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Do dil bandhe ek dori se Part 15 By Aahana
Do dil bandhe ek dori se part 15
Hi everyone. I am happy with the response. Thanks for it and today i will give one more update by night but sorry to inform that i may not be able to update for 2-3 days. I am a bit busy. If i get time i will surely update. Now i will continue the story and the rivals of their company are Guptas
All are at dining table having breakfast
San : ragu your doubt was right. They both are partners and cheating us.
DP : what happened san
San : papa actually ragu got a doubt that Guptas and Chopras are partners and want to destroy us. She told me about it and i got it conformed by private detectives. They thought by yesterdays movie they can lodge a complaint on us and we will lose our reputation.
Rags : but his plan failed due to me. I think now they might be planning something big
San : u are right ragu. Actually papa that manager of ours took some signatures of 5 of us on papers. So that they can blame us and undertake our company as compensation for their loss.
All are shocked with this information
Harish : san cant we do anything now.
Rags : papa don't take tension. Nothing can happen as i didn't sign anywhere. On every paper my signs are compulsory right. As u people made such a class that any sign missing among 4 of us, it is not valid and thes ame applies here.
All relaxes after listening to her
Adi : ragu how did u get doubt on them
Rags : actually bhai few days back when we all went to beach i saw our manager speaking to a person. I thought he might be his friend, but i saw the same person with chopras. He is their manager. Then i got some doubt and so intentionally i spoke about my power of authority. As i guessed they both got tensed. I felt there is something fishy and informed rohan to follow them (DP's secretary, a very good person). He saw Mr. chopra entering into Guptas farm house. He informed me and i told to san. Thats it
All are seeing her with their mouths wideopen. They are unable to imagine that their sweet, cute, naughty ragini is such a great minded girl
By this time all had completed their breakfast and are in living room
Viren goes near her and asks where is our ragu. U are not my rags. She only knows how to love but here u are totally different from her. Where did u hide her?
Rags fumes with anger and all laughs. She starts throwing pillows on him and he runs. After some time all are in hall. San comes there speaking on phone. He keeps off the phone and says
Papa and mamu i got to know their plan. Now as they came to know about rags they are planning to be nice with us and on last day of contract they decided to take away the report and present it as their own.
San : i will see now itself what they can do. I will inform police and he was about to go from there but rags stops him and says i have a plan. She shares her plan with everyone and they agrees.
San : lets go to office ragu. We will get all the files from locker to home and work secretely. They goes to office and work with full concentration.
Few days passes :
They completed the work and it is much perfect than before. All are happy. As per their plan they are collecting all the evidence against guptas and chopras
San came to know that they have few illegal business. So all plans to hide the original report and give them another fake one. Submit the original before day itself and make them speak the truth by creating misunderstands among themselves and record them and submit to police
Plan over
They collected information against them and gave to police. Submitted the original report to the committee which assigns the project (actually chopras made partnership with ragsans company. I think u all understood what i want to say) and mentioned their company name only.
All are in the office and waiting for the announcement of committee. Actually chopras submitted wrong file and it is not at all valid.
After sometime it announces that ragsans company got the contract. All are very happy and ragsan hugs eachother very tightly. They realises their position and backs off but are lost in eachothers eyes. Viren comes and snaps them out of their eyelock and drags them to dP's cabin. He and harish congragulates and blesses them.
Here guptas and chopras blames eachother and reveals all their plans and police arrests them
End of villains for sometime
All the youngsters decides to go for celebrating their success and goes to restaurant for dinner. While returning ragini asks for an icecream and ragsan goes to parlour
At home everyone is happy and praises the children. They think to handover the business to children and discussing on it. Harish asks Avantika to get a file from rags room
She enters the room and sees that the bed is full of files and books. She arranges all the books in a rack and arranging the bed. She remembers about the file and searches for it. She removes the pillow and finds a diary there which is open. She thinks to close it and was about to close but stops by seeing something. She takes it into her hand and sees it. She gets shocked and runs down taking the diary.
She goes into hall and sees advi coming. She places the diary on the table and everyone sees her.
Episode ends on avantika's face.
Precap : what is there in rags diary
Its done. Yipeeee 15 parts are over. Please comment. Thank you. Inform me if it is boring. I will try to change the track


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The latest Dollar Stretcher newsletter had a story in it I thought might be appealing to parents who read this blog: "A Frugal Money Lesson." The summary is that when this mom's two kids (ages five and eight) started asking why they didn't have enough money for some activity they wanted to do, the mom decided it wasn't too early to teach them a lesson about budgeting. She asked them to think of a job they'd like to do when they grew up, and then she wrote down the monthly salary for it, along with a list of expenses that would have to be paid out of that income. Then she showed them how spending more money in different categories (e.g, renting a big apartment instead of a small one) left less for other things. (The eight-year-old did the sums to see how each decision affected her budget, while the five-year-old counted out his expenditures from a stack of Monopoly money.) The outcome: both kids learned a vital financial lesson, and as a bonus, "my five-year-old learned to count by 20s."
This struck me as an incredibly useful exercise. It would be especially handy for home-schoolers, who can use it to combine a math lesson with a life lesson, but really, I think all parents could make use of it. I suspect that many American adults have never really learned to grasp the concept of opportunity costs (i.e., "doing x means you have less money for y"), and would be much better off if they'd been exposed to the idea while they were young and impressionable. Parents who teach their kids this lesson would be doing them a lifelong favor—and they would benefit themselves in the short term, as their kids might stop pestering them for goodies that don't fit into the budget. (Or at least, if they do, they'll have to accept the logic of the answer, "Buying you a new toy will leave us less money for food, remember?")
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Teach your children well
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In the 1980s, Montreal produced two New Wave bands of note. The first is, naturally, Men Without Hats, of "The Safety Dance" Fame. The second was The Box. (In fact, founder Jean-Mark Pisapia had briefly been a member of Men Without Hats early in their existence.) In my first year of university, a classmate and I once disputed over which of the two was a better band. To this day I remain firmly in the Men Without Hats camp.
For today's installment, I've chosen their song "L'Affaire Dumoutier (Say to Me)" from 1985. It has the distinction, I think, of being about the weirdest single to hit the charts. How many bands have released a psychological murder mystery to the radio?
"L'Affiare Dumoutier" is probably The Box' best-known song, strictly because of its quirkiness. Their third album, Closer Together, was their most commercially successful. While the Box were quite well-known in Canada, they had only limited success in the U.S. I believe their song "Ordinary People" received a fair bit of airplay.


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The sentiments were pretty much the same: Each speaker at a Jan. 2 rally at Temple Church of God in Christ in Memphis did not shrink from explaining what they believe to be an injustice heaped upon black farmers who were discriminated against by the United States government.
After years of litigation, a judge issued a Consent Decree in 1999 that settled a class action lawsuit that held the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for its role in discriminating against black farmers, and provided for them a $1.25 billion compensation package. However, not all black farmers have benefited, some speakers pointed out.
Dr. Reginald L. Porter Sr., pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church, described the black farmers' plight as a fight for freedom. "This is not a farmer's fight. This is a fight for freedom," said Porter, referring to a Bible story about Joshua's call to the tribes to take land that was promised to them. "If we are going to have freedom, we must take the Promised Land."
Porter is part of the group of clergymen that banded together to support the Memphis-based Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association (BFAA), an advocacy organization, in its efforts to apprise black farmers of their rights after the landmark case, Timothy Pigford vs. Dan Glickman, United States Department of Agriculture, was settled and then reapportioned by the Obama administration in 2011.
No less than 400 people attended the rally and listened intently to a few of the members comprising the recently formed Memphis Ecumenical Action Committee decry the government's decision to move black farmers out of Pigford I into Pigford II and included women and other minorities claiming discrimination as part of the judgment.
Dr. LaSimba Gray Jr., pastor of New Sardis Baptist Church, offered the audience a brief history lesson about his family. He traced his lineage back four generations, noting that his forebears were farmers and that he's a descendent of slaves.
"You're never broke if you got some land," he said. "We should have gotten our '40 acres and a mule.' Though you deny me, yet I will get my justice."
Although Dr. Dwight Montgomery, president of the local Southern Christian Leadership Conference and pastor of Annesdale Cherokee Baptist Church, admitted not being up to snuff on the details of Pigford I and Pigford II, he said otherwise, "The black farmers deserve what God set forth for them to have."
He opined that the government was "robbing the 'hood" – much like the fictitious character Robin Hood who stole from the rich to give to the poor -- and forbade black farmers not to sign any documents that would deny them of their rights.
The group is urging farmers not to sign the Pigford II compensation package -- which was created for new or late claimants who failed to apply for relief under Pigford I – because, they argue, black farmers "may be forever barred from any compensatory cash compensation and forever barred against up to $2.5 million of injunctive relief."
Bishop David Allen Hall Sr., pastor of Temple COGIC and chairman of the ecumenical group, made his point clear as the keynote speaker when he said, "We will stay the course. We will not be denied. There will be a reckoning for America and a reckoning for us."
He said the one billion dollar payoff has only been partially honored and likewise urged black farmers not to sign away their rights. "Your forebears didn't sharecrop the land to see you sign it away," he said forthrightly.
He also put the President on notice, saying, "Barack, you messed up on this, but we're going to take back our rights."
To the black farmers, he added, "We're going to guarantee that you get due process. The powers-that-be need to know that we're very much on the case."
For more information on the black farmers, visit www.mybfaa.org.


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Will you fight for the one you love?
Yes. That would be the common answer if you ask someone in love but what if the one you love no longer loves you. Would you still fight for him?
My best friend Chester got into a situation wherein the ex lover Loyd of his current boyfriend Dee beat him up of for stealing Dee. Apparently Dee already broke up with Loyd and Lloyd did not accept that. Until now Lloyd is still with Dee and Chester had to broke-up with him.
If it were you?
Would you fight for him even if you know that person no longer loves you?
In this situation Lloyd won the battle but do you think that would be a happy relationship?


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Last week when I updated this blog Kirby Krackle had just gone into the studio and had began laying down final drum tracks for our new album due out in March. This past week we announced the name of the record would be E FOR EVERYONE; a tribute to the video rating system culture, and also an acknowledgment that though specifically about geek culture/comics/games, we feel strongly that it crosses the niche to rock music lovers in general. Here's the logo as it appears on our yet-to-be-released album cover...
As you can see in the video above filmed during the week, we made a grid of all the parts/instruments that needed to be recorded. In a "normal" band situation (no band is normal) the different people take turns layering the songs with their specific parts/talents and the rest of the time is spent listening/playing video games/sleeping on the couch etc. Our process was different because once the drums were laid down it was my show solo style to make stuff happen from there on out over 6 10-hour days of loud guitars, vocals, bass and misc. additions as the songs flourished. It was a very different, fun, and honestly exhausting way of recording that I haven't done outside of my own studio in the way of so much needed to be recorded by me. Still, it was a great way to stretch and see what I'm able to get done on the quickly ticking clock before the album goes to print in a few weeks. Once the first day of instrument tuning (or lack of tuning) issues and then my developing bad attitude as a result was in the rear view mirror, we started to hit our stride. The few videos below are a taste of what it was like tracking guitars and we had been sharing them via twitter (www.twitter.com/kirbykrackle) all week to include our fans on the process if they found it interesting. If you've never been in the studio, it might make a little more sense when you know that though you the listener only hear my guitar, I hear the whole song that I'm playing along with in my headphones...
Thursday night brought the EXPLONE gig at the newly remodeled and reopened Crocodile in downtown Seattle. I've only had the opportunity to play Croc once years ago with a band I was helping out called SWEET LOU, so it was a pleasure to experience the new club. I was very impressed with the new layout, venue, and the employees that actually didn't hate you that you were in a band playing that night. Seriously. The venue really upped their game and professional atmosphere in general and I highly encourage all to go check it out for a great night. I'll be back as an audience member for sure. The show? I had a great time, but had to concentrate really hard on my parts after a few botched chords and realizing that my brain was still in studio mode. The sound was huge though and I was happy with the onstage mix that made my guitar sound like an axe of the gods. Truly one of the best on-stage mixes I've ever had and if you're a performer you know how important that is. Bravo Crocodile.
After 4 days of being in a studio with just Jim, our producer Don Gunn and myself, I think we were all ready to see some new faces stop by. It was good timing too because on Friday we flew our friends Jay Kinko and GMK The Great up from L.A. as they stopped by for GMK to lay down 12-bars of flow on one of our favorite songs for the album. It's a head bopper and I'm sure people that are familiar with my music will be surprised when they hear it. I literally CAN'T WAIT to play it for you guys. Sitting on my hands here.
Inside The Session with Kirby Krackle from GMK on Vimeo.
Saturday we had an off day which was nice to recharge for a lot of singing that took place on Sunday and getting many of the minor melody guitar lines and textures put on tape. Shannon and Matt from Seattle Geekly stopped by to sample some of the new jams, and Patrick from EXPLONE took time out of his day to play on our album as well. I've spoken highly about Patrick's melodic ear and face melting solos before so it was a no-brainer to have him play the parts that I wouldn't have done nearly as well. Not my wheelhouse for the hardcore rock solos, but he delivered like I knew he could and then some. So much fun for me to have a different ear interpret some parts that I've had right in front of my face for months. Very fortunate, and you'll know what I'm talking about when you hear it.
So, we're back tomorrow morning (Tuesday) and I have a day to clean the rest of my parts up before our keyboardist Bryce steps up to the plate on Wednesday for twinkling and shimmering ivory. Wish you all could see what's been going on in person (wanna come over?), and if I'm fortunate enough that some of you loved the first KK record you'll be pleased with how the new disc is coagulating. I'll be pleased. Awesomeness awaits.
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
I am a Freelance Editor
Most of you probably already know I'm a freelance editor. And today I've donned my editor hat and headed over to literary publicist Stephanie Barko's blog. I'm answering a couple of questions about editing and coaching. You're all welcome to drop by and read my answers.
As an enticement for you to leave a comment or a question over at Stephanie's blog, there's a prize. One name will be drawn out of that ubiquitous hat for a free edit of the first 50 pages of your manuscript.
See you over there.
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Heading over there now!ReplyDelete
Judy, South Africa
Hi Judy. See you there.ReplyDelete
Great post, Helen. So many people hang their virtual shingle out with 'editor' on it, yet don't understand what the process entails.ReplyDelete
Excellent post, Helen. Thanks for letting us see your side of the process.ReplyDelete
Off I go...ReplyDelete
Yeehaw - heading over right now.ReplyDelete
I'm glad you are letting folks know what it is you do. How else will we find you when we need you?ReplyDelete
Karen, right now you can find me typing on my iPhone's teeny keyboard. Didn't think i'd get cell service in the Capitol but I can. Now I'm off to Stephanie's blog.ReplyDelete
Thanks, everybody, for going over and commenting. I so appreciate it, especially today when I'm without a computer. Mine black-screened yesterday. So today I'm working on the iPad, my iPhone and borrowed computers.ReplyDelete
I'm on my way :)ReplyDelete
Enjoyed your post over there, Helen. But I must say the orange type on the white background was a bit hard to read. I wonder why people think that doing something unusual like that is a good decision. Makes me think of when editors used to say that they had received manuscripts typed on pink paper and how that cast the writer in a negative light. What is wrong with black type on a white background that is easy for everyone to read?ReplyDelete


text: Share: Comments Print November 13, 2012 at 2:48 PM School officials identify two killed in South Park car crash Posted by Jennifer Sullivan A 16-year-old boy who died in a car crash in South Park on Sunday night has been identified as Mario Luis Martinez Herrera. Denny International Middle School, where Herrera once attended, released a letter to students' families identifying the teen driver. Also killed in the crash was Luciana "Lucie" Hernandez, an eighth-grader at the school, according to school officials. Hernandez's older sister, Karla, a ninth-grader at Chief Sealth International High School, was also in the accident and is being treated at Harborview, according to the letter written by Principal Jeff Clark. Hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said the girl is in serious condition in the Intensive Care Unit. Two other youths were hospitalized after the crash. It's unclear what their medical conditions are. Seattle police spokeswoman Renee Witt said that police have heard accounts that the crash was caused by racing. "Detectives will be talking to the young man who said this was a racing type of situation," Witt said. "Speed may have been a factor in the collision." Five people were riding inside a 1990 Acura Integra traveling north on 8th Avenue South when Herrera apparently lost control of the car on a curve. The vehicle struck a telephone pole in the 9200 block just after 8 p.m. Hernandez died shortly after arriving at Harborbiew. Clark, in his letter, said "Today at school we had a moment of silence, an eighth-grade class meeting, individual and group grief counseling and a place for interested students to come together at lunch time. Additionally, students had an opportunity to begin to create a tribute which will be displayed at school and then taken to the service to be given to Lucie's family." Comments | More in The Blotter | Topics: car crash, Harborview Medical Center, South Park


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James L. Breese and the Carbon Studio NYC
He was James L. Breese, best friend of architect Stanford White who did design work for both his New York townhouse and studio at 5 West 16th street and his Southampton country estate (both still standing). He was the nephew of the portrait artist, inventor of the telegraph and co-founder of the National Academy of Design, Samuel Finley Breese Morse ( aka "The father of American Photography"). He was a leading light in New York's turn-of-the-century social and artistic upper crust. James L. Breese owned and operated the Carbon Studio in partnership with pictorialist Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr., who later became a member of Alfred Stieglitz's The Photo Secession and The Linked Ring. Breese's then famous "One of 1001 Nights" salons would begin at midnight, at 5 West 16th, "at the foot of women's mile."Artists, writers and society secretly gathered for lascivious intrigue. The documented and published highlights were dresses catching fire to be extinguished with champagne, "The Pie Girl Dinner", a naked sixteen year old girl to poping out of a pie, and "the girl in the red velvet swing." His circle of bohemian friends and guests included such remarkable personalities as Miss Emily Hoffman, the mother of Diana Vreeland, Dana Gibson, Louis Saint Gaudens, John Singer Sargent, Nicola Tesla, Otto Chushing, Miss Post, the Parsons, the DeForests, Evelyn Nesbit and many more. Together they staged elaborate historical party tableaux which Breese photographed for his private amusement. He was the founder and an active member of the NY Camera Club, won many awards, and was cataloged in Camera Notes many times. He and Stieglitz were the only two Americans (out of sixty American applicants) to be accepted in an exhibition in Vienna 1893, which Breese took first prize. He wrote and illustrated articles for Cosmopolitan (1894), one titled The Relationship Of Photography To Art.. He was heavily chronicled and his exhibitions reviewed during his day. The most noted was by critic Edward L. Wilson, who wrote of Breese and his work, "true and interesting picture qualities" and, "the leader of New York's new school." Another review by Sadakichi Hartman gushes about Breese and pans Steiglitz. Like so many of his contemporaries very little is known about him today. The well known historians, William Welling, Christian A. Peterson and the director of the National Portrait Gallery, Mary Panzer, have all made generous entries about Breese in their historical texts and publications of the period and they all agree there is much more to be unearthed and brought to light about this bohemian group that called themselves "The Carbonites".
A cachet of Breese's extraordinary photographs--carbon prints, lantern slides and glass negatives-- mostly portraits of New York society in the 1890's has been recovered from the basement of a family descendant in Santa Fe, New Mexico and they are now available for display and publication for the very first time. Together with Mr. Breese's extensive and completely organized personal files, photographic chemical notes and newspaper archives they form a fascinating and unique portrait of a rarefied slice of turn-of-the-century New York.
Please contact me if you have information that might help in my research.
- Mark Breese Sink
Friends of James L. Breese that I am looking for more information on.
James L. Breese,
John Elliot Cowdin (who the party was for)
Robert Bacon ?
Stanford White
William T. Lawson?
Rene La Montagne?
Thomas L. Manson, Jr.
James Barns?
R. Suydam Grant?
Alfred Q. Collins?
W. Rutherford Mead?
J.Carroll Beckworth, Artist
J. Aldren Weir. Artist
J. Kennedy Tod?
George E. Perkins?John H. Twachtman, ArtistWhitney Warren, Designed Grand Central Station, Providence's Biltmore Hotel.
Henry W. Poor ?
Henry C. Mortimer ?
Charles F. Mckim Stanfords partner
Augustus St. Gaudens, Artist
John Ames Mitchell?
Cooper Hewitt
Robert Ried?
Willard Metcalf?
Edward Simmons ?
Henry W. McVickar?
John Greenough?
John D. Cheever?
Henry E. Howland?
William Astor Chanler
Charles Dana Gipson, Artist
Nicola Tesla, inventor
Other texts about James Breese:
* review by Sadakichi Hartman
* an essay describing the infamous "Pie Girl Dinner" and its context


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I am certain that everyone on the Internet has been wondering what I've been doing for the majority of the last few months while not blogging. The simple answer: Reading books. Lots of them.
I'd love to be able to say that I've compiled a giant list of ways that these books can be applied to gaming, but I have not. Certainly there were some moments that some things stood out, triggered some "game-thought", but I wasn't really recording anything at the time.
Here's a list.
1. Four Black Revolutionary Plays, LeRoi Jones
2. Giving Good Weight, John McPhee
3. The Jack Vance Treasury
4. The Water of Thought, Fred Saberhagen
5. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
6. The Broken Sword, Poul Anderson
1. The Business, Iain Banks
2. Sabbath's Theater, Phillip Roth
3. Mathematicians in Love, Rudy Rucker
4. Space Opera, Jack Vance
5. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein
6. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
1. Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces, Tom Clancy, Carl Steiner, Tony Koltz, and Jonathan Marosz
2. Anais: The Erotic Life of Anais Nin, Noel Riley Fitch
3. Space Vikings, H Beam Piper
4. John Addams, David McCullough
5. Best of Leigh Brackett
6. Gloriana, Michael Moorcock
7. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
8. Singular Travels, Campaigns and Adventures of Baron Munchausen, R E Raspe & others, illustrations by Gustav Dore
9. The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe
10. The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami
11. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, also Murakami
Yes I'm particularly happy with the 11 books in one month thing. I've heard a few times recently that the average American reads 2 books a year. What's up with that?
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The sound of people drowning is something I cannot describe to you. No one can. It is an absolutely dreadful sound, and it is followed by a terrible silence." - Eva Hart, Titanic Survivor
This quote is something I cannot get out of my head today.
It has stuck with me since I first heard it years ago, watching a documentary on the Titanic tragedy. And every time I hear of death at sea - particularly tragedies in which there are survivors - I think of it again.
I also cannot quite get rid of the lump that seems permanently lodged in my throat after watching last night's episode of Deadliest Catch.
In truth, this was not an episode.
It was an experience.
A poignant, timeless, chilling, gripping, touching and memorable tribute to the F/V Katmai, who succumbed to the raging Bering Sea last October in the midst of a Typhoon that engulfed almost the entire fishing ground.
Four Katmai crewmen survived.
Seven did not.
As we listened to the survivors recount their tale of survival, it seems impossible they did survive. Their life raft flipped nearly 50 times as they rode out the night, thrashing about in 40-foot seas, 80-knot winds, and existing 17 hours in 40 degree waters that create instantly hypothermic conditions without a survival suit.
And pushes the envelope of being able to survive in one.
Perhaps most touching, though, was not only the haunting video footage the crew shot of themselves some time before they left port, joking that the job they do could cost them their lives, but the subsequent reflection of the surviving Katmai crew in asking the proverbial question: Why them and not me? Or, why me and not them?
It's a question every survivor of every tragedy asks him or herself.
And for which seems no easy answer.
It's the guilt of surviving.
We already know this is one of the deadliest jobs on earth.
We just don't often get to experience the loss of life alongside these guys.
Last night, we did.
And I, for one, will never forget it.
In loving memory of the F/V Katmai and crew members: Carlos Zabala, Robert Davis, Cedric Smith, Glenn Harper, Jake Gilman, Joshua Leonguerrero and Fuli Lemusu
New episodes of Deadliest Catch air Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on Discovery Channel. Visit the official Deadliest Catch Web site for the latest on the captains and crews of the Northwestern, Cornelia Marie, Time Bandit, Wizard, Early Dawn and North American and the new boat, Lisa Marie.


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Dear Helena,
You have an intuition that I hope to never discourage. Even at 4, you see people's emotions and understand their relationships, and you have a knack for asking questions that make people squirm. So I shouldn't have been surprised when you asked me about the small, handless wooden comb I keep in my medicine cabinet and use to untangle my hair after the shower. It is such a small thing, something I use nearly every day, and it has been so since before you were born. Asking about that comb might seem to someone else like asking about my brown leather shoulder bag or my black cast iron fry pan. But there is nothing special about those things that you see every day. You sensed there was something special about that comb. And there is.
See, a very long time ago when I was a young woman starting out in the world a man gave me that comb. He was also young, and very handsome and accomplished and on the one hand I was amazed that he loved me so much. But at that time I felt pretty amazing, too, so it all seemed to fit just right. He was one of a handful of men who I've loved and who loved me back. Each of those men came with many tears, just as each came with giant soaring love that turned me into who I was to become. Who I am.
That man was young, but he had an old soul (my big loves always do). He was from another part of the world, and our time was borrowed, and after a year together he had to leave. And so I followed him. But before that, we fell in love. And he was the first man who took me out to dinners with bottles of wine that he could not afford, and he was the first man who really made love to me, who took over my body in new ways that changed me. He cried for me, and when he'd hold me in his arms, I'd often break down myself for no reason at all, except for the reason that his love was breaking into a part of me I had not yet then known.
He was dark, and he was also sweet. And when he took out a small bag with the little comb he explained that it was for him to use to wash my hair in the shower. Even though that full memory rarely materializes, that tender notion passes through me each and every morning when I reach for the comb, or glimpse it tucked behind the yellow tin that holds my makeup. It is a fleeting reminder that there are brilliant and good men in the world who have loved me. When I feel alone or flawed I remember that someone once thought otherwise. And somehow that makes it so.
When I was growing up your Gramma Camille kept a pair of nail clippers on a hook in a kitchen cabinet. One side had an enamel plaque advertising Newport cigarettes. The whole family used those clippers, and no one ever mentioned how bizarre it was that they were never replaced in 25 years, or that they hung there despite the fact that my mother abhorred nothing more than smoking. But like you, I sensed there was something about those clippers, and so once – just once when I was a teenager—I asked her. The response was a dismissive mention of a man in Paris. My mother had been to Paris once, when she was a college student in the summertime. I imagine her loving him, and the sweetest heartbreak that must have been, and how there must be such a funny and lovely inside joke that led to the clippers. That is my own fictionalized version of events, because it was made clear that I was not invited to ask more.
The message my mother gave me about romance and dating was always one of practicality: marry someone nice, with a good job, and tall (because tall men do well in business). No messing around with the frivolity of passion – that will only lead to foolish decisions! And in the event you do succumb to feelings, be decent and don't talk about it.
I am not sure what my bottom-line lesson about love and relationships is for you. I'm not sure for myself. But I want you to notice that comb, and I want you to ask. Ask why I keep that David Sedaris short story collection, even though I purge all other books I read. Then I will tell you about my college boyfriend who was so kind and decent, and the relationship that taught me to listen when my heart tells to seek out freedom, even when practicality says to stay. Ask about the girlish pink negligee stuffed into the back of a drawer, and I will tell you all about your dad, and how he helped me realize a life that is larger and more exciting than my dreams allowed. Ask me why I snap when you play with my black ear buds, and I will tell you about the boyfriend who gave me the lesson that love and sex and art are all important for their own sake – and that sake is perhaps higher than all else.
Ask me again about the comb, and I will tell you to collect love stories in your own life. I will tell you to expect tenderness and passion and big, complicated loves that will change you forever. And I will tell you to anticipate devastating, glorious heartbreak, too, when you wonder if you will ever, ever feel that way again. And then, out of the corner of your eye, you will subconsciously glance at what will be your own wooden comb, and you will know, Yes, yes, I will love once more.
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Eddie Murphy surfaces after "dying" in freak accident... again
This is (definitely) not the first time Eddie Murphy has "died," at least on the Internet. Which begs the question: If the comic were to actually die, would it be like a tree falling in the forest: Would anyone really "hear" the news?
The Internet serial killer struck again, reporting that Eddie Murphy passed away in Switzerland after losing control of his snowboard.
Eddie Murphy is now known almost as much for "dying" virtually as he is for being a comic superstar in the 1980s and 1990s.
According to the International Business Times, Murphy has "died" at least five times since May 2011.
Like country crooner Reba McEntire and actor Owen Wilson, Murphy passed away, for the fifth time, following a freak snowboarding accident in the very real Zermatt, Switzerland, according to the very fake-sounding Global Associated News.
The media outlet fakery went like this: "The actor & novice snowboarder was vacationing at the Zermatt ski resort in Zermatt, Switzerland, with family and friends. Witnesses indicate that Eddie Murphy lost control of his snowboard and struck a tree at a high rate of speed."
"Eddie Murphy was airlifted by ski patrol teams to a local hospital, however, it is believed that the actor died instantly from the impact of the crash," it continues. "The actor was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident and drugs and alcohol do not appear to have played any part in his death."
Who doesn't buy a story like that? And talk about a copy-and-paste job as well. Five times? Really, can't they think of another story? Like the gruesome car accident that claimed the life of our beloved Vanilla Ice (AKA Rob Van Winkle)?
These celebrity death hoaxes have become such a phenomena that SheKnows even featured a "best of" for celebrity "deaths" for 2011. Scott Baio, Bon Jovi and Gaga all got to "die" online!
When will "Global Associated News" strike again to "kill" off Eddie Murphy for a sixth time? Will Eddie Murphy finally brush up on his snowboarding skills?
And, at least in two respects, Global Associated News is right: Murphy might as well be dead to his ex Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown. And -- to the world -- his Hollywood career was pronounced DOA sometime between Daddy Day Care and Norbit.


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Just finished up this spooky sign, and I am loving it already. I live in a house that was built of stone in the late 1800's. A lots of kids in the neighborhood already believe its haunted so I try to decorate with more humor than gruesome details.
I saw this sign this morning on Eleven-o-one Creations and loved it. I had seen others on Pinterest, but not one I cared for. This one simply inspired me.
I had this board I had picked up at a second hand store for a buck, knowing it would come in handy some day. I painted it white ...
Then printed off the words in the font and size I wanted, along with my ever favorite witch silhouette from Graphics Fairy and then turned them all over and scribble on the back with a number two pencil. After tracing them onto the painted board, I colored in the details with various sizes of sharpie markers. Last of all I used an old ink pad and 'antiqued' the edges of the board. I added a couple of eye hooks, and voila!!
I had a perfectly spooky but not scary sign for my front porch!! Hope all is going well with you and your holiday prepartions!! Its hard to believe the big day is just 10 days away!! Enjoy!


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September 21, 2012
Fall + Harvest Dress
Fall is here!! Hooray for my favorite season! We did a bit of decorating (which I'll share later) and visited the Harvest Barn for my preschooler's first field trip last week. So fun!
Tractor rides. Climbing on hay bales. Petting goats. Picking the perfect tiny pumpkin. Apple cider and pumpkin spice lattes. Check, check, check.
I made her this little green and brown dress especially for the occasion. It was a maternity dress that doesn't quite fit anymore, but the print has a certain harvest-y, little house on the prairie feel to it. I just cut off the bottom, added a band and reattached the sleeves. Easy peasy.
Enjoy your first fall weekend! Hoping our baby shows up to celebrate it too :)
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In The Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Assalamu'alaykum to all,
Do you have any pics of batch11 or pics since f1?
Well, this is the time that WE NEED YOU!!
Batch11's Unit Penerbitan wants pics for a multimedia show, so if you have the sincerest hearts please submit them to:
Banin - akh Ammar b. Aminuddin
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Confident Retirement Seminar - Retiring On Your Terms
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Date: November 7, 2017
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM EST
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There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Whales was a four piece DIY oriented indie rock/math pop band from some place in Texas. They played together for a couple of years while the members were in high school (mostly house shows at the legendary Skramansion), did a very short tour, moved around some, broke up and did some reunion shows after that. The members are now/were in: Archer Youngster, Family Might, UVB-76, Wine Drunk Moms, Costumes and Owl Creek Bridge. You can listen to them at: http://killerwhales.bandcamp.com/ 2) WHALES is some music from a Miami, FL. http://www.myspace.com/whalesmusic 3) Whales is an unsigned Indie/Ambient band out of Amesbury, MA. 4) Whales is an unsigned Screamo/Experimental band from Malaysia. http://www.myspace.com/wearewhales 5) Whales is a four-piece indie rock band from Chicago. Often described as 'shoegaze' and 'melodic noise'. http://whalesmusic.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/WhalesMusic Whales is: Allen Sears, Maigin Blank, Michael Janas, Randall S. Murphy "Chicago rock band Whales experiment with noise, dynamics, and melody. Their music is firmly rooted in basement rock, and branches towards sculpted towers of spaced-out sonics that wrap themselves around indelible melodies. Whales is busy writing material for their sophmore release titled Plate Tectonics, to be released in late 2012. Serve the song. Noisy heaven-rock. Est. 2009." 6) Whales is also a one-man digital hardcore act from Anglesey, North Wales, UK, signed to Bad Egg Records. www.badeggrecords.co.uk/bands/whales http://www.facebook.com/WhalesUK Formed by David McCann of Micrographia in the summer of 2008 . Whales play a mix of digital hardcore and noise punk, taking heavy influence fromacts such as Lightning bolt and Big Black. Using just a battered drum machine, a child's bass guitar loaded with banjo strings and a telephone reciever, whales creates a party noise atmosphere reminiscent of late 90's Load Records acts. Their debut EP "Hellephant" was released under Bad Egg Records in March 2009. The EP has so far gained air-time on Adam Walton's show on BBC Radio Wales Whale's first album "Open Ice Hits" was released on Bad Egg Records June 2010. http://www.badeggrecords.co.uk www.badeggrecords.co.uk/bands/whales Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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The She-Ex has been particularly difficult to understand today, demanding the death certificate which she feels I am keeping from her, when in fact there has been no inquest as such and therefore I don't actually have one to keep from her!
I haven't written to her, but if I did..........
Oh, She-Ex,
I am being calm and collected about this, because I do not want this to degenerate into some kind of abuse session from you.
Firstly, you are ignoring the fact that I am not being difficult, I am simply unable to supply the document you require, because the legal process is not complete. You will not have to attend that inquest, I will. It will be difficult enough as it is, without you making it more so, on purpose.
Secondly, I am fully aware that BG goes to school and how important school is. We were the ones who were trying to impress that upon you when you were getting letters from the truancy department of your education authority. I am glad she is going every day. She needs to, as does every child. Routine and education are important in a young child's life.
Thirdly, I am not on your "ass" about anything. The sentence was phrased in the future tense, as I was fully aware that she would not have seen the blog yet. Irritating as it is for you to know that Rich is loved and missed over here, and that BG is loved and missed, and that we are loved and cared for, I'm afraid that that is the truth of the matter.
Fourthly, it was your choice to be difficult about the divorce, about sending the papers, and so on. Your attitude towards that divorce has been recognised over here - all those times I told you things were noted? They were. This has been seen by some people, (not by me,) but by some people, as karma. Had you have got on with the divorce you would have been financially better off now. BG and AC would have been better provided for. Life would have been easier for you. However, you chose not to, because you thought to prevent us carrying on with our lives. As you can see, you did no such thing to us, and life is more complicated for you.
Oh, I'm bored of writing this now. She won't read it, (she doesn't read here anymore - she said so!) she won't listen, and she has her own "I'm a poor abandoned widow" agenda. I feel so sorry for her and for the BG, and I don't want to make it worse by venting my spleen on her.
I'm hurting a lot at the moment, and her keep on choosing to rip the scabs off, so to speak, is just too painful. Like claiming she loved him desperately - but clearly not enough to stay with him, or to send pictures of his daughter, or make sure they could talk, or send a Fathers Day or Birthday or Christmas card. Or divorce papers. Not that desperately.
And I know me. I don't want to share my pain with her, partly because she has no right to my pain, and partly because she is such an emotionally and mentally fragile person sometimes that I don't want to upset her, and by doing so make BG upset. The She-Ex has said that she cannot hide her emotions from the BG, so...... there we go, really. I won't choose to be unkind to her that way. It's too easy. It comes down to the fact that it is 4 years almost to the day since the BG saw her father, and there is no one else to blame for that but the She-Ex. She must feel awful about it, and there is nothing anyone can do to help her escape it, because it is the truth. *sigh* Poor her.
And now it's bed time.
Laters lovely people, much laters.


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Csikszentmihalyi discusses ecstasy--a state or feeling of stepping into an alternate reality, or getting "lost" in what one is doing. He notes that what we have left of great cultures of the past is their temples and sanctuaries, where they went to experience life in "a more concentrated and more ordered form," where they sought ecstasy.
I'm investigating ecstasies myself these days.


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Officials Warn al Qaeda 'Certain' to Try Attack Soon
WASHINGTON (WSJ)—The U.S.'s top intelligence officials said Tuesday that an attempted al Qaeda attack on the U.S. in the next three to six months was "certain."
An official also said the Nigerian who allegedly attempted to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day was again cooperating with federal investigators. Republicans have accused the administration of squandering a chance to gain valuable intelligence from the suspect by using the civilian court system to charge him, instead of declaring him an enemy combatant and subjecting him to more interrogation.
Al Qaeda remains a significant threat to the U.S., the officials said, and the group's recent evolution in tactics includes dispatching individuals who can enter the U.S. without arousing suspicion, such as the man accused of attempting the Christmas Day attack.
Such tactics have created "a new degree of difficulty" for U.S. spies seeking to thwart the next attack, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Al Qaeda will remain intent on attacking in the U.S. at least until Osama bin Laden and his second in command, Ayman al Zawahiri, are killed or captured, Mr. Blair said.
Al Qaeda's many affiliates are also of great concern to the spy agencies. The Yemeni affiliate, which is believed to have directed the attempted Christmas Day attack, will continue to attempt additional attacks on the U.S., Mr. Blair said.
Militant groups in Pakistan are also coordinating their attacks with al Qaeda, which has led to an increase in terrorist attacks inside Pakistan as well as rising concerns the groups may expand their ambitions to attack outside Pakistan, officials said.
Republican lawmakers also pressed Mr. Blair and FBI Director Robert Mueller on the decision to read Miranda rights to the alleged Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, rather than submit him to further interrogation. Both officials said that decisions on whether to read a terror suspect his rights or interrogate him to collect intelligence should be made on a case-by-case basis.
Mr. Abdulmutallab was interviewed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on Christmas Day as he underwent treatment following the botched bombing attempt on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. He stopped cooperating after about an hour, U.S. officials said.
However, last week federal agents began talking to Mr. Abdulmutallab again. "He's been talking for a number of days," a law enforcement official said. "Has provided actionable intelligence that we're following up on."
Mr. Blair previously said that the suspect should have been questioned by a special interrogation group that is still under development. But Tuesday he appeared more supportive of the FBI's decision to read Mr. Abdulmutallab his rights. "The balance struck in the case was a very understandable balance," Mr. Blair said. "We got good intelligence."
In addition to terrorism, cyberattacks are the other key threat Mr. Blair emphasized, saying that "American efforts are not strong enough" to combat cyber threats. The recent cyberattacks on Google Inc. were a "wake-up call" that the attackers are outstripping U.S. defenses, he said.
Sensitive information is stolen on a daily basis from government and company networks, he said, adding that it isn't certain that U.S. computer networks would remain available in a time of crisis.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat who chairs the intelligence panel, said the cyber threat had reached a point where countries should consider "the value of a cyber treaty with built-in mutual assurances of behavior." U.S. officials have in the past resisted such proposals out of concern that they would limit its options to maneuver, attack, and spy in cyberspace, but the Obama administration has expressed some openness to the idea.


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PRECIOUS-Gold holds firm after Cyprus parliament rejects tax
(Additional reporting by Clara Denina and Jan Harvey; Editing by Keiron Henderson, Grant McCool and Gunna Dickson)
* Gold eases off 3-wk high at $1,615.16/oz after Cyprus vote * SPDR Gold Trust posts biggest daily loss in nearly a month * European car sales drop 10 pct in February, hurting platinum * Coming up: FOMC policy statement, Bernanke press conference Wed. (Updates with closing prices, releads, adds Cyprus vote, rewrites throughout, changes byline, dateline) By Carole Vaporean NEW YORK, March 19 (Reuters) - Gold stayed strong on Tuesday, but eased off earlier 3-week highs above $1,615 an ounce after Cyprus' parliament rejected a tax on bank deposits which cast doubt on the country's bailout package, affirming a need for flight-to-safety buying. Cypriot lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected a deeply unpopular plan to tax bank deposits on Tuesday, throwing into doubt an international bailout for the troubled euro zone member needed to avert default and a banking collapse. Gold edged off its highs just after vote, but the lingering uncertainty surrounding Europe's financial stability should keep prices supported. "They rejected this version of the plan, but presumably there will be something else forthcoming. So, the genie is still out of the box in that your bank account is not necessarily secure and that is broadly supportive of gold," said Peter Buchanan, commodity analyst at CIBC World Markets, Toronto. Spot gold held onto gains of 0.44 percent at $1,611.90 an ounce by 1540 EDT/1940 GMT, but pulled off its highest levels since Feb. 26 at $1,615.16 an ounce reached before the Cypriot vote was cast. U.S. gold futures for April delivery settled $6.70 an ounce higher at $1,611.30, but was quoted at $1,609.50 in after hours trade following the vote. In euro terms, gold rose to its highest since Feb. 07 at 1,256.50 in early trade. The euro zone proposal, unveiled at the weekend, to partially fund a bailout of the island by taxing bank deposits rattled financial markets and pushed risk averse investors into gold as a safe haven and kept them there following the vote. "If you're worried about the value of your savings account and whether someone's going to pare it unilaterally that makes gold more appealing. We do know some of those accounts are held by people who might well consider gold as an alternative investment," said Buchanan. Cyprus' financial troubles should provide gold an underpinning, aided by the euro's bounce after the news. The euro cut its losses against the dollar in late afternoon trade, following comments that the European Central Bank took note of the Cyprus vote and that it reaffirmed its commitment to provide liquidity as needed within its rules. Gold tends to benefit from rising risk aversion if investors choose the metal as a safe store of value, it has also moved closely in line with stocks and the euro this year. INVESTMENT INTEREST MUTED Some investors also held onto gold in anticipation of Wednesday's policy statement from the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee. They will also be anxiously watching Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's press conference after the meeting, which could affect prices if he even hints at a policy shift. Speculation that the Fed could withdraw from its monetary easing policy known as quantitative easing, or QE, sooner than expected has pressured gold this year. HSBC said in a note that it expects the FOMC to reaffirm its commitment to its easy policy, "and to offer no hint that it will alter the policy in the near term." It added, however, that the FOMC "may decide to update its strategy principles of how to 'exit' from QE at the coming meeting. Selling from gold-backed exchange-traded funds continued on Monday, with the largest, New York's SPDR Gold, reporting its biggest outflow in nearly a month, of 13.5 tonnes. That brought its total outflow this year to 131 tonnes. Silver also reversed earlier losses and was nearly even at $28.85 an ounce. Platinum was down 1.6 percent at $1,552.25 an ounce and palladium was off 4.0 percent at $731.75 an ounce. Platinum, chiefly used in autocatalysts, has traded at a discount to gold for much of the last year, but reversed that trend in the first quarter on growing optimism that steadier global growth would translate into a demand recovery. However, car makers struggled in Europe, a key market for platinum-heavy diesel catalysts. Europe's car market shrank 10.2 percent in February, with sales of new vehicles falling to 829,359, according to figures from the Association of European Car Manufacturers. 2:53 PM EDT LAST/ NET PCT LOW HIGH CURRENT SETTLE CHNG CHNG VOL US Gold APR 1611.30 6.70 0.4 1599.00 1615.00 149,614 US Silver MAY 28.843 -0.031 -0.1 28.620 29.090 30,785 US Plat APR 1555.40 -23.80 -1.5 1549.80 1584.90 20,989 US Pall JUN 735.20 -29.65 -3.9 727.30 766.65 8,239 Gold 1610.85 6.05 0.4 1600.75 1615.16 Silver 28.850 0.010 0.0 28.680 29.080 Platinum 1552.25 -24.50 -1.6 1552.50 1583.00 Palladium 731.75 -30.75 -4.0 729.77 763.50 TOTAL MARKET VOLUME 30-D ATM VOLATILITY CURRENT 30D AVG 250D AVG CURRENT CHG US Gold 184,857 174,963 13.66 -0.10 US Silver 32,779 52,746 20.92 -1.06 US Platinum 30,117 10,829 18.03 0.14 US Palladium 8,335 5,242


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Islamic Law Comes To Dearborn
by Pamela Geller - June 23rd, 2010 - Human Events
Is it illegal to preach Christianity to Muslims in America now?
Acts 17 Apologetics, a Christian evangelistic group, was banned from passing out fliers at this year's Arab Festival in Dearborn, Mich., but they went to the festival anyway and ended up getting arrested.
On Saturday, I got this message from David Wood of Acts 17: "Muslims threatened to kill Nabeel [Qureshi, an ex-Muslim and David's colleague] and me if we showed up again at Arab Fest in Dearborn, so we went there yesterday. They didn't kill us. Instead, police arrested us and we got to spend a night in jail (along with two others who were video recording us)."
Wondering if they were arrested for passing out fliers in defiance of the ban, I asked David about the ban. He answered, "Yes, we're banned from handing out literature, but we didn't do that. We followed the rules, and still got thrown in jail. They flat out lied about us. We can prove they lied with the video footage (just like last year), but the police took our cameras and won't let us have the footage. There's major oppression of anyone who criticizes Islam."
Can you imagine what would happen in the MSM if any group of Muslims was treated the way these Christians were treated? Why do the police get to arrest someone for simply video taping a public event? When did the right to peaceful assembly get converted into a right to ban other people from a public place? Especially when did this become a basis for the right to arrest them? What gives the police the right to seize video that will prove whether the defendents were obeying the law and then refuse to release it?
What is happening in America is the subversion of all rights for Christians and whites. Only blacks and Muslims have rights.


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International Studies
Global Mindedness Begins Here
At Country Day, global mindedness is about far more than travel—it's about building bridges to other people and places. Our curriculum is infused with connection-making opportunities.
- Lower School Spanish language students converse with their teacher's daughter via Skype to learn about living in Costa Rica, and third graders perform a play centered on global themes.
- Middle School students use foreign soil samples in environmental science, and they master the rules of cricket in physical education.
- Upper School students contrast the U.S. system with other countries in AP Comparative Government and choose from elective courses such as World Religions and International Relations.
Our International Baccalaureate Diploma Program—the first offered in North Carolina and the only IB diploma offered by the region's independent schools—is a globally recognized, rigorous course of study that focuses on culture, language, and world citizenship.
Our international research grants send Country Day teachers to learn in destinations throughout the world each summer and they bring their experiences, insights, and understanding of other cultures back to their classrooms.
A World of Opportunity
Country Day is home to families and students who represent a wide range of cultures and nationalities, giving our students an opportunity to connect to a world that becomes smaller every day.
On campus, students experience global cultures through curriculum, clubs, and events such as Model United Nations, Global Lunch Forums, Academic WorldQuest, and the International Club. Parents are supported through the International Parent Board and the Parent Global Ambassadors.
Our international travel programs offer Upper and Middle School students the chance to participate in global service and academic experiences. Through our international sister school partnerships, more than 2,000 graduates have benefited from an immersion experience that often brings lasting relationships that bond two cultures.


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Community members, activists and friends will meet near Warrenton - northeast of Raleigh - this weekend to mark a historic milestone in the nation's environmental justice movement.
The Environmental Justice movement was born in Warren County. The mostly black community of Afton stood up – and laid down in the streets – to try to stop the state from digging a P-C-B contaminated landfill where they lived – as seen on WBTV in 1982.
Voice One: I don't want this stuff throwed in my water!
Voice Two: We are marching 'cause we don't want this to affect our future.
Bill Kearney was born and raised in Warren County and helped plan tomorrow's commemoration at Coley Springs Missionary Baptist Church – where the environmental fight was organized – 30 years ago.
Bill Kearney: Personally when I travel and visit the web and I Google PCB, so many stories and pictures come up that involves our community where people around the world are using our experience to protest, to do wonderful things in their communities.
The landfill is gone now and has been cleaned-up. Next week – the state will place a historic marker in the community to remind folks of the fight that started a movement.


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I was gonna write summat wuzn't I?
Maybe I should just copy and paste some of the bonehead spam mail I get on here, but any wordpresser will no doubt get the same.
I still smile when a post congratulates me on the 'useful info' in my posts on 'this subject', when the post is a pome, a pic or a short story with about as much info as a Microsoft User Guide.
I don't even care what the ones in Japanese say.
But it's been a busy ol' day, still cataloguing the SPA portrait entries and I've bought a wee desk to turn my bedroom into an office/sleeping quarters for my wee Chinese houseguest in August.
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I've been greatly enjoying selected tracks from Andy Partridge's Fuzzy Warbles, volumes 7-8, available on ITunes so one can select judiciously. Partridge, the main figure in the apparently now-defunct XTC, has issued eight volumes of outtakes and home recordings (9 if you buy the entire package & get a bonus CD), many of which are either casual maunderings or demos of songs that sound better in the XTC released catalog. But if you use the 30-second sample feature on ITunes plus the customer reviews on ITunes and Amazon, you can figure out which ones are worth having.
One way of describing the good songs (and I gleaned 90-100 very good minutes out of the 8 Fuzzy Warbles volumes) is that it sounds like what Paul McCartney might have been doing over the last decade if he had kept his talent and not become so self-conscious and pompously silly.
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I am very satisfied with the service Dr. Haltrecht and the receptionist give me every time. I bring my dog there for acupuncture and it has been a real miracle worker. My dog has been through quite a lot of doctors and procedures which makes him agrressive but Dr. Haltrecht is patient and very understanding. I recommend her to anybody who needs a great vet. I also recommend acupuncture for pet owners who have tried everything and don't know what else to do to help their pet. We couldn't be happier with the outcome of this! :)
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Another year has come and gone. I did very little writing. I did almost no listening to non-major label artists. Most people don't even think that stuff is music, and sure, sometimes I think my mind is gradually atrophying from exposure to so much unchallenging trash; on the other hand, it is my belief that the respective talents of The-Dream, Kanye, Beyonce, and Jay-z are some of the best in any musical genre, and therefore worthy of my attentions. Maybe 2012 will offer itself as a new start for my musical collection and I will finally buy a record player and get into obscure soul and R&B from decades past (this is my musical dream). Or maybe I'll just keep pumping up the volume when Big Sean's "Dance (A$$)" (seriously, have you heard this song? Drop everything and listen if you have not) comes on the radio and rapping along to the embarrassment of whoever is sitting in my passenger seat. Without further ado, here is a collection of my timely "bests and worsts" of hip hop, pop, and r&b in 2011.
Grossest sex jam of 2011 and definitely the grossest sex jam ever:
Chris Brown & Ludacris: "Wet the Bed."
To quote my sister, "When I heard the song "Wet the Bed," I almost pooped my pants." Indeed, the extended metaphor of this song is so distasteful that one becomes bewildered enough to lose it. As though the song's title and hook were not enough to drill home this mind-numbingly literal bedroom play-by-play, the beat consists of a synthesized DRIPPING SOUND, instead of, oh i dunno, an actual rhythmic instrument. Fuck you, Ludacris, and fuck you, Chris Brown, for thinking that a woman's aroused state should ever be compared to pissing the sheets.
Sexiest Sex Jam of 2011:
Beyonce: "Dance For You"
Beyonce is too classy to make a sex jam in the "hey girl hey girl come back to my condo let me play yo booty like a congo" tradition of most contemporary sex jams. She is an artist of profound feeling and substance when it comes to the topic of love, and her album 4 was love's showcase this year. "Dance For You," on the deluxe edition of 4, is an epic, six-minute ode to her unending love, dedication and desire to one lucky individual (whom she decides to dance for). It was written by my man The-Dream (real name: Terius Nash), and like many of Nash's weirdest and best songs, it does not follow any kind of traditional pop song structure. There are seven or eight distinct parts, which at times coalesce into a hook and other times not. A wailing, Purple Rain-era guitar underpins the end of the song, and then the album ends in a wash of sultry catharsis. This is obviously the best way to make an exit under any circumstances.
Best soundtrack to the next OWS protest:
Killer Mike: Pl3dge
Hey, you know how everyone thinks positive rappers are lame? But then those same people listen to politically-objectionable materialistic coke hustling rap because they prefer something "hard"? Well, H-town's Killer Mike is political and yet not lame, hard and yet not rapping about counting his hundos. Pl3dge sounds pretty damn classic and could have come out any time between now and the past 15 years, but its raging pessimism regarding America's economic plight is unmistakably of the now. Mike shatters illusions of what was once called "the American Dream" by applying X-Ray Marxist vision to the growing class and racial inequalities of our current 'broke-as-shit' capitalism. This is a particularly Richard Wright-esque insight on the track "That's Life II": "Mr. O'Reilly, Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Hannity, how could you sell white America your insanity?/ You tell 'em that they're different and manipulate their vanity/ when truthfully, financially their life is a calamity." Like Wright, Killer Mike sees ruling class rhetoric dividing poor (white and black) people by creating racial resentment. He is not confident that "change" is going to happen any time soon. His solution?: "Burn this motherfucker down." I don't disagree.
Worst soundtrack for the next OWS protest:
Kanye & Jay-Z: Watch the Throne
Here Jay-Z is, again rapping about brands so expensive most of us have never heard of them. There Kanye is, lamenting, "What's the last thing you expect to see at a black tie?/ A black guy." Watch the Throne is undeniably a lot of fun, but it further entrenches both of these guys in what I have long seen as the inevitable existential inertia of famous rappers. Let me explain. The narrative of a rapper's life is traditionally a rags-to-riches story. But when the struggle is over, and the rapper finds himself sitting pretty atop a pile of rap-gotten-gains like Audemars, Mongolian furs, and $150 million LiveNation contracts, what is there left to rap about? Besides watches that cost 300k, furs, and LiveNation contracts, I mean? Yeah, they don't know either.
Worst Song Featuring a Talented Duo:
Rick Ross feat. Nicki Minaj: "You the Boss."
Nicki Minaj was the great female hope of 2010, until her major label debut turned out to be a middling, money-grabbing…major label debut. But, the cynical downplay of Minaj's freak image worked, and Pink Friday, the generally triflin' collection of club hits and crossover R&B love songs, has officially gone platinum. "You the Boss," from Ross's forthcoming God Forgives, I Don't album, is not only triflin, but also an undoing and betrayal of Minaj's own bossness. Whereas back in the good old days, Minaj and Ross appeared on the Ye track "Monster" as equals, and Minaj's verse obviously bested Ross and every other MC on it, this song features Minaj comely whispering, "I'll do anything that you say/anything that you want/ cuz you da boss/ you you you da boss." I know Rick Ross is the boss, and his name conveniently rhymes with boss, but this 2011 single absolutely offended me, and made me wonder where the fuck Minaj is taking her career. I've said it before and I'll say it again, but whatever happened to the MOTHERFUCKING MONSTER? This woman was born to be a star, not a background singer cooing about obeying another rapper's whims!!!
Best Song Featuring a Talented Duo:
Drake feat. Rick Ross: "Lord Knows"
Ross, all drug-dealing braggadocio, husky vocals and heavy gold chains, is a strange bedfellow for the pretty-boy, emo-rapping, navel-gazing of young Drake. But as far as I'm concerned, Drake fucking turned his musical fortune around with the release of the sprawling, dextrous, thoughtful Take Care, the album on which the epic "Lord Knows" appears. Rick Ross should always be backed by such larger-than-life Just Blaze production, and Drake should always have this much feeling when regaling us with tales of his fame-induced malaise.
There was more to talk about this year, and I tried to write long-form reviews of Take Care, DJ Quik's Book of David, and my other favorite releases from this year, but the words were not forthcoming. Here's to 2012 and a renewed loquaciousness about music and culture.


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Small Things Equal Big Worries
>> Tuesday, June 21, 2011
After you have a pet die from cancer, especially quite suddenly, every small ailment feels like a huge deal. Right now Reagan is limping a lot and her back end is quite wobbly. She has hip dysplasia, but has had no issues with it since her first bout with it about four years ago. This week it seems her hips are really hurting. We'll give it a few days of rest and see if she improves, but after that it will be time for an x-ray if there isn't a change. The worst part about all of this is fearing for the worst: cancer.
Reagan is only six years old, but after losing Wembley at seven years old, I'm terrified to think of Reagan passing away at a young age. She had a vet check-up two weeks ago and everything checked out fine, including her bloodwork, yet here I am, worrying about the big C for no reason at all.
Quincy had a limp about six weeks ago, and naturally I feared for the worst, thinking she also had hip dysplasia (She turned out to be fine and had a minor strain). Walter has a small fatty tumor on his bad leg, right where it meets his body. Again, I freaked out and thought it was a cancerous tumor, and obsessively checked it to see if it got bigger. Luckily that was not the case. I can't help but wonder if I will ever stop thinking this way after losing Wembley so suddenly.
My heart is so full of love for these guys, that all I want is for them to play all day, have fun, and be happy. A retriever who loves to play ball more than anything else shouldn't have to deal with hip dysplasia that keeps her from running.


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This is my first entry on this page. I had big plans on keeping this page updated, and I really blew it because this was an incredible year to initiate dialogue on my Ducks.
When I started this blog back in May 2010, I never would have dreamed that the Ducks would be playing in the Nat'l Championship game.
Every week was exciting. The cardiac Ducks usually got off to a slow start, then plastered their opponents in the 2nd half.
Games that stood out:
- Tennessee - LaMicheal's amazing reverse field 60 yd run from scrimmage was highlighted on ESPN all year long.
- Stanford - Oregon comes all the way back from a 21 - 3 first half deficit.
- USC - This was in LA, and nationally televised. Oregon pounded the Trojans into submission. The men of Troy made jack-asses of themselves and had no answer for the Ducks onslaught.
The Ducks garnered national attention all year long, and even with the loss in the championship, people are still talking about their amazing season. Chip Kelly also is getting headlines for his innovation, and his cockiness in press conferences.
The people in the state of Oregon, and especially in Portland came unhinged with this phenomenon. I was one of them.
The future is bright. The recruiting will be better than ever. The Ducks will do this again next year. I'm saying the Ducks will win the Pac 12, and finish the season in the top 5, and they have a great chance in getting back to the Championship game.


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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- The Western Westchester Fresh Air Volunteer Committee is working to build the Fresh Air community for the summer.
Fresh Air volunteers are looking for Westchester residents to host a Fresh Air child this summer. Each summer, more than 4,000 children visit volunteer host families in rural, suburban, and small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada, according to a press release.
"There is still time to host," said Judith Brisson, chair of the Western Westchester Fresh Air Fund. "It is the most rewarding experience to see Westchester's everyday experiences through someone else's eyes for the first time."
Brisson and her family will invite their Fresh Air child, Rohan, back to Westchester this summer.
"We went to Tea Town Lake Reservation last summer, and Rohan met a giant frog for the first time," Brisson said.
All it takes is "an open heart and an open home" to a host a child, representatives said.
"We doubled our host family base since last summer, however the number of host families is still small and we'd love to see it continue to increase for the summer," said volunteer Martha Mintzer. "If you have any time to give, help give the gift of summer to a New York City child."
First-time Fresh Air visitors are six to 12 years old and Fresh Air hosts range from young families to grandparents.
"It is the most rewarding opportunity; I just wish every family could experience the incredible impact these children have on our lives," said Mintzer.
The Fresh Air Fund is an independent, not-for-profit agency, that has provided free summer experiences to more than 1.8 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. For more information about hosting a Fresh Air child this summer, residents can contact Judith Brisson at 914-762-0846.
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Sunday, July 4, 2010
Kanda Poha (Flattened Rice flakes snack)
I love Maharashtrian food mainly because I have been born and brought up there and it is comfort food for me right after my mom's South Indian fare. Needless to say at my mom's, our daily food was a fusion of both South Indian and Maharashtrian food.Poha and Varan are made just as often as Uppma and Rasam. So this Sunday morning, I decided to make and blog Kanda Poha.
4 cups Thick poha
1 small onion chopped
2 green chilies chopped
4-5 curry leaves
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
2 pinches Hing
Salt to taste
optional : sugar
3 tsps Oil
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
2 tsp chopped coriander
2 tsp chopped coconut
Wash the Poha in water and drain. Add salt and sugar and mix well. Keep aside for 5 minutes.
In the meantime, heat oil and season with mustard, cumin and hing.
Add the green chillies, turmeric powder and curry leaves.
Add the onion and saute till nice and golden.
Add the Poha and cover. Cook for a few minutes in medium.
Garnish with coriander and coconut.
Squeeze lemon and enjoy hot.
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The Taos County Chamber of Commerce is hosting the Annual Business Expo and Job Fair from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Friday (Nov. 10) at a new location in Bataan Hall at the downtown the University of New Mexico -Taos Branch facility, 121 Civic Plaza Drive. Job seekers and people who want to learn more about Taos businesses are invited to the expo. The event is free.
Come network, find out about job possibilities and get the entrepreneurial juices flowing.


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Could Uber be the best form of mass transit out there?
A city in Florida offers a glimpse of what the future of mass transit could be.
A Florida city has become the nation's—and presumably the world's—first to subsidize Uber rides beginning or ending within its borders.
Altamonte Springs, a suburb of Orlando, will cover 20 percent of any ride that starts or finishes within its city limits.
Call Uber for a ride to SunRail, the region's commuter train system, in fact, and Altamonte Springs' government will pop for 25 percent of an Uber fare.
The public-private partnership between Altamonte Springs and Uber is being touted as a low-cost alternative to subsidized mass transit.
Altamonte Springs City Manager Frank Martz told NPR that funds for subsidizing Uber come from $1.5 million the city had allocated for a stalled project that could have operated like a city-owned Uber.
The stalled project was called FlexBus, and it consisted of an app that let users request a small bus to come pick them up.
Ultimately, that program failed, despite a $1.5 million Federal grant, leaving Altamonte Springs to look in a new direction for alternative mass transit.
With its low population density, Orlando area is largely carcentric. Its commuter rail system, which opened in May of 2014, carries only 3,300 riders daily, while a bus system called Lynx services most of the metro area.
However, as in most lower-density cities, mass transit on a fixed route for Altamonte Springs would require many users to walk a lengthy distance and wait considerable time to get to their destination.
Altamonte Springs' deal isn't the first time that cities have partnered with Uber, or its ride-sharing rival Lyft.
However, it marks the first time that a municipality has directly subsidized such a service for all in-borders rides.
Other cities have partnered with Uber and Lyft to promote the services as a link between mass transit hubs and riders' final destinations, but they have not directly provided funding to reduce the fares.
Other cities, including Montreal and San Francisco, have municipal programs of various sorts that compete with the car-sharing services.
This article first appeared in GreenCarReports.
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Leftovers what to do with them?
Put them in the freezer and too soon they are taking over, and that is something Grandpa Snyder just cannot tolerate.
Thus the inspiration for today's recipe.
In our freezer was ham from Easter, shredded cheddar cheese and chopped scapes, while in the refrigerator was a head of cauliflower and from the pantry we pulled out mushroom pieces and mushroom soup.
Now we stood in the kitchen looking at our ingredients and decided the flavours went together, that nothing shouted DON'T USE ME! Sometimes meals just happen this way.
Here is Ham and Cauliflower Casserole and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
- 4 cup cubed cooked ham
- 1/3 cup chopped green onions or scapes (garlic plant tops)
- 1 small head of cauliflower broken into bite size pieces
- 1 Can of mushroom pieces
- 1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 11/4 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- Mix the first 6 ingredients and pour into a 9 x 12 baking dish
- Bake uncovered for 30 minutes at 350 F.
- Spread the remaining cheddar cheese over the top and return to the oven for 15 minutes
- Serve
From Our Table To Yours
Grandma Snyder
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Climate change can influence everything from pine beetle outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains to rising sea levels in Papua New Guinea. In the face of a rapidly changing earth, plants and animals are forced to quickly deal with new challenges if they hope to survive. According to a recent paper by Jason Fridley, associate professor of biology in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences, recently minted SU Ph.D. Catherine Ravenscroft, and University of Liverpool professor Raj Whitlock some species may be able to handle environmental changes better than others.
Fridley explains that species have a couple options to deal with stress associated with environmental change: they can pick up and move to more favorable areas, or they can stick it out and adapt to the new challenges. This ability to adapt to climate changes was the main focus of the researcher's study
Ribwort plantain and sheep fescue, two plants common in the study site, show signs of being able to respond to induced climate challenges. "There is evidence of genetic differentiation with a long term climate treatment," says Ravenscroft, explaining that genetic difference have built up between climate-treated versus untreated plants in the study site.
What's more, the gene-level changes have happened remarkably fast. Because these grasses are perennial species, meaning they live and reproduce for multiple growing seasons, Fridley estimates there have only been around 10 generations of plants over the 15-year experiment. While that may sound like a lot of generations if you think back to your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparent, genetic splits happen on an evolutionary timescale - think in terms of hundreds or thousands of years.


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|Property type
|bed & breakfast
|Minimum Stay
|2 - 4 nights
Located in the old centre of Amsterdam, at walking distance to nearly every tourist attraction and surrounded by public transport.
We are located inside the Jordaan-area which is a dense patch of small-scale streets and canals peppered with interesting shops, galleries, charming 'hofjes' and inviting brown cafes. Quirky and characterful, with an intimate, easy-going atmosphere of it's own. It was built for workers even before the 'Grachtengordel' (Canal-rings) were completed.
We have 2 doubles + one 4p-room available on your dates. Therefore our max is 8 persons, incl. the children (>2y).
We include a lovely Dutch breakfast on Mon>Fri. Our weekedprices ar therefor no higher then during the week. We also offer umbrella's, guidebooks, 'take-away' -novels & games on the premises.
- All rooms are spacious, have lots of daylight and are located on the lowest 2 levels of our home (groundlevel and first floor) and all have twinbeds.
- Every room has a private and en-suite bathroom, a dining table for 3-5p, private coffee/tea facilities and free access to our Wifi-network.
- The 4p-room on the first floor has a French balcony overlooking the gardens. It has 3 separate hotel beds (2 as twinbeds and a third one in a more or less separate corner divided from the room by a thin curtain). The fourth (extra & adult-)bed is on the wall above the third.
- The double opposite has streetview.
- The 2nd double also has a private ensuite garden/gardenview.
On your day of arrival on request:
- bringing luggage already as early as 8:00 a.m.
- free early check-in already as early as 11:00
- late check-in until 1 hour after midnight
On your day of departure:
- for your (early) departure we can arrange a trustable, normal, cheap taxi to the airporttaxi when needed
- leaving luggage for later is, usually, possible
- On Mon.>Fri. a lovely Dutch breakfast is included and served to the privacy of each room or, if you wish, you can have breakfast all altogether in the biggest 4p room. We offer local breads, cheeses, meats (cold-cuts), jams, orange-juice etc. (If you prefer cereals or a vegetarian breakfast please let us know in advance).
- While serving breakfast I, Charlotte (host& owner), always have plenty of time to answer your questions or, on request, suggest things to do or places to eat. Also on any other hour of the day and in the weekends you are welcome to contact me.
- For breakfast on Sat.>Sun.we offer a list of nice places surrounding our B&B where you can have a lovely breakfast too. Our weekedprices ar therefor no higher then during the week.
- We try to offer a good balance between privacy, attention and help. I do speak several languages (English, French, German, Dutch and a little Spanish and Portuguese) and know Amsterdam well. I'm looking forward to share this knowledge with you.
-For the 8th persons we will add the higher bed in room 2.
-If on top of your group of (max) 8p there are also children (<4y/110cm) you can reserve a baby cot (120cm). It is obligatory starting from 2 years old. We have a 2 available. The price is 15/each/pn (excl. 5% city tourist tax) with a minimum of 2n for each.
You can reserve a max of 2 baby cot(s) after you made a your reservation for a (max) of 8p.
- our listing no. #1081674: 2 (-3)p room, with ensuite garden
- our listing no. #1081239: 3 (-5)p room, on the 1st floor
- our listing no. #1081194: 2 (-3)p room, on the 1st floor
For bigger groups please realize that overall we will not accept a bigger total in our b&b then 8p. Reserving the rooms separately through the links above for >8p will therefore likely have the result that not all your requests will be accepted. But you will be bound to the once which have.
Booked B & B from Thursday to Sunday advised on arrival that no breakfast served at weekends. Booked for a double room and 2 X 3 bed rooms, Got 2 twin and 1 family room with bunk beds for 2 of the adults, not suitable for the 81 year old travelling with us! Asked to not talk outside the property when leaving or arriving as this would upset the neighbours. Then asked to not make noise as it was the owners property. Not impressed.
I was disappointed that my family did not have all the amenities of staying in this home. The description was misleading. Not only were they not offered breakfast on the weekend there was no kitchen or even refrigerator for them to have a few meals at home, which made it difficult while traveling with young children.
The B&B could not have been in a more perfect location; just off the beaten track for some authentic local eateries, bars etc, yet near enough to the action and excitement of the centre of Amsterdam when needed! It was lovely and quiet, and the place was clean and very homely.
We enjoyed our stay very much - I certainly won't need to look anywhere else for a stay in the city next time.
Charlotte was wonderful, and even when one of our party effectively lost the keys, she did not get mad and we resolved the issue amicably and without fuss. I cannot recommend B&B Jordaan highly enough! :)
We were a group of 11, and they were very accommodating for such a large group. Nice, comfortable beds and great breakfast served to us in the mornings. Very centrally located, and Charlotte was very communicative and provided tons of great tips. I highly recommend.
B&B Jordaan is perfect in every way! We spent 5 nights and loved every minute. The rooms are perfect. We had both rooms on the first floor. The room with the bunk beds was perfect for our two grandchildren and us to share! The breakfasts were delicious and delivered to our room. Every day, they were slightly different and always more than enough to fill you up for a busy day of sight seeing. Charlotte's tourist information was invaluable! Everyday, when deliverying our breakfast, Chatlotte would inquire about our plans for the day. She gave us suggestions of places to see and the best way to get to the sight. You can not go wrong staying at B&B Jordaan!
My boyfriend and I were on a weeklong vacation in Amsterdam and stayed at the B&B Jordaan. Charlotte put us in the ground floor garden room—if you're staying for more than a few days, book the garden room! It's sunny, has a table and chairs for eating outside, gets light all day long, and is floral and beautiful.
Every morning Charlotte brought us a delicious Dutch breakfast, which consisted of a rotating menu of sliced meats, cheeses, yogurt or a hard boiled egg, fresh squeezed orange juice, and a selection of breads. We never had breakfast anywhere else, the food was so good. We had a french press for coffee and a tea kettle for tea that stayed in the room throughout our trip—good for me because I like tea all day long!
Charlotte was beyond helpful—you couldn't ask for more. She gave us a long list of delicious local restaurants, then pointed them out on a map so we could find our way. We were allowed use of the Amsterdam info books she kept on hand, and because we were kitchen adjacent, she even allowed us to keep some leftovers in the fridge. This is a place to stay when you want to feel at home!
Most importantly, at least for me, was how helpful Charlotte was all around. I have a problem with my left sacroiliac joint, which falls out of place, causing one side of my body to be higher than the other, and resulting in constant pain. Unfortunately, after 3 days of walking in the wrong shoes, I threw out the joint worse than I have ever done before. We told Charlotte, and she immediately called her manual therapist (Chiropractor, for the Americans), who was unfortunately away on vacation. The office suggested sending me to some freshly graduated medical students, and Charlotte said absolutely not—I needed someone with experience. Within a day I had an appointment with the manual therapist who works on the Dutch National Ballet Company. I was fixed within a day, and I truly believe had I stayed anywhere else, I would have , I would have either been waiting in an emergency room for an entire day, or suffered through the rest of the trip in pain—never mind the 8-hour plan ride back home.
Charlotte saved my vacation! We've already told Charlotte we will be back next year, & plan on it. B&B Jordaan truly felt like home, and suffice it to say, it was very difficult for us to leave. The beds were incredibly comfortable; the room was cool, clean, and private; the neighborhood is a family neighborhood with lots of kids, nice antique shops, bakeries, restaurants.
The Jordaan is a dense patch of small-scale streets and canals peppered with interesting shops, galleries, charming 'hofjes' and inviting brown cafes. Quirky and characterful, with an intimate, easy-going atmosphere of it's own. It was built for workers even before the 'Grachtengordel' (Canal-rings) were completed.
|Rental Period
|Minimum Price
|Additional Nights
|Weekend Night
|Event Price
Last Nights July Discount
28 Jul 2018 - 2 Aug 2018
3 night minimum stay
for 3 nights
|Notes: Rates are based on 7 guests; add £28 per night, per additional guest
Low season 2018
1 Dec 2018 - 23 Dec 2018
2 night minimum stay
for 2 nights
New years eve
30 Dec 2018 - 2 Jan 2019
4 night minimum stay
for 4 nights
Low Season 2019
3 Jan 2019 - 1 Mar 2019
2 night minimum stay
for 2 nights
My Standard Rate
3 night minimum stay
for 3 nights
|Notes: Rates are based on 7 guests; add £28 per night, per additional guest
|Administration Fee (1x)
|£13.39 + Tax
A nice Dutch breakfast is included mon.>fri.
Pleasa know that:
-For the 8th persons we will add the higher bed in room 2.
-For an additional 3 persons we will add an extra mattress to each room. The mattresses will come including everything: cover, sheets, pillow, towel, extra chair & breakfast mon.>fri. Please realize that it will be on the floor)
-If your group of (max) 11p includes chilren (<4y/110cm) you can reserve a baby cot (120cm). It is obligatory starting from 2 years old. We have a 2 available. The price is 15/each/pn (excl. 5% city tourist tax) with a minimum of 2n for each.
You can reserve the baby cot(s) after you made a your reservation.
For reservations on New Years Eve (31/12) or Kingsday (27/4) or around these dates (meaning 2 days before/after) we require a minimum of 4 successive nights.


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stress-related tension, healing from old traumas, accidents and injuries,
and also help you relax and find balance.
I am Deana Challis, and I am a Certified Massage Therapist in California - License #26677.
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I have been in practice since 2002.
I would be honored to be a partner with you on your healing journey.
My office is located in Arroyo Grande, within Intuitive Touch Massage,
at 1054 E. Grand Street, Ste E.
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