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Navajo voters are scheduled to go to the polls just before Christmas to choose their next president. The Navajo Election Administration tentatively has set the election for Dec. 23.Read More »
Navajo vote could factor into tight Arizona CD1 race
On the airwaves of a popular Navajo radio station, President Barack Obama uses the Navajo greeting "Ya'at'eeh" and implores tribal members to get out and vote for Democrats.Read More »
Gay marriage, now legal in Arizona, not recognized by Navajo Nation
Nathaniel George said that he knew he was going to marry his husband the first time he laid eyes on him more than eight years ago. Being Navajo and a Flagstaff resident, the chance of them getting legally married in Arizona or on the reservation wasn't likely.Read More »
Navajo president vetoes language-fluency changes
The president of the Navajo Nation dealt a major setback to a candidate for the tribe's top elected post when he vetoed a bill to let voters decide whether presidential hopefuls are proficient in the Navajo language.Read More »
Navajo presidential election remains in limbo
Navajo Nation election officials are being challenged for not immediately removing a presidential candidate disqualified over a language fluency requirement from the ballot.Read More »
Navajo Nation Council passes emergency language requirement repeal
Shortly after midnight last night, the Navajo Nation Council voted to scrap the longstanding requirement for the tribe's president to be fluent in the Navajo Language. The eleventh-hour vote, approved 11-10 with one abstaining, clears a path for Chris Deschene to remain on the ballot. His qualifications had been challenged over his admittedly limited ability in speaking the Navajo language.Read More »
Disqualified tribal candidate Deschene persists in campaign
A Navajo presidential candidate disqualified from the race is holding out hope that election officials and tribal lawmakers will provide a way for him to remain on the ballot, despite the long odds.Read More »
Tribe's high court orders candidate off ballot
A candidate for tribal president on the nation's largest Indian reservation lost another round in a language fluency dispute Wednesday, all but ending his bid for office.Read More »
Disqualified Navajo candidate to remain on ballot
The name of a disqualified Navajo presidential candidate will remain on the ballot, and the election will proceed as planned Nov. 4.Read More »
Navajo Nation to hold tribal energy summit
The Navajo Nation is hugely dependent on coal for revenue. Tribal officials want to get their government talking about how to diversify the portfolio at an energy summit.Read More »


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guard porch stairs, others stare out from walls. Until I began Walking San Francisco, I had no idea I'd start seeing the heads of big cats everywhere. The city swarms with lions if you are looking for them.
City Hall. Have to have lions there after all.
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Saturday scenes and scenery: San Francisco's wall lions
Posted by janinsanfran at 5:00 AM
Labels: just 'cuz, San Francisco
1 comment:
- Hattie said...
I know I pass things of interest like this every day without taking them in. These are really good photos.
- Saturday, February 13, 2016 12:03:00 PM
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I'm trying to convince myself that blogging gets easier with practice... but I'm not one for actually communicating. Most of the time I wander round in my own little bubble-world.
I haven't done as much crafting as I'd like to lately for a variety of reasons. I started and finished the lovely Lyra's Stole (Ravelry link) by Alison Collins using some of my Abstract Cat Bluefaced Leicester laceweight yarn. I modified it the pattern a little, and even though my interpretation is riddled with errors (not the pattern!) I love it. It was my 'TV watching' project and TV watching projects always end up messy with me. Also, I hate blocking things, so it's typically wiggly. All that said, I love the way it turned out:
I'm still working on my Eva's shawl in autumnal colours (AbCat BFL laceweight again). I think it's going to be huge, and I'm only about 70% through the yarn:
The bag at the bottom right is a 'Miya' bag from Nicsknots. It's very handy for storing wee projects, and I will be purchasing another when funds allow.
I'm also dabbling in some simple design. Often I start designing and then get put off for some reason or abandon projects, but this time I'm determined to finish this one. Using my Abstract Cat Silky Baby Alpaca laceweight (100g/800m, £14) I'm making a lacy scarf:
Please ignore the ripply chain - I'll try and sort it out when I block it. This started out as being a stole, but I seemed to lose my ability to count when I started it, and kept miscounting the starting chain, so I reduced it and am making a lacy scarf instead.
There has also been an exciting development: I will be selling my Abstract Cat yarns at UK Ravelry Day Marketplace at the University of Stirling on the 13th and 14th of August (as yet I'm not listed on the website). Neither my partner nor I drive, so we have to rely on public transport, and this is the yarny event closest to my home, so I'm very excited to be able to exhibit and sell here. It's gong to be nerve-wracking but hopefully a lot of fun!
Well, much as I loved the snow, I'm glad winter is over. Now, roll on warmer weather so I can wear t-shirts all the time! Lately my partner and I have been watching some great DVDs; we've got hooked on Mad Men and The Big Bang Theory. Love them!


text: He used to walk the lonely road of his village. His mind was empty. He had no worries or any cause to be unlikely. Then one day he saw her. She was so beautiful that it felt like an angel has came down to earth from the heaven to him. The first day she didn't notice him. Then again he saw her in the same lonely road again and again. Then one day she smiled at him. He saw a small twinkle in her small cute eyes. He told her his love. With a shy smile she agreed and kissed his cheek.There relationship grew day by day. After several months he began to discover that she is more interested in his best buddy rather than him. When he asked her about this, she agreed that she always wanted his friend. The best way to get to his buddy was through him and she requested to him to introduce her to his buddy. Even though she broke his heart he simply smiled and introduced him to her. They were great together. His friend found from his sister that she cheated his buddy. He was furious. He dumped her and went to him with tearful eyes and asked him whether that he loved her that much to give anything she wanted. He replayed" it was not for that bitch, it was for you. I thought you too need some trouble in life. After all what are friends for".


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Dr. Bob Sungenis continues his ongoing series in The Catholic Apologetics Study Bible with a Volume on St. John's Gospel. As in the earlier volumes in this series, Bob brings to bear his masterful command of the Biblical Languages (in this case the Koine Greek of the New Testament) to provide us with and in depth grammatical and exegetical analysis of the Biblical text. Bob also is cognizant of the traditional Patristic and Magisterial teachings on the text as well as more modern commentaries both Catholic and non-Catholic. His goal in this series is to provide a commentary which addresses not only the exegesis of the biblical text but also the relevant apologetic topics that arise in defending the Catholic faith against the erroneous views of those who attack the Church and her teachings.
Bob gives us not only and in depth running commentary but includes several Apologetic excurses on relevant topics which themselves are worth the price of the book. Bob's erudition in the explication of the biblical text is evident from the very beginning. He engages not only in exegesis but also in comparisons between the various textual sources available to us from antiquity. As such, this commentary will appeal to readers on several levels from the scholarly to the Catholic layperson wishing to develop a deeper understanding of the Gospel of St. John. The exegetical notes are well written and comprehensible to the interested reader as well as providing detailed information for the more advanced student.
What is most laudatory about this commentary is that it is written from a thoroughly CATHOLIC viewpoint that is cognizant not only of the Church's teachings but also of wider biblical scholarship. One need not fear finding heterodox interpretations or modernist advocacy in this text which is not always the case with other commentaries by allegedly "catholic scholars."
By its nature, this commentary does not chase down all the possible interpretations of each portion of the text. It instead gives the most logical interpretations based on the simple flow of the narrative in harmony with the rest of the New Testament and Catholic teaching. Various scholarly controversies are mentioned when they are relevant to Catholic apologetics or when they are helpful in explicating the text.
St. John's Gospel is a unique voice in the New Testament. While it is obviously dependent in part on the Synoptic Tradition that underlies the other three Gospels, St. John's Gospel includes material that is unavailable elsewhere and which was critically important in the development of dogmatic theology especially in regards to Christology, the Trinity, Mariology, the sacraments, and ecclesiology.
There are numerous passages in which Jesus speaks about his relationship to the Father (e. g., John 3:35, 5:17, 6:57, 10:15, 10:30) and to the Holy Spirit (e.g., John 14:26, 15:26, 16:13, 20:22,). The locus classicus for the necessity of water Baptism for salvation is in John 3:5ff. Chapter 6 contains the 'Bread of Life Discourse' (John 6:48-69) which clearly explicates the Real Presence of Christ – body, blood, soul, and divinity – in the Holy Eucharist. The Blessed Virgin Mary also figures prominently. In this Gospel she encourages Jesus to perform his first public miracle at the wedding feast of Cana (John 2:1-11). And she is there at the foot of the Cross where Jesus as he was dying placed her in the care of the Beloved Disciple to be his mother. The story of the Good Shepherd (John 10) juxtaposed with the post resurrection story where Jesus tells St. Peter "Feed my lambs, tend my sheep" (John 21:15-18) is one of the strongest biblical witnesses to the divine origin of a permanent Papal office in the Church. In fact, many new converts to Christianity have found reading St. John's Gospel to be beneficial in their initial walk with Christ. Properly expounded, St. John's Gospel is an important witness to the biblical origin of the Catholic Faith.
The narrative of this Gospel is seen from the perspective of an unnamed eyewitness to the events depicted therein who is described as the "Beloved Disciple." Traditionally this person has been identified with St. John, the son of Zebedee and brother of St. James the Greater. Other scholars have proposed a different identity for the beloved disciple but Dr. Sungenis convincingly defends the traditional identification in his commentary. He also makes it clear that the gospel was written so that we the readers of the Gospel can identify with the Beloved Disciple and put ourselves into his place in the story. Everything Jesus addressed to the Beloved Disciple therefore is to be understood as addressed to the reader. The giving of the Blessed virgin to the Beloved disciple as his mother therefore takes on special relevance for the reader. She is meant to be our mother as well. Thus, this viewpoint makes the narrative more personal and immediately compelling than any other text in the New Testament.
The excurses in this volume –as in all the volumes of The Catholic Apologetics Bible Series – are of excellent value and deserve to be read and studied carefully several times. The is one on the Christological heresies, three on the Eucharist, a very timely one on the Inerrancy of Scripture, and one on the Council of Trent and its teaching on Confession. The three excurses on the Eucharist are particularly noteworthy. Bob interacts with several anti-Catholic controversialists and refutes their objections with his superb knowledge of Greek. Bob also bring to the defense of Catholic teaching certain modern Protestant exegetes (most notably Rudolph Bultmann and C. K. Barrett) who acknowledge that the Bread of life discourse is clearly referring to the Holy Eucharist and that the sacramentality of St. John's Gospel at this point is very 'High' and realistic as opposed to being merely symbolic as some Protestants have tried to claim.
This is an important commentary that I think everyone involved in Catholic apologetics, evangelization, and catechesis should own and study. It is a serious piece of Catholic Scholarship that remains accessible to the people in the pew. It is almost indispensable for anyone leading a Bible Study on St. John's Gospel in a parish. I hope that this book receives a wide readership because I think it will bear great fruit within the Catholic Church. I look forward to further volumes in this series.


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Lead vocals: Lisa Payne, Anne-Marie Payne, Kate St.Claire
Guitar, programming, everything else: Kate St.Claire
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Guitar, programming, everything else: Kate St.Claire
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Listening to this song now, I can't even tell who's singing on it. I think it's AMP and Lisa on lead, with me doing the descant, but it's been so long, and the voices have all blended together. Though that was actually kind of the point, that I wanted this to sound loose and blurry, like the sweet but slightly amateurish sound of all girls school choir singing in chapel, deliberately not autotuned or corrected into perfect rhythm.
It's funny, this is the song that people have most asked me about the lyrics, over the years, and it's still one of those ones I have the hardest time explaining. It would be easy to say it's about thoughtworms in general, but it is actually about a specific thoughtworm. OK, back up, maybe I should explain what a thoughtworm is in the first place. It's that kind of OCD thing where your thoughts become trapped in a loop that goes round and round, and becomes impossible to dislodge, kind of like an earworm, but instead of a catchy pop melody, it's a thought, a narrative, a set of mental processes that become fixated and will not leave.
The name comes from a line in the Weather Prophets song, "I've got a worm in my brain, it brings me to my knees. It comes on like a thought, and stays just like a disease." Thoughtworms are good at hiding themselves in otherwise innocent thoughts. An idea flickers across your mind, you think it's just a thought, so you think, and suddenly you're trapped, it just eats away all your other thought processes until this one is the only one left, and it loops and it loops and it loops like the same scene from a film playing over and over. It's not like that thing where, if you say a word over and over enough times, it loses its meaning. It's more like, no matter how outlandish the idea is, if you think it enough times, it starts to feel true. Even if it's something completely improbably, like, your neighbour wants to kill you. There is no arguing with a thoughtworm, and to even try risks only engaging it further and lodging it deeper into your brain.
So this was a loop that lodged itself in my brain in 2004, when the Sound Artist and I were breaking up. The Sound Artist was an Atheist, not just one of those gentle Englishmen who lost their belief a long time ago - or never had any to start with - and never gave it much thought again. But one of those Committed Atheists who talks a lot about "Secular Humanism" (and though I generally am in favour of Secularism, I am not enamoured of Humanism as I don't think that humans should hold any great position of privilege over the other denizens of this earth) and generally argues a lot about its inherent superiority, trying to convert others to their own cause. Oddly, rather uncomfortably too much like the religion I'd left as a teenager.
Yes, so I was raised Christian. Or rather, to be specific, I was raised Church of England (do we worship God? No, we worship England.) When I was about five, my Mother, who up until that point had been a lifelong atheist from a family of lifelong atheists, who had been atheists and freethinkers since the Edinburgh Enlightenment (though I suspect they really decided a Century earlier that they'd rather have no religion than an English religion) discovered a Bible that had been left by the previous owners of our house. She picked it up and read it cover to cover like a novel, had her mind completely blown, and rang the local vicar to have him send someone immediately to explain it to her. And so Church came into our lives. (Well not my father's life, he remains a lifelong atheist, though he went to Church for most of my childhood because he enjoyed the donuts at coffee hour.)
Redemption narratives are funny things. So I'll breeze over the narrative about how my mother, who had been an angry, lost, damaged survivor of abuse and probably undiagnosed bipolar, rebuilt her life, underwent therapy, went back to university (Yale, to be exact) and, through her religion, grew and changed into someone I now deeply admire. I met some incredibly kind, and loving, and generous people (both physically generous and generosity of spirit) through the Church. (Yes, I met some hypocrites and some pedants, too, but you meet them everywhere, even among atheists.) So even though I stopped believing in Christianity in any meaningful sense when I was a teenager and read The Golden Bough and Joseph Campbell, I still have a lot of time for spirituality, for faith, and for people of faith.
But my then-partner was reading Richard Dawkins, who had not yet started on his grand crusade, but was making his anti-Religion stance quite clear in tedious essays. And I had yet to discover Mary Midgley, with her clear and elegant debunkings of Dawkins and the whole Empire-Building new strain of Atheism with its deeply flawed notions of the omnicompetence of "~Science!!!11~" And my partner and I had a series of massive, flaming rows, during which I discovered that we were unable to fight about serious topics without tearing each other to pieces. Which was a far worse problem than a mere quibble over which gods we didn't believe in.
The song was written after a sullen weekend on the Isle of Wight (he forgot both condoms and the codeine tablets to which he was addicted) when I found ammonite fossils on the beach and he didn't, because I was just better at noticing than he was. When I returned to London, my father told me that his paternal grandparents had retired to, and were buried on the Isle of Wight, and that apparently I still had relatives there. That Great Grandfather was Welsh, and a Wesleyan Minister - it always struck me as ironic that my father, coming from a long line of Methodist Ministers, should be an atheist, while my mother, coming from a long line of atheists, eventually became a priest in the C of E. These things are not incompatible, they often seem to be two sides of the same coin. Strong Views on religion manifest just as easily in non-belief as in belief.
What I fear most in this song is not "losing my mind and finding religion" or that blind "faith in evolution" (see Mary Midgley's Evolution As A Religion for everything I was taking a swipe at in that line) but the kind of didactic, autocratic fundamentalism rampant on both sides, where one loses the ability to see from both points of view. I never saw any conflict between "Science" and "Religion" - it would be as absurd as seeing a conflict between Biochemistry and Poetry. They are two different ways of looking at life, two different tools for different problems. The religion I was taught never had any designs on science, it was one of The Humanities - and it always struck me as odd that those "secular humanists" always seemed so down on The Humanities, those subjective ways of subjectively examining the subjective experiences of human subjects.
I always felt like the song failed, it did not get across what I meant it to. And the arguments with dogmatic atheists have not stopped, if anything, they have become more vicious. (Luckily I'm now able to see the amusing side of being lectured on the perils of "taking things on faith alone," that apparently infest religion, by an atheist who could not even supply me a back-of-the-envelope explanation of the principles of quantum physics.) The irony was, that at the point of writing this song, I was much closer to "Science" - I was using databases to perform statistical analysis on medical data - and therefore had much less faith in the omnicompetence of science and an understanding of its limitations, than him, who was an artist mucking about doing pretentious bollocks under the guise of so-called "experimental" art. I believe whole-heartedly in Evidence-Based medicine and Evidence-Based government policies, but if you think Evidence-Based is a life model for everything, try listening to Evidence-Based pop music while conducting an Evidence-Based love affair.


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La Cenerentola
Luisi; DiDonato, Flórez, Corbelli, Spagnoli
Benini; Garanča, Brownlee, Corbelli, Alberghini
Levine; Bartoli, Vargas, Alaimo, Corbelli
Rossini's enchanting retelling of the Cinderella story features Jennifer Larmore as Angelina, the good and modest girl at the mercy of her nasty stepsisters. Her charms capture the heart of her Prince Charming, the handsome Don Ramiro (Raúl Giménez)—who is disguised as his own valet, Dandini (Alessandro Corbelli). Heartbreak and comic confusion ensue before the lovers are finally united. Simone Alaimo sings Angelina's bumbling stepfather Don Magnifico and John Relyea is the suave and wizardly philosopher Alidoro.
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Performance Info
Hansel and Gretel
Dec 18-Jan 8
Returning for the holidays, this season's family entertainingment is richard Jone' witty production of Humperdinck's fairy-tale opera, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, in whcih two children facre against a wicked witch.


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vs Case No. 16 - cv - 14
TOM WHEELER, etc.,
Come now, Jesha Miller, respectfully Demanding the Court enforce my first amendment right to freedom of speech - press this March 31, 2016. The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the land. Judge William Conley is independent and has put the case under advisement which he did in error & now must correct the mistake because the first amendment is a guaranteed right, not to be put under advisement because the first amendment states I am entitled to this right at anytime. Judge William Conley must immediately enforce the right to freedom of the press for the following reasons: Case can only be under advisement for 90 days.
( 1 ) While the Judge is independent he must enforce the law. The first amendment right to freedom of speech - press is a Constitutional Right guaranteed to the people at anytime when, as in this case there is government corruption of public concern. This comes from the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land.
( 2 ) The plaintiff has three times already moved for the Court to enforce the right to freedom of the press to inform the American public of corruption in the entire Judicial Branch of government to no avail. Rights delayed are rights denied. Not only does the court deny rights guaranteed to the people but continues economic oppression when government owes 50 million dollars for default of the 14th amendment right to due process.
( 3 ) Annotation 10 - First Amendment - Clear & Present Danger
The purpose of the speech - press clauses has evidently been to protect parties in the FREE PUBLICATION of MATTERS OF PUBLIC CONCERN, to secure their right to a free discussion of public events and PUBLIC MEASURES, and to ENABLE EVERY CITIZEN AT ANY TIME TO BRING THE GOVERNMENT and any person in authority to the Bar of Public Opinion BY ANY JUST CRITICISM UPON THEIR CONDUCT IN THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY WHICH THE PEOPLE HAVE CONFERRED UPON THEM… The EVILS to be prevented were not the censorship of the press merely, but ANY ACTION OF THE GOVERNMENT BY MEANS OF WHICH IT MIGHT PREVENT SUCH FREE AND GENERAL DISCUSSION OF PUBLIC MATTERS AS SEEMS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to prepare the people for an intelligent exercise of their rights as citizens.
( 4 ) The Court is the government preventing this by putting a Constitutional right I am entitled to at any time to inform the American public of government corruption, oppression to deny money owed, dereliction of duty, abuse of power, & imposed slavery.
These actions by the U.S. Supreme Court VIOLATE HUMAN RIGHTS.
[ See: unitedstatesviolateshumanrights.blogspot.com ] What they have done is the same thing you are doing, DENYING THE RULE OF LAW.
( 5 ) The Oath of Office for Federal Judges
" I do solemnly swear or affirm, that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on me, according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeable to the Constitution, and the laws of the United States. So help me God.
[ See: equalrightstoruleoflaw.blogspot.com ] also [ racialequalitydemandedfromcourts.blogspot.com ]
Wherefore, having taken oath as a Federal Judge to enforce the laws of the United States I move William Conley to enforce my first amendment right to freedom of the press this March 31, 2016 upon the media to give coverage of government corruption by Broadcast, radio, TV, internet, & publication immediately upon my request. Demand the FCC issue a letter to all broadcasters & radio this March 31, 2016 that they do not have the discretion to control what is aired when it involves government corruption or officials abuse of power as this is of public concern and the people have a right to know.
This includes Good Morning America or any show which the people view & can be informed of how to protect the guaranteed rights of government to ready them for the Constitution's checks & balances to run a clean government. A Court Order demanding all the defendant's involved in the above case comply with the first amendment to give Jesha Miller coverage on government corruption is to be issued by the Court this March 31, 2016. I execute my first amendment right to freedom of the press to be enforced by Judge William Conley this March 31, 2016 in the Federal Court of Wisconsin.
Respectfully empowered by the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land - Jesha Miller
Date: March 26, 2016


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Red5Games necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 310 design presentati da 101 designer.
Red 5 Games develops online, multi-player casual games and we need a snazzy new look. See my avatar for our current logo. We'll be using this logo everywhere!
Red 5 Games
My 7-year old son picked the name of my latest company (he named it after Luke Skywalker's "call sign") and we've been developing games for 18-months. We're about to launch a huge product (a new online trivia game) and I want a newer and more professional look for our business cards and presentations and other advertising.
- The only thing I feel strongly about is that the 5 in the logo should be red!
- I'm open to any suggestion!
Maggiori informazioni su come funziona un contest di design o sui nostri servizi di design di logo.


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First, let me say I've just had the most amazing dinner with friends. A.mazing. It's been a full Sunday and I only have 5 more minutes to get in a post for 11/08/09.
I'm passing on a link sent to me by a loyal reader about a house in the Charlottesville, Virginia area on the market for $100 million. 100 million dollars? After looking through the slideshow of photos, though, I have to say I'm (not lying) scared by this house. It's so over-the-top ostentatious I can't believe it's not part of Las Vegas. It's in beautiful horse country Virginia, yet it boasts Versailles-like statuary. And a home theater. As if those two go hand in hand.
Take a look for yourselves.


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Was it "Eat Nasi Lemak Week" last week?
On Thursday I ate Nasi Lemak. On Friday, I had Nasi Lemak again! Friday's Nasi Lemak was a Nasi Lemak Buffet! It was all because a friend who likes to eat rice wanted to go for it. He was buzzing me on msn since last month, when we found out it was Nasi Lemak buffet in September.
5 of us went to the buffet. This was how I 'tackle' the buffet. Just a bit of everything. 3 cucumbers, 2 pieces of Ayam Masak Merah (I like this), 2 rings of sotong, 1 tiny sausage, some achar.
A piece of rendang (which was very nice), a piece of fried egg (which happen to taste very good too), a scoop of sambal mussels and the sambal chilli.
Hehe... I took more ingredients on another plate. A fried fish, fried lao su fen, fish cakes, jiu hu eng chai, luncheon meat, fried chicken wing and hard boil egg.
When I finish eating them, I am already stuffed. I think it's quite impossible to eat a lot for a Nasi Lemak buffet.
We also had some Kuih Pai Tee. Beautiful isn't it?
Laksa is included as part of the buffet too. (the Laksa was nice!)
I certainly did not attempt to try everything. I don't want the suffer the 'i can't sleep because i ate too much' feeling. I just ate the things I felt like eating. :-)
But our 'rice friend', plonked so much things on his plate! LOL.
Guess what? The next day he texted me and said, next time he's not going for buffet at night. He could not sleep! He was feeling so bloated the whole night!
I realise that I did not eat most of the things he took on his plate.
Get a Guild House member to bring you in if you want to try it. :-)
Not the best Nasi Lemak in town, our 'rice friend' said the rice was not fragrant enough. But if you are in for variety of dishes for your Nasi Lemak, then it's worth coming. There are more things like Roti Jala and various stew that we had no more room in our stomach to try!
Cafe on the Ridge
NUSS- Kent Ridge Guild House
9 Kent Ridge Drive
Singapore 119241
Monday, September 14, 2009
Nasi Lemak Buffet @ NUSS Kent Ridge Guild House
Was it "Eat Nasi Lemak Week" last week?
8 comments:
- Life for Beginners said...
Now, I love nasi lemak as much as the next person, but this seems overdoing it a tad? :P
- September 15, 2009
- ladyironchef said...
hahahh they always have creative buffets eh? usually hows the response like one? but yeah can't eat that much at a nasi lemak buffet. lol
- September 15, 2009
- Keropok Man said...
Life for Beginners,
Ya, he was certainly overdoing it! He suffered for it though. LOL. He texted me the next day saying he could not sleep with so much food in his tummy! LOL
Yes, their buffets are very unusual and they changed it monthly!
All the exercises you have to do after eating them! hehe..
- September 16, 2009
- Camemberu said...
I wonder what buffet they will come up with next!!! :D
- September 16, 2009
- Keropok Man said...
Ya, I wonder what will be next!
But I am dreaming of an ice cream buffet where you can eat ice cream from HD, BJ etc. hehe...
- September 16, 2009
- elaine said...
Wow its the first time i ever heard of a nasi lemak buffet haha! and the icecream idea sounds cool... im sure to find my way into guild house if they ever have that =D
- September 16, 2009
- Muhammad Nur Azhar Bin Hafiz said...
nasi lemak + seafood... -_-"
- September 17, 2009
- Keropok Man said...
Ya, if only there's ice cream buffet somewhere. I think there was a all you can eat Haagan Dazs before at Crowne Plaze at Changi. But that did not last long. LOL...
Muhammad Nur Azhar,
time to buka puasa with it!
- September 17, 2009


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|Ava is very pleased with herself for having mastered the art of eating with a utensil. It's a skill she rarely displays, and it's finally captured on film
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a few of ava's favorite things
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ProfG you wrote the other day you would try to run the race under 45' and I was sure you were kidding. However, I saw you running today and I realised you are very fast indeed and weren't kidding at all!ReplyDelete
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Prof G I could see you writing a story for running magazine Like the wind (if you had some spare time). About why people run not how people run.ReplyDelete
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Buy Tickets to the Rude Pundit's New Play About Sex:
At the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival, the Rude Pundit debuts a brand spankin' new play what he wrote and is directing: Heterosexuals, all about two women and a man and how screwed up sex makes us. It's a savage, dark (and kinda hot) comedy with three great actors in it: comedian Jeff Kreisler, Anne Teutschel, and Elizabeth McNelis.
Howzabout a totally out of context line to tease ya?:
"So I tell him if he wants those DSLs S-ing his D, he'd better start lap, lap, lapping."
Tickets are on sale now in New York City in August for $15 in advance (and the Rude Pundit will be at every performance):
Click on the date to purchase tickets for the FringeNYC performances:
Tuesday, August 17 at 6:30 pm
Thursday, August 19 at 2 pm
Saturday, August 21 at 10 pm
Monday, August 23 at 8 pm
Wednesday, August 25 at 2 pm
All performances of Heterosexuals are at The Cherry Pit at 155 Bank Street. The show runs about 75 minutes.
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October 08, 2008
First Dates with First Date Ideas and Tips
Be creative.
Take a little time to think it through.
A three-hour date with a movie that lasts two and a half-hours is not a good way to get acquainted.
Then again, you don't want to be stuck staring at each other without a topic of conversation.
A daytime meeting takes the heat off.
Lunch or coffee is a good start
(If you want to checkout a local spot to meet for lunch, you can go to Dine.com, enter your zip code and get ratings for restaurants in your area.)
Even better - a trip to the zoo.
Plenty of topics for discussion without having to deal with issues like: "What happened to your last relationship?"
And you can avoid the usual casual chit-chat like:
"My wife is still missing."
"I met my first boyfriend on the prison bus."
Yada. Yada. Yada.
Clothing is not optional.
Wear clothes that make you feel good.
New clothes always help - but if not new, be sure they're clean, pressed, and fit well - or if that's not your style - be sure they fit whatever way makes you feel the most comfortable and still look presentable.
Help the Other Person Feel Comfortable
Find something nice about your date and compliment her or him.
But mean it. Don't just say, "Nice shoes, Gladys."
"Swell belt, Ralph."
Let's review.
Find something nice. If it's painfully difficult to come up with something that you sincerely like about the person, you shouldn't be out with them in the first place.
Manners and/or Kindness
Thank the other person for the date - always, without exception.
Good manners are still in style. Well, not necessarily good manners - but common sense. Human kindness. That sort of thing is always in style.
Focus on the Other Person - pay attention to your date.
No wandering eyes. No preoccupation with old relationships, work, bank robberies.
Be THERE.
Listen actively to what your date says.
Don't interrupt. While your date is talking, don't spend time thinking about what you're going to say when it's your turn.
Attitudes and Habits - stay positive.
Don't complain on a first date.
Be cautious about alcohol - if you drink heavily, you're not going to be at your best.
If your date gets swacked on your first date, it's not necessarily due to nervousness.
He or she is likely to be a heavy-drinker, at best, and could end up drooling on your new, pressed clothes as you shovel him or her into a cab.
Date ideas for the week:
Take a class together.
Or cut to the chase with a massage class.
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This is one woman you have to take your hat off to. Major respect.
By David Jolly
Kabul, Afghanistan – Hamstrung by student loans and dismayed at her meager prospects for repaying them, Kimberley Chongyon Motley left the long hours and low pay of the Milwaukee public defender's office in 2008 for the long-shot promise of Afghanistan.
"I came here for the money, just like half the people here," she says in "Motley's Law," a documentary about her unusual legal career that was broadcast on Al Jazeera America in February. Before arriving here, "I couldn't find Afghanistan on the map."
Trending: WATCH: Elizabeth 'Pocahontas' Warren Refuses DNA Test , 'I Know Who I Am'
Ms. Motley, 40, a Marquette University Law School graduate, had never before traveled overseas when she enrolled in a Justice Department program to train Afghan lawyers and flew to one of the world's more dangerous places.
In almost eight years practicing law here, Ms. Motley has been involved in some of the most important human rights cases of the post-Taliban era. She is perhaps the first independent lawyer to represent a victim of domestic violence in an Afghan court — a woman who had been forced into marriage by her family at the age of 12 and tortured by her husband. And Ms. Motley represented the family of Farkhunda Malikzada, a 27-year-old woman murdered last year after being falsely accused of having burned the Quran.
She has also helped foreigners who have run afoul of Afghan justice and, to pay the bills, she represents the local interests of Western embassies and big foreign companies, including on occasion The New York Times.
"I still make money, that's a motivating factor. But I love representing those clients, people I would never have heard of if I hadn't gone," she said.
In a recent case, Ms. Motley was asked to help a teenage girl who was born in Afghanistan but raised in Vienna with Austrian citizenship. The young woman was tricked by her parents into returning to Afghanistan to marry a relative, Ms. Motley said.
Locked in a house in rural Baghlan Province with no family or friends to aid her, the girl surreptitiously contacted Ms. Motley (she would not reveal how) to ask for help.
Ms. Motley said she sent her "guys," two groups of local men she trusts — "I know they've got my back," she said — to rescue the girl from a region where the Taliban had recently captured the city of Kunduz. "Everyone up there has a gun, and people are very nervous."
After two attempts, they sneaked the girl out and ferried her to Kabul. A month later, Ms. Motley accompanied her back to Vienna.
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April 1, 2010
My Time Made Easy April Release!!!
Well, it's April Fools' Day, but I can tell you, this release is NO JOKE! Lauren has really done an incredible job with all of the goodies she is releasing this month!!
If you check out the "New Products" on the site, it chock full of OODLES of yummy things :).
Our group post today is all CARDS! Yes, every member of the team has made 4 cards to share with you today. LOTS of inspiration to be had -- so, since there's SO MUCH to look at, I'm going to keep it brief... I did incorporate some of the earlier sets, which just goes to show how versatile they are and how well they work with each other.
No more blah blah blah -- onto the eye candy ;).
Card #2
Card #3
Card #4
This one is my favorite - clean, simple, colorful, and happy:
I'll spare you more blabber, as you've got LOTS of great inspiration waiting for you from the rest of the amazing members of the My Time Made Easy DT (links are in my right sidebar) -- so GET GOING! (and don't forget to hit the store when you're done ;) )
Thanks for stopping by today!!!
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- Geny (Mommy Geny) said...
Love 'em all, but especially the clean and simple ones!!
- April 01, 2010 1:02 AM
- Dawn Easton said...
Love these, Tracey! I LOVE that last one especially! You are right, bright, fun, clean and crisp! Fantastic!
- April 01, 2010 8:05 AM
- Katie Cotton said...
hehe, thats how i did it. We got married, had a baby and bought our first home all in the span of 3 months. It was a little crazy. But i think i'm just a little crazy. Love all the cards but that last one is OMG! Just stunning!
- April 01, 2010 8:15 AM
- Lelia said...
Awesome girl! I {heart} the 2nd one! That glittery border added so much! :O)
- April 01, 2010 9:46 AM
- Stampin' Pam said...
Tracey love love love them - I adore the last one - so bright and cheery and CAS?!?! Way to go - and I love the cake, house baby card too - not too subtle eh? LOL Way to go - great ideas Trace! Love that we are all very difference in our approaches.
- April 01, 2010 2:44 PM
- Stephanie Kraft said...
These are all wonderful, Tracey!! Love them all, but especially the last one.. it's such a HAPPY card!!
- April 01, 2010 2:53 PM
- Mona L. Pendleton said...
Very pretty cards Tracey! Clean & simple! Fresh & fun :)
- April 02, 2010 12:54 AM
- jen said...
These are all so great! I love the 'wedding/house/baby' one the most!!! Very CAS & fab! :)
- April 02, 2010 11:18 PM


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Madame Curious
Madame Curious is a world renowned scientist from France. An esteemed member of the French Academy of Scientists, she has made important contributions and exciting discoveries regarding the new wonder elements, radium and plutonium. Her skills in refining these elements has given her a powerful source of energy to experiment with.
Madame Curious has developed a new engine to power the creations of the Victorian steam age. Her engines use the power of radium and plutonium to directly create electricity. Madame Curious is financially supported by the French bank Comptoir d'Escompte. Madame has also been assisted by the French Army who has willingly seconded General Camembert to advise her on military equipment and requirements and to organise and fight her battles.
Madame Curious's latest engine is strong enough to power the latest technology developed by da Vinci Industries, the awesome A.T.A.T. The great A.T.A.T. is designed to conquer any forts and bring enemies quickly to their knees. The A.T.A.T. is powered by da Vinci's patented compressed air technology allowing it to operate far from the sources of water that are required by steam engines.
Madame Curious' new engine's power is able to charge the on board compressor units in no time and give the A.T.A.T enormous operating range. Its size and complexity precludes it from being controlled like an automaton so it is crewed by mechanics and piloted by a concert pianist on an organ that uses a complex system of compressed air machinery to command the A.T.A.T.
The A.T.A.T has a gun deck with two cannons and four machine guns. These are all controlled remotely by the pilot in the head of the A.T.A.T. As well as its gun deck, the A.T.A.T. has room for its crew, some passengers, a small drawing room, and a squad of ten automatons, who can either man the decks or debark and assault the enemy from the ground.
Madame Curious' smaller engines power her automatons. These automatons were designed by the firm of Mr Renault and chosen by General Camembert as his ideal soldier. These automatons are guided by the latest in analytical Babbage machines that have been programmed by Madame's great friend The Countess of Lovelace.
ATAT Drawing Room
ATAT Engineer
Exterior of the ATAT Control room and bridge
Interior on the control room
ATAT Automatons deploy down the stairs
Profile of the ATAT
Side view showing the gun deck.
Madame Curious and General Camembert on the Observation deck
Madame and General watch the automatons deploy.


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Monday, June 29, 2009
Martha Stewart and I make Cinnamon-Oat Pancakes
Since I rarely find myself following a recipe exactly and I am always try to up the nutritional content in some way, I opted to vary the recipe by using 1 cup of unbleached organic flour to 1 cup of organic whole wheat flour. I then followed the recipe to a 'T'. The result was tasty and the kids enjoyed them however, I think they would have been less dense if I had cut the oats down to 1 cup.
Do you like your pancakes light and fluffy? If yes, then follow her instructions and see how they come out but I have to wonder: Which is better nutritionally? To use all AP flour with all the oats called for OR use some whole wheat flour but cut down on the oats?
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- Jamie said...
These sound pretty good! I have been making the same (all white flour, no oats) pancakes forever and I find them flat so I have been looking for something that will give me thick pancakes. Light would be nice, but dense gives you something to sink your teeth into for a hearty meal!
- June 30, 2009 at 11:53 AM
- Ann said...
This sounds soo yumm!
- June 30, 2009 at 12:30 PM
- Elle said...
Fluffy is good, but I find that they get eaten too quickly. Having something to chew is good. :) They look perfect!
- June 30, 2009 at 1:10 PM
- lk (Healthy Delicious) said...
either way they looks delicious! I do love a fluffy pancake... I find that addign a little mashed banana to them helps with that too (and gives it extra deliciousness!)
- June 30, 2009 at 1:20 PM
- Chef Fresco said...
You know, I'm not the biggest pancake fan, but these actually sound really good! I bet they'd be good w. some nuts thrown it too!
- June 30, 2009 at 2:15 PM
- Fifi Flowers said...
You and Martha sure are close... my kids would love these!
- June 30, 2009 at 3:00 PM
- Mary said...
I like fluffier pancakes and I think oats are more nutritious than whole wheat, so all things considered I keep the oat measure where it is and use unbleached white flour.
- June 30, 2009 at 3:19 PM
- TheFitnessFreak said...
My boys love fluffy pancakes. I really should get them used to the nutritionally dense version. That's why I add the ww flour in baby steps:)
- June 30, 2009 at 3:33 PM
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
How about using white whole wheat flour instead? King Arthur Flour's white whole wheat is fantastic.
- June 30, 2009 at 4:56 PM
- girlichef said...
They sound great....I'll have to try them :)
- June 30, 2009 at 7:04 PM
- Donna-FFW said...
I love and prefer the light and fluffy pancake. Cinnamon oat pancakes sound delicious! Nice choice.
- June 30, 2009 at 7:50 PM
- Annie said...
I must try these... I love the fact that you try to make everything a little more nutritious!
I tend to think your version would be a little more nutritious seeing that you used whole wheat flour even if you cut down the oats.
- June 30, 2009 at 8:12 PM
- Tangled Noodle said...
I love pancakes. Period. Doesn't matter if they're fluffy/thin, light/dense - I will eat them. Wish I could help out on the nutrition question! One tip: I have started using club soda in place of the liquid in pancake recipes. It cuts down on kcals from milk and it (seems to) add to the fluffiness.
- July 1, 2009 at 5:05 AM
These sound yummy! I like any kind, but my family will only eat blueberry or banana pancakes because these always come out light and fluffy!
- July 1, 2009 at 7:34 AM
- Julie said...
I would have cut the egg down to one and the oil to 2 tablespoons and added a 1/4 cup of applesauce. but I almost always add applesauce to my pancake batter. Sounds yummy.
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Had a dreary day at work, which included a melt down on the phone. Luckily I was speaking with a favorite colleague who talked me off the proverbial ledge. The day got a little better, but big clouds hung over me. We've got a very big project going on -- finished on March 5 -- that I am dreading. The last time we did something of this magnitude I broke out in hives, which I do very rarely, and only under great stress.
What's a girl to do when faced with a hive producing situation? When you've got your own country as I do the best solution is to declare a holiday! I hereby declare the last hour of February 17 and the first 23 hours of February 18 as "Welcome to Spring Day." This day shall be celebrated throughout all parts of Buttercupland and in blogs with reciprocal diplomatic privileges. Get going, my dear ambassadors. We've got a season to get ready for!


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A Note from Carolyn King about her stamp sets for Alzheimer's Association:
In Loving Memory Of Clare Lyons "Mamo"
September 26, 1916 - July 1, 2008
For those of you who read my blog, you know that my grandmother passed away in July. I wrote about it here. What you may not know is that for the past 12 years of her life, she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
After she was first diagnosed, she moved into my parent's house where I was living with my daughter. I saw first-hand how devastating this disease can be. I saw my grandmother go from a completely independent and meticulous women to a completely dependent person who lost all of the wonderful memories her life created.
In many ways, my family has been saying goodbye to my grandmother for years...as her energy diminished, her weight plummeted and the memories of her life were erased from her mind. I had just finished drawing the images for this set when I received a call from my mother telling me that my grandmother passed away.
Although part of me was rejoicing because she suffered too long…the selfish part of me was wishing for just one more visit...After returning from Pennsylvania and getting back to work—I had a resurgence of energy for this new set. I decided the best way for me to honor my Grandmother's memory was to give back.
And so, 100% of my proceeds from this set will be sent to the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. Always.


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As we all know, a pair of well-groomed eyebrows can change the outlook of your face. Although we spend so much time on applying eye shadows on our eyes, some of us do not realize the eyebrows are the key players that frame the eyes. For a long time, I was very skeptical at grooming my own eyebrows. The sheer thought of grooming them brought shivers to my spine.
|The Complete Eyebrow Guide by Trisha Bartle
Also, you will find an assortment of ways to groom your eyebrows. I did not realize there are so many different ways to keep the brows well-groomed. I used to wax my eyebrows and currently, I use a pair of tweezers to pluck them. However, threading and laser hair removal are two other methods.
The most important question is: Can you learn eyebrow grooming from a book?
This e-book has some magnificent pictures to illustrate each step. Trisha took close-ups of her face, especially in the eye area, to show you the proper way to groom your eyebrows* Her instructions are clear and sometimes, funny. It definitely does not feel like reading from a manual.
Price: $9.95 at eyebrowbook.com. And guess what? You get a bonus mini e-book with each purchase called "50 Ways to Look and Feel Beautiful."
I am glad to receive this book from Trisha and I would recommend it to those who want to learn how to groom their eyebrows. If you don't get the idea the first time, don't panic. Practice does make perfect. It took me years to finally found the perfect eyebrow shape for me. I hope you will find yours, too.
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I finished stitching this ornament yesterday Dec. 31st, 2007, but decided to start the new year 2008 with the posting of this 8th ornament called Czarina from the 12 Dodecagon Ornament Series designed by Jim Wurth. A nice way to start 2008 and put the Christmas season behind me.
Still four more to go and the series will be complete.
I am always amazed at the amount of work that goes into such a small ornament. My husband told me that this is the one he loves the best so far, but there are quite a few that are very close second.
I have made myself a long long list of projects that I would like to stitch in 2008, a very unrealistic list, I am afraid, but hey it is fun to dream of all the things that I will be able to work on in 2008.
It will be interesting to see at the end of 2008 which projects I will have completed, which ones I will have left undone and which other projects that are not on my list that will have somehow made their way in my stitching hands.
The way I see things, a list is just a list to guide me as I have so many projects waiting in the wings that if I don't go through them once in a while I forget that I have them.
Now, I need to decide which one will be my very first project for 2008 (big smile). Ok, I have just decided. I will actually be working on multiple projects but the project that I consider to be my first for this year is called "Terra Rosa" and is a Elsa M. Parrish design. I have purchased this many years ago and have always wanted to work on it, but for whatever reason have never done so. This year is the year. I have already mounted the design that Elsa has drawn on congress cloth on stretcher bars and will now be reading all the instructions while having a good cappucino and then it will be a start. I know I made the right decision as I feel all excited (big grin)
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May Employee of the Month
Best Support Staff
With a constantly growing business and staff here at Eckert Hyundai, a good HR department is a must. Most of her work is behind the scenes, but Carrie Burkey is certainly deserving of the Best Support Staff title this month. Carrie started a new position at Eckert in August 2012. Since that day, she has been processing payroll, managing benefits, and ordering supplies like a pro. Without many procedures in place, she has kept us organized, compliant, and having fun in the office at the same time!
Her coworkers noted that she is "always a pleasure to work with," "ready to assist whoever needs the help," and "does a great job with a great attitude." It is no secret that Carrie has a great smile and a kind heart. We are grateful for her patience and wise choices-- especially when it comes to the Saturday lunch order!
Thank you Carrie for being so reliable and working so hard for our company!


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The Craft and Business of Writing: Essential Tools for Writing Success, by the Editors of Writer's Digest books
I recently discovered a real "page-turner" I couldn't put down—and unfortunately, couldn't afford. Happily, my school library recently acquired it, and it's sitting beside me now, as I type this. (And no, it's not a novel.)
If you're interested in writing as a career, or even in just publishing a few stories every now and then, this is a book you may definitely want to check out at your library or the nearest bookstore. I haven't read it front to back, but the portions I have perused are chock-full of sound advice and practical, "here's how to do it and here's how not to do it" instruction. I especially appreciate how the editors work to spark your interest through questions, suggestions, and anecdotes, in addition to both positive and negative examples of whatever topic they are addressing. Overall, it gives a good understanding of both business aspects of writing and the building blocks of writing itself.
Here's just a bit of what this book offers (quoted from the back):
For more than eighty years, the Writer's Market series has provided the timeless advice and detailed instruction writers have come to depend on to achieve their goals. The Craft & Business of Writing offers the best of that instruction from award-winning writers such as M.J. Rose, Lee K. Abbott, Alyce Miller, Fred Marchant, Jennifer Cruisie, Megan McCafferty, Gary Provost, Monica Wood, and Deborah Hopkinson.
In this book, writers, agents, and editors offer their insights into every genre and facet of the publishing industry, so whether you write fiction, nonfiction, children's books, or poetry—or a little of everything—this essential all-in-one reference includes everything you need to start and maintain your writing career.
To hone your craft and increase your skill as a writer, you'll find solid advice on how to:
- Craft intricate plots and nuanced characters
- Improve the pace and veracity of your dialogue
- Write in rhyme, or with appropriate meter
To successfully market yourself and sell your work, you'll learn how to:
- Find and work with an agent
- Negotiate contracts and collaborate with editors
- Test and submit article ideas
No matter what your skill level or area of creative interest, The Craft & Business of Writing is an invaluable addition to your reference library.
Interested? Check it out on Amazon and peruse a few chapters for free!


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ORIGINAL COPY OF MY EMAIL TO IHM (INDIAN HOMEMAKER) POSTED ON IHM WEBSITE (AFTER BEING EDITED BY IHM) WITH HER ANSWERS ON 15TH OF JULY, 2013: Dear IHM, I'm not a blogger or a social activist and neither intend … Continue reading
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Top 3 New Cars for Gardeners
Well, I was invited to join with other female bloggers from the DC-area and beyond to see write and tweet and live chat our hearts out about the show. Some of us write on topics closer to the world of car shows (travel bloggers), others of us cover topics a bit farther afield (fashion, food, and gardens). I think, though, that we were all able to find our audience angle and bring a unique perspective to the event.
What I found most interesting was the many green features (hydrogen cell batteries with zero emissions) and safety improvements (driver-less cars) coming soon to the market! What I though would be of most interest to you, my dear fellow gardeners, are the vehicles that will make your lives easier when hauling plants and soil bags back home, so without further delay, here are my choices for the top 3 new garden vehicles:
1. Chrysler Pacifica - This minivan is stylish and practical. When bringing mulch home, the available Stow 'n Vac integrated vacuum powered by RIDGID provides easy access to all corners of the vehicle for quick clean-up. Also, the Stow 'n Go seating and storage system has a new press-bttton to the move the front seat forward to allow the second-row seat to be stowed into the floor tub.
2. Toyota Tacoma - This small pickup is the perfect size for city living, but is tough enough for farm chores. I could someone looking to transition to a horticultural career in landscape design or garden maintenance really getting a lot of use out of this sporty vehicle.
3. Subaru Forrester - This wagon is Subaru's best-selling model and I can see why. It has all-around appeal and value. This model was also featured at last year's Philadelphia Flower Show and that is where I noticed it has a low-to-ground floor, so it was easy-to-load and bonus: you could easily get in while wearing a skirt!
See these models and many more at the Washington Auto Show. Note that the show is closed this weekend due to the blizzard, but will re-open from 1/25-1/31/16 at the DC Convention Center. Let me know what you think and if you see other vehicles that gardeners would love. Did I leave out your favorite gardening vehicle?
UPDATE: The show opening has been pushed back one more day to Tuesday, 1/26.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Referralversary and home 5 weeks!
Bike shorts on head made for an hour of fun!
This is a way overdue post! When we got cleared to travel by embassy we really weren't in a place to get excited and celebrate. There had been so many delays along the road that we weren't sure there wouldn't be more last minute ones. We packed the last few things, kept our fingers crossed and still wondered when we drove to the airport if everything was going to go ok! Except for close friends and family we sort of crept out of town quietly because we were just burned out. So many of my emotions over the previous five months had been pushed down hard into 'a bucket.' It was on overflow and the tears started at the airport. First checking in at ticketing I started sobbing, then one of the Emirates agents heard us and came over and thanked us for adopting from her country and was so lovely I started again, then talking on the phone to my sister telling her we were actually checked in it all started again. You get the picture. There had certainly been meltdowns and some ugly cries over the months, but this was just a release of so much that hadn't come out.
Five weeks ago last Saturday we arrived back with our daughters. My sister, brother in law, Bean and her Dad met us at the airport which we were so grateful for. We had reached the point along this journey that "wheels up out of Addis" wasn't the point we were going to sigh and feel relief, rather "wheels down in the US," so family was a welcome sight!
One year ago today, right about this time of day, we saw the photos for the first time of our daughters. I remember it so clearly! The last year with all it's unexpected delays sure has seemed like at least two years though! They were 3 months old then. Yesterday they turned 15 months! They are settling in really well and are really sweet, lovely, adorable toddlers. They are walking and jogging, have about 8-10 words including a couple in Amharic that we continue to use, they each have dimple and the loveliest eyelashes that curl. They both suck their left thumbs which is so sweet. They do that twin talk which cracks me up when I hear them babbling away to each other in a big conversation. They have transitioned easily to solids and will eat everything: fish, meats, love all fruits, mexican, japanese etc.etc. They get super excited over finger foods and their bottles. They are super ticklish everywhere and love to laugh. Love their belly laughs! Rachel was really scared of taking a bath when we got home, but is now good with it which is helps! When we got home they were also scared of stuffed animals and dolls that have faces, so we've worked on it and now they are happily playing with their dollies. They think hanging upside down, lying on our legs when we're sitting down with their heads towards the floor and flipping over is fabulous fun! The dog has gone from being horrible in their minds to the dog working at staying clear of them sometimes because she's very popular. They are big mimickers and it constantly amazes us how quickly they pick up on things that are either physical or verbal. It's a credit to Gladney and the attention and love that they received that they are way ahead on where they should be developmentally. There are a few differences between them. Often if one is worried about a new experience the other won't be and this isn't consistently one, they switch in confidence in different situations. Rachel is a little more independent whereas Isabel likes to hold hands walking from room to room. Isabel tends to be the one having a party when she's supposed to be napping! It takes a lot longer to grocery shop now because of the attention they attract being twins. They are majorly ogled and cooed over in every aisle which is sweet but admittedly getting a little tiring. Just trying to remember when I'm running late or in a rush that it all comes from a good place! The months big question which is unlikely to change I think since they are identical is "Are they twins?" They love their big sis, the Bean, and think their Dad is the most wonderful, fabulous person EVER! Which of course they are right about! He is their bundle of fun! He also is awesome to me, helping with so many things around the house and is so good with them.
The first month home was really tough. Something I'll probably blog about later, but we are now settling in and the girls are feeling more secure. It's been a BIG transition for everyone. Part is having twins, but mostly I think it's this way for a lot of people, but perhaps not talked about too much. I'm especially sensitive about that with the Bean, who just turned 13. It's a lot of work to manage the needs of such a wide age range and make sure she's not short changed. The noise has been an adjustment to her, and poopy diapers have been known to have her evacuate a room!
Today I am so grateful to be home and glad that while we are adjusting to what our new normal is going to be that we are not in the weird, yukky place that so many of you adopting understand, of counting each day away waiting to clear the next hurdle, or on bad days watching the clock waiting for our agency to call with an update, or an e-mail from embassy. So many of our friends that went to court in the couple of months after we did are still in that position and we think of them daily actually a lot more.
There is no time these days to edit or correct so take this as it is: just a stream of writing as it comes to mind!
Yay to be home and start life as a family of 6 one year after we first laid eyes on them!
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Update and Good News!
This has been the strangest week! Our document was supposed to have been dropped off at embassy on Monday, but we found out that embassy was closed to visitors until Wednesday because Hillary Clinton was in town. What were the odds of that happening. Not exactly like she's been to visit there before, but on the day our document was to go she's there. Perfect. So if that wasn't random enough that afternoon a volcano in Eritrea erupts creating a bad ash cloud bad enough that air traffic is going to be affected. It hadn't erupted since 1861! To laugh or cry. We laughed!!!! Luckily the document was accepted Wednesday and today we are relieved to say we are cleared for travel to pick up our daughters. It's been along 6 months since we were in court in Addis and able to hold our girls. Almost 11 months since referral. We have hit SO many speed bumps: referral at the beginning of rainy season so no court date for 4.5 months, a five month agency investigation, embassy wanting more docs, and the huge emotional peaks and valleys that have gone along with it. So many of you reading this know exactly what it's been like and how hard it's been. So now I am dying to get on a plane to get my girls! Really hoping that we have smooth sailing from here on out and there are no last minute, unexpected problems.
Other good news update here is that since the Bean has started acupuncture (continues with Migrelief supplement) she hasn't had a migraine! WooHoo! Huge! Her life is a lot nicer without them, and hope this trend continues. We have still to do the biofeedback, so hope next school year is easier for her with fewer absences.
School has been out for 10 days and we are loving it! Bean and I have had a sleepover including painting toenails and staying up late chatting. We all went to Wild Animal Park and did a Behind the Scenes tour which was fabulous. We've done a little retail therapy, gone to her favorite Bead store (she makes jewelry,) read books, made cookies from scratch and really enjoyed being out together. Love hanging out with my girl!
So here's to the rest of the summer being awesome, and going back to life's regular ups and downs without watching the calendar day by day! Our family really hopes that all the other families waiting for their MOWA letters, embassy submissions, and travel clearances get them SOON!
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Newest Glitch
So this morning I awoke to news that the embassy needs a change made to a document in the file. We were hoping to be on a plane by now or at least traveling this weekend. Totally bummed, demoralized, depressed. Seriously, another problem? I hope to get more news later today to see how big of a problem this is and given the difference between US and ET timelines perhaps how long this will take. Almost 6 months since we saw our daughters at court they are still slippery bars of soap. Don't know there is anything else to say right now.
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
Photos of the Nursery:)
It's all ready for the final touch - having our sweet daughters home and in there!
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Two months ago The Bean, our 12 year old, started having migraines. Since my sister and mom have them I suppose it shouldn't have surprised me, but still it did. They suck. They hit instantaneously as migraines with all the yucky symptoms: nausea, light sensitivity, sore neck, and of course the bad pain. But worst of all twice a week. Poor thing. We were fortunate to find an awesome Pediatric Neurologist who has migraines herself and has children so she really gets migraines in kids and is so good at talking to Bean. Since they hit so fast and hard I was concerned so we went in six weeks ago for brain scans to make sure it was "only" migraines we were dealing with. Let me tell you how nerve racking that is. The night before I was so cognizant that we were at one of lifes forks in the road. Either we were going to get to go on with life pretty much as we knew it, but with the new normal of trying to decrease the migraines frequencies and get rid of them faster when she got them, or gulp, dealing with something that would turn our lives upside down and her life wouldn't come close to ever being the same again. Very frightening. Very stressful. Made the stress of waiting for that MOWA letter look like a walk in the park. Thank goodness it was wonderfully, fabulously all clear:) So now I feel so fortunate that 'all' we are dealing with is migraines! Funny how life can be put in perspective so fast.
The neurologist put her on a supplement called MIGRELIEF. Omg, love that stuff:) I'm not a supplement person, we eat pretty darn well and have never felt extra stuff was in the least bit necessary, but this stuff ROCKS! It's taken her from 2 migraines a week, to 1 every 17 days. Woo Hoo!!!! You take it twice a day, it takes 4-6 weeks to see a difference, and apparently raises the B2 levels (which if I remember which is which correctly tends to be low in people with migraines) and magnesium levels (which helps reduce the frequency of them or something like that!) I've found it to be cheapest on Amazon - I'm now done with my plug! These migraines are horrible enough just from the pain standpoint but they have also been very problematic in terms of lifestyle too. Each time she had one I had to race to school to bring her home and we'd be there for hours until it eased which meant she was missing a lot of school and I was having very unpredictable days. Teachers were not happy either. Ugh. In addition to the Migrelief we've started throwing everything at them we can. Acupuncture has been shown to be really effective with headaches so 3 weeks ago we started that. She's a trouper about it and is relieved she can barely feel it. It's giving the chance to read "Emma" together twice a week so that's an upside to the visits! Today is Day 17 - according to our previous schedule it should be migraine day today, so we are all holding our breath to see if we can buy a few more days thanks to the acupuncture. Fingers crossed here! The neurologist also suggested trying bio-feedback. I have no experience at all with this, nor any knowledge about it, but if she recommends it we're trying it! That has been a little harder to find than the acupuncture which was more an issue of finding someone reputable that was covered by our insurance. Looks like Childrens Hospital will be doing it through their Chronic Pain Management program. Hoping to get that going next week. So that leaves the prescription meds to try to get rid of the pain much quicker than the Excedrin can, so perhaps it can be treated at school and she can go back to class. We're about to try Imitrex because the Maxalt didn't touch it. Aargh. More fingers crossed that we'll have better luck with the new stuff, but hoping we don't get to try it out soon if we can postpone the upcoming migraine!!!! Crazy!
I'm really wanting this to all work so life's a little more manageable. School field trips, sleepovers, and all those other things have become really problematic since we know have to prep for migraines if she goes. No field trips unless I'm chaperoning right now, and with sleepovers she has to carry a large bag of migraine stuff in her purse: water to take the pills, towel to cover her face etc wherever she goes if they go out for dinner, to ice-cream etc. Not so fun when you're 12.
But thank goodness we are only dealing with migraines.
And perhaps today she won't have one.......
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
A huge thank you to our wonderful caseworker, Sara.
First and most importantly I want you to know that it was my intention to write this this past weekend. In other words my sentiments and thanks about this have NOTHING to do with me just being all happy because we got our letter and court decree this week. I just ran plum out of time this weekend and it was Monday before I knew it and after The Call all plans went out the window.
Last Friday I was checking in with Sara and she sounded really tired. I asked her about it and she said she was, and it was raining, and that it was hard not having any news for us day after day for so long. That got me thinking. A lot. I think I've been so wrapped up in my own difficulties of the past few months that I haven't stepped back to think that it's been pretty tough on our caseworkers too to tell us day after day that there is no news when a large part of their satisfaction and enjoyment from their jobs is probably about building families. Also that since they are our only connection and imparters of information from Ethiopia and Gladneys program our frustration and sadness probably feels like it's personal to them and we are frustrated at them instead of the situation. That made me sad because Sara has been so incredible through this whole process to us. I was going to write her a card but then decided to write it 'publicly' on our blog so you all would know what impact she's had on us.
Perhaps if you feel the same way about your caseworkers you could take a minute to give them a call, write an e-mail or a card to say thank you. I wish I'd thought of it sooner:)
Dear Sara,
I cannot thank you enough for everything you've done for us during the last few months. Before we left for court we already appreciated you and what you did for us. You always had all the info we needed, were so on top of everything and we had complete faith in you. Since court during this 5 month delay we have a whole new appreciation for you. You have gone so above and beyond to take care of us the last few months and none of it has been taken for granted or been unappreciated. You had an e-mail waiting for us when we got back, you took the time out of your vacation and family time to call us and see how we were doing. So many weeks you've called to check in on me if we haven't spoken in awhile and when on a couple of those occasions I burst into tears you were so patient and kind and compassionate. I never felt you were rushing me off the phone when you probably had a ton of work to do. You've listened to me vent a few times when you've probably spent the day hearing it from a few other Moms too and have always listened to me. Then there has been your patient explanations as to why my latest great thought for the day won't work to get our letter from ET, and I never once felt like you wrote those e-mails rolling your eyes or wringing my neck. It is easy when things go right in life, but when times get tough people show their true colors and we are so grateful to know you to be such kind, thoughtful, compassionate, patient person.
You are a big part of our adoption journey, and as the girls learn their story of how they came to be in our family you will be an important part in that story. We hope we will have many years of knowing you and that your presence in our lives continues long after the girls are home.
Thank you again for everything,
Zoe, John and The Bean
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Monday, May 16, 2011
At last we get to post photos of our identical twin girls!
Rachel Derebe and Isabel Dilnesh, born very loved May 8th, 2010
They smile a lot in person but seem to get pretty suspicious of cameras so they look very serious in the photos. They both have dimples which hopefully in a couple of months we'll have captured on camera and can post those! We'll be painting their big toenails different colors so we can tell them apart so not to worry in the first 10 minutes of having them that we've mixed them up already! Derebe is a little more inquisitive, Dilnesh falls asleep first after eating. They are dear, curious, sweet little people and tonight we are blessed to call them our daughters.
Enjoy meeting them!
The girls about 5 weeks old taken by visiting Gladney mom and sent to us by her after referral! True baby pics!
Dilnesh referral photo taken mid-July
Derebe Referral photo taken mid-July
Late December while in ET
End of April
Taken this week
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