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Sunday, November 06, 2011
November snow in the beeyard
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Final Flowers of Fall 2011
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Final Flowers of Fall 2011
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A perfect fall day in the garden
A perfect fall day in the garden, a photo by D.Broberg on Flickr.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Fall Inspection 2011
A warm October day is ideal for a fall inspection. This image shows our new colony of Minnesota Hygienic bees. They are usually quite aggressive and today was no exception. They were crawling all over themselves on this frame, but we didn't see the queen.
They had a number of empty frames, so we ended up replacing them with five frames mostly filled with honey that we held back from our harvest. Their winter stores should be in good shape otherwise. We did see some brood and pollen, but not a lot.
The survivor colony was far more mellow today, not too bothered by our inspection. They had good stores with the top box almost 100% filled and capped with honey. Below had some honey along with the brood and pollen. We didn't need to add anything to that hive. Let's hope they survive another winter.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Honey Harvest 2011
We completed our honey harvest over the Labor-Day holiday weekend again this year. The weather cooperated and we received a moderate harvest from the two hives, one of which was a brand-new colony this year. The first video shows the decapping process where the wax caps are removed, exposing the raw honey for harvest.
The next video shows the raw honey coming from the centrifugal extractor and dropping into the straining bag that removes any leftover wax or bee parts. We use a rather large screen so that all the pollen passes through to the honey. Everything is done at room temperature. This year our total harvest was 81 pounds.
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Vegetable Harvesting
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Inspection - August 20, 2011
Honey frame - August 20, 2011, a photo by D.Broberg on Flickr.
This frame is from super #2 on the new colony. That box is about 30-40% capped. Hope they can complete their work before Labor day when we come in and steal it all.
The 2-year-old colony has 2 full supers - all capped. We put an empty frame on a few weeks ago to give them more room, but they haven't got around to even pulling the comb yet. Looks like 2 will be their limit this year.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Inspection, July 23, 2011
Inspection, July 23, 2011, a photo by D.Broberg on Flickr.
Let the nectar flow! We have honey from the new colony. Over the past two weeks they have filled this super and have it about 40% capped.
We added another super to give them room for August nectar. Looks like it could be another bounty year for honey.
There are now five honey supers on our two colonies. If the nectar flow continues in August, we could end up with more than 200 lbs of honey this year!
Monday, July 04, 2011
4th of July Honey
4th of July Honey , a photo by D.Broberg on Flickr.
The "old habits" are now fully broken and the bees are content with the bottom entrances again. Based on our inspection this morning, it looks like we will have about 50 to 60 lbs of spring honey this year! We could harvest it now and it would be that wonderful light amber that won the Blue Ribbon at the Boulder County fair a few years ago, but we will wait and harvest it together with the late summer honey around Labor day.
There are now two supers of capped honey on our 2010 colony and they are going strong. We added a third super to the hive today to give them more room for the late summer honey.
The new 2011 colony seems to have a strong brood chamber, but hasn't made much progress in storing the honey up top. They will do good to fill one super this year.
Sunday, May 01, 2011
Old Habits are Hard to Break
"Don't worry about the bees loosing their entrance, they'll figure it out." That's what I said last week when the bees were still clustering at the top of the hive where we blocked their top-entrance for the summer. Well, they figured it out all right. They pried the duct-tape up and went underneath it this week - a break-in.
So this weekend we added the first honey-super for them and installed the queen excluder. I also re-taped the top-entrance cover more securely. Later they are still clustering near the place of the original top entrance while the bottom entrance is wide-open! How long before these bees break their old habits?
The picture below was captured from our web-cam today as we were installing the honey-super. The "bee-cam" provides a fresh high-resolution image every 15 minutes and can be seen directly at this link anytime:
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Teaching Old Bees New Tricks
We covered the top entrance to the beehives yesterday. After the problems for the last two years with spotty honey stores and pollen inside the honey supers we decided that this top entrance would be limited to the winter season only. It was fairly cool yesterday and not many bees were out, so when we covered it, not too many were confused.
Today they all left from the bottom entrance (no reducer), but when they return they still seem to be lost and can't find their way back in. Notice the big pile near the black duct tape covering the upper entrance on the hive on the left. This hive is our survivor colony from last year. (They have never known anything but a top entrance.)
The new colony is in the hive on the right. They were installed one week ago and have an entrance reducer. The top entrance was open for the first week, but they seem to have adjusted quickly.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Installing the Bees
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
January 29th Inspection
A warm end to January was an opportunity to open up the hive and do a brief inspection. We found a large colony was in good shape and still had plenty of honey stores in the upper box.
The lower box was quite light and mostly empty. We've saved a few full frames of honey from last fall that we are ready to give back to them if they seem to be running low, but they weren't ready for it just yet.
Just after this inspection the weather turned very cold and we had quite a cold spell with temps dropping to -20 overnight. Today the we were back in the 60s and they were once again out flying. We'll check again in late February or early March and see if they need the extra honey.


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As surely as "Are we there yet?" there comes a time when the call goes out: "I want a pet." Katie wants a pet and a half, with stripes.
Harrington and Simpson's Katie is of the Caucasian pixie variety. She can have a pet, she is told, when she is big enough to take care of it. She's big enough to fudge her height, so off she goes with her father to the pet store. "Tell me what kind of pet you want," says her father, oblivious to the yawning cavern such a wide-open question invites. Cat, dog, hamster, chipmunk, snake, pig? "No!," Katie retorts, making a face that's a twist between whine and tears. Make it a zebra, Katie yodels. Daddy's slightly taken aback. Zebras need warmth, more food than their lawn can supply, and a place to sleep and bathe. Katie's prepared: Grandma can knit the zebra a sweater, it will eat—silly Daddy!—at the table, sleep in the lower bunk, and bathe in the pool. Easy-peasy. Daddy has an ace up his sleeve: no pet shop is going to sell zebras. Katie has a royal straight flush up her sleeve: "I know I can't have ONE... // …I can have TWO!" Turns out the pet shop's having a sale.
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Women at work: Lyrical Confessions of an Erstwhile Renegade, my first essay as Editor-at-Large for SynaptIQ+: The Journal for Social Era Knowledge, was published online in the Winter 2013 issue.
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A Woman's Worth was published online in the August 2013 issue of SynaptIQ+: The Journal for Social Era Knowledge.
I wrote A Woman's De-Liberation: There Never Was a Sexual Revolution in stupefied disbelief that Sheryl Sandberg, the successful and highly educated woman at the COO helm of the legendary FaceBook, would write Lean In, a modern feminist call-to-arms, in which she essentially claims that women, individually and collectively, are not occupying their rightful place at the top of the business world next to men because they do not know how to use their negotiating skills to their professional advantage.
This assertion flies in the face of what I have personally witnessed in business over the course of the last 35 years of my life, during which time I have seen scores of brilliant, visionary and highly assertive women be turned down repeatedly for seats at the top for reasons that have nothing to do with their lack of skill or their unwillingness to be assertive, and everything to do with the massive support structure that men provide one another…a support structure that is unavailable to women because there simply are not enough of them in top management to provide a supportive structure for other women coming up the ladder.


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The world is filled with conflicting views, especially around what or what not to eat. There is a lot of confusion as to what is health and what isn't when it comes to food. However, if we zoom out and take a broader look at nutrition, we'll find that it's a much easier situation than it has been made to seem.
According to Ancient Chinese medicine, there are no definite 'good' or 'bad' foods; there are appropriate foods for each individual, which help their unique constitution achieve balance. The fact of that matter is, each individual has unique dietary needs, based on ethnicity, age, metabolic efficiency, digestive strength, weight, activity levels and even stress levels.
Practitioners of Chinese Medicine reviews the individual's unique characteristics when looking to achieve health. According to TCM philosophy, while each person is similar – sharing organs and biological systems – the functioning and condition of them are unique.
Therefore, in order to achieve health (which is often defined as homeostasis or balance), a person must approach diet in terms balance and individuality. In simpler terms, a food that is balancing for one person, may be unbalancing for another.
Real Food vs. Non-Foods
With this being said, keep in mind that TCM is a 5,000-year-old practice of holistic medicine; the world is changing and so is our food. Practitioners didn't have to deal with the inconveniences of processed food. So, when TCM gives dietary advice, it is always under the context that the food is real, not genetically modified, toxic and synthetic "food-look-a-likes".
That is first and foremost to understand; only from this point can we continue to apply specific dietary protocols for balancing and healing the body.
Food in Regards to Skin
Something else very special about Chinese Medicine is its profound understanding of the organ systems within the human body. In regards to skin health, very rarely does a TCM practitioner focus on just the skin organ. It is common knowledge in TCM that the Skin is an extension of the Liver. It is known that the Liver has a direct meridian channel to the skin and hormonally effects the health of the skin.
Specifically, if the Liver becomes burdened by toxicity, it can often cause an inflammatory response in the skin. According to TCM, this is the body's way of communicating that something is off within the body.
So, when we speak of proper nutrition for the skin, keep in mind that this is an internal approach (how food affects the internal organs, that affect the skin). Therefore, we can refine most problems of the skin down to toxicity or "toxic heat" within the liver, which triggers the primary cause of skin problems; inflammation.
Top Inflammatory Foods to Avoid
In order to be fully certain what foods work with your body or not would involve a diagnostic evaluation from either TCM practitioner or an IGF food intolerance test. With this given, we cannot say specifically what foods will cause inflammation or not without a proper evaluation of the individual. However, due to the fact that food today is not what it once was, we do know there are "foods" today that would generally be best avoided by all people.
There are specific foods today that are known inflammation in most all body types. These foods are in a sense, unnatural, inorganic and not biochemical matches for the human body. Therefore, they often do not digest and metabolize properly, which can lead to poor detoxification down the road. If this occurs, toxic build-up is sure to occur, which will lead to inflammation, thus causing problems in the skin like dryness, redness, acne or worse.
With that being said, here are the primary "foods" to avoid if what you seek is beautiful, healthy skin, optimal digestive and metabolic function:
1. Refined Grains – Refined grains are the highly processed version of grains. They are associated with digestive disease, thyroid problems and skin problems like "chicken skin", acne and eczema.
As with any highly processed, hybridized food, they are seen are foreign invaders by the immune system, considering that their proteins become denatured and therefore are not tolerated or recognized. Additionally, these grains lack other vital nutrients and fiber, causing massive blood sugar imbalances, that adds to the inflammation.
Keep in mind that all skin problems are essentially inflammatory related (learn more about that in a previous article on the microbiome and skin). Therefore, any food that is not a biochemical match to the body that triggers an inflammatory response, can cause inflammation in the skin via the micro-biotic network. An inflammatory response is the result of the body coming into contact with pathogens (foreign proteins in the body).
Instead of refined grains, if you are to consume grains, instead of refined grains, choose organic, whole grains such as true wild rice, white rice, and other organic grains of your choice. Also, be sure to properly prepare those grains by soaking and fermenting to remove the phytic acid and lectins that can inhibit digestion and thyroid function.
2. Refined Sugar – Most forms of sugar lead to skin problems, especially when consumed in excess or in a refined state. While some natural forms of sugar like raw honey, maple and some fruit can be well tolerated in a healthy body, people with metabolic syndrome or an infection should avoid it at all costs.
Refined sugar, too much sugar or sugar consumed without a balance of other macronutrients can cause a major rise in glucose and insulin. In order to regulate the glucose, cortisol is secreted, which can lead to adrenal and thyroid problems. Cortisol manages inflammation, but too much of it can lead to the fatigue of the glands that produce it, causing severe inflammation and exhaustion.
Additionally, excessive sugar intake that leads to blood sugar problems is known to break down collagen (the primary protein that makes up skin). This is the process of glycation of AGEs (advanced glycation end products), where the skin literally degenerates resulting in the appearance of aged, wrinkled skin.
If you have a major sugar addiction, it's likely your metabolic system is not healthy. To help improve it, stick to a whole-foods, organic diet and emphasize the consumption of saturated fats, which improve leptin levels. Leptin makes your brain feel satisfied and has a relationship to serotonin. Getting leptin levels back up can eliminate sugar addiction.
When it comes to getting your sweet fix, make sure it's of organic, natural sources (organic fruits, raw honey, maple and birch).
3. Commercial Dairy: Commercial dairy is another inflammatory food, much for the same reasons all processed foods and refined foods are (see grains). Dairy today is not the same as it was 60 years ago. Today, the cows used to manufacture dairy are highly hybridized and produce a different type of milk protein (A1 beta casein). This protein is highly unnatural to the body; its only been around maybe 60 years in the human diet, compared to millions of years of food selection from nature. Therefore, the body views it as a pathogen.
Not to mention, commercial dairy is produced from sick cows that are treated poorly, eat an unnatural diet of GMO grain, are pumped with antibiotics and hormones, all which contribute to the inflammatory producing effects upon its consumption. To put it in other words, commercial dairy is more so a cocktail of toxins than it is a real food.
However, don't necessarily start replacing your dairy with nut milks. These are derived of unstable fat sources (as we will discuss next). Nuts and seeds are mostly comprised of polyunsaturated fats, which are highly unstable and oxidize quickly. Consuming these can lead to inflammation just as much as commercial dairy. If you heat them up, even worse!
Instead of either of these, choose homemade coconut milk (if you can source it locally) or raw, grass-fed dairy from traditional heritage breed cows that produce the original A2 beta casein. If you do not tolerate dairy, then try fermenting it and start off slow to saturate your gut with lactobacillus bacteria that digest dairy. 1
4. Rancid, Oxidized Fats: Not all fats are created equally, the idea that fats make you fat, is a lie. The truth is, polyunsaturated and other delicate, heat-sensitive fats are the real cause of inflammation and aging.
At basic, there are two categories of fats; unsaturated and saturated. While there are different fats within these groups, to refine things, unsaturated fats are very unstable. They are very heat, air and light sensitive and oxidize and go rancid quickly when exposed to these elements (oxygen, light and heat).
Some of these fats can go rancid just by sitting in a bottle; essentially, they were never meant to be extracted into oil commercially to begin with. When an oil goes rancid or oxidizes and we consume it, it creates oxidative damage within the cell (oxidative stress).
Polyunsaturated fats are known to have antithyroid, immunosuppressive, lipid peroxidative, and antimitochondrial effects. They are suppressive to the metabolism, which causes glucose oxidation, which can attribute to hypothyroid (which can result in dry, damaged skin), metastatic cancer, lipofuscinosis and liver damage (the primary organ that rules the skin.)
These fats or oils include; flax, hemp, margarine, sesame, canola, peanut, linseed, avocado, cottonseed, soybean, fish oil. Keep in mind, these oils are often hidden in packaged foods (best to always cook from scratch!). Instead, focus mostly on whole food forms of saturated fats like raw grass-fed butter, cream, ghee, lard, tallow and consuming whole fish and pastured animals to get their healthy fat content. These are the true, anti-inflammatory, pro-thyroid fats that support healthy metabolism, liver function and skin health.
In Conclusion
If you're struggling with skin problems, it's likely that inflammation is the culprit. Diet can be a major source of inflammation, so by eliminating these "pro-inflammatory", "non-foods", you should see improvements in your skin health and appearance! At Alitura Naturals, we believe that since your skin is your largest organ, you should treat it like another mouth. As we learned above, the skin responds best to ingredients that come directly from the earth. Alitura is latin for feeding and nourishing. We are anti-gmo, anti-chemical, and cruelty-free.


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Senators and representatives, officers and gentlemen, judges, dentists, preachers, teachers and so many other walks of life have graced the podium over the past 65 years of Memorial Day services held in Memphis. While the guest speakers have varied in the more than half-century that the Wallace W. Gillespie Memorial Post #4958 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars has been hosting the special ceremony, one thing that has remained relatively constant has been the back drop for the event.
As long as Mother Nature cooperates, and allows the ceremony to be held outdoors, the community always gathers on the southwest corner of the Scotland County courthouse lawn to pay tribute to its service members who made the ultimate sacrifice.
The site was established back in 1923, when the World War I memorial was constructed in that quadrant of the city square. The marble memorial has been the back drop for Decoration Day and Memorial Day services ever since.
The Soldiers' Memorial as it was defined, was commissioned by a number of local patriotic groups led by the Betsy Ross Club, which was formed during the first year of the international conflict.
Other groups joined forces, with donations made by the Home Guards, the Order of the Eastern Star, the Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion (also known as the Mothers of Soldiers) to help raise the money necessary for the cause. The State of Missouri also matched $1,000 of the project's cost.
A 1923 Memphis Reveille article described the plans, which called for "an elaborate Bedford stone roof, supported by four pillars of the same material. The names of the boys who gave their lives in the World War will be chiseled on the pillars."
The engraving reads " In memoriam to the boys from Scotland Co. 1914 ~ World War ~ 1918 they gave their all for liberty and democracy."
The honor roll of soldiers includes Garry W. Clark, Fred T. Bradley, Leslie S. Kittle, Ernest O. Moyer, Ezra W. Hartman, Earl Shinberger, Charles G. Boyer, Joseph Crawford, Thos. R. Sanders Jr., Purnell B. Barnett, Warren W. Chambers, Clarence Chancellor, Carl Roasa, Nay Harris, Sam Wilson, Carl Leslie, Byron Dunn, Sam G. Poole, John H. Kerr, Verne Stone, Orin E. Blaine, Lloyd Shelton, Harry Snyder, Fred L. Fingher, Joseph S. Pierce.
Newspaper reports estimated a crowd of between 2,000 to 3,000 attended the dedication of the memorial in May of 1923.
Unfortunately history would alter the memorial, as a second World War produced far too many more names to be memorialized.
The center piece of the statue, a marble water fountain, was removed to another part of the courthouse lawn to allow a new World War II memorial to be placed in its place among the tribute to those lost during World War I.
In 1947 the fountain was replaced with a granite slab naming all those Scotland County servicemen lost in the second world war.
The tribute reads "For God And Country; 1941 – 1945; In Loving Memory Of Our War Dead, May They Rest In Peace."
Those names listed on the memorial include: Roy T. Beard, Chas. W. Cotton, Jesse J. Cotton, Gurden E. Daniels, Geo. W. Davis, Chas. C. Dumas, Jesse J. Dye, A. Leonard Eager, Paul E. Farland, Donald V. Ferris, Wallace P. Forquer, Wm. K. Forrester, Howard E. Found, Lloyd F. Fowler, Jack Grant, E. Leon Greeno, Leland F. Harvey, Orland Heaton, Claudie E. Phillips, Harley R. Hines, Arlis E. Johnston, Geo. L. Labarge, Dorsey D. Lancaster, Richard H. Mathes, Jack E. Mustoe, Claude E. Parrish, Kenneth N. Phillips, Vernon B. Priebe, Max H. Pulliam, Samuel W. Purvis, Noah L. Robinson, Hillis L. Russell, Warren C. Simms, J. Leo Smith, Lee Roy Sprague, Donald G. Thomas, and Vernon W. Watson.
And so with this dedication, began the tradition of the members of the VFW post marching, in uniform, along with the post's color guard, to host Memorial services at the site. Post Commander Harry Laird along with veteran Clark Mustoe, placed a floral wreath at the memorial, a tradition that has continued the past 65 years, with Mustoe being blessed to have the honor each year along with a fellow serviceman. WWII naval veteran Charles Harris has been the other constant at the services, leading the recital of the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.
Reverend H.A. Bickers gave the first invocation in the Memorial Day services history. Fellow pastor, Rev. G. Lolin Eaton was the featured speaker at the 1947 dedication ceremony, harking back to his participation in the original dedication service at the memorial back in 1923.
Following the end of the Vietnam War, the names of five Scotland County servicemen, who lost their lives during the conflict, were added to the side of the memorial's marble centerpiece. Gerald. L. Gooden, Robert B. Maddox, Larry E. Kigar, Charles T. Moore and Jean M. Kraus are remembered on the Vietnam memorial.
The forgotten part of the original memorial, the marble water fountain, is currently the subject of fundraising efforts by the Scotland County Courthouse Restoration group. Fundraisers have estimated the cost at $2,500 to restore the fountain and return it to service on the courthouse lawn.


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Front wheel drive
Semi slick tyres
MOTEC Racing 15" alloys lightweight
Weight: 950 kg
Coilover: H&R
Brakes: upgraded with braided hose + Endless racing pads MA45B Nürburgring compound
Sparco Pro 2000 VTR FIA Sport Seats
OMP harnesses 4 point
Full Wiechers rollcage
Sport air intake
Racing exhaust
Damage excess 4.500€ without insurance/1.680€ with insurance
For a minimum of 4 laps we offer a personal insurance to down the maximum excess to 1.680 EUR. This insurance costs 199 EUR and it needs two days of forewarning for renting during weekdays and almost two/three days for weekend; the insurance is valid only for crash events on track (not over revving or miss shift).
Fuel and lap tickets not included. For all inclusive package, price on request. The price includes: car rental, supplies. Two drivers included
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Stampin Up
|blank card - embossed, stamps and 3D
"At Stampin Up!, our wide assortment of rubber stamp images, stamping techniques, and designs have been helping crafters (re)discover and express their creativity and share this creativity with others." (-from their website)
Stampin' Up is a scrapbooker and crafters crack!
"Grace" chatted up Jodeen about her own mural business (Storybook Design). Jodeen offered "Grace" a free class for herself and a few friends. So this past Saturday we headed to "Grace"s house in Washington for Stamp Party.
I've been a scrapbooker in the past and love collaging, painting and making my own stationary. So I was super excited to dive into the crafts that Jodeen brought. We learned how to use their emboss machine and put together three projects.
I was slightly disappointed that we had to purchase the catalog (yes, it was only $5 but still) but after I started flipping through it you can see that it was well worth it!
|green = someday; pink = right away;
yellow = project ideas
I tagged pages of items I hope to "some-day" purchase but a few that I'll be purchasing right away! I also tagged pages that have some great craft ideas that I want to try myself. The best item on my "want right away" is a postcard stamp; that way I can take my own art pieces and turn them into personalized post cards.
I also signed up with Jodeen to host my own party; were for only $10/person we will have five projects (instead of three with the free party). I have a feeling that "Grace" may have created a monster by inviting me to her stamp party.


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Andrew McCormack launched his solo career in April 2006 with his debut album, 'Telescope'. The album garnered great critical acclaim and led to him receiving the BBC Jazz Award for "Rising Star" in July 2006. Presenting the award was Courtney Pine OBE who spoke of Andrew's exceptional musical talent and his pleasure in watching his development as an artist. Since then Andrew has continued to perform throughout the world with various groups including his own and as a pivotal member of the Kyle Eastwood Band. In 2007 he opened the Young Artist Series in Newbury Spring Festival with an eclectic solo piano recital and in 2008 Andrew's trio opened the main stage at the Barbican for Branford Marsalis' Quartet.
Andrew is currently taking private composition lessons with Mark-Anthony Turnage and this year was picked out of six composers to receive a major commission from the London Symphony Orchestra for a Barbican concert in 2009 as part of their Panufnik Young Composers Scheme. Andrew has also recently contributed to the score and orchestrations, as well as performing on parts of the soundtrack for Clint Eastwood's film Flags Of Our Fathers and its companion movie, Letters From Iwo Jima with the latter movie picking up the Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Language Film and Academy award nomination for best picture. He was invited back to do orchestrations and additional music for Mr Eastwood in the John Cussack/Harvey Weinstein movie, 'Grace Is Gone', which received a Golden Globe nomination for best original score and can be heard in a similar role on Mr Eastwood's latest release, 'Changeling'.


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Welcome to Shindengen UK
Our German Branch is moving to the following new address on 6th June 2019.
Please use this new address and the new Tel. No. for any post / any call after this date.
Prinzenallee 1
40549 Düsseldorf, Germany
Tel.:+49 (0) 211 5206 590 Fax:+49 (0) 211 4986 499
Shindengen has gained an exceptional reputation in the electronics industry during 70 years of operation as a leading power electronics company and has built a network of 10 domestic and 13 overseas subsidiaries as our bases for manufacturing and sales. Taking on the challenges of accelerated globalisation in recent years we are enhancing our network in emerging countries that are experiencing exceptional growth, and transiting into a business style that can capture their booming demands.
Shindengen UK Ltd subsidiary was launched in 1989 at Barking, Essex and now is located in King's Cross, Central London.
In 1996 we established our second European office in the City of Düsseldorf, Germany. At our warehouse and Logistic centre we hold over 500 product lines, which are distributed throughout Europe using our extensive distribution channels.
Since our establishment in1949, Shindengen has been active in the power electronics sector as a rare type of manufacturer bringing together three core technologies: semiconductor, power circuits and module developments. We hold our mission as "maximising energy conversion efficiency for the benefit of humanity and society." Under this mission, we continue to protect the environment by maximising environmental-friendliness with our combined core technologies while we respond to our customer needs.


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Can writing be taught? Of course it can!
Several times a year, someone starts a debate about whether Creative Writing can be taught. It's not clear why – after all, those who oppose the teaching of writing are ankle-deep in the ocean, yelling at the tide to retreat – but the recurring debate has been on my mind for some weeks, ever since the Guardian featured me and my experimental novel, The Deconstruction of Professor Thrub. The Guardian didn't, you see, run a double-page spread in the Review section, allowing the usual luminaries to inform us that Thrub is the best thing to have happened to British literature since Tristram Shandy. No, I was in the Education section, displayed as an example of an author who has benefitted from – and who now delivers – formal education in the craft of writing. And while the Review double-page spread would have been nice, I'm more than happy to be associated with the teaching of Creative Writing.
The case against Creative Writing has two fronts. On one flank there stand those who claim that writing can't be taught. Nobody doubts that music can be taught – we don't read column after column questioning the existence of conservatoires. Nobody doubts that art can be taught – we don't need a tri-annual debate on the value of the Royal College of Art. But writing, apparently, is a skill that defies instruction. This curious distinction may owe its roots to the ancients – to the distinction Plato made between poets (who brought new worlds into being) and painters (who merely imitated) – and certainly it's inspired by the romantic myth of the creative genius, but, I suspect, it's sustained by the self-images of certain writers who would like to see themselves as something more special than products of a good education (whether that education be formal or autodidactic). Why else do teachers such as Will Self and Hanif Kureishi draw salaries teaching writing while simultaneously condemning the teaching of writing as a waste of time?
On the other flank, there are those who allege that the emergence of Creative Writing has a negative impact on the diversity of our literary culture. In demographic terms, Creative Writing can only help increase diversity: in the last thirty-five years, every British-born winner of the Booker Prize has been white, and all but three of them were educated at Oxford, Cambridge, or LSE. But what of the argument that Creative Writing courses teach authors to produce 'McPoems' and 'McStories' – work that is formulaic and uniform? Well, the current generation of major American novelists have almost all had some university-level training as writers. And if we're honest, we'll admit that American fiction is miles ahead of what's currently being published in the UK.
I've been teaching writing for five years now, and I love it. I hate our market-Stalinist universities with their awful combination of neo-liberal ideology and centralised bureaucracy, but I love working with the students and helping them to develop their writing. Hanif Kureishi thinks 99% of his students have no talent and are wasting their time; my thinking is closer to that of Gordon Lish (who must know a thing or two about developing writing), who said, "I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire."
In 2015, assisted by my colleagues Lucy Tyler and Tyler Keevil, I'll be launching online writing tips.com. The idea is to take some of our best tips for developing writing, make them into short videos, and share them with the world – for free. Like the sound of it? We'll be on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, and WordPress, and your early support won't be forgotten.
Until then, enjoy the last days of 2014, have a brilliant Hogmanay, and here's to a happy and healthy 2015.
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PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch facing shock new console rival
PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch are the leading consoles going into 2019, and it looks like a new rival is looking to make some waves in the future.
The Mad Box to rival PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo?
A new console rival is set to join the pack being led by Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.
That's the news being shared this month, following a shock reveal that many didn't see coming.
Going into 2019, many gamers are hoping for news regarding the next-generation of devices.
But many probably weren't expecting one of the first new consoles to be announced by Slightly Mad Studios.
It has now been confirmed that the company are looking to launch a new console to rival PlayStation, Microsoft and Nintendo in the future.
It's currently being called the "Mad Box" and will offer a few tricks up its sleeve.
According to SMS CEO Ian Bell, the new console will support virtual reality and boast some competitive specs when it hits the market.
The plan, for now, is to see the new Mad Box launch in three years and will be available to buy worldwide.
A tweet posted to the official Slightly Mad Studios Twitter page reads: "What is the Mad Box? It's the most powerful console ever built... It's literally 'Mad'... You want 4k; you want VR at 60FPS?
"You want a full engine for free to develop your games on it? You have it."
Further details were shared with Variety, with Bell adding: "We have multiple investors already offering the required funding for us to see the product to completion, but it's still early days, and we're looking at the best offers right now.
The public have spoken and we've listened. This is the design we're going with. It might be slightly amended over time... Thanks all for your responses which have helped to guide us. pic.twitter.com/3dadUkz4Ue— Ian Bell SMS Group (@bell_sms) January 11, 2019
"All that we have approached are discussing standard partial ownership investment deals...
"Prices will drop with ship quantity, but we're not planning on taking as large a cut as other console owners to enable us to cut prices massively.
"We fully expect to be matching the best of the rest early in the lifecycle though."
Bell added: "We think the industry is a little too much of a monopoly or a micro oligopoly.
"We think competition is healthy and we have the required hardware contacts to be able to bring something epic to fruition based on our designs."
New designs of the Mad Box were recently shared by SMS, having seen many variants posted online from the public.
Bell warned after sharing the new images that this new design may be amended over time but should keep a similar look.
If the Mad Box does indeed release in three years time, it will mean it hitting the market following the launch of the PS5 and next Xbox console.
While neither Sony or Microsoft have announced release dates for their new gaming machines, it seems almost certain that they will hit shelves before 2022.


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Many years ago almost everyone I knew collected something ,Stamps, Trading Cards, Matchbook Covers etc. Times have changed and most collecting organizations are struggling to attract new members.Fellow collector Robert Bolton organized a bookplate exhibit at his local library.
This is an excellent way to introduce bookplate collecting to a wide audience in your own community. Thank you Robert.
This is an excellent way to introduce bookplate collecting to a wide audience in your own community. Thank you Robert.
"In March of 2017 I was allowed to display a sampling of my bookplate collection at Lanier Library in Tryon, North Carolina. The focus of my collection primarily is on the artist rather than the owner of the bookplate. Lanier Library is one of the few remaining membership libraries in the country. Please refer to America's Membership Libraries edited by Richard Wendorf with a preface by Nicolas Barker and published by Oak Knoll Press, 2007."
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Fellow Collector Al Gury has a friend watching over his collection.
Fellow Collector Jeff Price has added a few more framed bookplates in his gallery
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The Ruins of Cesna or "Fuentes Viejas", the ancient village of Fuentes de Cesna, nestled under the slopes of a long stone and overlooking the Iznajar reservoir and the confluence of the provinces of Cordoba, Granada and Malaga. It has important elements of natural, historical and ethnological interest.
There are still three births or sources that give name to the village "Fuente de la Plaza, Fuente de Enmedio and Fuente del Caño".
From this park there is a view towards the Castle of Cesna Castle of Cesna. Its origin predates the Muslim period. According to the latest studies, this castle would be the place where Abderramán I resided before leading the coup in Cordoba that led him to rule the new independent state of Al-Andalus. In spite of this, in the year 921 was partially collapsed by Abderramán III (initiator of the religious independence of Al-Andalus) before the refusal of the Mozarabic Christian inhabitants of the fortress to abandon it. Nevertheless, during the clashes between Castile and the Kingdom of Granada would return again to scene, because it would be the place of capture of Boabdil in Batalla de Lucena.


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Trellis plants can provide privacy, shade and beauty. Some trellis plants are flowering, while others bear fruit or decorative leaves. Most require very little care with the exception of watering and trimming. Most varieties twist around the poles and trellis supports, anchoring themselves, but wiring or staking the plants can train them to grow in a particular direction.
American Bittersweet
American bittersweet (Celastrus scandens) is a twining vine that attaches itself to the trellis. It takes two years to become established but grows vigorously after that. Pruning the dead vines in the spring causes new shoots to become more prolific. The plant twists around the trellis from left to right. Do not force the vine to grow in another direction or it will fall off the trellis.
American Bittersweet produces attractive bright orange berries in the fall. The berries remain colorful throughout the winter months. The plant grows in both sunny and shady areas but bears the most berries if planted in a sunny spot. The vine is widespread in most of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains but flourishes anywhere in Hardiness Zones 3 to 8.
Dropmore Scarlet Honeysuckle
Dropmore scarlet honeysuckle (Lonicera "Dropmore Scarlet") is a twining vine that produces scarlet-red tubular flowers. The fragrant, bright flowers attract hummingbirds throughout summer and into the fall. The vine grows 6 feet per year, reaching up to 20 feet at maturity. The vine grows well in partial sunlight. This decorative trellis plant is an excellent choice for northern gardens in Zone 3.
John Cabot Rose
John Cabot Roses are climbing roses, making them an excellent choice for a trellis. This rose has tendrils for gripping the trellis and needs to be trained to climb the trellis posts. The John Cabot rose is hardy, resistant to disease and grows up to 9 feet. The roses are large, fragrant and deep pink in color. The stalks produce clusters of blooms from early summer to the first frost. The John Cabot rose was bred to withstand cold winters and grow well in New England, as well as Zones 2 and 3.
Common Morning Glory
The common morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea) is an annual flowering vine that lives for only one growing season. There are over 1,000 morning glory species that offer a wide range of choices for trellis planting. The common morning glory blooms are funnel-shaped, deep-blue, pink, red, purple or white flowers that open in the morning. The morning glory quickly matures and flowers after planting the seeds at the base of the trellis in early summer. The plants do well in full sunlight and tolerate dry weather.
Grapes are the most common fruit for growing on a trellis. The trellis must be sturdy because grape vines are thick, the leaves are large and bunches of grapes are heavy. Train the grape vines by wiring them to the trellis. Select the strongest new vines to grow up the trellis.
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Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey 'concealed temperature'
Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey faces disciplinary action over claims she concealed her temperature at an Ebola screening on her return to the UK.
The 40-year-old was infected with the virus while at a treatment centre in Sierra Leone in 2014.
She is alleged to have given dishonest answers to medical staff when she returned to Heathrow airport.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has been investigating Ms Cafferkey's conduct.
The charges against her had never been made public but were accidentally uploaded to the NMC website.
Ms Cafferkey said the NMC has since apologised.
The council alleges that she "allowed an incorrect temperature to be recorded" on 29 December 2014 and intended to conceal from Public Health England staff that she had a temperature higher than 38C.
Registered NHS nurse Ms Cafferkey travelled to the West African country at the height of the Ebola crisis to help the sick.
She returned to London and then travelled on to Scotland before being diagnosed, and spent almost a month being treated in an isolation unit at London's Royal Free Hospital.
Ms Cafferkey recovered but was readmitted to hospital on two separate occasions after suffering complications linked to the disease, and at one stage fell critically ill.
'Normal life'
But she returned to work as a nurse at the Blantyre Health Centre in South Lanarkshire, where she had been employed before volunteering to go to Sierra Leone with the Save the Children charity.
She described at the time how she was "very happy to be alive" and was looking forward to returning to a "normal life".
However, in the months that followed her health suffered as she had issues with her thyroid, her hair fell out and she had headaches and pains in her joints.
But Ms Cafferkey stressed that she felt lucky because she had not lost her sight as others had done.
In March of last year the NMC began investigating her conduct and she was summoned for a preliminary hearing in Edinburgh.
She was not told the charges against her at that time, but they were thought to centre on allegations that she was unwell before she began her journey and her symptoms were obscured.
The NMC has now released the full charges, which allege Ms Cafferkey did not tell Public Health England screening staff who took her temperature at the airport that she had recently taken paracetamol.
She is also said to have left the area without reporting her true temperature.
'Public interest'
A hearing on Ms Cafferkey's fitness to practise is set to take place in Edinburgh next month. The NMC has the power to strike workers off the professional register.
A spokesman for the NMC said it had been working closely with Ms Cafferkey and her representatives to reach an outcome "that is fair and meets the public interest".
He added: "Since the NMC's case examiners considered the allegations and drafted charges, we have received further evidence.
"The final charges the panel will consider will be determined in light of this new material. A process of ongoing review is part of our normal practice in all cases.
"Ms Cafferkey and her representatives have cooperated fully throughout this process. Currently we are working towards scheduling the case for a panel to consider on 13 September."
In a statement Pauline Cafferky said: "The NMC has apologised to me through my solicitor for the unfortunate mistake they made in uploading the allegations to their website in advance of the hearing next month.
"It's only then that the full facts now known to the NMC will be shared with the panel. Those facts, that have not yet been made public, will be considered by the panel as part of its review of all relevant information.
"I would very much hope that after the case has been considered by the panel the matter will be at an end.
"I have no further comment to make. "


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For this, Hyundai has purchased a commercial tower in Sector 29 from Huda through e-auction on Saturday. Huda had put its 7,820.80-square-metre commercial tower for auction with a reserve price of Rs 205.78 crore, which the company managed to buy with the highest bid of Rs 205.88 crore.
"Gurugram will get another feather in its cap by attracting the international brand, which is a lead car manufacturer. This may also boost the sentiments of the property market," Huda administrator Yashpal Yadav said, adding that it would also help in re-establishing Gurgaon as the favourite destination of big corporates.
Huda has sold two school sites at about Rs 60 crore each and some commercial sites like shop-cum-office (SCOs) and booths in the e-auction on Saturday.
He said that in recent months Huda has managed to sell properties at a good price in parts of the state as well. "We are receiving many queries about auction of properties," Yadav said. It shows people are still interested in Huda properties, particularly in Gurgaon, he said.
Excited by the response to its auction, Huda is going to auction 30 more commercial and residential properties on Tuesday. "We will now auction properties every Tuesday. For this we have identified properties which can be auctioned and prepared a list of it," Yadav said.
Officials said if they continued to get a good response, it might help in ending the financial crisis of the Authority and complete pending development works.


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Education Sector Of Africa
Education must be the good door opener, and but we all know it usually would not turn out that means. These damaging bills, already handed in some type in Arizona, Florida, Nevada, Mississippi and Tennessee, are proper out of Milton Friedman's plan to end public schools and depart education to a marketplace of private faculties, all funded by the taxpayers but with out authorities oversight or transparency. Dumbing down education to create a stage playing field has been an enormous drawback in educational pondering for a while. They range from simplified games for elementary children to classy interactives of all body programs for highschool and faculty college students.
Streets don't have any rhyme or motive, and it could just be the most confusingly lovely city in America. In a flipped classroom, the students need to view the educational movies at night time so as to participate at school activities in the course of the day. Educational posters don't need to be limited to academics, they are often nice for encouragement and inspiration for children.
The 2016 convention will likely be held 8 -12 August 2016 at the Plaza Hotel in Salt Lake City. Adequate government spending: All the leaders in this continent ought to change the face of education sector via correct funding. Many of them came from households where education was low on the listing of what was necessary. Educational Bricks are available in a variety of various units that various within the number of bricks per set. A better understanding of the magnitude of subnational variations in education indicators prompts a range of coverage-relevant questions. I love those fifth graders as they are still desirous to study and explore education.
The new follow-targeted agenda has implications for the redesign of preK-12 education for alignment of curriculum-instruction-evaluation; STEM instructor education and skilled growth; postsecondary, further, and graduate research; and out-of-school informal education. This proposal is revealed in CBE Life Sciences Education This analysis scheme principally appears at practices implemented by an teacher and provides points to those practices which were shown by research as useful to pupil learning.
Point out that there are 7 of them and observe reading the day of the week every day, Monday, Tuesday, and many others. This discovering, which is seen throughout all educational ranges, suggests that involving college students and their parents/guardians, together with workers, creates a culture of shared duty for varsity points. Yes, there are potential issues in addition to benefits to this technique of education.… Read More
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These 12 web sites provide an unimaginable array of free lesson plans, unit plans and guided, challenge-primarily based studying plans for elementary, center and highschool students. So education gained via attending schools and colleges just isn't necessarily the most effective education or even the appropriate education. As first lady of the United States, she chaired the first-ever convening on Hispanic children and youth, which targeted on bettering access to educational opportunities. After educating elementary education for 27 years at PS 147 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I was offered a technology job on the district level in 1998. However, despite a slow start to her education In the tip she did have an affordable education and on leaving faculty began work in a Drapery shop in Bristol, and later (earlier than she married) arrange her own business as a 'Seamstress'. People surprise what is improper with her as she could not discover a man on her educational and skilled stage or maybe, she is so determined for a person that she would go together with any sort of man.
My daughter is a special education teacher and makes use of this type of education by decorating her classroom with educational posters and charts. VirtCon is a bi-annual convention that brings the Discovery Education community together to hear cutting-edge keynotes, be impressed by thought-scary shows, and participate in partaking discussions with the Discovery Education Community across the globe. And strives for guaranteeing Quality education to CWSN in inclusive setup with non-disabled peer group, to make them socially integrate. SDC served a inhabitants of students that have been far behind their general education and RSP counter parts. I tried to do an online free course, just to improve one thing of myself and I'm simply too lazy hehe But it is also partly as a result of poor internet connection at my place.
In our quest to be present with the latest in early childhood educational innovations, we've got integrated the Reggio Emilia system of studying into our progressive concept of Jewish early childhood education. Be sure to look for the best in family dice games and educational video games utilizing dice in the classroom. And yet, with funding for public education shrinking, the affect of those wealthy reformers is rising.
So there are serious flaws in the college and school based education system and if somebody opts out of it and decides to go it alone, there is nothing mistaken with it. In Finland, a rustic whose educational system is envied around the globe, formal studying instruction does not begin till age 7. Moreover, research present that kids who be taught to read once they're older are more likely to read for pleasure than those that learned once they were youthful. Simply referred to as RSP academics, they either ran a studying heart, co-taught a course with a basic education instructor, or taught core topics on their own.
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Today is our last full day in NYC and one of the days we have been looking forward to most! Today at Saks there is an event being held with some of our favorite designers in the handbag and purse world. If you can make the event let us know and make sure to look for Vlad and I. We will be there chatting with the designers that we know, getting to know the designers we do not know, and meeting readers from our site. Here is the information, we hope to see you there!
On April 5th (today) from 2:00 – 5:00 PM Saks Fifth Avenue in NYC is hosting an event for customers in the New York store on the Fifth floor. Saks has confirmed personal appearances with Monica Botkier of Botkier, Emily Ironi and Rachelle Copeland of Alexis Hudson, Rebecca Minkoff, Laura and Shelia from Treesje, Rene Huber of Goldenbleu and the Andrew Cotton of Linea Pelle.
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Big Spring Clean
Massive Community effort for Big Spring Clean.
On Saturday 7th April, 50+ volunteers came together for the annual Big Spring Clean in Carntogher / Slaughtneil. The good weather arrived thankfully and allowed the volunteers to get on with the work. Well done to everyone who played their part and collected enough rubbish to fill a skip and more. So very heartening to see the amazing work and effort that the local community put in to ensure the area is clean.
Thank you must also go to John Murtagh & Mid Ulster Council for their support and provision of litter pickers, bags and skip. Also to the local primary schools; St Brigid's Tirkane / Bunscoil Naomh Bríd & St Patrick's Glen who helped on the day and to spread the word around the community.
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S Korean pension fund stops trading with Samsung Securities after fat finger error
[SEOUL] South Korea's biggest pension fund said on Tuesday it stopped trading stocks through Samsung Securities Co Ltd after fat finger error resulted in the accidental issuance of 2.8 billion shares to employees.
The public outcry over the mistaken issuance, more than 30 times the number of the broker's outstanding shares and theoretically worth some US$100 billion, has only gained steam after it was discovered that some employees quickly sold off their shares. Authorities have launched an investigation into the matter.
"We have suspended direct trading with Samsung Securities on concerns over decreasing stability in trading after a financial accident occurred," an official with the National Pension Service said.
The official declined to disclose the volume of the fund's stock trading done through Samsung. It had 136 trillion won (S$167 billion) of its assets invested in the local stock market as of January.
Samsung Securities, one of South Korea's biggest brokerages, issued the shares in error when it was supposed to pay dividends worth 2.8 billion won to employees under a stock ownership plan.
Its stock extended losses on Tuesday and has fallen 10 per cent since Thursday's close, wiping about US$330 million from its market value.


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A Man Called Ove
Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm!
In this "charming debut" (People) from one of Sweden's most successful authors, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door.
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?
Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations.
A feel-good story in the spirit of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Fredrik Backman's novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others. "If there was an award for 'Most Charming Book of the Year,' this first novel by a Swedish blogger-turned-overnight-sensation would win hands down" (Booklist, starred review).
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About the Author
Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove (soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks), My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, as well as two novellas, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime. His books are published in more than forty countries. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Twitter @BackmanLand or on Instagram @backmansk.
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A Man Called Ove
Ove is fifty-nine.
He drives a Saab. He's the kind of man who points at people he doesn't like the look of, as if they were burglars and his forefinger a policeman's flashlight. He stands at the counter of a shop where owners of Japanese cars come to purchase white cables. Ove eyes the sales assistant for a long time before shaking a medium-sized white box at him.
"So this is one of those O-Pads, is it?" he demands.
The assistant, a young man with a single-digit body mass index, looks ill at ease. He visibly struggles to control his urge to snatch the box out of Ove's hands.
"Yes, exactly. An iPad. Do you think you could stop shaking it like that . . . ?"
Ove gives the box a skeptical glance, as if it's a highly dubious sort of box, a box that rides a scooter and wears tracksuit pants and just called Ove "my friend" before offering to sell him a watch.
"I see. So it's a computer, yes?"
The sales assistant nods. Then hesitates and quickly shakes his head.
"Yes . . . or, what I mean is, it's an iPad. Some people call it a 'tablet' and others call it a 'surfing device.' There are different ways of looking at it. . . ."
Ove looks at the sales assistant as if he has just spoken backwards, before shaking the box again.
"But is it good, this thing?"
The assistant nods confusedly. "Yes. Or . . . How do you mean?"
Ove sighs and starts talking slowly, articulating his words as if the only problem here is his adversary's impaired hearing.
"Is. It. Goooood? Is it a good computer?"
The assistant scratches his chin.
"I mean . . . yeah . . . it's really good . . . but it depends what sort of computer you want."
Ove glares at him.
"I want a computer! A normal bloody computer!"
Silence descends over the two men for a short while. The assistant clears his throat.
"Well . . . it isn't really a normal computer. Maybe you'd rather have a . . ."
The assistant stops and seems to be looking for a word that falls within the bounds of comprehension of the man facing him. Then he clears his throat again and says:
". . . a laptop?"
Ove shakes his head wildly and leans menacingly over the counter.
"No, I don't want a 'laptop.' I want a computer."
The assistant nods pedagogically.
"A laptop is a computer."
Ove, insulted, glares at him and stabs his forefinger at the counter.
"You think I don't know that!"
Another silence, as if two gunmen have suddenly realized they have forgotten to bring their pistols. Ove looks at the box for a long time, as though he's waiting for it to make a confession.
"Where does the keyboard pull out?" he mutters eventually.
The sales assistant rubs his palms against the edge of the counter and shifts his weight nervously from foot to foot, as young men employed in retail outlets often do when they begin to understand that something is going to take considerably more time than they had initially hoped.
"Well, this one doesn't actually have a keyboard."
Ove does something with his eyebrows. "Ah, of course," he splutters. "Because you have to buy it as an 'extra,' don't you?"
"No, what I mean is that the computer doesn't have a separate keyboard. You control everything from the screen."
Ove shakes his head in disbelief, as if he's just witnessed the sales assistant walking around the counter and licking the glass-fronted display cabinet.
"But I have to have a keyboard. You do understand that?"
The young man sighs deeply, as if patiently counting to ten.
"Okay. I understand. In that case I don't think you should go for this computer. I think you should buy something like a MacBook instead."
"A McBook?" Ove says, far from convinced. "Is that one of those blessed 'eReaders' everyone's talking about?"
"No. A MacBook is a . . . it's a . . . laptop, with a keyboard."
"Okay!" Ove hisses. He looks around the shop for a moment. "So are they any good, then?"
The sales assistant looks down at the counter in a way that seems to reveal a fiercely yet barely controlled desire to begin clawing his own face. Then he suddenly brightens, flashing an energetic smile.
"You know what? Let me see if my colleague has finished with his customer, so he can come and give you a demonstration."
Ove checks his watch and grudgingly agrees, reminding the assistant that some people have better things to do than stand around all day waiting. The assistant gives him a quick nod, then disappears and comes back after a few moments with a colleague. The colleague looks very happy, as people do when they have not been working for a sufficient stretch of time as sales assistants.
"Hi, how can I help you?"
Ove drills his police-flashlight finger into the counter.
"I want a computer!"
The colleague no longer looks quite as happy. He gives the first sales assistant an insinuating glance as if to say he'll pay him back for this.
In the meantime the first sales assistant mutters, "I can't take anymore, I'm going for lunch."
"Lunch," snorts Ove. "That's the only thing people care about nowadays."
"I'm sorry?" says the colleague and turns around.
"Lunch!" He sneers, then tosses the box onto the counter and swiftly walks out.
Reading Group Guide
This reading group guide for A Man Called Ove includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.
Ove is getting older. He's the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People in Ove's neighborhood call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But behind Ove's cranky exterior lies a story and a sadness. When an accident-prone young couple with two young daughters moves in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox one November morning, overturning his well-ordered routine, it is the spark in a surprising, enlivening chain of events—featuring unkempt cats, unexpected friendships, arrogant bureaucrats, several trips to the hospital, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. Swept along in the tide, Ove is forced to change and learn to understand his neighbors and the modern times into which he has been grudgingly dragged. But as his neighbors learn more about the reasons behind Ove's grumpy façade, they must also band together to protect each other and their neighborhood in a struggle that will leave no one, including Ove, unchanged.
Topics & Questions for Discussion
1. How does the opening scene, in which Ove attempts to purchase a computer, succinctly express the main points of Ove's ongoing battle with the stupidities of the modern world?
2. Ove loves things that have a purpose, that are useful. How does this worldview fail him when he believes himself to be useless? How is he convinced that he can still be useful?
3. As readers, we get to know Ove slowly, with his past only being revealed piece by piece. What surprised you about Ove's past? Why do you think the author revealed Ove's past the way that he did?
4. We all know our own grumpy old men. How do Ove's core values lead him to appear as such a cranky old coot, when he is in fact nothing of the sort? Which of these values do you agree or disagree with?
5. Although Ove has some major "disagreements" with the way the world turned out, there are some undeniable advantages to the modernization he finds so hollow. How do these advantages improve Ove's life, even if he can't admit it?
6. Parveneh's perspective on life, as radically different from Ove's as it is, eventually succeeds in breaking Ove out of his shell, even if she can't change his feelings about Saabs. How does her brash, extroverted attitude manage to somehow be both rude and helpful?
7. Ove strives to be "as little unlike his father as possible." Although this emulation provides much of the strength that helps Ove persevere through a difficult life, it also has some disadvantages. What are some of the ways that Ove grows into a new way of thinking over the course of the book?
8. Ove is a believer in the value of routine—how can following a routine be both comforting and stultifying? How can we balance routine and spontaneity? Should we? Or is there sense in eating sausage and potatoes your whole life?
9. The truism "it takes a village to raise a child" has some resonance with A Man Called Ove. How does the eclectic cast of posers, suits, deadbeats, and teens each help Ove in their own way?
10. Although we all identify with Ove to some extent, especially by the end of the story, we certainly also have our differences with him. Which of the supporting cast (Parveneh, Jimmy, the Lanky One, Anita) did you find yourself identifying with most?
11. What did you make of Ove's ongoing battle with the bureaucracies that persist in getting in his way? Is Ove's true fight with the various ruling bodies, or are they stand-ins, scapegoats, for something else?
12. On page 113, after a younger Ove punches Tom, the author reflects: "A time like that comes for all men, when they choose what sort of men they want to be." Do you agree with this sentiment, especially in this context? How does the book deal with varying ideas of masculinity?
13. On page 246, the author muses that when people don't share sorrow, it can drive them apart. Do you agree with this? Why or why not?
14. What do you think of Ove's relationship with the mangy cat he adopts? What does the cat allow him to express that he couldn't otherwise say?
15. On Ove and Sonja's trip to Spain, Ove spends his time helping the locals and fixing things. How does Ove the "hero" compare and contrast to his behavior in the rest of the book? Is that Ove's true personality?
16. Ove and Sonja's love story is one of the most affecting, tender parts of the book. What is the key to their romance? Why do they fit so well together?
17. Saab? Volvo? BMW? Scania?
Enhance Your Book Club
1. Grumpy old men like Ove pop up in various forms throughout popular culture. Have a movie night for your group, and screen a film that reminds you of Ove. Perhaps try About Schmidt, As Good as It Gets, Up, or, obviously, Grumpy Old Men. Examine how the characters differ from Ove, or share his grouchy worldview. How did what you watched change the way you thought about the book? Alternatively, screen a movie you think Ove would enjoy, like a Saab commercial.
2. Parveneh and the rest of Ove's neighbors succeed in breaking Ove out of his shell by encouraging him to reengage with people, and with life. Many of the crotchety oldsters in our lives could use a similar kind of encouragement—reach out to someone you know who could use a little company, either solo or with your group. Discuss your experiences, sharing what you learned from the Ove in your world.
3. Much of the story of Ove's life remains untold. Imagine a scene from Ove's life that we didn't see, and try your hand at writing it out. Short or long, funny or serious, do your best to get into Ove's head and depict an event that led him to become the lovable pain in the neck that we meet in the book. Share your stories with your group!
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I haven't enjoyed a book like this in a long time. It is written is such a way that Mr. Ove becomes real in your life. The author lets you be upset with him, feel his pain and loneliness and sadness and then lets you see his heart and then his vulnerability. This is a book that I will give as gifts at Christmas and birthdays just because it is written in such a way that it captivates you. I couldn't put it down and I have reviewed quite a lot of books. To the point that I woke up and grabbed the book to see what happened next. I am going to read it again just for the sheer enjoyment of it. Thank you for an excellent book. I want to read more of this authors books for sure.
I've read a lot of books on my Nook over the past 7 years but this is the first time i've felt compelled to write a review. What a wonderfully written and totally engaging book this was - funny and sad with fantastic characters. I rarely reread books but i will with this one, and i'll eagerly awaut the next book from this gifted author.
This is a wonderful book. If you liked the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry you will love this book. It's heartwarming, heartbreaking, and humorous at the same time. Really enjoyed it - highly recommend.
Anything I write about this book pales when compared to my wonderful experience reading it. So remember that if you read the rest of this. Most of the book was full of moments when I had to pause because I was laughing so much. On the other hand, at times something would suddenly happen that caused me to pause because the tears in my eyes kept me from seeing the page. Ove is a grumpy old man who seems older than his 58 years. The fun for the reader is meeting him and then slowly understanding him. You will have varying reactions to him. I would not dare give any spoilers; I want you to have the same experience as I did so that you get to discover for yourself the author's skill in creating and weaving the stories of these lively characters. (Notice the difference in the names of the chapters as all the chapters are named only two different names.) Trust me, you will value your experience reading this book. For me, Ove was an unexpected treasure of a book. I read all the time and yet, I can't think of any other book to compare it to. Maybe a bit of John Irving, but only slightly. When you are through reading this book, pass it along to a friend. Give it as gifts. I know I am.
I absolutely loved this book. I spaced out the last pages because I didn't want the story to end. It was absolutely heart-warming.
This is the way to tell a story. I could not put it down and I did not want it to end.
Interesting mix of characters Makes you smile, laugh, cheer and cry
This was a book that had me within the first few sentences. I could hear Ove's voice (the one I gave him) all the way through to the end. The humor is the dry sometimes sarcastic type that I love. When will his other books be translated???? I cannot wait to see if they are as good.
Ove is a loveable curmudgeon in late middle-age. He is ever so slightly OCD and has a problem with the machinations of society. Ove is very set in his ways and is disdainful of almost everyone he meets. He has a fondness for rules and thinks that anyone who doesn't follow them is a harbinger of chaos. He has always driven a Saab car and thinks that what car a person drives tells a lot about a person. His story is told in a series of flashbacks which makes the reader cognizant of all the loss and sadness that Ove has encountered in his life along with all the many talents he possesses. In the present, over the course of of several months, Ove, with a little help from his friends, gets a new lease on life. Poignant and hysterically funny in equal measure, "A man called Ove" is a heartwarming novel of life, loss, and our intrinsic need to be needed. Skillfully written with charm and wit, this debut novel is a fast read – and one you will remember for a long time. You know you've read a good book when after the last page is turned you are already missing the characters… I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed "The storied life of A.J. Fikry" or "The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry". "A man called Ove" came about as a result of a blog post from Swedish author Fredrik Backman. His readers took to the character and requested more and more. The result was this novel. Like Frederik Backman's blog readers, this reader believes that the world would be a better place with more people like "A man called Ove".
I would recommend this book to anyone who needs a laugh, or a reminder that our life matters in ways we would never imagine. It's a light read. This book helped me to see how much helping others in reality helps ourselves. Letting people into our life can bring happiness. It was written in a humorous way. It was easy to picture each character with the authors description. At first I felt the neighbors were intruders on Oves space and privacy but I loved how they became like family. I couldn't wait to read what would happen next in the life of Ove.
I was so sad when I finished this book because I wanted to keep on reading about this grumpy old man that snuck his way into my heart. You will laugh, you may cry, but overall you will be happy you read this book.
I have read hundreds of books and never left a comment or review until now. Read. This. Book. You won't be sorry.
Just as my headline states...Amazing read! I think we have all met and know someone just like Ove. Sure makes me appreciate that someone more and more! Loved this story!!!
Many memorable quotes.
I recommend this book for several reasons. It is very well written. Structure wise the book is balanced and you end where you begin--plot line. However, the character of Ove changes full circle within that structure. The humor in the book is really sincerely funny,but it serves the purpose of highlighting Ove's sadness. It is a book you can find meaning in even in the things that are not told to you. It is a wonderful book about love, acceptance and more importantly, finding out that living is the best way to celebrate a love one--after they are gone.
We all seem too know someone like this and it warmed my heart from the very beginning. I highly reccomend this book.
I absolutely fell in love with the characters in this story. They are each unique in their own way. But ove is a diamond in the rough so to say. He gives so much and asks nothing in return. As the saying goes, "Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans." A lot of people are very fortunate that his plans continue to fail.
Very much enjoyed this book. Not your run of the mill story line. What a good guy! Kindness!
The best book that I've read in a long time.
This is the best book I have read in a while. A grumpy crusty old man who terribly misses his deceased wife. He wants to join her in Heaven but earthly things keep getting in the way.
I haven't read a book that I've enjoyed as much as this one in a long time. You will laugh out loud as well as cry! I didn't want it to end. Fantastic !!
I enjoyed every word of this book! Best story I've read recently, and I read constantly! I will be recommending this book to everyone and will be eagerly awaiting follow-up novels from this author.
This story is very well told and moves along quickly. The characters, who seem somewhat exaggerated at first, become quite real as the plot develops.
Ove was such a sweet-hearted man! LOVED this book!


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