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Family Meeting
Tian Nan City.
In front of the gate of the Meng family there were several unfamiliar carriages pulled by beasts.
The most luxurious beast carriage had a flag with a picture of a Dragon Eagle.
Meng Ying Ying carefully scrutinized the Dragon Eagle flag for a while: "This is the Central Continent Institute's emblem!"
Chu Tian curiously asked: "What is the Central Continent Institute?"
"You don't even know this? You are really a big wood louse*! Meng Ying Ying didn't let go of a single opportunity to express scorn for Chu Tian, "The Central Continent Institute is the biggest institute in the entire Central Continent! The conditions for getting into the institute are extremely harsh! At the moment, they only have around 20,000 people enrolled. In the institute, there are as many experts as there are clouds in the sky, and their status is exceptionally revered!"
*TN: When you call someone a wood louse, you are calling them uneducated because (I think) their heads are buried in the wood all the time
Institutes and guilds were very similar in some aspects. They were both semi-official organizations founded with the support of the kingdom, and every year, the national treasury would allocate funds to them to support their development. Of course, the kingdom would not give out money without any conditions. These organizations also needed to make their organization of corresponding worth to the kingdom.
The value of every major guild was in their research – for example, the Pharmacist Guild would formulate various kinds of drug recipes every year while the Alchemist Guild would invent many kinds of new talismans every year, and so on… This increased the influence of the kingdom in people's lives.
Student organizations placed importance on grooming people with great talent for martial arts. Every year they would give the **king and the **government a large amount of geniuses, nurturing especially a lot of strong warriors to increase the kingdom's military strength.
One civil and one military.
They perfectly complemented each other.
A crowd of strange yet familiar faces had come to the Meng household. There was the sixth aunt, the fourth uncle, the cousin's wife, another aunt……they were all relatives. Meng Ying Ying's arrival caught the attention of these people.
"It's Meng Ying Ying, I wonder what cultivation level she's achieved".
"Haven't seen her for years, she has been growing more and more beautiful."
"What's the use of looking pretty, she's only a piece of trash. Without her sister supporting her, how could she have her current status?"
"Exactly! If there wasn't a Meng Qing Wu bolstering her, could she still have this dignified life as a rich young miss? She probably would've been married off to some other family as a concubine long ago!"
"Exactly, exactly!"
The people were wagging their tongues animatedly among themselves in private.
But they did nothing to conceal the disdain and contempt in their eyes.
They normally had no contact with this bunch of relatives, so why were they all here now? Meng Ying Ying, full of suspicion, decided to look for her sister to make things clear.
There's something not right about this atmosphere?
Who cares!
What doesn't affect oneself should be ignored*!
*TN: This is a Chinese proverb
As soon as Chu Tian changed into another set of clothes, he went to get some rest without warming his butt*.
*TN: a saying for immediately
Bursts of clear ringing sounded out from the clock. This was the signal for assembling all the people.
Was it time for dinner?
Chu Tian hurriedly scuttled off.
Inside the hall stood a massive round table, with around twenty to thirty people sitting around it. The expression on every person's face was very serious.
"Where did this slave come from? Halt!" A middle-aged man with a rat face* blocked Chu Tian, his triangular eyes levelling a scathing look at him. He then took a quick glance at his crude attire and said with a shrill, grating voice: "Is this place somewhere someone with your status can enter? Scram!"
*TN: 尖嘴猴腮 directly translates as someone's "mouth sticks out and (they) have a chin like an ape's", also can be translated as "rat-faced"
Chu Tian remained unruffled, smiling and saying: "And what kind of thing are you, that you have the qualifications to block me?"
"You don't even know who I am, yet dared to come here to work?" The rat-faced middle-aged man burst into anger: "I'm the shareholder of the Southern Cloud Chamber of Commerce, Meng Qing Wu's second uncle. A mere slave dares to speak to me like this? Simply unforgivable! Someone come! Slap him a hundred times!"
This middle-aged man was purposely disciplining the servants in front of Meng Qing Wu.
It wasn't like he really wanted to make things difficult for Chu Tian, but it was most likely to try to take Meng Qing Wu's authority down a notch.
Unfortunately, this guy was surely down on his luck.
A ringing slap on the face!
This so-called second uncle was directly knocked over!
A second ago, Chu Tian still had a smile on his face. In an instant, the guest had taken over the place of the host*, stepping on the second uncle: "What kind of thing are you, you motherfucking trash!"
Not to mention a disgusting man like you!
If Meng Qing Wu dared to speak to me like this, I would still spank her on the spot!
"You…… you dare to hit me!" Half of the second uncle's face had swelled up to be as big as a Chinese bun. He fear-strickenly opened his eyes wide, spitting out several broken and cracked teeth. He hurriedly started begging for help from the inside, "This dog-slave is mad! Older brother, save me!"
Chu Tian gave an embarrassed little laugh: "This one of my arms has a condition, it naturally has a kind of reflex. Whenever it meets bastards like you, it's hard to control, it's really embarrassing ah……aiya, not good, I've lost control again."
Another slap in the face!
Chu Tian didn't show any mercy.
The second uncle was hit unconscious!
"This crazy slave dares!" A skinny middle-aged man with two small tufts of moustache slapped the table, furiously standing up. He angrily glared at Meng Qing Wu: "Meng Qing Wu, is this how you manage the people under you?"
A young man clothed in white stood up, a smile on his clear and handsome face: "Father, don't be angry. As a girl, my cousin is managing the commerce by herself, so inevitably there would be evil servants who she can't control. Don't fuss too much over this matter."
The middle-aged man humphed: "Yi-er*, all you know is how to speak up for her. Look at what condition the commerce has become!"
*TN: This person's name is Yi, his last name is Zhao, and a way for older relatives/parents to call their kids is to add an "er" to the end
"If my cousin doesn't manage the commerce well, we'll just manage it for her instead." The handsome white-clothed young man, Zhao Yi, skimmed his eyes over Chu Tian, who was at the door. He coldly said: "What are you people looking at? Drag this evil servant out immediately, break his two legs, destroy his cultivation, and kick him out of the Meng family!"
"There's a limit to how far you can go!" Meng Qing Wu snapped: "In here you know who is the president!"
The Zhao family's father and son exchanged glances.
A relative said in a harsh tone and severe expression: "Meng Qing Wu, what kind of a person are you! Your family's been put to shame, yet you blatantly take the side of this slave, this arrogant outsider! With this kind of high-handedness, it's no wonder Southern Cloud Commerce has fallen to this kind of situation today!"
Meng Qing Wu said dismissively: "How I govern this commerce is my own business."
Chu Tian scratched his head: "This is embarrassing, did I come to the wrong place? Then I'm leaving!"
"Chu Tian, you're supposed to be here, come sit!" Meng Qing Wu gave him a hard look. Can't you see I have troubles? You're not coming to help me and even try to run away, your loyalty is really lacking!
This person was the Chu Tian who created such a commotion in Tian Nan City?
The other people's' expressions turned strange.
Chu Tian stepped right over the second uncle's body, swaggering over to the seat next to Meng Qing Wu, swinging one leg over the other. Listening to Meng Qing Wu's introduction, that middle-aged man with the two tufts of moustache was called Zhao Chang He, and he was her oldest uncle. That handsome young man clothed in white was her oldest cousin.
This person clothed simply, like a servant, could actually sit together with Meng Qing Wu?
The gaze of the young man clothed in white, Zhao Yi, harbored a strand of jealousy and dark hate.
Zhao Chang He showed his prestige, trying to establish his strength: "Meng Qing Wu, the whole entire Southern Cloud Commerce has been given to you to manage by yourself. And what is the result? You pushed for the new medicinal production sector self-opinionatedly but it failed completely, even making the entire commerce suffer large setbacks, almost pushing the commerce into a debt crisis!"
"Zhao Chang He's right!"
"We bought the shares six years ago when the commerce was in a critical moment, preventing the commerce from disintegrating. Is this how you repay us? You've failed to live up to everyone's trust. This is too disappointing!"
"You have to take some responsibility!"
"The losses of the Southern Cloud Commerce can only be blamed on you!"
As the other people started voicing their opinions one after the other, Meng Qing Wu's painted eyebrows wrinkled tightly: "The things that happened with Southern Cloud Commerce, I will write a detailed report on it for you to look over, because this matter is fairly complicated……"
"Stop talking!"
"We didn't come here to listen to your excuses!"
"The commerce has been so unsuccessful. I think if we can't make a profit out of this, then it's better to divide up the family property earlier."
"Our request is not unreasonable. You divide the talisman factory into shares and auction it off, and we'll evenly split the profit!"
These relatives and shareholders were kicking up a ruckus about dividing up the commerce. Southern Cloud Commerce mainly produced talismans, and by wanting Meng Qing Wu to bring out the talisman factory, it was basically trying to take away the lifeblood of the commerce!
Meng Qing Wu's face became increasingly ugly, holding back the flare of anger, she coldly said: "When Father and Mother had just been in an accident, you people adopted a ludicrous pretense to demand money. To keep the peace in the family, I had to accept claims of owed money with no evidence, letting these debts be paid back in the form of shares. For six years, have I ever given a copper less of your dividends? Without contributing any money, you sit comfortably and reap profits, yet you're not satisfied. Now that the commerce is a little shaky, you all come rushing to demand the commerce be divided up. Don't you have any feelings of shame?"
A sharp voice rang out: "It turns out that Meng Qing Wu, you are utterly incapable of leading the Chamber of Commerce!"
Another voice soon followed suit: "Yes, the commerce will sooner or later crumble down in your hands. So, I propose, Zhao Chang He instead became the President of the Southern Cloud Commerce!"
"I also agree!"
"We can't let her continue to hold the position of President!"
"We all have a share in the company – the money she's losing is our money!"
"Everyone, everyone!" Zhao Chang He hurriedly stood up, trying to placate the audience, "Everyone, hold your horses. Even though these last six years Meng Qing Wu hasn't had any major accomplishments, before this matter, she hasn't made any major mistakes either. Everyone can agree on this?"
"We don't want a person without any abilities to be president!"
"What right does a mediocre person have to leech off the position of president!"
Zhao Chang He sighed: "I can understand everyone's sentiments. Southern Cloud Commerce has been stumbling along for so many years, and everyone has feeling towards it and cannot bear to see the commerce languishing. Yet Southern Cloud Commerce was Meng Qing Wu's father's personally created commerce, how could I, as an uncle, bear to take it over?"
Really ridiculous!
Even you still know that Southern Cloud Commerce was created by my father?
Meng Qing didn't rush to speak because she understood her uncle well, that hypocritical courtesy was only masking his real intentions.
Zhao Chang He blandly said: "It's hard for a business undertaken by a woman without a primary backer to not be bullied. You are no longer young; you should find yourself a man to get married."
Meng Qing Wu said indifferently: "I haven't any thoughts on marriage."
"It is only natural Qing Wu, your beauty and talent are of top-notch, so obviously you would like to marry an equally outstanding man, which perhaps, won't be so easy. However, I as your uncle took this matter into my own hands." Zhao Chang He waved his hand, "Yi-er, you take Qing Wu* as your wife!"
*TN: Meng is her last name; calling her only by her first name(Qing Wu) is kinda a disgusting show of affection
Chu Tian choked on these words.
Zhao Yi's eyes shone with a joyous light: "Father, please be relieved, I will take care of my cousin for the rest of my life!"
Meng Qing Wu stood up in anger: "Based on what!"
"I'm your uncle! Yi-er is a student of the Central Continent Institute! Is this not enough?" Zhao Chang He let out a bright and calm smile: "When a man is of age he finds a wife, when a girl is of age she goes to her husband. Your great-uncle helping you to arrange the main affair of one's life is also for your good. The Summit is starting, and Southern Cloud Commerce doesn't even have a presentable person to go up. Yi-er could exactly be present at the Summit, to help you make a good impression!"
Meng Qing Wu said with a dark face: "Meimei is still young, I won't leave her."
Zhao Chang He, as if he had already guessed that Meng Qing Wu would reply like this, spoke up saying: "Meng Ying Ying is already sixteen, it's perfect to give her to Yi-er as a concubine. With you two sisters having the same husband, there is no need to be separated! You also know that she doesn't amount to much, so this arrangement is also good for her".
Two sisters married together to their older cousin?
What the heck is that!
Chu Tian couldn't bear to listen anymore, "Screw you! You're making me so sick that I want to throw up!"


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DISCOGRAPHY of Carrick's music
(Discography of Carrick performing the music of others and Publications listed below)
Richard Carrick: Cycles of Evolution
New World Records, 80759-2
March 2015
Available on iTunes, New World Records, Amazon
1. Namdaemun - Musicians of the New York Philharmonic
2. Dark Flow - Either/Or and Ensemble Son
3. The Veins of Marble - Either/Or
4. Sub-merge - DZ4
5. Prisoner's Cinema - Hotel Elefant
6. Adagios for String Orchestra - Toomai String Quintet and String Orchestra of Brooklyn
Richard Carrick, conductor and piano
Richard Carrick: Stone Guitars
New Focus Recordings FCR 149
July 2014
Available on iTunes, Amazon, New Focus Recordings
1. Dawn
2. Babylon
3. Intimate Spaces
4. Stone Guitars
5. One
6. Astral Projections
7. Winter Guitars
8. Molten
9. Sinking
10. Granite
11. Undersea
Richard Carrick's Notebook, Bedside
Soundscape: Tony Arnold, Tom Rosencranz, Aiyun Huang
Inflorescence: Music from Soundscape
New Focus Recordings, FCR 140
November 2013
Available from iTunes, New Focus Recordings
1.Notebook Bedside
in five movements
Richard Carrick's A-KA
for 4 electric guitars
I Never Meta Guitar Too, compiled by Elliott Sharp
Cleenfeed Records, CFG006
January 3013
Available from iTunes
Richard Carrick: The Flow Cycle for Strings
performed by Either/Or
available: iTunes, Amazon, New World Records
1."in flow"
2.Shadow Flow
3.Moroccan Flow (unfolding from unity)
4.Duo Flow
5."à cause du soleil" Flow Trio
music for film by Nancy Kiang
DVD release in Australia, 2007
Complete soundtrack
Richard Carrick's Slowness
Don't Panic! 60 Seconds for Solo Piano - Guy Livingston
Wergo Records, WER 66492
Richard Carrick's Masculin-Feminin
Dedications to János Négyesy and Päivikki Nykter - Works for Two Violins
Aucourant Records, AUREC0010-1
Available: iTunes (track 25)
1. Masculin - Feminin
Containment - Layered Piano Improvisations
Extensive improvisations recorded over a 10 week residency at Banff Centre for the Arts. Self Released.
1.The Line
5.2 and 4
8.Slow Together
DISCOGRAPHY of Carrick's performances
Iancu Dumitrescu: Live in New York with Either/OR
2017, Editions Moderne #1036
Either/OR, Richard Carrick conducting six world premieres: Black Holes' Collision, Hyperspectres, Cosmic Pulse II, Unstable Molecules, and as pianist on Pierres scarées II
Elliott Sharp - Tranzience
New World Records 80778-2 - Venus & Jupiter - with Either/Or, Richard Carrick piano 2016
Miya Masaoka - Triangle of Resistance
Innova 945 - The Long Road - 2016
Richard Carrick conducts Triangle of Resistance for Strings and Percussion with Jennifer Choi, Esther Noh, David Wallace, Alex Waterman
PUBLISHED ARTICLES in PRINT
Mixed, Modern, and Eclectic: Richard Carrick and David Wallace Discuss Composing for Viola in Today's New Music Scene
Journal of The American Viola Society
December, 2013
by Richard Carrick
The New York Times
Opinionator Column, April 19, 2013
A Personal Relationship to the Art of Music: A Research Project in Progress From the New York Philharmonic's School Partnership Program
by Richard Carrick, Hilary Easton, Jihea Hong, Rachel Langlais & Richard Mannoia
Teaching Artist Journal, Vol. 10, Issue 3, ISSN: 1541-1796 (Print), 1541-180X (Online)
July 2012
Implications of Infinity: Richard Carrick's The Flow Cycle for Strings
by George Lewis
New World Records linear notes, August 2011
The New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composers Handbook
Richard Carrick, co-author
April 2011
"Young Americans" by Mika Pelo
Featured Composer Richard Carrick in the Swedish Journal Nutida Musik Journal
May 2008
"The Multi-Media Challenge" by Randy Nordschow, vol. 22, no. 6, p.28.
Featured Composer Richard Carrick in Chamber Music Magazine
Published by Chamber Music America, December 2005
PUBLISHED AUDIO and VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES
click on titles for links to media
Richard Carrick, in-depth interview by Daniel Vezza
Composer Conversations
Podcast, April 2013
by Richard Carrick
Interpretations Series, April 2012
by Richard Carrick
Interpretations Series, November 2011
by Richard Carrick
Interpretations Series, September 2011
Spotlight Session, "In the Zone with Richard Carrick."
Richard Carrick in video interview with Molly Sheridan.
Published by NewMusicBox.org April 22, 2010
by Richard Carrick
Published by NewMusicBox.org July 19, 2005
Large Ensemble/Orchestra
Young Audiences

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The subject of the paper is the analysis of factors determining the value of multi-entity organizations in the energy sector and their ranking according to the degree of impact on this value. For this purpose, statistical methods were used, which are best suited to determine the order of diagnostic features according to a specific criterion. The survey covered companies from the Polish energy sector, while the process itself is based on aggregated data, which represents the financial data of capital groups currently operating in the Polish energy sector. The first part of the article presents a short description of the Polish energy sector, paying particular attention to the organizational structure of the sector, i.e. companies operating on the domestic energy market. The nature of a multi-entity enterprise as a typical economic unit in the sector is described. The second part of the article describes the assumptions of multidimensional comparative analysis (MCA) as a tool for comparing multifunctional units. The MCA makes it possible to find the most important parameters or indicators having the greatest impact on the value of a multi-entity organization, i.e. a capital group. The survey covered four companies from the Polish energy sector: TAURON Polska Energia SA, ENEA SA, ENERGA SA and PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA. The study with the use of MCA was conducted in three stages: - in the first stage, on the basis of information contained in the financial statements, a matrix of diagnostic features was created, describing the financial condition of the examined entity, - in the second stage, the values of diagnostic variables were normalized/unified; two methods of normalization were applied: the method of standardization and zero unitization, - in the third stage, the diagnostic variables were grouped using two methods: the model measure of Hellwig's development and the non-standard measure of development. The results of the analysis are illustrated by tables and figures.
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Optimization of drilling costs on shale gas deposits – concept outline
Alicja Byrska-Rąpała
Jerzy Feliks
Marek Karkula
Rafał Wiśniowski
Zeszyty Naukowe Instytutu Gospodarki Surowcami Mineralnymi Polskiej Akademii Nauk | 2017 | Nr 100
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shale gas
pad drilling
horizontal well
drilling optimization
network methods
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In the last decade, Poland has become one of the most active markets for unconventional hydrocarbon deposits exploration. At present, there are twenty concessions for the exploration and/or discovery of reserves, including shale gas. The area covered by exploration concessions constitutes ca. 7.5% of the country's area. Four main stages can be distinguished In the shale gas development and exploitation project: the selection and preparation of the place of development of the wells, hydraulic drilling and fracturing, exploitation (production) and marketing, exploitation suppression and land reclamation. In the paper, the concept of cost analysis of an investment project related to the exploration and development of a shale gas field/area was presented. The first two stages related to the preparatory work, carried out on the selected site, as well as drilling and hydraulic fracturing were analyzed. For economic reasons, the only rational way to make shale gas reserves available is to use horizontal drilling, either singly or in groups. The number of drilling pads covering the concession area is a fundamental determinant of the development cost of the deposit. In the paper, the results of the cost analysis of various types of reaming method with an area of 25,000,000 m2 were presented. Cost estimates were prepared for two variants: group drilling for three types of drilling pads: with three, five and seven wells and for single wells. The results show that, as the number of horizontal wells increases, the total cost of the development of the deposit is reduced. For tree-wells pad, these costs are 7% lower than in the second variant, for five-well pads they are 11% lower, and for seven-well pads they are 11.5% smaller than in the second variant. Authors, using applied methodology, indicate the direction of further research that will enable the optimization of shale gas drilling operations.
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Cuban Spanish—also referred to colloquially as simply cubano, or even cubañol—[need quotation to verify] is the variety of the Spanish language as it is spoken in Cuba. As a Caribbean language variety, Cuban Spanish shares a number of features with nearby varieties, including coda deletion, seseo, and /s/ debuccalization ("aspiration").
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|Español Cubano
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Characteristic of Cuban Spanish is the weak pronunciation of consonants, especially at the end of a syllable. Syllable-final /s/ weakens to [h] or disappears entirely; word-final /n/ becomes [ŋ];[2] syllable-final /r/ may become [l] or [j], or even become entirely silent. The fricative variants of /d/, /b/, /ɡ/ (i.e. [ð], [β], [ɣ]) are also significantly weakened when occurring after a vowel: [ð] tends to disappear entirely, while [β] and [ɣ] become weak approximants, with no friction at all and often barely audible as consonants. All of these characteristics occur to one degree or another in other Caribbean varieties, as well as in many dialects in Andalusia (in southern Spain)—the place of historical origin of these characteristics.
One of the most prominent features of Cuban Spanish is the debuccalization of /s/ in syllable coda. This trait is shared with most American varieties of Spanish spoken in coastal and low areas (Lowland Spanish), as well as with Canarian Spanish and the Spanish spoken in the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula.
Take for example, the following sentence:
- Esos perros no tienen dueños
- [ˈesoh ˈperoh no ˈtjeneŋ ˈdweɲoh]
- ('Those dogs do not have owners')
Also, because /s/ may also be deleted in the syllable coda and because this feature has variable realizations,[3] any or all instances of [h] in the above example may be dropped, potentially rendering [ˈeso ˈpero no ˈtjeneŋ ˈdweɲo]. Other examples: disfrutar ("to enjoy") is pronounced [dihfruˈtar], and fresco ("fresh") becomes [ˈfrehko]. In Havana, después ("after[ward]") is typically pronounced [dehˈpwe].
Another instance of consonant weakening ("lenition") in Cuban Spanish (as in many other dialects) is the deletion of intervocalic /d/ in the participle ending ‑ado, as in cansado [kanˈsa.o] "tired"). More typical of Cuba and the Caribbean is the dissimilation of final /r/ in some verb infinitives; e.g. parar, to stop, can be realized as [paˈral].
Voiceless velar fricative [x] (spelled as <g> before <e> or <i> and <j>) is usually aspirated or pronounced [h], common in Andalusian and Canarian dialects and most Latin American dialects.
In some areas of Cuba, the voiceless affricate [tʃ] (spelled as ch) is deaffricated to [ʃ].
The Spanish of the eastern provinces (the five provinces comprising what was formerly Oriente Province) is closer to that of the Dominican Republic than to the Spanish spoken in the western part of the island.[4]
Morphology and syntaxEdit
Cuban Spanish typically uses the diminutive endings -ico and -ica (instead of the standard -ito and -ita) with stems that end in /t/. For example, plato ("plate") > platico (instead of platito), and momentico instead of momentito; but cara ("face") becomes carita.[5] This form is common to the Venezuelan, Cuban, Costa Rican, Dominican, and Colombian dialects.
The suffix -ero is often used with a place name to refer to a person from that place; thus habanero, guantanamera, etc.[6] A person from Santiago de Cuba is santiaguero (compare santiagués "from Santiago de Compostela (Spain)", santiaguino "from Santiago de Chile").
Wh-questions, when the subject is a pronoun, are usually not inverted. Where speakers of most other varieties of Spanish would ask "¿Qué quieres?" or "¿Qué quieres tú?", Cuban speakers would more often ask "¿Qué tú quieres?"[7] (This form is also characteristic of Dominican and Puerto Rican Spanish.[8][9])
In keeping with the socialist polity of the country, the term compañero/compañera ("comrade" or "friend") is often used instead of the traditional señor/señora.[10][11] (For a contrary view, see Corbett (2007: 137).[12]) Similarly, Cuban Spanish uses the familiar second-person pronoun tú in many contexts where other varieties of Spanish would use the formal usted. Voseo is practically non-existent in Cuba.[13]
Cuban Spanish is most similar to, and originates largely from, the Spanish that is spoken in the Canary Islands and Andalusia. Cuba owes much of its speech patterns to the heavy Canarian migrations of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The accent of La Palma is the closest of the Canary Island accents to the Cuban accent. Many Cubans and returning Canarians settled in the Canary Islands after the revolution of 1959. Migration of other Spanish settlers (Asturians, Catalans, Galicians and Castilians) also occurred, but left less influence on the accent.
Much of the typical Cuban replacements for standard Spanish vocabulary stems from Canarian lexicon. For example, guagua ('bus') differs from standard Spanish autobús. The word guagua originated in the Canaries and is an onomatopoeia stemming from the sound of a Klaxon horn. An example of Canarian usage for a Spanish word is the verb fajarse ('to fight').[14] In Spain, the verb would be pelearse, and fajar exists as a non-reflexive verb related to the hemming of a skirt.
Much of the vocabulary that is peculiar to Cuban Spanish comes from the different historic influences on the island. Many words come from the Canary Islands, but some words are of West African, French, or indigenous Taino origin, as well as peninsular Spanish influence from outside the Canary Islands, such as Andalusian or Galician. American English has lent several words, including some for clothing, such as pulóver [sic] (which is used to mean "T-shirt") and chor ("shorts", with the typical Spanish change from English sh to ch, like mentioned above, <ch> may be pronounced [ʃ], the pronunciation of English "sh".).
To speak to the elderly or to strangers, Cubans sometimes speak more formally as a sign of respect. They shake hands both on greeting and on leaving someone. Men often exchange friendly hugs (abrazos), and both men and women often greet friends and family with a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
However Cubans tend to speak informally, such as by addressing a stranger with mi corazón ("my heart"), mi vida ("my life"), or cariño ("dear", "darling") are common. Mi amor ("my love") is used, even between strangers, when at least one of them is a woman (for example, in being served in a shop). Cubans are less likely to use the formal second-person singular pronoun usted to speak to a stranger, elder or superior. Tú is considered acceptable in all but very formal situations; regular use of the usted form can be seen by some Cubans as an affectation or a mark of coldness.
See alsoEdit
- ^ Spanish (Cuba) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Canfield (1981:42)
- ^ Guitart (1997)
- ^ Lipski (1994:227)
- ^ Lipski (1994:233)
- ^ Lipski (1994:233)
- ^ Lipski (1994:233)
- ^ Lipski (1994:233)
- ^ Lipski (1994:335)
- ^ "Social Life in Cuba"
- ^ José Sánchez-Boudy, Diccionario de cubanismos más usuales (Cómo habla el cubano), Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1978. "En Cuba, hoy en día, se llama a todo el mundo «compañero»."
- ^ Ben Corbett, This is Cuba: An Outlaw Culture Survives (Westview Press: 2002).
- ^ Lipski (1994:233)
- ^ fajar at Diccionario de la Real Academia Española.
- Canfield, D. Lincoln (1981), Spanish Pronunciation in the Americas, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-09263-1
- Guitart, Jorge M. (1997), "Variability, Multilectalism, and the Organization of Phonology in Caribbean Spanish Dialects", in Martínez-Gil, Fernando; Morales-Front, Alfonso (eds.), Issues in the Phonology and Morphology of the Major Iberian Languages, Georgetown University Press, pp. 515–536
- Lipski, John M. (1994), Latin American Spanish, Longman, ISBN 978-0-582-08761-3


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So what does this have to do with customer loyalty? How can I compare the unconditional love of a best friend – be it canine or human – with the love of customers for a brand or product or company? Easy. It's the same. Yes, there are different levels and intimacies involved, but – when all is said and done – to earn customer loyalty, to make people want to be near you and your brand and your company, be a great friend!
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Who knows why I accidentally put on one brown and one blue sock? Maybe I was distracted, or maybe I'm not seeing as well as I used to. One thing I know is that my Dane doesn't care one way or another. He still greets me with the same excitement, wags his tail at my voice, and follows me as I do my chores – no matter how inconsistent my footwear coloring.
So suspend judgment. It doesn't matter what got the customers to the point where they needed to contact you. Maybe you wouldn't have done things EXACTLY as they did. Maybe you have absolutely no idea what would make someone behave like your customers are behaving. It doesn't matter. Greet them with the same smile in your voice that you would if you completely understood. Make them feel important and accepted. Who knows, maybe they are distracted, or maybe they're not seeing as well as they used to.
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Actually listen. When I talk to my Dane, he looks at me as if the meaning of the universe were in my words. Give that courtesy to your customers. Yes, it is important to handle calls efficiently and effectively, but that doesn't mean robotically. Work with your technology partners so your call handling can be flexible – so you don't have to interrupt what your customers are saying to bring them in line with your script. There are ways to get the information you need while listening actively and attentively without interrupting. Work with your industry and technology partners to find those ways! For emails and chats and texts – work with your partners to implement ways to serve up consistent, approved responses – but with a personal touch. Customers can tell if the answer to their email is not directly related to what they sent you. You wouldn't answer a friend's email with a completely stock answer, so don't do that to your customers. There are cost-efficient, effective ways to give personal responses that are still brand consistent and corporate approved. Work to find them!
4. Be reliable
Just as I know my Dane will be waiting for me by the end of the driveway, he knows that his bowl will always have food, his water dish will always have water, and I'll never return from a trip to the grocery store without rawhides or chewy bones. We both find comfort in this.
So be reliable. Set expectations and follow through. If you say you will be available, be available. If you say you will respond to an email within 24 hours, do it. If you tell a customer you will call them back and let them know what the lab findings are, do it. Don't make them chase you. Keeping your word is key to improving customer loyalty. Work with your partners to develop processes and put technologies in place that allow you to be predictable and reliable to your customers. Always come back with rawhides!
5. Give them space
Just as important as being accessible is knowing when not to engage. When my Dane curls up for the night, I know he doesn't want to be bothered. And when I tell him to lie down because I'm working on my laptop, he lies down until I'm done. (Okay, maybe he gives me some looks out of the corner of his eyes or sighs a few times to remind me he's being ignored, but he waits nonetheless.)
So give your customers the same courtesy. Develop 360 degree views of your customers and work with your technology partners to make sure they are at your agents' fingertips. Include how (and if) your customers prefer to be contacted, and respect their requests. You don't want to be the annoying friend who calls at the wrong times, or calls too much, or sends too many emails about funny cats dressed up for Halloween. You want to be the friend they know will be there when needed, who will listen without judgment, who will do what they say they will do, and who will respect their privacy.
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The "i" is silent in plain…
How many times have you heard, "Write the vision, make it plain?" Likely a lot. I've heard it in church, on my job (slightly different language), in my sister circles – any space where there resides a desire to place on paper some idea or inclination. For the believer in Christ, there is divine revelation from the Holy Spirit when we are prompted with a thought and often a restlessness if we do not follow through with action of said thought. However, occasionally, we actually write down the thought, the vision, the hope and we don't see the manifestation. This can be disappointing and may cause us to turn our backs on our dreams.
I've visioned a great deal of things in my life. A vision with my husband for our marriage, and our family. A vision as a parent. A vision of my career. A vision of my ministry – and since writing is something I enjoy, its very easy for me to write something down – even if I don't have all the faith that I should in what I'm writing. I write in my journal, in my Bible, as a saved Word document on my desktop, on a receipt in my purse, anyplace or anything that the Holy Spirit reveals to me. What I have failed to do however is maintain my excitement beyond the writing. Even as I've sought divine revelation into the vision, my next inclination is to begin to maneuver it to come to fruition. After the writing, I want it as the scripture states to be plain…and plain to me means simple, easy, not difficult. In essence, if I write "it," there should be limited challenge or adversity in "it" happening. In the words of Lauryn Hill, I want to sing to God, "It should all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard!"
God was involved in strategic planning way before my work environment (and yours too). A vision is a declaration of a goal. In order to secure buy-in of it, there must be easy to understand language in support of it, otherwise those who are to support the spirit of carrying out the vision will be lost. As I've sat in meetings on strategic planning, with wordsmiths who love language and desire to pen beautiful words to the vision, there is always someone who reminds us that "everyone won't understand." It is therefore necessary to "make it plain" as the Lord implied in Habakkuk 2:2. However, just because I write it down, and make it as easy to understand as possible, doesn't mean I have control over what I am writing, believing and visioning. Real talk, the "i" is silent in plain.
Even though we do as instructed, we hear from God, we listen to God, we are not Janet Jackson, and we are not in control. We can prepare, perfect and position ourselves for the vision, but its ultimately God's plan of how, when and where it comes to past. This is not always easy and will cause us to move from the appointed place. That is why God goes further in Habakkuk 2:3 and tells us, "For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." If God said it, its going to happen – but its going to happen in his time, and not mine. We don't have to give up just because it feels hard or that its not going to happen! The ultimate expression of the plan is not up to me. And when we are silent, meaning, not complaining to others and secretly to God, God will honor our trust and honor his Word! The plan will be carried out, and it will not be difficult. It will be simple and plain. And I can relinquish my silence for instead an auditory praise to the most high God.


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BLANCHE AMONG THE TALENTED TENTH: Light Privilege
Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
Book 2 in the Blanche White series
Author: Barbara Neely
Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Published: Feb 12, 2019
Publisher: Tantor Media
Running time 10 hrs
I voluntarily reviewed an advance reader's copy of this book. No remuneration was exchanged and all opinions presented herein are my own except as noted.
The second, ground-breaking mystery featuring African–American maid and amateur sleuth Blanche White by Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award–winning author Barbara Neely.
When Blanche White moved north to Boston, she believed it would be a better place to raise her kids, especially after she got them into an elite private school. But now her children are becoming elitist and judgmental, acquiring more attitude than education. So when she and her kids are invited to Amber Cove, an exclusive resort in Maine for wealthy blacks, Blanche jumps at the chance to see how the other half lives and maybe stop her kids turning into people she doesn't want to know. When one of the guests kills himself, and another is electrocuted in her bathtub, Blanche becomes an accidental detective once again, using her sharp wit and keen social insight to peel back some disturbing color and class distinctions within the black community that may have driven someone to murder. https://tantor.com/blanche-among-the-talented-tenth-barbara-neely.html
There have been many days in the past few years, when it has become apparent that the problems that we have a long way to go for people of color to be granted total equity in the American dream, that I have felt guilty for being white, for having access to privileges I have never even questioned nor, often, been aware. Of course as a woman there are still inequities in my life as well, but I am the first to admit that female and white is an easier skin to wear.
The title refers to "The Talented Tenth is a term that designated a leadership class of African Americans in the early 20th century. The term was created by Northern philanthropists, then publicized by W. E. B. Du Bois in an influential essay of the same name." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talented_Tenth . The implcation is that only the talented tenth would be at this resort.
I listened to the first book, Blanche on the Lam, a while ago (see my post) and enjoyed it as both a story and a look at the American South in the late 20th century. Blanche is in domestic service. At first she had only worked for white women, but, it seems in her time in NY and Boston she also worked for Black professionals. The point here, I felt, was that there there are people in a variety of social strata of every color.
Blanche's sister died, leaving her custody of two children. She used some hush money to get them into good schools. But she also strives to make them understand education and opportunity doesn't make you a better person than someone who has not been afforded the same possibilities.;/ . In A lot of Blanche's work raising the kids is about status, and snobbery. It reflects on how bigotry begins early in life. Blanche is a woman with very dark skin and she's been teased or heard about it her whole life.
The biggest part of this book, aside from the mystery and the off-the-page murder, is that people of color judge by color as well. Her kids are visiting with school friends over the summer at a very posh, all-black resort in Maine. In it's past, only light-skinned blacks were allowed, but even now, when that ban has been lifted you know who's on the top of the pecking order. There is one young couple, the young man being part of the community of summer people with their own cabin. His parents, both light, don't like the match because the woman is very dark-skinned.
When I heard about this bigotry within the black community, I thought it was a ridiculous way to behave. What would make a light skinned person better than a dark-skinned person? Of course, it has to do with people everywhere treating light-skinned people better in the streets, at work and anywhere. It is an obvious metaphor for the entire society, but it's also a welcome and effective wake-up-call for everyone of every color.
The mystery sleuthing was hard to follow, which made it feel a little boring to me. Everyone hated the woman who was murdered except her husband. It could have been anyone and everyone. And this resort society has its own social ladder but it is missing all but the top rungs. The town also contains enough skeletons to populate a catacomb.
In the end, Blanche feels a little used, and physically abused, but has learned something, and as an innately intelligent woman always counts that as the best thing.
The narration is like your favorite story-time librarian reading aloud. It is not unpleasant and different than the trend toward "narracting." I rather liked the way she read and her cadence.
In short, I like this series. Blanche is a wonderful character, smart, comfortable in her own body, and knowing what she does to make a living is an honest job requiring skills and knowledge and she is comfortable with that too. The exploration of race is important and this makes the bitter pill of waking up to the issue of Race in America a little easier to digest.
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Brendan Rodgers is expecting yet another exacting encounter for his Celtic side when they visit Easter Road tomorrow.
The Hoops are still on a high after reaching the last-32 of the Europa League despite a 2-1 home defeat to Group B winners Salzburg on Thursday night.
The thrilling match against the classy Austrian outfit was the fourth of nine games in December for the Parkhead side and the Ladbrokes Premiership leaders will have to summon up their reserves to go again when they take on Neil Lennon's Hibernian in Leith.
Rodgers said: "The games are coming thick and fast and we are putting a lot of energy into a lot of our games.
"The guys have been amazing. The level they have been at, the concentration, the effort that they are putting into every game, we have played a season worth of games already and the guys keep showing that mentality, character and humility to keep fighting and running.
"We have been playing at a really high level domestically.
"It will be a tough game for us. I am sure Neil will have his team quite energetic.
"You know what it is like playing a European game and what you face on the Sunday but we will be very focused, we will try to recover as best we can and go there expecting a tough game."
It took a late and unlikely goal from bottom-placed Rosenborg against RB Leipzig in Germany to bring Celtic Park to life and make the Hoops' result irrelevant.
Rodgers said: "You are always looking at your own team but of course it gets to 2-0 and you hear a cheer. I knew something was going on because of the celebrations but it was just great to get through, that was the whole objective. It doesn't really matter how you do it."


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The Intersection of Health, Housing & Services
Participants gained an understanding to explore the intersection of health, housing & services for older adults in the LA Region. Experts spoke on the economic challenges facing seniors locally, and gain an understanding into the complexities of housing a vulnerable at-risk and homeless population. Participants heard about promising innovations and partnerships that are redefining housing solutions for older adults along the housing continuum.
An exciting cross-sector breakout session helped identify collaborative solutions and worked to expand networks and systems collaboration.
Event Speakers:
Sue Himmelrich-City Council Member, Santa Monica
Ben Winter- Director of Housing & Community Development Policy, Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti, City of Los Angeles
Alan Greenlee- Executive Director, Southern CA Association of Nonprofit Housing
Jeannee Parker Martin-President and CEO, LeadingAge California
Ruth Schwartz- Co-Founder and Executive Director, Shelter Partnership
Tricia Tasto Levien-Supportive Housing Director, Wakeland Housing and Development Corporation
Steven P. Wallace Ph.D- Professor, UCLA School of Public Health Associate Director, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Anne Miskey -Chief Executive Officer, Union Station Homeless Services
KeAndra Cylear Dodds- Manager of Preservation, Community Development Commission of the County of L.A
Marc Tousignant- Senior Program Director, Enterprise Community Partners
Mark Burns- Executive Director, Homebridge
John Maceri- Executive Director, The People Concern
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No, aside from traveling to other lesser developed countries like Mexico, Bolivia, Morocco and, to some extent, Thailand.
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I picked up the language while in Nepal, and moved up to an intermediate level with a lot of work and practice. Still struggling with Devanagari script at times, so spoken Nepali is my stronger area.
By the time I moved there I had visited the country five times, so I knew what to expect. Even the first few times I was there the culture shock was not great, but getting to know the cultural norms and practices does take a little time and thought, and reminding yourself - like passing on the left, and not using your left hand for transactions with people, walking to the left and clockwise around Buddhist and Hindu religious structures and icons, and a myriad of social ones I don't have the space to get into right now.
Pretty minimal.
Went through all of them - the irritation to anger one is a constant threat when you do business with the Nepalese, as (by and large) their understanding of how business works, and I'm even speaking about education, can be very lackadaisical, with the assumption that a little baksheesh can solve any problem. There is a laissez faire attitude - the ke garne syndrome - that can be maddening. Cultural adjustment goes along at the same time, but I became aware that there are significant cultural differences that aren't going to change simply because you understand them, can anticipate them, and know how to deal with them.
Not applicable.
The friendliness of the Nepalese, their spiritual practices and belief, the social nature of the culture, and the way that they care for you - I have far more friends and family in Nepal in the US (my wife is a Hindu Nepalese, bahun caste).
Bandhs, Maoists, load shedding, bad water supply, and everyone asking me if I can get them a visa.
Yes - during our five hour wedding ceremony I occasionally used my left hand! But friends helped out - there were a lot of intricate mudras or handling of objects, and as I am ambidextrous, just using the right hand doesn't happen naturally for me.
Take some time before you go to read about Hinduism and Buddhism - especially the former, as it is the majority religion, and the taboos and the orthodoxy of observance are much stronger than the latter. Tibetan Buddhists, by comparison, are far more lenient and understanding. Newari Buddhists are a different thing altogether.
Remember, it's not "our" country. I wouldn't criticize how Nepalis do business. It's how they do business. We can adapt, or not.guest
Good answers. I laughed when you said everyone asking if you can get them a visa. HAHHAHA that happens constantly The frustration is a big issue here. The way things are done in business and many things are so obviously not a good way and could be much easier with simple changes that Nepalese will not change. Examples like buying food and having no where to sit and no garbage cans or constantly trying to over charge people because they are white. Poor education and fear of change I think cause this along with malnutrition. It is hard to not get frustrated or angry. Thanks for the laugh :)
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The Hand Mortar
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Hand Mortar
The hand mortar was used to lob grenadoes, grappling hooks etc. Several men were killed experimenting with the grenadoes as at first they would light the fuse, insert the grenade, then fire the piece. If the gun failed to fire a problem ensued.
Then some bright boy came up with turning the fuse down for the charge to light when fired. Although this sounds good in theory, the reality was that when the piece was fired, the fuse is driven into the grenade and it immediately explodes. We will leave it up to you to discover the best way to fire one of these monsters!
Lets start
with a look at some original Hand Mortars
Hand mortar from the Morges Museum in Switzerland
I recently went to visit my inlaws in Switzerland, and while there, we stopped by the Swiss Military Musuem in Morges ( you can find a pretty good review of the museum here ) and to my delight, they had 3 hand mortars, all from right around 1700.
The thing that impressed me, when seeing these in person is the beefiness of the stock, especially around the breech/lock. The picture below doesn't do it justice, but these things are massive.
Hand mortar from the Morges Museum in Switzerland
Hand mortar from the Morges Museum in Switzerland
Handmortar from GoF
This is the author's Handmortar from a Rifle Shoppe Kit Completed by John Buck
(photo by J Macek)
Handmortar with Miquelet lock by Ben Coogle
I ordered my Hand Mortar kit from The Rifle Shoppe (TRS) on September 16 2004, with a promised delivery date of 12-14 weeks (which would have been December 10-24 2004). I have never heard of a good story dealing with The Rifle Shoppe as far as delivery times go for items not in stock. So I was planning on it not being ready for a Loooong Time.
I got a call in the spring, about May 15 that the Hand Mortar was Ready. It was a few more weeks before I could pay for it, but I still had not recieved it by the 1st of August. I started calling and sending e-mails and in the first week of September, I got the barrel. After a few weeks I started my e-mail campaign again. and Finally, on October 31st 2005 (ironically my Birthday) it arrived.
So would I suggest The Rifle Shoppe? If you are prepared to wait, yes. If you have to have something "sooner", then call them and find out what is in stock and you should not have any problems. If that "have to have" item is not in stock. 1-2 years seems to be the average wait time.
Once it arrived, I quickly decided that it was more than my meager skills and lack of tools could handle. I searched for a builder, and 8 months later, i had the Handmortar.
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|Sailors Short Jacket
|Muskets and Long Arms
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|Tricorne and other 18th Century Hats
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WOW, Katie! fabulous gifts and tags.ReplyDelete
I was agog when I saw these in the group and, again, they're so pretty here! This is the perfect challenge from you, Kate, with your giving heart and your talent for dressing up a package. I've admired your little treat packaging before. These are just magical! Kind of gets me in the mood for Christmas!ReplyDelete
Katie all these projects are just beautiful! Thank you for sharing your fabulous ideas :-)ReplyDelete
Oh, Miss Katie, you have outdone yourself, girl! I am in LOVE with each of these beautiful gifts! Wow! What a great challenge for this month, and each one of these beautiful gifts are amazing! And, hehe, I think I may agree with your about favorites, but my lips are sealed! LOL! I truly love our ideas and always love reading your posts, sweet friend! You are a joy and a special treasure! Now I'm inspired! Hugs!ReplyDelete
Wow Katie, you really outidid yourself here! The packaging and gifts are so beautiful! And oooo that glassine bag is just SO shimmery and lovely! And that little jingle bell on the tag is SO cute!ReplyDelete
Oh, Katie! Your 'Gifts from the Heart' are just gorgeous! Each tag is so lovely. I'm smitten with the Jolly Good Holiday tag. I love the old-fashioned flavor and your soft colors!
Fantastic gift collection Katie. The tag with the jar is sweet and never thought of the fabric topper.. perfect. The bag is shimmery gorgeousness and super cool cutting skills on the tree and ornaments. Fantastic gift collection.ReplyDelete
Oh boy are these cute! You'd better put names on them because people are going to fight just to get their hands on one. So creative Katie girl. :-) Hugs!ReplyDelete


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Body Shops new collection of spring make-up incorporates three key products, eyeshadow, lipgloss and blusher and we have to say that they are all bang on trend.
The Shimmer Shadows £16 come in the same format as our ever faithful shimmer cubes. This time however they are not four colours from the same palette, but a gentle contrast of hazy shades and vibrants blues, greens and lilacs.
Body Shop suggest that you snap up one of their fantastic Angled Brushes £8.50 and dampen the tip before applying a little Sparkling Sky along the upper lash line. Apply dry to the outer corner of the eye and then dampen their Eyeshadow Brush £8.50 to apply Emerald Sea along the lower lash line before applying heaps of mascara!
For killer cheekbones use a little of their great new Kiss of Colour Cheek Blush £10 in whatever shade suits your skin tone best. Then, using your finger tips to apply a little Shimmer Cube Shade, Sea Shell which is great as a highlighter.
Lastly, give your pout perfection by dabbing on some Love Gloss £9.50 (with an adorable heart shaped applicator). We love Raspberry Pink, but there is a shade to suit everyone.
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Today is POW/MIA Recognition Day, which always falls on the 3rd Friday of September. Established by the U.S. Congress in 1998, the day honors those who were prisoners of war and those who are still missing in action. In tribute to this day we are launching two limited-edition flight jackets. Each one was inspired by the story of military heroes. Learn more about each jacket and the servicemen that each honors.
The MA-1 POW/MIA "You Are Not Forgotten" Flight Jacket
This jacket was first done as a one-of-a-kind jacket to honor POW/MIA Recognition Day 2015. The jacket pays tribute to these heroes and their families; it is inclusive of all services and conflicts. Let's take a closer look.
The Back
The back of the jacket has at its center the iconic POW/MIA flag designed as a symbol of citizen concern about United States military personnel taken as prisoners of war (POWs) or listed as missing in action (MIA). The POW/MIA symbol is surrounded by patches honoring the soldiers that served in a variety of conflicts from WWII to Korea to Vietnam and culminating in Desert Shield / Desert Storm, the Iraq Campaign and the Afghanistan Campaign. These patches are arranged in order of "seniority" across four rows, with WWII at the topmost position.
The Right Sleeve
The right sleeve features patches from all five services, emphasizing the joint nature of the U.S. military and bringing home the point that all of our service branches operate together. These patches have also been arranged by seniority, from top to bottom, with the most senior service (oldest), the U.S. Army, at the top of the right shoulder.
The Front
The front of the jacket again features a large iconic POW/MIA flag.
The Left Sleeve
The top of the left sleeve features the U.S. flag, a position it occupies in a variety of military working uniforms.
The MA-1 "Fear the Bones" Flight Jacket
For this bomber we were inspired by the story of Ensign Jack Ernie from USN VF-17. The squadron provided air support for the invasion of Okinawa in 1945. Launching from the USS Bunker Hill, the fighter squadron was well-known for taking out Japanese aircraft. Foreign pilots feared the Skull and Crossbones that adorned the tails of their F-4U Corsair aircraft.
On April 1, 1945, Ensign Jack Ernie and his fellow pilots took to the sky to take down more enemy air power. As he was flying Ernie realized his plane was losing engine oil and tried to get out of the situation. Before he knew it his Corsair was attacked by two Japanese Zeroes. Ernie fought bravely and managed to take out one before the other overwhelmed him. As his plane was going down he made two transmissions – "Skipper, I can't get out" followed by, "Remember me with the Jolly Rogers (skull and crossbones)."
Ensign Jack Ernie was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his bravery that day. His remains were recovered years after that fateful day. By then VF-17 had been decommissioned but the skull and crossbones insignia they used was adopted by VF-84. Jack Ernie's family told his story to the squadron and donated his skull and femurs, encased in glass, to the squadron thereby fulfilling his wish to be remembered to the Jolly Rogers.
To this day, Ensign Jack Ernie is retained on the squadron rooster and his skull and bones go with the Jolly Rogers wherever they go, serving as a symbol of courage and heroism for all Jolly Rogers to follow. The bomber jacket features a series of patches that honors the Jolly Rogers, their Skull and Crossbones and pirate cat squadron patches, and the bones of Jack Ernie. There is a special "Fear the Bones" flight tag along with the traditional red "Remove Before Flight" tag.


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When you're a huge foodie like I am, farmer's markets are a danger zone. In a good way. You know how it goes: you walk around with one or two purchases in mind and wind up leaving with a bag stuffed full of things you weren't there to buy. But suddenly, when you saw them, you needed them. That happened to me with a bunch of beets at the Troy farmer's market the other week. I'd been thinking about beets and when I saw bundles of really big ones at one of the farm tables, I snatched up the nicest looking group I could find.
As much as I like beets, I like library books more. Seriously, I'm lucky that the local branch doesn't charge for interlibrary loan or I'd be broke all the time. One of the things I have a habit of requesting are cookbooks. Since they tend to be on the pricey side, I find it pays to check them out first if possible. This has a tendency to backfire on me when I do a sweeping search through the entire library system catalog and find things I didn't know existed. Such was the case a while back with Robin Robertson's The Vegetarian Meat & Potatoes Cookbook.
I've had that one out before, and it was so awesome that I requested it again recently. Just like the title says, it's a book of vegetarian and vegan versions of classic "meat and potatoes" dishes, including this red flannel hash. I'd never heard of red flannel hash, but it sounded like an interesting way to use beets. Plus it has potatoes in it, so what's not to love?
The recipe involved steaming potatoes and boiling beets, one of which I'm adept at and the other I'd never done. (I should probably also mention that I'm adept at forgetting to check the water level in pans where veggies are steaming. This has created some incidents I ought to be able to look back on and laugh at in the future. Maybe.) I either didn't use enough water or didn't cut the beets small enough, because they seemed to take an inordinately long time to get soft. It worked out all right in the end, though, and it turns out that hash makes a pretty darn good dinner with some green beans and fresh French peasant bread on the side. I wish I could say I made the bread, but that distinction goes to Our Daily Bread in Chatham, who are at the Troy market a lot and bake several vegan-friendly breads.
Tempeh was the "meaty" component for the hash. I cut it up in tiny pieces instead of grating it. The idea of grating tempeh has always seemed kind of messy to me. Does anyone else grate tempeh for stuff? If so, how does that work out? It seems like something that would be better for cold faux meat salads.
As a way to use beets, this hash was a good idea. They added a bit of sweetness to the potatoes, and the whole thing would make a good side dish to tofu scramble or some kind of vegan frittata. You could also eat it on a big bed of steamed greens; chard or kale would work well. Then again, kale is awesome with anything…I almost made that instead of green beans!


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Homepage > See & Do > Gastronomy & traditions > Christmas is in the air – Lugano City Tour (Free)
A Christmas market, the scent of cinnamon, the majestic Christmas tree in Piazza Riforma and the holiday lights making everything magic. The market made up of wooden chalets creates a warm and magical Christmassy atmosphere and is the perfect place to pick up Christmas decorations, festive objects, regional produce and arts & crafts. You will certainly find decorations for your Christmas tree, some original ideas for Christmas presents and ingredients to make your Christmas meals even more delicious.
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Piazza Riforma
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Autumn in the region of Lugano gives magic emotions…
The charming actors will allow you to travel in time and get to know the people and the places that have made the city great.
A visit to Lugano may not be defined as such if you don't include Gandria, a romantic and picturesque hamlet.
The excursion allows you to enjoy this natural landmark from all its points of view.
From the heart of the city to the most uncontaminated peak of Lugano. You'll enjoy the splendid view and walk through the tiny village of Brè.
An interesting walk discovering Lugano's new train station, the recently restored Cathedral and the city seen from above.
Enjoy a great start to the weekend by exploring the producers of the Lugano region.
True food and drink indulgence off the beaten track: discover the taste of Swiss cities by following recommendations from the locals.
A journey of tastes and flavors on the banks of the Ceresio.
Discover meats, fish, cheeses and wines from the region.
Discover the city strolling around and taste the local bier or a gelato or a local wine at your choice!
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