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By Gary M. Burlingame
An icon in the field of group psychotherapy has left the stage; on February 4, 2012 Dr. Harold S. Bernard passed away. His contribution to the fi eld of group treatment was enormous. Harold was a fellow in Division 49 of the American Psychological Association (APA), a Diplomat in Group Psychology (ABPP), and the past president of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA), where he was also recognized in 2006 with its highest honor, Distinguished Life Fellow. Although I was familiar with Harold's contributions before 2001, I worked side by side with him after 9/11 when he shepherded an AGPA task force funded in part by a multi-million dollar grant from the New York Times Foundation. This task force provided group treatment for survivors of and fi rst responders to the tragedy in New York and Washington, DC. In 2002 Harold began his presidency of AGPA and ushered in a period where AGPA transformed from a guild society to a service provider helping literally thousands of individuals affected by the trauma associated with 9/11.
Dr. Bernard was a consummate trainer of group therapists at New York University/Bellevue Medical Center, where he was the Chief of the Group Psychotherapy Program from 1982 to 1996 and a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry for 30 years. He also offered countless courses and presentations at professional conferences of the APA, AGPA, and Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society and held prestigious university posts, including assignments at the University of Rochester and Harvard Medical School. In addition to his impact as an outstanding trainer, he also contributed to the clinical and empirical psychotherapy literature with six books, 14 chapters, and nearly 50 articles and commentaries while also serving on editorial boards of prominent group and psychotherapy journals, e.g., Psychotherapy, International Journal of Group Psychotherapy & Group.
Personally, Harold was simply delightful. He had an insatiable desire to serve his profession, coupled with a twinkle in his eye and a charisma that made working with him a true pleasure. He loved to listen to or tell a good joke, engage in lively conversations about sports, and dance into the night at the annual AGPA Gala. His charm and interpersonal skill was an asset as he advanced the cause of group treatment in a variety of venues. He seemed to have endless energy and was always willing to listen to a new idea that might advance our common professional interest in providing excellent group treatment. His infl uence, energy, and connections will be sorely missed. We offer sincere and heartfelt condolences to his wife Bonnie Bernard, his daughter Nicole, and son Bradley.


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Hwyel Dda Health Board responds to BBC Wales' questions over halted operations.
Q: Could you outline how the plan would impact on patients, which patients are affected and how many patients does the health board estimate could be affected?
A: This remains a proposal at this time. However, we must focus care on the most urgent patients (e.g. emergencies and cancer) at a time of significantly increased demand. We have described how we intend to work on re-profiling our lists over the next few weeks and we would intend to offer patients alternative care/treatment or outpatient review.
Q: How many planned operations had to be cancelled by your health board last year due to winter pressures?
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Q: The health board said "in previous winters, we had 160 additional beds in place often being managed by temporary staff. This is not a position we can maintain this year". Why is this the case, particularly as the health board is receiving £18.96m this year from the Welsh government largely to deal with unscheduled care pressures?
A: This is about providing the right quality of care. We know from various reports (e.g. Francis and Keogh) organisations need to reduce their reliance on agency and temporary staff. Our surge beds have often been managed by temporary and agency staff and by utilising our permanent staff in a better, planned way we would be able to address this and ensure better standards of care.
Q: How much did the health board spend last year on temporary/locum pay costs as a result of winter pressures? What does the health board estimate it can save by implementing its proposal on non-urgent orthopaedics?
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Q: What are the most recent statistics on waiting times for planned orthopaedic surgery in the health board? What is the health board's analysis regarding the impact its plan will have on patient waiting times/lists?
A: This remains a proposal at this time. We have described how we intend to work on re-profiling our lists over the next few weeks and we would intend to offer patients alternative care/treatment or outpatient review.
Q: What is your response to the claim by Plaid Cymru health spokesperson Elin Jones that Hywel Dda health services are in "meltdown"?
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One of the running jokes (or what passes for a joke) in the numbingly incoherent comic action thriller ''Bait'' has to do with the distinction between prawns and shrimp. You see, when Alvin Sanders (Jamie Foxx), a paroled thief, and a partner are caught red-handed stealing $2,000 worth of prawns from a Brooklyn warehouse, everyone, including the police, insists on calling them shrimp.
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The story finds poor Alvin sharing a cell with one of the perpetrators of a $42 million heist of gold bricks from the Federal Reserve System. When his cellmate suddenly dies of a heart attack, Alvin is plucked from prison, implanted with a satellite-controlled radio device that continually broadcasts his location and is used as bait by a ruthless treasury investigator (David Morse) to flush out the mastermind of the ''heist of the decade.'' Because his cellmate buried the treasure, the reasoning goes, he may have left Alvin a deathbed clue of its whereabouts.Continue reading the main story
The ploy succeeds, and before long, Bristol (Doug Hutchison), a villainous computer wizard who talks as if he is a robotic caricature of John Malkovich in his monster mode, is menacing Alvin's girlfriend, Lisa (Kimberly Elise), and their baby son.
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''Bait'' is rated R (under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It includes sexual situations and some gory violence.
Directed by Antoine Fuqua; written by Tony Gilroy, Andrew Scheinman and Adam Scheinman; director of photography, Tobias Schleissler; edited by Alan Edward Bell; music by Mark Mancina; production designer, Peter Jamison; produced by Sean Ryerson; released by Castle Rock Entertainment/Warner Brothers. Running time: 120 minutes. This film is rated R.
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Some religious groups have had to look past the traditional service and change their ways.
Every Sunday, just a few rows from the back, Evelyn Keller has a spot in the pew.
"I started in kindergarten," says Keller.
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AusVaxSafety exceeds 200 SmartVax sites nationwide
Dec 2017 - News
AusVaxSafety active vaccine safety surveillance data are provided by SmartVax, Vaxtracker and STARSS. No safety signals have been identified through active surveillance to date. AusVaxSafety active surveillance data continue to be updated regularly on the website.
Influenza: From 1 April 2017 to 3 September 2017, 102,663 individuals aged 6 months and older were enrolled for influenza vaccine surveillance. With an over 70% response rate, 73,560 participants consistently replied that any events after vaccination were generally mild and within expected ranges.
Zoster: As of 3 December 2017, a total of 10,739 persons aged 70–79 years have participated in zoster surveillance since 1 November 2016, yielding a response rate of 68%.
Pertussis: As of 10 December 2017, 29,592 children aged 12 months–<7 years have participated in pertussis surveillance since 14 March 2016, yielding a response rate of 72.4%.
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PHN Immunisation Support Program
Dec 2017 - News
NCIRS has partnered with NPS MedicineWise to develop a national Primary Health Network (PHN) immunisation support program on behalf of the Commonwealth Department of Health. The program will help PHNs to co-ordinate services and better assist immunisation providers to implement the National Immunisation Program (NIP).
The first phase of the program has now been completed and included the completion of a formative research report to understand the current landscape and explore the challenges and opportunities associated with establishing a support program. This involved literature reviews, environmental scanning, as well as teleconferences and workshops. It involved 84 stakeholder members, including jurisdictional immunisation co-ordinators (JICs) and representatives from PHNs and Public Health Units (PHUs).
Three stakeholder workshops, held in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney followed by a co-design workshop in Sydney identified the specific elements of the program which will include:
- Development of a digital platform that provides access for PHNs across Australia to high quality resources, education, news and updates, network directories, and that enables PHNs to connect and share ideas.
- Facilitation of networking opportunities, such as teleconferences and face-to-face events.
- Development of resources and education where significant gaps are identified.
- Central co-ordination of all program activities.
"The entire day was fantastic. I am confident the program will deliver great outcomes"
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The design of the digital platform is underway with a launch of Phase 1 anticipated at the end of March 2018. Other elements of the program will be developed over the coming months which will include opportunities for networking and education.
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As a national network, AEFI-CAN works collaboratively to clinically assess and manage individual patients following serious or unexpected AEFI. AEFI-CAN provides the important link between surveillance and clinical assessment and management. As such, AEFI-CAN can assist in determining patient outcomes and support investigation of possible safety signals in a real-time integrated way.
The database is currently being used in Victoria, with work underway to provide opportunities for all state and territory specialist vaccine safety clinics to adopt the database.
Publication - Active SMS-based influenza vaccine safety surveillance in Australian Children
Nov 2017 - News
Australia's novel, active surveillance system, AusVaxSafety, monitors the post-market safety of vaccines in near real time. This paper analysed cumulative surveillance data for children aged 6 months to 4 years who received seasonal influenza vaccine in 2015 and/or 2016 to determine: adverse event following immunisation (AEFI) rates by vaccine brand, age and concomitant vaccine administration.
7402 children were included in the analysis and no safety signals or excess of adverse events were detected.
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NCIRS publications in the Medical Journal of Australia
Nov 2017 - News
The November 6 issue of the Medical Journal of Australia featured four publications by the NCIRS team and collaborators, covering a broad range of topics such as meningococcal B disease, zoster, pneumonia and vaccine refusal.
These publications included:
- a research article Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal B disease in Australia, 1999–2015: priority populations for vaccination;
- a research letter Rates of hospitalisation for herpes zoster may warrant vaccinating Indigenous Australians under 70;
- a systematic review Determining the contribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae to community-acquired pneumonia in Australia;
- and a letter to the editor No Jab, No Pay and vaccine refusal in Australia: the jury is out.
MEDIA RELEASE - New AusVaxSafety data reinforces vaccination safety
Oct 2017 - News
Innovative new AusVaxSafety data confirms the 2017 influenza vaccines to be safe. No vaccine safety concerns were identified in approximately 74,000 adults and children vaccinated since April this year.
In the past five months over 102,000 people who have received the influenza vaccine across Australia have been sent a follow-up survey 3 days after vaccination to monitor vaccine reaction rates in real-time. With over 70% response rates, consumers have consistently replied that any effects after vaccination were generally mild and within expected ranges. This data, largely provided by SmartVax SMS surveys, reinforces the safety of the currently approved influenza vaccines. Only 6.6% had any potential reaction and an even smaller 0.4% sought attention from a healthcare provider in the days after vaccination.
Deputy Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) and paediatric infectious disease consultant Associate Professor, Kristine Macartney says, "We know the importance of vaccination and since implementing this program as an Australian first, we've received ongoing positive results that confirm and assure the safety of vaccines."
"The AusVaxSafety results showcase how Australia takes a lead in feeding back information to the rest of the world in regard to influenza vaccination safety. Countries now entering winter in the Northern Hemisphere will be particularly interested in these results as they are starting to use 2017/18 vaccines containing the same strains shown to be safe in Australia," she said.
AusVaxSafety is a national active vaccine safety surveillance system that monitors vaccine safety across more than 200 'sentinel' sites. These include general practices (GPs), Aboriginal medical services, immunisation clinics and hospital clinics. Led by the NCIRS, this world-leading system actively monitors the safety of a number of vaccines and aims to increase public confidence in immunisation.
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MEDIA RELEASE - NPS MedicineWise and NCIRS announce national partnership
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NPS MedicineWise has partnered with the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) to deliver a landmark, nationally coordinated immunisation support program for Primary Health Networks (PHNs) across Australia.
The program, entitled the Primary Health Networks Immunisation Support Program, will be co-designed with PHNs to better support and coordinate immunisation providers and services in their regions. The aim is to ensure PHN efforts across the country deliver on National Immunisation Program goals and are as consistent as possible, while addressing specific challenges in their local areas.
Immunisation providers, including GPs, nurses, community health clinics, Aboriginal Medical Services, local councils and pharmacies will benefit from the new PHN immunisation programs which will be consistent with the Australian Immunisation Handbook guidance, but adapted to be more targeted to specific community and patient requirements.
NPS MedicineWise CEO, Lynn Weekes, says: "We are pleased to partner with NCIRS on such a nationally significant and essential undertaking to enhance the effectiveness of immunisation services throughout the country.
"Supporting the invaluable work of PHNs by ensuring they are well-equipped with consistent and tailored immunisation information for the health professionals working in their local communities, is our priority in the development of this new program."
The program is in early stages of development during which NCIRS and NPS MedicineWise will undertake a systematic consultation process with PHNs and key stakeholders around the country to identify and respond to their particular challenges and requirements in the immunisation space.
NCIRS Deputy Director, Associate Professor Kristine Macartney, says, "The input and local insights we receive from PHNs will be crucial to informing the program's development.
"This and the combined expertise of NCIRS and NPS MedicineWise put us in a strong position to work to ensure that future PHN immunisation programs are consistent and that they effectively deliver messages that are relevant to local communities and immunisation providers across Australia. This should enable us to protect more people from disease through effective delivery of immunisation. "
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Flu is a tragic illness. How can we get more people to vaccinate?
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Most people don't take flu seriously enough. from www.shutterstock.com.au
Julie Leask, University of Sydney and Samantha Carlson, University of Sydney and Research Officer NCIRS
Flu (influenza) has traditionally been the underdog of vaccine-preventable diseases. People tend not to worry about the flu too much, and there are various myths about its prevention and the vaccine. It's true most people experience flu as a mild disease, but many don't recognise it can be more severe.
Each year flu is estimated to kill at least 3,000 Australians aged over 50 years alone. It took more children's lives than any other vaccine preventable disease in Australia between 2005-2014, and is the most common vaccine preventable disease that sends Australian children to hospital.
The tragic death of eight-year-old Rosie Andersen from flu this week has followed the recent outbreaks in aged care facilities and subsequent deaths of residents in South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. A 30-year-old father died earlier this month due to complications from the flu, and now Sarah Hawthorn, who was infected late in her pregnancy, remains in a coma, unaware her baby was safely delivered six weeks ago.
This year's flu season has been a bad one. And it's not over yet.
Australian studies have shown the flu vaccine can usually reduce the risk of flu in those who are vaccinated by 40-50%, and by 50-60% for children. Early indications are showing the effectiveness of this year's flu vaccine may be lower.
Experts are calling for a better vaccine, which is needed. But even a more effective vaccine won't address all the barriers to uptake.
Read more: Flu vaccine won't definitely stop you from getting the flu, but it's more important than you think
Who's most at-risk?
Annual flu vaccination is recommended for any person six months of age or older who wishes to reduce the likelihood of becoming ill with flu. It's free for certain groups at higher risk of the severe effects of the disease including:
• people over 65 (80% of whom are vaccinated)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from six months to five years (12% of whom are vaccinated)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people over 15 (34% of whom are vaccinated)
• pregnant women (45% of whom are vaccinated)
• people aged six months and over with medical conditions such as severe asthma, lung or heart disease, low immunity or diabetes (58% of these adults are vaccinated, and 27% of these children).
Why don't they vaccinate?
Researchers have looked at why many people in these groups don't have their yearly flu vaccine. A common theme emerges - health professionals are not recommending it enough, people aren't aware they need it, they're not sufficiently motivated, or they don't have easy access.
These themes come out in studies with parents of young children, pregnant women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, adults with other disease, and people over 65.
Our research is now looking at the children who end up in hospital with severe flu. We're trying to better understand the barriers to flu vaccination, along with vaccine efficacy issues.
We've heard that not only are health care workers not recommending it enough, some doctors are even recommending against it, as they don't believe the child is at risk. This is even though over half of children hospitalised from the flu are those without medical risk factors. Other times it's simple awareness - parents didn't know their child can receive a flu vaccine if they're over the age of six months.
Busy lives can mean making time to go to the clinic for a vaccine falls down the list of priorities. A four-year-old in our study was hospitalised only three days before a visit to the clinic had been booked.
Some of the children in our study were not theoretically at high risk of flu and so not in the group where the vaccine is free. This was a major barrier, as it has been in other studies in children and adults. Parents report to us that their child is up-to-date with their scheduled vaccines, but annual flu vaccination is not being ticked off as it's not on the schedule.
The challenge with flu vaccine is it's given yearly. In the UK it's recommended and funded for all children of primary school age using a school-based delivery program and currently between 53-58% of children have it. When this many children are vaccinated there can be indirect protection of others who are not vaccinated because the virus is not able to spread from person to person as easily.
Read more: I've always wondered: why is the flu virus so much worse than the common cold virus?
Misconceptions about the flu vaccine
Misconceptions about flu vaccine are also a barrier: that it causes flu, that it's not effective, that it's not needed. People might say they never get the flu, not realising symptoms can be mild or not noticed and they can pass it on to the vulnerable. Others reported their belief was that the flu was not a serious disease. Some believed contracting flu "naturally" was likely to provide greater immunity.
Some parents also have concerns about the safety of the flu vaccine. Australians were spooked by a 2010 incident when there was a temporary suspension of flu vaccine for children under five after reports of an increase in the rate of convulsions in children.
The one vaccine found to be the cause (BioCSL/Sequiris Fluvax™) is no longer approved for use in children younger than five, but there are other seasonal flu vaccines children can have. But public and professional confidence is yet to fully recover, despite having reassuring safety data.
Western Australia has had a free child vaccine program for years which was achieving relatively good coverage, but this dramatically declined after 2010, and coverage languishes at around 15% today. In other words, mud sticks.
How to improve uptake
To improve uptake we first need timely and accurate coverage figures. We now have the capacity to get coverage estimates from the expanded Australian Immunisation Register but these are not yet available.
The vaccine needs to be recommended more often, available more readily, free and recommended as part of the schedule, and myths addressed more effectively.
We need to motivate and support health care workers to implement the recommendations, such as with automated reminders, incentives and performance indicators. Systems need to ensure people can get the vaccine easily - from the GP or other health clinic, the specialist clinic, the antenatal care clinic, or from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander health worker.
Promoting flu vaccine to everyone is important, as is providing ease of access, awareness and opportunity. Although the flu vaccine isn't perfect, it's far better than no protection at all.
Julie Leask, Associate Professor, University of Sydney and Samantha Carlson, Research Officer for the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, University of Sydney
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's supreme leader has suggested the government has fallen short in its efforts to improve the economy as moderate President Hassan Rouhani prepares to campaign for re-election in May.
In a televised message in honor of the Persian New Year, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday that "there is a large gap between what has been carried out, and what the people and what we expect."
Rouhani was a driving force behind Iran's 2015 nuclear accord with world powers, which lifted international sanctions in return for restrictions on the country's nuclear program, but the effects have yet to trickle down to many Iranians.
The supreme leader, who supported the nuclear negotiations but has not weighed in on the accord itself, has the final word on all major policies in Iran.


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WASHINGTON — Department store operator Nordstrom Inc. on Thursday became the latest company joining the rush to set up a federal savings and loan.
Seattle-based Nordstrom, which has 99 stores in 22 states, asked federal regulators for permission to convert its credit card operation into a thrift.
"This move strengthens our competitive position within financial services while expanding the products we can offer our customers," Kevin Knight, president of the company's credit card operation, said in a statement. "A thrift charter allows us to offer products and services that until now no other retailer has offered customers."
If the application is approved, the new thrift may offer business credit card accounts, home equity lines of credit and money market checking accounts, Knight said. Other services being considered include automated teller machine debit cards and limited mortgage lending, he added.


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The #LG #Nexus5 was a monster handset back when it was launched in 2013. The smartphone was an excellent follow up to the Nexus 4, which was also produced by LG. Well, the Nexus 5 (32GB) is now available for just $164.99 through eBay, making this a very attractive deal.
The smartphone comes with stock Android and the promise of frequent software updates, well until Marshmallow becomes obsolete anyway. So you are probably covered for the next few months from now. But that's a non-issue given that you're getting a more than capable handset here for just $164.99.
The Nexus 5 comes with a 5-inch 1080p display, a 2.3 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 SoC, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of non-expandable storage, an 8-megapixel camera on the back, a 1.3-megapixel front camera, a 2,300 mAh battery and Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow under the hood. The seller is offering the handset in both White and Black models, making this a very attractive deal.


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- Paul said...
Good tip!
- stephen said...
True - but only if you have Show iTunes store checked in the preferences.
- Kenneth said...
I really Like this function makes searching eassier.
thanks dude
- Dominic P. Tremblay said...
I love it. Great tip!
- HalHockersmith said...
To turn this off go under View > Hide Browser.
- Jan said...
Hi, this may be a simple question but, what is the little checked box for next to the song name to the left? What is the effect of unchecking it?
Thanks, keep up the tips.
- Cássio said...
I love you! :D
Thanx for the great tip! This is great, cuz sometimes I just wanna listen to that album and hate when iTunes jumps from the atmospheric song to heavy songs that follow.
- Chatin said...
Nice Tip! makes searching for songs from same artist easier :)
- David said...
Thanks so much!!! I was wondering how to do that!!!
- Dion said...
Wow, I always thought there should be some way to "jump to this album" when I'm looking at a song in a playlist. Thanks for the tip, this is great! Why does Apple make stuff like this so hard to figure out???
- Amit Bakhru said...
That's a great tip!!!
- salvatori_m said...
thanks! great tip
- techkid said...
Why does Apple make stuff like this so hard to figure out???
lol - it's seems like they are fond of including little "easter eggs" which they wanna surprise people with when they discover them...
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Smurfit Kappa eco-friendly pouches stand proud – on shelf – in transit and at home
13 July 2012
The new range of eco-friendly easy to pour, 1.5 to 3 litre pouches continues to grow in the wine market.
The new range of eco-friendly easy to pour, 1.5 to 3 litre pouches continues to grow in the wine market.
Debuting at London's International Wine Fair, Kevin Heath, Sales Director, Smurfit Kappa Bag in Box, Ireland and UK explains; "This new 1.5 litre Pouch-up© is already in use at leading UK wine packers, Broadland Wineries, who have taken delivery of a semi-auto filler at their Cawston, Norfolk wine filling facility. He continues; "We believe Pouch-up© is the shape of things to come, transforming the look of the wine shelves and aisles, delivering a lighter take anywhere pack with an 80% lower carbon footprint than glass packaging and which is already well established with leading retailers, including ASDA, who are launching four own label wine pouches priced at £9."
Pouch-up© is a lighter alternative to glass with exceptional shelf stand-out, and a unique shape and finish designed to capitalise on retailers' prediction of strong sales increase of wines in cans and pouches.
The lightweight, free-standing beverage pouch has a 100% printed surface for branding, a dispensing Vitop® tap that extends the life of drinks after opening and a carbon footprint of just 20% of a traditional glass container.
As well as being ideal for the wine market, Smurfit Kappa has developed the Pouch-Up® for further applications such as cocktails and fresh fruit juices, including a Worldstar award-winning cocktail pack created for Manchester Drinks.
The innovative Pouch-Up® does not require a secondary outer box and improves logistics by increasing the volume of liquid a delivery vehicle can carry and due to a reduction of raw material only 35g for 1.5 litre pack, there is significant transport and storage efficiency resulting in an improved supply chain. With a traditional glass bottle making up 29.6% of the weight of a litre of wine, Pouch-Up® weighs in at just 2.3% of it's filled weight, delivering a significant improvement in carbon footprint.
The new environmentally friendly Pouchup© is easy-to-pour with its ultra-light, go-anywhere design, is lightweight to carry, easy to re-seal and is perfect for any occasion – at home or for outdoor gatherings including events, festivals and barbecues.
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Before discussing the accreditations of Westminster College London(WCL) it is extremely necessary to ponder upon the meaning of accreditation and its necessity. Etymologically, the word 'accreditations' mean 'to recognize an educational institution as maintaining standards that qualify the graduates for admission to higher or more specialized institutions or for professional practice.' Accreditation is given to the institution on the basis of their performance, validity and professionalism. Accreditations for the TESOL or TEFL courses are mainly given by institutions at the national level as there is no international body to accredit these courses.
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Ceres & Trillium Seek Nominations for the 2013 Joan Bavaria Award, Honoring Leaders Helping to Build a Sustainable Global Economy
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(3BL Media) Boston, MA - September 12, 2012 - Ceres and Trillium Asset Management are seeking nominations for the sixth annual Joan Bavaria Award. Submissions will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. ET on Monday, December 31, 2012. Nominations can be submitted at www.ceres.org/awards/joan-bavaria-award/nominate.
The Joan Bavaria Award honors a unique investor, business, or NGO leader who is working to transform the capital markets into a system that balances economic prosperity with social and environmental concerns. The winner of this year's award will be announced at the 2013 Ceres Conference taking place May 1-2 at The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
Bavaria founded both Ceres and Trillium Asset Management. She passed away in 2008 after a prolonged battle with cancer.
"Joan Bavaria was a visionary who did an extraordinary job at both laying out a vision for changing the world and making that vision become a reality. Her foresight and humanity continue to help catalyze change in the capital markets and create a more sustainable economy for a better world," said Ceres President Mindy Lubber. "The Joan Bavaria Award honors and celebrates those individuals who are carrying out Joan's great desire to integrate sustainability into the capital markets for the health of the planet and its people."
In 2012, Tessa Tennant, President and co-founder of The Ice Organisation, was honored with the Joan Bavaria Award for her work in advancing sustainable investment.
"I'm deeply honored to have been voted by all of you for the award," said Tennant in her acceptance speech last year. "Joan was so fearless about pushing boundaries. She gave me that confidence to just go out and do it."
Other previous winners include Willy Foote, founder and CEO of Root Capital, investor advocate Tim Smith of Walden Asset Management, and activist, prize-winning historian and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) founder Bob Massie.
For more information about the Joan Bavaria Award, visit www.ceres.org/awards/joan-bavaria-award or contact Brian Sant.
To submit a nomination, visit www.ceres.org/awards/joan-bavaria-award/nominate.
About Ceres
Ceres is an advocate for sustainability leadership. Ceres mobilizes a powerful coalition of investors, companies and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build a healthy global economy. Ceres also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a network of 100 institutional investors with collective assets totaling more than $10 trillion.
For more information, visit http://www.ceres.org
About Trillium
Trillium Asset Management is the oldest independent investment advisor devoted exclusively to sustainable and responsible investing, with over $900 million in assets under management. Trillium has been managing equity and fixed income investments for high net worth individuals, foundations, endowments, religious institutions, and other non-profits since 1982. www.trilliuminvest.com.
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Diabetes ranks fourth among the diseases causing death among Jews in Montreal, the Canadian Jewish Congress statistical department revealed here. This contrasts with the fact that the disease ranks ninth among killers in the Anglo-Celtic ethnic group and tenth among Canadians of French extraction. The study indicated that there was no difference among ethnic groups on other diseases.


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Bindings to stitch
Despite the lack of posts in the last few weeks, things have been moving on a pace on the stitching front. Lots of quilts to bind! These will be in a book that is due out next year, so something to look out for then!
My Camelot pattern arrived! It looks great, definitely something for the moments when I have more time to plan.
And on the inspirational front, these have been giving me some ideas of late:
I just love these patterns that need a bit of time and are not so 'mass production'! I love a bit of quick machine piecing as much as the next person, but I am really drawn to these blocks that will need a bit of TLC!
And this one too:
Really simple circles with that great Cheddar ( I know Lori loves the Cheddars!) The quilting here is really interesting too , so simple and right over the wheels.
Another quilter who has been busy lately is Victoria over at Bumblebeans. It is great to see the Signature quilt progressing. She started out with wanting it to be just like the one that had inspired her, but then when it was partly sewn it didn't feel right, so she has unpicked bits, restitched and made it her own. Isn't it great how quilts can take on a life of their own!
And has anyone any idea what the new BOM will be from Amitie? It was so tantalising to see they showed a preview at the Melbourne Craft and Quilt show, guess we will have to be in suspense at while longer!
I will bevoff for a few weeks to stitch and relax in Greece, so best get my hand stitching packed and a few good books.
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A group of eight Costa Ricans are completing a month in Oregon with a week's visit in Hood River, writes Peter Frothingham of Hood River, and a member of the Alliance for Progress.
The visitors and some of their hosts enjoyed a guided walking tour of the historic buildings in downtown Hood River, among many stops during their time in the area.
The tour was led by Carley Squyres, AmeriCorps intern, from the Hood River Museum. Following this event they visited the Hood River County Library.
Costa Rica and most other countries around the world do not have community libraries, according to Frothingham.
"Oregon is fortunate to be paired with Costa Rica. The partnership began through the Alliance for Progress initiated in the Kennedy Administration," he said.
For more than 15 years there has been an adult cultural exchange between the two countries. Oregonians who host a Costa Rican have an opportunity to show off their community, practice or learn a little Spanish and learn firsthand about another culture. Those who host are eligible to visit Costa Rica for a month in January and February at low cost.
"They have a wonderful time visiting the entire country, including places and communities not seen by most tourists," Frothingham said. There is also a student exchange with an even longer history. It began in 1986.
The Costa Ricans also visited Mount Hood, Lost Lake and Mid Valley Elementary School, took the Mount Hood Railroad to Parkdale, visited an alpaca farm and pressed apples into juice. Before arriving in Hood River they spent time with hosts in Portland, Seaside, Salem and Redmond.
Any one interested in hosting a Costa Rican or a couple in 2013 can contact Tim Foley at 541-399-2140 or Peter Frothingham at 541-354-3021.
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Pretty Little Liars: 5 Things That Will Probs Happen In the Winter Premiere of Season 2!
After watching the Halloween episode of Pretty Little Liars, we've been dying for more. And since the show's been on hiatus, we were wondering when we'd finally get a peek at the winter premiere. Well, it's finally here; a whole 60 second preview of PLL drama to come! It's not much, but we'll take it.
MORE: 5 Things We're Hoping For in Season 2, Part 2 of Pretty Little Liars!
Here's what we think is gonna go down based on the preview:
1. Aria and Ezra will finally make their relationship public. From the looks of this preview, the only one who's going to have a major issue with their relationship is Mike. Why Mike out of all people? Who knows! But we're thinking this could make Aria change her mind about this thing she's got going with Ezra, especially if it makes her bro's behavior even worse than it's been.
2. Our Little Liars in orange jumpsuits? Okay, either these girls really landed in juvy or they're just busy doing some Rosewood community service. Either way, this means Jenna and Garrett's plan was actually a success. So what does this mean? Our fab four are gonna give these two some major payback.
3. Caleb will come back, for good this time. Best surprise ever? Uh, yes! That is all…for now.
4. Emily is going to find Alison's box of secrets and this will be her weapon against "A." We all know "A" was out to ruin Alison's life, and now she's onto the liars, too. But since "A's" focus has always been Ali, finding her box of secrets could just free the Little Liars from "A's" grasp. At least for a little while, cause this box will probs reveal something about "A," too.
5. Someone is going to die, and although we don't exactly know who it is, we've got two suspects for this murder: Hanna or….Ali! The vid shows a blonde totally knocking someone out and into the water, and the only blondes on PLL are those two. But wait, since there is a possibility that Ali has a twin, could it maybe be her? So many questions!
Now, watch this vid yourself and see if you agree with our predictions:
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Will Stemen '63 and his wife, Karis, had been on several service trips with their church—Bethany First Church of the Nazarene in Bethany, Okla.—when their congregation heard from a Southern Nazarene University student in 2007 about her summer spent in Swaziland. With the highest HIV/AIDS positive rate in the world, coupled with a severe drought, the need for medical provisions and service workers in the country was ever-increasing. The Stemens' church wanted to help.
"We entered into a partnership with the country that fall," says Stemen. "The partnership includes areas of construction, education and medical and spiritual needs. Our church sends teams four times each year, and the teams have consisted of doctors, dentists, nurses, educators, construction workers and social workers who work with the already formed HIV/AIDS Compassionate Ministries Task Force."
Stemen, who pastored Nazarene churches for 23 years, says that when the church decided to begin sending groups, it was a no brainer for the two of them to go for 10 days or two weeks. "When our pastor shared that it would be good to have someone on-site to organize things for a longer period of time, and he asked us to prayerfully consider it, we felt led to do it."
The couple set out on a year-long term in June 2008. As on-site coordinators, they organized housing and coordinated activities for the teams whose visits typically lasted 10 days. They spent much of their time traveling into "the bush" to evaluate medical clinics and their ability to test individuals for HIV/AIDS.
The size of New Jersey, Swaziland has four main hospitals in the larger cities and 17 rural clinics. Of the latter, only two are equipped to test individuals for HIV. "To be tested for HIV, people have to travel," says Stemen. "For many that is impossible because of the lack of transportation available. And for communities in the bush that are extremely poor, it's even more impossible."
Making things more difficult is the resistance from the Swazi people to be tested. "Statistics show that only 9 percent of men and 50 percent of women are willing to be tested," says Stemen. "There's a real stigma attached to having HIV/AIDS, and many who are sick with it ignore it. You can't imagine the devastation that is there or the number of young children and teenagers leading families because both their parents have died of AIDS."
Stemen says their overall goal was to develop relationships with people: "As a retired minister, I preached a number of times through a translator, led devotions at a nurses' college and spoke with students in high schools. We wanted to encourage them and educate them, especially with regard to HIV/AIDS."
Due to health issues, the Stemens returned from their post after eight months, but they continue to serve, helping their church to fill a 40-foot container with medical supplies, including donations from area hospitals, and by encouraging local churches to adopt clinics. "The ability of testing and treating HIV/AIDS needs to be more readily available to those who need it," says Stemen.
Read more about the Stemens' time in Swaziland at http://willstemen.blogspot.com/.


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Caption, "an old-time midnight slave funeral," casket being carried to gravesite; scene lit by torches. "In those portions of the South where the plantations were largest, and the slaves most numerous, they were very fond of burying their dead at night, and as near midnight as possible" (Pierson,p. 284).


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The new Samsung Galaxy line is rumored to be equipped with a novel unbreakable screen, a potentially good selling point as the South Korean's flagship fights off the dominance of Apple's iPhones.
Codename "Project J", in reference to the head of Samsung's mobile division JK Shin, is currently under development and will be marketed as the new Galaxy S IV. This new smartphone will be released as early as April next year, according to tech blogs and analysts.
Samsung is looking for a breakthrough selling point for its new line of smartphones as it battles Apple's iPhone in a very heavily contested mobile market.
Rumors say that the new Galaxy S IV will have a bigger display and richer screen. It will also run a quad-core processor and will feature a 13-megapixel camera, with a significantly improved 441 pixels per inch (ppi) capability. Apple's iPhone 5 runs on 326 ppi while the current Galaxy S III runs 306 ppi.
"Looking to the first half of 2013, we see evidence of Samsung likely accelerating the release of the Galaxy S IV – compared with May (this year) for the Galaxy S III," UBS analyst Nicolas Gaudois said. "We believe preparations for volume manufacturing of unbreakable plastic substrate displays continue. All in all, we could see a strong products push in the high-end in the first half, followed by other releases."
Samsung did not comment on the rumors.
The South Korean tech giant is a major supporter of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen. The company is also a pioneer in developing unbreakable displays, as glass substrate with plastic material can be replaced by OLED panels. It is expected the mobile gadgets' screens will eventually become flexible and unbreakable.
"Eventually, they'll have unbreakable and flexible displays. Either the Galaxy S IV or S V will have unbreakable and even possibly flexible and foldable displays by 2014. That's going to be a game-changer," Hong Kong-based Stanford Bernstein analyst Mark Newman said.
Newman and Gaudois are considered top authority by Thompson Reuters Starmine research firm when it comes to Samsung.
The breakthrough new display would be a game changer for Samsung as well, as it tries to get away from its reputation as a "fast follower" of other designs and technologies.
Samsung is set to continue its appeal against a court ruling last August convicting the South Korean company of infringing Apple's patents and therefore should be paying over $1 billion following a verdict from jurors.
Samsung is appealing the case while Apple seeks to further increase the damages as well as total ban in the United States of smartphones involved.
However, the verdict from case seemed not to affect Samsung's shares as it gained 14 percent to record highs. Apple's own shares on the other hand plummeted as it encountered a few fiascos of its own including the faulty map app, tougher market competition, and tight supply of its iPhone 5. Apple's stock has dived by a fifth, writing off $120 billion worth of the company's value.
By excluding the costs related to the August ruling, Samsung would be reporting a fifth straight record profit this quarter. Profits from the company's business division has recovered and has helped offset the decreasing margins on mobile phones–drained by costly year-end holiday marketing stunts.
Newman said: "Samsung's strength extends beyond cool products, they're also a leader in the technology behind these devices. We see further upside to Samsung's stock as success in smartphones continues and chips and display profits also rebound. In smartphones, the opportunity is for Samsung to take more share from Apple in the premium segment, where Apple is still dominant."
UBS says that Samsung is shipping an estimated 22.5 million Galaxy S III and Note II until December, an increase from 20 million in July-September quarter. JK Shin said earlier in November that Samsung's smartphone flagship, the Galaxy S III, will hit a total of 40 million sales by the end of the month.
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Amazon Bestseller: Reaching #12 on Amazon.com out of all books in all categories.
Published by David C. Cook, 2009.
Finding Organic Church is a comprehensive and practical guide that follows all of Frank's previous books on ecclesiology. The book explores the apostolic ministry in detail and is based on a seminal reading of the New Testament as well as the experience of over two decades of living in and raising up organic expressions of the church.
The author of "Pagan Christianity?" (with George Barna), "Reimagining Church," and the bestselling "From Eternity to Here" has written a detailed manual on how to start and sustain an organic church. Everything from what to do with the children, to the developmental stages of church growth, to the diseases of an organic church and their cures are all covered in this comprehensive volume. Church planting principles for organic styled churches are packed together with the author's practical experience of living in and starting such churches. Each chapter is full of advice, outlining the unique problems that such churches will face and their solutions. Church planters of all types will benefit from this book as well as those wishing to explore an alternative way of church gathering.
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The book answers the following questions and much more:
* Where do I find the kind of church life you describe in your other books, namely, "Pagan Christianity," "Reimagining Church," and "From Eternity to Here."
* How does a person plant an organic ekklesia — a Christ-centered community that expresses God's kingdom and fulfills God's eternal purpose and grand mission?
* What are the biblical qualifications for a church planter and what are the pitfalls?
* What does the New Testament teach about church planting exactly and how does it apply today?
* What does Scripture teach about apostles and apostolic ministry?
* How are organic churches nurtured and sustained?
* How are children, giving (money), Bible study, evangelism, prayer, etc. all handled in an organic expression of the church?
* What are the development stages of an organic church?
* What are the seasons that an organic church will pass through and how can they be discerned?
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After stays at luxury resorts and short flights at taxpayers' expense, the South Florida Water Management District got a warning from state legislators on Wednesday - "change your ways."
The House Committee on Audit and Performance called district officials to the capital after the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that agency representatives stayed at pricey hotels and used the district's airplane and helicopters for short trips and costly solo flights.
State Rep. Ed Homan, the committee chairman, said if the district's nine-member volunteer governing board didn't change its practices, the Legislature could change state law to put tighter limits on the agency's travel spending.
"When they sign up for this thing, they don't sign up for any perks," said Homan, R-Tampa. "They are here because they are a public servant."
District board members during the past three years flew nearly 600 times, costing more than $800,000 in fuel, insurance, hangar space, maintenance and other expenses, according to the Sun-Sentinel's examination of flight logs, budgets and other records. Flights included short hops from West Palm Beach to cities as close as Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale and Miami.
The Sun-Sentinel also reported that the agency spent more than $219,000 in five years for its top officials, advisers and staffers to stay at resorts, billing the public for rooms and receptions from the Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo to Walt Disney World.
Rep. Dave Murzin, R-Pensacola, noted he makes a three-hour one-way drive to Tallahassee virtually every week - often leaving before dawn to avoid a hotel cost.
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365 Restaurants, 2 Kids, 1 Giant Fiasco
As you may know, I worked last night and I would be going to a continuing medical education work function tonight; eager to participate in another feeding fiasco, I sacrificed sleep to have a breakfast date with my two favorite guys, Benji and Ogre. I gave Ogre a couple of suggestions and we decided on Cafe de France in Plano. We packed up Benji (Mina was already in school) and headed out.
I was impressed when we walked in to see that on their Welcome sign in a bunch of different languages, there was one for Tagalog (the main Filipino dialect) especially since I had just written a blog about growing up as a Filipina on my "other" blog. Ogre and Benji settled into the booth while I took a picture. As I walked towards our table I noticed that we were the only ones in there under the age of 60. I mentioned this to Ogre and he asked me what was wrong with that. I didn't say there was anything wrong with it, it was just an observation. They all kept looking over and smiling at Benjamin, so we felt very welcome (or Maligayang Pagdating)!
IMMEDIATELY, Ogre started complaining about how hot it was. I thought the temperature was perfect. More evidence, according to Ogre, that it was, in fact, way too hot in the restaurant. Admittedly, I wear a jacket even in the summer in Texas. It reminded him of when we actually were in France. He complained the entire time that we were in France that all the restaurants were too sweltering. I love France.
They didn't give us anything to entertain little Benjamin. Ogre ordered his coffee before I walked up so when the waiter returned with his coffee and to get my drink, he had some little creamers. We gave these to Benji to play with. He kept wanting "mo mo," and, luckily, Ogre likes to have cream in his coffee. I ordered the Caramel Latte and a chocolate milk for Benji since Ogre neglected to order anything for him.
Benjamin was in a weird mood. He wasn't totally happy, and a little whiny. I suspected it was because he didn't get his morning yogurt. Benjamin has a morning routine that includes yogurt and he is always a little off when we stray from it. When I got my coffee, Benjamin immediately wanted some. He wouldn't even try his chocolate milk. We resorted to fooling him again. I pretended to pour my coffee into his chocolate milk cup and he fell for it everytime and drank it. I don't know why he kept thinking that after a few sips and gulps I needed to refill it, but, he is only 18 months old, who knows what goes on in their little heads.
I had to ask the waiter if they had a kids menu and he pointed it out on the back of the menu. Doh! I decide to get the French Toast with bacon for Benji. The waiter tells me the Crepes are "really good" and he has an excited to look on his face so I order the strawberry variety with whipped cream. Ogre asks the waiter if he should get the Croque Madame or Ham and Cheese Crepes and the waiter says excitedly that he must go with the Croque Madame.
Ogre continues to complain about how hot is and how it's so hot that he can't even drink his coffee. His cries are validated when a waitress overhears him and comments that she thinks it is hot, too, but that it might just be her. I just roll my eyes. It's perfect. I continue faking Benji out with the coffee/chocolate milk exchange.
Our food arrives shortly, thereafter, and I cut up Benji's french toast. My crepes smell very syrupy. I'm not too excited about it. Ogre thinks his Croque Madame smells very buttery, he is very excited about that. We dig in. I'm not to pleased with my dish. Ogre is swooning over his. He offers to switch or share with me, but I know that Ogre does not like "dessert-y" breakfast dishes, so I decline his offer and muddle through mine. Benjamin is having a good time dipping his fried potatoes in the ketchup. He sucks the ketchup off his potato and then pops it his mouth to eat. He is doing a good job of eating his food, in fact, too good of a job. Benjamin has this problem of shoveling food into his mouth before I would think he has throuroughly chewed his food or swallowed creating an ever enlarging bolus of food in his mouth. He usually gets it down with just some tearing of his eyes, but this time, he must've gagged because out comes most of his breakfast and chocolate milk. Eww. Good thing we were sitting in a vinyl covered booth. Ogre cleans it up and Benjamin happily goes back to eating. I'm pretty grossed out now and ready to call it quits. Ogre offers up the last few bites of his breakfast knowing that I did not really enjoy mine.
I eat a few bites and Benjamin is getting antsy so we finish up and settle our tab. Benjamin smiles at all his new friends as we walk out.
I did not think they served very good crepes. It had a weird texture -definitely not delicate tasting; it was too dense and did not have a good flavor -it tasted bland and uninspired (that sounded almost like a real food critic!). Ogre totally disagrees with me on this. He liked it, but said that he doesn't like it when the crepes are too sweet. That was a weird comment, in my opinion, because while the crepes were bland, they were swimming in what seemed to be plain old corn syrup. (The menu described them as being sauteed in a caramel sauce). The strawberries that sat atop the crepes did not seem fresh and I was not impressed with their whipped cream. Overall, I was disappointed in the crepes.
Ogre LOVED his Croque Madame. The eggs were very buttery and the ham and cheese matched up very nicely. I agreed with this. His dish was much better than mine.
I tried Benji's French Toast and I just didn't think there was anything special there. It wasn't bad, it was just "okay." Their bacon was not as good as The Original Pancake House, but that's pretty difficult to beat. I did enjoy their fried potatoes (as did Benji, of course). The kids menu, at breakfast, offers eggs, pancakes, or french toast at a very reasonable price (1.99-3.75), the portions are appropriately small.
While I didn't think our server's crepe recommendation was "on target," he was overall a very attentive server and our food came out at a nice tempo. No problems with the service this morning. Ogre obviously had issues with the temperature of the restaurant, but once the waitress picked up on his complaints, they turned on the air conditioning and it started to cool off.
They do have kids menu items, but other than that, it wasn't outwardly kid friendly. Bring your own entertainment, if needed, or do what we did and turn those little creamer tubs into toys.
Total: $26.24
What did Guidelive say? Note, that they are not discussing breakfast in their review.
On the way home, Ogre commented that we should have used a 5 star rating. I told him that we were only 1/10th of the way to our goal, so if he wants me to change it, then I better do it now. His passive aggressive lack of response is prompting me to change it. So, I will be reassigning star quality to the restaurants we've visited and will go with a 5 star rating from now on. Still, I want to emphasize that it's the experience and not the star rating that is important to me!
Also, if anyone else has had the crepes or orders the crepes in the future, PLEASE comment on what you thought of them. Ogre and I are in total disagreement over this one!
Liz G.
September 18th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Haven't had these – but the Cherry Crepes at the Orginal Pancake House are the best! (Just in case you've never tried them.) Not too sweet – and just yummy!
September 18th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
i'm in total agreement with you about the crepes at Original Pancake House -I typically get the strawberry crepes and they are really good! Their strawberries are fresh and the strawberry syrup is always excellent!
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I think the industry needs to rethink what they call the work they do. It seems to me that deconstruction is a more accurate word to describe taking down walls, obliterating a ceiling here and there, digging out basements full of sand and you know, depositing it elsewhere until sandal season.
New-builds can do all the construction they want, but lets call a spade a spade here. When something that used to look like this:
comes to look something more like this:
that's deconstruction. But its all good, because work on what Frank refers to as the "Superstructure" (foundation, rebuilding the floor upstairs, supporting the attic with beams, supporting other parts of the house with even more beams) is coming along, and should be complete by the end of the week, and this includes lowering the basement!
The foundation specialist started to dig the new floor on one side of the basement and I got to stand on it today. It was IN-credible, just so awesome to look up eight feet to the new ceiling height. The height is (of course) dead space because neither D. nor I are particularly tall and we don't have any friends in the NBA (yet) but I suspect it will help it it feel less basement-y, which is never a bad thing. D. and I got so excited after visiting the rubble that is the basement that we made a b-line to our local housewares store to look at flooring samples.
The working idea at this point is to lay a durable laminate floor that mimics the look of hardwood. I am attracted to styles that have grey undertones like barn wood, they look like they'll flow nicely with the grey and white kitchen upstairs. We'll need something bright because eight feet or not, its still a basement.
But getting back to this idea of superstructure, if I may, because what's going on in the house is kind-of super when I think about it. I wonder about how many other houses of our vintage have completely new foundations… as I may have mentioned before, had we known before we purchased it that the house was riddled with structural issues, it just wouldn't have become our home. Not a chance in h-e-double hockey sticks. (And yes, we did have a home inspection done). I think a lot of people may have opted to tear 'er down if they knew the extent of its problems and could afford to build from scratch. I like the thought that we may have saved it from demise, even if it wasn't our choice.
Across the street from us and up and down the block glorious new builds seem to sprout without fail each spring. Large, modern structures, some of them three stories high with massive, flat-panel windows, a lot of stone, blocky, pretty in their own way I suppose, but not a style D. nor I really appreciate. I just saw another victim come on the market last week. We popped in to assess the situation. The real estate agent was frank about it, "Its a tear-down" she said. Its too bad. But it is what it is.
I am currently in a love-hate relationship with our house, as I suspect many people going through a substantial renovation feel. Some days I find myself thinking that there is no finished product that could ever compensate for all the stress and anger, all the time that could have been better spent, all of the financial blood-letting, that this stupid thing has caused us.
D and I leave the house after the weekly check-ups, usually grab some lunch somewhere, and over burgers we re-hash the current week's progress and become re-invigorated by it all, to the point that almost without fail –and even if we are on the opposite end of the city– we will find an excuse to inch back to our 'hood and have one more look; we'll approach from a different street this time, a different angle. And one of us will turn to the other and speak the words the other needs to hear: "Its going to be awesome."