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Psalm LXIII.
1. This psalm hath the title, "For David himself, when he was in the desert of Idumaea." By the name of Idumaea is understood this world. For Idumaea was a certain nation of men going astray, where idols were worshipped. In no good sense is put this Idumaea. If not in a good sense it is put, it must be understood that this life, wherein we suffer so great toils, and wherein to so great necessities we are made subject, by the name of Idumaea is signified. Even here is a desert where there is much thirst, and ye are to hear the voice of One now thirsting in the desert. But if we acknowledge ourselves as thirsting, we shall acknowledge ourselves as drinking also. For he that thirsteth in this world, in the world to come shall be satisfied, according to the Lord's saying, "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for the same shall be satisfied." Therefore in this world we ought not to love fulness. Here we must thirst, in another place we shall be filled. But now in order that we may not faint in this desert, He sprinkleth upon us the dew of His word, and leaveth us not utterly to dry up, so that there should not be in our case any seeking of us again, but that we may so thirst as that we may drink. But in order that we may drink, with somewhat of His Grace we are sprinkled: nevertheless we thirst. And what saith our soul to God?
2. "God, my God, unto Thee from the light I watch" (ver. 1). What is to watch? It is, not to sleep. What is to sleep? There is a sleep of the soul; there is a sleep of the body. Sleep of body we all ought to have: because if sleep of body is not taken, a man fainteth, the body itself fainteth. For our frail body cannot long sustain a soul watching and on the stretch on active works; if for a long time the soul shall have been intent on active pursuits, the body being frail and earthly holdeth her not, sustaineth her not for ever in activity, and fainteth and falleth. Therefore God hath granted sleep to the body, whereby are recruited the members of the body, in order that they may be able to sustain the soul watching. But of this let us take heed, namely, that our soul herself sleep not: for evil is the sleep of the soul. Good is the sleep of the body, whereby is recruited the health of the body. But the sleep of the soul is to forget her God. Whatsoever soul shall have forgotten her God, sleepeth. Therefore the Apostle saith to certain persons that forgot their God, and being as it were in sleep, did act the follies of the worship of idols-the Apostle, I say, saith to certain persons, "Rise, thou that sleepest, and rise up from the dead, and Christ shall enlighten thee." Was the Apostle waking up one sleeping in body? Nay, but he was waking a soul sleeping, inasmuch as he was waking her, in order that she might be lightened by Christ. Therefore as to these same watchings saith this man, "God, my God, unto Thee from the light I watch." For thou wouldest not watch of thyself, unless there should arise thy Light, to wake thee from sleep. For Christ lighteneth souls, and maketh them to watch: but if His light He taketh away, they slumber. For for this cause to Him there is said in another psalm, "Lighten mine eyes, that I may never slumber in death." ...
3. "My soul hath thirsted for Thee" (ver. 2). Behold that desert of Idumaea. See how here he thirsteth: but see what good thing is here, "Hath thirsted for Thee." For there are they that thirst, but not for God. For every one that willeth anything to be granted to him, is in the heat of longing; the longing itself is the thirst of the soul. And see ye what longings there are in the hearts of men: one longeth for gold, another longeth for silver, another longeth for possessions, another inheritance, another abundance of money, another many herds, another a wife, another honours, another sons. Ye see those longings, how they are in the hearts of men. All men are inflamed with longing, and scarce is found one to say, "My soul hath thirsted for Thee." For men thirst for the world: and perceive not themselves to be in the desert of Idumaea, where their souls ought to thirst for God. ...
4. Wisdom therefore must be thirsted after, righteousness must be thirsted after. With it we shall not be satisfied, with it we shall not be filled, save when this life shall have been ended, and we shall have come to that which God hath promised. For God hath promised equality with Angels: and now the Angels thirst not as we do, they hunger not as we do; but they have the fulness of truth, of light, of immortal wisdom. Therefore blessed they are, and out of so great blessedness, because they are in that City, the Heavenly Jerusalem, afar from whence we now are sojourning in a strange land, they observe us sojourners, and they pity us, and by the command of the Lord they help us, in order that to this common country sometime we may return, and there with them sometime with the Lord's fountain of truth and eternity we may be filled. Now therefore let our soul thirst: whence doth our flesh also thirst, and this in many ways? "In many ways for Thee," he saith, "my flesh also." Because to our flesh also is promised Resurrection. As to our soul is promised blessedness, so also to our flesh is promised resurrection. ...For if God hath made us that were not, is it a great thing for Him to make again us that were? Therefore let not this seem to you to be incredible, because ye see dead men as it were decaying, and passing into ashes and into dust. Or if any dead man be burned, or if dogs tear him in pieces, do ye think that from this he will not rise again? All things which are dismembered, and into a sort of dust do decay, are entire with God. For into those elements of the world they pass, whence at first they have come, when we were made: we do not see them; but yet God will bring them forth, He knoweth whence, because even before we were, He created us from whence He knew. Such a resurrection of the flesh therefore to us is promised, as that, although it be the same flesh that now we carry which is to rise again, yet it hath not the corruption which now it hath. For now because of the corruption of frailty, if we eat not, we faint and are hungry; if we drink not, we faint and are thirsty; if long time we watch we faint and sleep; if long time we sleep, we faint, therefore we watch. ...Secondly, see how without any standing is our flesh: for infancy passeth away into boyhood, and thou seekest infancy, and infancy is not, for now instead of infancy is boyhood: again this same also passeth into youth, thou seekest boyhood and findest not: the young man becometh a middle-aged man, thou seekest the young man and he is not: the middle-aged man becometh an old man, thou seekest a middle-aged man and findest not: and an old man dieth, thou seekest an old man and findest not: our age therefore standeth not still: everywhere is weariness, everywhere faintness, everywhere corruption. Observing what a hope of resurrection God promiseth to us, in all those our manifold faintings we thirst for that incorruption: and so our flesh manifoldly doth thirst for God.
5. Nevertheless, my brethren, the flesh of a good Christian and a believer even in this world for God doth thirst: for if the flesh hath need of bread, if it hath need of water, if it hath need of wine, if it hath need of money, if this flesh hath need of a beast, from God it ought to seek it, not from demons and idols and I know not what powers of this world. For there are certain who when they suffer hunger in this world, leave God and ask Mercury or ask Jove to give unto them, or her whom they call "Heavenly," or any the like demons: not for God their flesh thirsteth. But they that thirst for God, everywhere ought to thirst for Him, both soul and flesh: for to the soul also God giveth His bread, that is the Word of Truth: and to the flesh God giveth the things which are necessary, for God hath made both soul and flesh. For the sake of thy flesh thou askest of demons: hath God made the soul, and the demons made the flesh? He that hath made the soul, the Same hath made the flesh also: He that hath made both of them, the Same feedeth both of them. Let either part of us thirst for God, and after labour manifold let either simply be filled.
6. But where thirsteth our soul, and our flesh manifoldly, not for any one but for Thee, O Lord, that is our God it thirsteth where? "In a land desert, and without way, and without water." Of this world we have spoken, the same is Idumaea, this is the desert of Idumaea, whence the Psalm hath received its title. "In a land desert." Too little it is to say "desert," where no man dwelleth; it is besides, both "without way, and without water." O that the same desert had even a way: O that into this a man running, even knew where he might thence get forth! ...Evil is the desert, horrible, and to be feared: and nevertheless God hath pitied us, and hath made for us a way in the desert, Himself our Lord Jesus Christ: and hath made for us a consolation in the desert, in sending to us preachers of His Word: and hath given to us water in the desert, by fulfilling with the Holy Spirit His preachers, in order that there might be created in them a well of water springing up unto life everlasting. And, lo! we have here all things, but they are not of the desert. ...
7. "Thus in a holy thing I have appeared to Thee, that I might see Thy power and Thy glory" (ver. 3). ...Unless a man first thirst in that desert, that is in the evil wherein he is, he never arriveth at the good, which is God. But "I have appeared to Thee," he saith, "in a holy thing." Now in a holy thing is there great consolation. "I have appeared to Thee," is what? In order that Thou mightest see me: and for this reason Thou hast seen me, in order that I might see Thee. "I have appeared to Thee, that I might see." He hath not said, "I have appeared to Thee, that Thou mightest see:" but, "I have appeared to Thee, that I might see Thy power and Thy glory." Whence also the Apostle, "But now," he saith, "knowing God, nay, having been known of God." For first ye have appeared to God, in order that to you God might be able to appear. "That I might see Thy power and Thy glory." In truth in that forsaken place, that is, in that desert, if as though from the desert a man striveth to obtain enough for his sustenance, he will never see the power of the Lord, and the glory of the Lord, but he will remain to die of thirst, and will find neither way, nor consolation, nor water, whereby he may endure in the desert. But when he shall have lifted up himself to God, so as to say to Him out of all his inward parts, "My soul hath thirsted for Thee; how manifoldly for Thee also my flesh!" lest perchance even the things necessary for the flesh of others he ask, and not of God, or else long not for that resurrection of the flesh, which God hath promised to us: when, I say, he shall have lifted up himself, he will have no small consolations.
8. ...But ye have heard but now when the Gospel was being read in what terms He hath notified His Majesty: "I and My Father are One." Behold how great a Majesty and how great an Equality with the Father hath come down to the flesh because of our infirmity. Behold how greatly beloved we have been, before that we loved God, If before that we loved God, so much by Him we were beloved, as that His Son, Equal with Himself, He made a Man for our sake, what doth He reserve for us now loving Him? Therefore many men think it to be a very small thing that the Son of God hath appeared on earth; because they are not in the Holy One, to them hath not appeared the power of the Same and the glory of the Same: that is, not yet have they a heart made holy, whence they may perceive the eminence of that virtue, and may render thanks to God, nor that to which for their own sakes so great an One came, unto what a nativity, unto what a Passion, they are not able to see, His glory and His power.
9. "For better is Thy mercy than lives." Many are the lives of men, but one life God promiseth: and He giveth not this to us as if for our merits but for His mercy. ...For what is so just a thing as that a sinner should be punished? Though a just thing it be that a sinner should be punished, it hath belonged to the mercy of Him not to punish a sinner but to justify him, and of a sinner to make a just man, and of an ungodly man to make a godly man. Therefore "His mercy is better than lives." What lives? Those which for themselves men have chosen. One hath chosen for himself a life of business, another a country life, another a life of usury, another a military life; one this, another that. Divers are the lives, but "better is Thy" life "than" our "lives." ..."My lips shall praise Thee." My lips would not praise Thee, unless before me were to go Thy mercy. By Thy gift Thee I praise, through Thy mercy Thee I praise. For I should not be able to praise God, unless He gave me to be able to praise Him.
10. "So I will speak good of Thee in my life, and in Thy name I will lift up my hands" (ver. 5). Now in my life which to me Thou hast given, not in that which I have chosen after the world with the rest among many lives, but that which Thou hast given to me through Thy mercy, that I should praise Thee. "So I will speak good of Thee in my life." What is "so"? That to Thy mercy I may ascribe my life wherein Thee I praise, not to my merits. "And in Thy name I will lift up my hands." Lift up therefore hands in prayer. Our Lord hath lifted up for us His hands on the Cross, and stretched out were His hands for us, and therefore were His hands stretched out on the Cross, in order that our hands might be stretched out unto good works: because His Cross hath brought us mercy. Behold, He hath lifted up hands, and hath offered for us Himself a Sacrifice to God, and through that Sacrifice have been effaced all our sins. Let us also lift up our hands to God in prayer: and our hands being lifted up to God shall not be confounded, if they be exercised in good works. For what doth he that lifteth up hands? Whence hath it been commanded that with hands lifted up we should pray to God? For the Apostle saith, "Lifting up pure hands without anger and dissension." It is in order that when thou liftest up hands to God, there may come into thy mind thy works. For whereas those hands are lifted up that thou mayest obtain that which thou wilt, those same hands thou thinkest in good works to exercise, that they may not blush to be lifted up to God. "In thy name I will lift up my hands." Those are our prayers in this Idumaea, in this desert, in the land without water and without way, where for us Christ is the Way, but not the way of this earth.
11. ...Already our fathers are dead, but God liveth: here we could not always have fathers, but there we shall alway have one living Father, when we have our father-land. ...What sort of country is that? But thou lovest here riches. God Himself shall be to thee thy riches. But thou lovest a good fountain. What is more passing clear than that wisdom? What more bright? Whatsoever is an object of love here, in place of all thou shall have Him that hath made all things, "as though with marrow and fatness my soul should be filled: and lips of exultation shall praise Thy name." In this desert, in Thy name I will lift up my hands: let my soul be filled as though with marrow and fatness, "and my lips with exultation shall praise Thy name." For now is prayer, so long as there is thirst: when thirst shall have passed away, there passeth away praying and there succeedeth praising. "And lips of exultation shall praise Thy name."
12. "If I have remembered Thee upon my bed, in the dawnings I did meditate on thee (ver. 7): because Thou hast become my helper" (ver. 8). His "bed" he calleth his rest. When any one is at rest, let him be mindful of God; when any one is at rest, let him not by rest be dissolved, and forget God: if mindful he is of God when he is at rest, in his actions on God he doth meditate. For the dawn he hath called actions, because every man at dawn beginneth to do something. What therefore hath he said? If therefore I was not mindful on my bed, in the dawn also I did not meditate on Thee. Can he that thinketh not of God when he is at leisure, in his actions think of God? But he that is mindful of Him when he is at rest, on the Same doth meditate when he is doing, lest in action he should come short. Therefore he hath added what? "Because Thou has become my helper." For unless God aid our good works, they cannot be accomplished by us. And worthy things we ought to work: that is, as though in the light, since by Christ showing the way we work. Whosoever worketh evil things, in the night he worketh, not in the dawn; according to the Apostle, saying, "They that are drunken, in the night are drunken; and they that sleep, in the night do sleep; let us that are of the day, be sober." He exhorteth us that after the day we should walk honestly: "As in the day, honestly let us walk." And again, "Ye," he saith, "are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness." Who are sons of night, and sons of darkness? They that work all evil things. To such a degree they are sons of night, that they fear lest the things which they work should be seen. ...No one therefore in the dawn worketh, except him that in Christ worketh. But he that while at leisure is mindful of Christ, on the Same doth meditate in all his actions, and He is a helper to him in a good work, lest through his weakness he fail. "And in the covering of Thy wings I will exult." I am cheerful in good works, because over me is the covering of Thy wings. If thou protect me not, forasmuch as I am a chicken, the kite will seize me. For our Lord Himself saith in a certain place to that Jerusalem, a certain city, where He was crucified: "Jerusalem," He saith, "Jerusalem, how often I have willed to gather thy sons, as though a hen her chickens, and thou wouldest not." Little ones we are: therefore may God protect us under the shadow of His wings. What when we shall have grown greater? A good thing it is for us that even then He should protect us, so that under Him the greater, alway we be chickens. For alway He is greater, however much we may have grown. Let no one say, let Him protect me while I am a little one: as if sometime he would attain to such magnitude, as should be self-sufficient. Without the protection of God, nought thou art. Alway by Him let us desire to be protected: then alway in Him we shall have power to be great, if alway under Him little we be. "And in the covering of Thy wings I will exult."
13. "My soul hath been glued on behind Thee" (ver. 9). See ye one longing, see ye one thirsting, see ye how he cleaveth to God. Let there spring up in you this affection. If already it is sprouting, let it be rained upon and grow: let it come to such strength, that ye also may say from the whole heart, "My soul hath been glued on behind Thee." Where is that same glue? The glue itself is love. Have thou love, wherewith as with glue thy soul may be glued on behind God. Not with God, but behind God;that He may go before, thou mayest follow. For he that shall have willed to go before God, by his I own counsel would live, and will not follow the commandments of God. Because of this even Peter was rebuked, when he willed to give counsel to Christ, who was going to suffer for us. ..."Far be it from Thee, O Lord, be Thou merciful to Thyself." And the Lord, "Go back behind Me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things which are of God, but the things which are of men." Wherefore, the things which are of men? Because to go before Me thou desirest, go back behind Me, in order that thou mayest follow me: so that now following Christ lie might say, "My soul hath been glued on behind Thee." With reason he addeth, "Me Thy right hand hath taken up." This Christ hath said in us: that is in the Man which He was bearing for us, which He was offering for us, He hath said this. The Church also said this in Christ, she saith it in her Head: for she too hath suffered here great persecutions, and by her individual members even now she suffereth. ...
14. "But themselves in vainhave sought my soul. They shall go unto the lower places of the earth" (ver. 9). Earth they were unwilling to lose, when they crucified Christ: into the lower places of the earth they have gone. What are the lower places of the earth? Earthly lusts. Better it is to walk upon earth, than by lust to go under earth. For every one that in prejudice of his salvation desireth earthly things, is under the earth: because earth he hath put before him, earth upon himself he hath put, and himself beneath he hath laid. They therefore fearing to lose earth, said what of the Lord Jesus Christ, when they saw great multitudes go after Him, forasmuch as He was doing wonderful things? "If we shall have let Him go alive, there will come the Romans, and will take away from us both place and nation." They feared to lose earth, and they went under the earth: there befell them even what they feared. For they willed to kill Christ, that they might not lose earth; and earth they therefore lost, because Christ they slew. For when Christ had been slain, because the Lord Himself had said to them, "The kingdom shall be taken from you, and shall be given up to a nation doing righteousness:" there followed them great calamities of persecutions: there conquered them Roman emperors, and kings of the nations: they were shut out from that very place where they crucified Christ, and now that place is full of Christian praisers: it hath no Jew, it hath been cleared of the enemies of Christ, it hath been fulfilled with the praisers of Christ. Behold, they have lost at the hands of the Romans the place, because Christ they slew, who to this end slew, that they might not lose the place at the hands of the Romans. Therefore, "They shall enter into the lower places of the earth."
15. "They shall be delivered unto the hands of the sword" (ver. 10). In truth, thus it hathvisibly befallen them, they have been taken by storm by enemies breaking in. "Portions of foxes they shall be." Foxes he calleth the kings of the world, that then were when Judaea was conquered. Hear in order that ye may know and perceive, that those he calleth foxes. Herod the king the Lord Himself hath called a fox. "Go ye," He saith, "and tell that fox." See and observe, my brethren: Christ as King they would not have, and portions of foxes they have been made. For when Pilate the deputy governor in Judaea slew Christ at the voices of the Jews, he said to the same Jews, "Your King shall I crucify?" Because He was called King of the Jews, and He was the true King. And they rejecting Christ said, "We have no king but Caesar." They rejected a Lamb, chose a fox: deservedly portions of foxes they were made.
16. "The King in truth," is so written, because they chose a fox, a King in truth they would nothave. "The King in truth:" that is, the true King, to whom the title was inscribed, when He suffered. For Pilate set this title inscribed over His Head, "The King of the Jews," in the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin tongues: in order that all they that should pass by might read of the glory of the King, and the infamy of the Jews themselves, who, rejecting the true King, chose the fox Caesar. "The King in truth shall rejoicein God." They have been made portions of foxes. ..."Stopped up is the mouth of men speaking unjust things." No one dareth now openly to speak against Christ, now all men fear Christ. "For stopped up is the mouth of men speaking unjust things." When in weakness the Lamb was, even foxes were bold against the Lamb. There conquered the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and the foxes were silenced.


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Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free from meddling from the human world. But here's a little known fact about Dracula he is not only the Prince of Darkness he is also a dad. Over-protective of his teenage daughter, Mavis, Dracula fabricates tales of elaborate dangers to dissuade her adventurous spirit. As a haven for Mavis, he opens the Hotel Transylvania, where his daughter and some of the world's most famous monsters Frankenstein and his bride, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, a family of werewolves, and more can kick back in safety and peace. For Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem but his world could come crashing down when one ordinary guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis.
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Skinning up a ridge near Blewett Pass in WA, on the side of Blewett Pass closed to snowmobiles |
Now is the time to let the Forest Service know what is important to you as they make rules about where snowmobiles can go in the National Forest. Comment period open through Monday, August 4th.
More info available here from the Winter Wildlands Alliance
This is very important for backcountry skiers, snowboarders, snowshoers and other users as it will shape how our wild places are used for years and maybe decades to come.
As it stands, all areas of the national forest will be open to snowmobiles unless specifically closed. I think it makes more sense to close the national forest to snowmobiles unless an area is specifically open to them. There is room in the forest for multiple user groups, and especially as snowmobiles become more powerful and capable of reaching remote & wild locations it is important to assess their impact to other users as well as wildlife and the ecosystem on each location.
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Keith Urban Stages Mini-Concert Online Amid Coronavirus Pandemic Shutdown [WATCH]
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic shutdown can't stop Keith Urban! The country superstar was supposed to be playing a live show on Monday night (March 16) -- and he still did, albeit on a smaller scale than he'd intended.
After his intended gig was canceled due to coronavirus-related crowd size restrictions, Urban and a skeleton crew staged an online show, broadcasting a performance of a few songs live on social media for homebound fans.
"I just thought it would be nice to be able to play anyway," Urban explained to fans tuning in. "Even though we can't be in front of all of you guys tonight, I wanted to be able to play and just play some songs and bring a little bit of entertainment to y'all's screens."
Live from his warehouse space and accompanied by Jeff Linsenmaier -- his "insta-band," Urban joked -- Urban laid down a set that included "Love Somebody," "The Fighter" and his latest single, "God Whispered Your Name," among other songs. The pair were joined for the event by a single camera operator and Urban's wife, actor Nicole Kidman, who could be seen dancing and singing along to her husband's performance.
"I'm just basically playing karaoke, is what I'm doing," Urban joked about the set, later urging fans who were watching from home to sing along.
The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared coronavirus a pandemic on March 11. According to the WHO, more than 167,000 cases of coronavirus have been reported in more than 110 countries and territories; a total of 6,440 deaths have been reported worldwide as of Sunday night (March 15). In the United States specifically, 3,499 people have been diagnosed with the virus, and 63 people have died; in Tennessee, there were 39 confirmed cases, including 17 in Davidson County, as of Sunday.
Within country music, artists are doing their part by either postponing or canceling both concerts and entire tours, while festival organizers are both rescheduling and canceling springtime events. Among others, the annual Stagecoach festival, usually held in April, will now take place in October, while Zac Brown Band have chosen to delay the remainder of their springtime tour dates. On Sunday, the Academy of Country Music announced the postponement of the 2020 ACM Awards.
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Dive into Leith's famous maritime history. Once the base of the Incorporation of Mariners and Shipmasters, this elegant Georgian house holds an outstanding collection of maritime treasures.
Set up in the 1300s, the Incorporation collected port dues and provided assistance to Leith's maritime communities for centuries. Generations of masters and members of Trinity House were closely involved in the maritime development of Leith.
What to see and do
- Enter the vast Convening Room – a magnificent meeting chamber dominated by an enormous mahogany table
- Seek out maritime memorabilia including narwhal tusks and navigational instruments
- View Sir Henry Raeburn's painting of Admiral Duncan – a naval masterpiece
- See the Georgian fixtures and furnishings of the Master's Room, a cosy space where pensions were once given out


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Halong Bay is known not only as a UNESCO World Heritage Site but also one of the most famous natural wonders in the world. With many beautiful landscapes, rich fauna and flora with the great archeological and geological significance associated with the cultural and historical value, Halong Bay is considered one of the most famous destinations of Vietnam with foreign tourists.
Halong Bay is located in the west of the Gulf of Tonkin, about 170 km from Hanoi. Halong Bay has a total area of 1,553 km2, including 1,969 large and small islands and two famous bays: Bai Tu Long Bay in the east and Lan Ha Bay where there is Cat Ba Island in the south.
The best time to visit Halong Bay
The weather in Halong is divided into four distinct seasons. The winter is very cold which lasts from November to March and the summer is extremely hot which lasts from April to October.
The peak season in Halong for domestic visitors is from April to August when you can participate in a lot of fascinating activities such as kayaking, windsurfing or parachuting. At that time, there are many promotions for tourists with special discounts.
However in summer, especially in July and August, tropical storms and depressions often occur that leads some trips and activities will be canceled. Therefore, from April to June is the most suitable time to travel there.
The beauty of Halong Bay
Halong in autumn (from September to November) is very beautiful with the clear sky and a lot of sunshine. At that time, the typhoon is less and the number of tourists decreases, so it is also an ideal time to visit Halong Bay.
Must-try experiences in Halong Bay
Kayaking is one of the most popular activities in Halong Bay. There is nothing better than the feeling of sitting on the kayak and creeping through the stunning limestone caves.
Stay overnight on a cruise
Cruise ships in Halong are like a miniature hotel which are well-equipped with air-conditioning and private bathrooms. You can relax in your own room and admire the majestic beauty of Halong through the large window.
Taking a cruise, you can have the chance to take part in a lot of funny things such as cooking class, Tai Chi, night squid fishing and etc.
Explore magnificent caves
Halong Bay is famous for its magnificent rocky island and cave systems. There are hundreds of rocky islands, in which each island has a very different and lively shape such as Human Head Islet, Dragon Islet, La Vong Islet, Sail Islet, Hon Tam Islet, Lu Huong Islet, Toad Islet, Trong Mai Islet.
Hidden in the rocky islands are the spectacular caves associated with many miraculous legends such as Thien Cung Cave, Dau Go Cave, Sung Sot Cave, Trinh Nu Cave, Tam Cung Cave. These are actually the masterpieces of nature on the earth.
Kayaking in Halong Bay
Visit floating villages
Besides gorgeous beaches and magnificent caves, Halong Bay is also renowned for its ancient floating villages - a distinctive feature of the locals here.
Coming here, you will feel the rustic and peaceful space of life. Chatting with them, you can understand more about their interesting culture through traditional customs or learn how to fish by a net.
Vung Vieng, Cua Van or Ba Hang fishing village are the most popular ones that tourists cannot miss in their Halong Bay cruise trip.
Mountain climbing
Not only intrigued by the charming beauty, but Halong Bay with diverse and dangerous terrain is also a challenge for tourists who love mountain climbing. If you are a fan of this extreme sport, surely the thorny cliffs and gliding corners of the mountains and caves here will give you a desire to conquer.
The best Halong Bay cruises
Top 5-star cruises
- Paradise Elegance Cruise
- Orchid Cruise
- La Regina Royal Cruise
- Hera Cruise
- Dragon Legend Cruise
- Starlight Cruise
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- Lavender Cruise
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- Rosa Cruise
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What else are you looking for? Let's take a trip and come to Halong right now to get a memorable time with your family and friends.


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLegendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman that combines crime, superstition, and tradition and brings the desert Southwest vividly alive.Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact-a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe?s been hired to find a missing biil, a traditional dress that had been donated to the Navajo Nation. His investigation takes a sinister turn when the leading suspect dies under mysterious circumstances and Leaphorn himself receives anonymous warnings to beware-witchcraft is afoot.While the veteran detective is busy working to untangle his strange case, his former colleague Jim Chee and Officer Bernie Manuelito are collecting evidence they hope will lead to a cunning criminal behind a rash of burglaries. Their case takes a complicated turn when Bernie finds a body near a popular running trail. The situation grows more complicated when the death is ruled a homicide, and the Tribal cops are thrust into a turf battle because the murder involves the FBI. As Leaphorn, Chee, and Bernie draw closer to solving these crimes, their parallel investigations begin to merge . . . and offer an unexpected opportunity that opens a new chapter in Bernie?s life.Review?Hillerman?s writing becomes stronger with every new installment in the series, deepening the development of each character. Fans will be intrigued by the intertwining stories that keep them guessing. The picturesque Southwest, as well as the history of the Navajo, come through on each page.? -- Library Journal (starred review)?The Tale Teller is more than just a police procedural set in the Southwest, it?s a reading experience not to be missed. Anne Hillerman has reached a new level of storytelling in this one, and she deserves recognition as one of the finest mystery authors currently working in the genre.? -- New York Journal of Books?A natural hit with Hillerman?s many fans;
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The Carl Zeiss Foundation is the sole shareholder of Carl Zeiss AG and SCHOTT AG. The Foundation is not permitted to sell the shares of its two companies, as specified in the Foundation Statute. Because of this exceptional arrangement, ZEISS and SCHOTT have a unique company model.
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The Carl Zeiss Foundation is one of the oldest company-affiliated foundations in Germany. Its main function is to ensure the long-term future of the two foundation companies and the promotion of science.
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Among the many snacks you can find in the aisles of Trader Joe's is an icon of sweet and salty goodness: the peanut butter pretzel. It's a combination so tasty, famed food writer Ruth Reichl once raved, "You haven't lived until you've tried the two together."
But the beloved treats aren't just treasures for the palate — they're a pretty lucrative business worth millions of dollars. And now, Trader Joe's is being sued for allegedly cornering the market on the snack.
The plaintiff is Maxim Marketing, a Southern California company that claims to have invented the peanut butter pretzel in the early 1980s. And for more than 25 years, Maxim claims, it supplied the grocery chain with the snack, which is sold under the private Trader Joe's label. But Maxim says the retailer switched suppliers to packaged food giant ConAgra Foods, unfairly cutting it out of the business it pioneered. So Maxim is suing both companies, explains journalist Alfred Lee, who wrote about the lawsuit for the Los Angeles Business Journal.
"They're suing for alleged breach of contract and also alleging the existence of a peanut butter pretzel monopoly," Lee tells Morning Edition host David Greene. "I realize that sounds kind of funny, but this isn't some bite-sized niche, if you will. It's a market worth tens of millions of dollars."
Maxim claims it sold Trader Joe's $9 million worth of peanut butter pretzels each year, and the grocer, in turn, sold the snacks at a gross markup of roughly 35 percent.
"Maxim is a middle man that doesn't own its own factories," Lee explains. The company used to work with various independent manufacturers to create the pretzel snacks. But over the years, "ConAgra has bought up most of the peanut butter pretzel manufacturing capability in the United States."
That means ConAgra is now pretty much the only game in town when it comes to making the snacks. Indeed, Maxim says it used ConAgra to manufacture the pretzels until Trader Joe's made a deal directly with ConAgra that cut Maxim out.
"Maxim is saying that this deal prevents them from essentially doing business," Lee says.
Trader Joe's, which is privately held, is famously tight-lipped. It does not disclose its suppliers, and it has not commented publicly on the lawsuit nor responded to it in court.
Of course, Trader Joe's has the right to use any supplier it wants. And one way the company has traditionally cut costs is by bypassing the middle man and going straight to the manufacturer when it comes to creating its own private-label foods. So, really, it's up to the court to decide whether any contract was indeed breached, and whether the deal between Trader Joe's and ConAgra really does crumble competition in the pretzel marketplace.
One of the lawsuit's most surprising revelations? Turns out, the peanut butter pretzel is a marvel of food manufacturing. The technology to make a hard pretzel shell stuffed with peanut butter didn't even exist until the 1980s, Lee says. It's a process called co-extrusion — basically, an outer tube pumps out pretzel dough, while an inner tube pumps out peanut butter filling onto a conveyor belt. The whole thing is then sliced up and baked in a giant 100-foot oven.
"It turns out that getting the mix right and the proportions right was pretty tricky," Lee says. "If there is too much water in the pretzel or the shell is too thin, the things will explode. And imagine having to clean a 100-foot oven full of peanut butter."
UPDATE Feb. 24: After this story was published, we received the following comment from ConAgra Foods:
"This lawsuit is baseless and built on false accusations, and despite the legal and PR maneuvers of the litigants, we are pleased to be able to provide consumers with great food at an affordable price."
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Musings: People Are Grieving
All this splendor was juxtaposed against a bright blue sky and a verdant landscape of green, creating such deep delight for the eye and the soul that it seemed impossible to feel anything save for complete and utter joy.
But earlier, on the radio, I'd heard Ka`iulani Huff crying, talking about how painful it was to live on Kauai and witness the ongoing disrespect and destruction, likening it to "a constant staph infection," yet not wanting to live anywhere else.
She was still reeling from the news that the KPD won't be able to prevent Joe Brescia from building atop burials at Haena because the law, it seems, is on his side. OHA, for what it's worth, has meanwhile jumped into the fray, writing to DLNR Chair Cynthia Thielen July 8 and asking her agency to issue a cease and desist order "against ongoing ground disturbance" at the site.
It's not the first time I've heard kanaka maoli, as well as others who care about the island, express similar sentiments — I've felt the same despair myself. It seems to me a lot of people are grieving on Kauai, and we tend to blame development, greed, corrupt and inept politicians and the other usual suspects.
Those are all factors, yet it's deeper than that, and Ka`iulani's guest, Henry Noa, prime minister of the Reinstated Hawaiian Nation, nailed it when he said: "All the hewa [mistakes, wrongs] comes from a foreign government occupying our lands."
For well over a century, kanaka have lived under this occupation, and for decades before that, their population was decimated and their culture suppressed by Westerners who inadvertently and deliberately did great harm.
This adds up to a lot of deep psychic wounding, and you don't just "get over it," as many have suggested they do. But there are those who don't want to dwell in victimhood, either, or incinerate themselves with fury, so they've chosen another alternative, and that's to work for change.
That's why thousands of kanaka are actively involved in sovereignty and independence activities, and many more are watching and listening from the sidelines, waiting for the right time to come onto the field.
A lot of non-kanaka scoff at them, or make derisive comments, but I can't help but wonder how many of the naysayers have devoted years of their own life to achieving anything but their own narrow self-serving interests?
Why is it so difficult for them to have some understanding of what kanaka have been through and what they're trying to accomplish? Why is it so hard for them to search their hearts and find some empathy and respect?
Over and over again in comments I see folks taking jabs at those who are trying to right wrongs or curb injustice, saying they're dreamers, troublemakers, meddlers who are wasting their time. But then I ran across this quote from Michael Josephson the other day, and it seemed to say it all: "People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world."
Shifting gears to the mayor's race, which is supposed to be all about people wanting to do the right thing, as in serving the public, etc., (yeah, right) I was struck by The Garden Island's coverage yesterday of Bernard Carvalho's announcement.
Proving that they're true political animals, Annette Baptiste and her four kids showed up at the County Building to pledge their support for Bernard, just a day after burying their husband and father. The show, it seems, must go on.
The other revealing nugget in that article was that Beth Tokioka, the county's director of economic development, is serving as the co-chair, with Lenny Rapozo, of Bernard's campaign. Does this mean he's the candidate of choice for those who want to keep their jobs for another two years?
While I imagine it's legal for Beth to take that position, or presumably she wouldn't be doing it, it somehow smacks of impropriety to have a top government official running a campaign while working for new mayor Kaipo Asing. Aside from the total lack of loyalty it conveys, there's also the question of whether other county workers will feel unduly pressured to participate in Bernard's campaign.
And then there's the question of just how much time Beth will be able to devote to her real job — working for the people of Kauai running the office of economic development — while she's trying to run a mayoral campaign.
Surely Bernard could have found someone else.
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- Anonymous said...
Katy Rose has posted an excerpt from the letter on Breaking the Spell. In it, OHA requests that the DLNR issue a cease and desist order "per Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) Section 6E-13, which allows the Attorney General to bring an action for restraining order and injunction relief to restrain and enjoin violations or threatened violations of this chapter."
But the attorney general has apparently already determined that 6E has not been violated.
What I don't understand is why OHA doesn't ask the DLNR to exercise its powers under 6E-3 of "Acquisition of burial sites... by gift, purchase, condemnation, devise, bequest, land exchange, or other means, to be held in trust"?
The owner has already signaled that he is amenable to being bought out.
I don't get it. Why doesn't anyone who wants to preserve the site pursue the one legal remedy that might actually accomplish that purpose? - July 10, 2008 at 8:48 AM
- Anonymous said...
Charlie - I think it comes down to "why pay for it if you can get it for free?" Apparently, OHA wants the State to buy it rather than themselves. To me this isn't right since it's a group of Hawaiians and their supporters who are so desperate to protect the site, not the citizens of the State as a whole. OHA ought to make an offer to Brescia. The purpose would seem to be in line with their mandate.
- July 10, 2008 at 10:11 AM
- Anonymous said...
Maybe they don't want the speculator to profit off of a cultural site--which might set an undesirable precedent. I think the perception is that the people shouldn't have to buy back what should've been in the public domain (shouldn't have been sold, essentially).
But I an not kanaka, nor have I been following the arguments too closely. I have said I support the buying out, on the condition there isn't too much speculation profit--ideally none. - July 10, 2008 at 2:11 PM
- Anonymous said...
Sure. Bresca now has all the law on his side and has made a substantial investment in the property over and above the purchase price over the years, especially if legal fees are included.
If I were him, I'd only consider selling if they covered every cent of my total expenditures involved in all aspects of holding this land so far PLUS a profit margin of at least 15%
AND, the "coverage of expense" part not related to land purchase price must be ramped up by whatever estimated tax he would have to pay on that amount so that the after-tax dollars to him were equal to what he actually paid out. - July 10, 2008 at 2:20 PM
- Anonymous said...
That sounds reasonable. Then he would basically break even on "cost of ownership" plus a fair land margin profit.
Why should he have to lose? - July 10, 2008 at 2:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
Right on.
If they want the land, let them put their money where their mouth is. - July 10, 2008 at 2:23 PM
- Anonymous said...
Grieving Schmiving.
Buy 'em out...don't cry 'em out. - July 10, 2008 at 2:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
Anon wrote -- Why should he have to lose?
Because he's a slimeball who has been encroaching on the public beach and a land speculator, and this time the deal went sour. You win some, you lose some. The $6 million profit he made building another spec house down the road should help ease the sting. - July 10, 2008 at 2:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
If the property were to be condemned, Brescia would be entitled to the fair value of the property, no more or less.
- July 10, 2008 at 2:32 PM
- Larry said...
My parents are buried in Queens, New York. If anyone tried to build a house on top of them I'd be angry as hell.
In fact, it wouldn't happen, because no one would think to do it.
Yet somehow this is ok in Hawaii. - July 10, 2008 at 2:33 PM
- Anonymous said...
> If I were him, I'd only consider selling if they covered every cent of my total expenditures involved in all aspects of holding this land so far PLUS a profit margin of at least 15% <
Ah, yes -- the voice of the hands who hold the land. The self righteous philosophy of those who will do what's right for everyone, so long as the price is right for them. - July 10, 2008 at 2:33 PM
- Anonymous said...
sounds like a "win-win" to me.
- July 10, 2008 at 2:44 PM
- Anonymous said...
konak, didn't i read on one of the blogs that you work for the government? hope you're not blogging on the taxpayer's dime. you know how some of these anonymouses feel about spending public $ for frivolous things.
- July 10, 2008 at 2:51 PM
- Anonymous said...
There's no question that the owner gets fair market value for the property if he is not allowed to build. That's determined by the U.S. Constitution and opinions of whether he deserves it or not are irrelevant.
- July 10, 2008 at 4:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
> There's no question that the owner gets fair market value for the property if he is not allowed to build. <
Fair market value for buried souls being...? - July 10, 2008 at 5:32 PM
- Larry said...
I wonder what the purchaser's responsibility is to check that it's not a graveyard that is being purchased. In other words, if there are remains in such large numbers that the question of desecration could arise, then the purchaser has decided to assume the risk that it's ok to buy and build.
In that case, no one owes this guy anything. That is, if it was his responsibility to check first. - July 10, 2008 at 6:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
> sounds like a "win-win" to me. <
Funny how all the winners seem to be the off-islanders.
What do the home folks win? - July 10, 2008 at 6:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
i am certain that recompense will happen. sometimes (pick one: the wheel of karma, divine retribution, u ku) seems slow to us mortals.
- July 10, 2008 at 7:36 PM
- Anonymous said...
The homeowner may not have any obligation to identify how many remains are on his land, but the burial council (And all state agencies) have an obligation to protect Hawaiian cultural resources to the extent feasible. In order to fulfill that obligation (before they can even begin to analyze the feasiblity of protection), they first have to know what resources are there. OHA's letter alleges that the Kaua'i/Ni'ihau Burial council failed in this respect.
- July 10, 2008 at 8:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
when do we get to see a picture of Koko posted?
- July 10, 2008 at 8:18 PM
- Anonymous said...
The state buying out land with burials at fair market value (via condemnation) is nothing new. That's why the Ritz Carlton on Maui is where it is: the state bought out the original shoreline hotel parcel after all the burials were found (Honokahua). That cost millions.
- July 10, 2008 at 9:35 PM
- Anonymous said...
Whether to buy out the owners is a question of whether one wants to actually preserve burial sites or just wants to stick it to "rich foreigners."
- July 10, 2008 at 9:42 PM
- Joan Conrow said...
Anon wrote:
when do we get to see a picture of Koko posted?
I'll see if I can get a good photo of her. She's generally in motion, so hard to photograph. - July 11, 2008 at 5:54 AM
- Anonymous said...
> Whether to buy out the owners is a question of whether one wants to actually preserve burial sites or just wants to stick it to "rich foreigners." <
Might there be any other reasons you can think of?
Think really hard now.... :) - July 11, 2008 at 6:29 AM


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kcwc guest post: heather from well crafted
It's hard to really get a sense of someone over the interwebs, but I think if Heather lived anywhere near me I would be on her doorstep quite often. She does so much, so well: mothering, cooking, sewing, knitting, dying, and a good deal more. All of it is done with a simple, "hey what if I did this" attitude. Then whatever she ends up making is perfectly stunning. You can see all of her work on her blog, well-crafted.
Hey there! I'm honored to be included as a guest here on elsiemarley and am really looking forward to KCWC next week. My plan is to stick with making things my girl will really need and wear this summer. Since she pretty much only lives in knit tops and leggings, it was perfect that I got to give the Flashback Skinny Tee pattern a whirl! Because the pattern only goes to size 5, I had originally thought I'd give away the finished tee but it ended up fitting L perfectly and so we are both happy about that!
This pattern is an excellent basic. I stuck with a fairly straightforward version of it, with the only changes being the band at the bottom (really into that right now) and short sleeves. Oh the things you could do with this: asymmetrical hems, boat-neck, flared out and turned into a dress with elastic at the waist, shorten it and add a dirndle skirt (maybe using a woven). The possibilities are endless.
My big box of knits got dragged out from under the cutting table and despite it's being full of beautiful col0rs, we went with this white one for two reasons: 1. It was the softest. 2. I had white thread in my serger. Three cheers for laziness!! To spice things up we did a little freezer paper stencil design on the front. I cut out tiny triangles in a grid pattern and we took turns painting each row to create a rainbow effect. We used this fabric ink instead of paints which turned out really nice.
It was good to sew with a knit fabric again—it's been a while for me. Although I am still doing battle with the "ripple effect" around the sleeve holes, I refuse to let that get in my way of creating a summer wardrobe full of knits for my comfort-loving girl! Maybe I'll even use this pattern as the basis for all the clothes I make next week. That might be cool…
Don't forget to check back each day this week for more KCWC inspiration.
Thanks again for having me Meg!


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Damian Loeb (born 1970) is a self-taught American painter. Growing up in Connecticut, he moved to New York City in 1989.
Loeb had his first solo show in 1999 at the Mary Boone Gallery. He is now represented by Acquavella Galleries in New York and has had international solo and group shows at galleries and museums, including White Cube in London, Jablonka Galerie in Cologne, the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, and a 2006 retrospective at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut.
His work has consistently explored the dialogue of narrative tropes in an image soaked contemporary environment. Early works used found imagery collaged to create new contexts from photojournalism and advertising. Successive shows moved on to use and explore cinematic stills as the source of a visual collective consciousness.
Having taught himself photography in recent years, his latest body of work takes the dialogue to the next step by incorporating the vocabulary of cinematography and the expediency of his original photographs as inspiration for the new paintings.
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Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences, subconsciously culled from the ever abundant and exponentially growing library of both digital and analogue film and print media -- always just a click away. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers. Art becomes about history and aesthetics or it is purely an esoteric intellectual pursuit if it doesn't address this new way of seeing. The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed. The images for the new show are a reflection of an idealized world filtered through the demands of eyes expecting momentous personal experiences to be composed like a Hollywood blockbuster -- romance to look like a French film from the 60's and fearto look like John Carpenter's Halloween. To quote Johnny Rotten,"This is what you want; this is what you get."
In creating the images I used as the basis for this collection, I shot all the time; constantly looking through the camera instead of over it, searching for what has now become universally familiar, the eye of the director. Focusing on both the narrative and scene setting, but careful to never interfere through instruction or forced lighting, I eventually managed to find ways to compose and capture these very specific "personal film stills". These images are solidified and codified through the act of painting them on canvas where they can be viewed as a new chapter in a conversation exemplified by artists as diverse as Vermeer, Balthus, Millais, and Eric Fischl, as well as the theatrical visions of the Lumiere brothers and the language created by master directors like Hitchcock, Kubrick, and Spielberg.


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2016 continues to be a year of losses. Below we visit three people whose work has influenced our diverse interests here at CatSynth and who passed away since this holiday weekend.
[By Dontworry (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons]
Alphonse Mouzon was one of the important early artists in jazz fusion, and performed with many of our musical heroes, including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Gil Evans. In 1971, he joined Wayne Shorter and the rest of Weather Report for their debut album Weather Report. The band has a mixed history – something we should write about on another occasion – but those first albums in the early 1970s have a sound that were quite influential and resonate with those of us who love jazz fusion of that era. You can hear some Mouzon's 1971 work with Weather Report in this video:
Vera Rubin is a name that should be better known that it is in popular culture, as her contributions to cosmology and astronomy are central to our current understanding of the universe. Her work made the case for dark matter and its prevalence in the universe. It was another step in the process of understanding our place in the universe. The earth, then the sun, then the galaxy, all became just small and non-centrals parts in a much larger universe; and the discovery of dark matter showed that the "stuff we are made of", the ordinary baryonic matter (all the chemical elements and such that we learn about in school) is only a small portion of the mass-energy of the universe. Dark matter has since been eclipsed by dark energy in terms of cosmological composition.
In addition to the grand perspective, Rubin's work helped us understand why galaxies like our own Milky Way are shaped the way they are and move the way that they do. She was also a strong advocate for women in science, not just in her own career and field but overall in terms of advocacy in inspiration.
[By Riccardo Ghilardi photographer (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons]
From great science facts we move to great science fiction. Star Wars is one of the important mythologies in contemporary world, and many of us who saw the original movie in 1977 remember it vividly. While Carrie Fisher was not one of the comedic droids or Darth Vader, her character Princess Leia was important to the story in ways a kindergarten-age kid couldn't quite fathom at the time. What also makes Fisher particularly interesting is how she presented herself, flaws and all, completely outside of the mythology of Star Wars. She was brutally honest and with a dark, dry sense of humor that came out in real life and in Princess Leia. Indeed, after she reprised the role for Episode VII, she was very up front taking on the trolls who mocked for simply doing what we all do: age. Her semi-autobiographical Postcards from the Edge was an accidental discovery in a video store – I liked seeing women leading a dark story, and only afterwords realized that Fisher wrote the screenplay and the original book.
We at CatSynth send our regards to the families of Alphonse Mouzon, Vera Rubon, and Carrie Fisher; and to all those taken by 2016.


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The user enters a list of the URLs to the products they're considering purchasing from an Amazon-store, press submit and get a list back of which items are in stock, where the item is the cheapest and what the total sum of an order placed at the store would be. In addition I added a alpha stage feature just before Christmas which will also tell you the "optimum" set of items for the orders – "order item 1,4,7,9 from .com, item 2,3,5,6,8 from .co.uk". This took quite a bit of hacking – you also have to consider the initial price of shipping, shipping for each item and other fun things.
Feel free to play with it over at mismi.e-mats.org. It's in Norwegian, but it should be easy to understand anyhow with the description above.