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MSI GV62 7RD Review
- Build2.5
- Design5.0
- Performance5.0
- Display3.5
- Heat Management5.0
MSI GV62 7RD is the latest addition to GV series of gaming laptops. Just recently they have started marketing their gaming notebooks and other accessories in India. MSI is relatively unknown to many Indian consumers but gaming community has known MSI since some time. I was in search of a good laptop with high end specs as I needed it for video editing and I spotted the Launch day deal on this MSI GV62 7RD and grabbed it for as low as Rs 55,000. The MRP of this laptop is Rs 79,999. You ca buy it here . Lets go through the specifications first.
MSI GV62 7RD Specifications
- 15.6″ FHD 1920*1080p TN Display, wide-view
- 7th gen. core i7 7700HQ processor
- NVIDIA GTX 1050 4GB graphics card
- 8GB DDR4 RAM , 2400 MHz
- 1TB 5200 RPM hard disk drive
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- Nahimic 2+ 3D surround sound technology
- Only 2.2kg
MSI GV62 7RD : Build & Design
Despite being a gaming notebook MSI has managed to keep the weight at 2.2kg only. This is possible due to amount of plastic used is very high and plastic quality should have been better. Everything is made of plastic but the good thing is that plastic is matte and gives metallic feel. The display is supported by two hinges and it doesn't feel strong.Overall the build quality of this laptop is below average in my honest opinion.
Design wise MSI GV62 7RD has kept all the featues of gaming laptop such as effective cooling system,ports and outputs. On the right side you get a power plug slot, 3 in one memory card slot and a USB 2.0 port. No CD/DVD drive slot. On the left side you get two USB 3.0 ports ,a USB 3.1 Type C port for faster file transfer, HDMI, RJ45 ethernet port and a 3.5mm audio jack alongside microphone jack.
On the front bottom side you get 3 LED notification lights and two 2W speakers. At the bottom side you can clearly see the inside parts and a sub-woofer . This gaming notebook has lots of space open for airflow which also means that there will be dust deposition as well. Inside you have a heat sync pipe which allows the two exhausts to throw out air very efficiently. Design wise it has left no stone unturned. It has a design of a true gaming notebook.
MSI GV62 7RD : Steelseries keyboard & controls
Steel series keyboard is one of my most favorite features of this gaming notebook. Typing is such a delight and has a really good feedback to it. You have to experience for yourself to see how good quality this keyboard is! The keyboard is backlit illuminated and has only red color illumination. Many higher end gaming notebooks from MSI have RGB backlit illumination and you can play with the colors all you want. I wish this notebook had this feature. The keyboard is full size keyboard and it will take some time to get used to the new function keys and controls.
Above the keyboard you get 3 dedicated buttons – One for on & off, dragon center one tap launch and turbo fan speed button. If you are playing a graphics intensive game and you think that the temperature of CPU and GPU is very high then you can use the turbo fan speed button to cool down your notebook. It works as expected. I tried mining bitcoin on this notebook and the temperature rose to 63 degree celsius and the turbo fan was able to bring down the temperature to 56 degree celsius within 3-4 minutes.Touchpad quality is really good and sensitivity is also good.
MSI GV62 7RD : Display
I was really worried while buying this laptop as digit stated that it has really bad viewing angles and color shift is terrible. But to my surprise, the color shifting is not that bad and is certainly better than Macbook air 2017. The display used in MSI GV62 7RD is a 1080p (1920*1080) FHD TN panel. This is not an IPS LCD panel so the colors are not vibrant and vivid. Yes, there is color shift but it is not that bad. It has an anti glare matte screen which means you can view screen opposite to a light source without any issue. The display brightness is great. I always use 0 brightness at home as it is easier on eyes. The display can be very much brighter if you want it to be. One of the reasons why gaming notebooks use TN display instead of a IPS LCD panel is its load time. TN display has a response time as low as 1ms and IPS LCD has a frequency response of 10ms . This lag can improve gaming experience but not the day to day use. Overall the display quality is good for gaming and readind stuff but not good for watching movies or editing photoshop. You can always use external monitors to make use of the beast processing power while editing.
MSI GV62 7RD : Performance
One thing that this MSI GV62 7RD excels at is performance. This gaming notebook packs a lot of firepower inside with 7th gen. intel core i7 7700HQ processor which is clocked at 2.8GHz and can go up to 3.8GHz when turbo boosted. This beast CPU is supported by amazing NVIDIA GTX 1050 GPU with 4GB memory. It has 8GB of RAM and can be expanded up to 32GB via the two slots. Boot times are fast and apps open and close quickly. I tried playing GTA V with high settings and it played it pretty smoothly. I also edited and rendered 4k videos on this MSI GV62 7RD and had no issues while editing or rendering. The cooler Boost 4 technology always keeps temperature of laptop in check and you can always use that turbo fan switch when it starts to get hot.
The audio quality via headphones is great and microphones work perfectly fine. The sound quality via the speakers is loud but it is sharp and lacks depth and bass. Speakers sound like typical gaming laptop. Webcam quality is below average. There is neither optical DVD slot nor an external SSD slot but you do get a m.2 SSD slot after opening the bottom panel.Overall the performance from this laptop is outstanding and this was the sole reason I bought this laptop despite its some other cons.
MSI GV62 7RD : Battery
This notebook has a 6 cell battery and I don't know how much mAh it packs. The battery lasts for around 3-4 hours depending on your usage. This is a gaming notebook , so expect faster battery drain and shorter battery life in future. It has a 135W power charger adapter to draw the required electricity to run all those graphic intensive tasks. One big drawback is that the battery is under the bottom panel which means you can not replace it easily. Overall the battery life is satisfactory as of now.
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The MSI GV62 7RD is a really good gaming notebook with great performance and power it packs. The only downsides are the build quality, webcam quality and no display quality. The are many good gaming laptops available at the price of Rs 79,999 like Asus FX553VD , Acer predator helios. Look for the offer and grab one of these laptops . If you have any questions on this laptop feel free to ask them in comment section. YOU might want to buy hyperx gears of war headphones with any of your gaming laptop.


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Rob thought: A vicious little prick.
He stared at the splinter, embedded in the palm of his hand.
"Ah, yes, the bannister needs seeing to," said Oldman, butler to Mr & Mrs Shockerly, owners of Rural Towers, "I'm sure you're the sort of man who can do that," he said over his shoulder as he continued up the wide, rickety oak staircase. Rob sensed a mocking tone under the cheerfulness.
Lady Barton St Mary, known locally as Lady BSM, glanced over at Rob. She held a quizzical expression, as if trying to decide whether Rob was that sort of man. Rob, in return, swallowed the growing lump in his throat.
"I think we're going to be happy here," she announced, following the tall, balding valet.
Rural Towers sat atop a hill overlooking the village. The local kids called it 'the big scary house where old people live.' A large, gothic three storey rectory, built in the 1840s, it gazed impassively down onto the surrounding gardens. Like an elderly person with a tendency to stare too long, the whole place was slightly disconcerting. What added to its menace was the fact that the house had been neglected; no repairs or improvements, no alterations or projects had been undertaken for more than 40 years.
The local kids may have thought it was scary, but their parents and older residents in the village simply called it 'The Overlooked Hotel.'
Now, nearly six years after the splinter incident, the family were doing their best to make something of The Overlooked. Obviously, the staff helped, but Lady BSM was insistent that Rob did his best to use his DIY skills on the old place.
Rob had seen it as an opportunity to turn his life around. Moving away from the old home, with its close proximity to Bargain Booze, meant his drinking habit could be contained. Of course, Rob was fairly confident that he never overindulged, but Lady BSM insisted that receiving a Christmas card and 'We miss you' postcards from a discount off licence was not a common practice.
Also, being stuck out in the middle of the country, protected from the villagers by a high, electrified security fence, meant that Rob had plenty of thinking time to write his blogs. That was, when he wasn't painting something. Or putting something back together.
He'd enjoyed teaching, but the paperwork and the bargain booze finally saw him snap one day and he lost his job. It had taken 3 hrs for paramedics to get the poor admin manager to hospital. The surgeon stated that he'd never seen a rolled up enrolment form stuck so far up somebody's backside before.
The sale had been fairly painless, although neither Lady BSM or Rob had met Mr and Mrs Shockerly. There had been rumours of Mr Shockerly suffering some form of breakdown and Mrs Shockerly and their twin girls disappearing, but that's all it seemed to be, just rumours.
Miss Katherine and Master Johnny, Rob and Lady BSM's children, had settled in well. Miss Katherine spent a lot of time travelling, mainly into town where she spent a lot of time with friends. She had become a very astute vodka aficionado, sampling different varieties across the town several evenings a week, occasionally returning to The Overlooked for fresh clothes and meals.
Master Johnny took a little longer to settle. He had an imaginary friend called Tony, who seemed to advise Johnny on his best course of action. Tony insisted that Master Johnny looked for a new direction. Tony was also responsible for Master Johnny's frequent showering.
"Another shower?" Lady BSM commented one afternoon.
"Yes, Mother. Tony says not only should we be tough on grime, we should also be tough on the causes of grime," explained Master Johnny.
"I see," said Lady BSM rather doubtfully.
"Yes. Tony says the three most important areas are ablution, ablution and ablution."
Neither she nor Rob were surprised when one day Master Johnny announced that Tony had left him to take up a rather lucrative public speaking tour followed by a consultancy position in the Middle East.
It was around this time that Master Johnny was encouraged to take an active role in helping around the house, something he disliked intensely.
"Aww! Why do I have to do this!"
"Errrr!! It's sooo booring!"
"I'd so much rather be doing something else…"
Parslow, the groundsman, found Johnny in the garden, complaining about having to collect logs for the fire. Parslow invited Johnny into the garden shed, where he made him a cup of tea and gave him a nip of whisky whilst listening to his grievances.
"Boy, Ah think ah know what's different 'bout you," said Parslow.
"Yous like yaw daddy, yous like me, yous has da Whining," he explained, putting a hand on Johnny's shoulder.
"Awl da time, whining 'bout da jobs yous hava do.Whining 'bout yer aches an' yer pains…"
Johnny looked askance at Parslow, a short, ruddy faced little man from the West Country, with a check shirt, rolled up sleeves, moleskin trousers and wellingtons.
"Why are you talking like a black man from the deep south?" he asked him.
Parslow stared off into the middle distance.
"Jus' seems right, son. Just'seems right."
Later that day, as Master Johnny skateboarded along the corridor, he was confronted by a huge wave of blood heading his way. He managed to flee before it reached him. Rob, who had been up a ladder painting one wall red, was unaware that Johnny had dislodged the floorboard that caused him to fall off.
This was all too much for Rob, who'd landed on his head. Dazed, he stumbled down the stairs, collecting another splinter in his hand from the bannister. He started to feel dizzy as he entered the drawing room, to find Ollie the cat standing behind a bar, wearing a bow tie and polishing a wine glass.
"Evening, Sir. The usual?" asked Ollie.
Bugger me, thought Rob. A talking cat.
"I try not to drink these days, Pussykins," Rob explains.
"Go on. Just have the one," says a voice sitting next to him. Rob turns to face Stanley the cat. He has a sly grin and a cigarette lolling out of the side of his mouth.
'Scratching the furniture and smoking in the house – Lady BSM will make you into a handbag when she finds you,' thinks Rob.
Rob licks his lips and smiles back.
"I suppose one won't matter.
Ollie elaborately presents a bright blue cocktail and places it on the bar. Rob takes a sip. It contains so much vodka it would make a Magaluf barman wince.
Rob peers around the drawing room.
"Quiet tonight, Ollie," he says.
"Yes sir, but they'll all be in later. All the other husbands and men of the house who live here."
"You mean lived here," Rob says, winking at Ollie.
Ollie stares impassively back before yawning widely.
"No. They all still live here. Like you. You've always been here. You're the DIY man."
A small chill runs down Rob's back, his eyes widen and he fixes Ollie with an intense stare. He picks up his colourful tipple and pours it down his throat in one swift move, the vodka forming a warm channel in his chest. He squeezes his eyes shut for a moment and shakes his head.
"Is this all a dream?" Rob whispers.
Ollie's eyes narrow as they fix on Rob.
"I'm a cat. I'm wearing a bow tie. I'm polishing a glass. I have opposable thumbs. What the bloody hell do you think?"
Rob looks at Stanley, who shrugs, before turning his attention back to Oliie.
The bartending pussy leans forward. Rob does the same.
"Now," says the feline, "we're at 1,168 words already. Go and chop your family into little pieces."
Rob wakes up on the sofa to find his laptop next to him, his latest blog on view. It reads:
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Meanwhile, Lady BSM is sitting on the bed reading 'Homes and Gardens' when Master Johnny stumbles in, wet and in shock. She notices the terrible bruises around his neck and leaps up to embrace him.
"What happened to my poor little boy!" she cries.
He replays the events of the past few minutes over and over in his head:
Heading towards the door, knowing it would be dangerous to enter. His arm rising, his hand pushing the unlatched door back on its hinges, the hazy, naked figure behind the opaque shower curtain, suddenly rushing at him, her icy, cold hands around his throat, squeezing, squeezing, him kicking hard to get away…
Miss Katherine suddenly crashes into the room.
"Johnny! I told you Oonagh was in the shower! What were you thinking! Oh and by the way, mum, the water's freezing again, can dad fix it?"
Lady BSM absent mindedly stroked Johnny's hair, considering.
"Well, with this thick snow, it would be difficult to get to B & Q. But we could have a go."
Johnny at this point starts to shake. He emits a low, croaking sound.
"Eck Nan et name. Eck Nan at name," he appears to chant.
Miss Katherine and Lady BSM exchange looks as they hear heavy footsteps on the stairs. Miss Katherine moves over to the door and peers out. Her father, looking rather dazed and angry, is lumbering up the stairs with an axe.
"Ooeer, dad's in one of his moods, let's hide, Johnny. Mum will sort him out."
"Eck Nan et name," says Johnny, writing something on Lady BSM's Period Homes magazine before disappearing out of the door with his sister.
Lady BSM picks up the magazine and reads Master Johnny's scribble.
Ec nan et naim.
She frowns and concentrates on the words, using all her crossword skills. As the bedroom door opens, she realises that it makes just one word.
Ecnanetnaim. But it's backwards.
Ecnanetnaim = Maintenance.
Rob is standing in the doorway, breathing heavily. It had all become too much. The painting, the wallpaper stripping, the leaking roof, the burst pipes, the blocked drains, the paint swatches, the fabric samples, the unbalanced central heating system, the wobbly floor tiles, the K word… the K word!!!
He glares at Lady BSM with wild eyes.
"Here's JOHNNY!!!" he bellows, raising the axe.
Lady BSM stands up straight and strides across to her demented husband. She touches him lightly on the arm.
"No," she says calmly, "you're not Johnny. Johnny is your son. He has the whining. But he'll grow out of it. I take it you're going out to chop up some logs?"
"You've brought a dirty old axe into the bedroom. Now take it downstairs and make a start. Miss Katherine and I are going to B&Q, if we can get through the snow.
A few minutes later, Rob finds himself in the garden by the woodpile, holding on tightly to the axe handle, sitting on a freezing log with a resigned look on his face. Lady BSM's car moves silently away through the thick snow.
Inside The Overlooked, the faint sounds of a swing band drifted out through the draughty windows, an image of a grainy photograph of Rob and Ollie in a dinner suit hanging in the hall…


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Delta ends sponsorship over Trump look-alike killing scene
- Author: Larry Hoffman Jun 12, 2017,
Jun 12, 2017, 8:12
The Public Theater chose to present Julius Caesar "in a way that was meant to provoke and offend". And while nobody ever mentions Donald Trump by name, the similarities between Caesar and the POTUS are glaringly obvious.
The decision to inject a Trump look-alike into the leading role in "Julius Caesar" is a provocative one, given both the famous assassination scene and a nude scene in the show.
The bank tweeted a statement Sunday night saying it's withdrawing its funding for the Public Theater's production of "Julius Caesar". The chief talking point, however, has been its portrayal of Caesar, played by Gregg Henry, who sports yellowish blonde hair, a Trump-style suit and extra-long red tie, with his wife Calpurnia styled as a sleek Slavic beauty.
"Julius Caesar" is one of the shows at this year's "Shakespeare in the Park" and the characters look eerily familiar.
Henry, who already played a Trump stand-in on "Scandal" past year, models his Caesar nearly perfectly after the man in the Oval Office. Caesar, a Roman leader, comes to a bad end when he is assassinated by fellow politicians fearful of his growing power and tyranny. "I think it's interesting, the analogies between ancient Roman politics and the politics of the United States now ..." If anything, it would seem to be more in line with the network's ethos to take umbrage with the implication that women and minorities don't like Trump, as opposed to being offended by the accuracy of a scenario in which women and minorities don't like a possible Trump stand-in. He meets his end after being stabbed to death by women and minorities on stage.
The Latest on Delta Airlines ending sponsorship over New York City's theater's Trump look-alike assassination scene.
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Director Oskar Eustis replaces the Roman's toga and crown for a business suit and golden haircut in a more modern retelling of the classic tragedy. "The institutions that we have grown up with, that we have inherited from the struggle of many generations of our ancestors, can be swept away in no time at all".
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Visual Acuity – the ability to see objects clearly and sharply. Visual acuity assesses central vision and represents the function of the cornea, iris (pupil size), lens, and retina. the snellen chart, which presents lines of letters of diminishing size, is the standard measure of visual acuity. Environmental factors that influence visual acuity include lighting and contrast.
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Western concepts of God have ranged from the detached transcendent demiurge of Aristotle to the pantheism of Spinoza. Nevertheless, much of western thought about God has fallen within some broad form of theism. Theism is the view that God is unlimited with regard to knowledge (omniscience), power (omnipotence), extension (omnipresence), and moral perfection; and is the creator and sustainer of the universe. Though regarded as sexless, God has traditionally been referred to by the masculine pronoun. Concepts of God in philosophy are entwined with concepts of God in religion. This is most obvious in figures like Augustine and Aquinas, who sought to bring more rigor and consistency to concepts found in religion. Others, like Leibniz and Hegel, interacted constructively and deeply with religious concepts. Even those like Hume and Nietzsche, who criticized the concept of God, dealt with religious concepts. While Western philosophy has interfaced most obviously with Christianity, Judaism and Islam have had some influence. The orthodox forms of all three religions have embraced theism, though each religion has also yielded a wide array of other views. Philosophy has shown a similar variety. For example, with regard to the initiating cause of the world, Plato and Aristotle held God to be the crafter of uncreated matter. Plotinus regarded matter as emanating from God. Spinoza, departing from his judaistic roots, held God to be identical with the universe, while Hegel came to a similar view by reinterpreting Christianity. Issues related to Western concepts of God include the nature of divine attributes and how they can be known, if or how that knowledge can be communicated, the relation between such knowledge and logic, the nature of divine causality, and the relation between the divine and the human will.
Sources of Western Concepts of God
Sources of western concepts of the divine have been threefold: experience, revelation, and reason. Reported experiences of God are remarkably varied and have produced equally varied concepts of the divine being. Experiences can be occasioned by something external and universally available, such as the starry sky, or by something external and private, such as a burning bush. Experiences can be internal and effable, such as a vision, or internal and ineffable, as is claimed by some mystics. Revelation can be linked to religious experience or a type of it, both for the person originally receiving it and the one merely accepting it as authoritative. Those who accept its authority typically regard it as a source of concepts of the divine that are more detailed and more accurate than could be obtained by other means. Increasingly, the modern focus has been on the complexities of the process of interpretation (philosophical hermeneutics) and the extent to which it is necessarily subjective. Revelation can be intentionally unconnected to reason such that it is accepted on bare faith (fideism; cf. Kierkegaard), or at the other extreme, can be grounded in reason in that it is accepted because and only insofar as it is reasonable (cf., Locke). Reason has been taken as ancillary to religious experience and revelation, or on other accounts, as independent and the sole reliable source of concepts of God.
Each of the three sources of concepts of God has had those who regard it as the sole reliable basis of our idea of the divine. By contrast, others have regarded two or three of the sources as interdependent and mutually reinforcing. Regardless of these differing approaches, theism broadly construed has been a dominant theme for much of the history of Western thought.
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Working from Judaism, Maimonides (1135-1204) accepted creation rather than an eternal universe. He drew from philosophic traditions to formulate three proofs based on the nature of God, and these were developed further by Aquinas. Following Aristotle Maimonides demonstrated the existence of a Prime Mover, and with some inspiration from Avicenna, the existence of a necessary being. He also showed God to be a primary cause. Though he considered God's existence demonstrable, he held that nothing positive could be said about God.
Monotheism maintains that there is one God. To this Christianity adds that there is a threefold distinction within one God. Stated roughly, God is one substance in three persons. Aquinas argued that there cannot be two gods because neither would be absolutely perfect since one would have a quality that the other lacked (Summa Theologica Ia, 11, 3). Richard Swinburne says that theism is a simpler hypothesis than polytheism, the latter positing more beings with various capabilities and relations. Theism is therefore more likely since simpler hypotheses turn out to be true more often. Moreover, the universe exhibits a unity, in its universal natural laws for example. This unity argues for one deity as its originator (The Existence of God, 1991, pp. 141-2).


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A Seattle ordinance that lets drivers for ride-hail services like Uber and Lyft unionize will remain on hold while the companies appeal a judge's ruling against their challenge to the law, the Ninth Circuit ordered ( Chamber of Commerce of the U.S. v. City of Seattle , 9th Cir., No. 17-35640, 8/29/17 ).
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Forgiving someone. Not as hard as forgiving yourself, but a challenge nevertheless. There are a few people I could put under this category. A perfect example would be my own father, who selfishly left my family behind only to succumb to a cocaine induced death back in 1986. I think I have made peace with that. He was a man-child, who never really wanted the ties of marriage to bind him let alone the children that came along with that commitment. I have let that one into my mind back and forth over many years and believe I have long since come to terms with the fact that the man lived the best way he knew how, fast and on the edge, and eventually died the same way. I have a lot of his traits only I feel I am stronger than he was and his death was an example to me of the road I could have taken had I not been more careful.
But, with this being Domestic Violence Awareness month, I carefully thought over the aspect of forgiveness. Some might be horrified by my choice, but for me, this just feels right. The person I am trying to forgive is Tony. If you are a long time reader of this blog, then you will know that Tony is the man I was with for 2 and a half years, who beat me within an inch of my life. It started with a slap in 1989 and ended with my being in the hospital in November of 1991, bleeding in my skull from a brain hemorrhage.
My story about Tony is told here:
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Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
For all these years, I couldn't bring myself to feel anything but hatred for this man. Now, nearly 20 years later, all I can do is feel pity. Pity for him. Pity for the fact that he had such a hard and traumatic childhood that he felt the need to take it out on the flesh and bones of a woman he supposedly loved. When people would ask me "is there anyone in this world that you absolutely hate," my answer would be Tony. Not even a pause. Not even a thought. It was something I had programmed my mouth to say.
Now I realize that hate is such a wasted emotion. I don't hate him any longer. When I think of him, it is with sadness. Nothing more. I used to have deep-seated regret stemming from my time with him. Now, I feel he has done me some what of a service. He has made me a much stronger woman, knowing I am capable of living through a situation that others might have died in. He let me know that I am the type of mother who would protect her children at all costs, no matter how horrible the situation might be. He made me an activist, working diligently for rights of women everywhere. He made me rise above, showed me how powerful I actually am and what I am capable of when cornered.
To me, forgiving him is the ultimate. It is like forgiving the person who stole your child from you. He stole a huge portion of my life. Not just the two years that he beat and battered me, but many years to follow. All the years of self-loathing. All the years of physical pain from my various injuries. All the mental and emotional pain that had to be treated by doctors dumping various and sundry drugs down my throat to right my wronged brain.
But now, all that is gone for me. And I think, if I ever encountered him now, I would do so without fear. I would be able to look him in his eyes and where once upon a time I might have asked "why", I find that that doesn't really matter any more. I would be able to tell him that I forgive him. He was a child of abuse and neglect. He related to me the only way he knew how, with fists rather than words. It was his only way of having power in his life, the power that was stripped from him as a little boy. I understand that now. I can empathize with him…
and I believe with empathy comes forgiveness. And Tony, I forgive you. My nightmares about you are long gone and I wake up every morning with a huge smile on my face, knowing what an amazing life I have since created for myself. I hope somewhere in the world, you are living the same way and are released of the demons that caused you to brutalize the things you loved best in all the world.
I wish you peace. I hope you have found it.
The thing I need to forgive myself for, well, I believe I have nearly achieved that. My drug addiction. The way it threw my entire family off kilter. The way it effected their lives, my life. The fact that I haven't fully recuperated from the post traumatic stress that comes along with being a recovering addict. I did this on my own. No country club rehab facility. I laid on a couch for nine long days, near death, punishing myself for what I had done to myself. I suffered purposely, to make each moment an agonizing one. I wanted to feel every ache, every pain, every cramp. I wanted to choke on my own vomit. I wanted my head to feel like it was going to implode. I wanted to bleed out of my eyes and ears. I prayed for a heart attack to shut me down for good, the pain…both emotional and physical were unbearable.
But I chose to feel it. I chose to go through it without the benefit of the hospital so I would never, ever forget what the pain of addiction did to me, to my family, to my friends, to my career. God was incapable of punishing me more than I was punishing myself.
Even now, I find myself dwelling on the fact that I lost nearly two full years of my life, first to addiction and then, to my subsequent recovery.
I need to grant myself the ability to look in the mirror, 1 year and four sober months later and say "You did good, kid". I need to be brave enough to walk outside, knowing full well that I disgraced myself as a nurse…but that doesn't mean I have to give up my life. I sinned. I atoned. That should be enough. Enough for everyone…but most of all, enough for me.
I need to allow myself to start living again. Forgiveness is coming easily.
It is forgetting that's a bitch.
I haven't written in here since May. I said I was going to take June, July and August away from writing. I've missed it and while I have had a lot to say, the words were escaping me. It seems my inner voice has been a bit battered as of late. I wanted to write on September 11th, the way I always do. I couldn't. I couldn't even bring myself to honor the people lost on that day because I have been utterly swallowed by my depression lately.
Don't get me wrong, I've had reasons to laugh in the past three months. Lots of reasons. There were a lot of fantastic things that happened over the summer. There were also horrible things, like my trip to Israel. There was pain, rejection, loss of connection and the annual celebration of the day I was torn via C-section from Esther's pristine uterus.
44 years old. Happy birthday to me. Another day closer to death. The way I figure it, I am probably halfway to dead by now. If the average woman lives until 88 years of age, I am dangling on the halfway point this year. I did a quick assessment to see if I am anywhere near where I wanted to be at this age. The answer was a resounding…perhaps.
I'm a grandmother to two beautiful babies. I am married to the most amazing man to roam the earth since Christ himself…if you believe in that shit. My children are thriving in their lives. My daughter is happily married and a fantastic mother to those to babies I mentioned. My son just started his first year of high school at a brand new school and loves it. I am on decent terms with Esther. My dad is well, not healthy, but well enough for now. So those things are amazing and incredible and perfect.
But where am I? I'm not really any where. I am clean of my drug addiction for well over a year now. I gave up my nursing license and now, in retrospect, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I realized how miserable nursing made me and how it contributed to my depression. Whoever tells you that nurses get to help and heal patients, well, they obviously never worked in long term care. You don't get to do any of those things. You get to shove pills into their incoherent slack-jawed mouths and then onto the next. There is no comfort. There is no care. There is no time to sit at a bedside holding a hand. All that bullshit you see on soap operas…it's a fantasy. A fairytale that surrounds the beautiful myth of the nurse. At least it is in that setting.
So, back to school I went. Off to get my degree in Social Work. I decided I want to go for my Masters in Social Work and Human Services. Why? Because I need to hold that hand. I need to bring that comfort. I need to smile into pained and troubled faces. It does them good. Selfishly, it does me good. I decided that I am going to be an interventionist and work with addicts. Does it scare me? Definitely. I am scared shit to be around those who are using actively again…but now that I have been there and by the blessing of my Higher Power, found my way back…I feel this is the path I am destined to walk.
I love being in school because it is something I am good at. I am an "A" student, a perfect 4.0 GPA. The professors love me, they always embrace the returning adult students more than the new, fresh out of high school kids. They know we care a lot more and are a bit more hard pressed for time. There is no room for us to fail. We don't have the opportunity to fail because we don't have the time. The money. The lack of desire. Our grown up hearts are on fire to do something, anything relevant with the time we have left, however much that might be.
The way I figure it, I will walk out with my degree in 2 more years from now. 46 years old. Still enough time to begin a life, still enough time to put in about 30 years worth of employment.
I ain't quite dead yet.
But in the interim, I am suffering. I have stopped taking all my psych meds. I just don't want anything to do with them any more. And, it has its good moments and bad ones. I don't feel fucked in the head any more. I have my memory back. My sense of humor has returned and it is whip cracking sharp the way it used to be. On the flip side, I cry at the drop of a hat. I fall into depressions very easily. And, my old friend insomnia has returned to fight me nightly. And while the bottles of Cymbalta, Lamictal, Buspar, Xanax, Geodon, Ativan, Klonopin and Trazodone all look tempting…I mainly find myself having staring contests with them. They dare me to open them and to indulge. And the temptation is always there. But, I don't. I could. Nothing wrong with taking one now and again when needed, but I feel like one will be death of me. Just one pill will open up a can of worms for me. I can't revisit the days of bottle dependency.
I keep them all over the house. Some on my desk. A few in my purse. More on my bedroom dresser. They stare at me and say, c'mon CP, let us take the edge off. And me, I scoff and say "no, let me empower myself, dammit". "But you have a disease," they retort. "You need us." And that may very well be, but I want to try to go this alone. I want to feel like myself at every possible moment I can, however fleeting it might be. For those few hours, life is so perfect.
Then, the depression comes back, wraps me up in its itchy wool blanket and says, "No, no Dear. You don't get to make the decisions around here. We do. Me…me and all your pills. Come down the rabbit hole, CP. It's not that long of a drop."
But it is. I've taken the trip before. For the five minutes I jump into the deep end, it requires a lot of swimming to get out of the murky waters again and I simply don't have the energy to do it over and over again.
I'll probably be writing more frequently now, but not daily. Just when I need to…like in the beginning. And tonight, I needed this to be here, like an old friend with open arms letting me fall into them and just cry. Let it all out, rubbing my hair til I fall mercifully asleep.
I need this.
I have openly written about my bipolar disorder many times before. I even had a separate blog for it once upon a time. I still utilize that blog now and then when I just feel like seeing my random, skewed thoughts in black and white but not necessarily form a blog post about them. I think the last time I was there was October of last year. (2009).
Anyway, it seems to me to separate that part of my life is to pull out a big chunk of who I am and put it somewhere else, further perpetuating the stigma of mental illness. Fact of the matter is, I find a certain beauty in being beautifully fucked up. Crazy beautiful. That's what I like to call it.
While surfing around these interwebz, I found myself in pretty good company. Want a list of other fucked up famous people? Here's a few of my fav's:
Buzz Aldrin, astronaut. Yes. We put a fucked up person on the moon. Then again, how do we actually know he was there? Maybe he just pretended to be while he was off his meds and his full account of being there was just a figment of his imagination.
Jim Carrey, actor. This should really not surprise you. Jim's has had well-documented freak outs over the course of his career. Plus, I really don't think he's an actor. He is just being Jim. If he weren't bipolar, he probably wouldn't be nearly as funny. Bipolar people, for the most part, are pretty creative and funny. At least, that's what we tell ourselves.
T S Eliot, poet. Okay. This dude wrote an entire ode to a Cat. Or, rather, a bunch of cats. For some reason, crazy people are often associated with cats. You don't make fun of the crazy dog lady. No. It's always the crazy cat lady who shares the Nine Lives with Fluffy and Waldo. Dog people don't get our special brand of crazy.
Sigmund Freud, physician. *blank stare* Yeah. This one sort of speaks for itself. Next?
Marilyn Monroe, actress. Ah, Miss Marilyn. The quintessential poster child for the manic depressive. She's up, she's down. She's high. She's low. She's pristine. She's promiscuous. This is one of the more tragic cases of crazy on my list, because she really did have the world by the balls once upon a time. A big trademark of someone with manic depression is an over-sized ego that basically masks low self esteem. Oh, and large breasts. And a desire to sleep with the President. Barack is kinda hot now that I think about it…
Edgar Allen Poe, author. You're seeing a lot of poets/authors and actors on this list. That is because really talented people are generally fucked in the head. Where do you think our creativity comes from? Life experience? Certainly…OUR life experiences which are vastly different than those of you "normies". Poe writes about sex with corpses and black birds and tolling bells and Nevermore's. He's a scary bastard. Not Charles Manson scary…but the gentle scary of a person with bipolar disorder. We generally are not violent people…unless provoked.
Margot Kidder, actor. Another actor with a well-documented history of losing her mind. For four days, she roamed the streets of Hollywood, disheveled, dirty, homeless, without her teeth. Then again, she kind of sounds like my grandmother. Ah, but she has bipolar as well, so it's all good. History of drug addiction. Another problem with we manic depressives are our addictive personalities. Sex, drugs…and obviously, Superman.
Vincent van Gogh, painter/artist. Yeah. Four words for you. Ear in a box. Which, of course, should not be confused with THIS which was epically funny but not at all related to mental illness. Well, maybe just a touch of borderline personality disorder with a dab of narcissism and a side salad of histrionic.
So, as you can see, I'm feeling pretty good about the company I'm keeping. And sure, someone will flame me for making light of the disease. But, keep your blood pressure in check. This is MY disease too. This is my life. I live and struggle with the wonders and the agonies of bipolar disorder every single day. I, however, choose to make light of an illness that nearly brought me to my knees once upon a time. Sometimes, you have to laugh…lest you never stop crying.
Lastly, let me leave you with a quote from someone with bipolar disorder that I admire greatly. Princess Leia. What can I say? I'm a sucker for chicks with cinnamon rolls on the side of their head. Plus, she has a Wookie.
But, seriously?
Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.
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make my way along the river down to check on Eddie and Pamela.
From my hotel near the Opera, I walked to the Place de la Concorde
and then on into the Tuileries Gardens where I stopped for a coffee in
the sun.
On towards the Louvre, I did a bit of Blackberrying
with folks in Chicago and California, who were just getting
warmed up and eager to work. (I didn't think it necessary to tell
them where I was working from this afternoon.)
In the big open space between the garden and the Louvre's courtyard with
I.M. Pei's glass pyramid, the Tuileries Palace once stood.
Henry II's widow, Catherine de Medici, had it built after Henry was killed
jousting in the Place des Vosges.
In the chaos
after the Franco-Prussian war, members of the Paris Commune set
it on fire. Rather than rebuild it, Paris decided to tear it down
a few years later -- but there's a plot (no doubt hatched by closet
royalists) to
rebuild the thing
and "restore the harmony" of the
sight lines between the Louvre, the Champs-Elysees and the
Place de la Concorde.


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Retro69 A Tribute to The Music of Woodstock 1969
Band Members:
League (Lead vocals)
When work
began of the proposed Tribute to Woodstock at the Rockaway
Artist Alliance for May 16, 2010, Melissa volunteered for
the Joan Baez slot. It was not people's imagination when
they thought they heard the voice of Joan Baez or Melanie. She
performed with Retro69 at Yasgur's Farm in August 2010.
John Sobel
In addition
to working with Retro69, JON SOBEL is the lead singer,
songwriter and bassist for roots-rock/Americana band
Whisperado. Whisperado is in the studio working on its
first full-length disc; meanwhile Jon recently released
a 3-song solo acoustic EP and is working on a
full-length solo CD. Jon also co-founded the Kings
County Blues Band, and plays for numerous other acts,
which have included Meg Braun, Kevin So, Eight Miles
High (Byrds tribute), Elisa Peimer, John Scarpulla,
Bobby Stewart, and many more. He
performed with Retro69 at Yasgur's Farm in August 2010.
Subs: Lenny
Nelson, Rudy DiMaggio, Ray Kairys
Lenny Nelson
Lenny Nelson has been a fixture on the New York City club
scene for more years than he can remember, having played
with Ronnie Specter, Chuck Berry, Roberta Flack, Shirley
Alston Reeves, Buzzy Linhart, and many others. He has also
worked with a host of great blues artists including Pinetop
Perkins, Rosco Gordon, Danny Kalb, Big Jay McNeely, and
Shemekia Copeland.
Mike Miller (Drummer)
Unlike some of
the others in Retro69, Mike Miller has a Jazz and R&B
background, getting into blues and rock during the past 7-10
years. He has the chance to play at both the old Birdland on
106th street and the now defunct R&B club Mikells in NYC off
Columbus Avenue and 97th street His most famous gig was one
with the Latin Jazz Great Dave Valentin. Mike is another
loyal wingman of the band, rare these days in the industry.
And yes, Mike has also has had the opportunity to work
with Danny
Kalb of the Blues
Project. He performed with Retro69 at Yasgur's Farm in
August 2010.
Hockler: (Lead Guitar, Vocals)|
Les had been a long time journeyman with Eminence Front, the
well known Long Island Who Tribute when he first met Allan
at Retrofest One in 2005. Since then, while not playing the
role of Pete Townsend, he has been the full time guitarist
for Retro69. A stylistic cross between Sam Andrews of Bog
Brother and the Holding Company and Leslie West, Les has
shown that he can learn anything. He
performed with Retro69 at Yasgurs FArm in August 2010.
Sub: Aviv Roth, Jim Moran
(Hammond Organ, Electric Piano, and Agent)
As a "Deadhead", one can say his greatest influences are Keith Richard
Godchaux and PigPen, but his other influences include Greg
Allman, Greg Rollies, Al Kooper, and David Bennet Cohen.
Allan has been very busy lately coordinating and promoting
the various Retrofests and benefit concerts.. The music
business is hard, and getting harder, so finding such a
wonderful, loyal, hard working team has been the best
surprise of the project so far. As the man responsible for
bookings and all logistical details, its a wonder Allan
finds the business less stressful than one might expect .
When not with his wife and two little boys, he can often be
found at one of the area pubs drinking a pint of
Guinness and promoting the band. Allan's only connection to
famous musicians was meeting Paul Simon in bathroom of
Zen Pallet in NYC and discussing a past 1983 concert in Tel
Aviv. He
performed with Retro69 at Yasgur's Farm in August 2010.
J-Bird Philips ( Percussion)
Feel free
to stop by and say "Hello" to the J-Bird on Facebook: www.facebook.com/jbirdphillips
Guest Vocalists and Musicians
Halley DeVestern (Lead Vocals)
Halley was
born in Long Island, NY. Just before she hit her
teens, her parents bought her a guitar and paid
for her to take lessons. They probably never
dreamed she would stick with them, much less one
day make a successful career out of her music.
After high school, DeVestern attended the Boston
University School of Theater Arts, temporarily
switching her attention toward acting. She won
some parts, but her love for music never
subsided. In the end she couldn't resist
returning to it. She began to perform when and
where ever she could. Slowly she built a fan
base, and the courage needed to put everything
she had into making it as a singer in a world of
music that offered no kindness to those not
strong enough to hold on. DeVestern put together
a band of her own in 1996.
Halley has appeared at festivals across the United
States, and as the fill-in lead singer with famed bands
like Big Brother & the Holding Company. And by
coincidence, Danny Kalb of
the Blues
Project lives blocks away from Halley and was her music
teacher years back.
year later she at last finished her debut full-length
album, Sugar Free. "I'll Light Myself on Fire," "The
Family Way," "Ring of Love," "They Ain't Got the Ways,"
and "I'm Over It" are a few of the ten tracks fans will
find on this first offering. Her next album didn't
appear for four long years. It was titled Live at the
Towpath Inn. In between recording, DeVestern traveled
with her band, appearing at festivals across the United
States, and as lead singer with famed bands like Big
Brother & the Holding Company. She also opened for a
number of artists, including Jimmie Vaughan, Little
Buster, and John Hammond. Over the last few years
DeVestern and her music have received a lot of positive
press, including write-ups in magazine like Good Times,
Billboard, and Seventeen. Some of DeVestern's band
members have been bassist Jon Sobel, drummers Ray Crespo
and Rodney Howard, guitarists Jeffrey Lee Campbell and
Jimi Crespo (who worked with Aerosmith and Bonnie
Bramlett), and keyboardists Jeff Kazee and Rima Fand. ~
Charlotte Dillon, All Music Guide
Maher (Lead Vocals)
original "MAVERICK SOUL". Born in New York, Tommy
growing up during the 60's experience was heavily
influenced with the music of that era. Getting the
chance to live through such a great time in music and to
absorb the energy of it by attending so many great live
show's such as the 1969 Woodstock Festival, Watkins
Glenn, The Fillmore East and the whole "Village"
scene. His greatest influences are Led Zeppelin, Jimi
Hendrix,( who he had the pleasure of meeting and sitting
down with, Janis Joplin, Deep Purple, Joe Cocker, Bob
Seeger, Jeff Beck, Cream, The Allman Brother's, Vanilla
Fudge, Grand Funk Railroad, All of Motown, and the
Blues, and R&B. He also had the honor to work on a solo
project with a member of the Vanilla Fudge and the New
Rascal's Bill Pascali. It was a great experience for him
to work with 36 well known musicians from so many well
known 60's bands. The Cd is called "Where Broken Hearts
Go". Tommy has fronted such bands as The Tribe, Street
Life, Magic Dragon, the Maverick Soul Band, Vital Signs,
The Blue Revolution, Smoked, The Pascali Project, and
currently playing out with the band "TROUBLE". He
performed with Retro69 at Yasgur's Farm in August 2010.
County Instahorns
Poretz: Trombone
Stu Osnow: Saxophone
Eric Alterac Trumpet
Messina (Flute, Vocals)
Lucille had a
vision and a dream to find the perfect blend of
musicians to create unique music. She began working on
her dream, at the age of ten. It was difficult for
others to envision her concept, but she persisted.
Lucilles Mixed Nuts became a reality, after many years.
Lucille performed with various artists. She most
recently performed at various venues, in New York City,
and Long Island. The band members all have a long list
of experience and accomplishments. Guitarist Laurent
Medelgi has performed in the United States and Europe.
In addition, he has performed at various clubs in New
York City. Some of his Broadway credits include Spring
Awakening, Rent, and Jersey Boyz. In additon, he has
recently composed and released "Diverses". Bassist
Stefan Held is endorsed by Sadowsky, Lakland, Fodera
basses, La Bella strings, Epifani speakers, and his
Broadway credits include Hairspray, Mama Mia, and Jersey
Boyz. He also keeps busy as the Music director for
Grammy nominated Marty Thomas, Chaplin Ent. artist Kelly
King, and of course, Lucille's Mixed Nuts. Surprise
guests artists are always in the mix! The Nuts are
currently working on original material. BMI MEMBER
Schar (Violin)
Schar is a unique violinist whose eclectic style and
versatility encompasses a variety of genres. Her current
passion is rock, blues, jazz, swing, and old standards.
Arlene's gifts as a freelance violinist are her quick
ear and ease in fitting into any setting. Her enthusiasm
and love of music are evident as she dances while
playing, contributing to her compelling stage presence
and audience rapport. Arlene has many seasoned
professional musicians to join her in a variety of
settings. She performs in intimate venues as a duo with
guitar or piano. For weddings, private parties, bar
gigs, festivals, or concerts, Arlene can draw on the
most appropriate established blues, rock, or jazz band
to suit your needs, and her extensive mailing list
guarantees a lively turnout for every occasion. She
performed with Retro69 at Yasgur's Farm in August 2010.


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or Why I'm NOT Running the NYC Marathon
I know. It's a big one. Possibly on more bucket lists than even Boston. It seems like everyone wants to run it (at least judging by all the angst on FB and various running forums today as it's supposed to be announcement day for those who got in via the lottery – though apparently emails may not go out until tomorrow it's looking like now). And if you live in NYC and run but show no interest in it, you're sort of looked at as some kind of alien from another planet.
I know this because I'm not running it this year. Or probably ever.
I could have. I'm a NYRR member and last year I ran my 9 races and volunteered at one. Heck, I even ran at least one "extra" race because I got qualifying credit for one I wasn't able to run – due to the Christmas blizzard, they gave credit to anyone who'd registered for the Emerald Nuts Midnight Run…and I was stuck in Orlando, so there was no way. By virtue of those two facts (membership AND 9+1) I had a guaranteed entry for 2012.
But the bottom line is they flat-out out-priced me. You have to draw a line and stick to it. My line was $200. Had I registered, I would have shelled out $227.
Granted, $27 isn't a huge amount in the great scheme of things. But you have to draw the line somewhere, and for me $200 was it.
Would I have run NYC in 2012 if the cost had been under my bar? Yes. Part of me would have liked to have run it for a few reasons. First, I do think it would be a neat way to see the city. Second, the peer pressure in my running club is enormous, and you can sort of feel like an outsider if you're not running it or haven't run it. Third, I do love New York and living here. But as I said, I had my line, and I'm sticking to it.
Will I spend more going to Disney? Yes. Unless I somehow rack up enough airline miles to fly for free and stay with my sister or a friend, I will be spending more. BUT I get a vacation out of it. Ditto if I run San Francisco or Big Sur one of these years (I'll talk about those in other posts). Or any other race that will require travel. I'll be able to have a little vacation. (Chicago will be happening in 2013…and that'll be another one that will just be airfare and race registration as I've got enough friends there I can definitely crash somewhere.) There are other marathons I'm looking at (such as the Donna) that are cheaper and in the case of the Donna actually does good without having to pledge a certain amount to a charity. ALL the money collected for it goes to help fund breast cancer research!
New York is somewhere I can literally run almost the entire course. My running club does a "Blue Line Run" which covers the last 20 miles of the marathon. About the only section I couldn't do on my own is the bridge that opens the race. And while I'm sure it's amazing if you're on the top deck, with my lack of speed and my luck I'd be stuck on the lower level where…let's just say if urban legend holds true you WANT to be in the center (not good for a run/walker like myself) to avoid getting wet with stuff that's NOT water.
I am 100% content with my decision to not run it. I know there are people – many of whom applied through the lottery and didn't get in – who don't understand how someone could have guaranteed entry and not use it. But I have to be true to myself. And while I love the city, I just don't feel a burning need to pay over $200 just to run it. I'm not a freak or an alien…I just have different priorities than some people. I don't criticize them, and I'd hope that they wouldn't criticize me. (And believe me, I know there are a lot of people who don't get the draw of running Disney. That's ok. As an old professor of mine used to say, "That's why god made chocolate and vanilla!" Hee!)
It's all about choices and priorities. And ultimately, it's about running…and isn't that what binds us runners together? The love of running? Regardless of where we run. 🙂
To those who are running it, good luck! And hopefully I'll see you at Mile 24 (where my running club is in charge of the fluid station…and also has a cheer section)!


text: ITTA BENA, MS (Ben Caxton) — If you're traveling between Greenville and Greenwood, you'll soon need to take Highway Yanky 72. Yanky 72 was the call sign of the marine transport that crash in a field near Itta Bena last summer killing all 16 onboard. On Wednesday, Governor Phil Bryant signed Senate Bill 2485 which officially names a portion of US Highway 82 from Leflore County to the Sunflower County line where the plane went down in a soybean field. The renaming of the highway coincides with an earlier announced plan by the department of Mississippi's Marine Corps League to spend $80,000 to erect a monument to the fallen troops on a site along the highway near Itta Bena.


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If you've made a Cauliflower Soup, you'll find no surprises with this one. Instead of steaming the cauliflower, you roast it and then it gets pureed with chicken broth and reheated with a little cream. The twist is that you make a roasted poblano puree and swirl that into the soup. This give it some heat and a little interest. There also what he dubs "goat cheese taquito" you float on top for a little garnish. These are really just a warm goat cheese nacho but the crunch of the chip and the tang of the goat cheese lend a lot to the simple bowl of soup. I searched the web but could not find a link to recipe for you. Let me know if you really want it and I'll get it to you.
Next up is the Honey-Ancho Chile Glazed Salmon with Black Bean Sauce and Jalapeno Crema. But first I wanted to show you the lovely wild coho salmon I had to work with. 'Tis perfect, I think. Okay, so the title of thi recipe pretty much says it all and actually the dish is pretty simple to execute. The glaze is just honey, dijon mustard and ancho chile powder. The black bean sauce is black beans, chicken broth, onion, garlic, cumin, and a chipotle whirred up in a blender to a smooth sauce. And the jalapeno crema is sour cream blended with a roasted, jalapeno puree. Instead I used some of the poblano puree that I had leftover from the soup prep. And I spiked it with some green chile tobasco. I also adapted the recipe by using a can of black beans instead of cooking my own. You can find the exact recipe and a detailed description of the preparation here.
The black bean sauce goes down on the plate and the glazed salmon sits on top. Then you dollop some of the jalapeno cream around. My picture isn't as pretty as the one in the book. If you put the cream in a squeeze bottle you could be really fancy. I had some pineapple salsa in the fridge so I put a little on top of the salmon too. The star of the show is the black bean sauce. Really delicious, smooth and creamy. I ate the leftover beans with eggs, salsa and tortillas this morning. .... doesn't get better than that.


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Everyone is required to pay income taxes on or around April 15. In this class, you will be taxed at a flat rate. You can get tax deductions for charitable contributions. For example, donating items for the auction or performing community service, you could receive a deduction of $100 for each contribution. Under the flat-rate system, you will pay $500 in yearly income tax unless you receive deductions.
Introducing taxes
Where Do Our Taxes Dollars Go? Taxes Activity
Tax day procedures
- Each student completes the tax form to determine the amount of taxes he or she owes.
- The student enters that amount as a withdrawal in his or her bank log.
- The student takes the bank log and tax form to the Banker to verify the amounts.
- The Banker verifies the tax amount and makes sure the bank logs match.
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Exchange Programmes
We have exchange programmes with schools from other countries who have similar successful olympiad programmes. Our students can spend up to 1 week in the partner schools to exchange and share ideas with students having similar interests.
In Feb 2011, 15 students went to Taipei Jianguo High School for a 1 week APMO training programme.
Group Photo with Principal, Teachers and Students of Taipei Jianguo High School
Training by ex-IMO medallist


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A 40-year-old independent corporate woman was diagnosed to have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 3 years ago. She complained of weakness in both her lower extremities and eventually in upper extremities. Her symptoms started gradually and progressed to difficulty in ambulation since 2 years and difficulty in speech since 1 year. She came with complains of difficulty in speaking, easy fatigability, and slowness in activities and difficulty in getting up from bed.
After 2 shots of SCT, there was a great improvement in her speech, balance and walking pattern. Her frequency of falls while walking also reduced considerably. She could work for a longer hours because of increase in her stamina. Today, she continues to leave her mark in the corporate world and sets an example to many for her perserverance.
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they cant find them, they make them."


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What better way to spend a rainy June Thursday than a visit to the bi-annual Chichester Cathedral Festival of Flowers. The theme for this years' event is "Every Book Tells
a Story" and there are certainly some amazing stories being told through the medium of flowers. The main body of the cathedral is lined with fabulous giant arrangements through the Nave with huge draping arrangements hanging from the chandeliers on the theme of The Pilgrims Progress. The rest of the Cathedral is filled with smaller decorative displays based on other well known novels including Tom Brown's Schooldays, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, Pride and Prejudice, Swallows and Amazons, A Tale of Two Cities and James and the Giant Peach to name but a few. It isn't possible to sum up how amazing the Festival is in a few words on a blog. It is simply one of those things which are best seen for yourself! The next one is scheduled for 2014, so only 2 years to wait!


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This week, Ditz and Steve talk about up skirts, taking a break from sex, reaching orgasm at the press of a button, Barbie costume gone wrong, and much more!
Listen to the episode here and follow along below!
Subway Up-Skirt Photos Not Illegal In Mass.
10 Reasons To Take A Break From Sex
Orgasm Machine For Women Could Deliver Climaxes At The Push Of A Button
Man Wearing Barbie Costume Accused Of Sexual Assault
Every day, it seems like there's a news report about an actor or politician cheating on his wife — or worse — seeing a prostitute. Are men hardwired to cheat? What's the deal?
My husband doesn't last more than five minutes during sex. Is there a way to make him last longer?
My husband masturbates to porno DVDs. It makes me feel inadequate, mentally cheated on, and worried about the future. Is my concern unfounded?
I have a question about my sister. She is 14 years old and she bought thongs. Is this normal?


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Just earlier this week, Erin, one of the children who were covered under our Education Sponsorship for Children program, texted me to inform me that she had completed her final exams for her diploma course. She's back home and looking around for a job, hoping to get one in Ipoh so that she can be near her mother, Aini, who has multiple health problems. Since Erin had expressed her interest to be a volunteer before, I asked if she'd like to join me in my voluntary work visits. She was excited at the possibility, saying she's more than willing to do that.
Yesterday Erin sent me another message. This time to tell me that her mother had been hospitalised. Since I was out this morning to meet up with an Orang Asli mualaf (NOT one of my HIV cases) who was seeking help to learn more about Islam, I figured I might as well go visit Aini at the hospital after that.
As I was driving to the hospital, I received another message from Erin, saying that her mother had to go through some tests including CT scan, to find out why there were excess water in her lungs. Very likely she'd also have to start her dialysis since she also has kidney problems. Apparently the nurses had already wheeled her out of the ward to go to the necessary departments to get the various tests done.
As I reached the hospital, I called Erin to ask where they were. They just got back to the ward. The nurses had forgotten that today was Friday, which meant the various departments close early and would only reopen after Friday prayers.
Poor Aini was in and out of hospital quite frequently of late. Hospital bills were not an issue earlier when Aini was a recipient of the JKM's monthly financial aid. But ever since her health condition got worse, her family decided that she should move in to stay with her parents. Otherwise during the day she'd be alone at home. Erin, her eldest, was studying at a polytechnic in another state, her 2nd son, who didn't do well in his SPM was doing odd jobs during the day time, while her youngest son was still in school.
Well, staying at her parent's house seemed like a good idea. Indeed, it was the best solution they could think of. That was until Aini's monthly financial aid from JKM had to be reviewed. The officer who reviewed her case told her to include her father's pension in the household income. The moment that was done, Aini no longer qualified to get monthly financial aid from JKM.
Without the monthly financial aid, Aini's father was the one who ended up having to support more dependants in the house. With Aini needing to use adult diapers, and with more mouths to feed, that's not a small amount for her father to cover.
Previously, with the JKM card she held as a recipient of their financial aid, every time she was hospitalised, all she had to do was show the card at the payment counter and she'd be exempted from paying the bills. Now that she is no longer a recipient of JKM's monthly aid, she no longer has that privilege. She has to pay every time she is warded. The only exemption is if she's warded because of anything HIV-related. In her case, most of the time it's her other ailments that requires her to be hospitalised. We did help them from time to time with their hospital bills, but after some time, they became too embarrassed to ask again. Right now her bills for her previous 2 hospitalisation has reached RM1K, which is still outstanding. Now that she's hospitalised again, and having to go through so many tests, am sure the bill may probably come up to another RM500.
Now that Erin is back home, she has submitted an appeal to the hospital welfare unit for a discount. Still waiting for response. She also went to Baitulmal to seek assistance to pay her mother's hospital bills, but although there was a possibility to get help from them, they requested that Aini pay the bills first before submitting the receipts and other documents to Baitulmal to get a reimbursement. I can understand that there may have been irresponsible recipients before who used the money they got for something else instead of what the money was requested for, but how on earth is Aini supposed to pay first when she's not earning anything at all?
Worse, when Aini needs to start her dialysis, she'd have to go to the hospital 3 times a week. That involves transportation costs.
I suggested to Erin to apply for monthly financial aid from Baitulmal, now that they are no longer getting any financial aid from JKM. Whatever it is, I told her to update me on the outcome. If need be, I will try to find other sources.
Erin has a job interview to attend this coming Monday. I do hope it will have a favourable outcome.


text: Heating up the Chinese blogosphere is a comment made by an official in Henan: "Will you speak for the Party? Or will you speak for the people? (你是准备替党说话,还是准备替老百姓说话?)", insinuating that the two are mutually exclusive. Zhengzhou urban planning development vice director Lu Jun made the comment, allegedly in anger, to a reporter probing a suspicious property scheme. It was broadcast nationwide, nominated as the catch phrase for 2009, and Lu was named "the official who dares most to speak the truth" by Chinese netizens. Lu, who was suspended by his embarrassed superiors, has denied making the comment. Source: Shanghai Daily. Picture from SCOL (Chinese)


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I finally got around to reading the SocSociety for Industrial Archeology's Fall Newsletter. It has been sitting on my desk, waiting to be read for a few daya.
This issue focused on the Fall Tour to Nashville, giving accounts from several members of the SIA. It made me sad that I did not attend, but inspired me to attend at least one of the SIA events this year.
The Spring Conference is in Richmond, VA, and the Fall Tour is in Dayton, OH. It would be nice to get to at least one of these, and I am working out the logistics to do so. I'll keep you posted.
Thank you for reading my poat.