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November saw JJ depart to Australia for Darwin for his handover to J3 & then onto Canberra to the DCP Recall conference. Scott joined JJ in Canberra so the girls are running the compound!!
My dear friend Sonia arrived on the next flight after JJ left for one short week. It was fabulous to have a friend visit and force me to do the things I want to do again before we leave.
Meei has had a boys full dance costum made for Jack and the dance mat (skirt) is tied traditionally with a belt made of their mothers hair!! So Meei decided to cut her hair to make the belt so it has extra special meaning for Jack, as Sonia cuts hair much more successfully than me she got the job!!
I don't think Sonia and I drew breath all week!! We talked all day and long into the night, sitting out on the verandah enjoying the breeze, view and companionship. We explored the island and on the Thursday got up to TeBon te Keeke, here Meei, Sam and I are sitting on the outrigger canoe going across the channel to an afternoon of bliss!!
If time had of permitted we thought a night or two chilling out in the Kia Kia over the water would have been great, but time was definitely against us. So the afternoon sufficed, we enjoyed a fish curry for lunch washed down with Moi-Motos (Green Coconuts) and Tody pancakes with Kam mi mi syrup. Toddy is the sap collected from the coconut palm and then they do a heap of different things with it, the Kam mi mi is the boiled version, it is boiled until it is a thick sweet syrup, similar to Maple or Golden syrup. It was amazing and I don't think we would have eaten for a week after it all.
On Sonia's last full day I organised to go out on the fishing comp, we were unable to get two berths on the Aussie boat so Mike the NZ High Commissioner invited us out on "Tangaroa" the Kiwi boat. We were up at 2aqm for a 3am start. Sonia just wanted to see a fish caught that was bigger than a flathead!! Her wish came true 9 times over!!! She pulled in two fish, two types of Tuna, neither big enough to qualify for the comp weigh in but they certainly qualified in Sonia's eyes!!
we had the most fantastic day, we fished, swam, ate, swam and fished more, drank lucky beers to entice more fish!! and they were indeed lucky as we caught some more....we fished out a Miania for the day which is south of Tarawa and the fish are disease free so we were able to eat everything we caught. One of the Kiwi's grandson was on board, a 17 y.o chap, just joined the NZ Navy as a Chef and as we left the harbour and hit the huge swell of the open ocean the poor kid vomited and that was him for the day, by lunch time he was comatosed, Sonia and I felt so sorry for him but there wasn't much we could do, it certainly was huge swells, we'd be hanging off the back of the boat communing with nature and you'd look up at this huge swell baring down on you wondering if it would swamp you or not, fortunately Tangaroa is a good sound boat and rode it all well.
I even got to drive as we were one down!! Lucky beers and my driving skills!!! I was at the helm when we hooked up two, one being a huge Giant Trevally!!! Below our gracious host Mike and our 'Lucky Beers', even Sonia whom doesn't drink beer was enjoying hers!!!! By the end of the day, trawling home, eskies (or chilly bins for the Kiwi's) full of fish, tummies full of beer we sang our lungs out to Robbie Williams on the ipod player, startling birds and probably the fish away too.
My contribution to the day was a 25 lb Yellow Fin Tuna, a great catch and good eating at the end of a very long day!!!
Our long day wasn't in vain!! We placed second with 3 species all over the qualifying weight!! This was our lucky team L-R Charlie, Mike, Me, Sonia & Ox!!!!!
The long job of filleting my catch, lucky Birdie was there to help.....
Sonia's visit went all too quickly and even scoring an extra day due to the plane being delayed one day wasn't enough!! All too soon we were back at the airport saying goodbye, Mike also flew out and a few other friendly faces, it hit me then that we have 3 weeks left on this paradise and boy does it hurt.....so now it is back to reality with a thud, the packers arrive on Monday and I have a busy week sorting the house and preparing all our things to go into the container for the long journey home.
until next time
ti a bo moa xxxx


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Already as frantic as a balloon whose air is quickly escaping, why should I not take on an additional challenge and opportunity?? One as intense as say, Grad School!!? But I really believe that I am up for the task. I am excited to take the helmet by the horns (Western's mascot is the vikings after all).
I started this degree 14 years ago, only to find myself pregnant, which totally explained why after a triple latte I kept falling fast asleep in class. At that time Joel and I both agreed that I should put my education on hold and focus on being a mom. Wow.. I was so focused it took me 14 years to get back around to it! Well 14 years, at least 6 moves, Joel's masters degree and then subsequent career change, a few jobs, a lot of laughs, oh and 2 additional kids... It was a very focused 14 years!
With much trepidation, (as much as if I was jumping off that proverbial bridge my mom kept telling me about) I am about to embark on this journey. My biggest trepidation is the dust cloud of chaos I am going to be leaving in my wake. At least currently in my own chaotic world, I am the master at making everything click. For the most part, the kids get to where they are supposed to be within at least 5 or so minutes of them having to be there... they are typically fed, bathed at least once a week, and occasionally do their homework. The business/ministry I run both makes money and helps people at the same time, (most of the time anyway - thanks to my awesome staff) and my house is live-able... (Sure, if you're ever in the need for a dog-hair wig I could sweep for you - who needs slippers! - just kidding) (I actually just made myself chuckle). I even volunteer at my kids school from time to time (Secretary of the PTA!! woot woot) and am in a few groups at church.. and I even manage to have time left for a great group of friends.
So... friends (or should I say Karrie, since I know you're the only one who reads this) I am afraid my life is going to look more like Pig Pen from Charlie Brown. A constant state of chaos and out of control crazy, that in the earnestness of trying to gain my upper level education, will burden and barrage the rest of my life. I am prayerful that my kids, friendships and oh, husband, don't get lost in the middle of the dust storm of my future goals and ambitions. I really do expect that in the end it will be a win/win for everyone...it's just the two years of bedlam that it will take to get us there. I want to say thank you in advance to those who will have to patient with me as they try to find me in the midst of the pandemonium... Especially to my husband... Thank you for not only allowing me, but for encouraging me (he gave me a backpack full of school supplies for valentines day) down this journey. So here I go again...thankfully, unlike White Snake, not on my own.

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I was really looking forward to playing the Gates of Neverdeath adventure on D&D's Neverwinter Gameday this past Saturday and returning to the Forgotten Realms after a long, long, long absence from the richly detailed and supremely engrossing campaign setting (hadn't played there since my AD&D days waaaaay back, basically).
But...instead of a fun and entertaining session, all I got after nearly 5 hours of frustrating play was a Wipe/TPK.
But...instead of a fun and entertaining session, all I got after nearly 5 hours of frustrating play was a Wipe/TPK.
Well that doesn't sound so bad, you might say. Or you might ask, what IS a Wipe/TPK anyway?
So, without further adieu (and courtesy of the folks over at Wikipedia):
Wipe/TPK - A Total Party Kill (TPK) or Wipe is the colloquial term for the demise of the entire party of player characters in a single encounter during the course of a role-playing game adventure. While many games permit other player characters to resurrect deceased comrades in some fashion, a TPK often results in all of the players making new characters (or the end of the campaign if the group is less cohesive).
That's right. An adventure session that was supposed to take 2-3 hours and end in a hard earned victory or at least in an entertaining defeat instead took nearly 5 hours, and ended in an unsatisfying Wipe/TPK. The PCs couldn't even make the TPK interesting. It was me playing an Eladrin Wizard Bladesinger, an experienced player playing a Human Harper Monk, another experienced player playing a Human Cleric Warpriest, and 3 newbies playing a Dragonborn Paladin, a Warforged Barbarian (ugh, don't even get me started on how this thing from Eberron was even allowed into a Forgotten Realms game), and a Human Mage Necromancer.
I'm all for being newbie friendly and having patience for folks just getting their feet wet in the D&D pool, but seriously, if you're gonna play weird out-of-canon s**t like a Warforged Barbarian, or if you're gonna play a power card intensive class like a Necromancer Mage, then show up knowing your character's role and abilities and ready to play, instead of struggling through every combat encounter with figuring what kewl power to use, or what you should be doing.
Heck, I'd have been satisfied if they even knew how to play their roles properly - i.e. the out-of-canon Warforged Barbarian better damn well man up and take on the heavy hitter enemies even if one of them has a damaging Area of Effect aura up, and the Dragonborn Paladin better draw fire and do everything to keep the one Cleric (the only PC with the ability to heal the rest of the party!) alive for the duration of the session. But no, instead I was treated to a comedy of blunders where the Barbarian was afraid of taking ongoing damage and getting into the scrum to take out the boss's heavy hitting Gravehound minions, and the Paladin could neither keep our Cleric from wiping, nor strategically take on the Boss villain necromancer.
Needless to say, after the Cleric wiped (even though my Bladesinger managed to pull him out of the initial fray, at the cost of my character's own life), it soon became TPK-city for everyone else. I didn't have the patience to stay and watch the remaining party members wipe since I had another social engagement for which I was running late (and these clowns weren't even making the wipe fun, it was all confusion and tediousness, thanks, but NO THANKS). Enduring nearly 5 hours newbieness was more than enough. I mean, I was playing a class that had just been released THE DAY OF, and it took me all of 30 minutes or so to absorb and internalize my character's abilities and role, and figure out what to do in battle and how to do it. D&D ISN'T rocket science (not anymore, anyways), and there just wasn't any excuse, especially since we had a know-it-all micro-manager of a Monk that would also slow down the flow by telling everybody (newbie and knowledgeable alike) how to execute their characters and then pestering the DM to allow retroactive decisions.
The one bright spot was that the DM did a great and entertaining job of running the game materials despite the hot mess at the table, but it just wasn't enough to save it from feeling like a wasted Saturday afternoon. Hopefully I'll get to play under the DM with a better organized group, I think it would be fun. Until then, maybe some people are better off sticking to single player online RPGs than pencil and paper tabletop. It's too bad, really, as the latest D&D Gameday adventure was well written and full of potential. At least theres the new Encounters season launch next week!


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I type from Mexico City, where we just did a special screening in aid of CONFE, the Mexican equivalent of Mencap.
Incredibly, a dynamic group of MexNYLonLA types put their heads together on Skype and email, and got this special screening sorted in just two weeks. My friend Kim Machray who does all this international music showbiz stuff for a living seemed to get the whole thing whipped up in five minutes, all I had to do was ask Lars if he would come and get on a plane and give myself DVT. We screened the film to about 600 people (an lot of them in black Metallica T shirts) and followed it up with a Q&A session.
We were extremely high fivesome when Lars agreed to join us for the panel at the cool Blackberry Auditorium. He came in with security a beautiful woman and his really beautiful and kind PA, and then proceeded to be incredibly nice and charming even though he looked pretty tired. Metallica are playing eight shows in Mexico City, straight, and two hours after leaving us he would go on stage for gig number five (more of which later). A police escort was going to take him from the Blackberry to the sports stadium where they were playing. Nice.
I was very tired after crawling off an 18 hour cheap flight from the UK just 18 hours before. Tired I could handle, it was the bloating that worried me the most. I planned to wear a white dress with a thin black belt round the waist, I feared my gassy overtraveled belly would pop out from beneath it like a late stage pregnancy. In the end, I got over it. No one was there to see me. I practiced my funny line to say hello to the crowd, but in the end I just said, Hola Mexico City. Apparently it's what James Hetfield always says, so I guess it was OK that I did it too.
Lars arrived and signing loads of posters for us, asking after Tom, and taking the piss out of how many crisps we had on our rider, but no booze. We had the crunchiest and least rock n roll rider, ever. I sort of post NA/AA trailer park feast with every fizzy pop made by coca cola.
The film went down well, the translation for the subtitles had been done quite quickly so they weren't perfect, but seeing 'one's' film subtitled, well, it does make 'one' feel quite highbrow. We are now a foreign language title. We had some chuckles and belly laughs fancying the dubbed version, using Colombian soap actors for our voices, Tom's first lines being Donde este Lars, said in a growly sort of a porno south american dubbed int actors voice. Ah, yes, how we chuckled.
Anyway, where was I?
Lars, as you do.
There were others there, all equally superior to me in achievement and notoriety, there was Olallo Rubio (who made one of the best documentaries ever in Mexico, called Gimme the Power about an insane band called Molotov - he's like a radical and left wing hybrid of Michael Moore and Howard Stern) and Raquel Jelinek who is the director general of CONFE, the Mexican equivalent of Mencap, and also an eminent academic. Here we all are below, from left Olallo, Lars, moi, and Raquel.
Cleverly, we did not let only Metallica fans ask the questions, so we did get to talk about some diverse things, and I got to pump my fist to my chest and say, 'learning disabled man from Exmouth (Effmuff as Tom calls it) or international metal hero, we are all the same people under the skin with dreams, feelings and needs', or something equally drenched in cheese, and everyone clapped. I also thanked Lars for showing Tom the respect that so often learning disabled people are not afforded. I was not a complete oily schmooze (though I did mean everything I said, very much), I said that we had hoped (secretly) sometimes before we got to meet him that Lars might turn out to be an a'hole so that our film might have some Borat magic.
Lars said a whole heap of stuff and as soon as the video is posted to YouTube I'll post it here so you can fast forward through the bits of me guffing and get his pearls of wisdom.
People asked him why he had done the film and part of his answer was that perhaps because now he is a parent he is much more compassionate or something. I think that's someone most parents will get, I found it strangely touching though it was not an unusual thing to say. (He said between them the band had enough kids for a football team now. That day Mexico had beaten Senegal at the Olympics. Random unconnected factoids for you there). He had three wristbands on, they were from a trampoline place he takes his kids. That night after the show he was going to fly back to SF to see one of his children on their birthday.
They are rehearsing the sets for their new film, which will be them live and in, get this, 3D. It's going to work, you just know it, it's going to be Spinal Tap meets Monsters of Rock meets Jaws 3D. I can't wait to see it, for the chuckles and thrills. Perhaps Louise Mensch will do a screening for MPs in the Commons, we could do a double bill with Mission to Lars, in all its 2D lo-fi glory.
It was a good night and I think we did a good thing. Hopefully we'll get distrbution in Mexico soon and we'll be back for a premiere soon.
Meantime, I could like to thank the following people for making this screening the amazing, unique and meaningful event it was
Raquel Jelinek, director general of CONFE
Pepe Nacif, producer at Amateur films
Lars Ulrich, heavy metal megastar
Kim Machray, freelance global music pr strategist
Rodrigo Hernandez Stockder, producer at Amateur films
Olallo Rubio, film director, renegade
Alejandra Hernandez Stockder, freelance event planner
Diego Jimenez Labora, owner of Blackberry Auditorium
Everyone was well cool. And Mexico City, what tiny fraction I've seen and drunk in, is a can do creative sort of a city with blessed little red tape.
We will be back.


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Great Smoky Mountains National Park is recruiting for volunteers to participate in the Adopt-a-Trail (AAT) program, an effort that helps to maintain the Park's 800-mile trail system. The Volunteers in Parks (VIP) program has integrated volunteerism into many of its Park operations, including trail maintenance that covers everything from picking up litter to removing treefalls and reporting trail problems to the Park. A mandatory training program is scheduled on Saturday, July 31, in the North Carolina area of the Park for those who are interested in participating in the program.
AAT volunteers must be 18 years of age or older and in good physical condition. They are expected to hike/patrol the trail(s) at least eight times per program year--March through October. Specific trail duties include: Collect and remove litter; clean waterbars and drainage systems; perform brushing and removal of small windfalls or branches (hand tools only); perform minor trail tread maintenance; remove illegal campsites and fire rings found along trail; inspect trail and trail signs; and promote Leave No Trace outdoor ethics.
The training will be held on Saturday, July 31, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Park's North Carolina Trail Shop Training Room near the Oconaluftee Visitor Center, 2 miles north of Cherokee. In order to attend, participants must register by July 26 by email with Christine Hoyer, Trails and Facilities Volunteer Coordinator, or by phoning (828) 497-1949. The later part of the training will take place outside on the trail so people should wear appropriate clothing including sturdy footwear. Also, a packed lunch will be necessary.
If you are interested but are unable to attend the July training, please feel free to contact Christine Hoyer to be placed on a mailing list to attend future training sessions in Tennessee as well.
HikingintheSmokys.com Detailed information on trails in the Smoky Mountains; includes trail descriptions, key features, pictures, video, maps, elevation profiles, news, and more.


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My friend, colleague and renowned expert on heritage language learning Prof. Kim Potowski (U of Illinois, Chicago) has co-authored a recently released book:
Beaudrie, Sara, Cynthia Ducar and Kim Potowski. Heritage Language Teaching: Research and Practice.
Although the table of contents doesn't show a separate section on community service learning and heritage speakers, heritage speakers definitely benefit in unique and important ways from CSL courses.
Because Kim knows this, she also invited Prof. Glenn Martínez (the Ohio State University) and me to co-author a chapter in a handbook-in-progress. She is including a chapter on Spanish for the professions and community service learning, and Glenn and I would use this guiding question in our writing: What considerations are necessary when engaging heritage speakers in courses focused on Spanish for the professions and on community service learning?
I hope that you will read and benefit from Kim's newest book as well as the large bibliography she has built over the years.


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Mumbai pitch was Ponting's fault: curator
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A former India captain who prepared the crumbling pitch for last week's Mumbai Test against world champions Australia defended himself on Tuesday by passing the blame on touring skipper Ricky Ponting.
Polly Umrigar, chief curator of the Wankhede stadium track where 40 wickets fell in less than three days, leading to India's stunning 13-run win, said the pitch crumbled because Ponting used the heavy roller on it in both innings.
"We had prepared a firm, hard pitch that would have turned from third day onwards," Umrigar, 78, told AFP.
"Ponting himself said the wicket was dry. If it was dry, why did he want the heavy roller on it?
"Ponting dug his own grave.
"If the pitch was bad, would nearly 300 runs be scored on it on each of the second and third days?
"The truth is Australia could not handle our spinners."
Captains have the option of getting the wicket rolled by light or heavy rollers before the start of their team's innings.
On the rain-hit first day when just 11 overs were bowled, 22 runs were scored for the loss of two wickets. The second day produced 290 runs for 18 wickets and the third 293 runs for 20 wickets.
Australia, set a modest fourth innings target of 107, were shot out for 93 to give India a face-saving win.
Australia, who were already assured of their first series win on Indian soil since 1969 after taking a 2-0 lead in the four-match rubber, had to settle for a 2-1 scoreline instead of a 3-0 rout.
Ponting said after the match he would be reporting the pitch to the International Cricket Council.
"It was nowhere near a Test wicket," Ponting said. "It was disappointing for everyone, the players and the fans, that the match ended so fast.
"There was very little batsmen could do on a track like that."
India made 104 in their first innings and 205 in the second while Australia scored 203 and 93, their lowest ever score in India.
Umrigar, one of India's most respected cricketers who played 59 Tests between 1948 and 1961, scoring 3631 runs at an average of 42, received no support from the Bombay Cricket Association.
Association vice-president Dilip Vengsarkar, himself a former Test captain, said the pitch "was unsuitable for Test cricket".
"It was a bad advertisement for Test cricket," Vengsarkar said. "We will ensure this does not happen again because the cricket-loving people of Bombay deserve full five days of action."


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Jo called yesterday, haven't talked to her much lately. She thinks I "fuss" toooo much about what she eats.
Last month I bought her another copy of the American Diabetes Associations Food Exchange Lists for diabetics. Very small, will fit in your purse so you can take it with you if you are new at having diabetes and trying to diet.
Don't really think she pays much attention to the exchange book, the diet the doctor gave her or anything else related to her diabetes treatment other than getting those pills and Insulin shots. Know for a fact that she doesn't take any of them on a schedule, just when she feels she needs them.
The problem is with diabetes, other than obvious things like always being thirsty and running to the bathroom all the time, maybe having a sore or fungus infection that you can't get rid of, or being overwhelmed with the urge to sleep if you over eat, there aren't many other Visible signs of diabetes until later......when it is almost to late.
I don't know what her criterior for Needing her medication is. Don't know what yardstick she uses to measure her Need for Insulin or Metformin or glucophage.
Said she has started to lose weight, now down under 170 pounds. Asked if she had been dieting and just got silence.....This time last year she weighed less than she does now, so the long term picture doesn't show improvement.
Guess just wait and see. If you don't diet, you can't lose weight and if you continually eat the wrong diet you gain. Simple.
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UK Egyptian Association Mostafa Ragab had to say about current events in the country.
The Egyptian community is an integral part of Shepherd's Bush and make a significant contribution to our part of London. My recent interview with the owner of King Solomon's restaurant is evidence enough of that. Mohammed has been here since the mid 1970s and can tell you in detail about how the Bush has developed since then.
According to the BBC Mr Ragab says Bush based Egyptians are:
.."so stressed. They want to know how they can help.
"People don't sleep. Don't work. One doctor rang me, told me he couldn't go to work, was just sitting in front of the TV, 24 hours a day."
So spare a thought for those in the Bush who are watching what appears to be an increasingly violent revolution take place in their homelands. Along with the other parts of the Arab community, particularly the Lebanese, here in W12 these are historic and deeply worrying times.


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I still need reminding.
O mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities;
For naught so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give....Juliet from Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
We breathe, we dance, we sing, we read. The sun's energy, captured by protoplasts, converts carbon dioxide and water to form sugar. Our brains cannot function without the sun's energy.
The saccadic movements of your eyes as you scan the words, capturing photons, transform the energy of photons captured on a farm not long ago. We once worshipped the sun; now we praise the mitochondrion. Energy flows and transforms in either model.
None of this is earned, or deserved. Just is.
Our greatest problem is not how to continue but how to exalt our existence. The cry for a life beyond the grave is presumptuous, if there is not a cry for eternal life prior to our descending to the grave. Eternity is not perpetual future but perpetual presence. God has planted in us the seed of eternal life. The world to come is not only a hereafter but also a herenow.Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man Is Not Alone
I am a man of faith in grace...faith reaffirmed with every easy breath I take, faith that will no doubt be questioned when my breathing becomes difficult.
Do not talk of heaven (or hell)--both unknowable, and the future, truly, does not exist. It never exists. We have herenow.
My sister no longer breathes in the herenow, and her last breath was pushed in by a machine. I could look at her chart, and see the numbers, and know what they mean. Peak inspiratory pressure. Positive end expiratory pressure. Tidal volume. Rate. FiO2 1.0. That is not grace.
Grace was the last breath she took before seeing a car in the wrong lane, headed for her; she was on her way to her favorite place in the world, an apple farm in Michigan, to see her love.
Grace. Her words now in my head, already asking me to forgive the carelessness of another.
The world is a wonderful place. She knew this and lived this. I may need reminding for a bit.


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An exercise in free-motion quilting.
Somehow, I got myself boxed into the middle.
And then . . . .
. . . with literally less than 1 square inch, I ran out of bobbin.
Then I looked up . . .
{Don't mind the dust.}
On a better note. Between loads of laundry this weekend, I finished cutting out my Halloween Kaleidoscope quilt . . .
. . . and got some chain piecing done.
Now, I just need a space large enough to call a design wall/floor to lay this puppy out.
Happy quilting.


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In 1841 there wasn't a single Germany as there is today. When someone said "Germany" back then, they may well have been referring to those people in central Europe who spoke German, who lived in a variety of different political entities.
Then again, it's not as if there is 1 political entity today in Central Europe where German-speakers live: besides Germany itself, German is the native language of Austria, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, about 2/3 of Switzerland; and about 1 million people in the French area of Alsace-Lorrain, which borders Germany and has passed back and forth between French and German control quite a few times; and about 1 million more in South Tyrol in northern Italy, bordering on Austria and Switzerland.
Also, there are millions of people who live in Germany whose 1st or 2nd language is Turkish. They've been there for decades, and gradually the German media and government have stopped ignoring their existence.
And of course today Germany is welcoming more refugees from Syria than any other country.
In 1841, the political make-up of Germany involved many different states. Here's a map of the German Bund, which existed from 1815 to 1866:
And it existed very uneasily, above all because of the rivalry between Prussia, the blue on this map in the north-east and again in the west, and Austria, the orange-brown... orange-tan... orange-yellow... I don't know how to describe the color of Austria on this map, but it's the large area predominating in the south-east on this map. In 1841 Prussia was busy annexing more and more of northern and western Germany, turning more and more of it blue on the map, while Austria was annexing more and more non-German territory east of the area which is colored and and surrounded by the red line on this map: the German Bund. For example, the territory 3/5 of the way down the right-hand edge of this map, not colored in, labeled KGR UNGARN -- that's the so-called Kingdom of Hungary, which belonged just as entirely to Austria as the orange-brown-tan-yellow area. Hungary, despite its misleading name at this time, didn't have a monarch of its own: the King of Hungary was the Austrian Emperor. If you look close, you'll see that Prussia also has extensive territory east of the Bund. On this map it's colored very light blue.
There was a lot of discussion going on between 1815 and 1871 about whether Germany was going to adopt a "kleindeutsche Lösung" ("Lesser German solution") with Germany united without the Austrian lands, or a "grossdeutsche Lösung" ("Greater German solution"), including Austria-Hungary, and with the Prussian monarchy in Berlin sharing a lot of the power with the Habsburgs in Vienna. Sometimes such things were discussed with words and sometime they were discussed with guns.
"Lesser German solution" it was: in 1871, after the Franco-Prussian War -- and 2 wars against Denmark, the First War of Schleswig (1848–51) and the Second War of Schleswig (1864), and the Austro-Prussian War (1866) -- the map of this region suddenly became much less colorful: all of Prussia plus everything inside the red line which wasn't Austrian was now one solid color, and was Germany, and most of it was now dominated to some degree or other by Prussia -- the Prussian King became the German Emperor in 1871 -- "Kaiser" is the German word for "Emperor" -- while Austria now called itself and all of its territories Austria-Hungary, and usually didn't bother to use more than one color on maps to indicate all of itself, which extended much farther to the east than does this map. For example, at this time there was no Poland on the map. All of Poland was divided between Prussia, Austria and Russia. All of south-east Europe belonged either to the Austrian (or Austro-Hungarian) Empire, or the Russian Empire, or the Ottoman Empire.
Hey, Steve, what you're saying, it's all -- yawn -- this is all really, really interesting and all -- yawn. stretch. blink -- but what does it have to do with Latin?
Lots and lots, actually. In 1841, in Prussia and in areas about to be swallowed up by Prussia, prestigious universities in Berlin and Heidelberg and Leipzig and Bonn and elsewhere were international centers of Classical scholarship; while in Austria, the Emperor and his family, the Habsburgs, were very, very Catholic, and Latin was going to remain the official language of the Catholic Church until 1962. By 1962 Austria had become much smaller than it was in 1841, having shrunk down to, oh, about 1/5 of the brown-orange-tan-yellow area on the map. Much of that shrinkage had to do with non-German people in the Austrian Empire wanting to rule themselves. Much of it also had to do with people in the Empire being Protestant or Orthodox or Muslim.
So how much of that tension between the German Catholic Habsburg dynasty and non-German and non-Catholic people also ended up in opposition to the Latin language? That's a very interesting question, and I don't know the answer. But in the rest of Germany, the part which was eventually more or less conquered and swallowed up by predominantly-Protestant Prussia, the Latin language had always had more academic and less religious and political associations, and so I'm guessing that it was much less affected by all of the political upheaval and change.


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hello loves,
we all know most days i dont pay attention to my eye make up bar a few coats of mascara and a bit of eyeliner on my water line, but since im off work for the foreseeable future ive decided to bite the bullet and do it once or twice a week.
I picked this up on a whim i loved the name peanut butter.. it happens alot with me im trying not to get things for the name but lets face it i cant help it, fun fact most people have peanut butter on toast but i can only eat it on a sandwich with chocolate spread.. anywhoo the lid is a pill of dudu! if you look closely its already cracked because if u push to hard it breaks and drys up, if u dont push it on enough it drys up its a cant win situation and seems to happen with most eyeshadow pencils
the colour is this beautiful copper bronze brown colour depending on which light its under, there not overly creamy to begin with but honestly its easier to blend that stuff twice the price! this was around £2.50 and there are other shades im willing to pick up, i have used this alone and under shadow and either way it wears well with no creasing! score right?.. in boots miss sporty often have sales or promos/offers on so get them while its going good for savings..


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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Freezing My A*s Off But Doing It In Style
36 comments:
- BF said...
Really cute outfit and great pictures. How can you freeze in boots and a coat!
- January 19, 2012 at 11:10 AM
- JennaStevie said...
These photos are AMAZING, seriously so wonderful. Do you know what setting you had it on to get this depth of field? It's so hard to get this when using a tripod.
I realllly love the layers going on here, your sweater looks so cozy and that hat is awesome.
- January 19, 2012 at 11:17 AM
- Ashley said...
ZOMG how are you outside taking pictures in these temperatures?!?! I hope Mr. Miedreich wears gloves too. It's in the -20s (Celcius) here right now...luckily I don't have to work for the next two days, so all I AM doing is staying inside, curling up on the couch with hot chocolate next to the fireplace. IT'S AWESOME.
- January 19, 2012 at 11:31 AM
- Bri said...
Wow, can't believe you're taking photos outside! Brave(and a little crazy!)!!!!! LOL
I need a fabulous hat like yours, I think that would help with this crazy weather!
- January 19, 2012 at 11:40 AM
- Courtney Erin said...
Okay, I officially no longer miss Canadian winters. And kudos to you for venturing out in it - you look great.
Courtney ~ http://sartorialsidelines.com
- January 19, 2012 at 11:57 AM
- Kate said...
You look adorable! So wintery & cute! I keep complaining about how cold it is here lately, but I cannot even imagine -43! That is insane! It's been more in that -17 range here, which is cold enough for me. There is usually only maybe one day a week that the temps creep up to -5 or so, when I will brave blog photos, but winter blogging is the pits!
- January 19, 2012 at 12:02 PM
- Marie a la Mode said...
Bri: Luckily these photos were taken last weekend, before the deep freeze started ; )
- January 19, 2012 at 12:04 PM
- Mrs. Julius said...
Wow, wow, wow. I love these photos Marie! And you look amazing! I love that outfit! I got boots similar to yours but its brown with chunky heels for $39 from Joe Fresh! :)
Our Winter has been weird...up and down and more rain than usual...weird.
- January 19, 2012 at 12:14 PM
- Erika @ ~TiptoeButterfly~ said...
u do COLD the right way girl - we've been lucky on the east coast for a "not so much winter" = i only wore a winter coat once, other then that i've been in my cape
- January 19, 2012 at 12:31 PM
- Elisa said...
your coat is gorgeous. loving your blog, new follower!
- January 19, 2012 at 1:11 PM
- Dress Me Dearly said...
These are sooo cute!!!
Bravo for an outside outfit shoot!
- January 19, 2012 at 1:36 PM
- Lindsay said...
<3 Snow bunny!!
These are awesome too for cold weather...
- January 19, 2012 at 3:50 PM
- Closet Fashionista said...
Jeez that's cold! It's been pretty cold here too, but not that cold. Between 10 and 20 F in the morning...but then it gets warmer during the day
- January 19, 2012 at 4:26 PM
- Adventures in Fashion said...
I love these photos so much!!! You look amazing, and your outfit is super stylin... *sigh*
- January 19, 2012 at 4:54 PM
- Tabitha Mahoney said...
I'll take your entire outfit please!!
New to your blog and love it!
- January 19, 2012 at 5:15 PM
- Natasha said...
You're totally doing it in style :)
We're also having a major cold snap here...it was pretty brutal coming from +30 in Mexico to -30 in a day!
Natasha ~ Required2BeInspired
- January 19, 2012 at 5:38 PM
- Adrienne said...
You look cozy and gorgeous! I love that coat.
It's about 45 - 55 here (12 C?) and raining...I'm pretty cold in that temperature - lots of whining going on. I guess I wouldn't last long in your town, would I?
- January 19, 2012 at 6:25 PM
- Nav said...
love these photos, you look so dreamy in winter whites!
all i have to say about the weather - EW! and next week is looking MUCH nicer :)
xo Nav
- January 19, 2012 at 7:53 PM
- Tracy D said...
I love the background of this photo...oh and the pretty lady in it of course :)
- January 19, 2012 at 8:13 PM
you did a great job layer, you look all warmed up but still very chic!
- January 19, 2012 at 8:53 PM
- Steffys Pros and Cons said...
youre so pretty all bundled up! your hair has the perfect waves!
<3 steffy
Steffys Pros and Cons
- January 20, 2012 at 5:59 AM
- Eva said...
Looks very good!
so IF U WANT U CAN FOLLOW ME TO
- January 20, 2012 at 8:04 AM
- Sandy Joe said...
Freezing cold never looked so good!
x The Pretty Secrets
- January 20, 2012 at 9:26 AM
- Sue said...
Everything in this outfit looks amazing! and the background is just dreamy
- January 20, 2012 at 9:51 AM
- CAMILLA said...
great pictures
your outfit suit u a lot
ow those shoes are so good
i want them :) too
- January 21, 2012 at 6:27 AM
- Crystal Haines said...
I love your outfit! Beautiful coat! :]
- January 21, 2012 at 11:16 AM
- Emi Coco said...
Lovely post!
Shall we follow each other? I'm following you.
- January 21, 2012 at 12:19 PM
- my republic of fashion said...
Love these pictures. You look really pretty in your outfit. No snow for us this year. Even though I gave out about it last year, I kinda miss it this year. Am never happy!
- January 21, 2012 at 2:45 PM
- J. said...
Wow amazing pictures-I just love them. You look so cute and chic in the snow!
ps great boots!
- January 22, 2012 at 12:33 AM
- helena said...
Ahhh I love this look!
The nude colours are so cute :)
- January 22, 2012 at 2:02 AM
Love your coat!
- January 22, 2012 at 2:02 AM
- Nikosmommy said...
Sweet mother of pearl it has been cold around here hey?!so glad that it's come to an end in that we're actually getting some warmer temperatures now! and how cute are you snowbunny!, u rock the ankle bootie like no one can!
- January 22, 2012 at 10:52 AM
- Sarah Whitney said...
OMG, Marie! Negative 43??? I grew up in upstate NY and it never even got that cold. That is CRAZY. I think you're totally entitled to complain haha. Will it make things better if I tell you you look really cute/don't look cold?! ;)
- January 22, 2012 at 11:11 AM
- Rhea Faith said...
I'm the opposite, I love the cold and it's suppose to be 80 degree fahrenheit here in LA on Thursday!!! Even though it's cold you look fabulous!!! XX
- January 23, 2012 at 2:03 PM
- StyleFrost said...
Love all the lovely winter colours in the is outfit! No idea how you live in that cold, I couldn't do it, I hate cold lol!
- January 25, 2012 at 9:40 AM
- Mimi said...
you look so beautiful! and the pictures (especially the first one) are gorgeous!!! :D
<3, Mimi
Udderly Smooth Giveaway
- January 29, 2012 at 2:28 AM


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This holiday season my clients have really been mixing it up. They are ready for change and ready to move forward into the new year with bold, radiant hair. I've been taking a lot of people from blond, to brown or red..Cutting mid length cuts into short pixies, cutting long hair into mid lengths or lots of layers...Adding new bangs...And, Brightening up color...So, so much change...Thank you all for trusting me with your locks and letting me play..I've been having so much fun, and I hope you all have had a great time too with your most versatile accessory, your hair...
(any shade of red is the most popular color this season..thank you Rhianna, Mad Men, and all you gorgeous redheads out there)
(any shade of red is the most popular color this season..thank you Rhianna, Mad Men, and all you gorgeous redheads out there)
I've been asked for a lot of asymmetrical cuts, longer "security wisps" in the front to give a short cut a whimsical feel.
* Size of forehead (if it's longer keep longer bangs, if it's smaller keep shorter bang)
* Jaw if it's more square keep the front a little longer and softer around the ears, if it's more
narrow take the hair shorter above the jaw line then when it grows flip it way from the jaw to
give the illusion of width if needed.
* Hair grows about 1/2 an inch a month. Will your hair feel grown out in 3 1/2 to 4 weeks? Are
you able to spend more time with your hairdresser:)
For curls I'm seeing color dusted in the ends, or color snaking throughout..as always highlights are popular and natural looks.
There are small layers throughout especially on top, in the sides, and bangs area for shape/style..In these curly styles look where the ends of the hair spring out all over to create the illusion of long balanced hair.
Girls have been playing a lot with bobby pins, headbands, and scarves:) I love curls!! Always remember wash your hair less and however it looks when it's wet is how it will look when it's dry..If it's not behaving how you want add a little water and reset!!
Mid length
Solid ashy browns or Rich golden browns
Ombre blonds and brunettes that look natural like they have been at the beach all summer
every color you see in this blog post is a color I love:)
Headbands have become the accessory of choice this fall/winter..
The biggest trend is...Natural textures or perms worn down with product and scrunching water
throughout..These styles have also been enhanced with curling irons especially 1 1/2 to 2 inch (larger) barrel waves or flat iron waves to make sure the form and balanced of the curl is perfect..
This season hair looks effortless...And, the right cut/color/styling tricks can make that happen...
Happy Hair for 2012!!!


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if you've read this blog long enough,
you'd know that casey/we (casey is the fuel to the fire) have an obsession with bahama bucks.
we think it's just fantastic.
so here's our little guide to bahama bucks!
(they're only in AZ, NM, and TX, sorry UT fans).
go with a coupon.
they always have coupons floating around for that place.
they usually come in the regular mail, keep your eyes open
(and tell your relatives/friends who live in the area to save them for you so you have multiple ones!)
our favorite one is buy one get one free :)
once you get there, get samples, lots of samples
(and if you have small children with you all they want is a sample, it's great!)
casey and i always get the same flavors,
we're creatures of habit (and we like "our" flavors the most!)
casey: half cream soda, half cotton candy.
kimber: half watermelon, half blue raspberry.
and you've GOTTA put the cream on top, it's like the best part.
we personally don't do a bahamaramamamas (ice cream at the bottom) bc we're still pinching the pennies.
also, don't forget your punch card!
we love our punch card and guard them with our life.
after you get 10, you get a free one, woohoo!
and the free one gets to be whatever size you want.
get the avalanche people. GET THE AVALANCHE. it's huge!
and with the punch card, if you go in the winter when it's cold,
you get multiple punches when the temperature is below a certain degree!
(i think 2 below 60, 3 below 50, ad 4 below 40 maybe?)
it's great.
and lastly, if you go on saturdays (their busy days, sadly, when you'll have to wait in lines),
they give out magic spoons instead of umbrellas!
they change colors whey they're cold and it makes eating your snow cone all the better.
(as a kid, we'd save them and eat them with our cereal:).
magic spoons are definitely worth the wait :)
magic spoons are definitely worth the wait :)
here's a little video i've been compiling overtime of our bahama bucks visits.
we go everyday (excpet sundays) when we're in AZ so you'll see lots of outfits.
Bahama Bucks from Kimber Cutler on Vimeo.
have a happy labor day!
go to bahama bucks if you're in AZ!
we go everyday (excpet sundays) when we're in AZ so you'll see lots of outfits.
Bahama Bucks from Kimber Cutler on Vimeo.
have a happy labor day!
go to bahama bucks if you're in AZ!
ps- if you go to the BB on baseline and power in mesa, az, look for the ring swinging game in the corner ;)
we just found it this last go around and love it. i stink at it


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Remembering Why You Write #writerslife
In the wonderfully creative world of writers we are flooded with posts on writing tips, marketing strategies, balancing life with creativity, and nailing those word counts. The amount of positive encouragement is huge, and I've always loved the fact that this exists in the writing community. Our ability as writers to constantly offer that nudge […]Read More →


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I have been thinking on gratitude a lot today. I have a child who, despite all he has been blessed with just doesn't GET gratitude. Doesn't get it. And I don't know what to do to help him see and understand all that he has. It is frustrating.
I have always been a "glass half full" kind of girl. I don't know how else to do it. And I am so grateful for that gift alone because I see how others struggle to find the good in the crappiest of situations. I most strikingly noticed this trait about myself 7 years ago. My husband and I were in Mexico on vacation when I suddenly miscarried at almost 13 weeks. It was totally unexpected and devastating. We had a 2 1/2 year old and 4 year old at home and they both were excited to have a new sibling. While I was waiting to go into surgery, I was alone with just a pad and paper (my phone had died). I decided to make a list of the things I was grateful for in spite of just suffering a loss. It was a silly list...but it was a lifeline for me. And that simple act of writing down what I was grateful for in a moment of quiet sadness and desperation set the course of how I was to deal with a loss. It showed me something about myself. It showed me that even at the worst moment, I am STILL a glass half full kind of girl.
But how do you teach that to someone else? Is it something they either have or they don't? Is it a personality trait? Can you learn it? If you CAN learn it, does that lesson only come by heartache and hardship? I truly do not know.
I can see how hard life can be for someone who is not grateful. I don't want that life of "lack" for my children. This is one of those days where being a human being...just being a parent seems very very hard.


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But there is more to drones than meets the eye. The military uses drones as weaponry, to spy with and for other purposes. Emergency services use them as scouts and to find or isolate problems like people lost in the mountains. But what about everyday use, certainly they can do more good than be a plaything for weekend warriors?
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Speaking Of Global Warming
Earth Day festivities went ahead despite the blast of frigid weather yesterday.
Vendors and presenters from various eco-friendly groups, including Bullfrog Power, CO2 Reduction Edmonton and the local solar energy society, crammed into a lone tent in Hawrelak Park after a blizzard forced them to abandon their original locations.
Organizers crammed over 40 groups in a space that would normally be occupied by half that number. Presenters' booths were initially planned to have been spread out between at least five tents, with far larger displays.


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October is Scrapbusters Month over at http://www.sewmamasew.com/ and I decided to get into the spirit and use up some of my scraps. I ended up making lots of things, but I thought that this would be pretty useful for most as an alternative to the rolls of plastic produce bags in the grocery store. The measurements are very flexible, and I think that having bars of cotton fabric instead of total construction of mesh will help it hold up longer. Another bonus is that this is a project that it doesn't judge...if you stitch a seam crooked...it still functions!
I clarified reinforcing the mesh in this video. It is a little rough holding the camera and recording, but I hope it helps!
scraps of mesh (I found this as a remnant in the fabric store, but repurposed sheer curtains, and netting works also.)
Length of ribbon (mine was 24 inches)
Fabric scraps--I used pieces from my cut 2.5 inch strip bin (which is the same as a jelly roll width)-what a great way to use some of those leftover prints!
Getting Started:
1. Cut the mesh you have to a rectangle shape. This can vary--I made a bag large enough for a few pounds of apples...you may want just enough for a few onions. I will give my measurements throughout. Mesh = 12 inches x 22 inches
2. Cut Fabric to size.
Top fabric: 4" x 22"
Two pieces of side fabric: 1.5" x 12"
Bottom piece: 2.5" x 22"
3. Prepare Top Casing
Fold in half (wrong side together) along the 22" length and iron. Fold 1/2" in on each side and press. (see drawing)
4. Attach Top Casing
Open up and use a zig-zag stitch to attach mesh to casing. I made sure the stitching was about 1/2" into the mesh to help it not tear too easily.
Fold over casing and stitch in place.
5. Attach the bottom piece to the mesh with a zig-zag stitch (outside of mesh bag is touching the right side of fabric.
After, fold the seam down and stitch it to the bottom again.
6. Stitch sides to the mesh in the same manner as the bottom.
7. Fold outside of bag together and stitch along the side and bottom. Turn right side out.
8. Use a safety pin to thread ribbon through casing....now you have a reusable produce bag!
p.s. I apologize for the scanned handwritten sketches, but unless Santa delivers Adobe, I'm trying to work with what I got! = )


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At a very happy dinner party on "Thanksgiving Eve", each of us was invited in turn to name something he or she was grateful for. It would have been rude of me to hog the floor for the sake of being thorough, so I kept mine fairly brief. I'm going to expand on it here.
I think it's common in Fairbanks — probably in the entire country; I'm unsure about other nationalities — to believe in the ideal of the self-made man. In comments on the News-Miner website, people often deny the need for social programs (or even much sympathy) for the unfortunate, since the most difficult of circumstances can be gotten through by those of good character: certainly they pulled through tough times by their own grit, without help from anybody.
Did you hitchhike? You can be glad for the kindness of those who picked you up. You can be glad that the car's construction was built to some government standard of safety. You can be glad for the civil engineers who designed the streets and roads. You can be glad for traffic laws, as well as for both those who create them and those who enforce them.
Did you scrounge food from the refuse of a restaurant? You can be glad that there are regulations about how the food-service industry must operate to provide safe food. You can be glad for the agencies that exist to enforce those standards. You can be glad for the medical and other scientific professionals from the present to back ages past for the research underlying the standards.
Did you sleep in an abandoned building? You can be glad that the building was built to code — if not up to current code, at least it was probably built to some code — elsewise you might imperil yourself each night, if you even found the building standing. You can be glad for building inspectors. You can be glad for the work of the architects and engineers who have hammered out these codes over decades, if not centuries. (Though I recognize that the study of architecture itself has been around since time immemorial.)
No, no, you don't get away with saying you've done it all yourself and live in no man's debt unless you've lived off the grid since your youth: fashioning your own tools, building your own dwelling, and hunting and harvesting your own food, all without any of the goods and services civilization brings. (Even then, you might be glad for smokejumpers.) But, more likely, you are in everyone's debt, as we all are, omnes omnibus.
I've certainly never had to live such a spartan life: I'm lucky to come from a family well enough off (as most are), and to eke out enough of a living (as most can), to embrace the city's material goods, like plumbing and electricity, and its cultural goods, like schools and libraries.
One of the civic goods I'm grateful for is the bus system — part material good and part cultural, I suppose. Fairbanks is widely spread out: not only do many people choose to live far out of town where a car is every day required, but even in town I doubt there is any one neighborhood where all life necessities and civic needs can be met on foot. (As I've said before, car ownership is our own unofficial citizenship tax.) Without the bus system, many would be cut off from job prospects, church attendance, access to government, and even grocery shopping.
My own circumstances are not so dire. Through a series of gratitude-worthy causes that I won't recount here, my wife and I are lucky enough to own one car and to have use of another through the cold half of the year. We can pay the citizenship tax, though we'd have less of the "scraping by" feeling if we didn't have to. So when I'm grateful for public buses, I'm grateful for a luxury (though it's perverse that we should have to consider buses, not cars, the luxury).
- Though my wife and I continue to pay monthly insurance on both cars, we are spared nearly all the cost of gasoline for one car. Plus, there's less risk of getting in an accident and needing car repair.
- I get twenty to twenty-five minutes of down time each way. Most of the time I read, but I've been known simply to think, and sometimes (especially on the way home) to snooze.
- Watching the variety of company is fascinating. Like most people, I see a fairly homogeneous group of people at work, at church, and among my friends. But bus ridership cuts across professions, religions, and subcultures. I enjoy the window into how other people live and think.
So I'm glad for the drivers — both for the training and skill they bring to the job, and for their having a temperament that allows them to do that work. The vigilance they exercise every day, in driving safely and in making their scheduled stops as promptly as possible, would exhaust me.
I'm glad for the work of the Borough Transportation Department. Their staff has to train drivers, designate the routes, budget for all the services, maintain and repair the buses (and other vehicles in the department), and keep a comfortable, dignified transit center.
I'm glad for the City of Fairbanks Public Works Department, for street-sweeping, snowplowing, and all manner of street maintenance and repair.
I'm glad for the Borough Assembly, which approves budgets for the Fairbanks North Star Borough and allocates money to fund transit operations. For FY 2009, the Assembly allocated over 5.7 million dollars to the Transportation Department, under the critical eye of the often tax-averse Fairbanks-area public.
I'm glad for the property-tax-paying public, who for FY 2009 are shouldering nearly seventy percent of the Borough's budgetary burden. Of course, this includes most people, since even renters indirectly pay some portion of their landlord's annual assessment.
It is true that many people would like to have their property tax lowered or eliminated, or would like to have their civic contribution steered toward something other than public transit. Therefore, I'm glad I live in a culture where — more or less — cooperation is valued, public goods are embraced though they may not benefit each individual, and caring and kindness are considered not only personal virtues, but public virtues too, and are part of our civic mandate.


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Toast and Jam
In the spirit of summer I've started a little morning ritual called "Toast and Jam" where I let loose and sing whatever comes to mind. The first video I recorded is kind of embarrassing because it shows my legs. I'm shy and didn't want to be on camera and, well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Hey, I do have shorts on . . . you just can't see them. Anyway, singing over toast is a much better idea. I hope you enjoy the videos and thank so much in advance for watching. Peace.


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Today we bring you our first full battle report of Marvel Universe Miniature Game, in english version. In this one facing X-Men(43 points) against Guardians of the Galaxy(47points).
- X-Men: Colossus, Wolverine, Cyclops, Rogue, Gambit, Deadpool
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Gamora, Drax, Rocket Racoon, Starlord, Nova, Groot.
Our apologies in advance for our english accent, we will try to enhance it.
See in the following link more videos of Marvel Universe Miniature Game: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLn8gOE2kPgKsUvy5Sotslw/playlists


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James Whitcomb Riley
Tom Johnson's Quit - Poem by James Whitcomb Riley
A passel o' the boys last night--
An' me amongst 'em--kindo got
To talkin' Temper'nce left an' right,
An' workin' up 'blue-ribbon,' _hot_;
An' while we was a-countin' jes'
How many bed gone into hit
An' signed the pledge, some feller says,--
'Tom Johnson's quit!'
We laughed, of course--'cause Tom, you know,
_He's_ spiled more whisky, boy an' man,
And seed more trouble, high an' low,
Than any chap but Tom could stand:
And so, says I '_He's_ too nigh dead.
Far Temper'nce to benefit!'
The feller sighed agin, and said--
'Tom Johnson's quit!'
We all _liked_ Tom, an' that was why
We sorto simmered down agin,
And ast the feller ser'ously
Ef he wa'n't tryin' to draw us in:
He shuck his head--tuck off his hat--
Helt up his hand an' opened hit,
An' says, says he, 'I'll _swear_ to that--
Tom Johnson's quit!'
Well, we was stumpt, an' tickled too,--
Because we knowed ef Tom _had_ signed
Ther wa'n't no man 'at wore the 'blue'
'At was more honester inclined:
An' then and there we kindo riz,--
The hull dern gang of us 'at bit--
An' th'owed our hats and let 'er whizz,--
'_Tom Johnson's quit!_'
I've heerd 'em holler when the balls
Was buzzin' 'round us wus 'n bees,
An' when the ole flag on the walls
Was flappin' o'er the enemy's,
I've heerd a-many a wild 'hooray'
'At made my heart git up an' git--
But Lord!--to hear 'em shout that way!--
'_Tom Johnson's quit!_'
But when we saw the chap 'at fetched
The news wa'n't jinin' in the cheer,
But stood there solemn-like, an' reched
An' kindo wiped away a tear,
We someway sorto' stilled agin,
And listened--I kin hear him yit,
His voice a-wobblin' with his chin,--
'Tom Johnson's quit--
'I hain't a-givin' you no game--
I wisht I was!... An hour ago,
This operator--what's his name--
The one 'at works at night, you know?--
Went out to flag that Ten Express,
And sees a man in front of hit
Th'ow up his hands an' stagger--yes,--
_Tom Johnson's quit_.'
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Wind farms, ethanol, and biomass are money sucking black holes being forced down our throats by the greenie industrial complex. I doubt that any of them will be around in another half century. I suspect that the future of alternative energy lies with fusion.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
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Our problem with the influx of Syrian refugees began at least 3 years before the European Union stepped in. In fact, before that, we have come to quite an expertise with managing refuge, and hosting consecutive waves of refuge over past decades. Still, we were unable to invest our experiences proficiently enough to handle this current challenge effectively, and contain its percussions.
Two days ago, German magazine, Der Spiegel, uncovered there being 93 billion euros allocated for refuge related expenditures until 2020.
The estimation process was not haphazardly; as European authorities expect 600 thousand refugees to arrive this year, 400 thousand the next, and 300 thousand in 2018. They have gone even beyond that to estimate that 55 per cent of registered refugees will have jobs after 5 years!
We are not Germany, and we won't be; we don't have the billions to spend on our own Country before thinking about spending them on refugees. And because we rely on aid from the international community to help endure the weight of refuge here; we should be wiser and more accurate when approaching this particular file, than would say Germany.
Now five years have passed since the crisis of Syrian refuge began, and we still do not know how many refugees have entered Jordan, nor how many have been staying here before. We add and subtract, and in every occasion, we come out with a different number. Our estimates hover about 1.4 million, while the international community does not admit to half that number!
We do not know how many refugees will follow; this month, or this year.
How many refugees have entered the labour market? We do not know; we have only estimates, doubted by some officials in off record conversations. This failure would cost us so much of the aid recommended to Jordan in the London Donors Conference. We have no accurate estimates, to say the least, for the number of Syrian students in private schools, or the number of Syrian children labouring —illegally of course— in Jordan.
While it is true that we are operating under immense pressure; with the conflict just metres away from our borders, and the fact that the refuge equation does not conform to a fixed set of givens, still, in comparison, EU states have run against even worse situations. Their borders crashed before the influx of refugees, while our army still retains control over the borderlines and all the crossings.
Since the very start of the refuge issue, our border patrols have been counting crossovers accurately, providing precise records to respective authorities. But, typical as it is, this data gets stacked in drawers, and is disseminated over the variety of ministries and institutes, that the information is lost amid the crowdedness of authorities and parties involved, to a point that we do not know, anymore, who entered and who left.
Proactively as well, Jordan developed a response plan, backed by donor countries, yet, we were unable to uphold these plans with accurate figures and logical estimates.
We are not even sure about whether or not the recent demographic census has provided a precise figure on refugees in Jordan of different nationalities; some say that the census could not reach most of the Syrian refugees in Jordan; that the numbers provided do not reflect the actual situation.
The more dangerous peril, is the inability to project the number of refugees over the next stage, or perhaps, the inability to go public with it, out of fear of Jordanian public reaction.
With the Syrian file, generally, there is a darkness down the path we are going, to a place we do not know.


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India's Ministry of Power recognizes landmark C40-CCI energy efficiency project
A project developed in collaboration with C40 and the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) received a National Energy Conservation Award by India's Ministry of Power last month. The project to retrofit the Inorbit Mall Malad, one of India's largest indoor shopping malls, picked up second place for "Excellence in Energy Conservation and Management."
Inorbit Mall owner K. Raheja Corp Group (KRC) is one of the largest property developers in India and also one of the country's strongest proponents of building energy efficiency – a commitment which started with the Inorbit Mall retrofit. Indeed, the project's return on investment, driven by annual energy cost savings of 37 percent, led KRC to establish an exemplary energy upgrade program across its portfolio of buildings, influencing other top businesses in India to follow suit.
"Since this was one of our first building energy efficiency projects globally, we initially had a few challenges establishing its value proposition. Looking back at this now, and seeing how K. Raheja Corp has since extended its energy conservation program to many of their other buildings, and also how many other retail malls in India have followed suit, the question that comes to mind is "why didn't we act even sooner?" said Pradeep Nair, who leads C40-CCI building energy efficiency efforts in India.
To learn more about the Inorbit Mall project and K. Raheja's portfolio-wide retrofit program, see our earlier coverage and read a detailed case study.


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Cambodian PM Asks for Chinese Investment in Rice and Cassava Processing Facilities in Cambodia
Phnom Penh, March 23, 2011 AKP – Cambodia's Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen has asked Chinese ambassador to Cambodia to help encourage Chinese investors for the investment in rice and cassava processing facilities in Cambodia.
While presiding over a ceremony to break ground for the construction of Road 57B in Thmar Korl district of the northwestern province of Battambang, the Cambodian premier said this to boost Cambodia's economy and to promote rice exportation to China and other countries.
He also presented huge potentials for agricultural development in the area, saying that the cultivated area in the region covers more than 25,000 hectares, as a big rice stockpile and agricultural centre of the country. As planned, he said, it will be an agro-industrial centre of the country in the future.
The Cambodian prime minister called on Cambodian laborers not to leave their home to work illegally in Thailand because they could face many risks happening to them.
He also expressed profound thanks to the government and people of China for their financial support for the road construction in Cambodia.
The road with a length of 176 kilometers is constructed with a fund of US$89.9 million financed by China's soft loan. It will take 48 months to complete.
When completed, the road will provide huge economic benefit to the Cambodian people to truck their agricultural produce to markets and facilitate them in traveling easier and faster. –AKP
Article in Khmer by CHIM Nary
Article in English by THOU Peou
Permanent DPM Asks Ministry of Labor to Further Enhance Work Conditions
Phnom Penh, March 23, 2011 AKP – Cambodian Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Mrs. Men Sam An has asked the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training to pay more attention to further enhance the work conditions of workers.
The deputy premier told the participants here on Mar. 22 while she was presiding over the opening ceremony of the ministry's annual meeting to review the works of 2010 and set forth new goals for 2011.
According to the reports presented at the meeting, in 2010 there were some 77 new enterprise establishments with 22,776 workers while 51 enterprises with 17,141 workers were shut down and four others with 1,280 workers reportedly postponed their activities.
The report further pointed out that the royal government had permitted over 30 companies to arrange for Cambodian laborers to work in foreign countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea and Japan. –AKP
Article in Khmer by CHIM Nary
Article in English by LIM Nary
Minister of Education: More Challenges Remain Despite Development in Education
Phnom Penh, March 23, 2011 AKP – Cambodia's education has been developing rapidly, but many challenges remain, especially the education quality from the basic to the higher level, said here yesterday Minister of Education, Youth and Sports H.E. Im Sethy.
Addressing the opening ceremony of the ministry's annual meeting, the minister further stressed the priority and strategic actions such as improvement of education quality by strengthening teachers' capacity, management, good governance, inspection, and by increasing equal opportunities for all children, youth and people.
According to the ministry's report, over 3.5 million students are currently attending 4,114 kindergartens, 6,767 primary schools, 1,596 lower secondary schools, 407 higher secondary schools and 91 higher education institutions.
This figure shows that out of four Cambodians, one is in school, said H.E. Im Sethy.
Rafael Dochao Moreno, deputy head of Education Working Group and the chargé d'affaires of the EU Delegation to Cambodia, said 95.2 percent of Cambodian children attend primary schools.
This is a great achievement, he said, adding that this also shows the importance of continued attention to encourage the remaining 5 percent to go to school.
For her part, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Mrs. Men Sam An, who presided over the opening ceremony of the three-day meeting, focused on equitable access to education, improvement of education quality and efficiency in order to enhance the country's educational field. –AKP
By KHAN Sophirom
New Information Director of Mondulkiri Province Appointed
Phnom Penh, March 23, 2011 AKP –
The new director of Information Department of Mondulkiri province took office in a ceremony held there yesterday under the presidency of Information Minister H.E. Khieu Kanharith.
Speaking at the ceremony, the minister asked the provincial information officials to improve their capacity in this technological era.
The minister said that the equipment together with the freshly-trained officials will help accelerate the news broadcasting in the province and the sending of news from the province to the National Television of Cambodia, the National Radio of Cambodia and the Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP).
H.E. Khieu Kanharith also provided a video camera, a photo camera, a laptop and US$2,500 to the provincial information department.
For his part, the newly-appointed director of Provincial Information Department Mr. Son Saroeun told the participants in the ceremony that he will try his best to maintain a good cooperation and coordination with the government institutions and NGOs for the national and social interests. –AKP
By Théng
Cambodia's Real Estate Is Recovering
Phnom Penh, March 23, 2011 AKP –The price of lands and houses in Cambodia has started to rise after it bogged down to the bottom, but this takes time to be on the full recovery, according to the president of National Valuers Association of Cambodia Mr. Sung Bonna.
As compared with the price in 2009 and 2010, this year the price of lands and houses show a good sign of recovery although it is slow, Mr. Sung Bonna who is also President of the Bonna Realty Group and Vice-Chairman of Real Estate Developers Association, told a two-day training seminar on Real Estate Valuation held here last Friday.
Representatives from various real estate companies, banks and micro-financial establishments attended the seminar, the third of its kind. Mr. Sok Siphanna, economic adviser to the Royal Government of Cambodia was also present on the occasion.
The training seminar is very important for it can tell the evolution of the real estate in the world as well as in Cambodia and its evaluation, the obligation of property owners for both Cambodian and foreign citizens and the process of the request for ownership and its impacts, Mr. Sung Bonna said.
For his part, Mr. Sok Siphanna said the seminar is in line with the government's policy to promote the progress in all fields for the sustainable national economic development. –AKP
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Well, Merry Christmas "Steve" everyone! It's the day before Christmas Eve, therefore "Christmas Steve". Don't ask, it was a childhood tradition still carried on today! To celebrate I ran errands with mom, caught up on some televison and made these:
Both patterns are Urban Threads, sewn with inspiration by me! I was shocked how fast I got them both done. Just started both of these this evening and am working on a third.
I apologize for the dark quality, it's hard to take good pictures at night.


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"~ Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading, and the evidence of this often shows up in my photographs. I love seeing what other people are knitting and reading as well. So, what are you knitting or crocheting right now? What are you reading? Take a photo and share it either on your blog or on Flickr. Leave a link below to share your photo with the rest of us! ~"
Come along with Ginny at Small Things and friends to see what we're reading and yarning about!!
This is my latest book... I finished it this morning on my ride into work. With tears, of course, because it's Karen Kingsbury, after all. I like to read her very much, but I don't always like to cry in public when I'm reading a book. But this looked like what I needed to 'bridge' the gap in reading. I have another Newbury floating around, Ginger Pye, so I'd better get on that one. And I have the sequel to my last one, which was Dicey's Song and the next one is....have to go look...
It's A Solitary Blue... I have it...at home...and there must be a couple checked out on my Kindle. I usually have at least one or two from the library on there. So many books, so little time.
For the yarny part of the post, I've been fiddling a bit with the wrap and turn of my bandana cowl. I have an extra dog visiting this week and he is good and fun, but not really so good with the knitting and figuring. He is little and he's fast and he likes to be on your lap, or under your blanket or up and down and around. I also pulled out some of that Alpaca from my visit to Bella Luna Alpacas and cast on 11 stitches and started a Terribly Simple Shawl... I'm telling you...AADD has come to possess my brain!!
Not really sure about the point of that bandana, but I'm giving it a whirl and we'll see how it ends up...And the shawl, I met this alpaca and I just wanted to hold onto that softness...so I am...wrapping it around me!
I painted my work bathroom today and now I'm doing peel and stick tiles. They have a lot of stick on them. Hope I can get it off my fingers!!
What about you? Are you hunkered down with snow falling, like me???


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Friday, April 27, 2012
Humor writing
It's my turn to blog on Romance Book "R" Us blog. I posted about my humor writing:
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Thursday's thirteen: Signs of Spring
It's spring here in California, but I know there's places where it's still snowing. If you're tired of the winter weather, here's thirteen signs of Spring to cheer you up.
- Daffodils
- Blooming trees
- Crocus
- Tulips
- New spring leaves
- Warmer weather
- Return of song birds
- Birds building nests
- The grass needing to be mowed
- Time to weed the garden
- Spring forward time change
- Pool parties
- Spring Cleaning
Thursday, April 05, 2012
Thursday's thirteen: Blooms
Since its nearly Easter, I thought it would be nice to show thirteen of my Spring blooms photos. (All photos were taken by me and are owned by me.)
1. We live in the middle of an almond orchard.
2. Every spring we are treated to the most wonderful sight!
3. all the almond trees burst into bloom like popcorn, every March
4. The scent is amazing. The almond blooms smell like honey.
5. I'm always sad when the blooms fall off the trees and cover the ground like a sprinkling of snow.
6. My daffodils are the first to bloom a mere day or two before the almond trees.
7. My fancy daffodils bloom a few days later, but are very nice to look at.
Especially gathered together into a bunch
(that's my hand at the bottom of the photo).
8. Here's another shot of my daffodils with my (haunted) house behind them.
9. one of my favorite vines is the jasmine vine. When they bloom they're lovely sweet scent fills the air. My old vine that I had transplanted died because of the frost and I bought myself a new one and planted pretty little pansies around its base.
10. My husband liked it so well, he wanted me to do that for the other side of gate and arch. So he bought me another vine and more pansies.
11. Here are both of the side together. You can see my little metal American flag on the left and my hubby's navy flag (they gave him at work) on the right.
12. one of my flowers that wintered over in a pot is blooming.
13. My strawberry plants are in bloom.
And that means strawberries will be next!!!
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Ykaie and Gagay
27 comments:
- Bchai said...
HOW adorable! I wish I could reach in those pictures and give your niece and her bunny a little hug. They're SO cute! I love the pink theme going on! ;)
- August 4, 2010 at 9:14 PM
- ppp said...
mataba sya ngayon tita anney, kaya lang sabi ni mommy peach may lagnat ata sya. pagaling ka ykaie.
- August 4, 2010 at 10:18 PM
- ♥peachkins♥ said...
Ang dungis ni ykaie dito!!hahaha
- August 4, 2010 at 10:32 PM
- Shenny's mommy said...
aww, my daughter saw this and now she wishes to have a pet rabbit to play with.
- August 4, 2010 at 10:47 PM
- SimpleMomRizza said...
kahit madungis, cutie pa rin si Ykaie :)
- August 4, 2010 at 10:48 PM
- Willie a.k.a Reptoz said...
Oh my goodness! This is so cut. I'm surprised the bunny didn't mind sitting in the stroller.
- August 4, 2010 at 11:42 PM
- rome said...
pati rabbit natututo na magpose jan! haist! define cuteness!
- August 5, 2010 at 9:37 AM
- Alice Law said...
How sweet.... both are cute pie!^-^
Have a wonderful day Anney!
- August 5, 2010 at 10:01 AM
- Sera Melinda said...
Hahahha... it's so funny seein' her 'dragging' the rabbit in a stroller, just like her baby. Hihihi....
- August 5, 2010 at 12:22 PM
- Clarissa said...
Kawaii to the max!!Pati rabbit nakiki-pose!photogenic din cya lol!Love the pink doll carriage!
- August 5, 2010 at 2:35 PM
- MinnieRunner said...
Buti hindi lumulundag ung rabbit palabas nung carriage :)
- August 5, 2010 at 2:49 PM
- Ishmael Fischer Ahab said...
Ang cute cute! ^_^
Buti at hindi naisipan ni Mr. Rabbit na mag run away.
- August 5, 2010 at 9:42 PM
- tim said...
"you're so so so cute" kc concepcion- hehehehehe..
- August 6, 2010 at 9:35 AM
- Dee said...
cute! and i like all the pink.:)
madali bang alagaan ang rabbit? ang anak ko kasi gusto din ng rabbit, pero iniisip namin baka hirap alagaan...
take care, Anney! :)
- August 6, 2010 at 11:29 AM
- supermommyjem said...
Ang cute naman ni little curly hair girl Ykaie! Kids really love rabbits.
- August 6, 2010 at 11:00 PM
- Dj Mariñas said...
ang cuteeeeee! magustuhan din kaya ni marianna may pet rabbit?
- August 7, 2010 at 8:18 AM
- tim said...
anney, yup ako ang po gumgawa ng tua... salamat sa pagdalaw..
- August 7, 2010 at 9:51 AM
- A.M.I.N.A said...
Ang cute talaga ng pamangkin mo Anney!
- August 9, 2010 at 5:13 AM
- UmmiRosma said...
The bunny is so tame that it stays in the carriage. Ykaie is very pretty too!
- August 11, 2010 at 10:04 PM
- pinayrichmom said...
sooo cute!!! may "baby" na si Ykaie! hehe :)
- August 12, 2010 at 2:14 PM
- Cens World said...
These pictures are so cute. Very nice. I made me smile
- August 12, 2010 at 11:38 PM
- Mommy Liz said...
Ate Anney, that is super cute as in.. grabe yan ha.. si Ykaie mahilig sa hayup. Mga anak ko rin, gustung kinukutangtang ang rabbit ng anak ni Rodney eh ayaw naman namin at baka mapiga. Yung kitty namin dati, hinahabol lagi takot na takot si pusa, hahaha!
- August 14, 2010 at 1:24 AM
- stevevhan said...
This is very cute kasi bata pa lang animal lover na xa. Rabbit hindi ko pa nahahawakan, yan talaga ang dream pe ko, although note so my favorite compare to dog cat and fish.:)
- August 14, 2010 at 9:06 PM
- stevevhan said...
This is very cute kasi bata pa lang animal lover na xa. Rabbit hindi ko pa nahahawakan, yan talaga ang dream pe ko, although note so my favorite compare to dog cat and fish.:)
- August 14, 2010 at 9:06 PM
- jenn said...
she looks so cute and adorable. :)
- August 15, 2010 at 5:58 AM
- eden said...
so cute ni Ykaie. The rabbit looks like our neighbor's pet rabbit, Rosy. Great photos.
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Ciara and The Rolling Stones?!
On top of a new Vin Diesel witch hunt movie?
Wrap your head around this one as Ciara covers probably my favorite Rolling Stones song in their vast catalogue "Paint It Black" (because of Twisted Metal: Black being one of my favorite video games and that was the theme song). The haunting new version is previewed for the new trailer to The Last Witch Hunter starring Vin Diesel, Elijah Wood, and Michael Caine.
The movie looks badass but it's the song that jumped out for me. I wouldn't be posting this if I thought it wasn't dope so Ciara definitely does it justice. Lookin' forward to the full version…


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Goonker describes Udi as a "nice dude, uber geek". Udi now serves as CEO at A9, the search engine Amazon would rather you use.


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Post lunch, we off to our dive spot for the second session. I was hoping that we would actually get underwater this time. This was going to be the last dive for the day and for the trip and we really had to do it.
This kind of stupid pressure is of course the key to panicking all over again. Which I duly proceed to do once I got into the water. I spent ten minutes thrashing around and breathing out through my nose, leading to frequent bouts of coming up for air. Meanwhile, P was battling her own demons and told me that if her ear were to start paining again, I should just go on without her. Yeah, right.
Finally I calmed down and remembered to breathe through my mouth and life became better again. P also was meticulous about doing her ear equalization exercises. Katie held onto our hands and slowly took us down.
It was fascinating. There were all sorts of fish swimming past us and below us. Thanks to Bobo's books, I could recognise the banner fish. And what looked like a sun fish and an angel fish. There were also several bright blue star fish clinging to the rocks. The vividness of the colours stunned me.
We descended further and I spotted a clown fish. I had been really hoping to see a clown fish so I could tell Bobo about it. And there it was!
However I was quite subdued when it came to expressing my joy. It was all very well finally being able to breathe underwater but there was no way that I would let excitement get the better of me and lose my regulator or let water enter my mask. The tricks I had been taught to handle these, would be enormous challenges to actually implement underwater and if I could avoid those situations, I would.
Right on the heels of the clown fish, we saw a Blacktip Reef shark (we found out the name later). A shark-spotting is considered a sign of a good trip and nothing could have made the dive better than seeing one. It was a shy creature, around a metre long, hiding away in the shadows. The sharp fin on the back was quite clear, so was the pointy front. Delighted, we swan past it.
For most part, we were seeing some beautiful coral or fish in the water. The sea bed descended gradually and we stayed close to the reef and the sea bed, taking in the sights. However, there were some points in the middle, when there was nothing to be seen but the dull green water with lots of tiny particles of dust (?) moving briskly with the current. It felt like we were in space.
We swam for what seemed like a long time. My throat began to feel a bit parched from all the salt water I had consumed earlier. I was hoping I would not end up puking ('just puke into the regulator and soon you will have fish feeding close to you' had been Katie's helpful advice. Like I was going to enjoy that).
Finally Katie did the 'ascend' sign and we burst through the surface of the water.
It was over and we had done it! Katie gave us big grins. I eagerly asked her how far below we had gone and she said it had not been much. It turned out to be around 3 metres or so yet had felt like a mission to a different universe. Still, we had actually swum a long distance (this we could see for ourselves) and stayed underwater for close to an hour. We were divers!
P and I were tired and happy when we got back. A little relieved too to have done the diving after having come this far. Katie had told us stories of clients who had come but had chickened out in the end. But by far the most important thing she repeatedly told us was that the dive was ours to enjoy and we should only do things that were comfortable for us. If that had meant, staying on the surface, so be it. It had helped enormously to know that we did not actually have to do the 12 metres maximum.
The boat eventually reached the shore and we went back to the dive centre to get our certificates of appreciation. Later that night, I wrote my post card, describing the things I had seen.
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1.5 (Cupcake)
On 30 April 2009, the official 1.5 (Cupcake) update for Android was released. There are several new
features and UI updates included in the 1.5 update:
- Ability to record and watch videos with the camcorder mode
- Uploading videos to YouTube and pictures to Picasa directly from the phone
- A new soft keyboard with an "Autocomplete" feature
- Bluetooth A2DP support (which in turn broke Bluetooth connectivity with many popular cars
and headsets. This has still yet to be fixed as of Dec-09)
- Ability to automatically connect to a Bluetooth headset within a certain distance
- New widgets and folders that can populate the desktop
- Animations between screens
- Expanded ability of Copy and paste to include web page
1.6 (Donut)
On 15 September 2009, the 1.6 (Donut) SDK was released. Included in the update are:
- An improved Android Market experience.
- An integrated camera, camcorder, and gallery interface.
- Gallery now enables users to select multiple photos for deletion.
- Updated Voice Search, with faster response and deeper integration with native applications, including
the ability to dial contacts.
- Updated search experience to allow searching bookmarks, history, contacts, and the web from the
home screen.
- Updated Technology support for CDMA/EVDO, 802.1x VPN, Gestures, and a Text-to-speech engine
- Speed improvements for searching, the camera.
2.0/2.0.1/2.1 (Eclair)
On 26 October 2009 the 2.0 (Eclair) SDK was released. Among the changes are:
- Optimized hardware speed
- Support for more screen sizes and resolutions
- Revamped UI
- New browser UI and HTML5 support
- New contact lists
- Better white/black ratio for backgrounds
- Improved Google Maps 3.1.2
- Microsoft Exchange support
- Built in flash support for Camera
- Digital Zoom
- Improved virtual keyboard
- Bluetooth 2.1


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In Land Desktop 2006, if you have a drawing open and double click a .DWG file in Windows Explorer, the second drawing file will open in a new session of LDT.
In Land Desktop 2008, if you double click a .DWG file in Windows Explorer, the drawing will open in the currently open session of LDT. If the current drawing is modified, you will be prompted to save first.
Yes, I know that you should use the LDT Open command and not double click DWG files, but if you just can't stand it and want to restore the LDT2006 behavior, follow these steps.
- Open Windows Explorer
- On the tools menu, choose Folder Options.
- On the Files Type tab, find the DWG file extension and click it.
- Click the Advanced button.
- Click on the open action and press Edit.
- The "Application used to perform the action" is set to: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\AcShellEx\AcLauncher.exe" /O "%1"
- Change it to "C:\Program Files\AutoCAD Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion 2008\acad.exe" "%1"
- Close all the dialogs.
PermaLink Posted 1/21/2008 07:37:00 PM
Comment from: Steve
Date: January 31, 2008 at 6:17:00 AM CST
I have heard that without going through LDT to access a drawing, that you could "cross contaminate" data from different Projects. I too would like to go back to the old way but not if double clicking and opening abc.dwg will now associate abc.dwg with a totally different Project. Is this what really happens or is your method above safe?
Comment from: R.K. McSwain
Date: January 31, 2008 at 9:24:00 AM CST
I have heard about this also, but I have never seen it happen personally, nor have I ever seen a set of steps to reproduce it on demand.


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I had been planning on starting down the trail for a long-distance hike in the spring and moving all my stuff into my parent's basement this winter. I'd begun to pack. I was down to one can of beans in the pantry. I was counting down the number of trapeze classes I'd have left.
But this last month I started feeling really uneasy about the timing. I didn't feel ready. The excited, happy butterflies that I'd felt at the thought of starting down the trail had turned into gnawing feeling in the pit of my stomach. I was still clear that I wanted to do the trail, but I wanted extra time.
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