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Picture of HK's Cable Cars, remnants of British Colonial Rule
I visit HK 2/3 times a year. I consider myself for the most part an almost native Hong Konger. One thing that set me apart aside from the fact I look nothing like most HK people do is their germophopia issues. It's normal and cool to go out looking like you are a dentist because Hong Kongers actually feel that wearing a mask is going to prevent you from catching a cold, bird flu, or swine flu, etc. They must have some special power masks or something. After spending quite some time failing to convince my Grandmother that the masks don't work, I decided to join the club for a day. Hey, if you can't beat them, join them!
Thankfully as germaphobic Hong Kongers are, they still are okay with eating street food. Street food is amazing! It's cheap, fast, fresh, and scrumptiously delicious, which is what today's post is about!
So how fresh do you want your street food? This fresh? The whole goat is still in tact! My usual rule of thumb is the dirtier the better-so this would actually look appealing to me!
If that way too fresh for you, then how about seeking out a cart like this one? These two ladies are selling freshly roasted chestnuts! YUM! They also sell freshly roasted quail eggs, and sweet potatoes in 3 colors-white, purple, and yellow! They are all delicious so buy all of it! It's super cheap too! If you look closely you can see the woman on the right in red is using a shovel like tool to roast the chestnuts and keep them burning. Right next to her is a small handle. That's actually used to pump more power to keep the chestnuts and everything else in the cart warm. Is this legal? Not exactly... That's why they have to keep on the run! But no fear just put your nose in the air. You can smell roasted chestnuts and fresh sweet potatoes glazed with juicy, sugary goodness from far away!
After you've flagged down the chestnut cart, be sure to visit some very legal and awesome street food like this. Fresh waffles and HK favorite egg waffles are made here in many different flavors!
Here's what it looks like while it's being made! So good! While you're at one of these street shops, pick up some curry fish balls, deep fried intestine, fried eggplant/vege combinations, or stinky tofu, etc! I can have my entire lunch at one of these places just eating everything there. It's all made fresh and each item costs about $1 U.S. or less!
These street shops also make fresh juice when you order it. Here's some hot sugarcane juice that they made right when we ordered it! Yum! Sugarcane is also super good for you! Double Yum!
If you don't feel like standing on the side of the street, make your way to the closest Cha Chan Tangs (茶餐廳) on the side of the street where you can have a seat and have some good street style food at the same time. Check out this plate of goodness. It's a peanut butter and condensed milk toast. So good!
Then you can order this! Hot lemon coke with ginger, which is good for your throat or when you're sick.
In the mood for some simple street pleasures but don't want to stand on the side of the street enjoying it? Then try buying them home! Make like us and by some Taiwanese snacks home. Here's sticky rice with floss and Da bang, a bread with sesame and green onions inside.
And if you want to bring home a big meal to enjoy, buy some Singaporean fish curry home or some Hainan Chicken Rice! The rice is super good because it actually is made with chicken fat. It's chicken heaven especially with those awesome sauces it comes with!
Some germaphobics like my Grandmother would never dare come close to street food like we do. She says it's dirty and has been sitting with smog from cars all day long. I argue that maybe that's the special ingredient that makes street food as tasty as it is!
Happy Eatings with your So Fresh & So Clean Street Food!


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presidential destruction and any means to achieve it. it doesn't want powers as much as it wants the other party, the president's party to stop having it. it doesn't so much want the white house. try to think of someone they want to see there as it wants to imagine that barack obama isn't really president after all. that is their dream. not doing something but finding a way to achieve the nirvana. no president obama. no. no. no. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "politicsnation" with al sharpton starts right now. thanks, chris. thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, the gop jump-start shock. republicans are foaming at their mouth over the irs controversy despite the fact the president is taking action. he's taking action to get to the bottom of it. facts do not matter to today's gop. the most extreme far right
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voices in the party are he had looking the charge, starting with michele bachmann. >> earlier this week, we heard the word "impeachment" tossed around here on capitol hill. is that something that should be considered? >> i will tell you, as i have been home in my district, there isn't a weekend that hasn't gone by that someone says to me, michele, what are in the world are you all waiting for in congress? why aren't you impeaching the president? he's been making unconstitutional be may have r unconstitutional behavior since he came into office. >> impeachment? is she serious? the gop is blaming the president for every single controversy in washington. >> the unifying themes in that pattern is, number one, an arrogance and view of government and, two number, a really dismaying willingness to mislead and to deceive the american people. >> there's something profoundly
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unamerican about targeting your political opponents. >> if the a.p. story is taught anything, it should be to the media that when there is a taranacle, the media will be one of the early victims. >> our president, a desperate? it's not confined to the tea party wing of the party. look who was there today right next to michele bachmann. senate majority mitch mcconnell and today speaker boehner was repeating the line about the president's so-called arrogance. >> nothing dissolves the bonds between the people and our government like the arrogance of power here in washington. that's what the american people are seeing today from the obama administration. remarkable arrogance.
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>> joining me now, richard wolffe and krystal ball. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. >> thanks for having us, reverend. >> krystal, let me start with you. have the gop gone off the deep end here? >> i think that they have never quite understood the election and up until now that the american people do not feel about the president that they do. they have all this hatred towards him and always assume the worst of him. so anything that they can see and find that ties into their caricature of him, they grab on to and they assume that the broader american public is going to make the same connection. they don't. they don't see him that way. they like him. they generally trust him. they think that he is doing the best that he can. so when they make these bizarre assertions that in a lot of ways don't even -- contradict themselves, they are really undermining their own point and really jumping the shark, as you
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put it. t>>s if they ignored the elect right. >> they have the same narrow tea party group saying the same v venomous things from the president that just does not work with the broad base of americans. richard? >> i think the only thing that performance works for is auditioning for "the daily show." what are they thinking? if they want to buck the trend of history and give the president some seats in a midterm, they should do what republicans did in 1996 because -- in 1998, because trying to impeach a president, you could actually help his party gain seats. it didn't work. it didn't work then. let's face it, they are saying that he's arrogant. he's the commander in chief. they are saying he has an attitude? >> he's uppity. but let me go back to you for a
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minute, krystal. the right wing heritage action group, this is serious to me, explicitly telling republicans to focus on scandal and not even try to pass laws. now, their letter -- let me read it to you -- part of it, anyway, says we urge you to avoid bringing any legislature to the house floor, rather than scheduling such legislation for consideration, we urge you to keep the attention focused squarely on the obama administration. so that means let's forget jobs, let's not deal with the sequester, let's not deal with immigration, let's keep the focus on these scandals, none of who have in any way, shape, or form, had a direct accusation by the president or anyone in the white house, for that matter. serious scandals but not at the level of the obama administration. >> and i think when you mention
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immigration, that's the big one. when they are referring to things that create a schism within the conference, that was creating the schism before we started talking about these issues and heritage has been opposed to any kind of comprehensive reform package that would include bringing the millions of undocumented workers out into the shadows. and that is what is really sad here. there's a lot that is out here but one of the things, in their attempt to smear the president in any way they can, they are shredding any little bit of goodwill that had been built up, leading towards progress on these bills. >> yeah. >> how can you go back to a conservative district and sell your constituents on a bipartisan immigration plan when you're trying to convince them that the president is a taranicle despite? >> my concern is when you look at michele bachmann, rand paul,
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they use the irs controversy to attack the health care law. >> your medical records will be evaluated by the irs that seems to have the ability and pension to use political -- political persuation and political op-ed. >> could there be potential political implications regarding health care, access to health care, denial of health care, will that happen based upon a person's political beliefs? >> i mean, first it was the death panels pulling the plugs on grandma. now it's irs agents saying you can't get a flu shot. >> i'm a new american. you have these questions about the constitution. i hear michele bachmann say what's the constitution? i checked. they looked at the health care
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law and said, gee, it's constitutional. this argument doesn't work. they can't even make a statement. even michele bachmann has to phrase it as a question. could it be? will they do that? they don't have the guts to say, this is not true. the irs didn't tell the white house to do anything because it's illegal. it doesn't exist. it does not happen, it will not happen. they have to put these things out there in the hopes that someone just reads the signs and sees the smoke and puts it all together in their conspiracy-filled world. they are fueling conspiracies and they know it. that's why they are asking these questions. >> but again -- and i'm going to keep saying it every night -- the commissioner in charge of the irs when this happened was a bush-appointed republican. >> right. >> if they want to ask somebody about it, ask him. >> and the guy who got fired. >> yeah. i mean, it's -- like the oval
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office, someone called down to some mid-level irs agents and said i want to you do this. but a new york times piece today said that -- well, it really gave insight into what the president is saying about all of the gop opposition. let me give you this. he told donors this week, "my thinking was after we beat them in 2012, well, that might break the fever and it's not quite broken yet." he also said, i sure want to do some governing. i want to get some stuff done. i don't have a lot of time. so it's frustrating and it's costing the american people, krystal. >> that's exactly right. and they have gone back and back to republicans in good faith. some of his critics on the left have said they've trusted him too much. he's tried too hard and they
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can't get past the hatred of them because they have no solutions to offer. the only thing that they can fall back on that holds their caucus together is their animous towards this president. >> well, it does seem like that there's no way to work with these people. i have been one that wanted to see the president more aggressive. but compromise with them is slim to none and slim is out of town. richard wolffe and krystal ball, thank you for your time this evening. be sure to catch krystal on "the cycle" right here on msnbc at 3:00 p.m. ahead, republicans are spending money to repeal obama care but they won't spend money to feed the poor. i'm calling them out for their skewed priorities. plus, is anthony weiner ready for a comeback? two years after his fall from grace, he may be planning a big
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i've done things that i deeply regret. i've brought pain to people that i care about the most and the people who believe in me. and for that i'm deeply sorry. >> that was anthony weiner nearly two years ago but this is now. the new york daily news reports weiner may enter the mayoral race as soon as next week. one month ago in his first tv interview since resigning, he said this. >> i'm thinking about it. i'm not much of a candidate yet. i don't have a campaign office or a campaign manager but i'm thinking about it. >> that was then. this is now. weiner has reportedly hired a campaign manager, brought on a press secretary, and is filling other roles. he's had tearful confessions become a national punch line and
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a painful reckoning with his wife. no question, it's a long road back, but no question the guy knows how to fight. >> i want to just advice people at home playing that popular drinking game of you a take a shot every time a republican says something that is not true, please assign a designated driver. >> how is that cracker jack organization working out? >> those are the rules that exist and it's the only reason we're not following it is because i didn't get to the floor in time. >> you believe it's the right thing. if you believe it's the wrong thing, you vote no. we are following a procedure. i will not yield to the government and the gentleman will observe regular order. >> if the republicans are wrapping their arms around republicans rather than doing the right thing on behalf of the heroes, it is a shame. a shame. >> the question is, can you put the scandal behind him and find redemption? joining me now is maggie, senior
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political reporter for politico and errol lewis, host of new york one inside city hall. he had the first meeting with weiner. thank you both for being here today. >> good to see you. >> is weiner ready for a comeback in new york? >> well, he thinks she is. he has obviously talked to some people and has decided that now is the time. as you know, weiner was running for mayor four years ago and he saved $4 million from that campaign. he broke off that campaign when the scandal broke and he's got a whole bunch of money that he can use actually to run this time. he's got a real head start and i think that alone makes a mysterious candidate. >> well, we saw maggie sanford,
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a district race, not a statewide race. let me show you something that has some of us still on pause. when he was asked recently, is there any chance more women could come forward in a tweeting scandal, let me show you what he said. >> well, i can tell you i never met these women that are at the end of the anonymous, i can tell you that they will not be able to find another picture or another person who may want to come out on their own. >> that's not exactly no, there are no more women and what happens if there are? >> we're going to have more rounds of this. he said, you know, the number i've said is six. six women. he is referring to a lawyer leeway saying i don't know what else will come out and we are entering a big unknown with
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this. anthony weiner is a very aggressive politician and we are not looking at a field of -- you know, what is seen as great candidates. it's a pretty weak field. it's not clear what the city wants post mike bloomberg and prior to that, rudy giuliani. so we're looking at a very, very different type of race. however, a couple of points. to your point about sanford, it's very different than a lot of mayoralties, it's a power endrenched job. it is a ceos job. it's different in terms of trusting someone in terms of judgment. i think that's where his big problem is going to be. the other is how calm he can stay when he's getting questions every day about whether there's new pictures or not, he's had nasty exchanges with reporters
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in the last three weeks. that can't continue. >> errol, when you talk about judgment, we're talking about redemption, people getting a second chance it would be hard to believe that people in new york would not have the ability to reach redemption feelings or second chance or people of south carolina and then someone they are close to. bill clinton, who ran the country as a ceo and people have got past their problems. in fact, bill clinton performed their marriage and you asked weiner whether he got advice from bill clinton. let me show you this response. >> i've had conversations with the president about things and he's been a great source of
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support. >> can he do a bill clinton and remind people of bill clinton? >> that's a great question. if you think back to bill clinton, a lot of people thought he was getting railroaded, things that he got impeached over were sort of a sideshow and not particularly important. we don't really know what the public in general thinks about what anthony weiner did. also, bill clinton did a lot of things for a lot of people and he campaigned all over the country and neither of those things are true for anthony weiner. he's got to figure out on his own whether he can be credible
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and that's nothing that bill clinton can do for him. >> atlantic wires writes that clinton's support for anthony weiner is getting awkward given 2016 will he need the support or will that hurt the narrative of him being a redeeming candidate reminding us of bill clinton? >> i think it's worth noting that the last time ta anthony weiner answered a question about the clintons that way. extended clinton land had raised eyebrows that he was talking about bill clinton the way he had, talking to the clintons the way he had. he is not close to the clintons. his wife is. a lot of clinton world remains furious with anthony weiner. they do not love what happened. they didn't like him before the scandal, a lot of people. so i don't think he needs the
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clintons. i think he needs the clintons not to see him undercut there are too many conflicting interests for them. >> thank you for your time tonight. >> good to see you. >> still ahead, where's the apology for susan rise? new evidence shows the smear machine that tried to bring her down was flat out wrong. plus, if at first you don't succeed to appeal obama care, try, try, try again, 37 times. a new vote tonight. stay with us. oh this is soft.
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your voters in your state support background checks and you vote against it. senator ayotte saw that firsthand in town hall meetings back home. >> you don't want to regulate guns. >> you had mentioned that owners of gun stores, that the extended background checks would cost. i'm just wondering why the burden of my mother being gunned down in the hall of her elementary school isn't as important as that. >> now these republicans are trying to spin their way out of trouble. senator flake said, i've always supported background checks. senator portman wrote a letter to which he insisted of a background check and senator ayotte wrote an op-ed claim
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strange. >> we see it coming like the iceberg, only it's not just in a mist. shortly in front of our eyes, we have time to turn. and that's why we are here. >> it's mestasticizing and must be completely repealed. >> wait a minute. i'm confused. is obama care a ship? is it a train or is it a tumor? these republicans it will help 30 million people. these republicans are laughable. but one thing that is not funny is how much time and money they've wasted. the gop has spent over 80 hours, two full work weeks trying to repeal the health care law and it's cost the american taxpayer
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$55 million. they won't spend money to feed the poor. last night a republican-led house panel voted to cut food stamps by more than $20 billion over ten years for low-income americans. flares a lot of talk about scandals in washington. i think the real scandal is what the american people are trying to do to the american people. thanks for being on the show. >> thank you. >> republicans are spending money, they say, that we don't have but they don't want to spend money to feed the country. >> i'm glad you came on because i was about to go to sleep yawning.
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i mean, it really is ridiculous as you say, $20 million cut from needy families, failure to appoint a budget that is fair and balanced from the american public and yet we want to take away health care for young people to stay on their parent's health care plan, take away health care for life-size limits this is really ridiculous and maybe they will do it another 30 times so the american public can yawn and say, enough of these guys. >> congresswoman, people that get help with food stamps can grow and do something positive or constructive in their lives. you personally have had to do
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that and so have i. >> well, the nutrition programs that help people get on their feet, i think we're just dealing with a crowded people that don't understand the idea of a helping hand so people can help themselves and don't care about our nation's children who are losing head start teachers because of what they are doing. thankfully we have a president and a senate who can say enough of this. it was just another opportunity to put the american public to sleep. >> when you look at speaker boehner, he explained his party's plans to create jobs and it was all about appealing obama care. listen to this. >> weapon want time prove the economy and improve the prospects for creating jobs that
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are our primary focus. these are the thousands and thousands of pages of obama care regulations and if we want jobs, we need to get to this. >> to their job creating plan is repealing obama care? >> reverend al, their plan for just about everything is repeal obama care. michele bachmann gets up and says, the irs scandal proves that we need to repeal obama care. >> yeah. >> so i think this is by one count the 37th vote. i think that's conservative. i think there have been arguably more than 40 different attempts to repeal obama care but maybe we should not be criticizing the house republicans to do this. every day they try to waste they are not cutting food stamps. perhaps we should encourage them
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to spend the taxpayer's money. >> dana, you know i travel a lot. people are really hurting. this is not just pundits. where the rubber meets the road in this country, people need these health care -- the things that will benefit and provide things from the health care legislation. this is real stuff. >> that's right, reverend. there's a couple things we're talking about. one is the immediate cuts that people have felt already in terms of head start and stuff from the sequester. the loss to these food stamps, that's a long-term issue starting with next year's part of the agricultural budget in which they manage to increase funds going to farmers and these aren't hurting people right now. there's other things doing that and perhaps republican
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colleagues saying that they are deficit hawks. they want to see the deficit come down. a new report shows that the deficit has shrunk by $800 billion since president obama took office. that's the fastest deficit reduction we've had since world war ii. the last one, $200 million despite all of the deficit shrinking. the gop is still refusing to roll back the automatic budget cuts, some of which dana just referred to. here's some local tv reports on how those cuts are hurting real people on the ground. look at this. >> cuts to the department of housing and urban development have left thousands of low income families struggling to get a place to live. >> getting kids like clamari in to head start is going to be more difficult. because of budget cuts, places
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like this are taking less kids the next school year. >> thousands of meals may be cut. the director says it comes at a time when donations are already down. >> it's real stuff, congresswoman. >> that's right. and it's really staggering. i've been out in my district where we have worker who is are facing furloughs, we have head start teachers who are -- will lose their jobs and we won't be able to serve those students who are most in need. we have seniors who are dependent on meals on wheels because they need it to eat. it's pretty extraordinary what the gop is doing right now. as i said, 134 days where we could be focused on creating jobs and opportunity for the american people, instead, this is the garbage that we get out of this leadership and the garbage that we get out of this republican party and i think the american people are easily
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An essay by Ambassador Alexander Zmeyevskiy, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the International Organizations in Vienna, for the CTBTO website.
"An effective response to the threats and challenges of the twenty-first century — which unquestionably include the proliferation of nuclear weapons — can only be achieved through the coordinated efforts of the international community, coupled with the armoury of the United Nations and international law," writes .
"The myth that compliance with the CTBT is unverifiable is also baseless. The mechanism established for implementation of the Treaty is complex and comprehensive, and its practical application will prove its effectiveness."
"An increasingly broad international consensus is emerging with regard to the CTBT. This also is attributable in no small measure to the growing understanding that without the Treaty, it is impossible to ensure true success in the area of nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament."
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Hometown: Syracuse, NY
Schools and Training: Manhattan School of Music; Eastman School of Music; Opera Saratoga
Teachers: Neil Rosenshein (Manhattan School of Music)
Major Roles: Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Sailor (Dido and Aeneas), Prince Sou Chong (Das Land des Lächelns), Ballad Singer (Of Mice and Men), Nemorino (L'elisir d'amore), Robert (Hin und Zurück), Tony (West Side Story).
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Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Efan club
Also, can we have more Efan Ekoku on the telly, please? He was smart, articulate, realistic, insightful, honest, interesting and pretty funny in a sardonic, anti-banter kind of way.
Basically, find as many endings as you can to the sentence 'Paul Merson is not...' and you've got Efan Ekoku. He used the word 'phlegmatic' last night, for goodness sake. In context. The anchor went straight to commercials, obviously, while Sky's lawyers checked it wasn't a swear.
And yet presumably he was only on because he used to play for Norwich. And, obviously, you have to have played for Arsenal or Liverpool to get a truly high profile media job. And be a MASSIVE idiot.
Come on Sky, sort it out.
Great Expectations - what the Dickens is going on at Tottenham?
And so, on Tuesday evening, we all settled down to watch Great Expectations. There'd been a lot of hype in the build-up and plenty of stars were on show, and yet the feeling persisted that it might turn out to be a horrible disappointment.
In the end though, it was rather good, wasn't it? Gillian Anderson lacks genuine pace, admittedly, but Brad Friedel made an excellent Magwitch and as for Luka as young Pip... No, hang on, I'm confusing myself now.
The point is, we played as big a game as Norwich away on a Tuesday night can ever be at exactly same time as the BBC was showing episode one of its splendid adaptation of Great Expectations. And goodness, what larks!
The stage was set by Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and City all getting disappointing (by which I mean hilarious) draws.
Initially it seemed we might fluff our lines (Jesus this theatrical analogy's becoming as tortuous as one of Paul Merson's updates on Gillette Soccer Saturday: 'There's been an offside corner on the halfway line Geoff and he's skied it all the way along the ground and straight into the goalkeeper's corner. 1-0'), but eventually pressure, persistence and sheer class paid off. It was, goddammit, comfortable. Impressive, even.
Especially Bale, our leading man. He is obviously some sort of God, hewn in Welsh valleys from iron and fire and sent over the border to carry Spurs to greatness. But, sharpen up those celebrations, boyo. That camp Morecambe and Wise one he does with Ade? Nah, I'm not having it, Geoff, as 'Merse' would drunkenly grunt. And as for all that shouting and gurning last night? It's not that I'm not having it, I just don't get it. And neither, clearly, did a visibly concerned Kyle Walker.
Apart from that, just keep on keeping on. Same goes for everyone, really. In fact, to ham-fistedly round this Dickensian special off in suitable style: Please, sir Harry, can I have some more?
Saturday, 24 December 2011
And Adebayor must score...
If Adebayor had taken his 92nd minute chance, it may have been the greatest thing to happen in the history of things happening. Or at least in the top 183 billion, which, when you think about it, is right up there.
One thing's for sure, if he'd had an Arsenal shirt on and been playing against us rather than for us, he'd have slotted it. And we'd have been heartbroken.
As it is, we're mildly disappointed with a 1-1 draw at home to Chelsea. Not because we deserved more, we didn't, but because, in that last five or ten minute spell we could so easily have snatched more.
I actually think the best chance fell to Bale, when Pav's miscontrol became an unwitting 1-2 with Modric, who then played a wonderfully delicate little ball into Gareth - who blazed over the bar. It was only when you saw the replay from behind him that you saw how sweetly it sat up, begging, demanding even, to be drilled low either side of the 'keeper, something our man is eminently capable of doing. But he didn't.
Also, of course, their goal should have been disallowed (shut up Alan Smith, seriously, just shut up. Forever.) and Adebayor's was clearly onside. Chelsea's last three goals against us, in fact, have all been bogus - giving them four points instead of none. Ah well.
Two tricky but winnable away games next - four points wouldn't be a terrible return. Except, of course, it probably would be, because City, United, Arsenal and Chelsea all look to have fixtures that will quite comfortably deliver six points before the new year - at which point the transfer window opens up and Man Utd will come wooing (or possibly even a-courting) Luka, who might finally speak for the first time in forever, only to repeat what he said in the summer, only substituting the words 'Manchester United' for the word 'Chelsea'.
Well, in this sentence, try substituting the word 'hazelnut' with a word that rhymes with 'ducking'. 'You're hazelnut staying, sunshine, so hazelnut accept that and stop being a hazelnut pain in the hazelnut backside every six months, because, seriously, if you leave, what would have been the hazelnut point in the last three years?'
Have a hazelnut good Christmas everyone.
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Seven would be heaven - but is it 'Welcome to Hell'?
Stoke away has become a symbolic fixture for football folk. 'On a wet Tuesday night', I believe, completes the cliche.
This was the exact mix of venue, time and prevailing meteorological conditions that Andy Gray reckoned would expose Lionel Messi for the effete charlatan he so obviously is.
Or did he? Maybe it's one of those apocryphal things. Or something that's been twisted just to make him look dumb and conform with his image as an old school clogger. A bit like the Gordon Brown/Arctic Monkey's/Gazza's goal things.*
Another cliche is ex players 'coming back to haunt' their old clubs. Possibly even 'proving a point'. Step forward, P. Crouch. Only try not to trip yourself up. Actually, do.
Anyway, Stoke away it is. On a trembling Sunday afternoon.
We have played better teams than this in the last 11 games. We've beaten better teams. But this feels like the biggest test. We're live on TV; Sky will hype us to the heavens before kick off; Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool will all have won the day before.
Even more interestingly, Chelsea and Man City play the day after. If we lose, we surely have to root for City - concentrating on an achievable target rather than dreaming the impossible dream. But if we win we... what, support Chelsea? Good lord. These are strange times. Strange and wondrous times. And I don't care what happens, I'm not calling them 'JT' or 'Lamps'.
* Arctic Monkeys: Brown was asked if he preferred James Blunt or The Arctic Monkeys. He said he didn't really know/like either, but he knew Alex Turner's boys were kinda loud, so he said 'at least they'd wake you up in the morning'. The tabloid press ignored all this and decided that he'd declared himself a fan in a craven and embarrassing attempt to court popularity and generally not be seen as, well, weird, frankly.
* Gazza's goal: He was asked if he'd ever been to an England game. He said yes, several. He was asked to name the most memorable. He said one was the qualifying game for World Cup '98 against Italy in Rome, the other was the Euro '96 match against his beloved Scotland. He said it was the best atmosphere he'd ever experienced at a football match. Fair enough. But, it was reported as 'Gazza's goal AGAINST Scotland is Brown's favourite'.
Sunday, 4 December 2011
A lousy hand at Scrabble, but a hell of a run.
There's a Joy Division song called Day of the Lords which ends with a desperate Ian Curtis bleakly intoning "Where will it end? Where will it end?" It's on a permanent loop in my head these days.
I hope the answer's not 'Stoke'.
It was never going to be 'at home to Bolton', was it? Not after scoring within the first 15 minutes? No, of course it wasn't. But then...
At one point I thought all 36,000 of us were part of some weird new hidden camera show and that the players, under instruction from the production team, were just winding us up. Mind you, they'd have needed an industrial strength bleep button in the editing suite. It was the double miss by Adebayor and Defoe in added time at the end of the first half that, for me, dragged out swear words not in common useage since Beowulf.
Thankfully, in the second half, we played just as well, only with goals. Not the nine or 10 that would have had us reaching for the record books, but two that made for a comfortable afternoon and temporarily put us second (be honest, who took a screen grab?).
The next day, on the Sunday Supplement, Brian Woolnough wrapped up part two with a sentence that went something like: 'After the break we'll be looking back at Tottenham's 3-0 win over Bolton, and asking are they playing the best football ever seen in the Premier League era?'
Presumably part three was four blokes saying 'No'.
It was pretty good though.
Where will it end? Yeah, Stoke, maybe. The key question is actually becoming, How will we react when it does end? But that's not the title of a Joy Division song. In fact, the only song they ever recorded about Spurs was, of course, The Atrocity Exhibition. I think Dean Austin was on the cover.
Anyway, two more Ws, please, and then a massive C (Chelsea, obviously).
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Our collaborative exhibition The Milliner is now open and will run at our Pall Mall gallery until 18 February (closed 10 - 11 February).
The exhibition celebrates the cross-pollination of art and fashion with the celebrated milliner Victoria Grant and portrait artist Lorna May Wadsworth each showcasing pieces inspired by the other. Grant, whose designs play with traditional British motifs, has also created a collection incorporating a selection of Philip Mould & Co.'s portrait miniatures, citing the tradition of wearing miniatures on the body. Our portrait miniatures consultant, Emma Rutherford, has curated a display examining the history of the hat jewel and its portrayal in various historical portraits at Philip Mould & Co.
Highlights of press coverage for this unique collaborative event include articles in the FT's How to Spend It, the Evening Standard, Town & Country, Luxury London, FAD, and Country & Townhouse.
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Water bottles. If I were a cursing woman (which I'm not) I would curse them. Mostly because I invest hard-earned money in them only to have my kids leave them on the baseball field or drop them, rendering them useless. I may have melted a few in the dishwasher as well. You may have guessed by now that I usually purchase cheap plastic ones. I've seen the shiny metal ones at Target; they beckon me to come buy them but I refuse. I know the eventuality.
Having said that, there seems to be a strong market for reusable metal water bottles. A stronger sense of environmental concern over plastic water bottles and the durability associated with the metal bottles seems to have created greater demand for these bottles.
It seems that Liberty Bottleworks is a strong competitor in this sub-niche category. Perusing its website, Liberty has a pretty well-defined brand personality. It takes seriously its environmental stewardship, it boasts its American workforce, it claims to give back to numerous likeminded organizations and it employs an array of artists to create the artwork for the bottles. Keller (2013) says that one of the biggest problems is that many brands don't identify who they are (p. 80). This lack of salience prevents consumers from moving up the brand resonance pyramid. This is not Liberty's problem!
The real question is- how is Liberty reaching its niche market and how is it convincing them to pay $23 plus taxes and shipping for a water bottle? Their water bottles are artsy and it feels good to buy from an American company that runs a green factory, but how are they finding people to pay that kind of money for its water bottles?
Does this post make me look like a cheapskate?
Keller, K. L. (2013). Strategic brand management: Building, measuring, and managing brand equity. (4th ed.) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall.


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The inaugural Unite4:Humanity event was created by bosses at charity Unite4:good and Variety magazine and was hosted by former Saturday Night Live comedian Andy Samberg.
De Niro received the Creative Commitment to Film award, Scorsese was given the Variety Creative Conscience gong and Samberg was handed the Keep Walking Award for his accomplishments.
Pop stars were also recognised for their charity work - Selena Gomez was named Young Humanitarian and Demi Lovato a Young Luminary, while Alicia Keys picked up a Music Visionary award. Both Keys and Lovato performed at the show.
Gomez took to Twitter.com after receiving the trophy, to write, "By far the coolest award I've received - Young Humanitarian award! Beyond proud to represent (charity) UNICEF since I was 17."
Meanwhile, Lovato posted a picture of herself posing with former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who was the recipient of the Unity Recognition Award.
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Other attendees included Eva Longoria, Katherine Heigl, Dionne Warwick, Forest Whitaker and Philomena Lee, the woman whose story inspired acclaimed movie Philomena. She picked up an Everyday Hero award.


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This delightfully enchanting book is perfect for nestling in to a comfortable chair with. With its engrossing story, gritty Victorian London setting and endearing characters, the hours will fly by unnoticed by those who turn its pages.
Splendors and Glooms offers 21st century children a peek into a time and place vastly different from their own. Meticulous attention to detail captures two vastly different worlds of 1860s Dickensian London, one characterized by heavy drapes and groaning sideboards, the other by rumbling stomachs and hearths barely lit.
We first meet Cassandra, an old and ailing witch whose death looms close at hand. Her powers grow weaker yet the source of them, the fire opal encased in a filigree locket that hangs from a gold chain around her neck, burns hot with vibrating strength. She lies in her bed in Venice, with no friends or family to comfort her. Attended to by servants, her days and nights are filled with dreams that combine a glimpse of what is to come with recollections of what has come before. One thing is certain though: she must be freed of the fire opal. Its powerful force has served her all these years but her ability to harness and control it is lessening and soon, it will overpower her.
Cassandra dreams of Grisini, a magician who crossed her path many years before and unsuccessfully tried to possess the fire opal. Now, after all this time he is appearing in her visions, not as the young man he was, but as he must look today: "Cassandra dragged her fingers through her matted hair, Grisini had been in her dream; that was why she seemed to hear his voice. She had dreamed of a dark city, a labyrinth of steep houses half drowned in fog: London she supposed. Grisini had been there, smiling at her through the gloom." In the dreams, Grisini is not alone. There are three small shadowy figures next to him. Why are they there, Cassandra wonders. Is it possible that these visions are a truth sighting? Does Grisini have the key to releasing the fire opal's hold on her?
Grisini is in fact living in London, a master marionette performer billed as "The Phenomenal Professor Grisini and His Venetian Fantoccini." Two orphans are in his charge: Parsefall, 11, taken from a workhouse (see 'Beyond the Book') five years ago as an apprentice and Lizzie Rose, 14, taken in after the death of her actor parents two years prior. Life is hard for his two wards - there is barely enough to eat and Grisini is manipulatively conniving, threatening and cruel in his treatment of them.
Parsefall is small for his age and terribly thin, but adept at working the puppets. He is missing the little finger on his right hand. There is no scar or lingering pain from its absence. He is sure that it was once there, yet has no recollection of how it was lost.
While Parsefall knows only of hardship, Lizzie Rose has vivid memories of being loved and cherished by her parents. She still wears the dresses her mother made for her, though they've grown ragged and too small. She is resigned to laboring for Grisini's, for now, but longs for the day when she will be free of him.
The puppet shows usually take place in London parks. Clara, daughter of Dr and Mrs. Wintermute, is so captivated by one of these performances she sees that she begs her parents to hire Grisini to perform for the guests at her twelfth birthday party.
Clara is the remaining survivor of five siblings, the others having died during a cholera outbreak years ago. Though she lives in a luxurious house, filled with beautiful things, it is a home leaden with profound grief and mourning. Clara is burdened by the responsibility of being the lone child who remains. She longs to be free of grief's tethers, to dance like the ballerina in Grisini's show.
The morning after her birthday party, Clara is gone. Has she run away? Been kidnapped? Her parents are distraught with panic and the police are called. Grisini is immediately suspected as being involved. The police come to speak to him and to search the two rooms he lets from the widow, Mrs. Pinchbeck, who is a long-time acquaintance of Grisini's from her days in the theater. Grisini offers no resistance to the police request, warmly telling them that the girl is not there but to look around for themselves. Both Lizzie Rose and Parsefall are clueless as to her whereabouts as well.
With the policemen finally gone, Lizzie Rose goes to speak to Mrs. Pinchbeck. Funny, she tells the girl, a child went missing many years ago after a performance at the theater, and the authorities had suspected Grisini. But the boy ultimately returned home, though he was never the same.
Clara slept. Never in her life had she known so dense a sleep: a sleep without dreaming, without the slightest twitch of finger or eyelid. She was as lifelike as a pressed flower. If she had been awake, she could not have said whether her eyes were open or shut. Her mind was empty, freed from guilt and terror and grief. Only the night before, she had spoken of her fear of cold and darkness; now darkness and cold claimed her, and she was not afraid.
And so the stories of Clara and Cassandra, Lizzie Rose and Parsefall begin to weave together. Though different from each other in many ways, there are two experiences they have in common: loss and abandonment.
Splendor and Glooms offers rich material to ponder regarding the value of material wealth when one feels unloved and uncherished. As well, it explores the idea that while we may not always be able to control where the road of life takes us, we can control our how we walk upon it.
At 384 pages, Splendors and Glooms is a meaty-sized book but short chapters make the journey more than comfortable. It is a magical adventure for both readers and young listeners alike to enjoy.
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So Universal unveiled the trailer for their Despicable Me spin-off and it all seems like enjoyable family entertainment, but there's just a few things that are making me bug out.
Right off the bat, this implies that this swarm of yellow tic-tacs emerged from the primordial Darwinian soup. Millions of years of evolution forged these things in a crucible of predators and cataclysms. Like the Great White Shark the Minion's physiology was so efficient and successful that it has gone unchanged to the present day, except the goggles, back then they had seaweed goggles.
Also, if you're going to say that the Minions are natural creatures, you're going to have to show us that they actually have genitals. I didn't write the rules, that's just how it works.
Their first "despicable" master is just a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Is the buzzard circling a dying antelope "evil"? Is the Ebola virus "evil"? To call the dinosaur "evil" is a philosophical conundrum. Speaking of conundrums, the idea that Minions are timeless beings who assist the morally reprehensible is opening yourself up to all sorts of strange interpretaions.
Oh, the "Banana" guys have been living in the background throughout human history? Neat.
Hey look, there they are in ancient Egypt! What hijinks will they get up to there? What a fun idea. I wonder where else these loveable scamps will end up! Maybe they were there to help sack Carthage? Or perhaps they were among the Mongolian hoards as Genghis Khan ravaged the entire Eurasian continent? So many possibilities!
Oh... oh no.
It turns out during their crazy escapades, the Minions attempted to help with a land invasion of Russia. The Napoleonic Wars were a pivotal turning point in the history of nation-states. This was when governments could muster armies in the hundreds of thousands and keep them clothed and fed thanks to industrial innovations like factories, railroads, and food preservation. The repercussions of this period extend to all aspects of modern warfare. Napoleon looked at these stackable, maniacally loyal saffron pillbugs and said "oui". Heck, if the patterns they have established are to be believed...
Well, there's only one conclusion.
There, I said it. Like, maybe they're the ones who accidentally caused the German invasion of the Sudetenland? Maybe they were in America and during the Manhattan Project they cross the wires in Einstein's lab and that's why his hair is so frizzy! Oh I know, the minions are in Moscow rounding up dissidents for Stalin, but then they accidentally send them to safety in the Bahamas instead of the Gulags because they were holding the map upside down! Is this really where they're going with this movie for kids?
Luckily, the movie does provides an explanation:
This is the village where they hide for period of time between 1897 (based on their last "boss" being Dracula) and 1968 (the date in which movie's main story takes place). Now, what happened in between those years? All the wars and atrocities that people alive in the world actually experienced. Whew. Way to avoid that icky "maybe they were Nazis" possibility.
Why am I even thinking about this stuff? What bizarre mental gymnastics were necessary to write this premise?
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Replacing an Ungrounded subpanel in an outbuilding
Love your stuff!! I had a question about a project I'm helping my brother with.
The house is about 100 feet away from an outbuilding with an old (1960s vintage) subpanel. The house electric has been upgraded and is grounded however the wiring to the subpanel is only 3 wire (Hot, Hot, Neutral).
I am desiring to replace the subpanel with a modern one. Is there an acceptable method of grounding the subpanel without having to trench and run a ground wire back to the house? Would it be possible to sink a grounding rod outside the outbuilding?
I know its important to isolate the neutral and ground.
Other information, its a 60Amp Subpanel that is going to be servicing two 20 amp circuits and a 15 amp circuit.
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Japanese Proficiency Tests
1. JLPT (Japanese-Language Proficiency Test)
Test Date: Sunday, December 1, 2019 @ Villanova Uniersity (Philadelphia, PA)
Registration Period: August 26 -September 30, 2018
Why taking JLPT?
JLPT certificates offer various advantages, ranging from recognition as academic credit and graduation certification at schools to preferential treatment at companies and acknowledgment of qualification in society.
If you are interested taking N1 or N2, we offer JPAN 481 as a preparatory course.
2. NJE (National Japanese Exam)
National Japanese Exam (NJE), developed by American Association of Teachers of Japanese. NJE is an online, proficiency-oriented, standards-based and culture-related assessment tool for students learning Japanese including college level.
If you take Japanese courses (Beginning Japanese II and Beginning Japanese IV) in the spring semester, we offer students to take NJE at UPenn campus. The NJE at Upenn in Spring 2019 is tentatively scheduled on 5th of April.
- About the level (Level 2 for JPAN012, and Level 3 for JPAN 112 and 212 students)
- Sample questions for each level
2019 Spring NJE on campus
Date: Friday, April 5th @ Van Pelt Library, 1st Floor, Goldstein Electronic Classroom
Level 3 (Students of JPAN 112 and 022) : 1pm-
Level 2 (Students of JPAN 012): 3pm-
If you are interested in taking NJE, please notify your instructor either in person or via email along with the registration fee of $9 by 1/31 Thursday, or the day of your instructor's choice (cash only and non-refundable). Your registration will be completed with the exam fee payment. Please note that this is non-refundable. Even if you miss the exam or decide not to take the exam after registration, you cannot get the exam fee back. Note: There is no make-up exam.


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Image (Steve..) Taken 07/05/2011 – 1/100sec, F8, ISO 100 – Canon 430EXII 1/2+0.3ev
As I looked outside the first thing I noticed was the Sky, cool dramatic looking clouds other wise know as typical British weekend weather. I knew I wanted to shoot with it in the background and underexpose it for that really dramatic look, crap I need a model.. no chance! so a quick call to my good friend Steve who by the way is the Farther of my two God sons Zakk and Saul, and is a kick ass guitar player.
Subject arranged I went to check the exposure of the sky (this was at 4pm) F13 and 1/200sec, ISO100, ok I need to wait – not enough flash power for the kind of composition I want with a single Canon 430EX II.
After some waiting (about 1 1/2 hours) I headed over to meet Steve and walk down the road to a local rec/field, now I only had 15 minuets to figure out a location, background that included the sky and how I was going to light it. The trees you can see Silhouetted in the shot caught my interest and we set up about 20ft in front of them. Its pretty windy so no chance of flying a light modifier with out it being destroyed or taking me with it, so I went with a bare Canon 430EX II speedlite high up on a 13ft stand. After working out my framing I placed Steve framed in the trees to hide Silhouetted houses/chimneys in the background, found my exposure that would underexpose the sky by about 1 stop and light Steve well, grabbed a few frames before packing up and heading home. The above shot is the one I selected, as a result another friend of mine Mike wants a dramatic photograph of him making, no problem Mike I'm looking forward to it.
The take away's from this are, 1. Don't have a model (call a friend) 2. Know your gear so you can work quickly. 3.You don't have to travel far to find a cool location and shot.
Thank you Steve Dude (i always call him that) for your time and friendship.


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In the summer of 2009, Selena travelled to Akure, Nigeria to give a PostgreSQL training. While there, she learned about the ascendancy of a new administration in Ondo state, and how they managed to overcome a severe case of election rigging.
The talk is the story of a group of idealists and information technology specialists who put together some basic tools to prove that an election was rigged.
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Selena Deckelmann works for End Point Corporation and is an enthusiastic open source advocate and PostgreSQL specialist. She is co-chair of Open Source Bridge conference, a conference for open source citizens. In her spare time, she likes to mix drinks for her local Perl and Postgres user groups, and fetch eggs from her chickens (when she has them).


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What is a Clubhouse?
The idea behind the Clubhouse is that everybody is equal, sharing equal responsibility for the day to day functioning of the Clubhouse. This is different than most rehabilitation programs because the members are working through their mental illness with the support of staff and others who are experiencing the same difficulties.
Fountain House, the first Clubhouse, defines a Clubhouse this way: "A Clubhouse is committed to helping people with mental illness stay out of hospitals while achieving educational, financial and vocational goals. Responsibility for operation of the Clubhouse lies with the members and staff, who are engaged in all aspects of Clubhouse operation." It's our hope that when our members come on a daily, weekly or monthly basis that they feel personally invested their recovery and in helping others recover.
How are people referred to Breakthrough?
People are referred to Breakthrough through COMCARE, their psychiatrist or other mental health agencies, family doctors, friends, and family. When an individual has interest in becoming a member, he or she is welcome to stop by our location anytime we are open to get a tour from a member and an application.
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As we reported last month, a T206 Honus Wagner card last sold in the 1990s has been consigned to SCP Auctions. J. Ross Greene, a long-time collector from Peachtree City, Georgia has held the card since then. It's believed to be the first one ever featured in a newspaper story and that decades-old lineage is a big part of the appeal. Greene owns some other valuable … [Read more...]
REA to Offer T206 Wagner
Robert Edward Auctions' Spring Auction will open for bidding next week, and Honus will be in the house. A 1909-11 T206 Wagner has been consigned to the catalog sale and will be Lot #1. The card carries a $50,000 minimum bid but should stretch well into six figures when all bids are in. Graded SGC 10 (poor), this Wagner has a long history within the hobby. It can be … [Read more...]
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The highest graded example of the famed T206 Honus Wagner baseball card has found another new home a little more than six months after selling for a then-record shattering price of $2.35 million. SCP Auctions reports the card was sold to an anonymous private collector for $2.8 million last week. The announcement was made public Thursday morning. In February, SCP took a … [Read more...]


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trainings have included bereavement, couples counselling, bodywork and
clinical supervision for other therapists. I have been registered with
UKCP, the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy since 2003 and since
2008 with the EAP, European Association for Psychotherapy.
My experience as a counsellor/psychotherapist in England has included
working in a hospital setting with patients diagnosed with cancer and
their families and also facilitating supervision groups for nurses. I
have worked for twelve years as a counsellor/psychotherapist in a
private capacity with a number of issues ranging from loss and
bereavement in its many forms, life-changing circumstances arising from
illness or retirement, as well as more long-term psychological
conditions. I particularly enjoy working with relational issues arising
between couples, with families, or developmental issues with children.
I work with both individuals and couples, sometimes looking at problems
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particularly with children, I may offer painting, play or movement, as a
further means of self-expression.
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work in self-contained practice-rooms at my home near Berric, 20 minutes
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The different types of color guard competitions are indoor winter guard competitions, solo and small-group competitions, and marching band or drum corps competitions, in which the color guard is scored as part of the overall performance. Most high school marching bands include a color guard, which makes up an important visual element of their field shows, and many larger college marching bands have one of these flag-spinning sections as well. These groups usually compete and perform during the first half of every school year from August until December. Additional color guard competitions also take place during other times of the year.
Indoor color guard competitions are typically held on basketball courts, and performers usually stage their show on top of a vinyl floor cover large enough to be spread over this space. The cover is normally custom designed with colors meant to match the theme of the show. Each winter guard group begins each performance with a set-up that includes unfolding and spreading out its floor cover and setting up any backdrops they have chosen to include. Most competitions have strict time limits for this preliminary set-up with point penalties for exceeding them.
A noticeable difference between winter color guard competitions and summer color guard competitions is the type of music used. Winter guards perform their show routines to recorded music that can range from classical to rock to movie soundtracks. Many indoor color guard shows incorporate short clips of more than one song or music piece with common themes. Live instruments are generally not used in winter guard performances and some types of competitions may even prohibit them.
Marching bands and drum corps include flag-spinning teams as an integral part of their shows. The color guards in these groups perform routines with flags, wooden rifles, mock sabres, and often intricate dance steps to the live music that the band or corps plays. A drum corps performs in competitions throughout the summer months and often travels to various other performances as well.
Some color guard competitions include optional solo and small ensemble contests as a separate part of a winter guard or drum corps competitions. These extra performance options are often part of a regional or national championship, and they give talented performers a chance to show off their creativity. Solo performers usually choreograph their own color guard routines. A few members from the same color guard can also collaborate on their own small ensemble performance.
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