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Out of long, long, consideration of the parts he [Darwin] emerged with a sense of the whole. Where we wished for a month on station, and took two days, Darwin stayed three months. Of course, he could see and tabulate. It was the pace that made the difference, and in the writing of Darwin, as in his thinking, there is this slow heave of a sailing ship, and the patience of waiting for a tide.
– Steinbeck speaking of Darwin, in the Sea of Cortez, 1941.
In the California marine intertidal we have prominent rockweeds and turfweeds that arrogate broad swaths of rock surface, preventing other species from settling in the space they occupy, and often becoming the predominant species in an intertidal community. We have wondered how long the intertidal has been overrun by these marine algae, and how settlement could be accomplished by animals when so much space is taken by "weeds."
At the same time our surveys presented this abundance of plants, we found an apparent lack of biodiversity at sites where one or more of several species ̶ barnacles, mussels, sea stars, shore crabs, and sea urchins ̶ appeared absent from the intertidal community, and whether biodiversity is impacted by this rank population of algae.
Intertidal communities. Numerous communities on the California coast have been identified as having a higher coverage of marine algae than invertebrates (Ocean Science Trust, 2013), and this finding is consistent with our experience surveying intertidal ecology of the central California coast this Spring (2014). At four of our survey sites we found the middle intertidal zones dominated by turfweed (Endocladia muricata: aka Brillo Pad, Nail Brush, Pot Scrubber, tufted red algae), stunted Turkish towel (Mastocarpus papillatus), and much of the rock surface was encrusted with tar spot algae (Petrocelis). Turfweed in places covers as much as 90 percent of rock surfaces. E. muricata briefly yields dominance to black pine rockweed (Neorhodomela larix) that blankets about half of the mid-tidal rock shelf surface at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, but is overwhelmed in Gerstle Cove by two different unidentified strains of rockweed that together occupied 40 percent of Zone 2 in our survey area and 20 percent of Zone 3.
Are marine algae the same kind of noxious invaders as terrestrial weeds which, we are told, are harmful and have no redeeming value, spread quickly through the garden, guzzle water and nutrients, take up space better plants might use, propagate profusely and are difficult to remove? In the course of our survey, we have reviewed the publications of several researchers on marine algae, and E. muricata in particular, as well as on biodiversity in intertidal communities, and the experience they report has brought us to a more considered understanding of the dynamics of life between the tides.
"Longtime Californ'." We mentioned in our Pacific Grove survey that "the predominance of Endocladia muricata in the intertidal of the sites surveyed to date is unexpected for someone returning to the shoreline after thirty years away," the implication being that we did not recall there being so much algae in the intertidal and thought it might be a recent phenomenon. However, examination of older photos of the California intertidal shows marine algae present in abundance similar to what we have now. This can be seen by comparing photos in the 3rd edition of Between Pacific Tides, first published in 1939, with photos taken for our surveys.
Our photo from Coral Street in Pacific Grove shows the dense cover of Endocladia there today, and an equally dense cover can be seen in Ricketts' photos taken at Tomales Point and Point Lobos back in 1939. Hunt's 2006 paper on Endocladia has a similar comparison, photographs of the same location at Hopkin's Marine Station in 1947 and in 2006.
Competition for space. Turfweed (E. muricata ) is known to compete for space with barnacles (Forde and Raimondi, 2003) and with mussels and rockweed (N. larix; Friday Harbor, 2014). Expanding mussel patches may displace Endocladia (UCSC, 2012, Endocladia), but when mussels are removed from a site by predation or environmental disturbances, turfweed will move into the empty space and start new growth; turfweed will even grow on top of mussel shells (Friday Harbor, 2014). Marine herbivores such as limpets compete with algae by grazing on spores and other recruits of algae and invertebrates that attach to open rock surfaces, maintaining open space as meadow for grazing (Walder, 1999); owl limpets in particular are reported to be very aggressive in clearing open space (Ricketts, 1985). On one hand, the activity of these herbivores prevents algae from colonizing, and checks the expansion of turfweed, but at the same time prevents other algae from competing for space with turfweed. When grazers are not present in an Endocladia assemblage, algae spreads and open space declines (Walder, 1999). Substantial growth of E. muricata may imply the relative absence of herbivorous gastropods, or numbers insufficient to significantly retard the growth of the algae. At the same time, abundance of E. muricata may prevent recruitment and settlement of herbivorous gastropods.
Turfweed mitigates settlement. Far from impeding settlement in the littoral, turfweed and rockweed have been found to provide habitat for many neighbors that shelter under the algae's canopy to avoid the stress of wave action, desiccation, and being eaten by limpets, including even mussel larvae. Amphipods, Petrocelis, M. papillatus, and Sylvetia have been found together with turfweed, and one researcher (Glynn, 1965) has been cited as reporting between 60 and 90 species sheltering in E. muricata in Monterey Bay (Friday Harbor, 2014; UCSC, 2012, Endocladia). So while marine algae may compete with other species for space, the algae also facilitates other species by offering refuge from physical stress, predation, competition, and improves the availability of resources. Facilitation, however, as a principle in the ecology of intertidal communities is only one of several conditions that might determine how a community comes together, prevails, and persists over time; variations in physical environment and seasonal changes, among others, create a changing "mosaic" of conditions that determine the character of each community (Forde and Raimondi, 2003; Foster et al, 2003).
Some dynamics of marine biodiversity. When recruitment and settlement of marine invertebrates is so completely dependent on environment, conditions of ocean water, and drift of the currents, how can it be any wonder that one place has barnacles and limpets, but no mussels or shore crabs, and further up the coast another place has shore crabs by the thousands in one tiny cove, and shoals of mussels along open coast. What life can settle onto rock surfaces from out of plankton may depend on whether a substrate is sedimentary or granitic (Raimondi, 2003), a new surface or weathered (Hunt, 2006), solid rock shelves or boulders that can be overturned by waves, or rock fractured or scoured by sand and cobble (Foster et al, 2003). Surface water temperatures change with exposure and have varying influence in settlement of open and protected coast (Raimondi, 2003; Hunt, 2006). South facing exposures have more direct sunlight than north facing exposures and may accelerate desiccation on one side of a cove and have no effect on the other side.
As for the apparent lack of biodiversity at our survey sites, while it would seem to be more than just coincidence that so many keystone species could not be found, the fact remains that each of our surveys was a static view, one look at a location over a matter of hours. The intertidal at any one location, as well as along the entire coast, is a dynamic macrocosm different from place to place according to a variety of conditions. Substrates, environmental conditions, seasonal variations, habitat change, human impact, or crucial events like contagion, harmful algae blooms, or global climate change, even El Nino all have an impact on individual intertidal communities. Changing one or more of these variables can result in a different community.
Biodiversity on land. How different is the case for biodiversity on land? We have been watching a High Sierra meadow in Quincy CA for two weeks now, much longer than any of these surveys, and we have seen many critters, on different days mind you. Deer on Monday, foxes on Wednesdays (washdays), Canada geese and robins nearly every day, and smelled skunks prowling some nights. Tuesdays and Thursdays when we drop by the meadow is usually empty. We have not seen rabbits, ravens, or Steller's jays (which jays, by the way, were our companions at Timber Cove CA, elevation 100 feet). There are any number of good reasons why there are no cottontails here, and at present no way of knowing why. We do know why there are no bison, or mammoths. Down the road a ways, in Portola, there may be rabbits, Steller's jays, and elk, and there would also be reasons for their presence there and not in Quincy (especially on Wednesdays).
So, how would we explain the slow return of bunnies to a Quincy meadow, should it happen, or the gradual reappearance of thousands of purple shore crabs off the Coral Street intertidal in Pacific Grove? Perhaps at some point we might be able to explain such marvels, yet some things we may never be able to explain no matter how close our attention over time. Trouble is, we have no way of telling which is which, so we must keep close, patient watch on them all, over a length of time sufficient to solve their mysteries, and try to be there when things change.
Trends and temporary reversals. Eventually, the fundamental question becomes one of whether the apparent consistent decline in present biodiversity noted in our surveys is a trend or a temporary reversal. We can record the diversity of populations by location, but learning the reasons for the variations in diversity is much more difficult. Some of those reasons can be discovered with long-term detailed monitoring of ocean conditions and population changes at specific locations. And so we have long-term projects, like those conducted by universities and public agencies under the auspices of California's 1999 Marine Life Protection Act (MPA) to set aside marine reserves and monitor conditions there, in order to accumulate historical marine demographics not available from a single season's surveys by amateur naturalists.
Forde, Samantha E. and Peter T. Raimondi, An experimental test of the effects of variation in recruitment intensity on intertidal community composition, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2003.
Foster, Michael S. et. al., Temporal variation and succession in an algal-dominated high intertidal assemblage, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 289, 2003.
Friday Harbor Laboratories (FHL), University of Washington, "Endocladia muricata, The Brillo Pad Algae," Friday Harbor Labs Marine Botany website, 2014.
Glynn, P., Ecological studies on the Endocladia muricata-Balanus glandula association in the intertidal zone in Monterey Bay, California, Beaufortia 12: 1-198, 1965.
Hunt, Luke John Hoot, The Rise Of Endocladia Muricata: Punctuated Change At An Abrupt Range Edge, PhD Dissertation, Stanford University, 2006.
Ocean Science Trust, State of the California Central Coast: Results from Baseline Monitoring of Marine Protected Areas 2007–2012, California Ocean Science Trust and California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California, USA. February 2013.
Ricketts, Edward F. and Jack Calvin, Between Pacific Tides, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1985.
Steinbeck, John and Ed Ricketts, Sea of Cortez, A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research, J. J. Little and Ives, New York, 1941.
UCSC, Shell Beach Long-Term trends, Pacific Rocky Intertidal Monitoring: Trends and Synthesis website, UCSC website, 2012.
UCSC, Endocladia (Turfweed), Pacific Rocky Intertidal Monitoring: Trends and Synthesis, UCSC website, 2012.
Walder, Ronald K., The persistence of open space in the rocky intertidal Endocladia muricata assemblage, Master's Thesis, San Francisco State University, 1999.


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STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InsightExpress, a leading digital marketing research firm, released today results of their latest Digital Consumer Portrait study exploring the holiday shopping behaviors of smartphone owners.
With smartphone owners comprising 30 percent of the mobile enabled universe within individuals age 18+, and device ownership increasing each quarter, new behaviors are beginning to emerge that make us stand up and take notice.
Retailers be forewarned: smartphone owners are using their phone to shop much smarter this holiday season. Gone are the days of gift givers cruising the internet in preparation for their annual shopping adventure. Armed with a smartphone, consumers now have a digital shopping buddy in their back pocket.
As a result of consumers equipped with smartphone devices, holiday shoppers will use the technology now at their fingertips to get better deals, comparison shop and increase their overall satisfaction with the shopping experience.
Study data revealed that during this holiday season, 29 percent of all smartphone owners intend to use their device to look for a better price, 23 percent will be looking for product reviews, 22 percent will receive sale alerts and 20 percent will search for products at another store. Shoppers also plan to make use of additional features such as mobile barcode scanning technology (19 percent) and coupons received on their phones (19 percent).
The research also showed that shoppers intend to employ their smartphone cameras, with 34 percent planning to take pictures of products in store and 25 percent planning to send pictures to other people to solicit opinions.
It's worth noting that 56 percent of smartphone owners have visited a retail Web site and, of that group, another 56 percent indicate that they were either happy or very happy with the experience. However, if given the choice between visiting a Web site on a mobile phone or downloading an application to shop or browse a retailer, consumers are torn. Among smartphone owners, 48 percent prefer to visit a mobile Web site and 38 percent prefer a mobile application. The key lesson for retailers, both during the holiday season and long after the eggnog is gone, is don't make consumers pick. You need to have both a Web presence and a downloadable application.
"Mobile devices continue to be a most welcomed technology in our lives," said Joy Liuzzo, Senior Director, Mobile Research at InsightExpress. "The 'power of the palm' is firmly established in our everyday existence and the adoption of smartphones empowers us to be more knowledgeable consumers. Successful retailers will embrace this knowledge sharing by giving consumers the mobile information they expect."
About the Research
In our commitment to providing industry leading education within the mobile space, InsightExpress developed the Digital Consumer Portrait. This study was conducted in November 2010 among 1,300 respondents that reflect a representative sample of the online US population. Previous topic areas for Digital Consumer Portrait studies include the acceptance of advertising in social networking, mobile behaviors, and consumer economic feedback.
About InsightExpress
InsightExpress is a leading provider of digital marketing research solutions, specializing in the measurement of advertising and brand communications. The company's proven approaches include message evaluation, advertising effectiveness, creative development and cross-media optimization. With vast industry expertise, proprietary methodologies and an exclusive platform, InsightExpress helps agencies, media and marketers optimize marketing initiatives across online, mobile and other media. Founded in 1999, InsightExpress is headquartered in Stamford, CT, with offices in San Francisco and New York. For more information, please visit us at www.insightexpress.com or call 203.406.3233.

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Intel has started selling its first dual-core processor, following in the footsteps of IBM, HP and Sun, but appearing to beat the official launch of main rival AMD.
The Pentium Extreme Edition 840 has two separate processing cores on a single chip, improving performance, and reducing power consumption and heat dissipation.
Intel has already shared many details about the chip as it raced AMD to be the "first" dual-core vendor. Server chip makers like IBM and Sun have been shipping dual-core chips for years, but the design concept is just now making its way down into PCs and low-end servers.
AMD will launch a dual-core version of its Opteron server processor on Thursday, and both Intel and AMD have moved up their launch schedules in an attempt to beat each other to the punch. However, while AMD's chips are known to already be with vendors, it is rumoured that Intel has still only sent out very small numbers of one version of its dual-core chip.
Each core in the Pentium Extreme Edition 840 will run at 3.2GHz, several steps slower than the 3.73GHz clock speed on the current single-core versions of the Pentium Extreme Edition chips. The chip will feature 1MB of Level 2 cache for each core and will likely cost at least $999, the price usually given to Intel's highest-performing Extreme Edition chip. The new 955X Express chipset will also accompany the launch of the Extreme Edition 840 processor.
Because of their high cost, Extreme Edition processors are dedicated to a small sector of the market, mainly gamers and PC enthusiasts. In May, Intel plans to launch the dual-core Pentium D for mainstream PC users alongside the 945G Express and 945P Express chipsets.
The two companies are taking different approaches to their dual-core launch. Intel believes by getting into the PC market first with dual-core chips, it can build upon its formidable manufacturing resources to extend its lead in the PC market.
AMD, however, thinks that servers are a more appropriate target for the extra performance provided by dual-core processors, Ruiz said Wednesday. Intel will not have a dual-core Xeon processor available until 2006 based on its current schedule, and AMD thinks it can make inroads into the server market with its dual-core advantage.


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We are a third of the way through the our 30 day BACK 2 SCHOOL prayer challenge. We spent the first 10 days praying the beautiful and powerful promises found in Ephesians 3v14-21 over our families.
As we prayed over what trajectory to take in the next days, we decided to journey through 10 Psalms. The Psalms are full of honest prayers, desperate cries of the soul, and comforting promises that both bring awareness to the helplessness we find in ourselves and the overwhelming hopefulness in the Good Shepherd. There is invitation into solidarity, sympathy, and empathy.
There is a deep sense of security in the poets and writers of the Psalms; a sense that they intimately KNOW the God of the scriptures in a sincere way. There is a freedom to be laid bare in full vulnerability in one moment and full of joy in the next. The Psalms are an invitation into the wild imagination of past poets and kings who seem to understand the prophet Jeremiah's invitation to seek and find the Lord.
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Worcestershire batsman Tom Fell has signed a two-year extension to his contract.Fell, 23, hit more than 1,000 County Championship runs in 2015 before two bouts of cancer, only getting the all-clear halfway through last season.He has scored 2,867 first-class runs in his career, at an average of 33.72, but is averaging around half that in 2017.
"Hopefully I'm just one score away and it should all fall into place again," Fell told Worcestershire's website."It is a good time to be at the club. I think the future definitely looks good and it's nice to know I'm going to be a part of that future and hopefully keep taking the club forward."Last summer, Fell won the MCC Spirit of Cricket award after signalling his foot had touched the rope when trying to stop a boundary in the County Championship match with Sussex at Hove.His new deal comes just two days after 19-year-old paceman Josh Tongue agreed a four-year contract with the club.
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There are quite a few things that go into weight loss. You need to know your target weight loss goals.You need to also watch how many calories you consume and exercise regularly. There are lots of ways to do so.
A calorie journal will help you want to lose weight. This helps you cut down on how much food you eat less and also encourages you to make healthier food choices. Although a good exercise regimen is important, nutrition is still extremely important to drop pounds.
Eating breakfast is one of the most important step to losing weight.This will help get your metabolism is regulated well and reduces snacks later. Eating breakfast every day will show your body that you lose weight quickly.
Replace your regular beverage choices with pure filtered water. Juice, coffee, coffee and tea are all high in calories. Water doesn't have calories and it also helps fill you feel fuller.
Just because you are on a diet doesn't mean you need to stop eating out at restaurants. Just know that portions will be larger. You can have the waiter bring you a take-out container and place half of the meal into it. This allows you to consume an appropriate number of calories while providing you with a meal for the following day.
A proven tip to losing weight is to avoid eating processed food. You will purchase less junk and unhealthy food choices.
Avoid the things in your life. Stress can trigger the temptation posed by unhealthy eating that can sabotage any diet.
Weight Loss
Your weight loss goals must be realistic. If your goal is not realistic, then you'll have a harder time achieving them. If you try to loose 15 pounds in a few weeks, then you are not giving yourself enough time to reach this goal and you will mostly fail. Instead of setting such an unrealistic goal, you should create goals you can reach every week or so. Don't look at what's going to happen in the big picture. Concentrate on your weight loss instead.
Flatten your belly as you sit behind your desk! The main muscle for abs is known as the transversus abdominis.
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It was a huge belly flop at the box office this Memorial Day long weekend. Two high-profile offerings underwhelmed, giving the holiday's worst frame in almost two decades. The four-day weekend's domestic total earnings of $172.3 million are the lowest recorded since 1999's long weekend numbers of $142.5 million. That year, Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace opened with $64.8 million. Not a great way to kick off the lucrative summer theatrical season.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales led the pack with $77 million. Hardly a number to scoff at, but the fifth installment is the second-lowest debut for the swashbuckling franchise since the series' launch, The Curse of the Black Pearl, which opened to $46 million in 2003. On the bright side, the film is doing boffo business oversees. It's worldwide total is expected to pass $300 million when official numbers are released.
Not even Dwayne Johnson's magnetism or Zac Efron's washboard abs could save the big screen adaptation of Baywatch. The Paramount Pictures comedy floundered with $23 million domestically, against an estimated $69 million production budget. It's far below industry expectations and The Rock's usually reliable track record. His last five films have opened between $35 million and $147 million. It's safe to say, the Baywatch film franchise is dead in the water.
Did you watch either film this weekend or did you enjoy the sunshine? Check out the Top 10 below and weigh in afterward.
2017 Memorial Day Long Weekend Estimates
1 – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales – $77 million
2 – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – $25.1 million
3 – Baywatch – $23 million
4 – Alien: Covenant – $13.2 million
5 – Everything, Everything – $7.4 million
6 – Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul – $5.8 million
7 – Snatched – $4.9 million
8 – King Arthur: Legend of the Sword – $4.1 million
9 – The Boss Baby – $2.3 million
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Seven Blessings and Challenges of Living on the Border
I live on the border with the Gaza Strip, in a little kibbutz named Kibbutz Nirim. I was lucky enough to have been brought over to the States to give a series of talks for the JNF about the realities of our daily lives on the border, in the Eshkol Region. It was an honor to comply, and so – here I am, just after having informally kicked off the tour with a talk I gave at the synagogue of my JNF friend, Betsy Fischer, in the Congregation of Beth El in Voorhees, New Jersey.
I was asked by Rabbi Green, to speak about the Challenges and the blessings of living on the border. Here's what I said to a very warm and welcoming audience:
Seven is a powerful number according to Jewish numerology beliefs (gematria): there were seven days of creation, many holidays are seven days long, there are the seven blessings recited at Jewish weddings, the Jewish custom of mourning for seven days (shiva) among many others. So when asked to talk about blessings and challenges of living on the border, I came up with seven of each.
Seven Blessings and Challenges of Living on the Border
Blessing number one:
Pace of life
In the rural, quiet serenity of our green oasis in the desert, time moves slowly. When driving home from days in Tel Aviv, as soon as I draw up into the palm-tree bordered entryway to our community, my breathing slows, my heart calms, my body senses the smell of the earth and the flowering plants.
However that same drive home from the north that gives me comfort, runs parallel to the 32 mile long border with Gaza, and is a harrowing drive during times of escalation in rocket fire.
Which leads me to my first challenge…
Challenge number one:
Pace of life
What can you accomplish in 10 seconds?
Here are a few things that I thought of:
* Add sugar to my coffee and stir.
* Boot up the computer (providing it's relatively new. Mine isn't 😉 )
* Turn on the ignition, check my rear view mirrors and start to reverse.
Ten seconds (or less) is how much time we, in our community, have to get someplace safe, when the Red Alert (the incoming rocket warning) is sounded. If you are outside, you find a wall to lie down next to; if there is no wall, you lie down and cover your head with your hands.
There was a joke circulating during the war: If you had to go to the bathroom in Tel Aviv, (which had 90 seconds' warning from time of launch from Gaza, to exploding over Tel Aviv) you had time to do a Number one and a Number two. If you were in Beer Sheva (where they have 60 seconds) you had time to do a number one. If you were in one of the communities where I live, wear diapers.
When there is a red alert incoming rocket warning, we have 10 seconds or less to get to a safe place, So during the summer of 2014, every time I went in to have a (quick) shower, I would be sure the bath mat was on the floor (so I could jump out onto it and dry my feet at the same time so as not to slip while running), my bath towel was already draped over the sink (so I could grab it, and run). And even then, I didn't usually make it to the opening of my safe room (which is about 15 feet away).
That's a challenge.
Blessing number two:
Security from crime
In my community, crime rate is zero. ZERO. I walk around, at any time of the night or day, and never have to be afraid of being mugged. Some people don't even bother locking their doors. Ever. I question whether they even know where the key is.
Challenge number two:
Having said that, the entrance to a Hamas-built tunnel of terror was discovered just a five minute jog from my community. It was discovered during the winter that preceded the war, when a tractor working in the fields suddenly sunk – the heavy rains drenched the land, and caused the earth above the tunnel and below the field, to give way. During the war, the IDF "neutralized" 32 tunnels, fourteen of which crossed into Israel. We know about the tunnels that have been found. It's those that haven't been found, that remain a concern.
The Hamas have blatantly admitted that they are still digging. There are people in my community who can hear it. They have complained to the IDF numerous times, and the IDF have come and dug for extended periods… searching. Another tunnel was discovered this past April and May.
It is clear that the Hamas are still building, and with their support waning, they need to show that they are still the tough guys on the block. WIth nearly 50% unemployment in the Gaza Strip, until they begin investing in building schools and hospitals and high-rise homes, there will be plenty of hands willing to be employed under the ground, in order to put food on their tables.
Blessing number three:
The environment
The region has a "good", comforting connotation for red, as well as the threatening one of the "red alert" (which, by the way used to be sounded out as "Shachar Adom"- meaning ""Red Sunrise", until they realized in Sderot that children named "Shachar" were freaked out by it. As if it isn't traumatic enough to hear the warning and have to run for cover – having that warning scream out your name…..).
But there's the other "red" which we have in the south: Every year for the past ten years, there has been a Darom Adom (Red South) Festival in our region. When I first came to the area, there were small patches of red anemones here and there. When the workers in the JNF discovered that anyplace the Bedouin grazed their sheep following the flowering of the anemones, they spread the anemones to neighboring fields. As a result, they encouraged them to graze their sheep in our region and now, from late January to early March the south explodes in the red blooms, which have become a tourist draw, giving birth to farmers' markets and other events attended by Israelis from all over the country who come visit our region.
In addition to that, 40% of all of the produce in Israel, is grown in the Eshkol region.
Challenge number three:
The environment
Gaza's sewage-processing infrastructure is falling apart. Aside from the fact that it is in poor shape, in general, it does not get enough hours of energy during the day (since many areas of Gaza get only a few hours of electricity daily) to process the sewage. The sewage is therefore spilling into the sea and washing up on the shores of Zikim and Ashkelon. The wastes are also seeping into the underground aquifer of both Gaza AND Israel (nature knows no borders) threatening our water supplies, as well. In fact, according to a UN report from September 2015, Gaza may become uninhabitable by 2020: "Even before last year's conflict, Gaza's electricity supply was not even enough to cover 40 percent of demand, UNCTAD said, adding that 95 percent of water from coastal aquifers — Gazans main source of freshwater — was considered unsafe to drink."
Blessing number four:
Military security
The government of Israel invests highly in its citizens. As I mentioned, the saferooms that were built on homes within 2 ½ miles of the border (now widened to a little over 4 miles) because that is the distance mortars can be shot. Mortars and other shorter range missiles are NOT shot down by the Iron Dome Rocket Interception system. Iron Dome is the system which American defense officials cautioned would be "doomed to fail". Luckily then defense minister Amir Peretz didn't listen to them, and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems working jointly with the IDF, developed the system which prevented the Hamas' goals of downing high rise buildings in Tel Aviv from coming to fruition. However, since they do not yet have a system that protects us from the shorter range projectiles, the government invested billions of dollars building our saferooms.
The government has also committed to building an underground barrier which will prevent more tunnel construction (that, however, is not yet a reality…) which leads me to my fourth challenge:
Challenge number four:
Military security
Following the war, each of the communities that are considered close to the border fence (2 ½ miles) were protected by soldiers who would patrol the perimeter of the kibbutz , and one that was stationed in the middle of the area of the children's houses throughout the hours that the children were in child care – so that in the event of infiltration, there would be armed soldiers at the ready. We were promised that these soldiers would not be removed from the community until an underground barrier were put in place. Despite this, in January 2015, the soldiers were removed, causing much anger and a feeling of abandonment by many who lived in our communities.
Another challenge connected to this, is the lack of development in the Gaza Strip – because until the people of Gaza can be gainfully employed repairing and building homes, hospitals, schools and other public institutions that will make a dent in the high unemployment, and give Gazans a horizon for the future, they will continue to agree to go underground, to build and develop more tunnels of terror. What happens in Gaza has a direct influence on our lives, as well. Until they have something to live for, they will only have reasons to die for.
Out of 4300 rockets that were shot towards Israel during Operation Protective Edge, 1,400 of them hit Eshkol.
Blessing number five:
Regional development of transportation
In the past year, a new commuter train line, connecting Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva, running through Ofakim, Netivot and Sderot, opened, effectively bringing the center and the periphery much closer together. This has had a major impact on my life – it means that I can drive for 15 minutes to catch a train from Ofakim, and, armed with my laptop and the train wifi and electricity, be in Tel Aviv in an hour and a half, while I work (rather than drive) all that time.
Challenge number five:
Road 232
In order for humanitarian supplies and materials to enable building, to get into the Gaza Strip, they must go through security checks, which are ONLY done at the border crossing in the southernmost part of our region, at the Kerem Shalom Border Crossing. This means that up to 1000 trucks a day barrel down our little two lane major artery – the 232. Road 232 is not built for such heavy traffic (both in volume as well as sheer weight of the heavy haulers) and makes driving in the area during certain times of the day difficult and even treacherous. The weight of the vehicles, in addition to the heavy rains this past winter, cause the road to crumble in many places, huge potholes yawning open. Too many of our residents have been killed and maimed in traffic accidents as a result (the most recent being a former colleague of mine, only two months ago).
Blessing number six:
Demographics: New families come to the area
Last summer my kibbutz, alone, absorbed 10 new families (20 members, 17 children). The entire Eshkol Region has absorbed 1000 people since the end of the summer of 2014.
Challenge number six:
There are still many who would love to live in the region for the quality of life and feeling of community that abound, but are afraid. And when the rockets start flying again (and there is no reason they won't, because not only has the situation there not gotten better since the 2014 war, it has gotten much worse) there are no promises that these, and other families who have had more than their fill of the constant rounds of violence and war breaking out every 2-3 years, will not leave. The "resilient homefront" which the Government of Israel has always been proud of, and relied upon, is wearing down.
Blessing number seven:
In addition to the government funds that are being invested in our security, there are other bodies such as the JNF, with whom Betsy is affiliated, who help us feel that we are not alone. They have already invested generously in other regional councils on the border, and hopefully will continue to invest in projects in our Eshkol Region, which are essential to the welfare of our citizens and the continuing development of our area, such as the rocket proof fortified resilience center for which we are trying to raise funds.
Challenge number seven:
"No partner"
Unfortunately, with all the efforts and investments, until there is a solution to the problem: a far-reaching, long term political agreement, that can bring changes to the conditions in which the Gazans live, we will continue to live with the threats of rockets and tunnels. There are plans for ports which will enable Gaza to supply their needs without relying on our roads, our electricity – in general – to enable them to be independently self-sustaining. The plans for the ports have been devised by members of the Likud government (Yisrael Katz). There are peace initiatives that have been floated around by the moderate Arab states, as well as the French initiative. Until our government agrees to sit down and talk; until BOTH our governments agree to recognize the legitimacy of the other to exist, we will not be able to make a dent in the armor which on the one hand, protects us, but on the other, preserves the status quo of rounds of periodic violence an unsustainable living conditions.
The border has been relatively quiet since the end of Operation Protective Edge. But it's a tenuous quiet, and we all know that it can be broken at any minute, catapulting us back to the many years of sporadic rocket fire, and the possibility of terrorist infiltration.
The area in which I live, has many challenges. It also has many blessings.
When I was a child, growing up in the Bronx, my dream was to open my door and see green. My dream came true. Now all we need is a little peace.
I want to thank the JNF for bringing me over here, to Betsy Fischer for the warm hospitality, (and the hosts whom I have yet to meet) and to Aaron Troy for the inspiration.


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I love these two girls! Amanda is my ads partner for yearbook, she's a senior this year. And her little sister, Jenny, is an 8th grader. We went to 3 different places today and had a lot of fun. They're gorgeous and flawless so it didn't take long to edit them!
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Bleach Project: Ashes To Ashes
The brand Bleach Project created in the mid of 2013 as an idea to provide a comfortable men's wear with a certain edge, fun, and sporty. But for their Fall/Winter 2016-17 collection titled "Ashes to Ashes", Bleach Project stripped the high-spirited and sporty appearance that has been the brand's trademark for the past 5 seasons. Bleach Project has grown into more sophisticated brand with an edge in order to appeal into a broader and more mature demographic. The collection itself is essentially minimalistic in shapes and colours with the details acted as the focal point. Yasir Bawazier, the creative director stated, "It is the wardrobe of modern day Louis the XVI brooding in his downtown L.A. Chateau."
Narya Abhimata - DIRECTOR
Zhe Yamada - STYLIST
Marshella Jastine exercises her directorial sense in this film about human memory
We sit down and talked with the cool guys from the badass Jakarta-based party collective
Three women are separated by time, but they all have one special thing in common
Tommy Ambiyo Tedji's latest creation is inspired by androids
See what the film Blader Runner and Japanese vintage porn have in common
An extraterrestrial being is discovering the new environment as he is confronted by his legacy


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Visual Branding Is a Big Decision
I believe 100% that if you're serious about building a successful business, you should have your visual brand professionally designed.
I've even written a couple of blog posts that talk about why a visual brand is so important:
What Is Visual Branding? Do I Need It?
Why Visual Branding Matters
However, I don't think you should hire a visual brand designer right this second. That's because visual branding is a big decision, and not one that should be taken lightly, or rushed. If done incorrectly, or if done by an inexperienced designer, your brand may not function the way you hope and may not connect with the right audience.
When you break visual branding down to it's core purpose, it's communication. And it's not your designer's job to decide what your business should communicate. (A brand strategist, however, can help with that.) A talented designer will take what you want to communicate with your audience and use colors, textures, imagery, and type to convey that message through your visual brand.
Visual branding is also a big investment. Hiring a designer with enough strategy and experience to create a professional visual brand isn't cheap because it's a time-intensive process.
Like I said before, I fully believe a visual brand is a necessary investment for growing your business, but I also believe that since it is such crucial up-leveling step, it is imperative to slow down and make sure you get it right.
How do you prepare to hire a designer and create a professional visual brand?
The #1 thing you need is clarity.
You should have a clear vision of what your business is now, who your business is for, and where you want it to go.
Questions to ask yourself about your business now:
What is working in my business right now?
What is my strongest selling point?
What are my weak points?
How do most customers/clients interact with my brand? Is it through a physical storefront, Facebook, Website, Etsy, etc?
Questions to ask yourself about who your business is for:
What are my current customers/clients like?
What is my ideal customer/client like?
What prive point does my business meet? Is it bargain, mid-point, luxury, etc?
Who is not a good fit for my business?
Questions to ask yourself about where you want your business to go:
How many staff members do you want your business to have?
Are there any offerings you're hoping to include in the future?
Dream big - what does your ideal no-holds-barred business look like?
And these questions are just starting points. You should be able to explain every inch of your business's past, present, and desired future to your designer so they can create a visual brand that fits your current business as well as help you get to your ideal future.
Hiring the right designer is a completely different story - but I'll write about that in my next post.


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Posts Tagged 'summer mixes'
rearrange: an early summer 2012 mix
Happy summer, guys. In my general tradition, I am posting a beginning of summer mix, 2012 edition. It's really all about Best Coast—I mean, seriously, Best Coast, right? I can't get enough right now. The beach!, everything still sounds like the beach, though in a way slightly different than last year's beach and slightly more different than the year before that.
[Even Lafayette, Indiana is too hot this time of year—that still, dry, let's-have-red-wine-at-noon hot; that all I can think of is Lily in Run, River hot; that do we really have to wear clothes? (and I work from home, so not really) hot. It's more or less my favorite weather.]
I'm also into so much by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy right now, because every other month he's got out something new these days (though it's still always strangely jarring when he really loves Jesus).
Best newcomers: Lower Dens? Maybe I just like that their album is called "nootropics."
.rearrange >> an early summer 2012 mix
that's what's up – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
the place – Best Coast
dream – Mirel Wagner
alphabet song – Lower Dens
do you know ida know – White Fence
firehorse – Our Hearts
chain of broken hearts – Billy Bragg and Wilco
goin' to the party – Alabama Shakes
I can tell you're leaving – Trembling Bells and Bonnie Prince Billy
palms will smoke in cold air – The Pica Beats
my better self – Tennis
dusty rhodes – Lotus Plaza
on the sea – Beach House
tearz for animals – CocoRosie
hummingbird, pt. 1 – Bonnie Prince Billy
I turned 30 last week, by the way. It doesn't feel like much, really, but I do like to think of things symbolically so I've decided that our thirties–and I say "our" because so many people I know are entering their 30s this year, as are Little Wayne, Elizabeth Moss, Kate MIddleton and Kirsten Dunst–are going to be pretty damn good. In your 30s, you're still young but not as stupid as you were in our 20s, mostly.
If you listen to what sociologists say, the beginning tip of Gen Y (aka the millennial generation, but I dislike that name) could be as early as 1979, but most place it at 1982 — which makes those of us turning 30 in 2012 the first Gen Y'ers to do so.
Happy 30s, Gen Y. Here's some music for the beginning of June twenty twelve.
Psalms of March — a (belated) 3.2012 mix
Meant to post this last week and never got around to it. This is my March playlist/mixtape/mixcast/whatever-you-want-to-call-it. I hope it will do for April, too.
Psalms of March (a 3.2012 mix)
1. "Good Woman" – Cat Power
Because good woman/manhood has been a topic, of late. And because this song is sexy and wistful and gorgeous, and just right for an unseasonably warm early spring.
2. "Lovesickness" – Tomboyfriend
Because Tomboyfriend is one of those bands you like because almost every song sounds epic; maybe you don't know exactly what the words mean, or even really what the gist of the song is, but something! is going on! and it! is a big deal! And our protagonists are feeling wistful or nostalgic or triumphant about it, so each song provides a mini-catharsis, like watching a Greek Tragedy or a Grey's Anatomy episode in 4 minutes. So, yeah: I dig this band. And hope you do, too. [And if you do, check out "End of Poverty" or "Almost Always" by them next.]
3. "Could be so Happy" – Heartless Bastards
Because they're a Cincinnati band! [Which is where I'm from.] And very folky, very throaty, the kind of thing you'd want to listen to on a hot night, somewhere smoky. #psychfolk? They just released a new album, "Arrow," but this song is from their 2009 album "The Mountain."
4. "Holiday" – The Kinks
'Cause … The Kinks, duh.
5. "Common Burn" – Mazzy Star
Because who among you did not lie in your high school bedroom listening to "Fade Into You" on repeat? And Hope Sandoval is back! This is from a 2-song EP released Oct. 2011, the first Mazzy Star release since 1997.
6. "Wind Was the Wine" – Woods
Because they're my favorite and this is their new song. It's short, sweet, Seussical and quietly joyous.
7. "Myth" – Beach House
Lovely, in that could-be-the-soundtrack-to-a-Twin-Peaks-dream-scene way. Or a cross between that Best Coast song with the urban Romeo & Julie video starring Maebe Funke and something out of Rocky Horror Picture Show? Yep, I think that about sums it up.
8."The Night (rewards remix)" – School of Seven Bells
Because one of my best friends was in a band, Painted Face, founded by singer/musician Allie Alvarado, and Allie (who was formerly in Telepathe) has recently joined School of Seven Bells! Cheers, Allie! Also, because this song/remix is pure dance party. Pure dance party/rooftop, basement, beach or movie montage.
9. "Love Love Love" – Of Monsters and Men
This is the first song on this mix that my boyfriend fell for. It's strangely arresting the first time you hear it, even though in the hands of a different sort of singer (Colbie Callet? Taylor Swift?) the same words and melody would maybe come off totally grating/cutesy? But here's it's like … haunting, and just the slightest bit potentially heartbreaking (also: catchy!). [Update: BECAUSE—aha!—THEY ARE ICELANDIC.]
10. "Firestarter" – Blouse
Art school kids from Portland.
11. "The Way In" – Porcelain Raft
New wave beach party prom rock? I don't know. Something like that. That's what I keep describing everything as. That's what everything sounds like, right now, beach parties prom or dusk.
12. "Go Home" – Lucius
Twangy back porch and/or drinking music. Achey. Pretty. From 2 girls with cool hair and sunglasses and 2 guys with mustaches.
13. "Lost on Leaving" – Luke Roberts
Brooklyn meets Nashville, literally.
14. "Bird Child" – Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Mariee Sioux
From a Bonnie Prince Billy/Mariee Sioux collaboration that also features a billion or six other interesting musicians. Here is how label Spiritual Pajamas describes it: "Flowering tongues, love skulls, whales trapped in ice, be thou not deceived and touch yourself a hundred times. These songs carve a place in your heart and tattoo your brain for ages to come."
15. "State of Mind" – Whispertown
Sound like Tegan and Sara. Touring with Margot and the Nuclear So & So's.
16. "Bird on the Buffalo" – Angus Stone
Because I liked the 2010 album, Down the Way, Angus Stone put out with his sister Julia. I can't decide yet about his solo efforts. I like his nasally Bob Dylan affect (that sounds sarcastic, but I mean it), but overall it's maybe a bit too hip-soundtrack-to-a-WB-teen-series?
17. "From Finner" – Of Monsters and Men
Because I believe two songs from one band on a mix are okay.
19. "Honolulu Blues" – Craig Finn
Because I recently had a conversation with someone about how Hawaii was the saddest place they'd ever lived. Craig Finn is the dude from the Hold Steady, who writes about Jesus, sings about drugs and performs like a former musical-theater major. (This is from his debut solo album)
20. "Radio" – Lana Del Ray
Because I don't understand why everyone hates her?
21. "Voices" – Soft Metals
More Portland natives, currently living in Los Angeles. From the same label (Captured Tracks) as Blouse.
22. "Everybody Loves a Lover" – Doris Day
Because they do, don't they?
heat wave/lavender wild {a mid-summer 2011 mix}
heat wave/lavender wild {a mid-summer 2011 mix}
Pure joy, really. Combine this with the YACHT song following it, and I triple dare you not to feel a little burst of happiness.
Shangri-La – YACHT
This seems like a departure to me from previous YACHT albums (I'm thinking 'Psychic City'), but I could just not be remembering previous YACHT albums correctly. Anyway: BY FAR my favorite song on this mix; upbeat, poppy, and it's not only about Los Angeles (a city I love), but about starting a commune in Los Angeles (an idea friends and I have discussed many times). "If we build a utopia will you come and stay? Shangri-la la la la la la la la la …."
Our Deal – Best Coast
Thanks to Ms. Rachel Steinberg for sharing this adorable Romeo & Juliet a la swoopy-haired teens on Brooklyn-rooftops video, directed by Drew Barrymore and featuring Arrested Development's Maebe {you've probably already seen it, but if not}.
Find Them Empty – Woods
I love Woods; I've said it 2 million times on here, and I think I've run out of ways to profess my love for them other than that …
It's Real – Real Estate
I think I creeped Real Estate lead singer Alex Bleeker out the other day when I cut my twitter follows down to 80 (that's practically 3 in twitter numbers) and he made the cut … But I've got a soft spot for Greenpoint boys, having lived there myself not long ago; and an Alex Bleeker & the Freaks show at Monster Island Basement a few years ago where they first played the 'Touch-of-Gey'-inspired 'Getting By' was one of the best shows I've seen (I'm more of a AB&TF fan than Real Estate, but I'm actually really digging this song …). Dear Alex: Can you & the Freaks please cover Thunder Road sometime?
Right Away – Vetiver
Two points for any song that mentions living in Ohio!
Middle Cyclone – Neko Case
(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care – Cee-Lo Green
Unnervingly catchy, from the overall-great Buddy Holly cover-album Rave On Buddy Holly.
An Argument With Myself – Jens Lekman
Weird and catchy and slightly irritating and slightly funny; very in the vein of 'Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo' or 'The Opposite of Hallelujah,' but with more of Jens talking to himself …
Sympathique – Ben l'Oncle Soul
Thanks to Rachel for this one as well. French soul music. If you can't get behind French soul music, I can't get behind you.
Rhubarb Girl – Ducktails
More Greenpoint boys! I think … I may be wrong about this one … regardless, I have a hard time not loving any part of the Woodsist cabal …
Future Shadows – Forest Fire
I have seriously been waiting for years for a new Forest Fire album, as in, probably searching every 6 months since 2008 to make sure I wasn't missing anything new by them; that's how much I loved their 2008 album 'Survival.' Well the wait is (almost) over—Future Shadows is the first single from Staring at the X, which is supposed to be released in October. {Oh, this song doesn't disappoint, p.s.} {And thanks to Courtney for the tip}
Ohio – Boy + Kite
From the debut album of this Austin-based band. This song really gets me at the beginning, but the chorus gets really, like, late-90s psuedo-indie pop, if that's such a thing … Mixed feelings on the album as a whole, really. I can't remember why I downloaded it, nor why I included it here …
The Rose With the Broken Neck – Danger Mouse, Daniele Luppi & Jack White
Because I apparently can't resist Jack White duets?
Tell Me Something I Don't Know – Herman Dune
Not Fade Away – Florence + the Machine
More from the Buddy Holly album.
Hop Pala – Stephan & Haigaz
I'm gonna let Rcrd Lbl handle this one: "Hop Pala," a haunting cut off a new three-disc set of music from the Ottoman-American diaspora between 1916-1929 curated by Ian Nagoski and released by curatorial masters Tompkins Square, is the soundtrack of immigration. We hear this music and think of places and times both strange and foreign, yet the compilation is called To What Strange Place because that place for these musicians was New York City. Artists like Stepan & Haigaz populated small pockets of major Manhattan neighborhoods and eventually Astoria, Queens. This was their folk music, a way to keep their unique culture alive in a strange new world, yet it's still resonant today.
Let's Do Something Impossible – William Elliott Whitmore
The opposite of the authenticity of the song above … I used to argue with my friend JVLaB about William Elliott Whitmore, because he hated his 'shtick' of being all depression-era bluegrassy. Okay, okay—but he does it so well ….
Bury Me Beneath the Willow – Linda Stoffel & Blackberry Winter
From the soundtrack of the gorgeous and creepy Winter's Bone.
Shady Grove – Shrimp Boat
From a 2005 album from the mostly 80s/early-90s Chicago band Shrimp Boat. This is another album I have no idea how it came to me, but I've been listening to it a lot …
Mid-Summer Mix, 2010: The Wisdom of Lobster Pops
Mid-Summer Mix, Twenty-Ten: The Wisdom of Lobster Pops
1. Destroyer of the Void – Blitzen Trapper
2. The Suburbs – Arcade Fire
3. Nothing Changes – Anais Mitchell featuring The Haden Triplets
4. Learning – Perfume Genius
5. To Clean – Acoustic Family Creeps
6. It Doesn't Have to Be Beautiful – Slow Club
7. Rill Rill – Sleigh Bells
8. Whiplash – Sunglasses
9. Long Day – Medications
10. Idea of Me – Makeout Point
11. "Honky Tonk Merry-Go-Round" – Patsy Cline
12. Troublesome Houses – Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang
13. The Tree – Blitzen Trapper, feat. Alela Diane
14. Til the Sun Rips – Woods
15. Summer Dust – The Love Language
16. We End Up Together – The New Pornographers
1. Destroyer of the Void – Blitzen Trapper
I had really liked Blitzen Trapper's Furr (2008), but 2009's Black River Killer just bored me. "Destroyer of the Void," though – the first track on the eponymous latest album from the band – is a 6-minute epic that starts all Bohemian-Rhapsody-tinged then warps into some Led Zeppelin-style guitar rock before heading back into Queen territory. Yeah, that's how I describe music: in terms of how it sounds compared to what my dad listened to. Anyway—well played, boys.
2. The Suburbs – Arcade Fire
Might Arcade Fire be the band of our generation? By our generation, of course, I mean the weird cuspers lost between flannel shirts and text messages, hovering on the edges of Gen X & Y, able to remember listening to Veruca Salt but still unable to escape Sleigh Bells, who managed to have Friendster accounts but also be the earliest adopters on Facebook, to have been banned from citing Internet sources in early college term-papers but never had a qualm about Starbucks. I remember hearing songs from the first Arcade Fire album on NPR while driving around my new neighborhood as a freshly-minted college graduate, back in 2004, and from then on "Neighborhood #1" became something of an anthem. And every few years since, the band seems to put out the same old album but updated slightly for the subtle shift of the previous few year's petty zeitgeists. Or maybe I just listen to too much Canadian indie rock. Anyway, the full album, The Suburbs, is supposed to come out August 3; for now, we've got this.
3. Nothing Changes – Anais Mitchell featuring The Haden Triplets
4. Learning – Perfume Genius
Probably the most emo song on this mix, i.e., one of my favorites.
5. To Clean – Acoustic Family Creeps
If you'd asked me in July what album I'd take on a desert island with me, it'd be this 2009 release from Woods, a side-project album (I think; I don't understand how all you weirdo noise/drone people release records) of manic psych-folk jams. Whatever it is, and wherever it came from, it's goddamn gorgeous.
6. It Doesn't Have to Be Beautiful – Slow Club
Oh, Slow Club! Probably my favorite recently-discovered band, the English duo channels Tilly & the Wall, Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley—I guess we could just say Omaha circa 2003. So … damn .. catchy …
Speaking of catchy …
No one can resist dancing to this one. Seriously. It's already become a Sutton Street backyard-dance-party favorite … [p.s. WHO WANTS TO REMAKE THIS VIDEO???? Dude looks so much like a combination of my roommate Ian Parker and a kid I knew in college …]
9. Long Day – Medications
10. Idea of Me – Makeout Point
Speaking of Veruca Salt …
11. "Honky Tonk Merry-Go-Round" – Patsy Cline
I heard a college friend-of-friends, Natalie Jose, cover this song in Chicago earlier this month (swoon!, p.s.) and haven't been able to stop playing it several times daily since. Well I'm a-getting dizzy but I can't stop …
12. Troublesome Houses – Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang
Oh, Will Oldham, you sexy, pot-bellied, bearded-like-my-crazy-agoraphobic-uncle genius, you! I can't even really separate the quality of his songs from how much I ❤ Will Oldham by this point*, so don't take my word on this one. But it's lovely. And it's so, so the album Mr. Prince Billy would be making right now, having recently moved from the bluegrass state of his (and my!) ancestry to Brooklyn, NY. "I once had a house / and my family knew / where to find me / if ever they needed …"
13. The Tree – Blitzen Trapper, feat. Alela Diane
Could be Simon & Garfunkle circa Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
14. Til the Sun Rips – Woods
15. Summer Dust – The Love Language
Sappy Smiths-esque doo-wop indie ballad. This one has montage written all over it, kids.
16. We End Up Together – The New Pornographers
It's, you know … the New Pornographers. NP albums are always so hit and miss, and this one hasn't won me over yet, but it is growing on me, especially the songs that sound like they might as well be A.C. Newman songs, like this one. Triumphant whimsy & longing and all that … (I think "Moves" will be the big hit, though?)
* He drinks Ricard! You know who else started drinking Ricard & Pernot a few months ago? This girl! Soul. Mates. … (ask me for a good anise liquor cocktail next time you visit)
Unicycles Summer Mix: Girls in Gingham Dresses
Latest Unicycles mix from Jables, just in time for wherever you may be traveling and needing summer songs (or if you just need something to pep you up at your computer). Enjoy! I'll be posting my own mid-summer mix soon …
[Stream/Download: http://goddamncobras.com/uni073/]
[x-posted, Brooklyn Home Companion]
Narcotized: Beginning of Summer Mix, Twenty-Ten Edition
May is flowering, or whatever it does, and we're kind of all just waiting for June, let's be honest, when we can really wear next-to-no clothing and not feel indecent, because it's really just that damn hot, and everyone has kind of coaxed into the summer rhythm of things and maybe people at your office ask you out to get iced coffee more or maybe you really do start doing yoga on the roof every day. Those kind of things. But there's a special charm to this time of year, too, this wintry-springlike-mix that is April and the beginning of May, when there's still so much potential for the summer stretching out before you (yes, you will write that novel this summer! you will go climbing upstate more often, you will eat nothing but raw food, you will take a class in unicycling or cooking sauces or speaking french, you will land that job you are looking for, you will stay up late and subsist on kombucha and tecate, and get everything you've wanted to get done done and your skin will look great, all sunkissed and maybe freckled, and other things that I'm increasingly aware are beginning to sound like that one Rilo Kiley song). At this time of year, the sun still has the power to narcotize you, render you still and worshiping in its presence you are so happy you made it through another winter for this, because really, every year, you forget how good it really is.
Anyways, this is all just to say that back by popular demand! (two people asked me about it): the Summer Mixtape Trilogy, Twenty-Ten Edition.
First up is Narcotized: A Beginning of Summer Mix. I don't want to brag or anything, but this may be better than the Most-Perfect-Beginning-of-Summer-Mixtape-Ever. I guess it all depends on your tolerance for weird Polish music from the 90s, which ends the mix and drove the people that are hosting me in DC right now away from me and behind headphones and/or closed bedroom doors after a minute or so (it's a 10-minute song). So, there's that. There's a band that I learned about from NPR via a friend who's a Threadless model, which is a cliche about something but I'm not sure what (the band, Black Prairie, is amazing, and sounds like a western). There's old stuff, like Jon Prine and Sam Cooke and Arlo Guthrie, and very very new stuff, like MGMT and Broken Social Scene.
There are also two songs that I will declare right now are going to be THE SONGS OF EARLY SUMMER TWENTY-TEN. These would be "all our most brilliant friends" by the slow club (the refrain is "all our most brilliant friends are doubting themselves," over top of jangly dance music; that alone – tapping our existential dread but pairing it with the kind of frantic beats that make you want to jump and dance around like Renee Zellewegger on the rooftop in Empire Records singing "Sugar High" … it provides a crisis with an immediate and built-in path to redemption or catharsis that is like the stock and trade of summer hits, or medical dramas. But maybe that's just me).
If you'd like your summer hit a little less complicated, a little more familiar (Chocolate Bobka pointed out that it "harnesses the vibe" of Grateful Dead's "Touch of Grey," which pretty much means at times it sounds just like it), then you've got "Getting By" by Alex Bleeker (also the front-man of somewhat-more-well-known Real Estate), which is a summer-after-senior-year-of-high-school driving or porch-drinking kind of anthem in all the best ways.
[Of course, I have been wrong about "songs of the summer" before.]
Anyways, enough of all this Sunday-afternoon babbling. Here's some music. Hope you like it as much as I do.
[*if you'd like a copy, email me*]
A Summer Mix, Finally // 2009 Edition
It's no Most-Perfect-Beginning-of-Summer-Mixtape-Ever, but then, this is no summer 2008. Last summer was relentless. This summer is … not. Too many people I know either lost a job, or went through a breakup, at some point in the winter/spring to make the beginning of summer really celebratory—although I must say, just finally, in the past two or three weeks, everyone seems to be snapping out of that, really letting the summer seep in. Cheers to that. Maybe a late July/August mix with much more gusto will be in order. But as for late May/June/early July, this is what I've got. Enjoy.
Commandante – The Mountain Goats
There Is Love – Brian Olive
As You Do – Castanets
Horoscope – Cats on Fire
Fascination – Correatown
Ghosts – Laura Marling
Self-Taught Learner – Lissy Trullie
Plans – Pull In Emergency
San Francisco Bound – The Pimps of Joytime
Hey You – Summer Cats
Faites Vos Jeux – Modernaire
Earthly Bodies – J. Tillman
Bicycle – Memory Tapes
The Vowels – Why?
Beatific – Glass Candy
Doomed (MGMT Remix) – Violens
Military Madness – Woods
Lisztomania – Phoenix
Two Birds – Regina Spektor
Help I'm Alive (acoustic) – Metric
You Don't Love Me – Bonnie Prince Billy
The River – Samantha Crain
[For reference: Summer 2008 Mixtape Trilogy]
Summer Mix-Tape Trilogy Project, 2008 Edition: Installment #3
I promised a trilogy of summer mix tapes, so here's the final installment, the end-of-summer mix. This one's definitively FALL—I didn't mean for it to be, per se, but that's what happens when you have to grab a cardigan in the morning for the walk to the bus stop and Starbucks starts promoting pumpkin-flavored lattes. Happy end-of-summer, kids!
Installment #1: The Beginning of Summer Mix
The Mid-Summer Mix (2008) // Carry On
So I think at this point I'm aiming to make the perfect trifecta of summer 2008 mixtapes. Which brings us to: Installment #2, the Mid-Summer Mix (Carry On). Yes, I'm the sort of pretentious person who titles mixtapes, and titles them long and weirdly and with thematic intent at that. The beginning of summer mix was "Relentless," because that was the word we coined Memorial Day weekend for what the weekend was and we hoped the rest of summer would be. And May & June did not disappoint, and all the music was super-frantic and manic and happy. But July has slowed down just a bit—or maybe not, maybe we're just now accustomed to all the sunshine and late nights and little sleep—but regardless, it seems a little calmer. And so, so is the mid-summer mix (it even contains a Jason Mraz song [because—horrors!, I know—I've really been liking this Jason Mraz song, okay?], and "Stay Positive" by the Hold Steady, which is probably almost definitely the best song of this summer but doesn't it feel a bit like a song that's already nostalgic about summer passing?). Anyway, track list with links below. Enjoy. Read the rest of this entry »
Mix Tape completed (long ago)
So a while ago I mentioned that I was taking suggestions for the Most Perfect Beginning of Summer Mix Tape Ever, 2008 Edition, and then utterly failed to follow-up update with the final line-up, since I have also utterly failed to post on or even log into this blog for the past month. Um, yeah. I pretty much rock at blogging.
So—not that it matters in the slightest, but just to maintain a cohesive blog narrative—here it is:
The-Most-Perfect-Beginning-of-Summer-Mixtape-Ever, 2008 Edition (Relentless) Read the rest of this entry »
The Most Perfect Beginning-of-Summer Mix Tape Ever, 2008 Edition
Obviously, it's too early to call the Official Song of Summer 2008 yet (4th of July Weekend is really the Super Tuesday of Summer Song wattage), but "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You" by Black Kids is, at the moment, the strongest contender (thanks).
I'm putting out a last call for suggestions for The Most Perfect Beginning-of-Summer Mix Tape Ever, 2008 Edition. Comment now or forever hold our peace.
And seriously, New York? "Take a Bow?" THAT is no "Umbrella."


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How to remove (uninstall) Oldbat
Internet is filled with the dangerous programs, but Oldbat is one of the worst. Most of viruses only bring discommode, and the fruits of their work can be removed in few minutes, while ransomware inflicts great harm, and often, you have to spend funds and time to fix it. The most harmful of all is the ransomware that ciphers user's data, like Oldbat, which brings substantial gain to its makers, and great damage to its victims. Don't concern, we have the answers for all your questions. How to get rid of ransomware? How to recover the encrypted files? Just keep reading and you'll find the solution!
Oldbat gets on your PC with the help of viral additions in e-mail, and after that at once starts to encrypt information. If you failed to stop the virus before it sneaked in, your data will be corrupted. Oldbat encodes all file extensions, including video, images, audio and text. The encoding takes from five minutes to few hours, depending on the quantity of data on the computer. Web-criminals demand you to give them money for your own data.
The generality of viruses apply extremely strong encryption algorithms like RSA-2048 and AES-128 that easily secure the files of military forces, governments and major corporations. Oldbat isn't an exception. I'm trying to say that you only have single completely efficient way of data recovery: to use the backup. If don't have backups - you can say goodbye to your data, because you have no guarantee that web-criminals, which hacked your PC, won't deceive you one more time when the ransom will be received. Your files might be restored in several ways, but they are not absolutely dependable.
How to delete Oldbat Virus
When your machine is infected by Oldbat, the major thing is not the elimination of the ransomware itself, but the recovery of data. Nonetheless, the virus needs to be eliminated to ensure the safety of new files. It doesn't matter what restoring method you will use, you still need to delete the virus. The instant elimination is needful if you prefer the decryption in manual manner, or you are going to use the backups, and if you are going to pay the price - Oldbat should be uninstalled when the data will be completely restored. You can uninstall the ransomware with help of special anti-virus program, or in manual mode. Safety and swiftness of both ways are equal, but the requirements for user practice and skill are extremely different. Hand removal requires some practice of the person, which produces it. You must know what to do and how to fix a possible mistake. Uninstall with use of antivirus does not require any practice of the operator. The only things that you must perform are to click on few icons and wait for a few minutes. Below this paragraph, you'll see the detailed instructions to eliminate Oldbat. This guide is tested multiple times by hundreds of thousands of customers, they are completely reliable and very simple. However, if you don't want to get rid of Oldbat in manual mode, and prefer the highest level of protection against any malware - you should purchase the decent AV-tool. Download Spyhunter to remove Oldbat virus automatically.
Step 1. Boot into Safe mode
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Modify hosts file, that located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ .
Open the file with Notepad and delete suspicious strings.
It has to look like this:
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How to restore files encrypted by Oldbat
In this guide we have already told that the user whose laptop is infected with Oldbat has just one entirely secure technique to get back your data: to upload the backups. You should try other methods if there's no another choice, but you need to know that they may not be successful. The significant advantage of backups is that they are stored on an external media, and are not accessible for viral impact. Other ways depend on the Windows functionality, and their success may be decreased by the complexity of the ransomware and the lack of skill. We can propose you few extra recovery ways that might be helpful but we can't guarrantee that. All these ways are described in our special article about how to decrypt files and restore information.


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Yesterday I bought the latest issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. I was at a bookstore I had never been to before, but I knew where to look for it. It's usually stacked next to Writer's Digest, Poets & Writers and the like. Finding my short story magazines so reliably next to the writing magazines I again wondered, "Are writers the only people reading short stories anymore?" Do people buy Analog Science Fiction and Fact only to see what kind of stories the magazine is buying these days? I sure hope not. These stories are discovered by gifted editors sifting through hundreds, even thousands, of stories a month to find the most gripping and original material to share with their readers. Sure we're all busy, but if entertainment and imagination are things we want in our lives, any month of Clarkesworld is going to treat you to stories as provoking as any random episode of Black Mirror. So how do we insert the wonder of short stories into the crowd of things there's no time for as easily as our favorite Netflix shows somehow always get watched?
Luckily, technology, which has given us so many distractions, is also enabling some of the best distractions to work their way back into our lives. When I'm not in a place to read short stories to myself, through the magic of podcasts, I can have the short stories from current issues of two great speculative fiction outlets read to me by talented performers. If I'm driving or mowing the lawn or, these days, shoveling the walk, there is a good chance Kate Baker of the Clarkesworld podcast or Anaea Lay of the Strange Horizons podcast are in my ears telling me a story.
Podcasts are a godsend, or possibly alien technology. If you've been hesitant to jump into podcasts but love speculative fiction, let Clarkesworld and Strange Horizons be your gateway drugs.
The Clarkesworld fiction podcast was telling listeners stories for a little while before Kate Baker took over as full-time host and narrator in late 2009. She launched the podcast in its current format with a reading of "Spar" by Kij Johnson, a controversial but certainly incredible story that went on to win Nebula Award for short story that year. An auspicious beginning. "Spar" was my introduction to Ms. Baker and the Clarkesworld podcast, but as surprising as that story is, it may not even be in the top ten of my favorite stories I've experienced through Kate Baker's lips. The editors at Clarkesworld are tireless in compiling short fiction you'll be happy to find in your brain, both original work and reprints.
The "world" in Clarkesworld is not there by mistake. Clarkesworld stories tend to be dense in world building, but the world is always subservient to the story. Still, you won't find many stories in Clarkesworld where the world described is very much like our own. The story with the nearest to a modern setting I can recall would be "Pernicious Romance" by Robert Reed, which is also one of my favorites. But the everyday world is a rare world in Clarkesworld. This publication aims to transport.
Strange Horizons has been an internet staple since the year 2000 and publishes on a weekly basis. It publishes only original fiction and has piled up its own share of speculative awards and nominations. The podcast launched at the beginning of 2013 and Anaea Lay has been there from the very start. Her first reading for the podcast was the short "Selkie Stories Are for Losers" by Sofia Samatar which was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2014. These shows were born with pedigrees. It's difficult not to recognize a similarity in feel and format to the Clarkesworld podcast, but that's no reason to complain. It's a good model.
The stories at Strange Horizons are more variable in tone and approach than your average Clarkesworld story, even as diverse as the Clarkesworld stories can be. They also tend to be a bit shorter. Strange Horizons mixes things up by including a poetry podcast every month. I was weary of the poetry episodes at first, given how difficult a successful poem is to pull off, but I've been surprised and carried away by at least one poem in each of these brief podcasts. Some poems benefit from shedding their shape on the page and becoming simply words and refrains unconstrained.
The risk I sometimes consider in receiving these amazing stories so often through the voices of Kate Baker and Anaea Lay is the imprint their readings stamp into the experience. After all, every performance is an interpretation, and do I want that layer of interpretation between me and the author? Even an author reading their own work can put a spin on the words through intonation I would prefer the piece was divorced from. Perhaps my approach to these stories would have been different had I read them myself, but the professional, soothing voices of these two narrators are never overindulgent and leave me with plenty of room to live the stories in my own way. And without these podcasts, in my limited reading time, there are so many of these stories I would never have gotten around to at all.
The world is richer for these podcasts. And so are you. The podcasts are available at no charge. You can listen to them via iTunes, another podcast app, or on the magazine websites without ever being forced to pay a penny. Of course, stories don't write, edit, and podcast themselves. Both Clarkesworld and Strange Horizons pay good rates to their authors, which while respectable, creates a great deal of work for their staffs as they sort through all the submissions to find the best work to share with all of us. So if you find yourself enjoying these podcasts, you can support their providers by subscribing to or donating to Clarkesworld or by buying books from or donating to Strange Horizons.
These awesome podcasts probably won't return short stories to their pulp magazine heyday, but they can help us wedge great storytelling into our tight hours with less effort than ever before. Maybe more people will take advantage of them. These short stories should not just be for writers. They are too good. Writers are cool and all, but everyone deserves to be carried away like this.


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Difficult Questions - Apologetics
The word 'apologetics' comes from a Greek word that means 'answer'. Christians refer to apologetics when discussing difficult questions and issues raised by their faith.
To help you think through these issues, see what the Bible says and to help you to have answers to those difficult questions of your faith, UCCF have a website called Bethinking.
On Bethinking there are articles on an increasing number of difficult topics, including such fine examples as:
- Are there objective truths about God?
- God or No God? What does it matter?
- "We cannot know what happened in history"
- The Da Vinci Code: A Novel
- How do we know Christianity is right out of all the religions?
- "The Bible is out of touch on sex!"
- What about those who've never heard the Gospel?
- "Why does God allow suffering?"
Go to UCCF's Bethinking website.
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Or alternatively you could check out the apologetic recordings we have on the NUCU website. These are recordings taken from the numerous lunchbar events that the CU puts on throughout the year.


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Ahhh the lovely Amanda has done it again... so excited about these gorgeous and FUN wedding photos of Margot & Saad's big (but intimate) day.
Congrats you two total babes!
Oh so much love.
Congrats, M&S xoxo
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Our apartment and rooms are located in the "Rione Monti" in the heart of Rome and it is surrounded by the main attractions of the historical city center, Walking distance from Colosseum, S. Maria Maggiore Basilic and S. Prassede, Diocleziano's Thermal baths and many others
It is very well connected with the public transportation including the subway and central station.
We have 6 rooms with bathroom, free wi-fi, air conditioning, tv set,
we have a kitchen with refrigerator, sink and an automatic coffe machine.
It's very confortable and cozy for holidays or business trip


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May 26-June 10
May 26
Yard sale — Faith Reformed Church, South Centerville, Slate Hill, N.Y., 9 a.m. May 26. Household items, tools, Christmas items, sports equipment.
Third annual Book, Bake & Media Sale — St. Patrick's Annex on East High Street across from St. Patrick's Church in Milford, Pa., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. May 26. Sponsored by Safe Haven of Pike County's youth leadership program, RYOT (Rallying Youth Organizers Together). Call 570-296-2827.
Annual Bushkill Outreach Flea Market — Lehman Township Community Park on Winona Falls Road in Bushkill, Pa., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. May 26-27 and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 28. Wide range of items including clothes, furniture, electronics and toys. There also will be a food concession. Proceeds benefit the outreach.
Colonial market and fair — Museum of Colonial History, 6615 Route 91, Narrowsburg, N.Y., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. May 26 and 28, and noon-5 p.m. May 27. Baskets, leatherworking, tin, silver, iron or copper smiths, woodcarvings, furniture, weavers, clothiers, 18th-century musicians and other entertainers. Email email@example.com.
Port Jervis Soap Box Derby scholarship fundraiser — The Shop, 92 Jersey Ave., Port Jervis, N.Y., noon May 26. Temporary tattoos and stickers, tattoo specials for adults, hot dogs and drinks, prizes and raffles, and derby drivers showing off their shop cars, to raise money for Port Jervis Soap Box Derby's Scholarship Fund. For more information, call 845-858-9388.
Fort Decker Museum opens for season — 127 W. Main St., Port Jervis, N.Y., 1-4 p.m. May 26, with demonstration of 18th-century cooking. Minisink Valley Historical Society will open museum to visitors on last Sat. each month through October. For more information, go to http://minisink.org/map.html.
Community Car & Bike Show — First Assembly of God Church, 13 Route 6, Port Jervis, N.Y., 2-6 p.m. May 26. Hosted by First AG HonorBound
Motorcycle Ministry. $5 per car or bike. Trophies for all class of cars and bikes, including import street cars. Food, music and giveaways. For more information, go to www.firstaghbmm.com or call 845-856-1826, ext. 101.
Saturday Silent Film Matinee — Port Jervis Free Library, 138 Pike St., Port Jervis, N.Y., 2:30 p.m. May 26. "Peck's Bad Boy," starring Jackie Coogan. Free admission, free popcorn and soft drinks. Call 845-856-7313 or go to www.portjervislibrary.org.
Summer Concert Series — Java Grande, 585 Route 55, Eldred, N.Y., 7-9 p.m. May 26. Free. Walt Edwards of Milford, Pa., will be performing. For information, call 845-557-6110 or go to www.JavaGrandeOfSullivanCty.com.
May 27
Greenville VFW Memorial Day service — Greenville VFW Memorial Post 3175, Route 6, Greenville, N.Y., 11 a.m. May 27.
May 28
Memorial Day services — American Legion Post 1363 of Eldred, N.Y., will hold services at 9 a.m. May 28 at Eldred Cemetery on Route 55, 9:30 a.m. at Montoza Cemetery on Mail Road in Barryville, N.Y., and 10 a.m. at Lumberland Town Hall on Route 32 in Glen Spey, N.Y.
Port Jervis Memorial Day Parade — Lineup at 9:30 a.m. at Port Jervis Middle School, 118 E. Main St., Port Jervis, N.Y. Presented by Port Jervis Veterans Committee. If bad weather, services at Tri-States Naval Ship VFW 7241. For more information, go to www.portjervisny.org.
Memorial Day celebration — Shannen Park, Route 284, Slate Hill, N.Y. 10 a.m. May 28. For more information, call 355-5700, ext. 3.
Milford, Pa., Memorial Day Parade — 10:30 a.m. line-up at Ann Street Memorial Park in Milford, Pa. Parade kicks off at 10:40 a.m. Ceremonies follow at Soldier & Sailor Memorial, Milford Cemetery, and Delaware River Boat Landing.
Canasta party — Columns Museum, 608 Broad St., Milford, Pa., 6:30 p.m. May 28. Hosted by Pike County
Historical Society 6:30 p.m. every fourth Mon. $5. All are welcome; beginners and veterans alike. Snacks and soft drinks provided. Call 570-296-8126 or visit www.pikecountyhistoricalsociety.org.
May 31
History lecture: "18th Century Men's Clothing" — Foster-Armstrong House, 320 River Road, Montague, N.J., 7 p.m. May 31. Presentation by Fred Schofer, a volunteer and interpretive guide of living history at Millbrook Village. Sponsored by Montague Association for the Restoration of Community History (MARCH). Open to all. For information, call 973-293-3106 or 973-293-3949.
Minisink Reformed Church annual spring rummage sale — Minisink Pavilion, 300 Clove Road, Montague, N.J., 7-9 p.m. May 31 and 9 a.m.-noon June 1-2. New merchandise each day. Donations of clothing, shoes, small household items, books, linens, etc., are accepted at the pavilion (no large furniture, electronics, exercise equipment or bicycles). Call 973-293-3514. On the days of the sale, call 973-293-3596.
June 2
Strawberry Celebration — Dingmans Ferry United Methodist Church, 115 Myck Road, Dingmans Ferry, Pa., 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 2. Call 570-828-2288.
Family-style ham dinner — Greenville United Methodist Church, 1686 Greenville Turnpike, Greenville. N.Y. Serving takeout 4-4:30 p.m., dinner from 5-7 p.m. $10, $6 ages 6-12, free ages 1-5. For more information, call 845-697-4073.
June 5-7
Summer rummage sale — First Presbyterian Church, 6 N. Broome St., Port Jervis, N.Y., 9 a.m.-noon June 5, 4-6 p.m. June 6 and 9 a.m.-noon June 7 (Bag Day). Call 845-856-1231 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
June 6
Children's immunization clinics — 150 Pike St., Port Jervis, N.Y., 9:30-11:30 a.m. June 6, sponsored by Orange County Health Department, by appointment only. This clinic is for uninsured children between two months and 18 years of age, accompanied by a parent. Records of previous immunizations must be presented. For more information, call 845291-2330.
June 7-9
Rummage sale — Deerpark Reformed Church, 30 E. Main St., Port Jervis, N.Y., 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4-7 p.m. June 7, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. June 8 and 9 a.m.-noon June 9 (Bag Day). Call 845-856-1946.
June 10
Greenville Volunteer Ambulance Corps blood drive — Greenville Ambulance Building, corner of Route 6 and Greenville Turnpike, Greenville, N.Y., 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. June 10. Contact Susan Wood at 845-856-0273.


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Spiritual Health Therapy
Sharon JS
This reality that we find ourselves in is not our Truth. We have been bound in a darkness of ourselves without realizing that we can experience a more profound and beautiful reality that lies within us.
We are beings of Nature, of Beauty, of Love!
We are beings of Pure Energy of Divine Nature just like the animal and plant kingdoms are in Essence of Divine Nature.
Our own separation from our Higher State of being is of a great darkness that we do not have to experience any longer.
It is through Divine Grace that we are being granted FREEDOM to live beyond this dark aspect of being and return to Divine Nature of who we really are.
Sharon's life is a testament to the power that lives within us. Enduring much loss and trauma throughout her life, she found solace within a deeper aspect of being which led her on an inner quest for many years. She is publicly sharing these deep Truths that have been shared with her from a Purer realm of being. She has found solace and great strength of being to overcome all the darkness that was binding her in fear, uncertainty and disrespect of who she really is.
These Truths are for ALL. Her capacity to see and feel beyond your limited self will assist you in any capacity that you are seeking freedom and clarity in. You are not alone on this journey of life. So much LOVE is encompassing you at all times. Sharon's life's journey and beauty of pure essence can assist in guiding you on your own powerful reunion of your inner strength and beauty of pure self based in LOVE alone.
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"So here it is, Merry Christmas..." and I've been Xmassing to the max all week. Although this time of year is always a bit of a whirlwind, for me, Xmas has been more or less confined to December, and even then to the last fortnight or so. Schmaltzy adverts, shopping panic, eating too much and even Xmas music; all of it has kind of passed me by, in a very pleasant way. I think this is mostly as I'm not working in retail any more, and as a result I've had a terribly civilised yule. And I think this is the way forward; as much as I love shopping, I have been very virtuous this December with my present purchasing in anticipation of the sales. Not only that, my train journey home was fine - I even managed some seating in First Class, I had a lovely Xmas eve lunch with my mates, Xmas day itself was very relaxed, and even Boxing day has been rather lovely. The only constant thing throughout December was my lovely Thorntons advent calendar - a Staple if ever there was one; there's nothing like counting down the days until something exciting happens, and marking that with chocolate is the only possible improvement. Maybe I'm getting old, but Xmas now seems to be so much more of a real holiday and a break from everything than before. Lovely stuff. Xmas is an absolute must; time to chill, eat and relax. And of course throw yourself into the sale mêlée at Leeds Harvey Nicks tomorrow. Other Xmas Staples include:
Thornton's Advent Calendar
Watching old BBC programmes on Dave and Dave +1
Pink prosecco
A Vivienne Westwood checked scarf
A real fire
The Yard pub in Ilkley, West Yorkshire
Giving greatly appreciated presents