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Welcome to the Buddy Fund
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Hear How We Change Lives
"Thank you for your recent generous donation of 166 new sports equipment items from Markwort to Lift for Life Gym. Your gift will ensure other kids, like Jerome, have access to a place they can feel safe, receive a fresh meal, participate in activities every child should be able to enjoy, and most importantly, somewhere they can create a future." - Joseph Miller, Executive Director
Lift For Life Gym
"We appreciate your support from the bottoms of our tennis shoes to the helmets on our heads. Please keep up the outstanding work your organization is doing. Lift For LIfe Academy needs you and is grateful to your Board and your donors for helping our kids to thrive in the athletic arena." -Marshall Cohen, Executive Director & Founder -Susan Kelter, Community Relations & Volunteer Manager
Lift for Life Academy
"This year alone, The Buddy Fund has helped us to make a difference in the lives of over 200 children in our after school, day camp, and home school physical education programs. Of most importance for the kids are lessons learned in sports discipline and recreation that help us to fulfill our youth character-building mission." - Connie Reker
Salvation Army
"The Buddy Fund's grant allows children, youth, and families throughout Youth In Need to have access to various activities that would otherwise not happen, as well as creative counseling interventions with clients and their families. Several skills are increased by the use of things like sporting balls, jump ropes, and other equipment, including motor skills, relaxation techniques, self-awareness, goal setting, conflict resolution, and relationships."
Youth In Need: Youth and Family Counseling
"Thanks to The Buddy Fund our Early Head Start and Head Start program (ages birth through 5) has been able to enhance the developmental skills of all children enrolled in the program."
Youth In Need: Early Head Start and Head Start Programs
"The support we receive from The Buddy Fund allows us to free up money that would be used to provide the necessary sporting equipment for our members. It allows the Boys & Girls Club to scholarship children whose parents are not in the position to fund the expenses incurred with their child in the sports programs." -Crag Leavell, Executive Director -Jeanette Koechner, Resource Development Director
Boys & Girls Club of St. Charles County
"Many of these children have never owned a basketball or soccer ball, so giving them an opportunity to own their very own, have pride in athletic play, exercise and take a break from their personal challenges, is a real gift." - Dave Martin
Great Circle
"The Buddy Fund has helped our organization by allowing our residents to play sports and learn new activities…Through these Recreation activities, the residents learn sportsmanship, teamwork, and have an opportunity to cope with their emotions." - Debbie Taylor
Epworth Children & Family Services
"The Buddy Fund supports us by donating all the baseballs we use every year. If not for the donated baseballs it could mean possibly adding $10 to the sign up fees. The added $10 could mean some kids may not get to play baseball in our program." - Donn H. Schmidt
Ferguson Youth Baseball Club
"By The Buddy Fund providing the sports equipment for our membership for all these years you are helping our club's staff keep these kids engaged in positive programs and activities while staying away from drugs, going to jail or worse." -Tom Wild, Executive Director


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As everyone knows staffing levels have been drastically low in horse racing for a long time as trainers, studs, pre training and breaking yards all suffer from a lack of experienced, reliable staff. For long enough we seemed to skirt around the issue with long serving, experienced and utterly reliable staff, then came a bit of a crunch, in more ways than one.
We had an expanding yard with the staff to go with it until one owner danced off into the night owing us rather a lot of money. Of course this kind of behaviour isn't new in racing but it is more common than it used to be and it is now more widely acknowledged by the BHA as the major problem it is.
One of several developments following this little shenanigans was that I had to make some lovely staff redundant and, as we rebuild the yard with a slightly different emphasis and a new 'Modus Operandi', we have had the same struggle as many other trainers have in trying to find good staff.
Luckily we are getting back on track and I even hope to find the time to devote to writing the blog again on a regular, if not daily basis. It is a big commitment and previously for many years I sat up most nights in the kitchen after evening stables, race planning, office work and cooking George's tea composing something late into the night.
After the owner danced off into the night it took every ounce of energy to keep the show on the road and Hayley stepped in to help keep Duffield's diaries freely flowing. Hayley of course is no longer with us although I gather she is doing really well. But, as things settle down and go in the direction we want them to go in, writing a blog is something I need, and want to do. The owners love it, I enjoy it (mostly) and besides, they keep dropping hints.

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This is a wonderful recipe for a layered vegetable torte. This is the perfect time of year to make it with all of the fresh vegetables available at farmers markets, but it would be good anytime of year. You can grill the vegetables or roast them before putting this dish together so it is pretty flexible. Easily adapted to be vegan…just leave out the Parmesan topping.
The recipe is from NYTCooking, Mark Bittman.
This is a very nice company side dish or just for the family! I Made this earlier in the day & then just put it in the oven to warm slightly. It can be served, hot or at room temperature
Here is the recipe
1 large eggplant
4 medium zucchini or yellow squash *** I used all zucchini because I could not find yellow squash
2 Portobello mushrooms
1/2 cup olive or more as needed
salt & pepper
2 plum tomatoes *** I had 2 large tomatoes so I just used them
2 tbsp minced garlic
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil leaves
1/4 cup grated Parmesan
1/2 cup bread crumbs…. fresh is best here
Preheat oven to 400f
Grease the bottom & sides of a 8 inch springform pan with oil
- Prepare the vegetables : cut the eggplant, zucchini, Portobello mushrooms & tomaotes into 1/4 inch slices. Set the tomatoes aside
- You can grill the vegetables using a grill pan onthe stove or grill them on the BBQ, or roast them. I was bsuy doing other things so I roasted them since that was the least 'interactive'
- Brush the each slice of vegetables with olive oil & sprinkle with salt & pepper if grilling. If you are roasting them, roast on greased baking sheets, still brush the tops ofthe vegetable slices with oil & salt & pepper them. Roast until soft & a bit charred
- When the vegetables are cool enough to handle begin layering them into the prepared springform pan
- Starting with the eggplant, put 1/3 of the eggplant slices into the bottom of the pan
- Salt & pepper eacl layer of vegetables.. layer in half of the zucchini, mushrooms, tomato, garlic & basil.
- Repeat layering the vegetables…. half of the balance of eggplant, zucchini, mushrooms, tomato, garlic & basil ending with last of the eggplant
- Press the vegetables down with a spatuala to compress them & make this as compast as you can
- Sprinkle the top with the Parmesan & bread crumbs
- Drizzle with olive oil, about 1 tbsp
- Bake the torte in the oven until it is hot & browned on top, approximatley 30 minutes
- Let it sit for about 5 minutes before removeing the outer ring of the pan, then let it cool for at least another 10 minutes before cuttin into wedges
- Please not that it is not really easy to cut & it falls apart! But it is delicious!


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KOUFOZISIS SA – CRETANROOT is a family run company whose members are involved personally with the production and export of table grapes predominantly of the variety Thompson Seedless. The place where table grapes are cultivated is called Archanes, a traditional village 15 km away from the city of Herakleion and 10 km away from the archaeological site of Knossos. Archanes is a well-known area in Greece for the production of qualitative grapes due to its microclimate.
In the past, our area was well known for the variety Rozaki. It was a really tasty variety that was the signature of our area with great exports. This gave the necessary skills and love to the growers which passed this knowledge to the next generations.
Following the trend of the markets, the area started cultivating the variety Thompson Seedless in the 1990s. This variety became our signature and it is our pride and joy!
Our vineyards are located in the villages of Archanes and Silamos, in the heart of Crete. Thanks to the microclimate which prevails in these two areas and the highly fertile soil, we are able to produce grapes with excellent flavor, strength, freshness and crunchiness, factors that place them among the best table grapes of the variety Thompson Seedless, not only in Crete, but in Greece as well.
The latter happens because of our love for the product and the special care with which we cultivate our vineries. All these, have as a result table grapes of premium quality.


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The Arctic is vast, wild, and cold. Olaf Otto Becker spent three long years traveling solo through it to photograph his stunning collection called Broken Line. And his trip around Greenland was all done from a rubber dinghy using a large format camera.
His photographs from those years, published in a monograph called Broken Line, number less than a hundred, each the product of careful deliberate planning. Becker would often spend weeks preparing to take a shot, waiting for the perfect conditions. The long-exposure images are haunting, full of luminescent waters and glowing glacial ice, and every so often, a human, clambering across dirty snow melts or clinging to the coastline in ramshackle fishing huts. It's difficult to reconcile the knowledge that such pathetic-looking creatures are slowly but surely destroying the sublime landscapes in Becker's photographs, but they are.
As argued by Utata's Greg Fallis, his photographs contain a strong political subtext, though it may not be immediately obvious. Each image is accompanied by the precise GPS coordinates of where it was shot, implying that Becker (or some other person) will eventually return to that exact location, perhaps to photograph it once more. What they find, warns climate data, will be a vastly changed place.


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California educator criticized for lighthearted Anne Frank tweets
Published November 6, 2015
(JTA) — An administrator at a California high school is being criticized for two light-hearted tweets about Anne Frank, the famous Holocaust victim whose diary from her years in hiding inspired a play and movie.
Charles Mazet, assistant principal at Palm Desert High School in Palm Springs, California, promoted a school production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" on Twitter by saying, "Who be hiding from the Nazis? Find out next week during the play" and "Who be Anne Frank?" the Desert Sun reported Friday.
Who Be Hiding From Nazis? Find out next week during the play. #annefrank @PDHS2 @PDAztecArmy #HistoryMatters pic.twitter.com/wmCV6EeykS
— Chuck Mazet (@mrmazet) November 6, 2015
Mollie Biskar, a senior at the school, took a screenshot of Mazet's tweet, which was later taken down, and wrote "Idk guys maybe we should drop the 'who be' joke when we're talking about the biggest genocide in history???"
Friday morning, Mazet tweeted, "This tweet was not meant as a joke, just an attempt to promote Anne Frank. We need to remember the ugliness of Hitler's genocide."
Mazet told the Desert Sun he is married to a Jew and that his family belongs to Temple Sinai, a local Reform congregation.
"By no means did I mean to offend anyone. I meant the opposite," Mazet said. "In part, I look at this because I am Jewish. This is something I have thought about and hiding from the Nazis is an important context in history."
READ: Behind Japanese fascination with Anne Frank, a 'kinship of victims'
Biskar, who is Jewish, told The Desert Sun: "'Who be' is kind of a joke that he does. Everybody knows it's a joke, but when he does it about the Holocaust it makes the Holocaust a joke. And when administration is doing it, it makes kids think that its [sic] OK to joke about the Holocaust."
Mary Perry, spokeswoman for Desert Sands Unified School District, emphasized that the tweet had not been intended as a joke.
"He is a prolific tweeter who uses 'who be' to involve the students in various activities at the school, like 'Who be going to the football game?' Things like that, so by saying 'Who be Anne Frank?' he did not mean it disrespectfully but as a way to encourage students to go to the play," Perry said. "I think his intent is pure … I believe they're overreacting, and I think they need to understand the context in which this was sent out."
Frank, who was deported in 1944, after the Nazis found her family's Amsterdam hiding place, died in the Bergen-Belsen death camp in 1945 at age 15. Her diary was first published in 1947.
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To Calm The Storm
My schedule is a giant, hairy, screaming, thorny, fiery pit of doom right now. The kids are home for the summer, new clients are coming out of the woodwork, the market is insane; I could go on and on.
A byproduct of the scary schedule is a condition I like to call 'Excessively Tight Woundness' or ETW. Some of the symptoms of ETW are: undeserved screaminess in the direction of various family members, waking up at 2:05AM to make mental lists of who needs to be emailed immediately by order of importance, inability to complete a task without losing one's shit over another task that really REALLY needs to be completed rightthissecond, over-indulgence in beverages that are both caffeinated and zero-calorie.
Recent studies have shown the best way to effectively treat ETW is to indulge in athletic activity that is particularly enjoyable to the sufferer. The distraction combined with the resulting endorphins produces a calming effect that can reduce the irritations of the symptoms, especially on those nearest to the afflicted person at any given time.
Because of these studies, I decided, at 7:12 yesterday morning (directly after Jason fled our house to escape from my irrational screaming) that regardless of what else happened that day, regardless of what work piled up or emails that needed to be returned, I needed to attend ballet class.
That's why yesterday, even after I'd already driven 113 miles showing property and was utterly exhausted, I threw on some workout clothes, drove 25 miles to my parents' house, dropped off my kids and got my butt to class. I'm not going to pretend I didn't check my email on my phone a few times during class. I did. It's part of the ETW illness. I understand that now. The point is: it helped. I walked away from the class with my brain a little looser and life a little clearer. I came home… and didn't scream at anyone for like 12 whole hours.
The funny thing is, ballet class doesn't actually help me de-stress. In itself, ballet is an incredibly stressful activity. I stand in class struggling to be aware of every part of my body. I must remember at all moments to:
Lift up on my standing leg
Curl my arms in and strongly down to support myself
Hold my stomach in and tuck my butt under
Keep my shoulders down
Elongate my neck
Open my chest
Turn out my feet by pushing forward with my heel
Remember the combination my legs are trying to perform
Count the number of movements I'm on
Change my arms in relation to what my legs are doing
And various other things.
Not to mention the fact, of course, that I'm wearing tight clothes and surrounded by mirrors and several girls who are younger and thinner than I am. I can't stop staring at how cute and muscular their butts are. I want a cute and muscular butt. How many of these classes do I have to take and meals do I have to skip to get a cute and muscular butt?
You can see how this is also a stressful situation, right?
Plus, sometimes I'm concentrating so hard on understanding the combination my brain stops working properly.
Ballet teacher going over the combination: Ok, so you tendu front and back to fifth, and then side and back to fifth, and back and back to fifth and side and back, generic. In fours, en croix. And then…
Me: So… what does 'generic' mean? (Knowing full well what the word 'generic' means, but thinking there's a French ballet term I don't know that refers to where I'm supposed to end with my foot at the end of the combination.)
Ballet teacher thinking I might be a slow adult: Well, it just means like the boring, typical combo. Just standard, not creative at all.
Me: Oh… right. I thought that was a foot position I didn't know.
Ballet teacher ready to move on: Anyway…
Helpful, younger, thinner, better ballerina student next to me who isn't sure I know how to read: You know, it just means something normal or standard.
Me: I… right. I get it. I know what the word 'generic' means. I just thought she was saying some ballet thing I didn't know.
But all of this activity and distraction is actually exactly what I need to get my mind off of work. It's impossible for me to make a mental to-do list when I'm trying to remember all of the ways my body needs to contort itself so I don't get manhandled by the ballet teacher (that's the punishment for failure in ballet classs). The new and different stress is kryptonite to work stress. Neither can exist in my body together at once. If I'm under ballet stress, the other stress just melts away, even if it's only for an hour and fifteen minutes.
I'm sure to the professional ballerina, the ballet stress takes over her life just like my work stress does mine. But for now, I know it's just a lovely and brutal distraction. It's something tough enough to fight off real estate, if only for a little while.


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About GDPR
Data Protection & GDPR Actions By Educa
Overview & Educa Commitment
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most significant piece of European privacy legislation in the last twenty years. It takes effect on May 25, 2018. It strengthens the rights that EU individuals have over their data, creating a uniform data protection law across Europe.
More than that though, GDPR is becoming a privacy rights and data protection gold standard around the world, partly because anyone with a website is serving that website in Europe. And partly because it's such a comprehensive policy.
Educa is committed to being GDPR compliant. We are adding procedures and systems to comply with applicable GDPR regulations as a "data processor." We are also working with our customers, who are "data controllers," to help them understand the GDPR standards.
Changes By Educa
Educa already has a consistent level of data protection and security across our organization, however it is our aim to be fully compliant with the GDPR. This includes:
- Information Audit – carrying out a company-wide information audit to identify and assess what personal information we hold, where it comes from, how and why it is processed and if and to whom it is disclosed.
- Policies & Procedures – Implementing new data protection policies and procedures to meet the requirements and standards of the GDPR and any relevant data protection laws, including:
- Data Protection – our policy and procedure documents for data protection have been overhauled. Accountability and governance measures have been added to tighten security and data access.
- Data Retention & Erasure – we have updated our data retention policy to meet the 'data minimization' and 'storage limitation' principles that require companies to look for ways to minimize the holding of personal data as well as how it is stored, archived and destroyed compliantly and ethically. We have data deletion procedures in place to meet the new 'Right to Erasure' obligation, also called the "right to be forgotten" along with any exemptions, response timeframes and notification responsibilities.
- Data Breaches – our breach procedures ensure that we have safeguards and measures to identify, assess, investigate and report any personal data breach at the earliest possible time.
- Data Transfers & Third-Party Disclosures – where Educa stores or transfers personal information outside the EU, we have robust procedures and safeguarding measures in place to secure, encrypt and maintain the integrity of the data.
- Subject Access Request (SAR) – we have revised our SAR procedures to accommodate the revised 30-day timeframe for providing the requested information by any individual, e.g., employees.
- Legal Basis for Processing – we are reviewing all processing activities to identify the legal basis for processing and ensuring that each basis is appropriate for the activity it relates to. Where applicable, we also maintain records of our processing activities, ensuring that our obligations under Article 30 of the GDPR and Schedule 1 of the Data Protection Bill are met.
- Privacy Policy – we have revised our Privacy Policy to comply with the GDPR, informing individuals whose personal information we process on why we need it, how it is used, what their rights are, who the information is disclosed to and what safeguarding measures are in place to protect their information.
- Obtaining Consent – we are reviewing our consent mechanisms for obtaining personal data, ensuring that individuals understand what they are providing, why and how we use it and giving clear, defined ways to consent to us processing their information. We are also creating processes to record consent as well as providing a way for individuals to withdraw consent at any time.
- Direct Marketing – we have revised the wording and processes for direct marketing, including clear opt-in mechanisms for marketing subscriptions and an unsubscribe option on subsequent marketing materials.
- Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) – where we process personal information that is considered high risk, involves large scale processing or includes special category/criminal conviction data; we are developing procedures and assessment templates for carrying out impact assessments that comply fully with the GDPR's Article 35 requirements. We have implemented documentation processes that record each assessment, allow us to rate the risk posed by the processing activity and implement mitigating measures to reduce the risk posed to the data subject(s).
- Processor Agreements – where we use any third-party to process personal information on our behalf (i.e., Payroll, Hosting etc), we have reviewed Processor Agreements to make sure they meet and understand their/our GDPR obligations.
- Special Categories Data — we do not obtain or process any special category information — sensitive information such as race, politics, religion. However, if that were to change, we will do so in compliance with the Article 9 requirements and have high-level encryptions and protections on all such data. Where we rely on consent for processing, this is explicit and is verified by a signature, with the right to modify or remove consent being clearly signposted.
Data Subject Rights
In addition to the policies and procedures mentioned above that ensure individuals can enforce their data protection rights, we provide easy to access information via our website, of an individual's right to access any personal information that Educa processes about them and to request information about:
- What personal data we hold about them
- The purposes of the processing
- The categories of personal data concerned
- The recipients to whom the personal data has/will be disclosed
- How long we intend to store your personal data for
- If we did not collect the data directly from them, information about the source
- The right to have incomplete or inaccurate data about them corrected or completed and the process for requesting this
- The right to request erasure of personal data (where applicable) or to restrict processing in accordance with data protection laws, as well as to object to any direct marketing from us and to be informed about any automated decision-making that we use
- The right to lodge a complaint or seek judicial remedy and who to contact in such instances
Information Security & Technical and Organizational Measures
Educa takes the privacy and security of individuals and their personal information very seriously and take every reasonable measure and precaution to protect and secure the personal data that we process. We have robust information security policies and procedures in place to protect personal information from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction and have several layers of security measures, including:
- SSL, access controls, password policy, encryptions, pseudonymisation, practices, restriction, IT, authentication.
GDPR Roles and Employees
Educa has designated Aaron Rushworth as our Data Protection Officer (DPO)/Appointed Person to oversee the development and implementation our roadmap for complying with the new data protection Regulation. He is responsible for promoting awareness of the GDPR and data protection measures in general across the organization, assessing our GDPR readiness, identifying any gap areas and implementing the new policies, procedures and measures.
Educa understands that continuous employee awareness and understanding is vital to the continued compliance of the GDPR and have involved our employees in our preparation plans.
If you have any questions about our data protection policies or our GDPR compliance, please contact Aaron Rushworth.


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|Laughing Buddha
Every one must have seen the statue of "Laughing Buddha". He is also called as the "Happy Man".
In actuality he was named Hotei or Pu-Tai is best known as the jolly Laughing Buddha. In China, he is known as the Loving or Friendly One. He is based on an eccentric Chinese Ch'an (Zen) monk who lived over 1,000 years ago and has become a significant part of Buddhist and Shinto culture.Because of this monk's benevolent nature, he came to be regarded as an incarnation of the bodhisattva who will be Maitreya (the Future Buddha). His large protruding stomach and jolly smile have given him the common designation "Laughing Buddha.".
He was truly a great zen master and legend has a great story which is so inspirational for all of us.
The jolly good saint that he was used to go from one place to the other.He went to the Town Square and soon people gathered around him. He was so funny looking and always smiling that people used to crowd around him.
He would then distribute sweets and small toys to all children who had gathered around him. Then keep his bag down, look to the sky and just start laughing. He used to laugh madly and he was not interested whether other laughed or not. Soon his laughter used to be contagious and all who had gathered would start to laugh.
The whole town used to laugh and laugh.After sometime he would pick the bag, which he had kept down, smile to all, and go to the next town. All his life he did only this action and it was said that many people attained Nirvana, enlightenment just through this process.Hence he was called as the laughing Buddha because Buddha is someone who is enlightened and laughter was his unique method. Never before him or never after him such a simple aspect was used to achieve what all humans strive for-moksha or enlightenment.
He would rarely speak and once when he was asked to describe his method he told, that he gave sweets to children to symbolically that the more you give, the more comes to you. Thereby he unveiled the secret of "Giving with joy". Children are said to be GOD because they represent the GOD Nature, which is always, be in Present time, smiling and joyful, ego less, and most important is without judge mental mind.
The bag represented problems that all humans encounter. We are mistaken that when we have problems, that GOD only gave you a problem and the rest are so happy. The problems appear big because we are associated with it- calling it as "My Problem". Look at a funny phenomenon, if anyone comes to you with any problem of theirs and seek solutions or advice, what you do. You tell them so many solutions so easily as though you are an expert in all the fields in the Universe. However big the others problems are you can solve it so easily, you are a master solver of problems. But then what happens to your own problems. Hmm Hmm it is impossible to find any solution.
This happens only because of your attachment and association with the problem.So laughing Buddha said, simple keep your problem down (symbolically keeping the bag down) means "Disassociate with your Problem", "Separate form it" and yes just Laugh. What else can one do? Think and thank GOD that you only have such a small problem as compared to so many others. Whether you laugh or cry the problem is going to be there right. So why not laugh at it. Therein is the magic and mind you no small magic, it is huge, apply it to realize about the power of laughter.
On laughing your whole internal chemistry changes and thereby the body produces certain enzymes that are only released in a state of laughter. The problem now looks too tiny and as you pick it (symbolically he picks back the bag before going to the next place) the problem is solved.
Such a great zen master was Hotei or Laughing Buddha. So next time you look at the statue of "laughing Buddha" associate with that great teaching he gave all of us, the power of laughter. Each time you see the Laughing Buddha and if it reminds you to laugh, a great work has been done.
Whole life Hotei lived in Laughter. And when the time came to pass away, he knew he had to give up his life at an appropriate time. He called his disciples and said that after he passes away, they should immediately burn his body. The disciples were surprised because there was no tradition of burning in Zen. But they followed the master wishes. And as they lit fire to his body, "Fire Works and Crackers" started flying all over.
Hotei was so great that just before he died he hid a lot of crackers and rockets in his clothes.So there also he created such laughter by the suddenness of the situation.So Hotei not only lived in laughter all through his life, he also died in laughter.
Let us all learn from the great zen master that "It is our birth right to laugh" and "No matter what happens we should come back to laughter".


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Etching and aquatint
Image size 10cm x 10cm
Limited editon of 100 copies in various tones.
Hand-signed and numbered in pencil
Following on from my collage and photoetching Wish You Were Here, this etching explores memory loss, with a human head merging with a cliff being eroded by the sea. The birds flying away from the cliff edge are symbolic of memories fading or being lost, as are the crumbling cliffs. The profile is of Rupert Brooke, who died in the war (and whose house I often cycled past as a boy in Rugby). I used to see the boys at Rugby School lined up in the grounds in their army gear, and reflect on the poignancy of this.
The island is Skyros, where Rupert Brooke is buried and the imagery owes something to his romantic and patriotic poem The Soldier.
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven


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Japanese Gin Pack (BTL 25 oz)
Only 1 in stock
Save $5 with this pack!
Gins from Japan are all the rage at the moment, within the country and abroad. Explore the range of these new Japanese spirits, using both traditional and innovative botanicals.
Included in this pack are two Japanese gins that Chris Lane has hand-picked to make cocktails for our event Summer of Japanese Gin.
Get cocktail recipes by Chris for these gins here.
Join us!
Komasa Sakurajima Komikan Gin
Komasa Jyozo, a favorite shochu distiller of ours in Kagoshima, makes this delightful little gin by redistilling one of their rice shochus and blends it with a selection of individually distilled botanicals, including komikan (small mandarin oranges).
Ki No Bi Kyoto Dry Gin
Kyoto Distillery is the one of the only distilleries in Japan that makes gin exclusively. Most of the gin made in the U.S. is usually made with corn, but this Japanese gin is rice-based, using the soft waters of Fushimi (famed for excellent sake production), for a creamy mouthfeel.
Ki No Bi means "The Beauty of the Seasons" and blends six distillates: hinoki, yuzu, bamboo leaf, sansho, gyokuro and shiso. Enjoy Ki No Bi on the rocks, in a Martini, or with a splash of sparkling water.
Japanese Gin Pack Features:
1 - Komasa Sakurajima Komikan Gin (12.7oz, Japan, 49% ALC/VOL)
- 1 - Ki No Bi Kyoto Dry Gin (25oz, Japan, 45.7% ALC/VOL)


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Aurora World partners and N.W.T. settle loan dispute
Neither party will disclose details of agreement
The businessmen behind a failed aurora tourism venture have reached a settlement with the Government of the N.W.T. over an unpaid loan guarantee.
For years, the N.W.T.'s Business Development and Investment Corporation has been trying to collect on personal guarantees the partners signed.
In 2004, the BDIC loaned Aurora World $1.8 million. As part of the company's restructuring, the government agreed to forgive $800,000. Aurora World's partners — which includes Range Lake MLA Daryl Dolynny — promised to repay up to $100,000 out of their own pockets if the business failed again. The business went under three years later.
In court documents filed in January, Aurora World lawyers had argued 11 people — from the top of government to staffers at the BDIC — assured Dolynny and his partners in the business they would never have to make good on their promise to repay money to the BDIC if Aurora World failed. However then-premier Joe Handley denied that.
Today, the BDIC's lawyer said both sides came to a settlement, but neither party is discussing the details of the agreement. No one is saying if the business partners will have to pay any of the money back.
Dolynny said he's happy the case wrapped up so the partners can carry on with their lives.
The lawyer for BDIC said there's still a judgment to come against Aurora World, but called it a dormant case, since the company foreclosed and there are no assets left.


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There are certain tasks I've been meaning to do. But I keep putting them off. I'm asking myself why and this morning I'm trying to tackle a few of them before the day gets away from me. Number one, we're going out of town and I need to find a place to board Olive.
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There's an interesting article on Russ George's Atom Ecology website today titled "Cold fusion LENR poised to be unleashed as a weapon of economic mass destruction", in which Russ discusses the potential effects of LENR's emergence on the energy markets.
He believes that it is only a matter of time now before cold fusion/LENR, which he thinks has so far been successfully kept under wraps by a 'near perfect smear campaign', emerges onto the energy scene with the potential to produce energy that is too cheap to meter.
This is a topic that over the years has been discussed at length here, and there are various opinions about a possible conspiracy by important players to beat down cold fusion — and that's not the subject of this post. What I found most interesting in this article is Russ's contention that cold fusion/LENR technology is now effectively open source. He writes:
A key element for those who have worked so effectively and dutifully for the past 25 years suppressing and smearing cold fusion, also known as LENR (low energy nuclear reactions), is that they have driven the technology into becoming effectively open source technology. Hundreds of patent applications have been steadfastly rejected by the US and other nations patent processes. The scientists and inventors behind those discoveries have inevitably been unable to keep secret their discoveries which having leaked into the public domain make the field open source. Given the innate simplicity of the techniques and materials needed to produce cold fusion and the corrupt patent system forcing that know how into the open what big business always wants "technological intellectual property barriers to entry" by potential competitors has utterly evaporated.
We are currently seeing ongoing efforts recently among people who are closely following LENR to try and understand and replicate the mechanisms that cause the impressive LENR reactions that have been reported by Rossi and others. As Russ says here, there is good deal of information now openly available on the web that provides clues about how to replicate the effect, and now a steady stream of research is being published by groups like the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project to help other replicators.
My question here is — does this mean that LENR is now an open source technology?
People are filing patents regularly around the technology, and just a few have been granted to date. As far as I know, patent protection does not prohibit experimenters from carrying out their own research and publishing results, but I wonder what legal recourse patent holders might try to take if people the world over start building their own LENR products that produce useful energy based on information in the public domain.
It seems possible that a garage industry of creating LENR devices could emerge if building them really is as simple as it appears to be, once certain parameters are understood — and I wonder what the ramifications of that might be in terms legalities and perhaps even government regulations.


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A month ago, there were indications that Bolton's dynamic central midfielder was on the verge of a new contract. Yesterday, Dougie Freedman said that the deal was close to completion but not yet confirmed. Today, we have word of a done deal for Mark Davies, one that will keep him at the Reebok Stadium until 2017.
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From a boutique owner to an influencer, jewellery store to MNC, businesses have been shaken up and how! The lockdown and its after-effects are being felt far and wide forcing companies to take time out to regroup and restructure for the new normal.
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We received a pretty detailed itinerary, complete with photos and Twitter handles, for our three day blogger trip in Costa Brava, Spain. One of the first things on the itinerary was show cooking of a traditional fish dish in a fishermen's shack on Tamariu beach. I expected some sort of traditional seafood meal, eating with our hands, in a shack, maybe with a few fishermen present. My mental image was simple and rustic.
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Arriving in the Village of Tamariu
We stopped for a quick coffee on the Tamariu promenade at Hotel Tamariu, while waiting for the first half of our blogger group to take a quick boat ride around the cove. After the coffee, it was our turn. In the span of only about 10 minutes, the sunny, blue skies turned ominous as a thick fog rolled in to cover the little village. I was hoping this was not a sign. Minimally, I thought it would add to the rustic atmosphere of the shack on the beach.
The first boat full of bloggers arrived ahead of us at the quaint, historic fishermen's shack, called a barraca in Catalan. The barraca sat at the edge of Tamariu beach, tucked away in the corner of a cove. The house had white walls and a bright green door, and was almost hidden in the trees.
When we arrived, there was wine, aprons, and a table set up with about a dozen mortar and pestles. There were chefs as far as the eye could see, also in aprons, wearing their chef whites, or blacks. There must have been twenty people all milling about, in a flush of activity. We arrived to a party well in progress, kind of having no idea what we were doing there.
Half expecting some old fishermen, with wool hats and holed up sweaters, with skin bristled from the sun, I looked past the people gathered on the beach, and peered inside the fishermen's shack. What I saw was a long wooden bench, laid out with wine, wine glasses, appetizers. A full gourmet style spread. In a fishermen's shack. This was not what I expected from our traditional seafood lunch in Spain.
Traditional Seafood and Fishermen's History
The barraca, the fishermen's shack itself has a history. The barraca was created by a group of local cork workers as sort of a club or meeting point. Currently, the buildings have been passed onto to local organizations, which include the sons and daughters of fishermen, chefs, hotel owners, and others as members. These buildings were typical all along the Costa Brava and used for meals and family gatherings. The chef at a nearby hotel, Hotel Aiqua Blava, told me his first cooking memory was with his mother and aunts and their local barraca.
A few barraca, like the one in Tamariu, belong to a group of local people, who keep the traditions alive. They are treated almost like private clubs. It is rare to have a "public" meal like we were about to have at a barraca. You need to get permission from the group to do something like this. Hearing the story of these shacks made me suddenly realize what a unique experience we were about to have.
Traditional Seafood By Top Notch Chefs
I also realized that our traditional seafood meal was not going to be prepared by old, grizzled seafaring men, and instead, by some of the top chefs in the region.
Chef Quim, the chef at Michelin star restaurant Casamar, in nearby Llafranc, presided over the festivities. He explained via a translator about the dishes we were about to eat. The "translator" was Quique Serra, owner of a traditional family business selling pastries, wine, and other gourmet products in a nearby town. Quique was certainly anything but a regular translator. When we sat, Eric positioned himself perfectly next to Quique, and across from Chef Quim. Smart man.
Even Chef Quim's introductions were brief, merely talking about the dish we were going to eat. Before I knew it, someone immediately put an apron around my neck, an Emporda wine in one hand, and a bowl of ingredients in the other, in order to test out making a picada.
Traditional Seafood Dish – Suquet de Peix
A traditional picada is made with fried bread, roasted peppers, parsley, hazelnut, almonds, tomato paste, roasted garlic, and saffron. The ingredients are mashed together in a ceramic bowl with a mortar. I mixed up the pieces as best as I could, while standing with sand between my toes, leaning over a folding table on the beach, while snapping photos. And, I didn't want to spill my wine. I suddenly became distracted and very excited about our first Emporda wine of our blogger trip, a Coll de Roses white wine. If all the Emporda wine tasted like this one, I knew were in for a fabulous six weeks in Costa Brava.
The picada was the base for suquet de peix, a traditional seafood dish common throughout Catalunya. As this was more of a show cooking experience than a cooking class, our picada was not used for our actual meal, which was prepared ahead of time. It was merely a stunt picada, to show us how it is done. The chefs also demonstrated how to cook the suquet over an open flame on the beach, although it is just as often prepared inside a modern kitchen.
Catalan Chefs Preparing a Traditional Seafood Meal
Here we were, surrounded by chefs, drinking wine, learning to make a traditional seafood dish, standing on the beach, outside of an old fishermen's shack. The hubbub of activity made everything seem like a blur. I swear it was not the wine.
What was most unique about this experience, though, was the collection of chefs who worked together to prepare the lunch for us. In a lot of cities, chefs are often in competition with one another, elbowing each other out, in search of more reservations, better reviews.
Costa Brava is unique for a variety of reasons, and perhaps it is because it is a smaller community, of only a half a million people. The chefs here are friendly, and work together. They meet regularly, they train one another, they travel the world promoting Catalan cuisine. There is a sense of community, maybe because they are Catalan, that I have not seen in many other places.
This traditional seafood lunch was an example of this cooperation. Chef Quim from the Michelin star Casamar, was working alongside Lluis, the owner of Hotel Tamariu, and Chef Marc of the hotel's El Clos Del Mussols. Quique Serra seemed to preside over the event as well, and prepared the pastries. The Serra family owns nearby Hotel Garbi. We had representatives from Hotel San Roc as well. There were even more chefs sitting at the long, wooden table, who I did not even get the chance to meet fully. They all worked together to prepare the meal, and to clean up at the end. It was a community of passionate foodies, putting on the best that Costa Brava has to offer.
Our Traditional Seafood Feast
We all gathered around the long table inside the fishermen's shack and Chef Quim, along with a younger cook, dished out the plates of suquet, along with another traditional seafood dish. The suquet included local Catalan fish, prawns, clams, and mussels, cooked in the broth that was created using the picada. There was no rice. This was not a paella.
The second dish combined the sea and mountain, which is also common in Catalunya. It was a large, fresh squid, stuffed with minced pork and veal. It was tender and fresh, and unlike anything I've had before. We ate roasted vegetables, local anchovies, and had fresh rolls to dip into the sauce of the suquet.
After our meal, we continued to drink the local Emporda wine, along with cremat. Cremat is a local rum, mixed with coffee and fruits, and then lit on fire. It cooks for awhile too. I was able to play with the fire a bit, until I realized how hot the handle was.
We also listened to the music of two Havaneres, Lluis and Xevi, who played a few traditional songs. The songs are all sad songs, but sung with passion, about the people of Catalunya who went off to Cuba. There are festivals of Havanera music throughout the summer in Costa Brava.
After several hours of eating and drinking in Catalunya, our traditional seafood meal had come to a close, and we were off to the next stop on our blogger tour. It may have been the wine, but I realized what a special experience we were just provided.
How to Experience a Traditional Seafood Feast In Costa Brava
Unfortunately, your chances of recreating our traditional seafood experience is pretty slim. This is one of the benefits of being a food travel blogger. Even the chefs and hoteliers we spoke with in the following weeks knew what we did was special. All of these chefs, coming together, to cook traditional seafood in a barraca – it was unique.
What you can do, though, is eat at the hotels and restaurants where these chefs preside over their own menu of traditional and creative cuisine, inspired by the sea and the Costa Brava coastline. These chefs pride themselves on using fresh, local ingredients. They pay homage to the Catalan traditions, while incorporating modern techniques as well. Their passion for food and Catalunya clearly shows through.
Or, more simply, just show up in the small town of Tamariu. When you get to the beach, turn right, and look around the stone wall. You will see the green doored barraca. Open a bottle of wine, stick your toes in the sand, and enjoy the view over Costa Brava.
We are being supported by Costa Brava Tourism during our time in Catalunya, but my views are, as always, my own.
For more tips and stories on Spain, check out the With Husband In Tow Spain Food Travel Guide!
Amber Hoffman, food and travel writer behind With Husband In Tow, is a recovering attorney and professional eater, with a passion for finding new food and drink destinations. She lives with her husband, Eric, in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. Together they have traveled to over 70 countries.


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The magic ferry with free wireless pulled into port around 13:00 and I lugged the vast quantities of alcohol I'd bought down into the arrivals area. This is obviously a common reason for a trip to Estonia as others had trolleys laden with cases of beer.
I had a short wait as the nice people who were picking me up were stuck in traffic. A little late, though, the group of them appeared. Ulf (who I'd met in Bonn and Cologne), Tiina (a local Couchsurfing ambassador) and Antoine (from France, visiting Finland). We loaded the car up and drove over to Mike's place.
Mike's an American living in Helsinki with his Finnish girlfriend and he'd agreed to host me for the night as Tiina's place was full of Ulf and Antoine. Unfortunately, he was away for the day but had left us a key in a little security box attached to the boot cleaner outside his flat. And one of the buttons on the box was slightly dodgy. It took us about 5 minutes to get into the thing, but once we did we got into the flat so I could ditch my bags.
We popped via a supermarket for Tiina to sort out her recycling. I tell you, this country is a world apart. I believe the system's the same in Estonia from what I gathered when I was there, but I hadn't seen the machines in action. Rather than the usual bottle banks we have in the UK where you simply throw things in and walk off, these ones scan each and every item inserted, read the bar code and credit you the deposit for them. Deposits vary depending on material (plastic, glass, cans) and size.
I'm impressed. We should really do something like this in the UK. Introduce money into the equation and people really start to think about recycling. The closest we've got is various councils threatening to fine people for throwing out too much non-recycled rubbish. Quite a challenge when they're so picky about what recycled material they'll take, how often they'll collect it, the size of the containers they'll give you to keep it in and assuming that every household consists of two people (maximum) who eat nothing but home-grown vegetables.
A tram took us into Helsinki centre where Tiina showed us around for an hour or so. It's quite a small city centre with a handful of sites. You can walk around almost everything that's worth seeing in less than an hour. It's fairly clean, safe, flat and everyone speaks English so it's hard to get lost.
We walked past the Tuomiokirkko (Lutheran church), a huge white building that looks like it got a fresh lick of paint only hours ago. Further along the same road is the red Uspensky Cathedral used by the Russian Orthodox population (less than 0.5% of Finnish population is Orthodox).
The market is nice to see (apart from the fish stalls – yuck) as most stalls are selling fresh fruit. Strawberries and cherries were everywhere, so the smell was fantastic. Oh, and the women serving in them were without exception drop dead gorgeous.
Yup, Baltic women. They are as pretty as they're made out to be. Seriously, it's hard to look in one direction for more then 30 seconds without seeing at least one woman of model-level stunningness. I wasn't even searching them out. They were just everywhere!
Trying to keep my attention on the architecture, we walked up through Esplanade Park and settled on the grass to munch on ice cream. If you visit here, one word of warning – watch out for the seagulls. They're evil. Very, very evil. They will think nothing of dive-bombing you, knocking your ice cream off the cone and fighting over it on the ground. I watched this happen to one girl who was a little peeved about it to say the least.
This makes Helsinki one of the few places I've visited where pigeons aren't the most hated avian species. I reckon they probably run a close second. Other bird, the smaller and cuter ones, will hop very close to you in their search for crumbs – something I've noticed in many countries outside of the UK. This rarely happens in the UK where you're lucky to get within three metres of something the size of a thrush or smaller.
Tiina had to go to work, so she left us to find the bar where a couchsurfing meeting had been organised. Hemingway's was only a short walk out, so we opted for a stroll and a chat. Ulf and I argued over stuff like we always do while Antoine worked out the directions. Incorrectly in the first instance, but we corrected and got to the bar without any problems.
There were a few people already there when we arrived and I'm going to apologise straight up for not remembering any names. By the end of the evening, around 30 people had passed through and it was a huge mix of people from so many countries. One girl I talked to was born in the Ukraine of Russian parents, grew up in France, spent 12 years in Boston and now lives in Finland. She was sat with a guy who was visiting from the Dominican Republic, somewhere I confessed I couldn't find on a map without serious help.
Ulf segregated himself from the rest of the crowd by loudly supporting Germany as they beat Italy in the Euro 2008 match on TV. I confess to preferring the Deutch as well, simply because they don't cheat like the Italians do.
Mike turned up with his girlfriend, and we were the last to leave along with Ulf and Antoine. I used my memory of Thailand and Vietnamese motorcycle taxis not to lose my seating as Mike zoomed us around the city to Tiina's place of work. She was due to finish around that time so we'd arranged to head up there and collect her.
The crowd of us went back to Mike's flat where we shared a couple more beers and talked for an hour or so. I swear people drink for so long here just because they don't realise how late it is. At some time around 2:30am, Tiina drove Ulf and Antoine back to her place and it was still daylight.
Mike's couch turned out to be very comfortable indeed.


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Manchester United beat AS Roma 8-5 on aggregate to book their place in the final, while Villarreal overcame another Premier League side, Arsenal 2-1 from both legs to reach the final.

The final comes up on May 26 and Ferdinand told BT Sport, "If Manchester United turn up and perform anywhere near their best, they win the game, hands down, probably by a couple of goals.

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"It will be a tough game, with Unai's experience and because Villarreal have a lot of goalscorers in their side.

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