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The first leg of our tour is North of Auckland in the
Bay of Islands
up to . On the way up to our hostel
in Paihia we stopped and checked out a bird sanctuary and met Sparky the
amputee Kiwi bird. He is pretty hopeless hopping around on one leg but was very
cute and acted like a domestic cat. Cape Reinga
Jeff enjoying the luxurious accomodations at Base Pipi Patch Hostel. We stayed in an 8 bed dorm but only had 4 of us our entire stay. The shower was great and the internet was fast, we paid $8 for 24 hours of use.
The second day of our trip we did the
Cape Reinga via 90 tour from Explore NZ. The morning started off slow with a Mile Beach tour looking at Kauri trees – a young tree is less than a 1000 years old. Gumdigger Park
The second day of our trip we did the
Our next stop was
Cape Reinga the northern most point of New Zealand where the Tasman Sea and Pacific Ocean meet. The views were stunning and while we were there the weather started to clear up just in time to do some sand boarding down some very steep dunes. The hike up the sand dunes was an intense one, but the thrill of racing down made it worth it. Our 4 wheel drive bus had no problem driving up a stream bed to 90 Mile Beach and taking the short cut home racing down the beach for around 70 km.
You can see the waves where the Tasman & Pacific collide.
If you look close you can see his racing stripes adding to his speed.
After a couple of stops to pick up snacks in the surf we headed to Mangonui for the "Worlds Best Fish& Chips". The fish and chips were so good that we actually ordered a second round.
Our last day in the
we took the ferry across to a place called Russell. It is one of the oldest ports in Bay of Islands that has become a sleepy harbour town. We walked up a viewing point overlooking the harbour. New Zealand
The weather has been great and we are actually enjoying the hostel lifestyle. We have a one night stop in
before we continue south. Auckland

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In this mystical novel, a girl finds herself torn between her own reality and an alternate world she's created in her own mind.
This debut novel opens with Martina waking up in the woods, with no memory of what has happened to her. She wanders toward the home of a woman named Ginetta, who tells her about different events from her past. Martina has no recollection of them, and Ginetta seems surprised and disappointed; it's clear that something odd has happened to Martina's mind. Over time, Martina begins to have scattered memories—most notably of a child named Edi. Corna's elegant attention to detail allows readers to immerse themselves in the setting: "[T]he cicadas pushed their singing from bush to bush, far away. Intense flavors came to her nose." The novel's second section focuses on Martina's teenage years in a northern Italian city. Her family situation remains unclear; random friends come in and out of her life, and some are dying from drug abuse. After Martina has a strange reaction from trying some "smoke," she feels alienated by the local townspeople. These scenes, which initially seem misplaced, offer insight into Martina's past while spinning a web of confusion, and the author fills them with strong, scenic prose. The third section jumps back further to Martina's childhood, and reveals the details of Martina's odd memory problems. As a child, Martina has frequent conversations with animals, which upsets her parents and causes her classmates to see her as strange. As a punishment, her father locks her in a closet for two hours each day; surprisingly, Martina begins to enjoy it, using the time to have vivid dreams that take her to the world of Edi and Ginetta. The final section reveals that her imagination may not be completely fictional, as her dreams and reality collide. The novel keeps readers asking questions throughout, but its fragmented style often means that the puzzles never quite fit back together. However, readers who enjoy introspective, philosophical stories will likely enjoy it.
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EDITOR'S DESK: The White Acres stand-off
Somewhere in a game of high-stakes land deals, nobody blinked. Bethany Baptist Church and its development partner, Infinity Land Corporation, had set a price they
thought was reasonable for White Acres. Some at the city apparently agreed. But, clearly, they weren't the right people, and a person has to wonder anyway how
reasonable it would have been for the city to pay more per acre than it had for Red Rock Canyon ($12.9 million for 788.1 acres in 2003), especially during a time of
dropping real-estate prices.
As a result of the stand-off, the Westside (not to mention Colorado Springs as a whole) stands to lose a beautiful property to land development. And we're not just talking about a few spread-out houses. The preapplication plan calls for 16 to 22 units of attached housing near the intersection of 26th Street and Gold Camp Road. A question of compatibility immediately comes to mind. This has always been at the edge of wilderness. The Bear Creek Nature Center is a short distance away, up Bear Creek Road. Red Rock Canyon and never-developed Section 16 are next door, with trails leading into National Forest country. And as for the homes already in the vicinity, many of them are so far apart people can't even see their neighbors.
So what's going on? We can't afford to preserve White Acres as open space, so we go the other way, and turn its locale into an urban center? What's next at 26th and Gold Camp - a 7-Eleven? It makes a person wonder if maybe that high-stakes game hasn't ended after all. The developer and Bethany Baptist would like us to believe they're the good guys here, that they want to keep it green, that the city is to blame for not buying it. So, then, why the attached housing? Or is that just a bluff?


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Bert Bos wrote: > On Monday 05 October 2009, L. David Baron wrote: >> On Monday 2009-10-05 18:34 +0200, Anton Prowse wrote: >>> Some trivial editorial issues with 9.5 (Floats):[1] > >>> Issue 3: >>> >>> # Any content in the current line before a floated box is >>> reflowed in >>> # the first available line on the other side of the >>> float. >>> >>> When is the first available line anything other than the current >>> line? If never, then s/first available/same/ >> This sentence doesn't make sense to me either way; I'm not sure what >> it's trying to say. > > I know what it is trying to say, but I agree that "other side" isn't > very clear unless you happen to have the same mental model of floats as > the authors of this paragraph many years back... > > The context is as follows. Imagine a line of text, where ### is an > image: > > One two three ### four five six. > > Now float that image to the left: > > #### One two three four five six. > > and note that the words "One two three" have moved to the *other side* > of the image! > > Yes, that is not very precise language. It talks about moving, but > nothing moves in CSS and the text never was at the left side to begin > with. But as you can see in other instances in that same section of the > spec, some people naturally visualize CSS as a process that moves boxes > into place one by one, while others think of CSS as a formula that > yields a single solution for all boxes all at once. Oh, for me the phrases "moving" and "other side" weren't the problem. (I guess I have the same mental model of floats as the authors!) I think it's clear what it's saying, despite not being very precise. > > The phrase "first available" is there to remind us that the content on > that hypothetical "current line" that existed before we moved the float > into place, may not all fit on the same line anymore afterwards. E.g., > if the result is > > ### One > ### two > ### three > four five > six. > > then the first available line box for the word "two" was not > the "current line," but the line after it. This is the problem. As I said in my previous post, modern browsers follow what 9.5 says: # In other words, if inline boxes are placed on the line before a left # float is encountered *that fits in the remaining line box space*, # the left float is placed on that line, aligned with the top of the # line box, and then the inline boxes already on the line are moved # accordingly to the right of the float (the right being the other # side of the left float) and vice versa for rtl and right floats. (my emphasis). So it seems to me that the situation ### One ### two ### three four five six. cannot arise, since the very fact that the in-flow image was able to fit on the same line as One two three: One two three #### [...] | means that there must be space on the same line for the prior content after the image has been floated: ####One two three [...] | so the "first available line" for the prior content is the current line. This was the point I wanted to make in my first post. Had it been the case that the image didn't fit: One two three | ########## four five| six seven eight nine| ten | then floating it left yields One two three four | ##########five six | seven eight nine ten| In this case -- and this was the point I was making in my second post -- despite the spec saying: # Any content in the current line before a floated box is reflowed in # the first available line on the other side of the float. we see in the case above that the prior content isn't reflowed at all. Moreover, the explicit float rules in 9.5.1 don't mention this dependence on "fitting" at all. Whilst this wouldn't be the only instance of the behaviour definition being split across multiple sections(;-), in this particular case 9.5 explicitly defers to the rules in 9.5.1 and so probably shouldn't contain new information not found there. Note that it could of course be a SPAN of several inline boxes being floated: One two three SP SP | four five six seven | becomes SP SPOne two three | four five six seven | and One two three SPAN | SPAN SPAN five six | seven eight nine ten| becomes One two three four | SPAN SPAN SPANfive | six seven eight nine| ten | But the result is the same. Cheers, Anton Prowse http://dev.moonhenge.net > >>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#floats > > > > BertReceived on Friday, 9 October 2009 09:31:47 UTC
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Taking it Home – Preparing Your Sketches to go to Finals
You finished your dummy! Congratulations! Now what?
As daunting as creating a full picture book dummy can be, making final illustrations poses a whole new set of challenges. But once you get the process down, this can be the most fun part of making book. After all that work, you finally get to see your art in full-color, just like a real picture book. (I consider this part the "dessert").
The process below is by no means the way you MUST do things. It's just what's worked for me. But hopefully this post will give some tips and ideas that will help you out, no matter how you work.
Sounds good? Let's go! Very Rough Rough's
As shown here, my dummy drawings tend to be a little… rough. But that's OK, really. The dummy doesn't have to be perfect, as long it gets your ideas across. Here's how to turn that messiness into a final piece.
Consistency is key!If you've been working on your dummy for some time, there are things you might stop noticing. Maybe your characters look the same person from picture to picture. Or maybe the relative sizes of each character have changed. These things are easy to overlook. Your editor might spot some of these, but it's really up to you to make sure everything is right. You don't want to get notes after you're done painting and waste hours of work.
I make a couple of special drawings to help me double-check my art. One is called the character "turnaround". The other I call the character "lineup".
Character turnarounds are an idea borrowed from animation. Basically, you spin your character around and draw them from all angles. I usually do this before making the dummy, and it does two things: First, it makes sure that your character looks like the same person (or animal), no matter how you view them. Second, it makes your pictures more exciting. (You don't want to draw every character looking right at the reader, or in a straight profile. That's boring!)
To keep the relative sizes of my characters the same, I like to use a character "lineup". Draw all your characters right next to each other, and make sure their heights are correct. I like to use the "head" of the main character to measure everyone else. The farmer is four "heads" high, the donkey is two, and the chickens are one. Use this sheet to test all your pictures and your sizes should be all set.
To Resize or not to resize, that is the question…
Let's face it, we're not making picture books because we love math. You don't need to do functions to draw fuzzy bunnies riding bicycles. But now it's unavoidable – numbers are rearing their ugly heads.
Your dummy can be any size, really. Some people make small dummies. Some are the exact dimensions of the book.
Final images, however, MUST be proportionate to the final book size, and CANNOT be smaller. They can be bigger, however. Much bigger. So if your book will be 10" x 10", your final art can be 15" x 15", or 20" x 20", etc. etc.
The size you choose for your final art depends on how you work. Maybe the final book size is perfect for your art. Or maybe you artwork is busier or has a lot of characters, and you need a bigger canvas to paint the details well.
If you need to resize your images, you have a couple options. You can scan the sketch, resize in Photoshop, and print out the page. Or, you can just redraw the images at the larger dimensions. Either way works fine.
Holy moly, we forgot the words!Unless this is a wordless book (which is way, way easier), you need to make sure you can fit the words. Your dummy probably included these, but now you need to make sure the words fit in the finals.
I like to print out the words (resized if necessary), cut them out, and paste them on the final sketch. Make sure the font and font-size are correct (the art director can send those if you're working with a publisher).
Now you can do your last, final check (Eek!) and start to paint.
Almost there!How you create your final pieces will of course depend upon your medium and your style or art. If you're working digitally, just load your drawing into your digital painting or vector program of choice, and get going! If you work traditionally, like me, there are a few more steps.
OK, say your drawing is ready to go – finished, checked and approved. But it's on drawing paper. How to get it on your canvas or on a paper suitable for painting? Well, you have a few choices. You can redraw the entire picture, but that's hard and could introduce errors. Or you could use transfer paper, which is fine, but can get expensive. For me, the light box is the best and easiest technique, by far. Light boxes are pretty cheap, and you just need a small one. Tape your drawing to the bottom of your art paper, put in on the light box and trace away. If you use ink, like me, you can draw with the ink right on the light box.
Beautiful! Now you're ready to paint. Personally, I use pen and ink with watercolor. For more information on that technique, visit my blog here.
That's it! If you're preparing a dummy for submitting to publishers, remember you'll need to include two prints of final art from the book (not originals). Or if doing a whole book, just keep going and going until those 32 pages are all done.
I hope this was helpful. Good luck with your art!
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Boy, what a boring-sounding title. If I were a reader of my own blog and came across this, I might be tempted to skip it, but let me see if I can make it a bit less weighty-sounding and try to relate it to the blog post I wrote recently, regarding "World War II – Was It the Last Good War?"
In response to my Twitter buddy, Jason Linkins who writes political op-ed for HuffPo and does it very well, he is absolutely thrilled that we are once again being given the opportunity to hop back into a quagmire and protect the political aspirations of a bunch of affluent politicians, I can't say he's wrong at all. Thirteen years after 9/11, we've done. . . what? Killed Osama bin Laden, sure. But we've managed to destabilize an entire region, which we seem to be immensely terrific at doing (see Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) in the mid to latter part of the 20th century.
So, Dubya got a hair up his ass, after 19 terrorists from Saudi Arabia, backed by money provided by al-Qaeda (suspiciously close to the Saud family, who were hand-holding with the Bush family, in case anyone forgot) bombed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (although I wonder about that) and went tearing into. . . Iraq? Only after we had staged a semi-invasion of Afghanistan, and that was always kind of iffy to me, because Afghanistan is known as bein' the "Graveyard of Empires" and all. I'm still trying to connect the dots. When Dubya made his brave assertion "Mission Accomplished" just what in the Hell was he referring to? We never really managed to "quell" the "dissidents" in either Afghanistan or Iraq, a fact that can still be measured in body counts and terrible stories of atrocities, coming out of, now, specifically, Iraq, and of all places Syria, which has it's very own home-grown Strong Man in place, the son of the late President Assad.
In all honesty, I don't know if this is a good thing, or bad. I also don't know if it's a good idea for President Obama to sit down and treat with this man, seeing as how he's got lots of his own countrymen's blood on his hands. At least, Obama isn't sitting down with al-Qaeda, which was the worst idea I ever heard, since I said "yes" to Bill Nunnally. You DO NOT treat with terrorists. Terrorists are not countries; they are not sovereign entities; they are not realms or Kingdoms. They are a bunch of zealots with nothing in their jackalheads except creating terror in the hearts and minds of the people around them to further their cause, which is usually couched in some amorphous language and difficult to attain, even with more measured people and responses. They have no mission statements; they have no credo, other than "Death to the Infidel" and are sectarian in the extreme; they will kill members of their own "faith" quicker than Christians and Jews, because those Sunnis were closer to Allah and should have understood that they were committing heresies. I liken them to the IRA at its worst. The Crusades sound more moderate, when you remember that the Christians who lived there, routinely met and worked with the other faiths in the Middle East.
And now, we come to this: I TOLD YOU SO. Russia. Last week, I implied that basically, the whole mish-mash between Russia and Ukraine should be left alone. They've squabbled and gone back and forth for centuries. They are two countries, who, while not having a lot in common, bear a very similar culture and a shared history; at times amicable, at times, downright horrible. Stalin went out of his way to starve the Kulaks, the rich Ukrainian farmers in 1934, and several million people starved to death. It has been referred to as "Harvest of Sorrow" and a fine historical book of the same name, written by Robert Conquest, depicts the horror and devastation wrought upon the Kulaks. But, again, this was not the first time Ukraine and Russia had adversarial dealings with one another and would not be the last.
Again, there are many ethnic Russians living in Ukraine, just as there are many ethnic Ukrainians who live in western Russia and Belarus. The ENTIRE region has seen many different rulers, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, to the Czarist rulers. It really is no wonder that one day, Ukrainians want one thing, and another day, they wish for something else. There is a kind of schizophrenic zeitgeist that exists in this entire region and when you look at the maps and how the empires overlaid one another, it is easy to understand why.
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The writer P. J. O'Rourke once went to Eastern Europe and Russia when the Iron Curtain first fell, and the salient point he took away from his experiences there, aside from all of the horrible automobiles looking like they had been made by the Dinky Toy Company, was the complete and utter confusion that the new "nation-states" wanted and why they wanted it. "We want Democracy!", some shouted on one day. When asked why, they yelled, "Because, Democracy is good!" without having clue one what it was all about.
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Later on, during the same trip, P. J. asked some of the same people what they wanted. "We wish to stay with the Motherland!", they shouted. When asked why, they hollered, "Because she takes care of us?", although many were not sure this was true. This was over twenty years ago, and it is still pertinent today. If you look at the maps, you see that some of the western parts of Ukraine were in the Austro-Hungarian sphere, the southern parts in the Ottoman Empire, and the Eastern portion were part of the Russian Empire. Divestiture came in 1914, but in 1917, the Russian Revolution took place and the Communists were firmly in power, after fighting a civil war against the Royalists. After World War II, as part of the agreement at Yalta, Russia retained Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and the other "buffer" states, as there were already ethnic Russians living in these places, and because Stalin was a murderous, land-grabbing rat-bastard. Regardless, I believe that, if by some miracle the Romanovs had remained in power, and they were somehow, by another miracle, able to best the Nazis, they would have demanded Ukraine and Belarus and all the rest as their spoils of war. This is a Russian thing; NOT a Soviet thing.
Again, it speaks to the peculiar phobia that Russia harbors towards the West and we help no one by meddling in this. To top it off, today's headline in "The World" is this:
courtesy of: HuffPo
Followed by this article:
courtesy of: HuffPo
I mentioned last week that the situation between Russia and Ukraine will find it's own solution. That may sound like weak sauce, but what I mean is they are better left to their own devices, especially since the west and most particularly the United States has such a horrible track record when it comes to intercession. People can quote Panama and Grenada all they want, but the simple fact is, we invaded weak 3rd world countries, one in an attempt to divert a horrendous foreign policy decision on our part, when we were involved in Lebanon, in 1983.
Let's play a "what if" scenario and see if this doesn't make a bit more sense. Suppose the United States was having some kind of squabble with Mexico, over god-knows-what. Water rights, illegal immigration, the number of donkeys displayed in crappy mariachi bands north of the border was in dispute, whatever, and things got heated. Maybe we have some troops lined up along the borders, ostensibly to keep out "undesirables". We've had our issues with Mexico in the past, but we've always managed to get them straightened out. But this time, we're dragging it along, and for some reason, both sides are being belligerent. On the outside, the rest of the world is throwing their two cents in about what a bunch of imperialist dogs the United States is, and we should never have left Merry Olde England. Yada, yada. After several weeks of this, with tensions ebbing and flowing, things get kind of mind-numbing, what with all of the other stuff going on. Then, out of the blue, or not-so, England is invaded by France and Belgium, and some not-so-nice things begin to happen. Do you honestly think that for one minute, the United States isn't going to have something to say, or do something about that situation, to mitigate and save their long-time ally? The same case can be made for Russia as regards Syria, I refuse to say "vis a vis" because it's pretentious, and I realize I am kind of shoe-horning some facts in here and making it a bit ridiculous, but it's for a reason.
The Russian-Ukrainian relationship is a very special one; much like ours is with Great Britain. Why? Because, history.
I'm not a historian, or a military historical buff, but I do understand long arcs and how actions from the past resonate into the present. What we do now will make a difference. It might be a decade, or it might be a century. Wise men have the gift of being able to predict what our actions now will predicate for our future. I am not one of those, but I'm a damned good observer and student of global hegemony. I truly think that we should do nothing at all about the Russian-Ukraine situation and tread very, very lightly with this mess in the Middle East.
This isn't even a war movie. It's an exploration into the heart of darkness, based on a Joseph Conrad novel.
I know I called for taking a stance last week, regarding ISIS or ISIL and they are fearsome and what they are doing is beyond horrific. I cannot imagine the charnel house over there, and the suffering of the people who live there. I have friends in Tunisia and Morocco and Egypt and I fear for them, but we did a terrible job in Iraq. We destabilized the country; something we excel at, and upon our departure(?) we managed to foist some mediocre bureaucrat upon the country, along with a less-than-useful fighting force. This is nothing but Vietnam Redux. Francis Ford Coppola did a much better job with "Apocalypse Now Redux" and it still sucked. Watch the original. But, let's not create our own "Iraq Redux". That's nothing anybody wants to sit through.


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Obviously we have a real problem and it's probably because we live on land with lots of livestock feed in the shed - think they are over the pellets and found a way inside where the yummier treats are (particularly fond of crisps, pikelets, muffins and pasta).
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The training wheels are off
This has been a hard season for us, but not without merit.
You never know what the classroom of your life will be until you find yourself sitting at an uncomfortable desk with a bloody hard test in front of you that you are pretty sure you didn't study for.
I've been waiting to write this post until we were on the other side of the lesson but there is no guarantee when that will be and that's okay. If anything the last five months have taught me in spades is "God's got this." He has the answer key, he wrote the test, he's proctoring it in fact.
He's got this.
We bought a house 7.5 years ago. At the time we knew we paid a little too much for it but we found it the day it went on the market and we had thirty days to move and they weren't willing to dicker on price. We've never had any desire to be house poor and this was still on the low end for what we qualified for. We just had that "Aww shucks" feeling that if we had a little more time we could have gotten them down a few thousand more. Still, we loved that little cottage in the city. A 90 year old Craftsman bungalow with charm oozing out it's pores. We upgraded the plumbing, kitchen, master bath, landscaping, anything we could save up for to make it nicer. Who knew in 2008 the realty market would begin a very rapid downward spiral. We can only work with the facts that are presently in front of us and we made a financially sound decision at the time. Sadly my crystal ball was broken or we would have chosen differently.
You have all heard the stories of whoa over the last few years on the news about people foreclosing and going bankrupt left and right. Hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt over houses they couldn't afford or unload. Scary stuff. A good name is better than great riches Psalms tells us. Who wants their credit smashed into tiny shards of glass like that? Devastating.
When we moved out to the country almost three years ago, we moved with our city house being under a lease purchase contract. What that means is the couple agrees to buy the house at the end of a year. They put down a hefty deposit because they just need a little more time to get their credit up to snuff and get their loan in place. There is definitely risk involved. If I had more time to tell you the beautiful, DETAILED, way the Lord brought us to our current house you would have the same peace we did in moving forward with the lease purchase offer. It's a great story.
Much to our shock and dismay the couple at the end of the year had actually worsened their credit and decided to bail. (Cue our jaws on the ground…nervous laughter….what in the what????)
You ever been faced with the reality of two mortgages….it's super fun, you should try it. Nothing has hit my panic button faster. Along with my broken crystal ball our money tree wasn't growing either.
I don't care how awesome your realtor is, how great their marketing is, how much people LOVE your house (and believe me…people love this house). Only God can decide the timing of lifting that burden. And so we can submit with grace or go pout in the corner and lick our wounds.
Last year we ended up renting to a great couple. Did we want to be landlords? Nope…not one bit. Due to the awesome economy we could only charge our mortgage cost so we made zippo every month to put into savings to help us out if anything went wrong with the house. So zero times 12 months equals zero right? It's almost a 100 year old house…so you can imagine things happen. Heck, stuff happens to brand new construction houses…that's home ownership.
The couple moved out on Halloween night this last fall and there we were again, for the third time in a row, trying to sell this house. The unfortunate thing is what we owed the bank and what that neighborhood was going for since the market crash didn't end in the same numbers. Me thinks this is a problem.
Due to all my health drama last spring, our car needing repairs, a trip we already booked to Costa Rica before we knew this was all going to go down, our savings account was about at zero when November's mortgage was due. You know what's sad? They won't let you pay in charm at the bank. I've tried. Bankers need to lighten up for reals.
Haha…someone figured out how to add gifs to her posts (I know that's so 2000…but come on they are fun….we were bleeding hundred dolla bills ya'll)
And so we did a hail Mary with our photography business and we offered "mini sessions" for the first time ever in November and low and behold they filled up lightning fast. November and December mortgage paid for….whewwwwww….. A little bit of margin and financial breathing space.
Don't you wish you had booked with us? I mean this is one just one amazing family we photographed. Our buds and fellow photogs. If you are in NC…book them!
We listed with an amazing realtor after much prayer and started to swallow the golf ball reality that now we had to come out of pocket for commission (and that's if we sold at full price.) I laugh that that was the worst reality we were trying to absorb in November…ha…HAHAHAHAHA…oh if we only knew what was ahead.
Praising the Lord for Ryan's Christmas bonus so we were able to pay for January and February mortgage. Want to know what's hard, incredibly hard actually….giving money to an empty house. Want to know whats gotten easier every month….giving money to an empty house.
God's economy works mysteriously. What a beautiful and freeing thing to rest in. He gives and takes away…blessed be his name!! This is a season of our finances being taken. They just are and it stinks but it doesn't end there. It never does.
I'm telling ya…Satan was all over this stuff pounding us with discouragement and jabs. We would just come up for breath and another punch would be thrown. Our heat got all jacked up in the house through unknown reasons and we got a $355 gas bill…FOR AN EMPTY HOUSE in February!!! Not gonna lie…cried when I opened that bill. Next month a $270 gas bill. Whoa satan….you aren't playing. Consequently, the gas company will also not take charm as payment. Whats wrong with people? Don't they know I'm an adorable 5'2″ girl with a big gummy smile??? Let's call it even!
As each month rolled on and each bill came in things went from stressful to kinda exciting. We knew we couldn't make money appear so it would HAVE to be Jesus pouring out His provision. We decided to offer spring mini sessions to figure out how to pay for the March mortgage.
This time….one day filled up and NONE for the other day. Head scratcher. Okay Lord, we are availing ourselves and our gifts to you….let's go….bring us some people to photograph….come on…what's the hold up?
A wise couple came to pray with us one night and we were sharing the story how the mini sessions weren't booking up and he said, "It's like training wheels guys. That which seems so indispensable to keep you safe is now hindering you the most from trusting God." The photography is our training wheels. It's that skill we try to play like our trump card. We know it, we rely on it and fall back on it. When he took that away…..well, it really was "Let's wait and see what GOD does." Here is the mortgage bill God, here is that crazy huge gas bill God.
Ryan has the gift of faith. It's a gift that very few people intrinsically possess. He has the ability to absorb devastating news, rapid change of circumstance and stressful situations with barely a flinch or emotional response. It is wonderful and annoying. (I kid… I'm thankful we are not both in a heap of snot and tears at life's greatest trials)
I'm Philip. Maybe you are Philip too. Look at these familiar verses in John 6 when Jesus and Philip come upon the crowd near the sea of Galilee.
5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?"
7 Philip answered him, "It would take more than half a year's wages[a] to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!"
You see Philip's response? He LOOKS WITH HIS EYES and CALCULATES WITH HIS BRAIN the exact solution. An impossible problem to solve with the resources in front of them. Did you notice I left out verse six? Check out this gem (face palm for glazing over it my whole life.)
6 He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.
HE was TESTING HIM. He already knew what he was going to do. (ummmm…fish and loaves miracle anyone?)
Here is Kelly seeing with her eyes our bank account and looking ahead at what is booked on the calendar and it is an IMPOSSIBLE problem to fix with the resources we posses.
Guys….this season of continual financial loss, waiting month after month for our house to sell which has come with setback after setback, extra bills, service calls, repairs, hours and hours on the phone, etc… This is my test much more than Ryan's. Oh this is a test I want to pass. I want to be the teacher's pet in fact. I've needed to learn ruthless trust and not just saying God is good and his provision boundless…but I want that to be the very air I breath in and out.
Jen Hatmaker spoke about "Real Faith" at IF GATHERING last month. I want you to read an excerpt of my notes:
" Faith does not mean you understand the whole definition of God or that you don't doubt. Faith does not demand that God explain himself. He is mysterious and Paul says his was are "unsearchable" Don't wait until you have full possession of knowledge before you take full possession of God. No one ever has or ever will leave this world unscathed. Suffering is a part of life while satan still rules. God is good. You want it to be true in the day, but it's even better in the night."
You want to know what I saw happen on March 15th?
The day our mortgage bill was absolutely due. As in the LAST DAY of the grace period of paying it. The huge gas bill was also due that day. Up to that point we had seen some deposits trickle in for the one day of mini sessions we booked. We had half the money we needed to pay those two bills on the 15th. I was giving it to 2:00pm that day for the mail to come to see if a miracle would happen or if I would have to call in those bills on a credit card. I was not crying guys, I was excited. Do you know that morning two people asked if they could PayPal me their full mini session payments today, Ryan called to say he had received a reimbursement for some doctor bills at work and in the mail came two more deposits. God did it…..to the minute. We had the money to pay those bills. It was amazing.
This calls for another GIF!
Do you know it's been a year since we have booked a wedding? We have been slowly leaving the industry over the last five years just taking a few a year for fun and extra income. For some reason the Lord has all but dried up this area of our photography until two days ago when we booked a wedding, or should we say…God blessed us with April's mortgage payment. I mean really Jesus? So incredible.
It's 12:50pm on Friday. In about ten minutes an inspector is coming to our city house because we have a contract on it!! I have asked our prayer circle to pray what I am calling a "Daniel and the lion's den prayer". Whatever could kill, destroy, maim or stop this contract from going through… may it be silenced. We have an inspection and an appraisal to get through. We also have to come to the table with a sickening amount of money in order to close on this house. I don't know how this story will end, or how we will ever recoup the tens of thousands of dollars lost but I know that this has been one of the hardest and best seasons of my spiritual walk.
Jen is right, God is good in the day….but he is even BETTER in the night.
Don't be a Philip. Stop calculating with your eyes and your brain your circumstances. Don't dwell on scenarios that may or may not come to fruition. Let God fully have your trust for His ways are unsearchable and they are always, Always, ALWAYS good.


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Perhaps the sweetest sounds you'll ever hear are the babbles and coos that one day become ma-ma, da-da and I love you. Besides being music to your ears, these baby steps of language change everything as your little one dis... more »
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Golden Lover | 03/18/2008
(1 out of 5 stars)
"I couldn't wait to get this after reading the description. My son is just starting to talk and I thought the ba-ba-ball and other words they had in the description would be perfect to advance his communication skills. The dvd is nothing like the description. It spends way too much time on foreign languages and not enough time on baby's first sounds! Like the other reviewer said, your child won't learn anything from this...except sheer boredom! My son has no desire to watch it and he loves almost all the other Baby Einstein dvds. It really makes me wonder if they had a children's focus group watch this! Big disappointment to us, especially coming from Baby Einstein/Disney!"
Not Enough English
Serenity's Mom | South Carolina | 03/13/2008
(2 out of 5 stars)
"This DVD will not teach your child much. It has about 5-10 mins of each lang. listed on the dvd case. My daugther will watch the english part then she pays the rest no attention."
Give this one a try!
DBop | Albuquerque | 08/12/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This DVD is my son's favorite. He's been watching it since he was about 6 months old, and he's now 16 months. This is digital board book, so the more that you watch it with your child, the more he/she will get out it.
What I like...
1. The quality of the DVD is wonderful. The animation and the pictures are vivid and colorful. It's extremely engaging for little ones.
2. The basic sounds are simple enough that my son can imitate them.
3. The puppets (especially the little lambs and the bumblebee) really help draw the child in. My son jumps for joy whenever the bumble bee comes on screen. (In the tradition of Baby Einstein, the bumble-bee is the host, so you'll see her often.) The little bee makes sounds like she is talking right to the baby. So, my little one talks right back.
4. There is a huge variety of animals (dogs, ducks, turtles, lambs, and hippos, just to name a few).
5. The music is excellent and very soothing. Its perfect for night time since it doesn't get him all worked up.
6. The beginning of the DVD has lots of little kids from all over the world saying "hello" in their various languages. My son waves to them all. Now that I've seen it a couple of times, I say hello back while he waves to the children. I don't speak any languages fluently, so it's a language lesson for me.
At the end of the DVD, you'll hear goodbye in multiple languages as well. I think its great to hear the different sounds that you'll never hear in English, and I firmly believe that when children are exposed to these sounds when they are young, they'll pick up languages faster later on. Having spent a lot of time with multi-lingual small children, I think that kids don't get as confused as we adults do.
7. It's a great intro to phonics.
8. I absolutely love how it reinforces the idea of a loving family. You'll see moms with babies, dads with babies, and moms and dads together.
What would I change?
You'll hear Twinkle Twinkle Little Star about 4 times during the video in various languages. Twice is good, but 4 times? But it doesn't seem to bother my son, so I'm not too worried about it.
Overall, I think this a great DVD. I look at it this way. My son now points to his arm when the lady on the DVD says, "ah...ah... arm." My husband and I never taught him that. If I wanted a DVD to teach my son English words, any DVD can do that. Besides, I think my child will have no problems picking up English in our household. Because this DVD is meant to get them to DISCOVER SOUNDS of all kinds, I think Baby Einstein accomplishes this task.
Terrible- Don't buy this dvd
Toni Bautista | Cicero, IL | 10/02/2008
(1 out of 5 stars)
"It spends way too much time on foreign languages and not enough time on baby's first sounds. If you are going to do foreign languages, make sure to have a seperate track option. Keep english to english track, spanish to spanish, chinese to chinese track. Do not put them all together!!!"


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Back in March, I participated in that week's Share Your World questions and admitted that I had been struggling with a great many things in my life.
As I stated at the beginning of that post, I was not intending to answer those questions because I did not want to put my struggles out there front and center.
But, as I also stated, we are nothing if not brutally honest here; and I began to feel like a hypocrite for writing uplifting, encouraging articles when I was feeling like the four walls of my life were closing in around me.
I was caught.
I could not lie and say I was completely happy with my day-to-day life when I was far from it.
I knew I needed to be honest; but that honesty was not going to say much for my attitude.
And how could I just ignore the questions because they made me uncomfortable with, what seemed to be, stabbing accusations?
I could not get the questions out of my mind, though; and as I thought about them, the answers were piling up in my mind like a parade lineup waiting at the starting point to begin the long walk down the street.
So I answered them honestly, painfully so; and left myself feeling exposed and ashamed for failing in my faith.
After posting it, I prayed for answers. Prayed for something to show me what I was doing wrong, what I was missing.
What was making it so difficult for me to handle all the problems that were piling up? Why had I lost my peace?
And then I began to find blog articles and Facebook posts that uplifted and encouraged.
The more I prayed, the more there were.
Over the next few weeks I want to share the lessons I am learning during this time of renewal and spiritual recovery so that, maybe, others may learn from my lessons.
There is nothing earth-shattering or new, but maybe seen from a different viewpoint, they might help someone else that is struggling.
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How to Free Up Space on Mac (macOS Sierra)
[Last Updated: Jul. 12th, 2017]
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Apple WWDC 2016 keynote event announced the new Mac operating system macOS Sierra. And there is one small feature that you may have noticed – "When you need more space, let your Mac find it for you".
It said that new macOS helps you clear out duplicates , app installers and other unnecessary stuff, which would be a good feature if your startup disk is almost full and cannot download any large app or game. But if you prefer to clean up the junk files on Mac completely, you have to do the job manually or use some professional tools like MacClean to give you a hand.
In this article, we will show you how to free up space on Mac via some basic & efficient tips. And first of all, go to check out how much space is available on your Mac: Click the Apple menu > Select "About This Mac" > Click on the "More Info" button > Choose the "Storage" tab to check the disk storage overview and capacity. And then follow tips below to free up space on your Mac.
Part 1. How to Free Up Space on Mac via Deleting Old Device Backups
How to Free Up Space on Mac – Delete Old Device File Backups
If you have multiple Apple iOS devices, say, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, every time you synced your iDevice with iTunes, it automatically backs up specific files and settings to your Mac. The backups are all saved on your Mac, you can find them: Home > Library > Application Support > MobileSync > Backup. You can keep the most recent backups of these devices, and delete those older backups files from your Mac.
Deleting files from your Mac is never without risk so you'd better move the folder to an external drive before you remove it. Choose iTunes > Preferences > Click Devices > Select the backup you want to remove > Click Delete Backup.
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Part 2. How to Free Up Space on Mac via Clearing Junks Files with MacClean
How to Free Up Space on Mac - Clear Junks Files on Mac
Although Apple Mac is known for its good self-maintenance feature, which means it requires less cleaning job. However, there can be gigabytes of junk files generated by the use of Internet and applications. If you have an old Mac, or your Mac disk space is almost full, it's really the time to clean up it and free up space by removing some junks, no matter system junk files or apps junks. It might take time and efforts to manually find and delete the kinds of junk files from your Mac, that's why you need an easy-to-use and powerful Mac cleaning software like MacClean.
MacClean, as its name expresses, is a Mac cleaning software made to clean up junk files from Mac computers. It works well for all Mac computers. MacClean manages to clean up various types of junks like Internet junk (Safari, Firefox and Chrome), user junk, system junk, development junk, trash bin and application junk. It is capable of removing caches, cookies, browsing history, download history, user logins, system logins, app leftovers and more from Mac.
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Part 3. Uninstall Unneeded Applications and Leftovers
Free Up Space on Mac - Uninstall Unneeded Applications Leftovers
Another effective way to free up space on Mac is to uninstall any Mac applications you do not intend to use. Check out if your Applications folder is cluttered with applications you no longer use, for example, some software free trials. Finding out which applications are taking up the most space on your Mac: Open Finder > Select Applications > Click the "Show items in a list" icon on the toolbar > Click the "Size" option to sort the applications by size. To uninstall the unwanted apps, just open your Finder window > Choose Applications in the left sidebar > Check the apps you want to delete > Drag-and-drop them to the trash can on your dock.
However, it does not go far enough. Even if you have uninstalled the app, the app leftovers are still stored in your Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/ or ~/Library/Preferences/. We suggest you do not delete a file casually for it might lead to some bad results. To easily find out where these app leftovers stored and safely remove them, To easily find out where these app leftovers stored and safely remove them, you will need MacClean.
Part 4. How to Free Up Space on Mac via Removing Unused Languages
How to Free Up Space on Mac - Remove Unused Languages
Macs are popular, and they are sold in more than 100 countries around the world, many of them with different languages. Almost every Mac application comes with several language files it supports so that it satisfies all almost all its users. Since you don't really need all of these languages, such files are just wasting space on your Mac for no good reason. If you're trying to free up space for your 64 GB MacBook Air, that extra storage space can be very useful.
To delete the language files on your Mac, you can use Monolingual, a free program for removing unnecessary resources in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space. Before removing the language files you'd better back up your Mac with Time Machine.
Although Apple improves the battery life of Mac each new model year, there is more that you can do. To know some useful and effective tips to save your Mac battery, you can refer to this How to Improve Mac Battery Life guide >
If you are also an iPhone user, you might also want to know how to free up space on your device especially for 8 GB or 16 GB iPhone users. Yes, we have also gathered some useful tips to help you free up space on your limited iPhone, please refer to 5 Ways to Free Up Space on iPhone >
Part 5. Clean Up Unwanted Photos, Music and Movies
How to Free Up Space on Mac – Clean Up Unwanted Media files
Speaking of photos, music and movies folders, these will eat up tones of space on a Mac! Among them, there are also lots of photos caches like images copies from iCloud, Faces or app-related, music caches like duplicates from iTunes, download histories of iOS devices, or movies files caches from media players, download histories by iOS devices.
Therefore, cleaning up the caches from photos, music and movies files is crucial if you want to free up space on Mac. Well, you can do like this:
1. Open Finder > Navigate to the Photos library > Ctrl + Click your Photos library > Select "Show Package Contents" > Open resources and then model resource.
2. Old and unwanted music or movies always take up large space on your Mac, and cleaning the media files is a great way to free up space. Open Finder > Click All Files > Check and select the media files you want to get rid of > Right click your mouse > Click on "Empty Trash".
3. If you don't want to delete the old photos, music and movies, you can compress or achieve them to save the space on your Mac: Select the files and folders you want > Right-click and choose Compress Items to create a Zip file archive.
Still looking for a way to clean up space on your iOS devices? This guide about 6 Tips To Free up Disk Space On Your Mac will give you the trouble-free methods to fix it.
Part 6. Restarting the Mac & Installing System Updates
How to Free Up Space on Mac – Restarting a Mac
Restarting a Mac is also one of the effective ways to free up space, because this can flush system caches, app caches, installs system updates. Especially for the virtual memory swap files and sleep image files, which possibly grow quite large if you rarely restart a Mac.
If you have downloaded System Updates but haven't installed them yet, they're just sitting around taking up disk space on your Mac, which will easily end up taking up sizable gigabytes for major system updates. At this time, rebooting the mac will find out the wasted space on your Mac and install the update.
Part 7. How to Free Up Space on Mac via Clearing out Downloads History
How to Free Up Space on Mac - Clear out Downloads History
You may always download temporary files from your friends, coworkers or families, and then these files are also still recorded in the Download folder. Over time, you will find that the download history may be one of biggest culprits of wasted storage space on your Mac. To free up space on Mac, clearing out the downloads history is also extremely needed.
To do this: Open Finder window > Click Downloads on the left sidebar > preview the download history to make sure that you don't need them any more > Select all history or part of them > right-click and scroll down onto Move to Trash.
Part 8. How to Free Up Space on Mac via Emptying Trash Cans
How to Free Up Space on Mac - Empty Trash Cans
Empty Trash on your Mac is also an effective way to free up space on Mac. To completely remove useless files from your Mac, you will have to clear them from the trash can. To do this: Select Finder on the homepage of Mac > move to Empty Trash and click it. This will delete all files you've sent to Trash.
If you are also an iPhone user, you might also want to know how to free up space on your device especially for 8 GB or 16 GB iPhone users. Yes, we have also gathered some useful tips to help you free up space on your limited iPhone, please refer to 5 Ways to Free Up Space on iPhone >
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It was great curiosity and fear that I read Piper Kerman's Orange is The New Black. We both came from nice New England families, graduated from the same college and made foolish mistakes after college. Piper's mistake was transporting a suitcase full of cash to Europe for a drug dealer. Ten years after the ordeal she finds herself in a minimum security federal prison for a year.
Like the author, post college I was looking for an adventure and would have contemplated something as idiotic as participating in a drug cartel. I do not know if I would have done anything per se, but I certainly would have considered it.


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It seems that there is going to be peace in Lebanon for a while, so off I go! Weds. I went to the Chouf again, this time to see Siham and Hani Ghanem in a village called Warhanieh. They were very hospitable to me. We sat in a terrace overlooking fields of fruit trees distilling 'jurri' rose flowers and making delicious rose petal jam. Siham makes this beautifully scented jam with absolutely no artificial coloring agents, so how does her jam turn out to be candied bright pink? The secret shall be revealed in the book!
Siham and I stayed hours discussing mouneh recipes while the distilled rose water slowly poured into a glass bottle. The smell was truly amazing. Later, she set up the barbecue to make barbecued akoub! It is simply a true delicacy. It's very simple, after cleaning the akoub thoroughly, a fine coat of olive oil is spread on the thistles with a kitchen brush to give added flavor. When the akoub is cooked, salt is added. Voila! Enjoy... I can't wait till school is over, I'm going back to Warhanieh to show my children this beautiful village.
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Hani took me to see a very gifted family made of very talented sculptors called the Assaf family. I was really impressed by their work. They have built a beautiful house surrounded by a large piece of land. They are working on making a museum on the land to display their work. The sculptures seemed alive, they were so neatly done. If you have the chance, go and visit them, it is really worth the trip.
Friday, May 23, 2008
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If you are interested in knowing more about wild edible plants in Lebanon. Check out this wonderful site created by a friend Dr. Malek Batal on the subject. The address is : www.wildedibleplants.org You will love it!
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Friday, May 9, 2008
Picking akoub in the mountain of Niha Chouf
It was last week on the 7th of May... It's Wednesday - My children's school has decided to open it's doors which means in my mind the political situation is not as dramatical as one thinks. The days that followed proved me wrong! But now my dear readers, this is besides the point! I have been dreaming of going in search of akoub (gundelia tournefortii) for two years now. Nothing was going to stop me. Akoub is a spiny perennial herb thistle that is edible. Its taste is in between asparagus and artichoke. It grows wild in plains and mountains. It is usually harvested in the early morning a group of women of a given village.
I contacted Rima Massoud - a mouneh producer from Ramlieh, who also makes delicious manakish at Souk el Tayeb every Saturday. I arrived early to enjoy the ride into this picturesque village. I have visited Ramlieh many times before, but I am always amazed by its beauty. Before heading with Rima to the mountains of Niha, I visited her neighbor Sowsam to get a glimpse of preserving akoub in jars. She explained to me in details how akoub was cleaned, how the stems are peeled, and how to preserve the akoub in a salt and water solution with lemon juice. Technical data such as this is very important to me to write the recipes of my book. I listened to her carefully and jotted down all the information taking photos along the way. This was very interesting, but my real goal was to actually see these weeds in the wild and to live through this experience.
So off we went, Rima and I got into the car and bid Massoud, her husband farewell. He didn't look worry so this helped me continue my journey without any guilt. We rode through the Chouf mountain, passing by the Barouk and into Niha. We arrived to Samira's house, Rima's sister-in-law, who had been waiting for us since dawn. She was so eager to go up the mountain. She gathered her picking utensils, and a large bag full of delicious foods. Nada, her daughter accompanied us. We drove up the mountain in a steep road that was not asphalted. That didn't really matter, but it did make me a tiny bit nervous. Regardless, I had told them that we did not need a man to accompany us and that we four women, were strong enough to handle everything ourselves.
I cannot begin to describe this place. I think if there is a heaven on earth, this is probably very close. I understood why Samira was so anxious to go up the mountain. Nada her daughter described her mother's passion with nature. Every opportunity she had to go up and pick akoub, she would jump at the occasion. She would walk from her home. It would take her 3 hours, then stay for 3-4 additional hours picking akoub, then go back home satisfied with her day. Did I mention that Samira is a woman of over 65 years old? We settled on the ground, ate our carefully prepared lunch made of stuffed grape leaves with laham bi ajin and freshly cut tomatoes with green olives. After lunch Nada made for us a cup of fresh arabic coffee. Heaven!
Samira refused the coffee and went of to the uncultivated fields in search of the young thistles of the akoub. You should have seen her, she was tireless. She skipped over the fields and pebbles, climbed up the hills with determination. You could see that she was not new to this. Her hands skillfully uprooted the weeds, she cut them delicately, and put them in a pouch she had made with her skirt. It was truly amazing. I couldn't keep up with her! I stayed with Nada and Rima as we roamed around the mountain in search of this delicacy. It was really agreeable to be up here with these wonderful women whom I admire a lot.
Then the real adventure began...my husband called me asking me where I was, I shyly told him I was in the Chouf. He told me to be careful because the political situation was getting worst and that it would be advisable to start heading home. What a deception! Then my brother-in-law called to ask me the same questions because he had heard that the roads leading to the Bekaa were closing. I started to feel panic. I told the women that I must get home quickly. That couldn't be possible being that I was an 1 1/2 hour away from there, but regardless, I had to start somewhere. We packed up our belongings and the harvested akoub. We drove off with great regret. I dropped off Samira and Nada who hugged me very tightly. It only took this akoub- picking experience together for us to bond. I promised them another visit. I drove off quickly. I won't bore you with the rest, but just to let you know my car broke down... it took 2 1/2 hours for a mechanic to fix it. I got home at 8:00 pm exhausted, but happy... I finally got to pick akoub in the high mountains of Lebanon and I made it home safely to my husband and three excited children...
Now I'm waiting for all this mess to go away to continue my culinary journey...
Why can't they just understand that it's our differences that make us so special and that we can live together as Lebanese!
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Last season's runway debut of the Prada Inside Bag was the brand's biggest bag launch in recent memory, and based on the handbags in tow at the brand's Spring 2016 show, Pradaclearly intends to take that momentum into next season. Not only did we see new versions of the Inside, but the brand debuted a good-looking, top-handled day bag, a chain-strapped flap shoulder bag and more.
Most of the collection's runway bags were adorned with vertical lines; some even, some not. That provided ample opportunity for both colorblocking and texture-blocking, including plenty of snakeskin interspersed with flat leather. Crocodile was also strongly represented, but it mostly stayed away from the other materials on bags of its own.
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Alessandro Michele's previous Gucci show may have been relatively light on handbags, but based on the brand's Spring 2016 runway in Milan earlier this week, that's not the new creative director's preference all the time. For the upcoming season, the Gucci Dionysus, among others, are getting a remixed look with lots of extra details.
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Council is scheduled to discuss additional work needed on the project. It would be completed using money from the new courthouse contingency fund.
County Administrator Steve Willis said the fund has barely been used and can be used for upgrades on the historic courthouse restoration project. The additional projects include construction of sidewalks and a retaining wall.
"Once a Bruin, always a Bruin."
That's the message given to the freshman when they arrive at Lancaster High School every fall. "You are now part of a family."
Homecoming is a time for alumni to return to cheer on the football team and celebrate being a Bruin. This year, Lancaster High School students and alumni are getting a chance to live this message of family and the Bruin community.
KERSHAW St. John's of Charleston withstood a last-minute Andrew Jackson rally to capture a hard-fought 21-19 win at Volunteer Stadium on Friday.
The narrow loss dropped the Volunteers to 2-2, while the Islanders improved to 2-2.
Trailing 21-19, AJHS started on its own 33-yard line with 2:00 left in the game. AJHS senior quarterback Darrian Henderson found Quadarius Fair on 37-yard pass play to the Islanders' 31.
The open weekend of the University of South Carolina's fall baseball practice featured a little different twist than what most teams experience this time of year.
It was a road trip, but not your ordinary bus ride.
This event wasn't a game, but in the words of Steven Neff, a pitcher on the Gamecocks' 2010 national championship team, it was "an experience."
A week ago on Sunday afternoon, Neff and his USC diamond teammates boarded a bus for Washington, D.C.
Not long ago, Thomas Hagwood walked the halls of Lancaster High School.
His daily chats centered on class schedules, favorite teachers and pop quizzes. At lunch, he'd joke around with friends and discuss sports, music and girls. His outfits were casual.
Now, three years later, Thomas finds himself in a different setting. His conversations are more serious, and so is his attire. One look at him, and you can tell he's someone who protects his community.
Spring Valley's narrow win was decided by inches.
The 2-3 Vikings, who forged a 28-0 lead early in the second half, held on for a 28-21 win despite a furious comeback by the host Bruins at Memorial Stadium on Friday night.
LHS, 2-2, was bidding to possibly tie the game with a late scoring drive as the Bruins were on the move after starting the march at their 37.
The unbeaten Buford junior varsity football team posted its second straight shutout, blanking North Central, 31-0.
Tripp Wright scored three touchdowns and was 1-3 on extra points. Josh Mullens added a six-yard score and Nate Saxon scored a touchdown.
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One of the men charged in the killing of a 3-year-old girl in May was in court on Friday hoping to receive bond.
Marico Lamont Stevens, 29, of 2517 Douglas Road, Lancaster, has been charged with murder in the death of Jaylen Jackson.
A bond hearing was held Friday for Stevens.
Judge Craig Brown denied bond for Stevens, 6th Circuit Solicitor Doug Barfield said.
Stevens was one of several men involved in a gunfight in May on Athena Road. Jackson was seated in a car when she was caught in the crossfire and shot in the head.
Indian Land's defense delivered in the clutch to lift the unbeaten Warriors to a 34-21 comeback win over host McBee on Friday night.
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Theater lovers looking for laughs are sure to find them this weekend as the Community Playhouse of Lancaster County begins its run of "Lend Me a Tenor."
The show opens at 8 p.m. tonight at Stevens Auditorium at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster. There will also be 8 p.m. shows on Saturday and Oct. 1-2. A matinee begins at 3 p.m. Sunday.
Sheri Marvin, a theater veteran, is making her CPLC directorial debut with "Lend Me a Tenor."
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Carrie Eliza Meares papers, 1932-1982 (Bulk: 1947-1963)
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Carrie Eliza Meares papers, 1932-1982 (Bulk: 1947-1963)
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Collection number: MS 610
YWCA worker. The Carrie Eliza Meares Papers are primarily related to her professional and public life. Types of materials include correspondence, memorabilia, press releases, reports, journal and newspaper articles, and subject files. The bulk of the papersfocus on Meares' work in South Africa for the World YWCA, 1950-53; in Ethiopia for the YWCA of the U.S.A., 1960-61; and on the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The papers include general background reference on South Africa, Ethiopia, and race relations, as well as correspondence, reports, financial records, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia from Meares' work. In addition to official reports and correspondence, the files contain some personal correspondence with reflections on Meares' experiences in Africa.
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My husband thinks I have a impulse-buy problem. But when I saw these baby boots at Old Navy I said out loud, "These are ridiculous." And I had to buy them.
I got this image from an ad Piperlime emailed me, and I found it rather inspiring in a philosophical fashion sense (and I also like the model's sweater). Of course, none of my sweat pants have ever cost $300. And I don't wear sweat pants; I wear yoga pants.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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Behjat, Nura (2006) Cultural impacts upon the learning processes of indigenous students in adult bridging courses. New Horizons in Education (114). pp. 4-19. ISSN 0028-5382
The impact of cultural factors on Indigenous Australian students' learning has been the subject of debate by various educators in recent years. However, this paper analyses reflectively the experiences of a non-indigenous teacher working in an Indigenous educational environment. The paper focuses on personal observations based on a teacher's day-to-day struggle to learn how to assist Indigenous students to access knowledge and skills that they need in order to succeed in tertiary education. This small-scale exploratory research suggests that although culture has a significant impact on Indigenous children's learning, it does not exert the same effect on Indigenous adults' learning in the area of mathematics.
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The Auckland Fire Brigade Historical Society (AFBHS) was formed at a meeting on May 3rd 2010 by a small group of dedicated fire and ex fire service personnel. It was decided that the history of the Auckland Fire Brigade needed to be recorded and preserved for future generations along with equipment, uniforms, vehicles, photographs and any other items that could be obtained.
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