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The aircraft made an emergency landing in Newfoundland, Canada, after the jet briefly encountered severe turbulence.
The aircraft landed safely in the East Coast Canadian province late Sunday, where it was met by paramedics, AP reported.
American Airlines spokesman Ross Feinstein said three flight attendants and four passengers were transported to hospital for further evaluation. He said none of the injuries are life threatening.
The seat belt light was on when the Boeing 767 carrying 192 passengers and 11 crew members encountered turbulence.
At least four ambulances and a fire truck were seen on the tarmac in St. John's, Newfoundland. Paramedics rushed toward the plane with stretchers and what appeared to be a backboard.
An hour after the plane landed, one ambulance remained.
Feinstein said they are working on next steps to get the uninjured passengers to Milan.
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Redskin Fans, Meet Chris Neild
By: Mark Solway
Posted: 2011-08-03
Category: Washington Redskins News
The 6'2", 320 pound nose tackle was a three year starter at West Virginia, who were second in the nation in both rush defense, and sacks in 2010; 3rd overall in total defense. Neild had 35 tackles, four tackles for a loss, and a career high 3 sacks to earn a first team All-BIG EAST selection. After red-shirting in 2006, he saw action in 11 games in 2007, including two as the starter. He started all 13 games in each of the next three seasons. The final tallies on his prolific career at West Virginia were 130 total tackles, 11 tackles for a loss, and six sacks. He earned the reputation of being a tough, gritty player, and as a senior was very much a leader on and off the field.
So after a storied college experience, is it hard to come into an NFL training camp as a rookie and have to find his way?
"It is not difficult at all. I understand my role within the team and I am trying to do whatever is necessary to help this team succeed. I have been in this same situation before coming in as a freshman at WVU so it is not that new to me, but at the same time much different because this is my job."
That freshman was reported to have not shown up to WVU in the shape that he is today, and even described himself as a "butterball". Neild said, "When I first arrived in Morgantown in '06, the head strength and conditioning coach was Mike Barwis. Prior to getting there I heard stories about his workouts so I really did not know what they were going to entail but I knew they were gonna be at a level that I have never trained at before. There were many hypertrophy workouts and the infamous "Hill" started my trek to getting in decent shape. It is about 85 yards of hell. The higher you run up it, the steeper it gets, the more it demands out of you. It welcomed me to college football in a way that I do not wish on anybody."
Perhaps it was that grim indoctrination that stirred the monster. Neild plays with passion and fury, and from whistle to whistle. He doesn't make plays with athletic, graceful moves; he smacks you in the face a couple of times and chews on your leg. He's intense, he never takes plays off - he is the veritable 'lunch pail' type guy. It's actually surprising that he was one pick away from being Mr. Irrelevant, given that he was a major component of a good program that was defensively excellent last year. It had to be agonizing waiting that long to hear that he had been drafted by Washington:
"It was one of the longer days in my life to be honest. I was told my draft projection was between rounds 5-7 and possibly free agent so I did not know what to expect. I was with my family at a cousin's house so I was definitely getting nervous as the 7th round ticked away, but when my name was called it lifted a weight off my shoulders. I was very happy that I got to spend that moment with my family and close friends."
The family didn't have to wait long to find out that his seventh round selection didn't seem to have much bearing on what the Redskins staff thought about him. Coach Mike Shanahan had very high praise for Neild following the draft, "I love the way he competes. I love how important football is to him, because you can tell. He's got a mindset when he plays, and you can tell he really enjoys football. He lines up right over that center and competes on every down."
Neild's quest to do just that - crack the Redskins' roster - is made that much more difficult by the NFL lockout, and the subsequent loss of offseason workouts. Rookies come into 2011 NFL training camps with a mountain to learn, and virtually no time to do so.
"I am really trying my best to learn the playbook and adjust to the speed of the game at this level, which I feel I have been progressively getting better at. Most of the veteran defensive linemen have been helping me out, as well as Jarvis Jenkins. We are completely new to this, due to the lockout, so we are trying to soak up as much as we can because there is not a better source of information for a player, than a player."
Though Neild is a little undersized to be a prototypical 3-4 nose-tackle, he actually should fit in quite well with a Jim Haslett defensive system that uses a lot of stunts. He has a good base and gets good leverage, making him a good run-stuffer, despite not being a 'space eater' like some of the bigger nose tackles in the league. The Mountaineers coaching staff spoke very highly of Neild's ability to eat up double teams and free up their linebackers, something the Redskins will be looking to him to do for stud Brian Orakpo and first round pick Ryan Kerrigan. He is joining a Redskins squad that finished 26th overall against the run in 2010, and allowed an eye-opening 1.6 yards per carry more than the league's leader in that category, the Pittsburgh Steelers (4.6 vs 3.0 yards per carry).
Neild gets to line up across from a very familiar face at training camp in former Mountaineers teammate Selvish Capers. They played together two years ago, and Capers recently described his former teammate as, "strong and quick," and adding, "He's an animal. Hes like a bowling ball. Hell run straight through you. He has that bald head, thats the lead right there."
With training camp practices being quite vanilla for the most part, it will be more difficult for Neild to show off his non-stop motor to it's fullest extent. Players of his ilk always feed off of the energy of the crowd, so Redskin fans may have to wait until their first preseason game at Fed Ex to see him at his best. It's something that Neild is very much looking forward to, "I am extremely excited to experience what I have heard so much about, with the fans of Redskins Nation. Being a defensive player, the crowd will usually act as that 12th player, and help the team get through a tough situation within the game, so I am definitely looking forward to that."
He of course prefers charcoal to gas, prefers "Entourage" to "Curb", and currently has Eminem and Bone Thugs 'N Harmony on his iPod. The rookie road-grader goes by the nickname "Truck" - a nickname bestowed on him way back in elementary school. "When I was in 6th grade, I was playing in this basketball league and would foul out 2 out of every 3 games on charges alone. Need I say more?" Obviously football was a much more logical choice for him, even at a young age.
He isn't hard to pick out with his grizzly beard pouring out of his helmet; a beard that he shaved off after the draft, but has since grown back. He's wearing number 66 in training camp, so keep an eye out for him. He has that intangible overachiever quality that turns late round picks into long-time NFL starters. His coach knows this as well as anyone, "I'll be surprised if he doesn't come in here and do everything possible to make this football team. Just talking to him, I could tell he's excited and wants to get here right away and do what he can do to make this football team. He's a great competitor," said Shanahan.
Neild understands completely that it might mean adjusting to a very different situation than what he was accustomed to in college, "It will not be a tough transition at all. I understand the role I have right now, so if it means backing up a player then that is what I will do. I just want to put myself in a position that can help this team win."
The Redskins brought in free agent Barry Cofield from the New York Giants to fill the nose tackle spot, arguably the biggest need for the Redskins in free agency. Washington also have second year man Anthony Bryant, so Neild has his work cut out for him, to make the final 53-man roster.
He says the right things. He has a great attitude. He certainly looks the part. He will have to work on his lateral movement against quicker NFL offensive linemen, but don't bet against Chris Neild coming in and making the Washington Redskin 2011 roster. In fact, don't be surprised if he works his way into a significant contributing role by the end of his first season.
Grab that lunch pail of yours Chris, you're going to be here for a while.
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On the Monday Night Football preseason Titans vs Cardinals game, Aaron was chosen to represent 5th Group and carry the American Flag durning the National Anthem. Aaron thought it was very cool and he was proud to do it. When he was on the field he met Bo Bice, Larry Fitzerald, Jeff Fisher, Ken Wiesenhunt and the Titans Cheerleaders. I'm not going to pretend I know who any of those people are but Aaron said they all were really nice and he had a great time. After he was able to change and go up to a skybox and watch the game.
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Re: "WSU professor may face reprimand" [article, Dec. 10].So what will happen? Nothing, of course. Conservatives don't riot or protest.
Washington State University President [Lane] Rawlins tries to convince the reader that he is responding to the incident where a professor (John Streamas) used a vulgar racial term during a political demonstration on Nov. 2. Rawlins said: (1) Streamas is likely (emphasis added) to get a reprimand. Is he getting a reprimand or not? And (2) "His (Streamas') comments were totally inappropriate and I think he knows that." If Streamas thinks his comments were inappropriate, he has not said that publicly.
To summarize, the major questions remain: Will Streamas apologize for his statements, and will there be any consequences for a faculty member who calls a student a white (expletive)?
WSU's attempt to obfuscate the entire situation is further supported by the fact that the Rawlins interview appeared late Friday night, after print media had gone to press.
Sid Houpt
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
"So what will happen?"
This letter appeared in Monday's Lewiston Tribune:
Posted by Unknown at 7:21 AM
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I have this love/hate relationship with London. I have days when I love this city and I feel like it loves me back. Those are usually the rare days when I feel elated by the thought of the spring and summer ahead, when the transport works, when I walk through its maze of streets and feel awed by its history.
The rest of the time I think that London asks too much of me. It wants, it takes, it frustrates, it leaves me angry and exasperated. 'Why do I continue to live here?' I often ask myself. One book has gone some way to answering this question eloquently.
Londoners, by Craig Taylor, is as diverse as the city. The book is a series of interviews with real people, all of whom either live in England's capital or have had a brush with it. There are interviews with a city planner, a nurse, a few taxi drivers, artists, actors, market traders, a dominatrix and even a Wiccan priestess.
The interviews are illuminating and memorable, and I came away from this book feeling like I knew London just that little bit more. There was the day I was introduced to Emma Clarke, the voice of the London Underground. I was reading her interview on the way to work on the tube, feeling tired and bleary-eyed. Suddenly I hear the familiar voice announce the next station and I realize it's Emma, the girl I was reading about. It was a surreal moment. I can't get on the tube without thinking of her now.
Or there was the transsexual from Balham who scavenged for food. I learned, to my great surprise, that transsexuals are obsessed with electronics, old radios, old motorcycles and old cars. A lot of them are trainspotters. Who would have thought that?
I laughed at an interview with a former Londoner, who was glad to have escaped from the city's clutches. In him I recognized some of myself. Speaking from Cape Town, Simon says: 'Most of my friends from university had gone to London around the same time as me, and everybody had left except for two people – they stayed and they love it there. These are two of my closest friends in the world but they are both somewhere along the autistic spectrum. What do they call it? Apserger's Syndrome. London is a city full of Asperger's people.'
I also loved an interview with an artist who collected human hair from the underground for a piece of art. He was talking about all this hair that collects in tube tunnels, something which I have always noticed with disgust. Immediately I am thinking of all the hair I see in the tunnel that connects the Central Line to the Victoria Line at Oxford Circus. A moment later he mentions this very same thing and I get ridiculously excited about it. It's a moment of recognition. I was also, quite fittingly, on the tube when I read that passage.
I don't think you need to know London well to get something from this book. Ultimately, this book is about humans living in a big cosmopolitan city. But I think Londoners will certainly get something deeper and will relate to it on another level.
I found myself talking to people about this book, mentioning the little bits of trivia I learned. You don't have to read it all at once, but can also dip in and out of it. At 400 pages, it's fairly dense, but I thought it read pretty quickly.
London is a city that often defies logic or understanding, but this gets close to underpinning the heart and soul of this ever-shifting and yet timeless place.
Did I fall in love with London again, like I did so many years ago as a young 22-year-old? Not exactly. But I fell in love with these stories and lives that miraculously felt both alien and familiar to mine.
I'm still not sure what I'm doing here sometimes. There are days, even weeks, when I long for something else (a bit of sun, maybe). This book did make me see the city through the eyes of others – and that has given me a new perspective on where I live, which could just get me through this very long winter.


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My obsessions have always come in cycles. Politics has always stood apart from my bi-monthly obsession change, but it too is the subject of a similar if slightly longer cycle and right now we are heading towards the low-ebb point of my interest in politics.
The problem for me is, I believe in principles whereas politics is always about compromise. I find it an unpleasant business. Being honest is described as "negative". Being individual means you aren't "being part of the team". When I talk to someone and ask why they aren't standing up for the principles I know they believe in, they tell me how they are "quietly working behind the scenes to win some smaller concessions". I know logically that getting something is better than nothing, but that sort of sentiment still sticks in my craw.
And worse I feel like politics is so unambitious (yet full of far too ambitious people). Our world is changing in a way we've never seen before. Far distant countries are now mere hours away. We can communicate in ways we wouldn't have imagine just 20 years ago. We can print physical objects and problem solve on a massive basis. Yet our politics is still stuck in the 19th century.
Do not get me wrong. I'm not saying the everyday mundane stuff isn't extremely important. From benefits to healthcare and from dog poo to pot holes, some things will always be needed to be discussed, argued about and fixed. But there are so many ways to be innovative, to think about getting people more involved on a bigger scale. What things I hear you ask? Things along these lines.
I know, I'm being all impractical and idealistic. "Things take time". etc. etc. I know I am being unreasonable but I'm at that point in the cycle and there you go.
This month I will, without any enthusiasm whatsoever, renew my membership of the Lib Dems. And that, I suspect, will be the most political I get this month.
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An introduction to the "Historical Sociology of International Relations"
Posted by democratist on September 15, 2010
15th September 2010,
Since his unexpected and premature death in late April, Democratist has continued to explore, and learn from the many works of our former teacher and mentor, Fred Halliday.
As such we have re-read a number of his books over the summer, not least Rethinking International Relations, and The World at 2000, as well as such transcripts and lectures as we have been able to find on the web.
More recently, we have been pleased to discover that Fred's rich intellectual legacy, and especially the theoretical approach to the academic study of International Relations (IR) that helped to found, the "Historical Sociology of International Relations" (HSIR) has continued, and is indeed flourishing under the aegis of former colleagues and students.
A good introduction to, and overview of this work is provided in the "Historical Sociology" entry in the 2010 Wiley-Blackwell International Studies Encyclopedia (Ed. Robert A Denemark), written by John Hobson, George Lawson and Justin Rosenberg.
While the intricacies of IR theory are certainly not for everyone, those who do have an interest in IR, and in its broader place within the social sciences could do far worse than have a read.
However, for those who lack the time for this (but mostly in order to improve our own understanding) we have made the following notes;
What is the Historical Sociology. of International Relations (HSIR)?
The key theoretic insight of Historical Sociology of International Relations (HSIR) relates to the importance of Sociology for the study of International Relations (IR).
This approach takes much of its inspiration from The Sociological Imagination, a book by the American Sociologist C. Wright Mills (1959), which underscores the centrality of historically specific social structures (patterns of social relationships) for Sociology in particular, and the Social Sciences in general.
HSIR applies these insights to IR, in contrast to "realist" claims of the "autonomy" (Bull 1977) and "enduring sameness" (Waltz 1979) of international relations.
Instead, the agenda of HSIR includes such questions as how international relations are connected – both in general terms and in particular historical cases – to the basic patterning of the human world (structure), how international relations have varied across, and change across, historical time (history), and finally, the consequences of the interactive multiplicity of social orders for our conceptions of social structure and historical process (international).
As Hobson, Lawson and Rosenberg note, "In its broadest sense, Historical Sociology aims to unravel the complexity that lies behind the interaction between social action and social structures (understood as relatively fixed configurations of social relations). Hence, for advocates of HSIR, international factors are juxtaposed, conjoined and inter-related with domestic processes [my italics] with the aim of finding patterns that explain important historical processes, including the general and regional crises that provoke wars, process of state formation, varieties of capitalist development, forms of imperialism and so on."
HSIR also rejects "realism's" ahistoricist assumption of anarchy as a trans-historical logic, but is instead concerned with both the dynamics of change in IR, as well as the processes of continuity; with recognizing the contingency of events, alongside the identification of deep-lying structural patterns: HSIR argues for an understanding of the contingent, disruptive, constitutive impact of local events, particularities and discontinuities.
There have been three broad "waves" of HSIR;
The "First Wave" of HSIR
In the late 1980's and 1990's, a small number of IR scholars drew explicitly on historical-sociological insights in order to counter the direction the discipline was taking.
Scholars, led by Halliday (1987) saw Weberian (and other) Historical Sociological approaches as providing a useful means of providing an alternative. These drew on Skocpol (1979) Mann (1986) and others.
The initial link between these historical sociologists and IR theory lay in the fact that they sought to combine developments in the international realm with domestic or national social processes.
The promise of Weberian Historical Sociology (WHS) rested on four key claims;
- WHS placed significant ontological weighting on the domestic sources of state power (unlike neo-realism and neo-liberalism).
- Bringing state-society relations "back in" was coupled with a focus on the interaction between the national and international realms. Here, special emphais was placed on revealing how pressures from the international state system came to reshape national societies; e.g. Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions (1979).
- Third, WHS seemed to contain the capacity to overcome the mainstream emphasis on materialist ontology – and give weight to ideology.
- Fourth, these writers emphasied the importance of international discontinuity, in contrast to structural stasis.
However, this work gave rise to criticism concerning the way in which "first wave" Historical Sociology tended to conceptualize the international realm as one of anarchic geopolitical competition between states, and above all, on how national processes tended to be informed by a geopolitical logic derived, in turn, from the timeless presence of international anarchy.
The "Second Wave" of HSIR
The antidote that second-wave HSIR provides is an historicist approach which is able to construct a narrative while simultaneous being open to issues of contingency, unintended consequences and the importance of context. Second wave scholars have sought to transcend the tempocentrism of mainstream IR, and some first wave HSIR by examining the differing contexts that inform the conduct of "actual existing" international relations (e.g. Rosenberg's The Empire of Civil Society (1994). They demonstrate that contemporary world politics is historically double-edged, having one foot in the past but also being, in certain respects, singular.
Neo-Weberians have demonstrated how varying state-society relations promoted distinct trade regimes (Hobson's The Wealth of States – 1997) and have studied the ways in which forms of radical change have both constituted, and been constituted, by the broader relationship with the international realm; Halliday's Revolution in World Politics (1999) and Lawson's Negotiated Revolutions (2005).
Proponents share a conception of both the centrality of discontinuity, and how social structures shape international events. They seek not just to provide hostorical analysis, they also aim to generate powerful theoretic explanations.
The "Third Wave" of HSIR, towards "International Historical Sociology." (IHS)
IHS seeks to define a core, trans-disiplinary intellectual agenda for IR. It also provides a chance to exorcise the specter of the separation of the domestic and international spheres of enquiry (one also present in "classical social analysis" – which does not attempt to introduce the effects of inter-societal coexistence and interaction into the basic conception of "development"). The consequence of which is that the "international" has be externalized from the object-domain of social theory.
Any solution to this impasse would have to involve a reformulated concept of historical development, which by incorporating the interactive multiplicity of societies, would bring inter-societal relations and effects within the compass of social theory.
One historical sociological approach which employs this revised concept of development (and the sociological concept of the international which it enables is the "theory of uneven and combined development" first employed by Leon Trotsky (1980/1932).
This theory traces the very existence of the international to two features intrinsic to social development. On the one hand, it holds human development is at any given moment expressed in a multiplicity of differing societies: considered as a whole, it is inherently uneven. On the other hand, because these same societies co-exist concretely in space and time, they affect each other. Their individual development thus has both reproductive logics arising from their inner form and interactive logics arising from their coexistence with others: it is combined development. Recent examples include Rosenberg's Anarchy in the Mirror of "uneven and combined development": An open letter to Kenneth Waltz. (2010).
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RALLY DRAWS ENTHUSIASTIC PENGUINS FANSby Staff Writer / Pittsburgh Penguins
Penguins fans packed the Allegheny Courthouse Courtyard on Wednesday afternoon.
They were there to cheer on the Penguins at a rally hosted by Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato and Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl to support the team in its Stanley Cup playoff opener at Ottawa.
Food and music were provided at the event, which took place at noon. Penguins mascot Iceburgh was in attendance as well.
Mayor Ravenstahl proclaimed April 11 as Black & Gold Day:
By virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh,
I do hereby issue this proclamation honoring
April 11, 2007
WHEREAS, the City of Pittsburgh celebrates April 11, 2007 as Black & Gold Day as a salute to the Pittsburgh Penguins for their spectacular 2007 season; and
WHEREAS, on Black & Gold Day fans are encouraged to wear black and gold when they come to cheer on the Penguins against the Ottawa Senators in the first Stanley Cup game of the season. Banners will be hung along Grant Street to mark the beginning of the celebration; and
WHEREAS, the Pittsburgh Penquins have improved by 47 points from 2005-06 to 2006-07, identified as one of the top four improvements from one season to the next in NHL history. They finished the 2006-07 season with 105 points, a year ago they finished with 58; and
WHEREAS, congratulations go out to - Sidney Crosby, youngest player in NHL history to win the Art Ross Trophy as scoring champion; Evgeni Malkin, first Penguins player to lead NHL rookies in scoring since Mario Lemieux in 1984-85; Jordan Staal, tied for second among NHL rookies in goals; Sergei Gonchar, second in scoring among NHL defensemen; Ryan Whitney, sixth in scoring among NHL defensemen; Marc-Andre Fleury, tied for third among NHL goaltenders; and Mark Recchi, who reached three significant scoring milestones during the season, recording his 500th goal, 800th assist and 1,300th point.
NOW THERFORE BE IT RESOLVED that I, Luke Ravenstahl, Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh wish to thank the Penguins owners for their commitment to remain in Pittsburgh and all the Penguins fans for their steadfast support of the Penguins team. I do hereby declare April 11, 2007 "Pittsburgh Penguins Black & Gold Day here in the City of Pittsburgh.


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Sunday, 19 September 2010
US Themed Swimming Fix
- Over at Swimnetwork, Mike Gustafson has written an impressive premise for a new swimming movie. Not gritty enough for my taste, but should be a box office hit.
Here's my idea for a swimming movie...
All Done. Actually... make the US team be a bunch of dangerous, yet sensitive, vampires/werewolves and we have ourselves a hit.
- Josh Schneider has won his appeal to overturn his DQ at US Nationals. To refresh the memory, Schneider was unknowingly entered into the 100m Fly event which he didn't swim. As he failed to inform the meet organisers of his withdrawal they DQ'd him from his next event, the 50m Free. Schneider swam the event under protest and tied Cullen Jones for second in the final with a blazing 21.97, but subsequently had his DQ confirmed. As a result of this appeal, Schneider will be able to join up with the US National team and will have a swim-off against Jones to decide who takes the second 50m Free spot at next year's World Champs.
Common sense seems to have prevailed. Why we continue to have these pedantic rules in swimming baffles me. If you've taken illegal drugs, false start or attach a jet engine to your back, then you should be DQ'd. If you do nothing wrong in an event apart from no-showing for the heats of another, that to me is not valid grounds.
- I'm not even going to attempt to explain the situation regarding the Athlete Partnership Plan in the US as Garrett McCaffrey and Tyler Clary do a great job in the video below:-
- Saving the best news until last... Swimming at the Commonwealth Games start in just 15 days.
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In Ministry of Defence v Williams the EAT holds that a female RAF officer who, because of her pregnancy, was unable to attend an "advanced pre-employment training" course - for which she had previously been selected and which would have led to her promotion to the rank of squadron leader - suffered unlawful sex discrimination when the MoD did not pre-select her for a later course, even though pre-selection would have caused no practical difficulties in the circumstances of this case.
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Spent the morning with Big Brothers Kindergarten Class.
Parade, games and snacks. Perfect.
Our afternoon was a scary(not really) piano lesson and Kumon.
Then onto the trick or treating!
We went with our Halloween-ing Friends.
It was great. My Brave Knight was not feeling well so after we collected enough candies for a year we headed home.
Wow. No snow! It rained a bit but I don't remember the last year we did not get snowed on! Wow!
Brave Knight turned down Smarties and opted for a warm bath, Big Brother ate chips and a sucker.
Happy Halloween!


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Part two of the Confessions installment. I am having fun writing! Hope you are having fun reading. This is an interesting new challenge for me.
Carole lay in the bed that night, feeling bloated and out of sorts. Her husband's rhythmic snores irritated her as she contemplated the events of the day. Lying in the dark like this, it was easy for Carole to admit that she was angry about so many things. Mainly, she was mad at herself for gaining weight in the first place. She reached down and adjusted her waistband, suddenly appalled that even her flannel PJs were growing tight around her stomach. Rolling over on her side, a tear trickled out of the corner of her eye. She didn't even bother wiping it away.
When morning finally came, Carole dressed and stepped around the same orange gift bag that had been her bedroom floor since Kelly's birthday party last week. She maneuvered around a Webkinz and headed down the steps, noting that her husband had finally removed his single hiking boot from the bottom step. She went through her morning routine, flipping on the fireplace and starting the coffee pot before heading upstairs to coax Kelly and Sam out of bed.
I watched my mom moving about in the kitchen and I totally knew that there was a problem. So far, she had opened the fridge three times, but had yet to get me my orange juice. "Mom, orange juice please," I reminded her.
"Kelly, please don't use that tone with me. I just forgot," snapped my mom. My mom was dressed in some old sweat pants and a big t-shirt and I watched her open the huge stainless steel fridge, again. This time she came out with a jug of OJ in hand. It's about time, I thought, trying not to speak out loud. I secretly hoped that nobody I knew would see my mom. She absolutely looked awful with a greasy ponytail and bags under her eyes. No make-up, of course. Totally embarrassing I thought, vowing to never let myself go the way mom had.
"I need a snack," I said, trying to keep my tone neutral. I watched in amazement as my mom dropped an entire, unpeeled apple in my black Quicksilver backpack, "I don't like the peel on my apples."
"Tough, I don't like outgrowing my clothes," snapped my mom.
"If you're worried about your weight, why did you eat all of those enchiladas last night?" I asked, waiting for the explosion. I bent down and pretended to be looking for my tennis shoe. It seemed one of my pink Vans had gotten misplaced. I much preferred flip-flops, or my slip-on Vans, but it was a P.E. day. I finally glanced up to see why my mom hadn't started yelling yet, but the kitchen was empty, except for my little sister, Sam. Sam's brown eyes were as big as saucers and she held her spoon suspended in the air over her yogurt container.
"I can't believe you said that to mom," Sam said with her 5-year-old jaw hanging open.
"I can't believe mom is surprised she's gained weight," I retorted. "Have you seen my pink Vans? I'm missing one."
"It's with your skateboard," mumbled my little sister as she dipped her spoon back into her yogurt. My sister always ate yogurt and a banana for breakfast. Disgusting.
"I'm going to school." I slammed the garage door, threw the apple in the trashcan and put on my other shoe. I always wear pink shoes. I grabbed my skateboard and headed down the street thinking about how I would never let myself be like my mom.


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Is Egypt Planning To Conquer Libya?
To steal its oil?
Will Egypt seize Libya for its oil? Given Egypt's political ideology, its history with its neighbours, and its material needs, this must be a live issue.
First, Egypt's needs. Since the Arab Spring began almost two years ago, the Egyptian economy has been collapsing. Egypt's foreign currency reserves have more than halved and many expect the Egyptian pound, already at its lowest point in eight years, to be devalued. Discontent is widespread. According to Gulf News, "In the past three months, Egypt has experienced increased power cuts that sometimes last for hours, while a fuel and diesel crisis has at times paralyzed the country, with mile-long queues forming outside petrol stations." The black market price for gas canisters is 10 times higher than the official selling price; for bread it's five times higher.
The Muslim Brotherhood government desperately needs a $4.8-billion IMF bailout to stop the bleeding but it refuses to curtail its subsidies, as the IMF demands, for fear of triggering a popular revolt. It is instead hoping for aid from oil states and the U.S. government, but even if this materializes, it will be at best a stopgap. With tourists, the country's chief source of foreign exchange, steering clear of Egypt because of its anti-Western riots, and with foreign investors equally fearful of venturing into the country, Egypt's options are daily becoming more limited. The temptation to look next door to Libya could be irresistible, particularly since Egypt views union with Libya as inevitable.


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Family: floral, chypre
Notes: mandarin, bergamot, plum, gardenia, honeysuckle, jasmine, ylang-ylang, Provence rose, sandalwood, musk, oakmoss, vetiver, heliotrope, humus, vanilla, incense
Crisp floral
Period: The debut years
Chant d'Arômes ("song of scents") was Jean-Paul Guerlain's first solo feminine creation. Before 1962, he had only made Ode in collaboration with his grandfather, and for men the instant success, Vetiver. As the latter was a response to Carven's Vétiver (1957), Chant d'Arômes countered the youthful bestseller Ma Griffe (1946), apparently until then the favourite perfume of Jean-Paul Guerlain's fiancée. Her image as a young debutante provided the motif, and, advertised as "the new fresh note in perfume", Chant d'Arômes gave the impression that Jean-Paul Guerlain wanted to rejuvenate the brand and make something bright and uplifting for his own generation. "You always create perfumes for the women you love, whom you admire, and with whom you live," 80-year-old Jacques Guerlain lectured his grandson — and with a sad smile added: "Unfortunately for me, I no longer create perfumes for other than old ladies." In Jacques' defense, we must remember that several of his discontinued fragrances were really no less "youthful" or "fresh" than Chant d'Arômes, such as Jasmiralda, Liu, Sous le Vent and Fleur de Feu.
Fortunately for Jacques Guerlain, though, he got to smell Chant d'Arômes just before he died, literally on his deathbed, and approved of it. The young Jean-Paul Guerlain was proudly proclaimed to be the perfectionist his predecessors were, "preferring to spend seven years, make 450 experiments and consult five Guerlain noses in the making of Chant d'Arômes." The perfume opened with aldehydic cheers of crisp mandarin and gardenia that smelled like the spring tide of new love, luminous, floral and feminine. You could almost hear the "song of scents", a choir of perfectly tuned, clear voices, sparkling like champagne. In addition, there was a fruity facet of plum mixed with spicy-sweet honeysuckle. As the scent evolved the floral notes grew more rounded, with the richness of jasmine, ylang-ylang, and a gentle, powdery and very refined Provence rose. At the base, a more autumnal mood took over: a chypre mixture of oakmoss, vetiver and humid earth that contradicted any floral naiveté. Finally, the composition was softened with musk and a dash of amber. Chant d'Arômes was one of the catalogue's few "quiet perfumes", sober and introverted, maybe worn mainly to please oneself, rather than attract a lover.
In order to give each perfume a unique visual identity, Guerlain had by this time stopped reusing bottles for different fragrances. The Chant d'Arômes bottle was inspired by the design of a Florentine vase. It came with a green velvet ribbon, like the ones young girls used to wear around their necks — a romantic nod to youth and innocence. The Parfum version of Chant d'Arômes was retired in 1989 when Samsara debuted, but staged a comeback in 1995, and again, but in the quadrilobe bottle, among the reissues marking the opening of Maison Guerlain in 2005. However, it was soon discontinued again, probably due to increasing IFRA restrictions. Guerlain obviously didn't find it worthwhile to invest in a painstaking reformulation, like the one of Mitsouko, for this less well-known perfume. As a historical footnote, Chant d'Arômes was the first feminine Guerlain with a ready-to-use atomizer option, as the refillable canister system was launched in 1965. Today, Chant d'Arômes EdT comes in the bee atomizer.
Parfum, EdT
Despite the hushed character of Chant d'Arômes, its now rather rare Parfum version had a good deal of chypre potency: the robustness of oakmoss, vetiver and humid earth down below, a distinct white-flower heart, and a brilliantly fruity mandarin note up top. In comparison, the EdT is airier, greener, and with the flowers more spring-like, fleeting, pretty and discreet.
The Chant d'Arômes EdT has been allowed to live on despite the IFRA restrictions, probably because its oakmoss concentration is lower than that of the Parfum. It has undoubtedly been adjusted and diluted, but the current juice smells acceptably close to the original EdT, albeit drier and less full and long-lasting. Read more
We love: the Parfum, although it's long gone
Old-fashioned and youthful at the same time
A floral Vetiver
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Just how "trailerable" Peter? By that I mean that the average vehicle, on an ordinary boatramp is limited in both what it can haul up the ramp, and in how deep draft the boat is. Then the next question is how "offshore"? The boats best suited to that wont be easy to pull out of the water, my little sloop is a long keeled boat with wineglass section and its a pain to get on and off the trailer, but is safe out there on the big briny.
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According to listing information, the over-100-year-old castle was built for a German baroness and was modeled after a castle on the Rhine. The $2.75 million asking price not only gets one lucky buyer their very own schloss, but 30 acres on Paris Mountain with incredible views of Greenville and the mountains.
From what little information I could gather on the internet, the castle has been lived in for years by an elderly couple (the listing confirms that it has been held by one family since the 1920's). Teenage lore of the 1980's pegged the estate as "Devil's Castle" and it was a longstanding rumor that it was used by Satan worshippers who, every Halloween, would abduct a child to sacrifice on the castle's grounds. (Naturally, there was no basis in fact to those rumors.)
While the castle is in need of some updating, it's an undeniably beautiful structure. Take a look:
The exterior, love the ivy growing over the building!
Not sure what this space is, but it seems to be just a large hall.
View of the castle from the 1/3 mile driveway.
Beautiful lush landscaping.
The kitchen could use an update, but that shouldn't be a problem for new owners who have almost three million to spend.
Beautiful beamed ceiling in this great room.
Stone arches frame the view from this porch.
This face of the castle peeks through the trees to the town below.
Great stone trim inside at the stairway.
Another view of the exterior.
(all photos taken from current listing information)


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Memories New and OldOctober 28, 2011 at 09:24 | Posted in Fragile Family Friday, Gardening, Italian Cooking, memories | Leave a comment
Tags: famiglia, family, food, gardening, memories, recipes
I have begun to read a favorite book The Lost Ravioli Recipes Of Hoboken. Once again it stirs emotions and memories. I'm not Italian but my husband is. Yet in spite of not being Italian something deep inside me calls me to the kitchen in search of special flavors to treat my family to. Like the authoress I did not learn to make ravioli as a child but I did learn to cook many other meals at my mother's side. Years later it was my sister in law who undertook the task of teaching me to make pasta and the family's favorite ravioli stuffed with ricotta and spinach smothered in rich thick tomato sauce.
While others thought me foolish because it is so simple to buy prepackaged pasta in neat cellophane-wrapped containers, she understood me.
But somewhere deeper inside me has been a yearning to explore further, not willing to settle. Time has been spent making our yard over into a large garden.
And when the first harvests this spring and summer brought us a huge bounty of lush vegetables, I found myself not yet satisfied.
The garden was redesigned; huge raised garden beds were added and the area enlarged. More detail went into our planting layout to maximize the yields.
It's not that I want a farm by any means. Nor am I giving into wild fantasies of no food available to eat. But something compels me to continue this quest. Next came the challenges of preserving my own fruit jams and marmalades. Then it was homemade pickles and those followed by huge beautiful jars of lush roma tomatoes.
Our sons laugh and tease – they want to know how I am going to hide the herd of beef cattle here in our suburb yard. Yet they enjoy the jokes as they sit together over a meal of big plates brimming to overflowing with pasta and homemade sauce and fresh baked bread warm from the oven!
So it is now that my granddaughters want to linger in the kitchen with me as I cook. One of them has taken to watching cooking shows on TV but she admonishes her mom that none of those cooks are as good as her nona and nono! Juliana is fascinated with the jars of marmalade and had to help with the pickles and tomatoes. She watched as I started to prepare to can them. Soon she was wrapped in one of my aprons and standing on the stepstool at the sink helping.
Together we filed the jars with the tomatoes and fresh basil she helped pick from the garden. Nono lit the fire and set the big pots of water to boil. When the jars were finished boiling in the hot water bath, we listened intently for the magic "ping" of the jar lids to tell us they were set. Juliana was so content, so happy – and then she turned to me and said, "We're cooking great memories together, aren't we?" How is this six year old so wise beyond her years? She got it when I wasn't sure what it was I have been seeking. Memories. Those fleeting wisps, fragile ties to family now gone from our lives. When I was young, my father every year would bring home bushels of pickling cucumbers. I would watch as he pickled them, boiling them with wonderful smelling spices in hot brine. How I loved the crunch of those pickles! How much more I loved watching him, being with him in the kitchen. Memories. I would watch my mother enjoy her gardens, digging in the rich Connecticut soil. She could make anything grow from gentle lady slippers to the sturdy patch of rhubarb tucked behind the garage. The aroma of her fresh baked rhubarb pie would fill the house! My mother in law, too, could make a garden grow to incredible harvests. She grew everything from artichokes to eggplants. At her elbow I learned to pickle eggplants and crack green olives! We picked dandelions for salads and mushrooms for sauce. And we made fresh ricotta cheese and solid cheese for grating from fresh goats milk.
Memories. I realize it is family I have been seeking. I yearn for the family of my past …. And I want to share it with my family that they can also pass it on, my sons and their children. Through the richness of the earth to the pleasures of the food as we sit together at the table eating. Amore e' Sapore di famiglia. May it always be so……
Beginnings of the Harvest to ComeApril 12, 2011 at 22:18 | Posted in Bits and Pieces, Gardening | 5 Comments
Tags: cooking, famiglia, family, Florida, food, gardening, gardens, homesteader, homesteading, love of family, memories, recipes
It has been a challenge to get our garden going this year. Florida presents a different gardening experience for someone from New England and rich brown dirt. Valentino is from Italy where he too grew with a different soil and climate. We have always had small containers or tomatoes and herbs but this year we have gone full fledged backyard gardener. I won't use the now hotly contested term but I will admit I am "one of those" homesteaders! Nothing is more special than a day in our yard enjoying what it is becoming for us!
We splurged on some baby chicks and are looking forward to fresh eggs in a few months. And we have planted one of the largest gardens ever for us as a married couple. Even our sons are enjoying the prospects of a garden harvest. They too spend most of their free time in the backyard with us planning and working and planning some more!
We have had koi ponds for about twenty years or so. We started with a basic one back at our previous home that was simply a square pond with wooden seating benches framing it. From there we have come to a simple pond near our back door, It is framed by my rubber tree plant that is more tree than plant . It is a peaceful place when I need somewhere to sit and meditate and pray. The sound of trickling waterfalls is like music!
The plants are beginning to blossom now, promises of harvests to come. It appears that we will have plenty of pumpkins by fall too.
My son's iguana will be enjoying plenty of fresh collard greens in his diet too!
Comfrey is growing! So is the rest of the garden!
This then is what we are looking forward to…. A harvest of our garden, feeding our family, being nourished by all we have accomplished together. Today we sat out back and sipped Liquori di Zecca – mint liquor made from our fresh mint! Sipped over ice, it was refreshingly sweet knowing it was only the harbinger of our harvest yet to come!
Spring – New Beginnings, New ChallengesMarch 23, 2011 at 09:31 | Posted in Bits and Pieces, Gardening | 3 Comments
Tags: cooking, economy, famiglia, family, family history, food, gardening, Italy, Itri, memories, preserves, ramblings
The headlines have been full of ugly scenarios describing TEOTWAWKI – the end of the world as we know it. It's no longer merely a Fox News or survivalist mentality pushing the meme on blogs. Recent tragedies in Japan and war news in Libya are added to the fuel of the economy not recovering the way the current US Administration would like us to believe. I have no desire to get into the politics of why or how or even who is to blame – seems there is more than enough of all that to go around the world many times over crisscrossing each other on each round! But my basic budget realities tell me the economy is certainly not improving in my household. I have a decided shortfall beginning to appear each time I go the gas station and the grocery store is not helping. What I felt in the wallet is now beginning to be talked about on all the news channels as well as liberal and conservative blogs alike. Food is getting more expensive, the weather is not helping, and the wars and natural disasters both have drastically affected food availability as well as cost.
So like many I have started a garden – much like the Victory Gardens of WWII. Our family laughs a lot that Valentino is a reincarnation of his grandfather Valentino who was the master gardener to beat all gardeners! He was "blessed" with a piece of land that consisted mostly of poorly placed rocks all over the side of the mountain. For whatever family reason that piece was left to him, he chose to do what we now laughingly refer to as "Given lemons, make lemonade!' He would laboriously till each small plot of dirt between the rocks – all by hand. One certainly could not have used a tractor around all the rocks even if he was able to afford to own or run one! Because he worked each plot separately he was able to compost and till until each little spot became a wonderful raised garden plot. His yield of vegetables to feed his family became the stuff of legend that the old timers who knew him then still talk about today!
So with this in our thoughts, Valentino and I now set about making our garden. We have ample room to both have two fair sized plots – one is 6 by 28 and the other is 12 by 30 feet. In addition we have set pots and other containers everywhere we can fit them.
On our fence we hung aluminum rain gutter fastened into a window box contraption for strawberries and radishes.
The planters at the base of our grape arbor shelter chamomile as well as the grape plants.
Now we are anxiously awaiting the results of all our work – I have been tracking the expense and at this point if we see a 50% germination and crop yield, we will at the minimum break even financially for our first season! This is pretty remarkable considering the expense of buying soil and cow manure our first time out here in addition to some containers to grow in and fences! I have also started a compost heap so that we can perhaps avoid the expense of more dirt. Our future plans are to raise the beds with side boards so that it becomes easier to control the soil content and avoid some of the washout effect of rains here in Florida. We plan on saving many of our seeds to defray that expense also.
One thing for sure – my impatience (a bad trait to be sure) is showing! I cannot wait for the first salad made totally of our own produce! This being strawberry time in Florida, I decided to indulge my impatience just a bit – yesterday was spent in wicked pleasure making homemade strawberry jam and lemon marmalade (from our homegrown lemons!). The tree is still full of lemons but also ready to bring more!
The family pronounced the jam-making a complete success, opening bottles this morning to spread on toast with their espresso!
Italian Bietola Cicoria Collard Greens and Celery Comfrey Zucchini
Italian Fava Italian Loquats Rucola Tomatoes
Channeling Family, the Master GardenersFebruary 6, 2011 at 07:06 | Posted in Bits and Pieces, Italian Cooking, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Tags: cooking, famiglia, family, family history, food, garden, gardening, memories, ramblings, recipes
Both my husband and I were blessed with family who could grow anything! My mom was a past president of her local garden club and won awards for her flower arrangements. Taken for a walk, she could identify every flower, tree, and weed. Eventually she also gave public slide presentations of plants of the bible. She guest-lectured in so many churches and schools, we lost count. Ask her how to grow something and her answer was to tap it in the packet of Root Tone ™ and then in dirt! My husband had an equally talented mother. Although she never did guest-lectures, there wasn't a plant she could not grow. Along with the ability to grow plants came an amazing ability to understand and know how to use herbs to heal. She also was one of those clever folks who knew where and how to find mushrooms safe to eat as well as all other sorts of edible wild foods. She inherited that gift from her father. His skills as a farmer were the stuff legends are made of. Family and friends still tell stories of his farm. The farm was on a mountainside in Italy and many thought he got the worst end of a deal. The acreage was full of stones, large stones. Working the land by hand, he tilled and composted and tilled some more in-between the stones. In time those small patches, worked much like our one yard garden plots would yield the best results of anyone. His children were warned to be careful of his plants when he set them in – after all they were what the family would have to eat.
Now we have decided as a family project to start gardening more aggressively than in the past. Although we have had great gardens we have not done so in many years. We had planters of flowers and container gardens of tomatoes and some herbs but now we have decided to really garden. Rising food costs and a need to pay closer attention to our diet means a vegetable garden is a positive for us!
Our container gardens (some of them – a great way to use old tires – I know some folks are worried about using tires but we have done this for years with great yields and no seeming problems.
Our rosemary bushes here are a year old now. We also have eggplant, green bell peppers and pineapple growing around this small loquat tree. They all seem to be happy together – and this little loquat tree is loaded with fruit already! Behind this established garden plot is our new one – much larger to accommodate lettuce, fava beans, zucchini, Italian greens, and garlic!
This was one of my husband's more clever ideas executed by our sons. He bought forty foot of 5 inch aluminum rain gutter (approximately $5.60 something at Lowes) and the gutter end caps and brackets – also support brackets for the middle portions. We hung it along our fence line and filled with dirt – plenty of room for strawberries, chamomile, and radishes! Below we have prickly fig cactus and small blueberry bushes! The radishes have already started to sprout in a week's time.
I will post updates as we go along all season!
Treasure Chest Thursday September 11September 9, 2010 at 01:04 | Posted in Bits and Pieces, Carnival of Genealogy, Current Events, family history, memories, Political Opinions, Treasure Chest Thursday | Leave a comment
Tags: ancestors, Carnival of Genealogy, economy, famiglia, family, gardening, love of family, memories, Peace, politics, ramblings, September 11
This date is a horrid one for most Americans. Where September used to stand for end of summer, back to school, first whiffs of Autumn leaves and bonfires, it has now become a remembrance of the shock for baby boomers to taste a war-like scenario on US soil. Our sense of security, of world power via being loved and 'right' has been shaken. For many it has meant a long drawn out process of rethinking who we as a nation and as individuals are. This time has also seen a change in the country's economic status affecting al of us. It has also meant reassessing what is important to each of us going forward. For me, it has meant a reassessment of our countries politics and policies as well as a reassessment of our place in global issues. It has brought about a deeper commitment to spiritual values and what they should mean on an everyday basis in addition to my own personal internalizing. More importantly it has brought about a deeper appreciation for what family means to me personally as well as a deeper appreciation for what our ancestors went through in their lives.
As a child I grew up hearing stories about my parents growing up during the depression years. My mother talked of her father traveling out of town for work returning home on the weekends. She also told of their wonderful gardens where they grew much of their vegetable and herb needs. My dad told about not being in school yet but following the bigger kids as they collected lumps of coal dropped by trains to take home for family furnaces. He also told how at the same age he followed the bigger kids to bread lines and to get potatoes. His parents hadn't sent him, but he caught on quickly from other kids and knew it meant more heat or more food if he participated too! Valentino grew up in post war Italy. His family had struggled before, during, and after the war. His mom's family were farmers so they grew plenty of food whenever and wherever possible. They would work the bits of soil between rocks to plant one plant per spot if necessary. They owned several small pieces of land meaning they would work one area for one crop and go to another for another crop. It meant a several mile walk daily to tend their food supply. Recently the Publics grocery store near our home was torn apart to undergo remodeling. All of us in the neighborhood have complained that it means a drive of an extra two or three miles to the next store. Only one other neighbor and I attempt to grow any vegetables at all – and we are struggling at it! Our herbs are wonderful but we seem not to be too successful at vegetables other than tomatoes or peppers. I suspect my tomatoes grew at some sort of bargain price under ten dollars each but I might be wrong! On the other hand my rosemary is a bumper crop and I have enough to supply most third world nations with rosemary and basil! I think my ancestors would all be mortified – especially my in-law ancestors!
So as I reflect back on the 9/11 tragedies and the lives of my ancestors, I am grateful for what our family passed on to us. I am blessed we lost no one in 9/11 or the subsequent war. I am blessed that our family passed on a spiritual foundation for Valentino and I to pass on to our sons and now to our grandchildren. And as I contemplate the US and her place in the global view, I am grateful that I was raised in a nation that in spite of her faults is still a wonderful place to raise a family without fear of a knock on the door at night or worse.
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Olib harbor (dock for boats from Losinj and Zadar) and the settlement of Olib with houses and apartments. Source: marinas.com
Slatinica cove is located on the east side of the island and provides good shelter from short summer storms. Source: ijedrenje.com
East of Olib harbor, almost in the centre of the village, you can find the preserved and restored Kastel tower. Source: boriskacan.com
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In the mid-1980s, scientists began to notice that the ozone layer above Antarctica was thinning dramatically. In 1986, we had a reason: chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), gases that were used in a wide range of products, from aerosol cans to air conditioners. CFC molecules contain chlorine and bromine, which interact with the polar chill and springtime sunlight of Antarctica to eat away at the protective ozone layer and allow harmful ultraviolet radiation to reach the Earth. Luckily, governments throughout the world came to an agreement on this problem, and banned the use of CFCs worldwide through the Montreal Protocol in 1987. Today, it appears that the ban is working: Professor Susan Solomon, the same scientist to discover the role of CFCs in ozone depletion, worked with a research team to take precise measurements of ozone levels between 2000 and 2015. They found that the hole has shrunk by approximately 4.5 million square kilometers (1.7 million square miles), an area roughly the size of India. Professor Solomon predicts that we could see a full recovery of the ozone layer by the year 2060. We've collected some awesome videos on this topic. Watch them now to learn more.
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Thursday, 1 March 2012
thankyou to stephanie sian smith for these lovely shots.im glad she got one of me wearing my pink knitted lambswool bracelet, also part of Freds current collection.didn't make it onto a model on the day so i wore it instead with my cute new red pumps.
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Hi~What's the brand of those shoes and your cute bracelect?!!
- 22 September 2012 at 20:00
LOVE the shoes!!
- 27 February 2013 at 11:22
- Bethany Roberts said...
Love these shoes! I design shoes at uni, these are so inspiring :) x
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Macaroni with Curried Green Beans Dish
1/2 pkt macaroni
1/2 cup green beans, cut
2 tbsp curry
1/4 onion
Coconut oil/Olive oil
Sea salt
Cook macaroni in salted water according to directions on package. While macaroni is cooking, slice onions and saute in olive oil together with green beans. Add curry, sea salt and a little water. Lower heat and let green beans cook. When macaroni is done, drain and set aside. When green beans are tender add to macaroni and mix well. Serve and enjoy!
If you're using canned green beans then just saute it with the onions for a few minutes omitting the adding of water.
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In this case (as for llama too) I had no difficulties picking out what to make. In no time I choose macarons as one of my favourite sweets. It was a really fun and fast making that takes very little yarn so you can use almost all the yarn ends.
I used really different yarns for this one. Some of them really were the last bits of the yarn. I used pima cotton, organic cotton and mercerized cotton, also a cotton-acrylic blend. I really love how soft pima cotton is and that organic cotton is almost as soft. The mercerized cotton is really different with a smoother look and a shinier finish and is a tad stiffer to touch. The acrylic blend yarn was one of the last bits of it as I'm looking for more natural fibres lately. Again I used my 2.25 mm hook and stuffed them with wool. The pattern is from Yarnspirations. I like making my own but I also love use others if they fit my vision – no need to invent another bicycle as they say!
Although you can't see them from the pictures, I also attached ribbons to the macarons so one could use them as accessories on a bag or as a key chain or why not as a Christmas decoration. The ribbon can also be replaced with a chain.
As they really came up so fast I just couldn't stop with one, they needed to be in different colours (flavours). Also pictures-wise one macaron wouldn't have looked half as nice as this pastel rainbow here. This is also the project, that some may or may not have figured, that used the yarn selection and was on a sneak-peek picture on Instagram.
Would you like a macaron? Or a few? Which flavour would you choose? Would you use it as a key chain or some other decoration/accessory?


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Now these Jets...I've always been a fan. Would love to see 'em back in Winnipeg!
Posted by Robert Ullman at 9:36 AM
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- Thursday, July 29, 2010 6:15:00 PM
- Mark said...
Nice illustration - the stockings make it pop. Speaking as a former resident, the prognosis for the city getting back the team isn't good...
- Thursday, July 29, 2010 6:15:00 PM
- Adam Korengold said...
That said, I'd love to see the team come back, if for no other reason than to play songs fro "West Side Story" when they play the San Jose Sharks. Maybe it'll happen if Harvey Fierstein replaces Gary Bettman.
- Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:12:00 PM
- Landon said...
What about a girl with the Quebec Nordics......
I think you should re-create the pic on this page.
Old Time Hockey.
...Eddie Shore
- Monday, November 08, 2010 11:44:00 PM
Love it, Nordiques next?
- Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:44:00 PM
@ Mark...prognosis has changed my friend! ;)
- Sunday, May 29, 2011 11:36:00 PM
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Women's Knowledge: Three Reasons We Won't Solve Climate Change Without It
by Katrina RabelerSep 20, 2013
- When it comes to solving the climate crisis, the world can't afford to ignore women's voices.
The Real Cost of Gold in the Philippines
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- We think of gold as a sign of prosperity, but the farmers and communities most affected by mining just want their rivers and land back.
Chevron Pollutes, Here's What the People Did Back
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- The oil giant reputation it becoming notorious as shareholders, mayors, and indigenous people criticize its actions.
#FearlessSummer: How the Battle to Stop Climate Change Got Ferocious
by Kristin MoeSep 10, 2013
- A series of actions that took place this summer helped to shift the climate movement's center of gravity.
What Will Climate Change Mean for Ethiopia's Coffee Crop?
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- Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London, have learned that climate change endangers Ethiopia's coffee crops. Here's what they're doing to make sure the plants will survive.
Confessions of a Climate Change Denier
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- The fight for the climate isn't a separate movement. It's both a challenge and an opportunity for all of our movements.
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- The film Blockadia Rising documents the campaign of direct action against the Keystone XL pipeline.
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- In a statement, ecologist Sandra Steingraber denounced Illinois' new fracking regulations and described the need for a movement dedicated to abolishing fracking nationwide.
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Justin Quinnell
Justin Quinnell's photograph of the Clifton Suspension Bridge
The spectacular picture shows each phase of the sun over Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge taken over a six month period. It plots the sun's daily course as it rises and falls over Brunel's famous structure, which spans the 702ft (214m) Avon Gorge. Incredibly, the eerie image was captured on a basic pin-hole camera made from an empty drinks can with a 0.25mm aperture and a single sheet of photographic paper.
Photographer Justin Quinnell strapped the camera to a telephone pole overlooking the Gorge, where it was left between December 19, 2007 and June 21, 2008 – the winter and summer solstices.
His final photograph, called 'Solargraph', shows six months of the sun's luminescent trails and its subtle change of course caused by the earth's movement in orbit. The lowest arc shows the first day of exposure on the winter solstice, while the top curves were captured in the middle of summer. Its dotted lines of light are the result of overcast days when the sun struggled to penetrate the cloud.
I also really like his pinhole photography, which I will be looking into later for my pinhole work. The way he uses his pinhole camera, almost like a digital camera is a real inspiration to me. I was going to create a pinhole camera with my digital camera, but my Lumix is too annoying and wont work without a lens attached. A pity, but i might create one using my Slr camera instead.


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What to do?
Eric has a bit of break from his studies starting on St. Patrick's Day. We've been wanting to shake off the hibernation habit we fell into by taking a little trip. The cold of winter is somewhat bad for homebodies with quiet hobbies...we love sitting absorbed in our little endeavors, but we both get the sense that there is a lot we're missing.
There are two road trip options. One is New York City, the other Burlington, VT. I'm pulling for Burlington because you-know-who and new blogger Lara will be playing there...
But I'm just happy at the thought of travel, and of something new. I'm much too singular in my interests these days, and that has to end.


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It is almost midnight, and I am lying in bed just having finished watching a Youtube video of Priscilla Shirer speaking. She is one of my favorite Christian speakers. It is almost morning again, and I am a weary tired, the kind of tired where sleep is just too simple of a solution. Instead of lying in bed begging sleep to assuage my tired, I knew I needed something to assuage my soul; The very part of me that is experiencing the real weary. I am thankful that sleep is not the cure all for a weary soul. It's Jesus.
She spoke for an hour. Lulu snored away, and I took notes on my Iphone. I'm a notetaking, highlighting fool. Always have been.
She asked the audience, "How different would we act and respond to life if we truly believed God is NEAR. All the time. What would change with that level of "God awareness" and that level of God in the details? What would I change? How would my life look?
I would choose truth over feelings, knowing that pain and joy can co-exist. Fear, while present, would not steer my life. I would trust his unseen hand, knowing that while I have no idea what tomorrow holds or why yesterday or that thing years ago happened, He is all up in my business and has no intention of butting out. I would unclinch my fists that are so tightly gripped around my dreams and hopes that my knuckles are turning purple.
I want to be that kind of GOD AWARE. Would that make us perfect or less of a sinner? No way. If anything it would lighten our load, because through Jesus, there is freedom from whatever happened 10 minutes ago. Being more God aware would equip us with the courage to let that thing go, no matter how ugly or minor it was.
Towards the conclusion of her speech, she told the audience of a scripture she prayed before her feet hit the floor: Romans 12:1. She encouraged everyone to pray it each morning. It's a good verse to memorize, too. Stoplights are great for scripture memory, by the way.
To pray each morning, as soon as our eyes open, to be a LIVING SACRIFICE for God and to make us more God aware would have to be life changing; Not because it sounds good, but because He said it would be. It's inviting God in to our day and in to our weary souls, not to impress him, but to be in relationship with Him. It's Him doing the work in us; Not us wearing ourselves out to be good for Him. That's a miracle y'all. That's a love story that Hollywood will never come close to replicating, and it is at our very fingertips. Every single minute of every single day. On that note, my soul feels much less weary, and sleep is sounding quite delightful.


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About two weeks ago I pulled out a pair of shorts that I hadn't worn since last summer and thought they would look really cute to wear to a cookout. As I buttoned the top button I thought to myself, "man, these shorts must have shrunk in the dryer." Then I remember that I had not worn them since last summer… and that I have not been running as much lately or eating healthy. So I apologized to my dryer and then went and had a long talk with my treadmill (yes, I talk to my appliances. no, I am not crazy).
I'll skip the long conversation and just sum it up for you:
I'm going to run more.
I'm going to record my runs.
I'm going to buy new running clothes.
In 2011 & 2012 I kept a running log. I wrote down my workout every day. My distance, my time, mile splits, the conditions, how I felt, etc. The log hung on my refrigerator. I looked at it every day, multiple times a day. It reminded me that I was one step closer to my goal every day, whatever the goal was that week/month/year. It reminded me that I was continually improving my time, distance, and weekly mileage. It reminded me that the hard days were few and far between and that even the hard days were good running days.
I actually started logging my runs in high school. NOTEBOOK is the "N" in WWNPP. My Cross Country coach taught me the importance of logging runs many years ago; I just forgot how important it was for a few years in college and then for a few months after moving to Pittsburgh.
SO: I'm going to start a log again. I actually started it two weeks ago but I haven't had time to blog about it. The 8 miles on the log that first week didn't look like much, but is was a start. This week the goal is 10 miles, and it will increase every week after that.
I've also developed a new way to keep myself motivated (besides the obvious motivation of being healthy and fit). For every day I complete a workout, I'm putting a sticker on the log. For every 15 stickers, I'm buying a new running shirt…or shorts...or sports bra. Given how obsessed I am with new running clothes, I think this is a BRILLIANT idea. Added benefit: by the end of the summer, I won't have to suck it in when I wear my non-elastic shorts :)
Did you miss the W's? Check them out by clicking the links below and stay tuned for the P's!
For more reading, check out these two links on Runners World:What Should I Record in my Training Log


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Sunday, December 26, 2010
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- Fram Actual said...
If you lived where I currently am living, Natalie, your flowers would have been peeking through snow at the end of November. You were lucky to have them as long as you did.
Very nice work with the camera. Now, I trust we will see a bit more work with the pen, as well.
- December 26, 2010 at 5:55 PM
- Yoli said...
Natalie, I hope you are OK, I miss you. I see you have stopped posting and wonder what has happened to you. Wishing you much love, health and happiness.
- February 23, 2011 at 8:13 PM
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Here and There from ISOCS on Vimeo.
The story of the Middle Primary Class's investigation into "Where we are in place and time".
The Middle Primary Class is a mixed Year 2/3 class at the International School of Central Switzerland.
Ideas, resources and stories of learning with technology at the International School of Central Switzerland
Here and There from ISOCS on Vimeo.
The story of the Middle Primary Class's investigation into "Where we are in place and time".
The Middle Primary Class is a mixed Year 2/3 class at the International School of Central Switzerland.
"We begin with a love story--from a man who unwittingly fell in love with a chatbot on an online dating site. Then, we encounter a robot therapist whose inventor became so unnerved by its success that he pulled the plug. And we talk to the man who coded Cleverbot, a software program that learns from every new line of conversation it receives...and that's chatting with more than 3 million humans each month. Then, five intrepid kids help us test a hypothesis about a toy designed to push our buttons, and play on our human empathy. And we meet a robot built to be so sentient that its creators hope it will one day have a consciousness, and a life, all its own."I think this podcast will be of interest to all my geeky student friends at ISOCS (particulary the last segment)!
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|Screenshot from http://inanyevent.ch/
"Inanyevent.ch is a critical English-language guide to events and what's on in Switzerland. Every week our staff research hundreds of relevant events which might interest the English-speaking community already established in Switzerland as well as tourists and business people aiming to visit the country. Each article and listing is scrupulously checked for accuracy."A good site to keep an eye on with summer holidays around the corner!
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|Erwin Wurm: House Attack in Vienna, Austria
|Hang Nga Crazy House, Vietnam
|Longaberger Company, Ohio, USA - they make baskets
|Wonderworks Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA
|The Crocked House, Poland
|Library Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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Fremont motorcyclist died after Omaha crash, police say
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man has died after his speeding motorcycle crashed on the west side of Omaha.
The crash occurred around 1:30 p.m. Monday. Omaha police say the motorcyclist lost control of his bike while changing lanes. It ran off the roadway, and he was thrown down an embankment.
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There was a total of 18 clubs represented: Wayfarers, Ballhoura Bears, Dungarvan, Kilkenny Walkers, Ramblers, Bishopstown, Tyndall, Tullow, Peaks, Limerick, Bogtrotters.
A very fast time was posted by Mick Burke and Walter Keane who completed the 'walk' in 3hrs 40 mins.
Thanks to those who completed the Evaluation Forms - your comments will be taken into account for the future - apart from "ski lifts at either end and a railway line between" - but only because of environmental impact!!.


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News has hit the web that someone from Chris's campaign office called in to a cable show and accused Vellacott of sexually assaulting a church secretary. My guess is that it was an over zealous volunteer. From my interactions with Chris I highly doubt he would sanction something like this. Why would anyone attempt such a thing from their own campaign office?
I hope that the video and audio of the tape is released and the person responsible be held accountable.


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This is a blog for the students I teach and the families I serve. It holds daily assignments, updates on homework, calendar of exams, commentary on math education and math in the news.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Starting Trigonometry and Rational Functions
Precalculus is starting the descent into the intricate, beautiful, and wonderful world of trigonometry. We will spend the remaining time this year exploring triangles and how they become a window into the periodic behavior of tides, light, and even crankshafts! The two applets above capture the conceptual essence of what we are building together over the next week--reflect on them and start to SEE the trigonometry.
The homework is due Monday the 9th of April and should generally be a review of trigonometric ratios with a couple twists.
Algebra II begins the brief introduction to rational functions and will focus on the interconnections between the graphical, algebraic, and tabular representations of this function. Please find some of the powerpoints on these topics below:
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