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About time I wrote a post, right?
I was writing another post earlier on about something else when I realized that I haven't done a 'random things' update in a while. So here I am, with lots of things to say but of course, in random order.
1. Classes have started (which is somehow what I always end up saying in posts like these and it almost gives me deja vu). How are classes? One is coming along just fine, one is pretty much the same as the one last semester aka boring but only with more strange and annoying work, one is actually nice and slow (my stats professor's patience is amazing), one is interesting (I even got to hold a 2.5 billion year old rock), and one I do not know yet but I'm guessing will be boring and annoying.
2. More stress. I don't know about you but semester beginnings are tiring and stressful as heck. It's not the same as high school where everything starts off nice and easy with a fixed timetable and fixed lunch break (kiss that goodbye in college). I'm stressing over so many things, I can't even begin to count.
3. I need to SLOW DOWN. I have a Type A personality which according to this site (ironically a site about stress) means having these characteristics:
- Time Urgency and Impatience, as demonstrated by people who, among other things, get frustrated while waiting in line, interrupt others often, walk or talk at a rapid pace, and are always painfully aware of the time and how little of it they have to spare.
- Free-Floating Hostility or Aggressiveness, which shows up as impatience, rudeness, being easily upset over small things, or 'having a short fuse', for example.
- Competitiveness
- Strong Achievement-Orientation
- Certain Physical Characteristics That Result From Stress and Type A Behavior Over Years : Facial tension (tight lips, clenched jaw, etc.), tongue clicking or teeth grinding, dark circles under eyes, facial sweating (on forehead or upper lip)
Am I guilty of these traits? Indeed. More so during the periods of time when I feel like I have so much more to do and just feel like hurling the chair (figuratively because I paid $80 for this chair). In short, I haven't been very nice and I also feel bad about that.
Apparently there are TIPS, too, for dealing with a Type A personality. Let's look at them while we're at it:
- Change Your Work Life
- Change Thought Patterns
- Start Journaling – I tried for the first 5 days of the new year then things got busy (lame excuse obviously) and I forgot. I want to get back to that even if it's only to write a few lines every day because I think that it helps.
- Make It A Game – counting idiots on the road, they say. I could do that… probably.
- Breathing Exercises – ugh, I don't remember this until after I get frustrated or angry.
- Love Your Pets – my pet is miles away from me. I need him. so. much. It's so weird that I miss him a billion times more when I'm away. Or maybe it's not weird, it's natural.
- Gardening – this is another thing I have been considering heavily. I was thinking of getting a bonsai plant but we'll see if I have any extra budget for a plant.
ANYWAY, the third point is I need to slooow dooown. A lot. But it's hard because I naturally rush around a lot.
4. Budgeting. Stop buying unnecessary things. Wait, we don't. I guess the most that we spend on is food. I occasionally think about our tuition and expenses and try not to freak out. The question is, how to cut back on spending when you don't really spend that much in the first place?
5. We went for our first basketball game this week. I hoped that it would be exciting and obviously hope that our team would win. It was both! We were on the edge of our seats, screaming and cheering for our team. It was a close match but we won. The last few seconds were gripping, I tell you. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and even showed up in our school colors.
What I can be sure of, after watching this game, is that Kuroko no Basuke has some dramatic and completely unreal scenes haha. Players do not have time for chitchat and trash-talking while trying to score; the ball does not remain in the air for five minutes while words are being exchanged. Also, I'm quite sure the referees do their jobs well so any kind of foul play would be detected… unlike in KnB where Hanamiya and Haizaki get away with things like elbowing other players or stomping on someone else's foot. In case you didn't get it, I'm just joking.
6. My coulda-beens. I've realized as of late that if I had been nudged towards the science-y direction, I would have taken astronomy or geology as my major. Even way back when I was younger, I remember telling my mom that I wanted to be an astronomer and a geologist. Why I didn't pursue either: 1) at some point, the thought of there being SO MANY unknowns in the universe was incredibly daunting, and 2) being far away in some unknown desert or mountain (aka away from home) digging for fossils (possibly in unbearable heat or that's how I always imagine it to be) was also incredibly daunting. It was too much for my teenage brain to process.
One of my close friends has graduated with a degree in geology. Don't think for a second that I didn't think it was freaking cool that she actually went into the field of geology. I always wanted to know what classes she was taking and what interesting fossil finds there are. Can you imagine what I'd be like if I had a friend in the field of astronomy?
7. Nobody should make red sauce pasta with KETCHUP. Once upon a time, I went to a friend's place and her mother made spaghetti for lunch. Guess what she poured onto the cold, overcooked spaghetti? Ketchup. Gag me. Okay, then she said there was cheese and brought out – wait for it, no, not parmesan – those square slices of Kraft American cheese. WHY? Never mind. Guess what she made us pair our ketchup-and-processed-cheese-laden spaghetti with? MILK.
I gagged on my lunch. Literally. I was the last one at the table except for my friend's grandfather. Seeing me struggling to finish my 'spaghetti', he took pity on me and told me that I didn't have to finish it. My mom has trained us to be polite guests and to not complain about the food served by others so I felt bad about not eating it but not bad enough to continue. So I didn't.
Just thinking about it makes me shudder. How was that even pasta? I do not know.
This was a completely random thought because we were discussing it at dinner that day and I was reminded of how glad I am that my mom cooks some badass pasta.
8. It's cold. I've had to break out our jackets from Vancouver. It's actually rather annoying to have to wear so many layers.
9. Exercise. This semester's schedule is enough exercise for me, I'm thinking. I've been marching/fast-walking to my next class which is on the opposite end of the campus every single day. Here's the catch: I have to get across the entire length of the campus within 10 minutes and that is if the class finishes on time. By the time I get to my next class (also after which I climb three flights of stairs; holla quad and hamstring workout) and sit down, I'm out of breath and I feel warm and toasty because of the blood pumping. The 5-day workout I didn't sign up for, here I come.
10. The end of nail polish… at least for this semester? I'm taking a class this semester that has a lab that kind of bans nail polish. Ugh, I'm sad.
Anyway, that's it for today otherwise this post is going to get too wordy.


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Pearl Harbor, T.H.,
December 11, 1941
|The Commanding Officer.
|The Commander-in-Chief, U.S. PACIFIC FLEET.
|Events During Raid of December 7, 1941 - Report of.
|(a) CincPac despatch 102102 December 1941.
Four spare .50 caliber machine guns and thirteen .30 caliber machine guns were broken out, mounted and manned, this action being accomplished during the course of the attacks.
All boats of the Dobbin were sent into the landings immediately, and have been in continuous service wherever needed since. The Commanding Officer is pleased to report that the performance of all hands was excellent and the conduct most commendable, characterized by a strong will to fight and to turn to enthusiastically in any and every was possible to assist in servicing the destroyers and in protecting their own ship.
CARTER, Howard Frederic, 381 23 23, Cox., U.S. Navy.
KILLED IN ACTION - at about 0930 on December 7, 1941.
DIAGNOSIS: Wound, Multiple (Thorax & pulmonary ) #2564. Key letter "K" (Shrapnel). NEXT OF KIN: Mother: Mabel Rose Carter, Box 44, Lakeside, California.
BAKER, "J" "W", 356 23 72, TM3c, U.S. Navy.
DIED AS A RESULT OF WOUND RECEIVED IN ACTION - at about 1400 on December 7, 1941.
DIAGNOSIS: AMPUTATION, TRAUMATIC, RIGHT FEMUR, #2572. Key letter "K" (Shrapnel). NEXT OF KIN: Father: John W. Baker, 115 N.W. 21st St., Oklahoma City, Okla.
GROS, Roy Arthur, 385 88 05, F1c, U.S. Navy.
DIED AS RESULT OF WOUND RECEIVED IN ACTION - at about 2330 on December 7, 1941.
DIAGNOSIS: WOUND, PUNCTURE, LEFT PULMONARY, #2565. Key letter "K" (Shrapnel). NEXT OF KIN: Mother: Edna Mable Eld, 109 Marion St., Oak Park, Illinois.
BRUMLEY, Edwin Jack, 360 93 31, Cox., U.S. Navy.
DIAGNOSIS: WOUND, LACERATED, LEFT BUTTOCK. #2563. Key letter "K" (Shrapnel), (Wound not fatal).
OUELLETTE, Clarence, Matt, 368 58 89, Sea2c, U.S. Navy.
DIAGNOSIS: CONTUSION, CHEST. #2512. Key letter "K" (Bomb-fall explosion). (Wound not fatal).
In addition, MARZE, Andrew Michael, 250 29 87, GM1c, U.S.N., was killed in action on board the U.S.S. Pennsylvania, while assisting in effort to repel air attack.
DIAGNOSIS: WOUNDS, MULTIPLE (Bomb) #2564, Key letter "K". NEXT OF KIN: WIFE - Doris Grace Marze, 520 10th Street, Naval Housing, Pearl Harbor, T.H. (deceased remains were transferred to U.S. Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor, T.H., by the U.S.S. Pennsylvania).
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Crosstown buses on 42nd and 66th streets are the slowest rides in Manhattan, according to a new report today.
The M42 and M66 won the infamous Pokey Award for the borough's slowest bus route, tying at an average speed of 3.9 mph, the Straphangers Campaign announced.
That 3.9 mph trip is an upgrade from last year's Manhattan Pokey winner, the M50 which was clocked in at a blazing 3.5 mph across 50th Street.
An average pedestrian can hoof at about 3.1 mph.
The slowest rides in outer boroughs were the B35 LTD [5.6 mph], Bx19 [4.9 mph], Q58 [7.0 mph] and S48 [8.1 mph].
The Schleppie Award — for a borough's most unreliable bus line — went to the M4 in Manhattan.
The M4 fell behind its scheduled intervals 28.3 percent of the time, making it the island's least reliable line.
The most off-schedule bus lines outside of Manhattan were the B15 [20.1 percent], Bx41 [21.8 percent] and S78 [25.8 percent].
There was no Schleppie awarded to any Queens bus line. The Straphangers Campaign sets a 20-percent minimum for Schleppie consideration, and no Queens line was late at that great a rate.


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Expensive Test for Rotted Wood
A few years ago, my wife and I bought a 100-year-old house. This house needed every fix-up project you could imagine, but we thought we'd better tackle the leaky roof first. The house had one layer of shabby-looking shingles. To save time and money, we decided to skip the tear-off and just add a second layer of shingles. After carrying the first bundle up the ladder, I slammed it down onto the roof. I couldn't believe my eyes. It broke right through the roof and fell onto the floor below. That's how I found out that some of the wood beneath the old shingles was rotting. A whole new roof was the only project we did that year!
Losing My Grip
I called a pro for an estimate to remove a tree stump and the price came back at $225. This seemed like too much to spend when I knew I could knock it out myself in a couple of hours with an ax. After digging a trench the size of a Jacuzzi around it, I started in on the stump with my trusty ax, wood chips flying with each stroke. Everything was going fine until my ax glanced off the stump after a full swing. Then the unthinkable happened—the ax flew out of my sweaty hands and headed straight for the picture window that overlooks the backyard. The ear-shattering crash woke up my pregnant wife ... I was done for the day. Before the glass repair truck arrived a couple of days later, I finished removing the stump. When the new glass was installed, they handed me the bill! You guessed it—$225.


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We hear that Universal Television Enterprises has already spent up to $1 million on the production of Sarah Ferguson's upcoming talk show and has filmed only the pilot. An astronomical amount of money, considering that the entire annual production budget for a syndicated show averages about $5 million. Most of the show -- which is supposed to debut in fall 2003 -- is devoted to viewer makeovers. "It's her version of Queen for a Day," cracks our source. "She brings folks in and does makeovers on them -- including mind, body, and spirit!" A rep says that the makeovers are just one part of the show: "It's like a cross between Rosie and Oprah." We've also been told that Fergie demands that she gets put up in the Palace whenever she's in New York on behalf of the show, and if for some reason there's no room at the tony hotel, she gets an extra $500 added to her per diem. The show's rep declined to comment on the show's or Fergie's budget. But one insider isn't surprised: "It's so expensive just to get her around for one day -- with all the security, the hair, the makeup people. It's insane."
Houston: Let's Not Go to the Videotape
Don't look for a video to go along with Whitney Houston's new media-bashing single, "Whatcha Lookin' At?," from her upcoming album. The Grammy-winning diva was supposed to start filming the video last Monday but postponed it until Wednesday. By Thursday, the production was called off entirely. It was to be directed by Dave Meyers, one of the music industry's most in-demand talents, responsible for Enrique Iglesias's steamy "Escape" video with Anna Kournikova, Janet Jackson's "All for You," and Britney Spears's "Lucky," among many others. A rep for Houston confirms the shoot's been canceled and isn't sure whether it will ever be rescheduled: "Arista did not move forward on the video because the album wasn't finished, and they regarded it as more important to finish the album than the video."
Puff Daddy's Crowd Control
Sean "P. Diddy" Combs caused a stir during Mark Baker and Jeffrey Jah's bash at the VIP nightclub in St.-Tropez on August 2 when he showed up with an entourage of 24 (yes, 24!). The Puffster didn't join Donatella Versace and Ivana Trump in the mezzanine, but demanded that the entire main floor be cleared so that his peeps could be near the stage while he put on an impromptu performance. When the mostly French crowd refused to leave, Combs doled out 30 bottles of Cristal for the room and began hopping from table to table while singing "It's All About the Benjamins, Baby." It wasn't long before he won them over, reports an onlooker: "The socialites ended up getting drunk and standing up to dance, so Puffy's people had room to sit."
Ally Hilfiger Is In the House
Ralph Lauren's kids aren't the only designer offspring making names for themselves. Coming up right behind them is Tommy Hilfiger's 17-year-old daughter, Ally. She recently produced Proudly We Served, a $1 million indie film set in WWII, starring Ossie Davis, and now she's producing, directing, writing, editing, and hosting her own show for a local TV station in Nantucket. In the style of MTV's Cribs, the show will feature visits to the island's fab homes, where Ally will receive guided tours from the teenagers who live there. Ally's already told her folks she's not going to college. "They say, 'You're on a good road, you're a creative person, you have a good mind,' " Ally told us. " 'Do what you're comfortable with.' They never went to college, and they're doing okay."
Full Moonves: When CBS president Leslie Moonves ran into Paramount Classics co-president Ruth Vitale recently, she invited him to last week's Gourmet-magazine-hosted premiere of Mostly Martha, a film about a well-known chef who suddenly finds herself taking care of a child after a tragic accident. "But I have to warn you," Vitale said. "It's subtitled." Moonves laughed: "Even though I'm in television, I can read, and I do have an attention span of more than twenty minutes." During the post-premiere party at Union Pacific, Moonves told CBS newswoman Julie Chen and Paramount Classics co-president David Dinerstein, "I got nervous when I heard it was about food and called Mostly Martha."
Lights Out: Carrie Fisher was recently interviewing Jude Law for her Oxygen show, Conversations From the Edge, at the Waldorf when the room went dark. Turns out the crew for Jennifer Lopez's movie The Chambermaid was setting up shots on the same floor and needed more power. A Chambermaid crew member simply unplugged Fisher's set. He refused to give up the outlet, leaving Fisher and Law twiddling their thumbs for half an hour. A few days later, Fisher had more problems when she and her crew were forced to vacate their suite a day early because Secretary of State Colin Powell needed the space for a last-minute meeting.
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#1704 - Tuesday, February 4, 2004 - Editor: joyce (know_mystery)
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are you so afraid of silence,
silence is the root of everything.
If you spiral into its void
a hundred voices will thunder messages
you long to hear.
~ Rumi ~
'Hidden Music'; Maryam Mafi & Azima Melita Kolin
HE UNDERSTOOD what it is that we are trying to work out.
He was very old, & from the secret swing of planets
To the secret decencies in human hearts, he understood.
I used to watch him watering his lawn, scattering food for the woodpecker,
Sweeping the crossing before his house. It was not that there was light
About him, visible to the eye, as in the old paintings.
Rather, an influence came from him in little breaths.
When we were with him we became other.
He saw us all as if we were that which we dreamed ourselves.
He saw the town already clothed on for its Tomorrow,
He saw the world, beating like a heart, beating like a heart.
"How may I, too, know?" I wanted to cry to him. Instead
I only said: "And how is it with you?" But he answered
Both questions by the look in his eyes. For he had come to quietness.
He had come to the place where sun and moon meet
And where the spaces of the heavens open their doors.
He was understanding and love and the silence.
He was the voice of these, as he fed the woodpecker.
~ Zona Gale ~
The sun wasn't up yet; you could see the morning star through the trees. There was a silence that was really extraordinary. Not the silence between two noises or between two notes, but the silence that has no reason whatsoever the silence that must have been at the beginning of the world. It filled the whole valley and the hills.
The two big owls, calling to each other, never disturbed that silence, and a distant dog barking at the late moon was part of this immensity. The dew was especially heavy, and as the sun came up over the hill it was sparkling with many colours and with the glow that comes with the sun's first rays.
The delicate leaves of the jacaranda were heavy with dew, and birds came to have their morning baths, fluttering their wings so the dew on those delicate leaves filled their feathers. The crows were particularly persistent; they would hop from one branch to another, pushing their heads through the leaves, fluttering their wings, and preening themselves. There were about half-a-dozen of them on that one heavy branch, and there were many other birds, scattered all over the tree, taking their morning bath.
And this silence spread, and seemed to go beyond the hills. There were the usual noises of children shouting, and laughter; and the farm began to wake up.
It was going to be a cool day, and now the hills were taking on the light of the sun. They were very old hills probably the oldest in the world with oddly shaped rocks that seemed to be carved out with great care, balanced one on top of the other; but no wind or touch could loosen them from this balance.
It was a valley far removed from towns, and the road through it led to another village. The road was rough and there were no cars or buses to disturb the ancient quietness of this valley. There were bullock carts, but their movement was a part of the hills. There was a dry river bed that only flowed with water after heavy rains, and the colour was a mixture of red, yellow and brown; and it, too, seemed to move with the hills. And the villagers who walked silently by were like the rocks.
The day wore on and towards the end of the evening, as the sun was setting over the western hills, the silence came in from afar, over the hills, through the trees, covering the little bushes and the ancient banyan. And as the stars became brilliant, so the silence grew into great intensity; you could hardly bear it.
The little lamps of the village were put out, and with sleep the intensity of that silence grew deeper, wider and incredibly over-powering. Even the hills became more quiet, for they, too, had stopped their whisperings, their movement, and seemed to lose their immense weight.
Silence has many qualities. There is the silence between two noises, the silence between two notes and the widening silence in the interval between two thoughts. There is that peculiar, quiet, pervading silence that comes of an evening in the country; there is the silence through which you hear the bark of a dog in the distance or the whistle of a train as it comes up a steep grade; the silence in a house when everybody has gone to sleep, and its peculiar emphasis when you wake up in the middle of the night and listen to an own hooting in the valley; and there is that silence before the owl's mate answers. There is the silence of an old deserted house, and the silence of a mountain; the silence between two human beings when they have seen the same thing, felt the same thing, and acted.
That night, particularly in that distant valley with the most ancient hills with their peculiar shaped boulders, the silence was as real as the wall you touched. And you looked out of the window at the brilliant stars. It was not a self-generated silence; it was not that the earth was quiet and the villagers asleep but it came from everywhere - from the distant stars, from those dark hills and from your own mind and heart. This silence seemed to cover everything from the tiniest grain of sand in the river-bed - which only knew running water when it rained - to the tall, spreading banyan tree and a slight breeze that was now beginning. There is the silence of the mind which is never touched by any noise, by any thought or by the passing wind of experience. It is this silence that is innocent, and so endless. When there is this silence of the mind action springs from it, and this action does not cause confusion or misery.
The meditation of a mind that is utterly silent is the benediction that man is ever seeking. In this silence every quality of silence is.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti ~ "The Only Revolution"
When this question Who am I? is raised, what results is silence, an ending of the entire thought-process. Be watchful: cling to this silence. This silence, though temporary, is the link between the 'I' and the Self. "True Silence where no thoughts exist, is the real state of Realisation," says Sri Bhagavan. The 'I' is a distortion of this state of quietude, being a movement, a wave in the ocean of stillness.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
(From Sri Ramana, the Self Supreme by K. Swaminathan)
be with me in silence,
let's talk without sounds,
a language of stillness.
we can make poems together
inscribed on wind's currents,
and written in breaths.
~ joyce ~
Aldous Huxley, On Silence
The twentieth century is, among other things, the Age of Noise. Physical noise, mental noise and noise of desire -- we hold history's record for all of them. And no wonder; for all the resources of our almost miraculous technology have been thrown into the current assault against silence. That most popular and influential of all recent inventions, the radio is nothing but a conduit through which pre-fabricated din can flow into our homes. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the eardrums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babel of distractions, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses of drama that bring no catharsis, but usually create a craving for daily or even hourly emotional enemas. And where, as in most countries, the broadcasting stations support themselves by selling time to advertisers, the noise is carried from the ear, through the realms of phantasy, knowledge and feeling to the ego's core of wish and desire. Spoken or printed, broadcast over the ether or on wood-pulp, all advertising copy has but one purpose -- to prevent the will from ever achieving silence. Desirelessness is the condition of deliverance and illumination. The condition of an expanding and technologically progressive system of mass production is universal craving. Advertising is the organized effort to extend and intensify the workings of that force, which (as all the saints and teachers of all the higher religions have always taught) is the principal cause of suffering and wrong-doing and the greatest obstacle between the human soul and its Divine Ground.
~ Aldous Huxley ~~
(from Silence, Liberty and Peace; 1946)
One morning Buddha was to preach. But before he was able to speak a bird began singing at his door. Buddha remained silent. The morning wove its rays of sunlight through the trees and the bird continued to sing. Buddha kept silent and those with him were silent too. In that silence, in the emptiness, the bird's song had become divine. And when the song ended the silence grew even deeper. Buddha finally stood up to go. He said nothing that day.
~ A Zen Story ~
A Huge Silence Hiding ~ by Anonymous
When we hear a place called a "wilderness", we generally think of a place lacking any signs of human development. The 1964 Wilderness Act defines wilderness as a place "untrammeled by man". In the past few years, however, everyone from scientists to poets seem to be rediscovering the fact that a wilderness is far more than a place with something "absent" (i.e., civilization), but is rather an entirely different sort of civilization - a civilization whose nature and complexity is so vast, delicate and magnificently interrelated as to make our modern industrial civilization appear to be a crude sandbox kingdom built by stumbling children.
Wilderness uses immense amounts of energy, but uses its energy in a totally sustainable and remarkably efficient fashion. It produces (not just products, but life itself) at a rate and scale beyond the wildest dreams of modern factory owners, but its production processes do not generate a single bit of waste that cannot be fully reintegrated into itself. The more intelligent members of our species are beginning to look into wilderness with the attitude of the pupil instead of that of the dominator, and this shift in attitude is all it takes to throw open a hidden door to glistening treasures.One of those treasures is Silence.
To say that silence is nothing but the "lack of sound" is roughly similar to saying that wilderness is nothing but the "lack of buildings". Both are true, but are really only the first, introductory pages of immense books, and those who read no further remain oblivious to the full depth of experience therein. I still remember the first time I stumbled across the Huge Hidden Silence that weaves the fabric in which all sounds are dressed. It was in the middle of a Montana winter, and being young and remarkably stupid I had hiked alone into the Bitterroot mountains. It was a crystal clear night with a 1/4 moon and enough stars to choke a moose. My fire had burnt to embers and Iwas looking out over a large expanse of snowy pine forest. As I walked to the edge of the mountain upon which I was camping and looked down the long valley I had traversed that day, I began to become aware of something like an odd presence. It was rolling quietly towards the center of my thoughts, as early morning mist winds its way into valleys. As the sensation grew it finally seized my full attention, and in an instant the thought finally struck me - I am immersed in Silence.
Now on the surface this may not sound very earth-shattering, but you must understand this was an absolute Silence. Not a breath of wind, not a rustle, not a whisper. It was the sort of silence that is only possible in the dead of winter, in the depths of a wilderness. "So what", you may say (as, indeed, a friend of mine did when I mentioned this to her), "silence is all over the damn place, you just have to plug your ears".
Ah, the illusions of the uninitiated, the small and noisy world of the aurally unsophisticated. Simply because we don't have as many words for Silence as the Eskimos do for snow doesn't mean Silence itself is as limited as our vocabulary for it is. The word doesn't so much describe a single sensation as an enormous group of sensations. Silence can be golden, oppressive, pregnant, ominous, peaceful, or before the storm, as well as thousands of other things words cannot even hint at.
The particular Silence that lives in wilderness (or more precisely, whose door is only found in wilderness) is huge. In wilderness one touches the Mother Of All Silences, the Big Kahuna, the downright Galactic Silence in which the sun, moon and earth themselves float as leaves in an ocean. It is the Silence that makes all other silences appear to be lesser things, pathetic imitations, pretenders to the throne. All of the silences one finds in a city are but apprentice silences; some of them (when in optimistic moods) aspire, perhaps, to be much grander, but would still never be arrogant enough to compare themselves the Great One.
This is the Silence that stretches between galaxies; the Silence to which the big bang itself was nothing more than a noisy pebble dropped in a still pond. Excuse the inadvertent hoverings on the edge of the mystical, but even thinking about the Huge Silence does that. There is a good reason why the most brilliant prophets and wise ones have gone alone into wilderness on their truth hunts. Forty days in suburban Rome wouldn't have unleashed Jesus like forty days in the desert did. Buddha achieved enlightenment under a Bo tree, not a streetlamp. There is no such thing as an "Urban Shaman".
Few really bother to speculate as to why the most profound thinkers our race has known through its history seem to have all had a profound connection to wilderness in common, but I think I know why: Its the Huge Silence. Once you learn to hear it, it will tell you all you wish to know about virtually anything. It has witnessed unimaginable things, and graciously offers the totality of its wisdom to anyone who bothers to listen. And no, its not the same thing as plugging one's ears. Put your fingers in your ears and you immediately notice that awareness contracts - you become aware only of yourself and nothing else. This is radically different than having awareness thrown as utterly open as it can possibly be and still experiencing total silence. The silence becomes an invitation and not only is awareness not contracted, it is expanded beyond all the barriers of the individual self and merges with the entirety of the creation of which that self is really but a minuscule part. It is in this immense state of expansion where thoughts become large enough to be worthy of discourse with the eternals of the classical philosophers. There, in the Huge Silence, one finds Wisdom. There exists Truth with a capital T and Beauty with a capital B. There lives Love and Peace and an overwhelming sense of connection. Its substance is an unnamable essence that the religious would call God, an essence that can only be glimpsed when the continual noisy chatterings of our inner thoughts and outer civilization has been penetrated fully by the Huge Silence.
Our current civilization has banished such Silence. Certainly we cannot in any way harm it, but we can effectively close off all points of entrance into it - and we are now shockingly close to doing just that. There are very, very few places left, even in wilderness, where the experience is possible. Even deeper than that, though, is the fact that people have become afraid of it. The continual stimulation of media - TV, radio, conversation - seems too often sought out of hidden desperation rather than genuine desire. Silence simply knows too much, and its first small gift - for those willing to enter it - is self-knowledge. At first sometimes a terrible gift. But a gift nonetheless.
I remember a fellow I met in Montana years ago - a "Medicine Man" I think he would be called. I was bugging him to teach me things. He told me I didn't have the foggiest clue how to learn. I thought he was insulting and arrogant. He told me, almost as an offhand challenge, that if I thought I was ready, I should spend a single day - an entire day - simply sitting under a tree in the mountains. Nothing else, just that. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, just had to stay awake, and sit there. Sounded like the simplest thing in the world. It may be one of the single hardest days I've ever spent. Anyone, I think, that desires to face themselves, that desires a quest for knowledge, needn't fool with meditations, techniques, nor the hundred and one conveniently distracting ways of pursuing "growth". Nope. Just sit for a whole day in Silence. You will not need to seek self-knowledge, rather, you will not be able to escape it.
The Huge silence, however, holds something much greater than self-knowledge ... in fact, if one goes into it often enough, self-knowledge comes to be seen (in retrospect) as little more than an initial impediment to the juiciest prize: Creation Knowledge; or rather, not knowledge, but Entrance. At first that Silence draws one's unresolved dross to the surface. Then over time, it burns it away, and the Self behind the self stands revealed. But beyond that, in the face of continued forays into that Silence - even the true self evaporates into a mist. Even its whispers - so quiet they take years to hear - become little more than a noisy irritant, and final thing to be dispensed with. An impediment to total Silence. And THAT is the moment of "Entrance" ... when one can place ones self in a wilderness, a soundless place that has nothing striking the eardrums from the world, and exist there in a state in which all interior whispers have also ceased (however temporarily) ... THAT state, where the immensity of the inner silence directly touches the immensity of the galactic Silence, is where the essential nature of human existence finally becomes clear. We are Portals ... out of which immensity is continually passing, and through which it is continually returning to itself. The Noise we live in - of our outer urban worlds, our personality, voices, conflicts, and desires ... and even too often our "spiritual quests" effectively mute all awareness of the continual flow of immensity through our beings. We become as men and women, standing on small rocks, looking frantically around for water, looking everywhere, clutching after little drops of rain, and dew falling from trees, all the while oblivious to the fact that those rocks we are standing on are smack dab in the center of a raging river.
A persevering relationship with Silence is the way to the Entrance to the World. To get beyond the first plateau - the terror of being faced with a self with much unresolved - and even further, to get beyond the much more difficult second plateau - the exquisite enticement of a Self with most things resolved - is to become no longer a person, but rather to become - simply and profoundly - a place. To convey this notion in human words can't help but to imply that this is some sort of negation of the self. It is not. When a human consciousness reaches the state in which it can fully become just a place ... the place it becomes is the place where everything in all of creation happens.
When I speak, it is a demand that others remain silent so I alone may be heard. When I am silent, I hear my true self and reach my soul. When I am silent, I hear with a caring heart. Silence teaches us to know reality by respecting it where words have defiled it. If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything because we have said everything before we had anything to say. . .
~ Thomas Merton ~
When all is
In the clear moment
when breath
is neither inhale
nor exhale,
but just breath,
neither in
nor out,
full stop,
at that precise moment
when all is perfectly
were i Rumi, i'd say
"there is a field
i'll meet you there." And meeting there
brings that flash
of realization: It is when all is stillness,
in between the lub
and the dub
of this heart,
that i hear you loudest in me. ~ joyce ~
by Ken Fair. Jr. with much assistance from Chet Raymo
"How are we to understand the silence of the universe? They say that certain meteorites, upon entering the Earth's atmosphere. disintegrate with noticeable sound, but beyond the Earth's skin of air the sky is silent. There are no voices in the burning bush of the Galaxy. The Milky Way flows across the dark shoals of the summer sky without an audible ripple... we hear nothing... they fall like feathers... there is no soundtrack... Let us listen. Let us connect the multimillion-dollar telescopes to our kitchen radios and convert the radiant energy of the stars into sound. What would we hear? The random crackle of the elements. the static of electrons fidgeting benveen energy levels in the atoms of stellar atmospheres. The buzz of hydrogen. The hiss and sputter of matter intent upon obeying the stochastic laws of quantum physics. Random, statistical, indifferent noise...' (1) Melding art with science. the hypnotic music of ltalian astrophysicist and musician Dr. Fiorella Terenzi (2) and the inspiring Space Jazz multimedia concerts of Brazilian composer and musician Maria Emilia(3) brings the universe within hearing distance. lntrigued by the beauty and precision af the casmas, Maria Emilia interprets into musical symbols the scientific data sent by NASA spacecraft. Converting radio waves from galaxies into sound, Dr. Terenzi's Music of the Galaxies brings you the sounds of galaxy UGC 6697. Truly an off-world experience.
Another composer-musician. William Orbit (4), transports you out among the stars. His StrangeCargoHinterland raises strong emotional connections with "out there". Roy's Blade Runner soliloquy comes a live, coursing me through me as I am immersed in orbit's Hinterland. "I have seen things you people wouldn't believe ...ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate... Partly because of an, evidently, inherent inclination on my part and partly because as Orbit states, "I feel that I'm not in a territory that's been mapped out. ...I do sometimes feel that I have strayed into an uncharted area.
Mind Music
"I have often been surprised by the way people who do not know the constellations will instinctively and with ease pick out the Big Dipper. I have sometimes wondered if the pattern of those stars is genetically impressed upon the human brain, the way certain birds are born with the ability to recognize and follow the constellations on their migrations. Certainly no group of stars in northern skies has a longer or more prominent history. The Dipper is a repository of human brooding and human dreams. The Big Dipper... the Great Bear... has been known as a bear not only in the Western tradition, but also among the lndians of North America. It is difficult to recognized the figure of a bear in the patterns of the seven stars. Some chartmakers try to make a satisfactory outline of a bear by including nine or ten of the fainter surrounding stars. To me, this seems unlikely; the seven bright stars of the Dipper are far more prominent than the included others. The stars of the Dipper, like all stars, slowly change their positions on the celestial sphere [...proper motion], and it has occurred to many people that the constellation may have become Ursa Major at a time when the pattern of the seven stars more closely resembled the figure of a bear than it does today. But it is not difficult to calculate from present proper motions the positions of the Dipper stars at any time in the past (I have done it myself for many different eras), and at no time within the span of human history does the constellation evoke--to my mind at least--the outline of a bear. Then again, there is the delightful alternative suggestion that Ursa Major received its name at a time in the past when bears more closely resembled dippers!
...Who would surrender the Big Dipper? Who would forgo that wagonload of dreams or chase the Great Bear to permanent lair? One of Thoreau's companions claimed that a man could get along without the stars, though he would be considerably reduced in his circumstances; they were, he said, a kind of bread and cheese that never failed. The stars are bread and cheese, bread and wine, talismans and covenants. What would poets do without the stars, stars "dropping thick as stones into the twiggy / Picket of trees"? In summer's midnight sun the Eskimos wait for weeks for the Great Bear and find that it has been there all along, hidden in white arctic light, padding in great lopsided circles about the zenith.
...Every poet. every fox or badger, every moth or owl who has looked into the night has made one of the most important observations in the history of astronomy: The night sky is dark! The stars shine in a black sky. The Plough that is dragged about the pole furrows black soil. And the darkness of the night sky tells us more about the distant universe than do the stars. Black night is a paradox, rich in meaning.
...Our lives are rounded with dark. How insupportable would be the days. if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world.' wrote Thoreau. As the shades begin to gather...we steal forth...like the inhabitants of the jungle, in search of those silent and brooding thoughts which are the natural prey of intellect.' The night sky is the hunting ground of the mystic and the philosopher, the scientist and the theologian. I have walked along a dark road on the brow of the hill for an hour. The Great Bear has clumped one-sixth of the way up the slope of the eastern sky. The Little Bear is swung by his tail about the pole. Zeus lusts for Callisto. Callisto lays down her quiver. Hera spins jealous designs. Callisto loves Arcas. Arcas is afraid. The arrow is poised on the bow.
"Tonight, in the infinitesimal light of the stars / The trees and flowers have been strewing their cool colors"; this is the third time in this night of meditation I have quoted from poems of Sylvia Plath. Each day is a little life, and each life is rounded with a little dark. The galaxies are rushing away from us, diluting their brilliance, darkening the sky. Night is the universe's youth. There are hedges at both sides of the road along which I walk, hedges of bramble and honeysuckle and fuchsia. The lanterns of the fuchsia dim their pale light, all their gaudy puce and scarlet gone, flown away with the galaxies. The universe is young. I walk in its adolescent light. Now there is time, "the trees may touch me for once. and the flowers have time for me." (5)
1 , Reprinted by permission of Hungry Mind Press. Chet Raymo. "The Soul of the Night, An Astronomical Pilgrimage". Copyright © 1992.
2 http://www.fiorella.com/
3 http://www.artnetwork.com/music/emilia.html
quiet in your confusion, and bewildered.
When you're completely empty, within that silence,
you'll be saying, Lead me.
~ Rumi ~
Silence is our real nature. What we are fundamentally is only silence. Silence is free from beginning and end. It was before the beginning of all things. It is causeless. Its greatness lies in the fact that it simple is. In silence all objects have their home ground. It is the light that gives objects their shape and form. All movement, all activity is harmonized by silence.
Silence has no opposite in noise. It is beyond positive and negative. Silence dissolves all objects. It is not related to any counterpart which belongs to the mind. Silence has nothing to do with mind. It cannot be defined but it can be felt directly because it is our nearness. Silence is freedom without restriction or centre. It is our wholeness, neither inside nor outside the body. Silence is joyful, not pleasurable. It is not psychological. It is feeling without a feeler. Silence needs no intermediary. Silence is holy. It is healing. There is no fear in silence. Silence is autonomous like love and beauty. It is untouched by time. Silence is meditation, free from any intention, free from anyone who meditates. Silence is the absence of oneself. Or rather, silence is the absence of absence. Sound which comes from silence is music. All activity is creative when it comes from silence. It is constantly a new beginning. Silence precedes speech and poetry and music and all art. Silence is the home ground of all creative activity. What is truly creative is the word, is Truth. Silence is the word. Silence is Truth.
The one established in silence lives in constant offering, in prayer without asking, in thankfulness, in continual love.
~ Jean Klein ~
http: //home.clara.net/b.doyle/yoga4.htm - link no longer active
is the friend of silence.
Trees, flowers, grass grow in silence.
See the stars, moon, and sun how they move in silence."
~ Mother Teresa ~
Panhala ~ Joe Riley
We will grow old, and older.
One of us will die, and then the other.
The earth itself will be impaled
on sunspokes. It doesn't matter.
We have been imprinted on the protons
of energy herself,
and so stand in another atmosphere,
where an undiscovered star we will never live to see
casts shadows on a grove of succulents we cannot yet imagine.
There our interchangeable features still vibrate and blur,
each smile half of one circle,
each utterance spiraling like light
upward in shudders along the spine
as if the moon and you and I were slivers
of one mirror, gazing on herself at last.
~ Robin Morgan ~
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"In each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. We are afraid of it. And we long for it. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are. Creatures of the stars, created from the birth of galaxies, created from the cooling of this planet, created from dust and gas, created from the elements, created from time and space, created from silence. Silence is the source of all that exists, the unfathomable stillness where vibration began, the first oscillation, the first word, from which life emerged. Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals, silence heals. Silence is where God dwells. We yearn to be there. We yearn to share it."
~ Gunilla Norris ~
"Sharing Silence"
Editor's Note: As the above quote states, we
are "creatures of the stars, created from the birth of
galaxies, created from the cooling of this planet, created from
dust and gas, created from the elements, created from time and
space, created from silence." For
me, staring deep into space reaffirms the sense of
connection with the infininte, the feeling of attunement with the
cosmos and a sense of humbling before the vast expanse of the
universe... all experiences that have been made possible by
gazing at the profound beauty of the universe revealed by photos
taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
If, like me, you are capable of experiencing wonder and awe and connection with the Divine while gazing into space, please sign one of the two petitions to give the Hubble Space Telescope a new lease on life. Without our support, the telescope will be allowed to die before originally planned, as it's gyroscope and batteries fail, and it crashes back to Earth.
Here's the link to the international petition to save the Hubble Space Telescope:
And here's the link to the US domestic petition to save Hubble:
There are more than 24,000 signatures on the US petition as of yesterday.
Please take a moment and sign one of the petitions... If not for yourself, then for our children, who are the future.
Lizzie (at age 9) with Comet Hale-Bopp and the Pleides Photo by know_mystery © 2004
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>Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: >> >> There is no dinamicall reloading of the Java classes. This has to do with >> nature of Java Virtual Machine. > >Are you certain of this? I don't see what prevents an application from >explicitly reloading a class. > I am 95% certain of this. There are two ways (that I know) to load a class. One is to go Class.forName(String name) and another is loadClass(String name, boolean resolve) on instance of ClassLoader. Also, ClassLoader is called implicitly when a method of a class is called for the first time during run. This last reason has to do with quick instructions of JVM and late dynamic binding. The gory details are available at sunsoft site. The first call would most probably go getClassLoader().loadClass(name, true), so we are back to ClassLoader. Now, the current implementation of the ClassLoader goes through the following steps (courtesy of Javaworld October article <http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-1996/jw-10-indepth.html>) 1) Verify class name. 2) Check to see if the class requested has already been loaded. 3) Check to see if the class is a "system" class. 4) Attempt to fetch the class from this class loader's repository. 5) Define the class for the VM. 6) Resolve the class. 7) Return the class to the caller. As you can see, if the file is already loaded, class loader would stop at the second step and would not even think about checking if the file was updated. That would prevent reloading the new version of the class. If this mechanism did not exist, there would be a filesystem check or even worse HTTP connection every time a method if an object is referenced for the first time. This is where my 95% are coming from as well as from the fact that I am following Java news closely but did not see 'how to reload a class in an application/applet' in FAQ answers. My 5% are coming from the fact that it might be possible to define a class loader that would have additional methods allowing to mark which classes should be reloaded and when the next reference to those classes is done, ClassLoader would get the new copy. However, this would most probably stuff up the static registration mechanism, Jigsaw would have to be restarted and probably some other nasty things I did not think about yet. Hope that explained my answer, Alex. Ps. If there are people on this list (or people on this list who know people) who delved into the depths of class loaders and associated issues and know how to add class reloading to Jigsaw, then I and most probably the rest of the Jigsaw developers would be very anxious to hear about it. :-} email@example.com on Tuesday, 17 September 1996 02:10:00 UTC
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Starting in Fall 2016, Arizona State University will be offering an M.B.A for free; no tuition! Every single accepted applicant into the M.B.A. program at the W. P. Carey School of Business at A.S.U. will receive a 100% scholarship. A free ride! Truly incredible.
Typically, the tuition for the two-year M.B.A. program at A.S.U. costs Arizona residents $54,000 and the tuition increases up to $90,000 for international students. Fall 2016 students entering the program will not pay any tuition at all. The money to pay for this is coming from a $50 million donation which was provided to this school in 2003 by real-estate mogul and philanthropist William Carey.
The school hopes that graduates of the program will pay it forward; hiring future alumni.
MBA graduates are typically sought after. Their overall job prospects are the best they've been in more than a decade, with 84% of respondents saying they plan to hire MBA graduates this year, up from 74% last year. The likelihood of finding work after attaining an MBA is high, what's more MBA grads can expect to enter the workforce with a $100,000 average salary in the U.S. That's almost twice the average salary for all graduates; the average salary for those entering the workforce with a bachelor's degree is $55,000. So, you can think of an MBA degree as a likely $45,000 salary increase in your first year alone.
If you are considering an MBA or even if you weren't previously, you ought to consider applying to A.S.U. for the class of Fall 2016. Here's a link: https://wpcarey.asu.edu/mba-programs/full-time/scholarships
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Not everyone in your company may be logging in everyday to communicate on MangoApps. If you're a user who logs into MangoApps, then you're probably familiar with juggling MangoApps and email, just to communicate with everyone in your company. This back-and-forth between an open/project communication platform (MangoApps) and a private communication tool (email) restricts information flow, reduces productivity, makes you less effective and quite simply makes work just a little bit harder.
We here at MangoApps believe that you shouldn't have to do more work to communicate effectively around your real work. So we decided to put our heads together over the past quarter to build a bridge that connects: "MangoApps and email to work better together — so that it is easier for you & your team to communicate effectively and get work done!"
Here are the scenarios where MangoApps and email work together better to make your communication about work, much easier & more effective:
- Loop in Non-MangoApps users
- Forward emails into a MangoApps Project, Group or Department
- Reply from your email and participate in a conversation thread happening on MangoApps
- Balance email effectiveness without letting proprietary company information leak over emails
Loop in Non-MangoApps users:
Want to share the details with someone by forwarding an update? Need someone to chime in on a MangoApps conversation, but they don't happen to be a MangoApps user? No problem. Now you can include anyone in a MangoApps conversation. Simply click on the "Share over Email" option on the update, enter an email address and that person will receive an email with the MangoApps update and files (if any) that are part of the shared MangoApps conversation. They'll be able to respond to your message simply by replying to the email – and their message will be posted back to the relevant MangoApps conversation thread. Email users can also choose to unsubscribe from the conversation if they no longer wish to participate.
Forward Emails into a MangoApps Project, Group or Department:
We've updated our email forwarding feature in a major way. Every Project, Group and Department in MangoApps has an email address, and you can send emails to that Project/Group/Department email address in order to post messages into MangoApps. Now, when you forward an email to a MangoApps Project/Group/Department, the entire email thread in MangoApps is included, so MangoApps users don't miss any piece of the email conversation.
In addition, any files attached in the email will also get uploaded to the MangoApps Project/Group/Department and attached to the MangoApps conversation. So now when you want to open up an email to a broader audience on MangoApps, you can easily share all of the information contained within the email.
MangoApps also validates that the email sender is a member of the Project/Group/Department, in addition to using SPAM protection techniques, to stop spam emails from coming into MangoApps.
And if you don't wan't your users forwarding emails into your domain, you have a top level switch on admin portal to turn OFF all email forwarding into MangoApps!
Reply from Email and participate in a conversation happening on MangoApps:
Now when you get your email notifications for conversations happening on MangoApps, you can just reply back to the same email thread and your response will be posted back into the conversation thread on MangoApps. In addition, any files attached in your reply will also get uploaded in MangoApps and attached to the conversation.
Balance Email effectiveness without letting company knowledge leak over Emails:
As a network administrator, you now have a high level of control over the type of email notifications that are allowed. Choose between two options: 1) email notifications that carry the actual content in the email or 2) an email notification that provides users with a link to the MangoApps content, requiring them to login into MangoApps to view the content. We recommend turning ON the first option if you want to give users the convenience of replying back directly via email (no login required to MangoApps to read & reply back), but for proprietary content / knowledge base (e.g., wikis, posts, files, pages etc) updates, to turn it OFF and only generate email notifications with a link (users would have to follow the link and login to MangoApps to view the actual content or to post a comment).
To know more about the different email settings and steps, here is an help article that lists it out.
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Prior commitments and a wonky TiVo prevented me from taking in last night's game - which, by all accounts, was a dominating performance that still resulted in a too-close-for-comfort final few minutes - so feel free to discuss your observations in the comments.
And on an unrelated note - KB and I would like to take a second to thank Elliotte Friedman and his Hockey Night In Canada crew for putting together a great piece on hockey bloggers and media access, and to thank Nate Ewell and the organization for creating the environment in which something like this can happen. But we'd also like to give a quick shout out to Eric McErlain, who the CBC somehow overlooked, for helping to blaze the trail and blur the line between old and new media. Cheers.
Daily Awards
- Hart: Vincent Lecavalier (2G, including the game-winner, A, +2, 7 SOG)
- Ross: Vincent Lecavalier, Ryan Smyth, David Legwand, Jaroslav Spacek (3 points each)
- Norris: Jaroslav Spacek (G, 2A, +3, 4 hits, 5 blocked shots)
- Vezina: Kari Lehtonen (33-save shutout win)
- Richard: Six players tied with 2G apiece
- Calder: Curtis Glencross (2G, including the OT game-winner, +1, 3 SOG)
- Aiken: John Grahame (L, 8 goals allowed on 25 shots against)


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Nearly 40,000 people died in the U.S. from narcotic drug overdose in 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That number is triple the number of narcotic related deaths recorded just in 2001. If you're taking pain medication, you may be wondering, "Can I become addicted to narcotics?"
Narcotics are used medically as pain relievers and include classes of drugs known as opioids and opiates. Opiates are drugs naturally derived from opium and include morphine, codeine, and thebaine . Opioids are drugs that are partially or wholly synthetic derivatives of opium such as Vicodin, OxyContin, and heroin. Although you may see the terms "opiates" and "opioids" used interchangeably, opioids is used to refer to all drugs that bind to opioid receptors in the brain-drugs classified as opiates or opioids. Opiates should be used to refer only to those drugs naturally derived from the opium which come from the opium poppy.
Taking opioids for a long time can create a tolerance which requires a higher dose of the drug in order to achieve the same effects. Increasing the dose and continuing to take narcotics can result in a physical dependency. Physical dependency is defined as a point where failing to take the drug will result in the body going into withdrawal and having physical symptoms that stop only by using the drug or completing the withdrawal process. So the answer to the question, can I become addicted to narcotics, is easy to answer and that is no. There is no true medical disease of addiction. You can develop a physical dependency on a drug where you experience physical and/or psychological symptoms of withdrawal if you stop using the drug. Oftentimes people perceive the signs of physical withdrawal as a sign of an addiction. The truth is once these symptoms of withdrawal are overcome, the person then has the power to choose to continue to use the drug or not.
Symptoms of narcotic withdrawal can include constipation, dry mouth, dizziness, drowsiness, insomnia, fatigue, confusion, depression, abdominal pains, low blood pressure, and tremors. With continued narcotic use, the side effects may worsen and include clammy skin, heart failure, and coma. Stopping the use of a narcotic suddenly can create serious withdrawal symptoms.
Medical detox is the safest way to go through the process of withdrawal. Detox options are available in either outpatient or inpatient settings. Outpatient drug replacement detox allows people to go to a clinic or doctor's office and receive medication to help them detox from narcotics at home. Usually patients are given methadone or Suboxone which is not recommended for long term use to a drug problem.
These replacement drugs are opioids from the same family of narcotics. The problem with drug replacement therapy is that most individuals do not stop taking methadone or Suboxone when their withdrawal symptoms pass. Research shows that some individuals never stop taking them. Those drugs have the same risk for dependency as Vicodin, Percocet, morphine, OxyContin, heroin or any other narcotic.
After detox, most people seek a way to stay clean. Unfortunately, neither 12 Step programs nor holistic programs have proven to be effective more than about 5% of the time. However, Cognitive Behavioral Education (CBE) provided at the non-profit Freedom Model Retreats has repeatedly been verified by independent researchers to have a success rate of 62%. After detox, a person has become a clean slate but it is truly up to them to take responsibility and control of their future actions regarding narcotic use. Going through detox and the Freedom Model Retreats program is one of the best ways you can not only move beyond your substance use but also regain control of your life and choose positive goals for your happiness.


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Rashid five-for gives Afghanistan 2-1 lead
Teenager Rashid Khan produced a match-winning performance with the ball as Afghanistan took a 2-1 lead in the one-day series with Zimbabwe courtesy of a dominant a six-wicket victory on Tuesday.
Afghanistan won the Twenty20 series 2-0 and carried on where they left off in the opening ODI, only for Zimbabwe to level matters on Sunday.
But 19-year-old Rashid furthered his burgeoning international reputation by taking 5-24, the third-best figures of his ODI career, as Zimbabwe slumped to 154 all out.
Rashid removed top scorers Craig Ervine (39) and Sikandar Raza (38) before helping to knock off the Zimbabwe tail, giving Afghanistan a meagre total to chase.
And they managed it in just 27.3 overs, Rahmat Shah (56) and Nasir Jamal (51) doing the heavy lifting with half-centuries.
Afghanistan can clinch the ODI series with victory in fourth match on Friday.


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About Island Church
We believe in the pursuit of the presence and power of God and His Word. We are a church of the Word and the Spirit.
Vision - Come as you are, meet Jesus, leave changed!
Mission- Connecting with God and one another!
Values- Click on each item below for more information
The Presence of God
We are passionate worshippers of Jesus who love being in His Presence – it's the difference maker! As we worship we expect God to reveal more of Himself to us and to change us. We want to be a Church in "awe" of Jesus! We long for the greatness of our God, His nature, His character and His
works to be revealed in the Church and through the Church.
John 4:24, Isaiah 6:1-8, Psalm 27:4, 63:2-4, 95:1-2, Exodus 33:15-16, Acts 2:43
The Kingdom of God
We seek first His kingdom, praying "Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven!" We expect the realities of heaven to be seen here on earth. Jesus taught and demonstrated kingdom life through signs, wonders and miracles. We want to see God's character and nature revealed through what we say and do. The kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power!
Matthew 6:33, 6:9-10, Mark 16:15-20, Acts 2:22, 3:1-10, 4:29-30, Romans 15:18-19, John 14:12-14, 1 Corinthians 2:1-5, 4:20.
God's Word
We are a people who love God's Word and believe that His inspired infallible Word has the power to transform our lives. Better still, we are committed to living it out and to obeying it!
2 Timothy 3:16-17, Psalm 119:105, 1 Samuel 15:22, John 14:15,21,23, Acts 20:32.
The Holy spirit
We pursue knowing the Person of the Holy Spirit and His ways. He is our empowerer, our counselor and revealer of the ways and secrets of God. The more we obey Him the more we receive of Him.
John 14:16-17, 26, 16:13-15, Acts 1:8,2:1-4, 5:32, 10:38, Ephesians 5:18.
We pray like everything depends on God. Fasting and prayer are a way of life for us. We pray Habakkuk 3:2 and Ephesians 1:17-19 prayers every day.
Habakkuk 3:2, Ephesians 1:17-19, Acts 12:5, Matthew 6:16-18, Acts 13:3, Luke 5:34-39, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Matthew 21:13.
We are a people of the Great Commission; lost people matter to God and so they matter to us. We are always looking for the one who needs to know Jesus as their Savior and Lord! Found people find people. God will bless our church in proportion to how we give to missions and care for the poor and those in need. We will show our love for others in deed and word.
Matthew 28:18-20, John 1:41, Acts 1:8, Matthew 4:19, Luke 19:10, Romans 15:18, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Ephesians 2:8-9, Revelation 20:15.
Loving people
We are all about people. We demonstrate our love for God by loving and accepting one another and through acts of kindness, no strings attached. We are about helping everyone, from the youngest to the oldest, connect with God in a life changing relationship and encouraging everyone to use their God given gifts and abilities to their full potential. God uses ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things for His kingdom.
Matthew 22:39-40, 1 John 3:16-18, Acts 2:44-47, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11, 1 Peter 4:10, Acts 20:24, Philippians 2:2-5, Psalm 133.
We love being generous and know it is more blessed to give than to receive. It is an honor to sacrifice for Christ and His Church. God blazed the pathway of generosity in sending Jesus into this world, and we follow His lead by having a big heart and deep pockets to bless others.
John 3:16, 2 Corinthians 8:9, 9:6-15, Malachi 3:8-10, Philippians 4:15-19.
We are owners, not merely members, of Island Church. Members have rights; owners have responsibilities. We will serve God by serving others, and if problems arise, we will be part of the solution. We are a family - we'll have fun together. We are a team – no one person can accomplish all that God has for us as a Church. Together we can achieve amazing things for God and impact a community, a city and nations. We always give God our best and expect others to do so too.
Philippians 1:5-6, Ephesians 5:21, Philippians 2:3, Colossians 3:12-17.


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Thursday, April 3, 2008
Cut short
Allied to that is textspeak, or should I type txtspk. When I first came to AOL, now 4 years ago, I didn't have a clue what somebody meant when they typed CUL8R. Of course, I now know it stands for "see you later". And I also appreciate that not every internet user is a 70 wpm fast typist like myself (coughs). Moreover, you can't type fast on a mobile phone keypad, and I see the need for shortcuts. However, textspeak is beginning to intrude into everyday language, and it's a degradation in my book. It's the answer to a lazy man's prayer.
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I agree. I do not text people. Most of the time I am clueless as to what people are talking about in text messages...not because I am dumb either!
God bless-
- April 3, 2008 at 9:26 AM
I agree completely! Thankfully our kids don't talk in "textspeak", but I know some who do. Actually I know some adults who talk that way. The insurance company for which I used to work had pages of acronyms we had to learn. It must have sounded funny to an outsider to hear us talk in acronyms. Great entry!
- April 3, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Thanks for posting this, I cannot stand "text speak", and it's used so widely now, and half the time I have no clue what people are talking about.
- April 3, 2008 at 4:46 PM
I cannot stand "textspeak." I'm probably one of the few people in the universe that, while texting, does NOT use "textspeak." Yes it takes me forever to "text." My son thinks I'm weird and not even remotely cool as a result. Do I care? No. So, yes I'm simply old I guess and have fond recollections of my English (nee Language) teachers rapping me on the knuckles with any "innovative" spelling/vocabulary while standing at the blackboard diagraming sentences (there's some class fun that I don't think is done any longer in the school systems)! I'd probably have nightmares about Ms. Pruitt if I did incorporate textspeak into daily language and/or writing... or perhaps I should merely thank Ms. Pruitt for allowing me to "know" better? :D
- April 9, 2008 at 12:48 AM
obama says, "i did not know that man, rev. wright."
- April 29, 2008 at 4:00 PM
I use text message, but know a couple of abbreviations like TTYL. lol. Now I know CUL8R. That's my something new I learned today. Great Journal:)
http://journals.aol.com/lattedah711/lattedah/ Tracy
- May 1, 2008 at 8:49 AM
Text Speak is one of my pet hates.
- June 10, 2008 at 5:53 AM


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San Jose Sharks vs. Los Angeles KingsNHL.com @NHLdotcom
GAME: San Jose Sharks (35-19-12-6) at Los Angeles Kings (28-21-16-7).
TIME: Thursday, 10:30 p.m. EST.
If the Los Angeles Kings want to claim one of the last playoff spots in the Western Conference, they'll have to play better against the San Jose Sharks.
Los Angeles and San Jose play the first of three meetings over the final 2{ weeks of the regular season when the Pacific Division foes meet at Staples Center.
The Kings are in ninth place in the West, but only one point out of the eighth and final playoff berth. They play the Sharks three times in their remaining 10 games, and will likely have to earn points in those contests if they plan to qualify for the postseason.
Los Angeles, however, has had trouble with San Jose over the past two years. The Kings are 0-2-1 against the Sharks this season, and have just one regulation victory in the last nine games in the series since April 2002.
Los Angeles slipped to ninth place on Tuesday night, falling 5-3 at home to St. Louis. With the win, the Blues moved past the Kings in the conference race.
"I know the Blues were behind us, and it kind of hurt that we couldn't put a little cushion between them and us," Kings forward Ian Laperriere said. "But even if we were three points ahead of them, it doesn't mean that we would make the playoffs."
San Jose was on the verge of having its lead over Dallas in the Pacific shrink to one point on Tuesday, but scored two goals in the final 1:37 of regulation in erasing a three-goal deficit in the third period to forge a 3-3 tie with the Stars.
Jonathan Cheechoo scored both late goals, including the tying score with 34 seconds left, as the first-place Sharks maintained their three-point advantage over the Stars in the division.
"Scoring three goals on Dallas in the third is a tough task," Sharks left wing Scott Thornton said. "We had a playoff mentality and a never-say-die attitude. The guys stayed positive and we wanted to throw everything we could at them.
"For us, it was nice to get a point. It showed a lot of character being able to claw back."
The Sharks and Kings meet again in Los Angeles on March 31 before concluding their series in San Jose on April 4 - the last day of the regular season.
STANDINGS: Sharks - 88 points, 1st place, Pacific Division. Kings - 79 points, 3rd place, 9 PB, Pacific Division.
TEAM LEADERS: Sharks - Patrick Marleau, 27 goals and 50 points; Vincent Damphousse and Brad Stuart, 26 assists; Scott Parker, 96 PIM. Kings - Alexander Frolov, 23 goals; Jozef Stumpel, 28 assists; Luc Robitaille, 48 points; Sean Avery, 236 PIM.
SPECIAL TEAMS (through March 16): Sharks - Power play: 16.1 percent (48 for 299), 18th in NHL. Penalty killing: 85.4 percent (245 for 287), 5th. Kings - Power play: 13.5 percent (43 for 319), 27th. Penalty killing: 81.3 percent (248 for 305), 26th.
GOALTENDERS: Sharks - Evgeni Nabokov (24-18-8, 8 SO, 2.20 GAA); Nolan Schaefer (no appearances). Kings - Cristobal Huet (10-11-10, 3, 2.45); Milan Hnilicka (0-1-0, 3.75).
SEASON SERIES: Sharks, 2-0-1.
LAST MEETING: Saturday; Sharks, 3-1. At San Jose, Calif., Nabokov made 25 saves in relief of an injured Vesa Toskala, and Nils Ekman had a goal and assist to lead the Sharks.
ROAD/HOME RECORDS: Sharks - 15-13-5-4 on the road; Kings - 15-11-9-1 at home.
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Genre: Drama
Directed by: Joseph Cedar
Written by: Joseph Cedar
Starring: Richard Gere, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Josh Charles, Michael Sheen, Lior Ashkenazi, Dan Stevens, Steve Buscemi, Hank Azaria
Release Date: 2017
Watch the movie trailer of Norman below:
Movie Plot:
Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere) lives a lonely life in the margins of New York City power and money, a would-be operator dreaming up financial schemes that never come to fruition. As he has nothing real to offer, Norman strives to be everyone's friend, but his incessant networking leads him nowhere. Always on the lookout for someone willing to pay attention to him, Norman sets his sights on Micha Eshel (Lior Ashkenazi), a charismatic Israeli politician alone in New York at a low point in his career. Sensing Eshel's vulnerability, Norman reaches out with a gift of a very expensive pair of shoes, a gesture that deeply touches Eshel. When Eshel becomes Prime Minister three years later, he remembers. With his very real connection to the leader of a major nation, Norman is awash in the respect he has always craved. Flush with his newfound feeling of success, Norman attempts to use Eshel's name to leverage his biggest deal ever: a series of quid pro quo transactions linking the Prime Minister to Norman's nephew (Michael Sheen), a rabbi (Steve Buscemi), a mogul (Harris Yulin), his assistant (Dan Stevens), and a treasury official from the Ivory Coast. Norman's kaleidoscopic plans soon go awry, creating the potential for an international catastrophe he must struggle to prevent.


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Some of the wives of the Prophet (salAllahu 'alayhi wasallam) asked him, "Who amongst you will be the first to follow you (die after you)?" He said, "Whoever has the longest hand." So they started measuring their hands with a stick and Sawdah's hand turned out to be the longest. When Zainab bint Jahsh died first, we came to know that the long hand was a symbol of practicing charity, so she was the first to follow the Prophet (salAllahu 'alayhi wasallam) as she used to love to practice charity.
Al Bukhari (1221) and Muslim (4490)
This story does not only show how good charity is, but it's yet another example of the sweetness and wisdom of the speech of our Prophet, salAllahu 'alayhi wasallam. If he were to straight out tell them 'the one who gives the most charity will follow me first', they could have stretched their charity just for that sake, forgetting where their real intentions should be. But the real meaning of these words became apparent to them after-the-fact.
Never belittle any charity, and that's not just monetary, charity goes way beyond that.


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Friday, 1 January 2016
2015 Beauty Favourites!
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I have to try the CoverFX drops! I hear such amazing things!ReplyDelete
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I use it all the time, it is a little pricey but it lasts a really long time xDelete
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This year I'm definitely treating myself to a Zoeva palette, because they just look so gorgeous! I really enjoyed the Smashbox Primer in 2015 and I'm so glad I decided to try it because I love it xReplyDelete
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They are amazing for price, I definitely want to get another one xDelete
Everything you've mentioned in this post is what I want to try this year! Mainly that palette - gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Thankyou, let me know if you try anything! xxDelete
That eyeshadow palette looks beautiful. I have a few Zoeva palettes but I must admit they are a little unloved at the minute. Definitely need to start using them more! xReplyDelete
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I always forget what I have too, its nice to go through your collection and start to use things you haven't for ages xDelete
I've just written my 2015 favourites post to go up tomorrow and the Zoeva Cocoa Blend palette made mine too, it's so beautiful isn't it? Those Gerard cosmetics liquid lipsticks have been on my wishlist for a while, I need to get around to ordering because they sound so good!ReplyDelete
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I will have to check it out, yes I love it, especially for the price I ave been really happy with the quality xDelete
soar and whirl have been my favorites too. perfect shades for daily use.ReplyDelete
They are so long lasting as well I love them xDelete
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I saw the Zoeva palette in Sephora and it looked amazing, loved the shades of the eye shadows. I need to have another look at it. Lovely postReplyDelete
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I no I love it when they are all shades I will actually use too xDelete
I absolutely love the Clinique Cleansing balm, it is definitely one my favourite make-up removers of all time. And the ABH Brow Wiz and MAC lip liners, definitely worth of 2015 favourite status! xReplyDelete
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Last September the international flatwater sprint racing community was shocked when Australian champion Nathan Baggaley tested positive for banned steroids. He was suspended from competition for 15 months. The results of the test, which was conducted out-of-competition, took everyone by surprise. Baggaley is one of the top men's sprint athletes in the world, and a silver medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics. He had been tested for banned performance-enhancing substances many times (50 at least, according to his estimate), always with negative results.
Baggaley didn't deny that steroids were in his system. But he had an excuse: a relative recovering from an injury had mixed the drugs into a pitcher of orange juice, and Baggaley unknowingly poured himself a glass. "I am pleased to say that the judge found that I did not take any performance-enhancing drug deliberately," Baggaley wrote on his Web page (www.nathanbaggaley.com.au/index.php). "I have learnt a very tough lesson that as an athlete you must be aware of everything that you consume . . . even in places you know and trust."
Baggaley will be back in January 2007, well in time to qualify for the 2008 Olympics. After 10 years of competition, he added, "I could seriously do with the rest."


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Toshiba Corp. on Tuesday unveiled its new notebooks for gamers that use two Nvidia GeForce 8M graphics processing units (GPUs). With the release of Satellite X205 gaming notebooks Toshiba not only becomes the first notebook maker to install GeForce 8M SLI, but also the first major notebook manufacturer who implemented a multi-GPU technology at all.
"Last year, Toshiba launched their gaming notebook lineup with Nvidia GPUs, evolving the notebook gaming experience with a unique blend of sheer performance, practical versatility, and elegant style. Toshiba's addition of Nvidia SLI technology to their gaming notebooks further demonstrates their commitment to delivering the ultimate entertainment experience to gamers on the go,


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I know, I know, if there are two words that shouldn't go together, they'd have to be "job" and "vacation." But vocation vacations says they'll help you test-drive your dream job while on vacation. What I found really funny was that one of the dream jobs you can try out is
Wedding planner!!
Is there anything about the idea of crazed bridezillas, controlling in-laws-to-be, and dazed and confused grooms that sounds dreamlike to you?
Another one is innkeeper--sure, I want to deal with missing reservations, housekeeping, and disgruntled guests on my vacation!
But horse trainer, hmmm. That sounds like fun
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Sheltering Rain by Jojo Moyes From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You comes the touching, unforgettable story of three generations of Irish women faced with the fundamental truths of love, duty, and the unbreakable bond that unites mothers and daughters Estranged from her mother since she ran away from her rural Irish home as a young woman, Kate swore an oath that she'd always be a friend to her daughter, Sabine. …Read More »
Still Me by Jojo Moyes [Me Before You #3]
Still Me by Jojo Moyes [Me Before You #3] Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She steps into the world of the superrich, working for Leonard Gopnik and his much younger second wife, Agnes. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into …Read More »
After You by Jojo Moyes [Me Before You #2]
After You by Jojo Moyes [Me Before You #2] "You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle. Just live well. Just live. Love, Will." How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. …Read More »
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes [Me Before You #1]
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes [Me Before You #1] They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . . Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge …Read More »


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Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Telling Objects: Day 9
This particular edition was published in 1952 and is the best book I've read on how to think clearly when tackling issues of the day. It uses political speeches to show up how arguments are muddied and twisted over time and the traps you can fall into. For example, there's a chapter on Potted Thinking and I still see this happen. It's where a person reads a headline or no further than the first paragraph and then forms their whole opinion around it. And yes, sometimes I catch myself doing that too before I mentally administer a slap. It's worse when you see politicians doing it.
The book is not a light read. I had to go over some pages several times before it sunk in. It helped that I'd also learnt how to Mindmap at the time and could condense the contents into a clearer format. And the other reason, I am so fond of this book, is that it takes me back to my first year in art college, studying photography. I would spend my lunch hour, sitting in a graveyard (which was so delightfully quiet & peaceful & from which I have memorable tales that can not be told here haha), in the autumn chill, munching on my homemade sandwiches and reading books like this.
So, as I mentioned at the beginning, this was once my Dad's book (if you're reading this NO you can't have it back), which means it's a freebie & one I'll always treasure.
Until tomorrow
4 comments:
- Cath Wilson said...
Ooh, sounds like a real treasure and a real must have :-) Potted Thinking - unfortunately, I do that most of the time, depending on what it is, of course. I hear something then my mind goes off at a tangent. Am tempted to look it up. Can't believe you actually try to master your thinking to that extent. Won't ask about the graveyard, either... xxx
- 9 October 2012 at 21:30
- JoZart said...
Such a gem and a treasure. I bet you gain something fresh from it each time you open the pages.
Jo x
- 10 October 2012 at 00:38
- Neet said...
What an interesting sounding book. Something I would read on holiday (yes, I would) when my mind is clear and there are not a thousand things to distract me whilst I am chilling.
Hugs, Neet (missing you) xx
- 10 October 2012 at 10:55
- alexa said...
That looks like a wonderful read and I so love these vintage covers ... I've seen similar books more recently but this looks like it does the business clearly and simply. Our parents had some good ideas!
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Unknown Soldier Gallery
Since the establishment of the Herts at War website we are very pleased to have received a large amount of photographs relating to both the county and its residents during the Great War. Many of us have seen, or own photographs of servicemen and women from the Great War. In many cases the names and associated details of these photographs have been lost through the passage of time.
This section of the site is designed to provide a place where these photographs can be displayed with any known information in the hope that the Hertfordshire community can help identify some of these unknown soldiers. In some cases we will never know the names, however in certain instances we can draw upon details in images to provide more information than has been previously known.
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There's nothing like laying on the beach reading a good book. Slightly South of Simple, written by my friend Kristy Harvey came at the perfect time and I plan to dive in this week. Many of you already know Kristy from the blog, Design Chic which she co-writes with her mother. You may have also read Kristy's previous books Dear Carolina and Lies and Other Acts of Love. I so enjoy Kristy's writing style as well as her Southern perspective. Slightly South of Simple is scheduled to launch April 25th and you can order it here. Before leaving for vacation I was able to join Kristy for a fun interview that I think you'll enjoy. Also, be sure to watch the video at the end of the post for a bit more about Kristy and her latest book. Enjoy!
René: Describe your personal style in three words.
Kristy: fresh, warm, inviting
René: Beach or mountains?
Kristy: Beach!
René: What's your go-to recipe for a crowd?
Kristy: Pimento cheese tray with apple onion slaw and spiced pecans. The combination is insanely delicious!
René: What's your secret hostess tip?
Kristy: Assemble people who don't all know each other but where everyone has one good friend. It helps everyone meet new people while not straying too far out of their comfort zone! For me, it has always been the recipe for a really good time!
René: Do you have a favorite summer sip?
Kristy: I'm boring, but champagne is always first in my heart.
René: What song will make you roll down the window & turn up the dial?
Kristy: Honestly? Pretty much anything Taylor Swift.
René: You're going on a mystery trip this weekend and can only take three things. What are they?
Kristy: Bikini, Bare Minerals foundation because it has sunscreen built in, and a good book
René: Salty or sweet?
Kristy: Sweet!
René: What is one thing you want others to know about you?
Kristy: I think I'm proof that chasing that big dream, that one that you are too afraid to even tell your best friend about is worth it. Big dreams are rarely easy, but they're almost always worth it.
René: Who is your greatest inspiration?
Kristy: My mom. She has always put her family first and is super smart and a very hard worker. She's always learning new things and I admire that so much.
René: Thanks so much for the fun interview Kristy! I think we need more details about the pimento cheese tray, yum! And you can never go wrong with champagne! I love the image of you and your mother so much - two beauties!
Wishing you every success with the book launch! XO


text:
Thickers, Tim Holtz Distress Ink, & Stickles
How often do you scrapbook?
I try to scrap every single day if I can.
Favorite adhesive:
I use a AdTech Permanent Glue Runner.
Favorite paper line:
I think it's a tie between Jenni Bowlin & October Afternoon.
Favorite ink:
Favorite punch:
Martha Stewart border punches all the way baby!!! I am addicted to those things!!! I have about 30+ of them and am always on the hunt for more. They are my weakness! LOL.
Favorite cricut cartridge:
Home Decor'
Favorite markers/pens:
Stampin' Up
Favorite color to use in scrapping:
either brown or pink