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By Caryl Phillips
324 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $27.
Near the beginning of this remarkable novel, two West Indian domestic servants contemplate one of the daughters of the house — a young girl called Gwen — who is hiding from her family in a mango tree in the garden. The setting is the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica; the time is the late 1890s.
"'That child something, eh?'
"Miss Ann shook her head. 'It look to me like Miss Gwendolen catch somewhere between colored and white.'
"'Maybe so, maybe so.'"
Gwendolen — Gwen — is a strange, moody girl, at odds with her family and her small world in Dominica, at that time part of the British Empire known as the Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands. But Gwen is no pure fictional construct. She is Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams, later better known as the writer Jean Rhys, and Caryl Phillips's new book, "A View of the Empire at Sunset," is her partial biography rewritten as a novel. The narrative covers her life from her childhood in Dominica up until 1936, when Gwen makes her only return to the land of her birth. It closely follows both the format and the chronology of Rhys's unfinished autobiography, published in 1979 as "Smile Please."
Phillips relates Gwen's rackety life through a series of impressionistic, discrete vignettes as we move from the Caribbean to England and Gwen's school days, then to her life as a drama student, chorus girl and kept woman. Phillips makes no overt attempt to draw the parallels, and if you were unaware of Rhys's story or the promotional copy you would have no idea that Rhys was the novel's subject. Rhys's writing — her first book, "The Left Bank," a collection of stories, was published in 1927 — and her authorial ambitions don't really figure here. This is the story of a troubled young woman trying to make her way in England during the early years of the 20th century.
Phillips's shrewd move is to avoid the first-person singular of the memoir. In "A View of the Empire at Sunset," Gwen is always "she." The distancing effect is highly effective. Here is Rhys in "Smile Please," relating a conversation with her father before she leaves home: "'If you're very unhappy, or want anything very much, you must write directly to me. But don't write at the first shock or I'll be disappointed with you.' I said, 'Yes.'" And here is Phillips's version: 'With one solitary finger he reached down and raised up her whole face. 'Don't forget your family, Gwennie. I for one am looking forward to your letters. Write often, but not at the first shock. You won't disappoint, will you?' She now looked directly into her father's eyes and tried to dispel her fears."
One can see instantly the liberation that Phillips achieves and the added textures he can subtly import. Because, in a significant way, this novel is only partially about Jean Rhys a.k.a. Gwendolyn Williams. Phillips is more interested in using the circumstances of Rhys's life to explore concerns that he has made very much his own in previous works of fiction. Like Rhys, Phillips was born on a tiny Caribbean island colony — St. Kitts, also in the British Leeward Islands, to the north of Dominica. Phillips left St. Kitts as a baby when his family moved to England and he made his life there. His first return to the island was when he was in his early 20s. Themes of exile, emigration, alienation and nomadism dominate his fiction just as they do Rhys's novels and short stories. Both writers have been haunted by their Caribbean past, preoccupied with exploring the extent to which their birthright has shaped them and made them, like it or not, the people they are.
Rhys's father was Welsh, but her mother was a fourth-generation member of the Creole elite in Dominica. Rhys initially spoke English with a strong West Indian accent, for which she was much mocked at her English school and which was regarded as a major impediment to her acting career. Her own sense of disaffection with England and the English was profound. As Phillips expresses it: "English people continued to bemuse and disappoint her. So much wasted energy. So much posturing."
Phillips expertly conveys Gwen's bafflement and dissociation from the "English people" she finds herself among. It's as if the only true, verifiable experiences of her life had been left behind in Dominica; everything else is somehow sham and threatening. Gwen's attempt to find a place in the world of repertory and variety theater is a failure and her circumstances become increasingly grim. Alcoholism, an abortion, prostitution and a failed suicide attempt testify to her sense of loss and utter insecurity.
There's another overlap between Rhys and Phillips: Both have used the work of the Brontë sisters, Charlotte and Emily, to explore the themes that are so close to their hearts. In "Wide Sargasso Sea," Rhys appropriated "Jane Eyre" and imagined an early Caribbean life for Mr. Rochester's insane wife, Bertha (renamed Antoinette Cosway). Similarly, Phillips seized on the "Wuthering Heights" character of Heathcliff in his novel "The Lost Child," in which the young man is the illegitimate offspring of Mr. Earnshaw and a former slave. Both novels use the Brontë fictions to explore the role of the outcast in society and the various forms that imperial, patriarchal oppression — both unthinking and intentional — can take. Consequently, there is a real sense of inevitability about "A View of the Empire at Sunset." In this meshing of Phillips as writer and Rhys as subject all the great themes of Phillips's fiction cohere in the difficult, dislocated, lonely life of Gwen Williams.
That the novel succeeds so well is a tribute to Phillips's mastery of tone. Gwen is rarely referred to by name; it's almost as if we're reading a procedural statement rather than a story. Yet the point of view is rigidly confined to her, only very rarely shifting substantially, so we get a glimpse of Gwen as others see her. Otherwise we remain rooted in her subjective consciousness: "She closed her eyes and attempted to fix a sequence of images that might appeal to all of her senses: the distinctive sharp smell of dark velvet nights, the musical beat of rain on tin roofs, pipe water thundering into metal pails, the sun flaming against the sea before it disappears, the excessive, burdensome fertility of the island's fruit trees, the vast electrical bravura of a sudden thunderstorm, the irritating flailing of a dead frond against the trunk of a palm."
Jean Rhys's prose was famously scrupulous. She once complained to her editor Diana Athill that a book she had published was unfinished in her terms because she had wanted to cut two unnecessary words — a "then" and a "quite" — and had been unable to do so. Caryl Phillips proudly upholds her standards in this austere, evocative investigation of a life caught "somewhere between colored and white." It is a novel of acute psychological empathy and understanding.


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It's Official, Nazi Ukraine Organizations Join Hands And Unite, 'Svoboda', 'Right Sector' And 'National Corps' All Declare A State Take Over, With A Signed National Manifesto !
The neo-Nazi political groups of the 'Independant' , the 'Svoboda', the 'Right Sector' and the 'National Corps' (formerly 'Azov') decided to unite in order, as they say, 'to achieve common political goals'.
On March 16, the leaders of the 'Svoboda', the 'Right Sector' and the 'National Corps', respectively Oleg Tyagnibok, Andrey Tarasenko and Andrey Biletsky, signed a document on their unification with the promising title the 'National Manifesto'.
It is promised to introduce the procedure of impeachment of the president and recall Deputy's, MPs, and introduce the election of judges and local officials.
It should be noted that if at least some of their plans are implemented and 'the power in the country belongs to the Ukrainian nationalists', the prediction of the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic on the imminent disappearance on the state of Ukraine, may well be realized.
'Tomorrow, when the power belongs to the Ukrainian nationalists, we will implement this manifesto,' said Tyahnybok.
According to him, the parties will not only coordinate efforts, but also jointly achieve their goals.
'This is a historic moment. We are not just coordinating but also unifying our efforts,' said the leader of the 'Svoboda'.
Biletsky, in his turn, said that the manifesto is not a program of any party.
'This is a document with which we begin our crusade against this power,' he said.
The manifesto states that Ukraine should direct efforts to create the Baltic-Black Sea Union, return its nuclear status, sever diplomatic relations with Russia, and allow citizens to own firearms.
In addition, the neo-Nazis intend to cultivate traditional values in Ukraine, strengthen criminal responsibility for corruption, effectively fight against illegal migration, and create a single local church with the center in Kiev.
They also promise to introduce the procedure of impeachment of the president and recall of MPs, and introduce the election of judges and local officials.
It should be noted that if at least some of their plans are implemented and 'the power in the country belongs to the Ukrainian nationalists', the prediction of the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic on the imminent disappearance of the state of Ukraine, may well be realized.
We Ukrainian nationalists, realizing the catastrophic state of our country and for the purpose of acquiring and developing a large national state that is able to ensure the well-being of Ukrainians and the future of Ukrainian children, unite their efforts on the basis of fundamental, indisputable, unshakable for us all principles and goals and we offer a clear plan First steps to achieve this goal:
1. To define the priority of state policy the realization of the national interests of Ukraine.
2. To form a new vector of Ukrainian geopolitics – orientation not to the West or East, but to the formation of a new European association – the Baltic-Black Sea Union.
3. To recognize the Russian Federation as an aggressor state at all levels of world diplomacy. To break diplomatic relations, block the occupied territories, stop the activities of Russian business in Ukraine, apply sanctions to Russian capital, goods and services.
4. Legislative to recognize "ORDLO" occupied territories and develop a real plan for the liberation of the Crimea and the Donbas from the invaders. Immediately begin to implement its intelligence-sabotage, economic and information components.
5. To restore the right to restore nuclear potential as the fundamental basis of national security in connection with the violation of the Budapest Memorandum.
6. Create a high-tech professional contract army, as well as a reserve army, staffed on a territorial basis.
7. Legislatively fix the right to armed defense and the free possession of weapons.
8. Clear the Ukrainian information space from hostile propaganda. Cultivate traditional values, strengthen national consciousness and dignity. To provide the Ukrainian language with the status of the only state language.
9. Carry out real lustration as a fundamental purge of power, increase criminal responsibility for corrupt practices.
10. Introduce an effective impeachment procedure for the President and adopt a law on the recall of deputies of all levels, judges and officials.
11. Introduce the election of judges and certain categories of local officials.
12. Eliminate the oligarchic order: return subsoil, strategic facilities and enterprises illegally privatized after 1991, to liquidate private monopolies, to stop the withdrawal of capital to offshore.
13. Ensure the labor rights of Ukrainians and create conditions for an effective trade union movement.
14. Adopt a socially just Tax Code that will promote the development of small and medium-sized businesses.
15. Ensure the development of national nuclear and alternative energy as a guarantee of the state's energy independence.
16. Prohibit the trade in the strategic resource of Ukraine – agricultural land.
17. To introduce, according to the Constitution, real self-government by creating self-sufficient and authorized territorial communities.
18. To streamline the migration policy, which includes effective struggle against illegal migration and creation of conditions for the return of Ukrainians to their homeland.
19. To restore the positive dynamics in the national demography: to strengthen the institution of the traditional family, to strengthen the national-patriotic upbringing, to stake on the younger generation.
20. To promote the creation of a single local church with a center in Kiev.
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Anne Swaney ABC Producer, Biography, Age, Boyfriend – Murder Case
Anne Swaney ABC Producer, Biography, Age, Boyfriend, Wiki, Bio – Murder Case: Anne Swaney is the producer of ABC, who killed while vacationing in Belize. Anne Swaney arrived to Nabatunich Resort, Benque Viejo and according to reports, she was allegedly sexually assaulted before being killed after doing yoga on Thursday morning near the Mopan River nearby the resort. A tour guide found her yoga mat and another items near the river but he didn't see her and alerted the authorities. Get here more details about Anne Swaney bio and wiki.
Anne Swaney ABC Producer, Biography, Age, Boyfriend – Murder Case
Anne Swaney Wiki and Bio: Anne was a trailblazer in the digital news space and was one of our first website employees, said by President of ABC7 John H. Idler and also added, 'Anne helped us evolve our business and our newsroom, but most importantly, she was a kind person who was always had a smile and a positive attitude.'
A State Department official said in a statement: 'We offer our sincerest condolences to her family and loved ones on their loss. Our consular staff is providing all possible consular assistance.'
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"Similar to Arizona's SB 1062, the Missouri bill (SB 916) does not expressly cite sexual orientation, but could provide legal cover for individuals citing religious freedom to deny services to LGBT people.
Sen. Wayne Wallingford (R-Cape Girardeau) sponsored the legislation, which states that a governmental authority shall not substantially burden a person's free exercise of religion unless the government demonstrates that it has a compelling interest."
The leader of Missouri's top state LGBT lobbyist group has said he doesn't think it will pass, but the fact that this is even being proposed pisses me right off.
Between this and all of the transphobic bullshit on the mainpage today, I am so fucking done homophobic/transphobic assholes right now. Remedios ANGRY.


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6 publishers that are now open to submission
Are you an author, and you are wondering where to send your Book manuscript for publishing? Please give it a try with the number of publishers listed below. You may land an advance payment for your work. They publish books on genre you are writing, or your friend or a relative is working on. I have reviewed these publishers because they have something to share with authors, and they have a good relationship with authors they have served before.
Kensington Publishing
Kensington is currently accepting Book proposal and queries. It is an independent publisher and it is based in USA. They publish a variety of mainstream, and fiction books. They mostly focus on romance. They do publish about 600 books a year. They receive, and accept a lot of submissions compared to other large and independent publishers. They accept query via email to a particular editor, who then editor passes the manuscript proposal to Kensington editorial board, but they do not pass it or resubmit to another editor. The query should be in the body of the email. For more information on how to submit a proposal, or a query letter, please go to their website. If you don't hear from them, then it means the proposal or manuscript is not fit for their need.
Quirk Books
It is based in Philadelphia and publishes just 25 books a year. They receive query letters through a particular editor or through mail address clearly displayed on the website, submission guidelines. They do publish a range of genre from Children's books, science fiction to nonfiction. They have an established marketing plan.
Turner Books
It has an established Headquarters in Nashville United states. It has been operating since 1984. Turner currently publishes about 3000 titles. Turner has a broad range of titles in fiction and non-fiction. These include business, cookbooks, romance, young adult, history, design, mystery, health and wellness, and animals, but not limited to the listed above only.
They have grown by acquiring inventive content from existing and new authors all over the world. Turners Books publishes mainly in print with electronic publishing option though. Turner Publishing is accepting submissions of manuscripts, and book proposals. Submissions can be made by agents or authors directly.Note: Turner books will only contact you if they are interested in your manuscript.
Persea Books
It is an independent book publisher established in the 1970s. It has gained a significant reputation since then, it is publishing books in a variety of literary genres. Persea Books are open to both fiction and non-fiction submissions via the post address as well as email from authors directly.
They receive queries regarding novels and novellas, short stories and short story collections, essays, literature, biography, literary criticism, memoir, and anything that would be of interest to the general readership of literary books, as well as educational books used in schools and universities. For more information, on how do you submission go their website.
Chicago Review Press
They are currently in need of Book manuscript Submissions. Chicago Review Press is an independent publishing company founded in 1973. Founders are Curt Matthews and his wife, Linda Matthews. Curt is former editor of the literary journal the Chicago Review. They are independent, and established publisher of literary, non-fiction, fiction, and memoir. They publish children's books but not pictorial. It has grown over the years into a dynamic midsize publisher. They have more than 900 titles in print. Currently they publish around 60 new titles annually under five imprints: these include, Chicago Review Press, Ball Publishing, Lawrence Hill Books, Academy Chicago and Zephyr Press. For information visit their website for submission guides.
Cedar Fort
Cedar Fort is both print and electronic publisher. They are based out of Salt Lake City and are one of the largest publishers in Utah. They publish more than 150 books a year.
They publish book from cookbooks to juvenile fiction books. They are a Mormon publishing company but publish books by non-Mormons. You don't have to write a Mormon subject matter at all. And they are not interested in publishing books that contain profanity, violence, graphic, or sexual content. They reserve the right to remove it from your book in case they accepted it for publication.
They are now open to submissions in most genres, but not interested in memoirs, travelogues, and biographies, defenses of Mormonism, children's picture books, poetry, short stories, erotica, or romance. They are also open to publishing reprints. They offer advances up to $2,000. According their website, their editors are reputable and appear to do a very good job. Cedar Fort accepts submission through online submission form and you can sign up for your free account.
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Amazon News: New Amazon Coupons
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You may think that coupons on Amazon are nothing new, but don't be fooled. Those aren't your ordinary coupons.
Amazon just made some changes, and I have to say, I love those new coupons.
Here's what's new:
- new orange badge displayed in search results
- targeting:
- you can choose between % off or $ off
- you can set up your budget (e.g $200 worth of coupons a day)
New coupons are not free, though. Amazon charges $0.60 per coupon
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On Tuesday, Americans mark the 17th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 people in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania, Voice of America reported.
September 11 still shapes American policy, politics and everyday experiences in places from airports to office buildings, even if it's less of a constant presence in the public consciousness after 17 years, AP/Time notes.
President Donald Trump will attend a ceremony at the 9/11 memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, near where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed after passengers retook control from the al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists who had hijacked the plane.
Declaring September 11 as Patriot Day, Trump said the "evil acts" did not crush the country's spirit or its commitment to freedom.
"We come together, today, to recall this timeless truth: When America is united, no force on Earth can break us apart. Our values endure; our people thrive; our nation prevails, and the memory of our loved ones never fades," Trump stressed.
Just outside Washington, Vice President Mike Pence is attending a ceremony at the Pentagon for families of those killed when a hijacked plane crashed into the building.
In New York, hundreds of survivors and family members of those killed will gather at Ground Zero, where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center stood before two hijacked commercial flights brought them down. Twin beams of light will be projected into the sky to memorialize those lost in the attacks.
The 9/11 commemorations are by now familiar rituals, centered on reading the names of the dead. But each year at Ground Zero, victims' relatives infuse the ceremony with personal messages of remembrance, concern and inspiration.
"What I can say today is that I don't live my life in complacency. I stand in solidarity that this world will make a change for the better," Debra Epps said last year as she remembered her brother, Christopher Epps.
The hijackings were carried out by 19 men affiliated with al-Qaida. The deadliest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor in 1944, the events of September 11 permanently changed America's perception of security and prompted then-President George W. Bush to declare war on terrorism and invade Afghanistan, VoA adds.


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Why You Actually Get More Out Of Your Degree If You Work Part-Time
Graduate with a Masters in Stress Management.
I'll be the first to admit that studying and working at the same time is pretty much a degree in itself. In fact, I bet you can learn more from perfecting the balance between timetables and rosters than in an Intro to Business class.
In this day and age, more students are reducing their credit load to pick up work experience or committing to post-graduate study after they've kick started their careers. Here's why we reckon that's the best way to do it.
Money Please
Over the last five years post-graduate enrolment numbers have skyrocketed, despite a sharp increase in tuition fees. This year, Roy Morgan reported that over a quarter of 25-34 year olds (that's over a million Aussies) intend to study or do a course in the next 12 months. Just over a majority (52.2 per cent) of Australians intending to study or do a course in the next 12 months are already employed.
It's probably due to the fact that us avocado-eating millennials want to continue consuming brunch without draining our savings accounts. And for those of us who are going back into study, we need to upskill and stay relevant for the increasingly changing job market.
Carla says that pursuing part-time study is also the best way to "maintain career stability and keep career options open for the future". She's been studying and working concurrently for over three years. For her, cashing out on bottomless brunch, saving for a hefty house deposit and preparing for your future don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Sorting Out Your Priorities
But, if you think it's just about making real money and learning real things, a natural consequence of all of this is that you discover who your real pals are too – the ones who are worth keeping.
Two and a bit years ago when I commenced my law degree, within six months half my mates dropped off the face of the Earth. The ones who stuck around are the friendships I've forged for life, even if it means catching up once every couple of months rather than painting the town red when the weekend rolls around.
With your priorities in order, you're able to see the wood from the trees and make better decisions.
It's No Easy Cake Walk – But It's Worth It
There's no denying that working and studying can be the conundrum from hell. That being said, it might just be one of the best things you ever do.
I can tell you that it's a lot of pulling all-nighters, strolling into work over-caffeinated and jamming your diary with deadlines for the next six months. You do have a crystal ball – the type that tells you how stressed you'll be when all your schedules collide.
But in the end, you graduate with black belt in stress management, time management and a good dose of resilience. All key attributes that are highly valued among employers.
So much more than another piece of paper to hang on the wall.
Jessica Marcellienus enjoys writing and feeding ducks at the park in her spare time. She also looks forward to completing a law degree while working full-time in the aviation sector. Check out more of her stories here.


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Paul Ingraham • ARCHIVEDMicroblog posts are archived and rarely updated. In contrast, most long-form articles on PainScience.com are updated regularly over the years (see updates page).
Probably the first ever placebo-controlled study of surgery for tennis elbow … and disappointing. The experimenter scathingly concludes:
There is no benefit to be gained from the gold standard tennis elbow surgery over placebo surgery … in fact, the Nirschl procedure may increase the morbidity of the condition in the immediate post-operative period.
~Kroslak. Surgical treatment of lateral epicondylitis: A prospective, randomised, blinded, placebo controlled pilot study. Unpublished. 2012.


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The application of LED illumination technology in urban street lamp renovation, Road street Lamp is the foundation of city illumination, is also the most crucial part of city illumination system, doing well the street lamp transformation work of City Road plays a key role in realizing the green illumination of city.
The application of LED technology to the reconstruction of urban Road street lamps can reduce the energy consumption of urban lighting system to a great extent and save a lot of money for the city lighting.
At present, the urban street lamps in China are mostly high pressure sodium lamps, which is unfavorable to the conservation of urban energy and environmental protection, compared with ordinary road street lamps, LED street lamps are not only luminous efficiency, but also emit more natural and stable light, can realize the whole process of continuous dimming, according to the concrete conditions of the road to adjust the intensity of light and luminous angle, to create more suitable conditions for the road, thereby reducing the occurrence of road accidents.
If all these high-pressure sodium lamps are replaced with LED lights, then these LED lights will save a huge amount of social energy and capital for the city every year.


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Marvel and ABC have released these photos of Anson Mount as Black Bolt, Serinda Swan as Medusa, Eme Ikwuakor as Gorgon, Ken Leung as Karnak, Sonya Balmores as Auran, Ellen Woglom as Louise, and Mike Moh as Triton.
The initial reviews by critics for the pilot episode of the new TV series haven't been the greatest even the director of the series first two episodes, Roel Reine, has stated that he doesn't like the trailers. Let's hope there will be some improvements as the series progresses.
Marvel's Inhumans opens in IMAX theaters 09/01/17 and then premieres on ABC 09/29/17


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'Summer afternoons' sound good only in books , hardly in Pondicherry.
But there is something about summer evenings , especially one that comes at the end of a sweltering week, when you're ready to kick back with a drink by your side and relish the sea breeze blowing through the sultry night. Now, only if there was a live band playing just the right music to suit your mood!
This Saturday night, you don't just have to wish about it for indie folk band 'Cinema of Excess' plays their first gig in Pondicherry at Santhi Inn's breezy rooftop. Grab a cocktail and greet a familiar face or make new friends as the Bangalore band surprises you with their simple vocal melodies that carry a certain sadness with a tinge of hope.
Fresh tracks from their new EP
The acoustic trio -Anirudh Ravi, Bharath Kashyap, and Abheet Anand – influenced by the likes of John Mayer Damien Rice, Iron and Wine have been playing a mix of western, indie folk and country music at college festivals and venues in the Garden City. Their recently released first EP, 'Bring Back the Sound' has five tracks awash with lyrical melody, unabashed longing and languorous guitar work.
Excited about performing in front of a new audience in Pondicherry, the band will also play tracks from their yet-to-be-released second EP and "keep things a little light and improvisational for a fresh crowd."
If you're looking to make the most of a warm summer night, it hardly gets better than emotive indie folk on a rooftop.
WHERE: Santhi Inn, Nehru Street
WHEN: 7 p.m: (Happy Hours); 9 p.m: Live music starts
ENTRY: Rs 200 (singles) & Rs. 300 (couple) – inclusive of complimentary drink
ON THE MENU: Cocktails, home-made shooters and burgers etc


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Germany's Colonial Apprach And Historical Amnesia On The Horn of Africa
Serawr Information Centre 28 October, 2018
The foreign Minister of Germany, Heiko Maas, outlined how his government will influence developments in the Horn of Africa region in a speech delivered on Ethiopia/Eritrea to the German Bundestag. The speech has drawn strong criticism from the Ministry of Information of Eritrea- calling it "appalling" for its "trite and distorted narrative" on the rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia. The short statement concluded calling "on the German Government to refrain from meddling in the affairs of the Horn of Africa".
At a time, when the Horn of Africa is going through massive changes not only in relations between the countries themselves, but also in the way the region wants deal with other countries; what the statement of the Foreign Ministry of Germany demonstrates is its inability to change from a colonial approach in dealing with African countries.
In the same way as the recent publications of the Western media on the development between Eritrea and Ethiopia, the Germany statement suffers from historical amnesia- they ignore the fundamental developments of a few decades and present the rising of Dr Abiy Ahmed to power as the starting point of their narrative.
They have good reason for their deliberate forgetfulness of recent history. Germany and the west at large were on the wrong side of history.
Ethiopia: The West's Futile Attempt to Save a Crumbling Regime
The west prolonged the suffering of the Ethiopian people and the region at large by providing economic, political and diplomatic support to the TPLF, a minority regime that ruled Ethiopia creating havoc in the lives millions of people across the region. Therefore, the Western countries found themselves in direct conflict with the aspirations and struggles of the Ethiopian people and the region at large.
Due to its strategic location and the abundant natural resources, the Horn of Africa region has always attracted foreign interventions throughout its long history. These interventions have not only prevented the people of the region from solving their internal problems by themselves, but they have been the major causes of the problems.
This is one of the major problems that the governments of the region are seeking to amend. Therefore, unless the government of Germany adapts to these changes, it will find itself in diplomatic clash.
One of the main tools that the West employs in their agenda to influence development in the region, has been to turn countries against each other. In this regard the West has been exposed spectacularly in the case of the imposed sanction on Eritrea recently.
The Western sponsored sanction on Eritrea was imposed in the name Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti. Following the recent development in the region, these countries have been urging for the lifting of the sanction on Eritrea. Whereas the main sponsors of the sanction, the USA, UK and France are still taking stand against lifting the sanction despite the removal of all the grounds for its imposition.
Another major troubling part of the statement of the Foreign Minister of Germany is its declaration of its commitment to bring political changes in Eritrea. The Minister stated: " We should encourage the reform forces and call for an opening up within the country in an appropriate manner. We're currently exploring concrete ways of doing this. Especially within the European context, we have suitable means and measures."
Eritrea is a country with small population and unique history, which has been sentenced to death by the most powerful entities in the world. No stone was left unturned for the collapse of the country.
Germany was one of the countries that employed a hostile policy towards Eritrea. For instance, as the wikileaks documents revealed, the government of Germany tried to sabotage the first mining production in Eritrea. After having agreed to extend a commercial loan of $146 million "the German government has pulled the plug on this credit guarantee (REF B), Post was told by an Asmara-based European diplomat that "a German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs" has revisited the credit guarantee and recommended that it be rescinded due to Eritrea's spoiler role in the Horn of Africa and potential UN or AU sanctions."
The enormous challenges including military invasions, sanctions, political and economic pressures, have affected the country and people badly. The ugly war that was waged on Eritrea required a rule of engagement fit for the challenge.
Eritrea has come out of the trying times that put its very existence into question as a formidable nation and with its principles intact. Hence, Germany can not claim the moral high ground or be in a position to preach or interfere in matters of Eritrea's internal affairs.
With the emerging peace, Eritrea will be able to refocus its effort and resources towards improving the living stand of its people, and will build a strong, organized system that will protect the rights of its people and one that can withstand and adapt to future domestic, regional and global challenges.These enormous and challenging tasks will not be carried out to please the German government, but to advance Eritrea's national interest and fulfill the goals of the Eritrean struggle.


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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Page's Big on Burgers, So-So on Southern
It's no wonder that all eyes are turning to the satisfying soulfulness and timelessness of America's truest regional cooking when everything else, from global warming to a skittish economy, seems to be slowly disrobing a once unflappable American sense of strength, safety and the predictability of tradition. And, the high praises for good Southern cooking, from flaky biscuits to slow-cooked, succulent pork are deserved, indeed. Who doesn't love it once they've had the real deal? A great piece of fried chicken trumps foie gras any old day in my book.
Charleston restaurateurs are scurrying to satisfy the rebel-with-a-cause-yell (or scream!) for Southern foodstuff. Virginia's on King and Page's Okra Grill, both restaurants with traditional Southern menus, opened recently; Virginia's in December and Page's several months ago. Having heard mostly good things about Page's, I arrived for my first visit with a healthy, almost ravenous appetite for mouth-watering soul food in tow, and ordered accordingly. Fried chicken, hush puppies, fried okra, and other Southern goodies, all failed to meet my lofty expectations for Southern fare. But, the unforgettable silver lining in Page's sometimes murky cloud was its show-stopping burgers, welcome doses of friendly, greasy spoon Americana, and some of the best overall food and dining values around these parts.
The burgers sampled during bustling lunch service hours were plump, hand-formed patties of juicy, Angus goodness and are ground in-house daily. Topped with fat slices of sweet onion, fresh tomatoes and crunchy sheaths of iceberg lettuce, the burgers (topped with an array of cheese choices, including a pungent, house-made pimento) , rival nearby Poe's, but the hard, skinny fries need a little love, or at least a little girth, for me to tip my hat their way.
Dinner, in the large, comfortable space (formerly Billy's Back Home restaurant) peppered with attractively framed antique phone books hung on pale grey bead board walls, was a quieter, less trafficked affair, and a markedly less impressive one. The value (most of the heftily portioned entrees hover between $6-$10) was still there, but the excellent service and food quality experienced at lunch, got into treacherous waters at times. To begin with, our delightfully friendly server struggled to understand our questions about the menu and thus, we struggled to understand her answers about specials, wine, and suggestions.
This was not horrible, but it was aggravating, especially since it continued in varying forms throughout the evening. Regardless, service was speedy and there were some high notes in the Southern dishes that caught the notice of Southern Living and the Food Network when Page's young chef was firing up her wares at Serena's Kitchen at Boone Hall Plantation. These included a fabulous sweet potato puree that tasted like it got added sweetness from roasted fresh apple and a kiss of cinnamon. Though served nearly cold, it, like the sweet, white gravy served over chunky wedges of pan-fried grits in the Signature Shrimp and Grits ($8.99) truly spoke to old-style, stellar Southern cooking. But, as occurred more often than it should have, perfection was marred with carelessness. In this case, the definitely local shrimp were over-cooked and tough. This was an easily avoidable pitfall that I'm hopeful Page's will sidestep in the future.
The menu describes the fried chicken on the blue plate (dark meat, $6.50, white meat, $6.99) as "brined and pressure-fried" and the to-the-bone, light salt flavoring and golden-colored, crisp crust on the breast meat I sampled spoke to the truth in this statement. But, the dried, crumbly flesh revealed that it spent way too long under a heat lamp or in a warming oven. Slightly chunky mashed potatoes served with a brown, savory gravy and a side of slow-cooked, peppery/sweet collards, dressed the chicken up nicely. A leathery, dry country fried steak ($7.5O) got some reprieve with yet another fine gravy, this one a white pepper gravy that was lip-smacking good, and a pert, mayonnaise-rich side of blue cheese cole slaw.
I'm going to spare you detailed descriptions of Page's biscuits, corn bread and fried okra, except to say that none tasted any more homemade than something that comes out of a box or a frozen bag. Fortunately, Southern sweetness sneaked stealthily upon us with the delivery of a phenomenal, mousseline-based banana pudding and coconut pie prepared with a corn-starch thickened custard and plenty of fresh-tasting coconut shavings. Alas, just when I thought I'd hit the homemade high notes at Page's, I bit into a fat bite of medicinal-tasting canned whipped cream.
Little things like these added up to a lot of negatives towards my Page's experiences, but there is no taking away that the restaurant dishes up plenty of good, home style food with the kind of friendly service and old-fashioned prices that really do bring home the sense of Southern goodness most of us know and love. I just wish Page's could find a way to make their food as consistently and with as much love and greatness as most truly Southern kitchens (whether born in restaurants or home kitchens) have done for centuries. For now, Page's burgers alone are enough to warrant many return visits.
Page's Okra Grill
794 Coleman Boulevard, Mount Pleasant
(843) 881-3333
Breakfast: Mon.-Fri., 6 - 11 a.m., Sat., 6 a.m.-noon, Sun., 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
Lunch: Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Sat., noon-3 p.m.
Dinner: Mon.-Sat., 5 - 8:30 p.m.
Take out available.
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- Roger said...
Visited this past week based on Holly's burger recommendation and an eternal quest for the ultimate burger. The pimento burger was magnificent and well worth the drive. Other diners seemed to be enjoying large portions of good stuff. Will definitely be returning to try more items.
- January 12, 2008 at 4:03 PM
- Holly Herrick said...
Roger - So glad you enjoyed your burger! Holly
- January 13, 2008 at 4:33 AM
- will lightman said...
Hi Holly,
As of late, modern culinary technique has discovered ways of preparing all of the delicious edibles to be found in the south. This is to say that, with the exception of that Savannah woman's syrupy junk, southern cooking as advertised no longer involves mountains of grease heaped upon masses of sugar, salt, and butter.
Charleston seems well-situated for the task at hand because unlike the concrete monstrosity to the north your city respects and lauds the local. This is to say that although great food might be had in Atlanta, nothing of it is remotely is indigenous. On the other hand, Charleston's menus and brochures abound with suggestions that emphasize not only the most up- to date expertise but also the amazing range of edibles to be found in the Low Country.
Ostensibly, then, a critic's job is to discover these new kitchens, and to serve as their advocate. This you do wonderfully well, and I congratulate your efforts. For example, your observations of Paige's failures rightfully suggest, for example, that there's nothing easy about making a biscuit.
My mild disagreement with you in this respect concerns your assumption that once upon a time not so long ago Southern cooking was a high art—yet now known only in its present, degenerated from. Your vision of yourself is that of a discoverer of a lost past, but for this I'm afraid you're selling yourself short.
"Everyone" is looking at southern food because after two hundred years of solitude, due to cosmopolitan infusion the region's culinary demands are commensurately higher. Paula Dean exists only to remind us what dogmatic slumber is all about: Savannah is not Charleston.
You see, normal southern cooking has always been about overcooked shrimp, leathery steak, and tough-skinned fried chicken. Salt and sugar was used always in profusion. Therefore, more daunting by far by far is for you to demand that those restauranteurs who know better should get with the program. Yesterday, all the past; but what's of the present are all of those lessons and behind –the- line experiences now seemingly forgotten.
The art of cooking involves holding butter, sugar, salt, and oils to an absolute minimum.
These are the easy flavor-enhancers; and true culinary expertise makes a statement that one can be delicious without. Be it in Budapest, Barcelona or Bluffton, it's all the same game; and southerners need not be patronized in this respect.
Yet between the lines, you seem to be trying to hold "traditional" Southern fare to the same high, rigorous standards as you might for the French-influenced restaurants downtown. Subconsciously, I expect that most of us have come to expect a lowering of standards upon trespass beyond the city limits; so, again, it's refreshing to be jostled out of such notions. In the kitchen, fried chicken indeed needs to be given the same respect as foie gras.
What I might likewise suggest is a bit more of an explanation as to what you feel that a customer should reasonably expect from service. For example, my pet peeve is a simple lack of ability to communicate clearly in English; yet in these PC times such observations are euphemistically passed over. I, on the other hand, firewall linguistic competence from ethnic festivity.
Moreover, the art of being nice is a prerequisite for good service—not a substitute for lack of product knowledge. And what of wines? Cannot a server be expected to suggest an acceptable companion for each item o the menu? Likewise, food critics are ideally placed for understanding customer badgering, and how certain demands are clearly unreasonable.
I would furthermore be interested in noise and other comfort factors within. Here in Atlanta, at least, this has become a rather salient issue due, in some part, to the lack of gentility found in Coastal Carolina!
Ciao, Bill
- January 13, 2008 at 5:43 AM
- Holly Herrick said...
THanks for your comments. I appreciate your taking the time to write.
I agree with you, wholeheartedly, that good cooking is good cooking no matter where in the world you are and that minimalist manipulation of food maneuvered with stellar, clean technique generally yields the best results.
Due to limited space in this review and due to my own personal choice, I chose not to delve into some of the issues you bring up here. But, since you ask, on my visit(s), noise was no problem. Wine, for the most part, is boxed and generic. For a restaurant with $7-$12 entrees, this doesn't seem like a huge grievance. However, it would have been nice if the staff could have at least given me a varietal name and a vineyard source - in English. An additional server went the distance to find out, however.
And, I agree with you that "nice" is an absolute prerequisite for good service, though definitely not the only one.
In all, I found Page's to be a respectable restaurant with good values depending on what you're looking for. As the article states, if you're looking for great burgers, this is your place. Great Southern, much less so, though it had its moments in this category.
Thank you for writing...Best, Holly
- January 13, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Culinary Cost-Cutting 101
When I was a little girl, I marveled while watching my Great Aunt Frances sitting at her linoleum-topped kitchen table, cutting coupons from the daily newspaper in the tiny Kansas town she lived in until she was nearly 100 years old.
It seemed like such a waste of energy in order to save a few pennies on, what I thought, were probably things she wouldn't normally buy anyway. But, I was naive. She, a thrifty survivor of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, had her coupon system down pat and it's probably one of the reasons she made it through a long life of hard times, many of them spent alone.
The latest bout of monetary unpleasantness, however, has created a market for New Age couponing systems. The internet now has a number of hot coupon sites (I like couponmom.com) which provide free, brand-name coupons and more if you select to register as a member. They're just a click, a printer, and five minutes away. In addition, many grocery stores' websites offer lists of daily specials. And, here's the kicker. Many provide selections from the kind of items you usually purchase, anyway. That was it for me. The last straw supporting my long-standing anti-coupon mindset finally broke its resistant back.
Harris Teeter's online specials shopping list became this list-hater's new best friend. I dipped into it with reckless abandon. With a little practice and increasing knowledge, I'm slowly forming my own semi-profitable coupon system. By combining the free manufacturer's coupons from sites like couponmom.com with a daily special shopping list constructed from Harris Teeter's web site (harristeeter.com) , my handy VIC card, and an extra dose of concentration at the grocery store, I have scored some serious savings.
The best yet happened last week. Granted, it was a big sales day at the downtown Teeter. The store was offering buy one get one, two or even three, all over the place on big ticket items like beef, coffee and wine. Since I'm expecting company in a couple weeks, I decided to stock up on these and other staples. The net result was a whopping $67 total savings. In essence, I bought three weeks-worth of groceries for less than I usually spend in one week!
My heart raced with anticipation as I watched the basket cave with the weight of my cache and the numbers creeping slowly higher on the cash register. Then, as the cashier started calculating in the selected coupons, the numbers amazingly started going down. It was like getting on the scale after a week of gorging Haagen-Dazs only to find you'd lost five pounds. I was beaming. She was beaming and said, "You did good today!"
Admittedly, a follow-up trip to replenish the fresh vegetable drawer just one week later only yielded $10 in savings, but next time I'll do better. I'm on a coupon-crazed mission. Intelligent use of coupons and smart shopping add up to saving a lot more than pennies. And, I'm not in Kansas anymore.
One Plucky Chicken, Four Marvelous Meals
With grocery costs rocketing to the stratosphere, it's imperative to save wherever you can at the supermarket without eliminating taste. In addition to reaching for reduced daily specials, what you buy and how you put it to use in your kitchen can happily translate to huge savings with bodacious bite.
In this era of grocery gouging, chicken can become your new best friend for just pennies per four ounce serving when paired with practical pantry staples like pasta and veggies. Low in fat, high in protein and exceptionally versatile, chicken marries equally well with the exotic (think truffles or saffron) to the humble (think roasted potatoes and rosemary).
For these reasons, it's a regular menu guest at my house, where I pride myself on transforming a single, four pound chicken (preferably organic and purchased at a reduced rate) into four fabulous feasts for a group of four. That's sixteen meals, folks! A four pound chicken runs anywhere from $6-$10 (depending on where and how you shop), throw in a little change for ingredients to flesh it out into a meal (4X), and you're looking at less than $20. A night out for a family of four at any fast food favorite will set you back the same amount or more faster than you can say "heart attack".
Gotcha? Let me tell you how it's done!
Meal #1: This is the launching pad for the meal plan event(s) – a whole roasted chicken. Since it's going to be transformed several times, keep the seasoning simple – ground pepper, a nice crust of coarse salt and a rub down with olive oil. Roast at 425 until done (about 20 minutes per pound) and top it with a few love pats of butter to sink deeply into the bird. Allow the roasted chicken to rest and re-absorb its juices. Cut the both legs and thighs away from the chicken (reserving warm). Cut the breasts away from the rib cage, cool and store in your refrigerator for later use. Serve both legs and both thighs with steamed vegetables and roasted potatoes for a satisfying, nutritional meal. Go ahead and prepare a pan gravy with a little roux, white wine, chicken stock, Dijon mustard and fresh tarragon to dress things up, but hold on to the carcass!
Meal #2: Start this after the roast chicken dinner to prepare for tomorrow's old-fashioned and DELICIOUS chicken noodle soup. With a sturdy chef's knife, cut up the reserved carcass remnants – the rib cage and spine – into four or five coarse chunks and put them in a two quart soup pot with a quartered onion, carrot, celery stalk and a clove or two of garlic to make an impromptu stock. Add a few peppercorns, a bay leaf and fresh thyme for added flavor. Bring it up to a boil, reduce to a slow simmer over low heat and forget about it for three to four hours. Allow to cool and refrigerate, covered, overnight.
About thirty minutes before you're slotted to serve dinner, skim off any accumulated fat off the top of the stock, strain it, discarding all solids except any bits of chicken flesh. Finely chop an onion, carrot and celery stalk and sauté them in the same pot with a tablespoon of olive oil until softened. Season, return the strained stock to the pan and bring up to a boil. Add reserved chicken and about ¼ pound of dried pasta (flat noodles, spaghetti, linguini – your choice) and cook until tender. Serve with a drizzle of fresh herbs (parsley, tarragon, or thyme will do) and freshly grated Parmesan cheese. A small, fresh salad and warm baguette make this a meal.
Meal #3: Chicken Salad Deluxe! This is where you can really have fun with chicken's flavor/texture marriage versatility. Cut one of the reserved breasts into chunky, ½" cubes and toss in a bowl with coarsely chopped dried cranberries (or another dried fruit like figs or currants), coarsely chopped roasted almonds, fresh herbs, a dollop of Dijon, a dash of mayo and vinegar, salt and pepper and you've got a meal in minutes over a bed of greens. Other flavors that work in tandem with chicken include curry, paprika, cinnamon and almost any fresh herb imaginable. Make this your own!
Meal #4: Chicken Sandwiches Supreme! Again, versatility and imagination set the stage for show-stopping chicken sandwiches prepared with freshly roasted chicken breast. Go for the best quality bread you can find, from baguette to whole grain, and fill it with thinly cut slices of the remaining breast and toppings. One sliced breast will handily complete four sandwiches. Zip up mayo with fresh basil and Dijon mustard for a fresh, personalized sauce, top with a slice of red onion and crisp romaine. Go whole hog and add a few pieces of browned bacon and a slice of avocado if the mood moves.
Chicken never tasted so good for so little.


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I cannot for the life of me make sets consistently. I have tried and I do have some sets here and there, but cannot do them on demand. That is why I want to set it up here(pun intended) and now to discipline myself and focus on sets til I have this skill under my wing.
Just so I won't drive myself crazy in the process, I am going to limit the goal to half a set per session or 2 matching beads for sessions around/under 2 hours.
The sets shall be 5 to 7 beads, with or without spacers.
There, I said it! Let it be known throughout the land!
Saturday, April 19, 2008
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(third-person singular simple present sits out, present participle sitting out, simple past and past participle sat out)
- (idiomatic) To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance.
- I don't like this tune, and I'm rather tired, so I think I'll just sit out.
- I don't like this song and I'm really tired, so I think I'll just sit it out.
- (idiomatic) To not participate.
- (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
- (Amateur Wrestling Term) To escape a hold while face-down by swinging one's legs around into the sitting position.


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Love Language: Jubilee Project Short Film & Fundraiser
Love is in the air and this short film is chock full of it.
This is the story of a boy who falls in love with a girl.
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The Jubilee Project makes films for good causes. This film was produced to raise awareness and support for the American Society for Deaf Children. There are two ways that you can support this cause:
1. Go to jubileeproject.bandcamp.com to buy the soundtrack for this video, "Peaches" by New Heights. You can also donate directly to the cause at this site.
2. Sign up to become a sponsor of this video. Each sponsor will be asked to donate 1 penny for each view this video receives in November. So if the video is watched 1000 times this month, sponsors will each donate 10 dollars. You can sign up to become a sponsor by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. All proceeds will go to the American Society for Deaf Children.
The American Society for Deaf Children is a non-profit organization started in 1967 that supports and educates families of deaf and hard of hearing children and advocates for high quality programs and services.


text: The time has come! Our new Spring collection will be up tonight at 6pm CST at Red Velvet! Our new items will be listed in the Fashion + Accessories sections. Items will be on the site at 5:30pm (they will show as "sold out" until 6, but don't worry they are not sold out) so you can take a look and check out sizes/prices etc before they go live! As always, all orders over $200 get free shipping (anywhere in the world) and we do ship internationally to all countries. Thanks so much for your support + excitement!!


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The library will be closed for the Veterans Day Holiday on Wednesday, November 11th. An All-Island Seasonal Flu Clinic will be held at the high school that day.
The library will close early at 6:30 on Tuesday, November 17th, so that staff and patrons can attend the Tisbury Special Town meeting at 7pm at the Tisbury School Auditorium.
The library will be open from 10am to 1pm on Wednesday, November 25th, and will be closed on Thanksgiving day and the day following. The library will be open regular hours both Saturday and Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend.
The library will be presenting a variety of special programs throughout the month. Visit our website or stop in the library to view a detailed calendar of events!


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Ishq Mein Marjawan 19th May 2018 Written Episode Update: Reyansh is JD and Tara asks Arohi to kill Prithvi
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Ishq Mein Marjawan 19th May 2018 Written Episode, Written Update on TellyUpdates.com
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Pankti says thank you Reyansh. He says coming. He comes to washroom and checks his mask. He takes it off. Its JD. He says this is my real face. He says I am such a good planner. He says I can do anything for you Pankit. You have to be mine. Your life and death is in my hands. I planned all this to have you. He says I knew Reyansh will help me at any cost. I used his face everywhere. He says I used this mask. He recalls scaring Pankti. He says I wanted to be with you forever Pankti. You can't go away from me. He takes out his mask. He says I forgave so many mistakes you did but I can't forgive Ahan. He can't be saved. I put bombarding material in jacket but he threw it away in performance nad it fell on pankti so I had to save her. He wears his mask.
Reyansh Ahan and Pankti are at london eye. Ahan says you showed us true colors of London thanks a lot. He gives him a paper. He says I am coming to India with you. Ahan says that' such a good news. He says I will live there for two months. Pankti says that's great. He says the journey has only started. Lets go. They land in India.
Reyansh says I will get a hotel. Ahan says no you will live with us. Pankti says you have done so much for us. He says okay. They come home.
Aparna hugs Ahan and Pankti and says thank God you two are home. She says I missed you two. Reyansh comes in. Ahan introduces him to family. Vikram looks at him and finds something weird. Ahan tells everything to Aparma. JD looks around and recalls what happened.
Scene 2
Virat says why did you kill Maharaj? She says I didn't kill anyone. Virat says we should lock her in the room. Deep saays stop. Arohi did all this. she wants to get Tara in trouble. Roma says Tara you have to be careful.
Aparma says you two should get married now. Manav says lets call pandit ji tomorrow and fix the date. Reyansh breaks a vase. Everyone is dazed. It cuts his hand. Pankti says are you okay? She holds his hand. he says I am fine.
Tara darts at Arohi's face. she says why is Arohi not arrested? They think she is Tara nd they saved her. But I have so many ways.
Deep reads the letter and says you wrote it and wanted to tell everyone that you weren't home. I wont believe rest that you have done. He burns it. arohi says you think I killed him? Deep says you might. You tried killing me too. I could tell everyone because I want to take my revenge. Go from here before Tara attacks you. Tara calls Arohi.
Chawani calls Arohi and says please come and save me. Arohi comes to the place. Tara comes and says I calle dyou here in Chawani's voice. Arohi says you did this. She says I have you little spy with me. She says see this gift. Arohi sees the gift and screams. She says how can you do this. You are an animal. She says I came here in a ship. I killed Mahraj. But you got out of this as well. i will play a game with you. These are four ace cards. Deep virat roma and virat. One of them will die tonight and you will responsible for it.
Bindya is crying. Roma says don't cry I have deposited a lot of money you will live your life peacefully.
Virat says how will we stop this from going to media. Tara says you have to kill anyone of these. Or i will leak the video of Maharaj being killed and you will be arrested. Your London planning was really good. I am really impressed, You even killed Deep. Lets see who you kill tonight. You have to kill otherwise Chawani.. She gives her a card ad says you have to kill Prithvi. He has illegitimate relationship with my mom. I hate cheaters. He has to die.
Roma says Deep we have to stop this blackmailer. She sent me this video. Deep says you promised me you will tell me about my parents but you didn't. I wont do anything until you tell me truth. Roma says save my daughter and I will tell you everything about Wasundra. Deep says you said you don't know anything. This means you know. Roma says I will tell you as much as I know. Please save my daughter. arohi comes in. Roma says Tara I asked you not to go out. Virat says people think you killed Maharaj. You might get arrested.
Arohi says I can't kill anyone. I didn't kill Maharaj. Tara calls and says you have to kill Prithvi. Arohi says I can't do this. Tara slaps chawani. He screams. tara says I will kill him if you don't kill Chawani. He has to die. Arohi says what should I do. I can't kill anyone. I am not Tara. I have to save Chawani as well. Should I tell deep? But he wont help or even listen. She comes to prithvi's room. arohi says I have to talk to Deep. She sees a knife near Prithvi's bed full of blood. Arohi picks it.. She says has tara killed Prithvi. She takes off his sheet. Prithvi wakes up and says you wanted to kill me. Deep Virat roma come in. Roma says Tara you were killing prithvi? Deep looks at Arohi.
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5th December 2017
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The poke bowl… Growing up it was what Papa brought home from the grocery store to have for lunch while we watched college football bowl games around Christmas time. Papa is what we call our grandfather on my mother's side. My grandparents live in Hawaii and poke has been a staple in my life for as long as I can remember. Now it's the latest food trend, with restaurants popping up all over the DFW area.
If you have a phobia of raw fish or live under a rock, poke is chunks of raw fish (usually ahi tuna) marinated in soy sauce and sesame oil. The modern poke bowl joint serves poke on a bed of rice and whatever else you want in there: marinated cucumbers, edamame, ginger, etc. I'm basing most of what I say off of Malibu Poke. It's delicious. You order on touch screens. The options are overwhelming in a good way. For me, poke is best served in plastic containers from the grocery store and eaten in the comfort of a home. Everyone passes tubs around while we shout at the TV. But I can't complain that the best way for me to get poke in Dallas is to punch my order on a touch screen surrounded by pastel walls. You know why? It's the only way I can eat poke.
That's the interesting thing about food trends. They aren't trends for everybody. Every trend originated from somewhere. Poke came from Hawaii. I'm certainly not the first person to deal with this kind of ideological transition when it comes to cuisine. So, this post is for all of us. It's like knowing about a band in junior high and that same band becoming a HUGE deal in high school. "I started listening to them before you even knew they existed." That's me and poke. And it's you and some other food. We can choose to be bitter, or we can be excited that it's made it out of wherever it's from – even if it's taken a couple hits along the way. Let's be excited.
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Posted by Steph in
Chemo Round 4, Hospital Stay, on Friday, January 26. 2007 at 04:27
Other than pretty irritable after 5pm, Asher had a good day in his hospital bed.
The plan is, no fever through the night, no bacteria growth (normal wait of 48 hours), and higher ANC by morning (keep up above 250), then Asher can go home early in the day tomorrow.
Crossing fingers.
Comments (5)
- #1 - 2007-01-26 04:10 - (Reply)
Hi Steph, Hoping & praying all goes well so that Asher can go home. I hope you can get some rest as well.
mary Alice Dorschel
- #2 - 2007-01-26 13:11 - (Reply)
hope you are packing up to head out...this round going well, and, my fingers are crossed when I say that, yes!....you are wise to check his head, and keep checking any litttle part of him you can...it probably wont happen again, but, your checking may be one reason why this time..no need to not keep on it. Just wanted to say hello...
Much love sent from VA
Tracy Marie
- #3 - 2007-01-26 15:10 - (Reply)
Keeping fingers and toes crossed for Asher to go home, Steph! Big hugs to both of you and praying for all of you!
Tracy Marie and Family
Michelle Adams
- #4 - 2007-01-26 16:04 - (Reply)
Crossing my fingers too!
Hi Asher!!!!!!!
Brandie, Cole & Ryan
- #5 - 2007-01-26 18:19 - (Reply)
Hope you are one your way home by now little buddy!


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What Psychology Revealed About Tarot In Your Life
Tarot cards are a divination tool that originated in Italy around mid-1400s, then traveled to France to be studied by the mystics, then appeared in England in the 1800s as a decision-making tool, and finally they made it into our modern world. How and why they work has different theories and explanations. One that any person should resonate with easily comes from Carl Jung, a famous psychotherapist who opened up a lot of scientific minds to beliefs that also fall under the spiritual realm like the shadow self, alchemy, and the collective consciousness (and most importantly unconscious). He also had his own take on Tarot.
If you are like me and have used the cards long enough, you will see that their predictions can be spot on and never a pure coincidence. Have you ever pulled the same card daily for six months? I have, and more than once. In my experience, while the cards can predict the future, they point to the most likely outcome or timeline based on your current choices. That can always change. The beauty and power in knowing that outcome is that you do have the opportunity to change it.
Because of this, I personally find the cards to be even more useful for telling you, your present more than the future. There are many things going on in our mind that are the driving force behind like events and choices. There are also many things that are hidden or ignored; some we even lie to ourselves about.
This is why Carl Jung's Tarot understanding is so profound. The cards with their powerful imagery and metaphors take you deep into your subconscious mind and bring what's hidden to the surface.
"Those are sort of archetypal ideas, of a differentiated nature, which mingle with the ordinary constituents of the flow of the unconscious, and therefore it is applicable for an intuitive method that has the purpose of understanding the flow of life, possibly even predicting future events, at all events lending itself to the reading of the conditions of the present moment" Carl Jung wrote.
Carl Jung's View of Tarot
"The set of pictures on the Tarot cards [are] distantly descended from the archetypes of transformation" Carl Jung wrote.
Jung viewed the 22 Major Arcana of Tarot (with the 56 Minor Arcana giving additional information) as The Hero's Journey—a common mythological template for a hero who goes on a journey from its beginning and struggles to transformation and victory to their return. This is the journey that unites all cultures and ages, all tales mythical and historical, all of human dreams and primal emotions.
This is also the journey that you take in your lifetime. Each Tarot card is another step on this journey.
Each of us is a hero or heroine in our lives. We have our struggles and triumphs, our beginnings and completions. Tarot cards can guide each of you through each phase on this journey.
The Hero's Journey And The Major Arcana
The Hero's Journey has 17 stages described by famous American Professor of Literature Joseph Campbell, who was inspired by Jung's work. Other versions may vary a little. The stages can be grouped into three phases: the Departure (where the person is at the beginning of their journey with not much knowledge, skill, or understanding); the Initiation (in which the person is transformed into a more powerful, wise, or strong version of themselves); and the Return.
The Departure phase includes five stages: home, the call to adventure, first help from a mentor (sometimes described as supernatural), crossing the threshold (first transitional period), the belly of the whale (symbolizing death and rebirth, being back in a "womb," being back in the unknown).
The Initiation phase holds six stages: the road of trials, the meeting with the Goddess (experiencing true love), Woman as temptress (metaphor of temptation that may have the person abandon their mission), atonement with the father (reconciliation with a teacher or higher force), apotheosis (the hero finally gains the status of a hero), and the ultimate boon (achievement of one's quest).
The Return phase has six stages: refusal of the return, the magic flight (trying to escape to stay in the magic world and not return), rescue from without (being brought back to their real life), the crossing of the return threshold (the hero has to return home with the wisdom they gained), master of two worlds (the hero now has to find a balance between leading spiritual and material lives), and the freedom to live (resurrection).
Here's how these 17 stages align with the 22 Major Arcana Tarot. Few, like The Lovers card, have a slightly different order of events in Tarot than the Hero's Journey but all phases happen.
1. Home – The Fool/The Child
The Fool/Child represents new beginnings. The hero is still innocent and lacking knowledge or skill, not really having a clear vision of the future.
2. The Call To Adventures – The Magician And The High Priestess
This is the stage at which the hero hears the call of destiny. It may be it his or her owl soul or an intuitive pull, or it can be a real life invitation to move, change careers, or take on another big life change.
The meaning of The Magician is inspired action, and the High Priestess is your intuition that is guiding you.
3. First Help From A Mentor – The Empress And The Emperor
Your first mentors are vital on this journey. The feminine mentor is represented by the Empress representing creativity. The masculine figure is the Emperor representing structure, focus, and determination.
4. Crossing The Threshold – The Hierophant
The first real push to set you off on your journey is done by the Hierophant. He represents one's belief system, especially spiritual in nature. These are the core principles that will guide your journey.
5. The Belly Of The Whale– The Hermit
The Hermit card symbolizes soul searching. The person goes internally into the inner world with the outer world feeling unknown. It is like being reborn again.
6. The Road Of Trials – The Chariot And Wheel Of Flow
When The Wheel of Fortune turns, big changes are coming. Actually, everything changes. While this card can bring good things, it can also signify big life challenges.
7. The Meeting With The Goddess – The Lovers
The Lovers is the main relationship card and love card in the deck. At this stage you either meet your true love or learn the true meaning of self-love.
8. Woman As Temptress – Death
At this stage of your journey, you may feel an urge to stop, to abandon your mission. Maybe you have found something good along the way and you want to cling to it or you have found difficult challenges and you think of giving up.
The Death card never symbolizes physical death (unless surrounded by other cards and that is rare). Instead it symbolizes the end of something, an end to a life chapter, or death to a part of you that can no longer get you where you need to go.
9. Atonement With The Father – Strength/Passion, Justice, and The Hanged Man
Atonement means taking the right action where previously the person had done wrong. After not quitting the journey in the previous death stage, the hero realizes some of their faults and wants to improve as a person and leader.
The Strength/Passion card gives you the courage and power to do that. The Justice card helps brings the truth to the surface and make everything fair and just.
The Hanged Man symbolizes the need to let go of what was and surrender to life, destiny, and the higher power.
10. Apotheosis – Temperance/Resurrection
At this stage, the hero is recognized for being a hero, and becomes almost divine. To not let this get to his or her ego, the Temperance card provides balances and reminds of the true purpose.
11. The Ultimate Boon –The Devil
The Devil represents the shadow self of an individual, desires, and dark thought patterns. It also represents the biggest battle both internal and external (most often internal). It is the hero's biggest, most important battle (and their victory)
12. Refusal Of The Return – The Tower
The Tower represents sudden change, a revelation, and an awakening. In the Hero's journey is comes at a time where the hero is done with the quest and needs to return home but does not want to do so. His or her whole world collapses for a moment.
13. The Magic Flight – The Moon
The Moon card shows the reader that there are subconscious desires and thoughts at play, but most of the time they are based on an illusion. The hero tried to make a magical escape in order to stay in the "magical" world, but he or she must go back to reality, must return home.
14. Rescue From Without – The Star
At this stage the hero feels hope for their real life and going back home. The Star is all about having faith, feeling a sense of purpose, as well as renewal.
15. The Crossing Of The Return Threshold – The Sun
The Sun is a card of victory, success, and positivity. The hero has gone through every challenge, and the sun is shining again for them.
16. Master Of Two Worlds/Resurrection – Judgment/The Aeon
The Judgment card means ascension in the hero's journey. It is the call for rebirth and completion in order to start again.
17. The Freedom To Live – The World/The Crown
The completion and final freedom is marked by the World/Crown card. This is the end of the hero's journey, returning home having accomplished the mission.
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