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This was a difficult post to write and to share, yet as ashamed as I am at its content, I need to confess – apparently in a long and disjointed fashion.
I could write books on why I'm not a good person. Let's just start with one chapter for now, though, shall we?
Let me tell you why I am the world's worst daughter.
On April 16th of this year, my mother's car was struck by another car in a low-speed accident. Her airbags deployed, and she sustained a severe concussion, which resulted in traumatic brain injury. In a nutshell, my mother now has dementia induced by physical trauma and cannot remember anything short-term, cannot speak well and cannot read.
Needless to say, she needs a lot of assistance. She cannot drive safely, she cannot work. She hasn't seen any money from her lost income, and she is at risk of losing her house. She has already lost her job as a psychologist. She is awash in debt and drowning.
Here's the punch line, though, why I am just an awful excuse for a person: I resent every single second I have to spend helping my mother.
I'm frequently utterly unable to contain my impatience with her. She senses this, and we talk about it sometimes. I apologize for being impatient or for snapping, for for a facial expression I know she interprets, correctly, as frustrated or angry.
A dozen times per day, she offers to pay me "for everything I am doing" for her, and then in the next breath insinuates I am not working hard enough to get the money she needs. Each time, I refuse payment. I tell her I will not be taking money from her now, or ever, regardless of the outcome, regardless of any settlement.
I do not want the strings that come attached to the money.
I am driving her car, because we are both afraid she'll forget not to drive and try to take herself someplace, become lost or hurt or hurt someone else. It's a nice car, but not one I would choose myself. She will insist that I drive it as a reward for helping her, and then imply I am putting her out somehow by driving it. I try to give it back, she refuses. I relent.
In truth, I'm really not doing much, certainly not enough. As I tell her I'm not taking any money, that no she should not give me her car to keep, that I just want her to get better, what I don't add, at least not aloud, is that I want her to get better so she can get back out of my life.
Without Mom's insistent, intrusive presence in my days, I was so much happier. The drama level went down radically. I felt more peaceful. The nearly two years we went barely speaking to each other were, in truth, fantastic.
We talk about this, too.
She told me she had expected, had wanted, a girlie-girl and she didn't know what to do with "someone like me," who was a tomboy, who was adventurous and who wanted nothing whatsoever to do with the little pink frilly shirts, with the sweater vests that had ducks on them, and who instead wanted to play with Tonka trucks and climb trees and go on Adventures.
She said, "I'm sorry it took me so long to accept you for who you are, instead of who I wanted you to be."
I apologized too, and acknowledged that she is far better at accepting me for who I am now than I am at accepting her for who she is. She is far less harshly judgmental of me than I am of her.
"It's okay," she said; "I understand because I'm your mother, and mothers love their children unconditionally. Nothing will ever change that."
In that moment, briefly, we communicated. She was clear and found the words she needed. She held a train of thought, showed no sign of dementia. We spoke honestly, without reservation, and it was … nice.
My mother is not a bad person. I don't like her, but I understand her. We have our issues, but it seems all mothers and daughters do. I wish I could be a better daughter for her, but it exceeds my capacities for the time being. I'm doing the best I can, and it frustrates both of us that I'm not doing a better job.
I wish I could be better for her, be the sort of daughter who can come gladly and willingly to help her, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because I want to help her, because I love her, because it's important, because she needs me, because I know in my heart she would do everything in her power to help me if the situation were reversed.
And yet, I seethe internally. I am so angry at this unscheduled intrusion into my life – the life that's newly unfolding with Mike.
I loathe her manipulations, her button-pushing, her insistence that she is fully independent – provided she can pay someone to do all of her work for her. When the going gets tough, my mother hires someone. Strength of character is not one of her strong points.
Even though I am not doing a vast amount of work for her, everything feels like extreme effort. It's difficult to take her to shopping at Meijer's, a local superstore chain, and watch her doddle and fret about the store. She is only 61, yet she moves and acts as if she were eighty. This isn't new. My mother is a fretful, anxious woman – I come by it honestly – and it drives me absolutely bonkers.
As she limps down the aisles, she complains about the pain in her foot, yet refuses to get into one of the motorized carts. "No, I need to walk, ouch, it's good for me." No, no it isn't.
My mother's thought processes have long flied in the face of logic. All she knows, all she can focus on (especially now) is whatever has fixed her OCD attention for the moment. Everything else pales by comparison. Everything else can be rationalized away to fit into This Moment's Obsession. It is… infuriating.
Last week, she told me her dog's nails needed to be cut. A few moments later, I knelt by Kavi to do just that, and she said, "no no no, don't do that! I just cut them two days ago! You're only supposed to do it once a week." So I stopped.
Ten minutes later, she asked me if I was going to cut his nails.
"No, you said you just did it two days ago."
"I don't remember saying that, I don't think I did!"
I told her I would cut them next time, because I had reached my limit – how much of my mother I could take in one day. I had to escape, to get away.
It had only been three hours.
I had to go, I needed to storm out. But before I stormed out, I realized I needed to leave with some measure of grace, some kindness and compassion, because even though I do not like my mother, I do feel deep compassion for her. I don't want her to know how infuriated I am at this entire situation.
No one, of course, chooses to have her parents become elderly and infirm and demented. I thought I would have another fifteen years before I was confronted with becoming a primary caretaker for one of my parents. I'm not ready for this, not in the slightest. I suppose no one ever really is ready for those awful things life throws at us sometimes.
My friend Travis recently lost his father very unexpectedly, very young. One moment, his dad was here and present and loving him and an important part of Travis' life, and the next, he was in a hospital with a very poor outlook. A few days later… he was gone.
Travis is handling this tragedy remarkably well, or so it seems from my perspective. It's difficult to know what lurks in his dark hours, what haunts him, what regrets he might have if he does have them, but it's so clear he and his dad loved each other very much and that Travis misses him.
It forces me to wonder how I would feel if Mom had been killed or if she died even now. Would I have regrets? Very likely. But I know there would also be relief.
There are many people who are so much better than I am, who willingly and gladly step up to help the old and the infirm and the demented – while I make blog posts about how angry I am at my poor mother.
I'm a bad daughter.
But it's all I can do right now. I only have as much patience as I have, even though I work at it (every day, every minute I am with her.) I resent this happening just as I was starting to get some energy back, starting to have my mental and physical well-being reassert themselves, starting to feel like myself again.
Then this happened and she landed back in my life with a resounding impact.
And I hate it.
Here is a glimpse of the scope of my selfishness and general, overall badness, as if the previous text hasn't been damning enough.
Sometimes, I envision what it might be like if she couldn't speak at all – if the accident had left her utterly incapable of forming words. And then I am overcome by a wave of horror that I would even, for a fleeting moment, think of something like that. I ponder to what depths of selfishness I can possibly sink to even partially wish for that in a moment of weakness.
I am appalled at myself. I picture my mom, suffering, and unable to tell us where it hurts, or why she's confused, or how much she loves her dog, or what she wants to do in her garden, and it brings me to tears – not just the image of her suffering in enforced silence, but that I would be so unkind. And in that moment, I realize more compassion for her than before – but it is still not enough.
Because she begins to speak and I want her to stop talking.
Putting myself in her place, of course she has to talk about it. She is so frustrated, confused and helpless. She is miserable and depressed. In an instant, the carelessness of one individual ruined her life. Tonight, she sent me this, after I emailed an apology for leaving on a bad note earlier. It probably took her 20 minutes to type.
"I'm sorry too. It's so hard to lose my life. I loved my job and I lost it so fast. I hate being in the house and not being able to do anything. I know you're doing alot for me, but you don't keep me in what's going on. I can't just act dumb – but I love you and appriate you alot.
love you"
Mom has a PhD – she doesn't make spelling errors, and yet you see them there. She often has to ask me how to spell her last name as she signs documents. Her brain is unraveling.
My mother was a reader of Olympic proportion. She was always reading several books at once, and it was her primary passion in life, second only, perhaps, to gardening.
She can't read at all now – looking at words on a page nauseates her. She cannot follow a plot, even, so audio books are not an option. One of the things she loves most in life has been ripped away from her in a time when she desperately needs a way to pass the hours.
She's going crazy, trapped in her house with the tiny yard, with nothing to do but worry and look at bills piling up.
I wish I had infinite gentleness and patience for her, because she needs it and I cannot access it, no matter how hard I might try.
Even though she is infuriating, and confounding, and frustrating, and manipulative, and obsessive, and histrionic… she is still a human being, a person deserving of compassion and kindness in her time of suffering.
My mom wanted a baby because she was lonely. Because she wanted the unconditional love a child brings. Sometimes, I think that was not sufficient reason to have dragged me, kicking and screaming, into this world. But for years, I gave her that unconditional love.
And then… I ran out. I ran out of love for my mother. I have none left, or at least none that I can feel currently.
For those two years we were not on speaking terms, she would still end her emails or voice mails with "I love you." I never did. I couldn't bring myself to say it, to lie, even though I know she desperately wanted to hear it. I suppose, perhaps, it was a form of punishment I was inflicting upon her for decades of her various punishments upon me.
After the accident, I began saying it back, began hugging her when I left. It was still a lie, but I thought it might help her. A few days ago, as I was leaving her house:
Mom: "Drive carefully, love you."
Me: "Love you, too."
Mom: "Do you really?"
My heart sank. Why did she have to ask, to nail me down on this?
Me: "Well, sometimes."
She laughed, with surprising genuineness. "But not today, huh?"
Me: "No, today wasn't too bad really. We did ok today, right?"
I do wonder what it's like to know your child doesn't love you.
While I don't hate her, I do not love her, I do not even like her. We've acknowledged on several occasions how we do not get along, we are Very Different Sorts of People who would not choose each other's company, we damage and twist each other.
Sadly, we are stuck with each other. I am an only child, she has no romantic partner. Her only good friend is dying of stage four breast cancer. Her business partner will do what he has to do as he watches their practice crumble around him. A few other casual friends don't come by often. She has alienated her neighbors and estranged her sisters.
Tonight after work, I stopped by to drop off the tiny amount of money I got for selling some of her hardcover books and to look at some hornets' nests she was worried about. I'd hoped it would be a mercifully brief visit.
As I was getting ready to leave, she fixated on some paperwork she wanted to give me, and set about searching high and low for it. Slowly. After ten minutes or so, I made my first attempt at departure, saying the dogs needed to go out – which they absolutely did.
"You never spend any time with me! You're always in such a rush to leave!"
This, she remembers.
"Mom, I'm sorry I don't have all the time in the world for you."
"I don't even know what's going on or when I'll get any money or how I'm going to live or even feed my dog!"
"I promise, I'm not going to let you starve."
"But you have to keep me informed, you have to tell me what's going on!"
I have, at many turns, kept her informed. This, she forgets.
"Mom, you're forgetting things and that's ok, but you just have to trust me that I'm doing whatever I can to get the money coming in, I promise."
This is Truth. I talk to doctors, lawyers, accountants and insurance companies on her behalf almost every day.
All she knows, though, is that she is miserable and broke and alone and has no brain left. And that her daughter wants nothing to do with her.
I cannot bring myself to fake enthusiasm. I cannot even summon up simple grace and gentleness.
What the hell is wrong with me?
Surely there will be some karmic comeuppance for this.
And I will deserve every little bit of it.
There is so much more I want to get out, to confess, but I would imagine no one has read down this far and I'm out of the ability to express anything meaningful.


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Instant Pot Chicken and Stuffing
This Instant Pot Chicken and Stuffing has juicy chicken that's quickly cooked to perfection along with savory stuffing and fresh green beans. Plus, only 20 minutes of cooking time!
So, I recently asked you guys on my Facebook page what types of recipes you want to see this year, and Instant Pot was definitely something that I heard loud and clear. (No better excuse to hop online and buy one, woo!) Nothing is more fun than having a new kitchen toy to play with. Mwahahahaaaa….
I knew right away which recipe to try first. My crock pot chicken and stuffing recipe is not just one of my favorites, but one of yours too. It's been pinned over a million times, and rightfully so. It's delicious. The question was, could the instant pot make this for me too?!
Well, my husband and I are kind of a pair of losers, so we made a whole "thing" about trying out this instant pot, as if it was this magical little bucket that was about to change our lives.
Ummmm, guess what. Instant Pots are magical little buckets that do change your life.
So there we stood. Staring at that shiny silver pot while the chicken cooked, not moving a muscle. Barely blinking. As if some little elf was going to sneak in and replace the frozen chicken with cooked chicken when we weren't looking. It's witch craft, I'm telling you. And I love it. This entire meal takes a *max* of 20 minutes, and that's if your chicken is frozen solid. Now that's impressive.
What Size Instant Pot did I use?
-I used my trusty 6-quart Instant Pot for this recipe, which is what I recommend for most families, and is what most Instant Pot recipes are based on. It can cook enough food for a family of four and won't take as long to come to pressure as an 8 quart will.
Sour cream substitutions:
- Plain Greek Yogurt
- Mayonnaise
- 1 cup evaporated milk + 1 tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice. Let stand 5 minutes to thicken.
When you would prefer to prolong the cooking process, on a lazy Sunday perhaps, definitely try the slow cooker version as well. It's to die for.
For firming stuffing:
- Try using a box and a half, (9 oz. instead of 6) and keep everything else the same!
You should also try these!
- Instant Pot Spaghetti and Meat Sauce
- Instant Pot Hamburger Helper
- Instant Pot Broccoli Cheddar Soup
- Crock Pot Chicken and Stuffing
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This Instant Pot Chicken and Stuffing has juicy chicken that's quickly cooked to perfection along with savory stuffing and fresh green beans. Plus, only 22 minutes of cooking time!
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts fresh or frozen, see instructions
- Salt/Pepper to taste
- 3/4 cup chicken broth
- 6 oz. box stuffing mix
- 10.5 oz. cream of chicken soup
- 8 oz. sour cream for firmer stuffing, use ½ cup.
- 2 cups green beans fresh or frozen
- 1/3 cup onions diced
- 1/3 cup celery diced
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries
- 1/2 cup sausage pre-cooked & crumbled/diced
- Season the chicken with desired amounts of salt and pepper.
- Pour the chicken broth into the bottom of the pressure cooker and then add the chicken, (overlapping as needed).
Seal the vent, and press the "manual" or "pressure cook" button and set the timer to 14 minutes for frozen chicken, or 8 minutes for fresh/defrosted chicken. Ensure the pressure seal valve is secured in place and closed.
- As the chicken cooks, gently combine the stuffing, cream of chicken soup, and the sour cream until just combined. Don't over-mix.
Once the chicken timer goes off, turn the quick release valve on the pressure cooker and wait for the steam to escape. Press the cancel button to turn the off the unit.
- Open the lid and ensure that chicken is fully cooked. You'll notice a lot of moisture at the bottom, this is needed for the stuffing to cook.
If using frozen green beans, place them on top of the chicken, seal the pressure valve, and press the "manual" or "pressure cook" button again and set the timer for 2 minutes. Release the valve, let the steam escape, and then add the stuffing on top. (If using fresh green beans, add them at the same time as the stuffing.)
Replace the lid and seal the pressure valve. Press the "manual" or "pressure cook" button and set the timer to 4 minutes. This will heat up the stuffing. (Since the stuffing will absorb the moisture, the pressure cooker won't steam again.)
- Once finished, release the valve once more and let the steal escape.
- Scoop out the stuffing, vegetables, and chicken, and serve!
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LenovoEMC announces new NAS devices for SMBs
LenovoEMC announces px4 desktop and rackmount NAS devices for small- to medium-sized businesses and remote offices.
The joint venture between EMC Corp. and Lenovo recently announced two new NAS devices for the SMB IT market.
LenovoEMC's px4 line of network-attached storage (NAS) devices is designed for backup and file sharing, according to the company, and is meant for small- and medium-sized business (SMB) use, as well as for remote office environments.
LenovoEMC rolled out the new products -- the rackmount LenovoEMC px4-400r and desktop LenovoEMC px4-400d -- at the International CES show in Las Vegas. The px4-400r is a 1U NAS in a rackmount form factor with up to 16 TB of capacity using four 4 TB disks. An optional dual port Gigabit Ethernet NIC card is also available, according to the company. The px4-400r begins at $1,399 without disks.
The desktop-based px4-400d also offers the same storage capacity and configuration, plus LenovoEMC said it has a 25% improvement in reads and writes over its predecessor. The diskless version of the product is priced at $729. Both run on LenovoEMC's LifeLine operating system.
Lenovo and EMC announced their partnership in August 2012, which rebranded EMC's Iomega division to focus on server and network-attached storage development, according to the companies. The deal was also intended to give EMC a better position in the Chinese market by working with Beijing-based Lenovo.
Greg Schulz, senior advisory analyst for StorageIO, said the new products offer a "nice set" of enhancements for low-end SMB and SOHO environments, noting offerings such as HDMI and eSATA expansion ports, as well as improved processors and memory. He also noted the Lifeline OS continues to evolve with greater support for third-party software, including for security and backup.
"These [features] compliment the current easy-to-use features as well as path-to-cloud capabilities and … should signal to the industry, partners and customers that the Iomega line of multi-function, multi-protocol NAS and iSCSI devices are very much alive under the joint [LenovoEMC] brand for addressing storage needs from high-end consumer, SOHO, ROBO and SMB," Schulz said.
"By moving the Iomega portfolio into the Lenovo partnership, there is less confusion for its partners and customers as to where it fits with more emphasis on Lenovo utilizing their mass market footprint for these systems that fit under the low end of the main EMC product lineups," Schulz said. "Hence, this can be seen as a volume play and [a] route into the Chinese, among other markets, while EMC stays focused on the mid to upper SMB, as well as other areas."


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The media management minor requires students to complete 18 hours of study. This includes 9 hours of upper-level courses. Students take these courses within the Film and Digital Media Department. This program is for students interested in the management side of the film industry.
Most degree programs at Baylor do not require a student to select a minor area of study. Students may choose to minor in a field that supplements their major. Or, they may choose to pursue an area of academic interest completely outside their major. For example, a Communication Studies major may minor in media management. This helps them gain management experience.
Courses a student might take include Visual Literacy: Sight, Sound, and Motion, Screenwriting, or Writing for Media Markets.
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Today Jetbrains announced on their blog that they've released a resharper nuget package that will obtain project references via nuget, rather than making direct references to the locally installed code.
As we are currently in the early stages of transitioning from VS2008 to VS2012 we aren't ready to start using NuGet(*) but I think I'll be grabbing this plugin for when we do.
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The global eternal feeding devices market is growing significantly due to shift from parental nutrition to eternal feeding devices, rigorous research and development, and boosting homecare market in the industry. Massive unexplored market in eternal feeding devices industry of developing economies are creating plenty opportunities for the eternal feeding devices market to grow at a considerable rate during the forecasted years. The advanced research and development facilities, and innovative product developments by the companies are propelling the growth of the eternal feeding devices industry.
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Sigh. The apology epidemic continues; after Rahm Emanuel was forced to apologize for saying "retarded" and Obama was forced to apologize for saying gambling in Las Vegas was a bad way to save for your kids' future (yes, Las Vegas demanded an apology), NBC apologized for having a Black History Month menu in its cafeteria that included fried chicken and collard greens. Darn this political correctness! Come to think of it, we could go for some fried chicken and greens right about now. And some more iced tea, motherfucker!
Who else apologized this week?
Instant props to the any public figure who responds to the endless demands for apology with "I did it and I'm glad."


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In a private conference call with a handful of university students across the country, GOP Presidential hopeful — and President Obama's former Ambassador to China — Jon Huntsman argued in support of one of the most far-reaching, controversial elements of the conservative political agenda.
As first reported in a broader piece by the Huffington Post, Huntsman argued in favor of a constitutional amendment requiring the federal government to maintain a balanced budget — an innocuous-sounding, but radical plan pushed by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and numerous other congressional conservatives.
"We're going to have to fight for a balanced budget amendment," Huntsman said. "Every governor in this country has a balanced budget amendment. It keeps everybody honest. It's the best safeguard imaginable."At its core, a balanced-budget amendment would make it unconstitutional for the government to spend more than it collects in revenue — a requirement that, without safeguards, would make stimulus and emergency spending impossible.
Faced with a similar requirement, states responded to the recession with budget cuts that exacerbated the downturn.
But Republicans on the Hill have taken the idea a step further to the right by including a provision that would make it functionally impossible for the government to raise taxes. The goal, then, is to force future Congresses to slash or eliminate federal spending programs — which disproportionately benefit the needy and elderly — to bring them in line with a revenue base that's likely to shrink over time.
It's unclear whether Huntsman supports this version of a Balanced Budget Amendment, or a less extreme one. But the nature of the idea is such that it allows conservatives to signal their support for slashing programs without providing the unpopular details. And in the GOP primary, this will likely be a key test for candidates hoping to curry favor with influential conservatives like DeMint.


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New website and address
Welcome to the new Bridgeville Rifle and Pistol Club website! We will continue to update and build the site as time goes on so keep checking back for new content! The address for the website has changed to www.BRPC-DE.com so please update any bookmarks you may have.


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Estimates vary on the number of web sites that are affected by the security bug Heartbleed and those numbers are changing all the time as sites scramble to patch the security flaw.
The Canada Revenue Agency has already gone public with its Heartbleed concerns, shutting down part of its website and putting a temporary end to Netfiling for taxes and other services while it fixes the vulnerability. Not all Canadian companies and organizations have been as quick to alert customers.
While some security advisors are telling people to change their passwords, you could be changing a password on a site that hasn't been fixed and while you go on with your life, figuring you've solved this Heartbleed problem, hackers could be picking up your new password and sign in credentials.
A number of sites, from Google to Yahoo ones have fixed the problem. Others, such as some Canadian credit unions and Canadian banks say they are not affected by Heartbleed. Check my earlier post for some of those updates and advice to consumers.
If you want to check a web site to see if it's safe, you can check this open-source Heartbleed test. It's not an exact test since a number of sites return an error message that means the test can't determine whether or not the site is vulnerable.
The password management company LastPass has a Heartbleed website checker that you can find here. And Mashable is maintaining a list of websites that are vulnerable to Heartbleed or have been fixed.
If you use Chrome for your browser, you can install Chromebleed Checker that promises to warn you if the site you're browsing is affected by the Heartbleed bug.
You can check this list of vulnerable web sites created by Mustafa Al-Bassam but note that the scan that produced these results is now outdated – it was carried out on April 8 – and many of the 627 sites that show up as vulnerable have since been fixed.


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Our history collections include archaeology, ethnography, coins and medals, greetings cards, trade and cigarette cards, stamps, local history, music sheets and the Preston Guild.
August 2012 marked the opening of the flagship history gallery Discover Preston. This Preston Guild project has created an exciting new space at the Harris, and is set to inspire local people and visitors to the city and be a lasting legacy of the 2012 Guild.
The history collection was formed from a collection of historical curiosities that had been collected by the Cross Street Museum (Preston's first museum) and then transferred to the new Harris Museum & Art Gallery in 1893.
It has since grown into a diverse collection of approximately 45,000 items, including archaeology, ethnography, coins and medals, greetings cards, trade and cigarette cards, philately, local history, music sheets and items relating to the Preston Guild.
The majority of the history collection has been built through individual donations or bequests, from local people, businesses, clubs and societies. Some of the collections, however, were purchased, including the greetings card collection and the Edwards collection of music sheets and covers.
Ethnographic collection
The ethnographic collection consists of about 200 items from North America, Oceania, Africa and Australasia. The North American artefacts in this collection come from the Weld collection and from John Hyde in 1914. Some material may have been transferred from the Cross Street Museum in 1893.
The stamp collection consists of about 3,600 stamps in albums and about 5,000 loose stamps. The majority of the collection is of foreign material with only about 20% British. There is one album containing a significant collection of Victorian stamps (penny reds, blacks and violets). Other philatelic material in the collection is of greater historical, and local, significance and includes;
Hand stamps
Mulready envelopes
A large collection of printed and embroidered postcards
Revenue stamps for licences
Boer War letters
The collection was mainly compiled from the donations of the collections of local individuals such as the Booth collection. Booth was a founder member of the Preston Philatelic Society.
Greetings cards
This collection consists of 4,668 items covering such themes as Christmas, New Year, Birthday, Easter, In Memoriam and a significant collection of Valentine cards dating from the 18th century to present day. Much of this collection was purchased by the museum's Art Director Sydney Pavierre in the 1940s through Halewood and Sons, Preston. However, the collection has been supplemented with acquisitions from local people and the Preston greeting cards manufacturer CCA.
Cigarette and Tea Cards
This is a large collection and consists of themed albums (e.g. the seashore) and various unmounted series grouped according to the issuer e.g. Wills, Player, CWS, EH Booth, Lyons Tea Co.. The most significant part of the collection is the Evans collection donated by the writer A.E Evans, the author of Cigarette Cards and How to Collect Them.
Social history objects
The museum has a collection of objects that relate to community, domestic, personal and working life in Preston and the surrounding area.


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When we went on our Alaska Cruise we went super last minute and I did not have a ton of time to really plan out what to pack. I was more worried about packing all of our camera equipment and did not really think about what we would need on the trip. Unfortunately my non thinking made our Alaska cruise a very cold trip. Here are my tips on what to pack for a Alaska Cruise
What to pack for your Alaskan Cruise
Warm Clothes! These are the items that I some how managed to forget to put in our suitcase. I highly suggest packing 2 sets of gloves, scarves, and hats. There is a chance they will get damp and wet while you are out exploring and site seeing. If you have 2 sets you can let the first one completely dry before having to use it again. Trust me a cold wet hat is not fun to put back on your head while looking at Glacier Bay. I thought my hair was going to freeze off of my head at one point when the wind picked up and my hat was still damp.
-Rain gear depending on when you are traveling
-Comfortable shoes for walking
-Sweater for on the boat and walking between things
-Camera and equipment
-Binoculars for looking at wildlife on shore
-Nice outfits for dinner
-At least 1 outfit for formal night
-Comfortable clothes
Depending on the cruise you are on you will spend quite a few days at sea. We found ourselves lounging a lot in comfy chairs looking out at the scenery during these days. The last thing you want to pack is your super cute but super painful jeans and then end up sitting in them for 8-10 hours trying to be comfortable looking at the amazing scenery. Yes I am speaking from experience and trust me it is not a fun way to spend a day.
I hope these tips help with your Alaska Cruise. Let us know if we forgot to mention any packing essentials!
For more Alaska cruise tips and posts check out these great posts
Juneau Alaska
– Mendenhall Glacier
–Red Dog Saloon
–Great ways to spend a day in Juneau
Skagway Alaska
–Red Onion Saloon
–Driving to the Yukon Territory
–Klondike Gold Rush Visitor Center
–Yukon Brewing Company
–Great ways to spend the day in Skagway
Ketchikan Alaska
–Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show
–Great ways to spend the day in Ketchikan
Glacier Bay National Park
–Cruising Glacier Bay


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Today was packed so full of activity, it's hard to remember how it all started only a few hours ago. We left our hotel by the sea at 8:30 and arrived at ancient Corinth by 11.
This visit impacted all of us in different ways, but the way in which our tour guide, Costas, unpacked ancient culture by directing us to highly specific passages in Scripture is certainly something we will never forget. Please ask us about this visit when we return; maybe by the time you see us, we will have processed a little more of what we saw today.
Hearts, heads, and stomachs full from the visit to Corinth, we stopped back at Cosmovision for just long enough to put on our Spring Break missions T-shirts and get back on the bus. We were headed to the Syrian and Afghan refugee camp in Lavrio.
The Taylor Chorale spent 15 minutes in this camp last spring and the experience changed many members' lives. Today, we spent almost three hours with children and their parents who welcomed us as one of their own.
Playback theatre welcomed and gathered refugee children during the first hour, leading the group in games like "Dash," "Animals," and "Duck, Duck, Goose" while tireless kids screamed at, climbed on, and chased us.
By the time their energy levels started peaking, we moved inside and tried to sit no fewer than twenty kids on benches in our makeshift concert hall that usually housed the camp's English language class. We performed a few songs amidst scraping chairs and loud chatter before Renae Timbie, Taylor graduate and church music director from Muncie, Indiana, stood and told the children in Arabic, "You are going to sing a song with us!"
Phrase by phrase, the kids learned a simple piece called Dona Nobis Pacem. When they had mastered the first few pages, Sounds members harmonized on the lower parts. Children of all ages and all backgrounds, carrying burdens we may never understand, lifted their voices in a frail chorus.
It was the most beautiful sound we heard all day.
Praise God for the many, many doors he has opened in the past year for this trip to even happen! Praise him for the children he loves coming together from all corners of the world to make this precious music. Please pray for the Playback Theater and Sounds members as we perform at St. Lawrence college (an elementary and high school) in Vali tomorrow.


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4th of July, 2008
What's happened with July 4, 2008 beside US' independence day? Well, for me there are two important events on that day.
Those are my warnet's 2nd month anniversary and my thesis exam. The latter was achieved by a hard struggle and ultra-endeavour. Fight myself from lazyness and procastination was the most difficult one. Second one was waiting for the unsure things from PT X @$#@!!$ Well, hard work paid off, alhamdulillah.. You may call me master now! A million thanks to everyone who had helped me so far, especially my fams and meine liebe for all your support and spirit.
On 4th July 2008 too, "Flash-Net" my beloved warnet had been running exactly for 2 months. I just gave it a new PC as a 2nd month anniversary's present. Actually it's not a real new PC, but a "tambal-sulam" one from my old PC. Until now Flash-Net has totally had 7 PCs, 1 scanner, and 1 printer. Uhh rite.. it's just a small warnet with a few client PCs. Slowly but sure Hopefully U can give me much more profit for the treat dear Flash-Net, hueheuhe…


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One of the most important Jewish values is hachnasat orchim, the practice of welcoming visitors.
In that tradition of welcoming visitors, we are proud to welcome you to Downtown Jewish Life: our community that is full of energy, focused on Jewish values, and open to all.
A collective of more than 30 Jewish organizations located in lower Manhattan, Downtown Jewish Life aims to reinvent the way New Yorkers connect with our city, our neighbors, and our shared values. With so many ways to engage in Jewish life, this community is what you make of it.
Here, you will find:
- Our partners: Partner organizations in Downtown Jewish Life — synagogues, cultural centers, and museums — Life are as diverse as the neighborhoods of New York. Get to know our partners and explore what they have to offer as a part of this vibrant community.
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Whether you're a shul regular, seeking to reconnect with your faith, or exploring Jewish culture for the first time — Downtown Jewish Life welcomes you.
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|Heterocycles 27. Microwave Assisted Synthesis and Antitumour Activity of Novel Phenothiazinyl-Thiazolyl-Hydrazine Derivatives.
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|A series of new phenothiazinyl-thiazolyl-hydrazine derivatives were synthesized by Hantzsch cyclization of 1-(10-ethyl-10H-phenothiazin-3-yl)-methylidene-thiosemicarbazide with α-halocarbonyl derivatives. Comparison between classical and microwave assisted synthesis emphasizes the great advantages induced by microwaves irradiation which afforded high reaction yields in much shorter reaction time. Structural assignments were based on spectroscopic methods (high resolution NMR, FTIR, MS). The new compounds were tested in vitro for their antiproliferative activity against tumor cell lines using spectrometric methods. Most of the compounds exhibit cytotoxicity against hepatic and colon tumor cells in a dose-dependent mode and a relationship between the structure and their biological activity was observed.
|Adriana Ignat; Tamas Lovasz; Mihai Vasilescu; Eva Fischer-Fodor; Corina Bianca Tatomir; Castelia Cristea; Luminiţa Silaghi-Dumitrescu; Valentin Zaharia
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iTC Push
iTunes Connect Push
As a developer I always want to see my proceeds (earnings) as soon as they availible on iTunes Connect. This App will push the proceeds (earrings) of the previous day and the current month to your iDevice, as soon as the new reports available.
So not longer the need to type any user / passwords or starting any app. It will send you the values in a Push message in your wanted Currency – just a few moments after the new reports are available.
In the app itself, the proceeds (earnings) from the previous day are displayed and a graph with the earnings of the current month.
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The Weekend Dish: 9/24/2011
Hello from sunny Florida! I'm getting a short reprieve from the chilly fall weather in Pittsburgh while spending some time down in southern Florida. In place of hot chocolate and apple cider, I'm enjoying lunch on the beach and conch fritters. Before long, I'll be back basking in the glow of the cool October sun and ready to start having my life revolve around Penguins games. Speaking of which, I'm getting my hockey fix down here by catching a preseason game between the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning tonight. What do you have planned for this first official weekend of fall? Visiting any orchards? Doing any baking?
As always, you'll find a recap of what was posted to the site this week as well as some bookmarked recipes from other blogs. Enjoy!
On Brown Eyed Baker This Week
Giveaway: SodaStream Home Soda Maker – I'm giving away this awesome soda maker – you have until tonight at midnight to enter!
Maple-Walnut Fudge – An easy fudge recipe, and a perfect fall flavor!
Sea Salt Caramels with Vanilla Bean – Delicious homemade caramels made with fleur de sel and vanilla bean.
Salted Caramel Cashew Bark – Using the sea salt caramels, I recreated a delicious treat I found at a Godiva store.
Most Viewed Post This Week: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownies
What I Bookmarked This Week
Recipes from other blogs that I thought looked especially delicious and that I thought you would like too:
Apple Cider Doughnuts (The Galley Gourmet)
A perfect weekend treat to celebrate the official start to fall! Plus, I NEED to buy the Doughnuts cookbook!
Caramel Apple Pie Cupcakes (The Craving Chronicles)
This has to be one of the best cupcake recipes I have come across in a long time.
Homemade Cheez-Its (A Golden Afternoon)
Gimme gimme gimme! I love Cheez-Its (and Cheetos, for that matter), and am totally stoked about making them at home thanks to this recipe.
Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Pumpkin Glaze (Dine and Dish)
I saw this picture pop up in my Facebook feed and was immediately smitten. Such a gorgeous dessert!
Zuccotto (Baked Bree)
I would have never guessed how easy this recipe was. Such amazing flavors, and a stunning presentation.
Have a delicious weekend!


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The gracefully landscaped resort, Tashi Delek Regency is set in the middle of Pelling. In this hotel, the guests can relish comfortable stay while enjoying nature's exquisiteness. The resort is in fine tune with nature and amalgamates contemporary amenities with picturesque opulence of nature. The first-rate facilities offered by the hotel proffers a contented and gratifying stay to the guests.
The rooms of the resort are elegantly appointed with lush amenities and excellent interiors. In addition to this, the well-stocked bar of the resort caters an assortment of palatable drinks. The hotel maintains the tradition style of hospitality along with upholding the contemporary elements of comfort. In a nutshell, Tashi Delek Regency is a perfect place to enjoy a cozy stay in the lap of nature.
The hotel offers 22 well appointed rooms replete with modern-day facilities. These rooms are stylishly furnished and spacious. The attached bathrooms are equipped with toiletries. The rooms offer all the facilities required for making the stay lavish and snug. The interiors of these rooms are meticulously designed and they bring together traditions and modernity.
Hotel Tashi Delek Regency,Pelling offers finest hospitable services which include:
Getting There:
Nearest Airport: Bagdogra Airport (Approx. 142 kilometers) via NH-31
Nearest Railway Station: Darjeeling Railway Station (Approx. 73 kilometers) via Nayabazar - Legship - Reshi Road
By Road: People usually prefer to travel to Pelling by road. One can get buses, jeeps, and taxis to commute here. Gangtok (116 kilometers) is easily reachable from Pelling through road network.


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The meeting will take place at a time when energy hungry India is considering hydrocarbon projects in the Artic region in collaboration with Russia, while state-run oil and gas companies are exploring the possibility of acquiring stakes in three Russian oil fields.
The hydrocarbon sector has emerged as one of the three key areas of partnership with Russia, besides defence and nuclear energy. A major Russian oil company is in discussions with an Indian counterpart for partnering in the refinery sector and setting up petrol pumps across India, a person familiar with the development told ET.
Several public sector oil and gas companies have evinced interest in acquiring stakes in Vankorneft, Tass Yuryakh and Tagulskoe oil fields in Russia. The total investment in these fields is estimated to be $5.5 billion, a senior official source said, adding, "Russia is one the biggest producers of oil and gas in the world and India is one of the biggest consumers. This makes the two countries natural partners in this area".
There are reports that the Russian president is keen to sell stakes worth $11 billion in Russian oil major Rosneft to both India and China amid economic downturn following Western sanctions on Moscow.
Hoping to push the hydrocarbon partnership, oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan visited St Petersburg last week. During the visit, a consortium of Oil India Ltd, Indian Oil Corporation and Bharat Petro Resources signed a sales purchase agreement with Rosneft for acquiring 23.9% stake in its Vankor oil block.
In a meeting with his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak, Pradhan discussed measures to deepen energy ties between the two countries, including two-way investments in the hydrocarbon sector. The Narendra Modi government has invited Rosneft, Gazprom and other Russian companies to invest in India's hydrocarbon sector, including the recently launched auction of small discovered fields.
Modi will also push the oil diplomacy with Central Asian leaders present at the SCO summit. As India seeks hydrocarbon from Central Asia (where India's connectivity has got a boost following the Chabahar port agreement), Delhi is willing to share expertise with the region in human resources development, infrastructure, information technology, healthcare, capital market, micro-finance, small and medium enterprises, food security and agriculture sectors.


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Bundles of fuel are dropped into eastern Afghanistan. (U.S. Army / flickr)
The United States, facing deepening economic and fiscal woes at home, is preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan. More and more policymakers, congressional representatives, and members of the public are calling for the majority of U.S. forces to pull out as quickly as possible and for Washington to shift from an expensive counterinsurgency strategy, in which tens of thousands of U.S. and NATO troops protect the Afghan population, to a cheaper counterterrorism strategy, in which special operations forces strike at terrorist leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan and the Afghans are left largely on their own.
The counterinsurgency strategy began in earnest in 2009, when the United States raised its total number of troops in Afghanistan to nearly 100,000. This Afghan surge led to tactical success: Kandahar and Helmand were largely secured, and the number of Afghan police and army soldiers nearly doubled. But it was expensive. In 2011, the U.S. Congress authorized nearly $114 billion for the effort, roughly a fourth of the entire cost of the Afghan war since 2001. Given the current economic climate, such high annual outlays are no longer sustainable. Last June, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that 33,000 American troops will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2012 and that Afghan forces will take the lead in the country's security by the end of 2014. Although it remains undecided exactly how fast the withdrawal will proceed after 2012 and what sort of U.S. presence will remain after 2014, Washington is facing strong domestic pressure to bring its troops home and to focus on rebuilding the economy.
At first glance, shifting to counterterrorism would seem the best way to meet this goal. A counterterrorism approach would cut costs by pulling out most U.S. ground troops. Special operations forces would remain in the larger bases, with responsibility for launching missions to kill or capture al Qaeda members, high-level Taliban figures, and leaders of the Haqqani network. What is more, the U.
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Holiday busing edition:
Sleep is the most unaffected form of communication.
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Holiday busing edition:
Sleep is the most unaffected form of communication.
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This past weekend's imu roast was a gratifying success. Not only had 20 hours in the imu steamed the pig to perfection, but just as the first cuts were being tossed on the grill for a finishing sear, storm clouds also darkened the sky and the first shower of the rainy season began. I and others were beside ourselves that our imu had pleased Lono, who had clearly sent the Pineapple Express our way.
Problem is, while Lono does exist in Hawaiian mythology, and the Pineapple Express is indeed the layman term for a genuine meteorological event, nearly everything else I included in that e-mail/post was harvested from my well-irrigated imagination; any resemblance to real persons or events was entirely coincidental. Nonetheless some at the party did and as far as I know do still believe the tale to be true, and their innocent credulity fills me with mirth.
I'm reminded of a perhaps apocryphal story about Niels Bohr:
One of his students once noticed a horseshoe nailed above his cabin door and asked him: "Surely, Professor Bohr, you don't believe in all that silliness about the horseshoe bringing good luck?" With a gentle smile Bohr replied "No, no, of course not, but I understand it works whether you believe in it or not."
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In Hawaiian mythology, Lono is a god who existed before the world was created. One day he descended on a rainbow to the earth and made the goddess Laka his bride. Since that day long ago, he has been worshiped as a god of fertility, music, and most importantly, agriculture. Farmers would through the ages pray to Lono for the rains necessary to sustain their harvest. But Lono was not always pleased with their piety, and the rains would not come, and the parched earth would crack apart and reveal the wounds of his wroth.
It was in one of these wounds that the first imu was formed. In the gathering darkness of evening, food was bundled in banana leaves, lowered into the divide, and covered with earth in an attempt to appease Lono. During the night, if Lono was satisfied by their supplications, he would heat the very earth with a long exhalation of his hot breath. The next day, the people would unearth their offerings and discover the mighty feast Lono had steamed under the surface. At the conclusion of this feast, Lono would again breathe deeply, this time inhaling all the moisture-rich air from across the ocean, and blowing it across the Hawaiian Islands where it would condense into drenching rains. So great would his breath sometimes be that the wind and rain would reach even faraway lands. We know this phenomenon today as the Pineapple Express.
Please join us as we in Kigali do our part to usher in the cleansing rains of the new season. On Friday evening we shall bundle in banana leaves a newly-slaughtered portly pig and bury him in a freshly-dug imu. During the night we shall slumber, and during the day we shall engage in ritualistic motopolo battle to honor the warrior god Kū. At the end of the day, if we have done well in our endeavors, we shall unearth a feast fit for the gods, which is roughly equivalent to a feast fit for 75 people. Lono will then inhale, and purifying water shall strip from the air the dust of the ground from which we were all formed.
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Sitting in a dank room lit only by a single candle a few nights ago, an acquaintance of mine explained a thought of his about Africa. As we sipped our homemade banana beer (which I believe was responsible for an unpleasant trip to the toilet a few hours later), he talked of how both literal and metaphorical darkness is such a salient element of the Africa experience.
In a continent of little electricity and black skin, literal darkness subsumes detail and nuance. Faces become floating eyes and teeth, potholes and washouts in dirt roads become shadowy rivulets of an unknown depth. Metaphorical darkness manifests itself in the disconnectedness caused by lack of trade, routes, education. Candles of knowledge are rare; rarely are they lit; rarer still can they be used to light other candles.
Images make the point best. Bill Easterly just posted three good ones on his blog (click on the images for larger sizes and/or the source):
The first is of seafaring routes from a World Bank report:
The second is a map of IP addresses and thus internet connectivity:
The third is of airline routes:
The last two are ones I've found in the past. Here's country size based on GDP:
And a more famous one again showing Africa's disappearance:
Some economists are now using light data as a proxy for economic growth.
Darkness can be illuminating.
Posted in acquaintance with letters and makings, oddities, residency on September 9, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Every so often, usually after the house's water tank has been dry for a few hours/days, the first flow from the faucet fills my bathroom sink with muddy water. The other day the mud was especially thick and of such a hue that for a moment I was sure the first of ten plagues had been visited upon my house:
Exodus 7:19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
The water soon cleared, thankfully, and as of yet no scores of frogs are hippity-hopping into mine bedchamber or kneading troughs.
Posted in places, political economy, regulation on September 1, 2009| 1 Comment »
A common complaint of expats here is that Rwanda, in contrast to other African countries, has no cheap, delicious street food. The reason is because the government forbids street vendors. Here's a New Times article from today on the subject
Following the directives from Kigali City Council (KCC) to get rid of all street vendors operating within the city, penalties for those who will be caught in the act have been made public, The New Times has established.
In an interview, Bruno Rangira, the KCC Director of Media and Communication, said that those caught in the act will on top of seizing their merchandise, be fined Rwf 10,000 [~$20].
Goods seized from the vendors are given to different orphanages in the city.
Why the beat down on the beleaguered burghers?
"These are the people who cause commotion and poor hygiene in the city," he said.
He added that some of the vendors indulge in pick pocketing, snatching ladies' bags and stealing phones around town.
Of course, the "Three C's" of good governance: Commotion Prevention, Cleanliness, and Crime Stoppage. Of these, the only one that has any smell of legitimacy amongst all the African odors is the last. But does the fact that some vendors engage in petty crime necessitate a ban of their hitherto legal profession?
Here's a story of firefighter who stole over $150; here's another one of a police detective who pilfered $8,000 worth of confiscated drug money. Guess we better get rid of the police and fire departments.
One suspects the "Three C's" are ex post rationalizations for a policy based primarily on the personal preferences of people in power (isn't alliteration fun–er, alluring!).


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Hyderabad: Three days after two powerful bombs killed 16 people and injured 117, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday visited the sites in Hyderabad. The PM, who was accompanied by his wife Gursharan Kaur, Andhra Pradesh Governor ESL Narasimhan and Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, said that the Centre would extend maximum support to the state government.
Singh also visited the injured at the hospital and said that he prayed for their speedy recovery. He appealed to the people of Hyderabad to maintain calm.
The PM first stopped at the Anand Tiffin Centre in front of Konark Theatre. Senior police officials explained the sequence of events to the Prime Minister. He later visited the scene of the second blast, a few meters away. The PM flew into Hyderabad in an Indian Air Force aircraft.
The BJP, however, was quick to attack the PM, calling his visit 'a non-event'. "The PM's visit to the blast site will not make any difference. It is a non event," said Balbir Punj.
Sixteen people were killed and 117 injured when two blasts ripped throw the crowded market area at Dilsukh Nagar. The two explosions took place near Venkatadri and Konark movie theatres. According to the police one bomb may have been placed on a cycle and the other was put inside a tiffin box.
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As a teacher, I always encouraged my students to read. Reading leads to better writing. I noticed that all my voracious readers in class-those who read for pleasure-always excelled in English and language arts. And they always became better writers. So, I tell others who ask me about my writing, that reading is a big part of my process…and I am constantly learning and trying to hone my craft.
In both high school and college, I wrote for the school newspapers and actually studied journalism for a few years. When I lived in Boston, I wrote movie and restaurant reviews for the newspaper. I also began writing poetry that led to several awards. I enjoyed writing articles and reviews for Earth based religions that focused on mythology and the Gods and Goddesses.
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Yoto Electronics Ltd produces a wide range of components such as inductors, coils, adaptors and switching power supplies
Reliable quality, competitive prices and prompt delivery has enabled Yoto Electronics Ltd to develop from humble beginnings as a simple coil manufacturer to a producer of a wide array of electronic components and parts.
"We offer fixed inductors, choke coils, variable inductors, RFs, AC/DC adaptors, EMIs, EMC coils and beads, power filters and SMD power inductors,"explains manager Ken Kong.
"We also provide various application-specific transformers including power transformers, switching transformers, digital and analog communication transformers and SMD transformers."
These are used in all kinds of electrical goods, especially household appliances such as televisions, radios, LCDs, VCDs and personal electronic items like MP3 players, PDAs, digital and video cameras.
They are produced at Yoto's 20,000-square-foot factory in Dongguan on the Chinese mainland, which employs 700 workers and can produce 500 million electronic components each year.
OEM orders from Germany, the US and Canada account for almost 12% of Yoto's sales and consist mainly of EMI and EMC coils for sound filtering applications, and other items used in branded electrical products.
The remainder of the 13-year-old firm's sales volume is absorbed by firms in Hong Kong and factories in Asia, Europe and the US that stock Yoto's standard items.
"Our team of experienced engineers and our design and development capability have enabled us to develop our own product series, which is available under the Yoto brand name and includes chargers, adaptors and switching power supplies," Kong explains.
Kong says Yoto insists on "very stringent quality control" and adds that the company's factory has been ISO 9001-certified for three years. "Staff training also plays an equally important part in our drive to maintain good, stable quality," he adds.
Many of Yoto's products conform to the UL and CE international safety standards, which Kong believes gives customers extra guarantee of quality and encourages them to buy with confidence.
"We have an engineer in Hong Kong who supervises and centralises the application of UL certificates for our products," says Kong. "This ensures that we acquire genuine certificates for export and gives us peace of mind and additional assurance to our buyers."
Yoto sources copper wire and ferrite from Taiwan and Japan in bulk, which helps the company control costs while simultaneously smoothing production flows.
"This approach, coupled with our production management skills and responsive communication with buyers, ensures we always achieve on-time delivery," declares Kong.
Yoto's customer base has grown hand in hand with its product portfolio and the company is planning to expand its manufacturing capacity at a new site in Dongguan that will double its current space.
"We are set to boost our efficiency and quality with more advanced machinery and production lines," Kong reveals. "The new factory will begin operation in the second half of this year if everything proceeds smoothly."
He notes that Yoto's future product strategy will focus on smaller components; specifically SMD inductors and finished products encompassing switching power supplies.
"Our products are very much market-led," explains Kong. "It is obvious that as digital cameras, MP3s and PDAs become smaller and lighter, electronics components and parts have to evolve in the same direction."
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Buy wine to help your BBQ go with a bang!View larger image
The bank holiday weekend may have been a washout for many of us, but temperatures are on the up and there's a second chance at a long weekend at the end of May - all of which makes it the perfect excuse to buy wine that promises a bit more of a bang.
First of all, don't miss out on our great offer on Marcel Guigal's Cotes du Rhone Blanc - regular readers of our news pages will recognise the name.
Back in the autumn we suggested Marcel Guigal's Cote Rotie La Turque as an excellent Halloween option, dark and red with smoky scents, and if you enjoyed that then you'll love the white Cotes du Rhone for the warmer weather.
To really celebrate in style with your friends and family, buy wine with some fizz to it - whether you choose a cheaper sparkling wine or really splash out on a 'proper' champagne.
We have Roederer Brut Premier at a great price, and it's perfect for the time of year, with a blend of pinot noir, pinot meunier and chardonnay grapes, plus the burst of bubbles you'd expect from champagne.
Roederer make great sparkling wines, and this non-vintage bottle will rival some of the best in the world, with citrus aspects to the taste that, again, are perfectly refreshing for the season.
Finally, if you want one bottle that will serve everyone with a glass or two, and will add a touch of theatre to your party too, you can't go wrong with a magnum.
The theatrical visual effect of a double-sized bottle is just the start - once you pop the cork, you've got nearly a litre and a half of some of the world's best-loved champagne to share amongst you.
Most labels offer a magnum, but if you want to play it safe, we have familiar brands including Veuve Clicquot and Moet & Chandon - top quality and real crowd pleasers too.


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As complaints of non-compliance with fully paid orders rise and the reports of unreachable customer service and tech lines mount, the tragedy that is the Solidoodle meltdown feels like the stuff of Adele albums. Their website hasn't been updated since February and their Facebook presence seems to leave a bit lacking. In the information vacuum that has been building since then, the only place to go for information has been forums such as the SoliForum, an independent community of Solidoodle users who communicate with each other to find fixes, support, and work-arounds for printers which appear to have garnered a fierce loyalty, somewhat like that dedicated to a town's losing football team.
In looking back through communications with Solidoodle, it appears that there have been significant difficulties in providing customers with the products they have ordered, first in extended wait times for delivery and then, more recently, a number of paid for machines that simply never arrive. Obviously, these customers are clamoring for a refund and while it is unclear if they do eventually receive such a refund, what is easy to see is that the wait times have been excessive and the explanations unconvincing. More voices have been added to the accusations of fraud on the part of the company and a swell of discontent has been continuing to rise with no reasonable response from Solidoodle.
So what happened to this company that once held such promise?
According to a former employee, the company has been struggling for some time now. This employee, known only as Solinonymous, has peeled back the curtain and given us a peek at what s/he has been seeing:
"It started with the Press, which without getting into too much detail, was/is a complete disaster. Production tapped out most of our funds and the port delays meant that we weren't able to re-coup those costs as quickly as we needed. Plus, the Press pre-order campaign meant that we were pretty much shipping the printers at a net loss."
As problems continued to mount, the company began to miss payroll deadlines…in addition to completely dropping the ball on refunds for unprovided services. However, loyal employees tried to tough it out and soon there was some promise of new investors who would give the company the necessary cash infusion to keep it afloat. As the round of fund raising was completed, there was new money, and with that, new hope.
Unfortunately, it didn't do as much to alleviate the situation as would have been hoped, Solinonymous continues:
"Turns out most of the funding was used to pay off debts and it wasn't long before the prospect of missing payroll again became a reality. Last month they called a company meeting and laid off pretty much everyone…obviously, there's a whole lot more to this story but the bottom line is that things don't look good. If you have an unfulfilled order, unfortunately, I wouldn't get my hopes up. If you're looking for a refund, I would start exploring other avenues to recoup…because there isn't any money there, and if there was, refunds are not very high up on the list of priorities."
Granted, an ex-employee may have an axe to grind, but in this case, it really does appear that Solinonymous is providing legitimate information. As of today, the Solidoodle website is still accepting orders, something that seems irresponsible at best. I'd say it's high time that they make a public explanation for the situation before they get themselves into even more hot water. It's unfortunate that it has come to this state, but maybe the brilliance of crowdsourcing can provide the company with some ideas and expertise that could prevent a complete a total disaster.
Is Solidoodle on their way out? Let us know what you think in the Solidoodle Problem forum on 3DPB.com.
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text: BUSINESS obituaries 5:00 AM PDT 4/23/2008 by Empty , AP FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Empty Bebe Barron, a pioneering composer of classical studio electronic music who did the eerie score for the 1956 sci-fi classic "Forbidden Planet," died April 20 from natural causes at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was 82.Barry Schrader, the founder and first president of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, called the work for "Planet" that Barron did with her husband, Louis Barron, a "landmark in electro-acoustic music.""At some point it's actually impossible to say whether what you're hearing is music, sound effect or both," Schrader said. "In doing this, they foreshadowed by decades the now- common role of the sound designer in modern film and video."The Barrons began their experiments with the recording and manipulation of sound material by means of a tape recorder they received as a wedding gift, then worked with vacuum tubes to produce the unearthly "Planet" sound. The couple went on to compose many other works for tape, film and the theater in the 1950s. Alex Grasshoff, a documentary director and producer best known for being forced to return his Academy Award in 1969, died April 5 at his Los Angeles home of complications from leg surgery. He was 79.Grasshoff and Robert Cohn were awarded the Oscar when their film "Young Americans" won for best feature-length documentary. Grasshoff also wrote and directed the film, which chronicled the adventures of the Young Americans singing group on a cross-country bus tour.A few weeks later, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences discovered that "Americans" had been shown in a theater in North Carolina in October 1967, making it ineligible for an Oscar for the 1968 calendar year. The first runner-up, "Journey Into Self," was declared the official winner.Grasshoff, who started at Paramount in the 1950s, received two other Oscar noms as well as two Emmys. He directed a few feature films, including "Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws" (1978), and episodes of such TV series as "The Rockford Files" and "Kolchak: The Night Stalker." Hazel Court, an English stage beauty who co-starred with the likes of Boris Karloff and Vincent Price in popular horror movies of the 1950s and '60s, died April 14 of a heart attack at her home near Lake Tahoe, Calif. She was 82.While she had a substantial acting career in England and on American TV, Court was renowned for her work in films including "The Raven" (1963). She co-starred with Price, Karloff and Peter Lorre in Roger Corman's take on the classic Edgar Allan Poe poem.Corman directed her in five movies. Like other "scream queens" of the era, Court often relied on her cleavage and ability to shriek and die horrible deaths for her roles."The Premature Burial" (1962), "The Masque of the Red Death" (1964), "The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957) and "Devil Girl From Mars" (1954) helped propel her to cult status.Sean Costello, a blues guitar prodigy who went on to play in the Susan Tedeschi Band and record five albums, was found dead in his Atlanta hotel room April 15, one day shy of his 29th birthday. The cause of death has not yet been determined.Costello, an Atlanta native, was in the middle of touring to support his latest album, "We Can Get Together," on Delta Groove Records."Losing someone as young, talented and vibrant as Sean, who has accomplished so much in just a few short years and still had so much potential, is a terribly difficult blow," Delta Groove execs Robert Fitzpatrick and Rand Chortoff said.Costello's 2000 album, "Cuttin' In," earned the musician a W.C. Handy Blues Award nomination.Chris Gaffney, a singer-songwriter whose roots- and country-flavored music earned him a dedicated fan base in Southern California, died April 17 of liver cancer at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 57.Born in Vienna and raised in Arizona and Orange County, Gaffney had been a regular on the regional bar scene since the 1970s and toured for much of the past decade with Dave Alvin's backing band, the Guilty Men. He also earned recent acclaim as lead singer of the Hacienda Brothers, a Western soul act.Gaffney's solo albums included "Mi Vida Loca" and "Loser's Paradise" in the '90s and a double live album in 2000. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Empty firstname.lastname@example.com @thr AP email@example.com @thr


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Dec 24 (Reuters) – U.S. regulators assured Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that nothing is out of the ordinary in the financial markets, Bloomberg reported on Monday citing a source familiar with the matter.
Mnuchin spoke with officials from the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Bloomberg reported bloom.bg/2RiTpDm.
The regulators also briefed the treasury secretary on their plans for monitoring markets during the government shutdown, Bloomberg reported, citing the source. (Reporting by Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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