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I have been looking quite extensively at my subject area for some time now, finding images, reading texts and basically getting a real understanding of what my 'Lemon' is. Now that I have built up this solid foundation I wanted to go back an inspect my Methodology a bit more. So far my Main Methodological approach has been Semiology or Semiotics. The most useful resource I have found so far is Visual Methodologies: An introduction to researching with Visual Materials by Gillian Rose (2012). Rose describes Semiology saying it "...offers a detailed vocabulary for specifying what particular signs are doing." It is this vocabulary that is most important in semiology, and conversely what I am finding toughest to grasp. Below I have written out all the most well established terms along with there meaning in an attempted to understand them a little better and ultimately see how they apply to the images I have sourced.
Ferdinand de Saussure's Semiology
- Sign - which consists of two parts, Signified and Signifier
- Signified - The Signified is a concept or an object, let's say 'a very young human unable to walk or talk'
- Signifier - The signifier is a sound or an image that is attached to a Signified; in this case, the word 'baby'.
These are the two single biggest building blocks of a sign. Another way of looking at it from what I can see is if you say a signifier is what you see or hear with the signified being the idea you are trying to get across. The basic idea as created by Saussure is this...
Signifier + Signified
Being able to understand this concept allows me to move on a tackle more of the vocabulary and terminology. In terms of advertising and how these elements work, it seems brands try to shift the signified qualities from the human signifiers onto the product they are selling.
- Referent - The actual object in the world that the sign is related to.
Rose (2012) does mention the issues with Saussure's method saying is doesn't take into account how words change she notes "Many semiologists, therefore, while acknowledging the importance of Saussure's discussion of the sign, prefer to turn to the work of the American philosopher Charles Sanders Pierce.
Charles Sanders Pierce's Semiology
Pierce's model seems to initially slip into 3 sections. Do I find Pierce's model easier to understand?
- Icon - They represent and look exactly like them, the signifier represents the signified by apparently having a likeness to it. Most common in photographic images. Trust, Reality, Seriousness
- Index - Represents but not directly or in a concrete way. Because we cannot represent an emotion, we look for signs which indicate them, e.g a smile. Emotions, ideas.
- Symbol - The thing it represents. They are more conventionalised but clearly arbitrary relationship between signifier and signified.
In reflection, I think the two methods seem to serve different purposes, Pierce's interpretation feels more in-depth, and almost as if it extends upon Saussure's method. Ultimately I think it would be good for me to look at images using both the approaches thus allowing me to create a broader screening of the chosen adverts.
Rose, Gillian. Visual Methodologies. 1st ed. Los Angeles [i.e. Thousand Oaks, Calif.]: SAGE Pubications, 2012. Print.


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A lifetime dream of mine came true, today: I had a half-hour piano gig in New Orleans, playing nothing but Louis Armstrong tunes in front of heroes such as George Avakian and Dan Morgenstern. The gig went really well and crowd was incredibly appreciative. I even got to end the day with an unplanned encore, playing "Avalon," as requested by George Avakian. I'm not going to gush about myself for long as I'm lucky my initial nerves didn't trip me up but my goodness did it feel good playing a beautiful instrument in this great city in front of a room of people that love and appreciate music. Let's just say I'm a long way from my hometown of Toms River, NJ! (Home of MTV's "Jersey Shore" reality hit, a show that doesn't do much to promote live jazz.)
Anyway, that was a personal triumph but as you can imagine, the last 48 hours have been filled with nothing but great moments. Seriously, I wish every Louis Armstrong fan in the world could make it here every August to simply feel the love...and taste the food. Continuing my string of photos of me and food, here I am at the world famous Cafe du Monde, enjoying some piping hot beignets:
They were amazing (and they make a good dessert too, as we found out the following evening!). Though I think my cleaning woman at the hotel thinks I'm a cocaine addict. After proudly stopping at three of these delicious French donuts, I made it back to the hotel where George Avakian's son Greg offered me a bag with three more. Goodbye willpower! But I was in a rush so I took them into my room and wolfed them down while standing over the sink, getting white powdered sugar all over the sink, countertop, my shirt and face. In the midst of it all, the cleaning woman knocked. I answered hopped up on sugar and fried dough, with white powder around my face and told her I'd be finished in a few minutes. The look she gave me made me think she thought I was messing with a different kind of white powder! (Oh, and I'm a jazz musician, so......)
After beignets, it was off to make another deposit at the Louisiana Music Factory before heading to the Palm Court for the first round of seminars. Before they got underway, trumpeter Wendell Brunious and pianist Steve Pistorious played a series of stunning duets on Pops tunes. I had to run back to the hotel for a minute and could hear Wendell's huge tone two blocks away. He was marvelous on his horn, sang charmingly and was a friendly conversationalist in between songs. Just a great hour of music.
Dan Morgenstern kicked off the seminars with a keynote about the ten-year history of the Satchmo Summerfest, followed by a joint presentation by Michael Cogswell and myself on the Jack Bradley Collection. It was a blast and people really seemed to get a kick out of seeing Jack's treasures, the stuff I work with on a daily basis (it's been nine months and I still don't quite believe it). Jack also handpicked some film clips that he wanted us to show: Louis in Copenhagen in 1933, a version of "Rockin' Chair" with Jack Teagarden in 1957 and the symphonic version of "St. Louis Blues" with Leonard Bernstein from "Satchmo the Great." Many in the audience had never seen these clips before so it was a thrill watching people react to Pops.
My parents and I then had dinner at the Praline Connection where I ordered something called "A Taste of Soul." Yes, just a "taste," right? File gumbo, jumbalaya, greens, fried chicken, red beans and rice, ribs, fried catfish, cornbread and bread pudding. Sweet Jesus, it was an overdose of soul, I tell you...
Somehow, that meal didn't kill me and I was able to enjoy the always fun Satchmo Club Strut featuring over 30 bands playing up and down Frenchman St. Lighting wasn't always great and neither was my camera work, but I managed to get some nice footage that I think is worth sharing. First up, Lionel Ferbos playing and singing "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" with a band that included Tom Fischer on tenor saxophone, Brian O'Connell on clarinet and Ernie Elly on drums. Ho hum, you say, another version of "Sister Kate"? Lionel Ferbos is 99-years-old. There. Now pay your respect:
A few doors down at Blue Nile, pianist Butch Thompson led a great group that included Clive Wilson on trumpet, Freddie Lonzo on trombone and Tim Laughlin on clarinet. Here they are doing "Someday You'll Be Sorry" with Lonzo taking the vocal (and dig Laughlin's quote of "The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else" towards the end of his solo):
(I want to mention that a Henry Butler group that included Lonzo, Fischer, Mark Braud and others absolutely tore the roof of Blue Nile later that night, but my batteries died in my camera. Oh well, I'll always remember that rocking "South Rampart Street Parade"!)
Over on a balcony, the fantastic New Orleans Sax Quartet played some beautiful music without the aid of a rhythm section or anything. Here's a minute of "Tango":
Minutes later, the Rebirth Brass Band took over the streets, as the party really began:
I was fortunate to spend time with four of my favorite Armstrong nuts (from left to right), David Ostwald, Michael Cogswell, Dan Morgenstern and Jon Pult).
Ostwald was in town to play a gig with Ed Polcer, a recent New Orleans transplant who explained the difference between playing traditional jazz in New York and New Orleans: "In New York, I had two gigs a month. In New Orleans, I have two gigs a day." I think that says it all. Unfortunately, the skies opened up and pretty much rained out the Polcer-Ostwald gig, though they managed to still perform wonderfully for a tiny crowd huddled around the bar to stay dry. It was getting late, it was quiet and this short version of "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" just seemed appropriate:
That was all for me as I headed to bed like a wimp (I'll be 30 next month; George Avakian is 91 and stayed out two hours later than I did!). But the following morning it was more fun, more food and more music and Some Like It Hot, a (mostly) female trad band played for the breakfast brunch at the French Market Cafe. Here's the final minute of one of their exciting numbers, led by trumpeter Kaye Caldwell:
And then it was off to my moment in the sun, which I already mentioned. Okay, I've long kept my piano playing hidden as something of a "secret" but I seemed to go over well in New Orleans and that's good enough for me. Thus, here's the first footage on the Internet of me playing solo in public. My mom, bless her, held the camera at an odd angle and a podium obscured my hands, but hey, it's me, performing "Knee Drops." I hope you enjoy it:
So that's that...I'll stick to analyzing Pops instead of my own playing! Anyway, the seminars soon started rolling in, including a delightful one by Clive Wilson and Butch Thompson demonstrating early styles of jazz, a typically terrific presentation on Louis Armstrong in Queens by Michael Cogswell and a standing-room-only interview with Kermit Ruffins conducted by Larry Blumenfeld. I was thrilled to meet Kermit afterwards, who seemed just as down-to-earth as you could imagine. I closed the day by presenting videos of Louis in Prague and East Berlin in 1965, which seemed to go over very well. Pops always kills and this footage allowed me to trot out my standard myth-debunking about later Louis not playing much horn in his 60s. He blew like a wild man in East Berlin and I only wish that the footage turns up on DVD one day.
Dinner with George Avakian's family, Jon Pult and his wife Molly and David Ostwald was a treat before my parents and I ended the evening with those aforementioned beignets. See? Heaven on earth, my friends, heaven on earth. One more day of paradise before heading back to New Jersey for an entirely different paradise with my wife and baby girl. I'm going to hate to leave you, New Orleans, but wow, do I miss my family and it'll be great to get back home. See you soon with one more update...til then!
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Satchmo Summerfest Days 2 and 3
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[Download] The 1975 - "You" (Andrea Remix)
Last week I got to enjoy The 1975 perform a triumphant home city show in Manchester at which the entire place was bouncing from start to finish. Today I was pleased to have this remix of their "You" arrive in my inbox from Paris' Andrea.
The 1975 recently released their incredibly infectious EP Sex which is full of indie pop sing along chorus' to brighten any winter day.


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Warner Bros. has premiered the first trailer for Dark Shadows, Tim Burton's long-awaited adaptation of the 1960s gothic soap opera, and it's ... probably what you expect? The camp aspects of the original series are definitely there, but they're accompanied by full-blown action and comedy as the director, screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith and star Johnny Depp play up the fish-out-of-water elements of vampire Barnabas Collins freed from his tomb after two centuries to come to terms with life in the early 1970s.
The film, which opens May 11, also stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Eva Green, Chloe Moretz, Bella Heathcote, Thomas McDonell and Gulliver McGrath.
Check out the poster and trailer below, or view the latter in HD at Apple.com.
In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet--or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy...until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles. Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth's ne'er-do-well brother, Roger Collins, (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David's new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.


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This week's blizzard ranked up there with the so-called "storm of the century" of March 3-5, 1971.
Rivalling the storm of the century
It caused five deaths, stranded hundreds of motorists overnight, shut down schools and universities, flooded basements in Quebec City and dumped 47 centimetres of snow on downtown Montreal. But was this week's storm a record-breaker?
Hard to say, according to Environment Canada.
"It's a rare storm, but I can't say if it broke a record. It was definitely an exceptional storm," said Marie-Ève Giguère, a meteorologist at the Montreal weather office.
Local variations in snowfall, and the fact that snowstorms can stretch over several days, make it difficult to compare weather events from different years, Giguère said.
But one thing is for sure: this week's blizzard ranked up there with the so-called "storm of the century" of March 3-5, 1971.
"It was very similar, except 1971 was just north of the St. Lawrence River," Giguère said.
The 1971 storm unleashed 43 centimetres of snow on Montreal, with high winds, like Tuesday's storm. However, that storm was centred just north of Montreal, while Tuesday's was concentrated in a swath of southern Quebec from Montreal's South Shore to the Bois Francs region near Victoriaville, she said.
The record snowfall in Montreal was Dec. 27, 2012, with 45.6 centimetres.
But weather experts rank storms by their impact rather than just statistics, Giguère said. For example, the 1998 ice storm is remembered for the massive blackout that left millions in the dark for up to several weeks, or more in some cases, paralyzing businesses and causing the government to deploy the army.
This week's storm also "had major impacts," Giguère said, pointing to the fatalities, traffic chaos and closures.
Even within Montreal, there were significant variations in this week's snowfall, with 38 centimetres at Trudeau Airport Tuesday and Wednesday, compared to 47 centimetres downtown, she noted.
Hardest hit was St-Hyacinthe, 60 kilometres east of Montreal, with 75 centimetres of the white stuff, followed by St-Hubert, with 73 centimetres, and Beloeil, with 68.
North of Montreal, Mont Tremblant got just 15 centimetres, while the Lanaudière region got 10-20 centimetres.
Winds of 70 kilometres an hour in Montreal caused blowing snow and low visibility, making roads hazardous.
In the Lower St. Lawrence region, east of Quebec City, winds reached 120 kilometres an hour, although snowfall was less than 30 centimetres, Giguère said.
With temperatures returning to near normal in the next week, when daytime highs will hover near zero, we won't be seeing green lawns again anytime soon, she said.
By the numbers:
— The snowiest day in Montreal on record was Dec. 27, 2012, when a record 45.6 cm of snow fell on the city.
— The city got 42.8 centimetres at Dorval in the "storm of the century" on March 4, 1971.
— Total accumulation on March 14-15, 2017 was 38 centimetres in Dorval and 43 centimetres downtown.
— Normal snowfall in Montreal during the month of March: 36 centimetres.
— Normal amount of snow still on the ground at the end of March: 3 centimetres.
— Normal snowfall in April: 13 centimetres.
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Members of the Commission
The Commissioners are appointed in their individual capacity rather than as the representative of an institution or government body, and will have complete independence in carrying out their work.
The Commission will be supported by reference groups for the purposes of consulting key stakeholders, including the research and development-based industry and civil society groups.
The ten members of the Commission are:
Ms Ruth Dreifuss (Chairperson)
President of the Swiss Confederation in 1999. From 1993 to 2002, member of the Swiss government and Federal Minister of Interior where her responsibilities included, amongst others, public health and scientific research.
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Dr Raghunath Anant Mashelkar (vice-Chair)
Director-General of India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
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Professor Carlos Correa
A lawyer and economist from Argentina, is Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial Property and Economics Law, at the University of Buenos Aires.
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Professor Mahmoud Fathalla
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, former Dean of the Medical School at Assiut University, Egypt, and Chair of the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research.
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Dr Maria Freire
Chief Executive Officer of the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, and previously directed the Office of Technology Transfer at the US National Institutes of Health from 1995 to 2001.
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Professor Trevor Jones
Director-General of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, and was previously Director of Research and Development at the Wellcome Foundation Limited.
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Mr Tshediso Matona
An economist and trade policy expert, is Deputy Director-General in South Africa's Department of Trade and Industry.
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Professor Fabio Pammolli
Professor of Economics and Management at the University of Florence. He is the Director of European Pharmaceutical Regulation and Innovation Systems at the University of Siena.
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Professor Pakdee Pothisiri
Senior Deputy Permanent Secretary of Health, Government of Thailand, and formerly Secretary General of the Thai Food and Drug Administration.
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Professor Hiroko Yamane
Professor of International Economic Law, Economic Law and European Community Law at the Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, specialising in trade law, competition and intellectual property rights.
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This fabric is made from a very thin fibre; every one of which has a micro abrasive action that locks up dust and dirt.
The microfibre fibres in this cloth are 1500/3000 times finer than a hair, 15/30 times finer than a cotton fibre.
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Truly Inspired By...I AM R.A.R.E. {And Vintage Jewelry}/
Last week I attended a vintage jewelry exhibition organized by a very cool lady, Ms. Jacynth Johnson (that's her in the pic below). If you know me, you know I love vintage jewelry. There's something so romantic and nostalgic about it. So when I got wind of Jacynth's vintage jewelry exhibition, I wanted to see what it was all about. Little did I know it was about vintage jewelry and much more. Jacynth is the founder of I AM R.A.R.E., a faith-based organization that targets young girls who struggle with sexual issues. (Get it? Rare, meaning a-one-of-a kind person and jewelry.) I AM R.A.R.E. stands for I Am Righteous, Anointed, Redeemed, and Empowered. Jacynth started the organization out of a passion for helping young girls find value in themselves and honor God with their bodies. I had the opportunity to speak with Jacynth and she was oh so inspiring.
Photo courtesy of I AM R.A.R.E.
As a psychologist, I come across many young girls who use sex as a way to find value in themselves. They don't know they are inherently worthy and valuable, and unfortunately have no one to tell them. Thankfully, Jacynth is one woman trying to get the word out--and in a very stylish way I might add. She organized the jewelry exhibit out of a love for authentic vintage jewelry. AND all the proceeds from the exhibit will be used to organize a retreat and other programs sponsored by I AM R.A.R.E. How visionary is that!
Photo courtesy of I AM R.A.R.E.
I bought some really cute pieces at the exhibit, like this fabulous bracelet.
Photo by Scotty McFarland
And lovely swan earrings.
Photo by Scotty McFarland
Cute, right? If you want to find out more about I AM R.A.R.E, and the R.A.R.E vintage jewelry collection, visit the organization's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/rareiam. And for more vintage jewelry online, click on the resource below.


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The declining response rates and poor data quality of online surveys are the result of people becoming bored with the presentation and mechanics of what they are seeing, according to a study.
The study, carried out by Engage Research and Global Market Insite, claims that high drop-out rates compromise the quality of both sample and data.
It states that online questionnaires need to address key factors such as visual presentation, repetitive question formats and length in order to effectively engage respondents and maintain the "integrity and actionability" of research data.
Engage Reserach and GMI examined the drop-out rates from over 550 surveys and correlated these with survey length and question formats.
The study also asked a sample of 200 online panellists what bored and frustrated them in online questionnaires.
It then compared static HTML questionnaires with those using Flash animation and traditional question formats with more innovative ones, in order to identify alternative question presentations that would engage better with respondents.
The research revealed that if boredom sets in, respondents increase the speed at which they answer questions, leading to fewer responses being given generally, and a loss of data quality due to a combination of increased pattern answering and a shift away from using scale extremities.
Respondents said that relevance of subject matter and an interest in the questions were influential in deciding whether they would complete a survey or not.
Key research findings included that a lot of people drop out within the first five minutes of an online interview, but once passed this threshold they are more likely to complete the survey, regardless of length.
The study also showed that certain question formats are more likely to trigger drop-out than others, such as grids, which generate 80% more drop-out than other question formats.
Engage and GMI recommend more visually appealing and engaging mechanisms such as scrolling matrices or drag and drop, along with the use of Flash animation.
Deborah Sleep, director at Engage Research, said: "The research industry has focused too much on trying to replicate question formats from other data collection methods into an online environment, and not enough on the new and different features that online data collection has to offer.
"Researchers, clients and panel providers need to be more respondent-friendly and create more engaging ways of collecting data in the not too distant future."
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Police have revealed they are treating a fire in Sleaford's Handley Street as suspected arson.
The news came in a crime alert published moments ago on Twitter by Sleaford Police.
Earlier today: Fire crews gave oxygen to a casualty suffering smoke inhalation in a house fire in Sleaford late last night (Friday).
Oxygen was given until ambulance crews took over.
The alarm was raised shortly before midnight at a home in Handley Street.
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue say there was fire damage to a mattress, which they found outside the address – and fire had spread to the bathroom and roof space.
There was heat damage to the fascia board and guttering and smoke damage to the ground floor of the house.
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Another weekend, another long day of riding: This past Saturday I drove back down to near Northfield with my buddy Sam to get in some miles on the rolling gravel roads. We've both signed up to do the Almazo 100 next month, and have some training to go before we're ready to tackle 100 hilly miles of gravel roads. I was able to find a map for a route I rode originally as the Rawland Cycles Fall Tour, which covers nearly 50 miles, and cuts through some of the prettiest parts of Goodhue county. All but maybe 2 miles of the route is on gravel roads, also with two sections of minimum maintenance road; one included the most brutal climb of the ride, which looks like a wall as you come around the corner and see it. The other minimum maintenance road was marked closed, but we proceeded anyway, laughing as our bikes skittered a little in the mud, or as we had to get off and lift our bikes over the several fallen trees. While slow going, its the kind of "road" that makes a ride like this memorable.
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This week we have seen plenty of rain and wet conditions, but despite the conditions we have seen some great captures. There has been some amazing fishing for the Jumbo tuna on the West Coast while locally the tuna reports have slowed down.
The squid fishing has been nothing short of exceptional with plenty of squid coming from a variety of locations. This is one of the best times of the year to catch BIG breeding squid and fishing where there is clear water is a must. There has also been a few Snapper reports filtering through of early season reds and it will not be long now until the water starts to heat up and we see some great fishing!
We would also like to welcome our newest Staff member Mitch to the Fishing Fever team. Mitch has a passion for all things fishing including Estuary fishing and he is right into his trout fishing where he fishes out of his own tinny. Mitch has also worked on a charter boat where he was a deckhand for a local Snapper charter boat learning plenty of tricks and techniques for chasing the local Snapper in the bay and is more than happy to help and share his knowledge.
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New staff member Mitch Bolger has been getting stuck into the whiting over at st Leonards this past week. Mitch said the fishing has been really hot with the fish biting well on the incoming tide. Fishing with pippies and fresh squid as a cocktail bait has seen his best results.
Aaron Habgood from reds fishing adventures has been into some quality squid this week down the bottom end of the bay. Fishing with a variety of jigs in the 3.5 size he has had a ball catching some beautiful squid for the dinner plate.
Ahmed fished st Leonard's during the week and had some great success on the local squid population. Ahmed said that most coloured jigs were working but had the most success on the pilchard coloured jigs.
Elizabeth fished with her Dad on the weekend down at point cook in 3 metres of water chasing the local squid. Elizabeth caught plenty of squid including her very first squid. Great to see the girls getting out on the water and showing Dad how its done.
Western Port
Gawaine Blake with Vince and Anthony have had some great success on the squid and whitting this week in Western Port. Using samurai inflict fishing rods and fresh squid as bait they caught plenty of whiting. Whilst on anchor fishing for whiting they were also throwing around a few squid jigs which saw them get some quality squid also.
Chris and Michael O'Connell went in search of some early season snapper and caught 2 beautiful Reds off Rhyll in Western Port. The fish went 66cm & 76cm and was caught on the the run out tide. Both fish were caught on fresh baits caught during the day.
Alan Bonnici caught this nice 36 cm Bream on the Maribyrnong River on Saturday. The fish was caught on a unweighted scrub worm on the rising tide. Alan also caught many bream on the day between 34 cm and 36 cm.
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Paul wrote in Phillippians 1:16 I am put here for the defense of the gospel.
If you have a great love of the Scriptures and enjoy the challenge of effectively presenting its truths to others, then consider joining an NGU Life Answer Team (LAT). Students in this ministry will receive training, mentoring, and practice opportunities to help present, explain and defend the Christian faith, a response known as Apologetics. The word apologetics is derived from the Greek word, apologia, meaning speaking in defense. What are NGU students speaking in defense of? Gods Word, the Bible.
LAT was designed to build the individuals faith and trust in God through a deeper understanding of scripture and an exploration of past and present Christian thinkers. As students gain confidence to take on the tough questions, they are presented with opportunities to speak to a wide variety of audiences sharing the good news and in some instances, going unscripted for a live Q & A.
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Most of my weekends in the past four years have gone something like Anna Nalick's famed song "2 am". I receive calls from young clients who tell me that they are unable to take the hurt, and ask if I could help unravel their latest cause of misery of having lost their heart to someone only to be rejected. Romantic rejection in the words of Dr. Guy Winch 'tears our emotional skin and penetrates our flesh causing internal bleeding of the highest order'.
Rejection is something we face commonly in our daily lives since childhood such as friends shunning us for the company of other seemingly cooler friends. By adulthood we are expected to handle rejections like a boss, but that sadly is not the case because come adolescence & adulthood, enter the mother of all: romantic rejection! Society often tends to scoff at and undermine treating a breakup. But sadly, a broken heart is the hardest to mend and once repaired patches do show through.
A dumped individual according to Dr. Susan Quilliam undergoes the same bereavement cycle as one who has lost a loved one to death viz. "shock, denial, grief, anger, blame, self-blame, helplessness, fear of the future, depression and finally acceptance". This for sure highlights the severity of a romantic rejection and it must therefore be tactfully dealt with. Getting romantically rejected or dumped (as it is more commonly known) has the following effects:
- The BIOLOGICAL effects are a kind of lingering visceral pain, a.k.a that aching feeling in the gut, feeling of getting punched in the chest, headaches, insomnia, stress eating or a loss of appetite
- The PSYCHOLOGICAL effects are anger, major self-esteem blow, bouts of depression & anxiety and emotional pain
- The SOCIAL effect is the damage to our being that we don't belong. It makes us withdraw from social interactions to avoid getting our hearts broken yet another time
The shrink's special for today is some self-help for the dumped soul. Goes best with a generous garnish of tender loving care
Since there are three components that are impacted during a romantic rejection, treatment or first aid should also follow a three-pronged strategy i.e.
biopsychosocial intervention.
- Cry: According to Judith Orloff, emotional tears have special health benefits since they are a means to excrete pent up stress hormones (e.g. cortisol), that have accumulated during the highly stressful breakup. Biochemist Dr. William Frey found that crying not only excretes cortisol and toxins but also stimulates the production of endorphins-our painkiller and happy hormones. It has also proven that people tend to sleep better after a good cry thereby combating situational insomnia. So the next time anyone tells you that only weak people cry, you ask them to take a hike or show them this piece of info!
- Exercise: Taking up any form of exercise in addition to regulating metabolism, combating nausea and bodily aches like stress headaches, enhancing appetite, shedding off those extra pounds gained by binge eating and booze, has been proven to secrete endorphins thereby diminishing our perception to pain. Also getting fit and looking nice serve as a major self-esteem boost; a portion of which is often lost while we get dumped
- No hosting a pity party– Whenever you have self-critical thoughts, always articulate relevant counterarguments clearly in your mind instead of falling prey to it. For example a thought such as "maybe I wasn't good enough for her/him" should be instantaneously alternated with "maybe the other person preferred a specific type that I did not fit". Thought substitution with productive counterarguments when put into action appropriately, effectively soothe hurt feelings, reduce anger and aggression and also greatly minimize damage to self-esteem
- Head the L'Oreal way, because you are so worth it– Replenishing confidence and self-worth is an important way of reminding ourselves of our qualities that many others find attractive, valuable and desirable. Make a list of your qualities and introspect on why your qualities are significant, how they influence your life and how they play up to your advantage. This goes a long way in reviving health, happiness and our public persona
- Let it all out: Social support is crucial. Share your distress with a close confidante as telling someone about your pain serves as a great form of catharsis. However be wary of telling all your friends (misinformed well-wishers) as this will just turn out to be another classic case of "too many cooks spoil the broth"
- Give your life back to social connections and they will breathe life back into you: According to Guy Winch, our need to belong comes with the safety button of substitutability e. new memberships and relationships have a tendency to psychologically replace those that have ended, especially if and when they provide a better fit for our personality and interests. It doesn't have to be a romantic relationship, can be a meaningful friendship, a mentor-mentee relationship etc. So go on out and take up a membership at a place offering your favorite hobby/activity. You may just find people who fit your bill
- Drive away the pangs with a snack: Ever seen the knorr soup commercial which targets hunger pangs, with a jingle that goes something like "choti choti bhook, bye bye"? Scientists have found that glancing at photographs of family and good friends, reading meaningful wishes and letters, going through mementos and awards acquired in the past all serve as social snacks that give one a feeling of being mentally satiated
- This form of biopsychosocial intervention aims at creating a layer of resilience to future rejections and minimizes to a great extent the damage they cause to our self-esteem, whatsoever the reason behind the rejection maybe. This process of developing emotional resilience is aptly termed desensitization by leading psychologists.
There are times in our lives, when no one can help us but ourselves. Therefore self-help has been touted as the one of the most effective forms of dealing with emotional injuries. However, if this form of self-help is a bit too overwhelming for you, please visit your nearest mental health expert as I have been told time and again by several patients that it feels great to get help during distress!
Shoutout to Mr. Varun for requesting today's topic.
Shoutout to long time buddy Mr. Abhishek Jain- here's wishing you a very happy birthday!!


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LITTLE ROCK — Legislation to bar insurers from providing abortion coverage through Arkansas' health insurance exchange passed the Senate and headed to the governor Thursday, while an amended fetal heartbeat abortion bill advanced to the House.
A spokesman for Gov. Mike Beebe said Thursday the governor would sign the first bill but had concerns about the second.
House Bill 1100 by Rep. Butch Wilkins, D-Bono, would prohibit insurers from offering coverage for elective abortions through the state's health insurance exchange except through a separate rider on the policy with a separate premium which would have to be paid by the customer.
The amended version of Senate Bill 134 by Sen. Jason Rapert, R-Conway, would make the procedure for detecting a fetal heartbeat less invasive and would not ban abortions before 12 weeks of gestation.
HB1100, which previously passed the House, won Senate approval on a 25-9 vote and goes the governor.
Sen. Cecile Bledsoe, R-Rogers, presented the bill on the Senate floor and said the federal Affordable Health Care Act allows states to opt out of offering abortion coverage and that 18 states have approved similar legislation.
Sen. Joyce Elliott, D-Little Rock, spoke against the bill, saying there are currently no insurance riders for abortions offered, so the bill would essentially prohibit anyone from receiving an abortion under the federal law. She said its passage would penalize lower-income women who can't afford to buy insurance outside of the exchange.
"With this bill passing, if it is your wife, your sister, your daughter and you don't happen to have to buy your health insurance on the exchange, you've had a privilege. Every one of you in here will have a privilege because you're not going to have to buy health insurance on the exchange," Elliott said.
She also said while everyone calls the insurance exchange a government program, people will use their own money to buy the insurance.
"Give other people the same privileges and rights," she said. "It's not government if I'm writing the check."
Bledsoe told reporters later that she believes there eventually will be an insurance rider available for abortion coverage. She also noted that HB 1100 does allow abortion coverage in cases of rape or incest, or if the life of the mother is in danger.
Meanwhile, the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee gave a "do pass" recommendation to an amended version of the so-called fetal heartbeat bill.
As originally written, Rapert's SB 134 would have required any woman seeking an abortion in Arkansas to undergo a test for a fetal heartbeat and would have prohibited the abortion if a heartbeat is detected, except to save the mother from death or severe physical impairment.
The revised version would not ban abortions before 12 weeks and would require that the heartbeat test be performed via external abdominal ultrasound.
A person who performs an abortion in violation of the measure could be charged with a Class D felony punishable by up to six years in prison.
Rapert told the committee he agreed to the amendment to address concerns the bill would have required women to receive invasive ultrasounds using a vaginal probe and that it would have banned abortions as early as six weeks.
Another amendment endorsed by the committee removes an emergency clause that would have made the bill go into effect when the governor signs it or allows it to go into effect without his signature. Without the emergency clause, the bill, if passed, would take effect 90 days after the end of the session.
The bill passed previously in the Senate but had been hung up in the House committee since Tuesday, when the panel voted to table it. A motion to take the bill off the table passed Thursday in a voice vote.
Rep. Ann Clemmer, R-Benton, presented Rapert's bill in the committee. She asserted that it would pass constitutional muster and said it would save about 815 lives a year in Arkansas.
"The choice that's there can be made in the first 12 weeks," she said. "But after 12 weeks we're closing the door, except for rape, except for incest, except for these extreme health concerns."
Among those who testified against the bill was Dr. Curtis Lowery, chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Lowery said treating a woman with a high-risk pregnancy requires balancing the risks to the fetus with the risks to the mother, a balance that he said is "not black and white."
"This bill does not adequately protect the physician's ability to interact with a patient. This law will be enacted and then the judicial system will begin to enforce that law, and the doctors who are trying to make appropriate decisions about the pregnancy can be convicted of being a felon," he said.
The bill advances to the House. Rapert told reporters he was confident it would pass there.
Beebe spokesman Matt DeCample said Thursday that the governor would sign Wilkins' bill but that "he says he's got concerns whether (Rapert's) bill is constitutional because of the viability issue, which even with the amendment from basically six weeks to 12 weeks he doesn't think is resolved."
The U.S. Supreme Court has said states cannot deny a woman's right to an abortion before a fetus becomes viable, or able to survive outside the womb. Doctors generally consider a fetus to be viable at 23 weeks.
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NEW YORK — Google's YouTube will hold a short-film contest that will be judged in part by director Jason Reitman. The Hewlett-Packard-sponsored competition, dubbed Project Direct, starts Sunday and will be accepting entries until Nov. 9. The videos must be two to seven minutes in length and feature a character facing "a situation above his or her maturity level," among other guidelines. Reitman will help narrow the submissions down to 20 videos. The YouTube community will vote on a winner, to be revealed Dec. 5. The top prize is nine days at an international film festival and a $5,000 debit card.
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Senate Democrats and a newly-minted coalition of allied progressive interest groups have launched a coordinated campaign to oppose Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, that includes highlighting the stakes for average Americans on key issues such as health care and abortion rights.
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But it's not just an effort to unite Democrats against the nominee.
Their unusual strategy, according to multiple senior Democratic strategists, is to apply as much pressure as possible on two moderate Republican senators - Susan Collins of Maine and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski - as a way to not only possibly sink the nomination but to keep vulnerable red-state Democrats from supporting the nominee.
The thinking is that if either Republican announces her support early, vulnerable Democrats might more easily follow suit, seeing that their vote would not be decisive.
The longer any final decision takes, the strategy goes, the more time groups including Demand Justice, NARAL, MoveOn.org, Center for American Progress, and Planned Parenthood have to fire up their base and persuade their vulnerable incumbents to oppose the nomination.
"We have an important task ahead of us. We need to unite our Democratic caucus as quickly as possible so that we can put the maximum amount of pressure on trying to flip Susan Collins or Lisa Murkowski," Brian Fallon, head of Demand Justice, told ABC's Powerhouse Politics podcast Wednesday.
Jesse Lee of the Center for American Progress said the coalition's blueprint for the fight is the success Democrats had in derailing a GOP effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) versus their failure in galvanizing opposition to this year's tax cut legislation.
"This, too, is about taking something away," Lee said, referring to Democrats' plan to highlight what they see as a likelihood that Kavanaugh might vote to essentially dismantle ACA or upend abortion rights in some fashion, either by voting to overturn Roe v. Wade or in favor of allowing states to pass legislation that makes it all but impossible for a woman to obtain an abortion.
The message to the Collins and Murkowski, Lee said, is, "This won't play out way down the road. This is going to happen while you're in office. This isn't just about today's kabuki theater."
Lee said Democrats will also focus on Kavanaugh's expansive view of presidential power and will - to a lesser extent - shine a light on corporate greed, attempting to tie in Kavanaugh's past opposition to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This, along with the focus on health care and abortion, Democrats are hoping, will excite the base - which could be a boon to red-state Democrats, as well.
So, Collins and Murkowski now find themselves on the receiving end of TV and social media ads, grassroots lobbying and more, as the fight is brought to their doorstep. Collins' office has even received wire coat hangers as a reminder of the grisly ends to which some women in the past went to end a pregnancy.
But one senior Republican strategist told ABC News he thought the campaign was doomed to fail, saying, "Red-state Democrats are under far more pressure. Collins and Murkowski aren't up for re-election, and they've survived far worse than this could ever be. Plus, Collins has never voted against a Supreme Court nominee."
To be sure, the pressure is intense on those Democrats up for re-election in November in states President Trump won handily, primarily Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, West Virginia's Joe Manchin, and Joe Donnelly of Indiana.
All three voted for Trump's first Supreme Court pick, Neil Gorsuch.
Freshman Democratic Sen. Doug Jones, who won his seat in a highly-contested race in conservative Alabama, is also a target of some Democratic efforts, though some strategists believe he might be less inclined to support Kavanaugh over civil rights concerns. Jones is a former career prosecutor who touted his civil rights wins during his insurgent campaign.
The new Democratic coalition is fighting an uphill battle against their GOP adversaries.
Republicans have long used judiciary nominations as ground zero to galvanize the base, and their machine is a well-funded one. They, too, are spending big to target Manchin, Heitkamp, Donnelly, and Jones.
Judicial Crisis Network is up now with a $1.4 million ad buy on national cable and digital in Alabama, Indiana, North Dakota and West Virginia, and the group's chief counsel, Carrie Severino, tells ABC News, "We're prepared to spend whatever it takes." Asked if that could be as high as $10 million, the group's budget for the Gorsuch nomination, Severino said, "Absolutely.
The Republican National Committee has also prepared its own massive plan ahead of Kavanaugh's confirmation primarily focusing on states that President Trump won in 2016 where there is a Democratic Senator up for re-election, according to the plan obtained by ABC News.
The effort includes a war room-like operation with "SCOTUS specific phone and door scripts" and digital ad buys with targeted social media posts.
"We have the largest field program we've ever had, and we're using it to take Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation fight directly to voters. If Senate Democrats want to obstruct this immensely qualified judge to appeal to their base, we'll make sure their constituents hold them accountable this November," RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement.
Manchin, for his part, said no amount of pressure will affect him, and he will not be swayed by any decision by his GOP counterparts. "I get no pressure. Zilch," Manchin said. "I've been here eight years. And Susan and Lisa are my friends, but I don't work that way. They do their thing. I do mine."
The senator said he plans to hold town hall meetings in his home state to gauge public opinion, along with a thorough reading of research on the nominee and an eventual one-on-one sit-down with Kavanaugh.
But Manchin did note that health care is a top concern. He said he wants to know if the nominee will protect insurance coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, noting that some 88,000 of his constituents would be affected if that protection went away.
Likewise, Heitkamp said the pressure campaign would fail on her.
"I think anyone who thinks that pressuring Lisa or Susan will work doesn't know those two women very well," the senator said, noting that she would make her own decision based on her research and meeting the nominee.
Time, however, is something that the Democratic coalition could have on its side.
Both Collins and Murkowski are known for meticulously researching a nominee, and both have said this time will be no different. And though Sen. Collins indicated this week that she finds the judge well-qualified, an aide to the moderate senator said she was not stating a position either way on the nominee. No tea leaves to read there, though everyone has been trying.


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MAMBO JAMBO: Cabinet of the Cosmos, Charlie Roberts' new installation for Rice Gallery, showcases Roberts' exceptional talent as a painter and sculptor as well as his raw and exuberant vision. He associates the phrase "mambo jambo" with his music - his bluegrass band refers to playing music as "jambo" with voodoo, and with gumbo, where everything is thrown into a single pot. In MAMBO JAMBO: Cabinet of the Cosmos elements representing the animal and human worlds are united as one in a colossal wooden cabinet that encompasses the gallery walls. Brimming with paintings and sculptures, the cabinet is a take off on "cabinets of curiosities," created throughout Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. These Wunderkammern (cabinets of wonder) were shrine-like repositories in which people displayed their art collections and remarkable souvenirs of the natural world. Roberts, in his own words, "loves to pack things to the gills," and the cabinet allows him, he says, "to fit many stories and objects into a small area." Its symmetrical form and use of images in paneled grids also borrows from the composition of medieval altarpieces. Roberts is especially interested in how altarpieces had side panels painted with deliberately muted images, which could be closed to hide the more radiant painting inside. As Roberts explains, "You'd have Adam and Eve in black and white and then you'd open the altarpiece up and see the glories of heaven in color … the worldly grey and then, boom!"
Roberts completed the watercolor paintings on paper that fill the cabinet's side panels at his home in Norway. On the left side, birds, rodents, wild cats, and wolves, among many others, are each captured in a few deft strokes, while on the right, human faces peer out or are captured in freeze-frame motion. Roberts works with images he collects from the Internet, books, and magazines. Flipping through images as quickly as possible, he selects whatever strikes him. He relies on the same spontaneous, intuitive approach to create his sculpture, throwing himself into an intensely physical process he describes as a "caveman" way to manipulate the wood. He made all the sculpture in the installation on-site in a three-week period. Passersby watched him take full swings with a long handled axe, stripping the bark from massive logs. Trees cut down to make way for Rice University's construction projects became subject to Charlie's machete, mallet, and even his hands and feet, as he split them into jagged and splintered shards that form his characters.
At the center of Roberts' cabinet, a human head emerges from between a woman's legs; perhaps it is Mother Nature giving birth to the cosmos. Roberts says, "We don't know why it goes on, but it goes on. There's a tendency to think that our time or ourselves are exceptional, but we're just specks in the grander push."
Charlie Roberts was born in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1983. He started making art in high school when he and his friends made posters to promote their band. Not until he took an art class from an especially influential high school art teacher did he become, as he puts it, "obsessed" with painting. Still, art did not seem like a realistic option to him, so he entered the University of Kansas as a history major. There he heard an art history professor tell such vivid stories about visual artists and their work that he committed himself to art, left the University of Kansas, and enrolled at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he studied painting for two years.
Since 2005, Roberts has had solo exhibitions at galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2006, his work was included in the group exhibition, Paint, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia. A solo exhibition of his work will open at Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, on December 15. Roberts lives and works in Asker, Norway.
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Opinion: Trump nominates Kavanaugh, must confront Dems
With one prime-time announcement, President Donald J. Trump has laid bare the contours of the new political era that his election both reflected and produced.
By selecting Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, Trump produced an unusually revelatory moment. The country has seen the president as impulsive and instinctive but rarely as deliberative. It has seen the extent of his resentment of the old political order but rarely has seen him struggle with the limits of resentment as a political strategy.
It has witnessed the sort of change that can be reversed — a new Democratic administration can, for example, restore some of the economic regulations that the Trump team has eliminated — but now is witnessing change of a more permanent nature. Judge Kavanaugh is 53 years old. If he serves until the age when Justice Kennedy retired, he will have been on the bench in the year 2046, the year Barron Trump will turn 40 and the year minorities are likely to surpass whites as the majority of the population.
Judge Kavanaugh's sterling academic record and long service on a court commonly regarded as the farm team to the Supreme Court made him an automatic strong candidate for promotion to the High Court. But still, Trump hesitated. He examined a half dozen others and nearly settled on Judge Thomas Hardiman, whom his aides and Capitol Hill power brokers insisted was easier to confirm.
Why the reluctance? It wasn't Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell's concerns about winning a Kavanaugh confirmation. Instead, those close to Trump repeatedly argued that the president had to ''overcome'' the judge's ties to George W. Bush, the last Republican to occupy the White House. In a conventional presidency such experience would be a shimmery credential; Barack Obama had no hesitation in appointing officials who had served Bill Clinton, his Democratic predecessor, and chose Clinton's wife for the top position in his cabinet, the role of secretary of state.
But Judge Kavanaugh's deep roots in the administration of Bush, part of the first family of the traditional Republicanism that Trump so reviles, was a formidable obstacle that had to be surmounted. His role in the contested 2000 election that took Bush to power, his marriage to the 43rd president's top administrative assistant, his appointment to the bench by Bush, his defense of the school-voucher plan of Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida — all these elements placed the judge firmly in the Bush orbit, and thus outside the president's vision of the new GOP he is sculpting.
In choosing Judge Kavanaugh, Trump made it clear that he is not reluctant to take on a bitter fight on Capitol Hill, despite his failure to win the repeal of the Affordable Care Act or to win an overhaul of immigration policies. Of all the candidates for the Supreme Court whom he considered, Judge Kavanaugh ranked high — perhaps second highest — in the list of potential nominees who would infuriate the Democrats and prompt political trench warfare.
That did not deter Trump, more interested in sealing his ties with his base, which longed for a true conservative on the bench, than winning an easy confirmation in a Senate his party controls. The last time Judge Kavanaugh came before the Senate he was the center of a divisive partisan fight, prompted angry charges of deception from high-ranking Democrats, and required three years to win confirmation. But now — before the midterm congressional elections, likely to come after the Kavanaugh confirmation vote — the Trump choice underlines the powerlessness of the Democrats. The Democrats will complain, but the Republicans will confirm.
—The ''Swamp" still hasn't been drained.
Mr. Trump prefers the ''swamp'' metaphor to describe the American capital, where an entrenched ruling class—leaning left, preferring regulation of business, invested in the status quo—has held sway since the John F. Kennedy years. His determination to ''drain the swamp'' was at the heart of his campaign and the governing theme of his first two years in office.
And yet with the selection of Judge Kavanaugh, he reached deep into the Washington swamp (and, not incidentally, the Yale alumni directory—the nominee has two degrees from New Haven). Despite claims that the judge is from, but not of, the capital, he is clearly a denizen of Washington, where he was reared, where he worked most of his career, and where he gained his judicial experience. (George W. Bush, by contrast, was reared in Texas, proclaimed Texas values, had his presidential retreat in Texas, and returned to Texas in retirement.)
The biggest emblems of his residence in the swamp: Judge Kavanaugh—like Neil Gorsuch, Mr. Trump's first high-court nominee— is a graduate of Georgetown Preparatory School, where the capital's Catholic elite send their boys.
—The Supreme Court will be more ''political'' than it was a generation ago.
It has been, to be sure, political throughout history; the legendary Mr. Dooley, the creation of the humorist Finley Peter Dunn, captured that notion with the deathless precept ''The. Soopreme Court follows the illiction re- turns.'' It did during the Franklin Roosevelt days and it did in the Obama years. But there is no denying that Judge Kavanaugh is a political animal, characteristics he displayed as he assisted the Bush team in the overtime election in 2000 and as a staff member of Kenneth W. Starr's team examining the conduct of President Bill Clinton.
The Court has had political actors before, including a onetime chief justice, William Howard Taft, who conducted two presidential campaigns and served in the White House from 1909 to 1913. Today's court has only one genuine political animal, Stephen Breyer, who along with academic experience was assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate team and was special counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he was a very close advisor to the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.
The significance of the presence of a jurist with deep political skills is difficult to calculate, for even with traditional new justices the removal of one jurist from the court and the substitution of another has an impact greater than the 11 percent that the new justice accounts for mathematically. But although mathematics often is the principal element in the character of the court, chemistry matters, too.
David Shribman is executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.


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With that, the guards silently beckoned me to turn. The room was large and dark. Overhead lights illuminated the oracle on her seat and spilled onto the guards, but the rest of the room was invisible. Before me lay large double doors. I could see light fighting to enter around the great doors' edges. As I walked toward the light, the doors began to open slowly, admitting more light. I could see that pottery and artifacts stood on display pedestals all around the room, whose charcoal gray ceiling stood at least forty feet above me. The floor and wall were also charcoal, efficiently swallowing the light the doors no longer contained. My steps were almost silent, as the room's acoustics were impeccable.
The walk from oracle's throne to the door was about sixty paces through the square, or cubic, room. My guards seemed neither threatening nor curious. Their faces--Caucasian-featured but negroid in color--seemed content and happy, though not gleeful. They were shorter than I and not particularly muscular. Perhaps they weren't guards at all. I don't know why I didn't talk to them, but I said not another word exiting the room into a wide, beautiful forest of tall, old trees, birds, squirrels, leaves both brown and green, shrubs, and, in the distance before me, the sound of a creek or stream.
I did not know where I was or why, but I was somewhere that I wanted to be.


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I have recently experienced the death of someone close to me. The suddenness of this loss reminds me how fragile life is.
My concerns, thoughts, and worries had certainly not been on this 'healthy' person. I had been preparing for others close to me to make this transition, contemplating how their passing would affect my life. Not Tom. Tom was slow, steady, strong. He was here for the long haul.
Now, immersed in Tom's personal papers, his things, awash in stories and memories of what he meant to people, I am reminded of the significance of every moment we live.
I don't, however, want to write about his life. I am writing about life. What do we do with it? We have it for some unspecified amount of time. We share it with some people in a deep way, with others in a more superficial way, and somehow - albeit unknown - we share it with those billions of people who are here for the same moment we are but whom we will never meet.
Intention has been the theme of my life and my practice in recent years - knowing why, in every moment, I do and say the things I do. But what's the grand intention? Is there a purpose to life? To my life? To your life? I believe it is up to each of us. We get to decide.
Cosmological physicist Brian Swimme says:
"At the very, very beginning, the universe comes into existence and these various forms of matter experience an attraction for each other. So that very attraction is what gave rise to our existence in our consciousness. In a way, the purpose of human beings is to reflect love, is to be self-aware of love, is to be conscious about love, is to be that conscious expression of love, as far as we know, in the universe."
If you knew you had a short time to live, would you spend that time being angry at someone for cutting you off on the highway? Or holding a grudge with your friend for forgetting to send a birthday card? Would you spend it judging people for how they eat? Or holding off saying something important? Or would you choose to spend your time left cherishing every minute? And if you chose to cherish every moment, what would you be doing? How would you being doing it, and with whom?
I encourage you to give these questions some thought, some energy, some action. Why put it off? For every moment you are alive, know your intentions and act on them. For yourself, and for those you will leave behind.
This poem by Dawna Markova, offers me inspiration and describes the grand intention for my life, which I consciously choose in every moment that I can remember. What's yours?


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Two great deal alerts for March
Catherine Ryan Hyde
I always think it's especially helpful when Amazon discounts my most recent ebook, because a lot of you have not read it yet. So I'm happy about this announcement.
For the entire month of March, SAY GOODBYE FOR NOW is a Kindle Monthly Deal at only $1.99.
The second bit of good news is that WORTHY is included in Amazon's March 100 Kindle Books for $1 each. In case you missed that one.
If you've already read both, I wouldn't argue if you felt like telling a friend who likes to get books at a great price.
Happy reading!


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Fall is officially here, and although for us Bostonian's that means it's about time to dig out the windshield scrapers and driving gloves and brace for the cold, it also sets us up for one of the best eating seasons of the year. Maybe you've waited all summer for a steaming cup of mulled cider, or a freshly backed apple pie. Whatever you're craving when fall descends, I bet it's something that comes served piping hot!
Whether or not you're up on all the latest food trends or only just noticed it in the case at the store, you may have stumbled across one of the best examples of these fall comforts - the delight that is Bone Broth. Some fanatics tout it's heath benefits of having the curing powers of chicken soups, while others doubt them. Kobe Bryant has the Lakers' head chef make a steaming cup for him to recover after workouts. Others, like those dedicated to the popular paleo diet may also find bone broth to be a great addition to their diets. But in my opinion every one else can worry about debating the specific healthfulness of bone broth. All I care to talk about is the one thing I know it's good for– which is melting my miserable frozen frame after coming in from a long cold fall day.
To clear a few things up– bone broth might seem like something totally new to you, but you're probably more familiar with it than you think. In the most basic terms, it's a homemade broth made with a few special alterations. The bone broth that we sell at Savenor's has a base of beef broth made with aromatics, beef and marrow bone and red wine. After simmering for about two full days (worth it - the longer the better!) it's then strained and cooled, and the fat is skimmed off of the top. The broth is then put back on the stove with more aromatics and several egg whites, which forms a raft in the pot that slowly rises and filters the broth so it becomes pure and clear. This is the traditional technique for making a consommé. After cooking for another day, the result is an extremely dark, rich broth that almost looks like a gelatinous dark cold brew coffee when cooled down.
So what's the best way to experience bone broth? As is! Heat it up and enjoy a steaming mug of what we like to call butchers tea. Think I'm crazy? There are some trendy restraints in New York doing just that. If you're looking for another culinary option, it would also make a pretty great ramen broth or base for a simple soup, but trust me, this broth is so special you really don't need anything else with it.
So right now, as I think about how the clocks are about change and the many months of dark days of frustrating weather, and days when I step of the bus to face a mean blast of freezing cold wind or rain or, inevitably, snow, I worry about how to avoid falling deeply depressed. But my ray of hope is making it to my door, shedding my boots and layers, and warming up myself a mug of butchers tea to melt away the day.
– Chris Gazarian, Front-End Staff & Food Enthusiast, Cambridge


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My favourite part of any trip is always going to be Disneyland. Always. I was so happy to get the chance to stay in Anaheim for a couple nights on our trip, to spend a day in Disneyland. I'm a self confessed Disney nerd and with one of my biggest life goals being to visit every Disneyland in the world (three down, four to go…), I was more than excited to be able to cross another one off the list.
Dungarees – Asos
Bag – Primark
Shoes – Primark
As I'm a completely extra human being, naturally I decided that none of the normal Disney ears were good enough. This meant buying ears from the kids section which were waaaaaayy cuter but gave me a fat old headache all day, worth it. I also had to make a minor adjustment to them as they had an ugly butterfly bow thing on them which I cut off. DIY Disney ears coming at ya.


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I, Aron Xu, apply for Ubuntu Core Developers (core-dev).
Aron Xu
Launchpad Page
Wiki Page
Who I am
I am a Linux user since 2004 and started to contribute to Ubuntu since Feisty. I love the free software spirit and want to share it with more and more people all over the world.
My Ubuntu story
I was a translator from the very beginning of my contribution to Ubuntu (also upstream like GNOME/KDE/TP/Debian), I am leading Ubuntu Simplified Chinese Translators team as well as Launchpad Simplified Chinese Translators, and am a Ubuntu Translators Coordinators team member (not that active, though).
I've been a Debian Developer since May 2011, I maintain some packages, and do some sponsor work. Here are the bugs I have worked on. I've gained PPU for input methods related packages for Ubuntu earlier this year.
My involvement
Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of
In this application I apply for Ubuntu Core Developers as my work focus has moved to Ubuntu itself (especiall Desktop) rather than only a subset of it. I have PPU for input method related packages because a big proportion of my previous work are directly related to them. I have also been working on a quite wide range of packages as co-maintainer or sponsor.
Input methods is an important field I'm involved, and I tried to maintain compatibility of those packages between Debian and Ubuntu so that they can be directly synced without massive changes. I work in IME Packaging Team and I'm currently one of the most active member. I co-maintain Fcitx input method family, and work on important changes like input support in Multi-arch environment and reliable start-up of modern input method frameworks. All of them lead to my increasing involvement of IBus family and im-config.
As for other package, I maintain libxml2 and libxslt, sponsor quite some packages related but not limited to games and GIS, which make me feel confident to say that I'm an experienced developer to the tools and packages.
Things I could do better
Since my ongoing task is to work more on desktop stuff, I would need to get familiar with related people and policies/techniques.
If you'd like to comment, but are not the applicant or a sponsor, do it here. Don't forget to sign with @SIG@.
As a sponsor, just copy the template below, fill it out and add it to this section.
Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
General feedback
I sponsored a number of Aron's uploads and could see how he put a lot of his energy into fixing Ubuntu and Debian at the same time. He's a skilled developer and doesn't mind looking at hard problems. I support his application 100% and am glad he's involved in Debian and Ubuntu.
Specific Experiences of working together
ZhengpengHou (zhengpeng-hou)
General feedback
He came to me asking for sponsor upload his package in 2009 when he was a high school students, almost 4 years passed, he is still active around, being involved deeply into open source community, also I witnessed his contributions to the local developer community. I firmly support his application, not only for his existing contribution, but also for his persistent passion to Ubuntu/Debian.
Specific Experiences of working together
Vincent Cheng (vincent-c)
General feedback
I have no formal developer/maintainer status in Ubuntu, but as an upstream Debian Maintainer, I have worked collaboratively on numerous packages with Aron. He's dedicated to all the work he's done for Debian and Ubuntu, is clearly knowledgable, and is easy to collaborate with. I would gladly recommend him as an Ubuntu developer.
Specific Experiences of working together
Joey Zheng (jzheng)
General feedback
Aron is not only a good contributor for Ubuntu, but also a very good contributor for local open source community. He has done a very nice job to help Ubuntu on Chinese localization area. In addition, it is very lucky for us to have him joined Canonical Desktop team recently. So I believe that with giving him the core-dev we will keep being benefit from his contribution.
Specific Experiences of working together
YunQiang Su (wzssyqa)
General feedback
Aron is a great coordinator for Chines locale packages between Debian and Ubuntu, such as input method. He is working very good for both Debian and Ubuntu. He make sure these packages can work with Ubuntu and sync them. Yes, he is a great bridge between Ubuntu and Debian. If he plays as a core developer, it will be much better for perfecting the quality of these packages in Ubuntu.
He has done a excellent contribution on the project to port Debian for MIPS64EL, so this project can make good progress. In this project, he shows his good coordinate ability beside technical ability.
Specific Experiences of working together
Liang Guo (email@example.com)
General feedback
Aron Xu have sponsor my package *sunpinyin and spice-protocol, and We have work together on push zfs on linux to Debian( and maybe ubuntu). Aron shows excellent knowledge on input method, file system and other area, it is always a pleasant thing to work with him.
Specific Experiences of working together
Osamu Aoki (email@example.com)
General feedback
He has been very technically capable and trusty developer to work with on the IM related packaging on Debian. His feed back to im-config really helped to debug complicated issues for wheezy. He joining Ubuntu side should strengthen Ubuntu-Debian collaboration.
Hios focus is more of fcitx while I take care ibus side.
He has lead establishment of IM packaging team.
Specific Experiences of working together
IM packaging http://email@example.com
im-config: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709921
Sebastian Ramacher (email@example.com)
General feedback
I worked with Aron for the first time while adopting gecko-mediaplayer. He kindly sponsored me while I wasn't a DD myself. We've worked on getting gnome-mplayer and related packages back in shape.
He also invited me to join the Debian Multimedia Packaging Team and helped me to get started there.
Specific Experiences of working together
We worked together on the following packages:
gnome-mplayer: http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnome-mplayer.html
gecko-mediaplayer: http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gecko-mediaplayer.html
Dmitry Smirnov (firstname.lastname@example.com)
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A couple of weeks ago I blogged about a new column in the Ottawa Citizen to be authored by members of a local defence firm: Lack of Knowledge is Bad, Imperfect Knowledge may be Worse. While I applauded the idea - to educate people on their right and obligations under the law - I queried whether that goal could actually be achieved in that form and with that perspective (and perhaps I pointed out how it might not have been achieved).
I recently became aware, thanks to one of my readers, of a new site launched by Legal Aid Ontario: LawFacts.ca. The site indicates that it "provides information, written in plain language, on bail, guilty pleas, peace bonds, types of sentences and more. It also provides examples of commonly-used forms, checklists to prepare for going to court and contacting LAO...".
I have visited the website. It has succeeded in its goal. The site is user friendly. It is informative. It is refreshing to see people working toward the goal of educating the public and making information about the criminal justice system accessible and easy to understand. While the site is aimed at assisting those charged with criminal offences, as anyone who works in the criminal justice system will appreciate, this site will go a long way in helping all of us who are involved in the criminal justice system.
As reported in a press release, the Legal Aid Ontario webiste received more than 770,000 last year. Undoubtedly that number will drastically increase with the launch of this new and very informative website. Great work!
DG Mack


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Posts Categorized: Photography
Bullet at 1,000,000 frames per second
Sure, your fancy new digital camera does 10 frames per second. Sometimes that just isn't fast enough. Be sure to head to Kurzzeit.com and watch the video.
5 Photoshop brush sets to add to your collection
Sure, there are a bunch of brush set for Photoshop out there. The hard part is knowing what to get. To help, here's 5 sets that I came across that would fit in pretty much anyone's collection. Hi resolution tree silhouettes Need a tree? Head over to BestDesignOptions.com and download a set of 25 tree… Read more »
DIY High Speed Photography
One of the first photo projects I can remember my dad and I working on was stopping the splash of milk dropping into a dish. Nothing spectacular, but we did wind up with some pretty cool shots. Shattering light bulbs and popping balloons work pretty well too. And if you try the balloons, be sure… Read more »
Jellyfish at the Houston Zoo
This image was taken at the aquarium at the Houston Zoo. As dark as it was I had to put the camera on a monopod and lean against the railing to make myself into a tripod.
Experimenting with Flickr
Everybody else seems to be on Flickr, so I figured I'd give it a shot. Right now I've only got about 25 images online but depending on what sort of response they get I'll probably wind up adding more.
ProofBuddy 1.0 released
One of my web projects met a milestone a few days ago with the 1.0 release. It took me over 2 years working part time, but 1.0 finally contains the full feature set that I wanted when I started writing ProofBuddy in the fall of 2005.
Smile Timon!
This little meerkat was sitting smiling at all the visitors walking by at the Houston Zoo while the rest of his group was laying around asleep.
Jumping sea lions and prefocusing
This is from a trip to the Houston Zoo. I had prefocused on the red ball with the far right focal point (top point with the camera rotated) and started shooting as soon as the sea lion broke the water.
A couple shots from Aransas Pass Wildlife Refuge
We've driven by the Aransas Pass Wildlife Refuge at least 20 times but never went in. Monday was the day. A June afternoon in Texas is not the best time to look for wildlife, but there were a few bugs and other small things out.


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Committing a felony is never good in any country, especially if you are in the U.S. on a green card or travel visa. The immigration officials might downgrade your status or deport you, because you allegedly committed a felony, regardless whether you're guilty or not. The specific consequences would significantly depend on your current visa status, the alleged offense, and the particular circumstances of your case. It's best to consult an immigration attorney in any county in Utah.
An Aggravated Felony
Aggravated felony is an umbrella term for offenses the state and federal courts consider misdemeanors or sometimes conduct that's not considered criminal. It's a category specific only to immigration law that encompasses a broad range of acts that Congress considers removable offenses. The US Congress enacted aggravated felony in 1988. Back then it was limited to severe crimes including murder, illegal firearms trafficking (including incendiary devices), as well as federal drug trafficking. However, aggravated felony now includes the following:
1. Theft
2. Simple battery
3. Failing to show up in court
4. Tax fraud
5. Consensual intercourse between a 16-year-old and 17-year-old
According to a prominent immigration attorney in Utah County, even if Congress added a certain offense under the aggravated felony category following the conviction of a foreign national, he or she would instantly be deemed deportable, unless otherwise stated by the US Congress.
A Crime of Moral Turpitude
This refers to offenses that courts consider to be in violation of a community's accepted moral standards. While there's no definitive list of crimes that involve moral turpitude, the following are some examples:
1. Tax evasion
2. Perjury
3. Carrying concealed weapons
4. Child abuse
5. Wire fraud
The Bottom Line
Put simply, a criminal conviction for an aggravated felony or those that involve moral turpitude carry severe consequences for foreign nationals. In general, you are not eligible for deportation relief and would be prohibited from re-entering the country in the future. If you're looking to become a citizen or are worried about your status due to a felony conviction, it's important that seek legal help to determine the best option for you.


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Add Borders
1. Sew dark pink check 2x9" border strips to opposite short edges of quilt center. Press seam toward border. Using a rotary cutter and acrylic ruler, trim border strips even with edges of table topper center (Diagram 6).
2. Add dark pink check 2x10-1/2" border strips to remaining short edges. Press and trim as before.
3. Add dark pink check 2x17" border strips to long edges of quilt center. Press seams toward border. Referring to Diagram 7, trim ends of long border strips at an angle even with the short border strips to make table topper.
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Here is the ultimate swear word substitution guide for new parents & grandparents.
It all began like this: Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away called Brooklyn there lived a teenager who never used foul language. Then she fell in with a bad crowd who mocked her for her pure speech. What was a poor girl to do? Yep, thus started the era of swearing like a sailor.
Time passed and the teenager grew up, got married and had children of her own. The cursing came to an abrupt stop, never to return again until those children grew up and started using those forbidden words.
Enter the grandson. All swear words must now be abandoned. We have found, however, a need to come up with substitutes. I have decided to share this – the ultimate substitution guide:
|Bad Word
|Cleaned Up Word
|Dagnabbit! I think I left the oven on.
|Scolapasta (pronounced school-a basta) It actually means colander but sounds like it means something bad.
|That scholapasta is driving down the block the wrong way again!
|Tarnation (also acceptable: Hades)
|What in tarnation are you doing?
|rat's bottom
|Stop acting like a rat's bottom.
|buffalo turd
|I don't give a hot buffalo turd what you think!
|Shut up
|Chiudi la bocca (same words, just a different language.)
|Chiudi la bocca or I'll have to smack you upside the head.
|Son of a b!t(h
|son of a banana peel (also acceptable: son of a gun)
|That son of a banana peel just side-swiped my car!
|bat out of hell
|nuns on steroids
|That car took that turn like a bunch of nuns on steroids
Please note: some words were left off this list, especially the ones I consider so foul that I never say them. Feel free to use any of the above words as substitutions for those words. And feel free to leave a comment with your own favorite substitutions. Maybe one day we can make a new, improved list!


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Saturday, 10/18/2003, 3:00 PM
Feature presentation, $9 at Lincoln Theatre
German and Serbian with English subtitles
ALAIN GSPOONER'S FILM involves the complex friendship of Tiger and Kiki, in which unrequited love and unspoken desire serve as touchstones. Set in 1997 Germany, their friendship is already strained, given their nationalities — Tiger is Serbian while Kiki is an illegal Albanian immigrant constantly running from the immigration police. And then, there's the sexual tension, mostly on Tiger's part as he harbors affections for the partying ladies' man Kiki.
When Kiki is busted at a nightclub and subsequently deported, Tiger hides him in his home when he returns to the country. Tiger's secret desire grows stronger for Kiki amidst all the impending danger of a war in Kosovo.
Gritty and well-acted, Kiki & Tiger lags a bit and ends in a rather abrupt manner, nevertheless it engages with some emotionally poignant and disturbing moments.
Also on the bill, Summer Blues (t), a straight boy-gay boy, "coming of age" flick set in Norway. It's hardly interesting, none of the characters resonate, the acting is poor, and the screenwriting is, at best, sub-par.


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The Advantages of Alloy Wheels for Your Car
Here will be the advantages of having how they can be worth the investment as well as alloy wheels to your vehicle.
Alloy wheels are aesthetically pleasing in almost any design hence making your car unique because they may be cast.
Engineering is designing for function first before attractiveness. The combined metals of those wheels tend to be made to enhance the strength and quality of the product. You're installing wheels that are more robust when you select this alternative with handling.
Wheels are lighter in weight thus making your vehicle lighter and, therefore, enhancing speed and mpg. In other words, they will have a lower unsprung weight. With a lighter car, not as much energy and force is needed to get the car moving forward hence making your vehicle somewhat lighter.
Most commonly as they're amazingly strong drivers have formerly chosen to install steel rims but they truly are less efficient as alloy wheels. Often you'll observe that the steel rims would be used for heavy duty vehicles for alloy wheel refurbishment example busses and trucks, but there are alloy wheels which might be also made especially for these bigger vehicles.
Alloy wheels don't require as much care because they will not rust as easily.
Another advantage of alloy wheels is that they are better for cooling the brake drums. This makes it less likely that you have a braking system that is damaged or damaged wheels. The brakes also experience the most force, notably at high speeds, which causes the weakening of the metal along with friction. Because of this position, they frequently need to select a service but with all the alloy wheels it will be in a position to withstand the braking force better so increasing the overall brake performance.
It truly is important to understand what components your auto needs due to most of the mechanisms affected. Although automobiles are noticed as "toys for boys" they also must be taken care of, as you happen to be traveling always and could at any time have to do something crazy to save your valuable own life. The top place to begin is with what is keeping the car on the way.
These benefits, when all added together, increase the general performance of the car. Thus alloy wheels could raise the worthiness of your automobile.


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Basic Fire Control
Basic Fire Control
Date: Friday, 06 September 2019 09:00 - 14:00
Venue: Grayston Ridge Office Park, 144 Katherine Street, Sandton, 2196 | City: Sandton, South Africa
The purpose of this training course is to teach people of the dangers attached to fire, and how to deal with a basic fire hazard.
Our intention is not to make fire fighters out of the delegates, but rather to make them aware of the hazardous conditions and how to react as quickly as possible to get the situation under control.
More importantly, they are taught when to find professional help.
DURATION OF COURSE: 4 to 6 Hours.
086 163 2200
144 Katherine Street, Grayston Ridge Office Park, 1st Floor , Block A,, Sandton
2196, South Africa
2196, South Africa
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