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Guidelines for People Who Have Psychotic Symptoms
1. Understand your symptoms and their treatment.
- Ask your doctor or therapist for information about symptoms, medication and other treatments.
- Keep a record of your symptoms and the treatment you have received
- Don't blame yourself or other people for your illness.
2. Get the best treatment for your symptoms.
- Find and stick with a psychiatrist you can trust.
- Take medication as prescribed.
- Tell the psychiatrist or your family about the effects of medication.
3. Learn how to manage your symptoms from a good therapist or program.
- Learn to control your own thoughts and feelings.
- Remove yourself from stress that feels overwhelming.
- Use time alone to quiet yourself.
- Learn to recognize the early signs of relapse.
- Ask for help when you need it.
4. Have and work towards realistic goals.
- Go slowly but steadily towards being what you want to be.
- Know your limits (what you can't do now).
5. Do something constructive every day.
- Help someone.
- Make something.
- Fix something.
- Learn something.
6. Be with and talk to friends or family every day.
- Dress and talk normally.
- Discuss important issues only when you are relaxed.
- Don't talk about odd ideas or experiences, except to people who understand you and your symptoms.
7. Be physically active every day.
8. Be as independent as possible.
- Cherish your good days and the things you can do.
- Live the most complete life you can.
- Get out of your home for a while every day.
- Be close—but not too close—to your family.
9. Avoid street drugs and alcohol.
Source: Dr. Christopher S. Amenson, Pacific Clinics, 128 East Palm, Monrovia CA 91016


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Hay beauties. Ive been dreaming alot of warmer weather and relaxing on beaches. (There is some really good ones close too me here in scotland!) I had recently went to a boutique and, I'll be honest I have a secret love for boutique's. They're just perfect for trying something a little more different. And I'm guilty of getting something that can't be worn until the weather gets a lot warmer. (Am I the only one who does that??)
Yes the lace crop top. One of my favourite pieces of clothing. It's so easy to dress up or dress it down. This one is really comfortable to wear, and looks great with jeans or a pencil skirt!! Its also really easy to give it a more punk like edge. I love the lace detail, and the colour is really on trend this year. (I like colour trends the most, not fashion!) I've already given it a whirl with a soft blue blazer, black jeans and my red booties. (Teamed it up with a scarf, little peace mittens and my hat! Gotta keep warm.) I was surprised by the sheer amount of compilments that I got. So I can't wait to wear it more during summer. The zip is at the back, which can be a little fustrating.
Have you beauties got an outfit for spring/summer that you can't wait to wear?? Xx

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Hello and welcome to my blog.
Today I am sharing a card using the Stampin' Up! stamp set Sprinkles of Life and matching Tree Builder punch.
To create a soft background to my card I stamped the clouds and raindrops and heat embossed with an iridescent embossing powder. I used the same embossing powder on top of the ink stamped images for the clouds stamped on coloured card stock.
I heat embossed my sentiment on vellum (I love doing this!) and my card was done!
Thanks for visiting and have a beautiful day.x


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Yes I did say the words great and craft show in the one sentence – the Brisbane Craft Show was the place to be last weekend for us crafty little devils. Of course I was there for work reasons only (apart from the cute little bits and pieces I bought for myself!) to check out any awesome little businesses that our brides to be would love… and I succeeded!
(from Miss Rose Sister Violet)
Although many of the vendors were orientated towards quilting and basic scrapbooking which aren't quite so relevant for the majority of brides, I did come across some stand out vendors that I'd love to share with you
Miss Rose Sister Violet
Wow, what a visual treat Miss Rose and Sister Violet was. I must admit that this was no new find for me. I've been admiring their stands for many years at craft shows but I was fortunate enough to meet with the business owner this time and we had such a wonderful chat together.
If you love vintage and old world charm for your wedding you simply must check out their website. For the creative brides who are making their own flower girl or bridal outfits they sell the most exquisite trims to add a point of difference to your dresses and for those who aren't so clever they sell darling little outfits all ready to go.
I honestly don't even know where to start when it comes to sharing images of the products that they offer that would suit a vintage wedding but I've selected some of my favourites and would love to hear what all of your favourites are. They even sell gorgeous little pieces for table styling and bunting, all at very reasonable prices!
Mabina Alaka
The super talented Mabina is actually one of my upstairs neighbours in our new showroom, and I absolutely adore her japanese style folded fabric pieces. It was so lovely to bump into her at the show and see more of her work. In addition to creating her darling flower pieces, among other things she also offers origami workshops in her South Brisbane premises for those who wish to learn a few tips for unique favours or table decorations. (she can create custom pieces so if any of her photographed designs take your fancy but you would like them in custom colours / fabrics she can certainly help you with that!)
Sewing Cake
Another great find was Sewing Cake, a local seamstress who creates her own patterns for resale. Although many of the patterns are more day wear, if you stitched them up in a silk jersey they would make a stunning alternative to the traditional wedding dress (and offer a wide range of sizes all in the one pattern which is awesome!!! The other great item that they offer are purse patterns, if you know your way around a sewing machine just a little I'm sure you would have no trouble whipping these babies up for your bridesmaids and would make a gorgeous keepsake gift!
Flexi Craft Moulds
I could have stood for hours watching the Flexi-Craft Moulds team show how simple it is to make fondant flowers and decorative elements using their custom flexi-moulds. These products are an absolute must have for those wanting to create their own cupcake tower or even engagement cake. The most basic of base cakes or cupcakes can be turned into a work of art with fondant details placed on top made from these moulds. They also have some wonderful tips on their website to get the most out of your moulds and I certainly learnt a few handy tips just watching them!
Here are some of the cakes and cupcakes that users of these moulds have sent in to share
(and look, we were just talking about cameos recently and they have a mould to make your own for cakes and biscuits!)


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M Studio
This photography studio located in an urban storefront has substantial daylight from a single north facing façade that required a prominent counterpoint at the deeper interior spaces where most business activities and lab work took place. In response to the finely detailed volumetric forms, concealed light coves are developed integrally to the shifting planer elements of the architecture. Multiple switched zones allow for the use of more theatrically derived colored light scenes utilized for special events and art openings. Blue light in this instance offers a symbolic nod to the opposing elevation of northern skylight. Here the transitional time of "twilight", a moment when daylight resigns to the coming of night, is suspended electrically within the architectural voids.
McFamily Properties
Architect: el dorado, Inc
Lighting Designer: Derek Porter Studio
Photographer: Michael Spillers
Kansas City, Missouri
3,000 square feet
Edwin F. Guth International Award of Excellence, IESNA, 1999
"Gelled Fluorescent Brings Twilight to a Photography Studio," Architectural Record
"Studio Layout: Dial "M" for Studio," Photo District News
"Studio for a Photographer," Oz, Kansas State University


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|My fearless Writing Team at the ready.
The new Mug and Meralda book stands at 9,001 words. Assuming a finished length of 80,000 words, that would indicate I am currently 11.25% done with the first draft of ALL THE TURNS OF LIGHT.
Eleven percent done. When I write it out like that my right eye starts twitching.
Only 89 percent to go.
Pardon me while I go outside and scream incoherently for a bit.
No news yet on THE FIVE FACES, not that I expected any so soon. Will post as soon as I know, though, so watch this space!
I've left the departed pretty much alone this week. It's been so hot I imagine even the most determined spectres, haints, haunts, and free-floating vapors took cover in deep shade anyway. I was planning a run to a cemetery this afternoon for some EVP work, but the heat brought on thunderstorms, so that will have to wait. Walking through rainswept cemeteries holding metal gear while lightning flashes about sounds like a good way to experience the afterlife first-hand, and I'm not quite ready to extend my research in that direction.
I did read that long before Konstantine Raudive accidentally recorded his first EVP voices, other people were actively trying to record ghost voices. In 1941 a photographer named Attila von Szalay tried to catch ghost voices using 78 RPM records as a recording medium.
That didn't work, but Attila kept trying. He switched to reel-to-reel tape and in 1956 finally had some success. My favorite bit is the "Hot dog, Art!" snippet, which he captured from a microphone which was housed in a sound-proofed box.
Someone asked me if I ever tried using a Ouija or spirit board in the course of my investigations.
The answer is no, I do not. Mainly because unless the planchette is able to move itself about, I figure any motion is due to the ideomotor response, or one of the participants fooling about. Dark room, candle-light, spooky mood -- is it any wonder that the planchette 'mysteriously' moves?
Show me one that scoots around by itself, and I'll take note. And look for magnets, but that's because I'm a suspicious sort myself.
There's another less scientific reason I won't use a spirit board, and it is this -- the things creep me out. Irrational, I know, but there you have it.
|Yeah, this is me. Been working out.
I get a lot spam email, including more than my fair share of dim-wit con-artists out to sucker me into an advance fee fraud scam.
You've seen the emails too, I'm sure. Some yo-yo claims to have a huge sum of money, and they want you to help them move it. you are promised a generous cut of 70 million dollars, or some similar nonsense.
Of course, there is no sum of money. The people dumb enough to fall for the scam wind up sending the scammer hundreds or thousands of dollars in 'lawyer's fees' or 'storage fees' or 'international steel-plated demurrage fund stacking charges' or whatever made-up gibberish is en vogue at the moment. The money is sent Western Union, of course, so there's no tracing it, and no chance of recovering it.
Well, I'm no dummy, but sometimes it amuses me to play with these morons. So when I got the email below, I couldn't resist. Here's the first email:
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:11:05 +0300 [08/08/2013 03:11:05 PM EDT]
From: Xingwu Wang <firstname.lastname@example.com>Add email@example.com to my Address Book
To: Undisclosed Recipients
Reply-To: email@example.com email@example.com to my Address Book
Subject: GREETINGS TO YOU
Dear Intending Partner
would like to discuss a project with you. Please email me back.
via: email@example.com
(1) Can you handle this project?
(2) Can I give you this trust?
I expect your urgent response if you can handle this project.
Best Regard's,
Thank You
Wang Xingwu
Wang, Wang, Wang. Mass-mailing strangers in hopes of finding a dunce among them is no way to go through life.
Here's the email I sent back:
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 15:38:16 -0400 [08/08/2013 03:38:16 PM EDT]
From: firstname.lastname@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com to my Address Book
To: firstname.lastname@example.com email@example.com to my Address Book
Subject: Re: GREETINGS TO YOU
Dear Exalted Significant Xingwu Wang,
I can handle this project. I can be given this trust. Let not your underpants pout, my friend, for together we shall amass and/or acquire vast sums of currency, see also moola, loot, cabbage, cash, greenbacks, Benjamins, coin. I see us as lifelong friends, Wang, lifelong friends who shall not want for fancy cars, new ice trays, and all of those little wax bottles of sugary candy water we can ever desire!
Yes. It was Fate that brought us together, to conduct this spiny, quartz-encased business. You see, Wang, who is called Wang, I have made a decision -- I shall put my trust, my whole trust, all eighteen English pounds of it, in you. I shall see this business through, come Hell, high water, surly waiters, or inclement humidity! Nothing shall stop us from achieving the achievement of having achieved that to which we aspire to achieve!
Trust me to handle this important project, which requires much trust. Trust is a weighty word, my friend, but it is a word I know how to spell. T - R - U - S - T. Trust. Not truste or truust or trooste or even terust, but trust, plain and simple.
Let us discuss details so that we might work for our mutual linear fully clothed gain.
Frank F. Frank, Director
Frank Global Industries
Now, you might think most scammers would be put off by the tone and content of my reply. But not friend Wang, who is only to eager to get things started!
Here is his reply to email. I'm deeply hurt, because it's obvious he didn't even read my reply. But decide for yourself:
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:09:00 +0800 [08/10/2013 06:09:00 AM EDT]
From: Xingwu. Wang <email@example.com>Add firstname.lastname@example.com to my Address Book China
To: Undisclosed Recipients
Reply-To: Xingwu. Wang <firstname.lastname@example.com>Add firstname.lastname@example.com to my Address Book
Subject: GREETING FROM WANG XINGWU
Dear Friend,
Thank you for your reply to my first email. I needed to be very sure of you before I disclose my identity for confidentiality purpose. I would also like you know that this transaction is 100% risk free and legal.
I could not give you my true details in my first contact because I felt it would be huge surprise for you to receive such email from a serving customs controller of the People Republic of China Customs. Now that you have replied the correspondence with interest I will give you more information about myself and the business.
My name is Wang Xingwu (customs controller of the Peoples Republic of China Customs).
<BLAH BLAH BLAH I cut a page of scammer-speak nonsense here >>
Thank you Once again and I look forward to a good business relationship with you which would be of much benefit to both parties.
Looking Forward to your Response
Wang Xingwu
Wow. What a sweet deal. I get thirty percent of forty million dollars. I could use an extra 12 million bucks -- I have expensive tastes where socks are concerned -- so here's my heartfelt reply:
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 16:26:21 -0400 [08/10/2013 04:26:21 PM EDT]
From: email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com to my Address Book
To: Xingwu. Wang <firstname.lastname@example.com>Add email@example.com to my Address Book
Subject: Re: GREETING FROM WANG XINGWU
Dear Trusted Sequential Combine Wang,
I was so excited to receive your email. And I understand your need for a trusted and reliable partner in this business.
I believe I am the very person you seek.
Can I be trusted? Yes. Yes I can. You see, although the world knows me as Frank F. Frank, wealthy philanthropist and corporate giant, my secret identity is that of....
....the Nightcrawler.
Yes. That's right. By day, I run a successful multinational conglomerate specializing in the manufacture of volatile chemicals and flimsy lingerie. Or maybe its flimsy chemicals and volatile lingerie. I'm so busy rolling in enormous heaps of cash I seldom get down to the manufacturing floor these days.
By night, I don the black body-armor of the Nightcrawler, and I venture forth from my secret lair to fight crime. Perhaps you have heard of my heroic exploits against the Gang of Elderly Pensioners, or my mighty triumph over Mrs. Baker's Second Grade Art Class?
I thought so. My defeat of the Surly Parking Lot Attendant on Fifth and Holmes street was particularly impressive. He will never again insist on exact change while I have a rubber mallet and a stingray in my utility belt, I can tell you!
So I have already shared with you a secret. I did so because I trust you. I am the Nightcrawler, champion of Justice, defender of the weak, part-time library assistant (paid).
Do you trust me now?
I ask that you keep my secret identity safe. My life is in your hands now, friend Wang. If the evil crime-lords of the Dark Brotherhood were to learn the Nightcrawler's secret identity, I would be dead before sunset.
Now, as to this business. How do we proceed? I have the resources of Frank Industries at my disposal.
I await further instructions.
Be safe, my friend.
The Nightcrawler
Will I hear from Wang? Will we proceed with this 100% legal and totally non-criminal enterprise unmolested by the evil forces of Cub Scout Troop 66A, or the staff of Larson's Big Star Grocery Store?
I'll keep you all posted!
Now I should get back to work. I suppose I'll have to keep my day job until Wang comes through with my twelve million...


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In a new video, a Planned Parenthood manager is seen assisting someone who claims he is a pimp involved with the sex trafficking of children as young as 14. She rather cheerfully and eagerly finds way to assist him with information about abortion and medical exams and contraception. When he asks about abortions for underage girls, she gives him the name of another clinic with lower protocols than hers. She warns him off of a nurse who cares more about the rules than she does (calling her an unprintable and horribly misogynistic name). You can watch the released excerpt or the full, unedited video here. It is absolutely horrifying -- particularly about midway through -- and includes crass language and distasteful subject matter. Now let's look at the media coverage. It actually began last week with an "exclusive" from the Associated Press. Reading between the lines, it was pretty clear that Planned Parenthood was trying to get in front of a story that might prove difficult:
Planned Parenthood, a perennial protest target because of its role in providing abortions, has notified the FBI that at least 12 of its health centers were visited recently by a man purporting to be a sex trafficker but who may instead be part of an attempted ruse to entrap clinic employees.
In each case, according to Planned Parenthood, the man sought to speak privately with a clinic employee and then requested information about health services for sex workers, including some who he said were minors and in the U.S. illegally.
Planned Parenthood's vice president for communications, Stuart Schear, said the organization has requested an FBI probe of the man's claims and has already fielded some initial FBI inquiries. However, Schear said Planned Parenthood's own investigation indicates that the man has links with Live Action, an anti-abortion group that has conducted previous undercover projects aimed at discrediting the nation's leading abortion provider.
That's exactly what I would have done if I were a Planned Parenthood official who realized that some employees may have just been caught assisting a child sex operation. The reporter didn't seem terribly incredulous about what might have happened in such a sting, but I suppose it's difficult to report the story without any evidence of unethical behavior on the part of Planned Parenthood employees.
But now there is some of that evidence. How is it being reported? Hard to say.
The videos were released two days ago. I saw some mainstream coverage yesterday. The news was all over the pro-life blogosphere, of course. On Wednesday, when Planned Parenthood fired the employee caught in the sting, the coverage increased.
First let's look at how NPR treated the news. The best thing I can say about it is that they at least wrote something about the news, unlike many of their mainstream counterparts. However, there were multiple problems with their report. They ended up retracting their claim that Lila Rose and Live Action -- the group behind the sting -- were affiliated with the individuals who exposed the ACORN group last year.
The headline was "Group Behind ACORN Undercover Videos Sets Up Planned Parenthood 'Sting.'" Not entirely sure why "sting" is in scare quotes, but the first part of the headline is inaccurate. They have since admitted that. The new headline is still problematic:
"Conservative Group Sets Up Planned Parenthood 'Sting.'
Now maybe in the NPR newsroom, all opposition to abortion is considered "conservative." But the group does not self-identify as anything -- conservative, liberal, etc. -- except for pro-life. LiveAction responds to both headlines here.
Other early reports, such as this from Reuters, simply noted the release of the videos with statements from the national Planned Parenthood organization that dismiss them. You can tell a lot about what the New York Times thinks of independent journalism by what it thinks is most important in this lede:
An anti-abortion group seeking to discredit Planned Parenthood released an undercover video on Tuesday that appears to show a clinic manager advising a sex trafficker how to get medical care for prostitutes as young as 14.
Is it that aiding and abetting a criminal child sex operation is less important than the motivations of pro-lifers? I would lead the other way, even if I do think it's important to note that Live Action has been busting Planned Parenthood in such sting operations for years, as part of its mission.
Anyway, the story changed once the Planned Parenthood, Amy Woodruff, was fired. Here's the lede to the Washington Post account:
The Planned Parenthood employee caught on tape giving inappropriate advice to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute has been fired, the organization announced Wednesday.
Which Planned Parenthood employee? Which tape? You will not know the answers to those questions from any previous story at the Washington Post. It's bizarre. It actually kind of reminds me of how newspapers didn't report on a few other controversies, including the Van Jones situation, until it was far too late to do readers any good.*
The Washington Post piece is fine, although it relies a bit too heavily on Planned Parenthood assertions for my taste. If you're looking for just a good straight news report about the matter, check out this one from NJ.com. It seems less concerned with spin -- one way or the other -- and more with just reporting what's interesting about the videos.
ABCNews is reporting that New Jersey Attorney General is asking the state Division of Criminal Justice to investigate whether the manager should be charged with a crime in the incident.
*Apparently the Washington Post did have a previous story on the matter, that they disappeared down the rabbit hole for some reason. HoyStory has the image of it and it follows the general approach that the Times took as well.


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I only write about bad-ass characters. My characters always say what I couldn't have said in that situation (and luckily, I also get to make up the situations in which their bad-assness can be best exposed).
For example, I have really tall characters. My shorter characters are pixie-like, or children. My characters are beautiful, with the faults beautiful people have: a mole (beauty mark) here, and maybe their eyes are too green. I know it isn't right to picture only beautiful people. But what if I want my movie to be turned into a Hollywood blockbuster? What if I want to have crushes on all my characters?
My characters all speak with concise wit. I try to make the bad ones speak a little less concisely, a little less witty. Maybe they swear once. Maybe they say something inappropriate to the moment. But still: bad-asses, all of them.
I here present a problem: reality. How far from it can I get? I understand that dialogue shouldn't mimic speech exactly. I understand that characters shouldn't go to the bathroom within my book. I understand that time needs to jump and place needs to shift and events need to be extraordinary and my protagonist needs to be put down consistently so he can rise up triumphantly, but how far can this book get from reality?
Like, can all my characters be bad-asses?
I ask this question with the presumption that we all want to be bad-asses. And I'm sure we don't. Some of us want to be boring. But when I'm allowed to dream (which I am every night, and since I've started writing, every day too) I dream big. I become big.
I become too big for the scope of a regular me. I need to be a stronger me, a taller me, a more tragic me. And that's where my characters come in. They are all facets of my ideal me.
What if I had been adopted by parents who never really loved me (not in the way I think parents should) and I had only become more loving and stronger from it?
What if I had grown up in Nova Scotia, dreaming of the Westcoast, and when I came here I realized I had lost myself?
What if I had dropped out of high school and driven across Canada?
What if I had to make the choice between two men who loved me?
I love empathizing with these people I have created, stretching the nuggets of my emotions to places they haven't been but have dreamt of. I love that, building characters out of me.


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Today is the day, the 27th of July, when officially starts The London 2012 Olympic Games!The Summer Games very well known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad or "London 2012 Olympic Games", scheduled to be again in London, England, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012. London will actually step in the history to be the first city to officially host the modern Olympic Games three times, the previous ere back in 1908 and 1948. Nowadays the Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world's foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate.
Today Olympic Stadiums will be transformed into a real British countryside scene for the Opening Ceremony. One of the largest buildings ever will feature meadows, fields and rivers, families eating picnics, sports being played on the village green and real farmyard animals, including 70 sheep, sounds like fun, isn't it? The title is Isle of Wonder, the amazing events will be opened with the ringing of the largest harmonically tuned bell in the world... seems like rest of the Europe is forgotten these days, no more tourists anywhere else but London, but it's fair enough, London definitely deserves it!
Bring your friends and family along, the Olympic Opening Ceremony parade will feature 10,000 athletes from 205 nations, doesn't matter where are you from, don't worry, each country will have it's very special moment of glory, you will have a chance to cheer on your country, when you see them running track proudly holding aloft their national flag, seeing your favourite athletes in the ceremony. And of course the show will close with a glamour as well, the 12th of August there is expected to be spectacular show in the breathtaking Olympic Stadium, after 69 days on the road, been seen by over 14 million people and it has travelled all over UK. Fingers crossed for your favourites, and of course we wish wins the best!
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You may remember me writing about my favorite bakery, right in the heart of London. I wrote about it in THIS POST about Europe, and her amazing confections always make me festive around the holidays! I dream of being as incredible as her in the decorating/baking department, and each year, I love making these delicious cookies with my children. Baking holds special memories for me, and I hope it also creates new ones for my girls! (All images via Peggy Porschen website, 2017)
Sugar cookie recipe
via Peggy Proschen's cookbook, "Cookies"
Makes about 25 medium-sized or 12 large cookies
- 200g unsalted soft butter
- 200g caster sugar
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 400g plain flour, plus more for dusting
Optional flavours
- For vanilla cookies, add seeds from 1 vanilla pod
- For lemon cookies, add finely grated zest of 1 lemon
- For orange cookies, add finely grated zest of 1 orange
- For chocolate cookies, replace 50g of the plain flour with 50g cocoa powder
- Using an electric mixer with paddle attachment, cream the butter, sugar and chosen flavouring until well mixed and just becoming creamy in texture. Don't overwork, or the cookies will spread during baking.
- Beat in the egg until well combined. Add the flour and mix on low speed until a dough forms. Gather it into a ball, wrap it in cling film and chill it for at least 1 hour.
- Place the dough on a floured surface and knead it briefly. Using marzipan spacers, roll it out to an even thickness.
- Use cookie cutters to cut out the desired shapes and, using a palette knife, lay these on a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper. Chill again for about 30 minutes and preheat the oven to 180C/160Cfan/350F/gas 4.
- Bake for 6–10 minutes, depending on size, until golden brown at the edges. Leave to cool on a wire rack. Wrapped in foil or cling film, they will keep well in a cool dry place for up to a month.
Tip Always bake equally sized cookies together to make sure they cook in the same time. If you mix different sizes, the smaller ones are already cooked when the larger ones are still raw in the middle.
Royal Icing Recipe via Peggy Porschen's
"Pretty Party Cakes" cookbook
- 25g merriwhite (dried egg white powder)
1kg icing sugar, sifted
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- Equipment
- Sieve
Kitchen Aid / electric mixer
sealable plastic container
Mix the merriwhite with 150ml water and pass through a sieve to get rid of any lumps.
Place the icing sugar in the clean bowl of an electric mixer, add about three-quarters of the merriwhite mixture and the lemon juice, and start mixing on low speed.
Once the sugar and the merriwhite are well combined, check the consistency. If the sides of the bowl still look dry and crumbly, add some more merriwhite until the icing looks almost smooth but not wet.
Keep mixing for about 4-5 minutes, until it has reached stiff-peak consistency.
Spoon into a plastic container, cover with a clean damp j-cloth and the lid. Store at room temperature.
Royal Icing Consistencies
Simply thin down your basic royal icing with water, a little bit at a time, mixing with a palette knife, until you have the right consistency. Keep your icing covered with cling film or a damp cloth when not using it, to stop it from drying out.
Stiff-peak consistency: for piping sugar flowers and leaves
Soft-peak consistency: for piping lines, dots and borders
Runny consistency: for filling in the centres of spaces


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Hawes and Will finally have some Star Wars news to discuss this week!
- Spreadgate continues?
- Netflix announces series based on The Dark Crystal and The Witcher
- A promotional leaflet for The Last Jedi was released in Japan. What does it mean?
- Han Solo set pictures are leaked!
Listener e-mails and voice messages are discussed
- JD Fett goes on the hunt
- David wants to know Will and Hawes' thoughts on Rian Johnson directing a Star Wars movie after Episode VIII
- Ollie has a question about Mustafar
- Carl writes in about the 8-bit trailer for The Last Jedi
- Chris has a theory about Rey's parentage
- Two different Sors Bandeams leave voice messages. What is going on?
- King Tom writes in about unused character and planet names from the early drafts of Star Wars
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By Patrick Brogan
More than three million Irish adults listen to the radio every day. Staggering figures for a nation this size. Most of this is done the old fashion way, actual radios — be they car or home. A lot of people spend over three hours listening to them. I'm in the wrong bloody business.
Seriously, Irish people love to hear voices. And stories, too. Whether they're sad or happy, factual or fictional, we crave that human connection. This goes back to our old traditions. Sitting around a stove or fire, telling stories, playing music, having the craic. In an age of new media, fake news and alternative facts, it's reassuring that some things still remain.
There is an additional function here. Robust debate. Television doesn't offer enough of it, and when it tries, it's just middle-aged men shouting over each other. Just like being in the local. Consider Peter Boylan. His statements about the new National Maternity Hospital came about through a radio interview. Radio very often sets the pace for political discourse and the rest try to catch up. If you follow Irish politics on Twitter, it's usually radio stations that are trending. Radio, in many ways, is essential to the fabric of Irish society.
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Vision Therapy
We provide complete diagnostic and therapeutic care for children and adults with these type of vision problems.
- Eye tracking
- Eye teaming (Strabismus or Amblyopia)
- Eye focusing (Visual Acuity)
- Learning-related vision problems
- Visual Information Processing
- Computer related vision problems
- Sports vision
- Aquired brain injury related vision problems
What is Vision Therapy?
Vision therapy is a sequence of therapy procedures that are individually prescribed and monitored by the doctor to develop efficient visual skills and visual processing. Vision therapy is prescribed following a comprehensive evaluation of the visual system.
The vision therapy program is based on the results of standardized tests, the patient's specific signs and symptoms plus a careful look at the needs of the patient.
The use of lenses, prisms, filters, occluders, specialized instruments and computer programs is an integral part of vision therapy. Typically, vision therapy is administered as a combination of in-office visits combined with prescribed, daily, home-vision therapy procedures.
The in-office therapy is designed to make the patient aware of his or her visual deficiencies under controlled conditions. Then by a feedback process the patient is taught strategies to improve visual performance.
Home therapy is directed at practicing the newly learned visual skills until the initial conscious effort becomes automatic.
Visit The American Optometric Association Website for the Optometry position paper on vision therapy.


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10 Essential Microsoft Excel 2010 Tips for Beginners
- 10 Essential Microsoft Excel 2010 Tips for Beginners
- Customize Excel's Default Workbook
- Give a Name to a Range of Data in Excel
- Apply the Same Formatting and Data to Multiple Sheets at the Same Time
- Open Multiple Worksheets with One Double-Click
- Filter Excel Tables from Table Headings
- Recover Unsaved Documents
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Customize Excel's Default Workbook
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GFP087: Urban CSA and Apothecary/
I have been in love with the idea of more farms appearing in urban settings. That is how we bring food to the masses and help wrangle that ugly beast called food security. Clever uses of otherwise untapped resources.
On today's farm podcast episode we visit one of those urban farms to see how it all fits together.
Items covered or mentioned on today's farm podcast:
- Double N Urban Farm
- Double N on Facebook
- Farm Marketing Solutions on YouTube
- Permaculture Voices Conference
Farm Quote of the episode:
"Don't worry. If plan A fails there are 25 more letters in the alphabet." - Anonymous
Thanks for taking the time to listen in, and let me know what you think. You can leave a comment below, send me an e-mail, reach me on Facebook , or leave a 5 star rating in iTunes if you liked the show.


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By the Late Mitchell Warren
This has been a phenomenal year for trolls seeking camera time, corporate goons wanting to be elected and stupid people doing stupid things much to the delight of social networking automatons everywhere.� Whereas much of the world will be focusing their "Best of the Year" award on people like Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, J.J. Abrams, The Pope (again) and some girl who starred in some movie about something with exploding robots, we decided to list 10 people who don't have nearly enough recognition.� Here we go…
10. Billionaire BDSM Master with a C*ck of Gold
What started out as a simple rip off of a better story, has now evolved into pure madness in American culture.� Now, everywhere you look there is a corporate head—not quite a billionaire—doing the Mister Grey shtick and spanking women all in the name of feminism and sexual revolution something-something.� We get that you're the boss of your own company and that being a politically correct Dom with "consent" and a "written contract" is all the rage right now, and it would be downright weird if you didn't have a dungeon in 2015.� But…seriously, if you're making $50,000 a year you are NOT a billionaire and you don't get to spank your secretaries.� Not even your interns.� Even if you're a millionaire, it's still not right to pretend as if you're an in-fashion misogynist and just randomly break into the homes of women you work with.� And we're only harassing you because you're a bunch of $200,000 a year wannabes pretending to be Mr. Grey.� Only billionaires can get away with melting candles on people.� Because why submit to nipple torture unless you get a major diamond rock of apology?� This HONOR only goes to true billionaires who can afford to be dicks because they ultimately pay off your mortgage, or save your sick kid, or whatever decent billionaires like to do when they're not whipping people.
- Werebear Shifter
It really sucks when you're not only a billionaire Dom but also get to shift into a werebear whenever the going gets too tough.� But honestly, if you can shift into a werebear and still have sex with beautiful women, and only have about a hundred bucks in your bank account, we're still pretty impressed.� The Werebear Shifter of 2015, in addition to being rich, powerful and muscular (but somehow not abundantly hairy) is a man who is damaged, misunderstood and of course, the worst thing of all is that he's dangerous BECAUSE he turns into a werebear and presumably eats people all the while protecting his hot girlfriend.� In the end, that's what we ALL want.� To be able to shift into a powerful animal, kick ass, eat people who annoy us and have great makeup sex in the woods.� Werebear, who cares if you're a billionaire?� You are awesome just the way you are.
- Racist Mother
We all know that it's scientifically impossible for children to say racist things if they had a good mother.� So we're looking at you, Mother of Racist Child.� How dare your Little Johnny say the N-word.� And how dare he use the C-word just because all his stupid classmates are using it.� This is all your fault.� If your child is raised in a normal household (and given Ritalin) he will not grow up to be racist.� If your child grows up to be Hitler, you should be thrown in jail as well.� Because as we all know, parents are just as responsible for their children's crimes.
- Guy That Looks Like a Pedophile
Yeah, it sucks to be that guy.� But all we seem to know about him is that 65% of all Facebook users say "You look like a pedophile!" and thus that invalidates most of his arguments.� He's just a creepy guy in general and thus shut probably STFU while beautiful people are talking.
- Male Feminist Douchebag
Seriously, your sole purpose in life is to score with feminist chicks by making people believe you are on their side—which in actuality only women are true feminists.� Feminism is by women for women to escape male subjugation.� It requires shifts in the thinking of women and ultimately all material should be created by women.� Feminist men are usually scummy lowlife pretenders that couldn't care less about women's rights but still genuinely do want to score and so will say anything…until you see through his crap.� Or maybe feminist men just really do want to be a subservient race and so they're the type of guy that pays a woman to spank him.� Well, spanking is wrong…unless a billionaire does it.� Male Feminist Douchebag, you will never be a feminist.� Caitlyn Jenner is a better feminist than you are, because at least she did something besides play with her penis all day long.
- The Poor Fired Bernie Sanders Staffer
Poor kid, just following orders, just trying to find a job to pay for his college loan payments and then he gets stuffed in the middle of a foul-smelling sandwich between sexy seniors Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.� Somebody's got to play the fall guy.� This kid just got screwed royally.� And if you have to be screwed royally by a politician, at least hope it's Angela Gerekou, Greece's Deputy Minister for Culture.
- Peaceful ISIS Protestor
The media usually only centers on the violent and insane soldiers of ISIS, all the while ignoring the peaceful ISIS protesters that mainly surf the Internet, criticize America and create a bunch of Twitter accounts that retweet stuff that other ISIS users said. �These peaceful protectors simply don't have the stomach to behead anyone and definitely don't know all that fancy camera work that the more popular ISIS soldiers do, with the zoom ins and panning and aperture…and wow!� That's just too much to keep up with.� On the other hand, sending prank Tweets to Barack Obama is so easy in comparison.
- Woman Who Still Doesn't Understand What Jared Fogle Did
This poor woman.� She lost weight because of Jared Fogle and his contributions to weight loss.� But she still doesn't understand what Jared Fogle did.� She keeps defending Jared saying, "Being fat is not a reason to hate a person.� I was fat and I lost weight thanks to Jared Fogle."� Yes, yes, we know, but you DO understand that Jared Fogle was trying to have sex with underage girls?� And she goes, "No all fat people don't have sex with underage girls.� How dare you!� Fat-shaming is a terrible thing to do."� And we're like, "Noooo we're saying that Jared Fogle was caught in the act and prosecuted and went to jail for trying to arrange sex with children."� And she says, "Ohhh you mean they caught him for soliciting underage sex?"� We said, "Yeah!� Now don't you understand why everyone hates Jared Fogle?"� And she's like, "Well, why didn't he just get permission to marry the girl like the state law says?� I got married at 16 in my church and my parents and my pastor and the county sheriff and the senator all attended and it was no problem."� And then finally we said, "Well…it's basically because Jared Fogle tried to sleep with some 17 year old and he didn't get married in church.� He doesn't even really believe in Jesus.� FINALLY, the woman said, "Huhhhhh What a f*cking pervert!"
- Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen is a hero.� And not just because he contracted AIDS—and true, it kind of sucks to be rewarded for an accomplishment you did three or four years ago.� But little did you know that not everyone should be required to disclose HIV positive status.� Some people, who are obviously living in the 1980s still, would have you believe being honest about that sort of thing is an ethical responsibility.� But no, Charlie Sheen is braving the odds and making STDs cool again.� Charlie is reminding us all that no, we're not under obligation to share our life status for any reason, except that we want to make quirky conversation.� The choice belongs to the individual on whether to talk about STDs, marital status, drug addictions, and whether or not the condom actually broke.� That's what we call TMI and there should be a TMI Law passed in America.� What Charlie Sheen did, was not only show people that it's OK to hide your sexual diseases to get some pussy, but he also showed us that condom wearing should be optional.� Don't ever let anyone pressure you into wearing a condom.� That's not the Charlie Sheen Bi-Winning Way. �Mark our words, within a few years all the top stars will have an STD and brag about just how exotic their symptoms are.� And we have Charlie Sheen to thank for making all you prudes, haters and discriminators gnash your teeth.� The way we see, you don't deserve our crabs, mother f*cker.
- Jesus Christ and Mohammed
Yeah we get that you can't blame the holiest of guys for what their religious adherents do.� But since that idiot guy was recently convicted of libel for doctoring videos that slandered Planned Parenthood, we figured that Jesus Christ (The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost in human form) and Mohammed are also guilty of creatively editing the Bible and Quran to incite hatred and murder.� Or at the very least, they're guilty of inspiring a bunch of deranged lunatics to write their holy books to begin with.
Which just brings us to the main point: All self publishing is evil because it lacks an editorial process.� If Jesus and Mohammed had selected an editor with proven experience, a college degree and a dozen references of high-profile executives from New York, they probably wouldn't have created all this mass murder and chaos.� So the lesson is, only support books that are traditionally published and not amoral, unfiltered, self published works like The End of the Magical Kingdom by Mitchell Warren.


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I felt the affronting stare. I remained confident, bearing down, looking for more accepting faces; but there still remained one. One face rejected the words. After the lake-side sermon not all were content. The singular-one came to correct my words. He asserted "Pastor Cliff, we are saved by grace not by works. It is a free gift." Not having time, I couldn't reaffirm the message or clarify, although I'm sure he was dug-in, immovable. He is a good guy, a firm adherent to an incomplete message. Like others, he is incidentally damning himself and others through an inoculation from salvation, through an over-simplified, partial Gospel message given at spiritual birth.
I confess, I was in that state for quite awhile too. I was indoctrinated to a half message, a misunderstanding of what it mean to be saved by faith. Many walk in a false assurance.
When I was first taught, I too believed as him. I would argue with Mormons and Catholics, asserting they were depending on works for salvation. I could really kick their butts in that day; I was 1 ½ years into my faith. I was a giant! That's funny huh? It is a little embarrassing to look back. I was obedient but certainly not perfected in my understanding and action.
Early on, I was given scriptures of "assurance of salvation" in a Bible Study. We memorized a couple of these scriptures. I never really understood exactly why but I'm a "good boy." I guess I was supposed to use them when I sinned and as a result had doubt.
As I studied the Bible, my views eventually changed. It took me a few years of personal study to detangle myself from the half-message Gospel. I didn't share my new found revelations at first; I felt like I was going to be branded as a heretic.
For your reference, I wrote a blog "Aenology: That Big Word" that builds this more complete statement of how you can tell if your faith saves. Here is a quote from that blog; a synopsis of the "if then statements" of I John and Hebrews.
"If we are in the light and obey, if His word remains in us, we give to those in need, acknowledge Jesus, and if we love our brother, we do not love the world, hold to the courage and the hope, firm to the end, and continue in faith then the truth is in us, we know Him, His love is made complete, the Son and Father remain in us, His love is in us, God lives in us, we truly love God, we are His house, we share in Christ, and are saved.
If we remain in faith in Jesus that results in love for one another until we die then we truly have fellowship with God and eternal life.
1 John 2:5-6 But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: 6 Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. NIV
Bull's-eye! This is the target 'Walk as Jesus walked and be saved.'"
Assurance of salvation belongs to these. Your assurance of salvation is misapplied if your system of belief is not as previously shown in the Word. If your understanding remains as "If you believe in Jesus you'll be saved." it will affect how you carryout your faith. In this you are living in a delusion thinking you are forgiven and Heaven bound.
Most professing Christians will miss many crucial scriptures because of this false-start. When you "know" you are saved and have put on this assurance because of your misunderstanding, you are blinded from many other scriptures and few can escape this trap. They are locked in their misunderstanding by these scriptures of assurance. Misapplied assurance is destructive.
Assurance rests on Jesus. He is God "compassionate and merciful." He showed His love for us with Jesus on the Cross and the resurrection. He promised this eternal life to the faithful. Jesus is faithful and can be trusted fully. But assurance is only for His faithful.
Here is a synthesis of the assurance scriptures.
In Christ we have confidence, he will finish His work in us, nothing can separate us from the love of Jesus, we can know we have eternal life, we have a purpose, the Holy Spirit is in us as a deposit, we have the Son of God in us, and nothing can take us from His hand.
This is a great comfort to those who are "working out their salvation with fear and trembling." We need this comfort. We will win! Our souls will be preserved :"if" we stay in the faith using our warfare tactics and armaments. See my blog "War for Your Soul: What is the war we fight?" We are guaranteed to win and gain the salvation of our souls. It is promised; be assured!


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Coach Saban and the Alabama Football Team Take the 'Ice Bucket Challenge'
Having previously been called out by The Band Perry and I'm sure others, Coach Nick Saban accepted their challenge and got the entire football team involved as well!
In his challenge he calls out Heismann Trophy winner Mark Ingram, US Senator Joe Manson, a coaching friend, and radio host Paul Finebaum.
Watch each of the videos in order to get the whole experience or skip to the last for the payoff!


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Authenticity creates connectivity.
It's much more fun being surprised than being right.
No one can steal your shine. Don't dim it for anyone.
Life is meant to be playful, full of love and adventures. have fun!
The right choice is often not the easy one, but it's always the best one.


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May 4th, 2018
Belmond launches new activities, partnerships, and itineraries across its collection as winter makes way for the new beginnings of spring. Offering a tailored journey for every kind of traveler, families can plan holiday break, couples can enjoy a romantic escape to Italy, and adventurers can book a truly over-the-top experience.
Ahead are the brand's newsiest bytes for spring. Should any of the below pique your interest, please reach out to firstname.lastname@example.com for more details.
VERY IMPORTANT KIDS From spa treatments to cooking classes, Belmond offers a variety of tailored activities and programs for its tiniest travelers…
PAMPERED TOTS: Families can enjoy a relaxing afternoon in Belmond Reid's Palace's Wellness Centre complete with the kid-friendly Angelsense therapy, a soothing massage designed to improve quality of sleep and strength immune systems. For added incentive, Belmond Reid's Palace recently launched the Family Package, including 50% off a second room with a five-night stay, daily breakfast, and three dinners with complimentary dining for children under 12 years old.
JUNIOR CHEFS: Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons encourages budding culinary enthusiasts to join Michelin-star chef Raymond Blanc's Cookery School for half- or full-day 'Adult and Children' cooking courses. The junior master chefs can also race through the gardens on a treasure hunt, design their own vegetable patch, and become pen pals with Bear Blanc, the hotel's teddy bear chef.
NATURE EXPLORERS: Nestled along the Sacred Valley's Urubamba River, Belmond Hotel Rio Sagrado invites its tiny explorers to embrace the outdoors with alfresco art classes using local materials, the chance to hand feed the hotel's baby alpacas, and outdoor movie nights underneath the stars, complete with a popcorn waiter service and dessert bar.
ANDIAMO! Belmond's Italian collection reopens for the season with new activities to celebrate 2018…
VENICE: In honor of its 60th anniversary, the iconic Belmond Hotel Cipriani will host cooking classes highlighting historical recipes, new insider tours throughout Venice, and a scenic boat tour aboard the meticulously restored, 16-meter motor sailing yacht, Edipo Re.
FLORENCE: Art-lovers and wine-connoisseurs will unite with two new tours from Belmond Villa San Michele. Available together as an immersive full-day journey or separately as half-day excursions, the first of the experiences is a visit to Chianti Sculpture Park, the one-kilometer sculpture trail embracing a variety of materials from traditional marble to modern neon-light and glass. The second, titled Art of the Treasure Hunt, brings guests through a collection of contemporary installations hidden among historic Tuscan wineries. Belmond Villa San Michele will reopen on March 29.
RAVELLO: Through Belmond's new partnership with Leica Sport Optics, guests of Belmond Hotel Caruso can enjoy a series of early morning experiences aptly titled, "First Light." Outfitted with a complimentary lightweight Trinovid 8x42HD Leica binoculars and a curated map, guests can watch the wildlife up close as day breaks over the Amalfi Coast. On the nearby island of Mallorca, Belmond La Residencia will also offer the "First Light" experiences through the UNESCO World Heritage site. Belmond La Residencia is open now, while Belmond Hotel Caruso will reopen on March 30.
PORTOFINO: In a secluded bay near Belmond Hotel Splendido, the Abbey of San Fruttuoso is host to an after-hours private concert. After arriving by private boat, guests can explore the abbey's cloisters and vaults and learn about the monks' daily lives before reconvening in the courtyard for cocktails and a concert featuring music of the guests' choosing. Belmond Hotel Splendido will reopen on March 30.
SICILY: Guests of Belmond Villa Sant'Andrea can explore the remote island of Filicudi with an insider tour hosted by three resident islanders. Guests will enjoy breakfast with a former antiques dealer who relocated to the island 30 years ago with his partner, meet with an artist who made her home in a local cave, and sit down with a couple in their family-built villa to dine on a late lunch featuring fresh catch and local produce. Belmond Villa Sant'Andrea will reopen on April 12.
OVER-THE-TOP OFFERINGS With properties in UNESCO World Heritage sites, far-flung destinations, and iconic cities, Belmond offers one-of-a-kind experiences in exciting locales…
MUSIC AFICIONADOS: Belmond has launched a new partnership with the London Philharmonic Orchestra that includes exclusive performances in Machu Picchu, Peru; Iguassu Falls, Brazil; and the Okavango Delta, Botswana. These intimate concerts will be held throughout 2018 and 2019, and guests staying on property will enjoy additional perks such as reduced ticket prices or a pre-concert dinner.
GOLF BUFFS: Ryder Cup champion Sam Torrance returns to host the four-night 'Scottish Golf Tour' aboard Belmond Royal Scotsman departing June 25, 2018. Guests will play three rounds of golf at Scotland's top courses, including one with Sam at Royal Durnoch Golf Links, before spending the evening in the train's Observation Car, where Sam will share tips and stories from his competition days.
WINE CONNOISSEURS: What many wine lovers attempt in a lifetime, Belmond Amaryllis accomplishes in a week with the Grand Cru itinerary through Burgundy, where guests will have the opportunity to taste all 33 Grands Crus. Highlights include exclusive access to the vineyards at Puligny Montrachet and a private dinner in the cellars of Domaine Droughin-Laroze hosted by the owners themselves, Olivier Leflaive and Christine Droughin.
CALENDAR Launches, events, and new programs to keep on the radar…
- May – Belmond Andean Explorer launches a new spa car
- May – Belmond El Encanto celebrates its centennial birthday
- June – Belmond Afloat in France unveils two new barges, Belmond Lilas and Belmond Pivoine
- June 1 – Belmond Savute Elephant Lodge reopens following a complete renovation
- July 18 – Commemorate Nelson Mandela's would-be 100th birthday at Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel
- September 25 – British equestrian Jodie Kidd will host a new safari with two Botswana lodges
- November – Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel celebrates 100 years in its rosy-pink hue.
- November 17 – Belmond Cap Juluca re-opens following a top-to-bottom renovation
- November 29 – Explore Belfast with Belmond Grand Hibernian in honor of C.S. Lewis' 120th birthday
- December 29 – Stay with Belmond Copacabana Palace to celebrate the 85th anniversary of 'Flying Down to Rio' – the first onscreen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
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Hidden • Kirkus Reviews
A Child's Story of the Holocaust.
by Loïc Dauvillier, illustrated by Marc Lizano, Greg Salsedo.
Age Range: 6 - 13
The most moving scenes of this graphic novel have no words at all.
Lizano draws people the same way that small children do: a giant oval for the head and two dots for the eyes. But his people always have complicated expressions on their faces. They never show just one emotion. They're angry and perplexed or cheerful and bemused. (Colorist Salsedo supplies a sad, muted palette that complements the mood perfectly.) When the Nazis force the Jews to wear yellow stars, Dounia's mother looks frightened and furious and bewildered. Her father looks surprisingly happy. He says, "This morning, I was at a big meeting. Some people suggested that we become a family of sheriffs." He says it very calmly, and Dounia doesn't realize for a long time afterward that he was telling a comforting lie. This should be a sad story, but the family lives through the darkest moments of the war with determination and grace and even humor. Dounia doesn't let her emotions fully register until years later, when she's telling the story to her granddaughter. On the last pages of the book, in a few quiet, powerful panels, her face shows grief and guilt and fear and resignation.
No book can sum up all of the Holocaust, but this graphic novel seems to contain every possible human emotion. Remarkably, most of the time, it does it with an oval and two dots.
(Graphic historical fiction. 6-13)
Kirkus Reviews.
Pub Date: April 1st, 2014
Page count:80pp
Publisher:First Second/Roaring Brook
Review Posted Online:Feb. 26th, 2014
Kirkus Reviews Issue:March 15th, 2014
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Monday 15th August 2016
DHP Presents...
The Kat Men started life back in 2007 when Stray Cat drumming legend, Slim Jim Phantom and UK Rockabilly guitarist, Darrel Higham, met at a jam session at The Oneida Casino, Wisconsin, in the good ol US of A during a week-long Rock n Roll Festival.
A fiendish plan was formed to start a touring band for Europe and the next year saw the two record their first CD entitled simply Kat Men. Produced and recorded by Gilby Clarke in Los Angeles, this smokin 12 track Rockabilly powerhouse added to a set that fairly shook up the audiences that would flock in their droves as the Kat Men deftly bopped from one European city to another as their following grew.
Much of 2008/09 was spent performing long tours of Europe and Australia before Higham left to pursue the role of lead guitarist for his wife, Imelda May while Jim toured the world with a highly successful reunion of the Stray Cats and continued playing drums with another project, Headcat, featuring that Titan of Rawk, Motorheads Lemmy.
In late 2011, the lure of the Kat Men could no longer be contained and Jim and Darrel were re- united to record another CD. This was recorded at Embassy Studio in Hampshire, UK during March/April 2012, and from there a record contract with Decca Records followed. 14 tracks running the full gamut of Roots music; Rockabilly boppers, strollers, Hep Cat rhythms, Country shufflers, Blues ballads and laid-back groovers make this the essential Beat for the Feet release of 2013!!
The Kat Men Cometh Along with ace bassist, Al Gare (Mike Sanchez, Imelda May) Jim and Darrel will be performing their unique and highly contagious blend of modern Bop at a town or city near you soon.
Be Prepared and Be Aware!
Friday 10th May 2013
Price: £12.00 advance (+stbf)
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During my younger years I was very physically active and managed to maintain a healthy weight, despite consuming a terribly unhealthy diet. However, since most of us move less as we age, adjustments to diet must be made to avoid disease, illness, pain, and depression. In other words, proper nutrition must ultimately be addressed to… Read more »
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This proves it: the world, no matter how far explored, will always continue to surprise us! America seems to have no unknown frontiers. In the world of Google, and such high levels of knowledge being available to us on a day-to-day basis, what is there left to discover when we step outside. The answer is a lot! Not only can we discover (don't kill me for the corniness) the joy of nature, we can discover really cool things like this 132 year old Winchester rifle, that was found simply leaning up against a tree. It's owner, it seems, never came back. Park archaeologists (how cool is that?) at the Great Basin National Park found the gun in November. The 132 year-old rifle, exposed to sun, wind, snow, and rain was found leaning against a tree in the park. It was in a rocky outcrop that is not heavily traveled, which explains why it wasn't found sooner. This type of gun hasn't been made since 1916, and was once referred to as the "everyman's" rifle since it was sold for $50, and then $25, which was more affordable than other rifle options. The next time you think "the outdoors is boring!" remember, you never know what you might fight on your next walk!
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@BrianMcNeeley It must have, especially since it's truly something you can't find every day. Great share @yakwithalan.


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When I was in first grade I was bitten by the composition bug, and I banged out "Baalk Baalk Chicken Baalk" on the new upright piano in the family living room. Looking back, it sounded a lot like "Chopsticks"—but with words…poetically powerful, barn-yard type words. The compositional muse quieted in seventh grade, as I turned my attention to memorizing existing pieces—the classics for piano lessons, of course, and then assorted 80's ballads in a failed attempt to woo women. Well, junior high girls. Journey and Toto were my go-to's.
Years later, I earned degrees in philosophy, political science, and secondary education at Augustana University (Sioux Falls, SD), and moved to the Minneapolis area where I taught middle school geography. Luckily I shared my classroom with the music teacher, so I took advantage of the out-of-tune Baldwin piano with the sticky low C that sat in the corner—creating all sorts of little musical ditties to help students learn geography (in retrospect—my first stint as composer-in-residence).
After eight years of teaching and singing, a colleague and I co-founded Learner's Edge—an education company now in its eighteenth year of helping educators world-wide better their craft and improve student learning. I taught several courses and workshops on how to integrate music and the arts into the classroom, with special emphasis on how to compose songs to improve retention.
In early 2009, I began working on my first album, which began as a smattering of prelude pieces created for my wedding the year prior. The resulting Renewal—a collection of piano-based acoustic arrangements of traditional hymns—was released in 2010. The compositional bug had bitten again. I began working on a second album, 12.25, shortly thereafter—and began pulling old chord charts of Christmas arrangements I had been noodling on since college. 12.25 was released in 2012. The album projects were transformational experiences—as much as I had enjoyed both teaching and creating a business, nothing provided the sheer joy and feeling of aliveness as creating music and hearing it come to life. I transitioned out of the day-to-day work at Learner's Edge in 2013 in order to pursue music full-time.
And what a whirlwind since. A college friend and choir director in the Middle East, Melanie Brink, heard I was interested in writing choral music and asked if I'd consider writing a piece for her upcoming TAISM international high school choral festival. I was thrilled—and admittedly more than a little nervous—and several months later my first choral piece, Kooloona Wahed (Though Many, One) was born. It was clear to me that choral music would be my defining interest as I moved into my new career in music; looking back to my own formative experiences in high school and college choir, it seems more like a "coming home"….than a "leaping out." I soon enrolled at Vermont College of Fine Arts, graduating in the summer of 2017 with an MFA in music composition. Recent highlights include being awarded the American Prize in Choral Composition (2019), and my appointment as Composer-in-Residence with the world-class, award-winning Wartburg Choir. When not doing freelance projects, I work part-time in the music ministry at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Burnsville, MN—where I have been choir and production accompanist since the late 90's, and where I now am able to compose and arrange music for a variety of services.
I'm drawn to all sorts of music and text (both in and out of the choral world), but am particularly interested in the conversations that are happening at the intersection of faith and music. Much of my own work thus far has been an exploration of the blurring of the line between sacred and secular. In the words of a current text I am setting,


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Halen: Ballad of the Blade Thief is a single player, third person action platformer, where the player uses combat and agility to navigate the environment, fight enemies, and find secrets, while trying to escape the dangerous temple.
The game started as our team's fourth year university project, but after working on it for so long, we knew we had to release it. We began working on the game in March of 2016, and finished it in April 2017. Our goal was to create a polished game experience that abides by industry standards, and is accessible to players of various skill levels. But above all else, we wanted to make a fun and well designed game, filled with interesting characters and great experiences.
welcome to teltona
A lone thief, betrayed by those she trusted most, Halen's survival depends on taking a dangerous job retrieving an artifact from the far reaches of the galaxy. She must travel to the abandoned planet of Teltona, using a piece of ancient technology, and descend into the depths of a mystical temple. However, things go awry, and she finds herself fighting off an army of marooned robots, with the help of an unexpected ally. Together they must escape the temple in one piece.
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Armed with a powerful ancient sword, and a deadly plasma revolver, you must fight your way through gangs of mining robots, heavily armed gunners, heavily armored chargers and more!
Use Halen's nimble abilities to explore the many hidden passages and caves within the temple, and discover secrets to unfold the story of the temple and it's inhabitants.
Procure the highest score you can, by comboing attacks, using the robot's abilities against themselves, and mixing up the fight in unique ways.
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Šembije: MEDITERRANEAN RIDE WITH A VIEW
Spend a wonderful day with horses in the Mediterranean climate.
We will start our adventure in the village of Šembija, located between Knežak and Ilirska Bistrica.
We will experience a magical pristine nature, beautiful forests and grasslands.
At 9 am, we will meet each other in the village of Šembija, from where we will start a relaxing horseback riding in the region of Primorska. We will enter the 72 m long Mussolini tunnel, which was sculpted by Italians in a live rock, thus connecting important military installations.
From here, there is the most beautiful view of the magnificent Podtaborska wall, which represents the natural border between the Primorska and Notranjska region.
When we arrive to Šilentabor you will discover a wonderful view of the Košansko Valley and Narin. After a short stop we will pass through Knežak village towards the area of intermittent lakes, past the medieval Castle Kalc where we will tie up horses under the shadows of Linden trees , while we will enjoy a delicious local lunch. After a well-deserved rest, we will ride our horses again and return back to the starting point, across the hill Vrh, where we will be fascinated with a beautiful view.


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Le Cafezoïde
A new concept is in town. A bar similar to many others, but with one minor difference: this café is entirely adapted to the needs of the little ones: small chairs and tables, a colourful decor, special toilets, bottle warmers, a buggy garage... From now on, it is possible to go out and have a drink with your noisy little ones without receiving that nasty look from the people sitting next to you.
Le Cafézoïde is a cultural café for kids from 0 to 16 years old. All kind of activities are organised to entertain the younger ones, such as reading sessions, creative projets, yoga for kids, musical wake-up, theatre... or they can just play freely with the toys available.
The association that exploits this kid-friendly café also makes its own radio programme. Every second Wednesday of the month, they broadcast on 106.3 FM. Tune in for recordings from the kids and discussions about current events.
You'll notice that the interior decor changes constantly. Whenever a different theme is raised, the decor changes accordingly. Artists also exhibit their work in the bar on the ground floor.
There's no alcohol on the menu. Instead, they have different kinds of fruit juice, sirop, tea, coffee... Prices are very moderate: ground coffee, for example, costs just 1 euro. Every day, there's a different hot meal on offer. The portions are large and the ingredients are of organic origin. Certain vegetables come from the shared garden that they cultivate themselves. With a child-sized portion for €3 and an adult portion for €6, there's no need to negotiate.
Useful information
- Opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 18:00
- Wifi available
- Prices: An entrance fee is requested to access the first floor where all activities are held. It's €2,50 for members and €3 for the others. This fee includes a juice or a piece of cake. Adults enter for €1.
- Address: 92 bis Quai de la Loire, 75019 PARIS
- Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/KAFEZOIDE/
- More info on their website: http://www.cafezoide.asso.fr
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Cafe Alibi has free wi-fi and a cute little patio southside. Also, one of the first places several years ago to routinely ask if you prefer soymilk in your espresso drink. Great, big picture window in front for people-watching. Friendly service with comfy chairs for laptop lads and lassies.
84 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena, 626.578.7779, American. Daily. MC, V. $