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Fitness Friday
I skipped last Friday because I was in a wedding that day, and we were swamped all day with wedding stuff! It was fun, but it didn't leave me any time at all to blog. So this FF is for two weeks.
Nothing tastes as good as being healthy feels. Nothing tastes as good as being healthy feels. Nothing tastes as good as being healthy feels.
As long as I keep repeating this to myself, I'm fine. The reality I'm dealing with is that I can't stand the taste of veggies (I'm not kidding… this is complete with gagging and throwing up in some cases. Dramatic, I know, but it's the God's honest truth) and I love sugar (like most people do). I'm doing all I can to train myself to eat better food, but this is way more challenging than I thought it would be. One challenge that I'm facing is that as a Catholic, we really aren't supposed to eat meat other than fish or other types of seafood on Fridays during lent, but finding good, reliable fish around here right now is difficult. However, I need the protein because I'm working out so much. This tradition normally gets ignored, and I eat chicken.
One other challenge I'm facing is that I discovered that I'm not eating enough calories in a day. Furthermore, I'm not eating enough of the RIGHT calories in a day. IF I get the right amount, that's great, but it's not great if the right amount is coming from cookies and brownies.
I'm trying to overcome the vegetable thing. I have managed to get myself to the point where if the vegetable is chopped up into super small pieces and mixed into whatever I'm eating, it usually goes down better. This includes salads- if the broccoli is left in big chunks, I can't eat it. If it's really small though and mixed with the spinach (that I love), it goes much better. I'm great on fruits though because of the sugar, so I actually need to scale back on those. I still love the green smoothies, although I have discovered that without banana, it tastes much more vegetable-like.
So, I need to work on eating the right amount of the right food. Nothing tastes as good as being healthy feels.
Amazingly, I'm doing awesome with fitness. Due to the medical problems I have (thanks in large part to being fat), I really thought this was going to be an issue. I figured out though that the less I move, the harder it is to move. So if I can get up and immediately go eat breakfast then work out, I set myself up for a day of movement. However, if I'm lazy that day and don't move, it's harder to do so later. I'm trying to change my morning habit so I can get into a routine.
One of the ways I'm accomplishing this is to consult my at home strength training flashcard deck. I know there's a snazzier name for them, but for now, they're my flashcards. The idea for these came about as a direct result of me being bored with doing the same workouts for days, and having too many workout at home bookmarks on my computer. So, I decided to print out all of the articles.
This isn't even all of them, actually. They come from a wide variety of sources, from blogs to magazine articles, to random pieces of advice given to me. Anyway, I cut all the workouts out from the printed versions of the articles, and taped them to a large index card.
I put the body part (or parts) that each exercise focuses on, the source of the article, general instructions in terms of reps and sets, a picture from the article if available, and the instructions for each exercise from the article.
I feel that working out while consulting a card is way more efficient and less cumbersome than trying to maneuver my computer into place so I can read the screen while trying to do these. I included the body areas targeted by each workout (remember, the more large muscle groups worked at once, the better), the source of the article (many came from Prevention or Self), and instructions in terms of sets and reps. I cut out a picture of the exercise being performed and the exercise instructions from the articles themselves.
Once this was done, I ended up with a stack of about 130 cards with one exercise on each one. I have about an hour set aside each day, and I simply select two or three cards to do that day in addition to my 100 push ups challenge and cardio.
Now, I'm not delusional. I know that these alone aren't going to get the job done by themselves, and that's ok. My goal with these is simply to get up and do something, which sets me up for an entire day of healthy movement. I look at them as a warm-up to my day. An hour of these with a good stretch afterward really works well for me. I always add my walk/jog with the dog at the end of the day and I do the challenges from my Leap Into Summer group as well.
Goals for Next Week
I am going to take my measurements again and get on the scale. I have been a little weary of the scale since my four pounds incident, but I think I have done well enough now for some weight to have come off. In terms of diet, my goal is still to eat the right amount of the right calories of mostly veggies, healthy carbs, and protein.
Another goal for next week is to not drink any soda. None. I HAVE to drink more water, and the only way that's happening around here is if the soda isn't even a choice and water is.
I would also like to really keep a great log of my 21 Day Weight Loss Challenge points next week as well.
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Four Pounds
This blog is about sharing my successes AND struggles in getting healthy and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Well, here's a struggle for you all:
I gained four pounds. I know I shouldn't be surprised after that horrific week I had, but I GAINED FOUR POUNDS. Well, at least my scale says I did. I'm not quite sure if it's the sodium and I'm retaining water really bad, or if I really have gained four pounds, or what.
Are there any tips out there on maintaining a consistent workout schedule? I'm asking because apparently that's my biggest problem. I'm great for one or two days, then one bad day happens and I can't seem to recover from it quickly and just jump back into my normal routine.
There is NO room to mess around this week. I *must* keep right on track with my points in the Mommy Blogger Weight Loss Challenge (<— this is the name of the program. I swear I'm not making random capitalization errors). I walked all day today (I have a friend in town so we went sight seeing) and managed to skip the fried onion appetizer at dinner. Green smoothie tomorrow for breakfast I guess and we're grilling chicken for dinner tomorrow with some sort of quinoa and veggie based salad. I was going to add more workouts, but honestly I think I need to work on getting the nutrition down to a science first and then slowly add more workout routines. Walking/jogging with the dog for several miles every day, and the 100 push ups challenge will have to suffice for now. After all, no amount of exercise will compensate for a bad diet.
I'm also buying new shoes tomorrow. Mine are starting to actually cut (literally) my feet and that's just not going to work for me.
Fitness Friday
Well, week 1 of the 21 Day Mommy Blogger Challenge is over. I didn't do so hot on the points, mainly because I was downed by a massive migraine headache most of the day Wednesday (hence the lack of a Wednesday post) and the morning half of Thursday.
Tuesday was the worst day though. I was buried under a mound of paperwork so much so that I got about 2 hours of sleep Monday night, and just never went to bed Tuesday night. It really brought me back those all-nighters I pulled as an undergraduate trying to study and get everything done.
At about 10 o'clock or so Tuesday night I finally got out from my little circle of personal hell that I set up for myself (read: I crawled out from underneath a pile of papers) and went to go cook dinner. We had no veggies, no eggs, no fruit, no Greek yogurt, no cereal, no quinoa, no couscous, nothing. We literally had nothing healthy with which I could make dinner, and to make matters worse, my husband left early Monday morning on a work trip for the week, so sending him to the store wasn't a choice. I had NO time (literally… I got the paperwork scanned and emailed at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning, about 10 minutes before I had to walk out the door) to go to the store and cook, so I went through a drive-thru.
I don't even feel guilty about it. I literally feel 0 guilt for hitting a drive-thru. It was too late to hit up a Subway, and it was just one of those things. However, I did learn a lot about what to do if I ever find myself in that situation again (and I will, I'm extremely busy). I learned that I HAVE to have stuff around for a quick snack. I just have to. Drive-thrus, while fine for that one time, are NOT a good solution.
Even though this week was what I would consider a setback more than anything, I did manage to find some really great recipes. Last weekend somebody in my LEAP Into Summer group posted a really awesome recipe for a frozen banana that I modified. This is the modified recipe:
-2 TBS plain greek yogurt
-1/8 tsp. vanilla (I used my homemade vanilla)
-cinnamon to taste
-about 4 or so strawberries
-parchment paper or some other non-stick surface
I took the strawberries and make a strawberry puree with my food processor. I blended it up until I got it pretty smooth, and added it to the greek yogurt, vanilla, and cinnamon. Coat half a banana with the yogurt mixture, sprinkle on some finely chopped walnuts, and freeze on parchment paper from anywhere between 20-45 minutes (depending on how frozen you actually want it).
This is before I tried it with the strawberries. See, I can't stand the taste of greek yogurt or veggies. I can't STAND it. So I have to come up with some seriously creative ways to mask the taste, although I'm starting to like the yogurt a little more each day.
This snack was amazing. It's not chocolate cake, but it's pretty darn close. The strawberries really complemented the taste of the banana, the walnuts added just that little bit of crunch, and the greek yogurt made it just tangy enough. It was delicious. Too bad I ran out of bananas by Monday or else I could have had one of these Tuesday night.
Another great tip I got was to puree some fruit, mix it with greek yogurt, then load the yogurt into a baker's piping bag (or at my house a plastic bag with a corner cut off) and make little yogurt drops. Freeze them, then you can just pop those as a snack. I'm going to try those next week.
I made more green smoothies as well. I tried adding more spinach and yogurt, and it was still amazing.
Two words: wall sit. Best quad workout I have ever found. I did a 30 second wall sit over the weekend and I really, really felt it the next day (and, admittedly, the day after that). More in-shape people I'm sure could do much longer wall sits, but I really hurt after just 30 seconds. My goal is to work toward being able to do a minute long sit. A wall sit, in case you have never heard of this, is basically doing a squat where you end up with your thighs parallel to the floor. The difference is that instead of coming back up, you hold it with your back against the wall for as long as possible.
I started the 100 push ups challenge as well this week to hopefully get my arms toned, and added tricep dips into the mix. I hate tricep dips, but that's mostly because I haven't been able to find a bench or step in the house that's the right height yet. I have been using the couch, and that's just not the right height.
Goals for Next Week
I didn't get to work out 4 days this week though. I just ended up running out of time with unexpected work, then once everything got done I was felled by the migraine from hell. So, my goal for next week is to keep up with the points better from the mommy challenge, continue with the push ups challenge, and try to add in more of a core workout. Push ups and wall sits, calf raises, and tricep dips are great, but they're doing nothing for getting my core in shape.
I would like to add in a daily walk. Usually my husband takes the dog for a walk, but I think I'm going to make it a daily family trip.
A challenge for next week is that a friend of mine is coming into town tomorrow and staying through Tuesday, then I'm going to central Texas for a wedding next weekend. I am going to give it all I have to stay on track and get my 4 days of exercise in.
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Fitness Friday
It's Fitness Friday again! To link your story up, head over to Going Crazy, Wanna Go? and take a look at her Fatty Friday post.
March is here, and with that comes the 21 Day Mommy Blogger Challenge! I'm participating with Elizabeth from My This N That Life. This program works on a point system, which I have never used before. I'm excited to give it a shot, but more than that, I'm excited about getting in shape and getting my life back. I'm tired of being a blob.
I also joined this amazing Facebook accountability group called Leap Into Summer which was started by this awesome lady named Debra. She reasoned that there are 90 days between leap day this year and memorial day, so we are supposed to challenge ourselves to start summer off on a healthy note. This group is great because I'm actually held accountable for things like sitting around and binging all day, cheered on when I'm discouraged, and praised when I actually manage to do a 50 second wall sit (have you tried those? My husband literally couldn't do a 10 second one earlier). I actually got very brave and posted my measurements (including weight) up there. Now that I know an entire group of 134 people are watching me succeed or fail, I'm going to get to it.
I'm actually pretty proud of myself this week. We ate from home virtually every meal except Tuesday night when I had a meeting and two days ago when I decided that I wanted some french fries as a snack (fries was all I ordered though). I paid for it later with some fairly intense gastrointestinal distress that actually managed to keep me up one night. That's great negative reinforcement at least.
Thursday night we made turkey burgers and topped it off with a green (or in our case, pinkish) smoothie for dessert. My husband was incredibly skeptical about this smoothie. He said that he shouldn't have an issue with it because he eats salads all the time, so there wasn't anything different about this really. He found it weird that it was in a smoothie form though, and was really hesitant to try it with me.
I originally got the recipe from Pinterest. The recipe is:
1 banana
4 or 5 strawberries
1/2 cup blueberries
1 small peach
1 heaping cup of spinach
1 tbs. Greek yogurt
2 tsp. honey
1/2 cup crushed ice
splash of vanilla soy milk
We modified this recipe slightly from the original Pinterest pin by adjusting the amount of the ingredients and leaving out the soy milk and honey. We used:
1 banana
6 strawberries because those are our favorite
1/2 cup of blueberries
1/2 of a large peach that had been peeled and chopped
2 tbs. Greek yogurt because we really like it
1 large handful of spinach leaves
1 cup crushed ice
This was the result:
The entire contents of the blender fit into this glass, so if you make it like I did be sure to double the recipe. It looked really weird, but it tasted amazing! I really liked it. It tasted better to me than the ones we used to make with juice. I couldn't taste the spinach at all.
My husband said he didn't hate it, but his issue was that there was an obvious banana flavor. He doesn't like banana, but agreed to let me put it in the smoothie because I don't like peaches or blueberries and I let him put those in it.
Now, I'm not going to sit here and say that it was better than a big ol' slice of chocolate cake or fresh baked cookies or anything, but in terms of smoothies, it is my favorite. I think the honey was probably used to make it sweeter, but to me, it really didn't need it. My husband said that next time he wants to add some pineapple and possibly try a variation with some watermelon later.
If you decide to give it a try or have other green smoothie recipes, please let me know!
Goals for Next Week
I'm starting the 90 day Leap Into Summer challenge and the 21 Day Mommy Blogger challenge, so my goal is to work out at least 4 days next week and stay on track with the point system. I would like to try to find a source for grass fed beef and raw milk, but I'm not sure I'm going to be able to.
I'm excited about losing some inches. I'm in need of new clothes, and it would be great if I could go shopping for clothes one or two sizes smaller.
Fitness Friday
Well we skipped right from one Fitness Friday installment to the next. Sorry about the lack of posts over the week. It has been insane lately!
Anyway, as you know my husband and I have been traveling (stay tuned for a blog post about it), and through that time I have done all I can to stay on track. I have to say that I feel like I've done an adequate job doing that. I ate a decent breakfast every morning, and managed to consume good quality protein while we were away. All of that plus the almost constant walking, some running, and standing means that I got in a good consistent amount of exercise as well.
Weight: No change. I'm not sure why, but I am glad it didn't go back up!
Exercise: Lots more walking. Lots and lots of walking.
Diet: Ate out every day, but I tried to consume quality protein in the form of seafood and veggies. The only thing I didn't get to do was make my green smoothie. I'm determined to make that this coming week. My husband is quite hesitant though.
Goals for next week: It occurred to me that I need to actually quantify and set specific goals. In doing so, I think I will hit specific targets instead of just doing general, broad things. A goal of mine is to make a green smoothie. This will get done! I want to take the dog on a 1.5-2 mile walk every day, and spend an hour every other day weight training. As for diet, I want to cook from home for every meal.
March is rapidly approaching, and with that comes the Mommy Blogger 21 Day Challenge with Elizabeth from My This N That Life. Thank you to everyone for keeping me accountable and pushing me toward my goals! If you have any tips, tricks, recipes, etc. feel free to leave them in comments, email, or Facebook me!
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How do I configure titlebar buttons in Compiz?
Ok, I have Debian Testing (Etch) installed with XOrg 7.1 + Compiz. I run KDE as my desktop.
In KDE I normally have the close button moved over to the left hand side (which is how I like it). From what I can tell, Compiz just takes its window decoration settings from Metacity.
I have downloaded and installed gconf-editor and I went and did this:
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Saturday, 20 June 2009
Mismatched Teddy Bear
The first time I read this was at my Spotlight performance at the Storey gallery in Lancaster. My bear was made by me and a friend suggested naming him Bernard. He truly is uglily beautiful.
Mismatched Teddy Bear
I put you together in a mismatched form. I collected your arms, legs and head in the wicker basket behind my back door. I stitched your torso together with coloured thread and ribbon you look spectacular, a fabricated vision.
Your skin is soft to touch and a floral explosion of dainty twee prints and retro patchwork patterns. You are pretty to look at, tactile and plush but cold to love as you never grow old.
I tempt to put you on the shelf to collect dust and sit with the unused garden elves, but you are too pretty yet deformed to leave alone without a thought as I wonder how you will suffer without a hug or a mutter.
I unpick your thoughts with an rustic needle attached to pink coloured thread, you see I made a mistake when I sewed on your head.
But i make a hole in your stomach, where your stuffing silks out, looks like snow as I pull your insides out and it doesn't hurt as I put pins through your skin you see it doesn't hurt because you can't feel a thing. As you treat my heart like a pincushion which bleeds unlike yours, it has too many holes and which can never be sewn.
As I sewed on your button eyes, you can finally see although through a criss-cross vision, you can peer at me as I cut through your thread with vintage scissors.
I scissor your vision as I cut through your thread and sew on your button eyes by making an embroidered incision. You cry through button holed eyes but you can peer at me, as i cut through your thread with vintage scissors. Your body is an eclectic mix of stuffing and fabric, but your heart is still intact and it bleeds tattered tears.
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Broad Avenue receives $350K grant
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Table of ContentsDefinition / general | Case reports | Microscopic (histologic) description | Microscopic (histologic) images | Differential diagnosis
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Definition / general
- Very rare (< 20 cases reported)
- Usually peripheral eosinophilia and multiorgan involvement (Am J Surg Pathol 2003;27:334)
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- May present as a pancreatic mass or common bile duct obstruction simulating malignancy
Case reports
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- 14 year old boy with pancreatic mass (Can J Gastroenterol 2006;20:361)
- 38 year old woman (Indian J Gastroenterol 2007;26:136)
Microscopic (histologic) description
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35200004.post6864833807053358046..comments2020-07-31T08:35:12.395+12:00Comments on It's A Dan's World: MI5 MAKES MY 2018: Ninjak vs The Valiant UniverseIADWhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35200004.post-24822866100822990422018-01-06T04:30:30.866+13:002018-01-06T04:30:30.866+13:00Right? I wonder if Toyo Hamada will be revealed be...Right? I wonder if Toyo Hamada will be revealed behind everything. Mr. Morbid's House Of Funhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35200004.post-52401578399671163892018-01-03T14:39:36.786+13:002018-01-03T14:39:36.786+13:00I'll say - I think it is extremely smart that ...I'll say - I think it is extremely smart that you create live action for viral sharing online. It's the next-gen movie theatre, and Valiant will be the first.

I'm looking forward to finding out why Ninjak would take on everyone. Given the title, you'd expect the lead character to be Bloodshot.IADWhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-35200004.post-58639489819926101382018-01-03T11:51:52.876+13:002018-01-03T11:51:52.876+13:00Yeah I saw the trailer for this, and it looks real...Yeah I saw the trailer for this, and it looks really, really good. Good for Valiant man. Watched that Joker/Negan fight too. Loved it, even though I figured Joker has that one in the bag.Mr. Morbid's House Of Funhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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A Brooklyn native, Thaddeus Canty was raised in the Borinquen Housing projects of Bushwick, just steps away from the Community Empowerment Center's main offices. Upon returning to the neighborhood he says he is shocked and pleased by how much has changed, noting all the residential and office buildings lining the streets where empty fields once were. "I love this neighborhood. It's home. A lot of joys and troubles came from this area."
Getting caught up in what he calls a criminal lifestyle from a young age, Mr. Canty was in and out of the prison system for most of his adult life. While in prison, Mr. Canty said one day he had an epiphany: "I looked in the mirror, and I didn't like what I saw." He took the mirror down and began to make changes, getting involved in a number of available programs and enrolling in college courses. After six months he put the mirror back on the wall and says he finally liked what he saw.
In May 2016, Mr. Canty was released and wanted to find an apartment for himself, away from the area that so often pulled people into crime. He heard about the SEPS program at the Redemption Center, a ¾ transitional house where he was living at the time. After visiting Social Services, he went to the Empowerment Center's Brownsville office which enrolled him in SEPS. He worked closely with Housing Specialist Joseph Salmon, and also Brownsville Director Marcia Hargrove. He says once he started working with Marcia, "things clicked. She was very helpful, she pushed everything through and took care of business." Mr. Salmon, he says, "was great, hands on, communicative, answered every question and always got it right." Through the advocacy of the Empowerment Center, Mr. Canty was moved into his own apartment in Elmhurst, Queens in the summer of 2016.
He has since referred several people to the Empowerment Center's services and is incredibly grateful for the SEPS program for finding him a place to live and alleviating some of the financial stress that makes it so difficult to become self-sufficient in a city like New York. Through the assistance provided by SEPS, he has been able to get on his feet and pursue his passions.
Mr. Canty expects to receive his Bachelor's Degree in Organizational Management in November 2016. He has also been working as a youth mentor, recognizing the importance of reaching young people who are at risk of getting caught up in a dangerous lifestyle. He even recently saw two of his mentees present an animated video they created about the difficulties of life in their neighborhood at Carnegie Hall. He said it was an incredibly moving experience to see two young people who first walked into the program "hard and jaded" rise above their challenges and accomplish such an impressive feat. Mr. Canty is drawn to youth advocacy because he sees himself in so many of the young people who walk through the program doors. He says it is critical to reach youth, particularly inner city youth, uplift them and show them that hope and better options do exist.
Mr. Canty is highly ambitious and hopes to get his self-designed youth mentoring program called M.A.D.G.E. (Mentors Against Drugs and Guns through Experience) off the ground. He plans to run the program from a newly renovated space in the church where his mother is a pastor. He is working with Columbia University's Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs in laying out his program and grant writing.The program will be largely based on his own experiences. "Kids don't want codified knowledge," he said, emphasizing the need to alter the perception among young people of what's "cool" from a first-hand perspective. In order to change those perceptions, he intends to cultivate a sense of social awareness and emotional intelligence among young people. The goal is to build self-esteem while also discussing the consequences of dangerous lifestyles, as well as solutions and techniques in self control. He has a number of ideas for the program, including a rooftop garden project.
In his spare time, Mr. Canty loves to read. His favorites include African American literature, and nonfiction. He is drawn to Westerns, both books and movies, and also the Mountain Men book series, "these are guys who like to be independent. I can relate." He loves watching sports, and as a grandfather of a two-year-old, enjoys spending time with family as well.
To anyone currently going through a crisis similar to his, Mr. Canty says to embrace the struggle, and that there is always hope. "Without struggle there is no progress, and you can't expect to progress if you don't expect to struggle." Mr. Canty says even through all of his hardships, he never counted himself out.
Published June 10, 2017
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Wildlife & Outdoors
Flora & Fauna
Spring is our favourite time of year on the Isle of Skye and Waternish in particular. We have come out of winter which, lets face it, can be a bit bleak at times. Then the snowdrops flower followed closely by the daffodils. Shortly after this, more yellow is spotted on south facing banks, particularly at the side of the road – the primroses make an appearance and seem to go on for many weeks. Broom and Gorse bushes give us more yellow to behold, the gorse in particular going on for months. We have some variety when the bluebells make an appearance and in the grass, the pink of the common orchid – so delicate.
Late summer is also a colourful time. In August the hills are a blanket of purple of the heather, which as the weeks go by changes to the autumn hues.
Spring is also an exciting time in the skies with various species performing their mating rituals in the sky or calling out for a mate. The RSPB are involved in a scheme to increase the population of the Corncrake here on Waternish. Part of this scheme is that landowners agree not to cut their grass lands until later in the year to protect the habitat for the elusive Corncrake. Sighting one is pretty rare, but if you are out at dusk you might here one croaking for a mate, some times even behind the Inn if we are lucky.
Another success story for the RSPB is the re-introduction of the Sea Eagle which can be seen around Skye. Keep your eyes open wherever you go, looking high up in the sky to behold these majestic white tailed birds. If they do not have the white tails but are still large birds, then it might be a golden eagle. If they are not quite so large then it might be a buzzard, especially if it is posing on a post. Between them all hopefully they will keep the exploding rabbit population down that seems to be only too happy to destroy my garden!
Being a crofting community Waternish has cattle, including some highlanders, and several breeds of sheep sheep. Of course the spring is a lovely time to see lambs frolicking around the hills. But please watch out for them on the side of the road.
Night time though can be a noisy time with the foxes and dear barking!
The waters beyond Waternish, in particular the Minch, are part of the playground for larger mammals, including Orca whales, heading up to or from the Arctic. There are often porpoises and dolphins which might even come into Lochbay causing quite a stir for those of us lucky enough to spot them. Closer to the land you might see seals and if you are really lucky, an otter.
Walking the hills and the cliff tops is a must on skye. Maybe use the expertise of Skye Guides or Skye Ghillie. Or go off yourself using the excellent walking guides on Walk Highlands which can be downloaded form their website or indeed the numerous walking books available, some of which we are more than happy to lend to you.
Needless to say being an island there is plenty of activity on the water. There are excellent boat trips for Stein (Divers Eye), Portree and Elgol (Misty Isle boat trips and Bella Jane boat trips) which are all breath taking and you will not be disappointed. Or go sailing at Skye Yachts.
White Wave at Kilmuir offers Kayaking and canoeing, as well as other land based activities. On Raasay, Raasay House have a huge amount of outdoor activities if you plan a visit to the island.
Skye Ghillie is also an excellent resource to find river fishing on the island. The River Snizort is a salmon and trout river which is maintained and run by Skye Salmon


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These tigresses walk 25 km every day to save tigers from poachers
Two all-woman Special Tiger Protection Force teams, from Pench and Tadoba Andhari tiger reserves, will be honoured at Sanctuary Asia Awards today for their untiring dedication to protecting big cats
Arati Fule walks a distance of 25 km every day, so that the 28 tigers under her care at the Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR), a vital part of the big cat population in the country, do not fall prey to poachers.
Some of the STPF members at Press Club yesterday. Pic/Suresh KK
Fule and 29 other women at Pench, and a similar all-woman team at Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) both of which are in Maharashtra are part of the Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF). Their gruelling schedules involve covering long distances on foot for nearly eight hours every day to keep the animals safe.
For their untiring and outstanding work, the two teams will be honoured with the Special Tiger Award during the 2014 Sanctuary Asia Awards ceremony at the NCPA in Nariman Point today. Speaking to mid-day, Fule said, "Protecting tigers and their habitat and preventing poaching has always been my dream, and it got fulfilled after I got a chance to work with the STPF team at the Pench reserve."
The all-woman teams at the Pench and Tadoba reserves, which have undergone training to handle the toughest of situations, begin their day at 5.30 am. At Pench, those on the first shift end their day at noon, after covering 25 km on foot.
"A group of 14 women STPF guards patrols in the morning with male guards, and the remaining team patrols in the evening. During our foot patrolling, we keep a keen eye on everything that goes on in the forest.
We check the pathways and the mud trails used by the wild animals, and also keep a tab on the activities of people staying near the tiger reserve," said STPF Range Forest Officer Madhukar Phulpagare.
Protecting the striped ones
Called the Durga Shakti patrol
30 women at Pench Tiger Reserve work in nearly eight-hour shifts, covering 25 km on foot to protect the tigers in their care from poachers. Part of the Special Tiger Protection Force, members of this team and another all-woman team at Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve will be honoured with the Special Tiger Award during the 2014 Sanctuary Asia Awards at NCPA today.
In October, STPF member S D Shendre of the Pench Tiger Reserve, one of the male guards who accompanies the all-woman team, displayed exemplary courage and dedication when he confronted two gun-toting poachers unarmed.
Despite being shot at and taking a bullet to the collarbone, Shendre ensured that the poachers were arrested. He walked 2 km after being shot at, and waited for two hours for medical aid to arrive at the closest protection hut. Shendre will get a special mention during the awards.
Other awardees
Mumbai-based researchers Rajesh Sanap and Zeeshan Mirza will receive the Wildlife Service Award for the discovery of 23 species of lizards, scorpions and spiders. Isaac Kehimkar, widely referred to as India's Butterfly Man, will receive the Green Teacher Award. Isaac is also the author of two comprehensive field.
Guides: Common Indian Wildflowers and the Book of Indian Butterflies.
Pench Reserve
28 tigers (including five cubs)
Tadoba Reserve
72 tigers (excluding cubs)
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The group known as Concerned Maine Families has decided, apparently for financial reasons, not to contest the state's recently enacted gay rights law. We hope that, upon further reflection, the Christian Civic League of Maine will decide to do the same.
The issue has been deliberated for years in successive sessions of the Maine Legislature. This time around, a majority of legislators in both houses - elected by all of us - decided the time had come for a measure prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals in employment, housing, public accommodations, and credit. Gov. Angus King signed the measure into law, and we believe that the law should be given a chance to work.
If the dire consequences predicted by some of its more strident opponents come to pass, there will be ample opportunity for a repeal effort. We doubt that day-to-day life for most Mainers will be the least bit affected by the legislation.
We hope members of Concerned Maine Families and the Christian Civic League will honor our process of representative government and accept the will of the majority. Maine does not need yet another divisive referendum campaign with gay rights supporters and opponents battling and vilifying one another. It would likely end up being vicious, ugly and personal, and demeaning to all of us."
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Malaysia Airlines is a heck of a program. Particularly the award chart for actually flying on Malaysia is actually pretty decent. Then there are all kinds of options with a 15% discount booking online, and stack that with cash + miles redemptions.
Right now, you could book a business class ticket for $1,500 with cash + miles and just with the 1,000 bonus miles for creating an account.
But first I'll go over all the details, all the different stopover rules, all the different award charts, and companion travel awards. This is a heck of a program to outline, and I'm not aware of any other writings on this program, so it's my pleasure to present you with an outline of our new Citi transfer (1:1)… *drum roll* the awkward, the mediocre: Malaysia Airlines Enrich Miles.
Stopover Rules
Obviously I would start with the stopover rules. There are 3 different sets of stopover rules and two main award charts. So for figuring out how many stopovers you're allowed to have, look to these 3 categories.
(Even more details found in the terms and conditions).
OneWorld Awards:
- Up to 5 stopovers are allowed in an oneworld Award
- Surface sectors (i.e. open jaws) are not permitted
- Up to 8 sectors, excluding surface sectors are allowed in an oneworld MCR Award
Single Partner Awards:
- Stopover and open jaw are not permitted when using an Airline Partner Award
- What is an "Airline Partner Award"? Exactly 1 oneworld airline partner, or exactly 1 non-oneworld airline partner
Malaysia Airlines Award:
- A passenger traveling on a Travel Award is allowed to make one turnaround open-jaw per return trip journey
- Open-jaw travel is not allowed on a one-way journey
- A passenger traveling on a Travel Award is allowed to make one stopover per one way or return trip journey
Gosh. More award charts and separate rules all for the same mileage program. Basically, Don't use exactly 1 partner (OneWorld or Non-OneWorld) and you get a stopover. And if you book two separate tickets with Malaysia so it's two oneways, you'd get a stopover. Let's bring some clarity.
Malaysia Award Charts
When looking to price a ticket look at these two award charts.
OneWorld Award Chart
Multi-carrier redemption on oneworld member airlines (for award flights on two or more oneworld member airlines):
Just checking out these prices I'm looking at basic OneWorld Routes and comparing them to other airlines. Prices will be in Econ/Biz/First for roundtrip prices (as the award chart above appears to be) and compared to other OneWorld partners. But note Asia Miles is the only other Citi Transfer partner.
US to Europe (DFW-JFK-DUS), is 10,280 flown miles:
- Malaysia Airlines miles: 80k/145k/210k
- Asia Miles: 85k/115k/155k
- AA: 40-60k/100k/125k
- British Airways: 60k/120k/180k
There's plenty of room still left as the same Malaysia price goes all the way to 14,400 flown miles. And compared to the other Citi transfer (Asia Miles) it's actually better priced for economy. And British Airways is a bit unfair as BA favors fewer segments and if we tack on another segment the price goes up a bit. Over all, decent prices for the Citi transfer options, not good compared to AA or United. But on this route you'd completely avoid fuel surcharges regardless of which mileage program you use. An advantage of OneWorld.
US to South America (ORD-MIA-LIM), 7,611 flown miles:
- Malaysia Airlines miles: 60k/105k/140k
- Asia Miles: 60k/85k/115k
- AA: 35k/60k/125k
- British Airways: 45k/90k/135k
Again, prices are comparable to Asia Miles for economy and again, AA is way better.
US to Hong Kong (LIT-ORD-HKG), 16,691 flown miles:
- Malaysia Airlines miles: 105k/155k/220k
- Asia Miles: 90k/135k/190k
- AA: 70k/110k/135k
- British Airways: 79k/158k/237k
US to India/RTW (ORD-DUS-VIE-TLV-DEL-HKG-ORD) 18,832 flown miles, but comparing to a reglar roundtrip to India:
- Malaysia Airlines miles: 105k/155k/220k
- Asia Miles: 95k/140k/205k
- AA: 90k/135k/180k
- British Airways: 85k/170k/255k
The advantage of using Malaysia Miles or Asia Miles over standard redemptions like AA or United, is that you're allowed multiple stopovers. With Malaysia, you're allowed 5 stopovers in an award ticket with multiple OneWorld partners.
Still, there remains little benefit of choosing Malaysia over Asia Miles, both which transfer from Citi.
Malaysia Airlines Enrich Award Chart
The Malaysia Airlines Award Chart was pretty difficult for me to read, so I made my own… which at least is organized properly.
|Malaysia Airlines
|Zone 1
|0 – 500
|Zone 2
|501 – 1,200
|Zone 3
|1,201 – 2,400
|Zone 4
|2,401 – 4,800
|Zone 5
|4,801 – 7,200
|Zone 6
|7,201 – 20,000
This is actually a great award chart. Not as good as Avios for short hauls. And when you book online (with Malaysia only), you get a 15% discount on awards. So a oneway from Paris to KL is only 25,500 miles for economy.
The problem with this award chart is not the prices but the simple fact that Malaysia doesn't fly to the US. For Europe to Asia to Australia, this is a good chart. It would be extra great, if they had flights to the US.
PLUS, Malaysia has little to no fuel surcharges to pass on. The fees are very mild and it's a great option for Europe to Asia. Ironically taxes and fees comes out to ~$100 on all tickets, long or short. Makes it a great option long and not so good short.
AND keep in mind that you're allowed a stopover per oneway.
Cash + Miles
It's always interesting when programs have cash and miles, isn't it…
- Only Malaysia Airlines
- Only online booking
- No stopovers/open-jaws
- 15% discount and other discounts would apply
The interesting thing is that you can book cash + points starting out with only 1,000 points. And guess what? You get 1,000 points just for signing up for an account. Basically, anyone could book any of the follow tickets, right now.
Booking with miles or cash+miles: Create an account, sign in to enrich.malaysiaairlines.com, click "flight redemption" on the left, and then "Choose Your Route" below.
Here's an example of KL to Paris as a oneway with Cash and Miles:
For the economy ticket above we're looking at (converted to USD):
- 25,500 miles for a regular award ticket + $134 in taxes/fees
- or 1,000 miles + $526
For the business class ticket above we're looking at (converted to USD):
- 46,750 miles for a regular award ticket + $232 in taxes/fees
- or 1,000 miles + $1,686
For the economy ticket above we're looking at (converted to USD):
- 25,500 miles for a regular award ticket + $236 in taxes/fees
- or 1,000 miles + $4,956
Do I dare say any of these are a good deal? Straight awards (no cash) for Econ and Biz for KL to Europe, yes, good deals.
Cash + Miles for economy? $526 for a oneway from Asia to Europe? I mean, in a pinch, maybe it's better than Kayak, and maybe last minute. Actually, let's look. NO. Found a Vietnam Airlines flight for $352 and SriLankan for $443. This is absolutely a terrible deal. And with SriLankan you could still be earning OneWorld miles.
Is Cash + Miles for Business class a good deal?
That's $1,686 instead of $3,000 for the exact same flight. It's like half of a not so good deal. But I'd never pay for Biz in the first place. In fact, I've never truly paid for an economy flight that long. So let me ask you? Is $1,686 a good deal for 13 hours of business class in an A380? Also considering you don't earn miles?
First class for $5,000 in the A380 suites. Way out of my price range, and normally it goes for $7,511. Wow, what a oneway ticket. Good deal? No. Does it save money? If you were actually considering paying for it. Maybe someone pulling arbitrage around here can use this but not me.
Companion Awards
This may be a cheaper option than miles + cash if you have the Citi points. And you'll at least earn miles for one person.
If you buy a business or first class ticket with Malaysia, you can use miles to get a second ticket for cheaper. Looking for a flight from London to KL and roundtrip the price would be:
- 136,000 miles for First
- 28,000 miles for Business
- Half for oneway
Click here to see the award prices for Malaysia and companion awards. But 14,000 miles per direction in Business class is a great deal. GREAT… if you're paying for an overpriced ticket already. Or who knows, maybe there will be some freak fare to combine this with as I don't off hand see fare restrictions.
If I was paying for business class tickets this would actually be a good deal. Could you book the companion ticket and then cancel the paid ticket and get Biz tickets for 14,000 miles? No idea, but I seriously doubt it. Someone should try it and tell me.
Single Partner Awards and Mix (1 Partner + Malay)
Talk about mystery of mysteries. Okay, look at this award chart and the description for it:
This next chart says: Redemption on [one] oneworld member airlines and Enrich partner airlines.
What's odd is that there are now 3 charts and I was still unclear which one would be used if I did a single OneWorld airline redemption, or just a single OneWorld airlines with Malaysia. So I did a test call… LAX to HKG to KUL. A distance of 8,835 flown miles, which should fall under zone 6… right?
Single OW Airlines
First I tried Cathay and she quoted 48,000 miles + 162.20 for just Cathay.
"So what award chart is that under? Like, is it the partner award chart?" I asked.
"Oh no. Only Cathay fly from lax," she said pronouncing LAX like lacks.
"Yea, I know but how do you figure out the price of the ticket? Like, which award chart do you use?"
"Oh no. Just Cathay fly, because you come from lax."
1 Partner + Malaysia
"Nevermind… can you try booking LAX to HKG on Cathay, and then HKG to KUL on Malaysia."
"No, only Cathay fly to LAX."
Mind you, I'm actually calling Malaysia to do this. Either way, she quickly understood what I meant and priced out LAX to HKG on Cathay, and then HKG to KUL on Malaysia. Miles? 46,000.
How it actually prices: On a roundtrip, it's saying you would take the distance of the oneway to find the region. *blinks*. So for LAX-HKG-KUL-HKG-LAX you would simply take the oneway distance (LAX-HKG-KUL) to find the pricing region. And if you only fly oneway, you cut the award price in half.
That's how it got 48,000.
How did it get 46,000 on a Partner/Malay mix? I'm not too sure.
More Partners?
For an award itinerary taken on 2 or more airlines, of which at least one is a non-oneworld airline partner, please note that a separate redemption ticket is required of non-oneworld airline partner(s).
- Air France
- Alitalia
- Jet Airways
- MasWings
- Virgin Atlantic*
- Etihad
- FireFly
* Says partnership with Virgin "will come to an end in the near future."
None of these nor the partner award charts are that interesting. But I did note that two discount airline partners have their own award chart. MasWings, which is terribly overpriced, and FireFly.
FireFly Partner Awards
Call me a nerd but I made a map to show FireFly routes. It's actually not that bad of a redemption. Considering I actually couldn't find any OneWorld flights from KL to Koh Samui for using Avios, I actually wish I'd known about this redemption.
Finally. The end of this post.
I did a lot of digging the last two days and found a plethora of mediocrity.
- Cash + Miles if you're willing to pay tons of money.
- If you're paying tons of money though already, the Companion Award may be a great deal.
- 25,500 miles for Europe to Asia with the Malaysia Airlines Award chart.
- or 5 stopovers around the world on the OneWorld award chart.
- Or simple intra asia tickets for 7,500 miles on Malaysia or FireFly
Tons and tons of decent options, but unfortunately tons of info to sort through. Making it not the easiest program to redeem miles with.
Either way, I hope you continue to appreciate this style of research.


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I'm stopping in to share the cad I've made for the Reverse Confetti Sketch for You to Try #41 Challenge!! I was LUCKY enough to be able to go and attend an AWESOME Weekend at a Retreat with Reverse Confetti owner Jennifer De Muro and I made this card during my down time while I was there!! It was at the BEAUTIFUL Whitworth Ranch Retreat House in Scurry Texas and we had such an AMAZING Time we already set the date for the Retreat again Next Year!!
November 1-5 2017!! SQUEAL!! I'm SO EXCITED and if you want more info please contact Stacy Seeley who Owns and Runs the Retreat for your Spot for next Year!!
I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE to meet you!! =)
So for my card I've used the Simon Says Stamp & Reverse Confetti Exclusive Forest Friends Stamp Set!! I also used the Reverse Confetti Fright Night 6x6 Paper Pad along with some of the Lime Green Cardstock!! I used the Pop Up Circle Confetti Cuts for the Scalloped Circle Base for my Scene and then to Die Cut the Hill of Lime Green Cardstock to ground my Scene!! I Stamped some of the Star Images and Stamped and Embossed my Images and Sentiment!! I Watercolored the Images using Distress Ink!!
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Postcards from America, the newly published book by a group of five Magnum photographers and writer Ginger Strand, recounts a two-week road trip through the American Southwest in May 2011. Here, published online for the first time, is "Treasure: A True Story," a collaborative project from the book featuring Strand's writing and photos by Minnesota's Alec Soth.
I. Lost
This is the story: long ago, Jesuit Padres found a rich vein of gold in the mountains north of El Paso. They mined it for years. But then something happened—an Indian charge, a detachment sent to collect taxes for the Crown—and the padres decided to hide their mine. They put all their tools and valuables inside and sealed the entrance with red river mud. Then they disappeared, and the mine was lost.
Since then, many people have gone looking for the mine, but it doesn't want to be found. A Mexican vaquero brought home a gold brick he found there, but he was promptly struck blind. A pair of woodcutters saw a rattlesnake dusted with gold, but when one of them went to get their digging tools the other was swallowed by a landslide. Residents of the Tularosa Valley say the mine is guarded by a shape-shifting witch who chases treasure-hunters away. In the 1890s, a prominent lawyer from Mesilla, New Mexico, went to Lincoln to prosecute some cattle rustlers. As he and his 8-year-old son journeyed home through the Tularosa Valley, they disappeared. It was rumored they were killed by the cattle rustlers. It was rumored they were killed by a rival lawyer. But some people said they were killed by the curse of the Lost Padre Mine. Their bodies have never been found. The lawyer's name was Albert Jennings Fountain.
We want to find the Lost Padre Mine. We at least want to understand the story. We think Albert Fountain's descendants might point us in the right direction.
II. Bolson
Arlene Fountain has moved. Armida Fountain is not home. Christina Fountain does not pick up. David Fountain, David E. Fountain and Larry Fountain have all changed their numbers. Leon Fountain and Marcia Fountain do not answer. Maria Fountain comes to the phone. We meet her at the Tax Appraisal District offices, where she is going to protest a charge.
Maria Fountain hasn't heard of Albert Fountain. She doesn't think her husband is related to the prominent Fountains, because he's from Georgia. They met in the Army and moved to El Paso. She would like to move out to the country. "I love the animals and the trees," she tells us. "There are so many water restrictions in El Paso. But sometimes my plants call me and I can't fail them."
In El Paso, you are only supposed to water on certain days determined by your house number. El Paso gets most of its water from the Hueco Bolson. A bolson, from the Spanish word for purse, is a large, saucer-shaped basin that collects water, the way the bottom of a woman's purse collects coins. We look at a map. The Hueco Bolson lies beneath the Tularosa Valley, the place where Albert Fountain disappeared.
In 1958, another local lawyer wrote an article warning that water was being pumped out of the area's bolsons faster than the aquifer could recharge. "Here the supply is being 'mined' under a calculated plan of depletion," he wrote, "over a period of sixty or seventy years."
III. Oryx
The area is running out of water now. El Paso built a desalination plant in the 1990s. Experts said it would be cheaper and easier to recycle water, but people don't like the idea of drinking their own pee. Only astronauts have to do that. A city in the desert is like a space station, but people don't like to think so. The El Paso Water Utility calls the desalination plant "a critical component of the region's water portfolio." In the desert, water is money in the bank.
Art, the plant supervisor, shows us around. On the control room wall is a large photograph of an oryx. The oryx is standing by one of the injection sites where the salty concentrate separated from the bolson's brackish groundwater is pumped into deep wells. Four thousand feet down, Art tells us, the concentrate joins warm water that's already saltier than the ocean. We imagine swimming down there, buoyant and warm and blind.
Water law divides water into groundwater and surface water but hydrologists say this is silly. Hydrologists say that no water belongs to ground or surface; all water is simply molecules endlessly moving between sky, ground, ocean and sky again.
Art gives us conical cups of desalinated water to drink. When it is stripped of salts and minerals, he tells us, the water gets aggressive. They blend it with fresh well water to calm it down.
We don't ask about the oryx.
We don't ask why an African antelope is guarding the spot where El Paso deposits the minerals stripped from its water back into the earth's dark bank.
One thing we know is true of oryxes: they can go for weeks without water.
IV. Joel
We tell our driver, Joel, that we want to go to New Mexico and find the Lost Padre Mine. We tell him we have a feeling it's in the San Augustin Pass, in the Organ Mountains, not far from where Albert Fountain died.
Joel knows about the Fountain family. He tells us a story. In middle school, in science class, he made a rocket. The whole class took their rockets outside to set them off. Joel's worked beautifully. It launched in a fountain of sparks into the blue New Mexico sky. It came back down and landed in a leafy oasis across the street. Joel wanted to go get his rocket, but the others wouldn't let him. That's the Fountain house, they said. You're not allowed on the property.
Albert Fountain, Joel says, died a wealthy man. He owned a theater in downtown Mesilla called the Fountain Theater. He also owned a watering hole called El Patio. His grandson owns the place today. Joel takes us there. Everyone inside is complaining that the cat has peed in the air conditioner. But no one leaves. We drink beer. The bartender calls the Fountain grandson for us but he didn't pick up. There's a picture of him behind the bar, flanked by two girls in tight t-shirts.
Wealth is slippery. We try to control its circulation, but it dries up, floods the market, trickles down, turns out to be a mirage. It can hold you afloat. It can drown you. At the Fountain house, Joel's rocket sleeps in its tree. We aren't allowed on the property, but we go. There's a fountain in the circular driveway. The rocket is nowhere to be found. It doesn't matter. The rocket is not the thing. The rocket is the lift-off, the buoyant ascent, the parabola inscribed on the New Mexico sky, the glide back down into the eager Fountain trees.
V. Found
In the San Augustin pass, we park at a gate that says "No Trespassing" and squeeze through a barbed wire fence. We are on the White Sands Missile Range. We start up the mountain, looking for the mine entrance. Up ahead, we see an animal standing still. At first we think it's a burro. Then we think it's a cow.
No, Joel says, it's an oryx. I've always wanted to see one. To me they're like unicorns or something. Which is funny, because this oryx has only one horn.
The oryx stands very still. We talk to it in soft voices, to calm it down. We don't want to scare it. We split up and move closer. It looks slowly from one of us to the other. It isn't scared. It drops its head once, slowly, like a courtier or a Japanese businessman. We don't realize what this means until it charges.


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Communication is vital in any connection. Just think about it. In order to know what another is doing or for them to know what you are doing, a line of communication must be maintained.
This reminds me of the old cup and string trick. First there is a medium by which communication is made possible and at least two people on either end. Audible tones are then able to be sent via the cups and string arrangement.
In much the same fashion an individual has to continue communication with others, whether family or friends. It can be too easy to focus on the job and lose site of the fact that because you are no longer there physically you can be easily forgotten. The old adage of "Out of site out of mind" can quickly be a reality if not defended against.
Communicating is a sure fire way of maintaining interest. Whether through phone or internet a way can be made.
Technology today has opened the door for there to be more ways of communicating compared to just the use of the telephone of old days.
Here are just a few:
- Emailing friends and family is good way to keep in the know. There is a bit of privacy here along with a chance to write out any details. This can be handy when handling upcoming engagements that require details. The best advantage it offers is speed. Regular mail can have a serious lag in time which can thwart plans if time sensitive information is needed.
- Regular mail is an oldie but goodie trusted system. If time is not important then this is the way to go. Details can be written out and it offers a bit of privacy.
- Using social media- This has definitely increased in popularity over the last ten years. This form of communication offers lots of benefits. Not only can a message be sent to one person but several in a group if chosen. This medium allows for pictures and video clips to be sent too. The main advantage here also is the speed at which information can be sent. Almost in realtime friends and love ones can enjoy seeing messages and video clips quickly.
- The use of the cell phone. Cell phones as with computers are in just about every home today. This means as technology has grown individuals across the world are more likely to own or have a cell phone. This quickly translates into making a quick call to a friend or family to keep them updated as to "what's going on in their world!". The advantage here is that calls can be made quickly.
Of course these are the obvious forms of communication. If any are missed please feel free to add.
So with any separation the challenge is there to maintain as best as possible some normalcy to the situation that affects all involved.
Communication is definitely a key component in helping all parties achieve that.
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James Bond film.
In the 007 film, Grandmaster Kronsteen, from Czechoslovakia, is battling Canadian, Macadams. The game played out in the film was a variation of an actual game between Boris Spassky, White, and David Bronstein, Black, in 1960.
|The Mitchell set. Click on Picture to Enlarge
One thing James Mitchell and James Wright handed down to me from our club founders was the appreciation of good chess equipment. Mr. Wright brought a Jaques chess set one night, and I was able to play a game on it. The pieces were almost perfectly made. There were rumors at the chess club that the YMCA on Madison Avenue had in storage Jaques sets left there from when the club met at the facility in the 1940s. I never gave credence to the rumors until one day in the 1970s Randall Senn said he had visited the Madison Avenue YMCA and noticed one of the doors inside the building had these words, "The Memphis Chess Club." Immediately I thought about those tales of luxurious chess sets that were possibly stored away in the attic or basement and long forgotten. Still, I have never checked out the rumors.
|James Mitchell
various styles of fine Staunton chessmen, but you rarely see them brought out for tournament play. Hunter Weaks was said to have many ready for use in almost every room of his house, even one in the kitchen. I have had a good magnetic travel set, since I learned the game, and it used to attract game challenges from inquisitive chess players while I was out of town vacationing.
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Many of us are as ardent about preserving the Fourth Amendment protection against unwarranted search and seizure by the state as others are about the Second Amendment right to bear arms. It could be argued that if Fourth Amendment protections are honored, those who claim to fear the government will find it less important to arm themselves.
One of us has more than 50 years' experience in national security matters, including unheeded warnings of terrorist attacks on America. The other is currently the public prosecutor for Manhattan, one of the world's premier terror targets. Yet we yield to no one, including Apple executives, in our commitment to the privacy protected by the Fourth Amendment.
If law enforcement is required to show probable cause to a judge that a crime has been committed or is being planned in order to execute a search, that burden -- not warrant-proof encryption -- is the strongest protection of our privacy from state intrusion.
It is within the context of this inalienable Constitutional right that the current controversy over encryption of an Apple iPhone, used by a deceased terrorist in San Bernardino, arises. A federal magistrate has ordered Apple to provide unique software code to help disable a security feature on this phone so that federal investigators can determine if the perpetrator was communicating with others in a network -- others who might themselves be plotting similar attacks.
Supported by other companies in the communications technology industry, Apple is resisting the court order on the grounds that providing sworn federal agents with secret software code to assist in their unlocking of one device will jeopardize the privacy of its millions of customers.
Apple and its peers care about selling electronic devices. We care about the rigor of the Fourth Amendment and the security of the American people. Protecting security and privacy, as it has been endlessly pointed out, requires a delicate balance of interests. But the case under discussion rests on its own facts, and those facts are that the privacy of the owner of this phone is not at issue. He is dead. He committed a brutal act of terrorism. And he may, or may not, have been part of a network. If he was, the security of the people remains at risk. Data on his phone -- this particular phone -- may help protect that security.
Apple and privacy advocates see this case as a dangerous slippery slope jeopardizing the privacy of millions of smartphone users. This is a false argument. The Fourth Amendment will require any future law enforcement agency to establish probable cause that a crime has been committed or is being planned before the unlocking of any future smartphone can be ordered.
It is the Constitution of the United States, not the commercial interests of Apple, that protects our privacy. It protects our security as well. Our judiciary is required by that Constitution to demand that the government establish probable cause case-by-case and phone-by-phone. That requirement, not the encryption technology of a private company, is our best protection from abuse.


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In this open-ended series I'll be showcasing a snippet of buggy jQuery code that you might encounter, explain what the problem is, and then identify how you can easily resolve the issue.
You can view other posts in this series...
The Desired Feature
We want to take the following HTML
div and build a simple
popover module that uses the jQuery UI Dialog widget.
The Buggy Code
The intent of the following code snippet is to verify that the
div being used in the modal dialog exists in the DOM and that it has not been already initialized. We have an
init method that should initialize the widget and then an
open method that should launch the dialog. The code snippet has some problems. Do you see them?
You can view, run, and edit the above code sample from JSBin.
When we run the code, things seem pretty much like what we expected. The widget seems to have been initialized and then opens as expected. We don't actually see the error visually, but there is a problem hidden in the
init() code. If you debug through the code you'll notice something odd when calling
init() again. We put in checks to verify for the existence of the DOM element and that it hasn't been initialized yet, right? Well, that is where the problem lies. Do you see the problem now?
The Underlying Problem
At the root of the problem is how we are testing for truth! Both the ways we are checking for existence and initial state are flawed.
jQuery( selector [, context] )Returns: jQuery
Description: Accepts a string containing a CSS selector which is then used to match a set of elements." --http://api.jquery.com/jquery
The check for existence is incorrect, because just checking the result of
$( "dialog-modal" ) doesn't get you anywhere. Where does it get you? It always evaluates as
true because a call to
$( selector ) returns the jQuery object and based on our truthy/falsey rules an object is always
truthy! What does this mean? Well, it means the code to initialize the DOM element would execute even if it didn't exist at all!
.not( selector )Returns: jQuery
Description: Remove elements from the set of matched elements." --http://api.jquery.com/not
In a similar fashion the check we were making for the initial state of the DOM element is incorrect. The intent was to check if the element did not have a particular class (
.ui-dialog-content), which is added by jQuery UI when it initializes the dialog widget. If we take a look at the documentation for the
.not() method we'll see that it too returns the jQuery object! The purpose of the method is to filter down the matches by removing elements that match the selector provided. So, we run into the same problem as above where we are always evaluating as
A Solution
The solution to fix these problems are really simple and straightforward. All you really need to do is to check how many items where matched by a jQuery selection and to use the
.is() method instead of the
.not() method.
You can view, run, and edit the above code sample from JSBin.
If you run the above code again you'll notice that the
console.log message only shows up the first time the
.init() method is called.
The key concept to remember here is to realize that testing against the jQuery object will always evaluate as
true. As shown above it is easy to adjust your code accordingly.
There are other more advanced techniques that can be used for initialization as well. I'd encourage you to look into Doug Neiner's (@dougneiner) Contextual jQuery series (Part 1 and Part 2) that he gave at the jQuery Boston 2010 and 2011 Conferences. In particular he gave some really interesting just-in-time initialization techniques in the 2nd talk. I highly encourage you viewing these if you haven't already.
Until next time...


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The following line of code extracst 4 characters from the begininig of a string:
set str=%str:~0,4%
I would like to substitute a varable for the number of characters to extract. In this case substitute a variable for the number 4.
Pseudo code:
set str=%str-0,<variable>
This would help me parse through a string of variable length and content for a project I am working on.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!!
@echo off cls setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set str=123456 set var=!str:~0,%1! echo %var%
Please come back & tell us if your problem is resolved.
Hi tzagone
::Note: ReverseStr also calls StrLen
::and string length is not greater than 80 chars
:: but can be changed.
@echo off
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set Str=9876543210
call :StrLen %Str%
echo Length=%Len%
call :ReverseStr %Str%
echo String=%Str%
echo Reverse Str=%Reverse%
exit /b
:: Calc Var Length
:: %*=Str to Check
:: Returns %Len%
:: ---------------
:StrLen %*
set Data=%*
for /L %%a in (0,1,80) do (
set Char=!Data:~%%a,1!
if not "!Char!"=="" (
set /a Len=%%a+1
) else (exit /b)
exit /b
:: Reverse String
:: %* Str to Reverse
:: Returns %Reverse%
:ReverseStr %*
set Data=%*
call :StrLen %Data%
for /L %%a in (!Len!,-1,0) do (
set Char=!Data:~%%a,1!
set Reverse=!Reverse!!Char!
exit /b
Thanks for the reply. This works for the reverse and I was able to use the for loop to do some additional parsing.
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Mehndi is the body art by using henna, which is popular around India. As Henna can dye only the surface of skin, the reddish color disappears in two weeks. I knew about Mehndi on a belly dance magazine. The pictures of it were beautiful. I liked it.
When I went to Tokyo in May, I had my left hand decorated with henna by Akina Matubara, Japanese professional henna artist.
Her blog http://ameblo.jp/yes-peroguri/henna
Later, I found an instant henna corn at a store, then I tried. But there was a strange and rather disturbing smell. The color was strange too. I thought this wasn't the right one. I washed off right away but already my hand was dyed. I think it included chemicals.
I also have had my hair dyed with henna since last year. I can't use hair color including chemical any more. My friend became an allergy sufferer by using it. So I'm scared.
Henna smells nice like hay. It is easy to use. Why don't you try? But be careful not to use chemical henna.
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A warming soup with little turkey meatballs and a hint of lemon. Perfect for a weekend lunch when the weather isn't feeling like Spring just yet.
You will need:
- 1 leek- sliced thin
- 1 stalk celery – sliced thin
- 1/2 onion – sliced thin
- 1 clove garlic – chopped fine
- 1 tbsp fresh flat parsley – chopped fine
- 1 tbsp fresh basil – chopped fine
- 2 litres chicken broth
- 1/2 lemon juice plus 1 tsp lemon zest
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- salt/pepper
- 1/2 cup orzo pasta – or other small pasta
Polpettine – tiny meatballs
- 1/2 lb ground turkey – mine was breast so I needed the extra olive oil to help keep it moist
- 1 clove garlic – chopped fine
- 1 spring onion – chopped fine
- 1 tbsp parsley – chopped fine
- 1 tbsp fresh basil – chopped fine
- 1 squeeze lemon juice
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- salt/pepper
- 3 tbsp olive oil
Step 1: chop the herbs, spring onion and garlic, then add all other polpettine ingredients to the ground turkey. I just mixed it all in the container (1 less thing to wash!)
Form tiny meatballs. Mine were half a teaspoon.
Step 2: chop all your herbs and vegetables for the soup. I like to chop everything and have it ready to go before starting.
Step 3: in a saute pan with some olive oil partially cook your little meatballs. I like them to have a little colour on them. They don't need to be cooked all the way through since they will simmer in the broth to finish cooking. Set aside.
Step 4: In a large pot (since you will be adding 2 litres of broth) add olive oil, leeks, celery and onion. Saute for 5 minutes to add some flavour to the veggies and to just start to brown.
Step 5: add garlic, parsley and basil and cook 1 minute. Add broth, lemon zest, lemon juice salt, pepper and meatballs. Let simmer for 10 minutes. Taste it and adjust salt and pepper if necessary. Add orzo and cook another 5-10 minutes.
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A Forum set up to keep tourism businesses up to date with the latest developments in the industry takes place this November.
Denbighshire County Council's Tourism Team will be providing an update on planned activities to promote the region. The event offers a great opportunity for delegates to network and share their experiences of running businesses in the county.
The event takes place on Wednesday, 9 November at the Oriel House, St Asaph. Registration from 10.30am. The forum starts at 11am.
Peter McDermott, Tourism Manager says, "we will be discussing the priorities for Denbighshire's next Destination Management Plan therefore we would encourage as many tourism businesses to attend as possible to ensure the Plan encompasses the views of the sector over the next 3 years. The forum is also a great way to meet like-minded people and find out more about getting involved in promoting the area to visitors."
Visit Wales will also be holding a regional engagement workshop on 9 November at the Oriel House, St Asaph between 2pm and 4pm on the Year of Legends 2017 – this event is open to tourism businesses from Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham.
To book a place at the Forum and Visit Wales workshop, please e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, by telephone: 01824 706223 or via: www.denbighshiretourismforum.eventbrite.co.uk