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Strawberries and Cream Smoothie (with sneaky veggies)
Strawberries and Cream Smoothie – The smoothie bowl may be enjoying a moment in the culinary spotlight, but nothing beats a sippable smoothie when you need a portable, nutritious, and filling food. Equally excellent during hard training, or simply rushing to get everyone fed before work and school, this bright pink smoothie is not only mouthwateringly yummy, but it is also chock full of vegetables cunningly disguised by the strawberries, stevia, and vanilla extract. Medium-chain triglycerides in the coconut milk, like lauric acid, provide the body with easy to digest plant-based fats– which studies have shown can decrease LDL and build up HDL cholesterol.
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 1-2 smoothies
- Category: Smoothies
- ¼ Cup Frozen Banana Pieces
- 1 Cup Frozen Strawberry Pieces
- ½ Cup Frozen Cauliflower
- 1 piece Small Peeled Zucchini; (we used the outside for ribbon-style zucchini noodles)
- ½ Cup Unsweetened Vanilla Coconut Milk
- ¼ of an Avocado
- 6-12 Stevia Drops
- ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 Tbsp Vanilla Whey Protein Powder or Vegan Vanilla Protein Powder
- 1/8th tsp Sea Salt
- Water or more coconut milk to thin if necessary
Blend until smooth (this is where the Vitamix blender really comes in handy–so smoooooooooth)
We use a high-speed blender whenever possible for all smoothies-the texture of the smoothie is silky smooth!
- Calories: 371
- Sugar: 26.8g
- Sodium: 104mg
- Fat: 12.5g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Carbohydrates: 42.1g
- Fiber: 4.9g
- Protein: 26g
- Cholesterol: 65mg
If you love the idea of sneaking veggies into your smoothie, check out this tasty treat.


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Dead by Dawn: The Beginning
King Michal Kovac does not want to die. Or to surrender his throne to Anton Kovac—whom the gods have chosen to become his heir.
Anton Kovac does not want to inherit King Michal's crown. Or to kill him for murdering his father.
But when the gods are imprisoned, he is forced to re-examine his decision. If he allows King Michal to succeed in his mission, human lives will be put in danger and slavery will abound…for as long as eternity can span.
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Fans flooded into the Regency Center Ballroom theatre in San Francisco January 8th in an amazing, silly, and fun packed night with the sweet girls of Apink for their "Pink Memory" tour courtesy of KpopMe.
With a line wrapping around the building, doors opened at 6pm and in came all of the enthusiastic Pink Pandas with light sticks and fan signs ready. It took the whole hour until finally the fans all found their places and show-time began.
The bubbly and cute girls of Apink, Chorong, Eunji, Naeun, Bomi, Hayoung and Namjoo took the stage with their latest song 'Remember' sending fans into a frenzy of synchronized chanting. The girls playfully teased the fans with cute aegyo and flying hearts causing the Pink Pandas to chant and cheer even louder. They then followed with the song 'Mr. Chu' and literally had the crowd dancing along.
After the two beautifully performed songs the girls took the stage, alongside a translator and MC Jeremy Fong, to introduce themselves and have some chit-chat with their fans. Pink Pandas waved their light sticks and Apink fan signs as each member introduced themselves in their best English they could muster up. Introductions ended with the MC stating he has an alarm he uses every morning of Apink's song 'Sunday Monday' and revealed that the girls were about to perform just that.
After the song, they opened up Q&A with some questions their Pink Pandas sent in via Twitter. Bomi revealed she likes Ariana Grande and she even gave the fans a little bit of a teaser of her version of 'Problem'. Eunji was asked, "which member she would like to resemble and why?" Her response was, "I would choose Namjoo because Namjoo is healthy. I see how she wakes up in the morning and she always will pray. She always prays for the best for our group as well as our loved ones. I'd really want to resemble her and follow her in praying as she does." Eunji also mentioned that "Bomi always tries new things, however her trials usually come up short. Although it isn't easy to try new things, I wish to resemble her by taking chances to try new things."
The questions continued with Naeun's question, "Who do you think is the most shy, and most outgoing?" She responded that, "all of the members are shy, but when you get to know them is when their personality really shows. But I think the most active member in the group is Bomi. She is very bright and a good person." They turned the question to the crowd and the fans cheered for who they thought was the most outgoing. Namjoo got the question, "Which member would be up eating at 3am" to which she asked the crowd and they responded with "Bomi!" Bomi then agreed with the crowd and responded with a goofy answer that she likes to eat "chicken and Beer". The last question of the Q&A went to Hayoung. She was asked which song she loved the most and means the most to her, and she responded with 'Good Morning'. The crowd chanted for her to sing a sample for them and she happily complied, leaving the MC changing his mind about using 'Sunday Monday' as his alarm.
After the questions, the girls revealed their next song would be a 'Secret' and the fans went wild! The girls sang sweetly, serenading the fans with their beautiful harmonies. Light sticks waved to the beat. After 'Secret' the girls continued with 'A Wonderful Love' making the male fans in the audience swoon in delight.
They then took a short break and a guest performance by the winners from the Apink dance competition, Sandy, Jenny, and Mit took the stage. They performed to 'Hush', 'Mr. Chu', and 'Luv'.
When the girls returned, they were dressed in all white with high waisted skirts and cute white shirts to match. As the members took the stage, they were in for a guessing game where each member would feel inside a box and guess the item within. They divided into "unnie" team and "dognsaeng" team and prior to the show the audience voted for who they thought would win with raffle tickets. The unnie team had a crab in their box, while the dongsaeng team had a mouse inside theirs. The girls squealed and squawked as they felt the mystery objects bringing the audience much laughter. Finally at the end, the unnie and dongsaeng team tied as they both guessed correctly so they broke the tie with a game of rock, paper, scissors. For the first time on the tour, the dongsaeng team won and drew three raffle tickets from their loyal fans that voted for them. The three winners had to do a cute victory dance as requested by the members, and got a special prize at the end of the show.
The show went on with songs such as 'My My', 'U You', and 'No No No' with the fans perfectly chanting along to the melody. Some of the fans were even swing dancing at one point. They then said their farewells to the crowd telling them how they will remember the fun they had in San Francisco and hope to meet again. They closed the show with their song 'Luv' leaving the audience in awe.
Though the goodbyes were said, Pink Pandas wouldn't rest until there was an Encore! The crowd filled with cheers until the stage-lights flashed and confetti filled the room. The girls of Apink hyped up the crowd one last time with 'Up To the Sky' before leaving for good. Pink Pandas will remember this night for many moons to come as they left the concert venue with happy hearts and a fun experience with the idols.
Stay tuned to Officially Kmusic for your most exclusive coverage!
Huge thank you to KPOPME Productions, ACube Entertainment and APink!
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My bestest best friend Stephanie and I love Broadway musicals. We quote them regularly. We sing showtunes whenever we feel the moment needs music. We believe the world would be a better place if there were spontaneous song and dance numbers sporadically scattered throughout the day.
So in 2007, we decided it was time to form Stephanie and Denise Wicked in New York, or SADWIN. SADWIN is all about music, laughter and fun in New York City. That first year, we saw Wicked and Avenue Q. Over the years we have seen some great shows – such as Boeing, Boeing; Rent; The Book of Mormon and [title of show]. We still wax poetically about the afternoon I convinced her we NEEDED to see Broadway legends Elaine Stritch and Bernadette Peters in A Little Night Music. It was magical.
If we could go see a show every other weekend, we would. But life gets in the way. So we try for once a year instead, and even then we aren't always successful. It has been at least two years since our last SADWIN trip, which is far too long.
I called her at the end of September. "Stephanie, what are you doing October 24? I don't have to work. I think we need to see a show."
It didn't take much arm twisting. SADWIN '15 was on!
Saturday we boarded the 7:10 AM train at the Albany/Rensselaer station. It was a perfect autumn morning in upstate New York. The rich colors of the fall leaves sparkled in the mist rising off the Hudson in the early morning light. The blue sky was a perfect backdrop to the colorful Catskill mountains. If you have to travel between New York City and Albany, the train is the most picturesque way to go.
After brunch with my friend David, we took a quick walk up to Central Park before heading to the Imperial Theater. This year's SADWIN show was Les Misérables. While we usually see new-ish shows, Stephanie had never seen Les Miz (EVER!) and I pleaded with her to pick this show because I knew she would love it. I had a selfish reason for picking Les Miz too. Alfie Boe is currently starring as Jean Valjean and I
have a bit of a crush on him am in awe of his voice.
The production did not disappoint. The sets, inspired by Victor Hugo's paintings, are evocative. The score is full of anthems as well as tender moments. The audience roared with applause after a rousing "Do You Hear the People Sing" and silently sniffled through "Bring Him Home." Montego Glover, who was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in Memphis, was perfect in projecting Fantine's fear and devotion to her daughter, Cosette. Brennyn Lark, who is making her Broadway debut as Éponine, has a beautiful voice and made "On My Own" one of the highlights of the show. I think as she grows as an actor, she will get other parts and we will be hearing more from her. Gavin Lee, who was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in Mary Poppins, was a charming and conniving Thénardier. And Alfie. Oh, Alfie. He could sing the phone book and I would swoon. Everyone, even the men seated behind us who were dragged to the show by their wives, was crying at the end of "Bring Him Home."
The first time I saw Les Miz on tour back in the mid-1990's, I cried for almost the entire second half. The second time I saw the show (also on tour two years ago) I only cried during "Bring Him Home." This time I teared up at the end of the first act, and then cried again for most of the second half after Éponine died. I was not alone. Be prepared with tissues if you go see it.
Once Stephanie and I dried our eyes, we decided to head towards Times Square. Neither of us are big fans of walking through Times Square on a Saturday evening. But for convenience, we decided to avoid the tour buses on Eighth Avenue and cut across to the Broadway pedestrian walkway. Stephanie noticed a crowd gathering on Broadway and stopped when she realized it was the Naked Cowboy.
In our multiple trips to New York City, we have seen many street performers. We often stop to watch musicians and dancers. But until Saturday, somehow we never encountered the Naked Cowboy. Stephanie turned around to take a photo and I wheeled over to the curb to see what was happening. That was when he saw me.
Upon spotting me, the Naked Cowboy (whose name is Robert Burck) came over and said, "Let's take a picture!" Before I knew it, his hand was on the back of my chair and his leg was in my lap. In our brief exchange I learned he was not cold, even though he was essentially naked and I was all bundled up. I apologized for my cold hands on his leg, to which he replied, "Aw, honey, don't you worry. Those hands will feel good on my butt!"
To prove the point, he turned his butt towards Stephanie and the camera, and reached behind me as I doubled over in laughter. Thank you Stephanie for capturing the moment.
After capturing the photos, we had a brief sixty second conversation about disability, wheelchairs, and his personal history with disability. There is more to the Naked Cowboy than a guitar, boots and Fruit of the Loom underwear. I actually wish we could have had a more in-depth discussion, perhaps with him in some additional clothing.
Stephanie and I walked back to Penn Station, stopping for frequent breaks as we had several laughing fits which brought us to tears.
The Naked Cowboy's sweat is on my glasses!
He had his leg on your lap!
Dude – it looks like your head is in his armpit!
Your face is priceless!
Seriously, who has more fun than us?!
Nobody. Nobody has more fun than us.
Well, perhaps other bestest best friends do. Isn't that what bestest best friends are for? They make us laugh with one glance or one word. They know all of our vulnerabilities and faults, and yet they love us anyway. They cry with us at musicals, laugh with us when street performers make us part of the act, and cry with us again when we can't stop laughing at our silliness.
At least, that's what my bestest best friend does. Both Stephanie and I have said we feel sorry for those who don't have a "Denise" or a "Stephie" in their lives. Everyone deserves such a blessing.
Thank you Stephanie for another amazing adventure. I am already looking forward to SADWIN '16. Next time, you get to pick the show!


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UNDP becomes the strategic partner of TwentyTu
The United Nations Development Programme becomes the strategic partner of the TwentyTu project by signing a grant contract in the amount of USD 60,000 to create an online learning platform for pupils and teachers.
Once this agreement was signed, the total amount collected for TwentyTu exceeded Euro 100,000, funds that will allow for the development of 11 courses for pupils and 3 courses for teachers and their integration on an online platform.
"TwentyTu is one of the most ambitious initiatives in the field of education. It is a new approach, because we try to attract funds and ideas directly from citizens and companies to develop an innovative curriculum centred on skills of the future. We have to test new models of unlocking funds for education development, including the performance contract model," said Dumitru Vasilescu, UNDP Moldova Policy Specialist.
"It is an honour for us to have the UNDP as donor of TwentyTu, after it sat besides us in consultations and provided us with support from the very beginning of the project. UNDP is a good friend of the future of education in the Republic of Moldova," declared Ana Chirita, Executive Director of the Moldovan Association of ICT Companies.
Until now, about 179 donors – citizens of the Republic of Moldova, including from the Diaspora and almost 20 companies and UNDP have contributed with over Euro 100,000. The donations can be still made on www.twentytu.md.
While donation collection continues, the project team works on programme design and tools necessary to train the pupils and teachers.
About TwentyTu
TwentyTu plans to bring modern training about the future into all schools and homes of Moldova via a single online learning platform. The subjects that are to be taught are distractive mathematics, physics, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence and many others.
Training sessions will be available both online and offline, in the most regional centres of the country. All pupils who have a computer and Internet access may become TwentyTu beneficiaries. Moreover, there is ongoing cooperation with authorities to integrate TwentyTu in the basic school curriculum so that pupils can receive bonuses for their midterm grades if they follow one or more TwentyTu courses.
The initiative was launched by the "Tekwill" ICT Excellence Centre recognised for its huge educational initiatives.
Contact person: Dumitru Vasilescu, Policy Specialist, UNDP Moldova, tel.: (373 60) 056556, email@example.com


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"Whatever you're thinking, think bigger" – Tony Hsieh
Keri spent her "freedom years" traveling the world with an over-stuffed backpack and an under-planned itinerary. Return tickets? Pfft. Maps? Pshaw. A schedule? Don't even. Perhaps it's not surprising that when Keri finally found her way home (via the four-and-a-half year, 18-country scenic route, natch) she pursued a career where unexpected experiences are not the obstacle to success—but the goal.
Keri graduated from Mount Royal University with a Certificate in Event Management, and fell in love with events while working with e=mc² events as a student. She worked her way from Contractor to Event Producer to Creative Director to Chief Creative Strategist, eventually becoming a partner. And not the silent kind either—she admits to going slightly "Monica" at her own events.
As Creative Strategist, Keri's expertise lies in her ability to dig deep into you, your brand, your culture and your objectives to deliver your message and vision with whizbang! Her keen ability to inspire guests through human interaction combined with an intuitive sense of future trends and technologies has helped her and the team produce multiple award-winning events (43 to be exact). Her involvement with the International Live Events Association (ILEA) – both locally and Internationally, and participating and speaking at international conferences provide continuous inspiration as well as a great excuse to dust off the trusty backpack.
Day to day, Keri stimulates ideas with the team, cultivates "e"s enviable culture and lives for the "whizbang"—that explosive moment where she – and her clients – know they've really nailed it.
Places I've Worked
New Zealand
Cool Projects I've Worked On
"e"Unites – our team retreat and AGM each year
The inaugural TIFF Gala, cool client, cool event, cool team
They are all awesome in their own way!
Languages I Speak
Industries I've Worked In
Things I've Learned & Earned
Certificate of Event Management, Mount Royal University
Certified Special Event Professional
Advanced Scuba Diving Certificate
My teenagers say I'm an awesome mom – I've earned that!
Started with "e"
"I like to launch fun and be the last one to leave; watch the rocket land and fizzle, if you will."


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Fotheringay – Essen 1970
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Folk, World, & Country, Rock
Fotheringay was the legendary English folk group around singer Sandy Denny who died a long time ago. She had become well-known with the groups Strawbs and Fairport Convention and was elected best British singer several times. At the end of 1969, she founded Fotheringay together with four friends. They could immediately sign a contract with the Island label. On Friday, 23rd October 1970, they had a gig at the third Essen Pop & Blues festival in the Gruga Hall. The concert was then recorded semi-professionally by the host.
Now, the tapes have been elaborately re-mastered by Fotheringay guitarist Jerry Donahue who got the most out of the sound that was technically possible. The complete concert is released on both CD and LP. The vinyl edition comes in a deluxe gatefold cover with an LP-sized eight-page booklet in colour.
A1 Eppie Moray 5:03
A2 The Sea 6:10
A3 The Ballad Of Ned Kelly 3:37
A4 Gypsey Davey 3:59
A5 Too Much Of Nothing 3:47
B1 Nothing More 4:59
B2 The Way I Feel 5:11
B3 John The Gun 5:47
B4 Memphis, Tennessee 4:13
Bass – Pat Donaldson
Drums – Gerry Conway
Guitar – Jerry Donahue
Vocals – Sandy Denny
Vocals, Guitar – Trevor Lucas
Recently unearthed Live concert from 1970 in ESSEN GERMANY. Limited vinyl reissue in Gatefold cover with extensive booklet liner-notes.
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iTunes Album Art.
I got an iPod Nano (black like a ninja) for my birthday - just a few days early. Thank you, hubby! With it comes iTunes 7, and the fabulous new CoverWorks / album art features. So now I'm obsessed with finding cover art for all my esoterica. Here are some links to help you similarly afflicted audiophiles / obsessive compulsives find nice high-res art, unlike that on Amazon.com.
- Fetching iTunes Artwork - The original code / proof of concept. Not quite useful as a stand alone, but the links below rely on it.
- The Josher - Web Interface to search by artist / album.
- http://www.stfm.org/test/java/getAlbumCovers.cfm - Will return multiple results from artist or album name. There's even a version using Adobe's new Flex framework, though I didn't really find it useful, because I couldn't drag found images right out of the browser.
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Evaluating Sources
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Suppose you want to use the following passages in an argument. How reliable do you judge them to be? (1) Authors background, (2) authors bias and purpose, (3) publisher or sponsor, and (4) intended audience.
1. Liberals tell kids in school all over America that the best way to protect themselves from AIDS is to wear condoms while engaging in sexual intercourse. It's a lie. They are imposing a death sentence on kids. The failure rate of condoms is around 17 percent. They're teaching kids to play Russian roulette. (Rush Limbaugh, See, I Told You So, 1993)
3. The average breakage rate of all condoms is 5.6 percent. The average slippage rate of all condoms is 3.67 percent. The total failure rate of all condoms is 9.13 percent. (Summary of Table 16-3 in Robert A. Hatcher et al., Contraceptive Technology, 17th ed., 1998)
4. Over 80% of Americans support very little or no immigration. Is anyone listening to us? Tired of sitting in traffic? Every day, another 6,000 immigrants arrive. Every day? (Billboards in Queens and Brooklyn, New York,
Sponsored by Craig Nelson, founder of ProjectUSA, www.projectusa.org)
7. Sixty-seven percent of people would prefer that the races be separated. That's what a poll of my listeners is showing. (Mike Gallagher, radio-talk-show host) There's no such thing as a bad Picasso. (Pablo Picasso)© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com October 10, 2019, 1:24 am ad1c9bdddf
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Passage 1: Author's background = conservative/right-wing talk show host; Author's bias/purpose = seemingly on the side of right-leaning abstinence-based education; Publisher or Sponsor = none identified; possibly an alignment with this right-wing listening base, but perhaps he is actually creating the talking points instead of using them; Intended Audience = listener base, conservative, concerned citizens, anti new President Clinton.
Evaluation of Passage 1. No data is verified in Rush's statement, so you have to question or at least attempt to validate the credibility. It doesn't mean it's not true; the excerpt is from 1993, and the data in passage 3 is from 1998, so the information could have changed. You could use ...
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This is the title of the children's book that I wrote a few years ago, one outcome of four years of research and developing strategies to best support the inclusion of children with disabilities in a day care centre in Brazil.
It started in 1994…
As a clinical psychologist, I was invited to work on an innovative pilot project at a government-sponsored day care centre with about 30 young children diagnosed with disabilities or mental health issues. The challenge occurred when the government wanted to enrol children with typical development in this centre. It was an inclusive process, but backwards. Consequently, the total population rose to 65 children – 46% with development delay and/or disability, aged 2-12 years, and 54% with typical development, aged 2-7 years.
From chaos to clarity
Back in 1994, in Brazil, "inclusion" was a brand new idea. UNESCO Salamanca had just published a statement on the same. In the beginning, the situation was chaotic and everyone was ill-prepared. I conducted comprehensive research and explored several strategies for promoting an inclusive environment for children with teachers' support, but failed to find anything practical. I organised one-hour playgroup sessions for 4 groups of 16 children each, where I observed that the teacher's aides (called SLSOs in NSW public schools), professionals, parents, caregivers and children displayed particular behaviour towards children with disabilities and vice-verse. These behaviours included excessive protectiveness, lack of personal boundaries, rejection, criticising, or bullying. Some children were scared, and avoided being around those children with unusual behaviours. Teachers started avoiding inclusive practices, fearing failure, and some parents even requested to remove their children from the day care. I realised that the children were modelling their behaviour based on preconceptions, stereotypes on the adults around them.
I started training parents and teachers to open a channel to transformation to promote understanding and acceptance. This seemed to be the only way to reduce bias and turn individual differences into opportunities.
Drawing thoughts
Once, during the therapeutic playgroup, I observed that the children were expressing various opinions, but kept repeating themselves. I started drawing pictures on the board to summarise their thoughts, help them remember, and facilitate understanding. The main idea was to encourage the children to reflect on their own behaviour. I noticed that they concentrated more and seemed to enjoy the cartoons. I then buy premarin online uk asked them to draw theme-based cartoons of their own. By exemplifying model behaviour about cultural acceptance, we were also helping children/caregivers understand how to deal with discriminatory behaviour. We did this group session with all stakeholders, and after a few months, the transformation was amazing!
I started drawing cartoons to show that everyone shared similar feelings in diverse situations. After 2 years of working with children, parents and professionals, the first draft of the activity colouring book was completed with an ancillary book for facilitators.
The program's weekly sessions were comprised of fun activities. Children were able to learn about emotional literacy, peer role models, self-regulation, problem solving, empathy and important social skills. The secret was working on inclusion with all stakeholders in a participative and interactive way. Regular awareness meetings to support each other were also implemented. The result is an evidence-based practice book with standard scientific guidelines to determine the strength of successful inclusion.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion
Inclusion does not simply mean the placement of children with disabilities into mainstream classes. It is independent of racial, religious, disability and gender stereotypes. This process must incorporate fundamental changes in our own beliefs, and the way we address the individual needs of each child while respecting our individualities. "Are We the Same?" has several colouring activities to support the inclusion process, but it is not enough! To make inclusion a societal reality, diversity and inclusion initiatives go beyond early childhood settings and schools. It is about 'Being, Becoming and Belonging' to make a better place for all of us.
Ithia Farah – Assoc. MAPS – BSc (Psyc) Hons – Clinical and Educational Licentiate Degree in Psychology – Brazil – Ithia works as Family Worker with early childhood intervention services. She has won the Special Children's Activity Book Award of National Foundation for Educational Development (1999) for authoring "Are We the Same?" Ithia has worked in the non-government disability sector for the last 25 years, where she has developed and facilitated training and resources for children, parents and professionals in Brazil and Australia.
Facebook: facebook.com/childrenbookarewethesame
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ithiafarah
Very insightful and helpful article about issues children with learning disabilities face, and how to help them. Great work!
What a great and innovative way to engage all children in exploring their identities and connecting.
This sounds like an amazing opportunity for educating, informing and helping parents, teachers and children to be able to communicate on so many levels and to see that , as the title of the book asks, "Are we the same?" , do we all experience similar feelings, difficulties and pleasures and can we find ways to recognize and accept each other for our sameness and differences.
Well done Ithia . This is a great resource
It is really a tremendous article, and refers to a material we have been successfuly using in Brasil for the last almost 2 decades. Brazilian schools and clinicians using such material have been reporting great results concerning both the engagement of all children in dealing with their own and the other's feeling, and the recognition of differences as wel as respect for the "little more different" children. Congratulations again and ever, Ithia!


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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
2008 - General questions or comments about the Korean language
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Maybe you could put a link to this post in your sidebar, in a prominant place, titled "Got Questions? Ask Gerry" or something like that. Otherwise this post will get burried in your archives. Then how will people know they can ask you questions about Korean?ReplyDelete
Thanks for the suggestion, Ed. I have added a "General Questions or Comments" link in the sidebar.ReplyDelete
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Could be added to your sidebar...
What does 있자나 mean when it comes at the end of a sentence? I've been told that when used independently, it means "hey" to get someone's attention. You can even say 있자나요 to make it more formal like 잠시만요. I haven't found a Korean who can explain the other use I mentioned in my question.ReplyDelete
A Korean friend suggested that 있잖아 is a short form of 있지 않다 which could mean "isn't it". So when someone puts the form ~잖아 they are saying something like "isn't it" to add emphasis to the fact or idea they just gave. What do you think Gerry?ReplyDelete
Thank you, Ed. I added your "Court Music" link to the sidebar. That is a good link.ReplyDelete
Yes, the sentence ending you asked about is -잖아 or -잖아요, which comes from -지 않다 or -지 않아요. It is used to get confirmation from the person being asked, or it is sometimes used as a filler word when you are getting read to say something or ask a question. As you mentioned, in English it could be translated to something like "Hey, ah...."
You need to know that one because you hear it all the time.
I'm french. I have a question for you. What means exactly the expression "쨍하고 해뜰 날" ?
Thank you.
Hi Koa,ReplyDelete
I had never heard of that expression before you mentioned it, but I searched for it on the Internet, and it seems to have been the lyrics of a song. There also seems to be a book entitled "내 인생 쨍하고 해 뜰 날."
I think it means "The day my problems will be solved." I think Koreans use "인생 쨍하다" when they feel their life is unburdened. Anyway, I hope we can get a confirmation from a Korean visitor to this site.
Thanks for posting that question.
I found this expression in a sentence in my korean studying book : "복더위 보신용 닭고기는 쨍하고 해뜰 날만 기다려야하는 처지가 된다."ReplyDelete
I have another question about grammar. Can you explain the difference between this two sentences (if there is a difference) :
1) 여행했으면 좋겠어요.
2) 여행한다면 좋겠어요.
Thank you.
Can you give me some advice on how to give others deference and maintain my own sense of self-respect? I'm going through some kind of mental culture shock crisis. Deep inside me, a voice says "Don't give respect or trust to people who didn't earn it" but I think Koreans give respect and trust to anyone who is older. I see that as a situation begging for abuses of power in relationships. My boundaries are being tested and I'm really unsure about how to respond.ReplyDelete
This is a strange question and you may be unable to answer it, but here it comes. In ancient Korean texts, did they use punctuation marks? Was the period, comma, question mark, or exclamation point used? In Korean we can ask questions with 어디에 갔니, 갔나요, 갑니까 and each one is clearly a question so punctuation is not necessary. Also, exclamation can be expressed with 하군요, 하구나, 하네요 so the exclamation point is unecessary too. What do you think?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 10, 2009 at 5:38:00 PM CDT
I think Gerry created this entry as a way to receive feedback rather than to be inundated with personal questions about grammar.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 10, 2009 at 7:20:00 PM CDT
At the previous Anonymous said "I think Gerry created this entry as a way to receive feedback rather than to be inundated with personal questions about grammar."ReplyDelete
Gerry said "I have started this post to give people an opportunity to use the "Comments" section to ask questions, share information, or make general comments about the Korean language. Feel free to ask or share what you will."
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It's quite a while ago, but I think I have to answer Koa's questions.ReplyDelete
"쨍하고 해뜰날"
This used to be a really popular song many years ago in Korea. That was my grandfather's favorite song.
"내 인생 쨍하고 해뜰날"
Before we guess what the sentence means, we should devide the sentence first.
"내 인생 / 쨍하고 해뜰날"
내 인생,
you know it's my life
쨍하고 해뜰날,
쨍하고 is not a verb. It's more like an adverb describing the sun.
쨍하다 actually has no meaning. It just describes the sound which is very sharp.
For example, if you hear 쨍한 sound, that means it's almost like the sound is poking deep inside of your ears like a needle.
e.g.쨍 울리다.
쨍하고 해뜰날. Even though the word "쨍하다" is just a describtion of a certain sound, Koreans often use this word to describe a sunny day.
Now you should have a picture here. 쨍하고 해뜰날. The day when the sun rises 쨍하고. The sun rays, very sharp, and bright, powerful, and even very hot.
Let's combine the two parts again.
"내 인생 쨍하고 해뜰날"
"The day when the sun rises 쨍하고 in my life"
If the sun rises brightly in your life, that means you're really happy, have no problems, or you're successful.
("뜰" of "해뜰날" implies future tense. To express it in present tense, we need to say, "해뜬날" )
Later the lyrics goes like this.
쨍하고 해뜰날, 돌아온단다. which means
"I'll be back on the day when the sun rises brightly."
That means, "I'll be back when everything's perfect."
"복더위 보신용 닭고기는/ 쨍하고 해뜰 날만 기다려야하는 처지가 된다."
복더위 is from the word 복날. 복날 means the hottest day of the year. There are three 복날 in a year, and they are marked on the lunar calendar. 복더위 simply means the hot weather on 복날. We eat 닭고기(chicken) on 복날.
In this case, "쨍하고 해뜰 날" just means 복날. I'm not quite sure because I don't know the whole story, but I'm quite sure that means a very hot day.
If I paraphrase the sentence, that could be this.
"복날 보신용 닭고기는 복날만 기다려야하는 처지가 된다."
"Chicken for health on 복날 just has to wait for 복날"
That means, Chicken has to wait for 복날 to be eaten.
Hellow Mr. Bevers...ReplyDelete
This is my second comment since I've heard your name from my prof. Kim dusik and I love your blog.
I think your visitors are surprisingly good at Korean culture and language so I hope that more and more foreigners can visit and read all articles from this blog.
And I also impressed by Suji's description about that complicate question. I love that answer.
But I wonder why she didn't answer about the previous question.
I guess that the question about
여행했으면 좋겠어요,
여행한다면 좋겠어요.
I think this question is tricky even for Korean natives.
Usually 했으면 can be expressed as past tense and 한다면 present tense.
But in that case there's no intension of past expression. I guess that kind of expression shows the remoteness of the feeling like as in English tense.
But nowadays these two expression used quite same way.
But if somebody say 여행했으면 좋았겠어요 or 여행했으면 좋았을 걸, it expresses 'counterfatual conditional' meaning and they regret about their regret about not did that trevel.
I wish my small knowledge about native language can help you some way, and I would like to see any other's opinion.
I wish good lucks to you and hopefully see you again and I really had a good time in this community. Good night.
Hellow Mr. Bevers...ReplyDelete
This is my second comment since I've heard your name from my prof. Kim dusik and I love your blog.
I think your visitors are surprisingly good at Korean culture and language so I hope that more and more foreigners can visit and read all articles from this blog.
And I also impressed by Suji's description about that complicate question. I love that answer.
But I wonder why she didn't answer about the previous question.
I guess that the question about
여행했으면 좋겠어요,
여행한다면 좋겠어요.
is tricky even for Korean natives.
Usually 했으면 can be expressed as past tense and 한다면 present tense.
But in that case there's no intension of past expression. I guess that kind of expression shows the remoteness of the feeling like as in English tense.
But nowadays these two expression used quite same way.
But if somebody say 여행했으면 좋았겠어요 or 여행했으면 좋았을 걸, it expresses 'counterfatual conditional' meaning and shows their regret about not did that trevel.
I wish my small knowledge about native language can help you some way, and I would like to see any other's opinion.
I wish good lucks to you and hopefully see you again and I really had a good time in this community. Good night.
Thank you, Huidok.ReplyDelete
Huidok & Laurent,
When you use 았으면, 었으면, or 였으면 and 좋겠다 together, it essentially means "I hope." For example, if you said 여행했으면 좋겠어요, you are saying that you hope you get to take a trip. The sentence breaks down as follows:
여행하다 = travel; take a trip
였으면 = "if (a certain situation existed)
좋겠다 = it would be good.
The past tense 였 is used with the "if" conjuction 으면 to imagine a certain situation already existing. The future tense marker 겠 is used with 좋다 (be good) to mean "it would be good. It all combines with 여행하다 (to take a trip) to mean "If I were able to take a trip, it would be good." In other words, "I hope I get to take a trip."
You can also use 해요 or 싶다 instead of 좋겠다. If you wanted to say that someone else hopes something, then you would have to use 해요 instead of 좋겠다 since 좋겠다 is used only when the person doing the wishing is the first person (I wish). See the following examples:
김교수님이 여행했으면 좋겠어요.
I hope Professor Kim takes a trip.
김교수님이 여행했으면 해요.
Professor Kim hopes he can take a trip. or I hope Professor Kim takes a trip.
Therefore, ~았으면 해요 can be used when the wisher is either first person (I wish) or third person (He wishes), but ~았으면 좋겠다 can only be used when the wisher is the first person (I wish).
Here are two more examples:
친구가 빨리 왔으면 좋겠어요.
I hope my friend gets here quickly.
내일 비가 안 왔으면 해요.
I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow.
시험을 합격했으면 싶다.
I hope I pass the test.
What is the difference between 여행했으면 좋겠어요 and 여행한다면 좋겠어요?
Great question. Unfortunately, I can only guess at an answer.
First, ~한다면 is the reduced form of ~한다고 하면, which is indirect speech. Therefore, I would guess that 여행한다면 좋겠다 means that you hope someone else goes on a trip, rather than yourself.
Anyway, I do not like the 한다면 expression because it is vague. Does 여행한다면 좋겠다 mean "I hope he is on a trip" or "I hope he is going on a trip"?
It is exciting to see what does the korean language look like if foreigner analyse it.ReplyDelete
This experience is almost similar to look my face by mirror first time.
Thank you for your concern and effort about our language... It will get great value when Korean language is studied seriously sometime later...^^.
Hello, Gerry Bevers.ReplyDelete
I'm a brand new visitor to your blog. While I was looked up your postings, I could find many intertesting points in Korean language which native korean have not find out hitherto.
By the way, I'm wondering if you could answer a question of a nuance of english words.
"shut up, thank you." btw perfect strangers.
You may know the recent case foreign tutor in Korea hit an old man in a bus in Korea.(http://vo.to/ZZ)
The old guy said to the tutor who spoke loud in a bus.
"shut up, thank you" offensive remark enough to piss anybody off to hit the counterpart?(I know the meaning of it, but I don't exactly know the degree of offensiveness.)
"Shut up" is equivalent to 입 닫쳐 and is not something you would say to a stranger unless you were ready for a fight. It is something that an angry parent might say to a crying child or an angry friend might say to a teasing friend. In other words, it is a threatening expression that is usually said in anger.
Adding "thank you" would probably only make the other person more angry since it makes "shut up" sound more intentional.
If you want a stanger to speak quieter, you should say one of the following:
- "Could you please lower your voice."
- "Could you please speak quieter."
If you want a person to say nothing at all, you could say the following:
- "Could you please be quiet."
Thank you, GerryReplyDelete
I didn't know the 'thank you' remark in this event has "more" offensive connotation.
(At first, I thought it's a soothing or polite way to add 'thank you' like '~ please'.)
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Btw, just a tip for you.ReplyDelete
Shut (the mouth) up=입'닥'쳐. not 닫쳐 casue it's rerived from '닥치다'
which means '(입을)다물다'.
If you insist to use '닫다' in this case, here's the expression '입닫어' which is uncommon these days.
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- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2012 at 11:25:00 AM CST
I am perplexed about a construct that I heard in watching some korean drama. The formula is roughly as follows:ReplyDelete
speaker 1: claiming a fact using a particular verb form
speaker 2: that same verb form + 긴 with a slight firm tone after it.
What exactly does speaker 2 trying to say to speaker 1?
I think that sounds like this pattern to me: ~기는(요)
I'll explain it, but if I'm wrong, I'm sure someone else will correct me. I'm learning too. :-)
My Korean grammar book translates this generally as:
"What do you mean "..."?
"Surely you can't be serious when you say "..."?!
Describes it this way:
In this pattern, the form in ~기는(요) functions as a final ending, and is used to express humility in response to a compliment or praise from one interlocutor. More generally, it is used when one is unable to share or concur with the opinion of one interlocutor. The final (요) is used for politeness.
*I believe the pattern can be shortened to ~긴, and you don't need the second half of the sentence because the purpose of the grammar is clear, to disagree with with what was just said.
Books examples:
기억력이 좋으신데요?
좋기는요. 저도 자주 이저 버려요.
시장 물건이 싸지요?
싸기는요. 백화점 물건값과 비슷해요.
그 사람 부지건히 일하죠?
일하기는요. 옆사람과 얘기만 하고 있던데요.
Anyways, the grammar book is called "Korean Grammar for International Learners" and is a good book for reference. The information I put here came from pages 322-323.
i've been study korean language since 2008 , my fave singer is 비(Rain)
i use twitter website everyday i have many Korean friends who are also dedicated fans of 비(Rain)
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sometimes we enjoy doing pics spam in twitter with writing nice tweet about the pic
i want to learn some Colloquial Korean comments..so i can talk like a native Korean person ^^
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"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." - CHESTERTON
2016 has been a year of turning point for me and a year full of plot twists as well. It's been a year of opportunities, travel, and different avenues thereafter. Looking back, I have gained, discovered, love and lost, and have accomplished all of that 2015 hasn't let me, so far. 2016 led me to new acquaintances, new places, and new discoveries. Just as I have gained, I also did lost a few. But writing this now on the afternoon of the last day of the year, I have no regrets at all. I'm glad to say that I'm happier than I ever was before, and that's the main reason why I want my year-ender post to be about thank you's and hopes.
21 Things I'm Thankful for this 2016
1. God. No words but full of gratitude to this Man up there. You are amazing.
2. Succesful blog launch. It was one fine January 2016 that I started to recreate/relaunch my blog, changing my platform from Tumblr to Blogger. It took me just a week to get my first brand collaboration for the year. (I can't believe it too , but I'm really grateful for the trust :) ) I thank all of those who have supported me and my blog, the brands and people I have worked with, my friends and family too.
3. Letting go. I always thought that I'd be stuck on a lost journal forever, but 2016 has led me to let it all go this year, and finally finishing this year off without having to write it out in secret. Finally! Thank you, 2016.
4. Stronger. To the few who have left my side and the problems I have come across, I wouldn't be my stronger self today, if not for all of you and for the life changing experiences.
5. Followers. Reaching 8,000 followers on Instagram. Love you guys! (Yaaaay!)
6. Traveling. The chance to travel this year is something I'm most grateful at, especially my first time in Seoul. I've been to 3 countries within 5 cities this year. (Osaka & Tokyo, Japan - Seoul, South Korea - Singapore - Baguio City) Though I haven't shared the last three with you yet, I'm excited to publish it this 2017. Stay tuned, yea?
7. Making it to Mathinig Chorale with UPMMC. I have always loved singing even though I do not have that angelic voice, but I'm really thankful that I've been part of a chorale group that has taught me a lot this year.
8. Being part of the UP CS Streetdance Team Varsity. I have always loved dancing ever since I was born but entering college made me lose the time to dance. This year though, I have become part of a crew who have always been on a constant strive and with the same passion as me for dancing. I have to thank this little family of mine! To more dancing gigs this year.
9. Family. My support system and my source of happiness too.
10. Lazy Sunday Afternoons. I'm thankful for the little things because the truth is, it's not that little at all. Good coffee, good books, and good company are more than enough to get me by this challenging year.
11. My hard drive. My blog and technological life is in its hands. So I'm thanking this non-living thing for not giving up on me.
12. Fall leaves. 2016 is the year I checked of one of my travel bucketlist, Spending autumn in Seoul. It was an unplanned trip, yet it is one of my favorite one since it's my first time to walk along the streets seeing colorful leaves. (++ the fact that I'm breathing the same air with Lee Min Ho and Kim Bum.)
13. Fears and Tears. I'm thankful for my fears and all those tears that fell this year. It made me realize and know what and who matters most for me, and it gave me an opportunity for growth.
14. Good Health. Although I've been confined too many times this year, I'm happy I have overcome the fear of injections! HAHA! (No, I haven't still.) Kidding aside, I'm thankful that I'm saying goodbye to 2016 in my full strength and health.
15. Spynet. To the few friends who understands why I included this one, thank you for accepting the gamer in me. (Let's play LoL?)
16. The gift of senses. To my eyes that lets me see the good in this world; to my ears that has been the reason for me to listen to the voices of my loved ones and good music; to my nose who have constantly let me smell good food and fragrances; to my sense of touch that has been a reason why I can feel all these wonderful gifts God has made; and to my sense of taste, you are the reason I have a big tummy yet I love you still.
17. Enough. Having enough that I have the opportunity to share what I have with others especially to the less and needy.
18. You. I'm really grateful for the people like you who takes time to visit and read my blog.
19. New found shoulder. A year wouldn't be a year if we don't experience hardships and challenges. Therefore, I'm thanking the one person who I've met a few months back, and who chose to stay despite all challenges that has come our way.
20. My dad. Main source of wit, 'asar-inis', jokes.
21. And, lastly, to my mom, thank you for showing me the world.
This 2017, I hope for
1. Successful vlog launch. 2016 wasn't my vlog year, obviously. But with all that I have learned as a student blogger, I hope I find time to start the year right with youtube.
2. More travel. I'm hoping to check off more countries this year, and of course, exploring my dear country more.
3. Learning. I do not wish for high grades anymore, I only want to gain more knowledge and lessons both in my pursued career and in life general.
4. Good Health, still. Not just for me, but for my whole family as well.
5. World Peace. I wish I could do more than just talk about this but it has come to a point where social media will be one of the most useful tool to be of help to the countries experiencing war.
6. Collaborations and Partnership. I'm hoping to get to know meet more people and work with a lot of brands that I love this year.
7. United Philippines. Hoping for a more united and free country.
8. Better me. I know that 2017 will be full of challenges than 2016, yet I know that I can surpass all that with God. I only hope that these experiences will be an avenue for me to grow more.
To 2017, I'm ready for ya :)


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For the 9:20 p.m. movie, Jesse Locascio threaded film through the projector. This was after he had sprayed compressed air on the sprockets and rollers, blowing out dust that could show up as black dots on the screen.
"This is not how they do it at the multiplex," he said. "Not even close."
Not in the digital age.
Mr. Locascio, 28, is a movie projectionist who can do things the old-fashioned way, operating projectors with big reels of celluloid. Projectionists, he says, are a dying breed and he learned much of what he knows in a long, narrow room of clattering machinery: a projectionist's booth at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, N.Y.
The Jacob Burns, as it is known, operates a media arts lab that teaches digital literacy as well as a nonprofit art house that was screening "Where's Poppa?" — a 1970 comedy directed by Carl Reiner — at 9:20 in theater two. But it also trains projectionists, and in an art house, that means learning to handle more than digital files.
It means learning to handle celluloid.
"It was a whole new education," said Jesse Modica, who as the center's technical director is Mr. Locascio's boss. Mr. Modica had worked in commercial theaters before he arrived at the Jacob Burns in 2007.
"My previous training didn't include any of the nuances," he said, but he learned from the projectionists at the Jacob Burns. And now Mr. Modica trains newcomers like Mr. Locascio in the mechanics of showing film.
Training a projectionist is "like giving somebody private lessons," Mr. Modica said. "A lot of this is muscle memory. Once I teach someone, 'O.K., this is how you inspect the film, this is how you get the sound to work, this is how you make sure you've got the right aspect ratio,' they've got to remember come showtime. It's like someone taking karate. You can learn all the karate you want in the dojo, but are you going to remember when you're being attacked in an alley?"
The Jacob Burns has five theaters. It can show digital films in all of them and celluloid in three. Even then the newest of the projectors are almost antiques. Mr. Modica said they are only 10 years old, but the company that made them has gone out of business.
The projectors running "Where's Poppa?" are older: They were originally used at Lincoln Center, Mr. Modica said, and probably date to the 1970s.
For generations, movie theaters had two projectors for each screen. The movies were cut into segments, each about 20 minutes long and each on a separate reel. Every 20 minutes, as the end of one reel approached, the projectionist had to start the next reel on the other projector.
There was a reason for the two-projector arrangement: the bulb in the projector had a life span of not much longer than 20 minutes. The projectionist had to install a new bulb every time he — and most projectionists were men in those days — changed a reel. Longer-lasting bulbs were perfected in the 1960s and 1970s, and with them reel-like platters big enough for a whole movie to fit on just one.
That changed the labor equation. Projectionists became what Mr. Modica calls "a niche trade." In the 1940s, there were more than 30,000 projectionists nationwide and 2,400 in New York City, but with the rise of television in the 1950s, "the number declined as more Americans chose to stay home and watch TV," the labor economists Robert D. Atkinson and John Wu wrote in 2017 in a paper published by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
By 2015, there were fewer than 5,000 nationally. "There's a supply shortage," said Douglas McLaren, the manager of Cornell Cinema, the campus film exhibition program at Cornell University. "There are not enough jobs. Also, film exhibition now is becoming a rarefied thing, so the old-school projection mentality, when the profession employed thousands of people and film prints were expendable, is gone. There's been a need to step up the quality of work that projectionists do."
That has happened as film has all but disappeared from most theaters. Most large chain theaters "have zero film," said Tal Marks, a former chief projectionist at the Museum of Modern Art who is now the museum's audiovisual technical manager. "The mainstream moviegoing audience is not seeing film anymore. The blockbuster hits are digital representations."
And in most multiplexes, the theater managers run the projectors, which is how Mr. Modica got his start, at a chain-owned theater in Bronxville, N.Y.
He began as a 16-year-old usher in 1995, the year "Toy Story," "Die Hard With a Vengeance" and "Apollo 13" came out.
The first time he went into the projection booth and saw the film going into the projector, "I was in awe, I was scared, I didn't want to touch it, I didn't want to be responsible for anything going wrong."
The theater manager doubled as the projectionist. Mr. Modica learned the basics of projection after he was promoted to assistant manager at another theater in the chain a couple of years later.
Mr. Locascio also started as an usher when he was a teenager and went on to study filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. After he graduated in 2012, the Jacob Burns hired him as a projectionist, offering on-the-job training, even though he had learned about film editing at S.V.A.
"I do feel it's a dying field, the film end of things," Mr. Locascio said. Still, he added, "with digital, you still need someone there for quality control, making sure the volume is right, the brightness is right."
When he is not behind the projectors at the Jacob Burns, he works on film crews as a focus puller, responsible for keeping the camera focused when the director yells "Action." He has worked on the Netflix movie "White Girl," the documentary "The Hunting Ground," and the teen horror film "The Ranger." The Jacob Burns schedules him as a projectionist three or four times a week.
Movies like "Where's Poppa?" are sent by a film archive and are treated with care. "They're not being mass produced anymore," Mr. Modica said. "We can't say, 'Hey distributor, give me another reel,' because there isn't another reel." When a movie arrives from an archive, "We have to sign a release saying we will return this print in the condition it arrived in and if anything is wrong we accept responsibility. That puts a lot of pressure on."
Is digital less stressful?
Yes and no, Mr. Modica said. "In the celluloid world," he said, "a good projectionist could fix any technical or mechanical malfunction on the fly within minutes." Digital projection is moving a projectionist's duties "toward an IT job instead of a mechanical job."
"The way these things work now, if there's corrupt software, a projectionist can't fix that in a few minutes," he said. There are calls to a service desk somewhere. "If rebooting your server to your projector doesn't fix whatever problem you're having, you're down" until a technician can come.
At 9:20, Mr. Locascio flipped a toggle switch marked "projector motor." The clicking started. On the screen, the credits rolled.
In the booth, there was no time to follow the plot or laugh at the sight gags. Mr. Modica moved a digital projector out of the way so that he could reach the other reel-to-reel projector, and loaded the second reel of "Where's Poppa?" On the screen, George Segal was taking a shower and shaving.
A few minutes later, a man in a gorilla suit was terrorizing Ruth Gordon, but Mr. Locascio did not notice. He was concerned about something else.
"When is the next show?" he asked.B:
跑狗一字之日遇【几】【只】【小】【小】【的】【吊】【篮】【从】【切】【尔】【西】【城】【的】【城】【墙】【上】【缓】【缓】【下】【降】,【里】【面】【乘】【坐】【的】【是】【切】【尔】【西】【侯】【爵】【和】【他】【的】【贴】【身】【侍】【卫】【们】,【在】【经】【过】【了】【一】【阵】【紧】【张】【的】【天】【人】【交】【战】【后】,【切】【尔】【西】【侯】【爵】【最】【终】【决】【定】【出】【城】【见】【兽】【人】【王】【巴】【顿】·【康】【沃】【尔】【一】【面】,【这】【事】【关】【切】【尔】【西】【城】【的】【安】【危】。 【切】【尔】【西】【侯】【爵】【很】【想】【带】【着】【他】【的】【军】【队】【一】【同】【出】【城】,【这】【样】【的】【做】【法】【可】【以】【为】【切】【尔】【西】【侯】【爵】【带】【来】【一】【丝】【丝】【的】【安】【全】【感】,【可】【要】【想】
【婉】【秋】【醒】【来】【之】【后】,【旅】【馆】【的】【窗】【子】【仍】【然】【还】【是】【黑】【的】,【窗】【外】【不】【知】【哪】【家】【宾】【馆】【或】【者】【车】【站】【和】【商】【场】【的】【霓】【虹】【灯】【还】【在】【闪】【灼】…… 【离】【天】【亮】【还】【早】,【她】【却】【再】【也】【睡】【不】【着】,【于】【是】【便】【睁】【着】【眼】【想】【心】【思】。【把】【前】【前】【后】【后】【这】【几】【天】【发】【生】【的】【事】,【还】【有】【毛】【玉】【成】【每】【一】【次】【电】【话】【中】【的】【话】【音】【和】【对】【她】【婉】【秋】【的】【态】【度】【变】【化】,【凭】【直】【觉】【她】【感】【到】:【这】【毛】【玉】【成】【一】【定】【是】【出】【了】【什】【么】【事】【在】,【而】【且】【是】【大】【事】!
【下】【意】【识】【的】【身】【体】【抖】【的】【很】【厉】【害】,【仿】【佛】【就】【是】【身】【体】【的】【本】【能】【一】【般】。 【我】【僵】【硬】【着】【脖】【子】【回】【头】,【就】【看】【见】【俊】【美】【的】【脸】【带】【着】【渗】【人】【的】【笑】【意】【靠】【近】【着】【我】,【我】【能】【清】【楚】【的】【感】【受】【到】【男】【人】【的】【呼】【吸】。 "【大】【侠】,【求】【放】【过】。"【我】【弱】【弱】【的】【强】【撑】【着】【抖】【成】【筛】【子】【的】【身】【体】【说】【着】,【而】【男】【人】【听】【了】【我】【的】【话】,【眼】【中】【一】【闪】【而】【过】【一】【阵】【亮】【光】,【因】【为】【靠】【的】【近】,【我】【才】【没】【有】【错】【过】【这】【细】【微】【的】【表】【情】。 跑狗一字之日遇【再】【度】【想】【起】【当】【时】【的】【情】【景】,【月】【桂】【还】【是】【忍】【不】【住】【红】【了】【眼】【眶】,【将】【心】【中】【的】【疑】【惑】【问】【了】【出】【来】:"【初】【桃】,【你】【说】【邝】【逸】【他】【们】【到】【底】【在】【做】【什】【么】?【为】【什】【么】【这】【么】【神】【神】【秘】【秘】【的】……" 【初】【桃】【叹】【了】【叹】【气】:"【我】【也】【不】【知】【道】,【二】【哥】【从】【未】【给】【我】【来】【过】【信】【件】,【我】【也】【没】【有】【他】【们】【的】【消】【息】。【我】【知】【道】【的】【是】【他】【们】【要】【做】【的】【事】【情】【也】【许】【很】【危】【险】,【我】【们】【若】【是】【想】【帮】【他】【们】【的】【话】,【还】【是】【要】【提】【升】【自】【己】【的】
"【你】【是】【九】【幽】【的】【人】?!" 【迪】【奥】【的】【话】,【让】【金】【并】【脸】【上】【沉】【默】【的】【表】【情】【出】【现】【了】【波】【动】,【他】【看】【向】【屏】【幕】【中】【那】【妖】【异】【的】【面】【孔】,【脱】【口】【问】【道】。 【对】【此】,【迪】【奥】【没】【有】【丝】【毫】【的】【掩】【饰】:"【没】【错】,【至】【少】【到】【目】【前】【为】【止】,【我】【还】【是】【九】【幽】【内】【成】【员】。" "【目】【前】。" 【迪】【奥】【的】【回】【答】,【让】【金】【并】【的】【目】【光】【闪】【烁】【了】【一】【下】。 【这】【位】【吸】【血】【鬼】【之】【王】【的】【反】【应】,【让】【他】【联】【想】【到】【了】【之】【前】【曾】
【再】【次】【见】【到】【明】【谦】,【谈】【话】【之】【间】,【两】【人】【还】【是】【如】【以】【前】【一】【样】【随】【意】,【仿】【佛】【什】【么】【也】【没】【发】【生】【过】【一】【样】。 【但】【是】【封】【苧】【和】【明】【谦】【都】【知】【道】,【他】【们】【再】【也】【回】【不】【去】【从】【前】【了】。 "【明】【谦】,【我】【已】【经】【派】【人】【打】【探】【清】【楚】【了】,【郭】【家】【的】【人】,【晚】【上】9【点】【之】【后】【基】【本】【都】【会】【在】【家】,【我】【们】【现】【在】【过】【去】,【时】【间】【正】【好】。" 【和】【明】【谦】【汇】【合】【后】,【听】【到】【明】【谦】【需】【要】【她】【配】【合】【时】,【封】【苧】【有】【点】【疑】【惑】【了】。


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Pensioners are living in fear after New South Wales' independent pricing regulator proposed a change which could see them slugged for an extra $600 a year on housing commission rent.
All pensioners living in NSW public housing receive a payment called the pension supplement, which can be up to $65 a week to spend on necessities such as food and medication.
However, a new report from IPART recommended that money be included as assessable income when calculating public housing rent.
This change could mean rent would rise for pensioners.
If the proposal receives government approval, its annual revenue could increase by $40 million, but single tenants would have to find another $400 a year, and couples would face a $600 increase.
For many pensioners, the increase would prove prohibitive.
Housing commission resident Fiona Hall said her finances were "working on the smell of an oily rag".
"It's a great fortnight if you have something left over, and if you do it's about $5 or $10," the 62-year-old told A Current Affair.
She said any rent increase could force her to stop buying medication, or charging her electric wheelchair.
June Manners, 81, said she had paid high taxes all her life in the belief she would be looked after in retirement.
"They don't know what it is to think, will I have lunch today or will I have tea, because you can't afford to have both," she said.
NSW Shadow Minister for Ageing Sophie Cotsis said the proposal was another tax on "the most vulnerable in our community".
"The government should come straight out and rule it out," she said.
NSW Minister for Social Housing Pru Goward issued a statement saying the government was "carefully considering" IPART's recommendations.
"We will only consider and implement changes to the system that are fair and help to improve people's lives," she said.


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Grand Bella Hotel, Pattaya
- Free WiFi and free parking
- Collect nights
Grand Bella Hotel, Pattayafrom $48
- Superior Twin Room
- Deluxe Twin Room
- Grand Suite
- Junior Suite
- Deluxe Triple Room
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What's around Grand Bella Hotel, Pattaya
- In Central Pattaya
- Central Festival Pattaya Beach - 5 min walk
- Pattaya Beach Road - 6 min walk
- Pattaya Beach - 6 min walk
- Walking Street - 22 min walk
- Hard Rock Cafe - 8 min walk
- Big C Extra - 12 min walk
- Ripley's Believe It or Not - 15 min walk
Getting around
- Bangkok (BKK-Suvarnabhumi Intl.) - 73 min drive
- Utapao (UTP-Utapao Intl.) - 53 min drive
- Pattaya Station - 4 min drive
- Pattaya Tai Station - 6 min drive
- Sattahip Ban Huai Kwang Station - 14 min drive
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 360 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 8 floors
- Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out time is 10 AM
Required at check-in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking
- RV/bus/truck parking
Payment types at the property
In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Poolside bar
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Beach umbrellas
- Beach towels
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Fitness facilities
- Sauna
- Waterslide
- Pool sun loungers
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
- Year Built - 2013
- Elevator
- Designated smoking areas
- Terrace
- Library
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Wheelchair-accessible parking
- Chinese
- English
- Filipino
- Hindi
- Japanese
- Khmer
- Korean
- Lao
- Thai
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Slippers
- Balcony
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Cable TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
Also popular with travelers from the USA
Grand Bella Hotel, Pattaya's small print
Also known as
- Bella Grand
- Grand Bella Hotel Hotel Pattaya
- Bella Hotel
- Grand Bella
- Grand Bella Hotel
- Grand Bella Hotel Pattaya
- Grand Bella Pattaya
- Hotel Grand Bella
- Grand Bella Hotel Hotel
- Grand Bella Hotel Pattaya
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
Parking height restrictions apply.
Mandatory fees
Cash deposit: THB 500 per stay
Optional extras
Early check-in can be arranged for an extra charge (subject to availability)
Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge (subject to availability)
Rollaway beds are available for THB 800.0 per night
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of THB 300 for adults and THB 150 for children (approximately)
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
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Recent reviews
Good 7.4 From 257 reviews
Nice Hotel, the beds are a bit firm however it was a clean hotel.
We booked this hotel for 4 nights because it was in central location and the pictures looked great! Hotel ratings at hotel.com was also very positive. Unfortunately, when we got to the hotel, our experience was not that great. During check-in: hotel staff did not have control. Guests during check-in were mostly Indian men with a few Chinese tourists. Guests were rude and staff did nothing about it. Don't bother getting in line as nobody will care. We only found out that this hotel caters to single male Indian men looking for women so do not bring your family here. The Indian males will gawk at your family the entire time. I did not feel comfortable here. Room quality: Walked into the room and took off our shoes. Very bad idea as the floors were very dirty. you must keep your shoes on at all times or your feet will be very dirty. There were very few bathroom amenities so bring your own. The rooms are not sound proof so you will hear everything from the hallway. There were many people hanging out in the hallway at night so you will not get a good night sleep. Someone kept ringing our door bell at 2 am. There were ants in the room and we saw a very large RAT in the hall way. Needless to say, we checked out the very next day and lost 3 nights. Hotel refused to refund our money and said we stole a slipper even though we did not touch anything so please avoid this hotel; very shady! Overall, very bad hotel. Dirty rooms, rude guests, bad customer service. Avoid!
Room big, Quiet, Good location, but towel very old and dirty looking, like rag. also lots of indian tourist.
Excellent Hotel with professional staff
The hotel will go above and beyond in trying to sell you things / charge you, even when you don't need them or have nothing to do with the charged item.. Bad wifi..
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By LAMECH JOHNSON
Tribune Staff Reporter
A restaurant/bar owner was granted $5,000 bail with reporting conditions yesterday after pleading not guilty to attempting to take more than US $18,000 out of the country.
Bernard Ferguson, lawyer for 32-year-old accused Blu Debullion, of Summerville Drive, Freeport, asked Magistrate Andrew Forbes if he would consider allowing his client to report to the Central Police Station in Freeport, Grand Bahama on one day of the week instead of two as his client had to travel between New York and the Bahamas.
However, Magistrate Forbes said that the conditions seemed fair given that he did not order his passport be surrendered to the court. The magistrate added that an alternative condition for bail would be to have his client's movements electronically monitored.
The lawyer for the accused accepted the Monday and Friday reporting conditions.
Debullion, also known as Gean Cadet, pleaded not guilty to attempted exportation of restricted goods without Central Bank approval.
It is alleged that he did so on August 8 at the Lynden Pindling International Airport. It is alleged that while at the international departure lounge, he attempted to carry US $18,482 in cash outside the country, contrary to the conditions of regulating the exportation of such notes imposed by the Exchange Control Regulation.
Mr Ferguson said he was instructed by his client that the incident unfolded while Debullion was conducting business.
However, the magistrate said that the explanation would be dealt with at the October 30 trial.
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Stunning home, nice photos! Best wishes selling it.
Wishing you a very successful sale and closing. Very attractive home. LOL
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Check out the challenge that I was given as a Guest Designer for 365 cards. You were to take one of your layouts and use it to inspire you to make a card. I took one of my most favorite layouts which has been published and made a card with the layout in mind. Here is the link to Pam's wonderful blog. Be sure to check out the awesome challenges there. http://365cards.blogspot.com/2009/03/day-28-scraplift-yourself.html
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Hi Anita! Nice job on the lift! Glad to see you on 365 Cards!
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Great scraplift Anita!! Welcome to 365 Cards :)
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Moving And Storage What Are Your Options?
There are many reasons why people need to store their household items for a period of time, especially during the moving process. You may be in between selling one home and moving into your new home or need a temporary place to remove excess items while showing your home. There are different options to fit your need, read more below to find one that will work best for your situation.
Self Storage Facilities
These consist of mini-storage units that come in a variety of different sizes to accommodate your storage needs; if you are not sure of what size you may need, use this estimator to help determine the best size.
This option works best for items that you are likely to retrieve, but don't have available space at home. Depending on the facility, self storage is usually convenient and accessible and reasonably priced. Find a self storage facility near you.
Container Storage
This type of storage can be used for long-term, portable storage. Many people refer to this type of storage as Pods, they are delivered to your home where you pack them and then can be stored at a storage center, and once you move to your new home, delivered at your doorstep for your convenience. This can be a time and money saving solution because you only have to pack once, you don't have to move your items to the storage facility and then again to your final destination.
Moving Companies That Offer Storage Facilities
If you are using a moving company, check and see if they offer storage facilities as well. Many offer this service for an additional fee. This may be a convenient option to have the same company who is handling the moving, pick up, store your items and then delivery them to your final destination.
Important factors to consider when making your storage decision:
Location. It is important to consider the location to your residence and the time and expense associated with frequent visits to the location.
Convenience. You will need to ask about the accessibility of your storage facility on weekends and evenings. Some self storage facilities are 24 hours, but check first.
Special Needs. If you are storing items such as electronics or artwork, you will need a special climate controlled unit. While most facilities offer this, the cost may be more and there may be other restrictions, be certain you know all the specifics.
Security. Be certain you understand the security in the storage facility that you choose. How will your household goods be stored within the storage unit? What kind of security does the facility have both during regular business hours and after hours?
Insurance. Ask about what would happen to your stored items in case of fire, flood or other natural disaster. Don't assume the storage facility will cover your items if they are damaged or stolen. Check your homeowners or renters insurance policies to see if they will cover items kept in storage.