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Some boys know what they are going to do in life from the moment when they flrst think about their future. Ted knew what he was going to do: he would be an astronomer. The big telescopes were on the Moon. So he had to get to the Moon. It wasn't as easy as he thought, he found.
'Shark!' Ted shouted.
A gleam of white belly and a hammer-headed flurry of thrusting bone and muscle circled ahead of them.
The suit radios were poor at the best of times, and Ted had to shout twice to get Uncle Ed's attention.
'Stay here!' Ed Hook's voice whistled back.
Ted flipped quickly away from his uncle. This was his shark. It would be the last chance of testing himself with a knife before being posted to the big observatory on the Moon. In past holidays, he had watched Uncle Ed kill dozens of marauding sharks that had slipped through the force-fields of the Inshore Farms; mostly, Ed Hook sent a homing dart from the tiny quiver of his belt. But sometimes he used a knife.
He waited tensely for the big marauder to decide to charge. Ed Hook watched. The Shark made up its mind, suddenly flipped its huge tail and charged.
Ted worked quickly and accurately. He waited, moved to avoid the massive maw, and slashed, slowly it seemed, but fast enough; and kept the knife in so that the shark's impetus did the killing. It fell away, slowing, dead.
Ted sensed his uncle's anger and relief as they made their way through the thick shoals of fish back to the Inshore Farms submarine. The silent undersea farm was crowded with shapes. Fish glided by, unafraid of them. They were used to Uncle Ed. It was only the sleek, deadly torpedoes from the south they feared, the sharks which slipped into the herds, slashing and destroying.
Back in the cabin of the squat submarine, Uncle Ed grinned.
'I suppose you were ready for it, Ted. You did it well.'
Ted skinned off the tight suit. 'It's my last chance,' he said. 'I'll get my movement orders from the Moon Service any day now.'
A green light flashed on the control panel. Someone was trying to get in touch with them.
'Ed Hook here,' called Uncle Ed.
'Bring a bucket of prawns for supper,' said Aunt Jenny. 'Oh, and by the way, Ted's letter's here. Shall I open it for him? He's been watching the mail since he came.'
Ted shook his head. He could wait until he got to the house. He had been waiting for seven years for this letter, and he wanted to open it for himself, and see the crest of the Moon Service before anyone else saw it. It had been a long time.
At first, they hadn't been too sure about accepting him at the Astronomical Institute. Wasn't his father a politician? A rich one at that? They had hinted that it was just a rich boy's whim to want to dedicate himself to a life-time of studying the stars.
He proved them wrong in his first year. By the time he had graduated from the Institute, he was in the top two per cent of students who were able to apply for the most coveted posting of all: the great observatory on the Moon.
And Ted knew he would get a posting. Since he had first looked through his first tiny refracting telescope, he had known that one day he would look at the stars from the Moon – where you could see the great blaze of the Milky Way like a band of glory in the sky, and the planets were huge glowing mirrors; and Earth itself with its continents clearly outlined could be seen. And all without the curtain of Earth's thick atmosphere to block most of the light. All real astronomy was now done on the Moon. On Earth were the administrators, and the men who analysed others' work.
'It means a lot to you, doesn't it, Ted?' said Uncle Ed as he swung the submarine towards the shore.
'Everything,' said Ted. 'Since I was five years old and I first realized there were people up there, I've said to myself that one day I'd be there too. To see the stars.'
'And now you're going. I'll miss you in the holidays, Ted. Even though you do some crazy things! Remember when you blew the mains at the power station with that weird radio telescope!' Ed Hook roared with laughter suddenly.
'I never did find what was wrong with it. It should have worked,' Ted said. 'I nearly transferred to radio after that. But optical telescopes were my first love.'
The cabin suddenly jerked as Uncle Ed disconnected the ponderous ballast tanks. He switched the engine to 'hover'. The shingle shook and rattled underneath them, and they roared onto the beach. Ted pushed back the roof and swung down. The wet shingle crunched under his boots as he raced for the house.
The letter, he thought. At that moment he could not wait any longer. Aunt Jenny stood at the door with the envelope in her hand.
His fingers were clumsy in his excitement.
The crest of the Moon Service blazed at him from the top of the elegant paper. But Ted saw only one word: 'regret'.
Regret. Everything else the letter had to say was nothing. It was just a consolation prize. He was the top student of A.D. 2031 in the Astronomical lnstitute's examinations, and he could go anywhere he wished now.
Anywhere, except to the Moon.
'Ted!' called Uncle Ed. 'Ted! You there?'
Ted put the letter away. He had gone quite cold. They had turned him down. He would never see beyond the confining blanket that covered the Earth. He would only see film, and hear other men's accounts of the blaze of glory that were the stars. For him, there was the dull routine of filing reports, and assessing the importance of real astronomers' observations.
'What's happened?' asked Aunt Jenny quietly. 'Tell me, Ted.'
'They turned me down,' said Ted. He still could not believe it.
'They say why?' asked his uncle.
Ted shook his head. The Moon Service never explained.
You either were what they thought they might want, or you weren't. But everyone got a chance! Ted
was angry now. Everyone got a chance for Moon Service – everyone, that is, who could measure up to the fantastically high standards the Service set. If you could pass examinations year after year, survive aptitude tests, keep yourself at a sane balance through seven days a week of unremitting study at the Astronomical Institute, then you were given a chance on the Moon itself.
Even then, not everyone could stand life on the Moon.
It was a weird life, they said. Gravity of one-sixth of Earth's made moving about altogether different. The food came from hydroponics tanks. There were only a few hundred individuals there, and most of them you never saw because they were on another part of the planet.
You lived in caves under perpetual artificial light. You were aware that at any moment the gongs of an alarm might shatter the quiet, telling you that you had seconds to reach for an emergency suit with its air supply, because a meteor had shattered the roof of the dome.
Eighty per cent of all trainees were sent back within weeks of landing. The strangeness of life on the Moon was too much for them.
Ted knew he would have made it. More than anything else, he wanted to serve the immense telescopes on the Moon which were mapping the sky for the first star-travellers.
'It's bad,' said Ed Hook simply. 'Want to talk about it?'
Ted had not been aware that Uncle Ed had been waiting for over ten minutes for a reply to his first
He shook his head, 'I'll fetch the bucket,' he said. 'I forgot the prawns.' They had been meant for a farewell supper, he remembered – a celebration, he thought bitterly.
Later, when the initial shock had worn off, he was able to talk about it to Uncle Ed.
'They don't tell you why you can't go – I've seen lots of trainees rejected by the Moon Service. I'm not what they're looking for – not the right material.'
'Don't be hard on yourself, Ted. There may be something in your temperament you don't know about that would show up under lunar conditions.'
Ted shook his head. 'I know all my ratings. They were fine. I'd never have been so confident about being accepted otherwise.'
'Will you accept a job down here – on Earth?'
'No.' He was quite sure about that. 'I couldn't take it. Not without seeing the stars, even if only for once. I could stand living the rest of my life down here if they'd only give me the chance of a few days on the Moon.'
'Forget it,' Uncle Ed advised. 'There's no outings to the Moon. No joy-rides. No excursions. Moon Service can only ship trainees, and even then they're hardpressed for space. This sort of decision is final. You just have to live with it, Ted.'
Ted thought suddenly about Uncle Ed's own life. He had thrown up a secure job in auto-dynamics to take this job in Inshore Farms at a tenth of the pay.
'You didn't,' he said.
'Me? I didn't what, Ted?'
'Live with it. You just walked out- so Dad says.'
Uncle Ed's lean, tanned face cracked into a grin. 'No, Ted. It wasn't quite like that. Andy – your Dad, I mean – always said that. The truth was that this is the kind of life I should have gone in for in the first place. If I hadn't made a complete break when I was just turned turned thirty, I'd have stayed in industry for life. I saw it just in time.'
'That's why I'll have to find another job,' Ted said slowly. 'I can see myself in ten years' time liking terrestrial astronomy.'
'I could do with another man here,' offered Uncle Ed.
Aunt Jenny smiled at him over Ed Hook's shoulder.
It wasn't a bad life, he thought.
'No,' he said. The decision came easily to him. It was like knowing he was ready to take the shark. 'I'm going to find out why they won't have me.'
Ted wandered through the long corridors of the Astronomical Institute. He looked at many of the photographs of early astronauts, famous rocketeers, old-time astronomers, which hung on the walls. Seven years, he thought. It had been a long preparation – for what?
'I can't say how sorry I am,' the Principal, Professor Savage, told him. The thin, handsome old face looked sincere enough, thought Ted. 'I watched your progress here, Hook, and I knew you were going to make a firstclass astronomer.' He smiled. 'Rather exotic holidays you always took – most of our trainees preferred something more academic. Still -'
He paused.
'If you could give me some idea, sir,' said Ted, repeating his appeal for the third time. It had been a gamble coming to Professor Savage. He might or he might not, tell him. The old man rambled on and on, but if Ted heard him out he might say something.
'We don't often do this, Hook,' the old man said, 'But I had hopes for you. Just a minute -'
When he spoke briefly into the telephone, it made matters worse. He sent Ted on his way with the hope that he would come back soon to arrange his posting. But he had spoken to Hargreaves of the Medical Block, and that was where Ted was going now. Why Medical?
'Glad to know you,' said Hargreaves. 'And sorry, too, in a way. I'm afraid I've got bad news for you, Hook. You know that the Moon Service medical examination is the most stringent ever devised?' He went on without waiting for an answer. 'Believe me, it is. And they've· turned you down on medical grounds.'
'Me!' said Ted incredulously. He had never felt fitter.
His ten stone of muscle and sinew had never been in better condition.
'Heart,' said Doctor Hargreaves sympathetically.
'Under normal conditions, the Moon Shuttle will kill you. You couldn't stand the acceleration to escape velocity.'
'Heart trouble,' said Ted. It was difficult to follow Hargreaves' conversation, so great was the shock.
'It takes a powerful physique to withstand normal acceleration, as you know,' went on Hargreaves, 'In your case, the chances are about fifty-fifty that you'd die. It's too much of a risk. They won't take the chance of murdering you, Hook. No-' he said, cutting off Ted's flow of protestations. 'I've heard it all before from men as good as yourself. Face up to it like a man. You're earth-bound. For life.'
'You couldn't replace the defective part?' said Ted, clutching at straws. Whole-heart replacements were common-place.
Hargreaves shook his head.
'It's the mitral valve. We could replace it, certainly, but the Moon Service would never look at you. Not with a replacement.'
How could you explain that you would take the chance – any chance, any at all, even if the odds were
ten or fifty to one against you?
'Thanks for seeing me,' said Ted. 'It was good of you.'
Doctor Hargreaves watched Ted go. He had seen many like Ted. But he thought Governor Hook's son had enough grit to face his disappointment and make the best of it.
Ted's father looked on the bright side. That was Dad, of course – cheerful, extrovert, and simple. He saw that Ted's training could be useful in political life. Would he like to join the State Astronautics Commission?
'Take a month off, son. Take a year. Go and see the world! I'll see you don't run short of cash. Then come back and tell me what you've decided.'
Dad's expression said that he would soon come to his senses and take a good job somewhere, do well at it, and grow rich like his father before him.
'Couldn't you pull something with the Moon Service?' asked Ted. 'You know all the big men. General Detweiler and Secretary Harrison were here last week. Couldn't they do anything?'
'Such as, son? Ship you aboard a Shuttle as a stowaway? No, Ted. No one runs away to sea any more. This is the twenty-first century, and we have to do the job we're trained and suited for. The Moon Service people know what they're talking about and if they say "no", then "no" it is.'
Ted wandered back to the Astronomical Institute. He looked round the deserted corridors. He could sign on for another course. Maybe do a year in radio telescopes. There was nothing for him in optical telescopes, certainly. There was no way to the Moon.
Idly he glanced at the photographs of early astronauts. They were all there. Gagarin, the first. Earliest in a long line of competitive Russians and Americans until the French made their break-through. Then flat Mongolian faces grinned back at him, and cheerful Negroes. And one Englishman – a crazy middle-aged rocket metallurgist who had jobbed up his own weird ship and blasted off from his own back garden. He had made it, too.
It made Ted think of the shark. What was there in common between your first real shark-hunt and a long dead man's crazy shot in a home-made rocket? Willis had bought up spares and patiently assembled them for twenty years. No one ever found out where he got his fuel. But he had done it. He had escaped from the monotony of testing samples from burnt-up satellites – and from Earth itself.
Ted grinned. Action was the link between Willis and his first shark. He went for his jets.
An hour later he was hovering over the Dump.
The Dump was just that. A fantastic jumble of machinery from the first eighty years of rocketry. It had started out as a museum, but there had been an international squabble as to who should pay for its upkeep, and soon it was abandoned. It was the dump for the scores of rocket bodies, the hundreds of engines, and the millions of obsolete spares that the great aerial grabs gently placed there. No one was interested in salvage. Manpower was too expensive. It was far cheaper to mine new ores than to break up these monsters.
Could he patch up a rocket as Willis had done? Ted gazed around the Dump.
They were all there – from the early Shuttles back to Saturn and the Dyna-Soar. The rockets of the late twentieth century were huge against the smaller, later machines. Ted was looking for a Skipstone. Skipstone was a development of the Dyna-Soar project, a rocket and aeroplane in one, which used a third of its fuel to zoom to a hundred miles above Earth. It then skipped along the atmosphere like a stone across a pool, building up its speed until it was in a flight path for a Moon shot. There had been dozens of successful launchings in Skipstone by amateurs. But the professionals took over, and Skipstone gave way to the early Shuttles. Now they were in cocoons of preservatives, waiting for a blast-off that would never come.
Ted cut his way through to the passenger capsule of a new-looking Skipstone vehicle. No one had been near it for fifty years. Even the kids had forgotten that the Dump existed.
He studied the controls. Primitive, but sufficient. The heating, respiratory and pressurizing arrangements were easy to follow. But the fuel? Had it stood the test of time? What had happened to the atomic structure of the solid fuel over the years? Was it static?
He had only to hook in a few circuits to find out.
That, and press the firing button. Then up to a hundred miles, and work out a course that would set him gently on the Moon. If he lived through the strain of G.
Ted laughed out aloud for the first time since he had read of his rejection. Blasting-off in this Skipstone was just another adolescent dream. As Dad said, no one ran away to sea any more. If he did press the firing button, the rocket would probably explode on its pad. That, or one of its scores of systems would fail. The air supply might be cut off; or the navigational system could swing him off course into the sun, or winging towards cold and distant Pluto.
Willis could do it, but it had taken him twenty years.
And he was a rocket expert. Few better, it turned out later. To make this ancient Skipstone efficient would take an army of experts working for months.
Ted ripped out the leads that could have activated the rocket. As he swung down from the stubby wings, he saw the first star in the sky. Venus: like a great beacon, they said, when you saw it from space.
He looked over the other relics of the twentieth century.
Monstrous nuclear engines with cooling systems and lead shields the size of barns …. A five-hundred-foot monster in seven stages. The industrious Japanese had thought that one up.
Thoughtfully, he poked in the air-lock of an early Shuttle. Powerful and ugly, the Shuttle looked like a carthorse of a rocket. But it had immense strength and reliability. They usually stripped all equipment, Ted thought. Anything useful. Why hadn't the spare spacesuit been taken from the rack?
Ted took it from its corner, an idea boiling up in his mind as he saw the glowing crest of the Moon Service on the suit. It looked almost new; someone had forgotten to take out this emergency suit when stripping the ship. Laughing to himself, Ted saw a use for it. It was like deciding to take the shark all over again, with Uncle Ed grabbing for his foot.
He would get to the Moon! In spite of Dad's well meant bumptiousness, in spite of Hargreaves' cold, clinical discouragement; and in spite of a malfunctioning mitral valve!
The Shuttle was scheduled for departure from the Atlantic Platform at 21.23 hours. It had taken Ted nearly two hours to reach the Platform, and an hour before that to make sure that the suit was safe. He had checked it down to the last of its scores of hook-ups; suits were simple to him – survival courses at the Institute had seen to that.
The Shuttle stood pitch-black against the dying sunlight.
The last few routine checks were being completed, with technicians moving huge, quiet machines about the massive hull. Until seconds before blast-off the checks would go on. They were important to Ted's plan. In another twenty minutes, a knife-edge of intense rainbow light would creep out from a port, and the Shuttle would creak up into the gloom of the night sky. With Ted aboard, if he could get past Security.
He watched the pleasant-looking Security men who stood about idly at the entrances. They looked decorative in their tight-fitting Moon Service uniforms. But Ted knew they could move. If only one of scores of checker beams that showed up contraband glowed, however faintly, they would move rapidly, pleasant no longer. Cranks still tried to blow up the Shuttle. Tiny nuclear bombs were smuggled in by eccentrics. Two expensive Shuttles had been lost in the thirty-odd years of their service. But there would be no more sabotage.
It made things difficult for Ted. He could only hope the uniform would carry him through. Men looked at the crest, and that was usually enough. No one could hope to make even a reasonable facsimile of the glowing symbol, whose component molecules were put together in such a way that only they could pass a man unquestioned into the base.
He would worry about disposing of enough of the Shuttle's cargo to make up his body weight when he got aboard. He could throw out some piece of equipment that would add up to his hundred and forty pounds.
Ted took one look at what might be his last view of Earth, and dived into an automatic shop to change into the suit. He fed in coins, ordering shirts, socks, ties, anything to keep the shop busy. He changed, trembling with the skin-tight suit. A voice boomed out, and Ted whirled round.
It was only the shop thanking him for his custom.
Come again, it said hopefully. Ted grinned. Not if he could help it!
He looked straight into the eyes of the first Security man. The other looked him over professionally. A latecomer, his bored eyes said. The look told Ted that the crest that blazed on his chest had triggered off a recognition symbol somewhere deep below them, and that he had been accepted into the base.
He forced himself to hold his helmet negligently by one strap, just as the crewmen did – easily, and rather proudly. As if he did this every day. He would have stood out like a supernova if he had worn it.
He was in. No one would question him now.
He looked around the base. Now he had to lessen the weight of the Shuttle's cargo by his own body weight, or the additional weight would show up on the big rocket's checking system.
The big loading bays a hundred feet above him were closed. All the cargo had been shipped aboard. There was nothing he could dispose of before it was on-loaded.
Fifteen minutes to blast-off, he saw by his watch.
He rode up the lift to the crew's hatch and walked in confidently. A senior officer looked at him hard for a moment, and Ted shivered. He flung up a salute quickly, remembering that senior officers he had seen at home were hot on discipline.
As the broad back disappeared, Ted looked round the Shuttle, frantically searching for a hiding-place and for some piece of equipment equal to his body weight that he could jettison. In another ten minutes there would be a final check on the ship's weight, and his own small part of the ship's bulk would show up on the instruments.
Where could he hide?
He darted down a free-fall shaft, away from the central section of the ship which was now humming with action as the crew made ready for blast-off. He hurried on, feeling the seconds slipping away from him like so many jewels.
Further into the deserted lower decks he darted.
Eight minutes! Then he saw how he could do it: he saw the Shuttle's disaster equipment.
The ship carried scores of compact emergency escape capsules, and here they were, arranged in rows along the inner shell of the vessel. They could survive a blowup and keep a crewman alive in space for weeks. Ted could strap himself into one of them and not be noticed during the short trip to the Moon.
But his weight! How could he dispose of a hundred and forty pounds? And the weight of his suit!
Seven minutes to blast-off!
Ted looked into the tiny escape capsule. Everything was in place, waiting for emergency – then he saw it.
Oxygen! Oxygen tanks, with their highly compressed liquid oxygen!
All he had to do was to release sufficient oxygen to equal his weight – the oxygen was so cold that it would evaporate immediately on contact with the far warmer atmosphere of the ship, and its volume would escape through the still-open ports within a minute or two.
Ted acted instantly, buckling on his helmet as he turned the outlet valve to maximum. He was careful to plug into the ship's air-supply – such a concentration of pure oxygen as was now in the capsule would kill him.
The sausages of white liquid writhed out of the capsule, vaporizing at once. Ted looked around the brightly lit scene. If anyone came along now, he could hardly escape detection.
The clamour of the five-minute alarm startled him as he carefully checked the outflow of oxygen. Hastily he cut it off as the gauges showed that the necessary weight had escaped.
When he felt the shudder of the engines, he knew he had made it. He took one quick look. round, but no one was about. Then he strapped himself down.
He waited. For death? It was the longest three minutes of his life. He waited for pain and death.
Blast-off came with a tiny, almost imperceptible, shudder.
He closed his eyes, tried to relax, tried to nerve himself against the first choking thrust of G.
This is death, his mind shrieked, but it was only the beginning. The Shuttle's immense engines raced and strained as the vessel roared through thin air away from the heavy drag of Earth's metallic core. It blasted on, thrusting hard into fifteen – twenty – twenty-five – thirty thousand miles an hour. Coasting speed.
Ted tried to will his heart to take it. But a sense of utter cold had gripped him with the first hard burst of acceleration, and will, strength, and spirit failed. Blackness reached for him. A red cloud burst inside his head.
Then, nothing.
He did not hear the warning clamour of the alarm that told the engineers that an unidentified passenger had plugged into the Shuttle's air-supply. He did not know that a team of crewmen raced to his assistance when they found the uncannily ice-cold body.
He knew he was alive because he could see the rabbit-faced nurse, and hear the chinks of sound as she tidied a tray of instruments. Otherwise it could have been a dream. The odd, round-shaped room. The feeling of lightness.
She turned. 'Awake?' she asked.
Ted nodded. He knew he was on the Moon. In spite of them all, he had made it. Alive. How?
A pleasant-looking red-faced man bounced into the room.
'I'm the doctor,' he said. 'You're all right Ted. You need sleep right now, but I want you to know you're safe.' He grinned encouragingly, reminding Ted of how his father sometimes looked at him.
Ted hardly felt the injection. His last thought as he slipped into sleep was that his family would be worrying about him – Dad … Uncle Ed …
Hours later, Ted woke again. He felt fit and well.
It was the same nurse, he saw, and the same doctor.
'You've caused some bother!' the nurse chided. She was smiling, though, as if she shared some secret with the doctor.
'My patients almost always recover! ' boomed the red-faced doctor. 'I hate to think what they're going to do with you when Security get hold of you! ' he continued. 'Still, the one thing you're afraid of can't happen! Whatever they do to you, they can't ship you back! Not immediately, at any rate.'
Ted looked at the jolly, concerned face of the doctor and felt tension flooding from him. He had known he might spend the rest of his life on 1he Moon; he had been ready for this. Then, for a few seconds, he thought of home. And Uncle Ed and holidays.
But he brightened suddenly. It was like the shark fight all over again – like the moment when the shark turned away, harmless, dead. Nothing could hurt him now.
'No,' said the doctor. 'You'll have to stay here a while until we decide what to do with you. I can tell you this, though: if you buckle down to it, you'll get a chance of working here. You can't be kept idle. Still, you came to work, didn't you? '
Ted felt himself choking with elation and triumph.
'Want to know how you came through it?' asked the nurse.
It was simple enough, they explained. He had not replaced the oxygen tank's controls properly. The first jolt of acceleration had turned it to 'full' again, and a blanket of remorselessly cold liquid oxygen had at once flooded over him. Instantly, his body temperature had dropped a score of degrees, and the rate of his heart-beat had slowed to a twentieth of normal.
For the vital seconds of acceleration, his heart had been under only a small fraction of its usual strain. And before he froze to death, the crewmen got to him.
'So you see,' went on the doctor, 'you've started something with this refrigerated space-roving of yours. It's always been a theoretical possibility, of course, that we can travel as you did, but no one seriously thought it was worth doing. Now you've done it, there's no reason why other people with fluttery hearts can't do the same.' He looked at Ted speculatively. 'You're not Moon-bound at all. One day you will be able to go back – in the cold, naturally.'
Oddly enough, it made Ted feel happier. Calmer, too.
'Do you know what they're saying about you down on Earth?' asked the nurse.
As she said it, Ted recognized the look on her face – it was admiration! She admired him. And she had said down. Down there!
'What?' asked Ted. He pitied all Earth-bound people now.
'"The age of adventure isn't dead",' snorted the doctor; 'Hello,' he said, looking over his shoulder, 'trouble!'
Two big Security men had come into the ward.
'Chin up!' whispered the nurse.
It doesn't matter, Ted told himself. Today he would see the stars.


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God, Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The stash to make a quilt to help me cope,
A quilt to give to comfort those I love in times of hurt, fear and uncertainty.
And the courage to keep on sewing when life itself seems held together by a single thread of hope.
Like the quilt, easy to make. Not my favorite choice of fabric.
Wish Jenny would always make a second small quilt in a different colorway.
I agree. I didn't care for the fabric choices in this one. I'd like to see it with different fabrics.
I've often wondered how many sweaters Jenny has in her closet. She seems to have a matching one for every tutorial.
Duplicate post. Not sure how that happened.
I do like the green and purple but not the snowballed corners so much. Wondering what it would look like with a single print instead of white, maybe light purple paisley or mini print. Is that a new trim tool she is using?
I like this one. It's one that I'd pick a layer cake that I like and run with it!
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
― Maya Angelou
I definitely like the pattern, I'd probably use a small floral print.

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Started in 1909, OSI Group has maintained steady growth in the food supplier industry. As of October 24th, 2018, the company had hit revenue of $6.1 Billion. In 2016, Forbes magazine ranked at number 56th largest private company. It boasts of 20,000 employees and over 65 outlets in 17 Countries.
OSI Group chief executive officer (CEO) and chairman is Sheldon Lavin. He has steered the company since the 1970s. Sheldon is one of the main forces behind OSI Group's sustainability and growth. He believes in a culture of family where everyone's efforts are recognized. Sheldon Levin supports the idea of workers eating lunch together.
David McDonald joined OSI Group as a project manager. With hard work and dedication, he rose to the position of company president. Under his watch, the company acquired Baho Foods. Baho Foods is a Dutch food processing company. His success with penetrating other regions is through studying and understanding the local culture. This enables them to customize food products for a particular group of people.


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Monday February 15 is National Lamb Day – a day to celebrate a turning point in New Zealand's history which kick-started the country's red meat industry and today contributes $8.5 billion to the economy annually.
On this day in 1882, William Davidson and Thomas Brydone achieved the remarkable, by launching the first shipment of frozen sheep meat from Port Chalmers in Otago on the Dunedin, bound for London.
The 5,000 sheep carcases arrived in London 98 days later in excellent condition, highlighting the size of the accomplishment. Prior to this, New Zealand mainly sold wool overseas as no one believed it possible to have a thriving meat export business.
The New Zealand meat industry encourages Kiwis here and around the world to recognise this feat and celebrate it by enjoying lamb for lunch or dinner on February 15.
Chief executive of the country's domestic promotion agency, Beef + Lamb New Zealand Inc (B+LNZ), Rod Slater says as a nation New Zealand should be proud those around the world recognise New Zealand for its world-class lamb.
"Not many people realise this but 95 percent of our lamb is exported – the demand for our product is huge.
"We're lucky enough to have the best in the world on our own doorsteps so why not have a day to come together and celebrate it," says Slater.
New Zealand's finest food writers and B+LNZ's ambassadors, including Iron Maidens Sarah Walker and Lisa Carrington, are coming together to celebrate National Lamb Day at the organisation's first ever pop-up restaurant on Monday evening in Auckland.
Six of the country's top chefs, also known as B+LNZ's Platinum Ambassadors have created a six-course lamb degustation menu to mark the occasion.
"This dinner will truly be a once in a lifetime experience. It's not everyday you see six of New Zealand's top chefs working together in the same kitchen – It will be extremely special," says Slater.
The restaurant also opens its doors to the public on Tuesday night with the event already sold out.


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Don't Stress! Here are 4 Tips to Help You Deal with the Separation Anxiety Phase
Separation anxiety can cause serious stress for both parents and kids. Most parents have to leave their little one with a caretaker at some point and, whether it's the occasional sitter while you run errands or a daycare setting at which your drop your baby off every morning, leaving on tearful terms can feel terrible. Most babies experience some degree of separation anxiety, which can start as early as 6 or 7 months and often peaks between 10 and 18 months. If you find your baby is suddenly clingy, tearful, and upset when you leave their side, consider the tips below to help you get through the separation anxiety phase.
Recognize it
The first time your baby cries when you try to hand them to someone unfamiliar, it might catch you off guard. When they're very young babies are usually content to be passed around to various loved ones, sometime around 6-8 months though their usually happy demeanor might change when they're handed off. When your baby starts to show displeasure when they're out of your hands, start to take note of the places and people that they feel comfortable with so you can keep them in their comfort zone as much as possible.
Respect their feelings
While YOU know that you'll be right back, your baby doesn't, and their anxious, distressed response makes sense when you think about it that way. It can certainly feel frustrating that your baby wants to be by your side at all times but it's important to do your best to respond to their cries with empathy and reassurance rather than with annoyance.
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Be consistent
Most experts recommend that you reassure your child before you hand them off, maintain a positive facial expression and demeanor, and give them a quick hug before leaving promptly. Even if you chose to vary this response slightly, say with an extra check in or a few extra kisses, it's important that you leave in a consistent manner. Nothing will upset your child more than not knowing what to expect and thinking that if they cry a bit harder, or wait a bit longer, you'll pop back in before leaving again.
Remember it's a phase
As with all things kid-related, separation anxiety is a phase. If you're in the thick of the tears, do your best to breathe through it. Be patient. Respond with empathy and kindness. And know that this too shall pass.
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The deal forced out E-Trade's embattled chief executive, Mitch Caplan.
NEW YORK - E-Trade Financial Corp., which flirted with collapse amid the growing mortgage crisis, said Thursday it is getting a $2.55 billion cash infusion from Citadel Investment Group in a bid to revive the battered discount brokerage.
Citadel, one of the nation's largest hedge funds, plans to buy E-Trade's troubled asset-backed securities portfolio and take it off the brokerage's books. Hemorrhaging in that portfolio caused massive writedowns since the summer, and triggered panic that further losses would push E-Trade into bankruptcy.
The deal also forced E-Trade's embattled chief executive, Mitch Caplan, out of the job he's held since 2003. He'll be replaced on an interim basis by President and Chief Operating Officer Jarrett Lilien. Former JPMorgan Chase & Co. Vice Chairman Donald Layton will become non-executive chairman.
It is the latest managerial shakeup at a financial house in the past few months as Wall Street suffered dramatic losses when borrowers with shaky credit began defaulting on their loans, sending credit markets into disarray.
Earlier this month Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal and Citigroup Inc. head Charles Prince were forced out of their jobs.
Lilien said the deal with Citadel will not impede any future strategic moves, and that he's still quite interested in consolidation with competitors like TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. and Charles Schwab Corp. But, in the meantime, he plans on trying to win back the thousands of customers that fled to those rivals in the past few weeks.
"We've been under attack and we've been waiting for the opportunity to counterattack,'' he said in an interview with The Associated Press. "Some of the competition took some low blows, and we're looking forward to hitting back.''
The online brokerage industry is known for being hyper-competitive, and a number of firms launched an advertising blitz this month aimed at luring worried E-Trade customers. He said E-Trade lost some 6,000 accounts since the crisis began, while customers pulled back about $14 billion worth of cash and assets. The New York-based brokerage has some $226 billion worth of customer assets.
During the past few weeks, E-Trade executives have met with about 40 bidders that made overtures to E-Trade - including rival brokerages and other financial institutions. He said Citadel was the first to contact E-Trade, and had "really the best offer.''
Both Schwab and Ameritrade had been circling E-Trade about a possible deal, but the chief executives of both brokerages said they were not interested in touching the company's banking assets. Lilien said E-Trade was not interested in being split up, and that the overall business was in fine shape.
E-Trade has not ruled out selling off some businesses in the future to solidify its business, but there are currently no plans to do so, he said.
The only problem was its mortgage portfolio, which included home loans and home-equity lines valued at about $29.3 billion. It also owns some $12 billion of mortgage-backed securities that were all but wiped out during the summer's credit turmoil.
"We view the capital from an established institution like Citadel as very positive,'' said William Tanona, an analyst at Goldman Sachs.
E-Trade has taken some $197 million in pretax writedowns on its securities portfolio.
It will take a $2.2 billion charge as a result of the sale of the asset-based securities portfolio and will record a larger-than-expected fourth-quarter loss on its home equity loan portfolio that will result in an ending allowance of over $400 million.


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Maple Syruping
When March comes around, it is time for maple syruping at Warner! Come out with your group to share this unique experience as we learn about the only sugar native to North America.
We will learn about the process of making the tasty treat and maple syruping history. Hike through our sugar bush, see how sap is refined into syrup, and taste the difference between real syrup and commercial artificial syrups on this naturalist-led program.
Note: There is a short seasonal window when maple syruping is possible. This program is only available in March.
$84 per group of 12 or fewer for an hour and a half program. Groups with more than 12 participants pay an additional $7 per person.
Contact our Outreach Naturalist at [email protected] or (651) 433-2427 ext. 13 for more information or to book a date.
Cancellation policy: Cancellation more than 1 week prior to party, charged $30 processing fee. Cancellation 2-6 days prior to program, charged 50% of program fee. Day before cancellation or no show, charged for full program fee.


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The Old Bakery Coffee Shop
Appropriately sited in the former village bakery, the Old Bakery Coffee Shop on the Square in Hartland is open daily 9am - 5pm for the finest teas, coffees, soft drinks, cakes, cream teas, soups and light lunches.
This genuinely family-run business is the perfect year-round pitstop in Hartland, offering the warmest of welcomes and delicious food and drink. After you've used the village amenities, picked up your supplies, visited the galleries and studios or followed the Hartland Heritage Trail pop into this historic building for lunch, morning coffee, afternoon tea or a totally authentic Devon Cream Tea.
As the daughter of a long line of Hartland farmers, Sarah Heard uses only the freshest of local ingredients, sourced from the local farms and suppliers, and everything is hand made or baked on the premises. Choose from local meat, cheese and seafood sandwiches, salads and pasties or opt for locally grown salads, hand baked cakes, pastries and scones and locally sourced drinks.
All diets including gluten-free are catered for, children are very welcome and well-behaved dogs are too. If you have a special occasion or something you'd like specially catered for please get in touch.
For more, visit the website or Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Hartlandoldbakery


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American Lung Association's 2018 'State of Tobacco Control' Report Finds Uneven Progress in Fight to Reduce Tobacco Use, Leaving Too Many Americans Behind
Annual tobacco report assigns grades to state and federal government efforts to implement proven tobacco control policies, save lives
(January 24, 2018) - CHICAGO
For more information please contact:
Gregg Tubbs
[email protected]
(202) 715-3469
The American Lung Association's 16th annual "State of Tobacco Control" report shows that much more needs to be done by states and the federal government to reduce tobacco use. According to the report both adult and youth smoking rates have declined nationally, but not everyone in America has benefited equally from this progress. Tobacco prevention and cessation efforts must be focused on states and populations with high rates of tobacco use.
The "State of Tobacco Control" report, released annually, grades state and federal government policies to prevent and reduce tobacco use. This year's report shows that some key actions were taken at the federal and state levels to prevent and reduce tobacco use in 2017, but the grades earned demonstrate there remains a lot of room for improvement. In particular, much more must be done to implement proven policies that will reduce tobacco use among youth and vulnerable Americans who continue to be targeted by the tobacco industry.
"Despite our progress, tobacco use remains the nation's leading preventable cause of death and disease. It's no mystery how to end the tobacco epidemic – enact proven-effective policies," said American Lung Association National President and CEO Harold P. Wimmer. "All Americans deserve the opportunity to live a healthy life, free of the devastating effects of tobacco use. Our leaders must put proven tobacco control strategies to work in all communities, especially for our nation"s youth and people who use tobacco at high levels."
Due to the effective policies called for in "State of Tobacco Control," adult and youth cigarette smoking rates are at historically low levels. Overall, 16.4 percent of adults or about 39 million people in the United States in 2016 smoked cigarettes. However, significant disparities remain, highlighting the uneven progress in states where policies to prevent and reduce tobacco use need to be implemented or improved. Populations with high tobacco use rates and therefore at greatest risk for tobacco-caused death and disease include people living in public housing, individuals living with a behavioral health or substance use disorder, American Indians and Alaska Natives, low-income Americans and people who lack healthcare coverage or get healthcare coverage through Medicaid.
"The bottom line is that more must be done, and the federal and state governments must take the steps to support the health of all Americans," Wimmer said. "We know what works, we just need the political will to make it a reality. Not doing so puts people's lungs and ultimately lives at risk, which is simply unacceptable."
Steps Backward at the Federal Level
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) significantly weakened its "deeming" rule, which gave FDA's Center for Tobacco Products authority over e-cigarettes, cigars, hookah and other previously unregulated tobacco products. In July, FDA announced it would delay full implementation of the rule by more than four years. This earned the federal government an "F" grade for FDA regulation of tobacco products this year.
The federal grade for Mass Media Campaigns increased to an "A" grade this year because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Tips from Former Smokers campaign was on the air for more than six months. Ideally, this highly effective media campaign should be on the air year-round. The other federal grades for Cessation Coverage and Tobacco Taxes did not change.
Despite threats, key quit smoking policies required in the Affordable Care Act remain in effect. Under the law, Medicaid expansion plans and most private insurance plans are required to cover a comprehensive quit smoking benefit that includes all seven FDA-approved tobacco cessation medications and all three forms of counseling without cost-sharing or prior authorization.
The 2018 "State of Tobacco Control" highlights that low-income Americans are at a greater risk for tobacco-related death and disease, a group that includes those who live in public housing. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has taken the important step of proceeding with its rule requiring all federally-owned public housing to implement smokefree policies by July 31, 2018. The rule will protect nearly 716,000 children and more than 320,000 senior citizens from secondhand smoke exposure in their own homes, as well as prompt many of the estimated 300,000 smokers living in public housing to make a quit attempt.
Some Progress in Unexpected Places at the State Level, but Lots of Room for Improvement
Overall, state grades in "State of Tobacco Control" 2018 remain poor, but there was some progress in 2017 in unusual places.
Access to Quit Smoking Treatments
Kentucky and South Carolina each have smoking rates that are higher than the national average, but both took significant steps to address the issue in 2017 by providing comprehensive access to quit smoking treatments for low-income populations. South Carolina's Medicaid program now covers all seven FDA-approved quit smoking medications without the copays that can discourage smokers from using these medications during their quit attempts, earning them one of only a few "A" grades in this category. A new Kentucky law passed in 2017 dramatically expands comprehensive quit smoking coverage to smokers with both private insurance and those who are covered by Medicaid increasing the state's grade in this category to a "C" from an "F".
Nine states now have a comprehensive tobacco cessation benefit for all Medicaid enrollees, covering all seven tobacco cessation medications and all three forms of counseling to help smokers quit. This is a key way to reduce disparities in tobacco use as data show Medicaid enrollees smoke at a rate almost three times as high as those with private insurance.
Tobacco Prevention Funding
Revenue from tobacco settlement payments and tobacco taxes should be used to fund tobacco prevention and cessation programs to have an even greater impact on reducing tobacco-related disparities. These programs should focus on reaching priority populations, especially those with higher smoking rates.
In fiscal year 2017/2018, Indiana, North Carolina and Tennessee all saw $1 million or more increases in funding for their state prevention programs. California also saw a massive $250 million increase in funding due to the $2.00 tobacco tax increase approved by voters in November 2016, earning them a rare "A" grade in this category. However, a number of states also had setbacks on funding for their tobacco prevention and quit smoking programs, including West Virginia which zeroed out all its state funding, and Texas, which cut its meager funding investment nearly in half. The total amount spent by states on tobacco prevention and cessation is $729.1 million, less than three cents per dollar of the $27.5 billion states collect from tobacco settlement payments and tobacco taxes.
Tobacco 21 Laws
2017 saw significant progress at the state and local level on laws to increase the tobacco sales age to 21. Three states – New Jersey, Oregon and Maine – and many local communities passed laws raising the minimum age of sale for all tobacco products to 21. This earned New Jersey and Oregon "A" grades in "State of Tobacco Control" 2018, and once the state's law is implemented will improve Maine's grade, too. This brings the national total to five states that have taken this important step to reduce youth tobacco initiation and save lives.
Smokefree Laws and Policies
For the fifth year in a row, no state passed comprehensive smokefree laws, leaving 22 states without statewide laws that protect everyone in all public places and workplaces from the dangers of secondhand smoke. Progress was made at the local level, including in Louisiana and Texas where two big cities - Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Fort Worth, Texas approved comprehensive smokefree laws.
Tobacco Taxes
Significantly increasing tobacco taxes is one of the most effective ways to prevent tobacco use among youth. Bringing parity to – or equalizing – tobacco taxes across all products, including cigars, little cigars and roll-your-own tobacco, eliminates the financial incentive for people to switch to a different product, encouraging people to quit tobacco entirely. Unfortunately, there was little progress at the state level on this front in 2017 with three states passing small tobacco tax increases. The average state cigarette tax is now $1.72 – with Connecticut and New York having the highest cigarette taxes ($4.35) and Missouri having the lowest ($0.17).
"In 2018, the American Lung Association will be working to defend the gains that have been made to combat tobacco use and we will push federal and state leaders to summon the courage to enact policies that will save lives - funding tobacco prevention programs, helping smokers quit and protecting everyone from secondhand smoke," Wimmer said.
To learn more about federal and state grades from this year's "State of Tobacco Control" report, visit Lung.org/sotc. For media interested in speaking with an expert about lung health, tobacco use and tobacco policies, contact Gregg Tubbs at [email protected] or 202-715-3469.
About the American Lung Association
The American Lung Association is the leading organization working to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease, through research, education and advocacy. The work of the American Lung Association is focused on four strategic imperatives: to defeat lung cancer; to improve the air we breathe; to reduce the burden of lung disease on individuals and their families; and to eliminate tobacco use and tobacco-related diseases. For more information about the American Lung Association, a holder of the coveted 4-star rating from Charity Navigator and a Gold-Level GuideStar Member, or to support the work it does, call 1-800-LUNGUSA (1-800-586-4872) or visit: Lung.org.
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A great ball contraption module is a machine, usually built from LEGO, that moves LEGO balls around. If multiple modules are built to conform to the standard they can be connected together so that the output of one module feeds the input of the next. With enough modules, a closed loop can be constructed so that the balls will cycle around indefinitely.
The functions of a module can be divided sequentially into loading, lifting, doing something interesting (with a widget), and unloading. Another key function is driving the module, or producing the motions required to load, lift, run the widget, and unload. Many modules will blend some of these functions together in the same mechanism.
Loading means receiving balls from the previous module and feeding them into the current module's lifting mechanism. Standard modules will receive balls through an 8 x 8-stud opening that is 10 bricks above the module base. This section will address means of getting balls received this way into a flow that works for different lifter requirements.
Lifting mechanisms are detailed in the lift mechanism category.
Doing Something Interesting[edit]
Widgets are mechanisms that exist solely for interest. They should be detailed in the widget category.
Unloading is receiving balls from the widget (or the lift mechanism if there is no separate widget) and providing them to the next module's in basket. In general, this is the easiest function. But there are cases, such as with shooters, where this is problematic.
Driving is supplying kinetic energy to the mechanisms. That is, it is making your module move. Variations:
- Direct drive: an electric motor is directly connected to the lift mechanism. This is by far the most common method.
- Shared drive: an electric motor drives a mechanical linkage, and individual modules connect to the linkage.
- Water-wheel drive: a falling or descending stream of balls turns a paddle wheel, which in turn runs a lift mechanism.
- Pneumatics: an air compressor (usually driven by an electric motor) provides energy into a system of pistons and switches.
Module Types[edit]
Modules can be divided up into two main categories, continuous and batch-based.
Continuous GBCs move the balls in a conveyor-belt system, constantly. They are the easiest to build and the most common module type. A few examples of these are:
- EXAMPLE 1 (Link to Example 1 in Module List Page)
- EXAMPLE 2 (Link to Example 2 in Module List Page)
- EXAMPLE 3 (Link to Example 3 in Module List Page)
For more examples, check out the full list of GBC modules here! (link)
Batch-Based (also known as Bucket-Based) GBC modules are much more complex and are rarer than continuous modules. They work by moving large volumes of balls at once, usually in a bucket. There are many styles for these, and here are a few of them:
- EXAMPLE 1 (Link to Example 1 in Module List Page)
- EXAMPLE 2 (Link to Example 2 in Module List Page)
- EXAMPLE 3 (Link to Example 3 in Module List Page)
For more examples, check out the full list of GBC modules here! (link)


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Before each Vision, Strategy & Planning Session, we'll have our 60 minute High Performance Coaching session (learn more about the High Performance Coaching).
We'll take a 10 to 15 minute break between the High Performance Coaching Session and our Vision, Strategy & Planning Session to assure we 're-energize' (we'll talk about the importance of this in Session 3 of High Performance Coaching on "Energy"), take a bathroom break, hydrate, and check for any life or business urgencies.
You'll want to plan on a full 2 1/2 hours for both sessions, which includes our break.
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Together, we'll create and you'll have:
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14 Words For Sadness And Depression That Don't Exist In English
One of the most frustrating feelings about depression is the incommunicability of it. The word "depression" in English had its own poetic connotations: the word (from Latin deprime) essentially means being forced downward, or a low, sunken place. That's pretty evocative — but it doesn't cover a lot of the emotions of depression itself; the isolation, the abyss-like fears.
"Anhedonia" is another useful English term for depressive symptoms, meaning the inability to get pleasure from activities you'd normally enjoy, and for centuries the disorder and its feelings were referred to as "melancholia," a state of deep wistfulness, misery, and withdrawal. But if you step outside English — and Latin — other languages possess words that can strongly evoke the real, lived experience of depression.
"Untranslatable" words in other languages — ones that pick up on very particular feelings or situations that can't really be understood outside their particular culture — are pretty fascinating. But beyond the untranslatables, world languages have the potential to enrich our emotional vocab. English isn't stunted when it comes to sad adjectives — you can be devastated, mournful, woebegone, crestfallen, wretched, and rueful — but sometimes, other languages pick up on stuff for which we just don't have the words for.
Is it a pipe dream to hope that some of these words find their way into everyday English usage? It's happened before; Schadenfreude, a German word meaning pleasure evoked from the pain of others, is pretty well-used in English nowadays. And it'd be a lot easier to explain your particular symptoms of sadness if you could say "Yeah, I'm feeling very lebensmüde, with just a hint of hi fun koi gai." Ah well. A girl can dream.
1. Mono No Aware, 物の哀れ (Japanese)
This is one of the most famous Japanese words, and describes the particular sadness or sensitivity regarding the passage of time and the transience of life. To experience this sadness is to be affected by the fleeting nature of specific things (love, experiences, sandwiches), and become wistful or reflective about the fact that everything must end.
Sample sentence: "The passing of the seasons just fills me with a sense of mono no aware, but then I remember that summer is a steaming hellhole."
2. Dépit (French)
This French word describes the feeling of itching irritation or fury (on a small scale) that happens when you're disappointed by something, like getting rejected in love or not winning a prize.
Sample Sentence: "Urgh, I'm just so dépité that Hannibal was cancelled; I'll be miserable for the rest of the week."
3. Koev halev (Hebrew)
This refers to a certain kind of empathy. If you can't watch people suffering or miserable, particularly if you love them, because you feel it so strongly yourself — to the point of causing you serious physical pain — then this is the term for you.
Sample Sentence: "You get way too much koev halev about contestants on The Bigger Loser."
4. Hi Fun Kou Gai, ひふんこうがい (Japanese)
This Japanese term is a kind of righteous, miserable anger, a frustration and despair over a situation that seems terrible but cannot be changed. Like corruption in a government, or a friend's bad treatment.
Sample Sentence: "Oh, god, listening to old white dudes arguing about women's rights just fills me with Hi Fun Kou Gai."
5. Lebensmüde (German)
German does seem to have a lot of evocative words for emotions — which totally blasts the global stereotype of the German people as ruthlessly efficient and emotionless. Lebensmüde literally translates as "life-tired" (a lot of German words just link two or three words together to make another), and either means you do such risky things that you clearly don't care for your own safety, or that you've entered a deep, physical state of not-caring.
Sample Sentence: "You are not allowed to go drag racing again until your feeling of Lebensmüde has passed."
6. Mutterseelinallein (German)
German again — and this one is absolutely horrible. It's loneliness, but much harder-hitting than that: it's meant to evoke abandonment by everybody you love, and literally means that your mother's soul has left you. Hardcore.
Sample Sentence: "I feel so utterly Mutterseelinallein I may bake an entire cake and eat it by myself. Sitting on the floor."
7. Natsukashii 懐かしい (Japanese)
This beautiful Japanese word identifies the feeling of evocative longing for something past: a nostalgia that's also very sad, as it reminds you that what you're remembering will never come again.
Sample Sentence: "Remember Beyonce's first solo album? I've just been struck with natsukashii about it."
8. Saudade (Portuguese)
Saudade regularly tops the list of the world's most untranslatable terms. The Portuguese term, which is the basis of the entire Portuguese genre of fado music, evokes deep, soul-rending sadness, flavored with longing and melancholy.
Sample Sentence: "I've been experiencing saudade for a long time, but at least I've written some awesome song lyrics."
9. Tante 忐忑 (Chinese)
This Chinese word means a kind of nervousness or perpetual anxiety, a state of worry where your senses are so heightened that you can feel your own heartbeat.
Sample Sentence: "If they don't tell us whether the flight's going to be delayed soon I'm going to go into a permanent state of tante."
10. Toska (Russian)
The Russian word toska actually has a lot of emotional registers, if you read this definition by Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita: "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom."
Sample Sentence: "It's your first breakup. After the period of toska you'll gradually feel slightly better, and then you'll be singing Gloria Gaynor before we know it."
11. Weltschmerz (German)
This one's actually got a critical edge: it's almost an accusation. It's a kind of ennui (that's a French word meaning listlessness or severe boredom, incidentally) that translates as "world-pain". It essentially means the depression that comes from believing your problems are caused by the world itself and its unfairness and cruelty. (These days, more generously, it can just mean sadness at how depressing and horrible the modern world is.)
Sample Sentence: "If one more suburban hipster tells me they're experiencing Weltschmerz because capitalism has repressed them, I'm going to scream."
12. Xinteng 心疼 (Chinese)
This Chinese term is a literal translation of "heart ache": it's the particularly kind of sadness and pain that comes from witnessing and sharing the pain of people you love. You can translate it as "feeling sorry," but it's more physical and empathetic than that.
Sample Sentence: "I can't watch 12 Years A Slave. I suffer too much from xinteng, it would nearly kill me."
13. Viraag विराग (Hindi)
This Hindi word actually means dispassion, but a writer on the blog Better Than English notes that it can also denote a particularly kind of emotional suffering: the sadness or depression caused by separation from somebody you love.
Sample Sentence: "Skype just doesn't do much to help the viraag."
14. Wintercearig (Old English)
This may be cheating, as Old English is no longer in use — but hey, we use Latinate words all the time. Wintercearig literally means "winter-care," but it isn't about Seasonal Affective Disorder; it's more meant to be a metaphor for the strength of your sadness, which is as strong and never-ending as the bitter cold of midwinter.
Sample Sentence: "It just feels vaguely wrong to be feeling such strong wintercearig in summer."
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Hello boys and girls, welcome to Digital Punch, I'm your host Benjamin Nelson coming to you from Chicago. In this episode we'll talk about Google Street View, Father's Day gifts and the new hot dog eating world champion.This month Google Maps introduced Street view. Most locations across the country have not been street mapped yet, but there are several cities that already have this service, San Francisco being one of them.So what is Street View? Check it out. Type San Francisco, CA in the search box, zoom in a bit, then click on the "Street View Button", now can you have full 360 views of every street that has been mapped. Very cool.People have already found some interesting pictures from Street view… Such as the Guy walking out of the strip club, Lady showing her thong, Guy breaking into someone's house and the dude caught picking his nose.
Still need a gift for Father's Day? Well, if you were planning to get your old man something online, you really blew it this time. There's no way it will show up in time for Sunday. You're gunna have to go to a store in your neighborhood.
Luckily, you can do all your local research online. Check out ShopLocal.com, search or browse for an item, and click the "Buy-In-Store" tab. Dad can be the hardest member of the family to buy for, so we at Digital Punch have taken the liberty of coming up with a few suggestions for the stumped.If price is no object, how about a Hard Drive Camcorder like the Sony Handycam DCR- SR200. It boasts a 40GB HD, which provides hours of high-quality video, with no fumbling with tapes or memory cards.. It doesn't come cheap though, it rings in at about $750.For the more budget-conscious, how about Radica's home Golden Tee Golfgame? Just plug it into your TV, and Dad can enjoy this barroom classic in the comfort ofhis den. The price is right too, at about $40.Nothing says summer like an old-fashioned father-son game of catch. Ifdad's glove has seen better days, pick him up a new one. A basicRawlings mitt will run you around $50. Then head out to the backyard, and help him break it in.If your dad's athletic pursuits are less about baseball and more aboutthe one-armed pint lift, there's the Mr. Beer Deluxe Home MicrobreweryKit. It's the easiest way to get him started making his own homebrew, and it's affordable at just about $30.You can find all these products in stores near you, so go to ShopLocal.com and check out all the local deals they offer!One week ago today, the coveted world hot dog eating record was swallowed whole by Californian Joey "Jaws" Chestnut. The new world record of 59 1/2 dogs eaten in 12 minutes defeated the old record held by, Takeru Kobayashi.Now we at Digital Punch decided to honor the noteworthy achievement by engaging in a high octane, no holds barred, gut busting hot dog eating contest of our own. Twelve minute contests like the one (quote fingers) "Jaws" set the record for, are for babies. We are putting it all on the line with :30 of pure hot dog gorging glory.Well, that'll do it for this episode of Digital Punch. Thanks to Peter Medlock, Doug Werder, Vince Portacci, Cene Ketchem and anyone else that helped with this episode. As always you can find us at digitalpunch.tv where we have a summary of each show and links of the products and stories we reviewed that week.Alright, that'll do it. See ya next week, I'm punchin' outThanks!-Digital Punch TV
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"Embracing the warm weather" outfit
It's warm here. Warm like we're in the middle of the summer. And, honestly, I'm not complaining too much. I don't like the cold and I don't like having to heat our apartment - yes, we need to do that even if we live in So Cal.
So today, I decided to stop fighting it and celebrate the long-lasting summer days we've been having here. Did I mention I'm not ready for fall, like, really not ready? October caught me off-guard for sure. I mean Halloween is just around the corner, Thanksgiving is not that far away... should I continue?
I was getting ready to go out to enjoy our day and I kept staring at my closet, trying to decide what I could wear that would look fall-ish. I stared for minutes, not being able to find a match to whatever I had in my head. I wanted to wear jeans, but knowing how warm it was outside, I said there was no way I would - I wanted to be comfortable. Wearing jeans on a warm day is not comfortable, not for me.
I kept being drawn to my dresses but, thinking of the skirts I've bought over the summer, and never worn, I chose the latter.
I bought this linen skirt (you should know I love anything linen and that linen is the perfect fabric for summer or any warm day), from Target, on sale and it's by Who What Wear (do you love them as much as I do?). I love its shape, movement and length. Sadly, it's not available anymore, but I have found some similar linen skirts here, here, and here, or maybe you like this one?
I paired it with an old oversized striped shirt (or this, this, this and even this), my faithful espadrilles and done - problem solved, I was ready to enjoy the day in comfort.
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This class is for dogs 5 months and over. Train a well-mannered dog to live happily and safely in the human world. Use games to learn and teach basic skills such as sit, down, walking on a loose leash, coming when called, and attention to owner. This is for the owner who wants a fun class that incorporates play and relationship-building, providing a true set of Foundations for growth!
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Fidelity or the Justification of One's Desires?
A Reflection on Discernment
Most people want to be good and do good things. There are exceptions. I've known men who take pleasure in fantasising over killing. People like that seek another form of good – one they have tailored to their desires, wants, and needs. I've known killers who have murdered to attain certain objective outcomes that they consider good and desirable. For example, two people I knew killed another as an act of fidelity and intimacy. Bottom line, everything we do, we do for a reason.
Choosing to do something involves reasoning. A moral choice deliberates between doing good or evil (the deprivation of a good). Moral choices involve teleological ethics, deontology, and virtue ethics. These ethical systems frame our decision making. Even though the process is complex, these ways of deliberating come naturally to us.
Think about it. Our perception/grasp of good and evil, of right and wrong involves a) deontological reasoning: our trying to determine some rule for what is always right and therefore, for what we ought to do b) teleology or consequentialism: our judging an act to be right or wrong depending on the favourableness of the outcome c) virtue ethics: considers right action to be the most virtuous action.
- Deontology – what ought I do?
- Teleology – what is the outcome I intend as a consequence of my action?
- Virtue ethics – how would a good and virtuous person act? What is the virtuous thing to do? What is the right thing to do?
Deliberation in Practical Terms
It is natural that we consider the outcome (telos), weighing up what we ought (deontology) to do in addition to what the right action (virtue) would be considering the circumstances.
In deliberating and forming an intention to act (telos/desired end), we simultaneously employ the convergent ethical strategies in our decision making. One aspect of the phenomena of moral decision making is considering what we ought to do (i.e., Kantian deontology). This is simply the rationalisation of the good we ought to choose, irrespective of consequences.
However, Kant's turn to the subject fails to account for the objective dimension of conscience, and our own cognitive luggage. It is reductionist to suggest deliberating on what we ought to do can satisfactorily discern what is good and moral behaviour, versus what is not. On the other hand, the consideration of consequences refers to the act itself (as good action produces good consequences and conversely, evil behaviour produces the fruits of that evil).
Although we may consider a) what we ought to do and b) the consequences, some additional 'mechanism' is required arrive at a moral choice. That 'mechanism' is conscience which has the capacity to discern the natural law—that reflects the Eternal Law of God. Conscience can judge between what is objectively good and of God, or evil and not of God. St Thomas says that "the natural law is nothing other than the light of understanding placed in us by God; through it we know what we must do and what we must avoid" (Dec. præc. I).
The last factor of deliberation is our notion of right and virtuous behaviour. To avoid naivety, it should be said that this involves our cognitive luggage—our attitudes, biases, prejudices—that affect the way we habitually act by shaping context specific mental processes. Those prejudices influence the way we deliberate between right and wrong action – between what we consider as virtue or vice, as wright or wrong action.
Moral decision making involves more than deciding upon what we think we ought (deontology) to do, or doing something that will bring about some good (telos). Ultimately, deontology and teleology are reduced to emotivism (MacIntyre) because these methods rely on our subjective grasp of morality. Our chosen behaviours may not be as good as we determined it to be. Therefore, moral decision making must involve our conscience (overlooked objective dimension) and must involve our self-critique of our habitual patterns of thinking (overlooked subjective dimension) about right action and what we consider virtuous conduct.
The Primacy of Conscience and the Virtue of Faith
In every moral act, we eventually choose what we consider as good for us, even if that behaviour is bad and evil. Our limited subjective grasp of moral behaviour is insufficient to deliberate upon the good we ought to do even when considering outcomes and our notion of right action.
As everything we do is done for a reason we may mistakenly desire something that is bad for us. Sometimes we even reframe our thinking about what is good, to justify that bad choice. What does this highlight? Either we are faithful to objective, unchangeable moral norms, or we go down the path of discerning what we want, redefining good and evil, and justifying that decision.
What does this highlight? Conscience can discern between the good or evil, intrinsic to moral or immoral behaviour So, an act of conscience—a simple choice between good and evil—is the only objective compass for moral acts. This also highlights the need of forming one's conscience. And as our conscience is formed according to objective moral norms, our prejudices are removed, we grow in the ability to discern and make good choices, and we grow in the virtue of discernment.
On the other hand, individuals who do not form their conscience rely on themselves to define what is good and desirable. This is in stark contrast to discerning what is good, and not evil. Bottom line – we either go down the path of fidelity to conscience, or of justification of what we ourselves have defined as good (telos).
Much has been said about the so called Thomistic teleological ethics employed by Amoris Laetitia. As teleology should not involve the weighing up and defining of good and evil, but rather the discernment between good and evil, in my opinion, the teleological ethic in Amoris Laetitia could not be that of Aquinas.
Not considering the means to the desired end, Amoris Laetitia's notion teleology is driven purely by consequences. For example, an adulterer could receive communion now if it was thought this would lead that persons good (intended end). But this does not make any sense.
Saint JPII clarified the object of the act is the telos and the source of moral action. As an act is either good and of God's will, or it is not. It is absurd to weighing up of consequences to determine if that act is good or not. JPIIs natural law approach represents a black-and-white choice between good and evil, discernible by conscience. Conscience is our guide when we are faithful to deliberating between what God has decreed as good and what is evil.
"To abandon the objectivity of absolutes is to leave the sources of moral guidance reduced to our purely subjective likes and dislikes" (http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2016/11/24/catholics-everywhere-should-be-grateful-for-the-four-cardinals-appeal/)
Fidelity to God Equates to Moral Living
Conscience can inform us whether an intended act is either right or wrong in the sight of God. Conscience informs us of what is virtuous behaviour in any given circumstance and that which always conforms to the natural law, and to God's will. In that sense, acts of conscience are essentially acts of faith. Second, the guiding principle of moral living is therefore the theological virtue of faith. Faith calls us to discern the will of God through our obedience to our conscience.
A Theology of Fidelity or Infidelity?
Satan has sifted the Church over Amoris Laetitia chapter eight on pastoral discernment. The footnote has been a red herring in that it shifts the focus from the underlying theology of infidelity to God's will.
Bishop Schneider gets to the point. Discernment is a process of the discerning will of God. Conscience guides us in our discernment of what is good and of God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSnAP5BUQ9Q&feature=youtu.be
Please reflect on the following Scriptures:
- Genesis 2:17 "You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die."
- Romans 14:23 "But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin."