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OK, I know this is going to be rubbish but I've been a little preoccupied of late with hens and houses so it's the best I can do. I know I managed a few lines this morning about the wee hoose going on the market at last last but serious blogging, waffling and general nonsense from the 'accidental crofter' has been a little lacking of late. So for that I'm sorry, I'm sorry also for not replying individually to all the recent comments but it's just been a little nuts of late.
I think all that sun, heat and paint fumes last week went to my head and the mad rush to get the house looking fit for sale left me a little dazed. I seem to recall that I even came indoors on Sunday and started plonking away on here instead of working outside, very strange 🙂 Anyway, after that it was over to Torran for dinner with our friends 🙂
No, not here, this is the old 'mission house' that we walked past on the way there 🙂
Awesome stonework hey, just check out that Torridonian sand stone, basalt and gneiss 🙂
Not that we actually walked all the way, we took the quad as far as here, not because I'm lazy but because I'd to pick up a trailer from here http://www.uniquescotland.com/raasayschool/index.html
Well you'll just have to 'zoom out' to find it 🙂
Once there, we laid into the red wine and roast beef whilst the boys went off camping,
being 'responsible adults' we ensured that they were well wrapped up and had enough matches and firelights to start a reasonable sized forest fire 🙂
We'd had an early dinner in anticipation of a busy day on Monday
with piglets to take to Portnalong
and a boar to take to Staffin.
Rocky was going to Dave and Sarah's at http://skyeharvest.co.uk/ to service the two fine Tamworth gilts that they'd recently acquired.
Rocky was only too pleased to meet with his two new girlfriends and we were only too happy to depart with yet another hen house for the 'Arnish Egg' enterprise that wifey was embarking upon 🙂
We also got a chance to meet with Shona, our most contrary sow sow that Dave and Sarah had purchased off us last year, just around this time if I remember rightly.
Since then she's produced two fine litters from our most laid back Tamworth boar Rocky who is available for hire.
The lovely spring like weather started to go a little 'pear shaped' after that and by the time we arrived home at Arnish with Dave's trailer, half a ton of pig feed and a hen house it was pishing down 😦 Everything unloaded, pigs fed and dinner had I turned in early. It had been a long day and once more it would be an early start.
The ice that met me in the pigs troughs and the snow on the Storr was not what I expected on Tuesday morning 😦
Sure enough, the 'lambing snow' had arrived, as it does every year, just when you think it's all over and the first crop of spring lambs are due.
Anyway, Tuesday saw me once more at my parents house on the mainland where I was once more 'worn out' by the octogenarian that is my father 🙂 as he took me, Molly and his own dogs out for a 'wee walk' 🙂
That was about it really, I let my 'back to back' away and started back at work in earnest today, the wintery start gave way to a summery afternoon and now I'm off to bed 🙂
I know, it's not great but there's a lot going on and I'm 'fecked' 😦


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"Am I Stressed or is Everyone Just Unreasonable?"
There are two distinct 'facets' of managing stress. There is what goes on 'outside of me' – which can include many different situations or relationships that seem to cause me stress. Then there is all of what goes on 'inside of me' – which I experience as stress – mentally, physically and emotionally. And to really make a difference we need to attend to both.
If we don't pay attention to both, what tends to happen is that we either feel a 'victim' of all the problems going on around us and can easily get into blaming external factors, or other people, without recognising what we can change on the inside. Or we focus more on how uncomfortable or 'bad' we feel inside and don't recognise the opportunities to change things on the outside. Both of these are disempowering and can lead to a greater build up of stress over time.
A more empowered state is to recognise that we can't be totally free of stress in our lives at all. After all, stress is only the reaction we have to the pressures and demands of our everyday activities…and if we tried to remove all those pressures and demands… then we would hardly be living! So instead of just wishing we could take the stress away, and we actually recognise stress as an inevitable, natural and indeed useful aspect of daily living, we can begin to open up a whole new approach to 'managing and experiencing stress'. This approach is more 'real', more sustainable and in fact much more healthy for the mind and body.
It reminds me of the notion that it's easy to find 'enlightenment' when meditating on a mountain top, but far more difficult to maintain that enlightenment when surrounded by all the demands of work, travelling, domestic life, children, family relationships and so on. We might think it would be easy to become 'stress free' if we got away from all the pressures…but not necessarily true. What seems to really matter is our ability to keep on top of it all when immersed in the daily experience of living.
The first step to knowing how to manage stress in this more 'conscious' and enlightened way, is to understand how the mind and body have a natural, unconscious, automatic process for recovering from stress – without you having to actually 'do' anything about it. The second step is to 'tune in' to this recovery process and discover where in your own experience this natural process gets 'blocked' or 'inhibited'. These 'blocks' result in a build up of 'unreleased' stress (or 'distress') over time – which disturbs your sense of well-being and causes long term damage to the health of your body.
The third step is to take action to change some of your day-to-day habitual behaviours and ways of thinking, which will enable you to improve both your recovery process and reduce or eliminate some of the causes of your stress.
The recovery process itself includes a triggering recognition or awareness that stress of some sort is building up, followed by the release of emotional and physical tension from the body. But that's not as far as it goes…after that you need to be able to 'reconnect' with a positive view of life so that you can more easily follow through on what you are motivated to do next, by generating appropriate goals and plans. The goals and expectations need to be consistent with what feels right for you – rather than just responding to the demands of others. And when you are engaged in taking action to achieve your goals…you need to be mindful and aware of when stress starts to build up again…so that you can notice when it's time to take a break or do something different.
By exploring all of these areas of the recovery process in relation to your own experience, and making sure that each stage flows easily into the next, you can smooth the way and ensure that you maintain a healthy balance of stress and de-stress.
So for example, some people recognise that stress and tension is building up inside – perhaps they feel angry or frustrated – and they find it difficult to release the emotional tension which prevents them from physically relaxing at the end of the day. Things churn around in the mind, perhaps keeping them awake at night. They need to find a technique to release the emotional stress in an appropriate way without making the situation worse. Or others may find that they are rushing around doing stuff for everyone else and they don't have time to catch up on what they want to do for themselves. They need to find a way to negotiate priorities with themselves and others.
There are many different ways that people get 'stuck' and once the block is identified and understood, it becomes much easier to find solutions that will make a big difference very quickly.
So any effective stress management strategy needs to include the 'inside factors' (self-awareness, releasing emotional and physical tension, finding a more positive and motivated state of mind) and the 'outside factors' (identifying appropriate goals, creating workable plans, negotiating priorities and taking positive action to achieve successful outcomes). If any of these are missing or incomplete, then there is a block to fully recovering from stress, maintaining your mental and physical well-being and fulfilling your true potential.
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Philip Roth's late prodigious burst of creativity continues – although The Humbling barely even counts as a novella, being stretched out with typographical trickery to just 140 pages.
Simon Axler is a once-great US stage actor, who in his twilight years finds he's lost his ability to perform. He has a breakdown, his wife leaves him, and he checks into a psychiatric hospital.
Back home again, he's visited by voluptuous 40-year-old lesbian Pegeen. Naturally, meeting the 65-year-old makes Pegeen renounce her Sapphic ways and the pair go at it in ways it's best not to read after having eaten.
Get past the fact this is potentially deeply offensive (all the women depicted here are dismayingly two-dimensional) and there are interesting ideas at play: Roth's obsession with old age and death is combined with a sharp-edged meditation on suicide, and Axler and Pegeen's transformative process throws up issues of power, submission and manipulation.
Alas, this slight tale doesn't have time to examine any of them properly: instead, Axler's naive attempts to grapple with time quickly come undone.
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If you're a regular reader to my blog you'll know that we once had a crazy but gorgeous Westie. Mikey was our fur baby and having had him in our lives for over 9 years, since we lost him last May, we have had a big westie shaped hole in our hearts. Having a pet is a big investment, not only financially but emotionally too. You have to welcome these animals into your everyday lives with big open arms and it really is like having another member of the family in the fold.
A lot of people are unsure where to go for their first pet. They're either concerned that they will get the wrong kind for them, or they don't know if they would be able to afford it. So, I've come up with these three main questions that you should ask yourself;
Will I be able to give them the attention they deserve?
This is hugely important. Not only is it vital to your pet's mental and physical development that they receive the love and attention that they need, but it's also important for you that you don't have the wrong kind of animal for your lifestyle. If you have a 9 to 5 job and spend most of your time out of the house, getting a new puppy probably isn't a good idea. They will tear your house apart with pent up energy and frustration – make sure that you can answer this question with a "yes".
Can I easily afford it?
This is a pretty simple thing to answer if you know the kind of animal you want, but a lot of people I know are unsure of all the things you'll need to pay for. The main things will be: food, water, toys, bed and living needs (such as a scratching post for a cat or litter tray), vaccinations, vet check-ups and pet insurance. If you can't comfortably afford these, then you need to re-think the kind of animal you want. You can read more on this here.
Do I want a rescue animal?
There are thousands of animals that have to be put to sleep every day simply because there's no longer room for them in a shelter. If you're thinking about getting a pet, then you should seriously consider whether a rescue animal is right for you, because you will be giving a loveable animal the home it deserves.
However, rescue pets aren't for everyone; there are a lot of animals that cannot be rehomed with children due to their nervous character, in which case you should look to organisations that only deal with registered breeders. For families like these, kennels registered with local authorities are the best places to look; they only deal with hand-picked breeders that they know are qualified.
So if you're looking for puppies for sale in the UK for example, you'll know that the parents of your adorable new puppy were fully vaccinated and well socialised, so your new family addition will be just as happy, healthy and well taken care of.
I hope these questions give you some peace of mind as to whether or not you're ready for your first pet. We would absolutely love another dog in our home but right now it's not the right time. We are still grieving over the loss of Mikey and trying for another baby. Maybe one day I'll be able to persuade hubby to get another dog, fingers crossed!


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About 69 million tonnes of apples were grown worldwide in 2010, and China produced almost half of this total. The United States is the second-leading producer, with more than 6% of world production. Turkey is third, followed by Italy, India and Poland. Apples are often eaten raw, but can also be found in many foods (especially desserts) and drinks. Many beneficial health effects have been found from eating apples; however, the seeds are slightly poisonous as they contain cyanide and two forms of allergies are seen to various proteins found in the fruit.
Apple fruit features oval or pear shape; and the outer skin has different colors depending upon the cultivar type. Internally, the juicy pulp has been off-white to cream in color and has to mix of mild sweet and tart taste. Its seeds are inedible because of their bitter taste.
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LadyBoys Nana Plaza Bangkok
January 20, 2019 by David Herd
LadyBoys Nana Plaza Bangkok
LadyBoys Nana Plaza Bangkok seem to be increasing in numbers each year. In Thailand a Kathoey or katoey is a transgender woman or an effeminate gay male. Many Thai people perceive that a kathoey actually belongs to a third gender.
Sit near the entrance at 6 pm.
They usually start to arrive from 6 pm on, it's rather entertaining seeing them arrive with an exaggerated walk & almost always stroking their hair.
Would you know the difference?
LadyBoys often look and act more ladylike than the ladies! Everything is exaggerated, particularly walking, where they look like they are on a constant catwalk. There is a more pronounced swaying of the hips, more elegant posture (particularly when seated), excessively flicking and fidgeting with their hair and over-applied make-up.
This was actually in Phuket.
However he is a well known face around Nana Plaza, let's just call him "Secrets". 🙂
LadyBoys Nana Plaza Bangkok
Most LadyBoys are much taller than the girls & after living in Thailand for many years they are easy to spot. Ladyboys do not just exaggerate their femininity; they exaggerate everything! Every word and action is excessively flamboyant. This makes them stand out from the crowd because Thai culture is such that women (even those working in beer bars and go-gos) are usually quite reserved.
Definitely NOT LadyBoys.
Gary & Brad are from Townsville & I'm in the middle & have lived in Pattaya for 7 years. However my first visit to Nana Plaza was 23 years ago in 1996.
What a knockout..
By far the best looking LadyBoy I have ever seen was in Pattaya. My two Aussie friends Dennis & Nick were absolutely stunned. 🙂
All the action is here in Nana Plaza.
Without a doubt this is the best adult entertainment precinct in Bangkok.
Hello boys…..
Wow! what nice group of lads. 🙂
The boys from Bangkok
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Fall Farmers Markets in Tampa Bay
In celebration of the return of St. Petersburg's Saturday Morning Market, the Tampa Bay Times has listed the Farmers Markets around Tampa Bay where you can shop for your fall veggies to your heart's content!
The article contains addresses and opening times for
- Corey Fresh Market in Tarpon Springs
- Seminole Heights Sunday Morning Market in Tampa
- Hyde Park Village Fresh Market in Tampa
- Tampa Downtown Market in Tampa
- Founders Corner Fresh Market in St. Pete
- Market Day at Park Square in Lithia
- Fresh Friday Night Market in New Port Richey
- Wiregrass Fresh Market in Wesley Chapel
- Ybor Saturday Market in Tampa
- Gulfport Tuesday Fresh Market in St. Pete
- Crossroads Farmers Market in Palm Harbor
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The cards I pulled for today's Aries New Moon conjunct Uranus are reversed 2 of Wands (Mars in Aries - Fire), 5 of Wands (Saturn in Leo-Fire), and reversed 3 of Cups (Mercury in Cancer - Water).
The 2 of Wands is a card of power and correct focus. Appropriate for today's Aries energy, Mars in Aries is about taking action and starting something. But this card is reversed, so there may be a feeling of doubt about what your next step should be. Your future plans are disrupted, and you feel like you've lost your edge.
The trigger could be the 5 of Wands - competition or battle. This card denotes conflict, but it's usually healthy and necessary. But in the face of this, you may have lost your focus. Maybe you don't want to compete. Maybe you're not ready, because it all happened so fast. Saturn in Leo speaks to building/creating something that can make you proud, but it will take work (Saturn). The challenge you're facing is the work.
The 3 of Cups can suggest three people are involved in this. Perhaps the competition you're facing involves your rival for someone else's affections. Or you feel cut out from the group you used to celebrate with. Too, this card can suggest overdoing it with the partying. Too much celebration. Mercury in Cancer means words and thoughts are saturated with emotion, and in this case, not happy emotions.
Water and Fire are incompatible, but here we see Fire is strongest. There are two Fire cards and one is upright. So that 5 of Wands is what you want to work with. What's the challenge you're facing? Don't let it throw you off track, even if it was unexpected. Even if you're feeling less than celebratory. Get a grip and regain your power.
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October 25th, 2011
Cyclists in Cardiff who use a major cycling route have been told to slow down following years of continued complaints.
Cyclists in Cardiff who use a major cycling route have been told to slow down after years of continued complaints.
Various community groups have reported that pedestrians have been knocked over and dogs hit on the Taff Trail which is popular with walkers as well as cyclists.
A code of conduct is now set to be enforced along the route after years of controversy and debate.
Stephanie Wilkins, chair of Llandaff North Resident's Association commented on the recent discussions:
"Just recently an elderly gentleman was knocked over by a cyclist and my sister's dog was run over a few years ago," she said.
"I think commuter time is the worst and I know a lot of people don't use the path then because of the speed cyclists go at. I think some of them have a point to prove – they time themselves going from point A to B and just speed along.
However she also explained that the cyclists are not always to blame:
"Sometimes the cyclist isn't at fault, for example when a dog runs out at it. So we shouldn't lay all the blame on the cyclist. Everyone has a responsibility to use the path sensibly."
The code of conduct will be rolled out by the council over the next few weeks, and signs erected to raise awareness.
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Erectile continence is mainly a tantric practice which has been made use of as a way of enhancing the experience of love, deepening this connection through the awareness and control of our sexual fluids. This means that a man will prevent ejaculation and a woman will avoid the release of mind-blowing sexual fluids during ejaculate as well as managing to lessening her menstrual secretions.
The first important observation is usually that the ejaculation for a gentleman and specific squirt for a woman is not necessarily connected to the orgasm. Through a approach to biological transmutation, these substances are converted into a powerful energy as they are directed up through the body. Sexual energy source is extremely creative and from the second chakra. Once awakened and harnessed it is energetic gold for your entire increasingly being.
All the control of sexual energy levels for women is often spontaneous, and only in rare cases requires minimal training. However for guys this control and the halting of ejaculation for very long periods (weeks, months, years) requires continuous and diligent schooling.
Tantric massage is an excellent approach to help achieve the lustful continence. It helps to for a start become aware of your energy, then to boost it and control the idea, directing it at will. Most importantly however, it helps you to awaken your heart that may be the most important factor in love making with sexual continence. As appreciate automatically raises the sexual energy to higher levels of our being.
Stops and mental focus can be done as frequently as you feel to prevent any 'near limit' situations. Severe training can be done by lengthy and firm contractions of the anus muscle as long as possible. After making love it is always crucial for you to stay together for a short while in awareness just before parting and then it is urged to keep as much distance as possible for the next few a long time. By doing this, each partner is usually dynamised and the two lovers will become more and more attracted to each other. Polarity is key to a relationship which is filled with eroticism.
Sexual performance is usually dramatically increased in the perform of sexual continence simply by increasing the duration in lovemaking which awakens a wide array of orgasms for both men and women. States of pleasure happen to be intensified which creates your stronger force of attractive force between the lovers.
Although there are some rules and help us to take control, pure intuition is the best way to practice and in any case we should avoid becoming mechanical. What happens to the ejaculate when men practice love-making continence? This is the most frequent question raised by men once they hear about sexual continence for the first time. Long term seminal retention leads to biological transmutation of sperm. This makes the opportunity for the significant energy that is produced to remain sublimated to the superior levels of the human being.
This comes about particularly if the retention is accompanied by adequate techniques for increasing energy to the superior numbers of the person through certain yogic exercises and intense rational effort, there are many methods. Sperm retention becomes a great energy levels through transmutation, rather than causing somatic disturbances.
Other advantages include the regeneration, rejuvenation and energisation of the body, raised states of creativity; intelligence and charisma and in the long run we discover the spiritual part of our being which desires an understanding and experience of love. We may also ask by ouselves what is the difference concerning sex and lovemaking… an opening of the heart brings about a deeper connection and sense of freedom.
Sanctioned good idea to slow down or stop and focus to employ various techniques which will help in controlling the energy at this stage especially by contracting the sexual muscles (so it's beneficial to tone these up). Internal focus on the movement with the energy within the body blended with control over our breath are also helping in this way to make sure you sublimate the energy. After a couple of seconds, penetration can continue little by little or as we feel comfortable even though controlling the energy.
You will find there's tendency for natural breasts enlargement in women who practice love with love-making continence as well as an increased love-making appeal. Women experience excellent decrease in menstruation and related symptoms as well as preventing irritating pregnancy.
When practising love making with sexual continence it is always important to begin with foreplay, 10 to 30 minutes is good especially to awaken a state of love, awareness of all the increased sexual energy and excitation. Slow penetrations help us absorb in the beauty of the lovemaking. As new york state increases and we look we are getting to the point in no return, this is the place we need to be more attentive.
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When we adopted Jiminy Cricket from the Jack Russell terrier rescue, she was ten months old. She was blind from juvenile cataracts. She suffered extreme allergies, with painful skin lesions that made her life miserable. But she was extraordinarily trusting and she loved to go to the vet, where she knew that the people in uniform helped her feel better. And she was also vibrant and lively. She loved to throw her own tennis ball, and chase it. She would bring that dirty, fuzzy, round treasure and place it in your hands, or on the seat of your chair, then play-growl as though you'd taken it from her; she clearly enjoyed her own sense of humor. From time to time, she would even place that saliva-wet ball into one of my open receptive hands when I was meditating. She was adventurous, and more than once ran off the end of a boat dock by mistake (mercifully she was, and is, a confident if sometimes surprised swimmer).
When we received her, her name was Mini. She came to us with beloved possessions bought for her by her owner, a college student who had bought her from a puppy mill, and now couldn't afford her medical care. Mini had a pink crate, a pink harness with a pink bow on it, a pink fleece pillow with a kitten print on it, and pink pajamas to stop her from scratching her skin. But this pinked out persona and the name Mini didn't fit our adventurous, whimsical, trusting, stubborn, provocative, tough-and-fragile dog. So she became Jiminy, and she loved the sound of her adapted name.
I have read scholars and pundits alike reflecting on the question of whether we can really understand other animals and respond to their needs, asking if it isn't all a matter of projecting our humanity onto their various forms of animality and missing the mark completely. This seems like a perfectly valid question until you realize that it's built on a false premise: that we humans are something other than all the other animals. But we are animals and, to the extent that being animals means we share things in common, we can understand other animals quite well… though this is not to say that we don't also project our own experiences, needs, desires, fears, and all the rest onto them, just as we do in our human relationships.
It's not at all impossible to accurately understand the needs of our animal companions, domesticated animals, even wild animals, but perhaps the biggest trick for us humans is to learn awareness of our own projections. The fact that we want a cute pink Mini Mouse of a dog doesn't make this one into that, and it could in fact miss the mark fantastically. So in addition to getting familiar with our own projections—I want protection and so name my Rottweiler Rambo—we have to listen to the particular animal in light of everything we know about him or her, and give her some options to respond to, rather than imposing our one idea about what is best for her.
Jiminy was stubbornly afraid of stairs (we knew, from her foster parents, that she had accidentally tumbled down a flight of stairs in pursuit of her ball). When we brought her to her new home, which came with a very steep staircase, I sat with her at the top step and held her while she trembled, then carried her to some more comfortable place. As that became easier, I sat her down in a way that one whole side of her was touching the wall, and gently pushing her into that wall, moved her down to the next step. Then on another day, two steps, and finally she was willing to go all the way down, feeling me on one side and the wall on the other. On the evening of that triumphant day, I heard her ball hit the landing, and right after it came Jiminy, chasing it down the stairs!
Conquering fears, healing injuries, and mastering new tasks are things all animals enjoy. These are the types of experiences we can easily understand across species boundaries. So, instead of automatically teaching every dog your favorite trick, offer a few, and see which one he likes the most. Good listening is necessary for accurate understanding… and good listening always involves using our two cognitive feet: one step made with feelings—empathy and the imagination of what it is like to be that other—and the other step made with clear thinking, including knowledge of our own habits of thought and projection, knowledge about this species and breed of animal, knowledge about this particular animal. Just as we find it laughable to try to identify which of our feet is best and use only that one, so we must use capacities both of sensitive feeling and of critical thinking in a kind of constant rotation to understand another being.
Coming up, I will be writing about the biological and psychological sciences that describe how we can know each other across species boundaries. Stay tuned!


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ANYTHING Arsenal can do, Manchester United can do better. Win with 10 men on the field at the final whistle as the Premier League title race races towards the business end? No problem.
It was a measure of the champions' total dominance against Aston Villa on Saturday that they could comfortably allow Ryan Giggs to make his way down the tunnel three minutes from the end at Old Trafford, despite the fact United had already used their three substitutes.
The comparison with Arsenal's 10-man comeback victory at Bolton earlier the same day is, of course, disingenuous. While the Gunners had to battle back to victory to keep their title hopes alive after going 2-0 down and having Abou Diaby sent off, United had crushed Villa long before the former Wales captain was allowed to leave the pitch with an injury.
It could even be argued the Red Devils had won the game as early as the 17th minute – because once Cristiano Ronaldo's outrageous back-flick had gone through Martin Laursen's legs and beyond a helpless Scott Carson to open the scoring, events took a predictable turn.
Sir Alex Ferguson's men went on to comprehensively dismantle Villa – who have never won at Old Trafford since the inception of the Premier League – and restore a healthy advantage at the top of the table thanks to a Carlos Tevez strike and two goals from Wayne Rooney.
Neither striker had scored in United's six previous games, but both have now helped take a significant step towards the club's 17th title.
With six games left and a superior goal difference over their rivals, United can draw at home to Arsenal on April 13, lose at Stamford Bridge on April 26, and still successfully defend their title – as long as they win their remaining league games.
And in the sort of form they were in on Saturday, nobody would bet against that.
In the early exchanges it was refreshing to see a visiting team go on the attack as Villa targeted an unlikely opener to help with their push for a Uefa Cup place.
And against a side featuring the unsettling presence of striker John Carew, the pace of wingers Gabriel Agbonlahor and Ashley Young and the creativity of midfielder Gareth Barry, United had a couple of nervy moments.
Just three minutes in a Nigel Reo-Coker cross found Young in space 10 yards out, the goal-bound shot deflecting off right-back Wes Brown and over the crossbar.
Minutes later Carew was given acres of space after Brown had carelessly given the ball away in his own half, the big striker thumping a shot towards Tomasz Kuszczak's goal which was deflected over by Old Trafford's latest England captain Rio Ferdinand.
In an open game, Tevez was denied by a robust last-ditch challenge from defender Olof Mellberg 10 yards out after Ryan Giggs had cleverly slipped a ball through to him from the edge of the box, while Villa keeper Scott Carson made an excellent save from Ronaldo after the Portuguese winger controlled a Michael Carrick pass with his right 18 yards out then spun and struck a vicious shot with his left.
Ronaldo had more luck five minutes later, however – although his manager would argue luck had nothing to do with it. A Giggs corner was headed by Barry but hit left-back Wilfred Bouma, dropping for the Iberian ace who quickly shifted his feet to back-flick it past Carson for one of his most audacious goals of the season.
"It was absolutely brilliant," beamed Ferguson after the game. "It wasn't until I saw the replay that I realised what he'd done."
Villa weren't throwing in the towel just yet, as three minutes later Carew fired just wide from 19 yards out, but within a further 15 minutes the game was realistically beyond the visitors when Tevez broke his scoring drought with a move he'd started himself in his own half.
The Argentine gave the ball to Paul Scholes on the halfway line, the midfielder playing a one-two with Rooney before switching it out to the right flank. Ronaldo charged on to it and sent a looping cross to the far post, perfectly meeting Tevez's run as the striker leapt and headed downwards past a stranded Carson.
By now Carrick and Scholes were dominating a midfield battle with Barry and Stiliyan Petrov which at first they had found difficult, and when John Carew went off with a groin injury minutes before half-time, all seemed lost for Villa.
And right enough, the second half saw a dazzling display which must have had United owners the Glazers contemplating a Harlem Globetrotters-style touring exhibition as United revelled in the comfort of their lead.
The star of the show was Rooney, who four minutes into the half should have scored when, following a one-two with Tevez on the edge of the Villa box, he shot wide from 15 yards with just Carson to beat.
But the former Everton striker made no mistake on 53 minutes after Ronaldo again used the back of his heel to bamboozle the Villa defence, flicking Giggs' ball into the middle of the park directly into Rooney's path. Rooney skipped past Laursen's challenge, sidestepped Carson as the keeper rushed out and had the simplest of tasks to roll the ball home for 3-0.
Before that United had survived a scare when Carew's replacement, Shaun Maloney, shot wide with just Kuszczak to beat, and Maloney was again the dangerman on 56 minutes as he forced the Polish keeper to finger-tip his 20-yard effort from the left over the bar.
Just past the hour mark it was time to change shifts as Ferguson brought on Anderson, Owen Hargreaves and John O'Shea for Carrick, Ferdinand and Patrice Evra, afterwards claiming the substitutions were injury-enforced.
Mind games ahead of tomorrow's Champions League quarter-final clash in Rome? Possibly, but the United boss could make the changes safe in the knowledge the game was well and truly won, and his players responded by seemingly trying to cram as many tricks and flicks as possible into the remaining half-hour against an exhausted and demoralised Villa.
Rooney grabbed his second with 20 minutes left after he was played in by a brilliant reverse pass from Ronaldo, the move leaving Reo-Coker for dead and Carson helpless as the striker stroked home to wrap up the scoring.
He could have had a deserved hat-trick but skied over the bar from 20 yards in the final 10 minutes, while Tevez also shot over with four minutes left.
But Rooney will be happy with his double as that title comes ever closer. As Ferguson said: "I thought he was never going to score, but he's done it twice at a very important time for us today."


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How to build up constructive and lasting relationships
Edited by Marco Ferrini
People suffer for not being able to bring harmony in relationships and at the same time tend to start new conflicts due to their conditionings.
There are more people suffering from relational difficulties than people suffering for the wars or for epidemics and, on the other hand, good relationships are the biggest patrimony we can build up for our well-being; and this doesn't cost anything.
Experiencing peaceful and tension-free relationships is the very basis for building up relationships set on a shared system of values and lofty principles. These are the grounds, while the top of the structure is made up of common purposes and of the mutual reliance on the fact that nothing can ruin the relationship anymore, not even the hardest trials or difficulties, because we don't bring forward any suspects, doubts, misunderstandings, but, on the contrary, estimation, affection, love rule the relationship.
The duration of a relationship is not the only principle on which we can judge its quality. What really makes the difference is a constructive and developing attitude. On which basis should we found our relations? The human being is struggling between his impelling need of freedom and harmony on one hand, and the strings with which he constantly binds himself through his bad choices, on the other.
It's a terrible paradox: we wish we could be free and happy, but we continue to bind ourselves through our own actions. For this reason human relationships are that difficult, and only few people are able to manage them at the best. Our personality is on the way: we build it up trough our decisions, one after another, and for this reason it's essential to learn how to act with a clear consciousness. In this growing process of harmonization, our willpower has a central role.
If we manage to use our willpower properly we can understand the great truth the rishi convey to us: the difference between being and not-being, between life and death. The worst suffering is caused by a situation of struggle between opposites; if we experience this situation inside ourselves, we can't help bursting it out even outside, on our relationships with the others. Contraposition tears. It's an engagement to make our opposite parts dialogue with one another: it implies the wish of becoming disciples of enlightened guides, because if we continue to judge people and situations from our limited subjective perspective, we will never be able to cross the threshold of our limits. In the Bhagavad-gita Krishna explains that the one who relies on Him with faith has an unbiased vision.
This equanimity is the essential presupposition to cultivate good relationships. Samah darshinah is "the one who has an impartial vision". Darshana is inner vision, the only one that allows us, despite the differences we perceive externally, to join us to the essence. Differences refer to immanence. Equanimity is the natural impulse when we experience the transcendental dimension.
Even more, in the Gita Krishna says: "The one who sees everybody inside Me and Me inside everybody, is extremely dear to Me": this is the very basis of equanimity. In the origin nobody is, from an ontological point of view, good or wicked: everybody is good. The one who has a vision which transcends time, loves the spiritual essence of any person, without disregarding the personal historical experience of that particular individual in order to understand how to relate with him at the best.
Another essential element to keep good relationships is having a bent for forgiveness. The one who feels offended by the mistakes of others, often going wrong in judging his own responsibilities and those of the others, isn't able to build up harmonic and deep relationships. If you don't practise a spiritual discipline, you can easily mistake an ant for an elephant or vice versa, while a wise person isn't prone to distortions; on the contrary he is an expert in the art of all arts: forgiveness. We are conquering our own freedom when we practise forgiveness in all circumstances, when we forgive small as well as big mistakes. If we learn to forgive small mistakes, step by step, we will be able to forgive even big mistakes.
Another important ingredient to build up healthy relationships is the ability to understand the peculiar characteristics of the others, accepting the diversity. To do this, first we have to know ourselves deeply. In relationships concerning love we should not burn out the stages: we need to act gradually. Prudence is the life of relationships. Step by step we should try to identify the elective affinities which link us to the others, the only ones which can connect us deeply.
Excitement makes us move jerkily and makes us experience the hell in this world, being unable to weigh what are the right decisions to take. Without an orientation we experience an everlasting anxiety. If we act frenetically, we lose a far-sighted view, while the control over our impulses is the essential basis to recover harmony within ourselves and with the world.
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The post-WWII adventures of 150 Polish children deported to Russian and ultimately rescued by a Franciscan priest who was branded a kidnapper by a Communist government.
Book DescriptionStolen Childhood is the story of what happened to some 380,000 Polish children who, with their families, were rounded up by Stalin's orders in 1939 and deported into Asiatic Russia. Lucjan Krolikowski, a young seminarian also deported there, shared and witnessed the suffering of his fellow Poles.
Freed by an "amnesty," he joined the Polish Army, and when it moved to the Middle East, Lucjan resumed his theology studies, pronounced his vows, and became a chaplain to a Polish military hospital in Egypt. Reassigned to refugee camps in East Africa, Fr. Lucjan and the wandering Polish children met again in 1947--a meeting that began a long and loving relationship.
In 1949 when the Warsaw Communists claimed guardianship of the Polish orphans in Africa and demanded their repatriation, Fr. Lucjan was forced into a world of international intrigue. Called by the Communists "a kidnapper on an international scale," to his orphans, he was the good shepherd who led them to Canada, where he helped his charges overcome the theft of their childhood and become secure adults in a new world. Stolen Childhood is the book of memories he wrote for them, and a cautionary history for people of good will.
LUCJAN KROLIKOWSKI, born in 1919, survived a Siberian concentration camp, was ordained a Catholic priest in 1946, and led a band of 146 orphaned war children from a refugee camp in Africa on an adventure to find a new home in Canada. Father Lucjan lives and works in Chicopee, MA.
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Washington, D.C., 10/26/2009 – The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), on behalf of its U.S. member companies, submitted a letter to United States Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk and Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke highlighting the industry's concerns over China's steel industry and its trade-related actions. The letter was submitted in advance of Ambassador Kirk's and Secretary Locke's upcoming trip to China for the meeting of the Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade.
In the letter, AISI President and CEO, Thomas J. Gibson, urges Ambassador Kirk and Secretary Locke to address the following issues in their discussions with the Chinese government:
• Chinese government subsidies that promote runaway steel capacity growth; • Chinese government export incentives that injure steel and other U.S. producers; • Chinese government currency interventions that threaten the U.S. economic recovery; and • Chinese government subsidies that exacerbate the U.S. manufacturing trade deficit.
Gibson goes on to state that "U.S. trade actions (whether through trade laws or WTO dispute settlement) to address these unfair trade practices are not "protectionism" but rather legitimate enforcement of our rights under WTO rules."
The letter also urges Ambassador Kirk and Secretary Locke to emphasize to their Chinese colleagues that "efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to respond to climate change can only succeed with a global commitment by all major emitting countries, including in particular China, to reduce carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions." To read the full letter, click here.
AISI serves as the voice of the North American steel industry in the public policy arena and advances the case for steel in the marketplace as the material of choice. AISI plays a lead role in the development and application of new steels and steelmaking technology. AISI is comprised of 24 member companies, including integrated and electric furnace steelmakers, and 138 associate and affiliate members who are suppliers to or customers of the steel industry. AISI's member companies represent over 75 percent of both U.S. and North American steel capacity. For more news about steel and its applications, view AISI's Web site at www.steel.org.
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March 25th, 2012- A day that will be written in GOLD, in the history of XLabz! Sketch W Friends, the game which has been keeping all of us on our toes since launch date, hit the #1 spot on the Amazon App Store, overtaking all the BIG names in the gaming world!!
Sketch W Friends was initially launched with just 10 game rooms and now based on HUGE demand; we've increased the number of rooms all the way up to 100! We've seen some massive game action ever since launch date and are completely overwhelmed by the response! We did have a few teething issues, but we've managed to roll out quite a few updates within a week of launch.
We'd like to thank all our users from the bottom of our hearts, for their constant support. Without all of you, none of this would've been possible.
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A Goddamn Bitch of an Unsatisfactory Situation: Brokeback Mountain and the Rural Queer Crisis/
After my computer died in the middle of parent-teacher conferences, I spent the time between conversations checking my phone. While scrolling through Facebook, I came across a post from The New Yorker, reminding their readers that before it was an Academy Award winning film, Brokeback Mountain appeared in their pages as a short story by Annie Proulx. In quick bursts, I devoured it, appreciating its heartache and yearning—seeing within it my own tears and tribulations—more as a twenty-seven year old than I ever did as a fresh-faced freshman. Then, too, I had read it surreptitiously, standing in the aisle of a Barnes & Nobles a week after I'd seen the film in theatres. I had the money to buy the book, but I could not fathom the courage to walk up to the counter to pay for it. Even if, somehow, I did, taking it home, displaying it proudly on my shelf, was out of the question.
Similarly, I saw the movie in secret, going with a queer friend on a Tuesday night, telling my parents we were going to the arcade. Her dad had bought us the tickets—we were too young for its R-rating—and sitting in the dark, a strange thrill passed through me, the rush of doing something clandestine and adult. Never before had I seen my loves and fears, doubts and anxieties, portrayed on the big screen. With the advent of the internet and the budding Gay-Straight Alliance at my school, I knew other queers existed, that I was not, in fact, alone, but it could not compare to the validation of seeing queer love not only gather an audience, but garner accolades. I left the theatre emboldened, eyes wet and heart racing.
The feeling lasted until third period the next day, when a fellow student in drama class approached me. "I saw you," he said, tone casual, "at the theatre." He paused, expectant, before asking me if I liked the movie. Up until this point, I'd affected what I called a "soft coming-out," revealing the truth to close friends and the other members of the GSA, while concealing it from my family and the school population at large. The fact that I had been seen—caught, as if at the scene of a grisly murder, red-handed—filled me with dread. I made some excuse, saying my friend had wanted to see it and I didn't even know what the movie was about, and quite literally ran away.
The memory of that day in drama class bubbled to the surface as I sat in my darkened apartment, re-watching Brokeback Mountain for the first time in years. Much of the film concerns itself with running away, not from a physical location, but from the truth. Other than a brief repudiation ("I'm not no queer"), Ennis' and Jack's sexuality is never given voice, only alluded to with diverting turns of phrase. The oppressive weight of what they cannot admit tinges their lingering, forlorn glances, as tangible as the alpine chill. Distant shots of the mountains instill a sense of grandeur, but also of insurmountable remoteness. The characters, and the viewer, are quite literally dwarfed by the sheer magnitude, not only of Wyoming's peaks, but of the oppressive atmosphere that suffuses the very air.
Set in 1963 and spanning nearly twenty years, snapshots illustrate the hushed, isolated existence of rural queers, a feeling all too familiar when living in a town of 5,000, where the nearest big city is over an hour away. Looking back on my life, the distance between who I am now—an out, proud queer man—and who I once was seems unfathomable. How different would my life had been, I wondered, if instead of the liberal oasis of Atlanta, I grew up in Gray, Georgia? Or Clayton? Or Mitzpe Ramon?
It led me to question which of my students are queer. What did they think being queer meant, if it was even a word they'd heard before? Was it only something that existed in movies and Tel Aviv? Had they ever met a queer person? Even if they gathered the courage to come out, what resources were available to them? The only homeless center for queer youth in Israel (Beth Dor) is in Tel Aviv, nearly three hours away from Mitzpe, and there exists no anonymous testing center for HIV and STDs nearby. The same problems plaguing queers in America—the discrepancy of safety and resources available to queers in urban centers versus rural communities—is further exacerbated by the conservative, religiously-entrenched mindset of Israel's periphery.
One might be tempted to shake one's head, cluck one's tongue, and think well times have changed. But to allow ourselves to be lulled into this illusion of progress would be to dishonor the memory of our queer brothers and sisters whose blood has been shed by hate or complacency. One year after Brokeback Mountain first appeared in the pages of The New Yorker, Matthew Shepard was beaten and left for dead on a fence in Laramie, Wyoming. Last year, a gunman killed 49 queers (most of them Latinx) at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. This year alone, twenty-four trans individuals have been murdered.
Israel, too, has an unfortunate history of violence against queers. Two years ago, a woman was killed by an ultra-Orthodox Jew during the Jerusalem Pride parade. He'd been released from prison only three weeks earlier, where'd been serving a sentence for stabbing three marchers during the same parade in 2005. In 2009, a shooting at Tel Aviv's branch of Israeli's LGBTQ association resulted in the death of two individuals, while fifteen more were injured. The perpetrators were never caught.
And what of AIDS? As we mark the 29th World AIDS Day on December 1st, we remember the nearly 35 million people who have died of HIV or related illnesses (one million in 2016 alone). With an administration that refuses to even mention the queer community in its acknowledgement of the day, and the astronomical cost of treatment and medication, in no way aided by Trump's abomination of a proposed healthcare bill, what are we to do? The problem is no solely an American one. In Israel, 43.8% of new, male carriers in 2014 were queer. 65% of Israelis have never had an STD test. Lack of education and resources only add fuel to the flames.
Have we progressed then, not just from 1963, but from 1997? Or 2005? Or 2016? I would like to think we have, though the evidence shows there is farther still to go. While the queer community has made leaps and bounds in terms of acceptance and visibility, our struggle—for access to healthcare, for equal protection under the law, even, yes, for our lives—continues. In one of Brokeback's more emotionally charged scenes, Jack expresses his displeasure at their current situation—forced to hide and subsist on "a few high-altitude fucks a year". Ennis tells him that, if you can't fix it, you've got to stand it. The queer community has stood it for long enough—now it's time to fight.
Alex Franco is the queer son of an immigrant and a southern belle. He hails from Atlanta, GA, and now teaches English in southern Israel.


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Book List
Children's Books and Parenting Resources
The Out of Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A.
The Highly Sensitive Child by Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D
The 5 Love Languages of Children by Gary D. Chapman and Ross Campbell, M.D.
The Wonder of Boys by Michael Gurian
The Wonder of Girls by Michael Gurian
The Mother Daughter Project by SuEllen Hamkins, MD and Renee Schultz, MA
Boundaries for Kids by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
Freeing Your Child From Negative Thinking by Tamar Elisas Chansky
The Power of Play by David Elkind
The Hurried Child by David Elkind
Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
How to Listen So Your Kids Will Talk and Talk So Your Kids Will Listen by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Parenting From The Inside Out by Daniel Siegel &Mary Hartzell
Parenting With Love and Logic by Foster Kline and Jim Fay
Your One Year Old, Two Year Old, etc. by Louise Bates Ames
It's So Amazing! (A resource to talk to your kids about sex) by Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
The Birth Order Book by Kevin Leman
Queen Bees and Wannabees by Rosalind Wiseman
Masterminds and Wingmen by Rosalind Woseman
The Importance of Being Little by Erika Christensen
Excellent Sheep by William Deresiewicz
The Unselfie - Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World by Michele Borba
How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen by Joanne Faber
How To Raise a Wild Child by Scott Sampson
The Me, Me, Me Epidemic by Amy McCready


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Application of NMR as a solution for detecting honey fraud
At QSI, NMR honey profiling is used routinely to detect honey adulteration, particularly the addition of sugar syrups – the most widespread form of honey fraud. Declared botanical variety and geographical origin can also be verified with this technique.
In this webinar, Gudrun Beckh (CEO at QSI) discusses how NMR is applied in routine analysis and the advantages it has to offer over other techniques. Traditional testing methods often struggle to detect new and sophisticated sugar syrups that have been designed to pass adulteration tests. With NMR profiling, a fingerprint of the sample is acquired, and many parameters are analysed simultaneously. The approaches applied for syrup detection and for verification of origin will be explained.
What to expect
The simple sample preparation and fast measurement that NMR offers is described, as well as the wide range of information from the multiple parameters that can be acquired simultaneously. Bruker BioSpin Market Manager for Food, Feed and Beverage, Thomas Spengler, introduces the NMR Food Screener used at QSI and the robust background reference database is discussed.
Key topics
- How NMR works and is applied as a tool for routine, daily analysis of honey
- The use of NMR spectral data to determine sugar adulteration without the need for confirmation by techniques
- The use of NMR for verification of the declared geographical and botanical varieties
- The advantages the methodology has to offer over conventional methods
- The background reference database that ensures complete reliability
- How NMR is a powerful method for combating the dynamic nature of food fraud.
Who should attend?
The webinar will appeal to food testers; honey packers, importers or exporters; people working in regulatory or governmental bodies and those ensuring food authenticity and safety in the food industry. It will also be of interest to beekeepers, NMR specialists, and people working in the cosmetics industry.
Keynote Speakers
Thomas Spengler, Sr. Market Manager, Food, Feed and Beverage Markets, AIC Division, Bruker BioSpin
Gudrun Beckh, CEO of Quality Services International
Dr. Jane van der Meulen, Quality Services International GmbH, Bremen
Related topics
Food Fraud, Food Safety, Ingredients, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)


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BOISE, Idaho (CNS) — Most people know chef Lou Aaron for his culinary mastery, including the Idaho Ice Cream Potato, that draws crowds to his Westside Drive-in, a nationally recognized establishment given five stars on the Food Network's "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives."
What most don't know is that Aaron's Catholic faith is a key ingredient in all parts of his life as he approaches ordination to the permanent diaconate.
It's because of his faith that Aaron has provided food to needy people outside of a Catholic Worker-inspired shelter in Boise as well as families in need of a meal that gain the notice of a local pastor. He has spearheaded fundraising events for schools, parishes and community organizations.
And at Westside Drive-in, he likes to hire people whom most employers would consider at-risk: the homeless and former prison inmates among them. It's part of the family-like atmosphere he promotes in the business he has owned since 1994.
"We hire a lot of people who are at the end of their rope. I see it as a way to give hope to those who feel hopeless," he said.
If people feel valued, they will work hard, Aaron believes, and people who lack skills can learn. But he has found that he cannot provide motivation for anyone who doesn't see their work as a vocation.
"I hire people off the effort they want to put in, to let them go as far as their efforts can take them," he said.
Such a belief in the human spirit has guided Aaron's life, even when he stopped practicing his Catholic faith at age 19, a year after his 1980 graduation from Boise's Bishop Kelly High School.
It took a devastating fire that destroyed his family's home and their belongings in 1996 to get him back to the church.
"The Holy Spirit came with fire and burned my house down," Aaron recalled. "We lost everything. That was the defining moment when we decided to go back to the Catholic Church."
For six months, the family dealt with the trauma of having escaped only with their lives, with the children coping with nightmares and other stresses. "Those were the toughest six months of our lives, but God gave us an opportunity to change our lives and we did," Aaron said.
Around 2002, he started to feel that he might have a vocation to the diaconate. However, instead of discerning the call, he dismissed it. Looking back, Aaron said, his actions reminded him of Charlton Heston as Moses in the movie classic, "The Ten Commandments."
"I went back to Exodus and read the story in detail. Five times, God told Moses he wanted him to go and save his people. Five times, Moses said no. Then, God got angry and Moses finally gave in," Aaron said.
"I kept telling God no, but then it hit me four years ago, and I said 'yes,'" he recounted. "I mentioned it to my pastor, Msgr. (Dennis) Wassmuth, and he said, 'What took you so long?' A lot of people were seeing it before me."
Preparing food has been a nearly lifelong passion for Aaron. He began working in restaurants as a teenager and apprenticed at several in Boise before graduating from the American Culinary Federation's Chef Apprenticeship program in 1984.
The following year, he met his wife, Renee, and they were married in 1987. He worked several years for the Hilton Corp. in San Antonio, and was featured on the PBS television series "Great Chefs of the West." In 1989, he returned to Boise as a corporate chef before buying Westside Drive-in five years later.
Along the way, he has not feared hiring people who many would never consider for work. He knows that nearly 80 percent of the hires will end up not working out — at least the first time. He has hired one person nearly 20 times during the past 17 years.
An alcoholic, the worker stays sober for a few months before he starts drinking again, gets in trouble and goes back to prison. The man, currently in prison, will be rehired after he serves his current sentence, if he asks for his job back.
"You don't ever give up on somebody," Aaron said. "You never know if this will be the time he stays sober."
The restaurateur is a recovering alcoholic himself, so he understands the struggles his employees go through. "We all fail. We all fall down," he said. "God just wants us to get back up again."
Since entering studies for the diaconate in 2012, Aaron has questioned his own worthiness and experienced self-doubt, but now feels ready to serve God in this new ministry.
In November, Aaron received surprising news after a series of unrelated health tests revealed he had follicular lymphoma, a slow-growing but incurable cancer. "When you hear the word (cancer), immediately everything changes," Aaron said.
His doctors wanted to begin immediate treatment, but they sent Aaron for a second opinion to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance where physicians, based on his lack of symptoms, suggested instead that he monitor the progression of the disease through quarterly blood tests every three months and semiannual CT scans.
Aaron said he is not afraid to talk about the cancer, because it provides him with another opportunity to share his faith message.
"I know God is actively working through me," he added. "I'm just going where the Lord wants me to go with it."
Brown is editor of the Idaho Catholic Register, newspaper of the Boise Diocese.
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When I think about why human beings have been so successful, the first thing I think about is our capacity to bite our friends.
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I mean in the California parlance. We bite each other's style, we copy.
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We see somebody using a new technology, or using tool in a new way, or adopting a worldview that gives them an advantage. And if we're smart, we bite it.
There are no points in life - or in nature - for being original. Don't be original. Be efficient!
Nobody's like, "well yeah Homo sapiens used its thumb but no points because Homo habilis did it first and humans were just biting."
Every "technology" we have, from how we swaddle our babies, to the apps we download, to the religion we practice, we do because we saw somebody else do it first. So don't be ashamed to bite. Biting is for winners.
I'm always on the lookout for people who are bite-worthy - it means that I don't need to develop the intelligence to come up with an original idea (hard/long/boring), I just need to develop the discernment to see what is working for others.
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My friend Amber is so bite-able I can't even stand it. She can espalier a grove of fruit trees, motorcycle across Europe and fill out a bandage dress. AND her Pinterest board is amazing. In fact, you should follow it here.
And of course she has a great big black lab named Santiago who has the most luscious coat you've ever seen on a dog. Santi is a local celebrity. His hair is positively decadent, luxurious, exquisite glossy. People stop Amber on the street to talk about how pretty this dog is. Waiters actually - gasp - WANT Santi to dine alfresco with them!
"Amber, why is Santi such a pretty boy?" I asked, hopeful.
"Well...you have to be born that way. But, you can always try this fish oil! I found out about it from a lady at the dog park. It really made Santi's coat so shiny!"
She revealed that she, too, had been a biter.
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Violent and original/
Here's your quote-of-the-week:
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
-Gustave Flaubert
Having just spent too many hours organizing and shuffling papers, I hope that rampant originality is the payoff!
Weekly Snippet
Hmmm. In last week's blog on Rio Risk I mentioned former Brazilian President da Silva ("Lula") and how he'd hung out on the Ipanema Beach with friends in his 20's, plotting how to rebel against its then-military dictatorship. Years later he became President.. and then just this past week leapt back into the headlines in a big way – from charges of graft to appointment as chief of staff for current President Rousseff. To Lula's buddy, Wagner, the former President is a good friend and hero. I wonderwhat political debates are rampaging the beaches of Ipanema as described in the essay.
Meanwhile, for the next blog, I've been thinking about urgency. Here's a few startling sentences from essayist Annie Dillard, "Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not be engaged by its triviality?"
Maybe something violent and original. Violent in pushing through boundaries; original in challenging the edges of limitation. We'll see. Next blog: March 29.


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"Maybe I'm tired of being a beast." – Rumple #OnceUponATime pic.twitter.com/jvMph53VU3
— Once Upon A Time (@OnceABC)September 26, 2016
Are you watching this show? Do you wish someone would watch along with you because everyone else you know thinks it's dumb? Here is what I was saying while I was watching it–I WILL WATCH WITH YOU.
Spoiler Thoughts:
- Ok, here we go again.
- Weird that they didn't use the same dude for Jafar as in "Once Upon A Time in Wonderland."
- Why "The Giving Tree" is such a horror show to give your children.
- Glad Snow had time to grab her bow and arrows.
- You would think that subconjunctival hemorrhage would have healed by this time.
- Hm. Being a Savior gives you Parkinson's?
- How does Hyde know stuff Rumple doesn't?
- New 'do for Rumple this season. Looks younger.
- Regina and Zelena: You loved them as evil sorceresses, now enjoy them as Felix Unger and Oscar Madison in "The Odd Couple."
- Emma got that PTSD going.
- Jekyll is a fast machinist, I'll give him that.
- How many years has Archie been out getting coffee?!
- Maybe, here's a thought: You shouldn't constantly go to your worst enemy for solutions to your problems.
- Morpheus looking way better than Gaiman painted him.
- Robert Carlyle must be like "really? The green makeup again?"
- These two are pretty lucky it's the 25th anniversary of "Beauty and the Beast" this year.
- Well, that relationship is something that's going to take a little work.
- Ok, that relationship is something that's going to take a little work.
- The Oracle! Because she never screws anybody up.
- Rumple is going to have to work pretty fast if he has to get her going in an hour, TBH.
- If they had given him three days, maybe we could have gotten "Kiss the Girl" in there too.
- You are TOTES LYING Rumple.
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- Their kid is Morpheus?!
- We've heard this song before, Belle. I'm from Missouri.
- On the upside, I think we've learned that death isn't necessarily a permanent condition.
- Glad that in the last FIVE YEARS, Emma learned exactly nothing about sharing her problems with her loved ones.
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How do you know you're done with a job?
I've been a teacher my whole adult life. Even my summer jobs have been about teaching. But I'm done. Here's how I can tell: I wrote this note to a kid (I didn't give it to him). It captures where I'm at with this job, the sadness it engenders.
I worry that the sum total of your life will be framed within the narrow confines of an iPhone. To live virtually, through a phone, is no life at all.
How is a phone different from the book I'm trying to get you to read? Why is a book so good and a phone so bad? I'm glad I asked.
Phones are all about now and me. They are self-centered, ego-driven, isolating things. People argue that phones connect people, but I don't buy it.
Books are about forever and everyone including me. Books help us to make connections inside ourselves and with others near and far. Those connections last and build things. Plus you never have to charge a book or upgrade its operating system. It's a hell of a deal.
I wish texting had another name. Text is a sacred word. Books are texts. The Torah, The Quran, and The Bible are texts. Letters written to someone you love are texts. Writing is text and it is the top of the pyramid.
Texting, on the other hand, is brief snippets of conversation that are less substantial than the wind and more polluted. I wonder if there have been one hundred texts in the course of history worth saving. If there have been a dozen, that's a miracle.
I encourage you to set the phone aside and get into something more substantial like your book or even just the real world.
But here's the thing: You and I both know you won't. That makes me sad.
I signed off feeling there's little I can do for students so lost to headphones, screens, and a virtual world that leaves them anxious, angry, and isolated.
In the last half dozen years I've become less effective at reaching kids. This year it has made me so sad I can't go on. This job is pretty much killing my spirit.
There may be other teaching in my future, different kinds of teaching, but I don't know. I hope that whoever follows me in this job will be able to do it the way I used to, to make a difference, and keep themselves on an even keel, sailing off into the sunset. Me, I'm tacking in another direction.