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The UMBC men's soccer team (7-2-2, 1-0-1 AE), riding a five-game unbeaten streak, plays its first of two mid-week league games of the campaign on Wednesday, Oct. 14 when the Retrievers travel to Burlington to take on the Vermont Catamounts (6-5-1, 1-1-0 AE). A 2:30 p.m. kick-off time is slated for Virtue Field and the game will be streamed on the www.americaeast.tv.
Fans can also access the live video via UMBC Front Row, Retriever Athletics' mobile app or follow along on Twitter @UMBCMensSoccer.
UMBC is unbeaten in its last five matches and is coming off a 1-0 victory over Albany on Homecoming this past Saturday. Sophomore midfielder Gregg Hauck scored in the 26th minute and Billy Heavner made six saves as the Retrievers played the final 47 minutes down and held off the Great Danes.
The Retrievers are unbeaten in 21 consecutive America East regular season contests (17-0-4) with the last setback coming at Albany (2-1) in October of 2012. UMBC is unbeaten in 27 straight games (22-0-5), including AE playoff contests, the longest streak in league history.
The Retrievers earned their 100th victory at Retriever Soccer Park with the 2-1 victory over Howard on Sept. 29. Opened in 1998, UMBC is now 101-22-25 (.766) in 148 games and on its Bermuda turf.
Senior forward Darius Madison leads the team in goals (6), total points (15), and shots attempted (40). Junior linemate Kennedy O'Shea posted his first two career multiple-point games (1g, 1a vs. GW, Mason) and has four goals and three helpers on the campaign. Senior midfielder Michael Scott recorded assists on both goals versus Mason, and just added one on the game-winning goal versus Albany and now has a team-high five (tied for second in America East) on the campaign.
Current Rankings: UMBC moved up one spot into the No. 4 position in the East regional rankings as of Oct. 13. The Retrievers are also receiving votes (34th) in the College Soccer News Oct. 12 poll.
Honored: Junior goalkeeper Billy Heavner was tabbed co-America East Men's Soccer Player of the Week for his efforts versus Albany. Heavner tied a career high with six saves in the Retrievers' hard-earned 1-0 victory over Albany in Saturday's Homecoming Day contest. His six saves equaled his total recorded in a 2-1 win over U Mass Lowell in 2014.
Heavner posted the fourth shutout of the season and the 12th in his 26 career starts. He tied his coach of a year ago, Dan Louisignau, for seventh place on UMBC's all-time shutouts list. One of America East's inaugural Elite 18 Award winners last fall, Heavner leads the conference with a 0.76 goals against average and is second with a save percentage mark of 77.8.
UMBC men's soccer captured both America East honors on Sept. 28, as senior forward Darius Madison and Patrick Jean-Gilles earned the league's Player and Rookie of the Week honors, respectively.
Madison earned the top honor for the second time this year, as game-winning goals versus Ohio State and Oakland netted him the award on Sept. 8. He recorded his third career two-goal game and first as a Retriever, keying UMBC's come-from-behind 3-2 victory at George Washington on Sept. 22. Madison's other two-goal games occurred versus Notre Dame and James Madison when he competed for the Virginia Cavaliers.
Jean-Gilles has started the last nine games at center midfielder and posted a highlight-reel goal in the tenth minute vs. the Patriots. The 14-yard strike into the upper part of the cage accounted for his first collegiate goal and stood up as the game-winner.
Vermont is 6-5-1 and 1-1-0 in America East after a 2-1 upset victory at Hartford on Saturday evening. The Catamounts are 3-1-1 at Virtue Field in 2015.
Junior forward Bernard Yebaoh shared America East Men's Soccer Player of the Week with Heavner. Yeaboah scored once and added an assist in the Vermont's triumph on Saturday. Yeboah ranks second on the team in goals (3) and third in points (7). Junior forward Brian Wright leads UVM with six goals and three assists, including a two-goal effort in a 4-2 win over Marist.
Retriever Ramblings: The UMBC men's soccer program was ranked No. 12 in the 2015 National Soccer College Association of America Division I preseason rankings. The No. 12 ranking is the top preseason mark for the Retriever program. Last season, Pete Caringi's squad, coming off back-to-back America East titles, was tabbed at No. 19 in the August poll.
A season ago, UMBC became the first team in NCAA tournament history to win four consecutive road games and to post shutouts in four consecutive games to reach the College Cup.
With four America East tournament titles (in 12 years), UMBC trails only Boston University, with seven total America East championships. The Retrievers became the second team in league history to win regular season and tournament titles in back-to-back years. Boston U. achieved that feat in 1993-94.
The three-time defending league champions will welcome back 16 letterwinners and three starters from last year's 14-6-5 squad. In the first four games of the season, UMBC started three freshmen (Riley Collins, Kyle Saunderson and Tyler Ward) and a transfer (Bill Kerr) along the backline.
Seniors Malcolm Harris and Michael Scott and junior Billy Heavner have been named captains of the team.
Head Coach Pete Caringi, Jr., is celebrating his 25th season at the helm of the Retrievers. In 25 campaigns, under Caringi, UMBC is 161-48-31 (.735) at home and the Retrievers are 101-22-25 (.768) in 148 games on the Bermuda turf of Retriever Soccer Park. The Retriever mentor has an overall record of 267-152-61 (.618) during his tenure on Hilltop Circle and in 35 years as a head coach, he is 436-179-69 (.688).
All-Time Series: UMBC is 6-5-2 in 13 previous meetings versus Vermont and has won the last three contests. The teams met twice at Retrievers Soccer Park in 2014 and UMBC came away with a 5-1 regular season triumph and a 3-1 victory in the America East semifinals. The Retrievers are 2-3-1 in Burlington, snapping a four-game winless streak with a 2-1 victory in 2013. Michael Scott scored a pair of goals versus Vermont (one in each game) last season, while Gregg Hauck and Michael Burgos also hit the nets.
Notable: UMBC is 4-4-5 in 13 America East openers… The Retrievers are now 48-31-15 in 12-plus seasons of America East play… UMBC had won all four games in 2015 when taking the lead, until the draw at Hartford dropped them to 4-0-1.
The home loss to La Salle snapped a ten-game (9-0-1) unbeaten streak by UMBC at Retriever Soccer Park… UMBC is 19-2-4 in its last 25 games at home and 30-3-5 in its last 38 contests at the park.
UMBC is undefeated in season openers since a 3-0 loss to Georgia Southern in 2005… The Retrievers are 9-0-1 in the span… The Retrievers did not allow two or more goals in a game in the final 16 games of the 2014 season… UMBC is 0-2-7 in its last nine overtime contests.
With five goals scored vs. Central Arkansas, UMBC matched its season high of 2014, a 5-1 victory over Vermont on Nov. 1… UMBC's last shutout of five goals or more occurred in game No. 3 of the 2009 season, a 6-0 triumph over St. Joseph's… The seven goals scored in two games are the most since UMBC tallied seven in 2010.
Even great programs have difficulty rallying from two-goal (or more) deficits to earn draws or victories, as UMBC did in its 2-2 draw versus Fairfield… The last time UMBC made that style comeback occurred way back in 1997, as they rallied from a 3-1 hole to defeat Coastal Carolina, 4-3, in overtime on Oct. 11, 1997.
O'Shea posted his first career goal, the game-tying goal versus Fairfield… Malcolm Harris' missed penalty kick versus Fairfield was the first misfire by a Retriever since Daniel Welsh was unsuccessful vs. Albany on Oct. 1, 2011. The Retrievers had converted 10 in a row between misses and have started a new streak with Madison's two consecutive conversions.
For the first time since Sept. 4 (span of four games), UMBC scored the game's first goal in the victory over the Patriots. Freshman Patrick Jean-Gilles scored his first career goal for the game-winner in the 10th minute of play, while junior Kennedy O'Shea, making his first career start, added his fourth goal early in the second half for the Retrievers.
The come-from-behind win at GW marked the second time in the young season that the Retrievers have rallied from two scores down to earn a result. In the opener, UMBC fell behind Fairfield, 2-0, before tying the game up at 2-all. The last time that a UMBC men's soccer team rallied from two goals down to win occurred in October of 1997, when they erased a 3-1 deficit to defeat Coastal Carolina, 4-3.
UP NEXT: UMBC returns home on Saturday, Oct. 19 to host first-place New Hampshire (8-1-2, 2-0-0), the lone unblemished team in the conference. Kick-off time at Retriever Soccer Park is set for 7:00 p.m.


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If you're feeling the need to make a change after the Christmas festivities, now's the time to consider which forms of exercise are right for you.
Which workouts to benefit the whole body would fit best into your daily and weekly routines?
An excellent low-impact exercise which can be built into your every-day activities. Best of all, it's free!
It has numerous health benefits. It:
- Exercises the whole body including the heart. A Harvard study found that walking for 3mph for 30 minutes a day can cut the risk of heart disease in women by up to 40%.
- Helps to reduce the risk of diseases like Type 2 diabetes, stroke, and some cancers, NHS advice says.
- Has a low impact on joints.
- Burns calories and helps to reduce the percentage of body fat. A study by the University of Tennessee in Knoxville found that women who walked more than 10,000 steps a day, on average, had 40% less body fat than those who averaged fewer than 6,000 steps a day.
- Can help people suffering from depression and stress, several academic studies have shown – particularly if walking is done in green areas.
A brilliant whole body exercise, running can be free or done indoors in bad weather.
Its health benefits include:
- Substantial reductions in the risk of heart disease from a relatively small amount of running every day, according to the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Five or ten minutes a day at relatively slow speeds (such as a 12-minute mile) reduces the risk of heart disease.
- The release of feel-good endorphins and endocannabinoids in the brain.
- Strengthens your bones better than low impact exercises.
- Burns calories fast and helps promote weight loss – you could burn up to 398 calories in a one-hour jog.
- Works your legs, back, and core, and helps to stabilise your spine.
- Can help the brain relax in the same way meditation does.
If you want to exercise your body without putting strain on it, swimming is a wonderful choice.
Its health benefits include:
- Cardiovascular fitness and endurance. It helps reduce the risk of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes – even when swimming for just 30 minutes a week, Sport England says.
- An all-body workout. 30 minutes in a pool is worth 45 minutes on land because the water makes you work harder, says Sport England.
- Relaxation and it helps to alleviate stress.
- A low risk of injury and has a low impact on joints because the water supports 90% of your weight. It's also great if you have an existing injury.
- Burns calories effectively and helps reduce or maintain weight – a gentle swim for half an hour can burn 200 calories.
This wonderful workout can also get you from A to B – and can be built into your daily commute or weekend activities. It gets you fit, saves you money, and helps save the planet.
Its health benefits include:
- An excellent cardiovascular workout – ride for at least 150 minutes a week to maximise the benefits, NHS Choices says.
- A lower impact on joints than running, but still offers some benefits when it comes to strengthening bones. It helps to improve joint mobility and general flexibility.
- Helps reduce the risk of diseases like heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, some cancers, and stroke.
- Improves muscle strength, posture, and co-ordination.
- Can help reduce stress and improve mood.
- Burns calories very effectively and helps reduce body fat. You could burn around 650 calories an hour.
So, which should you choose?
A combination of these exercises would give you most of their benefits, but it's important to choose exercise which you enjoy and which you can easily fit into your routines – so that you keep doing it!
You could combine one or two of the four key methods of getting exercise with other ways like yoga classes, dancing, aerobics classes, or weight training to keep yourself interested.
Need more advice? Call me on 02920 676 623.

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ShowHouse 2016 - Heather's Room
My room was the foyer: a long, narrow space, oddly shaped at about 30 feet long by 7 feet wide. Entrances are often overlooked spaces. We typically breeze right through them, perhaps stopping only to drop our keys or a piece of mail. That attitude tends to show in our home decorating too: entryways often have only a single piece of artwork, and maybe a side table.
What if we elevated our entryways?
I wanted to create a visual stop in the space, as well as enhance function. Since this entryway has another opening into the garden, I saw an opportunity to create a comfy reading spot: a place of peace, where you could throw open the doors to the garden and enjoy the view.
The theme for this year's ShowHouse was "Everything Old is New Again Mexico." An aesthetic revival of Colonial Mexico, married with the New Mexico of today. I took my inspiration from artist Frida Kahlo, and went over the top with it, incorporating bold, vibrant colors, and soft, loungy furniture that invites you to take a seat.


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The TRYP by Wyndham Kassel City Centre Hotel is at the heart of the city centre, around five minutes walk from Kassel central station. Around our beautiful Jugendstil hotel, you can find numerous shops, restaurants and cultural events. Read more about the attractions around our hotel under Kassel.
Coming from the A7 or A44 motorway, take the exit towards "Kassel Zentrum" and follow the signs for Hauptbahnhof (central station). The TRYP by Wyndham Kassel City Centre Hotel is around 200 metres from the station on the corner of "Erzbergstrasse/Werner-Hilpert-Strasse".
From Kassel central station, the TRYP by Wyndham Kassel City Centre Hotel can be reached easily and conveniently on foot in five minutes. From Bahnhofsplatz go straight on into Werner-Hilpert-Strasse. The hotel is on the left after around 200 metres. The number 19 bus towards "Harleshausen Kubergraben" stops 50 metres from our hotel, just one stop from the central station.
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A round-up of my latest commissioned oil paintings – Yvette Hess Art
When you take on a commission, you're initially filled with a sense of buzzing energy. When I do commissioned oil paintings, I like to get excited by the client's story and of course, I think I'm invincible and tell myself things like:
"You got this!"
"Come on, of course, you can do that. Pshhhhhh."
The ego is in charge.
What they don't tell you about commissioned work
It can be scary as hell when it's time to show the client!
Why? Because you had to create what the client expected or obviously exceed those expectations.
And some clients don't always explain themselves well, so just like a project team needs to ascertain what the business problems are and find out what the client envisions for a new system to do- you need to determine what the client wants on that canvas.
So, get a contract in place.
It sounds silly and admin-y and over-the-top, but it's there to protect both parties.
Below I share my experiences of not having any contracts in place.
2017 and 2018 commissioned oil paintings
That Yellow Rose commissioned oil painting
I had a client in 2018 who showed me a picture of a yellow rose done in watercolour. She wanted specific colours, no vase, pale background etc. I explained that I work in oil paint and even showed her previous work to give a glimpse of my style.
While I painted it, I felt constricted. Uneasy. But I loved what she was doing for her mother. In the end, I created the image below.
I was as sad as that rose looked. I decided to add a touch of yellow to the background because. Damn. And then that was also an issue. It turned out she wanted a watercolour rose, which I didn't explore at the time. So, after some discussion (she was really sweet about it), I said I'd rather give her money back. We agreed on half and she said I used materials and my time etc.
I then took that rose and did my own thing.
To say that I was "satisfied" is truly an understatement. Maybe because I took the pressure off by doing my own thing, in the end, allowed me to feel free. And it is that freedom that guided every stroke. There was confidence, naturally, but also a sense of embracing this free spirit. It wasn't about whether anyone would like it. It wasn't about the commissioned oil painting. Nope. It was about me.
And it was well received when I decided to received online! It sold less in a day! And who bought it? The one and only Haylee Dugmore from Cassie's Workshop (in Cape Town) who creates beautiful, bespoke and TIMELESS pieces out of old furniture.
Ladybirds and Nova Commissioned oil paintings
The next commission I completed also included some specifics, but I was allowed more freedom in the sense that it was a triptych (three canvas painting) and I had one canvas to play with to join the other two canvases. Please forgive the poor photo quality.
This is what I received in my inbox:
My friend's mom was murdered last year, and she always loved ladybirds. Now the friend is about to have a baby they are naming Nova, which means new life but also butterflies. I was wondering if you could do a three panel painting with a ladybug, something like metamorphosis/healing in the middle and then a butterfly or something. No idea if that makes sense…
Yes, one can be bombarded by the pressure but one thing is for sure- I was moved by the story. This one went relatively quickly, despite being in the middle of a move from Saldanha to Mosselbay. But I tried to not let that get to me (Easier said than done, right?)
I was happy that it was well received, and that I managed to work on a few additional skills, like working with a paintbrush (not a big fan ;P).
Commissioned oil painting for Bold Curiosity's Celeste Stewart
Now this one, was truly one for the books. I am not I-paint-landscapes-for-a-living-person so although I had skies and mountains in mind for Celeste, it was tough finding reference images for exactly what I wanted to portray.
This is what I had to say about the painting on Instagram:
"With her wings of fire, she will soar and be one with the sun." When I think of @celestestewart , I think of bright colours, an amazing laugh and a defiance that challenges traditional definitions of success, societal norms AND how we view ourselves.
In our first meeting, I fell in love with her boldness and how she drew out my secret desire for power. Power isn't a bad thing – andimagine how life changing it can be to fully embrace every bit of power to you to make your dreams come true, to help people and just love yourself ❤ Celeste is one of my mentors and a special cheerleader in my life.
It was a pleasure getting to paint her as I see her. A woman of strength who is always looking up, ready to fly and conquer the next mountain with her beautiful wings.
She's fierce not only because she has made the decision to be, but every bit of her journey has brought her to this place and in this space.
This project is also the last official type of commission that I take on. I need to make space and time to grow in other ways too. Being able to be part of the journey and stories of many of my clients' commissions have been such a joy. You know when you get emotional painting eyes or a lemon 🍋 printed skirt, it's REAL 🔥
And yes, that is her skirt that I managed to add with a palette knife! Check her out online on her page, Bold Curiosity. Bold Curiosity is "a learning and people development consultancy business". <3
Commissioned oil paintings of Emily's children
This project took forever. I'm not even shy to say it. I have progress images of this painting developing and I hated them. Maybe that was one of the reasons why I took forever. Maybe not.
Frustration grew deep within me because 1) I put a lot of pressure on myself and 2) I admire Emily so much (she was one of the reasons why I decided to take a job offer at EY as an associate there years ago). So, imagine with every stroke of my palette knife, I was filled with self-doubt.
It was crippling on most days.
But then I made the conscious decision to rather to the sun, seek the reasons WHY I took on THIS project in the first place:
You know mom life is not easy. Duh. That's what they say and that's probably why wine sells but when I see how much Emily loves and lives for her children, I melt. And I'm inspired. All in one.
I decided to do a round-up of my commissioned oil paintings as I have decided to not taking any more projects of this nature on. There may be that rare occasion, but this doesn't form part of my core business anymore. Doing commissions for heartbeat paintings is something I am still keen to do.
I have a new focus this year, and I'm very excited to share what's on the cards for 2018!
Be B O L D !
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Karen Stander
Amazing talent and a brave woman……
🙂 Thank you kind Karen! <3


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{Robert Bailey – Roane County Historian}
Located South of Kingston in the Laurel Bluff Cemetery in the Laurel Bluff Community is the tombstone of L. Mart Plemons, who was born June 7, 1873, and died on May 10, 1902. On his tombstone is the inscription of "Died from poison administered by his wife." About a month after L.M. Plemons' death, his widow remarried. At this time, questions began to be raised about the cause of his death. An inquest was performed over the body and it was concluded that he had died from arsenic poisoning. It was suspected that he ate fruit for breakfast which had been laced with arsenic. His widow and her second husband were charged with first-degree murder and placed on trial. They were found guilty but the conviction was overturned. In March 1903, they were again tried and found not guilty by a jury trial. It might be that his family saw this tombstone as a way to express their verdict.
Originally Written for the Roane County Newsletter to the Community, May 2014.


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The Idolatry of the Jews? Part 1
Sometimes the best thing a writer can do is not to be clever and brilliant and original. Sometimes the best thing is to give readers words for ideas and conditions they already understand, but may not have quite articulated yet.
Call it: codify the obvious.
And sometimes the best thing a writer can do is reveal a bit of himself, not because he's unique, but because he isn't.
Call it: no, we're not alone. We may not always be comfortable with the company, but we're not alone.
In the last posting, I mentioned that during a long period of enforced inactivity for medical reasons, I got a lot of reading done. Nothing specialized or focused, just whatever came my way and looked interesting. The local library and used book store provided several dozen volumes from decades long gone, not classics, sometimes not even particularly good, but often evocative.
The books that influence you most, perhaps even change you, need not be masterpieces. All they have to do is reach inside and get you going.
And so it was that I came upon Herman Wouk's 1959 This Is My God: The Jewish Way of Life, his personal explanation of Orthodox Judaism and why he chose it.* The book is literate, respectful, genuinely modest, the work of a great novelist, a sincere practicing Jew, and a decent man.
I hated it.
When you have such a seemingly inappropriate reaction, you may not want to inquire too closely into why. It may also take time to figure it out, if you do. I had the curiosity and I had the time. I reread the book. I "reverse engineered" it. Finally, I understood what bothered me so intensely. It was a certain dishonesty, or more aptly a kind of willful self-blinding so ingrained in the Jewish worldview that most of us are probably not even aware of it.
Wouk wrote This Is My God in response to two major issues. The first was the accelerating assimilation of American Jews. As the cliché ran, "The Gentiles don't want to kill us; they want to marry us." The second issue, the accelerating growth of ignorance of things Jewish among his and his children's generations, enabled the first. The two issues coalesced into: why should there continue to be a Jewish people?
Only Jews, among all the world's civilized peoples, have to ask that question. Incessantly. Only Jews, it seems, are unsatisfied with the simple "Existence confers the right of existence" explanation or the easy acceptance of some higher calling, be it expressed as "American Exceptionalism," "The Middle Kingdom," "Mother Russia" or the rest of the catalogue of earthly chosenness. For Jews, there always has to be something more.
There are no doubt many deep reasons why Jews ask it, and ask it so obsessively. Wouk chose not to go there, simply accepted that because we have to ask, we also have to answer. After significant bush-around beating, he concluded, in essence:
We exist because of the Law. We should continue to exist for the sake of the Law, until such time as . . .
Here he trails off, as though in embarrassment. He invokes no messianic expectations, no "Nation of Priests" or "Light unto the Gentiles" imagery or commandments. It all comes down to, "Stay together for the sake of the rules, until something very good happens."
Not much of an answer from such an articulate man and dedicated Jew.
But then, he slips something in, almost as though he didn't want to write about it, couldn't refute it, but had to mention it. He invokes a saying – he gives no source – that "law is the idolatry of the Jews." He then agrees, sorta kinda, by concluding that the statement contains "a sharp half-truth." Then he drops the subject entirely.
I didn't drop the subject. Stay together for the sake of the rules? Stay together for the idolatry of the Jews? What kind of justification is that for a man – for a people – who, except for a small minority, no longer fret the Covenant? They certainly don't credit the legend that every Jew who ever existed or would exist was present at Mount Sinai, giving free consent to eternal servitude to the divine. What kind of justification for a people who embraced a Zionism that specifically rejected the Jewish mission of enlightenment, along with the notion that the mission could only be performed in the Diaspora?
I took up the matter with a rabbi friend. He responded that every religion has its temptations to idolatry. True. But we weren't talking about every religion. We were talking about one only, and one people only. The conversation faded. So did several others. And the question of the "sharp half-truth" remained:
Is law (lower-case l) the idolatry of the Jews?
And if so, what does that mean for any attempt to create a 21st century Jewish civilization that the world needs and will respect?
*Wouk subsequently wrote The Will to Live On (2000), The Language God Talks (2010) and a novel, The Lawgiver (2012).


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Grimsby seafood sector fears impact from haddock, cod quota cuts
UK's main processing hub looks to find ways around sharp reductions by increasing imports from other suppliers where it can.
Grimsby's fish merchants and the processing sector have been left sweating the outcome of last week's haddock quota catch reductions in Iceland and the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea's recommendations for cod in the North Sea.
On Thursday Iceland's Ministry of Fisheries and Agriculture announced it is increasing cod quotas by 3 percent next year, in line with scientific advice from the Marine Research Institute (MRI).
From Sept. 1 the total allowable catch (TAC) for haddock will be reduced by 28 percent, to 40,723 metric tons, although cod catch quotas will increase by 3 percent, from 264,437 metric tons to 272,411 metric tons.
A day later ICES recommended a total allowable catch (TAC) limit of 10,457 metric tons in the North Sea cod fishery for 2020.
Challenging period
ICES' recommendation is a 63 percent cut from last year's recommendation of 28,803 metric tons, and a 70 percent cut from last year's quota of 35,357 metric tons.
For Grimsby, on the northeast coast of England, where processors, fish and chip shops, smokers and retail buyers come to source big volumes of seafood, developments are particularly disconcerting in relation to haddock, which accounts for about half the fish supplied to the market.
"I think it's going to be a challenging period going forward," Martyn Boyers, chief executive of Grimsby Fish Dock Enterprises, which operates the fish market told IntraFish.
While fishing quotas frequently fluctuate from year to year in line with scientific advice, businesses built up through the years have always relied on sales volumes. To get the combination right to be able to secure the volume and sustain the business will be tricky after the cuts, Boyers said.
"We are one of the businesses that will be under pressure because we are volume based," Boyers said.
Automatic price rises?
For Simon Dwyer, secretariat of Grimsby Fish Merchants' Association, the fact that quotas are near back to where they were two years ago does not automatically mean price rises are a foregone conclusion.
"The biggest challenge for price is the rate of exchange, irrespective of volume. That might balance off post-Brexit," he said.
The Grimsby industry will be hoping it can make up for haddock cuts by buying in from Norway and the Faroe islands.
At the same time Dwyer said he is not "overly concerned" that the local processing industry will be affected in terms of cod supplies for production lines.
"Whilst it might tighten the supply a little bit and obviously won't be good news for the catching sector in Scotland, we will probably find our cod supplies from the normal sources that we have in Iceland Norway and the Faroe Islands," he said.
For Patrick Salmon, owner of high end haddock smoker Alfred Enderby who represents a small tight-knit community of salmon and whitefish smokers in Grimsby, the potential fallout from the quota cuts is unclear.
"We didn't see any real impact in the quota increase of 30 percent [last year] so whether or not we'd see a big impact with a decrease I'm not entirely certain," Salmon said.
Besides haddock and cod, salmon is the other the main species processed in Grimsby. As well as serving the fish and chip shop sector all three fish types go into ready meals in second processing.
All the major supermarkets source cod and haddock from Grimsby. This is predominantly handled by Young's, Seachill, Morrisons and New England Seafood in a region with some 30 processing companies.


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Myself won't put high hopes for the Lingam royal commission to be put into action after the fact finding or after you have brought the nice published report. Myself brought the report by the royal commission on police last time and now regretting it lots. NATO only.
But… let not this deter you from enjoying the tantalising and titillating bits and pieces that the Lingam royal commission might bring you. Its better than Wah Lai Toi stuff anyway.
Malaysiakini reported an exclusive with a Mr Loh Mui Fah who came forward to say he was there when Lingam was captured having the nice high powered lobbying conversation in the videotape. He has found out that his naughty son has recorded the session with a high powered camera. He didn't know who leaked the video to Mr PKR Anwar. He was also not happy with Anwar for sharing the recording with you and me. Horrors…! Anwar may have committed a terrible faux pas there (if he knew the owner of the recording and didn't ask for permission, that is).
Why Mr Loh came out to confess? Because he was fed up with the tailing, threatening phone calls. Yes, a nice example of invasion on privacy at work here. I'm sure Mr Loh would support Chua Soi Lek if the former Health Minister were able to push for a Privacy Act. Speaking of which, we all also have to get ready for invasion on OUR personal privacy… as soon as those on-lease CCTVs are installed everywhere. Imagine, being caught on CCTV meeting a 'personal' friend on the streets.
Here's a banana question for you: How did the nice Lingam recording get into the hands of Anwar?
NB: Why give Mahathir the limelight in my post title? Da man's gotta be da link, man…


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Is a crime to play around at your job acting like you going to shoot somebody?
Question Details: I was playing with another co-worker who was joking with me and I jestered back acting like I was going to shoot at him.
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1) It is not clear that it was a crime: under Oklahoma statutes section 21-641, assault is "any willful and unlawful attempt or offer with force or violence to do a corporal hurt to another." A threat of force can be assault, but it must be more than words--it generally (to constitute an "offer") must involve a threatening gesture, brandishing a weapon, or the like. And furthermore, it must be a credible threat to a reasonable person. So it is *possible* that if you acted "like was I going to shoot him" in such a serious way that a reasonable person would believe it was a legitimate threat, that is a crime--but clearly joshing or joking around would not be.
2) However, regardless of whether it is a crime or not, unless you had a written employment contract guarantying or protecting your job, you were an employee at will and could be terminated for this reason (since employees at will may be terminated for *any* reason).


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As expected by all local chess pundits, IM Jimmy Liew was being rested for this round and was replaced by Edward Lee . However the Egyptian lead by World Junior Champion - GM Ahmed Adly proved to strong for our team when he beat Malaysia no.1 - IM Mashafizul in board 1. The others Egyptian players also didn't show any mercy when they won on all four board !
Our best performer so far - FM Lim Yee Weng who is unbeaten before the round 7 game started registerd his first lost against GM Amin Bassem.
GM Adly Ahmed (2586) - IM Mas Hafizulhelmi (2439) [A00]
Dresden Olympiad (7), 20.11.2008
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 c6 4.0–0 Bf5 5.d3 h6 6.b3 Nbd7 7.Bb2 e6 8.Nbd2 Bh7 9.e4 !? An interesting pawn sacrifiece by Adly. I'm not sure whether this is still thoery or just plain novelty but Fritz gave 3 lines : 9.c4; 9.Qe1; 9.Re1 . However Adly pawn sacrifiece did gave him strong initiative as you can see in the next few moves.
9...dxe4 10.dxe4 Nxe4 11.Nxe4 Bxe4 12.Re1 Bxf3?!
Probably this increase white development tempo. White queen is now develop actively and leaving the space for Rad1 controling the d file. Better should be 12...Bh7 keeping eye on b1-h7 diaganol and pressure pawn on c2. 13.Qxf3 Qg5 14.Rad1 Qg6 15.Qf4 0–0–0 16.Be4 f5 17.Bxc6 !A powerfull sacrifiece that tear a part black defense 17...bxc6 18.Qc4 Nc5 probably better is 18...Nb8 - defending the c6 and a6 square. 19.Rxd8+Kxd8 20.Rxe6 Qh5 although White still have a strong initiative 19.b4 Qg4 20.Rxd8+ Kxd8 21.Qxg4 fxg4 22.bxc5 Kd7 23.Rd1+ Kc8 24.Re1 Kd7 25.Re4 h5 26.Bd4 Rh7 27.Rf4 Ke8 28.Be3 g5 29.Re4 Kd7 30.Rd4+ Kc8 31.Bxg5 Rf7 32.Rc4 e5 33.h3 gxh3 34.Be3 Be7 35.Kh2 Bd8 36.Re4 Rf5 37.Kxh3 Kd7 38.Ra4 a5 39.Kg2 Ke6 40.Ra3 Rf7 41.Rd3 Be7 42.Rb3 Bd8 43.Rb8 Kd7 44.Ra8 Rf5 45.f3 h4 46.gxh4 Rh5 47.Kg3 Bf6 48.Kg4 Rxh4+ 49.Kf5 Rh3 50.Ra7+ Kc8 51.Kxf6 Rxf3+ 52.Kxe5 Rxe3+ 53.Kd6 Kb8 54.Rxa5 Kb7 55.Ra4 Rc3 56.Rb4+ Ka7 57.Kc7 Ra3 58.Kxc6 Rxa2 59.Kc7 Ka6 60.c4 Ra5 61.c6 Ra1 62.Kb8 1-0
FM Lim Yee-Weng (2396) - GM Amin Bassem(2560) [A00]
Dresden Olympiad (7), 20.11.2008
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.d4 g6 3.Bf4 Bg7 4.Nbd2 0–0 5.e4 d6 6.Be2 Qe8 7.0–0 Nbd7 8.h3 e5 9.dxe5 dxe5 10.Be3 b6 11.c3 Bb7 12.Qa4 a6 13.Bd3 Nh5
Black play a typical king side manuver in the King Indian Defense . ...f5 is in the menu sooner or later 14.Rfe1 Kh8 15.Qc2 Nf4 16.Bf1 Ne6 17.Ng5 f5 18.Nxe6 Qxe6 19.f3 f4 20.Bf2 g5 21.Bc4 Qg6 22.Kf1 h5 23.Ke2 Rad8 24.Rad1 Nf6 25.Nb3
25...Nxe4! Unexpected and a powerfull move by the Egyptian! Even Fritz didn't consider it at first but after i execute this move, Fritz re-evaluate it as it main chooise ! 26.Bd3 Ng3+ 27.Bxg3 e4 28.Bxe4 Bxe4 29.fxe4 fxg3 30.Rxd8 Rxd8 31.Nd2 Bh6 32.Rd1 g4 33.hxg4 Rf8 34.Rf1 Qxg4+ 35.Nf3 Re8 36.Re1 h4 37.Kf1 h3 38.Kg1 Rd8 39.e5 Qh5 40.e6 Qc5+ 41.Kh1 Rg8 42.Ne5 Qf2 43.Nf7+ Kg7 Yee Weng is winning ! correction - Yee Weng is losing :( i stupidly thought that he is playing black ! 44.Qxf2 gxf2 after 45.Rf1 Be3 black is clearly winning. White rook is passively place to guard black passed pawn on f file whereas his own passed pawn (e6) is shacky. 45.Rd1 Kf6 46.g4 Be3 47.g5+ Kxe6 0–1
IM Ezat Mohamed(2425) vs FM Mok Tze Meng (2308)
Dresden Olympiad (7), 20.11.2008
1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.e4 d6 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.d5 Ne5 6.Be2 Nf6 7.Nf3 Nxf3+ 8.Bxf3 0–0 9.Bg5 a6 10.0–0 Rb8 11.Rc1 c5 12.a4 Bd7 13.Be2 Ne8 14.f4 b6 15.Re1 Nc7 16.Bf1 Bd4+ 17.Kh1 Re8 18.e5 f6 19.Bh4 Rf8 20.Rc2 b5 21.e6 Be8 22.axb5 axb5 23.Ne2 bxc4 24.Nxd4 cxd4 25.Qxd4 Ba4 26.Rcc1 Bb3 27.Bxc4 Rb4 28.Qc3 Rxc4 29.Qxb3 Rxf4 30.Bg3 Rf5 31.Red1 Na6 32.Qb7 Nc5 33.Rxc5 dxc5 34.d6 exd6 ??
a blunder in time trouble. With hindsight, 34...Qa8 is the correct defense, for e.g 35.Qxe7 Qd5! With great drawing chances. Check with your computer yourself :) Ok let me ( Fritz!) give some variation 36. Rg1 [ 36.Ra1 Qd3! threatening checkmate on f1 37.Kg1 (37.h3?? lost to 37...Qxg3!) 37...Qe3+ = ] 36.35.e7 Qc8 36.exf8Q+ Qxf8 37.h3 Qf7 38.Qc8+ Kg7 39.Bxd6 h5 1–0 Mok resign
NM Edward Lee vs FM Abdel Razik Khaled(2406)
Dresden Olympiad (7), 20.11.2008
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Be7 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bd3 c5 6.dxc5 dxe4 7.Nxe4 Nxe4 8.Bxe4 Qxd1+ 9.Kxd1 Bxc5 10.Ke2 Nd7 11.Be3 Bxe3 12.fxe3 Nc5 13.Bd3 f6 14.b4 Na4 15.Bb5+ Bd7 16.Bxa4 Bxa4 17.c4 e5 18.Nd2 0–0–0 19.Nb3 Be8 20.h3 Bh5+ 21.g4 Bf7 22.Nd2 Bg6 23.Rad1 Bd3+ 24.Ke1 h5 25.g5 Bc2 26.Rc1 Bf5 27.h4 Rd3 28.Nf1 Bg4 29.gxf6 gxf6 30.Rh2 f5 31.Rd2 Ra3 32.Kf2 f4 33.Re1 Rf8 34.Kg2 Rg8 35.Kh2 Be6 36.Rc2 Bf5 37.Rd2 a5 38.bxa5 Kb8 39.Ree2 Bd3 40.Rg2 Rg4 41.Kg1 Bxf1 42.Kxf1 Rxe3 43.Rde2 Rc3 44.Rxg4 hxg4 45.Rxe5 g3 46.Rg5 Rxc4 47.h5 Rc1+ 48.Kg2 Rc2+
49.Kg1 ?! Edward should not defend this position passively. [49.Kf3 blockading black connecting passed pawn is more active and create more problem for black for e.g 49...Rh2 (49...Rxa2 50.Kxf4) 50.Kxf4 g2 51.h6] 49...Rxa2 50.Rf5 Rh2 51.Rxf4 Rxh5 52.a6 bxa6 53.Rg4 Kb7 54.Kf1 Rf5+ 55.Ke2 Rf2+ 56.Kd3 Rg2 57.Kc4 Rg1 58.Rg7+ Kb6 59.Rg6+ Ka5 60.Kb3 Kb5 61.Rg4 Kc5 62.Kb2 Kd5 0–1
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Form 2 have made telephones to investigate how sound travels
This week Form 2 made a string telephones to investigate how sound travels. They experimented with different lengths of string and tried using the telephone with taut and loose string to see what happened. On the same topic, they listened to many different sounds and guessed what they were.
In Maths they played an excellent game adding three numbers. They worked with a partner and rolled the dice to produce the numbers. The winner was the one with the most points.
In English the children had some excellent ideas on how they could help the environment. Many children thought it was a great idea to reduce plastic and recycle materials.
Our assembly went very well and the children spoke with confidence and sang beautifully. Well done Form 2!
Now that their cress is home, I would like the children to eat their cress with something original and take a photograph. Enjoy!


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182 "Drinks & A Light Bite" restaurants in London.
When you don't want to commit to a full dinner (blind date, catching up with an aunt, waiting two hours for a table elsewhere), bars with good food are ideal. Make an easy exit after the first round, or go for a second and maybe some food if it's going well. Either way, these spots have you covered.
P Franco is a Clapton wine shop that hosts guest chefs who serve stunning small plates to neighbourhood regulars. You want to be a regular.
Barrafina is a legendary tapas restaurant that's crowded but always worth the wait. The Drury Lane outpost in Covent Garden has a pretty terrace.
The Anchor & Hope in Southwark is one of London's best gastropubs.
Bubala is a restaurant in Spitalfields with an all-vegetarian Middle Eastern menu that tastes as good as it reads, and even better than it looks.
Tayer + Elementary is a three-part bar in Old Street. You should come here to drink and snack, but you should also come here to eat the tasting menu.
The Camberwell Arms is a traditional south London pub, serving great British cuisine during the week and incredible roasts on a Sunday.
Rubedo serves excellent Italian dishes and natural wines on Stoke Newington Church Street.
Sibarita is a casual, affordable tapas spot just far away enough from the madness of Covent Garden's main square.
Not only is the sushi at Sushi Atelier on Great Portland Street great, it's also very affordable. Sit at the bar and get the 12-piece omakase.
Bao Borough is the third outpost of London's most famous Taiwanese restaurant. The buns are still good, but the smaller plates are even better.
Earth Kitchen is an all-day restaurant in Dalston serving tasty, homely food in a very comfortable environment.
Morito is an energetic but corridor-like spot on Exmouth Market specialising in north African and Spanish inspired small plates.
Jolene is a bakery, café, and restaurant on Newington Green serving very nice, very grainy, very wholesome breakfast, lunch and (on some days) dinner.
Peg is a walk-in wine and skewers spot in Hackney from the people behind P. Franco and Bright. It's a place you want to be.
Kerridge's Bar and Grill near Embankment serves tarted up (and expensive) English classics, and nothing about it is hard to get on with.


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Kolkata, Aug 12 :
State miner Coal India (CIL) Tuesday posted an 8 percent growth in consolidated net profit at Rs.4,033 crore for first quarter ending June, as compared to Rs.3,731 crore in same quarter of the last fiscal.
CIL net sales also grew 8 percent to Rs.17,799.5 crore in the quarter in review from Rs.16,472.4 crore in the corresponding quarter of last fiscal.
Operating profit as represented by earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) increased by 8.2 percent year-on-year to Rs.4,281 crore.
Other income of the company declined to Rs.2,180.54 crore in the first quarter, from Rs.2,219.61 crore during the same period last year.
Production of raw coal grew 5.3 percent at the end of June quarter at 108.32 million tonnes (MT) compared to 102.89 MT in the year-ago period, the company said.
CIL's offtake rose by 3.7 percent year-on-year to 119.60 MT during the quarter.
Coal India stock closed Tuesday at Rs.364.35 a share, up 1.86 percent, over its previous close on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).


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Our venture is to accumulate working capital for expansion and growth.
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The D'edge Media is a multi-media company that serves small to medium-sized, non-profit organizations and companies for several years. The company will be based in West Palm Beach, Florida and will operate from a small corporate office.
Ricky A. McCallaCreative Director / CEO
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Tottenham will struggle playing their 'home' games at Wembley, says former Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel Petit
The Frenchman is speaking from experience... the Gunners won only two of six playing at Wembley in 1998/99
TOTTENHAM will struggle to adapt to playing their Champions League games at Wembley.
That's the opinion of former Arsenal and France midfielder Emmanuel Petit, who has his own bad memories after the Gunners adopted the national stadium as "home" back in 1998/99.
Spurs are playing their European games at Wembley this season, starting by hosting Monaco on Wednesday night, as development gets underway at White Hart Lane.
And Petit believes Mauricio Pochettino's side could struggle to adapt at their temporary home - citing his own personal experience.
The Gunners won only two games out of six played at Wembley due to the restricted attendance at their then-home, Highbury.
Arsenal's Wembley woes in 1998/99
Sept 30, 1998: Panathinaikos - Won 2-1
Oct 21, 1998: Dynamo Kiev - Drew 1-1
Nov 25, 1998: Lens - Lost 0-1
Sept 22, 1999: AIK Solna - Won 3-1
Oct 19, 1999: Barcelona - Lost 2-4
Oct 27, 1999: Fiorentina - Lost 0-1
Speaking to The Mirror, the 45-year-old said: "It was not great for us, in fact, it was a disaster.
"In two seasons, we did not qualify from the group. We had problems off the pitch as well as on it — we were nearly late for one game because of the traffic. It was not great preparation.
"They will get more fans. We did. But it is not your home ground.
"Monaco will not be intimidated. They do not get large crowds for their home games, but they face big crowds for many of their away matches so they are used to it – and they are also in good form."
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Not only will the unfamiliar surroundings be a factor, but Petit believes Spurs will be facing a side full of confidence as they make the trip over the Channel.
"They beat PSG just before the international break, they are organised and are playing well," added the Frenchman.
"Spurs need to be careful of them."
Twenty-four hours before Spurs kick off their Euro campaign against Monaco, Arsenal play PSG in the French capital.


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Leticia Sabsay joined LSE in September 2014. Prior to this, she held a lectureship at the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, and was a research associate at the Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University. Previous to her experience in the UK, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Freie Universitat of Berlin (Germany), and was a lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Her work interrogates the entanglement between sexuality, subjectivity and political ideals of freedom and justice as processes of cultural translation, both across disciplines and transnational contexts. Throughout her career, Leticia also developed an enduring interest in theories of performativity and discourse, which led her to publish extensively on Judith's Butler work. This perspective has been central to her current research on disputed ideas of democracy, and how emergent struggles contesting how bodies are differently valued across gender, sexual, and racial lines among others, are embodied in cultural, artistic and political practices, activism and social movements.
feminist and queer theory; performativity and theories of discourse; sexual citizenship and democracy; politics of embodiment;
bodies and sexuality; psychoanalytic theory; visual cultures;
aesthetics and media
Her first two books, published in Spanish, took as a point of departure the process of sexual democratisation in post-dictatorial Argentina. The Norms of Desire: Sexual Imaginary and Communications (2009), employed the performative theory of gender and subject formation to show how media worked together with the law to recreate a new imaginary of citizenship and the public sphere. Sexual Borders: Urban Space, Bodies and Citizenship (2011) expanded on this perspective to explore different mechanisms of regulation that were central to the re-making of sexual citizenship, pointing to the neoliberal trends that demarcated the sexual democratic turn. Cátedra and Paidós, two leading Spanish-language academic international publishers, published both books respectively.
Parallel to this project, she also co-edited a book on the Spanish reception of Judith Butler's perspective on performativity (Judith Butler in Dispute: Readings on Performativity, co-edited with P. Soley-Beltrán, 2012, in Spanish). The book exposes the variety of meanings that Butler's theory might assume when navigating different geo-cultural and political contexts. In so doing, the book decentres common assumptions about the value of Butler's intervention in the field of gender theory.
More recently, her work has focused on a critical examination of the 'sexual rights-bearing subject,' a contemporary political figure derived from hegemonic forms of liberalism within transnational discourses of citizenship and identity politics. She has published a number of articles and book chapters particularly concerned with the expansion and further development of the paradigm of sexual citizenship on a global scale, posing a set of critical questions on the translation of gender and sexual freedom ideals into rights-claims.
Her last book, The Political Imaginary of Sexual Freedom (Palgrave, 2016) develops both a performative and relational approach to the gendered and sexualised body conceived as distinct from the more limited individualistic idea of sexual identity and orientation, an idea that is at play within notions of progress (increased emancipation, the steady extension of rights) in contemporary transnational sexual politics. The analysis draws on cultural texts from film, literature, and the visual arts as well as "glocal" public discourses and theoretical debates to offer a notion of subjective embodiment that is radically relational and psychically divided, and that implies a different conception of democratic sexual politics for our time.
Following from this investigation, her current and forthcoming work continues tracking nonconforming imaginaries of sexuality and embodiment in counter-hegemonic cultural practices, including alternative uses of media and new media and art projects, collectives and artists.
Leticia has also co-edited a volume on Vulnerability and Resistance together with Professors Judith Butler (UC, Berkeley) and Zeynep Gambetti (Bogazici University, Istanbul), published by Duke University Press, 2016.
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Anuja Chandramouli is a bestselling Indian author and New Age Indian Classicist. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, Arjuna: Saga of a Pandava Warrior-Prince, was named in a poll conducted by Amazon India as one of the top 5 books in the Indian Writing category for the year 2013. She also authored the bestselling novel, Kamadeva: The God of Desire. Her third book, Shakti: The Divine Feminine is the definitive work on the Mother Goddess. She graduated from Women's Christian College, Chennai, and was the college topper in Abnormal Psychology. She also holds a Master's degree in English. This happily married, mother of two little girls lives in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu. She is a student of classical dance and has several shows and a performance in Chidambaram under her belt. Currently, she is hard at work on her next book. www.anujachandramouli.com
Kulpreet Yadav: Your books are said to humanize Gods. That's perhaps necessary as it becomes easier for people to relate to stories with mythological themes. But don't you think there is a more rooted-in-reality potion we need to look at & propagate through our writings? Where do you think this ever-increasing obsession of people towards mythology is coming from?
Anuja Chandramouli: According to the Bible (I studied in a Convent School run by Catholic nuns), God made man in his (or her) own image and so I always figured that the Gods are as much a reflection of us as we are of them, which is why they come across the way they do in my books. The point is to make them more accessible so that it becomes possible for the reader to draw closer to them and get to know them more intimately, which would not be easy if we are talking about the alpha and omega or the supreme consciousness.
As for propagating a rooted–in–reality potion through my writing it is not something, I feel compelled to do. Some of us learn life's lessons by profound introspection seated cross–legged in a holy place while others get enlightened while squatting on the porcelain throne. Similarly, with books, we can glean gems of wisdom from all kinds of writing.
As to the current craze for mythology, I suppose for a lot of people it is an interesting way to get back to their roots even as we all strive towards a better India which has recaptured the glory of the past and capitalized on the promise shown by the present.
KY: What, according to you, is the role of religion in the evolvement of the human civilization in the present time and the future?
AC: For better or worse, religion always has and I daresay always will play a role in the evolvement or devolvement of human civilization. Religion is a potent tool and has the potential to do a lot of good or cause massive destruction, so what we make of it depends entirely on those who seek to wield it for self–serving or more altruistic motives.
KY: The acceptance of women as equal to men is a never-ending argument. Why not both remain unequal, neither better nor lesser than the other, and yet independent, unique & powerful in their own ways. Don't you think the equal-to-men is a skewed argument?
AC: To say that men and women are equal does not do justice to either sex and is almost as bad as saying one or the other is the superior sex. Instead of dwelling so much on gender roles or the question of equality, we would do better if men and women simply focused on treating each other better.
KY: You write mythological fiction. What was your childhood like? Did your caste—and I've no clue of your caste & I don't wish to know as well—play a role in your exposure to the influence of Hindu mythology? In short, does lineage makes us look at religion and mythology in a certain way?
AC: While lineage does make us look at religion and mythology in a certain way, I think it all boils down to personal interest. A story can light the flames of a lifelong passion in one while the exact same tale can bore another to tears.
As a child, I was the storyteller. The other kids used to beg me for stories and they never grew tired of my yarns and this was instrumental in shaping my identity. My mythology sagas were especial favorites which is probably why I do what I do. But then my horror stories were equally beloved. So who knows? There might be a spine– hilling tale of terror waiting to happen somewhere in my oeuvre.
KY: Your favourite Indian writers & why?
AC: I love Veda Vyasa, Kalki, and Aravind Adiga for obvious reasons. Baradwaj Rangan is another favorite of mine because he is consistently brilliant. I am also partial to the work of Devdutt Pattnaik and Krishna Shastri Devulapalli. The former is awesome and the latter is hilarious.
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8vo - 21.5 x 15.5 cm.; 310 pp. Blue buckram with gilt lettering on spine and front board. "A romance of Theala and Frontenac at the time when Frontenac ruled Canada and Ourouehati dominated over what is now New York State. " A book written from the libretto for an opera written by the same author. Corners are bumped and mildly worn and the covers are scuffed and dulled with the gilt lettering on the spine being dull now. Minor browning of the front end paper hinges with some paper tearing in the gutter. A clear and removable archival cover has been fitted.
Title: Frontenac and the Maid of the Mist.
Categories: Canadiana,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Toronto, Canada, Hal Degruchy Co.: 1927
Binding: Hard Cover
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james8n needed a new logo and social media pack design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 62 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
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I am a fourth generation cherry farmer and am going to open one of our cherry orchards up to the public to pick cherries at the height of their flavor and freshness. I want to target middle-class families from nearby cities (Lodi and Sacramento California) and suspect the primary target audience is a mom of young children.
Because cherries are sexy in their own right I would not hesitate in adding a little more. Maybe something along the line of an air force pin-up girl draped around a plump red cherry. To appeal to families perhaps a small dog should be at the heals of the woman.


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We are meaning makers by design. Our brains are programmed to attach a meaning to every circumstance we encounter. It does a quick analysis of what we have experienced in the past, compares it to other situations and labels each response in a way that is most comfortable and familiar to you.
What if there was another way to interrupt those interpretations so that you could create more empowering ones??In every moment, we have the choice to either create by default or become the deliberate creators of our lives. Your thoughts equal your emotions and your emotions equal your behaviors and your behaviors equal your world.
Challenge yourself to interpret your world in a way that is outside of your comfort zone.
At the edge of your comfort zone is where life begins~ Kerri Lynn Miller
If you're ready to start creating different outcomes for your life, this video is a must. Learn these simple tools to start creating more empowering interpretations.
Now, I would LOVE to hear from YOU! In the comments below tell me:
- What's one concrete way you can start challenging yourself to create more empowering interpretations?
- Where in your life can you place new meaning on an old situation so that it serves you rather than hurts you?
I am honored to be a part of your journey and I am so excited to cheer you on as you start becoming the deliberate creator of your life.
Now, it's time for a little laughter, perhaps a smile or maybe a good old fashion snort of sorts. Check out our skit, "Interpretations Gone Bad". Have fun -if you can't laugh at yourself then….you're pretty much screwedJ
Remember, we all have rainbows inside of us and it's time to let yours shine!