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There is a crisis of death and disappearance happening at the US–Mexico border. Today, Tucson-based groups No More Deaths and La Coalición de Derechos Humanos release part 1 of a three-part report series aimed at bringing this crisis to light. Continue reading End the crisis of death and disappearance at the border!
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"Disappeared," part 1, "Deadly Apprehension Methods"
The Nation: "The financial firm that cornered the market on jails"
The financial firm that cornered the market on jails
Arun Gupta, The Nation, August 1, 2016
Numi's highest profits may come from jailed migrants. As Paul Wright, executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center, points out, "Large numbers of [jailed] people are deported to countries where they aren't able to use the inmate debit cards." The balance on these uncashed cards would be absorbed by Numi and the issuing bank through maintenance fees. Continue reading The Nation: "The financial firm that cornered the market on jails"
Why do people disappear in the desert?
In June 2015, No More Deaths and La Coalición de Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Coalition) received $10,000 from the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee to write three reports that document how border-enforcement policies and practices cause people to disappear while crossing the US–Mexico border. The first of these reports, to be released in early summer, focuses on two Border Patrol practices: destroying lifesaving humanitarian aid and intentionally scattering groups of migrants during apprehension. Continue reading Why do people disappear in the desert?
Chicago Sun-Times: "Booted across the border with bogus checks"
Booted across the border with bogus checks
Marlen Garcia, Chicago Sun-Times, March 12, 2015
The first step for immigrants deported from the U.S. to Reynosa, Mexico, is to check in with Mexican authorities at the Tamaulipeco Institute for Migrants at the end of their walk on the International Bridge. Continue reading Chicago Sun-Times: "Booted across the border with bogus checks"
How the deportation shakedown works (video)
Would you believe that mass deportation robs migrants and immigrants of millions of dollars a year and puts their lives at risk? We collaborated with the Binational Defense and Advocacy Program (Programa de Defensa e Incidencia Binacional) on this video that shows how.
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Al Jazeera: "The institutional cruelty of migrant shakedowns"
The institutional cruelty of migrant shakedowns
John Washington, Al Jazeera, January 14, 2015
On Jan. 31, the U.S. Border Patrol detained a migrant named Alejandro in the Arizona desert and stripped him of his belongings: $226.24 in cash, his cellphone, his ID and his only change of clothes. After 60 days in jail, he was put on a bus headed across the border. It was 3 a.m. Continue reading Al Jazeera: "The institutional cruelty of migrant shakedowns"
Arizona Republic, editorial
Editorial: A disturbing trend in border patrol
Arizona Republic, December 15, 2014
Honoring the inherent rights of individuals is part of our national DNA. It is what we are all about.
But a report from a human-rights group offers more evidence that this deep commitment runs a bit shallow near the US–Mexico border. Continue reading Arizona Republic, editorial
USA Today: "Report: US often keeping deportees' money, IDs"
Report: US often keeping deportees' money, IDs
USA Today, Bob Ortega, December 10, 2014
PHOENIX — US authorities often needlessly endanger deportees by sending them back across the border into Mexico without returning their money, IDs, cell phones, medicine and other belongings, a human-rights groups charges in a report released Wednesday. Continue reading USA Today: "Report: US often keeping deportees' money, IDs"

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Friday finds – Week 32 – 2017
After taking some time off I am back with some websites I have visited this week
It's always fun to meet new relatives. It can be however be a little intimidating to call someone you have never talked to before. In Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems you find 14 steps for contacting kin. Read Cold-Calling Your Kin: How to Contact Distant Relatives.
I know that many of you have both Swedish and Norwegian ancestry. The article Swedish Genetics: Abstracts and Summaries in the blog Genetics and Genetic Genealogy tell about our shared gene pool. Some of the information here may require some basoc knowledgde og genetic genealogy, which I readily admit I don't have.
While we are talking about genetic genealogy: Judy G. Russell in The Legal Genealogist talks about how we should always keep in mind that DNA don't lie and might give us some surprises. Read her article The truth will out.
It is always fun to see how other genealogists work. In the blog Climbing My Family Tree, Marian B. Wood tells how she is Weighing the Evidence on Grandpa's Birthplace. While her Grandpa is from Lituania, her way of looking at the evidence is relevant in Norway too.
Do Genealogists Care About Family Artifacts? is the question posed by Joy Shivar in the MyHeritage Blog. Well, I do and Shivar says the answer is yes and no. Then again, the article may just a way to promote the website JustAJoy that claims to be the "World's Largest Source of Searchable Family Heirlooms".
This article by Libby Copeland in the Washington Post tells the story of how Alice Collins Plebuch's foray into "recreational genomics" upended a family tree. WHO WAS SHE? A DNA TEST ONLY OPENED NEW MYSTERIES.
In the article Look What I Found in the Archives!, Amy Bowser Tennant in The Genealogy Reporter talks about how researching archives is an approach for additional family information that you might have overlooked.
Here are some other blogs that presents links under the "finds" meme:
- Genea-Musings
- Copper Leaf Genealogy
- Julie's Genealogy & History Hub
- Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog
- GenTraveling
If you enjoy my reflections on genealogy, be sure to follow me on twitter. I am also on Instagram where I share pictures from Norway, often with a genealogy theme. Click here to reach me. You can subscribe to this blog by leaving your email address in the subscription field on the front page.
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I didn't saw a Python in Maya relative subject, so i put this here.
I'm a beginner at Python Scripting (I'm from max and i do Maxscripting…).
Here a script i get from internet (it's work perfectly):
import maya.cmds as cmds
#get the skinCluster from the modelisation
def FindCluster (Mod_Name) :
shps = cmds.listRelatives(Mod_Name)
for sh in shps:
scs = cmds.ls(type='skinCluster')
for sc in scs:
mesh = cmds.skinCluster(sc, q=True, g=True)
if mesh[0] == sh:
Mod_SkinCluster = sc
print "Mod_SkinCluster"
print Mod_SkinCluster
I do understand most of it, but i i search about "cmds.skinCluster(sc, q=True, g=True) ", i find nothing about it.
What does represent q and g in it? (the rest, it's ok)
I saw then so much time but don't understand what they mean…


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I wasn't watching where I was going and I got smacked across the head with a 2×4. But it was exactly what I needed to knock some sense into the 3-pound brain nestled inside my head that had shriveled to the size of a pea.
For several days I have been wallowing in discouragement. I have watched my 14-year-old four-legged little man steadily deteriorate due to arthritis which now requires me to carry him up and down the stairs to go outside to do his duty. Like my brain, his body has shrunk from the 30 pounds of his heyday to his current 20 pounds. The load isn't an issue, but my torn meniscus is. The injury occurred six weeks ago, and it has been slow to heal, mostly because I refuse to let anything slow me down, even the words of the doctor. "Your knee is bone on bone. You're going to be looking at a knee replacement in the future."
So I precariously descend the steps one at a time, holding my breath with each step as the pressure is almost unbearable. And a few minutes later, when Jake's business is finished, I wince again as I load the injured knee with the weight of both of us.
It has been difficult to watch my faithful friend slowly deteriorate. Some days he will drag himself around by his front legs only, and I look the other way but the idea of putting him down stares me in the face.
"God, why do I have to deal with this stuff? And why do I have to continue doing it all alone? Who is going to be waiting for me when I get home and Jake isn't there? And what about the knee replacement? How long can I put that off? Who is going to take care of me then? Don't you know how hard this is?" I let my mind become so overwhelmed with worry and fear that I ended up mentally and emotionally crying "Uncle!"
As I laid on the couch, my knee resting on a pile of pillows and wrapped with a heating pad, I was texting with a very wise and loving friend. She asked if I needed anything. "Just pray for me. I have a bad attitude right now." I wasn't watching where I was going. My wise friend wasn't going to let this slip by.
"You have too much to be thankful for to have a bad attitude," she replied.
Smack!! What? You don't want to climb into this pity pot with me? There's plenty of room in here, and I'd like some company, please. My wise friend didn't join me.
Neither did Elijah commiserate with the widow of Zarephath.
"Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?" he asked. "And bring me, please, a piece of bread." (1 Kings 17:10-11)
She had no food to spare.
"I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it — and die." (1 Kings 17:12)
Like me, the widow was ready to throw the towel in and didn't expect the words that came next.
"Elijah said to her, 'Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: "The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land." (1Kings 17:13-14)
And the words were true. Like my friend's words. Elijah gave her words she needed to hear. People who care do that. They are God-sent. He knows exactly what you need and He sends the messenger at the right time.
"Like golden apples in silver settings, so is a word spoken at the right time. Like a gold ring and a fine gold ornament, so is constructive criticism to the ear of one who listens." (Proverbs 25:11-12)
My highest and best purpose is not realized when I am wallowing in discouragement, which is why God sends messengers to speak to me at just the right time. And when He knows I need a shift in my thinking, He sends my cheerleaders. My cousins have my back. They're my posse. So are my friends from the gym… and my friends at church… and my friends in my small groups. The size of the obstacle in front of you is no match for the force behind you when you realize how many people are pulling for you, cheering you on, encouraging, speaking words of truth, wisdom, encouragement – life. And if I could harness all of their love and support and collect it, it would be only a thimble full in comparison to the power of God's love for me.
I needed to hear those words from my friend. They were a reminder of how God has always been there for me when I need Him. He will never leave me, nor forsake me. He has brought friends and family at just the right time to encourage and uplift, speaking words that breathe life into my weary heart.
What causes you to wave the white flag of surrender?
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How to Get Away with Murder Season 5 Trailer: Yes, There's Another Murder!Paul Dailly at . Comments
How to Get Away with Murder is back in session in just a few weeks, and ABC has unveiled the first trailer for the frothy drama's fifth season.
Thankfully, Annalise Keating will be back in the classroom, doing what she does best.
By that, we mean training people on how to get away with, well, murder.
With that said, it looks like her Connor, Michaela, Laurel, and Asher return to class, and they may need to battle other students to become Annalise's favorite people again.
It should make for some interesting dynamics by switching things up.
Now, it wouldn't be How to Get Away with Murder without some deadly twists, right?
We get a glimpse at a brand new murder, and it may well take place at Connor and Oliver's wedding.
Shondaland weddings never go by without a huge hitch, so it would be silly to assume things don't go South.
In any case, Annalise's lap dog, Frank is in attendance and he sure looks like he has something tell her.
"Why do you look like someone just died?" says Annalise.
Oh, and there's also some blood-soaked snow thrown in for good measure!
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Sight-seeing gets me in touch with all kinds of nature: Woods and Waters by Tom Shank
When I talk about sightseeing, it's not the normal drive to a popular destination where folks gather and the hustle and bustle of activity is all around. Actually it is totally the opposite. I …
Sight-seeing gets me in touch with all kinds of nature: Woods and Waters by Tom Shank
When I talk about sightseeing, it's not the normal drive to a popular destination where folks gather and the hustle and bustle of activity is all around. Actually it is totally the opposite. I enjoy solitude and the peace and quiet of nature, where all the sights come forth on a trained eye.
Having a cabin within Tiadaughton State Forest, which is located mostly in Lycoming County, allows me thousands of acres to explore. I never know what will be seen around the next corner. Hiking on foot, especially on trails and dirt roads allows you to quietly enter the world of nature. It's not seeing the large creatures like deer or bear, which are quite common on any excursion and are welcomed sights, but the little creatures like insects, birds and chipmunks.
My bird-watching has taken me to another appreciation of nature: the bird world around us. Now my mountain drives and hikes have me equipped with binoculars and my camera. I try to photograph any bird I can see, while listening to the different sounds that birds use to communicate.
One of my recent trips back a dirt road allowed me to see a cedar waxwing bird. I may have heard them in the past, but I never concentrated on trying to photograph one. These mountain birds are beautiful. On the same drive, I saw several Eastern Towhees, but were unable to get a picture. Towhees resemble a robin, but if you see one, they have more colors with a very distinct red eye. Towhees and cedar waxwing are both mountain birds.
Obtaining a good quality bird book with color pictures, such as the Peterson Field Guide, can really help in identifying the birds you see.
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Rattlesnakes are a valuable asset in the wilds of Pennsylvania. The picture I took of this black phase timber rattler was taken at a safe distance.
The majority of my sightseeing is done away from camp, but my wife, Lynn, recently had a close encounter with a critter at our camp.
One evening Lynn decided to remain at camp to read, while I took our golden retriever to look for animals. Lynn was alone and heard a noise on the porch. She got up and walked to the screen door. Looking left, she saw nothing.
As she turned to her right, there it was, only two feet from her, a fully mature black bear staring up at her.
She yelled and the bear bolted off the porch to parts unknown. Animal sightseeing as stated, can happen at any time or place.
All the pictures contained were taken on my animal sightseeing trips within the Tiadaughton and Sproul state forests.
Take the time away from urbanization to visit our state forests. Those woods and waters abound with nature's bounty.
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Re: Joe Perkins
Wed May 10, 2017 18:05
Even if I also liked Mark Arnold as Joe, I think it wasn't the case of all the SB fans then. The recast didn't completely work. So that's why the producers decided to let Joe disappear and to offer to Kelly a new love interest...
You can also read what Mark Arnold says about his departure on the interview he gave on my website in 2009:
Re: Joe Perkins
Brian Cherry,
Wed May 10 02:46
While I preferred the original Joe, the recast was also good, and much better with Kelly than Nick, Kelly's next love interest. Does anyone know why tptb decided to kill off Joe? If it's just because ...
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Thanks for the link to the very insightful interview! I figured that Mark wasn't as popular as Dane, which is why he was killed off, but it's interesting to learn that it was partially Mark's...
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Committee of the Whole
Work Session & Agenda Review
- Date: 02/28/2019 6:00 PM
- Location: City Hall
2800 King Street
Smyrna, Georgia 30080
City of Smyrna
2800 King Street
Smyrna, Georgia 30080
Committee of the Whole
Meeting Agenda - Preliminary
City Hall
Thursday, February 28, 2019
1. Roll Call
2. Call to Order
3. City Administrator Report
4. GICH Retreat Recap ‑ Susan Wilkinson, Maryline Blackburn, Maxwell
5. Review of the March 4, 2019 Mayor and Council Agenda
6. Other Business
7. Adjournment
City Council
Meeting Agenda ‑ Preliminary
Council Chambers
March 4, 2019
Roll Call
Call to Order
1. Invocation and Pledge: Pastor Kerrick Butler, Faith Christian Center, 3831 Tramore Pointe Pkwy
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3. Mayoral Report:
A. 2019‑75 Introduction of Campbell High School Student Government President, Precious Ojiagbaje, presiding over the meeting as "Honorary Mayor"
B. 2019‑76 Recognition of Keep Smyrna Beautiful and Jonquil Garden Club
Sponsors: Welch
4. Land Issues/Zonings/Annexations:
Speaking time for the public hearing related to the following land issues/zonings/annexations will be (5) five minutes.
5. Privilege Licenses:
A. LIC2019‑03 Public Hearing ‑ Privilege License Request LIC2019‑03 ‑ Beer, Wine, and
Liquor Pouring ‑ 2500 South Cobb Drive ‑ AVAMC Company LLC dba On
the Range with Willie T. Chandler as the agent.
Sponsors: Wilkinson
B. LIC2019‑05 Public Hearing _ Privilege License Request LIC2019‑05 ‑ Beer and Wine Pouring‑ 2440 Atlanta Road SE STE 100 ‑ YP Restaurant Group LLC dba Your Pie with Dipish Parsottambhai Patel as agent.
Sponsors: Blackburn
6. Formal Business:
A. 2019‑78 Approve the contract with Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration to conduct The City of Smyrna's November 5, 2019 Municipal Election for the estimated amount of $23,448.41, and any Runoff on
December 3, 2019 and authorize the Mayor to sign and execute any associated documents.
Sponsors: Fennel
B. 2019‑84 Approval to hold Election Qualifying in the Human Resources Conference Room at Smyrna, 2800 King Street, Smyrna GA on (3) specific days: Tuesday, August 20th, Wednesday, August 21st and Thursday, August 22, 2019, 8:30 AM ‑ 4:30 PM, closed for lunch from 12:00 PM ‑ 1:00 PM each day.
Sponsors: Fennel
C. 2019‑85 Approval for the City of Smyrna to continue as a Subrecipient of the Cobb County Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program, to receive the grant amount of $327,618.00, authorize the Mayor to sign and execute the 2019 Subrecipient Agreement documents.
7. Commercial Building Permits:
8. Consent Agenda:
A. 2019‑81 Approval of the February 18, 2019 Mayor and Council Meeting Minutes
B. 2019‑82 Approval of the February 18, 2019 Pre‑Council Meeting Minutes
C. 2019‑86 Approval of the February 14, 2019 Committee of the Whole Meeting
D. 2019‑64 Approve the closing of the following streets for the Smyrna Parks and Recreation's Easter Carnival and Movie: King Street from Bank Street to Village Green Circle, entire Village Green Circle from Atlanta Rd. from 3:00 p.m. ‑ 10:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 13, 2019.
Sponsors: Blackburn
9. Committee Reports:
10. Show Cause Hearings:
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By Barbara Sjoholm
In Denmark there's a legend that the Limfjord, the great inland sound of North Jutland with outlets to the Kattegat and the North Sea, was created by an enormous pig, Limgrim, who dug up half the peninsula with his snout, so the water could flow in. Off the southern coast of the Limfjord, a four-minute journey by a small car ferry, is the fossil-rich island of Fur.
It's been inhabited since the Stone Age; the Vikings left traces there, and so did medieval monks and nuns. In 1670 the whole island, twenty-two square kilometers, was confiscated by the Danish king and turned into a hunting estate. Later it became a farming and fishing community with several small villages, among them Nederby, Debel, and Hvirp. The population has been in decline for some time; about eight hundred residents now live there, half of whom have only holiday homes. There's a white-washed church with a bell tower, St. Morten's, built in the early 12th century, and a museum, housing the fossils that make Fur famous, at least among geologists and amateur rock-hunters.
I first came to Fur by chance, while busing and biking around Jutland with a German friend one September in the mid-1980s. Ingrid and I stayed in the youth hostel in Nykøbing on the island of Mors; one day we crossed the bridge on our bikes and cycled along country roads fringed by golden barley and bright yellow rapeseed until we reached the ferry to Fur Island. We didn't stay long on the island; we had a picnic and took photographs of ourselves in the church. Then came the long cycle back to Nykøbing, a large stein of pilsner, and a rubbery feeling in my legs after we returned the rental bikes. But the memory of Fur and the district of North Salling stayed with me. Many years later when I began studying the life and work of the Danish artist and ethnographer Emilie Demant Hatt, I realized she had grown up on the shores of the Limfjord, in the village of Selde, and had been to Fur Island many times.
Emilie Demant Hatt first visited Lapland in 1904 and returned in 1907 to live with Sami reindeer herders in Swedish Lapland in the early 20th century. She learned the Northern Sami language and translated the first work of literature written in Sami, collaborating with the wolf-hunter Johan Turi. She wrote her own adventurous and enthralling narrative, With the Lapps in the High Mountains, about living in a tent with Sami families and going on migration with them over the glacier-covered mountains of Sweden and Norway. She was an expressionist painter of note, who left a large body of paintings, many with motifs from Lapland. But that's not all. When she was fourteen she formed a romantic attachment with the twenty-two-year-old Carl Nielsen, at the start of a career that would make him Denmark's greatest composer.
Some twenty years after my first accidental visit, I began to go back to the district around the Limfjord for research, and eventually I made my way to Fur. In addition to writing about her art and ethnography and translating With the Lapps into English, I decided to tell a fictional story about the young Emilie—Nik, as her family called her—and her relationship with Carl Nielsen. This eventually became the novel Fossil Island and its sequel The Former World, which take place from 1887 to 1891.The novels are set in Copenhagen, Odense, and Selde, where Emilie's parents owned the general store; some important scenes take place on Fur, on fossil-hunting expeditions. The novels were partly inspired by Emilie's memoir Spring Waves, which she wrote in the 1940s and which wasn't published until 2002, two years after it was discovered in the manuscript collection of the Danish Royal Library. The memoir tells the story of meeting and falling in love with Carl Nielsen and their eventual parting; it includes letters that had never been seen before by Nielsen scholars, who indeed were unaware of Emilie and her family at all.
Spring Waves is a kind of fossil too, from its unexpected rediscovery, as well as its words and memories, preserved from 1880s Denmark. One of the themes of my two novels is time, and what could be more suited to the subject of time than fossils, formerly living things petrified and encased in stone, objects that geologists have long used as clocks in determining the age of the earth's layers and movements.
The southern part of Fur Island is flat, a tidal shoreline, the middle is a mix of drained bog and upland, and the north is sharply ridged with cliffs above the coastal beach. These exposed coastal cliffs are made of moler, or mo-clay, layered with black volcanic ash. In some places the layers are quite horizontal, but in many others the grayish white of the moler and dark of the ash have been shoved into rippled synclines and anticlines. The moler is a marine sediment from the Eocene, 55 million years ago, at a time when Denmark lay under a warm and shallow sea.Periodically, volcanoes in the North Atlantic, around the Faroe Islands, would erupt and ash clouds float over the seas to fall on the marine sediment below. The Fur Formation, as it's called, is quite particular to the Limfjord; the moler sediment is made up of diatoms, a microscopic plankton with an opaline structure living near the surface of the sea. The silica in the water preserved the diatoms and the volcanic ash, and the marine sediment in turn preserved a wide variety of fauna and flora from the Eocene.
Most of the flora fossils are tropical or sub-tropical trees, ferns, and flowers; many still thrive on earth, though rarely in now much-chillier Denmark, like the gingko or the redwood.Many of the 200 species of insects preserved in the Fur Formation are more familiar—mosquitos, dragonflies, grasshoppers and cicadas, their delicate wings miraculously sketched on limestone. The majority of animal fossils in the collections of the Fur Museum are sea creatures: turtles, sea snakes, crustaceans, mussels, sea stars;tiny salmon, mackerels, tuna, and herring, their bones long ago replaced by minerals, creating hard and unyielding skeletons. Some fish are just the same as the fish we know now; others are an earlier version—Fur Museum has a perfect specimen of a snake mackerel, from snout to tail, as well as a well-preserved knogletunge, a bony-tongue fish.
Avian fossils are more rare, but in the Fur Formation are thirty species of birds, some almost complete, down to feathers and beaks. All are terrestrial birds most probably blown off track in a storm, like the kingfisher that fell and drifted down to the bottom of the oxygen-poor water, where it was covered in sediment and locked in time, until the waters dried up and the sea floor was thrust up again. Other birds, now found in the tropics are hornbills and hoopoes, wrens and tree swifts; the larger birds are similar to cranes and ostriches, suggesting that the land near the shallow sea was savannah and wetland. The Geology Museum in Copenhagen, which houses particularly valuable fossils, known as Danekræ and protected by law since 1989, has a beautiful specimen of a bird's head from the Paleogene, with a nice stand-up ruff of articulated feathers on its crown; it's described as a vand høne, or waterhen.
The fossils are not found in the moler itself, which is rather soft and dusty, but in calcite concretions, or "cementstones," so hard they need a good hammering to be split open. You can sometimes find these limestone concretions, shaped like large beans, lying around the shore at the base of the striped ash and molerbluffs in North Fur; more often they are pried out of the cliff sides themselves. They're occasionally discovered in the quarries of Fur, where the diatomite is commercially extracted and sold for use in filtration systems, insulation bricks – and even cat litter.
Before a regular car ferry service was established, people who wanted to get to Fur from the mainland sailed, rowed, or were rowed across by ferrymen. In Spring Waves Emilie Demant Hatt describes putting up a flag on one side or another to alert the ferryman to come fetch passengers. Old photographs show people being carried out through the shallows to the boat on the backs of these sturdy men, so as not to dampen their feet.But I crossed in the usual way, one sunny but cool day in March a few years ago. The bus I'd taken from the district's main town of Skive drove on to the ferry and then around the island, so I was able to hop off in Nederby near the small flat I was renting for a few days to do my research. After settling in I walked a mile down to the main street of the harbor (one supermarket, two restaurants and a few shops, mostly closed for the season) and found the woman who ran the tourist office. Like a number of middle-aged Danish women, she smoked a small pipe. We'd been in contact by email and she'd helped find me just the right place to stay. Now she loaned me a bike and gave me a little local advice. I set off up the hill on my bike and cycled around for a while in the middle of the island.
Spring in agricultural Denmark—and there were farms here on the island—is the smell of heavy-duty fertilizer and pigs. There were windmills, but not the old romantic kind; these steel turbines whirred high above odorous brown fields, creating energy as they disturbed the sky. Still, two miles or so uphill from the harbor I could see the Limfjord's blue-green dazzle and the sunlight was clear and fine: The island effect. After a while I came to a strange landscape of ravines and quarries that gave the hills a surprisingly desert-dry and bony look, especially with the whitened moler, streaked with dark ash and reddish earth. There were dusty roads and earthmoving vehicles. This was nothing like I had imagined for the scenery of my historical novel so, like most writers who wish to keep their vision intact, I turned my bike around and left.
The woman at the tourist office had told the curator of the Fur Museum, John Brinch Bertelsen, about my interest in Emilie and he was eager to meet and introduce me to a friend of his. Bertelsen is an archeologist who also acts as a bus tour guide in warmer months for day-trippers and rockhounds. He was born on Fur and is blind; he first began losing his sight at eighteen. He suffers from what was once a common genetic condition on the island, the eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa. There was too much intermarriage, Bertelsen told me cheerfully. Fur became an island of the half-blind. Later I would read that Bertelsen is well-known for his bus tours around the island, often making jokes about where things are and which way to look. He liked to introduce himself to the driver in front of the passengers by saying, "I haven't seen you before." He knew Fur and its landscape by touch and memory and was a fountain of knowledge about the island and the old ways. We were joined for coffee by part-time resident Karen Klitgaard, who teaches media studies at the University of Aarhus, and who offered to take me on a spin around the island in her car, especially the north and northwest, where the cliffs are.
Karen and I parked and walked around the headland of Knuden (the lump or bump or knot), on the rubbly coastline of Lille Knudshoved (Little Bumphead) and Knudeklinterne (the Lumpy Cliffs), places that I'd described from photographs and maps in the draft of Fossil Island,but that I hadn't yet seen in reality. Karen walks the beaches often and finds fossils easily; she picked up several small fossilized sea urchins, the size of large gray gumdrops, and gave me one.The striations of the cliffs were reassuringly just as I had imagined them, ripples of alternating whitish clay and dark ash, shoved up and down in rhythmic patterns. We walked up and down the beach in the cooling afternoon, Karen looking for more fossils and me remembering, inventing, and thinking how best to work my new knowledge into my pretend world on paper.
Carl Nielsen was no geologist, nor was Emilie Demant Hatt, but they came of age in time when natural history collecting, fossilizing, and geologizing were popular pastimes. Darwin was translated into Danish in 1872, but the first articles about him had come out in Danish newspapers in 1860 and his evolutionary theories were debated for several decades. Danish scientists contributed to the discussion on zoology and geology in the nineteenth century (as well as allowing Darwin to borrow barnacles from the Zoology Museum in Copenhagen), though none produced theories as groundbreaking as those in Scotland, England, and Europe. Still, Denmark could boast of at least one important early geologist and philosopher, Steno. In 1669, Steno published a short work in Latin, "A preliminary discourse on a solid body contained naturally within a solid." He created drawings of geological sections to illustrate his principles, one of which is that it is was possible to note whether it was the rock or the fossil that had first been solid. For the most part Steno discovered it was always rocks that had formed around the fossils. Steno theorized that layers of rock would have formed horizontally, as different sediments were laid down, with the oldest rocks at the bottom. Changes in their layering, which pushed older rocks up and buried newer rocks, must have come later, one of the foundations of the field of stratigraphy.
The writer, searching for metaphor, could hardly be faulted in seizing on such an obvious parallel to the layers that build up in an individual life and in the life of families and youthful sweethearts. Geology is always about time, and so is music and, very frequently, so is the novel. I gravitated to books about geology to flavor the background of my novels and found myself entranced with theories spun over the centuries about how long the earth has existed and how old the rocks and fossils are and how everything came to look the way it does in the landscape and under it.
In the early 1600s the Bishop James Ussher of Ireland painstakingly worked out a chronology that precisely dated the creation as the night preceding Sunday, 23 October 4004 B.C. The Scot James Hutton, an early scientist of the Enlightenment, suggested in 1788 "we find no vestige of a beginning,–no prospect of an end." Speculations and models included Neptunism and Plutonism, the one hypothesizing that rocks precipitated out of a primeval ocean and the other maintaining that volcanic eruptions and intrusions, followed by eons of exposure, had shaped the earth's surface. Another theory, called Catastrophism, gave way to the model of gradual change, Uniformitarianism, as described at length by Charles Lyell in Principles of Geology, from 1830-3, which held that "the present is the key to the past." Lyell was a great influence on the young Charles Darwin, who sailed off on the Beagle with a copy of the Principles.
All these theories make an appearance in Fossil Island and The Former World. What is plot if not eruptions and cataclysms in the midst of more gradual change; what is character if not the result of past events; what are fossils if not whole and fragmented memories buried in layers of stone and then thrust up again to the surface from time to time? An invented family in the novels, the schoolmaster, natural historian, and widower Harald Strandgaard and his four children, are all inveterate rockhounds, especially Joachim, who eventually goes on to study in Edinburgh, and Sophie, who dreams of attending Cambridge and finding dinosaurs. Their manor house near Selde is full of fossils they have found on Fur and Strandgaard's library holds volumes with images of geological landscapes and fossils from Cuvier and Buffon and Buckland, illustrating everything from ammonites to "megalosaurs." The Strandgaards and Emilie find no large-boned fossils on Fur, but they do find everything else that is there.
A novel can have its origin in a flash of inspiration or coincidence or it can slowly grow. Most often, fiction results from a combination of both. There is my old memory, of bicycling around the Limfjord and the island of Fur, joined to my much later fascination with the woman who became an artist and ethnographer, but who began as a girl into whose life a young stranger came and changed everything. There was the memoir she wrote in her seventies that conjured up an adolescent love, a typescript lost and found again. There was my interest in women's rights and the morality debates in Denmark in the 1880s, and my admiration for Nielsen's music. There was my curiosity about what it would be like to write a historical novel that blended real people and real events with those I invented. Most of all there was Fur, a small fragment of land in the Limfjord, an island that surfaced in recollection, was transformed into fiction, returned to reality during my visit there, and then, once again, became a fossil island of memory and imagination: the fossil island of a book.
For more about Emilie Demant Hatt, see www.emiliedemanthatt.com, with information about the two novels, Fossil Island and The Former World, as well as her own book, With the Lapps in the High Mountains: A Woman among the Sami, 1907-1908, first published in 1913 and in my translation from Danish in 2013.
Barbara Sjoholm has written about other islands in the North Atlantic, from Ireland to Norway, in her travel narrative, The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O'Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea. She is also the author of The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington.


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The Secrets of Improv Comedy
It could be said that improv comedy is a genre of its own and if it isn't a genre then it is a thing of its very own. This thing has been popular since time immemorial, when wandering hunter-gatherers banded around the fireplace and entertained themselves with pantomime and funny utterances, imitating animals or their fellow tribe members. This is easy to imagine, but pantomime and gesticulations have their limits when it comes to interpreting modern and contemporary events that itch to be rendered into a farcical context.
History of Improv
The oldest recorded improv theatre dates from 391 BC in ancient Rome, called the Atellan Farce. This play featured masked actors who performed through pantomime and improvised their way out of getting pelted with rotten tomatoes. Jesting aside, this historic record attests to the fact that every period in history needs to be processed through improv play, especially if its heavy events that need a comic spin.
That is why today we have improv hours at bars and coffee shops and under the open sky. People who are not professional actors but feel good about performing in front of a crowd can assemble an audience and give their best with improv tactics. One of the world's most famous improv comedy shows is Whose Line Is it Anyway, which has had different editions both in the US and the UK. This is where we can see how nicely this thing can work out and this is where we can see that success is not only owed to talent, but also to speed of thinking, to "stage-survival" tactics, to general knowledge about the world, to being obnoxious in a way that is either charming or funny, and so on.
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Improv comedy depends on the ability of the participants to create a synergy among themselves which they will vibe through the audience. The beauty of improv is that the show can start in one place and end in another. The topics can be many and they can crisscross and interject as if to bring back the crowd to a previous point, which they may or may not find funny, but that always depends on the ability of the improv actors. Then there are common day jokes and popular events that the actors can use to their advantage. But it seems that whatever the event is, one thing that must never happen is a stop in the flow of action. The actors must keep on talking but it must be dedicated and determined if it is to please the crowd.
Whoever wants to get into improv comedy should take a class at a community college or at least read a book about the topic. The best way to go is to learn from the best. Some references are The Compass Players in Chicago, The Second City, David Shepherd, Theatresports, The Committee theatre in San Francisco and so on. Last but not least, there are some theatrical online games that can be played, which is one way to get into something and become part of another world.


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Born with cerebral palsy, Mary Gillilan found that some jobs were just too hard on her body. So when she decided to try something new, she melded her love of poetry with her experience leading workshops and started her own business, The Independent Writers' Studio, overseeing writing groups in the Clover building in downtown Bellingham.
She soon met Norman Green, a fellow writer and the owner of Threshold Documents, a Bellingham printing business. Together, they came up with the idea of "Clover; a Literary Rag," a twice-a-year anthology to showcase workshop writers and other contributors. Whether the venture would succeed was open to question.
"Norman once said, 'We're either going to catch fire or go up in flames,'" Gillilan says.
Judging by the results, "Clover" is heating up nicely. The first volume, in the summer of 2010, ran 77 pages, with poems and short fiction and nonfiction by Gillilan and 17 of her studio writers. The latest issue, volume eight, fills 305 pages and has 63 contributors, including studio writers as well as people from about a dozen other states, from Michigan, Maine and Massachusetts, to Idaho, Ohio and Colorado.
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That "Clover" has blossomed pays tribute to the Gillilan's many hours of work soliciting and choosing the content, and designing the pages, with Green's assistance and the printing of each issue at Threshhold.
Gillilan isn't sure whether "Clover" runs in the red or black financially. If it makes money, it's not enough to be excited about. If it loses money, it's not enough to deter her from continuing. Profit, in other words, isn't the point.
"The only way you can do this is to say money's not the object," Gillilan says.
A Yakima native, Gillilan studied poetry at the University of Puget Sound, then earned a teaching degree at Central Washington University. Years ago she lead a writing group at Lynden Community Center that resulted in "Echoes from the Past," a collection of people's stories about their early days in Whatcom County. Later, Gillilan led writers' groups at the Roeder Home, resulting in two more books; "The Storytellers" and "Tough Guys Don't Give Up."
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Dr. Felicity loves meeting new people and performing the variety of treatments on offer at SkinViva, her favourite being Cheek augmentation. She also has a keen interest in facial feminisation for transgender clients using dermal fillers.
Outside of work, Felicity enjoys spending time with her husband, two children and Cocker Spaniel Archie at their home in Didsbury, Manchester. Felicity's favourite place on earth is the sunny city of Barcelona because she loves seeing people head down to the beach after work in their suits!
Dr Lucy is one of our fabulous SkinViva Doctor-led team. Lucy is fully qualified, and one of our most experienced clinicians when it comes to performing non-surgical cosmetic treatments.
Juvederm ULTRA, Juvederm VOLUMA, Juvederm VOLBELLA, Juvederm VOLIFT, BOTOX, Radiesse, Restylane, Belotero, Teosyal, Microsclerotherapy & Skin peels - Dr Lucy knows how to work wonders with each one of these leading industry treatments.
Dr Lucy also plays a major role in our SkinViva Training School, where she helps guide and mentor other Doctors and Nurses who are looking to get involved in anti-aging wrinkle treatments; with safety being our main focal point in those classes.
Here at SkinViva we know that safety can be the deciding factor when it comes to making a decision on who to choose for your anti-aging injections. Dr Lucy is one of five SkinViva Doctors who devote extra time and energy to ensure they are always being as safe as possible. Once a month our doctors meet up to discuss different skills and techniques, so they're constantly improving and learning from each other.
Our customers fall in love with Dr Lucy's vibrant and enthusiastic personality. Her passion for aesthetics and her way with our customers, combined with her skill in delivering anti-aging injections make her an invaluable part of our SkinViva team.
Dr Nicole joined SkinViva in 2016 with impeccable qualifications. She qualified with an Honours degree in Medicine & Surgery from the University of Liverpool in 2007. Following that, she underwent general medical and Dermatology specialty training in Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham. During Dermatology training, she undertook two prestigious advanced Dermatology Fellowships in Oxford and Sydney, Australia. She has also completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Aesthetic Medicine at the University of London.
She is currently a Consultant Dermatologist in the NHS alongside her work at SkinViva and has a passion for both Medical and Cosmetic Dermatology and sits on the British Association of Dermatologists' Therapy and Guidelines Subcommittee, contributing to the national guidelines on treatments for skin conditions.
Dr Nicole has also written a popular book "Dermatology: a handbook for medical students and junior doctors" which is available from the British Association of Dermatologists.
Dr Nicole says of her work:
I enjoy solving skin problems for people, which is part of my day-to-day job. On top of that, I love helping people to get the best look they want. I am an advocate for safe and natural-looking treatments that blend in nicely with each individual's unique shape and features.
One of my favourite treatments is nose reshaping (liquid rhinoplasty) as you can see great results instantly. It is one of the most satisfying treatments that I do. I just love seeing the smiles on clients' faces at the end of the treatment! Also, cheek augmentation is one my favourites as it reverses the volume loss in the cheeks that gives someone an aged and tired look. I love recreating the natural-looking arches of cheekbones, which often also helps to soften the wrinkles and lines on the face.
I also love skin care products and feel that they are just as important as other treatments. It is not just about filling in lines and wrinkles; a good skin tone and texture also helps to give people a fresh, younger look!
Out of work, Nicole loves travelling and counts a visit to Alaska as one of the most memorable trips with stunning natural beauty, amazing sceneries and wildlife. She enjoys playing the piano and listening to music and her all-time favourite composer and pianist is Yanni.
Dr Nicole grew up in Malaysia, but has been in the UK since her youth and has spent half her life living in the North West of England. Naturally proactive and energetic, Nicole says:
If something needs to be done, I prefer to get on and do it rather than think about it too much. Life's too short to procrastinate. I am a here and now person! Sometimes I wish I could fly, especially when I am stuck in traffic
Dr Sharanjit Uppal (Sharan) graduated from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in 2003, achieving a degree in Medicine with Merit. She has worked in a number of specialities throughout her career and qualified as a General Practitioner in 2008 and has done additional training in her areas of special interest: female health and facial aesthetics.
She is trained to an advanced level in the field of facial aesthetics and explains how she aims to achieve a natural and pleasing look for her patients:
"I'm passionate about the work I do and pride myself on delivering results that not only look pleasing to the eye but also look NATURAL. Facial aesthetic treatments are about allowing an individual to look their personal best.
I aim to please and strongly believe that client satisfaction comes from listening to what the client is hoping to achieve, followed by an honest discussion on whether those goals are attainable and how.
In addition to her work as an Aesthetic Doctor, Dr Uppal also continues to work as a GP in Huddersfield. Patients describe her as being approachable and professional with a good sense of humour; having a good manner with patients and colleagues.
In her spare time she prioritises family time with two young children. She also enjoys music, films and card crafting.
As the Clinical Director of SkinViva, Dr Tim Pearce is a fully-qualified doctor specialising in non-surgical aesthetic rejuvenation.
Having graduated from the University of Leeds with Bachelor of Science in Human Physiology and later the University of Warwick with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, he has undertaken training in general surgery and is a practicing GP in the Manchester area.
A member of the British Association of Cosmetic Doctors, Dr Pearce regularly attends international conferences and master classes on advanced aesthetic techniques and procedures. He himself is also a trainer of Botox and dermal filler injection techniques to fellow clinicians entering the aesthetics industry.
Dr Pearce's artistry in creating effective-yet-subtle results is combined with a gentle, ethical approach. This means that - unlike many of his peers - he won't sell you treatments you don't need or want.
Rather, his focus is client-led and designed to increase patients' self-confidence while enhancing her or his own individual appearance.
Dr Pearce's expertise in Botox, dermal fillers such as Juvederm ULTRA, Radiesse, Teosyal, Restylane, Beletero and skin resurfacing treatments has garnered him a loyal UK client base.
If there's one thing Dr. Zohaib knows for sure, it's that he doesn't like indecision. Assertive and decisive, there was no deliberation when it came to choosing a recent holiday to the Maldives, where he enjoyed great weather, delicious food, paradise beaches, marine life, spectacular sunrises and even more spectacular sunsets. He says The Maldives "has it all, and then some." OK, we've heard enough now!
Away from super-holidays in the Indian Ocean, given the choice of superpower, Dr. Zohaib would like the ability to see into people's pasts to develop a better understanding of those he meets. But he's giving nothing away about himself, saying his own skeletons are staying tucked well away, thank you very much. We're intrigued. Ever keen to improve, he says if he were to return in another life, he'd like another shot at his own, to see if I could do any better! You're good enough for us already, Dr. Zohaib!
Speaking of striving to be the best, Dr. Zohaib is underway with a Masters degree in Prosthodontics, and is actively building to maximise skills in facial aesthetics. He'll add this to his comprehensive set of qualifications and knowledge base, which includes a BA in Dental Science, graduating from Trinity College in Dublin in 2009, as well as Dental Health qualifications from both the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and the University of Manchester. Dr. Zohaib has extensive practice in cosmetic and restorative dentistry, and also gained experience in surgical repair of facial skin and bone injuries caused by trauma and disease. Furthermore, he's actively building to maximise skills in facial aesthetics. And when it comes to favourites, Dr. Zohaib enjoys watching clients' reactions when they finally see the result of lip fillers for themselves.
Outside of work, he describes himself as a 'petrol-head', and someone who loves cooking – though not as much as he loves eating! Photography is a favourite hobby too, and we're certain he captured some of those magnificent Maldives sunsets. We'll just have to imagine.
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text: A woman's husband is kidnapped in Columbia, so she enlists the help of a negotiator whom she falls in love with. I might have thought higher of this movie if I didn't hate Meg Ryan's character. Her husband is somewhere in the jungle while she lives in a mansion with servants and wears a different stylish outfit in ever scene.


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Paleo & Gluten Free Cinnamon Rolls
I've been working on a cinnamon roll recipe for quite awhile (more than a year!!!) and I finally got them exactly perfect. Then, hoping it wasn't just chance, I made them again and they turned out exactly perfect again! I wanted bakery-like cinnamon rolls – cinnamon rolls that are big, fluffy, gooey, and that are just as good as any other gluten and dairy filled cinnamon roll. Period.
cinnabon cinnamon rolls
I recently saw an episode of Top Secret Recipe where he tried to taste and mimic the appearance of Cinnabon cinnamon rolls and I learned a few things that were lacking in my recipe.
The first problem I had was proofing the yeast. I was using the scorched milk method to proof my yeast (heat milk on stove, set aside, and add yeast when warm) but I could never get my milk the perfect temperature for my yeast to get foamy (or proof). I would try sometimes two or three times before getting the milk the perfect temperature… it was very frustrating. Another problem was the filling. While it was good, it oozed all out when I baked them leaving hardly any filling in the roll!
When watching Top Secret Recipe I learned to proof my yeast in the oven with boiling water after they had been rolled – a no fuss method, and to add xanthan gum to the filling to make a nice gooey filling that actually stays in the roll! So after learning a few tricks of the trade and after many trials, here's my perfect cinnamon roll recipe. It's not hard, but it is well worth the time and effort. Trust me, you'll be glad you made them!!!
I'm going to make these next week when my husbands family comes to visit, along with my pecan pie recipe and this fudge recipe MMmmmm….
Helpful Hints and frosting options:
- The dough needs to sit in the the fridge 6 hours to overnight, so plan ahead 🙂
- I haven't experimented with freezing these or making the dough ahead of time. I'm going to try this method: 1) Bake as directed then let rolls cool 2) Freeze 3) Heat in 250 degree oven for 15 minutes 4) Ice while rolls are hot…. I'm really thinking it will work perfect.
- Instead of the powdered sugar frosting below, sometimes I use my Paleo "Cream Cheese" Frosting and thin it out with a non-dairy milk as needed, it's awesome too 🙂
- To make your own unrefined powdered sugar: Add Truvia baking mix into a coffee grinder and blend until it's a fine powder. Stir in 1 Tbsp or arrowroot per cup. I've used this homemade powdered sugar with the frosting recipe below and we LOVED it! I've heard you can also use xylitol or erythritol but I have not tried either of these. Coconut palm sugar does not work well with this recipe – trust me!
The Best Cinnamon Roll Recipe!!! {Gluten, Grain, & Dairy Free}
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For The Dough:
- 3 C blanched almond flour Honeyville brand
- 2 1/2 C tapioca flour + more for rolling dough I've also successfully used arrowroot
- 2 tsp. pectin on the baking aisle
- 1 tsp. xanthan gum
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp. yeast
- 2 Tbsp Earth Balance butter or ghee softened
- 1 C Non-Dairy Milk
- 1 tsp. distilled white vinegar
- 2 Large eggs
- 1/4 C sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla gluten free
- 1/2 C Earth Balance butter or ghee melted
- 2 Tbsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/4 C brown sugar or coconut palm sugar
- 1 Tbsp. xanthan gum
Frosting (or try my dairy, soy, & refined sugar free cream cheese frosting, link above):
- 1 lb. powdered sugar
- 1/4 C Earth Balance butter or ghee melted
- 3 Tbsp. Non-Dairy Milk
- 1 Tbsp. strong brewed coffee optional
- 1 tsp. vanilla or maple extract
- In a small bowl, mix together the milk alternative with the vinegar (we're making buttermilk). Set aside.
- Whisk together the almond flour, tapioca flour, pectin, xanthan gum, sugar, salt, soda, and yeast... all the dry ingredients.
- Add the eggs, butter, and vanilla to the milk mixture and mix well. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and knead with a dough hook until it comes together, scraping down bowl as needed. If you don't have a dough hook, mix together with a spoon the best you can and then use your hands to knead the dough until it is very well combined. Batter will be thick and sticky.
- Scrape/pour batter into plastic wrap and wrap tightly. Place in refrigerator 6 hours to overnight.
- Tear out a piece of parchment paper that is at least 20 inches long and sprinkle generously with arrowroot or tapioca flour. Using a well-floured rolling pin, roll the dough 15 inches (the height of the parchment paper) by 20 inches long. Use tapioca flour as needed to help prevent sticking.
- Bring a medium to large pot of water to a boil... we'll come back to this 🙂
- Melt the butter and spread over the dough, leaving the bottom 1 inch dry.
- In a medium-sized bowl, mix together the cinnamon, sugar, and xanthan gum. Spread evenly over the butter.
- Starting on the side farthest away from you, start rolling the dough tightly making at least 4 or 5 rotations. You can lift up the parchment paper to help get the dough up and rolling. When you come to the end, pinch the bottom edge of the dough into the log so it creates a seal.
- Using a very sharp knife, cut the log in half. Then, cut each half in half. Then cut each roll in half again. You should have 16 rolls.
- Transfer rolls to the baking dish and slightly press down on each roll.
- Place rolls in center or top rack of oven with the boiling water on the bottom rack and allow to proof for 1 hour. They won't double in size but they will rise. I covered mine with a clean, damp kitchen towel.
- Remove rolls and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Bake for 16 - 20 minutes, rotating half-way through to ensure even baking. Make sure they are very nicely browned so the centers aren't dough-ey.
- Whisk all ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Icing will be thick. Pour over hot rolls.
Nutritional information is approximate and may vary.
pin gluten free cinnamon rolls for later:
step-by-step pictures


text: Constanza Ceruti, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, is the world's only female high-altitude archaeologist. She lectured Sunday to a full house at Telfair's Jepson Center for the Arts. Her discoveries during expeditions to ancient Inca Empire ceremonial centers at the summits of sacred Andes Mountains have been groundbreaking. "I feel that reaching the summit somehow places me closer to God," she says. "It's a very spiritual experience."


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Scrolling through these pictures brought my mind back to a series of letters written by my Grandmother in which she described a similar eruption that sprang up in the Galapagos Islands, in the eastern Pacific, off the coast of South America, in the spring of 1925.
My grandmother, Isabel Cooper, was an artist. Starting in 1917, she made seven voyages with the naturalist William Beebe to Central and South America, and surrounding equatorial seas, to study animals and plants.
This was in the days before color photography. My grandmother, as the expeditions' "scientific artist," produced detailed color paintings of the flora and fauna of the Amazonian jungle, the Galapagos Islands, and the open ocean. The image at left is from The Arcturus adventure: an account of the New York Zoological Society's first oceanographic expedition (1926, Putnum). It shows my grandmother at work on the Arcturus, painting a live fish.
During the 1925 voyage, she wrote a series of letters to my grandfather, Charles Mahaffie, who she had met the previous winter and with whom she would carry on a nearly three and a half year courtship – mostly by letter. We are lucky to have these letters in a collection edited by my father.
On Easter Sunday (April 12) of 1925, she wrote from the Arcturus:
I have put in some peculiar Easters: fire at sea five years ago; shooting rapids of the Mazaruni River last year; etc. But this time is the prize. What do you suppose has gone and happened out here in this "ash heap of the world?" Blooming volcano has broken loose, erupting all over the place. Rather decent of it to pick just this time to do it, as we are probably the only people anywhere around for a few hundred miles to observe it.They had been anchored in Darwin Bay, at Tower Island (now Isla Genovesa), when "the night watch noticed a faint glow in the direction of Albemarle Island [Isla Isabela], about sixty miles away." When morning came they began a voyage of a day and night, across the span of the Galapagos Islands, to reach the volcano.
We got to the scene of the eruption early this morning, after the wildest possible night. You couldn't sleep. It was too exciting, steaming slowly toward the first active volcano that any of us had seen.They watched the eruption from off-shore. I think it differed from this week's eruption in that it was on an existing island and featured less explosive activity, but perhaps more lava flow. A small group went ashore and trekked close to the crater. That was probably a foolish thing to do, as she describes their return "in very bad shape."
Legs full of cramps, from walking on hot lava, I suppose. And all symptoms of bad thirst, tongues swollen, etc. They finished their canteens in the first mile. They ran into some pretty poisonous gases, which they couldn't smell, but which made them sick.In spite of this, she had wanted to go ashore, if only at the edge of the island, but was not allowed. And she wanted to try to capture what she was seeing:
I tried to make a sketch of the thing: memory sketch of the red clouds and generally hellish aspect at night, as well as the really beautiful colors of the craters by daylight, but have arrived at the conclusion that it can't be painted. Usually takes a good whang on the head to convince me that I can't accomplish something that appeals to me to do, but this time I give up.They watched the volcano through Easter night and into the following Monday morning before returning to their work. At midnight she wrote:
We have spent the whole evening looking at the crater – flames popping up here and there and most incredible clouds rising out of it and turning all kinds of red. The moon is just about two days past the full, but enormously bright, and adds to the general strange effect.It's a large world we live on. We in the internet age are used to seeing images instantly from around the globe. We have become used to what in earlier generations would have been strange, fascinating, and special.
My grandmother's time was modern, of course; the voyages of the Arcturus were transmitted by radio (The "wireless") and reported in the newspapers in New York. But these were just the "when" and "where" details and brief descriptions. The bright colors and fantastic shapes of alien plants, animals and fish needed the work of artists to be brought back to the home-bound public.
So as we page through yet another collection of photos from the other side of the world, or watch a YouTube video from some far frontier, we should try to remember that, at one time, even the other end of our nation was an expedition away.
What we see as "a small world, after all" is really a vast place deserving of respect and wonder. We should not let the ease of access we have inherited blind us to the size and diversity of our planet.


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I can never pass up a good beer event! With Labor Day behind us and fall in the air, it's time to visit Disney Springs and the House of Blues for some craft beer fun!
"Local Brews, Local Grooves": On Saturday, September 10, 2016, House of Blues will host the 4th rendition of this popular event, mixing FL-based musicians with breweries that call the sunshine state home. No matter what your tastes, whether you prefer ambers or ales, pilsners or ports, you'll find something to suit your tastes. Featuring 15 craft breweries, there's a good chance you'll find a new favorite. And with four of the hottest local bands taking the stage, the $11 general admission price will feel like a steal. Sampling tickets are $3 each for guests ages 21+ and the event will take place 4 p.m. – 10:30 p.m., one day only.
Featured Breweries: Barley Mow Brewing Co., Bold City Brewery, Central 28 Beer Co., Darwin Brewing Co., First Magnitude Brewing Co., Funky Buddha Brewery, JDUBS Brewing, M.I.A. Beer Company, Motorworks Brewing, Orange Blossom Brewing Co., Orlando Brewing, Original Sin Cider, Persimmon Hollow Brewing Co., Sweetwater Brewing Co., Two Henry's Brewing Co.
Tip: Advance Purchase VIP Packages are also available for those who want a more all-inclusive experience including admission for two, ten sampling tickets and two food vouchers.
Big Storm Brewery Untapped Event: The House of Blues Patio will become a haven for fans of Big Storm Brewery on Sunday, September 25, 2016. Taking place from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m., the event will feature Big Storm tastings and beer flights, with a live musician performing on the patio stage while you sip the day away.
For full details on "Local Brews, Local Grooves," visit http://www.houseofblues.com/orlando/localbrewslocalgrooves. Check the House of Blues website in the coming weeks for more details about the Big Storm Brewery Untapped Event.


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After installing my ant during my home windows 7 . In cmd i typed ant -v it's because of the ant version however it states the next also.
Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
Build failed
What is the issue in the system. The way i can rectify this problem?
You need to use
ant -version command rather.
-v choice is same as
-verbose option.
See Command-line Options Summary
Basically understand properly, you assumed that
-v may be the "print version" command. Look into the documentation, that's not the situation -- rather
ant -v is running ant build in
verbose mode. So ant is attempting to do your build, in line with the
build.xml file, that is clearly not there.
To reply to your question clearly: there's most likely no problem with both system nor ant installation.
You've invoked Ant using the verbose (-v) mode however the default buildfile
build.xml doesn't exist. Nor perhaps you have specified every other
buildfile for this to make use of.
I'd say your Ant installation is okay.
There might be two situations.
- No build.xml exists in the present directory
- Your ant configuration file has diffrent title.
Please visit and confim exactly the same.
Within the situation one are looking for where your build file is situated as well as in the situation 2, You'll have to run command
ant -f <your build file name>.


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Sign the petition HERE.
The City We Need: Join the movement for a political revolution at Vancouver City Hall!
"We'll never get what we need, unless we ask for it." -- Jean Swanson
Vancouver needs a Rent Freeze
- No rent increases for four years
- Stop landlords from raising rents between tenancies
- Ban renovictions
- Improve rental conditions
- Moratorium on demolition of all rental buildings
- Regulate short-term rentals
- End discrimination against pet-owners
Tax the Mega Rich to Help the Rest of Us
- "Mansion Tax": add an extra tax on properties worth over $5 million to generate about $1 billion over four years to end homelessness, fund public housing, and start restoring indigenous land
- "Big business" tax: lower commercial property tax rates for small and medium business, higher rate for big corporations
- Dedicate all new municipal and provincial speculation taxes toward building city-owned non-market housing
Build the Homes We Need
- Rapidly build 2,138 modular homes to end homelessness
- Protect existing social and cooperative housing, and build 18,000 units to meet current need: priority for singles earning under $50,000/year and families earning under $80,000/year
- Replace 3,500 SROs with safe, self-contained, beautiful homes
- Strengthen Vancouver Affordable Housing Agency (VAHA) to own all the city's public housing
- Increase Property Endowment Fund land-holdings by leveraging existing assets, use land for City-owned non-market housing
Reconciliation with Substance
- End the housing crisis for Indigenous people and start restoring Indigenous land: work with host First Nations to create non-market housing land trusts
- Strongly support Indigenous arts, culture, and language revitalization programs
- Reintroduce Indigenous place names, immediately remove disrespectful colonial place names
- Build Indigenous Healing and Wellness Centre in the Downtown Eastside
The Economy We Need
- Rent Freeze for small neighbourhood stores
- Establish a Municipal Minimum Wage for all workers in Vancouver, starting at the current Living Wage of $20.62
- Use union labour for all City-owned housing construction
- Ensure that all City of Vancouver employees, contractors and subcontractors are paid the Living Wage with full union rights
- Campaign to raise the provincial rates for welfare and disability to $1,600
Democracy Now
- Ban corporate donations between elections, disclose all party contributions, and limit 3rd party advertising
- Implement a "mixed ward system": some councillors still elected at-large, others elected by neighbourhood wards to ensure local representation
- Reinstate door-to-door registration of all voters
- Extend voting rights to permanent residents, and lower voting age to 16
- Provide free transit on voting days and more voting stations
- Empower and fund community organizations, including in historic communities such as Chinatown, Powell Street, and Hogan's Alley
Harm reduction, not criminalization
- End the war on drugs and make clean and safe drugs accessible
- Stop criminalizing poverty, transfer cost savings from police to community health and social programs
Inclusive City
- Make city services accessible to all regardless of immigration status
- Stop all civic institutions, including the VPD, from sharing information on immigration status with Border Services
- Apply a gender lens and anti-racism lens to all civic policies
Transit We Need
- Work toward universal free transit passes for all
- Start with free passes for school children and residents earning under $50,000/year
- Advocate for Carbon Tax collected in Metro Vancouver to fund necessary Translink service expansion
- Support low-income car and bike shares
Protect the Environment
- Stop the Kinder Morgan pipeline in its tracks
- Work toward universal transit to reduce carbon emissions
- End unnecessary building demolitions
- Ensure all office lights are turned off at night
- Ban the use of Styrofoam in take-away food outlets and disposable plastic water bottles
- Reduce development permit fees for solar panels
Childcare We Need
- Make Vancouver a pilot city for universal $10/day child care
- Create 7,500 new early child care spaces and 10,000 new after-school care spaces to meet need
- Prioritize indigenous-centred child care
Services We Need
- Expand free city-wide Wifi
- Free community centre pass for residents earning under $50,000/year
- Expanded meal programs
Arts & Culture
- Protect arts studio spaces and performance venues
- Increase arts funding and decouple it from specific development proposals


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Now that you've compiled all your ingredients, you are ready to begin cooking authentic Cajun-style BBQ shrimp. First, melt a stick of butter into a skillet and sauté parsley, seasoning, rosemary, celery, onions, and garlic for about three minutes. Melt the rest of the butter into the skillet and add the six ounces of beer. You'll also want to throw in the Worcestershire sauce and lemon juice at this step.
Transfer the butter into baking dishes, as many as you need to make sure that the shrimp is submerged in liquid. Put the dish or dishes into the oven and cook at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until the shrimp turns pink. You're ready to serve your dish. It is recommended to serve French bread alongside the BBQ shrimp.
About the author: Dr. Joseph Frey is a Cajun food enthusiast and amateur chef. He enjoys cooking new dishes, with a fondness for red beans and rice, crawfish étouffée, redfish courtbouillon, and, of course, BBQ shrimp.


text: As CTO and partner, Dean Fantham co-founded Edgile with Don Elledge in 2001 with the belief that successful enterprise security demands ease of use, as well as functional excellence. With more than 25 years' experience delivering complex architecture and systems solutions, Dean is active in helping clients uncover business value. His strong, business-centered ethos means that Edgile solutions are rigorously defined, yet flexible enough to adapt to economic and cultural influences. Hailing from New Zealand, Dean worked at Deloitte before joining Edgile.