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First Church members have been donating meals for the homeless, by way of the Loaves and Fishes program, for many years. First Church is responsible for providing the meals on the second Sunday of the month, as well as the fourth Monday and Wednesday.
Loaves and Fishes serves as many as 228 people for lunch at the end of the month – many of them children. Many families have had their SNAP benefits reduced and are relying on this ministry to help.
Be a part of this vital mission!
- Bring your donations at any time during the month. We can freeze or store the food and use as needed.
- Keep an eye on the grocery store fliers and buy the items on sale.
- Watch the church calendar and emails for times when you come come help cook meals in the church kitchen.
The "recipe" we are currently using is very simple:
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- 4 jars of sauce
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France's Christmas workshop. I didn't get to go to her workshop this year but I did purchase the kit, which I never got around to putting together. I love this cute skinny snowman. I colored him with my colored pencils and I also added a couple of the new jingle bells to the brad, love them. Well I hope you guys wont give up on me, I will be back from time to time until I get things set up again. I still check everyones blogs and I can't wait to get back to normal. Have a great week and feel free to leave me a message, I would love to hear from you.
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"Whether or not you write well, write bravely." - BILL STOUT
For the small handful of people who follow (or used to follow) my blog, I would like to apologize for my absence for the past few months. I could give you the excuses as to why I've been away, but instead I will just jump back in and endeavor to do my best to regale you with stories of my exciting life, and impart to you my unlimited wisdom - word of the day, "sarcasm", as I remain extremely average in daily life as well as in intelligence. My only hope of holding your attention lies in the way in which my strange and warped brain processes and transmits ideas through my fingertips and onto the computer keyboard. Whether you prefer reading the light, silly fluff that resides in 90 percent of my mind, or the deep, passionate revelations that sometimes force themselves to the surface, I will try to bring something entertaining to future posts. I may even bring up controversial subjects which might get me into trouble - although I may have to visit the wizard to find enough courage for that kind of post. But then, if only a handful of people read this how many could I really piss off, five, six? So what the hell, maybe one day.... As American broadcast journalist Bill Stout once said, "whether or not you write well, write bravely."


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Sorry I am late with last weeks box- I was out of town so the hubby had to pick it up for me. Lots of staples this week:
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1 bunch Kale
1 bunch Swiss chard
1 bag Sprouts
2 Cucumbers
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1 Bell pepper
I had nothing to do with the menu planning this week so a lot of it will be a surprise when the hubby makes it. I think pizzas, soup, some meals with fries on the side are in order 🙂
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|New Tiger Chief "KP" arrested and brought to Sri Lanka
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New Tiger Chief "KP" arrested and brought to Sri Lanka
While it took 15 years (1945-1960) for Mossad operatives of Israel to capture the 'architect of the Holocaust', Otto Adolf Eichmann, the Sri Lankan operatives only needed two months to complete their job. The manner in which the Sri Lankan intelligence caught KP and brought him home is sure to make almost all surviving LTTE seniors house-bound for some time. They know that they are not safe anywhere, anymore. Besides creating a fear factor, the operation has also managed to demoralize the spirits of those who were planning a transnational government for Sri Lankan Tamils.
Selvarasah Pathmanathan alias "KP" a.k.a Kumaran Pathmanathan was seized in Malaysia on Wednesday August 5th and brought to Sri Lanka on Thursday August 6th. According to informed sources KP was staying in Kuala Lumpur(KL) , Malaysia when taken into custody.He was being kept in an undisclosed location.
KP, who had been the LTTE's international relations chief till he claimed the LTTE leadership after the army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran in May, previously functioned as the group's main arms procurer.
Government sources said that President Mahinda Rajapaksa had been briefed on the arrest and he had directed relevant authorities to go ahead with investigations.
KP was wanted by Interpol and also by India in connection with the assassination of one-time Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
In September, two years ago, though there were media reports of KP's arrest in Bangkok, Thailand denied the reports. But, he subsequently reappeared under the name S. Pathmanathan and handled the LTTE's international political arm.
Over the past several years, Sri Lanka made desperate attempts to track down the terrorist and his chief associates.
In January this year, KP was appointed the LTTE's international relations chief.
As the senior most LTTE member alive, KP assumed leadership of the tigers after Prabhakaran's demise. This was vehemently opposed by a section of the Diasporic tigers led by Perinbanayagam Sivaparan alias Nediyavan
Pathmanathan a native of Myliddy in Jaffna was born on April 6th 1955. He is an old student of Nadeswara College, Kankesanthurai and Mahajana College ,Thellippalai. Pathmanathan was also an undergraduate at the Jaffna university but did not complete his degree.
A top defence official contacted for comment declined to reveal where KPhad been taken in and how he had been brought to Sri Lanka. "What matters now is that he is in Sri Lanka," the official said, "we took him and delivered him to the governmnet in one piece."
Asked repeatedly at a press briefing in Colomb yesterday where the arrest had been made, Defence Spokesman and Minister of Foreign Employment Promotions and Welfare Keheliya Rambukwella refused to go into specifics. He curtly said KPhad been arrested in a Southeast Asian country.
The Sri Lankan government has indicated its willingness to hand over KP to India in connection with the Rajiv Gandhi assassination and other violations of the Indian law.
Minister Rambukwella said the government would certainly let New Delhi have KP if a request to that effect was made. He said no such request had been made so far.
Sources said KP, now being questioned at an undisclosed location, was spilling the beans on his local financiers who helped the LTTE buy arms and ammunition.
The government, sources said, was banking on KP's arrest to elicit infomation on the LTTE's gun running and narcotics operations which pose a threat to the entire region
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Extraordinary rendition of KP
Controversy surrounds the circumstances of KP's arrest. While some news reports state that KP was arrested in Thailand other reports say he was apprehended first in Malaysia and then brought to Colombo via Bangkok. Another report says he was arrested in Singapore. The operation was scrupulously planned and carried out by Sri Lankan sleuths - - which makes it a first in terms of this kind of "rendition'' of a Sri Lankan criminal and terrorist operating from abroad.
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Sri Lanka's vanquished Tamil Tiger rebels suffered another major blow with the arrest of their new leader on August 5. Selvarasa Pathmanathan, an internationally-wanted operative, was reportedly arrested in a South-east Asian capital. His arrest, shrouded in mystery, has further tightened the noose around the remaining rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), whose supremo, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was killed in a bloody showdown in north-eastern Sri Lanka in mid-May. Pathmanathan, who claimed the mantle of the LTTE leadership after Prabhakarn's death, is a prized catch for the Sri Lankan government.
It was a hit-operation that was scrupulously planned and carried out by Sri Lankan sleuths - - which makes it a first in terms of this kind of "rendition'' of a Sri Lankan criminal and terrorist operating from abroad. While Sri Lankan officials confirmed that the 54-year-old Pathmanathan was flown into Colombo accompanied by intelligence officials, they did not divulge which South-east Asian capital — Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur or Singapore — that flight began from.
Thursday night's news came as a surprise not only to those in the upper echelons of the Government but also to most in the security establishment. Those who telephoned each other were to come up with a stock answer - I just heard about it but do not know any details.
In September 2007, Pathmanathan was arrested in Thailand, according to well-placed sources, but was subsequently released due to diplomatic bungling by Colombo.
That his luck ran out in South-east Asia is no surprise since this region has been his turf to build an underground LTTE network since the early 1990s.
The end of a long conflict in Cambodia led to its emergence as a major arms bazaar, attracting the likes of Pathamanathan. "During that period in the early 1990s, the LTTE bought its weapons in Cambodia, while Thailand's role was the transit point," says Anthony Davis, an Asian security analyst for IHS Janes, a London-based global information provider on defence and national security issues. Malaysia has been important to the LTTE because of its large Tamil diaspora, while "Singapore was where a lot of money transactions took place," Davis told IPS.
In the past, the region's governments and the local media have confirmed the presence of the LTTE's network, ranging from money laundering to weapons trade. In November 2006, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen revealed that arms purchased in his country were being smuggled out to help the Tigers. Years ago, Thailand was in the spotlight after reports emerged that the Tigers were using the country's Andaman coast to boost its tactical strength against Sri Lankan troops. The Sea Tigers, the naval wing of the LTTE, allegedly received military training from Norwegian ex-special forces to mount underwater demolition strikes among other things.
According to Lloyd's List, the London-based shipping publication, the Tigers had moved its operations to Thailand's southern coast after being forced to end operations in Burma, another South-east Asian country, in 1996. Presiding over this widespread network was Pathmanathan, who Davis describes as an "internationally sophisticated operative skilled as a banker, arms smuggler and [who is] well versed in intelligence." "He brought together a rare convergence of skills," adds Davis. "He was a class of his own even at an international level." It was these skills that enabled Pathmanathan, a native of Jaffna peninsular, to take on many aliases and hold over 10 passports to dodge being arrested by governments that wanted him and Interpol, too.
A website, tamilsydney.com quoted a news website saying Pathmanathan was arrested in Kuala Lumpur. This is what the report said;
"Head of Department of International Relations, LTTE , Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP has been arrested in Malaysia and transported to Sri Lanka, said a Tamil news website. Mr. Pathmanathan was strongly advocating politico-democratic path to achieve Sri Lankan Tamil's political aspirations." "The Tamil website says he had been abducted when he went to "Tune Hotel' in a place called 'Majid India' in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday afternoon. He had gone there to meet the brother and son of B. Nadesan, the Political Head of LTTE. "When he was with them in their room in the hotel, Mr. Pathmanathan has received a call to his mobile phone around 2 pm. He had excused himself and had gone out to attend the call in private. "People close to Pathmanathan realised his abduction only when they came to know that he has not returned to the hotel room after attending the phone call. "According to information available he had been abducted by Sri Lanka Intelligence Unit with the support of either Malaysian Military or Intelligence Unit. At the same time, Tamil circles feel the blessings and support of another important country's intelligence unit in Mr. Pathmanathan's abduction. "Yesterday Sri Lankan Military informed that Mr. Pathmanathan was arrested in Thailand. Tamil circles feel that this was to divert the involvement of Malaysians and another country in the abduction."
The 'KP Department' that he set up also operated a fleet of ships and had a presence in other lucrative spots that were magnets for gunrunners, such as Afghanistan, Eritrea and Ukraine. At its peak, some security experts say, the 'KP Department' contributed substantially to the LTTE's annual earnings which ranged between 200 and 300 million U.S. dollars. Earlier this year, as the LTTE faced defeat, Pathmanathan was assigned a political role by the cornered Prabhakaran. He was asked to head the international affairs department of the rebels.
Pathmanathan, who is married to a Thai national from the city of Chiang Mai, pursued his new mission from Malaysia. It was in the latter country that he had a secret rendezvous with a Norwegian diplomat and also talked to a ranking United Nations official to secure relief measures for the cornered Tiger leadership in north-eastern Sri Lanka. After Prabhakaran's death, which effectively brought to an end the ethnic conflict, Pathmanathan declared that he was the new leader of the LTTE. To cement his new profile, he became more public. He gave a television interview to a British broadcaster and becoming more vocal on websites advocating the Tamil cause. "He exposed himself after years of living an underground life," says an Asian intelligence expert who has been monitoring the LTTE for years. "He was done in by all this new publicity." -- (IPS)
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I'm switching tactics here, following one of my earlier posts entitled "Food Glorious Food."
Diet's, healthy eating, fitness programmes.. they are there to help us right? One size fits all… I have learned that this is not the way to approach weight loss and become a healthier you. I'm no expert by any means but the fact is…everyone is different.
Over the course of my life, I have tried numerous plans, pills and potions, which were advertised to "give you your ideal body" in so many weeks, months etc. Back then I believed every word however; now that I'm older and wiser, I know that It's impossible to guarantee the same results if you don't know your individual circumstances, genetics, metabolism etc. For example… would a vegetarian have the same results as me on an Atkins type diet? What about someone who has physical limitations and would find it difficult or nearly impossible to go spinning or weight train? Can we all afford a personal trainer? Probably not…
So that leads to the journey I have found myself part of and I'm hoping it can provide others with some inspiration from lessons that I have learned.
Let's see if Mother was right….
- Metabolism-"breakfast is the most important meal of the day" it jump-starts your metabolism and this instruction was embedded in me from an early age.
- Oatmeal and oils Oatmeal is not only healthy for your heart, but it also sets you up for the day leaving you feeling full and satisfied. Oil's- ease up on these folks… there are good oils/fats and bad ones. Stick with oily fishes (high in Omega like Salmon and mackerel), cod liver oil in the form of a capsule from your health food shop or grocery store and low-fat cooking spray. (They even have olive oil types and garlic flavours now)
- Tomatoes-Vitamin C, good source of fibre, potassium and B6 to name a few! Can be eaten raw on it's own to help with snack cravings, in a salad of course or sautéed with other veggies. SWEET! Treats are also important! If you don't treat yourself now and again, you'll end up bingeing and reversing all of the good you've accomplished. Save a small treat for each day or reward yourself at the end of the week or weekend. For instance: 2 of your favourite cookies with a cup of herbal tea at night or perhaps some Chinese food on a Friday or Saturday night. (get something tasty but try to stay away from fried stuff in gloopy sauce.)
- Herbs-Goodbye gloopy oily and sugary sauces… Let's opt for flavourful herbs instead. pepper, rosemary, basil, cilantro, curry powder, tarragon, lemongrass.. you choose.. it tastes nice and it's healthy!
- Eggs- Great source of protein (especially for vegetarians) and easy again to snack on if you plan ahead and hard boil a bunch for the fridge. Plus, it contains .. you ready? (Iron, zinc, iodine, Vitamin E, B2 and studies have shown that it boosts weight loss when eaten for breakfast (without 4 slices of toast with butter of course!)
- Red food-Well, green food has always been on the list, but as we're going with mom's advice here.. I'd like to focus on the red's-Strawberries (high in vitamin c and has powerful antioxidants that have been proven to preventdegeneration of the eyes in some cases) cherries are high in quercetin and ellagic acid. This antioxidant flavonoid has been shown to promote cell and tissue health.Cherries are also high in substances related to reducing the joint and muscle discomfort. Cherries also contain melatonin, an important natural chemical related to healthy sleep rhythms and maintaining a youthful appearance. BONUS!
By following "mother's" instructions, I lost 2 stone (almost 30 pounds) in 7 months. I feel better about myself and I'm healthier to boot.
I hope this helps at least a few people and thanks for reading!
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The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. I was reminded of the following excerpt because of something Paul Washer said on Saturday at the Reformation Montana Conference. The excerpt is from "The Warning Neglected," a sermon preached at London's Metropolitan Tabernacle on Sunday morning, 29 November 1857.
n religion men love far rather to believe abstract doctrines, and to talk of general truths, than the searching inquiries which examine their own personal interest in it. You will hear many men admire the preacher who deals in generalities, but when he comes to press home searching questions, by-and-by they are offended.
If we stand and declare general facts, such as the universal sinnership of mankind, or the need of a Saviour, they will give an assent to our doctrine, and possibly they may retire greatly delighted with the discourse, because it has not affected them; but how often will our audience gnash their teeth, and go away in a rage, because, like the Pharisees with Jesus, they perceive, concerning a faithful minister, that he spoke of them.
And yet, my brethren, how foolish this is. If in all other matters we like personalities—if in everything else we look to our own concerns, how much more should we do so in religion? for, surely, every man must give an account for himself, at the day of judgment. We must die alone; we must rise at the day of resurrection one by one, and each one for himself must appear before the bar of God; and each one must either have said to him, as an individual, "Come ye blessed;" or else, he must be appalled with the thundering sentence, "Depart, ye cursed."
If there were such a thing as national salvation; if it could be possible that we could be saved in the gross and in the bulk, that so, like the sheaves of corn, the few weeds that may grow with the stubble, would be gathered in for the sake of the wheat, then, indeed, it might not be so foolish for us to neglect our own personal interests; but if the sheep must, every one of them, pass under the hand of him that telleth them, if every man must stand in his own person before God, to be tried for his own acts—by everything that is rational, by everything that conscience would dictate, and self-interest would command, let us each of us look to our own selves, that we be not deceived, and that we find not ourselves, at last, miserably cast away.


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Posted: April 27, 2015
We LOVED working with Cindy Giovagnoli from
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! Our engagement shoot was in my hometown of Rockland. We absolutely love the local shops and restaurants downtown, so we were so excited to have our shoot capture these spots. Luke and I drove through town early to scope out pretty, bright places and quickly realized everything seemed brown and gray from the long winter. We met Cindy downtown, and as I struggled to think of other places that would be gorgeous this time of year we decided to start wandering downtown in hopes I would think of something.
The places we were photographed were unexpected but couldn't have been more perfect. It all started from being drawn to a brick wall background, and next thing you know we had found half a dozen gorgeous spots to shoot in. The ground was still soggy from all the melting snow, so Luke had to carry me to some spots so my heels wouldn't sink in. It was a super comfortable experience, and we were able to be our goofy selves. We were all laughing and having a great time.
One thing we really loved and appreciated about working with Cindy was that we could tell she is truly passionate about what she does and cared about capturing who we are as a couple. The best photos contain emotion from moments that can be difficult to capture. Thanks to Cindy, everyone can see how much Luke and I love each other.
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Swedish oat bran, corn flour, sugar, barley malt extract, salt, vanilla flavor.
*May contain traces of gluten from wheat or related grain species.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size : 1 packet (30 g)
Servings per Box : 12
| Per packet
(30 g)
|Per 100 g
|Energy/ Calories
|102 kcal
|341 kcal
| Total Fat
Monounsaturated Fat
Polyunsaturated Fat
Saturated Fat
Trans Fat
Total Fiber
of which beta-glucan
Total Sugars
Sodium (Na)
Iron (Fe)
Magnesium (Mg)
Zinc (Zn)
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0.8 g
0.1 g
0.1 g
0.0 g
6.7 g
3 g
15.6 g
3.6 g
4.1 g
112 mg
1.7 mg
49 mg
1.0 mg
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2.5 g
0.3 g
0.4 g
0.0 g
22.0 g
10 g
52.1 g
12.0 g
13.5 g
374 mg
5.5 mg
162 mg
3.4 mg
Directions For Use:
- 1 packet (30 g) of Biogrow Oat BG22TM Crispy Cereal will provide 3 g of oat beta-glucan. Take 1 packet daily before meals or anytime convenient.
- It can be consumed directly from the packet as a convenient snack in-between meal. Fiber consumption requires you to drink plenty of water.
- Taste good also with cold milk, chocolate milk, soy milk, fruit juice or simply add to your bowl of yogurt.
Suggested Daily Intake:
Biogrow Oat BG22TM Crispy Cereal should be taken once a day. We recommend you to add 1 packet of the "heart crisps" as part of your daily routine. There is nothing stopping you from taking Biogrow Oat BG22TM Crispy Cereal any time of the day, exactly when it suits you.
Storage method:
Store in a dry, cool place.
RCP: RM139.90 (30g x 28 packets) and RM 65.90 (30g x 12 packets)
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IF you were a fly on the wall at the Children's Daytime Emmy Awards nominations at KidScreen Summit this year, you probably noticed that the same shows and producers seemed to crop up again and again in the main kids programming categories. In fact, it would be totally natural for an industry outsider to assume from the event that the US kids production industry consists of just a handful of studios.
It's neither difficult nor expensive to enter the Emmys, and the eligibility parameters are pretty generous, so the stumbling block preventing more companies from getting in on the game must be a lack of information. So let's rectify that, shall we?
October marks the beginning of the awards calendar for the Daytime Emmys, and the team kicks off the season by putting out a call for entries/judges and posting the rules & procedures handbook and registration/entry forms online at www.emmyonline.org. The association's database is somewhat limited, so if you're not currently receiving its Emmy Essential newsletter and other send-outs, email executive director Brent Stanton (firstname.lastname@example.com) and ask to join the distribution list.
Stanton isn't planning to make any drastic changes to next year's categories, so the ballot should still offer up the following 10 opportunities for kids TV producers to vie for accolades:
• Children's animated program
• Preschool children's series
• Children's series
• Children's/youth/family special
• Directing in a children's series
• Original song – children's and animated
• Performer in a children's series
• Performer in a children's/youth/family special
• Performer in an animated program
• Writing in a children's series
In terms of eligibility, programs must have aired sometime in 2007 on a platform available to more than 50% of the total US TV audience and in a slot between 2 a.m. and 6 p.m. Contrary to popular belief, foreign productions can enter – as long as they involve a US co-pro partner. The Emmys defines a series as consisting of at least three episodes, and programs must contain at least 2/3 original material. On the outs are projects that debuted theatrically, as home entertainment products, or in a previous awards year. Entry forms and fees are due back in early December.
Those Emmy statuettes don't come cheap, so producers do have to pay to play, but it's not prohibitive. The cost of entry varies by category between US$150 and US$400, and members of the National Association of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) or the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) get a 50% discount.
Once the entries are submitted, the Emmy org gets a little help from its members in whittling the lists down to the projects that deserve an official nomination. Judges participating in this part of the voting process register in mid-December and must meet the following criteria for approval. They have to be NATAS/ATAS members who have worked in kids production for two of the past five years, or who have a significant body of work in children's TV over the past 10 years. Applications are reviewed on a case-by-case basis to determine which categories each person is qualified to vote in.
Paper ballots go out to the nomination judging panels in early January, and then they have about a week to put a tick beside every project they deem deserving of a nom before returning them to accounting firm Deloitte and Touche. Nominations are then announced in February, to great fanfare and celebration.
Once they've recovered from the ensuing champagne buzz, producers whose shows have received a nod must provide a DVD to the Emmy org by end of March; each category has specific instructions for what the disks should contain, but all of those details will be communicated to nominees well in advance of the deadline.
The second voting phase takes place in May and involves panels of judges hand-picked from amongst the previously qualified group so as to avoid conflict of interest. They review the entry packages, watch the DVDs and then pick a winner in each category they're eligible to vote in. Ballots come back in at the end of the month, and then the winners are announced in mid-June at the Daytime Emmys' gala awards ceremony.
The Emmys added a new category for Children's Broadband content last year, and the entry process for this field adheres to a slightly different timeline and criteria list, which will be outlined fully on www.emmyonline.org come October.
The individual achievement in animation award is also a bit of an anomaly as it's a juried prize that may be given to more than one person or no one, depending on the field in any given year. It recognizes the work of storyboard artists, production designers, layout artists, color stylists, background key designers, animators and character designers, and is voted on by a panel of peer judges in L.A. at the end of January. Entry criteria for this special award is also fully outlined on the Emmys website.


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#XOXperts ARC Review | Lost Rider by Harper Sloan
Title: Lost Rider
Series: Coming Home, #1
Author: Harper Sloan
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback ARC
Source: XOXO After Dark
In Lost Rider, the first Western romance in New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Harper Sloan's Coming Home series, an injured rodeo star encounters an old flame but will she be just what he needs to get back in the saddle?
Maverick Austin Davis is forced to return home after a ten-year career as a rodeo star. After one too many head injuries, he's off the circuit and in the horse farming business, something he's never taken much of a shine to, but now that it's his late father's legacy, familial duty calls. How will Maverick find his way after the only dream he ever had for himself is over?
Enter Leighton Elizabeth James, an ugly duckling turned beauty from Maverick's childhood—his younger sister's best friend, to be exact, and someone whose heart he stomped all over when she confessed her crush to him ten years back. Now Leighton is back in Maverick's life, no longer the insecure, love-stricken teen—and Maverick can't help but take notice. Sparks fly between them, but will Leighton be able to open her heart to the one man who broke it all those years ago?
Written in the vein of Diana Palmer and Lindsay McKenna, this Texas-set series is filled with sizzle, heart, and plenty of cowboys!
I just don't read enough cowboy romance novels, but Harper Sloan definitely makes me want to change that. LOST RIDER is a standalone in the Coming Home series featuring a deliciously sexy cowboy. This novel has a great southern feel to it that I thoroughly enjoyed.
There was minimal angst within this story, which was particularly great for me considering I've been reading nothing but. Something else that's been on replay is the second chance trope which I am utterly obsessed with. In my opinion, you can never read too many of those. There were some transition chapters from present to past in which we get flashback scenes of the younger versions of the main characters. These worked wonderfully to get me hooked on their love and future. This was a beautiful tale of second chances and love, both romantic and amongst family. Adding the family in made this story that much stronger in my eyes.
The secondary characters were absolutely lovely as well. There was a really strong familial bond highlighted in the story that put a smile on my face. I'm guessing and hoping to get their stories in the rest of the series. I've already formed attachments to them.
In regards to the hero and heroine, I loved them both, eventually. Maverick is a perfect example of an alpha male with charm, but we don't exactly see his good side right away. As the story progressed and he began to explain his actions, he grew on me. It was important to get answers and understand his reasoning in order to get closure and move on.
Naturally, Leighton had a lot of development from her teen-self to adult, but it was nice to see how strong she became. She didn't let Maverick's leaving ruin her forever, but instead, made something of herself and found a way to be happy.
It wasn't an easy road to happiness for anyone. Maverick had to repair all his relationships, and it took time and effort.
I typically don't like extensive inner discourse in my romance novel reads, especially when there's no wit or humor mixed in, but the author had a lot of that in the book. It did help me get to know the characters a little more, but it made the reading experience go slow. It sort of took me out of the flow every now and then.
Overall, I thought this was a great beginning to this new Harper Sloan series. The drama and residual pain and resentment made for an entertaining story. I look forward to reading the next book, and getting back into this cowboy world.
Harper is a NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL and USA TODAY bestselling author residing in Georgia with her husband and three daughters. She has a borderline unhealthy obsession with books, hibachi, tattoos and Game of Thrones. When she isn't writing you can almost always find her with a book in hand.
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Case 77: JSA Classified #25
Dial Holder: An unnamed S.H.A.D.E. scientist, and Jonathan Waddill AKA Johnny Mimic
Dial Type: The Big Dial (or is it?)
Dialing: This version of the Dial has the letters H-E-R-O along the same edge instead of the classic's alien symbols, with "Dial H for" written in the center. S.H.A.D.E. killed the previous owner, which may or may not be a reference to Robby Reed. It works as the Push-Button Dial did, with a flash of light and smoke, and apparently no moral drive to be a hero. One of Mimic's dialed identities has his face (and first name), and another is the perfect ironic counterpoint to Father Time; whether this is because of an interaction with Mimic's powers is unclear. Green Lantern's ring is able to damage it to the point where it is unusable, and returns the user to their normal identity. Its destruction and subsequent return in future comics, along with its slightly different look, might indicate this is not Robby's Dial after all, but an inferior copy.
Costume: In yellow and red, a simple spandex suit with goggles, and big, cartoony letters ("TM") on his chest.
Powers: The ability to travel in time, but not space. If the physical space is changed between times, he is liable to materialize in solid matter, which is lethal.
Sighted: In S.H.A.D.E. HQ, popping to the future (and his death) after stealing the Dial.
Possibilities: Time Man probably wouldn't last long with those limitations, so make him a bit of a comedy character. A mini-series (after which he is never seen again) sees him bumble through figuring out how his powers work and getting into all sorts of trouble while never really leaving a small radius from his apartment.
Integration Quotient: 10% (even if I write a story for him, it wouldn't allow him to interact much with the DCU, or not for long anyway)
Costume: A dark-colored fireman's uniform, with a red fireman's hat and a fire hydrant cover on his chest. His face shows a grisled beard, and his arms are long fire hoses.
Powers: Johnny shoots powerful jets of water from his stretchy hose arms.
Sighted: At S.H.A.D.E. HQ, fighting Green Lantern and S.H.A.D.E. agents.
Possibilities: A weird cyborg team called First Responders might include this veteran firefighter.
Integration Quotient: 25% (too strange not to need a lot of set-up)
Look: A grandfather clock with arms and legs, large whirring gears at his joints and inside his torso. His moon-like face is where the clock face would be, its hands forming a makeshift mustache.
Powers: This clockwork character can fire whirring gears at targets, use the ones fixed to and inside its body to grind foes at close range, and is made of wood, which helps when you fight the Golden Age Green Lantern.
Sighted: At S.H.A.D.E. HQ, fighting Green Lantern and Father Time.
Possibilities: A clockwork cyborg from the Gotham by Gaslight Earth? Perhaps its version of the Clock King?
Integration Quotient: 10% (too strange and silly to fit most Earth-1 superhero narratives)
Next: Both Brave AND Bold.
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Huey Lewis and The News have cancelled all of their 2018 performances including shows that were scheduled with Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band at Fenway Park in Boston on August 9th and the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas on October 20th.
Announcement from Huey Lewis:
Two and a half months ago, just before a show in Dallas, I lost most of my hearing. Although I can still hear a little, one on one, and on the phone, I can't hear music well enough to sing. The lower frequencies distort violently making it impossible to find pitch. I've been to the House Ear Institute, the Stanford Ear Institute, and the Mayo Clinic, hoping to find an answer. The doctors believe I have Meniere's disease and have agreed that I can't perform until I improve. Therefore the only prudent thing to do is to cancel all future shows. Needless to say, I feel horrible about this, and wish to sincerely apologize to all the fans who've already bought tickets and were planning to come see us. I'm going to concentrate on getting better, and hope that one day soon I'll be able to perform again.
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Time to watch a gem! Lucy Li double penetration for Woodman. She actually did 3 videos for him. Lucy Li was treated like a cheap slut, getting DESTROYED. Another cum-blast from the past is Marina Visconti porn debut, where she got pounded hard by Woodman and co in her first porn ever and her first anal experience.
There is no doubt that Lucy Li is one of those pretty busty pornstars that are up there with the best, but never got to flourish as a top pornstar. After giving birth, her boobs have gotten even bigger. Her porn is nowadays limited to that shot with her lucky husband. However, there was a time Lucy Li shot hardcore porn with other guys. Today I bring you some screenshots of her videos with Woodman. Lucy Li had 2 videos and a casting. Lucy Li got Destroyed! Lucy took it like a champ. Her ass got completely fucked up and her face was a mess as a result of sticky cum being shot at it.
This videos are gems every big boobs porn lover and even more any Lucy Li lover needs to watch and download.
If you are not sold yet, take a look at a young Marina Visconti taking two cocks for the first time ever. This was her first porn scene. Marina Visconti, the sex vixen we know now, was a shy girl who got her anal initiation by Woodman. Marina got destroyed in her first porn scene. Every single hole got fucked hard and she got to swallow sperm and got a nice facial that left her right eye shut.


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I'm a transplanted Brit, living in Greece for the past quarter of a century. Long of limb, broad of beam, open of mind and impatient of nature, I can sometimes wreak havoc without meaning to. But I MEAN well....
Friday, 16 May 2014
A very civilised revolt (or how an Army of the Ordinary might just change things)
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UPDATE: The 'Army of the Ordinary' (who are anything but ordinary) did not get through to the second round of the local elections. Whilst it was a disappointment for all who had worked so hard on their campaign, and believed so whole-heartedly in it, it was not surprising considering the resistance to 'doing things differently' in a relatively conservative area where a large proportion of the population is over 60. Limited resources of time, money and available volunteer manpower (but not the quality of the volunteers) were also a factor.ReplyDelete
But it's not the end for the 8 ΠΡΟΤΑΣΕΙΣ crew. They haven't stopped caring passionately about their neighbourhood and they will make sure that the eventual winner of the Mayoral race keeps all the pretty promises he made during his campaign (and shout out in protest if he doesn't).
- Anonymous20 May 2014 at 15:12
Where are you from ?ReplyDelete
From Australia ?
From a suburb out of Melbourne? A residential area outside a big city or a mixed use area ?
I'm originally from a medium-sized town surrounded by the Surrey/Sussex countryside about 40km south of London. Before coming to Greece, I worked as a reporter for a weekly local newspaper in South London and for a regional daily paper with its HQ in Brighton, on the Sussex coast.ReplyDelete
What made you think I'm Australian?
- Anonymous20 May 2014 at 16:14
I thought you where Australian ,I was just curius .ReplyDelete
Its the way you write so clearly. I didn't vote for Charis but I voted a blanc paper for all of them who tried to usurp the citizens votes when in the same time there are no money even for the maintenance of all projects that are already have been done in the past with loans and loans and loans when Greece was a growth country before and during the Athens Olympics and syddenly after USA private sector economy collapsed , Greece went bankrupt after all and now all candidates mayors are telling us that they will transform all Greek mayor cities and villages into something extraordinair !
The same is happening in Cholargos - Papagos suburb where all candiadates have "very serious" proposals like Mr. Kougioumtzopoulos with his eight proposals .
The funny thing is that when somebody is asking where they will find the money , the answer is always the same .
From the ΕΣΠΑ funding programs ( National strategic reference framework) and european programs .
Last Saturday the E.U. blocked all relevant projects for Greece.
It has a lot of fun !!
I am going to London twice a month or more, every month for business.
Thank God you are British and not Australian.
My query was also relevant with a Drone Helicopter that Mr. Charis told us during the pre-election period that is used everyday in a suburb of Melbourne ,Australia in order to monitoring all dogs that doing their needs and their bosses did not collect their turds !!!


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Stingray Sittin Clean on 24's Forgiatos
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When She Sees the Corvette Comin Thru
One of the Top Corvette Stingrays In the Streets
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Serge Bogaerts, Managing Director of PRACE aisbl is delighted to announce that Prof Dr Frauke Gräter,
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and University of Heidelberg, Germany is the winner of the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC. It is the second time that PRACE awards a female scientist for her outstanding impact on HPC research, computational science or service provision at a global level. The award will be presented at PRACEdays17, to be held 16-18 May 2017 in Barcelona.
How does mechanical force impact the inner workings of the living organism? – to answer this challenging question Frauke Gräter combines high-performance computing with simulation techniques at different scales. In the field of computational biophysics she achieved outstanding results. One of her major accomplishments is the deciphering of mechano-sensitive mechanisms in blood coagulation.
Frauke Gräter leads the Molecular Biomechanics group at HITS and gives lectures as Professor at the University of Heidelberg.
The scientific work "Micromechanics of Biocomposite Materials" of Frauke Gräter was awarded by PRACE under the 9th Call for Proposals for Project Access 11.5 million core hours on the Hermit1 supercomputer. Her research results were featured in the PRACE Women in HPC Magazine and the PRACE Digest Industry 2016 featured an article on her work entitled: "Natural strength: micromechanics of biocomposites". Frauke Gräter and her team focused in this scientific investigation on the mechanical properties of nacre, a material found in nature that possesses great stability due to its elaborate hierarchical nanostructures.
"It is the atomistic structure on the nanometer scale that defines nacre's amazing properties and taking these details into account makes our simulations computationally so demanding", states Frauke Gräter.
Frauke Gräter successfully combines her research career in HPC in a male-dominated area with an active family life. Recently, the Biophysical Society's Committee for Professional Opportunities for Women (CPOW) selected her profile for a list of internationally outstanding biophysicists (http:/
During PRACEdays17 Prof Dr Gräter will participate in the final discussion panel on "Support to HPC code: The gap between scientific code development and exascale technology. The software challenges for extreme scale computing faced by the Community". She will also be awarded a cash prize of € 1000 and trophy at the award ceremony on the final day of the conference.
1 Hermit was upgraded to Hornet, then to Hazel Hen – High Performance Supercomputer Center Stuttgart (HLRS)
About PRACE
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is an international non-profit association with its seat in Brussels. The PRACE Research Infrastructure provides a persistent world-class high performance computing service for scientists and researchers from academia and industry in Europe. The computer systems and their operations accessible through PRACE are provided and funded by 5 PRACE members (BSC representing Spain, CINECA representing Italy, CSCS representing Switzerland, GCS representing Germany and GENCI representing France). The Implementation Phase of PRACE receives funding from the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement RI-312763 and from the EU's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (2014-2020) under grant agreements 653838 and 730913. For more information, see www.prace-ri.eu
Do you want more information? Do you want to subscribe to our mailing lists? Please visit the PRACE website: http://www.prace-ri.eu
Or contact Marjolein Oorsprong, Communications Officer: PR-PRACE Ada Lovelace Award Winner for HPC-Frauke Graeter Telephone: +32 2 613 09 27 E-mail: communication[at]prace-ri.eu


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Council costs 'a fallacy' says anti-incinerator group
Council alternative costs 'a fallacy' says anti-incinerator group
Freedom of Information requests reveal huge discrepancy between claimed and actual costs
Following Freedom of Information requests StackAttack, the anti-incinerator group, is claiming that the Council's estimate for an alternative option to the incinerator is 'wildly misleading'.
'It's hard to conceive how they have got this so wrong,' says Oliver Baines, Stack Attack's spokesperson. 'The Council claimed, in public, that not going ahead with the incinerator would cost Cornwall £322m. Information provided by the Council under the Freedom of Information Act has revealed a catalogue of errors in their calculations. Our realistic assessment is that their figure should be not £322m, but £132m.'
'That's a staggering discrepancy, of £190m. The difference is so huge that we wonder how the Council managed to achieve it or whether it actively sought to mislead the public, or whether Councillors themselves have been misled. It obviously had in mind the cost of building the incinerator - £165m – as a target figure to exceed, to prove that not having the incinerator is more expensive than having it. What we didn't expect was such a wild over-estimate. I wonder what Councillors will think about haviing the wool pulled over their eyes.'
The information reveals that the reality is the opposite of what the Council claims and that the cost of the incinerator, at £165m, will be £33m more than the alternative. 'It is scarcely credible that Cornwall Council can claim the alternative would be so massively more expensive when in fact it will be £33m cheaper' stated Diana Padwick, one of Stack Attack's founders.
'The only explanation we can see for this incinerator still being pursued is that Cornwall Council, having made a decision somewhere between 6 and 12 years ago to do so, entered a contract with SITA and has failed to see that the world has changed in the meantime. If it is to keep up with rapidly changing technologies, year on year reductions in waste and dramatic increases in recycling, it needs to look again at its calculations, urgently.'


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Current information about Shane Norrie, including new work, upcoming exhibitions and articles of interest.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Oxford Studio Tour-London Free Press
Thank you to Kathy Rumleski from the London Free Press for the nice article on the upcoming Oxford Studio Tour!
Check it out...
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- Linda Hendricks said...
Hey Shane. Missed the Studio tour this year, but thought I'd come here and see what you've been doing. It's wonderful to see such great talent is being appreciated world wide. Your works are amazing and it's such a great honour to have been taught by one of the best. Congratulations! Linda Hendricks
- May 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM
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Sir Ben Kingsley -- who isn't shy about expressing his fondness for all things Britney -- was once again caught professing his love, saying that the popwreck is his role model. That Gandhi is such a kidder!
Ben's advice for the pop loon: "Keep singing." She hasn't done that in years!
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Deep Linking On Facebook App Install Ads Is Now A Thing!
Wait, what?
Until now, if you were to download an app because you saw an ad for a great pair of shoes, you had to wait for the app to finish downloading and then remember what it was you wanted and then search for it. Thanks to deep linking, marketers can now create App Install ads that will take you directly to that great pair of shoes when you open the app for the first time. Thanks for finally acknowledging our 5-second attention span, Facebook! This is great news for business as Facebook is now placing users one step closer to a conversion.
A New Home For Music Lovers With @Music
Recently, Instagram launched @music, an Instagram account fully dedicated to everything music. The account, similar to Twitter's @TwitterMusic and most recently, @TwitterFood , is meant to be a community based on interest and will feature a wide variety of high-quality, music-related posts. Could @music become another platform for advertisers in the music industry? Maybe, but for now we'll just have to enjoy the content @music gives us.
Snapchat Introduces Discover Messages
In a Snapchat sea of double-chinned selfies and cats with drawn-on eye patches, the super-polished, professionally made content on the Discover feature seems a little out of place. In what appears to be an attempt to rescue the dwindling sponsorship opportunity, Snapchat announced that you can now privately share content from Discover with other users. Even better, you can add your own drawings and text before sending them to all your friends – which means you may be seeing a lot of mustache-clad Cosmopolitan models in your inbox soon.
Snapchat Makes It Easier To Find Users
In other Snapchat news, you may finally be able to find your favorite famous cat's account. Snapchat's lackluster discovery capabilities made it near impossible to find a friend or celebrity on the app without knowing their exact username or being able to scan the QR code (or "Snapcode") from the user's phone. This week, however, Snapchat made it a little easier by allowing users to download vector images of their Snapcodes to put on websites, marketing materials, and just about anything else. It's a pretty small step considering the vast search functions of Facebook and Twitter, but maybe now we can all find J.Lo on Snapchat and live a happier life.


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Sur Sangram Season 4 - Mahuaa TV Sur Sangram 2015 Audition Dates
Season 1 winner is Mohan Rathore and Alok Kumar. and Season 2 winner is Mamta Raut of Mahuaa Tv Sur Sangram. Mahuaa Tv Sur Sangram is Back With Season 4 in 2015.
Here is the Audition details below of Mahuaa Tv Sur Sangram Season 4 (2015)
Audition Date and Time Coming Soon...
Varanasi (U.P.)
Baliya (U.P.)
Gorakhpur (U.P.)
Patna (Bihar)
Muzaffarpur (Bihar)
Jamshedpur (Jharkhand)
Chhapra (Bihar)
Bhagalpur (Bihar)
Purnia (Bihar)
Noida (U.P.)
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If you follow me at all, you know that I'm passionate about poetry.
I want my students to share that passion, so I start teaching with poetry on day 1.
All of those new school supplies are quite exciting! So, we write concrete poetry about them. For example:
Ask your students to choose one of their supplies or an object related to school. Then instruct them to draw the object. To make a concrete poem, they should write their thoughts about the subject around the shape or fill it with words and phrases pertaining to it. If you work with young children, provide simple pictures of school related objects like these:
My concrete poem example with the glue bottle rhymes. Depending on the ages and abilities of your students, you can decide whether or not to require rhymes.
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Oh, Deer
Here's how it works, at least locally (and, for all I know, across the state): The Monday after Thanksgiving Day, when the season opens, the schools are closed. There is no reason to be open when a great percentage of your students will not be there. They're all out in the woods trying to reduce our bulging deer population.
We have plenty, too. There are 60,000 roadkill a year in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The surviving deer spouse sees the accident, turns to one of the opposite gender and says, "This is awful; what are you doing tonight?" A few months later, out comes the little potential windshield-breaker.
You see, in its last moments on earth, the deer often get some measure of revenge. At the least, the car gets some pretty good dents; sometimes it takes out the windshield and smashes up the hood. There are times it totals the car, by itself, or causes the driver to run off the road into a healthy tree.
In the woods, you wouldn't believe how many hunters mistake a guy wearing hunters' red for a deer. Bambi looks out from behind a bush and shakes her head in wonderment. Maybe they think the deer is wearing camouflage for the occasion and you really don't want to miss a good shot, even at six feet away.


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A melanin mark for hypercalcemia
Earlier detection of disease could help improve response to therapy. Blood calcium concentrations are elevated in several types of cancer, in addition to other diseases. Here, Tastanova et al. used synthetic biology and cell engineering to develop a sensor that detects hypercalcemia. Their implantable sensor consists of cells that express the calcium-sensing receptor and produce melanin in response to sustained elevated calcium in the blood. Melanin was visible as a dark pigment in the encapsulated cell constructs in vitro and could be detected when implanted in pig skin ex vivo. Melanin production was also observed in engineered cells implanted in mice bearing hypercalcemic breast and colon cancer tumors. This biomedical tattoo strategy could also potentially be used to noninvasively monitor response to treatment.
Diagnosis marks the beginning of any successful therapy. Because many medical conditions progress asymptomatically over extended periods of time, their timely diagnosis remains difficult, and this adversely affects patient prognosis. Focusing on hypercalcemia associated with cancer, we aimed to develop a synthetic biology-inspired biomedical tattoo using engineered cells that would (i) monitor long-term blood calcium concentration, (ii) detect onset of mild hypercalcemia, and (iii) respond via subcutaneous accumulation of the black pigment melanin to form a visible tattoo. For this purpose, we designed cells containing an ectopically expressed calcium-sensing receptor rewired to a synthetic signaling cascade that activates expression of transgenic tyrosinase, which produces melanin in response to persistently increased blood Ca2+. We confirmed that the melanin-generated color change produced by this biomedical tattoo could be detected with the naked eye and optically quantified. The system was validated in wild-type mice bearing subcutaneously implanted encapsulated engineered cells. All animals inoculated with hypercalcemic breast and colon adenocarcinoma cells developed tattoos, whereas no tattoos were seen in animals inoculated with normocalcemic tumor cells. All tumor-bearing animals remained asymptomatic throughout the 38-day experimental period. Although hypercalcemia is also associated with other pathologies, our findings demonstrate that it is possible to detect hypercalcemia associated with cancer in murine models using this cell-based diagnostic strategy.
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"A portrait of my child, once a week, every week in 2013."
Stella: Giggle fit as she shares a snack with her friend.
There were some great B+W images from last week. Particularly, these three blond headed littles, this wee gardener, and this man, whose wisdom re. house cleaners is spot on.
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Moon Taejun (born 1970) is a South Korean poet.
Moon Taejun is a relatively new face on the South Korean literary scene. He has published has published four collections of poetry:Chattering Backyard (2000), Bare Foot (2004), Flatfish (2006), and Shadow's Development (2008) as well as other essays and commentary. One of the most popular poets of the younger generation, Moon uses deceptively simple poetic language with profound lyricism, commenting on the struggle of daily life. Grounded in Buddhist philosophy, his poems speak with reverence for all forms of life and emphasize the necessity of emptying oneself.
Moon's poems employ a comforting language to soothe the wounds of the soul. His poems seek to assuage the pains of those suffering from the violence and oppression of a heartless society. He values "conversation" highly, emphasizing full empathy between two existences, such as when he says, "That over there, is in me here; and I here, am in that over there. Let me respect that which is not me, and therefore those things that are me." The poet aspires to a state in which the subject and object are not distinct form one another, but fused together. In this respect, Moon carries on the traditional lyrical tradition.
Newly emerging poets too often look askance at the old lyricism, seeking instead new language suited to the tastes of the present age; but the result is often an idiosyncratic poetry that is difficult for the reader to understand. Moon's poetry tacitly challenges this trend, and embodies hope for easy communication with the world through language steeped in lyricism. His poetry employs familiar subjects from the natural world such as flowers, trees, falling leaves and paths, and people from everyday life such as wife, child, and sufferer. But in the familiarity emerges the unique individuality of the poet, bringing to our awareness the fact that the familiar is not "old." His work has been translated in The Growth of a Shadow detail, and the The American Reader.
Dongseo Literary Prize (2004)
Nojak Literary Prize (2004)
Midang Literary Prize (2006)
Yushim Literary Prize (2006)
So-Wol Poetry Prize (2006)
Translated by Chae-Pyong Song and Darcy Brandel
A clam at the fish store pushes a bare foot outside its mud hut
sticking out its bare foot
the way the dead Buddha reaches out for the disciple who cries sorrowfully
Immersed long in flatland and water the foot has wrinkled up
When I touch its bare foot with reverence the clam
slowly withdraws as if having the first thought, as if having the longest thought
At that speed even time, even road might have flown
Anyone might have gone out or, separated, might have come back slowly like that
Always barefoot I guess
As the bird having lost its love endures the night with beak buried into chest
so might the clam have endured sorrow with foot buried into chest
When the house cried for food
he might have gone out to beg barefoot, blistered
After all day in the street
perhaps he returned to the hut reeking with poverty
the house content, full of food
its crying stopped, quiet as darkness
Translated by Chae-Pyong Song and Darcy Brandel
I gaze at a pair of shoes in the darkening yard.
They resemble the fiddle head that Sister once dried
all day in the shade of the backyard.
The yard of weathered neck!
A powder case a woman used up
is the pair of shoes worn out
from carrying her body for a long time.
Ah, even at the end of the road
there is no transcending suffering.
Translated by Chae-Pyong Song and Darcy Brandel
In the temple yard peonies bloom luxuriously
Who opens the flowers' doors?
With a silent word, the flowers open their petals
The moment I attempt to say,
"opening petals swept by rain all morning," my tongue is cut off by
the rain
Translated by Chae-Pyong Song and Anne Rashid
Oh, my lover
who had pure eyes;
oh, the silver scales
that occupied your eyes.
Tonight snow falls.
Oh, my poor lover
who wrapped my neck
with a white towel and washed my face,
a sacred quiet descends
upon the lonely planet.
I close my eyes
to remember the time
your hands washed my face.
Translated by Chae-Pyong Song and Darcy Brandel
Woken up at dawn
the thought of Mother who is ill
cuts me
As a child
when a speck blew into my eye,
Mother cleaned her mouth with cold water
and licked
my eyeball
my soul
with the softest flesh
with her tongue
And when I dozed on and off
while tending the burning fire hole
in her eyes
fire flashed with worry
from the hole to the chimney
Celebrating the seventh day of the seventh month
she prayed tenderly with both hands
becoming a stone Buddha
The stone Buddha now sits
as her eyeballs
In what life
not inheriting the life from her
could I become an indifferent
fine-tooth comb for her hair?
In what life
could my tongue
wash out
her stone eyeball?
Slowly stretching out my neck to her
I cried and cried
The wet morning
Translated by Chae-Pyong Song and Darcy Brandel
To think is to sit down on an empty chair
To sit down in an empty space the flowers left
To long is to sit down on an empty chair
To still leave it empty after sitting like red petals
Translated by Chae-Pyong Song and Darcy Brandel
Stepping in the mountain shadow on the rice paddy
the old ibis
standing still
A deep thought lingers on the old ibis's body and passes
Like I once stared at an empty pond vacantly
Is this how loneliness lingers?
It was the evening when the mountain shadow fully wetted her ankles
Translated by Chae-Pyong Song
The yard is quiet
while the flower blooms.
The day is like a sunny floor.
The naked sky
enters the flower
for an entire day.
The flower's lips become wet.
The sky has laid
fragrant eggs inside it.
If only meeting the person I miss is like that.
Translated by Chae-Pyong Song and Darcy Brandel
Even in my insensitivity I come to think of you sometimes
Sorrow moves like a mountain shadow across your eyes
A bird cries like an echo in a glazed pot but the river, a bigger pot, contains her
In the distance between you and me
between the darkness of this place and that of the village beyond
the river like a big round wheel flows
A cow cries at the village across the river
I cannot help the cow whose cries dampen the cold river with drizzle
Perhaps she just lost her baby or her love
I cannot help the cow who cries till her voice gets hoarse
I cannot forget the crying cow's white round eyes
Even in my insensitivity I come to think of you sometimes
Translated by Chae-Pyong Song and Darcy Brandel
I planted young radishes
but being lazy I missed the roots and stems emerging
I barely caught the flowers
white radish flowers were everywhere in the space
Did you plant the flower garden in the vegetable garden?
neighbors asked and I hesitated to answer
After this conversation, one butterfly
and another butterfly along with the first
a flock of butterflies like white radish flowers
landed on white radish flowers
setting down their fragile feet
briefly for three or five seconds or
perhaps an even longer time to them
folding their wings, calming the wind
sitting comfortably
they seemed to sleep a light sleep
This place I gave away so they could set their feet
this knee I gave away so they could sleep a light sleep
I did not have such a place while living
Though my radish garden is a flower garden
at last, I lost even the flowers to the butterflies
Translated by Chae-Pyong Song and Darcy Brandel
The space between flowers blooming and falling
We might call it a breath
The tree's cry makes flowers bloom
With another cry flowers fall
The space between blooming and falling
We might call it a breath
Even trees have lungs spread like flatlands
One breath and an ebb tide flows in and out
One breath and trees shake once in the wind
Father completes one sixty-year cycle, a life like the measles
We might call it a breath


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The Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud suggested that the powers motivating man and woman are that mainly of the unconscious. By the power of dreams, a person?s repressed mind comes out in the unconscious. Freud believed that actions in dreams are those that are not rationally accepted by the conscious mind, and therefore the unconscious mind acts as a censor. In Gustav von Aschenbach?s dreams in Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, his thoughts are symbolized by Nietzsche and Freud?s theories. Aschenbach?s homoerotic passions are brought to life in a new environment, and his unconscious mind corrupts his conscious one.
In the beginning scenes of the novelette, Aschenbach shows his passionate side though a subconscious daydream. His mind takes him into a tropical swampland scene teeming with copious beauty. But this place also contains a mixture of lechery and the grotesque. ?(He saw) the hairy shafts of palms rising out of a rank lecherous thicket? (Mann 5).
Additionally, in the dream, ?birds of a strange nature, high shouldered, with crooked bills, were standing in the muck, and looking motionless to one side? (Mann 5). When Aschenbach snaps out of the daydream, he goes back to his normal self-disciplined life.
This daydream symbolizes his irrational, sensual side. By the reference of the lecherous thicket, his repressed sensual side begins to come out. It is surrounded in the beauty of his self-disciplined, moral life. His impulse like the thicket is small and is conquered by the hairy palm, which goes through the heart of his impulses and passions. As the dream manifests further, odd-looking birds stand in the muck and grime of the bog. They are motionless, as if they are stuck. This can be interpreted as to symbolize Aschenbach?s up and coming ?ugly? side in the making. He is stuck, and...


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THE LAST HAMLET or The Readiness Is All - 48 ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS
"Ullyses calling Moonbase! Ullyses calling Moonbase!"
"Ullyses calling Moonbase! Ullyses calling Moonbase!"
Further silence.
"Again, sir?"
"Again, Tullulah."
But before the radio operator could switch once more to transmit, we heard:
This recorded message is not authorised. I am acting entirely on my own. Do not attempt to reply. I repeat, do not attempt to reply. If you suspect foul play, and you still have your mining pod, loose it. Let it enter Steefax atmosphere in your place. One dot on a screen may look like any other to the untrained eye. Good luck to Your Majesty. Good luck to you all.
A few seconds later the message began to repeat, and we listened through it again.
"Can we do that, Commander?"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Who'd notice the difference?"
"Drainin and Polikova. Burdon."
"Probably not."
"Highly unlikely."
"So they might fire at the pod?"
"They might, sire, if firing is what they have in mind. Should have thought of it myself."
"You've been rather busy, Mister Darande."
The Commander got up out of his seat. "Mister Darek," he said, "you have the ship. I need to have a talk with the engineer."
Chief, formerly Royal, Engineer Burdon radioed Draxy Palace, and then the missile silo, to report that Ullyses was in orbit. Nell summoned Alkan, her new Captain of the Guard, who had Bagwort fetch Polikova and Drainin from their cell. All five drove in a closed carriage to the Space Centre.
Ullyses was half way into its second orbit, at 7.30 p.m., Steefax time.
"I think we might wait until dark, Your Majesty," Darande said.
"Will it make any differnece?"
"Not to us, but it might make them nervous on the ground, if they really do have evil intent."
"Can they do anything to us while we're up here?"
"No, sire. We're out of missile range. We'll be perfectly safe until we're well into the atmsophere. We'll do one more orbit after this one. Will you be ready, Mac?"
"Aye, Captain, I'm nearly there. It's all a matter of the balance," said the engineer over the interccom.
"What is?" The King asked Darande.
"The pod, sire. It has to be so positioned that when we begin the re-entry, the merest touch of reverse thrusters will send it on its way."
"Then what?"
"We get out fast!"
We had just emerged from radio blackout on our third orbit.
"Now, Tullulah!"
"Aye, sir." The radio operartor flicked a switch to transmit. "Pegasus is flying again, Steefax. Is the stable door open?'" she said, twice, before switching to receive.
Drainin's voice sounded routine, professional, entirely stress free, as twice he intoned, "The manger is ready, and your corn awaits you, Pegasus. Ride on." At a nod from his mistress, Bagwort removed his knife point from Polikova's neck.
"Drainin sounds very calm, very normal," Tullulah said.
"Yes. Yes he does. He doesn't sound like someone anxious for our safety."
"Perhaps she's going to let us land after all?" Darek suggested.
"Let us land and deal with us later, perhaps?" Darande said.
"All ready, here, Captain!" announceed Macroida from the engine room.
"It looks as though we might not need it, after all, Mac."
THIS WAS AWFUL! HADN'T ANYONE BUT ME NOTICED? I bit my lip, and held my counsel!
Burdon did not notice anything actually wrong with the code, but he did think that he might have spoken it slightly differently.
Nell heard nothing wrong. So well coached had she been by Drainin under interrogation, that she would have spoken it in precisely that way.
Tullulah had shown me a copy of the re-entry codes while we were on Fendergedano, and I had memorised them, for something to do. I just knew that Drainin had not said his part of the code as it had been written. And if Drainin had got it wrong, then he must have got it wrong on purpose!
"NO!" I screamed. "IT'S WRONG! THE CODE IS WRONG!"
"Wrong, boy! What d'you mean?" Darande demanded.
"The words are right, sir, but the punctuation is wrong!"
"Tell us," Hamlet said. "Tell us what you heard." He held out his hand to Tullulah, who handed him her copy of the codes.
"Drain said, Your Majesty, 'The manger is ready, and you corn awaits you, Pegasus. Ride on."
"That's how he said it, alright," Darande agreed.
"But it's not how it is written, sir," I said.
"Nor is," said the King. He gave the paper to Darande.
Darande read aloud: "'The manger is ready, and your corn awaits you.' FULL STOP! Then we have, 'Pegasus, ride on.' That's how it was meant to be spoken! Well done Drainin, and marvellously well done that boy!" Darande grinned at me before turning to the navigator, "Mister Darek, set a course for the shortest re-entry manoevre in history!"
"Aye, sir!"
"Then plot us the quickest way out again."
"Aye, aye, sir!"
"Pod ready, Mac?"
"Just give the word, sir."
"As soon as we begin re-entry, apply reverse thrusters. Wait ten seconds before giving me all the forward power you've got."
"Aye, aye, sir!"
"Both courses plotted, Commander."
"Thank you, Mister Darek. Now, listen everybody. If this works, we may at least live to come back another day. If they blow up the pod, and think it's us, then this day may be ours. What do we all say? Cry Draxy, for Hamlet, Steefax, and Saint George?"
From all quarters there came a stirring unison roaring of the Rattlelance mantra.
Darande ordered, "Fasten your seat belts, folks. This could get a bit rocky. Ready, Mac?"
"Aye, sir."
"Stand by, everyone, for re-entry - now!"
The ship lurched and I felt gravity beginning to return. Then Macroida began her brief, never to be forgotten commentary on the immediate events: "Reverse thruster applied! Pod away! 10, 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1! You have full forward power, sir!"
"Hold on people - it's time to get out of here!" Dranded roared, triumphantly I thought.
Burdon, looking over Drainin's shoulder, saw the white dot on the screen. Ullyses was coming in. The image blurred, then seemed to divide in two for a few moments before becoming one again. But this time, was it not a little smaller than before? The engineer opened his mouth to...to yawn. Nell scowled at him, "Keep alert, man!" she snapped, before looking back to the screen, where she saw nothing amiss. Burdon glowed with satisfaction at what he had not done! He was beginning to feel almost 'royal' again. Under other circumstances, Polikova and Drainin might well have hugged him!
General Wishbone took personal charge of firing at the white dot, and he was eminently satisfied by the spectacular result as seen through his bunker window!
The Archdraxite saw the brilliant flash on the screen, and Burdon confirmed for her the 'loss of Ullyses with all hands.'
"You have played your parts well, scientists," Nell said. "You will remain at Draxy Palace for the remainder of your lives, but in rather better comfort than of late. Oh, and you will not be seeing Bagwort any more." Drainin remembererd that the named gentleman produced a 'gruesome leer of slobbering regret.'
Captain Terson, whose vigil it was, saw the explosion, and believed the worst - while Lindra watched a replay of the explosion on the big screen, and hoped for the best - while Finola, who could not sleep, stood at her bedroom window, and saw a shooting star. And shooting stars are lucky, aren't they?
Nell's diary had but one entry for that day.
I am sorry about Diken, and I shall grieve for him. But he made his choices. And now for the newspaper: keep it short, and keep it simple.
Nell penned the following obituary for a special luchtime edition of the Gazette, which was to be distributed City wide by criers.
We regret to announce, that following a massive explosion last night in Steefax space, all contact with the returning Ullyses was broken. We have to assume the loss of the ship with all hands.
Following eight days of solemn mourning for King Hamlet and his companions, an official enquiry into the catastrophe will be set up.
Meanwhile, though we may regret the lack of wisdom amongst the adventurers, we salute their bravery. Our thoughts go out to Her Majesty the Queen, wherever she may be, at this time of her personal tragedy.
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Archive for January, 2011
Corps faces change, but remains true to legacy
The Marine Corps is changing. We've been landlocked in Afghanistan and Iraq for nearly 10 years. We utilize equipment long after its life expectancy. We deploy at high operational tempos. Even still, Marines have never [Read more...]
No imminent change to the BAH policy
A recent Marine Corps Times article raised concern for non-commissioned officers throughout the Corps – unmarried ones that is. The article states that fewer single-sergeants and below will be allowed to move off base in [Read more...]
Will Afghanistan be forgotten?
In a recent Wall Street Journal opinion article, an interesting question was asked. Will Afghanistan be a forgotten war? It's difficult for me to wrap my head around this idea. To even pose the question [Read more...]
Despite budget cuts, Marines remain amphibious
The current penchant by some for questioning the Marine Corps' need for an amphibious tracked vehicle suggests an ignorance of history and a lack of understanding of the future; it is unsupported by hard lessons learned, world trends, and a security environment characterized by a high degree of uncertainty. Our Nation will most certainly require continued global access from the sea, and just as certainly there are forces at work that are actively and aggressively attempting to deny us that much needed access.