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INDIANAPOLIS—Speakers during the opening session of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors' Conference at the Indianapolis Convention Center urged pastors to renew their commitment to prayer and get their own spiritual lives in order.
Tom Elliff used a familiar analogy from his native Oklahoma to describe what can happen even to pastors who fail to address sin in their own lives.
Describing the "fallow ground" that original settlers found on the Oklahoma plains as almost impenetrable, Tom Elliff told pastors, "If you are willing to embrace what God would do to break up the fallow ground of your heart for revival, I am going to ask you to come and join me for a time of prayer right her at what we are going to call an altar."
In Oklahoma, Sooners and Boomers looked across the land and thought "instant farm" as they anticipated the rush to stake their claims to the land, Elliff said. But they discovered the ground, matted down with prairie grass, often was so hard it had to be broken up with an ax.
Like Oklahoma sod, the hearts of pastors can be marked by hardness, become impervious to God's word, show stubborn resistance, be unfruitful and remain asleep through every season, Elliff warned.
"A heart like fallow ground will take a lot of effort," he said. "What's God going to have to do to get our attention?"
Nothing short of deliberate, diligent attention can affect that kind of change, he said. He listed temptations to which pastors may surrender—prayerlessness, lack of devotion to Scripture, disobedience, faithlessness, lack of love, poor stewardship, lying, slander, gossip, secretly wishing ill to others, habitual sin, moral failure and selfishness.
At the end of his message, Elliff called for pastors to come to the altar and make a commitment to address the sins in their own lives, to take steps to break the fallow ground of their hearts.
Dealing with decline
Earlier, Johnny Hunt, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Woodstock, Ga., noted 90 percent of Southern Baptist Convention churches are in decline.
He cited research that suggested that 50 percent of SBC churches existing today will have padlocks on their doors by 2030.
His own church had declined two years before Hunt took six weeks off for reading and renewal last year, he said.
During his time off, Hunt said that God repeated three things to him over and over again:
- "No. 1, you need to go back and pray more aggressively.
- "No. 2, he challenged me to witness more intentionally. I wrote down three names in the front of my Bible" who needed to be won to Christ. "I flat went after them!" he said.
- "No. 3, God challenged me to lead not only by exhortation…but we are to lead by emulation," Hunt said. "I've got not only to tell them, I've got to show them.
"You know what happened? We increased by 15 percent in Bible study, increased by 15 percent in worship," he said.
"There's only one thing worse than our convention being on a slide, and that is that we don't give a holy rip. … We don't need a better strategy; we need a touch from God."
Pastors key to revival
Daniel Simmons, senior pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Albany, Ga., reminded pastors that God and prayer are the keys to revival.
"Only God can bring revival," Simmons said. When revival doesn't come, "the shortage must not be in God; it must be in us."
Pastors sometimes trust in themselves and other resources, he charged, placing themselves in the forefront and leaving God on the back burner.
"We have this treasure in earthen vessels," Simmons reminded pastors. "God took what was of no value and placed in it what was priceless.
"We start believing our own stuff. We have gotten to the place as preachers that without us, God and the church may not make it."
On the contrary, he insisted, "without God, I can do nothing."
He urged pastors to have a strong private prayer life so they can model a strong public prayer life to others. "We've also got to have what I call persistent prayer," he said. "Don't stop praying; pray without ceasing."
Finally, "you have to get to the point of pleading prayer," Simmons said. "Sometimes we have to beg."
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Yes, I like to potter around in the garden. Gardening means I'm not staring at a screen, I'm outside in the relatively fresh English air and I'm getting a little bit of exercise.
It's probably something that I've got from my mum – she's very much into gardening and growing stuff at home. I grew up eating a lot of homegrown fruits and vegetables. Well at least in the summer and early autumn months.
Last year I dabbled with a grow bag and some tomato plants. It was a success. Of sorts. The plants began to die towards the end of the summer because there wasn't enough space for them in the tiny grow bags! But before the death, I did manage to get plenty of fruit off of them.
This year I stepped up my game with tomatoes, onions, strawberries, chillies and Italian beans all planted in a little plot at the back of the garden. Some were grown from seed in the greenhouse and others were either plants from my mum or just grown straight in the ground.
I've loved watching everything grow! It sounds a bit, pathetic? I just feel all too young to be excited about these kinds of things.
Things have been going great, except the onions. They just all died. Too much rain! I got some strawberries. The chillies have been good. Tomato plants just kept getting bigger and bigger.
Until I ventured into the garden earlier this week to pick some tomatoes for a salad. This is what I found:
All my tomato plants are dead/dying! It's got cold here recently and that was enough for them to have enough. Damn.
I've tried to rescue as many tomatoes as I could and am going to attempt to ripen them indoors. They're in a small box, wrapped in newspaper with a banana (to help ripen) away from the light.
Hasn't put me off. Just the perils of growing at home. Better luck next year?


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Marathon Plan - Regressive Countdown - Week Eleven
08/23/10 - 08/29/10 - Week Total: 8.5 miles (don't pay attention to this number) There are reasons behind it!!! I did a lot of X-training though!!!
Back in the 80's I met a good friend, Elena, that happened to be a runner. She was those that got up daily at zero dark to go for a run with a group of other nuts like her. Because I had a limitation (a.k.a. asthma) I was incapable of doing so, and thought that anybody that did, had to be challenging their respiratory system to the point of being nuts. Elena also ran several New York Marathons. What is that? 42.195 Km? Who wants to run a marathon anyway?
17 years later, 1997, another good friend, Mary Yuliet (also a nut daily runner) invited me to go for a run. We were in a beach city, Puerto La Cruz, where our girls were in a gymnastics summer camp. I declined her invitation because of my asthma. She insisted. Indeed, after one minute I was without air and wheezing. I told her to continue while I would turn around to go back home. She said: Are you sure? I replied. Yes, you go.
For some reason that to this day I can't explain, I decided to continue. I saw her fading while I was jogging using my inhaler every second. I kept going. Curiously, after 1.2 miles/2K my asthma was gone. I was surprised, turned around and jogged for that same distance back home without asthma. After 41 years of my life with that illness I got a revelation, my asthma subsided while running.
That very same day when the kids and coach came back from their training, I told my daughter's coach that I wanted to go for a run that night and try again. We ran 8 miles/13K. I could not believe it. First of all, I always thought that due to asthma I was some sort of disabled person for sports (with the exception of swimming). Second, I covered a pretty decent distance just the second time I hit the road. At that period of my life I used to hike 3-4 times a week in a very steep mountain and lifted weights also 3-4 times a week. So I have to recognize that being in excellent shape was definitely a factor. After that successful day in my life, I was able to run almost every day while the girls where in their camp.
When the training camp was over and we went back to Caracas, I asked Julio, a runner and sports coach from my kids school, to help me with a running plan. If I was able to run as I did that summer with whatever pair of shoes, I definitely could be a decent runner. He gave me three advices. One, every week run intervals, very short, and very fast. Two, work hard on your abs. Three, run free the rest of the days, whatever distance you can cover.
I was hooked.
One day Julio encouraged me to sign up for a race. A 12K. The race was sponsored by a hospital in Caracas "Clinica El Avila". I was very excited
I didn't know at the time there was a difference between running and racing. Because of that, I just went and ran. I had a conversational pace, said hi and smiled to every body along the course, and finished in 1:07 for a 9:00 minute/mile pace. I didn't know if that was good or bad. Julio told me it was good "especially when you were running like a Queen on a float, waving to the public".
There is no memorabilia of this race. My kids couldn't go with me because I was not gonna leave them alone at the start without somebody looking after them. There were no bib numbers, pictures or race flyers, but everything is recorded in my brain. That's how my racing story started. Then it continued slowly throughout the years and after moving to the US in 1999 it took me a while to adapt to the cold weather that today I love so much.
As I say in my Lizzie Lee is Racing blog: I am a road race fanatic. I race every weekend I can. I race any distance up to a marathon. I race, I race, and I race. If that's an illness then I am terribly sick!
Today I am 53 yo and I have completed 53 races. I dedicated my 53rd race to a Venezuelan man, Pedro Penzini Fleury, who during 30 years made his passion of running contagious. His motto, paper column and published book were titled "Correr Es Vivir" - "Running Is Living". He passed away last Friday 08/27/10, and I ran my 53rd in his memory.
Yes indeed Pedro and thanks. 53 races in 53 years. Correr Es Vivir. Running Is Living.
|Run-A-Muk 10K, Mukilteo, WA - Aug 28, 2010 1:03:30 - 10:14 min/mile
|Run-A-Muk 10K, Mukilteo, WA - Aug 28, 2010
I met Donna last year in the Run-A-Muk 5K when I won our division and she got second.
Today she won the 5K division....and I didn't win the 10K!!!


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STERLING, VIRGINIA - In a series of Sunday morning tweets quickly deemed racist and xenophobic by critics, U.S. President Donald Trump has provoked new controversy with taunts at several new members of Congress.
Trump on Twitter, targeted Progressive Democratic Congresswomen, telling them to "go back" and help fix the "crime infested" countries from which they came.
Of the four apparently targeted, only one - Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a native of Somalia - is foreign born. The other three are native Americans: Ayana Pressley (who is a representative from Massachusetts) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a native New Yorker (and represents the eastern part of the Bronx and a portion of north-central Queens), and Rashid Tlaib, of Michigan, was born in Detroit.
The White House has not responded to a request from VOA on whether the president was aware prior to sending the tweets that three of the four are citizens by birth.
The progressives have been squabbling with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over immigration policy and other issues. The dispute has attracted Trump's attention in recent days, even prompting him to utter rare public support for at least when it comes to her attempt to reign in the newly elected foursome.
Trump's tweets about the minority novice female members of Congress, known as 'the squad,' came about 20 minutes after a segment about them on the Fox News Channel. The president frequently reacts quickly on social media to what he sees on Fox.
Omar, in particular, has been a frequent topic of critical coverage on the cable television channel, in part due to her frequent criticism of Israel and comments perceived as anti-Semitic.
Omar and Tlaib are the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress.
Many on social media are condemning Trump's tweet - which even by his provocative norms are viewed as crossing a new line.
Among the most prominent is Pelosi, who terms Trump's remark xenophobic, "meant to divide our nation" and "reaffirm his plan to 'Make America Great Again' has always been about making American white again."
"Telling brown-skinned, U.S. citizen Members of Congress to go back to their own countries is a new level of racism," lamented Columbia University Law Professor Jamal Greene.
Matthew Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters for America, which describes itself as a progressive research and information center, views Trump's attack on the lawmakers is "a betrayal of what the U.S. is supposed to stand for."
Trump made the series of tweets prior to emerging from the North Portico of the White House clad in dark pants, a white short-sleeved shirt and a red "Make America Great Again" ball cap.
As his motorcade traveled to one of his private golf courses in northern Virginia, Trump took to Twitter again to refute what reporters described who had accompanied Vice President Mike Pence during a visit to two detention centers for migrants in Texas.
"Great Reviews!" declared Trump of the tour by politicians and media to the facility for children. He characterized the pen holding adult men as "clean but crowded."
The Washington Post's Josh Dawsey, who filed the collective print report from the scene, described a guarded area where nearly 400 men were crammed behind caged fences with not enough room for all of them to lie down on the concrete floor.
"A stench from body odor hung stale in the air," wrote Dawsey, who said some of the men screamed they had been held for more than 40 days.
At the location, Pence had commented "this is tough stuff" as a group of detainees shouted, "no showers."
Trump has repeatedly warned that if he is unseated by a Democrat in next year's presidential campaign that the opposition party would turn the United States into a socialist country and open its borders to dangerous immigrants.
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey of voters released on Sunday shows Trump trailing the top four Democratic Party contenders in a hypothetical matchup.


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(Medical Experiments, continued by MFPal...)
You walk up behind Nurse Jenny and press your crotch against her ass. The warmth of her body feels so good, even through the lab coat.
"Oh!" she squeals and drops the phone. You guess you won't be interrupted for some time. You lift up Jenny's lab coat and see a pink thong. Her skirt is so short it rode up just by her bending over.
You press your crotch against her again, gripping her hips. Your upper cock slides along the string of her thong between her cute, tight cheeks. Your other slides down between her legs over the front of her underwear. She gasps sharply and you feel a warm wetness on your lower dick.
You shift your hips back and forth and the feeling is incredible. You can feel one of your cocks dribbling precum onto Jenny's ass, making her ass-cleavage a warm, silky valley. But you can also feel your other cock rubbing against her pussy, feeling the soft lips, hard clit, and the hot juices flowing from it. It is so much more intense than with just one.
"Oh, fuck," Jenny grunts. "If you keep going like that, you're going to make me cum!"
It feels amazing, but you want more. Her G-string is starting to irritate you. You pull back and wrench the offending underwear down and out of the way.
"Tell me what you want," you whisper into her ear as you continue to rub against her.
"I wanted to take you home when I saw you," she moans. "But now Oh, please just fuck me!"
That is all you need for both dicks to go as hard as rocks (seriously, where was all this blood coming from. Maybe it's why you're not questioning fucking a girl you've only just met). You pull back, precum and pussy juice dripping off your shafts. Using one hand, you place your lower cock against Jenny's sodden cunt. The head slips in easily. She's so horny that it feels like her pussy is sucking you in. Her ass is different.
Her ass cheeks are shiny with your precum, but her rosebud is tight against the pressing of your upper cock. Nurse Jenny seems to know what you are thinking. "Use this." Her hand moves back and passes you a medical bottle of lubricant. You pour it on and push a finger into her asshole to get her insides ready.
"This your first anal?" Jenny asks conversationally, like she hasn't got one cock in her pussy and another pressed against her ass.
"Yeah," you mutter. You had been interested, but no girl wanted it.
"My ex-boyfriend was a fucking pervert," Jenny says. "He did get me into anal though. Never been DP'ed before, though." She sounds eager, like a child on Christmas morning wanting to know what the presents are. "That's enough lube. Now stick it in and fuck me!"
You do what the Nurse orders, and slam your lengths, both of them, balls deep into her holes.


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Yep, it's December and I'm posting my October and November book reviews. Better late than never, right? I thought about skipping this post because it's so late, but I did really want to share these books with y'all because there were some great ones that I read during the months of October and November. Let's get started!
After seeing this one on Reese Witherspoon's Instagram, I knew I had to check it out. I never realized how much I liked the crime genre. I never thought I'd say that either but all these Gone Girl inspired books are great! I haven't been able to get through GG yet though.
In a Dark, Dark Wood is about a group of women and a guy who go away to this glass house in the woods for a bachelorette party and someone dies. It was really good and kept me guessing until the end!
I can't remember how I discovered Taylor Jenkins Reid, but boy am I glad I did! Maybe in Another Life was my first read of hers and it was one of my favorites of October/November. It was about a choice the main character makes one night after seeing her old flame. One set of chapters shows the life she had if she stayed the night with him and the other set of chapters shows her life if she left. Love, love, love!
I've seen Jojo Moyes books on the shelves for a while now, and I've never brought myself to read one because I HATE the covers! They look like books from the 1970's! Ew! I decided to not judge a book by its cover and picked this one up. Oh my goodness. It was wonderful, but make sure you bring tissues! I don't think I've ever cried as much after reading a book as I did when I finished this one.
There's a sequel to this one called After You, but I'm not reading it. It couldn't possibly be like I want it to after this one's ending.
Karen Slaughter's Pretty Girls is another Gone Girl inspired (in my opinion) and I was excited about it! Sadly, it didn't live up to what I wanted it to be. It was way too much about the process of uncovering the husband's lies and not enough about the actual story of how the characters got to where they did. If this plot had been written like Big Little Lies or The Husband's Secret, I would have loved it! The idea of the storyline was great, but the execution was a miss for me.
The Mara Dyer series is a YA trilogy. I read the first two a few years ago and the last one came out earlier this year. I remember LOVING this series when I originally read it, but I remembered nothing about it, so I decided to reread the first two before getting the third.
My taste in books must have changed because I did not find this one interesting at all. I managed to get through the first one, but I was ready to move onto something else and decided to abandon this series!
After reading TJR's Maybe in Another Life, I immediately ordered this one and After I do. I loved this one, but it was a sad one! I read it and Me Before You back to back and after finishing them, I definitely needed a happy, light hearted read! This one is about a girl and a guy meeting and falling in love in six weeks. They get married and 6 days later the guy dies. This book is the story of how they met and how the girl moves on. It's a great read!
Hits: In a Dark, Dark Wood; Maybe in Another Life; Forever, Interrupted; Me Before You
Misses: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer; Pretty Girls
October/November Favorite Read: Maybe in Another Life
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So I have the new job and that is starting to move along nicely. I've started the Business Development side of things and the new office is terrific – it is quite nice being back in the city of Sydney. I've also been catching up on old mates as well.
Now we found somewhere to live – although a little more expensive than we really wanted to pay – still, I think that is partly the problem with the way the housing market works in Sydney at the moment, Seems that there is a supposed rental property shortage although I am not so sure. The agents are opening a rental property for "inspection" for 20 minutes and then taking multiple applications. This is maybe causing an artificial shortage where everyone is chasing the same properties and other properties are remaining vacant.
We used a small agency who did not do this 20 minute inspection malarkey and found a place – we move in on Friday (well, rather we leave some clothes there and go back to mum's to collect the rest).
The location is Summer Hill which is nice and only 15 minutes by train to the city.
Life slowly returns to normal.


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by Maggie Sefton
I've got lots of little things I wanted to share on my Cozy Chicks Blog post today, so I thought I'd simply throw all of them in the same post and move through the list. Hence, the title for this post. :)
First---I wanted to remind those of you who've seen my post on Facebook earlier this month and alert other bloggers who hadn't that I'm participating with three other cozy mystery authors this month in a contest with our FREE BOOKS as the prize. The other authors are Daryl Gerber, Krista Davis, and Janet Bolin. We call the contest the June Scramble because it involves solving word puzzles and each of our new releases. If you like word puzzles, check out my Facebook Author page and take a look at the pink icon right beneath the banner. You can click on that and find out how to enter. My Facebook address is--- www.facebook.com/MaggieSeftonAuthor.
Next---I'm finishing the last tweaking of the very next Kelly Flynn mystery which will be out in June 2014. We submit our novels at least a year before their publication dates. New York publishing is a complex business with a great many hands stirring the pot. I've learned to watch out so I'm not hit with that big wooden spoon. :)
Next---On Thursday of this week, Daughter Serena will arrive for a long weekend visit. We'll make sure she has plenty of time to visit her grandmother. My mom is in a Health & Rehab facility. They don't call them "nursing homes" anymore. They're skilled facilities or "full service" facilities. My mom will be delighted to see Serena. She always enjoys seeing any of my four daughters when they visit. As well as other family members, too. My mom is still a happy person, thank goodness. I personally think that has a lot to do with our general state of health. She has no major diseases. None of those Big Three that take so many others. She has extremely bad arthritis in both knees which means she has to be in a wheelchair now. Since she turned 93 on May 10th, I think that's perfectly fine. At that age, whatever makes it easier for them to stay around with us. :)
Lastly---Oh, yes. I had good news about CLOSE KNIT KILLER after the first week it came out June 4th. Check out my Facebook page and scroll back to read it. Again---I say Thank you, Thank you, Readers!
Oh, another Lastly---I'll be signing this Saturday, June 29th, in Old Town Square Fort Collins at the Old Firehouse Books tent. Fort Collins is having a Book Festival so there will be lots of books and book-people all over. :) If you're in the vicinity, come out and join the fun.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
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- June 25, 2013 at 9:49 AM
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- Aurian said...
A nice list Maggie, I am looking forward to reading your new book in 2015, the paperback version :) And I am glad to know that Poudre Canyon is just as pretty as you describe it in the books.
- June 25, 2013 at 11:51 AM
- Maggie Sefton said...
Aurian---yes, it is. Thank goodness. I'll be driving up there sometime these next few days while my daughter is visiting. :)
- June 26, 2013 at 11:42 AM
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Grab your boots, we're going for a walk through a blazing autumn to kick up the leaves,
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For this is the Autumn Crackler, from FolkCast.
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Golden Sun by Phil Manzenera
from the album "Vozero"
"That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done,
obligations gathering, books and football in the air...
Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning,
as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer."
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Silver And Gold by Kim Lowings & The Greenwood
from the album "This Life"
Out Of Season by John Conolly
from the album "Send Us A Postcard"
Small High Whistle From A Bird by Maia
from the EP "Finite World"
"Autumn is Nature's last party of the year. And dressing for the occasion, forests don their brightest attire,
while the creatures follow suit with plush coats of fur.
As the birds savor their final flights in the waning embers of light,
Nature's children scamper about in search of manna for their winter pantries,
pausing long enough to frolic in the heaps of newly fallen leaves."
― Debra Welsh, Autumn Suppers
September Road by Jane Thomason
from the album "September Road"
Harvest Moon by Peter Lacey
from the album "Last Leaf"
"The autumn comes, a maiden fair
In slenderness and grace,
With nodding rice-stems in her hair
And lilies in her face.
In flowers of grasses she is clad;
And as she moves along,
Birds greet her with their cooing glad
Like bracelets' tinkling song."
― Autumn by Kālidāsa
Summer Fades by Smoke Fairies
from the album "Through Low Light And Trees"
The Man In Green by Show Of Hands
from the album "Lie Of The Land"
"I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me.
Wooly jumpers, Wellington boots, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks.
The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind.
Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love."
― Alys Fowler
Trees Turn To Fire by Jon Budworth
from the album "Trees Turn To Fire"
Autumn Sounds by The Vessels
from the album "The Vessels"
"Autumn Days
Yellow, mellow, ripened days,
Sheltered in a golden coating;
O'er the dreamy, listless haze,
White and dainty cloudlets floating;
Winking at the blushing trees,
And the sombre, furrowed fallow;
Smiling at the airy ease,
Of the southward flying swallow.
Sweet and smiling are thy ways,
Beauteous, golden Autumn days."
― Autumn Days by Will Carleton
England's Skies by David Gibb & Elly Lucas
from the album "Up Through The Woods"
Setting Sun by Salt House
from the album "Lay Your Dark Low"
"Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty,
as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale."
― Lauren DeStefano
Birdsong by Ninebarrow
from the album "When The Blackthorn Burns"
Autumn Leaves by Feast Of Fiddles
from the album "Still Live"
"Spades take up leaves
No better than spoons,
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.
I make a great noise
Of rustling all day
Like rabbit and deer
Running away.
But the mountains I raise
Elude my embrace,
Flowing over my arms
And into my face.
I may load and unload
Again and again
Till I fill the whole shed,
And what have I then?
Next to nothing for weight,
And since they grew duller
From contact with earth,
Next to nothing for color.
Next to nothing for use.
But a crop is a crop,
And who's to say where
The harvest shall stop?"
― Gathering Leaves by Robert Frost
Autumn Leaves by Deborah Rose
from the album "Soul Be My Soul"
Harvest by Nick Cook
from the album "Mistaken"
"October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup.
October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins.
O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!"
― Rainbow Rowell
October Sky by Taylor Brown Trio
from the album "Notebook"
"Autumn: Darkness coming a little earlier every day, and the evening sky looking like the belly of a dead mackerel.
And the lads prepare for Halloween by dressing up in old rags, turning their jackets inside out and blackening their faces.
They go from door to door, singing a song and rattling a few pennies in a cocoa tin.
'Molly dancers kicking up a row, kicking up a row, kicking up a row! Molly dancers kicking up a row, my fair lady.
Cheese and bread, the old cow's dead, roast it in a lantern! A bit for you and a bit for me and a bit for the Molly dancers...'."
Halloween Chant by Ewan MacColl
Soul, Soul by John Kirkpatrick
from the album "Every Mortal Place"
We'll Be Ghosts by Brooke Bentham
single release
The Ghost On The Moors by Ange Hardy
from the album "Bare Foot Folk"
"No sun - no moon!
No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! -
― November by Thomas Hood
Penny For The Guy by Danny Carnahan and Robin Petrie with The Missing Pieces
from the album "Cut And Run"
A Cob-Coaling Medley by The Oldham Tinkers
from the album "Best O' T' Bunch"
"Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."
― William Cullen Bryant
December Snow by The Moody Blues
from the album "December"
Thanks for joining me for the Autumn Crackler from FolkCast.
Enjoy the autumn, and keep focused on folkcast.co.uk all year round.
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The Scottish Grocers' Federation has dismissed the Chancellor of the Exchequer's suggestion that the UK 'can afford' a rise in the national minimum wage to £7 an hour.
Chief Executive John Drummond said,
"George Osborne has to get real: he has no idea about what local shops can really afford. The disappointing retail sales figures in December show just how tough the economic climate still is in Scotland and local shops simply cannot absorb this extra cost - government must stop adding to the cost of doing business. George Osborne recently announced that business rates will be capped at 2%; the benefit to business from this will be swiftly undone by any significant rises in the national minimum wage.
We desperately need coherent and consistent pro-business policies from government not just giving with one hand and promptly taking back with the other.
This rise may lead to cuts in the number of staff or reductions to their working hours. The best way to protect local jobs and encourage investment is to freeze the national minimum wage at the current level."
The actual cost to a retailer for a full time employee is likely to be over £8 per hour when holiday entitlement and national insurance contributions are taken into account.


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Troll Hunt 2018
Posted by Exile on November 21, 2018
The one competition I looked forward to all year long. Simulated indoor hunting where one gets to shoot at animal figures at varying ranges and heights. Sounds easy enough but there are rules and regulations and scoring to be taken into consideration. Not to mention the varying 'classes' for the competition. Due to my advancing years, I was in the 'Master' class of the longbow section. Being a master has nothing to do with competence.
We were some eighty people up for the fun and games and I was one of eight competitors in my class. Unfortunately for me, one or two of them are old national ex-champions. Hard to beat, they have been doing this for years and I have been at it for just over 12 months. Not to mention the fact that our club doesn't have the room to practice at ranges much over 20 yards and some of the targets on the day were about 30 yards away. I missed a few shots on each round. The shooting gets done over three rounds, ten targets per round and two arrows per target. 60 shots in total plus 3 bonus shots, one on each round. The bonus shots are at the 'trolls' which can give up to 25 extra points if you hit one. I didn't. I did last year but wasn't quite up to it this year.
However, my final score had improved from last year. There, I ended up with a final tally of 334 points including a bonus 25, where this year I hit a clean 351 points.
Pleased with my progress, I ended up being number 4 out of 8. Not bad considering the standard of competition.
There will be another one of these indoor competitions in January 2019. I'll be entering that one too. You never know. I might improve enough to get a third place..!!
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November 21, 2018 at 11:53 pm
As long as there is an improvement, anything can be achieved with time. Being no.4 out of 8 pros is indeed progress for someone who is only being doing it for a year.


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Handmade From The HeArt Ornaments
This year, Cat Kerr organized a holiday ornament sharing event between art friends. Some of us had not ever met face to face, prior to this fall. In fact, Cat and I first met across the miles through email, while collaborating on a Belle Armoire Magazine article earlier in the year. Finally, this October we met for the first time at the Art Is You Retreats in Stamford, CT. How truly special and what fun it was.....
Apologies for not sharing sooner, but here are ornaments from the artists who participated. They are so beautiful, each and every one! I love how they hang sentimentally on my tree in the studio. They shall stay there all year round.
Happy Holidays to all my art sisters!
Happy Holidays to all my art sisters!
|Cat Kerr
|Lynne Suprock (moi)
|Jodi Ohl
|Kecia Deveney
|Leslie Venable
|Nellie Wortman
|Nancy Maxwell
|Taryn Reece


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19 Apr Dancer Who Lost a Leg in 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing is Running that Race Today
Adrianne Haslet-Davis never thought about becoming a runner — until she lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombing three years ago. Today, the professional ballroom dancer becomes the first victim of the terrorist attack to return to scene as a runner in the iconic race.
Haslet-Davis was a spectator near the finish line in 2013 when the explosion tore her left leg so severely that doctors had to amputate it.
She spent nearly three years in rehabilitation so she could return to the stage as a dancer, and along the way, decided to be at the finish line again this year — as a runner.
Her endeavor will raise money for the Limbs for Life Foundation, and she also wants to honor those who died or were wounded in the attack.
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Unilever and WPP launch in-house collaboration in Singapore
Unilever and WPP have launched a on-site collaboration with Unilever Foundry and its startup community. The initiative sees the creation of a flexible new Team Unilever model, with specialist expertise from various WPP agencies coming together under one roof at Unilever Foundry's LEVEL3 co-working space in Singapore to provide innovative solutions for Unilever's 400+ brands.
Pier Luigi Sigismondi, President of Unilever South East Asia & Australasia: "This exciting collaboration is the first step in laying the foundation of the marketing services ecosystem of the future. When you combine the multifunctional capabilities of WPP with agile startups, you get a strong partnership which can continue to build Unilever's core business, and at the same time address the huge shift taking place in consumers' lives due to technological change."
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Peter Dart, WPP's Global Team Leader for Unilever: "We wanted to take the opportunity to co-create a structure that allows us to work much more closely with Unilever and focus on all the various services along the consumer journey that can help Unilever and its brands grow. The key is agility and the enhancing ability to respond to disruption in the consumer products market as well as in marketing services offerings."
Leading the Singapore effort is Sudipta Roy, Managing Director, Team Unilever for the Singapore Hub and SEA.
Roy: "We have taken a fresh approach to the Team WPP design. Instead of designing around the brand or the category, we have designed around capabilities and intelligence in order to solve business problems. We have access to cutting-edge technology and new products across every pillar of the Unilever marketing framework through the startup community in Unilever Foundry. We look forward to collaborating with them to deliver breakthrough models, communications and consumer connections products."
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Day 1
1. Iwaki Station
For directions to Iwaki Station from Tokyo / Ueno, see below.
From Iwaki Station, traveling by rental car would be easiest in order to see lots of places in just two days!
2. Aquamarine Fukushima
Aquamarine Fukushima is an amazing aquarium and research centre which is in some ways very similar to a botanical garden.
As well as being captivated by the plants, fish and other forms of sea-life on display around the aquarium, visitors can experience catching fish, preparing them themselves and having them cooked as tempura! There is also a sushi restaurant right in front of the largest and most spectacular display tank!
The aquarium also has a great English-language website.
Also, check here for admission fees, times etc.
3. La la Mew
Buy souvenirs, have lunch, take a trip on a sightseeing boat which leaves outside, peruse the fresh produce on sale, or learn about the effects of the disaster on Fukushima at the Live Iwaki Mew-seum on the 2nd floor. Check here for more information.
4. Horuru: Iwaki Coal and Fossil Museum
See the first elasmosaurid dinosaur* to be discovered in Japan – and by a high school student, none the less! Learn about the mining history of Iwaki Yumoto Onsen, and if you visit at the weekend, you can try out some of the activities on offer, such as making your own amber necklace! (You must reserve in advance by email).
There are English information sheets and English-language signs in the museum, but their website is just in Japanese!
*Reconstruction because the real bones are kept elsewhere to prevent damage
5. Yumoto Onsen (Accommodation)
Stay overnight at Iwaki Yumoto Onsen, where there are a number of places to eat, and lots of places to take a dip in a hot spring. Yumoto Onsen has been celebrated as a hot spring town since the Heian Era (710-794), and most ryokan (traditional Japanese inns) in the area have their own hot spring bath where you can relax. Private baths can also be rented in a number of establishments!
Day 2
1. Yumoto Onsen Start
Have breakfast in the ryokan of your choice.
2. Walk around Yumoto Onsen
The small town is the perfect size for a morning stroll. There are lots of quaint little shops and shrines to explore, and if you're lucky, you might bump into some of the locals for a chat!
3. Shiramizu Amida-do
Constructed in 1160, this historical Buddhist temple was registered as one of Japan's National Treasures in 1952. Beautiful at any time of the year, but perhaps especially stunning in Autumn when the leaves turn red, the park surrounding the temple is beautifully kept and well worth a visit.
You can also enter the temple, of course, but many people come here for religious reasons, so remember to take off your shoes and turn off your cameras!
Click here for admission fees, opening times, etc.
4. Wonder Farm
A large establishment where over ten types of tomatoes are grown throughout the year! Take a bag and pick as many tomatoes as you can fit in, then visit the souvenir and food shop next door. If you have time, and the weather is nice, you could even have a picnic or BBQ in the open facility outside. There's also a restaurant on the premises with local fresh vegetables available in the buffet, and wood-fire pizzas available to take out.
The tomato-picking experience is only at weekends and national holidays. No reservation necessary! It takes place almost hourly from 10:30 to 15:00.
5. Iwaki Station
Finish off your trip in central Iwaki!
Accessing Iwaki Station
For those beginning their journey in Tokyo, take the JR Hitachi-Tokiwa Limited Express train from Ueno Station to Iwaki Station, taking around 3 hours.
For visitors who are already in Fukushima, get to Koriyama Station, then there is a direct train to Iwaki, which takes just over 1.5 hours.


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Anticipating seeing grandsons in several weeks, I made another pair of shorts - the fourth pair I've sewn in the past weeks. This Angry Birds fabric came from Fabric.com. I know they'll be a hit with Austin, who will be four years old on May 6. Again, I matched the front pockets to the shorts fronts.
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Today's was Jeffrey & Sarah's Kula Botanical, Maui, White Gazebo package wedding. They met two and one half years ago at one of Jeffrey's gigs as a drummer with "Stripped."
Now, rain is a possibility that many brides and grooms are concerned about, but actually happens quite rarely. It did begin to rain about one and one half hours before Jeffrey & Sarah's wedding at the beautiful Kula Gardens on the slopes of Mount Haleakala. They were great sports about it, gracefully used a large umbrella provided by the gardens. They looked quite enchanting and romantic strolling under the umbrella, which Jeffrey gallantly held over his bride, in the soft, misty rain. Jeffrey did mention that it was ironic to have a rainy wedding, when they came here from Washington State – the land of rain. But, they appreciated that here the rain is light, warm and passes quickly.
The beautiful, white gazebo they had selected for their wedding kept them warm and dry during their sweet, romantic Maui wedding.Afterwards, they strolled the gardens, again under the umbrella, stopping at many beautiful sites to be photographed amid the fantastic arena of flowers and trees that grow in Hawaii, where rain, during your wedding, is considered a "blessing by Lehua," the goddess of lovers.


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Add Your PerspectiveNovember 22, 2011
BELawsuit.com Is Now Live
I don't stray off topic often, but occasionally I do — with a warning like this one. This post is about BELawsuit.com rather than negotiation or settlement strategy; feel free to scroll to the next post if that's why you're here.
On a long plane ride home from New York in 2009 I wrote about BearingPoint, Inc.'s bankruptcy filing and the next steps in the process, which ultimately led to the sale of BearingPoint's operations memorialized in press releases here, here, here and here. This post is about the next chapter in the story.
Since late 2009 our team has been hard at work pursuing assets on behalf of the BearingPoint, Inc. Liquidating Trust, and the most significant of those assets is litigation against BearingPoint, Inc.'s former CEO and many of its directors. To seamlessly and efficiently address requests for information about the case from BearingPoint, Inc.'s former creditors and employees, as well as the press and others, we have just launched BELawsuit.com, which provides a Case Summary, a copy of the Complaint, Court Filings, Case Updates, News Updates and More. Those interested in the progress of the case can subscribe to its RSS Feed or to its Twitter feed @BELawsuit.
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The Hogarth Press, founded in 1917 by no less than Virginia and Leonard Woolf, announced an audacious plan in 2015: to rewrite the works of Shakespeare as novels "retold by acclaimed and bestselling novelists of today." The Gap of Time, a rewrite of The Winter's Tale, is the first of these retellings, published in the fall of 2015.
As regular readers of daeandwrite.wordpress.com know, there is also an on-going project to rewrite the works of Jane Austen. Here's a link to my review of Curtis Sittenfeld's rewrite of Pride And Prejudice Eligible: https://daeandwrite.wordpress.com/2016/07/17/eligible-by-curtis-sittenfeld/.
I've thoroughly enjoyed the two cover versions that I've read. Hogarth has published three Shakespeare-inspired novels so far and revealed eight authors and the plays they chose to interpret. http://crownpublishing.com/hogarth-shakespeare/ I'm quite looking forward to Gillian Flynn's Hamlet, and I'm listening to Anne Tyler's Vinegar Girl, a rewrite of Taming of the Shrew, right now, so keep an eye out for that blog post in the near future.
The Winter's Tale, written near the end of Shakespeare's life, is most well-known for a stage direction. In Act 3, Scene 3, which takes place in "Bohemia. A desert country near the sea," character Antigonus is directed to exit, "pursued by bear." It is irrelevant that no bears have been mentioned prior to this direction. Perhaps it is one of Shakespeare's jokes on the future. How to get a bear on stage? How to teach it to pursue Antigonus? Why does it matter?
In any event, Winterson introduces no bears in The Gap of Time. Within the text of the novel, she explains her choice to rewrite The Winter's Tale, not the best-known, best-loved, or most-understood of the Bard's works.
I wrote this cover version because the play has been a private text for me for more than thirty years. By that I mean part of the written word(l)d I can't live without; without, not in the sense of lack, but in the old sense of living outside of something.
It's a play about a foundling. And I am. It's a play about forgiveness and a world of possible futures — and about how forgiveness and the future are tied together in both directions. Time is reversible.
The Gap of Time's plot is so complex I'm not sure it's worth it to even summarize. Suffice it to say, there's a man and a woman who have a child and the child is lost and adopted by another family and then grown, the child returns. But it's not a book about a plot. Winterson's novel is about ideas and time and regret.
Sometimes it doesn't matter that there was any time before this time. Sometimes it doesn't matter that it's night or day or now or then. Somewhere where you are is enough. It's not that time stops or that it hasn't started. This is time. You are here. This caught moment opening into a lifetime.
The Gap of Time tells a classic story in an innovative way, slicing narratives, transforming locations, infusing characters. Violent, bold, imaginative, wistful — yes. Though The Winter's Tale is sometimes called a romance and sometimes a comedy, The Gap of Time's humor seemed to me minimal and the "happy ending" suspect. This is not to say I didn't like it or enjoy it, I did. It is a meaty book — some of the scenes have stayed with me for several weeks. I can recommend it for you or your book club with only a cautionary reservation that the language could prove off-putting for some readers.
Perdita's family lives by the sea and her brother Clo has made her shrimp chowder when Perdita returns home one night.
Shrimp Chowder
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 (10 3/4-ounce) cans cream of potato soup, undiluted
- 3 1/2 cups milk
- 1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
- 1 1/2 pounds medium-size fresh shrimp, peeled*
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- Garnish: chopped fresh parsley
- Oyster crackers (optional)
Melt butter in a Dutch oven over medium heat; add onion, and sauté 8 minutes or until tender. Stir in cream of potato soup, milk, and pepper; bring to a boil. Add shrimp; reduce heat, and simmer, stirring often, 5 minutes or just until shrimp turn pink. Stir in cheese until melted. Garnish, if desired. Serve immediately. Serve with oyster crackers, if desired.
*1 1/2 pounds frozen shrimp, thawed; 1 1/2 pounds peeled crawfish tails; or 3 cups chopped cooked chicken may be substituted.
I would serve this with a nice, simple green salad, good bread and dessert. There's a scene in the book with a pot of scalded milk and I looked for a dessert recipe to bring in this plot point and found this recipe from tasteofhome.com for Hot Milk Cake.
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2-1/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1-1/4 cups 2% milk
- 10 tablespoons butter, cubed
- 1. In a large bowl, beat eggs on high speed for 5 minutes or until thick and lemon-colored. Gradually add sugar, beating until mixture is light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder; gradually add to batter; beat at low speed until smooth.
- 2. In a small saucepan, heat milk and butter just until butter is melted. Gradually add to batter; beat just until combined.
- 3. Pour into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.Yield: 12-16 servings.
Although The Gap of Time's characters Mimi and Perdita are singers, I couldn't fathom what time of music they might sing. I would set my Spotify to play Bohemian music. I have no idea what would come up: gypsy folk music? Pete Seeger? La Boheme? In any event, whatever it was there would be an underlying echo of it in The Gap of Time.
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Travel Report: Scotland
Last week I was in > Scotland, which was my first time there. We started with a flight by > KLM from > Hamburg over > Amsterdam to > Glasgow. The first two-and-a-half day we were in Glasgow. The reason for the travel was the > concert of Bruce Springsteen at the > Hampden Park in > Glasgow on Tuesday. The concert was very good. In Glasgow we stayed in the > Mercure City Hotel which location was very central. On Monday we made a short trip by train to > Ayr, which is a small town at the seaside. On Wednesday we started a two day bus trip to the Highlands which was operated by > Timberbush Tours. Our driver was > Billy and he was very good. We stayed in > Fort William (see the picture) in the > Myrtle Bank Guest House. On Tuesday we drove to > Loch Ness, where we saw not Nessie. The trip finished in > Edinburgh, where we stayed until Saturday afternoon in the > Valentines Guest House. Edinburgh is a completely other city than Glasgow. Edinburgh has a medieval cityscape which some new buildings (Waverley station or Parliament). On Saturday afternoon we drove back to Glasgow by train. On Sunday morning we flight back to Hamburg via Amsterdam. Locations & companies which I can recommend: Timberbush Tours, Mercure City Hotel in Glasgow, Valentines Guest House in Edinburgh, Myrtle Bank Guest House in Fort William, > Blackfriars in Glasgow.
Liga total! Cup 2012 in Hamburg
Am Wochenende war ich in Hamburg zum Besuch des > Liga total! Cup 2012. Der Samstag begann mit einer ziemlich nervigen Anfahrt über die Landstraße nach Nienburg und von dort zur A7. Auf der A1 vor Hamburg war auch nochmal Stau, so dass ich erst viertel nach drei in Hamburg war. Nach dem Einchecken im > Hotel Astoria ging es zur > Imtech Arena. Das erste Spiel HSV gegen Borussia Dortmund war nicht gut gewesen. Irgendwie hatten beide Mannschaften – insbesondere aber der HSV – keine Lust oder sie konnten bzw. wollten nicht besser spielen. Dortmund gewann 1:0. Im zweiten Spiel besiegte überraschenderweise Werder Bremen im Elfmeterschießen den FC Bayern München. Franck Ribery und wieder mal Bastian Schweinsteiger haben die Elfmeter für Bayern verschoßen. Etwas betrübt ging es dann zum Steak essen ins > Block House am Hauptbahnhof. Am Sonntagmorgen ging es kurz vor Mittag zur Langen Reihe ins > Grünberg zum Frühstücken. Anschließend waren wir schon recht früh zur Arena gefahren um noch einen guten Parkplatz zu ergattern. Nach einer Bratwurst ging es ins Stadion. Im Spiel um Platz drei gewann Bayern München gegen den HSV mit 1:0. Im Endspiel gewann Werder Bremen im Elfmeterschießen gegen Borussia Dortmund. Da ich noch eine lange Rückfahrt hatte, bin ich schon zur Halbzeitpause beim Stand von 2:3 gegangen. Es war auf jeden Fall die beste Halbzeit aller Spiele. Immerhin gab es auf der Rückfahrt nur zwei Staus und so war ich fünf Minuten vor dem olympischen 100 m Finale wieder zu Hause.
Travel Report: London
Last week I was from Thursday, 26th May until Sunday, 29th May in London. Reason for the trip was the UEFA Champions Leaque final match in London. Unfortunately, we got no tickets. We had no luck in the ticket lottery and the tickets on the market were too expensive (up 1.000 pound). But on Thursday evening we were in Fulham and watched the > Women's final match between Lyon and Potsdam. Lyon was better and has won 2:0. Although the tickets cost only 5 pound, the match was not sold out. Only 15.000 people were in the stadium. Before the match the weather was very bad, thunder storm, hail and rain. Our hotel was the > Hotel Americana in the Glouchester Place near the Baker Street underground station. On Friday evening we were in the Theater Royal Drury Lane and watched the Shrek musical. In the evening we were in a pub near Oxford street and watched the > final match Manchester United againt FC Barcelona. Barcelona has won 3:1. The flights were operated by > easyJet from > Duesseldorf Airport to > London Gatwick. From London Gatwick I used the > Gatwick Express, which was expensive but fast.
Travel Report: Santorini
In the second May week I was on > Santorini. It is a Greece island of the > Cyclades. Our hotel was > Scirocco in Fira, the capital of Santorini. If you plan to visit Santorini I can recommend the Scirocco hotel. It is very nice with a beautiful view over the Caldera. Every day you can see some cruise liner. Further, I can recommend the restaurant > Kapari in Fira which was very good. On Wednesday we rent a car and drove over the island. We visited the > Winery & Wine museum. Our flights were operated by > Condor and we flight directly from > Duesseldorf Airport to > Thira Airport. Since the Condor machine was defect we flight with > XL Airways back to Duesseldorf. [To be continued]
Riga Travel Report
From Friday until Monday I was in > Riga (> Latvia). Since I was five years ago in > Tallinn (> Estonia) it was interested to see how is Riga. The vacation started on Thursday evening when I drove by car from > Bad Oeynhausen to > Hamburg. After a short night we flew from > Hamburg Airport with an > Air Baltic plane to > Riga International Airport. The departure luggage area at the airport is very small. To get to our hotel > Monte Kristo in the Old Town we used a Baltic Taxi. Afterwards we did a short walkabout through the old town and entered to the brasserie > 13 Kresli to eat and drink something. In the evening we were in the > Alus arsenals restaurant. We were nearly the only guests, but the food was excellent. Afterwards we went to > Paddy Whelan's pub to watch the last minutes of the soccer game Germany against Turkey. We celebrated the victory in the > DStyle club.
On Saturday we went to the > Livu Square, > Esplanade, > Nativity Cathedral, the Old Town, on the obervation deck at St. Peter's Church and finally to the Central Market. In the evening we were in a restaurant near the St. Peter's Church (<forgot the name>) and afterwards we looked in some pubs and clubs (> Skyline Bar, > DStyle, > Scandal, Rockabilly which was near our hotel …).
On Sunday we drove by train to Majori (> Jurmala). It was impressive to see that nearly each railway car has its own conductor. The beach of Majori is very long, but unfortunately it has no seafront. In the city we ate something at My Life cafe. Back in Riga we went to the > Taverna Dzintara cels where we ate something. The food and atmosphere was good and better than on Saturday.
On Monday we visited the St. James's Cathedral, but you have to pay an admission. Afterwards we went to the Three Brothers. Since the Skyline bar was closed we went to a restaurant (<forgot the name>) near the main train station and ate something. The food and service was excellent. Afterwards we drove by taxi to the airport and flew back to Hamburg. From there I drove by car to Bad Oeynhausen.
- Our three bed room at Hotel Monte Kristo was large and quite. The hotel staff was friendly and the breakfast was good. So I can recommend the hotel.
- If you need a taxi you could use Baltic Taxi since the fare is fair (7 LVL from airport to our hotel). A friend used another taxi and paid 17 LVL.
Summarized the weekend trip was nice and Riga is a lovely city for travelling a few days there.
More pictures on my Flickr page: > Riga 2010
Wochenende in Hamburg
Letztes Wochenende war ich wieder in Hamburg gewesen. Am Freitagnachmittag ging es mit der Bahn über Hannover nach Hamburg. Am frühen Abend dann über > Schumachers Biergarten zum > Stadtpark Open Air-Konzert von > Dieter Thomas Kuhn. Das Wetter war – im Gegensatz zu den Tagen davor – sehr schön gewesen, so dass man nicht von oben nass wurde. Am Samstag bin ich bei schönem Wetter um die Alster gegangen. An dem Tag fanden einige Veranstaltungen statt, so z. B. > Rudern gegen Krebs bei der Hansa Rudergesellschaft und das > Drachenboot-Festival auf der Binnenalster. Auf dem Rathausplatz fand ein > Rockspektakel statt. Am Nachmittag wurden die Bundesliga-Spiele im Fernsehen übertragen und um kurz nach fünf ging es weiter zur > Imtech Arena, wo um halb sieben das Bundesliga-Spiel zwischen dem > Hamburger SV gegen dem > FC Schalke 04 stattfand. Der HSV gewann mit 2:1. Nach dem Spiel ging es noch zum > Uhlenhorster Straßenfest. Damit war das Wochenende auch schon fast vorbei. Am Sonntagmorgen gegen 11 Uhr ging es per Zug wieder zurück.
Recommendations for travel to South Africa
Things, which I can recommend in South Africa are:
- If you are looking for a good accomodation in Cape Town, I can recommend 17 on Loader. It is a small guest house near Waterfront and in an area with several restaurants. The guest house has a great sun deck with a view over Cape Town and to the Table Mountain.
- If you are looking for a good accomodation in Centurion or Pretoria, I can recommend A Lala Lodge. It is located in Centurion. The rooms are nice and all rooms have Internet access. Further the management is very friendly and helpful. Since in the neighborhood is nothing, you should have an own car.
- If you are located in Pretoria, Centurion or Johannesburg, I can recommend Trax Travel, if you like to perform a tour. Philip from Trax Travel drove us to Pilanesberg and Kruger National Park. He was very interested and is very familiar with both areas. Unfortunately, they have no website. But if you are interested, drop me a line and I will send you his contact details.
- If you are looking for a shuttle or taxi in Cape Town, I can recommend Intercab.
Things, which I can not recommend in South Africa:
- If you arrive at the OR Tambo Airport in Johannesburg, the usage of the Approved taxis. The cars are good, but not the fare is too expensive.


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I just watched Food, Inc. yesterday, and it's making me look at food in a whole different way. I think my jaw was on the ground from start to end of the documentary. I was shocked and disgusted. I've never really given much thought about how food is grown, how it's processed, and where it comes from. I just went to the grocery store and bought what I needed with my savings card to get the best bang for my buck. Now I'm not feeling so guilty about the $100 I spent for some groceries the other day at one of the more eco-friendly, green markets. The movie just reinforced the need to buy from local farmers, organic products, and from eco-friendly markets. It's also left me feeling the need to eat more veggies, and less meat. Ugh.
Have you seen Food, Inc. yet? If you have, did it change the way you buy food?
Apricot-Mango-Strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups
4 apricots, diced
1 1/2 cups strawberries, diced
1 large mango, diced
2 tablespoons water
Agave Nectar
Preheat oven to 150 degrees F one hour before dehydrating the fruit roll-ups.
[Just as a side note, my oven did not have a setting for 150 degrees F. Instead, it has a "warm" setting, which I used, and worked out great. Also, as an FYI, you will be using this "dehydrating" setting for about 6 to 8 hours. It may be tempting to use a higher temperature to quicken the process, but you'll just bake the fruit roll-ups rather than dehydrate them. So patience is key with this recipe.]
In a sauce pan over medium heat, add water and diced fruit. Cook until the fruit breaks down so that it is soft and mushy. Allow the fruit mixture to thicken (the syrup should coat the back of the spoon and shouldn't be runny or thin), almost like the consistency of a chunky applesauce. Adjust sweetness with agave nectar to your liking… I used about 1.5 tablespoons of agave nectar because the fruit was already really sweet.
Carefully pour the fruit "compote" into a food processor or blender, and puree the liquid until it is smooth in consistency.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and lightly grease with non-flavored oil, such as corn or vegetable oil. Pour fruit mixture onto baking sheet and spread evenly across the baking sheet, about 1/4-inch thick.
Place baking sheet into oven and dehydrate for about 6 to 8 hours. The amount of dehydrating time varies depending on the thickness and the amount of sugar in the fruit mixture, so check every two hours until done. You don't want crispy fruit roll-ups. When the fruit is dry and no longer sticky to touch, remove baking sheet from oven, and allow to cool at room temperature. If you find that the edges are a little crispy, just rehydrate by dabbing the edges with a wet paper towel.
When cool to handle, carefully peel the sheet of dehydrated fruit and lay it on a cutting board, and cut with a knife or pizza slicer into 2″ by 6″ strips, or whatever size you want. Cut wax paper or parchment paper just a little larger than the strips, and roll the strips of fruit into fruit roll-ups. Store in the pantry in an airtight container for up to two weeks.


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Anyways It's not as if people didn't already know who Sherlock Holmes was playing. I mean Benedict Cumberbatch. I did say spoilers in very tiny letters.
Khan is the villain of this movie!! OH NOES!! KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNN!
Here is a movie that Star Trek fans have been waiting for a long time. I enjoyed it for the most part, but here is my review and an overly informative outline of the plot because that's how I roll.
Anyways, The story begins as the parallel earth cast of the NCC-1701, including Captain Kirk and Spock, have not yet begun their 5 year mission to seek out new life as shown in the original series. BUT. Someone else has. And they have found Khan and his people floating in space. An Admiral of Starfleet decided it would be useful to hold Khan's compatriots hostage and make Khan work for him under a false name. I assume everything else about the origin of Khan remains true. They don't go into it aside from him being a 300 year old genetically enhanced warlord frozen in stasis.
And so Khan decides to get revenge on this Admiral, and kills a number of people and Kirk manages to stop him as usual. But Khan transports away somehow over great distance to the Klingon homeworld, which for some reason is desolate This all seems far fetched, but whatever. This is Star Trek not Star Wars.
After this, Kirk takes the Enterprise to the Klingon world and takes a special shuttle, anyways a bunch of stuff happens, they take Khan into custody, and Kirk and the Enterprise are set to be destroyed by the Admiral who is on a battleship class starship ready to cover up everything. But some luck gets Kirk out of it and he hesitantly teams up with Khan to disable the battleship. Kirk doesn't trust him, Khan knows it and who can blame him cause Khan will use any means at his disposal to stay on top.
Anyways, the daughter of this admiral is a young Carol Marcus, who Star Trek fans know later goes on to create the Genesis device (along with her and Kirk's son David), has falsified her way onto the Enterprise. Yet another call out to the Wrath Of Khan storyline. There are a lot of them. It's actually overkill now, JJ Abrams.
A while later, Khan takes control of the battleship. It and the Enterprise for some unknown reason are now in orbit and descending upon Earth. YOU WOULD THINK Starfleet would have some sort of EARTH DEFENSES to stop this, but hey, its a major motion picture, you gotta have a spaceship crashing into the Earth! Of course you do! NO YOU DON'T!!! Captain Kirk saves the ship by doing what Spock did in Wrath of Khan. Call backs again? 10 fucking minutes of call backs. I saw this scene, I don't need 10 minutes of it reversed when we fucking well know you aren't killing off Captain Kirk. But yeah, Kirk is dead OMG. Spock yells KHAAAAAAAAAAAN and goes after Khan on Earth.
Anyways, after some more jumping around and around on flying cars, Spock recaptures Khan and Bones says oh hey we can use his superman genetic blood to save Kirk with a blood transfusion. How convenient and surprising. Also they use tribbles as lab animals. Space PETA is gonna be pissed.
And go figure, Khan's blood works, Kirk lives. Now he has superhuman blood. Khan goes back into cold storage but is he really? WHO KNOWS. Now begins Kirk's 5 year mission to seek out new life and so forth.
Any way you slice it this movie could have been done without the heavy handed callbacks to Wrath of Khan. Some of it was cute, but c'mon someone needs to reign it in.
All things considered, Khan was well done. Can't get Ricardo Montalban cause he's sadly dead, but Benedict Cumberbatch is almost as good and convincing, and even channels the accent subtly at some points.
Anyways, all in all it was a decent movie. It could have been a bit less actiony and call backy. Hopefully the next movie stands on its own a bit. Perhaps something with the Klingons I'm guessing. It's amusing to think that the Klingons probably didn't think starfleet was much of a threat until they kept losing to Kirk. Hope that continues.
No idea if Abrams directing Star Wars will affect another Star Trek film. I wonder if a different director could take the helm.
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Current Projects
Upland aims to inspire and educate audiences and communities and bring opportunities to its visual artists and makers. We create projects and also work along side organisations to deliver projects.
Making Connections
Exploring and highlighting Langholm's rich history and heritage in textile manufacture.
Professional & Creative Development
We aim to provide support and opportunities to enable the creative talent of Dumfries & Galloway to flourish.
A 9 month programme of mentoring and a bursary for emerging artist and makers who have a connection to Dumfries and Galloway.
Past Projects
Energise Members Exhibition
A focused group exhibition exploring our evolving relationship with the natural world and our impact upon it.
A project giving artists the opportunity to research and creatively explore the subject of climate change in relation to the unique landscape of Dumfries & Galloway.
Coast to Coast
An exhibition of work by printmakers from Iceland and Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Life Long Learning
A resource to enable individuals and organisations to find artists & makers who deliver workshops and classes
Collected Exhibition
To celebrate 15 years, we invited collectors to showcase artworks purchased at previous Spring Fling weekends.
Outpost | Spring Fling
This year Spring Fling's flagship exhibition took place in New Brewery Arts in Cirencester.
Modern Makers 2017
Students of the Modern Makers 2017 programme worked with slipware potters Doug Fitch & Hannah McAndrew
A flowing together. In a literal sense, it's about rivers. But it's more often used to talk about the coming together of factors or ideas, or of cultures.
Spring Fling Rural Mural (#SFRM) 2016
Upland has again joined forces with urban art specialists Recoat to grow and evolve Spring Fling Rural Mural (#SFRM) 2016
We Are Upland Symposium
Upland held it's offical launch on Friday 5th February 2016. 'We Are Upland' was a one-day symposium which brought together artists and makers from across the region along with a variety of speakers from all across Scotland.