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Centennial, CO 80111
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Modern cosmetic dentistry offers a wide selection of options for today's consumers for enhancing their smiles. As an alternative to crowns, chipped or stained teeth can be effectively restored with porcelain dental veneers -- ultra-thin, custom-designed ceramic shells bonded to the front teeth.
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By Brian J. Gray, DDS, MAGD, FICO
Cosmetic dentistry is everywhere these days.
With new materials, especially dental "superglues," we're reshaping teeth, filling gaps between teeth, restoring broken teeth, replacing missing teeth, placing lighter braces. The technique is called dental bonding, and the aesthetic result is wonderful.
But it's not forever.
The American Dental Association puts the life of tooth bonding materials at about five years. This may be a conservative estimate, but there will come a time when a bond needs attention.
In general, if you treat a bonded tooth like your other teeth, you'll keep your dental restoration intact longer. Lax home care habits or the wrong foods can hasten wear and tear.
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For the past week or so, the weather here has been mainly wet, windy and much colder; around this time I noticed that my joints were more painful and increasingly stiff. I know I was already flaring but there is a longstanding belief that climate has an effect on arthritis; that cool, damp weather leads to painful joints and I've always wondered if there was any truth to it.
It can't be coincidence then, that for me, the worst of my flares have always seemed to occur in the Autumn months. I used to dread September and October coming round – the start of new terms at college, university and then work were always a struggle – and now it looks like it's happening again. Nothing has changed in my treatment schedule, yet joints are tighter and I start every morning feeling like the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz.
I have my fifth Orencia infusion on Thursday and should be seeing my Rheumy for a short-term boost that will (hopefully) help improve things enough that I can enjoy our trip to New York without having to think too much about the Still's. When I saw him three weeks ago, we discussed having the elbow and shoulder injected, but now I'm thinking I might need the right knee injecting. It's not mega painful but it is puffy and tight, which restricts the movement and bendability of the joint, meaning steps are awkward (I hope the Empire State Building has a lift, because climbing those stairs one step at a time could take a while!).
However, the weather in New York should also still be quite warm at this time of year, somewhere in the 20s at least. So maybe that will help a little bit too? Keep your fingers crossed that the storms stay away and the sun comes out for us!

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The Guide forms an essential part of the finding aids for the Archive. Its express purpose is to convey to potential researchers information about the range of documents held in the Archive and to encourage greater use of a unique resource.
The first comprehensive catalogue to the collections was published as a printed document in 2000 - The Rothschild Archive: A Guide to the Collections, ed. M.Aspey (RAL London, 2000). The current online Guide evolved from this document.
The Guide is not an item-by-item listing of the records in the Archive. The detailed work needed to approach such a level of cataloguing for a collection with letters which can be numbered in the millions continues, and the Guide will reflect current progress.


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We began this extraordinary adventure of Britain's best hiking trails in Northern Ireland and have ventured up to Scotland and walked over the causeway to Lindisfarne. In this third edition, we walk across East Sussex, wonder at the Walberswick nature reserve and climb the magnificent Falls of Glomach.
Seven Sisters – East Suffolk
Start – Seaford
This trail is a classic for those that love coastal paths and blustery conditions. The walk takes you along cliff tops of Alabaster chalk that are so famous for film directors to signify England. The Seven Sisters trail is a collection of undulating hilltops from Birling Gap to the delightfully named Cuckmere Haven. The track is not all summits, as it takes you down to the shoreline on occasions, perhaps for a brief dip if the weather is clement. The trail in this section is part of the South Downs Way and takes in Beachy Head, which is a 162-meter chalk cliff that is the tallest of its kind in Britain.
Walberswick Nature Reserve – Suffolk
Start – Southwold
Definitely the best time to tackle this walk is in the Springtime, as you can then see the marvelous wildlife in the grasslands. If you are a twitcher then this walk is for you, as some of the birds you can catch a glimpse of are terns, godwits, avocets, wigeons and pintails.
The trail encompasses reed beds, saline lagoons, estuary marshes, and even shingle beaches. Starting at Southwold village the trail takes you inland through Walberswick nature reserve and then down into an enchanting forest, returning back along sand dunes and mudflats. You have an option of throwing a loop into the trail by taking the ferry across the river from Walberswick to enjoy the other bank.
Falls of Glomach – Ross-shire
Start – Morvich
Eleven miles of some of the most picturesque scenery you can possibly encounter in the UK. The Falls of Glomach are dramatic in the extreme way, and at 114 metres it is the biggest waterfall anywhere is Britain. Though the roaring water is almost deafening as you get close, the Falls of Glomach are easy to miss. They have been called the hidden falls as a natural phenomenon almost hides them from view. The falls are based in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands and are situated in a very narrow gorge. The water, as it cascades down the gorge, causes a fine mist that contributes to the concealment.
Starting at Morvich you will climb uphill through a forest, eventually you will emerge from the tree line into the wilds of the highlands, remote and desolate but breathtakingly beautiful. Walkers that take this trail are normally experienced hikers and have the proper equipment, you will need also pack for all types of weather as it can be changeable in the extreme and catches many hikers unaware.
Part three of our blog ends in the wilds of the Scottish Highlands as the weather closes in, next in the fourth and concluding part of the UK's best hiking trails we travel to the beautiful Cotswold's, the Yorkshire Dales and the North Downs.


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Chris Grayling will ask MPs to back a £15bn airport expansion in 'Heathrow or bust' warning
There is no credible alternative to a Heathrow third runway and Transport Secretary Chris Grayling will throw his weight behind the controversial expansion project
TRANSPORT Secretary Chris Grayling will ask MPs to back a £15billion airport expansion this week and warn: "It's Heathrow or bust."
He will unveil his plans after 11 years of dithering by successive governments.
But he will tell the Commons there is no Plan B if they block the building of a third runway at London's busiest airport.
Expanding it will bring benefits of up to £74billion to passengers and the wider economy, according to official estimates.
Mr Grayling's plan includes built-in extra domestic flights so that the gains are spread to Scotland, Northern Ireland and the regions.
Some MPs are threatening to object to the expansion over noise, air quality and climate change issues in a Commons vote, which is expected before the end of the month.
But they will be warned there is no alternative as a plan for Gatwick or an airport in the Thames Estuary do not exist.
A source said: "If this fails, it will take years and years before we get anywhere near this point again.
The choice this month is simple — it's Heathrow or nothing." Mr Grayling has updated the Government's plans in a bid to re-assure objectors.
Dear StarmerLabour shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer pockets £125,000 from law firm derailing Britain's EU exit
BERCOW'S CASH COWCommons Speaker John Bercow brushed off warnings of a police probe into vice shame MP Keith Vaz — after accepting £40,000 from the Labour MP's circle
Late changes demanded by the transport committee include a ban on night flights for a minimum seven hours.
Labour is deeply split on the runway. About a dozen Tory MPs, including Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, oppose the plans.
But the DUP and Scottish Nationalists are in favour.
Rail summit fury
CHRIS Grayling faces furious MPs tomorrow over the bungled new train timetables.
He and Rail Minister Jo Johnson will hold talks after thousands of commuters suffered two weeks of travel chaos on Northern and Govia Thameslink services.
Tory William Wragg said: "Heads need banging together to sort this mess out now.


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Monday, August 19, 2013
The Cinema File #238: "Lee Daniels' The Butler" Review
Lee Daniels' The Butler, not to be confused with some obscure short film from 1916 nobody ever heard of until a frivolous lawsuit, is as the court ordered new title suggests brought to us by the illustrious director of The Paperboy, easily one of the worst films of 2012 now perhaps best known as "that movie where Nicole Kidman pees on Zac Efron's face." That Daniels would follow up a sleazy 70's exploitation pastiche with a sweeping crowd pleasing biopic and civil rights movement travelogue is only the first surprise of The Butler, the second being that its actually not that bad. It still has all the hallmarks of Daniels' limited capacity as a director, its simplistic, about as subtle as a brick to the head, and often gets lost in weird and pointless tangents, but the worst elements of his style are mitigated by a genre that would seem to lend itself to his particular brand of shallow excess, and if you dig a little deeper and allow yourself an off kilter perspective, I think there might be something more going on here than just a patriotic portrait.
Despite the title, The Butler is actually two parallel stories, one of the titular Butler Cecil Gaines who served in the staff at the White House for 34 years through seven presidents, and his son Louis, a firebrand activist who manages to Forrest Gump his way through almost every pivotal moment of the Civil Rights movement. Loosely based on a Washington Post article, many people going into the movie might be surprised by how little of the film's story actually corresponds to real life beyond the initial premise of a long-serving butler, with much of the son's increasingly implausible involvement in a series of historical events being dramatic license. Ordinarily I'd come down a little harder on this, but in a summer movie season where one of the most successful films at the box office was "based on a true story" about ghosts and demons being real, I can't really complain too much, and just based on my own experience as an amateur screenwriter, I can see how they might have needed to add a little padding to the epic saga of the guy who gives important people their tea and then quickly leaves the room.
What happens in that famous room was the draw of the movie for me, and its a bit disappointing to find out how little time is spent with the presidents considering the mostly stellar cast brought in to bring them to life, and how much of the rest of the story is invented out of whole cloth. Each president gets maybe two or three scenes at most, and every time the focus shifts away from them and to the family struggles of the Gaines clan or the pseudo historical cliffs notes, I just want to go back to the Oval Office for the next one. The best is easily Leiv Schriber as Lyndon Johnson, probably the most complicated and interesting personality of those on display, and by the end I wanted the whole movie to have been a wacky buddy comedy with LBJ and his Butler on a cross country adventure. Robin Williams, who I generally like in dramatic roles is wasted in a cameo, John Cusack's Nixon was better than I expected, and Alan Rickman's Reagan is the closest physical resemblance, but he doesn't get the impression quite right. We don't even get Ford or Carter for some reason, and also James Marsden is there for a scene or two, if you're into that.
Whenever you deal with a movie set in the era of the Civil Rights Movement, there's always this strange disconnect between the reality being depicted and the needs of a dramatic narrative structure, where the expectation of subtlety must give way to the only way one can really encapsulate a period of such outrageous evil. It's the same thing that happens whenever you see a movie trying to realistically depict the holocaust or any other time and place marked by extreme man made horror, where the action can often come across as exaggerated and over the top, only because the events themselves were so far from the bounds of normal human behavior. The first shot of this film is a lynching, and my first impulse as a moviegoer is to feel manipulated by something so obvious and heavy handed right out of the gate, and it only gets worse from there, but as I try to think of the less obvious ways to do a movie like this, I can't really think of one that doesn't in some way diminish what should be the impact of this story. Daniels' is well known for making his points with a sledgehammer, but here he's at least found a script where that just so happens to be the best tool for the job.
The poster outside of my theater for this film had Gaines staring out of a window of the White House at a mass of protesters holding up signs with slogans like "I Have A Dream," with text across his back reading: "One Quiet Voice Can Ignite A Revolution." With its sweeping score and melodrama surrounding a contentious historical period, on the surface this would seem like the perfect way to market a movie like The Butler, until you actually watch the movie and realize that that tag line is exactly the opposite point the film is making. Cecil Gaines is not a hero of the Civil Rights Movement, at least as depicted in the film, as much as he is a silent scion for the very status quo the movement sought to justifiably upend. Gaines is a man who has learned to survive by acquiescing to the broken system he was born into, only to learn that the son he rejected for his perceived radicalism was right to fight against it all along. His career, the thing that makes him notable enough to merit a biopic, is not one representing a profound and fulfilling life lived, but a life wasted on the wrong side of history. This isn't my interpretation; its clearly the point the film is trying to make by the end, and for me at least, this was a feature, not a bug.
One could argue that by the standards of every other movie like this, The Butler is a failure, because its main character is not ultimately the hero of his own story, but this was my favorite part, and the main reason why I'm so forgiving of all the problems that come along with Lee Daniels' directing style. In a way, The Butler is an anti-biopic, a twist on the formula where we follow a character with every expectation that by the end his position or world view will be vindicated, because why else would we wish to follow him, and then in the end, it doesn't. We learn that all of those moments in the White House where he could have and should have spoken up about the plight of African Americans when so proximate to the most powerful (white) men in America, but chose not to, were moments to regret rather than celebrate. It would be like if in Forrest Gump, we find out in the end that the reason Forrest is sitting on that bench is that he is a homeless person who sleeps there, all his past successes for nought if they even happened at all; oh, and Lt. Dan killed himself. Daniels has always had a subversive streak to him, his movies mired in depression and depravity, and if anyone else had made this movie I might think I was just reading too much into it, but there's just too much evidence for me to deny that this was intentional.
I could be wrong of course. I have these crazy theories about movies sometimes. I'm the guy who thinks Transformers 2 is Michael Bay's brilliant intentional parody of his own style, and nobody believes me on that one. Even if my take away is completely accidental, Lee Daniels' The Butler is still worth the watch if you have any interest in the politics or cultural issues on display, even with its inescapable problems. Yes, it is sometimes inelegant in its handling of very sensitive topics, and lacks any measure of subtlety, but no more than its current box office competition Elysium, and at least this movie does some of the things it tries to do right. It's certainly leaps and bounds better than 42, the last Civil Rights Era biopic to get a mainstream release, if only for dealing with matters of import rather than the historical shift of something as trifling as the color barrier in baseball. The acting is top notch all around and carries the story a long way, and its entertaining and crowd pleasing enough to justify most of the schmaltz and pathos. If it looks at all like it would appeal to you, it most certainly will, and if it doesn't seem like your thing, give it a chance. It usually isn't mine, but I did, and I was pleasantly surprised.
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03 Sep Option Period When Buying a Home
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Once an inspection is complete, you may be at the mercy of your real estate agent's expertise to help you determine the severity of any repairs and what action you should take. Once you have determined what repairs you require, an amendment is sent over to the seller's agent informing them of which repairs you hope will be made by the sellers. From here, by way of the agents, you can negotiate the amendments updated terms and come to a conclusion. The option period allows the buyer an unrestricted right to terminate the proposed contract if you are unable to reach an agreement with the sellers following the inspection.
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Song: Mazhai Kuruvi
Movie: Chekka Chivantha Vaanam
Composer: AR Rahman
Singer: AR Rahman
Lyricist: Vairamuthu
26 years ago, we heard for the first time a distant humming of 'Yelelo Yelele lelelo' in an enchantingly unique style. It was a breath of fresh air in Tamil Cinema. The name is AR …
Song: Kalyana Vayasu
Movie: Kolamaavu Kokila
Composer: Anirudh Ravichander
Singer: Anirudh Ravichander
Lyricist: Sivakarthikeyan
Plagiarism or not, this song transports you to a different world and chills you out for 4 minutes. Anirudh's lifting vocals during 'Enakku kalyana vayasu dhan vandhiduchu di' is so hummable and catchy along with his …
Song: Rowdy Baby
Movie: Maari 2
Composer: Yuvan Shankar Raja
Singers: Dhanush, Dhee
Lyricist: 'Poetu' Dhanush
After a series of disappointing albums, Yuvan is back with an astounding number in his own flamboyant style. 'Rowdy Baby' is a sensational 'Kuthu' song with rocking vibes in the fitting voices of 'Namma …
Song: Potta Kaatil Poovasam
Movie: Pariyerum Perumal
Composer: Santhosh Narayanan
Singers: Yogi Sekar, Fareedha, Ananthu, Vijaynarain
Lyricist: Vivek
This song is a 7-minute wonder. I do not know which element is superior – whether the endearing tune or the lyrical beauty with all syllables in right proportions or the harmonious …
Song: Simtaangaran
Movie: Sarkar
Composer: AR Rahman
Singers: Bamba Bakya, Vipin Aneja, Aparna Narayanan
Lyricist: Vivek
In the long list of dance songs with meaningful lyrics and poetic beauty, 'Simtaangaran' gets direct blessings from its master predecessors such as 'Oothikinne Kaduchukkavaa', 'Naa Salt Kottai' and unfolds in its own mercurial …
Song: Kannamma
Movie: Kaala
Composer: Santhosh Narayanan
Singers : Pradeep Kumar, Dhee, Ananthu
Lyricist : Uma Devi
Santhosh Narayanan can sometimes be an ultra-minimalist just to prove a point to the crop of his contemporaries that tune is king and instruments are only here to serve. Kannamma is a gorgeous duet, rendered …
Song: Guleba
Movie: Gulaebaghavali
Composer: Vivek-Mervin
Singers: Anirudh Ravichander, Mervin Solomon
Lyricist: Ku. Karthik
An absolute riot this; Prabhu Deva sporting bright red shoes is not just peachy to watch but gets us right into the groove of celebrating free spirit. What can this man not do? He redefined choreography …
Song: Kurumba (Reprise)
Movie: Tik Tik Tik
Composer: Imman
Singer: Mirthula Siva
Lyricist: Madhan Karky
Imman who had made a paradigm shift in his musical journey through Kumki by practising the Ilaiyaraja style of compositions became more successful commercially in the last 5 years. Though I was happy for his …
Song: Sodakku Mela
Movie: Thaanaa Serndha Koottam
Composer: Anirudh Ravichander
Singer: Anthony Daasan
Lyricists: Mani Amudhavan, Vignesh ShivN
Rajesh Murugesan's 'Pistah Sumakira' meets Rednex's 'Cotton Eye Joe' in this high-voltage dance number. What energy from Anthony Daasan! His bold voice cuts through the busy ambience of the song and replenishes …
Song: Maattikkiten
Movie: Padaiveeran
Composer: Karthik Raja
Singers: Rita, Haricharan
Lyricist: Dhana
Those punchy beats inaugurating this short lively track remind me of the catchy groove in 'Meyyanadha' from 3 Roses. Karthik Raja who seemed to have gone on a self-imposed exile from music brings the magic back that he …


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Square device sales summary
Generate a daily summary of sales by payment type for each Square device used at your business locations.
Do you need this flow?
If you use Square as a payment processor and have multiple Square devices, this flow will help you better understand how devices are performing and how different types of sales (cash, credit, tips, discounts) compare by device.
Understanding which devices are driving the most sales, may help you make decisions on which to continue or increase using, and possibly which employees are generating the most revenue. You will also be able to compare total sales, credit transactions, tips, cash sales, and discounts by location to see which are performing best.
How the flow works
This flow pulls in transaction data from Square for each of your locations and merges all of the location data together into one table. It then filters for only transactions that have occurred in the last day. Next it splits into two branches. The top branch uses grouping to determine the average sale, total credit sales, credit tips, total cash sales, and discounts for each device. The bottom branch uses a similar grouping to determine the same values for each location as a whole. It then formats the data, pulls in location details from Square to include location names, and finally exports the data to CSV.


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We had the most wonderful few days celebrating Christmas in Kentucky this year. We were able to catch up with friends, visit with family and other loved ones, and enjoy time with our awesome niece and nephew!!
I started the trip early last week with a fun overnight stay with the Heil's! The next day, Michelle and I met my parents in Bowling Green where we tried out a delicious farm-to-table spot called Home. It was so great getting to catch up! And the Kentuckyaki Cheesesteak was super tasty, too!!
I was back in Livermore with mom and dad for a day before Chris joined us. My biggest Christmas surprise was a cake from The Rolling Pin in Owensboro - my absolute favorite!! Mom and I spent some time visiting with Jean while Chris drove through torrential rain caused by random December tornado warnings in the area. He arrived just in time for a little extended family time at Cracker Barrel! Chris was able to spend some time with his buddy, Aunt Mary Ruth, before we made our way to Lexington the next day!
The kids were already in the cookie making zone when we arrived on Christmas Eve. We iced the cookies they worked so hard to roll and cut after dinner that night. It was fun for all even if it did get a little competitive toward the end of the night.
Christmas morning brought lots of joy as the kids finally got to unwrap all those presents under the tree. It was SO much fun to see their faces light up each time it was their turn to open something. And there was even more excitement when we started putting everything together for them! Needless to say, we spent the whole day just relaxing together and playing games.
Our big family Christmas event this year was participating in a breakout game together. Jen's mom watched the little ones while we ventured out for The Derby Heist. There were lots of nerves and anxious energy before we entered the room, but once our clock started counting down from 60 minutes, it was all hands on deck. We worked great together figuring out codes to locks and all sorts of other puzzles! Despite the mere 30% breakout rate, we escaped with over 15 minutes to spare! Our room monitor indicated it was the fastest he'd ever seen a group escape! Hooray!!
Before we hit the road to head back to Nashville for our flight, we were able to meet up with Ashley and Parker for a cookie monster at Cheddar's - yum! Great to spend some time with them!
As I reflect back on our time in the Bluegrass, it makes me realize how fortunate I am to have such an incredible family and wonderful friends. No matter the length of time between visits (I was astonished by the fact that I hadn't seen my baby brother in person since last Christmas) or the distance between us in the meantime, everything just seems to fall into place when we are together!
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FRCLF185W 395 Litre Single Door Fridge
This tall FRCLF185W fridge from Frigidaire has a huge capacity for holding lots of fresh produce, without costing the earth.
Ex-Display Model - 3 Year Parts & Labour Guarantee Included
This is not a shop guarantee and is exclusive to Euronics stores. Click here for more information.
Features & Design
Family-Friendly The FRCLF185W is an ideal fridge for larger families. With an enormous 400 litre gross capacity it can hold plenty of food – that's over 14 cubic feet!
Make the most of special offers in the supermarket, buy in bulk or invite the family round; whatever you do, the FRCLF185W will have plenty of room for all your shopping.
Freestanding Design Take advantage of the freestanding design and position this appliance in the ideal place for you.
With six shelves inside, you can arrange everything just the way you want it, and the tall design means you can keep certain items out of the way of children. The shelves can be positioned at different heights, giving you maximum flexibility.
A full width salad drawer is the perfect place for keeping vegetables crisp and fresh, and its size allows you to put even the bulkiest items inside.
Shelving on the doors provides the perfect place for storing taller and frequently used items like milk, juice and the all-important ketchup.
Performance & Efficiency
Rummage Free The FRCLF185W is illuminated by ultra-bright LED lighting, which makes finding items inside the fridge quick and easy. The lights are also very energy efficient.
Transparent shelves let the light through so there are no dark corners where items can be lost and forgotten about.
Added Benefits The appliance is extremely energy efficient, having been awarded an A+ efficiency rating. Not only will this save you money over the course of the year, but it also reduces your impact on the environment.
An auto fridge defrost feature has been included, saving you the time and hassle of manually defrosting your appliance.
|Fridge: 395 Litre
|Energy Rating
|Energy Consumption (Aprox.)
|140 kWh / Year
|Dimensions (WxHxD)
|59.5 x 185.0 x 66.8 cm
|Guarantee Period
|3 Years
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As we are a Frigidaire retailer we can offer you the best advice, installation and after care service than national retailers.
Our installation service overs the whole of Greater Manchester and also many parts of Lancashire. Our prices are constantly monitored to ensure that we are as competitive as national retailers. This Frigidaire Fridge Freezer is also available with a bespoke white glove delivery and installation service. Ask in store for further details.
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The Russian tenor who was meant to sing the role and has been rehearsing for weeks, Evgeny Nikitin, has Nazi symbols - including a swastika - tattooed on his torso. "I was not aware of the level of irritation and offence these signs and symbols would cause in Bayreuth, particularly at the festival", he said to an Austrian newspaper. Nikitin added that he had the tattoos done in his youth when he sang with a heavy metal band. He was born in 1973, a long time after the fall of the Third Reich, but cultural and political memory is, quite rightly, long and showing no signs of fading.
The Bayreuth Festival is still run by Wagner's descendants and it had a particularly "brown" history during the Nazi era when Hitler, a great admirer of Wagner's music, was a regular guest.
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Image: George Grie, Flying Dutchman, (2006)
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Date posted:2018-02-22 | Writer: Instituto Estelar Bilingue | Email: email@example.com
Instituto Estelar Bilingue is the leading English language school in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with 450 students and 12 English teachers. Just one hour from some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, Liberia offers TEFL teachers an authentic cultural experience and an international airport just 10 minutes away. Estelar is big on community outreach and seeks to make a difference through volunteering.
We are looking for enthusiastic, qualified teachers to join our awesome team for a year. We provide an organized, positive work environment, as well as lots of support for our teachers. Teachers receive a steady salary, free housing, health insurance, paid vacation days, a yearly bonus, assistance with a work visa, and more. 1-year commitment, C2 level of English (native speaker), minimum Bachelor's degree, and TEFL/TESOL/CELTA certificate required.
Instituto Estelar is a bit different from other language institutes. Rather than hiring hourly employees who live independently and come to work at various times, we are building a community of teachers and staff who are committed to the Estelar lifestyle of teaching, learning, and living cooperatively. We have a residence where our teachers live, work, socialize, and relax. We have a school where we teach classes to both adults and kids. We host many events and activities in the community for free. We volunteer as part of an organization called Club A that helps kids in an underserved neighborhood in our city.
As a group, we have a down-to-earth, hippie-traveler vibe, but we also have a strong work ethic. We take pride in our accomplishments as we see our students progress in their language learning, and we know that we are helping students gain new opportunities in life as they advance in English. We also enjoy seeing students learn and grow, both in and out of the classroom. We strive to find ways to positively impact our community and to be a force for developing personal potential.
The compensation plan includes housing in the Estelar residence, all utilities and wifi, a salary, health insurance, vacation pay, assistance in getting a work visa, and a bonus pay in December and at the end of the teacher's time with us. We also offer discounts on Spanish lessons and classes, and we organize excursions for discounted prices. We provide a lot of support to new teachers, including training and guidance from the director and mentor teachers. There is a curriculum to follow that includes a series of books, and we have lots of teaching materials available at the institute. In an environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and dedication to excellence, our teachers can hone their craft and become educational leaders.
We encourage a healthy work-life balance, and teachers work 24 hours per week teaching English, leading language activities for the community, and doing special projects. The workweek is Tuesday afternoon through Saturday evening, and everyone gets Sundays and Mondays off. Teachers often travel together to nearby beaches, waterfalls, and national parks…or they spend their days off by the pool in the teacher residence.
We have several immediate openings. Please only apply if you meet the criteria. Send your resume, and copy of university degree and TEFL/TESOL/CELTA certificate to our English director, Bruno, at the address given on the job heading.
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Belgium is known for its Cartoon and Comic Strip art. In Brussels, some of the cartoons take the form of wall murals on buildings.
One afternoon, we spent a few hours looking at the Cartoon Murals near the Grand Place. My guide was the one guide book I brought with me, Frommer's Brussels & Bruges Day by Day: 19 Smart Ways to See the City by Mary Anne Evans. I usually prefer Frommer guides over most others, both for domestic and foreign travel. This particular guide is a new format and is a sort of "Best Of" guide.
Our Cartoon Mural walk was included in the "Best Special-Interest Tours" chapter.
I also found a very comprehensive Comic Strip/Cartoon map on the Brussels Tourist and Convention Bureau's web site. When you visit, stop at their office in the Hotel de Ville on the Grand Place to pick up some maps and tourist information.
Back to our Cartoon Mural walk, we saw our first mural on our way to the Manneken Pis at 37 rue de l'Etuve.
It is of Tintin, possibly the most well-known of Belgium's cartoon characters. It is a scene from The Calculus Affair, in which Tintin, Captain Haddock, and Snowy are escaping from a hotel. While eternally young, Tintin is almost 80 years old, first created in 1929 by illustrator Georges Remi, who, using his last and first initials, became known at Hergé, the French pronunciation of the letters R and G. The Tintin character is a globetrotting boy reporter whose adventures are chronicled in the many Tintin books that have been translated into at least 40 languages. There are Tintin shops in both Brussels and Bruges and I have been shopping locally at the Tintin shop in San Francisco (Karikter 418 Sutter Street,near Union Square)for many years.
These are some of the other murals we came upon in the neighborhood near the Grand Place and the Mannekin Pis.
We walked almost everywhere in Brussels, and came upon Cartoon Murals wherever we went. On our last day, walking down Rue de Flandre, the busy street where Le Pré Salé is located, we were delighted, at the corner of Marché aux Porcs with a mural by comic artist Dupa that spoofed the Manneken Pis...it depicts the Manneken looking up at Dupa's popular cartoon character, Cubitus, a fat dog who lives with his master, Semaphore, a retired sailor. In this mural, Cubitus is happily peeing from the same spot where the Manneken usually resides, while the Manneken looks on.
If asked what was my main cultural enrichment in Brussels, I must say that it was the Cartoon art. In my coming-soon post on our Art Nouveau day, I will take you with me on my visit to the Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée, a museum dedicated to Belgian comic strip art.
A NOTE ABOUT Frommer's Brussels & Bruges Day by Day: 19 Smart Ways to See the City:
I was attracted to this particular guide because I thought its format would be a good way to sample Brussels & Bruges in our short time there. It worked fine, but, because some attractions fit into more than one category, I sometimes had to go through several chapters of the book to obtain complete information about a particular attraction. What I really liked about the book was the theme-oriented itineraries...also the book is lightweight and compact...dealing with just Brussels and Bruges, the two places we were visting, made this book perfect to carry around; I didn't have to tear out relevant pages as I usually do when traveling to a foreign country. The book's cover is laminated to protect it from rain and other abuse and the cover has a fold-out Metro/Tram map and Central Brussels street map. There is a complete Brussels & Brudges folded map, on coated paper that does not tear, in the vinyl pocket at the back of the book. So, other than having to hunt through the book for details that I remembered reading at another time, it was a very useful guide book.
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A Coffee Table book of articles by water quality advocates, curated by Trevien Stanger, and art photos by Mike Sipe
Book launch is planned for September 2019. Proceeds for Clean Water projects. Sponsors wanted. See below for details.
— Trevien Stanger
Watersheds don't lie.
And this river mouth speaks the truth, if you're able to sit and listen.
Here, on this spit of land beside where Vermont's mighty Winooski River spills its story into the larger saga of Lake Champlain, is where I'd have us sit. Here, right at lake-level, you can gaze in the four cardinal directions and behold this great basin with clear eyes. The sight is beautiful, no doubt, but the story it tells is teetering quickly from a Romantic tale of the sublime and a modern tale of supposed pastoral tranquility toward a more tragic story-– one of a vast, dynamic ecosystem and culture in decline. This book seeks to play a small and humble part in halting, and reversing, that decline.
LOOKING SOUTH, we let our gaze traverse almost 80 miles of open water; 2/3 of the lake's north-south length. Out there lie depths of 400 ft and unknow- able acres of liquid darkness–– darkness that once hosted beluga whales and torrents of salmon in our post-glacial past. That way also plays a large role in the lake's origin: two of the larger drainages that feed the lake, Vermont's Otter Creek and New York's Lake George watersheds both flow toward us from those distant lands. The lake's water takes a full three years to fully roil and mix and flow north to the lake's exit point in southern Quebec. If the last three years are any indication, the journey will be a wild ride, and we have essays in this book that will toss us right into that trip.
Cultural history also dots that horizon–– Fort Ticonderoga and some of the first towns settled by European colonists can still be toured there. Nearer still, and older yet, you can make out Rock Dunder, an island of great significance to the Abenaki that, to this day, exists as a living link to this whole basin's mythological past. We've two stories about that island for you in this book.
TO THE WEST, across nearly 12 miles of cold blue chop, the widest this lake gets at present, you can experience the visual thrill of great contrasts–– the flat shoreline made even flatter by the explosive rise of the Adirondacks behind it. Nearly the entire western side of this lake's basin or watershed (Watershed = the land area that drains or sheds its water to a common point) feeds rivers born of snow-melt from sharp Adirondack peaks, most notably the Saranac and Ausable Rivers.. Some of the places up there are known–– Lake Placid and its Olympic past, the Keene Valley and its ongoing cultural cominglings of hikers, snowmobiles, hunters, yuppies, hippies, and developers–– while other areas of these mountains are seldom visited, and because of that, the rivers pouring out of them are seldom sullied. Closer to shore, there are only a few towns of significant size, with Plattsburgh sitting as the only lakeside city.
Westward beyond the lake lies the Mohawk nation who, like the Abenaki here on the Vermont side, live with the ongoing quagmire of colonial erasure. Rising against that, however, is also the inspired upwelling of a traditional culture, one that seeks both political and spiritual sovereignty. The land and waters are central characters in many of their stories, and we have one of those tales of passion and perseverance in these pages.
TURNING TO THE EAST, near at hand, is this muddy, coffee-colored river flowing past–– a river that tells me more stories than any river ever has and has stolen my heart and claimed my allegiance in the process. Chugging out from beneath an old railroad-trestle-turned-bike-path-bridge, and behind that, from beneath towering silver maples and prehistoric ostrich ferns rising from the fertile floodplain, you could be forgiven for thinking we were looking up a river in Delaware or Carolina. This is Vermont's Winooski River, a terrifically large watershed in its own right. Like the mighty Lamoille and the Mississquoi rivers to the north, the Winooski's headwaters emerge from high country almost 90 miles to the east–– east of the balmy Champlain Valley floor, east of the rugged Green Mountains, and even further east than Montpelier, the state capitol that was once a three day horse trip from here but is now just an hour's drive. The Winooski watershed drains over 1,000 sq miles of land, and just a few hundred years ago, it supported dozens of salmon and trout runs, featured exceptionally rich old growth forests with streams and rivers providing safe drinking, cooking, and bathing water.
The Winooski watershed today however, like the other major drainages in Vermont that flow into Lake Champlain, is a beautiful mess. This summer, with my newborn daughter, Fern, in my arms, we explored many of the cold, clear, stunningly beautiful creeks and streams that pour clean and true from the mountains near my hillside home. Watching Fern splash her pebble toes and giggle with her acorn nose was a joy, and I know how fortunate we both are to have such places to explore when so many millions of fathers and daughters do not.
Up in that forested high country that births so many of the mountain streams of this basin, with no one upstream from you save a few hikers and a moose or two, you could well imagine this water through which you wade is the cleanest water surging anywhere on this compromised planet. In some sense, you'd be right, but the water doesn't stay that way for long. As these streams join others to form smaller rivers, and those rivers carve through the final few miles of flatlands before joining the Winooski, the waters pick up all manner of our cultural shrapnel. Be it an overcrowded and over-fertilized dairy farm, or an underfunded public storm drain system, an old dump site, or a stretch of railroad bed drowning in herbicides–– it's clear that our main-stem rivers take a beating, even here in "green" VT. Could we fix this? What would it take? We have several essays and stories in this book that try to float some answers.
All that said, these rivers and the lake they feed are also, when we're honest with ourselves, Home. For many of us, we don't simply live in this recent polit- ical entity called "Vermont"–– we live in these watersheds, and we live in this Basin. (Basin = an apt metaphor or image for the bowl-shaped terrain of this place, with the mountains forming the upper edges and the low point in the middle where the water flows into and settles). And to truly call this Home, and feel at Home, and to embrace all the responsibility and weight and joy that comes with that requires that we look about us with honest eyes and willing hands. There is a reason that both ecology and economy share the root of eco, which comes from the Greek word ekös, which means "home."
To be at home here, to "come into the watershed" and "become native to one's place," as Gary Snyder says, is itself a process. For those with Abenaki or Mohawk blood coursing through their bodies, as well as their cultural stories and traditions flowing through their minds, a connection to this place is indigenous
to their very being, and we'd do well to listen closely to their words. But for those of who are immigrants or settlers, whether fifth generation Vermonters with our names etched into the aging village tombstones; or New Americans flung here from far-fling (and sometimes war-torn) lands trying to hold onto the culture of ancestral lands while learning this new one; or just suburban refugees from the apathetic placeless limbo of strip-mall-and-sub-development complexes carpeting the American landscape–– we all have a lot of work to do. This work, I believe, is not just to claim this place as home, but also, as the mythologist Martin Shaw admonishes, to have this place claim us. To swear allegiance not to a flag, but to a river, and to all of the human and more-than-human beings with whom we share this Basin–– beings with whom we share relational nodes of reciprocity and interconnectivity–– our Basin of Relations.
But we're not there yet. We're not even here yet. And this river mouth tells us much. Essays in this book are in conversation with that telling.
FINALLY, LOOKING NORTH, we confront some of the harshest images that this water mirror has to offer back to us. One of those larger rivers to the north, the Mississquoi, is a sort of living laboratory for the often reckless biochemistry experiment that is industrial dairy. That river and its tributaries are used like large sewage pipes for all the waste that is created and all of the excessive fertilizers being utilized to get us cheap milk and cheese. Those excess nutrients spill into the lake with the near constancy of a gasoline generator humming in the night. And in the day. And the night again.
As these rivers pour into the lake they mix into a few very shallow bays, such as St. Albans Bay, and the resulting overdose of phosphorous in particular kicks off one of the most dramatic feeding frenzies of the plant and bacterial kingdoms: we get blue green algae blooms, or more accurately, cyanobacteria blooms. Our warming climate serves only to exacerbate the problem. These blooms are toxic: toxic to drink, toxic to swim in, and, it's being discovered, toxic to breathe in.
Like other major bodies of water in our nation, notably Lake Erie and parts of the Gulf Coast, these blooms can become a really big deal quite quickly, costing communities massive sums of money and having significant impacts on public health. When Toledo, Ohio had a particularly bad outbreak a few years ago
they had to shut down the entire city's drinking water system until the bloom cleared–– there is no rule that I can find that says Vermont can't one day face a similar future. With over 200,000 people in the Basin who depend upon the lake for drinking water, it's not hard to imagine how disruptive, and tragic, it will be if we squander this life-nourishing abundance.
Can you imagine? A population living on the shores of a once pristine lake that can no longer drink that water because of our own neglect and inability to right our course? I can too. But I don't want to, and we don't have to.
But to look north is also to look to many other possible futures. The water that we impact in the Basin does not stay with us forever –– these waters, like most in this world, are bound for the sea. This lake, counterintuitively, flows north, spilling its content slowly but surely through Quebec's Richlieu River and into the truly giant St. Lawrence River (which drains all of the great lakes), and it is this mighty river that is destined to meet and mix with the cold Atlantic waters 300 miles to the northeast.
Why should we care where the water goes once we're done with it? It is often said of ecology that it's important to remember that "we all live downstream," and to a large degree this is true, as we are always impacted by the decisions people made upstream from us, either literally on the land or figuratively in the past. But, we might do well to recall, we also all live upstream. Even as we struggle to value our own natural capital and local beauty, we should not destroy the water and livelihoods of others downstream from us, either in those rivers or in that great Ocean toward which they are bound, or in the greater future we will leave to our children. And just as we begin to learn as children that we should treat others with respect, and treat them how we'd like to be treated, so too must we apply these basic ethical precepts to how we treat our downstream neighbors.
FINALLY, TURNING A SLOW 360o, we survey once more the 587 miles (!) of the lake's shoreline. We contemplate the 435 square miles of its surface. We count over 70 islands and wonder about their histories and their experience of being surrounded by this water. We try to imagine the nearly 7 trillion gallons of water flowing and plunging and mixing before us. We consider the 54 public beaches and the joy and economic benefit they bring. We float above the over
300,000 acres of flood-mitigating, life-nourishing wetlands that ring the lake and follow the last reaches of every river. We hold in mind that this Basin is home to over 500,000 people, millions of individual plants and animals and fungi, and we then give a special nod to those among us who are children, for it is they who will be inheriting this legacy we are creating with every passing day and with every decision we make. It is they, and their children, who will live downstream from our decisions.
Above all else, it is becoming clear that while the challenges we face here are similar to those being faced by thousands of communities across this continent, there is also no one else experiencing these exact repercussions in this exact place. There is only one Champlain Basin. As such, we can also surmise that no one else, from nowhere else, is going to save us or our lake. The solutions we need, and the art and science and photographs and stories that will nourish us to discover and implement those solutions, will not be delivered from D.C. or Silicon Valley, or even from some sort of return to an Edenic Indigenous paradise. Solutions must come from us. We are, right now, this Basin's people.
And like or not, we're in this together. We're all, at varying scales and in varying degrees, in relations with one another. And this book, of essays, stories, and photographs seeks to play a role in this great work before us by revealing and elucidating the waters that connect us as ties that bind. These words and images will not solve our problems as such –– no book can do that–– but it is our hope that all who engage with this might receive, like the land receiving a refreshing rain, a flowing set of reminders, provocations, and invitations to come home to this Basin.To play a role in slowing the destruction and in expediting its resto- ration. To remember, as in re-member, that we are not isolated as individuals, and nor as humans, but that we are members of this one and only flawed and fleeting and miraculous place that we call the Champlain Basin. That we are connected, all of us, in this, our Basin of Relations.


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#60 Megan Hannum
Megan Hannum is about to help you face your first draft without fear.
Have you ever been writing away, actually building some momentum in your writing only to have these sorts of fears creep in: "Is there enough detail? I'm only writing plot, how is anyone going to know what anything looks like??" Or perhaps yours is "I need to do a LOT more research before I write this. I have no idea what the dating customs of medieval Mongolia actually are. Guess it's back to the drawing board for the next six months."
I have suffered from these fears, as have the members of the Coffeeshop Writer's Group and when Megan joined us recently as a guest expert, we all started to feel a lot less freaked out by simply getting on with a draft knowing that everything will not be answered the first time around.
I had Megan on to talk about what you should worry about in the first, second, and final drafts of a project, and what you can set to the side for each of these drafts until the next time around. Finally, we talk about when it's time to get an editor involved and what you should look for when seeking one.
This promises to be an episode you can return to again and again as you progress through your projects. I hope you enjoyed this conversation as much as I did. And... woohoo for 60 episodes! I cannot believe we've gotten to such a big number. Thank you all for listening and supporting the show. It means so much that this project makes you as happy as it makes me.
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Discussed in Episode 60 with Megan Hannum:
What to worry about in the 1st draft
Laying down the bones of the story
How plot makes the difference between story and a series of unconnected events
Learning the rules of story
The inciting incident
How writing a book is like building a house and should progress in a similar fashion
Outlining for pantsers
How outlining inspires creativity
The beauty of Scrivener's cork board view
How much research you need at the beginning
When research becomes procrastination
Things to focus on in middle drafts
Secondary characters
Working with word choice
Sentence structure
The danger of infodumps. AKA "As you know, Bob..."


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The very effective and very highly-priced GT from Aston Martin gets a restricted version to rejoice the end of its manufacturing cycle. Available in coupe and Volante convertible body styles, the Vanquish S ultimate's production might be limited to most effective one hundred seventy five units for the worldwide market. It'll offer certainly one of 3 designer themes. The first one receives an closing Black paint job with Cooper Bronze pictures across the the front air intake, on the aspect sills and on the rear bumper diffuser. Black exhaust tips, brake callipers and wheels were introduced, even as carbon fibre dresses up the the front grille and the aspect strakes. Interior side, the auto gets Obsidian Black leather with Chestnut Tan accents.
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More than 1,200 Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition and breastfeeding professionals are meeting in Atlanta – the National WIC Association (NWA) today kicked off its annual conference in downtown Atlanta.
NWA is the non-profit education and advocacy arm of WIC at federal, state and local levels. Their mission is to inspire and empower the WIC community to advocate for and promote quality nutrition services for all eligible mothers and young children and assure effective management of WIC.
Georgia Department of Public Health Commissioner Brenda Fitzgerald, M.D., welcomed conference attendees to Atlanta during the opening session this morning at the Westin Hotel in downtown.
"We all share the same vision of a nation of healthier women, infants, children, and families," said Fitzgerald. "This conference is an opportunity to look for commonalities, to support each other and exchange information and ideas to confront the challenges we, and our clients, face every day."
Commissioner Fitzgerald also delivered a presentation on DPH's "Talk With Me Baby" campaign. The goal is to teach mothers how to talk to their babies through videos, books and signage. Talking to your baby leads to brain development and language skills which lead to healthier, more successful lives.
NWA endorses the American Academy of Pediatrics' Policy Statement on breastfeeding which states, "Exclusive breastfeeding is the reference or normative model against which all alternative feeding methods must be measured with regard to growth, health, development, and all other short-and long-term outcomes."
DPH and Georgia WIC also promote exclusive breastfeeding through at least the first six months of life, with the addition of appropriate complementary foods when the infant is developmentally ready, usually around six months of age.
"All WIC professionals have a role in promoting and providing support for the successful initiation and continuation of breastfeeding," said Commissioner Fitzgerald. "Increasing breastfeeding rates in Georgia is critical to giving our precious infants and children a healthy start."
Education sessions will cover current and emerging nutrition and breastfeeding science, research, policy and best practices. Of particular interest to many WIC professionals is the declining number of WIC participants nationwide. Poster Sessions and special forums will offer additional learning and networking opportunities. More than 40 exhibitors will provide the latest on WIC-related products, technology and services.
The NWA conference runs through Wednesday.


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A few months ago, I landed an awesome new job to supplement my freelance work. Here are some tips that I learned during my search.
The Top 5 Ways to NOT Find a Job
5. Keep your same résumé. Don't revise it and don't get help revising it.
Most résumés can almost always be improved. Do you need more active verbs? Do you need to include results? Has terminology in your field changed? A tune-up in your résumé can lead to an increase in your calls for interviews. Have a trusted friend, maybe one who works in H.R., give you some feedback. Or, do a Google search. There's lot of information online.
4. Look most days, not every day, and only once a day.
You should be looking for a job everyday, or at least every workday, multiple times a day. You should search at 8am, 9am, 10 am and at the end of the day, especially on Mondays and Fridays, when employers are more apt to post.
Now, I do realize that it can get discouraging to look day after day, and even hour after hour, with little or no results. However, you can't catch a salmon if you ain't fishin. Start your day with your job search, spend the afternoon doing other things (cleaning, exercising), and then come back to it before 5pm.
3. Be embarrassed that you're looking for a job and don't tell your family and friends that you're searching.
A year ago, one of my friends, John, emailed me and everyone else he knew asking for leads about job openings. His wife said that it was humbling for him to admit to everyone that he was unemployed, but it paid off. One person, whom he had met years before, wrote a one page glowing recommendation for John to his boss. His boss was so impressed with the letter that he hired John, even though the company didn't have any job openings at the time. John has been there for more than a year, and he recently got a promotion.
2. Stay home. Don't network.
People are more likely to do business with people they've met before. You should be networking at events in your field, your prospective field, and at local chamber of commerce events. You could even network at sports bars. Talk about the Lakers, make some friends, and pass out your business cards. Get creative, and get out there! My former pastor used to say that if you're unemployed, then you should keep your résumés in your car cause you never know whom you're gonna meet.
Finally, the top way to not get a job is to:
1. Believe that you won't find one.
Actions follow beliefs. So, if you've given up hope that you will find a job, then you probably won't. You won't because you'll stop looking, or you'll look halfheartedly and inconsistently. And in this market, that just won't cut it.
If you've been searching for months (or years) with no interviews, a few interviews, or several, but no job offers, you could be tempted to believe that this is how it'll be until the recession is over. You might be tempted to believe that there just aren't enough jobs out there—that there are too many lay-offs, no new jobs, and too many job seekers. And while there are obstacles--more obstacles than there have been in recent years--employers are hiring every day. Hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs are posted just on Los Angeles' Craigslist every day. And there's Monster, Hot Jobs, Cal Jobs, Job Central, and many more agencies publicizing job openings.
So don't be discouraged. There is hope. One of my good friends got a new part-time job (to add to her other part-time job) last week. She lost her job last year, and is doing whatever it takes to make it financially. If you're feeling discouraged, take a moment to pray, meditate, or do something that reminds you that there is reason to hope.
Next week, I'll share some of the things that I did to land my fabulous new job. Stay tuned!


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I do hope that all of you have a fabulous holiday today!
I prepared 2 pumpkin pies, a pumpkin cheesecake, a chocolate cream pie, cranberry chutney, 2 dips, cut up veggies, and green jello salad last night. Now the ham is in the oven(we don't like turkey much and why spend hours making something we don't like right?!) and I will be making mashed potates, bacon wrapped green beans (recipe from a fabulous blogger...thanks Maranda!), gravy and sweet potatoe casserole this morning.
Hopefully everyone shows up and everything goes great today! I ran out to the truck this morning and it was raining then a few minutes later...for real...it was snowing!!! How sweet to have snow but ummmm I just hope it doesn't come down too hard and everyone is able to get here. You know if they don't we will have tons of food and some snow to play in but if they do it will definitely be more fun.
Have a fabulous day everyone and I hope that you get to enjoy your loved ones and be thankful for everything that you have in your lives!
Thursday, November 25, 2010
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- trooppetrie said...
This is one of the first years we are not having friends over. It feels really weird on one hand and on the other hand it is really nice
- November 25, 2010 at 3:51 PM
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On Turning 30 and Having a Long Way to Go
July 7th was my 30th birthday. I wrote a little bit about my thoughts on turning 30 here and about what i wanted for my birthday. And i can tell you now this birthday was not what I had envisioned. But, it was so good and I will never forget it. The week before my birthday I stumbled upon this quote by Henri nouwen:
Celebrating a birthday is exalting life and being glad for it. On a birthday, we do not say: 'Thanks for what you did, or said, or accomplished.' No, we say: 'Thank you for being born and being among us.'
My heart stirred reading this, but I didn't realize till much later how appropriate this quote was going to end up being for me on my 30th birthday.
You see I have a deep struggle, I desperately want people to like me, but I don't believe I'm worthy of being liked. I am a people pleaser. I devalue myself, I reject myself and think at times that all that matters is what others think of me.
I thought that I was making good progress in learning to accept myself, and confidently assert myself. Funny, how right when you start to feel you're learning the lesson something comes along to show you how far you really have to go. My 30th was a little like that.
I tend to stuff my emotions, I tend to keep even my closest friends at safe distances, I tend to show only what I want to show. But, the weekend of my 30th, I found myself sick and stripped of some of my crutches to the point were I felt incredibly vulnerable and needy and in the end that resulted in some walls being broken and some realizations being made.
In some ways, and on the surface, my birthday was very much what I had planned. I had seven dear girl friends all spending the weekend with me eating, drinking, doing facials, doing henna, and talking, talking, talking. But, physically I was very sick with a fever of 102F. I could barely focus at times and I desperately wanted to just sleep. Internally there were intense people pleasing battles going on in my head. I felt deep guilt for asking people to spend time and money to come be with me on my birthday…and to then get sick…
And then it happened, and I'm not sure it would have if I hadn't been so sick, so tired, so emotionally raw, a dear friend did some healing touch energy work (ok, mom, don't freak out it wasn't as new agey as it sounds), and suddenly I was sobbing. A purer, deeper, cry than I had in years. The emotion that I kept putting off, hiding, avoiding, suddenly came to the service. Grief from goodbyes said years ago in Prague, anger for friendships cut short, sadness for a life my daughter will never know, fear for the unknown that lays ahead for me and my small family. Tears that I didn't even know I had came flooding out of me. Tears for my friends, tears for my family, tears for my children, and most of all tears for my husband and myself. I think if given the space I could have cried all day. Randomly sense then I find myself fighting back tears that still need to be spent, but can't quite be released.
In my 30th birthday I saw myself for a moment free from the walls I so carefully construct and realized that I am so weak, needy, hurt, broken, and fearful - so much more so than I thought!
I may be 30 now, but in many ways I am still a child. A child who carries a lot of baggage and a lot of unexpressed grief. A child who is terrified of what the next decade may hold. A child who still struggles to see herself as "beloved" and strains to hear the call of a good God speaking her name.
So often I think that in order to be loved, recognized, and celebrated by people or by God I have to earn it. I have to do or say something to please people. That's what struck me about that Henri Nouwen quote. And in a very tangible way I experienced that this birthday. I experienced it when my friends gave me big hugs, not caring at all if they got sick. I experienced it when my friend took care of me giving me herbs and other remedies for my congestion and fever. I experienced it when others made the meals and cleaned the dishes with smiles on their faces not caring at all that I didn't do a thing. I experienced it when my friends reminded me over and over to tell them what I really wanted instead of making decisions based on what I thought they would want. And I experienced it as my friend held me while I cried. There are those who carry me in their hearts, who are thankful just that I was born and am with them. And I am so grateful for their love - an incarnation of the Spirit's love.
May this decade bring me closer to love - to true unconditional, free from fear, incarnational love. In my 30's may I grow in seeing myself as I am, in truth, and grow in my ability to confidently be and show that truth to the world around me. May this decade bring deeper freedom of identity, deeper freedom of expression, deeper freedom of being. And as I discover that, may I grow more like the beautiful women who celebrated with me, freely loving others as I am freely loved. And as my 30's come to a close may I be a more whole, more open, more emotionally, spiritually and physically free to truly be, just be. Amen. Rejoicing in the journey, Bethany


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Cranberry fields forever! Located in the agricultural centre of the province, just west of the town of Berwick, this vibrant agricultural location is a mix of active farming operations and two residential properties. Offering 375 acres with 40 workable acres and 70 treed acres, allowing for several agricultural uses. Cleverly designed with inter-connecting irrigation ponds to service the entire operation, the facility is a combination of buildings joined together over the last 45 years. All farm equipment is included. The main home is a delight, with modern finishes and fantastic views. Also on the property is a care-takers residence. A well established farm with great potential for expansion.
Address: 34 Sun Valley Drive
City: Aylesford
State: Nova Scotia
Lot Size: 375 acres
Total Fin SqFT(TLA): 2500
Heat/Cool: In floor, radiant, stove
Water: Drilled well
Utilities: High Speed Internet, Telephone, Cable, Electricity
Directions to Property: Exit 16 toward Aylesford/Auburn/Morden, turn left onto Victoria Rd, turn left onto Nova Scotia Trunk 1 E, turn right onto Sun Valley Dr.
Garage: Carport
Foundation: Concrete
Roof: Asphalt Shingle
Flooring: Vinyl
Square Feet: 2500
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 2
Basement: Full, Partially Developed
Square Footage(MLA): 1300
Building Dimensions: 50 X 26
Fuel Type: wood
Sewage: Septic
Rental Equip.:
Appliances Incl.:
Exterior: Vinyl
Driveway/Pkg: Gravel
Features: Other PID(s) included; 55134621, 55503650, 55337398, 55374508
Additional Features:
agricultural, cranberry farm, equipment included, income opportunity
Rooms Details
|No.of Rooms
|Room Type
|Floor Level
|Room 1
|19.5 x 12.4
|Kitchen Room
|Ground Floor Level
|Room 2
|Dining Room
|Ground Floor Level
|Room 3
|14.4 x 18.4
|Living Room
|Ground Floor Level
|Room 5
|10.2 x 11.7
|Bed Room
|Ground Floor Level
|Room 6
|1-3 pc
|Bath Room
|Ground Floor Level
|Room 7
|25.2 x 11.5
|Master Bed Room
|Ground Floor Level
|Room 8
|22.7 x 25
|Rec Room
|Lower Level
|Room 9
|12.11 x 7.6
|Bed Room
|Lower Level
|Room 10
|11.6 x 10
|Lower Level
|Room 11
|1-3 pc
|Bath Room
|Lower Level
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PLUCKED from high school at just 16 to play alongside trumpet great James Morrison, bubbly Sydneysider Emma Pask has enjoyed a colourful career in the world of jazz.
Morrison heard the then-youngster sing when he visited the campus. Admiring her voice and attitude – shirt untucked and tie skew-whiff – he asked her to join his band.
"It was one of those really weird, being in the right place at the right time, scenarios but then James and I often like to think, since the years have passed, that it was fate because we're such good buddies," Pask said.
Luckily Pask's principal was a huge James Morrison fan and was happy to work around her touring schedule.
"Mum had no idea that that was going to be my career; she was expecting me to go to business school and had a little plan in mind of what I would do but it was completely shot out of the water and then music was it from then on," Pask said.
"I was by James's side for 20 years and for 20 years it was my everything. It was the start of my career and then a huge part of it and towards the end I got my own band and other things came up and I grew and expanded.
"Then about four years ago I decided to go on The Voice (Season 2) which was me reaching a period and thinking: 'Wow, this career with James is incredible; it's incredible how long it has lasted, but surely I'm not going to be able to do this for another 20 years'.
"I thought I should be able to stand on my own two feet and take my own music out there, so I did that and the show was my opportunity to reach out to a broader audience."
The singer, recently nominated for an ARIA award for Best Jazz Album, grew up listening to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and her mum's favourite, Frank Sinatra.
"You get attracted to what your heart is drawn to and what makes you feel good and for me it was certainly the big band and those classic singers, so when the chance came to sing with the big band at school I thought: 'Oh I know this music, I love this'," she said.
"If you heard me at 16 you probably wouldn't want to listen much – I don't know what it was that James heard, I think it was potential – but the difference from then to now (I'm 40 this year) has changed a lot, obviously just through growth and experience."
Pask performs with her band during the Perth International Jazz Festival at 6pm, Saturday, May 27, at The Palace, 108 St Georges Terrace, Perth.
What: Perth International Jazz Festival
When: May 26-28
Where: across Perth and York
Tickets: www.perthjazzfestival.com.au


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Woman, I just saw your text and it broke my heart. Just tell you not to worry, that time puts everyone in their place and that sure that your husband all this will turn against you. That a liar is caught before a lame man. And you may lose your home, but while there is life there is hope and you will surely be able to start from scratch and recover. This is a bad patch for many people, but you have to be strong. Do not sink A hug.
This mortgage seems very good to me.
With the interest rates so high that banks offer, 2.20% is reasonable. The only downside is life insurance with a unique premium but you do not have to hire it for what I know, you will pay a slightly higher differential. I hope I've helped.
Well, I'm a Banca March customer. I had money invested in March New Emerging World FI and I lost a lot of money. Banca March had a reputation as a super bank for your savings but the manager of this fund is worthless. It seems to me that funds in emerging markets are the ones that go higher … but also the ones that go down the most. Greetings.
Frankly, I do not know the law but if I were that outgoing guarantor I would be invited to sign yes or yes and ask the notary to sign a document to make sure that I am no longer a guarantor of this mortgage. The word is not enough, the risk is too high. Luck.
As far as I know, the PIAS are not very profitable and they are only useful to force you in some way to save with periodic contributions. But if you know how to manage your finances, it is more important to invest in funds, deposits or even savings accounts, more flexible and more profitable. I just looked at the BBVA for accuracy and it gives you a 2.10% APR for the first 6 months and then it goes down (it does not specify how much). I do not think it's worth too much … it's my opinion. regards
But how much have you put it up for sale? Because if you have put it at € 160,000 and you do not arrive, talk to them, it's not worth waiting, because they will hardly buy it from you, also bearing in mind that you will continue to lower the price of the house. What I find strange is that they have given more than 50% of the appraised value of the house: banks do not usually give more than half. In any case, it makes clear to the bank that what they say (sell) is not a solution. And if not, can not you reject the inheritance? Anyway, good luck
I have a Citibank deposit and I sleep very quietly.
I do not know where the information has come from the Sergio he quotes but with the worldwide reputation that Citibank has (more than 200 years of history) I doubt that he would drop his subsidiary in Spain. Also, if something happens, you have the guarantee of the Spanish guarantee fund. So I would not worry too much, especially being a 6 month deposit (very short term). Regards!
Gabrielro, maybe you could ask your vendor to contact the previous owner so he can ask for that certificate, which is free anyway and costs nothing. I see it as the simplest way. Luck!
Jumper, it's not bad, but personally I would not hire it. An APR of 3.56% does not seem very high for a fund of 2 years and 4 months. I prefer a deposit because it is much easier to cancel if you need it, without risk of losing capital (these funds usually have also quite strong early cancellation fees, check the contract …). Depending on the money you have, you can invest in deposits that are more profitable and for me much safer. A greeting.
You are right about the guarantee of the Constitution, but since the rescue of banking there is a difference: banks have a line of credit, but the State does not. If a bank is on the verge of bankruptcy, it can be recapitalized directly, but if Spain could not pay its debts it would have to renegotiate with Europe and that generates uncertainty. Therefore, at this time, perhaps the most solvent banks are the safest option today. Regards!


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using Dancing Deer's Sweet Home Gingerbread House Kit
And, at Simply Recipes, here's an excellent post on constructing Gingerbread Houses.
Never having made a gingerbread house before (or even gingerbread for that matter), taking on this cooking and building project seemed daunting at first. In retrospect, the project divided over a few days was fun. I would gladly take this project on again, as I now have enough experience to avoid the few mishaps next time.
I loved that the house is edible rather than containing PHOs, and that my son and sous chef received an understanding of how the pre-baked kits are made. Plus, Dancing Deer gives 35% of the price of the Sweet Home Gingerbread House Kit directly to help homeless families find jobs and move into homes of their own.
Full Disclosure: Dancing Deer sent us this kit, upon our request, to try it out. Would we buy it? Yes. We can heartily recommend it,- but keep in mind "What we Learned", below.
We did this project over two days. If you have the time, it's best to do it over three days:
Part 1: Make the Gingerbread and Bake
Part 2: Decorate Panels, Glue on Box
Part 3: Full Scale Decoration
The first day we made the Gingerbread and cut it, baked it and did the first level of decoration on individual panels.
The second day we "glued" the panels together, waited a few hours and then did more full scale decoration.
Part 1
The Sweet Home recipe calls for adding eggs and butter to the supplied mix.
The mixture should look like Wet Sand and form a clump when you press it together.
Then you wrap it and refrigerate it.
After it chills you unwrap it and roll it out.
Then using the box sides as template you cut out the panels...
...and the walls.
Then you add window and door cuts if desired and bake it.
The Baked Panels
Mistakes We Learned From:
1. Our roll outs were not of even thickness, resulting in one wall thicker than the other. (In fact, we didn't roll the gingerbread thinly enough, overall.)
2. We ran out of gingerbread (probably due to #1), and had to re-roll walls more thinly so that we had enough to cut two gingerbread people.
3. We were not that accurate in our cutting, which made life challenging when we had to stick the pieces together (icing filled gaps and a serrated edge bread knife fixed protrusions). Next time I will be more exact.
You can see the big gap and uneven roof...
Part 2
We made the royal icing to use in first level decoration and to glue the house together.
We took the baked panels and added glazing. The gelatin sheets worked well, but fruit leather did not stay stuck easily and was also difficult to decorate. Fruit leather is great for paths though.
Part 2 - Stage Two:
Ideally waiting a few days before assembling the house is best, as the gingerbread has time to dry out and will be stronger. But perhaps your decorating team will be anxious to get on with it? We waited overnight, but a few hours will probably dry the icing enough that panels won't slip when you add more weight.
I've found that a sheet pan filled with baking muffin cups, or little dishes, is a great way to display the candy decorations for little decorators. It's easy to make up the tray in advance, and it makes it easy to find what you are looking for. It's also a welcoming display for young, eager decorators. Another great alternative is a variety of muffin pans, although teflon-coated pans may take some wear, so you may want to use paper muffin cups as liners.
The first level of decoration on the panels
This was the first time we'd taken on decorating the panels before we assembled the house and it worked well. You will still need to continue decorating after the panels are assembled, but make sure you wait a few hours until the icing sets. Otherwise the panels are likely to slip. We used some skewers, as temporary braces, to keep the roof panels from sliding as they dried. then removed them when they were dry.
Make sure that your icing is very stiff when you glue the panels together. It should be toothpaste-like. If it's thinner, it will cause panels to slip. If panels are too big, you can saw them with a serrated bread knife - but do it carefully, as the gingerbread is still slightly fragile. If you break a piece, just glue it back together on the house and decorate over it. During assembly is also a great time to fix any construction errors, filling gaps with lots of icing.
Part 3 - The Final Decorations
The big gap in the roof I deftly filled with lots of icing. Our roof is lop-sided but I think when we are done, it won't show as much or maybe at all!
The house looked good with the panels assembled, but still needed some decorations to tie the designs together.
Here are some photos of the finished Holiday Gingerbread House:
We made this tree with a cinnamon stick and ALOT of icing.
This one started out as a decorated ice cream cone tree broke a few times and turned out this way as we fixed it. I rather like it!