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Words are cool.
The English language is complex, stupid, illogical, confounding, brilliant, beautiful, and fascinating.
Every now and then a word presents itself that typifies all the maddeningly gorgeousness of language. They're the words that give you pause for thought. "Who came up with
word? That's an interesting string of letters." Their beauty doesn't lie in their definition (although that can play a role). It's also not in their onomatopoeia, though that, too, can play a role. Their beauty is in the way their letters combine - the visual poetry of words - and/or the way they sound when spoken. We talk a lot about music we like to hear and art we like to see, so let's all hail the unsung heroes of communication, poetry and life: Words.
Here are some I like. (
because of their definition.)
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Highlights from the Archives. Some favorite Trillian moments.
Void, Of Course: Eliminating Expectations and Emotions for a Better Way of Life
200i: iPodyssey
Macs Are from Venus, Windows is from Mars
Can a relationship survive across platform barriers?
Jerking Off
Get A Job
Office Church Ladies: A Fieldguide
'Cause I'm a Blonde
True? Honestly? I think not.
A Good Day AND Funyuns?
The Easter Boy
Relationship in the Dumpster
Wedding Dress 4 Sale, Never Worn
Got Friends? Are You Sure? Take This Test
What About Class? Take This Test
A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far Far Away, There Was a Really Bad Movie
May Your Alchemical Process be Complete. Rob Roy Recipe
Good Thing She's Not in a Good Mood Very Often (We Knew it Wouldn't Last)
What Do I Have to Do to Put You in this Car Today?
Of Mice and Me (Killer Cat Strikes in Local Woman's Apartment)
Trillian: The Musical (The Holiday Special)
LA Woman (I Love
It is my Cultureth
...and it would suit-eth me kindly to speak-eth in such mannered tongue
It's a Little Bit Me, It's a Little Bit You
Blogging a Legacy for Future Generations
Parents Visiting? Use Trillian's Mantra!
Ghosts of Christmas Past: Mod Hair Ken
Caught Blogging by Mom, Boss or Other
2003 Holiday Sho-Lo/Mullet Awards
Crullers, The Beer Store and Other Saintly Places
Come on Out of that Doghouse! It's a Sunshine Day!
"...I had no idea our CEO is actually Paula Abdul in disguise."
Lap Dance of the Cripple
Of Muppets and American Idols
"I said
place, not
Finally Off Crutches, Trillian is Emancipated
Payless? Trillian? Shoe Confessions
Reality Wednesday: Extremely Local Pub
Reality Wednesday: Backstage Staging Zone (The Sweater Blog)
The Night Secret Agent Man Shot My Dad
To Dream the Impossible Dream: The Office Karaoke Party
Trillian Flies Economy Class
(Prisoner, Cell Block H)
Trillian Visits the Village of the Damned, Takes Drugs, Becomes Delusional and Blogs Her Brains Out
Trillian's Parents are Powerless
Striptease for Spiders: A PETA Charity Event (People for the Ethical Treatment of Arachnids)
What's Up with Trillian and the Richard Branson Worship?
"Screw the French and their politics, give me their cheese!"
Mail Trillian here
Trillian's Guide to the Galaxy gives 5 stars to these places in the Universe:
So much more than fun with fonts, this is a daily dose of visual poetry set against a backdrop of historical trivia. (C'mon, how can you not love a site that notes Wolfman Jack's birthday?!)
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Hot, so cool, so cool we're hot.
Ig Nobel Awards
And you think YOU have the worst bridesmaid dress?
Coolest Jewelry in the Universe here (trust Trillian, she knows)
Red Tango
If your boss is an idiot, click here.
Evil Cat Full of Loathing.
Wildlife Works
Detroit Cobras
The Beachwood Reporter
is better than not all, but most sex.
Hey! Why not check out some great art and illustration while you're here? Please? It won't hurt and it's free.
Kii Arens
Tim Biskup
Jeff Soto
If you're not getting fuzzy, you should be. All hail Darby Conley. Yes, he's part of the Syndicate. But he's cool.
Who or what is HWNMNBS:
(He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoken) Trillian's ex-fiancé. "Issues? What issues?"
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons License
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Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Smart Girls
(A Trillian de-composition, to the tune of Mamas,
Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys)
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be smart girls
Don't let them do puzzles and read lots of books
Make 'em be strippers and dancers and such
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be smart girls
They'll never find men and they're always alone
Even though men claim they want brains
Smart girls ain't easy to love and they're above playing games
And they'd rather read a book than subvert themselves
Kafka, Beethoven and foreign movies
And each night alone with her cat
And they won't understand her and she won't die young
She'll probably just wither away
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be smart girls
Don't let them do puzzles and read lots of books
Make 'em be strippers and dancers and such
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be smart girls
They'll never find men and they're always alone
Even though men claim they want brains
A smart girl loves creaky old libraries and lively debates
Exploring the world and art and witty reparteé
Men who don't know her won't like her and those who do
Sometimes won't know how to take her
She's rarely wrong but in desperation will play dumb
Because men hate that she's always right
Mama don't let your babies grow up to be smart girls
Don't let them do puzzles and read lots of books
Make 'em be strippers and dancers and such
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be smart girls
They'll never find men and they're always alone
Even though men claim they want brains
Life(?) of Trillian
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
So, I'm old. Officially, completely, totally old.
I had a feeling this had happened to me, there were signs and clues, but, I wasn't sure and I was fighting it. Kept saying age is just a number, it's all about attitude, besides, I still go to concerts and I know the new bands generally know what's hot and hip, even though I don't really care about what's hot and hip, and a guy on the bus chatting me up thought I was a full 10 years younger than I actually am. Sure, he
trying to chat me up and he
a creepy weird guy on the bus, but his whole line of attack was, "Hey, c'mon, we're obviously about the same age, we're riding the same bus, it must be fate." Yeah, must be fate working overtime bringing me, a normal professional woman who worked late, and you, a scruffy drunk creepy weird guy, together on the same bus at the same time. Still. He thought I was a lot younger than I am so, you know, hey, I can't be
old, right?
Welcome to old age, here's your lower back pain, see the pharmacist on the way out, he'll equip you with all pills and ointments and equipment you'll be needing in old age.
Yep. I now have lower back problems. Oh lucky me. And I can't even attribute it to anything fun or stupid. I have no idea what I did or how I did it. Nope, I just woke up one morning, moved to get out of bed and was paralyzed with pain emanating from my upper ass/lower back all the way down to my toes and up to my neck. It took me 20 minutes to get out of bed and limp into the bathroom. Remember, I live in a tiny compartment, that distance is short, very short. A couple of strides under normal circumstances, but with my new shuffle, drag, shuffle, slide gait it took me a long time. Feeding the cat, taking a shower and getting dressed were monumental achievements. I called the office to tell my boss I'd be a bit late. Sympathy? Concern? No. I got an earful of, "But we have so in so in the office tomorrow and I need the presentation…"
"Oh, okay boss, I'll be right there." And I was. I stopped at the pharmacy, loaded up on pain pills (the most effective of which come with 10 page documents and disclaimers about how they are known to cause several types of cancer) and those sticky portable heating pad things.
And ointments.
Ointment. I mean, ointment? The word itself sounds old, only old people say ointment. Smelly ointments. It's only a matter of time, days, probably, until I'll be needing liniments. I have no idea what liniments are, but they're associated with old people and apparently I am now old.
Back pain. Sheesh. Lower back pain. Just what I need in my life.
I'm pretty tough in terms of dealing with physical pain. I don't like it, but, I've endured a lot of it and have a pretty high threshold. Things have to be pretty bad before I'll "take something." I work through the pain all that tough stuff. I didn't realize this until I broke my ankle and foot. The orthopedic doctor said other patients usually couldn't tolerate the pain the way I did. I mean, what are you going to do about it? Take mind altering medications for the months required for healing? I endured Kimmie the torturer physical therapist, I noticed other people in the physical therapy room were given a lot of rest breaks and not pushed the way I was, I presumed because they didn't have Kimmie cracking a whip behind them. But it did occur to me I was working a lot harder and seemed to have a higher tolerance for pain than other people with less painful injuries, even the jocks with sports injuries. I'm not bragging, I'm not proud of this, I'd rather be some weak prima donna, "oh, it hurts, it hurts, I can't possibly get out of bed for several weeks" like a lot of people in my office. One woman takes three days off work every month because she has cramps. I'm not kidding. Cramps? You wanna talk cramps? Sister lemme tell you a thing or two about cramps. Or, well, no, I won't actually tell you, but I could write a multi-volume book on cramps and menstrual pain if someone asked me to and paid me enough money. One time, one day, in my entire menstruation career, was all I've ever taken off work because of cramps. And believe me, it was bad. Real bad. Bad enough that I saw a doctor about it. Cramps? Three days a month, every month. She also calls in when she has a headache. Or a toothache. And these maladies are real, she's not making up the ailments, but c'mon, it's cramps. A headache, not a migraine. A toothache not a root canal. Yeah. See? I've learned a thing or two about myself and my tolerance for pain.
But this lower back pain has brought me to my knees. Well. If I could actually get on my knees, that is. There have been times there have been tears of pain in my eyes. I didn't even realize that was happening, I thought my allergies were acting up, but I realized when I moved the wrong way and sparked a jab of pain, my eye would water.
Ahhh. Tears of physical pain. Huh. Well. Isn't that interesting?
It's not just the physical pain that's bothering me, but the fact that this is the final nail in the old lady coffin.
Yep, back problems caused by nothing?
It's official, you're old.
I got some of those heated sticky pads which are all the rage with the geriatric crowd, so I've got this huge maxi pad looking thing (
wings!) adhered to my upper ass, oh yes, very attractive. But they do really feel good. "Powerful pain relief" the box says. And it's true, when the pain starts to flare I press on the heat cells in the area of the pain and it does provide some relief. So more often than not I can be seen holding my back while I'm contorted into a weird position, slightly stooped like an old lady. I found a place online where I can order the heat pads in bulk at a discount. This excited me. A lot. I'm thinking about laying in a supply.
Yep. I'm old. Really old.
A young couple behind me in the grocery the other night was bitching because I was slow at the self check-out. I was slow because my back was killing me and it caused me severe pain to move any part of my body. I was only there because I needed cat food and lunches for myself. So this young couple, being of the smartass variety of young couple, started making snarky comments intentionally loud enough for me to hear. "Stupid old cow, look at her, (laugh laugh) 'Um, helll-lllo, cliche old cow lady, you're buying cat food and Lean Cuisines, you're a living cliche, like, look in the mirror and get a clue, maybe if you got rid of the cat and went out to eat you'd have a life.'"
Whippersnappers. Why I oughta….
At least my shopping list didn't include Fi-Bars that day. Yes. I eat Fi-Bars. I told you I'm old.
Great. So now I'm a pathetic
cliché. I knew it would happen sooner or later, you move through the phases of life, cliché disillusioned teen, cliché make-a-difference college kid, cliché eager young professional, cliché single women in big cities, cliché disillusioned worker bee, cliché happier than rose colored glasses in love and engaged woman, cliché heartbroken and disillusioned jilted woman, cliché pathetic loser with a cat and no boyfriend, husband, children, mortgage or life, cliché
woman with a bad back buying cat food and Lean Cuisines with coupons because her one income barely pays the rent and doesn't cover her medical expenses.
As I laid on the floor staring at the ceiling, waiting for the nightly zydeco concert from upstairs to end, it occurred to me I have been teased about something my entire life. If not teased by strangers, heavily criticized (unsolicited) by friends and coworkers and boyfriends and men in general. Men, especially men, take special effort to criticize me – strangers, friends, dates, boyfriends – they've always been especially critical of me. "You know what your problem is…" and then they launch into a long dissertation on how I don't fit
ideal image of a woman and what I should do to correct it, often something I can't correct without Michael Jackson-esque surgery like my height, my eye color, one guy thought I have freakish hands and fingers, another didn't like my eye color and suggested colored contact lenses because he only dates women with blue eyes…once they get past the physical problems they launch into my personality, always too something, too smart, too shy, too nice, too creative, too perceptive, too caring, too professional, too quiet, too talkative, too sarcastic, too whatever quality they don't like. Too something, always something wrong. And lots of ideas and opinions about how I should change. "If you want to find a man you're going to have to…." followed by a long list of things I'm going to have to do to change myself to find a man. Funny how every man has a different list of what every man wants in a woman. But they do have one thing in common: Just being myself, being me, isn't good enough, it's not right. It's too something, too a lot of things.
I always feel like I'm never good enough, that everything wrong in my life is my fault. Either because of bad timing, bad decisions, bad psychology, bad personality traits or bad DNA. I'm a responsible person, I carry the burden of my own life. I don't blame anyone but myself. So I've spent my entire life trying to correct these bad aspects, make myself better, improve myself, make myself acceptable and above reproach and ridicule. Grow and learn and evolve. All that. Fortunately people have always been quick to help me by pointing out my faults and flaws. Strangers and well intentioned friends and men, lots of men, have given me lots of instructions on what's wrong with me and what I should do to fix me. I try to take their advice. I work on me, I try to be better, fit in, be acceptable, or at least go unnoticed.
And yet, now, still, minding my own business, buying cat food and lunches, I'm scorned and ridiculed. Hence the catalyst to the realization: There has never been a time in my life when I haven't been teased or criticized. I cannot remember a period of my life when I wasn't being harshly judged or ridiculed. Either at school, in the classroom, on the playground, at university, at work, on dates, in relationships, out with friends, my life has been one long string of ridicule, judgment and criticism.
Gee. I wonder why I have self esteem issues?
Moreover, I wonder why me? Obviously I must bring it upon myself, it wouldn't be a universal theme in my life if I weren't doing something to provoke the ridicule or criticism. Funny, though, I generally keep to myself, mind my own business, and try to go through life as quietly and professionally as possible. And yet, there I was, minding my own business, in severe pain out only to buy essentials for my cat and myself, and I got teased.
Riding the bus after a long day at work, the creepy drunk guy chose
as his object of affection. There were plenty of other women, younger, prettier, more approachable women, yet he chose
Men on online dating sites write me solely to criticize me. On a daily basis I get email from men telling me what's wrong with me and why they, and other men, they say they speak for all men, would never date me. They take time out of their lives to contact a complete stranger, someone whose photo and profile they saw on a dating site, solely to tell them they're not interested and why. These are not men I've approached, these are men whose profiles I've never seen because they don't fit
criteria. (which is so exacting, my criteria is: He must be an employed non-smoker with a minimum of a high school education. You'd be amazed how many men that criteria eliminates.) These men stop and take time to write often lengthy emails of all the reasons why they're not interested in me. I mean, what the…? Sure, if I'd winked or smiled or sent them an email, if
had approached them, intruded in their in box, sure, I could see the rebuffing and criticism. But this is completely unsolicited, and it happens a lot. The majority of email I receive on dating sites contains this sort of unsolicited criticism. Usually about my looks or age or the fact that I'm cheeky enough to state that I'm looking for a long term relationship. The most frequent criticisms are about my height and the fact that I'm too old to be taken seriously regarding a long term relationship. The term spinster is appearing more frequently in these emails. I guess I'm supposed to have inches taken out of my legs and happily settle for one night stands the rest of my life.
Because I'm old.
And now I have a bad back.
But hey, my cat's dying, so I won't be a single old lady with a bad back and a cat. I'll just be a spinster with a bad back.
Give up online dating? Not going to find a decent man there? Probably true in my case, but I know people who've been successful, and as bad as my experiences have been with online dating, for me it's
been better and more "successful" than the old fashioned ways of meeting men, in a bar, at work or volunteering. I went to a concert last weekend, no intention of picking up a man, I was there solely to hear the band, no other intention or purpose. One man told me to move out of his way because there was a group of pretty girls he wanted to see. Another man spilled his beer all over me and didn't even apologize. When I tried to mop up the wet smelly mess with one cocktail napkin I had he said, "Stop moving around amazon freak, I can't see the band, you should go to the back of the room." I was already almost as far back as I could go. I'm not exactly lucky in love when it comes to working a crowd. Men either don't notice me or notice me and make fun or crticize me. Like I said, I wasn't looking for anything, I really just wanted to hear the band after work and go home. I ended up leaving after four songs and went home wet and smelling of beer. And I don't even drink beer. Online dating ridicule is a nuisance, but at least I don't end up wet and stinking of beer.
Still, creepy drunk guys on public buses late at night still find me desirable. So, you know, life isn't
But this whole thing combined with a lot of over the counter pain medication made me ponder so I asked a couple of friends, friends who have in the past been quick with the unsolicited criticism, if they've ever been teased at the grocery or any other public place when they were just going about their business. They laughed. "Uh, no, why do you ask?" they both said.
"It happens to me sometimes, well, quite often, actually. So I thought maybe it's just a fact of life. But I guess it's just me."
Both were quick with advice.
"It's because you're alone. When I'm with my kids or husband people are really nice to me, but when I'm alone people aren't as nice. They don't tease me, but, they aren't as friendly as when I'm with my kids or husband," one said.
Ah. Okay. I need a husband and children to stop the ridicule. Of course. Why didn't
think of that? I'll just go out and get a husband and children. Silly me. I should have thought of that ages ago.
After I was attacked and mugged one of the cops told me it was because I was alone. I should never go anywhere alone, he said. Um. Okay, so, I hire a bodyguard? Does the City of Chicago reimburse me for that expense? My friends concurred, they told me it's too dangerous for a woman to be alone so much of the time. I should get a boyfriend or a husband so I'm not such an easy target. Right, of course. A man! I need a man! Gee, really? Do you know one? Can you help me find one? No? Huh. Then shut the swut up about me being alone too much and my solitary existence making me a target. You wanna help me? Help me find a man. They all go quiet. They don't know any men. They cling to their husbands and boyfriends tighter than usual. They know finding a man is not easy, but they got lax and comfortable because
found one.
In response to the teasing in public query my other friend said, "It's something about you that brings out the worst in people. It's always been this way. Remember in college when we went to that workshop on grad school admissions and those guys teased you the entire weekend for no reason at all?"
"Gee, I'd forgotten that, thanks for reminding me."
"And remember when Liz was dating that guy, that super nice guy, who always picked on you for no reason? He'd be all nice and telling jokes and being the perfect boyfriend and you'd walk in, say hello and he'd start bullying you and become a total jerk?"
"Yeah, I remember that. I thought he was a total jerk and everyone else adored him and I could never figure out why you all liked him so much. He made fun of my mother, for crying out loud, and he'd never even met her. He made fun of my
"Yeah, that was weird. That's when I realized he wasn't as perfect as I thought. But still, it was only you. He was super nice to everyone else. It
something about you. People do single you out of a crowd and pick on you. I've noticed that. It does happen to you a lot. I think people sense you're too nice and so you're an easy target," she offered. This friend has become increasingly uptight, intolerant and, well, bitchy, as she's progressed through life. She's very happy, very satisfied and fulfilled with her life, and I think it's because she lets it out, lets it all out, all the time. Road rage? Oh man, do not drive anywhere near this woman. I recently vowed to refuse to ride or drive a car with her in it. But she's happy, really happy, and no one teases her at the grocery or anywhere else.
The "too" nice thing again. But, I mean, c'mon, how can people sense "too" nice? Nice, sure, I can see intuition and perception helping people decide if a person is nice, but "too" nice? I mean, seriously, isn't that something which has to be established over a long term? And besides, what's the alternative? Crotchety? I'm old, now, so should I be crotchety to combat the "too" nice vibe I'm apparently sending? Be like my friend and be uptight, intense and demanding? Doesn't seem like a good way to make a favorable impression on people.
At least not a sincere one, and that's the problem I have with trying to be some other way: It's not really me and I feel (and look) like an idiot trying to be something, someone, I'm not. I learned that lesson when I was very, very young. But. Yet. Maybe I learned wrong, maybe I should have kept at it and honed skills in faking it. Whatever it is that I'm not, fake it. Fake my way through life. Kind of too late now, a lot of ground to cover in learning to fake it and not a lot of time to do it. I've tried the opposite thing, do the exact opposite of what I would normally do. I've had minimal success with that, and mainly a lot of failure. You have to be a good faker, a good liar, to convincingly do the opposite of what you'd normally do.
For instance at the grocery the other night, the opposite of what I would normally do would be to turn and say something like, "Gawd, what a horrible burden it must be to be so young and so superior. How
you cope? Drugs? Alcohol? Therapy? Oh wait, judgment, criticism and mockery are your medications for dealing with such an inferior and imperfect world. Good luck with that. Here's my email address, drop me a line when you're my age, I'd like to see how this works out for you." Instead I ignored them.
And do I really care? Apparently I should because now, still, at my age, and now with a bad back (cursing the Universe for that, a bad back? Can't you think of something better than that?
the best you could come up with, Universe, a bad back?), still, at my age, I'm being teased and mocked by complete strangers when all I'm doing is buying groceries. Or waiting for a bus. Or reading on the roof deck. Or standing in line for a drink at a bar. Or trying to get a cab home from the veterinary. (Yes, someone teased my cat, my poor sick cat, someone walking by on the street teased me about my cat.) Maybe I live in the city of mean people, Chicago has never been known for its friendliness, but, I've lived other places and I was teased, mocked and criticized.
I met this guy a few months ago. We exchanged a few emails, things seemed interesting, he seemed intelligent and worldly, aware, all that good stuff I like in people, so we started talking on the phone. The man apparently likes a lively debate. That's cool. I like a discussion, too. Ideas. I love ideas. But. After a few conversations where I hung up the phone feeling, well, tense, I realized: This guy is the sort of person who takes the opposite point of view no matter what, just to be provocative and obtuse. He's a professional pundit arguing for the other side. He's an argumentative rabble rousing jerk, is what he is. It literally came down to a conversation about the weather. I said, "Wow, it's one of those perfect Fall days today, just perfect weather."
"How can you say that?! It's only because of global warming we're having this weather. Don't you care about the environment or our planet?"
Now, we'd had a conversation regarding my work with endangered animals and environmental conservation, so he knew swutting well I care a
about the environment and the planet and I had in fact enlightened him to the plight of arctic animals who are dying because of temperature changes causing changes to their environment creating a lack of food. And yet, he just could not let one comment go by without attacking me and taking an alternative point of view and trying to provoke me into an argument or change. It's all about change with him. No matter what I said it wasn't right, no one will ever be right for this guy because he changes his "opinion" to be the opposite of whatever anyone says. He
agrees with
. We had several conversations, covered a lot of topics, so I can say with a high level of assuredness, no matter what you say, this guy will disagree. And disagree to an accusatory level. He's right, you're wrong, you need to change. He was already on his way off my "maybe" list with the weather weirdness, but when he told me to "unread" a book I mentioned, I eliminated him from my life. Yes. He said I need to "unread" a book. According to him I never should have read it all, but since I did, and admitted to reading it, I need to "unread" it. I didn't love the book, but, I found it a worthwhile read in some capacities. I said I totally understood some of the criticisms the book has garnered, but I wanted to read it and make my mind up for myself before dismissing it completely. That's when he told me I'd polluted my brain and I need to "unread" the book, further, I was stupid for reading it all.
"Why am I sitting here taking this criticism?" I thought, "Why am I letting him insult me, again? This isn't conversation and debate, this is pointless arguing and harsh judgment, criticism, ridicule and persecution. From a man who wants to
, no less. Shouldn't he be nice to me, at least at this juncture? Every conversation with this man is an argument." A difference of opinion is one thing, but manufacturing alternative viewpoints purely to be provocative and "different" is nothing more than bully poseuring. Contrary for the sake of, I dunno, provocation, I guess.
This did test my opposite tactic, though, because no matter what I said, whether it was sincere or the opposite of what I'd normally do, the guy would counter it with an opposite opinion. A very defensive opposite opinion. And that's the jerk part of his equation. In an earlier conversation he took the pro-Spanish in America point of view to counter my English in public school point of view. (He brought it up, he was fond of bringing up hot button issues. Again, let me remind you, he contacted me via a dating site, the guy wanted to
me not interview me on
Meet the Press
) So I said, "Ya know, I've been thinking, you're right, I was wrong, I agree with you, schools should be forced to teach children in Spanish. So what if this is America and our Constitution is in English and millions of immigrants for hundreds of years have bothered to learn to speak English when they moved here. We should now teach in Spanish in schools and cater specifically to the language of one group of immigrants. Immigrant children from other countries should be forced to learn in Spanish, or maybe English, but not have the luxury Spanish speaking children will have of being taught in their native language. We should give priority and special education treatment only to Spanish speaking immigrant children. Yep, I've thought about it and you're right about that." (That is almost verbatim what he said to me regarding teaching in Spanish language in America)
How did he respond, now that I changed and agreed with him? He changed his point of view. He threw out all sorts of arguments
teaching in Spanish in America. Every one of his arguments was a point I had made in the earlier conversation.
"Ah, so, you now agree with my earlier opinion. Isn't that interesting? I changed my mind and you changed yours so we still disagree. Looks like we'll never agree on anything so I see no point in pursuing this as a potential relationship."
He launched into a big defensive argument about group dynamics and not wanting to take the easy way out.
I told him this is about dating, this is supposed to be about getting along, having a good time and building a relationship. This isn't about proving something, anything, just for the sake of proving something, to the point of arguing and insults.
It was the only time in all our conversations he was quiet.
We had one more conversation, the one in which he called me stupid and told me to "unread" a book and that was the end of Larry, Larry, Quite Contrary.
I didn't feel good or bad, just incredibly relieved to have this person out of my life. Negative influence? Oh man, this guy was king of negative influences. Larry, Larry, quite contrary.
So, you know, I
know how to eliminate and avoid negative and bad influences and people. I do steer clear of them. I don't willingly bring them into my life. I'm not allowing myself to stoop to the level of bad relationship just for the sake of a relationship. I have tried that in the past and have been tempted to go that route again. Right now I would take a bad relationship over no relationship. The extra income would certainly help, and hey, if I'm going to be miserable anyway at least I don't have to be miserable alone. I nearly gave Larry, Larry Quite Contrary a chance solely because he was
, a man, who kept calling me indicating he was interested in me. I know, I know, that's really pathetic, I know. And I did give him the boot. But, since he stopped calling my phone's not ringing. I know I shouldn't care, I know it shouldn't matter, but it does. I'm old and lonely and my back hurts. It's not as if the male world is, or ever has been, mine for the taking. I know getting myself into a bad relationship is pointless and stupid, but, any suggestions? Know anyone who would date me? Can
come up with a better solution for me? Don't just sit there, then, help me!
This is why us spinsters get all bitter and jaded and crotchety. We start out as nice people, "too" nice, in fact, and get criticized for being too nice, too intelligent, too all of the things people, including men, say they want in a woman, or what employers want in an employee, yet still no man or better job. We plod along, little by little having to give up the aspirations we had and things in life we enjoy due to a single income and managing our lives on our own, paying taxes, medical bills, eating cheap food on sale with coupons, struggling just to exist. Then at some point we can't take the constant criticism and ridicule any more and we lose our grip on reality because we have no idea what reality is. People mock and tease and attack us because we're alone, old and living on a meager income. We thought we had a handle on at least ourselves, but the criticism and ridicule combined with our solitude, dashed aspirations and hopes, lack of ability to do the things we enjoy and lack of "luck" in romance and life makes us doubt ourselves. And when our backs "go bad" throw some over the counter pain medication and ointments into the mix along with financial hardships and there you go: Recipe for growing old ungracefully or insanely.
So there you have it: I've grown old and have not done it gracefully. And apparently it gets worse as more time passes spent alone. And I'm very much alone so I suspect it's going to get very much worse. Gee, maybe I should do something to change that, eh? Gee, I wonder what. I have literally tried everything and I am still where I am so, you know, not sure there's really any ground to cover or place to go except: Crotchety old spinster with a bad back trying to figure out how to unread a book.


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Hip fracture unit: beyond orthogeriatrics
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Worldwide fragility fractures, and in particular hip fracture, represent a clinical and social emergency [1]. It has been estimated, due to progressive population ageing, that the incidence will increase by nearly 60% over the next 20 years. Most patients with hip fracture are aged > 85 years, have two or more severe comorbidities, and about 50% suffer from moderate to severe functional impairment [2]. Surgery in these patients is associated with a 30-day mortality that approaches, and often exceeds 10% [3]. One year mortality after surgery for hip fracture is near 30% in comparison to 6.3% expected 1-year mortality in a healthy age-matched population at the time of the fracture [4]. A recent paper reports that in centenarians, the risk of death in the group of patients who sustain hip fracture HF significantly exceeds that of the control cohort, especially in the 3 months after surgery [5]. In addition, more than 60% of surviving patients do not recover full autonomy in basic daily...
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UMB Bank's parent company reports mixed earnings
The holding company of UMB Bank said its second-quarter earnings were slightly higher than a year ago, but down for the first half of 2013.
UMB Financial said it earned $29.9 million in the second quarter of 2013, compared with $29.2 million in the same quarter last year.
For the first six months of 2013, the Kansas City, Mo.-based company said earnings were $64.9 million, down 14 percent from earnings of $75.5 million in the first half of 2012.
UMB Financial recorded declines in noninterest income for the first half of the year, according to its news release announcing the results.
Mariner Kemper, UMB Financial's CEO, said in the release that loan balances at the company increased 19.5 percent in the quarter, marking 13 consecutive quarters of loan growth for the $15.2 billion holding company.


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Master of Business Administration - International Business Management
- Qualification: Master's Degree in Business Administration (90 credits)
The programme aims to provide training for specialist and management tasks in businesses that operate internationally. Some of the courses offered are related to tourism and event management. The Master's degree is implemented on a two-year timescale. The second-cycle (Master's) degree taken at a university of applied sciences is a second-cycle degree in the European higher education system and gives the same qualification for municipal and state officials as a Master's degree taken at a university.
Who is the Degree Programme for?
You are eligible if you have a higher education degree completed in Finland or a higher education degree in the field of study completed outside Finland. You also need to have at least three years of work experience in business and administration and a command of English required for the studies.
What Are the Objectives of the Programme? The programme aims to increase professional knowledge of international tourism and event management. Having completed the programme, the student has grown into a business management professional, capable of independent decision-making, working with management or demanding expert tasks in businesses that operate in the international market or tourism and event planning business.
How are the Studies Organized?
Multimodal learning methods are used. Courses are mostly offered online including two two-day sessions on an average per course. The emphasis of learning is on independent work as well as solving distant learning assignments and development projects. The thesis as a development project is an essential part of the studies. Content of the Studies
Studies in the first spring term focus on tourism and event management and in the autumn term on international business and management. The final thesis consists of a development project conducted by a business or other organization. The attachment on the right shows the structure of studies.
Occupational Profiles
Most of the graduates of the programme work in different specialist or management positions in business as well as in tourism and event industry. Under the Finnish legislation, a person who has taken a Master's degree at a university of applied sciences is qualified for posts or positions in the public sector for which the qualification requirement is a first cycle/second cycle degree. In some cases, the qualification requirement also includes the completion of studies in certain specific fields of study.
Mode of Study
The courses of the programme are taught on Friday afternoons and Saturdays, partly online, which allows the students to work during their studies.
Program taught in:
- English
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Tuition fees only apply to non EU- students. Read more about tuition fees and scholarships on our website.


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Black Friday: Less Stress, More Savings!
The day after Thanksgiving, some people brave the cold and dark in the wee hours of the morning to wait in line for hours and elbow their way through crowds of crazed shoppers.
Not at Healthy Habitz though. We hope our customers can have a pleasant shopping experience and STILL save a bunch on some of their favorite health products and gifts.
So, we'll continue last year's approach, which really allowed for a good flow without too long lines or wait times.
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March Cut List/
It has been a busy couple of months with two brewery build-outs drawing to a close. We have been listening to music all day everyday for the past month and have found our favorite cuts to share with you. Check out the playlist below or find the individual tracks under the video.
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Sinead O'Connor has once again took to Facebook with an outpour of emotions. On Monday, O'Connor accused Arsenio Hall for Prince's Death via a Facebook post. The Irish singer said, "Two words for the DEA investigating where prince got his drugs over the decades.... Arsenio Hall."
In the post, O'Connor added, "Arsenio I've reported you to the Carver County Sherrif's office. Expect their call. They are aware you spiked me years ago at Eddie murphy's house. You best get tidying your man cave."
To add fuel to the fire, over the weekend a video from 2014 appeared of O'Connor recalling an argument she had with Prince years ago. "He got quite violent. I actually had to escape out of his house at like 5 o'clock in the morning," she claimed.
While O'Connor has aired her thoughts, Hall's representative told told People Magazine that the O'Connor's accusations were "false."
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Chlorinated water is without a doubt a big problem these days, as it is present in most homes. The worst thing about it is that it can affect your skin in several ways. This is why it is essential to look for some solutions that will help you avoid a situation like this. For further information, take a look at the following effects of chlorinated water on the skin.
Eczema and rashes
Chlorine definitely kills the bacteria that can make you sick, but unfortunately, it can also cause several problems to the skin. It destroys most of the intestinal flora, vitamin E and polyunsaturated fatty acids as well. Therefore, it can cause you eczema and unpleasant rushes, which can certainly affect your daily activities. Furthermore, all these factors can also cause you acne.
A dry skin will definitely not look very nice, and it will also make you feel uncomfortable. Unfortunately, this is the result you are going to obtain if you use chlorinated water for a long period of time. However, you can avoid this by installing a whole house water filter. With a device like this, you will have a clean and safe water in your entire house. If you decide to go for an under-the-counter model, then you will have a clean water only in the room you are going to install it. Water filters can remove chlorine from your water, and lots of contaminants that can damage your health, making it very safe to consume.
Premature aging
If you want to keep your skin dry and clean, then you need to make sure the water you are washing yourself with doesn't contain a high amount of chlorine. Studies have shown that chlorinated water has the same aging effects that an extended exposure to the sun has. Believe it or not, this is a fact, and you need to make sure you avoid a similar situation. As mentioned earlier, use a water filter, in order to remove most of the chlorine.
Chlorine promotes the generation of free radicals within your body, and specifically your skin. It has been demonstrated that free radicals can cause cancer. Drinking tap water has been linked to bowel, breast, and bladder cancer. Long-term drinking and bathing in chlorinated water can cause malignant melanoma, which is actually skin cancer. You need to take into account all these effects of chlorinated water on the skin, presented in this article, in order to make sure you take care of your health as well as you can.


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I don't plan to be gone forever, but I can't tell you what I'll be when I return, or any idea of when that will be. Until then, I'll be working on other things. If you want to follow what I'm doing in the mean time, I post things I make at Ravenous Badger Media - I probably won't be doing much about comics there, but if you're just interested in my stuff in general, that's where to look.
Until then... I'll see you in the next life.


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Here's What Happens If You Draw 1 Frame Of Animation Every Day For An Entire Year
Here are the results of an animator who took the 365 Day Animation Challenge.
Here are the results of an animator who took the 365 Day Animation Challenge.
The story of an indie animator, a twerking turkey that was stolen, and one of the biggest global music hits of 2017.
Nickelodeon wants people to see the new ideas their directors have been developing.
Youtube's poorly-regulated and selectively-enforced policies continue to hurt filmmakers.
The second annual Rooster Teeth Animation Festival will feature leading creators of internet animation.
Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean like you've never seen him before: as a real-time animated character.
The National Film Board of Canada has launched a timely series of 14 shorts, describing them as "public service alerts for a new era."
Thirty-second episodes of the digital series will debut on Instagram.
"Mulan" co-director Tony Bancroft directed the film.
Nearly 1,000 artists applied to take part in this holiday-themed project.
French animator Jonathan Djob Nkondo created the series that will premiere live on the internet tonight.
As of today, filmmakers can post videos to Amazon's video service and earn royalties based on hours streamed.
The online streaming service will debut the film on its service later this year.
We explore how the Pegbarians have built a career out of balancing commissioned and original work with (or around) YouTube's monetization system.
The Streamys will be televised for the first time ever next month.
A Vin Diesel-voiced superhero is here to dish out justice. With his fists.
Disney parodies are becoming harder to distinguish from real Disney films.
Los Angeles-based animator Sascha Ciezata reimagines Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' as a mixed-media serialized animated short on Instagram.
Mondo Media may be expanding their brand into the kid-friendly market, but that doesn't mean they're neglecting their adult-oriented successes.
During YouTube's splashy Brandcast upfront event on Wednesday, DreamWorks announced the launch of DreamWorksTV, a new streaming children's channel that will offer original animated and live-action programming, as well as vintage animation content.


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To collect mindfully rather than to consume mindlessly - that is our ethical pursuit.
We do not acquire objects for status or vanity, but to meet a purpose from within. Objects do not fill, they fulfill. Every object carries intention, even to simply bring us joy.
Object & Us is ultimately about coming home to ourselves. Free of stories and past experiences, 'who we are' is our naked self. While home is inherently within us, we are human - we occupy space. It is not only okay to acquire objects, but it is also essential to living purposefully - so long as we aren't trying to gain, to get ahead, or to fill a void through our possessions. Once we strip away physical and metaphysical clutter, we can learn to feed our inner home, which in turn helps us to occupy our outer homes (physical body, physical space) with intention.


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"Adiós, Queens!" said the squat, burly man to Maria Marquez-Hass, the owner of Dulce Vida Cafe on Lexington Avenue and 82nd Street, on a recent Saturday. He wasn't talking about an impending move. He meant that her Colombian food was so good that he would no longer have to traipse from his home in the Bronx out to Jackson Heights, where many of the city's Colombian restaurants are found, to get his fix.
Ms. Marquez-Hass, 51, peered over her fashionable tortoiseshell glasses and smiled, but she had heard it before. Since she and her husband, Larry, opened one of the few full-fledged Colombian restaurants in Manhattan, Dulce Vida has helped fill a culinary void on this Upper East Side stretch. The cafe has also become just what its name promises: a comfortable place where locals and tourists, many from Latin America, savor the sweet life over steaming sancocho stew, copious bandeja Paisa platters, chicken ropa vieja and beef empanadas.
The day begins at Dulce Vida with dark and nutty Colombian coffee, corn cakes called arepas oozing luscious cheese, tropical fruit juices like lulo and soursop, and thick changua soup, loaded with milk and egg — a well-tested Latin American hangover remedy.
"Last week," Ms. Marquez-Hass said, "a man tasted my soup and then called his mom in Colombia to announce he'd finally found one that compared to hers."
Diners can watch the action on Lexington or stare at a giant poster of La Candelaria, the cobblestone old town of Bogotá, plastered on a floor-to-ceiling column that frames the stairwell to the basement kitchen. Depending on the time of day, Latin salsa or Spanish ballads mix with the multilingual buzz, but it's in the afternoon that Dulce Vida comes most alive, perhaps thanks to the wide array of pastries like buñuelos (fried dough) and chicharrón de guayaba y queso (guava and cheese puffs). Many of the sweets, like the pan de yucca, are made with cassava or corn flour and are naturally gluten free.
There was nothing predestined in Ms. Marquez-Hass's career plan. Born in Bogotá, she moved to New York in 1985 and ran a beauty salon on East 80th Street with her sister. "We couldn't find any Colombian food, so we compiled my mother's recipes and opened a cafe," she said while sitting at the back corner table where she keeps a keen eye on the dining room. "And now, Mama stops by every week to make sure the food is up to her standard!"
Neighborhood Joint: Dulce Vida Cafe
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Planted above the Lexington Avenue subway line, Dulce Vida attracts expatriates from across the city. "I heard about Dulce Vida from my brother," said Tatiana Rodriguez, a Colombian national who works in the music industry. "My family lives in Miami, so this food makes me feel I'm home."
Another regular customer, Joaquina F. Echeverri, hails from Mexico. "Everything in this place feels good," she said. "That's why I'm here."
On a recent Sunday, Jairo Rodriguez (no relation to Tatiana) brought a three-generation party of 17 family members to celebrate his aunt Lili's 80th birthday. "We had my three aunts, Tía Lili, Tía Elisa and Tía Berta, and we could have gone anywhere," he remembered. "But since the cafe served traditional Colombian food — meaning heavy on meat — in the middle of Manhattan, it was perfect."
Over and over, the waiters and waitresses explain the menu to attentive diners, who are eager to try something new. But when asked what goes into the bright green and tangy aji sauce, Ms. Marquez-Hass demurred. She looked over her glasses and grinned: "That's a family secret."


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Christopher Patrick Taylor, Burke Leippman, Frances J Rucker; Imaging and cross-validation of chick choroid changes with spectacle lens wear using OCT. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2016;57(12):5518.
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When chicks wear positive spectacle lenses a compensatory increase in choroid thickness occurs (Wildsoet & Wallman, 1995). Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been used to produce two-dimensional images of a single chick eye (Moayed et al., 2011), but has not been used to examine structural changes with lens-wear. We aimed to compare choroid thickness changes with OCT and noncontact ocular biometry and image the two-dimensional changes in the choroid with lens-wear.
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Eight two-week old chicks wore +7D lenses on one eye for two days. The other eye served as a control. Chicks experienced a normal 12h light-dark cycle. Pre- and post- lens wear choroid thickness measures were taken with a noncontact ocular biometer (Lenstar LS 900; Haag-Streit AG, Konig, Switzerland) and an OCT system (Spark-1300 OCT; Wasatch Photonics, Durham, NC, USA). Ocular biometer measurements were analyzed as described previously (Feldkaemper, et al., 2012) and the choroid segmented from OCT images with custom software written in MATLAB using RPE and choroid-scleral boundaries as landmarks.
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Lenstar biometry showed an increase in choroid thickness in the experimental versus control eye (0.16 ± 0.049 mm) with paired t-tests (p = 0.011, Cohen's d = 1.94). Analysis of the segmented two-dimensional OCT boundaries showed mean choroid thickening (0.095 ± 0.017 mm) with paired t-tests (p=0.001, Cohen's d = 2.95). Figure 1 depicts the changes in choroid thickness for each method. There was a greater absolute magnitude of choroid thickness for the Lenstar measure. However, a comparison of the two methods using Spearman's rank order correlation showed no changes in rank ordering of choroid changes. Examples of the two-dimensional changes are shown in Figure 2 with the grey lines showing the segmentation. The top image (2A) is of the retina of an experimental eye prior to lens-wear and the bottom image (2B) after lens-wear. The grey lines indicate the location determined by the segmentation algorithm.
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OCT provides a measure of choroid changes consistent with previous experiments and a visualization of the changes to the 2D structure of the choroid.
This is an abstract that was submitted for the 2016 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Seattle, Wash., May 1-5, 2016.
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This is Gwyn's first entry to our crossword puzzle challenge!
Cooper Jones is back! Gwyn and I have set ourselves the 'crossword puzzle' challenge this FAWM. We each have to pick 14 random words from a shared crossword puzzle and write a song from them taking turns to either be the musician or be the lyricist. Lyrics by me and music/performance by Gwyn. This word was 'rear'
(c) 2019 Cooper/Jones
I see you in my rear view mirror
I see you standin' there wavin' goodbye
I see you in my rear view...
See you in my rear view...
See you in my rear view mirror
I know you'll be a-waitin' for me
I know you'll be true to me each day
I know you'll be a-waitin'...
Know you'll be a-waitin...
Know you'll be a-waitin' for me
I hear you shoutin' out my name
I hear you sayin' darlin' please come back
I hear you shoutin' out my...
Hear you shoutin' out my...
Hear you shoutin' out my name
Don't you cry no tears for me
Don't you cry and waste those tears on me
Don't you cry no tears for...
Don't you cry no tears for...
Don't you cry no tears for me
I see you waitin' shoutin' cryin' for me
I see you waitin' shoutin' cryin' for me
I see you waitin' shoutin' cryin'
See you waitin' shoutin' cryin'
...And I realise that I forgot my bag…tut!
Yes I realise I just forgot my bag
I first thought of Pearl Jam because of the title:-) Man, was I wrong. Nice one. Cool Rockabilly song. And the voice fits just perfect.
Earworms earworms! Too late... I'm a sucker for progressive songs and also the steady climb up the scale. I can see this at a dance hall in the 60s, just good fun.
The relative start to lines is a great technique to make it so catchy and memorable. This is full of ear worms - they are crawling throughout my head. Perfect key change song. Fun ending!
Very nice, great groove and like Chip said below gives a very country feeling.
What a cool song! Great story behind it, too. I love the old-time country groove - reminds me of discovering my dad's vinyl collection years ago, yet also sounds fresh and very now. Key changes a nice keep-the-listeners-on-their-toes touch.
Fun idea and well-executed. I like it.
Wait! Is this an Elvis sighting?!🤩
I feel like line dancing.
cool idea...crosswords...
It's a given with the two of you! So glad your're both here! Super!
Great collab! Nice work. What a great idea for theme ideas.
Georgie, let Gwyn know he HAS to get himself a FAWM account. 😉 Love the key changes in the song as a way of putting the song structure together. Solid lyrics. Enjoyable collab!
LOVE your challenge idea! And of course, I love the song. Great collab as always from you two
Nice one you two...
A really strong beginning right out of the gate..
I'm still yawning here in california
Really creative challenge with the crossword thing! I like the upbeat instrumental and bluesy vocals. I wouldn't have been able to tell this way written to a challenge, it sounds really natural. Great way to kick off FAWM!
I like the challenge! The harmonies are subtle, but work well. Rising key changes create good tension.


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Cheryl teases her return with dancing video clip
The star has been working on new music and will be on BBC One's The Greatest Dancer.
Cheryl has sent fans into a frenzy by sharing a brief video clip showing her dancing in a studio.
The star, 35, is seen gyrating and whipping her hair over her head in the gif posted on Twitter.
August 19, 2018
She did not explain what the footage was from, simply captioning the post with a dancing girl emoji, but Cheryl has been working on a new album and has also signed up as a dance captain on BBC One's new Saturday night show, The Greatest Dancer.
The star had taken a step back from the spotlight over the past year after welcoming her son Bear with One Direction star Liam Payne, from whom she recently split.
Excited fans took Sunday's post as a sign that she is on her way back.
"Oooo can't wait to see this, dont make us wait to long," said one person on Twitter.
😏😏😏 oooo can't wait to see this, dont make us wait to long 💗— Bethan (@Bethan86xx) August 19, 2018
"You never fail to slay my life," tweeted another.
You never fail to slay my life. 🔥— CherylWorld (@CherylWorldNet) August 19, 2018
One person posted: "Only you have the power to make me lose my mind over a gif."
Only you have the power to make me lose my mind over a gif.— CherylWorld (@CherylWorldNet) August 19, 2018
"YASSSSSS SLAY QUEEN SLAY," gushed another fan.
YASSSSSS SLAY QUEEN SLAY— Matt Cotterill (@MattCotterill1) August 19, 2018
Many others posted pictures, gifs and memes expressing their excitement.
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Cheryl's last album was 2014's Only Human.


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With the economic stimulus offered by the government set to expire at the end of April and interest rates that remain under 6%, bungalows under $250K are in more demand than ever!
My partner Caroline and I know that there are lots of people out there looking for these houses and would love to help you sell yours.
If you've beening thinking of selling but wonder what's going on in the market, please give us a call — we'd love to talk.


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Hunger, cattle deaths haunt Bundelkhand: Swaraj Abhiyaan survey
Bundelkhand is a drought-prone impoverished region of 70,000 sqkm spanning 13 districts of UP and Madhya Pradesh. This is the third straight year of drought in the area.india Updated: May 10, 2016 10:59 IST
A disaster-like situation has gripped Bundelkhand, a parched region spanning UP and Madhya Pradesh, due to drought, with households battling hunger, cattle deaths and water scarcity, not-for-profit Swaraj Abhiyaan has said, citing a survey done by it.
The organisation, led by academic-activist Yogendra Yadav, said there were signs of a humanitarian crisis in a majority of the 122 villages. Alleging insufficient drought aid and mitigation, the NGO is fighting a public-interest case in Supreme Court, following which the top court had issued notices to the Centre.
Water shortage has been alarming in four large districts --Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur, Panna and Datia – in Madhya Pradesh, Yadav said.
"About 59% villages in UP reported having more than 10 families who do not manage two square meals a day. The corresponding number in MP was 35%. Reports of people resorting to begging for food or using poor quality foodgrain substitutes like 'fikar'(wild grass seed), have also been received," Yadav said.
Bundelkhand is a drought-prone impoverished region of 70,000 sqkm spanning 13 districts of UP and Madhya Pradesh. This is the third straight year of drought in the area.
Several villages are facing "acute shortage" of drinking water and a large number of cattle deaths have pushed people further into further poverty, Yadav said, alleging that authorities were not acting adequately. Yadav said 40% of the 43 villages toured in Madhya Pradesh had "two or less" hand pumps.
The organization claimed both state governments weren't doing enough to ramp up the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
Yadav said in the 79 villages in Uttar Pradesh surveyed, the situation was better compared to Madhya Pradesh.
"An abysmally low 5% villages in MP reported ongoing employment work for job holders under MNREGS while the percentage was 29 in UP villages," Yadav said.
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Evergreen spit
If you look closely at your evergreen trees this spring you might see what looks like frothy masses of spit in the branches. Unless somebody has an ax to grind with you, I'm willing to bet nobody spit on your tree. Nobody human, anyway.
Michael Wheeler is a county Extension agent with the University of Georgia. He says the spit-like substance is created by the aptly named spittlebug in its immature form.
"And it's used to protect the bugs that are underneath that spittle, and keep them from being preyed upon by other insects, and also keeps them from drying out too much," he says.
Spittlebug eggs hatch in spring and the nymphs begin feeding on plant sap. As they feed, they continually excrete undigested sap. They pump air into it as it exits their back ends, forming the foamy masses around them. Spittlebugs aren't considered a serious pest, but their secretions are just not a pleasant site to see.
Wheeler says to get rid of them, arm yourself with the garden hose.
"The best way to control them is just take water and splash the water onto the spittlebugs, on those masses, and just get rid of them that way. You can take a water hose and use a jet of water to spray them down," says Wheeler. "Chemical control's not really necessary. There's just not enough of them generally to warrant a chemical application."
The adults appear later in summer, and resemble leafhoppers with wings over their back and large eyes. They also feed on plant sap but don't produce anything that resembles foamy espresso.
The bugs prefer pine trees but they can be found all frothed-up on a variety of plants including rose bushes, turf grass, legume forages, and herbaceous perennials.
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said passenger demand for air transport rose 4.6% in January 2018, compared to 6.2% registered in December 2017.
This was the slowest in nearly four years, said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA's Director General and chief executive officer.
"Despite the slower start, economic momentum is supporting rising passenger demand in 2018. However, there are concerns over a possible trade war involving the US, which could have a serious dampening effect on global market confidence, spilling over into demand for air travel," he said in a statement sent to The New Times, yesterday.
International passenger demand growth slowed to 4.4% in January, from 6.1% in December.
On the African front, African airlines registered 4.9% traffic boost supported by the continent's increasing business confidence amongst investors.
More so, African carriers' saw freight demand increase by 12.9% in January 2018 compared to the same month last year.
The increase was largely attributed to very strong growth on the trade lanes especially to and from Asia.
Freight demand jumped by 59% between Africa and Asia in 2017 following an increase in the number of direct flights between the continents, driven by ongoing foreign investment flows into Africa.
Last month, African countries launched the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) initiative by the African Union (AU). The initiative is largely based on the agreements of the Yamoussoukro Decision of 1999.
According to aviation and transport experts like David Kajange, the AU Head of Transport and Tourism Division, much is expected from a de-regulated single African air market.
"The market will enhance interconnectivity, reduce costs and make it easier to integrate our economies, trade and tourism, he noted.
In a recent interview with media, Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye the state minister in charge of transport pointed to the benefits saying that Rwanda is already benefiting from a more liberalised air space especially on tourism front.
"For us, because we've opened our airspace for two to three years now, we've seen our tourism revenue double. We hope now that with all the other countries joining it will continue to increase," Uwihanganye said.
African airlines were recently urged to embrace e-commerce and digital technologies to become more profitable.
According to Eckart Reiche, the vice-president for sales at Airlines Wirecard, airlines on the continent should embrace technology to serve customer needs and experience in the increasingly competitive market.


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Fall 2016
"Michelle Mandico is a creative based out of Nashville, though her roots are firmly planted in the mountainous state of Colorado. Blessed with manifold artistic gifts, including painting and ceramics, Mandico released her EP Half Captive in 2015. Her personal philosophy of contemplating, relating, and taking intentional steps toward interior freedom come through with gentle honesty in her lyrical and musical compositions.
Half Captive features six original songs by Mandico. Mellow, thematic, thoughtful, and warmly produced, this EP reveals an irresolute but convicted heart. Mandico's writing style is tender and unpretentious, giving insights into past relationships without either demonizing or sugar-coating the various angles of thwarted hope: Once you've made your mind up, you shut the whole world down/ governing an empty landscape high on sacred ground, she sings on a track titled Give it Up. The anguish of conflict is hinted at more than once throughout the EP. Lines like "a field of rhythm make our fights sound better than they should," act as an acknowledgement of our human tendency to enshroud ourselves in the most salient aspects of any given situation in an effort to self-preserve, and in the process frustrate the potential for genuine intimacy and/or healing." For more https://lovegoodmusic.com/2016/10/13/michelle-mandico/
-Alanna Boudreau from Love Good Music
Source: https://lovegoodculture.com/2016/10/13/michelle-mandico/
April 2014
"In typical Colorado fashion, Michelle Mandico plays Indie music with a Folk influence, but where bands like The Lumineers or Paper Bird head downward into melancholy and heartache, Mandico instead goes up, injecting a relentless jolt of energy into a usually downtempo musical style.
The album is tantalizingly intricate from start to finish contrasting light, driving pop with complex melody and heavy imagery and I wish more artists had the courage to sing lyrics about the end of the world over major chord progressions and 4/4 pop backbeats. "Heart Attacked" (my favorite track) does this with a major hook that suddenly resolves to minor for a single note. Michelle's voice has a clarity reminiscent of Regina Spektor and a tendency to add bluegrass decoration to her melodies.
When combined with a crystal clear "no bullshit" recording style, her voice gives the album a refreshing sense of purity while the lyrics and tones hint at something brooding just beneath the surface. Michelle Mandico's driving Indie-Pop album is both brazenly original and intricately built, and her new take on the genre will have even the dourest of folk purists struggling not to bob their heads."
-Nate Leichtman from The CO Jam Collective
Source: http://www.cojamonline.net/#!michelle-mandico-dimensions-of-my-heart/cu4a
"Red and white twinkle lights adorned the upstairs concert hall of the Mercury Cafe at 2199 California St., a space entirely befitting of its Saturday night entertainment. Red roses and gentle candlelight set the mood for DU student Michelle Mandico's album release party, while over 100 of the artist's friends and family waited expectantly.
The album, entitled "Dimensions of my Heart" is a tender and lilting assortment of nostalgic love songs, poignant indie-pop ballads and humorous ditties. The songs were all composed by Mandico, a songwriter, ceramicist and aspiring teacher whose kind demeanor and abundant curls are her trademark." ...For full article, see link below.
-Camilla Sterne from the DU Clarion
Source: http://duclarion.com/dus-michelle-mandico-celebrates-album-release/
February 2014
"The next victim for your hungry ears is the one and only, Michelle Mandico. She's the real reason I was at The Marquis, where and when I was introduced to the amazing, Vetta Star. Friends of friends knew Michelle and by happenchance I found myself being at The Marquis watching her open for Vetta Star. Her style is harmonious, elegant, and heartwarming. Her voice is amazing, and beyond that talent, she plays the keyboard like she invented the instrument. She was accompanied by a cellist and flutist, along with her sisters for additional harmony. Mandico had the audience in a stupor, mystifying all with her angelic voice and beautiful compositions. Her newest album entitled, Dimensions of My Heart, will be available April 12, 2014, for your listening pleasure. I'd highly recommend this album to anyone who likes music, period."
-Andrew Metzger from MTNWeekly


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SKILLS: Chain, single crochet, double crochet, half double crochet, popcorn stitch, picot, working in rows and in the round, increasing, decreasing, sewing.
GAUGE: Work with hook 9 mm (M/N) & 3 strands of MC held together: 9 dc X 4 rows = 4" X 4" (10 X 10 cm) square.
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…in a far off land, there lived a princess…
We all grew up listening to the same, old fairy tales. And of course, for those who are a little more obsessed they will know that these are not how the original fairy tales went…
Written by the brothers Grimm, lets just say these tales are not completely appropriate for a four-year-old unless blood, horror, mental unstability etc is something you want to subject them too. Yet, these are the fairy tales kids heard (once upon a time) and now, we are told of the beautiful lands, good versus evil without too much blood. So, why?
As a kid, I loved fairy tales and my favourite is Alice in Wonderland! Honestly I still love them to this day. With television shows such as Once Upon a Time or Grimm I've kept up my interest as well as owning a brothers Grimm fairy tale book… And had I known about the real folk tales as a child, I definitely believe until I reached around 11 they would have grossed me out so, maybe the should be introduced during some point of our childhood?
But, I'm not discounting the flouncy, moralistic and happy fairy tales we were brought up on…many of them adaptions on the original story I just don't believe a 'dumbing-down' should take place. Not everyone is aware that the stories we grew up with in modern society, are not the originals. Perhaps, we should provide a child with the knowledge of a more gruesome version of beloved classic fairy tales and give them the opportunity to read them once they are able to independently read, making the choice themselves?
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I'm an avid reader, and I have been since I was little. My mum often speaks of times when she sent me upstairs as a child and she'd wonder why I wasn't making more noise-I was reading so I didn't mind being upstairs- and after that she used to make me sit on the sofa away from my books. Or the time when I was reading Harry Potter and my brother got that upset with me for some reason he hid my book…I slept with it for the next couple days so he couldn't get his hands on it? My point: I independently read from the age of four/five and would not necessarily have been old enough to understand the brothers Grimm fairy tales but, as I grew older had I been given the choice at 8/9 I probably would have read them instead of 11.
I was lucky growing up because I had two parents who saw how much I loved reading and encouraged me to do so. So, I did know about the darker tales yet, many of my friends had no clue?
I have loved books all my life and will continue to do so! I wanted to blog about this because I love fairy tales and having recently stumbled upon an article about fairy tales thought I would blog. If you have an interest now in the brothers Grimm fairy tales then read them…or while it may not be factually correct watch GRIMM or Once Upon a Time and enjoy them. It'll be a piece of your childhood!


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BHATKAL (KARNATAKA): Yasin alias Mohammed Ahmed Siddibappa. The name may not sound familiar unless one adds Bhatkal to it. And this has now created an identity issue for Muslims of Bhatkal who want investigating agencies to stop using the name of the town with those who have been arrested with terrorism charges.Muslims in Bhatkal say they are being looked down upon by other community members, not only in their town but also when they travel to other cities in India. The moment they mention Bhatkal, the attitude of hotel staff and security agencies change.
"When we say we are from Bhatkal, hotel staff ask us to provide more than one identity proof. Sometimes they say the rooms are full. There were times when hotel managers were consulted before giving us accommodations. This is the experience that many people from here have faced.
Muslims of Bhatkal do not support those who are caught under terror charges. But there is no point in adding Bhatkal's name to those who are arrested from the town. It is giving a bad image to the coastal town which was once known for communal harmony," says an Imam of a famous mosque in Bhatkal. It is not just Yasin who goes with the name Bhatkal, but the investigating agencies have also added Bhatkal to the names of Iqbal and Riyaz, who are facing terror charges and are absconding since 2003.
Currently, Yasin alias Yasin Bhatkal is in the custody of the NIA and two others Iqbal and Riyaz are said to have taken shelter outside India. Bhatkal town has been an important trading place on the west coast for many centuries. For many, the town resembled an area in Middle East and even today one can see the Middle East's influence in the structures of Bhatkal.
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In 1993, communal riots in Bhatkal saw 17 killed and several others injured. After the incident and Mumbai bomb blasts, many from Bhatkal came in contact with underworld kingpins. Mumbai underworld kingpins began to operate in Bhatkal as many builders from the coastal parts of Karnataka settled in Middle East.Riyaz and Iqbal came in touch with a few fundamentalist organisations and they allegedly got involved in blast cases across the country. After 2002 riots in Gujarat, they founded 'Indian Mujahideen' group along with other youngsters including Yasin Bhatkal.


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