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Brian Drake's first book, Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics before Reagan, has been published by University of Washington Press.
Bethany Moreton's research was mentioned in a New Yorker article.
The Society of American Historians has awarded the 53rd annual Allan Nevins prize to William Thomas Okie, a recent PhD graduate of UGA, for his dissertation, "' Everything Is Peaches Down in Georgia ': Culture and Agriculture in the American South." An SAH release praises Okie for taking "what appears to be an everyday object (even a cliché), the Georgia peach," and crafting "a beautifully written, elegantly rendered tale that is full of surprises and of profound implications for our understanding of America's past." The Nevins prize is awarded annually for the best written doctoral dissertation on the American subject. The winning dissertation will be published by one of the publisher members of the Society.
Kevin Young received a 2013 Summer Doctoral Research Fellowship from the UGA Graduate School
Dillon Carroll received an Innovative and Interdisciplinary Research Grant for Doctoral Students from the UGA Graduate School
Benjamin Ehlers has been awarded a 2013-2014 fellowship for Study in a Second Discipline
Montgomery Wolf has received a Fulbright Core Award to teach and research in Benin for the 2013-14 academic year. She will teach at L'Université d'Abomey-Calavi and research Beninois Afrobeat and other popular musics.
Steve Soper received an NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship for a seminar on "Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento"
Timothy Johnson published an AJC op-ed on West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion
Congratulations to doctoral student Derek Bentley who has been awarded a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholarship for 2013-14 to conduct research in Mexico.
Undergraduate history major Chelsey Cain has been selected as a Gilder Lehrman History Scholar Award Winner. The national competition recognizes fifteen colege senior history majors for their excellence and promise in the field. Award winners spend a weekend in New York City where they meet eminent scholars, take behind -the-scenes tours of historic archives, and are honored at a celebratory dinner hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
History of Capitalism featured in New York Times
Tore Olsson received the Mira Wilkins Prize for best article on international business history from the Business History Conference
Recent alum Tom Okie received the 2012 Gilbert C. Fite Award for the best dissertation from the Agricultural History Society
Ph.D. students Laura June Davis and David Thomson have recently won Wilson Center Graduate Research Awards.The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support of up to $1,250 to arts and humanities graduate students for relevant expenses related to completion of their degrees.
David Thomson received a research award from the Rothschild Archive of London.
UGA's Center for Virtual History has received a "Digital Innovation" grant from the American Council of Learned Societies.
Ph.D. Candidate Kylie Horney received a Graduate School Dean's Award in the Arts and Humanities.
Michael Winship's book Godly Republicanism was selected as a Choice Academic Title of the Year for 2012.
Timothy Johnson received a grant from the Harvard History Project, which awards research funding to projects dealing with economic history, broadly construed.
Ph.D. student Kylie Horney won the Janell Padgett Knight Graduate Award for the top-ranking recipient of the Willson Center Graduate Research Award.
Ph.D. students Matthew Hulbert and Kylie Horney have recently won Wilson Center Graduate Research Awards.The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support of up to $1,250 to arts and humanities graduate students for relevant expenses related to completion of their degrees.
Christopher Lawton won the M.E. Bradford Award, given by the St. George Tucker Society for the best dissertation focused on the U.S. South
Andrew Epstein received the Best Student Paper Award from the 2012 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.
Tore Olsson was selected as the 2012-2013 Ambrose Monell Fellow in Technology and Democracy at the Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia.
Timothy Johnson was recently awarded a Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship in Ecological History from the Social Sciences Research Council.
Ari Levine, Akela Reason, and Jennifer Palmer received Willson Center Research Fellowships for academic year 2012-2013.
LaShonda Mims was awarded this year's Prelinger Scholarship, from the Coordinating Council for Women in History, for her research on "Lesbian History in Charlotte and Atlanta" and activism on behalf of women.
Dr. Darren Grem was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at Emory University for 2011-2012.
Two UGA Ph.D.s were recently honored by the UGA Graduate School: Darren Grem received the Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award for outstanding dissertation in the Humanities, and Chris Manganiello received the Excellence in Graduate Research Award.
Tore Olsson received an International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council.
Zachary Smith received a UGA Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award.
Tore Olsson received a Grant-in-Aid from the Rockefeller Archives Center.
Chris Manganiello received the 2010 Rachel Carson Prize for Best Dissertation in Environmental History from the American Society for Environmental History.
Tom Okie, Kathi Nehls, Tore Olsson, and Sean Vanatta received 2011 Dean's Awards in Arts and Humanities from the UGA Graduate School.
Dr. Kathleen Clark has been chosen to serve as the Franklin College's representative for the inaugural Franklin International Faculty Exchange (FIFE) program. In spring 2011 she will spend a week at Liverpool University, and will also host Dr. Stephen Kenny of Liverpool in Athens. The visits will feature lectures, meetings with faculty and graduate students, and collaborative classroom projects on themes including slavery, Southern medicine, and historical memory.
Jim Gigantino received the 2008-2010 Alfred E. Driscoll Dissertation Prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in New Jersey History, from the New Jersey Historical Commission.
Congratulations to Daleah Goodwin, Jason Manthorne, Kathi Nehls, and Jennifer Wunn. These doctoral students are all recipients of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant in support of dissertation research for 2010-2011.
Tim Johnson received an award for "Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records" from the Secretary of State / Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board.
Christopher Lawton received the 2010 Award for Excellence in Documenting Georgia's History from the Secretary of State / Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board.
Assistant Professor Bethany Moreton was named a "Top Young Historian" by the History News Network.
Drew Swanson has been awarded the 2009 Theodore C. Blegen Award from the Forest History Society, for the best article on environmental or conservation history.
Tom Okie received the Everett E. Edwards Award for Best Graduate Student Essay from the Agricultural History Society.
Christina Davis was awarded the Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship for the 2010-11 academic year for her work on the role of African Americans in U.S. History.
Recent alum Alberty Way was awarded a Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2010-2011.
Christopher Lawton was awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship by the UGA Graduate School for 2010-2011.
James C. Cobb was awarded the Albert Christ-Janer Award for Creative Research in the Humanities by the UGA Research Foundation.
The Honors Program has awarded John Inscoe the Lothar Tresp Award for Outstanding Honors Professor, and Laura Mason the J. Hatton Howard III Award for exhibiting special promise in teaching honors courses.
Darren Grem has been appointed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow by the Yale Center for Faith and Culture for 2010-2011.
Bethany Moreton received the 2010 Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians.
Professors Pamela Voekel and Bethany Moreton received fellowships in Women's Studies in Religion from the Harvard Divinity School for 2010-2011.
Congratulations to Chase Hagood and Jennifer Malto, recipients of the UGA Graduate School Dean's Award for Arts and Humanities in support of their research.
Former graduate student Robert Luckett, now of Jackson State University, received the Franklin Riley prize for the best dissertation on a topic of Mississippi history.
Montgomery Wolf received a Junior Faculty grant from the Willson Center in support of her project "Personality Crisis: Punk Rock and the 1970s Revolution of the Self."
Drew Swanson was awarded the Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award and a Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
Former UGA head football coach Vince Dooley recently made an extraordinarily generous donation to the History Department. Thanks, Coach Dooley!
Claudio Saunt received the 2009 Bolton-Cutter Award from the Western History Association for the best article on borderlands history.
The Georgia Historical Society gave the 2009 James C. Bonner Master's Thesis Award to Keri Leigh Merritt, for her work "'A Vile, Immoral, and Profligate Course of Life': Poor Whites and the Enforcement of Vagrancy Law in Antebellum Georgia."
Bethany Moreton, Reinaldo Román, and Pamela Voekel recently received Willson Center Research Fellowships for 2009-2010.
Ari Levine was recently awarded an ACLS Fellowship for American Research in the Humanities in China, as well as a Fullbright-IIE Senior Scholarship in Chinese Studies.
Stephen Mihm was recently awarded an ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship.
The Agricultural History Society presented two prestigious awards to members of the department in 2009. Assistant professor Shane Hamilton received the Theodore Saloutos Award for Best Book in Agricultural History. Graduate student Jason Manthorne received the Edward Everetts Award for Best Graduate Student Essay.
Ph.D. students Darren Grem and Chris Manganiello received Dissertation Completion Fellowships from the UGA Graduate School for 2009-10.
Jim Gigantino was awarded the Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship for the 2009-10 academic year.
Jen Malto was one of a handful of advanced doctoral students selected to participate in the German Historical Institute's 2009 Archival Summer Seminar in Germany.
Graduate student Jenny Schwartzberg has been awarded a summer internship with the United States Holocaust Museum.
Assistant Professor Bethany Moreton received the 2009 Emerging Scholar's Prize from the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan.
Barton Myers' forthcoming book, Executing Daniel Bright, won the Frances and Jules Landry Award for the best book in southern studies published this year by LSU Press.
Ph.D. student Tom Okie was awarded a Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) for summer 2009 in Critical Agrarian Studies.
Bert Way won the 2009 Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award in the Humanities, which recognizes the best dissertation in the Humanities produced during the last year at the University of Georgia. This is the second year in a row that the History Department has taken this award. John Hayes won in 2008.
Daleah Goodwin and Steve Nash, graduate students in History, have been awarded the highly competitive 2009 Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Awards.
Congratulations to Catherine Holmes, who won the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America American History Regional Scholarship, worth $3000, and John Paul Hill, who won the NSCDA American History District Scholarship, worth $2000.
Assistant Professor Shane Hamilton was recently profiled as a "Top Young Historian" by the History News Network.
Ph.D. student Christina Davis received one of thirty Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education from the Spencer Foundation for her dissertation, "Reconstruction Era Pedagogies: A Blueprint for Reconceptualizing Black Learners."
Ph.D. student James Gigantino was recently awarded the Samuel Smith Fellowship from the New Jersey Historical Commission.
Dong Yu, 2008-2009 Visiting Fulbright Scholar, received the 2008 Wan Xin-hui Prize from the American Historical Association in China for the Best M.A. Thesis in American History.
Doctoral candidate Robby Luckett won the William F. Holmes Award given annually at the Southern Historical Association for "the best paper presented by a graduate student or junior faculty member" for his paper "Ole Miss and Racial Reconciliation: From James Silver to the Meredith Monument."
Paul Sutter won the 2008 Envirotech Prize, awarded to the best article examining the historical relationships between technology and the environment published over the previous three years (2005-07), for "Nature's Agents or Agents of Empire? Entomological Workers and Environmental Change during the Construction of the Panama Canal," Isis 98 (2007): 724-54.
The J.C. Bonner Award was presented to alum Edward A. Hatfield for his 2007 UGA Masters thesis, "MARTA and the Making of Suburban Conservatism." This award is presented by the Georgia Historical Society in conjunction with Georgia College & State University for the best Master's thesis on Georgia history in the previous year. James C. Cobb supervised the thesis.
Graduate student Long Di was recently informed that her undergraduate thesis on Phillys Schlafly has won the first prize during a national thesis competition among 98 essays submitted.
Ph.D. student Barton Myers won a Henry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Award for 2009. The $15,000 fellowship funds research on violence, aggression, and dominance.
Albert Way successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Burned to Be Wild: Science, Society, and Ecological Conservation in the Southern Longleaf Pine." Dr. Way accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in southern studies at The Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina for 2008-2009.
Ph.D. student Christopher Lawton was selected as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the American Philosophical Society.
Ph.D. student Christopher J. Manganiello received several awards recently, including a Smithsonian Institution Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, National Museum of American History; a Graduate Student Research and Performance Grant, Willson Center for Humanities and Arts; and a Thomas Pleasant Vincent, Sr. Scholarship Award for research in Georgia History.
Ph.D. student Min Song won a dissertation travel grant from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, as well as a a dissertation improvement grant from SHAFR.
John Hayes recently won the university-wide Excellence in Research by Graduate Students Award. He furthermore successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, "Hard, Hard Religion: Faith and Class in the New South," which was the runner-up for the C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize given by the Southern Historical Association. Dr. Hayes accepted a Visiting Assistant Professorship at Wake Forest University for 2008-2009.
History faculty members Stephen Berry, Shane Hamilton, and Claudio Saunt were all recently awarded 2008-2009 Willson Center Research Fellowships.
Stephen Mihm's book, A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States, was recently published by Harvard University Press and has been featured in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, on National Public Radio, on the "Freakonomics" blog, and other media outlets throughout the nation.
Bethany Moreton, assistant professor of history, recently received the 2007 C. Vann Woodward Prize for Best Dissertation from the Southern History Association, as well as the 2007 Herman E. Krooss Prize from the Business History Conference, and Yale University's Theron Rockwell Field Prize. A book based on her dissertation, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise, has been published by Harvard University Press.
Allan Kulikoff, Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, was awarded a 2006-2007 Fulbright Award to study at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Kulikoff taught three courses on American economic history, the American Revolution, and American political history for undergraduates. Before arriving, he received a grant from the UGA President's Challenge Fund to send more than 700 books to the Nankai University Library. While at Nankai, Kulikoff helped organize the first international conference on early American history to be held in China. He also compiled a list of free, internet-based sources for American history and culture (1600-1877) to help Chinese students and colleagues find primary sources. That list will be published in the future in the on-line journal Common-place.


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Cali, Cali, Cali... how is the time passing so quickly? You are already 18 months and I can't even begin to describe just how amazing you are. You are spunky and a tiny ball full of sass. You can be shy at times but we know that when you are in your element, you are brave and fearless.
You laugh when you get in trouble and will even tease with a coy smile before you do something naughty. You know what you want even if you can't always say it yet. You are smart and can sign "more", "milk", and "water" when you are hungry or thirsty. You love to say "all done", "uh oh", "mama" and you call daddy "bob" (for babe). Recently you've learned to say "bobo" which usually means bottle or sometimes bubbles.
You love to be held and are so very affectionate. I love the way you run with your toddler waddle. The way you get excited whenever I come out of the office to take a break or when your dad comes home, hugging our legs and wanting to be picked up. It drives mommy crazy when you have to touch my face when you sleep or even when you're just sitting watching TV. But I can't help but let you continue to do it every day because I want to cherish every moment you want to be close to me.
Your teeth come out so painfully slowly. Your canines are finally breaking though. You eat pretty well, almost feeding yourself and drinking through a straw now. You love to make a mess with you food and touch your hair while you eat, especially with spaghetti and peanut butter & jelly. Your hair is pretty terrible like your brothers was — super fine and uneven. But you are so incredibly beautiful. When I look at your face I just feel so blessed to be your mama.

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A fantastic collection of rare bossa material from Italy! The set's one of the best we've ever seen of this type, and it's a completely fresh batch of tunes that breaks past a lot of the other Italian compilations of recent years. Some of the artists are familiar names – like Morricone, Piccioni, and Trovajoli – but there's plenty of other artists that we've never even heard before! A few themes are reworkings of familiar soundtrack tunes, but most of the material is original – and done with a sparkling sound that's really great! The grooves are filled with loads of tight drums, bubbling organ, jangly piano, and sweet female vocals in sort of a Morricone-ish tradition. Great stuff, and with 20 excellent tracks that include "Amori Finiti" by Giancarlo Gazzani, "Relief" by The Black Fire, "Rossana" by Armando Trovajoli, "Sometime" by A Santisteban, "Tema Di Linda" by Franco Micalizzi, "Curriculum" by Franco Chiari, "Coronado 990" by Orchestra Henry Stone, "Meditation" by Romano Mussolini, and "Warm Blood" by Tullio Gallo. © 1996-2019, Dusty Groove, Inc.
If something is noteworthy, we try to note it in the comments — especially if it is an oddity that is the only wrong thing about the record. This might include, but isn't limited to, warped records, tracks that skip, cover damage or wear as noted above, or strictly cosmetic flaws.


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WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy's use of the term "Arabian Gulf" instead of "Persian Gulf" has produced a burst of pro-Iranian posts on its Facebook page, Navy officials say.
CNN reported Monday about 4,000 messages had been registered on the site since Thursday in a coordinated, worldwide effort to get the Navy to revert to calling the waters off the coast of Iran the Persian Gulf. More messages were still arriving but because of the heavy influx, many were being designated spam and were not being posted, Rear Adm. Dennis Moynihan, chief spokesman for the Navy, told CNN.
Older postings could still be viewed by scrolling through the site.
Among them were the following posts (with spellings and wordings verbatim):
-- "From thousands years ago this gulf had been persian gulf and it will be forever persian...sorry for americans."
-- "How can world trust you when you easily change the history ? It's persian Gulf forever."
-- "Is anybody in US Navy who has studied the geography? ... My question is can anybody change the name of America? that's crazy."
The Navy said it would continue to remove the postings that were clogging up the page and preventing its use by its regular users, service members and those who follow news concerning the military branch.
"As for the primary points raised, we are aware of the long and proud history of the Persian people," the Navy said in a statement. "We are also well aware of the long history behind the origin of the name of the Persian Gulf. While sharing tasteful content that supports this has been permitted, out of deference to the fans here who expect more from us, we won't support inappropriate behavior and commentary. We encourage you to post your opinions to other forums better suited for this conversation."
The statement went on to explain the Navy and its "regional partners" have used Arabian Gulf "for years" in news releases but Persian Gulf is generally used in nautical charts and publications.


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I think almost every Indian meal I had as a child, Mango Chutney was served.
Yes it probably wasn't Spicy Mango Chutney (not that I think this is particularly hot per se). But there it was, pride of place next to the Raiita and Naan Bread.
(The cracks in this jar, are the result of the dishwasher! - buut I think it looks quite cool!)
This Mango Chutney, I created the other night, as I was waiting for rice to boil, and Curry to reduce.
I hate chopping Mangoes. Hate hate hate it. But lucky for me, my Grandma came round a few days before, and she chopped it up for me!!
Thing is, I hate to see fruit (read : Food) go to waste, but as I mentioned before, the local fruit and veg market, is too good to pass up!
Mango Chutney was born, and because I can never pass up using the Chili Flakes. . I had to give it a little bit of a kick!
1 Ripe Mango cubed into 1" cubes (UBER ripe!)
1/2 cup Vinegar (see Notes)
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp oil
2 tbsp Chili Flakes (see Notes)
1 tbsp Chili Powder
1 tbsp Ginger Powder
1 tbsp Coriander seeds
1. Heat the oil in a medium size saucepan, gently fry all of the spices
2. Add the Mango to the pan and (for lack of a better word) smush it until the cubes begin to break down.
3. Stir in the Brown Sugar and Vinegar.
4. Cook for a further 5 minutes.
Spice is completely subjective, if you don't like it spicy, then miss out some of the Chili
Vinegar - I used Red Wine Vinegar, because that's what I had on hand, but I'm pretty sure ANY
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"I have a cheesemaking kit," my friend L says. "In case you want to try that sometime."
I am beside myself. Of course I want to try that sometime, and by sometime I mean immediately and for always. Making our own cheese? Just to have your own cheese on hand at all times? Is this nirvana?
"You do not have a great track record with dairy products," Other Half says doubtfully. I ignore this. Yogurt is a temperamental diva, subject to fits of temperature (too hot! too cold!) and materials (did you use saran wrap?) and whimsy (apparently). I think we can all agree this is different. This comes in a kit. I am all about kits.
"I'll bring it over," she says. She doesn't know about the hex on my place, which is probably the German word for "Things Go Horribly, Horribly Wrong in this Kitchen". (Kuchenkatastrophe, my German-speaking friend says, but I'm genuinely not sure that's expansive enough.)
"Okay," I agree. I have forgotten about it too.
It really seems simple enough. Milk (that isn't ultra pasteurized). Rennet (comes in handy kit). Citric acid (ditto). Dissolve citric acid into water, add the milk, heat, stir in rennet. Watch it get all weird and curdled (in a good way). Separate the whey (which looks like lemonade but SO isn't. Just be cautious when pouring a glass of yellowish stuff in your refrigerator, is what I'm saying, as Other Half probably should've been later. Never mind about that.)
"This is the stage when it should be shiny and stretchy like taffy," she says. We stare at it. Well, it is none of those things. It is lumpy and liquidy and somewhat tacky to the touch, the culinary love child of cottage cheese and preschool paste.
We give it some time. We stretch and squish and fold. It breaks apart in our hands. "It's supposed to get all stretchy," she says again. She's definitely looking stressed.
"It looks like ricotta," I say hopefully. I don't know why, like I might get partial credit if I come up with some kind of cheese! any kind of cheese! it totally counts!
"There is a way to make ricotta," L says, "and this is not it."
We manhandle our not-ricotta-and-yet-definitely-not mozzarella for another 15 minutes before she gives in. It's just not going to be mozzarella. It has different dreams. I start digging around in my cabinet for tupperware.
"You can keep it," she says grimly. Her disappointment with the situation is palpable.
I, on the other hand, am accustomed to these outcomes, and I am, frankly, delighted it's edible at all. I can actually use this (and you know how we like cheese! any kind of cheese!). I am not that distressed to get to keep the whole pot.
"Did you make ricotta?" Other Half asks later, when he sees it in the refrigerator.
"Kinda!" I reply.
And we did use it. We put it on flatbread as a white pizza, combining the ricotta texture and the mozzarella taste, which is extremely efficient pizza-making, if you ask me; melted it into cheese toast the next day; crumbled it into a lasagna a few days later.
At about that point it got a little stiff, though: less of a "hard cheese" and more like "drying concrete mix" so we gave up on it. We love our cheese, but we understand there are limits.
I'm prepared to try another round, though. L's kit makes 6 kinds of cheese, so come on over anytime! The kuchenkatastrophe always likes a new challenge.


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New Anne Rice Novel To Get Graphic Novel AdaptationWritten by Jenny Brady on Monday, October 15th, 2012
A graphic novel imprint of Hachette called Yen Press has announced that it will be adapting The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice into a graphic novel. The novel takes the werewolf mythology and transposes it into a high-tech setting. The graphic novel will apparently see shelves in 2014. Yen Press is releasing the graphic novel […]


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Considering the latest occurrences happening at GOP state conventions around the nation, it has become apparent that Ron Paul supporters will hold their ideological ground and continue to be a thorn in the side of the neoconservative establishment. To the dismay of long time Grand Ol' Party members, supporters of Dr. Ron Paul seem to be unwilling to compromise and get behind the "presumptive" nominee Mitt Romney. Why? To be thorough, one must first understand a vital characteristic of the average Ron Paul devotee. From my personal experience, supporters of Paul are typically more informed than the traditional voter. The lack of coverage (and grossly unfair coverage) for the Texas congressman by the mainstream media has led Paulites to disavow television news and seek alternative sources of information. This has resulted in a growing network of enthusiasts both on the internet and in local communities while lessening the influence of the media on this demographic. In the past, the media could just "reel back in" dissenters of mainstream opinion.
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Her Twelve Men
Greer Garson received an Academy Award nomination for her first M-G-M film, Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939). Over the next dozen years, she starred in many of the studio's most successful and high-profile pictures, including Pride and Prejudice (1940), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Random Harvest (1942), The Valley of Decision (1945) and That Forsyte Woman (1949). After completing Julius Caesar (1953), she would make only one more film under her M-G-M contract. Garson had hoped it would be Interrupted Melody, the story of Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence (1907–1979), a noted Wagnerian who continued to perform even after polio confined her to a wheelchair. Lawrence's story inspired Garson, who threw herself wholeheartedly into preparing for the role, studying with an opera coach to lip-synch the arias (sung for the film by Eileen Farrell).
Dore Schary, who had become head of M-G-M in 1951 after ousting longtime studio chief and founder Louis B. Mayer, had other ideas, however. He wanted to move the studio away from the sort of "women's pictures" on which the company had made its reputation, concentrating instead on grittier, more masculine dramas such as Take the High Ground (1953) and Bad Day at Black Rock (1955). When Schary put production of Interrupted Melody on hold, Garson protested the decision. Schary explained that—due to the project's escalating costs—M-G-M would be better off shooting the film later in CinemaScope or 3-D to attract a bigger audience. The studio would eventually shoot the film in widescreen and color (but not 3-D) in 1955, with Eleanor Parker in the lead role.
Meanwhile, Schary suggested that Garson make a different film: Her Twelve Men. In June 1952, M-G-M had purchased the rights to Louise Baker's memoir Snips and Snails, a simple tale about the misadventures of a female teacher at an exclusive school for boys. William Roberts submitted a screenplay (initially titled Miss Baker's Dozen). At Garson's request, Julius Caesar producer John Houseman agreed to produce the film, despite his lack of interest in the subject matter and his ongoing involvement with both Julius Caesar and Executive Suite. Houseman brought in Laura Z. Hobson (author of the 1943 novel Gentlemen's Agreement) to tweak the script (her only screenwriting credit), but after Schary assigned studio veteran Robert Z. Leonard to direct, Houseman all but disavowed the project.
Filming of Her Twelve Men commenced in August 1953. Garson became furious when she learned that the studio was going to make Interrupted Melody without her, and hence took little pleasure from the tepid B-movie they forced her to make instead. When Her Twelve Men opened in August 1954, reviewers found the film wanting in substance—most were kind but clearly unimpressed. The Hollywood Reporter called it "mild and charming," but the New York World-Telegram and Sun concluded: "A lot of high class talent has gone into the making of this film. They accomplish in expert fashion all they have set out to do. But they have set out to do so little. It's like a group of skilled engineers getting together and folding a perfect paper hat."
Composer Bronislau Kaper was an important part of that "high class talent." Having recently completed his immensely popular score for Lili, he was at the height of his considerable powers and a valued studio asset. Kaper brought to the task his usual taste and understatement, creating a rather brief score that makes frequent use of a school song (composed for the film by Kaper, with lyrics by Charles Wolcott): "Oh! Mighty Oaks!" The composer varies the tune throughout the film, evoking emotions that range from pompous rigidity to caustic humor. Kaper also composed a gentle theme for the leading lady's matriarchal relationship with her students—a theme that manages to be sentimental without being saccharine. There is a brief hint of a love theme, but Kaper never develops it, since any hint of adult romance remains hidden well below the film's family-oriented surface.
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- An ominous fanfare for Leo the Lion announces a very "serious" picture, but Kaper's bustling main title fizzles like champagne, quickly changing the mood. Pizzicato strings, sparkling woodwinds, xylophone runs, muted brass and coruscating piano scales run amok around a joyful tune that (disappointingly) never reappears in the picture. The music settles into a waltz just before a voiceover introduces the main character, Jan Stewart (Greer Garson). She is on her way to become a teacher at The Oaks, an exclusive boarding school for young boys. A musical collage depicts her childhood dreams of being: a trapeze artist, for which Kaper utilizes the circus march Big White Top by Victor G. Boehnlein; the mother of eight four-year-old children; the dance partner of a crown prince (Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed's "Would You" from San Francisco, later used in Singin' in the Rain (1950); the bride of a junior state senator (Wagner's wedding march from Lohengrin); a Wagnerian soprano ("Ride of the Valkyries" from Die Walküre); a national heroine; and a famous starlet (Brown and Freed's "You Are My Lucky Star" from Broadway Melody of 1936, also used in Singin' in the Rain). Solo violin and dreamy glissandi bring her back to reality.
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- A 10-year old fellow passenger is also on his way to The Oaks. Without realizing that Jan will be one of his teachers, he confides that, although the school and some of the staff are "OK," women teachers are "creeps." When he asks if she is someone's mother, she reluctantly says, "I'm a creep." A wry clarinet flourish segues to her arrival at The Oaks, where Kaper introduces the school's theme song, "Oh! Mighty Oaks!" The composer here scores the tune primarily for woodwinds and reinforces the reaction of a trio of students who can hardly believe a woman teacher has arrived in their midst. A slightly warmer statement with horn and low strings accompanies Jan into the building. (The finished film does not use the passage at 0:18–0:34.)
- Frog
- Jan's initial encounters with her students are shaky ones—although she tries her best, the boys play tricks on her. As she prepares for bed, she practices a speech she intends to give the next morning, asking the boys for a fresh start. Gentle winds, warm strings and celesta develop a calm, nocturnal variation of "Oh! Mighty Oaks!" that is abruptly cut off when she pulls back her covers and a frog leaps out of her bed; her scream sets off squeals of delight from her students, who have been listening from their dormitory.
- Jan's Montage
- More variations of "Oh! Mighty Oaks!" ensue as Jan seeks advice from some of her colleagues, each of whom suggests a different solution to her problems. For the teacher who suggests referring to encyclopedias for answers, Kaper provides an arabesque for woodwinds (with a prominent bassoon counterpoint); for the gym teacher (James Arness) who suggests exercise, the composer segues to a short but more up-tempo phrase; and for the headmaster (who suggests "authority tempered with justice") he uses stern and more dignified strings. Jan mulls over this advice, accompanied by a gentle flute solo that floats above unsettled harmony until the barking of a puppy (which the boys have smuggled into the classroom) interrupts her thinking.
- 17. Hot Chocolate
- As matters slowly improve, Jan develops a loving and warm relationship with the boys. When one of them, Bobby Lennox (Donald MacDonald), receives a transatlantic phone call from his mother telling him that she will be unable to visit him at Christmas, Jan recognizes the boy's deep need for maternal affection. She offers him a cup of hot chocolate and words of comfort and assurance. Kaper composed a lovely cue for this scene—a simple, folk-like tune reflecting childhood innocence and reassuringly orchestrated with delicate, chamber orchestra textures—but the completed film omits the cue entirely.
- 18. Class Room Montage
- A brief fugal variation of "Oh! Mighty Oaks!" accompanies a montage of classroom scenes depicting a typical day at the school.
- 19. Let Yourself Go/Dick Ignored
- Richard Oliver Sr. (Barry Sullivan), a wealthy Texas industrialist, brings his son (Tim Considine) to The Oaks. Frustrated because he cannot control Richard Jr. (known as Dick), Oliver hopes the school can teach the boy discipline. Dick's negative attitude makes it difficult for him to fit in. One night, to show off, he sets off the indoor sprinkler system. The boys all get in trouble for the false alarm, but they follow their own code of honor and refuse to turn Dick in to the school authorities. Distressed, Jan turns to fellow teacher Joe Hargrave (Robert Ryan) for advice in dealing with the boys. A lumbering and queasy variation of "Oh! Mighty Oaks!" comments wryly on the situation, covering a segue to the following day, when the boys suffer their punishment (scrubbing the gym floor) while pointedly ignoring the actual perpetrator.
- 20. Letter for You
- Bobby is thrilled to receive a letter from his mother at last—although Jan actually wrote it herself. The sentimental melody from the unused cue "Hot Chocolate" (track 17) appears as she looks happily on, the delicate orchestration (featuring strings and harp) adding heartfelt poignancy to the scene while the boy excitedly reads the letter to his classmates. French horn concludes the cue on an unresolved note when Dick, upset by Bobby's happiness, turns away.
- 21. Beyond the Call of Duty
- In the film's most extended musical sequence, Kaper scores a fluid montage covering a great deal of plot exposition. After Dick suffers an injury in a fall (the result of a prank perpetrated by the other students), his father insists the boy come home. The headmaster, Dr. Barrett (Richard Haydn), tells Jan she must accompany Dick on his flight back to Texas. "Oh! Mighty Oaks!" comments stoically as she reacts to the news, but dissolves into a "love theme" built from a five-note cell when Joe shares his concerns. Although he does not say outright that he has feelings for her, the music suggests that perhaps he does. The mood abruptly dissipates when the headmaster returns with further instructions, although the "love theme" resurfaces as Joe wishes her "bon voyage." Lovely, sensitive writing—first horn and winds, then strings—underscores Jan's motherly care both on the trip and at the Oliver home. "Oh! Mighty Oaks!" makes a brief but dignified appearance when she empathizes with Dick about his peer problems.
- 22. Jan & Dick Return
- Jan makes a breakthrough with Dick (and consequently attracts romantic attention from the boy's father), but after they return to The Oaks, each has misgivings—Dick about how his schoolmates will receive him and Jan about her relationship with Joe. "Oh! Mighty Oaks!" announces their arrival, but tentative woodwind phrases build suspense until the song erupts in a burst of childlike exuberance when Dick's classmates greet him enthusiastically.
- Faculty Meeting
- Jan takes Bobby to the sick ward when he complains of an upset stomach, but leaves him with reassurances that all will be well. A fragment of the gentle tune from "Hot Chocolate" segues to "Oh! Mighty Oaks!" as the scene transitions to Dr. Barrett's office, where the headmaster briefly addresses the assembled faculty prior to graduation exercises. This cue did not appear in the finished film.
- 23. Commencement
- A noble, Elgarian development of "Oh! Mighty Oaks!" accompanies Dr. Barrett's commencement speech. His words about leaving The Oaks behind seem addressed not just to the graduates but also to Jan, who has submitted her resignation. Although she is about to depart with Mr. Oliver and Dick, she is torn between her feelings for the wealthy businessman and her colleague, Joe.
- 24. Bobby's Letter/Bobby Asleep
- Jan visits Bobby in the hospital. As Joe watches, she reads the boy a loving letter from his mother, but Joe soon realizes she is making it all up—the letter from which she is reading is actually her own letter of recommendation from Dr. Barrett. Kaper begins the cue "Bobby's Letter" with a reference to the "love theme" from "Beyond the Call of Duty," subtly suggesting the actual thoughts of both Jan and Joe. Bobby's sentimental tune takes over, alternating with "Oh Mighty Oaks!" in a tender passage that makes its dramatic point with the intimacy of chamber music. Bobby falls asleep, a picture of contentment, but the music swiftly rises to an abrupt cut-off as Joe grabs Jan, kisses her, and finally admits his true feelings.
- 25. End Title and Cast
- As Jan begins to leave with Mr. Oliver, the boys step forward and give her a farewell gift—a coffeepot. Their "testimonial" so moves her that she abruptly changes her plans. Seeing Joe in the distance, she announces to the boys that she will return the following year as their teacher and then runs after Joe, leaving Mr. Oliver behind. The "love theme" swells and, as the boys start to argue among themselves, a brisk up-tempo arrangement of "Oh! Mighty Oaks" brings the film to a celebratory conclusion over the "End Cast."
Bonus Tracks
- 26. Dormitory Radio
- On her first night at The Oaks, Jan sees the boys off to bed. Kaper likely intended this brief (and ultimately unused) western-flavored cue for small orchestra as source music coming from one of several radios visible in their dormitory.
- 27. Dinner for Three
- Early in the film, Jan visits Joe at home to ask for his advice in dealing with the boys. In an awkward moment, she watches as Joe's girlfriend drops him off after a date. To provide a somewhat more "contemporary" sound for the scene, Kaper recycled this theme from A Life of Her Own, orchestrated—both in the earlier film and here—by Wally Heglin.
- 28. Oh! Mighty Oaks!
- The faculty and students sing their school anthem twice in the film: at an assembly kicking off the school year and again at graduation. This version—a pre-recording made in August 1953—employs nine children's voices, accompanied by organ. It is clearly the basis for the graduation rendition, but the film mix also incorporates adult voices (including those of the principal actors), which were perhaps recorded "wild." —


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I was asked today about taking baby steps, which caused me to think: Wade In – a phrase I had written in my own Reminder Journal ~ but needed the prompt from another to remember that it was even there. (Thank you Nancy) I was on a coaching call, for myself, with another KMCC Coach & ranting about 'wanting it all' & 'wanting it ALL NOW!' Feeling very impatient, knowing I have many tasks still yet to accomplish, including plenty that I have been putting off & procrastinating about, but still, I wanted the final product, with out the process. I can say that with clarity now, but in the moment my urgency seemed validated. I was reassured, "That's normal." We finally decide what we want & then we want it immediately. I'm glad I received the message to take baby steps or to just Wade In: to enjoy the infancy stage of my endeavor & cherish it, as I know it won't last. To take in my surroundings, honor the seasons, to go with the flow & follow the tide. In thinking about what it feels like to Wade In, I realized that if I was where I (thought I) wanted to be ~ I'd be in seriously deep waters, over my head, treading water, short of breath, probably having a panic attack and wishing I was back safely on the shore ~ really, not where I want to be. Turns out, I'm glad to Be Here. Now. The wading in feels fine. Safe. Comfortable, gentle & easy ~ it's what I love about Kaizen. For as many times as I have jumped in with both feet or ran full steam ahead ~ today, I invite you, to just Wade In.
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In a previous blog, The Little Noctis That Could, I touched on the subject of AFK Cloakers. This is a subject that is every pilot in Null Sec is familiar with in one way or another. Any pilot that has been in a particular area of space for any extended period time has been on the receiving end of the services of an AFK Cloaker. Most experienced pilots with an alt, and even some without, have had the pleasure of being on the giving end.
In this particular installment of the I Ain't Givin' You No Tree-Fitty Series, I'm going to discuss AFK Cloakers, Methods of Operation and Solutions which will be presenting in three different blog posts. I might even throw in some more stories if I catch wind of something interesting. Now this isn't suppose to be an end all be all definitive report. I'm not anyway near BOV status to rightful write those. However, this blog will be an overview on the topic, a collection of my thoughts on the subject and should anyone leave comment it might even turn into a discussion. Now before we get in to the heavy stuff, I'd like to lead off with a little humor.
AFK Cloakers are Literally The HerpsNo. I really mean it. Follow me here. One day you're minding your own business say scanning down sigs, mining or whatever gets you off. You're having a good time and everything is going well. Then all of a sudden, out from nowhere, they appear in local. You don't know where they came from. You don't know how they got there. To top it all off, it doesn't look like they're leaving and you're stuck dealing with something you didn't want in the first place.
So you go back to your pals. You ask a couple of hypotheticals. They respond with how they really aren't qualified to answer, but personally they wouldn't screw around with that sort of thing. Push comes to shove and you decided to wait it out a little bit putting you in a very comfortable situation.
Then all of a sudden one day they're gone; poof just like it's freaking magic. You figure you're in the clear and go back to doing what it you usually do. Everyone's having a good time again. Everything's going well and you're enjoying yourself. Then right in the middle of something really good... guess who decides to come rearing their fugly little head?
What is an AFK Cloaker?
The simplest definition that I can come up with is this: An AFK Cloaker is a pilot that enters in to a hostile system and stays cloaked up in space for an indefinite period of time in an effort to grief the system inhabitants.
As a whole, I consider AFK Cloakers to be a subset of the Exploration Profession. While their main tactic and purpose are all the same, some employ different methods to 'handle their business.' When it comes to AFK Cloakers I've seen Nuisance Cloakers, Hot Drop Cloakers and Bait Cloakers. There might be others out there, but these are the ones that appear prevalent.
Purpose in Flight
The AFK Cloaker's purpose is to disrupt the activity in the enemy pocket while observing the activity of the hostiles and creating potential kill mails. It is important to note that the order of goals.
Primary: Disrupt activity
Secondary: Observe Enemy Activity
Tertiary: Potential Kills
Most tend to set their base of operations in heavily populated systems that boast a great deal of industrial activity. It's pretty easy for them to pick their targets using tools like DOTLAN. They'll find their target and research which systems are owned by the target. Review the number of jumps in system and cross references that with statics for rat kills and mining levels. Then volia, you can reasonably ascertain the best systems to set up shop. Setting up in locations like these makes achieving the primary goal incredibly easy for the first few days. Those inhabiting the system with instantly safe up or dock once they have intel of the hostile coming to the system or once they see the hostile in system with them.
Once the AFK Cloaker is in system, they are easily able to observe the activity of the system inhabitants. Most AFK Cloakers use either a T2 or T3 cloaking ship which enables them to warp freely with their cloaks on at all times. Most will use their time to watch stations and gates and collect intel on POS's. They also have the means to gather intel on the system inhabitants activities like; typical roams/op deployment times and who flys what kinds of ships.
After a few days of being continually logged in system, human nature will start to take effect. The system's inhabitants will become complacent which is the WORSE thing anyone could do when dealing with an AFK Cloaker. You'll see or hear people in corp/alliance comms saying the AFK Cloaker hasn't been active (but how do they really know since they're cloaked?) or 'they're never on at this time because that player is so-and-so time zone or a plethora of other piss poor excuses why it's okay to carry on as if it's business as usual. Right around this time someone will inevitably get hot dropped/caught in a belt/caught in an anomaly/ [insert other terrible reason to loose ship here].
Once a pilot (and those that rush out to help them only to be slaughtered like sausage sliding into a grinder) goes down to the AFK Cloaker, complacency will be replaced with vigilance. At this point it becomes a wash, rinse and repeat cycle. The only way the cycle usually ends is if someone mounts an actual offense against the AFK Cloaker to forcibly remove them from system or they just get bored and leave on their on accord. The system inhabitants will regain solace and activity will pick up… until the next AFK Cloaker comes.
Features Working as Intended
Now there are some that feel this type of game play is unfair or unbalanced. Like this pilot. Really it's not. All pilots have access to cloaking technology. If a pilot trains the correct skills, anyone in game can have an account with AFK Cloaking ability. There's also the fact that cloaks are the solution to dealing with probes, so taking away cloaks would actually cause more imbalance. There are also ways to combat AFK Cloakers, it just takes a lot of planning, hard work and effort. These things make AFK Cloaking a viable play style option within Eve Online game mechanics. If you don't like it, you'll probably have to leave Null Sec to get away from it as Null Sec was never meant to be 100% safe.
I should probably throw in a HTFU in here, too.
AFK Cloaker Series:I Ain't Givin' You No Tree-Fitty: Meet the Cloakers Pt 1
I Ain't Givin' You No Tree-Fitty: AFK Cloakers & Defenses


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After Leicester's recent games against Arsenal (a 2-1 defeat) and Manchester City (a 3-1 win), manager Claudio Ranieri warned his players that tougher tests were to come in the Premier League.
It could be just one of those things that managers say to not sound complacent, but in Leicester's case, it might actually be true.
For 89 minutes of their 1-0 win over Norwich on Saturday, Leicester looked nothing like the merry bunch of marauders who had carved their way through the best the Premier League has to offer, and instead were frustrated and disjointed in their attempts to play properly.
Norwich boss Alex Neil produced a blueprint of how teams probably will play against Leicester for the remainder of the season.
His side sat deep, played a 3-4-3 system that often looked more like 5-4-1, and allowed Leicester to have the ball.
Their defensive line was so narrow that Riyad Mahrez and Marc Albrighton, cutting in from right and left respectively, couldn't wreak the sort of havoc they usually do, while service to Jamie Vardy and Shinji Okazaki up front was stymied and there was little space behind the defence for the former to exploit.
"I look at how other teams set up against certain opposition and the only team who has played that way against them has been Manchester United," said Neil after the game, about the three-man defence.
"[That game] was 1-1 but Man United should have won. I looked at that and thought we could deploy that and it would help us."
Help them it did, as did the tactic of sitting back and forcing Ranieri's side away from their usual approach of playing on the counterattack; making them take the initiative and the ball.
Leicester have averaged a shade under 44 percent possession for the season and Saturday was just the third time they have had more of the ball than their opponents.
In this context it shouldn't be a surprise that they didn't win the other two — drawing 0-0 with Bournemouth and 2-2 with Southampton — and, in a sport which relies on doing things with the ball, Leicester have excelled in having as little control of it as possible.
Leicester's next game, on Tuesday at home to West Brom, will perhaps be the ultimate test on these grounds. Tony Pulis' side are one of only two sides (the other being Sunderland) who keep possession less than Leicester, suggesting that this could be a game in which both sides simply try to give the ball back to their opponents — like two overly-courteous people insisting that the other goes through a doorway first.
Pulis enjoys cramming as many centre-backs into his team as possible at the best of times — he started Saturday's 3-2 win over Crystal Palace with a relatively conservative three, a situation rectified in the second-half when he introduced a fourth — so who knows how many he'll try to find room for when trying to counter the threat of Leicester.
So, when you consider how the teams below them in the table could line up, it presents a slightly bleak picture for Leicester and a different reading of a fixture list that ostensibly looks rather friendly.
Their next eight games are against West Brom, Watford, Newcastle, Crystal Palace, Southampton, Sunderland, West Ham and Swansea.
The good news is that, on Saturday, Ranieri found a way to counteract Norwich's tactics.
Evidently thinking clearly among the excitement of his side's title bid, and the panic that letting it slip through his fingers might inspire, Ranieri first removed Okazaki and brought on Jeffrey Schlupp to play on the left, moving Albrighton to the right and Mahrez into the middle, in an attempt to stretch play and make the middle of the pitch look rather less crowded.
Then, when that didn't work, he went all out, introducing Leonardo Ulloa for right-back Daniel Amartey and switching to a 3-4-1-2 system — keeping that width but giving Schlupp and Albrighton another man to aim at.
And it worked rather perfectly, Albrighton driving down the right and crossing for Ulloa to stab home the winner, via the slightest of toe-ends from Vardy.
They required a degree of luck, but what successful team doesn't?
"I took a lot of risks," Ranieri said after the game. "I said: 'In or out — it's not important now. One point is nothing, we have to win today.' You can lose but it's only one point less than a draw. We took the risk but the manager is hired for this reason. I enjoy when there is something to do from my side of things. Saturday was good because when you make a change and the change turns out to find the solution, it's fantastic."
This season, Ranieri has made a virtue of keeping things simple, of not overloading his players with too many tactical instructions and placing trust in his squad to play as they will.
"This is the pact I made with the players," he said in an interview with Corriere della Sera recently. "I'll explain some football ideas every now and then, as long as you give me everything."
Perhaps the most boring thing about this season's Premier League has been the announcement of the Leicester starting XI, because once injuries and suspensions are taken into account then you know exactly what the team will be.
Consistency has been a key part of their success, going against the old stereotype of Ranieri as "The Tinkerman," an image he has very much moved away from.
But while not changing things has brought Leicester this far, Ranieri clearly isn't afraid to make alternations in order to take them further.
The next games will indeed be tough as his side chase an incredible title at the end of the season, but the Italian will do whatever it takes to get them over the line first.


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I think it's safe to say, this girl has always had a passion for fashion. While my friends spent their evenings flipping through the Sears Wish Book, circling every single toy they wanted for Christmas, you could find me making a clothing wish-list. Sure, I wanted the latest toy like everyone else, but I also knew it wouldn't be the holidays without a new outfit or two. It quickly become a holiday tradition to get a new set of jammies (or two). I remember Sears Canada having the softest and most comfy pjs around.
It's been years since I've picked up a new set of pajamas from Sears Canada, and boy have I been missing out. With so many style options, colours, prints and patterns, it was hard picking out just one. No surprise, I went with this adorable chihuahua one. It's quickly become my favourite pjs, and its lightweight, ultra-soft material is perfect for spring and summer. No longer will I have the fear of tossing and turning all night, wishing I had a cooling fan by my bed to stop the heat. This set will help keep me cool, yet stylish throughout the current season. If you're looking for something in the novelty department, I highly recommend checking out Sears Canada for soft-touch jersey sleep sets.
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Hello, I'm Jane!
Born and raised in the Philippines, expat in Dubai since 2009. I'm on a mission to chronicle my Arabian adventures, my passion for the arts and landscape architecture, my growing obsession with travel and everything in between.
Dubai has been my home away from home, my newly established comfort zone. After all these years, my love-hate relationship with this cosmopolitan city has blossomed into a beautiful and fruitful one. I haven't had enough of the ooohs and ahhhs and woooows in this country of superlatives. And I will never get used to its hot and humid summer. Surely, my stay here in Dubai is one of the highlights of my life that I will never get tired of re-telling.
The emirates' booming construction industry made me signed up for a new life in Dubai. On a normal day, I bury my head on master plans and construction drawings. I am a landscape architect, thus the technical terms and botanical names in this blog (believe me when I say but I'm really trying my best to speak in layman's terms!).
My fascination for travel started when I was young and grew exponentially when I set foot in the UAE. The country's location makes an ideal base for seeing the world. I see to it to travel at least twice a year, as it's my breather from the hectic corporate world. Each time I go on a holiday, instead of ticking off one place from the bucket list, the checklist becomes longer and longer.
While I don't want to call myself a foodie because I was (and still am!) a picky eater, my palate has explored quite remarkably in Dubai. My taste buds lean towards the sweet, sour and spicy Asian flavors but slowly and surely, I am becoming open to all sorts of tastes! With an array of exciting cuisines to choose from, it's impossible to run out of exciting dishes to try in Dubai/UAE.
Most of my travels and dine out sessions are shared with my best friend aka hubby-to-be! Friends since college and lovers since 2010, we will soon become one and this blog will become our virtual home!
And most of all, I am a lover of all things beautiful and unique. I drool over handmade stuff! More of this coming soon. :)
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This blog was started back in 2011, two years after setting foot in Dubai, as an online diary-slash-reference-slash-collection of my mundane musings and observations in the UAE. It was my first jump to an independent life and being a first-time expat, there were a coupla things I learned that I wanted to share with everyone as well. Intentionally for my family to read on so they'd know my whereabouts, throughout the years, this blog has reached and hopefully helped newbies in Dubai/UAE, the got-nothing-to-do on a weekend expat and the occasional travelers like me.
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I found a worksheet from Kidssoup about the different parts of a plant. My little ones cannot write the labels in the blanks so I decided to adapt it to our needs. I typed the words on my laptop and printed them.
As you can see above, I made a sample which I laminated (so I can reuse it next year again). I am also using this sample at circle time when we talk and learn about the different parts of plants. I have placed the laminated page on a tray along with blank sheets, the labels kids will have to recognise (pre-reading exercise) and a glue stick.
To do this work the child must lay the labls on the paper and then have the teacher check. Once their work is checked they may glue the labels in place and then color their paper.
To reinforce their knowledge of the different parts of a plant, I also have introduced a little game called "what's missing?" (also available on Kidssoup). The children have to figure out what part of the plant is missing on the picture, point at it and say the appropriate word out loud. A great way to get their little brains working and it is part of the Montessori 3 period lesson.


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Aviva Investors has bolstered its multi-asset range with two funds targeting defensive and moderately cautious investors.
The firm has renamed its multi-asset fund range, moving from descriptive labels to a numbering system.
The multi-asset fund I is aimed at defensive investors. It will launch on February 6 and will be managed by Justin Onuekwusi.
The multi-asset fund III, also managed by Onuekwusi and launching on the same day, targets the moderately cautious investor.
The new funds' retail share class have an annual charge of 1.25 per cent, the same as the three funds already in the range.
Onuekwusi will run the new portfolios in a similar fashion to the existing multi-asset funds, which he manages. They are globally unconstrained and aim to meet volatility targets corresponding to levels of investor risk appetite.
Under the overhaul, the £27.2m cautious multi-asset fund will be renamed Aviva Investors multi-asset fund II.
The £38.1m balanced multi-asset fund will become the Aviva Investors multi-asset fund IV and the £12.5m adventurous multi-asset fund will be called multi-asset fund V.
Investment objectives and policies of the existing funds are unchanged.
Aviva Investors UK Fund Services chief executive John Clougherty says: "With these two new funds, we can now offer advisers a truly comprehensive multi-asset fund range which provides a simple solution for investors whatever their risk profile."


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Yodh – The Infinite Point
"J" is the tenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet; it was the last of the 26 letters to be added.
But Yodh, also spelled Yud or Yod, is the tenth letter of the Semitic alphabet. The tenth shall be holy; as the decimal nature of reality.
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads:
He trusts in Adonai; let Adonai rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.
As Yodh is the smallest letter, much kabbalistic and mystical significance is attached to it. The secret of this point is the power of the Infinite to contain finite phenomena within Himself and express them to apparent external reality. This initial point, the essential power of the Yodh, is the "little that holds much."
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.
According to the Gospel of Matthew Jesus mentioned it during the Antithesis of the Law when he says: "One Yodh or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Yodh was often overlooked by scribes because of its size and position as a mater lectiones.
Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet.
I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me.
They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.
In modern Hebrew, the phrase "tip of the Yodh" refers to a small and insignificant thing, and someone who "worries about the tip of a Yodh" is someone who is a "Korinthenkacker" that means to be picky and meticulous about very small details.
From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my Adonai.
Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no-one to help.
In "gematria", the Hebrew language and Hebrew alphabet, Yodh represents the number ten, and its place in the name of Adonai.
Eli Eli, why have you forsaken me?
Two Yodhs in a row designate the name of HIM and in pointed texts are written with the vowels of Adonai; this is done as well with the Tetragrammaton.
Adonai, deliver my precious life from the power of the dogs.
Yodh is thought to have originated with a pictograph of a hand, Yad in Hebrew.
Yad can also refer to pointer used for Torah reading in Jewish synagogues.
Quote: Psalm 22
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The Catechism states that, "Baptism, the Eucharist, and the Sacrament of Confirmation together constitute the 'Sacraments of Christian Initiation'…(that) the reception of the Sacrament of Confirmation is necessary for the completion of Baptismal grace." – CCC, 1258
Meaning that after the reception of the gift and Sacrament of Confirmation, you are fully initiated into the Catholic Faith.
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Jamie had his latest orthoptist appointment last Wednesday. I must confess here that I'm actually an appointment behind, since he had one in, oh, probably about last March that I never got round to recording here. Not that there was much to say about that one, but it was the next one after the September appointment in which we had been advised we could try stopping the patching again, and the appointments after no-patch periods are inevitably tense moments as we wait to see whether we can continue with the non-patching or whether it will have led to Jamie's weaker eye deteriorating and whether we'll have to start up again. Fortunately, at the March appointment, the former was the case – the orthoptist (a different one from usual) declared Jamie's eyes in good enough condition to remain a patch-free zone, and I got to breathe easy again.
Having done my tenterhook-hanging on that occasion, I didn't worry about this one at all, having rather foolishly assumed it would be a mere formality; I was therefore a touch blindsided (if you'll pardon the unintentional pun) when Barry reported back to me that we're now back on the patching regime again. For two hours a day. Oh, well – it's going fairly well for the time being. Jamie does still pull glasses and patch off pretty frequently but submits to having it put back on again, so we seem to be OK as long as we keep a close watch on him. With a bit of luck we should get it down to an hour a day by his appointment next September, which would be good considering he'll have started school by then and we'll have that much less time each weekday available for patching.
Speaking of appointments I didn't blog about, there was also his last appointment with Dr M., which in fact wasn't with Dr M. when it came to the point – that one was Friday 6th February, which turned out to be the end of a week of country-paralysingly heavy snow, and Dr M. ended up getting stuck in the nearby city with all the clinic notes. His clinic was thus taken that day by Dr H., a colleague of his armed with only the brief summaries on each patient that Dr M. had managed to pass on to her in a hasty phone call. In Jamie's case, the brief summary was apparently that his ASD had been diagnosed last August and that I was a GP. Dr H. was a cheerfully breezy woman who was quite a contrast to Dr M. in personality – she reminded me of an enthusiastic and good-natured headmistress – but she was just as pleasant as him, and took Jamie's climbs all over the consulting room (not the formalin-smelling one on this occasion, at least) in good part. She asked us about his sleep and eating and the progression of his toilet training and various other things which I forget, talked about getting him statemented for school, and recommended some parent training days on autism which neither of us have actually got round to getting to at any point. That was about it. We now have a slew of school-related stuff coming up this Thursday, so at least I'm briefly up to date on my reporting of appointments before falling behind again.
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April 19 - Reuters correspondent Stella Dawson says IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde faces a leadership test as she seeks at least $400 billion in new resources for the lending agency.
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Annual or perennial herb, generally fleshy
Stems generally glabrous
Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, sometimes stipuled
Inflorescence various
Flower bisexual, radial; sepals generally 2(8), free or fused at base; petals 318, free or ± fused; stamens 1many, free or inserted on corolla; ovary superior or partly inferior, chamber 1, placenta free-central or basal; styles 28, generally fused at base
Fruit: capsule, circumscissile or 23-valved
Seeds 1many, generally black, generally shiny
Genera in family: ± 20 genera, ± 400 species: generally temp Am, Australia, s Africa; some cultivated (Lewisia, Portulaca, Calandrinia )
Reference: [Bogle 1969 J Arnold Arbor 50:566598]
Family description and key to genera by Dieter H. Wilken & Walter A. Kelley.
Perennial, generally from short, thick, ± branched taproot, topped by short, sometimes very thick caudex at or below ground level, sometimes from spheric corm
Stem: aerial parts restricted to inflorescence
Leaves generally in basal rosette, simple, entire or not; base wide; margin generally ± translucent
Inflorescence ± scapose; stems 1many, generally leafless but bracted, sometimes disjointing in age, 1many-flowered
Flower: sepals 28, free, persistent; petals 418, variously colored, overlapping in bud; stamens 5many; styles 28, fused at base, stigmas 28, thread-like
Fruit: capsule, translucent, spheric or ovoid, circumscissile near base
Seeds 2many, dark, generally shiny, smooth or finely tuberculate
Species in genus: ± 20 species: w North America
Etymology: (Captain Meriwether Lewis, 17741809, of Lewis & Clark Expedition)
Reference: [Elliott 1966 Bull Alpine Gard Soc 34]
Horticultural information: DRN, IRR: pots and rock gardens only; DRY when dormant; DFCLT.
Root + caudex short, stout, tapered abruptly to narrow rootSee the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Leaves many, in spreading rosette, < 8 cm, spoon-shaped, finely to coarsely dentate, tapered to broad petiole; tip round, truncate, or notched
Inflorescence: stems 1several, 745 cm, each with a broad, lax, generally many-flowered panicle; flowers well exserted from leaves; bracts among flowers and few below, minute, lance-ovate, gland-toothed; pedicels ± = flowers, ± thread-like
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