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Ketamine Smuggling in India and Beyond
Due to the high demand in Asia and Europe, along with its hitherto loosely enforced guidelines for supply, for years India has been a major source of ketamine, both licit and otherwise. Law enforcement officials in India and countries such as China, Malaysia, and the Philippines, believe that many smugglers of other drugs, for example, heroin, are moving over to Indian ketamine due to the lower risk and higher payoff.
In previous years smugglers of all nationalities have (or have at least have attempted to) ship k in or disguised as; barrels, boxes, 'dog powder', face-packs, glucose sachets, herbal remedies, massage oils, medication gel caps, milk bags, non-prescription drugs, pouches of tobacco, red wine, 1 rice, rose water, 2 salt, soap, talcum powder, and tea bags, as well as a range of other forms. However, those ingenious smugglers – while not quite up to the standards of other international drug traders, such as the cocaine cartels – are always looking to improve their chances, with more sophisticated attempts being trialed all the time (for instance, the forming of a ketamine emulsion of similar consistency to hair gel, passing as such to all but the most trained eye). 3
This is especially apparent when considering the transport via the postal system(s), often within international borders, of very small amounts of contraband, increasingly engendered by the transactions occurring online via, the internet and 'deep web'. Examples of this 'stealth' include amounts circa 12g (which easily fits into a standard 'letter'-sized envelope unnoticed) or less being disguised as 'Bath salts', 'Camera lens cleaner', or similar.
Indian Ketamine Smuggling, 2000-2009
A 22-year-old Taiwanese national, M.M. Nasser, bound for Taipei via Bangkok, was arrested in Chennai on 26 February 2002, with 20kg of Indian ketamine concealed in his luggage.
Between June and October 2002, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) carried out Operation Thunderstorm, seizing drugs worth nearly Rs 500 crore, including 17 tonnes of cannabis, 1,500kg of ketamine, 500kg of hashish and various other drugs. 4
In February 2008, an article in Thaindian News warned of 'date rape' drugs 5 and the risk of having one's drink spiked;
The most common date rape drug used everywhere is rohypnol or roofies. It is legal in Europe and Mexico, and prescribed for sleep problems or as anaesthesia. The other two drugs are gamma hydroxybutyric acid or GHB and Ketamine…Police say a few years ago the use of such drugs was restricted to those who were involved in cheating passengers in trains and buses by spiking their drinks, but now college students and young working people are using it to sexually exploit women." 6
Also in February 2008, a Tamil man with suspected links to terrorist organisations was caught by Customs officials at Tamil Nadu airport in Chennai, attempting to smuggle 25kg of Indian ketamine (worth over Rs.25 million) to Taiwan. As reported by Thaindian, 7 officials suspected the man to be a member of a major smuggling syndicate operating out of Ramanathapuram, as the ketamine was concealed in stainless steel containers usually used for vending tea. An anonymous Customs official estimated that the department only managed to catch around one in ten of such smugglers, while 'Central intelligence sources' believed that the illegal ketamine trade was being used to fund terrorist activity. The Thaindian's report concluded with this interesting quote from 'police sources'; "The illicit trade involves strange bedfellows here. One of the origins of this banned activity is the LTTE – which sees itself diametrically opposed to Muslims of Sri Lanka who claim a separate identity despite speaking the common language". 8
In April 2008, a man and a woman were caught at Chennai airport, trying to board separate flights to Malaysia with 10kg of Indian ketamine in tablet form and 2 kg of heroin, concealed in small food containers and allegedly worth Rs.50 million in total. The late-night joint operation by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and Customs officials from the Anna International airport was enabled by a tip off, and the only consolation to the would-be smugglers is that they were apprehended prior to arriving in Malaysia, which awards the death penalty to drug smugglers. 9
In May 2008, 19.45kg of ketamine were seized at Kerala airport, Customs officials estimating the haul to be worth approximately Rs.20 million on the international markets. The passenger carrying the drugs was about to board a Sri Lankan Airlines flight when he was caught out. 10
In July 2008, a woman was arrested at Chennai airport, trying to take a flight for Kuala Lumpur. The women's baggage contained "Rs.3 million worth of drugs". 11 That same month, two people were held after attempting to move tablets of ketamine worth around Rs.50 million to Singapore, also via Chennai airport. 12
The DRI seized 197.5kg of ketamine (worth Rs.200 million) from a container in the port of Chennai in November 2008 – their biggest bust ever at the time. 13 The drug was hidden in onion bags, intended for the Malaysian market. 14
In December 2008, a French tourist was found dead beside an unconscious companion, in a trailer in the coastal village of Vagator, Goa. The couple had taken k (reportedly sourced from Pakistan), which led to the woman's death. 15
Acting on an anonymous tip off in April 2009, DRI officials seized approximately 25kg of Indian ketamine from the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, arresting one man, an Indian national, in the process of attempting its transportation to Malaysia (hidden in pouches of tobacco). 16 Earlier in the month, another man (carrying 50kg of k) was also arrested at the airport, as part of a separate investigation.
In December 2009, Customs officials broke up a smuggling ring operating out of a post office in Mapusa, Goa – resulting in the arrest of a pharmacist for the mailing of parcels of ketamine to "some European countries". At the time of the raid, the drug was still easily and legally available from many Goan pharmacies, although exportation without a license was banned. Customs reported;
We have seized 9.99 gm of ketamine liquid and several tablets in the seized parcels, which were marked to several European countries. In a subsequent raid at his residence, we seized 212 gm more. All the seized drugs are valued at Rs.2.73 lakh"
moreover, the offender had previously been arrested for a similar offence (for which the license of one of his three pharmacies was suspended). 17 Also in December, the DRI intercepted 440kg of ketamine at Tuticorin port, 18 in Chennai. The Indian Express reports that the k was intended to end up in Malaysia, and that; "while the total value of the seized substance in the Indian market is about Rs two crore, the price shoots up to about Rs 50 crore once it is smuggled out." Three people were arrested, after the shipment (disguised amongst salt, rice flakes, and other items), was discovered. 19
- Resulting in a reddish product with the expected taste and scent. ↩
- Contributing a distinct aroma and flavour to a lot of Indian ketamine available in the UK over the past decade or two. ↩
- Author's research. ↩
- Deccan Herald – 'DRI intercepts heroin worth RS 120 cr near Indo-Pak border' (www.deccanherald.com/content/200210/dri-intercepts-heroin-worth-rs.html) ↩
- 'Date rape drug' is a popular Indian epithet for ketamine. ↩
- Sahil Makkar – 'Date rape pills – the new party drug to snare women' (www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/date-rape-pills-the-new-party-drug-to-snare-women_10020675.html) ↩
- IANS – 'Major drug haul in Tamil Nadu airport' (www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/major-drug-haul-in-tamil-nadu-airport_10021146.html) ↩
- IANS – 'Major drug haul in Tamil Nadu airport' (www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/major-drug-haul-in-tamil-nadu-airport_10021146.html) ↩
- Admin – 'Huge drug haul at Chennai airport' (www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/huge-drug-haul-at-chennai-airport_10043216.html) ↩
- Admin – 'Drugs worth Rs.20 mn seized at Kerala airport' (www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/drugs-worth-rs20-mn-seized-at-kerala-airport_10049794.html) ↩
- IANS – 'Drugs worth Rs.3 mn seized at Chennai airport' (www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/drugs-worth-rs3-mn-seized-at-chennai–airport_10072811.html) ↩
- IANS – 'Two held with ketamine worth Rs.50 million in Chennai' (www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/two-held-with-ketamine-worth–rs50-million-in-chennai_10073223.html) ↩
- Although it is unclear whether police ever apprehended their suspect in this case. ↩
- IANS – 'Ketamine tablets worth Rs.200 mn seized in Chennai' (www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/ketamine-tablets-worth–rs200-mn-seized-in-chennai_100120731.html) ↩
- IANS – 'French tourist found dead in Goa had come from Pakistan' (www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/french-tourist-found-dead-in–goa-had-come-from-pakistan_100134006.html) ↩
- Express News Service – 'Contraband worth Rs 2.5 cr seized from IGI, one held' (archive.indianexpress.com/news/contraband-worth-rs-2.5-cr-seized-from-igi-one-held/441933/) ↩
- IANS – 'Ketamine export racket busted in Goa' (www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/ketamine-export-racket-busted-in–goa_100292793.html) ↩
- A regular stop off for shipments of salt and so a logical venue for the smuggling of crystalline hydrochloride powders. ↩
- Agencies – 'DRI seizes date rape drug of 50 cr in TN' (www.indianexpress.com/article/india/crime/dri-seizes-date-rape-drug–of-50-cr-in-tn/) ↩


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A 41-year-old woman with no significant medical history presents complaining of fatigue and lightheadedness. Physical exam is notable for conjunctival pallor, bilateral brisk patellar reflexes, slightly ataxic gait, and impaired position and vibration sense in the feet bilaterally. Her hematocrit is 23%. Serologic studies are positive for anti-parietal cell antibodies. What would you expect to see on peripheral blood smear?
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Introduction of Top Best Popular Search Engines
The search engine is a piece of software that almost all the users those who use the internet to get to know any topic of interest thereby collect and share information. Mostly it is used as an educative tool for students, people those who need anything to buy, those who need travel information, to get the currency values, check the bank account, entertainment, chatting, to find friends,.etc the list will go on. Nowadays a search engine used has become the main tool in day to day life.
It is just a matter of typing a word or phrase of what you need, it needs not to be grammatical either, in any case, it will find the closest match where many viewers have visited for their convenience.
We can see so many search engines namely Google, Bing, Firefox, Yahoo, AOL, Ask.com, Excite, DuckDuckGo, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, Lvcos, Chacha.com are a few. Out of which we mainly use Google, Yahoo, and Firefox.
A browser is a software program helped to be getting access to a search engine. The search engine is also referred to as a web site where the contents are displayed and the listing will be shown.
Once a user types a request to know about, it will take a fraction of a second to get the list of a search. The list will tell the available sites in relation to the request.
The most famous search engine to date is Google. Of course their many other famous ones such as Yahoo, Firefox. However, Google maintains its large servers in the US speeded around many locations. However, when one types the query it hits many computers and go through a complex set of processes and returns back a list of results for that search option.
Here in the above image, the search engine was given search criteria to search about Computers and Google took 0.79 seconds to check and the count is About 1,060,000,000 results.
If someone plans to buy a vehicle. He can use the search engine and select a vehicle that he wants. What one must do is to decide the thing he wants to search and then select the search engine and then he can type on the search bar here it is the vehicle. what are the options that vehicle has, what is the location of that vehicle sale, the price of the vehicle and anything he wants to know? After he researches all the things, he can select a vehicle. Mostly the search is from around the world. However one can look into a particular geographical location as well. if someone needs to buy something from any other country, He can use the same way through the search engine.
Today everyone who has computer knowledge does depend on the net to get information. One may visit the site to buy something, a kid might look into a game, may look into a cooking recipe and the list will go on. Thereby network traffic is generated. This traffic is also used to generate income for some of those who use it.
Google defines a search engine as a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a line of results often referred to as search engine results pages (SERPs). The information may be a mix of web pages, images, videos and other types of files.
As we told about a search engine as a web page, the server itself links to a million pages with a selected topic. To make a search effective the engine uses multiple words. Then it will identify the search, then crawled (spider), then transformed and at last stored for future reference.
Search engines are thought to be the base of the internet. Let us see in detail why people use search engines? Broadly categorizing we find three groups they are,
1. Research
2. For shopping
3. For entertainment
Search engines for Research
Most people who are using a search engine are doing it for research purposes. They are generally looking for answers or at least to data with which to make a decision. They're looking to find a site to fulfill a specific purpose. Someone doing a term paper on classic cars for their Automotive History 101 class would use it to find statistics on the number of cars sold in the United States, instructions for restoring and customizing old cars, and possibly communities of classic car fanatics out there. Companies would use it in order to find where their clients are, and who their competition is.
Search engines are naturally drawn to research-oriented sites and usually consider them more relevant than shopping-oriented sites, which is why, a lot of the time, the highest listing for the average query is a Wikipedia page. Wikipedia is an open-source online reference site that has a lot of searchable information, tightly cross-linked with millions of backlinks. Wikipedia is practically guaranteed to have a high listing on the strength of its site architecture alone. Wikipedia is an open-source project, this information should be taken with a grain of salt as there is no guarantee of accuracy. This brings you to an important lesson of search engines — they base "authority" on perceived expertise. The accuracy of information is not one of their criteria: Notability is.
A smaller percentage of people, but still very many, use a search engine in order to shop. After the research cycle is over, search queries change to terms that reflect a buying mindset. Terms like "best price" and "free shipping" signal a searcher in need of a point of purchase. Optimizing a page to meet the needs of that type of visitor results in higher conversions for your site. Global search engines such as Google tend to reward research-oriented sites, so your pages have to strike a balance between sales-oriented terms and research-oriented terms.
This is where specialized engines come into the picture. Although you can use a regular search engine to find what it is you're shopping for, some people find it more efficient to use a search engine geared directly towards buying products. Some Web sites out there actually search engines just for shopping. Amazon, eBay, and Shopping.com are all examples of shopping-only engines. The mainstream engines have their own shopping products such as Google Product Search (formerly called Froogle) and Yahoo! Shopping, where you type in the search term for the particular item you are looking for and the engines return the actual item listed in the results instead of the Web site where the item is sold. For example, say you're buying a book on Amazon.com. You type the title into the search bar, and it returns a page of results. Now, you also have the option of either buying it directly from Amazon or, if you're on a budget, you can click over to the used book section. Booksellers provide Amazon.com with a list of their used stock and Amazon handles all of the purchasing, shipping, and ordering info. The same is true of Yahoo! Shopping and Google Product Search. And like all things with the Internet, odds are that somebody, somewhere, has exactly what you're looking for. The following figure displays a results page from Google Product Search.
Research and shopping aren't the only reasons to visit a search engine. The Internet is a vast, addictive, reliable resource for consuming your entire afternoon, and there are users out there who use the search engines as a means of entertaining themselves. They look up things like videos, movie trailers, games, and social networking sites. Technically, it's also research, but it's research used strictly for entertainment purposes. A child of the 80s might want to download an old-school version of the Oregon Trail video game onto her computer so she can recall the heady days of third grade. It's a quest made easy with a quick search on Google. Or if you want to find out what those wacky young Hollywood starlets are up to, you can turn to a search engine to bring you what you need.
If you're looking for a video, odds are it's going to be something from YouTube, much like your research results are going to come up with a Wikipedia page. YouTube is another excellent example that achieves a high listing on results pages. They're an immensely popular video-sharing Web site where anyone with a camera and a working e-mail address can upload videos of themselves doing just about anything from talking about their day to shaving their cats. But the videos themselves have keyword-rich listings in order to be easily located, plus they have an option that also displays other videos. Many major companies have jumped on the YouTube bandwagon, creating their own channels (a YouTube channel is a specific account). Record companies use channels to promote bands, and production companies use them to unleash the official trailer for their upcoming movie.


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These days many people are walking around acting a little bit crazy. Especially in cities, people have become very disconnected from the earth and nature in general. I'm sure you've heard the phrase, "Energy flows where attention goes." Well the main problem people have in the modern world is that they are 'stuck in their head.' Constant mind chatter. Thinking about what they're going to consume next. Worrying about this and that. It's all head stuff…
Getting back in touch with your body is a very healthy thing to do. With all the 'psychic pollution' bombarding us everyday, it's a good idea to practice grounding exercises that 'keep your feet firmly on the ground.'
One of the easiest exercises you can practice is to simply pay attention to your feet. Notice what they feel like at any moment. Try and hold your attention there for 90 seconds. There is a reason for this. It has been discovered that the brain hemispheres will balance out if you focus on a part of your body for at least 90 seconds. You will become free of left-brained stress and anxiety!
So practice doing this at regular intervals throughout the day.
A more advanced and worthwhile practice is that of visualising your root chakra grounding into the earths core. This Shamanic practice has been known about for thousands of years and I'm sure many moons ago we were all much more sorted and harmonious energetically.
The root chakra is located at the base of the spine. It is the first energy centre in the human body and relates to the physical energies. Traditionally this chakra has always been associated with the colour red. There's various esotric reasonings for this. However I like the simple fact that red is the lowest frequency in the visible light spectrum.
Now what you want to do to ground your energies into the earth is practice the following visualisation:
Shamanic Grounding Practice
1. Imagine your root chakra emanating warm red light energy. This comes straight out of the base of your spine and genital region down into the core of the earth; which has a red energy centre.
2. Hold your attention on this energy. Red energy flowing out of your root chakra down into the earth's core. You can sense the earths energy flowing up into your root chakra in an energy exchange.
* Personally I like to experience the energy as a pink quartz colour because this gives me more of a loving energy feeling from the earth. Test to find what works best for you.
OK, so if you're new to this you might want to practice it a few times when you've got some peace and quiet. When you can get a sense of the root chakra connecting into the earth's energies, it's time to practice it out and about. Go for a walk and practice connecting into the earth's core. Switch that red energy on and ground down into the earth. Practice it in different settings so you have true flexibility AND the ability to get grounded at will!
Taking it Further…
When you've got it down, you've empowered yourself with a really useful tool. Even when you're surrounded by the insane worker bees in rush hour at the train station, you will be able to remain calm and in control. You can then take this further by learning to emanate love to these poor un-grounded sods.
You can do this by flowing the energy up from your root chakra to your heart and emanating it outwards in an aura of love. I suggest you first practice this in a medititive setting because it takes some practice to get the concentration needed to do this well.
So to clarify… First get grounded; flow the love energy up from the core of the earth. Send this up to your heart chakra and then imagine sending this red/pink loving energy out from your heart in all directions 360 degrees. Your heart energy is very powerful. You can imagine spreading that energy far and wide.


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You may remember this, so I apologize if I'm repeating it, but our house was built in an area that used to be a walnut grove. We, like many of our neighbors, have a big walnut tree in the back yard.
It's the same one that Emily got herself stuck in last week.
When she began yowling like a crazy cat, I got the ladder out of the garage and pulled her down.
Yeah, I probably should have left her to figure it out for herself, but if you had heard the noise, you would have done the same if only to save yourself with the neighbors.
So, back to this walnut tree … it's been doing what walnut trees do – produce walnuts. The damn things are everywhere and they're not even good walnuts. Most of them are blackened or squishy green or otherwise looking liking anything but a nice normal walnut.
Apparently the wildlife doesn't care.
Now, when I left Colorado where we regularly had bears, deer, bobcats, raccoons and more on our back porch. I thought I probably left all that behind when we moved here, but apparently I was wrong.
This weekend, we were sitting on the stoop outside watching the kitties lounging under the bushes and all of a sudden two raccoons popped over the fence, ran across the yard and under the deck!
I shrieked out of fear for the kitties. I scrambled to grab them and stuff them into the house. They were not pleased. The raccoons had, after all, run right by them and under the deck, so the danger was minimal.
We've seen the raccoons every night since – they're looking for the walnuts.
Guess what they do to them? They do the same damn thing that these black birds do:
They crack them on our sidewalks. The birds crack them all day long and the raccoons take over cracking duty at night.
The birds work in teams although I'm not sure they're very organized or polite about it. One bird will toss the walnut (crack!) and then the others on the ground – they could be considered snitching since they weren't actually doing the flying and aiming part – jump in the detritus and pick through it for walnut pieces.
If the one flying around with the walnut misses the sidewalk, the other on the ground let you know how bad your aim was.
Then, they wander among the walnut shells and bitch about that for a bit and they fly off presumably to take their turn at picking up a walnut and aiming it.
This goes on ALL DAY LONG.
Then, of course, the raccoons pick up the cracking duties at night, but they're on the back side of the house – right at our bedroom door. It's really noisy. So, yesterday I mowed the lawn and took out the leaf rake and raked up all the walnuts, shells, bits of walnut junk, etc.
Last night I slept. The raccoons wandered around for awhile, but there was nothing left for them to crack on the sidewalks so it was quiet.


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Ebenezer Howard and Swan Sonnenschein
Ebenezer Howard and Swan Sonnenschein
Much has been written about Ebenezer Howard's ground breaking book 'To-morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform' published by Swan Sonnenschein in 1898, including a facsimile edition with expert supporting commentary released in 2003. Apart from references to the fact that Howard used a £50 gift to fund the book's publication, very little has been written about the relationship between author and publisher.
Reading University Special Collections include a series of letter books comprising carbon copies of Sonnenschein's outgoing correspondence to clients including those to Howard that begin on 11 October 1897 and end on 23 June 1910. The letters are all business related without personal insight into the relationship and while the archive contains some 600 incoming letters, sadly there are none from Howard. Reading the outgoing letters allows us to speculate on the content of Howard's responses.
As the letters are carbon copies, now more than 100 years old, a few are completely illegible and some are partially unreadable but nevertheless there is much of interest.
11 October 1897: "We have read your MS [manuscript] entitled "The Master Key" but regret that we do not see our way to make you any proposal for publication. It is not in our opinion suitable for our Social Science Series. Thanking you for your offer".
In spite of this rebuff, Howard must have made a further proposal as the first cost estimate for printing and publication was prepared only a month later. At this point Sonnenschein explains its costs are higher than another publisher because of the low quality of the competitor's work.
4 November 1897: "…. the paper they send for the plates is very good but that for the text is wretched…"
This first cost estimate is £44 for 1,000 copies, £71 5s for 3,000 and £94 10s for 5,000.
There are then exchanges about the terms of a possible contract between author and publisher from which it is clear that Howard is weighing up how he might structure the arrangement including it seems whether he will deal with the printer directly or leave this to Sonnenschein. Also there are thoughts about the book's title.
10 November 1897: "…. We think 3,000 copies would be quite sufficient to start with…….."To-morrow etc" is a very good title, we think. We do not feel it has been used elsewhere for a book".
Howard seems also to have asked for 1,000 of the print run for himself with the remainder available for general sale.
There is a gap of a few months in the correspondence and then on 12 July 1898, a further costing is provided with a price of £73 15s 6d for 3,000 copies, on the basis of Howard using the format of another of Sonnenschein's books. The publisher also notes that Howard is arranging the printing of the now famous colour plates. By this date Sonnenschein are keen to place an order, saying they could produce the book very quickly as the printers are " all very slack of work and daily asking us for composition".
15 July 1898: "We enclose contractual agreement, signed by ourselves & containing receipt of the cheque £49 2s 10d paid to us this day. We have at once sent the MS to press and hope to forward you proofs very shortly. We return you the four (? word not clear) diagrams inserted in the MS which we understand are to be separately printed and are part of those estimated for to you by Messrs Harrison & Sons…..".
Even at this late stage, a decision on the book's ultimate title remained subject to possible change.
19 July 1898: "We have sent on the fresh MS to the printers. We will look up "Tomorrow" as a title. It is, in our opinion a better title than "The Next Step", which has we fear, too general a meaning to connote the contents of your book. It would, in fact, better suit a novel than an economic treatise".
Howard seems to have remained cost conscious throughout the process, including advertising. Sonnenschein proposed to spend £5 on advertising and "see meantime how the book is received". By 13 October this had become "We will stop expenditure on advertisements – very little has been spent".
Sonnenschein had sold 60 copies of the book by 13 October and on 1 November, a summary was provided to Howard confirming that they had by then sent him 650 copies. It is well known that Howard distributed 'To-morrow' to national newspapers, the editors of other publications and others sympathetic to his cause. He received 7 copies on 29 September but the first large batch of 242 was received on 4 October, which could be considered perhaps the 'official' publication date if a single date is to be selected.
Early sales were slow. By 30 June 1899, about 150 had been sold and 1,021 distributed for free, leaving about 1,800 of the 3,000 printed still in unbound sheets.
The first annual statement for the period to 30 June 1899 shows that Howard had made two further small injections of cash to the project since his first payment to Sonnenschein in July 1898. In total, Howard had contributed £69 3s 10d which together with book sales income of £10 17s 6d left Sonnenschein £3 18s 8d out of pocket.
To October 1900, sales remained at low levels and 1,200 were still unbound. There seems to have been no further written contact until a year later in October 1901. At this point there is a first reference Howard's new book 'Garden Cities of To-morrow' [although not named here]…" a reprint might be desirable but we think that would depend chiefly on the prospects of the Garden [City] Association……"
Contractual arrangements for the new book then start in earnest – it seems that Howard was to have more control over the printing than he had with 'To-morrow'; Sonnenschein acting more as agent. Opinions on the book's prospects were rather more upbeat:
25 October 1901: "…if the whole 3,000 sold (as they no doubt will)….."
29 October 1901: "…we are anxious to give you favourable terms…."
28 November 1901: "We have a good many inquiries for your book. We think we could sell it pretty well, if it were ready early in January & it would be as well to go to press as quickly as possible".
12 December 1901: "Can you give us an idea when you will have the new edition of your book? The demand for it is pretty frequent & our travellers should have it for their January journeys".
There was clearly a positive knock on effect to the sales of 'To-morrow' and by February 1902 stocks of the cloth edition were exhausted.
By July 1902, 'Garden Cities' was on sale and from then until 1910 the remaining brief exchanges between Howard and Sonnenschein concentrate on sales, distribution and annual financial statements. References to 'To-morrow' are also at an end.
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by Carolyn Crane
Released: September 28, 2010
Series: The Disillusionists #2
Published by Spectra
Pages: 326
Format: Paperback
What. A. Book. I really loved it. I thought the first book was great, but Double Cross builds on the foundations laid by Mind Games. Justine is still stuck as a minion to Packard, but is determined to find a way out, meanwhile a trio of murderers called the Dorks are targeting highcaps and shooting them in the street. Then there is the matter of all the highcap criminals locked up by Justine's boyfriend the Mayor and hero of MidCity Otto Sanchaz, but are they really all guilty? Justine begins to question this as she finds herself on a mission to disillusion an unlikely cannibal.
This was such an exciting book, especially the second half when everything is brought together, I found I couldn't put the book down! The plot was interesting and I kept turning the pages as I couldn't wait to see what would happen next; what new twist would be revealed. I now can't wait to get my hands on the third and final book in the trilogy Head Rush, especially after how it ended, that was a complete shocker! I am glad I am not one the readers who had to wait for so long for the next book to come out.
Justine Jones, the main characters, is one of the reasons I like this book so much, she is funny, insightful and her constant questioning of things around her keeps the book interesting and progressing at a fast pace. Although I did find that the first half of the book was a little slow, especially compared with the latter half, I still enjoyed every page.
Now, what I really, really liked about this book was the Justion-Packard-Otto situation, I am not a love triangle fan, but this triangle is keeping me on my toes. So many unexpected things happen between them and some dark secrets are revealed. What makes this book doubly intriguing for me is that the villains and the heroes swap places, the role of who is good and who is bad is distorted in this book, something that not only adds to the depth of the characters but also keeps the book fairly unpredictable, no one quite does what you expect them to do.
I highly recommend this series to everyone, if you love mystery, contemporary, urban fantasy, paranormal romance, this book has a little something for everyone.
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The Harlem's Fashion Row (HFR) capped off its 5th anniversary with a spectacular fashion event overlooking the New York City skyline at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
The show was a powerful representation of the range and talent that has been grossly overlooked when it comes to designers of color in the fashion industry. HFR is championing the efforts to bring the creations of black designers to the forefront and continued that mission with its beautifully executed event during New York Fashion Week.
The featured designers -- Latisha Daring of Ashtyn, Nzinga Knight of Nzinga Knight, Joseph Bethune of Bethune Brothers and Omar Salam of Sukeina -- presented strong collections, further proving the point that their garments were worthy of some serious recognition. Renowned fashion designer Kevan Hall served as an extra treat. Hall, who has dressed Vivica A. Fox, Garcelle Beauvais, Debra Messing and Renee Zellweger, to name a few, closed the show with beautiful offerings from his signature Spring 2013 collection.
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Check out the final episode in our HFR series "The Show" above and some photos from the spectacular event in the slideshow below.


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An entire month passed by without an update on the website, which goes to show how busy life in Stockholm (and Riga) has been. From hiking through the Swedish woods and attending banquets (my favourite) to spending entire weekends studying for one on the biggest exams and getting a taste of what it's like to be a business consultant. Safe to say, it's been an interesting few weeks!
September 30th
Similar to the last 'update' post, I'll be highlighting the most memorable moments of the past weeks. First up, The Masked Ball! As I might have mentioned before, banquets are definitely a favourite of mine. You get to dress up in pretty dresses and high heels, have dinner in a beautifully decorated banquet hall and mingle with amazing people. Not to mention the Swedish songs, the entertainment, the wine, the afterparty and the possible after afterparty.
October 1st
The next day, we went hiking through a park / woods. I promised to go, which is the only reason I was able to get up so early. Turns out some fresh Swedish air can really cure a bit of a hangover. The mini hike turned into a long hike, but luckily we were rewarded with a campfire and marshmallows in the end.
October 2nd – 3rd
Completely different news, I've become one of the Digital Ambassadors for Study in Sweden! I applied for the position a while ago and was lucky enough to be invited for an interview and got the position in the end. Study in Sweden is an online resource from the Swedish government, providing loads of information for international students about what it is like to study in Sweden. I've become part of the Instagram team, which means that I'll be responsible for the Instagram account together with three other amazing people. Aside from that, I'll also be writing two blogs per month for the Study in Sweden website. So you can now see and read about my life in Stockholm on those channels as well!
October 4th – 12th
Two assignments and the biggest exam I have ever had. Luckily I started preparing for all of this a little earlier, but the amount of work that needed to be done was insane. I don't think I've studied this much for an exam ever. The balcony in the atrium at school became my new home. Arrived at 8 in the morning and left when the guard kicked us out at 10 at night. Together with a number of class mates, we tried to work trough over a 1000 pages of research papers. I only went back to my studio to shower and sleep. Crazy few days, but also surprisingly nice to share those miserable times with a group of class mates. Friday was exam day, a 5-hour exam day. I thought I'd be out in 4 hours, but I was wrong. I needed every single minute. So happy I was done. I got my grade yesterday and I passed!!!
October 14th – 28th
It's the day after the exam and it's time for the Riga trip! On Saturday morning, I record my TED Talk (another assignment that needs to be finished) and pack my suitcase. At three, we arrive at the harbour and get on the ferry that'll take us to Riga. Everybody is both tired and ecstatic about the fact that we're done with the exam and assignments. And since it takes 18 hours to get to Riga, there was plenty of time for a little party.
But we're not really in to Riga to party, even though it might look like it now. Pictures can be a little deceiving, because do you ever take photos of boring things? However, during these two weeks, each team was at a different company working on a consultancy project. It was a great way to get a little bit of a feel of what it's like to be a consultant, as well as learning more about cultural differences and group dynamics. Looking back, it was definitely more work than expected. We were asked to stick to office hours as much as possible (9 to 6/7), but as the end of the project was nearing that wasn't possible anymore. We had some very late nights. Everyone wanted to deliver good projects and good projects take time. Luckily we had some time off over the weekend to explore the city and taste some Latvian food. It was an exhausting but amazing experience. Would not have wanted to miss it for the world.
October 28th
We catch the ferry back to Stockholm and arrive on the morning of October 28th. I rush back home, take shower and go to Rebecca's. She's being amazing and letting me borrow a dress of her's for the Master Gasque. No matter how tired I am, I'm not gonna pass on my favourite Swedish event. And it lived up to my ever growing expectation of banquets, again. Also, I liked the dress so much, I didn't really want to give it back and decided to order it for myself as well. I will be wearing this one for my birthday, Christmas and New Year's Eve. Just saying.
And that was it for the past weeks. It is impossible to cover all the good (and sometimes bad) times of my life in Stockholm, but this is as close as I'm gonna get. I have a week-long break, which could not have been planned better. I'll be sleeping for most of it, recovering from all this. What a few weeks it has been. Feeling so lucky I get to experience it all.


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The Project
For the past year or two I've had an ongoing side project where I post to the Twitter account @bman_countdown. It started out as just a simple countdown, but I realized I could use it as an opportunity to provide more information about the event, so I started to tack on links to relevant content on the BurningMan.com website.
Over time I've increased the functionality from being a static set of links, to mixing in the most recent blog post from the Burning Blog. (Actually, this functionality just went live today.)
This has been a great 'toy' project that I use to experiment with different technologies.
The Environment
For the first couple of iterations it was a Ruby script that I ran off of my 'media server' (a Mac Mini which I had set up as recommended by MacMiniColo). To emulate cron functionality, I used launchd to run the script once a day.
Predictably, this setup caused some hiccups in the continuity of the service: when my ISP service went out; when my router borked; when the hard drive failed; when I moved; etc. (Yay for providing non-mission-critical projects!)
Around the time of the 2010 Burning Man event, Twitter removed the ability to use Basic Auth, which is what the library I used relied upon. I decided the service could take a break right after the event while I figured out what I was going to do with it.
I had done some minor playing with Google AppEngine in Java, so I was familiar with the basic services GAE provides. (I love AppEngine's first-class cron support. And the TaskQueue concept ecourages truly asynchronous and scalable design.) But, since this project is what I use to experiment with stuff, I figured I'd try out Python.
Meeting Python
First, I had to get up to speed on Python itself. So, I got the book Programming in Python 3. I studied several chapters of this book and did a couple of the 'programming assignments' (which I thought was a great idea), until I felt I was familiar enough with the language to take a poke at upgrading the countdown.
I came to realize that the process of developing in Python is so easy! (Even more so in GAE, as the development server environment that you get is great, and shit just works: just save the changes to the file and you can hit the page, and you get instant feedback.)
I know I'm a latecomer and I am treading dangerously close to Programming Language War territory here, but I have to say that I am entirely fed up with the edit/build/deploy cycle that leaks time and energy in Java projects. Do you realize that in big Java shops, there are engineers whose entire function is to iterate on the build process? Remember that whole "Google App Engine in Maven + IntelliJ" blog post that I made? In Python, the build-cycle-via-build-tool process doesn't exist. Imagine a future where you don't need to wrestle through Maven's bullshit to get stuff done. I can see this future in Python, and it gives me tingles in my naughty bits!
Sure, I've got rose-colored glasses on here. I am a native speaker of high-protocol Java (my kingdom for a native "?" operator!), who is currently a tourist in a strange land speaking a stilted pidgin version of Python. Admittedly, I have an incomplete grasp on what the costs and benefits are when moving from a compiled language to an interpreted one. But it sure seems easier so far.
Future of Java
I was originally pulling for the Java ecosystem, whether that comes from a selfish (it's where my bread gets buttered) or a philanthropic (because I've seen so much good Open Source stuff come out of it) point of view, I'm not sure. I was happy when some very smart people talked about ways that at least the JVM could stay relevant by embracing more dynamic languages built on top of it.
But then there was last weeks announcement that Mac OS X would deprecate support for Java. This generated a lot of excellent discussion. My favorite post both described why this is a death knell for Java, while also outlining a strategy for ensuring Java could continue to function (by breaking up it's fairly monolithic API into discrete modules).
Alas, because of a very specific interaction I had, I fear Chris Adamson's cogent post will probably be ignored by Oracle. Back when the news came out that Oracle was buying Sun and therefore Java and MySQL, I spoke to a friend of mine who worked for Oracle. I told him I didn't care if Oracle owned Java and MySQL as long as they didn't fuck it up. His response: "Don't worry. We'll fuck it up."
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After sailing a near perfect tactical race in extremely difficult conditions, with extremes from a testing 25-knot southerly, with a bumpy seaway through the first night, to a calm in the notoriously rough and windy Bass Strait, Neville Crichton's Alfa Romeo was first to finish in the 2009 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, with an elapsed time of two days, 9hrs, 2mins, 10secs for the 628nm course.The line honours win, with a Reichel-Pugh designed canting keel 100-footer, was Sydney-based New Zealander Crichton's second in the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race. His previous win, in 2002, was with his first Alfa Romeo maxi, a water-ballasted Reichel/Pugh 90.
Alfa, with good speed and crew work, as well as tactics, led from the start, holding off all challenges from her arch-rival Bob Oatley's R/P 100 Wild Oats XI, a very similar design from the same builder, McConaghy Boats in Sydney, launched only a few months apart in 2005, and Mike Slade's (UK) Farr 100, ICAP Leopard.
Wild Oats XI won their first line honours battle with Alfa in the 2005 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race by an hour and 16 minutes. Crichton then took Alfa Romeo to the northern hemisphere for the Mediterranean regattas in 2006 and 2007 where Alfa and Oats swapped line honours wins until Wild Oats XI broke her mast in the 2007 Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Porto Cervo and was shipped back to Australia. This year's Rolex Sydney Hobart was their first encounter since in a major offshore race.
Crichton's fears of slowing in a southwest headwind in calms in the River Derwent over the last 11 nautical miles to the finish were unfounded. She stalled only once in a light patch and finally steamed home to get the finishing gun at Battery Point just after 2200, with Wild Oats XI 17nm behind (Wild Oats eventually finished just over two hours later.)
A crowd of several hundred people crowded the Constitution Wharf marina to watch the finish and cheer Alfa in to the dock. Asked, as Alfa Romeo berthed, how he was feeling, Crichton said: "It's fantastic and the welcome here in Tasmania is unbelievable."
He praised his crew, half of them New Zealanders and half Australian: "The 22 guys I have are the best crew in the world. The two days coming down the coast was hard work and it was good; the boys did a helluva job on the boat and it was very, very close racing."
Was the lack of wind frustrating? "Oh no, we were very busy the whole race."
Did he see the win as sweet revenge for the 2005 defeat by Wild Oats XI? "Every win is a good win. It has taken me four years to come back and do it, so it was even nicer. He added, "Winning the Rolex Sydney Hobart is the ultimate in ocean racing."
Crichton was presented with a Rolex Yacht-Master timepiece and the JH Illingworth trophy for his line honours win. The victory-pumped Crichton showed his mischievous sense of humour at the dockside presentation; MC Steve Barker asked Crichton if he had any message for the skippers of Leopard and Wild Oats, who had challenged a couple of times. He raised a big laugh with the answer and a gesture toward the River Derwent: "Where ARE they?"
At 0015, ICAP Leopard was 35.6nm from the finish making 8.6 kn. There were 93 yachts still to finish from a fleet of 100 starters, with five retired.
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There are so many technology tools out there to help you improve your communications with your school's key stakeholders but how do you separate the good from the bad?
Parental engagement is consistently associated with pupils' success at school. A research report commissioned by the Department for Education in 2010 stated that parental engagement has a large and positive impact on children's learning.
In the new Ofsted inspection framework, parental engagement is judged as successful only to the degree that it has a clear and positive impact on children's outcomes. In order to obtain an outstanding judgement for Leadership and Management you have to evidence that:
"The school has highly successful strategies for engaging with parents and carers, to the very obvious benefit of pupils, including those who might traditionally find working with the school difficult."
Moreover, the inspection process takes into account the views of parents, pupils, and staff –
parent's perceptions of the school are therefore vital.
Do you know what your pupils' parents think about your school?
If you are looking for a tool to improve your school's engagement with parents, there are4 benefits that your parental engagement tool must be able to offer.
1. Communicate with parents/carers in the channels that they use everyday
Parents now communicate in a range of different channels. The most obvious change over recent years is the increase of parent communities on social media, for example, in private facebook groups. This has not been a traditional area for school's to communicate with parents in the past, however, it is crucial, especially when sending urgent information, that information is disseminated to parents as quickly as possible and to the channel that they engage with the most.
Making the most of the channels that your audience use every day also allows them to confidently engage with you. Technology has huge potential to involve parents with the school which in turn facilitates greater learning at home and encourages greater parental involvement in school activities. It is important that parents feel comfortable using whatever technology you choose to communicate with them, as empowers them to confidently engage with the school.
Engaging with parents in the channels they already use not only increases the value of your communications for the parents but also makes your job easier as parents are already familiar with the channel and are therefore more likely and able to engage with you.
2. Track the effectiveness of your communications with parents/carers
Many schools consider their parental engagement to be very successful. However, when asked more closely it becomes clear that the school's communications are largely information, with the school pushing out information with no clarity around the parent's level of engagement with them. Having a communications tool where you can monitor your audience's response to your texts, emails, or letters is important to improving communications in the future and making sure they are effective.
Also, when schools are informing parents of important school updates, such as snow day announcements or broken boilers, it is crucial that the school knows this information is being received and read. Real-time tracking in parental engagement tools allows schools to monitor how many people have opened and read their communications, and assess whether another communication needs to be sent out.
3. Build a two-way conversation
Engagement with parents should be an ongoing conversation. Engagement should not just be confined to sending out announcements and newsletters; it should be an opportunity to discover what parent's think, what works for them, and to collect and analyze their feedback. By doing this schools are able to make changes and improve processes in line with parent's views. For example, if you sent out a questionnaire to all parents about what day of the week and what time of the day would be best to contact them, you can tailor your future communications to be more effective and also prove to Ofsted that you are engaging with parents in the way that they want to be engaged with.
Being able to embed videos, questions forms, QR codes and other similar engagement features in your communications allows schools to really engage with parents beyond simply giving them information.
4. Easy to use
For parental engagement to be sustainable it needs to be easy to adopt and easy to manage.
Managing communications with lots of parents, especially across many channels, can be a challenging and time consuming task. How do you communicate with all of your pupils parents, make sure they are successfully engaging with them, and then improving your strategy based on this success? An easy to use platform to manage all of these communications is crucial to making engagement with parents as successful as possible.
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Thursday, 18 February 2016
Thousands Of Congregants Flee Church After The Devil Appears During Service
The faithful bolted out of the church, falling over each other after the alleged rascal, hidden from their view, pretended to be 'the devil' and scared them stiff.
It all began after worshipers closed their eyes and began chorusing a prayer before the sermon could begin. The boy is said to have tiptoed and picked the extra microphone at the lectern before hiding behind two loudspeakers.
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Henry Fleming is a horsemanship and equitation writer, trainer, tutor, and clinician. He advocates historical ideals of advanced horsemanship, applying principles espoused by William Cavendish and Francois Baucher to achieve them quickly and safely.
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a book by Linda Banner with a DVD by the Sinclair Intimacy Institute. It is aimed at heterosexual couples, and
explains how to use self-pleasuring in sex, how to stimulate the G-spot, do
oral sex, use sex toys, explore anal pleasure and engage in erotic play. The book is coy with its illustrations, showing
black and white photographs of clothed men and women kissing or hugging, while
the DVD is a very explicit demonstration of a variety of sexual
The book is short, at 176 pages,
and has no diagrams or explicit images.
Only the first 134 pages are devoted to sexual instruction, since the
final section of the book is devoted to some short erotic stories. The instructions it gives are quite brief
and do not seem particularly sophisticated.
To just give one example, in the list of "sexual positions that
sizzle," the book lists some variations on the missionary, the "woman
astride" position, rear entry, and standing, and a few positions for when
women are pregnant. So it hardly as
exhaustive as The Joy of Sex or most other sex manuals, let alone the
Karma Sutra. Most chapters end with
referrals to videos in the Better Sex seriespublished by the
Sinclair Institute, and it seems that really the book is little more than a way
to package the DVD that comes with it.
The DVD that comes with the book is
actually the second one in the Better Sex Video Series, and it briefly
refers to the first in the series, which apparently demonstrates simpler sexual
activity. The couples here are of
varying ages, maybe from their twenties to their fifties. They look like normal people and don't have
"porn star" bodies. The
settings look mostly like staged bedroom sets.
The DVD shows men and women masturbating themselves alone and together,
masturbating each other, performing oral sex on each other, and having vaginal
and anal intercourse. Each section is
introduced and narrated by a number of experts who have been filmed in a
separate studio against a black background.
Sometimes they appear within small screens on the side while the main
picture shows a couple demonstrating what they are talking about. There is inoffensive background music in the
background during the demonstrations.
The attitude of the whole program is that sex is pleasurable and if
people shed some of their inhibitions they will enjoy it even more. The production quality is good, although the
whole thing feels little clinical and occasionally low-budget. There is a short extra selection on the DVD
which shows some of the people behind the scenes in the making of the main
video, and shows the two people who introduce the whole program messing up
their lines a few times. The video
could be potentially useful to some people who want to get some ideas and see
them demonstrated.
Calling a book Advanced Sexual
Techniques carries an assumption that it is possible to divide techniques
up into basic and advanced, and indeed that sex involves techniques. Of course, this assumption makes a good deal
of sense, but thinking about sex this way may turn it into a mechanical
process. More than that, it suggests
that there are right ways and wrong ways to have sex, in the sense that there
are right ways and wrong ways to do needlework, woodwork, or playing musical
instruments. Maybe there's something
awry in thinking about sex that way, even if obviously when two people learn
what each other like, there can be a great of learning what to do and how to do
it. One obvious problem with it is that
is focuses almost purely on the physical, and says very little about the
psychological side of sex. Obviously,
if sex were simply a matter of two people performing techniques on each other,
it would make little difference who one's partner was. There may be some people for whom that is
basically true, but for most people, a central feature of a sexual relationship
is how you relate to the other person psychologically. Neither the book nor the DVD has anything
substantial to say about that part of sex.
Selecting a sex manual or
instructional DVD is a very personal choice.
The Advanced Sexual Techniques book here is not very impressive
at all, but the DVD is reasonably good for what it is.
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"Comradery is the spirit of friendship and community in a group, like the comradery of soldiers at war who keep each other upbeat despite the difficulty of their circumstances. In other words, someone who comes to mind when you say, "We're in this together." Comradery is a feeling of trust, a bond created by a shared goal or experience — you don't have to be best friends with everyone in the group to know you have their support." ~Taken from Dictionary.com
Last year I put an ad in my community monthly magazine saying I wanted to start an Autism/Aspergers support group in our community. I was so excited to do this. I was sure that the emails would flood in. The idea of having a group of moms who GOT IT… well it made me giddy. The magazine came out and I sat back and waited. And waited and waited.
Months went by and nothing. Now I live in a BIG community and I know for a fact that I am not the only Autism mommy, and yet no one reached out to me, no one! Then one day I got an email and I excitedly wrote back to the woman. She had a small child who was recently diagnosed and she, like me, wanted desperately to connect. In fact it was by chance that she even found me because she did not even live in my community. I took her info and promised her that when others responded I would get back to her.
Every month that ad ran in the magazine and still nothing. Thankfully I had you, my readers and my Village of folks on Facebook… but still I longed for my Local Comrades. I needed to know I was not alone here in my community. I needed to know that there was at least one mom who lived by me who got it, who could share in my experiences.
Just as I was about to pull the ad I got a response. A lovely woman who not only lived in my community, her child went to the same school as mine. Several emails were exchanged and then we met. We were strangers and yet we were not. She was my comrade, someone whom I could say, "WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER" with. We met again for coffee and the two of us talked about how we wished more folks in our area would come out so to speak. We expressed to each other "OUT LOUD" things I only write to you guys. We admitted to feeling like we are part of the "BAD MOM CLUB" or at least that is what the other moms tend to make us feel like. We talked and promised to keep in touch and do it again. As I drove home from that last meeting I said a little prayer to myself that others would come forward to join us because there is so much that we can learn from one another and so so much we can do to support each other. And as if the man upstairs was just waiting for me to ask… it happened.
That night I got an email from another mom whom I quickly called back. We chatted and instantly had a great connection. She told me about a friend she had who had similar experiences with her child… and just like that it happened. We had a a community, a group.
This morning we had our first meeting. There were 5 of us and we sat around and talked about our kids and got to know one another. Each of us different and yet the same. Before we knew it 2 hours had passed by and we all needed to leave and get back to our so-called real life. We promised to get together with our children in July and in August to have a Mommy Night out. We exchanged emails and numbers, and everyone left feeling as if they had a new friend, a new person in their corner.
I tell you all this because I want you all to know that it is okay to feel alone… but it is even better to feel like you are part of a community. I love my virtual Autism mommies but there is something wonderful about sitting around with REAL live folks laughing together, shaking your head yes knowing that someone else gets it, has been there, speaks your same language.
I am just one person and yet I was able to connect 5 strangers together today and you know what… that is incredible. It took time but it happened. You can do it to. You just have to reach out and be open to it. I know that is easier said then done. Perhaps you are not ready to do that yet, and that is fine. But one day, one day you will wake up and be ready to have a COMRADE!
"Comradery is a feeling of trust, a bond created by a shared goal or experience — you don't have to be best friends with everyone in the group to know you have their support." Be open, be brave, be supportive… reach out to another special needs mom and invite her for coffee. You will be surprised just how much you BOTH NEED IT!


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Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious collision at Ditchling Common that happened during the early hours of this morning (June 4).
Emergency services were called to the B2112 Common Lane at Ditchling Common at 2.30am after a car left the road and collided with a tree before overturning near the Oaks Poultry Farm, said police.
A man and two women, all in their 20s and from the Haywards Heath area, sustained serious injuries and had to be freed from the vehicle, a blue hatchback, by firefighters.
All were taken by ambulance to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, said police.
The road was closed until 6.30am, added police.
Anyone who saw what happened or noticed the vehicle being driven shortly beforehand, who may have dash-cam footage or who has other relevant information, is asked to report details online at www.sussex.police.uk/contact/af/contact-us.
Alternatively, people can email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 101, quoting Operation Alto.
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Once you have determined what type of cabinet door you are installing and what type of hinge you will be using, you are ready to install. This process may seem daunting, but it is actually pretty easy. If you haven't already, check out what tools and materials you may need.
For our sample installation, we will illustrate how to install a butt hinge. Butt hinges can be mortised or non-mortised, concealed or visible. The following process is for installing butt hinges mortised into solid wood cabinet doors, and also mortised into the frame.
1) On the cabinet door, measure for the location of all hinges.
2) If you plan to mortise your hinge then you will want to position each hinge on the door and mark the perimeter of the hinge with a pencil. Then gently cut out the mortise within the perimeter of the mark with a chisel and hammer. The mortise should only be as deep as the hinge leaf.
To the left we have marked the perimeter with a pencil and have begun to chisel out the area inside.
3) Repeat the first two steps for each of the cabinet doors.
4) Next, mark the location of the screws on each of the hinge locations. You may want to drill pilot holes, although this isn't necessary. Then install the screws.
To the left we have the hinges mounted on the cabinet door and our pilot holes have been drilled on the cabinet frame.
5) Now hold the door in place over the cabinet opening. Using a pencil mark the perimeter of each leaf that will attach to the cabinet frame. Just as before, carefully cut out the mortise to the depth of the hinge. You must remember to be careful because it is possible for the wood to splinter as you chisel.
6) Finally, mark the location of the screws on each of the hinge locations. You may want to drill pilot holes, although this isn't necessary. Then install the screws.


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Yes, that's right. I didn't sleep at all between Friday and Sunday, last weekend. To be fair to those following my blogs, I need to say that normal service is far from what we have right now!
The simple fact is that some events have conspired to make it impossible to focus on anything particularly well. It's family affairs with poor Jenny dashing about all over the place, on top of having had to return to work today after two weeks vacation. I'm afraid that I'm thinking more about Jenny and the state of things with other family members, including the health of one who was rushed into hospital very early this morning. So writing meaningful blog posts or doing any of the numerous other things I routinely do have been pushed aside for now. Obviously, I'm hoping this is short term, but Life has no guarantees – beyond its infallible ability to kick you when you least expect it!
So, there you have it. Fingers crossed.
(In the words of a song from Jesus Christ Superstar: Can we start again please?)


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Sakanaction literally translates as "Fish Action," and the bandmembers intend it to designate that they're as good with shifting between styles as a fish with moving in water. If the metaphor is a bit watered down, it still reflects the group's sound, which mashes together alt-rock, pop, dance, and new wave. Sakanaction's mastermind, guitarist/vocalist Ichiro Yamaguchi, began his musical career copying British rock groups in a high-school band, but the act splintered when he tried to introduce electronica to its music, leaving Yamaguchi to work solo. He began DJing at night clubs, but in 2005 had another go at collaborative work, teaming up with guitarist Motoharu Iwadera, later joined by Ami Kusakari, Emi Okazaki, and Keiichi Ejima. The band first gained attention at the 2006 Rising Sun Rock Fest, and debuted as a recording unit in 2007 with the simultaneous release of the album Go to the Future and the single "Words/Sample," followed by the second full-length Night Fishing in early 2008. That year Sakanaction also played the Summer Sonic event, which was organized by the popular radio station Music On! and featured Death Cab for Cutie, Paul Weller, and These New Puritans. Sakanaction's single "Sentorei" (2008) fought the likes of GReeeeN and Mayu in the charts, rising to number nine, and in 2009 they released their third album, Shinshiro, promoted by the nationwide Sakanquarium2009 tour.
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The Rebecca Reck Art Box is released 4 times a year for the first time in 2019.
Each box will include a set of exclusive Rebecca Reck Art fabrics and matching trims.
The fabrics included in the boxes are brand new designs not available individually at the time of the release and are exclusive to Mimifabrics in Canada. Each box will have a theme matching the season.
With this box you will receive state of the art designs and sewing inspirations, from Rebecca and Mimi to you. The items are carefully selected and curated to make it a wonderful and exciting experience not only for us but also for you.
The boxes are a limited edtiton only 70 will be available for sale in North America!!!
The small box contains 1.5 - 2m of fabric plus a variety of trims valued at $90 (CAD)
The bix box contains 2.5- 3m of fabric plus a variety of trims valued at $135 (CAD)
The tentative date for the fourth box in Canada is Early December 2019
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Iran jet crashes after take-off, killing 48
An Iranian passenger plane has crashed while taking off from an airport near the capital Tehran, killing 48 people on board.
State-run news agency IRNA said the aircraft, an Iran-140 typically used for short domestic flights, crashed near Mehrabad airport, west of Tehran. The plane went down in a residential area after its engine failed.
Iranian state television said 48 people were killed in the crash: 40 passengers and eight crew members. The plane, operated by Sepahan Air, was heading to Tabas, a town in eastern Iran. It took off at 9.20am local time and crashed shortly afterwards.
The Iran-140 is a 52-seat passenger plane produced in Iran with Ukrainian technology.
Iran has suffered a series of plane crashes, blamed on its ageing aircraft and poor maintenance. Many of the Boeing aircraft in state-run Iran Air's fleet were bought before the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution, which disrupted ties with the US and Europe.
US sanctions prevent Iran from updating its US aircraft and make it difficult to get European spare parts or planes as well. The country has come to rely on Russian aircraft, many of them Soviet-era planes that are harder to get parts for since the Soviet Union's breakup.
The last major airliner crash in Iran was in January 2011, when an Iran Air Boeing 727 broke into pieces on impact while attempting an emergency landing in north-western Iran, killing at least 77 people.
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A leader in the hard-edged, geometric abstractionist movement that arose in the U.S. and Europe in the late 1950s, Edwin Mieczkowski is regarded as one of the earliest proponents of Optical Art, a style that rivaled Abstract Expressionism for dominance in the mid-1960s.
Born in Pittsburgh in 1929, he received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1957 and his MFA from Carnegie Mellon in 1959. He taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art for 39 years, even while maintaining a home and studio for a number of years in New York City.
Together with Frank Hewitt and Ernst Benkert, he formed an artist group called Anonima. Sharing studio space in New York and other locations, they followed a rigorous, self-imposed program of painting exercises to explore the effects of color, brightness and form on visual perception, prefiguring and becoming part of the Op Art movement.
Mieczkowski's painting, Adele's Class Ring, appeared in the 1964 Time magazine article that first introduced the term Op Art to the public. With his Anonima colleagues, he was also included in The Responsive Eye exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965—the seminal exhibition of Optical Art—alongside work by such artists as Josef Albers, Victor Vasarely, Julian Stanzcak, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Carlos Cruz-Diaz, Ad Reinhardt, Jesús Rafael Soto and Bridget Riley. Mieczkowski's work was a part of Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s, the major exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art in 2007 that presented a major reconsideration of Op Art.
Mieczkowski spent several decades of his professional artistic career quietly pursuing his intuitive explorations in geometric and perceptual abstraction while teaching at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He executed a number of public art commissions in this period, the most prominent being his 1979 tondo titled Sommer's Sun in the Cleveland Public Library's Brett Hall.
His work has been collected by museums in Israel, Denmark and Poland as well as the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Akron Art Museum, the New Jersey State Museum and the Robert Hull Fleming Museum in Vermont.
Mieczkowski's most recent work uses the straight lines, curves and angles of geometric abstraction to create dazzling representations of concepts from the new sciences, especially biomedicine and biotechnology. In 2013, Mieczkowski's archives were given to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Artist Feature on Ed Mieczkowski in the Santa Fean Magazine
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Exhibition Review of Ed Mieczkowski from the Cleveland Museum of Art
Catalog: Ed Mieczkoski: Vibrations of the Eye, Mind and Soul, February 2018


text: Are you ever interested in seeing freebie offers? I get lots of samples in the mail – its like Christmas sometimes!!! Here's the link to free Sandy's Wipes – I put packs like these in my car, purse, toiletry bags, etc. You never know when you'll have a mess and I hate not being able to wipe my hands off! 🙂 Who says you have to be a mom to carrying these things around!?!


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Chamarel, Mauritius
Chamarel espresso - a coffee secretA waterfall, the seven colored earth, a fantastic viewpoint of valleys, peaks and islets, a restored Ebony Forest Nature Park, miles of pine-apples, sugar, banana trees, tea and hardly mentioned - coffee.
The funny thing is that no-one in Mauritius drinks coffee. The majority being Hindu, they enjoy a good cup of sweet, milky tea. The Creole (of African descent), also drink tea. The Chinese drink tea.
Ok, the Franco's (French descent), drink some coffee.
But, Israeli descent comes with its many dangerous hazards. Coffee addiction is one of them and it must be GOOD coffee.
Our little group of mad-about-good-coffee enthusiasts went on a mission to find the best coffee in Mauritius - (if such a thing exists).
You must understand, these are people who like it black, strong and it must have a granular 'float' on top which slowly sinks to the bottom of the classic small Turkish coffee glass. There are ways to encourage the downward sinking movement, such as tapping the glass on a good solid surface in a very specific way, until the granules settle. Then it involves personal risk management as to knowing the exact moment when your lips hit the heap at the bottom of the glass.
First, we did some research and found everything we needed to know about coffee including recipes for cakes and drinks - http://www.gourmet-coffeebeans.com/
Then, to our surprise, we found Chamarel coffee, used to improve international blends, and it is perfect for our taste, pure and simple.