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Remember how I took ten-year anniversary pictures for this family? Well, what you didn't see from that shoot was this picture:
That's right! Kelly and Kevin were pregnant! With twin girls! I'll be blogging their newborn session soon, but first let's check out their maternity and family photos from this fall. Kelly wanted to have a session at a Christmas tree farm during Thanksgiving weekend and, since we live in the Christmas Tree Capital of the World, we were able to find a farm kind enough to allow us to run around all over and take pictures (and the Schiedlers got their tree there too!).
The kids were funny and kept running around trying to find the perfect tree. It was adorable. In the meantime, we were able to snag some sweet pictures to document this family of five.
Kelly is one of the cutest pregnant people and her belly was the perfect size — I'm still amazed there were two little girls in there!
I've loved, loved getting to document all of the important memories and milestones for the Schiedlers and I'm so excited to get to introduce their new baby girls soon!


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So, off we went over the bridge, heading east into town. According to the radio reports we were 18 – 15,000 strong. For the first time, Inverness felt like a city. Quality show with quality equipment.
The monsters from the bridge had disappeared by the time we made it onto Bridge St., but there was a scary looking band playing on the steps of a shop, it sounded like djembés drumming a complex rhythm. When we got up to the High St. a group of monsters, which looked like a cross between afghan hounds and giraffes, came among us. Some more velociraptor types were hanging about, but they looked more menacing.
We carried on up to the Eastgate where there was a group of human insectoids with banjos, drum and tuba (!) playing a tribute to the late, great James Brown – I felt good! Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo! The audience sung better than the band, but hey, it was a street party and the band were giving us what we wanted!
Down Innes Street towards Falcon Square and the streets were getting busier. A head-on encounter with the flock of velociraptors was just a bit scary, but they seemed to reckon we were beneath their dignity. We came onto the square which was already packed. There were thousands all round us. We met some old friends, wished each other a happy (auld) New Year and had a bit craic,. The traditional Scottish dram happened to be to hand, but no-one was the worse for wear and the atmosphere was good.
In the square there hung an enormous crane boom, reaching over the Pizza Express building. Some kind of rope web was suspended from it and it, in turn, held a frame of some kind with interlocked loops. It was unfathomable from where I was. In the rope rigging hung a big bell and a trapeze artist's swing where a man wearing a kilt was perched. From our angle, even early on, it was easy to see he had decided not to go "commando". There were eight wee stages in a circle round this contraption. This was our first sight of Transe Expresse, the main act of the Monster street-party, the aerial ballet from Marseille (google them).
All the wee stages were kitted with half a dozen burners each, which were blazing away and were kept topped up by a member of the troupe's ground crew. Eight characters who turned out to be musicians took turns on each podium, changing over when the kiltie rang the big bell. They were dressed in predominantly white outfits which looked like 17/18th century commedia costumes. All were different and distinct, but naturally my favourite was the woman who kept doing a sort of can-can move with her skirts as they all attempted to get some audience reaction. The piece was called "Maudits Sonnants" or Damned Ringers I suppose, but I didn't know quite what to make of it. No way was I moving though, before the show really got going and the same was true of the rest of the huge crowd. The weather was with them and despite the invitation of one performer to go home the crowd was transfixed.
The crane eventually started to lift the rigging up on another bell signal and the ropes took a bell-shaped look. The loops were evenly spaced like eight folde-up petals. Then, suddenly, the eight who had been noising us up and entertaining us were part of the lifting object along with the kiltie. Three trapeze artists were in the middle, almost invisibly shrouded in black cloaks. The whole thing rose into the air as the performers played on bells and drums, while (hopefully) strapped to the frame. The music had an ethereal, wintry feel to it, not quite sleigh bells, but more like one of the clockwork automata of yesteryear. It was stunning, circling, rising, lit by white and blue lights and right in the heart of Inverness. I've never seen anything like it. Someone said it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it's true. If I see them again I'll have a frame of reference.
The trapeze artists joined in, discarding their cloaks and moving like automata themselves for a while. Then the petals unfolded and the musicians rose above the trapeze artists as the frame reshaped itself to leave a bigger space for the trapeze artists. Each then took a solo turn to perform some excitingly dangerous and awe-inspiring moves. The whole thing spun in the air, clockwise, anticlockwise and swayed like the bell itself which punctuated the whole performance. There was an obvious Hunchback of Notre Dame reference and some kind of clockwork, technology, almost science-fictional dystopic doomwatch. The whole thing, though was beautiful, despite kiltie's very necessary football shorts. He raised the tempo to a climax of bells, a veritable carillon while the ground crew lit a fire or flare, I couldn't clearly see which, down below, then the whole structure seemed to wobble wildly and quickly descended to ground amid the crowd's applause and bravos. Every bit of the crowd's response was deserved by the twelve who braved the elements of a Scottish winter.
All the while the only scorning voice was a drunk who said it was, "Bloody Jingle Bells again," but he was probably just anticipating his hangover.
Fan-flippin-tastic! I'll try to be more tolerant of the Cathedral bellringers in future.
Back home for a warming dram, but stopped off at the West End Chippie. There were four people in the shop in front of us and maybe another ten came in behind. The woman in charge said we'd have to wait half an hour for chips so we just left. Seemed a bit lacking in foresight and enterprise, but maybe they'd been cleaned out by the velociraptors just before we got there.
Didn't spoil an extraordinary evening.

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Lake Okeechobee discharges to St. Lucie River resume Monday despite algae, Brian Mast plea
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson discusses toxic discharges in local waterways, and ways to stop them, Thursday, July 5, 2018, at Stuart City Hall downtown. Treasure Coast Newspapers
Despite a massive algae bloom in Lake Okeechobee and a request by U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, the Army Corps of Engineers will restart discharges to the St. Lucie River on Monday as scheduled.
In a July 5 letter to Col. Jason A. Kirk, the Corps' commander for Florida, Mast noted an algae bloom with low levels of toxins covers almost all of Lake O, and sending algae-laden water to the St. Lucie estuary would "present a more imminent and dangerous threat to public health and safety than anything else."
The statement echoes the Corps' oft-repeated statement that the discharges are necessary to protect the health and safety of the people living around the lake.
The Corps stuck to the position Friday.
More: Brian Mast's office premieres 'Tortured Coast' documentary on Lake Okeechobee discharges
More: Brian Mast to Army Corps: Come swim in St. Lucie River's toxic algae from lake discharges
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Heavy consequences
"The possible health and safety consequences of not discharging water from the lake far outweigh the present consequences of resuming the discharges," Corps spokesman John Campbell said Friday. "If the dike breaches, the potential for loss of life is much, much greater."
On Friday, Lake O's elevation stood at 14 feet, 3⅞ inches — about 10 inches higher than the lake's average elevation for the date.
"Lake levels have risen over the past few days," Campbell said, "and it's my understanding that it's been raining pretty much every day north of the lake, like you'd expect this time of year. So we'll restart the discharges as planned on Monday."
More: River Kidz, Rep. Brian Mast urge Congress to stop Lake Okeechobee discharges
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Once the discharges resume, water will be released in "pulses," heavy flows at the start of the week that taper off to zero flow for a day or two. The pulses mimic the natural water flow after heavy rains and are designed to help tides flush the discharged lake water out of the estuary and maintain salinity levels.
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Mast called for the discharges to stop until the Corps can "prove definitively that the toxins no longer exist or a greater imminent threat emerges."
After a meeting Thursday with public officials and environmentalists, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson told TCPalm the Corps should not discharge lake water unless nearby communities are in danger of flooding.
"We can't keep doing the discharges if the lives of people aren't being threatened around the lake," Nelson said.
More:Lake O discharges, toxic algae blooms bring Sen. Bill Nelson to Stuart
The Corps began discharging Lake O water to the St. Lucie on June 1 after a historically rainy May raised the lake level dramatically. Discharges east were suspended June 28.
Since the discharges began, about 25.5 billion gallons of lake water has entered the St. Lucie River.
More toxins
Most recently, water samples taken July 2 showed low levels of the toxin microcystin in blooms at:
- Lake O's eastern shore
- Central Marine on the north side of the St. Lucie River in Stuart
- Bessey Creek on the North Fork of the river at Palm City
- Frazier and Poppleton creeks on the South Fork in Stuart
All the toxin levels were well below the 10 parts per billion the World Health Organization considers hazardous to health through recreational contact.
The highest levels were 1.9 parts per billion at Lake O and Central Marine.
More:Algae blooms' long-term health effects need study, says hospital CEO
Microcystin, a common toxin produced by blue-green algae, can cause nausea and vomiting if ingested and rash or hay fever symptoms if touched or inhaled. Drinking water with the toxins can cause long-term liver disease.
During the massive 2016 algae bloom, local emergency rooms saw an increase in cases of nausea, vomiting, skin rashes, coughing, shortness of breath and achy limbs and joints probably related to the algae's toxins, Martin Health System President and CEO Rob L. Lord Jr. told Nelson at a forum Thursday in Stuart.
In the summer of 2016, discharges from Lake Okeechobee caused widespread toxic algae blooms in the St. Lucie River.


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DAVAO CITY (Mabuhay) : A member of the Rural Missionaries of The Philippines, Resita Miles, is now missing, and an internationally known physicist, Kim Gargar, is in prison, after being arrested and charged with illegal possession of firearms, attempted murder, illegal possession of explosives and violation of the election gun ban on the afternoon of October 1.
The whereabouts of Miles is unknown. The Rural Missionaries is an organisation set up by the Association of Major Superiors of the Catholic Church in The Philippines to be in solidarity with the rural poor.
Gargar is being held in the provincial jail. When he was met by a representative of the human rights group, Karapatan, his first request was for writing paper, as he said that his notes were missing from his personal belongings, an indication that someone wanted them destroyed.
Gargar has been working on a reforestation programme aimed at repairing the damage caused by the typhoon. His study is a direct threat to logging and mining interests.
The unanswered question is why such a brilliant a man, so intent on preserving nature would be bothered with guns and explosives or involving himself in a partisan struggle of little consequence to the work he has devoted himself to.
The likely answer to the quandary is that the findings of his research will undoubtedly reveal the full extent of the damage to the environment currently being done by illegal logging and what will be the consequence of proposed mining projects in Compestela Valley.
Gargar has taught physics in four universities in The Philippines, from the University of The Philippines in Quezon City to the Mindanao Polytechnic State University. He has also been accepted to do a doctorate by the Rijksuniversiteit University in the Netherlands.
He has been preparing for his doctorate since 2009 by analysing a mathematical model of the mammalian circadian pacemaker, or the manner in which the natural rhythms of nature; tidal, daily and seasonal; adjust themselves to the constraints of and changes in their environment—information vital to care and management of rainforests.
Powerful interests would be interested in having him discredited and removed from the scene.
Gargar said that he and Miles were caught in the crossfire during a scrap between government forces and members of the New People's Army (NPA) in Cateel, Davao Oriental, at around 2.00am.
They became separated when they tried to flee.
Gargar was found around 2.30pm with a wound to his head, which later required five stitches, and a badly injured foot.
He told MindaNews that he had fallen into a crevice when he was running away from the gunfire in the dark of the night, injuring his head and foot badly.
He also claims that contrary to a press release from the Eastern Mindanao Command that he was awake when he was found near a small waterfall some 12 hours later by the military with a K-9 dog.
The military is claiming that he was found unconscious clutching a rifle just 200 metres from the site of the clash between the military and the NPA.
"I ran out of fear and in my haste I fell out of fear," Gargar told MindaNews.
"I fell, that's why I got these," he said, pointing to his wounded head and foot.
He said that in the dark he fell into a crevice and was unable to get out. He dried his clothes and ate some of the food that he had brought with him for a research trip he was making on reestablishing rainforests in areas that had been destroyed by Typhoon Pablo in December 2012.
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A colonel, Benjamin Madrigal, from the 701st Infantry Brigade, told MindaNews that Gargar had been intercepted near the site of the clash, immediately given first aid and then turned over to the police.
The Eastern Mindanao Command says that Gargar was captured by troops pursuing the rebels after a firefight in Aliwagwag.
It adds that he was carrying an assortment of wires, impoverished explosive devices, assorted ammunition, one M-16 rifle, but no ammunition, eight pieces of blasting cap, personal belongings, a medical kit, a handheld radio and a transistor radio.
Gargar told MindaNews that when the soldiers first came he did not say much as he did not want to antagonise them. "They simply heard what they wanted to hear," he explained.
He had intended to continue his research in the area until December.
He was also involved in April this year in a 69-member fact-finding team that documented the March 4 murder of a village councillor from Baganga Village.


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Moroccan Preserved Lemons
Although it's possible to buy citrons confits at Arab markets here in Paris, making Moroccan Preserved Lemons couldn't be easier and they taste far fresher than anything you can buy. I insist on foraging through the mounds of lemons at my market in pursuit of the smallest citrus possible (which I don't recommend doing here, by the way, unless you know the vendor pretty well.)
But you may be lucky to have a friend with a lemon tree and they're probably more than happy to let you take a few off their hands… although none of my friends in Paris seem to have lemon trees growing in their apartments, unfortunately. And if you live where Improved Meyer Lemons are available, by all means feel free to use them instead of the more common Eureka lemons.
I like to finely dice preserved lemons and mix them with sautéed vegetables, such as green beans, fava beans, or to elevate lowly rounds of carrots into something interesting and exotic, perhaps tossing in a few cumin seeds as well. They're also good mashed into butter with some fresh herbs, then smeared on top of grilled fish or a nice hunk of caramelized roasted winter squash. And I've been known to sneak some into a batch of tapenade, as well as adding some finely-chopped little pieces to a batch of lemon ice cream too!
In addition to their ability to multi-task, there's something comfortable and nice about having a jar of vivid lemons on the kitchen counter to keep tabs on their progess every morning, like a flowering Amaryllis bulb or a family of Sea Monkeys coming to life. I'm keeping a vigilant eye on my lemons daily, noticing how much juice they're giving off, how soft they're getting, and enjoying how they gently deflate and nestle themselves against each other as they settle nicely into the corners of my vintage glass canning jar (which I barely rescued from the clutches of some madame at a flea market last summer.)
For the big Christmas party his year, I made one of my favorite recipes, Israeli Couscous With Roasted Butternut Squash and Preserved Lemon to go with the Lamb Tagine that I cooked the day before…which made entertaining 15 ravenous Parisians a breeze. And speaking of braised meats or tagines, you can add thin strips of preserved lemons to any braising liquid during the last few minutes of cooking, which adds a nice little bit of bright, lemony flavor to whatever you're cooking. But do take care when adding them to a recipe; hold back on adding salt since the lemons will certainly add quite a bit more salty flavor than you think.
Always use organic or unsprayed lemons, since you're going to be eating the exterior (and I don't want to lose any of my readers prematurely.) I generally do 8-10 lemons at a time, but be sure to buy a few extra lemons for juicing a couple of days later, in case you need to add additional liquid to keep the lemons in the jar submerged while they 'do their thing'. And never use ordinary table salt, which has a harsh, chemical taste. (Check the ingredients to make sure your salt is pure.) As always, I recommend sea salt or kosher salt.
To use: Remove lemons from the liquid and rinse. Split in half and scrape out the pulp. Slice the lemon peels into thin strips or cut into small dices. You may wish to press the pulp through a sieve to obtain the tasty juice, which can be used for flavoring as well, then discard the innards.
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I love love love LOVE love LOVE love love preserved lemons. Did I mention how much I love them?
Plus that silky, smooth liquid is fantastic in bloody marys. Or so I've heard :)
I started doing these from Paula Wolfert's Moroccan cookbook about 15 years ago, and they work! (I shouldn't have been so surprised) Pickled lemons are a decent substitute for achar, too. My latest jar is 8 years old (I was undecided) and I finally started using it this year for a knockout red lentil dal. The lemons were fine. The only thing I'd add is never fish the lemons out with fingers–only a very clean fork. If you add extra lemon juice and salt and a little olive oil to the top of the jar when you first put them in and get out any air bubbles, you don't have to reopen it and mess around, just set it upside down every other day or so that month (gotta trust your seals, though).
Preserved lemons are the best. I have a batch made with regular organic lemons that we've been using, and another batch with meyer lemons that's in the process of curing now. I'm really looking forward to comparing them once the meyers are ready to eat.
Matt: What's a Bloody Mary?
Sounds intriguing..
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Debbie: You're a better person that I, canning the lemons. Mine never last that long (8 years?!) I use my fingers although some people do say to sterilize the jar first, and use a fork. But I've been accused of being germ-phobic…
Danielle: Let us know how your Meyers turn out. Their thin skins leads me to think they might get a bit too soft, and their sweetness might make them lose some of their 'bite', so I'm interested in hearing back.
Kitty Morse, the Moroccan cookbook author uses them for hers, though, so I hope we'll be pleasantly surprised with your results.
I have, since 1976, used a Moroccan-Jewish recipe from Safi which calls for spices such as you have indicated. I dragged home a big glass jar of (unspiced) lemons from Tangier long ago. Not worth the the considerable effort. Mine have always tasted better but I was disappointed in my preserved Myer lemons. The skin was too thin, I felt. I have a tree laden with ripening Myer lemons but none will be preserved this year. Too scarce, too rare, too sweet a treat to be salted down and mercilessly mooshed into a Mason jar. I guess I take the garden-variety low road when it comes to preserving lemons.
How is it that the pan juices from a chicken roasted with preserved lemon are so very satin-y? Strangely wonderful chemistry at work there.
Happy New Year!
I bought a Moroccan cookbook several months ago and I've been thinking about trying the preserved lemons. I've never tasted one so I don't really know what I'm missing. But your post has definitely convinced me to try making some! Thanks!
david, thanks so much for this….my mouth was absolutely watering from your picture and recipe…can't wait to try it, although from the comment from robert above, i will not "waste" the meyer lemons that i have just scored, but use 'regular' ones…
now what might be the best use for the meyers? maybe some yummy lemon squares? any suggestions welcome :)
Oh, but I preserve Meyers, and still have some left from last winter. They're not at all mushy after almost a year in the fridge, and they're still utterly delicious. So just a voice of dissent here, for what it's worth.
Happy belated birthday, David.
Hi again David–I didn't can the lemons under heat or vacuum or anything, I'm not that good either. Don't know what the heat would do to them–probably spoil them faster by breaking the cells down without saturating the salt throughout. I did pour boiling water over the mason jar parts first–lab training or kibbutz kitchen mythology, who knows? (quick! boil the fingers!) Re previous posts, I hope you had a great birthday and have recovered from the chocolate-sated Kouign Amann I picture as your ideal cake (ok, so that's nightmarish or sacrilegious or something).
It's great you remind me of these… the lemons on my roman garden are almost ready so…we'll have some great tagine around next year for sure! :-)
Auguri & Buon Anno!
I'm inspired to make preserved lemons – I can/pickle/freeze lots of foods but have never tried these. I love lemon in almost everything (not chocolate).
Quick and painless way to sterilize jars is to wash them, then put them in a 125C (250F) oven for 10 minutes. They are easier to handle if not dripping with boiling water.
Happy New Year~!
*shuffles off to buy a jar and a few more lemons*
Despite my love of preserved lemons, I've never yet made my own. So I guess I do have *another* resolution to add to the list — yes, I'm actually making resolutions this year. But I have reason to do so — not sanity, but reason. Happy belated birthday, and wishes for all things good in the new year…
You know, ever since I read this post I've been having a jones for lemon this and lemon that (to paraphrase my favorite musician, Boz Scaggs.) Guess I'll have to go make something lemony, if not preserved lemons. Thanks, David.
(Katie, chocolate and lemon – is that a challenge?)
Oh my… I was recently gifted with a jar of preserved lemons, and I've been holding off on using them, I'm afraid to waste a precious bite. It never occurred to me to try making my own. Thanks for sharing!
David… lemons are much better than sea monkeys!
Although I have never tasted a sea monkey….
I learned to do mine in slices, from a Moroccan girl nearby where I am in Tuscany, she also mentioned that her mom sometimes freezes the lemons to speed them along.
I use extra virgin olive oil to cover the top too, and preserve them even just a little more!
I don't throw away the lemon part, but also use it in my dishes.
It does give a real WOW to anything it is served with.
I've always wanted the recipe for this! Thanks.
I've usually make preserved lemons with Meyer lemons and have not found them to be too mushy at all. They're very simple to make and I use Kosher salt-never tried sea salt though. I use them in salad dressings, aioli, and tapenade. For New Year's dinner I made a relish with currants, pine nuts, pomegranate seeds, onions, balsamic vinegar and preserved lemons and served it with grilled marinated quail–yummy — served over a bed of arugula with pomegranate molasses dressing (recipe modified from Sunday Suppers at Lucques by Suzanne Goin). Have a great New Years David and
thanks for your suggestions for chocolate places in Bayonne-also found some magnificent pates de fruits and Gateau Basque there.
David, you DO have a friend in Paris who has a fruit-bearing lemon tree in her apartment: me! Unfortunately, though, it's a small tree and the output is not enough for both of us. I'll share my preserved lemons with you the next time you are over, though, as you so kindly shared the recipe!!
Happy birthday!
I am definitely going to try this…my mouth is watering already. Bit of a Lemon Virgin though – I have no idea what a Meyer is and how it differs from a Eureka (whatever that is)
i made some preserved lemons at the end of last year when a friend offered a few branches full of lemons. i recently used some in a chicken, olive and preserved lemon tagine – yummmm!
thanks for ideas on how else i can use them.
It is so wonderful to see experienced chefs with some clout publish basics with which people can make ingredients. In the flurry of gussied up recipes and exquisite photography, it sometimes is forgotten that the bechamel must be conquered before the "Citrus and liver with ginger slices and chocolate nibs soufflé" is attempted.
Preserved lemons can open doors to worlds not previously dreamed. Good on you, David!
(I shall wait for the imminent arrival of Sorrento lemons with no crap on the skin!)


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Mental Health Crisis on CSU Campuses: Bill moves to Assembly
- Few of the 23 CSU campuses meet the mental health counseling safe-staffing ratio, dangerously failing students
- SB 968 would require at least one full-time mental health counselor for every 1,500 students
- At State Assembly hearing, CSU Mental Health Counselors will speak in support of SB 968 (Pan) to address long-simmering crisis in student access to mental health help on CSU campuses.
WHO: Testimony will include comments from:
- Mimi Bommersbach, Chico State counselor and chair of California Faculty Association Counselors Committee
- Susan Chen, San Francisco State counselor
- State Senator Dr. Richard Pan
(News please note: Counselors who attend the hearing in Sacramento will be available afterwards for comment. Please contact Niesha Fritz 916-281-8785 to schedule an interview.)
WHAT: A State Assembly Education Committee hearing will take up Senate Bill 968, introduced by State Senator and Dr. Richard Pan, who is a pediatrician, and sponsored by CFA and SEIU.
WHEN/WHERE: June 19, 2018, 1:30 pm, Room 437
BACKGROUND: SB 968: 'Post-secondary Mental Health Counselors' would help address the critical shortage of mental health counselors on the 23 California State University campuses that is impeding student access to needed help.
It passed the floor of the California State Senate on May 30 by a unanimous vote of 35-0. Now it is being considered by the California State Assembly.
"With data showing that 64 percent of those who drop out of college attribute it to mental illness and the number of students reporting depression and anxiety on the rise, we must do more meet the growing demand for student mental health services," said Dr. Richard Pan. "Mental health services are woefully inadequate on our college campuses and SB 968 will give students the support they need to be successful in college and their career path."
The law would require CSU management to ensure there is at least one full-time-equivalent mental health counselor for every 1,500 students on a CSU campus, which is the minimum industry standard. Yet, few of the CSU's 23 campuses meet this standard ratio.
This is a crisis for California students at a time when anxiety among students is rising due to concerns over student debt and cost of living. The CSU's own data shows about 10% of students are homeless and a large number of CSU students are self-supporting and/or supporting their families. The suicide of a CSU Chico student in March highlights the importance of getting students into consistent care.
To make matters worse, as long-time counselors retire or leave the CSU, management is replacing them with counselors hired on a temporary basis, and sometimes part-time, making it nearly impossible for students to see the same counselor over the years they are CSU students.
"Worried, working, homeless and hungry students need emotional support if there is to be any hope that they will complete their degrees and contribute to California's economy," said counselor Mimi Bommersbach who chairs CFA's Counselors Committee. "Yet, the CSU campus counseling centers have long waiting lists for students to see counselors."
She said, "The centers must triage students, leaving many hanging. This is a very serious problem and we commend Senator Pan for drawing attention to the issue and, better yet, for proposing a common-sense solution that the Legislature should fully support."
SB 968 would require the CSU to report to the legislature by 2020 on its progress implementing the staffing. It calls for an update from the CSU every three years, and urges the UC administration to adopt the same policies.
Learn more about SB 968 here.
See a Time magazine report on the crisis in mental health care on college campuses nationwide here.
For more information and to schedule interviews with CSU faculty members, please contact Alice Sunshine at 510-384-1967 or Niesha Fritz at 916-281-8785.
ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA FACULTY ASSOCIATION: CFA represents more than 28,000 tenure-line instructional faculty, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches on the 23 campuses of the California State University system, from Humboldt State in the north, to San Diego State in the south. Learn more about CFA at calfac.org and visit our Facebook page.


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By Staff Writer
Recognizing that God had work for him to complete in this vineyard, God's still small voice beckoned Pastor Victor T. Curry to begin a new ministry, 'New Birth'. On June 2, 1991 in his living room, Pastor Curry shared the vision with 17 individuals identified as the founding members. The following night a subsequent meeting occurred and was so fruitful that an open organizational meeting was held June 9, 1991, at Florida Memorial College with approximately 200 interested parishioners in attendance. The New Birth Ministry venture began with its first worship service at 10 a.m. on June 16, 1991 in the auditorium of the historic Northwestern Senior High School located in Liberty City. Jesse Jackson, first African American candidate for Democratic presidential nomination 1984 and 1988.


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Quantas Grounds its A380s
Airbus touts the A380 as the plane of the future. In this News Corp. video you can see the first Qantas airbus A380 touch down in Sydney, October 2008:
Quantas is quite proud of its safety record. What other major airline can brag of never having lost a jetplane? Keen on keeping that reputation, Quantas grounded its A380s after the emergency landing of its "scrabus" flight QF32.
According to News.Com.Au "Qantas made it clear it will keep its six superjumbos grounded indefinitely and has rearranged flight schedules using substitute aircraft.
"'The specific checks mandated by the directive were already being carried out by Qantas in conjunction with Rolls-Royce,' it said.
"'Qantas's A380 aircraft will not return to service until there is complete certainty that the fleet can operate safely.'"
Thus the planes of the future is having problems in the present.
News on Airbus's big one, the A380, first. Singapore Airlines found oil leaking from its Rolls Royce engines (courtesy of News Australia):
And yet more on SKYNews:
The Fallout for RollsRoyce:
In the Financial Times, Pilita Clark, its Aerospace Correspondent, reports "Rolls-Royce is preparing to cannibalise several half-built A380 superjumbos on production lines to obtain more than a dozen new engines to help its stricken airline customers such as Qantas.
"The engine maker has taken the rare step of negotiating with Airbus, the A380's manufacturer, about raiding engines from three or four superjumbos due to be delivered next year from its Toulouse and Hamburg assembly plants, according to people familiar with the situation."


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Issues In Science And Expertise
The Area of Science and Know-how encompasses research and academic actions in the areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, informatics, earth sciences and associated interdisciplinary topics. (2)The Science Analysis Council shall pay to the United Kingdom Atomic Power Authority in respect of any funds falling to be made by the Authority by advantage of sub-paragraph (1) above, or in respect of the accruing legal responsibility for any such payments, such sums as may be agreed between the Council and the Authority or as, in default of settlement between them, may be determined by the Treasury.
Setting up efficient services to formulate and enforce requirements and undertake high quality control testing and evaluation of industrial products; developing acceptable training which imparts practical skills and utility of knowledge to develop prototype, products and processes in altering surroundings of market expertise; establishing a comprehensive knowledge financial institution which is well accessible at strategic areas by scientific, management and industrial users; and providing incentives and high focused promotions on the importance of science and know-how to economic development in the important thing sectors.
(iii) Establish autonomous Know-how Business Centre below the auspices of the Science and Technology Council for entrepreneurship growth and offer alternatives for laboratories and universities to sell science and technology outcomes that are not being realized as a result of the researchers and designers usually are not conscious of particular industrial needs.
We even have key research services, together with the Utilized Environmental Analysis Laboratory , the Centre for Shellfish Analysis , the VIU Forest, the International Centre for Sturgeon Research , and the Deep Bay Marine Discipline Station In every program, students are engaged in real-world" experiences via quite a lot of tasks and analysis.
The transformation of Zambia's financial policy framework, in 1992 from a Central State managed to a free market and liberalized financial system, with better emphasis on personal sector participation in the financial system, introduced some helpful leads to some sectors of financial system and some destructive results in other sectors, such as manufacturing trade, which faced stiff competition from imported items and services.


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N.H. birther bill defanged
New Hampshire isn't a particular hotbed of political conspiracy, and even their birth certificate bill seems to have been defanged, DiStaso reports:
The chairman of the New Hampshire House Election Law Committee says an updated amendment that would require presidential candidates to present their birth certificates when filing to run for President in New Hampshire would not take effect until January 2013 and so would have no effect on the 2012 New Hampshire primary.
The GOP leadership still doesn't like it, with state House leader D.J. Bettancourt saying it "could represent a threat to our first-in-the-nation primary as it gives other states reason and desire to try to jump us in line. We are working to discourage this amendment from moving forward and will oppose it should it reach the House floor."
Sponsors say it's not about Obama, but rather about some Egyptian guy who tried to run for president.


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I've had the darn migraine for almost two weeks in a row, but late last night it finally felt better. Woke up today without much of a headache, and I could finally spend some time in my sewing room. I was not alone, since the two furballs kept me company as always. Looks like the cats are more happy about spending time in the sewing room than me :oD
I have been practising some longarm machine quilting today, and I am soooo out of practise. Have a lot of catching up to do!!! But slowly I will get back on track again... I hope!
While Nano, the furball, had a nap on the practise piece (I would NEVER let her do that on a real quilt!!!!) I started cutting some fabrics for a quilt I've wanted to make for a while. I bought the book by Buggy Barn early in 2014, and the Star Band is the favorite in this book. I don't have any BB fabrics for this quilt, so I am using a lot of japanese fabrics from my stash. I guess I'll be stashbusting a lot while making this one!
I'm determined to not buy any fabrics unless I really need to this year. I guess the only ones I will need is backings for the finished quilts. I have too much fabrics, and I almost feel bad about having this much and not using it.... Anyone else feels the same?
I have at least three quilts I have planned to make, but will finish some of the ones I've already started between working on new projects. I still have some knitting projects to finish too, so I will do whatever works for me :o)
Wish you all a great new and creative week!


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Tempest (Bob Dylan album)
|Studio album by
|September 10, 2012
|January–March 2012 at Groove Masters Studios in Santa Monica, California
|Folk, folk rock
|Bob Dylan
|Bob Dylan chronology
|Singles from Tempest
Tempest is the 35th studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on September 10, 2012 by Columbia Records.[1][2] The album was recorded at Jackson Browne's Groove Masters Studios in Santa Monica, California. Dylan wrote all of the songs himself with the exception of the track "Duquesne Whistle", which he co-wrote with Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead.[3]
Tempest was released to acclaim from music critics, who praised its traditional music influences and Dylan's dark lyrics.[4] The album peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 200.
Rolling Stone reported that the fourteen-minute long title track "Tempest" is about the RMS Titanic and includes references to the James Cameron film Titanic (1997). Including the title track, the album features five songs over seven-minutes long.
The song "Roll on John" is a tribute to John Lennon and includes references to The Beatles' "Come Together" and "A Day in the Life."[5]
The album's title initially spurred rumors that it would be Dylan's final album, based on its similarity to the title of Shakespeare's final play. Dylan responded: "Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain "Tempest". The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles."[6]
The cover art for Tempest incorporates a dark red duotone photograph[7] of a statue located at the base of the Pallas-Athene Fountain in front of the Austrian Parliament Building in Vienna.[8][9] The statue is one of four figures on the intermediate platform of the fountain bowl personifying the main rivers of Austria-Hungary: the Danube, the Inn, the Elbe, and the Moldau.[10] The figure shown on the album cover represents the Moldau.[9] The sculpture was created by Carl Kundmann between 1893 and 1902 based on architect Theophil Hansen's original plans.[10] The photograph was taken by Alexander Längauer from his Shutterstock portfolio, and the package was designed by Coco Shinomiya. As with all Dylan albums of the past 15 years, the packaging features minimal credits and no printed lyrics. The deluxe limited edition CD includes a 60-page notebook of rare vintage magazines with Bob Dylan on frontcover. The covers are from the collections of Magne Karlstad and Oddbjørn Saltnes.
Tempest was released on September 10, 2012, in the United Kingdom and September 11 in the United States. It was announced for release on July 17, 2012 through a press release on Dylan's official web site.[1] The release was issued as a CD and an LP, and as a digital download through online retailers. Various pre-order packages were available from Dylan's official online store including a combined CD/MP3 download of the album, an LP-only version, and two CD/LP bundles including a signature Bob Dylan Hohner harmonica in the different keys and an exclusive 11"x17" poster.[11] A segment of "Early Roman Kings" was featured in a Cinemax commercial for the TV series Strike Back: Vengeance[12] and "Scarlet Town" was featured during the end credits of the first two episodes, both of which aired on August 17, 2012.[13] "Duquesne Whistle", written by Dylan and Robert Hunter, was released as the album's single, along with an accompanying music video; the video was directed by Nash Edgerton, who had directed videos for previous Dylan songs. Rolling Stone wrote that the video "initially seems like a Charlie Chaplin-inspired bit of light comedy", but that it takes a "shockingly dark turn".[14]
Critical reception[edit]
|Aggregate scores
|Review scores
|Chicago Tribune
|Entertainment Weekly
|The Guardian
|The Independent
|MSN Music (Expert Witness)
|Rolling Stone
Tempest was widely acclaimed by contemporary music critics.[4][15] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 83, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 31 reviews.[4] The album is often considered, along with 1997's "comeback album", Time Out of Mind, 2001's "Love and Theft" and 2006's Modern Times, as part of a string of critically acclaimed albums in late-Dylan's catalogue. Some even found it surpassing those other albums, such as Mojo Magazine, who in their review of Tempest opined, "Tempest is Dylan's best musical album of this century, a vibrant maximising of strict rules and the savaged-leather state of that voice."[21] Likewise, Ribofalvin of Tiny Mix Tapes felt that "Tempest's epic scale and grandeur makes his few previous albums look like short stories leading up to a great novel."[26] Rob Brunner, reviewing the album for Entertainment Weekly, felt that "thirty-five albums in, Dylan remains as magical and mysterious as ever."[18]
In his review in Rolling Stone magazine, Will Hermes gave the album five out of five stars, calling it "musically varied and full of curveballs" and "the single darkest record in Dylan's catalog."[24] According to Hermes, the album draws upon elements common throughout Dylan's career—especially the last three albums—with music that is "built from traditional forms and drawing on eternal themes: love, struggle, death."[24] Hermes continues:
Lyrically, Dylan is at the top of his game, joking around, dropping wordplay and allegories that evade pat readings and quoting other folks' words like a freestyle rapper on fire. "Narrow Way" is one of Dylan's most potent rockers in years, and it borrows a chorus from the Mississippi Sheiks' 1934 blues "You'll Work Down to Me Someday". "Scarlet Town" draws on verses by 19th-century Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier; and allusions to Louis Armstrong and the Isley Brothers pop up elsewhere.[24]
Many critics praised the album for its dark lyrical nature and roots in "Old Weird America". David Edward expressed this in his review for Drowned in Sound stating, "The coherence of Tempest is the hypnotic key to its charm. Compressed together, the collection exudes a dark flow and a hidden, perilous depth."[27] Likewise, in Magnet Magazine's review of Tempest, they felt that "Dylan has never been more deliberate or so overtly savage."[28] Dougles Helesgrave likewise praised the album for its music sources and dark lyrics, stating:
Tempest is an album that works on many levels. Taken as sound or aural sculpture, the songs take the listener through a dark ramble through the back roads of American popular music. Every musical phrase, note, carries something that suggests more than itself. Each melody is weighed down with memory, reminding the listener of real and imagined pasts, old struggles, hinting that there's a world rapidly slipping through our fingers, if it's not already long gone.[29]
In his review for American Songwriter, Jim Beviglia gave the album four and a half out of five stars, calling it "the kind of meaty offering that his most ardent fans desire most."[31] Beviglia notes that the ambitious three-song run concluding the album "should silence any doubts, if they exist, that Dylan is still at the top of his game."[31] "Tin Angel" tells a story of a lovers' triangle that turns into a "Shakespearean body pile, providing plenty of fodder for Dylanologists looking for symbols and hidden meanings." The title track, according to Breviglia, may be a metaphor for how mankind is "headed unknowingly toward an unfortunate fate" with Dylan examining how people react—"some nobly, some horribly, when put to the ultimate test." The closing track, "Roll On John", veers between biographical elements and Lennon song lyrics, presenting what Beviglia calls the "oft-overlooked soft side of Dylan" that is truly touching.[31] Beviglia concludes:
Unlike the Titanic watchman fast asleep at his post, Bob Dylan's eyes are as wide open as ever, even when he's looking back. On this album, he depicts all he sees with his typical insight, dexterity, and honesty, yet he still has ways of doing so that upend all expectations. Tempest is fantastic, but being impressed by Dylan is old hat. That he still finds ways to surprise us is an achievement beyond all comprehension.[31]
- Randall Roberts in his review of Tempest for the Los Angeles Times[32]
In his review in The Daily Telegraph, Neil McCormick called the album "among his best ever".[33] According to McCormick, the songs on Tempest reveal a Dylan "genuinely fired up by the possibilities of language" and that the entire album "resounds with snappy jokes and dark ruminations, vivid sketches and philosophical asides."[33] McCormick continued:
Tempest is certainly his strongest and most distinctive album in a decade. The sound is a distillation of the jump blues, railroad boogie, archaic country and lush folk that Dylan has been honing since 2001's Love and Theft, played with swagger and character by his live ensemble and snappily produced by the man himself. A notoriously impatient recording artist, Dylan seems to have found a style that suits his working methods. Drawing on the early 20th-century Americana that first grabbed his attention as a young man (and that he celebrated in his Theme Time Radio Hour shows) and surrounding himself with slick, intuitive musicians capable of charging these nostalgic grooves with contemporary energy, his late-period albums seem a continuation of his tours, as if he rolls right off the stage and into the studio and just keeps rocking.[33]
In his review for the Chicago Tribune, Greg Kot gave the album three and a half out of four stars, calling it "an inspired mix of blood and bawdiness."[17] Kot called Dylan a "masterful storyteller, by turns murderous, mischievous and tender, sometimes all at once."[17] In his review on Uncut, Allan Jones gave the album ten out of ten stars, calling it "the most far-reaching, provocative and transfixing album of Dylan's later career. Nothing about it suggests a swansong, adios or fond adieu."[34] In his review in The Gazette, Bernard Perusse gave the album five out of five stars, noting that it "ranks among Dylan's darker works, largely because it has the highest death toll."[35] In his review in the Tampa Bay Times, Sean Daly gave the album an "A" rating, calling it "breathtaking but bleak" and a "mesmerizing record".[36]
In her review for USA Today, Edna Gundersen gave the album four out of four stars, calling it "brilliant".[37] According to Gundersen, Dylan's "peerless powers as a wordplay wizard and consummate storyteller" have not diminished with age, and that Tempest continues in the vein of his recent albums, "steeped in tradition and bent toward blues."[37] Dylan's voice is ideal for these songs, Gundersen noted, whether he's describing a triple murder-suicide in "Tin Angel" or vilifying modern robber barons in "Early Roman Kings".[37] Beneath the humor and mayhem Dylan layers "sexual and political metaphors and bigger truths about human nature, twisted morals, fate and mortality."[37]
Others found the album over-hyped. In his review in The Guardian, Alexis Petridis gave the album four out of five stars, but downplayed some of the superlatives offered by other reviewers who have compared Tempest to some of Dylan's finest work.[19] In his consumer guide for MSN Music, Robert Christgau gave the album a "B+", offering a similar complaint about the "autohype machine" and how some of the reviews were overly positive.[22] Christgau was also unimpressed with the title track and the closing number, which "aim higher with dubious-to-disgraceful results."[22]
Rolling Stone named it the fourth best album of 2012.[38] The magazine also named the song Pay in Blood the 9th best song of 2012.[39] The album placed seventh in The Wire's annual critics' poll.[40]
Track listing[edit]
All tracks are written by Bob Dylan except where noted.
|"Duquesne Whistle"
|Dylan, Robert Hunter
|"Soon After Midnight"
|"Narrow Way"
|"Long and Wasted Years"
|"Pay in Blood"
|"Scarlet Town"
|"Early Roman Kings"
|"Tin Angel"
|"Roll on John"
|Total length:
- Bob Dylan – guitar, piano, vocals, production
- Additional musicians
- Tony Garnier – bass guitar
- Donnie Herron – steel guitar, banjo, violin, mandolin
- David Hidalgo – guitar, accordion, violin
- Stu Kimball – guitar
- George G. Receli – drums
- Charlie Sexton – guitar
- Technical personnel
- William Claxton – back cover photography
- Scott Litt – engineering, recording, mixing
- Dana Nielsen – recording, mixing
- John Shearer – booklet photography
- Coco Shinomiya – package design
- Shutterstock / A. Längauer – front cover photography
- Albert Watson – additional booklet photography
Release history[edit]
|United Kingdom[2]
|September 10, 2012
|CD, LP, digital download
|Columbia Records
|United States[2]
|September 11, 2012
|Chart (2012)
|Australia Albums Chart[41]
|Austria Albums Chart[41]
|Belgium Albums Chart (Flanders)[41]
|Croatian Albums Chart[42]
|Dutch Albums Chart[41]
|Finland Albums Chart[41]
|Ireland Albums Chart[41][43]
|Italy Albums Chart[41]
|New Zealand Albums Chart[41]
|Norway Albums Chart[41]
|Poland Albums Chart[44]
|Spain Albums Chart[45]
|Sweden Albums Chart[41]
|Switzerland Albums Chart[41]
|UK Albums Chart[41]
|US Billboard 200[46]
Year-end charts[edit]
|Chart (2012)
|Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[47]
|Dutch Albums Chart[48]
|Swedish Albums Chart
|Certified units/sales
|Austria (IFPI Austria)[49]
|Sweden (GLF)[50]
|United Kingdom (BPI)[51]
|United States (RIAA)[53]
*sales figures based on certification alone
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I almost want to call into work, but I have a new client starting, and a school visiting.
I officially joined Weight Watchers this weekend and downloaded the app. Currently in the negative in my weekly points from dinner alone last night. Oops!
On the plus I made it to yoga both days over the weekend.
And a morning class yesterday which I never do.
It sucked in the beginning but I ended up having an amazing class and of course didn't regret going at all.
In the wise words of my yoga instructor, you can't think about it, just do it!
This is going to be my motto for the week ahead.....