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by Noelle Cellini, mybest-footforward.com This week Allure Italia is happy to have Fashion Expert Noelle Cellini as a guest blogger. Noelle, founder and owner of My Best Foot Forward is an accomplished Personal Stylist. She's helped women in Chicago "put their best foot forward" for over 10 years. Her goal is to make her clients' life easier and to show them that having great style isn't something only the stars get to enjoy! And so, who best to tell us how to pack and dress with style when traveling than Noelle?
Dressing chic while traveling. I know this may sound like an oxymoron, but it is possible! With a few well-chosen pieces, you can navigate your vacations in style. When you're traveling, comfort is a must, but you also do not want to stick out as a tourist and you want to make sure you're appropriately dressed for any situations. All of this packed in a small suitcase. So, It's extremely important to change up your neutrals, pick stylish, yet comfortable shoes and don't forget the accessories.
One of the easiest ways to change up your look is to pick different neutrals. While khaki or stone are first colors to come to mind, I advise my clients to pick some neutrals that aren't so "suburban." A slate grey or olive aren't as expected, but are just as versatile. In fact, I love a simple black top with olive pants. Add a metallic shoe (which we'll talk about in just a bit) for a pulled together, chic, but still casual and comfortable look.
I love ankle pants (hemmed just above the ankle – never shorter!) because you can wear them with flats, sandals, boots, wedges or heels. I like the Sloan fit slim ankle pant from Banana Republic. These come in 7 different colors from basic black to cobalt and tomato paste red! If you opt for a colored pair, then wear another color on top (color blocking) or tone it down with a neutral like a grey sweater, white cardigan or black tee. The navy is also a nice change from khaki or black. Lastly, these have a bit of stretch in them, but can still be worn on the plane without any sagging.
You're usually on your feet a lot when you travel, so having comfortable shoes are a must. Ecco is a European brand that focuses on comfort. The Ecco Vibration II Toggle Sneaker combines comfort and style. These have a removable sole (so you can add orthodox?) and they have a rubber sole, which gives you traction and a cushy bottom for your feet. These are available in black and white, but I love them in metallic. Metallics (silver, pewter, gold or bronze) are great neutrals because they go with black, brown, white, denim, grey, olive or navy. Everybody loves black shoes, but those can be limiting (the same idea applies to handbags so opt for metallic instead of black!).
Lastly, an outfit isn't complete until it's accessorized. I take a lot of jewelry with me when I travel (because I keep the clothes simple), but many people don't want to tote all that stuff around. Scarves are nice for traveling because they can add a bit of warmth or color to an outfit and don't take up a lot of room in your suitcase. Here are my two favorite ways to tie a scarf.
If you want some more ideas, then this is a great video with 25 different scarf ties in 4.5 minutes! (It's a fun video!)
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This page includes supplemental content for my Writing Program Speaker Series presentation, "E-Journals, Free Journals, Key Journals: Promoting Digital Engagement in Digital Writing Research."
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Note: It is important to be wary of some sources proclaiming to offer open-access, refereed scholarship. A few databases (for example, the OMICS International Journals) have had their research integrity questioned. It is always important to assess the thoroughness of the peer review process prior to citing any work.
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Immigration is a subject that brings out the best and the worst in Americans.
As taught to my fourth-grade daughter this semester, the story of the peopling of America encourages us to celebrate our identity as the land of e pluribus unum. It reminds us of the tolerance required to coexist in a culture of many cultures. It honors the courage to uproot your life so your children can have a better one.
As it is practiced in our politics, the subject often dredges up darker feelings: tribalism, xenophobia, envy, a pull-up-the-ladder stinginess. This is not new. The English and Dutch colonists resented the immigrant waves of Irish and Germans, who resented the later waves of Italians and Poles and Jews. Polls show that Americans only halfheartedly support immigration, and less than halfheartedly in hard times.
Nowhere is our national ambivalence on this issue more grotesquely displayed than in the current Republican campaign. Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich each, in turn, tripped over the issue — Perry by letting illegals in Texas pay lower, in-state college tuition; Romney for failing to fire a lawn care service that employed undocumented workers; and Gingrich for saying that not every family lacking legal status should be put in a boxcar and shipped to Mexico.
To make rhetorical amends for these errors of compassion, each candidate has tapped his inner demagogue. Perry went barnstorming with Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Arizona bully famous for his primitive and crowd-pleasing immigrant roundups. Both Gingrich and Romney talk about fortifying the border as if we were under siege and use the word "amnesty" in the same tone of voice most people use for "Al Qaeda."
It's a tricky act. The candidates are trying to compete for the votes of the electrified-fence crowd without completely alienating Latino voters or important business constituents — in construction, agriculture, meatpacking, hospitality — who hunger for cheap, dependable labor. Thus the campaign has generated more obfuscation than lucid argument. The classic is Mitt Romney's painfully evasive interview with Bret Baier of Fox News, in which Romney accused Gingrich of favoring "amnesty" but couldn't explain where their positions really differed.
But wait. Why are we even talking about this? I hate to distract you with actual facts, but here are a few that have been overlooked in the din of alarm: illegal immigration is falling, sharply, a result of tougher enforcement in the decade since the 9/11 attacks and an anemic American job market. Border policing is at an all-time high. Deportations are way up under Obama. The estimated population of illegal residents has fallen by about one million from its peak of 12 million in 2007.
More facts: The most scrupulous study I've seen of the economic impact of illegal immigration — by Gordon Hanson, an economist at the University of California, San Diego — weighed the costs to society (schools, health care, etc.) against the benefits (tax revenues, labor productivity, etc.) and concluded that the difference was "close enough to zero to be essentially a wash." The idea that illegal immigrants are dragging down the economy is just wrong.
Now, what is true for the nation as a whole is not equally true of every community or every class. The impact of illegal labor on native employment may be marginal, but it hits hardest at the bottom, displacing those with a high school education or less, who are already the victims of recession and diminishing wages. This is a fearful and energized portion of the electorate. As Jeffrey Passel, a demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center, points out, "If it's your job, a marginal effect is a big one."
The impact is felt more intensely in states — Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Nevada, Iowa and others — where the arrival of Hispanic immigrants is relatively new. Rick Perry's comparatively sympathetic view of illegals is the bipartisan norm in a state like Texas that has long absorbed Mexicans. But it does not play so well in Iowa, which has only recently seen classrooms filling with brown-skinned, Spanish-speaking children. These tend to be the states passing punitive laws to deputize traffic cops, E.R. nurses and utility workers as immigration enforcers. Wanting to enforce the law, or protect your job, does not make you a bigot. But these laws tend to be self-defeating. They drive illegals deeper underground, lock them into an underclass, pit states against Washington and each other, and sunder communities.
Therein lies the real crisis — not that the country is being overrun, but that the country is at war with itself.
Comprehensive immigration reform used to be a bipartisan issue that drew prominent Republicans like George W. Bush and John McCain and Orrin Hatch, but in our toxic hyperpartisan political climate Republicans have simply fled. "The left and right both politicized it," said Tamar Jacoby, president of the small-business federation ImmigrationWorks USA, and a Republican. "Now the sense is that the Democrats own it, so no Republican can touch it."
That is why it matters so much that Gingrich has staked a serious claim.
Rather than parse his debate sound bites, go to Newt.org and read his proposed solutions. You have to get past a certain amount of red-meat rhetoric and brush aside some half-baked notions that are typical Newt, more smart-alecky than smart. (His plan for local citizen boards to pass judgment on which immigrants get deported sounds to me like the Neighborhood Watch from hell.) But you will find that on major points Gingrich is consistent with the best proposals compiled by serious students of this subject, who aim to build a reform based not on what makes you feel good but on what's best for the country.
Here's what Newt gets:
First, immigration is a rejuvenation of our economy, a source of invention and investment at the high end and of tax-paying, productive labor at the low end. So the foundation of a new policy should be the opening of more, and more-efficient, legal channels for the newcomers who will refresh our ingenuity and replenish our aging work force (and, by the way, pay to keep the Social Security funds filled for boomers like me).
Second, you can't sell reform unless it begins with enforcement. Restrictionists rightly point out that the last major reform bill in 1986 promised not only legalization but tougher employer sanctions and beefed-up border controls. In a booming, labor-hungry economy, those things did not come to pass. Critics of legalization are justified in saying we won't be fooled again.
Today the big hole in our enforcement is not the border; it's the failure to hold employers accountable. The best enforcement tool available is not an alligator-filled moat. (At least a third of illegals bypass the border altogether and just overstay temporary visitor visas.) The best tool is a national identity card, including some biometric evidence, such as a fingerprint. Gingrich braves the wrath of libertarians and privacy campaigners to endorse it. In today's living-online, GPS-tracked world, I think a national identity card would find wide acceptance.
Third, there is no easy solution to the 11 million already here. We are not going to legalize 11 million lawbreakers; that's politically untenable. Neither are we going to uproot and expel the equivalent of the population of Ohio — severing families, spending billions and creating a shamefully cruel spectacle. So we set some rules. The recently arrived, the unattached and, obviously, the gangbangers and criminals go home. The deeply rooted, productive families pay a price to stay. The details — who decides? what price? — are not easy, but, as my daughter learned on her field trip to Ellis Island, it's never been simple inventing a new nation. (And after all, Newt, aren't we, like the Palestinians, an invented people?)
There are plenty of reasons the thought of President Newt Gingrich makes me shudder. But on this hard, defining American issue, he's shown a combination of brains, heart and guts that puts the rest of his party to shame.


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I'm going to try an experiment. A clean slate, a new project, a new library. Shrugging off the baggage and legacy of the Old Rubygame, and starting fresh, as I talked about in the previous post.
I'm going to design a new library from scratch, applying what I've learned from the first attempt, but with no thought to compatibility. I'm dubbing the project Rubygame: Rebirth. Rather melodramatic, but it hits the right chord.
I'm going to tinker in a local git repository for a week or so, and then decide the future of the experiment. If it feels right, I'll put it up on Github, and take it from there. If it pans out, I'll trash it.
Here's the 'plan':
First, I'm going to write some simple games with the library, before it even exists. Each game will have a different complexity level. At the low end would be something as simple as Pong. At the high end would be a run-and-jump platformer with physics, textures, and sound effects. Obviously, none of the games will run at this point, but they'll be the sandbox for designing an API that I would want to use.
Once I have a few games written, I'm going to extract the core API requirements from those games, and express them as specs. Again, they won't pass (they'll be "not implemented"), but they'll be a more formal definition of the API-to-be. The API will be categorized by the complexity of the game that requires it, and mapped out as milestones to guide development, with the simplest things first, and the most complex things last. The games and specs will also act as progress indicators — as the library becomes more complete, the games will start to run, and the specs will start to be green-able.
Each new feature would correspond to a milestone, and each milestone would mean a new release. The first release would come when the simplest game (Pong or whatnot) ran successfully. Every new feature would be another release. Some releases would also have a new game that began to run due to the latest feature addition. Bug fixes wouldn't get their own releases, but just wait until the next feature.
And of course, all of these plans would be subject to change. I know myself too well to think that I can predict how this project will go. Things change, ideas change, people change. Nothing would be carved in stone, just sketched out in pencil as a guide.
I have no idea if anybody will care, or branch it and make changes. The plan doesn't depend on it, but it does allow for it — by laying out the draft API from early on, other people might help fill in the blanks. I'm not getting my hopes up, though.
What will come of this experiment? I certainly can't predict. At worst, it's a false start, and I trash it within a week. At best, it's the future of a new, reborn Rubygame.
Insert dramatic music here.
Very interesting indeed. If this "reborn" Rubygame implements some of the concepts you have been discussing over the last few months (particularly event hooks), I think it will make for a more Ruby-esque experience. I like the current Rubygame, but I think that it lacks what Gosu has in examples and documentation.
I'll second that it sounds cool, and it seems like you'll be able to get a lot of what you wanted done without the baggage of the old rubygame.
That does leave me wondering what'll happen to the current Rubygame 3, though. My game's pretty heavily dependent on it. Will it continue as a side project, or is this the new face of the Rubygame?
I don't mind, so much, I already rewrote a lot of the engine once when I moved from Rubygame 2.2 to Rubygame 3, it wouldn't be a terrible pain to migrate to Rubygame 3000, but I'd like a heads up so I don't get too used to things the way they are now :)
Same concern here. :) had migrated to Rubygame 3 some time back. Will it be obsoleted by RgR before its done


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A new Director of Public Health has been announced for Plymouth City Council.
Dr Ruth Harrell, who was previously acting as interim Director, has now been confirmed as the new Director.
Ruth has worked in Plymouth as a Consultant in Public Health for two and a half years, leading on disease prevention and health protection, before she was appointed as Interim Director of Public Health last year. As the Director, Ruth is responsible for a number of key areas including public health, environmental health, trading standards, civil protection, licensing and bereavement services.
Ruth said: "I'm really excited to have been appointed as the new Director of Public Health for Plymouth. There is some fantastic work already taking place here to improve health and reduce health inequalities and I want to continue to build on this with the team and our colleagues and partners.
"We have recently launched Year 3 of Thrive Plymouth, the city's 10 year campaign to reduce health inequalities in Plymouth, which is focussing on helping people to make those small changes to their lifestyles that can make a huge difference to their health, and we are now planning for future years."
Councillor Ian Bowyer, Leader of Plymouth City Council, said: "I'm really pleased that Ruth has now been officially appointed as Plymouth's new Director of Public Health. Ruth has done a fantastic job since she took over in October and I'm really looking forward to continuing to work with her to address health inequalities across the city and keep people safe."
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Wizard Convention has just announced its convention schedule for the next two years. Looking at the calendar, there's some really good news ahead — especially for everyone who has been trying to get me to come back to Chicago. Wizard finally put a little space between its Chicago convention and Comic Con International!
Here's a look at Wizard's schedule:
Wizard World Los Angeles: March 16-18
Wizard World Philadelphia: June 15-17
Wizard World Chicago: August 9-12
Wizard World Texas: Nov 2-4
Comic Con International is scheduled for July 26-29.
Emerald City Comic Con is scheduled for March 31st-April 1st.
New York Comic Con is February 23-25.
So this is a good time to ask: Which cons would you like to see me put on my "must attend" list for 2007?
I'm committed to New York Comic Con, Wizard World Philly and Baltimore Comic Con. I'm strongly considering Emerald City Comic Con and Comic Con International. Wizard World Chicago is now officially under consideration. Are there others I should be considering?


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First Solar Signs Power Purchase Pacts for California Project
First Solar is preparing to power several patches of Southern California. The company announced this week that it has inked power purchase agreements with a group of cities in the region. Their municipal power utilities will draw electricity from the 40-megawatt Kingbird photovoltaic solar power plant located in Kern County, a facility the company is currently developing and will build.
The cities of Pasadena, Riverside, Colton, and Azusa all signed 20-year, 20-megawatt agreements, the precise terms of which were not disclosed.
Kingbird, a 320-acre facility, will be located in the region's Antelope Valley. According to First Solar, once the project receives its final permitting, construction could start in the middle of next year. The company expects the plant to be commissioned in late 2015, and produce enough power to supply more than 11,000 homes.
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Well done to Year 3 and Year 4 for an amazing Easter production! You helped the Easter story come to life through your 'Easter Children,' production.
Our next collective worship will be Thursday 4th January, 2018 at 14:45. We hope you will join us!
Above are a selection of invitations made by members of St Anne's Ethos Club, inviting you to join us in Collective Worship.
We believe it is important for the children at St Anne's to experience being in Church as often as possible, therefore we will be holding our collective worship assemblies in church, on the first Thursday of the new half term. This will become a regular feature in our Collective Worship at St Anne's, and we hope you will be able to join us, where you will be able to hear about the new Christian value we will be learning about for the duration of the half term.
The assembly will start at 2:45 and will last approximately 30 minutes. Please be aware that this is not a service, but rather, an assembly similar to what the children would experience in school.
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Your baby's first birthday party is special and a garden-theme is not only lovely, but it can also bring a touch of colour to your home or venue. And, don't forget, you don't have to wait until summer to host the perfect garden get-together, simply wrap up warm and pop up a gazebo and you're ready for a winter or autumn edition.
There's no doubt about it, the birthday bake is the star of any party. We've rustled up some of our favourite icing-smothered finds below.
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When you set up your own online business and start building your e-store,
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– How to make users finalize their shopping in my e-store?
– How to keep the client retention number at a high level?
If those questions are still bugging your entrepreneurial mind,
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It might seem that the more you have to choose from, the more content you are. Nah, the reality check says it isn't always the case. Too many internal links may confuse users. They find it either more difficult to make up their minds or they click on some links on the home page carelessly and then would like to come back but have no idea how. It's true that you should always offer some extra accessories but you need to balance it. Otherwise users might start to wonder if they actually have to buy the main product if so many extras are necessary too. The simplest solutions are usually the best.
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If you want to persuade a user to stay on your website, just show them what you offer. One of the ways to do it is to use descriptive headlines. Focus on your word choice and the style of writing. These are your tools that you can use to funnel users in a successful way.
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Shopping on an average site takes a few clicks. A resonable high number of clicks doesn't discourage users actually. Undesired offers and actions that pop up during purchase process can, however, deter potential buyers. Make sure not to bother your prospects with popping banners or not to force them to provide detailed personal information. This is what clients don't like and escape from.
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Beyond Traditional Parental Involvement: FACE Father-Student Leadership Team Receives National Awards
José "Joe" Rodríguez, and grandson Kristopher Rodríguez, are founding members of the FACE Father-Student Leadership Team (FSLT) which launched in 2009 and has won two awards from the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (NCCEP) at two NationalGEAR UP conferences.
FACE tapped the most involved families from a FACE program in Alice, Texas. The FSLT has demonstrated the capacity of a few dads and middle or high school students to have an impact promoting a college-going culture within and beyond their families and communities. Eventually, the FSLT included dads and students from Brooks CISD and Odem Edroy ISD.
The FSLT team is a form of intergenerational sustainability that is mapping a college-going culture in rural South Texas – and in Washington DC, San Francisco or Orlando! It leverages the strengths of fathers in such areas as math/science, the outdoors, work, work/community networking, leadership, and male role models.
The FACE FSLT gets the job done on campus, off campus, and outdoors. They facilitate hands-on activities in district and "interdistrict" events. In addition, the FSLT has evolved into public speakers at state and national conferences. Kristopher, currently an All State Choir member, will sing if asked.
For their outstanding contributions, Joe received an NCCEP Parent Leadership Award in 2011. In 2012, Kristopher was selected "runner up" in NCCEP's Youth of the Year competition, which included a $1000 college scholarship.
Kristopher, now an Alice HS junior, was a fourth grader at Salazar Elementary when Joe attended the first FACE activity. Over 8,400 dads, PK-12, signed-in to attend FACE events in Alice ISD from 2003 to 2009. They contributed at least 16,800 volunteer hours or the equivalent of 2,100 eight-hour workdays. The most attended FACE events were during the school day. An aligned Alice ISD administration funded FACE's historic model with Title I and GEAR UP funds. Upon his retirement, FACE recognized Alice ISD's Mr. Henry Herrera with a plaque as the "first superintendent to sustain a districtwide father/student partnership."
Members of the original FACE Father-Student Leadership founding team are:
- José and Kristopher Rodríguez
- Wife Alicia
- Arnold Carillo, Jr. and his children Nicole Marie, Arnold III and Xavier
- Melba and Raul Villalpando and their children
- Alexander and Elizabeth
- James Dorsett and his son Christopher
- Jesse García and daughter Jennifer López (started one year later)
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The spiral of sadness
Over the past year, my wife's condition has deteriorated markedly. (I'll spare you the details; let's just say I wasn't prepared to deal with wheelchairs and daily nurse visits at 30.) In retrospect, I went through the classic stages of grief, starting a year ago with denial. Intellectually, I could see how things were getting bad, but I just pretended they weren't happening. I signed up for raids all the time, was working on collecting every pet, alted it up. Then, boom. After a few ugly fights, I realized my wife's condition wasn't going to get better, and I had to start adjusting to the new reality. I did…but I got mad about it. It wasn't "fair" that I had to stop raiding, it wasn't "fair" that I had to take over all the household chores, etc.
Then I started my new job, with a much more…direct…boss. Stress level went to 11 and available free time went to 0. I skipped the bargaining stage and went straight to depression. Depression manifests differently in different people, but to me, it was totally withdrawing from interactions. I retreated to my Steam library of single-player games and stopped posting, stopped Tweeting, hell, even stopped talking to real-life friends. Sleep–Work-Eat-Sleep-Repeat. I stopped playing WoW entirely; I never even finished Siege of Orgrimmar on any difficulty. I considered coming back to write things at some point, maybe some post-Blizzcon thoughts…but what was the point, really? Everyone writes better than I do, so why bother? The more depressed I got, the worse I felt my writing was, which depressed me more, and CYCLE.
So ends the year.
Thankfully, there's a new one coming up. I'll save the walls of exposition and just say that I've gotten through most of the black clouds, accepted the situation as it is, and am ready to get back to participating in my Internet-life again. :)
Moving on
I likely won't be writing about WoW for a while. Let's be honest – if you don't have an active guild/community to participate in, the parts of WoW that are left are not all that entertaining. Questing is far too easy, crafting is pointless, and gearing up is irrelevant. About the only reason for me to keep pushing was Brawler's Guild, and I got frustrated with the wait times for those. I'm staying openminded about the new expansion, but from what I've seen so far, it'll be more of the same. Of course, the forums will stay open, so the people who really know what they're doing can chat, and I'll update the beginner guides for WoD when that comes out.
I have, however, been bitten by the Hearthstone bug. (Makes sense; the game is basically lots and lots of numbers in a Warcraft-candy shell.) After the first of the year, I'll be writing Hearthstone guides and posts primarily, as the game gets closer to open beta. (Sadly, I have no beta keys to give out, though they're apparently much easier to come by now; also, the open beta will likely occur within the month.) I'll also be making some updates to the website and forums to support the change, as well as some general maintenance. As always, feel free to PM me on the forums or send me an email if you're looking for a personal response. I'm also actively looking for people to chat with in HS, so feel free to send me a friend request at Alaron#1198, and I'll see you at the tables/realms!


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- Working toward the sustainability of small-scale duck production in Asia
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- FFTC and NTU conduct training workshop on indexing and production of pathogen-free citrus seedlings
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- Philippine research and technology managers learn from Taiwan's experience
- Visit of AsiaDHRRA officials opens new avenues of partnership for FFTC
- FFTC Consultant extends technical assistance to citrus growers in the Philippines
- Visitors from Gambia and Philippines discuss future technical cooperation with FFTC
- FFTC Director named honorary adviser of Myanmar Fisheries Federation
- Training on pesticide residue monitoring of vegetables and fruits aimed to promote food safety and consumer protection
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Prof. Su giving a lecture/demonstration to coop members and growers at the Malabing coop citrus foundation nursery.
NUEVA VISCAYA, PHILIPPINES – Dr. Hong-Ji Su, Professor Emeritus at the National Taiwan University (NTU) and FFTC consultant on crop protection, visited the Malabing Valley, Nueva Viscaya, the leading citrus production area in Northern Luzon, Philippines in February 2007, to provide his technical expertise on citrus greening and other virus diseases, as well as to promote international technological exchange in the area of crop disease management.
Prof. Su met with the citrus growers of Malabing Valley, visited orchards and nurseries, and gave lecture and demonstration on the detection of citrus huanglongbing disease using the iodine test as well as the test strip for the detection of CTV. About 120 citrus growers attended the lecture.
Malabing Valley is situated on the Northeast of Kasibu, Nueva Viscaya. The valley is about 270 km from Manila. The terrain varies from flat to undulating and hilly to mountainous. Citrus cultivation in Nueva Viscaya has been recognized as one of the major contributors to the economic development of the province. Nueva Viscaya is the major producer of citrus in Region 2, Philippines. The present area planted is approximately 1,200 hectares. The major varieties planted are: Satsuma mandarin (80%), Ponkan (10%), and pummelo (5%). The rest of the varieties planted are: Clementine, Navels, Hamlin, etc. Average yield per tree of Satsuma and Ponkan is about 45 kg. The major pests and diseases are: rust and red mites, psylla, aphids, leafminer, fruit fly, rind borer, huanglongbing/greening; CTV, scab, powdery mildew, melanose, canker, pink disease, and phytopthora foot/root rot/gummosis.
Prof. Su in front of the Namuje Farm, a pioneer of citrus production at the Malabing Valley, Nueva Viscaya, together with the farm owner, Mr. Alfonso Namuje (rightmost) and his daughter (second from left) and Ms Juliet Ochasan (leftmost) of DA-BPI.
The visit of Prof. Su was very timely because just recently, a Citrus Task Force for Citrus Disease Control composed of representatives from the Malabing Valley Multipurpose Cooperative; local government of Kasibu municipality, Department of Agriculture (DA) -Region 2; Nueva Viscaya State University (NVSU), and the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) was created to spearhead the formulation of management strategies and policies against the devastating diseases of Kasibu citrus industry, primarily the citrus huanglongbing disease.
During his visit, Prof. Su confirmed the presence of citrus tatterleaf virus (CTLV) in several trees of Ponkan and Satsuma grafted on trifoliate rootstocks, which was further confirmed from the results of the RT-PCR which Prof. Su did back in NTU on the samples that he collected from the Malabing Valley.
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The retailer has enjoyed 47 quarters of same-store sales growth.
Kroger has opened a new concept store near its headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. The location - the company's second largest ever - includes everything from gourmet food to clothing and housewares.
Wal-Mart and Target are struggling to revamp their grocery businesses, making Kroger's new store is a big potential threat.
Kroger is also expected to surpass Whole Foods Market within two years and become the nation's top seller of organic and natural food, according to a recent report by JPMorgan Chase.
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|AtomX 09.04.2015 07:42
Let's face it, those three words are what killed this game, with sub-par graphics that feel like Everquest 1, and a game system that expects a player to spend hours outside of the game to figure anything out. That's a good portion of what has caused this loss of player base, you give out free trials to a game that looks worse and is harder to understand than any free to play game on the market. Your company and financing team got way too greedy and now it's not only costing those that worked for you, but those of us that backed and purchased the game. Sorry to say who ever thought EE was something that you should be charging for, that's who you should be blaming the failure of this project on. You expect AAA game fees when producing what equates to a collage project quality game.
I wish everyone that worked on this project luck in their lives and future endeavors but who ever was in charge of game fees, perhaps you should try actually playing what you are selling first. Then you may get a good idea of what it's worth.
Feel free to post your opinions on the subject because that's exactly what this is, an opinion of mine. You don't have to like it, but current state, this game is not worth a subscription, the game mechanics are clunky and not flushed out enough to be engaging. And that is what I feel has doomed this game and it's community.
|Nightdrifter 09.04.2015 07:44
|Kinda wondering if this recent article isn't taking a shot at Ryan's use of the mvp term: "The biggest knock on the project is the game never reached a point that could be considered a minimum viable product in the community's eyes."
|vyal 09.04.2015 07:55
Accurate article is accurate.
I guess I missed out on using Ideascape. Sounds like a great tool, in theory.
|Tyv Blodvaerd of Aragon 09.04.2015 08:02
NightdrifterI have been saying this from the very beginning. Ryan believed he owned the definition of what "Minimum Viable Product" was, he never did. Only the potential consumer decides what MVP means, and at an individual basis.
I have to believe that is Marketing 101, which begs the question, "Was he even good at that?"
Aragon (CN) a settlement founded on the principles of the River Freedoms: Say What You Will; Oath Breakers Die; Walk Any Road, Float Any River; Courts are for Kings; Slavery is an Abomination; Have What You Hold.
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Game Play: Escalations / Refining / Crafting / Defensive PVP
|Nihimon 09.04.2015 08:11
From the linked article:
Too early in development it became apparent that PvP was going to play a big factor in Pathfinder Online and the core Pathfinder player didn't want anything to do with this project. Again, can you PvP in Pathfinder? Sure. Should it have had such a heavy focus in this game? Absolutely not.
The problem was the headlong rush to put in all the PvP opportunities while abandoning any pretense at consequences and constraints. Was Husk Looting really more important than a Friends List? Were Feuds really more important than Buy Orders on the Auction House? Was Holding Warfare really more important than the New Player Experience? All of those things are important, but not more important than the consequences and constraints that would keep them from ruining the fun of a significant number of players who were willing to try a PvP game, but not really interested in being fed to the wolves every time they logged in.
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|Zycor 09.04.2015 09:02
I think GW ran out of time. The article is accurate, I think GW tried to target the wrong audience. If they made the game more PVP/conflict driven, and advertised like EVE did "Become a pirate, or a miner!" then they would have attracted more big named guilds. Also, if they had the time/money/investment to dev it internally then released EE. But instead they rushed it out the door to a non-receptive public.
As the game being dead, I doubt it. This game can run on life support for a while, look at EMU servers, it just depends if Lisa wants to put it out of it's misery.
|Zycor 09.04.2015 09:04
|Look at DFUW and AV. They fired most of their staff too, they have 3-4 devs. Game is up and running/patching. It just takes them 3-4 months for a patch, lol.
|Nactillius 09.04.2015 09:08
Was this game MVP? In my opinion, no. If the settlements and settlement mechanics were supposed to be the features that set this game apart from the rest (I've heard that was stated by Ryan but do not have an actual quote) then that should have all been in place before EE.
But all this assumes the way things rolled out were strictly to plan and what we have found out is that was not the case. When a large portion of the funding you thought you had disappears then things change. I see the introduction of the subs as a desperate strategy to fill a monetary gap, or at least delay the shut down of development until new investment could be found.
If it had worked, who knows where things would have gone but sadly it did not and now the game will have some difficulty of getting past a legacy of bad press and bitter customers.
At least the doors are still open and there is still hope. Interesting times that I'm will to pay to see where things go. In some ways it's a front seat to a reality show of the inside operation of a junior development company. There is some entertainment value just in that!
|You are a Troll 09.04.2015 09:11
|I am still having fun playing.
|Zycor 09.04.2015 09:15
MMO industry is rough, really expensive to actually make a good game. Tons of crowds to please. Tons of competition.
On a positive side, look at it this way the game in it's current state can be maintained, think of it as an EMU project, like WOW emu or SWGEMU. There are tons of servers out there with >1k players like PFO, that are maintained by a few people and through donations. They've been running for years. The thing is, they are ftp.
Honestly, Darkfall and DFUW were a prime examples of how a re-release can revitalize a game. Execept the DEVS at AV didn't follow through with DFUW, they were met with crazy dupe bugs, imbalanced pvp, and the loss of 80% of their subs.


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1 – You can fear 2 – You can trust
"Fear holds one bond to a thought long enough for the heart to be darken to the truth. Belief of a fear can overpower ones trust in the Lord that the sight of hope is lost. Then the origination of that fear is overshadowed, covered up by the lie." ~ excerpt from Insightful Reflections of the Human Kind by Jennifer Goodson © 2012 All Rights Reserved.
Ever been at a place where you are at your end of a circumstance and realize you have two choices?
I have always believed it is best to trust and run towards the fear. Eventually, the fearful part of me is going to have to move out-of-the-way. However, sometimes just taking that first step towards something so big is the hardest.
Let me ask you, how long are going to stay where you are? How long is it going to be before something drastic has to happen to make you move?
Are you really that willing to just 'settle' for where your choices have taken you or are you going to push everything aside? What are you going to do to get past from where you are?
Love and faith, two of God's greatest gifts to us, are the two strongest elements of truth that will vanquish any lie, cast away any fear, and set anyone willing to be free. Love is given freely to us, however, faith takes perseverance. Once you have these peace begins to settle in and trusting in God's plan becomes easier.
How free from fear do you want to be?
John 4:18 "There is no fear in love (dread does not exist), but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out-of-doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and (so) he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love ( is not yet grown into love's complete perfection)."
When do you want to start living?
It is your choice, one only you can make, but you do not ever have to make the transition from living in fear to walking in love and faith alone. God places others in your life to make that transition happen. They are ones that are always there when you are up and down and when you are in the 'in-between'. Trust in your God-given right standing relationships to bring you truth and healing. Sometimes, it is words from your spouse, your closest friends that open the door for listening to His voice.
I encourage you today to journal your thoughts on ~
- What you are afraid of
- What makes you quit before you begin
- What makes you not follow through
- What holds you back from embracing true love? God's love?
These are small steps but heart shifting steps. Steps that change the mindset, open the door for revelation and inner reflection. You'll begin to feel a little lighter – just don't stop searching for truth.
You've taken the first few steps towards truth, healing, and choosing to . . .
Keep smilin', Jenn
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Ep149 – Top 10 Redheads of All Time
Bret pontificates the success of Cobra Kai, talks about not inviting Pete to Mexico, and discusses getting his butt seen by a doctor. Pete mentions his trip to Canada, and tries to educate Bret on the Golden State Killer. The guys take a cue from Carlos and talk the best redheads of all-time! Call your Mom!


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One Direction Eyeing Oscar Glory With New Film This Is Us
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The 'Little Things' stars are hoping to add an Academy Award to their mantelpiece.
One Direction have confessed that they would love to win big at next year's Oscars with their movie This Is Us.
The 'What Makes You Beautiful' stars launched the movie in London's Leicester Square this week and will see it hit cinemas around the world next week.
"The Oscars is nuts but we are so proud of the film and it would be unbelievable to just get nominated," Niall Horan told the Daily Star. "Any award voted for by a panel or fans is an honour.
"But to have an Oscar stacked up against the BRITs would be great."
The group have won countless prizes in their time, including VMAs, BRITs and Kids' Choice Awards.
Director Morgan Spurlock was also thrilled to talk about the buzz of the Oscars.
"It's the best 3D I've ever seen and a great story. So, an Oscar nomination? We will see," he said.
Adele was the big winner of the 2013 Academy Awards after her track 'Skyfall' won Best Original Song at the event in Hollywood.


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The Pete Holmes Show debuted on TBS last night and one of the very first guests was one of Holmes' old friends, fellow comedian Kumail Nanjiani. The pair reminisced about their early days as comics, when they would travel to various college towns of the country together while on tour. Nanjiani then urged Holmes to tell the audience what he used to call him back then, promising the audience that they would then get to decide if it was "racist or super racist."
For his part, Holmes insisted that everything said back then was said inside their "friendship bubble." Watch the segment below and decide for yourself.
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There are some foods that are only served during the holidays, and if you're like me, you dream all year of the December day when you get to eat honey-glazed ham, candy canes, and chocolate oranges. A lot of Christmas traditions revolve around food, and why not? It's delicious!
Fun with Fruitcake
This paragon of Christmas confectionary gift giving has been around since the Middle Ages, although the tradition of making cakes that included dried fruits, honey, and nuts started in ancient times. Its longevity may be attributed to the fact that the food famously seems to never get eaten but never go bad, so it is impossible to get rid of. In 18th century Europe, fruitcakes were made using nuts from that year's harvest, then saved for good luck until they were eaten at the next harvest. Russell Baker's New York Times article "Fruitcake is Forever" shows just how long the confection can cling to life:
"Thirty-four years ago, I inherited the family fruitcake. Fruitcake is the only food durable enough to become a family heirloom. It had been in my grandmother's possession since 1880, and she passed it to a niece in 1933. Surprisingly, the niece, who had always seemed to detest me, left it to me in her will....I would have renounced my inheritance except for the sentiment of the thing, for the family fruitcake was the symbol of our family's roots. When my grandmother inherited it, it was already 86 years old, having been baked by her great-grandfather in 1794 as a Christmas gift for President George Washington. Washington, with his high-flown view of ethical standards for Government workers, sent it back with thanks, explaining that he thought it unseemly for Presidents to accept gifts weighing more than 80 pounds, even though they were only eight inches in diameter...There is no doubt...about the fruitcake's great age. Sawing into it six Christmasses ago, I came across a fragment of a 1794 newspaper with an account of the lynching of a real-estate speculator in New York City."
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Dear Bunky,
I had a beautifully written letter for your 8 month birthday…then I forgot to save it. Go mommy and her easily erasable mind. That has been your cousin's and my favorite topic of discussion lately. How children so easily make us forget. After I had you and spent many sleepless nights trying to get you to sleep, I forgot that I vowed to never have kids again. I also forgot the many times I made the same vow WHILE I was still pregnant with you and always so uncomfortable. But, over time, you have shown me that, even through all the scary, the sad, the confusing, the lack of sleep, this is still the most amazing thing anyone could ever do with their life. And if God were to one day bless me with another child, I would be ecstatic.
But on the other hand, I wonder, if I were to have more kids, how on earth would they ever measure up to you? You are so well behaved and the happiest baby I have ever seen. When we go out, you are so content and allow mommy to do whatever she needs. Also, considering the fact that you have been in discomfort for the last three months from ear infections, you are still incredibly happy and playful as ever. Not to mention, your first SIX teeth have all popped in within a month and a half of each other.
You are a, "go big or go home!" kinda baby. You are more than I could have ever hoped for. You are my love, my heart, my everything. Even though you weren't planned, you are still the best thing to have ever happened to me.
I love you is an understatement.
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So far - still not losing weight fast but
I weigh less than I have done for years and
It's definitely affecting my body shape. The waistline is getting slimmer.
If it wasn't for the fact that one of the dogs just had an op and needs a bit of extra attention - I'd start going back to gym at this point.
Because it's been a slow loss, I'd expect to keep the weight off even if I stopped the diet. I get a bit hungry between meals on the fasting days but not that bad.


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Kanye West Bros Down at Khloe Kardashian's Birthday Party after BET Awards
Kanye West Bros Down at Khloe's Birthday Bash
Kanye West was super pumped after the BET Awards Sunday, holding court outside a WeHo club.
Kanye joined the Kardashian klan to celebrate Khloe's 33rd birthday at the Blind Dragon. Tristan Thompson and Khloe arrived together to the club.
Before joining the group inside, Kanye chatted up one of his friends on the phone, and then met up with some guys on the street.
He was oblivious to the paparazzi ... if anything, they were clowning the photogs.
A good night was had by all.
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In dentistry, research and development of new materials and technologies reach for better prevention and early treatment of dental diseases.
In this context, the concept of "minimally invasive dentistry" is gaining space, a discipline that has its main goal in the respect of the healthy tooth tissue and has the treatment of primary and secondary lesions at the very early stage as a priority.
Careful diagnostic investigation, correct assessment of the biological risks/benefits and – last but not least – the conservative and highly specific removal of decayed tissue, preliminary measures are very important for the achievement of these results.
It is essential that the diagnostic path start from a proper clinical and radiological investigation through conventional diagnostic tools complemented by innovative tools in order to make otherwise clinically hidden lesions visible.
The observation that the enamel, dentin or decayed tissue, exposed to a laser light, emit a specific spontaneous fluorescence made it possible to develop devices that, using laser technology, allow us to attribute a "grading" to the carious lesion severity, which is a prerequisite for subsequent operational choices, more or less favorable to the intervention, both to monitor the evolution in time of the carious pathology and/or the effectiveness of the treatment.
Img. 1 – Give your patients the opportunity to understand the diagnosic process, let them do diagnosis with you: they will just love it. Communication is something that we absolutely need and owe our patients, and digital comunication by images is the best solution, as it is easy both to understand and to make our usually non-understandable speeches simple and clear.
Img. 2 – We've been using transillumination on anterior teeth for many years, now: it is easy to show our patients through a mirror how teeth appear transparent with a backlight, but in order to show them the posteriors we need something else, something new.
Img. 3 There is one device (Diagnocam, Kavo) which uses laser-induced transillumination making us able to obtain an occlusal view, expressed in a gray scale, of the tooth surface. The different dental tissues react to light differently: the enamel is clear, dentin is slightly grayer, while cavities appear much darker. The DiFOTI, Digital Fiber Optic Trans Illumination, technology uses a source that produces a specific wavelenght (near infrared) light.
If we add occlusal vision and lateral vision we get what today gets closer to a real 3D vision.
Light is a patient-friendly tecnology, totally safe for the patient and it represent a way to do clear diagnosis and to have a new and easy comunication with patients. It means that we can detect early lesions and monitor them over time and manage the treatment based on the specific risk to develop caries. It is a great opportunity for dentists and patients.
- Abdelaziz M, Krejci I. DIAGNOcam – a Near Infrared Digital Imaging Transillumination (NIDIT) technology. Int J Esthet Dent. 2015 Spring;10(1):158-65.
- Yu JL, Tang RT, Feng L, Dong YM. Digital imaging fiber optic transillumination (DIFOTI) method for determining the depth of cavity. Beijing Da Xue Xue Bao. 2017 Feb 18;49(1):81-85
- Young DA, Featherstone JD. Digital imaging fiber-optic trans-illumination, F-speed radiographic film and depth of approximal lesions. J Am Dent Assoc. 2005 Dec;136(12):1682-7.
- Astvaldsdóttir A, Ahlund K, Holbrook WP, de Verdier B, Tranæus S. Approximal Caries Detection by DIFOTI: In Vitro Comparison of Diagnostic Accuracy/Efficacy with Film and Digital Radiography. Int J Dent. 2012;2012:326401. doi: 10.1155/2012/326401. Epub 2012 Nov 4.
- Yang J, Dutra V. Utility of radiology, laser fluorescence, and transillumination. Dent Clin North Am. 2005 Oct;49(4):739-52, vi. Review.
- Söchtig F, Hickel R, Kühnisch J. Caries detection and diagnostics with near-infrared light transillumination: clinical experiences. Quintessence Int. 2014 Jun;45(6):531-8
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Amongst the potentially good things are the possibilities for allowing local clergy to become real team leaders, especially in recruiting, training, authorising and deploying people in local ministry. If clergy really were given the independence, authority and financial clout this required it would undoubtedly be to the long term good of the gospel. It all goes back to the principles advocated by Roland Allen, the great missionary writer of the early twentieth century, that indigenous churches should be 'self-governing, self-supporting and self-propagating'.
Let us begin with the second point. Allen believed that, in order to grow, mission churches had to become self-funding. This, however, was not because he believed that the locals should pay more towards 'mission'. Rather, he believed that the existing financial arrangement inhibited mission by creating a dependency culture, based on a fixed and rigid approach to mission funding.
But if the diocese is an inhibiting mechanism, so, often, is the bishop. Allen complained about the way that the lack of ordained clergy (usually white and therefore expensive to maintain) meant that many of the local Christian communities established by missionary organizations were only 'half churches', lacking a sacramental ministry of baptism and holy communion.
Undoubtedly there are changes ahead, and undoubtedly there is a need for change. However, there is also the opportunity for radical new thinking. The worst thing would be to try to fit new models of ministry into the 'old wineskins' of the past and present. Sadly, though, I suspect this is still what will be attempted.
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Two of our great friends, Martin and Marcia, recently started their own business called Receiliart. Marcia has a background in graphic design and arts and Martin is a musician and craftsman that works wonders in his hands and transforms plain wood into beautiful serving and cutting boards. Together they are making these beautiful boards as well as art prints. Me and Dagbjört are currently on the growing waiting list for one of these boards, as they are getting more popular each day.
The boards are handmade from the finest wood in Bali, varying from different types of teak, oak and rosewood, and I can say with great confidence that you will not find a serving or cutting board on this earth made with more perfection and precision than these. They are quite frankly stunning!
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These are new technical drawings from Robert Strati who is presenting this work in two different exhibitions, one called "Signs, Ciphers, Script" at awcz galleries in Zurich, Switzerland until next October 27 and the other one called "Prints and Objects" at oficio, Boston until next December 1.
"Robert Strati's prints are made using Adobe Illustrator and printed digitally. They are explorations of diagrammatic representations. Arranged in different patterns, these simple points, lines and planes represent a vast array of differing information, such as musical notation, architectural schematics and celestial mappings, all of which are made from the same fundamental elements." - I took this info from a previous post where there is more work from Strati, see here. See more;
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I wanted to make this post special. My 300th post, a milestone reached, a memorable day. I wondered what to write about, then realised it is September, and just a few days away from my father's birthday. This inspired me to look back, to write about another birthday of Dads. His 21st birthday, in 1944.
When I began looking into my family tree one of the first exciting finds in my search was a bundle of letters that my cousin found in her mothers loft.
They had been written by my father to his mother during his time in the Army in World War II. Some were written during his training in Hartlepool in 1943 when he was 20 years of age. The letters went on until the end of his war in 1947.
I know it's hard to keep track of someone else's family, so here are the details of the Dinnis family, who were living in Blaker Street, Brighton.
Joseph Taylor Dinnis had married Annie Cleeve in 1915 and they had four children: Jack born in 1920, their only daughter Nancy followed in 1922, my father Gordon in 1923 and lastly Ron in 1925. Joseph had already served through WWI.
Gordon was very good at keeping in touch with his mother, and all seemed well until his birthday in 1944 when Annie received the following:
The date on it is 29 Sept 1944, Gordon's 21st birthday, and it informs his mother that her son was wounded in the Central Mediterranean Theatre of War. No details, just an amendment slip stating "It has not been reported into what hospital he has been admitted, nor are other particulars known, but in the event of his condition being considered by the Medical Authorities as serious or dangerous this office will be notified by cable and you will be immediately informed. In addition he will have been given every facility for communicating with you himself. I am to express to you the sympathy and regret of the Army Council."
Gordon was serving with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment at the time. He soon got in touch with his mother, trying to reassure her that he was in one piece. His second letter to her gave more information.
Sept 30 1944 WARD D7, 93rd BRITISH GENERAL HOSPITAL C.M.F.
My Dearest Mum,
This is just a few more lines to let you know that I am getting along very well indeed, and pleased to say that my shoulder is getting on very nicely. Of course I find it very difficult to write, but I am not in any pain at all.
I hope you are keeping well, and getting some nice weather for a change. It has been wet here for the past couple of days, but I don't worry about that as I am in a nice bed. I also hope you aren't getting these flying Bombs.
Well Mum, now I have a big surprise for you. Yesterday, being my 21st Birthday the Sisters made me a big Cake, with the words 21st Birthday Greetings on it. Then another Sister brought me in a parcel which contained a Cake, bottle of Gin, Sweets, Cigs, Razor, Soap, Toothbrush and Blades. She also put a nice vase of flowers on my locker. Another Sister gave me a cigarette lighter. They were all very kind to me and I shall never forget them. They made it as good as they possible could and I do appreciate it. I'm sure not many would do all they did for me to make it a real happy birthday.
Of course I thought of home a lot and know that you were wondering what I was doing.
Oh! Please don't send me any more razor blades, as I have got a different kind of razor now. I lost my small pack when I was wounded, but there was nothing important in it.
I hope you are hearing regularly from Jack, and that he is enjoying himself at that town every night. I suppose Ron still manages to get home every week, and I hope his arm is not bothering him now. Mine's a flea bite compared with Ron's arm. Dad no doubt is still getting the same terrible weather. Is there any chance of him getting any leave at all? Is he a Capt now?
I heard from Nancy before I was wounded and I also had an air letter from you. I haven't received those photos yet that you sent me in July.
My Best Wishes to everyone, and please tell them that I shan't be able to write yet awhile.
Well Mum, Please Don't Worry as I am really getting along O.K. and not getting any pain at all. Good luck and all the best. Hope to see you again soon.
God Bless You Always. My Fondest Love, Gordon
As I read this letter, over and over it tells me so much. So much about how Dad loved his mother and didn't want to worry her. She must have known it was worse than he was letting on, because his previous letter showed that he couldn't hold a pen for long.
He had written on September 25th "My Dearest Mum, Just a few lines to let you know that I am in Dock again and have been wounded in the right shoulder, so am finding it very difficult to write. The shrapnel has already been taken out, and I am now waiting for it to heal up.
"Don't worry Mum will you as I am quite OK, I just got in the way of a bit of lead that's all. I always was awkward."
The next time he wrote was on October 12th, and he finally told his mother more about his injury, "My Dearest Mum, I think I can now write and give you a few details about my wound. I have had three operations, and have had it in plaster for a fortnight. Yesterday I had another operation and he removed the plaster and just put my arm in a sling.
"The Major said it healed up quicker than they thought it would. I am very pleased indeed with it and there is no need to worry at all.
"Fancy them taking 14 days to let you know I was wounded. I would have written sooner only I was laying on a stretcher for 3 days before I got to hospital, and then I couldn't move my arm until he'd operated on it. Still all the shrapnel has been removed, and it is getting on really famous."
Of course Gordon's mother must have worried so much, but he kept in touch regularly with letters and photographs. Here are some he sent home from Italy after he had recovered.