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Snowballs have long been one of my favorite Christmas cookies.
So I made them allergy free.
And now I will share the recipe with you!
Snowball Cookies
Snowball Cookies: No gluten, dairy, eggs, soy
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 cups Earth Balance
- 3 tsp vanilla
- 4 cups GF flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup almond or other milk
- Additional powdered sugar for coating
Preheat oven to 325.
First, cream together 1 cup powdered sugar, 2 cups (yes, I said 2 cups) Earth Balance and 3 tsp vanilla.
Next, add 2 cups GF flour and 1/2 tsp salt. Blend well, then add another 2 cups GF flour. Blend. Your mixture will resemble coarse crumbs. That's exactly how you want it to look. Next, add 1/4 cup almond milk (or your choice milk) and blend. Your dough will still resemble coarse crumbs, but you should be able to grab a small handful and press it together.
The next step is to form the snowballs. You won't be able to roll them between your palms like you would a snickerdoodle: they'll fall apart that way. Instead, simply take a bit of dough and form them much like you would a, well, snowball! Then place them on an ungreased cookie sheet. Put them in a 325 degree oven for 17 minutes. Do not over bake.
When the time is up, remove the cookies from the oven and let the sheet sit on a cooling rack for about two minutes. Using a small spatula, place one or two cookies at a time into a bowl of powdered sugar. Roll with the spoon until sugar coats the cookie, then transfer to a cooling rack.
Makes about 4 dozen.
Then go indulge and impress others with your allergy free baking skills!
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Daweti (Zoey Martinson), a former university intellectual moldering in a Soweto shack, takes an unusual approach to home décor. She calls the dirt and trash littering her floor essential elements of feng shui, and used some government-supplied wood to build a coffin.
"I deserve a good coffin while I'm dying," she tells her friend Thabo (Yusef Miller).
"You deserve a good roof while you're living," he urges her.
But Daweti, with AIDS but refusing medication, has given up on life.
Ms. Martinson's vigorous and disturbing "Ndebele Funeral," at 59E59 Theaters, presents a grim portrait of contemporary South Africa, a place of false hopes and bleak realities. Neither Daweti, once a hotshot debater, nor Thabo, who hoped to become a writer, nor even the clerk from the Department of Housing (Jonathan David Martin), are living lives anything like those they've dreamed. Indeed, dreams are the only solace Daweti finds.
"My dreams are magical, beautiful, effervescent," she says. "Sometimes I try to sleep all day."
The script, directed by Awoye Timpo, is somewhat overwrought. There are moments of despairing comedy, but the play asks its three actors to perform for 70 minutes at an emotional pitch that's dog-whistle high. If you can sometimes see the effort Ms. Martinson, a precise and skillful actor, devotes to showing Daweti's suffering, Mr. Miller, a performer of great dynamism, wears Thabo's struggles lightly, if sweatily.
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The Mid-Season Brawl has come and gone but in its wake the echoes of incredible team fights and failed core attempts resonates still. Time to break it all down and see if we can make sense of the madness that was.
Ballistix vs HeroesHearth Esports
Ballistix came out the gates looking strong. On Towers of Doom, Ballistix used the global advantage of Dehaka to consistently stay a step ahead in experience and dominate the team fights. It was a 20 kills to 2 drumming that ended with a 4-level difference and Ballistix capping every tower on the map. In Game 2 on Dragon Shire, HeroesHearth seemingly woke-up and delivered a performance that showed exactly why they were a top 8 team. Their macro play was exemplary; selecting E.T.C. in the offlane role was a nice adjustment to the first game and Arthelon's Maiev play impressed as he found multiple picks that gave HeroesHearth an experience advantage and an opportunity to tie the series:
Unfortunately for NA fans, the magic died quickly thereafter. HeroesHearth performed admirably on Tomb of the Spider Queen, keeping pace with Ballistix throughout the early and mid-game. Ballistix, however, comboed a Web Weaver turn-in with an early pick on Gul'dan into a massive push in the top lane for the win. In Game 4 on Battlefield of Eternity, Ballistix stepped on the gas and exterminated HeroesHearth in the team fights, netting 16 kills to 2. 3-1 Ballistix.
HeroesHearth Esports - Analysis and Takeaways
For HeroesHype Esports, it was a rough exit to the tournament, but the growth of this team over the past year cannot be overstated. This is a team that has come from the Open Division to place 8th in a World Championship - in a year. Truly spectacular. Their performance at the MSB revealed aspects of their game-play to iron out in Phase 2 of the HGC. First, tighten up their macro play; they have a tendency to get loose during the mid and late-game and give back leads amassed in the early-game. Second, the roles of Arthelon and McIntyre seemed to cross paths during the tournament with McIntyre playing Tracer in some games, forcing Arthelon to the offlane role. Unfortunately, that's not ideal for HHE as McIntyre is one of the best offlaners in the world and there was a notable performance drop when Arthelon took over. I'm certain Arthelon could master Tracer if he only had an ho… I'm not going to say it. Seriously, this isn't a condemnation of Arthelon. McIntyre is that good. Finally, I have to believe their team fighting synergy will only improve over the next phase as they continue to grow as a team. HeroesHype Esports should walk away from this tournament proud of their accomplishments with clear goals heading into the next phase.
Method vs Fnatic
EU vs EU never seems to disappoint in these circumstances. This match-up delivered the goods. Game 1 on Tomb of the Spider Queen lasted 31 and a half minutes. It was spectacular. Method dominated the entirety of the game. But Fnatic managed to find picks (mainly on Jaina) early in the fights and keep Method from putting them into checkmate. With Method attempting to turn-in for what would surely be a game ending Web Weaver, Fnatic got two kills and rushed through the bot lane:
I would expect nothing less out of an EU versus EU match-up...
Game 2, Fnatic drafted a Stitches comp on Volskaya Foundry. It didn't work. Method controlled the map the entire game. With a Level 20 talent advantage and the Protector, Method landed a couple kills and finished the core. Game 3 was on Dragon Shire, and after Method captured a 3 minute Dragon Knight, it was not looking good for Fnatic. When Method captured another Dragon Knight a little past 6 minutes in, it looked real bad for Fnatic. That is, until things didn't look so bad:
Then SmX did this:
And just like that, it was Fnatic claiming the first keep of the game in the bottom lane. Fnatic ended up staying a bit too long and Method nearly wiped them in the ensuing chase. Method claimed bottom keep. Tie game. With both teams sitting on win conditions in the bottom lane, it was Fnatic who got the kills and the final Dragon Knight to seal victory and save their tournament life.
In Game 4 on Towers of Doom, Fnatic drafted a solo-heal Abathur composition. It worked. Once Fnatic hit level 10 they dominated the map with incredible macro-play. They pushed advantages and patiently waited on cool-downs to find favorable engages. Once Fnatic hit level 20, Method was forced to engage without their storm talents during an altar phase. That ended about as well as one might expect. Fnatic forced a Game 5.
The scene for this equalizer match would be Battlefield of Eternity. This one got wild. Fnatic essentially won the game at the 15 minute mark by pushing with an Immortal and taking the core down to 7%. Except they didn't win and Method proceeded to execute a perfect defense of their core by keeping Fantic on their own side of the map. Back to back team fights went in Method's favor and at the 19 minute mark they had captured a full shield Immortal. In one of the most tense moments of the entire series, Method laid siege to Fnatic's core for nearly two minutes with both teams trading out heroic abilities and bending back and forth until something snapped:
Fnatic completed the reverse sweep and took the series 3-2. Amazing set of games.
Method - Analysis and Takeaways
Method's Mid-Season Brawl performance was admirable considering this squad will look a whole lot different in the next phase. Their early matches in the group phase were impressive but their performance waned as the tournament went on and competition stiffened. Still, a top 8 finish is nothing to sneer at. In Phase 2, only Cursen and Nic will remain with Atheroangel, BadBenny, and adrd joining forces. It's hard to pin any expectations on this squad without seeing the new group in action. I will say that both Nic and Cursen played extremely well in the MSB; hopefully, the new team will gel quickly and give themselves a chance to make the Western Clash.
Gen.G vs Team Dignitas
Gen.G looked to carryover their momentum from the group phase and continue executing at a higher level than every other team in the tournament. In Game 1 on Dragon Shire, Gen.G displayed the dominance that put them on this incredible run by taking an early lead and strong-arming Dignitas every step of the way. With a 3-level lead and a Dragon Knight, they captured the bottom keep and pushed the core to 45%. But Dignitas held serve in their own court and landed the kills necessary to stave off defeat. In fact, they made it really close landing a few more kills and eventually overtaking Gen.G in experience and claiming a bottom keep for themselves. Unfortunately, Dignitas was too far behind and a 23 minute Dragon Knight in Gen.G's favor was the final straw. Still, it was a good showing from Dignitas considering how far behind they fell early on.
Infernal Shrines for Game 2. This time Dignitas kept it close all game, but instead of relying on their team fight prowess, Gen.G simply out macroed Dignitas with superb rotations and map control. Dignitas never really found an opening and despite more kills, 5 to 4, it was once again Gen.G standing over a broken core.
Game 3 would be played on Tomb of the Spider Queen and this match offered a glimpse into the future. This games had it all: excellent team fighting, back and forth macro game-play, and suspense as both teams pushed into level 20. It was Dignitas who seemed to have the upper hand downing the first two keeps. But at this stage of a game, it only takes one team fight to turn everything upside down:
3-0 to Gen.G and the sterling record holds for another series. Dignitas would move to the lower bracket for a match-up with Fnatic and Gen.G would wait for the victor in the Tempo Storm vs Tempest match-up.
Tempest vs Tempo Storm
In the last match-up of Day 1, Dragon Shire was the pick for Game 1. This was a game of intense macro-play as both teams demonstrated their understanding of the map mechanics and with almost 21 minutes logged, it was 2-1 kills in favor of Tempest, but Tempest had also been able to pressure structures better than Tempo Storm. It only took one good engage for Tempest to put the finishing touches on this one:
Things started to go downhill fast for Tempo Storm in Game 2 on Volskaya Foundry. Game 1 was a heartbreaking loss, but Game 2 was a backbreaking loss. Tempest simply controlled the map from the beginning. 9 kills to 0 and a 3 level lead made for a 16 minute victory for the Korean team.
Game 3 on Towers of Doom, Tempo Storm made the decision to move away from the Maiev pick (drafted in games 1 & 2) after Tempest let them have it and clearly knew how to deal with it. Didn't matter. Tempest looked like the better team, grabbing the early experience lead and consistently winning trades. 12 kills to 5. 3-0 for Ballistix.
Tempest would move on to face Gen.G. in the winner's bracket final while Tempo Storm would fall back to the loser's bracket to fight a familiar foe in Ballistix.
Stay tuned as I break down all the playoff action from Day 2 and the Finals.
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The Winter Geisha
Drawing at the pub
As some of you may know I studied illustration in the UK. Last year I went to a steampunk festival with some of my classmates. In the evening we went to live drawing event into a pub (why can´t we have stuff like that in Finland?). Here are some of the sketches I made of the very creative steampunk models.
Autumn Unicorn
Sparrow Hawk
I finally managed to finish my Sparrow Hawk painting and I must say I am rather pleased the way it turned out. If someone is not familiar with Sparrow Hawk his real name is Ged and he is the hero in Ursula K. Leguin´s Earth sea books (not to mention one of my longest time literal crushes). Ged has the ability to shapeshift himself into a Sparrow Hawk. He is also the archmage of the Earth Sea. A mage, a wizard, a warlock...man is magic! In the books he is described to have "hawk-like" - features so that is what I tried to capture. Watercolors and mixed media.
Stickers, t-shirts, posters and other cool things based on this illustration can be found from my Redbubble store.
I´ve been painting lots of unicorns lately. Unicorn of the enchanted forest is my personal favorite. Watercolors on acid-free watercolor paper. Greeting cards, posters, stickers and other goodies available here.
Here are more details from the painting.
Laughing Children
Postcards Of Greek Deities
I updated my zazzle shop with Greek gods and goddesses. Characters from myths and folklore are some of my favorite subjects to paint.
Pan is my man and Kallisto is one with the bears. I believe she was the first bear- shapesifter in Greek myths.
We all know the story of Persephone. This was something different for me since I used combination of watercolors, watercolor pencils and colored pencils to finish the piece.
I like the way she is looking into distance. Who knows what she is thinking. Was this before or after the deal made with Hades.
You can find all my Greek mythology inspired paintings as postcards from here.
New Nautical Greeting Card Designs
Time to launch some of my new favorite designs. Despite the fact that we have such things as Twitter and Instagram nothing can never beat an actual greeting card. I love the sea and the ocean. I was actually born very near Finland´s western coast.
"The Great Wave". This painting was especially greated for my latest art exhibition last summer. You can find these cards and all my nautical designs here.
We are few months away from Autumn Equinox. I don´t know about you guys but here in Finland nights are getting darker and it is more rainy. I don´t mind since Autumn in my favorite time of the year. I have added many Autumn Equinox/Mabon greeting card designs to my Zazzle store. Mabon is actually the name of the Irish pagan festival, but is widely used by many neo-pagans. In Finland pagan name of the holiday is syyspäiväntasaus which literally means Autumn Equinox. Lol. I hope to expand designs to cover more festivals in different languages.
Here are some of my favorite Mabon designs.
Fairy is made of dandelion seeds. There is nothing like full-autumn moon.
Autumn leaves, pumpkins and lanterns. My idea of heaven on earth.
You can find these cards and many more from my zazzle-store.
In Greek mythology seasons change when Persephone spends half of the year in the underworld with his husband Hades and rest of the year on earth with her mother Demeter, the goddess of grain.
Watercolor and colored pencils on acid free watercolor paper. Stickers, greeting cards, posters and other cool stuff with this painting can be bought from my Society6 shop.
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Pinkel Announced as Finalist for Coach of the Year
COLUMBIA - The Maxwell Football Club has named Gary Pinkel a finalist for the Coach of the Year Award, the organization announced Tuesday.
The Maxwell Football Club, established in 1935, is the oldest football club of its kind in America. It is committed to recognizing excellence in football from high school through the NFL.
The Tigers have a strong history under Pinkel, but performed even better this year compared to last, when they played their first ever games in the SEC.
Mizzou won a total of seven conference games this year, while only two were won last year.
This turnaround is one of the most dramatic in college football, as the Tigers faced injuries and tough competition, but currently stand as No. 5 in BCS standings leading up to the SEC Championship game.
This is head coach Pinkel's 13th season with the Tigers. He has lead the team to many victories, as the Black and Gold are 11-1 overall in their second year in the SEC.
With Pinkel coaching, Mizzou's football has won a conference division title in four of the last seven seasons (2007, 2008 and 2010 Big 12 North; 2013 SEC East).
The team this year became the third team in the University of Missouri's history to win 11 games or more in a season (1960, 11-0; 2007, 12-2).
Atlanta's Georgia Dome will host Mizzou versus No. 3 Auburn this Saturday, and the results could affect Pinkel's chances of winning the Coach of the Year Award.
NCAA Bowl Subdivision Head Coaches, Football Sports Information Directors, Maxwell Football Club members and selected national media are allowed to vote for the winner.
Voting is currently open, and Pinkel competes against Duke's David Cutcliffe and Auburn's Gus Malzahn.
The winner will be announced on Thursday, Dec. 19 and the award will be officially presented at the 77th Maxwell Awards Gala in March 2014.


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Guess what I read the other day…?
A Princess Came To Our Town by Rose Fyleman (yes, that Rose Fyleman, she of 'The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book'). A kind person who didn't realise Ross the Boss was being sarcastic when he talked about my love for all things fairy recommended the book to me. In my perverse way, I decided to investigate.
Amazon Marketplace duly delivered this small volume to me – a first edition, published in 1927 by Methuen. This one was given to Diana Margaret Garnier for Christmas in 1929. Wow… I want to know who she was, how old she was, whether she enjoyed the book (she certainly read it – or at least she coloured one of the pictures in). And who LKG was – a parent, an aunt or uncle, a grandparent? Or maybe a fairy godmother?
It isn't a long and meaty read – I read it in the bath. But it is actually quite enjoyable. I love the chatty voice Fyleman uses, typical of Victorian children's writers. It makes me feel as if someone's reading the book aloud to me, and I can imagine some of the passages starting interesting conversations between a child and a reader.
Of course, I knew from the very first minute I saw her that Finestra wasn't an ordinary person.
She didn't look like an ordinary person, for one thing. It wasn't just that she was so very beautiful – though she was, of course.
But you know what people look like in very, very nice pictures. Not quite like real people and yet with two eyes and a nose and a mouth and everything quite correct and ordinary in a way, only with a different look about them, all the same.
Well, she looked like that. If you think of the very nicest picture you know – your favourite picture, that will be sure to be like her.
'But everyone's favourite picture is different,' you'll say. I know. And yet they are all alike, really. Besides, after all, she was a fairy princess, you know, and that does alter things.
Finestra, a princess in a fairy tale, is bored. She knows she's going to marry the handsome prince, but he's always off having adventures. So she decides she wants to see what Real Life is like, and (with the help of her fairy godmother) persuades her parents to let her go. She meets the narrator in Market Square – this is Nottingham, although the name of the town is never stated – and stays with her until she has used all the magic objects she has brought with her. Finestra finds it hard to understand Real Life. She wants the postman to come and whistle to her while she eats her breakfast – 'someone else' will deliver the letters. She gives all the children at the swimming pool the ability to fly – and doesn't understand why their mothers are upset. She decides to give out free ice-cream – and gets into trouble for blocking the road with the ensuing mob of happy children.Despite this, she has a lot of fun, and gives the narrator many memorable experiences. She decides to use one of her magic objects to bring the statue of Queen Victoria to life one night, and they take a stroll round town (helped by a mysterious policeman – yes, he is relevant).
Finestra was very glad she had put on her long blue velvet dress. The Queen told her that though she was so high up and couldn't see the people on the ground at all well, she had had what she called "dreadful glimpses".
'Wasn't it a good thing,' Finestra said to me afterwards, 'that there was no one about? I'm sure she'd have died of horror if she'd seen a grown-up girl with her frock to her knees.'
I was going to include a longer extract here, but I think I'll leave it up to you to track the book down and read it for yourself. I'm not a great fan of Fyleman's poetry, but I'm slowly falling in love with her fiction! (watch this space for my announcement that I've persuaded Ross the Boss to produce a new edition of 'A Fairy Comes to Our Town'…!)


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It has become a truism to say that the events of the last week have changed the world. On everyone's lips is talk of a new evil that needs to be wiped out through a global war against terror. In America, there is a newly-rediscovered unity, patriotism and willing for self-sacrifice, embodied best in Bush's jingoistic statements in New York made to a crowd shouting "U-S-A-U-S-A." Against that backdrop, some quieter voices are calling for restraint and greater self-criticism. These refer to the inevitable 'collateral damage' that military action will bring to innocent lives and some even suggest an examination and subsequent addressing of the political issues which motivated the attacks.
In order to move beyond these positions, born either out of a primitive desire for revenge or equally blind appeasement, the main question that has to be asked is: What is in the best interests of the civilized world? And how can it be achieved?
For any democractic country, the best interests of its citizens constitutes and defines the best interests of the country itself. So the only sane answer can be: peace and security. That exact same thing which Americans took almost entirely for granted until 8.58am on Tuesday, Eastern time.
And how can this be achieved? First, something must be done about those whose central ambition is to deny the privilege of security to the free world. Assuming the American security establishment's analysis is correct, that entails the uprooting and destruction of Islamic (and any other) fundamentalist groups. The fundamentalist has no desire to negotiate or compromise and, inasmuch as they believe their cause is worth dying for, it is entirely rational for them to commit suicidal terrorist acts. Since most in the West believe their security is also a cause worth dying for, it is also entirely rational for our soldiers to risk their lives in the pursuit of these terrorists. Putting morals aside, it's a simple fight for the death between two opposing and absolutely irreconcilable world views. I hope the war can be won as quickly as possible, while our side still has the upper hand.
What of the collateral damage? To a significant extent, any government which knowingly harbours and, after the event, refuses to extradite terrorists, is also a guilty party. So I would not shed too many tears if the Taliban's infrastructure is destroyed and they are driven from office. Further, to a lesser extent, the population under such governments can also be held responsible since, one way or another, people choose their leaders. But we cannot ignore the fact that, in Afghanistan for example, the choice was made after a prolonged, destructive war and under probable threat of death. The most one can really say is that the population demonstrated a lack of moral consciousness in not demanding democracy through bloody revolution. I wonder how many of us would pass that test.
So perhaps there is some validity to those who say that the whole bloodbath might be avoided by America withdrawing support from Israel, taking its troops out of Saudi Arabia, removing the sanctions and military activity against Iraq and ceasing to shore up undemocratic oppressive regimes in the Arab world. Maybe America has an inability to see the world beyond terms of power and force and should (as a Buddhist might suggest) not further stoke the fires of conflict by retaliatory attack. Perhaps terrorists might respond to reasoned argument, backed up by a display of genuine desire to understand and change.
The reason why this viewpoint is incorrect has nothing to do with religion, terrorism or fundamentalism. It is naive and foolish simply because no organization or country ever gives up on anything unless it is forced to. To do so is just not in the nature of things. In the context of evolutionary theory, we can understand how forces of natural selection have honed individuals to act in self-interest. Yet, the exact same logic applies to groups of individuals - both because they are composed of self-interested elements and because the same forces of natural selection also apply to them, on a collective level. Even though suicidal terrorists seem to have a rather perverse view of self-interest, it is by no means incoherent - they are acting in the manner which they believe will earn them favour (and 70 virgins) in the world-to-come.
So while this argument makes it clear that terrorists must be fought to the death, it does not exactly exempt the United States from criticism. Many times, American policy has sacrificed matters of principle at the altar of self-interest. I need only recall Bush's recent withdrawal from the Kyoto environmental protocol, citing the economic difficulties it would cause. This, despite the fact that the USA, with just a few percent of the world's population, generates 25% of all its pollution and has the strongest economy in the world. In time, the failure of the world's governments to preserve the environment may kill more people than every conflict and war in history combined.
Therefore, it is not enough to view the USA as the good side and hope for its victory against the bad. While this may be true with regard to terrorism, it is plainly false in many other respects. To give America carte blanche to pursue its own self-interest may ultimately entail destruction for us all. Is there any way in which a more long-term solution can be established for the woes of international relations? Are we doomed to have whichever country is strongest at any particular period define and shape the world around us?
In a different realm, the conflict between the unbridled pursuit of self-interest and some kind of universal moral code has been solved. Within democratic countries, the rule of law has been mostly established, upheld by mostly impartial judges and courts, such that most of the time, most of the individuals within are secure and able to pursue most of their self-interest. Does it not seem logical to apply the same sort of system to the world as a whole, considering countries as individuals and the United Nations as a forum for justice and judgment?
Consider for a moment how the present-day rule of law-and-order arose. It did not come about overnight. Usually, it began via autocratic rule, where a powerful minority imposed their will on the majority. In most cases (where there was no revolution), this rule become more universal and democratic over a period of hundreds of years - leaders became subject to the same laws as everyone else, blacks were unenslaved, women received the vote and, finally, colonialism was ended. It looks like our faltering steps towards initiatives such as the International Criminal Court are following the same path, with certain countries not yet willing for it to have jurisdiction over their leaders.
We should also not forget that there is an element of oppression in every democracy - what right does a country have to demand that its citizens pay taxes, serve in the military or send their children to school? From first principles, I don't see why my having been born in a particular part of the world entails a duty to cede control of my money, children's minds and, in the case of an army call-up, possibly my life. Nonetheless, the vast majority of us seem willing to go along with the system and to see those who refuse locked up in prison. We appreciate the overall benefit of governmental control, even with its incursions into our personal territory. Modern democracy seems the most practical way (of those tried so far) of ensuring maximum security and freedom - as the Talmud says, "Be thankful for the government - if it was not for them, people would eat each other alive."
The sorry fact is that the world is not yet ready for a similarly-structured global system of law and order to be imposed. The perceived sovereignty of each country over what happens within its borders is deeply engrained - nobody, least of all America, is willing to submit to a higher authority. In any event, there is not yet enough in common between the Westerner, African, Arab and Chinese for them to agree on a single set of principles to which all subscribe. The United Nations, as witnessed by the recent (anti-)racist conference in Durban, is too often swayed by groups with narrow political interests and cannot impose its will on world powers such as China, America or Russia. To draw out the parallel, the world is still in the phase of warring tribes engaged in shifting coalitions, where some kind of inter-tribal committee attempts to maintain order but meets with mixed success. We are simply not ready to apply the intra-state solution to the inter-state problem.
In the meantime, we are left with America and, to a lesser degree, the Europeans as the world's policemen. Like the wealthy landowners of yesteryear, they have a vested interest in the stability of the fray and harbour enough good spirit and education to set some sort of limit on the abuse of their own power. While I shudder to think what the world would be like if their role was played by someone else, let us not extol the West's virtues too far. Europe's colonial powers had to be driven out of many countries which they occupied and while America was willing to wage war until it redeemed Kuwaiti oil, it stopped short of ensuring Iraqi human rights.
Of course, nowhere are these issues more pointed than in the Middle East, with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel is caught in the same dilemma between going all-out against unmoving Islamic terrorism and caring for the lives of ordinary Palestinians. Let us not forget that the suicide bombings began almost immediately after the Oslo accords and are not only a result of the current impasse. The same questions as to the responsibility of the Palestinian Authority and population arise as those for Afghanistan. Both America and Israel sometimes need to be saved from the perils of their own strength (witness the wars in Vietnam and Lebanon respectively). Just like the USA's continuing war on Iraq, Israel conquered the territories as a response to aggression and never quite set in place a system that would enable it to leave.
The Oslo process was supposed to be about Israel gaining security in return for the Palestinians gaining respect and freedom. In retrospect, it is trivial to see how it went wrong. The Palestinians had precious little interest in giving the Israelis the security they wanted and dealt intermittedly with Islamic Jihad and Hamas, as suited by the political context. Similarly, Israelis had no interest in giving the Palestinians respect or freedom and so continued building settlements and dragging their feet on withdrawals, for as long as America would let them. As in almost every other conflict in history, both sides pursued their own self-interest to the maximum and had little care for the interests of their opponent. Each could only gain leverage on the other by moving backwards - the intifada is simply the Palestinians taking away Israel's security in order to demand greater respect and freedom than the Israelis were willing to give. Israel's response is to take away all the Palestinians' semblances of respect and freedom in order to demand back their own security. Without a structure within which common interests can be shaped, it is easy to see the current conflict going nowhere.
Therefore, the only way out is for a settlement to be imposed from outside. Ideally, by an incorruptible international court - in practise, by a mixture of America, Europe and the United Nations. The wealthy landowners with a vested interest in stability are going to have to force the warring tribes into a deal. While I wouldn't suggest this be carried by military means (for one thing, kill ratios in recent exercises suggest Israel's warplanes could down America's entire air force), it might be achievable by a combination of an economic carrot and a sanctions stick. In fact, the stage has already been set - both sides have agreed to the Mitchell/Tenet Plan. Let the international community demand each side keep to it, then deal with anyone who breaks their half of the deal. This will probably play into Israel's hands, since it has a type of centralized military control which the Palestinians lack. But instead of a Palestinian failure to achieve 'total quiet' being met by their wholesale condemnation, let the same world coalition that is now being formed against terror be used to target terrorists based within Palestinian jurisdiction. And let them also target those settlers who carry out drive-by shootings or other violent acts on innocent civilians (that, after all, is what 'terror' is).
However, this still leaves open the question as to the nature of the final deal. It seems this will also have to be imposed from the outside, on the basis of the various UN resolutions passed over the years. While the United Nations is far from perfect, it constitutes the only framework within which there is any hope of a fair solution based on common ground. The Palestinians understandably reject America as being too pro-Israel and the Europeans on their own simply don't have the necessary clout to force the sides together.
But I would draw one exception to the wholesale imposition of UN resolutions, namely regarding the Palestinian refugees. This is first and foremost for practical reasons - there is simply no way that the resettlement of millions of Palestinian refugees within Israel's legal boundaries will lead to peaceful consequences, as the resolution in fact demands. They will form either a destabilizing minority or an oppressive majority - one should not forget the civil war up to 1949 which led to the current mess. Palestinian objections to the making of any exception to UN resolutions deserve a skeptical response - their refusal of the UN partition plan in 1947 led, through a near-inevitable series of causes and effects, to their current plight. As one retired commander has said, "Once the war started, it was them or us that had to go." And it might serve to recall that the UN's form of democracy is not exactly balanced in Israel's favour, with dozens of Arabs or Muslim states unconditionally supporting the Palestinians and only America consistently at Israel's side.
Furthermore, the imposition of law and order has always taken significant account of the status quo - just as no landowner has moral justification for the ownership of their plot, no country has moral justification for its existence. In each case, the map was drawn after a drawn-out conflict in which there is no such thing as primal ownership by divine or universal right (clearly, the religious beliefs of one side or another can have no role in the solution of a conflict.) If Israel were to let millions of Palestinians in, it would either cease to be democratic (solving nothing) or cease to be Israel - and the question as to whether it has a right to exist can be pointedly answered by highlighting the history of America, Australia or most countries in Europe. Where there are humanistic considerations, let individual Palestinians come back within the Green Line - the rest can find homes in a new Palestinian state and receive suitable compensation for their material and emotional losses.
As for the Palestinian state to be formed, there should be no illusions as to its likely nature. No Arab state in the world has a parliamentary democracy and one can expect Palestine to be no different. While this should worry the international community as a whole, it should not worry Israel in particular. The only way a Palestinian state could ever be stable is within the context of a new global anti-terror coalition, ensuring that rejectionist fundamentalist elements within Palestinian society will be driven out from without or within. In that case, Israel will have little reason to fear, since a more conventional organized war carried out by the State of Palestine on Israel would be deterred for the exact same reason that Syria is holding its guns - fear of crushing defeat. In other words, the rational pursuit of self-interest.


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Let's start with what it is not. Positive Psychology is not positive thinking, being happy all the time, a quick fix, a self-development movement or "putting it out to the Universe". The field of Positive Psychology is defined as "the scientific study of human flourishing and an applied approach to optimal functioning… the study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals, communities and organisations to thrive" (Positive Psychology Institute). Positive Psychology shifts the focus from what is clinically wrong to the promotion of wellbeing and the creation of a satisfying life filled with meaning, pleasure and accomplishment. Human strengths are viewed as buffers in a Health rather than Illness model of wellbeing.
Martin Seligman, a previous Thinker in Residence for Adelaide, is commonly regarded as the founder of Positive Psychology. He conceptualised the PERMA model or 5 planks to realise improved wellbeing and positive mental health.
The PERMA model is grounded in the science of neuroplasticity. Our brains are capable of forming new neural connections through repeated experience. We are biologically programmed to filter for the negative, as a primitive survival response to detect and avoid threat. A conscious and consistent focus on generating positive experiences helps to counteract this negativity bias. Happiness is a work ethic and our brains require training.
Happiness is a mental or emotional state of wellbeing characterised by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Seligman's definition of happiness is not short-term, hedonistic pleasure but a more enduring concept of contentment, wellbeing and resilience. Positive Psychology believes that broad-based happiness does more than make a person feel good. Happiness actually drives a person to be more creative, productive, successful, and healthy. In that sense, positive emotions are a core building material for human wellbeing, not a window dressing.
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- Consciously generate more Positive Emotions – work on increasing your positivity ratio (number of positive comments versus number of negative comments), sharing good news and looking for the good in those around you.
- Engagement involves knowing your strengths and using Mindfulness techniques to become more grounded in the present. It also involves Flow, which happens when we are so absorbed in an activity that we lose ourselves and our sense of time is altered
- Positive Relationships are perhaps the most important component of PERMA. Investment in others builds precious social capital, a core human need. Give people your time, listen effectively and learn to accept difference and diversity.
- Meaning is an entirely individual concept. What gets you out of bed in the morning and makes you feel like you have spent your time well? Meaning does not have to be found in paid work. It can involve small acts of kindness, weighing up your life and defining success on your own terms.
- Accomplishment requires goal striving and attainment, which consolidates self-esteem. Self-esteem primarily comes from successfully tackling meaningful hard things, not from positive affirmations about loving yourself.
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The categorical model of disease and psychological disorders has limitations. A dimensional model of mental health, that acknowledges that life can throw up difficulties for all us which will shift us back and forth along a continuum of wellbeing makes more intuitive and practical sense. Positive Psychology provides an appreciative and optimistic view of human functioning and flourishing. This does not detract from the necessity of negative emotions to the full human experience.
The movie "Inside Out" (Pixar) captures the complexity of human emotion perfectly and embodies the principles of Positive Psychology. Joy realises that Sadness is necessary sometimes but still holds on to her resilient, optimistic and beautiful view of life. If you haven't seen it yet, I strongly suggest having tissues on hand:
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Sadness: And annoying.
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If you wait breathlessly for each annual Bob and Ellen's Best Eats Awards, you might want to close your eyes for the next sentence. You're bound to see some of the food we ate along America's "North Coast" on this year's Best Eats list.
When you're in this part of Ohio — in this part of the US, actually — there are a couple of things you really should try.
At the top of the list: lake perch. Yellow perch. Find the freshest you can. Then tell me if you don't like it even better than ocean perch (if you do, I won't believe you). You'll find it more places than you once did because the lake is thriving again with fish, having recovered after many years of illness and abuse. Do watch your intake; check to see what the recommended amounts are.
The only thing better than lake perch is to have it served with soft-shelled crabs. We found this surprising combination at DeMore's Offshore Bar and Grill in Sandusky, Ohio. Add some locally grown, fresh asparagus from the grill and MMMMMM!
Terry DeMore, original owner, came around to shake hands and reminisce with Bob; they go way back. Terry entertained us with stories from his boxing days — fighting and sparring with boxers even I've heard of. He coats the perch every morning, years after having sold his restaurant to his daughter. We did find that the earlier we ate, the better it was (unusual for us to eat at the regular lunch time, but when we stopped in once around 4 p.m., the food wasn't as good…. different cooks, we think).
Another must-visit restaurant for us was Phil's in Port Clinton. Phil's is a local institution serving pasta — and we weren't disappointed. After many years away, the servers remembered Bob, and we remembered the delicious sauce — a hint of sweetness, maybe?
If we had an award for nicest floor in a bathroom, Phil's would get it, hands down. I don't usually take photos in ladies' restrooms, but I couldn't resist snapping this pic of the floor in Phil's:
Some of our favorite spots were gone. The Garden in Port Clinton is not even a restaurant, and the Angry Trout in Bay View is an empty lot. We bid a sad farewell to the awesome planked trout they used to serve there.
One of our favorite spots to cruise to on the Harley back when we lived in Ohio was Miller's Drive-in out in the middle of almost nowhere. It was a little ice cream stand with the best chili hot dogs we could find. Miller's is now a sit-down restaurant and the food just doesn't have the same flavor. Maybe it's the atmosphere… maybe a difference in who's in the kitchen… or it could be our tastes have just changed over the years.
I did appreciate their corn chowder, which you don't find many places, and seemed especially good in corn country.
Before we found the key lime pie at Dolphin Den in Avon, North Carolina, (yes, that part of my novel, "Pea Body" is true — awesome pie!) the best key lime pie we'd found was at the Crow's Nest in Catawba Island.
So we ventured out onto Catawba to hunt down that pie. It was a beautiful June day, and we settled into one of their fun swinging tables. Okay, it didn't really swing, but it did sway….
And that was a good thing, since we found out the chef with the key lime pie recipe was long gone, and he'd taken his recipe with him. Oh, well. At least they had Lobster Mac and Cheese on the menu (okay… that's not exactly an OHIO seafood, but it was impossible to resist):
We made up for the non-Ohio entrees (we also tried their pizza) by ordering the Sauerkraut Balls as an appetizer. Yep, roll up your kraut, drop it in the deep fryer, dip it in some red sauce, and you're in kraut ball heaven. Maybe that's going a bit far. I'd put kraut balls in the same bucket as fried pickles, something else we found on the menu: something to try once so you can say you did. Other than that… nothing special.
Roller coaster fans know Sandusky, Ohio, as the hometown of Cedar Point Amusement Park, where they can ride more roller coasters in a day than anywhere else. Of course, on a busy day, you're lucky to get into all those lines before closing time because the wait is so long, but that's another story. What's important in this post is food.
Those of us who grew up going to Cedar Point at least once in the summer and maybe (as I did) working there to earn money for college know it as the place for Berardi's french fries. They came in a paper cup and the treat wasn't complete unless you squirted them silly with malt vinegar and globbed them with ketchup. I don't know if you can still get Berardi's fries at Cedar Point, but you can definitely get them at either of their two restaurants. We opted for their Huron location (rather than Sandusky) and decided a balanced meal consisted of their famous french fries as a side to their spinach salad, which was excellent.
We found out too late we should have ordered them crispy, which isn't the way they normally are served — another surprise. Our memories aren't what they used to be. So unless you like your fries soggy (even before malt vinegar and ketchup), ask the server how to order them, or they'll be limpy, limpy, limpy.
Of course we had to try a few new places. TripAdvisor has been a great help in narrowing down choices. We've discovered that coffee shops, in many towns, have become excellent cafe choices. This held true in Port Clinton, where we hunted down Coffee Express. Their coffee was good, but their quiche was out of this world. Many great choices made picking one hard, but I can't imagine any of them being better than the one we had, with spinach, tomato, basil and feta. They served it hot — many places serve quiche slightly warmer than room temperature — so this was another reason we hoped to get back (unfortunately, they were closed the next time we were in the neighborhood).
You didn't think we forgot about dessert, did you? Tofts. Tofts Ice Cream Parlor. The original spot in Sandusky closed years and years ago, and you can go to a Tofts in Fremont, but by far the best place to get Tofts ice cream is right where they make it. I tried counting the number of flavors you can choose from — probably thirty or forty (not kidding), then sit outside at a picnic table or inside at one of the old-style wooden school chairs with the little desk on one side. All lined up against one wall, you can lick your ice cream while watching everybody else go through what you just went through: standing eagerly in line, trying to choose… changing your mind… maybe trying a sample, ordering… and then wondering if you should have gotten that one instead… or that one…. (Unfortunately, I don't have a photo…. I was just too distracted with the whole ice cream ordering ordeal to remember to take a photo.) If you're in Sandusky, you MUST stop at Tofts.
Then ride your bike or walk the beaches to will those calories away. If you do, reward yourself by going back 🙂


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Friday, July 08, 2016
A Wonderful Week at the Iberostar Grand Hotel Rose Hall
To celebrate our daughter's graduation from high school in June, we spent a week at an all-inclusive property in Jamaica. We chose the Iberostar Grand Hotel Rose Hall, an adults-only property only a 20-minute drive from the international airport in Montego Bay. I've written extensively about the all-inclusive experience in the Caribbean and Mexico, having stayed at over 30 properties, but this is easily one of the finest. Rooms were spacious, with sunken tub, a fridge stocked with Red Stripe, and a large balcony where you could watch the magical sunset each evening over the expanse of beach and ocean. Connected to two other Iberostar resorts, the beach was long enough to stroll. Granted, we were there in the off-season, but there were more than enough chaise lounge chairs on the beach, with or without umbrellas. The ocean water was heavenly, just the right temperature, which was probably the reason we all got too much sun. All the restaurants surpassed my expectations, serving freshly caught red snapper, shrimp, and copious amounts of jerk chicken. Drinks were plentiful and there was waiter service on the beach, a nice plus (try the Jamaican Smile). We loved the entertainment crew, especially Hashtag and Renee, who were always there with a game to play or story to tell about Jamaica. But most of all I relaxed, reading two books on the beach. What a treat!


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Tony Boorman, deputy chief ombudsman, said firms frustrating complaining customers with "delays and inconvenience" was having a "marked impact on our workload".
"Two years after the court ruling confirmed the approach that financial businesses should take handling PPI complaints, it's disappointing that we're still seeing significant numbers of unresolved disputes about mis-sold policies being referred to us," he said.
Last week, the Financial Services Authority fined the Co-operative Bank £113,300 after it delayed the handling of valid PPI complaints between January and May 2011 "for no good reason".
The Ombudsman also said the bigger-than-expected case flow due to the PPI scandal had led to substantial extra costs, leaving it poised to end the year with a £21m financial deficit. As a consequence, it is raising the fees it charges financial services firms in cases which are referred to the service by £50 to £550.
The industry has put aside more than £12bn to compensate customers over PPI, but some believe the final cost could pass £25bn.
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Spurred by rapid growth of consumption market, China's output of grape wine climbs year after year. In 2011, grape wine output in China amounted to 1.1569 billion liters, rising 6.3% from a year earlier. From 2001 to 2011, the output of grape wine presented an AAGR of 16.5%. Under the drive of the growing production and sales volume of grape wine, the operating revenue of Chinese wine industry shows a significant development tendency. In 2011, the operating revenue of China's wine industry increased by 21.1% year-on-year to RMB38.46 billion, and during 2006-2011 with a CAGR of 24.3%.
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