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The Drawer Boy
Beezneez present 'The Drawer Boy' in Manorhamilton's Glens Centre
A scene from The Drawer Boy.
The Drawer Boy was first introduced to Irish audiences by Steppenwolf, the famous Chicago theatre company and was recognized as a beautiful, fully and humane story of the spirit of life.
In this production, John McDwyer directs Glens Theatre favourites Gerry Farrell, Michael Roper and Wayne O'Connor, in a production which relates the tale of a young actor arriving at a remote Canadian farm to gather material for a play his theatre ensemble are putting together.
He encounters two old farming friends who allow him to stay with them for his research. It soon becomes apparent that all is not what it seems and the young actor uses his curiosity and skill to re-enact an event in the farmers' lives that exposes a fallacy and changes all three forever. There is much gentle humour in this sad and touching, multi award winning play and given the usual Beezneez production values, this is not a show to be missed.
Tickets are now on sale for The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey - €16/18. Performance starts at 8.30pm on February 15, 2018 in The Glens Centre, Manorhamilton.
For more information see The Glens Centre's website www.theglenscentre.com. You can also phone The Glens on (071) 9855833.


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Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread3 cups white sugar
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
1 cup vegetable oil
2/3 cup water
4 eggs
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon ground nutmeg
2 tablespoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 1 pound size coffee cans, or three 9x5 inch loaf pans. In a large bowl, combine sugar, pumpkin, oil, water and eggs. Beat until smooth. Blend in flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda and salt. Fold in chocolate chips and nuts. Fill cans 1/2 to 3/4 full. Bake for 1 hour, or until an inserted knife comes out clean. Cool on wire racks before removing from cans or pans.

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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Sunday Evening in Williamsburg: Kent Avenue Crowd Outside the Final 2009 East River State Park JellyNYC Pool Party, Listening to Grizzly Bear
Around 6 p.m. we moseyed over to East River State Park after remembering today was the last pool party of 2009. We weren't sure we could get in, but we figured we might be able to hear Grizzly Bear. After all, at the McCarren pool, we enjoyed hearing some groups, such as MGMT, over the past few years even when we couldn't get in.
What we didn't expect was the massive crowd of hipsters who'd shown up and either were wary of waiting on the long line on Kent Avenue to get into the park or just decided it was fun enough to wander up and down the street.
It was like an Easter parade for hipsters. Nobody seemed particularly angry. Nobody was grousing or growling. It felt festive.
The cops were on bullhorns and even in a police van rolling down Kent Avenue (closed off for traffic) imploring people to get out of the street and onto the sidewalks. The cop in the police van kept telling people to get on line if they wanted to get in to the park and get drunk and see Grizzly Bear.
The cop even smiled and waved to the kids hanging out on the sidewalk.
Actually, the line was long but it was moving.
People who'd been there all day were coming out little by little despite Grizzly Bear. Maybe some people were tired or just don't like Grizzly Bear.
There were pizza deliveries to the crowd sitting on the sidewalk on the east side of Kent Avenue by the vacant new condos.
Dig in! It's Fornino's best!
These people are too young to know about sit-in strikes, right?
Or "up against the wall, motherfuckers"?
There was lots of texting going on, quite a bit of cigarette smoking, and yeah, some people were listening to the music, which was surprisingly clear, even as far away as Wythe Avenue.
Anyway, some of us on Kent Avenue enjoyed ourselves immensely. If you can have a pool party without a pool, why do you need a park? And don't we see enough of Chuck Schumer, Beyonce and Jay-Z without having to look at them in person?
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Sunday Afternoon in Prospect Park: Rebellious Subjects Theatre's "Henry IV" at the Music Pagoda
Exactly a year ago on the last Sunday in August, we discovered the Rebellious Subjects Theatre company's first show, a terrific site-specific Twelfth Night at Goodbye Blue Monday in Bushwick. Today we were privileged to see the first half of this summer's much grander and more ambitious Shakespeare production of Henry IV and Henry V in an appropriately medieval-ish rustic setting, Prospect Park's often-overlooked Music Pagoda.
All the performances had been scheduled to start at 4:30 p.m. on three weekends from August 22 through September 6, but yesterday's performance of Henry IV, a seamless amalgam of the separate Part I and Part II plays, was postponed to 12:30 p.m. today by Saturday's Spike Lee-produced extravaganza memorializing Michael Jackson and celebrating the late King of Pop's 51st birthday.
We ate an early light lunch, and having just missed the B48 bus on Lorimer Street, we took the L and Q trains to the pointy corner where Flatbush Avenue intersects with Empire Boulevard and Ocean Avenue and walked into Prospect Park past Lefferts Homestead and the Carousel to the underutilized Music Pagoda. From boyhood "mountain climbing" expeditions with our dad in this part of the park, we vaguely recall the Olmstead and Vaux-designed original music pagoda, which burned down in 1968 but we remember coming to the rebuilt one with our first girlfriend in 1971.
The only time we read Henry IV Part I was in our Midwood High School Shakespeare class with Mr. Grebanier, and we'd never seen a theater production. We knew the basic plot of Henry IV Part II but went to Wikipedia this morning to check out the articles on both plays. Frankly, we were dubious about combining them, but under the direction of Elyzabeth Gorman, assisted by Melissa Zygmant, the Rebellious Subjects flawlessly melded the two history plays.
The setting was utilized to good effect, with the stage of the music pagoda employed for the scenes at the court of the put-upon King Henry IV, father of the prodigal Prince Hal, and and of the court of the rebels, Northumberland and his son Hotspur, his brother Worcester, and the other aggrieved nobles.
The grounds in front of the pagoda featured the battle scenes and the mostly comic doings of Falstaff and his riotous retinue, bringing the action to the feet of the audience, which started out relatively small and grew as the play progressed. It was interesting to see people passing by stopping and then being so interested that they stood in the audience for the rest of the performance.
Smart people who planned to come took blankets, as the ground was rather muddy from all the rain. We watched a towheaded four-year-old or so boy, walking by with his parents, who stood transfixed by the scene late in play when the king is falling ill and talking to his heir, in which Steve Viola (Henry IV) and Montgomery Sutton (Prince Hal) excelled. Sutton was impressive as the dissolute companion of Falstaff and as defender of his father's throne - and ultimately, at play's end, King Henry V; the transition, leading to his rejection of Falstaff, seems quite natural and consistent with the prince's character.
Falstaff always seems like a foolproof role, and Jonathan Levy had the comic heft and bluster to get lots of laughs from the audience. Bryn Boice as a dithery Mistress Quickly and Sutton Crawford a feisty Doll Tearsheet were also very funny. We thought Ben Friesen, whom we'd seen last year as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, did a lot with the small role of Bardolph, one of Falstaff's flunkies and companions in dissolution; Bardolph seemed sardonic, bemused and somewhat removed from the drunken, bombastic comedy around him.
All the actors handled the Shakespearean dialogue naturally, but Nick Reinhardt as Hotspur was especially effective. Hotspur gets some of the best speeches in Part I, and here he seemed both passionate and fiery without losing any dignity. These are very male-dominated plays, but Tiffany Abercrombie stood out as Lady Percy, Hotspur's devoted wife, who here seems to struggle with suppressing her fear and doubts about the whole rebellion that eventually makes her a young widow. We were particularly impressed with her final speech, to her distraught father-in-law Northumberland (Eric Rice), whose own veneer of high-minded detachment finally cracks when he learns of Hotspur's death.
The fight scenes were spectacular, and the decision to have them fought with arms as swords, made the action - which can be kind of stilted in some productions - incredibly visceral as hand-to-hand combat takes places almost in the audience. Ben Rezendes, who played the young John of Lancaster, the king's other son, as sensitive and vulnerable, did really good work as fight choreographer, assisted by Jon Ledoux (who played the Chief Justice as dour, digniried and committed to the rule of law even when it's against his own interests).
The costumes were traditional fourteenth-century, we think, and while the scenery was limited to the merest hints of royalty and nobility onstage, the illusion of time and place held. A wooden wagon/cart served multiple purposes in front for the scenes with Falstaff's crew and others. The transitions between the royal court, the rebel intrigues, and the carousing lower orders were handled skillfully as actors "offstage" managed to seem there but not there as they "disappeared" within full view of the audience.
Frankly, the play started off a bit slowly for us, but soon its rhythms took over. The two parts of Henry IV don't have the immediate Shakespeare-in-the-park appeal of the comedies or tragedies; even among the history plays, they're not usually as gripping as Richard II, Richard III, or Henry V, although the comic business of Falstaff and his companions (here,Drew De Jesus was a sparkling, slightly nasty Pistol) helps.
The combined Henry IV began with Patrick Woodall, co-founder with Lauren Ferebee of Rebellious Subjects Theatre, addressing the audience as the Chorus, after which he sat down on someone's picnic blanket - still in costume, though he smoked a cigarette - and watched the play with the rest of audience, until near the close of the play when he returned to the "stage" to speak again.
It was a terrific production of Henry IV (you can find a more professional review by Jennifer Rathbone at TheaterOnline) and we wish we could have gone back after it ended close to 3 p.m. for today's 4:30 p.m. of Henry V, featuring many of the same actors.
Hopefully we can return next weekend for that. The Rebellious Subjects Theatre again made the last Sunday in August a Shakespearean pleasure for us, and we're grateful to them, as well as 7th Sign Theatre Productions and the Prospect Park Alliance, also involved in these Henry plays in the park.
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Sunday Morning in Williamsburg: Complacencies of the Peignoir and Nature in Our Own Backyard
After getting our laundry done at the Metro Laundromat by 7 a.m., we headed for our own Dumbo Books HQ backyard, which on this late summer Sunday morning seems to be returning to a state of nature.
Who says Williamsburg isn't green?
The grapes on the vine look good.
Four hundred years ago, when Henry Hudson sailed, we figure much of north Brooklyn looked like this, no? Only without apartment buildings.
Some of the figs have ripened, but most have not, it looks like.
These buildings face Metropolitan Avenue.
It was cloudy and cool early this morning.
Twice we got tangled up in the vines as they met and held us prisoner momentarily.
We really like the vines getting all tangled.
The vines are climbing up the fire escapes.
And plants are growing by the steps to the back door.
We're really, really grateful to have use of this great Williamsburg backyard.
It's a perfect place to sit early Sunday morning to drink iced tea and read the newspaper.
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Canarsie House Books Now Available on Amazon
Amazon now features three inexpensive literary trade paperbacks published by Brooklyn indie publisher Canarsie House:
I HATE ALL OF YOU ON THIS L TRAINAll Canarsie House books are available for free reading online at Scribd.
LORIMER STREET: Selected Stories
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Thursday Night in Williamsburg: Summer Starz movie "Babe" with Grand Street Community Band at East River State Park
We headed over to East River State Park this evening to get a last whiff of summer. As a college teacher at various schools, we've already gone back to work, so our idyllic summer off is finally, abruptly over. We brought with us to the park a book which we needed to read for work, and we did get some work done, but to the music of the very professional Grand Street Community Band and the crooning of Assemblyman Joseph Lentol before tonight's kid-friendly SummerStarz feature, Babe.
The community band, founded just last year, was tuning up when we got to the park around 6:30 p.m. Few people had arrived at that point.
There were more people on the grass by the river, enjoying the end of one of the last days of August.
It was no longer so hot and humid. We were in t-shirt and shorts, as were others, but it was nicely comfortable and nobody was sweating.
We found two benches behind the movie screen. One had a picnicking family; we sat on the other one and read.
The Grand Street Community Band skillfully played (you can hear their music here) a series of marches and then John Williams' familiar themes from the Star Wars trilogy.
Then, Susan from Town Square introduced Assemblymember Joseph Lentol, who's represented this district in Albany for ages. The legislator, she said, was going to sing a song.
Joe Lentol thanked the community band and praised their work but noted that they didn't know any of the songs in his repetoire. So he sang "Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific a capella.
"Now do 'No Sleep Till Brooklyn'!" cried a hipster on the right side of thirty. The assemblymember demurred or, more probably, didn't hear this constituent's plea. It was getting dark (which is why our cell phone takes these blurry pics). The last selection from the band was the John Philip Sousa march that we always associate with "for a duck may be somebody's mother." The little kids went wild.
While they got the movie ready, we found the one open porta-potty amid about two dozen locked ones. Actually, a bicyclist had found it before us. When we walked back, two blondish boys about 5 or 6, started interrogating us about why we were there. We said we were inspecting the concrete.
One boy asked if we knew who he was. No, we said. "Conrad!" he shouted. Then his littler friend, or brother, named Monroe we think, began hitting us, and Conrad joined in. Their mommies were not far away but paid no notice, so we grabbed their hands and said, "No hitting."
Then we found a seat on one of the little concrete stubs on the side and watched Babe, which was very sweet without being saccharin. There were a bunch of Orthodox Jewish guys who came in with Joe Lentol, and they looked like big machers, but they left before the film began. We don't think it was because its star was a pig.
Anyway, it was a nice, relaxing evening, and as we walked through the still-summerlike bustle of people on Bedford Avenue - at 7th Street a street preacher was asking people loudly if they ever thought about God - we were grateful for this respite in a kind of stressful week. That's what kids' movies and parks and community bands and singing assemblymen are for, isn't it? That'll do, Pig. That'll do.
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Movies We Like
Party Girl
A few years ago a film premiered at Sundance starring several major blockbuster stars, shot by a couple of music video directors, and produced by a small, but successful Hollywood production company. Because of an aggressive marketing campaign and a highly publicized distribution deal, the film won several Academy Awards and made more than $100 million. Regardless of its high star wattage, its directors' wealth of commercial experience, and Hollywood development credentials, it was still termed an "independent film." 11 years previous, for 1/50th of its modern counterpart's budget, Party Girl was made in New York by a first time filmmaker, starring an actress who, except for a notable supporting turn in a Richard Linklater comedy, had had only small character parts in independent films. Party Girl was accepted into Sundance that year and garnered only a limited theatrical run. But over the years through word of mouth, it has become a beloved cult hit, quoted ad nauseam by its devotees, whose ranks multiply yearly.
The plot seems at first utterly conventional, straying between nominally feminist chick flick to slacker comedy. Downtown It girl Mary (Parker Posey) is unemployed, on the verge of eviction, and "fabulous," which in movie parlance means she wears quirky outfits and uses her acerbic wit against her friends. When she gets arrested for turning her apartment into a makeshift nightclub, Mary is bailed out by her godmother, Judy, a librarian. In order to pay Judy back and to prove herself to as capable and trustworthy, Mary becomes a clerk at Judy's library. Gaining her good opinion is complicated by Judy's constant panting that she can't trust Mary because she reminds her so much of her mother, an irrational grousing that is the movie's only major flaw. Mary's mother may have been quite the party-goer, but many young women are, and one can't hold young people accountable for doing the same things that their parents did when they were the same age. I would be extremely frustrated if my grandparents always said, "Gillian, you're such a bleeding heart liberal, just like your mother was when she was your age. I won't be surprised if you end up getting divorced, too."
In most movies of this genre, Mary would prove her responsibility and intelligence by harnessing her femininity to her advantage by translating her party-loving sociability into entrepreneurial skills. Movies where female protagonists use stereotypically female frivolous traits like shopping or beautification to gain respect and enter positions of authority reinforce false perceptions among women that clinging to traditional gender roles can still benefit them in modern society. Unlike Troop Beverly Hills or Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, in Party Girl Mary recognizes the detrimental effects of her superficiality on her friends and on herself. Rather than giving her enemies makeovers and introducing them to the insecurity and vacuity of the world of fashion, Mary realizes her vocation in the library sciences and resolves to gain the confidence of Judy and her peers. Party Girl is a fun film with a positive message powered by Parker Posey's truly sassy and engaging performance. Certain scenes suffer from tired comedy clichés like gay sidekicks or male strippers, but Posey's consummate delivery, timing, and body language pull the film's weaker elements into her comically perfect orbit. And luckily she's in almost every scene.


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During the 2014 municipal election, The City of Hamilton's Manager of Elections instructed election staff to write sequential numbers beside each elector name prior to handing the elector a generic, unnumbered ballot. Electors returned marked ballots to election staff who in-turn inserted the ballots into electronic scanning tabulators. If those tabulators record the date and time each ballot was scanned or if they store the scanned data in sequential order, then the potential would exist to compare the sequential numbers assigned to elector names to the sequential data collected by the tabulators to identify which candidates each elector selected.
Several months were invested trying to get answers from the tabulator supplier, Dominion Voting, however they refused to clarify their responses concerning sequential data storage and recently referred me back to the City. Both the Manager of Elections and Dominion Voting used very similar language stating the "ballots are not kept in sequential order", which simply raised more red flags. It is the sequential storage of the scanned DATA not the sequential storage of physical ballots that is of concern here and I believe both understood that fully.
The number of tabulators and polling stations that were in use are posted at http://www.hamilton.ca/city-initiatives/municipal-election/2014-election-results. For each Ward, the statistics clearly state there was one tabulator per poll and two extra tabulators (spares?) for the entire Ward. Basically we have a 1:1 ratio of tabulators to polls. This would suggest most if not all ballots at a polling station were scanned by the same tabulator.
The Manager of Elections states there is nothing to be concerned about because when electors arrive at a polling station they are directed to check in at various tables (possibly based on alphabetical order of last name) and election staff at each table assign numbers to elector names independently. If there were four tables, four electors would have been assigned the number 1 to their name and so on. It should also be noted that some electors take more time to complete a ballot before submitting it to be scanned so the precise order in which ballots are distributed may not be the same order in which they are returned for scanning. But what happens at a senior's residence where there is likely only one check in table?
Follow up with the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing concluded that there is nothing in the Elections Act that prevents the Manager of Elections from conducting the election in this manner, however it was also stated that they are unaware of any other municipality utilizing a similar system and that this inquiry would be brought to the attention of the department that is currently reviewing how elections are conducted.
Why might it be a good idea to end the practice of recording numbers beside names? The very first person and the very last person to enter a polling station might be concerned. At a polling station serving 1000 electors and equipped with four check-in tables, the first elector would be assigned #1 and the last elector would be assigned the highest sequential number at their respective check-in tables. If numbers are not recorded, the potential to determine how electors voted would be 1 in 1000 for everyone, but it increases significantly and can be as high as 1 in 4 or even 1 in 1 (100%) under certain scenarios such as when the last voter is assigned the highest sequential number and submits the last ballot for scanning.
Why were numbers written beside elector names? My understanding is that the numbers are compared to the statistics from the tabulators to ensure all ballots have been counted. Checkmarks or lines drawn through elector names could serve the same purpose and would only require election staff to count the totals when the polls close.
The Manager of Elections is not pleased and stated, "As I indicated the process will remain the same for 2018. To infer that I would allow a process that compromises the privacy of an elector's vote attacks my professionalism and credibility, and is ludicrous." If Hamiltonians want a higher level of voter privacy, they will have to take it up with their Councillors.


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1. What are GMOs?
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are defined as any living organism whose genetic hereditary material has been altered. Genetic material, the DNA of organisms, can be altered through:
- selective breeding of plants and animals. This has been practiced in various forms since the earliest days of our ancestral farmers.
- genetic engineering that has been occurring in the last half-century which involves the direct transfer of DNA between organisms at a microscopic level.
GMOs themselves include a variety of organisms. In agriculture, domesticated livestock and food crops are usually modified to create better, more resilient and more productive breeds. Scientific and medical research often use GMOs for the production of chemicals, medications, antibiotics and vaccines. Many ornamental plants and flowers are genetically modified.
2. Why the fuss?
Well, simply put, the GMO business is tricky. GMOs affect us in two places where we feel it the most – our food and medicine. Additionally, the use of GMOs in agriculture and research has knock-on effects on the environment (that we obviously all depend on). When we speak of GMOs, we are talking of conflicts of interest between global companies, governments, activists, farmers and the average citizen. There are pros and cons with regards to human health, food ethics, animal rights and environmental health. Science is usually undertaken with no independent moderation and profits seem to speak larger than rights.
What is certain is that a great doubt exists in various aspects, such as the health implications, environmental impact and political agenda of the GM companies etc. It is our hope that for the sake of the Ummah and mankind in general, Muslim scientists of repute and integrity could shed some independent light on this matter. – South African National Halaal Authority (SANHA), Genetically Modified Foods
3. So, what does Islam have to say about GMOs?
Dealing with GMOs in Islam is no simple matter. There are many aspects to consider, some of which are:
- Is the actual process of genetic altering organisms acceptable? To what extent? And on which organisms is this allowed (compare bacterial cell to a potential animal embryo)?
- Are there animal rights violations occurring in the testing and production of these GMOs?
- Are these GMOs halal? Are these GMOs tayyib (pure and wholesome) for human health in the long term?
- What about the impacts of using these on other microbes, plants, animals and the environment in general?
- What are the effects of promoting the GMOs commercial industry on the small farmers, the poor and the undernourished? Will GMOs empower them or enslave them to a global corporate?
- Can corporates copyright GMOs and sell them?
"In conclusion then, it can be said that Islamic scholars need to seriously investigate the issue of GMF (Genetically Manipulated Food) and prove its conformity to principles established within Islamic sources. Such an investigating necessarily requires close collaborations between traditional areas of scholarship with modern natural and life sciences. The presentation of the issues and challenges outlined in this paper is intended to serve as a starting point for further in-depth examination and debates on the subject." – Isabel Schatzschneider, The Debate on Genetically Manipulated Food: An Islamic Perspective, 2013-07-16
4. GMOs, Monsanto, Global to South Africa
Monsanto is a multinational company that began in the USA more than a century ago. It has a long history of chemical and agricultural seed production. On Saturday, 21 May 2016, there was a global march against Monsanto in over 400 cities in 50 different countries (http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/may21/). From France to Mexico, Chile to South Africa, protesters gathered and raised the issues of human health and food sovereignty.
Monsanto's presence in Africa, particulary in South Africa is not new (http://www.monsanto.com/whoweare/pages/southafrica.aspx, http://www.monsantoafrica.com/). In a continent and a country where our average small farmer is vulnerable to climate change, land right issues, weak economies, corruption and poor support structures, the issue is as complex as can be.
I support the march against Monsanto because I feel there is a disconnect with our food. Large corporations, like Monsanto, have dehumanized our food. I wish we could trust our government in South Africa to make informed decisions about our food, but that is being too optimistic. Access to healthy food is a constitutional right, yet in most cases you have to be rich to eat healthy. We need to restore food ethics of care that underpins our food system. Food is our heritage. We must work together, support small-scale farmer, and model new systems of ethical, eco-agricultural practices. Of our kids and for future generations." Rifqah Tifloen, @GreenDeenSA board member, 2016-05-16
Recently, Monsanto has released a request to test a new set of GMOs in South Africa. The application is for field trials of three genetically modified maize products in the Western and Northern Capes, Free State and Mpumalanga, and was published in The Business Day, dated Monday 23 May 2016. An online petition has been started to object to these trials in South Africa. To read more about the petition and sign-up to it at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/949/204/342/we-say-no-to-monsanto/.
5. Recommended readings and websites
1. The Debate on Genetically Manipulated Food: An Islamic Perspective,by Isabel Schatzschneider, 2013-07-16.
2. Genetically Modified Foods Q: Are Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) or ingredients or products containing GMO's Halaal?, South African National Halaal Authority (SANHA).
3. The African Centre for Biodiverstiy website.
5. The South African Food Sovereignty Campaign website.


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11 Arrests In N.J. Corruption Probe
FBI agents arrested 11 public officials, including a mayor and two state lawmakers, in towns across New Jersey on Thursday in connection with a federal corruption probe, the U.S. Attorney's office said.
The arrests were related to insurance contracts for local governments, a law enforcement official said on condition of anonymity because the formal announcement was pending.
Democratic state Assemblymen Mims Hackett Jr. and Alfred E. Steele were among those arrested, along with Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera, the law enforcement official said. Also arrested were the chief of staff to Newark's City Council president, Passaic Councilmen Jonathan Soto and Marcellus Jackson, and five Pleasantville school board members.
Initial court appearances were scheduled Thursday afternoon in Trenton.
The U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Christopher J. Christie, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Weysan Dun scheduled an afternoon news conference to discuss the case.
More than 100 public officials in the state have been convicted on federal corruption charges in the last five years.
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Contemporary politicians love to call opponents who have actually learned something and as a result changed their minds "flip-floppers."
Some words are "flip-floppers" too.
"Nice" was originally an insult, meaning "foolish." It came to mean "precise" as in "making a nice distinction." For a long time it meant "lascivious"'; but later it could mean "chaste," so the expression "a nice girl" flipped to have exactly the opposite meaning. Today it usually means "likable."
Another word that has gone through a couple of flips is "cartel."
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "cartel" was first used as the term for "a written challenge, a letter of defiance." Its meaning evolved into something almost the opposite: "a written agreement." Eventually its use was narrowed to define cooperative agreements between businesses to prevent competition and create monopolies.
Latin American drug organizations are now called "cartels" even though they are seldom monopolistic. One of the main characteristics of the Mexican "drug cartels" is their intense competitiveness—just the opposite of the behavior of traditional cartels.
The Wikipedia entry for "cartel" doesn't even mention this contemporary usage (at least as of this writing). But there is a separate entry for "drug cartel" which says "Drug cartels are criminal organizations developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises. The term was applied when the largest trafficking organizations reached an agreement to coordinate the production and distribution of cocaine. Since that agreement was broken up drug cartels are no longer actually cartels in the proper sense of the word, but the term stuck and is now popularly used to refer to any criminal narcotics related organization. . . ."
I like Wikipedia and use it often, but one of its weaknesses as compared to a traditional encyclopedia is inconsistency among related articles.
At any rate, the word "cartel" is losing its traditional modern meaning and may confuse readers when they encounter it in historical contexts referring to organizations like US Steel and Standard Oil.
There's no point in calling the journalistic use of "cartel" an error since it now dominates. But it's good to also know what the word meant before it flip-flopped.


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Zurich is located in the North East of Switzerland. The city, which is situated in a canton with the same name, is the largest city in the entire country. It is equally deemed as the economic, scientific and socially most important city in Switzerland. The city is located on the Limmat which then flows into Lake Zürich and this is particularly important for tourism in the city. Many companies have established themselves in Zurich and they give the inhabitants ample opportunities to generate an income. Zurich is considered to be the most expensive city in the world.
Zurich is an important transport hub in Switzerland. Federal motorways lead past the city from all directions. The main railway station in Zurich is the largest in Switzerland. There are also many international lines that operate here.
Zurich airport is located only 13 km away from the city-centre and it is also the largest in Switzerland. You can reach the city-centre without any problems and within no time at all by train, bus or by taxi.
The city of Zurich is divided up into 12 districts. All of these districts are divided up once again in one to four urban quarters.
Since the end of the 19th Century, Aussersihl has belonged to the city of Zurich. Previously district 4 was independent but the difficult economic situation at the time meant that its incorporation into the city was inevitable. Today, it is mainly workers that live in this district, the railway is an important employer and it attracts many foreign people. Thus, Aussersihl was a district that was popular above all as a result of its low rental prices. For that reason, many young people and students move to this district in the city. Nowadays, the percentage of foreigners has fallen sharply and the district increased in value.
District 11 is made up of the quarters Oerlikon, Seebach and Affoltern. The district itself does not have its own name. It is the most northern district which is why it is often described as Zürich Nord and it is also the most densely populated part of Zurich. Many business parks in the city can be found here. There is also plenty of residential space and above all it is prefabricated buildings that are located here. It is only in Affoltern where there are many detached houses and also semidetached houses because the living space has not been attractive for long.
You will find numerous tourist attractions in the old town of Zurich. On the road Limmatquai, which leads from the central square Bellevue to another important central square, you can walk along and at the same time you can cast your eyes on a view of the city landmark.
The Grossmünster "Great Minster", or better still "the towers of the evangelical church", are a landmark of Zurich. The Gothic church dates back to the 8th Century and the name was changed in the 14th Century. Therefore, the appearance of the church today, the current building was constructed between 1100 and 1220. You can climb a tower of the great minster and thus get a view that stretches over the city. The church is considered to be the origin of the reformation movement by Ulrich Zwingli.
Not far from the church you will find the Alte Rathaus "Old Town Hall". It was constructed as a free standing building in Limmat between 1694 and 1698 in the Baroque style. The Eastern side of the building is formed out of black marble and it bears the heraldic animal of Zurich. Furthermore, the busts of hero's from the history of Zurich are incorporated on the windows.
You should also take a look at the Fraumünsterkirche. It is also located in the old town and on the left-hand side of the Limmar. The church was constructed approx. 900 years after the birth of Christ and it served as a monastery. In the middle of the 13th Century, the whole church was reconstructed in the Gothic style and it was also extended. The church is particularly worth seeing as a result of the five windows which Marc Chagall designed for the choir room.
As the cultural centre of Switzerland, Zurich is rich in museums. In the city-centre there are 14 museums alone plus a substantial number of more than 100 galleries. If you go to the Rämistraße, you can see inside all of the galleries that are next to one another.
The Landesmuseum Zürich "Zurich State Museum" is located only a few steps away from the main railway station. It was opened in 1898 and the very building itself will impress you. It resembles a castle. The collection of the state museum comprises more than one million exhibits from Swiss cultural history. All epochs are covered here. Temporary exhibitions with interesting cultural-historical themes round off the exhibition.
The Kunsthaus Zürich houses an almost equally important art collection for Switzerland. The museum for fine art provides a space for exhibits on the areas of painting, sculptures, photography and video art from the 15th Century to our present day.
You have many possibilities for eating and drinking in Zurich. Everywhere you go, you will be served the classic Zurich "Geschnetzeltes" which means meat cut into small thin slices with a fried grated potatoes. You will be served typical Swiss specialties in the restaurant Altes Klösterli which is situated in the Zurich zoo. The restaurant is open daily for you. The menu offers you various possibilities to satisfy your hunger. You will pay around 50 euros for a beef filet steak with side orders.
The gourmet restaurant Au Premier is located directly by the main railway station. It was awarded as excellent by Gault Millau and alongside the food, you can also feast your eyes on a temporary art exhibition. Haute cuisine comes at a price. Thus you will pay around 50 euros here for the Zurich Geschnetzelte.


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'Portraits in Character'
The Portraits in Character exhibition is a creative collaboration between the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, Fiery Angel and Alexander Newley, to support the work of St Martin-in-the-Fields. In March 2017, these portraits will be auctioned to raise funds for St Martin's.
Contemporary portrait artist, Alexander Newley, collaborated with Sir Kenneth Branagh to create this unique series of portraits of leading cast members from Branagh's 2016 season of Plays at The Garrick Theatre, which came to a close in November 2016.
Newley spent time with the cast over the course of a year, capturing the actors in character backstage after performances. The result is a series of drawings and paintings that evoke the singular aura of some of the UK's most celebrated actors; Dame Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Adrian Lester, Derek Jacobi, Richard Madden and Lily James.
"Painting an actor in character adds another layer of interest for me. I've always been fascinated by the unknowable human self and how it variously disguises and forms itself into the mask of personality. In a theatrical portrait, that self is further warped and refracted through the mask of portrayal. I am making a portrait of their portrait, in other words, which is a fascinating game of chess on many levels."
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I find my self dreaming that summer will be kind to use this year so I set myself to make a teepee that I can use in my summer sessions. It's the most wonderful thing to be able to create images that make you feel as though summer will be the most wonderful season yet. Be kind to us sun and stay light and airy. -xoxo
Today was lovely to spend a day outdoors and what better way then to spend it with those who's life and beauty depend on nature and whatever outdoor provides, the animals at the Houston zoo. The Zoo has not always been my place to go because I must admit I don't like to see animals caged in small spaces, but I was amazed to see that these animals had plenty of space, plenty food and water. They seemed happy in captivation so I decided to take the tour. I totally recommend the Houston zoo, attending helps maintains these beautiful creatures but if you think price is too much then take advantage of every first of the month it's free. You can always purchase souvenirs and eat the goodies. Below are just a few pictures of some cute faces that caught my attention. Enjoy!
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When I photograph so many things go through my mind. I love to add natural light and will let negative space step in but there is nothing like warmth and feelings that can bring any image come to heart.


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Young lovers stand in church and glibly say to each other, 'I do'. But they may well have no real idea about what they've just done. Because they soon learn that it will take a lifetime working out the implications of those two words.
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It's a fairly entry-level photography workstation. I needed a proper photo editing machine, and I really liked the S340 case. I knew I wanted to build in it.
The name is short for "Workstation One," since this is my first proper workstation. It may be black and white, but there's already too many builds out there named "snow (something)," so I tried to be less traditional. And failed. Even with the name, I can still 'snow' off my build on PCPartPicker (if we're going to go with the snow theme puns)...
TL;DR: I like the look. Fast. Fairly easy to put together (minus a few sections). Now running Windows and Linux on several SSDs.
ANOTHER EDIT: I got fed up with how loud, scratch prone, and poorly thought out the S340 was (having to remove the PSU to get at the drives, the SSD mounts needing flat SATA power cables, poor airflow). I swapped the case for the Fractal Design Define R5 and haven't looked back. This is cliche, but I actually did have to check if the fans were spinning when I booted it up. The drive bays are easy to access, there's actually room to get the motherboard in place... It's amazing. My only problem is that one of the rubber grommets in the cutouts on the top of the motherboard tray came out when I was trying to (carefully) push the CPU power cable through. I tried to put it back, but I gave up since it wasn't causing any issues and the case has a solid side panel.
The laptop I pulled the BX200 drive out of was far to slow without it (barely usable), so I put it back in the laptop. That means I'm down 240 gigs, so I put the WD Blue back in for the Linux /home, but that was too noisy, so I'm down to a 750 gig for Windows and a 250 gig for Linux. Speaking of which, I elementary OS got really glitchy with the video card, so I swapped to Arch Linux. Two things to note here: use the NVIDIA drivers, not the open source ones, because enabling kernel mode setting will stop any video output, and install in BIOS mode if possible. I had no luck with the bootloader in UEFI. Luckily my motherboard supports legacy BIOS mode, so I was still able to install GRUB in BIOS mode.
I swear the next time I do a major upgrade, I'll repost it like everyone else does. This post is getting way too cluttered.
EDIT: Over the past nearly-a-year, it's gone through several revisions. The OS has changed, the drives have changed... Okay, that's not that many things, but it's faster and prettier now that I'm putting elementary OS on an SSD. Speaking of which, the two operating systems are booting off entirely different drives, and I'm using the BIOS to change OS. This should prevent Windows from messing with Linux, although I've noticed that the time in Windows is advanced 5 hours after it was running elementary OS, so I need to figure that out. Hate on it all you like, but I love Linux for its freedom; it's as simple as you want it to be!
While it's not intended or designed for gaming, I have a consumer/gaming video card in it because the Photoshop performance is the same or better as a workstation card, and it's cheaper. Which brings us to Exhibit Two: the parts were chosen mostly on a price/performance ratio, although some parts were swapped and added to make the build look a bit nicer. I know there's a ton of black and white builds out there, but I like it.
Future upgrades: SSD, another kit of RAM (same stuff, but the black heat spreaders), RAID 1 hard drives. Maybe another 970 if I end up using programs that can utilize a second GPU (Photoshop can't). LED lights or fans. If I need the cooling I'll go with the fans, but it's running fairly cool already.
Future upgrades: SSD
Oh, this has been done alright (as if it'll ever be done -- I'm going to keep adding these things when I run out of space). Nearly one and a quarter terabytes of SSDs, split between Windows (the 750 gig), and GNU/Linux (elementary OS right now, soon to be installed on one SSD and the home partition on the other).
CPU (Xeon E3 1231 V3): This one was easy. Sort of. I needed as many threads as I could get, and I really wanted to go with the X99 platform using the i7 5820K, but I planned it out and it was just too much, what with the water cooling the case necessitated and the more expensive RAM and motherboard... I was then going to go with Skylake because of the DDR4 RAM, which would mean I wouldn't have to buy different RAM if I went X99 later. I scrapped that plan after I was informed of RAM compatibility issues with Skylake, since stability is a priority here. I ended up with the choice of an i7 or a Xeon, as I originally set out to build with. I chose the Xeon. For my purposes, it's basically an i7 4770 (without the integrated GPU) for the price of an i5.
CPU Cooler (CRYORIG H7): I could have gotten a Hyper 212 Evo cheaper, but this matches the theme better, and apparently performs better too. Not super easy to install. Took me a long time to get the mounting bar in the right position, then I had to hold it with one hand and screw it into place.
EDIT Ran Prime95 until the temperatures stabilized, hit 67 degrees Celsius on two cores. Combined with the airflow in the Define R5 case (see other edits), the CPU cooler does a pretty adequate job.
Motherboard (MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition): I had the choice of going with a black and silver board, or a black and white board with a BIOS I'm already familiar with (from my other build). I went with the familiar black and white board (and it was cheaper too). Apparently did not come with one of the little adapters for the case front panel connections, like my other MSI motherboard did, even though the manual mentioned using it. The manual was detailed enough to figure it out, though.
RAM (Kingston HyperX Fury White): The only kit of RAM I could find that matched the specs I needed. 1600MHz, because that's what Xeons support, 16GBs because I needed plenty for Photoshop and I only exceeded 8GBs rarely, and two 8GB DIMMs because I wanted room to upgrade (and I like it better with two DIMMs).
Video Card (EVGA GTX 970 4GB SC ACX 2.0): I wanted as many CUDA cores as I could get at a reasonable price, and this was the cheapest decent 970 I could get at the time. Next time I would probably sacrifice some performance and get a 950, since it would be much cheaper.
Case (NZXT S340 White): I wanted this case as soon as I saw it. The white color matches the theme. It's a great looking case, but the drive bays consist of a metal bracket in the bottom that requires you to take off the front panel to screw a drive in. That, and the cable management basically consists of "stuff everything under the PSU shroud" (although that's at least partially because the cables were so long due to the extensions). Having the thumbscrews for the expansion brackets on the outside is really nice...
EDIT: The case also tended toward the loud side, to the extent that I bought a Fractal Design Define R5 when I caught it on sale. I got fed up with the S340's hard drive drive mounting and SSD mounting. The R5's hard drive and SSD mounting is far superior. On another note, the S340 is a scratch magnet. Seems like anything can scratch the plastic window, including the sleeved cables (although this was only noticeable if you managed to catch the light on the window in just the right way).
PSU (EVGA 650 G2): Efficient, fully modular and highly rated. It also has enough overhead and cables for a SLI setup. It was just $10 more than the 550W version, and I figured I might as well spend the extra $10 for more headroom, allowing me to add on without needing to upgrade the PSU.
OS (Windows 8.1 OEM): Hate on it all you like. It's fast, it's supported longer than 7, it's cheaper than 7, and it's fairly easy to get the hang of, especially once you add an application to restore the start menu.
EDIT: I took the free upgrade to Windows 10 (only for the longer updates/support). It's fast enough, although it's annoying sometimes (particularly with settings -- do some Googling), but most of the time I'm going to be using elementary OS GNU/Linux.
Cable Extensions (Silverstone): A bit spendy for a "budget(ish)" build, but they look nice (although they come a little tangled and folded).
I never got cable combs, so I took some black hook-and-loop wraps to hold the cables together, and it looks decent enough.
It took me a couple hours, but quite a portion of that was stuffing cables and trying to get them to lie flat, and another good chunk was installing the CPU cooler.
I routed the cable extensions and the PSU cables after installing bracket to the PSU, but then the cables got in the way of installing the motherboard (since there's very little clearance in the case). I worked it out though.
Overall, the build was actually pretty uneventful. The only things that were difficult were installing the motherboard, CPU cooler, front panel audio connections, and the cable management.
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It's fast and comparatively cheap. Runs cool under a good cooler.
CPU Cooler
Looks great, cools well, mounting could be easier. I had trouble getting the mounting bar on the bottom of the cooler positioned correctly (although I do like how it comes pre-assembled)
Thermal Compound
Keeps my CPU running cool. Probably better than most bundled stuff. Enough for plenty of applications. Not much else to say.
Seems solid so far. Nice looking, BIOS is easy to use. Not many fan headers, but it's sort of a budget board.
Stable, looks good. Not much to say.
Very fast. Great boot drive, but I wish I have gone with the SATA version instead. It's a pain to remove the M.2 SSD in order to install other operating systems on other disks (which is something I do, but not many other people do).
This is my Windows drive, and it's massive. Just under 700 gigabytes in Windows, plenty big enough to store games, recordings, and photos of my computer. So far, it's very fast.
Video Card
Fast, looks good, runs high 70s after a year(ish). Not the best cooled card ever.
This case is amazing. Turn the fans down to low and it's virtually silent in my setup (all SSDs), and it still keeps everything cool to boot. It won't muffle a super loud hard drive much, but I haven't seen a case that can.
Power Supply
Highly rated, stable, provides plenty of power. Fully modular. Good PSU so far.
Operating System
It's Windows. The updates are annoying and I can't seem to fully disable Cortana in my fresh install like I did before. If I could run everything in Linux I would, but I can't.
This is gorgeous. Lots of screen space, crisp text, beautiful colors... Well worth the money if you can afford it.
Not bad at all. The side buttons are nice, but good luck hitting the ones on the other side of the mouse from your thumb. It's just too awkward for me to try to hit the buttons with my little finger.
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Today is my last day of work. So far I'm feeling good about it all but that may change as the day wears on. I'm sad, of course, but not as sad as I was when the students and staff left. The last four days have been nothing but work, so I've been pretty distracted. I've saved the saddest chore, taking down my desk photos, for last. Other than all this, we are well, and the fever Isobel came down with yesterday seems to have mellowed. I'm chalking it up to teething or some other Mysterious Toddler Ailment.
We are getting sod put in our moonscape this weekend. Hooray!
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badbanana Sorry, kids. Daddy can't watch you grow up because he has to constantly change the batteries in his Apple wireless keyboard.
OTOOLEFAN Luke Russert just said "unflappable Weiner" on MSNBC.
librarian_kate My co-worker's philosophy of life: "If you have to be a crazy person, at least be the head crazy person."
markleggett The Sherlock Holmes/Batman fan-fiction I'm writing is going great, except they keep making out with each other. Solve some crimes already!
markleggett To Do: 1- Take photo of cat. 2- Get photo printed on t-shirt. 3- Put t-shirt on cat. 4- Take photo of cat in t-shirt. 5- Repeat forever.
letsdiefriends Am I totally cancering myself if I play Words With Friends?
babybabylemon If my toddler were an adult, this unwanted chest groping would be prosecutable.
markleggett People who say "meteoric rise" know what eventually happens to meteors right?
sandwichpolice I don't know if I want a cat so much as I just want somebody that takes and takes and NEVER FUCKING THANKS ME AND EATS MY ELECTRICAL CORDS.
modinkpeeb On my bike ride tonight, I saw one snake, one deer, and Samuel L. Jackson.
DalekThay YOUR MOTHER is so INFERIOR that when 'The Library' SAVED her, it used a 3 1/2″ FLOPPY DISK. #DalekSnaps
apodixis If you really love your pets you shouldn't have them fixed. You should to teach them to respect themselves by practicing abstinence.
theRratedBull Never name a child "Bob." Or, "Michael Bolton" for that matter. In fact, stay away from any of the character names found in "Office Space."
jess_mc It's PERFORMANCE ART. Palin and Trump, in tri-corner hats, will get in an oversize hamster ball and roll themselves while reporters chase.
shinyinfo I only know my way around this town by using library branches as reference points.
johnmoe "We have nothing to fear but zeega du dip bow buhdeeda ziggy buddladeezy beedy pow itself." #ScatHistoryQuotes
schmutzie Another Who Knew? moment: I now know what little tea leaf balls look like after they've expanded in a cat's stomach and then been thrown up.
rachaelosborn Hating hipsters is the new being a hipster.
sarah_fitness What is cuter than talking to a 3yo on the phone who says, "Mommy, I want to give you a hug", then hugs the phone? Um, not much.
msbellows I'd be an awesome S.E.A.L. Team commando if we could schedule missions midmorning, after coffee and a couple sit-downs.
WhyIsDaddyCryin I declare today "Opposite Day!" shhh….don't tell the wife.
hereslizz I could probably make some extra cash today as a phone secks operator though. I got that Demi Moore thing going on.
stephenharred How is there not already a thing titled "Pimp and Pimpability?"
ProfessorSnack Today I turned Arthur into a jackass. J/K, he did that on his own. – diary excerpt Myrddin Emrys
ProfessorSnack No longer able to keep track of them, I refer to each Knight as Sir Guyihad. – diary excerpt Lady Guinevere
simontarr Lïve twëëtïng öür ÏKËÄ trïp.
MoeZee75 I don't like how some people are related to me.
meganberg Snuggled in bed with the baby and the cat. Though, it would be much cuter if Ben weren't farting and Zoe wasn't licking her ass.
notthatkendall There should be some kind of mandatory training for those interested in the privilege of using the "reply all" button.
sarcasmically Angry driver threw a taco at my car, which is a bad way to get me to STOP cutting him off 'cause yum and I wonder how many more tacos he has.
windloochieMichigan weather provides lots of practice opportunities for the aspiring Buddhist.
hotdogsladies If a team of in-laws simultaneously Googles you during dinner, be honest, stay calm, then blame the 1000s of boner jokes on "a cyber-virus."
petzrawr I'm DVR'ing History Channel's "Gettysburg". No spoilers, please!
theleanover Couples: Bringing a screaming toddler with you to buy a BDSM guide yelling across the store about its contents makes you horrible people.
jen_talley Writing an information health guide on hemorrhoids. This is why they pay me the big bucks.
MightyQuinn72 I hafta piss so bad I could power wash my deck.
BisexualElves I have ennui, which is emo for dropping your iPad.
PMuffintop If I got married again, I'd bedazzle a giant bald eagle across the chestal region of my wedding gown.
PaulyMortadella My best relationship advice: Make sure you're the crazy one.
hollypops007 Ugh! I understand why my head & liver are mad at me but, have no idea why my neck hurts. Did I "whip my hair back & forth" and forget?
HerschelWeiner Where would our pan flute players be without the spa industry?
CorporateMonkey woke up from a post-work coma/nap, and had a dream in which I was prettier than IRL. 30yrs old and my brain JUST figured out it can do this.
danforthfrance Off to mind fuck some ants with an inflatable watermelon.
Rootahbaygah Fight Club is a bully-free zone. #LesserKnownFightClubRules
Morsdeus Fight Club is allowed to be discussed though games of Pictionary. #LesserKnownFightClubRules
donhardo Tickling is not only legal, it is encouraged. #LesserKnownFightClubRules
JerryThomas My social media strategy involves no pants and a large bag of Cool Ranch Doritos.
inktwice Her: ….sss-shit. Me: Sss-shit? Her: I was not going to say it. Me: …but then you thought, "Fuck it."
MeganBoley Just realized I had quesadillas for lunch AND dinner. This pleases me.
shamroxmysox Lets go back to the good ol days when all your problems were solved with leeches and prayer.
NicLewis "Captains Log, Stardate 4178.2: The Enterprise has arrived at planetSouthern California, again. I think Mr. Sulu has us going in circles."
sphericalfruit Finnegans Steak #lessinterestingbooks
Lilacmess On the Origin of Feces #lessinterestingbooks
inversejaik Low Expectations #lessinterestingbooks
inversejaik Heart of Dorkiness #lessinterestingbooks
inversejaik100 Years of Soliciting #lessinterestingbooks
filigreegirl The Ho-Hum Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime #lessinterestingbooks
DaveKrumholtz Processed Animal BI-Product Farm #lessinterestingbooks
caseycannonpi The Girl With The Temporary Tattoo #LessInterestingBooks
Lord_Voldemort7 Harry Potter and the Order of Takeout. #lessinterestingbooks
inktwice Marker Felt is just an upper-middle class Comic Sans.
FakeeEtiquette It is rude to post in all-caps on Craigslist unless your listing is more important than everyone else's and deserves attention.
modinkpeeb Ruby's favorite game is when she spends all morning whispering jibberish to me and trying to convince me I've had a stroke.
Caissie Did Harold Camping mean "Oprahcalypse" maybe? I'm afraid to look outside.
purple_quark Good morningAmerica. Was last night good for you too?
PlasticJukebox You haven't really lived until you've put "buy taxidermied moose for the summer home" on a to-do list.
BuenoBabyGirl I just ate a Halloween-old, flattened, fun-sized Snickers bar from the bottom of my purse and I'm O.K. with that.
jillgengler Good to know that the State ofIL Central Management Services isn't blowing our tax dollars on good graphic design.
80sMomKara Just watched Franco Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet. At the end, my 11 year old said "So that whole movie was about nothing but bad timing?"
LouisPeitzman If you ever see an anonymous Twitter account correcting people's grammar, know that I've finally snapped.
BisexualElves I have ennui, which is emo for dropping your iPad.
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|Top producing Keller Williams Agents (left to right):
Andrew Monaghan, Mandi Ross, Jon Brath, and Lou Rugolo
- It's time to go back to basics. Andrew Monaghan was a top REO agent over the past several years. As our market shifts, so too does his business. He's doing the basic things that he knows it takes to be successful: door knocking, geographical farming, and personal touches just to name a few.
- Care more about the clients' needs than your own. Mandi Ross has built her business from the ground up with one simple philosophy – "Give them what THEY really want." When she began door knocking and farming, she did so by finding out what the members of the community wanted to see happen in their neighborhood. Then she gave it to them.
- Stay consistent. Lou Rugolo built a top producing successful business through geographical farming. But as the real estate market shifted and technology appeared to make life "easier," he strayed away from his tried-and-true farm. He's gone back to that farm now and is rebuilding his presence, but his advice to the audience was to stay consistent and stick with what is proven to work.
- Communication is the key. Jon Brath and his team work together to make sure communication remains a top priority. Even when his team was focused on REO business, they still made it a priority to be courteous and prompt to return all communications from buyer's agents. They continue to stand out as exceptional, simply because they return phone calls and emails. In the end, great communication tells your clients, prospects, and colleagues that you care about THEIR needs.
5. Step outside your comfort zone! Success doesn't come easy. It just DOESN'T! So if you're sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, you'll be waiting a long time. Get out there and make it happen!


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I woke up the Sunday after Thanksgiving feeling exhausted and refreshed. Hard to explain, but imagine your whole body feeling worked but relaxed. And imagine waking up among miles and miles of sand but never feeling cleaner. These are the reasons for my pilgrimages to the Moab area time and time again–soul refreshment.
Sunday morning was beautiful–sunny with blue skies, few clouds, low winds, and a nibble of cold in the air. Still, I always seem to know when it's time to leave the desert before I do something stupid like get hurt or lost. It was time to go. I said goodbye to my friend the crow/raven (grr, why don't I know the difference?),
who just happened to be picking over last night's grilled salmon
and headed to Fruita. Fruita has become, along with Salida, Moab, Winter Park, Sedona, and other places I've never heard of, a mountain biking mecca. Dirt lovers descend upon Fruita in droves, drawn to it by its pristine singletrack. This would be my third visit to Fruita, albeit my first (and hopefully last) alone. Since the biking accident last summer, I have become incredibly cautious about riding alone. Some would say I've finally smartened up. Nope. Fear and fear of pain are running my biking decisions these days, and I'm not exactly thrilled about it.
I digress.
For those of you who have a favorite place, a place where you go to gain peace and solitude, one of beauty that overwhelms you no matter how many times you've seen it, you know what I'm about to write.
As I drove the thirty miles or so to I-70, an east-west ribbon of road that cuts the northern section of Colorado from the southern, I felt sad. I was leaving a place of contentment, never mind the rrrrr, rrrrr from the dirt bikers and the ATVers. I was nearly brought to tears by every sunset. I sat by the fire at night, just breathing and drinking green tea, exhausted but invigorated by the day's adventures. Now all that was over. Yeah, yeah, yeah, until next time. But it sucks that I even have to leave.
I-70 in eastern Utah is desolate. There are instructions on what to do in a sand/wind storm alongside the road. There's one exit with services and many other exits with only ranches. Fruita is about 90 minutes from Moab, depending on speed and exact point of departure. Fruita boasts two great ridng areas, one on each side of the highway. The northern section of trails near the Bookcliffs, which houses my favorite Chutes and Ladders trail, was too muddy, the folks at Over the Edge bikeshop informed me. I was disappointed but understood. Mother Nature had pounded moisture into the area over the past few days. It's not like water evaporates or nuthin'.
So I set off for the southern section of trails. The temps were in the mid 50's, but I suited up with wool, long-fingered gloves, and tights under my riding skort. I hate to be cold. I had 100ml of water with me, two Clementine oranges (a compact source of food and liquid), and two energy bars. I would ride Mary's Loop, part of the Kokopelli Trail System out by exit 11 near Loma.
Mary's Loop is strictly intermediate stuff and leads into Moore Fun. Mary's Loop is unspectacular but safe, except for this section of trail.
Truth is, I'm deathly afraid of heights. Fear of heights (which is genetic, I swear) kept me from snowboarding for ten years (couldn't get on the lift) and induced a severe panic attack in the towers of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona a few years back. I hyperventilated the entire staircase climb up then had a nervous breakdown once back on the ground.
But that's a post for another time.
So, I'm either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid. Here's a look from the other, safe side of the precipe. Look at the right center of the photo
Yup. That's a couple on a TANDEM mountain bike. I had passed them a few miles earlier but had paid them no heed I didn't even notice they were two people on one bike. Musta been all that *&^%$ climbing I was doing. Anyway, I think they turned back.
Too bad. They missed out on this view, which was just around the corner.
After this the trail gets fairly technical–lotsa skinny singletrack fraught with rocks, roots, and off-camberness. I walked more trail than I usually do (fear and fear of pain kicked in). But when Mary's Loop turns into Moore Fun, things get a little less technical and much, much closer to the parking lot, which is where I ended up eating my Clementines.
On my next trip to Fruita (this spring), I'm doing Steve's Loop and Horsethief Bench. And I'm bringing posse with me, even if I have to drag them.


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[ wel-nis ]
/ ˈwɛl nɪs /
the quality or state of being healthy in body and mind, especially as the result of deliberate effort.
an approach to healthcare that emphasizes preventing illness and prolonging life, as opposed to emphasizing treating diseases.
"Little Women" may be a classic, but that doesn't mean we all know the meanings of the vocab words from the book. Can you define these words correctly and make Jo proud?
Question 1 of 10
Words nearby wellness
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020
Example sentences from the Web for wellness
He is a consultant for Foodminds, which specializes "in food, beverage, nutrition, health and wellness."The Heart Association's Junk Science Diet|Dr. Barbara H. Roberts|May 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At these wellness retreats, the staff will kick your butt—and then spoil you silly.Best Luxury Boot Camps to Get Fit in 2014|Lonely Planet|December 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Instead, judge Silicon Valley by the free time, wellness, and educational value it creates for all of us.Never Mind Inequality: Silicon Valley Enriches All of Our Lives|Gregory Ferenstein|May 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
HealthyWage, founded in 2009 by former financier David Roddenberry, has branded itself with the motto "wellness is valuable."Workers Earn Money on the Job for Losing Weight|Eliza Shapiro|April 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Even very cheap policies often throw in some "wellness" coverage that discounts routine tests and checkups.Why Can't We Get Doggycare?|Noah Kristula-Green|April 30, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Don't get discouraged if you can't suddenly change your life from shadow to sunshine, from illness to wellness.Evening Round Up|William Crosbie Hunter
The focus of the Nursing as Caring theory, then, is not toward an end product such as health or wellness.Nursing as Caring|Anne Boykin
British Dictionary definitions for wellness
/ (ˈwɛlnəs) /
the state of being in good physical and mental health
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Medical definitions for wellness
[ wĕl′nĭs ]
The condition of good physical, mental and emotional health, especially when maintained by an appropriate diet, exercise, and other lifestyle modifications.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.


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CCEA, CEM, DENI, Incas, Northern Ireland Education Minister, Northern Ireland schools, PACE, PACE Northern Ireland, parents, Professor Peter Timms, pupil profile, University of Durham
After poor evaluations by teachers and parents the CCEA Pupil Profile has failed its intended purpose. However the DENI and CCEA do not admit defeat – no matter how wrong they are .
To stave off criticisms of Gavin Boyd's appalling track record , an attempt will be made to include Incas into the Pupil Profile. A silk purse will be constructed out of another invalid and unreliable instrument pretending to possess properties it does not contain.
During workshops and focus groups organised by the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) to evaluate the profiles, a large number of principals, teachers and parents did not rate the content of the profiles highly.
Parents' main criticism was that the profiles did not contain grades/marks or a comparison with their child's peers and that they deemed this to be an essential component of any school report. Many also stated that they found them "bland" and "impersonal".
Incas (from the CEM at the University of Durham) will be claimed to address the problem in an attempt to avoid attacks on the establishment of ESA (which includes CCEA)
Information from the CEM web site on Incas Q & A states:
* Once governors and parents see this kind of information we will have a very hard time.
How people use the InCAS information is crucial. It is intended for professional use within schools and not for external consumption. If it were ever linked to promotion, or pay, or parental choice of schools or anything of importance which was not under the control of schools the project would be in trouble. As W. Edwards Deming said "Where there is fear you get the wrong figures".
The DENI are quite familiar with misusing figures. Parents have every right to distrust utterances of reassuarance.
The attempt to combine the failed Pupil Profile with Incas can have only one outcome: failure.


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DALLAS, TX - NOVEMBER 21: J.R. Smith #8 of the New York Knicks drives to the basket against Dominique Jones #20 of the Dallas Mavericks on November 21, 2012 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2012 NBAE (Photo by Danny Bollinger/NBAE via Getty Images)
After talking about the possibility of the Mavs bringing in JJ Barea or Andrew Bynum, the crew slips into a J.R. Smith conversation and Ben is in awe with what he is working with.


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We are a local specialist carpet and upholstery cleaning company based in West Kent and operating predominantly in Tunbridge Wells, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Crowborough, Uckfield and surrounding areas.
Who are we?
Simon Holloway & Rob Lewis: Simon started Chem-Dry Tunbridge Wells & Sevenoaks in 1992 and Rob joined in 1995. We operated the Chem-Dry franchise until February 2016 when we went independent as Clean and Dry, Ltd. Rob and Simon have more than 40 years of experience providing the very best cleaning results for their customers, many of whom return time after time, trusting us to keep carpets and upholstery looking their best and prolonging their life (the carpets and upholstery, not the customers, sadly).
We have scoured the market and sourced the best possible cleaning machines, solutions and products to make sure that a Clean and Dry clean will be the best you've ever had! So confident are we that our results are second to none that we offer all customers a complete money-back guarantee. If you are genuinely unhappy with the results we achieved, and we can't put things right, we'll refund your money. Simple!
We are also a proud member of the Trade association TACCA (The Approved Carpet Cleaners Alliance), if you need any more reason to trust us.
So whether you have had an unfortunate accidental spill, or you need your whole house cleaned, get in touch with the Clean and Dry team in Kent for a stress-free cleaning service!
Simon Holloway
Started Chem-Dry Tunbridge Wells & Sevenoaks in 1992 after a career in Technical Recruitment and Management based in the City of London. Grew the business to become one of the longest established UK franchises.
Married to Caroline, and has two (grown up) children. Became a Director of Clean and Dry in February 2017 once free of contractual obligations to Chem-Dry.
Rob Lewis
Started work with Chem-Dry Tunbridge Wells & Sevenoaks in 1995 after a career in the Hospitality and Personal Finance industries. Rob has two Daughters who rule him with a rod of iron.
Became a Director of Clean and Dry when it launched in late 2015.


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In her Modern Love essay, "You May Want to Marry My Husband," Amy Krouse Rosenthal prepared a dating profile for Jason, her husband of 26 years. She was battling ovarian cancer at the time; she died on March 13.
"The most genuine, non-vase-oriented gift I can hope for is that the right person reads this, finds Jason, and another love story begins," she wrote.
Readers shared their own stories of love and loss and tales of moving on after the death of a spouse or partner.
Below is a selection of the more than 1,300 comments received on the website and Facebook page of The New York Times.
'Live for the Moment'
My wife of 31 years was diagnosed for the second time with breast cancer.
I fear the loneliness that will occur when she leaves this earth. I am deeply saddened that she will never get to enjoy grandchildren, a long retirement and growing old gracefully. My advice to all is to live for the moment, show love for your significant other every day, and recognize that life is too short to be angry for more than 10 minutes.
I hope that the remaining time with my wife is as awesome as the first 31 years.
What I Want in a Partner
As a 24-year-old single man, it is hard for me to truly relate to what a great marriage is. But this gave me a strong picture of what I want in my future relationship. A selfless, loving, compassionate and supportive partnership.
You show the utmost love for Jason by writing this and knowing that one day another woman may come around for him. It is unlikely that Jason will ever find another woman such as you, but to hope he does speaks volumes of how much love you have for each other.
I greatly appreciate you, Amy, for writing this and for giving me a perspective on what I hope for one day.
'Enough Love for a Lifetime'
Six years ago, at 39, I lost my lover, husband, best friend, adventure partner and co-parent. Yet even in the depths of my grief, I assumed then that in six years, I would have found a new life and new love. Yet here I still am, alone, because I cannot find anyone who even comes close to my Dave. It may be that Jason will feel that way, too. And that is O.K. You've given him enough love for a lifetime.
A Love Who Could Never Be Replaced
I, too, had a Jason. I lost him in 2009. We were together for 36 years, married for nearly 34 of them. As one of my kids says, I was spoiled. He was gorgeous and brilliant and a man of many facets and accomplishments.
My incredible husband could never be replaced, and I have never even considered replacing him.
Perhaps your Jason will feel the same way.
'Time Is All I Ask for — Daily'
I have Stage 4 terminal breast cancer, and while my husband and I haven't had the strength to have a conversation like this, I know it's coming. I am responding well to maintenance chemo, so the end seems distant to us, but that is foolish. We are playing Russian roulette.
Time is all I ask for — daily. You are so brave, wise and witty, words that people use to describe me. I'm not ready to do what you have done on these pages. You may have been a catalyst to get the conversion started sooner rather than later. Thank you for that.
A Defining Relationship
I lost my wife of 28 years in 2015. Like Amy and Jason, we shared an amazing marriage.
While my wife is no longer here, her presence is still vivid. And I am the man I am because of our relationship. Surprisingly, moving on and remaking my life isn't harder because I loved my wife so much, but easier. I am sure Jason will find it the same, remaking his life in Amy's honor.
I am now in a relationship with a woman I love that is very different from my wife and in some ways the same. I won't ever replace my wife, but I am half of a whole again, and I know she would be very happy about that. All the best Jason and Amy.
Permission to Grieve and to Keep Living
When my mother was dying of cancer at age 44, she put together a list of eligible women for my father to consider as a future wife. She also wrote out menus for dinners and dinner parties for groups of varying sizes, something my parents had done throughout their adult lives together. It was, as was your article, permission to a beloved spouse to grieve and to keep living.
Lucky to Have a Wonderful Wife
As someone who is fighting Stage 4 cancer, I have once in a while logged on to dating sites to see if there is someone that would be a good fit for my wife.
Jason is as lucky as me to have a wonderful wife.
'Someday, I'll Find That Kind of Friendship and Love'
I'm 55 and still haven't quite given up hope that someday, I'll find that kind of friendship and love. He sounds like a phenomenal person. (Someone who can cook dinner, flip pancakes and make happy faces is a treasure, indeed.) He may not be able to find someone like you, where you bring out the best in each other. You might be the one.
— Stephanie Douglas, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Getting Some Perspective of Our Own
I hope you know the remarkable gift you've given me. The reminder that this is all temporary and nothing is given. Helping me remember all the Jason-esque things my husband always does, which I often forget to see and appreciate through the hustle and bustle of the daily grind and the inevitable frustrations associated with keeping early careers and young ones alive and well.
Your writing about your story helped me get some perspective of our own. Thanks for your wisdom and perspective. Sending much love to your family.
— Gracie, Oahu, Hawaii


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Well-being Scan Gift Card
Confirmation of single/multiple pregnancy
Heartbeat visualisation
To detect some abnormalities
To check that the baby is growing normally
To show the position of your baby and the placenta
Out of stock
(Previously called Take a Peek) Our Well-being scan package can be carried out from as early as 16 weeks up to 40 weeks. This diagnostic scan allows us to carry out checks on baby's development:
Confirmation of single/multiple pregnancy
Heartbeat check & visualisation
The detection of some abnormalities
To check that baby is growing normally
Position of baby & placenta
Well-being report for mum to keep
For only £4 extra you can book our Well-being + Gender Scan which allows includes 99.9% accurate gender confirmation, a FREE quick peek of your baby in 4D and a rescan policy. With our Well-being + Gender Scan we take a selection of images in 2D & 4D for you to choose and take away on the day.
Our Well-being Scan offers expectant parents diagnostic reassurance in a private clinic environment, with a dedicated team including an expertly trained, registered sonographer. Our private scan clinic environment offers multiple large viewing screens to allow everyone attending the scan the ability to see baby and understand what your sonographer is explaining without mum having to strain her neck.
Our scan rooms can accommodate family and friends, please check with your local clinic to see how many people can attend with you.
Please note there is a £25 surcharge for multiple pregnancies due to the extra time required in the scan room.