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Moments in Moving
Pack some more
Until you're on first name terms with the new Moving Supply company
On 5th Avenue
Who deliver boxes to your house
Up to twice a day
Become dependant on your favorite Brooklyn deliveries and take-out spots
As you run out of time to cook
These shall be missed:
Vegetarian Paradise
Bonnie's Grill
Press 195
Olive Vine
Long Tan
And, as the fridge empties and there's no time to shop there one final time,
The Park Slope Food Co-Op
Is already sorely missed
And as the fridge empties some more, and the coffee maker joins the dishes in boxes
Gorilla Coffee and Blue Sky Bakery
Become your morning saviors:
They too shall be missed
As will PizzaTown
Which so often, these last few years,
(Even though it's your son's favorite)
Has seemed old-fashioned, staid, and stodgy
But where, with a hunger craving in the middle of packing
They serve up the best Sicilian slice of your life
They call it a Sophia Loren
For reasons you don't quite understand
But appreciate none the less
Write to your mother
(By e-mail of course: no one sends letters any more)
And ask:
"Shall I throw out…
my tortoiseshell guitar?
my Guernsey diary?
my O Level papers?
my Tenison report book?
My teddy bear jumper?
My list of all the football matches I attended?
My list of all the concerts I attended?
My English notebook from Mr Usher's class aged 12?
Um, everything else!!!"
And, not knowing that you're being facetious, she replies:
"I guess everything, always sad looking back at one's youth but you're moving
onwards and upwards."
Except that everything listed fits in one book box
And you have 30 book boxes full of vinyl
So of course there is room for one book box
With all these souvenirs of your youth
Because as a wise person says at the iJamming! Pub
You can always throw something out later
But you can never get it back
If you've thrown it out first
Decide that it's finally time to remove your CDs from their plastic cases
And insert them instead into multi-CD soft-sleeved albums
Realize that with 10,000 CDs this could be a month-long task.
Decide therefore to only remove from their plastic CD cases
those CDs with some form of track listing on them
and which are not part of your A-list
yet which you would like to keep
This becomes a whole new task in itself
The wife asks, as she boxes up the kitchen,
"You will find time to pack other things, won't you?"
Fill the first two soft CD containers to bursting by using every available slot
The zip immediately breaks when you try to close them up
Why do they say they hold 96 CDs, if they don't mean it?
Buy one of each available soft CD book case at Office Max to find a size that actually holds the amount it claims
Find that biggest is best
Fill three 224 CD soft-cover cases in about three hours
It's getting very close to moving day
The wife asks, as she boxes up the bedding,
"You will find time to pack other things, won't you?"
Start listening to EPs by forgotten British bands
Back from when you were scouting them for a major American label
In the Britpop era
When an awful lot of crap was released
Judging by what you've been left with
Throw a lot of these EPs out.
Lament the waste of plastic
And the music industry's herd mentality
The wife asks, as she boxes up the kids' rooms,
"You will find time to pack other things, won't you?"
Embark on a last week of sporting insanity
Knowing there won't be any more opportunities
5-a-side football on Monday
At Chelsea Piers
Where you score for the 7th game out of 7
Even though your team loses
Against a team of actors
As in, Give them as Oscar
Come home with a badly bruised rib
Inflicted by the only person you've played against all season
Whom you would like to punch in the face
The 5k race on Wednesday
In Prospect Park
Your last run as a local resident
Where to your surprise, and delight
Though you run the exact same time as you did three weeks earlier,
(When it was that much more humid and so much hotter)
You win your age group
And bring home your first gold medal of your entire running career
Which seems an almost impossibly perfect way to end
Nine years of running
In one of the most beautiful Parks in the world
Come home with a serious shin splint
Really serious
The Manhattan Half-Marathon
On your last Sunday in the city
Which you decide you will now sit out
To rest your painful shin splint
Until the day before the race
When you convince yourself that your injury has miraculously cleared itself up
Though you know perfectly well
That if you were a professional athlete,
Your trainer would refuse to let you compete
But as you're only an amateur
There's no one to stop you from doing yourself serious harm
Set the alarm for a five minutes before six, on your last Sunday in the city
Something you would never do on a weekday
Head to Central Park,
Another of the most beautiful Parks in the world
(Designed by Olmstead and Vaux, who also gave us Prospect Park)
And on a perilously humid morning
Run those deceptively "rolling" hills
With several thousand other people
Many of whom shouldn't really be competing
If they have to start walking
At mile 4
Though, when you come down to it
None of you should really be doing this
At 7 in the morning,
Should you?
Which is why your time is not great
But it's good enough to feel good about
And you're happy that you took part
And that your shin splint is no worse than it was when you set out
And now you would like to take the rest of the day off
Except, you are hosting this same morning your last ever stoop sale
Offloading unwanted furniture, unneeded electronic equipment, a malfunctioning mixing board, a broken keyboard
Over 1000 records
And maybe 2000 CDs
Lifting the boxes out of the basement
On as humid a day like this
After running a half-marathon
You almost turn into a pool of sweat
And you spend the first hour of the sale
And sweaty
And balding
Singing "Do ya think I'm sexy?"
Experience a strange satisfaction as other people,
at different stages of their own life journeys
Snap up the things you no longer need
A loft bed
Odd old pieces of furniture
The mixing board
(Bought for free, sold for free)
Plant boxes
And tons of music
Though at the end of the day
You're still left
With eight boxes of vinyl
And around 700 CDs
That you are determined
Will not make the journey with you
To your new home
A neighbor suggests you turn your unwanted CDs into an iPod
By pointing you to the iPod meister
And other similar services
That will take 300 of your CDs
And rip all the music
Onto a brand new iPod
Which they give you
As payment
For the CDs
They then ship overseas.
It's a great deal
If you don't want to keep
All those pieces of plastic
Not to mention
The plastic cases.
But of course there's a catch:
All the CDs must be properly packaged
full length albums,
with visible bar codes
No 'promo' stickers or stamps
That's you screwed
The CDs and records sit in the hallway, awaiting a solution
Attend a farewell potluck dinner in your benefit at your street's community garden
This same Sunday
That you've been up since before six
You could go to sleep now
But you prefer to hang with neighbors past and present
Drink beer and wine
Eat good home-made food
Have a few laughs
Tell some stories
Talk about property prices
Ratner's arena
The rezoning of 4th Avenue
And with your Louisiana neighbor
Proclaim amazement that New Orleans has been put under mandatory evacuation
Surely this Hurrican Katrina
Won't wipe out
One of America's great cities?
Go home tired and a little hazy after as long a day as they come
But happy
Monday morning, in your final flurry of packing and offloading
Start advertising your unwanted possessions
Because you hate to see things go to waste
Or to people who don't know what to do with them
Place an ad on Craigs List for your broken keyboard
Get three phone calls in 15 minutes
A jazz musician in Park Slope
Picks it up within the hour
The wife's rusty Schwinn bike?
The same story.
Gone by the next morning
How did we live before Craigs List?
The 600 CDs, few of any resale value?
Sold to the man whose purpose you don't ask
For a paltry $125
Half the cost of a new iPod
Which he'll be lucky to get
Knowing how few of these CDs
Have bar codes, proper cases or a lack of promo stickers
The 850 pieces of vinyl
Mostly dance music from the nineties
Which depreciates quicker than a new car being driven out the lot?
Only gets the one phone call
Two days after being posted on Craigs List
From a Williamsburg hipster record dealer
That is,
A record dealer who sells to Williamsburg hipsters
As he puts it
(though he is also himself a Williamsburg hipster
Not that he puts it
That way
Hipsters don't call themselves hipsters
Even when they are)
The Williamsburg hipster record dealer
Comes to your house
Sits in your hallway
And inspects every single record
In every single box
Over the course of four hours
By which point you're almost ready to pay him
To take them all away
Which was of course, his intention
Though he's right when he says
That most of them are hardly worth a dime
Which is all he ends up paying you per record
But at least he's actually handing you some money
And at least, along the way
You get the hipster to smile
Which is an achievement in itself
Almost as notable
As getting rid of the music
Besides, now you can bring in the movers
A moment of serendipity that makes your move seem like destiny:
Tuesday afternoon, after the street cleaning
Two of your neighbors
Park either side of your own car
Creating just enough space
That when they move their cars the following morning
At your request
The tractor trailer moving truck
Can park right outside your house
Where it stays for the next six hours
(Count them)
As the movers load up your lives
They say,
Is one of the most stressful events in your life
This feels true at various points over the last few months
But never as much as your experience with the last set of movers
Nine years ago
Who had you panicked all day
With their wheeling and whining
And misplacing
And dropping
On a simple journey from Manhattan to Brooklyn
But these guys from Loungecraft
Are professionals
Don't complain about how much they have to load
(Like the 14 boxes still full of vinyl)
Don't drop anything
Don't scratch anything
Don't look at their watches
Don't even blink at the fact that you have
Two delivery locations Upstate for them
Almost twenty miles apart
Something they didn't know about
Until now
But then, what's twenty miles
When they've come direct from Atlanta
With 4000lbs in weight from someone in the military
Whose possessions are going
To a military storage base in Connecticut
After they finish with your job
You can only assume that the person from Atlanta
Has been dispatched overseas
But you don't know for sure
And nor do they
They just get on with the job
Even though it's ninety degrees outside
With high humidity
Still a New York heatwave
And the basement – the one with the 16 boxes of vinyl –
is like an oven
As you learned on Sunday
When hosting the stoop sale
Set off in the car with your son at 4:30pm
Leaving the wife and baby behind
Who you'll come back for tomorrow
The movers have to take the slow road out of town
Which gives you time to prepare the house
For all the furniture
You hope
Call home and find out
That despite the casual pace and the relative relaxation
You somehow forgot to point out the bedroom closet
The one with all the records for DJing
Another eight boxes of vinyl
You thought that 14 boxes didn't seem enough
Someone's got a round trip by car coming soon
Guess who?
Your wife says all she's eaten today is a packet of fake crab meat from the co-op
Straight from the packet
You look in the fridge and freezer upstate
And all you have
After feeding your son
The last of the veggie burgers
Is a box of fake buffalo chicken wings
That you've put off opening for months
You cook half of them
Eat them in five minutes
Decide you're still hungry
And cook and eat the rest
With nothing on the side
It feels like a long time since you sat down for a proper meal
The moving guys finally show up in the hills
At ten o'clock at night
They promptly lose two tire treads
Trying to reverse their tractor-trailer up your steep driveway
Before driving half a mile
Till they can turn around
And come up the front way
They unload until two in the morning
With you trying to keep track of where everything's meant to go
(Where's the wife when you need her?
That's right: at home with the baby packing up the small stuff)
You'd be worried about keeping the neighbors up
…If you had any.
"Are there any wild animals round here?"
Asks the youngest of the movers,
"I just heard some branches cracking in the woods."
"Probably just a bear," you reply
Deliberately unnerving him
Though it could well be true
The movers sleep in the truck cab for five hours
You sleep in a bed
And when you get up early to continue unloading
You are so tired
You can barely think
Of anything
Isn't coffee is a wonderful thing?
Drive the twenty miles from Hunter to Phoenicia
Unload all over again
Into your new office
The one you've got all to yourself
With kitchen and bathroom,
Storeroom and bed
Deck, porch and garden
And a Post Office just over the road
That actually accepts courier packages
And already knows your name
You're so close
That they don't deliver to your house
They give you a free P.O. Box instead
Why does that seem so much more sensible?
Your son proves good fun
All day long
He's been so easy going about the move
And the change of school
And the quest for new friends
He's happy to just roll with it
"I can't wait for winter," he says
Though today's another hot and humid day
(But a little Less hot and humid up here)
"We can go snowboarding again"
You make an agreement:
Every snow day at the new school
Will be a snow-boarding day
Just because the school buses can't make it to school in deep snow
Doesn't mean you can't make it to the mountain
Does it?
The movers head out at lunchtime
With the biggest tip you've ever given
They've earned it
And you've earned a celebration
Lunch at Sweet Sue's with Campbell
The aforementioned Brooklyn restaurants may be sorely missed
But you don't have to live in the City
To eat great food
Introduce yourselves to a waitress
Tell them Campbell's starting at school next week
Watch her face light up: she's just put two kids through the place
And she thinks it's the best
She welcomes you to the community
And you feel all warm and fuzzy
And you wish you could stay in your new office
And put your feet up on the porch
With a beer
And watch the sun set
But you have to drive back to the City
Where your wife and baby are waiting
For you to continue cleaning up
Before heading out the following day, Friday
For good
Rejoice quietly that the closing has just been put back a few days
Because if it hadn't, you would be up all night
And would have to cancel a farewell dinner at your friends
Which you are really looking forward to
An hour after getting home
Which is later than you planned, because
For the first time in a long time
You have to pull over, put the car seat back
And just close your eyes for a few minutes
Then buy your fourth cup of coffee of the day
Damn, but this moving is tiring
Back home, before you can go out for dinner
You have to lift an eight-foot book case
Out of a nook and cranny
Despite the fact it doesn't fit down the stairs
Or out the door
You somehow succeed
In getting it down the stairs
And out the door
How did we live before Craig's List?
You put out an announcement on the "for free" board
About all the stuff you're putting out on garbage night
That, again, you don't want to see go to waste
Like the eight-foot book case
And the "quality but heavy" mirror
And the crappy fax machine
And another odd piece of furniture
But give an inch and they take a mile
Before you leave for dinner you have three e-mails from people asking for a preview
What part of free do they not understand?
Go to your farewell dinner at the house of Brooklyn friends
Who tell you you look "spaced out"
You don't argue
And when your wife eats three helpings of dinner
Everyone realizes
Just how hungry she really is
Drink lots of wine
Way too much
But tomorrow's only for clearing and cleaning
(Oh, and for moving)
The worst is behind you
And besides, you have roofs over your heads
And much to celebrate
When others in America
On the Gulf Coast
are in dire straits
A disaster that's been unfolding all week
As you've been coming and going
Listening to the radio
Feeling angry, frustrated, upset
And somewhat helpless
But not entirely
You do what you can do from a distance
As others did after 9/11
Your son stays behind with your friends
You sleep on an airbed in an empty office
Be glad you drank lots of wine
Because this is one uncomfortable way to sleep
Wake up more tired than you went to bed
What did you expect after drinking so much wine?
Your first decision of the day:
Gorilla Coffee before a shower
Or after?
Your cat Bixby,
Who, like any cat, normally wonders off at the first hint of unusual activity
And is therefore frequently left outside and home alone for long weekends
Is hanging around
Like this time,
He doesn't want to be left behind
He comes in on the Friday morning when he's needed
And spends the whole day in his carry-case
Without a single complaint
Cats are intuitive like that
Handle e-mail
And maintain the web site
All Friday long
From the kitchen
Even with the phone cut off
Isn't technology amazing?
Your final deposit on the street:
The JVC boombox you got when you were 18
The one with the flip-out turntable
That stopped working years ago
But which always looked cool
And stayed in the kitchen these many years since
It's out for 15 minutes
Before you see a middle-aged Hispanic guy
Stop, pick it up, look it over
And you go outside and tell him
That it kind of works
And is kind of broken
And he says, "Don't worry, I fix it"
And wanders off down the street
Holding that first big purchase
You ever bought for yourself
And you wish he would just
Put the boombox on his shoulder
To make the picture perfect
Get round to checking on your son
On what is now his second 24 hour sleep-over play-date in a week
He's been allowed to roam the streets in his last month here
As he never did
In all the years you previously lived in the City
Put together
All of a sudden he's learned how to
To go to the shops to buy cat food, or pizza, or rice and beans
And been trusted to go visit his friends,
Like you did when you were young
And living in a big city
Except that as parents you worry aloud
How you could never forgive yourselves
If something happened to him
On his last few days in New York
Just because you were too busy
To run to the shops or take him to his friends
So you call over to his final play date
Where he's been hanging out since you went over for dinner
And say that rather than him walking home like he walked over there ahead of you
You'll pick him up
You ask if he wants to be brought back to the house
To say goodbye to the only place he's known as home
And he says, "No, I did that already"
Without a care in his voice
And you remember how it felt to be 9
And free
For a moment
Load up the car to bursting point
Complete with son, baby, cat
And fighting fish
Which is sitting on your son's lap
In a Tupperware bowl
With a lid on it
Just like something out of the movies
It's six o'clock on a Friday night
And you're heading upstate
Just as you often do
On a weekend
And so in a way, the journey out of town feels entirely normal
Except this time you won't be coming back
And that feel extremely strange
As you pull out of your parking spot
A neighbor peers in the window and sees you all set
And asks
"So how does it feel?"
And you say,
"It feels right."
And it does.
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I hea ya…and may I play along…
Call lawyer, wonder why you have not heard from his office
After all, closing is five days away
Office returns call…
Closing put off an extra week
Don't complain – truth be told, need extra time to pack
Call U-Haul – meet little fuss about rescheduling
Two days before closing…
Get call from Lawyer – can't find closing title to initial mortgage
Inquire, "what does this actually mean?"
Not stunned by reply, "deal falls through if not found!"
Frantically search file cabinet
Inform Ladylove, what is happening
(Realize, never could hide anything from her – and think, what is it
about mothers and wives and this mysterious know all — must be something about diamonds)
Frantic search leads to draws, closets, and boxes
Ladylove takes over…
Turns out, we never received termination letter
Ladylove explains to 'Jenny' from CitiMortgage
who happens to have an Indian accent (apparently, one
of those jobs Americans don't want so it must be outsourced)
what needs to be done
Jenny can't help – she tries to avoid confrontation
Ladylove, being German, thus built for confrontation
does not back down
Jenny transfers Ladylove to high ranking CitiMortgage rep
back in Maryland, USA
Citi-rep pulls through – closing on schedule…
Which means time to finish packing and cleaning
The Ladylove is way ahead of the game
Realize the German stereotype is true
Efficiency and Order always…
Speaking of order – Ladylove orders me to clean out shed
So, I begin the task of sorting and cleaning
Everything is running smoothly
Look in corner to see I missed a brush
Wonder aloud, "how did I miss this brush?"
Go to pick-up brush
Touch brush, and for some reason brush moves
Kneel down and inspect situation…
Look eye-to-eye with a living creature that happens
to wear a white stripe from the tip of the nose to the
tip of the tail…
Oddly enough keep my kool 'til I exit shed
Upon reaching the safety of open air
let a BIG SCREAM OUT!!!
Then give thanks to the Lord that the skunk did not
spray me…
Wait for skunk to leave…and wait…and wait…
and wait…and wait…and wait…and wait…
Skunk does not leave…
Start packing U-Haul with (unemployed) cousin
Realize there will more than one trip
Drop items at first location – a cousin's garage
Head back to house – Pack U-Haul
Realize there will more than two trips
Drop items at second location – a different cousin's garage
Head back to House – Pack U-Haul
Say to self, must factor in money (the next time) to hire
a MOVING COMPANY…
Drop items at third location – a friend's garage
Head back to House
Skunk still there…
Call it a night and head to Mom and Dad's with family
for a week's stay before closing on 'the purchase'…
Head back following morning and finish off the job…
'Sale Closing' goes through without a hitch…
Live out of suitcases and boxes for a week…
Tread softly around Ladylove – knowing NO ORDER means
Luckily enough, Ladylove is quite agreeable
Watch kids run wild within Grandma's domain
Try to discipline
Lose battles, since Grandma and Pop-pop are acting as
their lawyers, judge, and jury
Act a bit amazed at how kids know their parent's answer
to a higher authority…go with the flow…
After all, must save energy for move number two…
Receive call from Lawyer
Seller wants to push 'purchase closing' back two days
Inform Lawyer, "no way!"
Lawyer pulls through…
Day of purchase closing…
Head to U-Haul
Notice the 7:00pm end of operations time
Promise to have truck returned by 7:00pm
Head-out to first garage
Pack truck more wisely – head to second garage
Place two garages worth of items on one truck
Act all pleased with myself for leading the way
Head to 'purchase closing' – spend 90 minutes signing my life away
Head to back to new home – begin unloading
Finish unloading – head to friend's garage
Load up and head back to new home – unload
Look at watch and realize it is 6:10
Factor in RTE 17 traffic and stopping for Diesel
and come to the conclusion, should make it to U-Haul with
15-minutes to spare…
Pick-up Ladylove and carry her across the threshold
Listen to son laugh…
Head out down the road…
Sit in traffic…sit in traffic…sit in traffic…
At 6:50 pull into Gas Station
Let (unemployed) cousin fill the tank
Run across RTE 46 to U-Haul, and explain situation
U-Haul decides to enact strict policy
Plea with U-Haul – inform them, I am heading to Germany
the following day…U-Haul becomes agreeable…
Wait outside for cousin…
Cousin pulls truck into U-Haul 6:57
Mistaken lights out for strict policy
Cousin enters what seems to be a roid raig
Screaming, "it is 6:58 by my f-ing watch!"
U-Haul counters, "it is 7:02 according to the computer!"
Before I can act as buffer, he is informing U-Haul reps that he
will place them in body bags and coffins before the day is done
I realize why cousin is out of work…
Plea with U-Haul, once again…U-Haul listens to civility…
WHEW! – would have hatied explaining situation to Ladylove…
After all, there must be ORDER!
Head back to parent's house…meet-up with Ladylove and kids, laugh about the uh-hem, exploits…
Head out to dinner with parents – celebrate the 'purchase closing'
the old-fashioned way – pints and more pints…
Childhood best bud walks through pub door
Head to Germany slightly unwell…
– Kevin –
A little of both — I started on my time and ended on theirs…it is a give and take relationship — you know, I give and they take (drum snap please)…
I am feeling a bit tired today — yesterday, I rearranged my garages (have two now) into proper order — of course, the Ladylove was involved (lol)…we are still in the process of moving-in…we opted to keep most furniture in the garages while we paint the rooms — easier and more efficient (lol)…
The young man is settling-in — today, was his first day of STATE CONTROLLED THOUGHT CONTROL (lol)…yes, he started Kindergarten…he was a bit unruly the past six-weeks — turning a deaf ear and acting like a clown while at Grandma's and Germany — BUT — now that he has a routine again, he is behaving like his 'oldself'…
Anyway, glad to hear Campbell is excited about a fresh start…I remember as a 7-year-old starting over (lol) — the Bronx to Limerick to Suburbia, NJ — I think it was around that time that I started talking to myself and, of course, answering myself (lol)…now wonder I did not have any close friends 'til the following year :-) …
Be well and stay safe,
– Kevin –


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A Rule of life is absolutely essential to any monastic life. It says 'this is who we are, this is our story'; and it reminds us of those things God has put on our hearts, calling us back to our foundations. The idea of a Rule of life developed in Christian monastic communities, and indeed, monasteries and convents today still function under a Rule, the best-known of which is that of St Benedict, dating from the 6th century. Monastic stability is based on accountability to the Rule of life; it serves as a framework for freedom – not as a set of rules that restrict or deny life, but as a way of living out our vocation alone and together. It is rooted in Scripture, pointing always to Christ; and, in the words of St Benedict, it is 'simply a handbook to make the very radical demands of the gospel a practical reality in daily life.'
'In the developing history of monasticism each community or monastic order has had its own particular areas of strength, calling and emphasis. One may be contemplative; another may have at its heart a calling to serve the poor; another the carrying of the Gospel to people of different languages or culture-groups; another may have its strengths in spiritual direction, education or discipleship. Their Rule will reflect this emphasis and provide a basic ground in the common calling of everyone identified as part of the community. When it became time to formulate our Community Rule we tried to discern what the vows should be which would reflect the character and spirituality of the Community as it had already developed. It was as a result of this reflection that Availability and Vulnerability were to be embraced as the distinctive charisms of our Community.' Andy Raine
The history of the Northumbria Community is one of responding to a call we believe to be from God: a call to risky living, exploring 'a new monasticism' and our Rule developed out of this life already being lived. In effect it was a written response to the many people who were asking what was central to our hopes and dreams, and what were the values and emphases that reflected the character and ethos of our way for living. By a process of trial and error we found we were learning to live the questions as well as ask them: How then shall we live? Who is it that you seek? How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? Living these questions, rather than providing pat answers that effectively ended the quest, actually became lifeblood for the Community. We discovered the reality of Rowan Williams' statement that 'Christ indeed answers our questions; but he also questions our answers.'
This is really important to understand: our Rule is our response to these questions . It is not an answer, only a response: an exploration of a way for living rooted in liberty rather than legalism or licence.
'For us, the life came before the Rule. We were living, hoping and dreaming these things before they were ever written down. So, we must focus not on the Rule, but on the things God has put on our heart. The Rule serves to remind us of these things, serves as a check, and calls us back to see if our dreams are still there. 'It has more to do with a spiritual vision of community life, with roots continually to be rediscovered, than with a legislation document' as The Taizé Story says in discussing their own community Rule.' Andy Raine
A Rule then is a means whereby, under God, we take responsibility for the pattern of our spiritual lives. It is a 'measure' rather than a 'law'. The word 'rule' has bad connotations for many, implying restrictions, limitations and legalistic attitudes. But a Rule is essentially about freedom. It helps us to stay centred, bringing perspective and clarity to the way of life to which God has called us. The word derives from the Latin 'regula' which means 'rhythm, regularity of pattern, a recognisable standard' for the conduct of life. Esther De Waal has pointed out that 'regula' 'is a feminine noun which carried gentle connotations' rather than the harsh negatives that we often associate with the phrase 'rules and regulations' today. We do not want to be legalistic. A Rule is an orderly way of existence but we embrace it as a way of life not as keeping a list of rules. It is a means to an end – and the end is that we might seek God with authenticity and live more effectively for Him.
'Being bound to a Rule of life could be very restricting, but it is a voluntary and purposeful restriction. It excludes other possibilities in order to be focused on what is chosen. There are new and demanding priorities, but there is also much joy.' Andy Raine
The word for Rule has a double root-meaning; one is that of a 'signpost' which has a purpose of pointing away from itself so as to inform the traveller that they are going in the right direction on their journey. It would be foolish to claim we have arrived if we are only at the signpost! We don't stop at the Rule and venerate it. The other root-meaning is that of 'a banister railing' which is something that gives support as you move forward, climbing or descending on your journey.
Read about why we need a Rule of Life.


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I'll admit I'm wearing pretty much the most inappropriate footwear in this post. I'll also admit that there's a big fuzzy pair of snow-boots just outside of this frame. However, the parka that I'm wearing is totally appropriate and thanks to Aritzia, at least part of my outfit won't elicit an overly worried for my health call from my mother. This parka is not only fashionable thanks to its slim silhouette, but it's also incredibly comfy and warm making it the rather elusive combination of fashionable and functional. Kudos team Aritzia, kudos.
Photography: Marie-Claude Viola
Jeans: Black Orchid – Top: Generation Love via HOW International – Coat: c/o Aritzia – Hat: ASOS
Shoes: Jessica Simpson


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Our First meeting for 2013 will take place on Friday January 4, 2013.
the meeting will be at
The Goldwurm Auditorium
Mt. Sinai Hospital
1425 Madison Avenue @ 98th street
Meeting will begin promptly at 7:15. The After meeting event will take place immediately after the conclusion of the regular business meeting.
Our after meeting event will be the annual auction. Clean out the draw and clear out those effects that you no longer use, or have decided just weren't your style. Pick up something new to you!
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How can we help you?
Here are some of the most commonly asked dentistry questions we are asked by patients, as well as excerpts from Dr. Gladnick's column in the Wilmington News Journal's "Ask the Dentist." If you have further questions, or want to schedule your next dentist appointment, call us today!
TMJ Disorders
Besides protecting your temporomandibular joint (TMJ), eliminating muscle pain, relieving headaches, and protecting the enamel on your teeth, there are sizable financial savings to using a nightguard versus taking care of dental problems that may arise from not using one.
What Is The Cost of a Nightguard?
Let's do the math. A nightguard will cost about $650. The cost of a single crown that will be needed to protect a tooth that has lost its enamel because of constant grinding is about $1200. Multiply this by six (or more) teeth, and you are approaching $10,000. If there is damage to the joint itself, an operation to repair the joint can cost about $30,000.
Call Our Dental Office to Learn More
The decision to simply protect your teeth and joints with an inexpensive night guard seems like a good decision both economically and medically. If you would like to learn more information about nightguards, call Justison and Gladnick Family Dentistry today! Our entire dental team is thrilled to meet you and the entire family.
You may share a common problem with many other people who have TMJ/TMD (temporomandibular joint disorder). There is a complex system of ligaments, muscles, and bones that, if not allowed to work together properly, can result in pain around the jaw and ear, tenderness, clicking or popping when you open your mouth, a sensation that the jaw is sticking or locked, and certain types of neck and headaches.
What Is an Occlusal Guard?
Your dentist can determine the cause and recommend treatment appropriate for you. Treatment often includes an occlusal guard, which is an appliance you wear while sleeping. It fits on your upper or lower teeth and relieves the muscular spasms associated with this disorder.
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If you have jaw pain and don't know where to turn to give Justison and Gladnick Family Dentistry a phone call today! Our friendly dental staff are ready to answer any and all questions you may have about TMJ/TMD disorder, so let's get started!
Your problem may be caused by a misalignment of your lower and upper jaws. In dentistry, this is called TMD or temporomandibular dysfunction.
What Are The Symptoms of TMJ/TMD?
Some of the more common symptoms may include popping and clicking of one or both of the temporomandibular (jaw) joints located in front of each ear. Also included are stiff muscles of the neck and face, difficulty in opening or closing the mouth, and frequent headaches.
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Your jaw joints are complex ball-and-socket joints with a disc in between the bones that acts like a shock absorber. This joint complex can become damaged due to teeth grinding, stress, clenching, poor posture, worn or misaligned teeth, or traumatic injury such as a whiplash. If you suffer from any of these symptoms, you can call this dental office or any dentist who has training in joint pathology.
Absolutely! Earaches of this nature may be due to the intense contraction of the jaw muscles as you clench your jaw or grind your teeth while you are sleeping. The muscle that connects to the ear will suffer as well as your jaw and teeth! Sometimes a bite adjustment or a comfortable night guard, especially contoured to your teeth, will completely alleviate your discomfort.
Learn more about how we can help with teeth grinding and TMJ symptoms here.
The possible causes of headaches are numerous. Sometimes headaches can be caused by the upper and lower teeth not fitting together properly.
When Your Bite Isn't Aligned
A poor bite can disrupt the normal activity of the jaw joints and muscles, creating muscle pain and headache. By wearing a comfortable, removable appliance that is custom-made to fit the teeth, many times the pain can be eliminated.
Night Guards Help!
The appliance allows the lower jaw to assume its most relaxed, physiologic position and allows the muscles to rest. Balancing your bite and/or aligning your teeth often provides long-term relief.
Give us a call today to learn about how your Pike Creek dentist at Justison and Gladnick Family Dentistry can help!


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Fettuccine in Italian means "Ribbons". The popular ribbon pastas have thus derived their name after it. Fettuccine is a fave among the Romans and the Tuscans. Though this dish is quite an easy thing to do, the key is a gentle and yet good mixing of ingredients to bring out the subtle garlicky, blissfully creamy and the smooth white sauce texture, flavor and finish. The semi-broad, flat and ribbon-style cut pasta's make this dish best. However, this really could be made using absolutely any pasta one has in hand — there wouldn't be much a difference in the way it will taste. When it comes to pastas, there's also this huge "particularity" in how they must appeal to the eyes! Yes, I've been told that the greatest chefs that work with pastas are extremely specific on which pasta they use with what sauce and with which ingredients.
Rome has had a long known history of elaborate courses of exquisite, elegant and expensive food fare. Romans took pride in their exotic banquets and wines, and would pay enormous money to buy themselves the greatest of cooks. They were said to particularly love sauces on their plates and prefer dishes that had them over ones that didn't. They specifically have been known for their love for white sauces — the carbonara, alfredo and the likes. Ovens didn't find much use in traditional Roman kitchens, since most of their food were either fried or were boiled using olive oil. However, food in Rome were mostly made through simple yet elaborate cooking and weren't all meat based. Romans didn't eat too much meat. But pastas and seasonal vegetables have always been a very important part of their food. The best chefs in the world cooked for the Popes in ancient Rome. All in all, whatever said and not, food in Rome was greatly influenced by Greek cuisine and was a center of high class eating.
But today, I made these Mushroom Fettuccine, only because this one-pot, one-dish meal was the easiest lunch to do! Roman folklore has it that deceitful wives would cook it up quickly, having had spend the rest of their day courting their love, so as to not attract suspicion from their husbands. And no!!! I haven't been cheating on S at all, not even an inch (lol)…..I am much in love with him and intend to spend the rest of my life as his very faithful wife. But the reason I so insanely wanted to "cook it up" quickly today has an entirely different story to it.
Next Saturday is when we'd celebrate our littlest first birthday and I have been madly busy this week. My parents are flying in from India to attend their grandchild's 1st. Being the art and craft enthusiast that I am, I have over loaded moi with unending things to make and do. Sometimes over committing could get one's self in such craze! I have learnt this lesson the hard way more than a dozen times in the past and still get tempted into the trap!! That is so "me" — An impulsive, over-driven, perfectionist crafty mommy. And though I must master the art of how to "let it go" sometimes, until I see that day, I would continue to remain this "not-so-sane girl", when it comes to hosting a private event!
There are so many exciting recipes that I'm waiting to write and share in this space with you…specially the one's that I have in my head for A's birthday. They all shall flow here eventually…..slowly, steadily and sweetly. But only after the big busy next Saturday has passed.
For now, I cannot tell you much time this Mushroom Fettuccine saved me today. It took me about 30 minutes from start to finish! This blissfully flexible recipe also provides enough scope for modification and substitution — you may add, replace or negate a couple ingredients if you wish to. Use your favorite pasta to substitute Fettuccine if you like. Happy quick food and happy innovation!! Hope you enjoy relishing this delicately flavored pasta as much as we did this afternoon. I loved it and must make this soon again — the amazingly comforting pasta coated with the silky sauce with mushrooms, chives and cheese pieces thrown in generous measures — it's making me hungry already. Here's the recipe before I rush to finish off all the left overs from my refrigerator!!!
Serves 3 – 4
- 1 packet of Fettuccine pasta (500gms or 1 lb)
- 230gms or 8oz white button Mushrooms, chopped
- 1 large onion, sliced
- 1 tbsp chopped garlic (or garlic paste or powder)
- 1 tbsp butter
- 60gms or 2oz Cream cheese
- 1 tsp fresh ground black pepper
- 100ml or 2/3rd cup milk
- 1 tsp of corn flour or all purpose flour or whole wheat flour
- 200gms or 7oz of Mozzarella or fresh Cottage cheese (or Paneer) or Tofu — cut into small cubes
- 4 tbsp of fresh chopped spring onion greens or lightly dried chives (I used chives)
- 3 tbsp of light Olive oil
- Salt to taste
- Dry grated Parmesan cheese to garnish (**Optional)
- Cook the pasta per package instructions, Al Dante. Drain out excess water. Run some cold water through the pasta so the strands don't stick together. Drain out any excess water and reserve the pasta in the colander.
- In a deep cooking pot, heat olive oil and melt the butter over medium heat.
- Add garlic, onions and mushrooms. Stir fry them together until the veggies begin to moisten and soften.
- Switch heat to low flame and add cream cheese and allow it to melt.
- Once the cheese is melted, pour in the milk and add ground pepper, salt, flour and onion greens or chives. Mix and cook them on slow heat over low-medium heat for about 1 minute, until the milk thickens slightly.
- Immediately add in the pasta, mozzarella or cottage cheese or tofu cubes and mix them all together for 1 minute, so all the pasta is nicely coated with the sauce as well as the cheese cubes soften just a little.
- Garnish with dry grated Parmesan cheese and serve hot. Enjoy your hearty meal of pasta and have a great one!


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Sen. Barack Obama is, finally, the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party -- no mean achievement in this most hotly contested primary race in recent history. He deserves a day or two to bask in this glory -- and certainly the media have been helping this along with fawning coverage of his "historic" achievement as the first African-American to win a major party nomination. But at some point, surely, the press will get back to doing their jobs; namely, asking tough questions of Sen. Obama so that the voting public will learn more about the man who could be their next president.
The media should start by focusing on Sen. Obama's proposals in the foreign policy arena. He has offered a pretty radical vision of what his campaign calls "direct presidential diplomacy," offering to sit down, without preconditions, with some of the world's worst tyrants. He first made the offer in the heat of a presidential debate in which he was trying to contrast his approach with the current occupant of the White House.
In July 2007, Obama was asked by a YouTube questioner, "… would you be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries?" His answer was simple and direct: "I would. And the reason is this, that the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them -- which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration -- is ridiculous."
Since then, he's been hedging and qualifying his statement, most recently with respect to Iran when he addressed the pro-Israel group AIPAC on Wednesday. Obama tried to reassure the attendees -- who are understandably worried about a nuclear-armed Iran, as everyone in the world should be -- by saying he'd engage in "careful preparation" before any talks begin. But then he did what he often does. He pretended he hadn't said earlier what he clearly had: "I have no interest in sitting down with our adversaries just for the sake of talking," he claimed, blaming the confusion on his adversaries.
There are two issues here. One is foreign policy naivete. His original statement suggests he has no idea how diplomacy actually works. As a well-meaning amateur trying to rewrite the rules to conform to his idea of how the world should be, Sen. Obama could endanger the very security he seeks. But the other issue -- and the one the mainstream press has so far largely ignored -- is Sen. Obama's truthfulness.
It is one thing for Sen. Obama to say that he spoke too rashly in July and that he wants to amend his position. Political candidates make mistakes, sometimes saying things they don't quite mean. We all do. And the best way to put the episode behind him is to own up to it. But Sen. Obama can't seem to bring himself to do this because it would shine too bright a light on his inexperience in the foreign policy arena. So, instead, he says, in effect, he never said that.
The media are usually pretty eager to catch a politician in a contradiction. They are usually aggressive whenever a candidate changes his or her story, even when the matter itself is trivial. So why haven't the media been more dogged on Sen. Obama's misrepresentations of his willingness to sit down with dictators?
The point isn't for journalists to take a position on whether Sen. Obama's proposal to engage in direct talks with the likes of Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong Il, or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be a good idea or a bad one. But they should be interested in why Sen. Obama said it was the right approach in July and has now backtracked, and in the case of Iran anyway, wants to pretend he never said it was.
Sen. Obama's sleight of hand raises an important issue of character. And the media have traditionally played an important role in helping voters define a candidate's character by asking tough and probing questions. So far, they've been reluctant to do so with Sen. Obama, certainly on substantive matters. It's time they start.


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John Legend Says Kanye West, Donald Trump Meeting Was a Publicity Stunt [WATCH]
"Whatever's in his mind I disagree with him."
Those words were spoken by John Legend when he was asked about Kanye West's support of Donald Trump.
It was during a conversation with a reporter from the French publication Clique, who also asked the R&B crooner what he thought of Ye's recent meeting with the President-elect. He also asked Legend if he would ever sit down with Trump himself.
"I don't think it's impossible to talk to [Trump] about issues," he said. "But I won't be used as a publicity stunt. I think Kanye was a publicity stunt ... I'm pretty disappointed with Kanye that he says he would have voted for Trump. I think Trump has been corrosive," Legend continued. "His message has been corrosive to the country. I think the things he's promised to do have been very concerning for a lot of people, and for Kanye to support that message is very disappointing."
Yesterday (Dec. 13), Yeezy sent out a bunch of tweets to explain why he met with the wealthy Republican, which he said had to do with a variety of issues, including curbing some of Chicago's violence.
"I wanted to meet with Trump today to discuss multicultural issues," wrote West. "These issues included bullying, supporting teachers, modernizing curriculum and violence in Chicago ... I feel it is important to have a direct line of communication with our future President if we truly want change."
You can watch a piece of John Legend's interview with Clique above.


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dine out with TIGERLILY EDINBURGH
Tigerlily Edinburgh, there, I've said it. So what's the first thing that comes to mind about Tigerlily? Could it be Gok Wan on the decks?! Yep, that's happened recently…seriously. Could it be that they have one of the finest cocktail lists in town? Is it your Saturday afternoon post shopping destination for a quick drink before dinner? All of the above?
But do you ever think about eating dinner there??? Well, if that didn't spring to mind immediately then make sure it does now because I can spill the beans on what's happening food wise on the George Street establishment.
Over the last few months I've been working with Tigerlily Edinburgh on their new 'Dine Out' menu which means I've been hanging out with them quite a lot.
Myself and Eugene Reilly (head chef) have been eating our way around the Stockbridge farmers market, that's been a chore….not! We've been tasting cheese, lots of, and have generally been talking about food, food and more food. And the occasional drink too.
Work can be such a pain sometimes….Oh, and I've had to have my photo taken a few times too [eye roll] all good fun.
What's been really great about this collaboration is that I've been able to introduce them to some of my favourite suppliers including Peelham Farm, Summer Harvest, George Mewes cheese and Seriously Good Venison. I think that we've sourced some of the best local produce around without compromising on the quality of the dishes that are coming out of the kitchen.
You all know that I'm passionate about shopping 'locally' and knowing exactly where my food comes from and now I've had a great opportunity to put a real 'foodies' stamp on a menu that hundreds (no, thousands!) of Edinburgh folk (and beyond) will be able to taste, and come back and taste again. Back of the net for you guys.
Check out the menu for yourself HERE. Two courses for £15 at dinner or 2 mains for £10 at lunchtime. WIN! Dishes include Peelham Farm lamb and rosemary sausages with chive mash, and 'monkfish' (natch) in a prawn and mussel stew with baby potatoes, slow braised venison haunch with a juniper and red wine jus and colcannon mash. OMG, could it get any better. Yes, you can max up your dinner with a sharing dessert for two. Good food doesn't have to cost the earth.
And looking to the future there should be a seasonal change after the Festive period AND a competition running in ION magazine so much more to look forward to in 2017. Food, my FAVOURITE subject, and then some.
FIND TIGERLILY EDINBURGH at….
And if you want to read more about the project you can find a lovely article in ION magazine HERE.


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Des Moines chef wins statewide competition held by the Iowa Restaurant Association
Iowa beef and tofu on the same plate? Because why not?
A Des Moines chef took first place in a statewide culinary competition this week, creating a dish with this unusual ingredient pairing.
The Iowa Restaurant Association — in collaboration with The Soyfoods Council and the Iowa Beef Industry Council — hosted a statewide culinary competition, culminating at a celebratory gala Monday night at the Des Moines Marriott Downtown at 700 Grand Ave.
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This year's winners:
The two-part competition challenged top chefs across Iowa to create entrées featuring a bottom round flat steak and a soy-based side dish or sauce.
1st place: Chef Andrew Cardillo
The Marriott, Des Moines
Dish: Sous vide Braveheart Black Angus beef bottom round flat steak with duck fat tofu fries and mash, plus marrow steak sauce
2nd place: Chef Aaron Holt
RoCA, Des Moines
Dish: Iowa beef meets Asian influences
People's choice: Chef Oscar Hernandez
712 Eat + Drink, Council Bluffs
Dish: Mediterranean spiced beef roll with tofu falafel with chili de arbol and cucumber mint yogurt sauce
Be sure to bookmark these frequently-updated dining guides:
- Where to eat in downtown Des Moines
- The essential East Village dining guide
- The ultimate list of local Ankeny restaurants
- The 2018 West Des Moines restaurant guide
A team of professional judges visited each restaurant to evaluate each dish. On Monday, the 10 chefs showcased their competition creations in sample portions at a celebratory gala held in conjunction with Iowa Hospitality Expo. Hundreds of event attendees then voted for a people's choice winner.
"These award-winning creations highlighted the exceptional culinary talent of Iowa's chef community," said Jessica Dunker, president and CEO of the Iowa Restaurant Association. "The variety of this year's entries and flavors also exemplify the adaptability of these Iowa-based products to any style of cuisine. We expect to see many of these competition dishes on menus this year."
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29 Jun No Experience? No Problem! 5 Ways to Get a Job Without Experience
Posted at 07:00h in Job SeekersMaybe you just graduated a few weeks ago and you're out in the market looking for your first real job. Or perhaps you're looking for a career change and ready to try something total new. But either way, you're probably facing a major challenge for job seekers – trying to get a job without experience. Whether you're a lawyer-turned-pastry chef or just framing your degree,


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La Française Real Estate Partners has announced the acquisition of an 18,420m2 office building in the 15th arrondissement of Paris (6 place d'Alleray).
The asset has been acquired from JP Morgan AM for French telecom group Orange. No financial details have been disclosed.
The building has been redeveloped between 2012 and 2014 as part of a turnkey rental solution for Orange which moved into the premises in April 2015.
Patrice Genre, Chairman of La Française Real Estate Partners states: "The quality of the tenant along with a recent long-term lease were key elements in the decision to acquire this historic site for Orange which has been fully restructured."
La Française Real Estate Partners is a part of La Française, a manager with over €50bn in assets under management of which €15bn are invested in real estate.


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Let Your Love
Last weekend, a couple of cool cats I care for, celebrated their love by getting married. It was a fabulously fun and inclusive day, with friends and family contributing their talents in many ways. Sarah suggested I give a reading, and maybe a poem, and maybe a poem I had written? I'm not much of poetry-creator, more a poetry-reader and analyzer, so I threw a little something together by standing on the shoulders of giants, and borrowing from a few of my favourite poets.
Let Your Love
Let your love be like a flax rope, that weaves together two lives, That is made stronger as each day passes. Like another tiny thread that adds its strength to the rope.The rope that tethers you in stormy winds.
Let your love be a compass that guides you, like the compass that poet John Donne draws when he writes 'If They Be Two, They be two so as stiff twin compasses are two. Thy soul the fix'd foot, makes no show to Move, but doth if the other do'
Let your love be both a compass to read from, but also a sure and true point to always navigate back to.May you remember Shakespeare's words that 'love is an ever fix'd mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken.'
Let your love be a strength that you carry with you, a taonga that you can touch when courage is needed. Love is, as James K Baxter said is 'a pendant of greenstone, too hard to bite/cut from a boulder underground. You can put it in a box/or wear it over your heart.' Its strength will always be with you.
Let your love always guide you together, and give you strength to journey ,and together 'meet Triumph and Disaster,and treat those two impostors just the same.'


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Much like their MoMA residency back in April, Kraftwerk have announced an eight-night retrospective residency in their hometown of Düsseldorf, Germany, at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen museum. It takes place January 11-13 and January 16-20. Like the MoMA shows, they'll perform one full record from their catalogue each night, in chronological order, with 3-D visualizations. Each show will conclude with an additional selection of works from the Kraftwerk discography.
The series, titled "Der Katalog – 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8", will be accompanied by a photo exhibition opening January 11 at NRW Forum. A box set of their remastered catalogue, in German, will also be released on the occasion of the series.
Watch Kraftwerk perform "Radioactivity" at MoMA in April after the dates.
01-11 Autobahn (1974)
01-12 Radio-Aktivität (1975)
01-13 Trans-Europe Express (1977)
01-16 Die Mensch-Maschine (1978)
01-17 Computerwelt (1981)
01-18 Techno Pop (1986)
01-19 The Mix (1991)
01-20 Tour de France Soundtracks (2003)


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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was detained by police at a Moscow rally in support of a presidential election boycott, has been released.
His lawyer told the press that he had been released without charge but will have to appear in court at a later date and may then face charges.
Earlier, police raided his offices in Moscow, reportedly seizing equipment.
Navalny - President Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic - is barred from standing in the 18 March election, reports the BBC.
Footages showed him being wrestled to the ground by policemen during the arrest.
Soon afterwards the opposition leader tweeted to urge others to join protests across the country. "The detention of one person is meaningless if there are many of us. Someone, come and replace me," he wrote (in Russian).
Protest rallies were held in a number of Russian cities. In Moscow and St Petersburg they were not sanctioned by authorities.
More than 180 people were detained across the country, reports say.
Earlier on Sunday, Russian police raided the property of Navalny's anti-corruption organisation in Moscow. A YouTube clip showed a broadcast recording from the office being interrupted.
A spokesman for Navalny said the officers used a power tool to break into the office, adding that they said they were investigating a bomb threat.
The demonstrations come after weeks of pressure on Navalny's supporters across Russia, who have faced detentions and had leaflets in support of the rallies confiscated.
Navalny, who insists he would beat Putin in a fair fight, is barred from running in the ballot over a criminal conviction that he says is politically motivated.
The opposition leader led mass street protests against Putin in the winter of 2011-12 and was arrested three times in 2017 for organising unauthorised anti-Putin protests.
Putin, who refuses to mention Navalny by name, retains a massive approval rating in Russia and is widely expected to win a fourth six-year term in office.


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Advanced medical reconstructive surgery is offered by the Center to patients who have experienced bone and cartilage loss, or tumor and cyst cases that have left misshaped areas or scarring.
The Yeditepe University Hospital Cosmetic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Center presents a wide spectrum of treatments, interventions and procedures designed to produce effective and permanent solutions to every kind of cosmetic and esthetic requirement.
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Whether you live in Istanbul, across Turkey or around world, specialists at Yeditepe University Healthcare Institutions are available to review your medical records and provide an expert opinion on your diagnosis or treatment plan -without the need for an in- person visit.
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Suraj Yadav
Junior Research Fellow
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU)
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bengaluru-560012, INDIA
Phone: 080 2336 2099
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
Date of joining: January, 2019
Fabrication of organic solar cells
2016 – 2018: M.Sc. Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
2013 – 2016: B.Sc. Physics Honours, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
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July-17 – Dec-17: Synthesis and Characterization of CZTS Nano -particles.
Dec-17 – May-18: Fabrication of Perovskite based Light Emitting Diode based on Inorganic HTL and ETL materials.


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This Friday cooking demonstrations and giveaways to greet customers at Tedeschi's newly remodeled store.
Tedeschi Food Shops at 774 Plain Street in Marshfield recently underwent a major renovation. The store, which features an expanded TD's Deli, now serves fresh foods and meats alongside its standard convenience fare.
In addition to offering a variety of snacks and beverages as well as premium Green Mountain coffee, Marshfield's updated Tedeschi Food Shops sells fresh foods and produce and a selection of high quality, all natural meats Smoothies and milkshakes made with all natural ingredients are blended fresh in store.
TD's Deli, Tedeschi Food Shops' proprietary deli, has been upgraded to include state-of-the-art appliances and now offers an expanded menu including rotisserie chicken and wood-grilled pizzas and sandwiches.
A Customer Appreciation event will take place on Friday, Dec. 16 from 2 p.m.–7 p.m. inside the store. A variety of activities will take place throughout the day ranging from cooking demonstrations and giveaways to a live broadcast by local radio station WATD. Samples of beverages and snacks will be distributed, and Santa is scheduled to make an appearance from 5 p.m.–7 p.m.
Tedeschi Food Shops is proud to be an active member of the Marshfield community and looks forward to continuing to offer the people of Marshfield high quality products and excellent customer service.
Rockland, Mass.-based Tedeschi Food Shops Inc. operates 190 convenience store locations throughout Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut.


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Randy Couture and Rodrigo Nogueira headline UFC 102 in Portland on Saturday night in a legends of MMA heavyweight match-up, but the two veteran fighters know it's a number one contender's bout with a title shot just over the horizon for the victor.
"That's been tossed around," Couture told the media on Wednesday when asked about the winner getting a possible championship bout with the winner between Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin, who headline UFC 106 on Nov. 21.
"When the dust settles they'll decide what they want to do. Everybody is talking about 205 and this, that and the other thing. That stuff will all be there. It will take care of itself, but it sounds like this may be a title elimination type of deal where it will put us back in the number one contenders status."
The three-time UFC heavyweight champion and two-time UFC light heavyweight titleholder has not ruled out the possibility of moving back to the 205-pound division. Asked about a potential match up with UFC middleweight titleholder Anderson Silva in the light heavyweight division, Couture commented, "I am intrigued by interesting fights and it certainly doesn't get more interesting than that."
At 46 years old, Couture continues to defy Father Time, and says he's never felt better.
"As far as athletically, I feel like I'm the best athlete I've ever been right now. I can't explain that other than I've just managed to keep a fairly high fitness level, stayed focused," said the former assistant wrestling coach and strength and conditioning coach for Oregon State University. "I think as we get older we tend to get smarter and eliminate a lot things that are distractions and refine training tactics and technique.
"I think I've tactically and technically gotten a lot better. I'm a more fit athlete than I was when I started this 12 years ago."


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What is the worst possible thing that you can say about a person? The worst possible insult is to compare someone to Hitler.
I am writing today about a news article entitled "Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler, and what we talk about when we talk about Godwin's Law"
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There's something about the Trump 2016 run that makes people cry Hitler at unprecedented levels, even for the Internet age.
In other words, Godwin's Law is being invoked like never before. Don't know what Godwin's Law is? Coined by attorney Mike Godwin in 1990, it states, "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." In other words, Godwin's Law means that as long as you exist as a person with an opinion not miraculously agreed upon by every single person in the world, the collective psychic cesspool that is the Internet will eventually call you Hitler.
Godwin's Law is normally a pretty straightforward thing, in terms of whether it is being applied for (melo)dramatic effect or not. But as Trump's campaign marches on and his base grows wider, their violence and nationalism grows louder — and Godwin's Law loses a degree of rhetorical clarity. It's meant for people wildly grasping at Hitler or the Nazis or the Holocaust as hyperbole, without actual factual relation. What happens when the similarities between the person being compared to Hitler and, well, Hitler are more eerily present than you'd expect?
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Does Trump have any similarity to Hitler? Does he want to kill Jews? As far as I know, Trump only wants to get rid of Mexicans who are in America illegally and he is against Muslims, who tend to be terrorists.
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It may be helpful here to note that some of the similarities between Trump and Hitler that people are quick to point out should bother and disturb us more than others. When Trump asked supporters at a rally to pledge their loyalty by raising their right hand, it was surreal — but it didn't necessarily mean anything. It might have been an attempt to dog-whistle white supremacists in his base, but it might also have been an act of mind-boggling ignorance. (I actually feel the same way about the Megyn Kelly "blood coming out of here wherever" remarks — not that it in any way lessens the bread-and-butter misogyny of The Donald, but I believe there's at least a possibility he was just babbling.)
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The photo above shows Trump supporters raising their hands in what looks like a Nazi salute.
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The ethics of the whole phenomenon are murky at best. Does Trump, whose personal #brand of racism will *probably* not lead him to exterminate millions in gas chambers, deserve to be indiscriminately called Hitler? No. But is it enormously important that people be educated about the disturbing ways the two leaders created their paths to power? Absolutely. There is a world of difference between contextualizing Trump's racist policy proposals in terms of documented history and some egg-avatared MRA dude hissing rape threats at "feminazis" on Twitter.
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Hello, I am doing a navigation to a site, consists of a list and list items. The style of each button is very complex, so I added the button as a Background image to each item, the thing is, that I will like to preserve keyword density on my site, so, if I put the actual button text into the tags, for example; Home, which is the best way of not displaying the text, and not getting penalized by Google or other SE? I used to do a class with display:none, but I don't know if that is a good practice. Thanks.
I tend to use a large
I tend to use a large negative text-indent...
I don't use the
I don't use the text-indent... not because Google cares, but because someone may show up with images off. Now they see nothing. I guess they can swirl their mouse around, if they're mousers, until they see the little hand...
Gilder-Levin is a good one, as far as it's pretty safe for both screen readers, sighted folks with CSS on but images off (like dial-uppers), teh googles, and everyone else. Basically your text remains where it should, but then an image is sat right on top of it. It has 3 problems though.
If the image is semi-transparent or something, the text will show through, which you don't want.
It's a small pile of extra code. Text and then each id may get its own styling in the CSS.
Text-enlarge will either show the text peeking out from behind the image, or, if you set overflow to hidden to stop this, then those who need to enlarge the text who have images off see cut-off letters (or no text at all).
I tend to be old school.
I tend to be old school. I'd use the button image in the foreground with appropriate alt text. E.G.

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The only problems I've found are 1) you need javascript if you want to switch images on hover, etc.*, and 2) it lacks the kewl factor.
* I think it's important to indicate hover, active, and focus conditions. There are simple css methods for doing so effectively without an image switch.
Don't remember the exact
Don't remember the exact title of this method think it's shea enhancement..but it attaches the image to the span leaving the text behind the image. And then add overflow hidden so the text doesn't spill over the image when it is resized. The text is still in the correct spot with images turned off. I like this method because it leaves the text in place but if you are looking for something with less code the negative text-indent is always good but not with the images off.

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#nav_main a.button3 span { background-image: url(images/button_contact.gif); } .button3 { overflow:hidden; } a.button3 { width: 110px; height: 31px; position: relative; } a.button3 span { width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; }
That's Gilder-Levin. For
That's Gilder-Levin. The Shea enhancement is the title being added lawlz.
For Gary's version I'd prolly use a transparent image and a sliding background image. I used this for a form with
Thanks to all you guys for
Thanks to all you guys for your help.


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What a fun surprise when Marjorie informed me that she had nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award! You can read about it over on her blog, i dye every day . I consider myself a 'baby blogger', so thank you for the encouragement Marjorie!
Marjorie shares her surface design and dyeing adventures on her blog and I am inspired by her. It is always fun to see what her fabric is going to look like when she is through playing with it!
I've copied the rules for the Versatile Blogger Award from the VBA blog:
If you are nominated, you've been awarded the Versatile Blogger award.
- Thank the person who gave you this award. That's common courtesy.
- Include a link to their blog. That's also common courtesy — if you can figure out how to do it.
- Next, select 15 blogs/bloggers that you've recently discovered or follow regularly. ( I would add, pick blogs or bloggers that are excellent!)
- Nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award — you might include a link to this site.
- Finally, tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself.
- I'm a night owl.
- I'm a dark chocolate fiend.
- I love to photograph fungi and lichen.
- I listen to classical music but I don't know anything about it…I simply appreciate it.
- I love the smell of Crayola crayons and dirt.
- I used to be efficient and organized.
- I was nicknamed 'Grandma' by my family when I was a child. I've always been a dawdler.
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- Stof genoeg
- Virtual Quilter
- Ivory Spring
- Quilt Skipper
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Collaboration Tools Improve Productivity Drastically
By Krishnan Subramanian on November 11, 2010
With Enterprise 2.0 just over, I am still talking about social and collaboration with others. I came across an interesting data about the collaboration space and thought I will highlight it here. We all know how the modern collaboration tools increase the productivity in an organization by manyfold. There are many studies that put a […]
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Google Sites Targets Enterprises With Its New API
By Krishnan Subramanian on September 25, 2009
Google has taken a big step towards luring enterprises to use Google Sites instead of Microsoft Sharepoint. Yesterday Google Enterprise Blog announced the release of Google Sites API. This move not only ensures the potential enterprise adoption of Google Sites, it also helps Google elevate their entire Google Apps product to be more attractive for […]
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Enterprise commerce is selling that occurs on an enterprise-level. Typically, you'll see this term applied to mean enterprise-grade ecommerce software.
Enterprise commerce software or platforms aren't the same as other ecommerce platforms. They involve more robust tools for tracking inventory, managing customers (CRM), and handling greater amounts of sales.
eCommerce stands for electronic commerce -- online shopping that's expected to make up 14.3 percent of all sales in 2021. Loads of tools and platforms exist out there which any person or business can leverage. Some common ecommerce platforms include:
An ecommerce business that's run on platforms like these may be large operations or just a single person running them. Shopify alone powers 426,600 websites which each generate less than $1 million in revenue per year.
Enterprise commerce is a specific type of ecommerce. It's usually defined by multi-million-dollar revenue, large operations, and a global brand presence. Some examples of enterprise commerce platforms include:
Platforms like these have the infrastructure and tools necessary to handle larger volumes of sales and customers. Many, like Optimizely (formely Episerver), also give companies a way to seamlessly unify all of their operations in a digital ecosystem. Pricing can differ between free open-source platforms and managed cloud services (SaaS).
Likewise, enterprise commerce is often B2B commerce, but it doesn't have to be. In contrast, a company not using enterprise commerce software is more likely to be engaged in B2C commerce -- but they also don't have to be.
Enterprise-grade commerce solutions are usually something that businesses grow into over time, but that doesn't mean you can't start there if you must.
Many businesses turn to enterprise commerce when their current platform is no longer adequate for their operations. Some signs that this is the case include:
Having a good product or service only matters if you're able to deliver it --the wrong tools can hamper even the best ideas.
For companies in the ecommerce space, that means transitioning to enterprise commerce software when a platform is no longer adequate. Once you do, some benefits you may experience include:
There are many enterprise ecommerce platforms out there, but not all are created equal. What you need will depend on your business. However, some key features of a solid enterprise ecommerce solution include:
Ultimately, the right solution should include all of the tools you need to keep your ecommerce activities streamlined, unified, and visible.


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This is what I learned when we dog-sat for 10 days.
1. Flora is totally ready for a dog.
She assumed the bulk of the responsibility for walking and feeding Oscar. She made sure he got treats and was put properly in his crate.
She did not hesitate to pick up poop. It didn't faze her one, tiny bit.
2. Kate is not ready for a dog.
She hogged, she hassled, she wanted all the dog's attention all the time. I think she picked up poop a few times, but it wasn't her favorite. She liked to play tug-of-war with the dog, and she wanted to cuddle him. All the time.
She was kind of a pain in the ass about the dog.
3. Michael was just status update boy. "Oscar's in the dining room." "Oscar pooped in the yard." "Oscar is upstairs." "Oscar drank some water." But since I'm not depending on him to be ready for a dog, this is fine.
4. Dan and I are not dog people.
I can't speak for my husband, but I know he found the exercise of taking the dog out and then crating him before Dan left for the day to be a bit of a hassle.
I thought I was a dog person. I am incorrect. The *idea* of having a dog doesn't bother me, but in the idea, my children are completely, 100 percent responsible for taking care of the dog, and — this is important — DO NOT FIGHT over taking care of the dog.
I may be more of a cat person, but since Flora and I are allergic to cats, that is not a pet option for us.
Ultimately, I think I do not want a pet for the following two reasons:
1. I am done with other creatures' poop. Michael is learning to wipe his own butt, and I cannot express how liberating this milestone is — if you are a parent, you understand without me having to use more words. I don't want to pick up poop or clean a litter box. I want to be done with poop.
2. I do not want another creature to be dependent on me. For goodness sake, people, I don't even feed the fish.
If we get a pet, the children have to be in charge. It can't shed, because ain't no one in this house equipped to do that much vacuuming. And it can't bark. Or wake me up at 5 a.m.
Nope. Mama's done.
Of course, despite all these protestations, if it is financially feasible to get a dog this summer, we will get a dog this summer. Dan has been promising the girls a dog for YEARS now. We're just going to have to suck it up. And hope the dog picks Flora to be its alpha.
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We recently had the opportunity to conduct a trip with an incredible young man, Braden Waymire, and his family. Below is an email we received from Tim Waymire which summarizes the experience in their words.
I need to preface this email with the following disclaimer: I am not a talkative person and I do not share my emotions with anyone except my wife and she usually has to pull them out of me. Taking that into consideration, I love sharing our family's time in the Florida Keys thanks to the Jose Wejebe Memorial Foundation.
After suffering terrible headaches, Braden was diagnosed with a midbrain tumor in August of 2009. After establishing a baseline size for the tumor, the treatment plan was to only monitor the mass. This plan lasted nearly 6 years. In April 2015, our family found out that Braden's brain tumor had grown. Braden had three brain surgeries between June and November that year. The surgeries left Braden with double vision, short term memory loss and after the last surgery he suffered a stroke. The stroke drastically impacted Braden's left side making it difficult for him to walk and to use his left arm.
In December 2015, Braden started an intensive regimen of speech, occupational, physical and vision therapy to lessen the impact of these new deficits. Braden continued with vision therapy until July 2016, and had eye surgery to correct the double vision in September 2016. Although the schedule has become less intense, Braden still continues with speech, physical and occupational therapies at Phoenix Children's Hospital.
In October 2016, the Jose Wejebe Memorial Foundation gave our family the most wonderful gift that would be the trip of a lifetime! Our family spent 8 days in the Florida Keys filled with fishing, sightseeing, family adventure, relaxing and most of all bonding. Diagnosed with hemibalismas (which causes constant tremors) Braden has very little control over his left arm. To mitigate interference caused by the tremors in his left arm Braden will normally sit on his hand or contort his arm behind his back to regulate the constant shaking. The hemibalismas is compounded with hemidystonia and Braden has trouble walking great distances. However, Krissy Wejebe and the Jose Wejebe Memorial Foundation team took Braden's medical complications into account and still provided our family eight days of sheer happiness and joy.
There was an instant bond between Krissy and my wife Nikki during the first phone call. A few more phone calls and the trip that would change the lives of our family was set. The Jose Wejebe Memorial Foundation arranged accommodations for us in a house appropriately named "Paradise at the End of the Road." As the name stated, it was absolute paradise! Our family had never been to Florida, or to the east coast. Our family vacations have been much more local to Arizona and limited to where we can drive to from Phoenix in less than a day. Nikki and I have always wanted to take our family on a trip like the one that was given to us by the Jose Wejebe Memorial Foundation. Nikki and I could never have dreamed of the week that Krissy and her team gave to us. It was life changing!
Krissy and the Jose Wejebe Memorial Foundation made sure that everyone in our family was given an opportunity to experience something that they had an individual interest in. Krissy made it a point to get to know each us. Taking everyone's unique interests into consideration, Krissy planned activities that each of our sons would hold dear as a fond memory. Gavin, our oldest son, has a great interest in culinary arts and is dual enrolled in college while still in high school. Krissy set up a behind the scenes tour and a meeting with the owner of the Square Grouper (our family's new favorite restaurant anywhere!)
Braden has always loved dolphins and Krissy took us to the Dolphin Research Center. Following directions from the dolphin trainers, Braden and his brothers were able to interact directly with the dolphins and have them do several different exercises. Landen, our youngest, is passionate about marine biology and Krissy scheduled time for us to meet with a lead scientist at Moat Marine. Landen was able to learn and ask questions about coral and the scientific breakthroughs at had in saving our ocean's corals. Krissy also set up for our family to go to the Turtle Hospital and we all loved learning about sea turtles and how they are saved at this wonderful facility. For Nikki and I, the entire eight days were more than a dream come true. Nikki and I watch shows on TV about the Florida Keys and houses like the one we stayed in and we dream. Never in our wildest imaginations did we think that we could have this experience with our family.
The time that we spent on the boats was bliss. Our first day, on the eco-tour with Kenny and his son our boys fed sharks! We also saw dolphins, a sea turtle, jellyfish, and learned so much about the waters and the wildlife around the keys. Our first day on the Spanish Fly, Braden caught the first three fish! I credit that to Krissy's coaching and the skillful Captain Dave Maloney. Capt Dave kept apologizing for the wind and the choppy waters, but we were in heaven! Everyone in our family caught multiple fish and I had the catch of the trip (at the time) in a big barracuda! The truth is, we could have caught nothing at all, and this would have been the most memorable trip our family had ever taken! Thanks to Krissy and Capt Dave we also had a lot of great fishing stories to tell! That night, Gavin wanted to cook the fish that we caught for Krissy and Dave. They came over and we had an awesome meal together. It really warmed our hearts that our 16 year old son wanted to give back to the JWMF in this way and they graciously accepted. Having a culinary student son definitely has advantages!
Our next trip out was on the shorter 17′ foot boats. Capt Dave and Capt Grif took our family out on two boats and we caught fish after fish after fish! It was amazing! Braden caught a couple bonnet head sharks and a lot of jacks! We spent the entire afternoon on the water and again, it was like heaven for us! Gavin caught a barracuda, Landen caught a mackerel, Nikki and I each also caught a lot of jacks. To end the day, Capt Dave hooked an 8 foot, 300-pound bull shark that had been snatching bait off of our lines. After hooking it Capt Dave handed the line to Braden and then to Gavin in the other boat. Braden and Gavin were able to feel the power of a fish that we had only seen on tv and in an aquarium. Braden held the line for five minutes or so and then Gavin fought the beast for at least 30 minutes! After Gavin's arms were too tired, he handed me the pole and I lost the shark in about 3 seconds! We saw the sun set on the water, from the boat … I will never forget that imagery!
On our last day of fishing, I lost the the title of "Best catch" when Nikki reeled in a sailfish! I love her competitive spirit and she did an amazing job with the coaching that Krissy gave her! Despite a great respect for the ocean and all of the its inhabitants, Nikki took the ceremonial plunge into the open water afterward! We had seen schools of jelly fish all afternoon until it was time to jump in and the jellyfish made way and gave Nikki the respect that she earned. Nikki also being respectful got back aboard as quickly as she could! Those pictures are now a family treasure! We also caught blackfin tuna and muttons that day. The blackfin tuna was the tastiest tuna we have ever eaten!
Braden remarked many times to Nikki and I how happy this trip was making him! Braden also told us how the fishing trips actually helped to calm his ever shaky arm. Braden said that being on the water with the people he loves the most meant the world to him! The cool ocean breeze, the sea life right beneath us, the fish that we caught all led to a peaceful serenity in our souls and most importantly in Braden's heart!
I know that I have left out so many details in this summary. Those details are not forgotten and I visit them often in my mind. We also take every opportunity to share our wonderful experience with this amazing Foundation! I want to sincerely thank Krissy, Dave, Kevin, Grif, and everyone else who contributed to make our trip to Florida so amazing!
As I am typing this, it is difficult to hold back the tears of joy, we truly feel blessed to have had this experience. I know that Jose is smiling down from heaven right now and that his heart is bursting with love and grace for the work that his daughter has continued in his memory. My family and I feel so very fortunate to have been introduced to this wonderful organization. Through watching Spanish Fly videos we can see that Jose and Braden have a similar soul and share a pure joy and respect for life. Krissy is one of the strongest people I have ever met. Krissy seems to have picked up where her Dad left off and I cannot imagine the strength needed to work in the memory of my father and she does it with honor, grace and dignity. Braden and Krissy share a very similar strength that comes from their hearts, a love of life and wanting to help others. I am certain that if Braden and Jose were to have met, they would have become lifelong friends!
During those eight days in Florida, our family made memories that we will hold tightly to for the rest of our lives! Braden has another MRI this week and will continue to have them for the rest of his life and they are very distressing to our family. Braden is a fighter and is the most inspirational person I have ever known. As we were boarding the plane to depart from Key West, Nikki and I were sad that our time in paradise had come to an end and we both vocalized our dismay. Braden spoke up and told us that he "was not sad, he was thankful for this experience of a lifetime and that he was able to share it with those he loved the most!" Braden is truly amazing and he teaches the rest of us how to be better people.
Braden's tumor affected our whole family. Krissy Wejebe and The Jose Wejebe Memorial Foundation gave our entire family positive memories to keep forever!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
A million times, thank you!
Tim Waymire and the Waymire family
(Tim and Nikki; Gavin, 16; Braden, 15; and Landen, 13)


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Alleged dummy models of 6.1- & 6.5-inch iPhones show former with single-lens camera
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Though Apple may be making its next "budget" iPhone a 6.1-inch LCD model, one tradeoff will be the lack of a dual-lens camera, the latest leak suggests.
The detail can be seen in a supposed "dummy" phone shared by well-known leak source Ben Geskin. The unit lacks any Apple logo, but mostly resembles current iPhone designs except for the placement of the flash below the lens instead of to the side, more akin to the dual-lens iPhone X than the iPhone 8.
A 6.5-inch iPhone dummy seen in the same leak is almost exactly the same as the 5.8-inch iPhone X except for its bigger size. Geskin refers to the device as the "iPhone X Plus," a common nickname for the rumored product.
Apple uses dual-lens cameras on the iPhone 7 Plus, 8 Plus, and X to provide 2x optical zoom, as well as a "Portrait" mode which simulates the bokeh (blurred backgrounds) created by professional lenses. Assuming the 6.1-inch dummy is authentic, the company is likely sticking to a single lens to keep prices down.
2018 iPhone X Plus (6.5-inch) and iPhone (6.1-inch) Dummy Models. pic.twitter.com/QrgkT6u0vS— Ben Geskin (@VenyaGeskin1) July 29, 2018
Unseen in the leak is the expected direct successor to the iPhone X, which should keep the same dimensions but see upgraded internals like a faster processor.
The new 5.8- and 6.5-inch phones are anticipated to use OLED displays, and cost $800-900 and $999+, respectively. Mostly because of LCD, the 6.1-inch model is forecast to cost around $600-700.
The OLED hardware should ship in September or October, but the 6.1-inch iPhone has been rumored as arriving later.


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When we talk about micro medical interventions, such as minimal invasive surgery (MIS), the micro Instruments that are used are vitally important. Precise medical interventions require precision medical instruments, preferably designed and manufactured under the ISO 13485 quality system. Only in this way can surgeons be sure that the minimally invasive surgery they carry out has the greatest chance of success.
Minimal invasive surgery
The precision instruments that surgeons use for MIS (minimal invasive surgery) have to be of the highest possible quality. The tolerances in the fine mechanical metal parts in the instruments must be practically zero in order to ensure the chances of the operation succeeding are as high as possible. The micro instruments need to work properly, time and time again. When the fine mechanical parts developed and manufactured under ISO 13485 standards by JPT are used, the surgeons know everything is correct.
Advantages of micro Instruments from JPT
When surgeons use precision instruments with fine mechanical parts supplied by JPT for minimal invasive surgery, for example in neurosurgery, brain surgery, thoracic surgery or ophthalmic surgery, the benefits include:
• The tightest of tolerances, ensuring the best possible performance
• Guaranteed continuity of quality
• Improved chances of a successful operation
• Lower morbidity figures due to good instruments
Medical interventions
With Medical interventions it is vital to use micro instruments of the best possible quality. The specialists at JPT, who develop and manufacture ultra fine mechanical parts for medical applications, know this better than anyone else. This is why the instruments for Medical interventions made by JPT are the best on the market. The tightest of tolerances for series production runs can be guaranteed in addition to being certified under the ISO 13485 quality system. This offers peace of mind to the surgeons who carry out delicate operations and the procurement professionals at hospitals.
Instruments for Medical interventions from JPT
If your company develops Instruments for Medical interventions, such as micro forceps, micro injectors, micro syringes, micro scissors or surgical scissors, you will certainly want to know that you are offering medical professionals the best in quality. The obvious choice is the ultra fine mechanical parts of JPT. Please do get in touch with us and we can tell you how we can help you develop your Medical Instruments.
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