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Coordinator of Religious Education
5411 Amboy Road
Staten Island, New York 10312
(718) 984-1885 office
Registration for September 2019
All students currently attending our program have received re-registration forms during the month of April. Please return the forms to your child's teacher or mail to the Religious Education office before Mayto take advantage of our reduced rates.
First Grade and NEW Registrations ONLY: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 – 4:30PM – 5:30PM
Located in the School Office of Religious Education
5411 Amboy Road, Staten Island, NY 10312
All families coming for Religious Education for the first time need to be registered in the Parish prior to registering in the Religious Education Program. Proof of Parish registration is required (envelope number).
Please bring the following required documents with you to registration:
a) We must see your child's Baptismal Certificate.
b) A statement (transcript) of all prior Religious Education if the student is beyond first grade in public school.
c) First Holy Communion & Penance Certificate, if the sacrament has already been received.
d) Registration fees before May 18, 2017 are:
Day Session
$225.00 for one child
$300.00 for two or more children
Wednesday Evening Session
$275.00 for one child
$375.00 for two or more children
Registration fees after May 18, 2017 are:
Day Session
$275.00 for one child
$350.00 for two or more children
Wednesday Evening Session
$325.00 for one child
$425.00 for two or more children
The Religious Education Program is always looking for dedicated volunteers who are willing to share their faith and talents with the next generation. The program has classes Monday through Thursday and Wednesday evening. If you are interested, please contact Mrs. Quaglia at 718-984-1885. Together we can take our children forward in Faith.


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(CNN) - GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney on Monday dropped a name for a possible running mate should he secure his party's nomination.
"There are probably 15 names of people, including (New Hampshire Sen.) Kelly Ayotte," Romney said in an interview on Fox News. "I mean, there are terrific Republicans in the Senate, in the House, in governors' offices."
Programming note: GOP presidential candidates face off at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday, November 22, in the CNN Republican National Security Debate in Washington, D.C.
Ayotte, who was sitting next to Romney at the time of the interview, threw her support behind Romney this weekend in a highly coveted endorsement.
The first-term senator was elected in 2010 with 60% of the vote and is seen as a strong conservative on issues of finance and defense. A former state attorney general, Ayotte voted against the debt deal hammered out in Congress this summer.
Asked who she thinks Romney should consider for vice president, Ayotte pointed to names already floating around in GOP circles: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
She also pointed to Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico as a strong candidate.
While Romney has been criticized from the right for being too moderate, Ayotte said her main focus was electing a Republican who could oust President Barack Obama from the White House.
"(Romney) is the person who can lead our country, change the direction, bring those conservative principles that we need to the White House and most importantly make sure that Barack Obama is a one-term president," Ayotte said in the interview.
The former Massachusetts governor has remained steady in the top tier of the GOP presidential field, but a new CNN/ORC International Poll this week showed Romney falling slightly behind former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
And while Romney was hesitant to list any more possible VP contenders, the candidate said there's no short list of potential names.
"You've got extraordinary men and women," Romney said. "We have a very deep bench."
- CNN's Rachel Streitfeld contributed to this report.
Also see:
Cain signs anti-abortion pledge
Cain, Paul crossed off for Iowa group's pres. endorsement
Who can make a difference in New Hampshire?
If the bench is so deep and there are so many good people to choose from why isn't one of them running for the Republican nomination, instead of all the goof-balls? You'd think for President you'd be pushing the cream of the crop!
Flippin' Mittens picks a TeaCrazy....big surprise! The guy doesn't even know what side of the fence he's standing on from day to day. Who could trust that?
I thought that Romney was smarter than this. Surely he realized that McCain ended his chance at the Presidency when he picked the inexperienced air headed Sarah Palin. If Romney picks another one-termer politician with essentially no experience, then he's even more toast than he already is.
Isn't that convenient, to name a N.H. Senator when you are facing a primary in N.H. Most opportunists know no shame and have little to offer.
You know, for a man that has 3/4s of the GOP vote AGAINST him, it's a bit premature to start with the whole running mates idea. If you ask me, the GOP put Romney up there to occupy the WH into thinking he'll win. This way, Obama slams Mittens, not everybody.
Nothing like teeing off the "base" by picking one of them "northeastern types" to pair up with Flippity flop the MA RomneyCare originator
Romney must be desperate to win N.H. Before South Carolina primary, I'm sure Lindsey Graham will be touted as a great V.P., etc. I think he should choose Mickey Mouse when he's in Florida.
VP hint? Romney, you're a pompass a**. You have no chance against President Obama. No one's going to vote for the party that is only interested in protecting rich people. "Corporations are people, too, my friend" -Mitt Romney
Don't you have to be the nominee to choose a running mate?
Romney is an even bigger tool than "Obama is a closet muslim" and that's saying something.
Kelly Ayotte is one of the biggest @holes in politics on the East Coast!! She is waaay too extreme and ultra conservative.
Read her bio.
How can the V.P. bench be so deep (according to Romney), yet the POTUS choices are abysmal? Rose colored glasses I guess. That's what most Repub's will be wearing on election day.
Mitt... if you brought back Ronald Reagan as your VP you still couldn't beat Obama. Not that Obama is doing such a great job either but the fact that most of the GOP (Tea Partiers) will never support you.
Gee, Mittie. What about asking one of the illegal immigrants you had working on your second mansion to serve as VP?
Or maybe someone who got you those deferments during the Vietnam War, so you could serve your Mormonish church mission to...the French Riviera.
Or maybe the family dog – you know, the one you strapped to the roof of your station wagon on the 12 hour trip to Canada.
Whatever. Be sure and find someone who flip-flops as much as you do. Don't want to upset the match.
@Thomas – I have heard this comment ad nauseum. Is military service required in this country? Can you contribute to the country any other way? Did Obama serve in the military? Are his daughters going to? I am not sure what your point is.
putting the horse before the cart, mitt. can't respect an obvious lying flipflopper. the economy and the usa won't get better with mitt, just worse. he'll kiss any and everyone's behind everytime. can you say norquist, boehner, koch brothers, limbaugh, mcconnell, wall street, chamber of commerce, the elite, chris christie, tea partiers, everyone but the middle class, students, women, minorities just to mention a few.
putting the cart before the horse, mitt. can't respect an obvious lying flipflopper. the economy and the usa won't get better with mitt, just worse. he'll kiss any and everyone's behind everytime. can you say norquist, boehner, koch brothers, limbaugh, mcconnell, wall street, chamber of commerce, the elite, chris christie, tea partiers, everyone but the middle class, students, women, minorities just to mention a few.
If you are Kelley Ayotte and you believe this, I have a bridge (needing repair) to sell you.
Romney has few right wing conservative credentials. This headline: "9/15/10 at 2:41 PM Comment 'Granite Grizzly' Kelly Ayotte Narrowly Beats Tea Party in New Hampshire" would suggest that Ms. Ayotte is not going to mobilize the right- wing conservative base either.
If he nominates a woman, it will be someone like Nikki Haley. If it is a man, perhaps someone like Haley Barbour, without the soft on racism storyline. Ayotte doesn't have a chance.
He is very desperate. But all of this will catch up to him. He drops her name, the only name, after she endorses him. If America wants low paying jobs for higher skilled people then vote for Mitt.
Romney is the most arrogant and dishonnest politician I ever known. You don't even win the nomination yet but you're acting like you did already while keep criticizing Prez Obama for anything he does, distorting his records, taking his statements out of context, making factually lying statements about him and flip flopping on almost all issues over and over again. Really? Are these conservatism principles? No ethics, honnesty and integrity? What is the GOP become? A party of no new idea with lower taxes for the rich anc corporations as the only solutions for all problems. Thanks but no thanks Romney.
Still the talk about making sure that Obama is a "one-term president". Most of us see that statement for what it really is. Why not just say, "I don't care if our country goes down the tubes, so long as we take back that White House!" Rather telling in its way, no?
Pandering to women didn't work for McCain and won't work for Mittens. We see thru these games now.
Doesn't really matter who he picks, Obama will get his 2nd term – Corporations are NOT people my friend.
I am NOT a fan of this person, and I think she's having real problems, but consider Romney/Bachmann. Laugh if you will, stranger things have happened. Strong evangelical and social conservative to counterbalance the Mormon "question." Midwestern appeal to pull key swing states like IA and MN (and even MO?) Perhaps attractive to some women. Founding member of Congressional Tea Party Caucus to secure that group. I will vote Obama, don't get me wrong. Just saying.

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Daily Archives: February 1, 2012
Galatians 1:3-5
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
The word "rescue" implies that we are in crisis and need help. What does Christ rescue us from? Our sins and this present evil age. Our struggles are both internal and external; we struggle against our desire to rebel against God, and we are bombarded by a world that wants to pull us into its grasp. Yet God is greater than both, for Christ died to take our internal turmoil upon Himself and empower us through the Holy Spirit to flourish in this world.


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Editor's note: This is the fifth post in our Flan Week celebration in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. Today is the turn of Bren Herrera, a Cuban-born American private chef, food writer, blogger and creator of #FlanFriday. Bren shares with us a story and recipe of her favorite Cuban flan: Flan de Calabaza . We hope you come back during the weekend because we´ll continue with Flan Friday for two more days!
To be enticed with other flavors, check out my blog, Flanboyant Eats, every day where I do a #FlanFriday and feature a new flavored flan!
Flan Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Flan
6 tbsp. sugar
4 whole eggs, whisked
1 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup pumpkin purée (canned will do)
3/4 cup 2% or whole milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
For custard: In a bowl, combine eggs, sweetened condensed & whole milk, pumpkin purée, spices and extract. Whisk for about 2 minutes. Set aside.
For caramel: Add sugar to the aluminum flan mold and bring to medium-high heat. Allow all of the sugar to melt down until golden caramel, stirring constantly. Do not allow sugar to burn. When sugar is fully dissolved into caramel, carefully coat the bottom and sides of the flan mold using hand towels to hold the pan. Use a brush if you are not experienced in handling extremely hot caramel. Let sit for two minutes until sugar sets. Pour flan mixture into pan using a medium mesh hand strainer.
Baking the Flan: If you have a traditional 10″ flan pan, cover entirely with aluminum foil. If using a more updated version, cover lid and shut tight with latches. Add two cups of water to a large saucepan and gently place flan pan into the baño de Maria. Bring to boil for 45-60 minutes or until custard is fully cooked, but not too firm. Once the flan is fully cooked, immediately low heat and let simmer for 5 minutes. Remove flan pan from the baño de Maria and discard excess water from saucepan.
Do not remove flan from pan. Refrigerate for 7-9 hours or overnight. To serve, loosen the sides of the flan all the way around using a butter knife. Take a large plate, place upside down on top of flan and flip!


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Cats hate plants so if you do not know how to get rid of cats, read the article and find out which are the plants that remove the cats. At least some plant varieties. Cultivate them in the garden and keep away all the chickens in the neighborhood. On the …Read More »
How To Get Rid Of Fleas In House – The Best Natural Ways
With spring, especially if you have pets, fleas also appear. If you own a dog or a cat and notice that it is often scarred, and especially if there are red bubbles on your legs that eat you unbearable, it is clear that these animal-specific enemies also appeared. For a …Read More »
How To Get Rid Of Mosquitoes With Plants
The heat begins and the mosquito hunt season opens. Insecticides are effective, but they can be toxic. We can replace them with plants that not only get rid of mosquitoes but bring in their fragrance. Lavender and rosemary The mosquitoes fight against the lavender or rosemary pots. It is true …Read More »
Natural Deodorizers Will Keep Your Home Smelling Fresh
Research suggests that some viruses, bacteria, and fungus cannot survive when essential oils are used. That is why I use essential oils to keep my home smelling fresh with homemade natural deodorizers. Plus, they are inexpensive and last forever. You can use any essential oil your nose desires. Just put …Read More »


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How to form the French passé composé?
The passé composé is one of the most widely used French past tenses.
This tense is a compound tense. It means that you need two verbs to conjugate it.
You will first need an auxiliary verb, either AVOIR or ÊTRE, that you conjugate in present tense.
See AVOIR or ÊTRE conjugations in the attached infographic.
Then you will need the past participle of the verb you want to conjugate in passé composé.
For example: J'ai parlé (I spoke) / Je suis allé (I went)
How to form the Past Participle?
In English, most past participles end with -ED (arrived).
In French, they mostly end with -É, -I, -U:
- For all regular -ER verbs, remove the -ER from the infinitive and replace it with -É –> parler –> parlé
- For all regular -IR verbs, remove the -IR from the infinitive and replace it with -I –> finir –> fini
- For all regular -RE verbs, remove the -RE from the infinitive and replace it with -U –> vendre –> vendu
Then you have all the irregular verbs that don't follow any pattern and that you have to learn by heart 😉
Here are some very useful verbs to know:
- être –> été
- avoir –> eu
- faire –> fait
- pouvoir –> pu
- vouloir –> voulu
Read also: Verbs using ÊTRE in passé composé
You may be interested in my learning pack "Passé composé and Imparfait" with a 45 min video explaining how to use these 2 past tenses:


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About this Event
We are excited to announce Transition Year Show 2019 - Punchestown Event Centre - September 24th & 25th, 2019. Ireland's ONLY Event dedicated to TY, LCA & LCVP Students and Teachers. We will have Career & College Talks from Tech to Tourism Businesses, Industries, Universities & Colleges from around the country. Some of the Universities & Colleges will be doing Science Experiments and Tech Demonstrations.We will have a Languages Sector which will be interactive as well.There will be a Hub for Social & Politics, where we will have talks on Public Speaking, Politics & Councils which will help the young students in STUDENT COUNCILS and for future LEADERSHIP.We will also have Physical & Mental Health & Mindfulness as a big part to the event as well.
There will be a food court with food vendors and a Teachers Lounge for you to take a break with Talks & Presentations for teachers, while the students Explore what Transition Year Show 2019 has to offer.The Transition Year Show will be like no other. We will have Demonstrations, Talks and Interactive Experiments, Career and College Advisors and much more that the students, teachers and exhibitors have been looking for.
PLEASE NOTE: Please confirm that you have the correct number of tickets for the correct day you wish to attend. Also please provide the FULL CONTACT DETAILS of the SCHOOL when ordering your tickets. Once purchased tickets are non-refundable. Payment must be made by Credit/Debit Card. We can not accept cheques for this years event. For any queries on ordering tickets email firstname.lastname@example.com
Teachers must stay on premises while the Students attend Transition Year Show 2019.


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Care Opinion encourage people to ''share your experiences of UK health and care services, good or bad. We pass on your stories to the right people to make a difference.''
Yesterday a detailed review from a local patient was posted. This patient highlighted many of the issues that have been repeatedly raised by the Patient / Carer Group to both Commissioners and the Provider, East Coast Community Health.
The link to the review on the Care Opinion website can be found here.
There has been considerable local response on Facebook and also on Twitter.
The Care Opinion website indicates that the Provider East Coast Community Health, has read the review.
The text of the review is as follows:
Posted by Flos (as ),
I have been ill with ME for sixteen years and getting increasingly worse to the point that I am mostly house bound, or bed and sofa bound to be more accurate. After 12 years of being dismissed as depressed I was finally introduced to the ECCH ME Service. I felt a little more hopeful. They were the first ones to give me a firm diagnosis. Not too much to ask is it? I had self diagnosed it years ago but getting anyone to believe me was a struggle.Having now been " properly" diagnosed I had expectations that things might improve and that the ME Service might start giving me some sort of hope, support or treatment. Most of us with ME are forced into the situation where we have to become our own experts, so I was fully aware that currently there is no cure or even diagnostic marker. So it was not like I expected miracles, but I did expect more than I got. So what did I expect after dragging myself on a forty mile roundtrip? I expected to have access to a specialist consultant like other people with neurological conditions. I expected to be able to have access to things that some people in the ME community have found helpful such as B12 injections or melatonin to help with the severe sleep disruption and unrefreshing sleep. I expected there to be health care professionals who were at least as well informed as I was on the latest research on possible causes and possible treatments, so that a little hope might be injected into the disaster that is now my life.Instead I was made to feel like I was being unrealistic and argumentative. At the very least I expected to be meeting in premises that were suitable for the patient, not being asked to walk down lengthy corridors and be offered more leaflets on pacing, which I am too tired and angry to read. My life has been destroyed and this is all that I am being offered. Then I found out that the service being offered was only a short term one of six appointments. This left me feeling very bemused. Six appointments offering advice on pacing. That was it. End of the line.I did get quite excited one time when I got to see the GPWSI (gp with special interest), because I thought I was going to be able to ask for a trial of B12 injections. No, wrong again! Silly old me! This is not a prescribing service, this is just a diagnosing service I was told. When I recovered from that piece of news I went on to ask this GPWSI if they knew of any trials with which I could get involved. The only one that they could suggest was one involving the donation of my brain after my death. Not quite what I was looking for to give me hope and something to cling on to in my desperation.The Occupational Therapists were all very pleasant and supportive but were obviously unable to offer the kind of service and help that I was expecting. I found that they almost acted as a go-between, between the patient and their GPs. Often the GPS know nothing about ME or don't believe in its existence as a physical illness, therefore they fail to treat with anything other than anti depressants. The OTs were in a position to recommend other drug therapy that may be beneficial for symptomatic relief of some of the symptoms but isn't it outrageous that so many GPs are so ignorant or disbelieving of the condition.The most useful and valuable thing that the Service have done for me was to provide letters describing my condition in support of benefit claims and they have recently said that they are going to cease providing this service.Anyway I am getting too exhausted to write much more. To summarize my thoughts...I feel that there is a chasm between the level of service on offer from the ECCHME Service and the level required. I think it is not being made clear enough from the outset what the level of provision is for the patient. i.e. that is is a short term, diagnosing and non prescribing service. I feel that they have little to offer the long term or severe sufferer except for the support provided for benefits.I feel despair at all the political shenanigans going on behind the scenes of the 7 CCGs in our area (except for suffolk ccg I believe) who band together to deny us real help and fail to listen to their patients voices or take into account the serious nature of this life destroying illness and provide us with a consultant led service after ten years of fighting for one, to give us some hope and parity with other serious conditions.I feel that the service actually damages our chances of getting help possibly from consultants in other disciplines such as neurology, or infectious diseases because they say that we are already being taken care of and "looked after" by our own ME Specialist Service. Not funny! Let us hope and pray that over the next few years bio-medical research will pinpoint a treatment that really does improve our health and that the Nice guidelines are updated appropriately and swiftly. We have wasted enough of our lives
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Tuesday is for planning trips, that's my motto.
Next we'll be heading out for a baby-free weekend in NYC, like we do every year for the final show of my music season. If you've been anywhere cool recently in the city for food, drinks, or entertainment I'd love to know about it! Tourist attractions or random unknown spots are equally welcome.
I can't wait for this trip – everything seems so different from last year. This year there is no baby gear, no breastmilk to contend with, no hiking 4 miles across the city to a special fancy nursing clothing store (we seriously did that). We're ready for fun and calm and new adventures.
Please and thank you!


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"Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating."
― Kate Braverman
This isn't going to be the first time you've heard me say this. I've talked about it many times which pretty much says it's a huge issue for me. As far as writing goes, that is.
So here goes.
I'm...can't think of a better word...depressed. Frustrated. Heart-breakingly so.
I decided to speak of it out loud because the subject on my mind comes up in various forums and I realize I'm not the only writer who suffers this 'malady' on occasion.
And here's my ugly truth.
I have a dear friend, a fellow author, who happens to be one of the most eloquent yet simple, in-touch-with-the-human-heart writers I've ever met. And I've met a lot of them so that is saying a lot.
I won't mention his name, and I'm not talking behind his back, as he and I have talked about this. The only reason I'm mentioning it publicly is because I saw comments from more than one author on more than one forum who cited that they shy away from reading other authors because it discourages them, and ignites doubt in their own writing abilities. While sad to hear that, I was kind of relieved. That meant I was not the only one, that others suffer this insecurity at times as well.
And, yes, yes, I know. I talk about insecurity an awful lot. Yep. I do. It happens to be, probably, my number one weakness in my writing process.
I remember one author---who I love dearly---claimed that she had resisted reading certain authors because she was...yes...jealous. I admired her honesty, her bravery in facing her fear. Because, let me tell you, she is not alone. I knew exactly what she meant. The funny thing about it? She, as it happens, is one of the authors I resist reading for that very reason. So there. Go figure. Us writers. What characters we are.
Anyway, back to my gifted author friend. I told him, as humiliating as it was, that I was hesitant to read his book because I'd read such powerful reviews about it. I was scared. Books which promise to blast me with emotion----no, not just angst, killing off characters and torturing them, but deep heart stuff, human stuff.
We're all insecure to a certain extent with our talent. Even when other praise us, when we see good reviews, there's still that speck of doubt deep down. I suspect even the most successful harbor those misgivings at times.
I will at least admit I write fair-to-middlin'. My prose, anyway. Oh, I've got miles to go in the plotting department, boatloads to learn about characterization, dynamics, everything.
But here's the kicker. While trying to pinpoint what I DO feel is lacking, what I DO see in my author friend's work that I feel missing in mine, I came across a quote by Eudora Welty from her book, On Writing, "To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most."
And I realized. That key. Honestly and with all our powers. And I knew, then, that the element missing from my attempts is that seemingly small but oh-so-gigantic all our powers.
You know that that means? ALL our powers? It means writing on all eight cylinders. Letting go. Giving it the gas. Letting it rip, gunning the engine, speeding right through those barriers of fear that keep you from going too far. It means writing fearless. Opening all the windows on that heart of yours.
Some seem to feel letting it go means to superficially shock. And I suppose it could. But, for me, it means losing all my inhibitions about exposing my gut to a reader. Emotion.
And that's where my depression sets in. I see these other authors who have that GIFT---and I consider it is a precious gift---of doing just that. They have this beautiful ability to express what is actually deep inside them. They are fearless in doing so. I admire that, I crave that.
It's not about words, either. I can come up with the words. I've got a warehouse of words, ready to be used to express my deepest soul. But, for some reason, fear of SEEING in that deep dungeon of emotion keeps that warehouse door barred to me.
I don't know what it will take to open that door, to bust off that rusty lock. But I DO know it's going to happen because the prisoners---my innermost thoughts---in that secret place cry out all the time, begging to be set free. All it will take is me.
So the depression, in a way, seems to be able to give way to satisfaction and then exhilleration. Because I DO have the key in my hand.
Who knows? Maybe, if I DO read those authors whose gift I fear, I'll feel something in their fearlnessness that will push me over the edge.
Ray Bradbury said, I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.
That sort of thinking, those beginnings such as he mentions, might have been one of my biggest obstacles. One WILL be miserable to read other authors in order to emulate their gift. Their gift---the one I seek anyway---is not something that can be copied. Their gift is unique to them but, oddly, available to me as well. Because the truth----MY truth----is beneath MY skin and behind MY eye.
Hot damn. Is that exciting or what? So rev her up, baby. I might not be able to go zero-to-seventy in one gunning of the pedal and be comfortable in sharing my innermost soul through my writing overnight. But I CAN get there. The destination IS within reach.
For me. And for you.


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2. Exactly what is and is not consisted of in the quote?
Know, that one of the greatest differences in quotes (and what is often NOT STATED) is whether or not all the old components will be changed with the installation of the brand-new equipment. This includes parts such as fittings, pipelines, valves, adapters, dampers, security switches that connect to the devices have to be updated to match the specs of the new system. Although cutting corners by not changing them will lower the cost of the job (and the quote you are supplied), it COULD CAUSE early system failure and COSTLY repair work down the road.
The quote offered must STATE, in detail, whatever had to COMPLETE the installation. This includes obtaining licenses from your city, eliminating your old equipment from your home or business, all the parts and labor to finish the installation and replace old elements, and WRITTEN assurance and warranty info.
3. What Other Services Do You Deal?
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4. What are the Guaranteed Services and Installation you you offer?
A lot of times, the property owner is provided a manufacturer's service warranty that is meant to make them feel protected. Nevertheless, in truth, these service warranties go over all the important things not covered and have nothing to do with the nature of the installation or your SATISFACTION.
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Pathfinder Club
Candles an Insurance Issue?
Especially during Induction and Investiture, clubs around the North American Division often use candles to signify the "Spirit of Pathfinders" or "Spirit of Adventurers," the class levels (Adventurers / Pathfinders), and even to represent each of the new inductees into the club ministry.
However, recently, many churches and therefore clubs have moved to electric lights or other versions of symbolism to avoid the potential risks they see as part of flame inside the facility. So, the question is, does Adventist Risk Management (ARM) allow candles, suggest other alternatives, or ban open flame within church-owned facilities?
David Fournier, the Regional Manager for ARM North America states:
While candles are not excluded from the insurance policy provided by Adventist Risk Management, Inc. we do take their use seriously as there is significant risk. Any activity involving fire represents a danger that is fast moving and can result in catastrophic damage and personal injury.
Also it should be noted that the authority in your local jurisdiction (likely the fire marshal) has final say on whether candles would be allowed as per the NFPA Life Safety code. You will want to check with the local authority. (Download - important prevention document here)
In summary:
- ARM strongly cautions the use of candles in church-owned/rented facilities because of the high potential for loss
- The local Fire Authority (Fire Marshall) is the final word on whether the candles would even be allowed.
So, are there other options that work well and avoid the catastrophic potential of open flame? Yes there are.
One club in Texas posted the following:
This morning we had our Induction Service. doing a no candle ceremony.
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Golden Prosperity Soup
This soup has:
Dried bean curd sheet
Dried bamboo Fungus
Dried lily buds
Tang hoon (Bean Thread Vermicelli)
Egg drops
I cooked them in Swanson chicken broth for ease. You can use homemade chicken stock of course.
One bowl of this can serve as lunch already, as it is quite substantial. I love this soup so want to share it with my readers, now you have one new soup to cook for your family. I think this soup is great to serve during Chinese New Year. You can substitute dried bamboo fungus with dried fish maw or simply put both. Hmmm...would be good with crab meats, imitation crab sticks too huh?
23 comments:
- Big Boys Oven said...
wah this is nice.... so yummy soup! oh this is LCM Soup!
- January 21, 2008 10:26 AM
- East Meets West Kitchen said...
Soup looks great! Are you making that for CNY party? ;)
- January 21, 2008 11:16 AM
- bigfish_chin said...
Hey, look like SHARK FIN soup eh~
Can serve with bit of "CUKA" leh :)
- January 21, 2008 11:49 AM
- daphne said...
hehee, I pressed publish for my newest post just as I received your comment for my last post =)
This soup looks really substantial and healthy. Definitely a good comfort soup. I have never tried having dried bean curd sheet in savory soup before too! Good suggestion *thumbs up*
- January 21, 2008 5:53 PM
- Indonesia Eats said...
Ahhh I love this kind of soup especially with real crab meat and asparagus :)
- January 21, 2008 7:45 PM
- Sweet Jasmine said...
wah...delicious...another version of the hock chiew starchy and thick crabmeat soup...this looks more cantonese...
- January 21, 2008 8:42 PM
- Christina Kim said...
For a moment, I thought this was the Ginkgo dessert!:p
Hmmmm...No name for your soup?
How about, Golden Prosperity since it looks so golden!:D
- January 22, 2008 12:13 AM
This soup is simply delicious. Just like the one my mom makes. :) Oooh ... I can't wait to be home soon. :) Will be my first CNY since 2001 :)
- January 22, 2008 4:52 AM
- Nilmandra said...
When I saw the picture I thought it is barley and gingko nut soup hehe. This looks like a lovely savoury soup. I bet the tang hoon makes it really filling. I must try this.
- January 22, 2008 5:43 AM
- Little Corner of Mine said...
Thanks BBOven. Christy suggested a better name for my soup and I really love it and adapted that name already. :)
Thanks V. Not sure leh...will be real busy soon. Hope I can see you in one of the CNY parties.
Hehe...thanks bigfish. I did serve it with a bit of vinegar before, just wanna see the difference.
Hi Daphne,
I'm the opposite. I have not tried dried beancurd sheet in a sweet soup/dessert before. :P
Hi Andaliman,
Asparagus in this soup would be first for me...it added some crunch to the soup huh?
Hi Sweet Jasmine,
Wow, you are good. I was served this soup by a Cantonese family during the CNY last year (with fewer ingredients) and I really loved it and thus make it myself.
Hahaha Christy. You funny lah! I'm not a fan of Gingko dessert though. But I totally loved the name you gave to my soup, so suitable for CNY, so in the mood. So, I adapted the name for my soup. Thanks ya! :*
Hi Cooking Ninja,
Thanks, I really like this soup too. So good, get to be back for CNY, it will be a lot of fun. Take some pictures and post in your blog k, I want to feel some CNY mood. :)
Hi Nilmandra,
Christy thought the same thing too, but I'm not a fan of barley & gingko nut soup. I only like all these ingredients in savory soup, weird I know. :P Yes, tang hoon makes it filling and also act as an imitation shark fins. Do try this soup!
- January 22, 2008 9:36 AM
Wow! Look sooo yummy! Just nice when it's snowing outside!!!
- January 22, 2008 9:58 AM
- ICook4Fun said...
Wah, one look is just like shark fin soup :) May I know what kind of beancurd sheet you used?
- January 22, 2008 10:21 AM
- Retno Prihadana said...
It´s really good in the cold weather. What is Tang Hoon?
- January 22, 2008 10:30 AM
- jadepearl said...
Wah..this looks declicious!! So, is this going to be one of the items for your CNYE dinner? *wink*
- January 22, 2008 9:35 PM
- Ling's Passion said...
Wah..looks like shark fin soup and the best part, no need to kill a shark for it.
- January 22, 2008 11:42 PM
- Epilicious said...
Hi, it surely looks really good. I want to try to make for this coming CNY. Can you help me what is Dried Bamboo Fungus & Dried Lily Buds look like? Thanks a lot/Evy (btw, my name is same as ur first daughter :) )
- January 23, 2008 1:15 AM
- tigerfish said...
Look like shark fin's soup leh!
Those that are usually served during chinese wedding dinners :P
- January 23, 2008 2:49 AM
- Greg said...
It looks very warm and inviting. I like that all the ingredients are light in color. Pretty soup.
- January 23, 2008 5:51 AM
- Little Corner of Mine said...
Thanks Tricia. This soup is yummy, even Evy loves it, I was surprised that she even like the dried lily buds cooked in this way.
Hi Gert, I used the dried flat big piece of beancurd sheet that people also used to make sweet dessert.
Hi Retno, Tang Hoon is bean thread vermicelli. Heheh....
Thanks JP, still no idea on what to cook for CNY eve dinner yet as it's only 4 of us. Might just do steamboat for ease.
Thanks Ling. It would be great with some shredded crab meat hor, then it looks more like a shark fin soup.
Hi Let's bake together,
WOW, I thought my Evy is the only one that has her name spelled this way. That is so cool to know that she is not the only one with that name. For picture of dried bamboo fungus, here's the link:
As for dried lily buds, I found it on the web here:
Hi Tigerfish, yeah like the imitation shark fin soup. ;)
Thanks Greg. :)
- January 23, 2008 9:35 AM
- Dwiana P said...
OH.... that looks like the soup I find at chinese restaurant here. They are very good! thanks for sharing.
- January 27, 2008 8:21 PM
- Dwiana P said...
btw, what does tang hoon means?
- January 27, 2008 8:22 PM
What do you mean by egg drop???
Is it the whole egg or??
- January 22, 2009 8:14 PM
- Little Corner of Mine said...
Eggs drop means, in a bowl, you beat up 2-3 eggs and when the soup is done, you switch off the heat and slowly drop the eggs mixture into the soup while use a chopstick to stir in the pattern of 8. This will give the effect of eggs drop texture like in the America eggs drop soup.
- January 23, 2009 10:25 AM


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I am profoundly convinced of the power and benefit of a regular mindfulness meditation practice in training the mind to be aware and relaxed and in making a radical shift in how we relate to ourselves and others and to our life and work. I sought out mindfulness over 22 years ago, when dealing with a sudden family death and life challenges. What I discovered was a practical method that offered a new perspective in how the mind functions and a simple way to find immediate clarity, inner release and ease.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
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Guess the Plot
Godmother's Wand
1. When her fairy godmother's wand breaks, Penelope must go on a journey to the Field of Happiness to find the Fairy Stones. But two nasty trolls want them too. Along the way, Penelope meets a cheery collection of cuddly, chattery animals and learns the true meaning of friendship.
2. Young Nate has often wondered why his godmother Julie has larger hands, a deeper voice, and a more prominent Adam's Apple than most women. But the truth emerges the day he sees his . . . Godmother's Wand.
3. Over the river and through the woods
With Godmother's Wand we go
The vamps know the way
To slaughter and slay
And spill blood in the snow.
4. Godmother is at war with the Tooth Fairy, who has her wand. Enlisting dentist Bunny Hopeful to get the wand back before the world loses its teeth is her only option. Will Bunny brave the fangs of the fairy minions and save the world from unemployed dentists?
5. When Harriet steals her fairy godmother's wand, she doesn't know that in the wrong hands the wand does the opposite of what it's asked to do. Hilarity ensues for a while--until Harriet wishes for peace on Earth and starts World War III.
6. Saved from a fall by her fairy godmother, Mary must now prove she deserves to live, by rescuing her boyfriend from the depths of Hades. But first she has to avoid being killed by the giant flyswatter her fairy godmother is helpless to stop.
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Dear Mr. Evil Editor,
When hapless thirty-year old Mary Howard falls from her second story porch, she finds herself suspended in mid-air being lectured by a large flamboyant lady dressed in pink who's waving a clumsy wand. Mary has been rescued by her fairy godmother, Gretta. Almost. Gretta was a little too late due to a cosmic divorce, consequently Mary is only 40 percent alive. The rest of her is on the sidewalk.
Mary must prove to the Creator that she is worthy of being given life. In the meantime, Mary is alive enough to attend a fancy dress party, visit her parents in disguise and have tea at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. [If you're going to suspend the plot summary to list a few random things that happen, you need to come up with more interesting events than attending a party and drinking tea. I guarantee Dan Brown's query for The Da Vinci Code didn't say, Meanwhile, Langdon has time to grab a croissant from a Paris bakery, check his email, and take in a show at Moulin Rouge.] Along the way, a mysterious nemesis appears, who threatens to destroy Mary and chases her with a giant flyswatter. Gretta tries to protect Mary, but there are limits to what she can do. [If you can't even protect a 30-year-old woman from a flyswatter, it's time to hang up the wand.] Ultimately, Mary fights off the nemesis and unmasks her as… one of the pieces that broke off when she fell. [That broke off her body? Which piece? How much of her body is Mary missing? We seem to have gone from mundane to silly in this paragraph.]
Meanwhile, Mary's lackadaisical boyfriend, Todd, has ordeals of his own. Todd is tricked by a spiritual crank into descending to Hades, the Baltimore location, to rescue Mary's soul, [Trickery or not, if you're willing to descend into Hades for your girlfriend, you don't strike me as the lackadaisical type.] and finds himself in mortal danger. Mary is Todd's only hope. She must rescue him and herself and prove that she is worth resuscitating. It all ends happily ever after.
"Godmother's Wand" is 21,000 words and classified as magical realism. [That's not a term you'd want to apply to a children's book. And 21,000 words isn't going to cut it as an adult book. Is this part of a book called Three Novellas? Who's your audience?]
Thank you very much for your time.
Gretta sounds more like a guardian angel than a fairy godmother. Possibly because of the Creator aspect.
Why does Gretta's wand make it into the title? Does Mary take it to Hades?
Is the Creator a character in the book?
Everything may make sense in the book, but if something seems nutty in the query, it won't help your cause. Like, if Mary's arm is chasing her with a giant flyswatter, I'd leave that out. Even if it's for children. It's not an important part of the main plot, which is that Mary must earn her life by rescuing her brother from Hades. Focus on the main plot.
Your chances of surviving a fall from a second-story porch aren't all that bleak, even without a fairy godmother. Surely you wouldn't have so much velocity that when you were suddenly stopped, pieces of you would break off.
21 comments:
- Anonymous said...
I thought it sounded like a plot for a short story. Charming as it is, the manuscript doesn't seem to be quite the right size. You have a few options:
1] get out the subplot scissors and divide this into coherent chunks of about 5000 words which you can sub to lit mags
2] keep the best bits and condense them to about 5000 words that can be subbed to lit mags and put the rest in your leftovers folder
3] condense it to kid-size and pitch it as a 'chapter book' or other kid genre.
4] get more plot and write 20,000 more words and then start pitching it to agents as a novel for middle graders
5] get a bigger plot with more adult sensibilities and write 80,000 more words, then start pitching it to agents as a novel for adults
- Steve Wright said...
There seem to be quite a few elements here which look like they've been thrown in to pique my interest, but which are, in fact, only adding to my perplexity. Cosmic divorce? Hades as a location in Baltimore?
I think you should either explain these, or leave them out - because, given your plot description, my perplexity doesn't need to be added to. It seems that you've got a gender-switched Orpheus-and-Eurydice thing going on, complicated by... the heroine's own detached body parts coming after her? With a fly swatter? What have the heroine's body parts got against her? - apart from her apparent propensity for going on pointless side trips when she should be getting on with the plot? I mean, if I was 60% dead and probably rising towards 100%, I sure as heck wouldn't be wasting time on fancy dress parties...
... Yes. Well. As I say, I'm pretty thoroughly perplexed. And, while I firmly believe that stories should be as long as they need to be (and no longer), I rather wonder whether you can dispel all my perplexity in only 21,000 words. It does seem awfully short, considering.
- _*rachel*_ said...
The beginning of the query, especially the description of the fairy godmother, has some life in it. The rest just doesn't sound believable. And it's really, really short for a novel.
- Khazar-khum said...
A division of Hades in Baltimore? Is corporate HQ in Detroit? or LA?
Falling from a 2nd story window is common. My stepmother's sister pushed her out the 2nd story window and she's OK...well, OK, she's not the best example, but you get the point.
Falling from a 20th story window, now, that's a spectacular thing to survive.
- Anonymous said...
Thank you to everyone who's commented, and especially to Evil Editor.
I can see that I didn't explain the plot very well. This is a novella aimed at middle-aged people.
There are two plots going on: When Mary fell off the porch, she was split into multiple Mary's by accident by her f.g. The main-Mary has to shape herself up (learn to clean, to make a living, to enjoy herself, etc...) in order to be brought back to life. Her f.g. helps her. The other versions of Mary, shadows, devour one another until the most powerful remains, ShadowMary, and goes after the main-Mary. The f.g. just manages to rescue Mary, but decides to send Mary to study at "The Better Angels," a camp run by Abraham Lincoln, to learn these skills as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, the second plot: Mary's boyfriend finds her body, is visited by ShadowMary, who has been tricked by a Mr. Crank, into believing that her soul is in Hades. He decides reluctantly to rescue her, romantically thinking of himself as Orpheus. The three of them walk through the Baltimore ghetto to Hades (located in an abandoned row house), he's trapped, and is rescued through Mary's new skills...
I think I'll take out the flyswatter detail.
- Chelsea Pitcher said...
For whatever reason, I didn't have a lot of problems with this query. The story sounds hilarious, and the weirdness of it intrigued me. My nit lies with the phrase: clumsy wand. Was the wand clumsy, or the hand that was holding it?
The paragraph about Todd started to lose me a little, and I think you might be able to make the ending more specific to the story. Maybe something about Mary being more interested in living than living happily ever after.
- Anonymous said...
Thank you, Khazar-khum, for that comment. She specifically lands on her head (which is hard to survive).
But, maybe I will make her fall off of the fourth story.
- Anonymous said...
From reading agent blogs etc my understanding is that whatever the merits of a 20K word novella, there's no market for them that would support the investment of their time. So you can skip the trouble of looking for an agent and just go straight to Duotrope and look for places to sub it to on your own, like you would do with a short story.
- Anonymous said...
Your longer version in the comments makes more sense than the query.
Is this close:
"In a misguided attempt to protect her, Mary's Godmother (Greta) accidently splits Mary into multiple beings. While the original Mary must prove herself worthy of a second chance at life, her doppelgangers fight for dominance. The strongest doppelganger convinces Todd, Mary's boyfriend, that they need to save her soul from Hades to allow her to reclaim her life. Thinking himself a modern day Orpheus, Todd enters Hades through a Baltimore ghetto and is trapped.
The doppelganger challenges Mary in an attempt to steal her life. Greta once again intervenes and the doppelganger is defeated. Mary is sent to ___________ to master the skills (tell me what they are) which will allow her to reclaim her life and save Todd. She then (saves Todd how?) and they live happily ever after. " ??
If so, try to focus on Mary's challenges and resolutions. Also, Mary sounds a tad passive but I'm sure that's just the way I tried to fill in the blanks. This seems like a bigger story than 21,000 words would allow. Good luck.
- Anonymous said...
Hi King's Falcon, Thank you very much for that. You described Mary's situation excellently and I will probably use it.
In reply to anonymous about Duotrope: I do not know what Duotrope is...
And, thank you Chelsea, happily ever now is much better than happily ever after.
Why don't agents like novellas?
They are short, and perfect for the one hour airplane ride.
- Evil Editor said...
Publishers don't like novellas because the most expensive part of a book is the cover, which means the cost of printing a novella isn't much more than the cost of printing a novel. Which means the book will cost as much as a novel, even though it's only 80 to 100 pages. Readers will look at the price and say, Why should I pay 6.99 for 90 pages when these 300-page books cost the same? That's like buying a six-pack of Coke when the twelve-pack is cheaper.
Agents don't like novellas because publishers don't like them.
Another problem with a 100-page book is that it's as thick as 50 sheets of paper, which makes it hard to read the spine, and less likely to be picked up in a bookstore.
Novellas were popular in the early days of aviation for just the reason you mention; then Lloyd Casterbridge invented the bookmark, and that was all she wrote.
- Steve Wright said...
Heh. I recently finished reading Sergei Lukyanenko's "Night Watch" trilogy (which, like all the best trilogies, now has four volumes)... Each book consists of three sections, and each one is a complete story in itself, albeit loosely linked to the others.
So, effectively, each one of Lukyanenko's books consists of three novellas. So that's how you can get novellas published. Sneaky, these Russkies.
- Dave Fragments said...
It's very hard to get a 20K or 25K story published. Even some ezines require you have a query letter. I know. I have a story that length.
BTW - given life is a phrase from the board game "GO" where a space can be "given life" and also a blessing from the Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions, i.e. "given life like RA for 10,000 years."
- pacatrue said...
You might try a collection of novellas and stories, anonymous author. Those are notoriously difficult to sell as well, but not completely impossible. Witness Jhumpa Lahiri and the Pulitzer. However, you are probably going to need more of a track record, meaning you've published a couple short stories in other markets first.
Anything else you can bundle with this?
- Anonymous said...
Jhumpa Lahiri, a very lyrical writer. I am to her as a toaster is to a nuclear reactor.
Well, as a matter of fact, I do have two more planned: Godmother's Baby and Lord Yiddlepop's Fire. But can you imagine the query letter for three novellas?
- Dave Fragments said...
Yes, if you can write the stories, you can write the query.
Three chapter book stories set in the fantaty world of NNN. In the first, a young girl gets split into a a good and bad versions and has to find a way to save her brother from Hades, a tenement in Baltimore.
The second story is about the first baby born to a fairy godmother. HAve you ever wondered what spoiled is about?
And in the third story, Yiddlepop unleashes a fire on the world that just might not stop burning. It's not the fires of love we have to worry about.
That's the way it might be. Those are made up and maybe two sentences long. You can craft three sentences for each story and present them as cheery, bright and entertaining. Which is what they actually are.
- Anonymous said...
Thanks Dave, quite good!
You have all been very helpful and I greatly appreciate it.
- Xiexie said...
I the zaniness of this works for me. I like Kings_Falcon's version and that seems to get it, but I say don't lose the zaniness.
I also agree with Dave about the 3 novellas things as one book. It could definitely work especially if the characters were all related in some way with [insert mythical world/situation here].
- pacatrue said...
Hi Author,
I'm sure other short story / novella collections have been pitched before on this site, but here's one I remember from a long time ago. EE weighed in a bit and didn't seem to think the collection idea was hopeless.
- Sylvia said...
I liked the summary given in the comments much better, until I got to this:
"The f.g. just manages to rescue Mary, but decides to send Mary to study at "The Better Angels," a camp run by Abraham Lincoln, to learn these skills as quickly as possible."
which pulled me up short again, going huh? How'd he come into this?
But maybe it's just that I'm not good at zany.
Anyway, I happened to notice that Elisabeth Bear (noted Sci Fi writer) uses 25k as her target for her current WIP. Also the romance e-books are all around that length. So I agree there's not a lot of point (right now) in looking at agents and you should be submitting directly.
Duotrope's Digest
But it seems to me that in the up-and-coming worlds of e-readers, your length will soon be trendy. :)
But the good
- Anonymous said...
Hi Sylvia, the camp is based on Lincoln's quote: the better angels of our nature, and it's a self-improvement spa (like the Golden Door) run by angels for profit in Paradise Cove, Hawaii. The idea is that rich spirits can pay to be improved and reach the level of angel. They use a system older than the 7 deadly sins,where melancholy, Mary's problem, is a sin.


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Portland's visions ecclectic, diverse and welcomed
VisionPDX, an effort initiated by Mayor Tom Potter, largely succeeded in polling the views of the city's growing minority populations.
African-Americans, who make up 6.2 percent of Portland's population, comprised 10.4 percent of the respondents. Latinos were slightly under-represented: They make up 8.4 percent of the population but comprised 7.6 percent of the respondents.
Woman were more apt to respond than men, as were those with higher educations. Twenty-five percent of respondentes had B.A.s and 19.7 percent had graduate degrees.
I was asked to analyze responses in three areas: Higher education, educational opportunity and educational funding. After three hours, I had managed to get through the first of the three. Bottomline: respondents want Portland to have a "first-rate" university, like the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of California in Berkeley. Many want OHSU and PSU to merge into a powerhouse research institution.
The approximately 25 of us who are reading the thousands of responses were told by Portland historian Chet Orloff that we should search for the the values that Portlanders hold dear. He recalled a 2004 visit by famed urbanist Jane Jacobs, who died in April, to Portland. At the time, she dismissed the need for Portland "to vision."
Orloff recounted, "She said that Portlanders need to know who we are and to build on that."
With that in mind, I'm dipping into my share of the 13,000 plus responses looking for evidence of who Portlanders think they are and what they think their city should be in 20 years.
While visionPDX's system is far from perfect (see my earlier post), Portlanders are fortunate we've been asked for our visions, and the city is fortunate that so many have shared theirs.


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The Mosquitia, or Mosquito Coast, is a large rainforest that fills Honduras' northeast corner along the Caribbean Coast. Named after an indigenous group, not the insect, the area is nonetheless infested with mosquitoes and sandflies, so bring repellent with DEET and/or an oil-based lotion to drown out the sandflies and take the proper precautions against Malaria.
Culture and Wildlife
This forested, swampy section of Honduras is rich in wildlife and flora and is sparsely inhabited with native tribal groups that still practice traditional lifestyles. Be on the lookout for wildlife like manatees and alligators in the lagoons, howler and other types of monkeys and a wide variety of birds. There are no roads passing through the area, so travelers passing on to Nicaragua, will probably want to back-track to Tegucigalpa after visiting this northwestern section of Honduras.
Tours vs. Independent Travel
There are two ways to visit the Mosquitia region: by tour or independently. Tours can be booked in La Ceiba or Tegucigalpa and usually include transportation by carved-out canoe to a lodge. Independent travelers can visit the native towns, which offer basic lodging, either in a hotel, camping or through a family-stay, and food. Independent travelers should travel prepared with camping gear, especially a flashlight, toilet paper, a mosquito net, food and water purifiers. It is also extremely helpful to speak at least passable Spanish.
Climate and Weather
November and December are the wettest months, although you should expect rain throughout the year. Plan to stay for at least a week.
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It may seem oxymoronic to place a costly sound system within a pile of garbage, to pair a Northamerican college student with a dirty Nicaraguan child, or to see joyful dancing within a neighborhood of need. But last week within the trash mountains of La Chureca, Dia de Luz (Day of Light) called for a partnering of such opposites. Love, Light & Melody is an organization that works within the Managua municipal dump, loving on its inhabitants and seeking to serve them as they encourage both adults and children to seek a better life. Founded by musician Brad Corrigan (originally of Dispatch), this group plans Dia de Luz each year with the intent of bringing gringo and Nica together, uniting us as humans, and manifesting a joy through music that celebrates life.
This concert by Braddigan (the name of Brad's current band, inspired by and centered around La Chureca) was preceded by many events throughout the week intended to connect and serve dump families. Many Manna PDs, along with a spring break group from UNC-Wilmington, were invited to assist in planting flowers around homes and participating in field games. Gringo and Nica dug together, played together, and ultimately danced together as the week drew to a close with the concert. And in this final event there was something surprisingly powerful. Set before a backdrop of garbage and smoke, Brad sang of walls falling down and the hands of a mighty creator. And filling a dusty field before the stage were people from the dump and the suburbs, from the developing world and the first world, from dirt floor shacks and air conditioned mansions. With dirty feet and painted faces, people tossed water in the air and danced hand-in-hand, perhaps oblivious to the the juxtaposition they formed, but fully aware of the delight found in unity and music.
The following day as Braddigan played a benefit concert at a beach hotel, he spoke of the need to bring the poorest of the poor to an ocean resort and the wealth holders of the world to a destitute dump. All people should be allowed to witness the beauty of the beach – and the beauty within a neighborhood of trash. Brad spoke of bringing our worlds of difference together and how significant it might be to break down the disparity between rich and poor and to expose each extreme to the struggles and splendors of the other. We are handicapped by the layers of separation existing within our globe, those that are perhaps forced to exist in order to maintain an apathetic comfort. So what a striking and influential picture Dia de Luz was in revealing for a moment the beauty of differences broken down in order to witness a union of humanity!
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The Bond franchise is famed for its glamorous locations from around the world but the true home of 007 is in London mainly due to the MI6 headquarters being located there. As well as the various places used for that role the capital has also appeared in many other guises and I made it my mission to find as many of the shooting locations as possible.
First up is one of the most iconic moments in the whole 007 series as its where Sean Connery delivers the line "The name's Bond….James Bond" in the 1962 debut 'Dr No'. That place is supposedly the chemin-de-fer table in Le Cercle Club at Les Ambassadeurs (below) in Hamilton Place but don't get too excited as the interior was actually filmed at Pinewood Studio's.
Next is Brent Cross Shopping Centre and its car park (above left); the 4th floor of which played the part of 'Hamburg' in 1997's 'Tomorrow Never Dies' starring Pierce Brosnan. In the same movie the courtyard of Somerset House (above right) at The Strand was used as MI6 HQ whereas in the previous Brosnan outing 'GoldenEye' it doubled up as 'St Petersburg'. Other 'Russian' locations in London to feature in 'GoldenEye' include the Langham Hilton at Portland Place (below left) and St Sofia's Cathedral (below right & lower left) on Moscow Road near Bayswater Station. The interior of the latter is the 'St Petersburg' church where Natalya meets Boris by chance. The exterior was Brompton Cemetry (lower right) on Old Brompton Road.
One final 'Russian' location is Drapers' Hall (below) on Throgmorton Street near Bank station. It is the 'St Petersburg' council chamber in 'GoldenEye' where a General discovers that Natalya has survived the detonation. There was lots of scaffolding work while I was here so I had to zoom in close to cut it out.
We may as well stay with Brosnan-era Bond locations so lets move on to Vauxhall Cross where 85 Albert Embankment (below left), next to Vauxhall Bridge, is the MI6 HQ building in 'The World Is Not Enough'. A 20 minute walk along the river takes you to Westminster Bridge beneath which Bond finds the entrance to the fictitious Vauxhall Cross underground (below right). This was used in 'Die Another Day' and is actually nothing more than a caretakers hut.
The 'Thames' boat chase during the pre-oping credits of 'The World Is Not Enough' starts off near Tower Bridge (below left) continuing on to (and indeed under as only Bond can do) Glengall Bridge in the East End's docks before moving along Ornamental Canal at Wapping Lane where he soaks a couple of traffic wardens at the right-angle bend pictured below right. He then crashes through a boatshed at the end of the canal alongside the Tobacco Dock pirate ships (lower left) and proceeds through a few streets before hitting the water again where he ends up at the Millennium Dome (lower right), now the O2 Arena, which is a rather poorly scanned photo I took six years ago.
At 104 Pall Mall (below left) is the Reform Club where Bond duels with Gustav Graves in 'Blades' in the rather poor 'Die Another Day' and it was also used in 2008's 'Quantum Of Solace' as government office where M is summoned to explain Bonds behaviour. The interior of 92 Stoke Newington Road in the Hackney area (below right) is the 'Cuban' cigar factory where Bond searches for Zao in the 20th 007 film 'Die Another Day'.
For Roger Moore's over-due finale in 1985's 'A View To A Kill' the Old War Office Building on Whitehall (below left) is the MI6 HQ but two years later it's Malaysia House (below right) at 57 Trafalgar Square which plays the same place for Timothy Dalton's first outing as the secret agent in 'The Living Daylights'.
In 'Octopussy' the world-famous Sotherby's auction house (below left) on 53 Bond Street is where Bond cleverly switches the Faberge egg that was put up for sale.
George Lazenby only performed the 007 role for one film; 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' and the College of Arms (above right) on Queen Victoria Street is where he learns all about heraldry.


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Mid-sized Japanese ISP and telecoms provider J:COM is launching a domestic security package that will rival, at least in part, the U-Consento service we saw from NTT last week in the intelligent-home stakes.
The Peace of Mind service is being offered to J:COM's existing internet subscribers as an add-on that will allow them to monitor their homes remotely. Using a combination of IP webcams, dedicated company servers and customers' mobile phones, any designated part of a house can be monitored from afar for unexpected changes.
Software sentry
User-intervention is kept to a minimum by using software to look for anything untoward. If, for example, a camera detects that a door has been opened or a window broken, it sends images to the J:COM server, which then alerts the user by phone or normal email.
Although such technologies aren't new, their inclusion as part of an ISP package could mark their becoming more mainstream than previously.


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Pneumatic conveying is a type of system which we use to transport heavy material, powders and granules using a pipeline instead of using the conventional methods such as conveyors or other forms of technology which can be used for transporting such materials. The system of pneumatic conveying is solely depended upon differential pressure and the flow of nitrogen and air so that they can move the materials. The pneumatic conveyors can be broad of two types such as pressure conveyors, and vacuum conveyors. The two types have their own advantages and disadvantages. However, let us now take a look at the numerous advantages that we get from suing pneumatic conveying. As you can gather there are a variety of benefits which we get from using such a transporting system. Here is a list of some of the important benefits which we get from pneumatic conveying.
Simple Routing
One of the major advantages which we get from using the transporting system is that it follows a simple route of transportation. This means that certain of the pneumatic conveying system will run in a certain way. For example, let us consider the screw pneumatic conveying system. This system runs only in a straight line and even the inclination is solely depended upon the materials. It follows a uniform pattern and does not stray from the originally laid down path. Since the pneumatic conveying system is of pipelines we can allow the pipelines to be laid down both horizontally and vertically. The pneumatic system can be laid on the floor and hence it can be used at any site which makes it easier for the workers without any troubles. Hence this is a major benefit which we get from using pneumatic conveying.
Wide Range Capacity
As you know that the pneumatic system is depended upon the pressure of gas and sir. Hence it can easily take up great loads. Therefore instead of relying on nut and bolts, you rely on gas and air. And we know that this will allow us to have a greater capacity enabling us to transport more materials at one go.
Ease of Installation
Another reason why we find most people using the pneumatic conveying system is that they are extremely to install. For the installation of the pneumatic system all, we need to do add an extra valve and we can successfully increase the scope of the pneumatic conveying system. Hence this also helps in saving loads of cost which can be avoided. Therefore we should keep these in mind when we considering the transporting system. This is a major advantage which we get from using such type of system.
Low Maintenance
As you can see that we do not have to spend much time on the maintenance of pneumatic conveying systems. We can easily just have some of the parts removed and we are good to go. You should also know that in the pneumatic conveying system there are only a few parts which need to be changed regularly and which can be done at a very low cost. The parts that need maintenance regularly are the valve, vacuum pump, air compressor, and other such items. These items can easily be fixed in the house also. Hence we save greatly on the maintenance costs.
As you can see that these are some of the important benefits which we receive from using the pneumatic conveying. There are various other benefits which include things such as safety of and also optimal performance is achieved from the system. The pneumatic system is well devised and never fails to give us it's the best working.


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Jing Wang is an Assistant Research Scholar specializing mondern and contemporary Chinese literature and film. Currently she teaches CAS Freshman Honors Seminar and Post Advanced Reading in Chinese courses. She graduated with a degree in Chinese Language in Literature from Beijing University in 1986. Before her position as Research Scholar she worked as a Chinese Language Lecturer at NYU from 1999-2005.
Jing Wang
Assistant Research Scholar
B.A. Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing University, 1986
Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film
Chinese classics
Chinese and western women writers
Representation of the City in Chinese Cinema
My Lost City, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, translated into Chinese
反對快樂﹐ 支持悲傷 (Against Happiness), an essay
Chinese translation of The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (by Carson McCullers)
Shanghai Literature, Monthly contribution on "Contemporary Women Writers in North America"
Little White Sister: American Women Writers in the 1990s, edited and translated
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Vicky Colombet
She's a French artist who lives and works in New York. Her paintings always suggest landscapes which seem to have a photographic look. She works and exposes in Chanin Fine Arts in New York and in Evo Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and in 2012 she exposed in Bernard Jacobson Gallery in New York. She has collaborated with the architect Enric Ruiz-Geli in the Villa Nurbs project in Girona.


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Is this the snowman with the jacket on or the little guy? Are al three for sale or just the snowman? I have Mr and Mrs Pumpkin and have had for years. Love them.
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We have the little Pumpkin characters. Will these fit in an urn the same way?
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How weatherproof are these? Would it be a good idea to spray with a ployurethane spray before putting outside?
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Brisbane is the capital city of Queensland. Queensland is famous for the Gold Coast and the Great Barrier Reef. Brisbane is situated on the Brisbane River and is known as the 'River City'. It is a vibrant, cosmopolitan city.
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ReJIT for Realz?!
Yes! Check out this new video on channel 9 for the scoop:
In the upcoming .NET 4.5, we do indeed plan to include a limited form of ReJIT that will allow diagnostic tools to perform IL Rewriting after the code has been JITted—by instructing the CLR, via the Profiling API, to JIT the (now instrumented) method again (i.e., ReJIT it! ).
If you want to play with this feature, it is available in the .NET 4.5 Developer Preview. You can search for it on the Microsoft Download Center, and you'll find the .NET 4.5-only link and the full Visual Studio 11 link:
It will be tough to try it out now, though, as we don't have docs or samples yet. And note that there are several limitations, some of which are touched on in the video. You'll need to look through corprof.idl and turn on your mind-reading skills to figure it out. But I will have a lot more to say about the feature and how you can use it in upcoming posts right here.