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My business partner and I were in meetings this week with a government agency dealing with sudden onslaught of "Gov 2.0." Deja Vu. It came full blast this week from the year 2008. We might as well have been in an episode of the TV show "Fear Factor" as at some points fear was the major chasm to be crossed in the room.
Government 2.0 initiatives have been in full force since late 2009, early 2010. In 2008, however, the U.S. Government had not yet passed the Open Government Directive or the Joint Chiefs of Staff Open Source memo milestones. Officials were scared of change. Social media was a big angry beast that was not understood, not clearly developed in a government sense and something just to shy away from.
But we have moved to a point where major federal agencies not only have printed and published guidelines and existing working programs – but we are witnessing global cooperation on the Government 2.0 stage and collaboration is now fostering success. In late September of 2011 there will be a meeting of over 20 countries dedicated to Open Government and Government 2.0 around the globe. This is an exciting time for people like myself, advocating, pushing, pulling and even getting yelled at to accomplish change.
But still fear lingers, its wraith like fingers coming in the dead of night, or in the depth of a boardroom on a sunny day. Social media has its heroes and demons alike that is clear. But mobility, social connectivity and the desire for more transparency and openness create strange bedfellows. Just when an agency indicates a real need for Gov 2.0 – someone inevitably throws cold water. Sometimes freezing cold water, but still the movement continues, and the forward progression of the adoption of a new way of business for government continues uni-directionally.
My solution for fear based discussions about Gov 2.0? Look around. See all the successful implementations of open data, of social connectivity for Government and Citizens alike and see the results. It is not hard to find an example of government agencies adopting various parts of this big picture. Just ask your local fire department how they are using location based services. Or ask your local police department how they monitor social media for evidence of crimes. Look at the military using social media in offensive, defensive methods as well as for recruiting and publicity. Look at how the FBI regularly uses social media to tell the story about what they do. Look at the State Department's continual innovations in new uses of mobility and social media. That is how your agency overcomes fear brought on by a sudden onslaught of Gov 2.0.


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From 2004-2006 electrical overloading in the driver's side instrument panel caused numerous reports of interior fires. The interior infernos became so commonplace that Chrysler eventually issued a recall.
The problems didn't stop there, however. Owners of the recalled vehicles complained about being treated unfairly and given take-it-or-leave-it low ball settlement offers. "They offered me $2000 under NADA retail as a settlement," said one owner, "and have been rude and hostile to deal with." Nothing says awesome service like treating your customers rudely after their cars have caught on fire.
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March 20, 2009 - MIAMI — A Miami television station and newspaper are reporting that blood tests show that Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte' Stallworth was driving drunk when he fatally struck a pedestrian last weekend.
It was reported Thursday that unnamed sources with knowledge of the investigation say that Stallworth's blood-alcohol level was between .08 and .16. The legal limit is .08. Other sources also reported Thursday that an unnamed source says Stallworth's blood-alcohol level was above the legal limit.
The Miami Beach Police Department is refusing to confirm the reports.
No charges have been filed against the 28-year-old Stallworth. Neither his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, nor his attorney, Robert Switke, returned calls from The Associated Press seeking comment.
Victim Mario Reyes died Saturday after being struck by Stallworth's Bentley at 7 a.m. He had just finished an overnight shift at the Port of Miami and was walking to a bus stop.


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The cover and title is so interesting. I think a book with nail polish and a pretty girl involved will lure any teenager to read it.
James Spalding, naturally stereotyped as the responsible live-to-please-my-parents nerd is on his way to the countryside to fulfill his student teacher job. While he fills up the tank of his Mercedes Benz (parents are rich, dad is a surgeon) at a gasoline station, an attractive-looking girl with Black Painted Fingernails comes up to him and successfully imposes receiving a lift.
Though hesitant at first, James began to unravel the murky details of his hitchhiker's life. As they got to know each other on this incredulous journey of trust and instant romance, clarity soon finds them.
The book has its moments. A little bit cinematic, with quirky little details injected to some scenes, it is undeniably not just trying to tell a story but making readers contemplate as well.
I appreciate the journey. It may not be the best but it's a good book.


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The economy may be turning around again (what is it is now, the third time in a year or fourth?) but the Art world seems to be talking about nothing but death & loss.
First off you have the well publicized and it seems anticipated Kanye West music video for his single "Power" which is being described as "apocalyptic" "dark, personal conflict" & "beautiful death".  With the video directed by artist Marco Brambilla who has a habit of creating work with a strong bent towards monolitic, time lapse laiden video art with a dark dramatic stuttering low light quality it will be interesting to see how it turned out.
For me music videos have been on kind of a artistic hiatis since Chicago's own Mark Romanek moved to feature films. It seemed his departure timed well with the crash of the industry and music videos have been on a healthy but slow DYI recovery since then largely.
Requiem for Kodachrome
Kodak has been singing the executioners song for Kodachrome slide processing for some time but the last roll was made a while back and given to the well known photojournalist and National Geographic regular Steve McCurry. That roll is currently being processed in the sole remaining processing studio Dwayne's Photo Service in Parsons, KS. What will it have on it again no one know but if it is in style with the current visual theme for 2010 it will have a skull in it (skulls have been everywhere since Art Basel Miami Beach, more things change the more they stay the same). Read more here
Ellen Bows Out Of American Idol
I don't watch the show personally but I do know there are two things the art wold in general loves to do. One, bemoan the pointlessness of "Work of Art" on Bravo (as if an art reality competition ever had a hope at quality or legitimacy? seriously?) and Second talking about American Idol (two years ago it was Mad Men but no one seems to remember that show now?). So now that Simon has left Ellen is not reup-ing for a second year. Rumor is J-Lo will be on the table Read more here
That Dark Shadowy Figure Caravaggio Keeps Getting Press
For the last three years Caravaggio (who I admit I do love) keeps getting press touting his mastery and forward thinking when it came to composition and cinematic intimacy now is no different. Read more here
Jewish Art Gallery Puts On Crucifixion Show
[insert outrage here] garnish with 28 works by artists such as Tracey Emin, Duncan Grant, and Lee Miller Read more here
Ansel Adams Estate Fights Man Who Bought Negatives At Yard Sale
The estate of Ansel Adams (Adams' grandson Matthew Adams)Â contests that negatives are almost worthless unless the hand of the artist is used to make prints, so basically by that logic art restoration damages work since even though it continues the outline set by the artist it is not the true hand of the artist. Glad to see Matthew Adams isn't sour or anything. Read more here
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Author's note: This post wraps up the responses to my earlier prompt for the Carnival of Journalism blog project. Feel free to contribute your own blog responses, and I'll add them to the thoughts compiled here.
As I'd hoped, our group stretched my prompt about longevity and meaningful content in a variety of directions. Engagement remains a fluid, malleable idea in today's landscape, and I doubt we will agree on a singular definition in the weeks and months to come. But these responses provide some sharp insights to move our thinking forward.
Each response seized a separate piece of the journalistic puzzle to dissect: the journalistic process, the journalist/content creator, the technology, and the journalism itself. Take half an hour or so to scan these posts; you will find thoughts and ideas to inspire your own work.
Circa and the journalistic process
David Cohn (@digidave), our ringleader and chief content officer of Circa, focuses on his organization's idea of the "follow" for stories.
Circa taps into the idea of journalism as a process. Instead of focusing on a singular story, Circa watches news events and topics unfold over time, combining several stories into an overall news narrative. This ability to "atomize" individual stories allows Circa add them for context as news evolves and permits users to "follow" news topics.
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We can see how many people have "followed" a story in the last hour, the last 24 hours and how many have unfollowed (happily always our lowest number). The follow count doesn't represent "eyeballs" to monetize with banner ads but rather relationships. Each follow is a decision by a reader to keep in touch, for us to keep track of what they know and alert them when something new happens they aren't aware of.
In a sense, the approach is akin to Quora's ability to follow particular questions, a strategy embraced by the New York Times on its AskWell blog.
(By the way, if you don't have @circa app on your smartphone, you need to download it now. Its mobile-first storytelling style is a model for developing scannable narratives.)
Understanding the journalist/content creator
Donica Mensing (@donica), associate professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, takes the question away from the content and focuses on the content creators themselves. What do skillful, passionate creators experience personally when a piece of content takes off?
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If we find journalists who are moved and excited by what they are doing, it's likely they will be connected to subjects and communities that feel similarly. It's another set of data points to help us define and measure what has lasting impact, what engages, what is meaningful.
She has compiled a list of research questions that we could ask journalists to delve into this topic (a #jcarn collaboration, perhaps?).
(By the way, Donica has done important work analyzing local news ecosystems and networks. Her research is mandatory reading for anyone wanting to understand online journalism.)
Using technology to make content findable
Carrie Brown-Smith (@Brizzyc), associate professor at University of Memphis, hits the practical aspects of timing, tagging, and technology to make content findable and usable. Like other participants this go-round, she says we should stop searching for one magical metric to solve our engagement woes:
I'm increasingly convinced that it's less about choosing any one particular "golden" metric that will help us to quantify quality or impactful or engaging content, and more about being smarter and more sophisticated about the way we think and talk about the constellation of metrics available to us – and especially the story we as journalists tell advertisers.
(By the way, Carrie has pushed the boundaries of entrepreneurial journalism education during her time at the University of Memphis [check out the #jpreneur hashtag on Twitter]. The lessons from her experiments are valuable for any newsroom/journalism program.)
Creating journalism that empowers audiences
Steve Outing (@steveouting), blogger and media futurist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, chose to focus the idea of content on "significant news that makes you angry." Though that's been the goal of many an investigative journalist for decades, Steve makes an important update to that notion: News organizations — especially in today's interactive environment — should empower their audiences to take action.
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The ideal, in my view, is that for appropriate stories (like those we're discussing) there's a section at the end — "Take action" — with ways for readers who are angry about what a news story has uncovered, to do something (more than just rant in Comments). And don't just do the old thing of listing the time and place of the protest, for example; provide actions that readers can take, whether it's to sign a petition or commit to volunteer work.
(By the way, Steve is also the founder and program director of the innovative CU project the Digital News Test Kitchen, an incubator for experiments in journalism and technology.)
A side note: I mentioned the book Spreadable Media in my original prompt, and one of the authors, Sam Ford, responded in the comments by drawing in Anderson's notion of the Long Tail into the mix and noting the importance of archives in the Internet age.
Thanks to all who participated. If you decide to add your own thoughts to the mix, please let me know and I'll add them here.


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Chavez returns to duty after two months off for cancer treatment; China denies hacking claims; former Japanese prime minister paves way for Japan-Russia leadership meeting; Obama may consider arming Syrian opposition; ANC dismisses new South African party; and more
Top of the Agenda: Chavez's Return Raises Questions
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez returned to Caracas (LAHT) early Monday after spending two months out of the public eye for cancer surgery in Cuba, announcing his return to his four million followers on Twitter. The government said that he had been taken to a military hospital to continue with his treatments, but gave no new details on his health or images of his arrival (AP). Chavez, who has served as president for fourteen years, was reelected for another six-year term in October 2012, but has yet to be sworn in for his new term. Analysts say that doubts remain (BBC) about whether his health will allow him to return to active politics.
"Among the political factors at work, analysts said Monday, is the 46% devaluation of Venezuela's currency ordered this month by Chavez's designated political heir, Vice President Nicolas Maduro. The move could carry political costs in the long term that would make it expedient for Chavistas to hold quick elections if the president is too ill to govern," write Chris Kraul and Mery Mogollon for the LA Times.
"Until now, the government has studiously avoided talking about the possibility of holding an election to replace Mr. Chávez. But on Monday, a government-run newspaper, Correo del Orinoco, ran a banner front-page headline saying that Mr. Maduro, who is Mr. Chávez's designated successor, would win an 'eventual presidential election' — a shift in tone that analysts viewed as particularly significant," writes William Neuman for the New York Times.
"Whoever winds up replacing Mr Chávez will face a daunting economic test. GDP is expected to stagnate in 2013, while inflation continues to rise. Even though exporters will benefit from a slightly cheaper bolívar and the right to keep a greater share of their foreign-currency revenues in dollars, the government still thwarts their efforts with a thicket of red tape," writes the Economist.
China Responds to Hacking Claims
China lashed back against a report by Mandiant Corp., a U.S. computer security firm, which accused a group attached to the People's Liberation Army of stealing large amounts of data (WSJ) from U.S. companies over a seven-year period.
CFR's Adam Segal discusses China's hacking scandal in this article.
JAPAN: Former Japanese prime minister Yoshiro Mori will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday to prepare for a possible visit (JapanTimes) by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Obama may consider arming Syrian opposition
African National Congress dismisses new party
This is an excerpt of the CFR.org Daily News Brief. The full version is available on CFR.org.


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Set in the spectacular grounds of Hampton Court Palace, the world's largest annual flower show is a must see for passionate gardeners and "grow your own" enthusiasts. Explore inspirational show gardens and be inspired by world-class displays including Conceptual and World Gardens. There is always something new to discover every year - ideas you can take back to grow in your own garden. Discover rose and plant marquees bursting with the highest quality floral displays and shop your way through a wide array of quality plants and must-have accessories. Learn from the experts in all aspects related to horticulture with practical demonstrations and first class advice. Take a break and enjoy the panoramic view of the show from the fabulous Allium Restaurant.
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Call for Recipes, Makah Ozette potato Update; and a volunteer opportunity
Do you have a recipe for fall?
As the days get chillier, many of us naturally find ourselves warmed by the kitchen as a stew or sauce bubbles away on the stove top or a roast cooks in the oven. And if we are lucky, a friend, family member or neighbor will have shared their recipe for the perfect fall dish. We're hoping to offer some inspirational dishes to our Slow Food Seattle community. For our upcoming newsletter, we would like to feature your recipe! We're looking for savory and sweet harvest recipes to share with your fellow Slow Food Seattle members.
From the recipes submitted, we will choose two of them to feature on the next Slow Food Seattle newsletter. If you have a seasonal recipe or perhaps a Thanksgiving favorite you would like to share in our upcoming newsletter, please email it with your name, the neighborhood you live in, and how long you have been a member to us at email@example.com.
Help the Mid Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group:
A volunteer opportunity to restore wild salmon habitat
Most of us have enjoyed a piece of grilled wild salmon a time or two. Some of us have even had the excitement of hooking one while fishing in the waters of Puget Sound. Maybe you have stood on the side of a stream and marveled at the sight of wild salmon making their way upstream to spawn in the very place they began their lives years before.
Have you ever wondered what you could do to help these amazing animals in their efforts to complete their life cycle? Wonder no more, pull on some rubber boots and meet the Mid Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group on the river banks of one of the tributaries to Mill Creek in Auburn as we volunteer a few hour to restore its this vital salmon habitat.
It doesn't look like much but this tributary supports juvenile salmon, providing important off-channel refuge during high stream flows. The Mid Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group will be planting nearly 2,000 trees and shrubs over the course of a few days and need help to do so. A few hours from Slow Food Seattle members will greatly speed this effort and assure that wild salmon are welcomed home to clean, cool water in a free flowing stream.
Mid Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group's mission is to increase salmon populations to healthy and sustainable levels while working cooperatively with private landowners and others in the community to improve salmon habitat. They rely on volunteers and members to make habitat restoration a reality. Let's help them make the project a success while being good stewards to our wild salmon populations!
Here are the details:
When: Saturday November 6th from 10am to 2pm
Where: Please meet at the corner of West Valley Highway and 15th Street NW. Parking is limited so car pool if possible. You will receive detailed directions once you sign up.
What to wear: Dress appropriately to plant young trees and be prepared for the day's weather be it rain gear or sunglasses. Work gloves and sturdy shoes a must.
What to Bring: Mid Sound team will have warm drinks, some shovels and lots of small trees. Please bring your own shovel or basic garden tools (all clearly labeled) if they are handy. Remember to bring your our own drinking water, lunch and anything else that you need to make your day comfortable while digging in the dirt!
Sign up: Please put "Volunteer on November 6th" in the subject line when you email the Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group with your name and a phone number: email@example.com. All volunteers must be 18 years or older.
If you're on Facebook, you can also find the Mid Sound Fisheries page here. A great opportunity to feel good and do your part to preserve wild salmon and essential fish habitat. Thank you!
Update on the Makah Ozette Potato Presidium
Our Presidium has been in operation for almost four years (for background, see here as well as on the Makah Ozette Potato Presidium page). The objective of having an abundant regional seed source was realized last year by our partner, Pure Potato.
We had finally reached the long awaited three years it takes to develop the available genetic material into a field of virus free seed potato. There was an abundance of seed available for the 2010 planting throughout the region and seed was even sold to a large potato grower in California. Pure Potato sold all of its seed this spring and most of the 7 regional nurseries who stocked the seed sold out to home gardeners by mid spring.
A highlight of 2009 was Essential Baking Company's (EBC) adopting the potato, contracting with Full Circle Farm and making their seasonal potato bread using the Makah Ozette Potato (MOP). The management of EBC declared this to be the most flavorful potato bread they had ever produced. They are committed to continuing to use the MOP when it is available in the future.
2010 has been a disaster year for the MOP. Flooding destroyed the entire crop of seed at Pure Potato. This is a severe setback for the Presidium as it will take another three years to regenerate the seed stock to the 2009 levels. Pure Potato having experience the success with this potato is committed to carrying on with its development. Full Circle Farm has also experienced a significant loss of crop due to flooding and will not be able to supply EBC this fall for its potato bread. Unless MOP can be sourced from California this year, we may be eating plain potato bread this fall.
If you have grown MOP this year, you can try to save some seed from your harvest. Keep them in a mesh bag in your refrigerator till spring.


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St. John's Masonic Lodge has new officers; Trudy Pickett discusses spring cleaning
St. John�s officers elected
St. John�s No. 4 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons have elected new officers for 2013.
Newly elected are Danny Davis, secretary; Chris Raines, senior warden; Lyn Hill, master; John Lee, junior warden; and Eric Rouse, treasurer.
Other officers are Gene Messick, steward; Billy Manning, senior deacon; Sterling Gillikin, assistant secretary; Richard Moore, steward; John Grady, chaplain; and Gary Green, junior deacon.
Home Solutions: Almost time for spring cleaning
When the weather gets warm, the call to spring clean seems to be a universal urge. A survey by the Soap and Detergent Association reports that when they heed the call, men and women turn to different parts of the house.
Women find kitchens and bathrooms most rewarding, while men give high marks to basements and garages (the women�s least rewarding).
The urge to clean is also age related, and different for the two sexes. Women ages 35-54 and men ages 18-24 and 55-64 are most likely to heed the call to spring clean.
Nearly two-thirds of the American population engages in the spring-cleaning ritual. Top priority goes to the kitchen, the living room, the master bedroom and the bathrooms. But it�s not a planned, systematic method of cleaning. Instead, it is �event cleaning�; cleaning that people feel just can�t be put off anymore.
With spring-cleaning come both aesthetically pleasing and healthy results. Regular cleaning eliminates or reduces the allergens that trigger allergies and asthma. No single product can provide optimum performance on all surfaces and soils, so selecting the right product for the job is key. Read and follow product labels for information and use directions.
Specialized convenience products make cleaning jobs faster and easier. Germ-fighting antibacterial products can be found in many categories, including kitchen and bathroom cleaners, and commonly used hand soaps.
People who value convenience have embraced wipes and disposable towelettes that can be thrown away with the germs. Glass, furniture, floors and leather upholstery are just a few of the surfaces that benefit from these easy-clean aids.
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NOTE: Today's original post of horse cakes has been pulled due to some horrendously bad timing on the part of the universe. (I was out of the country until yesterday, and so only learned of the tragic polo horse deaths this morning.) Rest assured that I'm not that intentionally insensitive, and I certainly meant no offense to horses or horse-lovers. I'll run the original post again in a few weeks, but for today, enjoy this classic Wreck rerun from the CW archives.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Quick, someone make a cake!
Yes, there's nothing quite like plummeting balloons and unconscious clowns to celebrate your own personal apocalypse. Anyone have some radiation-free milk to go with?


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Budget plans or works of fiction?
Democrats and Republicans have put together their dream budgets — political documents that are more like wish lists than usable road maps for the future of government spending.
Both have no chance of becoming law, but they do help explain the impasse over spending and debt in Washington.
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The two plans — one by Republican Paul Ryan and the other by Democrat Patty Murray — aren't even apples and oranges. They're more like apples and bicycles.
Ryan's budget shoots to balance the budget in 10 years by slashing health care spending. Murray's plan, which Democrats outlined in bare-bones form Tuesday, seeks to lower deficits by raising $1 trillion in new revenues and leaving out big entitlement changes but doesn't take on balancing the budget. That makes coming to an agreement look tough — if not impossible.
( Also on POLITICO: Ryan's ax hits health programs hard)
Stacking the two budgets side by side, here are the key political takeaways.
Grand bargain? Good luck with that
President Barack Obama might like to talk about a grand bargain — and there's always a remote chance for a breakthrough — but the two documents rolled out this week don't make it look likely.
Democrats aren't trying to balance the budget, as Republicans are. In the Democrats' view, it's enough to reduce the deficit — and not even for its own sake, but to change spending priorities to help middle-class families and create jobs.
( Also on POLITICO: Paul Ryan budget: Challenge to White House, DOA in Senate)
"While House Republicans are doubling down on the extreme budget that the American people already rejected, Senate Democrats are going to be working on a responsible pro-growth budget that reflects the values and priorities of middle-class families across the country," Murray said in a statement.
So this isn't Bill Clinton's second term again. At this point in his presidency, in 1997, he had already signed on to the goal of a balanced budget. Republicans and Democrats had different ways to get there, but they shared the goal.
Now, Obama is facing a rebellion from liberal Democrats if he goes anywhere near a grand bargain, as he found out when he joined Senate Democrats for lunch at the Capitol on Tuesday.
"We don't want to start whacking away at Social Security … or Medicare, things like that" when there are other ways to keep them solvent besides cutting benefits, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told reporters after the meeting. "So we're cautioning him: Be careful about this grand bargain."
The deficit-reduction goals aren't that close, either. Ryan wants to cut spending by $4.6 trillion over the next 10 years. Murray wants to reduce the deficit by $1.9 trillion, and only half, $975 billion, would be through spending cuts. The other $975 billion would be through tax revenues.
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Both parties had to ignore reality to write their budget.
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- Crust
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- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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- Filling
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon (packed) finely grated lemon peel
- 1 teaspoon all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
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Mike Singletary was tight-lipped about everything after the game, even whether Alex Smith would make the trip to London. If he can't play, there's no reason for him to go. Singletary wouldn't name David Carr his replacement saying he would have to look at the game film, which leads the door slightly open for a Troy Smith start. Singletary also said promoting Nate Davis is a possibility.
Also a possibility, the playoffs according to Singletary. "I still believe we can go to the playoffs," Singletary said when he was asked if his team is just not very good.
I think the 49ers are good. I believe they are poorly coached. They don't play with confidence, and they make far too many mistakes. Also, the 49ers have miscalculated their rookie offensive linemen. Anthony Davis will be a good player, but his pass protection is a huge issue. It was Davis' missed block that led to the Smith injury.
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Starring pan-Asian heartthrob So Ji-sub (Always), the film is about a man working for a contract killing company who tries to leave it for the woman he loves, but ends up hunted by his former colleagues.
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What goes up, must come down. True, but not always pretty: ruined pancakes, botched face lifts and Britney Spears' careers come to mind.
However, at Cakespy we've spied something that's just as sweet on the flipside: Upcakes by Dixie Picnic, a Southern NJ-based bakery. What exactly is an Upcake? Well, according to their website, it was an invention prompted when a young family member would only eat the frosting off of cupcakes and then discard the rest; such a waste! The solution? Frosting the sides in addition to the top, duh. A win-win situation; no cake wasted, and no more poor cake-to-frosting ratio. As might be expected, they have become a bit of a legend in the area.
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We'd say that everything's coming up cake.
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|2012-07-09, 18:00
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Accel World - FanFiction Discussion
Welcome to the Accel World FanFiction Discussion thread.
This thread is meant for Accel World fanfiction and its discussion. Fanfiction works can be either posted in this thread or in the Fan Creations Forum and linked to in this thread. You may also link to Fanfiction works posted on other sites and discuss it here.
General rules of our forum still apply:
Please respect the authors, fanfictions are written in their free time, they have have no gain and owe you nothing; if they like a particular character and/or a particular pattern for their story, it's a personal choice and can't be blamed. In general, you are free to post constructive criticisms but not insults which (as in any other part of the forums) won't be tolerated. Remember that writers post here to get help and not to get troubles.
Thanks and have fun
|2012-07-16, 15:42
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Location: San Jose
This is my FanCharacter, Anaya-you may have seen few of my pics of her on Deviantart under the Accel World tag.
If anyone has a problem with the link-which is my art blog post of her- or rather I post her picture and bio here, please do say and wait, I just posted through my CellPhone.
Character criticism is accepted and enjoyed- she will be edited perhaps more later on, like her attacks.
|2012-07-17, 07:34
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Haha...I was reviewing over and over what I had wrote that I missed the first (technically, second) post
Oh well...
Though, I'd avoid touching the Incarnate System as of yet. Because, as far as I know, it's being kept a secret (by the Kings) and only a few know about it.
The key to making a decent character for a fanfiction is Balance.
I'll come back later and maybe post what I've done
*Burst Out*
|2012-07-17, 11:56
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People will complain if too OP for the setting of the game.
|2012-07-17, 13:47
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and-if its not too much trouble to say- her parent is a level seven player who knows of the IS system and so he taught her once she turned level 4.
Making your characters NOT fight for some reason or another does not count as balance, no one can just stop fighting.
|2012-07-17, 16:14
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Ok, I guess I'll start by posting the Prologue of my fic "Accel World: Under the Cloudless Sky".
So...here goes.
Spoiler for AW:UtCS - Prologue:
Then, the Preview...I'm going to try to follow the anime's style of preview and naming
Spoiler for AW:UtCS - Ch01 Preview:
That's it for now, I'll go work on the profiles and incoming stuff.
*Burst Out*
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I mentioned Carbon Arrow in the Light Novel thread. The person did seem similar to a certain "archer" in comics. Basically, he started out as a douche and after his "experience" became a changed person. Also a few months ago, I make a fanfic character named Fix. He grew up interested in the brain's "full potential". He hates his father because he abducted him out of school out of the blue and "erased" his existence that he was there. He got back at him by "giving him up" to the government. His father is a renowned computer hacker named SPYDER who hates the government and always messes with them. He used my father to get a clean slate and start new life. He graduated from Harvard and became interested in "accelerating the mind". He had an BIC implanted in him before working for the Technical Committee of Acceleration. He secretly created an AI to help with his "work" (probably his only friend). He found out what was the purpose of Brain Burst and what the Committee is going to do with it. He steals a copy of it (before the 100) and took his AI with him. He faked his own death with the help of the government. He told the government that the Committee may have eyes and hears in their vicinity, so communication done between them must be done carefully. Fix knew Haruyuki's dad in school and was the one that gave him the courage to stand up for himself. During the years after his "death", he researched the BB program and gave moidificates to his AI (turning him into a AI Duel Avatar named Ghost). Fix has a personal vendetta against Black Vise. He will to do anything within the lines to "bring down" him. Further explaining about him is making me tired.
|2012-07-25, 05:25
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Location: Portugal
Ok, haven't finished the profiles yet
But here's Chapter 1 of Under the Cloudless Sky.
Spoiler for AW:UtCS - Chapter 01:
That took a while, but managed to complete it
I know the story's flow so far is following a similar pattern as Accel World's story.
But don't worry, it'll change soon.
Now, for Ch02 Preview
Spoiler for AW:UtCS - Ch02 Preview:
*phew* Now I can relax for a while
*Burst Out*
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|2012-07-25, 15:02
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In this case, it's parallel with Accel World's plot.
As for canon characters, yes, I might bring them into this story.
But Haruyuki and the others live in the Suginami district, while my OCs are in Toshima...the Red Legion's territory is between them.
If they meet, it'll probably be during the equivalent to the first part of episode 6, when Haru and Taku participate in tag-battles.
Other ocasions can be while in the Unlimited Neutral Field. And Kuroyukihime's field trip to Okinawa.
Now, it's a bit of a fic spoiler, but here's a list of Duel Avatar names that I'll be using.
Spoiler for Aw:UtCS - Current list of original Duel Avatars:
Those are the ones I've thought of so far
*Burst Out*
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|2012-07-29, 22:31
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The Incarnate system is a bit of an asspull, is it?
But somehow, that just gave me all I needed to get into this fic proper.
A triangle between Parent, Child, and an enigmatic Golden Cub.
Hacks into FlameSparkz nervegear to steal some moe power.
|2012-07-30, 16:36
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Location: San Jose
Ah! Guys, Fancharacter idea! They do not exactly fly,but has a dragon item-like Ash Roller's motorcycle- and it flies for her. Perhaps it can gain an AI to speak through he owner's mind or can nust be quiet?
Bht even though it flies its not very submission to it's master and has to grow mentally like a pet would. All it does is fly,help in battle ifbits being threatened and only breathes fire when the owner's special gauge is full for an attack.
Opinions for not making it too OP?
|2012-07-30, 18:00
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 33
Silica, that you?
That said, I'd much rather stay away from anything having true flight. Or perhaps make it so that this dragon is a pet, levitates by maglev (or something like that, there's metal everywhere on some stages), and is too small to carry a person.
Because... I much prefer Silica than your unmodified idea.
|2012-07-31, 07:43
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Age: 16
Orange. The colour of creativity, imagination, freedom.
Freedom. Yes, that's right. That's what he was fighting for. Freedom.
Not his freedom, but his legion's freedom. Accel World's freedom. Freedom from the menace that Black Vise had become.
He was snapped out of his train of thought when an attack from one of the many plugins on Vise's body nearly decapitated him. If he lost here, he might never find Vise again.
True, he was at a level disadvantage, but his years worth of combat experience prior to his retirement, along with the Destiny and Star Caster he inherited from his two friends gave him the upper hand here.
Or so he thought.
Thanks to decades of research, Black Vise had his abilities enhanced twofold by the various plugins on various parts of his body, each acting like an extra limb capable of independent thought. It was impossible to get close and execute Judgement Blow.
He wondered how many players lost Brain Burst to achieve that. It was infuriating how his once trusted sub-commander had perverted his hopes and dreams for his Legion. It had been a grave mistake instating Vise as Acting Legion Master in his long absence. He wish he saw it back then. He paid the price by losing two of his friends.
No. He couldn't let rage cloud his focus. Not now. When the opportunity came, he would make Vise pay in full and take back Milky Way.
He knew Vise inside out. Even after all these years, his base personality hadn't changed, though he was much more noble back then. As soon as Vise got in some hits, complacency would settle in. That would be the time to strike. It would also charge up his gauge for his long-range attack. Quick mental calculation revealed that he could only take enough hits from Vise to charge up his gauge once. It was all or nothing.
1st hit. 2nd. 3rd.
That was enough. He made use of the abilities stored within the Destiny.
Wings. Flash Jump.
He activated his special ability, which split Star Caster into a bow. A single arrow materialised before it. One Shot.
He took aim and let go. One by one the plugins flew to intercept the shot, sacrificing themselves to slow it down. He knew it was useless. The shot's piercing stats were too high for the defence stats of the plugins to be of any use.
Even so, Vise was unflustered.
"Has spending too much time away from Brain Burst rotted your mind? It doesn't matter if the arrow hits. I'll just lose a few points and respawn after the timer."
Then Vise noticed his right hand moving, as though selecting something in the neurolinker interface.
As though leveling up.
Vise knew there and then that his time in Brain Burst was finished.
Pretty cheesy, I know.
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But following that train of though...you could make an "Enemy Tamer".
The Duel Avatar would have an ability to tame an Enemy, and treat it as External Armament...but can only have one.
And of course, what can be tamed would have to be limited to the Duel Avatar's level.
Give it some thought.
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It seems we have the same train of thought. I always found it strange how Orange, even though it is a secondary colour, was missing a King. All the better for me though, since it's always been my favourite colour.
Besides, in Magic the Gathering, Ivory Tower, the Acting Legion Master of the White Legion, is the counterpart card to Black Vise. Since there was no Orange Legion, I thought I would make Vise its Acting Legion Master while the Orange King was away.
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Video: Gang member fleeing police kills self
Officers landed several shots in the suspect's shoulder, but his cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot to the head
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SISTERS, Ore. — New dash cam from four Oregon State cruisers shows the pursuit of an armed man fleeing police before officers fired and the suspect turned his gun on himself.
William E. Hall, 34, pulled a gun as police approached his vehicle, prompting Major Travis Hampton to grab his sidearm and yell, "Gun!" as he backed away from the suspect's vehicle, according to KGW.
According to the district attorney's report, Hall squeezed the trigger of his firearm as if trying to fire at the officer, unsuccessfully.
Hall then fled, prompting police to pursue him. Officers deployed a spike strip to flatten his tires, then pinned his vehicle between the cruisers, according to the report.
Hall could be seen in his vehicle brandishing a gun again. Officers fired several shots at his vehicle.
According to a ruling by Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty, Hampton and Senior Trooper William Duran were "fully justified" in shooting at Hall.
Hall suffered several gunshots to the shoulder from the officers, but his cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
Hall had recently served roughly six years in prison for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to the report. Investigators said that during his time in prison, he was a lieutenant in the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist prison gang.
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South African Journal of Surgery
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S. Afr. j. surg. vol.50 n.1 Cape Town Feb. 2012
Sacral pressure sore reconstruction - the pedicled superior gluteal artery perforator flap
A. HurbungsI; H. RamkalawanII
IM.B. B.S, M.Med. (Plastic Surgery); Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Xiangya Second Affiliated Hospital of Central South University, China
IIM.B. B.S, M.Med. (Neurology); Department of Neurology, Xiangya First Affiliated Hospital of Central South University, China
OBJECTIVE: To report the use of the pedicled superior gluteal artery perforator (SGAP) fasciocutaneous flap as a reliable surgical option for sacral pressure sore reconstruction.
METHODS: A prospective study was conducted between September 2008 and September 2010 of 10 patients with stage 3 or 4 sacral pressure sores treated with a unilateral pedicled SGAP flap.
RESULTS: All flaps survived completely with no complications in 9 patients. One patient had a haematoma below the flap that was easily drained. No recurrence of the bedsore occurred during follow-up.
CONCLUSION: We suggest that the pedicled SGAP fasciocutaneous flap is a reliable surgical option for sacral pressure sore reconstruction.
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A Chocolate Shop in Forest Hills, 80+ Years and Counting
Your daily dose of something sweet.
This family-run Austrian chocolate shop has been in Forest Hills since 1930. Step inside and up to the display case of truffles, fruit candies, and other confections, and you realize that not much has changed since then. Aigner Chocolates is a bulwark of stability and unwavering technique.
Most of the chocolates (about $28 a pound) come in milk and dark variations, both snappy, well-tempered, and refreshingly not too sweet. This is milk chocolate that a chocolate lover can eat without a wince—buttery and mellow—not sugary. The dark carries a slight bitterness but is by and large user friendly.
Malted milk and nut clusters and tangerine truffles call out from the case, but the shop's must-order may be its Honeycomb Sponge, a candy born in the UK that gets little attention in the States. To make it, a thick brown sugar syrup is cooked down until viscous, then sprinkled with baking soda. The baking soda reacts with acids in the syrup, forming little bubbles that become trapped by the thick toffee, which then sets. At Aigner, the bubbles form a tight, neat honeycomb pattern as opposed to the uneven, unstructured view of a Crunchie bar in cross-section.
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J.D. Hulse, a 2011 graduate of BSC, returned to the coaching staff of the Birmingham-Southern baseball program before the 2017 season. He is responsible for coaching outfielders and baserunners. Additionally, he assists with the development and implementation of BSC's strength and conditioning program and will serve as the team's first-base coach.
Hulse was a four-year starter for the Panthers in center field. His play earned All-Conference honors in 2008, 2010, and 2011. He was a .338 career hitter with 11 home runs, 101 RBIs and 68 stolen bases. Hulse is ranked seventh in BSC history in runs scored and sixth in triples. His career marks will also go in the SCAC record books as 10th in runs scored and ninth in stolen bases.
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Cultivating mushrooms at home has become fairly popular in recent years because of the wide availability of the supplies needed to grow fungi variants that produce edible mushrooms.
The methods employed for growing edible mushrooms have not changed a lot these past few decades. The methods haven't changed because the whole process of growing mushrooms has always been straightforward and effective. As the old adage goes, if something isn't broken, why fix it?
Step 1: Pure Culture
Modern mushroom cultivation actually begins in the confines of your basement or home mushroom workshop. Before you can begin growing mushrooms in plastic bags, you need to obtain and multiply pure culture. Pure culture is really just the mycelium of the target species of fungi.
Mycelium is like the seed that will later produce the edible mushrooms that you're after. Mushrooms are just the fruiting bodies of fungi species. They are produced when conditions are right so as a mushroom grower, it would be your job to ensure that the right number of favorable conditions is present when you start bagging the substrate and the grain spawn.
In the first phase of the process, you need to obtain some culture of the target species. This culture will then be grown in petri dishes with agar. Agar is just the medium that will hold the mycelium. Molasses and other nutrient-rich items can be mixed with the agar to ensure maximum mycelium growth.
Step 2: Create Grain Spawn
When the mycelium has grown, it can be stored for months until you are ready to create the grain spawn. Grain spawn is needed to inoculate big batches of substrate. You can create grain spawn by adding pure culture to rye grains.
It takes about ten days for the rye grain to be ready. After this spawn run you need to use the rye grain immediately while it is still viable. Otherwise, the rye grain might end up being unusable because the mycelium will grow nonstop inside the sterile jars.
Of course, you would want to inoculate more than a few bags of substrate. You will need more than one batch of viable grain spawn. You can increase the amount of grain spawn by adding small amounts of viable grain spawn to sterilized rye grains.
One jar of viable grain spawn can give rise to ten more jars of grain spawn. If you produce ten jars of grain spawn from pure culture, you can definitely produce up to a hundred more jars of grain spawn by carefully measuring and distributing the contents of the first generation jars.
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The final step is inoculating your chosen substrate. The two most popular choices when it comes to growing common edible mushrooms are wood chips and wheat straw. If you have been able to obtain freshly cut wood chips you won't have to sterilize it anymore. Wheat straw is another story.
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Martha Raddatz takes center stage
If Martha Raddatz isn't a household name today, she will be tomorrow.
Thanks to the firestorm of criticism over Jim Lehrer's passive performance at the first presidential debate last week and a flap over President Barack Obama attending her second wedding two decades ago, Raddatz, an ABC News correspondent, will come under intense scrutiny from tens of millions of Americans when she moderates Thursday's vice presidential debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan.
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Raddatz seemed to weather her initial brush with the media hazing that can come with a debate hosting gig on Wednesday when a number of prominent Republicans — including Ryan — defended her objectivity in light of a Daily Caller report about "Barry Obama" attending her wedding.
But the story still will almost certainly color the way some viewers judge Raddatz's performance — and she already faced a task that was hardly as simple as "Don't do what Lehrer did."
Though criticism remains, many are beginning to warm to the idea — advocated by Lehrer and by the Commission on Presidential Debates — that the "PBS NewsHour" veteran was actually setting a new standard for debate moderation by making himself all but invisible. So the challenge for Raddatz, pundits and political strategists say, is to yield the floor to the candidates without giving the impression that, like Lehrer before her, she's getting steamrolled.
( Also on POLITICO: Right defends Raddatz debate role)
That may be a particular challenge for a Washington veteran who is known as one of city's most aggressive reporters, a journalist who thrives on mixing it up with newsmakers, not sitting behind an anchor's desk.
"Ideally, we want debates without moderators altogether. The implicit idea is that this is an exchange between two candidates, and the moderator shouldn't be the one to save one candidate or interrupt the flow of another," John Podhoretz, the conservative columnist who initially criticized Lehrer's passivity, told POLITICO. "But because of the criticism, [Raddatz] will feel like she needs to take a more active role so she doesn't get beat up by the media."
"Lehrer was actually a model for staying out of the way, and a model that should be emulated," said Steve Schmidt, the chief strategist for Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. "I profoundly disagree with the idea that the lesson from last week is Martha Raddatz needs to be all over the candidates. That's not her job."
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Podhoretz, who initially called Lehrer "the worst moderator in the history of moderation," said he had to "un-think" that criticism; Schmidt called himself an "outlier" for supporting the new model. But their view on Lehrer's performance is the same as that of the debate commission, which wants moderators to do less, not more. Indeed, in a post-debate interview with POLITICO last week, Lehrer said flatly that it "wasn't my job to control the conversation." Counterintuitive as it may seem, that is likely to be seen as the new standard for future moderators.
Not everyone agrees with that approach. Jon Ralston, Nevada's influential political commentator, wrote this week that "the argument that Lehrer did the right thing by not interceding and that Obama or Romney had the burden of calling the other to account misses a fundamental reality." When "opaque numbers… random statistics… or declarative claims… take center stage… the moderator MUST step in, put himself or herself between the candidates and the public, and press the participant on the veracity of the claim or puncture the spin with facts," he argued.


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Rag'n'Bone Man, real name Rory Graham, will be presented with his award at the Nominations Show on Saturday January 14.
The musician won the prestigious music award after being named on a short list with fellow artists Ann-Marie and Dua Lipa.
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Medicine & Healthcare in Tanzania by Beate Zonneveldt
For years it was my dream to go to Africa for volunteering. I always thought it would stay a dream forever, because I am already 33, I am married, have my fulltime job as a psychologist, my own house I have to pay for and thought I should have done it while I was studying.
But in November 2009 I thought: 'why shouldn't I do it?' and 5 weeks later I was in Tanzania, Africa. After I decided to go volunteering in Africa I found the site from Projects Abroad, I really wanted to do a medical project (I have always been interested in medicine and psychology) but because I am a psychologist I was afraid it might not be possible. But after a couple of mails, I got an email that I was welcome on a medical project in Tanzania.
Before I went to Tanzania, just for a month, I thought about what I really wanted to do and made a list. I really wanted to do 4 things: to see (and if possible assist in) operations, work in maternity and see some deliveries, go on safari on the first of January, which I thought would be a wonderful start to the New Year and to meet a fellow psychologist so we could exchange experiences. Because I am specialised in treating traumatised patients in Holland I was really curious to hear how traumatised patients are treated psychologically in Tanzania.
After I arrived in Tanzania I met my host family and I really felt at home at their place. It is so different to stay with a local family and be part of their lives instead of being in a country and staying in hotels. I loved walking through Arusha city, there were always lots of Masai people in the city (it felt like walking in my history book) and I loved working in 'my' hospital (St. Elisabeth) where I was the only Mzungu (Tanzanian term for foreigner).
In my first week I saw a couple of operations and I even had the chance to scrub in and assist the surgeon in the removal of an appendix. It was so exciting. After a couple of days I asked if it would be possible so see a delivery if there would be one and I was so happy that I was told I could. In my month in Tanzania I saw a lot of operations and a lot of deliveries (c-sections and normal deliveries) and I was able to assist a couple of times and not just observe.
I found out that everything was possible, but I always had to ask and make sure that it was ok with the other members of staff. I went on an ambulance drive to pick up a patient, helped to make gauze for sterilisation when it was quiet in the hospital, came back in the evening if there was an interesting procedure planned and went on rounds with different doctors.
And of course I went on a safari for 3 days (from 1st till 3rd January) and was lucky to see the big five and a lot of other animals with some of the other Projects Abroad volunteers.
In my hospital unfortunately there were no psychologists, but Claire from the Projects Abroad team knew I really wanted to meet some colleagues and we had talked about the possibility to go to a hospital with a mental health department for one or two days. I was happy to receive a message one day from FIilbert, another member of the Projects Abroad team in Tanzania, to say that he had arranged a meeting with a psychologist in Mount Meru Hospital. I went there with Claire and Father Filbert and another volunteer. It was really nice to talk with Sister Sheila, one of the very experienced psychotherapists in Mount Meru.
After I told her I am specialised in EMDR, a special therapy for traumatised patients she told me she had heard and read about this treatment and she really wanted me to give her and two of her colleagues a training in EMDR. After some hesitating, 'can I do it in such a short time?' I decided to give the training which was a really wonderful experience. I had learned a lot in Tanzania from a lot of people and this was my chance to give back something to this country, something which is really needed. I trained 3 psychotherapists and realised that I had done everything (and more) which was on my list in just 4 weeks.
I really enjoyed the experience and found out that a lot of things are possible if you just ask for it. I have decided after my time in Tanzania to follow a course so I can go to post-conflict areas in the world as a psychologist and help there with community building. My month in Tanzania really helped me in this career changing decision. I am so very happy I decided to follow my dream.
Beate Zonneveldt
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