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Getting out was hard. Even after we technically tossed the docklines, leaving the US was hard. Transitioning in our minds from the internal attachment to all things American was something we didn't even know was a THING!
We've been out of our comfort zone and yet we have developed a new comfort zone... We have developed a new sense of our abilities and confidence in our boat. And although we no longer feel so strongly compelled to go "somewhere"... We are truly comfortable in our life living "somewhere else".
Thinking forward to possibly not coming "back" to the US in the foreseeable future doesn't seem so daunting to us any longer. We are excited to be finally visiting new places and really taking our time to see them thoroughly... This is what our 2017 is. The year we finally made it out.
Still... Moving on provides it's own set of challenges... We have to get past the Christmas Winds if we ever want to move on from Culebra! We've been here for almost a month! Today the urge to move this boat has grown to overwhelming proportions and we are getting ready to pull up the anchor... We won't get far until later this week when the winds are forecast to lay down a bit... But we are going SOMEWHERE. Today!
Sleepy little Culebra seems to be waking up. Christmas is reportedly one of their biggest tourist events and there is an air of building excitement that can be felt everywhere.
|We finally found this little kiosk OPEN!
|Bruce quickly offered to let me pick out my Christmas present...
|Enjoying Monkey Balls at Sweet & Naughty
|While family and friends were huddled inside with cold and snow...
|Having no Christmas decorations....
|I made a temporary Mermaid's Wreath
|Bruce cleaning the dinghy bottom!
|Guys and girls naturally separate for chit-chat.
|Ginny and Chuck playing with Christmas toys!
|Are there any sea monsters out here?
|Bonnie and Wendy enjoying the cool water...
|A temporary squall chased us all back to our respective boats!
|I appreciated the fresh water rinse!
|I appreciate a fine looking rooster...
Shortly after our arrival here one of our propane bottles ran dry. We thought maybe we would get it filled in St. Thomas but as the days turned into weeks I began to get nervous about our second bottle going dry... especially with all the baking I've been doing!
So one day we decided to get a fill... It's amazing how complicated that turned out to be. First we called to make sure they were open. Yes, the guy will be there at noon.
|The Shadow Waits
Two days later we called again and arranged to meet up at the Dinghy Dock. That hour promised for the return of our newly filled bottle turned into four hours of waiting around... I won't go into the details but if you need a propane fill... do it somewhere else!
The week between Christmas and New Year's Eve was the busiest we've ever seen the streets of Culebra. We had heard that there would be a big NYE party and boats began to fill the Bay and the public dock several days in advance.
|Our dinghy dock was taken over by Holiday revelers
|Sunken bicycle resurrected
|We visited the fresh market weekly
|Gonna have to figure out how to eat like locals eventually... not today!
|This will make a nice stew...
|US Post Office
|Looks like this place is expecting some heat!
|Filling up...
|Police were blocking the downtown area two days before the party
|Last Sunrise of 2016
|Sun setting on 2016
|Our big New Year's Eve activity...Leftovers in the cockpit and Netflix
|Good morning 2017!! Happy New Year!
|Odin and Adventure Us 2
The long-awaited arrival of Texas friends on Adventure Us 2 has released us from all non-weather related restrictions... You'll see more of these two in the days to come as we plan to continue on with them for a while...
|These blooms weren't there the last time we walked past this cactus...
|I love the porches... no two are alike!
|Boats anchored near the music stage from last night
|Tire Art
|Our little band of vagabonds
|Chicken sneaking up on an unsuspecting Bonnie
|You gonna eat that coconut, lady?
|Craig procured sustenance for his Lady
|We had to find alternate dinghy dockage...
|More boats in the Bay than we've ever seen!
|Our alternate dinghy dockage...
We are excited about how this year will unfold... what new adventures will it bring? Join us and find out! Happy New Year!


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This thesis deals with questions about the built environment in relation to the education of the body. The purpose of the thesis is to illustrate and discuss prerequisites for physical literacy and education in school gymnasiums.
The aim of the study was to examine how discourses about body and body movement are related to questions about knowledge and education within physical education in school (PE). Using discourse analysis I explore how discursive practices such as rooms and talk produce, reproduce and change discourses about body, movement and knowledge. The discursive practices that I have focused on are the designing of rooms for physical education as well as PE teachers' ways of expressing themselves regarding these kinds of rooms. The empirical material that has been analyzed consists of rooms used for physical education, interviews with PE teachers and text material from a journal for PE teachers.
The results of the analysis suggest that some discourses can be described as strong and/or dominant and some as weaker. One example is the dominant discourse about body movement as competition and performance. Another example is the strong, although not dominant discourse about body movement as practice within which the body is (re)produced as a learning body. A third one is the weak discourse about movement as experiencing one's body.
One of the conclusions of the study is that a more open design of rooms for physical education would enhance the possibilities for the practice discourse and the experience discourse to grow stronger, which would be desirable considering the emphasis on learning and positive experiences of body movement in the syllabus for PE. Another conclusion is that if the practice discourse would be more clearly materialized in the gymnasiums, it could mean that other discursive practices too such as teachers' and pupils' speech acts and body acts within PE could change more easily.

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Automattic, owner of WordPress, acquires Tumblr, a long-time friendly rival company, for what is reported to be very low sum. With the deal valued at less than $3 million.
The deal marks a dramatic change of fortunes for Tumblr, which Yahoo bought for $1.1 billion just 6 years ago, and then assimilated into the Verizon fold when the telecoms giant bought Yahoo in 2017.
For Automattic, Tumblr is the biggest acquisition yet in terms of product users and employees gained. The blogging and social networking website currently hosts 475.1 million blogs, for which Automattic will now assume operational costs. All 200 Tumblr employees will be moving over to Automattic, bringing the company's total employee count to over 1,000.
Automattic doesn't currently have plans to change the frontend Tumblr experience. Executives from both Tumblr and Automattic will "look for ways WordPress.com and Tumblr can share services and functionality." Though, you shouldn't expect any immediate changes.
As WordPress acquires Tumblr, the blogging website itself remains unprofitable despite hosting over 450 million blogs. But Automattic has pledged to maintain the adult content ban as well as take on all 200 employees.
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg outlined a brief roadmap for Tumblr's future that includes re-architecting its backend with WordPress:
"WordPress is an open source web operating system that can power pretty much anything, including Tumblr.com, but it's also a large property so will take a bit to figure out and migrate," he said.


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Professional Organizations on LGBT Parenting (US)
This resource is currently only available in English. Visit our English resources for 2SLGBTQ health information in English.
Questions? Get in touch with us at firstname.lastname@example.com
The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality. This page on their website lists policy or position statements made by national child welfare, psychological and children's health organizations declaring that a parent's sexual orientation is irrelevant to his or her ability to raise a child.


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MOAD Director Aaron Kohn Talks Africa's First Design Museum
Okayafrica spoke with the Museum of African Design (MOAD) director Aaron Kohn.
Photo by Andrea Weiss
The Museum of African Design is located in Joburg's experimental Maboneng Precinct. Like all industrial areas, the streets and buildings are not beautiful, except maybe to engineers and avant-garde architects. This side of Johannesburg has inspired neither song nor poem (though the changing metropolis has inspired a very insightful documentary). Three years ago none of the current Sunday market flockers had any reason to visit this place. The only constant streams of bodies were the workers of the automobile shops and the sangomas of the Kwa Mai Mai Market.
MOAD, which opened its doors in late October, is located a little bit outside the heart of Maboneng, an unassuming warehouse space in a sea of unassuming warehouses. Larger than I thought it would be, it consists of two floors with distinct two ways of navigation — a fire-escape-like set of stairs and a scaffolding walkway that snakes around the interior side. The museum's director is Aaron Kohn, the American co-founder of the African Lookbook retail site and a recent college graduate. I sat down with Aaron on a scorching Johannesburg afternoon to discuss MOAD, Joburg, and how it came to be that a Cleveland native is running the continent's first museum dedicated to African design.
Photo by Alon Skuy (Times Live SA)
"I ended up here with a strange obsession with Africa, which started off thinking I could be the white saviour from America. Y'know, do a lot of good. And along the route of disillusionment, I started hanging out with a lot of artists from across the continent. I started studying African art and spent a lot of time in Johannesburg." To Aaron's great credit, he acknowledged and managed to bypass the propensity for non-Africans to look at Africa as a continent that needs saving.
It's worth noting that the head honcho of Maboneng, Jonathan Liebmann, had earmarked the warehouse space as MOAD as early as 2011. "There wasn't a lot they could do with it, so about a year ago, I started chatting with him [Jonathan] about turning it into a fully functional, all-year-round museum, and in November last year [2012] we started with the actual planning, and in July we started construction. We added a floor and touched up some things, but the goal all along was to leave it as raw as possible and unrefined. Refine the unrefined."
Aaron has no formal training in design, but has a passion for African studies, which he studied first in New York, and as result became interested not only in design, but specifically African design. After watching two blonde kids play in one of the works on display, we chat about design and its ever-evolving nature, the "aspects of design" as he calls it. "Where do you draw the line between art and design, and on the other end where do you draw the line between craft and design? What do you do when pieces don't hang on white walls, how do you display them, do people sit on that chair [he points to the chair the two kids are sitting and posing for pictures on], are they allowed to?"
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Alan Jackson's new album, Where Have You Gone – arrives May 14th.
Among the 20 tracks, are some very personal songs for Alan, including one his wrote for his mom, "One song on there, especially I wrote when my mama died…I wrote for her funeral."
Alan's mom Ruth passed away 4 years ago, and at the time he wrote "Where Her Heart Has Always Been." Alan shares, "I really love that track. It's just really – I tried to write it in a way that I know she would appreciate it."
When he first thought to add it to the collection, that would have been special enough, but thanks to Alan's sister, now Ruth is joining her song on his latest project.
Alan explains, "After we had cut it and we were just about to finalize the record, my sister sent a recording of mama reading from the Bible for a Christmas story or something from a few years ago that I hadn't heard, or I don't remember if I had ever heard it. And I thought that would be cool to put that on there. So, we tried to pick a little piece of that that didn't sound so Christmasy and put on there on the front end and that made it really, really sweet."
Listen to the very personal track "Where Her Heart Has Always Been" from Alan Jackson, with a special spoken word piece by his mom Ruth included…
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There's something about Italy that captivates me. From sun-drenched shorelines to exotic history, I am an unabashed Italy buff. Of course, it doesn't hurt that Italian gastronomy and wine are out of this world. I dream of a time when I can sample wonderlands, like the focus of today's post — Sardinia —unbothered and unhurried, delighting in her wonderful food, wine and vistas. Before I digress into my daydream, come along with me.
The larger of the two northern Italian islands, just south of Corsica, Sardinia has a long, colorful history, which relates to our first featured white wine, Nuragus. Many thousands of years ago, an ancient people, the Nuraghe settled on Sardinia, to take advantage of its great sea-trading location, beautiful weather, copper and lead ore, native to the island. According to Fringe Wine, before they conquered the Nuraghe, Phoenicians were big traders with them, even importing grapes to the island, according to ampelographers. Today's Nuragus wine is only grown on Sardinia's southern end, and is named after these very early inhabitants.
Nuragus is known for its plentiful yield, acidity and ability to grow in Sardinia's generally hot climate. It is basically only found near the southern town of Cagliari, and seems to have further cultivation restrictions. While some websites claim that it is the wine growers who restrict themselves to growing Nuragus at 600 meters or lower on their mountainous terrain, other sites claim Italian regulations. I tend to believe the latter, given how ubiquitous Italian wine laws are.
Overall tasting reports on Nuragus range widely as to whether this is considered a good, fair or non-event wine. What is common to the reviews I read (because Nuragus is hard to find here in America), is that it doesn't age well, is better served warmer than chilled, and has a fruity nose of apples and pears with a bitter almond finish. Perhaps because it is a delicate wine, it pairs successfully with diverse dishes ranging from pungent cheeses to fish and shellfish pasta.
Fast forward several centuries, and you have Sardinia's Aragon period, when the Spanish dominated the island. They also brought a little piece of home with them in the form of Carignano (also known as Carignan), a hardy, high-yielding red. The Carignano vines found on Sardinia are well over 100 years old, with gnarly stems and tough branches that make manual harvesting preferred.
This little red workhorse wine was predominantly used as a blend in red wines, due to its high tannins and acidity. Lately, however, perhaps thanks to improved wine-production methods, it can be found as a stand-alone varietal in Carignano del Sulcis, produced west of Cagliari in the coastal area of Sulcis. Sardinian Carignano is especially spicy and rich, as it tends to thrive in the heat where it is more protected from the many pests to which it is susceptible. This wine is a great accompaniment to your typical Mediterranean diet: goat, lamb, pasta, veggies and sharp cheeses.
If you've had the opportunity to try Nuragus or Carignano, please share your experiences with us. If you'd like to read some of my other posts on Italian wine, please visit the Italian wine section of my blog.
As an independent wine consultant with WineShop At Home, I absolutely enjoy bringing a taste of the Napa wine country home to you one sip at a time. Whether you simply love to drink wine, seek a special personalized wine gift, or are in search of a new wine jobs opportunity as a wine consultant, feel free to contact me for a truly unique wine tasting experience!
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We depend on sight more than any other of our senses to maneuver through the space around us. In a single glance, lasting a fraction of a second, our eyes work with our brains to tell us the size, shape, color, and texture of an object. They let us know how close it is, whether it's standing still or coming …Read More »
Remaining Optimistic After Losing An Important Sporting Event
By Stan Popovich Some athletes who do not perform well at their event may have a difficult time in getting over their most recent loss. As a result, here are a list of techniques that an athlete can follow in staying optimistic for their next event. First, do not make excuses or blame others for your defeat. Many athletes tend …Read More »
Eating Fruits and Vegetables for Better Performance
5 Ways to Get Your 5 a Day You may have heard that you should eat 5 servings of fruit and vegetables a day — which works out to a total of about 2 cups. But experts actually recommend getting even more than that amount. There are no limits on the quantities of tasty fruits and veggies you can enjoy …Read More »
Why Exercise?
You've probably heard countless times how exercise is "good for you." But did you know that it can actually help you feel good, too? Getting the right amount of exercise can rev up your energy levels and even help improve your mood. Rewards and Benefits Experts recommend that teens get 60 minutes or more of moderate to vigorous physical activity each …Read More »
Organic and Other Environmentally Friendly Foods
Understanding What It All Means Even the most casual food shoppers have probably noticed the increased quantity and variety of organic foods available in regular grocery stores. Once the specialty of health food stores, organic foods are spreading from specialty aisles to shelves throughout the big food stores. Maybe you're wondering what all the fuss is about. Are organic foods …Read More »
Shoulder Mobility: Two Exercises to Improve Your Mobility
Good shoulder mobility can not only improve shoulder function, but also improve performance and limit injuries. With athletes now specializing in one sport at an early age and many of them increasing their training outside of their sport, their shoulders can lose the flexibility and strength needed to perform at their best. Since most sports primarily use the "pushing" muscles …Read More »
Great Greens: Eating the Right Foods to Stay Healthy
By Better Nutrition Greens aren't just good for your health—they're great. Green drinks, particularly, contain a healthy mix of nutrient-filled algae and grasses that offer detoxifying and alkalizing amino acids, minerals, and antioxidants. Greens are among my very favorite foods. Steamed, sautéed, raw—it doesn't matter. Load up my plate and I'm happy. In fact, I'd eat them even if they …Read More »
Strength Training: Well Balanced Training Is Key To Success
Strength training is a vital part of a balanced exercise routine that includes aerobic activity and flexibility exercises. Regular aerobic exercise, such as running or using a stationary bike, makes your muscles use oxygen more efficiently and strengthens your heart and lungs. When you strength train with weights, you're using your muscles to work against the extra pounds (this concept …Read More »
Heat Illness in High School Athletes
By Jason Bennett, DA, ATC, Associate Professor at Chapman University The Centers for Disease Control reported that heat illness was a leading cause of death and disability of high school athletes from 2005-2009 (Yard, et al., 2010). Fortunately, heat illness is 100% preventable with the appropriate knowledge and procedures in place. While about 70% of high school athletes who suffer …Read More »
Taking the Stress Out of College: Knowing What to Expect
Many college students realize they weren't realistic about college. Some expect to find it hard living away from home, not only in terms of missing family but also in dealing with practical stuff like washing your own clothes. If anticipated, these issues can be less stressful. Living away from home tends to be the toughest adjustment for first-year students. You've …Read More »


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Buying a home using a VA mortgage after foreclosure
Defaulting on a home loan often puts would-be home buyers in a tough financial spot.
However, unlike homeowners with FHA loans or conventional ones, VA borrowers may be able to rejoin the ranks of homeownership more quickly given this benefit program's more flexible requirements.
This is especially good news given today's low mortgage rates and the pace at which this decade's home values have been rising nationwide.
So, even if you've defaulted on a VA-backed loan, you may be eligible to become a "boomerang buyer," as it's known, just a couple years removed from a foreclosure.Verify your VA loan eligibility
Using a VA Loan after a conventional or FHA foreclosure
For military borrowers using the VA Home Loan Guaranty program, your success in financing a home after a foreclosure will be affected by the type of loan on which you defaulting.
For example, veterans and active duty members who lose a conventional mortgage to foreclosure typically must wait a minimum of two years before being eligible for a new VA loan.
For homeowners defaulting on an FHA loan, the wait could be as long as three years.
Therefore, if you're a military borrower who defaulted on a conventional or FHA loan, rather than rush the process, you may find that your time is best spent mending finances and repairing credit.
A foreclosure could slash as many as 120 points from your credit score, according to credit scoring firm FICO.
However, with time and attention to your score, you can potentially reclaim those points in time to be home-loan eligible with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Credit benchmarks can vary by lender and other factors, but a 620 FICO score is a common requirement among VA lenders.Verify your VA loan eligibility
Using a VA loan after a VA foreclosure
Defaulting on a government-backed loan can make for a bumpy road back to homeownership, but it doesn't mean you can't get another VA home loan. There's typically a two-year seasoning period before you can pursue another.
Some VA lenders may have no waiting period following a short sale.
Would-be buyers will also need to determine how much VA loan entitlement they have remaining.
VA loan entitlement can be a tough concept to nail down, especially in cases of default, but it's crucial to the VA home buying process.
Veterans who are eligible for a VA home loan have this entitlement, which is essentially a financial commitment from the VA to repay a portion of the loan in case of default.
Veterans use at least a portion of their entitlement every time they purchase.
When a VA homeowner defaults, they lose whatever entitlement they utilized on the home. The only way to get it back is to repay the VA in full.
But many buyers have enough entitlement left over to pursue another VA loan.
Lenders will need to see the veteran's Certificate of Eligibility (COE) to determine how much entitlement they have left. Veterans using their remaining entitlement also must borrow more than $144,000 to make these purchases work.
To be sure, simply having remaining VA loan entitlement doesn't automatically guarantee a home loan after a foreclosure. Credit score, debts and income will still play a critical role in the loan approval process.
In short, borrowers with sufficient entitlement left still have to satisfy both VA and lender requirements before securing another loan.
The most important factors to remember when pursuing another VA-backed home loan after default are entitlement and credit. After taking the time to rebuild your credit, talk to a lender about your COE to determine how much entitlement you have left.
This will help you decide if pursuing another VA loan is a viable option, and if so, what your zero-down purchasing power might look like.
What are today's mortgage rates?
Home values are rising and mortgage rates are low, making today an interesting time to consider buying a new home. Thankfully, for homeowners with a history of foreclosure, getting approved for a loan is simpler than it was.Time to make a move? Let us find the right mortgage for you


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We have spent a lot of time in our immediate front yard (so grateful for some green space.) I jumped on the sidewalk/painters tape trend and decided to take it up to the fence for the enjoyment of walkers, riders, and drivers. It's been just as pleasurable for me to see every time we step outside.
We've also enjoyed rock scavenger hunts with neighbors. One family hides the rocks in a radius of our 'hood, sends us three clues, and then we go and retrieve, repeating the process for the next family. Unexpected happy accident--my son is really learning an immediate mapping of streets and directions in our neighborhood.
It felt like Christmas part two in early March with a game order. We've spent countless hours playing old favorites like Monopoly and Uno, and new ones including Battleship, Monopoly, Bananagrams, and Solitaire.
I've always enjoyed cooking and baking but I'm finally tackling sourdough-breads, including the loaf below and sourdough cinnamon rolls I'm making today for Easter Sunday. It's been an experiment in patience and failure but also so rewarding. We've also seen so many wonderful gifts and sharing and swapping from neighbors--avocados, eggs, flour, mint, citrus, yeast--I am so touched.


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Personal Space: How Close Is Too Close?
Even before coronavirus, we all needed a little bit of space. Here's why.
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Once upon a time (about two months ago), people greeted each other with handshakes and hugs. Now we keep our distance from friends and strangers alike, and the term "social distancing" has become as ubiquitous as "Alexa, turn on the TV." This new normal has turned the concept of personal space on its head, and we can now even ignore a few traditional etiquette rules because of coronavirus. That said, even before all this, we were always a bit wary when some people got a little too close. Here's why personal space has always been a big deal—and how this crisis may change how we look at it forever.
Your invisible second skin
Peripersonal space is defined as the region of space that surrounds our bodies, specifically our hands, heads, and trunk. In a way, it's a personal radar that helps to keep us safe. When someone invades our personal space, we instinctively react by backing up a couple of steps or by averting our heads slightly to the side. You may have done this without even realizing it with close talkers—those people who love to talk nose-to-nose at parties or in conference rooms. Even pre-COVID-19, close talkers were enough to give us the heebie-jeebies. That's because an invasion of personal space pushes our alarm bells, signaling to us that we may be in dangerous territory.
According to therapist and author Venus Nicolino, PhD, peripersonal space is not just an intriguing idea but a real phenomenon that affects the way we interact with the world. "Personal space is built into the fabric of our DNA, and the brain computes this space as a kind of buffer zone," she explains. "It's an invisible second skin where the zoning is flexible, according to individual and social circumstances. It's how we operate saws, jackhammers, blenders, and other potentially dangerous, everyday objects. It's why we stay clear of someone we perceive as creepy and how we know not to walk into things. So it's not just important but vital [in order] for humans to be able to coexist with our environment—and each other."
Personal space and cultural norms
The buffer zone you establish between yourself and the rest of the world determines who you let in and who you keep out. It can be used to solidify relationships or repel them. And this isn't just determined by individual preference—it also varies by culture and circumstances. In Iran, the three-kiss greeting commonly given among men is used to show respect and create camaraderie. It is also one of the reasons cited for the early, unchecked COVID-19 outbreak among senior officials there.
In many countries—like Italy, France, and Spain—kissing, hugging, high-fiving, and shaking hands have traditionally been used to bring people closer, define relationships, and generate warmth among friends and new acquaintances alike.
In other countries, more reserved, reticent behaviors are more common. Unfortunately, even those social-distancing boundaries did little to reduce COVID-19's spread. In the United Kingdom, people are now struggling to balance their natural sense of reserve with the need to politely define personal-space boundaries by telling people to distance themselves.
Close…but not too close
According to therapist and attorney Bill Eddy, personal space, even within one geographic area or culture, has multiple variables. Eddy specializes in conflict resolution, so he knows a lot about the psychological and physical invasion of safe spaces. "Before the virus hit, acceptable amounts of personal space in the U.S. varied widely from person to person, based on personality, upbringing, cultural background, and age," he explains. "There are also different types of personal space. These include physical space, time space (I just need to be alone for a while to deal with my email), emotional space (I need to calm down after what just happened), and activity space (I'll sit close with you on the couch while watching a show, but when I'm reading, you need to sit farther away)."
In general, Americans are comfortable with close…but not too close. Before coronavirus, our boundaries were flexible and would change according to need. For example, if your boss got too close and you could feel his breath on your neck, that was too close (and also icky). Your personal-space alarm bells would go off, warning you that someone you were not intimately connected to was making you uncomfortable. If your spouse needed a hug, even if they were running a fever or coughing, that used to be OK. Now, unfortunately, that scenario is bound to ring some personal-space alarm bells, too.
How coronavirus has changed everything
Right now, the personal-space boundaries that used to be determined by our own comfort levels are being determined by public-health organizations and government officials. According to the University of Chicago and other official bodies, social distancing is a public-health intervention used to protect us and safeguard us against illness. It is an imperative required for the well-being of ourselves, our families, our neighborhoods, our nation, and our planet. It is also a temporary fail-safe, which someday may no longer be needed.
Currently, the CDC recommends that people not living under the same roof stay six feet apart from one another at all times. This restraint should also be used in the home if someone is ill, has been exposed to anyone with COVID-19, or has been traveling.
For some, six feet seems like an impossible divide, as their second skin isn't thick and they crave closeness, explains Nicolino. For others, that amount of regular distance is OK. "Currently, there is a redefining of personal space, and it's something humans are not used to, especially in large cities where it's difficult to maintain just two feet of personal space," she says. "Will we ever just all pile into an empty elevator again with no thought? Only time will tell." Here are more everyday habits that could (and should) change after coronavirus.
What does the future hold?
Nicolino notes that before COVID-19, everyone had their own level of comfort. "The late President Kennedy is said to have had a 30-foot rule, whereas President Trump is comfortable shaking hands and putting his arm around people. Everyone's invisible second skin is different," she says. "Before the virus, what was acceptable was everyone's own level of comfort, and if you have a high EQ (emotional intelligence), you were instinctually aware of others' level of comfort. With COVID-19, that all changes."
It's hard to say what the future holds. Currently, people are torn between their desire to connect with others and the need to keep them away and stay safe. They will now cross the street if others are approaching, and sadly, they may avoid eye contact and smiling as well.
However, the desire for normalcy is strong. It may take a very long time for us to feel normal again. That may not occur until the virus is a distant memory, one that is shrouded in the remembrance of how many we lost, how sick we felt, and our quest for a vaccine. Once we feel in control of our own destinies and bodies again, we may be able to greet each other with a handshake, hug, or greeting of warmth. Until that time, listen to those alarm bells. Go for walks but stay six feet away from others. Maintain your humanity and sense of community by waving or smiling. That is what will help provide the hope we all crave right now. Next, check out these uplifting stories of neighbors helping during coronavirus that will inspire you to do the same.


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Fish Sculpture, Sapphire BlueRegular price $120
The original Fish In Glass was designed in 1913 by René Lalique and has become an important and iconic piece in the Lalique universe. It first appeared in turquoise and has been re-issued in an extensive palette of colored crystal. Perfect for building a Lalique aquarium collection. Handcrafted in France.
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People have lived in the Similkameen River valley for 7000 years. First Nations people mined and extracted ochre for paint, chert for arrowheads, along with opals, quartz crystals, and gold, for trade and personal use. Hedley Town was built in the middle of Indian land.
Duncan Woods was one of those "hard-luck miners" who struck gold with the discovery of the Mascot Fraction, staked by George Cahill in 1898-1900. Due to a 30-year feud with the General Superintendent of the Daly Reduction Company/Nickel Plate Mine, Gomer P. Jones, the Mascot Fraction only reached its potential when, at the age of 80, Woods sold the Mascot claim and neighbouring claims to a Vancouver business group in 1933.
When the aged hardliner Duncan Woods sold his Mascot Fraction, the small wedge shaped claim sandwiched between the Nickel Plate properties, he received a the sum of $150,000. This was a huge amount of money in the 1930's, but Woods didn't live long to enjoy it, he died in 1933.
The new owners, Hedley Mascot Gold Mines Ltd, took over 31 other crown-granted claims adjacent to the fraction in order to have enough room for their tram lines and mill. The property was rich and like the Nickel Plate, also required some novel methods for ore removal. Since the claim was on a cliff face 300 feet above the valley, access was extremely difficult. An aerial tramway was constructed from the mine portal to a mill location on Twenty Mile Creek just upstream of Hedley.
By 1937, a maze of stairs, skips and catwalks would take the mine workers to and from the mine offices, cookhouse, bunkhouse, blacksmith shop, to the tram station, and most importantly, to the mine portal. The Mascot was to become one of the most stunning mining operations built entirely on the side of a mountain. At 5,000 feet above the town of Hedley, the townsfolk were in awe of the construction.
By 1947, after exhausting the ore deposits, the ore grade in the mine dropped from approximately .50 oz. of gold per ton to .39 oz. per ton. Additional richer ore had not been located. The following year in 1948, there was a cave-in on the Nickel Plate mine side or the ore body in the loose ground of the morning workings. This caused some movement in the adjacent Mascot stopes, but since it occurred when the crews were off shift no one was hurt.
By 1949 the known pockets had been cleaned out. The remaining ones were either too expensive to reach or too low in values. After 13 years of operating under difficult conditions the Mascot closed. All the useful equipment was removed. The buildings were abandoned. During its brief history the little Mascot Fraction produced over 682,000 tons of ore. They mined 8 tons of gold were worth $8,000,000. The shareholders had also been rewarded; the company had paid $1,250,000 in dividends.
After nearly fifty years of production, the Nickel Plate mine was running out of ore. Extensive diamond drilling located a few ore deposits, but these were either too small or too far away to be economically mined. Reluctantly, the men of Nickel Plate mine worked their last shift on September 23, 1955.
The total ore removed from the Nickel Plate mine was 3,289,000 tons. The gold value at the time of the mine's closing was worth $37,000,000. The backers of this mountain top venture, actually saw dividends. A total of $5,283,744 was paid out over the years to those who had gambled on finding gold at Nickel Plate.
In 1995, the Mascot Mine site was officially designated a Provincial Heritage resource and after an extensive restoration process was completed, visitors now can witness for themselves the the tenacity of those early-day miners.


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Dex was right, I was wrong! I insisted they were moving in the fences, but Dex thought they were just resodding.
I need to make a correction. I emailed the Padres to find out if they were indeed in the process of moving in the fences.
thought you saw! The uneven sod you noted along the right field cut-out was due
to our complete field resodding, not a fence relocation. While we are still
considering a subtle fence relocation, it will be modest at best and only impact
the deep right center field area, which is currently at 411 feet.
If you have further questions, please give me a shout.
Tim Katzman
Director, Corporate Communications
Thanks to Tim for his time and for the info. I'll tell you one thing. That grass looked really good, they must be perfectionists down there in the field crew. Maybe they will use some of that sod to fix up the Park in the Park, because that was a mess.
Update [2005-12-12 13:18:56 by jbox]:
I emailed Tim back and thanked him and made a little comment about how the Grounds Crew must be dreading fixing up the Park in the Park cuz of the snow and mud.
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Tim and Science throw up another strike on ol' jbox again. As Dex says I'm 0-2 with the Petco grass.


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Fraser River Freshet Flood
A dominant flood type in the Lower Mainland is river flooding (also known as fluvial or riverine flooding). A flood occurs when a river channel reaches capacity and water overflows the riverbank onto adjacent land, called the floodplain.
The Fraser River is the longest river in BC (1,375 km) and drains nearly a quarter of the province. The Fraser flows down from the mountains, through the interior of the province, to the Lower Mainland and out to the Salish Sea (Strait of Georgia). Fraser River flooding is a natural process that shaped the Lower Mainland region over time. It is of concern to communities because of widespread development in the floodplain.
Fraser River flooding is possible during spring freshet (spring snowmelt) when the water volumes increase and the river runs high and fast. Land along the much of the Lower Fraser River is lined with protective earthen barriers called dikes. Dikes help prevent the overflow of water, but in a large-scale flood, there is potential for dikes to be overtopped or to otherwise fail. In a Fraser River flood, it may take days or weeks for flood waters to recede. In some cases, dikes can exacerbate flooding or extend the duration of flooding. For example, in cases where a dike breaches, the remaining intact dike length can cause floodwaters to pond and can delay the drainage of floodwaters from the flooded area.
The volume of flow in the river is determined primarily by the amount of precipitation in the watershed and the rate at which it reaches the Lower Fraser.
In simple terms, freshet flow on the Fraser River is a based on how the following conditions combine in the spring:
- Snow volume (or snowpack) – larger snowpacks in the Fraser River watershed contribute to a larger river flow
- Temperature – warmer weather increases the rate at which snow melts, increasing flow
- Precipitation – rain falling on snow makes the snow melt faster and further adds to flow.
To learn more about snowpack and flood advisories for the Fraser River watershed, visit the River Forecast Centre of BC.
Fraser River flow is generally reported as a flow rate (in cubic metres per second – m³/s) at Hope, where the Canadian Hydrographic Service operates a real-time gauge. Some flooding of riverbank areas along the Lower Fraser is expected when flows at Hope reach 12,000 m³/s. In the largest flood of written record, which happened in 1894, the Fraser River had a flow of 17,000 m³/s, when large areas of the Lower Mainland were flooded: see Flood History.
As flows get higher, larger areas are flooded. Modelling and mapping in the Lower Mainland Flood Management Strategy initiative shows that Fraser River floods are expected to increase in size and severity in the decades ahead under climate change. Learn more.
To find Lower Mainland flood maps, both local and regional, see Flood Maps.


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We have almost completed working on a Visitor Experience Plan for Penwyllt in the Brecon Beacons National Park, which we have worked on with our close associates The Tourism Company, looking at how to use interpretation to improve visitor experience at this key early industrial site.
Work has involved consultations with local people who have connections with the lost community of Penwyllt. Our proposals for interpretation reflected this local importance of the site.


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One of the best chefs in the world is based in… Dubai!
The French chef of the Dubai restaurant Ossiano, located in Atlantis, The Palm is among the top 100 chefs selected by the jury of the Best Chef Awards.
His name is Grégoire Berger and he has just made a name for himself by entering the top 100 of the Best Chef Awards, directly in 49th place. Since 2015, the Frenchman has been at the head of the kitchen of Ossiano, a Dubai restaurant, where he never ceases to delight the taste buds of his visitors.
The Best Chef Awards are a global competition to determine the 300 most talented chefs in the world, based on various criteria.
A very followed chef
The Frenchman also won the Fol-lovers Award, which rewards the leaders who have collected the most votes on social networks. "I am very honoured to have been recognized by the public, the media and my peers. Being considered one of the top 50 chefs in the world alongside talented professionals I admire is a dream come true," he said.


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Men's Calf Leather Sporting Gloves - Left Hand Trigger In Tan
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Purdey Sporting gloves are designed specifically for the field with a split trigger finger that folds back, and reinforcement on the thumb of the trigger hand, which is prone to wear from the safety catch. The barrel hand is lined with heat-resistant Kevlar important in rapid-fire situations on a productive peg when a side-by-side can generate considerable heat. Handmade in England from the finest calf leather. To determine your glove size, measure around the widest part of your flat hand (normally the knuckles) in inches. If you are between sizes, please size down as the leather in the gloves will give with wear. A snug fit is preferred.
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Darling! Heart Trinket Dish Darling Rose
This appears on our list of products as a trinket dish but although you could certainly use it to house your watch and earrings/cufflinks at night, you can also use it to collar loose change or collect stray paper clips or indeed for individual portions of sweets or appetizers at parties.
- Porcelain China
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If you can tell someone has come home by the immense ruckus your garage door makes when it is being opened, then it's probably time to fix your door. Don't worry; the key to fixing your clunky sounding garage door is just simple maintenance.
It doesn't take a master carpenter to be able to finally silence a pesky door, just a few tools and a good eye for what may be causing the majority of the noise.
Why does it seem like garage doors are always making a racket? Garage doors have many working parts that experience wear and tear every time you open and close them. These parts need to be cared for, just like any other piece of equipment or machinery.
Daily use of garage doors can kick up grime, dirt, debris and dust onto the lubricated moving parts. This causes excess friction and the parts grind against each other during moments of operation, causing damage and creating noise.
Over time, these rollers, hinges and other door components take our daily abuse and require occasional upkeep in order for the door to not only operate quietly, but also operate smoothly and seamlessly.
What you'll need: the tools required to silence that endlessly noisy garage door of yours are ones that you probably have lying around. Some other materials may require a trip to the local hardware store.
Before you go out and purchase your materials, inspect your door first to see how many parts you may need. Examine your hinges, rollers, nuts, and bolts, to take note on what parts are damaged and need to be replaced.
Here are some tools and material you may need for this project:
Using a socket or adjustable wrench, tighten all of the nuts. Be sure to not over-tighten in this step or you could be in danger of stripping the screws, or worse, pulling the carriage bolts through the door.
Your garage door has many different parts and pieces required to keep in moving and operation, so along with the nuts, you'll also need to check for any loose screws. If you find loose screws, tighten them with a screwdriver.
Check the bolts. Any conjoining part of the garage door will need to be inspected. Bolts are ubiquitous in garage doors and help hold all of the different parts together. If they appear loose, tighten them.
Rollers are one of the working parts of a garage door that sees some of the most abuse. Rollers that have seen better days can actually teeter back and forth as the door operates, which is possibly the main source behind the angry noise.
Often times, the bearings that many track rollers have will worsen with wear, which can cause this wobbling. Nylon rollers are recommended if you're fixing a noisy garage door but they're known to be more expensive as opposed to metal ones.
While metal rollers are indeed less expensive, if you're trying to solve the noise level of a garage door, the nylon rollers will be a better option in the long run.
However, the price is worth it if you have a small house where the noise of your garage door going up and down reverberates throughout it, or especially if there's a bedroom in close proximity to the door.
Replace the rollers one at a time and do not try to replace the rollers in the bottom bracket. For this job, call the professionals, because trying to remove the rollers on the bottom bracket could result in serious injury due to the constant spring tension they are under.
Hinges can usually last quite a long time under the constant duress of the opening and shutting of the garage door. Check each hinge carefully as part of your inspection of the noisy door; an out of shape hinge that needs to be replaced can contribute to the door's constant racket.
A sign of a hinge on its way out is metal shavings and gray colored dust, this means grinding and friction and you'll want to replace this.
You put in all of that hard work in checking every nut, bolt, roller and hinge in all the door's nooks and crannies. Don't let it go to waste by forgetting to lubricate everything! Lubrication will prevent the parts from wearing out and from making noise, a double win. You can purchase a lubrication kit specifically designed for garage doors at your local hardware store for under $10.
Remember to lubricate every six months to maintain your quite garage door. Also, be sure to purchase lubricants that are designed for garage door parts. Many lubricants that consist of oil, spray lithium grease or regular grease tend to attract dirt, debris and grime, none of which are advantageous for moving parts.
There are so many working parts to a garage door it can be easy to miss something. Don't forget about one of the main components of your noisy door – the opener chain. For this part of fixing your garage door, you may need to grab the operator manual.
A loose opener chain can not only cause jerked movements with your garage door, but also make loud noises of metal slapping and clanking. If this sounds like your noisy garage door, start by tightening the opener chain.
Instructions for this are likely to be found in the owner's manual for your garage door. For track drive openers, grease the opener track so it can operate smoothly.
If your garage door is still making noises after you've followed these steps, you may have other issues at hand. Some parts, like the motor, may need to be replaced completely and can't be salvaged. An aging motor is often loud, and most of the time, there's really no good fix other than to upgrade it.
For attached or tuck-under garage doors, there's another option for you to try to lessen the noise. You can use homemade anti-vibration pads, easily constructed from old or unused rubber tires, or purchase anti-vibration pads designed for garage doors from hardware and home supply stores.
To install these pads, slide one between the ceiling and the mounting bracket and a second pad on the other side of the bracket. These anti-vibration pads will soften the noise the door makes during its operation of opening and closing. Acting as a noise buffer between the moving parts, these pads are a handy fix in lieu of replacing the entire motor.
If your garage door makes a loud and obnoxious noise during opening and closing, the fix to lessen the noise can be as simple as these steps. With a few tools, lubricant and extra parts that can be obtained from your local hardware store, your garage door can go from clanging and causing a racket to being quiet and barely heard.
Sometimes, the noise won't go away. In such a case, it's time for replacement. A new, steel insulated garage door will be quiet to use and help keep your garage at a comfortable temperature year round.
Madison homeowners turn to Feldco for their garage door replacement needs because we've been in business for over 40 years and have served over 350,000 homeowners. Get a free quote to get started on your garage door project with Feldco.


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Armed with a 1937 Leica IIIa 35mm camera, Brian Grawburg has begun a project to document "lost" Wilson County graveyards. Using early 20th topographical maps, WPA cemetery surveys, Google Maps, and tips from the public, Grawburg has battled heat, humidity and nearly impenetrable thickets to create and preserve a record of these forgotten spaces.
This is the second in a series of posts exploring African-American cemeteries that have been rediscovered by Grawburg.
The Brantley cemetery, off Crepe Myrtle Road in Taylors township, Wilson County, contains nine headstones. For more about the Brantleys, see here and here and here.
- Bettie Brantley — 1878-8 Dec 1919, daughter of Henderson Brantley and Mollie Boone Brantley.
- Charlie Brantley — 1 Aug 1873- 8 Jan 1948, son of Henderson Brantley and Mollie Boone Brantley.
- Finner Brantley — 1 Dec 1887-5 Jan 1924, son of Charlie Brantley and Margaret Locus Brantley.
- Floyd Brantley — 17 Feb 1901-20 May 1905, son of Richard Brantley and Missouri Eatmon Brantley.
- Henderson Brantley — ca. 1836-2 Dec 1916, son of Bettie Brantley.
- Richard Brantley — ca. 1877-28 Dec 1905, son of Henderson Brantley and Mollie Boone Brantley.
- Solomon Finch — 9 Mar 1896-11 Mar 1955, son of Jane Finch and Joseph Jones.
- Annie Thomas Howard — 15 May 1907-1 Aug 1930, adopted daughter of Kenyon Howard and Mollie Brantley Howard.
- Kenyon Howard — 28 Oct 1874-9 Dec 1938, son of Zealous Howard and Rhoda Eatmon Howard, first husband of Mollie Brantley Howard Brown.


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|A snapshot of your life in 3,760 chapters
|1. A brick from space?
With hieroglyphs?
A good list doesnt necessarily make you want to go out and explore the picks described therein sometimes it just acts as a curiously exotic map of a strangers psyche. Just such a map is included at the back of the latest issue of LOVE AND ROCKETS (Volume 11, #10), as creators the brothers Hernandez reel off their favourite comics. Like the guys from PLAN B magazine, they adore Charles Schultz, but curios such as When Lois Lane Became Cinderella and Betty and Veronicas Summer Fun give a tantalising glimpse into the sort of childishly sophisticated (or sophisticatedly childish) art that informs their own books.
The issue proper is a mixed bag, and I dont just mean that its an anthology. This famous series relies strongly on character identification and recognition, but, to paraphrase a comment in the letters page, right now I cant honestly say I get all of it.
The standout for me is Maggie, a tale which bends time and space, hallucination, reality and memory as a woman sifts through the embers of a burned-down house. Its beguiling and quite gorgeous.
Theres a lot of LOVE AND ROCKETS material available through Fantagraphics though, and theyve reeled me in enough to want to find out more about these characters. I want to get it.
Much more accessible to the new reader such as myself is LUBAS COMICS AND STORIES #4. A spin-off from the LOVE AND ROCKETS universe, its based on the notion of femininity as some kind of moral, artistic, aesthetic, sexual, liberational ideal. It lays it on a bit thick, mind. As Venus, a young girl, ponders her future, she gets her scripter a tad too many PC brownie points: I could get married and raise a bunch of kids. Or I could be a scientist. Or a teacher. Or an artist. Or all of the above. Im as PC as they come and even I blanched! The story itself though, about the ill-fated filming of a super-hero home movie, is cute.
Cute of a different kind runs through Grant Morrisons latest mini-series SEAGUY. In a deflating two-fingers to the macho climate so current in mainstream hero comics, SEAGUY is about one man and his pet talking fish-thing as they strive to save a xenomporphic pink blob of sentient food from an omnipresent Cola/Disney-style conglomerate.
Like pretty much all of Morrisons work, it reads as if it was written to entertain even if only in the form of a capsule review. But a brick from space? With hieroglyphs? Giant balloon animals pecking at men and women The poor old moon is crying for help! Im only a poor octopus shepherd If seeing genuinely bizarre sci-fi pseudofables published by one of the big two still gives you a thrill, check this out.
|2. I wonder why other people couldnt
see the virtues of an innately democratic pictographic poetry grounded
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transdimensional metaphysic, anyway?
Comics are still, as we know, considered dumb by most people. I saw an episode of FRIENDS recently (that title always makes me wanna stick two fingers down my throat) where Joey, the whacky dim one, answered the question Do you read comic books? with a hearty Exlusively. It got a big laugh. Me, I dont see whats so inherently funny about exclusive loyalty to a medium that stretches from PEANUTS and WATCHMEN to MAUS, but hey, Im guessing I was never exactly that shows target demographic.
The issues of comics, comic art, cartoonists, and their relevance to/relationship with culture are very much at the heart of McSWEENEYS QUARTERLY CONCERN No. 13.
I am kicking myself that I didnt learn about this publication sooner, but better late than never. This is my new Bible, I swear to God (or at least Stan Lee). Guest editor Chris ware, who broke fucking hearts with JIMMY CORRIGAN: THE SMARTEST KID ON EARTH, has compiled an anthology of work that showcases the best that comics and toons have to offer. The best.
The gangs all here Los bros Hernandez with more fragments from their LOVE AND ROCKETS canon; Dan Clowes with couch-potato and suburbia gags that out-deadpan even his classic GHOST WORLD; Art Spiegleman with his response to 9/11; a haunting pictorial dream (or is it a nightmare?) from Charles Burns; all these and what feels like a hundred more, to make you laugh, cry and all points inbetween.
But it is Chris Ware himself who weaves his editorial presence throughout. His passionate opening defence of comics, which he argues is not a genre but a developing language, unravels from the cover and beyond. It literally unravels, in the case of the wraparound cover which opens out into a huge history of cartooning, and which reveals two mini-comics hidden inside two flaps! He backs up his preface with a haunting (sorry, that word again) tale about the power of emotional memory; Ivan Brunetti supports this thesis with biographical toons about famous artists and their devotion to their art (and, to an extent, their wilful obscurity); even John Updike chimes in with a love letter to his cartooning days that borders, wonderfully in tandem with the entire books design and attention to detail, on the fetishistic.
Best of all, its opened my eyes to Mark Beyer, officially my new favourite cartoonist ever ever Ever. His AMY AND JORDAN cartoons start out giving offbeat cynical laughs but suddenly veers into a slab of self-criticism and self-hate that leaves one reeling.
MCSWEENEYS is, sorry to be a bore, about what the art form of comics can do. And if people still dont understand, its in hardback, which makes it the perfect thing to hit such unbelievers over the head with repeatedly. I dont know if Charles Schultz would wholly approve of such action, but Im sure hed be smirking admiringly from behind his Bristol Board nonetheless.
© 2004 David O MacGowan.


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Episode 18 of the VulnerABILITY Podcast is for anyone who feels like giving up, for anyone facing deep grief, or for anyone at the end of their rope and struggling to hold on. Host Marisa Donnelly and guest Abe Lopez share their personal experiences, anecdotes, and thoughts on moving forward, even if it's only one baby step at a time.
The truth of the matter is, everyone has moments where they want to quit. Everyone has days where they don't feel like continuing, or that they don't have the strength to. In this podcast episode, Abe and I tackle these emotions head-on—not only to validate others' emotions, but to acknowledge that feeling broken, lost, or stressed is a part of the process.
Highlights From the Episode:
[12:40] "I know what I'm capable of. And I know that I'm far more capable than I give myself credit for… [So] give yourself so much more credit than you think you're due."
[15:35] "Is there something, or rather, is there someone in your life who has influence over you or who has really inspired you? Can you find the motivation for them? Can you keep going for them?"
[16:00] "Even if you don't know in this moment, find the motivation in the future. Where do you see yourself down the road? Where do you want to be? What kind of people do you want around you? What kind of family do you want to have? …When we look to the future, it helps us get rid of some of the toxic things that we're unconsciously surrounding ourselves by. And that can help pull us out of a hole, too."
[16:30] "Until we look forward and [look] to where we want to go, we don't notice the things that are keeping us from that place."
[17:25] "God finds us in our hardest times and brings us out of those times… In those [negative] moments, that's where God comes in and changes things… You're in a desert right now, but God meets you in the desert."
[18:35] "If you're spinning in a circle, sometimes the circle is going to face the bad part, and sometimes it's going to face the good part… It's always going to come back around. It's a circle."
[18:40] "You could be at the lowest point right now, and feel like you want to quit, but then find some little thing… and let it just give you one step."
[19:10] "We want to give up… because we see ourselves at 'Point A' and 'Point B' is 2,000 miles down the road. [But] you don't need to jump from 'Point A' to 'Point B.' Take one step, and then another, and then another until you get there. It's not about sprinting, it's about the slow steps. It's just about not giving up… So just encourage yourself that one step is enough."
[21:00] "Think about all the times where you could have given up. That could have totally changed the direction of your entire story… You have to find whatever it is to keep going."
The Biggest Takeaway:
The truth of every hardship is that it's impermanent. The goal is to move forward and keep yourself level-headed, even when you just want to throw in the towel. Have patience and take things step by step.
To listen to more episodes of the VulnerABILITY Podcast, click here.


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Our Team
Our friendly and expert team is here to help you so if you need advice on cooking a particular cut of meat, please do ask!
Alf Pearson (Founder)
Born and bred within a stone's throw of the Market Hall, Alf started his working life as a butcher for the Ashton Co-op where he became a manager in his early 20s. He worked at the Co-op for around twenty years before setting up his own business, A Pearson's Family Butchers, in 1984. Alf's supportive wife, June, worked alongside Alf at the shop and their banter added to the shopping experience for many customers! Alf is now semi-retired and enjoys gardening, caring for his koi carp and is a keen Manchester City supporter.
Mark Pearson
Mark Pearson joined the team within months of the shop opening in 1984. He soon picked up the butchery skills taught by the very capable and patient Perry - and indeed still bears several scars from those early days! It was some years before Alf felt Mark was worthy of having his name joining Alf's above the shop ... A Pearson and Son ... which mum June wholeheartedly supported. Mark has taken on a more managerial role since Alf semi-retired. Mark has a long-suffering wife Roselyn and three grown-up sons.
Joel Pearson
Joel Pearson is the heir to the kingdom of Pearsons Butchers. After training to be a carpenter Joel decided to change his career a few years ago to keep on the family Butcher tradition. Joel is the founder of 'Pearsons Pies' which have been a success at the Butchers now since 2018. In his spare time Joel plays for his local rugby team and enjoys long walks with his very cute dog.
Andrew Hall
Andrew joined the Pearsons team in 1986, having previous experience working in his Dad's butcher business in Droylsden. Perry took Andy under his wing and taught him well. He is a key member of our team, producing many of our award winning burgers and sausages. Outside work, Andy loves working in his garden and spending time with his wife Lynn and their two children.
Gareth Conn
Since leaving school, Gareth has worked as a butcher in the market, initially working alongside his dad David in their successful family butchers. Gareth joined us when David retired aged 88. Outside work, Gareth enjoys watching football, horse racing and golf. You can count on Gareth for his baking tips - especially his famous apple pie!
Eddie Evans
From leaving school, Eddie went straight to butchering and has been there ever since. He worked at a variety of different butchers shops but found his vocation here at Pearsons. He has brought some excellent new ideas to the business. In his spare time he loves walking, photography, dining out and is an avid collector of rare records. He is happily married to Debbie and they share their home with two cats.
Perry Hollingsworth
When Perry left school his mum thought she knew best and asked Alf if he could get him a job working at the Ashton Co-op. The very next week he started working as a butcher in Ashton Market and when Pearsons Butchers was founded in 1984, he was the first employee. Over the years his support has been invaluable as butcher, confidante and key trainer. Apart from lamb chops, Perry loves gardening and spending time in his shed - as well as with his wife Sue, children and grandchildren of course!


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7 women, one fabulous condo, 3 days and a mountain of art supplies ....this is the basis for the Crested Butte Ripple Art Retreat last weekend. What a wonderful time! Even though the carpet was beige (not white!) and the clouds quite heavy most of Monday, the creative energy filled this mountain retreat and we had such a good time. Melissa and Ivy provided a terrific, nurturing environment and we were so grateful for their kind attention to details (champagne, massages, lots of yummy desserts & breakfasts, oh my!). I am already sad to be missing Crested Butte and looking forward to next year!! Thanks to all the participants and to Melissa and Ivy! Here is a gallery of images (slide show:):
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It was a simple morning, a short hike close by… no exotic animals in sight. It seems unfortunately that some guy with his loose dog has been beating me to the trail and scaring away all the wildlife 🙁
Today I only saw a couple of chipmunks, a prairie dog and a mountain bluebird which I couldn't see to get a shot of. He was just too elusive for my slow reactions!
The prairie dog and the chipmunk were more cooperative though, each giving me a lengthy and cute pose 🙂
For your enjoyment I have created many short multimedia videos for my YouTube channel! Feel free to watch and be sure to subscribe to my channel if you would like to see more of our adventures!
As always, the best of these images and hundreds more are available for purchase on my website as wall art on glossy metal or acrylic sheets, stretched canvas and traditional matting and framing. Tons of cool household and gift items are also available with any image you like including coffee mugs, t-shirts, blankets and pillows, battery chargers, phone cases, stationary and much much more! Just click on any image you like and all the choices, sizes and prices will appear! For my viewers interested in images for commercial use, please visit my image licensing portal!


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On the last Thursday of every month, The Rotunda ‑ a part of the University of Pennsylvania's Facilities and Real Estate Services ‑ marks a time for true hip-hop enthusiasts to bring their best b-boy/b-girl, pop-locking, emcee, DJing and graffiti writing skills to one room. This event is known as The Gathering. The main room of The Rotunda (also known as the back space) was filled July 28 with performances by locals DJ Foxx Boogie, DJ Ill-literate and Emcee Jawn Zap 7 as b-boys/b-girls battled on the dance floor.
"At the gathering, you find hip-hop in its purist form," I-BE4 EVR, host and organizer of the event since 2002 said. I-BE, as patrons know him, stressed that The Gathering plays music from local emcees and DJs as well as music that you might hear on the radio. However, this venue is known for playing pure hip-hop ‑ that is, hip-hop which is untouched by commercialism. They play a mix of classic and modern underground hip-hop that is expressive and organic to pure hip-hop culture.
The atmosphere was welcoming when I walked in, but for a first-timer, I was almost overwhelmed by the scene. I nestled my way into the audience, gathered at the crowded dance floor's rim. Audience members who were b-boys and b-girls waiting for the right moment to jump in surrounded me. There were a few DJs onstage and b-boys/b-girls sitting around the edge watching and cheering for dancers on the floor. It didn't take me long to see that The Gathering has a relaxed and fun atmosphere full of patrons who rarely miss a month.
Jawn Zap 7 performed as the featured emcee for the night. DJ Ill-literate and DJ Foxx Boogie spun before and after the feature performance with hosts AIQUE (pronounced IQ) and FAME at the mic in between acts. During all performances, b-boys like Pete Nasty would free style on the dance floor. "It's somewhere to practice," Pete said about The Gathering. "It's a place where all the hip-hop elements come together."
There were plenty of head spins, hand glides, backspins, pops and hops to amaze. B-boys took turns jumping onto the dance floor, but occasionally two jumped in at once."I don't usually battle," Mike, a b-boy, said after a battle with b-boy Medal. But, after Mike conceded once to a b-boy who jumped in simultaneously, he decided to hold his ground when he and Medal bumped heads. We had an instant competition. For a few seconds, both Mike and Medal shuffled, but Mike soon took over the floor. After Mike threw in some moves, Medal made his return with a retort of polished break dancing moves from seven years of practice at The Gathering.
"This is the only place where you have all four elements doing their own thing together in one place," Medal said of why he returns to The Gathering every Thursday for seven years.Tray-digga, a graffiti writer, has been voluntarily working for The Gathering for two years."The Gathering means everything to me because I'm an emcee. I do graffiti. I used to dance. This is what my head [would] be like if I could fit it in a place," Tray-digga said."It's where we hip-hop without egos," I-BE4 EVR said about The Gathering. On my first Thursday there, I saw people who just wanted to have a good time and share their skills with other hip-hop enthusiasts. It truly lives up to its name.


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2018 Livestock Building of the Year - 1st Place
Building use, importance & newsworthiness: This 60x208 livestock facility was built for Stan and Jean's sheep operation. Half of the building is lined and insulated to house lambing ewes. The other half of the building is separated with overhead doors into open air pens. Stan & Jean put much research into the proper living environment for their building and incorporated many unique resources to do so.
Unique features: The lined and insulated portion has an office/wash area, in-ground waterers, large vent fans for proper air circulation, and large doors for equipment to easily move into the building. Galebreaker was installed in the open post end for wind and heat protection while offering plenty of airflow.
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I Catch the Fish, You Cook the Fish, The Only Time We're Together is When We Eat the Fish: Banning Gender Stereotypes in Ads
Women in the kitchen and men in the wilderness. An ad concept as old as time. But has its time come? The U.S. has traditionally taken a hands-off approach to regulating "traditional" gender-stereotyping in ads. But this week, the U.K. has said enough is enough.
Apt for Father's Day is the recent NY Times article entitled Gender Stereotypes Banned in British Advertising.
Thanks to our friends on the Internet, we can pull up loads of patently offensive gender-based stereotype advertising from the "good old days:
These good old days haven't fully left us. As cited in the NY Times, the U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority recently called out more recent troublesome ads, such as: (2016) Gucci using a a model who looked "unhealthily thin" in a campaign and (2019) a Porsche dealer ad showing a leather-clad woman up to her waist under a car with the tagline "attractive servicing."
As a result, the U.K.'s Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) recently provided Advertising Guidance in the UK for gender stereotyped ads.
The Advertising Guidance pointed to five specific gender-stereotypes in advertising that should be avoided:
- Scenarios featuring "traditional" gender roles: For example, man at home with feet up while woman cleaning up his mess;
- Scenarios featuring pressure to conform to "traditional" gender roles. For example, Women unhappy with life that can be changed by changing their body shape.
- Scenarios featuring children in "traditional" gender roles. For example, Boy depicted as daring while girl depicted as caring.
- Scenarios featuring potentially vulnerable groups. For example, new mom caring more about being attractive or keeping home pristine.
- Scenarios featuring people who don't confirm to a gender stereotype. For example, ad belittles a man for crying.
On this side of the pond, we have no advertising guidelines for the depiction of gender stereotyping. The closest is in the Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) self-regulatory rules for children's advertising which states:
"Advertisers should avoid social stereotyping and appeals to prejudice, and are encouraged to incorporate minority and other groups in advertisements and to present positive role models whenever possible."
While some advertisers may stick to the myth that gender stereotypes help sell products, the facts of the matter show that gender stereotypes are currently not based on facts.
Gender Stereotype Myths:
- Myth: Men are the breadwinners.
- Fact: 40% of American families' primary breadwinners are women.
- Myth: Women don't do math.
- Fact: Women represent more than 40% of math majors at bachelors and master's levels.
- Myth: Women aren't good at business.
- Fact: Women-led companies perform three times better than the S&P 500.
- Myth: Men are good with tools and fixing things.
- Fact: Just ask any wife who complained about a leaky faucet.
Why Does It Matter?
Don't bite the hand that feeds you. On a practical level it matters because studies have shown that 85% of all consumer purchases are made by women and 75% of women are the primary shopper for the household.
Isn't it our duty to make a better world for our kids? Ads depicting gender stereotypes don't "mirror" these stereotypes but actually advance them. I cite two interesting television-related studies. In one, male interviewers watched sexist television commercials and then later judged female applicants as less competent and remembered more about their physical appearance than their biographical information. In another, children who were raised in households without televisions had less sex-typed perceptions. But when introduced to TV, these perceptions increased.
What Can We Do?
If you're an advertiser, make sure your team is diverse – five 50-year old white men coming up with a Super Bowl commercial may not be the best game plan; and think long-term – consumers want to see commitment to change.
If you see offensive ads: Contact the brand or the FTC/FCC. Most importantly, talk to your kids about it. Like Whitney Houston, I believe the children are our future and maybe by the time they grow up, they won't know about "dishpan hands" (1941) or "husband pleasing coffee" (1963) or that "cigarettes are like women – the best ones are thin and rich" (1967) or what's meant by "it's a wifesaver" (1973).
Of course there's hope. After Ralph Kramden insisted that Alice could not go on the Raccoon Lodge's annual fishing trip by uttering the above-titled phrase, later in this same episode, he relented and Alice and Trixie accompanied him and Ed – showing that both men and women can catch the fish. Final note: At the time of this Honeymooners episode, Ms. Joan Wulff was known as the best fly fisher in the world – and as one of our best-known female stereotypes, Baseball Annie says in Bull Durham, "You can look it up."


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DevConf 2016 is over. I was doing the mining from social networks to get something interesting on screens at corridors. DevConf was really big and it became trending topic. Unfortunately, this caused hijacking of #devconfcz hashtag. I am really sorry for that.
I have collected all pictures from social networks into this post (please scroll to the end of the post).
I have also some notes to android mobile apps. First, I have received some negative comments. I must admit I am not Android user and I am not very familiar with Android UX practices. I can fix something, but you must give me detailed description of it.
The app required Internals privileges. I am sorry for that mistake, I must check AndroidManifest settings.
I will try to add some features for DevConf 2017. I hope, I will find some time for that.
Lets take a look to some numbers. I've made DevConf and Fosdem apps. Unfortunately, statistics for Thursday:
Fosdem have currently 175 of total 367 installations.
Devconf.cz have currently 334 of total 352 installations.
UPDATE: Here comes numbers from Saturday:
Fosdem 168 / 367
DevConf.cz 437 / 483
Versions of OS
|Android 5.1
|Android 6.0
|Android 5.0
TOP 5 Devices
|Google Nexus 5 (hammerhead)
|Google Nexus 4 (mako)
|Samsung Galaxy S5 (klte)
|Sony Xperia Z3 Compact (D5803)
|Symphony Teleca OnePlus One (A0001)
I have also one crash with Nexus 4, but I am not sure what can I do with it.
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Build fingerprint: 'google/omni_mako/mako:5.1.1/LYZ28J/204:userdebug/test-keys'
Revision: '11'
ABI: 'arm'
pid: 16164, tid: 16362, name: QSGRenderThread >>> cz.mlich.devconf <<<
signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0x52c
r0 00001f01 r1 00000000 r2 00000019 r3 a0515dd0
r4 00001f01 r5 00000000 r6 b80c4b88 r7 b80c4b98
r8 b80c4c40 r9 a326efa4 sl 00000000 fp a0515dd0
ip b6dfcd5c sp a0515cf8 lr b6dacfa1 pc b6d8fae0 cpsr 600f0010
#00 pc 00008ae0 /system/lib/libGLESv2.so (glGetString+32)
#01 pc 0002efc4 /data/data/cz.mlich.devconf/qt-reserved-files/plugins/platforms/android/libqtforandroid.so
Now enjoy the photos from the conference.
P.S. Thank you for the great conference.


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Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun
The intriguing 1969 cult science fiction
Journey To The Far Side Of The
was billed on its release as the
motion picture that rockets you into the
super-charged world of the 21st Century
and now, we
re here, and this
underrated film is available on DVD...
HAZARDING A GUESS AT THE 21ST CENTURY back in the 1960s would have been almost impossible, but Gerry and Sylvia Anderson (well known at the time for producing a number of popular innovative sci-fi puppet series:
Fireball XL5
) bravely took a shot at that when they wrote
Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun
During the Sixties, much of the technology shown in the film would have been thought of as progressive, but perhaps looking back in retrospect is rather unfair because we have come on in leaps and bounds and you cannot expect any of the sophistication of modern technology.
This exciting, intense science fiction adventure film actually set a new standard for special effects in science fiction at the time of its release and Universal Pictures is delighted to announce the long-awaited UK DVD premiere of
Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun
an enjoyable piece of cinema history that was very clever with its futuristic sets, even if it did still have tickertape and a dot matrix printer!
One hundred years into the future (around 2069!), scientists discover a new planet in our solar system one that is following the exact orbit of Earth at the exact opposite point, orbiting at the exact speed of Earth but hidden by the sun.
Under the direct control of Jason Webb (Patrick Wymark), a top secret programme called Operation Sunprobe is instigated at EUROSEC, the European Space Exploration Complex in Portugal. The mission: to launch a spaceship capable of travelling the one hundred million miles in the three weeks it will take to reach the new planet and to discover whether it can sustain life in the same way as Earth.
But there is a spy in their midst who wants to copy the technology developed by EUROSEC and sell it on. Dr Hassler (the wonderfully sinister Herbert Lom) is prime suspect and, aware that he may already have passed on the top secret documents and plagued by his colleagues' doubts, Webb wants to bring forward the scheduled launch date. There is a wonderful scene where Hassler enters the EUROSEC building and passes through security. He forgets a pen in his pocket and jokes that it is really a secret camera but the secret camera is somewhere that you wouldn't suspect.
The other problem is in persuading the Americans to help finance the project so that the rest of Europe will support the three billion pounds sterling venture.
Following an argument with Webb, top scientist and astrophysicist Dr John Kane (Ian Hendry) resigns, but is persuaded to return when Webb needs him to accompany the experienced American astronaut, Colonel Glenn Ross (Roy Thinnes) who has agreed to accept the mission.
Ross is accompanied to Portugal by his beautiful but bitter wife Sharon (Lynn Loring) and it is soon clear that their marriage is less than happy. Still, it gives Sharon the opportunity to show a fine style in Sixties clothes. Gerry, you were spot on miniskirts did make a comeback in the 21st Century!
The two astronauts are launched into space only to crash-land on the planet and Kane is badly injured. The two men are discovered and taken into custody, only to be faced with a furious Webb who believes that, as they had only been away for three weeks, Ross and Kane aborted their mission and returned to Earth.
Not only that, but there is an anomaly with Kane's X-rays and Ross seems to have a problem with his vision. He is apparently seeing everything in reverse and he thinks he knows the answer…
Have Ross and Kane really returned to Earth or have they landed on some strange mirror world? Is Glenn simply hallucinating and will the life-and-death mission to find out the truth be successful? Did Ross abort the mission or does he truly believe he has the answer?
The respected actors, the intriguing storyline and the beautiful filming all make
Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun
a worthwhile and enjoyable film that must surely rank among the fine examples of cinema history.
Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun
also features Franco Derosa as Paolo Landi; George Sewell as Mark; Edward Bishop as David Poulson, NASA Liaison; Philip Madoc as Dr Pontini; and Loni von Friedl as EUROSEC security Lisa Hartman. Based on a story by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the screenplay is also by the Andersons with Donald James. The music is composed and conducted by Barry Gray; Director of Photography is John Read; Art Director Bob Bell; Visual Effects Director is Derek Meddings; Produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson; and Directed by Robert Parrish
Filmed on location in Portugal and at Pinewood Studios,
Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun
has some fantastic photography, particularly as the camera pans over the spaceship and its beautifully orchestrated operations. We also loved the vehicles.
Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun
comes to DVD, courtesy of Universal Pictures,
on 8 September, 2008 with a Recommended Retail Price of Ł9.99. Certificate: PG.
"Original and intriguing"
New York Times
"The respected actors, the intriguing storyline and the beautiful filming all make
Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun
a worthwhile and enjoyable film that must surely rank among the fine examples of cinema history"
About Sylvia and Gerry Anderson
Anderson is responsible for creating some of the most well-loved franchises in popular science fiction. From his initial smash hit
Fireball XL5
, Anderson went on to produce
, the iconic
Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons
, both of which are still widely popular today with audiences both young and old.
Despite initially only a limited release,
Journey To The Far Side of The Sun
has gone on to become a cult classic, fondly remembered by those who saw its original release and appreciated by younger science fiction fans for its original, intriguing plot and Gerry Anderson's dazzling and ground breaking special effects.
Journey To The Far Side of The Sun
is an imaginative, surprising science fiction adventure that offers a journey few will ever forget.
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Joe Brolly's kidney donation highlights GAA solidarity
I know Joe Brolly through writing for some years about the GAA and have met him on several occasions. One thing that many people do not realise is that Joe Brolly is quite a selfless man.
He gives his time freely to clubs across the island of Ireland and asks for nothing in return. I organised a talk about the GAA for a club in west Belfast that was in dire need of financial help to get their underage football and hurling up and running.
I asked Joe Brolly to come along as I knew he would draw a crowd, he answered within 5 minutes of me texting him to tell me he would love to come along. I was ecstatic that Joe said yes but after learning that he broke his arm a few days later playing for St. Bridget's I thought he wouldn't show up.
No chance. In comes Joe after driving from south Belfast to the Fall's road with one arm in a sling! He tore pieces out of Jarlath Burns who was also a panelist that night, he was some craic.
It came as no surprise to all the Gaels who know Joe when we learned of his great gift to Shane.
Unfortunately after donating one of his kidneys to club mate and fellow St. Bridget's under 10's coach Shane Finnegan it has sadly been unsuccessful according the Belfast Health Trust.
The organ donated by Brolly stopped working and was removed in a London Hospital on Friday after complications.
"We can confirm that Mr Brolly is recovering very well having donated his kidney on 3rd October," said a trust spokeswoman.
"However, sadly after initially functioning well, there were complications with the transplant and the kidney had to be removed on 12th October."
40-year old Finnegan has been experiencing health problems for 20 years and this is the third transplant that has failed, but he hopes to resume a normal family and working life in the near future.
"This is a rare and unfortunate occurrence after kidney transplantation, and whilst both families are naturally devastated, they are hugely encouraged by the massive wave of good will and support from the community and the resultant increased public awareness of the critical importance of organ donation," the spokeswoman continued.
"Mr Finnegan is confident that with the continued support of family and friends he will be home soon and able to resume a full family and work life.
"Both Shane and Joe are very keen to support the trust's campaign for organ donation and when fit and ready have agreed to spearhead a drive to increase the number of donors. For both men and their families, this has been a life affirming experience."
Joe, who is a two-time winning All Star, was lauded for his altruism after the operation became public knowledge not just by the GAA community but by everyone who learned of his gesture.
His kidney donation to Shane will hopefully highlight the importance and need of donors and that is at least something positive that has come out of this. It has also highlighted the solidarity that exists within the wider GAA family and Joe has led from the front in the spirit of the Gael.
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Inspirational Quote
I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for a living.Steven Spielberg
Food For Thought… A Depth Psychology Perspective
The power that dreams have is paramount. As Mr. Spielberg says, they are not just movie dramas that play out in the head during our sleeping hours. Instead, as Sigmund Freud knew all too well, they represent the "royal road to the unconscious." Carl Jung went one step further, showing that dreams have the power to awaken the soul's inner depths.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.Carl Gustav Jung
Imagine the possibilities. Are they finite or limited? Let us not create limits to the imagination. We may be the sum of our history, but this does not stop us from engaging the very gift of consciousness God affords us. Dream, but dream big. Why not? What do you have to lose? With a little imagination, some planning, and a lot of work, what bad can come of this profound yet straightforward exercise?
Namaste, my friends. May the blessing of your dreams find fruition as you learn to believe, achieve, and advance confidently in the direction of your dreams.
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Where to Find Corned Beef and Cabbage in Boise
Tomorrow is St. Patty's Day which means you've gotta drink a lot of beer and eat some corned beef and cabbage! Here's where to find it in Boise.
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Ha'Penny Bridge Pub855 W. Broad St. #250 Boise
Classic Irish comfort food and live music! It's the perfect place to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
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O'Michael's Pub & Grill2433 N. Bogus Basin Road
Claiming to be the North End's Oldest Bar & Restaurant, their St. Patty's Day menu features corned beef and cabbage, a Rueben sandwich, and lamb stew.
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Quinn's Restaurant & Lounge1005 S. Vista Ave. Boise
With a huge menu, corned beef and cabbage is far from your only option.