region of the High Sierra, and set out with back packs, tents, food, fishing poles and whatever else we needed. We didn't plan on coming back for ten days.
We were dropped off on a Thursday, said our goodbyes, and hiked up into the hills for an adventure that was educating to me, allowed me to educate my younger cousins on wilderness camping, and allowed Rudy to use me to educate every one of us with a hands-on lesson in advanced first aid.
My mother, God rest her soul, was a very doting parent when it came to me. I was born with a heart murmur which had subsided by the time I was a teen, but she was convinced that at any given moment I could drop dead, especially hiking in high altitude. She made Rudy promise that he would not for one minute leave my side, and Rudy, being the loyal person he was, never did. He went where I went, and it soon became evident to me of what he was up to, and he admitted to me the promise he had made to my mother. I tried to let him off the hook, but "a promise is a promise" he told me. That was lesson one.
Lesson two came on the second morning of the campout. Uncle Rudy was up early, bathed and was shaving while sitting on a log. "Why are you shaving?" I asked. "We're roughing it." He looked up at me and smiled. "You gotta have class." He said. "No matter what you're doing, you gotta have class."
We were camped at the edge of a glacial lake at the base of a steep shale slope. The glacier that rose up the slope on the far side of the lake kept it fed and flowing with its icy runoff. The water was literally ice cold, about 34 degrees. It was absolutely numbing to swim in it, but we did anyway. The naturally occurring Golden Trout in that lake were plentiful and made for great campfire suppers. We would sit around the campfire and Rudy would tell us stories of his years of police work and how he was a medic on Guadalcanal during the war, and about his boxing matches while in the Navy. We all shared stories of our lives, told jokes and bonded. The 5 of us have a bond from that trip that none of the rest of the cousins will ever have.
But Uncle Rudy also shared some personal time with me (and there it was, the method to my mother's madness. She knew that Uncle Rudy was the most influential person to me in my life and that I would cling to every word he said). He educated me on relationships, marriage, in-laws, the good side of being married as well as the ugliness of it. He pulled no punches and didn't sugar coat any words. He laid it out for me to make an intelligent, adult decision about my future and the future of my unborn son. Lesson number three.
One of the mornings we decided to climb to the top of the shale slope. It was a good 1,500 feet above our campsite, and it took us about 3 hours to get to the top. On the way up we found mine shafts with old ladders going down, hammers with no handles, and the wasteful remnants of past hikers. When we got to the top we all posed for a group picture after hoisting a flag made from Danny's handkerchief. Unfortunately, that picture has long since disappeared. Uncle Rudy stood at the top and told us a story of a long forgotten nomadic Indian tribe called the "Fukawee" tribe. He said that they would constantly travel on foot in the mountains and climb peaks to announce themselves. Apparently, the Chief of the tribe, according to Rudy, would stand on the highest point and shout "We're the Fukawee!" as he looked around.
But alas, that trip to the top of the shale slope turned ugly. As we stood at the top of the steep side of the slope, looking down at the speck that was our camp, I mis-stepped and fell about 200 feet, tumbling on the loose shale, and finally slamming into a large rock. The heels were ripped from my boots (little Steven brought them to me as he walked down), my back, arms, butt and the palms of my hands were ripped up by the loose rocks, and I was a hurting, bloody mess. I laid there on the rocks looking up the slope at Uncle Rudy. Being a seasoned medic and police officer, he didn't panic. I waved my arms to him to let him know that I wasn't dead, and laid there listening to the sarcastic humor emanating from my dear sweet cousins, who were laughing at my predicament.
The white, long sleeve shirt that Uncle Rudy was wearing was soon torn into bandages and he used my broken body to educate the others in emergency first aid and field dressings. Lesson number 4. After about 20 or 30 minutes of bandaging, we continued down the slope to our camp. Had I known the outcome ahead of time, I would have taken the stairs instead of the express elevator.
Once at our camp, we were approached by another camper that was with his young son. They had just arrived and set up camp not far down the shore from us.
"I couldn't help noticing that you had fallen. It was quite a spectacle." He announced with a grin. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah." I replied. "Just cut up is all."
"Let me take a look. I'm a cardiologist, and I have a pretty good medical kit. I even have sutures."
Suturing on my butt and back was what I needed.
"The only thing is I have no anesthetic."
"Great" I thought to myself. My cousins all snickered. Trying to act tough, I volunteered to tough it out just to close the wounds. Then Uncle Rudy piped up.
"Del, why don't you sit in the water at the edge of the glacier until you can't stand it, roll out, let him stitch you up until it begins to hurt, then do it all over again."
"That's what I was thinking" I said. (I wasn't really, but I wanted to act like I had half a brain here.).
It took about a half a dozen trips to the icy water before I was fixed up, and we invited the doctor and his son to join us at the campfire that night. We had a good time. The good doctor camped next to us for about three days. Each day he would check my wounds and put some antibiotic ointment on them, it was a Godsend that he was there. We still had about 4 days left before our rides returned.
It was a fun time regardless of the accident. We bathed in the lake, washed our clothes in the streams (all with biodegradable soap) and took the opportunity to enjoy the time we had together. We ran out of our packed in food a day and a half before we were supposed to leave. Our last few meals consisted only of fish. We were getting hungry. We considered eating a marmot that was frequenting our camp, but decided not to.
On the morning of departure, we were famished. It was a pretty good hike back to the motor campground where we started. There was also a lodge there that had a small café on one side of it. As we got closer, Steven began counting his money. He had just some loose change. I didn't bring any money because I didn't think we'd need it in the mountains. Danny came up with some change and so did Steve. Between all of us, we had enough for one double cheeseburger with fries. We began running down the path, racing to be first at the café. Soon, the four of us were standing there, dirty, sweaty and hungry, looking at the menu, trying to decide how to get the most for our money. We got the double cheeseburger and fries, and divided it all up into 4 pieces of burger and 4 shares of fries.
We felt satisfied on just that small amount of food.
Then Uncle Rudy walked in. He set his pack on the floor and walked up to the counter and took out his wallet. We watched. Hoping. We were no longer feeling satisfied. We wanted more. Rudy handed the girl some money and sat down at the table next to us, saying nothing. He put his head back and closed his eyes. Soon, the girl from behind the counter brought a tray piled high with burgers, fries and chocolate malts. It was great! Hooray for Uncle Rudy!!
Later that afternoon, our rides returned. My parents arrived in their motor home accompanied by Uncle Manny (Mom and Rudy's brother), in his motor home. My mom came up to me and looked at my injuries. I showed her my back, and I told her the whole story. She seemed irritated, and said "Where's Rudy?".
She found Rudy, and questioned him. "I thought you agreed to stay with Del every place he went. What happened?"
"I stayed right by his side the whole time" he went on. "But I was NOT going to follow him down that cliff!" She muttered something to him in Spanish and they all laughed. To this day, I still have the scars from that trip, happy mementos of a great time had by all.
Sad to say, Uncle Rudy is no longer with us, passing away just a couple of years ago. It was a sad, sad day for our family to lose someone so important and influential to all of us. But I heeded the advice he gave me on that trip, as I had always heeded his advice. I went home and eventually made amends with my bride to be. We were married the following March, in 1982.
So now I am four kids older. They are all grown, with one grandson and another grandchild on the way. They are scattered across the country from the west coast to the Midwest to the Deep South. I spent those short years of their youth trying to make the best of their summers. We fished a lot, camped, traveled across country three times as a family and let them experience their own favorite summers the way that they wanted to remember them, and I now encourage them to write about it for future generations to come. The written word is a wonderful thing. It seems that journaling and reading might become a dying art. I hope not, because where there is the written word, there is an endless imagination.
As always my friends thank you for stopping by. We are bracing ourselves here in Lulawissie for the possibility of a hurricane hitting the gulf coast, which always brings us a lot of wind and rain, even way up here. Take good care of one another, do a good deed for a stranger, work hard and always give the Good Lord thanks for everything, the good and the not so good.
I bid you peace.
© 2012 By Del Banks
That was really awesome. That's something I've always wanted to do...minus the cliff part. Remember, "you gotta use grasshoppers son!"
You are blessed to such wonderful memories. Every family needs and Uncle Rudy. Thanks for sharing.
I can see why the summer of 1981 was your best experience. Love your advice at the end, it's what life is all about, friend! Voted up.