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Why I Will Never, Ever, EVER Get a Tattoo
Would I have to start planning outfits around the tattoo like I plan for weather?
During Christmas, I strive to be the "cool" aunt.
Not cool in the shades-and-skateboard way, but cool in the wouldn't-be-embarrassed-to-be-seen-with-at-the-mall way. So, politely tolerated?
I didn't think I would ever care about such things. I always figured that I'd just be rather mysterious to the kids in my family; the childless aunt that the kids would spin yarns about.
"Did you know Aunt Louise was born with an extra elbow? That's why she can't have kids."
"Nuh-uh, I heard she sold her soul to Tom Hanks, and that's why she had to move to Japan."
"No way, she was in a terrible jazz dancing accident and she had to choose between babies or the use of her tastebuds."
(They all nod in agreement.) "She really loves cheese."
But as I get older, and my nieces and nephews become aware of me as a human, I find myself really wanting them to like me.
I think it starts with the gifts.
There was always that relative while you were growing up, who gave you boring/bizarre clothes presents: the "arty" shirt with an appliqué otter on it because one time you said you liked "Otter Pops"; socks that said, "L.A. Girl" on them, even though you'd never set foot in L.A.; very billowy turquoise corduroy pants with a tennis playing Snoopy embroidered just above the fanny.
As far back as I can remember, getting clothes from relatives was never "fun" or "cool", it was a drag.
But maybe my relatives were onto something after all? Maybe my relatives were SAVING MY UNGRATEFUL ASS with the gift of those Snoopy pants?
After all, the Yule Cat hasn't eaten me yet.
Who's the Yule Cat, you ask?
The Yule Cat, or Jólakötturinn, is a giant, monstrous feline that prowls about Iceland during Christmas time, looking for his next meal.
What does the Yule Cat eat? Why, people who do not have new clothes, of course!
Since the middle ages, Iceland has told tale of an enormous black cat with "glowing bright eyes", "whiskers sharp as needles", and "razor sharp claws" who hunts and eats the "lazy and idle".
In ye olde times, the Yule Cat story was meant to strike fear into field workers and servants. If they got the "autumn wool" harvested and processed before Christmas, they would be rewarded with new clothing from their master. If a family had no master, the women would work everyday to make at least one new piece of clothing for everybody on their Christmas list.
A tamer variation of the legend says that the Yule Cat will not eat you if you don't have new clothes, but will instead eat all of your food. For poor workers and farmers, this was just as dire a consequence.
Additionally, the story warns children to be diligent little workers all the way up until Christmas day. If they were willful and disobedient, their parents wouldn't give them new clothes, and they would be fed to the Yule Cat.
Krampus and the Yule Cat have got to get together.
The origins of the Yule Cat are unclear. It seems there has been tell of him for centuries, but his first appearance in written record was during the 1800s.. And speaking of Yule animals or Anim-yules, there is also mention of a Yule Goat in Scandinavia: an invisible goat that would watch over Scandinavians making sure they were properly preparing for Christmas.
The Scandinavian tradition evolved to involve Yule Goat pranks, primarily one where a family would secretly stash a goat in another family's home. Such merriment!
The goat-"Punk'd" family would then have to dispose of the goat in the same manner in which they acquired said goat.
Over time, the Yule Goat was said to go door-to-door demanding gifts, before eventually becoming the giver of gifts in the 1800s. These days, a giant straw goat is often burned in Sweden as a symbol of the Christmas spirit.
But back to the Yule Cat.
The Yule Cat is said to be the Icelandic "ogress" Grýla's pet cat. Possessing hooves instead of feet, horns on her head, and 13 tails, Grýla lives in the mountains with her lazy husband, Leppalúöl. Leppalúöl is her third husband, as she ate her first two (they "bored" her).
Grýla and her faithful Yule Cat have something in common: they both crave the flesh of the disobedient. According to legend, the perpetually cranky Grýla comes down from her mountain every Christmas to put naughty children in her sack, and whisk them away to her lair. There, "she boils them alive for her favorite stew".
In other tellings, Grýla sends her sons, the Yule Lads
to keep tabs on Icelandic children for 13 days before Christmas. For 13 days, Grýla's 13 sons put candy in the shoes of good children and rotten apples or potatoes in the shoes of naughty children. The Yule Lads would also play pranks on the people of Iceland, the types of which are indicated by their names. Here are my favorites: Spoon-Licker, Bowl-Licker, Skyr-Gobbler, Sausage-Swiper, Window-Peeper, and Door-Sniffer.
I'm Team Skyr-Gobbler 4-Eva. #SG4Me
In more threatening variations, the Yule Lads would kidnap bad children and take them back home for their mother to eat.
Stories of Grýla and the Yule Cat were actually so grisly, so frightening to Icelandic children, that supposedly "in 1746 the King of Iceland banned the telling of those tales". However, over the centuries the stories of the Grýla and the Yule Cat toned down enough that the ban was lifted and now Icelandic people can freely "enjoy" the legend. Furthermore, the idea of the Yule Cat now encourages people to give to the less fortunate during Christmas time.
And in 1932, Icelandic author, poet, and member of parliament, Jóhannes úr Kötlum, wrote this beloved poem about Jólakötturinn, then in 1987 Bjork sang it.
I'm seriously putting this on my "Christmas Work Day" playlist.
I'm thinking it might be time to introduce the legend of the Yule Cat to my nieces and nephews this year; around the time I mail them their custom "Auntie Lou Saved My Life" socks. What's cooler than saving their lives from a murderous, Christmas beast-cat?
Socks and underwear to all, and to all a good night!
Did you grow up with the Yule Cat? Grýla and the Yule Lads? If you know more, tell us more!
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Year 3
Year 3 Level Description
Diverse communities and places and the contribution people make
The Year 3 curriculum focuses on the diversity of people and places in their local community and beyond, and how people participate in their communities. Students study how places are represented geographically and how communities express themselves culturally and through civic participation. Opportunities are provided to learn about diversity within their community, including the Country/Place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and about other communities in Australia and neighbouring countries. Students compare the climates, settlement patterns and population characteristics of places, and how these affect communities, past and present. Students examine how individuals and groups celebrate and contribute to communities in the past and present, through establishing and following rules, decision-making, participation and commemoration.
The content provides opportunities for students to develop humanities and social sciences understanding through key concepts including significance; continuity and change; cause and effect; place and space; interconnections; roles, rights and responsibilities; and perspectives and action.These concepts may provide a focus for inquiries and be investigated across sub-strands or within a particular sub-strand context.
The content at this year level is organised into two strands: knowledge and understanding, and inquiry and skills. The knowledge and understanding strand draws from three sub-strands: history, geography and civics and citizenship. These strands (knowledge and understanding, and inquiry and skills) are interrelated and have been developed to be taught in an integrated way, which may include integrating with content from the sub-strands and from other learning areas, and in ways that are appropriate to specific local contexts. The order and detail in which they are taught are programming decisions.
Inquiry Questions
A framework for developing students' knowledge, understanding and skills is provided by inquiry questions. The following inquiry questions allow for connections to be made across the sub-strands and may be used or adapted to suit local contexts: inquiry questions are also provided for each sub-strand that may enable connections within the humanities and social sciences learning area or across other learning areas.
- How do symbols, events, individuals and places in my community make it unique?
- How do people contribute to their communities, past and present?
- What events do different people and groups celebrate and commemorate and what does this tell us about our communities?
- Concepts for developing understanding The content in the history sub-strand provides opportunities for students to develop historical understanding through key concepts including sources, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives, empathy and significance. The Year 3 curriculum provides a study of identity and diversity in their local community and beyond, past and present. Students develop understandings about the heritage of their local area (sources, continuity and change), including the importance of Country/Place to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples (significance, perspectives, empathy), and how and why their community has changed (continuity and change, cause and effect). Students explore the historical features and diversity of their community as represented in individuals and their contributions, symbols and emblems of significance (significance) and the different celebrations and commemorations, locally and in other places around the world (significance, perspectives, empathy).
- Inquiry Questions
- Who lived here first and how do we know?
- How has our community changed? What features have been lost and what features have been retained?
- What is the nature of the contribution made by different groups and individuals in the community?
- How and why do people choose to remember significant events of the past?

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Verisign confirms first price increase under new .net contract
Verisign is to increase the wholesale price of an annual .net domain registration by 10%, the company confirmed yesterday.
It's the first in an expected series of six annual 10% price hikes permitted under its recently renewed registry agreement with ICANN.
The annual price of a .net registration, renewal, or transfer will go up from $8.20 to $9.02, effective February 1, 2018
If all six options are exercised, the price of a .net would be $15.27 by the time the current contract expires, including the $0.75 ICANN fee. It would be $14.52 without the ICANN fee.
The increase was confirmed by CEO Jim Bidzos as Verisign reported its second-quarter earnings yesterday.
For the quarter, Verisign saw net income go up to $123 million from $113 million a year ago, on revenue that was up 0.7% at $289 million.
It now has cash of $1.8 billion, up $11 million on a year ago.
It ended the quarter with 144.3 million .com and .net names in its registry, up 0.8% on last year and 0.68 million sequentially.
.net price increases approved
Verisign has been given the right to continue to raise the wholesale price of .net domains.
It now seems likely the price charged to registrars will top $15 by 2023.
ICANN's board of directors at the weekend approved the renewal of the .net Registry Agreement, which gives Verisign the right increase its prices by 10% per year for the six years of the contract.
Assuming the company exercises all six options — and there's no reason to assume it will not — the price of a .net would be $15.27 by the time the contract expires, $0.75 of which would be paid to ICANN in fees.
There was some negative public comment (pdf) about the increases, largely from domainers and those representing domainers, but the ICANN board saw nothing to persuade it to change the terms of the contract.
In notes appended to its resolution, the board stated:
the Board understands that the current price cap provisions in Verisign's Registry Agreements, including in the .NET Registry Agreement, evolved historically to address various market factors in cooperation with constituencies beyond ICANN including the Department of Commerce. During the negotiations for the renewal, Verisign did not request to alter the pricing cap provisions, the parties did not negotiate these provisions and the provisions remain changed from the previous agreement. The historical 10% price cap was arguably included to allow the Registry Operator to increase prices to account for inflation and increased costs/investments and to take into account other market forces but were not dictated solely by ICANN.
(I assume the word "changed" in that quote should have read "unchanged".)
Unlike contract renewals for other pre-2012 gTLDs, the .net contract does not include any of the new gTLD program's rights protection mechanisms, such as the Uniform Rapid Suspension policy.
ICANN explained this disparity by saying these mechanisms are not consensus policies and that it has no right to impose them on legacy gTLD registry operators.
Verisign to keep price increase power under new .net contract
The wholesale price of a .net domain is likely to top $15 by 2023, under a proposed renewal of its ICANN contract revealed today.
ICANN-imposed price caps are staying in the new Registry Agreement, but Verisign retains the right to increase its fees by 10% in each of the six years of the deal's lifespan.
But domain investors do have at least one reason to be cheerful — while the contract adds many features of the standard new gTLD registry agreement, it does not include a commitment to implement the Uniform Rapid Suspension anti-cybersquatting procedure.
The current .net annual fee charged to registrars is $8.95 — $8.20 for Verisign, $0.75 for ICANN — but Verisign will continue to be allowed to increase its portion by up to 10% a year.
That means the cost of a .net could hit $15.27 wholesale (including the $0.75 ICANN fee) by the time the proposed contract expires in 2023.
Verisign has form when it comes to utilizing its price-raising powers. It exercised all six options under its current contract, raising its share of the fee from $4.65 in 2011.
On the bright side for volume .net holders, the prices increases continue to be predictable. ICANN has not removed the price caps.
Also likely to cheer up domainers is the fact that there are no new intellectual property protection mechanisms in the proposed contract.
Several post-2000 legacy gTLDs have agreed to incorporate the URS into their new contracts, leading to outrage from domainer organization the Internet Commerce Association.
ICA is worried that URS will one day wind up in .com without a proper ICANN community consensus, opening its members up to more risk of losing valuable domains.
The fact that URS is not being slipped into the .net contract makes it much less likely to be forced on .com too.
But Verisign has agreed to several mostly technical provisions that bring it more into line with the standard 2012-round new gTLD RA.
For example, it appears that daily .net zone files will become accessible via ICANN's Centralized Zone Data Service before the end of the year.
Verisign has also agreed to standardize the format of its data escrow, Whois and monthly transaction reports.
The company has also agreed to start discussions about handing .net over to an emergency back-end operator in the event it files for bankruptcy.
The current contract is due to expire at the end of June and the proposed new deal would kick in July 1.
It's now open for public comment until June 13.
Uniregistry to grandfather existing domains before big price increases
Uniregistry has backtracked on its plan to hike renewal fees on thousands of domain name registrations.
CEO Frank Schilling described the U-turn, which followed a ferocious backlash from domain investors, as "the right thing to do".
The company had announced price increases across 16 of its 27 gTLDs that in one case exceeded 3,000% but in many more cases represented increases in the hundreds of percent.
The increases were to apply to new and renewing registrations, and Schilling had said that they were necessary to keep the affected TLDs afloat.
But domainers were furious, taking to blogs and message boards to announce and decry the death of all new gTLDs.
Leading registrar Go Daddy soon said that it would no longer sell Uniregistry TLDs, at least temporarily.
But yesterday Uniregistry announced a change of heart, providing an unusually detailed account of the thought process leading to the price increases that's worth quoting at length.
"The registration providers we consulted reported that differentiating prices based on the time of the registration was technically difficult and confusing for customers," said Bret Fausett, head of the Registry Services Team. "Based on that feedback, and considering the small number of registrants affected, we made the difficult decision to raise prices for all registrants."
"After the announcement, however, we, and our registration partners, have heard clearly from our end users that the ability to register ten-years at the existing price does not ameliorate the pain of subsequent price increases for registrants facing substantial price increases," said Mr. Fausett. "So, for the names in our highest-priced tiers, the price changes will affect only new registrations. We are asking our registration partners to do whatever is necessary to enable this approach."
"Creating a legacy tier of prices for inaugural registrants in our niche, premium top-level domains is technically more difficult," said Frank Schilling, Managing Director of Uniregistry, "but it's the right thing to do for those pioneering individuals and companies who have staked their claims in the new Internet real estate."
In other words, if you register a name in the affected gTLDs before September 8, your renewal fee will be at the current lower level.
Whether this will be enough to mitigate Uniregistry's reputational damage in the domainer community remains to be seen.
But the company also said it plans to overhaul its premium names pricing by the end of the second quarter, scrapping the multi-tier pricing approach in favor of a one-size-fits-all menu.
Schilling said that price reductions will affect "millions" of reserved names and mean "hundreds of millions" of dollars of hypothetical value have been wiped from the portfolio.
Schilling expects GoDaddy to return after dumping Uniregistry gTLDs
Uniregistry CEO Frank Schilling has expressed his "surprise" that GoDaddy has decided to stop selling his company's gTLDs, but said he expects the registrar to return in future.
GoDaddy's decision to stop new registrations and inbound transfers for Uniregistry's portfolio of gTLDs came after the registry revealed price increases for 16 strings that ranged from nominal to over 3,000%.
The registrar told Domain Name Wire yesterday that Uniregistry's move presented "an extremely poor customer experience" and "does not reflect well on the domain name industry".
Registrars are of course the customer-facing end of the domain name industry, and the burden of explaining renewal price increases of 5x falls on their shoulders.
But Schilling seems to expect the ban to be temporary.
"We are extremely surprised by GoDaddy's reaction but are pleased that our extensions are available at many other registrars who support our approach. We remain ready to support GoDaddy when they decide on a path which works for their customers," he told DI today.
"We expect them to return," he added.
It's a plausible prediction. GoDaddy's statement to DNW said Uniregistry had been cut off "until we can assess the impact on our current and potential customers", which suggests it's not necessarily permanent.
GoDaddy is Uniregistry's first or second-largest registrar in most of the affected gTLDs.
But because the gTLDs in question have so few domains in them, the number of GoDaddy-sponsored domains is typically under 1,000 per gTLD.
Even in the much larger zones of .click and .link (which are receiving small price increases and will still wholesale for under $10), GoDaddy's exposure is just a few thousand domains and it's nowhere near the market leader.
I wonder how much of GoDaddy's decision to drop Uniregistry has to do with the reaction from domain investors.
Ever since DI broke the news of the price increases a week ago, there's been a stream of angry domainer blog and forum posts, condemning Schilling and Uniregistry for the decision and using the move as a stick to batter the whole new gTLD program.
For registrars, it doesn't necessarily strike me a terrible deal.
While they will have to deal with customer fallout, over the longer term higher wholesale prices means bigger margins.
Registrars are already adding about a hundred bucks to the $300 cost of a .game domain, and the price increase from $10 to $300 of the Spanish equivalent, .juegos, likely means similar margins there too.


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No one is to blame for the shift in technology that has allowed music to be distributed without any physical medium, but the implication is that music can no longer be charged for in the same way.
Music piracy is impossible to stop – if you can hear it you can digitise it, if you can digitise it you can share it on the Internet, the Internet is too big and trans-national to effectively regulate. Appealing to people not to 'steal' music is not going to work; it's like having an honesty box in an off license.
Because of this I don't think its theft anyway. Some goods can't be charged for on a per use basis in any practical way. Street lighting is the classic example – it's impossible to imagine a system of coin operated lamp posts, it just wouldn't work. People accept that other acts of creativity are free, for example no one considers looking at a piece of street art as theft.
It was once possible to charge people for music by charging for the physical item on which the music was stored. Now it isn't. As a consequence the 'big 4' record labels are all struggling to adapt. Robbie Williams is on strike! Shit the bed!
He is striking because his label, EMI, has been taken over by Terra Firma, who have sacked many of the staff. There are many questions about whether Terra Firma know what they are up. Meanwhile the BMG in Sony BMG are rumoured to want out and Warner music is worth 72% less than it was in 2005. This is all underscored by declining CD sales, with space for CDs in supermarkets expected to decrease by 30% in 2008. Only Universal appear to be weathering the storm.
It's completely understandable that the major record companies should want to buy as much time to restructure as possible by pursuing file sharing sites and their users through the courts, using laws which are outmoded and, record companies should realise, will one day change. However they are now starting to look like king knutes with distinctly wet ankles.
Just this week the majors were grumbling about a change in the law giving away the right to copy your CDs to your iPod for your own use, as though the existence of a law preventing it was boosting record sales. I don't want to stretch the beach imagery too far, but that's head-in-the-sand thinking.
Obviously having your primary product become a public good is hard for any industry, but the 'big four' have really failed to come up with any strategy. Why didn't they buy up live promotions companies and try to get access to that slice of the cash? Madonna knows where its at, she is now signed to Live Nation, an exclusively live promotions company.
Why didn't they repackage CDs so that they represented more than a physical necessity? Radiohead's £40 box set version of In Rainbows shows the ways here.
Instead the big four have tried selling downloads. Growth in this sector has been much slower than they expected, for the obvious reason that there is an identical free version available.
Having realised that downloads aren't going to save their bacon they've turned to even more outlandish schemes, for example mobile phones that allow access to back catalogues for a subscription charge. If that sounds bizarre wait for this one: streaming music on social websites (imeem.com), paid for by advertising. Does that sound like the future of Universal? I don't think so. Both miss the point: I can get the music for free if I want it.
It's not quite an identical scenario I know, but have you ever heard to porn industry bleating about the amount of free porn on the net? They know that it doesn't mean that we don't also buy porn, it just means we look at more. They've made it work as a promotional tool.
If the majors can't sort it out I don't really care. I hope they go to the wall. Their main purpose is to promote gun toting hip hop caricatures to tweens, almost all dance and electronic music seems to have got on fine without them anyway.
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It is my sad duty to report the death of James Avery. He has had a long and illustrious career , but we all will remember him for one role, the blustery Uncle who had his nephew come to live with him in the NBC series, "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" . He passed away after complications of open heart surgery in Los Angeles yesterday.
Avery was born November 27, 1945 in Virginia , however he spent most of his childhood in New Jersey. Avery served his country in the Vietnam War as a member of the US Navy. He also wrote poetry and tv scripts when he moved to San Diego following his discharge.
Avery has not only worked as an actor on screen, but has also used his voice for many cartoon characters. The one that kids in the eighties will remember him for the most is the evil Shredder , archvillain of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" show.
Along with Uncle Phil, he has appeared in a lot of various roles on series. He was on "That 70's Show" as Kelso's trainer at the police academy. He did a heartwarming appearance as a brain dead patient's gay partner on "Grey's Anatomy. He had a part on "Moonlighting" as a federal agent . For many years , he was a fixture on prime time television and movies in a variety of guest star roles. He is survived by his loving wife Barbara, his stepson Kevin, and his mother. Chitownstarconnections gives the family and friends of James their sympathy.
Here is the evil Shredder, enemy to the turtles in "Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles" James was the voice of the villain.
Here he is tolerating his student Kelso on "That Seventies Show" as Officer Kennedy.
Here he is mourning his lover on "Grey's Anatomy"
Here is James with his real life wife Barbara.
And here is how we will remember him with his children Hillary, Ashley, and Carlton, and the nephew who was like a son to him Will . His wife, Vivian and family servant , Geoffrey in a picture from NBC's "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air." Uncle Phil was voted by TV Guide one of the Best TV Dads.
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My son Levi is three and a half years old, and his development is happening so fast right now, I feel the urgent need to write things down before I forget them.
Tonight before bed, I was reading him a book about T-Rex. The book suggests that T-Rex might have been warm blooded but nobody really knows (yet). I asked him if he wanted to become a paleontologist and find out. Instead of answering, he stuck out his lip and tried to hold back tears, saying:
I don't wanna grow up and be paleontologist dada. I just wanna stay a kid. I miss being a kid. I miss it dada.
I felt such sympathy for him at that moment, all the crying and screaming he did during the day just melted away. He is realizing that he is growing up, and changing quickly. I can't believe he's only three and a half and already conscious of his fleeting childhood. I mean, in a lot of ways, he's still a baby!
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High levels of lead are showing up in Flint's municipal water. But what, exactly, is causing this problem? One of the possible causes might surprise you.
Although the city of Flint formerly purchased its water supply from Detroit, it now draws its municipal water from the Flint River. The lead isn't present in the Flint River, itself. Instead, the lead leaches into the Flint River water as it passes through old water-service lines and pipes.
Any Michigan community that draws its municipal water from a river or inland source rather than from one of the Great Lakes will likely face this problem to some extent. River and inland-source water contains higher concentrations of chloride ions than does water pumped directly from one of the Great Lakes. Why? Perhaps surprisingly, one of the primary reasons is the overuse of salt to deice our roads in the winter. As salt molecules dissolve in water, the negative chloride ions are separated from the positive metal ions. These chloride ions become concentrated in runoff, which makes its way into our streams, rivers, and other waterways.
The negative chloride ions are corrosive, so when the high-chloride water is pumped through lead pipes (or iron and copper pipes joined together with lead solder), lead leaches into the water. It's as simple as that.
Why isn't this happening to the same degree in other places, like Detroit for example? Surely Detroit has old lead pipes, too. Right? Absolutely. But Detroit draws its municipal water directly from the Great Lakes, and water pumped from the big lakes simply isn't as corrosive.
Because the Flint River (with its concentration of chloride ions) flows into the Saginaw River, which in turn empties into Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron, it naturally follows that there are chloride ions in Lake Huron as well. However, the Great Lakes are huge, containing quadrillions of gallons of freshwater. With so much water in the big lakes, the existing chloride ions are greatly diluted and much less concentrated than they are in the water of smaller, inland streams like the Flint River. Sometimes dilution really is a solution to pollution.
Flint and Genesee County will eventually purchase their municipal water from the embryonic Karegnondi Water Authority, which will draw its water directly from Lake Huron (by the way, the Karegnondi Water Authority has many of its own, unrelated problems). This will ultimately help with the lead problem. But Michigan must look at safer alternatives to corrosive road salt. The salt isn't only damaging our cars; it's also making our water more corrosive.
Professor Marc Edwards of Virginia Tech, a leading researcher on municipal drinking water, has confirmed that "there is nine times more chloride, which is the key ingredient in the corrosive water. . . in the Flint River than in Lake Huron water." Dr. Edwards suspects that road salt is at least partially to blame for this. Similarly, the Unites States Geological Survey has determined that concentrations of chloride ions have increased dramatically in urban rivers and streams in recent years. The USGS study found that "de-icing activity was the primary source of environmental chloride in urban areas of the northern US. . . ." As Dr. Edwards notes, these high concentrations of chloride ions are simply not present in Lake Huron water.


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Some of the best discoveries come about accidentally: penicillin, Play-Doh, Post-it Notes, and Popsicles, to name a few that all begin with P for some reason. But all of these pale in comparison to the first time a drunk bro at a barbecue stumbled back from the house with some vodka and fell bottle-first into a watermelon. No use letting good food and booze go to waste, this unknown genius thought. Thus a new era of fruity drinking was born.
"Watermelon was probably the first infused fruit," says Michael Ray of Forum (755 Boylston Street, Boston, 857.991.1831) while I'm nose-deep in an impromptu recipe he's made for me, a blend of Michter's bourbon, fresh watermelon, mint, and rhubarb bitters. But it's kind of a switcheroo on the old infusing-booze-with-fruit routine, he says. "You're not really infusing the vodka; you're infusing the watermelon." Science.
"Everyone wants to turn a bottle of vodka upside down, stick it in watermelon, and start chewing on some pieces," he continues. "It's easy, cool, and refreshing; it reminds people of summer."
And since we're approaching the end of summer, many of us are going to want to cling to those memories for as long as we can. But while that venerable bottle technique is fine for those slumming it at the beach, there's more than one way to skin a watermelon. For a slightly classier version, Mike Corcoran of Back Deck (2 West Street, Boston, 617.670.0320) recommends turning a halved watermelon into a punch bowl. That's what he does for the sharable version of Back Deck's West Street Cooler, made with Berkshire Mountain Distillers' Ragged Mountain rum, Aperol, and lime and watermelon juice, all topped with soda.
Look around, and you'll find plenty of other refreshing rum- and vodka-based watermelon cocktails, like the Anguria at Scampo (215 Charles Street, Boston, 617.536.2100), made with watermelon puree, vodka, and muddled lime, and the Watermelon Cooler, suggested by the folks at Ipswich's Privateer Rum; it's made with Privateer, watermelon puree, simple syrup, and lime juice and garnished with mint.
But for me, watermelon tends to be, well, a little watery, so I prefer a spicier spirit base. And lots of bartenders have noticed that the fruit pairs well with a bit of heat. "Fresh watermelon juice adds a very subtle sweet taste that feels very summery without being overpowering," says Mike Letterman, GM of the newly opened OAK Long Bar + Kitchen (138 Saint James Avenue, Boston, 617.585.7222), where they're doing a watermelon margarita with Tres Generaciones reposado tequila, lime juice, simple syrup, Cointreau, and fresh watermelon juice. Meanwhile, Zócalo (35 Stanhope Street, Boston, 617.456.7849) serves one made with Tanteo, a surprisingly decent bottled jalapeno-infused tequila. And Masa (439 Tremont Street, Boston, 617.338.8884) has long done a version with their own house habanero-infused tequila that's spicy enough to make you brace yourself before every sip.
But maybe you don't want to sweat any more than you already are? It is August, after all. For lighter sipping with less of a boozy punch, The Beehive (541 Tremont Street, Boston, 617.423.0069) does a watermelon mimosa with watermelon, orange juice, sugar, triple sec, Champagne, and mint, while Blue Inc. (131 Broad Street, Boston, 617.261.5353) pairs the dry red sparkling wine Rosa Regale with mint and watermelon. And it seems like every other bar now carries 21st Amendment's Hell or High Watermelon, a dry watermelon wheat beer that's way better than it sounds.
But those in search of a fruity fix don't even have to belly up to a bar: as the old teenager-at-the-beach bottle technique suggests, watermelon is easy to work with at home on the fly. Use a blender or just muddle it in a glass to make your own puree. If that's still too much work, the folks at new fresh-pressed juice shop Nourish Your Soul (17 Playstead Road, West Medford, 888.995.8423) will do the heavy lifting for you. They sell a watermelon-mint juice that you can take home for mixing. It's touted as a good source of vitamin A, vitamin C, and lycopene, which are great for kick-starting the metabolism. It's still summertime, remember: anything you can do to burn some extra calories is great. You want to be drinking watermelon, not looking like one.
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text: NASDAQ:AFAM - Almost Family Stock Price, News, & Analysis Sign in or create an account to add this stock to your watchlist. Get Started $56.00 0.00 (0.00 %) (As of 08/21/2018 04:00 PM ET)Previous Close$56.00Today's Range$56.00 - $56.0052-Week Range$40.15 - $66.15VolumeN/AAverage Volume147,403 shsMarket Capitalization$783.59 millionP/E Ratio26.67Dividend YieldN/ABeta0.58 Company ProfileAnalyst RatingsChartDividend HistoryEarnings HistoryFinancialsInsider TradesHeadlinesOptions ChainSEC FilingsSocial Media Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on StocktwitsPrint this articleShare by Email Almost Family, Inc. is a provider of home healthcare services. The Company has two divisions: Home Health and Healthcare Innovations (HCI). The Home Health division consists of two segments: Visiting Nurse Services (VN or Visiting Nurse) and Personal Care Services (PC or Personal Care). 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Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange NASDAQ Industry Social services Sub-IndustryHealth Care Services SectorMedical SymbolNASDAQ:AFAM CUSIP02040910 Webwww.almostfamily.com Phone502-891-1000 Debt Debt-to-Equity Ratio0.21 Current Ratio1.97 Quick Ratio1.97 Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio26.67 Forward P/E Ratio19.51 P/E Growth1.15 Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$796.97 million Price / Sales0.98 Cash Flow$2.5582 per share Price / Cash21.89 Book Value$36.10 per share Price / Book1.55 Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$2.10 Net Income$20.41 million Net Margins2.56% Return on Equity5.88% Return on Assets4.00% Miscellaneous Employees17,100 Outstanding Shares13,990,000Market Cap$783.59 million Almost Family (NASDAQ:AFAM) Frequently Asked Questions What is Almost Family's stock symbol? Almost Family trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "AFAM." How were Almost Family's earnings last quarter? 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RENTON, Wash. (AP) - Matt Hasselbeck is ready to make his firststart in six weeks for the 2-7 Seattle Seahawks.Coach Mike Holmgren said yesterday the 33-year-old quarterbackwill practice with the starting offense and that he plans onHasselbeck starting at home Sunday against the first-place ArizonaCardinals.It would be Hasselbeck's first game since he hyperextended hisright knee in a loss at the New York Giants on Oct. 5. A surgeon inLos Angeles found that a bulging disk in Hasselbeck's back wasaffecting a nerve and weakening the knee.The Seahawks are 1-4 without Hasselbeck.
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Please avoid posting stuff like that you posted.
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Just tell me what it fucking says on those pictures.
Its just a naked man. Nothing youve never seen before.Originally Posted by Stephane
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1.Dont laugh, your teeth light me up and i need to run away
2.You also in your white, you squeez the beams of my pleasure.
Like a precious stone that could hold anything
3.Speak, speak, im not listening to the sound of your beauty.
Your smile drop by drop
4.And sometimes i only fuck you just to welcome your brightness
some gay french poetry apparantly
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HILLARIOUS.Originally Posted by super-saiya-jin
Thanks for not being a complete fag like those other two people
shoot me a pm next time you find some more gh3y poetry
i'll hapilly translate it for you
quick vacation for nesagwa.
next time will be more long if you don't post link like that in the war room.
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Thank you! Our 2017/2018 Season is done. Thank you for coming to see our shows. Thank you to all the volunteers and contributors for making this season happen.
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Stay tuned for announcements about our 2018/2019 Season!
The 2017/2018 Season WAS:
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March 8, 9, 10 at 7:30 p.m. and March 11 at 2:oo p.m. Kate Collins Middle School
The Addams Family, A New Musical Comedy
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"Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap." Luke 21:34 NIV
Each Thursday at our McDonald's Men's Morning Bible Study, we examine and discuss the upcoming Gospel lesson for Sunday. Sometimes we read a little bit further, as we did last week. The above verse follows the passage that was read as the Gospel last Sunday. I want to offer a brief reflection of this verse, especially in light of the Bishop's sermon this past week. As a general overview of the passage, Jesus is warning the disciples that the Temple and Jerusalem will be overthrown. Basically, Jesus is saying that there will be false prophets, wars, revolutions, famine, arrests and imprisonments, but to not lose heart for the Kingdom of God is greater than all of this.
Bishop Wright preached a similar sermon in light of this passage and the election: whether we are elated or deflated about the election, we are all just passing through time. The Kingdom of God is greater, and our work is not done. Our work is that of "loving like Jesus." The interesting thing about love is that it is a command of freedom and of unlimited boundaries. Unlike the Law, which speaks of things we should not do, Love opens up a world of potential. The Law says, we are not to steal from or covet our neighbor's possessions. In many ways that is quite simple. But, what does it mean to love our neighbor? Watering their plants, cooking them dinner, feeding their dog, babysitting their kids, mowing their lawn…the possibilities are endless.
This verse is in a similar vain. Jesus tells us to be careful, watchful, or to guard our hearts, depending on the translation; otherwise we may fall into behaviors which detract and distract from the Kingdom of God. We will squander wealth and resources; we will become drunk or gluttonous; we will experience deep anxiety about the cares of the world. What is interesting is that generally the focal point of the application of this verse comes across as the Law. "Thou shalt not become drunk." "Thou shalt not waste wealth." "Thou shalt not be anxious." However, this is not the point that Jesus is emphasizing. We are called to be careful so our hearts are not weighed down. Clearly, this is much more difficult to define. How do we go about this? It is much easier to follow a few rules of what not to do, than it is to embrace the challenge of discerning how we stay tapped into the love and grace of God.
This is partly because it is different for everyone, in the same way that demonstrating love is different for everyone. So, some may guard their hearts from being weighed down through prayer and praise; others by serving in the community; others through giving generously and cheerfully; and still others through worship and study. There are an endless array of ways to "be careful", but primarily the most important way, like love, is not to dwell on the results of "not being careful," rather, it is to seek after those things that lift our hearts to the Lord.


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Persuasive Writing at Grades 5, 7, and 11: A Cognitive-Developmental Perspective.
Crowhurst, Marion
To explore student facility with argumentative writing, 40 persuasive essays of 5th, 7th, and 11th grade students were analyzed for their relative percentage of reporting (narrating), interpreting, generalizing, and speculative sentences. Fifth and seventh graders were found to use significantly more narrative and fewer generalizations than older students. The young writers' reliance on reporting may be due to inexperience with the argumentative mode or a tendancy to model writing on their experience of reality. Thus, they are more skillful with the chronological organization of narrative and less expert with a mode that fails to supply the audience response found in oral argument. That reporting may represent a flight from the heavier cognitive demands of persuasive writing is suggested in studies showing mature second language learners relying more on narrative when writing in a foreign language than when using their own. While supporting earlier research that younger students write less, and less effectivly, in the argumentative mode, this study does not indicate that children cannot write persuasively. In fact, the large amount of argumentative writing demanded in high school and college suggests that students should be taught to write as effectively in this as in other modes. (Excerpts from student essays are appended.) (MM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Discourse Modes, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Grade 11, Grade 5, Grade 7, Literary Devices, Narration, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Writing Research, Writing Skills
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It began with a challenge; I realized that my social media craving was a subtle idol. I took the simple advice that Lara Casey offered in her e-book Clear the Clutter, "What if we spent half the time we do on the internet and social media on something else? What relationships would improve?"
I'm guilty of scrolling and liking and uploading and loving and tweeting.
At 5:00 p.m. last Friday I took control of my craving for social media. I logged out until the following Monday. Can I tell you what I witnessed?
I watched my daughters' eyes. I took in their beauty and facial expressions.
I ventured to the backyard garage and sifted through old paperwork and books and found endearing photos which brought back memories.
I opened up a good book and dove into adventure and romance. Betrayals and triumphs.
That ancient, Holy book wanted my attention and my soul craved it, but my flesh kept wanting to be-in-the-know.
Taking Inventory
- Do you spend more time on the reels of social media than you do with the bestselling book of all time: The Holy Bible?
- Do you wake up to check Facebook and Twitter and forget to open up in morning prayer?
I dare you to log the time you spend on social media with the time you spend in prayer and bible time. I'll be the first to admit that I've got more investment in temporary things, friends.
Maybe my finite mind doesn't get it—that I will one day meet a powerful and eternal spirit who has entrusted to me salvation. Whose asked me to go and fish for lives, while I fish around the news reels on social media.
Are your Sundays spent uploading pictures to Instagram instead of recharging with the King of Kings for Sunday worship?
Who has your allegiance?
The media of this world, which will one day fade away?
King Ahab had erected an altar to a false gods called Baal and Asherah, gods thought to control fertility and the sea (see I Kings 16:32). He broke covenant with God.
Today's false gods are subtle and devious and they have the ability to lure us into idolatry. As an aspiring author, I can easily justify the time I spend on social media to platform-building. Am I stressing followers on Twitter instead of cultivating Christ-followers?
"For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?" Luke 9:24
What could happen to our prayer and family lives if we fasted from social media EVERY weekend?
A little bit of lovely, glory on earth, perhaps? Glory that begins with simple walks and full-on, undivided attention towards our loved ones.
Could you balance your real life with your electronic media life? Weekends void of social media frees up time for authentic prayer and life-giving fellowship.
Too many of our friends and loved ones need of our time:
Flesh and blood time.
Coffee and conversation time.
Battle-cry prayer time.
Go outside and breath time.
Will you join me? Will you reach out to someone beyond social media? Unplug and unwind with loved ones? Hold your husband's hand and pray with him? Laugh and pray with girlfriends and family.
Let's be intentional and break the ties with social media–at least on the weekends. Because it matters greatly to God how we build our spiritual lives and earthly moments.


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Disclaimer: My girlfriend is willing and accepting of doing this. I'm not trying to secretly make her do this, she's well aware of what's happening.
The problem is more that her bladder is huge, and she's able to hold it for over 16+ hours. Sure she is able to purposefully pee, after holding it for a long time but I've been wanting to her to have a true accident, where she actually can't physically hold it anymore. Problem is we can go all day, and while she really has to go, by the time it's an absolutely an emergency, either she or I have had to be in bed for work for a while.
We've tried different things, like constantly drinking water or not going the night before. Having her down liquid puts her in a lot of pain, stomach and back wise. I have her stop when this happens, I have no desire for her to be in actual pain. When she drinks slowly though over the course of the day, she has no pain, just the uncomfortable feeling of having to pee. And she often loses sleep because she has to pee when she's in bed, so that is no good.
So I'm wondering, how can we have her hold her bladder starting when she wakes up (say around 9am) and have her actually have an accident within the next 12 hours?


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Russia dominates UCI Junior Track Worlds with another two titles
Russia continues to show its strength at the 2017 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Montichiari, Italy, winning it's third and fourth world titles on Thursday, the second day of competition. Italy won its second world title, while the Czech Republic took its first. Another world record was also set, bringing the total to four in the first two days of competition.
After qualifying rounds on Wednesday, the medal finals were held for both the women's and men's team pursuit competitions. Italy, which had set a world record in the women's competition in the opening round, easily beat former world record holders New Zealand for the title. The men's team pursuit saw Russia, which also set a world record on the first day, defeat Denmark for the world title.
Rainbow jerseys were awarded in two other events, with Daniel Babor of the Czech Republic beating Filip Prokopiszyn of Poland and Ivan Gabriel Ruiz of Argentina in a photo finish in the men's scratch race, while Russia took its fourth title in the men's Keirin, with Pavel Perchuk defeating Daniel Rochna of Poland and James Brister of Australia.
Thursday also saw the start of the women's sprint competition: Mathilde Gros of France broke her own world record in the 200m time trial, setting a time of 10.709 seconds.


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Airbus has launched a single-aisle aircraft capable of making transatlantic flights.
With 4,000 nautical miles, the A321neo 97t holds bragging rights to boasting the longest range of any single-aisle airliner in the world.
The latest development in aviation means that more airlines will be able to tap into the lucrative and growing long-haul market which was previously inaccessible, says Airbus.
An additional fuel tank in the aircraft hold and improvements on the design of the wings and fuselage allow the next-generation jet to undertake longer flights and deliver a 20 percent fuel savings by 2020.
The jet is capable of seating 206 passengers.
Los Angeles-based lessor Air Lease Corporation has become the first customer to place an order for the A321neo 97t, ordering 30 aircraft to join its growing Airbus family which stands at 258.
First deliveries will start by 2019.
Overall, Airbus says 2014 was a record-setting year with 629 deliveries for 89 customers, eight of which are new.


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The Democratic flub may well reinforce Washington's Republican-ruled status quo, starting with the health care deform that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is crafting under cover of darkness . A district that has been sending Republicans to Washington for almost four decades sent another one to our federal city on Tuesday. "It should be a wake-up call for Democrats".


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We had a lot of good service opportunities this week! We successfully found a new service project (all 12 of the missionaries in both wards go to the same service project so I wanted out so spread the love and have more opportunities to find investigators - and it looks good!). One of our members owns a 떡집 (Ddeokchib - I think this is a restaurant or a shop that specializes in rice cakes) and she asked us to help her one day (we got to talk with her husband who isn't a member). And one of our members asked us to come over and help her prepare food for her mother's 제사 (CheSa - I don't know what this is). As we left this member's house we ran into a woman who used to meet the missionaries and we were able to teach her yesterday! When we made our change to 추가 lessons we started with teaching the members practice lessons but we have been teaching more and more to our members needs. My new favorite thing is studying and seeking inspiration for our members, teaching with the Spirit, and feeling like I fulfilled my missionary purpose by helping them come closer to Christ. Sister Choi and I have had so many experiences where our members have told us, "We're going to talk about repentance? I was thinking about repentance yesterday and I know I wanted to work on it" or "I know that you had inspiration when you planned this lesson because it's what I needed" and so forth. One sister who gave a talk in sacrament meeting yesterday talked about things she has learned while being a member of the church and at the end of her talk she said that she put a lot of it together and had realizations on this topic while talking with us. I haven't had very many investigators in this area but I feel like I've helped our members. I love it! Love you!
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Letter 03/16/2015
We had stake conference this week and Elder Aoyagi (a member of the quorum of the seventy from Japan - she was able to translate for him and his wife last time he came) came again! The theme was councils, specifically ward councils.
We've been meeting our members more recently and I love working with our members. They're so wonderful and I love hearing their testimonies.
We had interviews with President this week!
We met a less active sister who really wants to turn her life around and wants us to help her change. Her humility is so lovely.
We met Sister Kim (mother of Brother Park in our ward)! We taught her the Plan of Salvation. She isn't 100% is it's what she wants to do but she's opening up to it and I'm grateful for the opportunity to teach her. Brother Park is in the stake presidency and he talked about us in his stake conference talk. He said that his family (they have 5 kids!) (5 kids is HUGE family in Korea) had a family council about how to help their grandma! How cute is that?
Our ward sang at stake conference.
Letter 03/09/2015
I had my last exchange (trading companions with another set of missionaries) this week. Sister Hoffman came to my area and Sister Choi went with Sister Hwang to the 2nd ward's area. It was Sister Choi's birthday and I made her a cake!
We had zone training meeting on Thursday. Because it was my last I gave my 마지막 말씀 (majimak malsseum - her final word, or last testimony). Every time missionaries give their final testimony they always say that they never thought the day would come and they don't know what to say and I never understood what they were talking about but I felt empathy for them this week. I shared Alma 26:12 ~
"Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever.".
I talked about some of the parts of my testimony that have been strengthened and I shared some stories like our fasting miracles with meeting 지승 (Ji Seung) and 예림 (Yeo Rim - the two 15 year old girls who were baptized last summer) and 예림's mother signing her baptismal form. And then I shared Isaiah 55:8~11 ~
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."
In missionary work we really want sunshine. We don't like rain and snow. And when God sends rain and snow it's easy to wonder why we don't receive answers to our prayers and why we don't get blessings. Sometimes God gives us sunshine and sometimes He gives us snow. But the snow helps plants to grow. It's cold and slippery and we have to wait a long time for it to melt but it gives plants the necessary water.
A brother in our ward referred his mother to us! We are so excited about all of these referrals we have been receiving lately! He decided that it's time for his mother to be baptized so we are going to start teaching her!!!!
I love you!
Letter 03/02/2015
I love it when we have to get into an locked apartment building (you have to know the key code to get in to most apartment buildings in Korea) and someone else opens it for us so we can get it. They (the people they are visiting)don't even know but their simple act of trying to get into their home is furthering the work of salvation (because they are able to meet and talk to the people who let them in).
We visited a member last week and she was telling us how she's been baptized for a little over a year but doesn't have her temple recommend yet and she feels a little bit left out sometimes so we challenged her to talk to bishop and get her recommend so that she can go to the stake temple day this Saturday. She texted a few hours later telling us that she talked to the bishop!
When we left the house that morning Sister Choi said that she needed to buy toothpaste. When we went to another member's house that day she had two bottles of toothpaste sitting on her table and when we left she gave them to us. How did she know?
There is a certain less active woman that we've tried to contact but we haven't been successful. the elders ran into her and gave her our number this week. We were able to visit her and she came to church! She hasn't been to church in years! I gave her a Book of Mormon when we visited her on Tuesday and she had read it all by Sunday and was reading through the Index in the back (in the Korean BoM the topical guide and Bible Dictionary are combined into one)!
We went to the temple on Thursday! I went in the Korean session again with Sister Choi. There several women in the session from a branch in Russia. There isn't a temple so that Russian saints travel down to Korea.
We were able to meet another less active member who I have only been able to meet once!
We stickerboarded (I'm not sure what this is) outside of Homeplus (a department store) on Saturday night. It was really successful for all three teams.
Letter 02/23/2015
Wednesday was transfer day! Sister Choi and I dropped off Sister Hoffman and we came home alone. On our way back we got a call from a less active member who wanted to meet so we met her for dinner! We also met two other members that day. We talked a lot about missionary work with one member and she really pumped us up for this transfer. Sister Choi also skyped home on Wednesday(because it was the Lunar New Year, and that is when Korean missionaries get to call or skype their families, rather than Christmas - it is the big family holiday)
On Thursday we had a zone training meeting because missioanry work moves at a rather slow rate during the new year's holiday. We hiked, received training, watched Meet the Mormons, ate food, and played games. On Friday we had a district meeting. I made 떡국 (deokkuk - rice cake soup - the traditional Korean food for New Years)for the missionaries in our two wards, we made message cards for our wards, and we played sports by the river. It was fun! We also had dinner at a member's house. We've been trying to run around the whole city delivering the cards over the past couple of days. We helped our ward clean the church too! We weren't able to meet any investigators this week because of the holiday but as we were delivering cards we were able to visit with a less active member that I've never been able to meet! Miracle! And we got lost as we were wandering yesterday. We stopped on the side of the road to think and one of our former investigators past us on the street so we talked to her! Miracle! And then a member walked by who showed us the house that we were trying to find and invited us over to her house. Miracle! It's a been a good week full of miracles and happiness!
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