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A Leaf on the Sea
My fiction comes from the life I have lived. It comes from the paradise years, the years I spent growing up in the Hawaiian Islands. It arises from the confused, meandering, brainless time in my life I now call, my boyhood.
All my fictions are true, though they never actually happened. All my fictional characters are real, though they never actually lived. They are real and true because I give them a taste of what I have been and what I have felt in my life. I have never forgotten the almost unendurable heartaches of my lost teenage loves, or the fear and tension that gripped me when I knew some kind of fight was imminent. It's all still there, deep inside me.
These feelings are the sparks that make me human.
I grew up emotionally alone. Help was there, but I was too ignorant to know I even needed it. My young years were superb, but utterly unconscious. I lived an easy and exciting youth, stumbling my way through those early years with a mind as blank as a cow's.
And I paid hard for those years in my twenties.
I had three fathers, yet was not raised by any of them. None of them were available to me. I drifted like a leaf on the sea.
When I left the islands to go to college on the mainland, I was completely unprepared to deal with the reality of it.
But before that, I had the time of my life. And that's where my stories live -- in that cauldron of boyhood experience, in that beguiling, shark-filled ocean that carried me along for so many years.
I write fiction for young readers because I feel for the boy I was, and I feel for the boys out there right now who are just like I was. There must be a million of them. Rudderless. Drifting. I feel for my own sons and daughters, who are growing into a world far more confusing than the one I grew into. That's one reason I believe fiction is so important. Meaningful fiction may just possibly urge them to think about a few things while it entertains them. It can enlighten. It can suggest options and possible consequences. It can offer hope in an often frightening and uncertain world.
Maybe I'm a little idealistic. Maybe I'm fooling myself. But I don't think so.
Tell me where this boy can go to lick his wounds. The story appeared in my local newspaper this summer. It took place in one of the large regional shopping malls where I live in Portland, Oregon. It started like this:
He was a small boy in a large man's dress shirt, buttoned up to his neck, tucked into his blue jeans. He was crying, hard, and wiping his eyes with the too-big sleeve of his pale gray shirt. His sloppy-long sandy hair hung down over his eyes, but not enough to hide his wet cheeks and the mottled red skin. Even before you could read the sign he was carrying, you could hear his sobbing.
Most folks (in the mall) last Sunday, at lunch time, must have seen the boy and his parents and two brothers, who walked behind him. A few read the sign and laughed out loud. "I'll bet he'll never do that again!" chuckled one man to a woman at the next table.
The woman did not laugh back. "I felt nauseated," (she said). "My first thought was that they were asking him to panhandle through the mall." The boy's parents weren't looking for money. They were looking to humiliate their son.
His sign explained, in graphic language, that the boy had urinated in the toilet and had not flushed.
Almost everyone who witnessed this appalling humiliation was disgusted. One incensed man finally yanked the sign from the boy's hand and gave his mother a piece of his mind. She shouted back that he obviously knew nothing of "tough love."
Tough love?
Most certainly, the man that boy will become will carry a scar. But maybe somewhere along the way this boy might pick up, say, Chris Crutcher's Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes and see that he's not alone in his abuse. Maybe Sarah's inner will to move ahead despite her problems will inspire him. Who knows? Maybe fiction will help this boy when the humans in his life won't.
If he reads, I believe it will.
I believe it because fiction has had an immense influence on my own life. That boy with the embarrassing sign is me. Not literally me, for I can thank my good-luck star that I was never treated like he was, but still, my boyhood was similar. The only difference was that I degraded and humiliated myself by way of my own poor choices. I still feel bad about some of the things I blindly got mixed up in.
There was a wild boy in our neighborhood in Kailua on the island of Oahu. I'll call him Buster, in case someone is still looking for him. He was a little older than I was, maybe thirteen or fourteen. He was bigger and smarter and not someone you played tricks on, unless you wanted to grow up with no teeth. My friends and I were fascinated by him, by his sudden appearances in our lives and his ghostly vanishings. He almost always left us with our mouths hanging open.
All my friends and I lived on a curved street that wrapped around the edge of a golf course. Our grassy yard sloped down to the shore of a wide, dirty river we called The Swamp. It was a smelly thing that purged out from the boggy islands to a clean, turquoise sea, polluting it with its warm, foul water.
Across the street from my house was a jungle of tall ironwood trees growing out of a tangle of long grass and weeds. We made forts in there, and hid from golfers. A short, hunched-over hike through a secret trail put me on the seventh green, a grassy carpet that felt like heaven under my bare feet.
Looking up, you could see back over The Swamp to the tee. Golfers had to hit long, over the water, and over a grassy marsh that ran along the shore, which was a golf-ball-finder's paradise.
Then looking the other way, from the green down to the next hole, you saw a stretch of beautifully cut grass that ran parallel to The Swamp. A thick mangrove jungle separated it from the water. The jungle was our safety net.
It was where we ran when the Jeep came.
The "Jeep" was our greatest enemy. It scared you spitless just to see it coming at you, whining down the fairway with three or four guys bouncing in their seats over the bumps. They were the groundskeepers for the country club, and the part of the job they loved the most was keeping kids like us off the golf course.
One day Buster showed up in our neighborhood. He lived on another street and didn't usually fool around with us, except when he was bored. He didn't have a lot of friends.
Terry, Dickie, and I were hanging out at our fort in the ironwoods, the fort being a six-by-six-foot pit dug in the sand, with palm fronds over the top for camouflage. From the outside it looked like a pile of old rubbish. Buster slid down the opening, scowling. We shut up and gaped at him. Then he laughed. He liked scaring us like that, which I think is one of the reasons he even bothered with us.
"Look," he said, and pulled a bomboola-sized cherry bomb out of his pocket. "Ever see one of these?"
"Wow," Terry said, reaching out to touch it.
"Got four of them," Buster said, snapping it back into his hand. "You should see what these things do to a toilet."
No one said anything for a few seconds.
"You punks want to set these off?" Buster said, a little annoyed at our silence.
"A-straight," Dickie said. "Sure." Dickie always was an ordnance man. He used to invite me over to blow up plastic soldiers with firecrackers in his back yard.
"Okay. Let's go," Buster said.
"Where?" I asked.
"You want to do it or not?"
"Sure, but . . ."
"Then let's go."
We followed Buster out onto the golf course, moving in a clump over the seventh green, heading down toward The Swamp. It was pretty early in the day. In the shady parts, the grass was still damp with dew. When we got to the marsh, Buster started across the long wooden bridge that ran over the water to the tee. The bridge had a chewed-up rubber runner down the middle where golf spikes had walked for years. The rust-colored swamp crawled under it toward the ocean, so dirty you couldn't even see an inch below the surface. What was down there had to be something like six feet of pure muck and sticks that would stab you if you ever had to jump in the water to escape the guys in the Jeep.
But the Jeep was nowhere in sight.
On the other side of the bridge a foursome was heading up toward the tee. We crossed to the other side of the swamp and sat on the edge of the jungle and watched them play past. They gave us dirty looks.
Buster took us on a short cut through the jungle. I loved it. Like we were on a military mission. No one spoke. No one made a sound by stepping on sticks. At the other side of the jungle, Buster put out his hand to stop us, like a platoon leader.
"Get down," he said, motioning with his hands for us to squat.
A golfer walked by with a huge blue bazooka golf bag hanging from his shoulder. A white hand towel hung from it like a flag. We waited in the bushes until he was long gone, then stepped out onto the fairway. I couldn't tell which number it was.
"Where are we going?" I asked.
"Shaddup," Buster said. "You'll see soon enough."
He led us around a dog-leg in the fairway to an immaculate, oval-shaped green, surrounded on three sides by trees and thick jungle. A thin white flagpole stuck in the cup at the far end.
We walked around one of three perfectly combed sand traps, careful not to step into it and leave a footprint. The Jeep guys watched for that kind of thing.
"Come," Buster said, and we followed him out onto the green. You could see where the cup had been the week before, a small circle of slightly off-color grass. They moved it around to keep from wearing the grass down in the same spot, or to give the golfers a different challenge.
I loved walking on the green, but I always stepped lightly because of the Jeep guys. I'd never been caught, but I'd heard stories.
Buster took out the four cherry bombs and laid them on the green. Terry, Dickie, and I knelt around him. I wondered if I was the only one who was nervous.
Buster pulled out a six-inch switch blade and flicked it open with a clean snap.
He smiled at our bug-eyes and cut a four-inch slit in the green then squeezed around the cut with his fingers, like you squeeze a baked potato after you make a slice down the middle. Dirt popped up. Buster took one of the cherry bombs and stuck it down into the slice, then pushed the dirt and grass back around it so it looked like it had before, only now there was a fuse sticking out of it.
He made another slit about two feet away and stuck another cherry bomb in it. "Got to keep them close together," he said. "The fuses burn too fast."
I suppose I knew what he had in mind to do the moment he made the first slit in the green, but the magnitude of the crime didn't click in my brain.
But the longer I thought about it, the more worried I became. This wasn't just any grass. This crime was big enough for the police.
My scalp and neck crawled with sudden fear. I stood up and looked down at Buster, who was still kneeling, with Terry and Dickie squatting next to him.
"You're not really going to set these off, are you?" I said.
Buster glanced up at me as if I'd just asked the stupidest question he'd ever heard in his life. "Why? You scared?"
"No . . . it's just that . . . this is the green ."
Terry and Dickie waited. They didn't want to challenge Buster.
I didn't want to challenge him, either. So I shrugged, and Buster went back to the bombs.
"Anyone coming?" he asked, and all three of us quickly looked around.
"No," Terry said.
I studied the trees, planning my escape in case someone suddenly appeared.
Buster took out a book of matches and peeled one off. "Get ready to run," he said.
I hurried away, walking backwards. Terry and Dickie jogged off to the other side of the sand trap.
Buster lit the first fuse. It caught quickly and started crackling down toward the green. He dropped the still-burning match and lit another one, then touched off the second fuse and ran.
He looked back just in time to see the cherry bombs go off.
Dirt and bits of grass flew into the air.
We walked back over to take a closer look.
The green was ruined. Smoke smoldered out of the two scars. Clumps of dirt and grass littered the putting surface. Looking at it made me feel sick, like you feel when you see pieces of glass and puddles of liquid in the street after an accident.
Buster smiled and said, "Pretty good, huh?"
Nothing in my young life had ever scared me as much as the sight of those two holes in that perfect grass, except for maybe the first time I had to swim in deep water. I started to jog off toward the trees.
"Wait," Buster said. "I got two more."
"I don't care," I called back. "I'm getting out of here."
"You chicken shit," he said.
Terry and Dickie ran after me, hurrying toward the trees, nervously glancing back. "Come on, Buster," Terry said. "Let's go."
"Beat it, punks," Buster spit back.
We raced into the bushes. Brush and low branches crowded in and scraped me as I tore through them. I held my arms up to shield my eyes. Seconds later, we burst out onto the sixth fairway just as the muffled thumping of Buster's other two bombs went off.
"He's crazy," Terry said, sprinting ahead, keeping close to the jungle, running toward the seventh tee and the bridge.
On our own, we would never have even thought about doing something like what Buster did. We liked the greens. Now, we were criminals.
We heard an engine and looked back. Buster was running toward us with the Jeep screaming up from down at the other end of the fairway. Buster veered into the jungle.
We weren't that smart.
"Run!" Terry yelled, as if anyone had to think about it. We raced toward the bridge, toward the wonderfully narrow and flimsy thing that no Jeep could ever cross.
Two golfers were getting ready to tee off over the water. We blasted past them, tearing down and banging out onto the bridge just as the Jeep pulled up onto the tee behind us.
"Hey you punks!" someone yelled.
I could hear feet thumping on the bridge behind me, could feel the wood rock and vibrate.
When we got to the other side the three of us broke up and ran in separate directions. I headed into the weeds, never looking back. Just ran and ran, until I was home. I raced into the garage and burst into the kitchen. The house was silent, my mother and sisters gone somewhere. I hid in the living room between the upright piano and a wall, my lungs burning.
Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! The front door shook.
My heart pounded.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
I covered my head, in case one of them had his face up to the window.
Then the pounding stopped.
I let a couple of minutes pass, then got up and peeked up over the bottom of the window. Down the street, three of the Jeep guys were walking around, going from house to house. Some of the neighbors were standing around in their yards watching.
Soon the Jeep came down the road. Fast. The three guys jumped in and drove off.
For the next several weeks Terry, Dickie, and I stayed as far away from the golf course as we could possibly get. We didn't see Buster again for a long time, and when we finally did, he completely ignored us.
Even today, so many years later, whenever someone knocks loudly on a door, my heart jumps.
A leaf on the sea.
Drifting into trouble simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This was so typical of my boyhood. It's not that I or any of my friends were delinquents. We were just curious, and much too unconscious to notice things, like the fact that Buster was up to no good. We hadn't learned that certain choices lead to certain consequences.
In Blue Skin of the Sea there's a story called "The Year of the Black Widows," where the main characters, Sonny and Keo, are held spellbound by a boy named Jack. Jack grew out of the Busters of my life, slightly older, trouble-filled boys who fascinated me. I can still remember the perverse, almost electrical charge of excitement that surrounded them, like an aura.
The stories are there, in those boys that walked the line between right and wrong. Somehow along the way I managed to make a couple of decent choices for myself and ended up on the right side of the line.
Some boys aren't so lucky. Maybe no one ever gave them the tools they needed to help themselves. Maybe you know one of them -- a boy who gives you a vacuous gaze when you ask him a question as simple as, "Hey, Billy, what you been up to?" If you know this boy, remember him. He's not an idiot. He's wandering, he's drifting.
I know him well, and no matter what he says, he needs something from you.
He needs you to care about him.
It was a long time before anyone said to me, "Hey, buddy, where you going? The world is this way."
I attribute my own slow growth to having grown up without a father, and, sometimes, without a mother.
I spent two years in sixth grade. The second time around I had a friend named Mike, who had an adopted brother named Charlie, both of whom I liked very much. I knew them from Punahou, a private school on the other side of the island that I only lasted a year at. Mike had five hundred dollars in a small bank in his room. I had about twenty-eight cents in mine, and the sight of all that cash nearly popped my eyes out.
Mike and Charlie invited me to spend the weekend with them five or six times. Their house was in Kahala, where all the rich people lived. Right on the beach. A lush, jungled estate that dazzled you and made you shade your eyes when you walked through it to the white sand and sparkling blue-green sea. At least it dazzled me, who lived next to a murky swamp.
One morning at Mike's house -- actually, we were in Mike and Charlie's cabana bedroom by the pool -- the three of us stumbled out of our beds at about ten o'clock, yawned through the sliding screen door that opened to chaise lounges and a kidney-shaped turquoise pool, and headed over to the main house. We went in through the kitchen, the servant's entrance. The cook was a happy Japanese lady who said "Good morning, boys," to us. We said good morning back and went out to a long dining room table and waited for her to bring us some breakfast.
Mike's mother was either sleeping or long gone with her tennis racket.
The cook brought us fresh-squeezed orange juice and big plates of toast, rice, bacon, eggs, and fresh pineapple, which we ate with heavy silver forks. The three of us ate noisily and started to wake up, chattering about what we were going to do that day. I was in heaven.
Then a man came in.
A huge man.
Big, and round, and sullen, and old.
And silent.
He sat way down at the other end of the table without even acknowledging that we were there. Mike and Charlie shut up. I did too, because they did. Only I wasn't so sure why. I didn't know who the man was, but he must have been someone Mike and Charlie steered clear of. I'd never seen him before.
We finished breakfast in silence and blasted out of there.
Mike's last name was Kaiser. It didn't even dawn on me until years later that the man at the end of the table was the man of steel, Henry J. Kaiser, himself. Mike's father. I was brushing up against history, and I didn't even know it.
A leaf on the sea.
At thirteen, I was finally sent away to a boarding school on the Big Island. The headmaster, James Monroe Taylor, was the first person ever to tell me that I could be somebody. But I didn't figure out what he was talking about until I was well into my twenties.
So what's the point of rambling on about my boyhood?
I guess I just want to put in a good word for those seemingly hopeless boys in your lives.
I'll say it for them, because they won't:
They need you to care about them despite their moronic actions, or exasperating inactions. Don't give up on them. More than likely, sooner or later, a pretty decent young man will emerge. From my hard-earned experience as a male-person, I can assure you that seven or eight out of ten of us eventually manage to wise up, and maybe five out of ten of us get lucky enough to discover that we actually have feelings, just like girls do.
For me it was a matter of time and the good fortune to have run into a couple of adults who actually cared about my growth as a human being.
I've thought a lot about what my job is now, or should be, as an author of books for young readers. I don't write to teach, preach, lecture, or criticize, but to explore. I write to make good use of the amazing English language, and to binge on stories that feel good to write and, I hope, feel good to read. And if my stories show boys choosing certain life options, and the possible consequences of having chosen those options, then maybe I will have finally done something worthwhile.
Wonder of wonders.
Graham Salisbury, who says he treasures his copies of The ALAN Review , delivered this article at the 1993 ALAN Workshop in Pittsburgh. His latest book from Delacorte Press is Under the Blood-Red Sun


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Jasmine Thai RestaurantPosted by Jamie the Foodie at 5:53 AM
Right across the street from the Destin Commons shopping center is a little place called Jasmine Thai Restaurant. Quite different from the Thai restaurants found in other places, this is the way that Destin does Thai.
The service is nice and friendly. Not like some Thai restaurants where English speaking bafoons feel disconnected from the wait staff, or have a hard time explaining their serious nut allergies in English.
The menu looks like a typical Thai menu, but when we first tasted the food, it surprised us. We enjoyed it. Normally I have at least one or two gripes with a Thai restaurant. Usually I'll complain about too small portions, food being too spicy, not enough rice, or the food being way too expensive, etc. But not here. I was pleased. The food prices were fair. No one is getting the deal of the century or anything, but at least I don't feel like I am getting my rear-end handed to me with 2 plastic-wrapped fortune cookies on the side.
The Fresh rolls are very tasty. Fresh veggies, shrimp, wrapped in rice paper dipped in a flavorful sweet sauce. The Pad Thai is one of Jamie's favorite dishes and she's picky about it. Unfortunately their's isn't the most outstanding Pad Thai she's ever had, but it's excellent nonetheless. The Sukie was a nice treat. A very generous portion of food with glass noodles and meat specially spiced. This is a definite winner.
The curry dishes are my personal favorite on any Thai menu. But I have found it very hard to be satisfied with most restaurants. I suppose because curry has so many different spices in it that it's very easy to get it wrong. Well, the curry here is really nice. Really nice. I get it every time I go. The green curry is sweeter than the others, and has a nice balance to it. I get my curry with boiled tofu instead of meat.
To top things off, one should try the sticky rice. The mango was fresh on the side. The dish is pleasant to the tastebuds. This dish has a different feel to it that the other Thai restaurants in the area. Worth trying.
All in all, this is a sure thing for your money if you are in the mood for Thai. We enjoy going here whenever we can.
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In 1996, the first amphibian to be declared extinct by a conservation group, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), was the Hula Frog (Latonia nigriventer).
The decision was guided by the best available scientific data at the time: Nobody had seen any sign of the creature since its sole known habitat, the Hula Valley wetlands in northern Israel, had been drained in 1955. Then, in October 2011, a routine patrol turned up an adult male of the species. Further searching uncovered another 10 Hula painted frogs.
It's a remarkable case of a species reappearing, said Rebecca Biton, a paleontologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and co-author of a study describing the reappearance of the frog published this week in the journal Nature Communications.
But the story doesn't end there. An equally amazing finding, Biton said, is that the Hula painted frog, contrary to its previous classification, is the only surviving member of a long-lost group of frogs, in the genus Latonia (genus is the taxonomic classification above species). Her team arrived at this conclusion in two ways. First, Biton's analysis of ancient frog bones showed they looked much more like Latonia then the other painted frogs of the Middle East, to which they were supposedly more closely related. Second, DNA analysis suggested the same.
"The Hula painted frog is not what we thought it was," Biton told LiveScience, a conclusion that may not have materialized if it weren't for the team's interdisciplinary work, she added. "It's nice when genetics and paleontology can work together and get the same result."
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Two 19-year-old men were arrested Monday on suspicion of stealing about $600 worth of quarters from a woman who collects money from area newspaper dispensers.
Routt County Undersheriff Dan Taylor said Tuesday that Dustin Quinn Ager of Meeker and Luke Macain More of Steamboat Springs were arrested Monday afternoon after officers interviewed the two boys about the missing money.
Taylor said the woman reported the money missing from the back of her car in the 26000 block of Routt County Road 52. The woman collected the money Sunday from area Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News dispensers and had left a large plastic tub full of quarters in her back seat. The woman's car was not locked, Taylor said.
The woman said she questioned her juvenile son about the missing money and that her son told her that he and two friends stole it, Taylor said.
Taylor said Ager and More agreed to meet with officers Monday afternoon and gave them about $250. They said that was all they took.
Before their arrest, the men tried to give the $250 back to the woman, Taylor said. However, because the woman said she was missing $600, the men were arrested on suspicion of felony theft.
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During police interviews, Taylor said the two men admitted to stealing between $1,000 and $3,000 worth of gasoline on a stolen gas card, shooting and killing a ranch animal and trespassing within the past few months.
Taylor said he expects the District's Attorney's Office to file numerous felony charges against Ager and More after the Sheriff's Office investigations are finished.
The woman's son was not arrested or charged with theft because he is a juvenile, Taylor said, adding that the district attorney could file charges against him at a later date.
Ager and More were taken to Routt County Jail, where they posted a $10,000 bond Monday. The men are scheduled to appear in court at 8:30 a.m. May 23.
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Prior to being named president of Lingotek in 2008, Vandenberg served as its vice president of sales and marketing where he was a source of guidance and inspiration. Prior to Lingotek, Rob headed up several successful ventures. He was co-founder and CEO of LocalVoice.com, which was acquired by HarrisConnect in 2005. He was named vice president of sales and marketing for HarrisConnect after the acquisition. Before his work with LocalVoice.com and HarrisConnect, he was one of the first 20 U.S. employees at INTERSHOP Communications, where he helped build its worldwide clientele as a top performing sales executive. The INTERSHOP initial public offering was one of the most successful enterprise IPOs in US history boasting a $10B market cap.
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Calvin is a dedicated executive with over 25 years of experience managing products, sales, marketing, operations, and personnel. His experience ranges from work with a Fortune 500 company to small start-ups.
Prior to joining Lingotek in 2010, Calvin worked for Sendside Networks, a customer and investor communication platform, where he served as vice president of product management. While at Sendside, he not only lead their integrated marketing program but was also a product evangelist and worked closely with the product development team to deliver world-class software.
Prior to working with Sendside Networks, Calvin was VP, Group Program Management Director at McCann Worldgroup where he worked with clients including Microsoft, McAfee, Unisys, VeriSign, and Plantronics. Before working with McCann Worldgroup, he was the Director of Marketing at Compliance Information Systems. Earlier in his career, Calvin was President and CEO of Digital Planet, an internet service provider that was acquired by the Citadel Broadcasting Corporation in 1998.
Calvin holds a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Utah.
Kent Bridges has a broad range of experience in all facets of business development, sales strategy, and building global partnerships. Prior to joining Lingotek in 2008, Kent held Senior Executive positions in a number of Global High Tech companies including SVP Worldwide Sales at DigitalPersona, VoiceObjects, Gadzoox Networks, Zeitnet and Director of North American Sales at Novell.
Kent has a B.S. in Marketing/Finance from Brigham Young University and Post Graduate MBA studies at Seattle University.
Larry has more than 15 years of product management and marketing experience ranging from start-ups to publicly traded companies.
He started his career in media relations working for the State of Utah before serving in various senior roles at Nu Skin Enterprises, AutoPoint, Venafi and inContact. Larry first joined Lingotek in 2011, helping to rapidly grow the company by establishing its cloud-based translation management system as a market leader and overseeing the release of numerous integrations with popular enterprise business applications.
Following his four plus years at Lingotek, Larry served as VP of Product at Ghostery. During his time at Ghostery, Larry lead the launch of several new products, including a freemium subscription service for the company's award-winning Trackermap tool; and a mobile app that quickly rose to be the top paid app for iOS. Larry's tenure at Ghostery culminated in the complete redesign of the Ghostery browser extension, which helped grow its install base to more than 7 million active users preparatory to it being sold to Hubert Burda Media.
Larry rejoined Lingotek in 2016 and is responsible for product strategy, design and development. He holds a BA in Communications from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
Nick started his software development career more than 25 years ago and has extensive experience in customer service, operations, and software development. Since 2008, Nick has focused on driving and supporting Agility in software development and throughout the organization and has successfully introduced Agile principles and practices to several companies.
Prior to joining Lingotek in 2017, Nick held key roles at Ghostery, Experticity, inContact (now NICE inContact) and Wolters Kluwer Health (formerly Ovid Technologies).
Nick holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Hamilton College.
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I take buspirone 5mg twice a day (10mg) and within the last month or so (3 month mark) I've been getting waves of dizziness. They are short little bursts of dizziness though and it's usually when I'm laying down or sitting. It's like that jerky feeling you get when you're almost asleep and you feel like your falling. It lasts maybe a second but it hits me randomly all day.
I don't really get headaches but the back of my neck and shoulders hurt.
I'm not sure what to do and of course with anxiety I'm scared for the worse like a brain tumor or something.


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HE Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh has a wealth of experience that spans over three decades. He holds several senior positions in a number of leading public and private institutions in Abu Dhabi, and has extensive experience with launching and developing pioneering initiatives.
In addition to his current position as the Chairman of Abu Dhabi Global Market, Mr Al Sayegh is also the Managing Director of Dolphin Energy Limited, Deputy Chairman of First Gulf Bank, Deputy Chairman of the Emirates Wildlife Society, and Board Member of Etihad Airways.
His past positions include: Chairman of Aldar Properties, Chairman of Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar). Mr Al Sayegh also held senior positions in several leading governmental institutions such as Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), and Abu Dhabi Investment Company (Invest AD).
Mr Al Sayegh holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Lewis & Clark College, USA.
Vice Chairman
Over the last 15 years, Mr Al Qubaisi has left his mark in several areas for the UAE government entities, such as Strategy & Policy Planning, Economic Development and Projects Services.
In addition to being Vice Chairman of Abu Dhabi Global Market, Mr Al Qubaisi is also currently a Director at the Office of His Highness Vice Chairman of the Executive Council, where he has been instrumental in providing strategic economic and fiscal policy advice.
Mr Al Qubaisi holds a Master in Science of International Business from Zayed University and a Master in Business Administration from New York Institute of Technology.
Board Member
HE Mohamed Darwish Al Khoori has worked for Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) for 25 years and is currently the Executive Director of the Internal Equities department at ADIA.
In addition to his role at ADIA, Mr Al Khoori is a member of the Board of Directors of the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB), and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Oman & Emirates Investment Holding Company (OEIHC). In addition, Mr Al Khoori is a member of the Board of Directors of the Financial Corporation Company (FINCORP) and the Chairman of the Audit Committee (FINCORP).
Mr Al Khoori holds a BA in Business Administration from Siena Heights University, Michigan, USA, and has attended the Executive Management Programme at Harvard Business School.
HE Ali Majed Al Mansoori is a member of the Executive Council of Abu Dhabi and the Executive Director at the office of the Vice Chairman at the Executive Council.
In addition, Mr Al Mansoori holds several high profile positions; including the Chairman of the Department of Economic Development and the Chairman of Abu Dhabi Airports Company, member of the Audit Committee at Abu Dhabi Investment Council, as well as a Board member of Al Hilal Bank and Aldar Properties.
Mr Al Mansoori had previously held several high level positions; including the Director of External Equities Europe at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and Deputy Director at External Funds-America.
Mr Al Mansoori holds a Bachelor's degree in Finance from Warner Pacific University USA, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
HE Ebrahim Obaid Al Zaabi is the Director General (CEO) of the Insurance Authority of UAE, and represents the UAE on the Board of the GCC Accounting & Auditing Organization. Mr Al Zaabi is also a member of the UAE Committee to Review Defaults of Public Shareholding Companies.
Previously, Mr Al Zaabi was the Deputy CEO for Issuance, Research and Legal Affairs at Securities & Commodities Authority (SCA), as well as a Board Member of Insurance Authority until 2011. In addition, he has held the membership of various committees between SCA, the Ministry of Economy and the Central Bank of UAE.
Earlier in his career, Mr Al Zaabi was the Fund Manager for the global commodities portfolio of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
Mr Al Zaabi is a graduate from California State University.


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The evil of Hamas...
Tom Gross points out....Where are the human rights organizations???
Hamas was not using a random hit list. Every Hamas patrol carried with it a laptop containing a list of Fatah operatives in Gaza, and an identity number and a star appeared next to each name. A red star meant the operative was to be executed and a blue one meant he was to be shot in the legs – a special, cruel tactic developed by Hamas, in which the shot is fired from the back of the knee so that the kneecap is shattered when the bullet exits the other side. A black star signaled arrest, and no star meant that the Fatah member was to be beaten and released. Hamas patrols took the list with them to hospitals, where they searched for wounded Fatah officials, some of whom they beat up and some of whom they abducted.
Aside from assassinating Fatah officials, Hamas also killed innocent Palestinians, with the intention of deterring the large clans from confronting the organization. Thus it was that 10 days ago, after an hours-long gun battle that ended with Hamas overpowering the Bakr clan from the Shati refugee camp – known as a large, well-armed and dangerous family that supports Fatah – the Hamas military wing removed all the family members from their compound and lined them up against a wall. Militants selected a 14-year-old girl, two women aged 19 and 75, and two elderly men, and shot them to death in cold blood to send a message to all the armed clans of Gaza.


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This is the M6 "Butterfly Cluster" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_Cluster :
This is a 5-second exposure taken last night (14 October) with my ZWO ASI120MC astro-camera mounted on my 130 mm Newtonian telescope. The field of view is about 30 arc-minutes x 20 arc-minutes. (That is, the full Moon would just about fit in the long dimension of the image, but would more than cover the short dimension.)
The brightest star is V862 Scorpii at magnitude 6.76 (the slightly yellowish white star just below the centre of the image). The faintest visible stars are about Magnitude 11.5 - not bad for a 5 second exposure! The colours are all pretty accurate, when I compare with standard planetarium software.
Here is a B&W negative image, which can make it easier to pick out the fine detail:
One nice thing about shooting stars digitally (rather than on film as in the "bad old days"):
For any given set of exposure settings, on a digital image there is a really nice linear relationship between the diameter of the star image and the apparent magnitude of the star. (When shooting time exposures on film, the relationship between the image diameter and the actual brightness of the star is much more complex.) This graph shows the relationship for a selected sample of stars on this particular image (bearing in mind I was only measuring the apparent diameters to about 0.5 mm accuracy when printed at A3 size).
This means that with a few stars of known magnitude in frame, you can estimate the magnitude of all the other stars. I'll have to try this on a few variable stars and see if I can measure their variability, and do some "real science"!


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Two years ago, a nonprofit advocacy group called J Street was formed to urge "a new direction for American policy in the Middle East – diplomatic solutions over military ones, multilateral over unilateral approaches to conflict resolution, and dialogue over confrontation."
In the past, Jewish-Americans have been perceived by some critics as having a unitary position on matters of policy regarding Israelis and Palestinians – that is, support for the government of Israel, whatever political party in Israel controls the prime minister-ship.
J Street wants everyone to know that American Jews, like Israelis themselves, hold a variety of views – from far right to far left on the political spectrum.
Vision of the Founders
The name J Street itself is something of an enigma. For 200 years, Washington, DC, has been organized in such a way that every letter in the alphabet has a street named after it – except there is no J Street. That's what J Street's founders were trying to express when they chose a name for their new organization.
"It signifies the absence of a pro-Israel, pro-peace voice in Washington," said MJ Rosenberg, currently senior foreign policy fellow at Media Matters Action Network. Rosenberg was among the founders of the new organization who believed the best way to secure Israel's future was through negotiations and peace.
"The difference between J Street and AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] is that AIPAC tends to support the policies of the Israeli government and believes that the status quo - though not desirable – is OK," Rosenberg said.
"The people who founded J Street think that the status quo is disastrous, that the only way Israel can be secure as a country is by achieving a two-state solution with the Palestinians," he said.
But in the two years since the new organization was founded, lines of communication between Israel and J Street have not always been a two-way street. There have been major controversies.
"One example was that last year the Ambassador of Israel to the United States, Michael Oren, turned down an invitation to address J Street's annual conference," former VOA Jerusalem correspondent Meredith Buel noted.
According to Rosenberg, those controversies are now in the process of being resolved.
"The Israeli government is used to, and likes, having Jewish organizations … that simply support what the government does," said Rosenberg. He notes how foreign that is to the American way of thinking.
"I don't think I know anyone who ever says, 'The U.S. government says it and, therefore, I support it.' That's not the tradition that we grow up with," Rosenberg said.
In the case of J Street, he added, it is a matter of supporting the policies that are "best for Israel and, I have to say, for the United States."
Negotiation as Policy Favored
As far as J Street is concerned, everything is up for negotiation – except terrorism.
It favor negotiations on the borders of a future Palestinian state, the status of Jerusalem, and refugees. "J Street … favors negotiation on all these questions." Rosenberg said.
J Street also favors a settlement freeze. "But as far as what happens in these negotiations, J Street doesn't take a position on them," Rosenberg explained. "Its assumption is that anything the Israelis and the Palestinians agree upon, J Street will support."
On the issue of Iran, Rosenberg said, J Street supports sanctions. But the membership of J Street is divided.
"There are strong constituencies that favor purely the diplomatic route on Iran," Rosenberg noted.
Rosenberg said J Street, by definition, is not the kind of organization in which there will be one line on anything. It was created in part, he said, to get away from whole idea that the American Jewish community speaks with one voice.
"The one thing that would unite everyone who associates with J Street is the belief that the only way to resolve this conflict is by U.S. leadership to promote negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians now." Rosenberg said.
J Street and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
In the beginning, the Obama administration said that the Middle East peace process would be a top foreign policy priority and on the second full day in office George Mitchell was named as special envoy. "The administration's commitment was admirable and forceful," Rosenberg said.
"But the President's efforts floundered a bit when he asked the Israelis to implement a settlement freeze and the Netanyahu government basically said no," said Rosenberg. He is also critical of the Palestinians' reluctance to join direct talks.
"Once you join talks in which the United States is the mediator, there is a strong possibility that things will happen, but we can't make them happen by ourselves."
"The President's plate is so full," Rosenberg notes. "Traditionally breakthroughs in the Middle East have required the involvement not just of the Secretary of State but of the President of the United States." Rosenberg observed.
Right now, Rosenberg admits, domestic issues such as the economic recession and health care seem to be on the front burner.
Prospects for Negotiations
"I am a strong believer in the power of the President of the United States," said Rosenberg. " I think, if the President of the United States puts a plan on the table, and says I want direct negotiations – this may be naïve of me to say, but I believe it would happen."
His reasoning is that both the Israelis and the Palestinians are dependent on the United States.
Rosenberg said that American presidents, except for Jimmy Carter with the Camp David agreement and the first President Bush with the Madrid conference, have "backed down" from their original policy positions on negotiations.
Political Obstacles
While reaching a Middle East peace is plagued by serious political obstacles for each of the three major players – Israeli President Netanyahu, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and President Obama, Rosenberg says it's not an American president's job to worry about Israel or the Palestinians' domestic problems.
Rosenberg said he believes that the American public and the pro-Israel community would support an American president who put his prestige on the line.
"Continuation of this conflict jeopardizes the American national interest, American troops abroad, and American economic interests," Rosenberg urged.
But as correspondent Meredith Buel explained, both Israelis and Palestinians complain that the United States doesn't understand the domestic concerns that they are dealing with. That makes it much more difficult to move forward.
Still, Rosenberg said he both the Palestinian and Israeli people desperately want peace.
"You have to crack the ice somehow, and that requires both sides doing things, sometimes symbolic things, to indicate good will," said Rosenberg.
Rosenberg recalls moments of relative peace in the past. He said he hopes it can be done again. ______________________________________________________________________________
MJ Rosenberg previously worked on Capitol Hill for various Democratic members of the House and Senate. He was a political appointee at the U.S. Agency for International Development during the Clinton administration. In the early 1980s, he was editor of Near East Report, the weekly newsletter of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, also known as AIPAC. And from 1998 until late last year, he was director of policy at the Israel Policy Forum.


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Virginiae Item et
America Provinciarum, nova Descriptio
by Johannes Cloppenburg
Mercator-Hondius Atlas
French Edition (1630)
[Northeast quadrant]
Shown above is the northeastern quadrant of the Johannes Cloppenburg map of the southeast of North America. This map was published in the French edition of Mercator's Atlas of 1630. Here the original has been cropped and enlarged to show the Algonquin tribes and villages of coastal North Carolina. Cloppenburg's slightly reduced-size version is a fatihful reduction of Jodocus Hondius's influential map of 1606. Hondius's original 1606 map was a composite of the de Bry map (based on John White) of Virginia and the de Bry map of Florida (based on le Moyne).
- The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps 1511—1670, by Philip D. Burden. Rickmansworth, England: Raleigh Publications Ltd., 1996.
- Information provided by Jay Lester, The William P. Cumming Map Sociery.
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Music - Make it meaningful - Preston
Community Child Care Association
Wednesday, 29 November 2017 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (AEDT)
Event Details
Music …Make it meaningful
"Music exists distinctively in every culture and is a basic expression of the human experience" (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2016).
Engagement with creative arts provides an avenue for children to express them-selves and communicate with others, and music is a universal language for making meaning.
Childhood is a time for children's play as a process for learning. If rich music environments in education and care settings have the potential to impact whole child development, how do we create meaningful music experiences for young children to be exposed to and playfully engage with?
By attending this session, participants will have an opportunity to:
- Learn about the impact of music on brain function and development;
- Explore diverse times, places, cultures and contexts for music; and
- Develop skills to provide meaningful musical environments and experiences for young children.
Facilitator: Emma Keft
Emma has extensive experience in the education and care sector. Many know Emma from her work as a passionate advocate and consultant over the years at CCC. Emma is also an amazing musician; reading and writing music before she could spell her name. As a multi-instrumentalist, she considers herself a natural musician. Emma's versatility as a musician and performer has seen her on stage performing and off in many an orchestra pit; also playing the pubs, clubs and festivals around Australia, as well as circuits of Canada and Europe. Who knows she might even bring her ukulele!
When & Where
Melbourne Polytechnic
77 St Georges Road
Wednesday, 29 November 2017 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (AEDT)
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Established in 1971, Community Child Care Association (CCC) is the voice of community-based education and care services in Victoria. Here to help services transform their vision into practice, we offer membership, quality training and consultancies.


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Chad Lore Takes His Show And His Harmoni-Car On The Road [VIDEO]
Chad Lore has always been a performer. Chad Lore has always been a little bit twisted. Put the two together and that is entertainment! Chad was sitting around one night when the idea of the Harmoni-car came to mind. A car covered with the over 220 well used harmonicas of his performance career. Then the thought was, if you have the car you have to show it off so how about a road trip? And that is where the tour came from. Now here is where the twisted comes in. How about 10 states (1,000 miles) in 24 hours? Doesn't sound easy does it? However with some planning the itinerary came together with stops in TX, NM, OK, CO, KS, WY, NE, ND, SD and MT.
Then came the stops for the band to perform anywhere from one to three songs depending on their travel schedule. Some businesses were more receptive to the idea than others so they are still looking for a few places to play, but as of right now it will be steakhouses to donut shops, a hardware store to a gas station to street dances and more all to get the performances in.
(see the city by city itinerary here.)
Chad gave us a preview of the trip, and along with fellow performers Tom and Smitty, we also got a taste of the entertainment with a performance of Dumpster Dan
Here are a few pics from the studio interview and a selection of shots of the Harmoni-car.
Now for those who are having a tough time figuring out this whole Harmoni-car thing we thought we would take you for a ride so you could hear it for yourself. Enjoy!
Look for Chad and the crew on a road or highway near you soon. They start in Texas Friday night September 16th and finish in Montana 24 hours later. Give em a honk a wave and listen to the sweet music of the Harmoni-car as it makes it's way down the highway.


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Can anyone translate, so we could have some more info on these?
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From Google translate, it seems they are thinking about offering them to the general public later on. If anyone can translate it better it could be helpful.
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i could not really grasp the scale of these anyone know? based on the articulation of the hands it kinda looks like they are 1/60 gundam scale????
as far as translation IDK my translations talk allot about drainage i also got a hint of mass production as well but it could have been a > { hey this would be awesome if released kinda thing}
That's what I'm wondering. Those look exactly like the parts from the Revoltech figures... but the WIP pics from Starscream show them as solid blocks, so it looks like they made those from scratch to look just like the Revoltechs. And that is Classic Prime's head .... man, I'm so confused.
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I believe someone can heal their mind through talking with others. Among my friends and family, I am the "Listener". I have attained this title because of my ability to talk about emotions. My sensitivity is both a weakness and strength. It makes me vulnerable to being "hurt", but also gives me skills to help others in trouble. My knowledge about dealing with painful emotions is not from reading books, or classroom learning. My own personal experiences have formed my opinions and beliefs. These experiences have shaped my ability to deal with hard emotions, and counsel others dealing with their difficult feelings.
If someone told me they were "depressed" or "anxious", my advice would be "talk about it". Taking the avoidant way out, trying to repress feelings, only works for a while. It's like trying to keep gas in a poorly sealed container. Eventually, the gas will find a way to escape. I learned personally just how strong emotions are, and how they affect our minds and bodies.
When I was young, I had extreme anxiety. I worried about everything. In middle school I began having panic attacks. As a young teenager, I became depressed, and by sixteen, I developed OCD. (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) Shortly after, I became clinically depressed, suicidal, and delusional. I was psychotic.
Eventually, I was on over twenty pills a day, five different medications. My medications were a mess and so was my mind. I had seen four different therapists, with little progress.
My last therapist ended up being my savior. I had hit rock bottom; the big breakdown of my sophomore year. I had attempted suicide and was sent to a psychiatric hospital. While in the hospital, I revealed to my therapist, and family that from the age of four to ten years old, my grandfather had sexually abused me. I made a promise to myself to heal from this PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) I left high school for six months, and did intense therapy, seeing my therapist up to three times weekly. I spoke to whomever I could: my acupuncturist, my family, and friends. I began to realize so much about the affects of sexual abuse, especially on a child.
With every person I spoke to and confided in, I felt stronger. I sorted through my mind and diminished the power that my grandfather and my secret had placed upon me. My healing was not a miracle; it was hard work, talking about my emotions.
Today, I feel great. I do not suffer from the symptoms that I once experienced. I carry my experiences with me not as a burden, but instead as a reminder of how far I have come. I have not only been strengthened as a person, but through my ability to feel and talk about it, I can help others for the rest of my life.
When people say therapy, or talking about emotions is stupid or useless, I remember how much it helped me. I tell people "I believe it takes great strength to talk about your feelings, and doing so healed me".
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DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. -- Springhurst Elementary School Math Specialist Josh Rosen is among 102 teachers named recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching is awarded annually to outstanding K-12 science and mathematics teachers from across the country. The winners are selected by a panel of distinguished scientists, mathematicians, and educators following an initial selection process done at the state level.
"It is such an honor to be recognized, but mostly because this award reaffirms that the learning we are engaged in at Springhurst is valued," Rosen said. "Teachers are being acknowledged and that's important.
The 2012 honorees represent all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Department of Defense Education Activity Schools. Rosen and the other educators will receive their awards at an upcoming Washington, D.C. event.
Winners of this Presidential honor receive a $10,000 award from the National Science Foundation to be used at their discretion. They also are invited to Washington, D.C., for an awards ceremony and several days of educational and celebratory events, including visits with members of Congress and the Administration, professional development and a White House tour.
"These teachers are inspiring today's young students to become the next generation of American scientists, mathematicians, and innovators," President Obama said in a statement. "Through their passion and dedication, and by sharing their excitement about science, technology, engineering, and math, they are helping us build a promising future for all our children."
"This is an incredible and well-deserved honor for Mr. Rosen and we are so proud of him," said Springhurst Principal Julia Drake.
Principal Drake was the one who nominated Mr. Rosen for the award back in February 2012. In between then and last month's announcement, Rosen was required to submit a video of a lesson, three letters of recommendation and approximately 15 pages of narrative.
The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) has been in existence for the past 30 years going back to President Reagan's administration.
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'Tis the season for ugly Christmas sweater parties! Or you could just wear ugly Christmas sweaters to school, work, or alone in your room while you watch YouTube videos simply because they are delightful! We've rounded up our 10 of our favorite ugly Christmas sweaters for this season, so check 'em all out below and GET YOUR UGLY ON!
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Online MA in TESOL!
2-minute Square Dance
Inspired by 'Meaningful Musical Chairs'
Make a list of 6 discussion topics (i.e. home life, jobs, hobbies, favorite person, favorite food, etc.). Pair up the students and have one of them role a die. The number showing decides the topic for the pairs to discuss for two minutes. Change up the pairs and repeat the process. However, if the same number shows, they must role again.
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My prayers have been answered! I am a journal writing fiend and the Man upstairs had to hear me complaining about Moleskine not having enough pizazz. I'm a scatter-brained individual with the tendency to doodle. I need some va-va-voom to compliment my personality. The Moleskine signature notebooks are a vice of mine. The elastic closure band and ribbon bookmark are handy, but the fact that the notebook lays flat when completely opened is the bee's knees! The Italian brand is the best to do notebooks and I'm glad Barnes & Noble carries the planners also. I got a B&N card strictly for my Moleskine needs. Now, they've taken things to a new high. Think I'm jiving? Read on!
Thanks to God's gift to the social and nosey (better known as Twitter), I was notified of an out of this world collaboration. Apparently, the notebook guru has paired up with fashion extraordinaire Marc Jacobs to release a limited edition notebook. The bound beauty combines the quality features Moleskine is known for with a silk-screened cover featuring a patterned cover by Marc. The epic release is a result of the 25th anniversary of Barney's CO-OP. It will be available for sale starting October 1st and is only available at Barney's flagship and CO-OP stores and online at the Barney's website.
I'm beyond excited about the release and have payed my local Barney's a visit. I left my name and number to be sure I'm contacted when the shipment comes in and to secure my 2 requested notebooks. Why two? One to use and one to keep. Duh!
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...with 1/2-1/3 of fathers choosing to never see, or rarely, see their children after a divorce...
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
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Sounds like a veiled insult. Please, if you have an opinion, contribute to the discussion.
originally posted by: GetOutOfMyLight
originally posted by: InTheLight
...with 1/2-1/3 of fathers choosing to never see, or rarely, see their children after a divorce...
What do you think the factors are leading to this (highly questionable) statistic?
Have you removed from those statistics the situations where not even the mother is sure who the father is? Compared the difference between different economic groups? Removed the ones where the mother has made it clear she doesn't *want* the father around or makes it a miserable experience to even try to get close? Also the ones where the child has been turned against the father? Oh... also don't forget the ones who just leave the father and never tell him she was pregnant. Also the ones who specifically got pregnant to be on TV, collect bigger welfare checks, or secretly skipped birth control to force the guy to marry her or at least support her? Don't leave out the ones that got pregnant in a one night stand and don't want him around because he's a "loser"? (true story)
Don't forget to remove the ones where the father decided that due to the problems between him and his ex-wife... he decided to sacrifice his relationship with the child to prevent them from experiencing the toxic situation and resigns himself to just sending money hoping to connect when the child is old enough to understand the complexities. There are also the ones where the "new man" tries to intimidate away the real father... often to the satisfaction of the mother. Or family members/friends tell the father he's not welcome even though it was the mother that went a bit "nuts"? Don't worry dude... move along... we never liked you and family will make sure she's ok.
Have you added genuine respect (not token socially expected respect) for all the fathers who do continue to make the effort despite one or more of the factors above making their life hell? Who did it in that magnificent window called every other weekend visitation "rights" and working two jobs to cover child support?
No... it's not about blame mother. It's about the children of those divorces finally being old enough to stand up and say that mother is sometimes full of # and father isn't always such a demon. Usually both were too young and unprepared in the first place. Those kids are now older than their parents were when they had the kid and can see what was really going on.
It makes them more understandable in hindsight... but also means the kids aren't falling for the stories that the parents told their kids to "protect" them. AKA taught their kids how to lie if you will look bad if you tell the truth and think the other person is too stupid/young to know better.


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The British are renowned for their collective sweet tooth and there are cake shops and confectioners in every town, plus online stores selling delectable goodies … not to mention food blogs like United Cakedom.
So when did the great British tradition of cake baking begin?
As with many things, baking is something that has evolved with technology as well as the availability of ingredients. Back in the Middle Ages, sugar was largely unknown, and food was sweetened using honey and maybe even fruit juices. Ovens weren't available in the home unless it was a very affluent family, and bakers made both bread and cakes. Wheat bread was for the rich; the poor ate black bread and rye. Cake was either pudding, or resembled bread.
As merchants travelled further afield, spices and dried fruit appeared in Britain, along with the wonder ingredient - sugar. However, all of this was expensive until it became more abundant in the 17th century, so saffron, raisins and sweet doughs were still only available to those who could afford them. Even gingerbread was made with breadcrumbs, which gives us a clue to the name. Many cakes were still called 'bread', even if they were technically biscuits, and were leavened with yeast, ale, or even more bizarrely, smelling salts. Some similar 'cakebreads' that might hark back to those times include teabread and even shortbread.
The emerging middle class during the 17th century meant that ordinary people could afford to imitate the rich. Mince pies, Cornish pasties – especially those with fruit in one end and meat in the other – and seed cakes became popular, especially as they were also filling and full of good flavours.
The 18th century brought the industrial revolution, and with that the introduction of the semi-closed oven, which improved cake making beyond the heavy puddings and breads. Working class people may still have been eating basic stuff most of the time, but on special occasions, they too got to sample delights such as Christmas cake, Simnel cake, and biscuits.
It was only well into the 19th century that yeast-based cakes declined and were replaced by those that were raised with eggs and baking powder. Cakes became seriously less dense, and decidedly less stodgy. The refined cakes that we know now, such as carrot cake, Victoria sponge, cheese cake and tray-bakes developed from this time onwards, brought, in some cases, from across Europe, and refined still further.
Because the emergence of modern cakes has been relatively recent, so is that of the cake stand. Back in the Victorian era, high tea became popular, and that meant the need for cake stands to ensure that the soft confections stood high and proud above the rest of the food.
The fashion of the day has always gone into the design of cake stands, so during the Victorian age, you might have seen frilly, decorative wire stands or crystal glass ones; during the 20s, Art Deco was at the fore, so geometric-shaped stands in octagons and squares were more popular.
For me, there's nothing like seeing your beautiful cake standing aloft on the table, held up by an equally gorgeous cake stand. And those tiered stands you can buy? You know, those Victorian-style ones with a hoop over the top? Fill them up with cupcakes or cookies and watch the food disappear!
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Creeks, Streams and Bubbling Brooks - Photos and Thoughts
This has the most lovely sound.
The Peacefulness of Creeks, Streams and Brooks
I think since I was a young girl, I have admired and grown to love water in nature. That might sound odd to some, but to others, you may know exactly what I mean. The ocean is like a king size version of these smaller ponds or streams, but the smaller ones are still very special. They can bring peace and tranquility to anyone nearby.
Over the last several years, I have grown to love and visit Botanical Gardens wherever and whenever I can. It is in places like these and elsewhere, that you can find lovely bubbling brooks and streams and little creeks. Of course, many of these are man made, so they lack the complete natural setting one might find them in, but that doesn't matter a whole lot to me. I mean in the sense that I truly enjoy these creations, as does the surrounding wildlife.
To think back to my college days in Georgia, especially in north east Georgia, you could see so many beautiful creeks and rivers like this. They were all natural! Add to that, people building little bridges to cross said streams and the effect was lovely and charming. Can you recall a time when you heard that kind of water bubbling along, that sound? I absolutely love it.
Am I Alone in my love for creeks, rivers and streams?
Judging by many different things, I think that others also love little bodies of water and creaks or streams. I have a piece of art in my room, of a covered bridge over a creek. If you go to an art gallery or museum, you will find these things have been motivational for some time.
I think it is because it alerts many of the senses, and is often a joy to find, say for hikers needing to refill their canteens! Fresh water coming down from a fresh spring is no small thing to a thirsty hiker or camper.
My Walk Down Memory Lane
Thanks for indulging my little walk down memory lane. It continues on as I recall my boys and I fishing in little creeks and streams, or lakes. Their grandfathers have been part of that too. What very precious memories these are to me! They truly mean so much and warm my heart.
In my own backyard now, while I don't have a bubbling brook all the time, I do sometimes! Let me explain. We have a man made created water run off that starts up at the top of the block behind us. It lets the water run off following the natural trail it might have taken before the neighborhood was built. Now, it runs down in a more concentrated fashion, behind into the common ground area. So every now and then, when we get a big storm, we get little bubbling brooks! I will take what I can get in this regard.
I hope you enjoy as I do, some of these photos of little creeks and streams. I know that to see photos is better than not being able to be around them at all.
McVicar Creek in Thunder Bay Ontario
Ridley Creek at Long Point, in PA
Creek Poll
Did you have the pleasure, as a kid, of growing up near a creek, stream or bubbling brook?
Every so often, I have to drive where there's running water. sit and take in the sounds, the peace and beauty. I then go home and add that moment to my bank of unforgettable memories to savor and enjoy that quietness again. Thank for your hub.
There is some very special calming soothing quality about these smaller versions of their uncles and fathers, the oceans and rivers, and seas. A peace settles over me as I take time to enjoy the moments near them. The pictures made me feel as though I joined you.
Love this hub and the photos are awesome!
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Born, July 7, 1851, Berlin, Maryland
The Town of Berlin is proud to be the birthplace of Charles Albert Tindley. The Museum has information suggesting that Calvin B. Taylor taught Charles Tindley how to read and write.
Descendants of Rev. Tindley still live in the Berlin area in a part of town called Tindleytown.
"Stand by Me," written by Charles Albert Tindley; United Methodist Hymnal, No. 512
By C. Michael Hawn
Charles Albert Tindley (1851-1933) was one of the most famous African American Methodist ministers of his era and has been called "one of the founding fathers of African American gospel music."
Tindley overcame many personal obstacles to be the pastor of one of the largest congregations on the East Coast…. Tindley's mother died when he was four, and at five he was separated from his father. He taught himself to read and write by age 17 and moved to Philadelphia where he labored as a janitor at Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church. While working at the church he attended night school and took correspondence courses at Boston University School of Theology.
Following ordination, Tindley served several congregations before returning to Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church in 1902, not as a janitor but as its pastor. Serving the congregation for over 30 years, the church was renamed Tindley Temple Methodist Church in 1924 over his objections. The congregation included African Americans, Europeans, Jews and Hispanics. Some estimate that the congregation had as many as 12,500 members at the time of Tindley's death.
"Stand by Me" is one of the most famous of Tindley's many gospel songs. Composing both the words and the music, the pastor included it in New Songs of Paradise, No. 6, a collection he published in 1905.
Life was not easy for many members of Tindley's congregation during the industrial revolution of the northeastern United States at the turn of the 20th century. The opening stanza of this comforting hymn draws upon images from a narrative found in three of the Gospels in which Christ rebukes the winds and stills the raging waters.
Later stanzas painted a realistic picture of life's struggles through apocalyptic references such as "in the midst of tribulation," the "host of hell assail," and "in the midst of persecution."
In the final stanza, "Stand by Me" ultimately provides the assurance that Christ has the power to overcome all suffering on earth. Comfort will finally come as we approach "chilly Jordan" though Christ, the "Lily of the Valley."
Echoes from another of Tindley's gospel songs helped to galvanize Americans in their struggle for justice. "I'll Overcome Some Day" inspired the most famous song of the civil-rights movement, "We Shall Overcome."
Dr. Hawn is professor of sacred music at Perkins School of Theology.
"WE SHALL OVERCOME," Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger–1960
"We Shall Overcome" began as a gospel hymn and union song, but it was transformed by its four authors into the rallying cry of the black Freedom Movement for civil rights.
The music may derive from a 1794 hymn called "O Sanctissima" or "Prayer of the Sicilian Mariners," though some parts of the song are more recent. The words "I'll overcome some day" first appeared in a hymn by C. Albert Tindley and Rev. A. R. Shockly in New Songs of the Gospel (1900); however, the tune was not the one we associate with the present-day song.
In 1945, the words and tune came together in a song called "I'll Overcome Some Day," with additional words by Atron Twigg and a revised musical arrangement by Kenneth Morris, a Chicago gospel singer. Roberta Martin wrote another version, the last 12 bars of which are part of the current version of "We Shall Overcome."
Zilphia Horton, wife of the founder of Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tenn., first heard the song in October, 1945. One story says she joined a picket line of the CIO Food and Tobacco Workers' strike in Charleston, S.C., on a cold winter's day and heard it then. Another story says that two of the picketers came to a labor workshop at the school and sang it for her. Whichever story is true, we do know that she did hear the song and turned it into a union song. Later she taught it to Pete Seeger, the folksinger. She also sang it up north and added more verses ("We'll walk hand in hand" is one of these). Folksinger Frank Hamilton popularized the song, as did Guy Carawan, another white folksinger, who sang it to the black students who protested "white only" restaurants with sit-ins.
The song was recorded in 1950 by Joe Glazer and the Elm City Four and released by the CIO Dept. of Education and Research. When the song was published in 1960, the four authors dedicated it to the Freedom Movement and designated that all royalties resulting from its sale were to go to the movement. The popular version of the song is copyrighted under the names of Horton, Hamilton, Carawan, and Seeger.
"We Shall Overcome" was the song of the Freedom Movement. People sang its powerful, almost hypnotic lyrics–often repeating verses after a song leader–with their arms linked, as they swayed back and forth.
Martin Luther King, Jr., said that the song lent unity to the Freedom Movement. Mrs. Viola Luizzo, a white civil rights worker murdered in Alabama in 1965, sang "We Shall Overcome" as she lay dying. So did John Harris as he stood on the gallows of the prison in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Apr. 1, 1965, waiting to be hanged. It has been suppressed in South Africa ever since.
"We Shall Overcome" is no longer considered the anthem of the black movement. New, more militant groups are not willing to wait until "someday" for things to happen.
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When Thanksgiving Day parade-goers in Manhattan looked into the confetti-filled sky last week, they may have seen more than they bargained for.
Nassau County police announced that they are investigating how some of their confidential records including social security numbers and even details about a motorcade for Mitt Romney, then the GOP presidential candidate, ended up as joyous scraps raining from buildings on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
"I'm just completely in shock. How could someone have this kind of information, and how could it be distributed at the Thanksgiving Day Parade?" Inspector Kenneth Lack, from the Nassau County Police Department, told reporters. "The Nassau County Police Department is very concerned about this situation. We will be conducting an investigation into this matter as well as reviewing our procedures for the disposing of sensitive documents."
PHOTOS: Macy's Day parade balloons and more
The parade features inflated balloons of cartoon characters, marching bands and floats traveling down Manhattan's West Side to Herald Square, the traditional home of the department store, Macy's. Part of the festivities include a liberal outpouring from windows and rooftops. Macy's says it uses "commercially manufactured, multicolored confetti, not shredded paper."