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Why aren't you using PLR Database?
Having been a member of PLR Database for the past 10 months. I'm convinced all bloggers, internet marketers, and product creators should use it.
So if you aren't yet why?
Here's my unbiased PLR Database review for those of you not yet or considering joining.
I understand that the opening is strong. But in all honesty, they've stuck to their promise and saw it only fit to share.
Here's my yearly membership, up for renewal 2 months from now.
Table of Contents
What Is PLR Database?
PLR Database is one of the fastest growing PLR membership sites online. Housing the largest database of legally licensed resellable digital products.
A Little About PLR Database.
Did You Know: PLR Database were once called Webbzo?
When they started out, they were a directory for popular online websites. Going by the name Webbzo.
But soon acquired four other PLR and MRR sites that had a combined total of over 9,000 products. And this was within the years 2011 and 2012.
After a while though, – in early 2017 – they then decided to re-brand to their current more platform related name PLRDatabase.net.
Even so, their reputation for having quality products at favorable prices has only kept soaring.
So Who Is It For?
Short answer: Everyone.
It doesn't matter if you're a digital seller, internet marketer, a digital store owner, blogger, or a product creator, their membership will be an invaluable resource for you.
Even if you aren't among the aforementioned people, you'll still find something for you. Be it for self-knowledge, use, or otherwise.
What Will You Get Access To On The Inside?
Here's what you'll get access to once you join their membership.
- Ebooks
- Software
- Articles
- Audio Tutorials
- Audio Books
- Graphics
- Web Scripts
- Videos
- Tutorials
- Websites
- WordPress Themes
- WordPress Plugins
- HTML Templates
- … etc.
How Does This PLR Business Work?
Basically, you get yourself a membership, in this case, one of the three premia plr database memberships. The monthly, quarterly, or yearly.
Note: They have a Free Lifetime membership access you can get into then later on upgrade. But honestly, from experience, premia memberships is where the love is.
Once you've got your membership. You search and browse for PLR products using your keyword topic.
Choose the products you'd like to see more of. Go through the product, read its license terms, then decide on what to do with the product.
Either sell, giveaway for list building, bundle it up with others, break it apart for use as a basis for your next blog post or product. Use as a bonus for the affiliate / own product you're selling,… etc.
The choices are unlimited. You can even see here how I turn plr into cash.
Now, to learn more about plr products and the various other resell licenses you can get. Read this article on what are plr products?
What Major Benefits Will You Get As A Member?
There are so many benefits with their membership but I'm there just for the products.
Regardless, here are some major benefits you stand to get.
- You'll get access to the largest database of resellable digital products. This to mean, they've rolled up all the best digital products from over 20+ online membership sites into one platform.
- Another thing I like about them is their exclusive in-house monthly products. So not only are you getting the best from the other 20+ memberships, but also custom ones.
- These products get added every day of the week. So this means there's no waiting around, every day is another day to profit.
- Now, if you've ever hit download on a product to only get no download, worry not. I've not had a single download miss because of broken links. Like they put it, 'It's a never neglected platform.'
- You also get access to their Academy. This is where they teach plr beginners on how to resell digital goods online successfully among other tips and tricks.
- Another thing to point out is their community. You get access to their forum, get a following and also get a PM system should you wish to chat with other members.
- Personally, I haven't needed to contact their customer support. But judging from their active platform, blog, and forum. I'm confident they will help you, should the need to Ever arise. (Update: Contacted support and they helped me fast. So, I fully vouch for them on this.)
But like with everything really, they have their own downsides.
So, let's see some of their Pros and Cons.
What Are The Pros And Cons of PLR Database?
Here are the pros and cons of being a PLR Database member.
- Private messaging
- Personal inbox
- The PLR Database's marketplace
- Public profile and activity feed
- Your own my inventory
- Free learning academy
- Blog section for various tips
- Unlimited downloads
- Over 20,000 Products with Licenses
- Premium and exclusive products
- New products added daily
- Community, friends, follow, profiles
- Create lists, favorites, my inventor
- Great and superb support
- Over 20+ Online memberships, all rolled into one.
- Can submit your own product
- Active Forum.
- … and more.
- No hosting included.
- The academy classes don't get frequent updates (Last update. Feb 13 2018.) Unlike their blog and forum.
- Lacks a onetime payment plan option.
- Their in-house plr products can be restrictive.
Is PLR Database A Scam?
No! These guyz are as straight-arrow as they come. And seeing their progress and how hard they've gone to make their image scarless, it's safe to say they will stay legit for a long time as well.
Plus, as their member this whole time, I haven't had an issue with them. They've consistently delivered well to their promise.
So, how much do you think you'll need to part with to get your membership?
Their Pricing.
First off, keep in mind you'll get access to over 23,000+ DFY products ready for reselling. According to them, these products' marketplace value is of over $292,753+.
And with new ones getting added daily, monthly and also including their in-house products. You'll have more than you could sell in a lifetime.
But with this in mind, check their membership pricing below.
PREMIUM One Month Plan = Cost $10
PREMIUM+ 3 Month Plan = Cost $25
PREMIUM++ One-Year Plan = Cost $49
I know you might think their products aren't to par with quality but you'd be wrong. In, those 10 months I've only come across like less than 10 products that didn't please me. But then again what's perfect?
And did I mention they have a Free Lifetime Access? Get your membership account here.
In Conclusion Of My PLR Database Review.
If you're looking for a database of fully licensed resell digital products. That you can resell for 100% profit or use for own consumption. Then you will be hard-pressed to find anything better than PLR Database and more so at that price point.
Get Your Premium Membership Access Here
In case you have a question about PLR Database leave it in the comments below.
That's it from me today, and I hope this plr database review was informative for you.
See you in the next post.
Stay Blessed!


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The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that a total of 7,666 residential unit sales were recorded by the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in October, an increase of 19.3 per cent from the same month last year. The average MLS® residential price in the province was $724,045, an increase of 5.1 per cent from October 2018. Total sales dollar volume was $5.55 billion, a 25.4 per cent increase from the same month last year.
"Most markets around the province are returning to a more typical level of sales activity," said BCREA Chief Economist Brendon Ogmundson. "That recovery in sales and slower listings activity is putting upward pressure on prices in many markets."
MLS® residential active listings in the province were up 1 per cent from September 2018 to 36,567 units, although down slightly when compared on a seasonally adjusted basis. With sales and listings down, overall market conditions in the province have tightened, with a sales-to-active listings ratio of 21 per cent.
Year-to-date, BC residential sales dollar volume was down 9 per cent to $45.3 billion, compared with the same period in 2018. Residential unit sales were 6.2 per cent lower at 65,468 units, while the average MLS® residential price was down 3 per cent year-to-date at $691,618.
My business grows by building strong client-focused relationships. I would welcome the opportunity to answer any questions about the real estate market that you may have.
If you would like to find out how much your home is worth in today's market, to discuss listing your home or buying a new home, please contact me on (604) 781-5692 or via email - firstname.lastname@example.com

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Click the "Movie" icon and select a video player to add it to the page.
And then click the "Select Movie" button on the right side to select a video clip (*.flv, *.f4v, *.mp4). After you add a movie, you can then click "Play Movie" to preview the video immediately.
Next, you can customize settings for the movie and video player:
There are 5 types of video players for you to choose. You can double click on any of the 5 to select.


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May 30, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Google on Tuesday unveiled the latest device aimed at merging the Internet with television. Its Chromebox, manufactured by Samsung and using Google's proprietary operating system, is expected to compete against Apple's Mac Mini, which many consumers connect to their TV sets and use principally to record and play CDs and movies. (It can also be used for email, surfing the web, and other tasks usually associated with desktop or laptop computing.) The principal difference is one of price. Some retailers are offering the Chromebox for less than $330.00. Meanwhile, at a technology conference in California on Tuesday Apple chief Tim Cook said that the Apple TV box that the company sells for $99 remains "an area of intense interest for us." He added, "We are going to keep pulling this string and see where it takes us."


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Mt. Lassen Volcanic National Park Trip
Our visit to Mt. Lassen Volcanic National Park included a stay at the absolutely beautiful Juniper Lake, a visit to the top of Mt. Harkness and the historic fire lookout station located there, swimming in the very cold and clear-watered Juniper Lake, hiking to the top of Cinder Cone, and a visit to the boiling mud pots and steaming volcanic vents Bumpass Hell. It was a wonderfully beautiful trip, that included roughly 12 miles of hiking on dirt, rock and cinder, and (unfortunately) 650 miles of driving! I will add pictures as they become available. Even more pictures will be loaded onto the school ShutterFly picture site as they become available too..


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It's hard to improve on the Team Scooter every year but we did…the VX7 Team Scooter now comes stock with our solid 3D Forged Alloy M3 Fork which can run up to 120mm wheels & a longer 20" deck!
We kept the light-weight and durable anodized finish on all the decks and the chrome plated bar but this year you have way more options…17 to be exact!
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Release Date: January 29, 2016
Label: Atlantic
Go ahead, blame Wiz Khalifa. Casting about for some kind of hook delivery system to anchor Furious 7's lugubrious elegy "See You Again," the guy who once apologized for sucking alighted upon Charlie Puth, a sad-eyed lad of the Pinelands equipped with a falsetto soon to set grown men blubbering in multiplexes nationwide. Aided by a video eventually topping one billion-plus views, the tune perched stubbornly atop Billboard's Hot 100 for twelve weeks, and thus the Teflon-voiced Puth became a star. "See You Again" wasn't much more than a slow, sentimental ooze, but this fella clearly had pipes, and showbiz hustle dictates you introduce yourself to audiences By Any Means Necessary. Still, the newcomer's followup didn't suggest an artistic visionary ready to testify. Another duet, this time set alongside the feckless Meghan Trainor, "Marvin Gaye" proved a low-heat ode to high-heat passion, about as edgy as a Broadway revival cast recording and featuring one of the more dubious name-verbing exercises in contemporary pop since Beyoncé let Hillary's husband off the hook on the gown-all-Lewinsky'd line off "Partition."
But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Because look, Charlie Puth has arrived, with his very own album ready for purchase, and he's been working on this thing like you wouldn't believe, writing some stuff, producing some stuff, even calling up Shy Carter to see if he had a little free time to swing by for a guest verse. (Shy Carter, unsurprisingly, did have a little free time to swing by for a guest verse.) And as a full-length presentation of the man's creative convictions, it's perfect, in a way — sleek, slow, totally anodyne. Nine Track Mind is the kind of pure pap wholly appropriate for a clear-voiced Nice Guy who first carved out his artistic ambitions (let's just quote his deadpan Wikipedia bio here) writing "intro jingles for the videos of the Vlogger family the Shaytards." Sounds pretty dreary to me, but I suppose in our post-YouTube creative economy it's about the equivalent of being a Neil Diamond roadie.
But onto the voice! Puth lives and dies by his falsetto abilities, which are slightly endearing and employed without relief. For better or worse, that tireless slide into the upper register is his musical personality. We're not in Timberlake or even Bieber territory here — limiting our musical parallels strictly to the competition Puth deserves, Nick Jonas is Stevie Wonder by comparison and the Cash Money-vetted teenster Austin Mahone is West End Records-era Peech Boys.
In fact, the historical example which might best approximate all things Puth is the long-forgotten jazz/pop footnote Johnny Pace, another sweet-eyed Jersey boy who got his shot at the big time thanks to hipster patronage (Chet Baker playing the Wiz Khalifa role), and whose sole album arrived in 1958 bearing gifts of tasteful white balladry before dropping out of sight. Don't get your hopes up, though — Puth's got way more than one album in him. He's no mere hack: jazz piano major, Berklee grad, knows his way around a mixing console, even professed his love for the production work on Steely Dan's notoriously knotty Pretzel Logic to some L.A. Times profiler — relatively highbrow stuff for somebody palling around with the likes of M-Train.
Still, don't expect cerebral jazz-boogie supporting esoteric rhymes. The big idea here is ballads, lots of them. There's oozing ballad "Losing My Mind," tweedling around in the same stale vein as "See You Again." There's the ballad that halfheartedly toys with breaking into a jog, "Some Type of Love." There's vaguely retro ballad "Suffer," which might serve as a warning to the unwary. Plus, there's big old ballad "One Call Away," which finds Charlie inexplicably boasting how "Superman's got nothin' on me." Also sorta-scary doom ballad "Dangerously," in which our hero does battle with a nefarious minx who manages to both tie Puth to the railroad tracks and transform herself into the oncoming train (the M-line perhaps?). And there are a few other ballads, too! In fact, the most standout feature of Nine Track Mind might be its rhythmic consistency, an exercise in deceleration which will come as a relief to those Sam Smith fans distrustful of that bruise-voiced crooner's occasional excursions outside the valley of the torch song. When Selena Gomez finally swings by for her relatively upbeat duet feature (a breezy poolside whiff of coconut water entitled "We Don't Talk Anymore"), the mild change in tempo risks bringing on decompression sickness.
Amid all the inoffensive dross of Nine Track Mind — which amounts to one thing you can do with a degree from Berklee I guess — the vexing "Marvin Gaye" is at least worthy of being deemed a genuine irritant; leaving most of the worst lines to M-Train, who as you'll recall has journeyed far from her ancestral Nantucket homelands to return booty to a beleaguered nation. Try as they might, two glasses of skim milk batting eyes at each other and joking about dogs looking for bones can't tarnish Mr. Sexual Healing's legacy. Still, the track remains so simpering that one can't help but wish for some kind of court-mandated restitution for Charlie and Meghan's genteel defamation of character. As the hapless Robin Thicke knows only too well, the Gaye estate retains excellent legal counsel.


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Thursday, November 27, 2008
Scientists solve evolutionary puzzle on how the turtle got its shell
Scientists solve evolutionary puzzle on how the turtle got its shell: "Scientists believe they have cracked a long-standing mystery of evolution - how the turtle got its shell.
It follows the discovery in south west China last year of the oldest known turtle fossils, believed to date back 220 million years.
The three adult specimens were discovered remarkably intact and with characteristics never before seen in turtles - including teeth and an incomplete upper shell."
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The bridge itself is a very modern prestressed concrete girder bridge. This is a very typical bridge for this section of the Mississippi River. The previous bridge at this location was a 1911 swing span. The movable bridge was important in an era when a steamship served the Mississippi River communities from Cohasset to as far north as the Winnibigoshish Dam area.
These photos were taken just as it was getting dark. Digital cameras are very good at taking pictures in low light as long as you can hold the camera steady. Since the sun had already set, there were no shadows to worry about. But with the light only available from the west, that dictated only two possible camera shots. Note that traffic must be pretty light if I can stand in the middle of the highway with a tripod and not be disturbed. It is very swampy in this area, so I could not venture far enough off of the road to get a profile shot of the bridge, and the only side angle had brush in the way. The things you see when you don't have a chain saw handy.
The photo above is a view looking south down the length of the bridge deck. The photo below is a view from the northwest corner of the structure.


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MONO'Glu ApARTment - The Studio
The place
The Studio is wide, bright and clean, the view on the inner courtyard guarantees tranquillity at all hours of the day and night.
The apartment, equipped with central heating and air conditioning, is cool in summer and warm in winter. Thanks to the two beds for a total of three seats, the apartment lends itself to different combinations of use, from single to small group of friends. Families must note that the environments are not suitable for children under twelve.
A free internet connection allows you to go online 24h/7 without traffic limits. In case of working necessities it is possible, upon request, to have a high speed connection.
The amenities
The kitchen is fully equipped with a hob, electric oven, microwave and a generously sized refrigerator with freezer compartment.
The bathroom has a large and comfortable walk-in shower (70x90cm), large mirror with differentiated lighting for maximum comfort during make-up, hairdryer with diffuser, wall-mounted sanitary fittings for maximum hygiene.
In the ante-bathroom there is a washing machine and a closet with useful equipment for ordinary and / or extraordinary cleaning, such as an iron, a broom, a bucket and a mop (rag) as well as a useful drying rack for clothes.
Hang around
In less than seventy meters you'll find the bus and TRAM stop with night service too working all year round.
The metro stop (line C) is only a few hundred meters away and is within walking distance.
For those who love to walk you will enjoy the proximity to many points of interest: from the Basilica of St. John to the Colosseum, from the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore to the Roman Forum, from the theaters to the disco Qube, from the pedestrian island of Pigneto neighborhood to the San Lorenzo neighborhood.
For those who prefer to move with their car I remind the possibility of parking free of charge on the street (unassigned place) in addition to the presence of a paid guarded garage in the same building.
Shops and services in the area
Very close to the apartment there are several shops, some open until late at night, like pharmacies, a local market, two banks as well as a multitude of restaurants, pastry shops, ice-cream parlors, wine bars, live music venues, bistros, takeaway pizzas, laundries and bar.
For celiac disease, I report in the area various commercial activities with suitable products, from the bar to the minimarket, from the butcher shop, also with the GLUTEN FREE ready to coock meals, to the restaurants (one just in front of the building).
The apartment is also served by the delivery service of pizza and bakery GLUTEN FREE & LACTOSE FREE products of the "Celiachiamo" laboratory in via Caneva.


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Look and how much shorter the ones I had worn out are compared to the new ones! This first picture is comparing two left shoes.
and this one is the left (new) and the right (old)
and a quick look at the soles...
My other new shoes were the Altra Torin 2.0 LOVE THEM! I ran in these last year also and I already tossed the old pair (the old ones were the 1.5s) They were very worn out also and did not feel good to run in anymore.
and my sassy little cowgirl had her school Christmas program yesterday... and looked so cute! She went for about a year of hating her hair curled but recently decided it was cool again.
Do you run in different kinds of shoes like me or do you stick with the same ones? I also have Brooks Pure Cadence and Mizuno Wave Riders in my rotation right now.


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Sequoia National Park was established on September 25, 1890 as the second National Park in the system. Its original primary function was to protect a number of groves of Giant Sequoias in the southern Sierra Nevada from logging. One grove of the famed trees had already been protected in 1864 when Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove were given to the state of California for permanent protection. On October 1, 1890, several days after Sequoia National Park was created, another grove of Giant Sequoias was protected as General Grant National Park (which in 1940 would grow to become Kings Canyon National Park). General Grant National Park protected the grove around the General Grant Tree, thought to be the largest in the world until 1931 when Sequoia National Park's Sherman Tree was discovered to be larger. On that same October day in 1890, hundreds of thousands of acres around Yosemite Valley were also protected as Yosemite National Park, although the Valley and Mariposa Grove wouldn't officially join the National Park until 1906.
All told, a flurry of legislation in early autumn 1890 began a process that would eventually set aside over 1,615,000 acres of the Sierra Nevada as National Parks. Over 404,000 of those acres were Sequoia National Park.
I woke up around 4am on July 3, chilly from the open windows despite how hot it had been the day before. I turned off the ceiling fan and went back to sleep. At 5:30 I climbed out of bed. Out the window to the east, dawn was approaching from behind the mountains. Frys Point stood out in silhouette, beckoning us to join it in Sequoia National Park. I roused a very groggy Sean from the sofa, where he'd fallen asleep since it had been cooler there the night before, and we began to get ready for our day in Sequoia National Park.
By 6:35am we were out the door and driving into downtown Three Rivers to catch the 7am shuttle.
We parked in a designated area of the dirt parking lot at the Three Rivers Historical Museum. As we sat and waited for the shuttle to come on its way from Visalia in the Central Valley, we watched a bevy of California Quail go about having their breakfast.
Just after 7am, the shuttle pulled into the parking area. This was the last stop before the shuttle entered the Park, but we nevertheless were able to take two seats next to each other. The passengers ranged from a twenty-something girl to a group of senior citizens. Everyone seemed sleepy, and the ride was quiet as we drove up the highway to the Ash Mountain entrance station. I spotted our little cabin across the Kaweah River as we went by.
Shortly after we entered the Park, the shuttle stopped at Foothills Visitor Center for a bathroom break. At only 7:15am, the center itself wasn't yet open, but Sean and I got off the bus to take a few photos and have a look.
If we'd had more than one day in the Park, I'd have loved to explore the foothills habitat more. I love this rolling landscape of grass and oaks, coyotes and quail.
Soon we were back on the shuttle and beginning to rise parallel to the Middle Fork of the Kaweah River. Then the road turned and began to climb the northern side of the Kaweah River Canyon twisting 4,700 feet up into the mountains in 15.5 sinuous miles. Foothills Visitor Center is at 1,700 feet and the Giant Forest Museum is at 6,409 feet on a plateau full of Giant Sequoias.
Now I definitely have a touch of acrophobia. It's not debilitating, but my body physiologically reacts to heights, particularly in moving vehicles. Sweating palms, churning stomach, sometimes dizziness or panic, I can get it all. I mostly held it together on the road except for one blind switchback curve when I had to close my eyes.
A short way up the road after that curve, we had to stop for about ten minutes. In the summer of 2018, the road was under construction and down to one lane for a portion, so we had to wait. The shuttle driver said it would be about ten to fifteen minutes, so we could get out and look at the view.
Down below, the blind curve didn't look quite as scary.
And the green mountains were gorgeous. They put me in mind of the rolling hills of Shenandoah National Park except on steroids (or not eroded down, the Sierra Nevada being an extremely young range and the Appalachians being an extremely ancient one).
All told, it was quite a relaxing traffic jam.
Once we were able to continue on our way, we passed the construction and left the shrubby foothills vegetation behind. Soon we reached the edge of the plateau on which the Giant Forest sits. Suddenly Giant Sequoias began to be mixed in with the pines and firs of the conifer forest we'd entered.
At about twenty minutes after eight, we'd departed the shuttle and were standing in the cool morning in front of the Giant Forest Museum. The museum was one of the transit hubs for shuttles in this front country part of Sequoia National Park.
This was the farthest I'd ever gotten into a National Park without really having a plan for what we were going to do there. I mean, I knew we were going to walk around the Giant Forest for most of the day, but I didn't really have a plan of attack.
Sean was starving and I was hungry, so we decided to hop on the shuttle for the short drive to Lodgepole Visitor Center to get food.
At Lodgepole, we got breakfast BLTs and sat on the patio watching more visitors arrive and the adjacent campground come to life. The visitor center across the patio opened for the day and people began streaming in.
A delightful pair of families (clearly family friends vacationing together) were babbling happily, except for one little boy who was worried that they didn't have enough chips in their packs.
After we ate, we checked out the visitor center and stamped our passports.
What to do next?
Instead of hiking back to the Giant Forest proper from Lodgepole, we hopped on a shuttle that dropped us off at the short trail down to the General Sherman Tree, the largest tree on earth. It had been named in 1879 by James Wolverton, who had served under Sherman in the Civil War. The General Sherman Tree and the General Grant Tree, among others, were why the highway through Sequoia National Park to Kings Canyon National Park is known as Generals Highway.
We started out onto the paved trail that runs half a mile down to the base of the tree.
About halfway down, we came to a terrace that overlooks the part of the grove containing the General Sherman. The brickwork gives visitors a sense of the tree's massive size at the base.
Shortly after, we were standing with dozens of others visitors at the base of the largest tree on earth. It was gratifying to see so many people of different ages and ethnicities making the pilgrimage to such a special living thing.
The General Sherman Tree is the world's largest tree, measured by volume. It stands 275 feet (83 m) tall, and is over 36 feet (11 m) in diameter at the base. Sequoia trunks remain wide high up. Sixty feet above the base, the Sherman Tree is 17.5 feet (5.3 m) in diameter.
It was now not yet 10:30am. The shuttle to return us to Three Rivers departed at 6:30pm. We had eight more hours of exploring and proper hiking to get in. So off we went.


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Driving Directions
- Take Interstate 83 to Maryland Exit 36.
- If coming from the south turn left onto Route 439. If coming from Pennsylvania, turn right on Route 439.
- Make the first right onto Sampson Rd. (about 7/10 of a mile)
- Make the first left onto Jordan Sawmill Rd (about 1 mile)
- The winery is the first driveway on the left
Contact Info
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ALGIERS (AFP) - Algerian troops found the body of French tourist Herve Gourdel, security sources said Thursday, months after he was beheaded by Islamic militants demanding that France halt air strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group.
The body was found buried without its head in Akbil, where Gourdel was abducted by the Jund al-Khilafa (Soldiers of the Caliphate) group, the sources said.
The army had mobilised 3,000 troops to find the 55-year-old mountain guide's body and launched a new search operation on Wednesday.
Excavations were carried out in Akbil and in the neighbouring town of Abu Youssef following a tip-off by an Islamist detainee, a security source told AFP.
The search was headed by an elite army unit and aided by sniffer dogs.
Police experts arrived at the burial site to conduct genetic tests to formally identify the body and Algeria's senior terrorism prosecutor, as well as the judge presiding over Gourdel's case, were also at the scene.
The military had been forced to bring in munitions experts as the area around the grave had been rigged with explosives, the source said.
Gourdel was abducted by Jund al-Khilafa on Sept 21, while hiking in a national park that was once a draw for tourists but became a sanctuary for Islamists.
He was beheaded days later in a video posted online after France rejected the militants' demand to halt air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
Jund al-Khilafa had earlier pledged allegiance to ISIS.
In December, the army said it had killed the leader of the militants who beheaded Gourdel.
The body of Abdelmalek Gouri, who claimed responsibility for the Frenchman's killing, was identified after an operation in which two other suspected militants were killed in Isser, about 60km east of Algiers.
An Algerian court has also launched legal proceedings against 15 people suspected of participating in the beheading.
Gourdel's death followed calls by ISIS for Muslims to kill Westerners whose nations have joined a campaign to battle the extremist group in Iraq and Syria.
Violence involving armed Islamists in Algeria has fallen considerably since the civil war of the 1990s, but groups linked to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb continue to launch attacks in the northeast, mostly on security forces.
Gouri, alias Khaled Abou Souleimane, was the former right-hand man of AQIM leader Abdelmalek Droukdel, and is suspected of helping to organise suicide attacks on the government palace and against a UN contingent in Algiers in 2007.
He is also thought to have masterminded an April attack that killed 11 soldiers in Iboudrarene, the same region where Gourdel was kidnapped.


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Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie by Eve Curie
Marie Curie is a women who changed the face of science for all time, not just because of her discovery of the radioactive element Radium and her work with it, but because of her incredible strides forward in a such a male dominated world as laboratory science at the turn of the 19th century. This is the Madame Curie many people know but here is a biography written by her daughter Eve that shows her human side, in a way that can only be viewed and admired from a family member describing her as a caring mother, devoted and passionate wife. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.


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How To Make Conversation With Anyone
"Riding Solo" is a multimedia guide about how to live fearlessly in your own company. Whether you're at a small event or traveling the globe, this series shares honest stories from real women learning to explore the world as their own plus-one. Experience the full package here.
Real talk: attending events solo can often be an anxiety-inducing affair. Maybe you've decided to start networking to secure your next career move. Maybe you're single with a bunch of wedding invites rolling in. Or maybe you're finally living your dream and traveling solo (go, you!). All adventures are equal parts exciting and nerve-wracking, mainly because they mean you'll inevitably have to strike up a conversation with a stranger at some point.
The good news: There are a handful of little things you can do to make socializing solo significantly less intimidating. The even better news: We're here to tell you exactly what those things are!
1. Do some snooping. Okay, not literally — but paying attention to small details will help you connect with the next cool girl you see in your hostel's lobby, or the one sitting next to you at your co-worker's wedding. Maybe she's carrying a guitar case plastered with Rolling Stones stickers or she has a photo of a dog set as her phone's background. You can be sure she'll be down to swap concert stories or chat about her precious doggo.
2. Make friends with your bartender. Sometimes small talk is best left to the professionals. Which is exactly why you may want to sidle up beside the bar when you're at an event sans a plus-one. Bartenders are experts when it comes to casual banter and can keep you company when you're feeling like a fish out of water.
3. Accept awkwardness. When it comes to chatting up strangers, sometimes awkwardness — and even straight-up rejection — is part of the game. If you're striking out with someone you thought you'd totally vibe with, don't let it deter you from future friend forging.
4. Ask the obvious. "Where are you from?" It's an obvious question, yes, but also one that'll definitely spur a conversation, no matter what the answer is. Whether it's a place you've never been ("What's the one thing you miss most about Dublin?") or a beloved favorite of yours ("Have you been to the Publican? Chicago is such an amazing city for food!"). You may be surprised to realize how much common ground you'll find with just some simple geography.
5. Learn the language. We're not suggesting you devote your life to the DuoLingo app, but if you're traveling alone, making an effort to learn the basic words and phrases of your current country's main language is literally the best way for you to make conversation with the locals. Communicating requires comprehension, after all. No doubt they'll appreciate your effort, however clumsy it may be.
6. Delete Yelp. This is a bold move, we know, but hear us out. Food is the greatest motivator there is, so we're pretty confident that you'll have no problem asking the clerk at the indie bookshop where you should grab a bite. Everyone loves sharing their favorite food spots, and who knows, a simple restaurant recommendation could easily lead to a real connection.
7. Keep a book with you. While it may seem counterintuitive, the best conversation starter is often an open book — and you won't even have to start the conversation this time. Whether your future friend loved it, hated it, has it on their reading list, or just watched the movie version, people love to spark up a conversation about their favorite stories. Just make sure you're not reading on a Kindle!
Want to learn more about doing things on your own? Explore our new multimedia package Riding Solo. And remember to share any solo adventures with us using the hashtag #RidingSolo!
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10 Acres for Sale in Luna County New Mexico for $199 a month!!
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Address: LUCCA RD SW DEMING, NM 88030
Price: $14,727 This includes all interest, all closing costs, all loan servicing fees and we pay taxes while the property is being financed!
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County: Luna
Acres: 10 Acres (Raw Land)
Coordinates: 32.0760, -107.7857
Parcel #: 3053151319146
Tax Account #: 64486
Yearly Taxes: $73.72
Legal Description: COPA DE ORO RANCHES, LOT NUMBERED FIFTY-THREE (53).
Together with the improvements thereon and all water rights pertaining thereto, if any.
Subject to reservations contained in patent and all covenants, conditions, easements and restrictions of record or apparent from an inspection of the property.
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EU-Turkey border getting back to normal, for now
Far fewer people have tried to cross the Greek border in the past 48 hours than in the previous two weeks - but Turkey says migrants are still welcome to have a go.
"The last few days, the situation at the borders was very stable. We had very few attempts from migrants to enter," a Greek foreign ministry spokesman told EUobserver on Monday (16 March).
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EU institutions and a UN agency corroborated his statement.
"Numbers of people trying to cross into Greece are back to previous levels," a European Commission spokesman said.
"For the past two evenings, it's been quiet. Very, very few people have tried to cross. The situation is calmer than in recent days, but we don't know what it means for the future," a spokeswoman for the EU border control agency, Frontex, added.
"Over the last few days, several hundred migrants have been leaving the [Greek] border area", the International Organisation for Migration, a UN agency, also told this website.
"[But] thousands of migrants remain and are likely to stay and wait for the outcome of the next meeting between Turkey and EU leaders," it added.
The difference was huge compared to a few days ago, when Greece was stopping tens of thousands of people a day.
The New York Times, a US newspaper, also reported that Turkey had sent busses for migrants to return from the Greek border to Istanbul.
But when asked about the report, the Turkish foreign ministry said only that Turkey's new policy - to let migrants go to Europe - had not changed.
"At this stage, I would say that there has not been a change of policy regarding the migration issue," a Turkish spokesman said on Monday.
Virus impact
The Greek border crisis was the top story in European media until the coronavirus pandemic turned the world on its head.
Asked if the virus outbreak had changed Turkey's thoughts on migration, the Turkish spokesman said: "We all live in catastrophic days due to the coronavirus".
But whatever Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan might be thinking, the virus has had an impact on the situation.
Turkey, this weekend, closed its borders to nationals from nine EU states (though not Greece) in a containment measure.
The Greek foreign ministry said it had no new figures on border crossings because its government was overwhelmed by the health crisis.
"We cannot give any official comment because the whole government is dealing with the coronavirus," a Greek diplomat said.
French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel were to go to Istanbul on Tuesday to meet Erdoğan, but they will now speak via video-conference instead.
And Frontex, which, last Thursday, deployed 100 border guards to Greece from 22 EU countries, some of them with high infection rates, has equipped its staff with gloves, masks, and disinfectant kits to keep people safe.
Migrant geopolitics
For their part, French and German diplomats declined to say what the Macron-Merkel-Erdoğan talks might achieve.
EU officials, who met the Turkish leader in Brussels last Monday, agreed to review implementation of a 2016 EU-Turkey deal to stop migrants coming.
Germany and the Netherlands have also voiced sympathy for Erdoğan's idea to create a safe zone for refugees inside Syria.
But senior diplomats from the US, which would have to police any no-fly zone against Russian and Syrian warplanes, indicated that that was not going to happen.
In the meantime, the main cause of the Turkey-EU problem - a Russian-led military campaign in the Idlib region in northwest Syria that was pushing three million more refugees into Turkey - was held in abeyance after Erdoğan and Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed an Idlib ceasefire.
But the US expected Russia to resume bombing when the moment was ripe.
"The sad record of Syria over the course of the past two years has been ceasefires with Russian guarantees that have not been ceasefires - they were temporary, transactional halts until Russia was prepared to renew the campaign," the US ambassador to Turkey, David Satterfield, said last week.
"This is no longer an asylum problem ... it's not even a refugee problem [or] migration problem. We need to recognise that. It is very clearly a geopolitical issue," Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told British newspaper The Guardian on Monday.


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Fat Loss Regimen: Part 1
Beginning a fat loss regime can be overwhelming. There are an unlimited amount of training philosophies and diet programs to confuse you. What works for someone can have quite the opposite effect on another person. It can be an extremely frustrating process. You almost have to get your Ph.D. in Fat Loss to understand the healthiest and efficient way to look lean and feel energetic!
In part one of this article, I will share with you a sample nutrition program that has worked for myself, my clients, friends and family members. If anyone tells you that losing fat and getting a lean physique is easy, then they are full of it!
I will tell you right away it takes hard work to change habits. But with the right program for you, motivation, and support, you can reach your goals and stay there.
If you have good habits to begin with, then making minor changes should not be challenging. For those who live off fast food and their only hobby is watching television all day long, then this program will be much more difficult.
I do not recommend anyone starting this program in full force. Gradually starting into the program will help keep you on track and let your body get use to the proper fuel being utilized. Keep in mind that this program is more based on what you put into your body and is not obsessing on counting calories.
Sample Nutrition Program
7:30 AM: Breakfast
- Breakfast Green tea sweetened with stevia
- 1/3 cup of cooked rolled oats
- 2 scoops of protein powder (or 2 cooked organic eggs)
Morning Supplements
- Vitamin B Complex
- Cod liver oil
- Super Green capsules
10:00 AM Snack
- Handful of almonds
- 1/2 banana or 1 apple
12:30 PM Lunch
- 2 cups vegetables (ex. broccoli, asparagus, and carrots)
- 4 oz of lean meat, poultry, or fish
- 1 small yam or 3/4 cup squash
3:00 PM Snack
- 1 serving of a protein shake
7 PM Dinner
- 4 oz of lean meat, chicken or poultry. If vegetarian, 3 organic eggs.
- 1/3 cup brown rice, millet or quinoa
- 2 cups of vegetables such as spinach, kale, broccoli and/or mushrooms
Evening Supplements
- Super Green Capsules
- Digestive Enzymes
- Cup of chamomile tea or bedtime tea to relax
This program takes out all processed foods and refined sugars. During the day water intake should be at least 8-10 full glasses of water depending on your size. The nutrition programs I design follows an exchange program. You are never supposed to be starving on this program.
If you feel hungry you either waited too long to eat or did not eat enough. If you have any questions or need a nutrition program tailored to your lifestyle feel free to contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com or go to SoCalTrainer.com.
Fat Loss Regimen: Part 2
Now that you have a sample nutrition program to follow, I will now provide a sample workout program that will go along with your fat-loss program.
I am a strong advocate on body weight exercises and the use of kettlebells for fat loss. You don't need a fancy $4000 piece of cardio equipment to get the job done. In fact, these exercises will get you the toned look that most people want. (Not just the skinny, flabby look that you get from hours of cardio and no weight training.) And you will also get stronger!
All of these exercises provided below can be done with a dumbbell. I strongly encourage the use of kettlebells, however, because of the way the weight is distributed and the use of a handle. I have seen people over and over again get great results with this Russian tool.
Sample Beginning Workout Program
- Bodyweight Squats: 3 sets x 10 reps. Go through each exercise with a 45-second rest in between. (Repeat the exercises 3 times.)
- Triceps Push-ups: 3 x 8
- Lat Pull-downs: 3 x 10
- Planks: Hold for 30 seconds. Try to only take a 30-second break in between the last three exercises. Repeat 3-5 times.
- Kettlebell Swings: 15 swings
- Jump Rope: 30 seconds
- Turkish Get-Ups: 3 on each side. Go through each exercise taking 45-60 seconds rest. Repeat 3 times.
- Step-Ups On A High Step: 12 times on each leg
- Clean And Press: 8 times on each arm
- Single-Arm Front Squats: 5 times on each side. 30 second rests on the last three exercises, repeat them three times through.
- Kettlebell Swings: 15 swings
- Medicine Ball Twists: 20 times
- Plank: Hold for 30 seconds. Take a 30 second rest after each exercise. Repeat 3 times.
- One-Arm Rows: 8 per side
- Stationary Lunges: 10 on each leg
- Kettlebell Chest Press: 8 on each arm
- Alternating Overhead Press: 5 on each arm. Rest for 1 minute after each exercise. Repeat 3 times. Try and work your way up to resting for only 30 seconds.
- Explosive Box Squats: 10 times
- Alternating Kettlebell Swings: 20 swings
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This program will work every muscle in your body and will help shed the unwanted fat. Stick to this program for 4 weeks. As it gets easier, try and repeat 4-5 times. You never want to train to failure for this program. You want to leave each workout feeling fresh and energetic.
Use a weight that is heavy enough to where you know you would be able to do 2-3 reps more at most without compromising form. Good luck with your fat loss and feel free to email me for questions or comments on how you are doing with your programs!


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This is Katy.
Katy became Kathryn.
And Kathryn became Kathryn Casey.
A few months later Kathryn Casey became "Mommy"
but she never got to meet her child
because at the emergency department, they learned the little 7-week old sac inside her was empty.
I felt those miscarriages all the way to my bones. It broke my view of the world, from a safe place sheltered by the hand of God, I felt exposed to a world of chaos. It opened up a world of fear: what if I cannot have children or carry children? Then I had Miriam and she was perfect. I thought that was the end of miscarriages for me. When it happened again, I just felt that wild grief Adriel Booker writes about in Grace Like Scarlett.
Time marched on
Until Katy and Kathryn and Kathryn Casey
gave birth to the sweetest cleftie in the world.
There are only a handful of photos of me from that time period, when I, Kathryn, changed from this …
to this …
and finally to this…
During Peter's first surgery, I could not bear to stay in the hospital. Two years later, I put on the bunny suit and held Regina's hand as she fell asleep in the operating room.
During the intermission of Madama Butterfly, my husband and I saw a man whom we had not seen in, at least, three years. Seeing me dressed in velvet, with a sleek ponytail and a bright smile framed in brighter lipstick, he said, "wow, motherhood really agrees with you. You look so wonderful."
I felt the brightness then.
Reaching back, I am still trying to remember who I was before those two prenatal diagnoses and now.
What I began to see is that I lived with less suffering, but also I lived with less joy. In growing my capacity to feel so much grief and so much heartache, my capacity to feel so much happiness and pleasure also increased.
I always imagined that if I lost a child, the world would fade to black-and-white. How could a mother go on?
It was black-and-white for a while.
And I did go on.
I leaned into grief, allowed it to wash over me, allow myself to feel the full depth of my sorrow.
The depth of suffering is the cross, and so, in Christ, the resurrection follows.
"There would come a time when God would fill what he emptied" and so he did.


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Education is fast moving, with new ideas, recycled ideas, and changes in the political landscape which feed into curriculum change and inevitable examination changes. A rising hot topic is 'stretch and challenge', but what exactly is it? As part of the Teaching and Learning group in my school we have been exploring 'Stretch and Challenge' […]Read more
I have often structured the tasks in my lessons as 'all/most/some' to enable simple differentiation but have noticed that this challenges the most able students, instead of all students. It also seems a little unfair that some students have to complete more work to challenge themselves. Instead, I have started using a different way of […]Read more
'We rarely have to think in maths lessons, it is quite relaxing.' One of the jobs I have had in the past is 'Town-wide gifted and talented coordinator'. My job was to work with teachers and students across the town to ensure provision for the more able students, across all subjects, was as good as […]Read more
I have to admit that I feel overwhelmed, overwhelmed emotionally at the end of this year. I have been to several meetings, conferences and events recently with groups of keen teachers planning for next year. I admire everyone so much. Teachers are busy revamping their KS2 and KS3 schemes of work, exploring the potential of […]Read more


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Water is the #1 essential in life. Without water, food and shelter do not matter.
Every store in any country is owned by someone and it is the free chose of these store owners to fill their stores with what consumers ask for and what they themselves decide upon.
It is up to you as a consumer to speak directly to the store own so that the store owner knows what his customers need and want. Store clerks or store cashiers are not the ones that can help.
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The Accidental Oracle
Dear Oracle:
My dear young wife Fatima and I had our hearts broken when our little dog Fester (like Lester, but with an F) died. We break down crying every time we see his hairs stuck to the sofa or look in his bedroom, where he "lies in state" in a beer cooler full of ice with his stumpy little legs shot up in the air.
I was a sportswriter for a local paper until my legs went stiff (from inhaling all the steroids steaming off athletes in locker rooms?) and forced me to retire. Fester and his shenanigans were a constant comfort to me, and Fatima takes his death even harder, what with him the only soul in the trailer park who could make out her native tongue.
(That tongue is why Lester is Fester—poor Fatima couldn't pronounce an L to save her life. It makes you wonder: what kind of culture produces a language so cold its speakers can't even pronounce the word love? I drilled her for days before giving up, worried she might choke trying to pronounce "Leave me alone, Floyd!")
Some days Fatima and I just lay in our adjustable beds and listen to the farm report on the radio, the wind banging the screen door, and gravel trucks rumbling down the highway. The sink is full of dirty dishes, dust bunnies drift like clouds across the floor, and I nearly got stuck in a giant spider web on the way to the bathroom.
Oracle, I'm worried that if we don't get going soon we may come to a ghastly end. Can you suggest a way for us to pick ourselves up and get back on track?
—Floyd & Fatima Fatback, Lost World Trailer Park Oroville, California
Dear Floyd & Fatima:
Floyd, it sounds like your life has lost its purpose since Fester died.
You could buy one of those "purpose driven life" bestsellers and adopt its strategies, but why bother when necessity is the most powerful purpose on earth, and you need to do a few things right away, like: dispose of Fester's remains and clean your trailer before it's condemned and towed to the dump.
Like most people, I used to see cleaning as a dull and thankless task—until I began to see it as physical exercise, another boring activity. Strangely enough, combining two unpleasant tasks makes it half as hard to get started.
But sometimes a clean home and healthy body are not purpose enough, and it helps to add a spiritual element to the process. My own sort-of wood floors force you to get on your hands and knees and wipe them spot by spot with a damp cloth, then buff the spots dry. Though it takes a few minutes to get past the discomfort of being on all fours (something that God and the mop industry went out of their way to help us escape), you are soon rewarded with the pure physical elation of rhythmic movement, the same as that experienced by a pilgrim crawling to a remote shrine, or a cleaning woman scrubbing the floors of a beautiful mansion.
In fact I just found a note in a drawer (the handwriting is mine but, oddly, leans back left-handed):
I have finally "come down" from an intense cleaning experience. I was a single bristle in a glorious cleaning machine, a joyous army of jumpsuited janitors mopping and buffing in unison like gymnasts at a fascist pageant, polishing every surface of the massive stadium to a shine so bright we had to rest our eyes high in the sky… where a formation of five cruise missiles, the chrome fingernails of a robotic hand reached over the horizon, raked the sky wheeling to approach from the blinding glare of our own industry, so we stood prone in our colorful outfits until the cold nails found the base of our spine and climbed in the timeless choreography of siege, until a voice older than light itself hissed at the nape of our neck "Do you understand why we've come? Why the antelope's last look at the lion is full of love? No matter, you will know soon enough…"
I'm still not sure if it was the cleaning or the cleaning fluid that brought this on. Either way: always read the warning label before using solvents in a closed room!
Note that cleaning shiny surfaces like floors and tile makes a spiritual tripling of purpose easy: just as tree sap has produced more convincing images of the Virgin Mary than the whole history of art, rubbing a shiny surface—like wiping a foggy window—can open a portal onto the spirit world. And since Fester has not been gone long, it should be easy to call his wet nosed spirit to the window.
I realize, Floyd, that your stiff legs might make cleaning floors difficult, but perhaps you could lay facedown on a towel and have Fatima push you across the floor like a mop?
Dear Oracle:
My next door neighbors are jerks—they let their little psycho dog bark all the time, and it's about to drive me "batty."
And they're suspicious, too: the guy must be 90, and the woman—dressed in one of those big foreign tent things, so nothing but her eyes and sneakers show—must be young, and quite a specimen, because she runs to and from the supermarket every day, a good three miles down the road.
Her smoldering eyes remind me of my ex-girlfriend Carla—and that's a good memory, even if she did leave me when her pastor called our love "an abomination"—but I'm worried she's got a fertilizer bomb strapped on under that thing! I work security at the Cinema 6, so thinking about these things is not just a hobby for me.
Anyway, I heard there's a place in Iran, or one of those countries, where you can order a "religious edict" that makes it legal to exterminate an infidel.
If ever there was an infidel, this dog is it!
I have mail ordered pepper spray, nunchuks and sports bras before, but nothing like this. Can you help me find one of these places?
(A.O.: I received an update from Pat a week later:)
Thanks, but you can forget my question. The dog was on the loose a few days ago, and I guess it got in my garbage, because I found chicken bones and KFC bags scattered all over the driveway—and I haven't heard a peep out of the little monster since then!
Hopefully, as what's-his-name used to say: "Problem solved."
—Pat Alvarez Oroville, California
Dear Pat:
(You don't happen to live in Lost World Trailer Park, do you? Since I had my answer ready before your update, here it is.)
I'm sure you can buy a religious edict for just about anything. I'm an ordained minister myself, of a New York State-certified lottery cult, and as far as I know nothing prevents me from issuing edicts, performing weddings, and entertaining at bar and bat mitzvahs. But I'm not sure the edicts, especially ones obtained overseas, are recognized by U.S. courts yet.
And though I suppose I should scold you for your casual attitude toward accidental chicken bone choking, I have lived near jerks with obnoxious dogs, and I am overjoyed for you! In fact I'm going to issue a retroactive religious edict right now:
By the authority vested in me by the State of New York, I do hereby declare that it is clearly God's will that thou—Pat Alvarez of Oroville, California—shalt leave the lid off your garbage can, such that any and all infidel canines might choke on their vile appetites and be dispatched to hell!
Now that we've taken care of the moral niceties, Pat, we can look forward to the future: I've read that all domestic dogs are descended from a single Siberian wolf pack, so it should be a simple matter to start over and breed dogs without vocal cords.
If that works out, some day we can take the same approach with their owners and, God willing, prune jerks from the genome!
ContributorKurt Strahm
Singapore and the Region: State of Art Law or Art Law of the State?By Ryan Su
SEPT 2023 | Critics Page
In the last thirty years, the countries of Southeast Asia which surround Singapore have largely modernized, driven in part by political will, especially during intermittent moments of stability. While the precarity and haphazardness of the region has been described as building an airplane while in flight, this dispatch aims to shed light on the state of art law and the art law of the stateof Singapore and the region.
Daniel Antebi's God's TimeBy Nolan Kelly
APRIL 2023 | Film
It can feel risky, as a director, to put a well-thought-out scenario at the mercy of New York streets, but, as indies like Daniel Antebis Gods Time (2022) go to show, the loss of control also breeds high rewards, capturing spectacles inherent to the city itself.
Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes TimeBy Rebecca Schiffman
MAY 2023 | ArtSeen
In the eyes of the profound American artist Georgia OKeeffe (1887-1986), a single artwork cant always fully express the complexity of its subject: sometimes it takes a few tries. Up now at MoMA is a wonderful expansion of that idea in Georgia OKeeffe: To See Takes Time, featuring more than 120 works on paper spanning five decades of the pioneering artist's career.
Glitching Time and Time-Based MediaBy Charlotte Kent
OCT 2022 | Art and Technology
Time is a socio-technological system with profound organizing qualities that feels, these days, exceedingly oppressive. Theres never enough time! For anything. Calendars are the earliest containing device with the purpose of determining a social order; the history of the Roman calendar reveals the role of international and national politics that play out across each new temporal infrastructure. Our temporal orders have been designed through the global proclamation of Greenwich Mean Time in 1884 by colonial empires, the apocalyptic anxiety provocations of the doomsday clock established in 1947, the insistent instant-ness of digital time since the 1970s exacerbated by strings of video chat meetings of the last couple years, and the frenetic branding of our social/professional lives demanded by transnational corporate technologys mediation of everyone and everything, all the time. Its a mess.


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Anti-Procrastination Tuesday
This Woman WritesJune 20, 2013 at 7:38 pm
Thank you for hosting. I am number 106, The Exhausted Smiley Face Emoticon, and this is something we can stop putting off — cleaning up our texting, blogging, and e-mailing habits to eliminate short cuts, like the emoticon, that ultimately affect the quality of written language.
JillJune 18, 2013 at 8:12 pm
Thanks for hosting Amy. Hope you have a fabulous week.
Carissa RasmussenJune 18, 2013 at 6:55 pm
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JenniferJune 18, 2013 at 11:42 am
Hi Amy,
I just wanted to thank you for hosting these wonderful link up parties. I really enjoy participating. I only link up with blogs that I appreciate, enjoy and really believe in what they are promoting which is New Nostalgia two others. Thanks for what you do, I have been inspired by you and New Nostalgia!
Thanks again and have a blessed day!
Jennifer at Simple Home Managing
BeBetsyJune 18, 2013 at 4:37 pm
Thanks for hosting a great party. Please stop by and share on our Brag About It Tuesday Party. Have a great day!
~~ Thanks, Sharon & Denise
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Thanks so much for hosting Amy! Hope you're having a great week!
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Have a great week! Thanks for hosting! ~ Angie @ The Dating Divas


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Papermaker Antalis McNaughton really knows how to stand out from the crowd -- by teaming up with design agency Stocks Taylor Benson for an innovative mailer campaign, that concludes this week.
The Decades Of Design campaign aimed to catch designers' attention by focusing on the typography, architecture, fashions and graphic design from each decade between the 1930s and 1990s. It then showed them off to great effect by using different print techniques, finishes and samples of Antalis McNaughton's creative paper stock.
The aim of the campaign was to show how creative use of paper and print can help designers, agencies and their clients stand out in a world of communication by creating something unusual and tactile -- and it's worked. Antalis McNaughton has received a great deal of positive feedback from designers who received the mail shots, resulting in increased sales of papers from the company's Creative Papers range.


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SIC Board of Trustees Eyes State, Federal Developments
The SIC Board of Trustees held their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 21, and passed several policy reforms, including revisions to its dual credit and drug-free workplace policies.
New policies include an identity theft prevention policy and a concealed carry policy.
"State and federal laws and regulations drove these changes at the College as we make SIC a positive learning environment," said Dr. Dana Keating, Vice-President for Academic and Student Affairs.
In terms of budget, the board heard that the governor's office of management and budget created a three-year projection for when the temporary tax increase expires next January. The state's deficit would be around $2 billion next year and double that in four years. A result of that deficit would be a mounting backlog of bills, growing from over $5 billion in 2015 to over $16 billion in 2017.
"If that happens, cash flow will be paramount aside from probable funding reductions from the state," said President Jonah Rice, Ph.D.
The administration presented information about a possible new rule at a regional consortium that would place restrictions on non-participation in a program. After some discussion, the board requested a report for its next meeting on the consortium programs as they relate to SIC.
The college's national championship shooting team will branch out with a pilot competitive handgun team for next year. Most tournaments have both competitions and this addition will be attractive to more students who want to compete in both activities.
The Board heard an update on comparative data from the White House college score card. SIC has high ranks in the areas of affordability, graduation rate, loans, and borrowing. SIC ranks among the best in terms of less borrowing of the comparative data presented.
In other business, the Board approved the removal of the "interim" designation from the title of Amy Murphy – now Director of Nursing and Allied Health – and amended David Wright's title to Dean of Administration and Business Affairs. The board approved the employment of Lane O'Brien as Title III Administrative/Technical Support Assistant, the retirement of Jeff Kisner as Automotive Maintenance Specialist, and the resignation of Vicki Blackman as Payroll/Accounting Clerk. Several adjunct faculty were also approved.


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TIME TO PLAN, CLEAN, SHOP, COOK AHEAD for Thanksgiving. Scroll down to bottom for a list of ideas to get you going.
READ UP ON MORE TIME'S THANKSGIVING BASICS HERE (includes links to my baking post, sides recipes, Thanksgiving for two, turkey thoughts, music, movies etc.)
Looking for something to take to friends or family for Thanksgiving? Crunchy dried apples, chewy sweet cranberries, toasted nuts, and warm spices (all the usual suspects plus a tad cayenne pepper) make this the perfect little take-along, especially if you're traveling for the holiday. And, you know what? Granola doesn't go bad, won't melt, smell, crack, or crumble (much), is fine at room temperature, goes in suitcase or tote bag, and is the quintessential snack if you get hungry on the road. And really easily, (see recipe for changes and notes), this adaptable food makes a hearty vegetarian, vegan, and/or gluten free breakfast. It also solves the, "What's for breakfast?" that everyone except the cook asks on Thanksgiving morning. Add yogurt, fruit, milk, or top a big bowl of oatmeal or other cereal with this crunchy goodness. In fact, it's great on ice cream! Sorry, we were talking breakfast. Have time to get fancy? Make my Bacon-Granola Pancakes with Fried Egg.
Kids are perfect granola makers. Find some and put them to work if you can. (above: young Chefs Shipp)
Suss out a sweet little container as part of the gift. How about a quart or even a pint Ball jar with fall-themed ribbon and tag? (I'm no decorator, but people like my food gifts!)
Something lightweight is better if you're flying, of course, or think splurge on a large-size plastic OXO container (above) and bring the whole batch along. Whatever you put this granola in and wherever you take it, I know there'll be a sweet measure of homemade gratefulness shared in that kitchen and, hey, who doesn't need a little extra fiber Thanksgiving week? Print the granola recipe at the bottom of the post.
If you liked this, you might like my Flax Seed Granola with Chocolate
It really is November.
Thanksgiving is coming. So to take your mind off the news, here's something to get you organized.
1. Invite folks.2. Decide the menu and style (Buffet? Potluck? Seated? China? Paper plates?) Buy decorations now. Thanksgiving week, there's nothing but Christmas stuff left. 3. Write 2 time schedules. (One for background: cleaning, shopping, and one for when you're cooking what.) 4. Big chores? Do or schedule now. (Clean out freezer/pantry? Carpets? Windows? Oven scrub?) 5. Make 2-3 grocery lists. One for now, one for the week before and one for a day or two ahead. Include breakfast and snack items. (Think shop online and pick up or delivery!!) 6. Make another shopping list for equipment (extra slow cooker or table top roaster?), linens, dishes, containers for leftovers, extra glasses.) 7. Buy liquor, wine, beer, soft drinks now. (only American wines for Thanksgiving, please?!) 8. Make ahead and freeze cranberry sauce, pie dough, pumpkin bread, vegetable casseroles, lasagna or chili for Saturday night when you're sick of turkey, etc.) 9. Plan entertainment. Movies, music, games, jigsaw puzzles, coloring pages/books, etc. 10. Buy a new peeler. Just do it. 11. Don't confuse Thanksgiving and Christmas. Concentrate on one holiday at a time 😉
I think everyone is glad the election over. I'm part of a group that meets every Wednesday and one woman said today, "Please, no politics. I just can't take any more." I get it. Take a deep breath. Blow it out. Make some granola and think grateful thoughts. It's all healthy!
Sing a new song,
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/3 cup each: real maple syrup and honey can sub part or all agave syrup
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 5 cups whole organic oats gluten-free oats, if needed
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons each ground cinnamon and ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cardamom or ground cloves
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg or allspice
- Tiniest pinch of ground cayenne 1/16 teaspoon or so
- 1/2 cup each chopped unsalted nuts such as walnuts almonds, or pecans (choose two)
- 1/3 cup each dried cranberries or cherries and chopped apple chips or dried apples added after baking
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees F. In a small saucepan, heat over low flame the applesauce, syrups and olive oil until warm; stir well.
- Meanwhile, in a large bowl, stir together the oats, salt, spices, and nuts. Pour the warm applesauce mixture over all and stir well for a minute or two until really well combined.
- Divide granola between two greased rimmed baking sheets* and bake for 45-55 min or until crispy as you like, switching pans and stirring granola half-way through baking.
- Remove from oven, sprinkle with dried fruit, stir gently and let cool completely before storing.
- *You can use greased foil, too; parchment paper prevents the granola from crisping up really well, but you can use it if you like and simply bake the granola a bit longer, watching it carefully.
- Storage: Place totally cooled granola in large glass or plastic container with a good seal. Do not store in plastic bags unless for just a day or so; they don't keep the granola well. Will keep a month or more on the counter and even longer in the refrigerator or freezer.


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- Federal agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS);
- State agencies, including the Division of Public and Behavioral Health (DPBH) within the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Division of Emergency Management (DEM), and the Nevada State Public Health Lab (NSPHL); and
- Local agencies, including local emergency management, public health authorities, and city and county officials.
Today, Gov. Steve Sisolak announced that Caleb Cage is appointed to serve as the State of Nevada COVID-19 Response Director.
"Mr. Cage has proven invaluable to the State in its effort to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. This new, expanded role will help propel the State of Nevada forward as we continue our gradual, phased-in reopening and fortify our response to this unprecedented public health crisis," said Gov. Steve Sisolak. "Mr. Cage brings a wealth of experience that will ensure our federally supported, state managed and locally executed response plan is effective in the immediate and the long-term."
Cage, the former head of the State Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and most recently the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Workforce Development and Community Colleges at the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE), will help direct and coordinate the statewide response to COVID-19 through the end of December from the Office of Governor Steve Sisolak. Cage's new position is funded by federal dollars at no cost to the state.
This position will coordinate resources and the work across multiple state, local and federal entities to respond to COVID-19, including the following:
The Director will be responsible for coordinating all of these efforts, including a strong emphasis on the following activities: testing effort and capacity; contact tracing; and coordination of resources to support the robust, ongoing and expanding work in these areas in localities and across the State.
Cage is a native Nevadan who has served in various capacities in public service for the last 18 years. Immediately following college, he was commissioned as an artillery officer in the United States Army, serving in Germany and Iraq over the next five years.
Upon returning to Nevada in 2007, Cage served in various capacities, including as a policy advisor in the Lieutenant Governor's Office as well as the Governor's Office, in addition to leading the Nevada Office of Veterans Services and the Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. He lives in Reno with his wife and three children.


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Afrobeat Hitmaker Rotaxane a student of Federal University of Technology Owerri, drops his first single for this year with the title Dare, After numerous plea from his fans. Dare is an upbeat tempo of afrobeat as he infused different styles of flows to this Afrobeat genre. Rotaxane shows his creativity and uniqueness as a special brand of the highly esteemed Afro beat. This song is really a Stunner which would mesmerize whoever listens to it. This song makes it his official fourth hit single under a year he walked into the studio. download the song and feel for yourself. THIS IS A VIBE TO GROOVE TO Download, Share and Drop your view on it.
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text: The municipality of Tamsweg is located in Salzburg Region, in Austria and on its territory there are an alpine lake, the Prebersee lake. The municipality is twinned with the municipality of Iseo. Tamsweg is very important for the project because it offers an environment which is peculiar and it is represented by the presence of the Alps; the Tamsweg context is a fragile and precious one at the same time. The possibility to share and to learn the newest best practices in fields like: environmental protection, sustainable tourism practices and slow life styles makes Tamsweg a perfect partner for the nEUlakes project. The municipality is furthermore committed to the promotion of local identity, European integration and EU common values as well as to the concept of active citizenship.


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A new Heartland Forward report, Does Geography Determine Destiny has been released today.
There will be a press briefing at 11:30 a.m. EST/10:30 a.m. CST., with Ross and John Friedman. They will each be making comments and then opening up the virtual roundtable to answers questions.
An excerpt from the report follows:
Upward mobility in the United States, often affectionately referred to as the "American Dream," is at the center of some of today's most important and timely debates. We are all invested in the idea of upward economic mobility, grounded in the notion that with hard work, we can build a better life for ourselves, our communities and our children. Unfortunately, the analysis in this report makes it clear that the distribution of opportunity has been and continues to be uneven.
Read the rest and download the full report at: Heartland Forward


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The Door Suncatcher
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- Easily removable and replaceable; leaves no residue, but it is possible to tear the decal while removing it—peel with care
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Siem Reap and the Temples of Angkor Wat
We took the Chann Na speed boat from Battambang to Siem Reap. It is referred to by the Lonely Planet as "Cambodia's most enchanting boat trip." Unfortunately, I was battling food poisoning and seasickness. I don't remember much of that boat trip. I do remember being conked out on Gravol perched on a hard-seated, straight-backed bench with nowhere to rest my head. Boats and Sara do not mix. Boats and food poisoning and Sara are even worse. According to Ryan, the scenery was wonderful and although it took 7 hours to get to Siem Reap the worst part was a numb bum.
The first few days in Siem Reap were spent in bed recovering. My only solace being the swimming pool at our hotel which was delightfully warm in the evening. We stayed at Tanei Hotel. It ended up being $20/night which was way over our budget and taught us a valuable Agoda lesson. When we got to the hotel the clerk told us we had only booked a room with a single bed and that we needed to pay $2 more per night. We decided to stay one more night and we had to pay the rate from Agoda (which included the Agoda booking fee) which wasn't right, but didn't seem worth arguing over.
We paid $15/day for our tuk-tuk driver in Angkor. A tuk-tuk is necessary for getting to all the temples. We had negotiated him down to $13, but he brought a cooler with plenty of water free of charge and bought us some refreshing palm fruit to try, so we ended up paying him $15 because he made our day at Angkor even better.
Angkor Wat was as magnificent as they say. There were a lot of tourists, making it difficult as far as photography was concerned. No such thing as those deserted shots of the temples you see in magazines. We opted for the $20 one day Angkor Wat ticket. We barely touched the place, but our budgeted funds for Cambodia were running low.
If you are looking to get some information on the ruins before you go, or you want to have a handy guidebook with you while you're there, here are some great books to check out:
- Lonely Planet Angkor Wat & Siem Reap Encounter
- The Mysteries of Angkor Wat
- Angkor: Cambodia's Wondrous Khmer Temples
- Moon Angkor Wat: Including Siem Reap & Phnom Penh
- Angkor Wat: Unearthing Ancient Worlds
- Temples of Cambodia: The Heart of Angkor
Our next stop is a relaxing stay at the beach in Sihanoukville!


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@Casey-Chen-Lai You'll want to translate to zh-TW, which is our traditional chinese variant.
Don't ask me why it's TW and not HK.
zh-TW is available for translation in Transifex, let me know if you run into additional issues 🙂
I have made a request on Transifex and I am wondering how long it will take until I hear from those in charge. I have this week off and would like to start and finish translation for my language. Thanks.
Access should be granted instantly, its possible that you missed a button to join. I thought it was on the main page of the NodeBB project,
There were requests for Kinyarwanda and Slovenian, just approved. Thanks for contributing
Thank you so much! I am the one doing Kinyarwanda.
@psychobunny : Thanks for allowing the translation on Transifex. This is a follow-up to announce that I am happy to say I just finished.
Kinyarwanda is now one of the 11 languages translated at 100%
Everyone should do a language; it's not that difficult.
You're awesome! Well done I'm assuming you are setting up your own forum in your native language - we'll be happy to advertise it on our twitter and facebook
@psychobunny : Yes I am. Thanks. Julian has added the language now. I am testing it out on my test site.
Awesome work @Ziggy
For timeago translations for Kinyarwanda, please take this content and translate it for me. I'll handle the PR to timeago if you'd like.
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suffixFromNow: "from now",
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hours: "about %d hours",
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days: "%d days",
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There is another simple request I have for you:
Do you see the "Cancel" and "OK" on the message box on the screenshot below? They aren't available for translation on Transifex as well. I would be pleased if you give me a chance to translate them. Thanks


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The South London Gallery new annexe in the former Peckham Road Fire Station across the road from the main gallery site will open to the public on 20th September 2018.
Following the generous gift of the Grade II listed building on Peckham Road by an anonymous benefactor, the new development designed by 6a architects will enable the SLG to expand its internationally acclaimed contemporary exhibitions, education and events programme. Details of the opening programme will be announced later in the year.
Dating from 1867 and the earliest surviving example of a purpose-built fire station in London, the Fire Station development includes new exhibition and education spaces, an artist's studio and communal kitchen. This inspiring, light-filled building will enable the SLG to take a more ambitious and experimental approach to programming than ever before, furthering its reputation for bringing new work by internationally acclaimed and lesser known artists to an area of London with a fascinating local history. The SLG's extensive archive of its 126 year history, in addition to material relating to the social, architectural and cultural history of the local area, will be available to the public for the first time both digitally and through changing displays in a dedicated archive gallery.
A new education space will allow the SLG to expand its innovative arts programme in the local area and grow the depth of engagement and participation amongst new and existing audiences. In this way, the project complements other key initiatives taking place across Peckham and Camberwell, enhancing the area as an important creative hub in London.
The redesign, led by 6a architects, creates a series of light-filled spaces over four floors, maintaining the original layout of rooms as far as possible. 6a architects have a long association with the SLG having worked on the extension of the main site in 2010 and again on the Gabriel Orozco-designed garden in 2016. The practice are known for their work with arts organisations and artists, with projects including the award-winning gallery Raven Row, Sadie Coles in Davies Street, Juergen Teller's studio and, currently in progress, the major expansion of Milton Keynes Gallery.
The project has been generously supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the Mayor's London Regeneration Fund as well as funding from a number of trusts, foundations, individuals and commercial galleries. The SLG is now in the closing stages of its public fundraising campaign to secure the final £400,000 to cover restoration costs and establish a fund for the future running of the building.
Margot Heller, Director of the South London Gallery, said:
"As we enter the final stages of our fundraising campaign, we are delighted to be able to confirm that the Fire Station will be opening to the public in September 2018. A weekend of celebratory events will highlight some of the many exciting possibilities afforded by a host of distinctive new spaces, beautifully designed by 6a architects and transforming the experience of visiting the South London Gallery."


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I'm excited to have a fellow #RRBC member and poet, Balroop Singh here today in celebration of National Poetry Month!
Poetry: My First Love
I don't remember when I started liking poetry. Probably I was born with it or was fascinated by the lyrics of Mother Nature. My love for words dates back to those crazy days of playing word games in school, when we perused our dictionaries to accomplish the challenge of finding new words and guessing the meanings.
Despite those word-challenging games, my vocabulary remained so insignificant that I had to look up simple words like 'gaunt' to give the exact meaning to my students.
Can you believe that I have been accused of using difficult words in my poems?
Can you fathom my elation at such a compliment?
It is indeed a compliment for a person who has always struggled with words; who was not that blessed to be surrounded by books as a child; who was always eager to borrow books from the library but had to return them half-read!
Poetry soars on the wings of words; I like it due to its succinct style. Just one metaphor could speak volumes. I poured all my woes and emotions into words to create poetry. Soon I learnt to fly on its wings and my themes widened.
Poetry touches your deepest cords effortlessly. It develops perceptions.
It liberates us from mundane events and situations. It is cathartic, as it could carry me from detachment to forgiveness.
Due to its ambiguous nature, it can be interpreted in more than one way, depending on how a reader discerns your thoughts.
When I published my debut book, 'Sublime Shadows of Life' my excitement was at the ninth cloud and I got some copies printed for friends and family and sent them, even to those friends whom I met occasionally or had not met after school days.
One of my friends who had not been in touch with me for a long time rang me up and asked: 'Are you okay?'
I replied in affirmative and asked why was she asking.
She had a grim tone and said: 'Is everything going well in your life?'
I laughed loudly at the tone of my fun-loving friend and asked her what was wrong with her.
She told me that she got alarmed at some of my poems, which talked about oppression and dark moments.
Though I had mentioned in the blurb "I, you, he, we and they are universal symbols, which highlight the fact that happiness is not a destination…" but who reads the introduction!
Authors draw inspiration from life and people around them and many of them agree that they do creep into their stories.
Some of my poems do give a peep into my life. I have written about an incident that moved me deeply. Some of my poems are an emotional outburst; some are inspired from the life of my friends but all of them are not about me.
The following poem is an excerpt from my debut book: Sublime Shadows of Life.
Pain… My Antidote
Nearer to thee, my pain
Nearer to thee…
Now I have embraced you,
Conquered you!
You have become my antidote,
You can no longer break my spirit,
You were my constant companion,
Now I have befriended you,
Made you my dearest confidant.
You have always mothered me,
Rocked me, pushed me around
Sometimes pricked me
In the form of a sibling,
Made fun of me,
Challenged my capabilities.
Many times you have
Surrounded me with
Selfish, self-centered,
Incompetent, insecure people
You have flattered me
In the form of fair weather friends
You have made me suffer in silence.
As a child, I could not confront you
But growing with you
Emboldened me, enriched my life,
Made me realize
You cannot even touch my soul.
I have emerged stronger,
Kinder, perceptive, forgiving
To embrace you with all the humility.
© Balroop Singh
An excerpt from Emerging From Shadows:
Oasis Of Peace
Blooming blossoms, whispering wind
Carried me far into the haven of peace
Solitude softly spoke in serene tone,
We welcome weary travelers alone
Divesting dirty robes of dissent
We revel in the glorious sun
You too can embrace this light
Just follow it with smiling delight
The light that enlightens the mind
The light that permeates all around
Adds new dimension to thoughts
Guides us out of those knobby knots
Illumines those innate virtues
When we try to shake them off
In annoyance, in rage, in resentment
Leisurely hours are wistfully spent
Rejoicing in the new found glee
We sat and shared upon His knee
Palpable peace pervaded all around
Into which all dismay drowned.
© Balroop Singh
Author Bio:
Balroop Singh, a former teacher and an educationalist always had a passion for writing. She would jot down her reflections on a piece of paper and forget about them till each drawer of her home started overflowing with poetic reminders, popping out at will!
She is a poet, a creative non-fiction writer, a relaxed blogger and a doting grandma. She writes about people, emotions and relationships. Her poetry highlights the fact that happiness is not a destination but a chasm to bury agony, anguish, grief, distress and move on! No sea of solitude is so deep that it can drown us. Sometimes aspirations are trampled upon, the boulders of exploitation and discrimination may block your path but those who tread on undeterred are always successful.
When turbulences hit, when shadows of life darken, when they come like unseen robbers, with muffled exterior, when they threaten to shatter your dreams, it is better to break free rather than get sucked by the vortex of emotions.
A self-published author, she is the poet of Sublime Shadows of Life and Emerging From Shadows and Timeless Echoes.
She has also written When Success Eludes, Emotional Truths Of Relationships Read FREE with Kindle Unlimited and Allow Yourself to be a Better Person.
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Thank you for inviting me to your blog Denise; I am feeling honored.


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Why I Had to Put My Dog to Sleep
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People come before animals. That's why I took our dog Tiberius to the vet to be put to sleep this week. He would have been a year and a half old in a few weeks. With all the things he's … Continued


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The Path Before
Inside this cup polliwogs drown
for the sake of a child's curiosity. Following a man
wearing a long maroon robe around his shoulders,
a group walked the dirty morning streets,
pretending inner peace.
I was there, there in the sinking sand, abandoned
to mud and nature. I was there, handing out sandwiches
I couldn't afford to make, following the one
with the robe, thinking he would save me.
Save me from the dead fish lodged in my throat,
from the desolation of my eunuch intimacies, save me
from the ulcer that tore apart my insides like a feral cat,
trapped and too far gone to look around.
Waiting at 4 a.m. to steal away into my cubicle
and watch the dawn break over the park,
or running with my brother
over the farmland of a mutual friend that frightened us,
who we kept because we had no other, as we sat quietly
on his cast-iron stove, quietly in the danger, not together
as brother and sister should be, but separately wondering,
never holding hands.
Copyright © 2008 by Allison Grayhurst
First published in "Juxtaprose Literary Magazine, Volume 1" April 2015
Poem nominated for "Best of the Net" 2015


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