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Well, despite a blunder late last night, the BBC have finally released the first trailer for the 50th Anniversary special. Even with a PR-ship leakier than the post-iceberg-Titanic, we actually know very little about The Day of The Doctor... so, what can we find out here?
The very first shot of the trailer is of the TARDIS - or a TARDIS, rather - on a sandy plain, looking rather worse for wear than usual. But who's TARDIS is it? The box itself is actually the 2005-2010 exterior used by the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, just badly beat up. However, the footprints in the sand look a bit more like boot prints, leading us to...
... John Hurt's Doctor, who looks a little lost and lonely. So that TARDIS must be his!
But let's rewind a little first. Immediately after the battered TARDIS we cut to this:
Hoo boy. That's a lot of Dalek saucers - looking considerably beefed up since we last saw them in force, with extra armour and plenty of gun emplacements. But where are they attacking? Is it Gallifrey? Are we finally seeing the Last Great Time War played out on screen?
... it certainly looks like it, with the Citadel of the Time Lords (last seen in the opening sequence of The Name of The Doctor) in ruins - with its glass dome completely shattered and the surrounding city destroyed too. It's looking a lot worse for the Time Lords than it did when we last saw the Time War during 2009's The End of Time.
Next up is a super quick shot of Daleks assaulting another city - is it another place on Gallifrey? - at night. The time of day seems to imply it's not the attack on the Citadel we saw earlier, so what could it be? There's been hints at the special depicting the Fall of Arcadia, mentioned in passing by the Tenth Doctor during Doomsday. And in IDW's comic series, it was his Eighth incarnation who witnessed it...
Also interesting in this shot is the Dalek ship flying by on the left. It kind of looks like the Dalek Emperor from 2005's Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways, but on a smaller scale and manned by an individual Dalek. Neato!
A poor guard gets blasted by the Dalek's aerial assault. It's hard to see his armour, but the design of the helmet seems very evocative of Gallifrey's Chancellery Guard, as seen in The Deadly Assassin (1976), The Invasion of Time (1978) and Arc of Infinity (1983), combined with a beefier set of armour as would befit the harsh landscapes of the Time War.
We get a slightly better look at the soldier a second later. We can make out his uniform's red colour scheme a bit better here, which certainly lends a bit more credence to this being an updated member of the Chancellery Guard. Maybe the battle isn't the Fall of Arcadia, but the fall of Gallifrey itself then? Either way, it doesn't end well for our soldier or the fleeing citizens behind him.
Meanwhile, The Eleventh Doctor has been recalling the hidden incarnation revealed to both Clara and the unwitting audience (unless they got their blu-ray copy early, that is) at the end of The Name of The Doctor earlier this year. The Hurt Doctor declares that he's... well, looking for himself.
To which the Tenth Doctor replies "Well... you've certainly come to the right place". Neither Ten or Eleven look particularly pleased to see their long forgotten incarnation, do they?
In what looks like the same forest that Eleven, Ten and Hurt Doctor meet up in, Joanna Page's Queen Elizabeth I is on the run from something chasing her. The press details for the episode reveal that this setting is the year 1562, quite early on in Liz's rule - only four years into her 45 year reign, considered a golden era of English history. But what's she running from?
A Zygon! Having made their début in the seminal 1975 story Terror of the Zygons, these shapeshifting baddies have long been a fan favourite, despite only appearing in a single story. And now they're back, looking better than ever - and maybe on the hunt for Good Queen Bess!
Meanwhile, in 2013, UNIT comes under attack! In the hectic seconds of footage we can just about make out the fabulous Jemma Redgrave as the Brigadier's daughter Kate Stewart, first introduced in last year's The Power of Three, and comedian Ingrid Oliver's UNIT scientist Osgood (perhaps related to UNIT Technician Osgood, from 1971's The Dæmons?) - who, for some unknown reason, is wearing a rather familiar scarf.
The Three Doctors are up to something. Something rather explosive. The building kind of looks like the one the Hurt Doctor was approaching earlier in the trailer, which could be rather important...
It's Rose! And, not just any Rose, it seems...
The golden glow in her eyes seems to indicate this isn't a Rose Tyler travelling alongside the Tenth Doctor, but the 'Bad Wolf', the überRose who looked into the heart of the TARDIS to save the Ninth Doctor at the climax of The Parting of the Ways. We knew that Bad Wolf Rose had some sort of time-travelling capabilities, as she managed to spread the Bad Wolf message throughout time as a hint to her human self and The Doctor, but here she seems to have literally transported herself back to what looks like the building on the Hurt Doctor's sandy planet. She was awfully busy during that short trip from the Powell Estate to Satellite 5, wasn't she? Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey and all that.
The Tenth Doctor, and what looks like Queen Elizabeth, come galloping out of the TARDIS on horseback! For a man allergic to horses, David Tennant's Doctor certainly seems to enjoy a bit of horsing around...
The Eleventh Doctor is falling above London! This looks like it's related to the TARDIS's arrival at Trafalgar Square, heavily photographed during location filming. UNIT and Kate meet him on the ground - have they somehow hijacked the TARDIS?
Clara's distressed!
And the Hurt Doctor seems to have found what he was looking for on that planet - note the Gallifrey symbols on the jewel's pedestal...
And the interior of the jewel itself, which looks incredibly similar to the Time Vortex, as depicted in the opening credits for Series 7B. Bad Wolf Rose tells the Hurt Doctor that 'The Moment' is coming, and he replies that he's ready for it - but is this jewel, this Gallifreyan device, The Moment? The object he uses to destroy both Dalek and Time Lord alike?
We knew the Hurt Doctor has his own TARDIS, so why not have his own Console Room too! It looks very much like the 'Coral' interior adopted by the Ninth and Tenth Doctor, but with a new floor and different lighting within the Time Rotor. Perhaps this console room began to slowly deteriorate and wear down over the course of the Time War, leading to the one we see in the possession of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors?
Here's the Tenth Doctor in his own TARDIS, for comparison...
... and finally, The Eleventh Doctor in his own, Geronimo-ing us into the end of the Trailer. Phew! What a ride!
And if that wasn't exciting enough, there's even more fun to look forward to tomorrow night (if it doesn't leak... again) according to the BBC, with a second trailer coming. Typical - you wait months for the damn thing and two come along at once! It's like waiting for buses...
Apparently this second trailer will be the one shown at previous events such as Comic Con and the Edinburgh Television Festival, with complete CGI effects that were previously unfinished. Charlie Jane's got a good run down of the Comic Con trailer she saw, so if you want to know what to expect, take a gander!
UPDATE: Trailer #2 is now available to view online!
The Day of The Doctor airs on November 23rd, at 7.50pm GMT on BBC One. For international viewers watching the simulcast, BBC America's Doctor Who Tumblr has got a handy guide to find out the right time for your region.


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MEPs called upon the Commission to set up a binding mechanism that would guarantee the respect for democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights in Member States. As a Hungarian from Romania Csaba Sógor stated: this may be the greatest practical contribution the European Parliament ever made in order to develop a framework for the European Union that would make the Copenhagen Criteria – including on securing the rights of national minorities – binding in case of Member States that already joined the EU.
The importance of the anti-corruption fight is undisputable, but the exaggerations of the Romanian authorities cannot be left unmentioned. Often enough the media announces accusations before the authorities, and these charges may or may not be confirmed later - declared MEP Csaba Sógor during the May 7th meeting of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee of the European Parliament during the debate on the European Commission's 2014 report on Romania's and Bulgaria's progress on judiciary reform.
The European Commission encourages people with disabilities to apply for jobs in the European Union institutions and gives assurance that all necessary arrangements will be made to create the necessary working conditions for them. Members of the European Parliament debated on the issue on the 15th of April. During the plenary session in Brussels the MEPs agreed: the European Union institutions need to set an example for the Member States in this issue.
The European Parliament debated on the German regulations, which also affect Eastern-European freight transport operators. The plenary debate WAS held in Brussels on Wednesday, 25 March, in the presence of European Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc.
Members of the European Parliament debated the situation of democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights in the EU on Wednesday. The meeting was attended by the Vice-President of the Commission, Frans Timmermans and a representative of the Latvian Presidency. MEPs assessed what tools the EU has in case EU member states themselves do not meet the Copenhagen criteria.
"We need to focus more on minority issues, because the way we treat them shows how much we respect each other in our society" – said the European Commission's first vice president Frans Timmermans, at the meeting of the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) on Wednesday.
MEPs Csaba Sógor and Iuliu Winkler addressed a letter to the European Commission regarding the Romanian appellate court's ruling in the Mikó case. In the letter addressed to First Vice President of the Commission, Frans Timmermans and Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Commissioner Vĕra Jourová the RMDSZ MEPs urge the European Commission to find a means to rectify the wrongful ruling.
"The decision of the EC refuses the partnership offer of the European national and linguistic minorities. In my opinion the EC made a political decision, because this initiative - wanting to enforce minority rights - was properly prepared both legally and technically. I consider that the biggest success of our initiative is the achievement of the European minority solidarity. Our common proposals remains valid for the future, regardless the answer of the EC"– stated Kelemen Hunor, the president of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) after the European Commission refused the registration of the Minority SafePack European Citizen's Initiative. The members of the initiation committee were informed of this decision in a letter dated on the 16th of September.

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Bad Language ahead, you know, incase you didn't work it out from the Title.
Yay I've almost made it into double figures in blogtober posts. Not a massive thing for many bloggers, but I've never been the best at regular uploads, scheduling etc. Since starting this new blog ( you can still view my 'old' one at http://www.missclx.com) I've found it near impossible to build an audience. I'm sure not many would admit it but it's easy to feel discouraged from posting when you feel like no ones reading. Everyone has a reason for starting to blog and whilst 99% of people do it for themselves / a perfectly good reason. I'd be a liar if I said followers weren't important.
Anyway, today's post. Yep the title is kinda rude and straight to the point. Sorry not sorry. If you follow me on Instagram you'll know I recently embarked on a fitness / weightloss journey. Now starting any sort of journey like this is difficult, more so if you're struggling with a chronic illness like myself. Part of this journey has obviously involved exercise, in my case joining the gym. Now I'm sure many gym goers are already aware but if you're not a gym goer, or just haven't noticed, the gym is full of, well… twats. TWATS EVERYWHERE !!
So let me educate you on some of them. If your reading this and fall into one of these categories / do these things, maybe have a word with yourself. Please. Thankyou.
Hey I'm aware I'm not the slimist, fittest girl in the gym. I'm out of breath, dripping in sweat and might need to ask for help on how to work one of the machines. I'm trying though. We've all gotta start somewhere. Everyone was a beginner once. So stop judging that over weight person who's only lifting a couple of kilos. They're here trying to do something, trying to make a change. Honestly that's more than those still sat at home on the sofa eating pizza.
Talkative Twats
Now this is personal preference. Some people like having a workout buddy to chat to. Not me though. I have headphones in. Take the hint, I don't wanna chat thanks.
Grunting Twats
Why the sound effects? We get it, you lift. (Another reason I wear headphones)
Untidy Twats
Hey, you know that rack you just got the dumbells off? The weights also fit back on that rack when you've finished. You know, where they belong. Mind blowing, I know. Who'd of thought? They don't actually belong on the floor, scattered around the gym so that no one else can find them.
Sweaty Twats
I sweat A LOT !! But I'm a nice considerate person, so when I drip sweat all over a machine, I wipe it off. So the next person doesn't have to sit it in. If everyone else could do the same that'd be great.
Selfie Twats
Who doesn't love a good gym selfie? I do. Are you actually going to use that though? Or just take pictures with it? When the gym is packed the last thing I have patience for is you hogging a machine for nothing else but Instagram likes. By all means if the gym is practically empty and there's no one else waiting to use the equipment, go ahead.
I promise I'll use the word twat less in future posts, maybe.
Anything that annoys you at the gym? How're you enjoying blogtober?
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In other news, Hillary Clinton's 2016 win will be a landslide.
Here is the poll from Rasmussen
Nearly 1-in-4 Republicans say they'll vote for Oprah? I don't think so...
A new poll from conservative-leaning pollster Rasmussen finds Oprah Winfrey beating President Trump by 10 points in a hypothetical 2020 matchup.
Forty-eight percent of respondents said they would vote for Winfrey, compared with 38 percent who said they would vote to reelect Trump. Fourteen percent were undecided.
Among Democrats, 76 percent said they would support Winfrey, as would 22 percent of Republicans and 44 percent of independents.
The president gets the support of 66 percent of Republicans, 12 percent of Democrats and 38 percent of independents.
Talks of Winfrey running for president have quickly gained traction after she gave a powerful speech about sexual harassment and racial justice at the Golden Globes on Sunday.
Fifty-five percent of those polled have a favorable view of Winfrey, and 34 percent have an unfavorable one


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Cindy Sherman
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
July 14 – October 07, 2012
Cindy Sherman is recognized as one of the most important contemporary artists of the last 40 years and arguably the most influential artist working exclusively with photography. Sherman has served as her own model for more than 30 years, generating a range of guises and personas that are by turns amusing and disturbing, distasteful and affecting. Bringing together more than 170 key photographs from a variety of Sherman's acclaimed bodies of work, the presentation constitutes the first overview of her career in the United States since 1997. This retrospective traces the groundbreaking artist's career from her early experiments as a student in Buffalo in the 1970s to her recent large-scale photographic murals.
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Women's Soccer
The Tigers Soccer women won their first of two crucial games played last weekend by beating the SMU Huskies 1-0 on Friday, Oct. 16 at Wickwire Field. The win brought the Tigers' record to 3-4-2 on the season, good for sixth place in the AUS but still one spot out of the playoffs, as last-place Moncton is the host.
The Tigers started fast in the match as Doriana Homerski made a nice move to her left foot to smash a strike for her second of the year and a 1-0 Tigers lead. Homerski was named the player of the match as she continued to put on offensive pressure for the rest of the match.
Homerski's goal stood up for the Tigers as neither team would find the back of the net again in the match.
The Tigers worked 10 shots in the match to the Huskies 3. Katie Morgan made three saves for the clean-sheet.
Men's Soccer
The men's soccer Tigers played the SMU Huskies to a 0-0 draw on Friday, Oct. 16 at 'the Wick'. The tie moved their record to 4-2-3 on the season and had them sitting in fifth place in the AUS.
The Tigers ripped an astounding 25 shots to the Huskies 5 but could not find a way to beat Huskies Keeper Christian Oxner who made 16 saves in a stellar performance.
The Tigers went on to face the StFX X-Men on Sunday Oct. 18 at 'the Wick'.


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Adoption is the OptionCommentary by Sanford D. Horn
February 25, 2014
A recent column in The Indianapolis Star written by Sandy Sasso, rabbi emerita of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis, calls to "Fight poverty, promote sex ed to reduce abortions."
Nowhere in her liberal diatribe calling for less government intrusion in people's bedrooms, but then hypocritically demanding government funding for abortion and birth control, did the good rabbi ever mention the word ADOPTION. Nowhere – not once in her entire screed.
The one aspect of Sasso's column with which I agree is her pronouncement that "we all want to reduce the number of abortions." How we get there is a different story.
Yet, another one of her assertions, that "The most important fact is that no one is 'pro-abortion,'" is both naïve and disingenuous. Sasso's statement is not a "fact" as she avers; it's barely wishful thinking. Planned Parenthood, an abortion mill advocating for abortion, makes its money performing abortions. They would not remain in business were it not for the thousands upon thousands of abortions it commits year in and year out, raking in millions and millions of dollars on the deaths of the unborn for whom there is no one to speak up when the woman or worse yet, girl, in the examination room is told that it is alright to slaughter her own flesh and blood.
Fighting poverty is a great idea suggested by Sasso, but poverty is not the reason young women having abortions are pregnant in the first place. The reason is a poor education starting at home – a home that ideally should have a mother and a father.
The generations of teen and out of wedlock pregnancies are more often the result of a lack of education, but this is a generational, systemic crisis that sex education in the schools has not cured. Nor has the inculcation of condoms in the schools diminished the pregnancy/abortion crisis.
Sex education must start with the simple fact that condoms, the pill, a diaphragm, or any other forms of birth control are not 100 percent effective. The only foolproof manner of avoiding pregnancy is the abstinence of the behavior that would result in pregnancy – sexual intercourse. Offering condoms in schools send the absolute wrong message – that such an offer is a tacit approval of the behavior requiring the condom in the first place.
Then there is the issue of who is paying for those condoms in the schools. If condoms are in public schools, they are being financed by the people – the taxpayers, as tax dollars are used to fund that enterprise.
This is yet another area where Sasso is wrong. She writes "The opponents of reproductive rights have found a new argument to promote their cause: fiscal conservatism." Sasso is wrong on two counts. Conservatives do not oppose reproductive rights. Conservatives oppose reproductive wrongs. It is wrong to slaughter an innocent baby in the womb – as Jewish and Catholic beliefs support life beginning at conception. It is wrong for that conceived baby not to have a voice while a Planned Parenthood agent is encouraging such a slaughter. It is wrong for abortion to be used as a form of birth control.
Here is where adoption comes into play. Adoption – once again, a word and concept never presented by Sasso in her editorial. There are thousands of American married couples desiring children, who, for one reason or another have not been blessed by G-d with conception. These couples can and will provide the unwanted child with a home and most importantly, a life – a safe harbor from the abortionists butcher knife. American babies being adopted by American couples – that should be the goal.
Sasso is also wrong to say fiscal conservatism is a new argument against abortion. This has been a long-standing battle between conservatives and liberals. Sasso plunges way into the deep end when she wrote conservatives "want to ensure that the federal government pays neither for abortions nor contraception, regardless of the fact that these are constitutionally protected rights." Sasso does not seem to understand the definition of the word fact. She has twice used it to suggest something she believes is true when in FACT it is not.
Yes, it is a fact that conservatives, and many independents and moderates, for that matter, object to any taxpayer dollars funding abortions and contraceptives. It is not a fact, however, that a federally funded abortion or contraceptive is a constitutional right. The landmark 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade granted rights of privacy, but did not mention either abortion or contraceptives. And the growing sentiment coming from the vox populi is to call for the overturning of Roe in a march to the Supreme Court each January.
Using Sasso's faulty logic though, according to the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, we the people have the right to bear arms. Should the federal government then provide the general public with those guns?
Sasso then suggests that no one is calling for the secession of federal funding for Viagara. Think again, rabbi. The federal government should no more be funding Viagara than it should abortions or birth control. It shouldn't be in the baby business at all – including adoption – that should be the work of synagogues, churches, and various other legitimate religious organizations.
Abortion can be reduced with honest sex education extolling the virtues of abstinence as a surefire way to avoid pregnancy. Abortion can be reduced with honest sex education offered with guest speakers telling of the true life horrors of what happens to the fetus during the abortion procedure. Abortion can be reduced with honest sex education offered by women who underwent the deleterious procedure and how they regretted it. Abortion can be reduced by encouraging adoption and reminding those considering abortion that there are loving couples who desire nothing more than to raise, nurture, and love a child, yet are unable to produce one on their own.
That Rabbi Sasso never once mentioned adoption in her editorial raises more questions than it answers. Does she support abortion more than adoption? It creates a cacophony between her profession and the issue at hand. Sasso never mentioned that abortion has killed more blacks than the Ku Klux Klan. Sasso, a rabbi, never decried abortion in the Jewish community as a second Holocaust either.
Abortion is not our portion. Adoption is the option.
Sanford D. Horn is a writer and educator living is Westfield, IN. He is an active member of Congregation Shaarey Tefilla in Carmel, IN.


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These days, no one has a good excuse for not accepting credit card payments. That includes the smallest of businesses. And it includes, well, you. Way back in 2009, Square torpedoed the idea that taking credit cards had to be cumbersome, esoteric, or exclusive. The company's free card reader plugged into the iPhone's headphone jack, and its wonderfully simple register app handled the rest.
Since then, credit card readers for phones and tablets have become commonplace, and Square's device is far from the only option. Everyone from financial software giants PayPal and Intuit to startups like PayAnywhere and ShopKeep offer similar swipe-ready gadgets and apps. Card readers have become, in business jargon, "commoditized."
For Square, the proliferation of competitors means finding new ways to set itself apart. That goes some way to explaining why a company ostensibly devoted to credit cards just bought buying Caviar, a company that delivers food from local restaurants that typically don't offer delivery on their own.
In recent months, Square has expanded its operation in other ways more directly related to the pure act of paying, offering everything from an invoicing service to an instant customer feedback option built into digital receipts. Just last week, Square revealed its newest card reader, double-slotted in preparation for next year's transition in the U.S. away from magnetic stripe credit cards to the chip-based variety used in other parts of the world. All these are ways Square is seeking to set its platform apart from the competition, to make the Square way to pay the most attractive option for businesses.
But with its Caviar acquisition, Square took a different kind of leap. As brick-and-mortar businesses transition away from clunky cash registers to mobile payments, the Caviar deal suggests that success in the crowded field of credit-card acceptance may ultimately have little to do with credit cards at all. It will be about offering merchants as many ways to offload the mundane aspects of running a successful retail operation as possible.
Caviar presents itself as a kind of high-end version of popular app-based food delivery services such as Seamless. It keeps its list of restaurants relatively small ("curated," in the parlance of today's startups), local, and relatively high-end—much like the list of businesses Square likes to highlight among its users. And it nicely dovetails with Square in other ways.
Already, Square offers its Market feature, which lets businesses launch online storefronts with product listings generated straight from the inventory in their register apps (though delivery is still the responsibility of the merchants). More recently, Square launched an app that lets users order ahead at restaurants, taking care of the payment before you even show up. In a way, Caviar combines these options—it's an online marketplace for restaurants that lets you order ahead—while completing the circle by bringing the food directly to diners.
"By making delivery such a fast, friendly, and easy process, Caviar gives time back to restaurants so they can focus on what they do best—cooking great food for their customers," Square CEO Jack Dorsey said in the press release announcing the acquisition.
The idea of "giving time back" directly echoes Dorsey's pitch for Square as a payments platform for businesses of all kinds. From setting up the credit card reader to Square's flat fee structure, the company markets its approach to credit cards as a way to make the tedious parts of running a business vanish into the background. The time saved ostensibly allows those businesses to focus on the creative aspects of what they do.
The Caviar acquisition allows Square to say to restaurant customers: "Now the logistics of payments and delivery are no longer your problems." And it's not hard to imagine Square expanding that option to non-food businesses that might also benefit from having the ability to have someone else deliver what they're selling. But in the end, it's not just the menu of features that will offer competitive advantage, but how those features are implemented.
In Square's world, usability through elegant design is the key to the disappearing act it promises. And in a sense, that way of thinking is really what Square is selling. In a marketplace where credit card readers are a commodity, Square clearly sees a need to sell itself not just as a payments platform but as a sensibility.


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This week in food events: Bubbly Creek Brawl, Crob Mob and moreBy Louisa Chu
This week in food events: Bubbly Creek Brawl, Crob Mob and moreBy Louisa Chu
Monday, July 23
Eat all you can with Amigos de Pintxo at Barcito, "[p]art of the proceeds will be donated to Common Threads." Held every other Monday, this week "Pintxo the Perro [a Spanish French Bulldog cousin to Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog] and Ryan Poli invite Merlin Verrier of Graham Elliot to the Guest Chef Series." Co-founded by Art Smith, Common Threads' mission is "to educate children on the importance of nutrition and physical well-being, and to foster an appreciation of cultural diversity through cooking." Admission $25.
Tuesday, July 24
Bring your black thumb to Organic Vegetable Gardening 101 Workshop at The Plant. No yard? No problem. "This workshop is for beginner vegetable gardeners planting both in the ground and in containers. "What's The Plant? It's "a new kind of organization in a very old building. It's part vertical farm, part food-business incubator, part research and education space — and it will be entirely off the grid." Admission $20.
Wednesday, July 25
See pigs fly at the 84th Annual Lake County Fair in Grayslake, until this Sunday, July 29. Well they must, since new this year there's "[d]aily pig-wing eating contests and Sunday grand championships." See what you missed last year here. I highly recommend the corn dogs and elephant ears, but not while strolling lovely Livestock Lane. But please note there are air-conditioned and attended restrooms in the Expo Hall! Admission $8 weekdays/$10 weekend; $5 seniors/children; active military in uniform with ID, FREE; see all ticket details here.
Thursday, July 26
Meet the Market at Nellcôte, and by the "Market" they mean the Green City Market Junior Board and Mick Klug from Mick Klug Farm. "Chef Jared Van Camp will feature snacks and cocktails using fresh produce from Mick Klug. A portion of the proceeds benefit Green City Market's EBT Link matching program!" Admission FREE including snacks, cocktails additional with cost donated to GCM.
Dosado to the Inaugural Sugar Beet Coop Benefit Gala at Fitzgerald's Nightclub. "We can't wait to do-si-do with you to the charming square dance tunes of the Golden Horse Ranch Square Dance Band. In Sugar Beet style, we will be honoring the farmers and their amazing work with a farm-to-table dinner prepared by local chefs." What's Sugar Beet? "The Sugar Beet Cooperative will provide high quality, locally sourced food produced in ecologically sounds ways." Admission $40 adult, $10 children.
Friday, July 27
Cross that bridge to the 8th Annual Chefs and the City at the Ritz-Carlton, benefitting Heartland Alliance's Vital Bridges Center on Chronic Care. The event features "features 26 of Chicago's top culinary talents" with tastings, beer/wine/cocktail pairings, dessert, and even late night bites. "Vital Bridges' mission is to help people throughout metropolitan Chicago impacted by HIV and AIDS to improve their health and build self-sufficiency by providing food, nutrition counseling, housing, care coordination and prevention services." Admission $200 Main Tasting, $400 VIP.
Saturday, July 28
Expand Your Growing Season: Planting Fall Crops at this month's Green City Market Edible Gardens workshop in Lincoln Park Zoo's Farm-in-the-Zoo. "The Edible Gardens program at Green City Market provides hands-on gardening education and activities to children, adults and school groups...We will direct seed for plants that will mature in fall such as carrots, turnips, and beets." Admission FREE.
Mob the crops at Crop Mob at Chicago Lights Urban Farm, with the tireless Green City Market Junior Board. "The farm empowers neighborhood youth and residents to have increased economic opportunities through access to organic produce, nutritional education, and work-force training. Come check out this oasis in the city and lend our friends at Growing Power a hand. We'll be building growing beds, wood-chipping pathways, seeding some fall crops, and fixing up the compost bins."Admission FREE but please RSVP.
Let's get ready to bubble! — at the Bubbly Creek Barrel Brawl at the Co-Prosperity Sphere. "From the shores of Chicago's only naturally fermenting river rises a homebrew contest and event unlike any other. A keg vs. keg faceoff for the ultimate prize: brew the winning beer with Pete Crowley at Haymarket Pub." Drink beer, judge, and get a souvenir tasting glass too. Admission $20.
Celebrate from sunset kirtan until dawn at Edible Alchemy's 3rd annual Summer Feastival in Pilsen, with "DIY workshops on cooking, gardening, community organizing, and more" including macrobiotic kimchi rice rolls, almond ganache tartlettes, watermelon salsas, beer, cocktails, kombucha, and even fire spinning! "Through close ties with local farmers, ecologically-minded partners, and urban initiatives, Edible Alchemy sustains local food production to the community of Chicago."Admission $20 including food; whiskey and kombucha additional.
Sunday, July 29
Get a sweet dose at this month's Dose Market at the River East Arts Center. This month's market cause, the Honeycomb Project, will raise funds with their local honey and handmade honeycomb soap. Through the Honeycomb Project "[p]arents and kids are working together to improve our city and learning first-hand about local issues like river health, homelessness and literacy." Also at the market get a free astrology reading, a new Dose-inspired doughnut from Glazed & Infused, and Mess Hall & Co.'s bar cherries: "tart cherries, demerara sugar, bourbon, cinnamon twigs, tellicherry peppercorn, vanilla bean, clove, star anise." Admission $8 advance, $10 door.


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Saturday, June 13, 2015
Sampling, Doodles, Play
Taking a bit of time to warm up before actually working on a project has been really enjoyable for me. I will most definitely continue this practice. A few french knots, fme on mulberry paper, knots amid a few yo yo's as well as french knots on gold tissue. These are the pages I have added since the last post. Now off to complete some domestic chores left from yesterday.
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Friday, June 12, 2015
Playing With....
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Sunday, June 07, 2015
New Pouch...
here to her blog. She does the most wonderful epp ever and has so many lovely things on her blog. I am enjoying the stitching thus far, as I said it is not much, but it is a start. A seam of buttonhole stitch, which I may go back and do a second round. A bit of a puffed up circle, which is made using cabone rings. I have two more of those to stitch before I move on to something else. I also made a small book to do warm up stitching in. The idea was taken from Karen Ruane after she did a post on her blog this past week. Now off to grab a cuppa and stitch a bit more.
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|One of the Papal Papillons
Anti-Catholic articles have been coming out almost daily in the Guardian over the past couple of weeks. It is no longer news that the Nazi Pope, having personally and single-handedly invented Zyklon B in his school chemistry laboratory, tested it in sadistic experiments on the biology department's guinea pigs, and then perfected the final solution on his school friends' pets by exterminating them in his father's garden shed, nor that he is a notorious queer basher who will go to any lengths to cover-up paeodo-priests.
Iceberg of Evil
But queer-bashing and covering up is only the tip of the Iceberg of Evil that is the Vatican. The Inquisition is still going full-steam-ahead. Popes and the Roman Cardinals eat babies. It is one of the perks of the job. They are served on feast days and every day throughout Lent, when ordinary Catholics are expected to fast. Regarded as a great delicacy, they have to be under ten days old, when they are sweetest and juiciest. Roasted babies are prepared by the top Vatican chefs, who are sworn to secrecy not to divulge their special recipes handed down from the Middle Ages. Their creations are brought to the table on solid gold salvers. The reigning Pope gets to eat a whole baby every Friday (the bones and chewy bits are made into soup and what is left over after that is fed to the Papal pack of Papillons). At the same time the gullible faithful (what other kind are there?) are forced to make do with pea soup and dry bread as part of their Friday penance. It can only be a matter of time before this dark secret is revealed.
This also explains why the Catholic church is so against abortion. The Popes and Cardinals have to secure their supply of babies for their feasting.
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Moussi set for Lions bow
Millwall can add Guy Moussi to their squad for the visit of Barnsley.
Lions manager Steve Lomas has drafted in the Frenchman on loan from Nottingham Forest while letting fellow midfielder Josh Wright move to Leyton Orient on loan.
Lomas will check on striker Scott McDonald, who missed the 3-1 defeat at Bolton a fortnight ago after tweaking his hamstring in training.
Full-back Scott Malone is set to miss out again with a knee injury but centre-half Mark Beevers is fit after six weeks out with a knee problem.
Barnsley midfielder Jacob Mellis will return to contention following an ankle injury.
Mellis missed the goalless home draw against Doncaster before the international break, but is fit again and could go straight back into the starting line-up.
Luke Steele remains sidelined due to a back injury, so on-loan Stoke goalkeeper Jack Butland will retain his place and defender Peter Ramage is still struggling with the thigh injury that has ruled him out of the last four matches.
Teenage midfielder Paul Digby could return to the substitutes' bench following his return from international duty with the England Under-19s squad.
Source: PA
Source: PA


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Chunky Chili
No need to trade in your cow for a handful of magic beans to make the best chili ever. It's free right here. The chunks of meat are tender and flavorful. This is a real winter winner sure to please all your chili connoisseurs.
2 lb. venison roast cubed
{or beef roast}
2 - 14.5 oz. cans diced tomatoes or fresh
1 can Rotel
3 - 14.5 oz. cans chili beans
1 pkg. chili seasoning.
1. Cube venison roast.
2. Add roast to Crockpot, salt & pepper to taste, add 2 cups water.
3. Cook on low for 3 hours.
4. Drain meat.
5. In pot on stovetop add meat, seasoning and canned goods.
6. Heat to boil, then simmer for twenty minutes.
Witchy Tip: Heat it up! Add spices to your liking.
Veggie Venison Soup
After a long,cold, rainy day in the field bow-hunting for my guys, and a long evening in the field shopping at the local mall for yours truly, a warm meal was very appreciated. I had marinated this roast the night before and threw it in the crockpot that morning. We all got home about 7:30 that night, and were starving. The Mighty Oak took care of the vegetables and I cut up the roast. We stirred the pot {like we tend to do} and within twenty minutes this delicious soup was ready for consumption. Served with mugs of apple cider and this meal is another witchy winner. Perfect for a cold fall evening.
2 lb. venison roast
{or beef roast}
1 quart tomato juice
2 cans sliced potatoes
1 can chick peas
1 can green beans
1 can corn
1 can mushrooms
1. Marinate roast in Italian dressing at least 1 hour or overnight.
2. Add roast to Crockpot and discard marinade.
3. Cook on low for 6 to 7 hours until shreddable.
4. Use a dutch oven on the cooktop and add vegetables .
5. Heat to boil, then simmer for twenty minutes.
Witchy Tip: Tweak the vegetable ingredients to suit your tastes!
Italian Venhattans
This hearty recipe is a real family pleaser that can be started in the morning, and ready for yummy consumption at dinner time. This is a recipe that can be served on hoagie rolls with the juices for a tasty au jus or serve as a traditional "Manhattan" on bread and mashed potatoes. Freeze half the roast for another meal. I'll show you how to make that one later this winter.
2 lb. venison roast
{or beef roast}
1 pkg. Zesty Italian Good Seasonings dry dressing pack
1 jar sliced Pepperoncinis
1 large onion sliced.
Salt & pepper to taste.
1. Add trimmed roast to Crockpot.
2. Add dry seasonings over roast.
3. Cut up onions and add.
4. Pour entire jar of pepperoncinis {including juice} into Crockpot.
5. Cook on low for 6 to 8 hours until shreddable.
6. For a Venhattan serve on bread and mashed potatoes.
7. Or serve on a hoagie roll for Italian Venison sandwich.
Witchy Tip: After cooked, split into two servings.
We'll be using the second half for a later recipe this winter.
Harvest Stew
The weather is shifting and the harvest is in full swing. As we convert to sweaters, and watch the leaves begin to change, we also transition into heartier dinner menus.
While my sacred hunters are prepping for a new season, I am creating meals from the end of last year's sacred deer harvest. We have several venison favorites in our home, and this one is always a hit. The key is the marinade!
2 lb. venison roast
{or beef roast}
1 cup Italian dressing
1 pkg. bacon
1 onion, chopped
1 cup mushrooms, sliced
1 can chickpeas {14.5 oz.}
3 potatoes, chunked
1 can or jar stewed tomatoes {14.5 oz.)
2 cans {14.5 oz. each} beef broth
1. Cut venison roast into 1" chunks.
2. Add venison to plastic bag or container. Add Italian dressing to marinate for at least 1-hour, though I have done it up to 24 hours.
3. Cook bacon in stew pot. Remove and drain bacon fat.
4. Put onion and mushrooms in pot and cook until soft.
5. Add venison to pot from marinade bag.
6. Add chickpeas, bacon, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots and broth.
7. Bring to a boil and then reduce to low. Cover and simmer for one hour. Uncover and cook 20 more minutes until sauce has thickened. Enjoy!
You can also find this recipe in the first edition of "Magickal Pathways" an e-mag by Dee Morrison.


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Hoping to inspire and encourage those interested in drawing or painting to have-a-go.
Thursday, 20 June 2013
Tempus Fugit
On another matter, I've finally dragged myself kicking and squealing into the 21st century ... I've bought myself a tablet ... a Samsung Galaxy Note 8. There are many reasons why I preferred it to other tablets, one being it's built-in pressure sensitive digital pen. I've tried a few doodles and doubt I'll ever do any serious drawing with it, but it's great fun and I'm now on the lookout for the best drawing software to go with it. Don't be surprised if you see some digital doodles posted here from time to time. I'm also hoping my new tablet will help me get round your blogs more often as I'll be able to use it at times when I can't normally get to my PC.
I had taken my camera with me to the park, as always, and on the way back from the exhibition I detoured to the lakes. An enjoyable half-hour with my camera resulted in scores of photo's to be scrutinised once back home and I'll close this post by sharing 3 or 4 of them with you.
Thank you for stopping by and I hope to get to YOUR blog very soon.
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You've done so well with this ..ReplyDelete
I hope to see more of these single subject type paintings.Replies
Thank you very much BJ. Yes, I'd like to do a few more like this ... it was quite enjoyable.Delete
Glad to see you again in blogland, John! Great painting and great pictures!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you very much Judy.Delete
Time does fly and sometimes life gets in the way! My posts are less regular at the moment while we have a young pup... Anyway - your painting is lovely! I'm thinking of switching to watercolour again for a while because it's a much quicker medium...ReplyDeleteReplies
It'll be nice to see some new watercolours from you Sandra, not that you're oils aren't in a class of their own, which they are, but you're watercolours were always something special too. ;-)Delete
So true John... where is the time going? Have no idea. It sure is difficult to fit everything we want to do into the little time we have. I'm really glad to see you are still painting and beautifully at that. I suppose this shortness of time makes us appreciate more the creative time we do have and not take it for granted.ReplyDeleteReplies
I agree with you Laura about appreciating the time we DO get. Even the simplest little sketch feels more special somehow.Delete
Lots of great artists were unable to sell their work...many lived in obscure poverty. Artists see, feel and react to the world differently. They discover greatness in small details...your work reflects that.ReplyDeleteReplies
That's a lovely thing for you to say Trudy, thank you very much.Delete
Hello John, you and me both are struggling to post :)ReplyDelete
Lovely painting and cute photos.Replies
Thank you very much Sue. I hope to get back to it soon as I'm feeling extremely 'stagnant'. ;-)Delete
Time certainly does fly! Love the anemone and the Churchill/fuschia. You are right, we should be heartists :)ReplyDelete
Nice to see you post again xxReplies
Thank you very much Pat.Delete
Love that new word 'heartists' , it is spot one :-))))) Your Anemone is lovely john , your way seems perfect to me.ReplyDeleteReplies
You're very kind Jane, thank you. ;-)Delete
Your layering technique seem to work fine. This flower is very pretty John! I guess you´re right. We should call ourselves heartists ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Catharina. I've still got a very long way to go but, as you know, it's always nice trying something new. ;)Delete


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It used to be small timers that fake genuine goods: handbags, watches and clothings. Most customers knew that they were getting the fakes but at a small fraction of the genuine item, nobody minds.
Looks like the big boys are moving in.
©2008 Am Ang Zhang
First with Breasts: PIP implants manufactured by a French farm using non medical grade material: read it all here>>>>
Then Cameras: Nikon.
Nikon was the big boy of Japanese camera and at one point dominated the market ousting the likes of Leica in the photo-journalistic world. The Cockroach Catcher knows his cameras as he is a devotee of Leica, Hasselblad and dare I say it: Nikon.
Then came Canon: who sort of pushed Nikon into 2nd place. The 5Dll is one hell of a camera and is even used for movie filming.
Now Nikon D800 arrived and is supposed to be the Canon 5Dlll basher.
First it has a serious focusing problem: how can you beat the other guy if your IT people cannot get the software right!
That has nothing to do with faking, you might say. But in my search for the problems with focusing I found that Nikon used a Canon 5Dll shot movie pretending it was shot with the D800. Wow!!! The Big Boy!
Wait for this: they lifted it from the web infringing copyright and they have now settled: sum undisclosed.
In my post on PIP implant I suggested that the French should stick to wine making: I was unfortunately wrong. They only make the labels it would seem.
In the wine worlds most dramatic news since the Austrians added anti-freeze to their wines years ago one of the big Burgundian houses is in serious trouble.
©2008 Am Ang Zhang
Four directors of Maison Labouré-Roi, the 180-year-old Burgundy negociant house, have been accused of various counts of wine fraud.
…..Public Prosecutor Eric Lallement said during a press conference held in Dijon last night (13 June) that the fraud office was first alerted due to a disparity in figures between what the company was actually bottling and what it should have been, given the yields declared at harvest time. 'It was as if the company was managing to vinify 100% of its musts, which is impossible,' he said.
On investigating this, he said police found evidence of several specific frauds: firstly bypassing legal blending limits, affecting every level of the production from Grand Cru, Premier Cru and Village appellations, and adding table wine to wine musts to top up the 'angel's share', Lallement said. He said the suspected fraud related to 500,000 bottles of wine, worth €2.7m in sales.
The second fraud detailed was over wine quality and labeling. 'When the company needed to fulfil an order of a wine that it had run out of, it swapped labels with other wines,' said Lallement. The magnitude of this fraud is estimated to be around 1.1m bottles.
The second fraud detailed was over wine quality and labeling. 'When the company needed to fulfil an order of a wine that it had run out of, it swapped labels with other wines,' said Lallement. The magnitude of this fraud is estimated to be around 1.1m bottles.
Big Boys indeed:
The oenologist, the administrator, and now the two owners, Armand and Louis Cottin (aged 82 and 83), have all been arrested. The fraud is believed to have taken place between 2005 and 2009.
Labouré-Roi, owned by Cottin Freres since 1974, is the largest supplier of Burgundy wines to airlines, including British Airways, Air France and United Arab Emirates. It also supplies major retailers, deriving 50% of net sales from exports, and works with hundreds of Burgundy growers.
Masters of wines:
2009 and none of us knew? We must also be asking the Masters of Wine: Did you not taste any of the duds? Decanter gave a 2008 one a Bronze Medal. We should asked the Cottins: what wines did you use and perhaps we should buy those.
The Cockroach Catcher has been drinking South American for sometime and hopefully nobody is faking them yet.
Remember Coffee faking?
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4 Reasons You Need a Real Estate Attorney When Closing on a Home
Real Estate Attorneys
Real Estate Attorneys
Buying property for the first, or even the last, time can be full of surprises, both good and bad. You might find a house that is more spacious than you thought that you could afford, or purchase property that has been recently renovated. On the other hand, you may need to have an experienced attorney at law to help you go over the contracts and make a purchase that you will not come to regret after closing.
Some home buyers think that they can avoid hiring an attorney when they are going through the short sale process or are buying property from a relative. Even if you believe that you know what you are getting yourself into, these next four reasons will outline how an attorney can help you precisely.
Your Real Estate Attorney Is Loyal to You
If you hire a real estate attorney to represent you, you are always going to get the unadulterated truth. While having a real estate agent is also helpful, only a lawyer can determine what is always in your best interest legally. Whether you have an attorney so that you get the seller to provide you with adequate documentation or have a lawyer to solely act as the go between, you can count on your attorney working to ensure that your home purchase goes well.
Negotiating a Good Sales Price
After getting an appraisal on the property you want to purchase, your lawyer may recommend that you request a lower price. Your attorney can make a logical and factual argument presenting all the reasons that you should lower your offer, and you will be able to learn from your attorney if you are making a smart investment. Sometimes home buyers pay more for property than they have to simply because they aren't aware of all mitigating factors.
Finding Hidden Property Liens
When you buy real estate you also purchase any debts that are attached to it. While you can get a title search on your property, some debts can be hidden. If you hire an experienced attorney at law, you can have your sales contract written in a way that absolves you of all property liens and hidden debts. This will make the seller responsible for paying off any debts attached to your newly purchased property, and you won't need to worry about being duped into making an unwise purchase.
Having Recourse in Case You Need to Pull Out
Even if you really want to buy a home that you have been negotiating on for weeks, there are some times that it is better to take yourself out of the running. It could be because a property inspector found serious termite damage or because the seller has not been cooperative. If you have a real estate attorney, you will spend less time attempting to purchase property that will leave you with a major headache.
You can go to closing on a piece of property without a real estate attorney representing you, but there's also a good chance that you'll eventually hire one to represent you in court when you realize that you made a bad deal. Not only are real estate attorneys generally very reasonably priced, they can make the home purchasing process more affordable, too. Hire an attorney that will have your back at property settlement and you'll be able to move into a home that comes exactly as described.
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MEMS sensors for acceleration and rotation entered the automotive market about 15 years ago. Acceleration sensors were providing high-g signals of crashes in airbag systems, whereas gyroscopes and low-g sensors were providing signals for roll-over detection and ESP® systems. Typically, systems for active and passive safety demand for a high degree of functional safety (addressed by a redundant system architecture) and for a moderate performance of sensors with respect to offset stability (±100 mg or ±3.5 °/s) and to noise (<15 mgRMS or 0.4 (°/s)RMS).
The ongoing introduction of advanced driver assistance systems and comfort features to modern cars relies on improved sensing capabilities of inertial sensors: The low-g offset stability needs to be narrowed down to ±50 mg (and an impressive 20 mg for short-term drifts) and the noise being as quiet as 6 mgRMS or 0.2 (°/s)RMS, respectively [ref: MM7].
Reflecting the different sets of requirements (summarized in Table 1 ), Bosch developed two product categories for its SMI7 sensor family (see Figure 1 ): SMI700 and SMI710 support advanced comfort and driver assistance functions (ADAS) such as adaptive cruise control, hill-hold control, roll-stability control, active damping systems or vehicle motion observers. Active and passive safety functions are targeted by the second product category, constituted by SMI740 for ESP® and SMI720 for roll-over sensing.
Table 1: Measurement characteristics of the acceleration channels
If a car is equipped with SMI7 sensors, the integrated gyroscopes will notice whether the chassis is rolling or pitching, or whether the car is skidding in a curve (the ESP® system will react). The low-g accelerometers will assist when starting at a steep hill. They will notice whether the chassis is jumping (the damper control will react) or whether the driver is accelerating or braking. Considering all this information, the SMI7 components truly provide the equilibrium sense to the car. They could even be used to improve the performance of a GNSS based navigation system


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Is nothing sacred? The Next Web reports that Gandalf–an absolutely critical figure in most nerds' adolescences, the motherfucking Merlin of the 20th century–has been pimped out to promote Microsoft's line of Windows Phones:
Microsoft has partnered with Wunderman to create new digital, press and outdoor materials, featuring Bilbo Baggins (played by Martin Freeman), Gandalf (Sir Ian McKellen) and other characters from first film of trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson.
Warner Bros. has agreed to license the use of the characters in the UK, US, France and Germany — perhaps the most popular markets for devices running Microsoft's new Windows Phone 8 operating system.
All those years of careful brand management and painstaking assembly of arcane deep cuts like the Silmarillion, and now this.


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He passed me the disc, about the size of a small dinner plate and quite heavy. My hands were full of things needing to go through to the kitchen. There was only one thing for it, I placed the disc on my head and walked through that way, thinking how the lessons learned when we are younger than we are today still have value and inordinately pleased with myself that I could still do it without effort..
My mother used to tell me about good posture when I was small and it was fun trying to walk around with piles of books balanced on my head. We had to do the same at dance class. We had it in school and in the gym too back then. For my mother, it was about deportment; the way a lady carries the body. For my teachers, the idea was…
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Vallarta Tribune #681, article entitled "Our Twisted Way of Speaking"
Dear Tommy Clarkson:
I loved the use of your phrase "semantic forensics" in referring to the investigation of 'de-'; and I thought that, as a fellow LSI (Linguistic Sense Investigators, a language twist on CSI), I could offer a few more details to those interested in this etymological topic.
The difficulty with disassembling words that English got from Latin (when the Romans occupied England) and French (when the Normans conquered the Anglo Saxons in 1066 or somewhere there abouts) is that we recognize neither the word parts (from Latin and "made vulgar" by the Gauls) nor do we realize that most words are distilled forms of expressions, which to us may not have made sense even if we had heard the expression back when it was spoken natively!
An example of distilled forms of expression that pops into my mind in English is Watergate. We now have all kinds of different –gates, and we don't need the Nixon back-story in order for the 'gate' particle to have a whole new meaning. How did that happen?
Let's take, as an example from your article, the word 'debacle': désbâcle <= desbacler to unbar, free, "un-bar" which came from the French sense of "breaking up of ice on a river" that later was extended to "the violent flood that follows when the river ice melts." Now, if enough people share this experience over enough period of time, it is human tendency to distill the meaning down to a more general reference. Imagine: if we had a flood debacle resulting from some government agency's malfeasance where ice was the main point of failure, we could have 'ice-gate.'
In the paragraph above, I said that a sense was "extended to" another reference, signifying that meanings can drift. Take the word "hearse" in English: it first referred to a piece of cloth placed on a coffin, then it drifted to refer to the curtains in the carriage carrying the coffin, then it drifted to refer to the carriage itself. The term 'debauch' (in your article) appears to have experienced some similar strange evolution from "shaving away" [wood] in addition to being derived from some culturally shared, wild-ass concept of the time. What was the "wild-ass concept of the time" for our own word 'plowed', as in, "he got plowed yesterday." That would be a fun history to know! (Let's hope it has nothing to do with farm instruments as sex toys!)
But besides the dictionary-definition senses you list, de- is also a particle that makes something pejorative or that intensifies something. (The word 'up' is the most common intensifier in English: he ate all his food; he ate up all his food.) Then there are the subtleties in meaning of the particles themselves: De- is sometimes a contraction or corruption of dis- (not, not any, apart) or des- (off).
If we take the words (below) that you mentioned in the article and apply some etymology to them, we can see that these words do, indeed, follow a pattern — but from the parent language whence they came. In most all of them, you can see where the native English translations also use two "particles," but in the form of full words: break down, fall apart, lead astray, go away, take in, clear up, ward off, etc.
Debacle désbâcle <= desbacler to unbar, free, "un-bar," free up.
Debris <= debriser: break down («down break»)
Debauch <= "to trim (wood) to make a beam" (shave something away) a to lead astray.
Decadence, Decay <= from decay: de- "apart, down" + cadere "to fall": fall apart.
Decease <= de- "away" + cedere "go", literally: a departure as a euphemism for mors (dead). We say: pass away.
Deceive, Deceitful <= from de- "from" or pejorative + capere "to take": to ensnare, take in.
Decide <= from de- "off" + cædere "to cut": to cut off, with the sense of making up one's mind "at a stroke".
Declare <= from de- intensifier + clarare "clarify": clear up.
Defend <= from de- "from, away" + fendere "to strike, push: to ward off, push away.
So, I don't think our speaking is as twisted as it is anachronistic.
Maybe next edition, you'd like to tackle the -ed suffix when talking about pitted olives or light-hearted discourse. That's a great topic!
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Wally Badarou at in/future – Small World Music Stage presented by Exodus Travels
in/future – a transformative art experience
Old school funk from Talking Heads collaborator
Celebrating its 15th Anniversary, the Small World Music Festival is proud to partner with Art Spin to present in/future - a unique 11-day festival of arts and music from September 15 – 25 at Ontario Place. The Small World Stage, presented by Exodus Travels will host a lineup of the best contemporary sounds from around the world and around the corner. Full-day programs on the weekends and evening shows throughout the week will showcase artists that combine ancient and cutting-edge, while getting people up and dancing!
9:45PM Wally Badarou
Legendary keyboardist and funk pioneer, Wally is perhaps best known for the time spent with Talking Heads & Tom Tom Club along with British band Level 42, known for its blend of funk, pop and soul. He was one of the Compass Point All Stars (with Sly and Robbie), the in-house recording team responsible for recordings by Grace Jones, Jimmy Cliff and Gregory Isaacs.
8:15PM Fantahun Shewankochew and Ethio Zema Band
Energizing Ethiopian sounds, funky horns and relentless rhythm
7:00PM Fresh Snow
Featuring the inventive rock sounds that can shift from Godspeed to Kraftwerk to Mogwai within the same song. Dissonant and melodic, robotic and danceable, violent and beautiful: Fresh Snow is all these things.


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As evidenced by this video.
Yup. Someone took The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and then made a mod that replaced all the dragons with Thomas The Tank Engine. Now, I've only played a little bit of Skyrim, but I simply cannot stop laughing.
Speaking of dragons, I just got back from watching The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. As it is currently rather late and I have to get up early tomorrow to go to work, I shall give my opinion on the movie tomorrow.


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Hagan is doing a guide to Classic Doctor Who. The whole thing! This is Season 22.
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So much Blake's 7 people …
I am very surprised that you didn't talk about how the Doctor straight up kills a person in THE TWO DOCTORS. The Doctor ambushes Shockeye, covers his head with a butterfly net and KILLS him with some cotton wool soaked in CYANIDE! The Doctor even leaves the cyanide on Shockeye's face to make sure he's dead! And to make it even worse the Doctor cracks an after the kill one-liner like he's freakin' James Bond. No, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry" here, instead we get, "Your just Deserts." as the Doctor stands over the dead body! This episode proves that Number 6 was a very different kind of Doctor.
"I am very surprised that you didn't talk about how the Doctor straight up kills a person in THE TWO DOCTORS. The Doctor ambushes Shockeye, covers his head with a butterfly net and KILLS him with some cotton wool soaked in CYANIDE! The Doctor even leaves the cyanide on Shockeye's face to make sure he's dead!"
As I remember it, the sixth Doctor, after having had his leg slashed open, was being chased by a knife brandishing cannibal, who intended to kill, cook and eat him. So the Doctor's actions here were a clear case of self-defence. Now how does this compare to the forth Doctor wandering around Gallifrey in THE INVASION OF TIME, randomly shooting down Sontarans with a massive disintegrator gun?
"And to make it even worse the Doctor cracks an after the kill one-liner like he's freakin' James Bond."
Well, the first Doctor does something similar in THE REIGN OF TERROR when, after beating a man unconscious with a spade, he wisecracks 'Good day to you, sir! Pleasant dreams.' Equally, on finding the dead body of Marcus Scarman in PYRAMIDS OF MARS, the forth Doctor quips rather insensitively 'His late brother must have called.' The fifth Doctor also wasn't too concerned about delivering the odd tasteless joke, in THE AWAKENING, when Chandler tells him 'They burn Queen of the May,' the Doctor responds with 'The toast of Little Hodcombe,' which causes Chandler to reply, 'Tain't funny. She were screaming.'
In fact the Doctor is pretty callous about death generally. In THE ARMAGEDDON FACTOR, the forth Doctor shouts 'What a shot, Marshal! Ha, ha, well shot!' when his nuclear missiles strike the Shadow's planet, killing him his followers, and in DEATH TO THE DALEKS, the third Doctor, when watching a mechanical snake attack and destroy a Dalek, calls out 'Oh, good shot, sir. A hit! Yes, a palpable hit!'
Finally, at end of TERROR OF THE AUTONS, a story where the Master is responsible for killing loads of innocent people, we have this exchange between the third Doctor, the Brigadier and Jo:
BRIGADIER: Think he'll turn up again, Doctor?
DOCTOR: yes, bound to.
JO: You don't seem very worried about it.
DOCTOR: I'm not. As a matter of fact, Jo, I'm rather looking forward to it.
And, indeed, the Master does turn up again, kills another stack load of people, and tries to set off World War 3.
"Now how does this compare to the forth Doctor wandering around Gallifrey in THE INVASION OF TIME, randomly shooting down Sontarans with a massive disintegrator gun?"
The Doctor only uses The Demat Gun twice in THE INVASION OF TIME, once to save Leela, K9, Borusa, Rodan, Andred and himself. The second time he uses it is to save the ENTIRE GALAXY. At no time did he wander around Gallifrey randomly shooting down Sontarans.
"The Doctor only uses The Demat Gun twice in THE INVASION OF TIME,"
That we see on screen, but there were more than two Sontarans on Gallifrey, so where did the other ones go if the Doctor didn't wander around the place randomly shooting them down?
"once to save Leela, K9, Borusa, Rodan, Andred and himself."
Basically, in this scene a Sontaran turns up in the doorway, and the Doctor, without a seconds thought, shoots him dead. As his gun was much bigger than the Sontaran had, couldn't he have at least made an attempt to take him prisoner?
"The second time he uses it is to save the ENTIRE GALAXY."
Which means we have a story where the Doctor defeats the enemy, no through brain power, but by shooting him.
You know i just realized something, any time Doctor Who uses the word Time in an episode title, the episode is crap, unless the title is an alternate name for someone or a different force balances it out
Time Meddler and time Warrior are alternate names for the Monk and Links (probable spelled that wrong)
Time Crash and Space Time aren't TV episodes
Time of Angles and several 1rst Doctor stories are multi parters
Time of the Doctor has "of the Doctor" thing t cancel it out
But: Time Monster, Invasion of Time, Time Flight, Timelash, Time and the Rani, Dimensions in Time, The End of Time, and Closing Time are all crap.
Just something i noticed
Another good edition of the guide, although perhaps a bit overlong, anyway, here are my comments:
"Traditionally stories had the Doctor getting directly involved in the action near the end of episode 1,.but some of the writers on Season 22 were still in that mindset and so the Doctor often only really gets involved near the end of episode one.. or halfway through the story."
I Don't' think this had anything to do with the length of episode. It more likely comes from the "Androzani" effect, in that having had a sure fire hit with that adventure, various stories in Season 22 tried to ape its success by copying various elements. So as there was a greater emphasis on guest characters in "Androzani," more room was made in later stories to do the same. This lead to a longer set-up, and made the Doctor less the focus for attention, but that's not actually a bad thing.
"The best example of this is 'Revelation of the Daleks' where Peri and the Doctor spend 45 minutes wandering around in the snow."
Actually this was down to writer Eric Saward not being too keen on Colin Baker.
"we start with 'Attack of the cybermen.' Yet another story where they
spend some time being mysterious about the identity of the villains,
unaware that the title has already spoiled it."
This was down to Producer John Nathan-Turner wanting to get the word "Cybermen" put into the title so he could gain maximum publicity for the new season. Originally the story was called 'The Cold War.'
"But like pretty much all of this season it's not that great. Sorry. This
season has 3 settings. Crap, less crap and okay. Id file this under
less crap."
This plays into the old myth that Colin Baker's Doctor wasn't a success because his stories in Season 22 were bad. However, these stories are no worse, on the whole, then the ones Davison got. I think this rational came about as a way for fandom to explain to itself why Doctor Who had been suspended (of course, the real reason was because Michael Grade hated the programme, and had done so for many years).
"even the Sontarans are as pointless as they are terrible looking"
They are terrible looking, but they aren't pointless, as their involvement, and desire to get time travel technology, it central to the plot.
"And so that brings me to … A DRAMATISATION"
Not too keen on this as it's factually inaccurate on so many points its acutally misleading. Here are some examples:
1/Eric Saward commissioned the scripts, not JNT, so this conversation between the Producer and Robert Holmes could never have happened.
2/ Homes was asked to write three forty-five minute episodes from the get go.
3) The Sontarans were always meant to be in it.
4/ The idea of making food a plot point came about after Holmes was told that location filming was going to take place in New Orleans.
5/ JNT didn't decide to arbitarily change the filming location to Spain because Holmes was planning a holiday there. In reality, when New Orleans proved too expensive, JNT originally suggested Venice as an alternative. It was Production Associate Sue Anstruther who suggested Spain.
6/ Robert Holmes died from Hepatitis, not from the workload caused through rewriting 'The Three Doctors' (alternatively it was the Curse of Kamelion that killed him, as Kamelion's last appearance was in episode four of "The Caves of Androzani").
"Season 6b also explains… why the 2nd Doctor has a Tardis recall device in 'The Two Doctor'. A Tardis recall device that the 6th Doctor had always wanted. He was given it by the Time Lords to make
him a more efficient agent."
But it doesn't explain why, when Pertwee turns up, he doesn't have one fitted to his Tardis, or why the Sixth Doctor says 'A Stattenheim remote control? Where did you get that? I've always wanted one of those,"' because being the sixth Doctor, he had previously owned one during his term as the Second Doctor. Finally, if also doesn't explain why Doctors Two and Six are so happy with the dea of a remote control unit for the Tardis, as the Second Doctor says in 'The War Games,' that remot control of a Tardis was "impossible to achieve without shortening the life of the time control units."
"The season has a reputation for extreme violence and it is more violent than usual but I'm really not sure it's any more violent than any of the Hinchcliffe seasons."
All the stuff you may hear about Doctor Who being suspended because it was overtly violent is rubbish invented after the fact. The reason for the violence increase in Season 22 was because that particular series was originally meant to appear later in the Saturday scheduling, at 6.40, not at 5.20. However, it was then swapped at the last moment with The Laughter Show. So for Michael Grade to attack Doctor Who for being too violent is daft, as it's only volent because the production team were told it was appearing in a later time slot. Of course, we are talking about 1985 here, and the level of violence on display in Season 22 wouldn't be acceptable today at 6.40, but that's down to changing tastes, and the fact that we've all gone soft.:p
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Sean Enright's plan was simple: Flee the suburbs, head to town and create one of the best craft-cocktail bars in Pittsburgh.
After a year of running Sewickley's Andora restaurant, Enright was hired as general manager at Spoon in East Liberty last month. Since then, he's fashioned an innovative new craft-cocktail menu with bar manager Heather Perkins ... and inspired a few other local bartenders to leave their old homes.
Allie Contreras, who quit Embury in May, recently "heard it through the grapevine" that Enright was back in town and decided to sign on.
"Everybody loves Sean -- that's why they want to work with him," says Contreras.
Indeed, she's been joined at Spoon by Eleven bartender Joe Matthews and Rob Ricci, a distiller for Boyd & Blair and bartender at Park Bruges.
Enright swears he didn't set out to raid other establishments of their talent.
"I'd like to think I was nefarious enough to be able to poach people" from other bars, says Enright. But the new talents "have come to me."
Enright is a familiar name in the Pittsburgh cocktail/restaurant scene. He's served as wine director for several restaurants, including Eleven, Casbah and Soba, and trained with craft-cocktail veteran Fred Sarkis during his stint at Embury.
Spoon's new drink menu is organized under a handful of categories -- "Invigorating," "Intoxicating" and "Communal"; Enright says it's a playful attempt to mimic wine lists that group wines into categories like "bold" or "full-bodied." As a good introduction to the menu, try "Vancouver in a Glass" ($10), an urbane sibling of the "Rusty Nail": 2 oz. Famous Grouse; ½ oz. Tupelo honey; ½ oz. lemon juice; ½ oz. ginger syrup; and a splash of smoky Laphroaig floating on top.
If all goes as planned, Enright says, Spoon will compete with Embury and Salt of the Earth as the place to grab quality craft cocktails in the city. But he jokes that he may have to steal "the Salt girls from [Kevin Sousa]" if he gets the chance.


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The Book of the Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise Upon the Mating, Rearing, and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs is an early nonfiction work by L. Frank Baum.
As its title indicates, the book is a guide to raising the Hamburg breed of chicken. Baum originally wrote the piece as an article for the journal The Poultry World, where it appeared in installments from July to November 1882. The article was commissioned by the journal's publisher, H. H. Stoddard, who re-issued it as a book in 1886, apparently without the author's knowledge.
Though the text is a technical and fact-based treatment of its subject, Baum's enthusiasm and literary flair occasionally manifests itself, as when he writes of the birds'
- ...exquisite symmetry, the novel and shapely rose combs, the snowy and delicate ear-lobes, the tapering blue legs and the graceful carriage....
Baum was an enthusiastic chicken breeder for much of his life, and won many medals and prizes for his birds. He was a founder of the Empire State Poultry Association in 1878, and served as the group's first secretary. Late in life, he raised Rhode Island Reds while living at Ozcot, his home in Hollywood, California.
- Katharine M. Rogers. L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: A Biography. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2002.


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10 Predictions for Inbound Marketing in 2013Blog Post: January 02, 2013
Hmm... I predict Twitter to be going public! That might be obvious as there has been speculation for a long time about this, but I think they are treading carefully due to the really poor showing of the Facebook IPO. Investors don't want to see another 40% decline over the first few months of another social media giant going public.
Also - look for Twitter to monetize.
Good luck to all in 2013!


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The eldest of five kids, Jim Burke grew up in South Boston. His grandparents and his uncle's family lived in a three-decker next door; another aunt and uncle and several cousins had a home across the street. "There was something like thirteen of us cousins [nearby] ten years apart," recalls Burke. "It was pretty nuts sometimes."
By the time he entered high school, his family had relocated to Milton. His parents held onto the 1920s three-decker in Southie, though, renting it out from time to time. As an adult, Burke lived in the Washington, D.C., area before returning to Boston more than a decade ago. He and business partner Randy Milburn own Cambridgeport Construction, which specializes in high-end historical restorations and renovations.
"I started renting the house in Southie from my parents," says Burke. His wife, Emily, moved in when they married five years ago. After their daughters, Georgia, 3, and Mairead, 1, were born, the couple decided they were settled in—they live on the upper two floors and rent out the first level—for the long haul.
Making the house their "forever home" would take some work. "The place was in decent shape, but it was showing its age," explains Burke. "The house hadn't been touched in decades. My dad had renovated it himself 35 years ago on nights and weekends when he was a surgical resident at Mass. General."
On the second floor, an updated kitchen and a more modern layout were essential. They found their solution in custom Mission-style cabinets made by Salmon Falls Woodworks and a striking walnut-topped island.
On the third floor, significant structural work — completed by Burke's own company, of course — was needed to accommodate a master suite, two more bedrooms, and a bathroom. Richard Levey of RBL Architects in Newton drafted the plans.
"Since we couldn't go outside of the existing footprint, the only way to expand was to make the cramped third floor larger," says Burke. By removing the obsolete chimney and rebuilding the roof, they were able to install full-length dormers on both sides, essentially doubling the usable square footage of the third floor.
Though they wanted to make the house their own, the couple didn't want to go too far. "There was a lot of reluctance on my part to redo what my dad had done to the house because he had put so much of himself into it," says Burke. Several elements the senior Burke had installed remain, including the built-in shelves and cabinets he crafted in the living room. "We just painted the oak white to make it look more up-to-date," says Burke, who added his own handcrafted elements to the house as well. "While Cambridgeport did the renovation, I built certain things for the house after hours," including the walnut dining table and the built-in window seat and coffee table in the living room.
Uniting Jim and Emily's tastes took some thought, too. Interior designer Sarah Scales helped with that. "Jim is very into Mission and Arts and Crafts-style elements, while Emily veers toward more beachy, soft, and serene things," says Scales.
Arts and Crafts style wins out in the dining room wainscoting and the handmade coffee table. The color palette centers on calming gray, blue, and white tones that Emily favors. In some cases, Scales found furnishings that satisfy both spouses, such as the West Elm capiz light fixture in the dining room. "Since it's made of shells, it has a beachy, more contemporary feel while also feeling connected to the leaded-glass elements often associated with Arts and Crafts style," Scales says.
The home now feels comfortable and personal for a young family, yet very much connected to its past. At the foot of Emily and Jim's bed is a large wooden hope chest with brass detailing "made for my mother by my dad 40-plus years ago," says Jim. "It's very special to now have it in our bedroom."
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The Shandong Luneng coach has hit out at the Italian over his attitude toward the young playmaker and has voiced his surprise with Iker Casillas' role in the side
By Alberto Pinero
Former Real Madrid coach Radomir Antic has criticised Carlo Ancelotti for his treatment of attacking midfielder Isco as he feels the youngster did not deserve to be dropped from the starting XI this season.
The 21-year-old initially impressed after joining Madrid from Malaga last summer, but lost his starting berth after a number of disappointing performances as Ancelotti opted for a more solid 4-3-3 system with Angel Di Maria alongside Luka Modric and Xabi Alonso.
Isco has since mainly been warming the bench at Santiago Bernabeu and Antic feels Ancelotti is wrong to focus on the Spain international's weaknesses in defending rather than his strengths in attack.
"Ancelotti has not been fair with Isco," Antic told Goal.
"Ancelotti keeps on pointing at the defensive aspect of Isco's game.
"I think he's a tremendous player who adds something vital to the team: creating chances against a defensive opponent.
"Ancelotti is always looking at the player's weaknesses and this does not help to get the best out of Isco."
The Serbian also admitted he finds Iker Casillas' fall from grace in the Spanish capital to be odd.
"I do not really understand Real Madrid's position in this matter. It is a strange situation for me.
"Something might have happened between Casillas and Jose Mourinho last year, but nothing has changed for him. I don't know the reason behind these decisions."


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In an article in yesterday's Süddeutsche Zeitung, an EU Commission source is mentioned as saying "it's unclear on whose mandate anti-software-patent campaigner Florian Müller is acting".
Allow me to clarify: On ours.
MySQL AB may be Florian's first and longest-running sponsor in the fight against software patents. However, financing Florian Müller's activities in the EU -- and on the national level in various European countries -- requires a broader group of European companies concerned about software patents in general, and the plans for an European Patent Litigation Agreement in particular. Amongst Florian's other sponsors, let me mention Germany's leading Internet provider 1&1 and Materna, a leading German software company in the ICT sector. All of the sponsors met today in Frankfurt at a management and partly even owner / board of director level.
Our cause is to establish a better patent regime in Europe. Over time, this regime will hopefully spread across the world. We want a competitive society and advocate a free market where innovators are allowed to learn from and even imitate ideas of others, but not to steal intellectual property. As we see it, economic growth, innovation, and employment are not served by today's patent system where pure software patents are being granted even in Europe.
Stay tuned for a call for actions for what small and medium size companies can do to constructively contribute to the political process of establishing a patent regime that truly stimulates innovation and competition. Most of today's incumbent players grew big in a world without software patents. Let them not raise entrance barriers now, by simply changing the rules of the game!


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Recicla Vida
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Antonio Veiga Neto and Tiago Veronez Veiga
Project Managers: Antonio Veiga Neto and Tiago Veronez Veiga
Recicla Vida (Recycling Lives) came into being in 1998 as an initiative to help families living off the trash in the "Lixão de Bongaba" (an immense garbage dump) in Magé. Magé is the destination of a large part of the trash produced daily by the state of Rio de Janeiro.
Families in favellas bordering Lixão de Bongaba survive off the sale of recyclable materials foraged from the trash, feeding themselves from the rotten food scraps found therein, and living in conditions of extreme poverty. Unwilling to accept this situation, Recicla Vida, in partnership with the Instituto da Criança, first mobilized a group of volunteers to organize and distribute Cestas Basicas* to 300 families (1,200 people) who were registered for the program. (*Cestas Basicas* are 20 kg food baskets of basic non-perishable foods, to subsist a family.)
Monthly, Recicla Vida now distributes 6 tons of food, in addition to clothing, shoes, household utensils and toys. With the voluntary participation of many professionals, other programs have been added aiming to improve the conditions of the families: medical assistance, distribution of free medicine, and various educational activities.
A small clinic within a large community center structure has been built, which also includes a display room for locally-produced handicraft. The facility is used for a range of activities including educational activities, hygiene and health awareness. Additionally, youth programs are offered, including clown shows, music and other activities that bring a little bit of joy and fun to the children who live there in the favellas.
Future programs include developing new social activities such as adult literacy classes, sports, musical and artistic activities geared towards the children of the community as well as vocational training for the many that desperately need employment opportunities.


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