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The Future of Interfaith Dialogue
Muslim-Christian Encounters through A Common Word
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- Yazid Said, Liverpool Hope University
- Lejla Demiri, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
- Date Published: November 2018
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107134348
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A Common Word Between Us and You (ACW) is an open letter, dated 13 October 2007, from leaders of the Islamic religion to those of the Christian religion. It calls for peace between Muslims and Christians and seeks common ground and understanding between both religions. This volume examines the document from a number of perspectives. Exploring the events that led to ACW, it provides an overview of responses to the document and its use of scripture. It also relates the reception of ACW to several specific and contrasting contexts, and recommends new avenues for ACW-inspired discussion. Advancing debate and dialogue between Jews, Muslims and Christians, this volume promotes a distinctive methodology for inter-religious studies, and serves as an invaluable resource for students and scholars of theology and religious studies.Read more
- Provides new insights into the inception and background of A Common Word focused on Scripture and intra-Muslim dialogue
- Links religious discussion to political and community life
- Provides a comprehensive review of responses to A Common Word among Christians
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- Date Published: November 2018
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107134348
- length: 348 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 158 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.62kg
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Table of Contents
Part I. The Inception of A Common Word:
1. The inception of a common word Tim Winter
2. From intra-religious to interreligious dialogue: the Amman message as a precursor and companion to the a common word initiative Jonathan Kearney
3. A common word leading to uncommon dialogue Michael Louis Fitzgerald
Part II. Responses to A Common Word:
4. A common word for the common good Rowan Williams
5. The world in which we respond to God's word Ingrid Mattson
6. Love of neighbour in the face of religious trauma Reuven Firestone
7. An overview of Christian responses to a common word Sarah Snyder
8. Seeking humility and self-critique: a Christological analysis of a common word Peter Admirand
Part III. The Scriptures and A Common Word (A Critical Reading of the Use of Scriptures in the ACW Document):
9. The protocol of interfaith dialogue: Qur'anic imperatives in a globalizing world Asma Afsaruddin
10. Our next word in common: Mea Culpa? Daniel A. Madigan
11. A common word or a word of justice? Two Qur'anic approaches to Christian-Muslim dialogue Pim Valkenberg
12. The use of Christian scripture in a common word Clare Amos
Part IV. Reception of A Common Word:
13. A common word as potentially reflected in different languages Rusmir Mahmutćehajić
14. 'Love thy neighbour': a moral imperative? Mustafa Abu Sway
15. 'An unknown word': reflections on the reception of a common word in Germany Matthias Böhm
16. Taking inspiration from a common word for a musical dialogue Amir Dastmalchian
Part V. A Common Word and the Future:
17. A common word as contextual theology Marianne Farina
18. A common word and Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī's love of God Yazid Said
19. Epilogue Yazid Said.
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The fourth installment of Dark Ditties blends campy horror humor with some cringe-worthy terror that may seep into your own nightmares. Samantha has been dreaming about a dark and mysterious entity named Tyberius Krane. Not knowing where else to turn, Samantha seeks assistance from a tacky over-the-top paranormal investigations show called, 'The Witching Hour.'
The mock paranormal show is on the verge of cancellation and it's clear that they will do anything to hold on to viewers, but things take a dark and unexpected turn when a real supernatural threat emerges after meeting with Samantha.
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SARAJEVO – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on Monday it is launching a technical cooperation programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with support from the UK government, to improve public procurement practices, reports SeeNews.
The project will enhance efficiency, improve transparency and promote competition in public procurement – crucial elements of a well-governed economy, the EBRD said in a statement.
The programme will focus on strengthening the institutional capacity of the Public Procurement Review Body of Bosnia and Herzegovina – an independent institution responsible for monitoring the application of the public procurement law, and guaranteeing the protection of tenderers' rights.
Bosnia adopted a new law on public procurement in 2014, which is being implemented to comply with EU directives. In the same year, the EBRD signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government that focuses on improving the efficiency and transparency of public procurement with policy and legal advice, technical cooperation and capacity building.
The new project will include technical assistance to establish a faster and more efficient appeals process which is currently suffering from high volumes of complaints.
In addition, the project will pilot an IT solution to digitise the complaint mechanism, which should enable quicker and easier access to complaint cases, and faster and more efficient resolution while ensuring the protection of complainants' rights through increased transparency.
"The UK government is investing millions of pounds each year in the future prosperity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We want to support much faster growth of business and the private sector, and much more efficiency and less corruption in the public sector. Public procurement is a well-known problem area," UK ambassador Edward Ferguson, is quoted as saying. "Through this project we want to help address a big issue for potential investors in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is the way that complaints about public procurements are handled," he added.
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In a recent post, I talked about how to generate PDF reports in Rails using Prawn. This approach is great for generating PDF's with lots of data tables and other variable-length content. But an alternative situation is when you already have a template authored in an application such as Adobe Acrobat and you want to populate it with data from your database. This makes it more difficult to insert variable-length content, but on the plus side, you no longer need to worry about the layout of the document.
While there are a number of libraries out there that can perform PDF manipulation, the one I have found to work best is PDFtk. There is a GUI version, but you'll want the command line version, which is available in most package managers. 1 This library is free for personal use, but requires a license if used in production.
PDFtk is a non-ruby command line tool and while it works great on its own in that context, it will be much easier if we use a ruby wrapper, so go ahead and add the pdf-forms gem to your project.
For this example, I've provided a really simple PDF form that I created in Adobe Acrobat 2. You can download it here and add it to your project (I put mine in
lib/pdf_templates). There are plenty of other resources out there on creating PDF forms, so I won't go over that, but make sure you take note of the names of the fields. If you are starting with a template created by someone else, you'll still want to open it up in Adobe Acrobat (or a similar app) to reference the names of the form fields. 3. The pdf-forms gem has a command for viewing the names, but I found that it didn't always work.
Next, let's get to the coding. Just as in my post on generating pdfs with Prawn, I like to represent each pdf document as a ruby class. But first let's create a base class that takes care of the common functionality. So create a file called fillablepdfform.rb. In my rails app, I placed it in
app/pdfs. 4. Here's how my base class turned out:
class FillablePdfForm
attr_writer :template_path
attr_reader :attributes
def initialize
def export(output_file_path=nil)
output_path = output_file_path || "#{Rails.root}/tmp/pdfs/#{SecureRandom.uuid}.pdf" # make sure tmp/pdfs exists
pdftk.fill_form template_path, output_path, attributes
def get_field_names
pdftk.get_field_names template_path
def template_path
@template_path ||= "#{Rails.root}/lib/pdf_templates/#{self.class.name.gsub('Pdf', '').underscore}.pdf" # makes assumption about template file path unless otherwise specified
def attributes
@attributes ||= {}
def fill(key, value)
attributes[key.to_s] = value
def pdftk
@pdftk ||= PdfForms.new(ENV['PDFTK_PATH'] || '/usr/local/bin/pdftk') # On my Mac, the location of pdftk was different than on my linux server.
def fill_out
raise 'Must be overridden by child class'
And now I can keep my actual test pdf form class short and sweet. The
fill_out method is all that's required.
class TestPdfForm < FillablePdfForm
def initialize(user)
@user = user
def fill_out
fill :date, Date.today.to_s
[:first_name, :last_name, :address, :address_2, :city, :state, :zip_code].each do |field|
fill field, @user.send(field)
fill :age, case @user.age
when nil then nil
when 0..17 then '0_17'
when 18..34 then '18_34'
when 35..54 then '35_54'
else '55_plus'
fill :comments, "Hello, World"
And my controller might look something like this:
class UsersController < ApplicationController
def show
user = User.find(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
format.pdf { send_file TestPdfForm.new(user).export, type: 'application/pdf' }
And that's all you need! The generated form will be both readable and writable in Adobe Reader and Mac Preview. So if you need the user to fill out a few additional fields, they can do so. But if you don't want this, simply mark the fields in your template as read-only. So if your template isn't a "form" but you just want to merge some data into a document, this is still a great way to do it.
From there, creating additional forms is extremely easy. The only difficulty I ever encounter is in figuring out the proper field names for templates I didn't create, but this is still fairly trivial.
If you have any questions, send them to me on Twitter.
While PDFtk is free for personal use, it does require a license in production. ↩
There are many lower-cost and free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat, but I don't have any experience with them, so I won't make any recommendations. ↩
If Acrobat shows you an error message that something like "This form cannot be edited in Acrobat. Please use Adobe LiveCycle Designer to edit this form", then you'll either need to either get a version of the PDF that doesn't have these permissions turned on or you'll need to export it the document as a new pdf, and then re-import it into Acrobat and lay out the form fields yourself. ↩
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The Students for Pan-Arab Dialogue hosted a discussion on campus last Tuesday about racism towards and among immigrant communities.
The discussion, titled "Discussing Racism in the Diaspora: A Conversation on Constructed Stereotypes", was led by Rima Berns-McGown, an adjunct professor of diaspora studies in U of T's Department of Historical Studies, and Shelina Kassam, a sessional instructor in the department's women and gender studies division.
In his introduction, Ahmen Khan, the vice-president of SPAD, said that people lose parts of their identity—things as small as the tea in their homeland—when they immigrate. "Does the nostalgia for such things [get] in the way of becoming a mosaic and mixing in the Canadian culture?" he asked.
The speakers made opening remarks for 10 minutes each before taking questions from the audience.
Berns-McGown talked about the racism she witnessed during apartheid in her native Africa, and which she also experienced when she came to Canada.
She also discussed her recent study, for which she interviewed young Somali immigrants from different social backgrounds, many of whom had experienced racism and Islamophobia in Canada.
"But astonishingly, each one of them [said that] being Canadian means respecting someone who is different from you even if you don't agree with them. So being Canadian is an attitude," said Berns-McGown. She compared her results to those of a similar study by a colleague in Britain, where the majority of young Somalis answered that to be British meant to be a white man who drinks beer.
"We're doing something right, but there is a long way to go," she said.
Kassam argued that Canadians are tolerant of immigrants as long as the differences are "palatable". She also argued that the term "moderate Muslim" is problematic, since it implies that Muslims are not inherently moderate, and contended that the difference in power between a host nation and its immigrants destroys the notion of equity from the outset, since the power of the host nation to be tolerant is also the power to be intolerant.
"I walk into a room and people look at the way I dress, look at the way I speak, and I can put on a darn good Canadian accent. And people look at that [and] say, 'That's a good immigrant; she fits," said Kassam.
She argued that this attitude detracts from an immigrant's individuality. "Try to put a woman in a niqab in that [Molson's "I Am Canadian"] ad. Let's see how that plays out," said Kassam. "It would not sit well with our national psyche."
Afterwards, students and faculty asked questions and discussed their experiences with the fear some people have of being too inclusive towards immigrants, the similarities between the Canadian and European attitudes towards immigrants, and racism between immigrant communities and towards sects within a community.
"We are learning to be literate in the language of understanding one another, and learning to be literate about one another. It's a bumpy road and it's not going to happen overnight," said Berns-McGown. "But it's astonishing how far we've come and how quickly we've come. And we have to remind ourselves of that when we are despairing."


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By David Ellis from vintnews
Hamish MacGowan has done a couple of interesting things with his 2012 Angus the Bull Cabernet Sauvignon: he's made this one from fruit sourced for the first time purely from Central Victoria, and he's lowered the alcohol content by almost 1.5%.
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Hamish stresses that it's not a huge and sudden leap in style, but something he and his team have been working towards over the past few years. "Lowering the alcohol (to 14%) is both a considered change in my winemaking philosophy, and an anticipation of where I believe the consumer's preference is trending," he says.
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In the first of what will be a regular series of tips from academic publishers, Intellect give us their top five pieces of advice on getting published.
Intellect is an independent academic publisher in the fields of creative practice and popular culture, publishing scholarly books and journals that exemplify our mission as publishers of original thinking.
As a first step towards considering a new book project, we ask all authors to complete our author questionnaire (if a single authored monograph) or editor questionnaire (if an edited collection). Both can be found on our website under the Publish With Us section.
Intellect is also not keen on previously published material, textbooks, readers, companions and overviews that are aimed at the general reader. Make sure you aim your work at the academic market.
1. We are to provide a vital space for widening critical debate in new and emerging subjects, so think original and multidisciplinary and present scholarly work at the cross section of arts, media and creative practice.
2. Although we do not publish PhD theses they can often be a good starting point for consideration as a research monograph.
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I think this is a fantastic article that demonstrates the power of using Big 'D' design for the purpose of growing your business using focus and well...elegance.
What Your Company Needs: More EleganceBy Jessica Stillman
The Find: It's usually a quality associated more with evening wear than management, but one expert is arguing that businesses should up their elegance quotient to succeed.
The Source: An interview with Matthew E. May, the author of In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing, conducted by blogger and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki and published on the American Express Open Forum blog.
The Takeaway: Whether it's a mission statement, a strategy, the formulation of a goal or a product design, May argues you should aim for elegance in your ideas. First things first, what exactly does he mean by the term? "Something is elegant if it is two things at once: unusually simple and surprisingly powerful. One without the other leaves you short of elegant," he says. Great, so why is this quality so important?
Elegance cuts through the noise, captures our attention, and engages us. The point of elegance is to achieve the maximum impact with the minimum input. It's a thoughtful, artful subtractive process focused on doing more and better with less.
Certainly it's easier to remember an idea that's short and punchy and minimalist products – think of all those little iPods nestled in everyone's pocket or purse – certainly seem to earn consumers' loyalty and love, but have other companies succeeded by focusing on elegance? May offers the surprising example of "freakishly popular" hamburger chain In N' Out Burger – an establishment not usually associated with elegant dining. He explains:
The menu offers only five items: a hamburger, cheeseburger, double burger, French fries, and a short list of beverages. By keeping things simple, founder Harry Snyder says he is able to provide the highest quality food in a sparkling clean environment.
In 'N Out understands that seduction, and that subtraction can simply mean "not adding." By resisting formal menu expansion they've avoided the self-defeating overkill seen in consumer electronics, with its "feature creep," and the resulting "feature fatigue.
Microsoft Word, famous for its seemingly endless features most users never needed nor wanted, is cited as a classic example of a feature fatigue inducing product, but how many managers have induced a similarly sleepy feelings in their teams by failing to reduce their aims down to a simple, streamlined and compelling idea and instead throwing a messy list of duties, goals and responsibilities at their employees?


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Aspects of the Theory of Moral Cognition: Investigating Intuitive Knowledge of the Prohibition of Intentional Battery and the Principle of Double Effect
Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 762385
129 Pages Posted: 27 Jul 2005
Date Written: May 2002
Where do our moral intuitions come from? Are they innate? Does the brain contain a module specialized for moral judgment? Does the human genetic program contain instructions for the acquisition of a sense of justice or moral sense? Questions like these have been asked in one form or another for centuries. In this paper we take them up again, with the aim of clarifying them and developing a specific proposal for how they can be empirically investigated. The paper presents data from six trolley problem studies of over five hundred individuals, including one group of Chinese adults and one group of American children, which suggest that both adults and children ages 8-12 rely on intuitive knowledge of moral principles, including the prohibition of intentional battery and the principle of double effect, to determine the permissibility of actions that require harming one individual in order to prevent harm to others. Significantly, the knowledge in question appears to be merely tacit: when asked to explain or justify their judgments, subjects were consistently incapable of articulating the operative principles on which their judgments appear to have been based. We explain these findings with reference to an analogy to human linguistic competence. Just as normal persons are typically unaware of the principles guiding their linguistic intuitions, so too are they often unaware of the principles guiding their moral intuitions. These studies pave the way for future research by raising the possibility that specific poverty of the stimulus arguments can be formulated in the moral domain. Differences between our approach to moral cognition and those of Piaget (1932), Kohlberg (1981), and Greene et al. (2001) are also discussed.
Keywords: Moral cognition, moral intuition, trolley problem, battery, double effect, linguistic analogy, universal grammar, moral grammar, Chomsky, Kohlberg, Piaget, Greene
JEL Classification: D63, D64, K00, K13, K14
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Beware the Ides of May
After a rough start to the year, emerging market currencies bounced back in April amid renewed investor appetite for risk. But if history is any guide, that trend may not survive May. Every year since 2010, bad news in Europe and the U.S. has made the fifth month of the year a gloomy one for developing world currencies, Credit Suisse says in a recent report entitled "Sell in May and Go Away." In 2010, there was the Greek bailout, while 2011 saw a similar scenario in Portugal. In 2012, political instability worsened in Greece as elections failed to produce a coalition while Spanish bank Bankia asked for a government bailout. And last May, of course, the Fed announced plans to begin tapering, which triggered massive capital outflows. This year, the catalyst could very well be U.S. rates topping their highs for the year as growth strengthens and inflation inches higher. Geopolitical tensions in Ukraine and a weaker Chinese economy won't help either.
First published in The Financialist in 2014.
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Time Management – Blogwatch September 1, 2008
Time Management Blogwatch
The Time Management blogs continue to be a mixed bag. Some decent advice, coupled with silly time management tips and tricks. We sorted through the chaff of this week's posts and we're hopeful we gave you the wheat. (We are human, so we make a few misses now and then).
The editors of AskTheManager.com have begun to look at the online Time Management advice the same way we looked at chow time in the military: "It's not very good, but there's plenty of it."
Time Management – Managing Spam Effectively
By Terry Lane
Like everyone else who works with the Internet, I have seen a massive increase in the amount of spam I receive over the past years. Furthermore, I regularly have frustrated clients asking if I can do more to filter the spam on our …
Effective Time Management for High School Students
By Gregg Zban
In today's fast paced world, time management for high school students is essential. There never seems to be enough hours in a day. How do you find time to hang out with friends when you have
The subtle art of time management
By silverine(silverine)
There is a small group of people found in every office that I admire. These are not your super achievers or diligent workers but people who have nothing to do but know how to look busy without anyone suspecting a thing. …
School Time Management, Building a Daily Routine
By Gregg Zban
Personal time management can be a challenge when going to school. Going to class, getting all your homework done, and doing all those extracurricular activities will eat up a lot of your time. If you manage your time poorly, …
Delegation and Time Management
By Brad
Delegation is a very important part of time management for managers. They cannot do all the work that they would usually do as their job, plus all the work required in their role as manager of other people. …
Time Management: the First Practical Tips for Everyone
By kelebek
Now, instead of going on talking about planning, scheduling, analyzing our daily routine and other boring concepts of time management, we will come strictly to the point and try to launch a small attack on our tardiness and slowness. …
Goal Setting – A Key to Effective Time Management
By Time Management Help
In the end, isn't that the whole point of time management, to get you to where you want to be? Goal setting takes time and it takes commitment to the process. With SMART goals, though, a little effort goes a long way. …
Time Management Tips – Avoiding Overwhelm
By Robert Paterson(Robert Paterson)
By Sharon Teitelbaum I left a meeting with one of my mentors recently with a page of fabulous next steps for my coaching, workshop, and book business. There were probably 10 actionable items noted on the page, each one of which was the …
The Importance of Time Management for Students
By denan(denan)
As important as it is to hear that time management is important for all students, including high school and college students, you may be wondering why. In all honesty, there are an unlimited number of reasons why proper time management …
Time Management Tips – Get More Organized and Productive
By Ibne Adam(Ibne Adam)
For an effective time management, you must respect the value of time. How you are going to use your time today will decide where you'll be after a week, a month, a year and a decade. You use of time will shape your future; …
16 Tips for Better Time Management
Every day has just 24 hours – and this applies to all people. Some people are constantly pursuit and pushed by time. This article is about how we can learn to manage our valuable time more effectively.
Time Management: What We Have to Know About It
By kelebek
Everyone knows that time management is a special technology of time optimization that helps people use their time more effectively, according to everyone's special goals and personal values. Undoubtedly, this concept is a great …
The Law of Attraction and Time Management
By Marte(Marte)
OK, back to time management. I keep CD's in my car and work on my education any time I have to drive somewhere. Early last week I gave a second listen to a Glazier/Kennedy CD and heard again about time blocking. So I tried it, …
10 Best Firefox Plugins to Increase Productivity
By Rigdha
Does anyone else get excited everytime a new firefox add-on comes out? Well, I do and I also know that installing and uninstalling various plugins takes a ton of time… (This is what I do for fun…just kidding) But I do like to look at …
Don't Freak Out: Time Management – Sep 16, 2008
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Feeling overwhelmed? Looking to find a balance between studying, socializing, and other activities? Hear from experienced students about ways to control procrastination, manage your time and reduce stress.
Work On Better Time Management
By tk2008
Sometimes, effective time management comes from having the capacity to focus on one important thing and focusing your eforts towards it. I take charge of the top-priority tasks first. Before I even consider doing anything at all, …
Just say no!
By karindailymaster
… even more importantly, you'll feel so much more calm, peaceful and even happy. Have a fabulous Labor Day weekend, and see you back here next Friday! Yours in Daily Mastery, Karin Stewart MOLI Small Business Time Management Expert …
The Benefits of Planning -Having More Time
By Time Management Help
If you have ever said any of those things or even something similar, then you could benefit from better time management. Learning to use your time wisely will go a long way. You can have more time for work, for family and for yourself …
Stop Trying to Be on Time!
By LauraStack
She is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., a time management training firm specializing in productivity improvement in high-stress organizations. Since 1992, Laura has presented keynotes and seminars on improving output, …
Tips and Techniques for Successful Business Time Management
By Gregg Zban
This is why effective time management is so important. The Keys To Successful Business Time Management:. If you want to take on the big guys you better know how to prepare, organize, delegate, and build a quality routine. …
Set your goals for your life
By nsoergel
Before you can successfully improve your time management skills you need clarity on what you want to use the additional time for. This is the most important but also one of the most difficult task and you should not rush but take enough …
Stephen Covey's Time Management Matrix For Online Marketers
By offbeatnews
If you have read everything about online marketing but you still feel stuck, one possible reason is because of improper time management.Frankly, I think the title of this article is lame because most people don't see the importance of …
The Paradigm Shift of Social Media and Time Management
By Kyle Lacy
A paradigm shift needs to occur in terms of time management and social media. Frequency of posts and over-commitment to social media communities does not necessarily mean you will be noticed. There isn'ta measurable ROI when it comes to …
Why Time Management Is Important -STRESS!!!!
By Time Management Help
Some people have stated that being successful makes you manage your time better but the opposite is actually true….great time management skills will make you successful in your endeavors. When using time management to plan your day, …
Time Management
By The Relevant Classroom Team(The Relevant Classroom Team)
Time management is one of those skills we all would like to be just a little better at. As educators, we'd really like for our students to be better time managers! The first step to improving is to look at where you're currently at. …
Time-Management Tips for Mobile Professionals
By Melvin
Time-Management Tips for Mobile Professionals Contributing Editor James A. MartinAugust 28th, 2008Efficient time management is especially challenging for mobile professionals. The late Randy Pausch offered valuable lessons for managing …
Time Management Tips: 5 Tips For Making Time Work Better For You
By Wendy Hearn
In today's hectic world it is easy to lose track of things if you do not have some kind of time management strategy in place. So, here are some quick tips to help you to get the most out of the precious hours in your day.


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Water Filtration, Point of Use, Drinking Water and Carbon Block Filtration Expert
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- Water filtration and water treatment particularly point-of-use (POU) drinking water filtration and support for product innovation, research and development, creative material analysis, material characterization, structure-property elucidation, specification development, and quality assurance management.
- Carbon block filtration (chemical adsorption, mechanical filtration).
- Product certifications (NSF and WQA; Standards-Protocols 42, 53, 61, 401, P231, emerging and developing).
- Product development, product design, formats, requirements, and voiding pitfalls.
- Troubleshooting (raw materials, manufacturing, certification testing failures, field - customer complaints).
- Create specifications for alternative raw materials in manufacturing (reduced material blending; increased manufacturing efficiency), improved product performance (increased contaminant reduction performance at faster flow rate), and decreased product rejection rate (up to 100% for some products).
- Select and approve alternate raw material suppliers, through testing, develop and specify improved material characteristics while reducing costs.
- Create creative corporate "Kaizen" continuous improvement program, identify issues with products or manufacturing, giving immeasurable benefit to company reputation by correcting in-house.
- Specify and procure analytical instrumentation to offset cost of outsourcing testing.
- Manage research and development and IP portfolio including resulting in multiple patents.
- Qualified de-foaming additives that are significantly more effective (
- 90% decrease in concentration, large cost savings),
- 50% increase in fill rate (increase in manufacturing rate/efficiency), and less "clean-out" time (caused by instability and residue generation of previous materials).
- Reformulated and improve ice prevention formulation. Previously, contained "reactive" chemistry that was creating persistent, opaque residue on windows, however, new formula is just as effective and contains "passive" technology, eliminating the undesirable, tenacious residue.
- Oversee; Chemists, Microbiologists, QA Manager, QA Specialist, QA Technicians, and Material Samplers.
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- Provide water filtration and treatment, principally point-of-use drinking water filtration.
- Carbon block filtration (chemical adsorption, mechanical filtration).
- Product design, engineering and formats.
- Product certifications (NSF and WQA; Standards and Protocols 42, 53, 401, P231, emerging-developing).
- Regulatory requirements (California Prop 65 compliance).
- Manufacturing quality control and quality assurance.
- Troubleshooting (manufacturing, raw materials, certification testing failures, field and customer issues).
- Analytical, environmental, water chemistry and materials testing.
- University and other research collaborations.
- Water treatment and filtration market (appropriate technologies, performance tiers, embodiments).
Celanese Corporation, Las Vegas, NV, Account Manager, 2017 - 2018
- Fortune 500 global chemical and engineered materials company.
- Account management for engineered materials and specialty applications.
- Primary point of contact for assigned customers.
- General account management including customer visits, call reports, and customer service.
- Maintenance of SFDC data for accounts.
Multipure International - Carbon Block Technology, Las Vegas, NV, 2010 - 2017
Vice President of Technical Services, 2011 - 2017
Director, Lab Services, 2010 - 2011
- Manufacturer of drinking water filters, elements, and systems, primarily for OEM customers.
- Managed the laboratory and quality assurance teams; primary technical expert for customers and suppliers.
- Managed the operations of Quality Assurance and Company Laboratories (Chemistry, Microbiology, Quality Assurance). Instrumentation - GC-MS, GFAA, PSA, TOC, Porometer, various MSE.
- Primary technical contact and resource for both customers and suppliers.
- Developed raw material specifications for suppliers.
- Developed finished product specifications and control plans for customers.
- Hired and trained laboratory staff in analytical techniques and practices.
- Hired and trained quality assurance staff to maintain corporate quality standards.
- Interfaced with all departments within the company to maintain the Corporate Quality Program.
Vigo Coal Company-CarboPrill, Evansville, IN, 2007 - 2010
Vice President of Research and Development
- Manufacturer of coal-based additive for bulk explosives used in surface mine blasting
- Lead research and development activities, including performing and contracting advanced product analyses (e.g. composition, porosity, thermal behavior).
- Newly formed position to determine properties responsible for the high reactivity of a unique coal.
- Developed external contacts and programs to meet research and development goals within budget constraints.
- Created and managed a collaboration with the Deptartment of Chemistry, University of Southern Indiana.
- Developed performance mechanism of product in explosives; prepared and filed patent applications.
- Managed Intellectual Property portfolio, including multiple patent and trademark applications.
Honeywell CPG - Prestone, Danbury, CT, Research Scientist, 2005 - 2007
- Manufacturer of formulated products for the car care industry.
- Performed formulation development for Prestone global product line (e.g. ice fighters and cleaning products).
- Developed and reformulated products to meet market needs, enhance performance, ensure regulatory compliance, and reduced cost.
- Identified emerging technologies for potential use in car care products.
- Managed chemists and laboratory technicians.
University of Windsor, ON, Canada, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 2004 - 2005
Postdoctoral Associate, Inorganic Chemistry
- Synthesis of Group 4 phosphinimide compounds for use as olefin polymerization catalysts.
RCMP Forensic Laboratory Services, Regina, SK, Canada, Analytical and Forensics Lab, 1999
- Forensic testing laboratory for Royal Canadian Mounted Police and other police agencies
- Generated GC/MS library of background volatiles present in fire debris for training arson investigators
AgrEvo Canada, Inc., Regina, SK, Canada, 1998
- Laboratory Co-op (Formulation Development-crop science).
- Global company specializing in crop protection, seeds, biotechnology and pest control.
- Formulated, analyzed, and evaluated crop protection formulations.
Consumers' Co-operative Refineries Ltd., Regina, SK, Canada, 1997
- Laboratory Co-op (Analytical and Quality Assurance).
- Refiner of crude oil into saleable petroleum products.
- Collected, prepared, and analyzed petrochemical products.
- Recipient of Inaugural Water Quality Association Award - industry professionals demonstrating commitment to the water treatment.
- Created specifications for alternative raw materials that are more effective in manufacturing (reduced material blending; increased manufacturing efficiency), improved product performance (increased contaminant reduction performance at faster flow rate), and decreased product rejection rate (up to 100% for some products).
- Approved alternate raw material suppliers, through battery of tests, created, developed and specified, with improved material characteristics and lower price.
- Specified and procured analytical instrument to offset cost of outsourcing.
- Created and managed the Research and Development group-function for startup company. Managed IP portfolio including my inventorship on multiple patents.
- Qualified new de-foaming additive that was significantly more effective, increased manufacturing rate/efficiency, reduced "clean-out" time (caused by instability/ residue generation of previous materials).
- Reformulated and improved ice prevention formulation. With previous "reactive" producing opaque residue on windows. New formula was proven just as effective and contained "passive" technology.
Honors & Publications
Academic and Professional Affiliations
- NSF International - Participation in DWTU Industry Forum and Joint Committee meetings (DWTU Joint Committee, Voting Member, Industry Forum Chair, Numerous Task Group Appointments)
- Water Quality Association-WQA, (Numerous Committees and Task Force Appointments, roles have included: Chair, Vice Chair, Member, and Observer; Gold Seal Steering Committee, Product Certification Advisory Council, Voting Member)
- American Chemical Society-ACS
- International Society of Explosives Engineers
- Phi Lambda Upsilon Honorary Chemical Society, Nu Chapter (President, Treasurer, Secretary)
- Recipient of Inaugural Water Quality Association (WQA) "Next Gen Award" (awarded to industry professionals demonstrating commitment to the water treatment industry for its betterment).
Publications and Patents
- Author and Co-Author of higher educational text.
- Inventor-Co-Inventor of numerous patents.
- Ph.D. Chemistry (Organometallic), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- B.Sc. Chemistry (with honors), University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada


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This is not the first time a study has confirmed the benefits of meditation for anxiety. Indeed "Mindfulness meditation" which includes but is not limited to MBSR and MBCT have proven used beneficial for people with anxiety, depression, chronic pain and even in couples therapy. While there are differing views as to how long one needs to meditate to feel the benefits, neuroscientists (and counselors) and mindfulness practitioners generally agree some is better than none in many cases.
Engaging in Meditation for 10 minutes a day can reduce Anxiety Disorders in Anxious Individuals: Study
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Hello, everyone. Hold on to your hats, because this week could blow them away! Upside down and inside out are the keywords of the week. This is a week of new beginnings with the New Moon and the Equinox, as well as strong Uranian energies. I don't think I've ever said "thank the goddess for Saturn" before, but his influence is the only thing to keep us grounded during the next seven days. As you navigate the week, Saturn steps in on Thursday and Sunday. Try to hold off on major changes until either of these days or a wild sense of rebellion could have you in trouble by week's end.
Monday's New Moon coincides with a conjunction between Mercury and Uranus. Mercury/Uranus speeds up our perception and quickens our intuition while this New Moon whispers that a whole cycle is ending and you're ready for a new start. The risk is that your feelings are stronger than your reason and overreaction rather than reasonable response is your modus operandi. Try to avoid sudden, hasty alliances. Bad press could follow if you act too impulsively. Sometimes daring to be different means making the rational choice.
On Wednesday we've got a triple-whammy: the Sun joining unpredictable Uranus; Mercury entering Aries; and then Mercury finding fellowship with fearless Mars in Leo. A sudden inspiration may tempt you to change your vision of yourself and your business and once it hits, you're ready to risk everything to make it happen. You're thinking boldly and independently but you may have an unjustified certainty about the future. These influences can bring brilliance but also impulsivity and a quick finger on the trigger. Breathe.
Today we can come down to earth but don't be surprised if you're dragged into practicality unwillingly. With Mercury opposing Saturn someone may be forcing you to take the intensity from the early part of the week and transfer it into methodical, orderly, written strategy. With luck the taskmaster will be an older wiser advisor you trust, rather than an external foe. If someone steps in to block your best ideas, you may not have the patience to hear them out. But the balance they bring will lead you in the right direction.
Today, the Equinox continues the current of new beginnings. And with Mercury challenging Pluto, you might think you've found the key to overcome the economic turmoil we've all been experiencing. You may be fooling yourself: your ideas could easily be at odds with your financial reality. Be sure you keep everything above board and watch where you step: there are snakes in the grass.
This is the day to take all of the ideas of the destabilizing week and make something concrete. With the Sun in good aspect to Mars, decisiveness leads to accomplishment, especially since Saturn is on hand again today. As on Thursday, you may not like the voice of restraint as it's almost certainly coming from your partner, but it would be wise to listen. You may feel their advice is curtailing your spirit but it's actually a container to hold all of the brilliance of the week. In this way your inspiration can become practical and real.
Have a great, exciting but grounded, week. And let me know how it goes. For an overview of the whole month of March, see the Monthly Forecast.
Don't forget. If you have an astrology-related business question (or a business-related astrology question) send it to me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I'll answer it in these posts, anonymously of course, and we can all learn from each other's experiences. I look forward to it! Have a question now? Email it and let's get started!


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150 households being evacuated from Talis village of Ghangche District
Flooded stream and landslide threaten human settlement, reports of destruction of 80 houses
Safdar Ali Safdar
Gilgit, July 30: District administration in Ghangche have launched a rescue operation to evacuate around 150 households displaced due to destruction of houses as a result of landslide and flooding in a glacial stream in Talis village, Baltistan division.
According to details landslide started taking place in Talis today, destroying around 80 houses, while displacing residents of more than 150 households.
Last year, at least 13 people in Talis had lost their lives during a flashflood incident. During the recent incident, however, no casualty has been reported.


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Killer toast
(recipe adapted from here)
260g Blue Jacket Bread Flour
1/2 tsp instant yeast
60g egg
120g full cream milk
30g brown sugar
1/4 tsp salt
30g unsalted butter
1. Mix all ingredients (except butter) together & knead till the dough is silky & elastic.
2. Add in butter & continue to knead till window pane stage.
3. Roll out the dough into a rectangle & roll up like a swiss roll. Place into a greased loaf pan. Proof for 1hr.
4. Bake in preheated oven @ 170C for 40mins.
I got this Kuromitsu peanut butter spread from Okinawa.
It is really very yummy. Not overly sweet & also the brown sugar & peanut butter taste are distinct.


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Paper sculptures can fool the eye into believing they are full-form sculptures made from solid, heavy materials, that is, until you get close enough to see that the sculpture consists of nothing more than paper. Artists use papers typically employed for watercolor or acrylic paintings to make both two- and three-dimensional sculptures. Sculpting with paper includes various techniques that fall under the broader categories of folding, cutting, scoring, embossing and curling. In most cases, acid-free papers provide the best media.
Sculpture Folding
Using folding techniques, paper artists use a variety of folds to make a sculpture, including origami, which incorporates a series of varied folds in paper. Some basic folds used in origami and paper sculpture include pleats, reverse folds, mountain and squash folds, petal folds and triangle folds, to name just a few.
Razor and Scissor Cuts
Relief paper sculptors use a cutting stylus with interchangeable pointed, rounded or tipped razor blades that fit into the tool's end. Scissors are also used, but the razor-bladed tool offers more control when making intricate snowflake-like cuts. After coming up with an overall design, which often includes a series of layers to create dimension in the sculpture, smaller pieces are cut, wet and molded to specific shapes, and then glued in place with an acid-free glue. Another form of cutting is called fringing, which is done exactly as it sounds: A series of strips or fringes are cut along an edge of paper.
Embossing and Molding
Paper sculpture artists will use anything that can make an impression into a sheet of paper: found objects, elements of nature, foam-core cutouts, wood blocks, linocut blocks, textured fabrics, and even string or thread. To create raised, textured or recessed areas in the sculpture, the artist first wets the paper and then applies pressure to the item on the paper while it's sandwiched between two pieces of felt, which is why heavier and thicker watercolor papers work best. In the other method of embossing, the wet paper dries around the molded item. The thicker the paper, the more vivid the results. Another method of embossing involves using a hand-operated press and an etched plate that impresses its design onto the paper.
Curls and Spirals
To create curls and spirals, sculptors use square solid boxes, edges of tables, scissors or even round objects to make curls and spirals out of paper. By gently tugging a piece of paper along one edge of a wooden block while applying tension on the opposite end, you can create a soft S-curve in paper. To cut a spiral, start at one end of a cutout circle and begin cutting into the circle, following the curve of the paper until you reach the center. Sculptors also used rolling techniques to create cones and cylinder shapes.
Tools, Accessories and Scoring
Along with the artist's cutting devices, paper relief sculptors also use small flat oil paintbrushes to paint on glue where needed to attach parts of the sculpture to itself, pencils for curling or drawing out designs, or a metal or wooden stylus to score paper that creates an indentation in the paper medium. Safety compasses create nicely round shapes and include a small ruler for measurements. Gluing techniques involve holding the glued piece still for at least 30 seconds until the white glue bonds.
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As a native Californian, artist, journalist and published author, Laurie Brenner began writing professionally in 1975. She has written for newspapers, magazines, online publications and sites. Brenner graduated from San Diego's Coleman College.
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Working in a library school, the UCL Department of Information Studies, for 15 years, I was aware of the growing and swirling discussions about Open Access, and have been part of the wider OA community for a while: one of the journals on whose editorial board I serve, Digital Humanities Quarterly, has always been fully open access with no publishing fees, and is now 11 years old. I'm reluctant now to publish any of my research in journals which are paywalled.
False barriers to access, and gatekeeping, are hugely problematic for the dissemination of research, as are the financial models which profit massively from academic research without giving much back into the system. When it comes to books, though, the costs of production obviously make OA discussions much more difficult, and it's very much a live discussion in the UK academic community: now that open access book publishing is going to be mandated, who will pay the book processing charges?
My first book, Image to Interpretation, came out in 2006, and mainly sold in physical copies. Like most monographs, it had a short print run – 300 books or so – and they have mostly sold out. I get a royalty cheque for £2.73 or so every six months for the electronic version of the book, which still sells occasionally. I'm incredibly proud of it, but I was aware that it could only ever reach a small audience.
Picture-Book Professors was a research project that grew out of online discussions, as it stemmed from a few jokey asides on Twitter, and then moved to corpus building on Tumblr. It was carried out always in the public eye: an early blog post on the topic of how academics are featured in children's literature had a large readership, and it was only afterwards that I was persuaded I should write it up properly. It seemed to me that it had to be open access: why would I condemn all that work and what had been a public discussion to only 300 sales of a text?
I exercised my privilege, though, and fought hard for support: given the grant income I had brought into UCL during my time there, I successfully argued that my employer should pay the £6,762 to cover the open access book processing charge with Cambridge University Press. It is still rare for universities to give this type of support to academics, particularly in the Arts and Humanities, and I'm aware of the level of support I've had here. There's new ground to be worked out, too: how to deliver this material best is a live discussion with CUP as I write this!
The accompanying book, The Professor in Children's Literature: An Anthology, is also available in open access. I see this very much as an exercise in showing your workings out — the equivalent of "open science" when you are dealing with a topic in literature. It's also about how digitised material can be curated and repackaged to bring together a resource for others. This is the first fully open access book from Fincham Press, and they are exploring what this means for them, too. I don't mind saying that there will only be a short physical print run, which I've paid for, but for this book the freely available digital versions are really the main product, with other copies being made available in print on demand, as readers might want them. In lots of ways, I'm taking the open access book discussion for a walk; seeing how far I can get, and how much I can play in this space, while being cognisant of having access to resources which allow me to do so.
Experience as an Author
One of the surprising things has been that people — publishers, libraries, authors, illustrators — have been baffled by my request to feature their work in an open access volume. The monograph has many images — 32 — and 25 or so had to be licensed, with fees to be paid, as they were in copyright. Rare items also had to be digitised on demand from libraries and archives. That mechanism and fee structure is well known (if variable), but adding "and can I make it available for free online?" to the equation caused many publishers, and even leading libraries, to stutter. There are a few items I could not include as I could not get electronic distribution rights to the images, even though I was happy to pay for them.
In the end, the rights fees added up to over £1500. These are books that needed resources behind them! It also took months to obtain these rights clearances, as the open access question added much time to the process.
In general, knowing from the start that you want this to be an open access text informs your style of writing — I hope the texts are academic ones which are written in an accessible manner, even with humour in places. I think it has changed the tone and tenor of how I wrote the books, knowing they would be out there, at some stage.
Open Access Books in the Humanities
We are at a juncture where the sands are shifting: the major funders and government bodies are moving towards requirements for open access monographs. We don't have a choice; we have to embrace these requirements, but there is a lot of work yet to be done about who will pay the costs for production. I believe that most universities could afford to absorb the costs of open access monograph production, much in the same way that they pay for lab costs or scientific equipment: it should be viewed as a centrally borne cost necessary for creating and sharing academic knowledge. It shouldn't happen that individuals are asked to pay these costs themselves, as that is untenable. I can see people are concerned about how their personal costs will be met — and it is up to universities and presses to grapple with this. The danger is the open access premium: that only those who can afford to publish in open access will reap the benefits of having their work made accessible to a wide audience, and we have to keep our eyes open to that, as the academy needs diverse voices (as Picture-Book Professors and The Professor in Children's Literature say!)
I can't understand why anyone would be nervous about offering their academic work to a wide audience. Books take years to write, and academic books never make much royalty money. Why would you want to hide it away and restrict access, if you can allow as wide an audience as possible to get free access to it?


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Wedding Decor Ideas For Planning a Wedding on a Careful spending plan
As a wedding event organizer, I needed to impart to you a few thoughts for you to consider when you are arranging a wedding on a careful spending plan. As I tell every one of my ladies, when arranging your wedding it is essential to decide a financial plan and stick to it or you will discover costs spiraling crazy.
Here is a basic yet exquisite thought for you to utilize when arranging a wedding on a careful spending plan. Buy various kinds of votive flame holders. As a wedding event organizer, I encourage my customers to be watching out and get flame holders any place they may discover them, or if there is a gathering or art store, look at the store's stock and don't be reluctant to blend and match shading, shape or size.
Arranging your wedding can take as long as a year or all the more so gives you a lot of time to discover an assortment of votive flame holders. Go for a mixed look, you don't really must have a similar kind of votive holder on each table.
Utilizing candlelight can include another component of stylistic layout and sentiment when arranging a wedding on a tight spending plan. Additionally, you can blend and match straightforward votive holders with ones that are progressively beautifying and point by point.
Need to add some shading to the table? One of the tips I propose as a wedding event organizer is to utilize flower petals which you can without much of a stretch buy in an assortment of hues. You can likewise organize individual free blossoms on the table or you can utilize strip and tie these free roses together in little packs.
At long last, when arranging a wedding consider getting something that has nostalgic worth or significance. Possibly your family has a white brightening table material that you can use as an overlay on the gathering or cake table. Setting up family pictures at the sign-in or gathering table is another thought particularly on the off chance that you can discover pictures that go back a few ages, which were all taken on their separate wedding days.


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From Chiang Mai it's a short hop to Chiang Khong where you can cross the border to Huay Xai in Laos. From there my plan was to catch a boat down the Mekong to Luang Prabang, the country's second city. I'd already bought a ticket from Mekong Cruises mekong-cruises.com and they provided a transfer to Chiang Khong.
Crossing the border was a mere formality, I just filled out a few forms and paid out some money for the visa. It's in everyone's interests to make it as easy as possible. I met my fellow passengers during the process, a family and a retired couple from Australia, and an English-speaking Russian and his Thai wife, all of whom were pleasant company during the cruise.
My map of the cruise route is here.
We were on the Luang Say cruise, a two day trip to Luang Prabang on one of the company's long, low-slung passenger boats.
You could get there much quicker on a 'longtail', one of those speedboats with the extra long propellor. However, I heard second hand that bumping along on the water for several hours is a good way to end up with a very sore backside.
We on the other hand had soft armchairs and various other comforts, like a bar. There's a lot to be said for taking your time.
And so our cruise down the Mekong began. My video here.
It quickly became apparent there was little else to do other than watch the riverbank slide by…
…and wonder what was hiding in the intense undergrowth.
Sailing along the Mekong was a big tick on my bucket list, something I'd unconsciously wanted to do since I first saw Apocalypse Now. Sadly I was told that it may become difficult as more and more dams are built with Chinese investment. So if it's something you want to do, make sure you do it soon.
We had two lunches on board, and several snacks, thanks to the boat's nice lady chef.
This was my first taste of Laotian food (although it's very similar to Isaan cuisine) and I loved the big, fresh flavours. The raw fresh tamarind was a first. Sour doesn't quite cover it!
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Our cruise included two stops at villages to go and look and maybe buy local handicrafts. Personally I have no desire to gawk at how people live and could happily have done without these stops. I suppose it is a way for the villagers to make a bit of extra money but I don't remember any of our group buying anything. Our guide also dropped the nugget that often the 'traditional' textiles the villagers are selling aren't actually their own work but something that they'd picked up from a market that will sell well to tourists.
The first village was called Ban Houy Phalam. It's home to 85 families of the Kamu tribe whose houses are built on stilts with work areas underneath them.
We spent the night at Pakbeng which is the halfway point to our destination. We stayed in a lovely hotel, the Luang Say Lodge www.luangsay.com, overlooking the river.
The rooms were actually separate buildings off their own wooden walkways, surrounded by lots of unusual plants.
The interiors were lovely although the towel art made me smile. Think I'll start collecting examples and do a whole post on it.
It was very atmospheric at night listening to the insects and other sounds of the jungle. In the morning you could hear the elephants down at the river having their morning bathe. This is the best time to catch views of the river with the morning mists still rising off the trees on the mountains. My video here.
It was a very pleasant and relaxing stay. The food was okay, nothing amazing, but the rooms were the highlight. You can arrange to stay on a night or two if you wish, and finish the journey on a later boat.
There was a bit of other traffic on the river.
In the morning we stopped at a second village called Ban Baw where for over 600 years three different ethnicities, the Lao Loum (the ethnic majority in Laos), Tai Lue and Shan, have lived in harmony. It seemed more affluent than the first village with a couple of civic buildings.
I'm guessing the pictures on the front of the temple are used for religious instruction. Given how surreal they are, I'd quite like to know the story myself!
Of most interest to me was the handmade still the villagers used for making 'whisky' (rice alcohol). I wanted to try it but noone was around so my guide said I could leave some money and fill one of the empty bottles next to the still, and I ended up with this energy drink bottle full of paint stripper. It was an experience but I'm glad I don't have to drink it all of the time! Don't confuse this with Mekhong whisky, which is another drink altogether.
Back in the boat the landscape started to change as the jungle gave way to limestone cliffs.
Our final stop was the holy caves of Pak Ou.
Tham Ting the lower cave is also known as the Cave of a Thousand Buddhas as over the centuries local townsfolk have deposited their old or damaged Buddhas here.
What doesn't get much of a mention is that some of the rock art that is also in the cave predates the Buddhist period that began in the 15th century. Some of it may even be Neolithic.
Up several flights of stairs is a second cave known as Tham Theung (upper cave) which is darker and has fewer Buddhas.
The stairs are pretty tiring but you can get a bit of a view when you stop.
From here is was just another 25km to our final destination Luang Prabang, more of which in the next post…


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I won't lie – I have dreaded doing this post.
My problem is I expect people will want to find this post interesting, relevant, and useful, and it will likely be none of those. But since when has that stopped me.
Here are some thoughts, suggestions, and wisdom (that could be a stretch) from our trip, in no particular order. I know I have said it previously, but this was the best trip. Ever.
Quick recap: We left Crossville, TN May 15th and arrived in Alaska June 11th, and exited Alaska August 6th. Basically we were in Alaska almost two months, and in that time we traveled almost 4,500 miles by car (truck) in Alaska, most of those miles towing our 27-foot Airstream travel trailer. As of this blog post, we are still traveling.
Our trip took us into Canada at Glacier NP (into Waterton Lakes) and continued in a somewhat non-linear fashion up to Dawson City and further up the Dempster Highway into the Northwest Territories before crossing the Top of the World Highway into Alaska. Our return trip heading out of Alaska was on a more southerly route on the Klondike Highway into British Columbia and finally into Washington state.
Expenses. For expenses, the two variables are camping fees and fuel. Your mileage will vary – literally. It is not perfect science, but just in Alaska I would estimate we spent about $1,000 in camping fees (so $15-20 per night on average) and about $1,500 in fuel (diesel) costs. This does not include getting to or back from Alaska – just in state. Our camping fees may be significantly less than others because we took advantage of free camping spots, state and regional campgrounds and very few private campgrounds. Things like cruises or fishing or other activities you might choose would be additional. Like I said, mileage varies.
Diesel fuel costs were somewhat higher in Alaska than in the Lower 48 (maybe 20 cents higher per gallon – typically in the $2.60 – $2.99 per gallon range), but fuel costs in Canada were clearly more expensive. Typically we would find diesel in Canada at around $1.05 – $1.20 per liter, so I don't know what that translates to dollars per gallon, so more like $4.40 per gallon equivalent in Canada.
And clearly it benefits for you to have an over-sized fuel capacity, both for economic reasons (fill up when it is cheapest) as well as you just need more mileage capacity between limited fuel stations.
Reservations. We had none, literally. Our entire trip was unplanned. Now mind you, Karen did an enormous amount of research before our trip to identify things/places we might like to see, but we had no itinerary, no reservations, and typically no idea each day where we would end up. It worked beautifully.
We did acquire a reservation from others for 3 nights at Denali NP, but that was unplanned and not a reservation we made. Pretty sweet, though!
Whatever research you do before the trip, you would be well advised to print this material before you depart, because you will likely have no Internet access for much of the way.
Resources. Yes, we had Milepost, the authoritative book to bring with you on a trip to Alaska. Now the funny part of Milepost is: 1) the trip begins in Canada, which measures in kilometers, and 2) there are no "mileposts". So if you don't reset your odometer or trip counter at Mile Zero, you are pretty much hosed. Don't ask me how I know this.
We (Karen) used apps and websites like Allstays and Campendium along the way, but keep in mind that Internet coverage in many (most) parts of Alberta, British Columbia, The Yukon, The Northwest Territories, and Alaska can be sketch at best to non-existent (unless you are downtown Anchorage). Sometimes the place to get Internet coverage and catch up with email can be visitor centers.
So along this line, bring a good, actual paper map or atlas – don't rely on having Google maps or whatever.
Campground firewood. We love campfires, so occasionally we would have a campfire on our journey, but need to purchase firewood from campgrounds. Do campground owners cut the trees down and split their firewood 15 minutes before putting it in the "seasoned firewood" display case for sale? If the US Forest Service is in need of a great fire retardant to quell some of those forest fires, all they'd have to do is dump campground firewood on the fire and it would be out in no time.
I will say that the provincial parks in the Yukon on the way to Alaska provide free firewood at their campgrounds, which is really nice! But none of it is split. So bring an axe; I did not, and I wish I did.
We did bring a propane fire pit as well and used it from time to time. But in the end, a real log fire is the best.
Roads. What can I tell you: drive slow, assume everything will take 5-10x longer than you think. If you try to rush Alaska, you will lose. Go slow. The roads are not this state's crown jewels. As you go through Canada on your way to Alaska you will be introduced to the Canadian sign that signifies rough road ahead. It is your friend; embrace it.
While some roads are actually in excellent shape, there are others that are terrible. One segment of one road comes to mind. We were traveling on a road called the Tok Bypass, and like any road some of it is in fine shape. But there are about 20 miles on this paved road where you cannot go more than 10-15 mph because the road is in such horrible condition. You could lose fillings from your teeth if you take this road too quickly, and many a traveler have reported losing cabinets and other trailer parts from hitting these roads too quickly.
Keep in mind that over the course of this trip we probably spent over 1,000 miles on gravel, rutted roads. We traveled perhaps 50-100 miles on logging roads out of Crowsnest (ALB), over 600 miles on the Dempster Highway going up to the Northwest Territories and back, another 150 miles on the Denali Highway, another 100 miles on the Top of the World Highway, and many other various roads. So if you take a similar route, expect rough roads and dirt. What fun, though!!
Architectural design/style. There is none. Nada. Emptiness. Null set. Imagine an architectural style that you like on a home. Put that in your head. Remember it, because it isn't here in Alaska.
Starbucks. Yeah, no. On the other hand, there are small independent espresso stands that litter the state like Dunkin' Donuts shops in New England.
Care of your truck/RV. If you don't want your truck and/or RV to get dirty, don't come to Alaska. They will get filthy and I don't have any good tips other than pack a hose, soap and brush (that assumes you have water). But don't get fixated on keeping stuff clean, as it will only last about a mile.
Oh, and when setting up your truck, note to self, don't locate the hot generator next to the cold cooler. Duh.
I did protect the front of the trailer with plastic, but I wouldn't do that again. The tape is really hard to get off, and I am not convinced it had a sufficient benefit to warrant the cost and removal effort. With the front covered up by white plastic, every time we passed another Airstream and waved, Karen figured the other owners thought, "Why is that Casita owner waving at us?"
I did protect the propane lines with pipe insulation. I don't know if this ultimately protected the lines from rupture due to rocks, but we didn't have a propane problem, and the insulation was sufficiently carved up that were I to make this trip again I would surely do this wrapping again.
Weather. I thought the weather throughout our trip was great! Now Karen's interpretation of great weather may be a little off from mine. I say there is no bad weather – just bad preparation. Of course, that is easier to say when you are camping in a hard sided RV rather than a tent carried on a bicycle (which we saw plenty of).
Temperatures during the day were generally in the 50's and 60's, some days into the 70's. At night we used the heat in the trailer regularly. We had the thermostat set relatively low (58-60 degrees F), but even so the heat would kick on regularly. Not complaining.
Karen would tell you we had more clouds and rain than I would. I think it is my rose colored glasses. I saw nothing but sunshine.
Clothing. Bring it. And make sure you can layer, and expect to get wet (rain, spray if you go out on a boat, etc.). I brought a winter coat, hat and gloves and was glad I had them – used them when I flew over to Lake Clark NP where it was cold, rainy and very windy.
Mosquitos. I know people complain about these, but quite frankly they were the least of our issues. We did bring head nets, and we did use them (maybe twice?). They pack small and light and are a good thing to have.
Rule of exponentials. This has to do with what you pack. Bring as little as you can! For every thing you bring, you will move it 100 times. So if you bring more than one thing, you do the math. Pack what you really think you will need, no more.
Spare (trailer) parts. I carried a tub with spare parts like door latches, washers, spare water line, spare electric cord, spare water pump and was glad I had all of it, and used some of it. I must have replaced 3-4 door/drawer latches because the roads can be so grueling, even going slow. Hardware stores can be your friend on the road – when you can find them. Oh, and bring tools; some of you know how handy I am (not), yet I used way more tools than I expected to use. Self-sufficiency going to Alaska has its merits.
Spare tires. Bring them. I didn't need them, but I felt a whole lot better knowing I had two for the truck and two for the trailer, just in case. There are many miles between places here and on the way to Alaska, and very few resources, so expect to take care of your own problems. I also carried a ramp, so that in the event of a trailer flat tire I could roll the trailer onto the ramp and thus avoid the need to jack up the trailer.
Best breweries: Denali Brewing in Teklanika. Loved their DIPA, and 49th State Brewery in Anchorage (really good imperial stout and awesome IPA). But the best resource to have is a Yetti cooler filled with ice and your own favorite brews. After all, we went 4,500 miles and visited two breweries. You get my point.
Favorite moment: Describing in my blog our chartered fishing boat out of Seward as the Andrea Gale (from the movie The Perfect Storm). No, that really wasn't my favorite moment, but I can so amuse myself. I was the second funniest person in our truck.
Best Bring: Those orange, stackable leveling blocks (like 20-30 of them). Obviously I used them for leveling the trailer, but they were enormously useful for all kinds of things along the way. Kind of like duct tape – you never know how they will be used next. Oh yeah, I had duct tape, too (and used it).
Water. We found sufficient places to refill our fresh water tank along the way, which included state and provincial parks, some gas stations, and even in some towns that offered free dumping and fresh water. Finding water wasn't a problem as long as you thought about your needs and timing.
Dumping. Same as above.
Electricity. Most things on the trailer operate on 12v DC, but the trailer batteries do need to be recharged, and we had needs (or at least desires) for electric appliances. We brought a generator, which was used liberally throughout our trip to supply us with electricity. Of all the things I wished we had, it would have been solar power to significantly reduce the need for the generator. Other than in Denali National Park itself, we had very few limitations on the use of a generator, though. If you stay in private campgrounds, this generally becomes a moot point because you are hooked up to electric. But for us it was rare to have "shore power".
Hope you get the chance to make it to Alaska!


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F.I.I.T Camp – This is the brainchild of my business partner Julie – Here is what it's all about.
It is Focused, Intentional, Intensity, Training! Oh Ya! F.I.I.T. Camp is the ultimate in total body fitness! It is an intense and fun, total body workout provided in a 45 minute to 1 hour class format encompassing all six components of physical fitness: cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, balance and body composition. It consists of an 8 to 10 minute warm up, 35 to 45 minutes of high intensity cardio intervals balanced with muscular endurance training to provide a workout that burns between 400 to 600 calories per session, and ends with 5 to 10 minutes of stretching. The core is always worked and the class may end with a 10-15 minute abdominal workout (if I don't target it a lot during the main session, which I usually do).
2. Who is it for?
It's for anyone who wants to be in the best shape of their lives and have the most fun they've ever had while doing it! In a nutshell, F.I.I.T. Camp is for everyone who is serious – about fitness and about having fun. Each session can be tailored to fit the fitness level of the participants. With each exercise given, a lower level and a higher level is also provided so each student can work as hard or as little as they want. I also provide modifications for people with injuries or other limitations. I currently teach people from their early twenties all they way up to their 70's.
3. What does the Acronym F.I.I.T. Stand For?
- Focused: It's important to focus on the task at hand. It's a chance to forget about work, problems, etc., and gives you a chance to Focus on yourself for one hour. It also means you need to Focus on what you are doing. Focus on the muscle(s) you are working, how you are feeling, and Focus on doing every single rep, move, second, properly and with good form.
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Currently we are only offering this to our corporate accounts namely UTI College. We do however plan on expanding this operation to other companies in Northern California. If you are interested, contact me from the link above.
General Guidelines
- Right now we are NOT a huge company, and we like to keep are class size relativity small – under 30 people – for quality control purposes.
- Our classes go for 6 week increments and we welcome people from all levels of in-shape-ness.
- Our classes last 1 hour and are done outside (yes that means if its raining, we still workout, and if it's hot, we still workout).
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Don't you hate it when people don't put their pricing on their page? To me its silly, I mean what are you afraid of? Prices apply to the 916 (Sacramento, Ca) area code.
We don't generally take classes under 10 people because there is not a lot of time leverage. We LOVE fitness, and LOVE helping people, but we also have bills to pay.
**NOTE** Past experience indicates that class sizes that are between 12 ~ 17 are generally the best; our instructors in this scenario have the greatest flexibility to attend to the needs of our students.
- 20 ~ 30 students: $85 per student – Classes last 6 weeks / 2x per week.
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