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Committee makes recommendation for Albemarle school redistricting
A committee of Albemarle County parents and community members recommended that the county school division redistrict more than 200 students at three elementary schools next year.
The redistricting proposal shared with Superintendent Pam Moran on Monday would reduce enrollment at Greer Elementary— currently among the county's most overcrowded schools— and bring more students to Woodbrook Elementary, where a 16-classroom addition is under construction.
The committee recommended expanding the Woodbrook district to include the Granite Park Apartments, and nearby residences south of Solomon Road and Commonwealth Drive. This adjustment would move 113 Greer students to Woodbrook next year.
In addition, 31 Greer students residing near Townwood Drive would be sent to Agnor-Hurt Elementary. These students would remain districted to attend Jack Jouett Middle School. Residences on Squirrel Path were left out of the committee's final recommendation.
The recommendation also would move 72 Agnor-Hurt students to Woodbrook through the redistricting of the Branchlands and Minor Ridge neighborhoods, and homes along Rio Road between Pine Haven Court and Wakefield Road.
The recommendation from the Redistricting Advisory Committee will be supplemented by a written report, which will be shared at the county School Board's Dec. 14 meeting. The School Board will hold a public hearing on the redistricting before voting on Moran's recommendation in January.
"This is a key milestone in the process, but the redistricting study and the work is just moving on to the next step," said Rosalyn Schmitt, director of planning and budget for the county schools.
The 13-member Redistricting Advisory met six times this year and held a community meeting at Agnor-Hurt on Nov. 9. After the meeting, 319 people completed a survey to share their opinions of three proposed redistricting scenarios.
Most survey respondents were dissatisfied with a scenario that would have moved 217 current Agnor-Hurt students to Woodbrook, and brought 138 students from Greer to Agnor-Hurt. Some parents said they were concerned by this scenario's concentration of low-income students at Agnor-Hurt and Greer.
Symia Tabron, the Burley Middle School representative on the Redistricting Advisory Committee, said recent immigrants and other residents of lower socioeconomic status may have been underrepresented in the survey and at the community meeting.
"Who is fighting for those families? That is my concern," Tabron said. "So often, this part of our society never has a voice."
Moran said that she and her staff would evaluate the committee's recommendation and potentially make changes to ensure the redistricting was done equitably.
"Every child matters in this process, whether we have heard from their parents or not," Moran said. "We want to be sure that every single child has been considered."
More than 10 percent of community survey respondents called for the county to pursue a comprehensive redistricting study involving all of Albemarle's schools.
Sidney Griffin, an Equity and Diversity representative on the Redistricting Advisory Committee, said he wished Meriwether Lewis and Virginia L. Murray elementary schools could have been included in the current redistricting study.
"We are looking at boundaries that already work pretty well for the [urban ring] schools," Griffin said. "We should be redistricting at the periphery of the districts, not at the heart."
The advisory committee previously had ruled out a scenario that would have sent some Greer students to Broadus-Wood Elementary.
Specifics about grandfathering families such that some students could finish in the schools they currently attend have yet to be determined.
On Monday, several committee members said they wanted the School Board to change the county's policy of not providing bus transportation for grandfathered students.


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Q: Why is it important to be involved in a conference like Pump Summit Americas?
Eugene: Pump Summit Americas provides an opportunity to interact with many industry professionals who are involved with the operations and maintenance of pumps and directly-related systems. The event provides an opportunity for pump experts to gather, network and exchange information.
Q: Have you been involved with the conference in the past?
Eugene: At Pump Summit Americas 2016, I was the moderator for one of the workshops, which was titled "Unsteady/Pulsating Flows in Pumps and their Control". I was one of three presenters during that particular workshop. This year, I am even more involved, as I am a member of the Steering Committee, and I will also be moderating and presenting for one of the workshops.
Q: What do you hope the conference will offer to delegates?
Eugene: I believe that the conference will offer delegates the opportunity to engage in knowledge transfer, network with other industry professionals and inspire productive discussions.
Q: Can you speak to the success of our initial Steering Committee meeting?
Eugene: Although our initial Steering Committee meeting started out slow, once we got started and began to look at 'the big picture', a very useful and meaningful program was planned. I believe that the Pump Summit Americas 2018 conference will be extremely beneficial to all delegates.
Q: How does the participation of an industry-leading Steering Committee help shape the conference?
Eugene: Having a professional, industry-leading Steering Committee ensures that the topics most relevant to the industry will be discussed during the conference. The Steering Committee did an excellent job of creating a conference program that will cover the most relevant and applicable topics for present-day pump users.
Q: What topics are you particularly interested in bringing to the table, and how do they serve the industry?
Eugene: The topics I'm particularly interested in bringing to the table are associated with piping and fluid dynamics (particularly vibrations and pulsations) in positive displacement (PD) pump piping systems. Often, the system dynamics, primarily the fluid dynamics, are minimally understood by those who own and/or operate pump systems. The topics we plan to cover in our workshop will use many case studies to cover concepts that can be applied to fix real-life PD pump piping vibration problems. Covering these topics will serve the industry by hopefully avoiding some piping failures, which could save money, avoid an environmental infraction or possibly even save one or more lives.
Q: Will you be presenting at the conference?
Eugene: I will be the moderator for the "Pulsating Flow Problems and Solutions" workshop. I will be opening the workshop by introducing the speakers and then offering a brief introduction and history of PD pump pulsation attenuation methods. This will then be followed by two case studies, presented by Nathan Poerner, Southwest Research Institute, and Tappan Souther, Liberty Resources.
Q: What kind of networking opportunities do you foresee arising from the conference?
Eugene: Pump Summit Americas offers invaluable networking opportunities, such as exchanging new contact information, finding new vendor options and exploring new career leads. This significant 2-day event will present these opportunities in the form of workshops, panel discussions, exhibiting hours, lunch hours and coffee breaks.
Q: How will Pump Summit Americas benefit young professionals?
Eugene: Bringing young professionals into these types of conferences is extremely important as it offers a fresh look at how old problems can be solved. Their involvement at these conferences also provides them with the necessary training for avoiding problems that have historically occurred.


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The most profound and graphic description ever delivered in English based on the classical works of Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali (795 ah) and Ibn Abi 'l-Dunya (281 ah). This series is covered over 21 lessons.
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Clay County, MO $ 260,000 Settlement
A family has settled their wrongful death suit against a Missouri nursing home. Plaintiffs' mother was admitted to the nursing home in order to receive assistance while her ribs healed due to a fall at her home and for monitoring of her anticoagulation (Coumadin) therapy.
Within thirty days of her admission, Plaintiff's mother was found non-responsive in her room at the nursing home. She was then transported via ambulance to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with a hemorrhagic stroke. Plaintiffs' mother died in the hospital seven days later. Plaintiff alleged the facility failed to follow the physician's orders regarding the monitoring required to resume the plaintiffs' mother's anticoagulation therapy, which ultimately led to her untimely death.
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"They don't ring a bell at the top," is an old aphorism of the Stock Market.
Its a way to say that market tops often come out of nowhere, and are unpredictable. But maybe, its just that we don't hear the bell. It may be ringing, but we just don't hear it.
I present for your consideration, a possible bell. A signal that has not occurred in the financial markets for 48 years. And when it came last time it portended one of the worst equity bear markets of all time.
This "bell" or indicator, it the price action of the 30 year US Treasury Bond. This bond is considered among the safest investments in the world, and one of the longest duration. As such it is the perfect sanctuary for those who are seeking long term safety.
Not sure about the financial future? invest in the Long Bond. Although your return is likely to be small, you have the absolute safety of the US Government, backing your investment.
Its not the return ON your principal, that these investors are looking for, its the return OF their principal, to paraphrase Will Rogers.
In Europe, Japan and around the world, this flight to safety has driven yields below zero. A negative yield, in pursuit of safety of principal.
Surprise: this move to safety has now also reached our shores.
Although the long bond has a nominally return above zero. Its real rate of return is now negative. The real rate of return is the return after calculating for inflation. And currently, the 30-year bond's yield is lower than the current level of inflation (as measured by the CPI-the Consumer Price Index).
The real rate of return on the long bond is now negative.
In In other words, in 30 years when the bond matures, you will receive less than you invested, in inflation-adjusted dollars.
Now all of this is quite personal to me. Because the last time this happened I had just graduated from the New York Institute of Finance and was a newly registered representative. A cub Stock Broker.
At the time the future looked bright. The Dow had topped the 1,000 marks and was floating on new highs. And it was precisely at that time, that the long bond flashed the same warning it is making today. The yield on the long bond dropped below the inflation rate.
And, like today, there was a lot of turmoil. We had seen riots in the street, and a huge campaign to end the Viet Nam War.
But markets held together, and little seemed to affect stocks. At least in the beginning.
But then little by little, the scales seemed to change.
Richard Nixon was the President, and he had taken some very big steps in terms of policy. New government agencies were created like OSHA, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration.
But perhaps most significantly, from a financial point of view, Nixon took the dollar off of the Gold Standard. For many, this took the basic safety net away from the currency. Now the dollar would float free.
Uncomfortable investors sought out the long bond. Bond yields fell as US Treasuries were snapped up by wary investors. Eventually, the Long Bond Yield fell below the inflation rate. Just as it is today.
That bell had rung.
Withing 2 years, Nixon would be driven from office, and the Stock Market would begin one of the worst Bear Markets of the 20th century.
A Bear Market, as we noted last week, which would not fully recover for 6 long years.
Again today, for the first time in half a century, that bell is ringing once again. The long bond is yielding less than the rate of inflation.


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During March, the temperature increases a little, and falls between 5 °C (41 °F ) and 11 °C (51.8 °F ). March is also a little windy.
Wearing a suit or jacket and a thin woolen sweater is suitable. Older travelers should also wear a wind coat.
March is a good time to watch the peach blossoms. The Ningbo Peach Flower Festival, held from March to April at Dongshan, holds many interesting activities such as the Thousand Unmarried Party, the Peach Flower Poetry Meeting, the exhibition of the Chinese Traditional Bellybands, group weddings, and so on, making a visit during this month interesting and spectacular. Tickets and hotels are easy to get because you are traveling during the off season.


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The idea of the Perennial Philosophy of Aldous Huxley leads one to the idea that God is too big for any one religion. How is it that sometimes people outgrow their religion of childhood? James Fowler, among others, has mapped out a model of spiritual development. Osho says that a person cannot enter into a spiritual life until he/she rebels against childish religious beliefs. Notes On A Spiritual Life intends to explore deeper understandings of an authentic spiritual life.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
How does your media diet influence your spirituality?
We live in the media age of irony and snark which often engages in calumny. In the realm of politics, our discourse has become not only uncivil but abusive, and intentionally so, as "negative" campaigning, it is believed, will lead to electoral victory.
The higher developed spiritually mature person will eschew such media products not because they are evil but because they are absurd and based on the drama of the ego. Just as one would not ingest tainted or spoiled food and beverages, the spiritually mature person would not consume tainted or spoiled media that promote values and beliefs that may be toxic to the human spirit.
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Well - that paragon of high journalism and integrity - Der Spiegel - beacon of honest, objective, and above-all "expert" reporting on the United States apparently has a problem. One of its reporters has been fired for inventing facts - and actually getting caught doing so. According to BBC News:
"German news magazine Der Spiegel has sacked an award-winning staff writer after accusing him of inventing details and quotes in numerous stories.
Claas Relotius "falsified articles on a grand scale and even invented characters", Der Spiegel said.
Among the articles in question are major features that had been nominated for or won awards, the magazine added. (...)
An investigation into a story by Mr Relotius about immigration and the US-Mexican border revealed that he had fabricated information about seeing a hand-painted sign in a town in Minnesota that read: "Mexicans Keep Out."
Fraudulent information appeared in other stories including one about inmates at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay and another about the US NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick."
Now wouldn't that have been quite fitting for the Amis to have an Auslaender Raus equivalent? Nothing would be more satisfying to the leftist-German psyche than to bring the cowboys right down to German standards - mitigating some pent-up xenophobia-guilt.
And on another front, Marc Pitzke - Amerika-Experte extraordinaire - has joined the rest of the Angry Left media in making nice with and even lauding the McCain/Bush "good Republicans" who they once bashed to no end so long as they threatened to exercise any real power. Now that they stand at odds with Trump, however, they are newfound heroes and lovable old foils.
Mr. Relotius is perhaps just the most overt of Spiegel liars, caught and sacked for being too brazen in his journalistic malpractice. But make no mistake: The lies of omission, spin and bias that have tainted Der Spiegel and Spiegel Online for decades continue unabated on an industrial scale. Some things never change...


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What to Bring for a Day of Hiking with the Family
On a hike, your family has no choice but to bond. Without TVs, reliable cell phone service and the stresses of work, you'll be able to focus on one another, for better or worse. Ideally, a family hike should be a chance to get fresh air, exercise, laugh together and make memories, but things will go downhill in a hurry if you fail to bring along some important items.
Everyone should be dressed for the weather before leaving home, and should wear hiking boots or sneakers and clothes that are comfortable enough to move in. The weather can change quickly, though, and as you and your children get hot or cold, you need to be able to adjust. Tie a sweatshirt or sweater around each child's waist, or carry them in your bag. Each adult needs to carry a fleece jacket or sweatshirt, too. Bring a poncho and a set of warm clothes for everyone in the event of rain. You can keep the clothes in the car so you can change as soon as you escape the downpour. Bring bathing suits if you're hiking near a swimming hole or other body of water where swimming is allowed.
When you're hiking with children, snacks are probably the most important thing you'll need to keep everyone happy. You'll also need plenty of food if you're hiking in a remote area, in the unlikely event you get stranded overnight. Bring trail mix -- don't skimp on the chocolate pieces -- along with dried fruit, energy bars, cheese slices, crackers, sliced vegetables and sandwiches for meal times. Pack anything crushable in hard plastic food containers. Each family member also needs to have her own full water bottle. If you don't know for sure that there's a safe drinking water source somewhere on the trail, bring two bottles per person.
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A first-aid kit needs to be part of any family hiking pack. Stock it with bandages, gauze, topical antiseptic, medication to soothe insect bites, tweezers, a compression bandage in case of a sprained ankle or wrist, and pain relievers and allergy medication in both adults' and children's dosages. Bring any inhalers, epipens, insulin or other prescription medications that any family member takes. Each hiker also needs to wear sweat-proof sunscreen and insect repellent, and you'll want to carry some tubes of each for reapplications during the day. Bring a brimmed hat and sunglasses for everyone as well. Every child preschool age and older needs a whistle that she can blow if she gets lost, and you'll want to carry one, too. Also bring a compass, a map of the trails, matches and a flashlight.
The Rest
Turn the woods into a science lab by encouraging your children to look down, up and all around. Bring a pair of binoculars and a magnifying glass, drawing pads and colored pencils for sketching, a camera and a small box for each child so she can collect leaves and rocks to take home. Toss a roll of toilet paper into your pack, along with a bar of biodegradable soap, a stack of paper towels and a travel pack of tissues. You'll also want to demonstrate how to care for the Earth by bringing along garbage bags to collect all your debris and carry it out at the end of the day.
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Dog-Related Sites:
Tightrope Patient Guide. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lmMJlP6AzxaTupqLW3RezdB5PsI0LoyuQvwWqQ0y6Co/edit
Torn Cruciate Ligament Brochure https://www.dodgevillevet.com/torn-cruciate-ligament-information/Tightrope Patient Guide
Basic Dog Care from Purina. (https://www.purina.com/dogs)
The Senior Dogs Project. A website devoted to looking out for older dogs. (http://srdogs.com/)
The American Kennel Club's list of dog breeds from A to Z. (https://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/)
Learn About Heartworm Disease in Dogs. (https://www.heartwormsociety.org/pet-owner-resources/heartworm-basics)
Finding Rover, the revolutionary facial recognition app. It's free! (https://findingrover.com/)
Cat-Related Sites:
Is your cat destroying your furniture? There is help to Save the Couches. (http://www.savethecouches.com/)
The Cat Fancier's Association has information on cat shows, cat breeds, cat care, as well as a showcase of top winning cats. (http://www.cfa.org/)
Cat care tips from Purina (https://www.purina.com/cats)
Cornell University Veterinary School's Feline Health Center website contains information on medical topics relating to cat health care. (https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institutes/cornell-feline-health-center)
Ohio State University's Indoor Cat Initiative provides information related to enriching the lives of indoor cats. (https://indoorpet.osu.edu/cats/)
Information about Feline Hyperthyroidism (https://thyrocat.com/feline-hyperthyroidism-overview.php)
The Internet Guide to Feline Diabetes. (http://mycathasdiabetes.com/)
Nutrition (Pet Food) Sites:
Hills Pet Food-Hill's believes daily nutrition is the single most important thing you can do to enrich and lengthen the special relationship you have with your pet. (https://www.hillspet.com/)
Hill's Special Offers and Promotions (https://www.hillspet.com/special-offers)
Purina-Making a big difference in the lives of pets (https://www.purina.com/)
Purina Special Offers and Promotions (https://www.purina.com/pro-plan/coupons)
Petdiets.com-Homemade Diet Recipes, Nutrition Library. (https://www.petdiets.com/)
Petfoodology – the scientific study of pet nutrition by veterinary nutrition specialists and experts. (https://vetnutrition.tufts.edu/petfoodology/)
Balance IT (https://secure.balanceit.com/recipegenerator_ver4/index.php?rotator=EZ)
General Pet Sites:
VeterinaryPartner.com is here to support you in the care of your pets by providing reliable, up-to-date animal health information from the veterinarians and experts of the Veterinary Information Network (VIN), the world's first and largest online veterinary database and community. (https://veterinarypartner.vin.com/default.aspx?pid=19239&id=)
WSAVA Guidelines-Vaccination Guidelines (https://www.wsava.org/guidelines/vaccination-guidelines)
Are you looking to adopt a pet? Are you looking for a lost pet? You can do both at PetFinder.com. (https://www.petfinder.com/)
Recommendations for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of parasite infections. (https://www.petsandparasites.org/)
Are you worried your that your pet consumed something dangerous? The Pet Poison Helpline can help. (https://www.petpoisonhelpline.com/)
The American Veterinary Medical Association (https://www.avma.org/public/Pages/default.aspx)
The Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Association (https://www.wvma.org/?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=213)
The American Animal Hospital Association (https://www.aaha.org/your-pet/pet-owner-education/ask-aaha/)
Caring.com-Assisted Living or Seniors with Pets. Help with pet ownership and benefits for seniors (https://www.caring.com/)
Pet Loss Information:
The University of Florida offers a Grief Support Hotline plus some articles on coping with pet loss. (https://smallanimal.vethospital.ufl.edu/resources/pet-loss-support/)
Tufts University offers a Grief Support Hotline and articles regarding the loss of a pet. (http://emerald.tufts.edu/vet/petloss/)
Memorial Pet Service: Pet Loss Organization (https://www.petlossresourcecenter.org/)
The University of Illinois Grief Support Hotline (https://vetmed.illinois.edu/animal-care/care-pet-loss-helpline/)
Traveling With Your Pet:
Visit DogFriendly before you plan your trip. (https://www.dogfriendly.com/)
Travelling with your cat by the Feline Advisory Bureau (https://icatcare.org/)
Basic information on domestic and international travel of pets by the US Department of Agriculture (https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/importexport/sa_animals/sa_pet_travel/)


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by Tabatha Vargo
Big girls need love, too, but at what cost?
Lilly is loaded, not only with money, but with weight. Both things she could do without. But even with her undesired millionaire status, she doesn't hold on to false hopes of finding true love. So when a sexy stranger comes into her life dripping with seduction, she finds it hard to resist. The bigger they are the harder they fall and Lilly falls straight through the floor in love with Mr. Sexy. Too bad he's there for all the wrong reasons.
The chance of losing it all will make you do some crazy things and Devin's willing to do whatever it takes to keep his life together. All seems lost when out of nowhere he's approached by a Millionaire Momma with an offer he can't refuse. But even a womanizer like Devin has a heart and when the short, chunky girl with the carefree attitude breaks through his icy façade, he finds that losing everything takes on a whole new meaning.
***Warning: this book contains graphic language, sex, and violence. Mature readers only. Not intended for young adult readers.***
I am a sucker for books with a plus size heroine (I wonder why? haha). The best part of this particular book, however, was the twist of how Devin comes across to be in Lilly's life. It shows the reader how there are more layers than what we see in front of our faces. And any book, any writing, that can give it's characters layers and purpose is the kind of book that I know I will enjoy. On the Plus Side does exactly that. Lilly is a sweet and intelligent woman who doesn't ask for the trouble she inevitable finds herself in. I truly hurt for the pain she feels throughout the book. Devin is a sweet man who means well - who takes care of those he cares about. Layers. This is all about caring for these characters that are not perfect, but who strive to do better for themselves and those they care about.
Even though this story is trope-y, I could very easily see myself seeing these characters as people. Now that, is good story telling.


text: Solidarity with Garment Workers in Struggle in Bangladesh! The capitalist system exploits labor in order to make profit. One of the centers of global exploitation is in Bangladesh, a country which produces clothes for many global brands. (It is the world's second largest exporter of apparel, after China.) Workers suffer poor health and safety conditions and are forced to work for miserable wages. Currently, the minimum wage is the equivalent of about 63 USD per month, with long working hours. Various unions in the industry are demanding a raise of this minimum to around 190 USD. A meeting last week did not bring the expected results, with the garment industry leaders claiming that this would be "impossible". They should propose another minimum on Monday, July 16. Read more about Solidarity with Garment Workers in Struggle in Bangladesh!Español


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While most people were out on Black Friday enjoying the sales, I spent my day at home with a box of pizza and a stolen Netflix password watching the Gilmore Girls revival for 5 hours straight, officially named Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.
Gilmore Girls: A year in the Life has been a year in the making ever since the revival was announced last November. I have since been eagerly waiting for the new episodes with high expectations and they did not disappoint.
The four 90-minute-long episodes each titled after the seasons are truly a love letter to the original series, which abruptly ended in 2007 with a lacklustre conclusion that left fans without the final four words that series creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino had intended for the last episode. But as the series built up a cult following and demand for a revival grew, fans now have those final four words that they have been waiting for. I can say that it was definitely worth the wait.
Even if you're new to the world of Gilmore Girls, anyone can watch the revival and fall in love with the story. As Palladino describes, it is a simple story about three Gilmore women from three generations at different crossroads in their lives. Nine years after the end of the original series, Lorelai Gilmore (played by Parenthood's Lauren Graham) is happily working and living in Stars Hollow, the fictional charming small town where the series is set and her daughter Rory, having long graduated from Yale where we last saw her in 2007, is now busy pursuing a career in journalism which sees her jet-setting between Stars Hollow and London. Meanwhile, it has been 6 months since the passing of Richard Gilmore, Father to Lorelai, Grandfather to Rory and wife to Emily Gilmore who is severely grieving and trying to find ways to cope.
The nostalgia hits hard as all the familiar quirks of the series return with it's coffee obsession, pop-tarts, fast-paced dialogue and endless pop-culture references. The revival answers questions left unanswered from the original run and beloved townies return; Kirk, the resident weirdo, has a pet pig named Petal and has started a business called ööö-ber, not to be confused with Uber of course.
All of Rory's past boyfriends return and make cameo appearances (#TeamJess for the record), and the cameo's don't end there as Melissa McCarthy and Alex Kingston (known as River Song on Doctor Who) grace our screens. Kingston plays an eccentric character whose hilarious dialogue has won my favourite quote of the series: "I'm voting for Brexit. It's just a protest vote. It will never win." It is this combination of humour, one hundred miles an hour dialogue and outlandish characters that makes Gilmore Girls such a beloved series.
Gilmore Girls defines comfort TV – it is so raw and human and that is why everyone can relate to it. From family therapy, break-ups, spontaneous soul-searching adventures to one night stands with Wookiee's, it will truly make you laugh while you cry and smile when you're angry.
The revival is best appreciated having watched the original series, so I highly recommend watching from the beginning and letting your obsession begin.
It will be worth it for those physically jaw-dropping final four words.
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I'm not sure this post qualifies as a Five Minute Friday because it is now Monday. In fact, I saw the word on Thursday evening and made choice to abstain from writing a five-minute post this week.
I had fully accepted my decision until I realized my Scripture reading plan selections for the last two days {Romans 14 & 15} have been full of the word {accept} and the word's meaning as relates to followers of Christ.
So, whether this is for anyone else or just for my own pondering, here I am setting my timer for 5 and writing…
Therefore, accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory. Romans 15:7
Now here's a challenge for our modern day. Apparently as much a challenge then as it is now. Simply this… accept each other. Christ accepted me and because He accepted me even while I was still a rebel and lacking wisdom and knowledge of Scripture, I too am to accept other believers who have also been accepted by Christ.
If I understand this directive correctly. If a Christ follower is acceptable to Christ then they should also be acceptable to me. If I am acceptable to Christ then other Christ followers should equally find me acceptable.
That sounds so simple. And yet… the struggle is real.
So why do you condemn another believer?
Why do you look down on another believer?
Remember, we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
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In Romans 14 Paul preached an acceptance of other believers whether they agree with you about particular dietary restrictions or not. Some believe it is right to eat only vegetables and some believe they have no dietary restrictions. Reading through this chapter of Scripture I realize as Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes, "There's nothing new under the sun".
Again in Romans 15, Paul encourages believers to recognize what makes us different is not as important as what – rather WHO unites us. We are followers of Christ. If God is for us who can be against us? And may it not be that we who are of one family under God our Father are against us.
Acceptance of fellow believers has been a topic in my particular church over the last several years. We've sought the Lord's face in prayer: confession, repentance, asking Him to teach us to love and to open our hearts to all the people of our community.
We've each needed to face our prejudices and the natural tendencies people have to congregate with people who look like them, talk like them, think along certain similar streams of thought and share the same traditions.
Yesterday as my husband and I drove home from church reflecting on the last month or so of teaching on spiritual gifts, we took note of the immensity of the breakthrough which had just taken place. Surely there had been a shift in the heavenly realm. Surely in the realm of God and His mighty angel armies, a victory had been won.
We are all followers of Christ, members of one body – all with different gifts so that we will be a fully equipped body to fulfill the good plans of our Lord. Our diversity of gifts as believers (every gift as detailed in Scripture) is to be accepted and celebrated as one body for the encouragement of one another, for the building up of God's family and for offering the Good News of the Gospel to our community for the Glory of God.
It is the acceptance of one another as followers of Christ, in all our variations, simply because Christ accepted each of us, we boldly rise up in our community an effective, loving and unified family ready to offer the Good News of salvation to all who will receive.
Unified, accepting one another in all our diversity, we are able to proclaim these words of the apostle Paul:
I bring you the Good News so that I might present you as an acceptable offering to God, made holy by the Holy Spirit.
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It is increasingly likely that, unless things change, on 1 January 2021, we will have a no deal Brexit. The only agreement between the EU and the UK would then be the already ratified Withdrawal Agreement.
There are only 50 working days left in which to make a broader agreement. The consequences of a failure to do so for Ireland will be as profound, and even as long lasting, that those of Covid 19.
A failure to reach an EU/UK Agreement would mean a deep rift between the UK and Ireland.
It would mean heightened tensions within Northern Ireland, disruptions to century's old business relations, and a succession of high profile and prolonged court cases between the EU and the UK dragging on for years.
Issues, on which agreement could easily have been settled in amicable give and take negotiations, will be used as hostages or for leverage on other issues. The economic and political damage would be incalculable.
We must do everything we can to avoid this.
Changing the EU Trade Commissioner in such circumstances would be dangerous. Trying to change horses in mid stream is always difficult. But attempting to do so at the height of a flood, in high winds, would be even more so.
The EU would lose an exceptionally competent Trade Commissioner when he was never more needed. An Irishman would no longer hold the Trade portfolio. The independence of the European commission, a vital ingredient in the EU's success would have been compromised…a huge loss for all smaller EU states.
According to Michel Barnier, the EU/UK talks , which ended last week, seemed at times to be going "backwards rather than forwards".
The impasse has been reached for three reasons.
Firstly, the two sides have set themselves incompatible objectives.
The EU side wants a "wide ranging economic partnership" between the UK and the EU with "a level playing field for open and fair competition". The UK also agreed to this objective in the joint political declaration made with the EU at the time of the Withdrawal Agreement.
Since it agreed to this, the UK has had a General Election, and it has changed its mind. Now it is insisting, in the uncompromising words of it chief negotiator, on
"sovereign control over our laws, our borders, and our waters".
This formula fails to take account of the fact that any Agreement the UK might make with the EU (or with anyone else) on standards for goods, services or food stuffs necessarily involves a diminution of sovereign control.
Even being in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) involves accepting its rulings which are a diminution of "sovereign control". This is why Donald Trump does not like the WTO and is trying to undermine it.
The Withdrawal Agreement from the EU (WA), which the UK has already ratified, also involves a diminution of sovereign control by Westminster over the laws that will apply in Northern Ireland (NI) and thus within the UK.
The WA obliges the UK to apply EU laws on tariffs and standards to goods entering NI from Britain, ie. going from one part of the UK to another.
This obligation is one of the reasons given by a group of UK parliamentarians, including Ian Duncan Smith, David Trimble, Bill Cash, Owen Patterson and Sammy Wilson, for wanting the UK to withdraw from the Withdrawal Agreement, even though most of them voted for it last year!
Sovereignty is a metaphysical concept, not a practical policy.
Attempting to apply it literally would make structured, and predictable, international cooperation between states impossible. That is not understood by many in the UK Conservative Party.
The second difficulty is one of negotiating method. The legal and political timetables do not gel.
The UK wants to discuss the legal texts of a possible Free Trade Agreement first, and leave the controversial issues, like level playing field competition and fisheries, over until the endgame in October.
The EU side wants serious engagement to start on these controversial issues straight away .
Any resolution of these controversial issues will require complex legal drafting, which cannot be left to the last minute. After all, these legal texts will have to be approved by The EU and UK Parliaments before the end of this year.
There can be no ambiguities or late night sloppy drafting.
The problem is that the UK negotiator cannot yet get instructions, on the compromises he might make , from Boris Johnson. Boris Johnson is preoccupied instead with Covid 19, and with keeping the likes of Ian Duncan Smith and Co. onside. He is a last minute type of guy.
The Third difficulty is that of making provision for with the Trade Agreements the UK wants to make in future with other countries like the US, Japan and New Zealand. Freedom to make such deals was presented to UK voters as one of the benefits of Brexit.
The underlying problem here is that the UK government has yet to make up its mind on whether it will continue with the EU's strict precautionary policy on food safety, or adopt the more permissive approach favoured by the US.
Similar policy choices will have to be made by the UK on chemicals, energy efficiency displays, and geographical indicators.
The more the UK diverges from existing EU standards on these issues, the more intrusive will have to be the controls on goods coming into Northern Ireland from Britain, and the more acute will be the distress in Unionist circles in NI.
Issues that are uncontroversial in themselves will assume vast symbolic significance, and threaten the peace of our island.
The UK is likely be forced to make side deals with the US on issues like hormone treated beef, GMOs and chlorinated chicken. The US questions the scientific basis for the existing EU restrictions, and has won a WTO case on beef on that basis. It would probably win on chlorinated chicken too.
If the UK conceded to the US on hormones and chlorination, this would create control problems at the border between the UK and the EU, wherever that border is in Ireland.
Either UK officials would enforce EU rules on hormones and chlorination on entry of beef or chicken to this island, or there would be a huge international court case.
All this shows that, in the absence of some sort of Partnership Agreement between the EU and the UK, relations could spiral out of control.
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Whether it's on the field or in the sky, Abby Wambach has shown us she can soar to new heights.
The Olympic champion of the U.S. women's national soccer team flew in an F-15 while visiting the Montana Air National Guard on Sept. 11.
"Tomorrow is the big day. Flight is at 9 a.m. Mostly excited about the F-15, but also a little terrified. Yikes," she tweeted the night before.
Wambach began her visit to the Great Falls International Airport, Mont., on Sept. 8, to get briefed for her Sept. 11 anniversary flight.
Wambach was also there to speak with the airmen of the 120th Fighter Wing who work at the airport.
Maj. Cody Smith, a 120th public affairs officer, said Wambach was a great inspiration and spoke to the airmen about promoting diversity, encouragement, empowerment of women in the military and of women all over the world.
"There was a distinct purpose, a multitude, for her visit, including promoting teamwork and fitness, which members of the military can understand," he said.
Tech. Sgt Tammy Wajer, the first woman to be hired in the maintenance operations center for the 120th, saw similarities between Wambach and women in the service.
"I think she's very passionate at what she does, and I think I can speak for all the women of the 120th that we love what we do and if we didn't, we wouldn't be here," she said in an interview with TV station KRTV.
"Couldn't be more proud to take this flight on 9/11 anniversary. Hats off to those who lost their lives and those who serve now to protect ours," Wambach tweeted, followed by more tweets with photos of her in the plane.
Wambach took the back seat for the 50-minute sortie and watched as the pilot conducted training in basic fighter maneuvers, Smith said.
"She was in the back seat, flying with Lt. Col. Larry Gardner, and she got to see some of the physical demands it takes to be a fighter pilot," Smith said.
"I can't believe that men and women around our country get to do that for a job, I thought that I had the coolest job in the world, I think that maybe I'm reconsidering, I mean, it was amazing," she said.
While in Montana, Wambach hosted a soccer camp with the kids of Get Fit Great Falls, a health and wellness organization, and worked to educate residents about the importance of maintaining physical fitness.
She said she chose to come to Great Falls because she liked that it was a smaller city in a largely rural state, the Great Falls Tribune reported.
"I like to get out to the places away from the population centers and celebrate my gold medal with my fans around the United States because I don't feel like this is just my gold medal. I want to share it with my fans."
Wambach praised military members for all their efforts.
"This is just the responsibility factor, when it comes to being able to travel the country, and perform and compete for my country, I need to reach out and thank those who allow me to have that chance and freedom to do so," she said in an interview with KRTV.
The Olympic champion said she was thankful for her visit and her experience with the 120th.
"Unbelievable commitment by the air force and all our service men and women all over the world. Thank you" and "Best thing I've EVER done. Thank you endlessly. #missedmycalling" she tweeted.
View Abby's tweets from her flight on her twitter page.


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text: Housing activists, Louisiana residents call for Road Home fix Last week, Hurricane Katrina survivors packed two Greater New Orleans churches and voiced some of the frustration, anger, and hurt that they've been nursing over the "Road Home" recovery program. The public meetings, in St. Bernard parish and New Orleans' Ninth Ward, were held to inform residents about inequities and corruption in the housing program. Ada McMahon Jan 10 2011 View Comments Tags: Louisiana Law and Policy Recovery and Renewal Land and Housing new orleans hurricane katrina community action road home st bernard parish disaster recovery contractors corruption fraud governor kathleen blanco


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Yatra.com is now making it easier to search and find flight related information on its Android and iOS mobile application. In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Yatra has introduced Voice Search to revolutionize and simplify the user experience while booking domestic and international flights. With smartphone prices crashing and penetration increasing rapidly, the Indian traveller of today is very comfortable making flight bookings via their mobile and the Voice Search feature will go a long way in making the experience a very easy and seamless one.
The new Voice Search is extremely simple to use. One can simply tap on the microphone icon appearing at the top right on your mobile phone and speak out the travel details, e.g. 'I want a flight from Delhi to Mumbai for two adults next Tuesday'. The flight results with all the options will appear instantly. Voice Search is particularly useful for long queries that would otherwise require plenty of details to be typed in, such as number of travelers, number of adults or children. The brilliance of the feature is that popular holidays are synchronized into it, so one can search for 'flight from Delhi to Sydney for two adults on Christmas' and instantly get all the available flight options for two adults from Delhi to Sydney on 25th December.
Commenting on the development, Sharat Dhall, COO (B2C), Yatra.com said, "Over the last 18 months, we have seen a significant increase in searches and bookings via mobiles and hence the introduction of a feature like Voice Search to make it easier for the mobile user to search and book flights. We think it will play a transformational role in the way flight bookings are made. Voice searches on search engines are already over 20% of all mobile searches and continue to grow every day. At Yatra, we have always been at the forefront of technology innovation in the online travel space and the addition of Voice Search is in line with our endeavor to improve user experience and create happy travellers. We think that this will become an integral part of the travel booking experience in the future."


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About Us
Our Name
Reformed has its origin in the 16th Century Reformation, at which time the Church was reformed by a returning to the Bible as the rule for all of life. We seek also to be continually Reforming, that is, continually turning and returning to God's Word to direct our lives.
Church means "the called out ones." It is those who are called together in new spiritual life in Jesus out of their old spiritual darkness. God has called the Church to be the pillar and ground of the truth. It has existed since the beginning of the world, and will be until its end, since it is God Himself Who calls His people out, gathering them, protecting them and preserving them.
Our Beliefs
As members of Christ's church, We each confess this truth:
My comfort is, that I am not my own but belong not to myself, but to my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ. The reason I have this comfort is because He has fully paid for all my sins.
We believe that in worship, our gracious God enters into a dialogue or conversation
with His people. He speaks to us through the reading of scripture and the preaching of His Word. We respond with songs and hymns, and with prayers, offerings and thanksgiving.
Romans 10, Ephesians 5:19
Our beliefs are summarized in the Ecumenical Creeds and by the Three Forms of Unity. These confessions are widely accepted as official statements of doctrine by Reformed churches.
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Day 150 – September 3, 2014
Like levels in a role-playing game, there are stages to attending Burning Man. A great generalizer, I enumerate these stages as follows:
Beginner (2-4 visits)
At Black Rock City, everything is unexpected and overwhelming–the lights, the scale, the crazy people–and most of all, the environment. Days are scorching: August in the fucking desert!? Nights are shockingly cold. Dust is everywhere, in bags, in food, on the hairs of your arms. Yet the playa is achingly beautiful, making even a can of Spam shine.
The culture is amazing…ly weird and shocking. No money!? No jobs!? This crazy utopia needs transplantation back to the rest of the world. Much time is spent chortling with strangers effusively over common amazement.
The week is a slog from one harsh environment to the next, from an unexpected dust storm to a night's assortment of pills, to a glaring day-long hangover. Cooking consists of a sack of nuts, Clif bars, pudding cups, and way too much Ramen. The stove never got unpacked or someone forgot propane.
Pictures are taken often and haphazardly… of everything: the surreal blue Porta-Potties, cracks in the ground, and passed-out friends. Pictures are needed to document experiences and prove existence to Ma and incredulous co-workers.
Costumes are cobbled together from fun fur, your brother's Fez, a feathered boa (not allowed? Whoops), dresses (if you are a guy), and military surplus goods. There is not much sewing, mostly creative use of safety pins, hot glue, and staples.
Batteries, so many batteries, are consumed and thrown away in headlamps, air-mattress inflators, electroluminescent (EL – it is "el" or "E.L."?) wire, and Christmas lights.
Intermediate (4-10 visits)
If the beginner is buffeted and baffled, the intermediate strives to control the environment and overcome the elements. Black Rock may not be beaten, but it can be tamed.
How to make the desert bearable? Years are spent building, collapsing, reworking, and perfecting shade structures commensurate with engineering fades. Throw tarps over PVC hoops to find relief from the sun, but tarps turn into one hell of a chaotic sail when the wind blows. Try next a geodesic dome, bought from a friend, with jagged and bent struts that never bolt back the same way. Try instead a trendy Styrofoam hex-a-yurt. These impregnable huts do shut out both the sun and outside cacophony, but a yurt reeks from a week's worth of fetid bodies (like your awful, fighting roommate) and eventually flakes away into Styrofoam crumbles. Whoops.
Cajole friends into a theme camp. Learn organizational dynamics and the difficulty of even a simple project. Friends fall into fisticuffs when one partner sleeps with another couple. Whoops.
Freshen up cooking on the Playa. Indian food isn't bad from boiled bags. Some vegetables, like potatoes, do survive the week. A small stove can make a great cup of coffee.
Schedule the drugs in a weekly regimen to prevent tolerance and cross-reactivity. Still take too much and suffer agonizing, stark-day hangovers.
No need for so many batteries. Rent instead a little gas generator. Put its rumble far away from your own camp, much to the consternation of your woken neighbors.
Costumes become more abstract and themed with the camp. Everyone dresses one night as rabbits, the next as rabbis, and the last as rabies. The new camp member's girlfriend has a sewing machine. Score!
Take photos of cherished art, art cars, and installations during pinpoint tours of Center Camp, the Temple, and the Man. You know what you like – bag those images on Playa bike safaris in saris.
Advanced (7-12 visits)
You've figured it all out. You can live comfortably in the desert almost indefinitely. You have rented a storage locker in Reno from which you cart out your quonset hut and nested tents. You figured out the superiority of porous agricultural shade netting (or fancy aluminet) over impermeable tarps. You rented a truck with a trailer to haul matching living room furniture to the desert, furniture that otherwise sits in storage 50 weeks a year.
Your kitchen unfolds into four burners, a lobster pot boiler, and three types of coffee makers. You eat vegetables most nights with the occasional mango because a restaurant supply company air-drops fresh produce and salmon twice weekly to your camp.
Center Camp, bah! The Man, you have not visited for years! The Temple is for tourists. The best parties are at 2:00 and K, and may require an invite. Fortunately, you know Platypus and most of the indie DJ's on that particular art car.
You are part of a village, a giant art car, or a granted art piece. You arrive a week before the gates open to the plebian masses so that you can set up, acclimate, and commence the drug regimen.
Benders before gates open are for pros. Drugs have moved on from "E" and pot cookies to obscure combinations of numbers and letters: 2-CB, 4-alpha, 25-i. You consume these Scrabble tiles mostly by yourself or feed them to your unwitting friends.
You have seen already much of the art from previous years, or art like it. The Cubatron LED array is this year a toroid, last year a gherkin. The flaming octopus is back–it was so grand (amaze-balls!) two years ago, now it looks a little tired.
The camera stays home. Why photograph what you have already seen? Furthermore, everyone back home already knows you attend Burning Man every year and are tired of your stories and pictures.
The little generators have been sold in favor of an electrical grid dropped like magic by either Solar Snow Koan or that friend from DPW. There's a large freezer for perishables and a small propane-powered refrigerator for coconut water and fancy beer.
You stopped wearing costumes many years ago and show up in your San Francisco clothes. It just happens that your San Francisco clothes consist of tribal accouterments, steampunk accessories, and bespoke hats. You already have a consistent look wherever you are.
Yet, with so much overcome over the years and so much already seen, why are you here? What brings you back, year after year after year, when every year you assert that this year is your last?
I don't know. There may be an Expert fourth stage that I have yet to unlock.


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The Continental: From the World of John Wick
As a spin-off of the hit film trilogy John Wick. This series will focus on the hotel chain that is home to the world's league of assassins.
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What if you're out several miles from the trailhead during a winter hike, and you find yourself in an emergency situation in which you've run out of drinking water. In the video below, the folks over at Vermont-based Peak Survival offer some interesting and "outside of the box" alternatives for creating and storing drinking water. These are probably some good skills to learn and remember for anyone who ventures out into the wilderness during the winter months:
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Procuring Water in a Winter Survival Situation
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3 comments
- Unknown said...
Thanks, I would love to see more of your videos! Very informative and potentially live saving.
Do you have a blog or direct link?
- December 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM
- The Smoky Mountain Hiker said...
Steven - actually, that video isn't mine. It's from a company called Peak Survival, which I know nothing about. Here's their link:
- December 14, 2013 at 1:46 PM
- Bali Hut Super Store said...
Informative video for campers and hikers. I love to see more from this video too. Thanks for sharing it!
- January 14, 2014 at 1:43 AM
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Aspirespace Rocket Engineering Society
Over the years, the number of aeronautical engineers within Aspirespace has reached better than evens, so we felt it was time that we embarked on studies of winged rocket vehicles.
Actually, the better reason is that we discovered that the only British launch-
Dr. David Ashford of Bristol Spaceplanes has come to the conclusion that Britain really isn't suitable for the launching of traditional vertical-
We thoroughly agree with David Ashford, and so we're continuing the amateur work on Waverider spaceplanes in the UK.
We have also conceived three suborbital one-
With each successive ship: Spacedare, Swift, Transform, several parameters increase:
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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." ― C.S. Lewis
Owned and Unread Project
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Modoc: the True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived by Ralph Helfer
I had high hopes for this book -- what's not to love about elephants? And the "true story" of an amazing elephant and his lifelong friendship with a trainer? Well, it would be amazing, if it were, in fact, all true. But sadly, not so much.
This book out pretty interesting, with a fairly good narrative. Basically, it's the story of a young boy, Bram, who was raised with a circus elephant, and spent most of his life with her throughout fantastic events -- both wonderful and tragic -- around the globe. There are ocean voyages, a shipwreck, mystical encounters in faraway lands, bandits, benevolent royalty, wars -- you name it.
But as I read this amazing narrative -- complete with dialogue, which is always slightly suspect in a book that's reporting elements of years ago -- I was slightly put off by the writing and its insider knowledge of people's thoughts and feelings. And a lot of the events are so fantastic that they just don't ring true. Plus, this story is oddly lacking in concrete details. For starters, the date of this miraculous birth is never mentioned -- not even the year! The reader can only assume that it is sometime in the early part of the 20th century. In fact, there's not an actual date mentioned in the entire book. The more I read this book, the more it started to feel like a fable or fantastic folk tale, not nonfiction.
Since I am a curious person (and because I spend far too much time surfing the internet) after I finished the book, I began Googling for actual facts. It quickly became obvious that Ralph Helfer studied at the James Frey School of Nonfiction Writing -- that is, playing pretty fast and loose with the facts. Modoc seems like an amalgamation of a lot of different stories, different elephants, etc.
If Helfer had just said the story was inspired by actual events, I might have bought it -- the story, though flawed and over-the-top, would probably have found some satisfied readers. But the fact that he's trying to pass this as a TRUE STORY is just so irritating, it's really taken away from the experience of reading the book. (The fact that it is listed as nonfiction by the library is just eye-rolling).
I really need to be a little more discerning when I choose nonfiction. I did take another look at the Goodreads reviews for the rest of the books on my TBR Pile Challenge List, which is all nonfiction, and it seems like those that aren't memoirs are fairly respected -- there are obviously some aren't necessarily universally loved, but they actually have footnotes, indices, and/or bibliographies.
Memoirs are another story altogether. If an author states at the beginning, that basically, this is how I remember this incident, or that certain characters or events may have been combined, I might be forgiving. How can someone remember an entire conversation years later? It's different than if they're quoting a print document like a letter. Essentially, the reader has to assume that this is the writer's memory (or interpretation) of certain events. Looking back on my TBR Pile Challenge list, I realized that exactly half of these books are essentially memoirs or opinions.
As I've mentioned, I've been reading a lot more nonfiction in the past few years -- maybe this also means I need to be more selective. Does the popularity of nonfiction also mean an increase in thinly veiled fiction? (And is it really more popular, or do I just think so because I've finally embraced nonfiction?) Bloggers, how discriminating are you about your nonfiction? Are there any "true stories" that you later found out weren't completely accurate?
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That is too bad that the author did not add a note in the book to the effect that "x percent of what I write here is true, and x percent is about other elephants", or some such wording. The idea of the book sounds good, since I do admire elephants.ReplyDelete
Second comment from me :) I like reading biographies, especially about the Tudor period and about the Mitford family. "Sisters" is an excellent book about the Mitfords. Scholars and family members disagree on so much, but it is fun to read and try to sort it out for myself.ReplyDeleteReplies
I loved "Sisters" -- one of my favorite books last year, could not put it down!!! I have two other books by Jessica Mitford on my TBR list, "Hons and Rebels" and "Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford." I hope to read one of them this year also.Delete
No dates in a non-fiction book? Yeah, that would seem suspicious. I would have Googled it all too. I bet if it had been written later than 1998 there would have been more of an internet stink about it. We don't let things like this go anymore. ;)ReplyDelete
Back in 2008, the only kind of nonfiction I ever read was memoirs, and then at some point, I just got to where I didn't trust them and preferred to read fiction if it was going to be so subjective anyway.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes! If he had just said it was fiction INSPIRED by a real elephant, I would have liked it a lot more. Hopefully the memoirs I have on my list are better. I'm already reading a biography of Queen Victoria's daughters that's much better. If nothing else, it has footnotes!Delete
PS - I've heard other people say similar things about this book.ReplyDelete
It seems so insignificant, but a small disclaimer like "INSPIRED BY" or "MY INTERPRETATION OF" is so, so important. It's all about honesty. I think our brains process fiction and nonfiction differently, and with nonfiction we rightly expect some level of intellectual factuality.ReplyDelete
Sadly, it seems to be more and more acceptable for non-fiction writers to create fiction in the guise of non-fiction. I'm reading Starvation Heights right now, and though it's fascinating, playing "fast and loose" is running rampant.ReplyDelete
I've heard that it's easier to get non-fiction published than fiction, which might be fueling the quasi-non-fiction trend we're seeing.
The most obvious flaw was his repeated reference to Modoc's massive tusks and the gold tips he'd put on them. In all the pictures of her that were taken, there was no sign of any tusks!ReplyDelete


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Are there too many airports in France?
95% of French flights use just 16 (out of 84) airports
SNCF prepares to cut TGV costs to beat rivals
Euro-MPs ban electric fishing
Tougher rules on job seeking in France under review
Yew 'cave' is tree of the year
UK OAPs sent €5,296 healthcare bill in error
New pledge to get rid of mobile blackspots in France
Cycling to be taught to all in France
'Don't let Brexit block finance reforms'
Take practical protective steps while Brexit talks continue
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Mitterrand's vineyard rock protected
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The French aren't ranting all the time – they are 'verbal jousting'
Bocuse: The French chef who made cooking a great art
Notaire should have checked on Google
What help is available in France to people caring for relatives?
Why can't I find gammon in France?
We have no carte grise for our caravan
Who is responsible if tree falls on line?
If I become French will this protect husband's residency?
Make sense of... The micro-entrepreneur
The difference between government, private and state pensions, and how they are taxed
The best way to move your UK pension to France each month
Difficult decisions for school leavers in France
European regulation closes advisor pay loophole (for now)
After 20 years, it took a move to France to diagnose cancer
Mythbuster: Unemployment benefit is over-generous in France
Late-running 3G on RER...
Double the numbers cycle to work when paid to pedal
What is tax benefit of leaving money in will to a charity?
Why should I pay social charges?
Have rules changed for B&Bs in France?
How can I help rental visitors should they have problems with the wifi service if I am in the UK?
Building a 'passive house' means no more heating bills
Should I tell Cpam I am French?
Will tax cut benefit holiday home?
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They closed the library so we set up our own
Lifeline lets older people pick up their lives again
France takes lead on glyphosate alternatives
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Walking sticks are both traditional and beautiful
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French property: What you can buy on the 'Smic'
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Hens need much more than kitchen waste
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Interview: actress/singer Sarah Tullamore on pleasing Anglo/French audiences
Bretons go Dutch for early tulips
Crocus focus for bright February
Author Tracy Chevalier on her French heritage
Affordable French gyms bring keep-fit fans to class
February's French cultural digest
What's on in France in February
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En saison: What to put on your plate in February
Paris agricultural fair: When the countryside comes to town
French wine: Syrah so good in the northern Rhône
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Artisan cheese of the month: Vacherin des Bauges
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As Senator Blutarsky laments in his own SEC Power Poll ballot, we may be headed toward yet another season in which we're all stuck waiting for the Alabama-LSU game the first week of November and everything before then is just the undercard. That still leaves ample opportunity, however, to chortle at the pretenders as they fall one by one. This week's "Oh, You Thought You Were a Contender, That's So Adorable" award goes to Arkansas, inexplicable victims of an overtime upset at the hands of UL-Monroe. Don't laugh, Auburn fans, you guys could be next.
Full poll will be tallied up at Team Speed Kills on Wednesday.
1. Alabama — No sweats were broken in their 35-0 win over Western Kentucky, nor s%&#s given. And after the egg Arkansas laid on Saturday, Nick Saban may have to suspend his "You Must Respect Our Opponent" media policy for a week.
2. LSU — Exhibited little mercy in wiping the floor with the Washington Huskies, and they still don't seem to be missing Tyrann Mathieu all that badly, either.
3. Georgia — Missouri may be the trickiest offense the Dawgs face all season, but their defense dispensed with Mizzou handily despite missing three starters (four if you count Chase Vasser). You don't necessarily have to bet on the Dawgs in every game they play this season, but you'd be well advised to take the under.
4. Tennessee — Tyler Bray has already carpet-bombed one supposedly stout secondary this season (N.C. State's); if he can do it to a second when the Gators come to town this weekend, the Vols are officially on their way back.
5. South Carolina — The 330-yard, three-TD day from backup QB Dylan Thompson was a nice distraction from the fact that Marcus Lattimore only picked up 40 yards on 13 carries. It's one thing to have both Lattimore and Conor Shaw gimpy against last year's 97th-ranked scoring defense, though; it'll be another entirely if they're still ailing when the Gamecocks hit the meat of their SEC schedule.
6. Mississippi State — Dan Mullen finally gets his first win against an SEC West team not named Ole Miss. He'll more than likely get a second this season when the Razorbacks come to town.
7. Florida — The offense is still doing just enough to get by, but to shut out Texas A&M for the entire second half was impressive. The Gators still aren't a great team, but they could be a pretty good one.
8. Missouri — The Tigers' spread attack is still going to spring a nasty surprise on someone, maybe a couple someones, in the SEC East this season. Jarvis Jones isn't much for surprises, though.
9. Texas A&M — The Aggies' talent at the offensive skill positions can match up with anyone in the SEC, but like Mizzou, they've discovered that a bone-crunching defense still trumps just about everything else in this league.
10. Auburn — The Tigers' 3-2 debacle against Missy State a few years ago was good for more than a few laughs, but the bright side of getting bogged down in a 3-2 game is that at least you still know your defense is getting the job done. Can't think of too many Auburn players on either side of the ball who met that standard in Starkville this past weekend.
11. Vanderbilt — James Franklin can have all the bravado in the world, but it won't add up to much until he gets the players.
12. Arkansas — OK, yeah, Arkansas fans, it's all well and good to use Tyler Wilson getting knocked out of the game as your excuse. But that still doesn't explain how the Razorback defense was able to fritter away a 28-7 lead in less than a quarter and a half. It's looking like the off-season turmoil in Fayetteville has taken a much bigger toll on this team than anyone wanted to admit.
13. Kentucky — In week 1 we saw Kent State nearly return a punt the length of the field the wrong way; in week 2 we saw them self-administer a safety. So no, Kentucky, I can't give you all that much credit for your win, no matter how big the margin of victory was.
14. Ole Miss — On the one hand, yeah, it does seem weird to still be putting the Rebels at the bottom when they're 2-0, especially below the likes of 1-1 Kentucky and Arkansas, to say nothing of 0-2 Auburn and Vanderbilt. But the Rebels have only played Central Arkansas and UTEP so far. Does anyone seriously think they're not poised to plummet to earth this weekend against Texas?


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Former Eagles offensive lineman Shawn Andrews was selected in the third round of the United Football League draft by the expansion Omaha Nighthawks, according to the league's Twitter feed.
This story was first reported on by ProFootballTalk.com.
It was unclear as of tonight whether Andrews, who was released by the Eagles in March, would elect to play for the independent professional football league.
A message left with Andrews' agent, Rich Moran, was not returned.
Andrews, who was last in Southern California trying to recover from back surgery, hasn't worked out for any NFL teams since his release. A two-time Pro Bowler, Andrews last played in Sept. 2008.


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The Australian carrier plans to provide more frequent flights to Singapore and Hong Kong and increase capacity on those routes.
Craig Emerson, the Australian trade minister said in January, "The Government's Asian Century Policy is all about building Australia's ability to meet this demand, helping to ensure our future prosperity."
It will also expand its network within Asia through local partners such as China Eastern, Jet Airways, Cathay Pacific and Malaysia Airlines.
Qantas Airways has revealed its plans to increase destinations to Asia from 2016, saying direct destinations under consideration include Beijing, Seoul, Mumbai, Delhi and Tokyo-Handeda.
Simon Hickey, Chief Executive Officer of Qantas International said Asia remains key to make the company the best for global travelers.
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Stockholders in America's remaining supply of the word "DeWallet" celebrated earlier this week after receiving word that Bill DeWitt seemed resigned to the idea that the St. Louis Cardinals will have to increase their payroll in coming years. Assuming he wasn't in the middle of a lecture about inflation, that means John Mozeliak will have more to spend than just the money freed up from the Carlos Beltran and Rafael Furcal contracts after the 2013 season.
Goold points out some other imminent payroll crunches, Adam Wainwright's contract extension and the cycling of all the Cardinals' low-cost heroes through arbitration among them. Before we move on, though, it's worth looking at where the payroll's going already. Here's the Cardinals' Opening Day payroll against the median payroll since 2005, the first year they topped $90 million (via this collection of AP payroll figures.)
During that time the Cardinals have ranked as high as sixth (in 2005) and as low as 13th (in 2009 and 2010.) Mostly they've hung around the Top 10. But their climb over the last two years, as big as it looks against the median payroll, only took them from 13th to 9th in 2012. While the median payroll remains flat, the price of having, say, a Top 5 payroll—which the Cardinals just missed in 2005—has gone way up.
To Bill DeWitt's credit, the Cardinals' payroll has reflected the recent inflation at baseball's top tier instead of settling into the mid-80s with the rest of baseball. Now that the Los Angeles Dodgers have convincingly topped the Yankees' payroll ceiling, which has hovered around $205 million since 2005, staying at that pace probably will require the Cardinals to open the coffers even wider.
Which is not to say that the results will look much like the Dodgers' debauched offseason. Adam Wainwright will cost $12 million in 2013; it's easy to see that jumping past $20 million in 2014, if he's extended. A young, homegrown team is extremely cost-effective for a while, but eventually you have to pay or replace all of them at once.


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"When they demolished it, it's like a little part of you… goes with it." That reaction from a former regular customer of Biff's Diner was shared by many when the spaceship-shaped building was finally torn down last month. This episode explores the stories of Oaklanders who ate and worked at Biff's—and why so many of us hold a special place in our hearts for diners.
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Five-times world champion Viswanathan Anand proved all his critics wrong and won the Candidates Chess tournament after settling for a draw with Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the 13th and penultimate round here today.
It was a marathon against Karjakin and the rest day did Anand a world of good. The Indian held on to his own in the endgame that lasted more than five and a half hours.
The draw helped Anand reach eight points and he benefitted from the biggest upset in the tournament when top seed Levon Aronian of Armenia lost to lowest ranked Dmitry Andreikin of Russia.
On a day that saw Vladimir Kramnik avenging his earlier loss in the tournament against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan played out a draw with Russian Peter Svidler to seal the fate in Anand's favour irrespective of the results tomorrow.
With Anand on eight points, Karjakin, Kramnik, Mamedyarov, Andreikin and Aronian are now 6.5 points each. Peter Svidler stand seventh on six points while Topalov reamined on 5.5 to fill the last place.
In the last round Anand meets Svidler and the draw could be a likely result as the Indian will play with white pieces. In the game against Karjakin, Anand equalised quite easily with the Queen's gambit declined and had no troubles whatsoever in finding a thematic pawn sacrifice that made his position easier to play.
However, while trying to work out the right path, Anand erred slightly and faced a difficult but possible defense when he parted with two pieces for Karjakin's rook.
The ensuing endgame was easier for Karjakin and the defense was not easy, yet Anand kept finding the right moves and obtained a passed pawn on the king side that proved vital. Karjakin was aware at this point that the fight was over but he played on till 91 moves before signing the peace treaty.
The tournament victory gives Anand winner's cheque of 135000 Euros (a little over Rs 1 crore) and the right to a match against Magnus Carlsen of Norway who dethroned the Indian champion at Chennai in November last. This rematch will take place sometime in the last quarter of this year.


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Product photography is everywhere we look and everywhere we go. Scanning the web or looking at magazines, brochures, and outdoor advertisements, we'll often see products for sale and different types of product photography to advertise it.
Photography is so important in selling products. Images are crucial to supporting the company brand and converting sales.
As an example, consider online shopping. You are looking for a new camera bag for your gear. You visit your favorite online camera store where you have bought before. If the website you are looking at only has a written description of the camera bag, but no actual photos, would you buy anyway?
Chances are that most people would not. Product photos are proof of the product's characteristics.
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White Background Photos: The white background is more common than any other background and there are several reasons for this.
- Using Scale to Show the Size of the Product: Creating scale is a photography approach that defines for the viewer, how big or small a product is. It allows the shopper to view how the product looks and is used.
Product Grouping: Group product images are a way to demonstrate options to the buyer. These can be a collection of women's make-up that might include multiple variations on the products in the group or the same product that comes in variations.
Products and Lifestyle Action Shots 'In-context' product photographs show the product used in a manner they were designed for.
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