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Michael & Stephane Ogier
Supplier/Importer: Domaine Select
Region: Rhône Valley, France
Appellations: Southern Rhône
Côte-Rôtie has a rich winegrowing tradition that dates back to the Greeks and Romans, and its terraced granite and schist vineyards are among some of the steepest in the world.
Decades ago as many of these terraces crumbled in ruins, négociants were the only wineries with the means to bottle the wines. But in 1982, after years of selling his grapes to the négoces, Michel Ogier decided to start making his own wine under his own label. With a sumptuous flavor profile, silky texture and more finesse than was typical in the appellation, it didn't take long before Michel's wines caught our attention; by 1987, we were importing our first cases of Ogier to the States.
In 1998, Michel's son, Stéphane, joined the family business fresh out of enology school in Beaune. This young and talented go-getter has refined his father's passion for quality by introducing lower yields into their viticultural plan (via de-budding), replanting vineyards, and introducing a négociant arm of the business. Together, they farm 16 hectares in some of the most celebrated vineyards of the appellation's Côte Brune and Côte Blonde, Lancement and Côte Rozier. Stéphane has purchased and replanted new vineyards in some of the highest points of the appellation (Bertholon, Besset, Côte Blond, Montmain, and Champon). In addition, they also produce an elegant Saint-Joseph, a rare Côte du Rhône Village Plan de Dieu, three Syrahs ("L'Ame Soeur", "La Rosine and "Syrah d'Ogier") and a Viognier from the Collines Rhodaniennes, and two stunning cuvées of Condrieu.
Stéphane has built his philosophy on two principles: precision and freshness. Interpreting the terroir is not just about conveying the effect of the sun, but also the minerals. He may seek concentration in the vineyards through de-budding, green harvest, and leaf-pulling, but not in the cellars.
Each parcel is vinified and matured separately. Stéphane believes in adapting his methods to reflect the unique individual terroirs. Once the grapes are harvested, they are brought back to the Ogiers' temperature-controlled cellars in Ampuis, mostly de-stemmed and then cold-stabilized at 39°F. Not only does this preserve the natural acidity of the grapes, but it also serves to extract the primary aromas of the fruit. It is for this reason that Stéphane uses stainless steel fermentation tanks, as well. Using light punch-downs and gentle pump-overs, he is able to achieve a gentle extraction without overpowering, clumsy tannins. Slow, 18-month élevages in barrel create harmony, complexity and longevity for these cuvées. One taste is evidence enough that tremendously hard work, historic vineyards and soils, and a commitment to precision can yield wines of exquisite beauty.
- Vineyard Area: 16 ha
- Soil Type: Limestone
- Varieties Cultivated: Viognier, Marsanne, Roussanne, Syrah
- Country: France
- Winemaker: Stéphane Ogier
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Hello Lovelies,
I hope you're all having a wonderful week! As for me I'm still stuck at home sick with my new pal. With Valentines day on the week's agenda I thought I would share some of my favorite pink lipsticks. I love myself a good pink on any day, but if you aren't dying to go all out with red this Valentine's day a pink shade will be your absolute go to. Here are my top 5 favorites to give you the pinkest, prettiest, most kissable lips for your Valentines day festivities!
Revlon Colorburst Matte Balm in Elusive 205
I picked up this one on sale awhile back, and I was worried it would be discontinued but lucky for me (and you) it hasn't! This lipstick comes in a fat pencil form and applies super easily, it's pencil like form allows you to get into all the nooks and crannies of your lips, which I love. The color is a mix between a mauve shade and a light pink. This lippie is perfect for throwing in your purse for easy application.
Butter London Matte Lipstick in Abbey Rose
I never hear anyone talk about these and I think they are so underrated! I have been loving this lipstick from the start, it's a super smooth formula and doesn't dry your lips out even a bit. Along with its moisturizing formula it also has wonderful pigmentation, little re-application will be required with this little one!
NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in Milan
It is no secret that NYX has been taking the beauty world by storm with these little gems. They are the perfect day to night option. With their soft matte formula they last for several hours with minimal drying. This shade is my favorite out of the few I have so far, the container is deceiving though as it looks like more of a mauve. But once applied it's a brighter and darker pink.
MAC Retro Matte LipStick in Steady Going
Who can do a lipstick roundup and not include MAC? Seriously, they are the holy grail of lipsticks. Nuff said. This shade is the perfect 'barbie' pink, if you're going for a light pink wow factor, this is the lipstick for you. The formula lasts all day (and night) and goes on like butter. You barely feel it on your lips, plus it hardly transfers!
Tarte Amazonian Butter Lipstick in Pink Peony
If you are looking for a lightweight, gloss-like lipstick with amazing moisturizing qualities jump on over to the Tarte website, or your local Ulta. Being the only non-matte lippie on my list I considered not including this favorite, but for you ladies looking for lighter coverage with a moisturizing finish I had to keep it in the roundup!
I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the week! What are your Valentines day lip picks?


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Nothing reminds me of cold winters growing up in Michigan more than mom's tomato soup and grilled cheese. While that was a can of soup, some wonder bread and cheese, it was always so comforting and delicious. This Tomato Soup Recipe and Grilled Cheese with Prosciutto is definitely my moms recipe on steroids, but I suppose it has to be given what I do for a profession, my mom was a hairdresser! Really I wanted to give my moms recipe a face lift and add some more flavor into it, like using canned tomatoes from the summer for the soup, and two different cheeses for the grilled cheese. Oh yeah I used brioche from the bread 🙂 If you want to kick up this Tomato Soup Recipe and Grilled Cheese with Prosciutto even more, spread a little fig jam on the grilled cheese, it's insane!
Tomato Soup Recipe and Grilled Cheese with Prosciutto
For the Bisque:
- 1 tablespoons of olive oil
- 1 small diced yellow onion
- 3 cloves of minced fresh garlic
- 2 sweet red bell peppers
- 3 1/2 pounds of canned tomatoes and juice
- 3 cups of chicken stock
- 2 to 3 tablespoons of tomato paste if needed
- 2 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar
- 1 cup of heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon of smoked paprika
- Kosher salt and cracked black pepper to taste
For the Grilled Cheese:
- 8 thick slices of sweet bread - Brioche or Challah
- 16 slices of smoked gouda cheese
- 16 slices of provolone cheese
- 16 slices of prosciutto ham
- 4 ounces of unsalted butter
- In a large hot pot with olive oil caramelize onions and garlic. Once brown, add in the sweet peppers, tomatoes and stock and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Next, puree the soup with a blender until smooth. Thicken up with tomato paste if need be and finish the soup with balsamic vinegar, cream, salt, pepper and paprika.
- For the grilled cheese, stack 2 slices each of gouda, provolone and prosciutto ham on a slice bread then cover with another sliced of bread. Spread butter on the outside of the bread on both sides. Next, sear the bread on each side in a large saute pan on medium-high heat until the bread is golden brown on each side and the cheese is melted. If the cheese does not melt, place the pan in the oven on 375° for 4 minutes.


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Beth Shuster (eoshuster at UCDAVIS.EDU) wrote: : On 2/7, Deborah Merriam wrote: : >I am getting married this coming summer, and I'm trying to decide whether : >to keep by birth name as-is or take my beloved's surname. : (snip) : >As I see it, my options are: : >1 - keep my current surname for all purposes : >2 - change my surname to coincide with my beloved's (and keep my maiden : >name as a new middle name, if I choose) : >3 - keep my name for business purposes, and use his for personal purposes : >4 - hyphenate (an excellent idea except that our surnames sound hideous : >together ;-) : >5 - have *him* take *my* surname (but he has some publications, too) : >6 - make up our own surname (cute idea, but completely impractical Dear Beth, I presonally decided long before I married that the practice of changing ones last name was ridiculous. To me it seemed like changing my name when I got married was saying that I had no identity untill I got married and that anything I had done before I married was unimportant. Even if I hadn't published I had still accomplished many things, won scholarships, had jobs, recieved a BSc. All these things would no longer be tied to me unless I pointed out that this was my name before I married. Your last name is a code which ties everything you have ever done to you. It is also more then that in a way I find hard to explain in words. All I know is that several of my friends who did change their names suffered identity crises, often feeling they no longer had their own identity. As for problems explaining that my husband and I don't have the same last name, I don't. With the number of divorces, remarriages and cohabitations these days I find that Banks, ect. just take the information and don't raise an eyebrow. I have had a number of comments from friends, relatives and aquaintances, like why get married if you are not changing your name - but if thats what they think marriage is about it's their problem. When I introduce my husband I just introduce him by his first and last name. Most people catch on right away. Anyway this is a topic that I feel strongly about but the important thing is that you do what you feel is right. Remember you can always change it back later if its not working for you. Lauri


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Makes about 60
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup peanut butter
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1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-1/4 cups flour
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1/2 teaspoon salt
1 bag (10 oz.) miniature Reese Cups
Cream butter, peanut butter and both kinds of sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Blend into creamed mixture to make a dough. Preheat oven to 375. Shape dough into 1/2 inch balls and place in ungreased 1 1/2 inch muffin tins. Bake 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Immediately after removing cookies from oven, press a miniature peanut butter cup into the center of each cookie until only the top shows. Let cool 10 minutes before removing from tins.
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Tried, true, time tested in Orangevale, CA Dec 22, 2011
Would make this again.
I have been making these since 1978 or so when the peanut butter cups were still sold in a box of 40. Over the years I have varied the recipe but this year was the best as I was able to get a bag of mixed peanut butter cups (white, dark, and regular). This portion of my gift bag had six in all but they were two of each type. A huge hit. Also add an almond slice on the top to dress it up. 5 stars
Kittie in Erie, Pa. Dec 3, 2010
Would make this again.
Easy, Fun And great tasting. 5 stars
Kittie in Erie, Pa. Dec 3, 2010
Would make this again.
This is one of the best receipt I have made with the garandkids in a long time. It not only looks good but tasts great. 5 stars
A cookie baker in Douglasville, GA Nov 2, 2010
Would make this again.
I made these cookies last year to give to the office staff for Christmas. They were a hit. 5 stars
Debbie in Arroyo Grande,CA Oct 18, 2009
Would make this again.
My entire family loved these cookies.
I have added them to the tradional Christmas baking. 5 stars
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Gritty memoir with unusual connections to the criminal underworld, the legal world and Hollywood.
Berg (The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes to Win, 2003) has lived a full life, and it shows in his deft tonal balance between wry humor and embittered fatalism. Despite success as a well-known progressive lawyer, he remains haunted by the grisly murder of his venerated older brother Alan in 1968 by "card carrying" hit man Charles Harrelson (father of actor Woody). At the time, Alan was slandered as a degenerate gambler, which contributed to Harrelson's acquittal. The author reconciles his brother's failings with a larger, complex family story, in which the Bergs' domineering father, having abandoned his traditionally Jewish first wife, labored to ensnare his sons in his own failed dreams. The vivacious hustler Alan joined his father in a tawdry "boiler room" carpet-selling operation aimed at Houston's poor, a business path whose tangled dealings, Berg argues, actually provoked the murder. The author portrays 1960s-era Houston as a dangerous, seamy swamp, run by a good-ol'-boy network that tolerated violent men like Harrelson and a legal system in which favoritism and bigotry reigned. He shrewdly connects his own hard-knocks career development defending hippies and radicals in Texas with the longer arc of Harrelson's crimes and eventual punishment, including the weird coda of his celebrity son's belated efforts to win his release following conviction for a judge's assassination. To unravel this long-ago narrative, Berg closely reconstructs the investigation and trial, noting how a novice prosecutor faced the state's best defense attorney, a flinty eccentric known for winning at any cost.
Engrossing family history and an appealingly salacious tale, related in a bemused tone that does not hide the social ugliness and personal heartbreak underneath.


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#atozchallenge S is for Save the Cat #Writing #Logline #ElevatorPitch
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S is for "Save"
Book: Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
My dice roll: 300 (ebook location out of 2914)
Lesson: Logline (Elevator Pitch)
In scriptwriting, they call it a logline or a one-line. For books and articles, we call it an elevator pitch. Either way, it's a summary that can be fired off in under thirty seconds. It's tweetable with room for a hashtag.
The conversation:
"Do you want to watch this?"
"I don't know. What's it about?"
The answer will be short. And that's a logline.
For those of us trying to make a sale, that logline or elevator pitch needs to have four components.
- A hook. An ironic one is strongly recommended. You want an emotionally intriguing itch that needs to be scratched.
- A mental picture that promises a complete story.
- A sense of who will buy it. Which genre's fandom is going to ship you and your work the hardest? What's the appropriate age group to market toward?
- The title. A good one will give a clear idea of what it is and what it's about.
Write one, and then go ask people if they like it.
Here are my attempts:
In Fractions of Existence, Xavier's secret identity is an affluent young professional living in NYC. The Eyes in the Shadows work to bring about the apocalypse by killing Xavier and his omnipotent kind. Xavier must reunite his kind to become powerful enough to stop them. In order to do that, he needs Gwendolyn to remember what she is before it's too late.
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A guy with an extraordinary power is trying to save the world from a crazy religious sect that's figured out how to cause the apocalypse. But he has to get this girl, who's he's never met, to fall in love with him so she'll agree to help. — Fractions of Existence
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Bad guys aim to end the world, good guys try to save it, and a girl doesn't know she has a power that can sway the outcome in Fractions of Existence.
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A team of super beings has been divided up. Becoming whole is the only way to save the world. Fractions of Existence is a journey of discovery and deciding what matters most.
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Fractions of Existence has a hero who surrenders, a damsel who almost independently succeeds at overcoming distress, and a villainous group that seems to win.
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Guess who's TERRIBLE at writing these things?
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Mikhail Bulgakov's Sobach'e serdtse (The Heart of a Dog), written in early 1925 but not published in Soviet Russia until 1987, shows the author honing the satirical powers and sharpness of characterization that were to become such a feature of his novel Master i Margarita (The Master and Margarita), on which he was to begin work at the end of the 1920s. The story centres on a scientific experiment that goes disastrously wrong. A professor of medicine who runs a Moscow clinic using "scientific methods" to rejuvenate patients, gives a home to a stray dog, Sharik, whose trust he wins over by a kindly attitude and the provision of food. On the death of one of his patients, the professor, Filipp Filippovich P…
Cockrell, Roger. "Sobach'e serdtse". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 July 2012
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A federal grand jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., returned an indictment charging Paul F. Wrubleski with corruptly impeding the due administration of the internal revenue tax laws and four counts of filing false claims for tax refunds, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Florida lawyers with the Justice department will be prosecuting the case.
Could this be why he is under attack? Wrubleski recently filed suit against the ultra powerful Citi Mortgage group: http://dockets.justia.com/docket/florida/flsdce/0:2012cv61655/405955/
According to the indictment, Wrubleski impeded the IRS by filing False W-4s that claimed he was exempt from income tax withholding, and filing false tax returns, including four tax returns that requested over $1.5 million in federal refunds. Wrubleski also sent obstructive letters, tax returns and other false documents to the IRS between 1999 and 2010. In addition, the indictment alleges that Wrubleski filed for bankruptcy in 2006 to impede IRS collection actions.
An indictment merely alleges that crimes have been committed and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. If convicted on all counts, Wrubleski faces a maximum potential sentence of 23 years in prison and faces a fine of up to $1.2 million.
This case was investigated by special agents of IRS – Criminal Investigation. Trial Attorneys Charles Edgar, Jr. and Jed Silversmith of the Justice Department's Tax Division and Assistant U.S. Attorney Bertha Mitrani are prosecuting the case.
Additional information about the Tax Division and its enforcement efforts may be found at www.justice.gov/tax .


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The UN has adopted 17 world goals for sustainable development. As part of the Danish government's follow-up on the goals, Statistics Denmark prepares a status report annually. Read the first report here.
Statistics Denmark's SDG platform shows, for a large number of indicators, the fulfillment of the Global Goals for Denmark.


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Attorney Patrick Bailey founded our Santa Monica law firm, Bailey & Partners, so he could combine his two passions. As a pilot and former flight instructor and an attorney, he focuses a large part of his practice on aviation accidents, while also assisting victims and families from throughout Southern California with a wide range of other personal injury case types. Attorney Keith Lovendosky,...
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Crime drama set amongst the junkies, thieves and criminals of a bleak urban environment. Three young people, waifs and strays of the streets, find their lives intersecting after two police officers brutally beat and murder a young man in an unprovoked attack. When the policemen are put on trial, the trial being broadcast live to a shocked nation, one of them has the opportunity to make a stand and finally rid the streets of drugs.


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A new study indicates that the presence of public transit systems and infrastructure has a highly beneficial impact on the property prices of adjacent areas.
A new report released by real estate company Knight Frank indicates that the presence of transportation infrastructure and public transportation systems generally has a highly salutary effect upon property values in surrounding areas.
According to the report, entitled Transport Infrastructure and Residential Hotspots, the introduction of mass transit systems in countries throughout the Asia Pacific more often than not results in a rise in adjacent property prices, as well as the creation of popular new residential markets.
"Changes in infrastructure – new transport corridors and metro systems – can stimulate and open up parts of a city, attract investment, extra demand for housing and bring new energy to areas," said the report's authors.
The report points out that although the introduction of mass transit systems to an area can have adverse impacts in the form of increased noise pollution and traffic, these drawbacks are generally outweighed by reductions in travel times and heightened access to other areas.
"While new transport infrastructure does not have a universally positive impact on residential pricing (indeed there are some negative externalities associated with infrastructure such as noise), we commonly witness outperformance and new residential hotspots emerge, as access improves and travel times around the city are reduced," said the report.
In China, the introduction of new metro lines provides a stunning boost to surrounding property prices. The construction of Beijing's Line 7, which runs along an east-west axis through the centre of the city, is expected to lift housing prices by more than 20 per cent in the area around Wufang Bridge and Huagong Bridge along the 5th ring road.
Patterns throughout the Asia-Pacific region in general are replicated within the Australian property market, as proved by the impact on surrounding home prices of the introduction of a new extension to Sydney's light rail network.
Apartment prices in the suburbs of Leichhardt, Haberfield, Summer Hill and Dulwich Hill enjoyed rates of capital growth of 3.6 per cent on average in the three months prior to the opening of the light rail extension – a figure significantly ahead of the city-wide average of 2.3 per cent during the same period.


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I am looking forward to being back up in the mountains...
"We are connected to the rest of the world through the instruments we play."
This is something I have been working on for 30 years, ever since I heard "A Prairie Home Companion."
Instruments for Hungry for Music
I have completed all the songs in the Excellent 11 Series.
I have just finished song #7 in the Excellent 11 series. This one is about Enthusiasm. Titled "Take That Laurel Home" it is about developing a deep sense of direction and commitment that will overcome obstacles. Uses the story of the tortoise and the hare as an example. Eventually we will have rough MP3s on the site so you can hear the songs. Now on to #8!
I am working on my Christmas show. It will be comprised of mostly the lesser known songs and carols including "Miss Hoolihan's Christmas Cake" (always a fun one!) I am working on five songs for the harp, so I am hoping that the harp will be worked into the program! I always want to be able to sing with whatever instrument I am playing, so singing with the harp is an interesting challenge.
So far four songs have been written. A sense of adventure, common sense, reflection, and resilience are now covered. Ron Clark's book - "The Excellent 11" is the source of inspiration.
The newest song is "Log Roll", exploring "resilience." This is based on an actual occurence. I watched as several turtles sat on a slowly turning log that was floating in a pond. They adjusted themselves so they didn't fall off, but finally too many turtles got on and the whole thing went over dumping all of them back in.
Big ol' turtle sat on a log
In the middle of a puddle in the middle of a bog.
Soakin' up sun in the early morn,
Shuffles his feet as the lof slowly turns.
Life is good, life is sweet
Sun so warm settin in that tree
Keep your mind on where you wanna be
And let that log roll on!
A group of acoustic musicians (Todd C. Walker, Tomy Wright, Rod Deacy and Doug Alan Wilcox) is creating an umbrella organization for acoustic musicians in and around Frederick County. FAME (Frederic Acoustic Music Enterprise) will be a non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing, promoting and preserving original and traditional acoustic music of all genres. Our goals will be
(a) To nurture, promote and preserve original and traditional acoustic music of all genres in Frederick and Frederick County through live music, education and community outreach;
(b) To educate aspiring musicians and the general public about all aspects of original and traditional acoustic music of all genres via workshops, open mikes, showcases and concerts;
(c) To reach out to the community via workshops and concerts, especially through schools and youth organizations and the setting up of mentoring opportunities for young and aspiring acoustic musicians.
We are currently in the process of incorporating. Next step will be seeking 501c3 status.
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Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots. Luke 23:34
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32
September 11, 2001, will exist in the hearts and minds of our nation as a day of momentous, catastrophic tragedy that we experienced on American soil. May we pay tribute to those that lost their lives on this unforgettable, historic day and to the loved ones left behind. There is however, another day in history we would like to make mention of, December 7, 1941.
Early the morning, of December 7, 1941, the roar of engines echoed in the ears of Mitsuo Fuchida of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force. As a child, he had always dreamed of becoming a "mighty samurai warrior." Though Japan no longer had professional samurai soldiers, his dream of becoming a hero would soon unfold. At the age of 21, he graduated from the military academy as Japan's top pilot. The country of Japan was on it's way to ruling most of the Asian Empire except for one giant enemy, America.
The mission that morning on December 7, was to surprise and destroy the United States' Pacific Fleet on the sleepy islands of Hawaii. While looking through binoculars, Mitsuo Fuchida and 179 fighter planes behind him, saw the magnificent American ships docked at Pearl Harbor. At 7:49 AM, Mitsuo Fuchida cried, "Tora, Tora, Tora!" into his microphone. The Japanese warriors began to attack the mighty fleet of American ships and in less than two hours over 3,077 American Navy personnel lost their lives or were missing and 150 planes were destroyed. Out of the eight battleships docked at Pearl Harbor, only three were able to be repaired. What great victory Japan saw that day but the sleeping giant would awaken and take revenge.
In the next four years, Mitsuo Fuchida would have two narrow escapes. While in the North Pacific Ocean, he had emergency surgery for appendicitis. The doctor ordered him to stay in the hospital and rest but being the warrior he was, he did not obey the doctor and walked out of the ship's hospital to the top deck. To his dismay, the Battle of Midway was unfolding and just when he thought they would win the battle a new round of enemy planes closed in. Within seconds, the enemy planes blew a hole in the side of the ship and all that were in the hospital lost their lives from the blast.
On August 5, 1945, a few years later, Mitsuo would leave the city of Hiroshima for another military base attending a week long military conference. Several hours after his departure, America dropped the atomic bomb on this great city sparing his life again. When the war was over and Japan was defeated, Mitsuo was devastated. Bitterness and hatred had filled his heart and this great warrior had no recourse but to take up farming to make a living.
One day while Mituso was walking through a noisy train station, an American missionary handed him a tract that read, "I Was a Prisoner of Japan." This pamphlet told of an American named Jake DeShazer, who in revenge of what had happened at Pearl Harbor, had participated in an attack on the city of Tokyo. He was captured in battle and put into a Japanese prisoner of war camp where he was brutally mistreated. He began to hate everything and everyone Japanese until one day, after two years of captivity, he was given a Bible. How had Jake gone from hating the Japanese to coming to Japan as a missionary? As Jake read the Bible he realized that Jesus Christ was his only hope and accepted Him as his personal Savior. To Mitsuo Fuchida, Jesus was a Western god but because of Jake's story he wanted to know more.
A few days later at the train station a Japanese man was handing out books. He was overtaken by the words of this man when he cried, "Get your Bible, --food for the soul!" Mitsuo reached out and took a Bible. The words of our Lord struck his heart when he read, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." He realized that Jesus had died so he could be forgiven and on that day he became a new person in Christ. Mitsuo had become friends with the Japanese man at the train station and he encouraged him to give his testimony at a faith rally they were having.
Mitsuo consented to give his testimony that night at the rally and five hundred Japanese people accepted Christ as their personal Savior. He continued to share what God had done for him but still something was missing. He needed to have peace and that would come when he visited the man named Jake DeShazer. He certainly was a little fearful to enter his home and tell him who he was, the one that lead the attack on Pearl Harbor. With open arms and a forgiving heart, Jake DeShazer welcomed Mitsuo Fuchida into his home. Once bitter enemies, now embracing each other as brothers in Christ's love.
Thought: Mituso Fushida would give anything to erase the memory of his past in leading the attack of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force against the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor but he cannot. His battle now is to fight against to great giants, hatred and bitterness and help others to fight against these enemies too. Are you fighting against forgiving someone for what they have done to you? Are you bitter and hateful against them? Forgive, my friend, that's what Jesus would do and what He commands us to do as we love them with His love. Forgive them, as He has forgiven you.
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As a human behavior scientist, I have traveled the world for years studying how we live fun, exciting, and fulfilling lives.
In my forthcoming book, " The 2 AM Principle: Discover The Science of Adventure," I combine tons of outrageous stories — from getting crushed by a bull at Running of the Bulls to battling Kiefer Sutherland in drunken Jenga and crashing his family Thanksgiving — with scientific research.
One of my favorite quirks of human beings is the belief that the more options we have, the happier we will be. We assume that having the option to prick from 100 breakfast cereals at the supermarket will make us happier, because we can find the one that is ideal for us.
Unfortunately, that's not how it works. According to research by Barry Schwartz, we suffer from a paradox of choice. The more options we have, the less happy we become, due to a myriad of factors:
- Paralysis: When you have too many options, you become overwhelmed and often want to defer your decisions.
- Expectations: With so many options to enjoy you expect perfection, but nothing lives up to the expectation.
- Responsibility: If you have no choice and are unsatisfied, then the world is clearly to blame, but if you have unlimited options and you are dissatisfied, you blame yourself.
- Missed opportunity: With so many options each possesses some characteristics that are appealing. Once a selection is made, you compare your choice to the benefit of the options you didn't take, showing how you might have been happier. The more options you have, the more points of comparison there are and the less satisfied you are.
Barry concluded, "Some choice is better than none, but it does not follow that more choice is better than some."
What this teaches us: Having too many options will in fact make us less happy. Constraints are thereby critical for reducing the overwhelming effects of the paradox of choice. Not only will they increase satisfaction, they will also catalyze creativity and excitement within the context of an adventure. This is a story exploring just that.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 11:03 p.m. Nice, France
It was a little after 11 p.m., and I was wandering through the cobblestone streets of Nice in southern France. My situation looked dire. I was in a foreign country, didn't speak the language, didn't know anybody, didn't have a place to stay, and the last train had left 13 minutes earlier. If I didn't find a kind stranger to put me up, I would be sleeping on the street.
What no one would guess was that I had put myself in this situation and intentionally engineered it to be as difficult as possible. I live by a simple rule: I put myself in exciting, often difficult situations. It forces me to get out of my comfort zone, and tonight I was putting myself to the test by going up against a set of constraints that were near impossible.
For more than a decade, I have dedicated myself to creating fast and deep connections with strangers; these were the kind of connections I would need to convince someone to welcome me into his or her home.
On that night in Nice, I would have taken anyone who was hospitable and didn't look like a serial killer. I quickly began to doubt my decision, the streets were empty and the nightlife was dead. I walked into an empty jazz bar, hoping the bartender would know the nightlife of Nice, and he knew just the place: Wayne's Bar. It had live music, a late night crowd, and cute girls.
After a five-minute walk, I was inside. A crowd of sweat-drenched college students screamed and danced on tables to a live cover band. I spotted a tall and beautiful brunette, and noticed suitor after suitor approach her and her friends with no success. I wanted to meet her, but I needed a different angle.
It must have been 90 degrees in there, so I told the bartender to deliver her a bottle of water, my treat. Moments later she was smiling at me, clearly wondering who I was. My plan seemed to have worked — instead of trying to get her drunk, I thought about what she wanted and gave her a reason to be interested.
If I hit it off with my new friend, it would be an amazing tale, but adventures rarely go that smoothly. As we chatted, I realized there was one constraint I was completely unprepared for: I didn't speak a word of French, and as far as I could tell, she had no command of the English language.
Instead of charming her, I was in quicksand — the more I struggled to compensate for the language barrier, the deeper I sank into the awkwardness of the conversation. Within 20 minutes, I had gone from the cleverest guy in the room to an American drowning in discomfort. To make matters worse, the clock was quickly winding down, and I still didn't have a viable place to stay.
Parting ways, I went off to make a plan. I spoke to person after person, but it was clear most could neither understand me nor hear me over the music. As 1:30 a.m. approached, I had to come to terms with the fact that I would be sleeping on a cobblestone bed.
As a last-ditch effort, I struck up a conversation with three guys standing at the bar. They were the best-dressed guys in Wayne's (besides myself, of course). The four of us were quick to become friends — if only because we were the only ones who spoke English.
If I could build up enough camaraderie among us, they would maybe let me crash on their floor. It was a long shot, but it was my last play. Relying on a classic bonding technique, I treated the group to drinks. "A round of shots for me and my new friends," I told the bartender. We all raised our glasses, and I announced, "To new friends and epic nights, let's make this night one for the history books." Like that, I was now a part of the group. The evening quickly evolved into a pub crawl.
Exploring Nice, we stopped at every open bar. By the fourth, we were in rare form. One of the guys hailed a cab, we hopped in, he gave some indecipherable address to the driver, and 20 minutes later, we had arrived.
It was too dark to tell where we were, and more importantly, I realized that in the three hours since we had met, I never asked them who they were or what they did.
As my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I realized we were walking up to a château right outside of Monaco with a full-service staff, pool house, and an open kitchen for entertaining. I quickly discovered I was hanging out with some of Britain's elite. Each of the boys came from a different prominent British family, ranging from titleholders and socialites to major real-estate developers.
If travel has taught me anything, it's that you need to contribute something of value to your hosts. It was a little after 4 a.m., and that meant everyone would want food.
With a beautiful kitchen like this at my disposal, I created a feast fit for royalty, which was appropriate since one of my new friends was a member of a royal family. By 5 a.m., we had feasted, gone for a swim, and I was comfortably sleeping in my own room.
When I woke up in the morning, one of the guys gave me a ride back to town. As I boarded the train from Nice to where I was staying, I smiled to myself. I had gone toe-to-toe with a set of constraints that would have crippled most people. In the course of a few hours, I went from wandering the streets with no place to stay to having a room in what felt like a castle.
Most important, I had the constraints to thank for all of it. Without them I would have gone out, chatted with a few people, and headed to a hotel, but I would have never spoken with the guys and made friendships that will last a lifetime. I would have never enjoyed a night in the lap of luxury, and I would never have known how far I could push myself.
For more wild stories, fascinating science, and critical insights into living a fun, remarkable, and fulfilling life, pick up a copy of " The 2 AM Principle: Discover The Science of Adventure."


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Over the past few months the Lardy element here at Durham Wargames Group have been furiously play testing in preparation for the up and coming IABSM supplement All American: The 82nd Airborne Division 6th June to 9th June 1944 by Dave Parker. What follows is a taster of one of those games and is the fourth in a series of five scenarios played over the same terrain. I have posted photos of this game in the 82nd Airborne folder in Photos. The primary mission of the 82nd Airborne Division on D-Day was to secure or destroy certain bridges that crossed the Douve and Merderet rivers, which both ran behind Utah Beach. Although the 82nd Division paratroopers were supposed to land in three groups to the east and west of the Merderet River, various problems resulted in the men being scattered over a wide area. Portions of land surrounding the Merderet river valley had been flooded by the Germans to hinder airborne operations.
For the last 3 days there has been fierce fighting for the causeway between the small hamlet of Cauquigny and the bridge at La Fiere. The position is at stalemate. The 1057th Regiment, 91st Luftlande Division has now switched its effort south towards the bridge at Chef du Pont leaving a company to defend the Cauquigny end of the causeway from which they expect an imminent attack. Unbeknown to them 1/325th Glider battalion has discovered a sunken road across the floodwaters and is approaching from the rear. (see pics 1, 2 & 3)
It was a dark and stormy night...
Expecting an attack from across the causeway, the Germans deployed their forces in the village and next to the floodwaters. When two American blinds appeared at the far end of the causeway their decision appeared to have been vindicated. However, when more blinds started to approach from the other side of the village they began to wonder (see pic 4).
Being a night attack visibility was very limited and the two sides would almost be on top of each other before being spotted. This promised to be a short, sharp and bloody affair.
The Americans plan was to send their main force of 2 platoons (each consisting of 3 squads of 10 men) straight into the village as quickly as possible to try and catch Jerry unaware. The third platoon and the 2 MMG teams would make a flanking movement to their right and hopefully meet up at the head of the causeway.
Reaching the main farm building unopposed Platoon 1 "decloaked" and one squad took the barn. The other crossed over the opposite hedge to work their way down the side of the field. (see pic 5)
The farmhouse had a blind under it so they steeled themselves for a melee. What happened next will live in DWG folklore for a very long time. The next card turned was Heroic Leader and without catching his breath and with a ferocious yell of "Action - diddely - Jackson" Lt. Ned Flanders (for `twas he) sprinted the short distance to the farmhouse's back door, kicked it open and with a "Hi-diddly-ho, neighborinos!" took on the section of gob-smacked Germans inside. The result of the close combat was stunning but, in retrospect, entirely predictable. Ned threw six d6 and got 1 kill, the poor Germans threw sixteen d6 and got none! The shocked remnants fled through the front door with God's own stormtrooper in hot pursuit. (see pic 6)
Spotted from the barn, two 75mm guns revealed themselves and were rushed by 2 squads of Ned's platoon. These were taken after a vicious struggle along with an ammo truck. The supporting German section in the orchard beyond wiped out almost to a man. (see pics 7, 8 & 9)
As these and the so far intact Platoon 2 pushed on into the village, on the American's right flank things had turned out a bit sticky. Platoon 3 had run head first into the bulk of the German forces and were taking heavy casualties. (see pic 10)
They could do no more than retreat back across the hedges when they could and hope that some support would arrive.
At this stage the ticking clock and the lure of beer got the better of us and we called it a day. Historically the attack failed and it looked like it would be very difficult to dislodge Jerry this time. As the glider boys regrouped their hearts sank, where was Ned? Where was the Hero of Cauquigny? Say not that he had fallen!
The final scenario (aka The Rescue of Ned Flanders) promises to be a treat.
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I'm working on the rewrite of my YA novel, Plumber Gal. I thought I'd share a few rewrite hints that you might wish to translate to your own work.
1. Having trouble physically moving your characters through the scene? The cup of water was on the desk, then it's on the porch and then it turns into lemonade. (Oh, yes, this happens to me sometimes.) I now have a habit of making nifty maps and drawing sketches of the physical places that my characters visit. I also collect pictures that represent the various items in the setting. I have found this habit saves much time if my character returns to that particular place in another scene of the book or if there are setting errors in a scene.
2. Having trouble with the time-line? It's Monday when the package comes and the next day the character is in Japan -- uh how did she get that package if she was at the airport? Hey, I need a datebook to manage my life, and my book gets a calendar, too. I print out a journal calendar and fill out the timeline of the novel. Takes time to do, but saves time in the end.
3. Search for "-ly" in your manuscript. Use the "Find" feature in Word. Do you really absolutely need all those adjectives and adverbs? Expand this search to word abuse. Do you use the word "just" too much? Do characters "walk "everywhere? Search on these keywords and delete some of them and improve others. Your manuscript will thank you.
4. Want to see your manuscript in a new light? Change the margins and the font of your manuscript. This will help you see your manuscript with new eyes and find errors you literally weren't seeing.
These are some simple hints. I hope you find that your manuscript is buzzing.
I'm really against reinventing the wheel; here are some genius quotes from folks that have been there and done that:
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.
Mark Twain
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Truman Capote
I can't write five words but that I change seven.
Dorothy Parker
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'"
James Thurber
The most valuable of talents is never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
This morning I took out a comma, and this afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde
Books are never finished, they are merely abandoned.
Oscar Wilde


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Hi guys and girls, We know that a lot of VIII and IX owners would love to keep their 6-speed gearbox but are often let down by the relative lack of strength compared to the 5-speed cousin. They're nice to use but unfortunately don't put up that well with 250kw+ that many of these cars run. The only solution has, up until now, been to "downgrade" to the older, more reliable 5-speed. Well, we have been working on a solution. We've built a couple of these now and they're running reliably in track oriented cars and performing very well. We start with an Albins helical replacement gear set for 3rd, 4th and 5th. These are only available to builders, not to the general public, for reasons I will explain later. (Albins left, stock right) They are a coarser tooth profile with a narrower helical angle, meaning better strength (Albins bottom, stock top). The design also eliminates the strange OEM thrust ring arrangement on 4th. This leads to better support on the shaft, less flex and so on. Made right here in Australia to Albins' usual excellent quality. We then shot peen and ISF the lot. comparison of stock vs. ISF treated Albins (ISF Albins bottom, stock top): We build them to our specs which we keep close to our chest. These are highly customised items and run clearances that are controlled via a sequence of shims on the countershaft. They are not "drop in" items, hence not really sold to the public. We have also made some stronger synchroniser springs to replace the ones prone to breaking and causing gear lockout. And finally, we had a bunch of testing done on the 5-6 hub and sleeve which can be problematic. We thought that we might be able to improve the hardening. The results from the metallurgist were surprising - there was little improvement to be made (none, in fact), by further heat or chemical treatments, including cryo treatment. Their suggestion was that some fatigue resistance improvement could be gained by shot peening the hub and sleeve carefully to prevent burring - which we do in-house. We think we have addressed the key issues that these gearboxes have. So here's the clincher. I need to order 10 sets to get Albins to do a run. They did a run of 10 and I bought a couple, the rest went to the States, so they are sold out and back ordered. I'm looking for an expression of interest to put these back into production. Price fully built in your box is $4,600 including GST. This includes all of the following: - New Albins 3rd, 4th, and 5th gears - New synchro springs (upgraded in-house design) - New 5-6 hub and sleeve - New genuine bearings and seals - New genuine 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th synchro rings - New roll pins and clips - New Dimple magnetic drain plug - Crack tested shafts and gears - Shot peened to SAE standards all gears, hubs, sleeves and shafts - Isotropic super finished (ISF) all gears, hubs, sleeves and shafts - Chemical clean components - Bead blast case - Built to Neat Gearboxes' exacting specs - 1 year unlimited km warranty (some conditions apply for high powered, track orientated cars) - Shipped anywhere in Aus at no extra cost with full insurance (you just need to get it to us) This box is every bit as strong as a strengthened 5 speed. It is not bulletproof (what is?), but is extremely reliable. If you'd like to put an order down, I need a firm commitment. Production will be 3 months away so it won't be until the new year. I'd like to gather a list of anyone who is actually interested in this option and we will work out the details such as deposits and timeframes once we know if we can get it off the ground. Post up, call or email us if you are interested or have any questions. Sam: 0407 698 682 firstname.lastname@example.com Cheers guys.


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Photoshop CS6: Tools and Commands to Crop, Trim, and Straighten Images
Photoshop CS6 offers multiple options when you need to crop, trim, or straighten images. Choose from the new Perspective tool, the marquee tool, or the Ruler tool. You can also use the Trim command or the Crop and Straighten photo command.
How to crop with the Perspective tool in Photoshop CS6
If you need a nonrectangular crop box, select the Perspective tool from the Tools panel. This tool, which is new in the CS6 version, enables the corner handles to move independently. Note that when you apply the actual crop, the photo is transformed into a rectangular shape, thereby distorting the image based on your applied perspective. Doing a perspective crop can fix some minor image distortions.
In the Options bar, choose to show or hide a grid overlay. The Front Image option enables you to crop one image so that it's the exact same size as another image.
Open two images and crop the first one. Click Front Image. Photoshop enters the width, height, and resolution values from the first image on the Options bar. Drag the Perspective Crop tool on your second image and adjust the crop box, as desired. Double-click inside the box.
If you want to crop to an exact measurement, enter a value in the Width, Height, and Resolution fields in the Options bar. These options are available only when the Perspective Crop tool is active, and you haven't dragged a crop box. Be careful about choosing a value for the Resolution setting. Remember, resampling isn't a good thing. Click the Clear button to delete all values from the Options bar.
How to crop with the Marquee tool in Photoshop CS6
If you get bored with using the Crop tool, you can also crop a selected area by choosing Image→Crop. Simply make a selection with any of the tools and then choose this command. Although using the Rectangular Marquee tool for your selection makes the most sense, you don't have to.
You can use Image→Crop with any selection — circular, polygonal, kidney bean, even feathered. Photoshop can't crop to those odd shapes, but it gets as close to the outline as it can.
How to use the Trim command in Photoshop CS6
The fabulous Trim command trims away transparent or solid-colored areas around your image. Choose Image→Trim, and a dialog box appears. Select Transparent Pixels (for layered images), Top Left Pixel Color, or Bottom Right Pixel Color as a basis for the trim. Then, choose to trim away the Top, Bottom, Left, or Right side(s) from the image, and click OK.
This command works great for quickly eliminating black-and-white borders around images.
How to use the Crop and Straighten Photo command in Photoshop CS6
To crop and straighten images in Photoshop CS6, choose File→Automate→Crop and Straighten Photos. Photoshop then looks for rectangular areas in your document, extracts each one into its own document, and straightens those individual images.
The Crop and Straighten Photos command is fabulous if you want to save time by scanning multiple images initially into one document. (And the command works on single images, as well.) This command is a real manual-labor timesaver.
How to use the Ruler tool in Photoshop CS6
Adobe Photoshop CS6 doesn't leave you hanging if your images are awry. You can straighten out the images by using the Ruler tool. Here's how:
Select the Ruler tool from the Tools panel.
It shares a flyout menu with the Eyedropper tool. You can also press I or Shift I to cycle through the tools.
Click at the starting point of the axis you wish to straighten. Drag the tool at the ending point of that axis. Release the mouse.
Click the Straighten Layer button in the Options bar.


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Once a month the World of Speed Archive hosts Open Archives Days, when we invite our patrons to take an up-close look at parts of our collection. In October, at part of National Archive Month, we used the days for Archives from the Streets: an event that invited you to show off your own racing collectibles or keepsakes by displaying them here at the museum alongside items previously donated. In case you missed it, here is your opportunity to look at the interesting array of objects shared.
Barney Oldfield
Oldfield began racing in 1902 and continued until retiring in 1918. In 1904, he became the first man to drive a car at 60 mph in the Green Dragon. He hit a record 131 mph driving Blitzen Benz in 1910, Daytona.
On Loan from Dale LaFollette
Triumph Motorcycles
The well-known motorcycle brand Triumph was first produced in 1902. Over a century old, Triumph found its way into many championships, hearts, and memorabilia to show off the well-loved brand.
Donated by Robert Couch
Bonneville Program & Poster
In 2014 and 2015, the salt was so bad that Speedweek had to be cancelled but not before programs and posters were produced. Luckily, though barely, Speedweek 2016 was able to happen.
Donated by Mike Cook
Bonneville Salt Flat Sticker
Racing has taken place on the Bonneville Salt Flats since 1914. Five land speed events take place including Speed Week in August, World of Speed in September, and World Finals in October.
Donated by Daniel Carter
Barry Kaplan 200 MPH Jacket
Kaplan reached over 200 mph at both Bonneville and El Mirago, racking up land speed records. In 1990, the Carr-Kaplan partnership was the first car over 300 mph at El Mirage in the Lakester.
Donated by Dan Kaplan
Ray Carroll & Sidewinders
Cherished and esteemed motorcycle racer Ray Carroll raced at Sidewinders, as well as a beloved member of the Sidewinders club. His helmet was signed by fan, friends, and club members. Those boots!
Donated by Melisha Carroll
PIR Posters
Portland International Raceway, aka PIR, has hosted CART and NASCAR but its base is its SCCA races including the annual Rose Cup Races which first started in 1961 and the addition of Trans-Am in 1975.
On Loan from Pat McFall


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Wishing for Fishing
Ever since I bought my hubby some new fishing flies as part of the Fourteen Days of Valentines, I've been looking forward to today's fly fishing demo put on by Trout Waters Fly and Tackle. The demo was scheduled from 10 to 2 today. Though the sun was shining it was quite chilly by the lake at Sutherland Park. We didn't hang about for long, and as an absolute beginner I really didn't want to try to whip fishing line around in the park for fear of hitting someone, or getting hit by one of the other beginners. I am very much looking forward to taking one of my hubby's fly rods out into the back yard later today and seeing if I learned anything. It's been a while since I did any fishing - I was probably a teenager the last time. With a little luck you'll see some photos of my hubby and I fly fishing in the not too distant future.


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Have a lovely weekend!
As some of you already know, at the beginning of a new school year I often ask our students in grades 3-5 to select five books that show who they are as a reader and have their picture taken with these books to create a shelfie. It is a fun way to start the year in the library, helpful in allowing students to reflect on their reading identity and giving us teachers and librarians valuable insights about our students' reading preferences and attitudes. So I decided to do something similar for our Back-to-School Night presentation: a library shelfie. I hope those of you who were able to attend enjoyed the presentation - thank you for coming - and if you weren't able to attend, below are the three books I shared and a few words about what each of the books stands for.
There is never a quiet moment in our library; instead there is always an exciting buzz in the air as students look for books, inquire about topics of interest, share interesting facts they discover in books, exchange recommendations, ask questions, and read with each other. Our goal is to provide to everyone a warm, welcoming and safe place, providing a wide range of resources that match our learners' and readers' interest, preferences and learning styles.
We believe that we are all children of books; we are all readers. We want to help our students in finding their inner reader and nurturing a love for reading that will last a lifetime. We do this by introducing them to authors and series, by making individual reading recommendations and by sharing read-alouds so that our readers can experience the magic of reading, what it means to loose yourself in a book, to discover new and unknown people and places in the pages of books. We know how important it is in motivating readers to allow them to choose and ultimately decide what they want to read - even though we provide guidance and help them acquire the necessary skills to select independently.
We believe in the power of inquiry. We want to kindle and nurture our students' curiosity; wonder with them about the world around us and help them in the process to develop the necessary skills to become independent, efficient, safe and responsible seekers and users of information. We aim at giving our students access to a wide variety of resources, not limited to our physical space and the printed books on our shelves, but also taking advantage of technology and connecting them to other learners and experts beyond our immediate HKA community.
We want to extend once again a warm welcome to all of you and hope to see many of you in the library this school year. Remember, you can visit the library with your child during community afternoons on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3 to 4pm. We are always happy to show you around the library and help you in selecting books.
Have a lovely weekend!
Our Not So Quiet Library
During the first class visits, we shared with each other about our summer adventures and revisited / introduced the way how our library is set up and how books are being checked out, enjoying some wonderful stories as part of the process.
Students in grades 4 and 5 already spent time reflecting about who they are as readers by putting together a shelfie, consisting of five books that represent their reading identity. (The pictures are on display in the library and we would love for you to stop by and have a look!)
During library mornings, library lunches and class visits, I especially loved observing students enthusiastically talking about and recommending books to each other - I could tell a lot was read during the summer break and among our fourth and fifth graders this year's Battle of the Books titles are the biggest hit!
Please remember that our entire community is welcome to visit our library and take advantage of the wonderful resources in our collection. Our community times for parents to visit with their children remain on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3-4pm.
We look forward to welcoming many of you to the library this Thursday during our Back-to-School Night!
Tanja Galetti – Primary School Librarian
A warm welcome from our beautiful Primary School Library! My name is Tanja Galetti ("Ms. Tanja") and this is my sixth year as Primary School Librarian at Hong Kong Academy. Before moving to Hong Kong, I lived and worked in Ghana for 19 years. I hold a Master's degree in Linguistics, specializing in African languages, from University of Bayreuth (Germany) and a Master's degree in Educational Technology with Library Media Specialization from Indiana State University, Terre Haute. As a result of my studies, I conducted research and participated in oral history projects while in West Africa. For five years, I was the Primary School Librarian at an IB World School in Accra, Ghana.
I enjoy supporting our young learners in their inquiries as we explore together how to search for and use information efficiently. I love to read and I read a lot, all the time ;) Most of all, I love to share our library's wonderful books with our students, as we look for reading recommendations, chat about favorite books, inquire about authors and their works, read stories together and enjoy the magic of reading, books and libraries.
Alison May – Primary Library Assistant
Greetings! My name is Alison May ("Ms. Alison") and this is my third year working at Hong Kong Academy — however, it's my ninth (!) year as an HKA community member. I am a parent of two HKA boys: Ike in Grade 11 and Calvin in Grade 7, who began their HKA journey on Stubbs Road many years ago. I am an American from Oakland, California. I live in Clearwater Bay with my family and our two cats, Bootsy and Freddie Mercury. In my former work life, I was a producer in professional theatres in America. And, in my former volunteer life, I have coordinated the Buddy program, the Recycled Uniforms program and the library volunteers at HKA; as well as consulting local NGOs. I love swimming, yoga and I really love to read. I look forward to sharing time and books with our primary school readers.
We are both looking forward to welcoming you in our library!
Take advantage of our many wonderful resources and cozy reading spots :)
Coming soon...!
Coming soon...
a new blog
a new school year
new books
new wonderings
new learning
Looking forward to seeing you all very soon!
(You can still access last year's blog page and the summer reading fun 2017 through this link or the archives embedded in the Library tab at the top of this page.)
A warm welcome from us, Ms. Tanja & Ms. Alison, in the Primary School Library.
Are you looking for reading recommendations? Explore this sidebar to check out what I have been reading lately.
August 2018


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I couldn't believe it. We have decluttered and decluttered for the last few months. I have been really impressed with how much we have gotten rid of, how many things we have been willing to let go of. And we have had an amazing side effect happen. They more we get rid of, the more we want to get rid of. We are spending more family time together, we are learning more, exploring more, having more fun.... And we discovered that we have the most fun when we are spending time together as a family, than with any other object in the house... although there are days when the computer holds a close second!
Well, with Chinese New Year coming up, in an effort to "spring clean" and prepare the house, we have further decluttered. I thought it was impressive that we had come up with 17 boxes of S.T.U.F.F. (Something That Undermines Family Fun - FlyLady.net) to get rid of. After all, we have already had the donation truck come out 5 times before this, and each time they have picked up 15-20 boxes of S.T.U.F.F.. I had already arranged for a Salvation Army truck to come pick up our donations. They were scheduled to be here today.
Flash back to yesterday when my teenage daughter says to me, "Wouldn't it be cool to have 30 boxes for the donation truck?" "Is that a challenge? The truck comes tomorrow," I answered. She stuttered and hmmmed for a minute or two and came back with, "Yes, It is a challenge! Do you think we can do it?!" "I don't know, but it sure will be neat to try! With you helping, I think we can pull it off together!"
Back to the current moment...the Salvation Army donation truck just pulled away. Do you think we met the challenge?
It was a dedicated effort, we worked really hard going through things, thought about why we were keeping things, and really did some soul searching. By the end of last night we had gotten to 19 boxes, we had only collected 2 boxes and had 11 boxes to go. We woke up this morning and kept going.
And the final results?
31 boxes, an easel, and 2 pictures...
AND an assurance that we would have them come out again! We made a break through this morning, and we were left with the desire to go through the entire house all again....
We know there is more that we carry with us that is not sacred to us. Something that really got us going, that I credit as helping us set ourselves free from our endless piles of clutter and belongings was reading "Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui". This book has really opened our eyes to the reasons why we were keeping S.T.U.F.F., and has given us the information to really choose what we wanted to keep. It has given us the real tools to happiness... it is not in what you own. Karen has a way of making you see why all of these possessions keep accumulating, and how to free yourself from it, without allowing you to feel guilty. She teaches you to find what is sacred and thank the rest for teaching you what you needed to know...
I love this book, and highly recommend it. You can find your own copy here:


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|Ag row cover quick hoops sagging under the weight of wet snow. The sagging material between the hoops illustrates the need for ridge support. This photo is from spring 2016.
A trip to the hardware store fetched me a 100' coil of 1/4" poly clothes line and a 100' roll of 10' wide, 6 mil thick polyethylene sheeting. I removed the row cover and stored it for next season. I then ripped a scrap of pressure-treated 2x4 stud into two sturdy stakes with the table saw. I pounded these in on both ends of the low tunnel, then proceeded to string the clothes line across the tops of the PVC hoops to create a ridge beam, so to speak. The clothes line instantly frays at the cut ends so I found it easiest to pre-melt the area to be cut with a lighter, then cut in the center of the melted area. I then sealed the ends with an additional torching.
|Cutting the clothes line in the middle of a pre-torched section to limit fraying. The cutting tasks went super quick with my new $10 razor sharp Mora sheath knife!
|Finished rope end.
I tied the line to the first stake with a bowline, then fastened it to each PVC conduit using a clove hitch.
|Adjustable clove hitch on top of each PVC hoop.
I adjusted all the clove hitches so there was no rope slack between the conduits and then tied the line to the second stake using a trucker's hitch for quick tightening. The idea with this design is to structurally integrate the stakes, conduit, and rope to form a continuous support for the cover so that the weight of snow will not pull down the cover and bend the hoops towards each other.
|Trucker's hitch connection to the second stake
|The low tunnel with clothes line "ridge beam". The rope appears slack because of the uneven heights of the hoops, but it is actually quite taught between the hoops and stakes.
I rolled out and cut the poly sheeting to length; leaving it a few feet longer on each end of the tunnel to follow the rope to the stake. I weighed down the edges with rocks and called it a day. The whole project took about 30 minutes and that included some time to harvest arugula, spinach, and radishes before covering them up! On a whim, I also seeded a few rows with the last of the spinach seed. They'll either rot over the winter or sprout into super early spring greens.
|The finished product sheltering the winter greens. To the left is the garlic bed mulched with leaves and to the right is a stand of oat and pea cover crop that will winter kill leaving a mulched bed for spring planting.
The quick hoop seems fairly sturdy though I will still have to be diligent in brushing off snow; no sense in pushing my luck. I'll harvest greens periodically throughout the winter and hopefully there will be an early spring flush of growth. Until then, time for wood stoves, Nordic skiing, and planning for next year. Only another couple of months before it's time to sow onions indoors and start grafting apples!


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Ocean Blue B&B is set in Stanwell Park's beautiful parkland, which runs 600m down to the beach. Ocean Blue B&B is an ideal getaway spot for that well-earned relaxing weekend, mid-week getaway, or extended vacation.
Our Slice of paradise is just 50 minutes South of Sydney CBD and 30 minutes North of Wollongong. Nestled between the Illawarra Escapement and ocean, adjacent to the magnificent Royal National Park. The Tops conference Centre is close by.
A fully cooked breakfast is served in the dining room, breakfast room or beautiful covered deck. Your hosts, Ian and Matt, will be on hand to make your stay an enjoyable one. We very much appreciate that our guests have selected our home as their chosen B&B and will do all we can to make your stay extraordinary and welcome you to contact us to inquire about planning your next relaxing getaway.
Click here to see what the local area has to offer.
An Ocean Blue B&B voucher is an ideal gift for one or two guests to enjoy a well-earned relaxing weekend, mid-week getaway, or extended vacation. Vouchers can be for one night or multiple nights – it's up to you!
A business class offering for executives looking for a simple retreat to study / strategize / reflect / plan. Exclusive guest access to the property during your stay (i.e no other guests will be booked into the property during your stay. The only other person to stay will be your host/owner). Ocean Blue provides several break out areas both inside and out which are available to you and your colleagues.
"Perfect retreat" - We were delighted with the Spa Suite at Ocean Blue B & B, it was very comfortable and private. We also enjoyed the beautiful breakfasts served on the terrace. Our host was very amenable to our needs, nothing was too much trouble. All in all, a great experience.
Reviewed by Ros (April 2017)
"Lovely & Relaxing" - My partner and I stayed in the Beachcomber Suite for a weekend and we really enjoyed it. House was clean, secluded, had a spa bath and it was a 5 mins walk to the beach! What more could you ask for a weekend away from the city. Ian was so friendly and very accommodating- he was also helpful in regards to the surroundings of the area. Highly recommended! Definitely coming back to check out the Sandpiper Spa Suite ;)
Reviewed by Monica (February 2017)
"A wonderful, relaxing stay" - We stayed in the Sandpiper suite for 2 nights while visiting Stanwell Tops for a wedding. Ian's warm and friendly hospitality ensured we had a lovely time, and the rooms were comfortable with plenty of room and privacy. Great location, right near the beach and a few minutes from Tumbling Waters. Will be back!
Reviewed by Simon (August 2016)
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My partner and I had a fantastic stay at Ian's BnB. The sandpiper suite is perfect for a couple wanting a romantic weekend away from the city. The atmosphere of the location is incredible and Ian's hospitality and incredible breakfasts will bring us back!
Reviewed by Daniel Bushe
We spent the weekend at Ian's Bnb as we had a wedding on in Stanwell Park, and we couldn't have asked for a better experience. Ian was such a great host, making us feel welcome and comfortable from the moment we arrived. He helped us sort out where we were going to have dinner and even shared a bottle of wine and nibbles with us beforehand, after our drive from Sydney. The accommodation was very comfortable, secluded and right near the beach. Breakfast was amazing, it was so good to wake up and have a home cooked breakfast waiting for us, Ian can cook! What a great stay, highly recommended to anyone looking for a quiet and relaxing weekend away by the beach.
Reviewed by Amy Raymond
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"The Highest Standard My Amazing 1st B & B Experience" - Never having experienced B & B accommodation I was a bit anxious of what lay ahead & as I pulled up at my location I called my host. He sounded so welcoming. He showed me to my room and It was the most amazing room, such a beautiful place and a great location for me to call home for the next week. (... more)
Reviewed by Sandy Jones (January 2017)
"Awesome first stop in Australia" - We had so much fun staying with Ian, and recovering from our 25 our flight from Amsterdam to Sydney. We travelled for 3.5 weeks in Australia and this was the perfect start of a great holiday. I would definitely recommend staying here, right at the beach, perfect breakfast en great spacious room. Thanks Ian for allowing us to stay with you. Reviewed by JAF269 (January 2017)
"Overnight stay at Stanwell Park" - Ocean Blue is a great place to base yourself to experience the delights of Stanwell Park and surrounding areas. Your host, Ian will make your stay truly memorable. The accommodation is a home away from home. You just want to relax, settle in and enjoy the warm hospitality. Highly recommended. Reviewed by Joseph (April 2017)
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My husband and I stayed at Ians beautiful B&B for 2 weeks while visiting from Canada. Stanwell Park is a stunning area and the house was gorgeous. With many hiking trails, cute cafes and a beach with in walking distance it was the perfect spot to holiday.
Linda and Rick (January 2016)
Thank you for the wonderful weekend We had at the Ocean Blue B&B last weekend. We would like to offer our recommendation to future guests. Our room was clean, spacious and very comfortable and we loved the spa in the tranquil wall garden. The room had an apartment feel and we could of happily stayed tucked away inside all weekend.
We also found the rest of the house extensive and tastefully furnished and the roaring fire and your amazing cooked breakfasts (especially the mushrooms!) made us not want to leave! Eating breakfast looking out to the ocean was another highlight.
Thank you for being a great host, welcoming, hospitable and striking the perfect balance in providing local hospitality without being obtrusive. We felt truly at home and hope to return soon. We would gladly recommend the Ocean Blue B&B to anyone looking for a relaxing getaway or a launch-pad to the south coast. Hope to see you again soon!
Paul and Julie (July 2016)
Ocean blue B&B was a slice of heaven. We came in the middle of winter and it was so cosy. Ian was a gracious host. The room was perfect, you can see that Ian had put a lot of thought into the design of the room and all the features with a lot of thoughtful touches. Very much enjoyed this stay and can't wait to return back. Great for both a winter and summer getaway!
Natasha and Ash (July 2016)
If you're planning a visit to Stanwell Park and looking for somewhere to stay we would highly recommend the Ocean Blue B&B. We loved everything about this B&B that you will find tucked away in a rain forest style garden with beautiful views and easy access to the beach.
The suites are comfortable, spacious and beautifully decorated; the breakfasts are among the best breakfasts we have had the pleasure of eating (and you simply must try Ian's slow cooked tomatoes and his mushrooms); and best of all is the warmth and hospitality that Ian provides as he welcomes you into his beautiful home.
A stay at Ocean Blue B&B is more like staying with a dear friend rather than just another place to spend the night on your journey.
Nick and Maureen (July 2016)


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The first half of 2005 was cool but busy. New hosting deals in the Philippines and US. Sponsoring the Philippines 1st Blogging Summit was worth it. I also have a new hosting client in Saudi Arabia and colleague John got a hosting deal for his uncle in Macau.
Welcome new web hosting clients: FilPGFamily, Lex Tandog, Pulped Fiction, Fight Club Martial Arts Training Ground, Alibi Productions, JPMP Enterprises, Mook Choi, Informatics Sampaloc.
Thanks to Plum Studio who has been putting in several hosting accounts, not just one, but hmmm how many websites do you have right now on my server? 4? 5? and you recommended me to someone that added 3 websites from him too? As part of my gratitude… I will advertise your site on my blog when it is 100% finished.
Thanks to the Kelly's too. This Filipino family has already 5 hosting accounts on my server.
With some personal workstation PC problems that have partially delayed all sorts of stuff, and a vacation that I really needed, but shifted some working time, most of the work is done already. SEO of Martal Exterminators is done and Web Design and Development for the Association for Marketing Educators is also completed while I'm nearly done with Graveyard Chef.
The company operations is another thing… collecting all the bills, sending them, checking who paid, who didn't, following up payment, follow up sales, helps with customer support, generate more sales leads, helping out in event sponsorship, sales presentations is not all an easy task. Thanks to the ever reliable Amor (whom I suspect is also working on the P&J website, hehehe, but it's all fine, just do your job.) And thanks to the company manager and my lovely wife Marcia who does not only work for the company but also keeping things running well at home, monitoring all our personal bills, insurances, pension plans, trust funds, educational plans, credit card bills. And more importantly, taking care of the kids at home. (of course thanks to Janet and Harry who helps out at home too). Ever reliable Mommy whom I owe money with the unconditional-mommy-loan, 0% interest for life, no penalty fees.
Still a lot of work, and still no money. All goes to bills, bills and bills. I am working, my wife is working, my business is earning, but the bills are still a lot. When I was earning less, I had no money, when I am earning more, I still have no money? MLM/Networking people reading this blog, go away. I tried everything already. I helps but not this time. I have other plans in life than doing that again, but I am not saying it is not a good system, all I am saying that is not my plan in this stage of my life.
Now that my projects are nearly done… I thought of yeah, it is my time to rest again! And how do I do that? By attending Taekwondo classes, going to the gym and riding my BMX. That is the best rest I can get. But I think that is not going to happen yet.
New websites came in. Pritchon, Batang Sayantist. Two under negotiation, which is basically a closed deal by word of mouth, but for me, not until I see the money, then I say it is a closed deal. I got one more under review by the prospective client.
So I do not get rest after all, not yet. But I think it is still worth it. So I still get to rest. But it is all fine with me. Kaya ko ito, I've done worse things in the past, as in really no sleep, walking zombie and not earning sh*t. A bunch of sites full of freebies, working for nothing. So this time, everything should be a lot easier.


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On an idyllic windy day in late August, my mother and I drove down the California coast from Carmel Valley, where she raises cattle, to Big Sur's Henry Miller Memorial Library. I spent all summer reading Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, Colossus of Maroussi and Tropic of Cancer on benches in Tompkins Square Park and in my apartment in Bushwick, only a few miles from Henry Miller's childhood home. Having grown up in northern California, I'd been to Big Sur many times before and have always cherished the place. Yet I think I never really understood the spirit of Big Sur until I read Miller's Big Sur, a book which encompasses the place extremely well though it hardly really describes it at all.
I knew nothing about Henry Miller until I accidentally came upon a copy of Justine by Lawrence Durrell in a Salvation Army shop in Paris, Texas. I have this sort of addiction to reading Wikipedia articles about everything known to man, and by the time I got my hands on a copy of The Alexandria Quartet in its entirety, I was back in Brooklyn and knew that Durrell had been friends with Henry Miller and Anais Nin (whose book Little Birds shocked me at a very young age when I, bored with the children's library, went browsing through my mother's shelf). I began reading Miller solely for his book on Big Sur, being pretty much clueless concerning all of the things he is "best known" for (Tropic of Cancer, being an alleged sexist pig, etc). Of course I had read the Wikipedia article, but was too enthralled by Big Sur to pay much attention. Erica Jong wrote that, for her, Colossus of Maroussi is Miller's masterpiece. But Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch will always be my favorite, because of the connection I feel to the place, because Miller writes things like, "It was here in Big Sur I first learned to say Amen!" That quote is posted at the entrance to the Henry Miller Memorial Library. In the case of Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, his is religious writing, in the deepest sense of the word, and embodies one of the most sacred places in our country.
The Henry Miller Memorial Library is really more of a bookstore, record shop, cafe, sculpture garden, outdoor concert venue and shrine to Henry Miller. It is located in a small cabin right off the road which was once inhabited by Henry Miller's close friend, Emil White. The word "EMIL" is still on the mailbox. A pathway winds through a sculpture garden towards a lawn. On the deck outside the cabin, there is tea and coffee for sale on the "honor's system." There is a large outdoor stage where Fleet Foxes and Philip Glass have played, to name a few. The shows sell out online in seconds. Inside the cabin Henry Miller's books hang on string suspended from the ceiling, and many of his favorite books are for sale.
Sadly not many of Miller's own books were for sale (I was expecting them to have his entire bibliography in stock), at least on the particular day of my visit, maybe because they had been depleted by those avid fans and travelers who had come before me. Honestly I wondered what Henry Miller the anarchist would think of this place of commerce devoted specifically to him. He would probably think it hilarious! After all, Miller said, "To laugh at yourself is the most important thing"; to laugh at the Henry Miller Memorial Library is to laugh at Henry Miller, and Henry Miller would not mind laughing at himself. The intention of the Library is ultimately good and reflects what Henry Miller found in Big Sur, which was peace and happiness. The place still shines with the afterglow of his spirit. It reflects the love that so many feel for Henry Miller because of the joy which his writing has contributed to the universe.
I found Erica Jong's book on Miller, The Devil at Large, in a dusty bookcase in a corner of the Library. Jong's book on Miller stands alone as a great work of literature and insight into both Miller and American society. I spent the rest of the day reading on Pfeiffer Beach, which is somewhat of a secret treasure of the area due to its discreet location. Generally the beach is relatively deserted but that day (the only totally clear day I think I have ever witnessed in Big Sur) it was crowded with tourists and kayakers, picnicers and proud dog owners. In some ways Henry Miller is responsible for turning Big Sur from unknown utopia to destination of all starving artists seeking inspiration to the spa resort destination of the rich and privileged that it is today. Somehow I think Henry (if he were here, or if we could hear him, anyway) would be able to displace the blame for this act of blasphemy against his most beloved home.


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