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Physical Education at Outwood Academy Foxhills is delivered over two hours for Year 7,8 & 9 and one hour for Year 10 & 11 for core lessons per week. Within these times students will develop their own skill set within a wide variety of invasion, net / wall, striking and fielding games in addition to gymnastic and athletic events. The aim is for students to gain a lifelong interest and participation in sport through their positive experiences at school.
The PE course at Key Stage 3 provides students with the necessary skills and knowledge to access the Cambridge National Diploma in Sport Studies course in Key Stage 4. Throughout Year 7 students experience a wide variety of both team and individual sports. In addition to learning the key skills and the tactics and strategies to outwit their opponents, students also gain an understanding of team work through their collaborative learning groups. These experiences become more refined throughout Year 8 focusing on awareness of self and others in performance in addition to leading and officiating game play and competition.
If you would like further information about the topics and themes being taught please contact: Mr Robinson
Cambridge National Diploma in Sport Studies
Contemporary Issues in Sport: Focuses on the different participants in sport and identifies the barriers into participation that they may experience. In addition, students learn about the Olympic values, drugs in sport, the role of national governing bodies and the benefits and drawbacks of hosting major sporting events. This unit is assessed by an exam.
Developing Sport Skills: Students are assessed in their ability to perform in both team and individual sports in addition to officiating and evaluating their own performances. This unit is assessed by assignments.
Developing Sports Leadership Skills: Within this unit students are assessed via a practical performance on their ability to plan, prepare and deliver a sporting activity.
The Media in Sport: Through completing written assignments students demonstrate their understanding of the different forms of media and their influence both positively and negatively on the growth and exposure of sport.
National Diploma in Sport Studies is assessed in the following way:
If you would like further information about the topics, themes or assessment for this course please contact: Mr N Robinson
Please see the current Academy Enrichment Programme Booklet for details of enrichment opportunities in this subject area.


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Quick, simple, right to the point and delicious.
What you need:
Brussel sprouts – I just buy a package at a local grocery store
Olive oil spray
Garlic powder
Pink Himalayan Sea Salt
Split your brussel sprouts into two – cutting the bottom off is completely optional. Sometimes I keep it on and other times I chop it off too. Set a pan to medium heat over your stove top. Once hot, use a little bit of the olive oil spray to line your pan. Put the brussel sprouts on the pan, flat side facing the pan. Spray lightly the top of the brussel sprouts, sprinkle garlic powder and pink sea salt. Wait 5 minutes and flip them each over. I like the outside to be a little crispy so I look for the browning crisp to know they are good for me. Stick a fork into the brussel sprout and it should easily slide in and out. That's when you know they are ready!
Takes less than 10 minutes to make these and they're delish!

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CLEBURNE (CBSDFW.COM) – A Cleburne 5-year-old is recovering at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, injured Friday night in an accidental shooting.
The child was transported to the Fort Worth hospital by Air Ambulance.
The little girl is said to be stable but in critical condition. The accidental shooting happened at her home in the 600 block of North Robinson just before 7:00 p.m. Friday night.
The girl was hit in the stomach. Cleburne Police say they are interviewing an adult that was inside the home at the time of the shooting as they continue their investigation.
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Royal Bank of Scotland (Future Williams & Glyn) hosted their recent Connections Event, in partnership with M3 Media Publishing. Over 40 business owners, leaders and entrepreneurs attended this popular, invitation-only, occasion in central Manchester.
RBS Relationship Director, Robert Taylor, talks enthusiastically about the potential of these events to unlock business opportunities.
"The purpose of the Connections Events is not to have banter and canapes. We want to provide something of real benefit to our customers", says Robert. "The events bring serious decision-makers together and gives them an opportunity to explore relationships with like-minded people, in a relaxed but stimulating atmosphere".
David Lomas, content marketing expert and CEO of M3 Media Publishing led an inspirational workshop on "The Value of a Click". He explained how the right kind of content, properly deployed, can lead to measurable business growth and success.
"People look for people, they don't look for businesses. These events are a great opportunity to get people together so they spark off one another, and see how telling their own stories can help them attract customers"
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The RBS and M3-hosted Connections Events are suitable for directors and business owners in the North West. With attendance being by invitation only, thought-provoking ideas and lively discussions compliment the connections being made.
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Here's How I Stay Stylish When I (Literally) Travel All the Time
In the past couple of years, I officially became someone who "travels all the time for work." At first it was almost thrilling — I furiously researched a new carry-on, I signed up to airline loyalty programs, I began to collect frequent flier miles, I was embarrassingly excited to apply for TSA Precheck (I got it, yay!), and despite the fact that I was often harried and stressed out running through airports, I relished the fact that somehow, my constant movement made me feel more like a "real" adult (however ridiculous that may sound).
Yet, despite my initial excitement, it didn't take long for me to become the jaded business flyer of Hollywood movies and LAX airline lounges. I was suddenly that person who hops on a flight and then immediately gets off the plane to Uber directly to another meeting. Even more unexpectedly, the young girl who used to cry with anxiety when she got to the airport even remotely after the designated two hours pre-flight boarding time suddenly became a woman who gets to the airport a casual 30 minutes before her flight is set to board and still stops for a Bloody Mary before reaching her departure gate.
Notably, one of the bigger changes that developed when I began to spend more time on planes, trains, and airport shuttles was how I approached dressing for a flight. When I was younger, my biggest priority when I flew was always predominantly my own personal comfort. I would wear sweatpants, sweatshirts, tights, flip-flops, or terry cloth shorts (...it was 2003), and I would carry my panda Pillow Pet along with me — up until I was 20 years old. (In my defense, they are a remarkably functional and multipurpose stuffed animal, and I was moderately afraid of flying up until my early 20s.)
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This "comfortable" attitude toward flying, though it was pretty common amongst my friends at that age (and honestly, quite a lot of my peers now), is something that is relatively new in the history of commercial air travel. In the '50s and '60s, passengers were expected to dress up as if going to a cocktail party to fly, and the flights were described as glamorous and luxurious. Definitely not the words you think of when you envision the bleary-eyed and crowded 7 a.m. line for coffee at Newark airport. Despite many a nostalgic think piece harkening back to those "glory days" of air travel and the fashionably dressed passenger, I still think we are ultimately better off today. After all, up until the early '90s you could smoke on airplanes (which by most accounts, was horrible for everyone involved). That does not sound "romantic" or "glamorous" to me.
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That being said, as I became a more "seasoned" business traveler, I realized there were ways to look sleek and fashionable while traveling and still manage to dress comfortably. I don't get off of six hour cross-country flights looking awesome (who does?) — but I can passably walk into a business meeting without my stomach being covered in red lines from uncomfortable crushing waistbands. I'm pretty sure that's a win-win. Here are my travel staples for looking good but also staying comfortable. Tell me, what do you guys wear while you travel?
I will say this until the day I die: Leggings do not have to look sloppy. They can be just as stylish and sleek as pants, and they also allow for ease of movement and comfort during multiple hours spent crammed in an airplane seat. The key is to find leggings that are just as thick as pants and that can also apply minor compression without strangling your waist. My longtime favorites (I've accumulated seven pairs since 2007) are Zella Live-In Leggings.
Manhattan legging available at us.aritzia.com | $22
Oversized Sweaters
Planes are notoriously very, very cold. Instead of forgetting about this until the last minute and buying emergency plane sweatshirts on my layovers (what's up, Colorado sweatshirt!) — I've finally adapted to the cold by wearing stylish and, most importantly, warm oversized sweaters during my longer plane flights.
Chunky pointelle sweater available at gap.com | $35
Chelsea Boots
Even though I no longer have to take off my shoes when I go through airport security (once again, thank god for TSA Precheck), I still throw down for the perfect airport shoes: Chelsea boots. They are sturdy enough for walking around an airport, they slip on and off easily, and they allow you to also wear socks to keep your feet warm on the aformentioned super cold plane. My Cole Haan Newburg boots have been my favorite shoes for more than five years, but there are many other amazing Chelsea boots in the world for your travel needs.
'Petty' Chelsea Bootie available at nordstrom.com | $140-$150
Long and Soft Dresses
I never used to imagine that there would be a world in which I would willingly wear a dress on a plane. However, there is something so perfect and cozy about spending a long plane flight in a long, relatively loose-fitting dress. The best part? With the right dress, you can literally walk straight from the plane into a business meeting and THEN turn right around and head to happy hour. For this hat trick, I recommend going with a black or navy dress.
Open back dress available at stories.com | $95
Soft T-Shirts
If you're wearing the aforementioned leggings and sweater, the best choice of clothing to wear underneath everything is a super-soft T-shirt. These brands offer shirts that are devastatingly soft but still chic, which is pretty much all you can ask for on a cross-country flight.
Cotton v-neck pocket tee available at madewell.com | $18-$20
Last but not least, as I've mentioned many times, I'm a huge fan of a good jumpsuit or romper. For traveling, comfortable and flowy rompers are the perfect choice, as they can make you feel like you're wearing pajamas when you don't look like it (mostly). I have recently been very taken with oversized rompers, and although these may seem a little baggy for office wear, once you step off the plane you can always tailor them with a nice belt.
Leopard print jumpsuit available at topshop.com | $60
Bonus notes: When you're on a plane and trying to still look your best, it's important to also take care of your skin and hair. As I've mentioned before, I'm a big proponent of putting my clean, damp hair in French braids before any flight and letting it air-dry on the plane so that it is wavy and frizz-free when I land. I've also gotten super into bringing my Glov makeup remover with me when I travel so I'm never stuck with mascara smudges or caked foundation after a crazy-long flight.
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Calling All Dr. Seuss Fans! — Seussical the Musical!
The Monday Musical series is a weekly feature on the blog each Monday. It details the musical we listened to the previous week, along with any additional resources we used or go-along activities we completed.
Rationale and Goals:
I decided to start listening to musicals with Luke (age 4) and Lilah (age 2) because they LOVE music and they LOVE stories, so musicals combine the best of both worlds. I think it's never too early to start developing "well-roundedness" and a little culture. Plus, I think in addition to giving them an appreciation for music, it will also help increase their listening attention spans and comprehension. Not to mention, I personally haven't listened to very many musicals myself, so it'll be educational for me as well.
My goal is to listen to a new musical with the kids each week. We probably won't listen to the full musical every day during the week, but the plan is to hear it at least a few times so that it starts to become familiar. While we will sometimes do other activities along with the musical, our main goal will really be just to listen. I am honestly really looking forward to our musical adventures to come! 🙂
For week #5, we listened to Seussical the Musical.
Our family loves all things Dr. Seuss, so we were super excited to discover this musical! Once we got into it, we found there were LOTS of associated Dr. Seuss books we'd never read, so we spent TWO weeks reading, listening, and learning with Seuss!
If you have a Seuss fan in your house, you definitely don't want to miss this!
Introducing the Musical:
To introduce the musical this week, I simply told the children that we were about to listen to a musical based on some Dr. Seuss books. Of course, they already know Dr. Seuss well from favorites like Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, and The Lorax, so they were excited. When listening to the musical for the first time, L&L really liked hearing about characters they were familiar with, but we quickly found there were lots of characters with which we weren't familiar at all! After we finished listening, I knew we had some work to do!
The Rest of the Week:
I immediately set out to find out more about Seussical the Musical. I found these two websites extremely helpful: MTI: Seussical (this one gives you a very thorough synopsis of the musical) and Broadway Musical Home: Seussical (this one gives a very short synopsis and lists the books on which the musical is based). I was totally shocked to find there were lots of Dr. Seuss books listed that we had NEVER read and a bunch we had never even heard of! I looked them up on Amazon thinking I'd purchase the 9 or so we didn't have, but even used, Dr. Seuss books are pretty expensive, so I resorted to the library instead. We weren't able to get EVERY book listed, but we did get most of them, and a couple of them turned out to be real favorites! I'll probably end up buying those to add to our home collection just because they were so great! I can't believe we'd never heard of them before!!! Once we had our big collection of Dr. Seuss books, we did lots of reading and lots of listening to the musical. It all started making more sense…well, as much sense as Dr. Seuss can make, I guess! 😉
L&L enjoyed pointing out when they would hear familiar characters talking in the musical. They also liked to do their own interpretive dance moves to the music. I really enjoyed the fact that we were tying in all the books and stories we were reading to the music we were listening to!
Dr. Seuss Books Referenced in Seussical the Musical:
- Horton Hears a Who!
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- The Lorax
- Green Eggs and Ham
- Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
- Horton Hatches the Egg
- I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
- McElligot's Pool
- Hunches in Bunches
- If I Ran the Circus
- The Butter Battle Book
- Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
- The Cat in the Hat
- The Sneetches and Other Stories
- Did I Ever Tell YOu How Lucky YOu Are?
- Oh, the Places You'll Go!
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Favorite Song(s):
I don't know that L&L really had a specific favorite song from Seussical, but their favorite parts were about Horton the elephant, and there are LOTS of those!
Future Plans:
- I plan to continue to play this musical for L&L on occasion.
- I plan to add some of the Dr. Seuss books that we really enjoyed from the library to our home collection: I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew — Luke really got the hidden message in this one; I was shocked! — and McElligot's Pool.
- We'd also like to read the titles we weren't able to get in time for this post: The Butter Battle book and Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
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I'm currently on the road with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, touring England and Scotland to commemorate the 100th anniversary of WWI. To date, we've performed in Edinburgh and Nottingham, and last night we performed a joint concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir which culminated in a boisterous rendition of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Oh yes, and HRH Prince Charles was in attendance :)
My many MANY tour photos will come at a later date, but for now, here's a little clip from the 4th movement, the "Ode to Joy":
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whn1urlpWvw] Off to Salisbury tomorrow, where we will perform in the renowned Cathedral. That performance will be broadcast on CBC Radio 2 on November 9th and 11th, and on CBC Television sometime during the holiday season. Stay tuned!


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The Cass County COA offers a variety of special services at both locations in Cassopolis and Dowagiac. These services include:
Lowe Center - Cassopolis
- Foot Clinic - By apppointment only
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- Drug Drop - Turn in expired and unwanted medications for proper disposal
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It's official. I'm that girl. The one who abandons all her (imaginary) friends when she gets a boyfriend. I didn't really want to abandon you. Things just got so busy and… The truth of the matter is writing a blog about being single, dating and relationships is a bit of a challenge when you're in a relationship. Especially when the blog is ostensibly unfiltered. I was faced with pushing out disingenuous posts or revealing too much about someone who wasn't choosing to have his worst qualities broadcasted on the Internet. (Because let's face it, no one wants to read about how sweet, cute, talented someone's boyfriend is. We want dirt!) Plus, given my reactionary nature and the way I use writing to work through my frustrations, I would likely want to take back 75 percent of the posts the day after they were published. Especially the one entitled "Pick Up Your Socks: A Tale of Why My Boyfriend is the Worst Human Being On The Planet."
Instead of taking either of these paths, I took none. I sat in a stalemate and did nothing. This became an even bigger problem because I missed it. As I said, writing is an outlet for me. A form of therapy. When I'm going through things and I'm not writing, my emotions get all tangled up into a big ball of stress. I could just write for me, but blogging provides some level of structure and discipline that forces me to put words on the page and get it all out in the open. If I can't pretend I have people waiting to read my brilliant words, I am not as likely to produce anything. Especially if the product is going to force me to take an uncomfortable look at something I'm doing.
I considered breaking it off with the boy in order to continue writing about being single. But that wouldn't be authentic either. It would make more sense to adapt the blog to my life rather than my life to the blog. (Ok I would never seriously make major life decisions based on a blog… unless someone wants to turn it into a book and move me to NYC… any takers?)
So I must continue writing. And I must continue this relationship for as long as it's healthy and makes me happy (and makes him happy too I suppose). I'm not entirely sure what form future posts will take. I imagine the relationship will become fodder on some level, but I'm not going to throw it all out there because it's not solely my story to share anymore. As always, I will offer up unsolicited opinions about general relational topics and analyze friends' situations (using made up names of course). I do promise not to publish (too many) "I lurve my boyfriend so much and all other people should be as lucky as I am" posts. As I go through this redefinition process, I'm completely open to (nicely stated) suggestions. So speak up!


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Bisphenol-A Free Baby Products
(from SafeMama)
BPA-free Bottle Products
- Adiri Natural Nursers
- Avent "Via" disposable bottles
- BornFree: All bottles and cups BPA free
- EvenFlo: Glass bottles, Classic Tinted Polypropylene bottles
- Playtex: Original Nurser, Opaque Soft Bottle (discontinued), Playtex Drop in liners
- Gerber: GerberClear View, Fashion Tints ("Plastic Pastels"), Gerber GentleFlow
- Medela: All bottles
- Sassy MAM bottles (UltiVent), Baby Food Nurser Kit
- Green to Grow Bottles
- Sassy Baby Food Nurser Kit
- ThinkBaby Bottles
- Momo Glass Bottles
- Munchkin: Dora the Explorer Classic Bottles
- Nuby: Standard Neck Non-Drip Bottle, Wide-Neck Non-Drip Bottle, Wide-Neck Bottle with Handles and Non-Drip Nipple, Standard Neck Bottle with Handles and Non-Drip Nipple, 3-Stage Wide Neck Easy Grip Feeding System with Non-Drip Nipple.
- Nuture Pure Glass bottles
- Babisil Silbottles
- Weego Glass Bottles
- Siliskin Glass Bottles
- Dr Brown's: Glass Bottles (all vent system pieces BPA Free), Dr. Browns Polypropylene bottles
- Parent's Choice Bottles (available at Walmart) - box is marked BPA Free
BPA-free Sippy Cups
- Avent Magic Cups, Super Sport Cups
- Playtex: Coolster Tumbler, Insulator, Einstein Sip & Discover Training Cup, Sipster, Create My Own, Quick Straw, Insulator Sport, Sip and Discover, First Sipster, Einstein Sip & Discover Insulated Straw Cup
- Gerber: Sip & Smile Spill-proof Cup, Easy Grip Insulated Soft Straw Cup, Insulated Cool Cup, Fun Grips Color Change Spill-proof Cup, Grins & Giggles Spill-proof Cup (source)
- BornFree sippy/drinking cups
- Evenflo: Fun Sip Insulated Spill-proof Cup, Fun Sip Insulated Straw Cup
- Kleen Kanteen
- Thermos Foogo Sippy Cups, and FUNtainer Straw Bottles
- Kid Basix The Safe Sippy
- Boon Sippy
- GrowPure Multi-Stage Feeder and Sippy Cup
- iPlay Aqua Bottle
- ThinkBaby Training Cup, ThinkSport Stainless Bottle
- Sassy Snack Time Infa-Trainer Cup
- Munchkin: Cupsicle, Cupsicle Straw Cup, Big Kid Sippy Cup, Mighty Grip Flip Straw Cup, Mighty Grip Trainer Cup, licensed character Sports Bottles, Re-usable Straw Cups, Re-usable Spill-proof Cups
- Nuby: No-Spill Sports Sipper, Insulated Soft Silicone Spout Cup, Soft Spout Easy Grip Cup, Gripper Cup with Soft Silicone Spout, 2-Handle Cup, Tinted Mega Sipper, 7oz Tumblers
- The First Years: Take & Toss, Spill-proof Cup, Insulated Cup, Licensed character sippy cups, Insulated Spill-proof Cup, 2 Handled Cups
BPA-free Milk/Liquid Storage
- Avent Via 8-oz. Nurser Kit
- Avent Snack Cup / Formula Dispenser
- Mother's Milkmate Storage bottles
- Medela Milk Storage bottles and breastpump accessories
- Playtex One-Step Breast Milk Storage Kit
- Lansinoh® Breastmilk Storage Bags
- Lansinoh® Breastmilk Storage Bottles
- Gerber Breastmilk Storage Bags
- Dr. Brown's Breastmilk Storage Bags
- The First Years Easy Pour Breastmilk Storage bags
- Bailey Milk Storage Bags (Nurture lll pump tubing BPA Free as well)
- Bailey Storage Bottles (as well as all parts of their "double collection kit")
BPA-free Baby Food / Food Storage
- So Easy Fresh Baby Food Kit
- Baby Cubes baby food storage system
- Laptop Lunch System
- Munchkin: Snack Catcher, Baby Food Grinder, Fresh Food Feeder, Powdered Formula Dispensers


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Lance Armstrong's Pro Masters Unsanctioned Race – Who will win?
This is one for the keen triathletes out there. If you haven't been keeping up to date with this developing story, back in 2012 Chris McCormack called Lance Armstrong out to race (see below) and the topic was brought up recently by Bob Babbitt with 'Macca' in the build up to the Laguna Phuket triathlon – http://triathlon.competitor.com/2013/12/video/post-challenge-laguna-phuket-interview-chris-mccormack_90711
It seems from Lance Armstrong's twitter feed that we now have a race on our hands (nothing like a good social media storm to move these things along) but who is your favourite (comment below and let me know your thoughts). The current competitors are listed as follows:
Lance Armstrong – American former professional road racing cyclist. Armstrong had won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times between 1999 and 2005 before being disqualified from those races and banned from competitive cycling for life for doping offenses by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in 2012. After originally being a triathlete before focusing solely on cycling, Lance went back to the sport once he retired from cycling. Before he was banned from competitive races he won 2 Half Ironman triathlon race in Hawaii – the second 70.3 distance event in 3:50:55. The same race having Greg Bennett and Chris Lieto finishing second and third in 3:53:41 and 4:05:55 respectively. Before he could qualify for the World Championships in the full distance (140.6km) he was banned. Lance's full Ironman 70.3 record can be found here – http://www.runtri.com/2012/02/lance-armstrong-results-at-ironman-703.html
Greg Bennett – has won six World Cup titles, as well as being ranked world number one triathlete in 2002 and 2003. Bennett competed at the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He placed fourth with a total time of 1:51:41.
Chris Lieto -is a professional triathlete and the winner of the 2006Ironman Japan, 2005 Ironman Canada, and 2002 Ironman Wisconsin triathlons
Chris McCormack – is a two-time winner of the Ironman World Championship, winning the titles in 2007 and 2010. He is also the winner of the 1997 International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Cup Series, the 1997 Triathlon World Championships, and the 2012 Long Distance World Championships.
FYI – John Ratzan is a Ironman Foundation Newton Running Ambassador
Thoughts? Remember form, possible race location/conditions, current sporting participation, rather than necessarily record.


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The Big Chicken
03 May 2009
You can't live anywhere near Atlanta and not have heard of The Big Chicken, but until a few weeks ago I'd never seen him with my own eyes.
He's so fabulous, his bright red glory blew out my sky.
His beak opens and closes and his eyes are googly.
And on the way home, roadside dandelions all yellow and green.
Thank you for taking the time to comment on my last post. We're all feeling better than we were a few days ago - Wylie had a nice, long life with much love and his passing left us an open spot to welcome another sweet kitty into our home who has spent at least the last six months in a cage. She deserves far better and now she will have it. More on that soon...


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Wouldn't have made any money on this, even if you were super quick. "Rumor" of Veritas sale what drove this ... lots of "rumors" these days, not sure how they get disseminated, but you can bet that wise guys are positioned in advance.
View from Nanex's non-$9.99 data feed ... came all the way back in to $24.50 from $25.20 in those tens seconds.


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Here be Dragons. Or Lions. Take Your Pick
I have a reading habit that some people might find deplorable.
The end of the Victorian era and the years up to the First World War were rich in novels that formed a genre to themselves: imperialist adventure stories. They were tales about the big empty spaces on the world map, the unexplored centres of continents and vast countries (Africa, China, the Americas); the places that in mediaeval times would be marked with an admonitory 'hic sunt leones', a Latin phrase that later literary pundits evidently felt wasn't exotic enough and passed into the lexicon as 'hic sunt dracones'. Here be dragons. Dragons were obviously more frightening when it came to describing those places that were dangerous and unexplored, that called to the footloose adventurer (always a man, I'm afraid) seeking his fortune.
The books in this genre are the kind I'd call 'old-fashioned ripping yarns'—free-wheeling adventures, with lantern-jawed heroes taking down malefactors and malcontents in the cause of right and, usually, imperial might. The hero faced evil, a test of his moral character as well as his physical form, was on some sort of quest or exploration, met exotic and exciting peoples not normally found in Epsom or Surbiton. He became the epitome of moral superiority bringing order to unformed, unBritish chaos in a Raffles sort of tale, or something penned by H. Rider Haggard or John Buchan. They're summed up with 'play up, play up, and play the game!'
Now the thing is that these novels are horrendously racist and sexist, with appalling views on colonialism, an unquestioned acceptance of both brutality and exploitation, a conventional and unthinking belief in inherent white superiority over all other races, elitist Christian mores, and a veneration for women as 'the angels of our better selves' while simultaneously keeping them socially, economically and politically subjugated. The books are a paean to colonialism, actually, and at the time were seen as pattern cards of heroism and patriotism. Every red-blooded English lad wanted to be Allan Quartermaine, have adventures and spread the Empire to the farthest corners of those unexplored blank spaces.
I'm not so dense I don't see how uncomfortable a read these are. No one could read the books without that frisson of unease that comes from seeing some of the deepest, darkest prejudices—the sort that few would dream of admitting to, much less voicing, these days—treated with a casual acceptance that this was just the way the world was. A real check-your-privilege moment, because I suspect that if you're a person of colour, these books aren't just uncomfortable, they're unreadable.
But unless we read books like this, and understand them, their influence on our current culture goes unnoticed. Because they did influence us. Big time
Where do you think Indiana Jones came from? Or Han Solo? The whole idea of being chosen by destiny to play a pivotal role? The exploration of new worlds and exotic, alien people? Yup. All of them were born out of the pages of King Solomon's Mines, sired by Prester John. Haggard, Buchan and their ilk were there long before Hollywood, and their work has influenced almost every action film and TV show since. Every last swashbuckling adventure owes some of its tropes, themes and metaphorical, philosophical language to imperialist adventure tales.
And me. I admit it: they influenced me too.
Rafe Lancaster isn't colonially-minded (at all!), being an iconoclast when it comes to the Britannic Imperium, but his adventures in Aegypt have pale echoes of those earlier stories. A white man having an adventure in the exotic deserts of Aegypt, battling what appears to be a mystical, mythological threat that's rooted in native superstition (as Haggard, for example, might see it). Rafe is plunged into a country and society completely strange to him, the descendants of the romantic and exotic pyramid-builders. He faces down some bad 'uns out to disrupt Ned Winter's archaeological dig and who threaten the lives of Ned, Ned's son and Rafe himself. Rafe's moral character is tested in the process, his preconceptions of who he is turned upside down… a Haggard adventurer without the colonial baggage.
What I'm trying to get at here is that knowing the genesis of the adventure hero, knowing some of his antecedents, allows us to look critically at the characters in the books we're reading and writing, at the action hero on the screen, and test them for some of the unconscious privileges and prejudices of their imperial forebears. Not to mention, it allows us to test our own!
There is some comfort to be had. Take those imperialistic books as reflecting the values and the time and place in which they were written and see them not just as a quasi-historical record, but most of all, as a measure of how far we have come.
Because seriously, can you see a John Buchan or Rider Haggard hero successfully finishing off his adventures and then going home to his boyfriend?
There you are then. That square-jawed hero has moved on, he has grown and changed. When you measure how far he's come, it's quite a distance. Rafe will wind his arms around Ned Winter's neck, kiss him senseless, and proudly bear witness to that.
Title: The Jackal's House (Lancaster's Luck #2)
Author: Anna Butler
Cover Art: Reese Dante
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Genre(s): Steampunk
Page Count: 310
Something is stalking the Aegyptian night and endangering the archaeologists excavating the mysterious temple ruins in Abydos. But is it a vengeful ancient spirit or a very modern conspiracy….
Rafe Lancaster's relationship with Gallowglass First Heir, Ned Winter, flourishes over the summer of 1900, and when Rafe's House encourages him to join Ned's next archaeological expedition, he sees a chance for it to deepen further. Since all the Houses of the Britannic Imperium, Rafe's included, view assassination as a convenient solution to most problems, he packs his aether pistol—just in case.
Trouble finds them in Abydos. Rafe and Ned begin to wonder if they're facing opposition to the Temple of Seti being disturbed. What begins as tricks and pranks escalates to attacks and death, while the figure of the Dog—the jackal-headed god, Anubis, ruler of death—casts a long shadow over the desert sands. Destruction follows in his wake as he returns to reclaim his place in Abydos. Can Rafe and Ned stand against both the god and House plots when the life of Ned's son is on the line?
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About The Series
Lancaster's Luck is set in a steampunk world where, at the turn of the 20th century, the eight powerful Convocation Houses are the de facto rulers of the Britannic Imperium. In this world of politics and assassins, a world powered by luminiferous aether and phlogiston and where aeroships fill the skies, Captain Rafe Lancaster, late of Her Majesty's Imperial Aero Corps, buys a coffee house in one of the little streets near the Britannic Museum in Bloomsbury.
So begins the romantic steampunk adventures which have Rafe, a member of Minor House Stravaigor, scrambling over Londinium's rooftops on a sultry summer night or facing dire peril in the pitch dark of an Aegyptian night. And all the while, sharing the danger is the man he loves: Ned Winter, First Heir of Convocation House Gallowglass, the most powerful House in the entire Imperium.
Lancaster's Luck Series
About Anna
Anna was a communications specialist for many years, working in various UK government departments on everything from marketing employment schemes to organizing conferences for 10,000 civil servants to running an internal TV service. These days, though, she is writing full time. She recently moved out of the ethnic and cultural melting pot of East London to the rather slower environs of a quiet village tucked deep in the Nottinghamshire countryside, where she lives with her husband and the Deputy Editor, aka Molly the cockerpoo.
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Staying in
Online board game retailer Nestor Games offers family favourites such as chess and backgammon alongside the unimaginable delights of "Sugar Gliders", "Tattoo Turtles" and "The Aztec Market". If you have the place to yourself and feel a little saucy, you could experiment with one of several sexual hypnosis downloads, visit 3D fantasy and sci-fi porn site Lynortis, hire a Birmingham escort, or get into gambling with Singapore horse-racing analysts kranjiracing. The more devout may choose, instead, to make a donation to the Church of Saint John the Evangelist in New York, which claims to be the first Catholic church to accept the online currency.
Clothes and shoes
From babbletees ("T-shirts for cheeky-cool smart people!") to Heat Slingers' Nike trainers ("Simply put, we are sneaker heads"), there are plenty of respectable choices for the snappy Bitcoin dresser. There are also a few more exotic options. Mono für Alle, purveyors of "T-shirts made in Berlin from garbage", competes for your clothes-you-will-never-wear-in-public dollar with pirate shirt company R-Shirt and a libertarian T-shirt site (right) that appears, sadly, to have vanished in the cut-and-thrust of the free market.
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Take a run at your local park
Run around the local park after work tomorrow to stay motivated and increase your productivity.
There may be no better way to keep our minds sharp than regular physical activity. Research shows that regular exercise not only improves a person's mood and lowers stress levels, but also plays a major role in performance, relationships and concentration -- all key to a successful workplace.
People who exercise regularly are more productive on the job and feel better prepared to handle their workloads, including research published in the International Journal of Workplace Health Management. J. Coulson, a research associate at the Department of Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences at Leeds Metropolitan University and lead author on the report, says, "Workers performed significantly better on exercise days and across all three areas we measured known as mental-interpersonal, output and time demands."
So is it those endorphins from exercise that make people happier, more focused and ready to take on the day? They sure help, but what really comes to the rescue is the extra blood your brain's getting, in turn creating a higher level of concentration and productivity.
As little as 12 weeks of regular exercise can double the amount of blood going to the regions of your brain responsible for cognitive function, slowing brain decay and refining existing brain cells to improve things like multitasking, decision making, and analytical thinking, according to a study published in the Journal of Comparative Neurology.


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Life Coaching
Life Coaching deals with lifestyle issues and your personal development in the following areas of life: body, family, parenting, relationships, career, money, spirituality and intimacy. As your coach, I begin our work together by assessing how balanced you are in various areas and aspects of your life. This sets the groundwork for our work together going forward, where I will help you to set and achieve your goals for each area of your life. All the areas in our lives are interconnected in one way or another. My job is to identify the most relevant ones according to what you'd like to prioritise and rebalance the most.
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Wellness Coaching is a breakthrough in personal self-care and it can make a big difference in your lives. Genuine one-on-one coaching can help you achieve real results for both your health and wellbeing. I would recommend this to clients going through significant lifestyle changes, coping with life after a serious illness, recovering from addiction or simply wanting to transform their lifestyles and image at 360º. Wellness Coaching is an ideal option for people who are looking to find balance in their lives and re-energise and rejuvenate themselves from the inside out. As your coach, my role is to motivate you to thrive for balance in all the wellness dimensions presented in the Wellness Wheel method and assessment I use (learn more about the Wellness Wheel here). This together with other tools will help you along your journey of shifting from old and limiting behaviours, thoughts and patterns to a renewed sense of enthusiasm and vitality.
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Career & Purpose Coaching has the primary focus of helping you to discover your purpose and passion. I help clients implement a plan of action to align their lives with their new sense of intent and direction. I help the client define and achieve what they really want from their career and lives. I will help you build self-awareness and find clarity, supporting you to discern the difference between a career and a life purpose.
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Relationships are a real challenge in life and work today. As a coach, I can help you understand and manage the different elements that present themselves in any kind of relationship, be it romantic, marital, friendship or amongst colleagues. I lead you in the journey of self-discovery, which aims to expand your awareness. A renewed self-awareness will then enable you to approach your relationships with yourself and others, in a much more constructive and positive way. I can support you in recognising, sustaining and managing what you are facing in your relationships whilst helping you to shift any limiting perceptions or beliefs in this area of life.
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There is no school that teaches us to become parents. We were children and young adults once too, just as our children are in the present. Parenting Skills coaching focuses on developing self-awareness of your present parenting style and exploring how you'd like to transform it in order to encourage a new dynamic and approach with your children. Communication is the basic skill when it comes to parenting. As a coach specialising in communication, I will guide you to set goals and then facilitate new awareness in regards to your present communication style with yourself, your partner and your children. In developing self-awareness and transforming the way you communicate with yourself, you will naturally shift into a new model of communication as a parent.
I urge you to choose your coach according to your needs and wants. I always suggest carefully researching the coach you will choose to guide you along the journey of self-discovery. You will be building a necessary bond and deep trust in the process of your transformation, so it's crucial to find the most fitting life coach for you.
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Forgetting the Past
By Ed Welch
A seventy-five-year-old man wanted to talk about his past, especially his childhood and early teen years, because his past felt so present. Like many of us, he wanted to be less controlled by his past and jettison its haunting episodes.
Scripture does help us with our painful pasts, but it does more than that. It tells us to forget things we want to remember, and remember things we are likely to forget.
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The Importance of Friendship
By Tony Merida
In our gospel-centered movement, we should emphasize Paul's pattern of preaching the grace of Christ. But we should also highlight his deep commitment to friendship.
Paul's constant interaction with his friends was a sign of maturity, not deficiency. Even the mighty apostle needed friends—and he needed them for the same reasons you do.
Click here to read three simple but glorious benefits of friendship...
When Your Kids Won't Bow To Your Idols
By Jennifer Phillips
Brian and I recently led a parenting workshop at our church. I'd like to think we were asked to teach this course because our mad parenting skillz are off the chart, but it may have more to do with the fact that we're the only ones who said yes. Also, we're one of the only couples in our church whose kids are over the age of five, so there's that. BUT ANYWAY. I digress.
We were given the freedom to choose from any parenting-related topic, and while it may have been easier to zero in on things like "Surviving on Little-to-No Sleep," "How to Get Your Kids to Behave in Public," or "How to Potty Train and Not Lose Your Mind," we knew we wanted to zero in on the heart—and not so much our children's hearts, but what parenting reveals about our hearts. We wanted to talk about idolatry.
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Thou Shalt Not Bail
by Jen Pollock Michel
The bailing trend is an understandable byproduct of a busy culture. But is it Christian?
My friend lives in Toronto's hipster west end, I on the eastern edge of buttoned-up midtown. To see each other, especially when both of us are swamped with work and family commitments, we flex the muscle of careful planning and muster herculean effort. However, several weeks ago, we planned to meet rather spontaneously for coffee on a Monday. She would be in my neck of the woods.
For a fleeting moment, our friendship had the gratuitous gleam of convenience.
Then she moved our meeting spot 15 minutes further from my house. The gleam faded, and I bailed. "Today has run away from me," I texted the day before, "and I don't think I have time tomorrow for coffee. I'm sorry, because I'd love to see you.
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Six Prayers God Always Answers
by Gary Millar
If you are like me, you probably find yourself more consistently confused or failing in prayer than in any other area in the Christian life. Why is that? Talking to the God who chose us, saved us, and sustains us should be the most natural and delightful thing in the world, shouldn't it? Perhaps it should, but more often than not, it isn't.
We all know we should pray more. The guilt within reminds us. But if we are honest, we neither want to pray more, nor are we really convinced we need to. Why? Perhaps we don't really understand what prayer is — or we're prone to forget.
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Why You Need to Relax
by David Murray
How to ensure 'personal sustainability.'
In recent years, a number of Christian leaders have rightly called lethargic and half-hearted Christians to quicken their pace, to dedicate more of their time, talents, money and efforts to serving the Lord in the local church and in evangelistic outreach at home and abroad. I welcome this "radical," "don't waste your life" message to up the pace, and I rejoice in its positive impact on thousands of Christians. Some of us, though, need to hear a different message:
"Slow your pace or you'll never finish the race."
As Brady Boyd warns in Addicted to Busy, "Ultimately, every problem I see in every person I know is a problem of moving too fast for too long in too many aspects of life." I'm not proposing that we put our feet up and opt out of life and Christian service. No, I'm talking about being sensitive to changes in ourselves and our circumstances and re-calibrating our pace to ensure personal sustainability.
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A Response to Jen Hatmaker. By Rosaria Butterfield.
"If this were 1999—the year that I was converted and walked away from the woman and lesbian community I loved—instead of 2016, Jen Hatmaker's words about the holiness of LGBT relationships would have flooded into my world like a balm of Gilead. How amazing it would have been to have someone as radiant, knowledgeable, humble, kind, and funny as Jen saying out loud what my heart was shouting: Yes, I can have Jesus and my girlfriend. Yes, I can flourish both in my tenured academic discipline (queer theory and English literature and culture) and in my church. My emotional vertigo could find normal once again.
Maybe I wouldn't need to lose everything to have Jesus. Maybe the gospel wouldn't ruin me while I waited, waited, waited for the Lord to build me back up after he convicted me of my sin, and I suffered the consequences. Maybe it would go differently for me than it did for Paul, Daniel, David, and Jeremiah. Maybe Jesus could save me without afflicting me. Maybe the Lord would give to me respectable crosses (Matt 16:24). Manageable thorns (2 Cor 12:7)."
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The Attraction of Idolatry
We know as Christians, on an intellectual level, that we have idols—be it family, food, football or whatever. But to see the allure of idolatry can be hard for those of us in the Western world.That's why I appreciate the points laid out by Doug Stuart in his Exodus commentary (450-54). Stuart suggests nine reasons idolatry was attractive to the Israelites and in the cultures of the Ancient Near East.
1. It was guaranteed. If you do the right incantation, you get the right results. Just say the right words and the gods show up. Who wouldn't want that?
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Every Christian must come to terms with the fact that there will indeed be a Man of Lawlessness and our beliefs about him will play a role in the way we think and live today.
If you are interested in some basic information on the Anti-Christ you will find the list contained in this article, written by Matthew Holst at Alliancenet.org, informative.
"One of the Apostle Paul's great preoccupations in both of his letters to the church at Thessalonica is the second coming of Christ. He was not only concerned with getting the doctrine "right" but also with the great pastoral implications of such teaching.
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9 Sins the Church Is Okay With
I was in an engineering class the first time I watched the tragic explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Even though I wasn't alive when it happened, I caught a glimpse of the horror thousands must have felt as the events unfolded.
And, the first question everyone wanted to know was, "What happened?"
After months of investigation, here's what the Rogers Commission (the group commissioned to investigate the explosion) discovered: an o-ring seal in the right solid rocket booster failed at take-off. I won't bore you with the details, but an o-ring is a small device relative to the size of a space shuttle. Very small.
It wasn't something huge, like a puncture in the rocket booster or a hole in the cabin, that caused this disaster. It was a small, seemingly insignificant, o-ring failure.
I think there's a lesson here for the church. What if the big sins, you know the ones you try hardest to avoid, aren't the greatest threat to your joy and the church's mission?
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For Congregation Ner Shalom. (And for me.)
I wondered what I would talk about tonight; what of the immense experience of this last dozen days would bubble up as the take-away for a Shabbat drash. What of the surprise and sadness of my mother's stroke? What of our agonizingly sluggish high-speed drive to the Memorial Hospital emergency room, during which my Mom, becoming aware of how bad this might go, looked at me and said, "Shit, shit, shit." What of the fact that the last thing she had been doing before the stroke was learning! With me and the other members of Yiddish Tish, a poem by Kadya Molodovsky, in which the poet asks God to help her give up this pained world and to invite her to His house instead; asking God to prepare a meal and a footstool; asking God to send His most beautiful angel for her so that her last gaze would be extinguished with a smile?
And what of our subsequent and continuing bedside vigil?
Or the tremendous show of support from this community, including the likes of Shari Brenner who dispensed with all her week's plans in order to care for us and coordinate for us. Or the outpouring from Mom's home synagogue and PFLAG communities and her large and loving family? What of any of this would float to the surface as the nugget that illuminates or is illuminated by this week's Torah portion?
For obvious reasons I found myself drawn not to this week's parasha, Vayigash, in which Joseph and his brothers are tearfully reunited, but instead next week's, Vayechi, in which we see Joseph in vigil at his father's bedside, his 147-year old father, from whom he had long been separated, but who, unforeseen, or perhaps completely foreseen by Joseph the interpreter of dreams, had ended up coming to him, and was now resettled in the green Egyptian exurb of Goshen. Joseph's father was now nearby, literally embedded in a place where Joseph could keep company and give care.
All the obvious parallels jumped out at me. Like Joseph, I ended up far away from my birthplace; taking up a new life in what is, for all intents and purposes, another country. Like Joseph, I've lived with constant anxiety about a distant parent. And like Joseph, I found, beyond all reasonable expectation, that parent on my own doorstep at a moment of great need. I imagine that Joseph's mind wandered to the question of bashertness, however that was said in Egyptian.
That it was all meant to be: Pharaoh's dreams, the rationing plan, the famine itself. So that Jacob would end up not in Hebron, near his parents' graves, but in Egypt, on Joseph's turf, where Joseph could rally the best healers and magicians and musicians. So that Jacob could be comfortable in his last days, in a safe and cozy bed, with his children and grandchildren in attendance.
So were we similarly fortunate. For decades I've lived with the anxiety: what if Mom's life-changing event (because we will all have one, whether disease or disaster or death) happens while she's alone in her house in Niles, Illinois? This decades-old anxiety was resolved overnight with no special effort on my part. The cards of chesed were dealt, and my mother ended up close by, in my car when it happened, and for this last fortnight just a few miles from my house. We too have been able to marshal remarkable resources for her – healers, magicians, musicians. Including my sister, who by coincidence was at a moment where she could make herself free to simply be here. What were the odds?
All of this bashertness is not necessarily destiny – I am not a strong believer in destiny. But it is blessing nonetheless. I am deeply aware of that at every moment. Every member of this community who comes into the room to read Mom a story or hold her hand or lay healing hands on her makes my own sense of blessing and gratitude well up and overflow. Yes, we would have made sure she got plenty of fine care and loving company in Chicago. But here it is happening without our having to engineer it. I have felt firmly supported, as have my sister and my husband and the rest our family. The doctors have been good, the nurses fabulous. The healers of this Ner Shalom community have helped us talk through our decision tree – the what-ifs that will make us more prepared in the coming days and weeks and months to make decisions based on what Mom would want for herself.
We have had magnificent moments in the hospital room. An Erev Shabbat in the ICU more intense and magical than any I could hope to achieve here. And then this week: moments of recovery. The first half-smile. An attempt to form a word. The squeeze of a hand. A reaction to a song or story or voice or face. A soft moaning that shifts in pitch until it matches a niggun being sung around the bedside. Each of these is a treasure. I feel like a diver discovering an oyster bed and finding pearl after pearl. Not in every oyster, not by far, but in enough to make me not give up the dive. This could have been my teaching tonight – something about the magnificent miracle of each moment. How spending Chanukah in the ICU and the neurology ward reawakens you to the miracles that are encoded in our very bodies – in our abilities to heal, or to recognize each other, or to make each other laugh. These are miracles no less significant than the Maccabbees expelling the Greeks back in the day. And all we have to do is notice.
This teaching is not new or revolutionary. Mindfulness. Easy. Just not always easy to do in our day-to-day lives. Mindfulness comes naturally at life's biggest moments: births, deaths, grave illnesses. Moments when our usual yardsticks of success and failure drop away, when our field of vision narrows and we sidle into a more primitive relationship with the stuff of life. Where a smile or a squeeze of the hand or a clear, unimpeded breath matter and mean more than anything.
Joseph must have felt such extraordinary mindfulness at his father's bedside. Torah tells the story as a series of events, but it hints at the heightened emotion and awareness behind the action. The events: Jacob makes Joseph swear to bury him in the family plot in Hebron. Later, in his final illness, Jacob blesses Joseph's two sons, giving the firstborn blessing to the second-born, much as he, a second son, connived the firstborn blessing from his aged father, Isaac. Jacob offers prophecies about each of his sons' descendants. Then he gathers his feet back into the bed and is gathered in turn by his ancestors, as the story beautifully reads.
But the emotion behind it. The text tells of Joseph prostrating himself at the bedside, but in our mind's eye we see Joseph collapsing from grief. After all, he'd been without his father for so many years; how sad and bitter to anticipate losing him now a second time.
Torah doesn't tell us how much time passed between Jacob's exacting Joseph's promise to bury him in the Old Country and his actual death. But no matter how long, we must imagine that there was enough time for Joseph to sit by his father's bedside and tell him stories of Egypt and stroke his hand. Torah doesn't tell us how many pearls of closeness and love Joseph and Jacob harvested together in those days or weeks or months until Jacob died so peacefully. But surely there were many. And the obvious teaching would have been: those pearls are always waiting for us; we can dive and fetch them at any time. An obvious teaching, and no less true for being obvious.
Or there might be here a teaching about making sure that nothing is left unsaid. That words of love must be uttered with frequency and sincerity, because you never know when your words might be taken away from you. If they are, you need to know that there are no "I love you's" missing. I'm guessing that between Jacob and Joseph nothing was left unsaid, just as in our case as well. My mother was and is an insistent articulator of her love, through her words and her actions. She loves freely and extravagantly, taking people under her wing with ease. As I told a young ICU nurse, if she were awake she would ask you how you came to be a nurse and would then tell you how proud your parents must be of you. No, speaking words of love and encouragement is simply her way. And between us, nothing is unsaid, no endearments are missing. Offering this reminder, perhaps more from her than from me, would also an obvious teaching, and no less true for being obvious.
But this will not, I think, be what I ultimately offer here tonight. Yes, it was that kind of week when time slows and you notice every precious moment. But I was also misled by my heightened mindfulness; I was lulled by the strength and beauty of the support we were offered. I was being mindful; I was grateful; I was glad that I had no loose ends with my mother, no "I love you" left unsaid. I was feeling pretty on top of things from a metaphysical perspective - and from a practical perspective as well. I was reasonably in control of a difficult situation. Friends back in Chicago were checking on the house; mail was already being forwarded; doctors were being consulted; a Facebook group was channeling updates on Mom's condition to well over 200 loved ones and admirers, like a town crier, or like the shames in the Chelm story, who would rap on everyone's shutters to announce the coming of Shabbos, until he was too old and frail to do the walk, and so everyone in the town unhinged their shutters and brought them to the synagogue so the shames could rap on them all in one place. Facebook is nothing if it is not that. In any event, I had things under control.
In fact, I felt so in charge of things that, determined to demonstrate the self-care people encouraged me to engage in, I scheduled myself a haircut yesterday, followed by a bodywork session with Sally Churgel to take care of my lower back and left thigh, which had been in spasm for weeks, now substantially exacerbated by the stress of Mom's stroke, not to mention the initial nights of sleeping in the La-Z-Boy in the Memorial Hospital ICU. I was proud that I was taking care of myself. Glad that Mom was safe at the hospital with my sister. The terrific nurses had their eye on her. Shoshana Fershtman was coming to give Mom reiki. Atzilah Solot would be coming later to chant. And Mac McCaffry the next day to read Mom some more Kipling. Yes, all things considered, this was going well, and I was feeling very in charge of an otherwise dire situation.
But yesterday it was explained to me that I was not in charge of it all. That you cannot be in charge of it all. It was explained to me not in words, and not by any person. It was conveyed to me by the Universe, in the form of a large dog, a Catahoula Hound, who was frustrated perhaps at not having a shared language, or aggravated at the lack of opposable thumbs that would otherwise enable it to grab its masters and shake them and complain about the miserable life they were providing it. This dog, an unfamiliar familiar, carried the message to me that we cannot count on staying in control, that we cannot count on only one thing going wrong at a time. It did so using a traditional canine non-verbal method, involving sinking its teeth into flesh, into my hamstring. My mindfulness soared for moment, as fear and pain gave way to a moment of mindful grace in which I thought, "Aha, so this is what it feels like to be bitten by a large dog."
I did not catch this dog's name, although Demon Spawn comes to mind. But maybe it was Angel. My thigh was swelling like Jacob's after his famed wrestling match, so maybe this dog was an angel too, delivering to me a message: a message that it was time for me to humble the fuck up. And sure enough, instead of on Sally's very peaceful and healing table, I found myself back at the Memorial Hospital ER where they looked at me, puzzled, still remembering my colorful arrival with Mom last week. My sister came down from Mom's room to meet me at registration, and wondered aloud whether she ought to just fill out her own emergency admission paperwork now, just in case.
I got good care, antibiotics and Percocet. I got, unexpectedly, an afternoon of relief from the muscle spasm I'd been experiencing in that very thigh, not unlike a bee sting relieving arthritis.
And I got a lesson, a thankfully non-fatal lesson, that anything can happen. That this life unfolds in messy ways, even if we're blessed that some of it unfolds well. That staying on top of things is not possible and really not desirable either. Staying on top of things won't keep the pain away, or make the catastrophe un-happen.
Instead, maybe, we are condemned – or privileged – to struggle. To slog through the messes and the sadnesses and to rejoice at the simches that don't always quite make up for the pain but which deserve all our love anyway. To learn to roll with the unexpected without regard to how you will handle it or what you will do about it. To be, as Berrine often reminds me, a human being, not a human doing. And yes, to be mindful of the pearls that you find as you move in this current. And yes, to say all your "I love you's" well in advance of dire need, because you never know when a large dog's denim-piercing teeth will keep you away from a bedside at a critical moment.
I learned all this from the Universe, from an Angel, whose teeth and slobber I can still feel. It could have been worse. Oh wait, it was worse, just a week before, when I arrived at the ER with my mother, who was busy losing her motion and her words. And oh wait, that could have been worse too.
We all live through hard times. And these times are ultimately bigger than our optimism or our pessimism or our managerial skills. Instead, I guess, the trick is just to be open. Enlist help. Be brave enough to be vulnerable. Be brave enough to hurt and to heal.
A lovely Kinsey Sicks fan and seminary student, Charles May, caught wind of what was going on this week and sent me this unattributed prayer-poem:
God, make me brave for life: oh, braver than this.
Let me straighten after pain, as a tree straightens after the rain,
Shining and lovely again.
God, make me brave for life; much braver than this.
As the blown grass lifts, let me rise
From sorrow with quiet eyes,
Knowing Thy way is wise.
God, make me brave, life brings
Such blinding things.
Help me to keep my sight;
Help me to see aright
That out of dark comes light.
My life is filled with blessing without measure, baruch Hashem. I am blessed that because this time is uncontrollable, unmanageable, the pearls – a smile, the squeeze of a hand, the arching of an eyebrow – are all the more precious.


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Few days ago I received a demo from a band called :TwinGiant:. As you know here in Downtuned Magazine we deal with Greek bands in order to promote and support Greek heavy scene. Now the thing with these guys is that they're from USA... But one of their two guitar players, Nikos, is American of Greek origin and I thought that it's ok to make an exception for these guys...
So let me present you :TwinGiant:, a five piece band form Phoenix, Arizona formed in the spring of 2010 - quoting them- to fulfill the band members' desire to play loud-as-shit droney music.
They recently released their first demo which features two tracks. The first song, titled "Pale Blue Dot" is a 6min one and I have to say that it immediately caught my attention with its groove. It's a sludge tune with heavy stoner-like riffage blasting all over the place. Swamp sludgy vocals is definitely a plus while the bass and drums really cement the sound.
The second track "Concrete Home" is recorded in a gig the band gave at the Ice House in Phoenix. The sound in this one isn't so good and it doesn't help at all. I think the band loose their dynamic here (not in the live they gave, just in this certain recording). Although there are good ideas, the tune's flow seems alright and it incorporates a few drone elements. I would like to hear it in studio version though.
Overall :TwinGiant: have plenty of potentials judging from their "little" sample. They're going to record their debut album in December. From what I "saw" here I'll keep an eye on them and I'll be happy to host them again here in Downtuned Magazine...
Tracklist :
01. Pale Blue Dot
02. Concrete Home (Live)
You can download their demo for free through their facebook page.


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Galapagos Update: Wolf Volcano erupts after 33 years
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Wolf Volcano on the northern end of Isabela Island began erupting Monday, May 25th, for the first time in 33 years. Wolf is the tallest of Isabela's six major volcanoes, and the highest peak in the Galápagos.
Lava is currently flowing in a south-westerly direction, and does not currently represent a threat to visitor sites. Scientists believe neither the saddleback subspecies of Galapagos Tortoise chelonoidis negra becki nor the Pink Land Iguana conolophus marthae are currently threatened, as their range is limited to the north-western slopes of the volcano.
update: 01 July 2015
Our friends at Galapagos Conservancy have provided a map detailing the endemic species habitat regions in relation to the lava flow. We're happy to report that neither the pink land iguanas (pink boundary) nor the land tortoises (white boundary) are threatened by the ongoing lava flow from the Wolf Volcano eruption.


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On Saturday 21st November, (which was both the weekend of Youth Sunday and the feast of Christ the King) the second Embrace Conference took place at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Having missed last year's conference, I had no idea what to expect but was excited for what the day entailed. I was definitely not disappointed!
It was a fantastic day packed with laughter, singing and silent reflection. The day began with praise & worship, prayer and a speech from David Wells. I then attended a workshop with Rise Theatre Company, as I have enjoyed performances from them in the past. They ran a drama workshop on the theme of 'storytelling' and in groups we reflected on the parable of the mustard seed, producing freeze frames that represented the seed growing into something much bigger. Throughout the day, there were several keynote speeches which focused on the theme for the conference: "Build my Kingdom". I particularly enjoyed the talk from Fr Frankie Mulgrew, who used an American football and a pair of oven gloves to demonstrate the touchdown of God's Kingdom to earth through Jesus!
Later in the day, we had time for praise & worship, then Adoration and Reconciliation - an opportunity to reflect on the wonderful day we were having. There was also a youth testimony that featured incredibly moving spoken word poetry, which is something I would love to try writing myself. Embrace concluded with Vigil Mass and everyone gathered together to praise God for such a great day. Following Communion, dancers from Corpus Christi Catholic High School performed a beautiful dance piece based upon embracing those affected by the migrant crisis. My favourite part of the day was after Mass, when the musicians played "We are the Free", which seems to be a favourite worship song among many of us young Catholics! The joy in the Cathedral as we sang was indescribable, the atmosphere was electric, with everyone praising God at the tops of our voices. With much singing, dancing and clapping, the conference ended.
Embrace 2015 was a day filled with the most unbelievable amount of happiness and I had such an incredible time! It was also a great opportunity to catch up with many other young people who I have met through Lourdes and various other events, along with meeting many lovely new people. I am already looking forward to next year, and I can't recommend it enough!
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The traditional statements before President Obama's meeting today with his Japanese counterpart turned interesting when Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda mentioned the 'r word.'
"One worry that I've have is that there is a emerging concern that once recovering the economy we might be drawn back into another recession, and Japan and the United States must work on the economic growth and the fiscal situation at the same time," Noda said, speaking with a translator.
It's unclear whether Noda was referring to just Japan, the United States, or the global economy — though Japan is already in recession.
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I spent the morning cutting out harp pieces.
I designed my harps to be easy to build. The only four power tools I use are a band saw, circular saw, drill press, and electric drill/screwdriver. Furthermore, I'm not a purist. I use screws to hold the box together. I also keep things simple by cutting the pillar and arch as a single piece, cut from one-inch plywood.
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In order to be able to have a deeper understanding of the Mediterranean diet it would be good to know where it all started, where the Mediterranean foods, Mediterranean cuisine and Mediterranean diet started.
Below is the analysis of the second group of countries which comprise the Mediterranean group (the first part was analyzed in a previous document, The mediterranean countries Part 1
Greece: Greece is a country in Southeastern Europe wholly situated in the Mediterranean sea with a vast number of islands and with the 10th longest coastline in the world. Greece is the first area in Europe where early and advanced civilizations started. Greece mainly enjoys the advantages of the Mediterranean climate. The Greek culture has evolved over thousands of years and has affected all modern civilizations. The Greek cuisine, and especially the Cretan cuisine, is often cited as the mother of the healthy Mediterranean cuisine. It incorporates all the components of the Mediterranean cuisine into the main dishes and foods consumed daily by the Greeks. Some the dishes now served on the Greek table can be traced back to ancient Greece, an example being the lentil soup. Greek cuisine uses flavours, like oregano, mint and dill, which are not often found in other cuisines
Turkey: Turkey is a Eurasian country, it stretches into two continents, Europe and Asia. It is bordered by eight countries and the Mediterranean Sea in its western and south boarders. Turkey has a variance of climates with a temperate Mediterranean climate along its coasts in the Mediterranean Sea. Turkish cuisine is not homogeneous, however the cuisines of the Aegean and Mediterranean regions, where the olive trees grow, exhibit the basic characteristics of the Mediterranean cuisine as they are rich in olives, olive oil, fish, yogurt and cheese. Characteristically it should be mentioned that a typical Turkish breakfast in these areas consists of white cheese, olives, eggs, tomatoes, honey and fruits.
Cyprus: Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and it is located in the Eastern Mediterranean and has a strategic location in the Middle East. As an island it is completely surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea and enjoys all the characteristics of the Mediterranean climate. The Cypriot cuisine is a typical Mediterranean cuisine with all the components and characteristics. The white cheese native of Cyprus known as Halloumi cheese originated in Cyprus during the Medieval Byzantine period. Seafood and fish dishes in the Cypriot cuisine include squid, octopus, red mullet and sea bass. Olives and Olive oil are basic components of the Cypriot cuisine. Fresh vegetables and fruits are also common ingredients of the Cypriot cuisine. Typical fruits are apples, grapes, oranges, watermelons and strawberries. Cyprus is also well known for its desserts like the lokkoumi, Turkish delight, a sweet protected by protected geographical indication, PGI.
Syria: Syria is a country in Western Asia bordering the Mediterranean Sea. Syria's climate is hot and dry and along the Mediterranean coastline is has the characteristics of the Mediterranean climate. The Syrian cuisine is rich with variable ingredients used, mainly linked with the Syrian region and with many influences from the region, mainly Greek and Turkish. The main dishes of the Syrian cuisine are kibbeh, hummus, tabbouleh and fatoush, all with basic Mediterranean components and elements. Syrian cuisine is also well known for its cheeses with the very popular white cheese, jibbneh mashallale. Syrian pastry has as its basic component nuts and honey, two other basic components of the Mediterranean cuisine.
Part 3 which follows will deal with the rest of the Mediterranean countries.