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Over the past few years I've transitioned to making more homemade DIY Christmas gifts. A good blogger would have documented all of these gifts with photos. However, I didn't, so we'll leave that up to you to consider although I've done my best to remember the gifts as there have been many over the years. However, for a few of the gifts I did actually document the process and photos. I am sharing those DIY Christmas gifts today in a roundup post.
DIY Christmas gifts are a wonderful way to show your loved ones you care. Not only are homemade gifts usually sustainable they can also save you money and bring the joy back into Christmas. Also, if you are someone who already enjoys crafting – DIY Christmas gifts offer a wonderful excuse to spend even more time on your hobby.
DIY Christmas Gifts
DIY Christmas Gifts I've Made
I have gifted: local wine with a homemade "wine" tag, DIY soup kits, DIY ranch dressing/dip kits, tins of fruit cake and a homemade beach glass ornament. Homemade gifts are personal, budget-friendly and with the right recipient in mind – very much appreciated.
In addition to homemade gifts I have also made handmade Christmas cards. Keep in mind when making homemade gifts that while they will likely save you money, they also require advanced planning and preparation.
Many of the gift ideas in this post can still be made a few weeks before Christmas. However, usually when I make homemade gifts I try to plan before Halloween what I'm making, how many gifts, how long they will take to make, the supplies needed and the cost of supplies.
This helps give me peace of mind when planning for a homemade Christmas. If you haven't planned this far ahead it's OK but I would offer up those suggestions for next year.
Again, when planning also don't forget to plan how you will package and wrap the gifts as well. When purchasing supplies you can also try to take advantage of seasonal sales such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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• 8 Easy Ways to Instantly Get Cash for Clothes
• The Best Shopping Apps for Saving Money
• Save Money on Meat
DIY Christmas Gifts
Today I'm offering a few more ideas from my blog archives. If you are in a pinch for ideas or want to avoid the mall, try a DIY project! Keep in mind that creative packaging and presentation are also an important part of any homemade gift. I often add homemade tags to my finished gifts too.
Beauty Gifts
- Jojoba Face Moisturizer: Mix up this easy to make moisturizer, store it in a decorative container and gift it to a friend. A cute label, a ribbon or special packaging can really make this gift pop. Don't forget to include directions on how to use the homemade face oil.
- Homemade Face Scrub: Winter is rough on skin, especially the delicate skin on the face. Make this homemade face scrub and gift it to friends. The small Ball Canning jam jars are a great container for this face scrub.
- Homemade Night Cream: Another recipe that's perfect for winter is this homemade night. It only requires a few ingredients and a little bit of the cream goes a long way. It's one of the perfect DIY Christmas gifts for girlfriends or female family members!
- Homemade Mineral Veil: Do you have a friend who loves makeup? Make her this homemade mineral veil face powder. It works great to top off a look or can be used alone as a light makeup, or to simply absorb oil on the face.
Pet Gifts
- Homemade Doggy Sweater: If a friend or family member has a pet, consider making their dog a homemade sweater. I made one out of a children's sweater a few years ago. It took minimal sewing and it was a nice way to up-cycle a clothing item.
Household Gifts
- DIY Adirondack Chairs: Do you know someone who loves Cape Cod Style? Or someone who has a large front porch waiting for the perfect set of furniture. These easy to make Adirondack chairs are the perfect gift. The kit is available from Ace Hardware. It's easy to assemble and you can paint or stain the chairs whatever color you like. Once finished, the chairs fold up for easy storage and transport.
Edible Gifts
- Homemade Date Bars: These date bars keep for several weeks. They are a homemade "LARABAR," super healthy and can be made in almost any flavor. My tutorial explains how to make the basic date bar. Experiment with lemon, orange, chocolate or peanut butter to create a flavored bar.
- Homemade Canned Goods Such as Jam: Home canning is one of my favorite pastimes and a wonderful gift for loved ones. Jams and jellies are easy to make and can be stored for months. Take advantage of fall fruits and vegetables – such as apples and pumpkins – and can homemade applesauce, apple butter or pumpkin butter.
In Summary
Making a homemade gift shows special attention and care for your loved ones. Whether it's for a family member, friend, coworker or teacher – a homemade gift is a great way to do gift giving this holiday season.
Keep in mind that with any of these gifts, homemade packaging can really make the gift shine. Consider alternative gift wrapping such as brown bags or newspaper. Decorate packages with bows or ribbons. Or make homemade gift tags for an added special touch.
*This post was originally published in 2014 and has been updated and republished for accuracy and comprehensiveness.


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Armada ARW 96 Ski Review and Buying Advice
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|Wood, Carbon, Kevlar, Fiberglass
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|18.5m @ 168cm
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Armada ARW 96 2018 - 2017 Review by A Better Ski
The Armada ARVw is a great ski for those women who want to carve fast turns. It still has the off piste versatility most people want in an all-mountain ski, but is a bit more frontside oriented than the Aramada TSTw. It's still not a carving specialist, but it offers better stability at speed, and more power than the TSTw does. It's slightly smaller in the waist than the TSTw, so it does sacrifice a bit of playfulness, and float in the deeper snow. This is a great ski for those who like carving at speed more than they like soft snow versatility.
Size: 168
Days: 1
Conditions: Soft Chop (5"), Groomers, Hard Pack, Bumps
Bindings: Tyrolia AAAttack 13
Ski Personality: All-mountain ski with stability
On the Snow Feel: The Armada ARVw feels quite stable, while still offering a bit of playfulness in the softer snow. It's not quite as playful as the TSTw, but is much more stable, especially at speed.
Powder: The Armada ARVw doesn't do as well in the deeper snow as the Armada TSTw or certainly the Armada womens VJJ, but with a good amount of rocker in the tip and a 97mm waist, it was capable of taking on deeper snow without feeling too out of place.
Turn Initiation and Carving: The Armada ARVw lacks the same 5 point sidecut of the TSTw, and is slightly more challenging to get on edge. Still, the ski is softer in the tip than the TSTw, and with a good amount of rocker in the tip, AR50 construction (cap on the ends), and light-weight wood, carbon, and Kevlar core, the ski was quite easy to maneuver. Get the ski on edge at it's quite responsive. The carbon and Kevlar stringers in the tail help to increase the snappiness and power out of the turn, and edge to edge transitions were quite lively and fun. The ski has a moderate 18.5m turn radius, but it was easy to break free and vary turn shapes. It was quite fun in both short and medium radius turns, and it was light enough that we never felt too fatigued.
Speed: The Armada ARVw is much better at speed than the Armada TSTw. It still has a light-weight wood core, but with the added strength of the carbon, Kevlar, and fiberglass matrix. The overall longitudinal flex is actually a bit softer than the TSTw, but the tip is lighter and a bit stronger, really helping to reduce any negative vibrations. Overall the ski felt quite stable, even at top end speed.
Uneven Terrain: The ARVw also outshines the TSTw in crud performance. I wouldn't call the ARVw a crud buster, but it does a decent job of absorbing the variable terrain. We're not sure if it's the softer, more forgiving flex, or the carbon and Kevlar layup, but the ARVw offers quite a bit more stability than the TSTw.
Moguls: The Armada ARVw is quick, and maneuverable with a softer forgiving flex. We had a lot of fun in the moguls, but it does take a bit of work to swing the ski around.
Edge Hold: The fiberglass laminate matrix helps to increase torsional rigidity and edge hold of the Armada ARVw, but it wasn't much better than the TSTw in this area. We felt good on anything from soft to moderately firm, but really firm snow was a bit more of a challenge.
Flex: The ski has a medium/soft flexing tip, and medium flex in the waist and tail. The Fiberglass matrix does provide a stiffer torsional flex for better edge grip and power through turns, but the ski is still quite playful and poppy.
Bottom line, the Armada ARVw is a great ski for those women who like to ride a little faster and want a bit more snap and liveliness on the groomers. It responds well without being too powerful. We really enjoying riding fast medium radius turns, on the soft groomers, but the ski definitely has the ability to be playful in the softer snow. It does a decent job in the crud, and chop but isn't quite as stable as wider, heavier, or burlier skis. The Armada TSTw offers a bit better float, but the ARVw is much better carving at speed.
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Julien from expat-blogs.com asked me if I she could make an interview with me because I had been chosen as the blog of the month for her site
Expat Blogs is a site that lists blogs from expatriates in different countries. Go check out the site and the blogs that are listed there. You will find a lot of interesting stories.
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"A wild wolf in genetically little more distant from the domesticated dog than a wild mustang is to a quarter horse"
–> That is to say that just because our dogs are domesticated does not mean that we should feed them food so drastically different from what they would eat in the wild. Raw meat diet (or a raw meat/kibble/etc. combination diet) can help to bridge the gap between domestication and a wild dog diet.
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Freeze dried raw foods are an easy way to feed raw.
Raw Food Diet can be EASY – it does not have to be scary and difficult. This diet is not for every dog, but even a little raw meat/raw veggies can be GREAT for your dog or cat. Sometimes all they need is a variety and some change in their diet. Keep these facts in mind – pick and choose what works best for you and your dog. Trade some kibble here and there for a small slab of chicken.
If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask!
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Life Lessons With Our Horses
Other owners look to find those horses that are the best athletes, show performers, jumpers, ropers, or have the most "Rolex" stamina. Some are working partners, set to do a daily job on the ranch or farm. Other horses do their job by carrying less fortunate people that feel the joy of riding a horse at a handicapped-riding facility. As I have only mentioned a few relationships, it is clear that our horses fill a diverse field of needs. I have yet to mention one that still remains: the passionate, loving relationship between horse and owner, one that is stronger than other horse and owner relationships. Owning horses lends itself to many obligations; daily feeding and watering, grooming, regular shoeing, vaccines, dentistry, and worming, both financial and animal husbandry responsibilities. Additionally, we know that when we own an animal, we experience the life, and possibly the loss, of that animal. To me, this life lesson is part of the privilege of owning a horse. It's the basis of all of our existence.
This story is about the love our family and granddaughters had with a special pony, Honey.
Two weeks ago our little "Honey"; seemed to not be as ravenous about her handful of grain that complemented her small half leaf of hay for meals. So we kept an eye on her, noticing that she just didn't seem herself. Pawing started, and her appetite diminished within a day. My first thought was colic. But she was not down, rolling or turning her head to her stomach (all signs of the common colic that I have seen). It was time to call our local vet, Dr. Pete Bowen, to see what he thought. The first visit produced uncertainty as to the reason for Honey's behavior. We tried some treatment that helped make Honey more comfortable, leaning more towards colic, but still not able to diagnose the problem. I started thinking about what could have caused this change in her. All of her food was the same, she was in her own turnout - nothing changed there, water was the same, the weather had changed a bit. We had a few cold nights and then back to warm or near hot during the day. I was truly puzzled. All the other horses were fine. As day progressed to night on Saturday, Honey was drastically worsening fast. Now she was lying down, not drinking water or eating food, and she just looked plain sick. I made one more late call to my local veterinarian. I explained our situation and Pete highly suggested a trip to a better facility that could examine Honey more thoroughly. One of our choices was Michigan State University, and I felt it was our best choice considering Honey's state.
As fate would have it, our truck and trailer were in another location being readied to go to one of our largest horse shows, Quarter Horse Congress. I told Pete my dilemma. About half an hour later, my vet, his wife, and two little daughters arrived at our barn. Jane, his wife, pulled in with their truck and horse trailer. Pete followed, and their two little girls tiptoed into my barn quietly. By this time, I had called our daughter and son-in-law, Kristen and Paul. Kristen was coming over; this was their little girls' pony. We all worked fast. My vet from Whitehouse had called Michigan University telling them we were on our way. Kristen, Pete, Jane and I loaded Honey in the straw covered trailer; we got directions and away we went. I cannot see well at night, Kristen had never driven a horse trailer before, but Kristen drove. I gently guided and supported her.
Our drive was a long one.
We left at 11:00 p.m. Saturday night. We headed north to Lansing, MI, Kristen, Honey and I. By 1:30 a.m. we were pulling onto the Michigan State campus. As we drove further, we realized we were definitely in college territory. There had been a football game, and as we drove closer to the horse clinic, the remains of the game guided us. The street was lined with cups, paper, bottles, and turned waste containers. Kristen and I both looked at each other and smiled. You could feel the enthusiasm of the college students. It broke the ache in our hearts for a few short minutes. We pulled up to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, and we were immediately greeted and told to bring Honey into the building. A team of six medics waited just inside the clinic. We walked little Honey into a treatment room, and this wonderful team immediately went to work to get vitals, blood and tests. The veterinarian who had been asking his team for tests was finally at a place where he could talk to us. Dr. Brown was extremely knowledgeable, and to the point. He and his team worked harder than any other medical group I have ever witnessed. I felt grateful, and relieved; we could be in no better place than this for Honey's sake. Dr. Brown explained that our little pony was extremely sick. She could have one of three or four problems. He felt that she had colitis, assuring me that there was nothing that we could have done to prevent her illness.
As you may well know, we had only two choices for Honey.
We chose to have Dr. Brown and his team try their best to heal her. By 4:00 a.m., Honey had had all the medicine and treatment that could be given. If she could make it through the colitis, we may then have to fight founder. Dr. Brown would watch Honey through the early morning, and give us a call with her condition. We were all a bit optimistic, so Kristen and I headed home with an empty trailer. I felt good knowing our Honey was at the university. Everyone who was there that night was kind and truly professional. Kristen and I were awed by the care and efficiency of these wonderful people. I am still awed, and never will forget the efforts of the medical team. I am truly grateful to those people. The facility is amazing; tests were taken and back within a matter of minutes. The medical staff was highly trained and worked together so efficiently. Dr. Brown explained everything to us, and answered any and all of our questions.
My husband received the call from Dr. Brown at 9:00 a.m.
Honey did not make it. We all were taken by what happened; fully knowing that with horses, losses can happen. But, Honey had put us all into that category of owners who build a relationship with their horses based on love and affection. I will miss our special pony, but will never forget her. I feel privileged to have had such a sweet animal, loved by our whole family. I am so grateful and thankful for the wonderful, selfless people that gave and helped us when we were really in need of friends. I have always known that there is a special bond amongst "horse people", of which I am truly grateful.
If your horse shows signs of illness, be sure to contact your veterinarian
Veterinarians are the experts that can advise you and care the best for your horses when they are sick. Don't wait if you feel that there is something wrong. Chances are, most problems can be taken care of easily and quickly if you get immediate help. If your horse needs further help, your vet can give you the names of hospitals that will give you the best and most knowledgeable care. When children are around these circumstances, parents and family members can guide them through the questions and hardships of the loss of an "equine friend". Our granddaughters were sad, but they understood what happened to Honey. We lovingly answered all of their questions and then went to the barn to see the other horses and clean stalls. I would like to dedicate this story to all of the equine practitioners that dedicate themselves to helping others. My family appreciates all the late, after hours, hard work that our equine practitioners do for us. What a wonderful time we live in that we have the resources to get the help we need!
Many thanks to Dr. Pete Bowen, D.V.M. and Jane of Bryan, OH, Dr. Roger Spiess, D.V.M. of Whitehouse, OH, and Dr. Brown, D.V.M. and the medical staff of Michigan State University.
Debbie has over 45 years experience with horses and equine-related businesses. She has owned, trained, boarded horses and run stables at various times in her career. She is a certified fence installer, has given balanced riding lessons, and has shown horses in Western, Western Pleasure, Trail, English, Hunter/Jumper, Fox Hunting, Hunter Trials, Dressage and driving classes. Debbie has been involved in foaling, and just about every aspect of horse ownership possible, and she welcomes your questions and comments. If you are interested in using any articles by Debbie, please send her an email.
RAMM Fence Systems, Inc. makes every effort to provide reliable and useful information on horse health, care and products. The statements made on this website are based on years of experience with horses, however, they are based on generalized situations and should not replace diagnosis or treatment by a veterinarian or consultation by a professional. RAMM Fence Systems, Inc. does not assume any legal responsibility. Readers should always consult qualified health care providers for specific diagnosis and treatment.


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Diane Botwin, Managing Partner
Diane founded Botwin Commercial Development in 1986 with her parents as a property management company. Thirty years later, it has expanded its services to include development and leasing and still operates as a family business. Diane's focus is to provide neighborhood-sensitive commercial development. She is dedicated to sustainable, environmentally friendly design, often incorporating native prairie grasses, lots of natural light and planted roofs into her properties. She enjoys working with small businesses and entrepreneurs, mentoring them and providing additional resources whenever possible.
In the community, Diane is a strong supporter of the arts. Specifically, she supports the Kansas City arts community by providing her space when available pro-bono for art shows. She also commissions local artists like Jim Woodfill, Marcie Miller Gross and Anne Lindberg to incorporate their visions into buildings and is a docent at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Diane has served on many charity boards and volunteered at organizations that include reStart, The Arts Council of Johnson County, Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City, Pembroke Hill School, Jewish Vocational Service of Kansas City, Crossroads Community Association and Synergy Services.
Diane holds a BFA in music from Newcomb College at Tulane University and a law degree from the University Of Missouri Kansas City School of Law.
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David Alpert, Partner/Property Manager/Administrator
After completing his undergraduate studies at Occidental College with a degree in economics, David accepted his mom's offer to become a partner in the company. David officially joined Botwin Commercial Development in the summer of 2011. Unofficially, he has worked at Botwin his entire life. A large portion of his childhood consisted of watching his mom develop a portfolio of properties into a thriving, sustainable business. He had the opportunity to meet artists, architects, contractors and small business owners.
Today, David assists in all aspects of the business including property management, lease negotiations, marketing, business development and accounting.
David also has an affinity for the arts and is currently attending the Kansas City Art Institute to obtain a certificate in graphic design. In addition, he is a board member on The Arts Council of Johnson County and the Johnson County Public Arts Commission, and has recently started volunteering with the Arts in Prison program.
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From a very young age, Solomon remembers spending time with his mother at the Botwin Commercial Development office. He finds joy in being able to watch the business grow and as the business has continued to acquire properties and complete development projects. He enjoys and appreciates the opportunity to work closely with his mother andbrother, David. In his current role, Solomon assists with tenant property management and lease negotiations.
Solomon graduated from the College of William and Mary with a bachelor's degree in American Studies as well as Chinese Language and Culture.
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Odette, Resident Office Cat
Odette was adopted into the Botwin family in October 2015. She is a tabby cat that you can often find admiring the artwork in its home office. Her office duties include making people smile, welcoming guests with a meow and discovering new places to hide in the office. MEOW!


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Join North Carolina Symphony musician Rachel Niketopoulos in a reading of a children's book, followed by an interactive demonstration of the instruments of the orchestra! Learn how brass instruments make their sounds and hear examples of classical and popular music composed for single instruments and the full orchestra. After the demonstration, everyone in the audience will have the opportunity to try their favorite instrument in the instrument zoo! This Music Discovery program is sponsored by PNC's Grow Up Great initiative, promoting literacy and arts education for preschoolers and their families.
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Laurel resident Lisa Willis is looking forward to wearing a royal blue and lime green ribbon to brighten the spring landscape during the Limb Loss 5K Community Walk/Roll at Granville Gude Park on Saturday.
Organized by the newly formed Amputee Recreational Support Group of Laurel in recognition of April as Limb Loss Awareness Month, the event is designed to inspire members of the local amputee community to come out and "show their mettle," to educate the Laurel community about limb loss/difference and to raise funds for the national Amputee Coalition.
Mary Beth Gibson, chief marketing and communications officer of the national organization, said, "We are delighted."
Headquartered in Manassas, Va., the national Amputee Coalition is a civilian nonprofit organization that connects patients who've lost limbs, or those who have diseases that put them at risk for amputation, with health services, advocacy and preventative education.
The Amputee Recreational Support Group of Laurel became one of 260 support groups when it registered with the national Amputee Coalition in January. As the group's leader, Willis is working to get the word out as she avidly advocates for amputees at the local level.
"Our goal is to help our Laurel amputees find and access wellness services within our own communities, and to inspire and be inspired to empower all people to live their lives fully," Willis said. "Amputees are part of this community. It's important for our community to know that we are not defined by our amputations."
Willis lost her right leg below the knee to amputation 18 months ago. Passionate about improving the lives of other amputees, Willis spoke at Howard University's School of Physical Therapy last year to talk about the amputee patient's perspective, and has made visits, as a peer visitor trained and certified by the Amputee Coalition, to George Washington Hospital.
Sue Stout, interim president and CEO of the Amputee Coalition, said the coaliton's goal "is to ensure that every U.S. citizen who undergoes an amputation is offered a peer visit."
Stout supervises the Certified Peer Visitor Program and said that peer visitor candidates must have experienced a limb loss and completed the grieving process and their own recoveries.
They are carefully monitored to protect their health and trained to understand the "edges" of their abilities as counselors. Certified peer visitors are not health care providers and cannot give health care advice, but they can connect patients to available resources and share the recovery journey to a thriving and fulfilled life.
Laurel's group
When Willis met with two other peer visitors from Maryland at the Amputee Coalition National Conference in Orlando last June, they started the support group in Laurel because it is located midway between Baltimore and Washington.
She said the Laurel support group became an extension of the Amputee Recreational Support Group of Central Ohio, coordinated by Navy veteran Robert Hass, and that Hass has been a "great resource."
Hass, who lost his lower left leg after being severely injured July 3, 2012 while serving in the Indian Ocean, ran a 5K race in April last year.
Reaching out to new amputees at local hospitals and physical therapy facilities as well as building relationships within the Laurel business community have been priority items on the Laurel support group's agenda. The group meets in Old Town at the Double Dipper Ice Cream Parlor and Cafe on Montgomery Street.
Last week Willis visited Laurel Board of Trade administrator Maureen Rogers to discuss participating in the May 10 Laurel Main Street Festival. She has invited local chiropractors, acupuncturists and nutritionists to explore the possibility of partnering with the Amputee Recreational Support Group of Laurel to coordinate wellness services.
According to Willis, Laurel amputees have relied mostly on social media for support in the past. She said she especially wants amputees in the community to never feel alone.
"We always want to be a listening ear," she said.
Awareness month
In 2011, the Amputee Coalition began requesting annual proclamations recognizing April as Limb Loss Awareness Month from state governors across the country; it has received 42 gubernatorial proclamations and a letter from President Barack Obama since.
Amputee Coalition statistics point to diabetes and vascular disease as the cause for 54 percent of amputations, with injury as the second largest cause (45 percent), and cancer causing less than 2 percent of amputations.
The Center for Disease control estimates that 33 percent of Americans will have diabetes by 2050.
According to information from the coalition, nearly half the patients who undergo amputations due to vascular disease may not live more than five years; over half who lose a leg are likely to lose the other within two to three years; and smokers are 25 times more likely to undergo re-amputation than nonsmokers.
Medicaid and Medicare pay for 60 percent of the 185,000 amputations performed annually in the U.S.; in 2009, hospital-associated costs exceeded $8 billion.
For Limb Loss Awareness Month 2014, the coalition asked supporters to organize or participate in awareness walks all over the country, providing startup materials at amputee-coalition.org. The coalition has also suggested amputees wear their prostheses in public and post photos on their Facebook pages on April 26.
"Support groups are an essential part of our organization," said Stout. "They are on the front lines of providing peer support to amputees and their families. We commend the amputee recreational support groups for showing their mettle by participating in walk/rolls."
Planning for the Limb Loss 5k Community Walk/Roll started about two months ago. Sponsors of the April 19 event include Laurel Main Street Pharmacy, Freedom Medical, One Umbrella, Adventist Rehabilitation Center, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Hanger Prosthetic and the MultiService Center of North Laurel.
The graphic shop Peak Performance is providing T-shirts; and Patty Figula from Some Assembly Needed, a support group from Middleburg, Ohio, made the blue and greens ribbons.
Gov. Martin O'Malley first proclaimed April to be Limb Loss Awareness Month in the state in 2011, but Saturday's Limb Loss 5K Community Walk/Roll at Laurel Lakes will be the first Laurel event recognizing limb loss awareness. "We are so excited," Willis said.
If you go
The Limb Loss 5K Community Walk/Roll is Saturday, April 19 at Granville Gude Park, 8300 Mulberry St. On site registration begins at 8 a.m. at the Laurel Lakes boathouse, and the walk/roll begins at 10 a.m.
Registration is free, although a $25 donation is requested.
To preregister or make a donation, go to crowdrise.com/limbloss/fundraiser/ARSG.
The event, which benefits the national Amputee Coalition, includes a 50/50 drawing and restaurant gift certificate raffle.
To volunteer with the Amputee Recreational Support Group of Laurel, contact Lisa Willis at 240-713-1714 or email@example.com.


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Artist: The Touchies
Song: "Ur Friendz Suck"
Heard by: Jimmy Wigdahl, San Diego
It's your average punk song. It has three chords. It's something that you listen to that's fast and makes you want to run around in a mosh pit. Metal is more my preference, but I play guitar and I've had some punk influences. This seems a little more mainstream than a lot of older punk — more [influenced by] American punk than British punk. The lyrics were about partying — stuff that's pretty punk. It's short and sweet, how punk songs should be. I could see it being played on the radio, like, 94.9. I'd probably give that song a 7 out of 10.
Artist: The Odd Get Even
Song: "Kinetics"
Heard by: Jerry Guern, University Heights
I couldn't really get into it. It's not something that you just sit and enjoy listening to. It was almost like music for the credits of a TV show. It's sort of like jazz or pop, but they overuse the electronics. They rely too heavily on them. It seemed like they were letting the electronics do their work for them. It was played well, but it didn't seem like a very difficult piece to play because it was so repetitive. It seemed like they put a lot more work into figuring out what sound they wanted the keyboard to make than composing a complex piece of music. It's all instrumental. I'd give it an average 5 out of 10. It didn't really move me either way.
Artist: Lil' Pizzas
Song: "Neverending Pizza Journey"
Heard by: Cory Davis, North Park
It was reminiscent of what is typical for sitcoms or the theme music of a television show. Acoustic music is good for that, it seems like nowadays. Very airy. It has a contemporary component, given the humorous sample about pizza at the end of the song. It's a love song. It seemed like it would be the theme song for the band, given that they're called the Lil' Pizzas — unless they have pizza references in all their songs. It's hard to say who I'd compare them to. It reminds me of the theme song to The Wonder Years. There's some clear differences, but I kind of relate the two for some reason.
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Dumpsters.com offers dumpster rental and trash collection services to customers in 39 states. We cater to homeowners, contractors, business owners and organizations, providing simple and reliable service for both temporary projects and ongoing waste removal needs.
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Wherever you're located, you can find simple and convenient dumpster rentals from Dumpsters.com. We operate nationwide, serving 39 states with temporary roll off and permanent front load dumpster services. Find one of our rental locations near you.
Roll off dumpsters, or rear load containers, are open bins most commonly used for home remodels, construction, roofing, cleanouts and yard waste removal. Best for one-time projects, these bins have one to two-week rental periods.
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Why automate business decisions?
Repeatable business decisions can be captured and automated to improve your business responsiveness, minimize compliance risks and streamline your operations. A business rules management system adds agility and real-time decision-making to your day-to-day operations. It enables you to keep up with the pace of your business.
Business agility
Extract business logic from application code, and get the flexibility required to quickly respond to new market conditions to improve your responsiveness and agility.
Real-time action
Improve accuracy and speed with systems that can constantly analyze feeds of data and events, enabling you to see the risks and opportunities to make real-time decisions.
Empower business analysts and policy managers to discover, elaborate, evaluate and maintain decision logic on their own, without having to depend on IT, through a collaborative and intuitive no-code interface.
Software editions of IBM Operational Decision Manager
IBM Operational Decision Manager
IBM Operational Decision Manager is an advanced business rules management system that helps you discover, capture, automate and govern frequent, repeatable business decisions. It also adds real-time decision making to your day-to-day operations. IBM Operational Decision Manager can authorize a loan, decide on a promotion or detect a cross-sell opportunity with high precision and customization — in seconds. It helps ensure your applications remain current and well aligned with your organization's changing business objectives.
IBM Operational Decision Manager on Cloud
Discover, capture, automate, manage and audit repeatable business decisions from this hosted and fully managed operational decision management (ODM) solution.
The software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering of the IBM suite of ODM solutions, IBM Operational Decision Manager on Cloud provides all the business rule management functionality of the IBM on-premises offering, IBM Operational Decision Manager.
Multiple environments are incorporated into the solution. You can customize the instance to match your staging process — with additional execution environments such as a user acceptance test environment or a pre-production environment. The cloud offering is packaged in a monthly subscription so you choose the ready-to-use solution that suits your needs. This model lets you get your decision management project up to speed and into production as fast as possible, with a minimum initial investment in capital, hardware and operational skills.
IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS
IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS® extends the capabilities of the standard edition and offers full transactional and batch-decision automation across the enterprise.
Fully compatible with the rule management capabilities of the IBM family of ODM offerings, this solution also provides lifecycle support for business decisions invoked from COBOL, PL/I and Java applications executing in IBM CICS®, IBM IMS and batch environments. Capabilities are included for decision testing and simulation within either the rule execution server (RES) in IBM WebSphere® Application Server for z/OS or the zRule Execution Server (zRES) for z/OS environments. Also included is the ability to trace how a business decision is made in the zRule Execution Server using the decision warehouse feature.
Whether you're a business user, a developer or an IT specialist, you can try IBM Operational Decision Manager now.
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A price and package for nearly every budget
IBM Operational Decision Manager is available in many budget-friendly options. Take advantage of attractive offerings, such as flexible monthly subscriptions or express editions.
Extend the value of business-decision automation
The true power of automation is in connecting your business rules with other tasks, processes and workflows within your organization. As a comprehensive, integrated platform for achieving your digital business automation objectives, this IBM digital business automation platform can help your organization unlock its fullest potential.
Make bots smarter with agile decisions
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Combining robotic process automation (RPA) and decision automation helps your RPA bots more effectively handle tasks where business rules change frequently, such as those involving eligibility, compliance, pricing and tax decisions.
Simplify business application changes
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Decouple business rules from business process applications, enabling business rules to be changed daily or weekly, without having to redeploy the entire application.
Automate business decisions with an automation platform
Automate business operations at speed and scale with an integrated automation platform designed for business users. Learn more about the IBM Automation Platform for Digital Business
Apply AI to your operational apps to intelligently automate work
Using IBM Business Automation Intelligence with Watson™, a learning system designed for business managers, you can move beyond single AI experiments to systematically apply AI to business operations, including business rules.
Capture, visualize and act on operational data
IBM Business Automation Insights lets you capture all events generated by the platform's operational systems, including IBM Operational Decision Manager. Aggregate them into business-relevant KPIs, and preset a meaningful, real-time view of business operations.
Choose your deployment option
You can deploy and run the automation platform in your cloud, the IBM Cloud™, on-premises or any combination of the three.
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Use cases
Helping reduce risk and ensure compliance
Banking and insurance organizations must comply with ever-changing regulations and substantiate their operations for compliance audits. Non-compliance can not only result in fines but also erode customer trust. Additionally, it can be difficult to identify where compliance updates must be performed within applications. And there's the risk of misinterpreting new regulations in manual operations.
Increased automation of business decisions helps limit interpretation risk, and with IBM Operational Decision Manager you can automate more decisions and log them for precise documentation and audit trails.
See how The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. simplified its compliance-reporting process using IBM Operational Decision Manager.
Proactively countering fraud
Perpetrators of fraud are continuously adapting their strategies to avoid new fraud detection patterns. You need intelligent systems that can analyze historical banking transactions in order to distinguish suspicious actions from legitimate ones. IBM Operational Decision Manager can detect and react to threats and vulnerabilities, quickly responding to changing business conditions. This speed and flexibility helps your fraud detection systems adapt almost as fast as new threats appear by assembling historical actions and analytical models that provide decision contexts and identify fraudulent transactions.
See how to use IBM Operational Decision Manager to counter fraud proactively.
Optimizing pricing and packaging
Businesses face numerous obstacles to dynamic pricing and personalized packaging, particularly managing these activities at scale. The barriers could range from the inability to access customer data and preferences, the inability to accurately detect prices based on market conditions and profitability, or even the inability to roll out price and packaging changes quickly.
IBM Operational Decision Manager allows your company to tailor products and prices to an individual's spending inclination, using rich information within the customer database.
See how Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. delivered more personalized services using automated business rules.
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Operational Decision Management For Dummies
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This webcast is especially useful for business leaders who have already implemented an RPA solution — or are in the process of doing so — and need to better understand the relationship between RPA and business rules.
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We noticed a problem with power sequencing on our board: if the negative rail was turned on first the positive rail would get pulled to -0.7V and latch there, even after the batteries were connected. We installed LEDs on both rails so that we could make sure they were both working properly, but we are worried we may have damaged the chips. Operation is very intermittent. All of the connections ohmed out as connected using a multimeter, and multiple checks of every connection has verified that the board matches the schematics. When testing with the app, the signal levels are usually constant at approximately 80dB. every once in a while the level will drop slightly and the ~21kHz tone will appear momentarily before disappearing again. We tried probing with the scope, but got inconclusive behavior. Most of the time the output would have the appropriate spectral content, but at very low amplitudes (output was in the mV). Occasionally the antenna amplifier would start oscillating and outputting a ~140kHz -12V to 12V square wave. Any ideas? At this point we have "detected" the signal once for about 3 minutes on Thursday, but have had no luck since.
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Best-selling author and salt expert Mark Bitterman provides 70 recipes for grilling, chilling, searing, and serving on Himalayan salt blocks.
The book begins with an introduction to salt blocks and includes "Read before heating!" tips, a guide on heating, and sections on cleaning and storing your salt block. The remainder of the book provides a wide range of recipes from appetizers to salads and steak to dessert. The new and innovative recipes for salt block cooking will be a sure-fire hit and a great addition to any "foodie" kitchen.


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Henry McMaster (born May 27, 1947, in Columbia, South Carolina) is South Carolina's Republican attorney general, having been first elected on November 5, 2002. He is a GOP candidate for the South Carolina gubernatorial election, 2010.
McMaster received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of South Carolina in 1969. As an undergraduate, he was a member of Kappa Alpha Order South Carolina Student Legislature. After graduation, he served in the United States Army Reserves, receiving his honorable discharge in 1975. In 1973, he graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law where he served on the Editorial Board of the South Carolina Law Review. Later that year, he was admitted to the South Carolina Bar, the Richland County Bar Association. In 1974, he completed the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
Upon graduation from law school, McMaster worked as a Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond in Washington, D.C. until 1974, when he joined the firm of Tompkins and McMaster. He was admitted to practice before the federal Court of Claims in 1974, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1975 and in 1978, upon motion of Senator Thurmond, the Supreme Court of the United States.


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Our Food and Nutrition Program is the backbone of the Center.
How to use our food services:
Come to the Center during our open hours. All food and clothing services are free and available every day, to anyone who comes to the Center. Only pantry visits are limited to once per month and to individuals from specific towns. To find out what to expect when you come to the Center, see our "frequently asked questions."
How to volunteer for these services? click here.
How to make a financial donation to these services? click here.
Please click on the service below to find out about the program and its schedule.
- Our Community Meals: Breakfast bar M/T/TH/F 11am-12pm; Lunch M/T/TH/F 12pm-1pm; Dinner THURS 5pm-6pm
- Fresh Produce & Baked Goods: M/T/F 11am-12pm, 12:30-3pm; THURS 11am-12pm, 12:30pm-7pm
- Food Pantry (for residents of 13 towns), monthly groceries: M/T/F 11am-2:45pm, THURS 11am-6:45pm, 3rd Saturday of the month 9:30am-11:30am
- Senior Mobile Nutrition Program: 3rd Wed of the month
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Bleeding During Pregnancy
Common reasons for bleeding while pregnant
Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy can be caused by many different things, some of which are serious and just cause to seek medical attention, others of which are nothing to worry about. Bleeding in early pregnancy is quite common, and while it might be scary at the time, rest assured that most women who experience spotting during pregnancy go on to deliver happy, healthy babies.
Regardless of whether or not you know the cause of your spotting, you should take the symptom seriously and have it checked out by a doctor. He or she will perform a pelvic examination and ask you questions about the nature of the bleeding, such as how much blood you passed and whether or not it was accompanied by pain.
Possible Causes of Bleeding During Pregnancy
The causes of bleeding while pregnant differ in the first half and the second half of your pregnancy. Complications that may cause spotting during early pregnancy, up to halfway through the second trimester, include ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy or miscarriage. However, it is more common for any spotting this early to be due to normal adjustments in your body, such as implantation bleeding (which occurs within two weeks of getting pregnant, as the fertilized egg lodges itself in your womb). Changes to your cervix as your pelvis expands can also cause bleeding, and many women experience light bleeding after sex while pregnant, since the cervix is more delicate. In other cases, no cause can be found for the bleeding.
In the second half of your pregnancy, bleeding is less common and more likely to indicate a serious problem. Complications that may cause bleeding include an abruption of your placenta, placenta previa, premature labor, or your cervix opening earlier than it's supposed to. In late pregnancy, heavy vaginal bleeding is typically caused by some type of abnormality or issue with your placenta, which you will have to have checked out right away.
When to Call Your Doctor
During the first trimester of pregnancy, you should call your doctor if bleeding lasts for 24 hours or longer, or is accompanied by symptoms such as chills, fever, cramps or stomach pain. If your bleeding is light and ceases within one day, tell your doctor about it during your next regularly scheduled appointment.
In the second trimester, you should call your doctor if your spotting lasts more than a few hours, is accompanied by contractions, or occurs alongside chills, nausea, cramps or fever.
During the final trimester of pregnancy, it is recommended that you call your doctor at once if you have any bleeding that happens prior to your 37th week of pregnancy. After the 37th week, it is normal to have some spotting, as this is a sign that the pregnancy is nearing its end, but any heavy bleeding is cause for concern and should be treated right away.
It's not easy to know when to worry, so if you're ever concerned about spotting or bleeding that seems heavy or continual, call your doctor to be safe.


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Pacific Youth and Sports Conference
1 - 8 December 2013
The Aoteaora Youth Leadership Institute is coordinating the New Zealand delegation to the second Pacific Youth and Sports Conference. Held in Noumea, New Caledonia, the conference will empower 1000 youth from across the Pacific to use sport as a tool to promote active citizenship and develop their communities.
This year, the conference will focus on three key themes: health, education and capacity building, and social inclusion.
The New Zealand delegates will be working with our delegation partners Aotearoa Football Charitable Trust, P3 Foundation and UN Youth New Zealand to create three changemaking projects using their new skills when they return home.
The PYASC will be held under the patronage of the United Nations Office for Sport for Development and Peace, and with the support of the Oceania Football Confederation, the New Caledonian Government and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community.
Read about our Pacific Youth and Sports Conference delegation's experiences in their blog posts!
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Lucy and Dallas got married this year, and together they are looking forward to co-leading the New Zealand delegation and helping to shape a dynamic and passionate group of young Kiwi leaders at PYASC.
Lucy Harema has a background in teaching and learning and is currently managing a children's trust in the South/West of Christchurch. Her role includes managing staff of which there are over 70 youth volunteers, sourcing funding, strategic development and facilitating community participation. Lucy enjoys travelling the world and most recently travelled to Uganda, Africa, to work alongside an organisation helping formerly abducted child soldiers.
Dallas Harema has a background in social psychology and currently works within a clinical team in Youth Justice. He has been an ambassador for New Zealand in different forums on the world stage the most recent being the National Leader for the Ship for World Youth programme implemented by the United Nations. Dallas also has a background that includes rehabilitating formerly abducted child soldiers in Africa and lobbying against poverty. Most recently he's started voluntary work with an organisation tackling human trafficking. Dallas is passionate about developing people's potential and walking alongside them as they realise this for themselves, their communities and their nation.


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Corridor8 is a not-for-profit platform for contemporary visual arts and writing in the North of England. We publish reviews, features, interviews and exploratory writing, and are dedicated to producing high quality content that reflects the vibrant art scenes and cultural events taking place across the Northern regions.
The Corridor8 team is also determined to pay writers and editors at professional rates, whenever possible. We are currently working toward a more sustainable model by encouraging organisations to commission writing and partner with us to offer residencies and bursaries. Other ways to support us include advertising.
To hear about opportunities and events as they arise, follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and subscribe to our mailing list. We won't share your details with third parties. For general inquiries, email email@example.com. Please note we are a group of part time volunteers and can only do our best to respond to enquiries in a timely fashion.
In 1968 Michael Butterworth founded the literary magazine, Corridor (read the full backstory by Hannah Nussbaum here). In 2010 he resurrected Corridor as a contemporary arts and writing journal, Corridor8. Since then, it has become a recognised source for reviews, interviews, features and critical debate, covering activities across the Northern 'corridor'. Previous editor/directors include Sophia Crilly, Roger McKinley, Jo McGonigal, Laura Mansfield, Bryony Bond and Lauren Velvick.
Lara Eggleton became Managing Editor in 2016 and launched a critical writing residency programme in partnership with Northern arts organisations, supported by Arts Council England and local funding bodies. This has resulted in a series of paid commissions, print publications (designed with dust) and a fresh new website design (with SB-PH).
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To notify us of an exhibition or event in your area (Northern England only), contact the appropriate regional editor on The Team page. We'll do our best to get one of our writers on it. For longer pieces that require interviews or more substantial travel and/or research, we ask that organisations contribute a fee to cover writers' and editors' time.
You can also advertise your event or opportunity with us. We offer lower rates for start ups and organisations not in receipt of regular funding. As we operate mainly on a volunteer basis, we need your help to pay our writers and editors, and to continue to advocate visual arts activity in the North.
If you are based in the North of England and are interested in joining one of our writing pools, contact the corresponding editor on The Team page. Please note that we are not currently able to pay writers for reviews, but with the help of project funding we are able to offer a limited number of paid features each year. If you have an idea for a piece that explores visual art and related cultural phenomena in the North, please get in touch. We also offer writing residencies; join our mailing list and follow us online to keep abreast of opportunities.
All writers should refer to our guidelines before submitting drafts.
If you are an organisation interested in hosting a Corridor8 writing residency or other co-funded writing opportunity, email Lara Eggleton and Lauren Velvick at firstname.lastname@example.com. The earlier conversations start, the better we can hatch a plan together.


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Welcome to the SA of NC Civil War 150 blog
North Carolina Civil War 150 is a space for collecting all news, events, and observances related to the American Civil War Sesquicentennial commemoration at the State Archives of North Carolina.
The State Archives of North Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial Timeline (PDF) is now available.
Note: all posts and comments on this website are public records.
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Workshop on Digital Preservation Cancelled
[This blog post comes from Debbi Blake of our Public Services Branch.] The Friends of the Archives workshop on digital preservation scheduled for the auditorium of the State Archives building at 9:00 on October 25 is cancelled. We are sorry … Continue reading
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This Day in North Carolina History and Archives Week
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The bipartisan report "National Commission On Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States" has spent an enormous amount of time, energy and financial resources attempting to discover whether there existed systematic intelligence, as well as emergency planning and response inadequacies that contributed to our governments' failure to prevent and better prepare for the catastrophic events of Sept. 11, 2001. With the publication of the "9/11 Commission Report; Final Report of The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States," we now have a comprehensive study which addressed these systematic gaps and short falls and makes recommendations to rectify them. The purpose of this article is to discuss these intelligence and emergency preparedness and response fusion issues in the context of this important study and other relevant material. Are We Safer? The central question the commission seeks to address is, "Who, if anyone, is ultimately responsible for the most significant intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor?" But
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Martin Indyk, the new U.S. peace process envoy, speaking at the Aspen Institute in March 2009. (Photo: The Aspen Institute/Flickr)
Martin Indyk's selection by Secretary of State John Kerry as the Special Envoy for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority summoned memories of an appearance I witnessed at J Street's first annual convention in Washington DC in 2009. I remembered stumbling into a huge auditorium to hear Indyk describe how he made "aliyah to Washington" during the 1980's to ensure that US policy remained slanted in Israel's favor, and go on to blame Yasser Arafat for the failure of Camp David.
I searched out the video of Indyk's J Street appearance and confirmed my memories. In a candid address, speaking without notes, Indyk told his audience how as a young man studying in Jerusalem, he wound up volunteering to assist Israel during the 1973 war. He witnessed Israel pushed to the brink by a coordinated Egyptian-Syrian attack designed to recover the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights occupied by Israel in the 1967 war. Nixon and Kissinger's generous emergency shipment of arms, which enabled Israel to push back the Arab armies, clarified for Indyk the role America should play in the Middle East. It was then that he decided on a career as an inside-the-Beltway operator.
"And that is why I chose to make aliyah to Washington," Indyk half-jokingly declared.
Why Two States? Why Now? – American Perspective from J Street on Vimeo.
Here are excerpts of Indyk's remarks. He began by stating that the only way to guarantee "Israel's security and well-being" was to work for peace:
I came to that conclusion 35 years ago when I was a student in Jerusalem and the Yom Kippur war broke out, I worked as a volunteer there in those terrible days when Israel's survival seemed to hang in the balance and I witnessed the misery of war and the critical role that the United States in the form of Henry Kissinger played through activist diplomacy in forging a peace out of that horrendous war.
It was from that point on — as some of you would know I was an Australian in those days — that I became convinced that the US role in helping Israel to achieve peace was absolutely critical and remains today the sine qua non, without which nothing else in the end will become possible. And that is why I chose to make aliyah to Washington [laughter from crowd], and to work to try to understand and work on us diplomacy towards resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Indyk's "aliyah" came in the form of a position at the Israel lobby group AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) as a deputy researcher in 1982. Three years later, he and Dennis Ross founded the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), an AIPAC-linked think tank. Ross's first paper for WINEP, which he published in 1985, demanded the appointment of "a non-Arabist Special Middle East envoy" who would not "feel guilty about our relationship with Israel and our reluctance to force Israeli consensus."
At the personal recommendation of the Israeli-American media tycoon Haim Saban, who raised $3.5 million for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign, and later paid for the construction of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, Clinton appointed Indyk as US Ambassador to Israel. Ross joined the administration as Special Envoy to the Middle East, precisely the position he had dreamed up in his WINEP position paper. Almost two decades later, Indyk has returned to public life in Ross's former role.
At J Street, Indyk described Yitzhak Rabin and Clinton's approach to the peace process as his template for negotiations. He recalled Rabin declaring, "What we need is separation, your people and my people, we need separation, not out of hatred but out of respect." Indyk explained, "That was Yitzhak Rabin's vision and his purpose in trying to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians… The challenge of Americans is to return to that process."
Beyond the absurd logic that defines forced ethnic separation as "respectful," Rabin was in fact a hard separationist who promised Israelis he would "take Gaza out of Tel Aviv." After agreeing to the Oslo Accords, Rabin ordered the mass revocation of Palestinian work permits inside Israel, trapping hundreds of thousands inside cities and villages. He inaugurated plans for a barrier separating "Israel proper" from the West Bank, laying the groundwork for the separation wall constructed under the watch of Ariel Sharon, and he presided over the installation of the first sections of fencing around the Gaza Strip. Though few of Rabin's hagiographers will admit it, his policies of hard separation set the stage for the Second Intifada, driving occupied Palestinians deeper into economic misery and ghettoization.
Speaking before J Street, Indyk placed the blame for the bloodshed of the Second Intifada squarely on Yasser Arafat's shoulders. He derided the late PA chairman as having "that big shit-eating grin of his" and assailed him for refusing to accept the Clinton Parameters, omitting the fact that Arafat ultimately accepted them with grave reservations and questions:
I remember Shimon Peres saying to me at the time when Arafat had to decide whether to accept the Clinton Parameters, he said, history is a horse that gallops past your window and the true act of a statesman is to jump from the window on to a galloping horse. But of course Arafat let the galloping horse pass by leaving the Israelis and Palestinians mired in misery.
Indyk is back at the center of heavily ballyhooed negotiations that seem doomed from the start. Is he preparing to blame the Palestinians again?


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Ingredients (makes about 40 dumplings)
- 1/4 medium head Napa cabbage
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 pound ground pork
- 1 small bunch scallions, thinly sliced
- 1 small bunch cilantro, minced
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp small piece fresh ginger, grated or finely minced
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 1 egg, whisked
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Slice the cabbage into very thin strips and mix with salt. Squeeze the liquid from the cabbage. Combine the cabbage with the rest of the filling ingredients: add the ground pork, sliced scallions, cilantro, soy sauce, ginger, sesame oil, and egg. Work the mixture together with your hands until fully combined.
Clear a large space on the counter. Set a small bowl of water, the bowl of filling, and a non-stick baking sheet nearby. Open the package of dumpling wrappers and arrange a few on the work space in front of you. Place one tablespoon of filling on each dumpling wrapper. Dampen the edge of the wrapper with water: dip your finger in the bowl of water and run it around the edge of the dumpling. This will help it to seal closed. Lift the dumpling from the work surface and fold it in half. Press the top closed. Use your opposite thumbs to fold a tiny pleat on either side of the dumpling, then press firmly to seal the dumpling closed. You may need to dab a little water under the pleat to make it stick closed.
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When I first seen the book, I have to tell you that I was a bit put off by the cover. It screams amateur to me, but boy was I wrong. I do hope that the cover doesn't put off many people. Because I am here to tell you that this book is a good one.
The Return by Michael Gruber is a well written thrill ride, full of complex characters and twists and turns. I think Mr. Gruber has a hit on his hands here. This is my very first book his and will not be my last. Pick it up, you will not be sorry.
The real Richard Marder would shock his acquaintances, if they ever met him. Even his wife, long dead, didn't know the real man behind the calm, cultured mask he presents to the world. Only an old army buddy from Vietnam, Patrick Skelly, knows what Marder is capable of. Then a shattering piece of news awakens Marder's buried desire for vengeance, and with nothing left to lose, he sets off to punish the people whose actions, years earlier, changed his life. Uninvited, Skelly shows up and together the two of them raise the stakes far beyond anything Marder could have envisioned.
As Marder and Skelly head toward an apocalypse of their own making, Marder learns that good motives and sense of justice can't always protect the people a man loves. A range of fearsomely real characters, from a brutally violent crime lord to a daringly courageous young woman, a roller-coaster of twists and turns, and a shattering exploration of what constitutes morality in the face of evil, Michael Gruber has once more proven that he is "a gifted and natural storyteller" (Chicago Tribune) and shows why he has been called "the Stephen King of crime writing" (The Denver Post).
I received an advanced copy of this book for my review all opinions expressed are my own.


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Troops invade Bil'in, kidnap two Palestinians
The Friends of Freedom and Justice Committee in Bil'in reported that at least 40 soldiers invaded the village and broke into the house of Ashraf Mohammad Al Khatib, 29, and kidnapped him, before breaking into the house of Hamru Hisham Burnat, 24, and kidnapping him.
For full article, visit http://www.imemc.org/article/61524
The cameraman, Haitham Al-Khatib, who was filming in his own house, one victim being his brother, was repeatedly forcibly moved and hit, and threatened with arrest unless he stopped filming. They declared his house a "closed military zone" but did not produce any military order. 3 Jeeps and 2 Humvee jeeps were used for the operation. The Israeli Army invaded Bil'in from three directions, the neighbor villages Kofr Ni'ma and Saffa, and through the gate from the Apartheid Wall. They parked their vehicles, engines running, opposite the mosque. With the victims inside the Jeeps, the vehicles exited the village toward the Wall.
For full article, visit http://www.bilin-village.org/english/articles/testimonies/Night-raid-in-Bilin


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