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The weekend started on Friday night with a phone call from the lady at Dingo Farms. The half pig we ordered a few weeks ago was ready for pickup.
I called my dad and shared the excitement. I could hear him sigh at the other end of the line. A little panic set in.
This weekend was absolutely booked! And we had to find a way to fit this in too, as time is crucial for processing raw meat. We could've canceled some plans, any plans… But no, we actually ended up sticking to everything that was already planned. And I dreamed about it all during that first restless night.
Saturday morning is our usual 'get up early and go grocery shopping before the crowd wakes up' and before the lines at the cashiers make it almost impossible to plan out a "getaway". Everything went smooth. We also had time to pass by the local farmer's market and picked up a few items.
The local library has a "book sale" twice a year and everyone's invited! We try to go every time, but just as Mitchell said, we are starting to get buried in books. This time we went! and it was lovely, because I scored a few nice books that I had in mind to search for at the thrift store. Since we moved to the country side, I've been trying and researching many ways to try to live a little simpler, the old way… the good and healthy way. So you can imagine my excitement when I saw this through the culinary books.
After we dropped the grocery bags home, around lunch time, we made our way to Dingo Farms to pick up the beast. It looked huge! I guess I forgot how big they really look like!
A whole 168lbs of pure goodness and ready for us to dig in and process it. The lady at the farm was so proud of us for doing this and wished us good luck with the whole process. We definitely needed all the luck we could get!
As we got it back home, and unloaded it on the 4X8 ply board table makeshift we put together for this event, and got to work. We had to cut it into three pieces so it can fit in the deep chest freezer and stay cool until the next day. We cleared the freezer that morning and turned the freezer all the way down so the meat stayed cool and didn't start to freeze.
Late afternoon, the three primal cuts (as Scott Rea calls them in his video) went into the freezer and we cleaned up the work area for the next day.
And then we started getting ready for another previously arranged event we had going on that day: surprise dinner party for one of my dad's university classmates and his wife. Good family friends ever since. They celebrated 35 years of marriage – The Coral Party. The party was very intimate and we had such an amazing time. They had memory lane pictures and some of their favorite songs. But most surprisingly, they had a few video messages from close friends and relatives that were in other countries and could not make it to the party. It was absolutely amazing! Their daughter and her spouse planned and prepared everything and it turned out just beautiful! And of course, the partying went way into the wee hours of the night. Time flies when you're having fun!
Sunday started bright and early. We had a house showing booked and we needed to make sure we cleaned up and prepped the home for 'visitors'. We then took Tia for a good walk and waited for my dad to arrive. All of us (and Tia) took a nice long walk to the forest and checked on the apples that grew alongside the back of the property. None of them are worth eating – sooooo bitter.
We started working on the meat after lunch, and it all went according to plan. A little slow, as it was our first time, but smooth with no unexpected events.
By sunset we had everything cut up, some bagged and ready for the freezer and some needed a little more work to go into it.
The belly was absolutely gorgeous. The meat marbling would make for tasty bacon!
We cleaned up and made our way inside, as it was starting to get a lot cooler, after the sun was gone. I marked all packages for the freezer and my dad and I started on the sausages. Over 15lbs of meat to be minced and stuffed into casings. We also kept some pieces to be minced and packages for the freezer as ground pork. I saw a few homemade breakfast sausages that I would love to try!
The night finished around 9:30pm when dad had to go home. Mitchell and I went to sleep just after 10pm. Early bedtime for us compared to 'just after 2am' for my dad.
Because we decided to not cancel any plans we previously made, the weekend spilled into Monday and the office duties didn't wait for us to finish the farm duties. We had to show up to the office!
Monday evening was scheduled for Part II of this event – making of the headcheese, cracklings, prepare jars of meat with lard, and save the rest of the lard.
1. The headcheese started with gathering all the meat parts (head, ears, tail, skin pieces, heart, and muscle pieces) and the spices. They got added to a pot of water. Everything as per a recipe we found in dad's archives 😉 They were brought to a boil and left to cook until all the pieces were nice and tender; falling off the bone is the end goal. Note: We boiled the head and tail separate from the organs because of the difference in time that is needed to reach "fall of the bone" point (the head, tail and skin take longer).
After cooking, everything got sliced into thin strips and chunks, and the fat got set aside for the dogs. I would portion those pieces, bag them, and later add them to the dogs' meals. Further into winter, they would need and love the extra fat!
2. The cracklings were my favorite to make! The smell that came out of the pot, as the fat was rendering, would make anyone g nuts! It took a long time, over an hour, to get all the pieces melted and have the cracklings float and be ready to be taken out. It's definitely worth the wait! A little bit of salt and two onions were added to the mix to flavor the final product. Note: salt doesn't melt in hot, melted fat!
Soon as the cracklings were taken out, we added cut muscle pieces to get lightly browned and cooked all the way through. 3. The meat pieces were then added to relatively hot jars and hot lard was poured over. 4. The remaining hot lard was added to hot jar and would be used in cooking. Heart attack! Note: I had the jars under hot water for about 30 seconds to raise the glass temperature a little bit and reduce the risk of cracked glass, due to thermal shock.
Monday was a late night for all involved in this. We actually wrapped the day during Tuesday wee hours 😉
Part III would follow with smoking the sausages and fat bacon (slanina).
Wednesday started with talks about how smoking the sausages would go exactly. Dad decided on a homemade plan, rather than take his friend's advice to go over and use his smoker.
By 8pm, it was pitch black outside and dad gave up, slowly, on the idea of smoking the sausages. He decided to wait until the next day to tell me the news.
lo and behold! 9:30pm rolls around and the phone rings off the hook. It was his friend. He called to let him know that another friend is coming over to smoke some sausages and he could come too! Last call! Dad thanked him for the call and off he went to get it done. He later told me he truly believed nothing in this world is coincidental…
The sausages were at his friends house smoking for 2 days – on and off for a few hours during the day.
The day I got the sausages back from my dad they smelled magnificent!! Dinner was covered 😉
They tasted just as good as they looked and I was very happy that we were able to smoke them too. During our original testing, they were good too, but smoking added its own flavour to the meat and it complemented so nicely the spices we used.
And when you think it all started with a late night phone call…
Update: December 23rd
From halfway around the world, mom sent me these pictures. She was so excited to learn about our experience, that she purchased a quarter pig too and got busy with preparations for the Christmas Holiday.


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B.A. in Philosophy (minor in Japanese), Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Lecturer, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai'i
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|International Language Testing Association (ILTA), American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Japan Association of Language Teachers (JALT)
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|Brown, J. D., & Trace, J. (under contract). Fifteen ways to improve classroom assessment. In E. Hinkel (Ed.), Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning. New York: Routledge.
Brown J. D., & Trace, J. (under contract). Examining listening comprehension across measures of scripted and connected speech. In E. Wagner & G. Ockey (Eds.), Emerging issues in the assessment of second language listening. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: John Benjamins.
Meier, V., Trace, J. & Janssen, G. (in press). Principled rubric adoption and adaptation: One multi-method case study. In J. Banerjee & D. Tsagari (Eds.), Contemporary second language assessment. New York: Continuum.
Trace, J., Meier, V., & Janssen, G. (accepted for publication). "I can see that": Developing shared rubric category interpretations through score negotiation. Assessing Writing.
Trace, J., Brown, J. D., Janssen, G., & Kozhevnikova, L. (2016). Relationships among cloze item difficulties, item and passage characteristics, and language background. Language Testing. doi:10.1177/0265532215623581
Janssen, G., Meier, V., & Trace, J. (2015). Building a better rubric: Towards a more robust description of academic writing proficiency. Assessing Writing, 26(1), 51-66. doi:10.1016/j.asw.2015.07.002
Trace, J., Hudson, T., & Brown, J. D. (2015). Developing courses in languages for specific purposes. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, National Foreign Language Resource Center. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/10125/14573
Trace, J., Janssen, G., & Meier, V. (2015). Measuring the impact of rater negotiation in writing performance assessment. Language Testing. doi:10.1177/0265532215594830.
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We are inundated with 'news' and if we are truly 'news junkies' we are buried moreso than most others. This link purports to identify what we can usually rely on vs. that upon which we should never rely: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10eA5-mCZLSS4MQY5QGb5ewC3VAL6pLkT53V_81ZyitM/edit.
This is a 34-page spreadsheet, by the way, to give you an idea of the magnitude of the potential threat of fake or bogus or simply unreliable sources for news these days. This is likely not the 'end all and be all' on the subject. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the lists of fake news sources change quite often.
There is a danger in relying too heavily on much of what we find on the Internet. I suspect that you would agree. And yet, there is a lot of time spent aimlessly cruising the Internet; and yes, some of that time is spent while we're on the boss's payroll. I am my own boss, so I can get away with that. How else would I have found this 34-page listing? Google can be addicting, too.
There is a very serious side to all this, however. Too many people are too gullible and take whatever they'd like to believe is true as fact simply because it proves their particular theory or political position. I suspect that some of the self-claimed fact checkers are likely the worst offenders and this 34 pages would seem to lend credence to that supposition.
The more insidious kind of 'news' is that which is dressed as news but is, in fact, nothing more than embellished opinion. My blog is my opinion, almost always based on fact but still my opinion, and you can choose to believe it or disbelieve it. There are no pretenses involved.
If you do take the time to look through this list, you'll note the number of websites that mimic real news sites, and that purport to be something they're not. If you or I weren't being very careful, we could easily hit 'enter' and find ourselves in a bad place so far as legitimate news is concerned. This applies not to just to flat-out bogus sites but also to some of the 'almost real' news sites. I have been 'misdirected' by search engines that assume what I must be seeking based on a few keystrokes and taking me to what they have determined I want demonstrating how great they are.
Some of us are old enough to remember the 'carny hucksters' we'd encounter at the local fair. They were glib and had a degree of showmanship that drew you in for their whole song and dance routine. Sometimes this was coupled with that scantily-clad pulchritudinous young lady who took your mind off what the huckster was saying just enough to confuse you into the purchase.
What we face today is far more insidious than that huckster, and yet we seem too often to forget that the Internet is not always our friend.
We are not just talking about some gimmicky product that we can hold in our hands either. More and more we are talking about ideas that are espoused as meaning one thing but, in fact, are disguised so that we'll be lulled into the false sense that we need this or that law passed by Congress. Yes, there are political 'hucksters' and we're exposed to their words and insinuations daily if we permit that to occur.
How many well-named bills get passed only to later be found as having been misleading? We thought we're voting for 'this' when, in fact, we voted for 'that'. The old-time 'carny huckster would take us for a twenty dollar bill. These political hucksters will take us for millions of tax dollars if we permit that. That is bad enough, but then they come home to campaign for re-election, and they 'snow' us again because we're just plain gullible and can't believe that someone might not be as honest as are we. Or, the bill has a great name that we later learn was the exact opposite of what the bill was really about.
My sweetheart protects me from these types of decisions because she usually is not a 'see it and buy it' person, but rather needs to sleep on the idea for a night or two. I can't imagine the angst she has saved us from feeling, although I confess I'm a bit peeved going home without the purchase that day.
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malayalam: Kadugu
telugu: Avalu
kannada: Sasuve / Karisasive
hindi: Rai / Banarasi Rai / Sarson
Bengali: Sarsay / Shorshe / Rai
Gujarati: Rai
Konkani: Sasaun
Marathi: Mohori
Oriya: Sorisa / Sarosha
Punjabi: Rai / Banarasi Rai / Kalee Sarson
Tulu: Sasive
Kashmiri: Aasur / Sorisa
Urudu: Rai, Banarasi Rai, Kalee Sarson
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English: Fenugreek Seeds
tamil: Vendhayam
malayalam: Uluva / Venthiam
telugu: Menthulu
kannada: Menthe / Menthya
hindi: Methi Dana
Bengali: Methi
Gujarati: Methi
Konkani: Methi
Marathi: Methi Dane / Methi
Oriya: Methi
Punjabi: Meth / Methi
Tulu: Menthae
Kashmiri: Meeth
Urudu: Methe
English: Chilli Powder
tamil: Mulakupodi
malayalam: Mulakupodi
telugu: Erra Mirapa Kayalu / Yendu Mirapakayalu
kannada: Molaku / Kempu Menasinakai / Ona Menasinakai
hindi: Lal Mirch
Bengali: Paka Lanka / Lal Mirch / Lankamorich
Gujarati: Lal Marcha
Konkani: Sukki Saangi /Suke Miriyasang
Marathi: Lal Mirchi / Mirchya
Oriya: Lanka / Nali Lankamaricha
Punjabi: Lal Mirch
Kashmiri: Marach Wangun
Urudu: Lalmirch
English: oil
tamil: Ennai
malayalam: enna
telugu: camuru
kannada: taila
hindi: tela
Punjabi: moyen
English: Salt
tamil: Uppu
malayalam: Uppu
telugu: Uppu
kannada: Uppu
hindi: Namak
Bengali: Laban / Noone
Gujarati: Meethu
Konkani: Meet
Marathi: Mith
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12 Fast, Family-Friendly Ground Beef Dinners
For some cooks, ground beef is always on the weekly shopping list, and there's a good reason why: This cheap staple can be used in hundreds of ways—from hamburgers and tacos, to casseroles, chili and pasta—and can get dinner on the table in 30 minutes or less. It's also a convenient meat to keep in your fridge or freezer for quick, family-friendly meals. Try these top-rated recipes for ground beef, and keep scrolling to get loads of tips for buying and cooking it, including how to thaw ground beef before cooking it (because you know you've got some stashed in your freezer).
Super-easy and super-fast, this quick-cooking chili is sure to become a family favorite. Serve it alongside cornbread and top it with plenty of shredded cheese for a family-friendly meal everyone will enjoy.
Burgers are often the first recipe we think of when using ground beef. This recipe adds a Greek twist, mixing ground lamb with the ground beef and calling for it to be served on pita bread rather than a hamburger bun. Watch the video to see how to make these tasty burgers.
Since this chop suey recipe only calls for five ingredients, you probably already have most of what you need in your pantry or fridge to make it. Feel free to add cheese or garlic if you want to give it even more flavor.
If you're using beef with a high fat ratio (see below for how to read ground beef labels), there's no need to add water to the pan while cooking. If you have it on hand, a splash of beef stock will add extra flavor to the tomato sauce and seasoning. Here's a handy video to put it all together for you.
5. Ground Beef With Homemade Taco Seasoning Mix
Preparing homemade taco seasoning for this ground beef recipe is really what makes it extra flavorful. After the meat is cooked, use it to top soft or crispy tacos, or wrap cooked beef in a lettuce leaf and top it with your favorite condiments or garnishes.
The trick to making these moist and flavorful burgers is to mix ranch seasoning, crackers, and eggs into the ground beef before shaping it into patties. Garnish these burgers with your favorite toppings, and you're ready for burger night!
7. Taco Pie
This quick and easy recipe is very filling and great for feeding a crowd. Store-bought refrigerated crescent dough and pre-made taco seasoning mix make it a breeze to put together and add tons of flavor.
8. Easy Korean Ground Beef Bowl
"Your busy weeknight needs this dish," says Buckwheat Queen. "It's so simple to make, and it is super delicious and full of flavor. The first time I made it, I served it over rice. Second time, with rice noodles. Next time, I'll take the advice of another reviewer and serve as tacos with cabbage. Leftovers warm easily, which is great when you've got teenage midnight grazers."
9. Rice Mess
Kids will love the name of this dish—and parents will love how easy and filling it is. Several reviewers suggest adding chopped green bell peppers for additional color and flavor.
10. Cheese and Hamburger Macaroni
Save time and space on your plate with this one-pan dish that mixes two family favorites—hamburgers and mac 'n' cheese—into one meal. If you want to make it a little healthier, swap in whole-wheat noodles for white.
11. Kafta BBQ
Kids love food served on skewers because it's fun and easy to eat. The Lebanese-inspired seasonings are flavorful enough for the adults, but no too strong for the kids.
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12. Stewed Burgers
Here's an exciting new twist on basic burgers. Make the burger mixture the evening before and refrigerated overnight to make the next day's dinner even easier and faster! You may substitute water for the red wine. "Give these stewed burgers cooked in an Italian-style tomato sauce a try and you'll see smiles galore," says lutzflcat. "Serve with noodles, rice, or over toasted split hamburger buns."
Tips for Cooking (and Buying) Ground Beef
- For the best flavor and texture, always check the sell-buy date and look for ground beef with a bright, fresh color.
- Cook ground beef at a moderate temperature to reduce shrinkage and keep flavorful juices in.
- If you're forming patties or balls, dip your hands in cold water first to prevent sticking.
- Made too much of a good thing? You can cook up a large batch of ground beef and freeze cooled portions for future meals. When you need a quick addition of beef, toss into tacos, soups and sauces, or crumble a bit of cooked ground beef over vegetables and pasta for a quick weeknight meal.
Know Your Ground Beef Labels
You might be surprised by how many different options there are when choosing ground beef. Butchers can use different cuts (known as "source grinds") in a package of ground meat, which affects the taste, texture, and fat content of the package. The numbers you see on the package? That's the lean-to-fat ratio, and tells you a lot about the grind you're about to buy. Here's what to look for:
- 90/10: Made from the round, this type of ground beef is one of the leanest you can buy. It's best used for casseroles and meatloaf, where binders (eggs, breadcrumbs, etc.) are used to hold in moisture and flavor.
- 85/15: Sirloin is used for this source grind. It's a great middle-of-the-road choice for most recipes; not so lean that you need to use binders to hold it together, but not so fatty that you need to drain off the fat numerous times either.
- 80/20: This grind is made from chuck. It has a higher fat that's perfect to use when you want juicy hamburgers and flavorful kabobs.
- Lean or extra-lean: If you buy a package labeled "lean" it has less than 10% fat, while "extra lean" has less than 5% fat. If you're watching your fat intake or don't want to deal with skimming off the fat, this is a good choice.
Frozen Ground Beef: To Thaw or Not to Thaw?
Having a package of ground beef in the freezer means you're always a thaw away from dinner—but be sure to plan ahead, as using frozen beef will cause it to lose flavor as the frozen juice crystals cook out with the fat. Be sure to thaw ground beef completely before cooking. Always thaw your meat in the refrigerator—not on the countertop—to avoid any unwanted bacteria growth. It's a good idea to place the beef on a plate to catch any drips while it defrosts, too. It's far easier to clean a plate than it is to scrub out your refrigerator.
How to Brown Ground Beef
Many recipes ask you to "brown" ground beef. But if you do it wrong, ground beef will often turn out more gray than brown. To get crisp and juicy browned meat, start by letting the beef come to room temperature, then gently blot it with paper towels to remove excess moisture. This will help keep the beef from steaming in the pan. Add a thin layer of oil to a preheated pan, then add the beef in a thin layer. Now, let it be! Cook without turning, crumbling, or stirring until the underside is deeply brown. Use a spatula to flip over large sections and continue to sear. Once the ground beef is golden-brown on both sides, crumble it into your recipe.
Need time-saving recipes? These fast meals are ready in under 30 minutes.


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This study investigates the practical and financial implications of alternative strategies for meeting explicit conservation goals on the Agulhas Plain, South Africa. This is an area of exceptional biodiversity increasingly threatened by alien plant infestation, urbanisation, and agricultural expansion. In addition to traditional on-reserve protection, we identify two types of property-rights agreements (conservation easements and management agreements) and two types of financial incentives (land management assistance and tax relief) as appropriate for encouraging off-reserve conservation on targeted lands in the area. Specifically, we suggest actions to offset the costs facing landowners under new pieces of legislation, such as alien-clearing requirements and a property tax. After refining an existing GIS database of cadastral units targeted for conservation, we assigned on- or off-reserve conservation status to properties on the basis of a simple decision system, which took the irreplaceability of the area into account. Three implementation scenarios were designed: an entirely 'on-reserve' approach, a mixed on- and off-reserve approach, and the mixed approach in conjunction with financial incentives. The conservation costs, to both the public and private sector (including expanded obligations from new legislation), were first modelled and then analysed in a Geographic Information System. We found that a traditional on-reserve approach would cost the state about R240M in acquisition costs, whereas both mixed approaches, using the decision rules developed in this study, would involve leaving 40% of targeted areas in private hands, saving the state 80% in acquisition costs. Of the subsequent conservation costs, which total R401M (present value @ 6% discount rate; Scenario 1), most are alien clearing costs. Since landowners are now compelled to put up these costs, the state could make further savings (44–51%) under a mixed management scenario. Using Property Rate relief as an additional financial incentive is relatively efficient in that it may save targeted private landowners 32% in Property Rates, at a cost of 5.5% of expected tax revenue to the state. Given the prohibitive costs, realising conservation goals in the Agulhas Plain will probably depend upon the establishment of institutions, mechanisms, and incentives for private participation in conservation.
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I don't know if you have read this previously but I started a diet a few weeks ago.
In under 8 weeks, I'm taking my 3 kids on a cruise from Rome to Sicily, Athens, Crete, Turkey and a few other places and want to be tanned and toned .. before I go!
I bought a beautiful new shirt from Pink last week, a medium just that bit too small for me, but my target is to fit that before I go.
So, I've stepped up the exercise and been watching what I eat .. most of the time .. certainly during the week.
Today, I had my lentil soup, no bread or roll with it, I'm cutting down on the carbs .. or so I thought.
I've still not had any tea today and no sugar. I even avoided the doughnuts that someone brought in for my team.
Good stuff, keep focussed, we will get there, slowly but surely .. I thought.
But with no carbs at lunch, how come I was going into a really heavy carb coma?
If I had'nt just eaten I would have thought it was energy dropping due to lack of food.
However, check the link below …Lentil soup is 22% fat and 56%carbs .. whit!!
Thats me on the salad at lunch the rest of the week.
PS – I'm looking forward to seeing Roger Hodgson of Supertramp fame at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Thursday.
His last solo gig at the Paviliion was jam-packed and fantastic, a truly great songwriter of thoughtful lyrics and stunning melodies.


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Most man shave at least a few times a week because they enjoy a smooth, clean look. However, there is one by product of shaving, it leaves the surface of a man's skin sensitive and vulnerable. The pores are open and the skin has been roughed up by dragging a sharp razor across the face. Right after shaving the man will usually rinse off his face and then apply cold water in an attempt to close down the pores and then splash on some aftershave. That can be a shocking experience. Alcohol based aftershave will definitely close down those facial pores which is what causes the characteristic stinging. But that's not bad. Many men don't mind the sharp stinging, in fact they relish it because of the bracing, refreshing feeling they get. For other men, an aftershave balm, more like a lotion, is there preferred choice.
Aftershave to smooth a man's face.
If your choosing an aftershave for a man keep in mind the differences between an alcohol based and a lotion based aftershave. Alcohol based aftershave will provide a mild scent for only a short time period because the alcohol will tend to evaporate pretty quickly. While a lotion is smooth to put on it usually doesn't provide the bracing effect that some men really enjoy. Be sure and spend some time on the internet when shopping for the aftershave of your choice.
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Mid-Shore Council on Family Violence's Abuser Intervention Program (AIP) provides the information and counseling that abusers need to change destructive ways of relating to the important people in their lives. Following the Duluth Model, the AIP is a comprehensive set of counseling services designed specifically for individuals who display abusive behavior within the family. The centerpiece of this program is a 26-week group comprehensive set of counseling services with group experiences and individual sessions provided to each participant. Most of the individuals involved in this program have been referred by the local court system. However, others may attend the program voluntarily.
During the 2018 fiscal year, 87 adults attended at least one AIP session. Of these:
· Nine out of 10 were male
· They ranged in age from 19 to 78, with an average age of 36 years.
· They attended an average of 12 sessions, though the amount ranged broadly from 1 to 25 sessions.
· Half of AIP participants are Caucasian and 43% are African American. Few (5%) AIP participants are Hispanic/Latino.
· Four out of ten AIP participants reside in Dorchester County. This contrasts notably with the county distribution of the victims MSCFV serves, only 20% of whom reside in Dorchester.
Forty-one AIP participants completed MSCFV's Assignment of Responsibility outcome measure during FY2018. Most did so when they began the program. This scale includes two questions about responsibility:
1. Thinking about the violence in your relationship, how responsible would you say you are for it?
2. How responsible would you say your partner was for the violence?
The following table illustrates AIP participants' responses to these questions when they first enter the program. Only 4 respondents (10%) say they are 100% responsible and their partners are 0% responsible. Most participants (n = 31 or 76%) attribute 50% or less of the responsibility for the violence to themselves.
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
My responsibility 4 7 2 4 4 10 0 3 2 1 4
Partner responsibility 4 3 4 1 1 8 4 4 3 5 4
Another question measures AIP participants' willingness to change:
Our program is all about learning new attitudes and behaviors to change how you relate to your partner. Are you not prepared to change, already changing or somewhere in the middle? All AIP participants indicated that they were either prepared to change or already changing, with an average rating of 8.2 on the 10 point scale. One out of three AIP participants gave themselves a rating of 10 when they began the program, indicating that they were "already changing".
Understanding AIP Completions and Recidivism
MSCFV recently participated in two research studies focused on AIP initiatives. These studies, conducted by Dr. Tara Richard, University of Baltimore and Dr. Christopher Murphy, University of Maryland Baltimore County, examined the structure of AIPs, completion rates, and recidivism. Based on the data from the first study, the authors recommend developing strategies to enhance participant accountability and program engagement. The second study confirmed the wisdom of that recommendation with these key findings:
As with all correlational studies, the relationship between AIP participation and lower recidivism could result either from AIP causing participants to refrain from further domestic violence or from other factors leading to both AIP completion and lower recidivism. The researchers tested the second explanation by including a number of control variables in their analyses. They found that the positive impact of AIP on recidivism holds even when control variables (gender, race, age at first offense, and criminal history) were considered. AIP completers continued to have significantly less total recidivism than the other three groups, significantly lower violent recidivism than AIP dropouts and AIP no-shows, and significantly lower domestic violence recidivism than AIP no-shows. These findings add support to the hypothesis that AIP participation lowers recidivism risk.
The study also found that risk factors such as substance abuse, mental health problems, unemployment and under-education are prevalent among those referred to AIP and decrease the odds the participant will complete the program. Researchers recommend providing wrap-around services dealing with these risk factors to help increase AIP completion rates. However, it's important to note that their first study found considerable variation in the assessment and screening tools used from AIPs. Programs could benefit from a standard set of assessment and screening protocols. Richard and Murphy also note that:
Resource constraints continue to impose significant limitations on the ability of AIPs to provide case-responsive services and appropriate levels of monitoring and case management. AIPs should be encouraged to access funding targeted at criminal rehabilitation and violence reduction. Because AIP participation reduces domestic violence, additional resources invested in improving the program ultimate benefit victims.
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Ponce Crush March 5th
Ponce Crush is back and here are the flyers for the show. If you are in Atlanta, don't miss this monthly gallery crawl. There's a lot of good work!
MINT Music, Kelly McKernan @ Beep Beep, Eyedrum for Beltline, "We Are Going to Eat You Too."
It's been a fun filled couple of weeks! Here are some pictures from music @ the MINT Gallery, Kelly McKernan's Solo @ Beep Beep Gallery, Eyedrum's Benefit for the Beltline, and "We Are Going to Eat You Too," Eric Weber's second curated show inspired by cult movies @ the MINT.
Also, here are some more pictures from Eric Weber's Flickr:
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You have a stack of quilt tops waiting to be quilted but still feel intimidated using the Q-matic automated software on your longarm machine. In this class we will focus on learning how to do E2E (Edge to Edge) quilting, a fun way to work through that stack of quilt tops.
We will go through the process of multiplying a quilt design to cover the quilt top, realigning the safe area, and how to recover from a stitch break or empty bobbin. Class size is small to allow for hands on participation for everyone.
$17.00 ($18.02 with PA Sales Tax)
Kit is a generously sized quilt sandwich which will be yours to take home after class.


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The Scottdale Area Chamber of Commerce's goal is to involve local businesses, industries, professionals, civic groups, churches and residents in community development and projects. The mission statement is to work to enhance the economic growth and development of our community by offering a wide variety of services and programs.
The Board of Directors has an open meeting the third Tuesday of each month. The Scottdale Area Chamber of Commerce believes we can only be as strong as the membership we serve. All monies collected or raised by the Scottdale Area Chamber of Commerce are invested solely in community development and projects.
The Chamber is currently sponsoring:
Annual Easter Egg Hunt in April
Southmoreland Senior Recognition Program
Community Yard Sale in August
Winter Light Celebration
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Hundreds of thousands of residents of 'The Valley of the Sun' have secured employment in several leading industries in the state such as Health, Finance and Retail Industries. Besides the State of Arizona, other top employers include; Banner Health Systems and Arizona State University. With the state economy looking better than it has for decades, unemployment rate is declining and will soon be a thing of the past.
There is no shortage of activities within the valley of the sun. You can get a piece of the rich history of this region at the Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Art or the Phoenix Art Museum. If crafting is more of your cup of tea, then the Mesa Arts Center is open for you to try your hand at crafting anything from pottery to jewelry. Thanks to its mostly sunny climate, The Phoenix-Mesa area is popular with people enjoying a life spent in the great outdoors. From the Desert Botanical Garden where you can explore on foot to the Usery Mountain Regional Park. For a little more family fun and enjoyment, the Riverview Park has playing areas for kids and a fishing spot for the adults to relax.
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The four-door saloon has an oddly split image. At the posh end of things, it's the default choice – no one laughs at the idea of a four-door Mercedes. But once you get cheaper than, say, a BMW 3-series, almost everyone has a hatchback. The few budget saloons that do exist seem like they've got ideas above their station. They're a dying breed.
But in Asia and the US things are different and the four-door holds sway in all price categories. So this Korean-built, American-badged Chevrolet Cruze arrives in the UK first as a four-door. A five-door hatchback follows some time later, however.
General Motors' now-significant Korean operation grew out of its takeover of the former Daewoo motor company. The cars built there now wear the Chevrolet name because Chevy is supposed to signal a mainstream value brand wherever it's sold. So in the States
Chevys are cheaper than Buicks, and the Cruze will be built in Ohio. Over here, Korean-made Chevys are cheaper than Vauxhalls.
Cheaper, but not old-tech or shoddy. In fact the Cruze is the first car to use GM's new global compact-car platform. The same basic understructure, suspension and electronics will also be used on this autumn's new Vauxhall Astra – with different body panels, cabin furniture and engines, of course.
The headline price for a Cruze is £11,545, which buys you a 1.6-litre petrol engine and the basic safety kit of six airbags and stability control. But you'd want to scrape together another £400 for air-conditioning.
The company expects most buyers will make the step up to the £12,595 LS version, unable to resist the allure of alloy wheels, rear parking sensors and, woo-hoo, a chrome-edged radiator grille. The top-end LT version adds cruise control, bigger wheels and a better stereo.
But of course it's not the presence – or absence – of electrical toys that makes a car feel expensive or cheap. All the extras in the world won't help if a pervading sense of tinniness reminds you, with every turn of the wheel, that you're driving a bargain-bucket brand.
And it's here that the Cruze marks a huge step forward from the outgoing Lacetti, a car whose only claim to fame is to be the much-derided (if doggedly reliable) 'reasonably-priced car' pasted around the BBC Top Gear test track by celebs of wildly varying aptitude.
The Cruze doesn't look budget. The panelwork drapes solidly down over its wheels, and there's an unapologetic front with nicely detailed lights and grilles. From the rear three quarters, it seems to be paying homage to the BMW 5-series, and in doing so manages not to look idiotically over-optimistic.
In the cabin, one of the roomiest in the Focus/Astra class, the plastics don't seem too cheap, and the whole is lent a warm and modern ambience by a swath of seat cloth that runs across the dashboard and ties the design together. The instruments emit a swish blue glow after dusk. The stalks and switches move with finger-caressing precision.
Under way, the behaviour is pretty unexceptionable, too. Neither the 113bhp, 1.6 or 141bhp, 1.8 petrol engines really seem to put their back into the task. There are buzzes and vibrations, and a general sulky unwillingness to climb to the higher sections of the rev-counter's arc.
The 2.0 diesel – £14,095 in LS spec, with 125bhp (LT versions have 150bhp) – is more helpful and relaxing. But people buying Chevrolets are sensitive to initial purchase price. Blowing an extra £1,500 over the petrol equivalent isn't going to happen, especially when the fuel-economy gain (40.4mpg Urban) is, in this case, too small.
A five-speed manual transmission is standard with all three engines, with a six-speed automatic optional with both petrol engines.
The suspension rides firmly but faithfully. Noise suppression is average-to-good. The handling isn't going to cause any upsets. It's all set up for sedate and reassuring progress. There's an oddly artificial self-centring in the steering, but that probably makes it easy for the mildly inattentive driver to stay in their motorway lane. The middle one, I fear.
Which sums it up, really. This isn't a car for the enthusiast minority. Instead it's carefully targeted and subtly developed for people who want a good value car that'll look after them without constantly asserting its character on them.


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-- "Manic is filled with gorgeous writing, and we have never heard mania or depression described in such a visceral way. Terri Cheney's ability to find humor in what should be terrifying situations makes this difficult illness never off-putting, and in fact, fascinating. Echoes of William Styron abound." -- Demitri F. Papolos, M.D. and Janice Papolos, authors of "The Bipolar Child"
-- "This is a poignant and compelling memoir about the impact of bipolar disorder on one person's life. The writing is outstanding, the story is gripping. Ms. Cheney reveals the multiple facets -- psychological, physiological and existential -- of living with this illness. The description of the many aspects of bipolar disorder, including depression, hypomania, mania and mixed states, are portrayed in extraordinary detail. This book is a must-read for all those, clinicians and lay persons alike, who are interested in deeply understanding the experience of having bipolar disorder." -- Dr. Lori Altshuler, director of the UCLA Mood Disorders Research Program
-- "In florid mania the roiling surf both seduces and destroys, crushing will and reason. All too often for those who suffer, flung repeatedly against the rocks of prejudice and misunderstanding, the story ends in tragedy. Terri Cheney's gritty, vibrant memoir brings this chaotic frenzy to life, tumbling the reader through disaster and despair to end in hope. Manic is an extraordinary achievement that captures the real experience . . ." -- Peter C. Whybrow, M.D., director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA; author of "A Mood Apart: The Thinker's Guide to Emotion and Its Disorder"
-- "In Manic, Cheney brilliantly brings us along on her haunting and riveting journey of bipolar disorder. I was scared to go back, but it's a place that people need to see to better understand this insidious and invisible illness that is still so stigmatized. Manic is extremely powerful and at the same time, Cheney really manages to make you laugh!" -- Andy Behrman, author of "Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania."
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John Lewis Things Matter
John Lewis has launched "Things Matter", a TV advert for home insurance centring on the emotional side of insuring the things that matter in the home. The campaign uses stop-frame animation to follow the story of the entire contents of a family's house coming to life in ways that reflect their personality and character. They make their way of the house and assembly on the lawn for a family photograph. The campaign includes a "What Matters" microsite with behind the scenes footage and a Vine short video competition to be launched on August 19.
John Lewis Things Matter Credits
The Things Matter campaign was developed at adam&eveDDB, London, by executive creative directors Ben Priest, Ben Tollett and Emer Stamp, creatives Simon Lloyd, Christine Turner, Rory Hall and Steph Ellis, agency producer Sophie Smith, working with John Lewis marketing manager Craig Inglis.
Filming was shot by director Dougal Wilson via Blink Productions.
Animation was produced at Clapham Road Studios by producer Ewen Brown and production manager Josh Smith.
Editor was Joe Guest at Final Cut. Post production was done at MPC by VFX supervisor Tom Harding. Sound was produced at Factory Studios by Anthony Moore. Music was produced at Finger Music.
The soundtrack is a cover of the Fleetwood Mac song, Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow, re-recorded by Nina Nesbitt.
Filed under: Commercials, John Lewis
Tagged: Adam&EveDDB, Ben Priest, Ben Tollett, Blink Productions, Christine Turner, Clapham Road Studios, Dougal Wilson, Emer Stamp, Factory, Final Cut, Finger Music, Joe Guest, MPC, Rory Hall, Simon Lloyd, Steph Ellis
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OK, so I am 24 years old, I'm really short (5 feet tall even) - I have a small gut on me and I started going bald at fifteen. I have to live with my mother because of physical and social issues. I have a job, but it's low hours (again, because of physical issues). I feel like women just are not willing to give me a chance because of all these problems I have. No woman will just sit down and have a conversation with me, get to know me. My question is, how do I get women to look past the negatives in my life and focus on getting to know the real me?
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Posted: 2016-09-07 08:05:02
The right woman will come to you. I know it may sound a bit cliche but that is the honest truth. The right person who is supposed to be in your life will appear seemingly out of nowhere. They will appreciate you for all of the things that you think are flaws and love you for them. In the meantime, focus on yourself. Focus on your dreams and your goals and when the time is right that special someone will come. Make sure that you also establish confidence in yourself. Even if you don't feel like it, act like you are the sexiest man in the room. Females find confidence extremely attractive no matter what you look like.
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Here's some honest advice. 99% of women on this planet are very shallow, vain, selfish and self centered, so you will need to reinvent yourself. First, NEVER tell women you don't yet know well your problems. They really don't and won't care and it WILL just turn them off! If your balding, just shave your entire head and go bald. Many men go skin head ever since the grunge/ska days, so it wouldn't look out of place. A very close friend of ours and all 4 of his brothers all started balding between ages 12-16, so they all started shaving their heads completely and it does actually look better than the old monk-ring or cul-de-sac look. Being short is also no reason to ever have what's called a "Napoleon complex", as many short guys tend to have. An "NC" is a short guy trying to act and talk big to over compensate for being little. Dont! Short guys are a turn on for some women but remember, it is also a turn off for others. Many women out there have the "he must be taller than me" B.S. stuck in their heads and will not date any guy shorter then they are, no matter how nice or good looking you are, unless your Bill Gates rich, then it doesn't matter if you looked like a slice of Swiss cheese! What wins though is CONFIDENCE and it sounds like you entirely lack any confidence. A good friend of ours is 5'-2". He gets woman like crazy - why? Because he talks a good game and has loads of confidence! Nobody has to know you live with your mom nor why. It's your business, nobody elses.
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The Countdown Problem
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Hutton, G. (2002). The Countdown Problem. Journal of Functional Programming, 12(6),
We systematically develop a functional program that solves the countdown problem, a numbers game in which the aim is to construct arithmetic expressions satisfying certain constraints. Starting from a formal specification of the problem, we present... Read More about The Countdown Problem.


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This morning we left Brugge, Belgium, in a light rain to travel to Paris. We took a side trip into Amiens to view the largest cathedral in France. As you can imagine, after several hours on our bus, most of us needed to use the facilities. There was much new construction going on around the cathedral so the restrooms where our trusty guide, Norbert, took us weren't in service. The tourist information office told us where to find the public toilets; so all of us took off for a walk of a few more blocks. These bathrooms are on the street but are really very nice and clean, assuming some dumb Americans don't come along and mess them up because they didn't know how to work them! They accommodated one person at a time and totally self cleaned after each use if you just let it do its thing. Long story short, by the time 23 of us used the two that we found we decided that we needed to do lunch before touring the cathedral. Meals are more leisurely here so we had to hurry back to the cathedral to meet Norbert and the rest of the group.
The cathedral is beautiful and really is very large and very tall thanks to the use of flying buttresses. Part of the exterior had been cleaned so was very light, the same was true of the interior. I hope the pictures I took inside will come out nicely so I can share them with you. (We are on a pretty tight schedule all the time so I haven't had time to download them from my camera; thus nothing new on the web site.) We left Amiens to travel on to Paris where we arrived in time to experience their version of rush hour on the freeway. It rivals ours any day! We had to go directly to dinner rather than stopping at our hotel first to dump our stuff or we would have missed our reservation. Not a good thing. We got a brief tour after dinner as we made our way back across the city to our hotel that is right next door to the Gare de Lyon train station. (Roy and I actually stayed in this same hotel in '97 on a rushed trip home from Nice. It is nicer now, but the rooms are still pretty small.) There were huge lines waiting to go up into the Eiffel tower even at 8:30 at night. Our route took us right along the Seine; so we saw many of the buildings that we have all read or heard about.
Tomorrow we are off to Versailles and then back into the city to rehearse at the American Church in Paris where we will be part of the worship service Sunday morning as well as playing a concert at 5 p.m. More on that later after it has happened.


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An "ISP" is your Internet service provider. This is the host that provides you with all of your websites, e-mails and social networking services. There are many ISPs available for all different types of computers, but each and every one of them can access the same web pages. You can delete your history by using the basic functions with which your computer is already equipped, no matter which ISP you use. There is no need to download any unfamiliar software or tools. You will be able to erase your browsing history safely and quickly.
Make sure all of your toolbars are visible. Turn them on at this time.
Log in to your Internet service provider's front "Home" page. Return to it by clicking on the word "Home" or double-click on the icon that looks like a little house.
Locate the toolbar at the top of your screen. The words will read "File," "Edit," "View" and "History." Single-click on "History." A drop-down menu box will open with different options.
Scroll down slowly until you read "Show All History." Click on the phrase once to go to a large screen full of icons that look like calendar pages. Each icon will have the following phrases: "Yesterday, Today, Last Week" and "Previous 'Month' and 'Year.'"
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Nuclear receptors are ligand-activated transcription factors and include the receptors for steroid hormones, lipophilic vitamins, sterols, and bile acids. These receptors serve as targets for development of myriad drugs that target a range of disorders. Classically defined ligands that bind to the ligand-binding domain of nuclear receptors, whether they are endogenous or synthetic, either activate receptor activity (agonists) or block activation (antagonists) and due to the ability to alter activity of the receptors are often termed receptor "modulators." The complex pharmacology of nuclear receptors has provided a class of ligands distinct from these simple modulators where ligands display agonist/partial agonist/antagonist function in a tissue or gene selective manner. This class of ligands is defined as selective modulators. Here, we review the development and pharmacology of a range of selective nuclear receptor modulators.
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Nathan Goddard was born in Grand Rapids, MI and has lived all around the country and traveled widely throughout Europe and Japan. He received his BFA in Studio Art and Land Art from the University of New Mexico. It was in the American Southwest that he began to see the greater potential of earth and materials in his paintings and installations. His investigation of alternative materials and ceramics has continued through his MFA work at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA.
He was awarded to design the Michigan Governor's Award for Arts in Culture in 2007, commissioned to paint a community mural for the Creston Neighborhood Association in 2009, awarded the jurors award for painting at the Festival of the Arts in Grand Rapids, MI in 2009 and a recipient of multiple Merit scholarships at the University of the Arts 2011-14.
Nathan has taught ceramics to adults, college students and the youth at Kendall College of Art and Design and Stepping Stones Montessori School. He has beenworking in Skaelskor, Denmark at Guldagergaard Ceramic Art Residency as the Kiln Yard Technician in 2015-16. Since his return to the states, he has been Adjunct Professor of Studio Art at Wofford College in South Carolina. His life is dedicated to educating others in the arts and moving the visual art language forward.
Artist Statement -
"Before it can ever be the repose for the senses, landscape is the work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock." Ken Taylor
I see making my work as archived memories deep beyond the surface mantle, the earth survives as physical documentation of recollection and reflection. The act of utilizing clay and earth from specific places therefore, literally and conceptually connects my work to a place of origin and the layers of nostalgia associated with it. Place is my material and my vehicle for addressing these ideas.
Having the ability to transcend these connections and activate my inner voice is of great importance. Through a spiritual connection I take the memory of the land to create the work. Similar to the strata of earth, my work is comprised of layers, of daily human observations and the geo-historical knowledge that is held inside of clay. We ultimately depend on the health of the planet in order to continue for future generations. We are the catalyst to preserve this place. We can move fast like water flowing over rocks and boulders or slowly like plates deep beneath the earth's surface.


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Sometimes the city life leaves us weary. Sure, Sydney has a myriad of activities to do, wonderful cultural events to see and a vibrant nightlife to indulge in, but it can be tiresome. After a few days or weeks in the concrete jungle, travelers may be yearning for something a little more laid back and inviting. If you find yourself in this position and need a break from the fast pace life of Sydney, a short trip to Kiama may be in your future.
With it being less than two hours away from Sydney, Kiama is the perfect place to get in some much-needed R & R. The seaside town is quickly becoming the destination for those who have city exhaustion and need a dose of classic seaside affairs. It is small, quaint and accommodating, and the town itself is filled with beautiful parks, lovely cafes and great seaside walks. This isn't the half of what Kiama has to offer.
Though on clear weather days it can be quite underwhelming, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Kiama is the naturally occurring blowhole. The blowhole is the result of eroding cliffs and a small passage where water from the sea can be pushed through a hole into the air. On heavy tide days, the blowhole can send pressurized seawater flying up to 40 feet in the air.
The cliffs that surround the blowhole also offer a beautiful view of the coast. On the walk up, there is a "rock pool," which is a naturally occurring tidal pool visitors can swim in for free. There is accommodation located directly behind the blowhole and free parking for day-trippers. Along with the rock pool, there is also spa treatment offered at the hotel near the blowhole's entrance.
While the tourist's sights are wonderful, the most beautiful aspect of Kiama is the 7 km coastal walk from Kiama to the neighboring Gerringong. While I personally decided to run it, the walk offers amazing views of green rolling hills and seaside cliffs. The path is unpaved and leaves walkers and joggers at the Gerringong Beach upon finishing. The land was formally known as sacred grounds for the Wodi Wodi Aboriginal people, and is remembered by a large stone plaque and two sprawling statues.
If you are looking to get out of Sydney for a few days, Kiama is the perfect place to go. The beaches are lovely, the town is divine and the short drive is well worth what awaits you when you make your way down the freeway.