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Rolling the Dice: Gramercy Tavern
Every week, we take our turn with Lady Luck on the BruniBetting odds as posted by Eater. Just for kicks, we track Eater's bet too, and see who is better at guessing what the unpredictable Bruni will do. We track our sins with an imaginary $1 bet every week.
The Line: Tomorrow, Frank Bruni reviews the newly-retooled Gramercy Tavern, with Blue Hill alumnus Michael Anthony now in the kitchen. Eater's official odds are as follows (√√ denotes the Eater bet):
Zero Stars: 9-1
One Star: 8-1
Two Stars: 3-1
Three Stars: 7-2 √√
Four Stars: 400-1
The Skinny: Eater is clearly as conflicted about this wager as we are. Only a half-point separates the most probable outcome (3½–1) from the next-most probable (3–1). To the best of our recollection, the Eater odds on two different outcomes have never been so close. Indeed, the careful Brunomics watcher can put together a quite compelling case for two stars or three.
The case for two stars. In Bruni's infamous six-star double-review of Eleven Madison Park and the Bar Room, posted just five months ago, he drew a highly unfavorable contrast to the other restaurants in Danny Meyer's empire:
I prefer them to Tabla, to Union Square Cafe and definitely to Gramercy Tavern, whose luster had dimmed some even before the chef Tom Colicchio officially severed his ties in August. It's anyone's guess how it will emerge from its current state of transition, which isn't pretty. During a meal there last month a fillet of cod was a mealy catastrophe. Servers tried to deliver another table's entrees to ours, then tried to deliver the same desserts twice.
Restaurants seldom get a second chance with Frank Bruni. Once he gets a negative impression, it tends to persist. His comments in the double-review are significant for another reason. The whole premise of the review was that the torch had passed from the former flagships of the Meyer Empire—Union Square Cafe (for which Meyer's corporate umbrella is named) and Gramercy Tavern—to the Bar Room and Eleven Madison Park. If he gives three stars to Gramercy Tavern, he can't help but admit that the whole premise of the earlier review was, if not wrong, at least premature.
On top of that, Bruni loves to slay sacred cows, and few restaurants are more sacred than the perennial Zagat leader, Gramercy Tavern, which is currently tied for the best food in New York City—as it usually is—at 28 out of 30. And lastly, a number of critics have been less-than-wowed by the current incarnation of Gramercy Tavern, suggesting that Michael Anthony simply hasn't maintained the magic of the the Tom Colicchio era.
The case for three stars. Frank Bruni is a man of predictable habits and predilections. And he definitely has a predilection for Michael Anthony's food—or at least, the kind of food Anthony is known for. He awarded three stars to Blue Hill at Stone Barns, when Anthony was sharing the helm there with Dan Barber. And he did it again last summer, awarding three stars to the original Blue Hill in Greenwich Village. Anthony was gone by then, but by all accounts he has brought the same cooking style with him to Gramercy Tavern.
And the smart money says that, with a few months to work on it, Danny Meyer surely will have smoothed out the service glitches that Bruni complained about in January.
Our conclusion: The three-star case definitely seems weaker. On top of that, Bruni is seldom wowed by the luxury service that high-end restaurants like Gramercy Tavern offer. He is liable to give no credit for service (unless it is absolutely pitch-perfect and unfussy), and then to penalize a $76 prix fixe, on the grounds that substantially the same food is available at Blue Hill for considerably less money.
If Bruni does award three stars, we suspect it will be with significant reservations, and not the exuberant three stars that the Bar Room and Eleven Madison Park (or, more recently, Esca) received
The Bet: We hate to do it. We really hate to do it. We are kicking ourselves for doing it. But we just can't bring ourselves to believe that Frank Bruni will award three stars to Gramercy Tavern—much as it may deserve it. We are placing our money on two stars.


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"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails" (NIV).
While going through my cancer treatment I often reflected on the nature of love, the different kinds of love, and the different ways each of us have at showing it – this was part of my personal introspective spiritual journey which often involved reflecting on the gift of love which is a wondrous thing.
"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, and the amazement of the Gods. " Plato
I know this is a huge and complicated subject one that has been explored for centuries and I probably can't do it justice here and satisfy everyone's views and opinions of love – I can only put my own spin on it and tell where my journey has led me. Warning its quite a long blog!
"I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. " - Theodore Dreiser
The main thing I have learned is that love is not necessarily about people spending time with you, or needing you, but about being there for you no matter what and vice versa. It's about acceptance and letting go. Accepting that people won't always be the people you want them to be, act the way you want them to act, or do what you want them to do and finally by letting go of your expectations and loving them for whom they are.
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. " Victor Hugo
Despite believing this though, my expectations of love have been high - particularly with regard to unconditional love over the last few years or so - and you can push love to its limits whether is regarding colleagues, friendship, family or lovers.
" Love is when you need someone to be a part of your life, even when they are boring and dumb and rude, because you know they will again have one of those moments where they shine and that light is what you need to survive." – Unknown
Of course there are different degrees of love - love of animals, your children, lovers, husbands and wives, parents, aunts and uncles, cousins, sisters and brothers and nieces and nephews, friends, colleagues, of God and humanity itself. Each has a part of my heart. The love has always there but I also believe that for someone to grow deeper love, they also have to go through some pain. Just as there is different degrees in loving there are also different degrees of pain and suffering and it is through this that we learn how to love.
"Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you but trusting them not to do it" – unknown
The Greeks had just four words for love: affection, friendship, Eros, and charity. Loving kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and understanding; are just four qualities of heart that reside within everyone or at least has the potential to do so. I believe that love can be strengthened through practice. This is very much recognised in Buddhism. It can be easy to say you love all things in the abstract, but it can be a great challenge to do so when we have to live with them. It is one thing to love and another to express that love in daily life. I do try to cultivate the ability to bring love into all aspects of my life and to all people I encounter. This is not as easy as it sounds! Learning how to include love's presence while we speak to others, live with others, and are in conflict with them can be very difficult.
"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. " Thomas Carlyle
I have a great affection for many different people. This kind of love has been described as the most natural, emotive, and complicated of loves: natural in that it is present without coercion; emotive because it is the result of fondness due to familiarity; and complicated because it pays the least attention to those characteristics deemed "valuable" or worthy of love. Its strength is also what makes this kind of love vulnerable and as a result people come to expect, even to demand, its presence—irrespective of their behaviour and its natural consequences. With my immediate family it's all about unconditional love whereas with my some of extended family it has seemed more about keeping within rules and boundaries – some of which I seem to have broken. Sometimes we expect too much of our families and expect them to be a friend instead. I think my expectations of unconditional love were probably too high.
"Love is when the one person in the world that shouldn't make you cry just happens to be the one person in the world that makes you cry the most"- Malinda
I came across a meditation recently to help you to forgive those who have hurt you and those you have hurt to forgive you, and by the very act of forgiveness attracting love and contentment in your life (rather than obsessing on the issues of the past) and moving forward. So while relaxing in the sun, visualise the person walking on to a stage. See a white loving light of the universe pouring through your heart surrounding them. Tell them how you feel. Hear their replies. Forgive them and hear them forgive you. See a scythe of white light cutting the cords that bind you together releasing negativity. Let the cord return to the person as they leave the stage. The next time you think of them, the connection will be lighter, making way for more light, joy and love in your life.
Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. (NLT) Proverbs 17:9
Friendship is freely chosen and seems the happiest and most fully human of all loves. Sometimes we tend to ignore the importance of this kind of love. Again there are different degrees of friendship and our ideas of what it means to be a good friend, a close friend, a really close friend or a best friend are all different. We may describe someone as a friend, to which we enjoy each other's company, are useful to one another, and share a common commitment to the good' . Friends rely on each other both for support and a sense of personal identity, but also accept that each needs the space to develop relationships with others.
"It is those who desire the good of their friends for the friends' sake that are most truly friends, because each loves the other for what he is, and not for any incidental quality" - Aristotle
"Material things can't make the soul whole. Only the love, trust, and loyalty of friends can do that. – Unknown
My idea of a good friend is a person who will hold my hand when I'm scared, helps fight off those who try to take advantage of me, thinks of me at times when I am not there, reminds me of what I have forgotten, helps me to put the past behind me but also understands when I need to hold on to it a little longer, stays with me so that I have confidence, goes out of their way to make time for me, helps me clear up my mistakes, and helps me deal with pressure from others, smiles for me when they are sad, helps me to become a better person, and most importantly loves me! I know very high expectation but one I would reciprocate in every way!
"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter." - James Fennimore Cooper
During my cancer journey I lost a few friends but also became closer to others. I tried to ponder why I lost some friends – and think some of it was because I suddenly found myself disconnected from dozens of people who were my "friends". I was lax in returning calls mainly because I was going through a tough time and found myself not really up to talking to anyone and also became very inwardly focused. Most of my friends understood this and gave me space when I needed it although I can understand why others may have felt snubbed (this is the same for family as well). Some People just didn't know what to say so avoided me not being able to handle the negativity of my illness. I am certainly a different person now than when I was first diagnosed with cancer and although it has hurt to lose friends I have made some new friendships whose relationships are now developing and flourishing.
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. " W. Somerset Maugham
Eros is the kind of love which I don't have right now and not sure if I do want – although it's not completely off the agenda!!! This is all about making a strong emotional connection with another person - a type of love that creates excitement at the beginning of a new relationship where some people experience love with a lot of passion, intimacy and intensity. It's not necessarily a healthy kind of love and can become dangerous if it becomes idealised. Rolled into this is that some people experience love as a game to be played with other people's emotions to gain control over a partner through manipulation. For people who experience this kind of love, it is satisfying to outwit a partner and exploit his or her weaknesses. I have lived through this kind of love in many various ways and say no thank you!
"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable." – Dr Joyce Brothers
"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. " Leo Buscaglia
Love can be overwhelming experience; resulting in a complete loss of one's identity. Some people love tends to burnout before it gets the chance to mature. People who experience this kind of love are easily taken advantage of – I am not getting caught in this trap again either!
"Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow, we must fail in order to know, and sometimes our vision clears only after our eyes are washed away with tears." – Unknown
Charity is the love that brings forth caring regardless of the circumstance and some sees this as the greatest of loves. Charity came into English from Latin and Old French, meaning love and care for our neighbours. Some people experience this kind of love as being the caregiver or nurturing - attentive, caring, compassionate and kind - a more altruistic or selfless type of love. If you like, defined as "humanism". This kind of love has many faces, such as a warm smile to strangers, a personal thank-you-letter, an encouraging hug, an unexpected phone call, a thoughtful word of appreciation, a bonding with a person in grief, a prayer for the healing of others, a heartfelt forgiving when you are wronged. All this is done not out of duty or responsibility but out of the abundance of warmth and love you feel welling up inside you.
" You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. " Henry Drummond
This is the love I am trying to encourage and grow within me not just the feeling, but by actions. It is the kind of love I have most appreciated on my cancer journey which has taught me most of all compassion. You may not call it yourself love, but I think I would call it the most natural kind of love and one which is shared by all people because we are born with it. I don't want to be the kind of person who loves, but only in response to the love shown towards me. I want to be able to love freely, not judge people and dismiss them because of their views, or feelings, their background or the way they look or talk.
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Teresa
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. (NIV) 1 John 3:18
I am not looking to become the perfect person far from it - every day frustrations interfere, and I have also had to learn another valuable lesson in that I need to love myself as well – that also means taking care of myself from a health perspective and despite what I have gone through I am not very good at that either! It's something I do have to keep practicing like working the muscles in my ankle. Loving doesn't mean not getting angry or disappointed it just means doing what is right from your heart. You may disagree with me on several aspects in this blog – but a least you are having a debate with your heart and yourself (or others) on the nature of love!
"Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made. " Darren L. Johnson
However, you never know the strength or what the capacity of loving can do if you don't take a risk and dive in and what joy and happiness it can give you as well!
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscottus
"There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. " Charles Morgan


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Wow! We were busy last year, continuing to build a purposeful, joyful, and collaborative impact investing ecosystem. As we roll into 2018, we're keeping some wheels moving and starting to turn some new ones. Thank you to all of you for supporting us along the way and continuing to put impact first. We are happy to have you with us on this journey.
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Read on to see where we're headed in 2018.
These numbers amaze us! We are blown away by how many of you engage with our content. We hope your interest continues to grow, and we can continue to provide valuable information for you throughout your journey in impact investing and social entrepreneurship. Is there something you want us to talk about more often or share with our wider network? Just let us know. One of our goals for 2018 is to create more robust connections between actors in the social entrepreneurship and impact investing space. We believe these connections are key to sparking greater change and providing more opportunities for collaboration in the field. In order to learn about connections that are relevant to you, be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for our monthly newsletters: PeakInterest helps keep you in touch with what's going on in the space, and PeakOpportunities showcases ways anyone, accredited or not, can invest for impact.
When we're not busy with our own work, we make it a priority to support others in the impact investing and social entrepreneurship community. Some of the standout moments last year were our conference season sprint, ringing the NYSE opening bell with Change Finance, and presenting keynotes at Rockies Venture Club and the CO Universal Healthcare Conference and a lightning talk at International Women's Day. These were only a few of the hundreds of community events in which we participated. We look forward to the conversations we will get to have and events we plan to attend in 2018. Join us in the front row at an event - the more the merrier! Check out our events calendar to see the upcoming happenings in the impact community.
We refined processes, built out new tools for our services, and created a library of resources in 2017 - plus, we had a few portfolio exits. Our portfolio had four exits; and thankfully most of them were successful! Be on the lookout for a blog on these exits. We want to share our experiences and exit-related learnings in an effort to support other impact investors as they navigate similar processes. We were also lucky to build out the PeakChange team as we continued to grow our efforts this past year. We launched our Graduate Fellows program in January 2017. Four graduate students from the University of Denver participated by supporting various research, development, and communication needs of the organization. What's more, we added two team members to the PeakChange team at the end of 2017.
Our Standouts
The Denver Business Journal, in conjunction with the Impact Finance Center, launched its "Who's Who in Impact Investing" campaign this past fall. After a call for nominations, we were thrilled to find out Jim Davidson and PeakChange received the award in the family office category. We're looking for a repeat recognition in 2018!
A few years ago, Jim pledged to move 100% of his portfolio assets towards impact as part of Toniic's T100 initiative. This pledge encourages investors to move toward impact investments across all asset classes. This year we completed our second T100 report using Toniic's new SDG framework. We hope to present our experience with the T100 reporting tool, report our progress, and encourage others to participate and make the pledge in 2018.
As a prominent Colorado gender lens, angel investor, Melanie was asked to contribute to Cornerstone Capital's first Impact Report. The report features many Colorado thought leaders entrenched in the impact investing space. Her piece, "Welcome to the Impact Frontier," highlights the ways Colorado leads on impact. There's no need for the Denver-Boulder region to try to replicate other entrepreneurial communities, such as silicon valley. Rather, the action, innovation, and thought leadership coming out of this region contributes our unique perspective to the social entrepreneurship industry.
In order to better serve the impact community, we are launching a consulting arm that offers supporting services to individuals, groups of investors, and entrepreneurs. The services include portfolio management, due diligence, co-investment and syndication management, and entrepreneurial company audits. We're excited to see how we can serve the Colorado ecosystem in 2018 with these offerings. If you'd like to learn more about our consulting services or know someone that would, we'd love to hear from you! Email us at email@example.com.


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The summer Idira turned twenty-two, Logan came to the house with news. He paced back and forth in the kitchen, his arms crossed over his chest, his leather armour creaking in the warm, dry air. He turned to look at her, his shoulder-length dark hair tied back in a leather thong. A recent scar across his cheek made him look older than his twenty-five years. He hadn't shaved, but his stubble suited him. He had tried to kiss her once, the first day he had seen her in her new dress, made from the material he had bought for her. Despite her misgivings, curiosity overwhelmed Idira, so she let him. Their lips had barely touched before he had pulled back, abrupt, and stared at her, taken aback, rubbing the back of his hand across his mouth. It's like kissing my sister, he'd shuddered. Idira nodded, fighting the urge to gag. It had felt just as wrong to her too. From then on, the innuendoes stopped, and he treated her as a brother would, as fiercely protective of her as Unambi.
But right now Logan was furious. It seemed not only had Idira and Unambi survived the champions' attack on VanCleef's ship, but VanCleef's daughter Vanessa had also survived and had remained hidden in plain sight at the Saldean's farm; the child they had taken in and named Hope had grown into a young woman who pretended to be an upstanding member of Westfall's community. He eyed Idira, suspicious, distant.
'In all these years, why didn't you ever tell me?' he asked, anger edging his words, making them sharp.
Idira rubbed her palms up and down against her hips, nervous, rucking up the smooth material of her dress. She had never seen Logan like this before. He frightened her a little.
'You would have killed her,' she answered, quiet. 'She ran away the night we arrived. I thought she just wanted to put everything behind her, have a normal family after all she had been through. She was just a little girl!'
'Indeed,' Logan grated out the words, 'except that VanCleef's blood courses through her veins.' He slammed his fist into his hand. 'Just when we were starting to reclaim Westfall this had to happen. Until today I had no idea who our new aggressor was, despite all my investigations. We only knew someone was gathering forces to their cause, while killing my spies in Moonbrook. But now I know the truth!' He glared at Idira, hostile. 'I discovered it quite by accident while I rode here, to see you! One of our patrolmen writhing in his death throes, lived long enough to say she told him her name as she cut him, saying 'Hope' is a lie.' He moved closer, menacing. 'But here is the bitterest irony of all, that conniving, vengeful creature will take anyone into her ranks, even the enemies of her father.' Logan nodded, terse as Idira raised her hands to her mouth. 'Before she killed all my infiltrators, I had been getting reports Jac was losing control, his men in-fighting and jockeying for power, the entire structure of his organisation fragmenting. We were using it to our advantage, but now she has come along, determined to gather Jac's disaffected to her cause, the little bitch wants Moonbrook for herself. Now once more, our enemies are organising, and under someone we could have easily contained long ago.'
He glared at her, quivering with rage. When she said nothing he scoffed and turned away. Anger emanated from him, hitting Idira like a wall. He clenched and unclenched his fists.
Idira went to him and touched his arm. 'Perhaps I could talk to her, explain to her she is wrong. She is still young. She only turned sixteen last month.'
Logan scoffed. 'Talk to her? It's far too late for that. Do you know how many have fallen to her blades?' He turned and glared at her, uttering the number as though it were Idira's fault. 'Twelve. Friends, all of them. You should have told me.'
'Yes,' Idira murmured, trying to keep up, struggling to reframe the image of the little girl who played with wooden animals and listened to fairy tales into a cold-blooded, vengeful killer, willing to work with the very men who had bombed their home and driven them into the mines. 'I see that now, if I could turn back time, knowing what I now know I would do things differently. But what good does it do to—'
She stopped. The glass panes of the windows had begun to rattle. From far out in the sea, a deep rumbling rose, a low, ominous reverberation unlike anything she had heard before. The hairs on the back of her neck lifted, fuelled by a sudden deep sensation of dread. On their hooks against the wall, the copper pots and pans trembled, their clatter growing with each passing moment. The cupboards jiggled free of their latches, their doors falling open one by one, the plates and bowls stacked inside juddering to the cupboards' edges, tumbling to the floor. Jagged crockery shards slammed into the walls and furniture, and smacked against Idira's skirts.
Logan grabbed her hand and dragged her to the door, dust from the rafters tumbling over them. Idira stumbled after him, choking, trying not to trip on the hem of her dress as he bolted down the porch steps and around the side of the house toward the cliffs. He staggered to a halt, panting.
'What in the Light?' Logan breathed.
Idira gaped, incredulous, as she stumbled to find her feet. Logan caught her, steadying her. It was like something from one of her fairytale books. Only this wasn't an illustration. It was a real monster, living and breathing, coming straight at them.
At least five times the size of VanCleef's ship, a massive molten dragon flew low over the ocean, its enormous red and black wings beating a powerful, deep cadence. Waves rushed away from their heated blasts, building in force, rising up as high as the buildings in the square of Moonbrook, slamming into Stormwind's battleships trapped in the creature's wake, the waves battered them, tearing the juggernauts apart as though they were no more than toys.
As the creature drew closer, Idira stared, horrified. This was no typical dragon, nothing at all like the ones from her books. Its body had been covered by massive black metal plates, sheathing it like a suit of armour, but its armour had been bolted right onto his flesh with gigantic rivets. Molten lava seeped out from in between the cracks in great viscous drops, wherever they landed, the seawater evaporated into explosive geysers of steam. Clouds of thick ash spiralled out from the dragon's wake, spreading out across the hissing, burning sea. The dragon lifted its head and opened its mouth, its lower jaw crafted from a massive piece of metal, jagged and vicious looking. A vast swathe of molten fire spewed forth from it, incinerating the ships caught in its path. As it neared, the ground's shaking intensified, quivering from the deep reverberation of the dragon's wings. The cliffs cracked open and huge chunks of the hard-packed, dry earth loosened and tumbled away, carrying boulders and bushes with it, smashing them against the rocks on the beach far below.
She felt Logan tighten his grip on her hand, pulling her against him, protective. Down on the beach, a blur of movement caught Idira's eye. Margle ran, his little legs pumping, racing, desperate to reach the cliff path, keeping one eye on the incoming tsunami, its wall of water churning with shattered and burning pieces of ships, the water thundering so loud, it drowned out even the deep pounding of the dragon's wings.
Idira waved at the murloc, frantic, urging him on even as he reached the bottom of the cliff path and rushed up the hill, zigzagging around the falling rocks and earth. Idira bit her lip, begging the Light to protect him. She went to move closer to the path, to look down and watch his ascent, but Logan yanked her back, his expression fierce. He shook his head.
'It's too dangerous!' he shouted.
Her heart pounding, she turned her attention back to the sea, as the tide fell back, sucked far into the sea, exposing the hidden depths of the sea's floor. She eyed the climbing wall of water and the cliffs, gauging their heights. It was going to be close. Margle bolted up over the crest of the cliff, and ran behind Idira's skirt, clinging to it, gibbering in terror.
'Ya be gettin' up on da roof!' Unambi bellowed as he came barrelling towards them from the wheat field, his grass hat skittering behind him, buffeted by the wind, caught by its strap around his neck. He rushed over and scooped up the quaking murloc and ran to the house, with one quick movement he lobbed the poor thing up onto the roof's tiles. Idira followed after, tugging on Logan's hand. He stood stock still, transfixed by the dragon flying over the waters, burning Stormwind's ships, those still afloat desperately firing their cannons at it.
'Logan!' Idira yelled. The wall of water had met the tide and now a solid barrier rushed towards them, gathering speed, furious.
He started and turned. Still holding onto Idira's hand he bolted toward the house where Unambi waited, ready to hoist them up onto the roof. Idira ran as fast as she could, but her skirts kept tangling in her legs. Logan's arm went round her waist and she flew up into the air, landing on her stomach with a rough thump against his leather clad shoulder. She hung upside down, his arm gripping the backs of her thighs so hard it hurt. She lifted her head. The water had reached the crab pots. They exploded, smashed by the water's onslaught.
'Hurry!' she screamed. Unambi's strong hands took hold of her, and she lifted even higher. He spun her round. The roof loomed before her. She reached out, grabbed hold of the eaves, and scrambled up to the roof's peak, Logan and Unambi right behind her.
'What about Blackie?' Idira cried, searching the yard for her cat, frantic. 'And the chickens?'
'Dere be no time for dat,' Unambi hollered, the wind gaining force, tearing his hat free, sending it sailing up into the sky.
They clustered together, clinging to each other, watching, horrified, as the roaring, churning wall of water rushed towards them. It slammed against the cliffs, with a deep boom that shook the house. A spray of freezing water exploded over the cliff wall, drenching them and splattering the roof with seaweed dredged up from the deepest parts of the sea. Idira clutched onto Unambi and Logan, as the sea surged against the top of the cliffs, frothing, white, angry; ships' masts and shattered hulls roiling and turning in the violent waters.
The waves rose, inexorable, breaking over the crest of the cliff, rushing, hungry toward the house, knee deep, the bodies of dead fish, crabs and octopi tumbling, helpless in their watery grave. The sea crashed around the house's stone foundation, submerging the vegetable garden beside the kitchen. It swept under the porch, smashing into the steps, the force of it carrying them away into the yard. It raced, hungry, toward the chicken pen, the birds scuttled to the opposite side, huddling up tight against the wire, pushing their feathered breasts against it, trying to escape. Idira pressed her fists to her mouth, tears burning her eyes. Please. Not the chickens. She searched for her Light, seeking to protect them. Nothing happened. She tried harder. Still, nothing. She whimpered. Logan's arm came around her shoulders, squeezing her, reassuring her. He pressed his lips against her hair, distracted, kissing her head as though she were a child, hushing her.
Halfway across the chicken pen, the waters slowed, its depth decreasing even as it continued to creep towards the chickens, menacing, oblivious to their desperate, terrified cries. The wave stalled, the edge of the waters seethed but moved no further.
Stillness came, a dense bubble of silence settled over the farm, so still Idira's ragged breathing sounded like a roar in her ears. Far to the east, the acacia trees dotting the horizon leaned sideways, caught in a sudden blast of wind. It rushed towards the farm across the plains, flattening the wild grasses, and driving the tumbleweed, reckless over the land toward the cliffs. The wind slammed into them, cold and humid, heavy with the rich, briny stink of the deep ocean. It swept back over the cliffs and across the sea, returning to wherever it had come from. The waters followed it, sliding backwards, gaining speed as it scythed back to the cliffs, streaming, frantic, back to the sea, sucked by the force of the ocean's gravity struggling to return to its equilibrium. It poured over the edge of the cliff into the retreating sea, littering the mud-swept yard with dead and dying sea creatures.
Out over the sea, having no more boats left to destroy, the dragon roared and changed course, its body tilting at an improbable angle. It lowered its head, opening its mouth wide, preparing to exhale.
'It's heading straight for Stormwind,' Logan said, rising to his feet, pale. 'They can't fight that. No one can.'
The metal-encased molten dragon disappeared behind the mountain range separating the coast of Westfall from Stormwind's harbour. In the distance the faint sound of horns blared, what sounded like hundreds of them. The sound of explosions and screams carried to them on the heated air, driven across the mountain range by the power of the dragon's great wings, the cries of the dying reaching all the way to their farm in Westfall. Above the mountains, the sky darkened, blackening with ash, soon even the light of the sun was lost as the city's cinders spread out, covering the sky's canopy, enclosing the world in gloom. The underside of it glowed orange, reflecting the flames of Stormwind as it burned. The dragon emerged from the other side of the mountains, gliding over Elwynn Forest. It flew on, veering to the north, incinerating everything in its path.
Logan sank down, his jaw slack, disbelieving. 'Stormwind is gone. It's the end of the world,' he whispered, stricken. He sat, pale and trembling, staring out at the burning wreckage of the ships strewn across the sea.
From across the water came the wails of the survivors, mourning their dead. What about Nin, Arinna, and Bishop Mattias? How could they ever have survived that? She pressed her hands against her head, overwhelmed. Was everyone she loved meant to die? It was too much, too sudden, too vast, too strange. She looked down at the chickens. They still huddled together, frightened, pressed up against the fence, at least they had survived. She looked at the broken pieces of the porch's steps laying in the middle of the yard. It had gone far. She blinked. A sodden patch of black fur lay tangled within the splintered wood. No. Her heart started to pound. No. Please. No.
'Blackie!' she cried, scrabbling to get down from the roof, her eyes never leaving the cat, hoping against hope Blackie still somehow lived.
Ignoring Unambi's pleas for her to wait, to let him help her get down, she tumbled down from the roof, and landed spread-eagled, face first in the mud. She leapt to her feet and ran to the shattered steps, tripping over shipwreck debris, dead fish and crabs. Within the tangled mess of wood, Blackie lay silent and still, her body small and limp. Idira could hear Unambi coming, but she couldn't wait. Her heart in her throat, she tried to lift the sodden wood, but it was too heavy, and all she managed to do was tear her hands on its sharp, jagged edges. Unambi reached out and pulled the pieces away, careful not to hurt the cat. Blackie slid free, boneless, down onto the mud.
Her hands shaking, Idira picked up her cat and cradled its lifeless body on her lap. Seawater leaked out of Blackie's open mouth, her wide-open eyes, filming over in the drying air, betrayed her final moments of pain and terror.
Idira choked, tears burning her eyes. 'She hid under the porch, the place she always went whenever she was scared.' She lifted the muddy, soaking cat up against her chest, cuddling her against her filthy dress. 'Why didn't I think of it? Why didn't I go to you?'
Logan and Margle arrived; the murloc reached out to touch the cat, tentative, it gurgled, sad. She felt Logan's hand on her shoulder. He squeezed it, murmuring how sorry he was for her. She shook him off and shifted, putting her back to him, clutching the dead cat to her chest.
'Just leave me alone, please,' she whispered, her throat aching.
One by one they left, making desultory attempts to clear the yard. Idira looked down at her lost companion, grief and guilt overwhelming her. She cradled her in her arms, like a baby, stroking her face and kissing her nose.
'I'm so sorry,' she sobbed, as her tears spilled onto the cat's fur. 'I loved you, so much.'
After all their years together, just like that, Blackie was gone. She lay limp in her arms, the reflection of the burning skies the only light left remaining in her companion's silent, empty eyes.


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We understand how challenging it is, especially for a new writer, to get their work out and realize the recognition they deserve. For this reason, TellingTales Press endeavors to hold multiple literary competitions spread out through the year. These competitions serve as talent recruitment and recognition drives. Furthermore, other than offering cash and other prizes, TellingTales Press sponsors the publication of winning entries in anthologies and other publications. This is our small way of promoting authorship in Kenya, particularly for the youth.
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If a childhood crammed with fairy tales and princesses evolved into an adulthood filled with royal biographies, you quickly learned that being a princess wasn't all flowy dresses and tiaras. In fact, the more of those biographies you read, the worse it looks. Strict upbringings (Queen Victoria), being shipped off to some foreign country where you may or may not have known the language (literally everybody), being shut up in a tower (Juana of Castile). It all makes being a peasant look better and better.
Is there a better example of the princess plight than Marie Antoinette? If so, please don't tell me, because her story is depressing enough. I can't handle anything worse. Immersing myself in her world (for science!) has me thinking about our collective fascination with the doomed queen. Which part do we like better, the doom or the queen? Or is it the combination of both that makes her so compelling? Would be still be talking about Icarus if he had made a successful flight? But I'll spare you the philosophizing, which at any rate is better served alone with a glass of cognac than pinned to a blank page where it ends up squirming and looking quite small.
Every time I've mentioned this collection to someone IRL, their response can be summed up in one word. Cake.
Just...no. SHE LITERALLY NEVER SAID THAT. We all know that by now, right? The internet is full of very s-m-r-t people telling other people that Marie Antoinette never said "let them eat cake." There's so much proof. Like the fact that the whole story had been attributed to other royal women (it's always the women, isn't it?) for years and years before Marie Antoinette had even gotten to France. And there's a whole thing about brioche vs cake that I won't even get into. Because it doesn't matter. Because she never said it.
It may seem like I'm getting overexcited about the cake thing. I'm not really mad at the people today who still pair that quote with Marie Antoinette (but seriously people, stahp) so much as I'm mad at the 18th century jerks who started the story in the first place. Anyone who knows me knows I can hold a grudge. Sure you've been dead for 200 years, but that's NO EXCUSE. And the cake thing was the least of it. There was so much vile propaganda around Marie Antoinette that it's crazy. Sooo many pornographic pamphlets. Not quaint 18th century porn, but straight-up gross-yes-people-were-just-as-awful-back-then-and-can-you-believe-it type porn. Google at your own risk.
Wow this took a turn. Which is probably exactly how Marie Antoinette felt when she was swanning about trying to do her queenly duties until a gang of merchant women marched from Paris and burst into Versailles out for blood. I'm not trying to put down the revolution. Let's just say that it seems like their ire was not only misplaced but deliberately misdirected. And I have a lot of thoughts about how that happened and misogyny and the irony of the French deficit having been mostly due to their support of the American Revolution and why did Marie Therese who by all accounts was an amazing ruler of Austria raise her daughter to just do what the nearest man told her to do and also Louis XVI get it together omg.
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I have a confession to make. I've paused my audiobook of Antonia Fraser's The Journey with two hours left because I'm not sure I can handle the end. I want to picture Marie Antoinette at Petit Trianon milking her hand-washed cows into Sèvres porcelain buckets. I want to be her friend (you know, the one who tells you what to do and you kind of hate it but you kind of like it because she's always right, dammit). I want to push her and frigging Louis XVI into the carriage before the Women's March gets there (because they totally could have gotten away!). I would prefer not to end up with my head on a pike (do we even still have pikes?) like her actual best friend the Princess of Lamballe. I mean, can't you just picture if instead of everyone getting their heads chopped off, the French royalty ended up like the Brits and how many articles there would be on fashion blogs asking "who wore it better" and they wouldn't have to invent feuds between Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton because there would be a perfectly natural feud between the British and French royals?
In that world, everyone would talk about how Marie Antoinette wasn't great at being queen but she did her best and she was actually a really nice person who tried to help peasants even though it wasn't fashionable and how she had exquisite taste and contributed to the evolution of the decorative arts. I mean, they wouldn't word it exactly like that. But you get the idea. And no one -- NO ONE -- would ever mention cake.


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The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, was one of those events, like Pearl Harbor and 9/11, that everyone who was old enough at the time will always remember. Even children were affected by it.
In our neighborhood, kids discussed the assassination in backyards. I was eight years old and got most of my information from the 10-year-old girl across the street. It was her considered opinion that F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover was behind it, along with Vice President Lyndon Johnson.
This seemed perfectly reasonable to me, not only because of the 10-year-old's advanced age and undoubted wisdom, but because even among children of that time there was some sense that the Kennedys were involved with lots of shady characters. The cast of villains ranged from the mob to the comical (to us) Fidel Castro, and the Kennedys were known to be feuding with both Hoover and Johnson. We learned such things mainly from bits of grownup conversation, not that we had any more interest in politics than we did in homework.
JFK and his brothers, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Senator Edward Kennedy, were said to have benefited greatly from the wealth and connections of their father, and they were both Hollywood handsome and glamorous, a lesson not lost on any of us.
The 10-year-old also figured the Russians would attack us now that we had no president. This also seemed reasonable and, looking up at the gray November sky from our backyard clothes line that somber Friday afternoon, it seemed that waves of Russian bombers would be coming over any minute. None of us kids realized that Johnson became acting president as soon as Kennedy was incapacitated, nor were we yet aware that he had been officially sworn in on Air Force One just two hours after JFK died, before the plane headed back to Washington, D.C., from Dallas.
Everyone watched television all that weekend, something we normally weren't allowed to do, except in the evenings. We thought it was pathetic when Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, complained that a police officer had hit him during his arrest, especially considering that Oswald had also shot and killed a Dallas police officer shortly after he killed Kennedy. Oswald clearly was a whiny loser.
That Sunday we saw Oswald himself shot and killed on live national television by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby. This happened at 11:21 a.m. in Dallas, an hour later on the East Coast, by which time we were home from church. Our mother, preparing Sunday dinner, was standing in the kitchen doorway as we sprawled on the living room floor in front of the TV, and she wondered whether we children should be watching all this violence unfold.
However it affected us, the world in the 1960s seemed filled with violence and folly, a belief which time has only reinforced. Violence seemed to be the only means of settling disputes from Vietnam to the Watts riots, the killings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, the hippie protests and the counterculture bombings. We children came no closer to this real world mayhem while growing up than the pages of Life magazine and the nightly news with Walter Cronkite, although we did spend much of our own time re-enacting war and carnage on neighborhood battlefields.
For a time in the '60s it seemed like the only people who could become or aspire to the presidency were those with catchy initials like JFK, RFK or LBJ, not to mention FDR, or those with colorful nicknames like "Ike." Even the presidential wives had memorable names like "Mamie," "Jackie" and the unfathomable "Lady Bird." Richard Nixon, on the other hand, had neither a good name nor the Kennedy glamour, dooming his presidency from the start.
Since 1963, assassination experts have claimed that conspiracy theories thrive because the masses cannot accept that one insignificant person like Oswald could so alter history. But people can accept such things — if they are true. It's just that the Kennedys had so many enemies and misdeeds that aggrieved parties had to get in line and numerous powerful players could have initiated retaliation.
Today, the release of the last classified documents on the assassination has so far revealed no conspiracies involving Hoover, Johnson, Castro or anyone else. Perhaps details will continue to come out for other controversial events as well, such as the 1947 Roswell incident, so that we can finally learn how many aliens survived the crash and whether any of them are still living.
My old neighborhood advisor may disagree, but I don't think the Roswell aliens had anything to do with Dallas. Probably.
Mark Godburn is an antiquarian bookseller and writer in North Canaan. His book, "Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets," is available from the Oak Knoll Press.


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This is why we need to learn more about our enemy, Islam and their fifth columnist known as CAIR.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations
10 Facts about CAIR
1) CAIR was created by the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic supremacist organization that pioneered 20th century Islamic terrorism and sanctions violence against civilians.
2) CAIR only has about 5,000 members, despite a membership fee of just $10.
3) CAIR represents the opinions of only 12% of Muslim-Americans according to Gallup.
4) CAIR receives financial support from foreign powers who have also provided direct support to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and Hamas.
5) CAIR has solicited money from sponsors of terror and received financial support from convicted terrorists.
6) CAIR founders have praised terrorists to Muslim audiences and said that suicide bombers are acting on behalf of Islam.
7) CAIR has raised funds for terrorists under the guise of helping 9/11 victims.
8) CAIR board members have called for the overthrow of the United States and the imposition of Islamic law. CAIR has suggested applying Sharia punishment (ie. the death penalty) to users who criticize Islam on the Internet.
9) At least 15 high-level CAIR staff members have been under federal investigation for ties to Islamic terror.
10) CAIR has discouraged Muslim-Americans from cooperating with law enforcement and has spent more time and money advocating on behalf of convicted terrorists than for their victims.
Check out this poster distributed by CAIR to the Muslim-American community nine years after 9/11.
"From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired
with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists."
Assistant U.S. DOJ Attorney Gordon D. Kromberg
"Media in the United States is very gullible, ok? And they will see
that if you have something, especially as a Muslim, if you have something
to say, they will come running to you—and take advantage of that."
CAIR Vice Chari Sarwat Husain
For information on CAIR, please see:
The Investigative Project's report on The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
and CAIR Observatory
Source: Read more at Religion of Peace.com
Read more at http://janmorganmedia.com/2014/10/10-facts-cair/#vfTTVDP213wUcuyB.99


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Zipporah Films, distributor of the films of veteran documentarian Frederick Wiseman, has contracted mTuckman media to handle the US theatrical release of Wiseman's Cannes Directors Fortnight entry Boxing Gym.
The film, about an Austin, Texas gym where people of all ages, races and classes train, will open in New York City on October 22 before rolling out to theatres across the country.
Michael Tuckman's mTuckman previously handled the release of Wiseman's La Danse — The Paris Opera Ballet, which played in nearly 150 US theatres and has grossed over $600,000.
Boxing Gym, which had its world premiere at Cannes last month, was produced by KO Films Inc in association with the Independent Television Service and Public Broadcasting Service, with support from support the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, and LEF Moving Image Fund.
Sara Kiener's Film Presence will once again handle marketing and outreach on the film, as it did for La Danse.


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Bardessono Hotel - Ultimate Green Luxury
As we drove up to the hotel on the 6-acre lush property, we felt immersed into an unhurried, relaxed environment akin to a remote countryside. Nestled in this tranquil oasis surrounded by green hills sits Bardessono, the 62-room luxury hotel, spa and restaurant in Napa Valley's "walking village" of Yountville.
From the moment we entered the parking and stepped into the high-ceiling lobby with earth-friendly décor, the pleasant staff welcomed us at every turn. The concierge, Muhamad, immediately asked for my hand-carry travel bag, "We don't allow our guests to handle the luggage," he said, smiling. He led us past a soothing waterfall structure that resembled an olive press, to our room -- 312. The airy guest room is contemporary and elegant with earthy tone palette, blending harmoniously with the furnishings and architecture. A bottle of cabernet sauvignon awaited on the table and a warm welcome note for us. Every room has a fireplace and motion sensors that control the heat, light and the shades, which open and close automatically when guests leave the room. The floor-to-ceiling windows also have a green motive: letting in natural light and saving energy. I always favor a spacious bathroom, and this one was about 300 square feet, with two vanity areas, a steam shower, an attached outdoor shower, and a large Jacuzzi bathtub.
When we headed out for dinner at Bouchon Bistro, the helpful valet offered to drive us in the hotel's guest car and to pick us up from the restaurant. En route to Bouchon, he showed us a path through a garden walkway across the street, should we prefer to take a stroll back to the hotel after dinner (which we did). The Bardessono is a 5-minute walk from multiple Michelin star restaurants and shops in the area. The hotel also features its own restaurant, Lucy, named for the matriarch of the Bardessono family who emigrated from Italy to Yountville in 1928. They owned the property where the luxury hotel now sits.
Every morning the staff provides complimentary Peet's coffee and petit pastries at the restaurant bar, though I was happy to stroll across to the crowded Bouchon Bakery for a pistachio brioche and to mingle with the townsfolk.
The hotel opened in 2009 and earned Platinum Certification status from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) organization in 2010; a distinction shared by only two other hotels in the world.
"All the buildings are sculpted from salvaged wood found within a one hundred mile radius of the hotel," said Kini Parente, director of sales and marketing at Bardessono. Redwood wine barrels were repurposed to create ceilings; reclaimed wood from Claro walnut and Bay laurel trees was formed into desks and doors. The grounds are accented with olive trees, stone walkways and zen-like waterfalls. The eco-chic design proves that luxury and sustainability can exist; Bardessono runs on fifty percent less electricity than similar sized hotels, owing to nearly 1000 solar panels.
After a fun-filled day of dining, wine tasting and sightseeing, one can retreat to the suites, designed for in room spa treatments, with a fold out massage table and bath products by REN, a company that uses plant and mineral ingredients. For an added touch, a spa professional can draw a bath and sprinkle floating orchids.
While the rooms are modern, the hotel ambiance exuded ample warmth and charm with its beautiful serene landscape and excellent guest service. The seamless efforts between the staff and its luxurious sustainable environment created a memorable stay-- one that we look forward to returning soon.
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Head & Hands 2018 Xmas Gift Guide
Winter is a special time of year where we all come together to fill our bellies, reconnect with friends and family, crunch through the sparkling snow, and share in the Christmas spirit. I love gifting a mix of handmade goods and carefully selected, sustainable products, to spread some Christmas magic, whilst doing your bit for the environment.
Here's a pick of some of my earthly treasures from across the UK and beyond that cater for all budgets. These beautiful products are handpicked by me for their slow-living vibes and ethical nature – and there really is something for everyone. Choose independent sellers this year, as you will be making their Christmas dreams come true!
The Lunar Lover
For that someone who loves to manifest with the moon, there hand poured soy candles are magically and spiritually powerful. Its soothing aroma calms the conscious mind before any self care rituals, and promotes higher levels of consciousness, helping with personal growth, spiritual inspiration and manifesting peace. Mama Moon is a magical woman who uses scent magic to activate special powers and influence our moods. A must for anyone who likes to harness the energy and rhythmicity of the moon.
Caffeine Queen (or King)
This handmade stoneware cup is a great addition to your Christmas day rituals and perfect size for your coffee (or mulled wine!), with its thumb indents for ultimate comfort. Wheel-thrown or handmade by ceramicist Emma Voller in London, her ceramics are made with a focus on functional forms and aim to bring a little bit of fun and beauty to every day uses.
Potty about Plants
Duck Ceramics - Stubby Tumbler
This handmade porcelain pot is perfect for small succulents and cacti, Duck Ceramic's trademark drippy striped design complement any space. Duck Ceramics is an independent pottery studio run by Alice Duck. Originally founded in a small attic room in her Bristol flat, Alice now makes and finishes each piece by hand in her Brighton studio. No two pieces are the same and Alice relishes in the unexpected outcomes of each piece, ensuring each hand-crafted item has its own character and charm.
The Happy Home-maker
Woven Wall Hanging by Apple Daisy May
From £30
For that friend that loves sprucing up their place, or a newly moved buddy has empty walls in need of some love. These textural wall hangings are a really thoughtful gift. Weavings last lifetime and help make a feature out of any wall.
Beauty Babe
The Daily Glow face oil by Neighbourhood Botanicals
Who else gets super dry skin during these colder months? This softening, strengthening facial oil will give you that much needed moisture boost, whatever your gender! It also leaves you smelling like a summer fresh lawn in a citrus orchard. Packed with Vitamin C and antioxidants, this natural facial oil will help to repair your skin after one too many Christmas parties.
The Cosy Hermit
Slip on Lounge Slippers by Himalayan People
I mean, just look at them! So snazzy. Koolaahs are a traditional handwoven, generations-old craft from the Northern Indian Himalayas and each pair is completely unique. They are crafted by women in remote Indian villages in beautiful vivid colours and are easy to slip on and off, for slow days in front of the fire.
Good Vibes Pal
Incense dish by Orenda Ceramics
For that friend who loves burning incense and making their home feel like a sensory palace, this gorgeous dish is a joy to unwrap. Why not treat them to some palo santo incense sticks from Incausa to compliment the dish. Every dish is hand thrown in London, each one is unique and has it's own signature charm and spirit.
The Future Seeker
Iris Oracle Deck by Mary Evans
Iris is a full colour 78 card oracle deck, full of vibrant and compelling illustrations. I have been a huge fan of Mary Elizabeth Evans and her traditional folk art style for a long time, and this beautiful deck adds that something extra to your divinatory and healing practices.
The Curveball
Natural Deodorant by West Apothecary
Now, I know deodorant isn't the sexiest of gifts but this is some seriously revolutionary stuff! This natural balm is consciously made with shea butter, coconut oil, lemongrass and peppermint and leaves your underarms feeling mighty fresh for up to 24 hrs. There's no nasties in it, it smells great, and the little jar is handy for re-using afterwards. Time for a new deodorant for 2019?
That Special Someone
The Oracle Collection Signet Rings
from £180.00
The five statement rings in this collection, created in a special partnership between Sharla of Sharlala Jewellery and I, each have their own distinctive symbol and secret meaning. Each unique ring is a precious, wearable talisman bearing a message of Truth, Trust, Light, Honour or Wisdom. Which one will you give to that special person to behold and treasure?


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Chatting with a Functional Dietician - Ryan W.
You're a Functional Dietician and Nutritionist. What does that mean to you?
It means that my job is to help people who need help getting healthy again through diet and dietary changes. Oftentimes, we think we know what we need to do in order to get better, or Doctor Google can help us, but my job is to help people in a way that they're able to make changes, and help them to facilitate these changes.
How long have you been doing this?
I've been a dietician for six and a half years, but I have been in private practice officially for three and a half years. Before I even went into private practice I was seeing people on the side here and there just to gain some confidence. At the same time I was working for a food service company and I was also working at a hospital doing per-diem work for them, so I was doing that for a few years before I made the leap into private practice. I've been there ever since and am enjoying it. Now that I'm in private practice, I also teach a class at a university for a master's level course, so that keeps me busy as well.
What interests you most about nutrition?
Originally, I was never interested in nutrition at all, believe it or not. I could've cared less about it and never gave it a thought. It wasn't until I was in my mid twenties when a number of things happened. A friend of mine mentioned she was seeing a nutritionist at her gym. The next day at my gym I saw there was a sign for a nutritionist that I had seen so many times but never actually noticed, so I thought "I should go see this nutritionist and see what she can do for me." My goal was to gain weight. I didn't want to be a big guy, but I just wanted to put on some muscle because I've always been very lean and thin. The thing that I liked about her is that she got me to try a lot of foods I had never eaten before, which was great. Believe it or not I had never eaten an egg before! That was the good thing. The bad thing was, although I was able to gain 30lbs, very little of it was pure muscle; it was mostly fat. I gained 30lbs of fat and I didn't even recognize myself. I was embarrassed and ashamed that I had spent all of this money and didn't have a six-pack to show for it. That led me to think "what did I do wrong?". I researched her background and I realized she called herself a nutritionist but in New York state, where I was living, anyone can call themself a nutritionist and practice. So, anyone in New York state can call themselves a nutritionist even if they don't have a background in nutrition, and as it turns out, her background was in environmental science, so I was working with someone who didn't really have the background to do what she was doing. That propelled me to go back to school to then become a dietician.
How has nutrition changed since you began working in the industry?
I feel like when I got into it in 2012, holistic health and nutrition was a thing and people believed in it, but it was still on the periphery of nutrition. Now, I think holistic nutrition and holistic therapy is taking more of a front seat in a person's treatment plan as opposed to a back seat. I think more people are turning to diet as a way to help them overcome whatever issues they have. Honestly, most conditions, especially the top 7 out of 10 leading causes of death in the United States today - heart disease, cancer, stroke, lung disease, accidents, pneumonia/influenza, diabetes mellitus, suicide, kidney disease, and liver disease/cirrhosis – seven are linked to diet and lifestyle and I think more and more people are turning to diet as opposed to medications because they realize medication may help with the symptoms, but it's not addressing the root cause. I think more people are having that mind shift, which is great because more people are opting to go the more natural route.
What makes you different from other dietitians? What is your specialty?
I do something called food sensitivity testing. I focus on hypersensitivities relating to the diet that are not allergies. The reason I do this is because our bodies can react to anything, except water, baking soda, and salt. So, I work with people who are ill and have been suffering for a long time and can't figure out why. With food sensitivity testing we figure out which foods their immune system is reacting to and take them out of the diet. Why this makes me so special is that I am one of less than one percent of dietitians in the country that offers this type of service. It's a very niche thing. There are a lot of opinions about this. When it comes to food sensitivity most practitioners will use IgG (Immunoglobulin G) testing for food sensitivities and that is not a good way to do it. Many other dietitians don't offer what I offer so it's something special when a person who works with me gets this kind treatment because chances are they're not getting it from anybody else.
Are there any questions that you as a dietitian/nutritionist wish people would ask you?
Yes! There are a lot of questions I wish they would ask me. The question they always ask is "How much?" But they never seem to want to know what that includes. So, if I say to you, and I am just throwing a number out there, $10,000 for a pair of shoes, $10,000 for a car, or $10,000 for a house, you're probably going to think "what's wrong with the house?" and "why are the shoes so expensive?", but with the car it's "oh, well $10,000 doesn't seem so bad. What kind of car is it? How many miles are on it?" People ask those types of questions when it comes to consumer goods, but they don't ever really ask those questions about the services a doctor or a dietician will provide. They just want to know the price, but they don't want to know what's included. I think when you know what's included it gives you a better understanding of what you're getting when you pay a practitioner to help you. So, to answer simply I would say patients should ask more questions about what they're getting for working with a practitioner like myself rather that "what does it cost?".
What are some of the ways you help people in their workplace?
I work with Welnys and I also work with some other companies, and one of the things we have done in the past are "Biggest Loser" style challenges where the employees can come to my lectures and support groups and we can talk to each other to see what has worked for one person and what hasn't worked. We will do metabolic testing on site, which is a really cool way to figure out someones metabolism because believe it or not there are times that people don't eat enough and wonder why they can't lose weight. They think "I've been eating so little and working out yet I haven't lost any weight." Believe it or not, it's because they're not eating enough to fuel their body, so we test their metabolism and see that they're only eating 1200 calories daily, but they need 1800 calories daily. It's a really cool way to see everything quickly and have objective data in your hands telling you what is going on with your metabolism at that point in time.
Do you see a shift happening in public perceptions about nutrition?
I do. I am starting to see more of a shift. I'm not saying this to disparage doctors in any way, but I often find a lot of resistance from patients who say they've never heard about this from their doctor, and they want to know why I am the first person they've heard this from. Even though doctors don't study nutrition in depth, they study medicine which is a very different field. A lot of times doctors will understate the power of diet or nutrition which is scary because they may be telling their patients "Don't worry about your Crohn's disease, eat whatever you want, diet has no effect." and I've actually heard that before. Patients will come to me and say they would love to get tested for sensitivities but their doctor had never mentioned it before. There are still some people who still believe that what their doctor says must be true and therefore they will not question it. Then there are others who think it doesn't seem right and they will reach out to me. They know their doctor is good at XYZ but when it comes to diet they're not buying it. I'm finding more and more of those patients are coming my way. I hope practitioners like myself can help to bend the curve over the next decade or so to really get people to change the way they think about diet and health and how food plays such an important role.
Something fun: What is your favorite wellness related activity and why?
I have two of them. One of them is sleeping, it really is so much fun! Besides that, during my waking hours it would be yoga. I absolutely love yoga. It makes me get out of the house and it makes me use my body in a way I don't usually use it. It's a great sense of community, and you can meet a lot of wonderful people there. I think that is something that today we are missing. We are missing a lot of face to face contact. Everything is on social media and virtual, which has its place, but there's something to be said for that face-to-face contact, and I think yoga gives me that community. It's also a time for me to clear my head and let things go.


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He killed someone in 2005. Last year he tried to rob a man who was shot in Lakewood.
A man has been sentenced for an attempted robbery at a Lakewood motel during which the victim was shot.
Superior Court Judge Frank Cuthbertson sentenced 30-year-old Willie James Carter on Thursday to seven years, nine months in prison — after Carter pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree robbery and unlawful gun possession.
Carter was not allowed to have a gun at the time of the attempted robbery, which happened last year.
That's because he has prior convictions, such as for fatally shooting a man in 2005 during a drug deal in New Orleans. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter as part of negotiations with prosecutors in that case, and Louisiana court records show he was sentenced to five years in prison.
Court records give this account of what happened in the Lakewood incident:
The victim was lured to a room at the motel July 20, 2016, in the 9900 block of South Tacoma Way. Carter then pointed at gun at the man and demanded his necklace. The victim charged Carter, and the two struggled.
Another man accused in the attempted robbery, Alexander Xavier Sharp, joined the fight.
An acquaintance of both Carter and Sharp, Willie Lee Joyner V, then grabbed a gun and shot the victim in the back.
The victim also was armed and fired as the others fled. He survived his injuries.
Joyner, 27, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison in March, after he pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree assault.
Sharp, 29, got four years and a couple months behind bars in May, after he pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree robbery. He maintained his innocence but agreed to a plea deal because he believed he'd likely be convicted at trial.
Alexis Krell: 253-597-8268, @amkrell


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- Caterham
Caterham hopes to race in Abu Dhabi
The administrator of Caterham expects the team to be in a position to race at the season finale in Abu Dhabi.
Caterham missed the United States Grand Prix and will be absent from the race in Brazil this weekend having entered administration in October, five days before rivals Marussia suffered a similar fate. On Wednesday, Caterham's team name was included on the FIA's provisional entry list for 2015.
Speaking about the end of this season Finbarr O'Connell, Caterham's administrator, told Reuters: "We are now extremely hopeful that we will be going to Abu Dhabi. I think I've got enough confidence now to say I'd be very surprised if we were not racing in Abu Dhabi. I'm now really hopeful for the future of the team."
O'Connell also told the news agency he has been struck by the commitment of employees who have continued working for free at Caterham's Leafield factory to ensure the team is ready to race, calling them "a phenomenal team of people."
Caterham's entry on the 2015 list was under the name of 1Malaysian Racing Team, whose ownership is currently unclear. O'Connell told Reuters the entry had been made without a fee being paid - the deadline for this being November 30 - but said "we are trying to sell a racing team and clearly a new owner will want to be racing next season."


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CALIFORNIA INSTRUMENTS - FCS18M AC power source
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3 tbsp olive oil
2 red onions, peeled and minced
3 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
1 tbsp mixed dried herbs (parsley, thyme, oregano, marjoram)
4 sprigs fresh thyme, leaves picked
2 eggplant, cut into 2cm cubes
3 red or orange capsicums, deseeded and diced
3 courgettes, diced
1 x 400g tin crushed tomatoes
1 x 400g tin cherry tomatoes
1 cup water
1 tbsp balsalmic vinegar
sea salt and pepper to taste
1 handful fresh basil leaves
6 cups water
1 tbsp salt
2 3/4 cups orzo
olive oil
sea salt and pepper to taste
freshly grated parmesan and basil leaves to garnish
Orzo pasta cooks in about half the time that rice does making it a speedy standby to have on hand. This dish can also be served with grilled chicken for an even heartier meal.
Heat oil in a large, heavy pot on medium-high heat. Add onions, garlic and herbs and sauté for 5-10 minutes or until onions have softened. Add eggplant, capsicum and courgettes and sauté for another 5-10 minutes until courgettes are slightly tender.
Add tomatoes, water and balsamic vinegar and season to taste with salt and pepper. Bring to the boil and reduce heat to simmer for approximately 30 minutes or until vegetables are tender and the sauce has reduced. Stir from time to time.
While the sauce is simmering, place water in a large pot and bring to the boil. Add salt and then orzo and cook as per packet instructions. Drain and transfer to a large mixing bowl. Drizzle with a little olive oil, season with salt and pepper and mix through.
Remove from heat and stir through basil leaves.
To serve, divide orzo among bowls an spoon ratatouille on top. Top with parmesan and basil leaves.


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Program: Media Presentation, Panel Discussion, Wine Reception
As a part of our series on Violence Against Women, join us for an important gathering to raise awareness of domestic/intimate partner violence and the role of culture and gender-inequity.
When: October 17, 2013, Thursday, 6:00-9:00pm.
Featuring: Sujata Warrier, Ph.D. – Director of the NYS Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence; Jennifer DeCarli, Esq., LMSW – Executive Director Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence; and many more.
Click for more details and to RSVP. Seats are limited!
Check out the new NYC campaign press release for "That's Abuse" here.
Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence has unveiled a multi-layered public service campaign that will empower victims of intimate partner violence to seek they help they need. "That's Abuse" will appear at bus shelters, subway cars and platforms, grocery store circulars, community-based organizations, businesses throughout key neighborhoods, and common areas at numerous City agencies.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Victims of domestic violence, or their friends and family, can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-SAFE (7233), 24 hours a day, anywhere in the U.S. to speak to a counselor and find local support services.


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Wealden District Council
Our web payment system is currently unavailable. We are working with our providers to ensure this facility is working again as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience.
Information on car parks and parking fines, travel and keeping Wealden's streets clean.
You can also request postal addresses for new properties and find out about footpaths and road closures.