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Back in 2006, I completed my first and what I assumed would be my last triathlon. I don't like swimming, running or cycling, so it clearly wasn't something I did of my own free will; it was something I had to do in order to graduate from university and complete my Bachelor of Exercise Science. While I am a competent swimmer and bike rider, I don't enjoy either of them, particularly not in a competitive setting like a triathlon. I also have a tendency to struggle with heat exhaustion; my triathlon was held on a 36°C Melbourne summer day. I had met my now husband a few years earlier, towards the start of our time at uni together (we studied the same degree), and will be forever thankful to him for getting me through that. He grew up in the water and is a better than good swimmer, so he helped me through the half-kilometer ocean swim leg. I was fine on my own for the 20km bike ride (I didn't enjoy it, but it was at least pretty easy for me). By the time I got to the 5km run, I was spent. The heat was ridiculous, and I was in a world of pain. Dad was the only family or friend either of us had there to cheer us on and meet us at the finish line; he later told me that he met husband at the finish line and husband's first question was "have you seen Jess?" Nope, not finished yet, answered Dad. Husband back-tracked a few kilometres to find me in a hallucinatory state, poking his chest and asking if he was real, and walked the few kilometres back with me to the finish line. That was when Dad decided he was a keeper and part of the family.
Anyway, despite how proud I am of myself for finally finishing, it was a shitty experience and one I never intend on repeating. So you can imagine my husband's face when I told him I'd entered myself into a triathlon this weekend. Not just any triathlon though; the Wanderlust 108. The "kind" and "mindful" triathlon.
Wanderlust is a global lifestyle group that focuses on keeping both the mind and body fit and healthy, and they're running a triathlon unlike any other in cities all around the world. What they're all about, as they write on their website is…
Wanderlust's core mission is to create community around mindful living.
Mindful living is a conscious, value-based approach to leading a sane & healthy life. At Wanderlust, we focus on a few simple principles:
Practice Yoga
Practicing yoga helps clear the mind, tone the body, and heal the spirit. Wanderlust is committed to creating inspiring places to practice with a broad array of the world's most accomplished teachers.
Eat Well
We are what we eat, and at Wanderlust — and in our personal lives — we support local farms and purchase organic, sustainably grown products whenever possible.
Be Green
It is our solemn responsibility to be good stewards of the earth. Wanderlust is committed to sustainable practices, including waste reduction, recycling, composting, the utilization of renewable energy sources and carbon offsetting. Sustainability is a moving target, and we also pledge to improve year after year.
Practice Purpose
Wanderlust is a purpose driven company, and we build partnerships with like-minded companies who value social good as well as the bottom line. Some of our greatest power lies in what we do, what we purchase and who we associate with.
Create Awareness
Many of the great challenges facing us today, from environmental damage to food shortages to disease to political upheaval, can be improved or solved through mass action. But mass action requires awareness, so wherever possible, we will use the Wanderlust platform to highlight — and with luck, resolve — the most important issues of our time.
Showcase Art
Wanderlust is a place where creative expression is both valued and open. We treasure our community of artists and are honored to provide a canvas for their work.
You can find out more on their website, but basically, the event looks something like this:
- 5km-running course
- 90-minute yoga class
- live music
- inspiring lecture by One Giant Mind's Jonni Pollard
- lawn activities such as acroyoga
- delicious locally sourced organic food
They run these events all around the world, and I was pretty excited to find out they were hosting one in Melbourne! I found out about it exactly four weeks before it was scheduled; I entered myself online, immediately downloaded the Couch To 5K running app to my phone and instructed husband to drag me along to the gym with him when he went three mornings each week, so I could complete the program on the treadmills there. Let me emphasis what a big deal this is; I have always hated/completely sucked at running. I've never been good at it, I've never enjoyed it, I've never understood the "fun" concept of a "fun run." But at this stage, I was just beginning to take my depression/anxiety/disordered eating recovery seriously and thought this was the perfect opportunity for a fresh start, and a great way to train my body to achieve something other than losing weight. So I did. Every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 5.30am and every Sunday around 7.30am for the four weeks leading up to it, I got up, put on my workout gear, and hit the gym. I kept up my own yoga practice, a few sessions per week, leading up to it too.
So, how was the day itself? Pretty amazing! Despite the event running a little late to start, it was a fun day! I surprised myself with how well I did on the run and couldn't have been happier when I crossed the finish line 🙂 The 90 minute yoga class was good fun with great tunes from Aroha, led by the incredibly motivating "flying nomad" Simon Park – seeing 1500 people practising their downward facing dog in the park on the beach overlooking the sea is one hell of an experience!
I also got a lot out of listening to Swisse ambassador, the gorgeous Bianca Chatfield, captain of the Melbourne Vixens netball squad, superstar athlete, founder of The Ignition Project and all around lovely lady 🙂 Hearing her speak about not only the importance of working hard, but the importance of resting and taking time out to look after yourself, too, was EXACTLY what I needed to hear.
A big thank you to the team at the Lulu Lemon hub as well – how they kept up on the bag check front (the best ever complimentary service that could have possibly been on offer), as well as selling their gear, I will never know. But they did, and they made everyone's lives a lot easier because of it! Oh, and the food was hella good, too – I hit up the team at Mastic twice – firstly for the black rice risogalo after the run and before the yoga (black rice and coconut milk/yoghurt pudding deliciousness, topped with toasted coconut and pomegranate), and then went back for one of the phenomenal quinoa falafel souvas after the yoga class, by which point I was famished!
Wanderlust108 Melbourne was an awesome experience, and I think something that most of us would benefit from; taking the time to slow down and make time for ourselves, to both challenge ourselves physically and mentally, as well as nurture ourselves, and to be around other people wanting the same things, is a truly uplifting and inspiring experience, and I'm super thankful for the opportunity to have been part of it all! Was anyone else there on the weekend, or done any of the others in other cities around the world??


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This is the soundtrack for our classrooms: *bzzzbzz* *bzzbzzz*. The rhythms of instruction are now delineated by the tiny mechanisms in student pockets. LED lights and miniature vibrating motors alert us to the passage of time, irrespective of the actual pace of learning. We are all familiar with the irritation of competing with phones. We all have policies governing their use, some more strict than others. We are all aware that these machines aren't going away, nor is their effect going to be lessened.
I am going to propose that we lay down our arms. Stop fighting the cell phone. Learn to convert cell phone use into a teachable moment. By teachable moment I mean use psychology and outright trick your students. I believe in this wholeheartedly.
Below are "Reilly's Rules for phones in class". Perhaps some of these can be helpful to you in managing this new reality we all share. We don't have to like students' habits, but we have to work with them in some fashion.
Tech policies: State, repeat, and follow through
First things first, you have to decide your plan of attack. What can you see yourself putting up with on the daily? Are you really as technophobic or technophilic as you think? Whatever boundaries you pick, you are committed to for the rest of the semester. How much can you put up with for 14 weeks? The obvious exception to this are students using assistive technologies.
Once you decide on your boundaries for non-assistive tech, outline them in plain language on your syllabus. Then revise again for clarity and small words. Students tend to love technology, so you don't want to end up splitting hairs with them. Be clear, be direct, and make them meet your expectations.
Make techies look up pertinent information.
If it's going to be in the classroom, you pay as well use it. My personal policy is to ask students with phones to look up info in-class and report. If there's a word, concept, or process that is not common knowledge, but can easily be found with a quick google or wiki check, make them do it.
Use tech metaphors when possible, or the tech itself.
Meet them where they're interested. Know how various popular technologies and apps function. And use that knowledge in your storehouse to make metaphors students will understand. If students don't quite understand the point of including outside resources in their essays, present the quote or paraphrase as a form of link. The citation is there to support their main work, and present a "link" of sorts to a larger body of work.
Learn to use a variety of platforms and apps.
This is not just professional development for you, but also builds your word-hoard to reach out to students. But be careful, and consider privacy. If you're going to, for instance, build a social media page or account for your class, be sure to model the behavior you want your students to have, and use it to illustrate information related to the lesson. However, I will caution you against making social media essential to your curriculum, unless you are ready and willing to walk your students through making "professional" accounts. Do not ever demand your students use their private profiles for your class.
Why fight it?
My personal policy is "don't fight them when you can make them work with you". Personally, I can live with technology, as long as it is employed usefully. My policy is phones, laptops, and tablets are allowable, but I reserve the right to "get nosy" and check out what the students are doing. I make it a bit of a joke, but I follow through.
I move around a lot during class, around the room and up and down the aisles. I frequently make students group or circle so there's not much opportunity to hunker down behind a screen. This approach requires a delicate touch - I don't want to appear aggressive or violate a student's personal space. But I find that after one or two check-ins, I don't need to do this much. Students will start to self-police, and the bulk of them will understand that they must engage.
Build the lesson assuming that someone's going to have a phone or computer in hand - don't give them the opportunity to hide. They'll have to look up from that screen eventually. Emphasize that this is what they'll be doing in their careers, working this simultaneous screen/face presence. They may as well know how to do it smartly. And you may as well have one less aggravation in your classroom!
Liz Reilly is a tutor and adjunct at Passaic County Community College. She has over 5 years' experience in blogging, writing, teaching, and tutoring a wide variety of people.

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Good morning, blog friends, and welcome back to the blog for this sunny and ALMOST springlike day! Let's say "almost", because you never can tell what Mother Nature might drop on us. Things have been a little bit weird lately in weather, but perhaps – just perhaps – we are actually on the road to warmer temperatures.
One of the things that can be deceiving when spring proceeds a little differently than we normally expect, is that important dates can creep up on us. Sure today may only be April 12th, but did you know that Mother's Day is May 8th? And did you know that May 8th is less than a month away? Well now you do! You're welcome!
Aveda has some fantastic ideas for Mother's Day – you knew they would – and you can find them in the gifts section of the Aveda website. Browse online, then head on over to Willow to purchase.
Sooooo is it a coincidence that most of the Mother's Day gift suggestions are from the Aveda Stress-Fix line? Hmmm…well never mind that, we are POSITIVE that YOU have never been the cause of maternal stress, no, not you!
Anyway, along with the Stress-Fix ideas, there are lots of others listed: from lovely scented candles to Aveda tea, and classic Aveda hair and skin care products.
Of course products aren't the only ideas out there. Consider Willow Salon gift certificates for the gift of fabulous hair as well!
And, since you are so darned organized, more than a month in advance, you probably deserve a little something too, right? We wholeheartedly agree.
Happy shopping, everyone! We'll see you back here Friday morning.


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Countries can be hoarders too.
Much like your family history, the world of consumer genetic testing is full of dark secrets you might prefer not to know.
The industry of 'body part brokerage' is large and largely unregulated.
We're not sure just who to blame for pop culture's obsession with vampires.
What does the person who has everything buy for themselves?
Here are a few more instances of idiocy fueled by social media.
Here are a few everyday items that science is turning into unlikely saviors.
Here are a few great animal stories to make this bleak and unforgiving universe somewhat more palatable.
Is there even really a such thing as 'too much coffee?'
Here are a few famous destinations that are feeling the awful effects of being on too many travelers' bucket lists.


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In a previous post, I talked about what I called "disciplinary empathy" – the ability to get out of one's acculturated box and see problems from the point of view of other peoples' expertise and training. I made the observation that people I've run across with high disciplinary empathy are remarkably innovative in teams. Because they get that there is more than one way to look at the world, they can see a problem from multiple perspectives, and see solutions that integrate multiple approaches.
I'd like to talk about a related kind of empathy here – organizational empathy.
In a previous life, I spent a long time inside a big company, applying design research and user centered design to create next generation technologies and solutions for our mainline businesses. My team and I were part of a centralized technology organization, and it was part of my job to "manage" the technology transfer process.
It was tough. We felt a lot of the time like we were pushing the proverbial rope. Our internal customers didn't know about – and often didn't want – new things, or even to change at all. We lived The Innovator's Dilemma – our company's customers and investors rewarded us for more of the same, but we knew we needed to create new products and businesses for long-term survival.
As a new manager there, I remember experiencing the same frustration that I'd experienced as a younger researcher: Why won't anyone listen to us? Don't they get how cool this stuff is? Don't they see they need to change? Over time, we bred a pretty nasty case of "us versus them".
Silos were a problem for us. And tons of innovation management ink had been spilled about silos and how to avoid them – and it seemed like I read it all at the time.
The Porter crowd said that silos come from unclear company strategy. Maybe, I thought, but I couldn't do anything about that. Patrick Lencioni, one of my favorite authors, said that the way to cure silos is through shared goals and common reward and recognition. Well, that sounded good, too, but that too was out of my control. Plus, it seemed like there was something more to it.
Over time, we developed ways to work around the silos. One of the best ways I found was to lend people to our development organizations to help them implement the new technologies we were transferring. Of course, this was a blatant bribe because these organizations were always short of people. And it worked, but not for the reasons I expected. It turned out that the researchers who had spent time in a development organization came back with a deep understanding of what made our output valuable – or not valuable – to our customers. Having lived life as a developer, they learned to see our technology organization as a developer did… and it was sometimes not pretty. We learned that no one cared about papers, presentations or knowledge. The lingua franca of marketing was user testimonial. For development, it was proof of technical concept and working code.
But I also learned much deeper lessons that I apply even to this day. I realized that the silo problem was deeper than well-defined strategy, common goals, or shared rewards and recognition could solve. The problem is that different disciplines, like marketing, finance, software development, etc. are all driven by different cultures. They speak different languages and have deeply rooted ideas about what good work is. And these cultures start to be formed when people are still in school. Engineers, designers, accountants, marketers all get acculturated to their professions' value systems in school, and it gets reinforced by the largely functional nature of organizational design. The disciplines' cultures are further reinforced by the kinds of people who are naturally attracted to each profession – people get attracted to different fields because their personalities and world views are compatible with the existing or perceived culture of that profession. Look at people who enter engineering school – they're qualitatively different than people who go to design school.
The big lesson for me was that to cross organizational boundaries, I needed to encourage my researchers to truly understand – to empathize – with the way other departments thought, acted and worked. Lending people out to other groups turned out to be a happily coincidental way to develop organizational empathy in my team. It wasn't just about the bribe – it turned out to be about changing the culture of my own organization.
The people who did this best really adopted the mindset of our internal customers, and later sought out rotation programs or outright transfers, but not everyone got it. Those who tried to use understanding as a means to manipulate – like the stereotypical used car salesman – had much less success. People are good at detecting authenticity, and I found that this organizational empathy had to come from the heart.
One of the things I like best about Contextual Design is that it supports the development of organizational empathy. Joining right alongside our clients on design teams, we gain a real understanding of the constraints, values, and approaches driven by the customers' organizations – and organizational cultures. As a result of CD's intense teaming experience, we usually find that empathy develops amongst the all of the team members—and among the organizations they represent.


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I left Seattle 16 hours ago, but I'm still not in Milwaukee. My first flight arrived on time, I enjoyed my first visit to Minneapolis. Second flight took off on time, but then we started circling. We spent about 45 minutes circling above madison Wisconsin, only to find out that we can't land in Milwaukee. It was too foggy there, and the transponder on the ground was, well, broken. So they fired up the engines, and we headed to Detroit. We landed in Detroit around 11:30pm (EST at this point). Luckily, they are going to turn the plan around at 8:30 am and try again for Milwaukee. With the time difference, we should get there just after 8:30am.
Now, I just have to see if the shuttle agency honors my reservation and payment from last night. And, more importantly, see if my luggage arrives. I was forced to check my luggage at the last minute due to the overhead bins being full. I just want to put this out there for the airlines: I would give up the privilege of carrying on a bag, if you let me check it for free. Just saying.
And now to McDonald's. Delta gave out meal vouchers, good for $7 towards breakfast at the airport. McDonald's was the first to open this morning, so I went there. I ordered a meal that should have been about $5. After getting my food, and looking at the receipt, I saw that they had upsized my meal to get it as close to $7 as possible. They made my meal a large and added an extra hash brown. I don't know if they do this to everyone, but one or all, it is unethical. Sorry McDonald's, I'll be calling your corporate office and Delta's corporate office when I get a chance. This behavior is not truthful and is not ethical. If it is a one time thing, great, now you know it happened. It it is systematic, then I hope you will address it.
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FIRST LOOK: Get Otak-Cool at Universal Studios Japan (ft. Final Fantasy & More)
This Spring, Universal Studios Japan shines the spotlight on the world's most iconic anime: Final Fantasy, Monster Hunter, Detective Conan & Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon!
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Theme Park Showdown: Lotte World VS Everland
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The Best Place To Be A Tourist Is… Singapore!
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This Animal Resort Theme Park Is Taiwan's Answer To Disneyland
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The essence of branding is attempting to forge a non-verbal conception that is associated with a product without the cognitive process of ascribing value based on external information. However, it is often assumed that this goal can be achieved through explicit mediums. The world-renowned marketing consultant and professor Philip Kotler said branding is about more than visual assets such as typeface and logo, and commented that the activity of a brand will have an effect on its branding in the minds of consumers:
"A socially responsible company needs to shape its offerings to minimize personal or societal ill-effects of their brand offering."
The advent of social media has been revolutionary in this sense as it has allowed people to quickly share news about a brand, company or individual's activities without having to navigate the web of vested editors and brand partnerships. It is no longer good enough for brands to say they believe in certain values – there has to be action to back it up.
World-renowned marketers such as Mark Ritson have chastised brands who bleat about social responsibility with little regard for the deeper implications of its offerings. As Ritson comments in his lecture, consumers are not stupid and will usually see through the meek pretences of brands. In the travel industry, this has hit certain brands particularly hard as the options available to consumers have made it easier to take business elsewhere, and here we look at how increased social awareness among consumers has impacted a number of travel brands.
Examples Of The Influence Of Social Awareness In Travel
Since its inception in 2008, Airbnb has become synonymous with the rapid expansion of the sharing economy. However, as with many members of this coveted club, it has not been without criticism and although many such criticisms have been levelled at its users, the model upon which the company is based has also come under fire.
In 2014, it was revealed that there was no existing policy protecting guests from being watched through surveillance cameras by their hosts. Despite a change to correct this regulation, subsequent lawsuits taken up by guests who have been a victim of intrusions by hosts have raised questions about who is ultimately responsible for the actions of the host. Airbnb claims it warns its hosts about the implications of breaking its terms, whereas detractors have said that Airbnb owes a greater duty of care towards its customers.
The muddied waters of contractual employment and responsibility are a major threat to the sharing economy, as Deliveroo and Uber have already found out. In response to this and other negative stories, Airbnb has launched a campaign for marriage equality in Australia. The campaign shows a real commitment to social change as it goes beyond brand values and claims to agree or sympathise with certain causes, but rather it looks to take action to generate debate and actuate social change.
A fellow profiteer from the sharing economy, Uber, has also come under fire for its behaviour. During January's protest at JFK Airport near New York over the government's radical policy towards immigrants, Uber attempted to curry favour by announcing that potential passengers would be able to use its service without invoking a surge charge. However, this move was seen to be undercutting the strike of many taxi drivers in the area who were joining the protest of many concerned citizens.
In this instance, social awareness hit Uber hard as in the aftermath of the controversy, it was reported that over 500,000 users deleted the app as a part of the socially-driven #DeleteUber campaign and CEO Travis Kalanick was forced to step down from his position on the government's economic advisory council. This shows that travel companies are having to consider the implications of becoming involved in social issues and are paying the price for putting business ahead of politics.
United Airlines was the latest travel company to endure the wrath of adverse publicity after shocking videos emerged of a man being forcibly dragged off an overbooked flight. The transmogrification of CEO Oscar Muñoz's stance on the issue has highlighted that whilst companies are keen to address the potential damage that such incidents can have, there is no sure-fire way to quell the rampant hordes and protect the brand image.
However, although social media has generally reacted with vociferous disdain for United Airlines' handling of the entire debacle, it remains to be seen whether price wins over principles. Volkswagen's highly publicised emissions-cheating was predicted to be the end for one of the world's most recognisable brands, but despite these early claims strong sales in China and Eastern Europe saw the company's sales increase in 2016.
Although consumer behaviour can be influenced by mob mentalities and a desire to shop with a conscience, ultimately the bottom line has the greatest say of all. However, this isn't to say that social awareness hasn't had an impact on the travel industry. The very fact that such companies are being forced to face up to such incidents will push some customers away from the brands. Brand values have been thrust under the microscope in recent times and the surge in social awareness among consumers has forced many travel brands to react with greater care.
How do you think social awareness has affected consumer behaviour? Has the change been for the better or worse? Share your thoughts with us below or on Twitter @mporiumgroup.


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It's not trendy today to defend Piers Morgan. His failed US chat show is being kicked from one end of Twitter to the other – even Morgan's own tweets, about cricketers Kevin Pietersen and Stuart Broad, are apparently too British for American eyes. And Morgan's plummy Britishness has, no doubt, contributed to his show's decline. But the TV environment that has claimed his scalp is unique to the US – and is littered with plenty of American corpses, too.
Morgan's show runs on CNN, whose initials spell out what it is – a cable news network. Viewers in the UK are used to our own 24-hour news channels, BBC News and Sky News. Both of those are scrupulously impartial when it comes to politics, with Britain's media regulators enforcing decades-old traditions of even-handedness. America's cable news channels couldn't be more different.
CNN is the closest in outlook to its British cousins. But its two competitors – MSNBC and Fox News – both trumpet highly partisan political views. Opposite Morgan at 9pm, MSNBC has The Rachel Maddow Show. Maddow is a firebrand left-winger (and highly talented broadcaster) who makes no secret of her Democratic leanings. Meanwhile, right-wing Fox News offers a show hosted by Megyn Kelly, of whom British readers need to know only one thing: she named one of her children Thatcher.
In that competitive crucible, Morgan has been doing a chat show. It might have a newsy feel, but it can't match the polemic of its competitors. And when Morgan does venture his own opinions – such as his much-criticised diatribes about gun control – they don't gain traction because he's British. So he's damned if he does express an opinion, and disqualified from the competition if he doesn't.
British viewers are also used to polite competition between chat shows. Alan Carr, Graham Norton and Jonathan Ross air in different slots, and their ratings aren't a matter of much pride for the channels on which they're shown. The American chat show has more the significance of a Saturday-night entertainment juggernaut in the UK: it's arguably the most exposed place in a network's schedule, where hits are big and flops are fatal.
As Morgan prepares to vacate his slot on CNN, he can therefore take comfort from the experience that a much bigger network, NBC, had a few years ago with Jay Leno. Leno was the successful host of NBC's late-night Tonight show – so successful, in fact, that NBC decided to give him a new show in primetime, airing at 10pm five nights a week. But The Jay Leno Show was such a flop that Entertainment Weekly called it US television's 'biggest bomb of all time'. And who was running NBC at the time? One Jeff Zucker, the American who's now in charge at CNN.
So take heart, Piers. Your show might well have been rubbish – but you could have had different opinions, and a different nationality, and it might well have been just as bad.


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Students must complete a minimum of 48 Boston University credits for the undergraduate program. More than that minimum may be required for completion for a student's chosen program of study. "Boston University credits" include those earned in Boston University summer courses and Boston University study abroad programs. Exceptions to the residency requirement may be granted by petition to the Office of the Provost. This policy applies to all Boston University undergraduate students.


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In mid-August, notifications are sent to the SU email addresses of students who have registered for fall quarter classes, advising them that their fall quarter eStatements are available at SUOnline, via Student Account Center.
For other quarters, invoices become available approximately one week after pre-registration opens to any student who has registered for classes for that quarter.
Notifications continue to be sent to students' SU email addresses when there has been a change in their balance due, causing a revised invoice to be available at SUOnline.


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It was a bit of a false alarm, but everybody in the know realized that the invasion would have to begin in the next few weeks, before the start of the annual (and terrible) English Channel storms of late September.
With the expected fall of the aircraft carrier Britain, now all alone against the might of a loose coalition of Germany, Russia, Italy and Japan, these remain the darkest two weeks of the entire war for the cause of freedom and peace.
Dr Martin Henry Dawson had spent time, during his military service in WWI, hiking along the very short route the German tanks would take from Kent's sandy beaches to the southern suburbs of London.
He knew how it could be all over in a day or two's fighting.
Dawson was now too old to be effective at the fighting end of this war but his fighting spirit still hadn't left him.
Bu what on earth could a middle aged top notch medical researcher, albeit in the non-military area of chronic arthritis, actually do now to help the cause ?
As it happened, he had arrived back at his medical school the previous week to discover that the start of the new school year would see a shift out of resources for social medicine - helping the small and the weak 4Fs - to war medicine, to aiding the 1A military recruits.
It all was really just an excuse by those who had always opposed helping the needy of the small occupied countries of war torn Europe, to use 'war preparation' to also cut aid to America's needy.
Dawson was so worked up by both this homegrown hypocrisy and the evil efforts of Hitler abroad, that as often happens in cases of severe stress, he apparently made himself ill with an auto immune disease, then then usually fatal Myasthenia Gravis.
Dawson wasn't to realize this for a few more months. For now all he felt was very wan and very tired, which he put down to worry and lack of a good night's rest.
As it just happened, a German-born Jewish biochemist, Dr Karl Meyer, who Dawson was currently doing research with on the flesh eating powers of strep bacteria, had just proposed that Dawson help his efforts to synthesize an improved artificial version of a natural fungus mold extract.
Synthesizing this valuable medicine would be Meyer's contribution to the war effort.
Meyer wanted Dawson to grow industrial pilot plant levels (runs of 50 US gallons a time of liquid extract) of the fungus and by then test both the older natural and new artificial chemical to compare their anti-germ activity.
Dawson was very good at growing lab research levels of strep bacteria but regularly producing pilot plant levels of a common household mold inside a cleanliness-obsessed hospital was entire scientific and engineering universes away from his normal area of expertise !
But over the weekend, Dawson seemed to have read deeply into what little was known about this stuff, penicillin.
He saw that the natural penicillin already possessed an unique trio of characteristics that might allow him to finally conquer the Mount Everest of infectious diseases, SBE - subacute bacterial endocarditis, the disease that made Rheumatic Fever the leading killer of school age children.
Again, SBE was worlds away from his area of assigned expertise and in the protocol rigid confines of a world class hospital and medical school, filled with highly ambitious alpha male researchers, that really mattered.
Dawson had never shown any visible signs of interest in SBE, as a disease, to judge from the published records of him in journals and the minutes of medical conferences.
But the expected non-treatment of wartime SBEs, as a symbol of all that was wrong with the war against social medicine, their fate suddenly interested him muchly.
SBEs were seen as extremely costly in terms of hospital resources by those in the medical community long opposed to any form of social medicine and in a wartime resource crunch they were already arguing the SBEs should simply be abandoned to their dire fate.
It didn't help that, unlike Polio that mostly hit the white suburbs, Rheumatic Fever and SBE were mostly diseases of inner city kids - minorities, the poor, immigrants.
Dawson's brainwave was to put the biologically small (the penicillium) to work to save the lives of the human small down at the very bottom of the current human pecking order (the SBE patients).
His real target, beyond saving the lives of a handful of SBEs (all that was likely to come his way to treat) was people of good will and high morality, who were nevertheless sitting on their hands during the current moral crisis in Europe.
Traditional appeals to our moral obligation to help the weak and the small, the sort that had drawn in Dawson himself in WWI to help the suffering little Belgians, were clearly no longer working and hadn't worked since 1931 when the Japanese invaded Manchuria.
People of good will still sighed and worried as much as ever over the fate of the small suffering overseas.
But they did nothing - became mere bystanders, watching Axis bullies beat up the hapless.
Almost all felt hopeless to intervene, given the scant scientific understanding they had gained a half century earlier in public school.
Back then it seemed clear that Progress was directly aimed at evolving into the biggest, the strongest, might is right, bigger is better, God and Evolution is on the side of the biggest battalions etc.
One could wish it was different but the sad fate of the small is inevitable - it was natural.
But to Dawson, this "Appeal to Nature" fallacy was never more false.
Life is on the side of the small battalions
The current evidence, circa 1940, actually shown that the progress of both the Universe and the Earth was generally oriented, if oriented they be, to the small and the non-solid.
If he could but show the bystanders of good will that their outdated scientific understanding was totally wrong, that the small in biology and humanity still had useful roles to play, then perhaps the Bystanders' traditional feelings of empathy and charity could flow freely once again.
Of course, Dawson wanted to save all the lives he could, in the war zones and among the SBEs.
But I believe he was certain that his all-out efforts to save the SBEs, in a time of war priorities, would ultimately rouse such fierce opposition that there then would be a very public and heated debate over the true war aims of the Allies.
One set of war aims, Churchill's throughout the war, was to almost match the Nazis on a slippery moral slope ever downwards in order to 'quickly' defeat them, because this need for a speedy end justified using almost any means.
This approach focused on a military route to defeating Hitler, without altering in anyway the existing social system in the West.
The other - FDR's initially, though he later adopted Churchill's approach - was to defeat Hitler morally as well as militarily.
FDR and his team of advisors publicly proposed a new set of rules for humanity to live by (the Four Freedoms, the Atlantic Charter) that contrasted much more strongly with Hitler's ideology than did the existing practises of the western nations.
This second approach was exactly what Dawson was aiming at -- though he felt it had to move beyond high sounding rhetoric to real life practise.
For, despite FDR's soaring rhetoric of 1940-1941, the American medical elite's attitude to the SBEs in 1942-1945 was actually a slightly milder variant of Hitler's Aktion T4 : only here their death was to be by neglect, rather than death by needle or gas.
Thanks to Dawson, around the September 1943 very public life and death of young SBE Marie Barker of Chicago, the ordinary people of the western world finally had that serious conversation over the Allies' true war aims.....


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Yes, today I am writing about a Spanish cuisine kitchen practical class. On the menu were paella, tapas and churros.
Tapas are bite-sized appetizers which were initially served in tapas bars in Spain along with alcoholic drinks. The word 'Tapas' means 'to cover'. One of the references is that of the small tapas plates which were used to cover the drinks from fruit flies. This class consisted of less number of components for each dish. Therefore, we had a lot more time to think about the menu that was to be prepared. The idea was to make something innovative with the ingredients available, to reduce food waste and to create dishes without the boundary of any specific cuisine in mind.
This class consisted of less number of components for each dish. Therefore, we had a lot more time to think about the menu that was to be prepared. The idea was to make something innovative with the ingredients available, to reduce food waste and to create dishes without the boundary of any specific cuisine in mind.
Seafood paella: In this paella, we added calamari, prawns, mussels along with Chorizo, which is a Spanish pork sausage. We saved the squid ink for later use. We cooked the paella in a paella pan which was served after cooking in the same pan. It was meant for two people to share. There was a beautiful socarrat, which is the toasted crust at the bottom of the paella pan, while our chef checked the paella for all the components.
Mussels with squid ink in a saffron vinaigrette (amuse bouche): We saved the saffron stock which we used to flavour the paella and just have a look here at how fresh the leftovers are.
There were a lot of mussels left after cooking the paella so we thought of making another dish. This time we made an amuse bouche which is a small dish, usually consisting of a few bites, which is offered to diners at their arrival. This dish is smaller than an appetizer and it reflects the menu of the day.
So, we cooked the mussels in this saffron stock with shallots and lemon juice to add some acidity to the dish. We also used the reserved squid ink to heighten the flavour of the dish.
Sous vide salt cod and croquettes with tomato spheres: There were two techniques used to make this dish. Sous vide to cook the salt cod and spherification for making the tomato spheres. If there was one thing that could be done differently, I would use fresh fish instead of the salted and preserved codfish which we used here.
One of the key differences in the making of these croquettes was the ingredient used to make them. Usually, everyone is familiar with croquettes made with root vegetables like various potatoes or beets, but these were made with Mornay sauce which is a derivative sauce of Béchamel sauce.
Since the menu was based on Spanish cuisine, we used Manchego cheese instead of the traditional Gruyere cheese that is used to make Mornay sauce. As you can imagine the difficulty to shape a sauce into roundels and then crumb them thicker than you would so that they are deep-fried to the correct doneness. I will admit that it was a very tedious task.
I tasted Manchego cheese for the first time and it is as beautiful on the palate as it is to your eyes. For the tomato spheres, we strained freshly made tomato puree. What happens next of this strained tomato pulp? Do I waste it? Keep reading to find out more about this strained, delicious, thick tomato pulp which constituted the main part of the tomato.
We used the strained tomato juice to make spheres using a molecular gastronomy technique called spherification. Sodium alginate was added to the tomato juice and calcium chloride to the water bath in which we gradually added the tomato juice to form spheres. It was very difficult to make spheres which looked somewhat close to spheres and held their shape till we plated and presented our dishes.
Churros with dulce de leche and tomato granita: Pate a choux is one of the pastry preparations which is closest to my heart. I like the versatility of pate a choux because whether I bake it or deep-fry it, both lead to a very different appearance, taste and texture. I like to make it also because it is very similar to one of the traditional Indian dessert which I have been eating since I was a kid. The churros were coated with cinnamon sugar after being deep-fried. Here dulce de leche meaning 'sweet milk or sweet of milk' was served with the churros. I cooked the dulce de leche for 4 hours till it was caramel in colour and was not very thick.
Tomato granita with churros, really? I did not write that by mistake. In fact, that's another component which I made using the strained tomato pulp which was to be discarded while making the tomato spheres. I made a delicious tomato granita which helped to balance the overly sweet churros with dulce de leche. This class taught me so many new techniques along with the practice of reducing food waste to the maximum.


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kärlek och förändring i femtiotalets Paris : Françoise Sagan och Claire Etcherelli
The aim of this essay is to get deeper into the mysteries of love as they manifest themselves as most open: in literature. I have studied the two French writers Claire Etcherelli and Françoise Sagan, both writing about love in the 50's Paris. While Etcherelli's love takes place between factory workers, Sagan's scene is the upper middle class. My question is how love manifests itself in such similar but yet different surroundings: is love a class question?
Looking at the structure present in the novels and how the love story proceeds, I have discovered that although the conditions are fundamentally different, the structure is almost identical. This is itself an ideological fact. The structure shows that in both cases, love appears as a solution to an unsatisfactory situation. The man enters the novel when the heroine knows she needs change. With him, she then embarks on a project for change. This project implies for Sagan a journey towards nature and the dissolution of the Self, whereas for Etcherelli it means a greater involvement in the political struggle and the constitution of an identity. The journeys undertaken are therefore diametrically opposed, yet the way they are taken about, is the same. Both authors present a vision of love that is comparable to many of 20th century theorists. Whereas some theorists, e.g. Denis de Rougemont and Slavoj Žižek, claim that love essentially is a lie: it says one thing and wants another, it is actually the want of suffering or a power game, others such as Erich Fromm and Francesco Alberoni speak about it as a revolutionary movement towards social change and knowledge of the human soul. Both Sagan and Etcherelli support the latter view. Love is in their novels a metaphor for hope, it comes forth as a firm belief in the possibility of change, social as well as existential.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a $26 million loan to Astarta, Ukraine's leading agribusiness operator and sugar producer.
The loan will support the company's working capital needs.
The agribusiness sector, which is a key component to the growth of the Ukrainian economy, is gaining growing support from the EBRD. Since 2008, Astarta has been a leading client for EBRD. At a time when there is reduced funding available in the Ukraine, these proceeds will help to sustain Astarta's operations.
"Support by our long-term financial partner EBRD is strategically important for our company. During this difficult time in Ukraine, Astarta remains a reliable employer, social and business partner, taxpayer and exporter, which is much needed to support the country's economy," Viktor Ivanchyk, the CEO and founder of Astarta, said.
Since August of 2014, the bank has committed almost $9.4 billion to 331 projects in the Ukraine.


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The Oregon Lavender Association (OLA) was created to promote lavender as a viable, thriving agribusiness in Oregon and support our members in their efforts to grow successful lavender based businesses. Our membership consists of Pacific Northwest lavender farms, lavender nurseries, lavender growers and suppliers, lavender centric businesses, and those who simply love lavender and want to learn more. We are registered with the State of Oregon as a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization to further these goals and educate the public about lavender.
The Oregon Lavender Association hosts a Lavender Festival each year on the second weekend in July. The Lavender Festival is a successful, well attended and growing festival promoting lavender destinations in the Pacific Northwest. Attendance has increased dramatically each year since the first Lavender Festival in 2000, with visitors touring the countryside to visit lavender destinations and attend a lavender-based Artisan Fair in downtown Yamhill, Oregon.


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I realized that there could be people from all over the country looking for what to feed their animals after the recall, and thought it might be useful to you to have a few manufacturers' websites at hand. They all have store locators, so you can check to see if they are sold in your area. This is not a complete list of human grade foods by any means, but stores in your area that carry one or more of these products should be a good resource for you for quality foods. The Natura site is an especially good one for information – check out their comparisons page under "tools and resources"- there are great explanations of food ingredients and will help you read your own labels better.
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PTCL is transforming its network for providing 20 Mbit/s on average and 100 Mbit/s or even 1000 Mbit/s ultra-broadband services in high-value areas and for this it is introducing emerging broadband technologies like VDSL2, vectoring, SuperVector, G.fast and GPON for better user experiences. PTCL has also established a test labotory to check real-time quality of its services before rollouts.
"Huawei's solution makes it possible for us to build the most competitive network. By deploying Huawei FTTC/FTTH solutions, we are able to provide more users with higher bandwidth and better experience based on existing copper line resources and new fiber lines," said Saad Muzaffar Waraich, PTCL's Chief Technology and Information Officer (CTIO).
Huawei has used a network planning tool for PTCL to build high-performance networks targeting high-value areas and users. In brownfield areas, through VDSL2 technologies, PTCL increased average bandwidth to 20 Mbit/s within 1000 meters and 50 Mbit/s within 800 meters by enabling vectoring. For high-value areas, Huawei provided the G.fast solution, enabling PTCL to deliver bandwidth higher than 100 Mbit/s. In greenfield areas, PTCL is rolling out GPON-based FTTH networks.
"Through identification of high-value areas, the one-stop site solution, and the line expert system, we help PTCL make precise investments, build high-value networks, and improve user experience by playing a good partner role in PTCL's recent Network Transformational Projects," said Chi Linchun, Chief Executive Officer of Huawei Pakistan.
Huawei has also developed a line expert system, which can locate any faults rapidly and accurately for correction, providing users with better broadband experience.


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The Huayuan Hotel (Huayuan Binguan) is located in the center of Taiyuan, and enjoys good transportation links. This hotel is just a ten-minute walk from the railway station and about 10 kilometers from the airport.
The Taiyuan hotel's rooms are comfortably decorated and equipped with air conditioning, televisions, fridges and domestic direct dial phones. There are variously-sized meeting rooms and a functional business center awaiting to serve business guests.
For recreation, there is a dance hall, karaoke, sauna, gym and a billiards room. Guests can enjoy a wide variety of Chinese cuisines and Western foods served from the hotel's dining outlets. The hotel also features a bar and cafe.


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Bedal Alen is a Dunmer merchant found upstairs at the bookstore in the Great Bazaar of Mournhold. He considers himself a great scholar, but will not buy or sell anything.
As a House Hlaalu member, Bedal Alen is unhappy about the death of the Hlaalu King Athyn Llethan and his successor King Helseth. Like many people, he believes Helseth murdered the old King. Unlike most other people, though, he has taken actions against the new King. He is plotting the murder of King Helseth, as a Handwritten letter from him to his cousin Forven Berano reveals.
Evidence of ConspiracyEdit
Bedal is one of three characters involved in a plot to kill the King, as a Handwritten letter with his signature reveals. After revealing this to Tienius Delitian, the Royal Guard's Captain, the Nerevarine is tasked with his execution.
- Resist Fire: 75%
- Ancestor Guardian – Sanctuary: 50 pts for 60 sec on self
- Evidence of Conspiracy
"But... I don't understand. Is something the matter?"
- evidence of conspiracy "Oh, dear. I KNEW this would happen. Please, have mercy on me!"
- Denounce Bedal Alen, and execute him. "But... I can see I am doomed. then it is better to die here than rot in Helseth's dungeon. Do your worst, villain!"
- Warn Bedal Alen, and let him escape. "You have shown yourself an honorable [PC Race]. I thank you. I will absent myself from Mournhold immediately. And I would die before I'd betray your generosity to me. And now, if you'll excuse me, I believe an Almsivi Intervention will swiftly deliver me out of peril."
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2013, October 12 (1 PM, I picture), October 14 (11 AM, II picture), October 22 (4-5 PM)
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To angsty scribblers on a mission
You are not a poet because you have issues, or because you don't fit in society, or because you feel the need to write, or because you are angry or in love, or because you can't express yourself in any other way, or because you just "know better". Poetry is not a drainage to your petty sentiments or frustrations. Poetry is not a tool in a fight against the world. Poetry is love. It can be fueld by anger, but it is always love. Love knows no fear. Love is always gentle. To put it bluntly: this invertebrate knows poetry inside out. It fact, this invertebrate is writing a poem.
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Joyeux Noël 2016
Życzę sobie szczerości i łagodności w stosunku do siebie.
A Tobie, Przechodniu, życzę tego, czego życzysz innym.
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We were able to impart some stories about Senator Byrd's long-time advocacy of the mining industry and the safety and welfare of miners. The Byrd Archive contains extensive files on mining issues in West Virginia as well as national energy issues. Senator Byrd made four trips to China during his tenure as a Senate leader, including participation in the first U.S. Congressional delegation in 1975, during the Ford Administration, following up on the earlier diplomacy of President Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to begin the process of normalizing diplomatic relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. When Senator Byrd reported back to President Ford on that first trip, he made a prediction: "I will put my money on the long run development of China rather than the Soviet Union."
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At Hilton, dining options are designed with you in mind. Start the day with a hearty breakfast or nutritious light bite; savor innovative dishes prepared with only the freshest ingredients, or simply relax with a cup of coffee in the hotel lounge. From business brunches to pre-dinner drinks and everything in between, the options at Hilton are catered especially for you.
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The beach hotel is located in one of the best areas of Palma Nova on the rocky coast, near to the Matias and Palma Nova beaches. Most rooms have excellent views over the bay.
How far is the nearest beach?
The hotel is approx 20 m from the beach.
Distance from Airport
This hotel is approx 25 km from the airport.
The rooms all have sea views and views of the bay of Palma. They are equipped with a bath, shower, telephone, satellite TV, air conditioning, heating and terrace. Safes and fridges are available for hire.
Food & Drink
The air conditioned restaurant offers a continental breakfast. At dinner there is a buffet of meat, fish, cold cuts, salads and desserts. The restaurant also serves a selection of drinks including wines and beers.
As well as the restaurant there is a bar and lounge selling beverages, a pool side bar selling beverages, barbecue, snacks, ice creams and cocktails and a cocktail bar.
Sports & Entertainment
The hotel provides outdoor pools for adults and children. The pools are linked by a bridge. Guests may enjoy the indoor pool in winter. Furthermore, guests may take advantage of the hot tub, sauna and Turkish bath. The sun terrace offers excellent views over the bay. Refreshments are served at the poolside snack bar. Guests can also play a game of pool/snooker or darts. Entertainment programmes are arranged for adults.
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May 4, 2016 - House Majority Leader Jon Burns (R-Newington), State Representative Bill Hitchens (R-Rincon), and State Senator Jack Hill (R-Reidsville) have announced that the Effingham County Industrial Development Authority was awarded $400,000 in Equity Grant funding from the OneGeorgia Authority to provide water infrastructure to Savannah Cold Storage/PortFresh Logistics.
"We are thrilled to receive these grant funds to further enhance our economic development opportunities in Effingham County," said Leader Burns. "In addition to creating many new jobs for our citizens over the course of its operation, this state-of-the-art facility will be unique to our region, while also increasing efficiency in refrigerated shipments to the Port of Savannah, giving our county a more competitive advantage within this growing industry."
The Effingham County Industrial Development Authority was awarded $400,000 in funding through the OneGeorgia Authority Equity Grant program to provide water infrastructure to Savannah Cold Storage/PortFresh Logistics. This 100,000 square foot repacking and cold storage facility will support the Georgia Ports Authority's initiative to increase refrigerated perishable shipments to the Port of Savannah. The project will create 40 new jobs when it opens in September 2016, and will increase to more than 75 new full time jobs by its fourth year of operation. The Effingham County Development Authority has invested $4,508,657 to date, with the project is generating $13,971,000 in private investment, and a total project cost of $18,880,152.
The OneGeorgia Authority serves as a financial partner to help rural communities maintain quality of life advantages while also creating sustainable and diversified economies. The Equity Fund provides financial assistance that includes grants, loans and any other forms of assistance to finance activities that will aid applicants in promoting the health, welfare, safety, and economic security of the citizens through the development and retention of employment opportunities. Qualifying applicants include local governments and their authorities, joint or multi-county development authorities, lending institutions, and airport authorities.
Representative Bill Hitchens represents the citizens of District 161, which includes portions of Chatham and Effingham counties.
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2016: Bookbinding techniques learned last year
I spent a term in a London college and these are some of the methods I learned. It was a very good course and I learned how to do case binding, measuring, how to make your own papers and how to put the whole thing together.
Some of the methods I learned :
Supported Sewing: Supported sewing is the easiest method whereby you use tapes which you sew around.
- Start with four pieces of paper larger by a few cm than the text block, have two contrasting colours. Use Canson type paper – not too thick, maybe 120 gsm. Or make your own using pasted paper or marbled paper. I make my own using printmaking inks and stencils.
- Shave the longest edge off of each of these end papers using a scalpel and a sheet of glass to work on, hold the knife steadily and work from the middle of the scalpel blade not the end. This method will result in a clean overlap when you glue them onto the textblock
- Glue 5mm of the first end paper onto the text block so that the two lay side to side not on top of each other as is done with other methods, then glue on the contrasting sheet and slightly overlap this onto the sheet below
- Once dry score the edge and using a metal ruler and bone folder fold over the two end papers cleanly.
- The end papers are then wrapped around the section and trimmed to the page size.
- PT guillotined each section to avoid using a plough later on – what a palaver! and how we are supposed to do that with twelve students in the class – still it makes sense if you work from home as you can trim the pages with a sharp knife and metal ruler
Casing in the bookblocks: Cut the grey card to size with 5mm all round, check that is enough for the foredge. The grey card is of good quality and not hobby card. Ours is 2mm but you can also use 3mm.
Lay one side of your cut grey card on the book cloth – this is a thick coloured cloth used for spines and book corners.
Cut a piece of thick paper for the spine the same width as the spine. Glue down the first grey card and rub down on the back.Glue the second card and lay it on top of the book block on top of the end paper.
Place the spine paper along the edge of the spine, then fold the bookcloth over the bookbloth carefully as it can get moved too easily. Make sure the second card is correctly placed and in line. This is the difficult bit! Glue the spine in the middle of the spine space.
Remove the book block, turn in the top and bottom and the corners, do the corners first, library corners, make sure you cut the surrounding book cloth evenly. Then glue the end papers and attach one cover, do the same for the second, put under weights. Don't use wet glue, my glue was to wet and the end papers stick,
Below are the two case bound books made so far both with hand printed covers which used paper stencils, string and water based printing inks.
Attaching corners and book cloth
The corners are easy once you know how – you score a line across a small triangle, cut from the large triangle you use for cutting the book cloth corners. Then you match the paper to these scoring marks and voila! it works perfectly.We had to cut the book cloth to the correct size : one quarter of the width of the card cover and the same for the back and the spine. Make sure the book cloth has the grain long.
Corners: here are a few ways to attach corners:
Adding the boards and spine to the 8 section textblock
Measure the height of the textblock and add 8 mm : 4mm for each top and bottom, cut the board, for the width lay the block on the board and mark the front edge, cut a line there.
The textblock with end papers on the left and the spine and right side card cover cut ready to paste on the covers.
Use a guillotine to make two straight edges to work from with your measuremens.ut two boards, you will now have two board covers: 4mm top and bottom and 3 mm at the front edge, once the board is placed in slightly from the spine, about 2 to 3 mm. Then cut the board for the spine, the measurement for this spine piece of card is the width of the spine + one card width. Mine was 1.5cm
Sewing multi section folios.
Last week we prepared the sections : 8 of them, for our multi section bookwork, this week we sewed the pages using straight and curved needles and using link stitches to join the sections to each other.
In the top image the sewing was done with knots on the outside; in the bottom image the glued spine is drying under a weight, this needs to be hammered once dry to flatten the wedge.
Single Section Bookwork: Applying the millboard covers, the end papers and the pasted paper covers
This week we practised covering mill board with our pasted papers to make sure the corners were neat. We made sure the paste paper was the right way round so that it matched the grain of the board and the paper. We first covered the board, folding in the head and tail first, pinching in the corners and then the side/front piece.
We bone folded the cover using a piece of paper between. Then we glued the end papers. We used PVA and Dextrin mix, 50 to 50. We then pinched the books in the nipping press on a gentle press – for 30 secs.
Preparing the next book: a multi section book
We cut and folded 4 pieces of A2 paper and cut to the bolt, next week we will be sewing them, we have 8 sections in all.
Glueing on the mill board and the book cloth
To strengthen the spine of our single section book/textblock we glued on some shiny material/paper called, we believe 'calico', but I'm not sure about that. We used Dextrin powder diluted in water for the glue, available from Hewitt's.
We used three different types of glue this week:
- Dextrin to glue the calico onto the spine
- PVA to glue the boards to the waste end paper
- PVA and dextrin mix to glue on the book cloth to the spine
To glue the calico strip to the spine, measure it just 3 mm short of the height of the text block, mark the centre of the piece of calico, don't use too much glue, keep it spare. Attach the calico the the spine both sides and bone fold it down.
Then glue the boards to the waste paper on the textblock. Mark where you want the board to go on both sides – that is, in from the spine 5mm – mark this line with a pencil.
Place a piece of waste paper between the book waste paper and the first end paper, using little glue, cover the board and attach to the paper, smooth down repeat for the other board, place under boards and into the press for 30 secs.
Attaching the book cloth to the spine. I bought some yellow, paper backed book cloth and some red non backed book cloth. Cut a strip on the grain – downwards – longer by about 15mm at each end to turn in. The strip should be about a fifth of the width of the textblock. PVA and Dextrin mix : 70 per cent PVA to 30 per cent dextrin mix, runny like single cream, apply liberally to the book cloth, smoth down the spine with a bone folder to mark the gap and then turn in carefully; add more glue if necessary, place block between boards and nip for 30 secs. Leave to dry under boards and a weight for ten minutes.
- First image: the completed textblock with boards attached and bookcloth
- Second image: the calico attached to the spine
- Next, the spine of the textblock
- Glues and calico
- textblock showing the bare spine – no board on the spine
- Last image – my yellow book cloth
I used red and yellow book cloth for both of my books.
Making a single section text block and stab binding
- Take five sheets of paper of the right size. Make sure the grain runs downwards, then take two sheets of coloured paper not too heavy (80gsm) for the end papers. Fold in half.
- Arrange the four sheets of plain paper in the middle, place the two coloured sheets on the outside and the last plain sheet on the final outside – this is the waste piece for glueing.
- Measure five holes using dividers. Sew, starting in the middle and finishing in the middle.
- Place the text block in the press for a few minutes to flatten
- Take two pieces of mill board the same size as the text block, grain downwards.
- Cut two pieces of white paper the same size as the mill board and grain down, glue these sheets on the mill board
- Smooth evenly and place the cards, paper sides together in the press, then leave to dry.
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Prune wall-trained plants after flowering by cutting back flowered shoots to within two to four buds of the permanent framework.
Trim any shoots facing out from the wall or towards the wall.
Abeliophyllum is usually pest and disease-free, but you may need to protect the flowers from late frosts.
Daphne mezereum is also sweetly scented and a native of Britain. Flowers are purple-red, followed by poisonous red berries, There is also a white form D. mezereum alba.
Upright in habit, this daphne grows 4ft tall and thrives in a well-drained alkaline soil. It's best to avoid pruning, although the occasional wayward shoot can be removed.
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Paul Bettany celebrated his six-pack being plastered on billboards across Hollywood at the US premiere of his new thriller Legion.
The actor, whose buff torso is on display for all to admire on the movie's poster, joined castmates Kate Walsh and Dennis Quaid for the rain-soaked screening in Los Angeles.
Director Scott Stewart said he wasn't sure if Paul had known that pictures of his fit physique would dominate poster-boards in the city, laughing: "I don't think he did but they seem to be going down well."
He went on: "If you've got that, you might as well show it off. Man he worked out!
"He's even more buffed and bigger now. He's addicted to the gym, it's disgusting, and it's really very shallow!"
Convincing Paul to play the lead role had been much simpler than the filmmaker anticipated.
He said: "I flew to New York and I met with him and I had this whole thing prepared, that yes its a horror action movie, yes its a throw back to the 70s but it also has all these other greater artistic aspirations. He just said 'do I get to shoot things?' I said 'yes' and he went 'great I'll do it!'"


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There's a depressing sameness to the middlebrow horror that's being released into the multiplexes these days. Without gainsaying their various qualities, there's not a lot of difference between the basic elements of, say, The Possession and The Devil Inside and Mama and Sinister and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and The Woman in Black. All of them represent a kind of zeitgeist, in which the signature horror of the times is the family unit under threat. This is the horror movie at its most conservative, if not at its most formulaic. This is doubly true of 2013's The Conjuring (directed by James Wan), which gathers up familiar elements from the genre toybox and assembles yet another portrait of the nuclear family under siege. If you're looking for something new, or even a fresh wrinkle on something old, you will look for it in vain in this movie.
The story follows the fortunes of two families: the Perrons, who have just moved into a house in rural Rhode Island, and the Warrens, a husband and wife team of paranormal researchers/ghost hunters. The Perrons discover in pretty short order that their house is profoundly haunted: their youngest of five daughters finds a new invisible friend, while some other force plays meaner and meaner tricks on the other members of the family. Every night at 3:07, all the clocks in the house stop. The family dog won't enter the house, and on the second day there, the dog is found dead outside. The Warrens, by contrast, have settled into a life as paranormal experts. They keep a museum of occult and cursed items in their house. But things are not hunky dory. Lorraine Warren carries with her the trauma of their last investigation, an exorcism. Ed Warren thinks he can handle investigations on his own, much to her annoyance. They have a daughter whom they leave in the care of the child's grandmother when they go out on an investigation. Eventually, the Perrons and the Warrens cross paths when Carolyn Perron seeks them out for help. Carolyn, it seems, is the particular focus of the forces in her house. The most malevolent of these forces is Bathsheba Sherman, a purported witch who possesses mothers and kills their children. The Perrons have five daughters.
The Conjuring is a fairly standard contemporary horror film, shot in a desaturated, autumnal palette, emphasizing its period (it's set in 1971) and replete with ghosts wandering into the frame at stock beats. The elements it brings to bear are all familiar: the paranormal investigators, the cursed objects (particularly beat up antique toys), demonic possession. This is another "one from column A" film. It shares its imagery with The Woman in Black (sinister toys), Mama (unseen entities playing with children), Sinister (the hanging tree), and any number of haunted house movies from The Haunting of Hill House to The Legend of Hell House to Poltergeist. You've seen this movie before, and often better. But that's the nature of genre and I really shouldn't be complaining about it. This is executed with a fair degree of professionalism, though it lacks in any kind of signature style.
Certainly, its ghosts are unimaginative. This is a movie that could have used a more competent conceptual designer, because its ghosts are nothing special: mostly human beings in pale make-up and eyes darkened with kohl. I've mentioned before that there's a crisis in horror movies surrounding the design of creatures. It's like they're not even trying anymore. There's only one scene in The Conjuring that made me sit up and take notice of its cleverness, in which a windstorm frees a sheet from a clothesline and it winds up wrapped around an unseen figure. As images go, this is witty: something new with a ghost and a sheet, that hoary old cliche. Other horror archetypes, by contrast, get short shrift. If you want a demonic witch, well, you'll be disappointed in the one in this film. I know that nobody likes the film but me (apparently), but if you want an example of truly frightening witches, take a look at Jaume Balaguero's Darkness. This film gives us Lili Taylor with a pair of contact lenses. Mind you, I like Lili Taylor and she's committed to the part, but director James Wan does her no favors. The best I can say about The Conjuring is that it has good actors in it. Both Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga have been making side careers in horror movies and they're both usually better than the material deserves. That's true here, as they invest the Warrens with a kind of gravity that sells them as credible supernatural paladins. That the film gives them nothing but variants of, "I don't want you to get hurt this time," and "God brought us together for a reason," as character development is almost criminal. This is another in a long line of bourgeois horror film that reifies the sanctity of the nuclear family, too, which is annoying if inevitable. It makes me appreciate Sinister and its instinct for the jugular even more than I did while I was watching it.
The thing that really galls me about this movie, though, is the sheer credulity of it. This is "based on a true story," as it were, and it's true that the Warrens and the Perrons are real people and the Warrens did investigate the Perrons's haunting in 1971. But here's where I have, shall we say, a philosophical difference with this movie. This is all presented by the movie as fact. This movie believes in what it's putting on screen and the end title features a real quote from Ed Warren that asserts as fact that "The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges on which we decide to follow." The movie even tries to deflect any kind of skepticism of the Warrens when, in talking to a college auditorium, they say, "We've been called ghost hunters. Paranormal researchers. Wackos." Self-deprecation as credibility. At its core, The Conjuring is religious propaganda, in the best tradition of The Exorcist. For me, this is a serious problem. It's why I don't generally like movies built around demonic possession. There's a further problem with this, though. The Warrens themselves, in real life, aren't credible.
Now, let me head this off at the pass: I can respond to supernatural horror as a fantasy, as dream language, as a manifestation of the collective unconscious, as a collection of archetypes acting as signposts to a universal massmind. As fiction, in other words. As a movie. This movie, by way of contrast, passes itself off as a true story, featuring representations of real people. As such, I think it becomes fair game for skepticism. The history of the Warrens is not above reproach. Their most famous case was the Amityville haunting, which has been thoroughly debunked in spite of what you may believe from the Hollywood versions, or from the protestations of the Warrens themselves. Their second most famous case, filmed as The Haunting in Connecticut a couple of years ago, has also been debunked. The movie's self-deprecation, when they call themselves wackos and kooks, takes on a different tone in light of the history of the people involved. If you want to suspend your disbelief for the sake of the movie, well, that's your business, I guess, and I can't argue against that. For myself, though, I find it hard to disengage my reaction to bullshit when I see it.


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Red Lentil Marinara Sauce
It's the most-asked question for vegetarians: "How do you get enough protein?"
The fact is, it's easy to get enough protein in your diet – human protein requirements are not as crazy-complicated as many folks believe.
That said, I've come to the recent realization that, for me, I need more. It helps me feel satisfied; it keeps me full for longer. And thus, I eat less overall. Which, for a gal who's always fought her weight, is a pretty big deal.
So I'm starting a New Thing. Capitalized – it's that huge of a deal to me. I'm going to pack protein into my meals – within reason, of course. I'm going to throw chia seeds, eggs, yogurt, legumes, nut butters, and more into to all kinds of food and drink nooks and crannies that I never before considered. And I'm going to see what happens.
One of the first recipes to come out of this New Thing? This here protein-packed Red Lentil Marinara Sauce.
Thanks to these fine little beauties, red lentils, this lovely marinara packs more than 8 grams of protein into every serving.
I would have never before thought to look at sauce as a protein source, but I'm so glad I went there.
Red lentils are a great protein-rich addition to marinara or other tomato-based pasta sauces because, unlike some other lentils, they cook down, get mushy, and sort of become one with whatever else you're cooking them with.
Yes – you can see some in there. But the taste and the texture? Pure mouth-watering marinara goodness.
Red Lentil Marinara Sauce starts with onions, green peppers (strange, I know, but trust me), and carrots. Sometimes I'll add some bonus veggies like mushrooms or shredded zucchini. And then a big can of fire-roasted tomatoes, red lentils, veggie broth, a nice amount of garlic, spices, and some other good stuff.
Oh, and honey. Trust me on that, too – it helps to balance the acidity of the tomatoes. (To make this recipe vegan, just sub an equal amount of vegan granulated sugar).
We love this sauce served over whole-wheat spaghetti or rotini, but really, the possibilities are endless. I can't wait to try it on some zucchini pasta, ooh or a nice gluten-free brown rice pasta, and it'll make a perfect dip for breadsticks. I think it would be incredible in lasagna, or spooned over stuffed shells.
This sauce freezes wonderfully, too. Just scoop it in a freezer bag, label and date, and then pull it out when you need it.
Protein-o-rama. It's happening.
Red Lentil Marinara Sauce
With a hefty dose of protein in every single serving, this hearty, flavorful marinara makes just about anything a meal. Perfect for making ahead and freezing, too!
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 large onion, diced
- 1 green bell pepper, seeded and diced
- 2 medium carrots, peeled and diced (about 1 cup)
- 6 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 (28-ounce) can whole fire-roasted tomatoes (plain whole tomatoes will work fine too)
- 1 (6-ounce) can tomato paste
- 2 cups low-sodium vegetable broth
- 1/2 cup red wine (optional)
- 1 cup red lentils
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/2 cup minced fresh parsley
- Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onions, green peppers, and carrots, and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper. Cook, stirring, for one more minute.
- Add the tomatoes, tomato paste, vegetable broth, wine, lentils, and honey. Stir to incorporate. Heat until the mixture comes to a boil, then reduce the heat to medium-low. Simmer sauce for about 25 minutes or until the lentils are tender.
- Stir in parsley. Taste and add additional salt and pepper if desired. Serve as desired.
- Keeps refrigerated in an airtight container for 3-4 days, or freeze for up to 3 months.