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Artist Statement
I have always enjoyed creating with my hands. The long, intricate process of making each piece of pottery is exciting: the texture and smell of the clay, the alchemy of mixing my own glazes, the firing of the piece, and the reward of seeing the finished vessel emerge from the kiln.
I am inspired by nature. Memories of childhood hikes through deep forests and lush green landscapes in Germany, the rich variety of plants in my garden in the Sierra foothills, and the ocean and sky of the Northern California coast all feed my creativity.
Early on in life I became fascinated by the interplay of light and shadow in nature as well as in architecture. I was enchanted by sunlight breaking through the forest canopy and the intricate rose windows of European churches. That dynamic interplay continues to be expressed in my work through the lacy rims and walls of vessels which play with light and shadow.
The form and function of my ceramics are carefully designed to enrich and simplify life. Each piece with its smooth surface and continuous curve is intended to be used in multiple ways. A delicately carved bowl may be used to serve dinner, hold jewelry, or as an objet d'art atop a coffee table. This diversity of function allows each individual to create their own, distinctive use for each piece.
I feel connected to the long line of artisans who came before me -our hands touching through time and space as we work with similar materials. This thread continues with the new owners of my pieces who start their own conversations and relationships with my work.
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Sacramento Potter's Group:Art By Fire presents Fall Show @ Shepherd Garden & Arts Center, McKinley Park, Sacramento, CA Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017, 10am - 4pm
Marianne DeMartini
Auburn, California
I grew up in the northwestern region of Germany and attended the Werkkunstschule Krefeld (College of Arts and Crafts) where I received a BFA in Ceramic Design.
First Annual SPG:Art by Fire Membership Invitational Exhibit, E Street Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2017
Visions In Clay, LH Horton Jr Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, 2015
Placer Arts League Open Juried Show, General Gomez ARTS and Event Center, Auburn, CA, 2015
Blooming Art Show, General Gomez ARTS and Event Center, Auburn, CA, 2015
Autumn Art Studios Tour, Placer County, CA, 2001-2016
North Auburn Art Studio Tour, Auburn, CA, 2012-2017
New Work by Marianne DeMartini, Delta Workshop, Sacramento, CA, 2013
This Art is Your Art, Arts Building Gallery, Auburn, CA, 2013
Auburn Art Walk, Auburn, CA, 2008, 2012
At the Garden, Sacramento Potters Group Show, Sacramento, CA, 2008 – 2013
Outside the Box, Arts Building Gallery, Auburn, CA, 2009 - 2010
Small Works in the Foothills, Holiday Show, Asif Gallery, Grass Valley, CA, 2009
Of the Earth, Arts Building Gallery, Auburn, CA, 2008
Ridley Gallery, Annual Holiday Sale, Sierra College, Roseville, CA, 2005-1014
Lincoln ClayFest, Lincoln, CA, 2004-2008
Annual Membership Show, Roseville Arts Center, Roseville, CA, 2004
State of the ARTS, Arts Building Gallery, Auburn, CA, 2002
Group Show, Slant Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 1984
Work by Marianne DeMartini, Sunset Oaks Framing & Gallery, Auburn, CA, 1984
Emerging Artists Show, Artists' Collaborative Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 1984
My work can be found in collections in California, across the US, and in Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Norway, and Spain.


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Woman's damages claim over Aldi fall thrown out
A mother of four has been left facing a hefty legal bill after a judge threw out her damages claim against an Aldi store where, she claimed, sweets may have caused her to fall down.
Judge Alison Lindsay said housewife Clara Nebanmor (38) had not mentioned until the day of the court that she had seen sweets lying on the floor after "something under her foot" had caused her to fall in October 2012.
The judge said in the Circuit Civil Court she had failed to prove that the Aldi store in Naas, Co Kildare, had been negligent or failed in its duty to care to her as a customer.
Ms Nebanmor said she had been carrying a few items when something caused her to fall forward face-down on the floor, injuring her knees, chest, abdomen and shoulder.
Ms Nebanmor, of the Crescent, Curragh Bridge, Newbridge, Co Kildare, told the court she had only seen the sweets when she was on the floor. Tom Fitzpatrick, counsel for Aldi, asked that Ms Nebanmor's case be dismissed .
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Beethoven noted the date '1801' at the top of his manuscript for the Piano Sonata op. 28. The piece, also known as the 'Pastoral' or 'Little Pastoral' sonata, has been described as idyllic and close to nature. What cannot be heard in the music is Beethoven's health in the year the sonata was written. It was then that he first confessed his advancing deafness to two friends, Franz Gerhard Wegeler and Karl Amenda. On 29 June 1801 he told Wegeler, his childhood friend from Bonn and now a physician, that the 'jealous demon' (his poor health) was playing havoc with him, and that for three years his hearing had continuously worsened - a catastrophe for an active musician. Beethoven asked Wegeler not to share this information. A few days later, on 1 July 1801, he confided in another close friend, Karl Amenda, who had moved to the Baltic region. He admitted that his hearing had deteriorated ever since Amenda had left Vienna, and he did not know whether a cure was possible. He also asked Amenda to keep this a secret. On 16 November 1801 he again turned to Wegeler by letter, asking about a possible therapy. He told Wegeler how sad and bleak the past two years had been for him: his hearing was but a shadow of its former self, and he shunned human contact. The same letter, however, gives evidence of a strong will to live and the possibility that music and serious suffering can coexist: 'I will tempt fate and it shall not defeat me. Oh, to live a thousand lives would be so wonderful, but a quiet life I could not bear'. Thus Beethoven accepted his destiny, and thereafter he always managed to express hope and joy in his music. (J.R.)
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Italian/Greek Campaign: Fierce fighting continues on the Trebeshina massif, the gateway to the vital Italian port of Valona, on 16 February 1941. The Greeks, led by the 5th Cretan Division of III Corps, is making ground but taking huge numbers of casualties from Italian 11th Army (which also is suffering). The Greeks have been trying to move past the Klisura Pass area for a solid month, but for the first time in the war, Italian troops are providing effective resistance.
East African Campaign: The South African Air Force (SAAF), using converted Junkers Ju 86 airliners, attacks Italian positions on the far (east) side of the Juba River in Italian Somaliland. The British 1st South African Brigade is trying to break out across the river to the coast and ultimately take Mogadishu.
The Royal Navy is able to bring troops to Eritrea in the Mersa Teclai inlet. The Free French Brigade d'Orient begins arriving there. In Abyssinia, the South African 5th Infantry Brigade attacks Mega.
|South African Junkers Ju 86Z bombers, used against the Italians in East Africa.
European Air Operations: The Luftwaffe attacks Seaham Harbour with high explosive bombs, destroying four houses and causing other damage. The railway bridge across Lord Street is wrecked, blocking the road, and a subway shelter caves in. There are four deaths. The Germans also dropped some bombs on London and nearby areas by individual bombers during the day. They lose a bomber at Shoreham.
RAF Bomber Command makes daylight attacks on some of the invasion ports such as Zeebrugge, Middleburg and Den Helder.
|The Ormonde, victim of a Luftwaffe attack today.
Battle of the Atlantic: German heavy cruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst remain stationary in the North Atlantic south of Greenland. They have been refueling from tankers Esso Hamburg and Schlettstadt. Admiral Lütjens in command of Operation Berlin is contemplating his next move while the Allied navies have no idea where his two ships are - or even whether they are at sea.
Coastal Command Western Approaches completes its move from Plymouth north to Derby House, Liverpool. It is under the command of Admiral Sir Percy Noble. It is supported by RAF No. 15 Group, while a new group, No. 19, takes over the Plymouth command.
Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Repulse leaves Scapa Flow for a refit at Rosyth. Many British warships are taking advantage of the latter part of winter to undergo maintenance there, including destroyer HMS Escapade.
The Luftwaffe bombs Chatham, site of Royal Navy repair facilities. The Germans damage light cruiser HMS Neptune, already in dock to repair earlier damage.
The Luftwaffe bombs and sinks 250 ton minesweeping trawler HMT Ormonde off Peterhead off the east coast of Scotland. There are 20 deaths, including skipper W.T. Coull, RNR.
The Luftwaffe (I,/KG 40 Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condors) bombs and sinks 340 ton British trawler Naniwa in the Atlantic west of Dunquin, Ireland. There are five deaths.
The Luftwaffe bombs and damages 3000 ton British transport Coryton northeast of the Farne Islands. The ship is holed, but the Captain (Josiah Evans) manages with great skill to beach the ship in Budle Bay. At first the crew refuses to abandon ship, but the weather turns bad. Captain Evans orders the 39 crew ashore, but remains aboard (if the ship is abandoned, it becomes prey for salvagers). During the night, the storm wrecks the ship and kills Captain Evans, who washes ashore.
British 4670 ton tanker Empire Otter hits a mine and sinks off Hartland Point, Devon. Everybody survives. The Bristol Channel has claimed numerous ships to mines in the past month.
British 276 ton trawler Thomas Deas hits a mine and sinks a few miles from Spurn Point, Yorkshire. Everybody perishes.
Australian auxiliary minesweeper HMAT Southsea hits a mine and is badly damaged in the Tyne. The crew beaches it, but it is written off. There are seven deaths.
British 1514 ton freighter Varna, damaged by the Luftwaffe off the coast of Portugal on the 9th and left a flaming derelict, finally sinks after drifting further north and west.
Convoy OB 287 departs from Liverpool.
U-261 is launched.
|The Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corp. "East Yard," where Liberty ships will be built. Portland, Maine. The yard was established to build 30 Ocean class freighters for the UK; the Liberty ship project came later. 16 February 1941.
Battle of the Mediterranean: French Colonel Philippe Leclerc has been consolidating his position in southwest Libya ever since the destruction of his attached Long Range Desert Group forces on 31 January. Leclerc leaves behind two armored cars (but keeps an artillery piece) and takes 350 men to capture Kufra (more men set out, but several trucks break down and they must be left behind). The Italians receive word that the French are approaching and form a blocking force, 70 men of the Saharan company. The stage is set for a major battle outside Kufra.
The Luftwaffe sends eleven air raids against Malta in 24 hours. Many of the raids are to lay mines, and the raids are usually by single or duo bombers. One raid on Luqa airfield by Junkers Ju 87 Stukas of 7,/JG 26 results in escort fighters shooting down three RAF Hurricanes. Governor Dobbie sends a telegram to the War Office stating:
The proposed establishment of anti-aircraft batteries in Malta is utterly inadequate. Raids are now frequent throughout the 24 hours and personnel have been standing to for long hours continuously day and night. With normal sick wastage in other ranks there are no reliefs, and the officer establishment allows no reliefs even with none on sick leave. Unless an adequate establishment is allowed to Malta, it will be necessary to put 25 per cent of guns out of action for resting.A Fairey Swordfish of RAF No. 830 Squadron, based on Malta since the bombing of HMS Illustrious, torpedoes and sinks 4957 ton Italian freighter Juventus east of Monastir, Tunisia (northeast of Kuriat Island).
The British are still evacuating Italian POWs from Tobruk. Armed boarding vessel HMS Fiona takes 417 prisoners from there to Alexandria.
Battle of the Indian Ocean: German raider Komet heads south into the Antarctic, searching for whaling vessels.
Troop carrier Queen Mary splits off from Convoy US 9 and heads for Singapore.
The Royal Navy continues mining the waters around Singapore.
Turkish/Bulgarian Relations: The two countries conclude a nonaggression pact. Both Hitler and Churchill feel that Turkey is the balance of power in the region, but it remains steadfastly neutral.
|A parachutist dropping from a converted Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber.
Spy Stuff: Prime Minister Winston Churchill reveals (to history) the source of the information contained in his warning telegram to President Roosevelt on 15 February: decoded intercepts. He memos Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Alexander Cadogan and confides about new information, "These conversations and the delayed telegram have the air of being true." He certainly is referring to intercepted conversations decoded at Bletchley Park. Churchill feels that the situation in the Pacific has suddenly experienced "a decided easement, and the danger for the moment seems to have passed."
Separately, the first courier to the Polish underground, bombardier Czeslaw Raczkowski, parachutes into Poland (the Reichsgau Wartheland) today. He is part of Team Zero in Operation Adolphus. This operation was originally planned for December 1940, but was postponed because the Whitley bombers had to be modified for the lengthy flight. The plane is slow, so the operation must be done during long winter nights. The flight takes off at 18:37 and the agent drops around 02:00 on the 16th. This mission does not achieve much, but it does boost morale of the Free Polish Army in England. Since the nights are getting shorter, the mission really is a one-off for the time being. The Whitley spends 11 hours and 16 minutes in the air, flying over Berlin, which the crew sees is not subject to a war-time blackout.
British Military: General O'Connor, commander of XIII Corps, is appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief the British Troops in Egypt. XIII Corps is being effectively disbanded, since Middle East Commander General Archibald Wavell intends to send its troops to Greece. This is being done at the very time when the Germans are landing troops in Tripolitania to form the Afrika Korps.
Holocaust: Several hundred Jews are rolling in a sealed train from German and Austria to Lisbon. They are in possession of US quota visas, issued by the American Consulate in Berlin. They are permitted a maximum of ten German marks. Tickets to the United States, paid for by US relatives, await them in Lisbon. Jews in German (the Greater Reich, which includes some annexed territories such as Austria) and Holland are still able to exit the Continent if they have appropriate documentation, e.g., visas and tickets. Italian Jews also are free to leave. Lisbon has become the primary portal for overseas escape, and arrivals and departures are carefully scrutinized by German (and British) agents.
Meanwhile, the German government in Austria (Arthur Seyss-Inquart) deports 10,000 (the number is approximate) more Jews to Poland.
British Homefront: The New York Times prints an editorial bemoaning the rise of inflation in Great Britain. It points out that prices there rose 64% in the first year of the war.
Future History: Yuri Irsenovich Kim is born in the village of Vyatskoye, near Khabarovsk (this is all disputed: North Korean records prepared decades later state that he is born in 1942 in a secret military camp in Paektu Mountain, Korea). Yuri is the son of Kim Jong-un, leader of a Soviet battalion made up of Chinese and Korean exiles. Yuri completes a normal education in Pyongyang, Korea during the 1950s (or in China, depending upon the source) and becomes active in politics, particularly Marxist organizations. At some point, Yuri changes his name to Kim Jong-il, perhaps to escape his Russian-sounding name. His father rises through the diplomatic and political ranks in North Korea, eventually becoming the country's leader, and Kim himself attains leadership of the local communist party. He becomes known as "Dear Leader" in 1980 and in 1991 becomes Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army. In 1992, he becomes known as "Dear Father." On 8 July 1994, Kim's father passes away and Kim Il Jong becomes the leader of North Korea after a three-year power struggle. Kim Jong-Il passes away on 17 December 2011 and is succeeded by his son, Kim Jong-un.
|A corvette on convoy escort duty, 16 February 1941. © IWM (HU 110323).
February 1941
February 1, 1941: US Military Reorganization
February 2, 1941: Wehrmacht Supermen
February 3, 1941: World Will Hold Its Breath
February 4, 1941: USO Forms
February 5, 1941: Hitler Thanks Irish Woman
February 6, 1941: Operation Sunflower
February 7, 1941: Fox Killed in the Open
February 8, 1941: Lend Lease Passes House
February 9, 1941: Give Us The Tools
February 10, 1941: Operation Colossus
February 11, 1941: Afrika Korps
February 12, 1941: Rommel in Africa
February 13, 1941: Operation Composition
February 14, 1941: Nomura in Washington
February 15, 1941: Churchill's Warning
February 16, 1941: Operation Adolphus
February 17, 1941: Invade Ireland?
February 18, 1941: Panzerwaffe Upgrade
February 19, 1941: Three Nights Blitz
February 20, 1941: Prien's Farewell
February 21, 1941: Swansea Blitz Ends
February 22, 1941: Amsterdam Pogrom
February 23, 1941: OB-288 Convoy Destruction
February 24, 1941: Okuda Spies
February 25, 1941: Mogadishu Taken
February 26, 1941: OB-290 Convoy Destruction
February 27, 1941: Operation Abstention
February 28, 1941: Ariets Warns Stalin


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Here are a couple of things I didn't expect to hear about the Jets when the 2013 NFL season started. The first is "Jets win." Seriously. If you would have told me a New York team was going to start the season 0-6, I would have thought it was the New York Jets.
And if I was as wisenheimer, I would have guessed Buffalo Bills if you gave me another crack at a New York team to open the season 0-6.
So there's that. I also didn't expect to talk much about the Jets in the Madden ratings updates. Well, at least not positively. But here we are. Jets QB Geno Smith received a two-point bump in his rating this week, and he's currently at 76.
This is good news for Jets fans and those masochists who like to use the Jets because they don't want to use any team with any true offensive weapons. No, I'm serious. There's a guy in Wales I like to play against from time-to-time and he's so good, he will use the Jets just to prove his might.
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A trio of receivers have moved up in the ratings. T.Y. Hilton (81), Terrance Williams (73) and Alshon Jeffery (80) all received a bump this week. And thank goodness. We asked for a Hilton increase after he crushed the Legion of Boom in Indianapolis last week.
Jeffery came back to Earth a bit on Thursday night as Brandon Marshall had two touchdowns in the Bears' win over the Giants on NFL Network. (Expect Marshall to move up next week.) And Williams likely won't be able to capitalize because Miles Austin will return to the Cowboys this week. Boy, guys sure do heal in a hurry when somebody who takes their spot goes out and excels.
But expect Hilton to continue to move up, as he looks like he will soon take the torch from Reggie Wayne, who of course was first given it from Marvin Harrison.
If you've followed me on "NFL Fantasy LIVE," you know I was skeptical of Tom Brady as we headed into the season. Not that Brady had slipped. But he looked more like the early Tom Brady who won Super Bowls with a merely anonymous cast of receivers, and not the guy who broke records with Wes Welker, Randy Moss, Rob Gronkowski and others.
Brady had his touchdown streak end against the Cincinnati Bengals last week and now he takes a hit in his Madden rating, too. Brady is down a point to a 95. So it's not like he fell off the face of the planet. But it's significant.
Matt Schaub received a four-point slide down to an 83. Which even then, an 83 seems incredibly generous. If the Madden programmers had a sense of humor, Schaub would have moved down six points to represent all of the pick-six interceptions he's thrown. Even then, a point for each consecutive week he's thrown a pick-six might have been a more subtle way to go. Well played, Madden folks. Well played.
6. Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie quarterback Mike Glennon will have more passing yards than Matthew Stafford this week. The Eagles can't seem to stop anybody. The Browns certainly can. This might not be a fair fight if Megatron is out for a second consecutive week. But Glennon is my guy this week. I'm even forced to start him on a few fantasy teams.
5. Andy Luck will throw for 496 yards against the San Diego Chargers on Monday night. A lot of my friends don't like me using the Next Gen team when we play (crybabies), so I typically take the Seahawks when I play. But now I'm going to start using the Colts because I love using Luck. He's going up against the Chargers, who have given up a lot of yards this year.
4. Josh Freeman will get into the game for the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday. You can't pay him all of that money and not have him get into the game. Thank you for stopping by, Matt Cassel.
3. Not content with 99 points last week, the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins combine for 121 points on "Sunday Night Football." Neither team particularly cares for defense, so why not? Oh yeah, because we all expect it. Watch, this game will be 13-6 at halftime and fantasy enthusiasts everywhere will be cursing the TV.
2. All of you who have panicked about A.J. Green are about to be rewarded. The Bills have a very generous secondary. The only team who seems worse against the pass? The Philadelphia Eagles. Which leads me to this ...
1. You know those games where everybody thinks it's going to be a blowout and then we're shocked when the underdog makes it a competitive contest? Not happening with the Jaguars and the Broncos. Denver wins this one in a route. Honestly, if you need a quarterback to win a meaningless game in October, there is nobody I would rather have than Peyton Manning. Now the playoffs? That's a difference story. But when it's a 5-0 team against an 0-5 team, there is no better quarterback to have than Manning. There is no quarterback who excels more in these "garbage-time" games than Manning. This is tailor-made for him. In fact, I predict he goes 33-for-34 for 472 yards and six touchdowns. In the first half. His lone miss is a Wes Welker drop. And then Manning will hold a grudge against Welker for the rest of the year.
Don't forget to vote for the "Madden NFL 25" Next Gen champ! Voting for this week will open after the Monday night game between the Indianapolis Colts and San Diego Chargers.
Did you know that Adam Rank won last year's Expert's League title? Oh that's right, it's like the only thing he ever talks about. Well congratulations, Rank. You finally did something. What have you done for us lately? Let's worry about 2013 and stop living in the past. Typical Lakers fan, am I right? Oh, if you found this useful (as if) check him out on the latest "Dave Dameshek Football Program". And follow him on Twitter, please. He's taking us to lunch if he gets 17 more Twitter followers today. And we only got 15 the last time, so step up fantasy enthusiasts!


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Municipal Bond and Note Questions on the Series 7 Exam
The Series 7 will expect you to have a good grasp on types of municipal bonds and notes. Along with standard revenue and GO bonds, you're required to know the specifics of the following types of municipal bonds:
Special tax bonds: These bonds are secured by one or more taxes other than ad valorem (property) taxes. The bonds may be backed by sales taxes on fuel, tobacco, alcohol, and so on.
Special assessment (special district) bonds: These bonds are issued to fund the construction of sidewalks, streets, sewers, and so on. Special assessment bonds are backed by taxes only on the properties that benefit from the improvements. In other words, if people who live a few blocks away from you get all new sidewalks, they'll be taxed for it, not you.
Double-barreled bonds: These bonds are basically a combination of revenue and GO bonds. Municipalities issue these bonds to fund revenue-producing facilities (toll bridges, water and sewer facilities, and so forth), but if the revenues taken in aren't enough to pay off the debt, tax revenues make up the deficiency.
Limited-tax general obligation bonds (LTGO): These bonds are types of general obligation bonds for which the taxes backing the bonds are limited. Limited-tax general obligation bonds are secured by all revenues of the municipality that aren't used to back other bonds. However, the amount of property taxes municipalities can levy to back these bonds is limited.
Public housing authority bonds (PHAs): These bonds are also called new housing authority (NHA) bonds and are issued by local housing authorities to build and improve low-income housing. These bonds are backed by U.S. government subsidies, and if the issuer can't pay off the debt, the U.S. government makes up any shortfalls.
Because PHAs are backed by the issuer and the U.S. government, they're considered among the safest municipal bonds.
Moral obligation bonds: These bonds are issued by a municipality but backed by a pledge from the state government to pay off the debt if the municipality can't. Given this additional backing of the state, they're considered safe. Moral obligation bonds need legislative approval to be issued.
Because they're called moral obligation bonds, the state has a moral responsibility — but not a legal obligation — to help pay off the debt if the municipality can't.
The following question tests your ability to answer questions about the safety of municipal bonds:
Rank the following municipal bonds in order from safest to riskiest.
I. Revenue bonds
II. Moral obligation bonds
III. Public housing authority bonds
IV. Industrial development revenue bonds
The correct answer is Choice (B). If you remember that public housing authority bonds are considered the safest of the municipal bonds because they're backed by U.S. government subsidies, this question's easy. Public housing authority bonds would be the safest; moral obligation bonds are also considered very safe because the state government has a moral obligation to help pay off the debt if needed, follow.
Next come revenue bonds, which are backed by a revenue-producing facility. Remember that industrial development revenue bonds (IDRs) are considered the riskiest municipal bonds because although they're technically municipal bonds, they're backed only by lease payments made by a corporation.
When municipalities need short-term (interim) financing, municipal notes come into play. These notes bring money into the municipality until other revenues are received. Municipal notes typically have maturities of one year or less (usually three to five months). Know the different types of municipal notes for the Series 7 exam:
Tax anticipation notes (TANs): These notes provide financing for current operations in anticipation of future taxes that the municipality will collect.
Revenue anticipation notes (RANs): These bonds provide financing for current operations in anticipation of future revenues that the municipality will collect.
Tax and revenue anticipation notes (TRANs): These notes are a combination of TANs and RANs.
Grant anticipation notes (GANs): These bonds provide interim financing for the municipality while it's waiting for a grant from the U.S. government. The notes are paid off from the grant funds once received.
Bond anticipation notes (BANs): These bonds provide interim financing for the municipality while it's waiting for long-term bonds to be issued.
Construction loan notes (CLNs): These notes provide interim financing for the construction of multifamily apartment buildings.
Project notes (PNs): These bonds provide interim financing for the building of subsidized housing for low-income families.
Tax-exempt commercial paper: These short-term bonds are usually issued by organizations such as universities with permission of the government. This debt obligation usually lasts only a few months to help the organization cover its short-term liabilities.
AON (all or none) is an order qualifier (fill an entire order at a specific price or not at all) or type of underwriting; it is not a municipal note, no matter how much it looks like one.
Municipal notes are not rated the same as municipal or corporate bonds (AAA, AA, A, and so on). Municipal notes have ratings as follows (from best to worst):
Moody's: MIG 1, MIG 2, MIG 3, MIG 4
Standard & Poor's: SP-1, SP-2, SP-3
Fitch: F-1, F-2, F-3
The following question tests your knowledge of municipal notes.
Suffolk County, New York, would like to even out its cash flow. Which of the following municipal notes would Suffolk County MOST likely issue?
(A) RANs
(B) BANs
(C) CLNs
(D) TANs
The answer you want is Choice (D). Because the question doesn't state that the municipality is constructing housing or issuing long-term bonds, you should cross out Choices (B) and (C). Likewise, you can't assume that the municipality will be collecting revenues from some project, so Choice (A) is out. However, municipalities collect property taxes at regular intervals, so (D) is the best choice.


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The Wicked + The Divine is the brand new music/pop/art comic from creative duo Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen. Knowing that this is not normal territory for our readers, I feel that some heavy exposition is due in order to really vibe the significance: Kieron Gillen (Writer) and Jamie McKelvie (Illustrator) are probably best known for Phonogram, a gorgeous two volume series about music as magic. Whenever a song gets you through hard times, or bonds you to strangers, or helps you create something, that's a magic spell. In Phonogram it's more literal. If a song helps you remember old times, in this world, it literally takes you backwards in time to let you reminisce and see the memory happen.
It's great stuff and I'm explaining it in dumb ways — but this isn't about Phonogram. This is about The Wicked + The Divine, which is more music & magic musings, combined with mortality and death, and set to talk about artists instead of fans. In The Wicked + The Divine, Gods walk the earth every 90 years — Baal, Lucifer, Amaterasu, twelve in all — but only for 2 years. Then they die. In those 2 years, they're wildly famous, popular, beautiful and beloved. The Wicked + The Divine is pop stars as gods, and gods as pop stars.
That means a lot more than it does on paper, and the first issue was released last week through Image Comics, the hip proprietor of all the most innovative, idea-driven comics like The Walking Dead and Saga.
The Gods are cast as classic pop archetypes — the ones we see constantly recurring in our pop culture, another tie-in to the reincarnation theme. Ametarasu, a Shinto god, is strikingly similar to the fiery, high passion godesses we know like Florence Welch or Stevie Nicks. Lucifer, meanwhile, is purely David Bowie at his most badass. Kieron Gillen writes them with just enough familiarity but not enough to draw a 1:1 conclusion, and it lets you consider your own personal pantheon of artists and where they fall into these archetypes.
Jamie McKelvie, for his part, is one of the best artists in comics. No one even comes to close to drawing and conceiving of hip fashion and style the way he does. So many artists in mainstream companies are content to draw dudes in T-shirts and girls in blouses, but McKelvie triumphs in design as well as in storytelling. His control of the panel-to-panel camera is seamless and makes it not just easy, but a joy, for new-to-comics readers.
So, pop stars command throngs of followers, live fast, die young, masses are concerts — now just add super powers. Very few have been explored in the debut issue, but it hasn't been anything as hokey as laser beams flying from hands. Lucifer snaps her fingers and the heads of would-be assassins explode in gorgeous, Warhol-esque color and texture. But the action or violence isn't the issue; it's the ideas and the exploration of what pop stars are, and our relationship to them. Consider how often divinity crosses paths with pop ego — Kanye West's "Power," "No Church in the Wild," Lorde's "Royals," Madonna's "Like A Prayer" — they even have an official Spotify playlist just so you can get the mood right.
In the book's coda, Gillen describes the series as turning the worst 2 years of his life into a pop song. That, again, is the magic of art — its ability to take any overwhelming emotion and convert it into a tangible object that will duplicate the emotion for others; a magic spell. And this pop song is one of the greats. It worms into your head, stays there for days and makes you put it on repeat.
Issue #1 is mostly establishing the world with a cliffhanger ending, but it's so chock full of ideas that it feels far more substantial. If you're a music fanatic or pop culture deconstructionist, you'll be chewing on these 22-pages long after the book has finished. It's clever, and if their track record is any indication, it's only going to get better.
The Wicked + The Divine #1 is out now via Image Comics at your local comic shop, or in digital versions at ImageComics.com.
Justin Pansacola is a writer living in Los Angeles. At the University of California, Riverside he received his degree in Creative Writing, not English, although he has resigned to the fact that no one cares about the difference. You can follow him on Twitter @wordcore. On some nights he looks up at the moon and wonders if you're looking at the same moon, too.


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Apr 12, 2008
The first nun
By Prof. Yashwant Malaiya
To see a group of Jain nuns pass by is awe-inspiring. Barefoot, clad simply in a pure white garment, white garment, with a gentle demeanor but firm in following a noble but arduous code of conduct, the order of nuns(sadhivs) has been a major source of inspiration for Jain shravakas throughout the centuries. They are following in the footsteps of the first nun, Aryika Chandana.
Over 25 centuries ago, Lord Mahavira, having established the final Tirtha of this declining era, attained Moksha in 599 BC. The Kalpa Sutra mentions that at that time Mahavira's Sangha consisted of 14,000 monks,36,000 nuns,159,000 shravakas and 318,000 shavikas. Able Aryika Chandana, who was also known as Chandanabala, led the congregation of nuns.
Chandana was born into a royal family. Tragically, as the result of a war, she was taken into slavery and sold. She was purchased by Seth Dhanadatta for use as a domestic servant. When the seth's wife saw Dhanadatta treat his slave kindly, she became jealous of the beautiful Chandana. While Dhanadatta was away, she had Chandana's head shaved and her legs chained to the door of her slave quarters where she cried in anguish for days. When hungry, she was given half-cooked lentils (urd) in a flimsy bamboo container used for winnowing grain called a supa. Chance awaited her in this miserable condition.
Lord Mahavira was a Jain monk, and Jain monks may often take a vow to accept food only when it is possible to observe a set of pre-determined special conditions. The practice originates with Mahavira himself. A few months before he attained Keval Jnan, continuously fast until offered food by only that individual who met 10 untold and seemingly impossible conditions. He would accept (1)only urad lentils,(2) offered in a winnowing basket, (3) given by a person standing sideways with one foot on the threshold of a dwelling place and the other foot outside, (4) who was a princess turned in to a slave, (5) who had a shaven head, and (6) whose legs were bound by chains. She had to be (7) a chaste woman, (8) at the time performing the penances of attham (3 days's fast), and would serve him (9) only after all other mendicants had rejected her food offering, (10) with tears in her eyes.
Many would have cherished the honor of giving food to Mahavira. Five months and 28 days lapsed, and no donor fulfilled his secret conditions. But Chandana, a princes sold as a slave, shackled and humiliated by the jealous wife of a depraved merchant, fulfilled his secret conditions. But Chandana, a princess sold as a slave, shackled and humiliated by the jealous wife of a depraved merchant, fulfilled all the other conditions except weeping. As Mahavira passed by, he turned his face away at the last moment without accepting her humble alms. Already tormented and abused, Chandana began to cry.
And thus the final condition was met. To the amazement of onlookers including her captors, in his bare palms Mahavira accepted the food Chandana offered from her simple winnowing basket, breaking his six-month fast with a small handful of the rough slave fodder that Chandana had been living on for weeks. Chandana was released and she joined Lord Mahavira's monastic order. She thus became the first nun of the Mahaviran Jain tradition and eventually the leader of thousands of Aryikas.
The significance of Chandana's leadership may be judged by comparing the order of Jain nuns with the Buddhist nun. Buddha agreed to ordain nuns only after considerable hesitation and persistent pressure from his aunt. Within a few centuries of Buddhist nuns was completely done away with in the Theravada sect. Some scholars believe this lack of female leadership contributed significantly to Buddhism's eventual extinction in India.
Thousands of jain nuns today walk all over India and now travel the world, presenting the message of Lord Mahavira and following the path of Aryika Chandana.
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Letters to the Editor
Attack on Lincoln without basis
I am astonished that a reputable newspaper such as The Sun News would print a letter such as the one "Lincoln myth again perpetuated," written by John Fisher of Myrtle Beach and contained in your Nov. 12 edition. Fisher seems agitated because a new motion picture is about to be released about Lincoln -- one which presumably will not subscribe to Fisher's belief that Lincoln should be lumped in with Hitler, Stalin and Osama bin Laden.
Among the asinine allegations in his letter is Fisher's suggestion that Lincoln and Karl Marx were pen pals. History shows us that Karl Marx wrote Lincoln congratulating him on his re-election and his having freed the slaves (a point of view that apparently offends Fisher). Marx's letter was in the context of contrasting the difference between white Americans being able to choose their employer while slaves were held in captivity to deliver labor.
Lincoln never wrote to Marx. U.S. Ambassador to England Charles Adams wrote Marx (who was living in London) a benign response at Lincoln's instruction in which Adams essentially said the civil war wasn't about propaganda, but about fundamental rights written into the articles underpinning the United States. There are still people like Fisher out there wandering lost in the bulrushes of bigotry, but it does little for the reputation of a newspaper such as The Sun News to act as a megaphone for them.
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In 2013, the U.S. Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey, choose the Alzheimer's Poetry Project for the initial broadcast of her new PBS NewsHour series, "Where Poetry Lives." The series is a partnership between PBS and the Library of Congress. Trethewey writes about working with the APP, "…our grasp of language has a beginning in poetry. To see it used at a very different stage of life, and to such effect, was deeply moving."
PBS NewsHour on intergenerational programming and how to perform and create poetry with elders:
"We've Got More Poems to Write," teacher Sara Primo on creating poems and performing poems with elders.
Shaking youthful hands with wrinkled hands
Knowing that one-day my hair will be as white as theirs
One day I might need young smiles
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An extra boost to make me smile
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Long Hours, High Caseloads:
An Ongoing Surge of Cases Weighs on Child Welfare Workers
By Abigail Kramer
In the poorest neighborhoods of New York City, frontline child welfare workers frequently carry caseloads far above recommended levels, according to data from the Administration for Children's Services (ACS), which runs the City's child welfare system.
In order to keep children safe, national child welfare experts recommend that child protective caseworkers, who investigate possible cases of abuse and neglect, carry loads of no more than 12 to 14 families at a time. In many parts of the city, ACS succeeds in keeping caseloads well below that range: In Queens, for example, the average caseload was under eight families per worker in September.
But in the highest-poverty, most stressed neighborhoods of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, an ongoing surge in investigations and court cases has repeatedly driven average caseloads above 15, 16, and even 17 families per caseworker in the past two years. In June, the average caseload in parts of the South Bronx was 18.5 families per caseworker, according to neighborhood-level data published quarterly by ACS. And in some offices, experienced workers carry loads well above 20 families at a time, according to multiple caseworkers who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"I took this job because I wanted to help kids," said one Bronx caseworker, who was responsible for close to 30 families in September. "I thought I could make a difference. In all reality, I'm not, because I'm overwhelmed."
As part of a larger package of reforms, ACS has taken several steps to bring caseloads down, including hiring hundreds of new caseworkers and offering more opportunities for ongoing training. "Caseloads are something that we are really focused on and always looking to improve," says Eric Ferrero, ACS's deputy commissioner of external affairs.
In the neighborhoods where ACS is most active, however, it is notoriously difficult to keep caseworkers on the job. Because of fast and frequent turnover, the busiest ACS offices nearly always include a significant number of trainees, who work with just a few families at a time. As a result, published averages obscure the reality for more experienced workers. "We call it funny math," the Bronx caseworker said.
ACS employs approximately 1,300 investigative caseworkers—formally known as child protective specialists—distributed among neighborhood-based field offices across the five boroughs. When someone reports a New York City parent or caregiver to the State-run child abuse and neglect hotline, it's a caseworker's job to show up at the family's door and figure out what's going on.
Reports of suspected abuse shot up at the end of 2015, after two children known to the City's child welfare authorities were killed in their homes. Stories about them appeared for months in the news media—along with excoriating criticism of ACS—and caseworkers were inundated with reports. As the number of investigations grew, so did backlogs throughout the system. Families waited even longer than usual for court dates and sat on waitlists for social-service programs—all of which makes it harder for caseworkers to close out their cases, even as new ones come in.
In a typical week, the Bronx caseworker says, she might work multiple 10-hour days, come in on Saturday to finish paperwork, and still be unable to keep up with the cases she's assigned.
The chaos inevitably spills onto families, the caseworker says. At best, an untenable caseload means she skips steps that she knows would help struggling parents: getting a bed for a child who doesn't have one, for example, or making an extra call to find a therapist who speaks a family's native language.
At worst, it means she can't always fulfill the basic safety requirements of her job—including the mandate that she visit each family's home and lay eyes on the children every two weeks. Close to 85 percent of allegations that come to ACS involve some form of neglect, rather than physical or sexual abuse, but the caseworker says she's "always in fear" that she'll miss a warning that a child is in real danger. "I can't function as well as I want to," she says.
Done right, the job of a child protective specialist calls for an acrobatic kind of duality. Caseworkers are trained to operate much like social workers, eliciting sensitive information from family members who—more often than not—want nothing to do with them. They convince parents to engage in programs like drug treatment or domestic violence counseling, and assist them to navigate the waitlists and paperwork that often stand between struggling families and services that might help.
But ACS caseworkers are also investigators, carrying the whiff of terrible authority that belongs to a person who can walk unannounced into a home, open the fridge and medicine cabinets, question the inhabitants, and inspect children's bodies. They are most active in the City's lowest-income neighborhoods (the East New York section of Brooklyn has seen more ACS investigations than any other City neighborhood for four years running), but largely invisible in its wealthier areas, where people's intimate family problems rarely land them under the scrutiny of City agents—and where, for most parents, the idea of having a child taken away is close to unimaginable.
Based on caseworkers' reports, ACS chooses among three options: The agency can offer voluntary social services and close the case; take parents to Family Court to request ongoing supervision of the family or a child's removal; or—in the most extreme cases—take children from a home on an emergency basis, before the case even appears before a judge.
Over the past two decades, the City has dramatically shrunk the number of children it removes from their homes. (The foster care census is currently at a record low of under 8,500—down from more than 40,000 in the 1990s.)
Since 2015, however, ACS has also cut the number of cases it closes at the end of an investigation. Instead, the agency has become much more likely to bring families to court—a process that can make their cases drag on for years, even if there's never a request to remove a child, and even if the family's caseworker doesn't believe there's a clear threat to a child.
"We're keeping cases open for very small things," says another Bronx caseworker, who has worked for ACS for close to five years. "It's all 'cover your ass.' Everyone's driving on fear right now."
As cases keep piling up, so—for some caseworkers—does the dispiriting sense that they're hurting the families they intended to help.
"It's doing more harm than good," says a Brooklyn caseworker who works with families that ACS has brought to Family Court. "We're supposed to keep families united. That's what the agency preaches: I have to help the mother so she can help the child." But if a child isn't at real risk, then keeping cases open—with the consequent months of court hearings, caseworker inspections, and mandatory services—can put intolerable stress on parents and kids. "It's not always right for the families," she says. "It destroys families."
Between the demoralization and the impossible workloads, many of the colleagues she started with have already quit, and she may soon follow suit. "It's too much," she says. "I care about my families but I don't want to be at work all night. I want to go home and see my own kid."
Across the city, nearly a quarter of child protective caseworkers have been on the job for less than a year and 65 percent have fewer than three years of experience, according to ACS's most recent published data.
Ronald Richter served as the commissioner of ACS from 2011 to 2013 and is now the executive director of JCCA (formerly known as the Jewish Child Care Association), one of the city's largest social service organizations for children. "Being a caseworker is the hardest job there is," Richter says.
Keeping offices fully staffed is an ongoing challenge for ACS leadership. "They are constantly trying to identify where are those pockets where you have high turnover and high caseloads, and figuring out what supports can be put into those zones in order to shore up morale," Richter says. "When caseworkers get too many new cases and not enough help to manage them, that's always a recipe for disaster."
Ferrero, from ACS, points out that, by some measures, ACS is doing much better on caseloads than other parts of New York State. For example, at the end of September there were no caseworkers in the City carrying more than 15 families in their "active investigation" phase—meaning the initial 60 days in which ACS must decide whether there is credible evidence of abuse or neglect. By this measure, each borough in New York City ranked above 46 of the State's 62 counties, including, for example, Erie County, where 56 caseworkers carried more than 15 active investigations, according to data published by the New York State Office of Children and Families (OCFS), which oversees child welfare agencies across the state.
ACS has undertaken a major push to fill and prevent caseworker vacancies, hiring 650 new child protective specialists in the 2017-18 fiscal year (which ended June 30), Ferrero says. In an effort to better stay ahead of attrition, the agency currently has over 30 more caseworkers on staff than it has budgeted positions. Salaries are also higher than they've been in the past, starting at just over $47,000 annually, with the possibility of earning close to $78,000 after two years.
Once they're hired, caseworkers receive two months of classroom training, and are then placed in training units in the field, where they carry small caseloads and receive intensive supervision for three months. In 2016, ACS opened a workforce institute to do advanced training for experienced caseworkers. More recently, the agency established a team of coaches, who do one-on-one training with caseworkers and their supervisors, and a wellness director, tasked with providing resources for employees around issues like mental health, exercise, and the trauma they are exposed to on the job.
ACS has also rolled out several measures designed to make caseworkers' workloads more manageable. In 2017, caseworkers received smartphones with internet access and, more recently, tablets designed to let them do paperwork and documentation in the field, rather than having to return to the office. The agency has also improved transportation options, including 24-hour access to agency cars and Zipcar memberships for many caseworkers, especially those in Staten Island and other parts of the city that are hard to navigate on public transportation.
The agency has also hired Chapin Hall, a policy research institute based at the University of Chicago, to conduct an intensive workload study, designed to identify ways to make caseworkers' jobs more efficient. "It will be a very deep dive into what they spend their time doing, what are things that could cut down on time, what has worked in other jurisdictions," Ferrero says.


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When you think of my homeland of Canada, you probably think of lots of 'typically Canadian' things. From poutine to ice hockey, maybe you believe that you have a pretty good idea of what Canada is all about, and what you can do here. Even if you've been to Canada before, have you really had a true Canadian experience? It's a massive country, so getting a feel for it isn't something that you can do in one short trip — in fact, I haven't truly developed a sense of my own country until I began travelling from province to province in the past couple of years. There's a lot to see and do, and you don't want to miss out on some of the most essential Canadian experiences available.
Really Climb CN Tower
Let's start in the city I was born and raised in. The CN Tower in Toronto is an iconic building, and one that many people aim to climb when they visit. But why simply go up the tower on the inside, when you could experience it from the outside? The tower has an EdgeWalk experience that gives you an opportunity to walk around the outside of the building's restaurant level. You put on a red jumpsuit, strap yourself into a harness and walk around the roof. This one's certainly not for anyone who's afraid of heights, so if the thought of even being inside of the tower is enough to make you queasy, it might not be for you.
Mellow Out
Why don't you find the best online dispensary Canada and order any weed you want. Because the laws for the use and possession of recreational drugs differ around the world. If there's one that many countries are considering being more relaxed about, it's marijuana. Canada became the second country in the world to legalize the stuff this past autumn, so anyone who wants to can now walk into a store and get some. In fact, you can even shop weed online and have it delivered straight your door. As Canada is one of the first countries to take such a liberal view of cannabis use, joining in with the locals has to be a truly Canadian experience. Just remember that you cannot take it out of the country. You might find though that weed is legal where you live. If it is, then you can easily order something like this pink death. Just double-check that weed is legal where you live first though.
Go on a Ski Adventure Like No Other
There are countless opportunities for skiing within Canada, and plenty of great resorts to choose from. If you want a ski trip that you'll never forget, don't bother with simply getting a ski lift up to your slope of choice. Have a helicopter drop you off for an exciting experience that will allow you to reach some incredible off-trail locations! Heli-skiing makes your ski adventure that much more exciting. If you want to avoid skiing but still fancy a helicopter ride, check out whistler blackcomb helicopter tours instead!
Take an Epic Rail Trip
Canada is a vast country, with sweeping landscapes that you don't want to miss. If you don't want to get up in a helicopter, you might prefer a more sedate way of travelling. From a steam train trip between prairie towns to a length cross-country trip, this is the perfect way to take in some of Canada's incredible scenery. You could opt to only travel for a few hours, but if you really want to commit, why not try for a few days? On the cross-country trip from VIA Rail, you can enjoy four nights from Toronto to Vancouver and see everything through a glass roof.
Discover Canada your way by grabbing onto some of the unique and unforgettable experiences on offer. We truly have so much to offer as a nation, and look forward to having you visit us. Have you been to Canada before? What are some of the incredible things that you've done while visiting? Let me know in the comments!
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Hello friends, it's been a while since I've posted here. I barely have time to shower these days let alone create, photograph and post recipes. Ha! Having a baby will do that to you. Amal is finally asleep for the night, after a day of being on a sleep strike. Literally refused to sleep ALL DAY. As desperately as I needed her to sleep for both her sake and mine, I will admit that I miss her now that she is asleep. Ahhhh the contradictions of motherhood.
I know how cliché this is going to sound, but the last three months have been the most fulfilling, magical 3 months of my life. I have fallen in love time and again, with this beautiful soul that chose little old me to be her mama. Nonetheless, amidst all the beauty and magic, these have also been the most challenging and frustrating 3 months of my life. Motherhood. It's freakin' hard. Double exclamation mark hard. It's a huge job, a mammoth undertaking and the greatest responsibility I have ever been given. No one can prepare you for this and as prepared as you think you are, you inevitably realize you're not when your baby starts crying and you have no idea how to soothe her despite all the baby books and advice articles you've read.
It's human nature to procreate, so natural indeed that we don't stop and reflect on it enough. We want a baby, and if we're lucky enough, we have one. A BABY, a tiny HUMAN, a LIFE to care for, a SOUL to nurture, a BEING with her own path to pave on her journey through life. We can walk by her side, guiding her, influencing her, picking her up when she falls, providing strength, confidence and comfort, but the path is hers to pave and hers alone. Gosh is it ever darn hard to admit that. Selfishly I'd like nothing more than to hold her tight and never let go. To protect her from the craziness of this world forever more. Yet in my heart of hearts I know I must teach her to fly and set her free one day. But not just yet thankfully.
I tell you, motherhood, it is one big beautiful mess. Chock full of mixed emotions that range from ball your eyes out sleep deprivation induced exhaustion to euphoric ecstasy brought on by a simple smile or sloppy baby kiss. It's a roller coaster moving at high-speed that never stops spinning, twisting and turning and yet there is a sense of peace and tranquility and a feeling so warm and fuzzy it makes you never want to get off. I'm on this roller coaster for life and boy am I glad to have gotten on; messy hair, dark eye circles, milk stains and all that jazz.
I've been full-time baby duty and haven't spent much time in the kitchen over the last few months. Oh hey, did I mention that we also moved in this time?!! Yes, we're gluttons for punishment I tell you. We always take the bumpy road, the path less traveled and thankfully it always works out in the end. I'm happy to report that I'm finally feeling adjusted and starting to get back to cooking, baking and treat making more and more as the weeks have gone by and am hoping to be able to do more in the coming weeks as this little babe grows and we settle comfortably into our new home and routine.
If you've been reading along, then you know how snack addicted I am. Incidentally, breastfeeding has left me extra hungry and even more snack addicted than usual. I've been snacking mostly on fresh fruit, dates, dried figs and raisins, but lately I've started whipping up a lot of these two bite snacks. Energy balls if you will. After posting a shot of these Tahini Hemp Bites on Instagram a few days ago, I've had some requests for the recipe from my fellow #tahiniaddict friends, so here it is in all it's simplicity. I warn you, they taste like candy and you won't be able to stop at just one. Thankfully they're packed with only the good stuff like Medjool dates, almond meal, maca, hemp hearts and tahini of course.
Some notes: I have a tiny food processor so I make things in small batches but feel free to double or triple the recipe to make a bunch more. If heaven forbid you are not a tahini lover (shame on you, I'm not sure we can be friends anymore), any runny nut butter will do. Not a fan of dates, I bet soft dried figs would work nicely here, but I haven't tried that out yet in this recipe. Allergic to almonds, any other nut meal (aka finely ground nuts) will do. I haven't tried a nut free version but if you give it a whirl please do share in the comments below.
Happy snacking!
Tahini Hemp Bites
Recipe & Photography by Nissrine @ Harmony à la Carte
These raw tahini hemp bites are naturally sweetened with dates and make the perfect bite size snack.
- 4 Soft Medjool Dates, pitted
- 2 Tbsp Tahini
- 2 Tbsp Hemp Seeds
- 2 Tbsp Almond Meal
- 1 Tsp Maca Powder (optional but adds a nice caramel like flavour).
- Process all ingredients on high speed until a sticky crumbly mixture forms.
- Roll into bite sized balls, store in the refrigerator and enjoy to your hearts content.


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Dr. Samantha Mann
Dr. Samantha Mann is a licensed psychologist specializing in clinical neuropsychology. She has completed a post-doctoral residency in Clinical Neuropsychology, after earning her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University, Washington D.C. in 2014.
She has extensive experience conducting psychological and neuropsychological assessments for adolescents and adults. Through her comprehensive approach to evaluations, she aims to clarify diagnoses and elucidate cognitive strengths and weaknesses to facilitate treatment planning.
Areas of Interest & Specialization
Adolescents and Adults
Traumatic Brain Injury
Multiple Sclerosis
Exposure to Toxins
Brain Tumors
Parkinson's Disease
Huntington's Disease
Learning Disorders
Intellectual Disability
Depression and Anxiety
Trauma-Related Disorders (e.g., PTSD)
Aeromedical Psychology/Neuropsychology
Dr. Mann is originally from Baltimore, Maryland. She obtained her BA in Psychology from Wake Forest University in North Carolina before moving on to a master's degree in General Psychology at American University in Washington, D.C. and then to her Clinical Psychology doctoral program.
She has been living in Colorado since 2014 and enjoying all that the area has to offer.


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The Emma Koerner fonds includes the following series: an article by Greg Klassen (1992); obituary (2016); and photographs (1982).
The Eric Wild fonds includes newspaper clippings (1950-1956) and biographical information from the souvenir programme (1951).
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The Faith Worth fonds includes biographical information [1991].
The Fernand Nault fonds includes biographical information (1978).
The Flying by Foy fonds includes excerpts from a preview publication (2009).
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The Frances Dafoe fonds includes a biography [1973] and obituaries (2016).
The Freya Björg Olafson fonds includes a newspaper article (2017).
The Galina Yordanova fonds includes the following series: newspaper/magazine articles ([1985]-1999); correspondence (1981-1989); photographs (1981) and biographical information.


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LG introduced it's circular, and more premium G Watch R a few days back. The company didn't reveal any information about the launch of the gorgeous smartwatch, except that we may get to buy it this fall.According to a new report from WSJ, the LG G Watch R will hit retail on October 14th, and will be more costly then the original LG G Watch, which went on sale earlier this year for $229.It comes with a 1.3-inch round display sporting 512MB of RAM and 4GB of memory. Just like its predecessor, the LG G Watch R runs Android Wear as its operating system.
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More than four years after police put a stop to an apparent paramilitary training camp in the Ureweras, the country is none the wiser about what was going on there.
Lawyers for the accused in the six-week trial scoffed at suggestions their clients were hell-bent on acts of terrorism or sabotage but the scanty explanations they offered - such as training for security work - were equally hard to believe.
The jury was unable to decide whether the four accused were participating in organised criminal activity.
Their supporters are celebrating as though the jury's indecision was an acquittal. It is not. It means the question is unresolved and unless the Crown seeks a retrial, it will remain an open question. What were those people doing?
The question has lost some of the urgency it had when police began keeping watch on the mysterious activities in the Urewera bush. The "war on terror" was still a worldwide pre-occupation in 2006. The police went beyond their powers of search and surveillance at that time to monitor the group's activities, and they swooped with unusual force on the morning of October 15, 2007, bringing a terror of their own to residents of Ruatoki.
The public still awaits the Police Complaints Authority's report on that operation. Many wait for that side of the story as anxiously as they have awaited the trial of those arrested that day.
Initially, charges were laid under a new Terrorism Suppression Act until the Solicitor-General ruled that the evidence, while "very disturbing", was not sufficient to establish that any of the 18 people arrested had been planning a particular terrorist act.
Late in 2008, new charges were laid under the Arms Act with five of the accused facing a more serious charge under the Crimes Act of participating in a criminal group. Their lawyers then challenged the legality of the police surveillance operation which had included covert filming of the activities on Tuhoe land.
That litigation went to the High Court, Court of Appeal and finally the Supreme Court which ruled last September that evidence gained by secret cameras could not be used.
The ruling was said to have halted numerous police investigations and prosecutions and the Government hastily passed temporary legislation to validate video surveillance.
After the years of procedural legal argument and legislation the case has finally come back to its essential questions - and the country is not much the wiser. Only four of the 18 originally arrested had to answer charges in court, and they have been found guilty of the arms offences. These are serious enough. Hunting rifles may be a common feature of life in the area but molotov cocktails surely are not.
It is worth recalling the words of the Solicitor-General when he decided the evidence did not support a charge under the Terrorism Suppression Act. He was critical of the act ("unnecessarily complex, incoherent and almost impossible to apply") not the police. They had "a sufficient and proper basis" for concern about what these people were doing.
The video shown at the trial has confirmed that much. If people are going to play games with real guns and explosives anywhere in New Zealand, they had better ensure they are authorised in law. The police may have an apology to make for some of their actions at Ruatoki, but not for their concern about paramilitary activities. On the evidence the public has now seen, they had to act.


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Continuing the conversation of loving and embracing our bodies.
Embracing my body hasn't been an easy journey.
Looking in the mirror and instantly picking out the features I didn't like was a regular behavior not too long ago. I had done that my whole life but finally tired of it. I was sick of the negative chatter filling my head and felt alone in these thoughts. In my mind, I was the only one struggling with a belly pooch from pregnancy and dreaded saddlebags.
When I discovered I was pregnant with the triplets some of my first thoughts were, "My body will be ugly, gross and never the same," and "There are going to be THREE babies in my belly; what is this going to do to me?!"
After the triplets were born, I was back looking in that same old mirror. But this time I was horrified – I had a big belly, my butt and legs were huge and my still healing C-section wound created this unsightly bulge on my belly.
People would say, "I can't believe you just had triplets!" I know it was meant to be a compliment, but I'm not really sure what "just had triplets" was supposed to look like. All that mattered was that I felt gross and not at all beautiful.
One day though, I made myself a promise that I would be nice to myself; I would say nice things about my body even if it was a "fake it till I make it" kind of situation. I'm a solutions-oriented person and was determined not to hate what I saw in the mirror from now on. My thinking started changing when the doctor allowed me to go back to the gym and I was able to work out again.
I wasn't always successful about feeling good about what I saw in the mirror, but I kept trying. I continued to say positive things to myself looking head on into that dreaded mirror that was becoming more friend and less enemy by the day. I kept going to the gym – not to lose weight but to feel good and get stronger.
Embracing my body has been a mental, emotional and spiritual change for me. I had to change my thinking. This doesn't just hold true for me though, it was a concept illustrated during our recent photo shoot for the Embrace Your Body campaign. A size 16 woman walked confidently through our shoot in only her underwear while a size 2 woman shyly talked about how she was fat and didn't like her body.
One of these women is not more beautiful than the other. What matters isn't the way you look, instead it is how you feel about your body.
If you were to decide today that you wanted to change what your body looks like that process could take months or even years. Do you really want to hate your body until you get to that goal? Of course not! We have to look at ourselves in that mirror and embrace what we see each and every day.
We have one body – it's the vessel through which we live all of life's journeys. We should be nice to it, respect it and love it.
I decided to do this campaign because I knew other women were struggling with accepting and embracing their own bodies. So I thought, "Let's show women what real bodies look like." Each photo tells its own story of loving and embracing our bodies.
A Note from the Photographer
Everywhere we look we are bombarded with images of beauty. There are skinny, beautiful people on television, in magazines and on billboards selling us products as well as the notion that if we want to be beautiful and successful we need to look like them. The problem with these images is that the models themselves don't even look like the ads they are appearing in.
As a photographer, I am keenly aware that what they are promoting is a manufactured reality thanks to computers and heavy, digital retouching. Flaws are removed, fat is trimmed, skin is smoothed and everyone looks as if the only thing they eat is lettuce and water. Everyone wants to look like these people who don't actually look like that either. All this does is add to the self-doubt and hate we have for ourselves.
I know all of this because that very same voice has lived in my head for years.
As women we look at the images thrust at us daily and begin to let ourselves feel inferior. What we fail to realize though is that beauty is not determined just by how we look on the outside but also by whom we are on the inside.
We all have flaws. Learning to embrace those flaws and to realize they only add to your beauty can be a challenge. But once you do, others will be inspired by your confidence and beauty.
When I heard about Project Reveal, I knew right away that I wanted to be a part of it. The Embrace Your Body campaign is a movement that helps women recognize their beauty no matter what size or shape they are. I wanted to be a part of something that helps inspire other women to silence the negative voice in their heads and instead replace it with a positive message.
Photographing more than 40 women for this project was an incredible, inspiring and humbling experience. In many instances, the women you would have expected to be more comfortable in their skin because they are smaller or more fit were more self-conscious than the women who had a larger or fuller figure. And many of the women wore their marks of motherhood proudly. And though they may not 100 percent love their bodies in their current form, each of them was content with their shape and size because they made and carried their children in that body.
The photographs in this project haven't been retouched, only color corrected. No lines, wrinkles or blemishes have been removed. We wanted young girls and women to see that no matter what size or shape they are, they are beautiful just as they are.
Girls Embrace Your Body
When Team Project Reveal started planning their upcoming Embrace Your Body event, editor Abbey Doyle felt it was critical to have something specifically for girls. While the fundraising aspect and awareness for the adult event was important, we really wanted to plant the seed of accepting and embracing your body early on. Our goal is to promote a positive body image and more self-confidence for our area girls so they can become women who embrace and love their bodies.
We need to start those conversations early. The journey to embracing your body shouldn't start at 20, 30 or 40. We need to teach our children from the very beginning how important it is to be nice to themselves and their bodies.
Project Reveal hosted nearly 100 girls for a two hour event filled with positive self image activities facilitated by HerSpace Inc., and guest speaker Dr. Danica Wilking, an OBGYN.
Editor Abbey Doyle reflecting on embracing her body and the importance of the Girls event:
"When we started planning the Embrace Your Body event I was a little hesitant about it because I'm not there yet; I hadn't completely bought in yet. I've struggled with loving and accepting my body for a lot of reasons and for a long time. When I was younger, my biggest issue was my weight — I hated the way I looked. How could I love and accept my body with all that self-loathing going on. So it didn't happen. But as I got out of school and traveled the world I learned to come around and appreciate my body for all the adventures it allowed me to go on.
Out of nowhere though, and at just 24, my body once again let me down (or at least that's how I saw it.) I caught some random tropical virus in Bangladesh that spread to my heart causing some pretty serious issues and necessitating several surgeries, a pacemaker, countless hospitalizations and medical struggles still today nearly 10 years later. So, once again, I'm on that teeter-toter bouncing up and down violently between self-loathing and embracing.
Through this project I was immersed with some amazing women who have really made that leap to truly embrace who they are — wrinkles, dimples, rolls, physical limitations and all and I'm beyond inspired. Inspired so much that I a ready to hop off that teeter-totter and commit to loving and appreciating my body for giving me two amazing sons and a pretty good life so far.
And the push that I needed most of all to get off that crazy up and down ride was to be in an art gallery teeming with little girls. The majority at the event were in the 7 to 11 age range and were so excited about being there, talking about loving themselves and really committing to do it. When I saw little girls standing in the photo booth with chalkboard signs reading, "I love myself" in their childish script and smiling to prove that they really felt that way I was reduced to tears.
That's what this project is all about. So, you know what I've told myself every morning and night since then, "I love myself." Now you do the same!


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NEW YORK — A 17-year-old Long Island youth, who was pulled unconscious from the pool at the Huntington YMCA after holding his breath underwater for too long, has died.
Suffolk police said Thursday that Marc Dawson was swimming in the Y's pool on Feb. 18, when he lost consciousness in the water. He died a week later, on Monday, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
Police said the Queens Medical Examiner's Office concluded that the teen drowned.
Dawson's family had told police he wanted to eventually qualify for the Navy SEALs. The test to become a SEAL includes swimming 500 yards in less than 12 minutes and 30 seconds.
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On July 7, 2016, five police officers were killed and eight police officers were injured in the line of duty in a deliberate attack on the Dallas Police Department, Dallas Area Rapid Transit Police, and El Centro College Police Department. Run For The Blue was founded in response to this attack to support fallen and injured officers and their families.
Funds donated to Run For The Blue events are collected by the National Latino Law Enforcement Organization, a 501(c)(3). NLLEO distributes the proceeds through its Signal 15 Fund.
Donations of services and products to the events are welcomed so that contributions to the affected officers and families can be maximized.