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Military reads riot act to militants, pipelines surveillance contractors
Will Not Spare Any Community That Harbours Criminals
As the military onslaught on militants, kidnappers and oil thieves in the Niger Delta continued with the recent harvest of criminals, arms and ammunition, the new Commander of the Operation Delta Safe (ODS), Rear Admiral Apochi Suleiman, has warned that few disgruntled elements would no longer be allowed to hold the nation to ransom.
Apochi, who took over from Rear Admiral J.O. Okojie, while briefing newsmen on the successes recorded so far in the fight against militants and oil thieves, also read the riot act to surveillance contractors to be proactive in carrying out their duties.
He also warned that the ODS would not spare any person, group of persons or community in the region that harbours criminals that murder any of its soldiers in cold blood.
The new Commander was reacting to allegations by some communities in the region that the JTF soldiers were invading and intimidating members of their communities.
He noted, "Nothing goes for nothing. I believe the presence of the military in a community must have been caused by actions or inactions of criminals in the community.


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Candles Fundraising for all SeasonsPosted on 11/04/2009 by Howard Gottlieb
It can be used by church groups, schools, daycares, sports teams, youth groups and many other non-profit groups. In fact, it is a popular fundraising idea for the fall and winter, when longer nights are given an ambience and warmth with candles, especially scented ones.
Candle fundraising is great because almost everyone uses candles. There are many types to choose from, including floating, cathedral, tapered, pillar, jar or container filled, votive, gel, luminaria, tealight, decorative, novelty, religious and birthday candles, each of which can be colored, non-colored, made naturally with beeswax, made the regular way with paraffin wax, scented, un-scented and/or with a design or unusual shape.
In fact, candles are regularly used for special occasions and even interior design, making them highly popular with many people. Candles fundraising has a substantial benefit in that fundraisers only pay the minimal wholesale price for their candle supplies through major candle manufacturers and those specializing specifically in candles for fundraising.
Fundraisers can make as much as 50% profit on candles, dependant on the candle type. Some groups even give out free ones for people buying a certain amount of them and tailor the candles that they sell to friends, families, work colleagues, neighbors, and others in their community for special events or seasons. Some examples include birthdays, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and many others.
Best of all, most candles manufacturers usually allow free shipping as well as no deposits or upfront costs.
Top Candle Fundraising Products
Journey of Faith Candle Fundraiser
If you are a faith-based group and want to sell candles then consider our Journey in Faith candle line. This is our newest candle line for faith-based groups. We provide free candle brochures to pre sell the candles so there is no need for upfront cash.
Earth Candle Fundraiser
Earth fundraising candles are a great way to raise money with no upfront money. You offer a terrific selection of candles in all the most popular scents. You make 50% profit on every candle you sell. You can even qualify for free shipping. We provide free brochures for each member of your group and all the materials you need to hold your candle sale.
Quote Candle Fundraiser
Quote fundraising candles are our newest and most exciting new fundraising candles. They are a great way to raise money with no upfront money. Each candle label comes with an inspiring quote. You make 50% profit on every candle you sell. You can even qualify for free shipping.
Magic Melts Wickless Candle Fundraiser
The newest addition to our candle fundraisers. Magic Melts are highly scented wickless wax bars that you melt in candle warmers. There's no cost to start this fundraiser. Make 50% profit. You can even qualify for free shipping.
Magic Melts Carry Boxes
We'd like to introduce you to Magic Melts. It's the best way to take advantage of the popularity of wickless candles. You will be selling packages that include 6 large fragrance bars for only $4 per package. There are 10 wonderful scents to choose from. Each case comes with 80 packages of Magic Melts so total sales per case will be $320.
Home for the Holidays Candle Fundraiser
This is the perfect holiday season fundraiser. Our Home for the Holidays Candles make the perfect gift. There's no upfront cost so anyone can start this fundraiser. We provide everything you need to get started and there's no obligation or cost.
Heritage Fundraising Candles
Our Heritage $10 fundraising candles are the most affordable 55 hour burn time candle in the fundraising industry. Choose from 6 great scents.
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As a kid I liked playing Mouse Trap instead of Barbies. As a mother of a daughter I chose to dress her in tailored plaids over pink ruffles, and in high school I preferred playing basketball over cheerleading. I should clarify that the cheerleading coaches weren't knocking down my door, but for some reason throughout my life the act of cheerleading has always rubbed me wrong. (And with my sensitivity to chafing, I always take things like that seriously.) I will never forget "Spirit Week" in 1987 when my friend came to school on "Nerd Day" dressed as a cheerleader. There was a big uproar among the perky and flexible at San Pasqual High School, but I was among the callous who laughed all day and I remember it fondly to this day.
In regards to my aforementioned daughter, pleated jumpers and denim dresses only remained a part of her repertoire until she was old enough to protest. Before having a child I anticipated this age to be somewhere around 10 or 11, but I haven't had a say in my daughter's wardrobe choices since Bill Clinton became a womanizer. To date Samantha owns at least 17 Barbies, has dressed as a different princess for the last three Halloweens, chooses ruffles and glitter over pleats any day, and takes gymnastics class over my regular suggestions to try something different. And today? Well, today is "Sports Day" at her Elementary school and my daughter is going dressed as…you guessed it, a cheerleader.
I have to admit that when Samantha informed me of today's dress theme and asked the whereabouts of the cheerleading costume, I had evil thoughts. First, I wanted to launch into a dissertation that rejects cheerleading as a sport. (Sorry.) Second, I thought about finding the costume before she did so I could hide it somewhere really inconspicuous like, say, the trash. Third, I remembered my friend on Nerd Day and I laughed all over again. Finally, in spite of my inner protests and being the stellar and non-controlling mother that I am I kept my mouth shut, retrieved the cheerleading outfit, and sent my daughter to school wearing something that made me cringe…and surely not for the last time.


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Jakob hadn't worked out for 15 years prior to his first visit to RideBerlin. His first Ride only lasted 18 minutes… but now 4 months and 40 Rides have passed, and Jakob is one of our top Rough Riders.
What motivated him to get back on the bike and challenge himself again after that first Ride experience? You read it here…
What does RideBerlin mean to you?
On the one hand, RideBerlin gives me the opportunity to disconnect from my day-to-day. I have a very stressful job, that demands a lot of different things from me. At RideBerlin I can disconnect from that within the first 10 minutes and I don't even have the capacity anymore to think about something other than my Ride. I think that's amazing. On the other hand, RideBerlin embodies a lifestyle change. I started riding in early October and have felt a major shift in my mind space. I feel stronger, have more energy and I also feel a bit addicted… it organizes my day a little, too. Going to RideBerlin a few times per week means a lot to me. The physical changes, especially the lower part of the body, as well as in the mind, are results of a challenge I gladly take on. I didn't work out for 15 years and then started coming here. I have noticed that it has also helped me a lot in terms of pants sizes… the way I am able to shop is completely different now. It's a great experience, for sure, that's what RideBerlin means to me.
How did you first hear about RideBerlin?
I was brought along! A colleague of mine told me about it and said "Hey, come with me! Just give it a try…", and so I did. My first time was a Rookie Ride with Johanna… after 18 minutes I was out. At that point I said "never again!". Then another colleague, who's also a frequent Rider, ultimately convinced me to give it another go. That's when I noticed that, yes, it's hard and very challenging, especially in the beginning, but after four or five Rides I did notice that it was relatively easy to build up that fitness. It's just a matter of taking it step by step and once you've accepted that, it becomes a lot easier.
So the first time you left the room within 20 minutes… and then a few months later you're at the top of our Rough Rider list for 10 executive weeks…
Yes, that's true. I have been with RideBerlin for 4 months and have done about 40 Rides.
Wow, that is impressive! What motivates you?
It motivates me, that I am independent, but still have that accountability in a way. It's not like in a gym, where everybody does their own thing for a bit and then calls it a day… RideBerlin is a concept that allows me to be active in a group, without feeling accountable towards the others, but just to myself.
What I also really like is, that the entire studio is super clean and it's all well though-out: everything is prepared, as a Rider you don't need to take care of anything. It's a huge benefit.
I find the concept very convenient, I don't need to bring anything other than my work-out clothes – all other essentials are provided. It's a pay-as-you-go system, no membership where you have to pay a monthly fee… it's motivation-driven.
What I also very much like are the different personalities of the trainers. I think most of them are really great. There is a trainer for any mood. When I catch a Ride with Vicky or with Fatima, it feels like a treat to myself. And when you sometimes just want to tackle your 'inner bastard', you ride with someone else.
You catch a Ride several times per week. Do you have your regular times?
No, not at all. Sometimes I feel like I am the client of their nightmares. I check the schedule 15 minutes before to see which trainer is on and then I'll spontaneously decide whether I feel like joining. I have a full-time job and am traveling a lot, so having the option to choose from over 30 Rides per week is very useful to me. That schedule, this flexibility, really works for me.
How would you describe RideBerlin in three words?
Rough. Extremely motivating. Outcome focused.
How has RideBerlin impacted your life(style)?
It has definitely impacted my wardrobe. Quite a lot – because I've lost so much weight. That obviously has also affected my confidence and activities. My life has become more active, I feel more relaxed and sleep better. I have more self-worth and enjoy life with more dynamic, more activity. When I visited the Grand Canyon on a recent trip to the USA, I realized that 6 months ago, it would have been much more exhausting. Now I easily walked the 10 km… no big deal.
RideBerlin has taught me to approach challenges in a different way and I like that. The pheromones after the Ride are addictive, it's adrenaline… and I think everybody should give it a try, at least once.


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This review was originally published at GoldFlakePaint.
Kathleen Edwards makes the type of music that makes you believe in your own dreams again. I don't say that about an album lightly. On "Voyageur" which is her fourth release she seems to have hit her stride. I recently moved across the country to New York, and the feeling of freshness & promise in a gutsy thousand-mile move like she describes on album opener 'Empty Threat' is well known to me. "I'm movin to America/ It's an empty threat" turns into "It's not an empty threat" on the last chorus of the song, revealing that even empty threats have the potential to turn true with enough bravery. Especially after the heartbreak, loneliness and sadness the rest of the record details, starting with this fresh and hopeful track keeps it from straying too far into despair.
The record does tackle the toughest things a heart must undergo, from the disintegration of a relationship in 'House Full Of Empty Rooms', to that relationship that spelled doom from the beginning in 'Going To Hell'. This tune, especially, is haunting as she reveals "See I'm going to hell/ In a basket I made/ Woven from the letters/ And it spells your name." Justin Vernon joins her in harmony on this track, as well as several others, adding his gorgeous voice to hers but never overpowering her as lead vocalist or stealing the show. If any artists knows how to bring out the best in others, it seems to be the Bon Iver frontman, who is gaining a reputation for nurturing and helping other artists with their music. Superbly produced by Vernon and often joining Edwards vocally, the record has that extra element of his genius that pops up like an unexpected gift.
Listening to this record can turn almost any landscape magical and the countryside of sound she creates exhibits the telling twists of sound that production by Vernon entails. Those almost animalistic sounding lonely horn sounds woven into the background, brief vocal noise bursts at just the right moment to assault your attention and bring bits of the song into sharp focus.
Her lyrics aren't intricate, they're simple and to the point but they are also practically diary entries. We get the sense that Edwards has taken her most private relationships and struggles and bared them for the sake of this record, a feat that requires bravery but nearly always results in a compelling piece of art. The theme of travel reflected in the album title pops up again and again in her lyrics and even musically. Songs like 'Change The Sheets' and 'Sidecar' travel so far from where they began and discuss so much more than the mundane objects they appear to be based on.
For instance, on 'Chameleon/Comedian' she writes about our tendency to turn the most important things in life into jokes as a way of hiding our true feelings, even admitting that her own dalliances in this habit, "I'm a chameleon/ I just hide behind the songs I write." The sound breakdown that occurs at the end of this track, featuring howling from Vernon may be the most heartbreaking part of the record.
Heartbreaks or high points, I highly recommend you listen to this record. Whether you're going through a heartbreak yourself or not, Edwards includes enough variety to appeal to almost any mood, and it is well worth the journey.


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(Reuters) - Asian Paints Ltd, India's biggest paint maker by market capitalisation, on Tuesday reported first-quarter profit above analysts' expectations, helped by double-digit volume growth in its decorative paint business.
Net profit rose about 31 percent to 5.58 billion rupees ($81.02 million) in the three months ended June 30 from 4.27 billion rupees a year earlier, the company said in a statement.
Analysts on average had expected the Mumbai-based company to post a profit of 5.16 billion rupees, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Revenue from operations rose over four percent to 43.99 billion rupees.
($1 = 68.8750 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Aby Jose Koilparambil in Bengaluru; Editing by Vyas Mohan)


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President Barack Obama has his own Facebook page now.
The White House launched the page on Monday, sharing a video of the president taking a stroll in White House's backyard — which, as Obama pointed out, is also a national park — and calling for action on climate change.
"Hello, Facebook! I finally got my very own page," Obama said in a post that accompanied the two-minute video. "I hope you'll think of this as a place where we can have real conversations about the most important issues facing our country – a place where you can hear directly from me, and share your own thoughts and stories."
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On his backyard tour, Obama talked about the fox, the hawk and the squirrels that roam the south lawn. He then made a statement about climate change.
"I hope you'll join me in speaking out on climate change and educating your friends about why this issue is so important," Obama said in his post. "At a time when nearly three in four adults online use Facebook, this feels like a great place to do it."
Though you can't become the president's "friend" on Facebook, you can expect plenty of posts on serious policy matters. Obama also promised "some just-for-fun stuff, too."
The page's cover photo shows the president on what appears to be a boat tour to see the effects of global warming in Resurrection Cove in Seward, Alaska, on Sept. 1, 2015.
The "About" section of the page reads, "Dad, husband, and 44th President of the United States. Comments and messages received through this account may be archived: wh.gov/privacy."
The page also includes highlights and milestones from Obama's life, including his marriage to Michelle Obama in 1992 and getting sworn in as U.S. senator in 2005 and then as 44th president of the U.S. four years later.
Nearly an hour after its launch, the page was "liked" more than 20,000 times.
Earlier this year, Obama officially joined Twitter, sending out his first tweet on May 18.
"Hello, Twitter! It's Barack. Really! Six years in, they're finally giving me my own account," Obama wrote.


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Ryanair bump prices up by 12% and cuts routes!
RYANAIR fares will soar by another 12 PER CENT this year - as it slashes routes in order to combat the sky-high oil price.
Boss Michael O'Leary boasted that his airline would cash in as more passengers compete for fewer seats.
Ryanair expects to run fewer services this winter for the first time in its history so it can save money on jet fuel.
Dozens of new aircraft being delivered by BOEING will simply be "parked up" until March next year.
Mr O'Leary said: "This will help get the fares up." He added "lead in" promotional fares would rise - but insisted: "Supply and demand is the real driver of this. Bookings are stronger because of all the austerity.
Still, not everything is bad news for your pocket. You can still find a Bargain for your next holiday villa with Bargain Villas. Search our rates with owners Directly and Companies for the best choice of cheap holiday villas.
Virgin cabin crew voted the most attractive in the world
With fitted red suits and stylish silk neck ties, the Virgin Atlantic cabin crew have always stood out from the crowd. And now Richard Branson's flight attendants have received the ultimate accolade from travellers, they have been voted The world's most attractive cabin crew.
The ladies (and gents) in red swept the board in a new survey, far outstripping their rivals to take the title with a massive 53 per cent of the vote.
1. Virgin Atlantic
2. Singapore Airlines
3. Etihad
4. Emirates
5. Aer Lingus
6. Lufthansa
7. Cathay Pacific
10. Iberia
No other airline's cabin crew even coming a close second.
The title has been attributed to their sexually charged global advertising campaign, which features Bond-style graphics, suggestive images, lots of attractive male and female crew and plenty of subtle innuendos.
But you dont have to take the word of a survey on this one - reserve your cheap holiday villa at Bargain Villas and you can take a look for yourself...assuming you book a Virgin flight of course
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Amazing! – London New Years Eve Firework Display 2011
This isn't really travel but its a pretty amazing sight. Check out the fireworks display on the South Bank of the River Thames on New Years Eve. Its pretty a-mazing!
New year new holiday - why not check out Bargain Villas for a cheap 2011 holiday villa
Book early for 2011 as holiday prices set to increase!
A travel study highlighted in The Sun has revealed that many top destinations are set to cost holiday makers extra in 2011. But its not all doom and gloom as other popular destinations are predicted to cost LESS!
Trips to Turkey, Egypt and the United States could cost up to £149 more per person, a travel firm study found.
But the good news for cash-strapped Brits is that traditional Western Med favourites like Spain and Portugal will actually be CHEAPER.
The Algarve looks the best value destination, with a family of four saving an average £96, followed by the Costa Dorada and Majorca.
You can still take advantage of cheap villa rental rates in the USA and Europe by searching Bargain Villas.
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Worlds most expensive Christmas Tree
A Christmas tree that costs $11 million (£7 million) and is thought to be the most expensive ever decorated has been unveiled at Abu Dhabi's Emirates Palace hotel.
The hotel's general manager, Hans Olbertz, was quoted on Thursday as saying the 43-foot (13-meter) faux fir has 131 ornaments that include gold and precious stones such as diamonds and sapphires.
It is the latest extravagance at the Emirates Palace hotel, which boasts its own marina, heliport and a vending machine for small gold bars.
Mr Olbertz told Dubai's Gulf News that he worked with one of the jewellers in the hotel to create a "unique tree and experience for our guests this year". The hotel may later contact Guinness World Records for a possible bid as the world's most expensive Christmas tree.
The Guinness web site lists a $10.8 million tree erected in 2002 in Toyko with 83 pieces of jewellery from Piaget Japan.
Still, back in the real world where Christmas tree's still cost £25.00 from B&Q you can still grab yourself a Christmas bargain on holiday accommodation. Just visit Bargain villas for a cheap holiday villa


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We examine the role of higher order beliefs in asset markets where coordination between a buyer and seller can lead to gains to trade. The scenarios are modeled such that trader's strategies do not only depend upon their beliefs of underlying economic phenomena, but also upon the others' beliefs regarding the beliefs of themselves. Under certain parameters the breakdown of coordination is predicted–even when both traders are certain the underlying phenomena dictates trade is advantageous. We demonstrate the equilibrium predictions can be constructed via a small number of iterated thought exercises. The experimental design allows us to control for various behavioral phenomena and examine subjects' decisions across different accounting regimes as to tease out strategic uncertainty due solely to information asymmetry. In this setting we find evidence supporting higher order beliefs. An implication is that the lack of uniformity leads to lack of common knowledge of the beliefs of others, which in turn leads to the spreading of inefficient outcomes.
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Shields, T.W. and Xin, B. (2012). Higher-order beliefs in simple trading models. ESI Working Paper 12-18. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_papers/71


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Name plates and whatnots for work
I get the itch to create while I'm working my regular full time bill paying job. I find things at work that I must re-purpose and turn into some form of art. These all stand watch in my office, that I share with my coworker.


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Neighbourhood Connection
The area of Corktown in the city of Toronto is one of the oldest neighbourhoods, and word on the street is that it is on the cusp of tremendous growth and renewal. We have already seen some of the renewal: the refurbishing of the area around the Don River and the Portlands; the new Corktown Common park; and the increasing popularity of the Distillery District, a go-to travel hot spot in Toronto; the ever increasing opportunities to participate in cultural, music and art activities; and the hub for the Pan Am Games in 2015 is right in our backyard.
Our skyline is littered with cranes and buildings under construction, so there is much more to come. There are many more people to move into the neighbourhood and many more new friends to make. What does this mean for the mission and ministry of Little T? Everything. It means that the face of the neighbourhood is changing, and Little T is located at the centre of the neighbourhood.
This requires some thought as to how we meet our neighbours.
How can we serve? What are our neighbours' needs? How do we go about even meeting them in the first place? How can we support our local businesses and their staff?
Our first step is prayer. Teams of 2 will be walking the streets praying – praying for God's presence, God's blessing upon all those who work and live on these streets, and praying for God to open our hearts and our eyes to where he is leading us. What is God already doing and calling us to be a part of to meet our neighbours?
These are exciting times and God is in the midst of all the changes. God is a God of growth, renewal and transformation, and we trust the leading of the Spirit to guide our answers to these questions as well as others that will arise as we travel these roads together.
The Coffee Time Outreach team offers coffee, muffins, oranges, juice and conversation (to our neighbourhood) twice a month on alternative Saturday mornings. In fair weather, refreshments are served outside on the front steps of the church or sidewalk. In inclement weather, it's moved just inside the front door, while cheerful, hearty team members stand on the sidewalk and encourage passersby to come in.
Men's Dinner
Almost every month the guys of the church get together in the basement to grab a drink, eat a burger and talk about life and its issues. Third Thursday: 5:30-7:30 PM.


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"Libya is an oil producing country, we shouldn't be struggling". This is something you will hear very often in any Libyan discussion about the increasing cost of regular food staples in social gatherings. by PS Team Libya has the 10th largest proven oil reserves in the world and holds the largest proven oil reserves in Africa. … Continue reading Fighting the new normal in Libya
"Stories are told by survivors"
As women living in a conflict affected area, sharing our stories is more important than ever before. by Hajer Elmahdi Because somewhere out there, someone needs that story. Someone, by reading that story will be a completely different person. That story may give them hope, or comfort, or the sheer sensation of not being alone. … Continue reading "Stories are told by survivors"
Menac launches cooperation with Project Silphium
Meet Project Silphium, bloggers from Libya and new partner on menac. Project Silphium is a platform that allows Libyan women to connect and network in a safe interactive online space. It was founded at the end of 2014, a time when most international and national non-governmental organisations stopped working as a result of the ongoing … Continue reading Menac launches cooperation with Project Silphium


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1:1And it cometh to pass, after the death of Saul, that David hath returned from smiting the Amalekite, and David dwelleth in Ziklag two days,
1:2and it cometh to pass, on the third day, that lo, a man hath come in out of the camp from Saul, and his garments are rent, and earth on his head; and it cometh to pass, in his coming in unto David, that he falleth to the earth, and doth obeisance.
1:3And David saith to him, `Whence comest thou?' and he saith unto him, `Out of the camp of Israel I have escaped.'
1:4And David saith unto him, `What hath been the matter? declare, I pray thee, to me.' And he saith, that `The people hath fled from the battle, and also a multitude hath fallen of the people, and they die; and also Saul and Jonathan his son have died.'
1:5And David saith unto the youth who is declaring it to him, `How hast thou known that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?'
1:6And the youth who is declaring it to him saith, I happened to meet in mount Gilboa, and lo, Saul is leaning on his spear; and lo, the chariots and those possessing horses have followed him;
1:7and he turneth behind him, and seeth me, and calleth unto me, and I say, Here am I.
1:8And he saith to me, Who art thou? and I say unto him, An Amalekite I am.'
1:9`And he saith unto me, Stand, I pray thee, over me, and put me to death, for seized me hath the arrow, for all my soul is still in me.
1:10And I stand over him, and put him to death, for I knew that he doth not live after his falling, and I take the crown which is on his head, and the bracelet which is on his arm, and bring them in unto my lord hither.'
1:11And David taketh hold on his garments, and rendeth them, and also all the men who are with him,
1:12and they mourn, and weep, and fast till the evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel, because they have fallen by the sword.
1:13And David saith unto the youth who is declaring it to him, `Whence art thou?' and he saith, `Son of a sojourner, an Amalekite, I am.'
1:14And David saith unto him, `How wast thou not afraid to put forth thy hand to destroy the anointed of Jehovah?'
1:15And David calleth to one of the youths, and saith, `Draw nigh -- fall upon him;' and he smiteth him, and he dieth;
1:16and David saith unto him, `Thy blood is on thine own head, for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I -- I put to death the anointed of Jehovah.'
1:17And David lamenteth with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son;
1:18and he saith to teach the sons of Judah `The Bow;' lo, it is written on the book of the Upright: --
1:19`The Roebuck, O Israel, On thy high places is wounded; How have the mighty fallen!
1:20Declare it not in Gath, Proclaim not the tidings in the streets of Ashkelon, Lest they rejoice -- The daughters of the Philistines, Lest they exult -- The daughters of the Uncircumcised!
1:21Mountains of Gilboa! No dew nor rain be on you, And fields of heave-offerings! For there hath become loathsome The shield of the mighty, The shield of Saul -- without the anointed with oil.
1:22From the blood of the wounded, From the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan Hath not turned backward; And the sword of Saul doth not return empty.
1:23Saul and Jonathan! They are loved and pleasant in their lives, And in their death they have not been parted. Than eagles they have been lighter, Than lions they have been mightier!
1:24Daughters of Israel! for Saul weep ye, Who is clothing you in scarlet with delights. Who is lifting up ornaments of gold on your clothing.
1:25How have the mighty fallen In the midst of the battle! Jonathan! on thy high places wounded!
1:26I am in distress for thee, my brother Jonathan, Very pleasant wast thou to me; Wonderful was thy love to me, Above the love of women!
1:27How have the mighty fallen, Yea, the weapons of war perish!'
2:1And it cometh to pass afterwards, that David asketh at Jehovah, saying, `Do I go up into one of the cities of Judah?' and Jehovah saith unto him, `Go up.' And David saith, `Whither do I go up?' and He saith, `To Hebron.'
2:2And David goeth up thither, and also his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail wife of Nabal the Carmelite;
2:3and his men who are with him hath David brought up -- a man and his household -- and they dwell in the cities of Hebron.
2:4And the men of Judah come, and anoint there David for king over the house of Judah; and they declare to David, saying, `The men of Jabesh-Gilead are they who buried Saul.'
2:5And David sendeth messengers unto the men of Jabesh-Gilead, and saith unto them, `Blessed are ye of Jehovah, in that ye have done this kindness with your lord, with Saul, that ye bury him.
2:6`And, now, Jehovah doth with you kindness and truth, and also, I do with you this good because ye have done this thing;
2:7and now, are your hands strong, and be ye for sons of valour, for your lord Saul. is dead, and also -- me have the house of Judah anointed for king over them.'
2:8And Abner, son of Ner, head of the host which Saul hath, hath taken Ish-Bosheth, son of Saul, and causeth him to pass over to Mahanaim,
2:9and causeth him to reign over Gilead, and over the Ashurite, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over Israel -- all of it.
2:10A son of forty years, is Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, in his reigning over Israel, and two years he hath reigned, only the house of Judah have been after David.
2:11And the number of the days that David hath been king in Hebron, over the house of Judah, is seven years and six months.
2:12And Abner son of Ner goeth out, and servants of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
2:13And Joab son of Zeruiah, and servants of David, have gone out, and they meet by the pool of Gibeon together, and sit down, these by the pool on this side, and these by the pool on that.
2:14And Abner saith unto Joab, `Let the youths rise, I pray thee, and they play before us;' and Joab saith, `Let them rise.'
2:15And they rise and pass over, in number twelve of Benjamin, even of Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
2:16And they lay hold, each on the head of his companion, and his sword is in the side of his companion, and they fall together, and one calleth that place Helkath-Hazzurim, which is in Gibeon,
2:17and the battle is very hard on that day, and Abner is smitten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
2:18And there are there three sons of Zeruiah, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel, and Asahel is light on his feet, as one of the roes which are in the field,
2:19And Asahel pursueth after Abner, and hath not turned aside to go to the right or to the left, from after Abner.
2:20And Abner looketh behind him, and saith, `Art thou he -- Asahel?' and he saith, `I am.'
2:21And Abner saith to him, `Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and seize for thee one of the youths, and take to thee his armour;' and Asahel hath not been willing to turn aside from after him.
2:22And Abner addeth again, saying unto Asahel, `Turn thee aside from after me, why do I smite thee to the earth? and how do I lift up my face unto Joab thy brother?'
2:23And he refuseth to turn aside, and Abner smiteth him with the hinder part of the spear unto the fifth rib, and the spear cometh out from behind him, and he falleth there, and dieth under it; and it cometh to pass, every one who hath come unto the place where Asahel hath fallen and dieth -- they stand still.
2:24And Joab and Abishai pursue after Abner, and the sun hath gone in, and they have come in unto the height of Ammah, which is on the front of Giah, the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
2:25And the sons of Benjamin gather themselves together after Abner, and become one troop, and stand on the top of a certain height,
2:26and Abner calleth unto Joab, and saith, `For ever doth the sword consume? hast thou not known that it is bitterness in the latter end? and till when dost thou not say to the people to turn back from after their brethren?'
2:27And Joab saith, `God liveth! for unless thou hadst spoken, surely then from the morning had the people gone up each from after his brother.'
2:28And Joab bloweth with a trumpet, and all the people stand still, and pursue no more after Israel, nor have they added any more to fight.
2:29And Abner and his men have gone through the plain all that night, and pass over the Jordan, and go on through all Bithron, and come in to Mahanaim.
2:30And Joab hath turned back from after Abner, and gathereth all the people, and there are lacking of the servants of David nineteen men, and Asahel;
2:31and the servants of David have smitten of Benjamin, even among the men of Abner, three hundred and sixty men -- they died.
2:32And they lift up Asahel, and bury him in the burying-place of his father, which is in Beth-Lehem, and they go all the night -- Joab and his men -- and it is light to them in Hebron.
3:1And the war is long between the house of Saul and the house of David, and David is going on and is strong, and the house of Saul are going on and are weak.
3:2And there are born to David sons in Hebron, and his first-born is Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess,
3:3and his second is Chileab, of Abigail wife of Nabal the Carmelite, and the third is Absalom son of Maacah daughter of Talmai king of Geshur,
3:4and the fourth is Adonijah son of Haggith, and the fifth is Shephatiah son of Abital,
3:5and the sixth is Ithream, of Eglah wife of David; these have been born to David in Hebron.
3:6And it cometh to pass, in the war being between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner hath been strengthening himself in the house of Saul,
3:7and Saul hath a concubine, and her name is Rizpah daughter of Aiah, and Ish-Bosheth saith unto Abner, `Wherefore hast thou gone in unto the concubine of my father?'
3:8And it is displeasing to Abner exceedingly, because of the words of Ish-Bosheth, and he saith, `The head of a dog am I -- that in reference to Judah to-day I do kindness with the house of Saul thy father, unto his brethren, and unto his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David -- that thou chargest against me iniquity concerning the woman to-day?
3:9thus doth God to Abner, and thus He doth add to him, surely as Jehovah hath sworn to David -- surely so I do to him:
3:10to cause the kingdom to pass over from the house of Saul, and to raise up the throne of David over Israel, and over Judah, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba.'
3:11And he is not able any more to turn back Abner a word, because of his fearing him.
3:12And Abner sendeth messengers unto David for himself, saying, `Whose is the land?' saying, `Make thy covenant with me, and lo, my hand is with thee, to bring round unto thee all Israel.'
3:13And he saith, `Good -- I make with thee a covenant; only, one thing I am asking of thee, that is, Thou dost not see my face, except thou dost first bring in Michal, daughter of Saul in thy coming in to see my face.'
3:14And David sendeth messengers unto Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, saying, `Give up my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself with a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.'
3:15And Ish-Bosheth sendeth, and taketh her from a man, from Phaltiel son of Laish,
3:16and her husband goeth with her, going on and weeping behind her, unto Bahurim, and Abner saith unto him, `Go, turn back;' and he turneth back.
3:17And the word of Abner was with the elders of Israel, saying, `Heretofore ye have been seeking David for king over you,
3:18and now, do it, for Jehovah hath spoken of David saying, By the hand of David my servant -- to save My people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.'
3:19And Abner speaketh also in the ears of Benjamin, and Abner goeth also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that is good in the eyes of Israel, and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin,
3:20and Abner cometh in unto David, to Hebron, and with him twenty men, and David maketh for Abner, and for the men who are with him, a banquet.
3:21And Abner saith unto David, `I arise, and go, and gather unto my lord the king the whole of Israel, and they make with thee a covenant, and thou hast reigned over all that thy soul desireth;' and David sendeth away Abner, and he goeth in peace.
3:22And lo, the servants of David, and Joab, have come from the troop, and much spoil have brought with them, and Abner is not with David in Hebron, for he hath sent him away, and he goeth in peace;
3:23and Joab and all the host that is with him have come, and they declare to Joab, saying, `Abner son of Ner hath come unto the king, and he sendeth him away, and he goeth in peace.'
3:24And Joab cometh unto the king, and saith, `What hast thou done? lo, Abner hath come unto thee! why is this -- thou hast sent him away, and he is really gone?
3:25Thou hast known Abner son of Ner, that to deceive thee he came, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou art doing.'
3:26And Joab goeth out from David, and sendeth messengers after Abner, and they bring him back from the well of Sirah, and David knew not.
3:27And Abner turneth back to Hebron, and Joab turneth him aside unto the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smiteth him there in the fifth rib -- and he dieth -- for the blood of Asahel his brother.
3:28And David heareth afterwards and saith, `Acquitted am I, and my kingdom, by Jehovah, unto the age, from the blood of Abner son of Ner;
3:29it doth stay on the head of Joab, and on all the house of his father, and there is not cut off from the house of Joab one having an issue, and leprous, and laying hold on a staff, and falling by a sword, and lacking bread.'
3:30And Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner because that he put to death Asahel their brother, in Gibeon, in battle.
3:31And David saith unto Joab, and unto all the people who are with him, `Rend your garments, and gird on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner;' and king David is going after the bier.
3:32And they bury Abner in Hebron, and the king lifteth up his voice, and weepeth at the grave of Abner, and all the people weep;
3:33and the king lamenteth for Abner, and saith: -- `As the death of a fool doth Abner die?
3:34Thy hands not bound, And thy feet to fetters not brought nigh! As one falling before sons of evil -- Thou hast fallen!' and all the people add to weep over him.
3:35And all the people come to cause David to eat bread while yet day, and David sweareth, saying, `Thus doth God to me, and thus He doth add, for -- before the going in of the sun, I taste no bread or any other thing.'
3:36And all the people have discerned it, and it is good in their eyes, as all that the king hath done is good in the eyes of all the people;
3:37and all the people know, even all Israel, in that day, that it hath not been from the king -- to put to death Abner son of Ner.
3:38And the king saith unto his servants, `Do ye not know that a prince and a great one hath fallen this day in Israel?
3:39and I to-day am tender, and an anointed king: and these men, sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me; Jehovah doth recompense to the doer of the evil according to his evil.'
4:1And the son of Saul heareth that Abner is dead in Hebron, and his hands are feeble, and all Israel have been troubled.
4:2And two men, heads of troops, have been to the son of Saul, the name of the one is Baanah, and the name of the second Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the sons of Benjamin, for also Beeroth is reckoned to Benjamin,
4:3and the Beerothites flee to Gittaim, and are there sojourners unto this day.
4:4And to Jonathan son of Saul is a son -- lame; he was a son of five years at the coming in of the rumour of the death of Saul and Jonathan, out of Jezreel, and his nurse lifteth him up, and fleeth, and it cometh to pass in her hasting to flee, that he falleth, and becometh lame, and his name is Mephibosheth.
4:5And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, go, and come in at the heat of the day unto the house of Ish-Bosheth, and he is lying down -- the lying down of noon;
4:6and thither they have come, unto the midst of the house, taking wheat, and they smite him unto the fifth rib, and Rechab and Baanah his brother have escaped;
4:7yea, they come in to the house, and he is lying on his bed, in the inner part of his bed-chamber, and they smite him, and put him to death, and turn aside his head, and they take his head, and go the way of the plain all the night,
4:8and bring in the head of Ish-Bosheth unto David in Hebron, and say unto the king, `Lo, the head of Ish-Bosheth, son of Saul, thine enemy, who sought thy life; and Jehovah doth give to my lord the king vengeance this day, of Saul and of his seed.'
4:9And David answereth Rechab and Baanah his brother, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and saith to them, `Jehovah liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
4:10when one is declaring to me, saying, Lo, Saul is dead, and he was as a bearer of tidings in his own eyes, then I take hold on him, and slay him in Ziklag, instead of my giving to him for the tidings.
4:11Also -- when wicked men have slain the righteous man in his own house, on his bed; and now, do not I require his blood of your hand, and have taken you away from the earth?'
4:12And David commandeth the young men, and they slay them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hang them over the pool in Hebron, and the head of Ish-Bosheth they have taken, and bury it in the burying-place of Abner in Hebron.


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The location, Brong Ahafo, is an agricultural region with high levels of poverty. To generate income for the local cashew farmers, Bees Abroad is training groups in all aspects of beekeeping, honey processing and marketing.
Brong Ahafo is a major agricultural region of Ghana. Farmers have in the past benefited from the longer than average rainfall season but climate change is now affecting this significantly. The project began in two communities with growing populations, Sabiye and Banda Ahenkro, where around three-quarters of the population lives in poverty. Although increased cashew production has led to improvements in living standards, farmers experience uncontrollable price fluctuations for their crops. Many families depend on a good cashew harvest to keep their children in school. Beekeeping will provide improved pollination for the harvest, and a second income stream from honey.
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This is a young project, and honey has yet to flow from the hives. Despite this, there is already a desire work collectively across the two communities in order to reap the benefits jointly. The need for women and men to work together on all aspects of beekeeping has been established, providing a good basis for the future of this project.
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Yemen's Perilous State
By early 2010 the struggle faced by Yemen and its Antiterrorist allies against al-Qaeda, the Islamic militant organization, had come to dominate that country's narrative. Since 2007 the Yemeni state had been seriously challenged by a rebellion in the north, a secessionist movement in the south, and the revival of al-Qaeda throughout the country. Yemen, divided by tribal and other political forces and marked by corruption and inefficiency, had been judged by many to have a failing state that could become a failed state. In February 2010 the regime headed by ʿAli ʿAbdullah Salih and the northern al-Huthi rebels reached an uneasy truce. Shortly thereafter, after a spasm of violence, the southern secession seemed to lose momentum, although this may have been partly an artifact of the regime's conflating some secessionist activities with those of al-Qaeda. In any case, with al-Qaeda resurgent, a revised narrative held out the prospect of Yemen's becoming a failed state and a major base for transnational political Islam and terrorism.
Al-Qaeda's revival had been heralded in early 2009 by the creation of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a merger of the Saudi Arabian and Yemeni branches and based in Yemen. AQAP's verbal barrage called for the overthrow of the Saudi and Yemeni regimes "subservient" to the U.S. and their replacement with an Islamic caliphate. Even before this development, a new al-Qaeda leadership had launched attacks against tourists, foreign facilities, and government forces. Most notable was the September 2008 suicide bombing of the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, killing 17. Increasingly over the next two years, AQAP attacked Yemen's security forces, mostly in the south; many of the latter were killed, including 13 at security headquarters in the city of Aden. In April 2010 a suicide bomber failed in an attempt to assassinate Britain's ambassador in Sanaa.
By early 2009, prodded by the U.S. and newly aware that AQAP posed a threat to it, the Salih regime had largely abandoned its old live-and-let-live policy toward al-Qaeda. Indeed, President Salih declared "total war" on AQAP in early 2010. Military and security forces operations increased markedly, as did arrests and trials. In the fall of 2010, the military laid siege to two large southern towns harbouring al-Qaeda elements. By this time, moreover, the U.S. had clandestinely increased CIA and Special Operations units in Yemen and was already conducting joint actions with the country. Most notable were the large and lethal air strikes conducted in the south on Dec. 17 and 24, 2009, and another one in May 2010.
The event that focused U.S. attention on AQAP was the failed Christmas 2009 attempt by a young Nigerian to blow up a Detroit-bound plane, an incident that highlighted the danger non-Yemenis trained and radicalized in Yemen posed to the U.S. and Europe. By late 2009 the personification of the struggle had become Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born militant cleric of Yemeni origins who had proved to be a skillful Internet propagandist. Awlaki, finding safe haven amid the Awlaki tribe in the south, became an informal voice of AQAP and called for attacks on the U.S. and Americans. He had counseled the Nigerian bomber and the U.S. army officer who in mid-2009 killed 13 colleagues at Ft. Hood, Texas. In April 2010 the CIA put Awlaki on a capture-or-kill list.
The equating of Yemen and terrorism increased sharply in the U.S. and spread throughout Europe with the discovery in late October of two bombs sent from Yemen on U.S.-bound air cargo planes. Under increasing pressure, Yemen in early November announced a trial in absentia of Awlaki on charges of incitement to murder foreigners.
In late 2010 the U.S. declared AQAP a greater threat than its counterpart in Pakistan. Months earlier Washington had doubled aid to Yemen to $150 million and promised to increase it to $300 million in the next fiscal year. Indeed, the Pentagon in late 2010 proposed to increase aid to $1.2 billion over six years. Also in 2010, more than 20 Western and Arab states met twice to create the Friends of Yemen for the purposes of both increasing aid for Yemen and pressuring Yemen to adopt the major reforms needed for that aid to be used effectively. These gatherings were preparatory for a major Friends of Yemen meeting to be held in Saudi Arabia in early 2011.
Doubts persisted, however. Donors questioned whether, as in the past, economic aid would be lost to incompetence and corruption and whether military aid would be turned against the regime's non-AQAP enemies. Despite his pledges of support, President Salih still had to balance U.S. demands against a domestic political landscape marked by strong Islamic sensibilities, Yemeni nationalism, and anti-American feelings. In addition, the tribes often felt compelled to confront the state when it acted against militants seeking refuge in tribal areas. Finally, some senior military officers and politicians inside the Salih regime were themselves militants or politically tied to them.
The turmoil and violence of the past decade were but symptoms of the extent to which the Salih regime, in office for 32 years, had over time lost most of its support and legitimacy owing to its failure to meet the basic wants and needs articulated by the Yemeni people. The politics of 1990–95, framed by the unification of the two Yemens in 1990 and the war of secession in 1994, were matched by profound economic and social changes. Yemen's failure to join in the effort to force Iraq from Kuwait in 1990–91 led Saudi Arabia to expel the approximately 800,000 Yemeni workers whose remittances were key to the Yemeni economy in the 1970s and '80s. In addition to virtually destroying the remittance system, the expulsion suddenly created massive unemployment; widespread poverty soon followed. The modest inflow of oil revenues that began in the late 1980s only temporarily cushioned this economic disaster. Yemen had become just another Third World country—and one of the poorest of them.
In 1995, with the economy in free-fall, the Salih regime and the IMF and the World Bank agreed on a long-term multistage package of reforms designed to restore Yemen's viability and attract foreign donors and private investment. Initially, the regime and its international partners worked together to implement successive reforms. By 1998, however, as the reforms demanded fundamental changes in the economy and governance, the regime largely stopped implementing them.
Clearly, the Salih regime from the late 1990s demonstrated a lack of will and capacity to do what had to be done to make Yemen's economy and society viable and sustainable. The reasons for this lay in the natures of the Yemeni state and the Salih regime. The state was weak and lacking in capacity because of insufficient state building over several decades, and the regime, despite its democratic facade, remained an oligarchy consisting mostly of military and security officers, tribal leaders, and northern businessmen. Beginning in the late 1980s, moreover, it evolved into a special kind of oligarchy, a kleptocracy—i.e., government of, by, and for the few who use their positions to divert public funds for their private gain. Operating from "profit centres" through which flowed increasing oil revenues and aid, this military-tribal-business complex produced a Yemen best distinguished by rampant corruption, staggering inequality, an eroded infrastructure, and hollowed-out social institutions.
Deflecting Yemen's trajectory toward state failure would require the coordination of international and domestic forces to effect massive changes in economic and social policy and governance. Friends of Yemen could have an important role to play, using carrots and sticks. However, most of the roughly $6 billion pledged at the 2006 London Conference remained undelivered and unspent in 2010. While the donor community had resorted to threats and punishments, it had often backed down in the face of Yemen's defiance.
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Left to right, Kayla Hoidt, Cila Freitas, Andrew Olson and Landon Kelling took the top spots in the BYBT tournament at Schwoegler's Entertainment Center. Photo by Badgerland Youth Bowlers Tour.
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I have to put on a brave face when my son requests one of a few books that we own by the popular children's author Margaret Wise Brown. They are not horror books of course, no monsters lie within, but there are different sorts of fear, and Brown was a master–probably unintentionally, but no less effectively–of subtle psychological and cosmic horror, and it's still hard for me to get through her work without a lasting case of existential dread.
Popular accounts of Brown paint a portrait of a carefree life lived to the full. Apart from rosy gloss, the outline of her life seems like the backstory for a ghost: an ignored child of rich, separated parents who packed her off to Switzerland every year for boarding school. A B.A. in English, a broken engagement to a decent fellow, and thereafter a string of affairs with less than memorable literary figures, untalented womanizers, a longer relationship with an elder, maternal lesbian, before a final engagement to a third-string Rockefeller before an untimely death caused by a freak accident. Despite her less than ideal life, her published work continues to be devoured by most American children, and this is not so unusual, since melancholy is a fixture of children's literature from Hans Christian Anderson to J.M. Barry. But something darker has entered the works of Brown. It is a fact that children are as enraptured by fear as they are by joy, and this, I think, explains the enduring popularity of Brown's books. We do not own them, they own us.
It is not sadness that emerges from Brown's work, but an unpleasant mixture of anxiety and fear. Children's literature always peers into the inner world of the child, but Brown does not find fairies or castles there, but stark figures and forms which appear at first ordinary, but on closer inspection are arranged by a deep and dark logic, that presents itself but eludes the understanding. The Great Green Room in Goodnight Moon, probably the most popular children's page ever illustrated, is characteristic. Look at Clement Hurd's illustration for longer than a minute and a chilling mood slowly emerges.
Let's start with the color. The red and green bisect the room. The green consoles while the read seems to bode ill and the blue-clad bunnies are suspended somewhere between them, without any hint as to whether they will ascend or descend. Both the old lady on the left and the child in bed seem confined to their islands of chair and bed, as though moving outside of them is not an option. The child seems symbolically safer, blanketed in green, though he, no less than the lady on the chair is encircled by a sea of red, like a lake of lava.
As for the shapes and forms of the room itself, symmetry is the first perceptible feature, but it is not long before you notice things are slightly off. The spacing of the windows checks out, the clock, the hearth, the picture of the cow is nicely centered. But instead of producing a comforting consistency, the crease of the page runs just off to the side, creating the illusion that the very book you're holding has shifted off its center. The moon peers up through the bottom of the window, as though the room were floating through space, and I've never been quite sure whether the pinstripe drapes mirror each other. The chiastic pattern of the light scattered by the bedside lamp is nearly perfect, but it cuts cleanly through the room like a spotlight. Worse, the table it rests on obscures its lower hemisphere, creating a perplexing bubble of shadow. The room, which seems at first to respect symmetry, subtly mocks it, and perhaps you too for expecting such psychic comfort. A good night's sleep doesn't seem to be on the cards in this room, and the successive "good nights" to the objects therein begin to seem more like desperate pleas for a consolation that cannot possibly come in a place which has lost its center.
Furthermore, the objects in the room are oddly spaced. Some things are very close together, others far apart, but nothing really rests on top of anything else, as one might expect from a room full of clutter. It's as though the objects lie along invisible geometric planes and ellipses that are not available to us. Some unseen internal principle appears to organize the room, like magnetic forces, or light scattered through a matrix of refracting mirrors. Things seem to swirl around the ashen rug in the middle. The tangle of yarn that the kittens (black and white) are tussling for is the only disorder in the room and it's right in the center. The heart of order is chaos. In the dead center is the ball itself, a black knot (or rather "naught") like a navel simultaneously holding everything together and threatening to suck everything into it.
All of this amounts to an unease that persists throughout the goodnight wishes on subsequent pages, (particularly when "nobody" is deemed worthy of a good night wishes).
You might object that it is Hurd, not Brown that gives one the creeps, but by this you reveal that you haven't read many books by Brown because all of them conceal sinister images and themes (The Runaway Bunny being the possible exception that proves the rule, but I'm not totally convinced). When Brown sent her notes to Hurd, she included Goya's Boy in Red to guide his thoughts.
He seems to have gotten the message. She probably sent Leonard Weisgard the same thing, because the palette is unmistakeable. Red Light Green Light turns from childlike anxiety to outright fear. I've never read a scarier children's book. If Goodnight Moon is a bad trip, Red Light Green Light is an outright horror show. Somewhere between 1984 and Salem witch lore, I can't imagine a place I want to be less than this Picassoesque rendition of a New England township rendered only in brown, black, and white governed by the all-seeing oculus of the traffic light that appears somewhere different on every page with either its red or green light illuminated. The red and green of the bedroom in Goodnight Moon appears to have bled into the world, and the results are, well…let's just go over a few things.
The uncanny of the object placement in Goodnight Moon is back, but this time it's screaming at you. After a few pages, one gains the unmistakable impression that someone is trying to get a message through to you and the idea of randomness becomes less and less plausible. Why is it green here, and red there? Why does it appear on this half of the page here, and the other half there. Out in the town, people can be seen but as though petrified in time. A horse and buggy sits next to a delivery truck. A parson and a few nuns leave a church, but one apparently built in a Protestant congregational style(???) The only colors that appear beyond the shadows and highlights and the sepia between them is the titular binary which hides in plain sight on every page. A steeple here, a doorway there, trees all around. Like Goodnight Moon, a maddening awareness of something begins to spread over the mind as you begin to notice that windows and doorways which circumscribe the full forms of the objects in the town, as though the cows and trees are straining to stay inside of them, fleeing the oblivion beyond the page.Besides, is anything really moving? Presiding above all is a dark moon with only a sliver of light that seems only to emphasize its vast black interior. Cripes, what does it all mean? Seriously, just take a moment to appreciate what parents go through reading this to their kids…
You to console yourself that it's all just whimsy and randomness; stop trying to spook yourself. But this pleasant escape is obliterated when you get to the Parlor. Looking out from the hall there is a window with a bedroom wedged impossibly behind it. Out the window, a white cow grazes underneath the moon, as though a deliberate perversion of the popular rhyme, while a black cat (not fiddling) faces opposite in the foreground, occupied by something on the sill. The three are arranged in completely different places along both vertical and horizontal axes–the tabby a few feet away in the house, the bovine a few feet more outside, and the celestial body hundreds of thousands of miles beyond the atmosphere–yet they appear flattened out, as though they are actually right next to each other. It all adds up to some kind of eldritch cosmology, or the portent to a deep and horrible truth, or perhaps only half of one, since the picture is only completed by noting the scene at the opposite end of the spread: door disconcertingly ajar, framing a tall and short tree, two cats facing away from each other…and finally the gargoyle of the street light which stands with BOTH LIGHTS ILLUMINATED as if to taunt the rational nature with an unsolvable metaphysical contradiction.
This is only one page. Get me out of here.
Lest you suppose that two points do not constitute a line, there are other examples. Little Fur Family at first tells a fairly quotidian story about a Beatrix Potter-like clan of furry creatures. You aren't too concerned at first that they appear to have no discernible species (they're somewhere between wombats and bears, but also the size of gerbils). They get dressed and make food. But then the little fur child goes outside and it pretty much turns into Twin Peaks. He is surprised at first to find that other creatures do not share his own features (he notices, for instance, that fish have no hair) and goes on a search for something like him. A normal author might wrap this up as a little metphor for how nobody is like you and you're special like a snowflake and oh isn't that nice, nighty ni–but then he finds a tiny version of himself in the grass and he kisses it and it runs down a tiny hole.
Not making this up:
Then he caught a little tiny tiny fur animal The littlest fur animal in the world
It had warm silky fur and
even a little fur nose.
So he kissed it right on its little fur nose
and put it gently back in the grass
and the little tiny tiny fur animal
ran down a hole into the ground.
We could spend many more words unpacking the Freudian implications of this scene, but then he goes back to his house and his mother sings to him:
Sleep, sleep, our little fur child,
Out of the windiness,
Out of the wild.
Sleep warm in your fur
All night long,
In our little fur family.
This is a song.
This is a fine enough resolution so long as you ignore those foreboding lines about the windiness and wilds without, or the final line reminding you that anything that may have comforted you in this verse is really only a song, and does not necessarily correspond to reality. So you close the book and then you notice the picture on the front cover, which seemed innocuous enough but now you notice the blood red sun, hanging strangely above the family, but apparently illuminating nothing like a sleepless eye at the apex of some invisible triangle, watching us all…
Oh wait, that's a ball. Time to stop. It's never easy to return to waking life after staring into Brown's abysses. It's hard to know for sure what's staring back but it's certainly nothing good.


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Christmas Dinner: The Recipes
Now that the leftovers are gone, I feel ready to talk about their recipes!
These are some of the more unique dishes we enjoyed on Christmas Day. Ones we'll definitely be making again.
First up is the Wife Saver.
The name of the dish comes from my step-dad's family who make a very similar breakfast for Christmas Day. But it isn't the same recipe as theirs. I also call this a savoury bread pudding and based it off of the Pioneer Woman's version.
- 3-4 cups cubed stale bread (I used a fluffy French bread, but a denser bread works much better)
- 1 lb cooked ham, rinsed and cubed (rinsing it will make it less salty)
- 3 cups chopped spinach
- 1/2 cup chopped green onion
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup egg whites (or another 4 whole eggs)
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup plain yogurt
- 1 tbsp dijon mustard
- 1 cup grated or crumbled cheese (I used old cheddar)
- Pepper to taste
Layer your bread, ham, spinach and onion in a greased casserole dish. Mix together the remaining ingredients and pour over top. Bake for one hour at 350F. This can be made the night before and popped in the oven in the morning. I made it the morning of and just let the bread soak up the liquid for an hour before baking.
This also makes great leftovers and tastes almost as good cold!
Mom's Layered Salad
The elements of this salad can be changed based on your preference. But a few things can't be changed: the iceberg lettuce, peas, cheese and dressing. Why? Because I said so ;) Here's the order of layers:
- Iceberg lettuce
- Sweet bell peppers, chopped small
- Celery, chopped small
- Red onion, chopped small
- Carrots, chopped small
- Frozen peas (using frozen helps the dressing seep through the salad)
- Dressing (1 1/4 cup mayonnaise + 2 tbsp white sugar to taste)
- Shredded cheddar cheese
- Bacon pieces
This is also best made the night before so the dressing has time to seep through the salad. This is one of the few salads that actually gets better with age. I like eating it best on Day 3!
Again, you can play around with what chopped veggies you use. Some people also add boiled eggs, or a little spinach.
Scalloped Tomatoes
This is a recipe I've been sitting on for months now and Christmas Dinner provided the opportune time to try it! This version came from this Smitten Kitchen recipe with a few changes because I have issues following recipes.
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 cups french bread, cut into 1 inch cubes
- 4 large tomatoes, cut into 1/2 – 1 inch cubes
- 3 cloves garlic, minced (about 1 tablespoon)
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup thinly slivered basil leaves, lightly packed
- 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 3/4 cup shredded mozzarella
Toast the bread in a pan with olive oil. Meanwhile, mix up the tomatoes, garlic, sugar, salt and pepper. Once bread is crispy and toasted, add the tomato mix and cook for about 5 minutes. Stir in basil then transfer to a greased casserole dish. Sprinkle cheese on top and bake in a 350F oven for 35 to 40 minutes.
This smelled soooo good thanks to the basil and garlic. And it tasted just as well! My only complaint is the bread gets mushy despite the toasting, but you can't go wrong with the flavour combination. Fresh basil is the bestest.
Last, but certainly not least, the course I am most proud of – dessert.
Pumpkin Roll
I didn't even know this dessert existed until I saw it on Jenna's blog. It sounded like a nice light dessert as opposed to the heavy pie we usually have after Christmas dinner. Plus, I've never rolled a baked good before and I love a good kitchen challenge!
I immediately got concerned when I read I had to beat together the eggs and sugar for 10 minutes. My mom doesn't have a Kitchenaid mixer, so I beat it with a hand mixer until it got thick and pale in colour.
Then of course came the pumpkin. As mentioned before, I'm slightly frightened of pumpkin. It's tasteless, mushy, bright orange. It's mashed vegetables in a can. I tried not to gag as I scooped out the grown-up baby food.
I have a really bad habit of not checking to see if I have the proper pans before baking. But this regular baking sheet seemed to sub well as a jelly roll tray.
Jenna's recipe says to just remove the cake and roll it up with the frosting as soon as it cools a little. But every other pumpkin roll recipe I read instructed to roll it up in a towel first to set the shape before adding the icing.
This is where I started to get reeeeally nervous.
Dessert. In a towel. I let that cool for a little bit while licking the cream cheese icing bowl. I slowly unrolled it and evenly spread the frosting from corner to corner, then attempted to roll it back up without the towel. This is where it got tricky, as the cake started sticking to the towel and I could see it tearing a little. Slow and steady did it. I managed to get it in plastic wrap and in the fridge without making a scrambled cake!
serves 10-12
- 3 eggs, room temperature (I used cold eggs, whatever)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2/3 cup pumpkin
- 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1.5 tsp pumpkin pie spice (I used a mix of cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
for cream cheese frosting:
- 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 4 T soft butter
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350. Beat the eggs and sugar together with a Kitchen Aid on maximum high speed for about ten minutes. When done, the mixture will be very thick and very, very pale. Add the lemon juice, vanilla and pumpkin and stir gently.
In another bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt and pumpkin pie spice. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet and mix just until combined.
Pour the cake batter onto a sheet tray (or jelly roll tray) that has been greased and lined with wax paper. Spread out the batter evenly and bake for fifteen minutes, or until golden.
Let cool on the pan for about ten minutes and start your frosting.
Whip the cream cheese and butter together on medium speed for three minutes or until creamy looking. Add the powdered sugar and vanilla and whip on high for another six to eight minutes. Set aside.
After you have cooled the cake for a few minutes, turn over the sheet pan and gently peel off the wax paper. Spoon the frosting on top of the cake and spread out. Starting at the far edge, roll up the cake. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for about an hour before serving.
The end result was downright delicious. You really can't go wrong with a spiced cake and cream cheese. With a scoop of frozen vanilla yogurt, it was the perfect end to the perfect meal. If I ever make this again, I think I will skip the towel step. Rolling it twice just gives more opportunity to screw it up, and I don't mind a few torn edges to nibble on ;)
Outrageous Lies
Hello bloggie friends! Some excellent goals being set over on this post. I'm going to be checking in again every Monday to update with how I'm doing on my monthly goals. I suggest you write down your goals so you can check in too!! This way we won't forget about them and actually get them achieved :)
Well the worst is behind us. That's right, Tuesday is over. Today was actually a decent day in Susan-land. T'was a fun day at work. Started off spectacularly with a heavy upper-body weight lifting sesh.
Elliptical Sprints
|17 (sprint)
|18 (sprint)
|19 (sprint)
|18 (sprint)
|17 (sprint)
Straight Sets:
|Assisted chin-up
|55 lbs
|Romanian deadlift to row
|60 lb barbell
|Incline chest fly
|20 lb dumbbells
|Close-grip lat pull down
|70 lbs
|Seated cable chest press
|35 lbs
|Arnold press
|17.5 lb dumbbells
Alternating Sets:
|Seated hammer curl
|15 lb dumbbell
|5 each arm
|Tricep extension
|20 lb dumbbell
Straight Set:
|7.5 lb dumbbells
|5 each letter
Straight Sets:
|60 sec
|Boat pose
|60 sec
|Plank knee to elbow
|15 each side
|Side plank rotation
|15 each side
|Prone jackknife
Pheeeewie! My arms feel pretty good right now, but I know they're going to be dead tomorrow. All last week it hurt just to hang my arms at my side, I expect nothing less this week ;)
Got to work nice and early to enjoy breakfast at my desk.
- 1/2 cup cottage cheese
- 1/2 cup yogurt
- 1/2 scoop vanilla whey powder
- 1 tbsp cashew butter
- cinnamon
- raisins
- drizzle maple syrup
Morning snack was a piece of low-carb banana bread.
Today I sandwiched some of my fave protein goo (protein powder + water) in there.
Lunch was leftovers from last night.
A random mish mash of ground chicken, chickpeas and veggies. Tasted wonderful the next day.
However, I didn't portion enough leftovers for myself, so I had to dig into my afternoon snack early.
Apple Cinnamon Protein Bar. Click on the link – it's got a recipe page now!!
Dinner was a big ole' salad.
- spinach
- onions
- mushrooms
- tomatoes
- yellow & red bell pepper
- roasted soy nuts
- herbed tofu
The dressing was watered down pizza cheese with 2 tbsp hummus, 2 tbsp nutritional yeast flakes and 2 tbsp water. The tofu was also sautéed in a new food buy!
Coconut oil!! I've been wanting to try it forever after reading so many rave reviews on blogs. Fatty February finally gave me the extra push I needed to spend ten bucks on a jar. You only need a little bit, so I think my $10 will actually spread pretty far! I couldn't really pick up the flavour on the tofu though, I'll have to try it with veggies next.
Speaking of veggies, see that dark tomato there?
It's actually a kumato!
One of those things I saw at the grocery store and couldn't not buy ;) Apparently kumatoes are a specially sweet tomato. The texture was to die for!
Not a very exciting day in terms of food. Very simple, but my body is feeling good about what I fed it today :) Luckily, Ellie tagged me in a fun award!
The rules are as follows:
1. Thank the person who gave this to you.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you.
4. Tell up to six outrageous lies about yourself, and at least one outrageous truth.
5. Nominate seven "Creative Writers" who might have fun coming up with outrageous lies.
6. Post links to the seven blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know you nominated them.
Ahem. Thank you Ellie ;) Now onto my outrageous lies + one truth:
1. I read 36 books one summer in elementary school.
2. I won the highland dancing provincials when I was 6 years old.
3. I've been to Sidney Crosby's house in Halifax although he wasn't home at the time.
4. The fastest mile I ever ran was done in 7 minutes and 14 seconds.
5. I once made a vanilla latte for Jack White of the White Stripes.
6. When I was a reporter, I did a live television hit for Canada's national news network, CBC Newsworld.
So my Question of the Day is which one do you think is the truth??
My nominations are randomly selected from the comments on my last post:
Have fun!!!
Oh! One last thing! I want to start posting pictures/links to people who try out my recipes/eats. If you're a blogger, leave me a comment or e-mail me with a link to your post and I'll feature it. If you're a non-blogger, send me some pics and you'll be a blogger for a day ;) E-mail is email@example.com So if you've tried out a recipe in the past you want to share, send it my way, and keep it in mind for all future attempts!
See ya tomorrow for Waffle Wednesday!


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When U.S. Green Building Council's LEED system was founded in 1994, the focus was on individual projects. But sustainable development has evolved since then, and today LEED encompasses singular projects and neighborhood development as well. Learn about how LEED is providing the common language and foundation for district scale development from U.S. Green Building Council Vice-President and EcoDistricts Summit featured speaker, Scot Horst.
EcoD: Can you put some context around LEED's role in advancing the concept of an EcoDistrict? What kind of positive contributions can LEED buildings, or rather a group of LEED buildings, make towards the development of a district with sustainability at its core?
Scot Horst: The tendency within the environmental movement is to think there is competition between different programs or that various programs are stealing an amount of thinking from a very confined market and that they're taking it from each other. But, in fact what we know is that if we are going to be successful, we need to leverage all of our different abilities and thinking between many varied programs and approaches. LEED does something very specific—that other programs have not been able to do—which is bringing to scale a level of understanding and a series of different environmental ideas that are very approachable. It helps people who haven't done this work before figure out how to get into it and what they can do.
What we find is that people who have done LEED projects like to go further on the next one. They like to see if they can do more sustainable projects on their next building, which ultimately leads to a more integrated approach. That's the point when we start seeing LEED Platinum buildings being pursued and really incredible things put into place. So it only makes sense that if you have an environment where a number of people that have consistently been thinking within this platform and have become well acquainted with all of the different concepts—which we call credits or Environmental Approaches & Ideas—that they start realizing how these concepts work together. You hit that point and it becomes very apparent how all the concepts work towards creating a community or a neighborhood that can be distinguished by the fact that it goes much further even than what our own credits system broaches.
LEED can help reach this result by plowing the ground—getting people interested, getting them involved, helping them understand that a shared language of ideas exists for them and that there are others who are trying to do similar things. Because, once you become a leader, you want to do much more and to expand the impact. That's where EcoDistricts and sustainable neighborhoods really come to the foreground.
EcoD: How do we use this common language—the LEED system—to bring all of the different stakeholders to the table? Completing a single building has its own set of challenges, but to develop at a district scale makes things considerably more difficult. Does LEED have a role to play?
SH: Yes. What planners sometimes say is that LEED misses the mark because it's just about a single building, but we know that if we don't look at neighborhoods, we'll never get where we need to be. What that perspective ignores is the fact that LEED is successful precisely because it touches the place where people make so many decisions. It gives a lot of people solid direction on all the small decisions that add up to a large thing called a building.
You're right in that this is much more challenging working at the neighborhood scale, so I've been extremely impressed with what we've seen come out of the LEED Neighborhood Development (ND) program and the development of EcoDistricts, because you need a much broader set of stakeholder interest to be successful—many times in areas where people don't have decision making power. That means you have to find ways to influence people who are the decision makers.