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Property Ref: 46574
All times & distances are approximate as a guide only: Stansted airport 24 miles - 45 mins - London Heathrow Airport 40 miles - 55 mins - Luton Airport 13 miles - 25/30 mins - Stevenage 3.5 miles - Welwyn Garden City 6 miles - Hertford 7.5 miles - St Albans 15 miles - M25 circa 15 miles - A1(M) Junction 6 - 3 miles - Kings Cross 30/35 minutes by rail.
Open canopy porch with quarry tiled step and original ½ glazed front door opening to:
A welcoming entrance hall with wall lights, stripped pine doors to the majority of the downstairs accommodation, radiator and staircase to the first floor with window on half-landing, Door to:
A bright and characterful dual aspect room with high ceiling, plaster cornice, bay sash window to the front and a further sash window to the side. There is a fireplace with gas coal effect fire and stone hearth, four wall lights and 2 radiators.
This impressive south facing room provides a delightful raised aspect across the charming, mature garden, with sliding glazed doors opening onto a sun terrace. Further light is provided by high level windows to the side. There is a feature curved chimney breast with open fireplace and stone hearth, oak strip flooring, 2 pendant ceiling lights, 2 wall lights and 2 radiators. Wide opening to:
Presently very much part of the living room, this area could be easily be separated by doors if so desired in order to provide a study space. It currently provides a window to the side, a window to the rear, 1 wall light, inset ceiling spotlights and fm aerial point. There is stripped oak flooring.
This elegantly proportioned space has a large sash window to the front, window to the side, character painted panelling and plate shelf. Once again there is strip oak flooring, 6 wall light points and steps down to:
This generous family space has a fine part vaulted ceiling and an extensive range of cream panelled wall and base units incorporating a breakfast island with DAB radio aerial and ample roll top working surfaces with splash tiling. Eye level electric fan oven and 5 ring gas hob with canopy extractor hood above, space for fridge/freezer, space for dishwasher, and a stainless steel single drainer sink unit with mixer tap. Laminate floor, 2 radiators, inset spot lighting, sliding patio doors to the garden, door to utility room, and further door to:
Wall and base cupboards with drawers and working surfaces, stainless steel sink unit with mixer tap, Worcester gas boiler, water softener, Velux window, window to front and door with access to the vegetable garden. Sliding door to:
White suite comprising low level WC and corner wash basin. Ceramic tiled floor, opaque window to the front , radiator and extractor fan.
Fitted wall and base units with roll edge working surfaces, space for washing machine and dryer, built in cupboard with space for freezer, and a ceramic tiled floor. Steps lead up to a door with access to the entrance hall and a further low door leads to:
With light and a storage heater.
Sash window to rear on ½ landing, and doors to:
This generous double room has a walk in sash bay window to the front, fitted wardrobe, TV point, 2 wall light points and 2 radiators. Door to:
Suite comprising low flush WC with bidet, pedestal wash hand basin and a double shower cubicle with fitted screen, Aqualisa shower and tiling.
Another well proportioned room with sash window to front, picture rail, vanity wash hand basin with cupboard below, hatch to loft area and TV point.
A bright room with a window overlooking the rear garden, radiator and ceiling light and TV point.
Steps down from landing leading to:
With sash windows to both the front and rear, 2 radiators, TV ariel point and a pedestal wash hand basin to one corner. This room has a pretty shaped ceiling.
Approached via steps down from the main landing, the bathroom has a white suite comprising free standing, roll top bath with mixer tap and hand held shower attachment, low level WC, bidet, wooden vanity unit with drawers and inset sink, and shower cubicle with Mira electric shower. There is a shaped ceiling, window to the side, tiling to the walls with feature dado tiling, and ceramic tiled floor.
Approached via the split staircase from the entrance hall, the second landing leads to:
This pretty, irregular shaped room has windows to both the side and rear. There is a radiator and pendant ceiling light. Currently installed with Virgin Media Vivid 100MB optical fibre Internet.
There is a low flush WC and corner wash hand basin with tiled shelf. Sliding doors open to an airing cupboard providing shelved storage space and housing a lagged hot water tank. A further cupboard houses the central heating controls and there is a window to side.
93' x 77' approx.
The southerly rear garden is a stunning feature of this property, and has been planted with skill and care. There are deep herbaceous beds to the side and a wide central lawn leading to an area planted with mature trees that provide a good degree of privacy. Approached from the kitchen breakfast room, there is paved raised terrace with flower beds and steps that in turn lead down to the lawn. There are pathways, an arbour, and a shaded garden all providing further interest. There are 2 outside water taps and side access with gate leading to:
With paved pathway and vegetable beds, 8' x 7' potting shed and door into the boot room.
Light & power, tall wooden entrance doors and a vehicle inspection pit. This garage would be ideal for use as a workshop or gym.
Light and power, electric up and over door, and window to rear. The light is part of the door mechanism and lasts for a few minutes. Electrical sockets.
The shingle carriage driveway provides parking for up to 8 cars, there are mature trees, some planting, and a low wall to the front boundary.
The pebble dash front and side brick walls were treated in 2009 with Andura Classic 2, long life coating guaranteed for 15 years.
The property has 9 solar panels and we are advised by the seller this yields £920 approx per annum.
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Definition of rational
- a rational explanation
- rational behavior
- a rational root of an equation
human beings are rational creatures
insisted there was a rational explanation for the strange creaking noises and that there were no such things as ghosts
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First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1aSee Words from the same year
commonsense, commonsensible, commonsensical, firm, good, hard, informed, just, justified, levelheaded, logical, reasonable, reasoned, sensible, sober, solid, valid, well-founded;
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: based on facts or reason and not on emotions or feelings
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Malicious Secrets, the second book in the Sam Parker mystery series based in Temecula, California is an exciting ride!
Malicious Secrets: A Sam Parker Mystery
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Samantha Parker is
back with a new job as a private investigator and new cases to solve.
Frank, her boss, has finally assigned her a big case. One that will
surely help her to prove herself. All she has to do is discover what
could have happened to a college girl that has been missing for seven
months, and find out if she's dead or alive. And with an increasing body
count, it won't be easy.
As a new PI without much more than her gut instincts to go on, Sam enlists the help of a detective in the police department to assist her in finding out what could have happened to the girl. He's got the experience, and she knows in order to get the job done, she's going to have to stay close to him and learn what she can. It doesn't hurt that Detective Jake Reilly is oh so sexy either!
As the second book in Maria Pease's Sam Parker Mystery series, this fast paced detective mystery finds Samantha Parker in some compromising situations as she works her caseload. Financial scams, cheating spouses, missing persons and deviant behaviors are just the tip of the iceberg, but with her sense of humor intact and her lucky undies to give her confidence, she's ready for whatever comes her way.
Malicious Secrets includes eye-opening adventures involving financial trickery, cheating spouses and even the vampire culture. It's exciting to learn more about Sam Parker's "keen ability to visualize things and events" via Maria Pease's second installment in her mystery series that takes place right here in the Temecula Valley. You won't want to put it down!
- Jan Roberts, Temecula, CA
Maria Pease hits a
home run with her second in the Sam Parker Mystery series.
Samantha Parker is a
young determined women, trying to make it as a private investigator. Sam has
what it takes; she is smart, energetic and curious with the raw gut feelings
that that will make a great PI. Get ready to go to some pretty dark places with
Sam as she gets herself into situations that are both thrilling and dangerous.
Sam knows what she wants, except when it comes to men. Her
love life isn't quite as clear as her profession. Malicious Secrets is a page
turner that you won't want to put down, so clear your calendar for another
exciting adventure with Sam Parker, PI.
- Lisa Beach, Business Owner/Educator
Malicious Secrets, the second in the Sam Parker Mystery Series, is smart, sexy, funny, and exciting. It's a page turner that will keep you guessing and anxious to see what's next and you'll be extremely entertained throughout. Couldn't put it down!! It's a real winner, a must read.
Andrea Tomes
Secrets is a page turner from start to finish that I promise will keep you
vastly entertained. I found Samantha Parker's character to be both engaging and
charming. I am eager to read more about her in the near future and discover
where the next novel may lead. The Malicious series is addicting and
gratifying. Maria Pease is a hilarious author who delivers an outstanding
murder mystery which is based in her home town of Temecula, California. Her
writing style is filled with tons of suspense, wittiness and adventure. I
guarantee you that this is a must read and Maria Pease will be one of your
preferred authors too!
- Christine Lowry Teskoski;
Educator; Temecula, California.
If you thought
Temecula, California was all about wine and cowboys…you'd be wrong. Strap in
for the newest page turner from Maria Pease. PI Sam Parker is a little bit like
the girl next door and a little like Stephanie Plum… in a PG kinda way. She's a
wiseass, she's stubborn, and she's reckless. Lucky for her womanizing
boss, Frank and the people of Southern California, she's also a very good
While questioning the parents of a missing Temecula college girl, Sam senses that they're holding something back, that there's more to the story. And is there ever! The investigation takes some very interesting twists and turns as the story unfolds, revealing secrets, lies, friendships, cults, cover-ups, suicide, jealousy, alternative lifestyles, denial and murder. Did I leave anything out? Be prepared to stay up past your bedtime. Some questions can't wait until morning for answers. I guarantee you will never think of this sleepy California town, or your own, the same way ever again!
- Deborah Brischler, Business Owner
Chapter 1
Heading out of my office, I found myself having to do something I dreaded, you know, a chore that causes that feeling in the pit of your stomach like you don't know whether you're going to blow your cookies all over the place or be able to control it. Well, that's how I was feeling right now. I was on my way to perform a task that I really hated doing, but unfortunately, this was my responsibility and I had to do it in order to get the job done. It was square one, and there was no getting around that.
Her story is one you may have heard before. She's a nice, clean cut college girl. She's pretty and smart, has lots of friends, and as far as anyone knows, she isn't in any kind of trouble. But then she disappears…just like that.
Why should I care? It's my job. I'm not a seasoned cop and as a matter of fact, I haven't even been an investigator very long, but now it was my case and I was expected to find out what happened to her. It wasn't going to be easy, I knew that. So I read and re-read her file again and again, trying to come up with a clue, an idea, no matter how slight, about what could have happened to her. Everything I have read so far tells me she's dead…except the feeling in my gut. That's telling me a whole different story.
She's been missing for seven months, yet the police haven't been able to give her parents any answers and they could no longer stand not knowing what happened to their little girl. That's what they said. But she wasn't a little girl. She was a grown woman and could do as she please. They also told me that it wasn't like her to just go off. They were a close family and had been through so much. She would never leave, not without saying something and even then . . . no, she just wouldn't do it. That is what they told me.
My name is Samantha Parker and I am a PI trainee. Having been on the job for four months now, I have spent much of my time trying to prove myself worthy. You see, I fell into this profession by accident, but I love it and would really like to be good at it. This, by the way, is no easy task.
The question I had to ask myself was, did I have faith in humanity? Since taking on this job I had spent a lot of time pondering that question. That about explains how I have to look at each new case that is assigned to me. Otherwise, I don't think I could even get out of bed to try. Now, I was once again, asking myself if I had faith.
Driving down Rancho California Road, way overdressed, in my opinion, in a navy blue skirt, white top and navy high heels, my mind was on the task at hand. Simply put, I had been assigned to assist in an investigation concerning a young woman missing for seven months. A job that becomes increasingly difficult as time passes by, and seven months for a case like this is... well, it can be very challenging.
As I passed the Callaway and Miramonte wineries on my left and approached South Coast winery I knew I had a bit farther to go to get to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins, parents of Becky Hawkins, age twenty-one, allegedly missing but most likely deceased.
I had butterflies in my stomach and my mouth was dry. I had to talk to these people and bring them back to a painful time in their life, and ask them to remember all the details. I hate this part of the job because I always find myself feeling responsible for having to make them relive their pain. But if I could help to solve the case, well, it makes it all worth it in the end.
Turning right on Anza, I found myself on a small country road, surrounded by orange trees. The aroma was delicious, and for a moment, I lost the anxious feeling building up inside of me. But when I turned down the rocky dirt driveway, the anxiety returned ten fold and I didn't think I could do it, although I knew I had to.
The house was a one story, mid-sized ranch style home with fruit trees and an avocado grove. A small grey barn surrounded with an aged whitewash fence sat to the right side of the tattered lawn area where two frumpy old horses stood under the one tree that provided some shade.
Thankful that I had prepared a list of questions, and determined to remain calm, I rang the doorbell only to have it answered by a man who caught me off guard by presenting a more youthful appearance than I had anticipated.
"You must be Miss Parker," he said, extending his hand. "I'm Andrew Hawkins. Please come in. My wife is out back. Let me call her."
Waiting, I took inventory of the place and found that the exterior, for which dumpy was the only word that came to mind, didn't do it justice since the living room into which he had lead me was warm and cozy with its neutral tones and colorful flowers.
"Miss Parker, thank you for coming." Marissa Hawkins said, as she elegantly approached me, holding out her hand to greet me.
"Please call me Sam," I said, and then, taking a deep breath, "I know this is difficult for you and I am sorry."
"Look, Miss Parker . . . Sam," Marissa interrupted me as we all sat down. "We need to know where Becky is and are prepared to do what we have to do in order to find her, so let's get started."
"When is the last time you saw Becky?" I asked Marissa.
"It was on December 17," she told me, her face expressionless. "Becky decided to come up to do some shopping and spend the night here in order to get in some quality study time. She had finals coming up and found it difficult to study at her apartment."
"Did you go shopping with her?"
"Yes, we went to the Promenade Mall for a few hours and then came home and had dinner. Then she went into her room to study and that was the last time I saw her."
"What time was that?"
"I went to bed after the eleven o'clock news and stopped in to say goodnight. It was about eleven thirty."
"So, she was in her room?"
"Yes, she was still studying. She said that she had a lot of information to cover and that she'd be up for a while longer."
I looked to Andrew. "Were you watching the news with your wife?"
"No, I wasn't feeling well and went to bed right after dinner."
"Is that the last time you saw your daughter?"
"Yes," he said quietly, putting his head in his hands.
My heart sunk as I looked through my notes trying to get back on track.
"Did Becky see any friends while she was here?"
"No. I don't believe so." Marissa said, looking to Andrew for confirmation.
"Did she receive any phone calls or make any?"
"I don't think so," she said and Andrew agreed.
"You're sure?" I asked, my gaze moving between them.
"I'm sorry Miss Parker. I just don't know for sure. I don't remember seeing her on the phone." Marissa said, and now her voice was shaking.
"Does she have a cell phone?"
"Yes, but I didn't see her using it."
"Did you stay together while you were at the mall?" I asked. "Because I'm wondering if she might have run into a friend. Maybe she made plans for the evening. You're sure you were with her the whole time?"
Marissa put her hands to her temples and rubbed them gently in a circular motion. "We weren't together the whole time," she said as she looked at me. "She wanted to go to the Gap and I wasn't up for it. I was tired and the music is so loud. I went to Macy's to look for a gift for her and we met at the food court a half hour later."
"Did you see her speaking with anyone?" I asked, hopeful. "Or did she mention having run into someone?"
"No. But if she had I'm sure she would have told me. We're very close. She shares everything with me."
I thought about that statement and although I know Marissa believed every word of it, I did not. It doesn't matter how close you are with your mom, no kid shares everything. We all have secrets. I took more notes and started again.
"She was attending San Diego State University?" I inquired, my tone serious.
"Yes, she was in her senior year." Marissa replied. "Marketing."
"And she lived in an apartment complex?"
"Yes, close to campus. Villa Casa."
"My records also indicate that she had a roommate, is that accurate?"
"Yes. Becky and Allison had shared the apartment for about . . . two years."
"Have they had any difficulties or disagreements that you know of?"
"No, they were inseparable, like sisters. Best friends since they were kids."
Andrew Hawkins had been listening patiently until suddenly, he rose and addressed me directly.
"Miss Parker," he said. "This seems a little silly to me, you do have all of this information in that file, don't you?"
"Yes, I do."
"Then why do you need to ask us about information you already have?"
"Mr. Hawkins, I like to start fresh, and not rely on information gathered by someone other than myself. It helps me to understand the situation leading up to the disappearance better, and my hope is that starting over might also help you to remember details you did not offer when you were interviewed before. Sometimes a little distance can assist you in recalling things more clearly."
He stared at me with sadness in his eyes. He looked, well . . . defeated, and I couldn't have that.
"Look, I want to find out where your daughter is," I went on, "but in order for me to do my job I need your cooperation."
He glanced at his wife, and then retook his place on the couch. I resumed asking questions about Becky, her lifestyle, friends, classmates, boyfriends, coworkers and anyone else she may know, and of course, I also had to ask if they knew of anyone that may want to harm her.
"No, absolutely not," Andrew professed. "Becky is a lovely girl; there isn't anyone that would want to hurt her."
I knew they were tired of answering my questions because I was surely tired of asking them. Before I was escorted to my car, I requested and was given several photos of Becky and some friends, her high school yearbook, and a list of all the people she knew and where I might find them. Well, at least the ones they knew about.
As I drove back down the dirt
drive and back onto Anza Road, I couldn't help but think about how normal her
life was. She was a popular college girl, attractive, outgoing, smart and
looking forward to a bright future in the advertising industry after
graduation. A normal girl, a normal life. But she was gone, and no one knew
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Maria Pease is a writer originally from Long Island, N.Y. She lives in Temecula, California with her husband, Scott, and her children, Steven and Ali.
Malicious Secrets is the second book in the Samantha Parker Mystery Series.
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The following chart shows the most recent generations starting with my father and his parents and grandparents. The sections into which the website is divided take each of his grandparents and trace them further back. (Because Claud Brown and Marion Janet Wyld were second cousins, they are grouped into one section)
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|Margaret Brown
b circa 1841 / 42 London (or Australia ?)
m William Younger (of the brewing family)
d 26 Jul 1900 Edinburgh More >
|John Mackellar Brown
b circa 1844 / 45 London (or Australia ?)
m Alice Louisa Rowe, 4 May 1867, St Mathias Church, Paddington, Sydney, NSW, Australia
d 21 Aug 1910, Australia More >
|Isabella Wyld Brown
b 1846 Sydney, NSW, Australia
m Edward Donald Malcolm, 17 Jul 1867
d 3 Mar 1927 More >
|Thomas Brown
b 24 Sep 1847 Sydney, NSW, Australia
m Mary Elizabeth Laidley, 1872, NSW, Australia More >
|other male Brown
b circa 1851-1854 More >
|Mary (Minnie) Brown
b circa 1852 Sydney, NSW, Australia
unmarried as of 1889
|James Wyld Brown
b 26 May 1855 London
m Primrose Mariane Rosse Kennedy, Oct/Nov/Dec 1884 Kensington, London. More >
|Claud / Claude Brown
b 2 Aug 1850 Sydney, NSW, Australia
d 2 Jul 1929, Salisbury
|< Browns further back
|(Half-siblings: Hubert Brown / Broun, Philip Audley Brown, Catherine Joyce Brown, by Georgina F S Hyde)
|m 04 Nov 1875 St Mary's, St Marylebone, London
(m2 Georgina Florence Stephens Hyde, 26 Oct 1882, Salisbury)
|Claud Leonard Brown / Broun
b 31 Jul 1879 London
d 13 Sep 1961 Edinburgh
|< Wylds further back
|Marion Janet Wyld
b 1853, London ?
d Aug 1879 Staines
|Constance Maud Wyld
b circa 1856 London
m Jan/Feb/Mar 1894 Augustus (Gus) James Mackintosh, Kensington London
|George Wyld
b circa 1859
|Adelaide (Ida) Wyld
b circa 1862 London
|Herbert Wyld
|Norman Wyld
b circa 1868 London
|Grace Helen Wyld
b 1870 Kensington London
d circa 1959 Tunbridge Wells
|My aunt
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|m 02 Apr 1925 St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow
(m1 Hedwig Thewes)
|My father
details not displayed to protect against identity theft.
|Robertson Buchanan Moncrieff Stewart
b 02 Apr 1856, Milton, Glasgow
d 1905 Glasgow
|Male (anon) Stewart
b 07 Jun 1857, Govan
|Isabella Kennedy Stewart
b 16 Jun 1858 Govan
|Henry Maclachlan Stewart
b 29 Oct 1860 Govan
d 23 Jun 1865, Ayrshire
|William Charles Fellowes Stewart
b 24 Apr 1863, Govan
m in America
|Isabella Kennedy Stewart
b 04 Sep 1864 Govan
|(Father) Robert ("Bertie") Buchanan Stewart
b 20 Jul 1867 Govan
Became a Jesuit priest
|Jessie Evelyn Frances Stewart
b 14 Nov 1868 Govan
|Margaret Edith Stewart
b 28 Aug, 1870, Govan
|Bertha Alice Stewart
b 26 Aug 1871, Rothesay
|Forence Mary Stewart
b 15 Sep 1874, New Kilpatrick, Dunbarton
d 6 Jul 1951, Hillhead, Glasgow
|Louise Madeleine Stewart
b 1876, New Kilpatrick
d circa 1956 Brussels
|Thomas Maclachlan Stewart
b 05 Jul 1859, Govan
d 05 Aug 1933 (buried in Arran)
|< Stewarts further back
|m 22 Nov 1888 Partick
|Isabel Frances Moncrieff Stewart
b 22 Mar 1892 Partick
d 02 Apr 1968 Edinburgh
|< Langs further back
|Janet ("Vivienne") Stuart Kennedy Stewart
b 27 Apr 1890, Partick
m George Hamilton Beattie, 27 Dec 1915 Glasgow
d 18 Oct 1975 Glasgow
|Helena Mary Lang
b 2 Oct 1863 Cadder
d 3 Nov 1959 Glasgow
|Helena Constance ("Dolly") Stewart
b 1895, Partick (d young)
|Christina Young Kennedy Lang
b 06 Feb 1856, Tradeston, Glasgow
(d young)
Margaret ("Meg") Jane Lang
b 17 Dec 1857, Tradeston, Glasgow
|Jean ("Nat") Hester Fellowes Stewart
b 15 Dec 1898, Glasgow
m William (Billy) Pinckney Walker, circa 1928, Vancouver, Canada
d 27 Mar 1995, Glasgow
|James Lang
b 30 Jun 1859, Kirkintilloch, Dunbarton
Thomas Kennedy Lang
b 17 Nov 1860 Cadder
m1 Catherine Elizabeth Binnie Sep 1888, Hampstead
m2 Martha Annie Richmond Sep 1896, Kendal
|Francis Robert Buchanan Stewart
b 19 Apr 1905
m1 Evelyn Constance Cairney, 23 June 1932, Glasgow
m2 Marian Louisa Catherine Wilson, 9 Oct 1953, Glasgow
d 21 Jun 1980, Haddington
|John Stuart Lang
b 15 Mar 1862 Cadder
m 5 Oct 1886 Louisa Annan (widow, christened Breckon)
Alexander ("Sandy") Lang
b 14 Apr 1865 Cadder
|G. Stewart
b ?
d young ?
|Jane (Jean) Kennedy Lang
b 21 Apr 1866 Cadder
m Dr Charles Samuel Facey, 27 Apr 1895
|(Colonel) William Robert Lang
b 29 Jul 1870 Cadder
m Daisy Hollington
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GARNER, N.C. --A motorcyclist was killed along Old Garner Road near Auburn Church Road around 11:15 Friday morning.
The area is east of Interstate 40.
Pictures from chopper 11 HD showed the motorcycle lying on its side and a pickup truck with damage to its side stopped nearby.
Troopers said the driver of the pickup turned in front of the Harley Davidson, causing the collision. They identified the driver as 89-year-old Hugh Bailey of Raleigh. Charges were pending.
Officials identified the motorcyclist as 33-year-old William Joseph DeGrace, of Garner.
Troopers said speed and alcohol were not factors in the crash.
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The Growing Addiction Problem in Saudi Arabia
The escalating substance abuse and addiction issues emulating from the Saudi Arabia region are fast-becoming well-known issues, that can no longer be swept under the rug by Saudi officials and decision makers.
New information and statistics regarding the ever-present drug epidemic that has gripped the region over the past decade or more can no longer de denied by the powers that be. In 2015, through the months of January to May, the authorities in Saudi Arabia executed 84 people that were accused of drug smuggling. A clear sign that the presence of illicit drugs is well established in the Arab territories. Due to the stringent cultural and religious norms throughout the region, lack of data and insufficient research has made this problem one that has been difficult to quantify, further isolating the actual reality of these issues.
Since 2004, Saudi Arabia has reported the highest number of amphetamine seizures in the world. That number making up a staggering 30% of the global figure. In Saudi Arabia, the majority of drug-related emergency room visits are due to reported drug abuse, the main drugs reported being: sympathomimetic (used for promoting stimulation of sympathetic nerves), opiates, and psychotherapeutic drugs like Benzodiazepines.
The Increase in Availability
The 2015 execution of 84 suspected drug traffickers was a clear indication that authorities are prepared and to tackle any drug issue that they encounter. This, although in-line with usual harsh treatment of drug offenders, has not seemed to deter traffickers to a large degree. It is said that once in their lifetime a Muslim should make the sacred journey to the holy places of Mecca and Medina. It has however also been said, that that is the same goal of every drug dealer in the Arab region, under the guise of being a devout and devoted Muslim.
The declaration of war by Saudi Arabia on its neighboring Yemen decreased the quality of the regions border controls, thus allowing for the increase in trafficking of illicit drugs. According to the Minister of Interior Affairs, the volume of hashish and amphetamines intercepted along the southern border, in the 5 months since the declaration, decreased by as much as 75% and 95% respectively. It was further reported that Yemeni traffickers started using drones to smuggle the narcotics across the border.
Although the majority of the local workforce has been imported from all corners of the globe, authorities at the National Commission for Drug Control say that only 22% of the drug smuggling has been provided by foreigners and expats. Furthermore, it has been stated that the import of drugs is aided by the Kingdoms' youth itself. Exceptionally high unemployment rates among the country's younger generations has contributed heavily to this growing epidemic. Approximately two-thirds of the country's youths under the age of 30 years old, that's around 20-million people, remain unemployed, and will continue to make the drug trafficking industry prosper and flourish while unemployment still runs rife.
Social Trends, Social Issues, and Causes for Concern
Of course, with the increased supply of narcotics into the Arab region there is a corresponding demand that this supply is meeting. The volume of narcotics entering the country increasing year-on-year. Now these demands for illegal drugs has been fueled by both a number of local and imported factors, all contributing to the growing crisis of addiction throughout the Arab region. The import of foreign workers and the establishment of expat settlements has been a contributing factor to the overall substance abuse issue experienced throughout the region. The lack of any social support structures and unfamiliar environments, as well as language, have led to an increase in the number of cases of depression among expats and their families. This, in turn, has led to an increase in the use of drugs and alcohol to escape the pains of this new reality. According to Saudi psychologists and sociologists, the lack of physical activity, attempts to self-treat depression, and simply being bored are some of the big reasons for drug use and abuse.
Further dampening the coming out of people with drug and alcohol use problems and issues are the cultural stigmas posed upon people who suffer from these problems in the Middle Eastern culture. It is not common place in this society to publicly discuss any issues of drug addiction, further depressing the issue for those involved, related or concerned. A popular stimulant that is locally grown throughout the Middle East is Khat (Catha Edulis). Locals along the Saudi Arabian border part of Yemen cultivate this crop there, and consider it to be a part of their daily lives and culture. This cultural norm has further entrenched the hard road that lies ahead for the challenges faced by addicts amidst the Middle Eastern culture.
Although statistics around the precise number of drug addicts in and around the region have been hard to come by, statistics from rehabilitation centers in the area have shown a dramatic increase from the 10 thousand people a year in the 2000's, to currently treating more than 50 thousand patients annually. The rising drug epidemic and corresponding addiction crisis is something that needs to be tackled head on, and in a more open form of acknowledgement. The numbers don't lie, and at this rate, they don't seem to be slowing at any time in the near future.
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Twin Rivers is also open to assisting professionals in the KSA who require guidance in starting and managing an addiction treatment centre. Twin Rivers owner, David Briskham has 23 years of experience in working in the field of addiction and mental health disorders. David moved from managing other peoples rehabs to managing his own since 2011-Twin Rivers Rehab. David can assist with the implementation and development of a new treatment centre from the ground up, assisting with staff employment, multi-disciplinary team building, clinical team supervision, programme development, individualised treatment centre policies and procedures.
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Wed, 1 May 2013
We got a double elimination episode where one fan and one fav left the game. That seems fair. The fracturing of the majority alliance has finally started. They did great to hold it to together this long, especially if they made loyalty a center piece of the plan. Looks like Cochran, the challenge monster, met his match in the form of three hot dogs and a soda. We already knew that knots were a form of kryptonite for him too. As the self professed, last "independent thinker" left in the game, do you think he might be next to go? I hate to say it, but I think we're missing a challenge with tile breaking. Where's the pecking order challenge that will help everyone see where they stand? Will we get some of that from the family visit where the winner has to pick someone to join them?
Here is the tribe after episode 12.
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ABC NEWS: An Iowa law allowing the legally or completely blind to acquire permits to carry guns in public has stirred up debate as to whether or not the visually impaired should have "full access" to firearms.
In 2010, Iowa became a "shall-issue" state when the legislature amended a law to create a uniform procedure for issuing gun permits statewide. As a result, Iowa residents could get a gun permit so long as they did not have a criminal background or history of mental illness, Wethington said.
While applicants need to take a firearm safety course to obtain a permit, it is available online and does not need to include hands-on firearms training, which "makes it a little difficult," LeClere said.
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For a long time I've been keeping track of OhBoy! and what they've been up to, and after a small line up change and an EP release they've seemed to have gotten even better.
Their new single 'Carrot & the Stick' is something that the band easily rest on as their finest piece of work to date. The grunge type sound to the song is like something out of The Cribs' In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull album as it has the grit feel but yet, that nice round poppy edge. The lyrics are far past anything cliche as Jay Brooks enlightens the listener with clever lyrics and imaginative thoughts. The band outdid themselves with this one, and they will continue to outdo themselves.
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Foreign Students in Canada and Canadian Students Abroad.
von Zur-Muehlen, Max
Statistical information about foreign students attending Canadian educational institutions and on Canadian citizens and landed immigrants who have obtained their university education abroad is presented and discussed. A review of Canada's dependence on foreign-trained university graduates indicates that almost 20 percent of Canadian university graduates obtained their degrees abroad and that about 60 percent of doctoral graduates obtained their degrees abroad. The number of Canadians studying abroad declined from nearly 16,000 during the 1960s to around 10,000 by the mid-seventies, but this number has begun growing again. About 75 percent of these Canadians are studying in the U.S., with most of the remainder in either British or French universities. There was a marked growth in the number of foreign students admitted to Canada between 1973 and 1976, but the number declined in 1977. Foreign students constituted about 5.3 percent of total full- and part-time university enrollment in 1977-1978 and significantly higher percentages at the masters and doctoral levels. The percentage of foreign students attending Canadian educational institutions who come from the U.S. declined between 1973 and 1977, while the proportion from Hong Kong and from underdeveloped countries had increased substantially. Data are presented on the geographic distribution of foreign students in Canada, on their level and place of study, and on their geographic origin. Appendices include sources of data, explanatory notes on the limitations of the data, tables, and a discussion of marginal student costs. (SC)
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Firefighters were called out on Saturday evening to deal with a fire in the Hope Valley.
The incident involved a chimney on fire and took place at around 8.30pm.
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Alan Brown will keynote the Audiences Sweden conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, speaking on venues and settings and the role they play in driving patterns of arts participation.
For more information please visit:Audiences Sweden's conference website
Dennie Palmer Wolf will be hosting a day-long workshop entitled "The Artist as Instigator" at the International Teaching Artist Conference in New York City on September 12, 2018. Dennie will be working in partnership with:
- Sahar Muradi, Poet and Teaching Artist with City Lore, New York's premier urban folklore center
- Youth from Groundswell, Brooklyn, a public arts initiative focused on equitable creative youth development
- Jeannette Rodríguez-Píneda, Teaching Artist with the Queens Museum
- Doug Paulson, Lead Educator with the Socrates Sculpture Park
The workshop focuses on re-viving the shared human capacities for listening and seeing as avenues for youth development and active participation in their communities.
The workshop will take place at Groundswells studios and enrollment is open to all individuals attending the International Teaching Artist Conference (September 13 - 15).
For more information please visit: http://www.itac-conference.com/conference/itac4/
Joe Kluger will be participating in a panel discussion at the League of American Orchestras Conference in Chicago on strategies for using electronic media activities to further organizational goals and objectives.
For more information please visit:the League of American Orchestras' conference website
Alan Brown will deliver a keynote entitled "Engagement: Telling our Stories in a New Arts Era" at the 2018 Arts BC Conference.
Learn more at: https://artsbc.org/speakers-profile/
Dennie Palmer Wolf will be at the Youth Arts Datathon, sponsored by EdVestors Boston. This event will feature innovators in new approaches to data collection and analyses. It is part of EdVestors' support for ongoing efforts to increase youth arts participation and evaluation work throughout the Boston region.
For a broad look at their work see:http://www.edvestors.org/.
For a closer look at their work in youth arts see: http://www.edvestors.org/initiatives/bps-arts-expansion/.
Alan Brown will return to Milan, Italy, to work with students in the Masters in Performing Arts Management program at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, the school affiliated with La Scala, on February 20 and 21, 2018.
Alan Kline will represent the Intrinsic Impact program at the 2017 National Arts Marketing Conference in Memphis (November 10-13, 2017).


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Whether you are selling your house out of necessity or because you have found a new home, you need to look for ways to sell it quickly and at good prices. Here are top tips to sell your house faster.
Selling houses can be a daunting task, but with the help of a real estate agent, you will sell your house faster and with less hustle. It is crucial that the realtor is experienced in real estate so that you can be assured that they will get your house in the market as fast as possible. One way to be sure if they are reputable is through online reviews and testimonials. Make sure that the real estate agent is highly recognized and knowledgeable of the area. Besides, ensure that they are reliable and maintain constant communications.
To boost up your chances of selling your home faster, consider doing inter design. It is recommended that you declutter to make the house bigger thus giving you a quicker sale. Opt for a portable storage unit to organize items that are unwanted and they can be taken to your new home.
It is also important that you depersonalize on items like photos to enable potential buyers to envision their family in the house. Make everything tidy and cut the bushes and the grass so that the buyers can imagine themselves using the garden. Improve your homes curb appeal by adding flowers at the front door and paint your driveways and walkways.
You can also brighten up the place by placing large mirrors and light bulbs. Thorough cleaning on the windows and fixtures will also help brighten up the rooms.
Also, paint your walls to make the house more bright and light and create a warm atmosphere. Although upgrading may be expensive, it will make your home elegant and stylish thus giving it a quick sale and you will be able to recoup the value.
Be confident that your listing is on all the popular online portals because many buyers use the internet to locate good houses. Talk to your realtors and ask them to post your house in all popular listings found on the internet.
Most buyers use online portals to identify good homes based on photos provided on the listing. A good photographer should know how to emphasize the strengths of your house and soften the flaws.
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The Australian Government launched its National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA) in December 2015. One of the measures within the agenda was for Australia to introduce a national impact and engagement assessment, to examine how universities are translating their research into economic, social and other benefits and encourage greater collaboration between universities, industries and other end-users of research. Such assessments already exist in other countries. For example, the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF).
In line with the NISA announcement, the Australian Research Council (ARC) coordinated an Engagement and Impact Assessment Pilot (EIAP) in 2017. The ARC is currently reviewing the EIAP submissions, including analysing the engagement and impact assessment methodologies and incorporating feedback from university, industry and end-user participants. This review will inform the development of the first full national assessment (EI 2018), which will run alongside the current Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) in 2018.
The unit of assessment for both engagement and impact components of EI 2018 is the 2 digit Field of Research (FoR) within an institution based on the Australia and New Zealand Standard Classification (ANZSRC).
End user – A beneficiary of research beyond academia (e.g. industry, government, non-governmental organisations, communities and community organisations). Bodies (such as government funding agencies) who are disinterested in the specific outcomes of the research funded are not considered by the ARC to be end-users.
Engagement - Interaction between researchers and research end-users for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge, technologies and methods, and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.
Impact - The contribution that research makes to economy, society and environment, beyond the contribution to academic research.
The specifications for EI 2018 are yet to be released, but are likely to encompass all 22 FoRs, plus an indigenous case study, and an interdisciplinary case study. Similar to the EIAP, EI 2018 is likely to assess engagement and impact as separate components.
For EIAP, engagement was assessed by FoR using quantitative indicators that included:
A supplementary narrative was also prepared to describe the engagement activities for each FoR, and to provide context for the engagement indicators.
The impact pilot used case studies to;
Further information on the EIAP and EI 2018 is available at the ARC website.
The engagement reference period for EIAP aligned with the ERA 2015 and ERA 2012 research income and applied measures reference periods, and the ERA 2015 research output reference period. It is likely that EI 2018 will use the same reference period as that used for EIAP.
EIAP Reference period – Engagement component
Data Type
Reference Period
Engagement Indicators
1 January 2008–31 December 2013
Engagement Narrative
1 January 2008–31 December 2013
The impact case studies for the EIAP described specific impacts that occurred during the reference period. A reference period was not specified for approach to impact, but the approach was retrospective and within the context of the impact study.
EIAP Reference period – Impact component
Data Type
Reference Period
Impact description/evidence
1 January 2011–31 December 2016
Associated Research
1 January 2002–31 December 2016
The CSU submission for EI 2018 will be prepared over many months alongside ERA 2018. The engagement data will be sourced from multiple CSU systems, with overarching narratives written by key staff within each discipline (FoR). The impact case studies will be also be written by key staff within each discipline (FoR), using a combination of project-based data, and information collected and stored in the CSU Research Output repository (CRO).
The governance structure for EI 2018 will be released in the near future.
To assist preparations for EI 2018, the following actions should be undertaken;
The instructions for how to add items to CRO are here.
Dr Jamin Forbes
Research Impact Officer
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Interesting. Tamron has already updated the 150-600. I personally was hoping to see the 100-400 that put a Patent out for. I didn't thing the 150-600 really needed an update. I know people were complaining about the VC when panning but didn't a forward update fix that?
I still am interested in seeing reviews on this. It would save be $700 over a new 100-400 II from Canon of its up to the task.
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Sunday, October 24, 2010
Last night I saw Thriller performed by Odyssey Dance Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah. For those who do not know what this is, I will tell you. Basically, the dance group performs multiple dance routines based around different scary Halloween themes. Of course, Michael Jackson's Thriller is the opening and closing dance of the production. Yep, they do the whole Thriller dance and that's exciting in it's self, but the other dances are just as great. I was impressed.
Before and after the performance, Zombies and other demonic and scary creatures crept through the auditorium terrifying the guests. My friend and I had a system to watch out for the zombified women who did all they could to scare the guests. While we chatted, I watched one side of the auditorium and she watched the other. We were never approached. Phew! The zombies crawled on seats and sneaked up on people to get their desired reaction, screams. One girl was so scared of them that the zombies kept on taunting her to get her to scream some more.
As for the dances, my favorite had to be Frankenstein and his Bride. Frankenstein's bride flawlessly played the part of a limp, dead person after Frankenstein inadvertently broke her neck. She is dragged around the stage and flung around like a rag doll due to Frankenstein's failed efforts to bring her back to life. My second favorite dance was Dem Bones. The dancers wore glow-in-the-dark bone costumes. All you could see were the glowing bones while they tapped away a scary, yet comical dance.
For many years I have wanted to see this dance production, and now that I finally have, I think that it is going to become an annual event. You should go see it sometime if you are in SLC during Halloween! BTW, my camera wasn't cooperating, so the pictures didn't turn out too great.
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Vance, 56, of McCordsville, spends hours on his craft – the creation of three-dimensional photographs. You don't need special glasses to enjoy them; rather, it's the subtle layering of duplicate prints that creates the effect.
And therein lies the skill. It's not that the task is difficult, Vance says; really, all it takes is scissors, mounting tape, and a good pair of reading glasses. But the patience it requires to cut each piece of the photograph out and then create the layers – about a three-hour process – usually causes others to give up.
"Most people, if they do it once, that's the end of it," he said.
Each photograph has about seven layers, meaning the first step is to make seven copies of the photograph, then decide which pieces to cut out and layer.
Vance, who by day serves as a minister in Carmel, discovered his talent almost by accident – and a little bit of thievery, he laughingly admits.
It was Christmas Day 2009, and his niece, then an art student at Kent State University, was lying on the floor with an X-ACTO knife and a photograph.
She layered pieces of the photo on top of one another, creating a three-dimensional effect.
Vance, who was visiting for the holidays, was intrigued by the project.
"I thought, 'That's the coolest,'" Vance said. "'I've never seen anything like that before.'"
Vance and his wife were due to visit the other side of the family for Christmas a few days later, and he thought he might give the 3-D art a try as a last-minute Christmas gift for his parents.
He selected a photo of an old covered barn near the farm where he grew up. He copied the photo, then began cutting out pieces to layer on top of one another.
He put the photo in a shadow box, wrapped it up and hoped for the best.
His family went crazy over his creation.
"That's what caused me to do this – everybody's reaction was just like, 'Jon, this is the coolest thing to do.' I thought, 'Well, maybe I need to look into this.'"
Vance started small, and he admits there was a bit of a learning curve.
"I avoided doing people for probably six months, because I was afraid I would deform them," he said.
His niece abandoned the project almost as quickly as Vance became fascinated by it.
"She did one or two projects, and she was done," he said. "She was like, 'Well, I think you owe me some,' so I gave her a photo."
Today, Vance's hobby has turned into a small side business. "Dimensions" has its own website and boasts clients from throughout central Indiana, including Conner Prairie, the Indiana State Museum and other area tourism centers. Vance makes about 200 3-D photographs each year.
Lloyd Wright, president and CEO of WFYI Public Media, has been working with Vance for several years. WFYI has commissioned Vance for promotional materials and also regularly has him create parting gifts for WFYI board members.
"I just sort of fell in love with the work because it's easy to see that whatever it is – whether it's a family photo or picture of your birthplace – the pictures come to life," Wright said. "People are just kind of knocked out by it. It's more than just a photograph."
Apart from selling his own photographs, Vance enjoys doing custom work for those who want to have a cherished photograph of their own made into a piece of art.
"It changes a special photo into an heirloom," Vance said.
Stephanie Smith, store manager of the Indiana State Museum gift shop, said Vance's pieces always draw attention from guests.
"People immediately love them," she said. "He has a great eye. The moment you tell the story, the item almost always sells."
The museum purchases Vance's 3-D photographs of landmarks, then offers them for sale to tourists who come through the museum.
Over the years, the shop has displayed Vance's photographs of the Indiana State Capitol, Monument circle and other iconic Indianapolis sites.
"First he starts with a wonderful image of the city, … so it immediately draws people in with the image," Smith said. "Then, you get closer and closer, and then you see all the detail. It wows people."
Editor, John C. DePrez Jr.; Executive Editor, Carol Rogers; Publishers: IBRC and IAR


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This is the quintessential beef stew. Jacques Pépin's mother served it at her restaurant, Le Pélican, where she made it with tougher cuts of meat. Jacques likes the flatiron—a long, narrow cut that's extremely lean but becomes tender and stays moist. He doesn't use stock, demiglace or even water in his stew, relying on robust red wine for the deep-flavored sauce. Slideshow: Great Beef Stews
How to Make It
Preheat the oven to 350°. In a large enameled cast-iron casserole, melt the butter in 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Arrange the meat in the casserole in a single layer and season with salt and pepper. Cook over moderately high heat, turning occasionally, until browned on all sides, 8 minutes. Add the chopped onion and garlic and cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until the onion is softened, 5 minutes. Add the flour and stir to coat the meat with it. Add the wine, bay leaves and thyme, season with salt and pepper and bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve any brown bits stuck to the bottom of the pot.
Cover the casserole and transfer it to the oven. Cook the stew for 1 1/2 hours, until the meat is very tender and the sauce is flavorful.
Meanwhile, in a saucepan, cover the pancetta with 2 cups of water and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Drain the pancetta and slice it 1/2 inch thick, then cut the slices into 1-inch-wide lardons.
In a large skillet, combine the pancetta, pearl onions, mushrooms and carrots. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil, 1/4 cup of water and a large pinch each of sugar, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer until almost all of the water has evaporated, 15 minutes. Uncover and cook over high heat, tossing, until the vegetables are tender and nicely browned, about 4 minutes.
To serve, stir some of the vegetables and lardons into the stew and scatter the rest on top as a garnish. Top with a little chopped parsley and serve.
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Review Count: 627
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Best Rating: 5
Author Name: Christopher Cotten
Review Body: I would suggest letting the steak and wine mixture simmer and reduce a bit -- and more importantly, allow the alcohol in the wine evaporate -- before placing into the oven, lest the wine fumes escaping from the pan ignite. Speaking from experience.
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Date Published: 2016-10-11
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Date Published: 2016-10-09
Author Name: jag336
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Date Published: 2016-08-15
Author Name: Garfield49
Review Body: Those are cippolini onions in the picture, a much better choice than pearl onions. They are delicious!!
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Date Published: 2018-02-12
Author Name: Barbara Bunting
Review Body: Oh my God!!! This was so delicious!!! I'm not sure if I put enough red wine in the case-iron casserole because I would have liked more sauce. I will be making this dish again and again!
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Date Published: 2016-11-11
Author Name: Margaret Schultz
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Date Published: 2018-02-11
Author Name: Priscilla Tsang
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Date Published: 2017-11-01
Author Name: Nelliejoy
Review Body: I made this last night. AMAZING!!! 10 stars
Review Rating: 5
Date Published: 2018-02-14
Author Name: Dianne Guinn
Review Body: I don't even like beef stew but my husband does. Made this for him a few years ago and it was fabulous! Now my go to beef stew recipe. Very, very good!
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Date Published: 2018-07-12
Author Name: Bob Beadel
Review Body: I am curious as to whether anyone else has had the experience Christopher Cotton wrote about: This seems that it could be a major issue if it happens and I sure would like to know if his was the only experience of this nature before I cooks this wonderful looking recipe and with red skin potatoes of course : > )
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Date Published: 2018-07-15
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Date Published: 2018-04-24
Author Name: Bob Beadel
Review Body: I just can not imagine a good stew without potatoes, especially red skin potatoes. I am curious why there are none in this recipe.
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Date Published: 2017-07-20
Author Name: Joni Purser
Review Body: I made this for the second time tonight. The flavors of the beef cooked in wine are so deep and delicious! It's also a beautiful color. I didn't have the pancetta tonight but made it anyway - it was still scrumptious!
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Top of English schools in Florida Use
Florida is one of the US states with the largest number of Latino citizens. In cities like Miami's most used language it is Spanish.
However, for study, work and do business in Florida you need to have English proficiency.
Top of English schools in Florida Use
Florida is one of the US states with the largest number of Latino citizens. In cities like Miami's most used language it is Spanish.
However, for study, work and do business in Florida you need to have English proficiency.
In Florida there are several centers where you can learn languages with specialized teachers and a modern methodology.
These are the top English language centers in Florida USA.
Inglés Language Centres
1111 Lincoln, Suite 301, Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida
Tel. 305 421 9944
Inglés Language Centres is one of the most complete centers in USA languages. If it is to learn English, the language center offers programs and courses such as General English, Intensive English, preparation courses for ESOL, TOEFL, IELTS and Cambridge exams for college English, among others.
Inglés Language Centres also has accommodations for students. More information http://www.ecenglish.com/
LAL Language Centres
5727 N Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Tel. 208 843 7300
LAL Fort Lauderdale is a language center accredited by the Commission on English Language Accreditation (CEA).
This language center offers courses in general English and intensive English at appropriate times your requirements, business English, exam preparation course FCE, CAE, TOEFL, CPE, private lessons and more.
For more information go to http://www.lalschools.com/
Zoni Language Centers
1434 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida
Tel. 305 674 1500
By studying at Zoni Language Centers you will learn to communicate in English in all areas of your life.
This language center offers a program of general English in two modes: semi-intensive and intensive. It also has preparation courses for the TOEFL exam and a course in English as a Second Language (ESL) for business.
Meet schedules and fares in http://www.zoni.com/
Tampa Language Center
4815 E. Busch Blvd., Suite 110, Tampa, Florida
Tel. 813 988 7900
The Tampa Language Center is a good choice for studying English in the city of Tampa. English ESOL program's main objective is to give students the vocabulary and communication skills necessary to function in everyday life, academic and workplace.
Besides preparatory courses for TOEFL iBT and IELTS, Business English courses, courses are taught pronunciation, among others. More information http://www.tampalanguagecenter.com/
ELS – Miami
11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, Florida
Tel. 305 899 3390
ELS is a language center with a presence in several US cities and abroad. The ELS Miami is located within the campus of Barry University, one of the quietest areas of the city.
This language center offers different programs such as English for Academic Purposes, General English, Intensive English, English to learn during the holidays and more. Discover all about the ELShttp://www.els.edu/
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I'm wrapping up the first month of my #CatchtheMoment365 project! It has been a good month – but I feel like I may have ended on a lower note – which just means I need to get back into it this next week! Here is how our week went:
Day 24 | January 24, 2014
Lennox had fun mixing up all the colors while painting – I tried to capture her using the brushes and found this neat shot in the mix.
Day 25 | January 25, 2014
We had a friend 3rd birthday party to go to on Saturday. They had a bunch of dress up clothes and Lennox looked just like Alice in Wonderland when she got all dressed up.
Day 26 | January 26, 2014
Lots of crafts happened this week – Lennox loves when she can put her whole hand in the paint!
Day 27 | January 27, 2014
Nothing like a little coloring with your 3 year old before bedtime. I love coloring!
Day 28 | January 28, 2014
We started Chores this week with Lennox – It's been an interesting week!
Day 29 | January 29, 2014
This is the look I get every morning at breakfast when I tell Lennox to get ready for school – TV zone with toast!
Day 30 | January 30, 2014
Kyle has been working at a different office for the past 2 weeks and still has another week to go – He only gets about 1 hour with Lennox a day and she is so excited when she comes home!
Week 4 of Catch the Moment – 365 Project is done and we move into month #2 already! As always, make sure to check out all of the other awesome photography bloggers that are particpating in #CatchtheMoment 365 project at Nurse Loves Farmer! Until next week – keep snappin'!


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action for bike users
We can help you ask for – and get – great bike parking.
We make it easier for you to say 'yes, I bike' and have friendly conversations about bike parking.
Whether it is asking your favourite coffee shop for bike parking, or talking with council about their bike parking policies, we can help.
We want to make it easier to ask for – and get – great bike parking. And we do it by providing you with the tools, resources and support to help make it happen.
It's about working together
You can be an ambassador for everyday biking. All you need is a smile and a few helpful tools from us.
Talk to Business
We can help you have a chat with favourite businesses and let them know you are a cycling customer and would love bike parking. We've got postcards you can give them which invite them to find out more about the business benefits of biking, and becoming a Bikes Welcome Business.
Work with your council
We can help you work out the right way to make a request of your local council for bike parking in public spaces or at council facilities.
Invite a business
Help your favourite businesses become Bikes Welcome Businesses.
Request printed invitations
Be sent some postcard invitations which you can hand out. We use our NZ Post Community Post post-paid envelopes to send them out to you.
Print your own
You can also download and print your own double sided A6 invitation postcards. Designed to print double-sided, 4 per A4 page.
Send an e-vite to a business
Send an email invitation.
This functionality needs to be developed.
Tips for talking to business
- Be friendly
- Ask nicely, don't demand
- Consider openings like: 'have you noticed....', 'have you considered....'
- Position yourself as a customer first, bike-user second
- 'Sell' bike use as an opportunity to attract more customers to their business
- Be Persistent… and patient. Sometimes you'll need to ask more than once.
- Love-bombing is also an option (where you and your cycling friends all make friendly requests and suggestions, and show how much you love their business).
For more ideas like these see the blog post 'Yes! I Bike'
And find out more about becoming a Bikes Welcome Business so that you can answer any questions they may put to you!
Subscribe To Our Supporter Newsletter
Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates from Bikes Welcome.
We won't spam you or share your details, and you can opt-out any time you like.
We'll let you know what we are up to, highlight our newest Bikes Welcome Businesses and latest campaigns.
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Working with your council
Connect with your council
When you want bike parking in a public place we can help you request it from your council.
We are talking with councils about their bike parking policies and procedures. That way we can help you successfully ask for bike parking, and ensure that quality bike parking is something they think about, plan for and do.
Tips for working with council
- Work the system – councils usually have computerised systems for receiving and monitoring requests. By getting your request into the system it will be monitored and tracked.
- Join forces with your local advocacy group.
- Celebrate success: thank & encourage council staff, think about some positive media coverage including social media.
- Be Persistent… and patient. Sometimes you'll need to ask more than once.
- Bulk requests are an option. Work with your fellow bike-users to identify all the places around town where you'd like to see bike parking. Mark them on a map (either paper or a Google map layer) and provide it to council. This might be just what they need to justify a program for installing bike parking in your town.
What if your council isn't listed?
Would you like Bikes Welcome rolled out in your town? You could help make that happen.
Find out more about becoming a Bikes Welcome Local Champion.
More ways to make it happen:
Become a Bikes Welcome Local Champion
Would you like Bikes Welcome rolled out in your town? You could help make that happen.
Find out more about becoming a Bikes Welcome Local Champion.
Bikes Welcome are a charitable trust. We welcome your tax deductible donation, which can be made via Give-A-Little.
This will help us meet the costs of printing, postage and our website services.


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Stop Making Painful Mistakes Before They Get Started
Key Lesson: Be wise; be attentive in all things for the second error follows the first.
Refuse All Unhappy Beginnings
Think about all the finish lines you've managed to cross in your lifetime where you thought you were an uncontested winner. Then comes that untimely, unkind, or unexpected event where you hear, in one way or another, from yourself or from someone else: "Sorry, you just ran the wrong race!" Maybe you find out that the one who you thought loved you really loves only the idea of being in love, which has to be renewed repeatedly with new loves. Or, maybe that crisis you thought you'd solved once and for all shows new signs of life. In such unwanted instances, victory is snatched from right out of your hands. All you're left holding is a sinking feeling.
Until now, all we've known to do in these key moments of defeat is to try and pull ourselves together, jump into another race, and hope things turn out better. But we don't have to settle for just the hope of a happier finish. We can do better, much better. Certainty of succeeding in any of life's races is more than assured in the following understanding about the nature of making a true beginning.
There can be no starting place in our lives any truer than what our own awareness of the present moment permits.
This friendly fact tells us that our life direction, our actual destiny, is determined by the level of our awareness that attends the full range of each step we take.
No one consciously takes a step in haste -- knowing it will lead to waste. Neither would any man or woman consciously take a step in anger -- if he or she knew the route just chosen would only lead to regrets.
These truths being self-evident, we have to ask ourselves, "What's the force at the source of our false starting places? How is it our consciousness can be so compromised we're unable to see that a step taken in worry leads us not to the worry-free life, but only to the base of an active volcano called Mount Anxiety?"
It's crucial for us to understand that the thrust of our habitual thinking lives with its attention fixed, not on beginnings, but on the end of things. Don't we, in our mind's eye, perpetually walk towards a brighter moment to come, thinking about how good we'll feel once we're able to resolve some nagging situation?
We are betrayed every time we set out on any journey -- mentally, emotionally, or bodily -- with our eyes fixed on where we think we're going, rather than in the profitable awareness of where we are. It's within this full awareness of where we are -- which includes the alert observation of all our attending mental and emotional states -- that is the true beginning we've been searching for all of our lives. Do you see why?
We don't ever have to worry about happy endings to any of our life stories if we're awake enough to refuse all unhappy beginnings. If we attend to the true beginning of whatever tasks or life travels lie ahead of us, their endings have to take care of themselves.


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Where were you the very first time you read a contemporary urban novel? School? Home? The library? When I was growing up, Black girls like me lived in libraries. My friends were mostly other Black Caribbean girls who were navigating the dual identity of being Black and immigrant in the U.S. Most of us also came from homes where we were routinely slut-shamed into either remaining abstinent throughout our teen years, or desperately concealing the fact that we'd had sex. Our parents had not come to this country for us to end up as teen moms. The horror! The more religious the parent, the stricter they were. Many of us, self included, were barred from dating until a high school diploma was handed to us. This is why "romance" novels were such a vital part of my adolescent development. I put romance in quotes because most of these books were little more than literary pornography, but in a household where the only way I could experience sex, even pornography, was from the pages of a book, they were more than good enough.
I had started with Harlequin romance novels (The "Blaze" line were my favorites!) and quickly sated my curiosities about how heterosexual couples copulate, but constantly reading stories which, no matter how "diverse" the characteristics of the heroines were, were almost always centered around White couples, got old really quickly. Most of what I got from these novels is that romance, specifically lasting, romantic love, was something for attractive White people. The message was then internalized that I either needed to be White or date White to find anything even close to resembling what was in these books. Probably just as harmful was the narrative pushed by Harlequin that mutual attraction, especially if the woman is a virgin, followed by all-consuming lust, was the road to love, that lust and love were extensions of one another, and that if two people are in love, the sex will always be perfect, right from the start. Wanting sex without love was abnormal, bad sex was a sign of weak love, and there's no way that great sex won't lead to love.
Even as a very sheltered teenage girl with zero dating experience, I knew that this narrative was the exception, not the rule. Up until that point, I had been wholly ignorant of authors writing contemporary novels centering Black leads (sad, I know). Novels set around Black characters, who spoke like real people, had real problems, and were created by Black people? Novels where Black people had sex? It was like a small miracle. The only times I had ever read of Black characters were in my beloved Toni Morrison and Alice Walker novels. Their stories were real, and relevant, but also pretty intense, and not set in the present. Reading contemporary urban novels gave me the escape of Harlequin, with characters who I could actually relate to.
In "The Coldest Winter Ever", we meet Afro-Latina Winter Santiaga of Brooklyn, New York, daughter of prominent drug dealer Ricky Santiaga. Winter has three younger sisters, Porsche, Lexus, and Mercedes, and their father spoils all his daughters with the finer things in life. But when Winter's father is arrested on her 16th birthday, and her siblings are taken away by child welfare, charming Winter has to hustle to stay off the streets and stay alive. Winter steals as well as schemes and uses her sex appeal to keep money in her pocket, a roof over her head, some facsimile of security. She's essentially the girl being derided for being a "gold digger" by rappers in songs where they dismiss their own exploitation and the fact that her father couldn't or wouldn't be there.
Filled with sex, drugs, and hip-hop "The Coldest Winter Ever" is definitely the deep end of contemporary urban novels, and certainly not romantic at all, but the book showcases realistic, albeit stereotypical, situations. More importantly for me, it showcased people having and enjoying sex without loving or even liking one another. It showcased a young woman using sex as a means of protection, an insurance policy, a resource. It showcased men using sex as a weapon, to hurt, abuse, and exploit in ways other than rape. The latter was especially important, since I had read about rape so many times in the literature of aforementioned Morrison and Walker. "The Coldest Winter Ever" encapsulated the saying that "Life is not a fairy tale." Besides being able to read some incredibly vivid sex scenes, reading this book reinforced something which I'd already guessed but needed verified at my young age: that being sexually desired is not the same as being loved, that desire doesn't always lead to love, and that being smart in your sexual relationships will do more for you in the long run than assuming that good sex means you've met your soulmate.
It wouldn't be fair of me to leave out the fact that Sista Souljah is a certifiable "pick me," a heauxtep, a female misogynist who clearly despises Winter and created her character as a cautionary tale for pretty young Black girls everywhere. She does a fantastic job of blaming the title character for not only her own actions, but the actions of the men in her life as well. There's a lot of implied and explicitly stated "You should have known better/chosen better/ done better" at play here. Despite the fact that Winter is only 16 years old when she's on her own, and the men in her life are adults, she's seen and treated as a conniving woman devoid of morals, whose reliance on her vagina makes her deserving of abuse. While it is possible to like Winter, and even feel sorry for her, especially now that I am well into adulthood, it is very hard to like Sista Souljah as a writer, and the enormous amount of slut-shaming, homophobia, and conditional sisterhood that she managed to infuse into just one book.
Despite how Winter is dogged out by the author herself, we still manage to see her as strong, determined, and fearless; a survivor. Winter is stronger and more courageous than any male character, she is whip-smart, street smart, and Sista Souljah (who appears as a character in the novel as well), presents herself as being a moral superior to a struggling teen simply because she dresses modestly and has less sex. Looking back, I wonder if Winter wasn't merely created as a means of judging women who had made Sista Souljah feel insecure over the years. I don't say this lightly at all. But inserting one's self into a fictional novel as the antithesis or answer to the main protagonist is no small thing, either. Sista Souljah's character seemed far too eager to lay out Winter's wrongs whilst exonerating the men who'd used and abused her, not to mention participated in statutory rape. Girl, bye!
Although written in the first person, from Winter's perspective, Sista Souljah's language does a great job of dehumanizing Winter and, ironically, reducing her to a sexual object, exactly what the character of Sista Souljah accuses her of doing to herself. I'd never seen such a toxic relationship between character and writer before this one. But I did learn a lot from Winter, as well as women like Sista Souljah. I learned what sisterhood does and does not look like. More importantly, the novel was entertaining enough for me to explore writers like Zane, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Terri McMillan, whose stories were more than cautionary tales, who didn't rely on the drug-dealer stereotype and who (usually) didn't push the narrative that being sexual liberated made a woman a horrible person who was someone responsible for the emotional well-being of every man around her. More importantly, the showcased relationships that weren't always happily ever afters. Human struggles in real relationships with real people. And I would have never ventured to this world without "The Coldest Winter Ever", so for that and the action packed-sequences therein, I give this one 3 stars.


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Meet Anne Watson, our newest Featured Member!
This Zoopper just snagged a win in the Knorr: Live for the Flavor Recipe Photo Shoot Part 2 project. Warning: do not check out her amazing photos if you are hungry! Check out her work and read on to learn more about her.
1. Tell us about yourself, personally and creatively.
I'm a 37-year-old Southern California-based professional food, chef & restaurant photographer with a passion for all things culinary. I live with my husband and our two-year-old son on our ranch in North San Diego County where we raise chickens, goats and pigs, and run a 1,300-vine Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard. I began my career many years ago as a cook working in professional kitchens, but had always done photography as a hobby. After many years, I finally decided to combine my two passions of cuisine & photography to start my own food photography business, Anne Watson Photography, and have never looked back. I love what I do, and never feel like I 'work' a day in my life.
2. What brought you to the Zooppa community?
I received an email from a Zooppa team member last year who shared the Lindsay Olive contest with me because he'd seen my website and thought I might be interested in entering. I checked it out and thought it sounded amazing. I've been an active Zooppa creative member ever since.
3. What do you like most about crowdsourced film contests?
I like that Zooppa connects large international corporations with creatives around the globe that have such a diverse variety of backgrounds – both amateur and professional. It also I think gives many of us a 'voice' allowing our work to be seen by an interested and informed audience.
4. Name Photographers that have influenced your work.
Two of my favorite photographers have always been Helene Dujardin http://www.
5. Where do/did you go to school? How has your education influenced your photography?
I am completely self-taught when it comes to food photography. My understanding of photography basics came to me from my dad when I was young (I inherited his old film SLR with a broken light meter that I got to play around with when I was a kid and he taught me about aperture and shutter speed), and I also took photography as my elective in high school. But, photographing food is something that I continue to learn more about every day. I think you must have a passion for what you photograph. If you love what you shoot, then I think that is reflected in your work.
6. What is your favorite type of photography to create?
I absolutely love editorial food photography – when my job is to simply capture a dish in its natural, organic state just as the chef plated it. Or when I get to be behind-the-scenes in the kitchen with the chef and their team, photographing them in action and documenting a dish's creation as it all comes together. I love it because these situations are usually high-energy, and it challenges me as a photographer because there is very little I can control. I'm a bystander and my job is to tell the story as I see it through my lens.
7. Where can we find you on a Saturday afternoon?
No two Saturdays are the same, which is how I like it. If I'm not on-site photographing an event on a Saturday, though, then you'll find me in my farm boots walking with my husband around our vineyard and chasing chickens, petting goats, and feeding pigs with our 2-year-old son here on our ranch.
8. What projects are you currently working on?
I'm currently in the midst of shooting my second cookbook — "Veggie Mamma" by Chef Jenny Ross, the queen of raw vegan cuisine. I also have my ongoing shoots with restaurant clients, many of whom are updating their winter menus at the moment to reflect the seasonal changes.
9.Choose 5 words to describe your work.
Delicious. Vibrant. Fresh. Genuine. Passionate.
10. What drew you to participate in this campaign? i.e. – did the brief catch your attention, the prize money, the love for the brand?
This project caught my attention because it combined one of my favorite culinary brands (we always have Knorr bouillon cubes on-hand in our home pantry!) with two of my favorite things: cooking, and food photography using natural light. I knew it would be a lot of fun.
11. What is one piece of winning advice you would give to your fellow Zooppa community members?
This may sound simple, but I'd say, "Follow the directions." Read the instructions carefully so you can give the client exactly what they're looking for.
12. 10 years from now where will we see you and your films?
10 years from now I hope to be harvesting grapes in our vineyard with my husband and son, and continuing to work with phenomenal chefs and artisans to capture their food in photographs. I'd love to get a few more cookbooks under my belt. And, one day have a dream of seeing my photographs grace the pages of a magazine such as Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, or SAVEUR (three of my favorite publications that I look forward to every month).
Check out Anne Watson Photography, and follow her on instragram @annewatsonphoto to see more of her work!