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April 24, 2010
Mavado continues his reign with Gal Ova Gun gripping the #1 title for four weeks in a row.
Mavado continues his reign with Gal Ova Gun gripping the #1 title for four weeks in a row.
Controversy boss Vybz Kartel threatens the top spot with Slow Motion as it steps the #2position with its hold on the Shot To Watch title.
Dancehall King, Beenie Man with Mi Woman A Call Mi fell one place into the #3 spot this week.
As Mavado and Stacious jumps three places up into the top five on the chart with Come Into My Room hence, copping the Greastest Gainer tag.
Sexy Toya with Hot Like Ah Fire seized the #5 position for yet another week.
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Hype TV Top 20 Singles Chart
April 23rd – April 29th 2010
TW LW WOC ARTISTE - TITLE - LABEL - Peak Position
01 01 09 Mavado – Gal Ova Gun – Armz House Records - 4wks@1
02 03 11 Vybz Kartel – Slow Motion – Big Yard Music – Shot To Watch
03 02 16 Beenie Man – Mi Woman A Call Mi – Sankofa Prod - 1wk@1
04 07 06 Mavado & Stacious – Come In To My Room – Di Genius-Greatest Gainer up3
05 05 13 Toya – Hot Like Ah Fire – Downsound Records
06 08 12 Junior X – Gangster Life – Revolutionary Ent.
07 04 15 Lisa Hype ft. Gaza Kim – Bills – Adidjaheim/Head Concussion-pp@ #3
08 06 23 I-Octane – Lose A Friend –Truck Back Records - 4wks@1
09 10 05 Etana – August Town – Necessary Mayhem
10 11 10 Tiana ft. Chi Ching Ching – Skippin Feelin – Media House
11 12 05 Stephen McGregor – Caan Fren Again – Di Genius
12 09 26 Demarco – True Friend – Fresh Ear - 2wks@1
13 14 07 T.O.K. – Everyday We Try – Very Huge Records
14 15 04 I-Octane – Think A Little Time –TJ Records
15 16 04 Etana – Free – No Doubt Records
16 18 03 Mavado - House Top - Rose Gold Ent
17 13 19 Voicemail & Busy –Dance The Night Away – Washroom Ent.-pp@ #3
18 20 02 Vybz Kartel/Popcaan/Slim- Clarks –Adidjaheim/Notnice/CR203Records.
19 19 03 Ms. Triniti - Mr. Deejay - Trini Girl
20 17 22 Rootz Reveallerz Ft. C. Demus– Sweetie – Family House Music -pp@ #5
TW -This Week, LW – Last Week, WOC – Weeks On Chart, NE – New Entry & WKS@#1 – Weeks @#1 * Censor
01 Ikaya - Money Ova Man- Outaroad Records
02 Etana - Happy Heart - No Doubt Records
03 I-Octane – My Life - Frass
04 Busy Signal –Night Shift – Tuff Muzik/Star Player Music
05 Jahcure/ Phyllisia – Unconditional Love –SOBE/Danga Zone
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Escape to Munich and run away with the circus
A gigantic neon sign shines above you, lit by thousands of flickering light bulbs spelling out the name 'Krone'. Inside the tent the smell of popcorn and candy floss fills the air and the distant grumblings of exotic animals make you quiver in your boots. The chairs around you gradually fill up with thousands of other excited spectators, all waiting for the show to start.
The house lights dim, and a single blinding spotlight shines against a man dressed in an extravagant suit. The crowd falls silent, and the show begins.
From that point onwards, you're transported back to childhood. Sequin-encrusted trapeze artists glide elegantly through the air before plummeting towards a thin net below, then being scooped into the waiting arms of another performer just inches from disaster. Animals perform elaborate tricks, and lion tamers keep the watching crowd enraptured. After a whirlwind of music and colourful lights, the show ends and you walk away with an experience you'll never forget.
Circus Krone, Munich
The city of Munich is home to Circus Krone, one of the largest circuses in Europe. Affectionately referred to as 'Bavaria's National Circus', it's been entertaining audiences for over 100 years.
A very modern show, Circus Krone is founded on some of the oldest entertainment traditions in western civilisation. Having persevered through two world wars, it's estimated that over 40 million circus-goers have been delighted and enthralled by its performances.
Founder Carl Krone was born in 1870, quite literally in a circus wagon. He grew up with the spirit of the circus running through his veins, and became a renowned lion tamer in his family's circus, before establishing his own circus, Circus Krone, in 1919. Today, the circus is run by his granddaughter, Christel Sembach-Krone.
Unlike most circuses, Circus Krone has its own permanent buildings with a 3,000-seat theatre, along with enclosures for its animals, administration areas, and rehearsal rings. The circus season runs here from December to March every year, after which it takes to the road, visiting over 30 European cities on an 8-month tour from April. This is a mammoth undertaking with over 400 people, 250 animals and its very own city-on-wheels complete with 5,000-seat circus tent, café, restaurant, school and its personal fire brigade.
Going to the Circus
To catch a performance in Munich, you need to head to the city during the winter months. Flights leave regularly from London Stansted, and are reasonably cheap and quick. For drivers, flying from Stansted is easy with a number of cost-effective and hassle-free parking options.
Alternatively, if you're not a fan of the winter months, you could run away with the circus and follow the route of their popular summer tour.
If you decide to do this, make sure you schedule a visit to Munich during Oktoberfest instead. Taking place, rather predictably, in October, this popular beer festival stretches for a couple of weeks and is a mecca for beer lovers worldwide. Beginning with a parade through the city, and ending with a traditional gun-salute on the steps of the Bavaria Monument, this festival is all about the beer. With some excellent food tents to keep you on the straight and narrow.
So whether you want to be swept away by the exciting life of the circus, or sip a chilled beer on an October afternoon, Munich is the place to go in 2013.


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Jan M (nl) wrote: This movie is on my top ten list, the acting is fantastic. I have seen it twelve times and have just watched it again with my son, he was in awe of the electrifying performances by Leto and Hayek 10/10
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Blake P (jp) wrote: Sometimes, the failure of a film is the fault of the audience, not the movie itself. If one goes into the theater with a particular sort of expectation, that expectation sits and waits to be fulfilled - if it isn't, the audience member eventually decides that they simply didn't like the movie. It has nothing to do with the film, necessarily: it has to do with the thoughts and feelings in the pre-stages of viewership. Take for instance, 1959's "Some Like It Hot". The American Film Institute considers it to be the funniest movie ever made. With that knowledge, one expects a film so hilarious that they will be gasping for air even more than they did the first time they saw "Airplane". But if the end result isn't asphyxiation, the impression will not be I loved "Some Like It Hot" - it will be "What did you think of 'Some Like it Hot?'", the response coming in the form of "It was good, but not as good as 'Airplane'." Do you see where I'm going with this?? When "Joe Versus the Volcano" came out in 1990, it was a colossal failure; most thought of it as a disaster in Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan's skyrocketing personas, a nail in the career coffin of rising talent John Patrick Shanley, who wrote Norman Jewison's "Moonstruck". Audiences didn't much enjoy it, "Entertainment Weekly" gave it an F, and it lost enough money to put itself in the Hall of Infamy (an awful place that I just made up). Watching "Joe Versus the Volcano" now, it's apparent that it is not a bomb, rather a movie everyone expected to be a typical Hanks/Ryan romantic comedy and got the film equivalent of your quirky neighbor down the lane. It is such a strange picture that preconceived notions really do have the power to ruin one's judgment - imagine paying to see something cute and ending up with a Jean-Luc Godard directed, existential art fantasy scripted by Nora Ephron. But as it ages, slowly completing the design of its silver lining as a cult film, "Joe Versus the Volcano" comes closer to reaching the two most powerful words in the history of movie critiquing: hidden - gasp - gem. (Those may not be the most powerful but they sure do make a movie sound marvelous.) Joe Banks (Tom Hanks) is so depressed that he may as well star as the before picture in a depression medication ad. An ex-firefighter who has since stepped down into the confines of a soul-sucking office cubicle job, Joe is convinced that the fluorescent lights hanging above him are making him sick and that there is something seriously wrong with his well-being. He goes to the doctor (Robert Stack) and sure enough - he is diagnosed with a "brain cloud", a terminal condition that is rapidly spreading throughout his head. He is given six months to live. Where most would react in a functional Susan Hayward freakout, Joe looks at the prognosis as a new, if extremely temporary, chapter in his life. He quits his job, takes his office crush, DeDe (Meg Ryan) out to dinner, and starts to think for himself. Not long after is he approached by a millionaire, Samuel Graynamore (Lloyd Bridges), who offers a deal. He owns a small island, known as Waponi Woo, and its natives are facing a crisis. According to legend, a sacrifice must be made every 100 years to the island's central volcano - if not, it will explode, destroying everything in sight. Graynamore, a thinker, figures that Joe would be an ideal sacrifice (what does he have to lose?), offering him unlimited wealth in exchange for a literally life changing jump. Joe agrees without skipping a beat, developing relationships with Graynamore's daughters, Angelica and Patricia (both portrayed by Ryan), along the way. "Joe Versus the Volcano" is the eccentric you didn't play with during your childhood years, sitting in the corner of the room and zoning out to the pitter-patters of their imagination. With its "Dick Tracy" meets Pedro Almodvar set design and baroque scenes of dialogue, there is nothing like it and there probably never will be. It is a romantic comedy, but not of the "Sleepless in Seattle" caliber. It is almost a fantasy, landing in a bizarre world in which every love interest is played by Ryan (in assorted wigs) and remote islands are inhabited by exotic Jews that only drink orange soda. Most importantly, though, it details characters that feel real (despite the reverie that stalks the camera); Hanks isn't his usual charismatic self, instead a guy whose social skills are just creaky enough to render him as nicely quirky as he is love-sick. All three of Ryan's portrayals offer something vital and zany to the film; the screenplay, and Hanks, are added flavors that mix in attractively to Ryan's dominance. "Joe Versus the Volcano" is goofy, sure, but it breathes crisp, new air while the other romantic comedies of the 1990s sat around and idled insignificantly.
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On 15 September 2014, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, is undertaking an official visit to Equatorial Guinea on the occasion of the second award ceremony of the UNESCO–Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences for 2014. The award ceremony will take place in the presence of the President of Equatorial Guinea, M. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. President of Mauritania, President of AU, the President of Kenya, Sao tome, Yai Bénin, Kagame Rwanda, are also expected to attend.
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Philosophy Friday 2
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So I was looking on the internets for a neat topic for this Friday, and I came accross this
Why is there all this stuff in the universe, and why is it governed by such exquisitely precise laws?
And why should anything exist at all?
We inhabit a universe with such things as spiral galaxies, the aurora borealis, and SpongeBob Squarepants.
And as Sean Carroll notes,
"Nothing about modern physics explains why we have these laws rather than some totally different laws, although physicists sometimes talk that way — a mistake they might be able to avoid if they took philosophers more seriously."
And as for the philosophers, the best that they can come up with is the anthropic principle — the notion that our particular universe appears the way it does by virtue of our presence as observers within it — a suggestion that has an uncomfortably tautological ring to it.
-George Dvorsky
Does this mean that the universe's entire existance only matter because it was able to create beings to think about itself? And what if we never existed. What if sentience didn't exist. What would the point of the universe be?
Then why do we exist at all? Simply to bring justification to the existance if the universe?
What's Déjà vu? | Prophetic Dreaming
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Ever get that feeling that you've experienced something before?
Déjà vu as slang is thinking you recognize a simple word, person, or situation. That's just having something "at the tip of your toungue".
But that's not really what Déjà Vu is
True Déjà vu is the result of having a prophetic dream.
I didn't realize this untill I actually had a prophetic dream.
In the dream, I was in the orchestra room. There's a student (we'll call her Jen for identiy sake) who always uses a mute on her violin, and it was always a joke that we'd steal it one day.
so I hear her voice "...I don't give a fuck, it's not your fucking place to touch my fucking stuff"
and then the leader of the bass section going "yeahhh... It was funny the first few times, but now..."
and then the guy who nicked her mute going "what? I can't hear you!" (Mute joke).
i woke up to this seemingly trivial dream, but for some reason it stuck with me for a week.
eventually, I forgot about it.
A month goes by, and we just finished an orchestra concert. We were in the orchestra room, packing our instruments, when for some reason I thought of that random dream again. 5 minutes later, I see/hear the exact same conversation that I dreamt WHILE the dream was playing in my head.
I experienced such a strong feeling of Déjà Vul that I actually couldn't walk straight. I stumbled into a few stands, and then sat down in a state of disbelief.
To summarize: Déjà Vu is the result of having prophetically dreamt the exact same series of events once before. This mean, if you have experienced a strong déjà vu, you have a prophetic dream before, and you have the potential to do it again.
I'm serious when I say this; Keep a dream diary/journal. You never know if your seemingly useless dream isn't predicting trategy or fortune for you.
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Sorry about my recent absences on this site. Sometimes I get really busy, and communicating with others in general is difficult. I will be more active.
During these past couple of days, weeks maybe, I have begun to realize something extremely important about P-shifting or shifting in general. This realization was unearthed during a conversation with Arcover, but now that I think about it--anytime I think about it-- my intuition screams at me that this is something I have not only known this entire time but is also the stepping stone to many of my questions.
It is the key to P-shifting.
Now I know that some of you are thinking, "How can you base this off of your intuition? Isn't that against what this site is about?" It is true that I'm basing this off of intuition, and that isn't exactly a foundamental science, but I know deep down that this feeling is something important. It is the same feeling that makes my fingers tremble with excitement even as I type out this blog post. If I were to be so bold, I could compare this feeling to that of Alexander Flemming when he discovered the key to what we now know of as penicillin. That feeling of, "Wait, maybe I should investigate this little further; it could be important" gut feeling.
This feeling that I have, it's because I think there is another, much more effiecient, way to shifting. Before, my only two ways to P-shifting were meditation and extreme emotions such as anger, sorrow, or even vibrant happiness. The meditation route, as seen by my somewhat popular "Shifting Trials," was a safe, productive way to the path of shifting, but unfortunately it reaped little results. Whenever I tried to shift through meditation, it just felt like I couldn't gather enough focus nor Energy. It felt like I wasn't making progress as quickly as I would like, and eventually I abandoned the trials while I soul-searched for a better method.
The only other method I knew at the time, however, was the second one: extreme emotion. That way of shifting was almost guaranteed to get me the results I wanted, but the process was so hard to replicate that I really couldn't put it on camera even if I wanted to. Those moments were the most pathetic, gut-wretching moments of my life. I didn't want to replicate that for the whole world to see.
That left me with no options. I couldn't use extreme emotions, nor could I use meditation. So what happens then?
I explore the woods surrounding my new neighborhood with my younger brother. Almost every day of the summer, we spend our time venturing off into a part of the area that was unknown to us until we were satisfied with the knowledge that we had explored every inch of it. During those many voyages, my brother and I came across various wildlife. The wildlife that stuck out at me, though, was the deer. Almost like an itch in my head, I couldn't figure out why I was so annoyed with the deer. My brother and I would sometimes chase them, but after the chase came to a end I would always feel the same:
"Where are their predators?"
It's an odd question to think about, much more to write, but nontheless it kept popping into my head. I realized that the reason I was so bothered, obssessed maybe, about the deer was because my predatoral instincts as a werewolf kicked in. I wasn't chasing these deer for fun, I was chasing them because I wanted to catch them. I wanted to hunt them.
No, I'm not talking about hunting them as in "Game and rifle," but as in a true, 1 vs 1 game of combat. I wanted to get some of my favorite premodern combat weapons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premodern_combat_weapons) and engage the dear. If they could beat me, they won--lived--and if I beat them then they lost--died. Nothing personal about it, just rugged, harsh fact.
I realized that this feeling brought me closer to shifting than almost all the other methods I had ever tried before. Just the thought of it was enough to send me spiralling into a delicious M-shift.
And it still does. I have discovered the third way to P-shift, and probably the most effective way, hence me calling it the "key." In order for me to unlock my shifting abilities, I need to engage myself against wildlife prey and hunt them. Trying to sit down on the floor criss-cross-applesauce is not going to get me to shift, this is. That is probably why the second method of shifting, extreme emotions, allows me to shift so easily because it stems from the emotional high of pursuing your prey. Maybe in the future I'll be able to sit down and shift through meditation, but I know that right now I simply do not have that ability. I have come to terms with my werewolfism mentally; now I need to come to terms with it physically. I may not be able to put it into a pretty little box perfect for analyzing and observing just yet, but I know deep down that I must take this leap of faith in order to get to that point of putting werewolfism into an objective light.
That's all that I have to say so far about my recent relevation. I'm sorry for not cutting to the chase sooner in my blog, but I felt like I needed to really paint my feelings on this one. This new way of shifting excites me, and I can't wait to share with all of you my progress.
Water Lightning
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Elemental Discovery (water lightning)
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Earth "Bending" Guide 1
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I should have put this up a lot sooner, but I was being my usual, lazy-assed self.
OK, here we go. The reason why I want to teach Earth manipulators this stance is because it builds upon your foundation and endurance (like I briefly mentioned before). Besides doing that, however, this stance has a much deeper effect. It teaches you through pain and discomfort to stand strong and to keep pushing--something that Earth manipulators absolutely need to learn. You, unlike other elements, are not made to bend your will for anything that doesn't rip it from your iron-like grasp. You are the element which reigns over all the other elements with your intimidating power. How are you going to move the Earth if you can't even hold up yourself for 3 minutes? You can't.
Earth manipulators need to be this direct, this piercing when it comes to Energy manipulation, because you are the ones who have to manipulate the greatest mass out of all the elements. I'm confident this will help develop that mindset for you, and you'll be able to become a great manipulator.
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Water "Bending" Guide 2: Push and Pull
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Now water deals with constant flow. Which means you must be in a state of flow as well. Concentrate on having your energy flow through your body (chuckras) and not stop the flow. Now allow your emotions to flow. Now pour energy into a water source, and try to fuse it with the water Now try to make the energy come back to you, and then away from you. Eventually, you should see some waves, even if small. Eventually you'll be able to create significant waves, draw water far inland, ect. This takes practice


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The New Year is upon us, bringing energy and excitement and hope for a finer future.
Here's to 2015, everyone; let's make it the best year ever.
If any of these things are happening to you, you are being distracted by cash flow issues. Not having enough money is demoralizing, time consuming, and exhausting. It also has happened to every one of my clients at some time or another. Below are some short term and long term solutions for you to try.
Every small business encounters cash flow issues, but they are stressful and they keep you from running your business. Do your best to keep a cushion of cash, so when the payments are slow, you can keep doing what you need to be doing.
I've never paid much attention to Donald Trump; he's always seemed a bit like a goat on a doghouse to me. But I recommend his book, Midas Touch (written with Robert Kiyosaki), to every business owner.
It's an easy read, full of anecdotes and examples, and it makes total sense. It will help you to focus on the things you should be doing, and it will point out any problems you are trying to ignore. Some of the things covered are:
There's a lot to be learned from these two successful entrepreneurs. They've both made some whopper mistakes and had incredible successes. In Midas Touch they tell all.
As The Office Manager For Rent, I've worked with a lot of different people over the past 18 years. Million Dollar Monday is my attempt to analyze what my most successful clients (over a million dollars in sales per year) have had in common.
The Enthusiast
My most successful clients have been passionate about their businesses, but not in any way I would have guessed. For example: a landscape designer I used to work for didn't ride with his crews every day to tell them where to place the plants. Nor did he look over the shoulder of the guy he hired to help design the new school campus. He didn't even have much input into the graphics of the car wraps he put on his fleet. His passion wasn't focused on what I would consider the fun parts of his business. Nor was he very focused on his company's actual service. (He hired people to take care of that.) His passion and his time were devoted to the BUSINESS of his business.
He got excited about new opportunities and trends in his field. He knew exactly how many clients he had at any given time and how much he'd likely net for the month. He'd drive around to see which churches and businesses were paying outside landscapers. Then he'd run home and write-up a proposal to try to grab that work. He loved to talk to anyone who owned a business of ANY kind. And he read more books about marketing than he did about pruning roses. His focus wasn't on the current details of his daily business; he looked ahead to what his business could be. He had a vision for his company and his vision was what inspired his passion. (And his vision worked: He got so big he no longer needed to rent an office manager; he hired one full-time.)
Passion and enthusiasm are not enough on their own. As a business owner, you have to be sure that your passion is directed in a way that will grow your company. If my landscape designer had focused his enthusiasm on deciding where every plant was to be placed, he'd have no time to grow his business. He would also likely annoy all of his workers with his butt-insky ways.
Here's what I believe: That landscape designer could have been successful running any business. It wasn't the particular industry he was in that inspired him. He was inspired by possibilities and challenges and the vision of a successful future.
In You Schmooze You Win, I discussed how my most successful clients have all been involved in the selling of their product/service. Apparently, to make a lot of money, the owner of a business must spend most of his/her time selling.
But I hate to sell; I am the opposite of a salesperson. How un-salesy am I? I have gone to the same gym for 13 years. I see hundreds of people almost daily and only three of them know that I run my own business. Those three people asked me what I do for a living and I told them. I am a sales failure.
So I've been paying attention to exactly what my successful clients do that I don't do, and here is the secret: They Go After The Big Fish. They figure out what companies can benefit from their product/service, and they go after the biggest ones.
That's step one, figuring out which Big Fish to go after, and although it's deliberate, it's not salesy. I can do that. Step two is a little less comfy.
To me, this is all doable. It's not as salesy as I had feared. It's deliberate and focused, but I can do that. If I can do it, you can too. Let's go find some Big Fish and reel them in!
As The Office Manager For Rent, I have been a part of a lot of small businesses during the past 18 years, and I've noticed some patterns. Million Dollar Monday is my attempt to analyze what my most successful clients (over a million dollars in sales per year) have had in common.
The Man of Honor
Sorry about the sexist title: it turns out there is no noun in the English language that describes a person who is honest in his/her business dealings, so I had to go with an outdated phrase. (There are plenty of nouns to describe a dishonest business person: charlatan, cheat, con artist, crook, hustler, swindler, but none to describe an honest one. Hmmmm.)
Anyway, along with taking care of themselves and spending most of their time promoting their companies, my most successful clients have always gone out of their way to be honest. They keep their word to their vendors and employees, by paying them on time, and they honor the agreements they make with their customers. If some hazy situation arises, they always err on the side of honesty.
A good example is when a check comes in and I can't find a corresponding invoice in Quickbooks. Some of my clients over the years have told me to just deposit the check and if their customer overpaid, they'll figure it out and we'll refund them. I guess when you are taking in thousands of dollars a day, it's hard to keep track of who owes what.
My most successful clients, however, always tell me to investigate. They have me take the time to contact the company and determine if the check is actually a valid payment. If it's not owed to us, they have me return it. It takes some time and effort, but it's the right thing to do.
It doesn't sound like a big deal, but the company that gets my phone call knows right then and there that they are dealing with an honest company. The entrepreneur who is in charge has passed his good ethics down to his whole company. Wouldn't you love to know that about a company you deal with? And wouldn't you continue to deal with them? Not only is honesty good for your soul, it's good for your business.
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I am an amateur gardener: just how much of an amateur will soon be clear. My organic vegetable plot, fortified only by kitchen compost, grows whatever fruits and vegetables reseed themselves. This year I have slicing tomatoes, grape tomatoes, plum tomatoes: all in colors from yellow to red. But the best surprise was this watermelon vine. By early July it had this 6 inch fruit and I was psyched. EVERYONE in my house likes watermelon.
I let it take over. It climbed over my precious tomatoes and stunted my peppers with its shade. By the time I realized it was a pumpkin vine, it was too late. It's mid August and I'm harvesting jack-o-lantern pumpkins at an alarming rate.
What does this have to do with your business? As an entrepreneur, you need to tend to your workers better than I tended my garden. You need to pay attention to the dynamics of your staff. If one employee gets disgruntled or insecure, discontent can fester faster than it took a pumpkin vine to strangle my garden. Pay attention to your employees' interrelations and be prepared to step in. Nip it in the bud, as they say.
Check in often with your employees. Focus on your goals for the team. Reinforce the good habits, and when you see employees who are fostering discontent, let them know. Likely they have no idea of the problems they cause. Like my pumpkin vine – they are just doing what they do.


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Miloš Zatkalik (1959, Serbia) graduated in composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade with Vasilije Mokranjac and Rajko Maksimović. He attended courses in the USA and United Kingdom. Miloš Zatkalik is associated professor at and head of the Department for Music Theory at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. He also teaches at the Academy of Arts in Banjaluka. He gave lectures in Canada, Norway, USA, Germany, and Slovenia.
Pieces: orchestral (Minas Tirit; What's He to Hecuba; Of Saralinda, Xingu and the Duke Swallowed by Golem – a fable for large orchestra), chamber (The Mad Carriage-Greeter from Ch'u, Lost fragments II, Song of a Dead One), chamber orchestra (Lost fragments, Dum incerta petimus) solo music (flute, viola, violoncello, piano), songs with piano accompaniment. His pieces were performed in Spain, Germany, Canada, USA, and Russia.
He published papers in national and international journals and magazines. Research fields: relations of music and literature/linguistics, analysis of 20th century music, psychoanalytical foundations of music analysis. He is the author of the first Serbian music analysis textbook in electronic form.
Zatkalik is the member of the Serbian Composers Association. He was the Director of the International Review of Composers in 2003, member of the Jury for the Mokranjac Award. He has also graduated in English language and literature from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
Four Visions of Absence
One forebodes that which is absent. Which is not there. Yet. And perhaps it is not there at all.
Menace is a premonition of the event. Threat is a simulacrum of action. The life of action is the death of the threat.
Enigma is a parasite of meaning. Enigma is a threat to meaning. The life of meaning is the death of enigma.
An ostinato motive thwarted the action in the fourth movement. It has been thwarted itself in the fourth movement. Likewise in the third. Likewise in the second. And, particularly in the first.
Or, would these be but the moments of the idea's absence?


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Rainy Day Reading: Books to Savour with Thunder and Lightning
Put on the music, brew a big mug of coffee and settle down in the Lazyboy for a night of reading.
Put on the music, brew a big mug of coffee and settle down in the Lazyboy for a night of reading.
A new talk show, 20 years of a blockbuster, art gone wrong and a few good books
The rakhi-tying sisters and honour saving brothers of Bollywood + A few notable exceptions
Home accents to add colour and personality to your child's rooms
One of our favourite decor bloggers shares tips for creating eye-catching entryways
Bangle stands, jewellery boxes, laptop and phone covers – amazing craft ideas from The Creatist
Unique furniture and accessories to add dollops of colour to your home
Delving into the trailers of Bang Bang, Khoobsurat & Mary Kom
One of a kind murals to brighten up any living space, and thoughtful every day design from the team behind CraftCanvas
A vase that looks like a teapot, charming bird feeders, and the most adorable little upcycled coasters. All this and more from the team behind The Wishing Chair


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Jul 13
Chris asks…
How would i get rid of acne and eczema at the same time?
I received many advice and information on how to get rid of acne but it still has effect on my eczema getting worse and vice-versa. I've had eczema for almost 10 years now and had acne for almost 3 years now.
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Wash skin with tea tree oil soap and luke warm water. Once you are done washing face softly pat dry. Tea tree oil soap is natural and cleans better than other soaps because it doesn't dry out your skin. If you use soap that drys out your skin your skin will produce more oil and lead to blocked pores and more acne.
For back acne leave your shirt off so your skin can breath! Get a sun tan on your back. Take advantage of the nice summer weather and take a dip in the sea salt. You can treat cystic acne on your back with "AcneFree Sensitive Skin Acne System".
After you shower with luke warm water, pat your skin dry and use the "Alcohol-free toner" and follow that with the "Hydrating Acne Repair Lotion" which contains the micro benzoyl peroxide medicine.
Don't have to use the corrective acne cleanser. You replace that by using the tea tree oil soap and a back scrubber to exfoliate the skin when you shower.
( Don't put this medicine on if you are going to be out in the sun or you already taking prescriptions of any kind – ask doctor if it's safe to use with anything else you may be taking. )
For facial acne .
( Don't use this if you are already using some other prescription acne medications )
Use Clean & Clear Persa-Gel 10 to treat acne. Put a light coat around the infected area. It's
best to wash face and put this on just before going to sleep. That way it gets absorbed into
the skin and works better while you get your 8 hrs of sleep.
Persa-Gel 10 contains 10% Benzoyl Peroxide so stay out of the sunlight when you have it on. It may cause a slight burn if you are not careful. It should get rid of most acne within 3 days from the time you start treating it. However, that depends on how bad and what type of acne you have. Drink more fresh fruits and vegetables. Cut out as much diary as possible ( Diary is full of hormones so try and avoid it ) and leave the junk food alone.
Additional Tips
- Learn to meditate – Listen to something like naturespace and naturesound available on the Iphone app store. Naturespace utilizes the new 3d holophonic high definition technology which helps you drain stress quicker than ever before! Stress causes acne so this will help you control your emotions.
- Crack the window open in your room to allow fresh air to circulate.
- The sunlight is great for acne but don't go under direct sunlight with this medicine.
- You can also try Niacinamide ( Vitamin B3 ) capsules to internally combat acne.
- Drink fresh juice! Mix banana, mango, apples and strawberries to help combat acne from within.
- Drink vegetable juice! Mix Apples, cucumbers and asparagus to make your skin glow.
- Change your bed sheets regularly.
- Keep your hair away from your face.
- Drink freshly squeezed lime water.
Good Luck! : )
Nancy asks…
What are some tips for getting rid of acne?
Can you give me some tips on getting rid of acne. Like i heard about putting toothpaste on acne, but does it really work. Please give me some homemade tips or ideas or anything you do to get rid of acne. Thanks!
admin answers:
Cetaphil is a product that is available in most grocery stores. I apply it to my face and let it dry and it works deep down to prevent and/or stop zits from surfacing.
I would also recommend that you review your diet and see if you are eating too much grease, salt, chocolate, or anything else that may irritate your skin.
Also, be sure you aren't washing your face too much, which will dry it out and irritate acne. On another note, if you moisturize too much it will have the same effect.
Good luck!
Paul asks…
What are some natural ways to get rid of acne?
What are some ways to get rid of acne naturally? Also, what can I do at home without using cosmetics or brand names such as ProActiv or Clearasil.
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Hi there,
My 12 year old daughter is facing this problem as well and we have done a lot of research on how to cure acne naturally. From what we found out, it is not going to go away overnight. But, this approach works by fixing your internal balance and does not use the harmful over the counter medications that can actually damage your skin. Those types of medications only treat the outside problems, your zits, but they do not get to the root of the problem.
This is what we have learned. There are many different types of cleansers for taking care of your skin, and washing your face and problem areas two times per day using an anti-bacterial and 100 percent natural soap, such as tea tree oil soap, will reduce the inflammation and swelling and improve the looks of your skin without the nasty side effects of Benzoyl Peroxide can cause.
Always use lukewarm water to wash your face and skin, and be sure to wash your face gently and use a dry cotton towel to pat your skin dry. Do not rub the towel over your problem areas as this will irritate the acne and may cause additional swelling and redness.
There are also some things that you eat that may be responsible for your acne and keeping track of when you breakout and the foods that you ate will help you to pinpoint them.
My daughter has started this program about 2 weeks ago and her skin is almost blemish free. She has followed the directions in the program and is excited about getting rid of her acne for good.
I hope that this helps and good luck with treating your acne naturally without all of the nasty side effects of some medications that are available.
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I occasionally write for Meeple Mountain. I think I did a good job with this article. It's about how I was wrong about Race for the Galaxy.
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There was a brief period of my life where I was an academic. I was embedded daily in scholarly culture, surrounded by people who were all interested in tangentially similar things to me, and we all were having similar sorts of conversations. My days were spent studying and thinking about literature–what it is, what it can do, how it does the things that it does in different ways, and where to situate it within a particular cultural and social context.
I loved books, but I found that I was becoming a type of critical person I didn't particularly enjoy being around.
So I left.
I left for a number of reasons, but one of those reasons was very similar to what Lisa Ruddick writes about in an excellent article called "When Nothing is Cool":
Repeatedly, we will find scholars using theory—or simply attitude—to burn through whatever is small, tender, and worthy of protection and cultivation. Academic cool is a cast of mind that disdains interpersonal kindness, I-thou connection, and the line separating the self from the outer world and the engulfing collective.
The simple truth of it was that I and others picked apart something that I thought was singularly unique and cool to the point where it ceased to have meaning. Ask me about Steinbeck, Morrison, McCarthy, O'Connor–I'll have a breadth of criticism available to provide on cue. Ultimately, the study of books became stale and uninteresting because I lost the ability to immerse myself for some time. I've regained that ability, but I no longer really want to drop back into the academic waters.
So what does that have to do with board games?
Well, for starters, I don't want to do that with board games. So when I talk about what I believe immersion is, and what it can be in the context of a game, I'm going to do it in such a way as to preserve the connection to myself, which in turn preserves a connection to
So, here we go!
Immersion: or, stop thinking about thinking
Immersion is a beautiful thing, especially for people who are adrift. I have struggled with a sense of meaning and order my entire life. Religion and faith, while fascinating to me, never had an ontological pull that strapped me into a chair and shouted a reason to live at me. Many people who know me personally are surprised by this (I'm a pretty bubbly dude), but I am often disconnected from the purpose that drives many people to achieve and accomplish.
This is precisely why games have been compelling to me. They are designed experiences that have an ability to drop me right inside a particular set of rules and meaning. Some people call this distraction, to which I respond, distraction from what?
Immersion, in my experience, comes in many different varieties, but can often be categorized into two different branches: the puzzle and the thematic experience.
Puzzle with friends
I enjoy a wide variety of games, but some of the best provide an interactive puzzle, with myself and my friends trapped inside. The end of the game is the way out of the puzzle, but until we get there, we're going to be climbing all over one another, pulling one another's hair, and generally just being nusances to each other. Concordia is my current example of this. Everyone is trying to build these little trade houses all around a map of ancient Rome or Greece or something, and the object of the game is to have the most points at the end, determined by the spots where you build your houses, and the types of point multipliers you can purchase to make your commercial empire more profitable.
In my experience, most games of Concordia have each player picking a path to success and trying to work toward it, maximizing their own gain along the way and minimizing the gain of the other players. It's never
Some games, particularly eurogames like Concordia, do not go out of their way to provide thematic immersion, but are immersive nonetheless, in a way that a Rube Goldberg machine is immersive. You want to see how all the parts and switches play against one another, and you want to see if the choice you made mattered in reference to the game you just played. Puzzle-like games are immersive meaning-making machines, which is an exciting prospect (when done well).
Themes to die for
The second is a sort of thematic immersion. In other words, are the toys the game provide cool?
There are probably people who will get up in arms when I start referring to games as toys. I don't mean it reductively. There's a wall up when we watch a movie, play a game, go see a
War of the Ring is a fantastic example of this. Setting aside its near clockwork perfection as a design, the game really does make me feel like I'm the
Often, Theme and Puzzle intersect and you get a beautiful game. I think Great Western Trail pulls this off well, featuring just enough Old West to make you feel like you're about to mosey on down the trail. But don't forget about optimizing your cow deck. And moving your train everywhere in the world. My favorite thing about GWT is how it makes everyone start talking in the game's language, using "delivery spam," "cow strategy," and "being a dick with the buildings," without anyone batting an eyelash.
Immersion isn't about turning your brain off, it's about turning off the part that doesn't help you live a happy and healthy life. Immersion is indulgence in a fantasy that makes you feel good, and I can think of few better reasons to do something, especially because this particular indulgence is harmless, and might teach us a thing or two along the way.
The Mechanisn't: Intro
More often than not, board games are described in a similar pattern to this:
- "Lord of the Rings with hidden movement!" (War of the Ring)
- "Farming with worker placement!" (Agricola)
- "Egyptian myths fighting each other with customizable powers!" (Kemet)
In those three examples, I'm doing a theme + mechanic equation. It's easy to explain what a game is when you describe it in terms of
I want to talk about mechanics in a way that does more than just describe what they do–I want to talk about mechanics in a way that describes what they promise, and how those same mechanics can interact with materials, emotions, theming, personality types, and environment. I think these sorts of conversations can give us a better and fuller understanding of what makes a game interesting, and how games with similar mechanics offer fundamentally different experiences.
For people who haven't bought into what I'm saying, I'll engage with a video from Paul Dean here real quick. In his review of Friedemann Friese's 504 (embedded below), he echoes the game's marketing as an "experiment."
What's the goal of the experiment here? For those who don't know, 504 is a game about making (possible) 504 distinct games by combining different mechanics, held together by a common ruleset.
This experiment's central conceit or thesis is that games are mechanics, and all it takes to make a game is to combine different mechanics together with a strong enough glue (in this case, the rules) and voila! You have 504 different games.
Now, I'm not reviewing 504 here, because I think the concept is cool, and I admire the ambition of the design. But, it does illustrate what I believe to be a false premise about art and experience (which board games surely fall under the purview of). The experience of a Van Gogh is not just brushwork. A game is not just endless recombined mechanics.
The combination of the elements that make a game a game generates something larger than the constituent parts. Games are not just mechanics, just like a movie is not just actors or a director or cinematography. Games are their designers and they are also their mechanics, and the people who play them, and the artwork, and the theme.
If you like Friedemann Friese (I do), you will find something of value within the design of 504, because you like the way that he pulls together a game. However, in my opinion, when an element becomes the defining characteristic of anything, I lose interest. People, games, it doesn't matter. The sum is more important than the parts for me. That's what I'll be working with when you see the title "The Mechanisn't."
There is a wealth of content about board gaming online, much of it created by extraordinarily intelligent and creative people. As a critical person, whenever I decide to add to a conversation, I second guess myself, concerned that the more dilutes the good. I think this is what therapists call a poverty mindset, in that it is centered around the belief that we live in a limited universe that only has a certain set of things and resources available to us.
Depending on who you are and what you believe, you might agree with this mindset. I think that's valid, and a lot of reviews and board game criticism revolve around this mindset. There are a limited amount of dollars that most consumers have, and therefore there ought to be some consideration given to taste when making purchasing decisions.
But I suppose that I am more interested in games in the abstract, rather than games in the concrete. It's why I enjoy some games that get critically panned, and that I often dissent with commonly held positions about different games. For me, what a game is trying to accomplish is often the most important thing. When I have been a writing teacher, I almost always evaluated my students on what it was they were trying to do, rather than what they did (within reason). In my mind, this attitude encourages us to develop in the way that we are exceptional and unique, rather than reinforcing some idea about what people, places, and things are supposed to be.
So I want to create interesting blog posts, videos, and games that grapple with questions about what games do and what they can do, and how these games generate certain types of interactions and imaginary worlds, and discourage others.
For me, Bernie De Koven set my star in how I think about games. To paraphrase his central conceit in The Well Played Game, in order for us to have a "good" or "enjoyable" game, we must agree on what it is we are doing when we play that game. Rules, mechanisms, theme, environment, and the players we play with influence that. I find that often I and others are not attentive enough to the way we frame the activities we do with one another, and I think this is an error, and one that I try to work through with what I will write about on this site, and what informs the games I design.
But I won't really be reviewing much on this website. I might talk about games that I like, and games that I dislike. But mostly, I want to create a resource that's worth a damn for people who are interested in thinking deeply about games (dorks like myself hopefully) as well as people who don't know what this board game thing is all about.
Join me, won't you?


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Harshvardhan Kapoor, touted to be the next big thing, is making all the right noise. The actor has been a subject of heated discussion in industry circles as he chose to take the path less traveled. Anil Kapoor's son chose to make his debut with Rakesh Omprakash Mehra's Mirzya, as opposed to the regular song and dance fare and from the looks of it, his intuitive decision is paying off.
As the release of Mirzya is just around the corner, few from the industry who have already seen the film , can't stop raving about the actor. While Amitabh Bachchan was all praise for Harshvardhan and even shared some words of wisdom with him post the screening , Shah Rukh Khan too expressed keen interest to watch the film owing to all the wonderful things being said about the actor.
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In the hours after two of President Trump's former advisers delivered his administration potentially grave legal setbacks, the mood inside the White House was grim, a return to a trench-warfare mentality born out of muscle memory. But there remained a pervasive belief, rightly or wrongly, that things have looked this bad before.
That was little consolation to advisers who admitted they had no strategy for countering the news that Mr. Trump's former fixer, Michael D. Cohen, had admitted in federal court that Mr. Trump directed him to arrange payments to two women during the 2016 campaign to silence them from talking publicly about affairs they said they had with Mr. Trump. Nor was there a plan, according to interviews with half a dozen current and former aides, to put a spin on the conviction of Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump's former campaign manager, on eight counts of financial fraud.
The only option was to follow Mr. Trump's lead. The president, returning to a well-worn tactic of scouring media reports for any opportunity that would allow him to seize the news cycle again, decided not to cancel a planned sit-down with Fox News on Wednesday.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, was left to repeatedly refer to the president's past comments on the matter.
"He did nothing wrong," Ms. Sanders said at least three times in a briefing to reporters, a sentiment that White House employees have told themselves in private conversations. "There are no charges against him."
But this time, advisers noticed that the president, a man who has in the past relished the idea of leading his troops into political battle, seemed subdued. He appeared to realize the serious nature of what had just taken place, and yet his relative calm — contrasted with his more typical lashing out when he is anxious — unnerved some of his aides.
"We started with collusion," the president mused, according to several people who witnessed Mr. Trump's somber mood. "How did we end up here?"
Well into the president's second year, Mr. Trump's aides have learned to weather, deflect or completely ignore developments that critics of the administration viewed as insurmountable. This spring, aides faced near constant questions about how the White House doled out security clearances. In May, the president's personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, said that Mr. Trump had reimbursed Mr. Cohen for payments to one of the women, Stephanie Clifford, a pornographic film actress, contradicting the president's prior claim that he had no knowledge of them.
This summer, the White House has faced a self-inflicted firestorm over its immigration policies, which led to thousands of family separations at the border; questions about why Mr. Trump stood by Scott Pruitt, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, who faced more than a dozen investigations into his spending and management practices before eventually resigning in July; and Mr. Trump's cozy, widely criticized news conference with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Helsinki, Finland.
On Wednesday, several aides dismissed the news about Mr. Cohen as just another bad headline lacking the silver bullet that they say the special counsel would need to prove that the president conspired with Russian officials.
Mr. Trump spent the early hours of Wednesday tweeting — he called the convicted Mr. Manafort a "brave man" who, unlike Mr. Cohen, "refused to 'break'" or "make up stories in order to get a 'deal.''' He also monitored headlines, as he did after his news conference with Mr. Putin. In the interview with Fox News, he asserted that money for the payments to the women had come not from his campaign, but from his own accounts.
"I don't know if you know," Mr. Trump said during the interview, "but I tweeted about the payments. But they didn't come out of the campaign." Campaign finance laws still prohibit Mr. Trump from making unreported payments related to the campaign, regardless of where they came from. Neither payment was disclosed to the Federal Election Commission.
On Air Force One on Tuesday night on the way back from a rally in West Virginia, Mr. Trump repeatedly minimized the news, telling aides that the legal developments were not about him, but about Mr. Manafort and Mr. Cohen. He also groused over the optics of the rally, telling a person close to him that the crowd seemed flat and that some chairs were empty.
By Wednesday, Mr. Trump's lawyers were arguing privately that Mr. Cohen's admission and guilty plea to violating campaign finance laws was a punch but not a knockout blow, and were assessing what options they had for fighting back. They stressed that Mr. Cohen had said repeatedly in previous accounts that Mr. Trump was not aware of his payment to Ms. Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels.
In an interview, Mr. Giuliani said that he had spoken at length with Mr. Trump, but that the president had wanted to move on from legal tangles to other topics — including the golf game that Mr. Giuliani was playing at a course in Scotland on Wednesday.
Mr. Giuliani said the two had discussed the political fallout should Mr. Trump grant a pardon to Mr. Manafort.
"Yesterday's plea and Manafort's conviction, none of it had to do with collusion, none of it has to do with obstruction," Mr. Giuliani said, echoing much of what the president has said in public and in private. "He really thinks Manafort has been horribly treated."
He added that Mr. Trump's team was looking at the possibility of making public at least one recording of Mr. Cohen speaking to journalists about his payments to Ms. Clifford, in which he said he made the payments on his own initiative to spare the Trump family pain.
People who have known Mr. Trump for years pointed out that he has never been as cornered — or as isolated — as he is right now, and that he is at his most volatile when he feels backed against the wall. They pointed to his reaction after the "Access Hollywood" tape of him boasting of grabbing women's genitals was released in October 2016. Mr. Trump responded by parading Bill Clinton's female accusers in front of Hillary Clinton at the presidential debate in St. Louis, and acted like a man with nothing to lose.
This dynamic has led Mr. Trump to publicly praise — and privately muse about pardoning — Mr. Manafort. Mr. Trump has exercised his pardon power several times since he took office, including for Joe Arpaio, the anti-immigration sheriff in Arizona, and Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative writer who was prosecuted for campaign finance violations. One official said that there was a list of people Mr. Trump has said he would like to consider for pardons or commutations, but that Mr. Manafort's name had never been on the list.
Mr. Giuliani said in the interview that a pardon for Mr. Manafort was not under consideration.
Ms. Sanders said that, to her knowledge, Mr. Trump had not discussed the idea of pardoning Mr. Manafort. Several of Mr. Trump's advisers said that he was uncertain about the political fallout and was not quite ready to do so.
Mr. Manafort, 69, is in the meantime facing another trial next month on seven charges, including obstruction of justice, failure to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money.


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Anglican Church of Tasmania finalises list of properties for sale
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"The Anglican church has finalised its list of properties for sale, with 73 set to be closed and sold-off.
Anglican Bishop of Tasmania, the Right Reverend Richard Condie, said the church had listened and responded to community feedback. …"
– Report from The Advocate.
See also: One third of Anglican Church properties removed from sale list – Diocese of Tasmania.


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|Feeding Time 1948
I'm not sure I remember this particular high chair -- although it seems sort of familiar. The one I remember clearly was painted white and had a flower decal on the seat back. This one could be it, if my mother packed it into the trunk of the Packard Clipper with her various house dresses and Cuban heel shoes, and then painted it, but somehow I doubt she did that. More likely she used some of the money she got from my father in the divorce to buy a new high chair along with various other furnishings when we got to California. I know that some of her friends gave her furniture and other household items when we got settled in.
This picture was taken in the kitchen of my father's house in Iowa. I remember that room as being the largest in the house. It was in a one story addition on the back of the house, an addition that was almost as wide as the house and about 12 feet deep, not counting the screen porch.
This is a Google street view picture of the backside of the house taken in 2013. The kitchen is the part with the french doors beyond the triple window.
The room wasn't that wide when I was a tot. Beyond the french door -- which was a window back in the day -- there was a screen porch that was later glassed in and here you see it is completely enclosed.
They cleaned me up after feeding me, and here I sit on my father's lap after a good scrubbing.
Some of the things on the bookshelf are intriguing. The photo I believe is of my (half) brother Terry whose mother died giving birth to him in the hot summer of 1935. If that's who it is, it is the only picture of him I've ever seen.
There is a laughing Buddha figure on the same shelf and a Chinese enamel vase or perfume bottle. My mother took the Buddha and vase when we left Iowa in 1949 and they were on a different bookshelf in our various houses for many years. I still have the bookshelf, but not that laughing Buddha. I have another, much larger one that sits on a Chinese style knick-knack shelf along with a seated Buddha and various other things of that sort. I also have a similar Chinese vase. These are not things I consciously acquired. They "just happened."
I have some of the books from my father's house, including some that are in the shelf seen above.
And then it was time to take a spin in the runabout stroller.
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I remember that particular stroller, and it may have come with us to California on that long drive in the Packard on Route 66 the next year. How much stuff could fit in that car anyway?
Things seemed to be working out, but no.
We'll get to that another time.
-- To be continued


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In October 2001 'A Tribute to Luke Kelly' was launched
in Dublin's Hotpress HQ before an
audience which included Luke's siblings and relations.
As a result of the show's success, MCD
booked the band for a three month residency at the Olympia
theatre which led to a memorable
appearance on RTE's Open House. They were also the only
band to receive an invitation to
perform on Eamon Dunphy's radio show 'The Last Word'..
Over the past ten years they have amazed audiences following
powerful sell-out performances
in prominent Irish venues with the regular attendance
of the Kelly family.
Popularity has seen the band touring abroad in England,
Switzerland and even as far away as Australia.
Lead singer Chris Kavanagh bears a remarkable resemblance
to Luke,
while his singing talents capture the depth and passion
of the great man.
He is joined on stage by accomplished musicians who
all consider it an honour to bring Luke's memory
to the stage in the ultimate tribute to the King of
In 2009 to mark Luke's 25th anniversary, Chris and co-writer
(Hilary Kavanagh)
composed a song entitled "Voice of the people"
to celebrate his life.
An album of original songs is available from www.chriskavanagh.com
In November 2011 Chris stood in with folk legends The
Dubliners on their German tour
and made a guest appearance at their latest Christmas
concert DVD in Vicar Street.
'A beautiful blast from our beautiful past'..Eamon
'You might find that you have to pinch yourself'..RTE's
Open House
'A Must !' ..The Irish Times
Band Members :
Chris Kavanagh - Lead vocals / Long neck 5-string banjo
Joe Finn - Uilleann pipes / Whistles / Fiddle (Offaly)
Gavin Doyle - Bass / Backing vocals (Dublin)
Graham Doyle - Guitar / Backing vocals (Dublin)


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