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Nov 19. 2010
This Friday in Nabi Saleh the Israeli border police used its stink water
tank in the center of the village, as a clear and gross collective
punishment measure against the entire village for Friday demonstrations.
Nabi Saleh residents and demonstrators in the village center, where the
stink water was squirted.
The stink water is a foul-smelling liquid that makes it unbearable to
live in the place where it is squirted on for at least one week. It is
not officially intended for use inside a populated area, but that has
been its use against Nabi Saleh residents and demonstration in the past,
and this gross attack is now being retained.
The demonstration in Nabi Saleh against the creeping annexation of land
by the Halamish settlement started with an immediate unprovoked attack
by Israeli border police on a peaceful and non-violent march. Following
this attack, clashes erupted, with some stone-throwers attempting to
ward off the army incursion. Nevertheless the army manage to position
itself just outside the village`s built area and shot its tear gas
canisters towards the village, repressing also non-protesting civilians.
Throughout the demonstration the Israeli army has shot tear gas
canisters directly at the protesters, a dangerous conduct which violates
even the army`s own regulations. Rubber-coated still bullets were also
widely used by the army. As a result at least 10 protesters suffered
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Village punished for non-violent demonstrations
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It is a common misconception that the "root cause" of all our troubles in Israel is our failure to exert full sovereignty over Har Habayit - the Temple Mount. But not only is the Temple Mount not in our hands, the option of exerting "sovereignty" over it is not in our hands either. And a good thing, too. "Sovereignty" belongs to the Sovereign of the Universe whose mountain it is. I'm sure He'd much rather have Yishmael up there sinning and earning their ultimate punishment rather than Jews. Because, of course, that is exactly what would happen. The first thing most Jews would do is settle Eisav up there, too, and like Yehuda Glick advocates - "share" it with the whole evil world.
It is HKB"H who blocks us from His holy mountain, and no one else. Our lack of free access is not the "root cause," it is the "worst consequence" of our failure to establish a Torah society. Until the Erev Rav is removed, there is no chance of that happening.
I refer you to an article I wrote over ten years ago...
...it is essential that we focus on goals and prioritize our actions so that our combined efforts will bring success on all fronts.
The following are the three most critical and important goals in order of priority:
1. Establishment of a True Jewish Government
2. Elimination of the Threat of Internal Enemies
3. Reconstruction of the Beit Hamikdash
This is a logical conclusion based upon the fact that the second cannot be accomplished without benefit of the first and the third cannot be accomplished without benefit of the first two. Furthermore, Israel will continue its downhill slide and eventually cease to exist altogether without all three. It is clear to us today that without the backing of our government, it will be impossible to defeat our mortal enemies and until the enemy that has raised its hand against Hashem's throne is destroyed, we will never be able to sanctify the Holy Place for the building of the Third House. It is incumbent upon us to work diligently and uncompromisingly and most importantly, efficiently, to realize each of these goals and each in its particular time....Those who want it backwards - Temple Mount first - either have not thought it through to its logical conclusion or they have a different agenda.

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The little fellow, looking so cute and happy! Oh, and while I'm thinking of it... Jess had asked in a comment if Hil was a red head. He definitely seems to have some red. This picture makes him look really red! He's kind of a brown/blonde/red mix. It will be interesting to see what happens as he gets older. Clara's hair started out much darker then Hil's.
And on a totally different note... the poor girl was left to entertain herself too much today as Mommy did this, that and the other thing. And the following picture is the result of one of those entertain-yourself-sessions.
It had been too quiet for too long... and this is what I found. A little girl had gotten into Mommy's make-up and given herself a makeover. She had applied lipstick and mascara by the time she was discovered. I had to turn my back and smother the humor of it. And yes, she did get in trouble... but I also had to snap some pictures.
I'm thankful she didn't damage her eyes in the process! And tomorrow... I need to give her more focused attention! Oh, and is that REALLY what I look like after a make-up session???!!!! :-)
More funny / cute pictures from today.


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Caddo Effigy Pottery from Arkansas
Author(s): Roy Hathcock
Year: 1974
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Caddo Effigy Pottery from Arkansas. Roy Hathcock. Central States Archaeological Journal. 21 (3): 112-115. 1974 ( tDAR id: 119311)
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Live Mesh
So Microsoft announced something interesting today, Live Mesh. It's in limited beta mode now, but it shouldn't be too long before Microsoft opens it up to the public. Techcrunch has the details. In a nutshell, it's part file sharing, part backup, part synchronization. It's kind of reminiscent of Apple's Dotmac, but goes a fair bit beyond that.
While I haven't played with it yet, and while I'm sure it's still buggy and far from feature complete, it seems very neat, and earns Microsoft a rare kudos. If this is the indicative of the direction Ray Ozzie is going to be taking the company… there might still be some life in it yet.
The big problem? Microsoft needed to do this three or four years ago. It should have been a core part of Vista. Better late than never, I suppose – but whereas this might have kept me as a customer four years ago, now they're at a point of needing to win me back. Mesh doesn't quite reach that bar, at least not yet.
At this point my home network is a mish mash of computing platforms – I run Vista, OS X, and Ubuntu. Google Docs, while not nearly as elegant as MS Word, solves the synchronization problem for me, and Amazon S3 handles offsite backup. I might be getting a Blackberry or an iPhone at some point in the future.
To get me to switch, Microsoft needs to develop mesh into something that not only works across all these platforms, but proves itself to be a superior solution to anything that Google, Apple, or anyone else might offer.


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Several members of the Saint John Sea Dogs are nominated again this year. Nathan Beaulieu is nominated for the Émile "Butch" Bouchard Trophy which is awarded to the league's best defenseman, Gerard Gallant is nominated for the Ron-Lapointe Trophy for a third straight year which is awarded to the coach of the year, and Jonathan Huberdeau is up for the Paul-Dumont Trophy as personality of the year.
Sea Dogs goaltender Mathieu Corbeil will also be awarded the Jacques Plante Memorial Trophy for having the QMJHL's best goals against average.
At last year's event, Simon Despres was named Defenseman of the Year, Gallant Coach of the Year, Mike Kelly General Manager of the Year, and Jacob DeSerres received the Jacques Plante Trophy.
Here are our predictions for tonight's awards show.
Yanni Gourde - Victoriaville Tigres
Mikhail Grigorenko - Québec Remparts
Zach O'Brien - Acadie-Bathurst Titan
Prediction: Yanni Gourde – he led the league in points by a wide margin, recording 124 points in 68 games. He helped setup 87 of Victoriaville's league high 311 goals.
RDS Cup - Rookie of the Year
François Brassard - Quebec Remparts
Anthony Duclair - Quebec Remparts
Zachary Fucale - Halifax Mooseheads
Mikhail Grigorenko - Quebec Remparts
Nathan MacKinnon - Halifax Mooseheads
Brandon Whitney - Victoriaville Tigres
Prediction: Mikhail Grigorenko – we see this as a three horse race between Grigorenko, MacKinnon and Fucale. We'll go with Grigorenko since he led all rookies in scoring and is a MVP candidate.
Émile "Butch" Bouchard Trophy - Best Defenseman
Nathan Beaulieu - Saint John Sea Dogs
Jérôme Gauthier-Leduc - Rimouski Océanic
Xavier Ouellet - Blainville-Boisbriand Armada
Prediction: Jerome Gauthier-Leduc – led all defensemen in scoring with 74 points in 62 games. In the words of Pierre McGuire, he's a monster.
Frank-J.-Selke Trophy - Sportsman of the Year
Ben Duffy - PEI Rocket
Zach O'Brien - Acadie-Bathurst Titan
Sébastien Trudeau - Acadie-Bathurst Titan
Prediction: Zach O'Brien – in just over two seasons in the QMJHL, Zach O'Brien has not taken a penalty. Not one. Not a single roughing or delay of game or anything penalty in 126 career games. He should probably have an award named after him some day.
Michael-Bossy Trophy - Top Professional Prospect
Martin Frk - Halifax Mooseheads
Mikhail Grigorenko - Quebec Remparts
Brandon Whitney - Victoriaville Tigres
Prediction: Mikhail Grigorenko – he'll be an early first round pick at this year's NHL draft.
Marcel-Robert Trophy - TELUS Scholastic Player of the Year
Jonathan Brunelle - Cape Breton Screaming Eagles
Patrick Delisle-Houde - Moncton Wildcats
Jean-Philippe Mathieu - Rimouski Océanic
Michaël Bournival - Shawinigan Cataractes
Yanni Gourde - Victoriaville Tigres
Prediction: No idea.
Ron-Lapointe Trophy - Coach of the Year
Gérard Gallant - Saint John Sea Dogs
Jean-François Houle - Blainville-Boisbriand Armada
Patrick Roy - Quebec Remparts
Prediction: Jean-Francois Houle – it pains me not to give this award to Turk but, man, how can you not pick Jean-Francois Houle? This guy has done an unreal job with the Armada. A team many, including us, predicted to finish dead last ended up finishing third overall and are now on their way to the second round of the playoffs.
Maurice-Filion Trophy - General Manager of the Year
Joël Bouchard - Blainville-Boisbriand Armada
Martin Mondou - Shawinigan Cataractes
Patrick Roy - Quebec Remparts
Prediction: Martin Mondou - As much as we dislike Martin Mondou (although that article in the Telegraph last week made us like him just a little bit) he did turn the Cataractes into a respectable Memorial Cup host. Last summer, things weren't looking that great. But now, Shawinigan is a legit contender for the national title.
Paul-Dumont Trophy - Personality of the Year
Mikhail Grigorenko - Quebec Remparts
Jonathan Huberdeau - Saint John Sea Dogs
Nathan MacKinnon - Halifax Mooseheads
Prediction: Jonathan Huberdeau - Not even sure what this award means so we'll give it to Huberdeau.
Humanitarian and Community Involvement Trophy
Konrad Abeltshauser - Halifax Mooseheads
Vincent Barnard - Québec Remparts
Cédrick Henley - Val-d'Or Foreurs
Prediction: No clue.


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My affection for sweet stuff is well-known, if you have been following this blog for some time. There are a few things that I can eat over and over again and never get bored with them. Baklava is definitely on the top of the list.
For those who don't know, baklava is a traditional dessert from Persian and Central Asia. It is made by multiple layers of phyllo dough, filled with melted butters and nuts (usually walnut or pistachio). The phyllo dough is soaked in a syrup or honey and cooked until it becomes just crusty.
For me it is a simple, no fussy dessert but let's be honest, with my little knowledge in pasteries, it is impossible to make it myself. So when I came across this beautiful video by The Parennial Plate on baklava, I thought it will be nice to share it with you guys. I admire the patience and the techniques they have to make layers and layers of these good stuffs
Hope you enjoy it!
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The Shuozhou-Huanghua Railway (SHR) runs 373 miles (600 km) from Shenchi, a key coal mine in Shanxi Province, to Huanghua Harbor in Hebei Province. It is the second longest coal transportation railroad to the coastal regions of eastern and southeastern China.
SHR selected Huawei for a US$1.7 billion project to increase total hauling capacity to 350 million tons by increasing the capacity of single trains from 5,000 tons to 20,000 tons each. In addition, Huawei reconstructed SHR's transmission network on a unified platform for enhanced reliability and simplified O&M.
The project encountered several key challenges.
The communication distance between the master and slave locomotives on heavy trains can be as much as 1.5 miles (2,500m). SHR needed to extend signal coverage to that range in order to switch from shorter trains carrying 5,000 tons to longer trains carrying 20,000 tons.
SHR originally used an MSTP to carry signaling, monitoring, and voice services. After upgrading and reconstruction, the MSTP was inadequate for the more diversified services and advanced network features SHR wished to add.
Original bandwidth for each service ranged from 2 Mbit/s to 100 Mbit/s Fast Ethernet (FE). However, the original MSTP had low transmission efficiency. The new services and features required a more flexible and efficient IP network.
An unstable and increasingly unreliable network affected security. There was no dual network coverage or multiple-priority Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms to avoid service interruptions.
Spare parts and maintenance costs were high because the older system was near the end of its service life.
Huawei provided a reliable, simple solution to reconstruct SHR's transmission network.
Huawei deployed a comprehensive 1.8 GHz TD-LTE network with a 10 Gbit/s backbone layer and 2.5 Gbit/s aggregation layer. The network was easily upgraded to 10 Gbit/s.
Huawei used OptiX OSN 7500 and OptiX OSN 3500 intelligent optical transmission switches for better cross-connection capability and Ethernet access. SHR planned to reserve 40% of the devices' capacity for future expansion. The switches' Ethernet access boards have a higher port density to save slots and increase the bandwidth utilization rate because of the grooming capability base in VC12/VC3/VC4 granulation.
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Huawei OSN-series switches have interchangeable service boards. As a result, SHR needs fewer spare parts, driving down the cost of maintenance. Meanwhile, Huawei's iManager U2000 eLTE management software, slashes costs by making system operations easier to control uniformly.
SHR received some very important benefits.
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Being betrayed is one of the most hurtful feelings anyone can feel. That is why we have the cliche "Saksakin mo na nang harapan walang lang sa likuran".
That is how I felt when my dear senator whom I pledged to support and campaign in the coming 2016 Philippine election suddenly took a 360-degree turn.
When Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago announced that she will run for President in the 2016 elections, I was jubilant. I felt there was hope now that a better qualified candidate has already fielded herself in the 2016 presidential race. I cannot contain my adulation of her because this is the moment I've been waiting for, to cast my vote for her.
I was elementary then when she first ran in 1992. Through Television and newspapers, I read and watched her speeches and achievements in government service and that is when I first admired her and her character. If only I can vote then, I'm sure will be voting for her, but then I can't. On her second try I was just a fresh high school graduate and still not eligible to vote. So missed the opportunity again to be one of those millions who voted for her.
Now that I'm very much qualified to vote for her, I was high in excitement that finally on her third try I will have the chance to put her name as my president.
But just a couple of days after she revealed her plans for the 2016 election, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago announced that her Vice Presidential running mate would be the son and name-sake of the late dictator, Sen.Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos Jr.
The moment news broke out about her running mate, was the same moment my heart was broken.
Why oh why Sen. Miriam, that in all your intelligence, integrity and character have you chosen Sen. Marcos? For all the principles you have stood before as the prime graft buster and defender of human rights, how come you were able to compromise to go side by side with Bongbong?
You already is a social media superstar. You already is the rock star of the 2016 elections that many Pinoys have anticipated. But why chose a running mate that comes from the opposite pole of what you have stood for in a long time? Or are you really not in the opposite pole?
In a Rappler article by David Yap "Why Bongbong Marcos is good for Miriam Santiago" he articulated that you and BBM are really good for each other primarily because of your good track records in the Senate. Forget the atrocities of his father during martial law because those were only ad hominen fallacies. After reading the article I just let is pass as just one of those Marcos revisionist trying to deodorize the Marcos name.
But during your speech at the COMELEC after filing your Certificate of Candidacy for president, the same line of thought came from your known fiery mouth, "The Marcos family doesn't owe Filipinos apology". My faith shambles, I was disrupted for a moment when I heard you said those words. From a fiery graft buster dubbed as the Dragon Lady of Asia, now you want us to just let it go and move on as if nothing happened. You also said times have changed and millennials should have different views compared to our parents and grand parents. Yes Bongbong may not be his father, but he is part of the family who occupies Malacanang then. He was with his father when everything back then happened. In fact according to the article by Raissa Robles, he himself admitted to have a hand in the ill gotten wealth they plundered and kept in Swiss Banks.(Read here: Senator Bongbong Marcos confirmed he had a direct hand in trying to withdraw US$213M from a Swiss bank in 1986)
So how can we not collect from the son the sins of the father when he himself was involved with it?
I don't know if it's true that the reason you chose Marcos is because of convenience; he has the money and you have the following.That's why you compromise everything and came out deodorizing the Marcoses to the point of suggesting collective amnesia to the atrocities they did
You don't need Marcos, he needs you more than you need her. You can run a decent campaign even without a running mate evident by the huge interest of volunteers the moment you announced you will run for president. Millennials counted on you as the perceived "savior" among the other presidential aspirants. But after choosing Bongbong Marcos, it's feels more likely of a betrayal. Why Senator Miriam, why?
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Colombia is strengthening its national protected area network to meet the Convention on Biological Diversity targets. New protected areas have been created in the Caribbean for deep water corals, and in the Amazon for tropical forest, where the Chiribiquete National park covers 3-million hectares.


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The more I read on Steve Jones blog the more I find to like about what he has to say. One of his recent posts discusses the futility of trying to cover every eventuality by producing a paper trail long enough to circle the earth and the moon one million times. I'm really interested in this whole area of 'just enough' consideration as I think that one of the keys to business agility is to make more appropriate decisions about solutions that match the reality of the business capability that requires them.
In one of my previous posts I've discussed the phenomenon (you'll have to dig for it as the post wasn't specifically about that) of 'enterprise IT' as often delivered by IT departments – and in particular enterprise architecture efforts -as basically being inappropriate for everyone rather than right for anyone; the basic premise was that:
- Small, nimble parts of an organisation have to contend with huge lumbering infrastructures enforced upon them at more cost than they can afford and more importantly that make everything move much more slowly than they can live with. In particular – as Steve points out – IT departments generally want to consider every possible usage that could ever be made of a solution by every other part of the business and therefore deliver a solution that is way beyond appropriate "just in case" or alternatively force the new functionality into an existing 'box' even if its cost or capability isn't wholly appropriate. This includes the sorts of inappropriate questioning and high beaureacracy that Steve talks about, which is a result of trying to make everyone fit the same profile; and
- Larger business capabilities get an environment that may approximate to their needs but they also end up subsidising other areas of the business because they pay for infrastructure and software that then gets used by everyone. This leads to all kinds of bun fights and ill feeling about who funds upgrades or extensions forced by capacity etc, particularly as IT departments are generally not able to deliver true shared services due to a lack of service enablement capability (i.e. service management, usage billing etc.). At the same time whilst larger units may get appropriate IT from the context of scale or function they still chafe against the beaureacracy and tardiness of change that their supporting IT delivers.
In general the issue is threefold; basically IT people are a) looking to cover themselves against failure because they take such a beating from their business colleagues about value for money and so they try to imagine every potential future use case to protect themselves against accusations of ill-preparedness, b) they can only afford to manage a limited solution portfolio cost effectively and so try to squeeze every business need into this limited space – essentially the focus is on making life easier for the IT department by standardising rather than on delivering the right 'size' of solution with the right characteristics at the right time and c) there has traditionally been a lack of abstractions that allow IT to understand what a 'right sized' solution looks like for each business capability that they deal with. All of these things have traditionally resulted in the 'shadow IT' so bemoaned by enterprise architects as end users take the issue into their own hands and bypass the IT department completely.
Now the reason that this area interests me is because service-orientation deals with the third issue and thereby enables us to think differently about the first two – i.e. it provides a set of abstractions that allow us to reason about the business capabilities that we need within the organisation, the levels of service we need from them and the costs we can afford to bear in their provision. Essentially SOA breaks the organisation down into a set of collaborating service providers (i.e. capabilities) and thereby delivers an optimal problem solving layer not previously available. Whereas in the past the problem solving layer has been the technology in the form of application portfolios – linked, if we're lucky to some loose notion of business processes – the focus can now move to the 'what' in place of these 'hows'. This is a significant change as it allows us to see the wood for the trees by moving away from standardisation on applications and technology and into standardisation of capabilities. This delivers a much clearer statement of the context in which IT needs to be delivered if it is to realise capabilities in a way most appropriate to the environment in which they operate – i.e. a capability that needs to be operated at low cost and which changes a lot is unlikely to be a good candidate for squeezing into the ERP implementation that we have; as a result we will need to find a way of providing service to this capability that much more closely matches their needs.
So what does all this have to do with Steve's post about people covering their arses? Essentially I believe that this helps us in three main ways:
- We can much more rapidly agree what needs to be delivered because we can have conversations with our business partners centred around what needs to be done rather than suffer the traditional impedance mismatch between business and IT. This makes agreements – in the form of contracts, service levels and costs – much easier to formally document and removes a whole layer of arse covering from the process aimed at caveating everything to cope with the essential lack of understanding between the partners involved;
- As IT people we can much more easily understand the needs of the business areas with whom we deal and rapidly see what level of provision is appropriate based on the characteristics of the capability i.e. does it differentiate? what scale does it operate at? how often does it change? how much can we afford to pay for it? is it highly regulated? etc. These characteristics give us a clear field of operation when considering the degree to which we need to cater for Albanian watch sellers (lol) and to therefore source IT that aligns more realistically with the needs of the consuming business capability. This again removes the need for endless speculation about what might happen in 5 years time as the commitment of the IT organisation is either to deliver a service within the constraints identified or to decide that they can't do it and help outsource the IT (or even the entire business capability) to an external provider; and
- Separating the delivery of the IT required by different capabilities (at least logically) enables much more rapid change since we can reduce the dependencies between different business capabilities. We do this by concentrating on service dependencies and shared capability rather than by forcing shared use of technology. Where we do share technology – infrastructure, applications and platforms – we maximise the virtualisation of this provision so that we're really offering shared technical capability on a multi-tenancy basis rather than trying to squeeze everyone together and thereby coupling them and reducing their ability to change independently. This will require IT departments to either deliver real service delivery platforms – which include the capabilities needed to enable both themselves and their business partners to deliver what they do as a managed, billable service – or partner with external utility computing providers who can offer them this capability as a service. Enabling much more rapid change by implementing a more flexible IT model would further reduce the need for arse covering as a) we would have a better relationship with our business partners due to improved service provision and b) changes can be accommodated much more rapidly and therefore the need to plan for all eventualities to save time 'in the future, maybe' would be much reduced.
All of these things drive towards putting much more pressure on the business to describe what they do and equally importantly on IT to make what they do far more transparent and to be more pragmatic in the way in which they do things. Essentially as focus falls increasingly on getting the right IT at the right time and at the right cost IT departments can't afford not to become far more flexible and less dogmatic, since the rise of SaaS and external service provision will increasingly give people easy alternatives to the monopoly we've enjoyed over the last 30 years.


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I did 15 miles today and I'm in a motel on the west end of Lyons, Kansas. I'm 30 miles from Great Bend. This morning a couple on their way back from grocery shopping in Lyons, stopped and shared some of their fresh grapes and cherries. They were still chilled. Nice treat for sure. Not much happening today so here is something from past walks to encourage us to LOVE LIFE.
In 2008, I found a lady's purse just outside of Indianapolis with all her credentials and driver's license in it. I called her; she was delighted and came immediately to retrieve it. Just a little more than a couple hours before, as she was crossing a parking lot to a drugstore to get a prescription filled, a man had grabbed it. She was 88 years old (same age as my mother at the time.) and he threw her against a car. She had just put a hundred dollar bill in the purse to pay for her prescription. I felt terrible for her. But she said, "Hey, I'm 88 and this is the first time this has ever happened to me and we just have to let things go and go on." She told me not to feel bad and offered me a ride through Indy which I turned down. She insisted I take ten dollars though, which I finally accepted. As she was walking back to her car she turned and with a big smile, said, "Oh, I really like your sign. I Love Life, always have." What an attitude!
Walking in downtown Schenectady, N.Y. about 4:30 pm a lady passing by me looked up at my sign and said, "Thanks, I needed to see that, it's been a rough day!" I said, "Thanks, I needed to hear that, it's been a rough day!" We both laughed. LOVE LIFE my friends and you're in a constant state of positivity that no negative dare try to penetrate.


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The BBC News website's presentation of its recent report on Mahmoud Abbas' speech at the UNGA (discussed here) included several 'related articles' offered to readers both on the Middle East homepage and in the article itself as complimentary information on the topic. Among those articles was one originally published on August 8th under the title "Gaza conflict: The hundreds who lost their lives".
Not only is that feature long out of date but – as we pointed out here when it originally appeared – it is also inaccurate on the topic of Israeli casualties with both its text and a graphic claiming to inform readers "where people were killed" presenting incorrect information.
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Thursday, April 21, 2005
Art (Theater): Jason SVT on NPR
Jason was on All Things Considered this evening. He was interviewed in a story about regional theaters and talked about his Salvage Vangaurd Theater and how they bring new works to young audiences. Way to go Jason!
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Butternut Squash Pasta
- 1 butternut squash, diced and peeled
- 12 oz. linguine
- 3 tbsp. olive oil
- 1 1/2 cup vege oil
- sage or rosemary
- 1/4 cup diced onion
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/8 tsp. nutmeg
- 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- salt and pepper
1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and add your squash and some salt to it. Let cook 12-15 minutes.
2. Fry your sage leaves with some olive oil. Or you can just add rosemary to your sauce as it simmers, it smells so good!
3. Using a slotted spoon, take your squash out of the hot water and place in a separate bowl.
4. Add pasta to the water the butternut squash was in and cook according to package.
5. Using a blender, puree your butternut squash until smooth. Add vege broth until sauce reaches your desired consistency.
6. In a deep skillet, add your olive oil and sautee your onions and garlic until flavorful. Add your pureed butternut squash and stir in your parmesan cheese.
7. Season with nutmeg, salt and pepper.
8. Add pasta to your sauce and stir to coat. Add your sage or rosemary and serve hot.
Butternut Squash sauce with pasta added
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text: Photo and report Willem J. StaatLaurent Aiello provided Audi their last win in 2012 in the DTM-series. The Ingolstadt marque from which the works are closely situated to the Norisring had to wait for another 14 years before Edoardo Mortara took the laurels in the Sprint Race on Saturday. A misjudged move Audi-driver Mattias Ekström robbed Canadian Mercedes driver Robert Wickens and Christian Vietoris in the Grundigbend from a potential victory. After 49 laps of racing the Audi's from Edoardo Mortara and Jamie Green passed the chequered flag first. Paul Di Resta took third with Paul Di Resta in 3rd position. Vietoris still managed to bring his battered car home in 10th position.Mattias Ekström caught pole for the Main Race but had been dropped four places for his actions in R1 on the grid. However that did not matter as he quickly retired. The race developed into a fantastic battle for the lead between ABT Audi-driver Nico Müller and RBM BMW driver Tom Blomqvist, regularly swapping positions until the Abt driver got the lead after a perfect pitstop and did beat Blomqvist with only 0.670 secs. Maxime Martin took 3rd in the second RBM BMW M4. Paul di Resta and Lucas Auer followed in fouth and fifth place. With 6th Marco Wittmann collected valuable points to take the lead in the tablestandings.Two European F3 races were being taken by Canadian Lance Stroll with a Premapower Team Dallara Mercedes. Antoine Hubert won for VAR the second race also with a Dallara Mercedes. Too many crashed and incidents overshadowed the F3 races. In the Audi TT Cup Lucas di Grassi took a spectacular win in R2 on Sunday.


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For the lots of lovely people out there who have no clue what's going on here, I will explain -
I am on my final year of a National Diploma in Art and Design, at suffolk new college in Ipswich. For my Final Major Project and exhibtion I have decided to live in my tent in my garden to relive 'Childhood Holidays' of camping in france. I will document this experience (on this blog) and produce work, probably in the form of sculpture, prints and drawings, from photographs taken daily.
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Tuesday, 13 April 2010
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These days, there are a lot of pheromone products on the market, some more effective than others. One of these, Pherlure, has certainly been highly touted as an effective product — but many think it's only because the manufacturer has a very good marketing campaign going on. In other words, many people order this product once, but then don't order it again.
Pherlure operates on the premise that, like other pheromone products, it will make men more attractive to women simply by spraying on its product; as the premise goes, pheromones as produced in nature (by our own bodies) occur when we are sexually aroused, thus attracting the opposite sex.
In practice, simply including these ingredients in products is dubiously effective at best.
Another drawback to pheromone products like Pherlure is that the actual concentration of the ingredients, like the pheromones androstenone and dehydroepiandrosterone, are not listed on the label. (Pherlure, like other pheromone products, is pretty private about what it includes in its ingredients.)
First Impressions
The bottom line, of course, is that regardless of what Pherlure's ingredients are, does it work?
The short answer to that is "no." Although users did indeed praise its good smell, in that it was very enjoyable to use as a cologne, its pheromone effectiveness was basically nonexistent, even in places where you might actually be more attractive yourself to the opposite sex, such as in night clubs or bars.
In addition, Pherlure may actually be problematic for many. One user, for example, commented that he actually found himself in a bad mood (which was out of character for him) after several weeks of wearing Pherlure; upon further study, in high amounts, androstenone can indeed produce these negative effects.
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Sunday, 26 February 2012
I'm featured as one of 'three of Scotland's finest illustrators' in the new issue of satisfyingly glossy Homes & Interiors Scotland. There's loads of other rad stuff in it too, including a feature about the late lamented Elders department store in Glasgow with its brilliant Robert Stewart mural which I'm dying to see restored. Thanks to Gabriella Bennett for getting in touch with me, and I must also mention that the picture of the coffee cups is courtesy of Craig at Six Eight Kafe.
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012
1 My illustration, ~Art~, in the first issue of LIMNER, brainchild of PETE, which should be available to buy from the site soon.
2 Artwork for RICKY's sublime tape, available HERE.
3 A very stunning and gorgeous card from Berlin/ELLA. It's allegedly a belated Xmas card but as it arrived today I've been ostentatiously flaunting it as a Valentine, natch.
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Monday, 6 February 2012
I've had a kinda wordy (by 'wordy' I obv mean involving more than one paragraph and a lower ratio of acronyms to legit words than I'm generally comfortable with) post in my drafts for a while now and it's become something of a millstone around my neck. So I just thought, you know what m8, just post some pictures, just go for it. Here is some work in progress from my zine about the Scottish third division, due to appear imminently.
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
cheaper by the dozen 1&2 (US movie 2003,2005)
cheaper by the dozen(2003)
synopsis: The Baker family is a happy and large family with 12 children who reside in Midland, Indiana. One day Tom Baker gets an offer for his dream job: Become the coach of the Stallions. Tom returns home with the new job and promotion in the urban, near-north Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois with education advantages and a new vehicle; although Kate approves, his children overhear and object to his proposed actions in a family conference. Even though the children vote about what they would rather do, Tom decides to accept the job and move to the city, many miles away from their current countryside home.click here for more.
cheaper by the dozen2(2005)
synopsis :The Baker family begins to undergo many changes, beginning with Lorraine's (Hilary Duff) high school graduation and her desire to study in New York.Their eldest daughter Nora (Piper Perabo) is now married to Bud McNulty and pregnant, but the couple intend to move to Houston because of Bud's new job promotion. Feeling that the family is breaking apart as the children grow up and move away, Tom persuades the entire family to take one last family vacation all together at Lake Winnetka. Tom's old rival Jimmy Murtaugh (Eugene Levy) and his large family (With only eight kids)are also there for the summer.click here for more.the link is the original source of the synopsis article,I just want to share it with the reader aside to my personal comment.
comment:again i watched this from local television last night an a few months ago.i really like these movies,since i grew up in quite big family almost half dozen children.so i knew how it is. a very collectible movies for me.
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We are bombarded constantly about how carbon taxes will save the world, that they will save civilization. BC has a carbon tax that has no measurable effect other than employing more workers. Trudeau threatens us with a $50 Trudeau Carbon Tax. Politicians obviously know more than the rest of us, after all we hired them, right? Much of their evidence for forcing these carbon taxes on us seems to be based on comments from fruit fly researchers and ex Vice Presidents.
1. If giving money to Governments provides them the unique ability to change the climate (which started as global warming), at what dollar figure will they be able to stop the climate from changing?
2. What dollar figure will allow the Government the miraculous ability to reverse climate change? $300? $500? $1,000? In spite of what he thinks, Trudeau isn't God.
3. At what dollar figure will Canada's economy collapse?
Governments and environmental zealots obviously have accurate verifiable scientific evidence to provide these answers. Why are they hiding it? Is this fear-mongering just a smokescreen?
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About Tulsiwadi in Mumbai:
Localities in and around Tulsiwadi in Mumbai:
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o Universal School o NSS Hill Spring International School o Lady Engineer High School o Bai R F D Panday Girls High School o Villa Theresa High School o Aditya Birla World Academy o Bhausaheb Hiray Junior College o Nagrik Shikshan Sanstha College Of Commerce and Economics o NSS College of Pharmacy o M H Saboo Siddique College Of Engineering
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World Cup Fever Will End Soon
It's tonight,it's tonight the end of word cup 2010.Who will be the champion Spain or Holland? The third placing goes to Germany. Congratulations!
Last night match was a real match. Uruguay's striker Diego Forlan, almost forced extra time.His free kick crashed against the crossbar in injury time, that was the last kick of the match. I wonder why both of these teams didn't play as well as last night in the semi final.
World Cup will come again in four years time. See you in Brazil. So, lets enjoy the theme songs,
When you fall get up, oh oh
If you fall get up, eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
Cuz this is Africa
Tsamina mina, eh eh
Waka waka, eh eh
Tsamina mina zangalewa
This time for Africa
Give me freedom
Give me fire
Give me reason
Take me higher
See the champions
Take the field now
You're the fighters
Make us feel proud
When I get older, I will be stronger
They'll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag… so wave your flag (and then it goes back)
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Boy oh boy, there sure are a lot of people in this world...
I've become sentimental of my routes of public transportation here. I think it's similar to the way people talk about gardening. The way you have a certain amount of time every day to do nothing but contemplate. I have a 45 minute bus ride in the morning and in the evening in which I can decompress from whatever stress I had that day; getting lost and walking in a circle twelve times, not being able to get books for my classes, the fact that the classroom I'm supposed to be in for a certain class got switched THREE TIMES, meaning I had to walk 3 blocks back and forth to another building to find it.
But I love that time on the bus. Or, as they call them here, colectivos. I take colectivo 29. There are at least a hundred (or more, I'd think?) colectivos. Or sometimes, the subte (subway). I love that as well. But there's something about being on the colectivo and seeing everyone on the streets that you pass and discovering the area you live in that is so great.
Last night my friend Katie (who was my roomie last year at Knox and lives about 4 blocks away from me in Buenos Aires) and I went to this bar called Gibraltar in our neighborhood, San Telmo. I love San Telmo because it's one of the oldest barrios (neighborhoods) in Buenos Aires, and because it's such a touristy place, you can find people who sometimes know Spanish and a bit of English. While at Gibraltar we met some people who spoke both and got to talking to them.
Earlier in the day, Katie and I had marched with the Madres de La Plaza de Mayo, a group of mothers who march each Thursday from 3:30 to 4:00pm to fight for the remembrance of their children who were a part of the Disappeared in Argentina in the 70s and 80s. It was incredibly moving and wonderful and sad at the same time.
But we told these people we met at the bar that we had marched with them, and they were almost outraged. I didn't even think that people who hated the Madres existed, but I guess they do. The guys who got pissed off about it turned out to be sons of people who work for the military, so perhaps that has something to do with it.
Either way, I love every person I talk to here because I constantly learn things that I had no idea about before.
One of the other guys we met also said "I hate Buenos Aires. Why would you come here to experience Latin American culture? This place is so European." Also interesting.
Another thing about this place is the streets and sidewalks. First of all, there is dog shit EVERYWHERE. I mean everywhere. Also, the sidewalks are often in pieces. A lot of times, tree roots push up the concrete so there are bumps everywhere, as if a rolling earthquake is a constant here.
Also, my house. My house (which is really an apartment) is full of art. FULL of it. I love it. My host mother loves cats, so not only do we have two cats, but much of the art is of cats, too. And besides that, there are many abstract paintings that my host mom's son has done, and other friends as well. It's sooo pretty.
I am realizing the things I take for granted in the USA. Like, people in the USA have to give you coins as change. That's definitely not required here, which you don't THINK would be a pain in the ass, until you remember that's how you have to pay your fare for the colectivo, with coins.
Also, banks and ATM machines. If you need to go to a bank, you often have to wait half an hour or more in a line that stretches around the block. I'm not sure all the reasons for this, but I do know that one reason is that because of "gripe A" (swine flu), most banks only allow 5 or so customers inside at a time.
My phone also continuously fails. Still trying to figure that out. I wonder if it would be cheaper to try to unblock my USA phone and see if it would work here? Some do. But I don't know how that works in terms of prices either.
For now, I am off to try to buy books for classes. Another luxury I take for granted at Knox: the bookstore being there and having the books I need. I tried two stores yesterday and found 1 of 4 books. C'est la vie. Try again today.
Despite some difficulties, I'm still loving it here. A lot. A lot lot lot. LEARNING SPANISH. I have to remind myself sometimes that that's why I'm here.
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Kate French and Sam Curry enjoyed the perfect start to their 2017 seasons as they claimed victories in the first Pentathlon GB National Ranking Competition of the year. Both athletes enjoyed similar days with the combined laser-run proving to be the cornerstone of their success.
The competition, which was held at the University of Bath - Pentathlon GB's National Training Centre - In the men's event, Myles Pillage produced a sublime sub 2-minute swim to take the lead after the opening discipline ahead of Bradley Sutton and Henry Choong. In the fencing salle it was Joe Choong who excelled as he topped the discipline standings ahead of fellow 2016 Olympian Jamie Cooke with Tom Toolis and Sam Curry finishing joint 3rd with 21 victories and 12 defeats. It meant another fascinating laser-run developed with the top 5 of Joe Choong, Pillage, Toolis, Cooke and Curry separated by just 26 seconds at the start.
As in the preceding Women's heat, the top 5 positions changed throughout the 3200m course. Eventually it was Curry, who is currently studying at King's College in London, who prevailed with the quickest time of the day. He was followed across the line by Pillage, Toolis, Choong and Cooke, setting the order ahead of the ride, the final discipline of the day.
In his first competition since Rio, Joe Choong withdrew before the ride leaving Curry, Pillage and Toolis to battle it out for victory. Toolis knocked 2 poles down but moved ahead of Pillage into 2nd after the 18 year-old suffered a difficult round. It gave Curry some breathing space ahead of his ride and he finished the day in style with a wonderful clear round to pick up the maximum 300 points and claim a comfortable victory.
Behind the top 3, Bath based trio Cooke, Bradley Sutton and Jamie Harper finished 4th, 5th and 6th respectively. Cambridge University's Paul Hodgson finished 7th ahead of Plymouth College's Edward Clark with Josh Miller and Henry Choong rounding out the top 10.
The second National Ranking Competition of the year takes place next month, also at the University of Bath and West Wilts Equestrian Centre.
Link: http://pentathlongb.org/news/post/kate-french-and-sam-curry-start-seasons-nrc1-victories


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Photographed with a pinhole camera on a lovely spring evening. My exposure was only about five seconds or so, which isn't much for a pinhole image.
I am rather impressed with how sharp the final image turned out. All the blur you see in the trees and tall grass come from the fact that it was a fairly windy day. The model was able to hold relatively still throughout the exposure.
Camera: Ilford Titan Pinhole
Film: Fomapan 100
Location: Portland, OR - Sauvie Island


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Monday, February 17, 2014
ACE Group Classic 2014 The Champions Tour
There are occasions when I find I must defer to a colleague or a friend when it comes to writing about particular subjects. When it comes to golf, that would be Al Stitt. Al has played the game for many years, has replaced a grip or two for thousands of clubs, and has designed sets of clubs for many in the Quinte area. Al knows golf. Now into his seventies, he plays at a 4 handicap, and often shoots his age. Those of you who play the game know the significance of that.
Al Stitt with Chippewa's Rod Spittle
I took Al down to Naples, Florida, to get a better understanding of the game at the ACE Group Classic, the golf tournament held at TwinEagles Golf Club. This was the third year that I have attended this tournament, and if you are in the area when it takes place, you really should drop by. The players are all over 50, and therefore it is a Seniors' competition, on the tour known as the Champions Tour.
This year's tournament wrapped up last Sunday with Kirk Triplett dropping a six foot putt on the final hole for a one stroke victory. Triplett had won three times on the PGA tour, but this victory was unique for him. "I've never won out here on this side of the world. I'm a West Coast guy through and through, so to win on this Bermuda grass is, I think, a little bit of a minor miracle for me."
Kirk Triplett
It was Triplett's first visit to TwinEagles. "Sometimes you're playing in these tournaments and you're not in contention. Then in the last round you get there with three or four holes to go. It is such a shock to be playing with the lead group, and you get really nervous. But since the middle of yesterday, I've been playing on the leader number, so you kind of get in that mode of, 'It's not life or death.'" He picked up $ 240 000 for his efforts.
After watching Canadian Rod Spittle on the practice tee, Stitt marveled at the play of the seniors. "They are technically superb. They don't hit the ball as far as they did on the PGA Tour, but they still have the fine rhythm, and they still drive it 250 yards or more." He said that he found the game "more meaningful than watching the younger professionals." He remarked that they hit the ball squarely, rarely slicing or hooking from trying to hit the ball too hard.
He watched Billy Andrade hit a shot over water from 165 yards out, with very little green to hit. The ball landed six feet from the green, and resulted in a birdie putt. The 18th hole proved toughest over the three days of the tournament. Stitt marveled at Tom Watson's play on the hole. "He hit his second shot over the water on the hole to within about 8 feet of the cup. But he also had three putts on another green. He can be human too!"
Tom Watson with Al Stitt
Al considers Brad Faxon to be one of the finest putters in the game today. Faxon had a downhill putt of about 60 feet. He showed his fabulous touch by lagging the putt to within 18 inches of the hole.
Brad Faxon
Stitt concluded his observations by adding, "If you want to see great shot makers, this is the place." In fact there were 8 World Golf Hall of Fame members in the tourney: Hale Irwin, Tom Kite, Bernhard Langer, Curtis Strange, Colin Montgomerie, Nick Price, Larry Nelson, and Tom Watson.
Colin Montgomerie
Hal Sutton returned to the tour after having hip replacement surgery in the fall of 2013; however, he did not finish his first round. He had a heart attack on the course, and was rushed to Naples Community Hospital. "I had blockage in my heart, they put a stent in, and I'm fine now," he declared on Sunday. "I'll practice this week and look forward to playing in Newport Beach in three weeks." The miracles of modern medicine.
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This last week has been such a tremendous journey for me. I had the honorable pleasure of serving as Knight Aaron Howard in the 2017 Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association Royal Court. So from here in to the end of the semester I will be taking you all on a personal photo expedition of my fashion looks day by day. Here is Look #1
In this photo is was attending the Junior Royal Court of Mobile Coronation.
Suit: Topman
Shirt: Jos A. Banks
Shoes : Cole Haan
Bow Tie: Belk
Pocket Square: Jos A. Banks


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ABC News(NEW YORK) — President Trump signed a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia on the initial day of his first foreign trip since taking office.
The agreement commits Saudi Arabia to buying military equipment from U.S. and to hiring American companies to build such equipment in Saudi Arabia, according to Gary Cohn, the president's chief economic adviser. The New York Times reported that equipment discussed during negotiations included planes, ships, precision-guided bombs and an anti-ballistic radar system.
Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner personally called the president of Lockheed Martin, a major supplier of U.S. military equipment, in order to negotiate a lower price for the radar system, according to the Times.
The Trump administration has been working to finalize the deal over the past several months. White House press secretary Sean Spicer called the deal "huge news for US companies and American workers who will benefit" in a tweet on Saturday morning.
"This package of defense equipment and services support the long-term security of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region in the face of Iranian threats, while also bolstering the Kingdom's ability to contribute to counterterrorism operations across the region, reducing the burden on the U.S. military to conduct those operations," said a White House official.
The official added that in addition to demonstrating the U.S. commitment to Saudi Arabia "and our Gulf partners," it also expands "opportunities for American companies in the region, and supporting tens of thousands of new jobs in the U.S. defense industrial base."
Lockheed Martin President Marillyn Hewson praised the deal as one that will bolster the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and "strengthen the cause of peace in the region."
"At Lockheed Martin, we are proud to be part of this historic announcement that will strengthen the relationship between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," Hewson said in a statement. "We are especially proud of how our broad portfolio of advanced global security products and technologies will enhance national security in Saudi Arabia, strengthen the cause of peace in the region, and provide the foundation for job creation and economic prosperity in the U.S. and in the Kingdom."
The arms deal includes military sales to Saudi Arabia of $110 billion immediately and $350 billion total over the next decade, according to the White House official. The two countries also agreed to a joint vision statement, private-sector agreements and defense cooperation agreements.
Trump's first overseas trip since the election also includes planned stops at the Vatican and Israel.
The president's trip comes as controversy swirls in the U.S. around the investigation into potential collusion between Trump campaign associates and the Russian government, which could distract from the president's diplomatic mission.
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Mandy parked in the driveway as per Kip's instructions. She checked the address again. It was the one he'd given her. She took a deep breath and then turned and looked at Colton in the back seat. "We're here Cole." He was busy playing his video game. He did hear her though, because he opened his door and got out, without even pausing the game.
Shaking her head, Mandy exited the car. Her heart was beating double time. Instead of focusing on her nerves, she turned her attention to the house. Fuck it was huge. The garage alone looked like it was the size of her entire house, square footage wise. Mandy sucked in a breath of cool air. Colton was already up the front steps, so she followed him. She was only on the second when the door opened.
There was Kip. He looked like an excited school boy. Mandy's heart did a backflip in her chest. He hustled them in the house, giving her an one-armed hug. "Hi guys. How are you?"
"Hi Kip. Good, the drive was good." When Colton stood there pushing buttons frantically, Mandy felt her annoyance rise. "Colton, pause, say hi and take off your boots before you step off this rug."
Colton glared at her. Then he looked up at Kip with a big smile. "Hi Kip. I brought my Lego."
Kip, to his credit, didn't blink. He rubbed Colton's hair. "Sounds good buddy. Make yourselves at home."


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Ironically, I wrote my last post complaining about being 39 weeks pregnant the day - well night - that I went into labor.
Last Wednesday the kids were home from school because of power outages and we had fun making Christmas crafts. I also was doing as much as possible to induce labor on my own, so while I was at my mom's I would keep running to the stairs to do ten laps up and down. They say stairs can do the trick, so Tuesday and Wednesday I probably walked 50 flights + all together. I also had been stuffing my face full of pineapple. I also did a 2 mile walk aerobics video on Tuesday and Wednesday and went all out. Walking is supposed to induce labor, but with the crazy wind and rain storms walking outside was not an option. I sat in deep squats and just tried to keep busy...in many ways...if you catch my drift... And as I went to lay down to sleep around 11:30 pm the contractions started.
I ignored them at first because they weren't anything out of the norm. Then when they were getting more intense and closer together I got out of bed around 12:30 am to walk around to see what would happen. They were every 3 minutes or so, but not lasting too long. Around one I called my mom to tell her I needed to go in and that we would be dropping the kids off. At this point I couldn't walk during the contractions and could talk, but REALLY didn't feel like it. So I packed our bags, woke Brigham up, packed up the kids, dropped them off, and headed to the hospital. I really did not enjoy laboring in the 30 minute car ride. Terrible.
When we pulled up around 2:00 am I entered through the emergency room. I walked in and told them I was in labor and they sort of freaked out because they thought I was super early because my baby bump didn't look that big, but when I told them I was 39 weeks they calmed down.
After being taken to triage, they wanted me to "prove myself" even though my contractions were every two minutes. I was dialated to a 5 and 80% effaced. Still, they made me walk the halls for an hour. I. Was. Ticked. I was in so much pain, not to mention the nurse, like normal, couldn't get to my cervix because the baby's head was so low and my cervix was so posterior. It was excruciating as she tried to tell how dialated I was. And after that check, I was bleeding all over the place. But whatever. I would prove myself.
When the nurses came to check me in an hour I was actually freaking out because my contractions were still coming but weren't nearly as intense, so I said a prayer with Brigham in our room that things would go well and that we wouldn't be sent home. Prayers were answered as the nurses came in and asked how things were going. Then they went to check me again and I had only dialated to 5.5 cm. But then they saw how much I was bleeding. Suddenly extra nurses were called in and checking me all concerned at the amount of blood, and THEN I was FINALLY admitted.
It was 5 am before I was admitted to a labor and deliver room of my own and the anesthesiologist was there waiting. Boy was I glad, because at this point my contractions had picked up again to the point where my whole body was shaking and I couldn't control it. He was fast, efficient, and good at what he did. And although I was terrified to get an epidural sitting up (I always had them laying on my side) it was just fine and I love him.
It was a relief to finally just rest. Laboring from 11:30 pm - 5:30 am was LONG, considering my longest total labor and pushing together was 8 hours, and I had just gone 6 before getting the epidural. I still was only at 6 cm when my mom came around 6:30 am to be with us. However, I convinced the doctor to break my water so that things could speed up.
The baby was doing well during all this, and as I've mentioned before, he's sensitive to touch and very active, always kicking my belly where pressure was applied. Well anytime the nurses wrapped the monitoring straps around me he would kick and kick at them until they slipped off. Also, the nurses kept trying to feel his head to make sure he was the right direction, but he would wiggle up and away from them. They were shocked and laughed about it as he did it every time. And they had to keep adjusting my straps and then watch my belly bounce as he started kicking at them again right after they fixed them. I think he's going to be a stinker, this one.
After they broke my water I was left alone for a couple hours or so as I was at a 6-7. I started feeling nauseous and hungry and tired and started shaking again. And then I was fine. It seemed as though my contractions has slowed again so we called the nurse in. She checked me and I was at a 9. It seems that when I was feeling nauesous I went though transition and I had progressed. So the nurse said that they would give me another hour and check me again, unless I started feeling pressure or the urge to push. My mom and I looked at each other and knew that they were crazy.
Not ten minutes later I felt pressure and an urge to push. We called the nurse in and she checked and said I was ready and that we'd give a practice push. As I started to push with the next contraction she yelled STOP! I was shocked. "Don't push - this baby is right here and we need the doctor!"
The doctor was summoned and it was about 20 more minutes before I was given the go ahead to push. And with the next two contractions I pushed out my beautiful baby boy at 10:16 am.
He cried louder and longer than my first two, but still wasn't very distressed. He calmed down quickly and just laid on me until the cord stopped pulsing with a look of dismay.
It was like, "What have you put me through? I have a headache." We laughed and cried and I marveled at this sweet human being.
After the cord stopped pulsing, Brigham cut it and he was taken to be weighed and measured as my small tear was stitched up and the placenta delivered.
7 lbs 13 oz and 18.75 inches long, he is my smallest baby by only one ounce.
After measuring him we spent some skin to skin time.
Kendrick Nelson Tappana looks like his siblings, and I can see both of them in him. Most everyone says he looks like Ammon, but he's got some Lydia in him too and I can see more of my side in him than I have been able to see in either Lydia or Ammon.
I call him my little gorilla man because he has a bigger nose and heavy brow that he likes to scrunch up so he looks like a little gorilla. Especially right after he was born, with everything still swollen and his hair all fuzzy, he looked just like one.
We went though all the normal hospital ordeals and Kendrick has his first bath.
He enjoyed the bath at first, until they took him out of the water. And then he cried the hardest I had heard him yet. It was a warning of things to come. This boy does NOT like the cold.
Under the warmer, when he was comfortable, they tested out his neck and leg strength. He showed them he's got some strength. I could have told them that :)
That night my parents brought the kids to meet their brother. It was so sweet and I loved having my other children there to meet him.
I was really worried at how my children would react to their brother. Throughout my pregnancy they were both pretty apathetic about the whole thing, with Lydia getting a bit more excited near the end. I was happy that they both wanted to hold him and seemed to like him. As we've brought him home they are both enamored and wary of him. They enjoy holding him and don't quite care for how much of our time he takes up.
Lydia likes to say loudly, in the highest-pitched voice you can imagine, "HI KENDRICK!!!" It kills your ears, but is so sweet I don't ever stop her. She loves to hold him and always tells me to give him a hug while she's at school. She did have a day when all the change got to her and she cried that she didn't understand why everyone cared about the new baby so much. Poor thing, change is hard.
Although the hospital was good about leaving us alone to rest, they really didn't provide a lot of the things I was used to from my other deliveries. They didn't have socks or a onesie with gloves to protect Kendrick from scratching himself. And this boy got my fingers and nails, just like Ammon did, and he was doing a number on himself. In this picture you can kind of see where his face was scratched up.
The day after I delivered I finally pulled out the outfit I had picked out for the hospital that had sleeves to cover up his fingers.
I also had fun playing with his head of hair, making mohawks and enjoying some of his awake time.
I was worried he would be like his brother and not open his eyes for the first two weeks of his life, but he's been right in the middle between Lydia, who always had her eyes open staring around, and Ammon who NEVER opened his eyes. He likes to sleep a lot and sit with a concerned look on his face, but he will struggle to open his eyes and look around and focus. I love it.
When we were FINALLY discharged (it took forever, not until 4pm the next day) It was fun seeing the progression of packing up this little man to bring him home.
And at home we've truly been enjoying ourselves together as a family. Of course recovery stinks and I hate this time with the bleeding and the hormones and the pain more than I can express, but at the same time having a newborn that we've waited so long for is so wonderful, I really can't complain.
God answered our prayers in so many ways before and during this pregnancy, during labor and delivery, and after. I would be so ungrateful if I didn't acknowledge His hand. When I finally became pregnant and felt that confirmation from Heavenly Father that it was time, I couldn't stop the tears of gratitude. And I can't stop them now. This boy is so beautiful, and even with all my health issues he's perfect so far. It was everything I hoped for and that I was so afraid wouldn't happen. All the waiting, and praying, and tears have helped me appreciate this special time more than I ever would have before and I'm so grateful to Heavenly Father that he chose to bless me with a yes to my prayers to have another baby.
Because really, these three are my three greatest things that ever happened to me and their dad. We would be lost without them. They are my world. I'm so excited to celebrate Christmas time with my little family and I'm so grateful to everyone that has prayed or helped me along during the waiting, the sickness, the praying, and the big event. And I'm SO grateful that I get to type out this birth story today with my little boy grunting and squeaking beside me. I'm one blessed girl.
You can expect my future posts to be flooded with pictures of this young man. Prepare yourselves :)


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The minor in Medieval/ Renaissance Studies requires the completion of 18 credit hours of approved courses, with a grade of "C" or above. Courses must be taken in at least three of the four subject categories below. In addition, students must present two years of college work, or the equivalent, in one of the following foreign languages: French, German, Italian, Latin (Classical or Medieval), Russian, or Spanish.
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It's easy to use general terms when writing. For example, we can write "The car raced down the road," and we'd be following the "Show, Don't Tell" advice of good writing. The active verb helps create the image for the reader.
But the sentence "The car raced down the road," is still too general. We can make the image even more clear with more specific writing. Follow the progression below.
- The car raced down the road.
- The car raced down the dirt road.
- The black car raced down the dirt road.
- The black car with the crumbled fender raced down the dirt road.
You get to decide how specific you want to be. My point is the more specific you are, the more effective your writing becomes.
Look at the progression and you'll also note each sentence adds more words. Be careful about how much detail you add lest you become too wordy, something you don't want to do. The art part of writing entails determining how specific you should be without losing your reader in a sea of unnecessary detail.
Just as a woodcarver starts with a chunk of wood, then begins removing pieces until the desired shape forms, so should you whittle away at your writing. Think of all the details you could offer the reader, then remove any that get in the way of clearly showing the reader the image or concept you want the reader to see.
Notice how your favorite authors use specific writing in their work. As a reader, you probably connect better with writers who specifically show you what they see so you can see it too. It doesn't matter if you're writing fiction or nonfiction. Be specific and you'll get your message across more effectively than if you write in general terms.
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