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A video briefing explaining Israel's continued and expanding grip on Jerusalem since the occupation began in 1967.
March 26 2010
Israel condemned at Arab summit
Regional leaders meeting in Libya have been united in their condemnation of Israel's settlement activity in occupied Palestinian land.
The Arab League summit began on Saturday in the Libyan city of Sirte, with Amr Moussa, the Arab League chief, warning that continued Israeli settlement building would end efforts to revive the Middle East peace process.
"We have to study the possibility that the peace process will be a complete failure," Moussa said in his opening speech to the two-day annual summit.
"It's time to face Israel … We have accepted an open-ended peace process but that resulted in a loss of time and we did not achieve anything and allowed Israel to practise its policy for 20 years."
Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want as a joint capital for a future state, has been a particular point of focus for delegates.
Jerusalem's significance
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, reiterated that Israel's settlements were illegal under international law, and called for Jerusalem to be part of peace negotiations.
"Jerusalem's significance to all must be respected, and it should emerge from negotiations as the capital of two states," he said at the meeting's opening session.
Ban also called for Arab leaders to support US-led efforts to facilitate indirect "proximity" talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
The Palestinians pulled out of the talks in reaction to Israel's announcement it would build 1,600 settlements on occupied land.
The Israeli move has also caused a rift between Israel and Washington as it came during a visit to Israel by Joe Biden, the US vice-president.
"I urge you to support efforts to start proximity talks and direct negotiations. Our common goal should be to resolve all final status issues within 24 months," Ban said.
But Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, ruled out taking part in the talks unless Israel stops building settlements.
"We cannot resume indirect negotiations as long as Israel maintains its settlement policy and the status quo," he said in his speech.
The warnings over Jerusalem were echoed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, who called Israel's policy of considering Jerusalem as its united capital "madness".
"Jerusalem is the apple of the eye of each and every Muslim … and we cannot at all accept any Israeli violation in Jerusalem or in Muslim sites," he said.
'Playing with fire'
Many Arab leaders have also been angered by the opening of a restored 17th century synagogue near the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, home to Islam's third holiest site.
They see such acts as a clear intention by Israel to "Judaise" Jerusalem and undermine chances for a peace agreement with the Palestinians who consider East Jerusalem the capital of their future state.
Jordan's King Abdullah warned that Israel was "playing with fire" and trying to alter the identity of Jerusalem.
Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, described tensions with Israel as a "state of no-war, no-peace", and said his country was ready if "war is imposed" by Israel.
Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, opened the summit with an unusually short speech in which he said that Arabs were "waiting for actions, not words and speeches".
The Libyan leader, whose country is hosting this year's summit, has said he wants the meeting to be one of unity and the issue of Jerusalem has proved a unifying factor.
"The whole issue of Israeli actions has been under intense discussions, particularly in light of what has happened in that region in recent days," Mike Hanna, Al Jazeera's correspondent reporting from Sirte, said.
"Very clearly the issue of Jerusalem has been brought up and focused on because it is the one issue that would be very difficult for the international community as a whole to ignore.
"If, for example, resolutions would go to the UN General Assembly or the Security Council … on the question of East Jerusalem and Israeli occupation, it is very difficult for international bodies – or countries such as the US – to veto or abstain over something they've already condemned."
Arab leaders are expected to ratify an agreement drafted by their foreign ministers to raise $500m in aid to improve the living conditions for Palestinians in Jerusalem as part of a "rescue" plan for the city.
A senior Palestinian official said the money would go towards improving infrastructure, building hospitals, schools, water wells and providing financial support to those whose houses have been demolished by Israeli authorities.
The leaders are also due to discuss a number of strategies, including keeping a record of what they consider to be Israeli "violations" in Jerusalem to refer them to higher bodies such as the International Criminal Court, based in the Hague in the Netherlands.
The last Arab League summit, held two years ago, was hosted by Qatar.
Israel has been expanding illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land for decade, and it is now emerging just how far-reaching this policy is.
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the Jerusalem housing committee is planning to build another 50,000 Jewish homes in occupied East Jerusalem to join the hundreds of thousands already there or in progress.
That includes 3,000 housing units in Gilo, 1,500 apartments in Har Homa and another 1,500 in the settlement of Pisgat Ze'ev.
Thousands more have been planned at Givat Hamatos, and the settlement of Ramot, while hundreds more are in the works in Armon Hanetziv, as well as Neveh Yaakov.
Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros reports.
Israel is destroying a 1000 year old Muslim Cemetery. Anything that is that old should be preserved, not destroyed.
American Civil Rights Org Fights Against Israeli Desecration of Ancient Cemetery

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Graham Gano #9 K
Carolina Panthers | Official Team Site
Height: 6-2 Weight: 202 Age: 32
Born: 4/9/1987 Arbroath Scotland
College: Florida State
Experience: 10th season
High School: Tate HS [Cantonment, FL]
Combine 2009
Positives: Good height for the position with long legs and good flexibility. ... Made three tackles as a senior, showing the ability to keep an angle and force the returner out of bounds. ... Is unfazed by kicking from either hash, is very accurate from 50 yards on either side or the center of the field. ... Consistently smooth approach and kick through the ball, albeit with a halted follow-through. ... Adequate hang-time, 4.4-4.5 seconds, on most 40-yard kicks. ... Capable of planting the ball inside the 10 or angling it well to a coffin corner. Negatives: Wiry frame with muscle definition in the upper and lower body. ... Only adequate hip snap. ... Leans too far to his left on placements, leading to a horizontal swing plane and a lower kick than what is acceptable in the NFL. ... Reaches the end zone on kickoffs but sacrifices the hang-time needed to prevent long returns. ... Three-step punter with slow delivery -- 1.35 seconds to get the kick off. ... Inconsistent leg extension. ... Punts are usually spirals, but they do not turn over to get the added distance. ... Inconsistent kicking directionally and will come up short or mis-kick.


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Updating Wordpress on LEMP 16.04 failed - problem with permissions?
I'm new to VPS and Wordpress, and I'm trying to learn more about while I set up my website.
I tried to update to WP 4.6 through my Wordpress backend via the one-click process, but it failed and I got this error.
Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-4.6-no-content.zip…
Unpacking the update…
The update cannot be installed because we will be unable to copy some files. This is usually due to inconsistent file permissions.: wp-admin/includes/update-core.php
Installation Failed
I followed the following tutorials for the initial setup:
Do I need to do something else with permissions that these tutorials didn't cover? Should I try to upgrade through SSH instead of the WP backend?


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Heart health
Southampton is one of the largest and most reputable cardiac centres in the UK.
The centre serves a population of around 2.8 million, and is mainly based in the £60million state-of-the-art North Wing at University Hospital Southampton. Opened in 2007, it includes cutting edge catheter labs, a specialist cardiac intensive care unit and a dedicated cardiac MRI scanner.
To make a donation to support our heart health care services, please call the fundraising team on 023 8120 8881, or alternatively you can make an online donation below, please reference the ward or department you wish you donation to benefit. Thank you.
Meet Georgina Etheridge...
Two years ago Georgina Etheridge was diagnosed with Atrial Septal Defects and Atrioventricular Septal Defects. "I was promptly referred to University Hospital Southampton for open heart surgery to repair this condition which had remained undetected for 26 years."
"My story is not extraordinary or unique but the care I received at the cardiac unit certainly was."
"I am running the 2017 Great South Run for the Cacrdiac Intensive Care Unit nurse who shared her lunch with me because I came round at 1am and the kitchens were closed; I'm running for the Cardiac High Dependency Unit nurse who smiled when I threw up on her shoes at the beginning of her 13 hour shift; I'm running for the physiotherapy team who got me up and walking when all I wanted to do was watch Four in a Bed; I'm running for my consultant whose bedside manner never wavered even when I was the most stubborn patient ever; I'm running for the technicians without whom my defects would never have been detected; and, of course, I'm running for my surgeon, Mr Viola and the surgical team who stopped my heart and fixed it so I am able to do this run. I can never thank the team enough but with your help I may be able to give a little back.


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Uganda—The Work is Not Done, part 1 of 3
By Dave Kroeze, Outreach Pastor
This Week's Blog Series
Just because we are not in Uganda right now does not mean that our work there is done. You know that we send a mission team to Uganda over New Years, but what you don't see is the ongoing relationships that we have throughout the year.
This week, allow me to share with you how we are at work with our Ugandan partners throughout the year to empower them to do the work that God has called them to do.
Supporting Our Partners
Missionaries used to go to Africa, convert a bunch of people, and then leave.
It was wonderful that there were a bunch of new Christians who had said the sinner's prayer, but they were unequipped to encounter the immediate struggles of life. They had made a profession of faith, but oftentimes they did not know what that entailed nor the implications of that decision.
As a result, the quantity of people sitting in church services each week increased because being a Christian was the popular thing to do, but the number of people reproducing their faith was minimal.
Today, many churches take a different approach to international work, including McLean Bible Church. Instead of flying overseas to convert people, we fly overseas to support our partners.
"We see so much more fruit when we
support the work that God is already doing."
Yes, we have salvation conversations and many people are born again. But, we see so much more fruit when we support the work that God is already doing and when we empower these local pastors for the ministry that God has prepared them to do.
In Uganda, we have two partners that we have grown to know and love over the past two years of our short-term mission trips: Saint Gate's Church and Destiny Village Boarding School.
Great Partnerships
Background: The Village of Katwe
The village of Katwe is a small urban community within the limits of Kampala, capital city of Uganda.
There are approximately 500,000 people who literally live on top of each other. To get from home to home often involves a climb on a rickety bridge across a stream of contaminated water at best. The children have significant health ailments with basically every one of them having worms in their tummy's and rashes and sores caused by rabies. These families are in need of redemption in a way that only Christ can provide.
Our Partner: Saint Gate's Church
Right in the center of this community is Saints' Gate Church. This church regularly has 1300-1500 attendees that have nothing but trust and dependence upon the Lord for their needs each day.
Sometimes, the Lord uses us, MBC Loudoun, to provide in a tangible way. This past trip, we had the opportunity to work with Saint Gate's to provide a 3-day medical clinic.
How beautiful it was to see nearly 1000 individuals come to the church to receive medicine for physical healing while also hearing the Gospel for spiritual healing. This was an amazing opportunity to empower local doctors, pay them a small salary for the day, and get out of the way so that the Lord could work through this church family!
It was truly beautiful.
Our Partner: Destiny Village Boarding School
Closely connected to the Church (in that the staff overlap completely) is an evangelical school called Destiny Village Boarding School. On this campus, there are 1800 students, including 100 children from infancy to 5 years old who have been rescued from the worst of situations.
The vast majority of these students come from the community of Katwe where they have been abandoned or orphaned. They receive sponsorship through World Help. The school and church are run by the leadership of Pastor Fred, Momma Evah, and the Worship Pastor/School Director Pastor Julius.
Our short-term mission trips this year and last were hard work but so rewarding. We worked side-by-side with Pastor Fred, Momma Evah, and Pastor Julius as well as many others, and we have become friends and partners with them in remembering the poor (see Gal 2:10).
Today, take a few moments to pray for Pastor Fred, Momma Evah, and Pastor Julius as they lead these people and shepherd the flock that the Lord has given them.
Father, we lift up Pastor Fred, Momma Evah, and Pastor Julius as they lead your people in Uganda today. As Paul says in Philippians 1:3-6, we thank You every day with joy for their partnership in the Gospel. We pray with confidence that the good work You have begun in them would be brought to completion in Your perfect timing. Use us, Lord, as humble and generous supporters to provide resources that enhance Your kingdom through their humble efforts. For Your namesake and not our own. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Blog Posts from our Uganda Mission Trips
If you'd like to re-read our blog posts chronicling our trips to Uganda, follow the links below.
2015-16—This Year
Uganda Update 1–In the Slums of Katwe
Uganda Update 2-The Clinic, The Slums, The Conference
Uganda Update 3–Clinic, Slums, & Fellowship
Uganda Update 4–Mulago Hospital, Destiny School, & New Year's Eve Bash
Uganda Update 5–Children in Luwero
Uganda Update 6–Juvenile Detention Center
2014-15—Last Year
Uganda Day 2 – Saints Gate Church and Destiny Boarding School
Uganda Day 3 – Destiny Boarding School
Uganda Day 4 – Destiny Boarding School Sports Camp
Uganda Day 5 – Katanga Slums and New Years Eve
Uganda Day 6 – Good Samaritan School and Kampiriginsa Rehabilitation Center


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2004 :: Adelaide, Australia
TPS3 was a fantastic opportunity and great fun. It was the first time I have been in Adelaide out of Festival time; I have always wanted to experience the real Adelaide.
I spent much time experimenting and playing with the equipment at TPS3, all the time being surrounded by people that could offer help and guidance, creating a fantastic environment. I felt I had the time and place to embrace technology that I had previously only used through other artists who had the knowledge and skills. I can now engage with this technology and include it into my arts practice in a much deeper and more exciting way. Once I complete my honors I plan to spend a lot of time furthering the learning I received at TPS3.
Since I saw Guillermo Gomez-Pena's work in Sydney in 2001 I have become very interested in the installation side of performance and the technical skills and confidence I have gained will prove invaluable as I continue this focus.
The many benefits of my attendance at TPS3 include:
* Learning to use a video editing program
* Learning to create composite animations
* Learning more about a video projector, particularly with images after they leave the lens
* Experimenting, investigating, collaborating and networking
* Observation of other artists practices
Specific highlights included meeting Marianne Weems, John Cleater, John Gilles and Teresa Crea. The best thing for me, was the opportunity to be an artist for two week without the pressure of producing a final product, in an environment with like minded people, allowing me to investigate, practice and expand my craft. I cannot remember the last time I was able to do that in such a concentrated and positive way.
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The obligatory Christmas sickness hit me late this year so I'll spend new years eve at home with my sweetheart, which is great, I love cosy evenings at home.
2009 was not the most exciting year ever but some things did change:
– my address, I officially live with my boyfriend since February 14 (yes I know, cheesy date, was not intended)
– my job, since September I'm a scientific staff member of the university of Vienna and get real money for a real job!
this is my list on what I plan to do in 2010:
– finish socks for mum
– make a hat for sweetheart
– make another hat for myself
– finish the Hanami stole grmpf
– make more lace
– make more socks
– buy less yarn (hahahaha)
– finish my thesis
– get better
– sleep more
– eat healthier
– go to KnitNation 2010
Sounds like a good plan right? Should all be manageable in a year. So I wish you all a happy new year, may 2010 be just as great as 2009 – I'd like that 🙂 I'll be back with news and pictures of my newest projects next year aka next week.


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Parents get stuck in
Parental involvement in children's education is not about 'helping' them create amazing art projects, but more about your attitude to their education, writes SHEILA WAYMAN
FEW THINGS make me feel more inadequate as a parent than when one of the children arrives home from school with an arts and crafts project for homework.
More than 30 years on, I still carry the mental scar of my art teacher's verdict in an end-of-term school report: "Talent is limited." It is no surprise, then, that as an adult I have never been a dab hand at transforming cereal boxes and yogurt cartons into 21st-century robots, with the artful use of tinfoil and glitter glue.
So I just know my child's efforts will fall far short of his peers who will have been at least guided, if not physically helped, by an inspiringly creative parent.
"Parental involvement" is consistently identified in research as being the key factor in determining how well children do in education – over and above all other factors, including economic status.
But what exactly does that mean? Is it sitting down to do the homework with them, pestering the teacher for regular updates on progress or volunteering for the parents' association (PA)?
The good news for those of us who are artistically or academically challenged is that what really matters is parenting, and making clear that you value education.
The Cambridge Primary Review, the most comprehensive inquiry into primary education in England in 40 years, found that good parenting at home has more impact on your child's achievements, adjustment and attainment in education than in-school parental involvement.
This research, says the chief executive of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, Anne Looney, is unequivocal right up to the end of second-level education.
"If you really want to support your children doing well at school, the first thing you need to do is to be a really cracking parent at home." (The second key factor, incidentally, is the quality of the teachers.)
Parents sometimes feel frantic pressure that they must be involved and connected with the school because it will help their child do well – "it will, but that is only secondary to putting your energies in at home".
The quality of the home-school link is probably not one of the great strengths of our education system, she acknowledges, "but we are getting better at it".
"There is an expectation, often on both sides, that the best thing a parent can do is 'buns and basketball', which is really important in an under-funded and under-supported system. But the thing that the school and the home have in common is the child," she points out.
Finding good and useful ways to share information about the child's learning and wellbeing is "more important than buns and basketball".
E-mail and text messaging have made communication between school and home so much easier and it has the added bonus of cutting out the child.
The flow of information is no longer dependent on children remembering to hand over notes or on parents taking the initiative to rummage in their bags for any official-looking bits of paper.
Since the Education Act of 1988 recognised parents as partners in education, their involvement through boards of management and PAs has taken off, says the chief executive of the National Parents Council Primary (NPC), Áine Lynch.
But when you look at the learning side, that generally is not happening, she suggests. "We feel the focus has to shift. The support has to be there for parents in how they engage.
"On a practical level for parents, one of the things we would be very keen to stress is that, as a parent, you don't need to be able to read or write to be involved in your children's education – involvement covers all abilities."
Some schools put on maths classes for parents, so they can help their children with, say, long division. While the NPC is not against that, she explains, parental involvement is not about being teachers but supporting a child to learn.
For the first time this year, the NPC is addressing peer support for parents in its PA training. This might mean putting on a workshop, she says, in how to make home a learning environment – asking how the child's day went, allocating quiet time and space for homework, having plenty of reading material in the home.
"Even if you have got an MA or doctorate, these are the things that matter," she adds. "It is not about sitting and being able to do your child's homework for them, and it is not about making sure your child goes in with the best science project because you have done half of it."
Joan Christie, a teacher and mother of two primary school children, says she found constant references to the need for "parental involvement" a bit derogatory towards parents. "There is a need for them to be more 'included', they are already hugely 'involved'."
She and a psychologist, Caroline Dench, have devised a programme to bolster the school-home link in learning, which is being piloted in schools in Co Wexford, called Learning in Everyday Activities (LiEA).
It takes learning objectives from the primary school curriculum, translates them into plain English and shows how they can be taught through routine domestic chores, such as laying the table, hanging out washing, going shopping.
Thinking of parental involvement in education conjures up the iconic image of the parent sitting at the table with the child, reading, writing, figuring out maths, they point out. "There is massive educational value in such activities. However, we want parents to see equal value in the learning that is inherent in our everyday activities."
For example, setting the table with knives and forks is an exercise in matching sets from the maths curriculum. Watering the flowers in the garden and putting bread on the bird table are examples of "environmental awareness and care" covered in the science curriculum.
LiEA is about completing the home-school learning circle and it comes with illustrated cards highlighting the learning potential in a range of everyday activities.
Christie and Dench run workshops for teachers, showing how they can communicate to parents what is going to be covered in the classroom and how this can be reinforced through conversation and tasks at home.
"This has to be done in such a way there is no pressure on parents," Christie stresses. "It is something that they would be doing anyway."
Secondary school
Just like their first-year children, parents new to secondary school can find the transition a confusing, stressful and isolating experience.
They miss the informal support network of fellow parents at the school gate. And there is an array of teachers to get to know, instead of just one.
The initial first-year parents' night is "really, really important", says the public relations officer of the National Parents' Council Post-Primary (NPCpp), Jackie O'Callaghan. "
You have gone to the open day, you have had the spiel from the principal and some people think, 'That is only to get us in'. It is up to you to go, when you're in, and listen to what they have to say and don't be afraid to ask questions."
Schools have lost much of their "them and us" attitude over the years, she says. "All schools have to have a PA – that doesn't necessarily make it a good PA."
Participation in PAs is "healthy enough" at local level, she reports, although it is difficult to get parents involved at national level. She believes people are "beat" from fundraising and this can put them off volunteering.
But, she adds, serving on the PA gives parents an insight and better understanding of the school, as well as providing an opportunity to shape its policies.
Parents continue to be highly influential in their children's education at second level, although they might not realise that.
"You think the next generation is totally cool and not listening to their mammies," says Looney, but a study by the Economic and Social Research Institute found that when it came to choosing Leaving Certificate subjects, parents, particularly mothers, were hugely influential – and this also applied to decisions about CAO forms.
Due to the emphasis on subjects at secondary school, parents can feel somewhat "disempowered", she says. "Inevitably they approach the English teacher in their child's school with memories of their own English teacher."
She commends the innovative practice around parent-teacher meetings of having the student there too. "There is quite a lot to be said for that because rather than two adults having a conversation about a 16-year-old's learning and then it being conveyed to the 16 year old – which, when you think about it, is an odd thing to do – if the 16 year old is there, it allows the teacher to talk to both of them. It is a three-way conversation.
"It also has the benefit," she adds, "of the student seeing they are the one who is supposed to do all the work – not the parent and not the teacher!"
A new book about moving from primary to secondary school, Moving Up, by John Stevenson, a former principal, is available through some schools or the NPCpp. See npcpp.ie for details
Known as "Dave" to the pupils and their parents, rather than "Mr Foley", David Foley is a teacher with a difference at St Philomena's School in Bray, Co Wicklow.
As the home school community liaison (HSCL) teacher, his job is to foster the link between families and the school, where €8,000 was spent this summer refurbishing its parents' room to make it bright and welcoming. The idea is not only to encourage parents into the school but also to get them involved in their child's education.
Parents can use the room to have coffee and chat with him and other parents, or while away the hour between the pick-ups of infants and older children. It is also the venue for various free courses, ranging from flower-arranging and cookery to computer skills and back-to-work preparation, run in conjunction with Bray Partnership and Bray Adult Education.
"We find the first step is the hardest – once parents are in, they will put their hand up for everything," says Foley, who also works at the nearby St Peter's Boys' National School.
Parent-child initiatives include "maths for fun" classes, during which parents come in to play games with the children and learn how to do the same at home, and a bedtime reading club for junior and senior infants, where parents come in once a week to pick a book.
Home visits are a large part of Foley's work, but he stresses to parents that when he knocks on their door, it is simply for a cup of tea and a chat – how is the child getting on, how is the family, has a past pupil settled okay in secondary school?
"They know if I am calling out it is not necessarily bad news," he explains. "If there is a problem, they would say it to me because I am the informal voice of the school." He liaises daily with the principal and other teachers and has monthly meetings with the National Educational Welfare Board.
The HSCL service, which operates primarily in schools in the DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunities in Schools) programme, is such a good model, the National Parents Council would like to see every school have one.
But that is not going to happen, with the scheme being curtailed rather than expanded. There are 402 HSCL/rural posts, covering 545 primary and post-primary schools, according to a spokeswoman for the Department of Education and Skills, down from 544 serving 1,107 schools in 2006-2009.
Be positive about school to your child. Ask children about their day – show an interest.
Know school policy on issues such as uniform, discipline, eating and homework, and try to ensure your child is abiding by these.
Establish a routine for homework: a child coming home from primary school usually sits down for a snack but then should do homework before going out to play.
Encourage your teenager to form good, independent study habits, by providing a private, comfortable place to work, assisting in time management and dissuading any inclination towards procrastination.
Don't do homework for them – if there is a problem let the teacher know. And encourage children not just to "do" homework, but to do it as well as they can, and praise the effort made.
Use homework notebooks, which parents are usually required to sign daily at primary level and weekly at secondary, to communicate observations or minor concerns.
Have plenty of reading material in the house and model reading for pleasure – show children it's not something just for school.
Attend parents' association events and, if you can, offer your services to the committee.
Get to know your child's teacher or teachers – it makes communication easier.
If you want to raise something with a teacher, ask to schedule a time before or after school.
Look out for signs of bullying, but don't overact initially and try to get details.


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5 Things to Understand about Travel in Southeast Asia
Lots of backpackers and world travelers have actually journeyed to the fertile and culturally rich Southeast Asia. Known for its beautiful beaches, mesmerizing historic sights and a touch of adventurousness, this relatively inexpensive travel location baits thousands amongst countless people every year with landmarks like Angkor Wat, Cambodia; the city of Bangkok, Thailand; and the panoramas of Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.
As much as we extremely suggest you visit these locations, the sensible tourist will do his/her homework regarding abide the laws and customs of these really different nations, as well as be prepared to face the threats, both monetary and otherwise that might end up staining your getaway.
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These are our top 10 things to know prior to taking a trip to Southeast Asia. And read more: Malaysia Travel Tips: Exactly what Not to Do.
1. Nearly everything is flexible, nearly
Haggling can be more helpful in Southeast Asia than in a lot of places worldwide. Vendors at most shops and shopping malls do not have cost and it prevails that when you request for one, the cost will be rather high because it appears like you have cash to burn. Don't be afraid to request a lower price because another vendor just a few feet method makes certain to be selling the exact same thing.
2. The food is terrific, just take care.
Popular for its incredible food, both on the street and in the restaurants, eating in SE Asia is among the most exciting parts of going, however beware before consuming simply anything. One tip is to examine if you see other customers dining at a location before you enter.
Likewise, many of these nations have totally free English-written dining guides. Check them out.
3. Enjoy your pockets.
Whether you are on the back of a motorbike or walking down the street, muggings happen everywhere. Keep your personal valuables near to you at all times, possibly think about a fanny pack or only bringing along essentials where you're out of the hotel.
4. There is more to life than 'backpacker street'.
SE Asian nations have become very good at creating mini-tourism centers of economical hotels or hostels and surrounding them with suppliers and bars and everything you require so that you don't leave.
Granted, in places like Saigon and Bangkok, they are a lot of enjoyable, but make a point to get out and explore other locations. You'll never know what's waiting simply around the corner.
5. Inspect the regional rags and mags.
As I mentioned in the past, a lot of SE Asian nations have English-written guides. That's because in a variety of countries there, there is already a well established community of expatriates. If you are planning to just find your bearings and want a safe bet on places to go, choose one up.
Haggling can be more useful in Southeast Asia than in many places in the world. Suppliers at the majority of shops and shopping malls do not have price tags and it is typical that when you ask for one, the rate will be quite high because it looks like you have cash to burn. Don't be afraid to ask for a lower rate because another vendor just a few feet way is sure to be offering the exact same thing.
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I began by using one of the pieces of chipboard banner that I purchased at Michaels's on sale. It's the Recollections brand and contains 9 pennants.
I chose to use the paper collection from Graphic 45 , Ladies Diary. It matched the flowers that I wanted to use from Secret Garden Crafts DT package. I love the color combination in this collection! So I traced the chipboard on to the paper then I also papered the back part as well. I then added some beautiful lace that I had been hoarding! I had purchased it when Lele had her online store Shabbylicious. I cut two pieces out and arranged and adhered them back to back. I then added one of the chipboard pieces that came in the collection. I adhered it right to the center of the pennant .
I then began adding the flowers (below will be a list of the flowers you can find at Secret Garden Crafts). Some of the larger Peach/Orange Tea Roses are from my stash. I use a lot of different peach colored, used some Gypsofila for fillers. Love this!! I then finished off by adding a tear drop bling piece & an olive colored piece of seam binding to hang it with. I really like how this turned out!! I hope you all like it as much as I do! Thank you for checking out my post and please subscribe via email so you don't miss out of my upcoming projects! Don't forget to check out the online store and when you order $50 or more you get FREE SHIPPING, use my coupon code until August 31st and save an additional 10%!!! Thank you again!! See you soon!! XOXO, Jeanne
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Welcome to my website! I'm a cellist and a teacher of the Alexander technique. On the left, you will find everything about my work and life as a musician. On the right, everything about Alexander technique, lessons with me and weblinks.
I made the website like this on purpose, because music and Alexander technique are my two passions. I've combined the two for many years, and it has made me into what I am now. Living this combination is a wonderful inspiration for me!
Latest news: Frans van Ruth and I have won the prestigious ECHO Klassik prize with our last cd in the series Dutch Cello Sonatas! We are going to Berlin on October 9th to receive it.


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Sayuka Bloodstone - The Moon
Sayuka Bloodstone - The Moon
Artist: Sayuka Bloodstone
Title: The Moon
Limited Edition of 250
This product is made in Los Angeles California
The artwork is printed on museum archival paper and incased in a stainless steel frame. The cover has a uv/scratch resistant coating. A certificate of authenticity and booklet with the artist's bio and insight into all 4 licensed images are included.
Background: This work is based on the 1000-year-old legend of the heavenly maiden in the moon. Sayuka has depicted a beautiful woman in strong profile with hair fashioned out of flowing flowers. Behind her is the dark silhouette of the moon. The image was inspired by the faraway tranquility sensed by the night moon. When creating this piece, Sayuka was thinking about how the still and quiet moon triggers the ocean tides and the rhythm of our daily lives.


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A quick look at the FLW Tour Majors division final standings wouldn�t reveal anything too unusual about Bryan Thrift�s year.
The Shelby angler finished fifth, his sixth consecutive top-10 finish in the series� standings that comes with another trip to the prestigious Forrest Wood Cup.
But that would only tell a small part of the story. Thrift struggled in two early tournaments but recovered to enter the final tournament second in the standings and with a chance at his second Angler of the Year honor.
He was 63rd in that event at Lake Chickamauga but couldn't add his second AOY accolade � he won the award in 2010.
�This year was kind of more like a rollercoaster,� Thrift said in a recent interview.
He�s grateful for a pair of second-place finishes � at Lake Eufaula in Eufaula, Ala., and Grand Lake in Grove, Okla. � that helped 2013 finish on an upswing.
�After the second tournament, I thought I had blown my chance at Angler of the Year,� Thrift said. �To come back and still have a shot at it at the end of the year was great.�
One of the lakes that helped him get back in contention, Grand Lake, was one he hadn�t fished before. That setup usually bodes well for Thrift, whose main local sponsor is Great Outdoors in Cherryville.
�I love going into lakes that I�ve never fished before,� Thrift said. �You go into practice with an open mind. You�re willing to try anything. You�re sampling what the fish are doing instead of what they should be doing.�
Even familiar lakes felt that way for him this year with the impact of unusual seasonal patterns. Thrift finished in the top 10 in three of the six FLW tournaments this season.
Though the FLW Majors finale didn�t end how he had hoped, it wasn�t a total disappointment for Thrift. Andy Morgan, who took fifth place to wrap up Angler of the Year, is a good friend of his. Thrift actually stayed at Morgan�s house that week.
�I wouldn�t have wanted it any other way. If you�re going to win Angler of the Year, you have to earn it,� Thrift said. �I was going to have to beat the best angler on his best lake.�
Now, Thrift heads to the Forrest Wood Cup, which is Aug. 15-18 on the Red River in Shreveport, La. He�s guaranteed at least $10,000 in prize money just by participating.
Bryan Thrift
FLW Tour Majors division 2013 finish: 5th
2013 prize money: $ 99,266
Highest FLW Tour finish: 1st (2010)
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Happy Thursday. We're still holding out hope for a Jobs Friday, but in the meantime plan to live in the moment.
And a Happy Anniversary to TARP. The Troubled Asset Relief Program—aka welfare for Wall Street—was signed into law five years ago today, and probing minds continue to debate its legacy. (The Guardian)
Strange but true: The infamously Middle East-oil-dependent U.S. is now the world's largest energy producer. Believe it! (The Wall Street Journal)


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I've always had this dream of living in a cabin in the woods. Of course I have many dreams of living in so many different places, but the more I think about the woods and mountains the more i'm inspired to go and live a simple life in a little cabin. Trees, nature, plants, rocks, lakes, and minerals have always inspired me, and as i'm working on this new fall collection I have been thinking more and more about creating this dream in to reality. Last weekend a friend and I went on a hike in Mt. Charleston to Mary Jane Falls. It was probably one of my most memorable days of this year so far. Some times I forget how much I miss those moments of just being in mountains, the woods, and seeing trees and plants. I grew up in upstate NY, so I always had these things around me but now that I'm living in a desert I forget how much I miss the smell of the adirondacks, pine, and just seeing green.
About six months ago I came across this video on a blog, and whenever I need some creative motivation and inspiration I watch things as such. I really do believe that if you have an idea and you're passionate about something, anything, you can make it happen. #inspiredalways


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Today, the U.S. Census Department released its monthly New Residential Home Sales Report for February showing a notable decline with sales falling 3.3% from January dropping 1.1% below the level seen in February 2013 and remaining at an historically low level of 440K SAAR units.
The monthly supply increased to 5.2 months while the median selling price declined 1.24% and the average selling price increased 1.60% from the year ago level.
The following chart show the extent of sales decline to date (click for full-larger version).


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PGDM Program acts as a career booster
Post Graduate Diploma in Management is the career booster for the management aspirants who wish to be the leaders and entrepreneurs in future and bring about the desired change in the field of business management. These days, many companies value people with organizational propensities that they learn during a PGDM program. Many companies are seeing excellent results in applicants that ...Read More »
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Emma Vidmar
The Creative Unconscious: What's your name, age, and professional title? Where are you currently employed?
Emma Vidmar: Emma Vidmar, 24, Junior Art Director at Martha Stewart. Freelance Photographer.
TCU: What hobbies do you have outside of your professional field that keep you inspired and motivated to generate personal work? How do they inspire you?
EV: I quite enjoy being outdoors. I grew up in a house atop a little mountain in Washington state and there is something quite lovely about being surrounded by nature. There are patterns and nuances just resonate with me. I wouldn't say that my design aesthetic is necessarily rustic as a reflection of that, in fact i generally prefer a more modernist approach to design. I think more than anything, nature and hiking revitalizes me. It gives me a reverences for beauty and invigorates.
TCU: Do you have a hard time balancing being a creative professional and generating personal work that you're proud of?
EV: I think the only thing that is difficult about this is time. Time is sort of liquid when you're a creative person. Often times, I'll be in the middle of a project for work when an idea will hit me for a personal project and I'll quickly draw it out on my sketchbook to reference after work. This works well for me, as I can refine the idea and work through it on my train home. The difficulty comes when finding time to execute ideas for my personal projects. I only have so many hours after work before sleep becomes necessary, so the process just becomes longer. Which at this time in my life, I don't mind.
TCU: What time of day do you feel the most creative? What about the most productive?
EV: I feel like a get a lot of my ideas in the afternoon, like around 12-3? but I am most productive/obsessive late at night. it's not very practical when working full time, huh?
TCU: What are your creative goals for the future?
EV: At the moment I am a sponge. I'm trying to absorb all the knowledge and skills I can where I'm at. I want to do big things, because I feel design has such great potential for good purposes. For now, however, I'm still learning what those big things are. My creative goals are fairly vague, and their ambiguousness is actually quite exciting for me. Someday I'd love to design a store holistically, from the products sold, the store propping, the branding, and the interior space. I think that would be fun.
TCU: Are you working on any personal projects right now? If so, can you share a little bit about your inspiration and your creative process?
EV: My fiancé and I have actually been working on project that stretches ourselves into different mediums. We both love interiors and beautiful objects. In the next year we'd like to try our hand at 3 Dimensional objects. We're hoping to curate some of our favorite things and create a shop.
Other than that I've been trying to become a better illustrator, so I'll come home, turn on Netflix and just watercolor whatever comes to mind in my messy sketchbook. It's my bespoke version of "Netflix & Chill." I don't know that I can speak to my creative process on my personal projects because it vary based on it's context. I usually start with a sketch, and do several rounds of thumbnails there. I think it's important to hold off translating an idea to the computer until i know pretty well what I'm gonna do with it. Sometimes things evolve into a whole new direction when i introduce the computer, but sometimes that is a welcome element.
TCU: What scares you?
EV: Pickles. Also not living up to my potential.
TCU: What does success mean to you?
EV: I have such trouble defining success. It seems like one of those things you can define in a million different ways. I suppose success means having the resources to pursue your creative pursuits. It means being able to feel fulfilled. I feel that in a lot of ways i have felt and been blessed with success, even if it may be small.
You can find out more about Emma and check out her amazing work at www.emmavidmar.com.


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Unless you've been living under a rock during the last two days, you've probably heard the news about the passenger being physically dragged off a United flight on Sunday. So many things had to go wrong for this to happen, so let's take a look at the facts.
Timeline of Events
- The United flight, departing from Chicago O'hare to Louisville, Kentucky had already started boarding passengers when four United employees presented themselves at the gate, claiming they had to be on this flight in order to be in Louisville for a flight the next day.
- United gate personnel then started asking for volunteers to stay overnight in Chicago and take a different flight on Monday afternoon. The going rate only got up to $1000, which no one took before United claims they randomly selected four people to be forcibly bumped from this flight. Three passengers left without incident; one did not. And this is where everything went horribly wrong.
- The passenger was asked to leave. He did get belligerent, understandably so since he was sitting in a seat he paid for and was already sitting in. Then security was called to manhandle him out of the seat, hitting his head on the armrest and dragging him down the aisle.
- Passengers filmed the incident from various views and were visibly upset. Children were crying. Somehow the bloodied passenger appeared back on the plane but did not stay on the plane.
- The four United employees took their seats and the flight took off two hours late.
Who was Really in Charge?
The series of events for the horrible treatment of a human being is just not because of one person. Where was the Captain? The Flight Attendants? Gate Personnel? Head of Security? Did this poor man get medical help as blood was dripping down his face?
I have even more questions. Why is the bad planning of getting these four United employees to their destination more important than that of the revenue generating passengers who depend on United to get them to their destination? Think about how you book your travel – you look through the available flights and pick the flight that works best for your schedule. You assume that if you show up at the right gate on time, get on the plane and sit in your seat, you are going to get to your destination. Sure, there are problems with weather altering plans, but this was not that situation.
Now let's talk about the CEO's response:
That is the worst 'apology' in the history of apologies.
I live in the Houston area and United has been my airline of choice, but I am so disappointed in how this entire event was handled. Ever heard the term 'throw some money at the problem'? Gate personnel could have gone higher than $1000 before booting passengers off of this flight. Easily. And I guarantee someone would have taken a higher number. The amount of bad press that this incident is causing will cost the airline way more than what it would have cost to accomplish getting their employees where they needed to be without bashing someone's head in.
This comes right on the heels of the Leggings fiasco, which was so stupid and honestly actually not United's fault, but also could have been managed much better. Family members who are flying on non-revenue tickets do have to adhere to a dress code. These were just not random teenagers.
United Airlines, are you listening?


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Todd Brophy (Class of 2012)
- senior major in Biochemistry with a thematic sequence in Molecular Processes
- from St. Henry, OH
- recipient of the Ken and Joan Frankel Outstanding Premedical Student Award
- will attend The Ohio State University College of Medicine
The Mallory-Wilson Center does a fantastic job of providing premedical students opportunities to meet and interact with great doctors … On the first day [of my preceptorship], we spent part of the morning discussing what qualities and attributes are essential to becoming a good doctor and what challenges lay ahead.
"Miami is an ideal place to spend four years of college. Living in a small college town makes everyone feel connected, because you bump into friends regularly uptown or on campus. Miami also provides many great opportunities for students to get involved. Whether you want to volunteer at a school, conduct research, or any other number of things, you definitely can make it happen at Miami."
Bone Marrow Registry Drive
"Far and away my most rewarding experience was hosting a bone marrow registry drive. Growing up, one of my childhood friends was diagnosed with aplastic anemia and received a bone marrow transplant from a donor half way across the world, in Australia, so I personally knew how important the registry could be. As a new officer of Miami M.E.D. in the winter of 2011, I ardently championed a registry drive as a service event. I contacted Be The Match® in Cincinnati and organized a campus-wide drive for fall semester 2011.
"Organizing the drive was a challenge. Because this was the first time we tried it, there wasn't a template, so we improvised and picked up where the last volunteer left off. It was a hectic semester trying to complete all the work leading up to the event, but everyone was so invested in the project that they worked hard to make it a success.
"In the end, we enrolled over 100 new potential donors. Even today, I look back on the event and smile, and I truly hope that the drive continues to grow every year."
Mallory-Wilson Center Preceptorship
"The Mallory-Wilson Center does a fantastic job of providing premedical students opportunities to meet and interact with great doctors. I was very fortunate to shadow Dr. Roger Friedman, a Miami graduate and practicing allergist in Columbus, OH. Dr. Friedman was an excellent mentor. On my first day, we spent part of the morning discussing what qualities and attributes are essential to becoming a good doctor and what challenges lay ahead.
"The most inspirational experience of my preceptorship was shadowing Dr. Friedman on his weekly trip to Nationwide Children's Hospital, where he volunteers in the allergy clinic. Many of these patients may not have otherwise been able to receive the quality healthcare they deserved, and I gained immense respect for Dr. Friedman through his service. Spending a week with Dr. Friedman was such a great experience and, as funny as it sounds, since completing my preceptorship, I've actually become his patient."
My Best Advice:
- "Find meaningful work. You will gain the most from your experiences if you are truly passionate about them.
- Let yourself forget school for a while. In 20 years, you aren't going to remember the lectures and exams, only the friends you spent your four years with."
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Cosmic Times: Villalobos, Cosmo Vitelli, Kompakt
As Australia's pop forces make their way to the forefront of the once French-dominated electro-house […]
As Australia's pop forces make their way to the forefront of the once French-dominated electro-house scene, the power has made a continental shift. Modular Records, home to Cut Copy and Van She, has already worked hard to solidify its position. Now, newcomers like Cutters Records (Cut Copy's imprint), MidnightJuggernauts, and Miami Horror have joined in the struggle. The most recent (ad mysterious) addition is Moustache, who has been blowing up blogs with a remix of Melinda Jackson's "Magic." While France bangs alongside hip-hop and indie, Australia grooves a bit closer to Jacques Lu Cont's big-club, peak-time house.
Cosmo Vitelli
Cosmo Vitelli, who made a name for himself during French Wave's first go-around, recently reworked Radio Slave's "Screaming Hands" into an interstellar journey. San Serac is releasing a full-length that parallels the cosmic movement of Monsieur Vitelli, with a slightly heavier focus on the early '80s New York disco scene. The production is brilliant, and diminished only by the unnecessary presence of vocals. However, there are four additional dub versions on the CD that allow the instrumental aspect to breathe freely.
Kompakt never seems to slow down. Speicher 3 has barely hit the shelves, and the label's annual Total series is back for the eighth time with Total 8. The comp features tracks by Ewan Pearson as Partial Arts, Hervé Ak, Aril Brikha, and Superpitcher and Michael Mayer as Supermayer. Speaking of Supermayer, the duo has a full-length in the works too. Supermayer Save the World sees the legends incorporating live horns, guitars, and a gong. According to Resident Advisor, the release promises to rival The Who's Tommy. This, of course, promises to be killer.
Ricardo Villalobos
While flipping through 12"s you might assume that a project called Social Being is either an out-dated rave anthem or a new trip-hop release, but you would be wrong. Jay Haze and Ricardo Villalobos have teamed up under the moniker, releasing "Free Your Mind," a shockingly straightforward and heavy house release that promises to blow some speakers. Bruno Ponsato and Sammy Dee have also collaborated on a new 12", "Mir Nichts," under the guise of Half Hawaii.
If you have been paying attention to the happenings over at Minus and Plus 8, you should have noticed two names: JPLS and Skoozbot. The former has a profound understanding of sound dynamics, and, while there are ragers, he makes no attempt to take truly environmental pieces out of the headphones and into the club. Skoozbot finds a more accessible median point that emphasizes and borrows from contemporary minimal techno. Check out his outstanding new 12" on Plus 8, "Next to Monchhichi."


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The immense Eastern Garbage Patch, a mass of plastic debris in the ocean between Hawaii and California, could be more than just a patch of dormant waste. It could be home to: "extensive food chains of bacteria and single-celled animals that produce their own food, bacteria that feed on their waste products and predators that feed on all of them," according to a story in the LA Times.
These organisms attach themselves to tiny pieces of plastic debris and are a cause for concern. One sample of polypropylene, smaller than the head of a pin, was host to the genus vibrio, "which includes bacteria that cause cholera and gastrointestinal ailments."
Woods Hole, Massachusetts researchers Tracy Mincer, Erik Zettler and Linda Amaral-Zettler are conducting a study on the 'plastisphere' at locations in the North Atlantic.
"Each one of these plastic bits is a circle of life -- one microbe's waste is another microbe's dinner," Mincer said. "We want to know more about how some microbes may be hanging out on plastic trash, just waiting to be eaten by fish so they can get into that environment."
Plastic marine pollution can be deadly to fish, birds, sea turtles and other marine wildlife when they ingest it. These floating microbe communities, found on samples of polyethylene and polypropylene, include about 1,000 different types of bacteria, diatoms and algae; their impacts as yet unknown. Because plastic debris essentially never degrades, it could carry dangerous pathogens long distances across the ocean.
This is just another example of the need to reduce plastic marine pollution, which continues to be the single largest component of marine pollution, at the source. Plastic waste including polypropylene and polyethylene, costs west coast communities alone over $520 million each year --about $13 for each resident according to the US EPA.
Find out more about the rising tide of plastic marine pollution and how you can help stop it.
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Down in the Delta
|Down in the Delta
Theatrical release poster.
|Directed by
|Maya Angelou
|Produced by
|Rick Rosenberg
Bob Christiansen
Victor McGauley
Wesley Snipes
|Written by
|Myron Goble
|Alfre Woodard
Al Freeman, Jr.
Esther Rolle
Mary Alice
Loretta Devine
Wesley Snipes
|Music by
|Stanley Clarke
|William Wages
|Edited by
|Nancy Richardson
|Distributed by
|Miramax Films
Release date
Running time
|112 minutes
|United States
|Box office
Down in the Delta is a 1998 American drama film, directed by Maya Angelou. The film stars Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr., Esther Rolle (in her final film appearance before her death), Loretta Devine, and Wesley Snipes.[2]
Rosa Lynn Sinclair, an elderly woman who lives in an Chicago housing project with her daughter Loretta (Woodard) and her two grandchildren, 7–year old Tracy (who's intellectually delayed) and 13–year old Thomas. Disappointed in Loretta's life choices and afraid of the troubled circumstances surrounding her grandson Thomas, Rosa Lynn decides to send her daughter and her grandchildren to visit with her brother-in-law in Mississippi for the summer.
Loretta is an drug addict and does not want to go, especially since uncle her Earl lives in the dry and rural part of Mississippi. Uncle Earl already has his hands full with his business and a wife, Annie who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. During their stay, Earl has Loretta help him in his restaurant, and the family begins to find strength in their roots, and start to rebuild their lives.
An important recurring object throughout the film is a silver candelabra, a family heirloom. The candelabra, which everyone refers to as "Nathan," has strong significance to the family. It is finally revealed that Loretta's great-great grandfather and Jesse's father was a slave named Nathan, and he was traded for the candelabra.[3] Jesse stole back the candelabra, and it has been passed through the generations, along with Nathan's story, ever since.
- Alfre Woodard as Loretta Sinclair
- Al Freeman Jr. as Earl Sinclair
- Esther Rolle as Annie Sinclair
- Mary Alice as Rosa Lynn Sinclair
- Loretta Devine as Zenia
- Anne-Marie Johnson as Monica Sinclair
- Mpho Koaho as Thomas Sinclair
- Justin Lord as Dr. Rainey
- Wesley Snipes as Will Sinclair
- Kulani Hassen as Tracy Sinclair
- Sandra Caldwell as Volunteer
- Colleen Williams as Tourist Woman
- Richard Blackburn as Tourist Man
- Philip Akin as Manager
- Mary Fallick as Drug Addict
- Sandi Ross as Pawnbroker
- Barbara Barnes-Hopkins as Prim Woman
- Richard Yearwood as Marco
Alfre Woodard's work drew praise from San Francisco Chronicle reviewer Peter Stack, who lauded her for "a beautifully layered performance...Woodard is magical as a single mother haunted by drugs, alcohol and an inadequate education. She almost single-handedly shores up this somewhat simplistic movie...[h]er instincts for drama and humor provide a welcome dose of human reality, saving a script that veers toward the sentimental."[4]
Box office[edit]
The film was successful on limited release.[5]
The following soundtrack was released by Virgin Records.[6]
- "Believe in Love" - Sunday
- "God's Stepchild" - Janet Jackson
- "Heaven Must Be Like This" - D'Angelo
- "If Ever" - Stevie Wonder
- "Where Would I Be" - The Leverts (Eddie, Gerald, and Sean)
- "I'm Only Human" - Luther Vandross (featuring Cassandra Wilson and Bob James)
- "Just A Little Luv" - Shawn Stockman
- "We Belong Together" - Tony Thompson And Antoinette
- "Don't Talk 2 Strangers" - Chaka Khan
- "Let It Go" - Jazzyfatnastees featuring The Roots
- "My Soul Don't Dream" - Meshell N'degeocello & Keb' Mo'
- "Uh Uh Ooh Ooh Look Out Here It Comes" - Ashford & Simpson
- "Don't Let Nuthin' Keep You Down" - Sounds of Blackness
- "Family (Score)" - Stanley Clarke
- "The Rain" - Tracie Spencer
- "Patchwork Quilt" - Sweet Honey in the Rock
- ^ "Down in the Delta (1998)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- ^ "Down in the Delta". IMDb.com. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^ Ebert, Roger. "Down in the Delta Movie Review (1998) - Roger Ebert". Rogerebert.com. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
- ^ Stack, Peter (23 June 2011). "Serenity of Life Down South / Woodard shores up Angelou's 'Delta'". The San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ "'Patch Adams' Just What Holiday Ordered". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-06-07.
- ^ "Down in the Delta - Original Soundtrack - Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 September 2017.


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Internet service has finally been restored... But other complications – my rackety health mainly... So a quick post – but hoping to get back to some regularity soon. I keep saying this – hi ho. The toll of blogging for some time now. But the taste for it is still there... Honest...
There is always a sprawling, unruly joy to Mingus's music.... This is 'No Private Income Blues' from the album 'Mingus in Wonderland,' recorded live in 1959. Speeding in with virtuoso bass, a romping blues that looks backwards and forwards - and sideways. Booker Ervin blasts out some muscular choruses, Wyands takes a sparkle of a solo, Handy shows his class. A life- affirming and glorious splatter across the old 12 bar form. Richmond is all over it, the boss – well, what can you say? A great two sax trade of fours collapsing to twos and collective/overlaps at the end as the rhythm section sporadically stop time – this must have a been a wonderful night to have been in attendance... Blowing the blues indeed...
While we are in the mood for wild – Charles Gayle is about to arrive/has already arrived in the U.K. for a short tour. I've booked a hotel and tickets to see him in Liverpool next monday night, courtesy of the Frakture crew. He's got William Parker and the local boy Mark Sanders in tow. Much anticipation...
A taster, then, for next week: here's Charles with William Parker and Rashied Ali from his rather superb album 'Touchin' on Trane.' This is 'Part A,' showing the influence but contributing his own imagination and technique to taking the lineage further. A homage born out of affection and acceptance of what went before - yet Gayle doesn't copy or retread - he sounds totally different to Coltrane, for starters. The tenor playing is superb but the interplay between the trio overall is stunning. Freewheeling stuff that repays close attention.
Some late Ferdinand Morton, from a 1939 session. Some details about which you can find here... (scroll down). This is the classic New Orleans tune, 'High Society,' with Albert Nicholas and Sidney Bechet on board to add extra class, as it were, for the clarinet extravaganza (with the soprano sax added here). One of the first jazz records I ever bought had a version of this by Kid Ory's band that I almost wore out as a kid. This is the late flowering of the New Orleans style, with a dash of swing era – the bass seems very modern and supple alternating between two and four beat. The ride out is great, a warm weaving of lines... Thinking back to the Mingus track, you can really see Morton as precursor of the bassist/composer – something I intend to elucidate further on in a later post.
And so to bed – exhaustion takes it toll. But the move to the new house is almost complete...
In the Videodrome...
A Gayle blows through Brugges (you think I can resist such a terrible pun?)
Guy Van Duser does Jelly Roll M - 'Wolverine Blues.'
Wilbur De Paris plays 'The Pearls' (1960) A nice mute trumpet solo from Sidney - who played on the 1939 session above...
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus (b) John Handy (as) Booker Ervin (ts) Richard Wyands (p) Dannie Richmond (d)
No private income blues
Charles Gayle (ts) William Parker (b) Rashied Ali (d)
Part A
Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (p) Sidney De Paris (t) Claude Jones (tr) Albert Nicholas (cl) Sidney Bechet (ss) Happy Cauldwell (ts) Lawrence Lucie (g) Wellman Braud (b) Zutty Singleton (d)
High Society
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The Soldier
The soldier seemed confused. His brow was furrowed and his gaze quizzical. The man's hat had an enormous upturned brim and his impressive black mustache obscured his mouth almost completely. Across his chest were two ammunition belts in a perfect X and he wore a revolver slung low on his right hip. Only a moment earlier, I had bolted upright in bed, somehow sensing that Tiffany and I were no longer alone in the dark room. Heart pounding, I scrambled for my glasses then furrowed my brow as I strained to process what I was seeing. My brain's diagnostic software returned no errors. Yes, I was awake. No, I wasn't drunk. Yes, there really was a spectral-looking Mexican soldier standing by the cabinet in the corner of our room.
But let me back up.
By this point, we had been traveling for a little over a year. Our stressful careers had begun to threaten the things that really mattered to us so over dinner one night we decided to make a big, sudden change. With almost no planning, we quit our jobs, put everything in storage, and simply fled, arriving at the airport with only love, our backpacks, and a thirst for adventure. We set about finding a flight, repeating our criteria to agents at each airline counter. "We would like inexpensive tickets to somewhere warm today, please."
Several hours and remarkably few dollars later, we were eating fish tacos from a street vendor in La Paz, Mexico and joking with the man about which was whiter, us or the fish. We hopped aboard a big rusty boat to Mazatlan a few days later, then spent many months on a leisurely ramble down the west coast. Tourist centers were actively avoided as we sought out authentic, quiet places where families, dogs, and donkeys lived simply and happily in relative poverty. We took real time in each place, seldom less than a week, exchanging truths with the people we encountered. We quickly discovered that language barriers are no match for genuine openness, good will, and human connection.
"Let's all go to Solo Dios!" Celeste said, excitedly. Celeste was that free-spirited Australian traveler one seems to find in all remote places, the kind who immediately makes you wish you were that free-spirited and/or Australian. Shortly after watching the sunset, sharing a joint, and splitting a bottle of Mezcal three ways, we were by the side of a road holding out our thumbs and then climbing onto the bed of a decrepit flatbed truck headed south.
Solo Dios is a beautiful beach in Chiapas not far from the Guatemala border. It's so remote that only a few surf pilgrims and other barefoot hippies bother to seek it out. In our three or so weeks there on the beach, we did very little other than surf, drink beer, eat grilled Dorado, sleep in hammocks, and exchange stories with our fellow travelers. The few Solo Dios locals who made their living providing surfboards, beer, grilled Dorado and hammocks became friends too. It was paradise on a pittance and it took a great deal of willpower for Tiff and me to say goodbye and continue our journey.
San Cristobal de las Casas, high in the inland mountains of Chiapas, seemed like another world after so long by the ocean. This was no longer the relaxed Mexico of sand, surf, and cerveza. The quiet, misty town felt much more ancient and mysterious. Tiffany said it felt as if jaguars were watching our every move from the surrounding jungle. People there were much more reserved, as if they had deep secrets or at least truths they knew visitors wouldn't understand. For the first time in over a year spent in Mexico, we felt just a little bit unwelcome.
Gabriella and Veronica were sisters who operated a simple, four room B&B on the edge of San Cristobal. The rooms surrounded a common courtyard where breakfast was served on chipped white wrought iron tables. Our room served double duty as guest quarters and, when there were few guests, a studio where Gabriella painted heartfelt, if somewhat gaudy canvases. After a few days there, we began to find the rhythm and quirks of the place. Las hermanas (the sisters) were quiet and polite when interacting with their guests, but when they were out of sight, they bickered loudly in tones that led us to believe they were at least a little bit nuts.
One evening, we ate dinner with a Dutch couple that was staying in one of the other rooms. The four of us shared notes and trajectories the way travelers do. We exchanged knowing glances when one of Veronica's crazy staccato tirades echoed into the courtyard from the kitchen. By candlelight, the Dutch couple taught us how to elegantly remove all the hard parts from a pineapple with just 2 spiraling cuts. Before retiring to our rooms, we blew out the candle and enjoyed a dessert of fresh pineapple and delicious coffee. The four of us fell silent and tilted our heads back to marvel at the sky, filled with so much starlight that it cast shadows under the terra cotta eves.
Later that night, Tiffany and I were reflecting on the strange but beautiful energy of this mountain town as we drifted off to sleep in Gabriella's studio. It was here that I woke with a start, sensing that someone else was there with us. I didn't have any of the responses one would normally expect when seeing an apparition. My blood didn't run cold and I didn't cry out in terror. My mind had more of a "What the fuck?!" reaction. I didn't sense any immediate danger because while the man seemed a little perturbed, there was nothing aggressive about his posture. Despite his pistol and ammunition belts, he was somehow powerless. "Hey, wake up." I said, gently shaking Tiff's hip while maintaining eye contact with the man. "Don't freak out but look over there and tell me what you see." "What the fuck?!" she shrieked, voicing aloud the thought I'd just had. Now the soldier's eyes darted nervously between us as we sat transfixed, hearts in our throats.
We corroborated what we were seeing by quietly asking each other about the man's appearance, gestures, and other traits. We quickly covered the big things like hat, mustache, ammunition belts, and old-timey pistol and moved on to details like "How tall is he compared to the cabinet?" (Answer: same height) and "What's on his right knee?" (Answer: a dark stain of some kind). If this was a hallucination, we now knew it was a shared one.
Forcing myself to breathe, I managed a choked, "Hola, amigo." The man leaned forward as if to say, "¿Que?" His mustache moved, indicating that he was trying to speak. We leaned forward too but heard nothing except our own racing pulses. His presence seemed tenuous and gauzy, like a sputtering home movie projected on an invisible sheet billowing slightly. I reckon it was about a minute from the time I awoke to the time the soldier turned, took a step, and, with a final glance over his shoulder, dissolved.
It was just a little after three in the morning but we knew there would be no more sleep that night. In a daze, we shuffled out to the courtyard, laid down on the cool tile, clasped hands and stared up at the dazzling night sky. Clear night skies always put me in a state of awe. I'm inescapably aware of how infinitesimal and improbable I am and how little I understand. As Leonard Cohen bluntly put it, "…he knows he's really nothing but the brief elaboration of a tube." As the starlight faded and the sky began to lighten, we had formed an untestable hypothesis about what we had experienced that night.
I pointed out the complete lack of empirical evidence to support the idea of a soul or spirit. Tiffany took a less committed but wiser tack, saying that it's hubris to claim certainty either way. In the end, not even her liberal arts background could get her to believe that what we had seen was a ghost. It seemed to us that the soldier was a very real part of the same place, but in a different time. That was it then. That's what we decided. We could never know for sure, but in the back of our minds, we would always suspect that on that night in that room in San Cristobal, the three of us had seen across time.
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Sackets Harbor, NY – Seaway Trail, Inc. has announced the Viewers Choice winners of the 2013 Great Lakes Seaway Trail Beauty of the Byways Quilt Show endorsed by the National Scenic Byway Foundation.
Visitors to the show selected quilts representing byway experiences along Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence, through the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, and on roads throughout America.
Louise Furber of Phelps, NY, took top honors with her Quilts for Sale wallhanging based on photos taken by her husband, David, along the Lake Ontario stretch of the 518-mile Great Lakes Seaway Trail that parallels the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Niagara River and Lake Erie in New York and Pennsylvania.
Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show Manager Lynette Lundy-Beck said, "We are pleased our visitors selected the barn scene quilt by Louise Furber as their favorite entry as it is a fine example of our 2014 show theme of Vineyards, Fields, Farms and Food."
"I am thrilled to be the Viewers Choice winner of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Quilt Show. I redrew and resized two Joan's Own patterns and experimented with different textures, threads, embroidery, and stitching techniques to create a tribute to all the quilts for sale thrown over fences and lined up in barns and country shops along the Great Lakes Seaway Trail and throughout America," Furber said.
Runner-up honors went to Jan English of Lisbon, NY, for her 84-inch October Sky quilt based on a pattern by Cathy Wierzbicki and made with hand-dyed fabrics.
Carol Soucy of Mexico was voted 3rd Choice for her original landscape art design of the waterfront at Mexico Point Park on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Route 104B in Oswego County.
She said, "This quilt was inspired by a photograph in the 2009 Oswego Emergency Calendar by Susan Altimonda. Mexico Point Park is a favorite location for fun times for my family and friends."
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Egyptian Gods
There were many gods worshiped by the Egyptians – they firmly believed in an afterlife and the gods played a very important part of this. There are too many to mention here, but today we will focus on three of them.
As we've already seen, and from the evidence the pyramids provide us with, we know that the ancient Egyptians believed in the afterlife. When an Egyptian died it was believed that he or she would travel on to the afterlife, prior to this her or she would enter the Hall of the Dead. Here, they would see whether they were good enough to travel on to the afterlife. The god Anubis would have to weigh their hearts to see whether they were lighter than a feather. This test would prove whether or not they were good enough to go on to the afterlife and whether their spirits would live forever.
Anubis had the head of a jackal and was always associated with mummification and the heart and feather test. Anubis had a wife called Anput who was also a goddess, and his daughter Kebechet was a goddess too.
If you have a love of cats then you would have fitted in well in Ancient Egypt. The God Bastet was the goddess of cats, naturally she had the head of a cat, or sometimes she was depicted with the head of a lion. One story has it that Bastet, who was the daughter of Ra, saved him from a snake Apep, who tried to stop the sun god Ra while he travelled across the sky in his ship.
As the Goddess of Cats it was Bastet's duty to protect all cats. Ancient Egyptians had great respect for these feline creatures as they kept mice and rats at bay. Rats and mice were prime enemies to the Egyptians especially as they ate the grain and caused disease. Cats were so useful that Ancient Egyptians had great respect for them which meant that to kill one would result in death. When a cat died in the family home it was mourned by the entire family. They would often shave their eyebrows as a mark of their grief. Cats were often mummified like humans and mummified cats have been found alongside their owners.
Horus is the best known of all the gods in ancient Egypt. He had the head of a hawk or falcon and was the most powerful god of all. He goes back a long way, as far back as the Dynastic Period.
When Horus was a baby his father Osiris was murdered by Seth. Horus's mother was Isis and they are supposed to have hidden in some papyrus reeds in the Nile until Horus was an adult. Horus went into battle with Seth as an adult to win back his father's kingdom. However, during the battle Seth blinded Horus in one eye. Luckily for Horus, Thoth the god of Wisdom healed his eye. The eye of Horus became an amulet with magic powers.
Horus was a god of war and hunting. He was also a great symbol of power and royalty to the pharaohs. Many Ancient Egyptians believed that the pharaoh was Horus, but in human form.
God of fascination
The god of Ancient Egypt holds a great deal of fascination to us today. They were of great importance to the Ancient Egyptians and they may seem strange to those of us who are only accustomed to worshipping one god. However, Egyptians do share some familiarities with Hinduism and other faiths as a polytheistic religion. Evidence of the ancient gods can be seen in pyramids, walls of temples and on pillars. They may no longer be with us, but they are everywhere to remind us of their once powerful hold over Egypt.
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Full Circle. An Interesting Story of Me.
So, many years ago I used to play music in a synth-pop duo called In Scarlet and Vile. I recently decided to put all of my old music up on myspace.com. So I decided to Google all of my old band names to see what was out there. I found a few reviews in the Phoenix New Times and a half-working website by the guy that recorded us in 1990. But more interestingly I found this:
An interview with The Echoing Green
in which Joey B says:
Joey B: Well we are hard at work on the new EG album, entitled "In Scarlet and Vile". We're about 5 songs in and I think it's the most cohesive record we've done yet. It falls right in line with The Winter of Our Disconent, with a little more emphasis on the darker and moodier textures it's bit harder in places, too.
Considering the fact that we made the name "In Scarlet and Vile" up it seemed as though this guy might have been a friend of ours at some point. I decided to see if
The Echoing Green had a myspace page and they did. It turns out they are from New Mexico. In Scarlet and Vile (my band) was originally from New Mexico. Hmmmmm?
So I sent Joey B this email:
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: kurt
Date: Jun 15, 2007 10:55 AM
I came across your post about your forthcoming album tentatively titled In Scarlet and Vile and just wondered if maybe you and I had ever crossed paths.
I was in a synth-pop project from 1985-1991 called In Scarlet and Vile. We were from Bloomfield (Farmington) New Mexico.
I just recently put our old stuff up on myspace.
I was just curious as to where you got the name because we thought we had totally made it up. I think it would be really cool if you used it though...
Good luck in all you do. I love your music. Thanks
Kurt Lorenz
Strangely enough there was a reply the very same day:
Date: Jun 15, 2007 12:18 PM
Subject: RE: In Scarlet and Vile
Body: Hey Kurt!
It's an honor to hear from you... wow. We have never personally crossed paths - but your demo was one of the most inspiring recordings that I ever had back in 1990-91.
I was given a copy of it by a girl I went NMSU with back then (I'm so lame for forgetting her name!) but she said she used to be your girlfriend. Her and I were not close friends, but had a couple classes together and talked about music alot.
Your demo was my absolute favorite - I played that tape into the ground. So desperate was I to find another copy a couple years later - I called all the indie record stores I could find in Tempe/Phoenix and finally found one that had a one copy of your tape sitting on their shelves. My Dad lives in Phoenix - so I made him drive over to the store, buy it, and send it to me.
That was years and years ago. Before email and internet - so there was never really a way to reach out and connect with you. Just this last year I tried again - I tried to look you up on myspace, no luck - and when I googled I found "skrooze lewis" or whatever his name is. His site was pretty old and barely functional and never replied to my emails.
so I've been sad for a long time because I do not have a copy of your record anymore. Never had a chance to put it to cd or make digital versions of it for me to keep.
Anyways - the name of your band always stuck with me . so much so that I wanted to name our new record after it... so yes that name absolutely came from you. :) (Although the title takes on it's own meaning for our record)
BUT - this was all after I was convinced that you fell off the face of the earth. If you're AT ALL weirded out by my using that for our next album title, I'll change it. Though I'd be honored to have your blessing. :)
Are you familiar with The Echoing Green at all? I'd love to send you up some cd's if not. Send me your mailing address and I'll have them sent.
hope to hear from you soon...
joey b
the echoing green
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Subject: RE: RE: In Scarlet and Vile
Body: joey b
It is I that would be totally honored if you used isav for your album title.
(I'm trying to figure out who the ex-girlfriend could be... Virginia maybe? I had a few going... usually at the same time, you know,... singers. Anyway...)
I always felt that if I could touch just one person with my music in a way that music had touched me I would have accomplished my goal. I had pretty much given up on that goal years ago... I knew people bought our tapes and friends said they liked what we were doing but to have you, a total stranger, moved and obviously inspired to go out and share your talent with the world because of something I did is pretty cool.
You guys have a greater talent for music than I ever did. I guess it just takes time for each of us to find our true gifts. Music is quite obviously yours.
I had not heard of you until recently... I think I had seen your name in Wikipedia and caught glimpses in iTunes maybe. I just downloaded Music From the Ocean Picture, and I plan on getting more... I really like the song "Goodbye"
I would love for you to send me stuff... especially a shiny new copy of In Scarlet and Vile when it comes out.
I plan on spending the next few weeks putting together an extremely limited edition of the first In Scarlet and Vile CD (probably 2 copies, one for you and one for me). I would love to send you one.
My address:
Kurt Lorenz
XXXX NW XXXXth St.
Seattle, WA 98XXX
I also have a real email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Feel free to contact me there too...
Thanks again for everything you do, and Please stay in touch.
So if you're interested:


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FAIRFIELD – The Fort Madison boys tennis team won their second match in two days and are now over .500 for the season at 4-3 with a 5-4 win over Fairfield on the road Tuesday night.
The two teams split the singles competition with three wins each, highlighted by Sam Avery's win over Gannon Courtright 4-6, 6-2, 10-7 at No. 1 singles. The Hounds also got wins from Jason and Vasin Thurman at Nos. 3 and 5 singles. Jason Thurman downed Dante Cingiri 6-1, 4-6, 10-2 at No. 3 and Vasin Thurman downed AJ Greiner 6-3, 7-5 at No. 5.
Fairfield got wins from Logan Williams over FMHS's Austin Krieger at No. 2 singles 6-1, 3-6, 10-3, Jarod Willmon downed Blake Feuerhammer 6-0, 6-3 at No. 4 singles, and Will Sheppard defeated Gage Hind at No. 6 singles 6-0, 6-2.
The Hounds were able to get the win in doubles action with Avery and Krueger, who had to go to a tiebreaker to beat Courtright and Williams 6-4, 5-7 (10-7 tiebreaker). Thurman and Thurman got back to their winning ways at No. 2 doubles with a 6-1, 6-4 win. Hind and Feuerhammer lost to Greiner and Sheppard 1-6, 6-3 (6-10 tiebreaker).
The Hounds test their record Thursday with a match against Keokuk at home.
In junior varsity action, Bryce Workman lost two singles matches 6-2 and 6-4.