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This last weekend the first half of my dream came true! The hubby was finally convinced that building me raised garden beds would make our life much better, and I promise, it will.
The planning and research has been taking place since we purchased our home, and I knew I wanted my beds located with full afternoon sun. I found the area of our yard that isn't shaded by a fence and instructed a landscape company to install the sod and irrigation uncentered so I would have plenty of room. He was a little surprised and it took some explaining on why our yard is over there rather than in the middle, but I think he is fine with it now.
I shopped lumber and found Redwood in 2″x10″x8′ and also 12′ at Lowe's for a reasonable price. Had them cut the 12′ in half since I can only reach in 3′ or so -halfway from each edge meets in the middle. We joined the edges, and leveled the tops and outside corners so there is less risk for abrasions while I am leaning and working. The wood is slightly warped and each board is within 1/4″ of advertised size so there was a little leveling and balancing to make it neat and perfect. So for under $200 after tax we have two 6'x8′ raised beds. The unexpected cost was the hardware, at a whopping $5 per bracket, and two on each corner, we spent almost half on just securing the beds. I really wanted to used reclaimed wood but he wouldn't go for it, and these are the kinds of things we compromise on. I get the garden I want, he gets to build it with the materials he wants.
We made sure to space them far enough apart so I could fit a wheelbarrow between, as well as kneel comfortably. I can access the beds from all sides as well, important since they are pretty large.
The next step is fill dirt (since we don't have extra), topsoil, compost, and peat moss. I need to turn the existing soil beneath the beds and then mix in the above materials, plant some seed and maybe some indoor starts I will buy from either craigslist or a farmer nearby… I am so excited!
I will be planting things that I have had luck with in my mother's garden growing up, we are the same- temperate zone 5. From seed I will start squashes, cucumbers, beans, greens, onions, chives, oregano, maybe more. I will plant tomatoes, peppers, and basil from indoor starts. I will also try to plant things between rows that attract bees for pollination (just found this gem- http://www.organicgardening.com/tags/honey-bee-menu-for-pollen-and-nectar) and ward off other pests who might be interested in consuming my harvest before it's time. This is the learning curve, let's see what I come up with. I am reading magazines checked out from my local library to help me with this process; Country Woman, and HGTV had the most attractive articles this time around.
So, wish me luck and if you have any tips… do share!
Raised Garden Beds, yay!
This last weekend the first half of my dream came true! The hubby was finally convinced that building me raised garden beds would make our life much better, and I promise, it will.

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"Put your best foot forward no matter the situation you are given;
allow your light to always shine."
- By Justine Turner
The Emancipation Day Celebration that was held on Monday August the 1st, 2016 at Westminster Ponds and it was a great success!
Thank you to Joseph O'Neil Jr., All of our wonderful singers, Rev. Kenrick Sharpe from the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, Kathryn Johnson and Justine Turner our organizer.
We would like to thank all of our sponsors that made this day a great success! A special thank you to CTV News. We look forward to hosting the Emancipation Day Celebration next year. Remember to put it on your calendar. Civic Holiday 2016 with the Meeting Tree.
Good afternoon. I'm so happy to be here today on behalf of Mayor Matt Brown and London City Council to say welcome, welcome to this Emancipation Day Celebration. Thank you very much Justine for including me as part of this deeply meaningful celebration.
On August 28, 1833, the British House of Commons approved the Emancipation Bill which came into effect on August 1, 1834, marking the beginning of the end of an abhorrent and shameful phase of human history. To commemorate this important part of Canada's cultural history we gather here, around this stately oak tree that has so much significance; the "Meeting Tree" where the men, women and children escaping the bonds of slavery would meet on their route to freedom.
We gather under the protective branches of the Meeting Tree after a stormy night. One is advised against taking shelter in the trees during a storm yet I feel safe here. I imagine the fleeing slaves felt that way too. Like a mother, this great tree sheltered and protected them. When I touch her bark and close my eyes, I feel a warmth and I swear I feel a beating heart. Her branches reach out and back through time and through history as they reached back at that time towards the south, beckoning to those people, those human beings who had been so cruelly ripped from their homes and then held in captivity for generations.
These courageous people, Canada's first refugees, took such incredible risks in order to achieve the freedom that many of us, today, take for granted. And today, we celebrate that courage. We celebrate the hard fought freedom of those people who, after so many trials and tribulations, finally found a safe haven here in London.
It is gratifying that this Emancipation Day Celebration was revived in 2013 after a 20-year hiatus. Thank you to Justine for your vision and perseverance in ensuring this revival. Thank you to all of the volunteers for your hard work and dedication. I'm looking forward to seeing this important event continue and to seeing London's history celebrated in this way for many, many years to come. And finally, thank you to each and every one of you for coming here today and for being a part of this wonderful celebration.
A special thank you to Parkwood Hospital.
Emancipation Day 2016
Looking back at the last three years
of Emancipation Day Celebration.
Fred Jenkins, owner and publisher of Canada's only newspaper for blacks, Dawn of Tomorrow, looks over some back issues in a file photo from 1990. The paper was started by his parents in 1921. (Free Press file photo)
Born into an accomplished black family, Fred Jenkins spent nearly a century upholding the tradition of community service
Jenkins served two terms as the first black trustee on the former London board of education and was one of a group of brothers and sisters that took over the work of their parents in publishing Dawn of Tomorrow, a pioneering publication for Canada's black community.
Jenkins died last week at age 94.
His father, James Jenkins, founded Dawn of Tomorrow in London in 1923 with the aim of unifying the black community with stories about North American black successes.
When the elder Jenkins died in 1931, his wife Christine and her eight children, including Fred, carried on publishing the paper.
His brother David, an English teacher at Central secondary school, and sister Christine wrote many of the articles while Fred helped with distribution and advertising.
Dawn of Tomorrow hasn't been published for a couple of years but Fred's half-brother, Barry Howson, one of Canada's most renowned basketball players, says the family hopes to revive the publication.
Fred Jenkins attended Ealing public school and H. B. Beal secondary school.
He worked as truck driver, cook, porter and supervisor with General Motors. When he was laid off from GM he started his own company, FREN, a flyer distribution company, acting as boss and mentor to the teenagers he employed.
Jenkins was elected to the London board of education (later merged into the Thames Valley District board), serving two terms in the 1980s representing south-east London.
Thames Valley trustee Peter Jaffe said Jenkins fought for the interest of poor and disadvantaged students but downplayed his status as the first black trustee.
"If he was revolutionary, he was a quiet one," Jaffe said.
He was a lifetime member of Lions International and rose to the position of district governor.
In his early years he was a boxer and later took up golfing and bowling.
Jenkins is remembered by his family as a charismatic and natural public speaker.
"He was full of fun. He kept things lively," said his sister Christine Booker.
Along with sister and brother, Jenkins is survived by his son Douglas, daughters Leslie Anne and Jennifer, a grandchild, three great-grandchildren and three email@example.com
Local historian and documentary maker Justine Turner, shown here in her London home, displays a newspaper article from 1978 about her grandmother, Evelyn Johnson. The article is part of a collection of newspaper articles, photographs, and letters Turner has accumulated in her endeavour to create a documentary film about black history in London. She hopes to release the film in November. (CRAIG GLOVER, The London Free Press)
Justine Turner is on a quest aimed at saving, celebrating and sharing — if not making — the history of London's African Canadian community.
The 45-year-old daughter of an African Canadian man, William Turner, and white mother, Diane, Turner is making a documentary about London's black community — where it came from and what it's contributed to London and Canada.
Saturday, Turner will be at the Black History Month closing gala at London Central Library's Wolf Performance Hall to talk briefly about the film she's hoping to release in November.
"It's been a truly amazing ride," said Turner, who is still raising money for the project (to contribute, visit the website at igg.me/at/londonsblackhistory.)
"When you speak to some of these people who are in their 70s, 80s and even their 90s, it's like they're taking you back in time and you feel like you're living it. But it's important to get their stories now because these people aren't going to live forever."
Turner has just launched a Name This Film contest and is urging the public to make submissions to email@example.com, where there are a few sneak previews to view. The winner will have their name listed in the credits. The deadline is March 9.
Tap dancer and singer Joey Hollingsworth, Canadian basketball star Barry Howson and many others are featured in the documentary, which reaches back to the slaves who fled to London from the United States in the 19th century.
"Young people need to know their history and London is a hidden treasure chest when it comes to black history," said Turner.
Turner has been celebrating black history her entire life — "I'm bi-racial and proud" — but especially since 1991 when she started hosting Black History Month events. She's also known for founding the The School Bus Fashion Show, with the aim of teaching children that "bullying is not fashionably acceptable and being kind to one another is."
The film explores not just the people, but the landmarks related to black history, such as London's 166-year-old fugitive slave chapel which was moved last year from Thames St. to a lot beside its daughter church, Beth Emanuel British Methodist Episcopal Church on Grey St.
Turner's African Canadian history in London goes back more than 100 years to her great-grandparents, James and Christina Jenkins, who founded "Canada's first Negro newspaper" in London, The Dawn Tomorrow in 1921.
Other tidbits of history in the film include the fact London's first taxi cab was owned by a black man, and that a 600-year-old oak tree in the Westminster Ponds area served as a meeting place, or beacon, for fugitive slaves when they arrived in London.
Turner said she hopes the documentary will "put London on the map as a beacon of strength, hope, perseverance and love — focusing on the courage of the past and how it shaped London into the city it is today."
Justine Turner with her father Bill Turner at Black History Month event in London. Justine began championing Black History Month as a teenager 20 years ago. (DEREK RUTTAN/THE LONDON FREE PRESS)
Her only offence was the colour of her skin as she lay crumpled outside a London elementary school.
"They threw me down and kept kicking," Justine Turner recalled of a vicious assault that left her with cracked ribs nearly 30 years ago.
Her Grade 4 tormentors had begun with what was by then a familiar taunt - "zebra."
The eight-year-old Turner had red hair and freckles, her skin porcelain like her mom's, much lighter than her dad's and one of her brothers.
As a small child, Justine thought little of the varying shades of black and white in her home.
But others couldn't see past the differences. Some classmates asked if she was adopted. Others spoke with hands and feet.
On the day of the assault, with a friend by her side, Justine didn't back down.
"I called them names back," she said.
She hasn't backed down since in the face of racism and bullying that's more subtle than a fist but just as hurtful.
Turner was barely out of her teens when in 1991 she organized a celebration of black history in London - a celebration she has repeated every year since, despite some members of the black community looking askance at the skin of the organizer.
"You'd get people saying, 'Who's that'," said her father, Bill Turner, who is both proud and protective of his daughter.
Justine Turner also reached out to children who might be the victims, perpetrators or observers of bullying, by organizing a fashion show. The 11th Annual School Bus Fashion Show opened Monday and runs this week at Citi Plaza at 355 Wellington St.
The event showcases local children from five to 17 on the catwalk and features an anti-bullying message Turner hopes will spare some the trauma she endured.
Since many assume she's Caucasian, some will make racial comments to her about blacks.
"Some say the N-word. One referred to 'those monkeys out there,' " Turner said.
She doesn't pass on a chance to tell them who she is.
" 'Well I'm one of them,' I'll tell them. Their jaws just drop," she said.
Turner says she grew up respecting the heritage of both her parents and hopes her life reflects the best in both of them.
"I'm biracial and very proud of it. I have two great halves in me."
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Reflecting Back...
On February 24, 1991 the Annual Black History Celebration was launched for the city of London. This was spear headed and implemented by Justine D. Turner. The day was chosen to honour Black History Month and as a dedication and celebration to the Beth Emmanuel church that suffered a fire a few months before. Surprisingly and gratefully the church survived with just some internal damage that was repairable.
The celebration was held at the historical heritage church, the Beth Emmanuel Church, located at 430 Grey Street every year until 2004. This church is part of the British Methodist Episcopal (BME) churches across Canada. The Beth Emmanuel church embodies years over centuries of history. It was built in 1856 by the hands of run away slaves who fled here to London. This was 23 years after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1833 (the freedom of slaves).
London was a safe haven for run away slaves fleeing from the Southern United States. They felt that London was as an inland city safe from kidnappers bent on taking them back to the United States. In 2004 the Annual Black History Month Celebration uprooted their venue from the Beth Emmanuel church and continued the celebration at the Holiday Inn London located at 864 Exeter Road. It continues to be spearheaded by Justine D. Turner, Just Eventzz and assisted by Pastor Kenrick Sharpe, in partnership with the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church.
Ribbons represent Racial Unity. This was incorporated by Justine Turner in 1998. It has been worn at the Annual Black History Month Celebration for 15 years.
This picture was taken during the 19th annual Black History Month celebration held at the Holiday Inn, London. Featuring Justine Turner, Rosemary Sadlier, Errol Blackwood, Craig Ruddock, Ray Ruddock, Billy Stergiou, Jerry Hooper, John Montgomery, Harry Swallowel, William Turner, Sandy Annunziata, Roger Caranci and Harold Usher. We had 300 people attend this Gala.
William Hall, born in 1825 in Summerville, Nova Scotia.
Received the Victoria Cross, the highest British military award for bravery.
The campaign for the end of slavery gained momentum in Great Britain and it was expected that slaves in the British colonies would soon be set free. Finally, on the 28 August 1833, the House of Commons in England approved the Emancipation Bill which was earlier introduced by Thomas Buxton.
The final Act, which would come into effect on 1 August 1834, stipulated that:
1- Immediate and effective measures would be taken for the abolition of slavery throughout the British colonies.
2- All children born under the passing of the Act, or under the age of six shall be free.
3- All slaves over the age of six years would have to serve an apprenticeship of six years in the case of field slaves, and four years in the case of others.
4- Apprentices should work for not more than 45 hours per week without pay, and any additional hours for pay.
5- Apprentices should be provided with food and clothing by the plantation owner.
6- Funds should be provided for an efficient stipendiary magistracy, and for the moral and religious education of the ex-slaves.
7- Compensation in the form of a free gift of 20 million English pounds should be paid to the slave owners for the loss of their slaves.
The Emancipation Act successfully ended one phase of a long and bitter struggle against a system which transformed people into beasts of labour with absolutely no human rights.
Actually, slave society regarded the African slaves as mules and even referred to the offspring of a European and an African female slave as a "mulatto", meaning literally a "young mule".
In 1812, another war broke out between the United States and Britain. Much of the fighting took place in Upper Canada. Worried that the Americans might take over Upper and Lower Canada and return them to slavery, many Black Upper Canadians fought on the British side. Some became part of a military unit for Black soldiers called Captain Runchey's Company for Coloured Men.
Once again, many slaves in the United States escaped from their owners to also fight for the British side, hoping to win their freedom. After the war, around 2 000 of them came to British North America, mostly to Nova Scotia. Others went to Upper Canada, near what is now Barrie, to accept the land offered to war veterans by Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada.
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Well the first half of the year is officially in the books.
Unlike the last two months, I actually did publish a couple posts this month. Not very many though. It was another pretty quiet month.
I'm going to get active on the twitter. Follow me there for trade updates. I'm not going to post every single trade here any more. I will still do a write up on the blog if it's a new position or for some other reason that warrants an investment thesis. For now the blog still lives on the tumblr, but it won't be that way forever. I'm looking to move to a better platform soon. I'll try to make it as seamless as possible for all six of you who follow.
Anyway here's what happened in June.
Portfolio Summary
Stock Purchases
5 stocks purchased. 3 are new positions, 2 are additions to existing positions; projected annual income increased by $384.00 based on current dividends.
06/02/17 – VLO: 100 shares purchased @ $64/share. This was the result of an option assignment. I sold the contract on 5/11/17, but didn't do a blog post about it because I'm a horrible person. That's why I'm documenting all my trades on the twiiter from here on out. I already owned 25 shares of VLO in my ROTH IRA at $67/share, so I'm averaging down with this purchase.
Annual projected income is increased by $292.00/year based on the projected annual dividend of $2.92/share.
06/02/17 – GPS: 100 shares purchased @ $23.00/share. This was also the result of an option assignment. I sold the contract on the same day as the VLO contract discussed above. I already owned 56 shares of GPS in my ROTH IRA at ~$22.52/share, so this is a position increase at more or less the same cost basis.
Annual projected income is increased by $92.00/year based on the projected annual dividend of $0.92/share.
06/30/17 – BND: 106 shares purchased @ $82.0494339/share. This is the "bonds" component of my Lazy Portfolio Experiment. Since I will be automatically (rather than selectively) reinvesting these dividends, I don't count this income towards my projected annual investment income. That's just how I do it. Get over it.
06/30/17 – VTI: 139 shares purchased @ $125.3870943/share. This is the "US equities" component of my Lazy Portfolio Experiment. Since I will be automatically (rather than selectively) reinvesting these dividends, I don't count this income towards my projected annual investment income. That's just how I do it. Get over it.
06/30/17 – VXUS: 244 shares purchased @ $52.375/share. This is the "International equities" component of my Lazy Portfolio Experiment. Since I will be automatically (rather than selectively) reinvesting these dividends, I don't count this income towards my projected annual investment income. That's just how I do it. Get over it.
Choose the Form of the Destructor
I didn't initiate any new UVXY positions, although Thursday 6/29/17 might have been one of the better opportunities in a while. I missed it though.
I'm not giving up on this crowded trade quite yet, but I am being extremely selective about entry points.
All UVXY put trades are documented in the "UVXY" tab of the Dividend Income Tracker, and future trades will also be documented on the twitter.
For the uninitiated, I am shorting UVXY because it is the worst ETF ever. I use long put positions so I can avoid the use of margin and do these trades in tax-advantaged accounts.
Additional exploits can be found here, here and here.
Pay Days and Raises
Dividend Income Tracker is published back at the mothership and has been updated.
Total investment income of $1,234.91 with a taxable total of $6.93. We'll call it 12 "pay days" with 28 individual payments received.
- Options premiums represent $48.12 of that total.
- Capital gains made up $716.66.
- Which leaves $463.20 of actual bona fide dividends (and $6.93 of P2P lending interest).
Last month I said, "That's probably my lowest options total in a long time. I told you it was a quiet month!"
Considering what June was like last year, I wouldn't have expected to follow up May with even less options activity, but here we are.
Lending club income is aggregated into a single income record for simplicity's sake. It actually arrives as a lot of small payments over the course of the month. One loan was charged off this month, although my net income was still *barely" positive in spite of that loss. That brings the number of bad loans we've invested in to a total of 5 out of 166 or ~3%.
We went from 5 "late" loans last month to only 3. Since only one of those was charged off, at least one got caught up, which I guess is good news, but it was replaced by another in the grace period.
There is still trouble brewing, and like I mentioned last month, July could get ugly.
This should be fun to track. This table will grow with each monthly update.
Lending club's algorithm is suggesting I should write down $50.36 worth of principal for the loans that are late or in the grace period, but as the eternal optimist, I'm going to continue to wait until the loans are actually charged off to recognize the loss.
That is down from what it suggested last month ($67.97), but it represents nearly the full amount of principal currently in the 31-120 days late category, so I guess I shouldn't hold my breath on those.
Month over month, investment income was down slightly by -6.2% from $1,316.75 in May, but year over year it is up 4.0% from $1,187.35 in June of '16.
May of 2016 is when I took my leap of faith and moved my inherited IRA over to Interactive brokers. So this is really the first YoY comparison that reflects the same options boosting dividends strategy. It would be nice to see a bigger jump, but hey I'll take it.
One of the dividend distributions received represented a raise:
JNJ paid $0.84/share compared to $0.80/share in the previous quarter. That represents a 5.0% increase. I would argue that is a little disappointing from this dividend champion. The share price has appreciated quite a bit since my wife made this investment in February of this year. The forward yield is pushing down to the 2.5% range, which means either Mr. Market is pricing in bigger than 5% increases, or using a different future discount mechanism.
So there we have it. Bring on the second half!


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A lifetime of wondering and searching, along with a journey back in time, has united a 75-year-old Canadian man with the daughter that he never knew.
George Luchuk, from Milbrooke, Ontario, decided to search for the 55-year-old daughter that he fathered when he was only 19 years old and working in an area of Quebec called Kuujjuarapik. George was 19 years old and working for a company in Kuujjuarapik when he met an Inuk woman by the name of Mary Miluctu.
George and Mary had a short relationship during his time in Kuujjuarapik, and then he never saw her again. George was shocked to learn years later that their relationship had produced a baby daughter.
George didn't find out about his daughter until after he had been transferred to another area of Canada by his company. One day an Inuk woman from Kuujjuarapik found him and told him that Mary had given birth to a baby daughter and the child was his.
George said that he was shocked to hear this news from a stranger. However, George went on with his life without ever knowing anything else about his firstborn child and eventually he had four other children of his own.
In August 2016, at the age of 75 and near the end of his life, George embarked on a search to find the daughter that he had never met. Without telling any of his family, he bought a plane ticket and traveled back to Kuujjuarapik to find his daughter. He said that after all of these years he finally decided to follow his heart.
Just three hours after arriving in Kuujjuarapik, George managed to find and unite with his long-lost daughter, Jeannie-Louisa Fleming, with some help from a local. Soon after meeting his daughter, George met his three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Jeannie-Louisa said that she was amazed to see her father after all of these years and worried that he had died before she would ever get a chance to meet him.
Although Jeannie-Louisa was adopted and raised by a local couple after her birth, she remained in contact with her birth mother. However, she was never able to find out the name of her father and hit a dead end when she tried to search for him years ago. She said that she always believed and hoped that he would come back and find her someday.


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IT was the year of years, the year of craziness, the year of fire, blood and death. I had just turned 21, and I was as crazy as everyone else.
There were half a million American soldiers in Vietnam, Martin Luther King had just been assassinated, cities were burning across America, and the world seemed headed for an apocalyptic breakdown.
Being crazy struck me as a perfectly sane response to the hand I had been dealt the hand that all young men had been dealt in 1968. The instant I graduated from college, I would be drafted to fight in a war I despised to the depths of my being, and because I had already made up my mind to refuse to fight in that war, I knew that my future held only two options: prison or exile.
I was not a violent person. Looking back on those days now, I see myself as a quiet, bookish young man, struggling to teach myself how to become a writer, immersed in my courses in literature and philosophy at Columbia. I had marched in demonstrations against the war, but I was not an active member of any political organization on campus. I felt sympathetic to the aims of S.D.S. (one of several radical student groups, but by no means the most radical), and yet I never attended its meetings and not once had I handed out a broadside or leaflet. I wanted to read my books, write my poems and drink with my friends at the West End bar.
Forty years ago today, a protest rally was held on the Columbia campus. The issue had nothing to do with the war, but rather a gymnasium the university was about to build in Morningside Park. The park was public property, and because Columbia intended to create a separate entrance for the local residents (mostly black), the building plan was deemed to be both unjust and racist. I was in accord with this assessment, but I didn't attend the rally because of the gym.
I went because I was crazy, crazy with the poison of Vietnam in my lungs, and the many hundreds of students who gathered around the sundial in the center of campus that afternoon were not there to protest the construction of the gym so much as to vent their craziness, to lash out at something, anything, and since we were all students at Columbia, why not throw bricks at Columbia, since it was engaged in lucrative research projects for military contractors and thus was contributing to the war effort in Vietnam?
Speech followed tempestuous speech, the enraged crowd roared with approval, and then someone suggested that we all go to the construction site and tear down the chain-link fence that had been erected to keep out trespassers. The crowd thought that was an excellent idea, and so off it went, a throng of crazy, shouting students charging off the Columbia campus toward Morningside Park. Much to my astonishment, I was with them. What had happened to the gentle boy who planned to spend the rest of his life sitting alone in a room writing books? He was helping to tear down the fence. He tugged and pulled and pushed along with several dozen others and, truth be told, found much satisfaction in this crazy, destructive act.
After the outburst in the park, campus buildings were stormed, occupied and held for a week. I wound up in Mathematics Hall and stayed for the duration of the sit-in. The students of Columbia were on strike. As we calmly held our meetings indoors, the campus was roiling with belligerent shouting matches and slugfests as those for and against the strike went at one another with abandon. By the night of April 30, the Columbia administration had had enough, and the police were called in. A bloody riot ensued. Along with more than 700 other people, I was arrested pulled by my hair to the police van by one officer as another officer stomped on my hand with his boot. But no regrets. I was proud to have done my bit for the cause. Both crazy and proud.
What did we accomplish? Not much of anything. It's true that the gymnasium project was scrapped, but the real issue was Vietnam, and the war dragged on for seven more horrible years. You can't change government policy by attacking a private institution. When French students erupted in May of that year of years, they were directly confronting the national government because their universities were public, under the control of the Ministry of Education, and what they did initiated changes in French life. We at Columbia were powerless, and our little revolution was no more than a symbolic gesture. But symbolic gestures are not empty gestures, and given the nature of those times, we did what we could.
I hesitate to draw any comparisons with the present and therefore will not end this memory-piece with the word "Iraq." I am 61 now, but my thinking has not changed much since that year of fire and blood, and as I sit alone in this room with a pen in my hand, I realize that I am still crazy, perhaps crazier than ever.


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Sunday, November 23, 2014
From Paris to Provence - Como House, South Yarra
Yesterday, I went with Vanda, Sandra and Lee to Paris to Provence, a French Festival held in the grounds of Como House, South Yarra.
We went early so that we had an easy time moving about early on:
Believe me, this was packed within a couple of hours.
There were craft and homewares stalls, and then my favourite - loads and loads of food.
There were crepes:
and macarons and pastries:
and small goods:
and cheese:
and pate:
and alcohol:
Here are some industrious workers making crepes (I bought one with salted caramel and sea salt - yum):
There were also colourful characters roaming the grounds, including this guy (pictured with Sandra and Lee's Yorkie, Zelda), who rode a unicycle:
And these courtesans from Versailles (who were very funny and adored Zelda):
and a Poirot clown on stilts:
In addition to my crepe, I bought this crème brulee from the Choukette stand:
and (L to R from top L): date, walnut and apricot loaf from Brasserie Bread, a fennel infused salami from Salumi, coffee caramel from Caramelicious, an almond croissant for Tim from one of the onsite coffee stands, mustard and black balsamic cream from Steph's Gourmet Foods, and a from Bean to Bar 70% dark chocolate bar from Monsieur Truffe:
We also picked up a free cheese show bag from President Cheese, featuring camembert, brie, muscatels, lavosh crackers and a slice of date and pistachio roulade:
All in all, it was a fun and fabulous day.
4 comments:
- Kayte said...
Oh, I just love it when you go to things like this and share it all with us. So much fun to see...what a variety of stands with things for sale. Love the Yorkie...such a cutie. That creme brulee was big enough to share!! YUM. I would have eaten the whole thing myself. Really looks like so much fun and love the photos of the things you got. I wish I lived closer so I could do these things with you as well!
- November 23, 2014 at 8:49 AM
- Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella said...
What a fun day out! Good idea going early too to avoid the crowds! :D
- November 23, 2014 at 11:35 AM
- The Caked Crusader said...
Oh, that creme brulee looks amazing!
- November 24, 2014 at 3:28 AM
- TeaLady said...
Oh, this looks like it was lots of fun!!
- November 25, 2014 at 3:39 PM
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Brussels Waffles from The Hungry Belgian
Super Simple Granola from Live Fit Girls
Both of these are amazing breakfasts that I've been making for a while and keep coming back to. The granola is a staple for weekdays; you can make a big batch on the weekend, it keeps well for a long time, and it's fantastic with yogurt and berries. It's not super-sweet, and you can switch it up with a lot of different add-ins; I'll share more about my modifications later in the week. And the Brussels waffles are restaurant-quality amazing. My fiance and I started our search for the perfect Brussels waffle recipe after a chance trip to Nero's in Vancouver, BC, where we had waffles that completely blew our minds. We think these ones are pretty close; they take a little time and are more of a weekend brunch endeavor, but definitely worth the effort.
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- Honey
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We went to the New York Botanical Gardens again with Babcia and Dziadek.
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- Among adults (age 15+), 27.7% of the population smoke, with a significant difference between genders—52.1% of Chinese men and 2.7% of Chinese women smoke.1
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- Smoking causes almost 23% of all cancers in China.5
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Tobacco Industry
China is the world's largest producer and consumer of tobacco. The Chinese tobacco market is dominated by the government monopoly China National Tobacco Corporation (CNTC), which holds 94 percent of the Chinese market. CNTC sold nearly 2.5 trillion cigarettes in 2015.7
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1 China Adult Tobacco Survey. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Beijing, China; 2015.
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4 Chen Z et al. Contrasting male and female trends in tobacco-attributed mortality in China: evidence from successive nationwide prospective cohort studies. Lancet 2015; 386: 1447-56.
5 China Ministry of Health. Third National Survey on Causes of Mortality [in Chinese]. Beijing, China; 2008.
6 Lin HH et al. Effects of smoking and solid-fuel use on COPD, lung cancer, and tuberculosis in China: a time-based, multiple risk factor, modeling study. Lancet. 2008; 372 (9648): 1473-1483.
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Vincent Hayes, also known as Neybulot and AshTR, Timothy Soyer on Second Life (born June 19, 1990),[1] is a furry fan who lives in Austin, Texas, USA.[1]
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What comes to mind when I think of Eadaoin and Sean's wedding is the details. There was an abundance of details! Eadaoin and Sean did a superb job styling their wedding and I loved the DIY/vintage/Irish garden wedding theme that ran throughout the day. I felt like a kid in a candy store with all there was to photograph, and actually with their lovely sweets table that saying works quite well!
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I am on the fence over this recipe. Not quite sure if it was a pass or fail – I think it would come down to how bad I craved sweets late at night and wanted a quick snack. The taste is right on but the texture is heavy. I thought after making it that it would have microwaved better in a small glass mixing bowl – it might have been less dense.
I found the recipe through Pinterest, but I don't remember what blog it was on (ack!). They had called for a standard coffee mug, I used one of my favorite Starbucks mugs, and it is at least 16 ounces in size. I feel that if you were using a standard 8 ounce mug you need to split the batter into two mugs….but that is my feelings. I might play with the recipe more though!
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I think I've become a bit of an expert on cramming a lot of function into a little space. My room is only 11' x 11' yet I have a queen size bed (on risers so I can use all the under-the-bed space for extra storage) and an 8' long table, along with a closet I converted into an office space. I don't think I've ever really shown photos of my room (except for the little piece in the background of my outfit pictures lol) so I think I'll do a little tour on my blog this week :-)
I might dig up some old photos to show how it's evolved too... I've been in this room since I was 6 years old! It started with a Beauty & The Beast theme, then evolved into a Frank Sinatra shrine, and then it was a dark, dimly lit Moroccan hideaway (or at least I tried to make it look that way). My favorite is definitely its current state, though. A teal and grapefruit bedroom/studio that I share with my fluffy little feline, Hypatia! :D


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I love working in the mornings and coming home to long afternoons completely by my self, well, of course, with the cats. I love driving Amber to school. I love that she is about to start the adventure known as college, I am equal parts proud and scared, the empty nest looms on the horizon, making me grateful for this day.
I love being in my beautiful house, which is clean, tidy and organized, colorful and bright, full of joy, sunlight, plants and crystals. I love my garden, I love planning on how to make it even better. I love improving my life.
I love my phd program and learning, learning, learning, creating for myself the time to read. I love being a teacher, I love my students, I love imparting information and empowering others.
I love my work, I love my clients, I love seeing them change before my eyes as they tune in to their true nature and are also empowered.
I love my body, I feel strong and healthy, I love my clothes and I love wearing essential oils. I love my cats, that goes without saying. Again I think, I love Amber, watching her blossom before me, I love watching tv together and going out for French fries, quiet times driving in the car listening to the oldies ie my generation, the eighties on the radio.
I love having Chip in my life, I love our communication, our dance, the ways we come together and move apart during the week, someone I don't take for granted and always feel blessed to spend the time together. I love that we take ballroom dance classes and I love, love, love that we will be married. I love being in love, I love feeling happy.


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Paintshop: Hotel and Facility Painters "Do Other Things"
Hotel and facility painters must be willing – and able – "to do other things." In fact, it is a requirement listed in most job descriptions. Including the U. S. Department of Labor Directory of Occupations.
Hotel Painter's Short List of "Other Things to Do"
(Eg. Hotels, resorts, vacation spas, convention centers)
- Help clear out and clean up critical incident scenes and accident areas.
- Decorate property for holidays and special events.
- Clean and replace HVAC systems; make minor repairs to room A/C units, repair filters.
- Replace acoustical ceiling tiles, panels and grid frames; repair walls; replace doors, trims, baseboards.
- Dig, lay and bury underground WI-FI cable systems; replace modem units.
- Repair, or remove and replace pipes, plumbing, also lavatory parts; clear clogged drains.
- Repair, or remove and replace ceramic, glass, quarry, and other tiles.
- Cut out, remove and replace carpet sections and tiles.
- Remove and replace bath/shower/tub fixtures, safety bars/rails, etc.
- Repair, resurface or replace furniture, cabinetry, countertops; also vanities.
- Treat toxic black mold infestations; spray chemical pest control solutions.
- Replace light bulbs, lighting and illumination fixtures and systems – interior/exterior.
- Repair, or remove and replace door key card systems.
- Patch/repair, or remove and replace swimming pool skirt tiles.
- Perform landscape work; replace mulch, chips, edgings, stones, etc.
- Repair, or replace wood decking, steps, rails, banisters, seating, signage.
- Repair, or replace roof tiles, shingles; also building fascia, gutters, downspouts, etc.
- Repair, or replace landscaping brick, stone; also walkways.
- Pressure wash sidewalks, also exterior corridor areas, walls, fencing, etc.
- Help repair, or replace any mechanical systems on property.
Facility Painter's Short List of "Other Things to Do"
(Eg. Hospitals, ALFs; corporate headquarters, government properties, universities, malls.)
- Replace ceramic floor tiles and trim.
- Replace acoustical ceiling tiles, also panels and gridwork.
- Repair walls; replace baseboards, trim, doors and frames, etc.
- Lubricate door locks and hinges.
- Replace air conditioner filters
- Repair carpeting and carpet tiles.
- Caulk restroom areas.
- Repair water damaged ceilings, walls, etc.
- Clean glass.
- Clean A/C units; make minor repairs to HVAC systems.
- Replace light bulbs, fixtures, interior/exterior illumination systems, etc.
- Repair, or replace cabinetry, countertops, shelving units, etc.
BOTTOM LINE: As a hotel or facility painter, you want to be prepared to step in and resolve either physical or aesthetic problems in any interior or exterior area on the property.
Also, you want to feel comfortable using whatever products, materials, supplies, tools, and equipment that are needed to get the job done right. Also, promptly and cost-effectively.
Often, persons are judged by the "other things" they do, not only by doing their job as described.
Thanks for visiting "Painting with Bob."
Copyright 2016. Robert D. Hajtovik. All rights reserved.


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The other side of the desk
Before Monster was born, I was a teacher and in an administrative educational role. I worked with children in an authoritative role for over a decade. Today, I went back to the classroom...as a volunteer. I can't even begin to explain how nervous I was. It was actually quite ridiculous. Thankfully, Monster's teacher is awesome! She knows I was a teacher. She had me doing sight words, alphabet recognition and number ordering with the kids. Basically things I did while teaching. I was completely at ease. After that, I stayed for the Valentine's party. It was very interesting to see Monster in his element. He is definitely not the quietest kid, but he's also not the loudest. He's much more social than I gave him credit for. Two parents actually told me, once they found out whose mother I was, what a sweet kid I had. I'm so thankful I had this experience. I'm thankful I have friends I can rely on to watch Sunshine while I do this for Monster. I'm one lucky girl.
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Comment 13 for bug 370542
|Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden) wrote :
OK. The underlying issue here now seems to be:
On Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop, Network Manager causes a network configuration that leads Apache to start up listening on IPv6, but to restart listening on IPv4. Specifying network configuration using /etc/network/
Therefore, this is really a Network Manager bug, not an apache2 bug -- should we change it to be against network-manager?
This also implies that doing "allow from ::1" as well as "allow from localhost" is a only workaround, not really addressing the issue itself.


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Instrument: One of the most important basis of a teenagers' life is identity because adolescence is a difficult route which starts at the end of childhood and birth of adulthood; A transitional phase with fundamental changes in cognition, social relationships and psychic space of an individual and as a whole in ones' self. Identity formation, is not a simple process with several factors influencing it. One of the aspects of adolescence development is attachment and integrative self-regulation.
Result: The results revealed significant differences in score of integrative self-knowledge, commitment, social incompetence, ego centric and insecure attachment among experience and control group.
Discussion: In addition to contributing to theoretical knowledge about adolescence and factors the influence identity formation, our findings show educational or treatment packages help to improve successful identities in Iranian youths.


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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Treating Your Drums Right
6 comments:
- Scott said...
Really useful advice, going to try some of these settings on my own tracks!
- September 1, 2011 at 2:12 AM
- Darren_Halm said...
Don't you mean lowpass filter on your kick?
- September 1, 2011 at 3:34 AM
- Adam Dubbleu said...
Highpass allows high frequencies "pass through" above the threshold, attenuating the frequencies below (bass).
In Tom's example, frequencies above 50hz will pass, cutting the sub bass frequencies. This gives the kick a bit of a tighter edge. More kick, less boom. It also keeps the bass frequency range open for synthesizers, bass guitar, etc. If you want more boom, open the filter (lower the threshold) more.
- September 1, 2011 at 8:17 PM
- Joshua said...
It might just be my clunky equipment (or ears, ha!), but I find that I have to cut right around 170-200 hz quite often to gain some clarity. Drums and bass...
Also on some noisy drum samples and old recordings of mine, I played around and found that cutting a REALLY tight but deep notch somewhere between 60 and 90 could sometimes make unwanted noise vanish and really open up frequencies I didn't realize were there...
- September 2, 2011 at 1:38 AM
- Syndicat said...
Thank you, Tom, from these advices. Sounds very useful and I'm definitely trying these out into my own tracks!
- September 5, 2011 at 4:56 AM
- muebles en malaga said...
Gosh, there's a lot of helpful material above!
- October 25, 2011 at 12:23 PM


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text: Preschool for All (PFA) ensures that all preschool children are prepared to succeed in school and in life. The program offers a minimum of 2 hours and forty minutes of preschool programming for three- and four-year-olds. Preschool for All is designed to promote a comprehensive approach to early childhood development. It encourages collaboration among providers and other community stakeholders to foster creative strategies to meet the complete needs of young children and their families.


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Tonight at 6 p.m. the Guggenheim presents a marathon symposium titled "24-Hour Program on the Concept of Time." The museum's chief curator Nancy Spector organized the event in the mold of Hans Ulrich Obrist, who has presided over similar symposia in other cities, most recently a "mini-marathon" in Beijing on New Year's Eve that lasted a measly 12 hours. Like its predecessors, the 24-Hour Program is presented in an art-world context but brings together thinkers across many disciplines. Tonight's (and tomorrow's) lineup of speakers includes Ronald Mallett, a physicist who has devoted his life to building a time machine, and Joseph LeSauteur, an expert in the psychology of circadian rhythms. Also slated to participate are Philippe Parreno, Angela Bulloch, and Liam Gillick, artists featured in the exhibition upstairs whose run will end when the symposium does. "theanyspacewhatever" is about ten artists who emerged in the 1990s, but it doesn't show any 1990s art. Instead, it comprises new installations conceived specifically for the Guggenheim's rotunda. That should give a clue about these artists' attitude toward temporality. Over their careers they have avoided producing static, stand-alone objects, which are doomed to become relics or fetishes over time, while proposing that art lies in the viewer's reception of a proposition made by the artist at a specific place and time. Obrist conceived his experimental symposia with a similar sensibility -- which makes sense, since he is of the same generation and matured in the same intellectual milieu -- but when "theanyspacewhatever" turned out to be so undemanding that it was largely written off by many as a bore, one wonders what the artists will have to say about the marathon's punishing spatial and temporal parameters -- respectively ...
Talk Around the Clock
Time After Time
An almost all too perfect follow-up to the 24 Hour Program at the Guggenheim this evening, this online exhibition hosted by Utrecht's Impakt also examines time, but through the lens of the internet. Time and technology have a long history together, a fact the curatorial statement acknowledges, and "It's About Time" organized by Sabine Niederer shifts its focus to the present with two projects that specifically attend to the contemporary reality of the web (such as 2.0 technologies) and time. The first, titled A Tag's Life and produced by the team George Holsheimer, Mirjam ter Linden, Daan Odijk, Patri Sadiqah, and Raoul Siepers, indicates trends by visualizing the lifespan of tags used on Flickr over time. The tendencies that emerge are generally expected, like the exponential use of the tags "politics" and "Obama" around this year's U.S. Presidential election. With the plethora of data visualization projects out there, this one isn't exactly groundbreaking, but could prove to be a useful tool to access Flickr. Unfortunately, you must "suggest" tags in order to generate graphs, which limits one's ability to take full advantage of the site. The second project, World At Work by Theo Deutinger, extends the boundaries of the clock to include both the macro level of the universe and the micro level of the working day on Earth. The site opens up on the Milky Way, and the visitor must zero in on Earth in order to draw up the number of people globally working 9-5 shifts by location. By showing how many people in the world are at work simultaneously, the site reveals the rhythm of labor worldwide, at any given moment. Deutinger, an architect, created the project as ...
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Setting the Tome
In the early seventies Gerald O'Grady, a professor of English Literature at the State University of New York in Buffalo, was asked to become director of the euphemistically titled "Educational Communications Center." The division was to provide technical support for the entire campus. Sensing a thankless administrative appointment he agreed, but only if he could simultaneously create and direct a department dedicated to the study of emerging media, one that would provide artists and filmmakers access to these technologies and a theoretical basis from which to explore it fully. Thus, the Center for Media Studies (MediaStudy/Buffalo) was formed. Groundbreaking in its scope and focus, the faculty included filmmakers Hollis Frampton, Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, and James Blue, video artists Steina and Woody Vasulka, and Peter Weibel. The book Buffalo Heads: Media Study, Media Practice, Media Pioneers, 1973-1990, edited by Woody Vasulka and Peter Weibel, thoroughly documents the people and activities that were a part of this highly influential center. Part exhibition catalog (a similarly titled exhibition "Mind Frames: Media Study at Buffalo 1973-1990" was mounted at ZKM in 2007), part catalog raisonné, and part coffee table book, and coming in at 837 pages and almost 10 lbs, it could be called the definitive text on this place and period.
Thank You From Rhizome
We are pleased to report that Rhizome reached and exceeded our annual Campaign goal of $30,000. We are truly grateful that the community we strive to support year-round mobilized for us during a critical time. Proceeds from this Campaign will keep our services to the field thriving during a challenging year ahead. From everyone at Rhizome, thank you! Every single person who contributed made a great impact on Rhizome and our commitment to emerging artistic practices engaged with technology.
Art From the Middle of Nowhere
Paul D. Miller, the artist, remix theorist, and DJ parenthetically known as DJ Spooky, is among the latest flood of artists to take interest in Antarctica. Representing the world's highest, driest, and coldest desert, the often misunderstood continent lured some of the film medium's earliest documentarians who were in search of something new and continues to entice new media artists concerned about its disappearance. Those who are liberal in their use of the word "remix" might say that this long-contested territory is now being remixed. In a sad twist of irony, the continent with no permanent residents has fallen victim to the environmental effects of global human pollution. Paul Miller's work grows out of DJ culture and a love of music, but has in recent years been concerned with the evolving relationship between media and culture. In 2004 he remixed Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith's white supremacist feature film that nonetheless propelled cinema as an art form. In his new North/South installation, the artist responds to material ranging from filmic narratives about polar expeditions to John Cage's Imaginary Landscape #1 (1938)--which he cites as the first-ever turntable composition--to tell his own story about Antarctica. The work exhibited is presented as an acoustic interpretation of the continent's place in international politics, and the "Great Game" of national interests as states claim territory and define their identity. A timely topic, considering Russia planted a flag in the North Pole's seabed to claim the natural resources underneath it. The show opens tonight at New York's Robert Miller Gallery. - Marisa Olson
Creative Capital Announces 2009 Grantees
The Creative Capital Foundation, long supporters of the field of art and technology, just announced their grantees for the 2009 cycle. The non-profit awarded quite a few artists within the "emerging fields" category this year, many of whom Rhizome has worked with or covered in the past. You can read more about their individual projects on Creative Capital's site. For now, we would like to congratulate Matthew Coolidge (Center for Land Use Interpretation), Cesar Cornejo, James Coupe, Beatriz da Costa, eteam, Futurefarmers (Amy Franceschini), Jonathan Meuser and Michael Swaine, Catherine Herdlick, Shih Chieh Huang, Lisa Jevbratt, neuroTransmitter (Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere), Richard Pell, Stephanie Rothenberg, Mark Shepard, Karolina Sobecka and Sam Van Aken.


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Bali Tour Program : start 09:00 am
|Batuan Village
|Traditional Bali House Compound & Painting
|MAS Village
|Central of fine wood carving
|The mountainnous land with its famous lake and Mt. Batur, having lunch here
|Crossing the Lake Batur about 35 minute from Kedisan harbour by outrigger
Tour price:
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Tour Duration is 10- 12 hours, flexible stoSame pictures, when we tour our guest to this Unique Place : Trunyan is another ancient village inhabited by people who call themselves the "Bali Aga" or old Bali who live in ways that are vastly different from other Balinese. The Bali Aga's temple in this village is named Puser Jagat, meaning Navel …of the Universe. Its architecture is highly unusual, and stands in the protective shade of a massive banyan tree. The Bali Aga has a strange way of burial. Instead of cremating their corpses, the Bali Aga simply places them under this banyan tree. The odor is mysteriously masked by a special arboreal fragrance emitted by the banyan tree. When you get bored with PUBS and CLUBS, this an option, Happy Bali Holiday !


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To tweet or not to tweet
Almost half of the workforce at large companies can use Twitter and Facebook at work, according to the findings of a new study.
In a survey of more than 1,400 chief information officers at US companies from IT provider Robert Half Technology, 19 per cent reported that the company allowed social media access for business purposes only. Meanwhile, 16 per cent permitted limited personal use and a further ten per cent placed no restrictions on personal use of networking applications such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. This left 54 per cent that operated a blanket ban on social media in the office.
Dave Willmer, executive director of Robert Half Technology, commented on the findings. "Using social networking sites may divert employees' attention away from more pressing priorities so it's understandable that some companies limit access," he said. "For some professions, however, these sites can be leveraged as effective business tools, which may be why about one in five companies allows their use for work-related purposes."
YouTube if you want to
The issue of social media usage became a hot topic as a result of the high-profile Domino's Pizza dispute earlier this year. In North Carolina, two employees at a Domino's Pizza chain filmed themselves breaking hygiene standards in the kitchen and posted the video on YouTube. The clip was reportedly viewed more than one million times and provoked outrage in the media before being taken down.
However, the company was roundly praised for its innovative use of social media to manage the crisis. As soon as the video went viral, Domino's Pizza set up a Twitter account to deal with customer concerns on a one-to-one basis and Patrick Doyle, president of Domino's USA, posted a two-minute apology on YouTube.


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I have an announcement for both my new and loyal readers of McKenzie Renae 🙂 You can now make comments/ask questions on my posts! (Yay! ::fist pump::)
At the bottom of each post, just click "Comment" and write away! I'm hoping this will allow for a lot more engagement with you guys because before I wasn't able to comment back! Talk with you soon 🙂


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The role of the media in PNG 2
Author(s): Fr Diosnel Centurion
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November, 1994
Abstract: Communication is essential to human living and development. People need to share their ideas and experiences in order to develop both individually and as a group or community. Communication, then, aims to foster community life and growth. Communication is an essential human right.


text: Craig Deihl of Cypress came back this year with another round of his Artisan Meat Share. What could be better? Every few months you pick up a big brown sack filled with small plastic packages of artisan sausages, bacons, and cured meats of all kinds. And then you hide it in the back of your fridge and nibble on guanciale and summer sausage quietly at night with the blinds closed so none of your neighbors know. That stash has to last three months, after all.


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The Green Lady of Wahiawa Hawaii~
Good evening my dearest Friends, Supporters, Followers and Readers of my humble blog, I thought I would bring you to the Islands of Hawaii for my next Urban legend. As I was telling in my last post I would try to find different urban legends/folktales of different countries. Since Hawaii is close to my heart being that my family on my husband side lives there it is fun to do. I have found two different version of the tale. So it really depends on which legend you believe. The first tale is said to be of a woman who would visit, the gulch of Wahiawa, which also contains the botanical gardens of Wahiawa with her only child. However, one day while visiting her only child became lost in the botanical gardens of Wahiawa and sadly never to be found again. How how the tale goes as the Green lady is this; To this day, the mother of this child still wonders in the gulch looking for her child & will take any child that she comes across into the gulch.
Over the years, there have been several reports of seeing the green woman that has been said to be covered in moss or mold wandering in the gulch. Others have said that the Green Woman closely resembles that of the Japanese Mythological creature called the Kappa. If you are curious about the Japanese Mythological creature Kappa I looked on my blog and I found that I did a small post on the creature. at the link below you can read about it and others...hag-fairies.html
This creature is said to resemble a turtle-like humanoid that steals children to feast upon. They say the last known sighting was to have been in the mid to late 1980's.
Today in modern times, children and even teenagers dare each other to cross the bridge that runs over the gulch at night. So if you are very brave at night- between 9am-4pm at the old Botanical Gardens you might see The Green Lady.
Then there is the second version; In this version of the Green Lady, she is more of a ghost an is very specific specter from Hawaii. Now there are other Green Lady Ghost that are usually from Scotland that inhabit castles and are called the Green Ladies, However, these Ladies of the Castles of Scotland are truly White Ladies despite the color differecne.---plus their spirits are of noble womanhood that haunt the castles they once inhabited. Noted too, there is no real difference other than the color to the apparition of this woman too.
However, the Hawaiian Green lady is quite a differnt and is very chilling compared to the noble woman of Scotland. The legend goes as this which is a bit different than the first version. She, of course, was a normal mother who enjoyed taking her children [no one knows how many she had]to the Wahiawa Botanical Garden in Honolulu. She & her children would cross the gulch in Wahiawa instead of taking the bridge, for reasons that the mother was afraid the cars would strike and kill her children.[Never knowing her doom would be by taking her cross the gulch would cause her great pain and suffering.] Well, one night it happened, on their way back home the children became separated /lost from their mum. The mother could not find them in the gulch, no matter how hard she tried.
|Green Lady
This creature is said to resemble a turtle-like humanoid that steals children to feast upon. They say the last known sighting was to have been in the mid to late 1980's.
Today in modern times, children and even teenagers dare each other to cross the bridge that runs over the gulch at night. So if you are very brave at night- between 9am-4pm at the old Botanical Gardens you might see The Green Lady.
|Ghosts of the Noble Lady's'
of Scotland were much less creepy
After searching and searching, the mother went looking for help. Sadly no one would help her look for her beloved children. One could only image how it felt when no one would help her find her children. What was going through her mind?
So the mother went back into the gulch alone never to be seen again along with her children. Ever since that faithful day, there were sightings of a ghostly Green woman haunting the gulch. She wasn't just green, it was covered in vines & grass, which resembled a shambling marsh monster more that a green woman ghost. This spirit which looked more like that of mucky plant life than that of a ghost of the mother, still looking for her children lost forever in the gulch.
The grief that she held to her heart all those years of losing her beloved children & not getting any help at the time when there might have been a chance to find them runs deep in her soul with the locals. So to help with that grief, she would steal away any child who come within reach of the gulch. And that child is never seen again.
Crazy, as it is Children and teens in the area of Wahiawa, will sometimes dare one another to run across the bridge to see if they get a glimpse of the Green Lady. However, they say the Green Lady will never come up on the bridge to take children so they think it is safe. Is the question it?
Some have said the Green Lady has been seen on the outskirts of Wahiawa Elementary School, which is located on the edge of the Gulch----So are the children Safe?
Another very important characteristic of the Green Lady that will come in handy if you are alone and you feel an odd energy in the air and a really bad smell of decaying plant matter, beware! This could mean that most likely She is very close. Her body is covered in decaying plant matter and it covers her entire body. So it often easy to tell if she is around by the horrible odor. She also has scaly skin and sharp claws. So I hope that you all
Enjoyed finding out about another legend in
Hawaii of the Green Lady of Wahiawa.
It's kinda sad one by alot of these Urban legends
and folklores are. However I thing they quite
interesting myself
Much Love


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From the late seventeenth century onwards, Hackney became home to a number of alms-houses providing care for the poor, the aged, the infirm, and "the insane (and no doubt inconvenient) relatives of the affluent" (Isobel Watson, Hackney and Stoke Newington Past, Historical Publications, 2006).
The first, intended for six poor widows, were built in 1666 at the behest of Dr William Spurstowe, on land to the west of Mare Street in central Hackney. They were rebuilt in 1819, and again in 1966, on a new site on Navarino Road.
The second, for six "poor, civil, honest" men, were built at the behest of Henry Monger in 1669, between what is now Cassland Road and Well Street Common in south Hackney. They were rebuilt in 1847.
The third, for poor widows aged over sixty, were built at the behest of Dr Thomas Wood, a native of Hackney and sometime Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, in 1692, in an attractive location overlooking the pond in Lower Clapton in north Hackney (*). Aside from some late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century restorations, they remain in their original form. They are presently up for sale.
(*) The Bishop had stipulated in his will that the inmates should be provided every other year with new gowns bearing his monogrammed initials T.W. The trustees soon chose to commute this to a money payment.