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but i was paying a lot of attention to matt damon's role. at first, all i cared about was how good he looked in a rugby uniform, because, please believe, he looks real good in a rugby uniform. but my mind kept going back and forth between my experiences in rwanda and matt damon's character. see, he plays the team captain that, of course, plays a crucial part in uniting the team and helping them see what a big role they will play in uniting the country. his teammates called him "capi," (get it? short for captain?). he had this important intermediary role of mediating between team and coach, springbok organization and president mandela.
it all made sense! so often i had had the picture in my head that i should be the tendon while being a student leader of an isp team, connecting two separate entities, muscle and bone. but this never made sense to me practically. the idea of a team captain, though-oh my-what sense that makes! i look forward to this new phase of research as i dive into what a team captain's role is and how to practically carry that out, how to mediate between coach and team, but still be play on the team.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Nathan's Adventuress Poem Caught on Video
During the last night of the Fantastic Voyage, anchored in Shoal Bay, Lopez Island, we did an evening program called "Party Piece," a timeless classic aboard Adventuress. People can share anything they'd like whether it's a poem, music, skit, story, joke, and so on. The presentations range from serious to silly.
I had the pleasure of getting to know Nathan during this Fantastic Voyage. He was down to earth, had tremendous determination, and was simply hilarious. Listen to his poem!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Our Adventure on Adventuress
Our adventure of a lifetime began with a benevolent request from a friend of my son's. For his 14th birthday, he asked that donations be made to an environmental organization. Sage chose People for Puget Sound and with that donation we became members.
Meanwhile, Sage was taking sailing lessons and finding he loved it. The timing couldn't have been more perfect when we received the email from People For Puget Sound announcing the raffle for two spots on the Adventuress Family Sail. Sage and I eagerly answered each day's questions and crossed our fingers. What joy when we won!
You can read the rest of their adventure by on People For Puget Sound's website! Thank you Lesley and Sage for coming aboard Adventuress and writing this article.
Some of the most unique and special moments that happen aboard Adventuress occur during the hour up on deck in the middle of the night. Whether stormy or clear, alone or with one or two others, the opportunity to experience the night in a whole new way can be magical. Not only that, but creative energy at 3AM can be quite spectacular! The following story was written during anchor watch by crew and participants on our Boy Scout trip last week...
On their 2nd night of anchor watch, while reflecting on all of the activities of the day, the Adventuress sailors were startled by...a sea serpent as long as their boat who smelled peanut sauce from the Upright Channel, 6nanometers away. Suddenly...the horny head of the serpent thrust out of the quiet waters of
The monster's head arched over the starboard lifelines. The night watch had fallen asleep in the deckhouse and was oblivious to the threat looming over them. Suddenly, there was a thunderous snore from the Captain's Cabin! The monster was taken aback for the moment, not sure whether this snoring ship was a worthy opponent, or a creature to be romanced and seduced.
The ship tried to flee. For the lack of wind it used the motor and powered out of the bay. In hopes of losing the monster the crew sailed her into high water. Clear of the
The watch now applied as much sail as two deckhands could raise and sighting the sea serpent ahead – gave chase! The helmsman shouted "we are heading for the arctic" as Adventuress started back on the path of her original journey North. The wind rose and the ship thundered on – unbeknownst to the unsuspecting sleeping occupants below. What would happen about Breakfast?
As the crew and occupants began to rise for morning, they realized they were soaked from sweat! What was going on? Everyone gathered on deck and looked out to a beautiful island called
'Alas!' cried the crew, for the breakfast was a stew. And keeping a sharp eye for the danger of the rocks, the temporary cook had brewed up some soup of Elena's stinky socks! 'Arrg!' cried the mate as the sailors cast their fate. They plotted a new course, while raising the main they shouted 'Heave' until their voices grew near hoarse.
Meanwhile, Jane relieved the temporary cook in the galley. The crew had hated their breakfast, but resourceful Jane quickly realized the perfect use for stinky sock stew. When they returned to the islands she could use it to pacify the sea serpent, which was lying in wait for them! The crew of Adventuress sailed up the coasts of
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Girls Leadership Adventure
What would you call a group of fourteen young women (ages 13 to 17), five mentors (ages 37 to 70), and a highly energetic and enthusiastic crew aboard a historic schooner in the San Juan Islands? The answer: PHENOMENAL!
Our newest program, focused on girls and leadership, took place the first week of August, under sunny skies, perfect breezes, and starry nights at anchor watch.
While those things were wonderful, they couldn't hold a candle to the delight of heading south through Cattle Pass (at the southern tip of San Juan Island) to come upon a SUPER POD of Orcas. Breaching, spy hopping, and tail slapping elicited the appropriate "oohs" and "aahs" as the whales amazed us with their beauty and agility.
That morning set the stage for a fun-filled trip. Mentors Jean, Eileen, Kristin, Nancy, and me (Elizabeth) shared our enthusiasm for groundwater, coastal seabirds, effective communication, tall ships, and citizen science. Our crew led the girls in collecting and examining plankton, learning "the ropes" (halyards, actually!), talking about sustainable nutrition, and creating some highly memorable skits.
We all headed home tired and happy, a bit more knowledgeable about the environment, about ourselves, and about our community. In the words of a participant: "I learned a lot and had fun doing it, which is rare sometimes!"
Friday, August 6, 2010
Sound Experience is HIRING!
Port Townsend-based nonprofit Sound Experience, which owns and operates the historic schooner Adventuress, seeks to add a half-time administrative position to its "Office Watch." Exceptional customer service approach, excellent written and verbal communicator, highly technology-literate and a team-player. $12-$14/hr plus benefits.
Cover letter and resume by Aug. 20 to catherine at soundexp dot org. Start date Sept. 7. E.O.E.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Sound Experience on LinkedIn
Sound Experience is on LinkedIn. You can follow our organization by pressing this button:
If you've previously worked for Sound Experience or aboard Adventuress, make sure you put that in your LinkedIn work history. By doing so, you'll appear as a "Former Employee" of our organization. We want to show how many wonderful people we've had working for us!

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Real truth of life. it was evening time we were returning downward from hills , my friend vikram was sitting back on vehicle with camera in hand, he saw a women with log on her head which she might had felt down from hillside jungle. background shows cute children playing. they dont know the hardship of the lady.. truly it was a unforgettable moment of my life.
Life is this what we have. so don't complaint about your life that i have nothing. just see this and then you will realize that you have a lot to do with your life
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After committing to a summer long vlogfest on EVERY EPISODE of Avatar, just to get background to do a comprehensive review of M. Night's monstrosity, Doug Walker (aka the Nostalgia Critic) became a fan. An honest to god fan, he declared the show after seeing it's entirety his new all-time favorite show! Even going so far as to have a mancrush on Zuko and Dante Basco. He then watched Korra to boot and he.... liked it. F-ing love triangle nearly killed it for him, thank god Amon and Tarrlok helped!
Now his review of the live-action abomination is upon us. Let Shamalamadingdong feel his wrath!
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/40488-the-…Read more >
Maybe the 2nd season of LoK won't take as long as a Westeros winter! New information confirms several new voice actors for character appearing in "Spirits"
Top of the list, Aubrey Plaza of "Parks and Recreation" fame will be voicing Eska, Korra's cousin! Among the other prominent listed include Lisa Edelstein (House, Superman: TAS) voicing Kya, James Remar taking over as the voice of Korra's father Tonraq, Aaron Himelstein (Joan of Arcadia) as Desna, and John Michael Higgins (Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law) as Varrick.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/10/legend-of-korra-book-2-aubrey-plaza-james-remar-lisa-edelstein/Read more >
Does this source's information mean that the US will be getting The Legend of Korra some time before the end of the summer?
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Found this much to my shock and delight while browsing E3 news on Ign.com...your welcome! Now all we need is an official PREMIERE DATE! - http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/06/10/the-legend-of-korra-first-book-2-footageRead more >
Speaks for itself, terrific article about Avatar's funniest character! CrimsonShogun (wall • contribs) 02:08, April 20, 2013 (UTC)Read more >


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PRODUCTION / What is WOOD-PLASTIC COMPOSITE ( WPC ) MATERIAL and all about WPC production technology
Manufacturing directly in the Czech Republic
Directly in Czech Republic we are using the patented manufacturing technology, licensed by the Strandex corporation, USA. The technology is proven by Strandex partners all over the world. This technology is being used since more than 20 years and its products are being sold to customers in countries with different climatic conditions.Contacts
Proven Licence by Strandex, USA
The american Strandex corporation is the leader in developement and production of WPC technology. On the market since the 90s of the 20th century. Its implementation can be found all over the world. Itself the corporation declares that it uses "200 years of experience " of its team of experts.More about Strandex corporation here
High quality WPC material
The secret of the quality of our products is in the production of the WPC material itself ( wood-plastic composite , made of 60% wood and 40% HPDE ). The most active ingredients and the right proportion of wood, polymer and other additives is one of the most crucial steps in the manufacture of high quality WoodPlastic boards.More about the WPC material
What is WOOD-PLASTIC COMPOSITE ( WPC ) MATERIAL
The WPC material:
An important factor in the quality of the material is the use of polymer HDPE – High Density Polyethylene. Thanks to this the material gets the wishing properties and still looks like wood. Composite materials have been enlarged thanks to mastering of the technology since the start of the production in the 90s of the last century and its popularity is growing ever since.
SHORT: What production technology do we use and what is it forMany years of positive experience selling products produced by Strandex technology and its uncommon quality has inspired us to establish our own production in Czech Republic. For the production of our products we use a technology patented by the American Strandex Corp., which is the leader in the field of involving and manufacturing of WPC technology. In the year 2013 we started the production in Czech Republic. See more in the following video.
Our products – nowadays terrace and fence planks (including accessories – carriers and ledges), are solely made in Czech Republic. Part of the manufacturing process is the produciton of WPC wood-plastic composite, which the final product is made of. This allows us to influence the quality of the products from the beginning by using the best ingredients.
Own manufacturing allows us to offer our customers, compared to other WPC product vendors alot of benefits. We can offer higher quality, accuracy and flexibility of production, 6 years of of experience installations of WPC materials and a whole spectrum of colours and surfaces of our products, that wil expand into new types and colours. Thanks to the proven technology and uncommon WPC material we offer a warranty of 25 year against wood-destroying fungus, rot and insects.
LICENCE STRANDEX: "200 years of experience" and "100 000 miles of boards" all over the world
To produce our products we use a production technology licensed by the Strandex corporation, which has a rich history. Strandex Corp. is on the US-market since the 90s of the 20th century. They are focusing on production of the technology for manufacturing of WPC materials. Mostly its terraces, fences, sidings, windows etc… Their technology is constantly evolving and improving.
Now we have on of the most advanced WPC technology on the world cotrolled by a laser system.
Strandex itself declares, that they use for the development of its technology more then " 200 years of experience " by their experts. The quality of their technology is proved by the fact, that during 20 years on the market the holders of their licence made more then 100 000 miles of terrace boards made of WPC ( wood + HDPE ). This boards are being used till now by families and companys all over the world: " It's enough to make them rotate 4 times the globe ", says the representative of Strandex corporation.
Products, which are the products made by their technology are being sold worldwide and therefor have been testet in various climatic regions – from the Arabian mountain to the rainforests for Brazil.
Production technologyGenerally the principle of manufacture is in conjuction of wood fibers or wood flour with polymer HDPE. Two more materials are entering the bonding of the two substrates – but they are virtually unnoticeable and help the binding of these two materials. Another mixture is ofcourse some colours and pigments that help to the final look of the WPC material. The binding process extruding – extrusion + compression – is being made in high temperatures. The final form is made by compressing the produced material through a nozzle and cooling.
The big question is, what combination of what materials are the best for the quality and durability. That's the part of the patents and a long research and development. The quality of the final products can be abysmal.


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And in Sunday's Baltimore Sun, SINGULARITY received high marks from a reviewer taken with the heroine, a woman Texas Ranger. Protagonist Sarah Armstrong has "the makings of a robust and long-lasting series character," said the Sun.
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SINGULARITY will make Deadly Pleasures magazine's list of Best Novels of 2008.
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this post by Stephen Harding with an attention-getting headline that asks "Were these U.S. soldiers executed because of their race?" Excerpts:
Of the U.S. servicemen put to death for crimes committed during [World War II], 79 percent were black. While their crimes were heinous, were they given harsher sentences?
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As Professor J. Robert Lilly of Northern Kentucky University has pointed out in his pioneering research into the administration of military justice in World War II, while the roughly 1 million African-American men who served in the nation's armed services constituted less than 10 percent of the total force, they made up a much larger percentage of those given harsh sentences for serious offenses. Blacks were far more likely to be put to death for murder or rape than their white counterparts—in the European Theater 25 African-American men were executed for murder versus 4 whites; 22 blacks and 6 whites were put to death for rape; and 8 of the 12 killed for rape and murder were men of color. These percentages are roughly reflected in the numbers executed at Shepton Mallet.The racial breakdown of U.S. military capital cases since World War II has continued to be a subject of concern.


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"Indian Country"
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From Stephen W. Silliman's "The "Old West" in the Middle East: U.S. Military Metaphors in Real and Imagined Indian Country," American Anthropologist, Vol. 110, No. 2 (Jun., 2008), a sample of public media sources employing "Indian Country" metaphor in Iraq and Afghanistan (via lexus search in 2006):
"From across the river, we hear a boom in the distance. And then another. 'This is like cowboys and Indians,' relays a Marine. Indeed it is." (Hemmer, Bill, 2006 Reporter's Notebook: Cowboys and Indians. Foxnews.com, March 30. Electronic document, http://ww.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,189147,00.html.)
"Anbar has the savagery, lawlessness and violence of America's Wild West in the 1870s. The two most lethal cities in Iraq are Fallujah and Ramadi, and . . . between them is Indian Country."(West, Bing, and Owen West 2007 Iraq's Real "Civil War." Wall Street Journal, April 5:A13.)
"I guess if this were the Old West I'd say there are Injuns ahead of us, Injuns behind us, and Injuns on both sides too . . . " (Editors' Report 2003 Indian Country of America. Indian Country Today, April 9. Electronic document, http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1049898023.)
"Even the base the Americans have set up on the edge of town, in an abandoned Iraqi police station, is called Forward Operating Base Comanche, with echoes of a fort in Indian country during the 19th-century expansion across the Great Plains." (Burns, John F. 2004 In the General's Black Hawk, Flying over a Divided Iraq. The New York Times, January 12:2.)
"'You have so much freedom and authority over there,' one member of ODA 2021 said. 'It kind of makes you feel like God when you're out there in cowboy and Indian country.'" (Sack, Kevin, and Craig Pyes 2006 Firebase Gardez: A Times Investigation. Los Angeles Times, September 24:A1.)
"LT. COL. RALPH PETERS, US ARMY (RET): '[T]he convoys, it's harder to run them, you need more protection. Basically, the wagon trains now have to go through Indian country.'" (Gibson, John, Mike Tobin, and Mike Emmanuel 2004 US Soldier Kidnapped by Terrorists in Iraq. "The Big Story with John Gibson," Fox News Network, April 16.)
"Ramadi is Indian Country—'the wild, wild West,' as the region is called." (McDonnell, Patrick J. 2004 The Conflict in Iraq: No Shortage of Fighters in Iraq's Wild West. Los Angeles Times, July 25:A1)
"We refer to our base as 'Fort Apache' because it's right in the middle of Indian country." (Peirce, Michael 2003 A View from the Frontline in Iraq. LewRockwell.com, April 13. Electronic document, http://www.lewrockwell.com/peirce/peirce73.html.
"Christ be careful out there. This is Indian country in the Hollywood sense of the word." (Adams, Jeff 2004 Comment on "Greetings from Baghdad," May 27. Electronic document, http://www.back-toiraq.com/archives/2004/05/greetings_from_baghdad.php.)
"Had he even lifted a finger towards it, there could have been a 'situation'. Now you know why we call this place either the 'Old West' or 'Indian Country.'" (Reese, Christopher 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom through the Eyes of an Adventurer, May 2. Electronic document, http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/reese.html.)
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Contrary to statements made by U.S. military officials, the traffic in these metaphors may be part of the sanctioned but, perhaps, not "official" lexicon of the U.S. government (see Bolger 1995). In October 2006, the Baghdad Overseas Security Advisory Council website had the following statement (which one year later no longer existed): "We will post other things . . . so that your teams can have the best information available if they run into trouble out in 'Indian Country' " (Baghdad Country Council n.d.). Recent newspaper quotations from Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former professor at the U.S. Army War College, further emphasize the currency of this metaphor among military leaders and strategists. The Los Angeles Times quotes him with reference the U.S. Embassy: "If the government of Iraq collapses and becomes transparently just one party in a civil war, you've got Ft. Apache in the middle of Indian country, but the Indians have mortars now" (Zavis 2007: A1). The International Herald Tribune quotes Biddle saying "those convoys are going to roll through Indian country with no cavalry" (Knowlton 2006). Even U.S. country music superstar Toby Keith commented on traveling to Iraq to entertain soldiers "in Indian country, in the Wild Wild West" (Masley 2005: W16).


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Per a press release yesterday: "Margaret Russell has been named Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Digest, it was announced today by Thomas J. Wallace, Editorial Director of Condé Nast. Her appointment is effective September 7, 2010. The editorial headquarters of Architectural Digest, currently in California, will move to New York City."
Congratulations Margaret! From my point of view this means - Architectural Digest is now going to be a must-buy magazine!
Reporter Steve Cohn of minonline reports her debut issue will be January 2011. More details here.
Now I wonder who will replace Margaret at Elle Decor? She leaves behind huge shoes to fill.
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Red Line Delays Continue
Metro reports that trains are moving at reduced speeds between Fort Totten and Takoma stations due to track circuit repairs. Expect delays in both directions on the Red Line.
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Is it EVER going to end?!?!? They had the area between Takoma and Brookland shut down for 2 straight days! They STILL haven't fixed whatever is wrong!?!?
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They ain't lyin' that there are delays. Woo eee.
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This is getting beyond ridiculous...this is actually slower than it was a month ago. What the $*%& is going on?! And on top of it you've got Ride-On discontinuing a couple of route sections on 9/6 that go between the branches of the red line (Rte 6...) to avoid the mess.
ERGH! Can't public transit coordinate any better than this???
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It has been way to long since we've seen an new episode of Grimm....before Fringe finale'd forever, before Haven finished up Season 3, before we make our Christmas lists but it's finally come back to us! And it will be nice to have something new on Fridays to enjoy with all our Wesen friends, and foes! That makes this weeks Paranormal Pick of the Week is logically:
Grimm - Season 2 Returns
Friday March 8, 2013 on CTV
Sunday March 10, 2013 on Space
If you are unfamiliar with this fantastic series, here is a description: "Nick Burkhardt thought he prepared himself for the realities of working as a homicide detective until he started seeing things he couldn't quite explain.
When his ailing Aunt Marie arrives, Nick's life turns upside down when she reveals they are descendants of an elite group of hunters, also known as "Grimms," who fight to keep the balance of humanity safe from the supernatural creatures of the world."
See more about Grimm at CTV and see all Hexed's posts and podcast on Grimm here.


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Enthusiasm Reigns at PEP Class, Seva Sadan College, Mumbai University
As reported by Dr. Arvind Singh
In July 2014 students and faculty of Seva Sadan College of Education, Mumbai University, India embraced the opportunity to participate in TPRF's Peace Education program (PEP). In a ceremony before the first PEP class, Dr. Sunita Magare,Associate Professor and Member of Senate, Department of Education, University of Mumbai, proudly introduced the program and welcomed the participants. Sixty-five of the 71 students at the college, which prepares students to become teachers, had enrolled in the class along with 14 faculty members.
Rakhi Dhingra a research scholar doing PhD on Peace Education under the guidance of Dr. Magre Sunita was continuously studying and analyzing the program by taking notes and participating in the discussion of the themes giving her feedback. The program, which is usually presented in 10 sessions one week apart, ran for 10 consecutive days at Seva Sadan, with enthusiasm building each day. There was so much excitement and participation from students that the expression and reflection periods of the PEP Class were especially lively as participants took the opportunity to share the wisdom they felt they were gaining and relate it to their lives.
Students and faculty alike expressed that they were gaining more clarity on the topics day by day, and their appreciation became obvious as the class remained full in spite of heavy rain and traffic. Many came early and continued their conversations afterwards.
At the end of the 10 sessions, an additional class gave students a chance to express their views about peace in writing and by sharing their thoughts. They wrote at great length about how peace can come into people's lives as well as how people lose their sense of peace. The day before the ceremony, everyone had a chance to paint a picture of peace to present at the graduation.
One of the faculty members who participated in the PEP class reported, "It was amazing to see that all the students had come together to celebrate the moment of peace." Another one said, "Never in over 16 years of teaching experience, have I ever seen so much enthusiasm in students that they would sit for hours without getting tired, engaging with a subject like peace."
Many of the students expressed that they were looking forward to initiating PEP programs in their schools once they become teachers. They felt it was important to stimulate a culture of peace so that when the young people grow up, they can cope with even the most difficult circumstances.
Dr. Beena Khemchandani, Chairman of the Board of Education Studies of Seva Sadan, has recommended the program for other colleges of Mumbai University. Founded in 1966, Seva Sadan College of Education is considered a pioneer college of teacher education and has been named Best College of the University of Mumbai.
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Just What the Doctor Ordered
It's checkup day in Bantoli. As the children giggle and squirm under Dr. K. Sandhya's cold stethoscope, it's clear that, today, the doctor is also taking the pulse of TPRF's first Food for People (FFP) facility to see how effectively it's meeting the nutrition and health needs of the villagers it serves.
Malnutrition is a pervasive problem in rural areas such as this," explains Sandhya, a pediatric specialist and Associate Professor of Anatomy at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences in Ranchi. "Poor nutrition weakens the immune system. And when immunity is low, disease takes over." Dr. Sandhya has been affiliated with FFP in Bantoli since before the facility opened in 2006, helping to determine which foods to serve and even the optimal height of the children's washbasins.
"Before FFP, and when we first started, many of the children I saw were regularly suffering from respiratory infections,"the doctor remembers. "Skin problems were prevalent. Energy levels were low, which affected the children's ability to focus and learn."
And today, after performing her general checkup of the children, including an examination of their nails and teeth, the doctor is encouraged. "Today, I saw two small girls, sisters, new to the facility. They had never been here before. One was coughing badly and they both had dermatitis." The doctor reflects for a moment. "After examining them, along with the others who had been coming to the FFP facility for a while, I realized that I very rarely see those symptoms any more. So, yes, FFP is definitely making a difference—even in the children's ability to socialize. When we first started, most of the children were shy and had problems even talking. Seeing these two new students today made me remember that many of the children here had those same issues before the Food for People program started in Bantoli. And now they don't. Good hygiene and proper nutrition has made a real difference in their lives."
As she discusses the positive changes she's seen, a child runs up toshow her his mastery of the 11 times table. Dr. Sandhya smiles and ponders the future. "The children's health checkups are good and our screening has been effective. But follow-up is important. These children do very well when they're here between the ages of 8 and 12. But what about when they're adults? Having an empirical record of what happens after these children leave our facility will better tell us where and how we can improve what we offer in these formative years."
If today's health checkup is any indication, the prognosis for tomorrow is very encouraging. "The children here are more open, less shy, healthier and practice better hygiene than ever before," says the doctor looking around the FFP facility. "A lot of positive change has happened."
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Glendora, Calif. - Citrus College sophomore softball player Jade Nua has signed a scholarship offer with NCAA DI Fresno State University. Nua is the first Owl from the 2017 team to sign a scholarship offer.
"I really liked the campus, and the coaching staff at Fresno State," Nua said. "They're a winning program, and I'm looking forward to staying in a competitive environment where I'll get a chance to finish out my degree."
Nua capped her Citrus career after being named the Western State Conference East Division Player of the Year, a California Community College Fastpitch Coaches Association All-State selection, and just the program's fifth ever National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-American.
Her 2017 season saw her finish 11th in the entire State in runs (57), sixth in RBIs (62), fourth in home runs (16), and second in batting average (.582) of those individuals with at least 50 at bats. She led the State in walks (42), on-base percentage (.725), and slugging percentage (1.235). Her 42 walks ties her for the most in by an individual player in State history.
"Citrus has played such a huge role for me. I wasn't highly recruited by any four-year school out of high school, and I hit it off with Coach Boxley when they were recruiting me to come to Citrus," Nua said. "Citrus has given me a chance to grow as a player and as a person. It has really set me up for this opportunity."
Along with making her mark in the State history books, Nua pretty much rewrote all of the offensive program records. She is now the single season program leader in batting average, RBIs, runs, and on-base percentage. She is second in slugging percentage and home runs. Nua finished her career with the second highest batting average in program history (.480), and is now first in the following categories: runs (80), home runs (19), RBIs (84), walks (70), on-base percentage (.639), and slugging percentage (.886).
"Jade is one of my favorite players to have ever come through this program," said Citrus College Head Softball Coach Jackie Boxley. "Jade never complained and always worked hard on and off the field. This scholarship is a direct reflection of that hard work. We will miss her ever present smile on campus, but we're excited that Fresno State is going to get that experience for themselves."


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This is Adventure!!
Character Creation Stuff
Hello there my minions and victims. Here we shall be listing the rules and regulations for making characters for this Campaign, and yeah… hope they aren't too confusing.
1) To get your Attributes, we shall be rolling SEVEN Sets of 4d6 Minus the Lowest; This is so people have some choice over how their character will be stat'd up.
2) Starting at Lvl "0", or 1st lvl NPC Class; Choose one of the provided NPC Class selections, and we'll decide your class combo from there.
3) Gestalt; Due to storyline and plot that is under works, ever PC will become a Gestalt upon getting their PC Powers. Using your NPC Class, decide what would be best for your character, and create a story from there. I shall describe how Gestalting works from there.
4) Traits/Flaws; Each character starts off with TWO character traits, they can gain more from story or feats. With this, everyone has to choose a single flaw to dictate their character, but the flaw nets you an extra FOUR Skill Points.
5) Craft Skills; I have always had this one rule when it comes to Craft skills, you can have as many different Crafts as your INTELLIGENCE MOD. So if you have a +3 INT Mod, you can have THREE Craft Skills. Also, these can be ANYTHING. Be Creative.
6) Every character has to choose a Profession; Sort of like Tome of Secrets Occupations, this gets you some more skill points, and a free feat OR extra starting gold.
7) Starting Gold; Starting gold will be dictated through the use of rolling a set number PROFESSION, PERFORM, or a CRAFT roll, depending on how you want to be known in the game world. This set number will be determined by the total number of dice you roll for starting gold from your classes, by adding together the results then getting half of that. So say you have a Rogue/Bard Gestalted character; Rogue=4 Dice, Bard=3, so this character rolls 7 sets of either Craft, Profession, or Perform.
8) Contacts; This is a new system we're going to try out, and should help out crafting a character back story, how you got your starting equipment, and certain training. Take your Cha score, the full thing, add in the Int Mod of your character, and that should get you a set amount of points. Now each contact has Loyalty to the PC and Connection, which dictates their niche in their life and what they can do. Be Creative with it, BUT also be realistic. Each point of Loyalty and Connection costs a single point from your pool, up to a Maximum of 6 for each set.


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Parenting is a high and a happy calling. The problem isn't that parents make mistakes (it's inevitable as imperfect people); the problem is when we lose our vision for the high and happy calling that is parenting. Let us run after Jesus, and look toward our perfect Father for strength and guidance as we dive into week two of our sermon series, Parenting the Next Generation.
A major component of parenting is making sure that our children feel loved. There are two ways to experience love:
- Love that happens to us (it's the warm and tingly feeling)
- Love that is intentional and purposeful (which is often more of a choice rather than a feeling)
- Intentional, purposeful love is the kind of love that transforms lives.
- Luke 6:32-35: "If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil."
- God's love is a love that prefers the other, and doesn't just happen to us like a warm feeling that bubbles up and stays just for a moment.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7: "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
- We must, as parents, make the transition between loving our children because of a warm and tingly feeling to loving intentionally – even when it's challenging.
If a child doesn't receive intentional love, they might start to perform, prove, or seek it elsewhere. Of course, this is dangerous and destructive. Let's look at 4 acts of intentional love:
- Pursuit:
- 1 John 4:8-10: "Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
- It's from the perfect pursuer, God, that we learn to pursue our own children.
- Pursuit takes time and effort. It's hard.
- We have to study our children, individually and intentionally, so we know what makes them more alive. Ask them, "How am I doing at loving you?"
- Encouragement:
- Romans 5:8: "but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
- He encourages us when we do well, and He encourages us when we fail miserably.
- Psalm 138:3: "On the day I called, you answered me; my strength of soul you increased." God is the strengthener of the souls of His children.
- The more our children ignore our encouragement, the more they need it.
- We aren't only worthy when we do something worthy. We are worthy all the time.
- Celebration:
- It's the small things!
- Zephaniah 3:17: "The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing."
- God rejoices because of who we are, not just what we do.
- Service:
- Mark 10:43-45: "But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Jesus came to serve us, and He kept no record for it.
- He didn't give us His life for His sake, but for ours.
There is no higher calling than to give away your life to prefer another person. Our children will know they are loved when we go from idea to implementation.
We love because He first loved us.
We meet every Sunday at 9am and 11am. We hope to see you at a service as we continue on in our parenting series!


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Unei, also known as Unne, is a boss in Final Fantasy III. She transforms into a monster and is fought immediately after Doga in Doga's Grotto.
Battle Edit
In the NES version, she follows a pattern of Tornado, Reflect, Tornado, and Snowstorm, making her a bit easier to deal with than Doga. Physical attacks are the way to go in defeating her. Using a Dragoon's Jump ability ends the battle fairly quickly. Like Doga, she is basically a pushover, though the fact that the party must fight her immediately after Doga can make her a challenge, especially if they are underleveled.
In the DS remake, Unei is a bit more difficult, as she can inflict heavy damage with a physical attack, followed by the powerful Aeroga spell on one or all party members. She also has access to both Protect and Haste, making her faster and taking less damage from physical attacks. However, she is still relatively easy to defeat.


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I am glad I did because its been a HUGE hit with JOE! She has had one (sometimes 2) helping a day since I made them. I did "thin" it out a bit since JOE has some sensitivities to the original ingredients used.
The best part is that J is interested in trying them too. Considering he doesn't really like eggs, this was big. I plan on making them with just egg whites for him since he can somewhat tolerate egg whites and using spicy Italian sausages.
Anyways, here are the ingredients needed. It is very similar to a frittata or crust-less quiche.
This makes 1-dozen muffins:
1/2 cup egg whites
1/4 cup light heavy cream (yes, they sell those at the grocery store!)
1/2 chopped onion (I used my frozen stash. No teary eyes here :-))
1/2 chopped bell peppers (again, I used my frozen stash)
Sprinkle of parsley
1 cup shredded light mozzarella cheese
1/2 packet of diced turkey bacon (just get the stripes and cut them up. The original recipe calls for spicy sausages. Just be sure to get it out of the casing first).
1. Grease muffin pan with olive oil or cooking spray.
2. NOTE: If you're using sausage, brown it in a pan with the chopped onions and bell peppers before adding to the mixture in step 3 below.
3. If you're using turkey bacon like I did, in a bowl, add in chopped onions, bell peppers, eggs, egg white, heavy cream, cheese (leave some out for later) and seasoning. Mix it all together then add the turkey bacon
4. Spoon mixture into muffin pan filling it to about 3/4 full
5. Top with some cheese
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-minutes or until it looks cooked throughout.
|JOE decided to "help" me so I gave her a bowl and mixer
|Check out my baby hard at work!
|The end results
|Taste test. YUM! JOE wanted it right away!
Have an awesomely blessed week!


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If you have been following, you may have noticed that there has been a major controversy about the ages of the Chinese women girl gymnasts.
Several days ago, the IOC asked for another investigation into this matter. Now Rogge is saying that the paperwork that China submitted for this investigation appears to back up the original determination that the gymnasts were old enough to compete.
How can anybody be so naive and gullible to think that countries would not falsify passports (especially since China was caught using an underage gymnast before)?
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This is the second Culture book I've read. The first was Excession, which was decidedly not the book to start with. I couldn't make heads nor tails of it. Of course, the second one I ended up picking up wasn't the first book in the series either, but at least it was the second. And much more accessible. Whew!
I'm still not loving them, though. I
enjoyed what I read, and won't avoid future Culture novels, but I'm not
at the point where I'd seek them out, either. I found this book to be
clinically distant from its material for a good portion of the text. It
did pick up and become quite emotional by the end, and I think maybe
that's the point. But it was a long way to go for a book that was only
engaging me intellectually until the last 50 pages. I got angry when the
main character did, and so it feels like that's the point.
is the best game player in Culture. Doesn't matter what game - there
are local specialists who might be able to beat him in individual games,
but no one can stand up against him across the broad spectrum of
available contests. So when he hears that Contact has found an Empire
where the entire fate of the imperial structure is decided by incredibly
complex games, he is intrigued. And heads to Asad, where he takes place
in the Grand Tournament, becoming enmeshed in imperial politics and
strategy (and Contact strategy) in ways he never anticipated.
does a fairly good job of keeping attention on the game, but since it
isn't (and probably can't be, even if it were a real thing) explained in
the book, it is difficult to know what he means at times. A good
portion of the book are descriptions (not in great detail, more in
impressions) of the gameplay.
But when the book opens up, and
Gurgeh becomes aware of the implications of game and the society that
that game has created, everything kicks into high relief, and the end
moves, in real life and in the game, are engrossing.


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The World 's #1 Personal Development Agency . . . has to prove it. What if you brought together five top personal development experts equipped with virtually everything we know about unleashing human potential and gave them some lives to change? ...Welcome to Quest, Inc. They say they can change your life. Now, as they re followed by an investigative journalist from one of the world 's leading news publications, they have to prove it or be damned as charlatans. Based on real life peak performance and transformational strategies, you ll see the highs and lows everyone faces on the road to self-realization especially the experts. Get ready for breakthrough . . . or breakdown.
My Thoughts:
The story starts with the worst day of Robert Rivera's life. Rivera is a former fitness/health guru who is now obese. Evicted on the same day that his wife leaves him, he feels that he has nothing to live for. Saved by a chance meeting with a former colleague, his old friends from the President's Living Well Campaign rally around him and help get him back on track.
Encouraged by their success of helping Robert, the old friends decide to reunite in order to help others. Calling their new venture "Quest, Inc." they set out to change America, one person at a time. With five of the top experts in their fields, they set out to show that anyone can change.
While trying to get their new venture off the ground, they accept an unusual offer from an investigative journalist, who will write about the entire experience. A risky move for a new company, but a risk that could have huge benefits.
Enjoyed seeing how the experts differed in their approaches and philosophies, and liked watching them deal with their various clients. It's encouraging to see experts as human beings, as they're so often put up on pedestals and act as though they're perfect. I think I'd be more inclined to follow Rivera's health program knowing that he had faced the same struggles I have, so too bad he's fictional!
Gave this one a 3/5 rating as it was an interesting read, but didn't keep me on the edge of my seat. It's also a little outside my usual genre, but still a good story. There were interesting characters, even though some of them were not very likable, and a decent plot. Cohen can definitely write!
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Justin Cohen is the author of four books and seven audiobooks. He produced and hosted a television talk show in which he interviewed some of the world's leading experts on success. With his psychology and drama degrees, and background in film and television, his passion lies not just in crafting life-changing personal development messages, but ensuring that they are fuelled with the power of great stories. Justin speaks and trains internationally. Please visit him at www.justinpresents.com.


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In a medium saucepan, stir together the condensed milk, 1 1/2 cups water and the salt. Bring to a simmer and cook until the ingredients are fully integrated, 5 to 8 minutes. Remove from the heat. Add the citrus zests and allow to cool.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, eggs and vanilla. Pour the condensed milk mixture over the eggs and whisk to blend.
Fill the ramekins about three-quarters each with the liquid and place the water bath in the center of the oven. Bake until they are almost firm in the center when lightly shaken, 45 to 50 minutes. Refrigerate until cooled.
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Saturday, June 9, 2012
It's a creeper! It's a crawler! It's English Ivy!
Species name: Hedera helix
Common name: Common ivy, English ivy
Location: Ontario
As you can probably guess from the common name of this plant, its origins are in Europe (and also Asia). It's a somewhat unusual plant in that it is an evergreen species, which contributes to its invasive properties in that it can photosynthesize in the winter. This plant produces structures called rootlets along the stem, which help anchor the vine to any surface that's suitable. When there isn't a suitable surface, they act as regular roots by anchoring the plant into the ground and absorbing water and some nutrients. If you're really observant, you'll notice in the top two pics that English ivy and Madagascar periwinkle (that you can read all about in a previous blog post HERE) seem to be able to live together quite nicely, completely covering the ground with their vines (and that's a relatively high traffic area, too). Both plants must be flooding-tolerant, since that location in the back yard can get incredibly soggy during the spring melt and during the summer's intense rains. The ability of this plant to out-compete other plants is so impressive that English ivy often creates "ivy deserts" where it has strangled out all other plants and is all that exists on a landscape. This can be contrasted with the plant kudzu, which is an invasive vine in the United States that has choked out ground cover, shrubs and trees in Florida and Georgia (and is moving its way north).
John Gerard plays an important role in the historical uses of this plant, like Solomon's seal. He once advocated that soaking leaves in warm water would create a tonic that could be used to help eye soreness and dryness. I would absolutely not recommend this as a modern treatment for dry eyes (aside from the fact that you should never, EVER mess with "home treatments" when it comes to your sight) since English ivy can produce an intense allergic reaction upon contact with a chemical contained in the leaves called falcarinol. On the skin it produces contact dermatitis (a rash-like reaction), but in contact with the eyes it can induce blindness if you're sensitive to the chemical. Interestingly enough, most people with this sensitivity usually greatly dislike carrots since they also contain the same chemical and can produce an "itchy mouth" (I'm sure there's got to be a technical term for that...). Historically, the berries of this plant have also been used to treat bronchitis.
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"While salsa is experiencing a revival in popular culture, the dance form has largely disappeared from the New York clubs where it was born..."
Complete article: Salsa Spins Beyond Its Roots, By JULIE BLOOM
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I used two of Tim's lacy dies for the bottom and main tag ( fragment die) I distress inked both tags and stuck them together.
I use an ornate oval die to frame the image of a lady in lacy attire. I then added lace at the top and some lace flowers to finish off.


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Things I used:
Bundle Monster Third Set- BM324 plate
Rimmel London 60 sec- Black Out
Jordana French Manicure- Barely Pink
konad Special Polish- White
BYS- Top Coat
Lacura Beauty- Top Coat
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This is lovely. I really like the black tips. I always want to try the french designs on stamping plates, but shy away. I think I am going to have to start using them. :)ReplyDelete
Yea you should use them, I never really used the French tips on stamping plates but I'm so glad I did. It's worth a try
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In what is being billed as the first time they've ever played at the same concert, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel have signed on for a benefit for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on Oct. 16 at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
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If you go
What: Boulder Valley school board meeting
When: 6 p.m. Tuesday
Where: Boulder Valley Education Center, 6500 Arapahoe Road, Boulder
More info: bvsd.org
The Boulder Valley school board will get its first look Tuesday at the proposed boundary for the new pre-K-8 school under construction in Erie.
The 100,000-square-foot campus, designed for 750 students, is set to open in the fall of 2017 on 15 acres in the Flatiron Meadows neighborhood, adjacent to an 8-acre city park site.
The school, with a price tag of about $41.7 million, will be Boulder Valley's first in Erie. Now, the district's Erie students are assigned to attend Lafayette Elementary and Angevine Middle School.
The proposed attendance area for the new school includes students who live north of Arapahoe Avenue and east of U.S. 287, plus those living in a half-mile-wide strip of land north of Isabelle Road and west of U.S. 287.
District officials are predicting the Erie school will open with about 400 elementary students and 200 middle school students.
Lafayette Elementary's enrollment is expected to drop to about 425 students from the current 610, while Angevine is expected to go from about 700 students to about 600.
The preliminary plan is to open the Erie school with preschool through seventh grade, adding eighth grade the following year. But, Superintendent Bruce Messinger said, if there's enough interest the district would consider opening with a small eighth-grade class.
Families who want their children to continue at either Lafayette Elementary or Angevine Middle will be allowed to stay, but transportation won't be provided other than for eighth-graders.
The boundary proposal was discussed at an open house on the new school attended by about 75 people. Those in the proposed attendance area also were notified by mail, while email notices were sent to all Boulder Valley parents with a Lafayette mailing address.
District officials said they received limited feedback on the proposed boundary, with three people asking to add neighborhoods assigned to Sanchez Elementary to either the new school or Lafayette Elementary.
"There's a general level of understanding and support for the new boundary," Messinger said.
Once the boundary is set — with final approval by the school board expected at the Oct. 11 meeting — the district plans to start asking parents to share their plans for the fall to get better enrollment estimates.
"We'll try to get as accurate a count as we can," Messinger said.
As of last October, the new school's proposed attendance area included 278 elementary and 191 middle school students enrolled in Boulder Valley schools, plus 84 elementary and 24 middle school students who open enroll in nearby St. Vrain Valley schools.
As development of the area continues, another 660 elementary and 321 middle school students are expected at build out.
The district is expecting some out-of-district enrollment into the new school, but district officials said they don't want to take too many in anticipation of growth filling seats in the future.
"We don't want to unintentionally overcrowd our own school," Messinger said. "We want to be sure we can accommodate the children over time."
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The mind reels at the ingenuity of "Intimate Exchanges," a cycle of eight full-length plays by Alan Ayckbourn running in tandem in the Brits Off Broadway fest. In this masterpiece of plot manipulation, the individual but interrelated plays methodically examine the multiple opportunities for hilarity and disaster resulting from one character's decision whether or not to smoke a cigarette. But while the technical legerdemain is astonishing, so, too, is Ayckbourn's ability to balance the comedy and pathos of people who balk at the confinement of their lives by making a mad lunge at happiness — only to find themselves trapped in eight different kinds of hell.
Ingenious as it is, the design becomes downright treacherous in performance, since all 10 characters are played by only two actors. Happily, those thespic beasts of burden are Bill Champion and Claudia Elmhirst, gifted actors with the protean comic skills to take on the whole kit and caboodle.
Despite the complexity of the overall scheme — hatched in 1982 for the scribe's home-based Stephen Joseph Theater in Scarborough and seen soon after in London's West End, as well as in twin 1993 film adaptations by Alain Resnais — the tricky structure boils down to simple mathematics. All eight plays are set in the same stuffy English suburb, open with the same scene, and draw from the same set of characters.
But once the crucial to-smoke-or-not-to-smoke choice is made in that initial scene, the action veers off in one of two directions, each with its own preordained chain of events that, depending on choices made by the characters, branch off into ever-multiplying paths of action in subsequent scenes.
Scribe stopped after 16 possible codas, but according to the laws of mathematics, he could have gone on ad infinitum.
Consider that early morning smoke, which takes place (or not) in the garden of the house where Toby Teasdale (Champion), malcontent headmaster of the local school, and Celia (Elmhirst), his super-efficient but unappreciated wife, live with their (unseen) children. As is his unattractive habit, cranky Toby wakes up hung-over and surly, and the exasperated Celia retaliates with a major housecleaning that takes her out to the garden shed in search of a ladder.
As she passes by a lawn table, Celia spies a pack of cigarettes. If she stops to light up (as she does in four of the eight plays), she will hear the front doorbell ring and let in Lionel (Champion, again), the groundskeeper at Toby's school, looking for extra work as a gardener. But if Celia skips the cigarette (as she does in the other four plays) and goes into the garden shed, she will miss Lionel and greet another visitor when she emerges from the shed. That would be Miles (Champion, yet again), the sad sack who lives next door with Rowena (Elmhirst, again), his sparkplug of a wife.
Now, since Celia is already at the end of her rope in this marriage, what with Toby's drinking at home, his incompetence at school and hurtful behavior toward her, the poor dear is bound to do something drastic. But depending on which play you are attending, she could have a fling with the gardener ("Events on a Hotel Terrace"), go into the catering business ("Affairs in a Tent"), find her true love with Miles ("A Cricket Match") or pass up her last chance for love ("A One Man Protest"). Yet more scenarios are explored in the other four plays: "Love in the Mist," "A Game of Golf," "A Pageant" and "A Garden Fete."
Given her volatile state, Celia could also rebel, get rip-roaring drunk, tell off Toby, break Lionel's heart, make a man of Miles, find herself, lose herself, disgrace herself or have a nervous breakdown. (Be assured that, whatever she is charged to do, Elmhirst is alternately endearing, pathetic and/or hilarious.)
Ayckbourn has all those bases covered — and then some. Although Celia's initial action of smoking or not smoking sets off every chain of events, some of the most memorable scenes involve other characters. As played by Champion, Toby has some vitriolic moments that are breathtaking for their biting wit and overflowing bile, while Miles, the nerd from next door, is heartbreaking when his love is denied. For that matter, anyone who catches "A Cricket Match" might think that Elmhirst has her finest moment as earthy red-headed Rowena.
No matter which hoops the individual characters jump though, or how many permutations the plot takes, all the storylines emerge from the same mainspring: the sad state of domestic relationships in this neck of the world — and everyone's desperate need to have some fun before it's too late.
Ayckbourn is intimately familiar with his striver-class characters and their socially proper (or improper) interactions with the lower orders once they wake up in middle age to discover the limitations of their lives. If the character psychology seems sound underneath the broad farcical comedy, it's because the scribe has been studying it over the course of some 70 plays.
The only real critical caveat here is that Ayckbourn seems disinclined to go as deeply into the psyches of Lionel the gardener and Sylvie the cleaning girl as he has with the professional-class twits they work for — and occasionally seduce. While Elmhirst charmingly conveys Sylvie's aspirations to better herself and Champion has a go at Lionel's broken-hearted response to a loved one's rejection, both characters are played largely for laughs.
Maybe if they shucked the absurdly phony blonde wigs, Ayckbourn could get off a few more plays in this cycle.


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Sunday, January 11, 2009
As most of you know, Merge Records is celebrating it's 20th anniversary this year with a special music subscription offer, SCORE!, that'll last you the entire year. TODAY is the LAST DAY to subscribe [I got my subscription in yesterday] so get out those credit cards. What you'll get - 14 celebrity-curated compilation CD's from the likes of David Byrne and Peter Buck, a Merge remix CD featuring remixes of Merge classics by the likes of Caribou and Junior Boys, a Merge covers CD featuring non-Merge artists including Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, Tracey Thorn and Jens Lekman, and The Shins, a 350+ page cover art book, a full-length comedy CD from Scharpling and Wurster, a SCORE box to put everything in after, plus a variety of other goodies(posters, CD's, digital downloads) that come up throughout the year. Already scheduled as part of the bonus stuff is an exclusive digital download of Superchunk's "The Clambakes Vol 4 — Sur La Bouche — Live in Montreal 1993" available to subscribers for download on January 13. For $199 US plus shipping you'll be getting Merge delivered to your mailbox each month. A lot better than getting that credit card bill right? And if you were thinking it was a tad expensive, just remember that ALL PROCEEDS will be going to charities handpicked by the 14 curators.
Later this year, Pitchfork reports that Merge will further celebrate with a five-day music festival in its native North Carolina from July 22-26. Perhaps this might deserve a visit.
Keep up-to-date with all SCORE!-related things over at the SCORE! blog.
Posted by Michael at 1/11/2009 04:00:00 pm
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text: Sleeping for seven hours a night can prevent your brain from ageing by an extra two years, according to a new research. American researchers found that older women who slept for seven hours a night had far better concentration and memories than those who slept for nine hours. Those who got less than five hours were also found to suffer, the 'Daily Mail' reported. Scientists believe that those who restrict themselves to seven hours a night can prevent their brain from ageing by an extra two years, compared with those who get too much sleep or not enough. Earlier research has shown that having more than seven hours of sleep a night can lead to weight gain and increase the risk of heart problems and diabetes. However, the new study is one of the first to link it to concentration problems. The research, presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Vancouver, Canada, looked at 15,000 women in their seventies over five years. All the participants underwent regular tests to check their memory, concentration and attention span. Those who usually slept for seven hours performed far better than those who got less than five hours, or more than nine. "Our findings support the notion that extreme sleep durations and changes in sleep duration over time may contribute to cognitive decline and early Alzheimer's changes in older adults," lead researcher Elizabeth Devore of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, was quoted as saying by the paper. "The public health implications of these findings could be substantial, as they might lead to the eventual identification of sleep-based strategies for reducing risk of cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's," she added. "A good night's sleep is one of life's pleasures but, once again, this robust research suggests that the quality and duration of sleep are also linked to our cognitive health," a spokesman for the Alzheimer's Society said. "We're not saying you shouldn't enjoy the occasional lie-in, but good-quality sleep, eating a balanced diet, maintaining a healthy weight and exercising regularly can all make a difference in reducing your risk," he said Source: Indian Express, Image: flickr.com


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OK, We have really started doing Potty Training Boot Camp, and you can too, right here.
Day 1, Hour 0
Salty snacks are available, milk and caffeine-free soda are ready, and 10 pairs of Sesame Street underwear are downstairs and ready for duty.
Hour 1
Subject appears rested, but woke crying, this does not bode well for the coming day.
I explained the plan for the day, Subject appears to be interested in the prospect of getting to watch Dinosaur Train, but not so much in the requirement to be seated on the potty while doing so. Will have to work on the association.
Hour 2
Subject had his first accident, the carpet in the family room took the hit. Subject "cleaned up" the mess, the carpet is still soaking wet. Subject cried and screamed through Potty Drills.
Hour 3
Subject was able to make it through several 10 minute intervals with dry underwear, but after many long intervals of sitting on the potty with no results, then getting up and immediately having an accident, I decided to call for reinforcements. E&O's Mom assures me this is normal, and is about control. I proceeded to try to catch Subject after one such event, and put him on the potty, where we got our very first success of Peeing on the Potty.
Blessed Naptime
Hour 4 through bedtime.
Subject spent the rest of the day staying dry enough to get some sugary rewards, while also having two more accidents, and two more successes. Final data collection:
8 pairs of underwear
5 accidents
3 successes in the potty (one needing some direction...)
3 Potty Drills
1 sleeping toddler
1 exhausted mom
1 more day to do it all again to make sure we really have the concept down and he'll do it himself!
Oh, I forgot to add that I did use the bath as an incentive to get ONE more pee-pee in the potty out of him, since he was prone to going in the bath just as the water was draining out, and although he did not think I was serious until the bathwater was draining out and he still had not been allowed in the tub, he finally did sit down on his own and go in the potty upstairs. Yay me, for sticking to my guns!
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We arrived in Current, Eleuthera and drove down to Gregory Town where the Pineapplethon triathlon was going to be the following morning.
The house we had rented was just a bit further south. Great house except for the fact that the walls in the two pods housing three bedrooms and a bathroom each don't go up to the ceiling -- they're open.... so no privacy and a bit dodgy when it comes to bathroom time....
I felt the views from SeaCliff were well worth it though. Amazing to sit there and look out over the ocean.
We had a relatively early night Friday because it was up early and back to Gregory Town Saturday for the triathlon.
My swim was awesome. Beat one of our guy friends (who's a swimmer, btw) out of the water and was actually the first female out of the water. Felt great to see how my swim training paid off big time.
Apparently I need to start putting more time in on the bike and run as it went downhill from there. My band was tight that morning so no food went in.. I felt like I was biking and walking on fumes.
My friend Ann, who'd run in a relay, came back on the course to run me back home. That was pretty awesome of her.
The day went downhill from there. Once I'd finished, my father pulled me aside to let me know that the call he'd received the night before was to tell him that a dear friend of ours had died suddenly the Friday evening.
I'm still in shock about it. Shlomi was one of the really good guys. We've known him since he and his wife (who is the daughter of some of my parents' best friends) started dating him in college. He left behind 3 young kids. The youngest was born the day he handed me the keys to my house -- he was my contractor as well. She turned 2 in March so will have no personal memories of her awesome dad. Shlomi would have turned 40 this coming Friday. He collapsed and died while playing soccer with some buddies of his. They did this every Friday. I haven't heard yet whether a cause of death has been established.
I also can't believe my dad held that in so long. He waited until I'd finished my race before breaking the news. One of the women in our group who just met him this weekend said to me 'if I hadn't already fallen in love with your dad, I would have for that alone.'
Not sure yet when there will be a memorial service in Nassau. I understand his wife, kids, his brothers (flying in from the US) and his wife's family were all going to take him to Israel to be buried next to his father per his wishes.
Crying again as I write this. RIP Shlomi Zlicha. You are missed.
ok... can't end on the sad note. The weekend, although melancholy, was a good time. I was lucky to be surrounded by great friends.
On Sunday we checked out of our rental house and drove up north to get a ferry over to Harbour Island for the day. We puttered around on our golf carts, had a lovely lunch and then chilled out on the stunning, world famous, Pink Sand Beach. Bliss.
The slow boat to Nassau got us home around 10, so it was late by the time we got home.
Monday morning, I frantically sorted out my stuff and packed another suitcase, this time for a trip to S. Florida with my 15 yo niece to do some shopping for her for camp. It's been a great couple days. Lots of quality bonding time :)
Tomorrow morning we head home and although I am technically still on vacation, barring a flight delay, I'll go to the company's Annual General Meeting at 6pm.... the fun just never ends.
Ok... off to do my life coaching class homework for Friday morning's class!
Photos from the weekend below
|Me and my lil buddy Kami. I didn't even think twice about posing for a photo in a bikini. It didn't even occur to me to use her as a shield until after the pic had been snapped!
|Start of the triathlon. A small, but fun field of competitors. We swam out to the white buoy, across to one out of the photo, and back in.
|Kami and I checking out the sights from down below our house's cliff
|the amazing deck at our rental house. Incredible views.
|as if i needed a sign to tell me!
|bikes at the start of the triathlon. mine is the second from the left end...
|looking down the steps of the cliff face
|and looking up. climbing down AFTER the triathlon wasn't my smartest move of the weekend...
|Late afternoon at Rainbow Bay Beach
|don't ask.... but from this angle my stomach was wonderfully flat!
|ugh..... blogger has squished me here!
|I never did make it into the water on Pink Sand Beach on Harbour Island. I was exhausted and found myself a nice lounge chair under a thatch hut and napped.
|I was super impressed to see the healthy options Jet Blue serves onboard.
|That's me. not taking up too much room in my airplane seat. Look at all that seatbelt left over! To think pre-lapband I was a mouthful away from having to ask for the dreaded seatbelt extension thingamajiggy!!!!!!! NSV for sure!!!


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french food Friday...Chicken Nicoise
Chicken Nicoise
- 125g (4½oz) green beans
- 250g (9oz) leftover cooked chicken
- 1 romaine lettuce
- 12 good quality olives
- 4 tomatoes, roughly chopped
- 3tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 1tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 1tsp wholegrain mustard
- Handful of fresh parsley, roughly chopped
- 4 eggs
- 1tbsp olive oil
METHODCook the green beans in boiling salted water for 2 minutes, then drain and refresh under cold running water.
Cook the eggs in a pan of boiling water for 8 minutes, then drain and leave under cold running water for 2 minutes. Peel away the shells and halve the eggs.
Tear the chicken and lettuce into chunky pieces and place in a bowl with the beans, eggs, olives and tomatoes, and mix together carefully. Whisk the oil, balsamic vinegar and mustard together and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Drizzle over the salad and mix gently together. Sprinkle over the parsley, and serve.
Bon appetit à tous, Leeann x


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Let's be honest- there is no way that any of us love every book we read, and sometimes we're not going to finish them. I give a lot of books a go, and sometimes I find ones that i can't even power through, which leads to a meter-high did not finish pile every month (it also means I flagrantly overuse the library because I'm afraid of buying a book that I won't finish). I tend to only comment on books that I have finished, for obvious reasons, but I figured I would give a sample of the (aforementioned meter-high) did not finish pile. These are the books that I honestly couldn't finish for more reason that "I didn't have time":
The Vindico: I typically love books about juvenile and teenage criminal masterminds. I loved H.I.V.E., which has a very similar premise, but I just couldn't get into this one. I got about halfway though before calling it quits. I didn't much care for the characters, and it lacked something that I require in young criminal masterminds: a sense of humour. It didn't have that element of dark humour that I love in young criminal mastermind genera. Like in H.I.V.E., teens were snatched by a criminal organisation to train the next generation of law breakers. However, I saw nothing interesting or brilliant about these characters, and I gave up pretty quickly.
The Suburban Strange: I didn't get anywhere close to finishing this one- I didn't even get to the main plot points. From the beginning, the character of Celia annoyed me a lot. I found her very difficult to connect to at all and it didn't matter to me in the slightest what happened to her. I gave up about 60 pages in after she thought that two injuries in four days happening to two different girls was strange, while the fact that she was joining some strange group of people who seemed to be trying to be edgy and mysterious, but failed completely wasn't at all odd. She didn't ask questions. She wasn't curious. All in all, she wasn't my type of character, and I actively disliked most of the others.
Pulse: Again, I did't care for the characters, and I didn't feel for the world. I found the premise promising, but it didn't really pan out for me. I promptly forgot the names of a lot of characters while reading, and they seemed shallow to me- not what I go for in a sci-fi/ fantasy (is there a word for the combo thereof? sci-fantasy?- I'm going to use sci-fantasy from now on). If you're going to give me a computer dependent world, give me a computer dependent world, make the hacking a big deal, make it seem spectacular, like hacking is actually something interesting that takes talent, otherwise I won't root for anyone to take down your totalitarian regime- it will seem as though anyone could do it. If you're going to give me a people willing giving up their freedom for convenience give me someone with a strong opinion otherwise, give me someone to root for, or give me the sense that they will develop an opinion that I can care about. I didn't get to the whole "Pulse" thing, I was done by the time the "mysterious new guy" entered the scene. The whole world felt sort of tedious.
Etiquette and Espionage: (note: I have not read the Parasol Protectorate books) This was too many things for me- steampunk and magic and assassins. I sort of went into it hoping that the steampunk aspect would be subtle, and it would have a focus on Victorian girls being trained as assassins. I wasn't expecting the magic bit at all, and that really put me off- along with the fact the steampunk was brutally in my face. I would have liked to see the Victorian assassin training- the Victorian view of women was little better than the Victorian view of furniture so women would make ideal assassins, spies and detectives (if you like the sound of the last ones, try The Agency by Y.S. Lee), because they could fade into the background. I also wasn't all that fond of the characters- Sophronia was a little bit too much the cliched female lead. I got about 70 pages in before I gave this one up as not for me.
Now. I know people who read this are probably going to have some strong words for me. I would like to hear (well, read them) them, provided you attack the idea, not the person, and are respectful. Thanks.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
April DNF
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Lorcan, Prince of the Leprechauns, has been cursed by an ugly spell for centuries. Every year around St. Patrick's Day he chooses a village girl to kiss. It brings prosperity and well being to the seaside village of Glen Kisswich. This year Aine Byrne is the lucky lady – not! She doesn't want to kiss a guy who's uglier than a toad, prince or not. Besides, she's got a crush on another guy. What's a girl to do?
Only the kiss of Lorcan's soul mate can lift the curse. What are the chances he'll find his true love with a bloodline that blends human, fairy and mermaid? To make matters worse, somebody is determined to stop The Kiss from happening.


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This book was so fun! I've been a fan of Sophie Kinsella's books since I read the first Shopholic novel. Although I got a little burnt out on the Shopholic books – I get it, she likes to shop – I really enjoy Kinsella's stand-alone novels. This one did not disappoint.
Katie "Cat" Brenner lives in a fabulous flat in London, has wonderful adventures in the city, and works in a great job. At least, that's what she wants you to think based on her Instagram feed. Actually, Katie spends a good chunk of her day commuting to work where she has to deal with her crazy boss, shares a tiny flat with some interesting roommates, and is often too broke to engage in any sort of social life. When she is abruptly fired from her job, Katie is forced to move home and help her family with their fledgling glamping business.
Katie is such an entertaining and fresh character. She is smart and resourceful. She made me laugh and empathize with her. Throughout the book Katie struggles to figure out who she is – the city girl who lives in London? Or the girl who lives in the country? There's a little bit of romance, but it's not the main focus of the book.
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A woman in China has been sentenced to a year in a labour camp for a tweet.The news from China has been disturbing.
We encourage those of you who use Twitter to re-tweet her statement ("Charge, angry youth") in protest.
Individual freedoms matter. We have to value and fight for them, and stand with those who do.


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{this moment} is a Friday ritual inspired by SouleMama. A single photo—no words—capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special or extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
In gratitude this week for:
- Rain that finally stopped (and no treacherous conditions like there are elsewhere in the world today)
- Better internet connectivity
- A kind reminder to keep things in perspective (thanks, Mom)
Have a good weekend!


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Paging Patrick J. and The Best Friend
TD and I were talking this morning as we listened to NPR's report on the turmoil in Tibet. We start talking about other recent instances of unrest and violence: Darfur, Rwanda, Basque, the neverending Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
He posits that at least in developing countries like Africa, if we could solve the problem of hunger, then people would fight less. "Hungry people revolt" or something to that effect. He has something there, of course. Scarce resources exacerbate the factionalism caused by underlying ethnic or religious tensions, as A fights B for scarce resource C, be that land, water, food, etc. And later today I got tipped off to this article in The Arabist that reports that Egypt is in an uproar over food shortages, and Tony Karon says it's possible that this will lead to the overthrow of the Egyptian government.
It's an interesting empirical question though: hunger, or extreme lack of resources and the resultant fighting over such resources by ethnic/religious factions is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for uprising, but how many genocides or revolutions have occurred in absence of conflict over scarce resources? Is religious/ethnic conflict enough? Surely, but these motives are hard to tease apart when they correspond to issues of ownership over any type of resource, particularly land. It's not so much that one is a proxy for another, but rather that the causes of unrest and violence are complex and multi-faceted and thus solutions must necessarily also be complex--distributing food to blighted war-torn countries is just the first step. Also, I am so pessimistic as to believe humans capable of great violence over ideologies, identities, animus. The Crusades come to mind. Political principles and conflicting ideas over sovereignty and independence are plenty enough reason to start a war, or at least be a main cause: The Civil War, Basque separatism for another. The tricky thing is, resource-access/political power/sovereignty are all bound in each other, and thus all confluent causes of conflict.
Patrick, what do you think? You are Mr. Grad Student in Political Science doing work on conflict and intervention. Also, TBF, don't you policy analysis in conflict resolution and stability operations? I am speaking as the most uninformed lay person who reads the newspaper now that I no longer use my almost-minor in international relations. My readers would benefit from your expertise.


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On the 14th September 2012 the Walking Artists Network presented 'Walkie-talkie too' at the Sideways festival in Zutendaal, Belgium. This was the second event under the umbrella of the Walking Artists Network, and saw artist, academics and practitioners from across Europe come together and think and talk and walk some more. Participants' responses – written, photographic, audio – are posted here.
On the 30th July 2011, the Walking Artists Network presented 'Walkie-talkie' – a day of scratch walks and peripatetic perambulations. Walkie-talkie was the first walking event of the Walking Artists Network, established in order to aid/enable/force artists who use walking in their practice to come together and think and talk and walk. Walkie-talkie invited people to come together for a one-day mobile laboratory, using Chelsea Theatre as 'base camp'.
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Released overnight in the US, the Shelby Mustang Super Snake delivers over 560kW of power from its supercharged 5.0-litre V8 engine.
That's well up on the 468kW and 522kW supercharger kits previously released and far beyond the 331kW of the standard 'Stang.
Mustang Motorsport will officially import the Shelby Super Snake package to our country, which will add around $90,000 (exact price TBC) to the $55,000 standard V8 version purchased from your Ford dealership.
In addition to the most powerful supercharger package, other inclusions are differential and transmission cooling, an adjustable rear control arm, camber/castor plates, racing seats, 6-piston front brakes, a Borla exhaust with Shelby tips and 20-inch Weld Racing wheels with Michelin tyres.
Outside, it's as you see in the photos; the Super Snake styling package includes racing stripes and bulging carbon fibre bonnet, splitter, rocker panels, diffuser, spoiler and mirror covers.
Inside there's a short-throw shifter kit (though you can also get the whole kit with an auto), tri-gauge pod, Super Snake branded headrest covers and Shelby labelled floor mats and sill plates.
You'll get a proper certificate of authenticity and Shelby serial number in Oz, too, marking the car as more than just a Mustang GT bolt-on kit.
It does, however, place the Super Snake up there with the BMW M3 on price, though well beyond the 430kW HSV GTS on grunt – but perhaps it's cooler and more bespoke than both.
If that is a bit rich for your blood, Mustang Motorsport has also announced prices for the supercharger kits producing 468kW (BYO plus $14,000) and 522kW (another $2000).
You can run those kits separately or together with a Roush styling package (BYO plus $14,153) that includes 20s, front fascia kit, spoiler and other exterior enhancements.
The Shelby GT kit is one step above the Roush but one below the Shelby Super Snake. Turning your Mustang GT into a Shelby GT will cost a still-hefty amount (BYO plus $46,990) and that's without either supercharger option.
For that price you also get full Shelby branded exterior and interior parts that are identical to those officially sold in the US, in addition to a handling package, cold air intake, exhaust with tips, forged alloy wheels and a short-throw shifter kit.
All the parts are official, and make your Mustang GT official, as you will get an official Shelby serial number.
Add the blower to the Shelby GT kit, and an approximate pricetag of $115,000 for the 468kW version places it in the ballpark of the 430kW HSV GTS. Game on…


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Mirage Gr8 Ford Cosworth DFV
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'2nd Le Mans 1976'
Avant Slot have just released an all new exciting slot model, the Mirage Gr8 reference number 51201. The Grand Touring Cars Inc. Mirage was raced at Le Mans in 1976 and finished an impressive 2nd driven by Jean-Louis Lafosse and Francois Migault.
Paint and decal finish look very impressive and the chassis set-up is classic Avant Slot design. The bettom image shows the chassis with 3 magnets in place but I'd be surprised if the Mirage was shipped with any more than one. :)
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