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Monday, September 29, 2014
Word of the Week - Recap
Then, of course, my brain went, "Recap...hmm. I don't think I've ever looked that up..." So I did.
Recap is a shortened form of recapitulate, dating from 1920. Recapitulate, in turn, is a back-formation of recapitulation from 1560. So, of course, I have to look up recapitulation. It comes from Old French and arrived in English in the 14th century so is o-l-d OLD! It has a very literal meaning of "go over the main points of a thing again; restate by heads or chapters."
Then of course I had to wonder at why capitulation and recapitulation have rather different meanings, despite just adding that "re." It's because capitulation originally meant "an agreement." As in, one drawn up in heads or chapters. It wasn't until the mid-17th century that the meaning narrowed to "terms of surrender."
As for my recap...I'll do that my other blogging days this week. ;-) When, hopefully, my throat is no longer sore and my eyes no longer blurry. ;-)
Thursday, September 25, 2014
I'm at ACFW!
It's conference time! And I'm heading out dark and early this morning to head to St. Louis for the ACFW Conference, where I'll be representing WhiteFire Publishing.
If you're going to be there, be sure to stop in and say hi! I'm presenting a Spotlight On session tonight and taking appointments Friday and Saturday.
Looking forward to visiting with everyone...and to having meals put before me, LOL.
I'll be back on Monday!
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Remember When . . . the Colonials Were Artistic?
Hey look at me, actually remembering that I should blog on Wednesdays. ;-) In fact, I'm blogging twice. I have a post up on Colonial Quills today too.
It's short and sweet and visual, so I thought I'd direct you that way, for a glimpse at some Colonial American art. Take a peek!
It's short and sweet and visual, so I thought I'd direct you that way, for a glimpse at some Colonial American art. Take a peek!
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Monday, September 22, 2014
Word of the Week - Isle & Island
So, my husband made what I deem an incredible etymology discovery this weekend. That isle and island are completely unrelated words, from different roots.
Color me baffled.
The world island was originally spelled yland, and appeared in 1590...to replace the Old English igland. This spelling is taken from ieg, a word influenced by Proto-Germanic, which means "thing on the water" LOL.
The spelling changed from yland to island in 1590, however, because of the word isle.
Isle is from the French isle, which in turn traces its roots to the Latin insula. So, the same meaning, but one Latin root and one German, and they sounded the same...hence, I suppose, why ye Older English folk decided to spell them the same too. Thereby confusing the following generations into thinking them indelibly related. ;-)
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Thoughtful About . . . Being a Johnny
This past weekend, I was in Annapolis. Strolling old, familiar streets, laughing with old, familiar friends. Striding across rain-dampened grass that I've darted over many a time, struggling to keep a book-laden bag on my shoulder.
It was homecoming weekend at St. John's College. And we went home.
Now, homecoming is every year, but this is the first we've gone. Because it was our 10th. Ten years! Gracious, that makes me feel old, LOL. But as we sat on the Quad, browsed through the bookstore, and watched the truly spectacular Star-Spangled Fireworks light up the sky over back campus, I realized it didn't matter how long we'd been gone--there's something about St. John's that never leaves you.
The event was over the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Ft. McHenry in Baltimore, the battle that "The Star-Spangled Banner" commemorates--because Francis Scott Key was an alumnus, thank you very much. =) One of our most famous, but...well, then again we can also claim the creator of MacGuyver. In fact, he received an award at the banquet this year. So yeah. FSK + MacGuyver. St. John's obviously rocks. ;-)
|View of McDowell Hall from Back Campus
I don't often just talk about St. John's on here because, well...so few people know what it's all about, and I could ramble on forever on the subject, which no one wants, LOL. But today, I have to talk a bit about it. Because if anything struck me this weekend, it wasn't the fireworks. It was the camaraderie. It was the sure knowledge that whatever stranger I spoke to on campus, we had common ground.
We are Johnnies. And that means something very special.
It means we can talk about Plato, Aristotle, and St. Aquinas. It means we debate Marx and Jefferson and Nietzsche. It means we have a working knowledge of physics and metaphysics and biology and chemistry...and that we might take a conversation on one of those into music theory at any moment. It means we know how to think, we've learned how to ask questions. It means we can carry on a conversation with absolutely anyone, on any topic...though fair warning, we might sneak Greek into the weirdest places.
|This is from the SJC website...but it's also pretty much one of my bookcases
Being a Johnny means loving books. Loving literature. Loving philosophy. But more, it means loving learning. It means cherishing what has shaped us, not just the way we turn out. It means recognizing the value of the journey. It means recognizing that different opinions, different perspectives, different conclusions aren't to be dismissed--they're to be learned from. They don't have to convince us...but you know, in examining what we don't agree with, we often discover why.
Yes, we study Mr. God Is Dead right along with Augustine and Aquinas and the Bible itself. And you know what? Reading other people who question the very existence of God, the value of faith, made me value it all the more. Made me understand why I believe what I do...and made me able to talk about it to those who don't.
St. John's helped make me who I am. In every single book I've written, you'll find reference to Program material--whether it be based on the work themselves (like Jewel of Persia) or feature cameos of some of my favorite books (Brook, in my upcoming The Lost Heiress, is wading through the German of Hegel, which is so difficult that German students often use the English translation!).
This weekend, I was reminded of all that. I got to hang out with my friends and talk about everything from dog breeding to Plato's Symposium. Wine making to the publishing industry. I got to chat with current students and know that, though I'm a decade older, we all have that Johnny soul. I got to watch alumni from the '40s come up to the podium and talk about how they fled Hitler's Germany...and were blessed to find the opportunity in America to attend St. John's.
I got to remember why I so love asking questions, exploring the what-ifs, thinking through a story...and teaching my kids Greek (everyone thought that was awesome, by the way). I got to be, not just a wife, not just a mommy, not just a teacher or a writer or an editor...I got to be a Johnny. I'd almost forgotten how cool a distinction that is.
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Monday, September 15, 2014
Word of the Week - Level
We all know what level means, right? It's to be even, going neither up nor down. It's the state of being so, like the levels of a house. It's the tool that guarantees it. And all the idioms containing it arise from those. Sure.
But I was quite surprised to learn that the tool is the chronologically first meaning! The English word for such a tool dates from the mid-1300s, taken from the French livel, which comes in turn from the Latin libella -- "scale, balance, unit of weight." The meaning of "horizontally" followed in about 1400, and the line indicated by such a measure in 1530. The phrase on the level originally didn't mean "honest and fair"--it meant "moderate, without great ambition." I had no clue about that one!
The adjective, which I would have assumed to be the oldest definition, didn't in face come along until the early 15th century. Which, granted, is still stinkin' old, LOL. But it's still at least 50 years after the noun, possibly as many as a hundred. The verb followed within another half-century.
Most of the familiar idioms still in use today (level off, level with me...) date from the 1920s. Level off is, not surprisingly, from aviation.
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Thursday, September 11, 2014
Thoughtful About . . . Seashells
Last week, my family had the joy of vacationing in Hatteras, on the southern tip of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, as far south as one can go before needing a ferry to continue. We basked in the sun. We played in the waves. We relaxed.
And we collected seashells.
The kids had been looking forward to that part for weeks. When family asked them what they wanted to do on vacation, their answers were: (1) play mini-golf, (2) get Sweet Frog frozen yogurt, and (3) collect seashells.
One small catch--the beach by our house had virtually no shells. For the first few days, they collected about 5. And at least two of those came from the strip of rocks and shells beside our condo rather than the beach, LOL. On Wednesday night, a few had washed to shore, and as we were out hunting ghost crabs, the kids grabbed up all the shells they could find. Very few were what I would deem keepable, but they were the only ones we'd seen, so...
Then on Thursday, we got an off-road driving permit and took the Jeep out onto Buxton point, behind the Hatteras lighthouse. This sandy peninsula was populated by other 4x4s, surrounded by blue-green water...and littered with big, beautiful shells. Eureka!
Now, I've been collecting shells for a lot of years...but always had limited space for bringing them home. So I had to come up with criteria for what I kept and what I left. For me it usually comes down to color and shape. I'm a sucker for pinks and purples. And for whole, unbroken shells. I like the kinds that have swirling patterns. And the ultimate find, of course, is a conch.
My kids though...they would pick up the ugliest, weirdest looking things! Ones I would have tossed back in a heartbeat they clung to with fierce determination.
The broken ones. (But Mommy, look at the cool pattern it makes along the break!)
The common ones. (I can use it as a shovel!)
The ugly ones. (But look, it has fossils in it!)
The ones just like the other twenty they already kept. (Oh cool, now it's a collection!)
At first I tried to reason with them, to impose my logic. (Ha! LOL) And on some, we had no disagreement, like the perfect little conch we found on Friday, our second day at the point. Or the ones with holes that Xoe can turn into necklaces.
But those others...
As I walked the sand, as I kept my eye out for what I deemed the perfect shell, I stopped arguing with the kids. Let them pick whatever they wanted right then--but we'd have to sort through them before we left. No way could we take all those buckets- and bags-full home! There wasn't room in our Jeep.
And yet, as I walked the sand, I knew I wouldn't have the heart to take away the shells they loved, just because I didn't see the beauty in them. In fact, the more I saw the mangled shells they chose, the more I loved those kids.
Because they see beauty where I saw scars.
They see purpose where I see brokenness.
They see what it looked like whole where I see the jagged edge left behind.
They see potential where I see hopelessness.
They marvel at the size where I screw up my nose at the color.
They are so, so much closer to looking at things through God's eyes than I am.
Because let's face it--we're not the pretty, perfect seashells. We're the broken ones. The scarred ones. The mangled ones. The shattered ones. The ugly ones. We're the ones discerning eyes would pass over. We're the ones perfection has long ago left behind.
And God loves us. Not despite our flaws, but because each crack, each track of worm-eating, each place where the sand has rubbed us raw...those are part of us. Part of what makes us who we are. Part of what God loves. He can see the whole, unbroken creation we are in potential...but he can also see the way he can use us in our brokenness. Because of our brokenness.
Yes, we came home with buckets and bags of seashells. And to be honest, I still shake my head at some of them.
But I'm glad. I'm so glad my kids picked up the ones I never would have. Because it proves that their eyes, their hearts, their imaginations go far beyond what I can see. And I thank the Lord that he's given them a bit of his vision. Because if they can find the beauty in this...
...then I know they also see the beauty in us. Just like our Father.
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Monday, September 8, 2014
Word of the Week - Rumbustious
In case you haven't heard yet, Love Finds You in Annapolis, Maryland is on sale until September 15! All digital versions are only $0.99, which is a waaaaaaaay lower price than it's usual $8+. If you were waiting for the right time to get this one, it's here. =)
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But as I was promoting the start of the sale while on vacation last week, I realized that I honestly couldn't even remember parts of this book, LOL. I hadn't read it since a few months before its release in fall of 2011, so I though, "Hey, I'm on vacation--I'm not working on anything else. Why not?" So I sat down and became reacquainted with Lark and Emerson and Wiley, with Edwinn and Sena and Kate and Alice.
And I also remembered one of my fun word finds. I mentioned it in a Remember When Wednesday post way back in January 2011, but I thought it deserved its own Word of the Week.
It started from wanting to describe a passel of boys on Christmas as rambunctious. The problem being that rambunctious wasn't created until 1859--and this book is set in 1783. But etymonline.com helpfully pointed out that rambunctious was a later form of rumbunctious... though even that was from 1830. Still no help for me!
But! Rumbunctious is in turn a variation on a word from 1778--rumbustious. Etymologists don't seem entirely certain of the origins on this word, but they suggest that it's a combination of "rum + boisterous, robustious, bumptious." And it worked for me! I figured it was close enough to rambunctious that no one would wonder at its meaning, but it also gave a certain something to the tone. =)
Of course, vacation is now over, and it's back to the grind of school and editing for me and mine. But no fears--I've got some beach-inspired musings planned for later this week. ;-)
Of course, vacation is now over, and it's back to the grind of school and editing for me and mine. But no fears--I've got some beach-inspired musings planned for later this week. ;-)
Monday, September 1, 2014
I Am Here...
The point being, I'm on vacation! Woot! Much-needed and much-anticipated. So no blogging this week. I'm too busy getting sunburnt (yes, I'm wearing sunblock. But I'm still getting burnt, because apparently I only have to think about sunshine to get burnt...), building sandcastles, and reading.
See you back here next week!
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A director at Deloitte Services LP and co-author of The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think, Michael Raynor joins The Fool to share his findings about what makes a company successful for the long haul.
In this video segment we take a look at pharmaceutical giant Merck (NYSE:MRK), and how "better before cheaper" and "revenue before cost" have placed them at the forefront of a competitive industry. The full version of the interview can be seen here.
A full transcript follows the video.
Brendan Byrnes: Let's talk about the pharmaceutical industry. You mentioned Merck as one of the top companies there. What is Merck doing better than a Pfizer or a Johnson & Johnson, one of those companies?
Michael Raynor: Well, again, we're looking at 45 years of data with a company like Merck. The company that we compared it to directly was Eli Lilly, another company for which we have a full 45 years of data.
Curiously, there, what we found is that they both have very strong non-price positions. They both are rooted in great science. They make highly effective, highly differentiated therapies for diseases that afflict a lot of people, and they create a lot of value as a consequence.
That's not what differentiated them. What differentiated them was Rule 2, which was Revenue Before Cost; the way in which they were able to drive superior profitability.
Merck was able to both globalize its customer base, and also introduce a much broader array of products more rapidly than Eli Lilly was, and as a consequence drove much of its superior profitability as a result of asset turns born of superior volume, but -- and this is the kicker -- superior volume born of its differentiation.
Econ 101 will tell you, if you want to increase volume you've got to cut price. That's not what they did. They're "better before cheaper." They drove their volume through differentiation, and that's what led to their superior profitability.


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|[emft-dev] Proposal for Ecore Diagram Component
Extended EMF Community, David Sciamma recently announced his intent to work on a component based on GMF's Ecore grapical editor example as well as Topcased's productivity features to provide a high quality Ecore Diagram Editor. Attached is his proposal: (See attached file: EcoreDiagramProposal.zip) I request the community's approval to create this new component as part of the EMFT subproject with David as component lead and Jacques Lescot and Gilles Cannenterre as a members of the component team. Please reply with +1or -1 on this thread. Obviously I highly recommend you give a +1. All EMF and EMFT committers are eligible to vote, so please take a moment to do so. Graphical editing of Ecore! Does it get any better?! Ed Merks/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA mailto: merks@xxxxxxxxxx 905-413-3265 (t/l 969)
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Apple is at it again with the ongoing plans for the reality headset that is to replace the Google Glass. Apple says this will be ready by the year 2020. and this is set to feature a new Operating System known as rOS and also its own display and processor.
Not too sure about how consumers will operate this system, Apple is looking forward to giving it voice activations, touchscreens, and head gestures. This should be the next competitor for the failed Google Glass. Though Apple is not on the frontline in the Voice Recognition application, Tim Cook had this to say
"We don't give a rat about being first"
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Vet Microbiol 2011 Apr 21;149(1-2):262-8
Novel hemotrophic mycoplasma identified in naturally infected California sea lions (Zalophus californianus).
Volokhov DV, Norris T, Rios C, Davidson MK, Messick JB, Gulland FM, Chizhikov VE
The hemoplasmas are the trivial name for a group of erythrocyte-parasitizing, non-cultivable in vitro bacteria of the genus Mycoplasma that have been described in several mammalian hosts worldwide. This study is the first report of hemoplasmas in marine mammals. EDTA anticoagulated whole blood samples from 137 California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) and 20 northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) admitted to the Marine Mammal Center (Sausalito, CA; www.marinemammalcenter.org) or live captured in Oregon were collected during 2008. Hemoplasma-specific genomic DNA was detected in blood samples from 12.4% California sea lions tested using PCR. Hemoplasma PCR positive blood specimens also were tested in reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) using the hemoplasma-specific primers for the 16S and 23S rRNA genes. The RT-PCR showed the presence the hemoplasmal rRNA, strongly suggesting the presence of potentially viable hemoplasmas in the bloodstream of the animals. BLAST search and phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA sequences of the hemoplasma from California sea lions revealed that the organism is a novel hemoplasma species with only 92.1% of its nucleotide similarity to the 16S rRNA gene of the previously described hemoplasma species of alpacas, Candidatus Mycoplasma haemolamae. Thus, due to low level of genetic similarity of the hemoplasma to other described hemoplasmas and the mammalian host in which the hemoplasma was detected we propose that this novel hemoplasma species has been given the provisional name Candidatus Mycoplasma haemozalophi sp. nov.
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|DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.10.026
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Singer / guitarist Jim Byrnes lives since the seventies in Canada, but he was born and raised in St. Louis. On his latest album, he explores his roots, so it is therefore aptly called "St. Louis Times". Together with his musical partner Steve Dawson Byrnes has some excellent Canadian musicians gathered around him.
The album features some covers, that have to do with St. Louis, and some own songs. Dawson has the production well in hand and he also plays excellent guitar, both acoustic, electric and slide and steel guitar. John Hammond does four songs and also the young singer Colleen Rennison of the promising band No Sinner contributes.
Of the covers, in my opinion, Albert King's "I Get Evil" the best song, while Byrnes' own "The Journey Home" is an absolute gem. It is a narration on music and the autobiographical nature makes this the biggest impression on me.
BarnOwlBlues find this album a wonderful tribute to the city of St. Louis. The city has admittedly not the fame of Chicago, Memphis or New Orleans, but has not been less important in the history of jazz and blues. And this is translated by Jim Byrnes in a great way.


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text: Warfarin: an expert's view Dr Peter MacCallum, whose research career has focused on the management of blood clots in veins and arteries, talks to Judy O'Sullivan. Patient concerns How warfarin was developed Benefits of warfarin Why regular monitoring is needed Warfarin is a well-tested drug Patient concerns Warfarin is a highly effective way of reducing the risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). However, I do meet patients every week in the hospital who mistakenly refer to warfarin as rat poison. Warfarin does need careful management to minimise the risk of major bleeding complications, which do occur but thankfully are uncommon. In some instances warfarin cannot be used because the individual concerned has a particularly high bleeding risk. Many doctors also don't like to prescribe warfarin as they think their patients won't be able to cope with the inconvenience of having their blood regularly monitored. Sadly it is often the patients who are most likely to benefit from warfarin who are not offered it. How warfarin was developed Warfarin's purpose is to lengthen the time blood takes to clot and thereby reduce the risk of a potentially fatal blood clot forming. Scientists at the time recognised the huge potential of this discovery: the anti-clotting properties of dicoumarol could be both beneficial for medical use in humans and harmful in pesticides for rodents. The similarities, however, end there. Rat poison and warfarin have very different aims and contain very different levels of dicoumarol. The compound is much higher in rat poison products than in the warfarin because the purpose of the rat poison is to cause death from bleeding to a small mammal while warfarin's purpose is to lengthen the time blood takes to clot in a human and thereby reduce the risk of a potentially fatal blood clot forming. About the expert Dr Peter MacCallum is Clinical Senior Lecturer in Haematology at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London as well as Honorary Consultant Haematologist at Barts and The London NHS Trust. Benefits of warfarin As Mrs Paton's story shows, warfarin is very effective at reducing significantly the risk of stroke in people with AF. In fact research in the late 1980s and early 1990s showed warfarin was considerably better at this than aspirin. The more risk factors the patient has, the higher the risk of stroke, and greater the need for warfarin. When assessing an individual with AF's risk of stroke, we take into account the patient's age, blood pressure, whether they have diabetes, heart failure or a history of strokes or mini strokes. The more risk factors the patient has, the higher the risk of stroke, and greater the need for warfarin which we know, from research, reduces the absolute risk of stroke associated with AF by 60 to 70 per cent - roughly a two-thirds reduction. So if a person, because of their personal risk factors, has a 12 per cent per year risk of having a stroke, warfarin can reduce that risk to about four per cent. All drugs have side effects, and warfarin is no exception. Patients can experience serious bleeding. The risk of a bleed as a result of taking warfarin is approximately two per cent per year. In other words the potential benefits of taking warfarin far outweigh the potential risks for most people. The benefit-to-risk ratio must always be taken into account when prescribing any drug. Drugs are considered safe when potential benefits for a patient outweigh potential risks. Why regular monitoring is needed The level of warfarin in the blood varies with time and is affected by a variety of things such as acute infections or other illnesses, levels of alcohol intake, significant changes to diet such as loss of appetite for several days, and interaction with other drugs. This means the dose needs to be adjusted frequently which means regular monitoring. Most patients adjust to the inconvenience of blood tests because they want to benefit from a reduced risk of stroke. Most patients adjust to the inconvenience of blood tests because they want to benefit from a reduced risk of stroke Over the years, processes for monitoring blood and prescribing warfarin have improved hugely. Patients can even do this at home, taking blood from a fingerprint, testing it using small portable devices and phoning or emailing the results to GPs or the local anticoagulation clinic. Some patients are able to manage their own warfarin dosing with minimal involvement of GP or hospital clinic. Blood samples are monitored using the standardised 'international normalised ratio', or INR, and now there's computer software to help health professionals prescribing warfarin to work out the most appropriate dose according to the INR level. Warfarin is a well-tested drug The longer a drug has been around the more we know about it. Warfarin has been in use for 60 years so scientists and doctors have had plenty of opportunity both to research it extensively and observe real-life patients taking it. Warfarin continues to be taken by millions of people of all ages worldwide With newer drugs, we have clinical trial data alone rather than years of real-life experience. Clinical trials can paint a slightly false picture of a drug because patients are more closely monitored and are usually healthier and younger than patients taking the drug in real life. Warfarin continues to be taken by millions of people of all ages worldwide. Every day of every year it reduces the risk of stroke in people like Mrs Paton and that, in my view, has to been viewed as a major benefit. Read a patient's view on warfarin


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Just some adorableness to get your weekend started right. :)
Rusty is precious and is doing much better than when we rescued him. His eyes have cleared up, his ear mites are gone, he's plump, and playful! It's going to be sad to see him go, but we know he can provide tons of happiness and love for someone!
Have a great weekend!
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Taiwan Trip Day 2 Itinerary
Day 2 arrives, and today we'll be heading north to Tamsui and then south towards Taichung. It's going to a long ride. Let's check-out today's itinerary they had for us;
Waking up at 8a.m. we prepared our self for the buffet breakfast in the hotel. It was a simple buffet style breakfast. Fusion style buffet breakfast where you'll find common garden salad, bacon, fried-rice, rice porridge and others.
Located far north of Taiwan, Fisherman's wharf is one of the must visit place. Being one of Taiwan's signature landmark, the lovers bridge is a wonderful place to take photo and sight seeing. We just spend couple of hours to walk-around, taking some photos and we straight move on to Tamsui Old Street Market for a little shopping and light snacks.
Tamsui old street is small condensed area with lots of street snacks and simple shopping as well. Most of the shop here operates from 11am to 10pm. Since we'll be having buffet style lunch today, we're gotta save some space for the big deal later.
Tie Dan (Iron Egg)
A black colored preserved chicken, pigeon or quail eggs with a chewy texture – Shop @ Ah Po Tie Dan ( Grandma's Iron Egg)
Jiang Mu Cha (Ginger Tea)
Condensed ginger tea wrapped in cube. Just put the condensed cube into a hot water and stir it to mix it.
Believe It Or Not Curiosity Museum
You'll immediately notice this gorilla upon the entrance. This is a museum loaded with unusual collection of weird and unique animal. Entrance fee required.
Tower Tall Ice Cream
You'll notice this upon the entrance, there are few options of flavor to choose from.
Although the market street here were just around 300m, but if you have extra hour to spend, it's totally worth the time to explore around and perhaps have your lunch here. Next stop, we'll be heading to Chien Yien Shabu-shabu buffet style lunch before heading to Fengjia. By the time we leave, we notice more and more visitors arrived and the area is getting way more crowded. Guess our tour lead has assume the timing well.
Chien Yien Shabu-Shabu is one of the famous chained restaurant specialize in Japanese style hot pot / steamboat in Taiwan.
They have wide range of ingredients and soup base to choose from herbal soup, hot & spicy soup, Korean Kim-chi, cheese and many others. Ingredients were fresh and they even have some unique meat balls wrapped in small cover which worth to try as well. As for sushi, they do have few options of maki, rolls and hand-roll to choose from.
We tried almost everything include their desserts like cakes, ice cream, and muachi. Their desserts taste nice, while muachi would be a little sweet. So here it all ends before we head to Taichung which would take more than 2 hours bus ride from here. For those who have a wide appetite, this is definitely for you.
During any buffet style meal, always check out everything includes desserts, drinks so you won't missed out the rest of their attraction by the end of the meal. Check-out their available branches throughout Taiwan.
After more than 2 hours of bus ride we finally arrived in Feng Jia Night Market. The weather was nice and breezy. It's going to be a nice walk without worrying of sweating in the crowded night market. Considered as the largest night market in Taiwan, this is one of the place you'll be spending longer time be it for shopping, eateries and they even have some games vendor to test your brain and judgement.
Feng Jia Night Market was pretty large indeed, you'll find variety types of boutiques, fashion stores and all the stuff for youngsters are pretty condensed here. There are loads of big brands like Nike, Adidas and etc which can be seen around the main road. Food is not an issue here as the area are packed with variety of street snacks, restaurants round the corner. Wherever you go, you'll find a huge options of street snacks and restaurants just round the corners.
Most of the stores usually begin from 7pm, but there lots of shop open since 2pm. You'll need to take a lot of time to decide what to buy and eat. We took more than 2 hours to walk around and looking for food.
We noticed this little local food store offering mixed dishes rice were heavily queued, wide range of dishes can be see here.
Initial D's Sprinter Trueno AE86
Look who's delivering smelly tofu in FengJia Night Market. To my surprise to see this Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 or Hachi-roku (in Japanese) parked beside the street. Too bad Takumi Fujiwara nowhere to be seen here. I have previously attempted to create a simple 3D animation inspired by Japanese's anime, Initial D. you can read more about it here.
Kuan Chih Lin big sausage wrapping small sausage
Being one of the famous food here, Kuan Chih Lin's big sausage wrapping small sausage is top of the list. Well promoted by local celebrities and loads of reviews we took the chance to take our queue to grab one.
What's all the big sausage wrapping about? The big sausage is actually made from glutinous rice (sticky rice), grilled to perfection while the small sausage is Taiwan's local pork sausage which heavily marinated and rich in flavor, combining these 2 sausages with some pickles or other optional marinated vegetables, and walla here you have the famous Big Sausage wrapping small sausage.
The aroma of the char-grilled glutinous rice enough, wrapped together with Taiwanese sausage and tasty pickles. The taste was great, both
At last for the dinner we were arranged to drop by a visit at the Vernaldew Restaurant. Vernaldew is a well-known themed restaurant and the one we're visiting is the Toyspace where bunch of old vintage toys and antiques are well kept for display here. Upon entrance you'll be surprised with their old vintage style decoration and environments, it is a total recreation of Taiwan street in the years 1940.
The taste from the past, we were served 8 different dishes ranging from various combination of vegetables, seafood like fish, crab and whole lot more, so many until we forgot to take note on the name. The portion was huge, and we barely can finish it.
The dinner were good in term of portion, taste and most of all the atmosphere. Dinning in a vintage-themed restaurant really gave us a great experience, for those we love these vintage collections, this is definitely a must visit to take your time to enjoy the view and their food.
VERNALDEW RESTAURANTNo.111 Second Section of Shuangshi Road,
Taichung, Taiwan
We checked-in Shinkansen Grand Hotel, the room were clean, well equipped with bathroom, hot/cold water and most of all, free wi-fi. Location were good as surrounded with convenience store, banks, eateries and MRT station.
SHINKANSEN GRAND HOTELNo.A236, Sec.3, Wuquan W. Rd., Nantun Dist.,
Taichung City, Taiwan (R.O.C)
(on the intersection of Wuquan W. Rd. and Gongyequ 18th Rd.)
That's all for the second day. I'll post the rest of the trip soon. Meanwhile enjoy this long photo post. By the way, I received few request to view the photo in larger size, but I gotta figure out where to host those large photos yet.


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The primary objective of the 7hills transitional housing program is to assist homeless individuals and families in attaining permanent housing, furthering their education, obtaining stable employment with adequate income to support themselves and their family, and creating an adequate support network. We accomplish this critical mission by providing individuals and families with housing for up to 24 months, during which time our case workers assist them in developing an individualized service plan designed to help them achieve their ultimate goal of becoming socially and financially self-sufficient, contributing members of our community.
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From "The Encyclopedia of Cajun and Creole Cuisine" by Chef John D. Folse
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Recipe taken from healthy-quick-meals.com. This is a high-protein, high-carb, low-fat meal.
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A hearty soup for a cold day
Even my husband who abhors eggplant enjoys this recipe. The pesto is very easy to make, and a big hit, too.
This is a quick, easy side dish, good for a little variety.
A quick marinade and pineapple chunks give these kabobs a light, summery flavor.
From Cooking.com: "Greeks use this marinade to spice up lamb, poultry and seafood, but I also like it on vegetable kebabs. Use red wine when marinating red meats, white wine for poultry and seafood. For a special, if nontraditional, marinade that works with either, try retsina (a resin-flavored Greek wine)."
Delicious on the grill and a real crowd pleaser - the sauce is terrific with a lot of other foods, too, or even as a salad dressing. Recipe courtesy of Cooking.com, original recipe created by Chris Schlesinger.


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Make Your Moments Memorable With The Best Indian Restaurants in BangkokPatricia | December 27, 2018 | 0 | HEALTH / FITNESS
Have you ever been amused by the many Indian restaurants in Bangkok? Well, if you take a keen look at all the Buddhist temples present in Bangkok, you will get the idea of how much the Indian culture has affected and influenced the Thai culture. Ever since the first Buddhist missionaries set their feet in Thailand in the 2nd century B.C., hundreds of thousands of Indians have migrated to Bangkok. Today, Bangkok has a large population of Indians.
While Thai-Indians and Indians dwell in almost every part of the country, there is also a small population of Indians in Bangkok. Also, there are many incredible Indian restaurants in Bangkok serving both the Thai-Indian and Indian population. One of the best Indian restaurants in Bangkok is the Maya restaurant.
What makes Maya striking is its upscale Indian food! Maya is strategically located on the 29th level of the Holiday Inn, which is at Sukhumvit Soi 22. The unique design that makes this cantilevered structure is just breathtaking, especially the fact that it overlooks the amusing cityscape. At Maya, you will find an indoor dining room, an outdoor balcony as well as a cigar lounge
- Main Dishes Served
If you are in love with kebab, murgh chandi, a yoghurt marinated chicken, mace and cardamom, and you are looking for a good spot to quench your thirst for some Indian delicacies, then Maya is the perfect restaurant. These amazing dishes are prepared in big tandoori ovens, or marinated chicken legs simmered in fenugreek gravy and tomato paste, the makhani chooza.
- Cocktails and dessert
Signature cocktails in Maya restaurant include cumin, guava juice, khatta pudina and vodka. There are different cocktail options that go with the meals. Also, there is sweet naan bread that are served with dinner.
- Organizing Indian Weddings
If you want a fabulous Indian wedding venue in Bangkok, a one-stop spot for Indian wedding service with Indian executive sous chef, wedding coordinators, look no further. Maya features an enormous ballroom that is 800 square meter located on the 7th floor. There is also a rooftop setting ideal for wedding. It is the best place to book for your wedding, and you will be assured of a successful event since you will be working with experts with vast experience in organizing Indian weddings.
- Catering services
There are many Indian restaurants in Bangkok that offer catering services. However, you need to look for a restaurant that offers first class service, whether it is outside Indian catering or a rooftop venue. An excellent party site should be able to host different types of celebration and functions. Maya is certainly one of the best party venues in Thailand. Additionally, when looking for a catering service, factors such as floor plans, ballroom and packages should come in mind. You should find a floor plan that has a capacity of at least 200 pax for an event of standing cocktail or rather 100 pax in a seated event. Choose a catering service that will offer beautiful views of the Bangkok skyline. For the best catering services in Bangkok, consider Maya restaurant.


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My Hands are tired and sore from tightening clams. Dried from their continual contact with wine a purple stain has appeared. You can trace every dermal ridge and my finger nails have are beginning to see the same purple stains. Myself and the rag tag crew here are Tertulia wear our purple hands as a badge of honor. We follow the tradition of making fine wine that our ancestors have passed down through the ages.
On our first day of harvest I tried to explain to them what we were attempting each vintage. That is to make something that enriches people's lives. Every bottle is a shot at immortality, to create something that will be remembered beyond us.
Harvest is whining down now. It is too early to say much about the 2011 vintage. I will say this many of the wines make me smile and do a little jig.
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We are really excited to be exhibiting at this year's Blue Fizz Decidedly Different Wedding Fair.
The fair is on from 14 – 15th January 2017 at the beautiful Exeter Castle from 11 – 4. With some the best alternative suppliers from all over the South West exhibiting their wedding wares it's set to be a great weekend for couples planning a celebration with a difference. We will be there showcasing both our bespoke wedding artwork and ready-to-go, personalised stationery collections.
We are offering 20% off for couples who order with us between 14 January – 22 February. So if you spot something you like at our stall you have the chance to go home and think it over before placing your order.
Simply pick up a sample pack from us at the fair for the exclusive voucher code.
Create your own unique stationery with our bespoke design service...
Want something personal? We enjoy celebrating the start of our clients' life together by creating something personal to them, at the fair there will be a chance to chat to us about how we can represent you as couple on paper.
All our bespoke designs start with a conversation and a sketch. As experienced designers interpreting your wedding day into beautiful visuals is what we do best.
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Created with the same care and attention as our bespoke designs the Dearly Beloved Collections are a series of wedding stationery suites ready to be printed for your celebration. Simply choose your design and we can customise with your names, details and even edit to match your wedding colours.
There's also the chance to win 50 Save the Date cards from one of the Dearly Beloved Collections as part of the Blue Fizz giveaway, for the chance to win this and even more amazing wedding prizes head over to the Blue Fizz site
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Tang, F, Hu, L, Delichatsios, Michael, Lu, K and Zhu, W (2012) Experimental study on flame height and temperature profile of buoyant window spill plume from an under-ventilated compartment fire. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 55 (1-3). pp. 93-101. [Journal article]
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In today's Indian car market there are decent small hatchback cars, which are good buys at entry level. Great ARAI fuel mileage, low entry cost, good discounts or offers and a decent drive experience for a small nuclear Indian car buying family.
Interested in buying a small hatchback car.
Small hatchback means following cars;
Maruti Alto
Maruti Alto K10
Maruti WagonR
Maruti Estilo
Hyundai EON
Hyundai Santro
Hyundai i10
Chevrolet Spark
Chevrolet Beat
All these cars start under 3 lacs and are all quite good city run-about. Each of them have their positives and negatives.
Maruti Alto and Chevrolet Spark are undergoing a face lift soon, they are therefore not recommended by us.
WagonR, Santro and I10 one must say are older but competent cars, but its better to go for a newer car, as it will age much less compared to newer hatchback cars, when you plan to sell it in future.
Our preference would be Chevrolet Beat Diesel if your running is over 50 Kms per day, if its less then EON offers a good choice, it's the most recent car, rest of the cars in the list are quite aged, even though most of them are still going strong.
EON is also most stylish, comfortable for a family of four, low on fuel consumption and its maintenance cost also will not hurt one's pocket too much.


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You could have the best products or services in your industry but if your customer's don't know about them then it doesn't matter. That is why you need marketing, it is what lets the public know what you have to offer. It lets them know why your product is going to save them time, money or make their life better.
Marketing has changed and the days of traditional marketing are long past. Today marketing company uses digital channels to let the public know all about your products and services. So what digital marketing channels should you use? Let's have a look and see which ones work best for your business.
Social Media
This offers you the opportunity to build relationships with your customers and potential customers. It has helped many organizations build their brands. There are dozens of platforms to work with including Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. You need to choose the channel where your audience is most likely to be, for example millennials would be found on Snapchat or Instagram, and professionals would be more likely to be on Linkedin.
Email Marketing
This is cheap and easy to run and offers a great return on your investment. You collect email addresses of potential and existing customers, you can collect them in your storefront or on your website. You can them email your list on a regular basis with new products and offers.
Content Marketing
Content marketing is where you provide meaningful and useful content that drives potential customers into your store or onto your website.
When a potential customer does a search for a product or service that relates to your business, you want your business to be the first result that they see. To achieve that elusive first place position is a great deal of work and a good digital marketing agency can help you do that. Building the right links to your site, making sure that all the technical aspects of your website are working and inline with Google's standards are some of the ways to get you there.
This is where you pay Google, by bidding on keywords, to have your website show up at the top of the search results page. The plus side is you only pay for people that click through to your website. The downside is that it can become very expensive and the moment you stop paying for ads your website disappears from the search results page.
These are just some of the digital marketing channels you can use to promote your business, you can take advantage of all or any combination of them. Do some testing and see what works for your business.


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Social Eyes by Faye Reeder
Denim & Diamonds set for April 2
Clear your calendars, Social Eyes readers. We've got some bright ideas for your next few weeks, starting with:
Now that's my kind of party
Denim & Diamonds event promises tons of food and lively fun
It wouldn't be spring in Texas without at least one event where you can pair your favorite bling with your best cowboy boots and jeans — and next month, you're bound to see all kinds of festive sparkly denim combos at the Northeast Tarrant Chamber of Commerce spring fundraiser. Whatever you wear, make sure you're comfortable, because there's going to be lots going on:
Arrive hungry. Headlining the affair once again will be the ever-popular "tasting" showcase of menu favorites from nearly two dozen of the area's top restaurants.
Guests will have the chance to sample and second (and maybe even third) a savory array of delicious dishes from the likes of Abuelo's, Bonefish Grill, Button's Catering, Cristina's Mexican Restaurant and Nothing Bundt Cakes, just to name a few participating restaurants — plus enjoy beer and wine beverages.
Shop till you drop. Got a gift occasion coming up? A special anniversary on the horizon? In the mood for a little pampering? If you answered yes to any or all, you're in luck — and you'll need to bring your banking card. That's because Denim & Diamonds guests will also have the chance to bid on a gargantuan silent auction featuring treasures, finds and delights in the areas of sports, things to do, dining, travel and more.
The party will also feature a performance by popular North Texas entertainer Michael Hix, who will present prizes for favorite restaurants, best decorated booths and the like during the event's award show, "D&D's Got Talent."
Denim & Diamonds benefits community outreach efforts managed by the chamber, including a college scholarship program for area high school seniors and the chamber's Teacher of the Year program.
"Denim & Diamonds is a family-friendly event with plenty of food sampling, a talent show and more than 300 great items to bid on," chamber CEO Jack Bradshaw said. "We have TVs, sports tickets, and golf, outdoors, health, dining and hotel packages that you can take home. Come out and join the fun!"
Details: 6 p.m. April 2. Venue: NYTEX Sports Centre in North Richland Hills (8851 Ice House Drive). Advance tickets: $15 for adults, $5 for kids ages 6 through 12. Kids 5 and under can join the fun for free. (Tickets at the door are $20 and $10, respectively, with one exception: Children 6 through 12 can get free admission with the donation of one new children's book, which will be given to United Way of Tarrant County.) Event chair: Pat Coyle. Find out more: netarrant.org or 817-281-9376.
Do you have what it takes to be a wishmaker?
The 2016 Butterfly Wishes event benefits North Texas kids with life-threatening medical conditions
"According to Native American legend, if you whisper a wish to a captured butterfly before letting it go, it will tell the Great Spirit, who will grant your wish as a reward for giving the butterfly its freedom." So begins the story of A Wish With Wings, a Fort Worth-based organization that serves as a small but stalwart beacon of hope and happiness to North Texas families dealing with one of life's most difficult challenges.
Since its founding more than 30 years ago, the group has provided more than 1,400 "wishes" for seriously ill youngsters, in the form of anything from a trip to Disney World to a Taylor Swift concert to a visit to Pearl Harbor.
You can be a part of the magic by supporting the group's signature fundraising event, Butterfly Wishes. The evening will include remarks by some extra-special kids and the presentation of the Rosie Moncrief Award to the Morris Foundation, in recognition of the foundation's contributions to the Wish With Wings mission.
Details: 6 p.m. April 1 at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel (1300 N. Houston St., Fort Worth). Tickets: Begin at $250. Event chairs: Cynthia and Scott Prince. Learn more: awishwithwings.org.
Celebrate the season
The latest exhibit at the Christian Arts Museum offers an opportunity to connect with Easter's spiritual side
A replica exhibit of works created by one of the world's most prolific painters of Western and religious art, Kenneth Wyatt, is on display at Fort Worth's Christian Arts Museum (3221 Hamilton Ave.).
The Texas-based preacher-turned-artist, who has roots in Stephenville, has works displayed in thousands of churches, galleries, public spaces and private collections around the world, many of them attached to some famous owners. No less than Queen Elizabeth owns a Wyatt work, as does former President George W. Bush.
Throughout the month, the museum is displaying prints from Wyatt's best-known series, "The Apostles," a large-painting depiction of Christ and his earliest disciples. Presented in the giclee process on canvas (a special high-resolution printing process for fine art), the exhibit is sure to leave a memorable impression.
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Monday, 18 April 2016
Hebe's chant on perception
It's by our Hebe who also painted this picture for the original cover of The Breath of Peace. I think the picture's brilliant, too.
Anyway - here's the chant:
Seeing yourself – a chant on perception
When you see your face in the mirror,
Don't be dissatisfied with what you see.
For your face is only one part of you.
There are parts of you that you cannot see.
There are parts of you that you will never know;
You cannot know how beautiful you are to others.
There is also a part of you
That others can never know;
The part of you that is only for you to see,
And it is beautiful in its mystery.
I believe there is a God,
And he knows all of you and me.
He knows the things that I cannot know –
The parts that only you can see.
But he also knows what I know,
And the parts you can never see,
God can see the whole of us –
Even that which is a mystery.
When you look at your face and your body,
Don't be dissatisfied with what you see;
For beauty is not only in that which is visible,
But also in parts that are not seen.
And do not think that any part of you is ugly,
Even the inside part of you:
For part of the beauty that is you
Is when every part of you is together.
A body is far more beautiful alive than when it is dead;
But, when all is said and done,
We cannot know how beautiful we are
'Til we see what God sees.
And do not be afraid when you are changing –
Your face or the inside of you;
For that's what it is to be alive.
If you ever feel misunderstood,
Ugly, or even invisible,
Know that, because I have seen you and known a part of you,
There is a part of you that is a part of me.
Can you see that we are a part of each other, then?
So what you see in the mirror is not all of you:
Don't be trapped by feelings of inadequacy;
Let it be a mystery, and let it set you free.
So do not be unhappy with your body –
Love it, for it is part of your wholeness;
And if you cannot do that,
Love it because it is part of mine.
(Words of chant © Hebe Wilcock 2006)
8 comments:
That is wise and beautiful. :)
- Philippa
- 19 April 2016 at 16:39
- Pen Wilcock said...
Yes - I think so, too xx
- 19 April 2016 at 21:49
- nadine said...
That is wonderful, I struggle against feelings of inadequacy all the time. This poem is really uplifting.
- 21 April 2016 at 09:20
- Pen Wilcock said...
Yes, I love it. She wrote it to be sung and composed a chant tune to it. Some time I must make a video, see if I can persuade her to sing the one she wrote. But when I sing it, I just fit it to a regular monastic chant. x
- 21 April 2016 at 09:24
Gosh, that could have been written just for me - I'm continually *trapped by feelings of inadequacy*, and allow them to stop me in my tracks. That must speak to hundreds of people, Pen, especially women, and is absolutely wonderful. What a gift!
- 24 April 2016 at 20:00
- Pen Wilcock said...
:0) xx
- 24 April 2016 at 20:12
- Julie B. said...
Has Hebe thought of writing a book of poetry and/or wisdom essays? What a deep fountain of beautiful creativity your girls are, dear Ember. xoxoxo
- 27 April 2016 at 12:33
- Pen Wilcock said...
Yes, they all write well. Hebe has completed one novel and is working on a couple more. She is always considered, even cautious, in finding her way through life, and is only slowly finding her way to having them published, but I surely hope that happens because they are excellent. xx
- 27 April 2016 at 14:15


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"I actually told [Jackson] last night, I was like, 'You ran to the media. I'm so mad at you,' and he was like, 'No I didn't. I only went to the media after your statement came out," she told Entertainment Tonight. "I did express to him I was upset that we could have handled it privately, but everything happens for a reason, and we're all good now."
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Refinery29 has reached out to representation for both Olympios and Jackson for comment.
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We've had our hands full for the last year and one of the big events was breaking the buck out of Calypso!
Calypso is an affectionate, personable and willing horse. For a horse some of these traits can be a downfall when training comes into play. Horses shouldn't be taught to show their affection with bodily contact with humans. It's just dangerous. 1,000 lbs vs 150 lbs is not a good match! It can also gain sympathy from the rider. Discouraging the rider to ask the horse to do something it doesn't feel like doing.
Calypso had a bit of both inappropriate affection and sympathetic riders. On top of that I had 3 other horses, children, a home and a career to tend to. Calypso was left to the kids. I would explain what they needed to work on with her and they were supposed to implement it, but it didn't exactly work out that way.
So, Calypso developed a habit of bucking when she didn't want to do something. I'm not sure, but I can put a pretty good guess on it that when she bucked, they got off and put her away, never mentioning it to me. But that's just my guess.
Here we have Calypso, she's pushing 5 years old. She swings her head back and forth when asked to trot, this is promptly followed by bucking. Forget about loping! If she was lounging and you could push her into a lope, she would take off like a shot! If she didn't rip the lounge line out of your hand, then you were spinning round and round as she ran as fast as she could around you! I have my theories about what caused that as well, but let's just move along forward.
I can't ride anymore myself. If I hit the saddle the wrong way it could be my last ride, walk and anything else requiring bi-pedal work. I had seriously considered selling my last two horses. But my youngest daughter has shown an interest in Calypso. She really wanted to take on the task of straightening this horse out. I warned her, it's going to take a LOT of your time and ALL of your patience. She was still standing there eagerly waiting my decision, so I agreed to let her have a try.
We made some ground rules: She must listen and implement what I say to her. She is not to ride unless I am there. If she becomes frustrated she is to hand the horse over to me and I'll put her away (I might throw in some reining or side passing practice from the ground on the way back to pasture 🙂 ). Last, but, of course, not least, she must work with the horse everyday unless she has a very, very, very good excuse why she can't one day.
Okay, we have an agreement, we have a horse, and training (rather re-training) began.
For the first several weeks, Calypso would not be ridden at all. I explained we are taking her back to square one. I said pretend she's only halter broke. You have to teach her everything, the correct way.
- 1st week – Reminded Calypso to come when she is called in the pasture. A handful of carrots and encourage her with them to come to us. She was not leading well. She actually reared up a couple of times when she didn't want to go a certain way. Walking her all over the property with a lead line was the first step.
- 2nd week – Continued with the walk nicely lesson. Calypso would step on the back of my daughters foot as soon as she looked forward. She had to keep dodging the horses front hooves. I showed her to elbow Calypso out, away from her then she couldn't step on her heels.
- 3rd week – Continued walking her on the property and in the arena, on a lead line, to practice leading nicely, respect our space as the human and go where I want you to go without hesitation.
- 4th week – Started lounging without a line. Just asking her to walk around the arena and trot as well. That was pretty crazy. Calypso has a lot of energy she doesn't know what to do with, but I do!
- 5th week – After walking nicely to the arena and into the center, worked on backing up and turning her head with a slight pull on the lead. Then let her out to lounge and when she started running around bazooko I had her push her and keep her loping, stepping in with her shoulder first to tell Calypso to turn and run the other way. When Calypso started licking and then lower her head the pressure was stopped and just a walk and trot was resumed.
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The sixth sense is another term for extrasensory perception. Extrasensory perception (ESP) would involve the reception of information not gained through the recognized senses and not internally originated. According to the National Science Foundation extrasensory perception is listed as pseudoscience.[1]
The expression "sixth sense" is a misnomer that falsely suggests that there is only one additional sense besides the traditional five senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, a classification attributed to Aristotle.[2] Humans have at least five additional senses that include: nociception (pain); equilibrioception (balance); proprioception and kinaesthesia (joint motion and acceleration); sense of time; thermoception (temperature differences); and possibly an additional weak magnetoception (direction).[3]
There is no firm agreement among neurologists as to the number of senses because of differing definitions of what constitutes a sense. The senses and their operation, classification, and theory are overlapping topics studied by a variety of fields, most notably Neuroscience cognitive psychology, and philosophy of perception. The nervous system has a specific sensory system, or organ, that manages each sense.
One categorization for human senses is as follows: chemoreception; photoreception; mechanoreception; and thermoception. This categorization has been criticized as too restrictive, however, as it does not include categories for accepted senses such as the sense of time and sense of pain.
Some animals possess senses that are absent or weak in humans, such as electroreception[4] and detection of polarized light.[5] Humans have only a weak sense of polarization.
- ↑ Science and Engineering Indicators 2006, National Science Board, National Science Foundation. Belief in Pseudoscience. See Note 29. The 10 items are extrasensory perception (ESP), that houses can be haunted, ghostss, telepathy, clairvoyance, astrology, that people can communicate mentally with someone who has died, witches, reincarnation, and channelling.
- ↑ JewishEncyclopedia.com - Senses, the five
- ↑ Magnetic fields and the central nervous system, Clinical Neurophysiology, Volume 111, Issue 11, Pages 1934 - 1935, A . Voustianiouk
- ↑ Pettigrew, John D. (1999). "Electroreception in Monotremes" (PDF). The Journal of Experimental Biology (202): 1447–1454. http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/202/10/1447.pdf. Retrieved 19 September 2006.
- ↑ Sonja Kleinlogel, Andrew White (2008). "The secret world of shrimps: polarisation vision at its best". PLoS ONE 3: e2190. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002190.


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Remember a few years ago when everyone in the world was certain print was dead and young people lived to design websites? Oddly, it didn't turn out that way. A couple of weeks ago, my friend, Chris Harrold, visited with a box of incredible treasures. Mohawk Paper has the Strathmore Archives and Chris brought some of the most interesting projects. I considered mugging Chris and taking the work, but he knows me and where I live. And that's not ethical (so I'm told).
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