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Cooking up delicious spicy food can come at a price... a price many of us have paid! If you've ever cut up some jalapeños and scraped out the seeds with your bare hands, you know the symptoms: excruciating pain. This pain is caused by an oil-soluble substance called capsaicin (pronounced cap-say-sin). Capsaicin is the active component found in all hot peppers. It's what makes them so delicious to eat (provided you can take the heat) and causes the burning pain on your skin. The good news is that capsaicin doesn't actually cause any tissue damage. This may be of little comfort to you if your hands feel burnt and the only way to sleep is by clutching an ice pack. But if we dig a little deeper, we'll discover a fascinating world involving neurotransmitters, pain signals, and a brain tricked into thinking your skin is engulfed in flames.
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1. remember amir's reception which i posted on my early postings here in my blog. well his father has started a new food franchise in kelana jaya mall. D' ARAB CAFE.
2. last time i ate arabic cuisine was at the tarbush sunway pyramid, on a treat of my saudi friend which is my classmate too. well the foods here at D'ARAB CAFE are good too! well i ate it for free of course. after we finish we the photo sessions. :P :P
3. i never into food photography but i found it very interesting. totally different, as in controlling non-living subjects. :P
4. oh by the way, the cafe can easily be spotted at the Kelana Jaya Mall since the area isnt big. the bulding is much better now after renovations made. official launch ceremony will be held after CNY. all the best to uncle adnan! :)
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|Van Gogh's "Almond Blossom in Glass"
One of the things I have heard and read a lot, is that you can learn a great deal by copying the art of artists whom you admire. So I decided to copy this little painting yesterday. Above is my life-size copy, 8x10". I learned several things. First, I had decided to paint it on the new Arches Oil paper, since it was just a study, never to be exhibited, etc. I learned that I HATE the oil paper! The paint soaks into the paper, making it impossible to make corrections, and it also makes the color much more intense when it dries. Because of this, it is also impossible (at least for me) to show brush strokes, which are important in a Van Gogh painting. Live and learn. Maybe when it is dry, I can add a few strokes on top. But I also learned a few things about what Van Gogh was seeing as he painted this subject, and about why and where he put the shadows and glass reflections.
I do not think my copy is anywhere near as wonderful as the original, but I still have decided to frame it and hang it somewhere in the studio, as a reminder of the lovely original, and of the fun experience I had of 'painting with Van Gogh.'
In addition to painting the Van Gogh copy, I had been asked to do a portrait of a friend's cow. I had started it some time ago, and decided to finish it up, while my paints were out. It is about 9"square, and is on artist wrapped canvas, so the sides are also painted, so it won't need to be framed. That made it pretty hard to get a good photo, as the paint is still wet, not just on the front, but all round! I already do see a few 'fixes' I need to make when the paint is dry, but nothing major.
It was great to spend a couple of hours at the easel! I have been painting at the local art center from models on Wednesday mornings, but this week the center was closed, due to the explosion of two houses right across the street, and the attempts of the gas company to find and repair the leak that caused it. The center was still closed yesterday, but it should be up and running as usual by this coming Wednesday. (Three people and a dog were injured in the explosion, but, miraculously, not badly, as they were thrown through the roof of the house, and the houses were quickly reduced to rubble.)


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Selling a home quickly in a downturned market
Most of us are aware of the fact that we are currently living through an economic time where not everyone is doing well, and there are actually people who are struggling to make ends meet. This is one of the reasons why there are many people who are being faced with the reality of having to sell the homes that they live in, and make a new start somewhere else. This can be a difficult fact to face for most people, but it is something that is nevertheless something that many of us will have to face throughout the course of our lives.
There are many benefits when it comes to trying to sell homes fast in a downturn market. One of the obvious benefits is that there is the ability to make money, not only from the sale of the house, but also because there is a benefit to being able to make money off of the next home that you are going to end up buying as well. The world of real estate can be a confusing one, which is why it is better to have someone who you are going to be able to trust give you the advice and the guidance that you are going to need in order to be successful and have a good return on the investment that you make.
Many methods have been created and used when it comes to trying to sell homes fast. Many of these methods do not work very well, and a good number of them that do work well are not going to work well for everyone who is involved in the process. This is one of the reasons that it is a good idea to experiment and find out which of these methods is going to be the best one for you to use in your particular situation.
It can be a tricky situation to get into for those who are trying to sell homes fast in a downturn marketplace. For those who are not prepared for the work and the time and effort that is going to need to be put into this particular venture, then chances of the process running smoothly is much less than for those who have educated themselves, and who already know what it is that they can expect.
If you happen to be someone who is interested in selling your home for whatever reason, it is a good idea to make sue of the internet, and all of the resources that it has to offer in order to decide from there what is going to end up working for you the best. There is no easy way to tell this before you try it, and if you put forth the time and effort that is necessary, there is no reason why you should not be able to make a profit even in a downturned economy. It may seem like something that is discouraging at first, but it is something that will be worth it in the end.
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Thanks for contacting the Rakow Library with your question about John J. Kinsella mirrors.
There is information on the John J. Kinsella Co. in Chicago, IL. and they did make and sell mirrors, but I can only find substantial information about their stained glass products.
John J. Kinsella was in existence from 1872-1931 and was one of the larger firms producing stained glass and mirrors in Chicago at the time, employing some 50 people, according to the publication, Frueh's Chicago Stained Glass.
I was not able to locate much information about the Evansville IN location except for listings in the City Directory from Evansville for 1927 and 1930. That information does validate the company operation there as a mirror manufacturer. I checked 1924 and a few dates later than 1931 and did not find any listings. If you want further information the Historical Society or public library in Evansville could possibly help you.
Kinsella died in 1915, but his company stayed in business for another 15 or so years. I did not find the names of people who might have led the company during those years.
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Some people are prone to take, let's say, the present total electricity generation in the U.S., and try to figure out how many windmills it would take to replace that. The result is typically quite absurd, at which point there is wailing and gnashing of teeth. Behind this is a sort of metaphor: that the economy is like a machine, like a laser printer for example, that takes a certain amount of electricty and doesn't work unless you give it exactly that amount and no less. Actually, an economy is nothing of the sort. You could think of an economy as being the aggregation of however-many-hundred-million households (and commercial enterprises), which implies that the flexibility of the "economy" is comparable to the flexibility of households and the other enterprises that make up the "economy."
We already know the way forward regarding "renewable" energy because we have been making these experiments for decades now. This was done by the "off grid" types beginning in the 1970s. When you disconnect from the grid, what do you do? An off-gridder has some basic decisions:
1) Install solar panels/microhydro/windmills etc. to replace the on-grid electricity that an average U.S. household would use (about 30 kwh/day.)
2) Use less electricity, which means less need for solar panels/microhydro/windmills etc.
When you do the math for a single household, it is just as ridiculous as it is for the economy as a whole. To generate 30 kwh/day, you would need about 10,000 nameplate watts of PV solar, or about eighty full-size 125 watt solar panels. That is a LOT, and at $800 per panel (not to mention chargers, inverters, batteries, etc. etc.) it adds up to serious coin.
So, the typical off-gridder relies overwhelmingly on the second option, which is to use less. Many families get by very happily on 3 kwh/day (1,000 nameplate watts), and 6 kwh/day (2,000 nameplate watts) would be rather cushy. The hardcore types sometimes cut their usage down to 1 kwh/day, which is really impressive but not necessary.
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They do this primarily via the technique that I refer to time and time again, which is to introduce new systems, rather than taking the existing system and trying to wring small efficiencies out of it. For example, a tweaking of an existing system would be the Prius, which gets 45 mpg instead of 35 mpg for one of the better normal-engine cars. A "new system" would be to live within walking distance of work. We saw last week that there are colossal differences between transportation energy use in various cities, not because one city is populated by self-flagellating green-living maniacs, and another is not, but because the inherent design of the city.
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The off-gridder, in their efforts to live within a 3 kwh/day "budget", will first forego the most obvious low-value electricity-consumers like electric heating, air conditioning, and water heaters. High-efficiency lighting is next, possibly followed by low-energy computers. Electric clothes dryers also get the heave-ho, along with electric stoves and ovens. Chronic energy-users like refrigerators get replaced with low-energy models, which can use as little as 20% of the electricty of the standard models but are just as cold on the inside.
The result of all this is that the off-gridder accomplishes 90% of his goal by Method 2 (using less), and only 10% by Method 1 (generating energy by alternative means.)
Note that the balance is 90%:10% and not, for the most part, 97%:3%. At some point, the additional difficulties of cutting usage still further are greater than the difficulties of just adding on a few more solar panels. The 1 kwh/day guys are the hardcore experimenters. They get by with two 125-watt solar panels, instead of eight. Most people figure: hey, just stick six more panels up there so I can have ice in my iced tea. Nor is it 80%:20%. Then, people say: "hey, if I was going to use 6kwh/day [20% of the 30kwh/day U.S. average] then the cost of my power system would double. Ugh. But it wouldn't be that big a deal to cut to 90%:10%, and in fact many people do so, and they seem to get along fine." My point is, this ratio has been the result of experimentation, and not some pre-arranged planning.
The off-grid household is a microcosm of what could be done on a city-size scale. There are certain efficiencies which can be achieved by centralizing power production, especially as regards the elimination of the need for battery banks and inverters. Instead of having a solar panel on every roof, you could have a few large-scale solar generators (on top of warehouses for example). Instead of little teeny windmills you could have huge ones, and instead of micro-hydro you can use macro-hydro. But the logic of the situation works out more or less the same: the difficulty of generating power via these means is great enough (compared to coal or natural gas) that the natural strategy would be 90% Method 2 (use less) and only 10% Method 1.
So, we already know the answer (90:10) because we already did the experiment. It's not my opinion!
At this point, it occurs to me that the "alternative energy" system of the future is already built, because nuclear, hydro, wind and solar already account for more than 10% of electricity production.
2006 U.S. electricity generation by type.
Indeed, we see that 29.5% of all U.S. electricity generation does not use fossil fuels. If you don't like nuclear, then you can throw that out too, leaving 10.2% generated by hydro (mostly) and other renewables in 2006.
We would gain additional advantages because transportation losses would fall dramatically. Per-unit transportation losses increase linearly with usage, so if you reduce usage by 90% then your transportation losses also fall 90% on a per-unit basis. Since transportation losses can account for 30% or so of all "electricity use," we would gain a 27% increase in total usable "renewable energy" from existing sources from that alone.
"Other renewables" were 2.4% in 2006. We could install a little more wind and solar etc. and quadruple this modest figure, to 10%. That's not a very high hurdle. Combined with the transportation gains, that would increase our total from 10.2% to 21.4%, which is quite cushy. So, although the off-gridders can live very happily with 10% of the electricity used by most households, we would be doubling that to a plush 20% — more than enough to power the electric train system of your dreams, and all sorts of other stuff. (During the "renewables" build out we could slowly decommision the nuclear reactors as they reach the end of their lives.)
Ultimately, it seems that nobody takes action until motivated by price. The typical $0.12 kwh (or less) price of electricity in the U.S. is just not high enough to motivate people to adopt the low-energy solutions that have already been worked out in detail by the off-gridders. At $0.40 kwh, there would be an explosion of activity to reconfigure the typical U.S. house to look more like the typical off-gridder house, which is not very hard to do. Indeed it would become much, much easier to do, because at the present time, a lot of those off-gridder solutions are produced by teeny specialty companies. What would happen if you could buy a superefficient refrigerator from Amana for $500 instead of a SunFrost for $2500? (The thing that makes a SunFrost superefficient is more insulation. No kidding. You just put an additional $40 of Styrofoam in the walls, and use high-quality compressors.)
The commercial sector would make similar adjustments. There would be radical introduction of new systems to allow commercial enterprises to operate at a much lower energy level, just as households would do. But, there would also be a change in the mix of commerce. At $0.40 kwh, for example, certain things would become very expensive (aluminum production), while other things (piano lessons) would be virtually unaffected. The result is that we would use less of the things that consume lots of electricity (aluminum), and more of the things (piano lessons) that don't really require electricity. The end result would not be "making do with less," but rather a de-emphasis on energy-intensive activities (downhill skiing on manmade snow, heated backyard swimming pools) and a focus on less-energy-intensive activities (watercolor painting and surfing).
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"Self-sufficiency:" We kicked around the "sustainability" types last week in part for their overemphasis on "self-sufficiency," which is a core element in the Little House on the Prairie Fantasy. There really is a history of "self-sufficiency" in American culture, which is not in European culture, because the colonial period in the U.S. really was a time when people were close to "self-sufficient." This is something they were intensely proud of, and it formed a cornerstone of their American vs. European identity. Their counterparts in Europe were heavily taxed serfs, in subservience to their feudal lords for generations on end. How much better to be a free man, with your own land and no taxes! They weren't really autonomous: even the most "independent" like the trappers of Quebec were tied into the European market for hats. However, their interactions with the "market economy" were often rather sparse. On top of this is the geniunely self-sufficient nature of the Native Americans, which was absorbed into American culture to a significant degree even if the early European settlers spent much of their time trying to kill off the locals in the most efficient ways possible.
Another reason for the tendency toward "self-sufficiency" is that those people who want to experiment with alternatives to the common sort of lifestyle find it easiest to establish a different modality if they can control all the elements. Thus, efforts like the off-grid permaculture types tend towards nuclear families or at best small groups of less than one hundred. A lot has been learned from these experiments, but I don't think they are viable in their present state to be scaled up to civilization-size levels.
A third reason is the tendency for the "sustainability" types to ally themselves with the "doomer" types, in part because so many "sustainability" experiments have taken place in the context of "self-sufficiency." I am talking about a different sort of civilization, which is a long-term (hundreds or thousands of years) project, not a five or ten year period of crisis and dislocation. I agree that, if the present agricultural system breaks down, it might be nice to have ten acres of farmland in back of your house. However, this is not really necessary, or even desirable or for that matter "sustainable," in the longer term. People tend toward specialization and trade, and thus ruralization/urbanization, which is not a bad thing.


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Big Bang in their poster for the third track on the album Girlfriend. (yg-life.com/File)
South Korean megastar Big Bang has attracted 100 million viewers to watch their "Bad Boy" music video on YouTube. The number is expected to continually increase as the video had garnered 100,249,691 viewers as of 10:44 am this Friday.
This achievement places them as the first Korean boy band that has five music videos that have hit over 100 million viewers. As reported by antaranews.com, the first four videos are "Fantastic Baby", "Bang Bang Bang", "Loser" and "Good Boy" by Big Bang's sub-unit G-Dragon and Taeyang.
(Read also: Big Bang wants to enjoy its last moments)
"Bad Boy" is one of the singles in Big Bang's fifth extended play album Alive, which was released in February 2012. The video was filmed with the group members G-Dragon, T.O.P., Seungri, Taeyang and Daesung in Brooklyn, New York, the United States.
On Dec. 12, Big Bang released their third studio album Made that consists of 11 tracks, including "Last Dance" and "Fxxk It", which have attracted more than 10 million and 13 million viewers respectively. Moreover, the group will also appear on broadcasting company MBC's variety program "Infinite Challenge" that is planned to air in mid to late December.
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Democrats' Primary Turnout Lowest on Record
Fueled by tea party activism and hotly contested races, Republican participation in this year's primary elections was up. But Democratic participation fell to a record low, leaving overall voter turnout at the second lowest level ever for a midterm election, an analysis by American University's Center for the Study of the American Electorate concludes.
Some 9.8% of voting-age adults participated in GOP primaries this year, the highest percentage in a midterm election since 1970 and well above the 7.3% who cast ballots in the 2006 midterm, the study found. Some 8.2% of voting-age adults took part in Democratic primaries, down from 9% in 2006 and the lowest percentage of all midterms since 1930.
Several states saw surges in Republican primary participation, including New Hampshire and Wisconsin. GOP turnout was at record levels in Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
All of those states had competitive Republican races for statewide offices — such as the Delaware, Kentucky and New Hampshire Senate contests, and the Florida and Wisconsin gubernatorial races. In many cases, the Democrats' primaries weren't nearly as competitive.


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Ruslan Farman is working toward a BS in Management with a concentration in Marketing.
One of the primary reasons I chose GGU was for its downtown location. It is very close to where I live, and I like the convenience of different food shops and the vibrant atmosphere. Although I have been in the US for 11 years, I love being around the many international students on campus. It makes me feel very comfortable to surround myself in a safe environment – and a bit less homesick.
Over a period of three years, I also have also lived in Italy, Japan, and the Netherlands. I grew up mostly in Kazakhstan and have lived in Russia. I think San Francisco would be attractive for Russians in particular because they love the tech boom and are interested in the fields of accounting and taxation.
GGU is different from other colleges because I am learning about my field from professionals that currently hold positions in the real world. This is a better way of learning business as opposed to only books or only retired professionals. I am also getting additional experience as a marketing assistant in GGU's marketing and communications department.
When I was in Japan, I fell in love with the billboards in an area very much like Times Square. I decided to major in marketing because I want to give other people that same feeling of excitement.
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I had a difficult time balancing my work commitments and GGU classes at first. With the help of one of the GGU Success Coaches, Bree Butler, I was able to adapt to a realistic schedule within two weeks. Bree guided me with questions to ponder about my student life and helped me create a realistic schedule to complete the degree. At any time, I can text her and she will respond with all the answers. If I need to chat about scheduling difficulties, or any other student related life situation, she's there to discuss possible success options.
I don't have to worry about administrative tasks to keep enrolled and moving forward. A month into the program, I was connected with Saba Sohail, the Assistant Director Advising Services, who mapped out GGUs Path to Completion with me. Saba makes every semester easy by registering me for all the classes we planned out. If at any point I'd like to make a change to my schedule or make another kind of request she's there to help via SMS within minutes. I use the GGU App to track down networking events and try and attend them as much as possible on my free time.
My aspirations
When I was in Japan, I fell in love with the billboards in an area very much like Times Square. I decided to major in marketing because I want to give other people that same feeling of excitement. It is so much fun to market a product, to think of the person's lifestyle and make them want to incorporate it in their lives.


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Do you have a social enterprise and you don't know how to fund it? Now you can win 4000 EUR with your project idea.Date: Tuesday (5th of December) 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Venue: Impact Hub Budapest (2. Ferenciek tere, Budapest)
Program: Based on last years large number of applicants, the Royal Netherlands Embassy relaunches a call for proposal this year.
Do you have problems with creating a business model, conducting a successful crowd funding campaign, or looking for investment or alternative financial schemes for your organization? Come to the one-day workshop on the 5th of December in Budapest to find the best solutions for your organization.
There will be a 4000-EUR award for the most innovative financing model
At the end of the workshop, based on the pitches of the participants, the best proposal connecting social value to a sustainable business model, will be awarded with a 4000-EUR grant from the Royal Netherlands Embassy. This grant has the purpose to provide seed capital for the enterprise or team to work on and test its financing model.
The grant will be awarded to the most convincing pitch and judged by the following criteria:
– social impact
– sustainability of the proposed model/project
– inclusion of partnerships / amount of existing relations
– approach on how to apply budgets
Who can apply for the workshop?
Any organization or private person can apply with no restrictions on their legal status.
The projects would reflect on the main value of the Urban Agenda: connections among bottom-up ideas and municipality or state institutions; transparency, community building, social inclusion. Projects can focus on novel concepts, have social impact, be interdisciplinary and be within any discipline and address any theme in an urban context. We seek to strengthen knowledge-based innovation projects which are competitive and bold.
How to apply?
If you are interested in this workshop, send a one pager summary in English of your project and concept to: smartandsocialbudapest@gma
Requested is a mission statement, vision and strategy in which you describe your idea or existing initiative.
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• How do you make your business model sustainable?
• What are the expected results and social values?
• The plan should give a clear insight in the execution of the planned steps
• Budget overview for the short and long term development
Deadline of application: the 27th of November
Only those participating the workshop can get funded.
Budapest Activated, the Royal Netherlands Embassy are allowed to publish the contents and photos of the event and the submitted proposals through their communication channels. Reporting will be required from the awarded project after 6 months after the workshop
The aim of the 1-day workshop is to explore how social enterprises and community initiatives can use innovative financial schemes in order to ensure financial sustainability and their ability to scale up. By looking at Dutch, Hungarian best practice examples we aim at sharing good examples and explore the boundaries of different innovative means.
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Roux: I took dope for years
Former Castorama and TVM pro Laurent Roux tells a French court that use of doping products was "gene
Laurent Roux admitted that he used doping products right through his 10-year professional career when he appeared before a court in Bordeaux on Tuesday to face charges with 22 others of being involved in a drug-trafficking ring. Former Castorama, TVM, Casino and Jean Delatour pro Roux said use of illegal products was "generalised" during his time as a pro, from 1994-2003.
"Erythropoietin (EPO), growth hormones, testosterone, cortisone. I took all the basic things that were being used at that time," Roux, 33, testified. "Everyone took that at least."
Roux is suspected of being one of the principal characters in a trafficking ring that is alleged to have brought into French amateur cycling circles a considerable amount of 'pot belge', a doping product based on amphetamines. Among those also accused are Roux's 24-year-old brother, Fabien, and former pro team soigneur Freddy Sergant.
Roux stated that French riders turned to use of doping products in order to achieve the same level of form as foreign pros. He also indicated that he first got involved in trafficking pot belge in 2002 after receiving a four-year ban for a positive dope test that effectively ended his racing career. He said he first approached Sergant to get some pot belge for "personal use" and to combat "a depression". He then got further involved in order to finance his own consumption and that of his brother, an amateur rider.
"When you are an athlete, you are there to win, but these products don't fall out of the sky," said Roux. "You are given advice, provided with products, and it's the doctors who do that." He added that in some teams "the doctors cost more to hire than the riders".
"I'm tired of people always saying that riders are imbeciles and that nobody knows what's going on," Roux said of the pro scene. "Everyone knows what's going on, including the journalists who are with us every day. I am here in front of this court to say all this even though I risk paying for it for the rest of my life. But whatever happens, I'm going to say what I know."
Fabien Roux said that he had first used pot belge at an event organised to honour French racing legend Laurent Jalabert. Later in the day, French cycling federation president Jean Pitallier said Jalabert had never tested positive during his career.
Sergant, meanwhile, admitted importing about 2,000 doses of a product, saying he didn't know "what it contained".


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You remember when we played records for music, instead of Smart phones? When a scratch would cause the disc to not move the song forward and it would replay again and again until you pushed it clumsily past the scratch mark?
Well now, we're stuck alright. Like a scratch on a record. We repeat each day and the weather repeats itself and I swear I'm going to wake up tomorrow and we'll do exactly what we did today: look desperately outside for signs of spring and, too, cancel all June bookings made the previous day.
I can't explain the impasse in the weather, but I can say a word about our tortuous June trip planning. We found the cheap flight. Okay. But nothing else felt right. Here we were, flying to Iceland and from there, flying on cheap airlines you've not have heard of to the continent. That part was okay. I didn't mind the round about travel. And I didn't mind having to take a long train ride south, and then east and after, west and north -- in other words up and down the continent. And we were willing to change airports between flights in New York. And to arrive at midnight in one city and depart at 1 a.m. from another. But the price of staying any amount of time in Iceland wiped out any savings from the complicated plans. So what's the point? We cancelled the whole thing.
Yes, yes, there was Iceland in the deal. I visited Iceland once, by myself. Many, many decades ago. I went in November because it was inexpensive then. The sun was out for three hours each day and even though I was a mere schoolgirl, not even drinking age in the States, I rented a car and ventured out into the bleak countryside. What a dumb trip that was. The roads were treacherous and I had to turn back. All my money blown on a rental that got me nowhere. In Reykjavik, waiters were on strike and stores were closed and I could get nothing to eat. Like I said, maybe I'm biased.
So the whole "cheap flight" (but expensive stay) through Iceland is out and it's back to Barcelona that'll be plenty exciting, thank you, even as we'll not even step foot in Barcelona until the very last day and then only for about twelve hours.
In other non-news, we had a pretty little breakfast in the sun room...
...and I had my 75 minute yoga class and I did some modest amount of house cleaning, but mainly I sat at my computer and that's not too satisfying for a Sunday afternoon, especially a sunny Sunday afternoon and so I was quite happy when Ed agreed to go for a walk.
We don't often do that. Usually we switch from cross country skiing (winter) to biking (all other seasons), but it's just too cold for me to enjoy a bike ride in this most difficult pre-spring season. And now that I ever so inadvertently brought up the weather here on Ocean, may I tell you how stunned I am to hear that we are getting ANOTHER snowstorm tomorrow?
Never mind, I'm outta here by the end of the week. I'll chase spring elsewhere.
As for St Patrick's -- well, I have no Irish in me, but not belonging to some thing, place or group has never stopped me from doing as the Romans do, or in this case the Irish do. So I made cabbage soup for supper (isn't that truly Irish?) and in an uncharacteristic for these times move, I baked a cake. Not Irish, but Italian: lemon and olive oil.
And if you aren't yet convinced that this was actually quite the lovely day, do note that, against a backdrop of snow, I saw this solitary cardinal. Hello, cardinal. Are you chirping away because we are just three days away from (calendar) spring?
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Weekly wire: The global forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
More people in less space: rapid urbanisation threatens global health
The Guardian
The global population looks set to rise to 9.7 billion people by 2050, when it is expected that more than two-thirds of humanity will be living in urban areas. The global health community is bracing itself. Compared to a more traditional rural existence, the shift in lifestyle and inevitable increase in exposure to pollution will lead to significant long-term rises in non-communicable diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. Worrying as this prospect may be, current population trends are already altering the global health landscape even faster than we realise, and that could pose far bigger and more immediate problems. When population growth is combined with other pressures, such as climate change and human migration, some parts of the world are likely to experience unprecedented levels of urban density.
How Being Stateless Makes You Poor
Foreign Policy
For the first 24 years of his life, third-generation Palestinian refugee Waseem Khrtabeel rarely noticed any difference between himself and his Syrian neighbors. Like his parents, Khrtabeel was born and raised in Damascus. He speaks with a distinct Syrian accent, just like that of his many Syrian friends. But Khrtabeel is not like other Syrians. He's stateless.The first time Khrtabeel, 30, grasped the magnitude of that word was in early 2010, after graduating from Damascus University with a mechanical engineering degree. Khrtabeel was elated when he secured an interview with the Saudi Binladin Group, one of Saudi Arabia's most prominent construction companies. On an unseasonably warm day in January, he arrived at the company's recruiting office in southwestern Damascus promptly at 2 p.m., energized and confident. He was shown the door less than seven minutes later.
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Thumbs up on my 5 week old!!! Size medium SIO on a fairly average sized wee girl, first wearing was a poo explosion and even though not totally snug around the legs (I was a bit nervous! ) there were no leaks! Totally impressed and loving the trimness. Wondering now what I can sell to get some more!!! Or maybe a Tutto...
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|Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth's husband, Prince Philip, has been admitted to the hospital for a previously scheduled hip surgery. The surgery will take place on Wednesday at the King Edward VII Hospital in Marylebone. Prince Philip, 96, retired from royal duties last August. Prince Philip did not attend the Easter service at Windsor Castle on Sunday, with his absence said to have been because of a hip problem.
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The Houston Zoo is profoundly dedicated to the health and welfare of their collection animals, but they are also renowned for their education and outreach programs. I eagerly jumped on the shuttle over to the zoo while attending the last annual zoo conference which was hosted by the Zoo. I reserved a full day to tour the grounds at Hermann Park and to watch the teams of Houston Zoo animal keepers in action working the wildlife and the crowds.
The Zoo's staff administers world-class animal husbandry programs–I could see this both in front of the exhibits and behind-the-scenes. But the Houston Zoo animal keepers are clearly an exceptional and dynamic group of educators as well. These passionate "animal folks" demonstrated just how they entertained, educated and inspired zoo patrons.
The keepers complement a very progressive education department at the Houston Zoo. The education and animal care departments work together to empower zoo visitors to be conscientious stewards of the environment and natural resources through very pro-active engagement on-site.
I proudly observed my friend and colleague, Susan Shepard, coordinate and conduct an up-close, behavioral training presentation with an adult male lion. The performance was sensational! She had a microphone on and was energizing the crowds as her fellow keepers provided enrichment for the cat–a truly captivating experience for all who were there.
Big cats spend a lot of time being lazy and the excitement of a adult male lion responding to behavioral cues really grabbed the attention of the visitors. You need to capture their attention before you can educate them. This mantra is something that one of our interns learned before coming to Alaska.
Erin Leighton served as an intern at the Houston Zoo, prior to stint at one other facility and before arriving here at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. Her acumen for husbandry and training is phenomenal, but her ability to relate to visitors is what makes her exceptional and an invaluable resource. I attribute her acquired skill set to her experience at the Houston Zoo.
Erin's visits to the Houston Zoo as a child inspired her to pursue a career working with captive wildlife and helped her cultivate an interest in conserving species of concern. Zoos do inspire children to make a difference and they certainly endear young people to wildlife. In many instances these educational institutions encourage young people to pursue careers working with and saving threatened and endangered species.
Two recent examples are Alex Rines and Vinnie Christiano. Alex and Vinnie are best friends at Lindbergh Elementary in Kenmore, New York. They are also budding elephant conservationists. One even has aspirations to be a zoo director. Regardless of the direction they eventually take in the field of conservation they are both excited about elephants and preserving them for future generations.
The two fifth graders have led an effort to raise $500 for elephant conservation. Through a matching funds program, the International Elephant Foundation (IEF) agreed to increase this contribution at least tenfold. Funds were pouring in as recent as yesterday. The final tally of $5,500 was announced Wednesday, June 8th at 2:15 EST, when the fifth graders presented their donation via Skype to IEF board member Daryl Hoffman and his elephant staff of the Houston Zoo.
In partnership with the IEF, the leading non-profit organization dedicated to funding elephant conservation and research programs around the world, Alex, Vinnie and their fellow students decided their contribution could do the most good by supporting research into Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus (EEHV). "We are so impressed with Alex and Vinnie," said IEF Executive Director Deborah Olson. "Elephants need people to help them, and these boys deserve recognition for their efforts."
Somewhere along the way these two youngsters were inspired by elephant ambassadors that they first observed at a zoo– perhaps their first visit to a local zoo. This is where the initial impact is made– the child-zoo animal interface. Susan, Erin and myself were first inspired by the ambassadors of imperiled species at our local zoos.
And elephants make a huge impact when you meet them live and in person. Yes they are huge, but that are unbelievably charismatic.
I still think of these giant keystone herbivores as pachyderms—members of Pachydermata–an obsolete order of non-ruminant ungulates. I have not however, worked directly with elephants and by that I mean trained them or developed a rapport with any particular individual. It seems however, that with or without such direct experience with these, perhaps the most charismatic of megavertebrates, every animal keeper is aware of the emotional intelligence elephants possess as are zoo visitors–young people included.
Elephant husbandry and training is so specialized that even as a general relief keeper (floater) back in the 1990's, I was precluded from working with these animals primarily because of the type of behavioral training that these animals required and the limited amount of time that relief keepers had to spend with the individual animals.
These sentient beings are high maintenance and I reserve the utmost respect for them and their caretakers. Elephant training is a specialty and relegated to an elite few—many of whom go on to become curators, general curators and even zoo directors.
If you have noticed elephant care has progressed quite a bit in recent years with new state-of-the art facilities opening at zoos across the country and abroad. Elephant training has evolved to make the human-elephant interface safer for keepers and more efficacious for managing herds in captivity. There is always room to improve, but efforts are made to optimize the care of these special species.
Unfortunately setbacks occur in zoo breeding and management programs and they may be particularly worrisome for species that are difficult to propagate like elephants.
Elephants are long lived, take a while to mature and subsequently take a while to produce offspring. Both African and Asian elephants are not reproducing at a pace fast enough to replace themselves in part because they do not reproduce particularly well in captivity. A bull and cow must not only be genetically suitable to reproduce, but they must be compatible breeders.
Successful rearing of elephants is where Alex and Vinnie come in. The fifth graders are interested in helping clinicians, researchers, curators and keepers combat a viral pathogen that is particularly pathogenic to young elephants and may be endemic in more wild elephant populations than we previously thought. These include animals that were imported years ago for captive breeding.
Much like viral strains of herpes that infect humans and other animals, the 90 or so species of the order Herpesvirales may show periods of activity and remission, and hence it has been difficult to diagnose. Herpesviruses can be treated, but not cured.
The recognition of elephant herpesviruses which can be highly pathogenic for elephants and may cause a fatal haemorragic disease, is fairly recent.
Here are some points of interest regarding research into EEHV provided by the International Elephant Foundation:
-EEHV infection can be a fatal disease of African and Asian elephants and has been found in captive and wild Asian elephants.
-EEHV affects mainly young elephants (<10 years of age, peak between 1 and 3 years).
-39 known clinical cases in North America since 1977 with 29 deaths (27 in Asian elephants).
-Diagnosis and status of EEHV in clinical cases is made by detecting herpesvirus DNA in EDTA whole blood and sometimes serum, using polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
-It is believed that early detection of EEHV and immediate intervention with supportive care and antiviral therapy are critical to the success of treating an elephant affected by
-Famciclovir and ganciclovir have been used for successful treatment in elephants.
-Recent evidence shows that there are asymptomatic carriers among North American Asian elephants.
-Serological tests have been developed to detect antibodies to EEHV1A in Asian elephants. At present about 10% of the Asian elephants tested in the US have given
consistently positive serological results; these animals are predominantly greater than 30 years old and were wild-born. The serological status of North American African
elephants has yet to be investigated.
-Studies suggest that it is likely that many wild-born elephants in the North American population were carrying EEHV1 strains upon importation.
-There is no evidence of shedding of virus in semen or transmission of EEHV through breeding, natural or artificial insemination, or through transport.
Multiple IEF donors including the Buffalo Zoological Gardens, Denver Zoological Gardens, San Antonio Zoological Gardens & Aquarium, Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, Dickerson Park Zoo, Dallas Zoo, Riverbanks Zoo & Garden, Elephant Managers Association, Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey have been so impressed with Alex and Vinnie's efforts, that each chose to match the money raised by Alex and Vinnie. In addition, the Greenville Zoo and individual board members of IEF have each contributed $100 growing the original donation by over ten times.
As a non-profit organization dedicated to elephant welfare, IEF solicits donations to fund worthy conservation and research projects worldwide. To learn more about IEF or to contribute to elephant conservation efforts, visit IEF's website at www.elephantconservation.org. With minimal administrative costs, IEF is able to dedicate more than 90 percent of its budget directly toward elephant conservation programs worldwide.


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Tails From the Road – Aberdeen
The Tigers have been in Aberdeen for the past few days, finishing up their 3-game road trip tonight.
The IronBirds play at Ripken Stadium
The stadium, built in 2002, has sold out all of its games since its opening
and is home to the Ripken Museum.
The stadium is part of a larger baseball complex, which includes Little League fields. The field above is a miniture Camden Yards. The Warehouse in right doubles as a Marriott, and is where the Tigers stay.
Pics From the Road: State College
This weekend, the Tigers visited "Happy Valley" for a 3 game series against the State College Spikes.
Medlar Field at Lubrano Park is located on the campus of Penn State University.
Built in 2006, the stadium became the first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified stadium in the world.
The field is in the shadow of Beaver Stadium, home of the Penn State football team.
A packed house saw the Tigers take both games of the series. (The game on Sunday was rained out).
Tonight, Pitcher Brennan Smith and DH/1B Dean Green will represent the Tigers at the New York-Penn League AllStar Game in Lowell.
The game can be heard on WICH 1310 or at www.cttigers.com.


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As reported recently, the Project Honeypot public web servers had been taken out of commission due to problems with insufficient infrastructure.
I have started to receive reports of visits to honeypots again, so thought I would go have a look. I was rather surprised by the statistics on a harvester caught with the aid of one of my MX records:
4 visit(s) to 0 honey pot(s)
0 message(s) resulting from harvests
525% of harvests result in messages
seen with 1 user-agent(s)
Really? I am afraid that my confidence in this project is dropping all the more when the site coders seem to lack a grasp of simple maths. (Hey, I'm not exactly Mr Numeracy, but even I can see that is not right.)
I will continue to monitor the situation; to me, the project is still a great idea, management and QA issues notwithstanding.


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Monroeville is a city in Monroe County, Alabama, United States, the county seat of Monroe County. At the 2010 census its population was 6,519.
It is known as the hometown of two prominent writers of the post-World War II period, Truman Capote and Harper Lee, who were childhood friends in the 1930s. Lee's 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, earned her the Pulitzer Prize. The lasting fame of To Kill a Mockingbird became a tourist draw for the town. In 1997, the Alabama Legislature designated Monroeville and Monroe County as the "Literary Capital of Alabama."
The town was initially known as Walker's Mill and Store, named for Major Walker, the area's first white settler. In 1832, the county seat was relocated to Monroeville from Claiborne on the Alabama River. The settlement was briefly renamed "Centerville" due to its location in the center of the county, but then it was formally changed to Monroeville. The town was not formally incorporated until April 15, 1899.
As of the census of 2010, there were 6,519 people, 2,656 households, and 1,723 families residing in the city. The population density was 488 people per square mile (188.4/km²). There were 3,056 housing units at an average density of 228.1 per square mile (88.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 55.7% White, 42.1% Black or African American, 0.3% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.3% from other races, and 1.2% from two or more races. 0.8% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 2,656 households out of which 28.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.8% were married couples living together, 21.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.1% were non-families. 30.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.95.


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There's so many possible choices in how we present ourselves to the world: private life vs. business world; professional vs. informal; very informative vs. brief etc, I've tried on a few different approaches in my short years as an author and blogger, starting from my first site to this new one.
When I first started blogging I listened to many webinars where experts shared their advice. Some of the advice was very unique or even way out there, while other bits of advice seemed to be repeated with a few of the presenters. I've tried on a few different looks and approaches, totally overhauling my site each time.
When I first started. I named my site after the title of the first edition of my first self-published book. I was far too timid to try to claim my name as a .com, and so opted to hide behind the title of the book. It's taken a few years and publishing a few more books before I could finally take the plunge into starting a .com site with my name!
Presenting my new site!
Finding my voice has been a work in progress… After trying out a few different approaches I've decided that being authentic to who I am is far more important than trying to emulate any of the experts out there! Their approach is great for them, but ultimately I need to just be me!
Now that I have a large enough body of work to present, I feel confident to just be me and allow my words and work to speak for themselves, without trying other people's approaches! The 50 articles I've migrated over from my old site were curated from the many more I've written and since deleted! See Resource Articles! By going through the process of deleting posts which I felt weren't projecting the message I want/ were messages I felt were way off topic etc and re-writing many of the articles to add more meat, I saw that the final cut consisted of articles I'm proud to present!
This new site (www.tamarakulish.com) has been a labor of love many years in the making – not that designing it was difficult, since WordPress is fairly simple to use!
My About page
I've rewritten my About page (see below and on the www.tamarakulish.com/about page). I think it better reflects who I am by giving some background about what I've gone through and how I came to writing about what I learned from my experiences.
I think the most difficult page to write was the on about me! I've tried a 3rd person approach, and an approach I thought was very professional, yet the more I looked at it, the more I realized that it sounded distant and cold. I've decided to scrap that format entirely and just take a more personal approach.
I welcome your comments and feedback!
Peace! Tamara
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Welcome! Like many of you, I've been through many difficult life experiences which in the first two thirds of my led me to becoming overwhelmed, depressed for periods and even to the point where I no longer felt I should be walking the earth anymore! What happened?
I was emotionally and physically abused by my mother, a deeply damaged person herself. This led me to feeling very comfortable around hurt or damaged people, hence my first marriage to an alcoholic and drug addict (cocaine and hash), where my lack or life coping skills led me to become depressed and an exercise anorexic in my efforts to exert some kind of control over my life. That marriage ended when he left me for another woman, as a severely co-dependent person who was finding her self-worth through other people, I then struggled to see myself as a woman worthwhile of other's affections!
Another result of growing up with a hyper-critical mother: I yearned for and searched for acceptance and approval, both from people and most importantly I felt, Divine approval. This led me into not one, but two (successive) strict evangelical churches. Unfortunately, I didn't receive what I was looking for. My health problems, as well as those of my daughter were seen by both congregations as being Divine retribution and "correction" by God for my supposed undisclosed sins. The ensuing way we were both treated led me directly to the point of feeling so worthless in the eyes of the very people I needed support from and in front of God, that I felt my only recourse was to remove myself from the face of the earth! I had it all planned out, until…
Enter my to-be second husband into my life. Yes what I learned from him about Native American spirituality showed a different and loving side of God I hadn't heard talked about in the churches and which ultimately saved my life, but his own Narcissistic personality ultimately destroyed our marriage during a time that my youngest granddaughter had been re-diagnosed and did battle with her second round of cancer (stage 4).
My books, articles, inspiring art and photos are all the fruits of struggling to learn to heal from all those life events. I used positive quotes extensively in my healing process to learn to change and overcome the deep roots of my depressions and life struggles; read books slowly to be able to internalize new information and to learn to integrate the lessons into my soul and spent many hours meditating upon and praying about the new circumstances I was then going through, trying to keep putting into practice the lessons I had learned.
My inner transformation was a long and arduous process, as I wanted to make changes within me on a deeply heart-felt level. The publisher of my first book (an illustrated children's book, now out of print), suggested I write down some of my philosophical thoughts and put them into a book. This astonished me that anyone would notice the changes I had worked so hard to accomplish within myself, but since he was my publisher, I felt I got a Universal green light! I started writing out my thoughts in very tiny notebooks and gradually progressed from being an artist who wrote into a writer! My books, articles and art are the direct results from having come out the other side of that tunnel and are the lessons I've learned as well as the very tools I used on my own healing journey! My goal is to help others on their healing paths in gently supportive ways!
Peace, Tamara
Encouraging Quotes
(link to Quotes Gallery on FAA)
I started adding quotes from the Healing Your Life on a Deep Heart Level book to some of my quirky photos and using those to embellish various blog articles… and I made them available on Fine Art America so everyone can have really awesome finished products!
Dream job:
Work for Elon Musk as a Futurist with Environmental concerns! My background for this started when I was a child; my father collected Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines, and we would sit at the kitchen table for hours discussing different futuristic inventions and extrapolating to the future what we thought we'd see! Those discussions led me to become a problem solver!
See articles on website: https://tamarakulish.com/resource-articles
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