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Our beautiful stage i single purées flash frozen and packaged in single servings for easy mixing and matching at home. Each pack includes seven 1-oz cubes. Ideas and information on our pairings page.
Current menu options: Beet, Blueberry, Broccoli, Carrot, Cauliflower, English Pea, Kale, Peach, Spinach, Strawberry, Sweet Potato, Green Bean
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AL4D Lingerie drawer set Size: 570mmL x 460mmD x 905mmH (10mm bevel)
This 4 drawer silver mirrored lingerie chest is mounted on rubber feet. . The European style chest has four generous drawers. The drawers run on telescope style Hettich runners. The runners are covered by a lifetime warranty. Clear acrylic handles with silver collars have been integrated with the drawers to heighten the visual appeal of this exquisite product. The drawer unit provides excellent storage facilities. Can be used in a bedroom or in a good sized bathroom


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With March just around the corner, we farmers are tidying up the last of our necessary winter work. Farm planning (aka building spread sheets), seed ordering, firewood, home improvements and vehicle maintenance are a few of the things we have been up to lately. On the family front, lots of game playing and then outdoor bike riding some days, sledding the next!
It is a huge relief to all of us that Prentice's knee surgery back in
December went so well. His rehab has also gone well and he is feeling on
track for everything but high impact sports in 2016. Soccer, skiing and
ice hockey will have to wait until 2017, folks! The boys and I are also
well, very much enjoying the warmth of hearth and home, times with
family and farm critters and books, books, books!
Next week we will cross the seasonal threshold into seedling care. We
will sow the first seeds of 2016 with our best blessings and hopes for a
bountiful growing season. This is always a joyous moment when we take
pause, wonder at the life held dormant in the incredible, wee beings
called seeds and then drop first one then thousands into good, rich
potting soil.
As you can imagine, we are teeing up our markets, as well. We have met
with all the caterers, coops, restaurateurs and distributors who
purchase the good food grown here at Villageside. Our CSA is of course,
another market for us. Spring. . . er. . . late winter sign ups help us plan for how much advertising we need to do in
order to fill our membership goal. If you intend to sign up, use the sign up link here.
Pay it all at once or pay as you can. We will remind you monthly until you are paid off.
Checks by mail are best.
Shares are $475 for 21 weeks this year. June 21-Nov 1.
Spread the word, if you can, and care to!
You know what we offer, who we are, what we are trying for.
If you have a friend, co-worker, neighbor or family member who is
curious about food and local farming, please do hand them an info card
(posted around town in Belfast, or call us and we can send you some!),
post a happy recommendation to facebook or other social media, or pen them a letter, with real ink!
Our website is www.villagesidefarm.com.
With all warm greetings to each of you,
gratitude for your support last year and over many years,
and hugs from your farmers in Freedom,
Polly and co.


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You know all of those celebrities with gorgeous, thick, silky manes? Well, we're going to tell you a secret: a lot of them will be wearing extensions.
These days, extensions are so brilliant in terms of the quality on offer that you can barely tell who's wearing them.
Yet celebrity hair stylist Jen Atkin still feels like there's a great deal of hair extension-shaming going on. And she wants it to stop.
Read: Hair Extensions: The Ultimate Guide…
Jen works with some of the most glamorous ladies in the 'biz – from Kylie and Kendall Jenner and the Kardashians to Chrissy Teigen and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. So she knows her stuff.
But with every new celebrity hair transformation comes a barrage of catty social media comments about that celeb's 'fake hair' or 'trashy extensions' . And Jen's speaking out.
Posting a photo of a bundle of silky extensions on her Instagram page, the famous hairdresser wrote:
'I'm always reading comments like 'I bet it's extensions' or 'she will probably just put in extensions' 'that's not her hair'. Guys, hair extensions are not bad or something to be embarrassed by.'
We couldn't agree more. In this day and age, what's wrong with giving yourself that extra bit of confidence if your locks are naturally thin or simply not as luscious as you'd like?
Jen also bashes the connotation that guys hate extensions (most of the time, they don't even notice when you've had a bob cut in). And she makes her point beautifully…
Read: Kylie Jenner's Wig-Maker Spills All About Her Hair…
'If a guy isn't with you because you wear extensions? BYE FELICIA!' she writes. LOL. Amen, Jen.
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We're totally behind Atkin with this one. And so were her followers. 'Nicely said!', wrote one. 'So true!' mused another.
So what's the takeaway here? Well, make like Kylie and do whatever the hell you want with your hair, because you don't have to explain yourself to anyone.


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Antreas Nicolaou was born in Cyprus in 1966. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich on an Easmus Scholarship and at the Athens School of Fine Artsalso on a state IKY scholarship. He graduated in 1992 with excellence and having worked in the studio of Panayiotis Tetsis.
His work is exhibited in many public and private collections. He participated in significant group exhibitions and has exhibited his work in 42 solo exhibitions in various galleries and museums in Cyprus and abroad. He lives and works in Athens.


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Our Mission is to support the development of young people into magnificent human beings through participation in the performing arts.
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10 Jun What is the Gift?
What I am about to share has been a huge gift to me and I share that gift with you.
I believe that there is a gift in absolutely everything that happens in life. I usually don't speak in absolutes, however I am going to be bold enough to do it here because I passionately believe this truth … there is a gift in absolutely everything that happens in life. Don't get me wrong, I know, and yes from personal experience, that ugly, negative, icky stuff happens in our lives. What I've learned though is that in every one of those experiences was a special gift meant just for me. Some of those gifts, many from years ago, I am just now recognizing and unwrapping them and applying them to my life. I'm sure there are others that are still waiting for me to unwrap – their time will come. What I celebrate is that today, whenever something shows up for me that doesn't feel good I immediately ask myself "what is the gift". While I still don't always see it right away, I get there a whole lot faster which allows me to keep moving forward a whole lot faster.
Not buying this? I'm just asking for a few more minutes and to at least be open to the possibility. What makes this gift thing true for me is an understanding that whenever negative shows up in my life, positive is available. Positive and negative are polarities, or a comparison to each other. You cannot have one without the other. You wouldn't know something was negative unless you had something positive to compare it to and vice versa. What that all means is that there is always a positive … or as I call it "a gift".
Let me give you a personal example. In the last year or so I gained about 20 lbs. I was sharing with a friend that the weight gain was a gift and she started laughing. What I explained is that while I had been unhappy about putting on the weight, I turned inward and asked "What is the gift"? There were several. First, as I embark on a passionate mission of helping women stop comparing themselves to others, guess what I was doing? Gift of awareness! As I also help others find healing within themselves, this gave me a chance to do the same for myself. Gift of love for myself! As I feel the judgment of others I use it as a reminder to release the judgments that I have. Gift of loving of others! I have the opportunity to fall down and stand back up again, stronger and more committed than ever. Gifts of commitment and health!
As I look for the gift I find the positive and release the negative …and it feels good. I am committed to living a JOY filled life. I know who I am, I know what I stand for and I know what is important. The only thing I control are my choices. I choose to search for the gift in everything. Yep, sometimes it's a challenge, however it always brings me back to JOY a whole lot quicker.
Play with it. What is something that is a hurt, challenge or pain point for you? What gift can you find that will help you heal or grow and move forward? What will be the benefit to your life if you truly start looking for the gift in everything?
If the thoughts that you are thinking, or the feelings you are feeling, don't feel good then it is time to think about something else. A tough message, however if you find yourself dwelling on the negative, you are choosing it. Choose to look for the gift!


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Today I present you this amazing pregnancy session at Cap d'Antibes. A condensation of love and tenderness. Moreover, we were fortunate to have a beautiful landscape and light.
As you can see on my blog, I do not just shoot weddings. I shoot couple session, fashion, babies and also family. It's so different from weddings. During this kind of session, we can take our time. It's very nice. In addition, it allows you to get used to the presence of the camera and feel more confident with me. And finaly, thanks to that, you will get beautiful pictures of you, relaxed and natural. As during this pregnancy session at Cap d'Antibes
The second thing I love about these session is that we can choose the place to shoot without constraint. I think it's something very important especially since it's usually you who choose it. Thaks to this, you find yourself sharing a moment of tenderness in a place where you feel good. Either because he looks like you or because he remembers you some sweet memories. And that instantly felt on the photos. Just like during this Pregnancy session at Cap d'Antibes.


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1 dead, 2 hurt in Mission District gunfire; shooter sought
San Francisco police are searching for an assailant who shot three people — one fatally — Thursday afternoon near Cesar Chavez Street and Treat Avenue in San Francisco's Mission District.
The shooting happened on the 1400 block of Treat around 3:20 p.m., according to San Francisco Police Officer Joseph Tomlinson.
Three men in their 20s were transported to San Francisco General Hospital, where one died about 4 p.m., said hospital spokesman Brent Andrew.
Of the two remaining victims, one was in critical condition and the other was in serious condition Thursday.
The hospital was on lockdown Thursday night as a precautionary measure, Andrew said.
"It's typical for us when we have a mass casualty incident to go on lockdown," Andrew said. "So we ask anyone who comes into the hospital why they are there."
The lockdown doesn't change any other hospital procedures, he said.
Officers were still searching for a shooter late Thursday afternoon, according to Tomlinson. He said police were still investigating whether any of the victims were also suspects in the shooting.
Police had taped off access to part of Treat Avenue, where neighbors lingered outside their homes.
For a few minutes, officers stood around a black Acura parked in the middle of Treat, while other officers stood guard outside a small blue housing complex with one of the unit front doors ajar.
Tomlinson said officials do not believe that shooting and a fatal shooting earlier in the day on Mission Street are related. In the earlier shooting, a woman died after being shot in the Mission Terrace neighborhood. Both incidents are under investigation.
In the Mission Terrace shooting, the victim was gunned down by an unknown male just after 11 a.m. on the 4500 block of Mission Street, Tomlinson said.
The assailant fled and remains at large.
Tomlinson said the victim, whose age is unknown, was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.
San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Steve Rubenstein contributed to this report.
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A judge issued a temporary injunction Wednesday to halt the release of statements a prominent Kentucky road builder made to investigators years ago.More here.
Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas D. Wingate cited the privacy interests of the road builder, Leonard Lawson of Lexington, in his ruling. Wingate said if the statements were made public, Lawson could face irreparable harm.
Not releasing them would preserve the status quo, Wingate said in a 16-page ruling.
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Judge halts release of road builder's records
A Franklin County Circuit judge in Kentucky halted the release of statements that Leonard Lawson, a prominent road builder, made to investigators in a 1983 antitrust case, the AP reported. Lawson is now facing unrelated federal charges of conspiring to steer $130 million in state road contracts to his companies. The Courier-Journal of Louisville, the Lexington Herald-Leader and The AP asked for the 1983 statements, but Lawson asked for the records to be kept from the public so that they wouldn't hurt his chances of getting a fair trial.
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Dedicated to the poetry of form, photographer Imogen Cunningham worked in the field of erotic photography with same delicacy that graces her much better known images of flowers and industrial landscapes. One of America's finest artists, she paved her way quietly to achieve her own status and establish a unique artistic style somewhere between those of Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz. For Imogen Cunningham, erotic imagery was always a passion, never a job, and her her good eye and printing skills allowed her to produce sensible and honest imagery that, as such, sometimes caused controversy and called out the questions of masculinity and femininity.
Not attracted to photography at first, Imogen Cunningham became taking images after she discovered those of Gertrude Kasebier, and her degree in chemistry allowed her to experiment in the darkroom and bring her printing process to perfection. Surrounded by prominent male photographers during the second decade of the 20th century, she didn't let it get to her, and in her own terms she let her creativity rise to the very peak of fine art photographs. Fascinated with the nude in any form, she took photos of her husband, Roi Partridge, naked, merging with nature on Mt. Rainer. These images caused quite a stir, as it was unusual for a woman to photograph a naked man, yet within the arts world community, the works were praised, admiring Imogen Cunningham's daring bohemian spirit.
Considered by many as the first professional female photographer, Imogen Cunningham worked largely in portraiture, which also resulted in a large portfolio of erotic photos. Her nudes did not just stop at the female form, as we've highlighted earlier, but also male, as she was simply interested in the human form, its attributes and the way it interacts with its surroundings. Detailed and pictorial at the same time, the erotic images of Imogen Cunningham combines the very best from her rich artistic career, it including the portraiture work for the Vanity Fair, her involvement with the f/64 group and the remarkable portrayal of flowers and plants. The shapes and curves of her Magnolia flowers, so wonderfully translated into photographic paper, evoked the same graciousness of those of a naked body, where composition and the play of light and shadows only contributed to their already existing natural beauty.
All images courtesy of Imogen Cunningham Trust


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Jamie Fobert Architects has released the first images of its £35.5 million National Portrait Gallery makeover
The practice, working with heritage specialist Purcell, has drawn up proposals for the largest development at the Trafalgar Square gallery since it opened in 1896.
The scheme will increase public gallery space by about 20 per cent, with its East Wing, part of the original building, brought back into use as the new Weston Wing.
It also includes the creation of a 'more welcome and generous' entrance and forecourt on the gallery's north façade.
Fobert's design for the forecourt floor features a contemporary interpretation of a fan pattern that runs through the gallery's original mosaic floors.
The development also includes a complete re-interpretation of the gallery's collection across 40 refurbished spaces and a new learning centre.
Fobert's designs were unveiled as the gallery launched a public appeal to raise funds for the £35.5 million project.
The gallery has said the public can support the appeal by helping to fund new mosaics, which will form part of Fobert's design, or adopting one of 18 original stone busts on the exterior of the building.
Nicholas Cullinan, director of the National Portrait Gallery said: 'The renewed building will allow us to be more welcoming, engaging and accessible to all, with new and refurbished galleries for exhibitions and the permanent collection, as well as better-quality learning facilities.'
Jamie Fobert said: 'Ewan Christian's original 1896 building is both handsome and rich in decorative detail. Our work is one of revealing this building and working with it to create a new, open and welcoming National Portrait Gallery.
'I am particularly happy to be able to reconsider the public area to the north of the gallery and transform it into a new public space for London.'
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Fobert and Purcell won a competition for the cultural project in February.
The AJ understands that other practices in the running for the job included David Adjaye, OMA, Farshid Moussavi, 6a, Caruso St John and Haworth Tompkins.
About 60 per cent of the project's funding has already been raised, with the Heritage Lottery Fund allocating £9.4 million to the scheme last summer. The gallery said it hoped to reach its target by March 2019, allowing completion by 2022.
The architects will work with engineers Max Fordham and Price & Myers on the scheme.
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According to the newest rumors, it looks like Tom Hardy is too busy to play Rick Flagg in DC's super-villain team-up, Suicide Squad.
The reports also suggest that director, David Ayer his courting his End of Watch star, Jake Gyllenhaal, to take over the role. He may not have been nominated for Nightcrawler, but we think he can play an unstable leader of a covert team of convicted felons.
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... and annoying. Yet the manage to be adorable in the process.
My husband has his work laptop set up on a dock behind the desk. Since our desktop computer is on the same desk, there's not a lot of space and a whole mass of wires. Especially since there's also an ergonomic keyboard, a mouse, headphones and the USB charger for my phone attached.
My older daughter's cat has a thing for me being on the computer. When I'm on the desktop computer, which has some space in front of the keyboard, she will jump up onto the chair, walk across in front of me, clamber over the speaker on one side of the monitor to get to the back of the desk, walk across the laptop keyboard (which is kept on top of the closed laptop due to lack of space), then either tries to squeeze between the monitor and the tower, which has the other speaker in the way, or around the other side of the tower, generally knocking over whatever happens to be there for good measure. Then she'll clamber across in front of me again, block my view of the monitor for as along as she can get away with, then finally settle down in between me and the keyboard, with her front paws draped across my wrist. My mouse wrist. Limiting my ability to use the mouse and preventing me from using the keyboard with that hand entirely. After tossing her off, she comes back and does the same thing all over again.
This morning, my daughter was using the desktop, so I popped onto my husband's work laptop to read my morning news. As usual, the cat's all over me. From perching on my shoulder to doing her circuit around the monitor (though I manage to keep her from walking across the laptop while I'm using it, and so on.
Then, she did this.
Yup. She curled up on the mass of wires, leaned right against the vent on the laptop, and used my mouse hand as a pillow. Not only was she on top of the mouse wire, rendering it immobile, but the weight of her head was enough to press both right and left mouse buttons at the same time.
And she looked so darn cute, too!
Even after I finally moved my hand, she kept using the mouse as a pillow.
Then I left.
So did she.
Apparently, it's only comfortable if it's inconveniencing a human! LOL


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My Scribbles. Day 1
Day 1
Erm… Where do i start.. Read @LilMsZaynab's blog and she kinda wrote about consecutive blogging for 30days. Seems it was @OluwaWanababa's idea… Coolies… Nw im seeing it as a challenge to myself… Cool story indeed, enough of ranting cos i just might keep on ranting and i would end up calling it a post.
Hmmm, i seriously wonder why God created me as a Nigerian. Why not a somalian or sudanese or iraqi. Yeah, someone out there is wondering if i'm normal, wondering why i did not choose italy, england, america or france. lol, i tot of those countries cos i needed another reason to thank GOD. Lemme not deceive myself sha, how would it have felt to be a citizen of any G8 Country??? We should just put hand together and push this country to a G8 level. Did someone just yimu? Smh, oh ye of little faith, afterall we'v come a long way from 1960 or haven't we?.
On another note, anyone ever wondered about increasing sunny condtion??? Morelike Nigeria has been moved of the face of earth to the edge of hell. I saw a tweet of recent complaining of heat in jos. And i was like the end is near. Global warning Global warming/ Green effect and no one is doing any fucking thing about it. Cabs over 40yrs still ply abeokuta roads {dunno about lagos, le's say 30yrs sha}. 99% of commercial cars out there should have been disposed say 10 yrs back. I recently had to travel inter-state and twas a fucking bad experience. The exhaust was bein released into the athmosphere and twas so thick that it was choking us in d the car. So much for protecting the ozone layer. The only good thing from that journey was dt i sat in-between two beautiful ladies{dt reminds me dt i'm yet to call them}. Back to matters arising, if Lagos state govt could make move to purchase a canadian used train that's over 30yrs then obviously the saying "if the head is rotten, then what do we say of the tail" comes to mind. If 2012 is like this, iCan't wait for 2092 {smh4myself cos who said i would be alive then if the world doesn't end this year?}
Hehehe… iHeard Patience Goodluck followed her husband on a foreign trip of recent and she had the luxury of meeting with other first ladies, pity we can't get a transcript of her contribution cos she could well have address them with "My fellow widows, i really happy to be in your midst. We all were once children and it's a big pity i can't read the speech i brought with me from abuja cos i forgot it in ASO-ROCK".
In reference to the 2nd paragraph, i thank God i wasn't born in china. Yeah, a country where bloggers are censored and made to register with the government before you can own a blog. A country where people are jailed on regular basis cos of what they write. What happened to Freedom Of Speech??? So much for being a developed country.
Plenty of us out here should have ignored blogging. Well everything that comes cheap are always mis-used. Nowadays, different blog are sprouting up and most for differents reasons either for gossip or just to feel among. Had we all had to pay to open a blog, i wonder if it would have being the same. Well, anyone can hold a pen but, not just anyone can write!
Na overskill dey make monkey fall for ground. It's 5:45pm, and i'v not had breakfast. So, lemme just rest my fingers b4 i start yarnng dust, that's if i'v not started already.
April 5th 2012
Posted on April 6, 2012, in 30-Days Posts, Personal Ish. Bookmark the permalink. 27 Comments.
Cool read. iLove the style you induced in your writing.
Likey. The second paragraph and semi last. That monkey ish really got me laughing!!!
ah the 30 day challenge. go to google and search out topics you can talk on. lol at the randomness of this post!
I really have to do that. Topics have already ried up in my brain.
This is so true…
Very Random Creative Post. (Y)
Thanks alot.
Random cool dust. Waiting for remainin 29 installments. (Y)
i hope i get to the end sha. Thanks.
Nice. Awaiting sequels.
Most see this as a random post, but, i kinda see it otherwise. It's kinda interwoven somehow. Cool one tho.
It was nice. But, it lacks something, can't put a finger to it tho.
Sure boy. U don call d babe? Cool story here. Literally tho.
Hehehe. You are not serious. D first lady speech. Hilarious.
Let's hope u survive the 30days challenge.
Nice one bruv..
Nice. The part about random bloggers is so freaking and annoyingly true.
Though random ,it's also funny and cool. iLike !
=====> "My fellow widows, i really happy to be in your midst. We all were once children and it's a big pity i can't read the speech i brought with me from abuja cos i forgot it in ASO-ROCK"." still LMAO .. nyc ryt up brah (Y)


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Angela Ahrendts
Former Senior Vice President, Apple Retail
In 2014, Angela was named an honorary Dame Commander of the British Empire, honoured for her contribution to British business during her tenure at Burberry. She also served on the U.K. Prime Minister's Business Advisory Council.
The brand transformer
Angela Ahrendts has a well-earned reputation for transforming companies from the inside out with a focus on people, products and strategy. She had an impressive transition from the fashion business world to the tech industry in recent years and began honing her visionary leadership, merchandising and marketing skills at well-known fashion companies such as Donna Karan, Henri Bendel and LCI. As the CEO of Burberry (2006-2014), Angela led the 150-year-old British outerwear company through a remarkable period of global growth, evolving the company into a modern international luxury brand by curating and elevating the products, adoption of new digital technologies, raising the company's online profile and opening flagship stores in high-growth markets such as China, the Middle East etc., tripling corporate revenues and profits in the process. In 2014, Angela joined Apple as Senior Vice President Retail. Under her leadership, Apple's physical and digital businesses were integrated to create a seamless customer journey for over a billion visitors a year. She also lead the first redesign of the Apple stores, reimagined the customer experience with the launch of "Today at Apple" which sees creatives teaching over 18,000 sessions a week globally, and recrafted and modernized the roles and benefits for 70,000 employees. Angela was recently named one of the most powerful women in the world by Forbes, and one of the most powerful women in business by Fortune.


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Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Malaysian Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
Dirk Brossé, conductor
Luke, Leia, and Darth Vader! These unforgettable characters come alive under the epic score of John Williams. Long after the 1977 release of the very first Star Wars movie, his compelling music makes its symphonic home in the concert hall. Conductor Dirk Brossé presents this Star Wars spectacular.
May the Force be with you!


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LONDON (AP) — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar will formally request that President Michael Higgins dissolve parliament before a general election next month, the president's office said Tuesday.
Varadkar told his Cabinet on Tuesday morning he would seek a dissolution of the lower house, also known as the Dáil. He later posted a video on Twitter outlining what he sees as his achievements in power.
"We've made some good progress since I've become (prime minister)" he said. "But I know it's not enough, and we want to do much more.''
The election is likely to revolve around the issues of health and housing. Ireland is struggling with a housing crisis and has faced hospital overcrowding.


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Adapting DPS type forming fabrics to run on high speed newsprint machines
Andrew White, Huyck (UK) Ltd
Duplex fabrics are however more prone to wire mark and do not offer the best levels of fibre support to give improved sheet quality and sheet structure. Complex fabric structures such as triple weft and triple layer forming fabrics give improved paper quality, but often at the expense of reduced solids at the pick-up roll. Indeed, many machines have trialled triple layer forming fabrics. However, results with triplex have been mixed. Over duplex, triplex fabrics have higher levels of fibre support. This meant retention, formation and sheet density often improved. However, these quality benefits were usually accompanied by a reduction in sheet solids at the pick-up roll. This of course is not acceptable in high-speed newsprint production. Triple weft fabrics have also been trialled, particularly where fabric stiffness and stability are required. Once again results have been mixed with some failures due to the high caliper and void volume of triple weft fabrics.
The development of DPS (double pick stitch) forming fabrics
Figure 1. TXT fabric utilising DPS yarns
The TXT design proved particularly successful in North America where many machines reported improved printability and reduced mark. Many machines also reported improved retention, better formation and improved drainage. The launch of TXT in Europe at the end of 1996 was less successful however. Wire mark was invariably worse, occasionally resulting in press room complaints. Many machines showed problems at the trim squirts resulting in poor machine runnability. Image analysis and FFT enhancement of the wire mark in the sheet showed that the diagonal wire mark was caused by the twill weave of the DPS yarns (on the paperside the DPS yarn passes over 2 machine direction yarns). Returned fabric samples also showed that fibre stapling was also occurring around the twill weave DPS yarns. This was reason for the deterioration in trim squirt performance. However, as seen in North America, most European TXT runs gave improved retention along with good drainage.
The introduction of DPS forming fabrics to SC papers
Experience with TXT showed the DPS concept could be used to solve both the stability and mark problems inherent with conventional triplex. Figure 2 shows the structure of this evolved DPS fabric known within Huyck as huytexx.
Figure 2. Huytexx
Since the stitch yarn in DPS provides fibre support and actually enhances drainage more yarns can be used. This greatly increases the fabric stability. Both the conventional paperside CD yarn and the stitch yarn are plain weave at the paperside of the fabric. This minimizes wire mark.
This design was first run in 1997 and has proven to be very successful on hybrid formers making SC papers. Wire mark was much improved over all other designs. Other benefits seen included improved paper profiles, higher retention, reduced retention aid consumption, improved Z direction ash and fines distribution, reduced twosidedness and improved printability. Some machines recorded increases in wire life of between 33% and 50%. Drainage was also good resulting in high sheet dryness values before the pick-up roll.
Applying huytexx to newsprint, hybrid formers
Table 1. Fabric parameter comparison
Results exceeded all expectations. Once again the high fibre support levels gave quality and retention improvements. Drainage, especially final drainage was excellent resulting in improved solids at the pick-up roll. This, combined with improved former cleanliness resulted in less breaks throughout the life of the forming fabric. Table 2 summarises the improvements seen.
Table 2. Benefits seen during huytexx run
Whilst the improvements seen may seem too good to be true, it should be pointed out that the machine conditions reverted back when the huytexx fabric was removed and improvements returned once again when the next huytexx fabric was installed. It should also be noted that identical benefits have been seen on many other similar machines making newsprint and improved newsprint grades.
Applying huytexx to newsprint, gapformers
Table 3. Performance of 1st generation huytexx on newsprint
The development of 2nd generation huytexx
Figure 3. 1st (upper) and 2nd (lower) generation huytexx. Machineside CD yarns (bottom and in cross section) increased and of smaller diameter to reduce fabric void volume and caliper
Table 4. Property comparison for 1st and 2nd generation huytexx
SCA Ortviken Pm5
Table 5. Conventional duplex fabrics on Ortviken Pm5
Trials were made with a pair of DPS forming fabrics to improve wire mark and formation. Whilst wire mark and formation did improve, paper machine runnability was poor resulting in the fabrics being removed after less than 24 hours. Specifically, problems were encountered with both initial drainage, rewet and water carry. It was seen however that wire mark had improved. Despite a short run time on the machine it was felt that formation had improved.
Acknowledging that many other machines were having successes with DPS type forming fabrics Ortviken invited Huyck to discuss their thinking on DPS fabrics with a view to running another trial. A new trial was agreed using 2nd generation huytexx. Objectives were to improve wire mark and formation with no compromise in machine runnability. 2nd generation huytexx was chosen to meet these objectives. Mill experience and Huyck experience of over 30 runs on newsprint gapformers shaped the choice of forming fabric design. As well as low void volume it was identified that there was a requirement for a higher fabric permeability with DPS. Experience has shown that, at the high fibre support levels of huytexx, thinking has to be modified and higher permeabilities can be required, especially on newsprint. Table 6 shows the parameters for the chosen fabrics.
Table 6, 2nd generation huytexx on Ortviken Pm5
Start-up was on the 29th March 2001 and was trouble free. Immediate improvements in retention were seen due to the high fibre support levels. The fabrics ran for 83 days before planned removal. Machine personnel reported significant improvements in former cleanliness. Drainage analyses indicated identical dryness to duplex fabrics with grab samples confirming the absence of rewet. Retention increased initially but was then controlled to the same retention as before the trial resulting in a 25% reduction in retention aid consumption for the same couch dryness. The fabrics were much cleaner running with less fibre carry on both machineside and paperside of the fabrics. This contributed to a reduction in break rate of around 50%. Less breaks and higher average machine speeds contributed to an increased daily tonnage of around 3.3%.
2nd generation huytexx was giving the same benefits on newsprint gapformers as 1st generation huytexx was giving on more forgiving hybrid formers.
Why does 2nd generation huytexx work on gapformers
Figure 4. Drainage holes through various fabric structures
1st generation huytexx
2nd generation huytexx
Fabric structures can contain many different shaped holes within which water is available for rewet. However, to simplify analysis, the largest and most common holes are considered. With duplex and 2nd generation huytexx, the shape of the hole is similar. For both designs there is a point within the fabric structure where there is a constriction in open area. It would be more difficult for any water beyond this point to return back into the sheet as rewet. This constriction can be considered as a barrier to rewet. With 1st generation huytexx the hole is more regular and open. This means it is easier for water held anywhere within the fabric structure to return into the sheet causing rewet.
Both absolute void volume and z-directional void volume distribution are therefore important when considering rewetting tendency. Table 7 shows caliper, void volume and rewetting index for the main newsprint machine fabrics. Rewetting index is a measure of the water volume available for rewet and is the volume above any constriction within the fabric structure. The number of holes over the surface area of the fabric is also factored in to give a rewetting index. Also, for duplex, the large and small surface holes are considered. The values are normalized with duplex having a rewetting index of 1. It can be seen that duplex and 2nd generation huytexx have a similar rewetting index. Both do not give rewet on sensitive machines. 1st generation huytexx has a higher rewetting index and absolute void volume and can give rewet on some machines.
Table 7. Void volume and rewet index
Further developments


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How NHRA driver's father, John Paul DeJoria, became a billionaire
The father of NHRA Funny Car driver Alexis DeJoria was a bit of a wild child himself. Before he became a billionaire, that is.
Born in 1944 in the Echo Park neighborhood, an area just north of downtown Los Angeles, John Paul DeJoria says he was sent to a foster home in East Los Angeles when his mother couldn't afford to take care of him. For a time, he hung out with gang members, he told USA TODAY Sports.
When he returned to California after a stint in the Navy in the early 1960s, DeJoria went in search of work. He sold insurance and cleaned buildings — and was homeless for a time — before he joined with Paul Mitchell to sell hair care products.
They found an investor, but the deal fell apart at the last minute. With just $700 to his name, DeJoria went ahead with the plan.
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This week's infographics are all about creativity:
Check out last week's post for a lot of specific questions to use with infographics if you want to make analysis part of your use of them!
This week's infographics are all about creativity:
Check out last week's post for a lot of specific questions to use with infographics if you want to make analysis part of your use of them!
Our 2015 Writers' Teas are as follows:
Timber Creek: Wednesday, May 27th!
Triton:Thursday, May 28th! (different than the date on the original school calendar)
Highland: Tuesday, June 2nd!
Other than People's Choice, the Writers' Tea celebrations of writing are my favorite warm-and-fuzzy nights of the year!
As always, we are looking for students (and teachers) to share all kinds of original writing on these celebration evenings. We will publish the work in a booklet (and perhaps online in some way if I can figure that out) and provide them with certificates of participation. There will be food – and family & friends are encouraged to attend with them. We even have NJEA Pride money again this year to help us fund the event.
This year, thanks to a suggestion from the February in-service, we will have emcees who will enthusiastically tie the program together! Thank you to Joe Hart, Cathy Stelling, and Beth Marks for taking on this task and sharing your awesomesauce, humor, and general delightfulness with all.
We would also LOVE if you can encourage Project V.O.I.C.E. participants to try their hand at sharing an original composition.
In addition, I'm thinking we'll advertise it as a "Open Mic Night." Submissions will still have to be in ahead of time (and reviewed by the teacher), but "Open Mic Night," sounds a bit more rad than a "Writers' Tea." I will put together advertisements for schools and classrooms within the next week, but please start talking to your students now if you haven't already. (I know many of you have! Thank you :))
I have a bit of money to spend on decor, so if you have ideas for that or for set-up, let me know. I'd like to continue to make this a successful and enjoyable event. 🙂
Feel free to check out the writing workshop tag or writer's tea tag for ideas on ways to get them writing creatively (teacher's choice for 4th mp?) in preparation for the Tea! I'll also post some additional ideas on the blog in the coming days.
Have a great writing assignment that you'd like to share? Shoot me an email and I'll post it for all to enjoy!
Today's infographics are all about William Shakespeare because it's the bard's birthday!
Without further ado about nothing, Behold! the infographics!
Remember that we can use infographics for many purposes, including as a visual text for analysis.
Here are some ideas borrowed and adapted from this google doc:
|Have students identify and note details.
Describe what you see. What do you notice first?
Is there any text you can read? What does it say?
Describe anything you see on the page besides words, such as images or decorations. How is the text and other information arranged on the page? ·
Describe anything about this text that looks strange or unfamiliar.
What other details can you see?
What information is provided that would help us determine if this information is current and reliable?
|Encourage students to generate and test hypotheses about the source.
What was the purpose of this text? How do you know?
Who created it? With what bias might they be approaching this infographic?
Who do you think was its audience? How do the choices the author makes reflect the audience?
Can you tell anything about what was important at the time it was created? What situations or issues were prevalent at the time? How do these affect what is presented on the infographic?
What tools and materials were used to create it? What colors and designs? How do they contribute to the overall impression of the infographic? In what ways do they suit the topic?
What is the larger story or context within which this was designed? What can you learn from examining this?
If someone created this today, what would be different?
Have students ask questions to lead to more observations and reflections.
What do you wonder about… who? · what? · when? · where? · why? ·how?
Consider providing them question stems from multiple levels (like in Socratic Seminar): question levels
How could information on this infographic inspire a research question?
What is the over-arching question the infographic-creator seeks to answer?
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Neruda, born Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, in Chile at the turn of the 20th Century became famous for his poetry from a very young age, having his first work published when he was all of 13. "Pablo Neruda" was the name he used to avoid being found out by his father, who did not approve of his son's writing aspirations. This pen name is believed to have been a combination of Czech Poet Jan Neruda and French Poet Paul (or Pablo) Verlaine. Despite his father's disapproval, Neruda continued to write under his pen name, and eventually adopted it as his legal name. His illustrious and varied career not only included verse, journalism, and other writing, but also diplomatic office, political leadership, and international negotiator and peace-maker. He wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and erotically charged love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924). He often wrote in green ink, which was his personal symbol for desire and hope.
"… dark smell of seaweed…"
"… blaze of the rose-tree…"
"…pale stones of your fingernails…"
What imagery. What gorgeous, delicious, unique imagery. Pablo Neruda and I are having a love affair—unbeknownst to him. How can you not fall in love with him? I mean, not only is he a poet but just look at the above picture: dark, deep in thought, impeccably dressed. His words wrap around my heart like a velvet sash and tug tight tearing me between emotions. There is SO much that can be done with his work…
Below are my 3 favorite Neruda poems. Students can get into groups to explicate them, deliver a dramatic reading, identify literary devices and create "found" poem based on them.
Perhaps not to be is to be without your being,
without your going, that cuts noon light
like a blue flower, without your passing
later through fog and stones,
without the torch you lift in your hand
that others may not see as golden,
that perhaps no one believed blossomed
the glowing origin of the rose,
without, in the end, your being, your coming
suddenly, inspiringly, to know my life,
blaze of the rose-tree, wheat of the breeze:
and it follows that I am, because you are:
it follows from 'you are', that I am, and we:
and, because of love, you will, I will,
We will, come to be.
Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,
dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,
what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars?
What primal night does Man touch with his senses?
Ay, Love is a journey through waters and stars,
through suffocating air, sharp tempests of grain:
Love is a war of lightning,
and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,
your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages,
and a genital fire, transformed by delight,
slips through the narrow channels of blood
to precipitate a nocturnal carnation,
to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,
and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.
Wislawa Szymborska!
Wislawa Szymborska (Vi-slav-ah Sshm-bor-ska) is a Polish poet who lived between 1923 and 2012, living through tumultuous times in Poland that included Nazi occupation and Soviet rule. She was a quiet and private person who spoke eloquently through her poetry, which were published in sixteen poetry collections throughout her life.
Her poems have been translated from Polish into English, German, Swedish, Danish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Czech, Slovakian, Serbo-Croatian, Romanian, Bulgarian, and other languages. They have also been published in numerous poetry anthologies (nobelprize.org).
The Poetry Foundation (poetryfoundation.org) describe her poetry: "Readers of Szymborska's poetry have often noted its wit, irony, and deceptive simplicity. Her poetry examines domestic details and occasions, playing these against the backdrop of history."
In the New York Times Book Review, Stanislaw Baranczak wrote, "The typical lyrical situation on which a Szymborska poem is founded is the confrontation between the directly stated or implied opinion on an issue and the question that raises doubt about its validity. The opinion not only reflects some widely shared belief or is representative of some widespread mind-set, but also, as a rule, has a certain doctrinaire ring to it: the philosophy behind it is usually speculative, anti-empirical, prone to hasty generalizations, collectivist, dogmatic and intolerant."
Wislawa Szymborska @ PoetryFoundation.org
Wislawa Szymborska @ NobelPrize.org
Here are a few of her poems:
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word Nothing,
I make something no non-being can hold.
I prefer movies.
I prefer cats.
I prefer the oaks along the Warta.
I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky.
I prefer myself liking people
to myself loving mankind.
I prefer keeping a needle and thread on hand, just in case.
I prefer the color green.
I prefer not to maintain
that reason is to blame for everything.
I prefer exceptions.
I prefer to leave early.
I prefer talking to doctors about something else.
I prefer the old fine-lined illustrations.
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.
I prefer, where love's concerned, nonspecific anniversaries
that can be celebrated every day.
I prefer moralists
who promise me nothing.
I prefer cunning kindness to the over-trustful kind.
I prefer the earth in civvies.
I prefer conquered to conquering countries.
I prefer having some reservations.
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
I prefer Grimms' fairy tales to the newspapers' front pages.
I prefer leaves without flowers to flowers without leaves.
I prefer dogs with uncropped tails.
I prefer light eyes, since mine are dark.
I prefer desk drawers.
I prefer many things that I haven't mentioned here
to many things I've also left unsaid.
I prefer zeroes on the loose
to those lined up behind a cipher.
I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars.
I prefer to knock on wood.
I prefer not to ask how much longer and when.
I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility
that existence has its own reason for being.
Nobel Prize Winner
Szymborska was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996 "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biographical context to come to light in fragments of human reality."
The Nobel Prize site (nobelprize.org) describes her this way:
Wislawa Szymborska was a Polish-born poet, essayist and translator. Her first collection, 'That's What We Live For' (1952), was written under Poland's communist regime and was an expression of socialist realism. She has been described as a "Mozart of Poetry", as her words fall into place with a veritable ease, and during her lifetime, she wrote around 400 poems, seemingly simple, but subtle and deep. She used common everyday images to reflect on larger truths – an onion, a cat – in her poems about life's big subjects: love, death and passing time.
Here's an article/interview with the New York Times after Szymborska won the prize.
Here's her Nobel Lecture, "The Poet and the World."
"The world – whatever we might think when terrified by its vastness and our own impotence, or embittered by its indifference to individual suffering, of people, animals, and perhaps even plants, for why are we so sure that plants feel no pain; whatever we might think of its expanses pierced by the rays of stars surrounded by planets we've just begun to discover, planets already dead? still dead? we just don't know; whatever we might think of this measureless theater to which we've got reserved tickets, but tickets whose lifespan is laughably short, bounded as it is by two arbitrary dates; whatever else we might think of this world – it is astonishing."
Jeanette Walls!
The summer of 2014 was the "Summer of the Memoir" for me. I must have read at least 6 of them, but my favorite was The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls. It sounds very English teachery, but the language of the book is absolutely gorgeous—it reads like poetry. I feel that students would embrace this memoir for several reasons: the characters are deliciously vivid, the chapters are easy to read, both male and female perspectives are represented, the themes are obvious, and the anecdotes are both heartwarming and heartbreaking. Below is an excerpt…
Reprinted by permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., NY.(pages 19-22)
We were always doing the skedaddle, usually in the middle of the night. I sometimes heard Mom and Dad discussing the people who were after us. Dad called them henchmen, bloodsuckers, and the gestapo. Sometimes he would make mysterious references to executives from Standard Oil who were trying to steal the Texas land that mom's family owned, and FBI agents who were after dad for some dark episode that he never told us about because he didn't want to put us in danger, too. Dad was so sure a posse of federal investigators was on our trail that he smoked his unfiltered cigarettes from the wrong end. That way, he explained, he burned up the brand name, and of the people who were tracking us looked in his ashtray, they'd find unidentifiable butts instead of Pall Malls that could be traced to him. Mom, however, told us that the FBI wasn't really after Dad; he just liked to say they were because it was more fun having the FBI on your tail than bill collectors.
We moved around like nomads. We lived in dusty little mining towns in Nevada, Arizona, and California. They were usually nothing but a tiny cluster of sad, sunken shacks, a gas station, a dry-goods store, and a bar or two. They had names like Needles and Bouse, Pie, Goffs, and Why, and they were near places like the Superstition Mountains, the dried-up Soda Lake, and the Old Woman Mountain. The more desolate and isolated a place Wise, the better mom and dad liked it.
Dad would get a job as an electrician or engineer in the gypsum or copper mine. Mom liked to say that Dad could talk a blue streak, spinning tales of jobs he'd never had and college degrees he'd never earned. He could get about any job he wanted, he just didn't like keeping it for long. Sometimes he made money gambling or doing odd jobs. When he got bored or was fired or the unpaid bills piled up too high or the lineman from the electrical company found out he had hotwired our trailer to the utility poles — or the FBI was closing in — we packed up in the middle of the night and took off, driving until Mom and Dad found another small town that caught their eye. Then we'd circle around, looking for houses with for-rent signs stuck in the front yard. Every now and then, we'd go stay with Grandma Smith, Mom's mom, who lives in the big white house in Phoenix. Grandma Smith was a West Texas flapper who loved dancing and cussing and horses. She was known for being able to break the wildest broncs and had helped Grandpa run the ranch up near Fish Creek Canyon, Arizona, which was west of Bullhead City, not too far from the Grand Canyon. I thought Grandma Smith was great. But after a few weeks, she and Dad would always get into some nasty hollering match. It might start with Mom mentioning how sure we were on cash. Then Grandma would make a snide comment about Dad being shiftless. Dad would say something about selfish old crones with more money than they knew what to do with, and soon enough they'd be face-to-face in what amounted to a full-fledged cussing contest.
"You goddamned flint-faced hag!" Dad would shout back."You flea bitten drunk!" Grandma would scream.
"You no-good two-bit pud-sucking bastard!"
"You scaly castrating banshee bitch!"
Dad had the more inventive vocabulary, but Grandma Smith could outshout him; plus, she had the home-court advantage. A time would come when Dad had had enough and he'd tell us kids to get in the car. Grandma would yell at Mom not to let that worthless horse's ass take her grandchildren. Mom would shrug and say there was nothing she could do about it, he was her husband. Off we'd go, heading out into the desert in search of another house for rent in another little mining town.
Some of the people who lived in those towns had been there for years. Others were rootless, like us — just passing through. They were gamblers or ex-cons or war veterans or what Mom called loose women. There were old prospectors, their faces wrinkled and brown from the sun, like dried-up apples. The kids were lean and hard, with calluses on their hands and feet. We'd make friends with them, but not close friends, because we knew we'd be moving on sooner or later.
We might enroll in school, but not always. Mom and Dad did most of our teaching. Mom had us all reading books without pictures by the time we were five, and Dad taught us math. He also taught us the things that were really important and useful, like how to tap out Morse code and how we should never eat the liver of a polar bear because all the vitamin A in it could kill us.
He showed us how to aim and fire his pistol, how to shoot Mom's bow and arrows, and how to throw a knife by the blade so that it landed in the middle of a target with a satisfying thwock. By the time I was four, I was pretty good with dad's pistol, a big black six-shot revolver, and could hit five out of six beer bottles at 30 paces. I'd hold the gun with both hands, sight down the barrel, and squeeze the trigger slowly and smoothly until, with a loud clap, the gun kicked and the bottle exploded. It was fun. Dad said my sharpshooting would come in handy if the feds ever surrounded us.
Mom had grown up in the desert. She loved the dry, crackling heat, the way the sky at sunset looked like a sheet of fire, and the overwhelming emptiness and severity of all that open land that had once been a huge ocean bed. Most people had trouble surviving in the desert, but Mom thrived there. She knew how to get by on next to nothing. She showed us which plants were edible and which were toxic. She was able to find water when no one else could, and she knew how little of that you really needed. She taught us that you could wash yourself up pretty clean with just a couple of water. She said it was good for you to drink unpurified water, even ditchwater, as long as animals were drinking from it. Chlorinated city water was for namby-pambies, she said. Water from the wild helped build up your antibodies. She also thought toothpaste was for namby-pambies. At bedtime we'd shake a little baking soda into the palm of one hand, mix in a dash of hydrogen peroxide, then use our fingers to clean our teeth with the fizzing paste.
I loved the desert, too. When the sun was in the sky, the sand would be so hot that it would burn your feet if you were the kind of kid who wore shoes, but since we always went barefoot, our soles were as tough and thick as cowhide. We'd catch scorpions and snakes and horny toads. We'd search for gold, and when we couldn't find it, we collect other valuable rocks, like turquoise and garnets. There'd be a cool spell come sundown, when the mosquitoes would fly in so thick that the air would grow dark with them, then at nightfall, it turned so cold that we usually needed blankets.
There were fierce sandstorms. Sometimes they hit without warning, and other times you knew one was coming when you saw batches of dust devils swirling and dancing their way across the desert. Once the wind started whipping up the sand, you could only see a foot in front of your face. If you couldn't find a house or car or a shed to hide in when the sandstorm started, you had to squat down and close your eyes and mouth real tight and cover your ears and bury your face in your lap until it passed, or else your body cavities would fill with sand. A big tumbleweed might hit you, but they were light and bouncy and didn't hurt. If the sandstorm was really strong, it knocked you over, and you rolled around like you were a tumbleweed.
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Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, age 32, a mother of seven children, in Nipomo, California, March 1936
by guest blogger, Stephanie DeCosta


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At Grace, we see Life Groups as being among the best opportunities for followers of Christ to experience the community and accountability that is described in the New Testament.
It is often within the context of a Life Group that you can best know and serve others in the church, find a others who will fervently and consistently pray with and for you, learn how to apply to the truths of Scripture to everyday life, be encouraged in evangelism, be reminded of God's truth in hard times, and be drawn towards greater spiritual maturity.
We encourage you to be involved in one of the several groups that meet throughout the week:
Bruns Life Group meets every other Monday at 6:30 PM. Contact: Marty Bruns.
College Life Group meets the first and third Sunday nights at 6pm at the Roehl home on Cottonwood St in Grand Forks. Contact Warren or Markay Roehl.
Fewster Life Group meets the 1st & 3rd Sunday at 3:30 at the Fewster home. Contact: Dave Fewster.
Smith Life Group times and location varies based on group members' schedules. Contact: Kent Smith.
Spark Life Group meets the 1st & 3rd Monday at 6:30 PM at the Spark home on 22nd Ave S in Grand Forks. Contact Tim or Casey.
Caleb Stomberg Life Group meets the 1st & 3rd Friday of the month at 6:30 PM and rotates from house to house. Contact Caleb or Lindsey.
Weiss Life Group meets the fourth Sunday of the month at 5:30 at the Weiss home on Kings View Dr. Contact Brian Weiss.
Want to Join or Start a New Life Group?
If you would like more information on joining or starting a Life Group, please contact Pastor Clay.


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The Norwegians are surely on to something. Not only are they one of the happiest in the world, they also live long. In fact, the average life expectancy of a Norwegian is 81.8 years! While a part of it is has to do with pristine surroundings and an active lifestyle, the Nordic diet plays no small role in a long life well-lived.
Norwegians, on average, consume fresh fish three to four times per week. They're especially fond of oily fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids, such as Fjord Trout and Norwegian salmon – which may contribute to their lower BMI and healthier hearts.
If you're watching your waistline, Fjord Trout is a low-fat protein source. As the fish stores fat in its belly, its flesh is lean and firm. You'll also get vitamins D, B12 and A, along with iodine and antioxidants. Speaking of antioxidants, Fjord Trout has high levels of astaxanthin (giving the fish its red-orange hue), an antioxidant associated with decreased inflammation.
If you dislike the muddy, river-like taste of river trout, you'll be pleasantly surprised by Fjord Trout. Geosmin, the organic compound which gives river trout its distinct earthy flavour, isn't found in Fjord Trout. Moreover, farmed Norwegian Fjord Trout swim in cold, crystal-clear Arctic sea water and glacial freshwater!
Will Malaysians Also Benefit from Eating Fatty Fish?
Find out from Dr Surendran Thuraisingam, a consultant cardiologist at CVSKL.
Q: There's a saying, 'A fish a day, keeps the cardiologist away'. How does eating fish help the heart?
Dr Surendran: Eating fish increases high density lipoprotein (HDL), aka 'good cholesterol', in the blood. Fish such as salmon, trout, herring, sardine and mackerel, in particular, are rich in Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA).
Q: How does Omega-3 fatty acid benefit the heart?
Dr Surendran: HDL is proven to be anti-atherogenic. By increasing HDL in the blood, it carries away LDL (low density lipoprotein aka "bad cholesterol") from the site of harm, such as the coronary arteries, and prevents the progress of plaque formation in the arteries. [Source]
Q: How often should we eat fatty fish?
Dr Surendran: The recommended guideline suggests that we should consume fish at least once or twice a week.
Q: Are Omega-3 supplements as good as eating fatty fish?
Dr Surendran: There is no evidence to support this claim. All guidelines recommend eating fish, straight from the source.
Q: What is your favourite way of cooking Fjord Trout or Norwegian salmon?
Dr Surendran: Definitely baked. It uses minimal oil and butter, therefore contributing few calories, but tastes just as delicious. Most importantly, don't overcook the fish so that the nutrients are still intact, and the fish is moist and tender.
Eating Fjord Trout as a Meal
Fjord Trout fillet is a shade darker and firmer than salmon. As it is slightly more sensitive to heat, just take care not to overcook it and you're in for a succulent treat.
We Malaysians are used to eating carbs such as rice and noodles. Not to mention, a good deal of spice in every dish! The 7-Day Fjord Trout Meal Plan by HealthifyMe, a partner of Norwegian Seafood Council, factors this in. The meal plan includes rice, noodles, local veggies, as well as familiar herbs and spices.
Day 7 – Lunch
1 piece of pan-fried trout with parsley
1 serving of roasted sweet potato with herbs
Calories (kcal): 419
Carbohydrate (g): 47
Protein (g): 23.2
Fat (g): 11.2


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Cavities are preventable. It takes vigilance; and your dentist has many helpful options that can work with your own diligence to keep your mouth decay free for life.
Help From Your Dentist
Caring for teeth begins in infancy. We must rely on caregivers to do what is best to provide the optimum start in life for our oral health. Many parents don't realize that they should take their child to the dentist for their first visit at age one. Regular visits will provide all the information and treatment options available to help defeat dental decay.
Two important aids that occur with regular dental visits include fluoride treatments to help fortify dental enamel; and dental sealants can be placed on the chewing surfaces of molar teeth where dental decay can be so pervasive.
Regular dental cleaning will remove plaque that has formed since your previous visit. Plaque build-up can lead to dental decay and gum disease.
Leading Causes of Tooth Decay
Negligence and diet choices are two of the main reasons decay develops. It takes time and diligence to develop great habits; children must rely on parents to help form those good choices. And since cavities seem more likely to occur in the underdeveloped teeth of children, this is an important time in cavity prevention.
Daily brushing and flossing – children require supervision; if these two acts are ingrained as children, it is likely they will carry over into adulthood. Use age appropriate toothpaste and toothbrush; once children have learned to spit toothpaste out, switch to a fluoridated paste or gel. Dental floss comes in a variety of styles and flavors – find one your child is most likely to use.
The foods and beverages consumed are very important for dental health. The daily mainstay should be made up of fruits, vegetables, dairy, protein, and healthy grains. Sugary treats and beverages should be reserved for special occasions. Soda and juice should be limited. Drink water for hydration. If you are going to drink soda or juice, drink with a meal and use a straw to allow as much beverage as possible to bypass teeth. Never put juice or soda in your child's sippy cup or baby bottle.
Lead by example – do not use tobacco; eat a healthy diet; and make sure to visit our dentist, Dr. Lori Logan, every six months for cleaning and dental exam.


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Renovation of Primary School in Cesis, Latvia
A renovation of school project were completed in Cesis based on Lighting Technologies LED luminaires. Thanks to the wide product portfolio, both indoor and outdoor lighting were covered with one brand. For example, a solution for sport hall was OLYMPIC LED featured with ball-protected louver, special shadowless reflector and elaborated optics ensures high performance and visual comfort.


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HALF RENT FOR JULY AND AUGUSTLocated in a gated complex, a short walk to the Reading University campus. These properties are provided fully furnished throughout, all are spacious bedrooms which have hardwired Internet points, have large communal space, fully equipped kitchens with appliances, two shower / bathrooms and shared gardens with other students in the complex. The development site further benefits from fully functioning 24 hour infrared cameras. The communal area's also benefit a flat screen T.V on the wall. £525.00 per person including all bills (Gas, Water, Electric, Weekly Cleaner and Internet)No Parking on site AND No parking permits from councilNoticeAll photographs are provided for guidance only.
The Energy-Efficiency Rating is a measure of a home's overall efficiency. The higher the rating, the more energy-efficient the home is, and the lower the fuel bills are likely to be.
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Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but Marilynne Paspaley has always preferred lustre over sparkle. Now, the former actress and daughter of Australia's most famous pearling dynasty, has given Broome what it's long needed — a new luxury resort at Cable Beach. Not surprisingly, she has named her hotel — Pinctada Cable Beach Resort & Spa — after the pearl mollusc, Pinctada Maxima, the source of her family's multi-million dollar fortune. And there's a plenty of lustre around her new resort, with its mother-of-pearl signage and detailing.
It takes grit to produce a pearl and Marilynne has it in spades. During the past three years, the "pearl princess" has made the discreet shift from the centre of the family's empire to become an independent resort owner.
With the five-star, 72-room Pinctada Cable Beach in the south at Broome and the Kimberley Grande hotel in the north at Kununurra, Marilynne now has both frontiers of this remote wilderness region covered.
Inside, the Pinctada Cable Beach Resort & Spa is an impressive piece of real estate — a luxuriant oasis on the edge of the desert. At its heart is a collection of landscaped water features — a reminder of the rock pools you find on the Kimberley escarpment. Many of the rooms overlook the main pool, but those around the elegant courtyard are the suites-of-choice that overlook a luxuriant garden and a gorgeous, vivid blue plunge pool.
Broome may be a sleepy tropical town, but it's emerging as a member of the chic club of Australian resorts that includes Noosa, Byron Bay Port Douglas and Palm Cove.
This is not a comparison Marilynne likes. "Broome is so much more special than other resorts," she says with passion, fingering a crucifix of magnificent pearls that hangs around her neck.
"Its charm comes from its history — it's a real place, it's not manufactured, and has an integrity that embraces all of its cultures."
It's a balmy evening and Marilynne, elegant as she is eloquent, is relaxing at the resort's Selene Brasserie, a restaurant has built a reputation for serving some of the finest cuisine on the north-west frontier — an achievement, when you consider the town's quirky cafes and stylish restaurants already have a gourmet reputation.
Broome sits on a peninsular. On one side are the turquoise waters Roebuck Bay, on the other is iconic Cable Beach, 22km of golden sand famous for its camel trains.
Natural beauty is a major drawcard, but for such a remote spot, there's a rich vein of romance, thanks to its pearling history, proximity to Asia and its indigenous culture. Its centre is still called Chinatown; there's a Japanese cemetery, the last resting place of many pearl divers; and in Old Broome, there are the beautiful heritage homes of long-gone pearling masters among the scented mango trees.
If anyone knows Broome, it's Marilynne Paspaley. Here, she talks about some of the favourite places in town.
Where to stay
Pinctada Cable Beach Resort & Spa, 10 Murray Road, Cable Beach, (08) 9193 8388 www.pinctadacablebeach.com.au. Naturally, it's Marilynne's favourite resort! She has, after all, had a say in every part of it — from the bathroom tapes to mother-of-pearl finishes. "The emphasis is not on showy glamour, so much as on simplicity and service," she says. A block back from the famous beach, it's a luxurious oasis on the edge of the desert with the best spa and brasserie in town. Excellent service, gorgeous bedding, beautifully appointed bathrooms and every facility one needs in the suites, it's an impressive first for Broome. Other features include 24-hour in-room dining, Brizo Pool Café and Bar, Nyx Cocktail Lounge, concierge, gym, and meditative garden zones, wired & wireless internet connectivity.
McAlpine House, 84 Herbert St, (08) 9192 3886, www.mcalpinehouse.com. A 1910 pearling master's house, it was bought by Lord McAlpine, the British baron, who made Broome his home and first developed it as a tourist destination in the early '80s. From the shady verandas and breezy outdoor areas to the Javanese furniture, every room and alcove has been thoughtfully decorated. The six air-conditioned suites are arranged around the central courtyard and pool. There's a kitchen, barbecue area and dining room for guest use, all set among tropical gardens.
Cable Beach Club Resort, Cable Beach Rd, Cable Beach, (08) 9192 0400, www.cablebeachclub.com. Also established by Lord McAlpine, this resort is right on Cable Beach. Famous for its tropical gardens, the rooms are fitted out in a modern interpretation of Asian-meets-Colonial-Broome style, with corrugated iron walls and polished floors. The Sunset Bar & Grill serves pub-style food and drinks. Best is the authentic Thai cuisine at the Thai Pearl and its colonial polished wood decor.
Eco Beach Resort, (08) 9193 8015, www.ecobeach.com.au. An hour-and-an-hour south of Broome, this isolated outpost with its 25 solar-powered villas makes for an extraordinary escape, perfect for Robinson Crusoe types. Located on top of sand dunes, it's a retreat in every sense of the word. Arriving in Broome from Sydney is an incredible escape, but driving from Broome to Eco Beach is like arriving on an undiscovered planet. The villas have solar air-conditioning, king-sized beds and luxury fittings with beach-facing verandas and out-door showers. The 30 safari-style eco-tents are simple, but comfortable, and connected by a kilometre of wooden boardwalks. The stylish restaurant has delicious food, and ocean and pool views. About 20 minutes walk away are some spectacular rock formations, a mini version of the famous Bungle Bungles, that met the beach. There's a catamaran for whale-watching trips and kilometres of spectacular beaches. The staff are dedicated, love what they do and are great fun. Early morning yoga followed by breakfast and bush tucker walk to the mini-Bungle Bungles is highly recommended, as is bird watching and mud crabbing at Jack's Creek.
Coco Eco, Lot 9 Williams Rd, Coconut Well, (08) 9192 3103, www.cocoeco.com.au. If you're here to experience the natural beauty of the area, a stay at this B&B — about 20 minutes drive from Broome and perched on a hillside above Cable Beach — is a must. Owners Helen and Simon Bradley opened a year ago, after building from scratch their stunning architect-designed, solar-powered home with three guest rooms. The clever, eco-friendly design allows for both cooling cross-breezes and the best ocean views enjoyed by any holiday accommodation in the area.
Bali Hai Resort, 6 Murray Rd, Cable Beach, (08) 9191 3100, www.balihairesort.com. Five minutes walk from Cable Beach, this is a good self-catering option. The 31 rooms and six family rooms all feature private courtyards, barbecues, kitchens and TV with in-house movies, some with baths.
Where to eat
Selene Brasserie, Pinctada Cable Beach Resort & Spa, 10 Murray Road, Cable Beach, (08) 9193 8388, www.pinctadacablebeach.com.au. "You'll never forget the Cardamom and honey roast duck breast with Persian pilaf," said Marilynne. And I haven't. Nor will I need reminding about the Melting salmon with shaved fennel and feta salad. And the hummus is silky and the baba ganoush is smoky and the chickpea battered oysters with a la greque dressing are superb. Selene serves flavours from all around the world and does it impressively with a magnificent wine list.
Aarli Bar, Shop 2/6 Hamersley St, (08) 9192 5529. "Warm, lovely and very professional in that Australian way," says Marilynne. It's a calm, shaded, open-air eaterie, where imaginative breakfasts (chargrilled figs on toast with spiced ricotta, or a bacon, scrambled egg and caramelised onion wrap) and great lunches are served. But, at night, with the candles under the old frangi-pani tree, magic awaits: tapas (lamb cutlets or the divine king fish tempura) or dinner (Thai red emperor or chilli mud crab).
Black Pearl, 44/63 Robinson St, (08) 9192 8425. "Go for the barra burger for lunch," says Marilynne. "It's a simple place with fresh flavours, but it's opposite the Broome Historical Museum and has views of Roebuck Bay and Boab trees."
Wharf Restaurant, 40 Port Drive, The Port, (08) 9192 5700. "Excellent seafood in casual, relaxed surrounds," says Marilynne. "Gets lovely cooling breezes when it's hot. Good for lunch, but best for sunset."
Cafe Carlotta, Jones Pl, (08) 9192 7606. In a quiet corner of Old Broome, you'll find the best Italian food in town. Its standards have slipped a little since original owner Charlotte sold up. Its famous woodfired pizzas can be a little flaky, but the pastas are still pretty damn good. Dinner only.
Noodlefish Roku, Shop 5/26 Dampier Terrace, (08) 9192 1697. You won't forget this Chinese, Japanese and South-East Asian fare. Japanese marinated fish salad, twice-cooked Szechuan duck with citrus and beetroot sauce and grilled threadfin salmon with spicy green pawpaw salad rule supreme. The lime tart dessert is sublime, even though the service can be curt. Dinner only, Mon-Sat.
The Club Restaurant, Cable Beach Club Resort, Cable Beach Road, Cable Beach, (08) 9192 0400. A million-dollar view of Cable Beach and the evening camel caravans. Inside the restaurant, the Old Broome-style interiors are hung with a Sidney Nolan, but this doesn't make up for plain, uninspiring pub food.
The Old Zoo Cafe, 2 Challenor Drive, Cable Beach, (08) 9193 6200. Originally built by Lord McAlpine as a zoo to attract tourism to the area, this pleasant spot just back from Cable Beach serves good-value, modern Australian dishes and an inviting Kimberley Taste plate of crocodile, kangaroo, barramundi, camel and pearl meat. My lunch of char-grilled chicken, cashew nuts, avocado, sun-blushed tomatoes and greens was divine.
Where to drink
Matso's Broome Brewery, 60 Hamersley St, (08) 9193 5811, www.matsosbroomebrewery.com.au. "You've gotta have a beer here," says Marilynne. "Not only does it have such a great view of Roebuck Bay, but it's a great spot to watch the Stairway to the Moon phenomenon."
It is Broome's only micro-brewery and serves its own award-winning, handcrafted beers on tap, including Smoky Bishop dark lager, River Rocks lager, Monsoonal Blonde, and an alcoholic ginger beer. There's also an all-day menu, bar snacks and a wine list.
The Tides Bar at The Mangrove Resort Hotel, 47 Carnarvon St, (08) 9192 1303. A favourite among the locals, this resort bar has a prime waterfront spot, where you can sip a cool beer or white wine while watching the sea eagles and ospreys circle over Roebuck Bay. Pub grub includes burgers and chilli salt squid.
Where to shop
Courthouse Markets, cnr Hamersley and Frederick sts, Saturdays. "Everyone visitor to Broome has to visit this eclectic market," says Marilynne. You'll find all the local artisans and even snake removal experts!" The local growers at nearby 12 Mile bring some of the region's best produce here.
Aboriginal art galleries in Chinatown. Marilynne's favourite is the Gecko Gallery, 9 Short Street, (08) 9192 8909, www.geckogallery.com.au.
"It has such integrity and deals directly with the artists." Collectables from emerging and established artists also grace the walls at Short Street Gallery, 7 Short Street, (08) 9192 2658, www.shortstgallery.com.au; and Monsoon Gallery, 48 Carnarvon Street, (08) 9193 5379, www.monsoongallery.com.au.
Kimberley Bookstore, 4 Napier Terrace, (08) 9192 1944. "It's not huge," says Marilynne, "but the selection is riveting and I spend hours there. There's an excellent selection of local history and I would highly recommend John Bailey's pearling masterpiece, The White Divers of Broome: The True Story of a Fatal Experiment.
Roebuck Seafood, 953 Port Drive, Broome, (08) 9193 5109. Considering it's surrounded by water, there are few options in Broome to buy fresh seafood. Shop here for barramundi, jewfish and lesser-known species, including the white-fleshed threadfin salmon, and tripletail perch. This is a must-visit for people in self-catering accommodation.
Pearls, Dampier Terrace, Chinatown. Every visitor to Broome toys with the idea of splashing out on South Sea pearls, and Dampier Terrace in Chinatown is the place to do it. If you're serious, head to Paspaley Pearls, 2 Short St, (08) 9192 2203; Linneys, No. 25, (08) 9192 2430; Kailis Australian Pearls, No. 23, (08) 9192 2061.
Things to do
Sun Picture House, 8 Carnarvon St, Broome, (08) 9192 1077. Pull up a stripy deckchair at Australia's oldest open-air cinema and watch a cinema classic or the latest blockbuster.
Camel train rides at sunset Three operators, visit: www.broomevisitorcentre.com.au. The iconic Broome sight is when a camel train and fiery red sunset are reflected in wet sands of Cable Beach. The camel rides leave in the late afternoon from the beach below the Cable Beach Resort.
Ride the rapids at the Kimberley's Horizontal Horizontal Falls Adventure Tours, Hangar 5, Gus Winkel Rd, Broome Airport, (08) 9192 2885, www.horizontalfalls.com.au "This experience should not be missed," says Marilynne. "Not only do you get a bird's eye view of the spectacular Kimberley coastline, but a dress-circle seat on one of the region's extraordinary natural phenomena." There are half-day or a full-day tours that visit the Kimberley wilderness on a seaplane, over the Thousand Island Coastline of the Buccaneer Archipelago to Talbot Bay, where huge volumes of water squeeze between narrow gaps in great rock formations creating a horizontal waterfall effect. The turquoise and white water and brilliant red rock makes this a colourful and adrenalin-fuelled experience. The half-day (from $645) tour includes a visit to spectacular Cyclone Creek gorges, where boats head for shelter during storms, while the full-day tour (from $790) visits the Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm.
Whalewatching — from Eco Beach Eco Beach Resort, Broome, (08) 9193 8015, www.ecobeach.com.au. Cruise on a luxury catamaran for a half-day cruise on the Indian Ocean, home to humpbacks, dolphins, turtles and manta rays.
Whalewatching — from Broome Sentosa Fishing Charters, (08) 9192 8163, www.sentosafishingcharters.com. Hear whale song via a hydrophone on a custom-built 27-seater boat on a three-hour cruise. Whales pass by Broome between June and October.
Staircase to the moon Mudflats, Town Beach, Roebuck Bay; broomevisitorcentre.com.au. Visit the Broome at full moon and see this extraordinary optical illusion: moonlight reflecting in puddles on the mudflats at low tide look like a ladder climbing into the sky. Happens best between March and October for two or three nights a month. A night market coincides with the event.


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Arianna Huffington's Thrive acquires AI specialist Boundless Mind
Thrive Global, the wellness and behaviour change tech firm founded by Arianna Huffington, has acquired neuroscience-based AI company Boundless Mind.
Boundless specialises in behavioural design and engineering. Its technology fuses neuroscience and artificial intelligence to optimise, personalise and target recommendations to users and to inspire positive change.
The technology has been used effectively to improve outcomes for products in categories spanning health, fitness, productivity, finance and e-commerce.
Huffington said the deal would allow Thrive to further develop its platform to "end the stress and burnout epidemic" and help individuals and organisations "unlock their full potential".
"This acquisition is an exciting milestone for Thrive Global," Huffington said.
"Since our founding in 2016, we have been committed to cracking the code on behaviour change to help individuals and organizations end the stress and burnout epidemic and unlock their full potential.
"It's more important than ever that we leverage the latest technology to help people build healthy habits.
"Boundless Mind shares our mission to create a world where everyone can thrive at a time when preventable, lifestyle-related diseases account for 75 per cent of healthcare costs and mental health problems are escalating, the only way to change health outcomes is to shift human behaviour.
"The Boundless acquisition is a critical next step in scaling Thrive's behaviour change platform to millions of users around the world."
Launched in 2016 and led personally by Huffington, Thrive Global aims to help individuals, companies and communities improve their wellbeing and performance.


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Inspired Nastiness In Manic `Acid House'
THE ACID HOUSE: Drama. Starring Stephen McCole, Gary McCormack, Michelle Gomez, Kevin McKidd, Ewen Bremner, Arlene Cockburn, Martin Clunes and Jemma Redgrave. Directed by Paul McGuigan. Written by Irvine Welsh. (Not rated. 112 minutes. In Scottish dialect with English subtitles. At the Lumiere.)
Raw, rude and as fierce as a shot of methamphetamine, "The Acid House" is a blast of manic energy in the form of a film. It marks the sensational feature debut of director Paul McGuigan, a photographer and documentary maker who adapted three stories by Irvine Welsh, the author of "Trainspotting."
Like "Trainspotting," "The Acid House" portrays the Scottish underclass with nasty, surreal humor. Not only are the characters scabrous, caustic and void of sentiment, but the film even seems to thrive on its snubbing of all the implicit rules of cinematic "good taste."
When a lesser talent brings that kind of punky insolence to a film, it's usually a bust -- think of all the bratty "Pulp Fiction" clones we had to endure. But McGuigan is such an explosive talent, and so fired up with audacity and imagination, that "The Acid House" seems elevated by his cheekiness rather than cheapened by it.
In the first story, "The Granton Star Cause," a lazy soccer player named Boab (Stephen McCole) loses his girlfriend and job and is given the boot by his parents. God arrives in the form of a grizzled old drunk (Maurice Roeves) and turns Boab into a fly -- a measly fate, but convenient for poisoning his girlfriend's new squeeze and torturing his parents during a round of kinky sex.
"A Soft Touch," the most powerful of the triptych, recalls the working-class tragedies of filmmaker Mike Leigh and author Raymond Carver -- only much, much nastier. Johnny (Kevin McKidd) is a well- meaning patsy who shares a shabby tenement with his wife (Michelle Gomez) and allows a psychotic neighbor (Gary McCormack) to run his life and bed his bride.
In the third part, "The Acid House," Coco (Ewen Bremner) is a young raver who takes too much "Super Mario" acid, loses his mind and reverts to infancy. Simultaneously, a yuppie couple is having a child in an Edinburgh hospital -- could it be that the baby and Coco have switched personalities?
There's a bit of "Natural Born Killers" in "The Acid House" -- a surreal, push-the-envelope frenzy that mixes satire, grim psychological drama and cartoon overstatement. Even when it pushes too far, which isn't that often, there's something exhilarating in its fearlessness.
One gets the feeling that nobody told McGuigan "You can't do that" or "Tone it down, please." It's a thrill to watch him discover himself as a filmmaker and try things seasoned directors wouldn't consider.
Whether he's simulating the woozy hallucinations of an acid trip, showing Boab's transformation into a bug or directing Gomez and McCormack in a series of sweaty, insanely energetic sex scenes, his ingenuity and passion are remarkable.
Worth noting: Since the characters speak a thick, indecipherable Scottish dialect -- "pint" sounds like "paint," "kickabout" sounds like "cackaboot" -- the film is mercifully subtitled in English.