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Adding decorative accents to your home makes a big difference in developing a warmly welcoming atmosphere. When people first look at your home, it's the exterior part they will notice first. From the exterior design, people will also get the impression of the whole of your home. To make your exterior design more interesting, flower can be the solution.
Flowers can bring spring time to your home. With their pop of color, flowers are the things that will totally beautify the house look. To give you more inspiring idea on how flowers live up your exterior design, check the gallery below.
Making flower beds can be the best solution to organize your frontyard, sideyard, and backyard as the effective way to plant your flowers. Flower beds can also become your media to plant herbs, vegetables, or shrubs. Let's talk about the sideyard first. It is the part that you may forget but you know you can do more with it. Make a flower box then choose pink flowers contrasting with white blossom. Complete your box with deep green hosta lilies to make it more fabulous.
For your backyard, provide seats just to spend your spare time enjoying the bloom of your flowers. Tile deck with built-in flower beds sounds interesting to have. Have them with the flowers you love, like all white roses to give elegant touch, lavenders, or tulips. Moreover, for your frontyard, you can try to have gravel yard with plant bed. Gravel is used to separate the yard and the bed. You may opt eye-cathing colored gravel like blue, red, or orange. This idea allows you to plant herbs, rosemary plants and ornamental grasses with various colors, heights, and textures. The next idea is having a flower bed with clay pots. Put the pot half-burried on the gravel then plant the flowers you like. It is possible for you to plant more than one kinds of flowers for each pot. So, be ready to transform your boring exterior design into a wow design using some flowers.


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Eighth annual The Woman in the Mirror Outreach program set
ALTON — For the eighth year in a row, The Woman in the Mirror Outreach program will offer entertainment, motivation, information, sisterhood and a fashion show May 14.
"I have a vision and a goal, to reach and to love those who perish for a lack of knowledge concerning God's word, primarily women," said Minister Valerie McDougler of Alton, who organizes the annual event with sister-in-law Stephanie Elliott, also of Alton.
The women, along with friends, comprise Saving Our Sisters, which sponsors Woman in the Mirror each year.
This year's program will be held at Atrium hotel, 3800 Homer Adams Parkway, Alton. Doors will open at 12:30 p.m., with the event beginning at 1 p.m.
Each year, the program takes attendees on an empowerment "journey" or tour, led by Elliott, the conductor.
Keynote speaker will be the Rev. Miki King of Belleville, who spoke last year. McDougler said King's motivational speech will be entitled, "Work Your Life."
"Both the women and men really took to it," she said. "We are really blessed the women and the men were really empowered by it. I love the support of men in our community." She said King is an author and radio personality, in addition to being a motivational speaker.
Anyone age 15 and older is welcome to attend, including men. In recent years, more than 200 people have come to the programs.
Madelyn Mickles of St. Louis will provide "For His Glory" mime dancing as entertainment.
Lunch will be served and there will be a Cato fashion show, gift bags and about 20 vendors with merchandise such as purses, jewelry, crafts, makeup and hair extensions, among other goods.
Tickets are $25 per person. The tickets are available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays, and 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesdays at Bread of Life Fellowship Church, 5000 Humbert Road in Godfrey; at Today's Beauty Supply, 1415 Central Ave., in Alton from 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays; at all hours at the Atrium Hotel; or by calling McDougler at (618) 465-2804, or Elliott at (618) 462-8150.
Deadline to buy tickets is May 11.
"We are really relentless about saving souls and passionate in making sure that the people of God realize their full potential," McDougler said. "We will establish this by honoring God's word and evangelize through various outreaches: Saving our Sisters, workshops, revivals and events. Our model is getting women from where they are to where God wants them to be."
McDougler started a mission in 2000 called Women of Destiny, with Saving Our Sisters outreach. She has provided clothing, furniture, information on job openings and resources — and prayer. From that, The Woman in the Mirror Outreach evolved, with the first program held in 2009.
McDougler was ordained as a minister in 2012. She was a 2015 Alton YWCA Woman of Distinction.
Reach Linda N. Weller at 618-208-6450 or on Twitter @Linda_Weller

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As first time visitors to Livingstone, my
siblings and I had a number of ideas of what activities we wanted to indulge in
and my mum, who grew up in the area, just had to indulge us. She made all the
arrangements with our aunt who lives in the area, so we just had to show up!
Here's a summary, and I hope it helps anyone else planning a trip:
We opted not to drive but to instead take the bus from Lusaka. We used the Mazhandu Family Bus Company which has timed buses – they leave promptly at the hours posted, and don't stop along the way picking up and dropping customers. These are luxury coaches, the ride was very comfortable and the driver conscientious; there was no excessive speeding or reckless driving tactics. Remember to pre-book your tickets to determine your departure date and time and seat numbers; in Lusaka you can do so at InterCity Bus Terminus. Highly recommended. Visit their website for bookings and other information.
Our first night was spent at Cross Roads Lodge on Mosi-o-Tunya Avenue. The lodge had very impressive amenities – air conditioned rooms, comfortable beds, and a gorgeous pool. The service staff were polite and very willing to please. However, the food service was severely lacking. The dining room wasn't clean and as a result attracted flies. Now we all know about flies and food borne illnesses. After two meals, lunch and breakfast, we knew this was not the place we were going to stay long term. The gorgeous setting did not adequately compensate for the undercooked chicken dishes and dirty dining room. It just broke my heart to see my little brother leaving his meal half eaten and still being hungry. So we left.
We booked into Chanters Lodge, and immediately the mood was lifted. I have been following Richard Chanter, the owner/manager, on Twitter and his blog, and knew we were in for a treat. We got the large family room, and after getting acquainted with the lodge got ready for our excursion to Mosi-o-Tunya Falls. Chanters has beautiful gardens, lovely pool and amazing staff! Bar none...
Our taxi driver had a car with third row seating which made for a comfortable day's travel for all five of us. So, we saw the Falls, hiked down to Boiling Point, crossed the border into Zimbabwe and Zip-lined across the Zambezi. Fantastic times.
Back at the Lodge, Richard ribbed me for not Bungee Jumping but I won some points for zip-lining and challenged him to a tandem jump on my next visit, to which he agreed. J We cooled off in the pool, ate some delicious mangoes before being treated to a fantastic dinner!
The room, and food prices were very fair. No complaints whatsoever! Visit the Chanters Lodge website for room pricing, bookings and more.
The following day included trips to Chief Mukuni Village, Mukuni Big 5 Safari Camp and Livingstone Museum.
Mukuni Village – we had a guided tour during which we learned about the history of the Toka-Leya people, their interactions with David Livingstone and other explorers, their way of life, etc. The most fascinating thing I learned during this tour was the fact that when a new chief is ascends the throne he must swallow a stone called a "Living Stone" and when he dies the "Living Stone is shattered" and must be expelled from his body to pass on to the next chief. The name parallels with the Scottish missionary whose name was given to the town of Livingstone cannot be ignored.
I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the structure of the village, how they decorate their huts, and interact with one another. Though I must admit spending time with the wood carvers was my favourite part of the whole tour. They are so knowledgeable about the different woods they use, the trees in the area – what a valuable resource! These are skills that continue to be passed down from fathers to their sons.
The tour ended with a visit to the curio market where I promptly blew the remainder of my shopping budget. It was so worth it; knowing the items I was buying would directly benefit the artisan and his family. I had to brush up on my meagre Tonga language skills but thankfully there were some Nyanja speakers around. And of course my Monze educated siblings shined!
Mukuni Big 5 Safari – it was my hope to get an elephant ride but unfortunately they were fully booked for the day but there were still other activities for us. We did a walking tour and got to see the lions, cheetahs, and caracals. Our guide, Aaron, was very knowledgeable and engaging – definitely a young man who's living his passion!
Visit their website for more details.
Livingstone Museum was a real treat. I was thrust back to junior secondary school getting reacquainted with early Zambian history – the stone age, bush men, the discovery of Broken Hill Man, major chiefs and kingdoms. I loved it! Sadly, photography is not allowed so I had to bank all the images in my head. It's well worth the visit!
Overall, this was a great trip. I learned so much, and fell deeper in love with my country. The beautiful countryside was a sight to behold. Definitely will be going back soon; Livingstone, you stole my heart.


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I started getting involved in photography at the age of 14 with a real SLR, the EXA 1B, manufactured in East Germany/Saxon. As the model used celluloid film, I explored the world of darkrooms. Due to the laborious nature developing the negative to print, I took care from the moment I pressed the shutter button, following the process of putting the film into in all the chemicals until I had the final picture in my hand.
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My art education career began in Russia, where I finished a fine arts school and took a multitude of courses from interior design to web design. Those years also involved a lot of gallery shows of my paintings. Later on, I continued my education in Italy, where I finished the Fine Art Academy with honors. My works have been exhibited in group shows through out Italy, Germany and Austria and I've appeared in many Italian magazines. My paintings are done with oils on canvas.
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Lessons from the experience of the Sandinista Revolution
News from Nicaragua | Thursday, 23 June 2016 |
In the 1980s, Nicaragua was a major focus of global geopolitics; a guerrilla army in an impoverished Central American country had succeeded in defeating one of the most brutal US-backed dictatorships in Latin America.
With its socialist programme of political pluralism, mixed economy and social justice, and its slogan "Between Christianity and Socialism there is no contradiction," the Sandinista Revolution encapsulated the ideals of many on the left from around the world. These ideals were perceived by the Reagan administration as a major threat that they set about destroying through military, political, and economic means.
After the electoral defeat in 1990, the Sandinistas handed over power to a coalition government backed and financed by the US. A broad consultation process followed to analyse not only the external factors but also internal errors that contributed to the defeat.
This analysis informed the Sandinista government programme when they returned to power in 2007 in the context of a much strengthened Latin America. One of the key lessons has been the critical importance of macroeconomic stability to eradicating hunger and poverty.
The following is a summary of an article published by the Tortillaconsal (TCS) collective outlining what the Sandinistas have learnt from their mistakes 'to share with our sisters and brothers in Venezuela and elsewhere.'
"If we had known then, what we know now, it may have been possible to act more wisely to avoid the electoral defeat of 1990."
• Overestimating levels of support. As TCS points out "It is important not to confuse wishful thinking with the real correlation of forces". In 1979, when the Sandinistas came to power, Nicaraguans came to believe that they were much stronger than they actually were. Although the ousting of the Somoza dictatorship had overwhelming popular support across all sectors of society, this support by no means extended to supporting a revolutionary project of radical transformation. Another example is hegemony apparently expressed through massive political rallies which can be very deceptive, even illusory, leading to sudden, ill-considered, fundamentally flawed decisions.
• Changing values is a prolonged process that requires a lot of political sensitivity to avoid alienating supporters or potential supporters. As the TCS article points out ' The instant our deeds seem to confirm the deepest fears of particular groups (in relation to religion, to private property, to social and economic freedoms in general), those groups quickly end up embracing apparently plausible opposition political projects, no matter how reactionary those projects may turn out to be.
• Implementing a land reform programme that involved distributing land to rural workers on condition they worked it collectively. The counter-revolutionary army (the contras), armed, trained and funded by the US, was initially made up of Somoza's National Guard, who fled over the border to Honduras after the Sandinistas took power. However, mistakes of the Sandinista government meant that the contras also built a substantial base among disillusioned rural families. This resulted partly from a government decision to distribute land to rural workers under the agrarian reform programme on condition they worked it collectively. This was a costly mistake because most rural workers wanted to own the land individually and only a minority of the groups receiving land had fought collectively to occupy it.
• It is counterproductive to label as speculators and smugglers broad sections of the popular classes who are only trying to defend the wellbeing of their families. For example, the worst speculators were the traders in Managua's huge Mercado Oriental, but they were also the women who sacrificed most sons in defence of Nicaragua. In the countryside, the Sandinistas sold subsidised boots, machetes, nails, salt and kerosene to the campesino/as, who the next day went over the border to Honduras to re-sell them to the contras in exchange for other things they needed. The government stopped just in time applying the policy of treating these ordinary people as counter-revolutionaries. Had they not, then the 1990 electoral defeat would have been much worse.
• Actions that are perceived as strategic triumphs by our movements and governments are not necessarily the same as substantive changes in the real correlation of forces, or actions the general population truly perceives as victories. For example, in 1988, in order to face a situation of rampant inflation similar to the one Venezuela is facing today, the Sandinista government carried out Operation Berta, converting in 24 hours all the country's notes and coins into what was in effect a new currency. Unfortunately this did not stop inflation.
• The Sandinista experience confirmed that the Law of Labour Value exists and unless production costs are respected, serious imbalances are bound to erode the credibility of any revolutionary project. State enterprises in the form basic service utilities or as primary sources of income are important assets so long as they ensure an economic advantage or are strategically important and necessary. But apart from that, maintaining inefficient production enterprises above average production costs damaged Nicaragua's revolutionary government programme.
• A better approach to socialisation of the economy has been to promote it as a broad process through which freely associated direct producers take control over the economy and over society in general. That can happen through self- or co-managed enterprises, co-ops and co-op federations, through federations of consumers and so on. The role of government is crucial in terms of ensuring progressive taxation systems and policy or through official promotion of structures of popular and communal power. Dialogue and consensus are critical.
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New York, Oct 24, 2007
Held in Washington, DC, as part of the World Standards Week 2007 series of events, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) convened the forum to examine the spectrum of tort liability issues that can arise throughout the voluntary standards development process.
"Legal issues relating to negligence and product safety arise in all aspects of the standards development and conformity assessment process," said Patricia Griffin, vice president and general counsel of ANSI. "The narrow focus of this year's conference made it a must-attend event for anyone interested in learning how to protect his or her organization from tort liability."
During the opening panel, "The Legal Landscape," attorneys discussed the liability-related risks involved in standards-setting and product certification activities. Several strategies were suggested for avoiding tort liability, including: understanding the scope of the standard or compliance program, making use of disclaimers to spell out the organization's involvement, examining insurance policies for coverage of standards developing activities, and documenting standards-related contact with government agencies.
Panel two, "Strategic Use of Standards in Litigation," presented attendees with case studies from the perspectives of a plaintiff's lawyer and a defendant's lawyer. Drawing from experience in specific, ongoing lawsuits, the plaintiff's lawyer discussed how a plaintiff uses standards to determine what are good versus what are frivolous claims. On the flip side, the defendant's lawyer provided practical guidance on how to defend against such allegations, whether they are cast as negligent development, failure to warn, or conspiracy/fraud claims.
The final panel, "Writing Safety Standards Today," focused on the efforts underway within the ANSI-Homeland Security Standards Panel (ANSI-HSSP). Examining how liability concerns impact homeland security standards development, participants focused their attention on the recently enacted SAFETY Act. By providing liability protections for providers of qualified products or services, the Act encourages the development and deployment of new and innovative anti-terrorism technologies. The Department of Homeland Security is sponsoring a SAFETY Act Workshop on November 16, 2007, for industry groups, standards developing organizations, government employees, and any other interested stakeholders who wish to learn more about the Act. To register, please visit the event website.
For more information or to view presentations given during Tort Liability in the Standards World, please visit the proceedings page. Questions and comments may be directed to Patricia Griffin, ANSI vice president and general counsel (212.642.4954; firstname.lastname@example.com).


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For many students, earning a scholarship is the only way they can get to college. As the price of a college education increases, the need for good scholarships becomes more important than ever before. Students who plan on studying education to become an elementary, middle, or high school teacher will not make much money in their careers; because of the low salary, many college tuition and fees are not the investment that they used to be. So, it is vital for education majors to be able to find a good scholarship to help make their tuition prices more in line with the income that future teachers will make.
Teacher Salaries vs. College Tuition
People who are not in the world of education do not realize that teacher salaries are not in line with careers that require the same amount of education. Teachers must have a major, minor, and certification in order to find a position in a school. In many other career paths, graduates only need a major. For many teacher candidates, they find that they need to spend five years to earn their undergraduate degree and certification due to the number of classes they are required to take.
Cost of Becoming an Educator
Brand new teachers will have starting salaries somewhere between $20,000 and $32,000 depending on where work. Many colleges charge that much for a year of tuition. In many states, teacher salaries top out in the $50,000-$60,000 range, which is for teachers with over 20 years of experience and at least a Master's degree. This is not comparable to other careers that require regular continuing education credits. The unfortunate part of teacher salaries is that they are actually going down all over the country. The "grandfathered" teachers who have been teaching for many years are often allowed to stay in their salary schedules, but in the last five years or so, school districts have created new teacher salary schedules that are significantly lower than the previous schedules.
Difficulty Recouping Tuition Price
So, when a college student spends $50,000 to $100,000+ on their education to become a teacher, they will be disappointed to find that they will not recoup their investment very quickly. If they have student loans, they could be paying those back for ten to twenty years. Then, they have to take more classes and earn a graduate degree which will require spending thousands of dollars more!
Start with High School Counselors
High school students who know they want to become teachers should begin looking for scholarships the moment they enter high school. There are some colleges that will give scholarships for future teachers when they are in their first year of high school. It is important to talk to high school counselors about scholarships for high school students that want to become teachers. High school counselors are the best resources for any type of scholarship at local colleges, because they often give the best scholarships based on the relationships they have with nearby high schools.
Minority Scholarships
Many scholarships for future teachers are designed for candidates who fall into a minority category. In the United States, school districts want to hire teachers who are minorities and/or bilingual and because the education industry does pay well, many bilingual and minority graduates go into more lucrative fields. This is why many education scholarships are designed just for candidates who are less likely to go into education majors, but that are needed. Minority teachers have any easier time connecting to minority students.
The hunt for a good scholarship is worth it, especially when choosing a major that does not promise to pay as well as other majors pay.


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Emma Witmer, the Brooklyn artist who operates under the name gobbinjr, makes music that sounds like the sonic manifestation of a Rube Goldberg machine. As childlike and sweet as her songs are tonally, her two releases so far, 2016's vom night EP and 2015's manalang LP, are compositionally impeccable — much like the dynamic of one of Goldberg's contraptions.
Whereas many artists approach slow-burners with linear, often predictable climaxes, Witmer zig-zags, loading each song with enough tuneful doodads to keep you marveling as the whole musical apparatus begins maneuvering like a near-sentient being. While songs like "perfect" and "may we all have space" from vom night begin with a destination in mind, the route they take to get there sets off a litany of bubbly, twinkly and whimsical little synths, digital effects and vocal harmonies that make it more about the journey than the end result.
She also writes some of the best hooks in the game.
"The most important thing to me is that it's catchy," she tells City Paper. "I want it to be stuck in people's heads."
So far she's succeeded. Despite how downright weird much of her catalog is, songs like "don'tchya kno" and "firefly" contain melodies that could genuinely be transformed into radio-pop anthems. The emphasis is on "could," though. That's not a route Witmer is even vaguely interested in taking.
"I definitely want to keep it my way," she says. "I'm not gonna let anyone produce it into some wack, Top-40 blown-out shit. I kind of have a rule with it: I have to produce the gobbinjr stuff. So I don't think it'll ever go that way."
As far as tagging the style of music, an easy go-to would be bedroom pop, a name given to the swarm of homespun acts that began populating Bandcamp during the early 2010s.
"A lot of people think bedroom pop is something just super lo-fi and just someone futzing around with their guitar and singing," she says. "I don't really like when people call it lo-fi."
"I've been calling it mean pop recently," she adds. "It's pretty accurate."


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Pop Music by Wolf
The SparkJun 11, 2018
Alexander Orisafele is also known as Wolf. "It's more an alter ego than just an alias. Wolf is a character I created to embody my art. It's more like another part...
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Hiding under the blanket with my cold, I found myself thinking about getting some chocolate, until I realised what I really wanted was to be warm and able to breathe through my nose again.
Enter Spicy Tomato Soup.
Needless to say I am feeling energy-less and lazy, but the thought of feeling better gave me the motivation to get up from the sofa and cook! It doesn't take long and is easy to make. Plus, if like me you always have some carrots in the fridge and tomato passata in the cupboard, then you don't even have to go shopping. It's all in the house already!
- 500ml of tomato passata
- 3 carrots
- 2 shallots or 1 onion
- 2 to 3 cloves of garlic
- about a thumb wide of fresh red chilli pepper or a teaspoon of chilli powder
- half a teaspoon of turmeric
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- half a teaspoon of thyme and half a teaspoon of rosemary
- salt and pepper
- half a glass of water (to make the soup more liquid if you prefer it that way)
- Slice the shallots and carrots and fry in a saucepan in olive oil until shallots are soft.
- Add in the tomato passata, garlic, turmeric and finely chopped chilli.
- Give it a good stir and add in the thyme and rosemary.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Add water if needed.
- Cover and cook on low heat for 20 minutes for the flavours to develop.
The chilli helped me breathe, it worked! Now, off to bed for some deep sleep. Hoping to feel better tomorrow.


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West Nyack, NY – 5/16 & 5/17
Sayville Wrestling club netted and astounding 7 top 3 place finishers in the New York State Schoolboy State Championships (Freestyle & Greco Roman) with Matt Leshinger, 8th grade, crowned Schoolboy State Champion in Greco Roman and Third in Freestyle. Freestyle finalist, Zach Meyer, took home the sliver for Sayville while the remaining competitors took home very respectable bronz medals. Continue reading "Sayville Tearing it up at NYS Schoolboy State Championships"


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Last year we where able to clone the bottom tree from the upper one. This was our first major success withe this procedure. both trees below are in process
Author: bonsaiandburl
BONSAI DISPLAY -revisited
I ended up doing 4 prototype Bonsai displays in all. Only two of the four where used outside and had minimal care. Prototypes one and two where made by picking up the nearest thick piece of wood and cutting it with the bandsaw three and four had a lot more care and selection in the pieces to be used.
Compared to the last photos the pots discolored due to weather and minimal care. The inside edge next to dirt worked very well, i coated the wood with Epoxy Resin to seal it. Plastic bottoms worked as desired. Also I secured feet or stands to each pot.
After spending about an hour on each pot I got everything cleaned, sanded, filled and finished. Any wood vessels left in the Pacific Northwest elements are going to require minimal care to keep it lasting a long time and "LOOKING GOOD"
The pot on the left is mahogany and the bottom right one is Walnut with natural edge.
19 years and Counting
It hardly seems possible but it's been 19 years since I bought my by first trees. I still have most of those Coastal Redwoods. I wish I had started Bonsai much earlier in Life because I know I have gotten much more out of my Trees than I have given them.
It takes dirt under your finger nails to get it. Just like life no tree is ever finished. As it grows it changes. While we can direct and form some of those changes ,we can only receive what the tree is willing to give us. You have to handle each tree on its own.
Besides loving Bonsai I am also a professional Woodworker. As such I continue to work with my Bonsai trees even after they have died. Most of my oldest trees have been grown with that in mind. We have finally started making Bonsai display pieces, we want these to blend with the tree they are displaying.
Living in the Pacific Northwest we are blessed with a great outdoors close by. I can be on Mt Hood or at the coast in 45-75 minutes. These areas come into play in that they let me gather stones, small driftwood, anything I can use in my BONSAI anBURL display, and go fishing.
Handmade BONSAI Dish
As a pro woodworker, Out of the Woods Bandon Or. For 10 years I acquired an eye for quality finishing and design . Matching the right size display dish to your tree is critical.
This first set of pictures shows a walnut base with natural edge and a 5 year old Costal Redwood . This tree has been.smallest of all my redwoods, this is the most dirt it has ever been in
My second handmade bonsai dish is made from a solid block of MahogaNyand displays a 5 year old trident maple grouping. The trees are all one root system.
Obviously there is still work to do on dirt levels and moss but I wanted to show these off.
Redwood Bonsai
Love the concept of Bonsai Redwood. Take one of the biggest growing items in the world, and keep it small.
We will be showing some of our REDWOODS being up to 15 years in our care. The first ones we bought as seedlings in Northern California. The latter ones have all been cuttings from those. We do have pictures going back to the start for these trees.
The above 3 photos show one of the 15 year old REDWOODS . Note the 1890's Horseshoe, from Nothern San Jocquain valley.. Intentionally I leave as many starts as I can for three main reasons 1. New starts. 2. Root ball development. 3. If the tree dies we will be left with very highly figured BURLi
While this tree is coming along nicely. It still has many years to go before it becomes the world class specimen that it will become.q
It is funny how time goes. Don't blink or you will miss it.
I have finally gotten the Bonsai Area up and functional. Still more to do but that will come as I use the area.. But it looks like everything will fit in this area.
Trees are looking good for the most part. We lost a couple of established trees over the winter. The last big freeze we had took its toll on the evergreens, dis coloring needles. But nothing we can't fix.
On a positive side I have slowly started taking cuttings for propagation. I plan to do a lot of this since I now have a great area to plant them.
Ken's Bonsai
Following shows a few of the Bonsai's that we have been working on. More details to come.
These last two show the same tree before and after potting up. Every 2-4 years we remove the tree from the pot, clean and trim the roots, then repot with fresh soil. The redwood shown here was started from a cutting and I have been working on it since 2004. Note the multiple stems. This is one of my favorites.


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8 Reveals From Lady Gaga's Netflix Doc That Will Surprise Even the Biggest Little Monsters
Lady Gaga's new Netflix documentary, Gaga: Five Foot Two, drops today, and it's good. Very good.
The film, which runs a little over an hour and 40 minutes, is an emotional look into the life of the biggest pop star on earth. Yes, it addresses her professional life—specifically, the creation of her fifth album, Joanne, and her Super Bowl halftime performance—but Five Foot Two is personal more than anything. Gaga talks about some very deep issues in this film: her relationship with Taylor Kinney (and other boyfriends), sketchy music producers, and both her physical and mental health. It's an explosive watch, even for the biggest Little Monsters.
These eight reveals from the documentary are particularly interesting. Read on, below, and check out Gaga: Five Foot Two on Netflix right now.
She's over f-ckboys. One of the first sentences Gaga says in her documentary is "Me and Taylor are fighting." Yes, she's referring to Taylor Kinney, the Chicago Fire star and ex-fiancé with whom she broke things off in July 2016. She doesn't reveal the exact cause of the split, but she does go on a rather long monologue about how her "threshold" for men's "bullshit" is pretty low. "I just don't care," she said. "I'm 30. I feel better than ever. All my insecurities are gone. I don't feel insecure about who I am as a woman. I'm not embarrassed or ashamed of what I have. I feel more sexy and sexual—all that shit is better. What happens, is, I don't know. In relationships, you gotta move together as best as you can."
Her mental health and physical pain are linked. "If I'm depressed, my full body can spasm," Gaga said in reference to the chronic pain she experiences as a result of her fibromyalgia. Throughout the documentary, she discusses the way her physical pain affects her mental state. It's clear that the hip injury Gaga suffered in 2013, which caused her to cancel half her Born This Way Ball Tour, still takes a toll on her psychologically. One of the most poignant moments in the film is when Gaga becomes elated after completing a performance and feels no physical pain for the first time. She speaks emphatically about wanting to perform again and again, like a child playing her favorite sport for the first time.
She's over the Madonna "feud," but she does have one bone to pick. "The thing with me and Madonna, for example, is I admired her always—and I still admire her, no matter what she might think of me. I do," she said. "The only thing that really bothers me about her is [this]: I'm Italian and from New York, so if I've got a problem with somebody, I'm gonna f-cking tell it to your face. But no matter how much respect I have for her as a performer, I could never wrap my head around the fact that she wouldn't look me in the eye and tell me I was reductive or whatever. I saw it on f-cking TV. Telling me that I'm a piece of shit through the media—it's like a guy passing me a note through his friend…. I want Madonna to push me up against the wall and kiss me and tell me I'm a piece of shit." Seems like a reasonable request to us. (As a Madonna and Lady Gaga super-fan, may I just add that their entire feud was dumb and cheapened the work of both artists.)
She had a mini-meltdown while shooting a scene in American Horror Story: Roanoke. The exact issue she had is unclear, but things ended with Gaga loudly complaining that she had too many jobs to afford being delayed on the set. "I like to know what I'm doing before," she said. "I don't mind changing it on the fly, but something this complicated, when they keep throwing shit at you, it's like—I just don't wanna sound German." From this, it seems like there was conflict with the dialogue or dialect that her character used.
The male music professionals she worked with before Joanne didn't make her feel the best. "What I was on my own wasn't good enough," Gaga said in reference to her previous professional collaborations. "I don't feel that way working with Mark [Ronson, one of the leads on Joanne]." In a similar light, Gaga revealed she used avant-garde visuals back in the day to protest the music industry's expectation for her to be sexy. "When they wanted me to be sexy, when they wanted me to be pop, I always put some absurd spin on it to make me feel like I was in control…. If I'm gonna be sexy on the VMAs singing about the paparazzi, I'm gonna do it while bleeding to death [and] reminding you of what fame did to Marilyn Monroe."
Gaga wore outrageous outfits back in the day partly because she wasn't secure in herself. This threw me, a super-fan, for a loop because Gaga always contended that those opulent visuals were a part of who she is. Here she says the opposite. "I never felt comfortable enough to sing and just be this way," Gaga said, referring to her current, stripped-down Joanne era. "To just sing and wear my hair back. I never felt pretty enough or smart enough or a good enough musician."
There's a correlation between her professional life exploding—and her personal life imploding. Well, there's not a scientific correlation, but Gaga feels like some connection exists, and it upsets her. She explained that every major music achievement she's experienced has come with a breakup. "I sold 10 million [records] and lost Matt. I sold 30 million and lost Luke. I did a movie and lose Taylor. It's like a turnover. This is the third time I've had my heart broken like this," Gaga said. Ironically, Kinney sent Gaga flowers the day of her Super Bowl performance.
She's still genuinely shocked by her own success. Her mouth literally dropped when someone told her Joanne was number one around the world.


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Time for another The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya double-bill, and this time around our double helping of insanity kicks off with a surprisingly action-packed little number.
Thanks to Tsuruya obtaining some free tickets to the "Supernatural battle show" (which is of course in no way a take on Power Rangers), and due to Yuki's enthusiasm towards it, the SOS Brigade get to enjoy a Sunday out. Of course, this being what it is the good and bad guys in this particular event are played by Mr. Arakawa and Miss Mori respectively, with the latter ending up in an epic battle with Tsuruya. Meanwhile, Kyon and Koizumi pass the courtesy of a 100,000 piece jigsaw (as you do), but even they aren't entirely immune to the side-effects of Tsuruya's big fight.
Meanwhile, episode twenty-two has Ryoko doing the housework, and very serious she is about it too. That's pretty much all there is to it apart from an obvious gag or two, which somehow makes it all the more amusing. You still can't beat Kyon's jigsaw puzzle despair in the previous episode though.
Never mind though, because Ryoko gets yet more screen time in the latest instalment of Nyoron Churuya-san, where she tries to remove her name from a test because Kyon had forgotten to write his, only he actually had. Thus, we're left with Ryoko and Churuyahaving to resit the exam. I won't spoil the rest of the gags (a number of which had me laughing out loud), but I'm sure you can guess at least a couple of them without even watching the episode. As usual, hilarious stuff.
Friday, 24 April 2009
Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya - Episodes 21-22
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Note that Ashakura and Achakura are played as different identities by KyoAni.
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New York — Missouri and West Virginia have one more step to take before bumping into each other in New Orleans.
New York — Missouri and West Virginia have one more step to take before bumping into each other in New Orleans.
The Tigers and Mountaineers hold the top two spots in the Bowl Championship Series standings released yesterday with a week left in a topsy-turvy regular season.
Missouri, in the No. 1 spot, will play Oklahoma (10-2) in the Big 12 championship game on Saturday at San Antonio, and the Mountaineers will face rival Pittsburgh (4-7) at home. If both win, it'll be Missouri-West Virginia in a most unlikely BCS championship game Jan. 7 at the Superdome.
A month ago, neither team was even in the top five of the BCS standings, but a string of upsets have left Chase Daniel and the Tigers and Pat White and the Mountaineers in control of their own destinies.
"I've been telling the guys, the more you win, the more that's at stake," West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez said yesterday in a conference call with reporters.
If either Missouri (11-1) or West Virginia (10-1) trip up next week, third-place Ohio State (11-1) is poised to take advantage and play in its second straight title game.
If the Tigers and Mountaineers both lose, the national title picture gets very murky.
Georgia was fourth in the standings, followed by Kansas (11-1). Neither will play in their conference title games, but both still have a shot to play for a national championship.
Georgia (10-2) could become the first team with two losses to play for a national title, and several other two-loss teams could make a claim to be in the title game if the top two lose for a second consecutive week.
Sixth-place Virginia Tech (10-2), seventh-place LSU (10-2), eighth-place Southern California (9-2) and ninth-place Oklahoma all have one last opportunity to surge up the BCS standings on Saturday.
Ohio State's regular season ended Nov. 17 with a victory over Michigan that made the Buckeyes the Big Ten champions. The week before, Ohio State was No. 1 in the country when it lost to Illinois at home and seemingly fell out of the title race.
At worst, the Buckeyes will be in the Rose Bowl.
Hawaii moved up to 12th in the standings after beating Boise State 39-27 and winning the Western Athletic Conference, putting Colt Brennan and the Warriors in position to earn an automatic BCS bid.
The Warriors, the last remaining unbeaten team in the nation, finish the season at home against Washington and need to be in the top 12 when the final standings come out next Sunday.
Missouri was No. 1 in the Harris poll and West Virginia was No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' poll yesterday. Those polls make up a two-thirds of a team's BCS average.
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2016 Liebster Award – A Blogger to Blogger Award
Hello Everyone!
I started my blog in April of 2016 to have a creative outlet for my two passions: writing and photography. Everyone has been so kind and supportive the past two months!
Now I have been nominated for the 2016 Liebster Award! This is an award created by bloggers for new bloggers to connect and support the blogging community. This award is a great opportunity to network and meet new people.
Thank you to Aki from The Learnify for nominating me for the 2016 Liebster Award. I really appreciate the nomination and support, Aki!
Rules for the Nominated:
1. Create a new blog post.
2. Thank the blog who nominated you and link back to them.
3. Include 11 facts about yourself.
4. Answer the 11 questions from the blog that nominated you.
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6. Nominate 11 new bloggers by commenting in one of their blog posts. Link to these blogs on your post and they will link back!
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11 Facts About Me:
1. I am an Aquarius.
2. I am an only child.
3. I have both a BFA and MA degree.
4. I currently live in Dallas, TX.
5. I've been to 23 states and 10 countries.
6. I have one rescue cat.
7. I enjoy traveling, trying new wines, and dining with friends.
8. I am actually very introverted!
9. I love donuts! I love everything from classic chocolate glaze to trying new gourmet styles.
10. I really appreciate the arts and enjoy going to the museum, the ballet, concerts, and more.
11. My favorite flowers are orchids.
11 Questions for Me:
1. If you were trapped on an island for 3 days, what would you take with you?
If I were trapped on an island for 3 days I would take a hammock, a good book, and 3 gallons of water and then I would relax and enjoy it!
2. What was your funniest incident ever?
This question is almost impossible to answer as funny/weird/embarrassing things happen to me every single day!
3. What is one embarrassing fact we should know about you?
I was almost arrested once in France for falling on a Monet painting. Oops!
4. How many best friends have you had during your lifetime?
2, my childhood bestie and my adulthood bestie.
5. If you weren't here, what would you be doing?
I suppose that depends on where I was instead. Think about that for a second!
6. What's the best meal you've ever had?
The best meal I have ever had was at Kokomo's in Las Vegas. I had lobster tail, steak, mashed potatoes, wine, and dessert. I was so sad when I learned it was closed!
7. What is the most childish thing you still do?
I still watch cartoons! My favorites are the Simpsons and Futurama.
8. What is your favorite dessert?
My favorite dessert is probably cheesecake!
9. Do you have a favorite computer game?
My guilty pleasure is playing Cookie Jam on my iPhone. I'm on level 794. Don't judge me.
10. Blogging – the future or a fad (for you)?
I started my blog in April of 2016 because I needed a creative outlet. I foresee blogging as a longterm commitment because it has allowed me to share my thoughts with others, write creative content, post my photography, and I've also learned a lot about coding and design.
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TruLocation combines real-time GPS vehicle tracking, remote tacho downloading, accurate maps, Geo-location, points of interest, harsh breaking and excess speed, all in one easy to use system.
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The Pre-Discharge Program is a joint Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD) program that affords service members the opportunity to file claims for disability compensation up to 180 days prior to separation or retirement from active duty or full time National Guard or Reserve duty (Titles 10 and 32).
The four components of the Pre-Discharge Program are:
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- Seriously Injured/Very Seriously Injured (SI/VSI)
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Visit the VA Returning Service Members (OEF/OIF) homepage for additional information, including resources for family and outreach activities, for returning service members.
VA Benefits in Brief is a printable document that provides an at-a-glance description of VA benefits, as well as contact phone numbers and locations.


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A collection of extended LED lighting systems in various designs: Line_1, Line_2, Line_3 & Standing Line.
Lively designs of differing light fixtures that play on the addition and subtraction of lines and streaks, creating a unique composition in each and every piece and altering the functionality of the pieces and type of light dispersion. The fixtures are made of oak wood in combination with coated aluminum sheets.
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Wings material: Aluminum
Base Material: Wood
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Power Supply: 24V/ 30 Watts
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September 25, 2012 – Infowars
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LzwvSM1CiA
While some people are still debating whether or not the United Nations' Agenda 21 plan is real, major cities all over the country are about to offer more proof of its implementation in the form of tiny, "shoebox-style" housing units barely big enough for one person to live in.
New York and Boston are already beta testing itty bitty apartments, and yesterday the LA Times reported that San Francisco's Board of Supervisors is considering official revisions to the city's building code to allow for even less living space.
If approved, the new quarters — branded as "affordable by design" — would drop minimum housing code requirements to a mere 220 square feet from 290, only 150 of which could be considered actual living space (unless sleeping in a closet counts). To give some perspective on just how small 220 square feet of space really is, the inside of an average school bus is approximately 250 square feet. A person's entire apartment would be small enough to fit inside the bus — bathroom, kitchen, and closet included. This vision of an austere lifestyle could hardly accommodate one person, let alone someone with a spouse, children, or pets.
While such housing is designed to dissuade people from owning a car in favor of bicycles and mass transit use, opponents are right to note that such a move could spike population density and strain both community spaces and public transportation systems.
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I told sister Heather, this morning, as I was driving to bring my son to school, the dark rain clouds were all scattered. Yet, in front of us, there were rays of the risen sun beaming through those dark clouds. God comforted me with that sight! That just because we are going through tough times doesn't mean He is not there with us. That He is going through all the trials with us...But it relies on our faith and trust on Him.
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Twinning by metric merohedry
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Maclage par mériédrie métrique (Fr). Verzwillingung durch metrische Meroedrie (Ge). Geminazione per meroedria metrica (It). Macla por meroedría métrica (Sp).
Twinning by metric merohedry is a special case of twinning by merohedry which occurs when:
- the lattice of the individual has accidentally a specialized metric which corresponds to a higher holohedry,
- the twin operation belongs to this higher holohedry only.
If H is the individual point group, D(H) the corresponding holohedry and D(L) the point group of the lattice, twinning by metric merohedry corresponds to D(L) ⊃ D(H) ⊇ H.
Twinning by metric merohedry can be seen as the degeneration of twinning by reticular merohedry to twin index 1, or of twinning by pseudomerohedry to twin obliquity zero.
A monoclinic crystal of point group H = 2 with angle β = 90º has an orthorhombic lattice. It may undergo two types of twinning by merohedry:
- if the twin operation belongs to the monoclinic holohedry D(H) = 2/m, twinning is the classical twinning by merohedry, also termed twinning by syngonic merohedry;
- if the twin operation belongs to the orthorhombic holohedry D(L) = mmm, twinning is by metric merohedry.
Historical note
Friedel (1904, p. 143; 1926, pp. 56-57) called metric merohedry mériédrie d'ordre supérieur (higher order merohedry) but stated that it was either unlikely or equivalent to a pseudo-merohedry of low obliquity. Nowadays several examples of true metric merohedry (within experimental uncertainty) are known.
- Friedel, G. (1904). Étude sur les groupements cristallins. Extrait du Bulletin de la Société de l'Industrie minérale, Quatrième série, Tomes III et IV. Saint-Étienne, Société de l'imprimerie Théolier J. Thomas et C., 485 pp.
- Friedel, G. (1926). Leçons de Cristallographie. Berger-Levrault, Nancy, Paris, Strasbourg, XIX+602 pp.


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I have never owned my own hot tub. This does not mean that I have not spent many hours in hot tubs before! Although I might be considered a 'novice' when it comes to hot tubs, to be honest, I don't really care about the ownership, but one-hundred percent of the purpose it serves.
For me, a hot tub is just the most amazing place to be in. As you start up those engines and get a full-force stream of hot water flowing, not many things come close enough to the feeling of total surrender. The feeling enforced into your muscles of total loss of control and the will to resist the force of the water. The most relaxing way in which I would love to be treated constantly! The applied heat to the body allows the blood to flow, it improves blood circulation and blood flow and allows for a very relaxing activity. It is even evidently releasing tension in the body and muscles and therefore a very healthy way to release stress!
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A hot tub is normally larger than a normal bath. The most popular size fits four people, but there are a bit smaller and larger hot tubs as well. Hot tubs normally have jets that provide different strengths of hot air or water flowing into the hot tub, creating bubbles and a very relaxing effect. Hot tubs, also called spas or Jacuzzi's, are generally more expensive and different sizes and trademarks will be in different price ranges.
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The setting of this hot tub made it perfect (or it could backfire!)!
I've once been in a log cabin deep in the Knysna woods in the Southern Cape, South Africa, where a hot tub was installed outside the cabin between the 20-meter plus trees in the middle of almost nowhere as the only means of bathroom facility. As the cabin was built in an isolated area in the woods and privacy is guaranteed, it was not really too big a risk to take a bath out in the open. It was however partly enclosed with tightly planted wooden logs about two-thirds of the tub with an open one-third overlooking the neighboring gorges of green fields on the one side of the wood.
On a good weather day, you could sit in the hot tub with many birds singing in the background, trying to convince you to stay there forever. You could see for kilometers on end without being able to take in everything you see.
Another hot tub I've visited was a very small three-seater of a friend who lived in an apartment on the 7th floor which he installed on his 4m x 3m balcony – overlooking the neighboring apartment block's parking area. This was really not the most romantic and practical setting for a hot tub for the purpose of relaxation and to create a serenity experience.
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If you're playing someone much higher rated than you, or much lower rated than you, do you change your style of play? And should you? I have to admit, that my policy has been to play more solidly against lower rated players, while trying to mix things tactically against higher rated players. As a result I usually grind down players much lower rated than me, although I do sometimes end up drawing (or even losing the odd game), and against higher rated players I sometimes have big wins but not that often. So is this general plan desirable or should I be playing true to myself each game irrespective of my opposition?
So far in the Monday night tournament at the MCC, I have played 2 games against players quite a bit lower rated than myself. In both games I followed a similar pattern. I sought as much space as I could get, tried to consolidate my gains and then brought my pieces to their most effective positions behind my pawn cover before breaking through. My opponents both defended quite passively and allowed me the time to fulfil my goals. Against Bill Reid last week, I questioned my calculation skill in the following position:
My trouble in these lines was seeing opportunities for my opponent, and alternatives (especially non forcing moves) in variations. In my game last night against Tanya Kolak, I worked hard on these aspects and was pretty happy with the way I was thinking. I noticed once again that I looked for forcing lines at one point, ignoring another possibility, though it may have another cause other than calculation problems. I reached the following position for black.
So why didn't I choose such an obviously good looking move? I think the reason is one of familiarity. I have played pawn advances such as 11..d4 often and I'm usually comfortable with an opening of the centre. In the above position, I judged that my better development would put me in good stead if lines opened. Partially closing the centre with 11..e4 is something that I tend to do rarely in my games, and I tend to feel less comfortable in positions with a closed centre. Looking at more positions like those above and comparing them can only help a player to understand the game better, and perhaps the style that suits his natural game the most.


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Fr Prakash Anthony Lohale op had the opportunity to interview Guido Van Damme on his biography of Fr Pire op, Nobel Peace Prize. Fr Prakash is the immediate past Socius for Apostolic Life, who served from 2008 to 2014. He is from the Province of India. In honour of his predecessor, Fr Chrys, he coedited a book titled The Dominican Family in Dialogue as Mission: Remembering Chrys McVey, OP, a memorial collection of some of the insightful and challenging thoughts of fr Chrys McVey.
This interview took place in Rome, September 2008. The occasion was the publication of a biography of Father Dominique Pire OP by Guido van Damme.
Prakash: First of all, could you say something about yourself?
Guido: I worked as a journalist for 45 years in Belgium and I am also a writer. Although I have known the Dominicans since I was a boy, I joined the Dominican Order as a professed lay Dominican in 2004. I was elected in November of last year on the Council of Lay Dominican Fraternities for the French-speaking South Belgium Vicariate, where I am in charge of formation.
Prakash: How long have you known Father Pire?
Guido: Father Pire was twenty years older than me. I met him at the end of my secondary school education, just after the war. I was with him the night when he attended a conference in Brussels by an American officer just back from Germany, who described the situation in refugee camps. 'Boy', he said to me, 'don't forget this, I'll make this the great adventure of my life'. He did, and it was the start of the work that led him to be awarded the Peace Nobel Prize some ten years later. When I worked as a journalist in Antwerp, I also accompanied him for a couple of years to Germany to visit refugee camps and report on his work. And I always kept in touch after that. All in all, I knew him for the last twenty years of his life. He died young, at the age of 59.
Prakash: Was it while he worked with refugees that he had the idea of establishing European villages of peace?
Guido: Yes, at first, he set up sponsorships between refugees and local people from his home town of Huy, but he soon realized it was very difficult to implement. There were too many people in need, speaking too many different languages. So he said: 'I must try another way'. Then he brought these refugees over from Germany to live in villages, which he had set up. He created five villages altogether. Afterwards, he built the Islands of Peace, to help people who had nothing in developing countries. The idea was, 'If I give you a fish, you will eat tonight; but if I teach you how to fish, you will eat for life.' At the time, it was a novel idea. The first Island of Peace was in Gohira, in Bangladesh. A journalist once asked him: 'How do you manage to do it all — your camps, your villages, your islands of peace?' He replied: 'I carry them all every morning in my prayer.' Father Pire was an action man but also a highly spiritual man.
Prakash: What inspired you about him?
Guido: What I loved about him was his fragility and at the same time his strength, the depth of his faith. He was always afraid of doing something wrong, but at the same time he had total confidence in God and the Virgin Mary, he gave his projects a 100% and that's how he got results. He was no superman, but he taught me that you don't have to be exceptional to do great things, you must just get started and put total trust in God and then you can do exceptional things.
Prakash: What inspired you to write a book about his life?
Guido: During my formation as a lay Dominican, I wrote a ten-page paper on Father Pire and this was put on the Dominican University Domuni website. Then at the beginning of this year, a Japanese nun, who belonged to the Order of Poor Clares, wrote to a Jesuit publisher in Belgium, asking him whether he planned to publish a book on Father Pire on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his receiving the Peace Nobel Prize. Keïko did her religious studies in Belgium and when she took the veil at the age of 18, it was Father Pire who said Mass and preached. Keïko attached the text of Father Pire's homily, which she had kept for all those years. The Jesuit publisher found my paper on the Internet and contacted me at the end of January, saying: 'We want a book in the same vein as what you have already written'. Father Pire's homily is now included in the book.
Prakash: Did the Dominicans encourage you when you were writing the book?
Guido: Well, the publisher organized lots of contacts with people who knew him and worked for him. I already knew some of these people, especially in his home town of Huy, where several of them became lay Dominicans. I had access to Father Pire's archives and other documents provided by the group of ladies who worked with him in Huy.
Prakash: If I am right, Father Pire was awarded the Peace Nobel Prize for the work he did after World War II for refugees. And it's only after receiving the Prize that he started his University of Peace and his project of Islands of Peace. Was the idea of setting up a University of Peace and Islands of Peace already in his mind before he was awarded the Nobel Prize?
Guido: No, I don't think so. It was after he received the Peace Nobel Prize that he met a lot of people in high places: the United Nations Secretary U Thant, the famous physicist Professor Oppenheimer, Doctor Albert Schweitzer in Africa, and so on, and the idea of peace completely mobilized him. It was also when setting up his University of Peace that he established an in-depth dialogue with freemasons. One of them, a university professor, Raymond Vander Elst, collaborated with him at the University of Peace in Huy. In this respect, Father Pire was a man of the third millennium, a prophet. He supported the Second Vatican Council but thought the Church could go even further in the field of dialogue.
Prakash: I would like to go back to the Islands of Peace, which is a project I find particularly interesting. On what principles were they built? Do they still exist?
Guido: The idea was to give temporary aid, usually for about five years, to an underprivileged village, like Kalakad in India, to get people to organize themselves as a development cooperative, create structures for development – analyzing the local market, teaching and implementing modern agricultural practices, etc. A Belgian or French expert came to work with local people and helped them to help themselves. In this respect, Father Pire was ahead of his time.
Nowadays, the Islands of Peace association, working with some 500 voluntary workers, still exists in Belgium and runs projects in places like Ecuador, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea-Bissau, Bolivia and Peru. When Father Pire was awarded the Peace Nobel Prize, he became acutely aware of the problems and poverty in third world countries and decided to take action. Indira Gandhi, for example, advised him on what he could do to help.
Prakash: Was Father Pire only focused on economic aspects?
Guido: Yes, totally. He never tried to make anyone a Christian. When he was working with refugees, a Dominican friar asked him: 'How many people did you convert?' 'None'. 'But then, what's the point?' At the time, this type of reaction was common, but Father Pire was different. Nowadays, all those involved in development aid work on the same principles as him.
Prakash: For us, young Dominicans, how can we translate the idea of the Islands of Peace in today's context?
Guido: Well, his method is important. He heard of a need, for example the refugees stuck in camps after the war, and he spent hours trying to find out exactly how they lived and what they wanted, analyzing the actual situation, then he devised a plan and took action.
Prakash: What do you think his message would be to the Dominican Family today?
Guido: I think his message for us would be to realize that the world is like a big village – again a very contemporary idea – and be aware of people's suffering. If you see your brothers suffering in Indonesia, for example, you mustn't close your eyes and your ears, you must take action, live in solidarity, build something together.
Prakash: What can you say to encourage people to read your book?
Guido: Well, my work was to assemble existing information, so the book is focused on testimonies, letters, documents and quotations from Father Pire. I hope the book can be translated into other languages, especially English and Spanish, so that his work can be better known. I thank the Lord to have known him and I hope lots of people will be inspired by his life.
Prakash: Thank you.
Guido van Damme, Le Père Pire, Prix Nobel de la Paix, 1958, Ed. Fidélité & Racine, Belgium, September 2008, €19.95.
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