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You've probably heard that your small business can save money and improve efficiency by outsourcing your IT needs.
Or perhaps you're concerned about the significant costs associated with the ever too common data breach?
Whatever your IT needs, your company can benefit from working with an IT support company.
Unless you're an IT expert, you might not know what precisely an IT company is or what one does. To fully understand how you can get the most out of your IT support company, you need to know what it is they do.
Keep reading to learn more about what the IT professionals at an IT support company do daily to keep your business operational and how to get started with IT managed services.
What is an IT Company?
IT support companies are businesses that specialize in providing IT support in the form of a wide range of services.
They ensure that businesses can continue to meet the needs of their customers and clients. They perform a variety of services ranging from providing guidance about your IT system to fixing your IT problems.
IT support companies are also referred to as IT managed services providers. They employ IT professionals and specialists that provide business owners with expert guidance as well as manage their IT needs.
These services range from a company's computer systems and device networks. IT also ties into a company's hardware and software applications. IT companies are usually comprised of a team of IT experts, where each team member brings their unique skills and expertise to the table.
What Do IT Companies Do?
Because IT companies are comprised of IT experts with different backgrounds and areas of focus, they are usually able to offer a wide range of IT support services to fit your company's needs.
No two days will look exactly the same for an IT professional at an IT support company. Their daily responsibilities will depend on the needs of each of their business clients.
Maybe they will work each day remotely, or perhaps they will visit the client's site to work on infrastructure. The point is, an IT support company will handle any IT need your company has.
Generally, IT support services can be broken down into two categories – fixing immediate problems and implementing preventative measures.
Let's take a look at how IT companies perform each of these services as well as what other functions they perform for businesses each day.
Fixing Immediate IT Problems
The most obvious reason a small business would hire an IT company is to get assistance in solving immediate IT problems.
One of the issues with relying solely on an in-house IT professional is downtime. When you use an IT support company, you eliminate the risk of downtime and prevent an IT failure from interrupting your business operations.
Whenever you have immediate IT needs, such as an answer to a question or if you just need general IT assistance, your IT company will be there to help. They will help you by remoting into your computer to fix the problem instantaneously, or they will send a professional to visit your business in person. It all depends on the type of assistance you need.
Anytime you experience an IT crash, network failure, or server error, the IT services company, will be notified and take immediate action. They will troubleshoot the matter for you and provide you with a solution.
Preventative Planning
One of the ways your small business can benefit most by hiring an IT company is by working with them to create an IT strategy that works with your business plan.
The services go beyond fixing tech-related issues and involve strategizing and developing solutions to your current and future business needs. Having an IT preventative plan in place can increase your business productivity and efficiency.
Which, in turn, can increase customer satisfaction, and eventually, your bottom line.
One of the essential factors of IT preventative planning in an age where cybercrime is a serious concern for businesses has a disaster plan in place. Your IT support company will provide backup data solutions to ensure your business data is never lost in the event of an IT failure.
Other Services
IT companies also provide support in the form of network services and infrastructure management.
Your IT support company will work to install, setup, and manage your company networks. These allow business operations to continue seamlessly and are used in all kinds of businesses, from offices, colleges, private companies to call centers.
Networks allow employees to access company data from anywhere securely they are authorized. This improves business efficiency, especially in a time where many employees work remotely.
Your IT support company will remotely monitor your company's networks to keep them up and running. They also ensure network security by taking measures to prevent attacks from invaders like hackers, spyware, and viruses.
IT support companies are also experts when it comes to software and hardware. They will support your company's infrastructure by handling your company's IT needs at the workstation level. This includes overseeing patches, software updates, and managing security features.
Hiring an IT Company
Now that you know a little more about IT companies and what they can do for your business, it's time to take the next step.
We've discussed the general functions of IT support companies, but we'd like to show you precisely what we can do for your business. Contact us today for a free managed IT consultation where we will create an IT support plan to meet your specific business needs.
After having many internet/wi-fi and phone issues for years at our office, SADOS has resolved them and made our workplace more efficient. We are so pleased with their commitment to finding the real problems, and their solutions to fix them. Dominick has been awesome – very responsive to our calls, and not happy until we're happy. Thank you SADOS, Jon, and the team!
When we moved our environment into the cloud we worked closely with SADOS. They were easy to work with and very responsive to our needs. They helped us navigate the intricacies of the AWS and perfected our network environment. Anyone looking to move their infrastructure to the cloud would be well-served by working with SADOS.
Enforme used to host our own data-center. In doing so we had power costs, generator costs, cooling costs, hardware/warranty costs and many other costs that come along with hosting your own equipment. Now we have POP sites all over the world and double the resources at half the cost thanks to the cloud. Our cloud migration was one of the best decisions we could have made thanks to SADOS.
SADOS has been a great help. We contacted you to help migrate the Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs to AWS Gov. Cloud. Their knowledge with cloud technology was an extreme help during this project. They prepared and created the infrastructure for this environment to allow future growth, fail over possibilities, and load balancing scenarios.
Solid, experienced IT cloud transition partner specializing in moving traditional infrastructure environments to AWS and Azure. SADOS has the expertise and know how to help your company assess your current traditional infrastructure, formulate a transition plan and execute. In many cases, they can help you save thousands in monthly data center & support costs.
SADOS' willingness to provide immediate support during a dire time was a godsend. Their team is not only genuinely invested in the success of their customers, but also highly qualified and more willing to do what it takes to provide a broad range of IT support services compared to others. They genuinely care about my business. All the other vendors I spoke to only offered to set up an appointment and wanted to discuss pricing right away. SADOS was the only company willing to do what needed to be done right away without hesitation. Direction.com is now where it needs to be thanks to SADOS.


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When the steam saunas? It is hardly possible to name the exact date. But the fact that the bath is as old as the world, no doubt. It is known from time immemorial, from the ancient Egyptians and the Chaldeans, the Phoenicians and the Aztecs, Chinese and Indians, Vikings, and Slavs.
In 123 kilometers from the capital of Libya Tripoli are the famous ruins of the ancient Phoenician city of Leptis Magna. Twenty centuries ago here was a high civilization. By the way, dug here in 1693, the French 600 marble columns went to the construction of the Palace of Versailles and the Church of Saint-Germain des Pres in Paris. Among the ruins of Leptis Magna attract the attention of thalassotherapy center, public toilets made of marble and comfortable bath. Original method of heating the ancient baths. Hollowed out in the rock a huge hole, which was filled with water. Immediately a huge brazier was heated to a white heat of stone. Then block encountered in the pit. The water instantly warmed and on the tubes going in the various departments of the bath.
The famous British archaeologist Arthur Evans found at Knossos, on the island of Crete, the traces of the ancient Kingdom. 3 thousand years before the rise of Ancient Greece there was a rich culture. Beautiful paved roads across the island along and across. In откопанном archaeologists Royal Palace was discovered water. Waste water were taken on special зацементированным channel? Debris were collected in a silo pits, where processed into compost, which went to the fields as fertilizer. Was in the king's Palace toilets, baths, swimming pools. And baths. According to how well they are equipped with, one can assume that there conducted various water therapy procedures. The ancient inhabitants of Crete, apparently, knew about health bath.
A steam room to its original essence is a simple, yet ingenious construction. Hardly it is not one of the most ancient buildings, the construction of which has reached our days. In the villages of this hut, it was pole-of logs. Often half-buried in the ground. First, go into the small dressing, undressing, and then directly in the sauna, in the steam room. In the steam room - stove - oven, in which imposed stones. Furnace heating, stones heated. The smoke through a pipe to the outside. Therefore, they say, steam «-white». Stones poured hot water. Bath is filled with hot steam. And then you can climb up on the shelves. They in the form of three-four steps. The higher, the hotter.
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Beautiful colonial Mexican cities? San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato and Morelia. Also magical: Cuernavaca, Oaxaca and Querétaro.
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15 Things to do in San Miguel de Allende: A fairy-tale colonial city
A mask museum? Botanical gardens? Magical rooftop bars? Visit San Miguel de Allende for more than just art galleries and colonial architecture.
Colonial living at Belmond Casa de Sierra Nevada
Don't look for a cookie-cutter hotel at Casa de Sierra Nevada. Rooms and suites are sprinkled in colonial mansions in the heart of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
The Sanctuary of Atotonilco: Mexico's Sistine Chapel
Dubbed the "Sistine Chapel of Mexico," the remarkable Sanctuary of Atotonilco is a riot of color, decorated with oil paintings, poems, sculptures and frescoes.
Feel playful at the Mexican toy museum, San Miguel de Allende
We bet Santa would love to get his hands on the toys at the whimsical Toy Museum in San Miguel de Allende (Museo La Esquina). It's packed with 2,000+ hand-crafted Mexican toys!


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PTC Therapeutics Announces New Real-World Analysis Demonstrating Translarna™ (ataluren) Slows Disease Progression in Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
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- Lung function data from the STRIDE Registry show a trend toward delay of decline of pulmonary function compared with those in CINRG Duchenne Natural History1 -
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ, USA I October 4, 2019 I PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) today announced that data from STRIDE,* the first international registry for patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy due to a nonsense mutation receiving Translarnaä (ataluren), demonstrate that Translarna preserves lung function in children and adolescents compared with a matched cohort in a long-term natural history study.1 The real world analysis was presented at the 24th International Annual Congress of the World Muscle Society.
"Across ambulation, physical function and lung function, the STRIDE data demonstrate that patients receiving Translarna preserved function for years longer than patients receiving standard of care," said Stuart Peltz, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, PTC Therapeutics. "These are real world results that provide clinicians and regulators the true picture of patient response to treatment."
Researchers evaluated FVC, a traditional measure of lung function in Duchenne patients that correlates with disease progression and mortality.2 The STRIDE data showed that 32.1% of standard of care patients from the natural history cohort had a FVC of <50%, compared to only 2.2% of patients receiving Translarna after a mean total exposure of 633 days.1 The data also indicates that Translarna significantly preserved patients' ability to stand up from lying and climbing stairs compared with natural history.3
After loss of ambulation and loss of the use of the arms, the respiratory muscles of people with Duchenne start to progressively deteriorate, leading to the risk of life-threatening respiratory complications and the need for ventilation support. Patients with a predicted FVC of <50% are considered to be in the late non-ambulatory stage of Duchenne.4 To conduct the analysis, patients from the STRIDE Registry were matched against a comparable cohort of patients from the Cooperative International Neuromuscular Research Group Natural History Study, based on their propensity for disease progression.1
These latest data build on the STRIDE registry – time-to-event analysis, which demonstrated that the median age at which patients on Translarna lost the ability to stand up from lying in under 5 seconds (the first key clinically significant Duchenne milestone) is 12 years – 3 years later than seen with natural disease progression in untreated children [9.1 years].3
"It's very encouraging to see positive lung function results in a real world setting and provides reassurance that ataluren is slowing disease progression," said Dr. Eugenio Mercuri, Professor, Pediatric Neurology, Catholic University, and author of the study. "Respiratory failure is the primary cause of disability and death in patients with Duchenne and monitoring and preserving lung function is a key clinical priority. As the muscles progressively weaken, breathing and effective coughing gets more difficult and patients eventually become dependent on ventilation support, which is distressing for families."
The demographic characteristics of the study population from the STRIDE Registry were published in August this year in the Journal for Comparative Effectiveness Research.5
About Translarna (ataluren)
Translarna (ataluren), discovered and developed by PTC Therapeutics, Inc., is a protein restoration therapy designed to enable the formation of a functioning protein in patients with genetic disorders caused by a nonsense mutation. A nonsense mutation is an alteration in the genetic code that prematurely halts the synthesis of an essential protein. The resulting disorder is determined by which protein cannot be expressed in its entirety and is no longer functional, such as dystrophin in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Translarna, the tradename of ataluren, is licensed in the European Economic Area for the treatment of nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy in ambulatory patients aged two years and older. Ataluren is an investigational new drug in the United States.
About the STRIDE Registry
The STRIDE (Strategic Targeting of Registries and International Database of Excellence) Registry is an ongoing, multicenter, observational study of the safety and effectiveness of Translarna in routine care. It is the first patient data repository to provide real-world experience regarding the long-term use of Translarna in routine clinical practice. Enrolled patients will be followed for at least 5 years from the date of enrollment, or until withdrawal from the study.
Effectiveness information may include neuromuscular function (as measured by timed-function tests, the North Star Ambulatory Assessment, and Performance of the Upper Limb (PUL) measures, cardiac function (including echocardiogram where available), pulmonary function (including spirometry measures), and quality of life measures. Assessments of musculoskeletal health, rehabilitation, orthopedic and gastrointestinal management, as well as other measures of psychosocial management, is to be collected to allow for comparison of patient health-management activities in routine clinical care to those of published treatment guidelines.
STRIDE is a collaborative partnership between TREAT-NMD and PTC Therapeutics, led by a Steering Committee comprised of leading experts in Duchenne, patient advocates from around the world and PTC representatives.
About TREAT-NMD
TREAT-NMD is a network for the neuromuscular field that provides an infrastructure to ensure that the most promising new therapies reach patients as quickly as possible. Since its launch in January 2007 the network's focus has been on the development of tools that industry, clinicians and scientists need to bring novel therapeutic approaches through preclinical development and into the clinic, and on establishing best-practice care for neuromuscular patients worldwide. The network has developed from its European roots to become a global organization that brings together leading specialists, patient groups and industry representatives to ensure preparedness for the trials and therapies of the future while promoting best practice today. Further information about TREAT-NMD can be found here: http://www.treat-nmd.eu/
About Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Primarily affecting males, Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rare and fatal genetic disorder that results in progressive muscle weakness from early childhood and leads to premature death in the mid-twenties due to heart and respiratory failure. It is a progressive muscle disorder caused by the lack of functional dystrophin protein. Dystrophin is critical to the structural stability of all muscles, including skeletal, diaphragm, and heart muscles. Patients with Duchenne can lose the ability to walk as early as age ten, followed by loss of the use of their arms. Duchenne patients subsequently experience life-threatening lung complications, requiring the need for ventilation support, and heart complications in their late teens and twenties. More information on the signs and symptoms of Duchenne can be found at: www.duchenneandyou.com
About PTC Therapeutics, Inc.
PTC is a science-led, global biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of clinically-differentiated medicines that provide benefits to patients with rare disorders. PTC's ability to globally commercialize products is the foundation that drives investment in a robust pipeline of transformative medicines and our mission to provide access to best-in-class treatments for patients who have an unmet medical need. To learn more about PTC, please visit us on www.ptcbio.com and follow us on Facebook, on Twitter at @PTCBio, and on LinkedIn.
* Strategic Targeting of Registries and International Database of Excellent (STRIDE)
1 Tulinius M et al. Pulmonary function in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy from the STRIDE Registry and the CINRG Natural History Study: A matched cohort analysis. Abstract presented at World Muscle Society 2019, 1-5 October, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2 Mayer OH et al - Characterization of Pulmonary Function in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Pulmonol. 2015;50:487-494. And Philips, M et al - Changes in Spirometry Over Time as a Prognostic Marker in Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Am J Respir Crit Care Med Vol 164. pp 2191-2194, 2001
3 Mercuri, E., Buccella, F. et al. Timed function test data in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy from the STRIDE Registry and the CINRG Duchenne Natural History Study: a matched cohort analysis. Poster 11-38. Presented at EPNS 2019 (16-21 September, Athens, Greece).
4 Birnkrant DJ et al. Diagnosis and management of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, part 2: respiratory, cardiac, bone health, and orthopaedic management. Lancet Neurol 2018;17:347–61.
5 Muntoni, F., Desguerre, I. et al. Ataluren use in patients with nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy: patient demographics and characteristics from the STRIDE Registry. J Comp Eff Res. 2019 Aug 15. doi: 10.2217/cer-2019-0086.
SOURCE: PTC Therapeutics


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✅ Custom bindings for editing form
In his article about custom binding in SwiftUI, Paul Hudson shows that we can create an instance of class
Binding (which is what is generated when we use the
@State property wrapper) to customise how the binding of a
@State variable is handled.
But I found that if I set an
ObservableObject with regular
get and
set modifiers in a computed variable, the binding generated by
@Observed would work just as I expected.
So now I'm bit confused of what's the difference between using a custom
Binding<> object compared to the regular computed variable feature I would have from the mentioned approach.
(Looks like a good blog topic to explore).
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In fact if I use
get and
set the values aren't propagated to the Combine objects that SwiftUI uses. It means that although the internal property is changed, the binding doesn't reflect what is passed to a
TextField for example.
And there are some discussions in StackOverflow about how to work with formatters and SwiftUI, and how to create custom bindings as well.
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I was able to create a view model
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The next task is to save the changes to the object it has acquired and pass it back to the list. I think I will have to change the struct to be a class so I can update the reference, or at least I would have to use
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Yearvu source code can be found in my GitHub.
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The heads of state and government of the EU have submitted their nominations for the top job of the bloc, with a woman being proposed as head of the European Commission for the first time.
The surprising election of Federal Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen as successor to Jean-Claude Juncker came after the rejection of the leaders. The head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, became the first woman to become head of the European Central Bank (ECB). The announcement follows days of difficult negotiations.
Overall, EU leaders have been tasked to nominate five people for top jobs. Belgian Liberal Prime Minister Charles Michel will succeed Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, while Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell will be nominated.
The fifth key role – the President of the European Parliament – will be elected on Wednesday. Possible candidates are the German MEP Manfred Weber and the Bulgarian socialist Sergei Stanishev. Most roles have to be ratified by the European Parliament.
The President of the European Commission heads the executive branch, sets the political agenda and controls a cabinet of commissioners.
Ms. von der Leyen, 60, was born in Brussels and moved to Germany with her family when she was 13 years old. She studied economics at the London LSE and medicine in Hannover, before she went into politics.
She has been a member of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) of Mrs Merkel since 2005. If Mrs. von der Leyen is confirmed in the role, it would be the first time in more than 60 years that a German receives the position.


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The final nail in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy.
Jamie and Dakota and Paris
The good news is that Fifty Shades Freed is not quite as dull as Fifty Shades Darker (2017). The stronger narrative helps, but you have to laugh. Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) and Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) have now tied the knot and Mrs Grey still has things to learn about her six-packed fuck buddy. When he spirits her off to their honeymoon in France, they take his private jet which, apparently, she didn't know he owned. Really? What woman doesn't know that her husband owns a jet? In Fifty Shades Darker he did tell her that he had bought an airline, but maybe that's different. Even so, Anastasia does seem terribly in the dark, even when she's not sporting the silk blindfold that he insists she wears before a bit of the old S&M.
Anybody who's read a few pages of the E.L. James trilogy (that began with Fifty Shades of Grey), will know that the film will be utter tosh. Anastasia is now in the driving seat of Seattle Independent Publishing (a wedding gift from her husband) and her first author is not only a highly skilled wordsmith but looks like a male model. We then meet Gia Matteo (Arielle Kebbel), the architect hired to re-design the couple's new mansion and, you guessed it, she doesn't look like Frank Gehry, or even Zaha Hadid. Think Jessica Alba with a dash of early Heather Locklear. These people exist in a realm so far removed from reality that it's surprising they don't communicate in speech bubbles. Christian himself is preternaturally gorgeous, obscenely wealthy and culturally polished to a high gloss. Here, he even gets to sing Paul McCartney's 'Maybe I'm Amazed', accompanying himself on piano.
Real life does begin to intrude when Christian and Anastasia take to the beach in the south of France. He objects to her taking her top off in public, even though she observes that they're just "boobs in boobland." True, the nipples outnumber the pebbles on the beach, but Christian is concerned about paparazzi shots ending up in the media. He's also worried about security and when Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson), Anastasia's embittered ex-boss and would-be paramour, appears to be stalking them, Mrs Grey is furnished with a personal bodyguard.
Christian is also showing worrying signs of a controlling nature and is upset when Anastasia keeps her own name at work and pops out for a drink with a girlfriend. However, there's nothing like a shot of drama to bring a couple together. And drama there is – but the nooky keeps getting in the way. Maybe there is an audience for Jamie Dorman's sculpted buttocks and Dakota Johnson's pouting, but the sex is more choreographed than an episode of Strictly. Still, the pop songs provided by Ellie Goulding, Jessie J and Dua Lipa are pretty enough, as are the sensual cityscapes of Seattle and Paris.
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson, Eloise Mumford, Rita Ora, Luke Grimes, Victor Rasuk, Max Martini, Fay Masterson, Jennifer Ehle, Marcia Gay Harden, Bruce Altman, Arielle Kebbel, Brant Daugherty, Tyler Hoechlin, Callum Keith Rennie.
Dir James Foley, Pro Michael De Luca, E.L. James, Dana Brunetti and Marcus Viscidi, Screenplay Niall Leonard, Ph John Schwartzman, Pro Des Nelson Coates, Ed Richard Francis-Bruce, Debra Neil-Fisher and David Clark, Music Danny Elfman, Costumes Shay Cunliffe.
Perfect World Pictures/Michael De Luca Productions-Universal Pictures.
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It's time for another Curious Cape Cod vote. This time, the nominees are reader-submitted questions that received a high number of votes in previous rounds. Vote for your favorite from among these 3, and we'll answer whichever question wins:
• I really would love to know who Queen Anne was. Why do many roads in Chat-ham and Harwich have this name?
• What year did hitchhiking to the Cape end?
• Why have many of the swap shops associated with the town landfills been closed, and what would it take to get them to reopen?
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To ask a question, vote or see what other questions have been asked, visit www.capecodtimes.com/curiouscapecod. Curious Cape Cod runs in the Sunday Cape Cod Times. Other questions to be answered in coming weeks:
• How do large ships (cruise, cargo, etc.) get permission for passage through the Cape Cod Canal? What are some of the restrictions, rules?
• In the past, what I call the "port" towns were always written as one word: Dennisport, for example. Why are they now written as two words?


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Fantastic Total Renovation. Enjoy Quyiet Park-Like Setting and Sunsets from 13 foot Balcony. Granite Counters, Stainless Steel Appliances, Extra Built in Cabinets. Both Bathrooms totally Renovated. All Utilities and Watergate's Famous Amenities are included in the monthly condo fee. Watergate at Landmark is located inside the "Beltway" and is on 36 Beautifully Landscaped & Gated Acres. Here are some of what makes Watergate a one-of-a kind, Wonderfully, Comfortable Lifestyle:Indoor Pool with Lap lanes, Social Area and Jacuzzi, Free Shuttle to Van Dorn Metro (Blue Line), Convenience Store, Restaurant, Fitness Center, Saunas, Billiards, Ping Pong, Indoor Golf Driving Room, Library, Community Center, Activities for All Ages, Sprawling Outdoor Pool with Lap-lanes, Diving Area and Social Area, Gazebos, Jog/Walking Path, Tot Lot, 4 Outdoor lighted Tennis Courts, 2 Indoor Tennis Courts, Racquetball, Picnic Areas & Grills, Award Winning Landscaping, Car Washing Area, Basketball Court and Much More! Located just over a Mile from Metro and Minutes to Pentagon, Old Towne and DC.
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Keita & Fabinho show Klopp exactly what they will bring to Liverpool after impressive debuts
Jurgen Klopp's smile said it all, his demeanour gave it away. The spring in his step told its own story.
It's back!
Exactly six weeks after their Champions League final defeat in Kiev, Liverpool were ready to put it all behind them, ready to believe once more The surroundings were a little more austere, the opposition a little less storied, the game much more serene. Chester, the National League North outfit, proved accommodating hosts as Jurgen Klopp's men began their pre-season friendly programme with a 7-0 win in the sunshine.
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While England were busy booking their place in the World Cup semi-final, the Reds were getting back down to business in fine style.
Liverpool had refused a request from Chester to move the kick-off time so that fans could watch the game in Samara, the result being a number of empty seats dotted around the ground. The official attendance announced in the stadium - 4,396 – looked a little on the optimistic side if truth be told. "If I'm 100 per cent honest, I'd have watched the England game too!" Klopp joked afterwards.
Those that did attend, however, were given plenty to enjoy. They were kept abreast of England's progress in Russia, and in the meantime they got their first glimpse of Liverpool's new £90 million ($120m) midfield duo. First impressions last longest, and the Reds' new-boys made a good one.
Klopp opted not to start with both Fabinho and Naby Keita, with the Brazilian playing the first 45 minutes and the Guinean the second. But both will have enjoyed their first run-out in a red shirt, for sure.
Fabinho, wearing the No.3 jersey, started in midfield in a 4-2-3-1 formation, alongside the promising teenager Ben Woodburn. Tall and rangy, the £39m ($44m) signing from Monaco kept things short and simple for the most part, but looked an assured presence in a game Liverpool bossed without ever truly pleasing their manager.
With Chester opting for a high line – ridiculously so at times – Liverpool were able to play through them almost at will, though they were a little wasteful in the final third for Klopp's liking.
Fabinho saw plenty of the ball, his passing crisp and accurate - save for one complete miscue, which sailed over his manager's head and into the stand behind him.
Midway through the first half came his sight of goal, the ball falling kindly to him on the edge of the box after Dominic Solanke had been snuffed out. Fabinho's strike was low and true, but clubbed the inside of the goalkeeper's right-hand post and rebounded to safety. It would have been a perfect start.
Still, it was a good enough one. There is a robustness about the Brazilian which helps explain why Klopp was so keen to bring him to Anfield. Liverpool tracked Fabinho for more than a year, and saw off strong interest from across Europe to land their man. With size, energy and versatility to offer, as well as calmness in possession, he should prove a stellar addition.
"He's a fantastic football player," Klopp pointed out. "A good passer, his challenges are good, a proper defensive midfielder with the option of being a No.8 as well, his heading is good. He brings quality."
Keita, perhaps, is one to capture the imagination even more. Liverpool had to wait 12 months to get their man, agreeing a deal with RB Leipzig last summer which came into effect on July 1. Klopp, it is fair to say, is very excited to have the 23-year-old joining his squad.
Fans too are eager to see what he has got, and they were treated to an all-action cameo here. Keita describes himself as a midfielder who "defends first, then attacks." Liverpool know all about them, of course, and here, wearing the famous No.8 shirt, we saw both sides of their new recruit.
Like Fabinho, he might have capped his debut with a goal, working his way into the box but shanking off target on his left foot. Again though, there were enough flashes here to suggest the Keita era at Anfield will be very enjoyable indeed. Though arriving into a game against beaten opponents – Chester made numerous changes and fielded a series of trialists after the break, while retaining that super-bold high line – there was a quality and an intensity to his play which suggests he will be £53m ($70m) well spent.
We already knew he liked a tackle, and we saw him happy to put his foot in when required here. His closing down, high and aggressive, led to Daniel Sturridge's goal for 4-0. In a Klopp side, such things are both necessary and, by the manager at least, hugely appreciated.
We saw the odd dribble – one in particular stood out as he flicked the ball over the head of a couple of opponents to manoeuvre space – and a string of short, simple forward passes. Liverpool's midfield is, in this correspondent's opinion, a tad over-criticised at times, but an injection of dynamism and genuine attacking class will be most welcome. Keita, make no mistake, will be one of the first names on Klopp's teamsheet.
"Naby comes from Leipzig and knows the football philosophy that's a similar one to ours," Klopp said. "[He's] very sharp in the challenges, very quick in mind in these situations of counter-pressing, [his] impulses look kind of natural, which is good.
"Monaco played a completely different style, so Fabinho probably needs a few more days. But if you want to be in a part of our squad you need to be good. These two boys are."
Elsewhere, there were pleasing signs from others as Liverpool gave all 22 squad members a 45-minute game.
Harry Wilson, back from a loan spell at Hull and desperate to seize any chance that comes his way, lit up the first half with two goals and bags of quality, while the sight of 17-year-old Scouser Curtis Jones on the left of the attack is one to note. We'll be seeing a lot more of this lad in the coming years.
After the break, Sturridge cut a sharp, hungry figure. The striker, who is expected to leave the club this summer, finished coolly for 4-0 and then, in the dying minutes, produced the coup de grace with a beautiful whipped finish for number seven. His future may lie elsewhere, but the England international still has more class in front of goal than most – including Dominic Solanke and Divock Origi, who were wasteful during the first half.
In the end, then, a comfortable afternoon in the Cheshire sun for Klopp and his side. Next up is a trip to Tranmere on Tuesday, another chance to see how Klopp's new-look side is shaping up. On this evidence, pretty nicely.


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Cheffin' It: Around the World in 80 Crepes!
September 18, 2017
Alright, listen up friends and followers. In my new found love of food and exploring other cultures, I've come across something pretty interesting.
I've come to realize that, amidst all of our differences, the one thing that easily unites us is food. Nothing makes me feel more connected to people than when I am sitting down and sharing an exciting meal with them. And regardless of the different tastes, textures, and spices, ultimately our foods are made with similar ingredients. So after my exploration around the culinary world this summer, I've continued to enjoy making crepes. Specifically, the French street food crepe, sweet with Nutella and strawberry. It's an easy, delicious dessert. What's funny is that as I researched through recipes from other countries (Greece, Morocco, Mexico...) I realized that the concept of a crepe was universal. A thin, smooth cake or tortilla filled with some kind of warmed substance. We're focused so much on difference, why not notice a little similarity in the world? We use different names for things but our understanding of the concept is the same. It's easy to see that in food. Sometimes I wonder, maybe if we spent more time looking for the similarities instead of the differences the world would be a better place?
Anyway, here's to a new experiment. Using food, specifically, crepes, to make connections to this big beautiful messy world. We'll look past our differences: ingredients, cooking method, presentation, and remember that ultimately all humans love some form of crepe.
So I present to you a new Blog Series... Around the World in 80 Crepes! We're combining some of my favorite things: books, cooking, and travel! We'll start in London, as Phileas Fogg from the famous book Around the World in 80 Days once did, and travel the world (metaphorically of course). Each week I will post a recipe and some interesting facts about the country it originates from. Maybe by the end of it, we will be able to see that there are more similarities in life than differences...
Be on the look out for our first recipe! Coming later this week!
I'm busy working on my blog posts. Watch this space!


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Domaine Des Bouts De Fagnes
Domaine Des Bouts De Fagnes in Waimes features accommodation with free WiFi, 3.7 km from Reinhardstein Castle. The property is 2.6 km from Ovifat 2 T-bar and 2.8 km from Ovifat 1 T-bar.
Providing access to a terrace, this holiday home comes with 4 separate bedrooms. A TV is provided.
At the holiday home guests are welcome to take advantage of a sauna. A garden and a barbecue are available at the property.
Ovifat 3 T-bar is 2.8 km from Domaine des Bouts Fagnes, while Naturepark of Botrange is 3 km from the property. The nearest airport is Liège Airport, 65 km from the property.
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India is home to the eastern traditions of the world. With the rise of the new age, India's eastern culture of Yoga and Meditation is coming to the forefront, to teach people how to have peace of mind and body in such a fast-paced world. Yoga and Meditation tours are now rising as more and more people are coming to such tours to find themselves and get a break from this world. And the reason to opt for a Yoga and Meditation tour is that, as Seneca said, "True happiness is…to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future" and the best way to be present is through Yoga and Meditation.
Vipassana retreat is a retreat of 10days of mediation, it's located in Chennai and receives people from all over the world. Other places include, Uttarkashi, Rishikesh, Goa, Dharamshala, Kerala, etc these places are known for their Yoga and Meditation tours and one can hop on such a tour from the extensive amount of tour packages available to avail online.
Get on this journey to find oneself with such Yoga and Meditation tours, and experience the clarity of mind and soul.
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How do American students fare on the latest round of respected international assessments? Not so well, according to recent results on the exam known as the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA.
American students scored 31st in math and 23rd in science when compared with 65 other top industrial countries, and the World Economic Forum currently ranks the U.S. as number 48 in quality of math and science education.
As a nation, we aren't making the progress we should, and we are failing to equip students with the skills they need to succeed once they leave school. Along with our top international ranking, we have also lost the love of learning in too many of our schools. And the consequences are grim.
The latest international tests confirm what we have known for some time: It is no longer prudent to pretend that we can wring better results from using the same old methods. The best education standards in the world -- including the new Common Core State Standards adopted by most of the United States -- recognize this need for change. These new standards focus on critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills -- the skills students now need for college and career in a networked world, and that can turn students into enthusiastic, life-long learners.
And social networking and digital media tools must play a significant role in building these skills.
In today's workforce, collaboration -- not just competition -- sparks innovation and drives success. In other words, most learning is now social. Students want to learn from each other as well as from their teachers. Today's students are motivated and engaged by collaborative learning environments in which personal connections makes learning real, meaningful and engaging. And collaborative learning in a digital environment enables students to learn from peers around the world as well as from classmates around the corner, giving problems a global context, reinforcing authentic language learning, and instilling the cultural understandings, perspectives and empathy that employers say is key to 21st-century workplace success.
Research shows that collaborative, project-based learning in which students grapple with real-world problems can help them to develop critical thinking and communication skills required in today's economy. Safe and secure social-learning networks can now connect students, teachers and experts from diverse cultures in collaborative learning communities that enable project-based inquiry into science, math, literature and other core topics within the global context necessary for deep understanding of the world's most important problems.
The bottom line is that students will be more motivated to learn about the Arab Spring by engaging directly with students in Egypt around a collaborative project than by teacher-led discussions in a classroom populated by friends who share the same limited perspective.
Climate change will be more real to students when they can connect with their peers in distant countries, such as Haiti, Iceland and Japan, who've recently been affected by natural disasters.
Nutrition becomes more interesting when students from around the world can compare different diets and foods.
Despite large-scale investments in technology, we are in danger of too narrowly focusing the use of classroom technology on more efficient testing and assessment. We should be harnessing the transformative potential of technology at a time when global competition is demanding new skills from the workforce and learning standards around the world are being revised to focus on those new skills.
Technology leaders need also to become leaders in the evolution of new forms of learning that take advantage of the power of technology to meet kids where they are motivated to spend time -- in connected communities of peers interested in what each other thinks and has to say.
If we do more of the same, we should expect continued alarm and disappointment with each new report comparing our students to their peers around the world.
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YourHome.ca, Best Laid Plans by Donna Jean MacKinnon, Dec. 31, 2010
Maria and her husband have been living in a 1,320-square-foot condominium for a number of years and now they want to update their suite. Interior decorator Sharyn Kastelic finds this a pleasant "older" plan, with plenty of space and nicely located private bedrooms. She also likes the huge laundry room, which is discretely tucked away. (Maria could make it more functional if she stacked the appliances and used the exterior wall for a storage unit.)
The biggest flaw here is the width of the living and dining room. Oddly, the master bedroom is wider than the principle living space, according to Kastelic, owner of Primed by Design Inc.
Maria writes she would like to remove the sliding doors between the living room and solarium.
Kastelic agrees it is time to eliminate the sliding door and open up the space, nothing that the separate solarium was a popular feature 20 years ago.
Once the slider is gone, the next step is to remove the kitchen tile and old-fashioned broadloom in the living, dining and bedrooms and also tear up whatever flooring is in the foyer. Kastelic recommends replacing it all with engineered hardwood, laid horizontally to widen the space, visually. Maria can keep her tiles in the bathrooms and laundry.
"When it comes to an update, new wooden floors are the best improvement you can make and also the best bang for your buck," Kastelic says.
Kastelic advises removing the left foyer wall and taking some space from the dining room to build a closet that mimics the one on the right. Because Maria uses the dining area as a home office, Kastelic suggests separating it from the living room by installing a pair of French doors with frosted glass. This change will create a proper corridor and eliminate the bowling alley effect in the long, narrow central space.
The office has room enough for a desk and a storage unit with filing drawers.
Kastelic warns, however, that when walls come down, ceilings need to be redone. In this case, Kastelic assumes the dated ceiling has sprayed stucco. This will require sanding and a new paint job, another measure that freshens up and lightens a suite.
"When you start improving, there's always a domino effect because the old things look shabby," Kastelic says. "The present layout in the kitchen looks fine. If the cabinets are in good shape, I'd paint them white and buy new knobs. And, if the budget allows, invest in modern stainless appliances, new faucets and a glass backsplash."Kastelic recommends contacting Royal Finishing Inc., a company that specializes in re-finishing and painting old cupboards. (416-740-8284, firstname.lastname@example.com).
Kastelic would use the space on the left wall beyond the stove for a pantry. This leaves Maria with the entire solarium for a dining room with a view. Kastelic advises running a rectangular table (3 foot by 7 foot) from the top right corner and parallel to the windows. This long table will accommodate six chairs, including two end chairs, with arms and upholstered backs that will be useful as extra seating in the living room. Maria also has space for a potted tree in both corners and a buffet along the right wall.
Kastelic assumes there is no wiring for a ceiling fixture in the solarium, so she urges Maria to make use of the round pillar. She suggests painting the pillar white and parking in front of it a retro arc lamp that arches up and over the dining table. Kastelic also recommends white Eclipse shutters for the windows
The left living room wall is long enough for a sofa and a pair of end tables. There's also space for two easy chairs and a glass coffee table anchored by a 6-by-9-foot area rug. On the opposite wall, Kastelic would go with a low media cabinet with higher (not too high) bookcases at each end, ensuring there's enough space above the low section for a wall-mounted, flat-screen television.
"The bookcases will balance off the sofa and end tables. And keeping everything low means the view will not be obstructed," Kastelic says.
Both the master and guest bedrooms have enough space for normal furnishings, according to Kastelic. If she wishes, Maria could modernize the huge ensuite by installing a smaller tub and making a larger shower stall enclosed in glass.
"I would stick to light walls, especially in the living room, and choose contemporary accessories, fabrics and carpets, also in lighter tones," Kastelic says. "And, if Maria is thinking of new furniture, I recommend looking for contemporary pieces with light metal or white frames."
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March 24, 2020
How to Build a Peace Fire
Gather the dry branches of your judgments,
the keen blades of righteous words and thoughts,
the sly poison darts of gossip and innuendo,
all the stuff that made you feel bigger and better.
Pile these together and mix in tightly-rolled pages
of angry letters and emails hatched in your reptile brain.
A pitchy drizzle of self-pity
will make this bonfire crackle
when you torch it with your resentment
of bad drivers and inept bureaucrats,
of every one and every thing
not quite up to your high standards.
Now that it's roaring, invite
others to throw on more fuel:
hooded sheets, swastika shirts,
combat video games, snuff films,
bloody robes from honor killings.
Keep collecting until the pile
bulges with border walls and fences,
acts of racial and ethnic hatred,
the rants of patriots and politicians
who stoke our fears of dangerous Others,
the ones we must exclude to protect
our just and superior ways of life.
When the flames are treetop high,
go away until the pyre collapses.
When you return, kneel and sift the warm ashes
through your fingers. Buried somewhere,
still glowing, are the igniting sparks that leapt
from your flinty mind. Now, stand to throw
pinches of ash to the four compass points
and say a prayer for peace
in your very own heart,
the heart you share
with all the world.
—– by Robert Nein
Despite our statewide lockdown, I am thankful I can still jog, solo of course, via the easements through neighboring properties, where the images within this poem greet me. Their quiet beauty and plucky survival ease my raveled cares, mend my hopes. I want to pass this on.
Laurie Klein
How to Live Like a Backyard Psalmist
Wear shoes with soles like meringue
and pale blue stitching so that
every day, for at least ten minutes,
you feel ten years old.
Befriend what crawls.
Drink rain, hatless, laughing.
Sit on your heels before anything plush
or vaguely kinetic:
hazel-green kneelers of moss
waving their little parcels
of spores, on hair-trigger stems.
Hushed as St. Kevin cradling the egg,
new-laid, in an upturned palm,
tiptoe past a red-winged blackbird's nest.
Ponder the strange,
the charged, the dangerous:
taffeta rustle of cottonwood skirts,
Orion's owl, cruising at dusk,
thunderhead rumble. Bone-deep,
scrimshaw each day's secret.
Now, lighting the sandalwood candle,
gather each strand you recall
and the blue pen, like a needle.
Suture what you can.
—Laurie Klein, Where the Sky Opens
With whom would you tolerate quarantine?
Like the old question,
What book would you bring to a desert island.
I can't see you smile
Behind your surgical mask.
Breathe carefully, don't inhale
The tiny beasts curling,
Reproducing and racing you
over the redline to death's door.
Do I love you enough
To be your shut in?
We already pass germs between us,
Antibiotics killing, parasites, worms,
Emperor Norton Anti-Virus.
Shed your protective gear
And make love with me.
I'll read you stories of the Fall, though Spring is hardly here.
Snow drops ventilate the lawn,
Pushing aside leaves.
I breathe fearfully,
Covering my knows; ignorance is ecstasy.
In the pre-apocalyptic darkness,
I no longer dream but instead perform
Autonomously, artificially knowing you,
Calling up your face from my files,
Backed up to a paywall,
Admitted by password
Or need to know,
Your soft user interface
A substitute for love.
Your original face,
The beta virgin of you,
Before the Net trapped us,
Before the last plague,
When we felt our friends fall,
When we were still gay,
And pronouns had not despaired.
—-Marc Brenman
March 23, 2020
I'd like to offer this poem for Poems to Lean On.
Ronda Piszk Broatch
How good to be lost with you, soaked in sunset,
two gulls threading the grey air, wood smoke and tugboat,
swaths of water burdened to a sheen. Maybe time
is merely a construct of our making, but I believe
in hunger, in being fed. In taking a lifetime
watching crimson spill over foothills, dousing
Puget Sound. I wonder what it's like to ripen without
fear, to be a near perfect body. I've heard it said
hot metal dropped in water forms a true sphere, held
in tension's embrace. How nice to know when death lugs
at my life force, spreads my energy out into
so many billions of stars – such sweet amnesia! –
I will still be here with you, two gulls gathering the dark,
stitching closer, two tugboats pressing home.
Such dark times — thank you for your work to provide light.
Michael Dylan Welch
An Abundance of Caution
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
Your long-awaited book launch.
Hugging your mom on her 96th birthday.
Your daughter's first drama performance.
The poetry conference at which you were a featured speaker.
Your cruise to wherever.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
All rock and pop concerts.
March Madness basketball games.
Your birthday celebration with friends and family.
Your grandchild's bar mitzvah.
The non-emergency surgery you had scheduled for months.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
Your trip to Paris.
Visiting your dying grandma.
Attending your friend's funeral.
Your ability to focus.
Baseball season.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
Ski season.
High school graduation.
Ballet performances.
Your productivity.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
Your job.
The symphony, including the cellist you'd been hoping to hear for a year.
Your best friend's wedding.
Church services.
Your pottery class.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
Your monthly bowling night.
All tattoo parlor appointments.
Social interaction with any human you're not related to.
Visiting your sister in palliative care.
Your 20th anniversary surf trip to Baja.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
Me time.
Your trip to Fiji, to Japan, to Ireland.
Moving to a new state.
St. Patrick's Day.
Mother's Day.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
Your colonoscopy.
Crossing the Canadian border to check on your mom.
Visiting family on the birth of your first grandson.
Having your wisdom teeth removed.
Your monthly open-mic poetry reading.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
Your painting lesson.
Haiku group meetings.
Your barbershop appointment.
Your spring break road trip.
Your family business.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
Dinner at your favourite restaurant.
All restaurants bookings.
Your dental cleaning.
Next week's public lecture.
College classes.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
Zoo visits.
Elevator rides up the Space Needle and the Eiffel Tower.
Your side gigs.
The workshop you were going give, the one you were going to take.
All library visits.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
Jazz night.
Your usual bus route.
Tourist attraction visits.
Dance club soirees.
Your art show opening.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
Day care.
Going out of the house except for groceries and pharmacy runs.
Barbecues and tailgate parties.
Coffee with the girls.
Your therapy appointment.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
Hand sanitizer.
Your gym club visits.
Racquetball night.
Orchestra rehearsals.
Toilet paper.
Out of an abundance of caution, we have cancelled:
Not one thing, with help from each other, that we cannot recover from.
Michael Dylan Welch
March 20, 2020
Good Bones
Time is a river,
the Heart, a lion,
tenderly grooming red paws
when glutted.
A stumbler, blind as a bat.
Lost to Faith, for sure.
Faith sees the light,
cured of Knowledge.
When Memory cheats,
we're sworn to love lies.
But, unlike Memory, Truth says:
"It is what it is, man."
"Death comes for all
to sweep the dust we make
while, rain or no rain,
the Sun gets up to peek from the hill,
his gaze youthful, sweet, winning,
and such delicious optimism!"
Jeff Hanson
March 18, 2020
Julie Sevilla Drake
What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath—
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now,
on trying to make the world
different than it is.
Sing. Pray. Touch only those
to whom you commit your life.
Center down.
And when your body has become still,
reach out with your heart.
Know that we are connected
in ways that are terrifying and beautiful.
(You could hardly deny it now.)
Know that our lives
are in one another's hands.
(Surely, that has come clear.)
Do not reach out your hands.
Reach out your heart.
Reach out your words.
Reach out all the tendrils
of compassion that move, invisibly,
where we cannot touch.
Promise this world your love–
for better or for worse,
in sickness and in health,
so long as we all shall live.
–Lynn Ungar 3/11/20
pressure builds
energy multiples
friction heats
surfaces bubble
into atmospheric frenzy
even a political rubber-band
laying in a drawer
holds power
energy of potential
possibilities to amalgamate
bind superfluous entities
into a conglomerate
until the resistance builds
beyond capabilities
dry rots into
The shadow of my early days
still likes to slide against my frame,
but in the context of new danger
I know there is no threat the past can make.
My clamor-chaos history rolled away
there's lightness in me now.
At dawn the soaking of faint sun into the grey
reminds of happenings yet to come.
Chill evening air prompts newer whims,
repair of what I might have brooded on
before transition to the calmer cushion of the night.
I'm no longer hearing worry in the silent book,
tasting doubt in cups of tea.
I hold the slipper-soft of eyelids,
the kindly dark of dreams.
Linda Conroy
March 16, 2020
Poetry is one of the best spaces I know to listen and speak to both fear and hope simultaneously. I wrote this poem a few years ago when a number of my beloveds were in deep agony. I thought of it when I read about Poems to Lean On. I hope it will remind beloved readers that they still have agency in every minute, even in a global pandemic.
Sandra Yannone – Olympia, WA
The Next Open Space
We think it's about
our footing, planting
the fleshy parts
solid to ground, taking
tt one step at a time,
whatever it is.
I try to remember this
as I comfort my sisters
and brothers
as they migrate
to spaces that feel
closed before reached.
I have been there, outside
in that dark that redefines
dark, without words,
lifting my feet
or voice, impossible.
And, yes, it is
our daily dance
that offers
to turn us toward
the next open space,
teaching us there is
so much more
than what we perceive
breathing under our feet,
the ground rising,
rising all around us
like immaculate glass cities.
Look up, look up, always
look up. Find the bird
inside you
and remember this
about the next
open space:
There is always
more than one.
There is always
more than one.
Sandra Yannone
I chose "Urban Law" by Alison Hawthorne Deming. It is one of my favorite poems. Its imagery is so evocative, and has the effect of elevating a small, modest gesture to life-changing and world-saving proportions. When we feel out of control, it is sometimes the simple acts between people, sometimes even strangers, that can sustain and empower us.
Rabbi Seth Goldstein – Olympia, WA
Urban Law by Allison Hawthorne D
I wrote this children's poem to celebrate spring. Daffodils have a lovely way of lifting spirits. I hope this poem does, as well.
Kris Beaver – Kirkland, WA
Don't you love
the look on daffodils
facing this way and that
smiling out to each living thing
and how even blind earthworms
wiggle awake to come say hello
hoping to catch a glimpse of spring?
Kris Beaver
all this meditation
is finally paying off?
it was just about
riding the shadow of a doubt
through the river Styx;
beyond my Abyss
& being thankful for it.
on my own
rather than seeing
the wealth I was given
what I lacked in love
I made up for
in adversity.
March 14, 2020
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
I go to this poem by Tomas Tranströmer for solace so often. Right now it seems like a particularly potent vision of recovery and reconnection.
Mandy Ellen
Despondency breaks off its course.
Anguish breaks off its course.
The vulture breaks off its flight.
The eager light streams out,
even the ghosts take a draught.
And our paintings see daylight,
our red beasts of the ice-age studios.
Everything begins to look around.
We walk in the sun in hundreds.
Each man is a half-open door
leading to a room for everyone.
The endless ground under us.
The water is shining among the trees.
The lake is a window into the earth.
Our Lives Suspended Until Further Notice
When I think about dying
I think about previous deaths
some tragic some natural
however there isn't anything
close to dying while breathing.
The air we breathe sustains us
me need clean air to live
to create, to love, to live, to be.
None of us choose to be exposed
yet, here we are living in the epicenter
the zoo, dying while breathing—
breathing while dying.
Virulent baseless ideas, paranoia,
lack of understanding
unknown germs, silent, invisible
intangible, undetected.
World war without bullets
bombs, gases, but plain air
only we can save ourselves
from ourselves.
Raúl Sánchez
In this poem I am describing my mother/the ultimate mother/ and maybe Mother Nature. She nurtured me and then let go but never really let go because she is part of me.
Harvey Schwartz – Bellingham, WA
… and of course, everywhere
Mom's everywhere, everything, every place. She's been gone many years. But she's never gone far. I fathom the fathoms of the depths of the deep, and her not being here. She's never gone far.
She once was a garden and I was the seed. Couldn't go very far since I sprouted in her.
When I swim down too far, to the whales, past the carp, she's swimming right there. Never gone very far, though she's gone many years, she's really right here.
She once was a garden and I was a seed. She watered her crop, I felt drowned so I fled. On the tortuous paths that led me alone. I was lost in dark alleys of rocks, slippery stones. But to my surprise, they led me back home.
She was there round the bends and the curves over hills. When I traveled away, she was kind, let me go. She patiently waited as I searched in alone.
She once was a garden and I was a seed. Couldn't go very far since I sprouted in her.
And the times that I strayed, wandered far from her world, weren't really that far, even light years from home. Cause she glows in the stars, cause she shines in the moon, cause she's really the sun on an inner queen's throne.
She once was a garden and I was the seed. Couldn't go very far since I sprouted in her.
When I'm lost in a fog, can't see where to go. A voice I can hear says I need to come home. She hasn't gone far, though I think that I've grown.
My guide's still a glow, Northern Lights in the sky. For I grew up in her, from a seed to a sprout. Couldn't go very far. That's the place that I know. Deep inside where I grew. Deep inside who I am. Deep inside all of me. Deep inside's never far.
Harvey Schwartz
This poem reframes, for me, our enforced 'sheltering in place' due to the coronavirus threat. Linda Pastan's work has helped me navigate four decades or so of my life's path. Here, unnatural removal from the social aspects of our lives becomes a doorway to magical realms.
Sheila Sondik (poet and printmaker) Bellingham, WA
Social distancing makes it harder to commune and celebrate, but non-infectious nature is always out there for inspiration and solace.
Bill Yake – Olympia, WA
biennial rosettes, a low-
life beach-blond scruff of
couch grass: notwithstanding
the interglinting dregsof wholesale upheaval and
dismemberment, weeds do not
hesitate, the wheeling
rise of the ailanthus halts
at nothing—and look! here'sa pokeweed, sprung up from seed
dropped by some vagrant, that's
seized a foothold: a magenta-
girdered bower, gazebo twirls
of blossom rounding intoraw-buttoned, garnet-rodded
fruit one more wayfarer
perhaps may salvage from
the season's frittering,
the annual wreckage.
I am a freshman in college. I reside in the evergreen state but a long way from home. I am from Pretoria, South Africa and have been living in my second home Seattle for seven fruitful years. "Poems to Lean On." thank you for making a space for all of us and shedding light on the most fundamental human rights. Unity. There is unity in the word community. I recently picked up my pen and paper, all thanks to Mrs. Naomi Shihab Nye. I hope I can be of service to our community as this unrest subsides.
Najma Abdul-Aziz
My voice let out an agonized cry
My eyes wept all those tears my heart could not withhold
My mind absent
My soul saddened
My spirit in anguish
My shadow immersed in the meadow, seeing its reflection on the ravine
Questioning the moon
Why do you make me visible?
Ask the sun says the moon
The skies and ocean share an exchange
The sun dried the sorrows out of me
The moon the next night books me among the stars
And writes to me
" shine amongst the stars because you're no less than"
Najma Abdul-Aziz
March 13, 2020
gone is thinking we can be safe
by going it alone in this sticky web
the gooey strands of viral connections
we are one body after all
stone cold volcanoes to boiling blood cells
the raging fever consumes us all
no vaccine for our togetherness
no magic cure for communal life
we are one body after all
I live with you as you live with me
The awakening comes slowly
As we keep each other safe
Let us reach deep, reach out
Join hands in our hearts
Sing aloud in joyous dance
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
It was April, National Poetry Month, and one website had a recording of Jimmy Santiago Baca reading his poem "I Am Offering This Poem." That man has a voice meant for reading poetry. In response, I wrote "Today at the Library." First published by VoiceCatcher, 2014 Winter edition, nominated for Best of the Net.
Pat Phillips West
I Am Offering This Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca
Dear Claudia — I am sending you and everyone all love in this hard time…
Katrina Roberts – Walla Walla
Small Kindnesses
I've been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say "bless you"
when someone sneezes, a leftover
from the Bubonic plague. "Don't die," we are saying.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons
from your grocery bag, someone else will help you
pick them up. Mostly, we don't want to harm each other.
We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot,
and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder,
and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.
We have so little of each other, now. So far
from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these
fleeting temples we make together when we say, "Here, have my seat," "Go ahead — you first," "I like your hat."
By Danusha Laméris
With its vision of people gathering, their spontaneous sharing of joy, this poem gave me solace and hope during a rocky time. Now, in this moment of social distancing, the poem also brings nostalgia—people coming together—and a reminder that we are still, essentially, together here.
Joannie Stangeland
I was home sick last week
Four spring days in bed.
My wife asked, "What do you need?"
"A gun," I said.
One night, unable to sleep
I saw images on TV news
A powerful earthquake
Destroyed much of Katmandu
A boy in a dirty shirt sat
In the Himalayan rain
Staring at a pile of bricks
Covering his family and simple domain.
His soaking pain is not punishment –
Nor my warm safety reward –
We share a breathing planet,
Brothers in our human state.
Whichever attentive god can hear –
Hindu, Muslim, or Jew –
Help us lean on our connection
And our courage renew.
Bill Kelley
Be well. Virus-free
Terry Lawhead
Bixby's Landing by Robinson Jeffers
Does it really matter that when the poet wrote this,
his wife was still alive and as a matter of fact, would
outlive him by some thirty odd years. Was the poet
cheating us by not writing from actual experience?
I think not because the most miraculous poems bloom
out of our imagination and in that imagination lies
another kind of truth.
Be kind to others, stay safe and keep that pen in hand.
alan chong lau on phinney
Piercing chill —
Stepping on my dead wife's comb
in the bedroom
by Japanese poet Buson as translated by Haruo Shirane
I find this to be an especially good time to pause and consider that our deepest pleasures reside in the simplest things. Life is a reductive process, but the inevitable reductions in health are more than supplanted by the wonderful, distilling aspects of appreciation and gratitude.
Gail Ramsey Wharton
I Have Had To Learn The Simplest Things Last
How life is a funnel through which
the largest issues become small.
Days turn into minutes of wonderment.
All the complicated, squandered years
add up to these little moments
of success through the day.
A tiny spill of tea on my collar is okay.
How many times this would have been
a soreness. The mis-dialed phone call,
formerly a nuisance, is a strangely sweet encounter.
On a treasured ceramic figure
of pre-Columbian dancing dogs,
the cracks from a child's accident
become a part of its perfection.
All that was commonplace before
is the vital punctuation of each day.
Focus is now heightened
to the miracle of breath.
The taste of water.
Gail Ramsey Wharton
March 12, 2020
Of Being
By Denise Levertov
I know this happiness
is provisional:
the looming presences —
great suffering, great fear —
withdraw only
into peripheral vision:
but ineluctable this shimmering
of wind in the blue leaves:
this flood of stillness
widening the lake of sky:
this need to dance,
this need to kneel:
I like (this poem) because it makes me feel grateful for the variety of the natural world (even if I'm stuck inside), and because it has such tenderness and wonder for "all things counter, original, spare, strange."
Tom Beasley – Seattle
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
This poem often comes to mind when newspaper headlines get me down. I'm sure I'm not the only person who will share it.
Bethany Reid
Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski
I enclose wonderful words by Emily Dickinson, written in 1860. I used her poem as inspiration for this recent prayer flag printed on silk. The photograph was taken just after the height of a tremendous, seemingly endless thunderstorm with black skies, screeching winds, lightning all about–very scary. Suddenly it ended, with hundreds of White-Faced Ibis flying gallantly into the golden, inclusive sky. It all made me weep, and happy to have survived and witnessed the calming skies, but mostly the majesty and determination of these very ancient and sacred birds.
Charlotte Watts
"This world is just a little place, just the red in the sky,
before the sun rises so let us keep fast old of hands,
that when the birds begin, none of us be missing"
—Emily Dickinson, from a letter, 1860
These days
I am an undertaker.
I close the casket on travel,
dig holes in the back yard,
toss in plays, poetry readings,
concerts, frivolous trips to the grocery,
the Farmer's Market.
I mourn my favorite restaurants,
distrust the handle that dispenses
gasoline into my car. But though
the price of gas has dropped,
I'm not driving much.
I miss my beloved coffee shops,
the friends I'd meet there,
the conversations dipped into
as I wrote in my journal.
I miss relaxing in public.
I carry a dread with me these days
like a scythe. It shows in my eyes
whenever someone sneezes or coughs
and I hold my breath as I leave.
No one says Bless You anymore.
We just duck and scurry
like the rats we are, at the mercy
of the fleas we carry.
I'm even reluctant to hug my own children.
The fear has changed my posture,
hands stuffed into pockets,
shoulders hunched, arms tight
as if I can fend off this unseen threat
if I hunker deep enough into my coat,
deep enough into myself.
I am an undertaker all right,
scattered pieces of me
strewn everywhere.
All that's left to do
is carve a headstone.
March 11, 2020
Here is a poem that inspires me every time I read it. It was written by Michelle Carranza then an eight grade student at Denny Middle School in Seattle. Michelle's fortitude floats upward through the lines. Despite her young age, she knows of what she speaks. The original poem was written in Spanish. Included here as well.
The Tree Inside Me
In the river of memory
the roots of my tree
search for security
yesterday places
familiar faces
friends of the past
my trunk, strong and tall
resists like a lighthouse
thunderstorms of thought
it refuses to fall
even after
wave after wave shove it
between the emptiness of words
and the silence of my body
even then, my branches reach
a far away adventure
among planets and stars
El árbol dentro de mi
En el río de los recuerdos
las raíces de mi árbol
buscan la seguridad
de un lugar de siempre
caras familiares
amigos del pasado
el tronco fuerte y alto
resiste como un faro
la tormenta de pensamientos
no se deja caer
aunque las olas
lo empujen y empujen
entre el vacío de las palabras
y el silencio de mi cuerpo
aún así, mis ramas tratan
de alcanzar una aventura
lejana entre planetas y estrellas


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4 memorable family outings in Izu
31 Oct 2018 in With Kids
Just an hour from Tokyo, the Izu peninsula is a paradise for kids!
Staying at Hoshino Resorts KAI Anjin?
Here's our pick of the best ways to entertain all the family!
All kinds of amusement
Can you find your way out of a floating maze? Dare you zipline 20 ft above ground? Or how about walking on water inside a giant transparent ball?
There's family fun aplenty at Izu GranPal Amusement Park. At night, illuminations switch on around the park, offering a dream-like end to the day.
Dolphin encounters
At Dolphin Fantasy Ito, you'll learn how to interact with dolphins, shaking their hands, listening to them sing and maybe even getting a kiss on the cheek!
For the full experience, head out to sea in a wetsuit – and see close-up how they communicate in their natural environment.
Above and below the sea
On the Youmin Fook pleasure boat, you'll take an ocean trip with a difference. The boat has 3 levels, with glass windows on the bottom floor allowing you to see eye-to-eye with marine life. Alternatively, head up to the top deck to take in sights such as Orange Beach, Mt. Omuro, and local geysers.
Or how about feeding seagulls from the first floor?
Cacti and animals
With around 1,500 types of cactus and 140 species of animal, Izu Shaboten Zoo is a great place to explore with kids.
Sign up for the cactus hunting workshop to pick your own prickly souvenir. Or take a walk in the large enclosure where squirrel monkeys and great white pelicans roam free.
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NBA releases Hornets 2015-16 schedule
Charlotte, NC - The NBA released the Hornets 2015-16 schedule Wednesday.
The Hornets will open the season October 28th at Miami. The first home game will be November 1st against Atlanta.
The Hornets will close out the regular season April 13th at home against Orlando.
Check out the entire schedule here.


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Mouth Soaping – Coming Clean By using Cassie
I didn't always similar to oral sexual intercourse. Don't get myself wrong instructions I
like to eat pussy, and the ladies tell me that I will be
fabulous at the idea. What I mean is I isn't much
turned on by using a blow job. It thought good, certainly, but it
wasn't something that would drift my watercraft, so to speak.
Up to the point I satisfied Cassie.
Just how Cassie would it just makes me wild. One thing
that helps would be the fact Cassie features braces to seducre her teeth. I actually
have got always believed braces had been sexy. The additional thing
is that this lady doesn't simply jump right in along with expect us to
cum in ten mere seconds. She fluctuate in severity her tactic quite a
bit, generally looking for new ways to get a rise outside of
Typically your girl will lightly perform her hands all around the
testicles and my favorite erection. She'll tease and prod as well as
change with her hands and fingers. Only when I am just
rock solid will this girl take me in their mouth. Everyone loves the
slurpy industrial noise she can make. She will incredibly messily progress up
galore amounts of sweat as the lady uses your ex whole mouth area
to be able to stimulate me personally. Some of the dribble oozes coming from her
mouth about her pure and trickles down the girl chin. She
regularly pulls over and far from me for a moment so that you can
"come up for oxygen, with a gooey string with liquid
intact from the inside of your ex mouth so that you can my headlong hard-
on. Following a few sales reps of this I often aren't hold
back and could spurt copiously in the girl mouth while she
lets everything run out.
Going one time pretty vividly. Cassie had teased
us for quite some time, as well as dribble was basically oozing away
involving her mouth area. Then the girl slowly delved forward the many
way until the idea of the erection ended up being well directly into her
throat. She smiled, when camping all the way around her. In which
was basically all it took a little time for. I ejaculated profusely. She had to
fight the main gag response while I appeared to be pulsing as well as spurting
into the woman.
Recently Cassie has become fairly foul-mouthed. I just
regularly don't proper care, but sometimes it really gets on
pornhop gay my anxious feelings. The other day Cassie kept on together with the pro-
fanity after I asked the girl not to. I think she was basically
pressuring me to discover what her limits were being, and the lady kept
on as i warned the woman that I might wash him / her mouth over with
soap in case she placed it up. Conceivably Cassie believed it was
simply a figure for speech. Anyway, I told her "That's
it! You will be getting a a whole lot overdue oral soaping!
I just took Cassie by the give and directed her to kitchen.
Then I became a mid-sized plastic jar out and also re-
trieved your bar connected with Ivory water and soap. As I put some water straight into
typically the bowl I actually told Cassie to get one of many kitchen chair
as well as bring it up to the sink.
Just the doorbell degre. It was Stacy, a friend
of Cassie's from give good results. "Hi Trent, she says brightly,
"I had been on my way to your mall in addition to thought I'd personally drop by
and see if Cassie desired to go. Is certainly she right here?
"Come with, Stacy, My partner and i said, starting the television screen door meant for
him / her. "Cassie's at this point, yes, however she will not available
for a short time. You see, this woman is about to be
Stacy have a very attracted look for a laugh face.
"Yes, I'm going to rinse off her oral cavity out along with soap. Consider
upon into the kitchen and bide time until her. She is going to be
ready inside a while. Wold you like some sort of soda?
"No thanks, I'm just okay.
Stacy was embedded where your lover could not discover Cassie, yet
may hear what went on. "I want you
start your knickers before people start, As i told Cassie,
as well as watched though she dragged her lingerie down as well as
got out of these products. Since the lady was donning a rather
short cloth, that mission was easily accomplished. I actually
wadded up her panties as well as them within a of this
"I have to give you a simple bottom spanking in addition
to your teeth soaping, My spouse and i told her in a voice this was
measured so that Stacy could pick up. Cassie was seated
on the couch right through the sink, ready legs clicked
snugly together and her palms in between her knees.
I just placed the bar of detergent into the bowl of water in addition to
upset a good lather. "Open orally now, Cassie,
As i said when i brought a bit of foamy and sudsy lather
for her.
"Aaaaahhnngaaaaahh, she exclaimed as I the actual lather
into your girlfriend mouth. My spouse and i worked the exact soap approximately her tongue,
on the top of the girl mouth, and also around every side of her
teeth and even braces.
I worked up a different batch for lather to be with her. Cassie
shook her head web site was about to soap her
for a second time. "Open! As i said. The girl just taken into consideration me. "Come
as well as open, as well as I'll provide a bare bottom paddling
in front of Stacy!
She unwillingly opened him / her mouth and I added the fresh
a cleaning agent lather as well as worked it into all of the recesses for her
mouth. As i admit I used to be getting fairly aroused simply by handling
her teeth this way.
"Gmmmmmmfffff! was your girlfriend reaction while my hands and fingers worked
their manner all around the in her mouth for a few
"Now you just keep there right up until I advise you to rinse, I actually
obtained. The smell of Ivory was permeating the air,
and some foamy bubbles were messily drible down her
face. I disperse her knees apart and even inserted my index
finger into her muschi – your lover was rather wet, along with squirmed
as I used her along there.
Cassie must have seen how aroused I was. The lady
gotten to over and loosened|loose|loosened my tight pants or skirts and tugged them
and the briefs lower until the rod had been pointing directly
away. Then Cassie took us into the soapy teeth and,
with light foamy dribble and slurpy sounds getting away
right from her mouth area, gave me regardless whether you purchase blowjob. I actually started
to spurt inside the girl mouth. Together with gleaming vision she
actively drew on my pulsing ejaculation while I had
to inhibit my vocal reaction in order that Stacy did not
When I saved I had her scooch front so that your girlfriend
pussy was readily available under the girl skirt. Browsing
knelt down facing her and even sucked and even licked at
the girl pussy until she climaxed. Cassie would still be
preserving the soapy solution, these days mixed with my favorite cum,
in the woman mouth. "Mmmmmmmhmmmmfffff! Gmmmmmhmmmmm!
Mmmmmmm! the lady exclaimed simply because her sexual peak took hold.
I opened up my denim jeans and let Cassie rinse. Your woman rinsed
for several minutes, and after that she talked about she may well
also taste the particular soap. As i told her the flavour would
probably get away in a few time and guided her out to the
living room wheresoever Stacy had been. I can't say for sure how much
Stacy learned of precisely what went on in addition to the mouth
soaping, however she smiled sheepishly.
By using Cassie together with Stacy on the mall, Before finding ejaculation by command some things
around the house. Required to go to the save, and
when I hit in my pocket or purse for my very own car secrets, I considered
with an instant just what exactly this some other thing was in my bank.
We chuckled like pulled out Cassie's panties.


text: Adriano Guarnieri completed his musical studies with Giacomo Manzoni at the Bologna Conservatory. To date, he has written around one hundred compositions including orchestral and chamber works, as well as live electronics. His Saint Matthew Passion had its world premiere at La Scala in Milan, and his cantata Pensieri Canuti was performed at the Salzburg Festival. Guarnieri composed nine lyric operas, of which Trionfo della notte and the opera-video Medea both won the Abbiati award in 1987 and 2002 respectively. His Infinita Tenebra di Luce made its world premiere as part of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2018 season. Guarnieri has taught composition at the conservatories of Florence and Milan.


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Hey guys, I have a question, my wife is looking now at an Acura MDX, but she liked the power lift-gate in the new Chrysler Pacifica. Any of you know of an aftermarket add-on for most any SUV? Or a way of self-engineering one?
Thanks for your help and ideas in advance.


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