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Rabbit 5 The RARE Issue (September 2012)
Channelling Paul Celan
Jean Daive: Under the Dome (2009)
I've just finished reading a curious little book called Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan, by a Belgian poet called Jean Daive. Daive got to know Celan in the last days of his life, when he was separated from his wife Gisèle and living at a loose end in Paris, trying to avoid yet another incarceration in the mental hospital.
One irritating aspect of Daive's book – part of a larger autobiographical / essayistic project called La Condition d'infini [Condition of the infinite] – is the lack of exact information it actually gives us about Celan. Daive was in his twenties at the time, and rather self-obsessed (it was, after all, the late 1960s – the days of rage). He was clearly flattered by the older poet's attentions, but has a tendency to concentrate his narrative on the matters that interest him most: Celan's proposal to translate his first book Décimale blanche [White Decimal] into German, for instance.
At times one begins to question whether Daive really ever met Celan at all. The Celan in his pages is always going on about Kafka, Rilke, Tsvetayeva, like a walking signifier of the idea "Poet." This brief exchange after Daive has been to visit him in the hospital, for instance:
When I leave Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois that I too experience as a prison house, a feeling of freedom washes over me. Between the road and the hospital, a peaceful space, a meadow slopes towards an absence of walls. When I point this out to him:
– No more need for walls, no more need for barbed wire as in the concentration camps. The incarceration is chemical. The prisoner is chemical: he cannot take two steps on his own. But he can look at the outside. He can talk, right…. [sic. – for "write"?] (Daive, 24)
I suppose the suspicion is unjustified. Celan did, after all, end up translating that book of Daive's: so much is on the historical record. They must have walked and talked together. Nor is it really Daive's fault that our obsession with Paul Celan has grown so great that this one section of a larger work has been translated into English independently of the rest, and is now being presented solely as a contribution to Celan studies.
It doesn't help that the entire book is composed of short, disjointed aphorisms and paragraphs, divorced from context or chronology, giving the sense of a great many conversations, a great many walks, but not really committing itself to how many, or exactly when they took place.
One can't really ignore Daive's book, then, but nor can one entirely trust it. Too much of it seems composed long after the fact – fudged up from the known facts and experiences of Celan's life. This account of a translation session, for example:
Paul Celan signals refusal, distance, perhaps rejection. He remains deliberately absent. I sit at the table; he, at a slant, both hands on the table top. His lips move. Then his right hand and thumb hold his left wrist. Time passes. He counts the time. His lips move, I gather that Paul Celan is taking his pulse and counting. Episode of a translation.
– For it is said, thou shalt translate on the seventh day.
– In which passage of the Bible is this written?
– A passage in my head.
– Ah.
– The seventh day is the day of language in pure suspense.
– And what does language do during the six preceding days?
– It gives in to duplication.
– You mean speaking doubles the world?
– Speaking doubles the world ... yes. (Daive, 114–15)
I'd like to believe all this, but could anyone remember so much dialogue, so precisely, after a gap of twenty-five years? (Sous la coupole [Under the Dome] first appeared in 1996). Perhaps he kept a journal.
I never met Paul Celan. I was seven years old when he committed suicide by drowning himself in the Seine in 1970. Nor did I really start to notice him as a poet till I'd spent years poring over Kafka and Rilke – my favourites among the modern German writers.
It was, in fact, on or about the 27th of July, 1990, that I first started to read Paul Celan more attentively (beyond the obvious "Death Fugue"). How can I be so precise? Well, that is one of the benefits of dating your books as you buy them – something Celan himself knew very well: he was quite obsessive about noting the place and time of every draft of every one of his poems. So I can feel fairly sure that I was living in Edinburgh at the time, and that buying a copy of Michael Hamburger's translation of Celan's Selected Poems must have constituted some kind of victory lap on the completion of my Doctoral thesis on Latin-American literature …
I loved the poems immediately. Or, rather, I loved what I could make out of them through the medium of Hamburger's version, which still seems to me one of the musical and deft attempts at a Celan in English. It didn't hurt that Hamburger is himself a poet, and had served a long apprenticeship on many other German authors before committing himself to this work.
It's strange. As I leaf through the book now, I find some little inserted pages of extra poems. I must have taken one of the later editions of Hamburger's work out of the library and copied them. I have no memory at all of having done so, but perhaps that's because my growing Celan obsession did not stand still at Hamburger. No, not at all.
The next exhibit on my shelves is the original 1983 five-volume standard edition of Celan's complete works in German (in a paperback reprint). It was, I see, bought by me in Vienna on the 24th of August 1990. And what was I doing there? I was, in fact, on my honeymoon. My PhD thesis was being read back in the UK, but I'd just got married to a half-English, half-Belgian girl I'd met at Edinburgh University.
You'd think that we'd have had better things to do than hunt all over Vienna for a copy of Paul Celan – I still remember climbing off a bus tour of the city halfway through and cutting across town to the bookshop where we'd ordered it the day before. But it seemed very important at the time. It was nice to leaf through the first three volumes, which gave all his published works in poetry and prose. What really surprised and intrigued me, though, were the last two volumes, devoted (respectively) to dual-text versions of all his translations from French (volume 4: 885 pages), and other languages (volume 5: 665 pages).
The languages on display included English, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Russian. There were even a few translations from Hebrew. It wasn't so much his linguistic erudition that struck me, though, as the extent of his commitment to the craft of translation. Looking through his versions of Rimbaud's "Bateau ivre" or Marianne Moore's "Poetry," one had the sense of a poet whose technical command of both languages was almost unbounded. Give him the task of creating a facsimile of a pre-existing poem, whether it be by Guillaume Apollinaire, Osip Mandelstam or Emily Dickinson, and you could be sure of an air-tight, elegant, almost ego-less job.
Ten years went by. My wife returned home to Belgium from New Zealand. Shortly afterwards, we got divorced. I bought a copy of John Felstiner's 1995 biography Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew on (I see) 20th October 2000.
By then, though, I'd started to lose my awe at the mere idea of the man. The immense tragedy of being Paul Celan, the vehicle of all that Holocaust mystique, the living refutation of Theodor Adorno's famous aphorism at the impossibility (or is it immorality?) of writing lyric poetry after Auschwitz, began to shade off into the lineaments of an actual human being.
One help in that process was reading Israel Chalfen's charming 1979 book Paul Celan: A Biography of His Youth. The examples Chalfen gives of early, Heine-esque lyrics by a young Romanian dreamer called Paul Antschel ("Celan," his pseudonym, came later, after the war) allowed me to glimpse the shadow of a quite different writer: a rather predictable lyricist in the classic German mode, with a bent towards nostalgia.
"Paul Celan's" later tormented, tortured experiments in syntax seem to have been not so much inspired by his experiences as a workcamp inmate on the Eastern front, as forced on him by his desire to avoid the slickness of official German: a monster language easily adaptable to monstrous realities. But it might not have been so at all. His life could have been so very different.
It sounds absurdly frivolous, but I began to wonder what sorts of people he'd really have liked to have spent time with, had things panned out differently. I thought of that Nic Roeg film Insignificance, where Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Senator McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio all meet in a New York hotel in 1954. I thought of Ken Russell's Lisztomania, with the hapless Liszt being parachuted into Germany to wow his adoring fans.
The result was a sequence of poems called The Britney Suite, written in late 2000. You have to remember how golden Britney Spears looked then, having just released her second album, with that memorable video of the pyramids of Mars splitting open to reveal a red cat-suited Britney bopping to "Oops, I did it again …"
Her published utterances, too, were so fascinatingly empty, so full of Zen inscrutability: "Watching TV … or just staring at the wall is fun," or "You can be a good person and still be sexy" (Katz, 6-7). Anyway, all of a sudden it seemed like a brilliant idea to bring the two of them, Britney and Paul, together – not physically, as in the play Nic Roeg based his film on, but in the virtual space of a random modern city.
I'd already worked on a couple of collaborations with film-maker and photographer Gabriel White, so we came up with the idea of a screenplay which would combine translations from Paul Celan's bleak last book of poems Schneepart [Snow part], published posthumously in 1971, with similarly disturbing apparitions from popular culture.
Strangely enough – or not so strangely, in retrospect – our applications for funding for this opus were ignored, so instead I put out the poems as a tiny, limited-edition (and so now exceedingly rare) chapbook, with the five Celan translations I'd completed for the project being published separately in the magazine Percutio in 2006.
The first intimation I got that anyone else could be taking an interest in my own private games with Paul Celan – besides my friend Gabriel, that is – came when I decided to post the whole sequence online, on my blog The Imaginary Museum, in March 2007.
I included a short presentation I'd done as an introduction to the poems at a conference called "The Poetics of Exile" in July 2003. The paper, called "Meeting Paul Celan," elicited the following comment:
Pierre Joris said...
Asked to contribute to an anthology called "My poem is my knife," Celan wrote back to the editor suggesting that for him, Celan, the poem "was a handshake" — i.e. an encounter. Which buttresses your sense of the importance of the encounter in Celan's work.
Maybe I have spent too much time these last 40 years thinking about Celan & translating his work, & maybe Celan's work has been too essential for my own writing for me to have a detached view on this, but the association of PC with Britney Spears makes me shudder ...
I have to say that it still gives me a bit of a shock to think of Pierre Joris, doyen of Celan scholars, bothering to leave a comment on a humble little blog run by some amateur Celanien in New Zealand. Nothing if not opinionated, though. I promptly replied in my best toplofty manner:
Jack Ross said...
I guess, in a way, that was the point I was trying to make. What ontological manoeuvrings could ever reconcile the universe of Celan with that of Britney Spears?
It would be a completely idle question if it didn't happen to be the universe I find myself living in every time I turn on the television or the computer ... I know it seems almost blasphemous to those who revere the memory of Celan – an attitude I sympathise with very much – but, as a writer, I guess I also have a duty to report the world I see around me. If it weren't jarring, it wouldn't make its point.
Shades of Jean Daive! The impudence of situating myself side by side with Celan as fellow "writers" … The really astonishing thing about it all, though, was the way at least one other reader came to my defence:
Kake said...
This is interesting. I don't know anything about German or Paul Celan, but these versions obviously breathe without life-support and "Meeting Paul Celan" is a really useful introduction to them.
If Celan's poetry articulates linguistic exile, then translation could be its ideal manifestation. Relying on a non-existent equivalence, translation tends to generate its own incidental 'acts of non-communication'. Translating Celan must be like walking on a tightrope when you are constantly swatting the wire with your own balancing pole. Example: the word 'both-handed' only works because it sounds incompletely rendered into English. 'Ambidextrous' would have set completely the wrong tone and (I imagine) would have been incorrect anyway because some level of dissonance/ambiguity is the point.
I particularly like the choice of 'Manukau' for 'Moldau' – the geographical swap simultaneously directs and disorients the reader, and draws attention to the translation as an alteration.
Only just noticed the Star of David around Britney's neck in the keith partridge y yo post.
And there the matter rested. For a while, at any rate.
I recently (September 3, 2011) put up another post on my blog called "Collecting Paul Celan." It was an attempt to give a kind of annotated reading list for all the material about the poet I'd found useful to date. A good many of the books I included were bought by me in Melbourne when I was there last year giving yet another Celan paper ("The Twenty-Year Masterclass: Paul Celan's Correspondence with Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, 1951-1970") at yet another conference. This one, held at Monash University from 11-12 July, was called Literature and Translation.
There are (for example) at least three books of Celan's letters now available in English (his correspondences with, respectively, the Nobel-prize-winning Holocaust poet Nelly Sachs; Ingeborg Bachmann, his lover in the 1940s in Vienna, before he moved to France; and Ilana Shmueli, a woman he knew as a child in Romania before the war, then met again in Israel in the 1960s.
Five of his eight books of poems have now been translated in their entirety: one of them, Fadensonnen (1968) in two separate versions. There are also volumes of selections from Celan by John Felstiner and Pierre Joris as well as Michael Hamburger. There's even a translation of some early prose poems he wrote in Romanian in the late 1940s (perhaps in an attempt to sidestep German as his only possible literary language).
For more information, you can look at the post yourselves (details are included in "Works cited" at the end of this essay). In any case, I included a lot of pictures of the various books, together with a few editorial remarks. What was my surprise, then, to receive the following comment:
Pierre Joris said...
looking forward to hear what you have to say about the big MERIDIAN book (took me 7 years to translate it...). Glad to have your selection of Celaniana to send people to. & thanks for the good words re my translations. Wish you could be at the performance presentation "Paul Celan —Pierre Joris: Celebrating 45 Years of Translation & Reflection" I'll be giving at harvard in November, backed by Nicole Peyrafitte's audio-visual collages.
It's true that I had said that "Joris has a good claim to be considered the most subtle living interpreter of Celan's poetry and thought," when introducing his trilogy of versions of Celan's three last books, as well as praising his one-volume selected works, but it was nice to know that I had – at least to some extent – repaired my gaffe with regards to Britney Spears.
I haven't yet followed up with a post on Joris's book-length translation of the drafts for Celan's 1960 "Meridian" speech – the central statement on his aesthetics. One obstacle has been my lack of familiarity with nineteenth-century German dramatist Georg Büchner. Celan's speech was made on the occasion of receiving the prestigious Büchner prize, and he was careful to couch his ideas almost entirely in terms taken from Büchner's own work: his play Danton's Death, his short story "Lenz," and his somewhat better-known posthumous play Woyzeck (subject of a memorable film version by Werner Herzog, with Klaus Kinski playing the eponymous soldier-murderer).
More to the point, though, I have just completed a somewhat larger project: a complete translation of all the 90-odd poems included in the French edition of Celan's letters to his wife – a kind of anthology of his work from first to last, but embellished by the vocabulary notes and (on occasion) complete literal French versions he made for her benefit. They'll be appearing later this year, in a limited edition from Pania Press, together with a number of pictures by artist Emma Smith, and a preface by art historian Bronwyn Lloyd.
It's taken me more than two years to put this set of translations together, and it seems to me at the moment the furthest extent of my involvement with any foreign-language poet. The strangest thing about it, though, is that having finished work on these versions, I still don't feel much closer to a real knowledge of Paul Celan – the man or his poems.
The more books I read about him, the more time I spend on reading his work, the farther he seems to recede from me. I guess, in a sense, that's why I enjoyed Jean Daive's book so much. Daive (of course) has an incomparably better claim than I do to talk to us about his friend. But one can see in the fragmentary nature of his text how little all those snippets of conversation, those remembered meetings really added up to in the end:
There is no color in Paul's books (he also never wears colors). But there are all the nuances of white, black, gray.
– Pigeon gray – Paris gray, he says. [p.24]
What is that supposed to mean? Snow, whiteness, black marks on the snow, these are all potent images in Celan's work (associated, we're told, with his mother's death in a Nazi concentration camp in the Ukraine). The colour red does come up quite often, though:
The trace
you witness here
was hammered in
redder than red
for instance, in the poem beginning "Dunstbänder-, Spruchbänder-Aufstand" [Banners of fog, of stencil, rise] from Atemwende [Breathturn] (Weidemann, 212) [my translation]. Or:
– I was in a hotel room in London when I saw God under my door: a ray, a streak of light. (Daive, 69)
Celan refers quite frequently to this event elsewhere. So did he actually repeat it to Daive, or did the latter simply add it into the mix from his own later reading? Who can know?
I suppose the point of these twenty years of reading Paul Celan, these ten years of struggling to interpret and translate his texts, is hard to sum up in a phrase. There are things about him which still puzzle and perturb me – reaches of experience almost unimaginable to someone as sheltered as me: as most of us, in fact. But I don't find his thought, his fractured diction, particularly alienating. He seems, on the contrary, to speak to me directly.
I acknowledge how allusive he is – how necessary annotations and marginal comments can be to a deeper understanding of his work. The same is true of most poets, after all. There's a tone, an ambience which surrounds him, though – what Jorge Luis Borges (speaking of aesthetics in general) called "this imminence of a revelation that does not occur" (Borges, 223).
I don't how else to explain it than by trying to show it to you in action: in that early, much-translated poem "Matiére de Bretagne" [Matter of Britain], where the props of the Tristan story (the blood-red sail, the two Iseults) are deployed to produce an almost literal sense of haunting: the ghost of a life that might have been, of a world that might not have split from top to bottom, of a man who might not have had to drown in the icy waves of the Seine:
Gorselight, yellow, slopes
against the skyThorn
disinfects your woundsRing
out, it's eveningNothing
crosses the sea to pray
The bloodred sheet sets sail for you
Arid, dried-out, bed
behind youScar-
embossedmilky inlets
in the vaseDate
stones underneath, furred blue
tufts of forgetfulness
your memory
(Do you know me
hands? I went
by the forked route you showed
me, my mouth spat pebbles, I walked
through snowdrifts, shadow – do you know me?)
Hands, the thorn-
burnt wound rings out
Hands, nothing, the sea
Hands, in the gorse-light
the bloody sheet
sets sail for you
you teach
your teach your hands
you teach your hands, you teach
you teach your hands
to sleep
Works cited:
- Borges, Jorge Luis, "The Wall and the Books." In Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings. Ed. Donald A. Yates & James E. Irby. Preface by André Maurois. 1964. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000. 221-23.
- Celan, Paul. Gesammelte Werke. 5 vols. Ed. Beda Allemann & Stefan Reichert. 1983. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Verlag, 1986.
- Celan, Paul. Selected Poems. Trans. Michael Hamburger. 1988. Penguin International Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990.
- Daive, Jean. Under the Dome: Walks With Paul Celan. 1996. Trans. Rosmarie Waldrop. Série d'écriture, 22. Anyart, Providence: Burning Deck Press, 2009.
- Katz, Marcelle. "Oops, she did it again …: An Interview with Britney Spears." TV Guide (NZ) (October 13, 2000): 6-7.
- Ross, Jack, Paul Celan, & Wendy Nu. The Britney Suite. Auckland: Perdrix Press, 2001. [Available at: http://perdrixpress.blogspot.co.nz/2011/04/britney-suite-2001_21.html]
- Ross, Jack. "Paul Celan: Poems from Schneepart: Translations into English." Percutio 1 (2006): 60-62. [Available at: http://titus.books.online.fr/Percutio/Percutio.htm#Celan]
- Ross, Jack. "Meeting Paul Celan: A Paper presented at the Poetics of Exile conference, Auckland University (July 2003)." The Imaginary Museum (March 23, 2007). [Available at: http://mairangibay.blogspot.co.nz/2007/03/meeting-paul-celan.html]
- Ross, Jack. "Celanie: 5 Versions from Paul Celan." brief 41 (2010): 54-59.
- Ross, Jack. "The Twenty-Year Masterclass: Paul Celan's Correspondence with Gisèle Celan-Lestrange (1951-1970)." Literature and Translation conference, Monash University, Melbourne (11-12 July 2011). [Abstract available at:
- Ross, Jack. "Collecting Paul Celan." The Imaginary Museum (September 3, 2011). [Available at: http://mairangibay.blogspot.co.nz/2011/09/collecting-paul-celan.html]
- Weidemann, Barbara, ed. Paul Celan. Die Gedichte: Kommentierte Gesamtausgabe in einem Band. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2003.


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You probably noticed that your husky puppy is simply gorgeous -- but did you plan for fur balls on your floor, on your sofa, and on your clothes? Huskies' beautiful coats shed periodically, so arm yourself with a great dog brush, and be ready for those shedding seasons!
Husky Puppy Coats
Huskies can sport coats of many colors, with grays, blacks and reds being most common. Light shading is found around the face and on the underbelly. If you bring home your pup between 8 and 10 weeks of age, you will enjoy a fluff ball on legs. Take lots of pictures at this stage, because there's nothing cuter than a husky baby! When your dog nears 4 months of age you will notice changes to his behavior and coat.
Blowing Coat
As your dog reaches adolescence at about 4 to 5 months of age, you will notice clumps of dog hair appearing in your home. Your dog may lose his adorable fluffiness, and his top coat will shed. This stage makes the dog look underdressed and a bit gawky. Don't panic! The shedding of the puppy coat is normal, and has nothing to do with poor diet, parasites or poor grooming. This stage will pass, and in a few months your dog will display that glorious adult coat that is the breed's signature.
Adult Shedding Cycles
Adult shedding is tied to a number of factors, including seasonal changes. Most dogs will shed their undercoat (the white or creamy colored hair that lies close to the body) in the spring. This experience can be especially noticeable with male dogs, whose coats are normally thicker and slightly longer than females'. Nature may have timed this with seasonal rises in temperature, eliminating the need for thick coats to fight the cold. Shedding may also be tied to fluctuations in natural light.
Other Reasons for Shedding
For huskies, and all breeds with double coats, several physiological events can trigger shedding. Female dogs will shed after being in heat, due to the hormone swings. They will also shed after having a litter of puppies, but spayed females will follow the same patterns and shed in the spring. Any trauma, some medications and anesthesia could trigger shedding in any dog, as could malnutrition, allergy or some diseases. Shedding is a natural occurrence for huskies, and the time you spend grooming will strengthen your bond with your handsome canine companion.
What is a Husky?
Note: The breed recognized by the American Kennel Club as the Siberian husky is commonly known as the "husky" in the United States. However, sled dogs known as Alaskan huskies also share the name husky. Additionally, some people refer to all Nordic breeds as huskies. In this article, "husky" refers to the Siberian husky, but all of the "huskies" go through similar shedding cycles.
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Chief Credits Culture Change as Ludlow Sees 3-Year Low in Crime Calls
At the November meeting of the Ludlow city council, a significant statistic was highlighted.
The police department had seen its lowest call volume in October in three years.
Over the past three years, the city had averaged around 1,200 calls per month, sometimes as high as 1,400. Now, the department gets about 680 calls per month, on average.
Chief Scott Smith, who took over in June 2015, credits a change of culture within the department, particularly with how it interacts with the community.
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That was a challenge for the Greensburg, In. native and Army veteran who came to Ludlow after stints with the Newport and Independence Police Departments. But, Smith is persistent and tough. He's a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He had no desire to become a police chief when he first started, he said. He just wanted to do right by the citizens.
"It was hard to change the culture and dynamics of this department without changing the dynamics of the community, so we did something real simple and mindblowing," Smith said, with an air of sarcasm. "We walked and got out of our cars.
"One of my biggest things is, everyone I come into contact with, I imagine they are related to me. How would I speak to them if they were related to me?"


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Resources - Bible Stories
Here are some Bible stories that we have used
This page has some general concepts that you may find useful, and the very limited copyright issues, which are towards the bottom of that page.
There is a full alphabetical list of Resources here.
Many of these documents are in the PDF format.
If you do not have a PDF reader, one can be downloaded from these sites:
- Foxit Reader. Free download of an excellent PFDF reader
- Adobe Reader. Make sure you are downloading the version that you need.
God created the World - PowerPoint Presentation and the Notes (Word)
The story of Adam and Eve - PowerPoint Presentation and the Notes (PDF) and a Drama idea (PDF)
Samson and Delilah - Judges 16
David and Goliath - A simple one page handout to remind listeners of the story (PDF format) - 1 Samuel 17
Jesus heals - A simple one page handout to remind listeners of the story of Jesus healing the blind man (PDF format)
The Lost Sheep - A simple one page handout to remind listeners of the story (PDF format)
- Matthew 13:1-23
Do not worry - Matthew 6:25
The parable of the Unforgiving Servant- Matthew 18:21
The good Samaritan - Luke 10:25-37
Paul and Silas in jail - Acts 16:16-40
1 Corinthians 13 Love - Not a real story (!) but an interactive bible reading based on 1 Corinthans 13, and an interactive prayer also based on 1 Corinthians 13.


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Africa is leading the world in year-over-year growth in mobile penetration, and other parts of the developing world are close behind. Most of the people who are now gaining access to cell communications and Internet via cell phones have no other method to access the Internet: their paradigm for Internet use involves mobile devices and small screens, unlike developed country users that generally use cell phones for voice calling, with Internet access being an occasional activity.
This dependence on mobile devices for Internet access means that developers in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world can see the mobile device with fresh eyes: not as a replacement for a desktop, or an imitation of a laptop, but as a platform in its own right. There is a very high chance that they will "see" possibilities that we, with our long history of computing, are blinded to.
By helping to foster a community of developers in developing countries, I believe we can reap tremendous dividends, with new perspectives being applied to old problems, and with the potential for as-yet-unimagined applications.
Dr. Joel Selanikio is a pediatrician, former Wall Street computer consultant, and CDC epidemiologist with a passion for combining computer science and public health to address health inequities in developing countries. He leads DataDyne's efforts to develop and promote new technologies for health, and is a pioneer in the promotion of open-source development for public health.


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Name: Bi Guan
Chinese Name: 髀關
Location: In the front, in the hallow below the top of the femur bone.
Benefits: Relieves inability to extend and bend the knee, lumbar pain, painful obstruction of the lower limb, hemiplegia, numbness of the legs, cold damp leg qi, pain of the hip joint, pain of the thigh.
To activate your body's self-healing power, first locate of the acupressure points that you need to work on for your specific needs. Apply firm pressure is the most fundamental technique. Use thumbs, fingers, palms, the side of the hand, or knuckles to apply steady, stationary pressure to the point for 1-2 minutes.
A general guideline to follow is that the pressure should be firm enough so that it hurts a little. The more developed the muscles are, the more pressure you should apply. If you feel extreme sensitivity or pain, gradually decrease the pressure until you find a balance between pain and pleasure. Do not continue to press a point that is excruciatingly painful.
It's important to drink plenty of warm water after the massage, helps to clear away toxic substances in our body.
Caution: please consult with your physician before practicing Acupressure.


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The Oiling of America: Adding DHA, SDA and Other GMO Ingredients to "Health Foods"
Listen to most vegans and you'd think DHA from algae is an all-natural, plant-sourced algae that is healthier than fish and more sustainable for the planet as well.
Go to nutrition conferences, and you'll hear much the same.
In truth, there's nothing natural about it, and it's yet another "dirty little secret" of the food processing industry.
The algae in question come from Martek Biosciences, and is not your average pond scum. Rather it's been genetically modified through mutations induced by radiation and/or harsh chemicals, and then fermented in a mix of corn syrup, ethanol and other ingredients from GMO corn. The DHA is extracted with the help of solvents such as isopropyl alcohol or hexane (a petrochemical that is a known neurotoxin), and finally preserved with synthetic preservatives such as mannitol, modified starch, glucose syrup solids and ascorbyl palmitate.
Sadly, most of the "better" baby formulas now contain "added DHA" from algae, including Earth's Best and Similac. Martek DHA is also found in "organic milk" from Horizon, which is owned by Dean Foods. Horizon's milk cartons feature a prominent DHA Omega 3 banner and the claim "supports brain health."
Soon things will be even worse. DSM Nutritional Products, the parent company of Martek, has partnered with Monsanto to deliver a GMO soybean oil high in omega 3s for use in salad dressings, sauces, margarines, bakery products, soups, snack bars and dairy products as well as other "innovative" products. Known as stearidonate or SDA oil, it will be sold as a healthy vegetarian EPA omega 3 product.
Mark Kastel of The Cornucopia Institute pulls no punches when he writes:
"That's right, DSM, the same company that bamboozled the National Organic Standards Board, with raw lobbying might, bringing you genetically mutated algae, processed with synthetic petrochemical-based solvents, and incorporated into a number of "organic" products including milk from some of our other friends at Dean Foods/WhiteWave (labeled "Horizon Organic").
If you want omega-3 fatty acids in your diet (a good thing) but you want them from food, and you want them from ingredients that the preponderance of science has backed, in terms of its efficacy, consult the Cornucopia buyers guide: http://www.cornucopia.org/dha-guide/
Please follow and support the important work of The Cornucopia Institute. www.cornucopia.org
August 8, 2013 email alert from Mark Kastel entitled "DSM and Monsanto to Partner (corrupting your diet and organics"
11 Responses to The Oiling of America: Adding DHA, SDA and Other GMO Ingredients to "Health Foods"
Do you have any reference links with more information on the algae oil manufacturing methods you mentioned above ? It's a fairly substantial claim that I take seriously and would like to look into it further.
Thank You !
If you don't find enough at the Cornucopia website, Chris Masterjohn may have what you need at westonaprice.org.
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What kind of organic baby formula would you recommend
" Rather it's been genetically modified through mutations induced by radiation and/or harsh chemicals"
The above shows that you have no idea of what constitutes micro-biological cultivation.
The only 'radiation and/or harsh chemicals' used would be in the cleansing process.
Anything else would render the algae deceased.
Regardless, now that the species of algae has been isolated, the above process is no longer involved.
The algae is fed a nutrient solution and it yields a DHA oil which is far cleaner (less mercury &environmental toxins) than oils harvested from dead fish.
Where did you find your facts Dr. Daniel? Are they just from the two websites your provided or elsewhere?
Thanks so much!
Are there algae dha oils that are processed in a healthy way without gmo ingredients and hexane?


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We have a holiday home in Zanzibar where, when we visit, we have to live off the local produce. Fish and seafood are to be found in abundance; yams (sweet potatoes), bananas, and mangoes are also plentiful. While there, we have to keep our meals as simple as possible. This delicious, easy, quick way of cooking prawns has become a family favourite.
Serves 2
– 500 – 600 g tiger prawns (or large prawns), in the shell
– ½ a bottle of medium or hot piri-piri sauce of your choice
– Juice and rind of two lemons
– 4 garlic cloves, peeled and cut into slivers
– Sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper
– 1 lemon, cut into wedges for serving
1. Place the cleaned prawns into a glass dish. Pour over the selected piri-piri sauce, juice and rind of two lemons, and garlic cloves. Toss the prawns gently in the marinade mixture. Marinate for an hour, or longer if preferred.
2. Preheat the oven to 200ºC/180ºC fan/Gas mark 5.
3. Place prawns and marinade into a roasting dish. Cook for about 10 – 12 minutes until they turn pink. Stir from time to time while cooking.
4. Sprinkle over sea salt and black pepper.
5. Serve immediately with rice, or thickly-cut sweet-potato chips and a side dish of good quality mayonnaise with a little chopped chilli, lemon juice and fresh coriander. Makes a great dip for the delicious prawns.
6. Serve lemon wedges and a finger bowl alongside.
• The prawns may also be cooked in the roasting dish; in a kettle braai; or over the coals. Do stir from time to time to disperse the marinade. Watch for the cooking point, when prawns will turn pink.
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The warmth and graciousness experienced by my family at a Target checkout counter this past weekend still has me smiling. A cashier showed us what may seem to some as a simple kindness, but to us it was significant. Kindness is no longer something that I take for granted in today's society.
My two sons had finally decided to spend some of their Christmas money, so we headed to Target and each of them picked out a video game. A Manager came over to assist our cashier as we checked out, and my youngest decided he wanted to talk to them. He is 9 years old, *Autistic (*not a bad word, see below), and very outgoing. He happily chatted away with the two ladies, excited about his new video game.
"You see that? That's MY Super Mario Bros. 2 video game. I am buying it with MY own money! You wanna know how to play it? First you get some coins. And then you get some other coins. Basically it's coins, coins, and more coins! And did I forget to mention COINS?" He really got on a roll and was having some fun joking with them.
The Manager grinned, obviously picking up on his joking. She responded, playing along, "Soooo, maybe the best thing about the game is the COINS, then?"
After we checked out she looked at me and said with a sincere smile, "Thank you for letting him talk to me! He's a cutie!"
And just like that the scene went from heartwarming to tear-inducing, and I turned into a weepy Mom mess.
SHE said thank you. She treated my son with kindness that many would not, and then SHE thanked US for the privilege. She saw my son for the energetic, engaging, and extraordinary young man that he is.
Not everyone treats him the same as she did. Many notice his unique, although articulate, manner of speech. Not everyone appreciates his willingness to talk to strangers in a monologue about his favorite video game. Some people don't know how to react, so they stare. Even worse, sometimes they are cruel and snicker behind his back. They assume that because he is different he is not worthy of respect. The world can be frighteningly unaccepting of those who are different in any way.
I love that my son is "different," and that he embraces his own uniqueness. I love that he is always willing to put on a show, and that he is friendly to everyone he meets. I pray every day that the world will accept him for who is he and treat him with kindness. When we encounter people like that gracious lady at Target I feel incredibly grateful for such an experience.
She probably doesn't even think she did anything that noteworthy, because that seemed to be the type of person that she was. She probably treats everyone with the same kindness. I don't even know that she could tell that my son is Autistic. Even if she did, she certainly didn't treat him with that condescending manner that so many do when they meet someone they know has special needs of some kind. She just seemed to enjoy talking to an exuberant child. It didn't matter to her that he was unusual, because she saw his positive qualities. She seemed like she makes it a habit to accept people for who they are and not judge them. I think more people would do well to follow her lead.
Sometimes it makes me sad to live in a world that has conditioned me to be surprised when someone is NOT mean to my child when he acts slightly outside social norms. But I am also incredibly grateful that people like that manager exist, and I want to go back and thank her. I want to encourage her so she knows that the kindness she shows people MATTERS. It makes a difference.
I don't ever want the world to take that kindness away from her.
Knowing that there are good people like HER in the world gives me hope for the future. So, friendly Target Manager, I know you thanked ME, but I REALLY want to thank YOU.
UPDATE: A cutsomer-service representative at Target responded to this article with the following message: "Thank you for sharing your compliments about your recent visit to (Target). We value the enthusiasm of our guests and want to enjoy our time with them. Your son sounds like a delight! Your description of his passion is heart-warming. – We hope to enjoy your family again soon!"
I agree, my son IS a delight! 🙂 ~Jennifer
(*Yes, I said my son is Autistic, and it is not a disrespectful term. It is how he wishes to self-identify, as do an increasing number of individuals in the Autism community. It is called "Identity-First Language.")
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Welcome to our first Spotlight post!
Every now and then we will take you on a more personal adventure around our properties. Today, we are happy to start with Surrey Street Market, right outside our three Croydon properties: Canius House, Surrey House and Green Dragon House, enjoy!
Don't get me started on your bang for buck of this place. After my first trip I left with a HUGE bag of lemons I didn't need just because, well, they were so juicy looking and reasonably priced!
The history is pretty nifty too. Speculated to have begun as early as the Anglo-Saxon period, we know for sure that this market has been around since at least 1236, making it the oldest outdoor market in Britain.
There's something about knowing people having been picking over vegetables and buying little gifts here since medieval times that makes it all a bit more magical.
It's not just good for the unique weekly shop of fruit, vegetables, bushels of herbs, flowers, meats, fish and cakes–but also for great new street food too.
In my opinion, one of the best things about the Surrey Street Market is that, unlike so many of London's outdoor markets, you still walk away feeling like you got the better end of the deal.
It's a real, extremely reasonably priced, and for lack of a better word, old-school, place to spend some time. It has the quirk and charm of an era where the outdoor market was the regular place to get what you need, and it's that quality–the dedication, the communion of vendor and wanderer–that I enjoy so much about it.
So if you're looking for some great food, a fun date idea, or just an excuse to make lemon flavoured everything, swing by Surrey Street Market for a serious treat! Open Monday- Saturday from 7am to 6pm.


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Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Revisiting Shadows
Posted by Rot at 6:06 PM
Labels: atmosphere, detail, fire, flames, jay's shadow, jayshadow, torches, yard haunt, yard haunts
6 comments:
- Willow Cove said...
So Great! So primal. Love his Jacko carvings. Fire is the way to go!
I gotta get a real buckey one day...
- July 8, 2015 at 6:33 PM
- Rot said...
yeah...something very earthy and primal.
A great and balanced Haunt.
- July 8, 2015 at 6:37 PM
- Jay's Shadow said...
Thanks for the revisit/post.
I like going with the earthy elements. Gives a realism effect. Have a few additions for this year.
Now if I can only get the fog to work.
- July 8, 2015 at 7:00 PM
- Autumnleaf said...
Kudos Shadow man! Earthy and some great jackos!
- July 8, 2015 at 10:28 PM
- Gourdin Fester said...
Love it
- July 9, 2015 at 11:15 AM
- Ragged Grin said...
Never gets old. One of my faves.
- July 14, 2015 at 6:12 PM
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- Grounds
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- Introduction
1875-76 New Beginnings
The first recorded match played by Partick Thistle was against the exotically named "Valencia", not a side from Spain, but another local junior side, on the 19th February 1876. The North British Daily Mail gave this contemporary report, brief and to the point:
PARTICK THISTLE v VALENCIA –
Played on the ground of the former, and resulted in their favour by one goal to nothing.
The home ground refered to was Overnewton Park.
A return match against Valencia was organised for the following month, but unfortunately no result was recorded in the contemporary press.
The following week, the 18th March, saw another home tie for Partick Thistle, this time against Jordanhill, and the North British Daily Mail reported another 1-0 home win for Thistle.
Although there was no shortage of similarly new clubs springing up around Partick – Partick Academy, Partickhill, Partick Ramblers, Partick Violet, Kelvinbank, and the top club of the area Partick – Partick Thistle played only two further games in the remaining two months of the season.
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- Bill Shankly
- Falkirk Historian
- Gallant Pioneers – Early history of Rangers
- Glasgow Herald archive at Google
- Hibernian
- Hibernian Historical Trust
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> From: K Gopalakrishnan [mailto:kaygopal_at_gmail.com]
> I wouldn't subscribe to DISABLE TABLE LOCKS arguement as that posses a
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> It was even documented in Steve's internals book. But that is for OPS.
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There was another thread discussing some people's (my) surprise that you can drop an object in a readonly tablespace. Maybe this is the command I've been looking for. Any ideas/advice?
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(CNN) - Mitt Romney on Friday embraced a comment made by Bill Clinton the previous night, in which the former president praised Romney's private equity career, despite a recent flood of Democratic attacks against the presumptive nominee's corporate resume.
Romney defended his former firm, Bain Capital, on Friday and pointed to its record of successful investments compared to its small minority of buyouts that later went bankrupt.
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"I think Bain Capital has a good and solid record," Romney said in a CNBC interview. "I was happy to see President Clinton made a similar statement today and called my record superb."
The former president, however, used the word "sterling" to describe Romney's business career instead when he discussed the candidate in an interview on CNN Thursday.
"The man who has been governor and had a sterling business career crosses the qualification threshold," Clinton said on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight."
The comment raised eyebrows among many Democrats, who have been highly critical of Romney's business experience over recent weeks.
"I don't think that we ought to get into the position where we say 'This is bad work. This is good work,'" Clinton continued.
He later added: "I think the real issue ought to be, what has Governor Romney advocated in the campaign that he will do as president? What has President Obama done and what does he propose to do? How do these things stack up against each other?"
While Republicans have since seized on the comments, using them to counter recent Democratic attacks, the White House brushed off Clinton's remarks on Friday. A spokesman told reporters aboard Air Force One that he didn't see any news in the remarks.
And the president's re-election team also glossed over the remarks, focusing instead on one line where Clinton described the tactics some private equity investors use.
"Invest in a company, run up the debt & force people to lose their retirement and fire them," a senior campaign official pointed out in paraphrase.
However, Clinton was making a comparison of two kinds of investors. Those who buy, strip and destroy companies for profit, and others also driven by profit, but with the goal of making the companies better, even though they too can fail with equal consequences.
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Obama campaign launches assault on Romney's Massachusetts record
Obama campaign releases third set of Spanish ads
Gonzales says Romney must make personal connection to Hispanics
Myviewis.....stop defending the poosy mittsy volture capitalist, you do not make any sense at all......
Lynda: I love you brain-dead parrots .... I HATE you liberals so so so so very much. Tipping point even.
Goodness. Perhaps you might want to take a detour ... I don't know ... maybe give politics a rest for a bit. This all seems to be a bit too much for you to handle right now.
I offer you peace wherever you go.
Four and The Door, you are just as clueless as Myviewis
Clinton is a sane man...that I now know
I think they might be the SAME person. LOL
Four and The Door, you are just as clueless as Myviewis
I'm still searching for a clue about why Democrats are nominating Obama in 2012. Are they giving up that easy? Certainly there are many qualified Democrats who can make a run at it without all of the baggage this guy's bringing to the campaign! Why haven't some of the big Democratic donors brought someone else along? They can't be happy with Obama's odds this year. Not after 2010.
At this point Romney and Obama are both 'qualified' by their backgrounds to be POTUS. But as Clinton asks, where to from here? Romney wants to further cut taxes for the 1%, because he still believes against all evidence that magically creates jobs. It does not, else the massive cuts Bush pushed through in 2001-02 would have had different results by 2008. And that is ALL Romney has in mind, I hear no other discernible ideas from him. (He intentionally holds his cards close and tight, but I fear they are in fact blank.) Obama is struggling against horrific forces, not least being inertia in Congress fueled purely by Republican obstructionism. Meanwhile, Obama has been a great CIC, something Romney can only carp at. So damned if I'm gonna switch horses in mid–stream for an untested loud-mouth.
Clinton has never forgiven Obama for taking the nomination away from Hillary. Now it is payback time, especially since Clinton realizes that Obama will not be reelected in any case.
A typical bit of Slick Willy political back-stabbing (he smiled as he stuck the knife in).
I'll cut taxes for the rich and with the money they save and reinvest, I'll cut taxes for their capital gains. They will end so rich that they are bound to buy something with it...right? of course the other 99% will have less money and buying power...I promise to fix that when I am re-elected in 2016..... Mitt Romney
If Obama loses then Hillary can run in 2016 and easily beat Mitt Romney who will have done nothing but cut taxes for the rich for 4 years and we will be in a great depression.....Hillary in a walk! (good move slick Willy:)
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Just dropped in to see what the looney left is up to... Lynda/Minnesota and Woman in California....Very insightful posts...How about putting your efforts into finding one of those Obama jobs?
First of all, it's none of your business – but since you asked and I just enjoyed my shopping spree, I'll let you in on a secret which you don't want to hear, I AM EMPLOYED and you couldn't afford one day of my salary. Now go back to stocking the crates at Staples.
Wow, I think Democrats are really ignoring their own experts who realize today's unemployment numbers will be hard for Obama to ignore and if these numbers don't get better Obama will have a hard time selling people hope for jobs for the future.
At this point Romney and Obama are both 'qualified' by their backgrounds to be POTUS. But as Clinton asks, where to from here? Romney wants to further cut taxes for the 1%, because he still believes against all evidence that magically creates jobs....
Actually, Romney wants to further cut taxes for the 100%. EVERYONE. What's Obama's offer? Let me give you a hint. Raise taxes. And if you think he will stop at billionaires, you have not been paying much attention to his spending.
Jobs were created, The report says so.
And the President is one person, the congres is filled if people who say no to Job Bills and bills for construction, roads and highways. So it is ALL of the governments fault if this is not working.
@woman in California... You spend too much time on this blog so if you do have a job , its a government job . And by the way what is none of my business? Sounds like your putting the cart before the horse. You seem to have all the answers before being asked the questions!
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Wow, I had a feeling you were rich by the way you write. Congratulations on doing so well for yourself.
When was it that Clinton became the messiah. Everyone in the media has the preoccupation with Clinton to a point where his word is gospel. This man's morals are suspect and yet his word is correct. Time to look at the source and where it leads us. Clinton and his fold are not the answer to the dynamics of this world. As a final note nepotism is a live and well with this family. Does that say anything
Clinton has been the messiah since 1991. At least that's what most mainstream networks would have me believe.
At LG. Simply because he was the last successful President we've had. Full employment. Surplus. Etc.... Bill Clinton will go down as a Great President in spite of his shortcomings. Wish he could run again.
My my who the Foxies vent. So use to hearing things the way they want to hear them; then some "liberal" steps in with the truth and shatters their ideal world view. Grow up baby. Honest adults can have differences of opinion. The fine lady from Minnesota said nothing to provoke such a childish outburst. You owe her an apology if you have the guts to muster it.
This is simply another attempt at the same strategy that the GOP has been employing for ages. Mischaracterize a comment or point of view in a manner thats favorable to team Romney and/or the GOP.
The GOP knows that the American voting public is so dense that most times, they fail to see the distinction.
Ann Romney mastered this tactic when she mischaracterized Hillary Rosen's comment about working women.
I think the Democrats need to be hypersensitive to these mischaracterizations and exposed them immediately if they want to win this race.
1) Romney used investor money to produce success after success. 2) Obama used OUR tax dollars to produce failure after failure. I know who I'm gonna vote for.
Romney all the way!
47th out 50 states in job creation for governor Romney. Private business experience does not make one a job creator for the government. Get real.
I don't care what either of the Clintons think. They, what they do and what they think has enthralled the media for 30 years. Their tiny thoughts and actions are the perfect consumer disposable. They must have a full time team on board during every election cycle making sure their every move is covered.


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On the eve of its premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, the new trailer for Woody Allen's cinematic ode to the Hollywood of yesteryear, Café Society, has arrived online.
The latest film from the prolific Allen, Café Society takes place in 1930s Hollywood after New York native Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) travels to the West Coast, where he falls in love. He soon finds himself back to New York, however, where he succumbs to the temptations of the vibrant high society nightlife.
Jeannie Berlin (Inherent Vice) and Ken Stott (Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film series) play Bobby's Bronx-based parents, while Corey Stoll takes on the role of Ben, Bobby's gangster brother, who can be seen in the trailer disposing of a few bodies in a pit of wet cement. Steve Carell plays Bobby's Uncle Phil, a Hollywood agent, and Kristen Stewart plays Bobby's love interest, Vonnie. Parker Posey, Blake Lively, and Anna Camp round out the Café Society ensemble cast.
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Unfortunately, it has become necessary that I express my and my family's displeasure with the way your company has been treating us as customers. Our recent interactions with the management indicated that your company puts negligible importance on the past six years of our business partnership. Although we have been paying rent every month for the past six years without any issues, your staff assumed that the best way to communicate a late payment for the previous month is an N4 eviction notice. The N4 notice states in large bold and underlined font that "this is a legal notice that could lead to you being evicted from your home." This eviction notice was accompanied by a letter that "asks that in the future you (meaning my wife and I) make more of an effort to have your (our) rent paid on time."
I wonder why your staff immediately took as their task to judge the amount of effort I put in my daily activities. Your staff incorrectly assumed that my lack of effort was the cause for the late payment. Is it not possible that I put extraordinary effort in making my payment on time but still failed? You would, I hope, agree that there are situations in which, despite people's extraordinary efforts, they still fail to achieve their goals. You would also, I hope, agree that some people can be quite successful in many activities while putting minimal effort in them. By judging my personal choices and by giving advice on how much effort I should put in achieving my daily ends, your staff is crossing the boundaries of tasteful and respectful conduct.
However, since this is only a symptom of a more serious underlying problem, l will put your employee's imprecise and, in my view, arrogant language aside. Let me, instead, express my complete understanding for the way I was approached as your tenant. Given the current regulatory environment in Ontario, it is in fact, rational that a landlord provides low quality service to his/her tenants. Why? Because under the current regulatory system, a landlord has minimal to no benefits from providing high quality service. In fact, a landlord may even achieve financial gains by providing low quality service. Ontario is one of the most legislated and bureaucratic regions in the world for tenant-landlord relationship management. Under this regulatory system, landlords are subject to the rent stabilization program and to a plethora of other requirements. This program has at least three main consequences: (1) it reduces the revenue that the landlord has on disposal for providing quality service; (2) it creates excess demand for rental units; (3) it provides incentives for landlords to evict tenants with a longer tenancy history.
The rent stabilization regulations prevent landlords from increasing the rent from year to year by more than a certain percentage. That percentage for the 2014 rent relative to 2013 is 0.8%, which is a fraction of the general inflation rate for this year. Rent restrictions applied over a longer period of time suppress rents below the level that would be established on the market in the absence of this regulation. As a consequence, there is a higher quantity of apartments for rent demanded—there is excess demand. Because of this excess demand, landlords have little incentive to make their current tenants happy with their housing service. In a market with excess demand, it is relatively easy to find a new tenant in a short period of time. In addition, under the current regulation, the starting rent of a new tenant is not linked with the amount of rent paid by the previous tenant. This means that, compared to the rent paid by the previous tenant, the rent of the new tenant can be increased by more than the maximum allowable percentage for old tenants. Under these conditions, I, as a tenant with a longer renting history in this building, may become a liability rather than an asset for your company if the company can collect more revenue by putting a new tenant in the apartment I am currently using. It may be beneficial for your company that I get dissatisfied with the quality of service and thus choose to leave.
This can explain my recent experiences after our previous superintendent and her father, who were by nature people that value providing high quality service, resigned. The current superintendent has inadequate communication skills, and she possesses neither the technical skills nor the mental stability of an effective property manager. Just as an example, it took my family three days of phone calls and somewhat frustrating conversations until a water leak from the apartment above was properly addressed. Even now, as I write this letter, one of the building's exit door locks is broken, and it has been broken for four days now. The door can't be opened, and this is a serious fire hazard. All this contributes to my and other tenants' low satisfaction with the quality of service. However, it may well be in the best interest of your company to keep the level of service low. Your company may be better off with this low quality superintendent if your goal is to increase tenant turnover rates. There is certainly evidence in this building in the last several years that tenants have decided to purchase a house or an apartment elsewhere earlier than they would have otherwise decided. These tenants have been replaced by new tenants that tend to leave after a year or so.
This is the real subsidy we pay for those who persuaded our government that we should all pay lower rents–hours and days of frustration over issues that would not exist if rents were allowed to adjust to the level we are willing to pay. My time has a higher value in activities other than worrying that I don't miss the rent deadline or designing communication techniques that my superintendent is capable of understanding. I would rather pay higher rent and have some flexibility when I deposit my rent cheque then to receive letters threatening I will be evicted in two weeks. This scare tactic is an attempt to lower the value of my time spent not worrying about the deadline. Removing rent controls would be a win-win situation for your company and for my family. You would earn extra income, we would get the respect we think we deserve from you.
It is clear that under the current incentive structure, which is in most part a consequence of the regulatory environment, being kind or respectful to your tenants has no obvious financial advantages for your company. Unlike other, less regulated businesses that need to attract their customers by providing service that is better than the competitions', the rental housing industry in Ontario is not facing this incentive. An act of kindness or respect would be a personal favour toward your tenants, not something you do to ensure better financial viability of your business.
I accept the reality that your staff is not willing to provide this favour to me and my family and treat us with the respect we think we deserve. However, it is puzzling to me why your staff expect us to do your company favours. One of your property managers suggested my wife and I can avoid these N4 eviction notices if we deposit post-dated cheques or if we set up an automatic withdrawal account in our bank. But, the only thing we are obligated under law is to submit our payment by 11:59 pm on the first day of each month. Relative to our legal obligation, the two options your staff suggested are clearly favours that we would be doing to your company. Favours need to be earned, and according to my judgment, your company has not earned any favours from me or from my family.
I also think we will stop doing you the favours we did in the past when we omitted to mention a number of errors committed by your staff. For example, due to the poor judgment of your staff, my family had to spend more than a year living next door to a violent drug addict with serious psychological issues. It was clear to me from the first day of his tenancy that something was seriously wrong with this individual, and it is beyond me how your staff was not capable of noticing this. Your staff tried to pressure my family into supplying a written complaint to make your job of evicting this individual easier. Your employee should have been aware that, since I have two small children, such a complaint would put my family in danger of this highly unpredictable individual, who eventually triggered several police interventions. It is not my job to fix the errors your employees have made. I have omitted to mention this and a number of other instances of unprofessionalism shown by your staff, and I did this because I wanted to do them a favour by forgiving them their blunders. This will stop now. It should be made public that your staff has made a number of poor judgments at this location. I have no reason to believe that these poor judgments will stop any time soon.
It is unfortunate that we are facing this situation, but, maybe our experience and experiences of other Ontarians can be used to illustrate the fact that the current tenancy laws do not promote conflict resolution and peaceful cooperation, as laws are intended to do, and as I teach my students. Instead, these laws create incentives for lack of mutual respect, which fosters distrust and hostility, quite the opposite of what good laws are supposed to do.
Predrag Rajsic


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Leatherup.com is one of the biggest motorcycle gear vendors attending the 70th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. We opened our trades-show booth Thursday, August 5, and we'll stay until Sunday August 15, the last official day of the rally, from 9 AM-6 PM. Leatherup.com's booth is located at Rally Headquarters, 1019 Main Street, the corner of Main and Junction.
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Pop Tab Recycling Program
T-shirts are now available! For a donation of $15, click here for more details.
About the Program
Are you looking for a simple way to help families in need? Look no further! Since 2001, communities across Alabama have made a huge impact through tiny pop tabs! Schools, families, and businesses alike collect pop tabs throughout the year and donate them to our House. Ronald McDonald House Charities of Alabama partners with Brother's Recycling to receive funds based on the going rate per pound of aluminum recycled. These funds are used to support the mission of the House, which can include things like utility bills and supplies that our families need.
Anyone can collect pop tabs, and that's what makes this program so great! It's an easy way to help the families who call RMHCA home, and we hope you'll think of them whenever you recycle a pop tab.
We currently raise an average of $15,000 a year from recycling pop tabs! With your help, we can reach our goal of $20,000 each year!
How do I get started?
- Grab a container to store your pop tabs in! We suggest Ziploc bags, paper bags, or boxes/bins. Please avoid soda bottles, jars, milk jugs, and plastic grocery bags.
- Collect your pop tabs! We accept pop tabs from any kind of aluminum can, not just soda cans. Only tabs accepted, not the actual can.
- Drop off your pop tabs! We accept pop tabs 24/7 throughout the year. You may drop them off:
- At our front desk (No appointment needed)
- In the Pop Tab House (Located outside our front door)
- By mail (Address: 1700 4th Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35233)
- At a Pop Tab Party (Next year's dates will be announced in early 2020)
Want to support this program?
T-shirts are now available! For a donation of $15, click here for more details.
Pop Tab Pandemonium
Pop Tab Pandemonium is a school-based contest held each year throughout Alabama. Participating schools collect pop tabs throughout the school year and donate them to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Alabama. This is a great way to teach kids about recycling and giving back, while they have fun competing against other schools in hopes of being declared the winner! Congratulations to our 2018-2019 winner, Holy Cross Episcopal School!
Look to see our list of current, registered 2019-2020 Pop Tab Pandemonium Schools!
Pop Tab Recycling Resources
Have Questions?
Contact Alice Taylor, Volunteer Coordinator


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Datonomy's correspondents in Germany have just published their latest update on IT and data protection developments.
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- a status update on the GDPR, on which further trilogue negotiations took place this week
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- a recent decision on the legality of framing
- a recent ruling on take down
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text: Phobias Symptoms and Diagnosis Print Diagnostic Criteria for Phobias By Lisa Fritscher Lisa Fritscher is a freelance writer and editor with a deep interest in phobias and other mental health topics. Learn about our editorial policy Lisa Fritscher Updated on August 16, 2019 More in Phobias Symptoms and Diagnosis Causes Treatment Types When diagnosing a phobia, mental health professionals must use clinical skills and judgment alongside the written list of diagnostic criteria found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV; 4th Ed.). Many of the symptoms of phobias are very similar to those of other mental disorders as well as physical illnesses. A phobia can be defined as intense and irrational fear. There are three types of phobias, as defined by the DSM-IV: specific phobia, social phobia, and agoraphobia. Each type of phobia has its own unique diagnostic criteria. Differential Diagnosis Volanthevist / Getty Images One of the most important steps in diagnosing a phobia is deciding whether the symptoms are better explained by another disorder. Phobias can be traced to specific, concrete fears that adult sufferers recognize as irrational. The fact that the fear is concrete separates phobias from disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder, in which the anxiety is more broad-based. Phobia sufferers are able to pinpoint an exact object or situation that they fear. Being able to recognize the fear as irrational separates anxiety disorders from psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. People who suffer from psychotic disorders genuinely believe that the fear is based on a real danger, though the nature of the danger appears illogical to others. Common Criteria Each type of phobia has its own unique set of diagnostic criteria. However, there are some overlaps. Diagnostic criteria that are similar to all phobias include: Life-Limiting: A phobia is not diagnosed unless it significantly impacts the sufferer's life in some way.Avoidance: Some people with clinically diagnosable phobias are able to endure the feared situation. However, attempts to avoid the feared situation are an important criterion for diagnosing a phobia.Anticipatory Anxiety: People with phobias tend to dwell on upcoming events that may feature the feared object or situation. Diagnosing a Specific Phobia In order for a specific phobia to be diagnosed, one or more objects or situations must be identified as the cause of fear. People with specific phobias often have other anxiety disorders as well, making it difficult to accurately pinpoint the diagnosis. Diagnosing Social Phobia Social phobia is a phobia of interacting with strangers in social situations. Social phobia may relate to only one type of situation, or it may be generalized to include all or most social settings. The symptoms of severe social phobia are often quite similar to those of agoraphobia. The difference is in the exact cause of the fear. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Ever wonder what your personality type means? Sign up to find out more in our Healthy Mind newsletter. Sign Up You're in! Thank you, {{form.email}}, for signing up. There was an error. Please try again. What are your concerns? Other Inaccurate Hard to Understand Submit Article Sources Verywell Mind uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read our editorial policy to learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th Ed.). Washington, DC: Author.


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On 1st April 2019, Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT went live. However, with many businesses still to file their first VAT return under MTD, is your business ready for MTD for VAT? Below are the few hints and tips … Continue reading
Getting started with MTD Keeping accurate records is an integral part of a business. Poorly organized records could be penalized by HMRC. It is important to digitize the mountain of paperwork, containing all your business transactions, from the commencement of … Continue reading
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With less than three months to go before Making Tax Digital for VAT comes into effect, is your business ready for the upcoming changes to digital recordkeeping and filing that the new regime will bring? This article outlines the key … Continue reading
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When teens get involved in a church or youth group of some type, they can take away far more from the experience than from just social time with friends. A youth pastor has an opportunity to do more than teach a lesson or play games -- he can influence the teens' lives in positive ways. It's beneficial for teens to have adults in their lives, in addition to their parents, who exemplify and support your family's values.
A youth pastor is in a unique position to not only have authority over your teen, but to be a good friend as well. As your teen attends church meetings and events, works on projects or goes on trips with the pastor, he is building a relationship with an adult who isn't a parent or a school teacher, but is still a responsible grownup offering guidance and direction both by his words and actions. The age gap diminishes in your teen's eyes because youth pastors strive to be relevant and keep up with popular culture. The youth pastor can model what a proper friendship should entail.
Once the youth pastor and your teen establish a relationship, your teen has another adult in whom she can confide. Many youth leaders have a pastoral degree that includes some formal counseling training. Teens may need counseling on issues such as dating, sex, divorcing parents, bullying or the loss of a loved one. Or, your teen may just want to have another adult listen to her without judgment, criticism or suggestions. The youth pastor is an excellent position to do just that.
Your teen's youth pastor will also likely speak to the teens about spiritual values and even life skills. He will discuss incorporating lessons from the Bible into their daily lives. While Bible class and discussions might be a part of weekly teen meetings, youth pastors can also teach through everyday happenings. For example, by organizing a fundraiser car wash, the youth pastor can teach your teen about teamwork, while by taking the teens to visit the elderly in a nursing home, he teaches them compassion, as well as respect for their elders. Having teens host a babysitting event so frazzled parents have a night off teaches them about responsibility -- and hard work.
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A youth pastor knows that the teens in his church will scrutinize his words and actions, as teens typically want to ensure that the adults in their lives are sincere. Your teen is likely to observe how the youth pastor functions in his day-to-day life. In this sense, the youth pastor is a role model for your teen, modeling leadership, faith, accountability, responsibility and perhaps, marriage and family.


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First Friday Dinner
February 4th is just around the corner and that means it's time for our First Friday Dinner!
This month's dinner features parmesan crusted lamb or the vegetarian option of a goat cheese and beet risotto. Start with a wild mushroom soup, and a salad of freshly-picked farm-grown greens. Finish with a delectable tiramisu! All 4 courses for $65.00 per person. (gratuity included)Community seatingDoors to the Hayloft open at 6pm Dinner is served promptly at 6:30. BYOB
Keep your tastebuds tuned up!
On January 29 we welcome Cindy Collings.
Farm Talk begins at 10am in the Hayloft.
There is no admission fee.
Custom Salads at the Kitchen Counter
Custom salads at the kitchen counter are back! Using our own fresh greens and tons of terrific toppings, you can have a fresh mesclun salad made to your specifications with your choice of nine veggies, seven proteins, and eight kinds of cheese!
Or you can choose the daily lunch special or a cup of hot farm-made soup!Bring your laptop, pick up our wifi signal, log on, and sit down to enjoy your lunch.
Humor and creativity count!
Deadline for entries is February 16.
The winner will be announced March 1.
Previous winners of the Grilled Cheese Invitational!
We are bringing in fresh Pain d'Avignon bread every Friday and Saturday. The standard order will be for Baguettes, Ciabatta, Country Loaf and Sourdough. In addition, you may special order these loaves through the kitchen counter. Deadline for ordering for the weekend is Thursday at 10:30.
To change your preferences or to sign up for any of our other email services, click the link above. Mj's daily lunch emails are humorous and mouth-watering, Farmer John's Stormy Day emails let you know when stormy day shopping is declared. The Garden Guru email is sent in the spring and summer with gardening tips and information about new products in the garden center.


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When To Plant Trees
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In general, the best time to plant trees is late winter or early spring. This period is typically followed by a period of moderate weather in the Midwest, during which the new transplant will have time to become established. If that does not fit your schedule, then aim for autumn. Summer is a bad choice because the weather is too hot and the actively growing plants are too susceptible to damage.
If you have had the foresight to do all of your digging ahead of time in fall (before the ground freezes), it is not impossible to plant trees in winter. But unless you can water them sufficiently, early-to-mid winter is not the best planting time, either.
When to Plant Tree?
Planting trees when they are dormant (or, at least, when they are not operating at their peak growth rate) is advisable since that is when handling them is least disruptive to them. When do they go dormant? In the Midwest, they begin to enter dormancy at some point in the autumn and begin to leave it at some point in the spring.
When to Plant Trees That Are Deciduous
In a way, the best time to install deciduous types is more obvious. The dropping of leaves in autumn signals that they are entering dormancy. The unfurling of buds in spring signals that they are leaving dormancy. This is clear-cut and goes a long way toward answering the question of when to get your new specimen into the ground.
When to Plant Trees That Are Evergreen
The answer as to when to plant trees that are evergreen is necessarily less precise because they do not send out so clear-cut a signal. While they do not grow as vigorously in winter as in other seasons, they do not undergo the kind of dormancy that deciduous plants do. Thankfully, though, evergreens tend to be tough customers, and this toughness gives you more leeway with them. You can generally undertake the operation earlier in the fall and later in the spring with evergreens than you can with their deciduous counterparts. However, you will still want to avoid planting them when it is too hot (and/or too dry). If it is still hot in your region in late September, hold off till later in the fall. Likewise, if you know that early June tends to bring hot weather to your neck of the woods, plant those evergreens earlier in the spring!
When to Plant Trees: A Follow-Up Consideration
Intense heat is a major enemy to newly planted saplings. But the lack of water for their root systems is another. And although you may not think of winter as a dry time — what with all the snow — remember, the moisture from the snow can't get to the roots until the snow melts and the ground thaws. Thus in cold climates, winter brings desert conditions of a sort. That is why watering trees properly in fall is important — regardless of whether you have opted for planting in autumn or in late winter (or early spring).
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