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The Leonard Cohen film Leonard Cohen: Bird On A Wire (1972) was supposed to be released today on DVD. But it's been pushed back to September 7th, according to the folks at Amoeba.
For those in L.A., of course Amoeba is charging a bit more than everyone else: $18.99. For those of you in Massachusetts, it's best to get it at Newbury Comics, which is selling it for $11.88. (Yes, Newbury Comics is one of my favorite places on the planet.)
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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Flowering bonsai trees can be a very beautiful decoration for your home. These trees can produce fruits and flowers that are popular with many people. Trees like the apple tree have colorful flowers before getting their fruit. About the only difference between a regular tree and a bonsai tree is the size.
A flowering bonsai tree can be kept both indoors or outdoors. People love flowering trees because of their beauty and decorative purposes in and around their homes. A flowering crab apple tree that is grown outdoors can also be a bonsai tree. It will show beautiful blossom during the spring and then will produce small apples in the fall. The pink hibiscus is a beautiful flowering tree and can be grown indoors as a bonsai tree. It blooms beautiful pink flowers that will decorate your home for most of the year.
If you decide to keep your flowering bonsai tree indoors your will need to find a decorative ceramic pot for it to grow in. Some people try to find pots that match up with the décor inside their home. These pots must have good drainage holes in the bottom whatever type of pots that you decide to purchase. Your pots should have a tray or holder on the bottom of the pot to catch the excess water so that it does not get out and damage the floor. If at all possible, you should keep a humidifier around your tree to give it a better growing environment. You can put your indoor flowering bonsai trees on display stands that will allow you to move them easily from one place to another if you choose. You can purchase some beautiful display stands just for your bonsai trees that will make your trees even more attractive.
When displaying your bonsai tree outdoors you may have more options depending on your outdoor space. You can place your flowering bonsai trees in your garden or on a deck or patio area around your home. You can place colorful stones around your bonsai trees to offer more decoration. You may choose to add several different kinds of bonsai trees to your garden area of different sizes. You can turn your outdoor garden area into a peaceful and relaxing place with bonsai trees and other interesting outdoor decorations.


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24 May 2017
A Great Local Destin Restaurant
There are so many great restaurants in Destin but really only a handful that have that true local vibe. When you remember Destin's origin as the world's luckiest fishing village, it only seems fitting that our favorites are almost all on the water with a "come as you are" feel. We recently visited Dewey Destin's for lunch and were instantly reminded why we love it so much. Eating at Dewey Destin's is as much about food as it is atmosphere; the views are equally as impressive as the food.
Two Locations, Same Great Food
The restaurant now boasts two locations, Destin Harbor and Crab Island, but any local who isn't being selfish will tell you the Crab Island location is where you want to be. Located off of Calhoun Avenue, the restaurant feels untouched by time and the food is just as fresh as the day the restaurant opened. The Destin family started in the seafood industry and to this day still serves fresh, local seafood for the highest quality.
Food with a Great Destin View
After ordering a few baskets worth of fried fish and shrimp we found the perfect table with a water view and a nice breeze. Sitting with a big smile and great company, I was easily reminded why I live in Destin and why I take such great pride in sharing our little village with the world. The food arrived quickly and without issue and for the first time during our lunch break there was a lull in the conversation because we were too busy enjoying our meals and admiring the other dishes being carried by our table, mentally planning what we would order next time.
We followed up our meal with a leisurely stroll down the dock to admire the water. Every other sentence was, "I can't believe what a perfect day it is" as we watched the boats moving to and from Crab Island. So if you have the chance, live like a local. Visit restaurants that aren't franchised. Eat meals you can't get anywhere else. And let our home be the place you remind yourself how lucky you are to share moments with the people you care about.
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So, I showed you how to make an armature for a stop motion puppet. Let's finish the puppet up.
I will be using almost the same technique that Richard Svensson uses. You really should check out his blog. He has made many blog posts about this technique.
Following his advice, I began with a clay sculpt of the head and the front of the body.
I only sculpt the head, and the main body torso. The limbs are usually too much work to mold and cast. This flat side sculpt allows for an easy mold. You could also sculpt the back if you desired, and mold and cast that as well. For this puppet we will only sculpt the front.
This guy doesn't have a lot of crazy detail, but your sculpt can be anything you desire.
I made a quick and ugly clay wall around the sculpt and then poured in plaster of paris to make a quick and ugly mold.
I will probably only use this mold once, so it doesn't have to win any beauty contests.
When the mold was dry, I poured in some mask latex, let it sit for a few minutes, then poured out the excess.
The latex is now dry in the mold. I brush cornstarch on the latex so it doesn't stick to itself when I remove it from the mold, and carefully remove the skin.
Brush off the excess cornstarch (or talcum powder). The finished skin is over the armature.
This is what the skin will look in place over the armature. Now we need to bulk it up with some muscles.
I use regular cushion foam to create the muscles and fat. Cut it to fit it under your skin. It takes awhile to get it the right size. Tiny scissors help.
You can glue the skin on with latex, or glue. Sometimes I wrap it with thread to hold it in place while the glue dries
Now start applying latex. Dab it on. Use cotton balls to add bulk. It takes forever to build up thickness if you just use latex alone. The cotton can be shaped just like muscles and is held in place with the latex.
The threads are removed when the first batch of latex is dry. Keep dabbing on muscles and latex. You will have to add some, then take a break while it dries. Come back later and add some more. All of the rest of the puppet will be built up like this. If your back has lots of detail, you could mold/cast the back as well. I have tried to mold and cast the legs and arms, but I find it way too small to work. I always build up my arms and legs and hands and feet.
Grab a clump of cotton ball and shape it in your fingers just like a muscle and apply it to the armature bones. Get it stuck at the ends, later you can shape it or compress it down.
This is the neck area. I pushed cotton into the head area to fill up any holes or spots that needed more padding. Keep adding small muscle groups.
The wet cotton can be mushed down to form shapes, or puffed up to add dimension, and the latex can be cut when dry and even buffed down. Mistakes can be cut out completely and re done. It is very forgiving.
Keep going, while I go get a sandwich. Sunlight will help the latex dry quicker or you can use a hair dryer. When things start to get too messy, or sticky, take a break, and let it dry some, then come back to it.
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Day 1:
We arrived in Icheon, the sleekest airport I've ever seen, with the prettiest travelers. Black was in, with glossy pale skin, lip tint, and heeled ankle boots. I was dressed all wrong.
We headed to stay with our friends Amy and Jouni in Itaewon, the posher of Seoul's two main foreigner neighborhoods. It's a party neighborhood, like a fancy Wrigleyville without the sports.
After we dropped off our luggage, we browsed a few nearby makeup stores. Despite the over-attentive (suspicious?) clerks, I fell in love with Tony Moly and Etude House. The foundations were actually pale enough for me, and never have I seen so many cosmetics shaped like bunnies!
That night we went out for tex-mex food—hard to come by in rural Japan. I almost wept over my delicious pulled-pork tacos.
Day 2: A cozy Christmas
We woke up around 10:30 and had tea and toast. We all opened presents from each other and faraway relatives. Amy and Jouni got us Line Friends mugs (Seoul has an enormous Line Friends store). They also surprised us with tickets to Nanta! Cookin', one of Korea's longest-running theater shows!
Jouni made a delicious lunch of salmon, roasted vegetables and mashed potatoes. Amy's friend Chloe came with pastries. After we ate, we watched The Twelve Dogs of Christmas, one of Amy and Jouni's long-standing Christmas traditions. Worst. Movie. Ever. I highly recommend it.
Eventually, we roused ourselves into going for a walk, and had drinks and snacks at a pizza place called Jackson Blvd.
Day 3:
We walked to the nearby Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, a mix of traditional Korean and contemporary art. The best parts by far were the architecture and sculptural installations.
After, we did a little shopping in Hongdae. It was cold, and the crowd was pure madness, but we found a scarf and some cute bootleg Lego sets.
We had a sleepy dinner at home before venturing out again with Jouni to see N Seoul Tower. More mad crowds, but the view was beautiful. On the way back down, I loved the silhouettes of tree branches against futuristic city lights.
We wrapped up the night with some yummy craft beers at Pong Dang Craft Beer Co.
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We went had a nice brunch at The Frying Pan and took a taxi to Gyeongbok Palace for the 1:00 changing of the guards ceremony. The buildings were embellished with bright, busy patterns and dragon and monkey sculptures. I think I even saw a chicken. Amy pointed out a walkway through the complex. She said its center path, elevated about five inches, was for the emperor only, to make him look taller than everyone else. I wonder if it fooled anyone. Life was confusing and scary back then.
I found the changing of the guards, much like the palace itself (much like Seoulites, themselves, for that matter), beautiful and intimidating. Costumes boasted horns and elaborate dragon shields. The off-kilter tin percussion and conch shells made a gorgeous, bone-chilling tune.
Next, it was time for us to go to "Nanta". Before the show, an intro screen prepped us for a cross "between Stomp!, Benihana, and the Marx brothers". This description proved so accurate that I have no further comment. It was very silly, very Korean, and delightful.
We stuck around the hectic Myeongdong district to find omiyage for my coworkers. Asian tourists come to buy Korean cosmetics in bulk, and face masks are a popular pick. Thanks to cutthroat shop competition, I got 81 masks for less than $30. Some of them contain snail mucus, a popular Korean emollient.
We were pretty Seouled-out after all the kerfuffle, so we met back up with Amy and Jouni and spent the rest of the night eating and drinking at Casablanca and Burgermine in Haebangchon.
When we got back to the apartment, we laid around and watched K-pop videos, the inspiration for and product of (chicken or egg?) the impeccable, airbrushed people we'd encountered throughout our trip.
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Visiting somewhere as materialistic as Seoul over the holidays was quite a treat. Fancy rustic brunches and designer cosmetics are scarce in my Japanese suburb, and in Seoul I found no shortage of ways to indulge. But it was a slippery slope. The longer we stayed, the more aware I became of the fact that my boots were last season and my hips were too fat. While shopping, I ran into a clothing brand called "Let's Diet."
Rumor has it Seoul's image consciousness comes from a deep-seated inferiority complex. When South Korea found some stability after Japanese colonialism and the Korean War, the country frantically embraced capitalism, zooming forward from destitution to consumption too quickly for the culture to keep up. Seoul is flashy—nouveau-riche. Young Seoulites get plastic surgery and venture out to flaunt their bandages, while the aging generation collects the garbage.
I want to visit Seoul again to see if there's more off the neon-sign-addled beaten path, and if there's any counter culture (my friends who live there think not). I want to go to smaller Korean towns, to see if there's a warmer vibe.
It's funny how homesickness is subjective—I've spent the last couple months longing for Chicago, but when I returned from hyper-Westernized Seoul to rural Japan, an odd wave of comfort overtook me. I don't fit in in Nakatsu either, but at least my slouchy clothes do.


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Democracy activists in Hong Kong on Monday accused police in the former British colony of inflating the number of participants at a weekend demonstration opposing plans for an "Occupy Central" movement, which has threatened mass civil disobedience if China doesn't offer the city a real choice in the next election for its leader.
Police said the number of protesters at Sunday's pro-Beijing march for "peace and democracy" had reached 111,800, in sharp contrast to the University of Hong Kong's Public Opinion Programme's estimate of no more than 88,000.
Organizers of the demonstration claimed nearly 200,000 people participated in the demonstration aimed at opposing the Occupy Central campaign, which has vowed to take over Hong Kong's downtown financial and shopping district if voters are denied public nominations in the 2017 race for the next chief executive.
The pro-Beijing rally was intended to counter the city's July 1 pro-democracy rally, which organizers said was participated in by some 500,000 people, against a police head count of just 92,000.
League of Social Democrats member Tsang Kin Shing said the police reporting of the numbers seemed highly skewed in favor of the pro-Beijing camp.
"The police greatly under-reported the numbers at the July 1 demonstration, but they over-reported the numbers at the anti-Occupy Central rally," Tsang told RFA on Monday.
"If we are really divided into pro-Occupy and anti-Occupy movements, then Chief Executive C.Y. Leung should hold a referendum, and allow seven million Hong Kong people to decide the issue," he said.
Some local television footage showed groups of "protesters" leaving soon after the main march left Victoria Park, while other shots showed participants receiving money from unidentified people.
Anti-Occupy activist Robert Chow said the Alliance for Peace and Democracy, which organized the march, would investigate the allegations.
"We will be carrying out a detailed investigation to find out exactly what went on here," Chow told reporters, adding that the numbers belonging to the group suspected of taking payments would be deducted from the overall count.
Pro-Beijing march
Some 1,170 pro-Beijing groups and politicians signed up for the rally, including Regina Ip from the New People's Party, and Tam Yiu-chung and Starry Lee from the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, local media reported.
Marchers wore colored T-shirts denoting allegiance to various social groups linked to different provinces and hometowns in China.
They carried placards which read: "Love Hong Kong, don't paralyze Hong Kong," "For the next generation," and "In support of one person, one vote in 2017."
Minor clashes broke out between demonstrators and Occupy Central supporters, and police arrested four men after receiving reports of assault, criminal damage, and a person throwing eggs, the government said in a statement.
"Hong Kong politics has become too polarized, and we don't want to see that," one protester told RFA.
"I want to see more moderation, and more moderate voices, and a spirit of consultation among all parties," the protester said.
"That's much healthier."
However, not everyone on the march seemed to know its aims.
"My friends came along, and so I came too," one elderly man told RFA. "I don't really know much about it; I'm over 80 years old. I just knew we were walking the streets after breakfast."
Government reaction
Hong Kong's Special Administrative Region (SAR) government said it welcomed the march, minus any disorderly conduct.
"The HKSAR government welcomes and supports all activities which take forward the implementation of universal suffrage for the chief executive election in 2017 in accordance with the law," it said.
"[The government] opposes all unlawful acts which affect social order and the betterment of our people."
Some 800,000 people voted in an informal referendum run by the Occupy campaign in June in support of three different nomination methods, all of which included public nomination options.
But Hong Kong's government has sought to play down the calls, sparking a wave of criticism from pro-democracy and civil society groups.
In a July 15 report to the National People's Congress (NPC), China's rubber-stamp parliament, Hong Kong Chief Executive C.Y. Leung said the elections would be run according to the special administration territory's mini-constitution, the Basic Law, which calls for election candidates to be vetted by a special committee before being approved to run.
In past elections, such a committee has been stacked with pro-Beijing candidates, making the selection of a pro-democratic candidate highly unlikely.
Reported by Lin Jing for RFA's Cantonese Service, and by Yang Fan for the Mandarin Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.


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Paper: Alex's 64k demo from 1996
Before Alex Evans was Alex Evans, he was a demoscene coder who went by the name Statix. "Paper" is one of his better known demos, which is just 64kb of hand written assembly language...
This was made in the days before 3d accelerators and graphics cards – everything is rendered by hand. But the thing that was coolest about it was that it was all about paper planes. An early time travelling nod to Tearaway, perhaps?!
The demo was first shown at a demo party in Belgium, Wired '96 – a demo party is a bit like a massive LAN party, where hundreds of geeks bring their PCs to a large hall for 3 sleepless days, but instead of playing games, they create music, graphics and code.
During the last day of wired '96, hundreds of people folded paper aeroplanes, and chucked them into the air. It was a wonderful moment to behold, until some poor bastard got one in the eye, leapt to his feet screaming unprintable French curse words. I felt quite guilty about it for some time…– Alex Evans


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Police have issued a CCTV image of a man they would like to talk to in relation to a fraud investigation in Distington.
Following new lines of enquiry police have released the picture as they look into the incident that occurred at McColl's shop in Distington on June 18.
Officers would like to speak with the man pictured as part of their investigations.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact police on 101, email email@example.com, Or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 quoting Log 303 of the 18th June 2019.


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3 Key Points From "Your House Helper" To Help Clean Up Your Life
KBS 2TV's "Your House Helper," an adaptation of a webtoon of the same name, is about a perfect male house helper who helps to professionally empty and clean out the chaotic homes, crazy lives, and the complicated minds of several women.
In anticipation of the premiere of "Your House Helper" airing. here are three key points to help clean up your life!
1. Youth: The Fresh Actors' Activities
This generation's youth who work overtime for the position of full-time jobs and suffer from unrequited crushes. Producing director Jung Sung Hyo said, "I wanted the viewers to relate as if it were their problems as well. I wanted to portray it brightly and full of life." Ha Seok Jin, WJSN's Bona, Lee Ji Hoon, Go Won Hee, Jun Soo Jin, and Seo Eun Ah also represent the realities of the youth in this drama. Bona, known for being a cheerful acting-idol; Lee Ji Hoon, with his steady acting; Go Won Hee, who shows new charms with every work; Jeon Soo Jin, who has gone through an image transformation; and Seo Eun Ah, who is a great actress, meet with Ha Seok Jin, who will lead "Your House Helper," to do well in this drama.
2. Life: Life Learned Through Housekeeping
Cleaning, doing the laundry, cooking, and washing dishes are necessary housekeeping duties. This is because if we do not do these things for even one day, our lives do not run smoothly. Kim Ji Woon (played by Ha Seok Jin) will find women whose homes and lives have become dirty and help give some housekeeping tips, while also trying to deliver the meaning of life. For example, Ji Woon's life tips about laundry, and the order of cleaning one's house, has the power of housekeeping that brings comfort, as well as courage and hope. It will be interesting to see how Ji Woon's philosophy — that "housekeeping is a work that will soon save lives" — will change the lives of viewers.
3. Healing: We Will Tidy Up Your Mind
PD Jung Sun Hyo revealed, "The fun and emotional point of our drama is when the clients see their chaotic, dirty homes become clean, and their faces just light up with happiness." The female clients who request help from Ji Woon in the drama all have some problems that deal with the matters of their minds. However, as he begins to help clean and their daily routines change, they experience the magic of their lives also beginning to change. The process of cleaning their homes results in cleaning up their minds. The drama plans to showcase all the characters who begin to clean up the mess they have ignored for a long time slowly healing their individual pain in the most comfortable place — their homes.
"Your House Helper" airs on every Wednesday and Thursday. Watch it on Viki!
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Mark 10:8 Wood Wall Decor
- Brand: His & Hers
Showcase your love with accents which reflect the Lord's influence on your relationship. Mark 10:8 Wood Wall Decor is a gorgeous wood plank piece with white painted text. With a special message which reflects the beauty of marriage, this piece is great for hanging in your home or displaying during your wedding!
- Length: 10 1/8"
- Width: 28"
- Projection: 1"
Full Text: No longer two but one. - Mark 10:8
Hanging Hardware: 2 - Sawtooth Hangers (21 1/4" Apart From Center to Center)
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T.I. is insulted by the stereotypical scripts being pitched to him ("Look at this shit: gangster, drug dealer, rapper. I might as well be playing myself!") and looks to Ari to land him a more serious role. Specifically, he wants to play a supermarket employee who falls for an older woman and is jonesin' for that older woman to be Meryl Streep.
His requests are cut short when Ari is questioned by cops for sending feces by way of U.S. Mail (for one of his revenge plots, of course), and even T.I. is freaked out ("You are literally on some sick shit, Ari."). But it turns out Ari isn't under arrest, he's just in for a filthy surprise of his own.


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Glass sculpture with metal detail by David Reekie.
Dimension: 55 cm (H), 44 cm (W), 18 cm (D).
Using the notion of manipulation in society, the artist's imagination has drawn him to the idea of a genderless figure, seemingly free but held by rods that emanate from the figure's body. This poses the question, are these ties that can be broken or is the figure the prisoner of a manipulated destiny?
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Here are our pastor's latest blog posts:
- Should Someone Have The Responsibility of Getting Others to Worship?
- "A Traditional Church Will Die!"
Here's Jess's latest blog post:
- I am Just a White Mom
- "The (On-Going) Talk" (Talking With Your Kids About Sex, From Ages 2-5)
- Are You Ignoring Your Mommy Radar?
- Don't Do It To Prove Them Wrong
Here are the other great articles and resources I found and collected this last week:
- Missions Doesn't Stop When a Group Has Been Reached
- Cheerful Confidence After Christendom
- 9 Statements That Will Destroy Your Small Group


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Ride Mode in Honor 9 Lite will be taken off by means of OTA refresh, Safety highlight will go ahead Honor 7X and Honor 9i too, Feature empowers clients to securely work phones while riding.
Honor 9 Lite smartphone is getting another 'Ride Mode' highlight. Huawei mark Honor on Friday revealed the new security include by means of OTA (over-the-air) refresh only for Honor 9 Lite smartphone in India. The component is like the S Bike mode that Samsung had reported with the Samsung Galaxy J3 in 2016. With the Ride Mode include, bike riders will be encouraged to take after safe smartphone use. The element will empower clients to securely work their smartphone while riding a bicycle. The company has additionally educated that the component will likewise be taken off to other Honor smartphones like Honor 7X and Honor 9i.
The Ride Mode refresh on the Honor 9 Lite will be taken off in clumps and will be finished before the month's over. When you get the refresh, you will have the capacity to get to the Ride Mode highlight by initiating it either from drop-down notices menu or by heading off to the phone's Settings menu. When you empower the element, guests will be advised that the client is as of now riding, and can't answer calls. The component basically works as a Do-Not-Disturb choice that makes an impression on the guest saying that the client won't have the capacity to go to the call since they are riding. Be that as it may, the guest will likewise get an alternative to call the rider in the event of a crisis.
"Honor has been driving the market through customer-driven advancement, and the new Ride Mode includes proceeds with our development and further emphasizes our dedication towards the improvement of smartphone encounter. Ride Mode highlight will be helpful for many Indian bicycle rider and empower safe smartphone utilization while bicycle riding," said P Sanjeev, Vice President, Sales, Huawei Consumer Business Group.
The Honor 9 Lite is a dual-SIM smartphone that runs EMUI 8.0, in light of Android 8.0 Oreo. It includes a 5.65-inch full-HD+ (1080x2160 pixels) IPS display with 18:9 viewpoint ratio. The smartphone is powered by a Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 659 SoC, matched with 3GB and 4GB RAM variants. Likewise, it has dual camera setups on the front and back - both with 13-megapixel and 2-megapixel sensors. It as of late began accepting the Face Unlock include by means of an OTA refresh in India
The smartphone accompanies two storage choices - 32GB and 64GB. The two alternatives bolster extension by means of microSD card (up to 256GB) in a half-breed dual-SIM configuration. As far as connectivity, Honor 9 Lite offers 4G VoLTE, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, GPS/A-GPS, Micro-USB with OTG bolster, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The smartphone packs a 3000mAh battery and weighs 149 grams.
The 3GB RAM/32GB storage Honor 9 Lite variant is evaluated at Rs. 10,999 in India, while its 4GB RAM/64GB variant is accessible at Rs. 14,999.
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The past and present spectacularly collide in this gripping story of love and betrayal echoing across the decades . . .
Published by Michael Joseph on 16TH May 2019
£7.99 paperback / eBook
**Carol is available for interview, please see contact details below for more information**
No one else knows what happened that summer. Or so she believes.
Grace first came to France a lifetime ago. Young and full of dreams of adventure, she met two very different men.
Until one summer night shattered everything.
Now, Grace is living an idyllic life with her husband, sheltered from the world in a magnificent Provençal villa, perched atop a windswept cliff.
Every day she looks out over the sea – the only witness to that fateful night years ago.Until a stranger arrives at the house. A stranger who knows everything.
Carol Drinkwater is a multi-award-winning actress who is best known for playing Helen Herriot in the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small. She has since written 21 fiction and non-fiction books, including four memoirs set on her olive farm in the south of France, which have sold over one million copies worldwide. Her latest novel The House on the Edge of the Cliff is an epic story of enduring love and betrayal which echoes across the decades, set in a magnificent Provencal villa and will publish in paperback on the 16th May. Carol lives with her husband Michel Noll, a documentary filmmaker, in their farmhouse in the French Riviera.
You can find more information at www.caroldrinkwater.com or on Twitter: @Carol4OliveFarm.
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Appearances by national voices – civic leader Valerie Jarrett & bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz – among 2019 Lit Fest programming highlights
CHICAGO, IL (April 10, 2019) The Printers Row Lit Fest, the largest free outdoor literary showcase in the Midwest, marks its 35th year with an expanded outdoor presence and a return to its original roots as a community-based celebration for book lovers presented by the not-for-profit Near South Planning Board. The much-anticipated 2019 Printers Row Lit Fest will take place along Dearborn Street from Dearborn Station to the newly named Ida B. Wells Drive (formerly Congress Parkway), rain or shine, Saturday – Sunday, June 8 – 9, from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
More than 100,000 visitors are expected over the two-day festival, which will feature carefully selected offerings from over 100 booksellers; everything from the tattered to the rare to 'hot off the press,' newly published works.
"Chicago is a great city for readers and writers, and this is a particularly vibrant moment on the literary scene when Chicago writers are standing up and saying we matter, ideas matter. The great Chicago literary tradition of Algren, Dreiser and Sandburg has been updated and infused by energetic new voices, urgent and passionate, that elevate this great city and its place in the world," said Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago writer, editor and co-chair of the Harold Washington Literary Awards selection committee.
In addition to a bonanza of book browsing, this year's Lit Fest continues the tradition of numerous feature presentations by myriad authors, spoken word artists, adventurers, chefs and poets. This year will spotlight Chicago's breadth of talent, plus offer writing workshops, and very special programs for children and young adults.
"We are really proud of our commitment to diverse programming. There will be something for everybody from children and teenagers to scholars and sports fans… and it's all free and open to the public," said Teresa Basso Gold, 2019 Lit Fest Director of Programming.
Outdoor tents with booksellers, and a Main Stage for speakers and Chefs demos are among the popular annual Lit Fest attractions all taking place in the heart of Printers Row, the one-time home to classic engraving and bookbinding which is on the National Register of Historic Districts.
The northern boundary of the Fest is the newly named Ida B. Wells Drive and this trailblazing visionary journalist (1862-1931) is one of the inspirations behind this year's Festival. Among its programming will feature powerful, social justice-focused voices – many from the Midwest, including Valerie Jarrett and Alex Kotlowitz. Jarrett, the longest serving senior advisor in the Obama White House or any White House, will discuss her new memoir, Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward, a story that starts in Iran but has its heart in the south side of Chicago. Kotlowitz, nationally recognized journalist, bestselling author, and award-winning filmmaker introduces his most recent work, An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago.
Alex Kotlowitz will also be honored at the 2019 Harold Washington Literary Award Dinner, which officially launches the Festival and takes place Thursday, June 6 at 6:00 p.m. Kotlowitz is the author of four books, including the national bestseller, There Are No Children Here, which was designated by the New York Public Library as one of the 150 most important books of the 20th century and Oprah Winfrey produced and starred in its television movie adaptation. The Other Side of the River received the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Nonfiction and Never a City So Real is soon to be released in paperback. More information on the Harold Washington Literary Award Dinner can be found at https://thenspb.org.
"In 1985, we started with one small block of South Dearborn and now we are one of the country's oldest and best book fairs in the country," said Bonnie Sanchez-Carlson, President & Executive Director, Near South Planning Board. "Attendees can expect the same lively street scene and sense of discovery that has always been in the DNA of the festival."
This year, all 2019 Lit Fest programming will be 100% free of charge. The complete Lit Fest program schedule with over seven stages, including a new Center Stage and Arts & Poetry tent, will be released in May.
Near South Planning Board is the official Festival Presenter. Wintrust is the Program Sponsor. Major Sponsors include Robert R. McCormick Foundation, Chicago Tribune, Alphawood Foundation, and Poetry Foundation, with others joining in to support the 2019 Fest.
Near South Planning Board (NSPB) founded the Printers Row Lit Fest in 1985 under the direction of Bette Cerf Hill, who has returned to spearhead the Festival in 2019. NSPB is a not-for-profit community-based organization, serving businesses, institutions and property owners of the Near South Side of Chicago since 1946.
The Harold Washington Literary Award recognizes diverse and stimulating authors who address issues of contemporary life and whose literary achievements include a significant body of work that has touched the public mind and imagination. Harold Washington, the first African-American mayor of the City of Chicago, revered literature and epitomized the diversity of the American experience. The award, which bears his name, celebrates this spirit. The goal of this award is to present examples to the public of creative uses of the written word. Past Harold Washington Literary Award winners starting in 1980, include Susan Sontag, Kurt Vonnegut, Ralph Ellison, August Wilson, and Scott Turow.
More information about the Printers Row Lit Fest can be found at https://printersrowlitfest.org.
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Thank you for being such a great supporter of the Charroux Literary Festival. We want to keep you updated on our latest initiative and we hope you will get involved or let others know about it.
We are very excited to announce the launch of the 2019 Charroux Memoir Prize for Poetry and Prose; and what's more, we are delighted that the authors Susie Kelly and Gordon Simms have agreed to judge our first competition.
We are looking for entries for short memoir or poetry which delight, shock, amuse or enthral.
The closing date for the competition is 15 August. The successful winners and runners up will be announced in October 2019, followed by a celebration event and writing workshop in South West France.
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Tickets on sale for the first Swindon Spring Festival!
In the inaugural Swindon Spring Festival – built on the legacy of twenty-five years of the Swindon Festival of Literature – there are sixty events across fourteen action-packed days of literature, writing, speaking, ideas, dance, drama, music, film, art and circus skills.
The new Festival is bookended by two familiar and well-loved events – the unique Dawn Chorus at Lawn Woods and the Festival Finale.
The action-packed first day includes a 5k run followed by a talk by an author on all things running – this year it's Bella Mackie, author of Jog On. But it's not just humans and animals at the run – this year they are joined by the Tractor Carnival.
Think Slam, where philosophers do battle to out-think each other, also makes a welcome return.
More braincell-engagement comes in the form of the Spring Festival Quiz, hosted by TV Egghead and six times world quizzing champion Kevin Ashman.
Also new for this year is Festival in the Park, a free day of family fun at Lydiard Park replacing the popular Family Day having outgrown its Lower Shaw Farm home. Families will be treated to circus skills, a poetry jukebox, puppetry, and live music.
BBC Wiltshire listeners will be invited to contribute lines and phrases to A Festival Poem for Swindon, which will be curated by performance poet and festival regular Sara-Jane Arbury and the young voices of Swindon's Prime Theatre.
Swindon's most celebrated author gets an event in his honour – 132 years after his death. The first annual Richard Jefferies Lecture will be presented by broadcaster and Victorian literature expert Will Abberley.
Appearances from living authors include former education minister and home secretary Lord Kenneth Baker on the Seven Deadly Sins, Mike Berners-Lee (There is no Planet B) on climate change, Heather Widdows (Perfect Me) on perfection and beauty, and mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy, on whether computers will ever replace artists.
Swindon Arts Centre will host a number of film screenings, among which is Life is Wonderful, a documentary focussing on the legal team who defended Nelson Mandela during the Rivonia Trial – a team led by Joel Joffe, a longtime supporter of Swindon Festival of Literature and resident of Liddington, who died in 2017.
In dance, Swindon Dance will mark its 40th anniversary with The Rising, where dancers and musicians will explore what makes people feel alive.
In theatre, Everybody – a play written and performed by young Swindon actors from Rapport – will explore what it means to be a teenager today, and Emily Carding asks you if you have answers for Hamlet's great questions of life.
There's too much to fit into one email – watch out for more magnificent missives on the programme and explore swindonspringfestival.co.uk. Read more about Thursday's Festival launch on the Festival Chronicle.
With spring greetings!
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EYELANDS 9th INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY CONTEST – 2019
The contest runs from March 20th through June 20th, 2019
The theme of the contest this year is «Round Midnight»
First prize: A week's holiday in the island of Crete
First three winners' stories published in two different anthologies (Greek and English).
All the stories of the shortlist will be published in a special English edition, released through amazon.com & strange days books.
Entry fee: 10 €
Judge: Gregory Papadoyiannis
* Theme of the contest: Round Midnight
*Entries must be short stories, of any genre, and maximum length is 2,500 words and must be previously unpublished in a book, printed magazine or web-based journal. Entries must be in English.
* The contest closes at midnight UTC on 20th of June
*This is an international contest. There is no restriction such as nationality etc of the author, but you have to be 18 years old on the 21st of March 2019 to enter the contest.
* Winners and the shortlist to be announced on September 10th, 2019
* There will be two collections of stories – one that will be published in Greek including the translated stories of the first three winners of the English Section and another one with all the shortlisted stories of the English Section.
All prize-winners and shortlisted writers have to renew their approval for the publishing of the anthology till the 1st of October, 2019.
*First prize winner will be the judge of next year's 10th contest!
First prize is a week's holiday on the island of Crete. Three Rock, (Triopetra beach, South Crete) is a studio for 2 people (with beds for two children also available). Air tickets not included.
• All the shortlisted stories will be published in the anthology. The book will be released through "Strange Days" publications and www.amazon.com in November, 2019. All the shortlisted writers will also get a free copy of the book! (We send the books to your address once. In case of return we can't repeat it).
First prize winner will be the judge of next year's 10th contest!
Three Rock Writers' Resort announces the opening of applications for its 2019 residencies. Situated in one of the most magnificent places of Greece at the south coast of Crete island, Three Rock in collaboration with Strange Days Books publishing offers a two-weeks low cost (or no cost at all) stay especially for writers. Full stipend will be offered to one project and half stipends (discount 50% from the regular cost) to 20 other projects.
Three Rock Writers' Resort Residency is a self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to work on a creative project of their choice and above all an extraordinary opportunity to enjoy life on Crete.
Writers in all creative writing genres are invited to apply. Novels, plays, short stories, poetry, graphic novel, everything is eligible. Our residency is designed for emerging and established writers seeking to dedicate a period of time to a project in any genre.
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This month, a new study called the #RealCollege Survey published alarming statistics about the social well-being of California community college students. The study estimated that around 20% of California community college students have experienced homelessness in the last year, 60% have experienced recent housing insecurity, and 50% have experienced food insecurity (1). The #RealCollege Survey was completed on community college campuses across California in the fall of 2016 and 2018. It's worth noting that college students experiencing poverty, homelessness, and food/housing insecurity is not unique to California as educational institutions across the country face these issues.
According to StandUp for Kids, a nonprofit organization that serves homeless youth, the rising costs of housing and stagnant wages across the country (2) have made it increasingly challenging for families to support their college-age children pursuing higher education. Parents may find themselves unable to help their children at all or at least struggle to pay for both tuition and housing, leaving students to make their own accommodations. Some students may not even have the support of parents, such as students who were raised in foster care. The #RealCollege survey noted that these students experienced homelessness at a higher rate than children of parents with either a bachelor's degree or higher education (1).
While college campuses have been reporting student homelessness growing in recent years, the recent publication is one of the first to study the problem with a student survey. Over 40,000 students participated in the survey conducted by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University's College of Education in Philadelphia. Key observations are highlighted below:
Actual homelessness rates among students are likely higher.
Only six percent of students labeled themselves as homeless, while the other thirteen percent were only classified as homeless after stating where they lived (shelters, hotels, couchsurfing, etc).
This indicates the likelihood that other surveys that estimate rates of homelessness through self disclosure are understating the true values.
Sixty percent of California community college students have experienced housing insecurity in the last year.
Housing insecurity encompasses a category of experiences ranging from difficulty or inability to pay rent to having to move frequently.
Students may need to move frequently for a variety of reasons, such as living in areas which feel unsafe or being forced out of a living situation due to the space being over-capacity.
Fifty percent of California community college students have experienced food insecurity in the past month.
Food insecurity is defined as limited access to adequate supplies of nutritious food or the inability to access food via socially acceptable means.
Removing non-academic barriers to student success.
Homelessness on college campuses is a growing problem across the country. Students who are experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity, or food insecurity face risks not only to their well-being, but also to their education. Many students experiencing these challenges are not able to graduate due to the greater mental burden of securing access to life essentials such as food or housing. To help these students succeed, we need to become aware of their presence on campuses across the country and take action to help them connect with resources to support their social needs.
Many institutions of higher education are already partnering with Aunt Bertha to address the social needs of students. With our platform, they can help students and their families remove non-academic barriers to student success. Through an assessment, staff can identify and refer students to community resources which are often provided on campus. Aunt Bertha enables institutions of higher education to connect the dots between the campus and the community, gaining a deeper understanding of the impact those connections have on a student's success in the process. Our higher education partners include forward thinking institutions such as Ivy Tech Community College, St. Edward's University, University of South Florida, and NC Community Colleges to name just a few.
We also partner with nonprofit organizations serving homeless populations, such as StandUp for Kids. Many of our nonprofit partners place a search engine powered by Aunt Bertha, with their own branding, onto their websites so that the communities they serve can search for social assistance on their own. You can check out an example of Aunt Bertha's configurable search engine here!
- Goldrick-Rab, Sara, et al. California Community Colleges #RealCollege Survey. The Hope Center, 1 Mar. 2019, Christine Baker-Smith.
- http://www.standupforkids.org/blog/article/the-cost-of-an-education-homeless-college-students


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We always have that one band, one album, one distinct sound we catch ourselves running all the way to whenever a series of events take place in our sad, sad lives. Be it stumbling upon an old photo of yourself, stalking an ex's Instagram account, losing a friend, losing a job, losing, well, anything, or when you just really feel like sulking in the shower.
In my case, I always take a one-way ticket to Death Cab For Cutie's discography. However, it isn't a requirement to be down in the dumps for you to appreciate what they do; when you're feeling like shit, the music is sad. When you're happy, the music is carefree. Their sound just fits perfectly with every emotion.
I didn't realize how powerful this quintet was until I found myself back in my college dorm, looking for ways to escape actuality. Of course, just like any other pat in the back, the Washington-based band serves as a safe space for our ears.
Composed of Ben Gibbard, Nick Harmer, Jason McGerr, and Dave Depper, Death Cab For Cutie formed in 1997 & rose from being a side project to becoming one of the most sought-after groups in the scene!
With modest results, their latest full-length effort Thank You For Today caught us by surprise. Released on August 17, the 10-track album features must-hear songs such as "Autumn Love", "Summer Years", "I Dreamt We Spoke Again", and one with a vocal cameo from CHVRCHES' Lauren Mayberry, "Northern Lights".


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Hewlett-Packard (HP) is an American multinational information technology corporation with their headquarters in Palo Alto, California. It services consumers, small – large business enterprises, as well as the government, healthcare industry, and educational institutions. It was founded in garage by 2 Stanford electrical engineering graduates, named Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in 1939, and since 2007, it has been the world's leading manufacturer of PC's, although Lenovo may change that status any day.
HP is responsible for inventing many electronic devices, and actually started what today is known as Silicon Valley. Before the age of personal computers, HP was the go-to brand in high-end calculators, both desktop and handheld, and scientific instruments. In the mid-eighties, they introduced BOTH inkjet and laser printers for the desktop, and along with their scanning products, they later developed the highly successful multifunction and all-in-one products.
In the 1990's, HP expanded their computer line towards the consumer market, and also grew in size when it purchased Apollo Computer in 1989 and Convex Computer in 1995. In 2002, HP bought out and merged with Compaq, who had already bought out a couple other firms, and when all was said and done, HP became a major player in desktop PCs, laptops, and servers.
Hoping to get their foot in the "mobile door," in 2010, HP announced that it would buy Palm, Inc. for $1.2 billion in cash and debt. The purchase of Palm and webOS was a big gamble, but in July 2011, HP launched its first tablet, the HP TouchPad, bringing webOS to the tablet world for the first time. Amongst some office turmoil, in August 2011, HP announced that it would exit the smartphone and tablet business and concentrate of higher profit areas.
You would think that an American company, born in a garage, and rising to such heights, would garner a little respect when it tried to enter the smartphone and tablet world – and that is exactly what they received, very little respect. The mobile world is a strange business model, unlike other industries – there is fierce loyalty to a handful of brands, and other than Apple and Samsung, even the other well-like and established mobile companies, such as, HTC, LG, Sony and Motorola, barely have a market share compared to the two giants in the industry. Then you have to remember the many Asian market brands that are working their way to the U.S., such as Lenovo, ASUS, ZTE, Huawei, Meizu, and Xiaomi.
The smartphone industry is a very demanding and dynamic industry, with three distinct market segments – High-end, Mid-Range, and Emerging Markets, and even within the high-end you have strong alliances and techies who demand the top specifications in the flagship models. Motorola has shown us that having the highest pixel resolution, fastest processor or 3GB of RAM is not necessary for a device to operate smoothly and quickly, if all hardware and software are optimized, but that does not matter to most in this group. Look what happened to BlackBerry, once the leader in smartphones, but refused to keep up with technology, and slow to react – now struggling to keep solvent.
HP claims that they must be in the smartphone market to compete in the future, but is it too little too late? From the information that has passed through a Bluetooth SIG listing, it appears that HP is going after the emerging markets with a Phablet of 6-inches and 7-inches running Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. According to Digitimes, the devices will use an Intel processor, be priced below US$250, and will only be going to the emerging nations. In an article we did today a source said the device, Slate 6, with have a 6-inch, 720P display and quad-core processor, with Dual-SIM for as little as $200.
With no high-end model to generate interest for an HP product in those countries, it could end up being simply a "white boxed" device – set to compete against the large China companies that already have their supply chains and dealers well established…this does not look like a good scenario for an HP comeback.
So we have to ask ourselves if an HP smartphone really matters – like CTA sang a long time ago, "Does anybody really care?" If by some chance a 6-7-inch Phablet is a success in an emerging country, and HP tries to bring a high-end device to the states – could we trust them to follow through? – their track record suggests otherwise. Nobody wants to buy a device from a company that may "get out of the smartphone" business, just as fast as they got in.
Please let us know on our Google+ Page if you are excited about HP getting back into the smartphone business, or could you care less – remember these smartphones are for emerging markets, but if they come to the U.S. would you consider purchasing one.


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Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act — the federal definition of "marriage" and "spouse" — is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court in Boston ruled today. The decision by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Gill v. Office of Personnel Management and Massachusetts v. United States, is the first instance of a federal appellate court striking down any portion of the 1996 law.
Writing that "Supreme Court review of DOMA is highly likely," the appeals court has stayed, or put on hold, the implementation of its decision pending any appeal.
Judge Michael Boudin, appointed to the bench by President George H.W. Bush, wrote for the court: "[M]any Americans believe that marriage is the union of a man and a woman, and most Americans live in states where that is the law today. One virtue of federalism is that it permits this diversity of governance based on local choice, but this applies as well to the states that have chosen to legalize same-sex marriage. Under current Supreme Court authority, Congress' denial of federal benefits to same-sex couples lawfully married in Massachusetts has not been adequately supported by any permissible federal interest."
The decision follows oral arguments that were held in the cases on April 4. Today's decision upholds U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro's July 8, 2010, decision finding the federal law defining marriage as consisting of only one man and one woman to be unconstitutional.
In these cases, the appeal of which were heard together on April 4, the lawyer for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, Mary Bonauto, was joined in opposing the law by two government lawyers: Department of Justice Civil Division Chief Stuart Delery and Massachusetts Attorney General's Office Civil Rights section chief Maura Healey.
Because DOJ stopped defending Section 3 of DOMA in February 2011, the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group — controlled 3-2 by Republicans — voted to defend the law. Paul Clement, a lawyer for Bancroft PLLC, was hired to do so, and was the sole lawyer defending the law in Boston on April 4.
Although some of the parties seeking to strike down the law had urged that the court apply a form of "heightened scrutiny," similar to the examination courts make to laws classifying people based on race or sex, for example, the court held that it was limited by its own earlier decision in a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" challenge, as well as the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court has not chosen to use a higher standard of review yet.
In the absence of heightened form of scrutiny, courts traditionally seek only a rational basis to uphold the validity of a law. Looking at a series of cases that "stressed the historic patterns of disadvantage suffered by the group adversely affected" — most recently, the Romer v. Evans challenge to Colorado's anti-gay Amendment 2 — the court noted another route: "These three decisions did not adopt some new category of suspect classification or employ rational basis review in its minimalist form; instead, the Court rested on the case-specific nature of the discrepant treatment, the burden imposed, and the infirmities of the justifications offered."
Applying this standard — sometimes called "rational basis with teeth" — the court held that none of the potential reasons for upholding Section 3 of DOMA passed constitutional muster.
As to the federalism principles — questions relating to the allocation of powers between and among the federal government and the states — that were primarily advanced by Massachusetts in its case, Boudin wrote for the court, "In our view, neither the Tenth Amendment nor the Spending Clause invalidates DOMA; but Supreme Court precedent relating to federalism-based challenges to federal laws reinforce the need for closer than usual scrutiny of DOMA's justifications and diminish somewhat the deference ordinarily accorded."
After examing the potential justifications offered by BLAG, the court held, "Several of the reasons given do not match the statute and several others are diminished by specific holdings in Supreme Court decisions more or less directly on point. If we are right in thinking that disparate impact on minority interests and federalism concerns both require somewhat more in this case than almost automatic deference to Congress' will, this statute fails that test."
Boudin did so despite holding that the court "do[es] not rely upon the charge that DOMA's hidden but dominant purpose was hostility to homosexuality."
Boudin was joined in the decision by Chief Judge Sandra Lynch, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, and Judge Juan Torruella, appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said today of the decision, "There's no question that this is in concert with the president's views." He went on to note that the Department of Justice participated in the oral arguments defending its view that Section 3 is unconstitutional.
BLAG will now need to decide if it wishes to ask all of the judges of the First Circuit to review the decision en banc — which Bonauto noted in a conference call today is unlikely due to the fact that the small size of the court, five active judges, makes reversal extremely unlikely — or whether it immediately move to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case in a process called certiorari.
A second DOMA challenge, Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management, is on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is scheduled for oral arguments in early September. It was struck down by Judge Jeffrey S. White earlier this year. A third DOMA decision, in Dragovich v. Department of Treasury, was issued on May 24, striking down Section 3 of DOMA as it impacts the ability of same-sex couples to participate in a California pension fund program.
Additionally, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network has a pending challenge, McLaughlin v. Panetta, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has its own challenge, Cooper-Harris v. United States, challenging DOMA's application to servicemembers and veterans' benefits. Both are still at the trial-court stage.
READ the opinion: Gill-FirstCircuit.pdf
[Photo: Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders lawyer Mary Bonauto, left, apeaks with reporters along with Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley (D), right, and her Civil Rights Division chief, Maura Healey, outside the John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse in Boston on April 4, 2012. (Photo by Chris Geidner.)]
We are making progress and I could not be more thrilled!!!!!!! Found this story on FB posted by author Ann Rice who is a wonderful defender of LTGB rights


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Bernice Burgos is interested in more things than just posting lovely pics of clothing items on her Instagram account. For instance, she just took part in a charity event, and she documented it on her social media for her fans to see and follow her example. We really believe that it's important to highlight such actions as well.
'Had such a good time today participating in the charity basketball game for cancer research! #Duponcancer ' she captioned the pic in which she's wearing a cute red outfit.
Her fans appreciated the fact that she gets involved in this kind of humanitarian actions as well.
'Good morning, it's always good when you cherish what you do for the less fortunate' one of her followers posted.
Another commenter joked saying that 'Weren't anybody really watching the game with you looking like that. '
Another one of her followers criticized her saying that 'babe those kicks are horrible for basketball. So I know you weren't playing hard! Don't lie to me! '
More fans have recently criticized Bernice for another reason. She posted a photo (that has been deleted since then) that was featuring Rick Ross on her Instagram.
The post was about an event that she was supposed to co-host with the star.
Unfortunately, Rick was apparently not able to attend that event.
Her fans told Bernice that Rick could not possibly attend that particular event and they sent their prayers for him.
'Ross won't be making this hope he recovers fully glad I didn't buy tickets' one of Bernice's fans wrote.
'Prayers for The Boss as a machine has taken over for his heart and lungs' another one of her followers posted.
A fan slammed the Instagram model for posting this promo but no prayers for Rick: 'Promo but no prayers for Ross nah?' Anyway, now Rick is back home with his family, and he's doing much better.


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Mentoring achievements gain honours recognition
John Phillips MBE has been awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Wolverhampton.
John was the first full-time person to be employed outside of London by the Institute of Directors (Iod). Regional director for the West Midlands Region from 2002, he considers himself lucky to have worked for such a prestigious organisation for 24 years.
With a passion for promoting business and education links, he has led by example and persuaded many local company directors to become involved in mentoring, providing work placements, and taking up voluntary roles on educational governing bodies.
John said: "I never thought anything like this would ever happen to me – it's real honour to have been awarded an Honorary Degree. It's been a real pleasure for me to lead the Institute of Directors' Student Business Mentoring Scheme for the last six years.
"This would not have happened without all the support and encouragement I've received from the University and, in particular, from members of the local business community."
In April 2016, John retired from his full-time IoD directorship but remains much involved with the IoD's regional team as a volunteer and is proud to lead a group of enthusiastic directors who provide individual mentoring for final year business students studying at the University of Wolverhampton. The mentoring scheme is aimed at improving employability and the so-called soft skills.
In June 2016, John was made MBE in the Queen's 90th Birthday Honours List for services to business, education and young people.
The University of Wolverhampton awards honorary degrees to people who have made a significant contribution to their field of expertise.
Graduation takes place at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton, from Friday 15 September to Friday, 22 September 2017.
For more information please contact the Media Relations Office on 01902 32 2736 or 01902 518647.
Date Issued: 21st September 2017
For more information please contact the Media Relations Office on 01902 32 2736 or 01902 518647.


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Personalized Cookbooks
Chef Johnny's iconic dessert/pastry cookbooks and T-shirts
Dessert Fourplay was his first and is essentially a snapshot of what he was doing at the famed Four-Star Jean Georges Restaurant at the time. It's full of insightful flavor combinations, techniques and shot sharply by Gregor Halenda.
Sugar Rush is Johnny's second book and is geared towards those looking to build a strong foundation in baking and pastry. It's divided into specific sections that really spend time explaining and demonstrating the most important pillars of the trade. The step by step photos shot by Michael Spain Smith help the baker visualize each step as they go, providing confidence which equates to successful baking.


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He feels weight management is the core driver in the management for all modern illnesses. Weight management is complex as the reason for weight gain is multifactorial. Successful weight loss can only be achieved after ascertaining the underlying reasons for weight gain and providing a structured, personalised plan. Providing a personalised plan to 30% of the population, who are obese with the current available models is not possible and unrealistic.
The Medi-Weightloss® Program is not a diet; it's a lifestyle change! Get off the dieting roller coaster and rejuvenate your life, learning to live healthy and lean for a lifetime through a three-phase, physician-supervised weight loss program that works. In each location, patients receive a VIP experience from caring, experienced healthcare professionals and an abundance of hands-on support, education, and accountability. Our trained professionals help make your weight loss journey stress free and uncomplicated. It's true! Come see for yourself!
There are many variables and factors in the complex world of health insurance. Most providers have so many different plans that we cannot give general advice to our patients. We will provide you with a "super bill" for your insurance company. This is signed by our physician with proper coding and any other requirements. You can then submit the bill to your Insurance Carrier for reimbursement. Although we do not see any monies ourselves, we do know that over 50% of our patients do get reimbursed for medical fees.
Children can take part in weight-loss programs, but child-centered programs are more difficult to find. The nutritional and psychological needs of children are different from adults, so talk to your child's pediatrician before enrolling him or her in a formal weight-control program. Online sites and smart-phone apps are also available to help children lose weight in a healthy manner and can help protect the relationship between parents and children.
Herbal One weight loss clinic in London (NW), Ontario provides weight loss programs and products to safely and effectively lose weight and keep it off. Herbal One is a Canadian weight loss and nutrition company backed by 30 years of weight management expertise and sound nutritional knowledge. Herbal One weight management centre clients, collectively, have lost thousands upon thousands of pounds.
The IRS does allow Flexible Spending Accounts to be used for Medical Weight Loss Plans and many of our patients have used this to pay for some of their program. Proper documentation is required in order to use this benefit. We will help you through this process. If you have a "Flex Plan" though your employer, check with your Benefits Administrator to see how this will benefit you.
A: The patented UltraShape technology uses a handheld ultrasonic transducer to deliver controlled focused ultrasound at a precise depth within the fat layer. The technology is selective, meaning that only fat cells are broken down and surrounding important structures such as blood vessels nerves and connective tissue remain intact. The treatment area is marked and each point within that designated area is treated only once to ensure complete and uniform treatment.
You are given the freedom to enjoy all the services they have on offer from the comfort of their private room. By focusing on modern, innovative advances in cosmetic technology, they remove the need for costly procedures and provide a safe, easy to undergo experience for their clients. Targeting specific areas and addressing all of your needs, Silueta Aesthetics leave you feeling renewed and rejuvenated.
I was fed up with being tired, living an unhealthy lifestyle and struggling to deal with the everyday stresses that life brings us. Then I found Monica, a qualified nutritionist and lifestyle guru, who helped me change my whole way of thinking about my lifestyle. Monica encouraged and supported me throughout my journey, in fact she walked the journey with me. Her insight into my condition was simply amazing. Her knowledge and understanding of the direction I needed to take was exceptional. In five months I feel so much better, I have got my zest for life back and I have the added bonus of losing an amazing amount of weight in a healthy way, all of which wouldn't have been possible without Monica's support and help. Monica is simply superb and would I recommend her to someone else – absolutely in a heartbeat.
"I have spent much of my life on one diet or another and this is the first programme that has really made a long term difference. I have stopped yo-yo-ing up and down and I have finally managed to stabilise. My weight is pretty much at the same level that it was at the end of my plan and that was nearly two years ago - that's what I call a result!"
The ReShape Duo weight loss programme will be offered at the London Bridge Hospital by Dr Jude Oben, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Obesity Working Party. Dr Oben says, "I am excited to be working with ReShape's Duo balloon because of their efficacy and comfort. I believe firmly that non-surgical options such as the balloon should very much be a part of the obesity management pathway."
Studio Figura's team of dedicated therapists offer services designed to benefit your health and well-being, from slimming and toning your body to improving skin conditions and cellulite. Starting with an individual assessment, their signature Body Shaping and Weight Loss concept combines lymphatic drainage, diet plans and supplements. Each treatment leaves you feeling healthy and refreshed, boosting your confidence to new heights.


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Frame/Fork: Classic steel tricycle frame with steel forkWheels/Tires: Plastic wheels with hard rubbber tiresDrivetrain: Direct driveBrakes/Cockpit: Steel handlebar with adjustable plastic seatExtras: Front fender, front basket
Looking for a trike with a classic look? Well the Piranha Firefly Classic Mag Tricycle delivers. With features like the classic rear step, flat seat, and front fender, you would think you were buying a vintage trike. The modern safety features combined with this classic design are a winning combination.
We have taken inspiration from the the quailty but entry level bicycles offered at the local bike shop to deliver the Piranha line of bicycles. Quality aluminum frames, the best parts and sharp design deliever a great looking bike at a faction of the price from other manufaturers.
For almost 20 years the Cycle Force Group has been bringing an eclectic group of brands, covering all price points and styles to the world. Whether it is representing some of Europe's best brands, partnerships with some of the worlds best known consumer brands, or producing our own bicycles, the Cycle Force Group has a bike for everyone.


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STEPHAN WALTER Miscellaneous Work
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Coca-Cola shows just how multifaceted Switzerland is with the largest puzzle in the country. FREDINKO c/o VISUALEYES ARTISTS created unmistakable illustrations for each canton, assembled to form a picture the shape of Switzerland.
A label was dedicated to each canton. To launch the Fredinko/Coke Summer Edition, a record was set in the hall of Zurich's Hauptbahnhof railway station: the entire map of Switzerland in Fredinko look on 360...


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To be properly reimbursed, accurate descriptions of the service being provided are needed. Billing codes, including CPT, are used to describe the procedure or treatment being provided, in order to be adequately reimbursed for practice expenses and physician effort. Addiction Medicine is a specialty we do well and as more Addiction Medicine specialists are needed, there are more billing specialists that are needed as well. Billing for this specialty requires knowledge of Behavioral Health, Family Medicine, Counseling and other specialties to be of service to our clients.
Nexsys has routinely helped our clients increase their practice revenue by as much as 10%-20% through more accurate coding and billing and rigorous payment collection.
Contact Nexsys Billing & Practice Management today at (800) 529-3962 ext. 203 to learn more about how we can increase your revenue and lower administrative and practice costs for your Addiction Medicine practice, or contact us online.


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Some Gave All
Though we enjoy the 4th of July as a national holiday with all the summer fun we can muster, it is also a holiday that didn't come easy. Repeatedly men and women have given time (& often their lives) to preserve our freedoms. This memorial is in Oak Harbor, Washington, home to Whidbey Island Naval Station. It commemorates men who never returned from ship hunting and bombing patrols during WW II.
Oak Harbor was one such base for those who flew these patrol planes. Formally called PBY Catalina, they had several nicknames. Since it flew many night missions against Japanese shipping, it was called the "Black Cat". When used for rescue at sea, many crewmen called it "Flying Dumbo". Though the Navy retired these planes after WW II, many can still be found flying mail and supplies along the Amazon, used for fish tracking in the Pacific and all around the world as fire retardant bombers.
If the occasion arises today, thank a service man for helping to preserve those freedoms we celebrate today. Happy Fourth Of July to Colby VanCamp and his fellow Navy crewmen and women.


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Have just come across this link to an interview given by Rama Yade, French Minister for Human Rights to gay magazine Tetu (from the web site of the French Foreign Office) about France's role in promoting LGBT rights.
There is also a report from yesterday's Pink News titled France will argue for universal decriminalisation at the UN.
Elsewhere have also blogged previously about work being started by the UK Government which Gordon Brown also committed to on becoming Prime Minister.
What will you be doing to help persecuted LGBT community worldwide from persecution and violence from right wing governments? What about EU countries that are hostile to gay rights? Ross Hunter
This Government has taken a lead in ending discrimination against gay and lesbian people in Britain, but as you say, Ross, the fight to counter discrimination is not restricted to the UK.
The reports we hear are deeply concerning: around the world gay and lesbian people are outlawed, persecuted and killed for advocating their rights.
We have announced an international strategy to promote rights overseas, which includes Britain's commitment to the universal decriminalisation of homosexuality.
We are and will continue to work with foreign partners and domestic organisations to protect the human rights of gay and lesbian people throughout the world.


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I want to say this now for the record: the Toronto Maple Leafs do not deserve to make the playoffs and there is now an even bigger part of me that hopes they do not. A three goal lead in the third period should mean that a game is in the bag, as far as I am concerned. I had a much easier time with them getting their collective butt kicked by Washington last week than I do with this loss to Buffalo. There are no excuses for this Buffalo-Bills-like loss to the Sabres, a choke artist job of the first degree. However, for the Leafs last night's 5-4 loss to the Sabres confirms what I hate to admit, though in the back of my mind I have probably always known: this team is not a playoff team. They don't have the defense, they don't have the goaltending, and they don't really have the consistent scoring (though there are some gifted offensive players) to go anywhere.
I was very excited last night when I was out for a late dinner and saw the score as being 4-1 on one of the TVs at the restaurant. When I got home and saw the final score on NHL.com, I was furious and even went so far as to make the heretical comment of becoming a Senators fan! It's time to start thinking long-term if your are in management because this team ain't going to to do a thing the way it is, sadly. Say goodbye to JFJ, find a way to get rid of McCabe and some of the middling players, and get some real goaltending (sorry Rayzor, I love you and I want you to be great, but you are not getting the job done!). Players to keep: Tucker, Wellwood, Kaberle, Pohl, Steen, and perhaps Sundin (I love him, but he eats up a lot of cap space). I love the personalities on the team, guys like Stajan and Battaglia are pretty loveable, but the Leafs needs a makeover if they ever going to be a contender. I want to see the team I love succeed, for once! I'm done ranting...
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Saturday, 20 December 2014
Centralia Canal - Sky Watch Friday
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12 comments:
- Gosia k said...
great view
- 20 December 2014 at 1:17 pm
- Spare Parts and Pics said...
Beautiful sky photo, and congrats on your new camera!!
- 20 December 2014 at 6:48 pm
- Small City Scenes said...
Super shot. Looks like canals in Holland. Well sorta.
I like your new camera. Canon Powershot is a great one.
- 20 December 2014 at 9:24 pm
- Erica Sta said...
Congratulation to your new Camera! I photograph with a Canon, too .
A good shot from the Canal.
Cheers, Heidrun
- 21 December 2014 at 2:56 am
- Mridula said...
It is such a pretty picture, the leading lines look great! Enjoy your new camera.
- 21 December 2014 at 8:27 pm
- Rajesh said...
Beautiful and very scenic.
- 21 December 2014 at 9:05 pm
That's a lovely shot! Enjoy your new camera!
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- Gattina said...
Love the fluffy clouds ! Congratulations to your new camera ! I also have a Canon but a Ixus 132very happy with the results !
- 22 December 2014 at 12:00 am
- Valerie said...
Great shot Karen. I agree that it could easily have been taken in Holland. Congrats on your new camera - you are sure to have lots of fun using it. Thank you for stopping by my blog. Wishing you and yours a wonderful Christmas.
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- Ela said...
That's a lovely place and a great view!
- 23 December 2014 at 9:46 am
- NatureFootstep said...
your Powershot seem to be a great caemra. They usually are. Nice sky!
- 24 December 2014 at 7:18 am
- Grandma Barb's This and That said...
Very pretty shot. I'm sure you will like your Canon Powershot. That is what I use.
Thanks for stopping by and your nice comment
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an extremely dim, flattened, expanding, reddish glow briefly seen over a thunderstorm, due to electromagnetic pulses from intense lightning.
Words nearby elve
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Examples from the Web for elve
Elve le corbeau, il te crvera les yeux—Bring 25 up a raven, he will pick out your eyes.
Elve in French means up aloft, and elve means frequently transported with excitement.Archaic England|Harold Bayley
Scientific definitions for elve
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An extremely dim, short-lived, expanding disk of reddish light above thunderstorms, believed to be caused by electromagnetic pulses from intense lightning in the lower ionosphere. Elves last less than a second and can be as wide as 500 km (310 mi) in diameter.
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