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Independent forest monitoring
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Independent forest monitoring (IFM) is a tool for assessing and strengthening legal compliance in the forest sector internationally. By complementing official forest law enforcement activities with the objectivity and public credibility of an independent third party, IFM can improve transparency in the short term while contributing to the development of a sound legislative and regulatory framework for responsible forest management[citation needed].
Transparency was emphasized as a key element in reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the Conference of the Parties (COP-15) in Copenhagen in December 2009 in its decisions on methodological guidance for forest monitoring systems.[1]
IFM has been defined by Global Witness as "the use of an independent third party that, by agreement with state authorities, provides an assessment of legal compliance, and observation of and guidance on official forest law enforcement systems."[2]
IFM centres around the establishment of a partnership between an official 'host institution' responsible for oversight of the forest sector and an appointed monitoring organisation. The monitor's principal activity is to conduct field investigations to observe the work of the official law enforcement agency and to document illegal activity in the forest and related trade. These investigations result in the publication of authoritative[citation needed] information on forest operations, which is made widely available to all levels of government, industry, and civil society.
By monitoring official forest law enforcement, IFM enables mechanisms of illegal activity and corruption to be identified. Monitors expect their evidence to be acted on and will pro-actively guard against entrenched resistance to improved governance[citation needed].
IFM has been undertaken in Cambodia, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and piloted in many other countries.
IFM has also been called Independent Monitoring, Independent Observation, and Third Party Observation.
- ^ "Methodological Guidance" (PDF). UNFCC. 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
- ^ Global Witness. (2005). A Guide to Independent Forest Monitoring.
Further reading[edit]
- Resource Extraction Monitoring, Independent Monitor
- IFM pages at Global Witness
- Cameroon IFM site
- The Overseas Development Institute's Verifor project on forest legality verification systems includes discussion of IFM
External links[edit]
- IllegalLogging.info, a networking site providing background information on the key issues in the illegal logging debate


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This is one of those miracles we hear about that can either be acknowledged as coincidence, or luck, or the Universe, or karma--or it can be acknowledged as a direct answer from God given to two people who were at their breaking point last Christmas. While this isn't how every story goes for every person, I share this for our children (or anyone else) who will find themselves at their own breaking point in life. It is written as a reminder that when they think they have done all they can, they may realize there is more they can do.
They can Ask.
"Hi. Ummmmmm, do you know how much money is in our bank account?" He sounded really frustrated.
"Not the exact amount, but it's not much," I answered.
"I'm here in Ohio at the car rental place, trying to pick up the car I reserved. They're telling me I can't get it." He said.
"What? Why? You've already paid for it!" I replied.
"I know, but you have to have at least $200 in your bank account in order to pick it up, they put a hold on that money in case something happens to the car."
"Oh. Oh no...." I trailed off. I didn't know the exact amount in our account, but I did know we did not have $200.
"Yeah. Tomorrow is pay day, but they don't deposit the money in to the account until like two in the morning. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm stranded in the car rental place. It's really late here, and the people I'm staying with tonight--I would feel awful having to wake them up. I barely know them and they're letting me stay as a favor to a mutual friend! And they would have to bring me back by 6:00 in the morning so I can come and pick up the car in time for my interview. This is so humiliating."
"I am so sorry Ben. What are you going to do?"
"I don't know," he paused, and I could hear it in his voice, and in the silence following his answer--it was the sound of someone broken. "I'll figure it out and call you back in a little bit."
"Okay. I love you."
"I love you too," his voice was subdued, the life having gone out of it.
I hung up the phone, leaned over, put my head in my hands, and began to cry. This was not the first time in the past couple of months our bank account had been almost completely empty and we had held our breath until payday.
I knew he had several more upcoming internship interviews. I also knew rent was due in 2 weeks. I knew the amount of money coming in from pay day, and I knew that it was not enough to cover our rent as well as cover the traveling expenses of the interviews. I knew we would have to make a decision.
My chest felt tight. I could picture Ben there in the car rental place, defeated. I knelt down and prayed. For me, for Ben, for the ability to endure this emotionally taxing time.
When he came home from his trip, we sat at the table and talked. It was the most weary, humble, worn-down place I had ever seen my husband.
"I've looked at flights for the next interview, and there's just no way it's going to happen, " he said. "We just don't have enough."
"I know, " I replied softly. "I've been thinking though--do you remember what Paul said to us during their visit a month ago?" My mother in law and her husband Paul had stayed with us for a few days after Claire had been born.
"No, what?" Ben asked.
"He asked us if we had ever prayed and asked God directly for what we need. He asked if we had ever prayed for money. At the time I thought that sounded so...wrong to do. It felt greedy and selfish and temporal. But maybe it's not? I've always prayed and asked for extra strength to get through financially hard times, or for the ability to find more work to pay the bills, or to be able to find someone we can sell some of our things to. God has always answered those prayers...maybe He would answer this one?" I explained.
Looking at me from across the table, Ben shrugged his shoulders and said, "Well it's worth a try I guess. We know right now we're doing everything we can to get through this. We're both working, we're both trying to raise good children, we're both consecrating the time that we can to God and serving others. We're not asking for money for a boat, or more jewelry....we're literally asking so that we can further our chances of getting out of this financial situation, and to finish school."
"We know our hearts are in a good place, and God does too," I agreed.
So that night we knelt down together and again separately, and asked God directly for money.
The next day my mood was somber. I began opening the mail, looking forward to the Christmas cards of friends that always make me so happy.
In the pile was a letter from one of Ben's aunts. I opened up the card, and gasped as money floated out of the card and rested on the counter. I picked up the money and stared. We hadn't heard from this aunt in several years, and she had never sent us money before that I could remember. Goosebumps lined my arms and tears filled my eyes. I could feel God telling me this was a direct answer to the previous night's prayers.
I continued going through the pile of mail when I came across another Christmas card--this time from Ben's grandma in Indiana. When I opened up her card to find a check written from her, with enough money to completely cover one month's worth of rent, I went straight into what I like to call The Ugly Cry. I read her words as tears poured down my face, with her explanation that she and her husband had worked very hard to earn that money and saved it for years, but that she realized it might be needed in our lives. She asked us be wise with it--if it was needed then to use it, and if not, then to put it in an account for our children's college funds.
I could not stop crying, and I'm crying again now as I'm writing these words. I took pictures of the money sent by Ben's aunt and the check sent by his grandma, as well as pictures of the words of love and support they sent along with them.
I sent the pictures to Ben while he was at work, saying that our prayers had been answered. Within seconds he replied, saying he couldn't believe it and could not stop crying either. After texting him, I went into my bedroom, dropped to my knees and cried through my spoken words of gratitude to a God who had answered my prayers, and asked him to bless the lives of those who had allowed Him to work through them.
For the rest of the afternoon my heart felt so full. My eyes were puffy from crying every time I thought of the cards we had received.
Ben called to tell me he wouldn't be home from work until about 10 o'clock, so after dinner I started the bath/bedtime routine on my own. Claire would not stay asleep unless I held her, so I tucked her tiny body into the baby wrap and walked around until I had bounced her to sleep laying against my chest.
I put Leah and June in the bath and they immediately started fighting. Leah (who was having a rough night) began screaming and crying, which woke up Claire who also began crying.
I was trying to lift a dripping, refusing, screeching Leah out of the bath when I heard a knock on the front door. I set Leah back in the bath and tried to calm down Claire. I was flustered and slightly embarrassed to know whoever knocked probably heard the insanity going on inside.
When I opened the front door, there stood our bishop and friend Jon Mabb. My hair was everywhere, my clothes were wet from the shenanigans with Leah in the bath, Claire was crying against my chest and I could still hear screeching from the bathroom. I gave a little laugh and a look like "Well, this is my life! I'm a mess!"
He smiled and said simply, "Merry Christmas. This is from the ward." He handed me a red envelope and turned to walk away.
"Oh, well thanks!" I said, thinking the envelope must be a Christmas card the bishopric was doing for the members of the church.
And then, I remembered.
A few weeks earlier I had seen an email from Bishop Mabb to our ward members, saying there were some families in need for Christmas and to let him know if anyone would like to anonymously donate to them. Ben and I had talked, both wanting to give something to people we loved so much, especially during Christmas. As we talked we realized we sounded nuts--we couldn't even afford our own lives at that point! What were we thinking? "There will be a time and season we can donate money...right now is not our season," we told ourselves. Still, it was hard for us to not do something, so we picked a couple of families we knew could use some help and decided to serve in other ways.
As I held the red envelope in my hand I realized what it was and began to cry again. I had not considered the fact that our family might be one of those he was mentioning. I could barely open the envelope because I was so overcome with emotion. I slid down against the door and sat down on the cold tile floor with Claire still attached to me. I opened the card to find more money, generously donated to us by those doing the work of God. I sat there for several minutes letting the tears fall again, feeling so completely undeserving yet so completely grateful at the same time. I texted the bishop to tell him what this meant to us, I texted Ben to tell him of the third miracle of the day, and I offered another prayer to God, thanking Him for showing us of His awareness of us as individuals, and His love for us as His children.
Growing up, my family used to watch the movie "It's A Wonderful Life" every Christmas. I found it incredibly dull and boring. But about 7 years ago, I bought it and began the tradition of watching it every Christmas Eve while I wrapped presents.
Watching it as an adult was a different experience. I began to completely understand and relate to every emotion George Bailey felt. I watched as his shoulders grew more hunched and the furrow in his eyebrows grew deeper, and I knew that weight and worry. So did Ben. I watched as he almost threw the broken piece of the stair banister and Ben and I knew that inner rage and desperation. I watched as he pretended to fix Zuzu's petals in order to preserve his daughter's innocent happiness, and I knew that feeling of love and the need to protect. I watched as he yelled at the teacher for being the culprit of his child's illness and I knew that feeling of the need to find blame somewhere, anywhere. I watched as he stood on the bridge staring into the dark water, and I knew that feeling of wondering if the lives Ben and I have lived really even mattered, or if somehow we were just doomed to feel like it would always be this excruciatingly painful uphill struggle with ridiculous hurdles that continued to land in our paths.
But it's the final scene of that movie, that makes me Ugly Cry no matter how many times I watch it. George, Mary, and their children, surrounded by those whose lives they have affected by love and service, being lifted from their darkest moment by those who could give their love and service in return.
As I sat on the tile floor leaning against our front door, I knew it was only myself and my baby in that room but I also knew what the Bailey family was feeling as I wept, surrounded by the knowledge that our lives do matter, and though monetarily we could not show up for others...that the ways we had shown up, for each other and for others, in the eyes of God, had been enough.
This was a life-changing day for Ben and I, and we both know we will never be the same. Because we asked, God answered. We were able to pay our rent and Ben was able to go to the rest of his internship interviews, specifically to the interview that brought us to San Antonio. Our financial struggle did not end that day, but our needs were taken care of. It was enough. It was so much.
We are forever grateful.
"All you can take with you
Is that which you've given away."
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Free As a Bird
A number of recent blogposts show how astoundingly easy it is to start a fake narrative and keep it going. A lie can keep ripping through explanations easier than a high velocity bullet through a paper wall. For example, journalist Mark Singer wrote about a book about how he was conned into slandering Dan Quayle by a guy called Brett Kimberlin.
This book relates a journalist's worst nightmare: of getting deeply involved in a "big story" based on information from a single source who turns out to be a world-class liar. During the 1992 Presidential campaign Singer wrote a story for the New Yorker about the allegations by Brett Kimberlin, a former marijuana dealer then in prison for a series of bombings, that he had once sold marijuana to Vice President Dan Quayle. (The cartoonist Garry Trudeau was another journalist who pushed this story hard.) After signing a book contract to expand the story, Singer invested more and more time,and became frustrated by holes, inconsistencies and dead ends in Kimberlin's tale. ...
After Garry Trudeau in "Doonesbury," the New Yorker's Mark Singer was possibly the most prominent journalist to sympathetically report allegations that convict Brett Kimberlin had sold marijuana to Dan Quayle when the Vice-President was a law student. ... Now free, the former dope smuggler helps ship commodities to Ukraine; but when Kimberlin (with Singer in tow) had a chance to meet Quayle at a book signing, he refused to confront him. Quayle, it now seems, deserves apologies. 50,000 first printing.
Dan Quayle's reputation is restored, right? Probably not. If he's remembered at all it will be as the only man who ever lived that was more stupid than George W. Bush. But Kimberlin kept going. Today he is suing everyone, but most especially bloggers, though he will sue anyone at a pinch. Patterico's Pontifications notes the incredible extent of Kimberlin's legal action.
Convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin has filed over 100 lawsuits, including a lawsuit for insufficiently provocative porn and a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons for not allowing him to have an electric guitar in prison. Blogger Aaron Walker recently revealed how Kimberlin made false statements as part of an effort to have Walker prosecuted for an assault Walker says never happened. Charges against Walker were dropped after a video was located showing that Kimberlin's account was false in important respects.
How does he get away with it? By getting away with it. The only recorded instance in which Bill Ayers expressed admiration for America was when he realized that he could escape punishment more easily than he thought. "Guilty as sin, free as a bird, it's a great country".
Blogger Robert Stacy McCain may have accidentally found stumbled onto part of the reason for impunity. McCain is in hiding after becoming the latest target of Kimberlin. McCain had discovered that Kimberlin is associated with Democratic Party operatives and wrote about it.
FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION. Convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin on Monday continued his effort to silence those who write about his criminal past by contacting my wife's employer, claiming that I was "harassing" him. The resulting security concern required immediate relocation if I was to be able to continue writing about the case of Kimberlin, a violent felon, perjurer and admitted tax cheat who is employed as the director of a 501(c)3 non-profit that has collected $1.8 million in contributions since 2005 ...
Kimberlin is a known associate of Neal Rauhauser, a Democrat campaign consultant who has described himself as a computer "hacker." Kimberlin, director of the tax-exempt Justice Through Music Project, is also involved in another tax-exempt group, Velvet Revolution, which has gained national attention by demanding criminal prosecution of high-profile figures including Republican strategist Karl Rove, U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue, and the late Internet news entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart. Kimberlin's name also surfaced last year in connection with the so-called "Anonymous" international hacker conspiracy.
Kimberlin probably realized what every person of a certain character long ago found out: that the best way to stay in circulation is to make yourself useful to powerful people. In that way, while they may eventually ditch you, you'll have a longer run than otherwise.
William "Boss" Tweed of Tammany Hall knew how to associate with men of enterprise and daring. His motto was "as long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?" Admittedly he had a point. But you need people to help you control the narrative. That's where the Occupy Boys, the Anti-Racist Action Groups and lawyers are for. As long as you have them working the magic you are probably going to keep counting the votes.
Which is why story leads like "Democrats are dreading a Wisconsin wipeout" by Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post are so startling. The question is not: 'how do they get away with it' but why do tried and tested methods start failing suddenly? How come it stops working? The answer in the case of Boss Tweed is instructive: he began to fall when he ran New York into the ground.
Tweed's shenanigans "provoked an international crisis of confidence in New York City's finances, and, in particular, in its ability to repay its debts. European investors were heavily positioned in the city's bonds and were already nervous about its management – only the reputations of the underwriters were preventing a run on the city's securities. New York's financial and business community knew that if the city's credit was to collapse, it could potentially bring down every bank in the city with it."
When Tweed started to become bad for everyone's business he found his friends dwindling in number. He crossed an invisible but definite frontier. Kimberlin can probably keep going until he reaches a point, maybe on the 201st or 402nd lawsuit, when he becomes more trouble than he is worth; then the influential backers will find it more beneficial to sell him out to win public acclaim than to keep backing his plays.
Why do people like Tweed or their lesser copies never notice that they've gone too far? One reason is that they constantly believe that they haven't gone far enough. Ezra Klein, surveying the Occupy Wall Street actions in late 2011, believed they were at a "tipping point". They were they faltering because they were not pure enough.
Right now, the protests are at a tipping point. ... What these Democrats and liberal-activist groups are looking for is something similar to what conservatives found in the tea party: an opportunity to recharge and rebrand. Governance exhausts a movement. The compromises sap it of its purity; the institutional ties rob it of its authenticity; and in times when the American people are unhappy, the consequences undermine its agenda ...
an enormous amount of the energy there is going into sustaining the community at Zucotti Park, which now has to manage food, sanitation, a newspaper (The Occupied Wall Street Journal), marches, a library, a decision-making process, a lost-and-found, and more.
America didn't need another ordinary political group, one tied down by mundane concerns like picking up the trash and earning a living. And maybe Occupy would provide the pure bracing air of unalloyed militancy to see how far down that road you can go. Klein would watch and if they failed, well too bad.
That is the sad fate of men and movements 'of character'. As long as they keep winning, there will be people to support them -- from a distance. Once they falter out comes the hand washbasin. Robert Stacy McCain will come home when Kimberlin comes to the end of his rampage.
And then nobody will know him. Nobody ever does.
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Year 2016
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Begins June 22nd register by June 20th
Maine Junior Golf Club Application
There will be an awards banquet, golf and a Junior skills challenge on
August 12th at 5:30 pm for all.
The Maine Junior Golf Club Tour continues to grow every year and
provides friendly competition for kids ages 10-18
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Snag Ages 5-7
Tuesdays 8:30-10
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Eagle Ages 8-18
Wednesdays 10:30-12:30
July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, August 3rd and 10th
Michael Clendenning saw a need for junior golfers and started The Maine Junior Golf
Club in 2007. The organizations goal is to teach the game of golf to juniors
(boys and girls) from ages 5 to 18.
In 2009 we expanded and with the help from local player and golf instructor
Gary Tourtillotte, we were able to offer more juniors the ability to learn the
In 2010 Mike was approached by a couple of businesses that wanted to
support the youth program. With the help of the local businesses and
individuals we have been able to train, develop and buy equipment to
improve the program. We believe, through the lessons and the golf
tournaments, that we can teach some valuable life lessons as well. Golf is a
great game in which you can learn individual skills as well as team skills.
They learn such things as how to survive adversity, discipline, how to set
goals, and best of all respect and care for those around you. We believe that
the sooner you learn these skills the better you will be.
In 2011 with the help from the Vanadestine family and friends we established
the Herb Vanadestine Scholarship program to award graduates of high
school help with their college education. We have the Herb Vanadestine
2-person best ball event the first Saturday in August to raise money for the
$500 scholarships in Herb Vanadestines name for their future education.
In 2012 Gary came up with a great idea on introducing kids to the game of
golf through using a program called S.N.A.G.. This has turned into a great
learning tool as well as a great way for anyone to come out and try the
game. We are introducing a 9 hole snag golf course to our practice facility
for weekends so every can try it.
In 2013 Michael became a First Tee Coach and brought The First Tee
program and all of its opportunities to better our youth with their life skills
and nine healthy habits. We are excited for the youth and what the kids can
achieve with this program in the future.
Barnes Brook Golf Course is such a great place to learn and to play
this game. We really enjoy having the juniors play.
Junior memberships are only $125 for all year long -- how can you go wrong
Thank you for the all the Juniors that played this summer. And Many
thanks to the instructors Michael Clendenning TFT, PGA, WGTF, USGTF
Gary Tourtillotte USGTF, and our volunteers. We had a great time.
We would like to thank the many
sponsors that make this junior program
possible in 2015. Please say thank you
to them next time you see them.
Hole in One Sponsor
Penobscot Valley
Pat's Pizza Lincoln Maine
Dr Durwin Libby DDS
Victor & Cheryl Jipson
Enfield Citgo
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Thorton Brothers
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Ramsay's Welding Shop
Acres Away Realty
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Garfield Family
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|Marshall Foster Winning a $500
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Andy and Mike Vanadestine
presenting 2011
|Brody Libby Winning a $500
2011 Herb Vanadestine Scholarship
Andy , Mike, and
Dollie Vanadestine presenting
|Logan winning 13-15 yrs old
|Bailey winning 10-12 yrs old
|Wyatt winning 15-18 yrs old
|Rachel Vanadestine & Wyatt Foster
Herb Vanadestine Scholarship
Dolly Vanadestine presenting 2012
|Nick winning 15-18 yrs old
|Ashley winning 10-12 yrs old
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Mumbai: The Additional Municipal Commissioner in Mumbai has confirmed that a surrogate baby boy was born to actor Shah Rukh Khan and his wife Gauri Khan on May 27 in a suburban hospital. It is still unclear whether a sex determination test, which is illegal, was carried out.
The National Inspection and Monitoring Committee had filed a legal complaint against the Khan couple for engaging in sex selection of their baby. The complaint also names the actor's alleged doctor and the hospital in question, though both had denied any involvement.
The actor, who is a proud father of two teenaged children - Aryaan and Suhana - has not yet confirmed the surrogacy reports. If he confirms, then Shah Rukh and Gauri Khan won't be the only Bollywood couple to have opted for surrogacy. Aamir Khan and wife Kiran Rao had their first child Azaad back in 2011 through a surrogate.


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Birds of a feather (computing)
In computing, BoF (birds of a feather) can refer to:
- An informal discussion group. Unlike special interest groups or working groups, BoFs are informal and often formed in an ad hoc manner. The acronym is used by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to denote initial meetings of members interested in a particular issue.
- A BoF session, an informal meeting at conferences, where the attendees group together based on a shared interest and carry out discussions without any pre-planned agenda.
The first use of this term among computer specialists is uncertain, but it was employed during DECUS conferences and may have been used at SHARE user group meetings in the 1960s.[1]
BoFs can facilitate networking and partnership formation among subgroups, including functionally oriented groups such as CEOs or geographically oriented groups.[2] BoFs generally allow for more audience interaction than the panel discussions typically seen at conventions; the discussions are not completely unguided, though, as there is still a discussion leader.[3]
The term is derived from the proverb "birds of a feather flock together". The (idiomatic) phrase "birds of a feather" meaning "people having similar characters, backgrounds, interests, or beliefs". In old poetic English, "birds of a feather" means birds which have the same kind of feathers, so the proverb refers to the fact that birds congregate with birds of their own species.
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- ^ Macz, Mad (2002). Internet Underground: The Way of the Hacker. PageFree Publishing, Inc. ISBN 1930252536.
- ^ ""Birds of a Feather" Sessions Highlight Revamped ISPCON Spring Conference". Business Wire. March 13, 2001. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
- ^ "Mac Users to Drive Discussions During Birds of a Feather Meetings at Macworld Conference & Expo". Business Wire. May 18, 2004. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
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You need to stay on top of the trends. Styles change season-by-season, and the best way to remain in-the-know is to read gothic fashion magazines or blogs. They usually share the new trends before anyone else.
There are so many options in fashionable hair accessories. Accessories for your hair include scrunchies in a myriad of colors and fabrics, headbands, elegant barrettes, and even clip-on hair extensions. Your wardrobe should have several of these. For example, if you want to look athletic, wear an athletic suit and a matching ponytail holder. It is great to give yourself options with your hair; try wearing a matching headband.
Stop pumping the brush heavily when you are wearing mascara. This is going to cause the brush to become damaged, and thus applying your makeup will become much more of a chore. This inreases bacteria within your mascara. If you want to make certain your brush is coated, move it a bit within the container.
Use the entire beauty product up before throwing them out. For a products that come in tubes, think about using a squeezer that is made for toothpaste. Bottles can be turned upside down, or on their side, to help you extract the last bits of products. You can also take the the tops off when it reaches the end. You can save money by doing this.
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Do not simply go with the general consensus when it comes to goth fashion. What works for fashion models won't necessarily work for you. Wear things that are your taste and not everything you read in magazines. Listen to your own instincts. They will not mislead you.
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I feel like before I start this post I should just write a little disclaimer. Roaccutane is a very dangerous and severe drug however personally for me I felt it was the only option left as I will explain further on. Please don't read this blog post and think that it is a miracle drug and a miraculous acne cure; it was a decision I thought about for many many months once I had took everything into consideration.
As a teenager I had always been a bit spotty but I would never say I had suffered from 'acne' it was just a few teenage spots here and there. I had been on and off antibiotics for my spots throughout my teenage years but it wasn't until May 2014 when I was 23 that my skin spiralled out of control.
I literally woke up one morning with about 20 cystic yellow heads. They came from nowhere. I hadn't changed my skincare routine, foundation, washing powder . . Nothing. And from that day on the cystic spots kept coming and coming. I tried every product under the sun, you name it; I tried it! Even a Chinese herbal remedy which cost £40 a week and after 8 weeks nothing had even remotely changed. I cut dairy out my diet and yet again saw no change in my skin. Things continued to get worse and worse and by July 2014 I was having to wear four layers of L'oreal true match foundation to cover my cystic acne, yes four layers!! I went to my GP with make up on, and I think this is where I made a mistake, as all he did was give me a topical treatment and told me it was hormonal. Again it did not work and my skin continued to get worse and worse every single day! Back to the doctors I went in late August 2014 and this is how my skin looked by then.
As you can imagine going from clear(ish) skin to this in a matter of months with no explanation was really hard to cope with. Not only that but it was so painful and sore that even washing my face made me wince. So when I went back to the doctors for a second time, this time without make up on, as soon as I walked in to the room the doctor (this time a lady) knew exactly why I was there. She suggested a course of Roaccutane which I had previously read about (mostly horror stories) and she referred me to the dermatologist.
You can only get a referral to a dermatologist for acne if you have exhausted all other options (which I quite clearly had), it effects your every day life (I would cry every morning when looking in the mirror and it stopped me going out as much) & it is starting to or will scar your skin. So I went home and deliberated for weeks, did all my research, spoke to my family and Damny endlessly and finally decided to go for it. It was getting very close to a year before our wedding and I was at the end of my tether thinking I couldn't walk down the aisle with such painful, red, cystic acne.
I waited and waited for my referral to come through for the dermatologist knowing full well the waiting list was extremely long but by late October I still hadn't heard anything so luckily my Mum paid for a private consultation to get the ball rolling. If you have ever googled Roaccutane or accutane as it used to be called you will understand the pure fear you have towards this drug however once I met with the dermatologist he really put my mind at ease and I was lucky enough to then be transferred back through the NHS so I could get my monthly prescription at the normal price rather than paying privately.
I started to take Roaccutane at the end of October 2014 and I was on it for 9 months. I started my first month on 20mg, second month went to 30mg and spent the other 7 months on 40mg. They offered me the chance to increase my dose to 50mg which would have shortened my length on the drug (as I had a milligram target to hit rather than a set timescale) but I was quite happy coping with the side effects at 40mg as they weren't too severe. With Roaccutane you need to monitored every month and have your bloods taken if I remember correctly they always took 4 tubes of blood every month. You cannot get pregnant on Roaccutane and I was made to sign a disclaimer at the beginning basically agreeing that I have been fully made aware if I got pregnant their is a high chance the baby will have severe birth defects, so one of the blood tests is to check you are not pregnant every month. The list of side effects is endless with this drug but personally I didn't suffer too bad with anything in particular and I always reminded myself whether I would choose dry lips or painful cystic acne and it never seemed as bad. I had dry cracked lips, a bloody dry nose (but never actually had a nose bleed like some people do), I couldn't drink alcohol as Roaccutane effects your liver but I also had amazingly dry hair and could get away with not washing it for a week, my face dried up but when I say that what I actually mean is it went from the most oily face in the world to NORMAL. I stopped using powder and my make up lasted all day!
As I said I spent 9 months on Roaccutane and I've been off it for about 6 months and I'm still spot free, I have heard a lot of people who say their acne has returned later on but you can't control what the future holds and if that happens to me I will cross that bridge when I get to it but the dermatologist said for 90% of people it leaves them acne free for the rest of their life.
Here's a picture of my skin now totally make up free.
This blog post is not me recommending Roaccutane in any way shape or form as I am in no position to do so as it effects everyone differently. But as I had spoken about my adult acne in previous post a few people messaged me asking for a more in depth post so I hope this helps a bit. I seriously did my research on this drug and it was not something I took lightly at all. I spent my life going back and fourth saying yes I'll go on it one day and no the next day. The side effects can be extremely serious, the best thing I did was speak to almy lovely & understanding GP and a great dermatologist who were both there for me the whole way through. They monitor you so closely that there isn't a lot of room for error and they will pick up any issues with your endless blood tests or through all the questionnaires you have to fill out. The main thing I realised was even though I felt alone, I wasn't. There are so many people out there with information and advice around acne and YouTube was my saviour (and kept me sane!) at the time! Thanks for reading.
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docker/ucp restoreEstimated reading time: 2 minutes
These are the docs for UCP version 2.2.22
To select a different version, use the selector below.
Restore a UCP cluster from a backup
docker container run --rm -i \
--name ucp \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
docker/ucp \
restore [command options] < backup.tar
This command installs a new UCP cluster that is populated with the state of
a previous UCP manager node using a tar file generated by the
backup command.
All UCP settings, users, teams and permissions will be restored from the backup
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The restore command can be performed on any manager node of an existing
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If restore is performed on a different swarm than the one where the backup file was taken on, the Cluster Root CA of the old UCP installation will not be restored. This will invalidate any previously issued Admin Client Bundles and all administrator will be required to download new client bundles after the operation is completed. Any existing Client Bundles for non-admin users will still be fully operational.
By default the backup tar file is read from stdin. You can also bind-mount the
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uninstall-ucpbefore attempting the restore operation on an existing UCP cluster.
If your swarm-mode cluster has lost quorum and the original set of managers are not recoverable, you can attempt to recover a single-manager cluster with
docker swarm init --force-new-cluster.
You can restore from a backup that was taken on a different manager node or a different swarm altogether.
| Option | Description |
--debug, D|Enable debug mode|
--jsonlog|Produce json formatted output for easier parsing|
--interactive, i|Run in interactive mode and prompt for configuration values|
--passphrase|Decrypt the backup tar file with the provided passphrase|
--san|Add subject alternative names to certificates. For example, ``--san www1.acme.com --san www2.acme.com
|The network address to advertise to other nodes. Format: IP address or network interface name|
|--unlock-key`|The unlock key for this swarm-mode cluster, if one exists.|


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HARRISBURG, Pa., May 7 /PRNewswire/ --The Independent State Store Union today sent a letter to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board denouncing their Mother's Day radio advertisement campaign suggesting that all Pennsylvanians buy their mothers vodka for Mother's Day.
ISSU represents the managers in the state store system all across Pennsylvania.
"Your Mother's Day promotional radio ad program costing $142,000 is more damaging to the common good of all Pennsylvanians than the mere dollars expended. You refuse as Board and chief staff members to make any decision that is contrary to the most outrageous marketing strategies of the alcohol beverage industry no matter what effect they have on the public good. You are collectively the number one drug pushers in Pennsylvania. As puppets of the alcohol beverage industry, you have abdicated any role of being a regulator against the bottom line interests of the industry," says Ed Cloonan, Information Director for ISSU.
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Centuries ago, the Sun and Moon had 9 children together. Lord Moon feared the power these children would gain, but they eventually escaped him and fell to earth. 1 was separated, and trapped in the darkness of an abyss. The other children took the land of Rokugan for their own. They held a challenge duel, for the right to rule, and the duel was won by Lord Hantei. The other 7 children of the Sun and Moon went out into the world, and gathered around them human families to aid and serve them. They became the lords and ladies of the land, under Emperor Hantei.
The Clans of Rokugan
The seven sibling's of Emperor Hantei were the founders of seven great clans. Players in L5R choose one clan for their character to belong to, or choose to be ronin, belonging to no clan.
- Crab – founded by Lord Hida, the Crab hold the border of Rokugan against the invasion of a supernatural army of oni and other creatures of darkness from the south. They are looked down upon by many of the other clans for favoring honesty over courtesy, and having no interest in any activity other then warfare.
- Crane – artists and artisans, the clan founded by Lady Doji specializes in beauty. And there is little they love more than a beautiful political maneuver. They have a great deal of influence in Rokugan because every Emperor since the original Hantei has married a Crane.
- Dragon – Lord Togashi was known for his gift of foresight – he chose not to take part in the duel for the throne, because he foresaw the outcome (his brother Hida thought him a coward). The clan that follows him lives in the mountains and seeks answers to questions unknown. They are not the greatest fighters, or greatest mages, but somehow they are able to perform feats no other clan can understand.
- Lion – Lord Torturi lost the duel with Emperor Hantei when he lost control of his temper. His descendants are the masters of military strategy and tactics. They do not have the Crane's skill in politics, and have lost much over the years because of it.
- Phoenix – the children of Lord Shiba are masters of magic. They are the most powerful and respected mages in Rokugan. They are also mocked for their peace loving nature. The Phoenix are the only clan ruled not by a Daimyo descended from one of the children of Sun and Moon, but by a council of Shugenja (mages).
- Scorpion – every court has its secrets, every door has its key. Lord Bayushi understood the power of secrets, and of shadows. His descendants know everything there is to know of the courts and clans of Rokugan. They pull strings, entrap and strike from the shadows. In spite of their (well earned) reputation, the Scorpions do have the good of the Empire at heart . . . but someone needs to be willing to get their hands dirty.
- Unicorn – Emperor Hantei asked his sister, Lady Shoji, to investigate the lands to the north, beyond Rokugan. After 800 years, her children returned. 200 years later, they do not understand the society of Rokugan, the rules of the court, or 'civilized' behavior. They are looked on alternately as children, or barbarians. They brought back to Rokugan with them horses like the Empire had never seen before.
These are the seven Major Clans.
There are also a host of minor clans, including:
- Mantis- sea farers
- Dragonfly- seers
- Fox- masters of the far north and the allies of the kitsune
- and many others
Importance of Clan in Legend of the Five Rings
What clan a person belongs to determines how they are seen by everyone they meet, whether or not they are anything like the stereotype of their clan.
Also, a character's starting skills and equipment are largely determined by his clan, who over sees his training.
Loyalty to the clan, and the clan's Daimyo is the most important virtue of the Rokugani. A person who has no clan has nothing.
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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER FOUR & FORTY– Part IX
Ezekiel, the Priest-Prophet in Type and Antitype: Their Work & Message Before Four Winds Unleashed
From Prophets and Kings by E.G. White, "The Asssyrian Captivity" chapter, we read:
"The closing years of the ill-fated kingdom of Israel were marked with violence and bloodshed such as had never been witnessed even in the worst periods of strife and unrest under house of Ahab. For 2 centuries and more the rulers of the ten [northern] tribes of Israel had been sowing the wind; now they were reaping the whirlwind. King after king was assassinated to make way for others ambitious to rule. Every principle of justice was set aside; those who should have stood before the nations of earth as the depositaries of divine grace, 'dealt treacherously against the Lord' (Hos. 5: 7) and with one another." p. 279.
"The iniquity of Israel during the last half century before the Assyrian captivity, was like that of days of Noah, and of every other age when men have rejected God and given themselves wholly to evil-doing. The exaltation of nature above the God of nature, the worship of the creature instead of the Creator, has always resulted in the grossest of evils. Thus when the people of Israel, in their worship of Baal [sun-god] and Ashtoreth [moon-goddess], paid supreme homage to the forces of nature, they severed their connection with all that is uplifting and ennobling, and fell an easy prey to temptation. With the defenses of the soul broken down, the misguided worshippers had no barrier against sin, and yielded themselves to the evil passions of the human heart."pp. 281-2.
"Against the marked oppression, the flagrant injustice, the unwonted luxury and extravagance, the shameless feasting and drunkenness, the gross licentiousness and debauchery, of their age, the prophets lifted their voices; but in vain were their protests, in vain their denunciation of sin." pp. 282.
"The evils that had overspread the land, had become incurable; and upon Israel was pronounced the dread sentence; 'Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.' 'The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it.' Hos. 4: 17; 9: 7." p. 285. "For a season, these predicted judgments were stayed, and during the long reign of Jeroboam II, the armies of Israel gained signal victories; but this time of apparent prosperity, wrought no change in the heart of the impenitent, and it was finally decreed, 'Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.' Amos 7: 11." p. 286.
"To this the prophet firmly responded: 'Thus saith the Lord . . . Israel shall surely go into captivity.' Amos. 7: 17. The words spoken against the apostate tribe were literally fulfilled; yet the destruction of the kingdom came gradually. . . . In judgment the Lord remembered mercy . . . In the days of Pekah, who reigned 20 years, Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, invaded Israel, and carried away with him a multitude of captives . . and were scattered among the heathen, in lands far removed from Palestine. From this terrible blow the northern kingdom never recovered." p. 287 "In the terrible judgments brought upon the ten tribes, the Lord had a wise and merciful purpose. That which He could no longer do through them in the land of their fathers, He would seek to accomplish by scattering them among the heathen."p. 292. "God's favor toward Israel [as the "chosen people"] had always been conditional on their obedience." p. 293.
However, it also stands on record that 145,000 mighty men of valor" of Sennacherib's Assyrian army were destroyed in one night by just "one angel of the Lord," delivering King Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem through the fervent petitions of the righteous prophet Isaiah. This merciful deliverance and others like it found throughout the Bible, is an emphatic reminder and stinging rebuke to all whose mouths praise and worship God, professing faith in Him yet in their hearts, as revealed by their panicky reactions and elaborate "survival plans" reveal they don't really trust God but "fear what man can do to them"—from the "New World Order" paranoia to the "Y2K Crisis" down to this current national and global environment of confusion, instability, unrest, angst, and fanciful conspiracy theories.
Few Christians qualify to be inductees into the Hall of Faith of Hebrews 11. But God, in His love, wisdom, and mercy, allows mysterious trials to come to His people, as of old, not to hurt us but to reveal our true condition and purify through sanctification a people in the divinely-tended furnace of affliction even as silver and gold are purified.
Ezekiel, the Priest-Prophet
Many Christians have and will go to their graves never having read the book(s) of Ezekiel (Daniel, and Revelation),pleading the excuse invented by "the father of lies" and propagated by those who stand to benefit from the ignorance of the end-time truths these books reveal, claiming that "only theologians, Bible scholars, and clergymen can interpret them for the laity." Such are the crafty "wiles" of the devil and his agencies!
Ezekiel means "God will strengthen." The SDA Bible Dictionary, Commentary Reference Series, Vol. 8, art."Ezekiel," pp. 335-6 says:
"Ezekiel was a priest, the son of Buzi, born in Judah but transported to Babylon with the group that went into Captivity with Jehoiachin in 597 B. C. (Eze. 1: 1-3). He was then about 25 years of age if "the thirteenth year" (ch. 1;1) is a reference to his age (cf. v. 2). He was with a group of Jews settled as Tel-abib [(chs. 1:1, 2; 15) by "the river Chebar" (ch. 1: 1) and irrigation canal known from cuneiform records as Nar Kabari, which passed the city of Nippur.
Archeological evidence testifies to a large Jewish settlement in this vicinity during the time of the Babylonian captivity. Ezekiel was happily married [God requires that His true priests be married, never celibate!], but his wife died about 9 years after their captivity began (ch. 24: 1, 16). He seems to have a house of his own (Eze. 3: 24; 8: 1; cf. Jer. 9: 25).
In the fifth year of his captivity he was called to the prophetic office (Eze. 1: 2, 3; 2: 3), and served in this capacity for some 22 years (ch. 29: 17), from about 593 to 571 B.C. At a time when the Temple lay in ruins and the people were in exile it was particularly appropriate that the offices of priest and prophet should be united in one person.
Jeremiah [author of Jeremiah and Lamentations], whose ministry was, in part, contemporary with that of Ezekiel, was likewise, a priest-prophet (Jer. 1:1), as was Zechariah, and also doubtless others. (Zech. 1:1; cf. Ezra 5:1; 6: 14; Neh. 12: 4, 16). In a special sense Ezekiel was God's messenger to the Jews in captivity, as Jeremiah was to the Jews who remained in Judah and Jerusalem, and as Daniel was to Nebuchadnezzar and the court of Babylon. All three were divinely commissioned with the purpose of securing the divine objectives in the Captivity. Apparently Ezekiel was well liked by the people to whom he bore his inspired messages, but his mission seems to have met with limited success (Eze.20: 49; 33: 32).
Ezekiel, Book of. – "The book containing the messages of Ezekiel the prophet to the Jews of the Babylonian exile from 593/92 to 571/70 B.C. In the English Bible Ezekiel follows the writings of Jeremiah and precedes those of Daniel. In Hebrew Bibles Ezekiel is preceded by Jeremiah and followed by Hosea, the book of Daniel being classified in the section known as the Hagiographa, or Writings. The book of Ezekiel seems to have been accepted into the prophetic canon at an early date, and its right to a place there has never been challenged. Unlike many other books of the OT, Ezekiel is usually recognized as genuine even by critical scholars, although some attacks have been made upon it.
By the time of the Babylonian captivity more than 8 centuries had passed since the formal covenant at Mount Sinai by which Israel as a nation had accepted God's invitation to become His chosen people and had pledged itself to Him as theocratic ruler. In the divine purpose the Jewish people, by strict obedience to God's wise and just requirements, were to reflect God's character and to become the recipients of spiritual and material blessings that would testify to the nations of the earth of the superiority of the worship and service of the true God above all false gods. But continued and increasing apostasy finally made it clear that only by the most severe measures could the Jewish nation ever be expected to realize its high mission.
The people had forgotten that it was only by virtue of their covenant agreement with God that they occupied the land of Promise, and apostasy meant the forfeit of that right. Accordingly, God sent them to exile to learn under adverse circumstances the lessons they had failed to learn in times of prosperity. [He who is "the same yesterday, today, and forever" works on the same principle today with individuals, families, churches, and even nations professing to be Christian!], namely, that they must accept the responsibility that the leaders of Israel, who were chiefly at fault, should be sent into exile (Isa. 3: 12; 9: 16; Eze. 34: 2-19; Dan. 1: 3, 4), but that the vast majority of the people were to remain in their homeland, awaiting there the return of a chastened leadership. In order that the people might understand and cooperate with the divine purpose in the Captivity, God sent the prophet Jeremiah to instruct those who remained behind, and commissioned Ezekiel to be the spokesman to the exiles in Babylon. Simultaneously God sent Daniel as His ambassador to the court of Babylon, to secure Nebuchadnezzar's submission to, and cooperation with, His purpose.
As Ezekiel himself relates, he "was among the captives by the river of Chebar" (Eze. 1: 1), probably at Tel-abib (ch. 3: 15), having been transported there with the second contingent of exiles, at the time of Jehoiachin's captivity in 587 B. C., from which event the numerous chronological notices in the book are computed (Eze. 1: 2). Apparently the exiles at Tel-abib were permitted to administer their own local affairs through a group of "elders" (see chs 8: 1; 14: 1; 20: 1, 3), and permitted to communicate with the leaders who remained in Jerusalem (Jer. 29: 1, 24-29). As a whole, the exiles doubtless led a reasonably normal social and economic life (see ch. 29: 5-10, 280.
Ezekiel was called to the prophetic office in midsummer, in 593/92 B.C. (Eze. 1:2). Whereas former prophets had largely been content simply to date their messages by noting the reign of the king under which the messages were given, Ezekiel and Jeremiah often provide practically complete chronological information, giving the month and date as well as the year, so that it is possible to correlate the messages with specific historical developments.
This greatly helps in understanding the import of the successive messages, since each is thus dated. Ezekiel's ministry, at least in so far as his recorded messages are concerned, seems to have been concentrated largely within the 7 years immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 586 B.C. and in the next few months thereafter. His ministry extended at least some 15 years later, to 571/70 B.C.
Captivity and Restoration. – If a title were to be given the book appropriate to its contents, perhaps none would serve better than "Captivity and Restoration," since these subjects are the 2 foci around which the messages cluster. Chapters 1-33 are concerned with the former; chapters 34-48 deal with the latter, the arrival of news concerning the fall of Jerusalem (ch. 33: 21) logically dividing the book into 2 parts.
The constantly recurring theme that binds the 2 sections together is, "Ye shall know that I am the Lord" (chs 6:7; 7: 4; etc.). This expression or its equivalent occurs more than 60 times and emphasizes the fundamental cause of Israel's failure hitherto—they did not understand or appreciate God's righteous character or the exalted purpose and destiny that the covenant relationship and destiny that the covenant relationship vouchsafed to them as a nation.
The Captivity was ordained to teach them this all-important lesson. Messages borne by Ezekiel prior to the arrival of word that [the supposedly-invincible] Jerusalem had fallen were designed to secure the cooperation of the exiles with God's plan for the Captivity. The exiles were to submit to Nebuchadnezzar (for a period of 70 years; Jer. 25: 12; 29: 10, and compare to Dan. 9: 24-27 of the 70-week prophecy].
About the time Ezekiel received his call to the prophetic office in Babylonia, King Zedekiah at Jerusalem was entertaining envoys from neighboring nations seeking an alliance to rise in revolt and throw off the Babylonian yoke (Jer. 27: 2, 3), Jeremiah warned that the yokes of wood, they proposed to break would be replaced with yokes of iron (see ch 28: 10, 12). Among the false prophets at Jerusalem were some who predicted the end of the Captivity and the return of the captives "within two full years" (vs 3, 4, 11). The Jews in Babylonia apparently shared the expectation of a brief captivity ( see ch 19: 28). It was these circumstances that led Jeremiah to counsel submission to God's plan for an extended captivity." (Continued next week)


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On Friday & Saturday, March 15-16, Jessie Cox will be presenting at the Sacred Heart Seminary as a part of the first Black Catholic Convocation in Detroit. He will be speaking about "New Evangelization," which coincides with one of the Archbishop's seven priorities.
The Sacred Heart Seminary is located at 2701 Chicago Boulevard Detroit, MI 48206 (313) 883-8500
For more information, please contact Jessie Cox at (313) 927-1404


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The 'yield' keyword in Ruby was something I really struggled to wrap my head around when it was first introduced to me. It took a fair bit of reading to finally click. Time well spent, I think, because getting a workable understanding of yield has by extension deepened my understanding of functions and blocks in the greater context of Ruby.
Put bluntly, a yield statement is used within a function to literally yield (stop) the execution of that function to a particular block of code. A block of code is anything contained within the parameters of a pair of curly brackets
{ } or the keywords
do and
Consider the following lines of code:
This is the terminal output:
The first puts statement executes no problem. The second (line 4), however, has to wait for the block of code we've injected into the yield statement (within the curly brackets that follow the method call) to execute – whatever this may be. In this case it's simply another puts statement, however this functionality can be utilised for far more useful things. I'll get into these later.
Our previous yield statement is pretty useless. In its current state any variables we declare within the function aren't accessible to the code 'injected' into the yield block (contained within the curly brackets). For example, the following code..
…will throw us this error:
This is because the variable ('var') is not accessible for the yield block to use – it is 'scoped' out of it. In order for us to be able to operate on it within the yield block, we need to pass it in as a parameter when calling on yield. Let's modify the function in light of this:
Within the pipes (
| |) we have a placeholder for the variable, which we then operate on within the rest of the block. The operation in this case is merely a puts statement (though it could be as complex as we desired) – and it successfully puts out our variable to the console! –
Unlike many other languages, Ruby has some extremely useful built-in methods –
.map and
x.times do, for example. If we look under the hood, all of these methods depend on the yield keyword to function.
.each for example. This method iterates through each element of an array or hash and operates on them individually with a block of code. Simple enough.
But how does it do this? How does it know to stop executing only when each item in the array/hash has been operated on? How does it know which element of the array/hash to operate on in a given instance of block execution? The answer lies in the yield statement.
The code below, for example, will output the numbers 1 to 4 in the terminal:
Peeking under the hood, this is how yield is being used to create the
.each method:
Let's break the above code down:
- First, we set a counter
iequal to
- We then start a
whileloop that will keep going until the condition is no longer being satisfied – namely that the length of the parsed array is greater than the counter
- We then have the
yieldstatement itself, into which is passed our array taken to the index of our counter (
- The next line of code adds 1 to the value of
i, thus taking us to the next element in the array when we come back around to the
yieldstatement the next time. This is the part that allows us to pass each individual element of the array into the yield statement as a parameter only once during the
- When the value of
ibecomes equal to the length of the array (4 elements long in this case), the condition allowing the
whileloop to run is no longer satisfied, and the loop is broken. Thus the block of code is finished once each element in the parsed array is operated on.
As someone who did some work in JavaScript before moving on to Ruby I thought it was interesting how this use of yield (that allows
.each to function) mirrors the
for loop in JavaScript:
..personally I'm grateful a simple array iteration is as simple as
.each in Ruby!
Aside from powering some highly useful built-in Ruby methods,
yield can also be utilised in the formation of our own customisable methods. Take our previous method that currently iterates through an array and puts each element out to the console. What if we wanted to do something to each element before putting it out to the console – for example, adding some punctuation to the end of it? We could write another method to do this, but this isn't very DRY of us, especially if we want to have the ability to print the elements with all sorts of different punctation. Instead, we can reuse our previous method and inject these modifications into the yield block..
..thus putting our desired output to the console without having to laboriously write a whole new method! –
What if we wanted a question mark instead? Easy:
Using yield, not only can we now efficiently retrofit functions to suit our needs, we can also build our own custom variations of methods like
.each and
.map with unique functionality. For example, by tweaking the value by which the counter
i goes up each time the
while loop repeats, we can iterate through every other element in the array:
In changing the iterator to
i = i + 2, the method call will now print every odd number…
…but the scope for creative functionality is potentially endless.
Yield is a tricky concept. But taking the time to learn how it works allows us to understand what goes on every time we use a built in method like
.each or
.map, and how to modify the underlying logic of these methods with our own custom yield statement, if they aren't quite granting us the specific functionality we need.


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Destination Wedding
Way Back in February I had an enquiry from a lovey couple from the USA. They were looking for a wedding planner here in England to plan their wedding,due to take place on 4 July 2017 (independence day) . They had already been to Yorkshire and had chosen their venue and luckily for me they had chosen the beautiful Swinton Park in Masham. I did wonder what had brought them to Yorkshire to get married and I was informed at a later date that Carol's (the bride) grandparents were from Yorkshire before they emigrated to America and as both sets of parents had passed away, it was something that made her feel close to her roots. Well they had certainly chosen a delightful venue in a truly stunning Yorkshire setting.
It wasn't clear cut for me though, I had competition to actually secure their booking and had a string of interviews via Email and Skype, not something I am used to but it put me to the test which never harms. At last all the paper work was signed sealed and delivered, ( I can hear a song coming on !!). Carol and Alex, (the groom to be) booked a visit to Swinton Park for a week in April to meet suppliers and confirm bookings. So my work started in full swing, arranging appointments and a choice of suppliers for Carol and Alex to meet and hopefully find what they were looking for. It was a manic week, I accompanied them on all appointments and the week flew by. By the end of the week most suppliers were chosen the menu tasted and approved and I had gained two new friends.
I wanted Carol and Alex and all their guests to experience Yorkshire and England in true British style with all our quant little traditions. To start the day off we had the London Bus to collect the guests to take them to the church, St Francis Xavier Church Richmond. The church and of course the beautiful town of Richmond is rich in Yorkshire beauty and in true Yorkshire fashion – it rained! Did it spoil the day – let me tell you NO. We had the wonderful Fr. Dan O'Neill, a great character who made the service so beautiful, helped by Pavilion String Quartet and the talented Penny Davis for her extraordinary voice and Simon Dearsley for his beautiful talent on the organ.
Then back to Swinton Park for the guests on the double decker bus,( supplied by Wensleydale Omnibus company)as the Bride and Groom returned in their Bramwith wedding ca, (r from TPJ Wedding Cars). On my return trip I spotted a very British Red Telephone Box and suggested to Ruth Mitchell (the fabulous Wedding Photographer whose small video is shown below) she might want to stop off for a quick snap, great photo!
Some great images were captured by Ruth Mitchell and Emma from Story of your day, even though it still rained, it really didn't stop everyone from enjoying themselves, the stunning venue that is Swinton park had all the guests in awe
The Wedding Breakfast was divine and was a very joyous occasion with a touch of sadness for those not there. A POW table was set for one in the corner, ( I will talk about this in my next blog), photographs of loved ones lost set near by. This, however, did not spoil this truly happy event. After the formal speeches were over the floor was open to guests, I have not actually seen this before but it was a lovely touch, one I may use again. then of course cutting of the cake.
Once this was done we were straight into the dancing opening up with God Bless America celebrating the 4 July – then straight onto the first dance, which was stunning! Jon Starkey was the DJ and the music and dancing just went on and on…………………….
|Transport – guests
|Wensleydale omnibus
|Transport – B&G
|a touch of class wedding cars
|Florist / table decs
|joanna – Twisted Willow
|Swinton Park
|Krista Cakes
|Emma – Story of your day
|Ruth Mitchell
|Styled by Becci
|Entertainment – church
|Pavilion Strings – Isobel Wesling
|Entertainment – church
|Organist – Simon Dearsley – Singer Pennie Davies
|Entertainment – evening
|Jon Starkey – Exclusive entertainments
|Grooms party suits
|Harrogate suit hire
|Wedding Planner
|Priceless Weddings


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If, for one minute, you thought that the spectrum of interesting and fun events that are part of the Asheville event 'landscape' is not the broadest possible, then let's just look at a few events scheduled for this weekend, June 2nd-5th! And, since our Asheville bed and breakfast is located in the Montford Historic District, just on the northern side of Downtown Asheville, when you stay with us, you're also conveniently situated to experience all that Asheville has to offer.
1.The weekend events kick-off on Thursday and Friday evenings with the Asheville Ballet Conservatory presents the ballet Coppelia.
2. Friday evening from 5-8pm, is the Downtown Gallery Association Art Walk that includes over 20 galleries and offerings of music all around. And it's free!
3. Friday evening, Abbey Road Live!, a review about who else but the Beatles comes to town!
4. The 4th Annual Sculpture for the Garden starts with a reception at the Grovewood Gallery, located next to the Grove Park Inn, from 11am to 3pm on Saturday, June 4th. The work of more than a dozen artists' outdoor works will be represented.
5. The Beer City Festival on Saturday will showcase the many breweries represented and some food to match. A ticket is $40.
6. Saturday is also designated Clay Day at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Asheville. As this area is particularly known for its talented artisans, clay artists will be demonstrating their amazing skills. Free.
So I promised you a sampling of the wonderfully broad array of events that are located near to our Asheville bed and breakfast. Are you convinced yet? I expect you are! So I hope we'll see you here in Asheville this weekend, too.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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Here are a few in-process photos of the piece I worked on at the Reno Retreat with Jean Bernard & Sherry Goshon. Three full days of fun, art, and inspiration - not to mention good eating. It was marvelous.
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Change in the China Cabinet
It was time to change the china cabinet display from Winter Birds to something more seasonal. I got it emptied before I remembered that I'd given away the pink and white dishes I was going to display. In a moment of inspiration, I moved all my cookbooks from the shallow pantry cupboard and into the china cabinet. I used some blue mixing bowls and a heavy Le Creuset pan for bookends.
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Beginning May 15, Fairfield University will host its annual Senior Week. Senior Week is a weeklong program that gives the graduating seniors one last opportunity to come together before Commencement. This year's Senior Week theme is My Super Sweet Sixteen .
To give the Class of 2016 a great send-off, the Senior Week team has planned eight memorable events that will take place both on and off campus, beginning with a blessing at a special Mass on Sunday, May 15.
On Monday, May 16, students are invited to the Day at the Races Senior Soiree . Students will spend the day at the "race track" with their favorite faculty and staff.
Service Day will take place on Tuesday, May 17 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., where students will spend the afternoon helping local organization, Al's Angels, sort and wrap over 1,000 toys in early preparation for the holiday season. Each toy will be given to a child battling cancer, rare blood disease or severe financial hardship. At 9 p.m., students will be able to experience the magical views of "New York City's skyline" in the Oak Room for Stag Night while enjoying the high energy coming from one of New England's live rock and pop bands, Never in Vegas . There will be live band entertainment, hors d'oeuvres and fire pits.
On Wednesday, May 18 at 7 p.m., the Senior Week team will host the Mardi Gras masquerade themed Commencement Ball . Attire is semi-formal, colorful masks and elegant costumes. There will be a buffet dinner, dancing and live entertainment from DJ Oracle.
Additional Senior Week events include Adventure Park where students can explore 11 trails, 21 zip lines and 161 challenge bridges in the largest forest climbing park in New England, and Senior Picnic Beach Party students can enjoy a relaxing day off-campus with unlimited food, swimming, volleyball, canoeing, rock climbing, mini-gold and pie-eating contens.
The week ends with the Family Dance , where family and friends are invited for unlimited hors d'oeuvres, drinks and live band entertainment in the BCC the day before Commencement.
For more information about Senior Week, please contact Colleen Wilson at (203) 254-4000, ext. 2081, or email@example.com , or visit www.fairfield.edu/seniorweek . To purchase Senior Week tickets, please visit tickets.fairfield.edu .


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It's funny how I still get so excited to see the temple. Even here in Portland, seeing the temple, usually multiple times a week, still brings me feelings awe and gratitude and reverence. It is a testimony to me of the importance of it. The temple the House of the Lord. There is power there. I think the feelings we get, even from walking the grounds, are a tiny glimpse of what it will be like to live and walk with God. Peace, hope, gratitude, wonder, and a feeling of home.
It was no different when we were approaching Rexburg Idaho and I saw the temple in the distance up on the hill. White and shining amid the golden wheat field, it was breathtaking.
We saw the Rexburg Temple for a few minutes when we dropped our boys off at BYU-I for EFY. Then zipped up to Canada for the week. The following Saturday we picked them up and headed straight over to the temple to walk the grounds and hear all about their experiences at EFY.
The story of the Rexburg Temple's dedication tugs at my heart. President Hinckley was scheduled to dedicate the temple on February 3, 2008. Instead, on that day, Thomas S. Monson was set apart as the new president and prophet of the church. President Hinckley had passed away a week earlier. Oh how I loved, and still love, President Hinckley. I remember hearing about his passing that night. Carey and I just hugged each other and cried. He was prophet through major growing times in our lives, and like millions of others, I respected and loved him, and eagerly looked forward to hearing anything he said. Can you even fathom that we have the possibility to end up in the same place as him? And how much more fun it will be because he is there.
So President Monson's first official duty as the new president of the church was dedicating the Rexburg Idaho Temple a week after he was set apart. He had just buried a dear friend, and literally had the weight of the world on him. But of course he was up to the task, he had been serving his whole life.
I read an amazing quote here that was said by Elder Ronald J. Hammond at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Rexburg Temple in 2005. He said, "As the ground opens and as the shovel breaks it and turns it, your spiritual senses will know immediately that something very, very significant is happening. Something that at once disturbs the devil and blesses God's children on both sides of the veil." I would like to believe that that same thing happens with every new temple that is built. They are oh, so important!
Date Visited: July 29, 2017
Miles From Home: 740
Location: Rexburg Idaho
Dedication: February 10, 2008 by Thomas S. Monson
From the Dedicatory Prayer: We thank Thee that since the restoration Thou hast never left Thy Church alone. From the days of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Thou hast chosen and appointed a prophet to this people who has held and exercised all the keys of the everlasting priesthood for Thy children in the earth. We are grateful to Thee that the magnificent promise made in the dedication of the Kirtland Temple has been fulfilled in our time that Thy Church has come out of obscurity and shines before the world, "fair as the moon, and clear as the sun."