text: MOVIES Robin Williams Remembered by Critics, Close Friends 9:00 AM PDT 8/13/2014 by Benjamin Svetkey FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Austin Hargrave A comedy genius, Oscar-winning actor and TV trailblazer meets a tragic end as Garry Marshall, Terry Gilliam, Carrie Fisher and those who knew him best recall personal memories This story first appeared in the Aug. 22 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. If you were keeping an eye on Robin Williams' Twitter feed these past few months -- along with his 875,000 followers -- you would have noticed nothing the least bit worrying about the 63-year-old actor-comedian's state of mind. On June 6, he uploaded a photo of himself visiting the San Francisco Zoo, where one of the monkeys had been named after him ("What an honor!"). On July 30, he posted a plug for his December movie, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb ("I hope you enjoy it!"). And then, on July 31, in what would turn out to be his last public comment, he tweeted his daughter Zelda a birthday message ("Quarter of a century old today but always my baby girl"). Eleven days later, he was discovered dead at his home in Marin County, Calif. At 11:55 a.m. on Aug. 11, a 911 call was placed from the Tiburon house Williams shared with Susan Williams, 50, his wife of three years. Williams' assistant had found his unconscious body in a closet of the 9,000-square-foot pink mansion where he had lived since 1991. In July, Williams had checked himself into the Hazelden addiction treatment center in Minnesota to fight yet another battle in a war with dependency and depression that stretched back to the early 1980s, when Williams and John Belushi famously partied together at the Chateau Marmont (on the very day of Belushi's overdose). There was no mystery to the cause of death: The Marin County Sheriff's Office confirmed Aug. 12 that Williams had hanged himself with a belt. News of his suicide whipped around the world, with CNN bumping its Iraq and Ebola coverage to present wall-to-wall Williams updates. In Hollywood, at the Expendables 3 premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre, it was all anybody could talk about. Publicists began cautioning journalists on the red carpet against asking stars about it. In New York, attendees at The Giver premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre were expressing their feelings more freely. Harvey Weinstein, who 17 years earlier had cast Williams opposite Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting -- the role that won Williams his Oscar (out of four nominations) -- did his best to keep the mood festive. "I promise you, if he were onstage, he'd want the party to continue," he told the audience before introducing The Giver's Jeff Bridges, who 23 years earlier co-starred with Williams in The Fisher King. "It's difficult to be here with all these emotions," Bridges said. "[But] I feel Robin coming in now. He says: 'Get on with it, Bridges! On with the show!' " From both coasts, a torrent of tributes came rushing over social media. Tweeted Good Will Hunting co-writer and star Ben Affleck, "He made Matt & my dreams come true." Judd Apatow recalled how as a teenager he got an internship at HBO's Comic Relief, Williams' best-known charity (but hardly his only one) "just to be near him." Russell Crowe posted a memory of a five-minute chat with Williams that "evolved into 90 mins, my sides were aching from laughter." And Ben Stiller, Williams' co-star in the Museum movies, seemed to grieve in real time. "A tweet cannot begin to describe the hugeness of Robin Williams heart and soul and talent. This is so sad … OK, I'll try. I met him when I was 13 and a huge fan and he was so kind …" It's easy to forget how big an impact Williams had on pop culture. It's been a while since he last carried his own comedy blockbuster (Mrs. Doubtfire, one of his biggest, was released in 1993), and his return to TV last year, in David E. Kelley's CBS comedy The Crazy Ones, petered out after a single season. But during a 37-year career, his movies -- including Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, The Birdcage, Hook, Popeye and Aladdin -- grossed $3.1 billion domestically. There's also Williams' work on TV, where for a couple years he was the biggest sitcom star in the world. And before that as a manic, hyperliterate stand-up comedian, the first ever to fill Lincoln Center's Metropolitan Opera House. "I knew he'd be a star," remembers Budd Friedman, 81, owner of the Improv comedy clubs, where in the mid-1970s, while attending Juilliard in New York, Williams started doing stand-up. "The other comics would say: 'Why are you putting that guy on? He's got no act.' But he was just brilliant." Williams, who grew up in suburban Michigan, soon headed to L.A. and quickly landed television gigs, including a 1977 revival of Laugh-In. But it was his 1978 guest spot on Happy Days, appearing as a motormouthed alien in a Richie Cunningham dream sequence, that altered TV history. Within a year, Mork From Ork would be the wacky centerpiece of the hottest show on the air, Mork & Mindy. "I will never forget the day I met him and he stood on his head in my office and pretended to drink a glass of water using his finger like a straw," producer Garry Marshall tells THR. "That first season, I knew immediately that a three-camera format would not be enough to capture Robin. So I hired a fourth cameraman." Within weeks, 60 million viewers were tuning to ABC on Thursday nights to listen to Williams deliver the new national catchphrase: "Nanu Nanu!" Williams often cited Jonathan Winters as his inspiration, but really there never had been anything like him on TV. The velocity of his wit and the frenetic pace of his inventiveness was revolutionary in a medium that traditionally adhered to slower rhythms. But beneath his chaotic comedy, some suspected a dark interior life. "I've often felt that Robin's blinding speed and flash of wit was an effort at concealment rather than revealing," his friend Eric Idle told The New York Times in 2009 as Williams was embarking on what would be his final stand-up tour. After years of sobriety, he had relapsed in 2006. The personal issues cost Williams two marriages (in addition to Susan, he's survived by ex-wives Valerie Velardi and Marsha Garces Williams) and strained his relationships with his three grown children (Zachary, 31, with Velardi; and Zelda, 25, and Cody, 19, with Garces). He was forced to suspend that last tour for heart surgery, an operation that slowed everything but his wit. "You appreciate the little things," he said after the procedure, "like walks on the beach with a defibrillator." In the end, though, what friends and colleagues likely will remember about Williams won't be his comic genius, or the inner demons that ultimately did him in, but his simple and at times even startling sweetness. "We had a little poodle," recalls Tony Thomopoulos, who was president of ABC during the Mork & Mindy era. "My daughter remembers how he took a crab claw and was playing with the dog, making all these sounds and noises. The executives were all there, but he was playing with the kids. In some ways, he was more comfortable in kindness with the children." Read remembrances from those who know Williams best below. Carrie Fisher on Robin Williams: "He Was the Opposite of Selfish" 'Fisher King's' Director and Producer Recall How Robin Williams 'Salvaged' the Shoot Robert Evans Reveals How Robin Williams Held Up 'Popeye's' Production for Weeks "No Comic Ever Became So Famous, So Fast" THR Film Critic Reflects on the Actor's Quieter Movie Roles Tim Goodman on How the Actor "Popped" on TV From Comic Relief to Scholarships, Robin Williams' Charity Was Closely Tied to His Work FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Benjamin Svetkey email@example.com BSvetkey


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Top 4: Movie Week - May 11, 2010
Lee Dewyze - "Kiss From A Rose" B+
A somewhat bold choice from Lee. The song didn't quite fit his voice very well on the higher notes and it was a bit sleepier than his previous performances. However, still worth a listen as Lee has one of those voices that generally sounds good on most things and amazing on exceptional things.
Michael Lynche - "Will You Be There" A-
Well, Simon got a bit bogged down in the fact that the song was from Free Willy, the movie about a boy and his whale friend. But I was more than impressed with Big Mike's version of this song. I'm the last person to be a Big Mike fan, mind you, but I have to give credit where it's due. The gospel choir and Mike's glory note (towards the end) combined to make this a good if not especially moving performance.
Casey James - "Mrs. Robinson" A-
Casey James - "Mrs. Robinson" A-
Casey added something a bit different to this song with the ukelele. Jason Castro -dare I say it - may have done it better in Season 7. (Then again everybody did it better in Season 7, but I disgress.) Each time I listen to this performance, I get a little bit more out of it. The second half is really where Casey shone on this song. The first time I listened to it, I might have given it a B, but the tone of his voice comes out stronger and stronger with repeat listenings. It's a bit too quirky to take it all in the first time around, but give it a chance. One of the sleeper performances of the season.
Crystal Bowersox - "I'm Alright" B
At first I didn't know if I knew the song, but I realized it's the kind of song that still gets played on classic rock stations. Crystal kept switching between a gruffer kind of growl and a sweeter, pretty voice. I don't know if the switch really worked. Not bad by any means, but as Randy would say, it didn't really work for me, dawg.
Lee & Crystal duet - "Falling Slowly" A+
I think this performance showed us the finale. Right then, right there, it was decided. One of the best performances I have ever seen on the Idol stage (and the best duet this side of Carly Smithson and Michael John's amazing A+++ duet of "The Letter" last season when they returned for a results show). The camera angles on this one were epic. I loved how the two guitars gave the slower song a rock edge and changed it up a bit. Amazing.
Casey & Mike duet - "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman" B
I am not sure how many times I'll say it, but here I go again. This performance did not compare to Matt Giraud's "Judge's Save" TM performance from last season of the same song. But hey, I wasn't expecting it to. Casey and Mike both performed admirably on this song, considering the whole concept of them dueting was a bit awkward. They certainly did a better job than the last two male contestants forcd to duet last season: Kris Allen and Danny Gokey on a very odd rendition of "Renegade" by Styx. (I just don't like that song anyway, so maybe I'm biased.)
Best of the night: Lee & Crystal duet
Worst of the night: Casey & Mike duet

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"Our PSoC 4 portfolio enables customers to replace their 8- and 16-bit MCU-based products and seamlessly migrate to a 32-bit ARM platform for as low as 25-cents," said John Weil, vice president of PSoC marketing at Cypress. "Our new PSoC 4 M-Series expands the PSoC 4 portfolio and now enables designers to create even more custom interfaces and analog front ends to add differentiation, functionality and performance to their products and create world-class, innovative solutions."
The PSoC 4 M-Series delivers 16 programmable digital blocks including eight timer/counter/PWM blocks, four serial communication blocks and four Universal Digital Blocks -- Cypress's programmable digital blocks containing two programmable logic devices, a programmable data path and status and control registers. The programmable digital blocks can implement coprocessors to offload compute-intensive tasks from the included ARM Cortex-M0 core, which traditionally were only available in 8- and 16-bit platforms. Further, the blocks enable engineers to create emerging or custom serial communication interfaces in the available programmable hardware, such as support for Pulse-Density Modulation microphones and the USB Type-C configuration channel protocol, which typically required new silicon platforms from traditional microcontroller (MCU) vendors.
The PSoC 4 M-Series delivers 12 programmable analog blocks including four highly configurable opamps, four current-output digital-to-analog converters (IDACs), two low-power comparators, a 12-bit SAR ADC and a CapSense® capacitive touch-sensing block. The programmable analog blocks enable engineers to create on-chip, custom analog front ends to support new end-product features like sensors for wearable devices without increasing product costs, size or power consumption. Cypress's industry-leading CapSense capacitive touch-sensing technology enables engineers to add sophisticated user interfaces with advanced features like proximity sensing and water tolerance.
The scalable PSoC 4 architecture is complemented by the easy-to-use PSoC Creator Integrated Design Environment (IDE), which simplifies system design and accelerates time-to-market by enabling concurrent hardware and firmware design, and PSoC Components -- free embedded ICs represented by an icon in the IDE. Together they enable rapid prototyping of end applications while minimizing PCB spins and firmware changes that are typically required.
PSoC 4 M-Series is built on the low-power PSoC 4 architecture and offers five low-power modes to minimize system power consumption. It supports a low leakage retention power mode, using only 150nA while retaining SRAM, programmable logic and the ability to wake up from an interrupt. It also offers a best-in-class non-retention stop mode down to 20nA with a GPIO wakeup capability.
Cypress is demonstrating the PSoC 4 M-Series, along with its PSoC, Bluetooth Low Energy, USB Type-C, 4-PLL clock generator, automotive and memory solutions at the Embedded World 2015 exhibition in booth number 259, located in Hall 5, at the Nuremberg Messe.
PSoC 4 M-Series Development Kit
The $25 CY8CKIT-044 PSoC 4 M-Series Pioneer Kit is a highly expandable development kit that enables engineers to evaluate and create unique designs with a PSoC 4 M-Series device. It includes Arduino Shield, Digilent® Pmod and Raspberry Pi compatible connectors, enabling customers to pick from a variety of third-party expansion boards to accelerate prototyping and time-to-market.
The PSoC 4 M-Series is currently sampling with production expected in the second quarter of 2015. Parts will be available in 48-pin TQFP, 64-pin TQFP and 68-pin QFN packages from Cypress and its authorized distributors.
About PSoC
PSoC solutions bring the flash-based equivalent of a field-programmable ASIC to embedded designs without lead-time or NRE penalties. PSoC integrates configurable analog and digital circuits with an on-chip microcontroller, reducing component count and simplifying revisions. A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions, accelerating cycle time and improving quality while reducing board space, power consumption, and system cost.
PSoC "future-proofs" designs, protecting them against last-minute specifications changes. It enables firmware-based changes at any point in the design cycle -- even out in the field. All PSoC devices are dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to transform resources on-the-fly and to execute tasks with fewer ICs. For more information, please visit www.cypress.com/psoc. Free online training is available at www.cypress.com/psoctraining.
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Cypress has shipped more than one billion CapSense touch-sensing controllers, which have replaced over five billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing can provide power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.
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Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC 1, PSoC 3, PSoC 4 and PSoC 5LP programmable system-on-chip families. Cypress is the world leader in capacitive user interface solutions including CapSense touch sensing, TrueTouch® touchscreens, and trackpad solutions for notebook PCs and peripherals. Cypress is a world leader in USB controllers, which enhance connectivity and performance in a wide range of consumer and industrial products. Cypress is also the world leader in SRAM and nonvolatile RAM memories. Cypress serves numerous major markets, including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.
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Diversions used to help take care of issues
In the event that you instruct the pooch to pull a bit of rope, you can utilize this to educate the canine to recover. A recovering canine can be instructed to bring back a ball. A ball can be tossed or hit far away.
When he is a recovering puppy, you will have the capacity to utilize this as an activity to tire the pooch before allowing it to sit unbothered when you go to work so it doesn't turn into an issue barker, or will stop him removing washing the line, or uncovering your garden, or biting furniture, or whatever else he may do to battle weariness.
A drained canine will almost dependably rest for a couple of hours so on the off chance that you can toss the recover toy into a stream, dam or swimming pool and have the puppy recover the toy, he will get pleasant and tired rapidly. A 5 minute swim is said to be comparable to a 5 kilometer walk.
Show him to recover and swim and you won't have to invest as much energy practicing him.
Traps are for no particular reason
Showing your pooch to move over and to shake with the left paw to left hand and right paw to right hand will entertain your companions. Creeping on his tummy or standing up high on his back legs will assemble muscles that may not generally get enough exercise.
Also, once you make them sit and asking, it is not hard to have him drop his head between his front legs and say his supplications. Subsequent to stating his petitions it would be decent in the event that he put himself to overnight boardinghouse his cover over himself.
Riding a skate board is truly very hard for a pooch and riding a surf board significantly harder, yet both can be accomplished and can be fun exercises for both of you.
I have seen a nimbleness handler utilizing the "blast – play dead" trap to get a canine to rests on a table utilized as a part of a dexterity rivalry.
Showing your puppy a substantial collection of traps and afterward taking him to schools, healing centers and seniority homes will permit you to do some social exercises with your canine.
Consolidating traps alongside your pooch acquiescence preparing and utilizing the snap and treat preparing techniques will guarantee your puppy preparing is continually going to be a fun action.


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I was very hesitant to switch to Apple before because I heard that it's more difficult to fix compared to other laptops and cellular phones. But, after serious considerations I finally gave in, switched to Apple and never looked back. I was fortunate that my devices lasted long without much complication, but we'll never know, right? If it does happen, I would really rather entrust my gadgets to those who know how to fix them since Apple products are quite pricier too so they're really not that easy to dispose in case something went wrong during the repair process. And, who knows what parts they'll change after the devices are left with them? I heard they do that a lot in car repair shops, so how certain are we that the same thing won't happen to our gadgets as well? :)
As a solution to this, Beyond The Box went beyond the box again by opening its very own SERVICE CENTER where transparency is key. :)
At the newly opened Beyond The Box Service Center in BGC, Taguig, you'll have access to a customer dashboard that tracks every aspect of the repair at hand - service details, device details, repair status, quotation, and more. You can even pay for parts online using a credit card! :) But first, you have to book an appointment at http://appointment.beyondthebox.ph :)
Beyond The Box Service Center is an Apple Authorized Service Provider, so all Apple devices and accessories get the care that they rightfully deserve, regardless of where they were originally purchased. :)
P.S. They have an UBER promo too:
If your Apple desktop needs servicing, use the promo code BTBSERVICE to get Php150 off the first two trips when you haul it on an Uber until MARCH 31 :)
Beyond The Box Service Center is located at C3 Building in BGC, Taguig. Customers can come in from 10AM to 8PM on Sundays until Thursdays, and from 10AM to 9PM on Fridays and Saturdays. For more info and details, visit www.beyondthebox.ph or LIKE them on Facebook to get updates! :)
[So, while an APPLE a day keeps the doctor away, a trip to Beyond The Box will make the APPLE okay.]
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Blackish delves into one of the most dangerous American subjects -- race -- with complete assurance.
Andre (Anthony Anderson) is a self-described former "big scary black guy" who's made it in the white world. He's a successful advertising executive who lives in the suburbs with his doctor wife (Tracee Ellis Ross) and four kids. But Andre has the nagging feeling that, in achieving the American dream, he and the family have lost their black identity. His wife serves baked chicken instead of fried, and his son plays field hockey instead of basketball. Andre's dad (Laurence Fishburne) chides him for selling out their heritage, and he starts thinking it's true. "I need my family to be black, not blackish!" Andre moans.
Blackish (Wednesday, 8:30 p.m., ABC) delves into one of the most dangerous American subjects -- race -- with complete assurance. The new sitcom investigates the nature of black identity in a white-dominated culture that at once appropriates and denigrates it. The white folks at Andre's agency are quick to trade hip-hop slang and cool handshakes with him, but there's no way they'll ever see him as more than just their "urban" consultant. A colleague developing an ad campaign says to him, "We wonder how you think a black guy would say 'good morning.'"
Don't think the satiric barbs are reserved for whites. Andre himself is often the butt of the joke, as when he leads his skeptical family through ancient African rituals. Anderson is a master of comic exasperation, blowing his top every time a white person tells him to "keep it real."
God help me, but I hope Blackish keeps it real for many seasons to come.
How to Get Away with Murder
Thursday, 9 pm (ABC)
This new series stars Viola Davis as a law professor who teaches her class "how to get away with murder" -- this is, how to get an accused client off the hook. A group of students apply her lessons all too well when they themselves become involved in a homicide.
Davis cuts a fearsome figure in the classroom, to the point where I kept my head down hoping she wouldn't call on me. Then again, her character has an emotionally vulnerable side that sets the criminal plot in motion. The series (by Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes) wallows in bad behavior: greed, lust and lies. The pilot verges on wretched excess, but with a strong cast and a snappy script, How to Get Away with Murder gets away with it.
Tuesday, 7 pm (ABC)
In a lively sitcom update of My Fair Lady, Eliza Dooley (Karen Gillan) is a social-media-obsessed career woman. Eliza wears up-to-the-minute slutty fashions and peppers her motormouth voiceover with hashtag-worthy phrases. Her life is a brainless blur of BFFs, GIFs and LOLs, until one day an epic fail makes her realize that being friended is not the same thing as having friends. Enter a social-media-hating coworker named Henry (John Cho), who agrees to "rebrand" Eliza as a person of substance.
Selfie understands exactly how silly we are right now as a nation of tweeting, texting narcissists. It satirizes Eliza's cellphone addiction while holding out hope that an actual human being is buried somewhere in that camera roll of selfies. If there's hope for her, maybe there's hope for all of us. #MustSeeTV
Manhattan Love Story
Tuesday, 7:30 pm (ABC)
This new sitcom's gimmick is to present the interior monologue of a man and woman who are about to meet and fall in love. The problem is, the characters are no more appealing on the inside than they are on the outside. Dana (Analeigh Tipton), a newcomer to New York City, is your basic helpless TV single woman, beset by insecurities. Peter (Jake McDorman), a cynical native, is your basic arrogant TV single man, who spends his first date with Dana staring at her breasts. After 25 mean-spirited minutes, the pilot then grabs for our heartstrings with a sentimental meetup at the Statue of Liberty.
At this point, my own interior monologue was spewing profanities.
The Mysteries of Laura
Wednesday, 7 pm (NBC)
TNT (Rizzoli & Isles) and USA (Psych) have perfected the mixture of crime drama and comedy. With The Mysteries of Laura, NBC tries its hand at this hybrid genre and fails miserably. Debra Messing is miscast as a hard-ass NYC detective who's also a hapless mom dealing with unruly twin boys. Then again, it's hard to imagine any actress putting over this lame material.
The script goes in for broad humor and cartoonish characters. If a Chinese person is referenced, you can be sure his name will be Wang Long Dong. If an uptight schoolmarm appears, she's sure to have a tight bun and puckered face. With jokes on the level of a high school skit, the series then has the nerve to ask us to care about Laura solving her mysteries.
The real mystery is how Messing will salvage her career after this embarrassment.


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yesterday at meeting for worship there were a lot of tears. and when somebody spoke/sang about the belief that there will be laughter even after people go, my natural tendency toward making people laugh when times are sad, went into high gear.
i wanted to tell the "hilarious" story of my first quaker meeting. i was an american tourist in whitby, england, and i had a cold. i tried to get tissues before the meeting started but nowhere was open, and that hunt took so long that i got to the meetinghouse just as meeting was started so i couldn't find the bathroom. so i dashed in and sat there, for my very first hour of silence. except thanks to me, it wasn't silence. the silence was regularly punctuated by my sniffles, as i tried to sink into the worship in some way. as i remember, there were multiple doors into and out of the worship room, and so even if i had felt brave enough to get up to go to a restroom at such a mysterious and holy time, i didn't know where any of the doors led. so i just sat there. and sniffled. and felt american.
at the end of the worship time, the elderly woman next to me, kindly turned and told me that she wanted to offer me a tissue, but they were all up her sleeve and she wasn't sure if that would bother me or not, so she hadn't offered me a tissue.
what i got from reliving that story in my mind yesterday, was actually less about the funniness of the story but of the tissues we all have up our sleeves that we are too self-conscious to share.
but i didn't tell the story or the lesson i had learned from it. there's this flowchart that's somewhere in our meeting's seeker's packets that gets referred to sometimes, and it's about how to test whether to share a message. the part that i remember the most is that you can ask yourself if the message is just for you or for the group.
here is my embarrassing and guilty quaker confession:
what keeps me from speaking at meeting for worship, more than anything, when i have these "enlightening" moments is that as i start asking myself if the message is for me or the group, another piece comes in, which is, "am i willing to live by this?" and sometimes i'm not sure. sometimes the idea of living by my own grand advice that seems like it's from god to the group, with me sort of tangentially involved, is so terrifying or exhausting-seeming, that i keep it to myself.
also, yesterday, i finished reading a pendle hill pamphlet by ben pink dandelion, "confident quakerism." when i went to return it to the library, the library committee member behind the desk asked what i'd thought. and it was hard to answer, because i'd started the pamphlet months ago, read half of it, and then read the other half today. as i recalled, the beginning had been somewhat irritating, but yesterday's reading had been useful. as i recall, the beginning dealt with some theological mistakes the author had made, and something in how they were presented had irked me. but there was a sentence near the end about how conversations about our spiritual mistakes breaks open things between people. in my conversation, i hypothesised that maybe our mistakes our better talked about than written about (and now i am writing about that idea). maybe they crystallize a little out of context, when you see them in print.
but it was interesting to read that yesterday, because besides theological mistakes, another place where stuff breaks up in important ways, is when people talk about race and oppression. i'm looking at ph. d. programs right now and i just discovered this week that there are education programs that have whiteness studies as part of it, and that has gotten me really excited. so i got all excited about that as a theological exercise, too.
but of course i don't want to mix up an academic field with worship.
but probably the core of my belief system is that god is there when you are open to the truth. and frequently that is messy and awkward.
(and at the same time something i am continually learning is the boundaries of one's own messy-and-awkward and others' messy-and-awkward. as a writer who has very little filter, i must be mindful that others have filters and boundaries, and they are there for a reason.)
after meeting for worship, my girlfriend and i trekked over to ocean beach to see gillian welch, old crow medicine show, and emmylou harris pay tribute to warren hellman, the man who had started the hardly strictly bluegrass festival, a free music festival in golden gate park. i can never be convinced to go to the festival anymore because it is too crowded and full of alcohol and pot, even if i think it's a good idea. but i liked the slightly smaller (though still robust) crowd of this event, the considerably rarer instances of people lighting up anything near me (though i did have this funny interaction on the phone with my mom between sets. she said, "we're lighting a fire in the pit out here," JUST as pulled out a pipe and lit it right next to me, and so i said, "yeah, someone's got a little one going over here, too.), the explicitly respectful vibe of the event, and the beautiful escape valve of the roaring ocean just behind me. i was actually able to enjoy the music.
life is sadder than sometimes i'd like to admit. and it's hard. and growth is hard. but there is god in the music and the laughter and the time shared together and the solitude of the ocean and the mistakes we make and our ability to open up about those mistakes. and if there's not, there's something really close, pointing to what god really is.


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A man has died and multiple people were injured after being struck by lightning.
Ryan Gamble, a 44-year-old man from Andrews, was identified by Georgetown County Deputy Coroner Chase Ridgeway as being the victim of the July 4 incident.
The lightning struck a tree on shore next to the river, Geney explained to WCSC. The strike injured as many as a dozen people.
Geney said the area is remote, and pouring rain and unpaved back roads made it difficult to reach the area.
Three people were taken to a hospital for treatment, one of whom was in critical condition and died shortly after, WPDE reported.
An initial report from the National Weather Service said as many as four people were unresponsive after the bolt of lightning. Getting to the remote area became a challenge for first responders because of the pouring rain and a route that included unpaved back roads, Geney said.


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The Chikyuu Boueigun aka Earth Defence Force is released under the "SIMPLE 2000" label, and is aimed at punters with not much money and who want a satisfyingly quick gaming experience. Developer Sandlot have risen to the challenge and used a heavily modified engine from their groundbreaking title, Gigantic Drive. What all this translates to in terms of gameplay is that the game is no nonsense action against vertically well-endowed opponents.
The main thrust of the game has you set in an environment, whether it be in a city or a grassy mountain range, with the sole task of obliterating the alien scourge. Action is undertaken in the third person and your character only has access to two type weapons, of which the defaults are that of a machine gun and rocket launcher. These can be changed though, as various foes deposit power-ups upon their destruction. These power ups, such as extra weapons (of which there are hundreds) and increased armour, can be then used on a subsequent sortie. Weapons vary from grenade launchers, shotguns, sniper rifles, missile launchers (that track enemies) and various other weird alien weaponry that only a B-movie Sci-Fi ethos can create (an energy machine gun that has bouncing bullets is worthy of a mention in this respect).
The physics is also somewhat non-existent (exiting a helicopter from a dizzying height will not have the player splat themselves upon their return to firm ground). Yet, for all these faults, The Chikyuu Boueigun remains an impressively enjoyable experience for one very good reason; it doesn't try to be anything else than a romp of insect trashing carnage, and a romp that is remarkably affordable at that.
For those that want something a little off the beaten track, in gaming terms, but still want to be entertained by utterly stupendous levels of alien butchery and not thrashed by some immortal learning curve, then try The Chikyuu Boueigun. You will most certainly love every ant squishing minute of it.
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Anybody picking up a guitar for the first time learns the basic blues. After all, it is the foundation of all rock n' roll. But few guitar players have the ability to make the leap from student to teacher. Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Reverend Gary Davis, R.L. Burnside, these are the teachers and we their students. Attention students, your new teacher has arrived and class is in session. Chainsaw Dupont is his name, and the topic is 'Ghost Kings of Beale Street'.
Recorded at the legendary ' Sun Studios' in Memphis Tennessee, Chainsaw Duponts' 2007 release, 'Ghost Kings of Beale Street ' brings us a fresh and bold tribute to the blues. With 13 brand new testimonials, Chainsaw Dupont brings us a familiar but fresh approach to an American original.
The albums first track is titled 'Invisible man'. With an upbeat feel to it, this song is a sad tale of never being noticed by that girl we've ever wanted to be noticed by. 'She's just the pretty girl all the pretty girls wanna be. I'm the invisible, a lover that she never will see.' Admittedly, Chainsaw Dupont intended this song to be a spoof of 'Secret Agent Man', but as the song went along, it became a song about forbidden love.
Arguably the most memorable song on the album is its second track,' Sinners or Saints'. With its rockabilly driving swing, added with poignant lyrics about past legends in the music world, Chainsaw Dupont asks the question, are they sinners or saints. 'Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker, Cholly Parker needle took you in your prime. Down on Fifty-second Street, Bebop set us free. Charlie Parker died for you and me'. Mentioning other legends like, Jimmy Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Buddy Holly, and Elvis Presley, 'Sinners or Saints' is about how they became more legendary after death than in life. One thing all of these legends of music history have in common is that they died before their prime.
Chainsaw Dupont's last track,' Day of the Dead' is a modern day blues song. With an edgy 70's era funk groove, its lyrics are about modern day war. A tribute to our troops, as well as humanizing the opposition, the songs are a personal cry about what they encounter everyday. ' I'm a Humvee cop in a drive-by war, skippin' stones in the sand, I love my country, but I know it's true, the people out to kill me love theirs too'
Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to check out just how modern and versatile this group actually is. In the small, intimate setting of 'Uncommon Ground', a small cafe/restaurant/bar just blocks from Wrigley Fields' friendly confines, Chainsaw Dupont treated the audience to a stripped down acoustic set consisting of a six and twelve string duo. They played their unknown hits with conviction and compassion. This music added the ingredients I needed to sooth my palate, as I washed down my food with a refined lager. I encourage you, to keep an eye out in your local papers for upcoming shows near you. This hidden gem named Chainsaw Dupont will renew your love for the blues. Until then, savor their latest album' Ghost Kings of Beale Street'.
'Ghost Kings of Beale Street' is available at:
Jazz Record Mart, 25 E. Illinois, 312-222-1467,
http://www.chainsawdupont.com, or via CDBaby at 1-800-BUY-MYCD.


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Jose has coached Juventus soccer for 16 years, in Palo Alto for the last 5 years, and also coached a Men's Soccer Team for 15 years. He has been coaching at Woodside High for the last 20 years, 3 years as JV coach and the last 17 years as Varsity. He played soccer at Sequoia High School, Canada college and Sacramento State where he graduated with a B.S. in Health Science. Coach Jose realized his passion for coaching early on and has turned it into his fulltime career. The best part of coaching for him is meeting the new personalities at the beginning of the season during tryouts. He admits that the hardest part is putting the team together, but in the end it is the most fun. He loves to see his players set high goals and work hard to achieve them. When there is a little bit of time outside of coaching, Jose loves to travel. He has 2 adult children who are both Woodside High grads that lettered in sports, soccer and badminton.
Oscar Avendano has been coaching since 2000, He started coaching AYSO and then moved on to CYSA and NorCal Soccer. He was also the president for Madera Roja Soccer club for about 5 years. His playing experience includes playing for Jefferson High School and Capuchino High School. He also played recreationally in the Army. When asked about coaching Oscar says, "I love coaching because of my kids, it allows me to spend time with them, it allows me to teach them what I love. I have coached all my kids in Soccer, Baseball and Softball. Coaching high school and other leagues has let me be able to enjoy being out on the fields and meet many kids who have passion for the game and help them achieve their goals." Oscar has been happily married for 23 years to his high school sweetheart. They have three children, 2 girls and 1 boy. His oldest daughter attended Woodside High school and played both Soccer and Softball. She recently graduated from UC Santa Cruz. His 15-year old daughter is currently attending Woodside High, does not play soccer but loves Softball. His 9-year old son is in elementary school and plays both Soccer and Baseball.
Former Wildcats players who played (or currently playing) at the next level:
Heather Seybert - '14 --- St. Mary's College
Gianna Rosati -'14--- Cal Poly
Chelsea Braun 09'---UCLA
Yianna Dimmitt 07'---UCLA
Alex Cassandro 07'---Notre Dame de Namur University
Janet Girardot 07'---Suffolk University
Ellen Ingebritsen 09'---Amherst College
Emily Kruger 09'--- Cal
Megan McKee 08'---Menlo
Jessica Schulman 07'---Brandeis University
Nicole Tomita 07'---Carleton College
Amanda Torres 07'---Menlo
Daisy Vasquez 07'---Cal St. Bakersfield
Silvia Vasquez 09'---Belmont Abbey University (Currently Boys JV Coach)


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Falafel sandwiches are a huge weakness of mine, especially the ones sold in New York City for as little as $2, yeah just TWO BUCKS!
To be more specific, I'm speaking of Mamoun's Falafel in NYC's Greenwich Village. It is a total hole in the wall, and yet serves up the most mouthwatering, authentic falafel sandwiches you will ever taste in your life. I swear!
Unfortunately given that falafel is typically fried, and not baked, I don't eat it as often as I'd like to, but I sure can recreate a baked version at home which can be quite healthy.
I found a delicious falafel recipe on Allrecipes and made some tweaks along the way to suit my needs. Surprisingly, the preparation time for making the falafel batter is less than 10 minutes. Just add all the ingredients to your food processor and pulse away.
Then using a mini-scoop, scoop out the batter onto a baking tray and straight into the oven. It's crazy to think how intimidated I was to make falafel all these years.
Lastly, instead of topping the sandwich with tahini sauce (didn't have any), I opted for hummus and tzatziki sauces and finished it off with Frank's Original Hot Sauce, yup, I'll put that on just about anything.
Immediately after I was done, I packed up all the ingredients and stopped over at my dad's to make him some falafel sandwiches. Of course, he loved them! Please let me know your thoughts if you make these.
NUTRITION: Chickpeas are a great source of Protein, Fiber, Iron, and Folic Acid. Parsley is an excellent source of Vitamins A, C, and K, and a good source of Folic Acid and Iron. Cilantro is a good source of Vitamin C and contains small amounts of Vitamin E. Tomatoes are a good source of Vitamin A and C.
for the falafel (mostly adapted from Allrecipes – made some tweaks; makes 18 falafel balls – enough for 4 sandwiches):
- Chickpeas – 1-15 ounce can
- Onion – 1 (small)
- Parsley – 1 large fresh handful
- Cilantro – 1 small fresh handful
- Garlic – 3 cloves
- Egg – 1
- Cumin Powder – 1 tsp
- Coriander Powder – 2 tsp
- Red Chili Powder – 1/4 tsp (or you can use paprika)
- Salt – 1 tsp
- Lemon Juice – 1 tsp
- Baking Powder – 1 tsp
- Olive Oil – 1 tbsp
- White Flour – 1/4 cup (will try whole wheat flour next time)
for the sandwich:
- Pocket Pita Bread – preferably use whole wheat that opens up – I wasn't able to find any though.
- Mixed Greens – handful
- Red Onion – 1 (sliced)
- Tomato – 1 (chopped)
- Hummus – enough to spread inside the pita (store bought or you can make your own)
- Tzatziki Sauce – small dollops (store bought or you can make your own)
- Frank's Original Hot Sauce – add a little on top
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
2. Start by adding all the ingredients to a food processor.
3. Eventually this is what you'll have.
4. Now pulse several times until the batter is all combined.
5. This is what you should have. Taste it and see what's missing. I added a bit more parsley. Pulse again.
6. Now using a mini-scoop, form little balls and place them on a baking tray. I used parchment paper since I was out of foil paper.
7. This is what you should have. Into the oven for 20 to 25 minutes.
8. The recipe suggests baking the falafel for 20 minutes, however I wasn't completely satisfied at that point since it tasted a bit undone. I baked these for an additional 5 minutes. These are slightly crispy on the outside, and moist and gooey on the inside – that's the best I can explain it. And filled with tons of flavor.
9. Now slice a red onion, chop a tomato, and wash the mixed greens.
10. Start by cutting the top 1/3 of the pita off. I snacked on this part and tzatziki sauce while I made the sandwich.
11. Microwave the pita for about 20 seconds. Carefully open the pocket without breaking it.
12. Spread the hummus inside the pita. Add the mixed greens, 2 pieces of falafel, and red onions.
13. Now top with tomatoes.
14. Finish it off with 2 more pieces of falafel, some mixed greens, and tomatoes. Add the tzatziki sauce and top with Frank's Original Hot Sauce.
15. So so so good and healthy for you, too.
TELL ME: Do you love Middle Eastern food? If so, what are some of your favorite items to order when dining at a Middle Eastern restaurant?


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The Perennial Essence 6″x6″ Vellum Cardstock is translucent vellum cardstock in three colors.
* 6″ x 6″
* 12 sheets–4 each of 3 colors: Old Olive, Petal Pink, So Saffron
* Acid free
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Ships from smoke free and pet free home.
Here is a card created with this bundle for inspiration!
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Not Quite Ringing True
(I have brought my friend into the hospital.)
Doctor: "What seems to be the problem?"
Friend: "I think I inhaled my nose ring…"
Me: *trying not to laugh*
Doctor: "Do you think you swallowed it?"
Friend: "Uhm, yes. But I also feel a lump at the back of my throat…"
Doctor: *does examination* "Okay, I can't see anything but I'll send you for an x-ray. When did this happen?"
Friend: "Three days ago."
Doctor: "So you waited three days to get checked out when you thought you had a piece of metal stuck in your throat, yet you're breathing, eating, and drinking fine for those three days?"
Friend: "Yeah."
Doctor: "Okay, I'll send you for an x-ray."
(Not surprisingly, the x-ray came back clear and almost everyone was trying to hold in their laughter!)


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Co-sponsored by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China Society of Plant Protection and Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Mycokey conference aims to develop innovative and comprehensive solutions and urge the stakeholders to continuously and effectively manage mycotoxin in the food and feed production.
With the global warming, changing of cultivation systems and polarization of toxic fungi in recent years, the ever increasing mycotoxin pollution has imposed huge challenges to the global food safety, economy and trading. Mycokey is a special inter-governmental cooperation project jointly supported by China's National Key R&D Plan and European Commission's Horizon 2020 program.


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Refrigerator – It is the kind of appliance that food are stored to keep it fresh. Refrigerator indicates that you are a cool person with regards to mingling with others.
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Tongue – Part of the mouth that is use to taste. When you dream of a tongue, this symbolizes the success in your profession in the future.
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Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 30, 2012
|Never do I hesitate to look squarely at the unexpected face that every passing hour unveils to us, and to sacrifice the false images of it formed in advance, however dear they may be. In me, the love of life in general predominates over love of my own life (that, indeed, would never have sufficed to bear me up). May life herself speak! However inadequate I may be in listening to her, and in repeating her words, I shall try to record them, even if they contradict my most secret desires. In all that I write, may her will, not mine, be done!
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THE BENEFITS:Weighted blankets help ground your body during sleep by pushing it downwards. which has a deeply calming effect. The blankets also simulate deep pressure touch (DPT), a type of therapy that uses firm, hands-on pressure to reduce chronic stress and high levels of anxiety.
SUGGESTED WEIGHT: Researches show a weighted blanket engineered to be around 10% of your body weight would help deep, healthy, restful sleep.
MATERIAL:shell:100% cotton, filling:100% polyester, hypoallergenic, non-toxic and odorless glass beads
DESIGN:Each compartment has glass beads sewn into place to prevent movement and noise while you're resting.
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CARE INSTRUCTIONS:Spot Clean
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I used external floppy USB drive on my Linux box. It calls UFI device. A UFI Device is a removable-media mass storage subsystem, which connects to a Host computer via its Universal Serial Bus (USB) port. The Host and UFI Device communicate by exchanging Command Blocks, data, and status information. The method used to transport this information over the USB is defined by the Bulk-Only or CBI transport specifications. This specification defines the UFI Command Set, which was designed to interface Floppy Disk Drives to the USB. The "USB Floppy Interface" (UFI) Command Set is based on the SCSI-2 and SFF-8070i command sets.
Other words, Linux normally works with such floppy disk. But Linux doesn't support floppy format for such devices. So, if you need format floppy, you have to install the special utility which support UFI Command Set. So, finally to say - setup UFIformat utility. It is console based utility. Run it as:
# ufiformat /dev/sdaAnd do High-level formatting by:
# mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdaAll should be done by this.


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Back when Robin Thicke's smash single "Blurred Lines" began to gain popularity, the family of the late Marvin Gaye went vocal about how the song's music was very similar to Gaye's "Got To Give It Up". They went forward with a lawsuit, and as it progressed, the claim was dismissed. However, new claims are coming forward from the family, stating that Thicke also copied a copyright infringement with his song "Love After War", based off of Gaye's "After The Dance". The Gaye family is going after the publishing side of record label EMI, stating that the label breached a contract by not protecting Gaye's songs, intimidating the family against filing legal action, and staying neutral when faced with a conflict of interest. The Gayes desire EMI to lose all their profits on "Blurred Lines" as well as rights to govern the song catalog of Gaye. The world is still waiting on hearing responses from Robin Thicke's team. The singer went on the record earlier in the year that stated he wanted a single that sounded just like Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give it Up", but then retracted his statement after the beginning of the scandal in August. Lyrically, the songs don't really bear many similarities (see here and here to compare), but maybe there's something to be said for their sonic similarities. What do you think? Give us your take in the comments.
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I discovered this website randomly and boy was I glad that I did. It is titled "HAPPO," which stands for "Help a PR Pro Out." This website is loaded with inspirational stories and tips for Public Relations People. The website offers events and features that will get the PR professional up and out the door to success. Such programs, such as, "Help a PR Pro Out Day is designed to help connect PR job seekers with employers looking for top talent." How great is this? They are offering the opportunity to connect with people from places all over America from Atlanta to San Fransisco.
Although the website is still growing, the potential that it offers is great. There are sections on the site to list job openings and discussion. People have listed their stories of success on finding a job through simple networking, aka social media. As I was wondering through the website to see what all was available I stumbled across an interesting video that I thought I would post for this topic. Alec Biedrzycki has created a untraditional way of writing a cover letter and resume. Its very creative and super funny. Its worth taking a look it. Thanks HAPPO and Alec for letting me share this on my blog.


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Jockey Kerrin McEvoy has continued his love affair with the Zipping Classic meeting by notching a winning treble at Sandown.
McEvoy has been a perennial winner at the annual late-spring meeting in the past decade and added to his haul with wins on Long Leaf, Yulong Xingsheng and Long Time Ago on Saturday's 10-race program.
The star jockey has now ridden 18 winners at Zipping Classic meetings since 2007.
The Sydney-based jockey says he enjoys riding at Sandown but unfortunately doesn't get the opportunities during the year.
"I love riding here and I actually miss riding here, so it's always pleasing to come back here," McEvoy said.
"It's a good day's racing and I enjoy it.
"I've had a bit of luck at this meeting over the years.
"It's a nice big track which allows you to be patient.
"While positioning is still important you have a long run home which can offset any wide barriers."
Long Leaf started McEvoy's day with victory in the Listed Merson Cooper Stakes and the jockey said there was a lot to like about the colt who has won his only two starts.
McEvoy followed up aboard Yulong Xingsheng in the Group Three Twilight Glow Stakes in the second race.
The Kris Lees-trained runner scored a three-quarter length victory over So Far Sokool.
"She's always shown a lot and it looked a nice race for her," McEvoy said.
McEvoy had to wait for the final race to land his treble on the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Long Time Ago who was first-up in the Summoned Stakes (1500m) and finished strongly to win by a neck.
"It was a fair effort by Gai and Adrian to have her there first-up," McEvoy said.
"She's always shown a bit and she's strengthened and grown this preparation and she's still improving.
"She'll get out further in trip and who knows where she could end up."
2017: Three winners - Long Leaf (Merson Cooper), Yulong Xingsheng (Twilight Glow), Long Time Ago (Summoned Stakes)
2016: One winner - Qewy (Sandown Cup)
2015: Three winners - Solicit (Summoned Stakes), Famous Seamus (Kevin Heffernan Stakes), Jackson (Merson Cooper Stakes)
2014: Two winners - Au Revoir (Zipping Classic), Zabisco (Eclipse Stakes)
2013 : One winner - Paximadia (Sandown Guineas). Meeting run at Caulfield.
2012: Two winners - Tatra (Sandown Guineas), Meidung (Twilight Glow Stakes)
2011: No winners
2010: No winners
2009: Two winners - Kidnapped (Sandown Guineas), Secession (Merson Cooper)
2008: Three winners - Caymans (Sandown Guineas), Bernicia (Summoned Stakes), Yesterday (Twilight Glow)
2007: One winner - Zip Baby Zip (Summoned Stakes).


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Sarah Palin strikes back at Journolist's 'sick puppies' | The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment.
Go Sarah!
Boy… You gotta love her spunk. She lets these liberal media dummies have it right between the eyeballs.
Some of the polls show her running neck-neck with Obama, and close to the top of the pack among Republicans in 2012.
I'll write more about this later in the weekend, but definitely, one can't argue anymore that Palin is not a serious force to be reckoned with, regardless of whether she runs for office again, or not.
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Annemount welcomes children from the age of two and three quarters to the Nursery and Pre-Reception classes. Children must be aged four by September for admission into Reception, aged five by September for admission to Year One and aged six by September for admission to Year Two.
We encourage both parents to tour the school. Please use the tour request form to make an appointment for a tour of the school.
In addition to the tour we encourage parents to watch our School Video as well as our Wellbeing Film. This shows the pupils' perspective of their school experience.
Early registration is advised as we offer places in registration order. Registrations for children seeking entry will secure a place on our assessment list. All children seeking admission will be seen during an informal activity session prior to an offer being made. Activity sessions for our youngest pupils will be held the term prior to them starting.
The registration form needs to be completed and returned together with the registration fee of £120 per child. You are welcome to pay by BACs and our bank details are as follows:
Annemount School Ltd
Account Number 00463779
Sort Code 18-00-02
Kindly reference the payment with your child's name and let us know by email.
Admissions' assessments commence during the October prior to the year of entry, although we may consider late applications. We invite all of our applicants to participate in small groups and let them choose different activities and play. We also teach them something completely new. In this way we can have a sense of their development in all areas of learning: Communication, Language and Literacy; Problem Solving Reasoning and Numeracy, Physical Development, Creative Development, General Knowledge and Understanding of the World and finally, Personal, Social and Emotional Development. Our objective is to be able to meet each child's needs within a harmonious class setting. Rather than attainment, we are looking for potential and suitability to the programme at Annemount.
Once an offer of a place is made, parents are invited to commit to their child's place by means of a non-refundable deposit of £1000.
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It's pupdate time! Oh my gosh, how I love this puppy toddler period. This is their "meet the world" stage of development, they're curious about everything. I get absolutely no work done around the house these days….I'm having too much fun snuggling my munchkins and watching their antics. What an awesome way to spend a day right! 🙂 They're all really starting to master the art of walking so we've started them using a puppy wee pad tray for intro to housetraining 101. They are "getting it" already! Smart puppers! Today's photo shoot was a tad challenging already….trying to corral puppies and take pictures. Whew! We're ALL ready for a nap! 🙂 We did our first grooming duty this weekend with trimming nails and everyone was pretty brave about it really. We had a couple of "protestors," but not too bad at all for first timers! 🙂
So at 3 weeks, here are our precious puppies. Thanks for watching us grow up!
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The Guarantee of Quality
Little wonder then, that 921 Basmati Rice can turn even the most ordinary dishes into delicacies. If you are satisfied with its quality. Do share it with your friends. Do write to us at the address mentioned if you
have any suggestion.
Nutritional Information
servings per package:100
serving size: 1/2 metric cup
|Qty per serving
|Qty per 100g
|364 Kcal (1520 kj)
|364 Kcal (1520 kj)
|Total Protein
|0 mg
|0 mg
|Total Fat
|1 mg
|1 mg
|-Saturated fat
|Less than 1 g
|Less than 1 g
|0 mg
|0 mg
|78 g
|78 g
|Less than 1 g
|Less than 1 g
|Dietary Fiber
|0 g
|0 g
|1 mg
|1 mg
Cooking Instruction :-
To obtain the best result from the 921 Rice,Soak the rice for approximately 25 minutes. Rinse thoroughly in sieve under running water before cooking any of the following method can be used.
Open Pan :- Bring a large pan of water to boil, Add the rice, Stir, return to a mediu boil & cook uncovered for 7 to 8 minutes. Drain and rinse.
Close Pan:- Put measured rice and normal water into a heavy based pan. Bring to boil, Stir cover and turn down the heat to simmer for 8 to 9 minutes. Turn off the heat and let on, till each grain separates and swells.
Microwave :- Take 2 cups of water for 1 cup of rice, place in a micro wave safe bowl, cook uncovered for 10-12 minutes, fluff the rice and let it stand for 5 minutes & server hot.
For best result:
- Soak the rice 10 to 15 minutes in lukewarm water prior to cooking.
- Use a large cooking pot with wider base giving rice
maximum space to expand.
- Do not prepare large quantity of rice in small pot.
The grains that rules the world.
921 Basmati Rice is the perfect choice for Mughlai and Indian Cuisines. Its white and long grains is full of natural protein, authentic taste and magnificent aroma. The company strive to put forth the rice of finest quality and taste to mesmerize your dining experience.
Storage Instruction:
Always store 921 Basmati Rice in cool and dry place.
Keep away from direct sunlight.
Required fumigation once in 6 months to protect from weavels
Salient Features :-
- Pusa Steam Rice
- Long Grain Basmati Rice
- Packaging: 25 kg ,10 Kg


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this is the story of the road that goes to my house
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Back in August, we did something we'd been waiting YEARS to do – we made an offer on a house. A real house! With a front door! That opens to the outside! After living in dorm rooms, apartments and condos since leaving our parents' homes as young adults, our dream was to someday have a house. And it finally happened!
The house was put on the market on a Friday, we looked at it the next day, we put an offer in the following Monday, and our offer was accepted the next day. When we saw the house, we just knew it was too good to pass up. The whole process was much smoother than when we bought our condo in Chicago – painless and quick. Everyone we worked with was great. I was beyond excited to close and move in!
The house is in a neighborhood of green and modern homes – they're all colorful, unique and designed by local architects. The community is full of artistic people – photographers, designers, actors, etc. Our neighbors have been really friendly.
I finally have my front door!
The first night at the house, we had no furniture. Just a few folding chairs. And some wine to celebrate.
Yippeee! I haz a happy!!!
We moved in at the beginning of October and have been extremely busy since. Owning a house is a lot of work! It was pretty move-in ready, but there were a few odd jobs that we wanted to tackle, plus all the unpacking.
One job on Drew's list was to install his surround sound speakers. It was a hard and dirty job, but he was so proud that he got them working!
We've spent most of our weekends working outside on the landscaping, yard and deck. The only outdoor space we had before was a balcony. The Texas summer is pretty harsh on landscaping, so we've just tried to maintain what is there, but will give it a revamp next spring. The outdoor space is one of our favorite features – we've spent a lot of time on our porch and deck and can enjoy them almost year round.
It is now early November and we are still able to eat dinner outside on our deck. Something tells me this will never get old.
*Blog post title is a lyric from the song "July, July" by The Decemberists


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Then again I don't ever feel patriotically Swiss or British either (and I have all three nationalities). So I'm inclined to explain this lack of patriotism as a generalized lack of faith in Nationhood instead.
I do understand and appreciate that immigrants from war-torn countries who have experienced untold suffering would feel gratitude to a nation and a country for refuge. Vietnamese boat-people, for instance, have a fierce love for Canada for all it has given them in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
I confess that I felt very moved by the naturalization ceremony that I was sworn in at nearly 20 years ago. It wasn't pledging allegiance to the Queen that moved me – it was witnessing all these other people from around the world (South East Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa) who had chosen Canada as their country – the list was long. It was moving to me because people from so many of these countries have suffered so much in the 20th century and they were adopting a country who had adopted them and given them respite.
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There is so much to be thankful for, without a doubt. But I don't like being thankful to a country. "Being Canadian" is exclusionary and divisive, at least in so far as "the other" is not Canadian. Defining one's identity, even in part, by nationhood – or even by species for that matter ("Human Being" vs. "Cetatcean") – creates an "us" vs. "them" kind of discrimination that separates us in ways that are at best not helpful and at worst indescribably tragic (viz. National Socialism in Germany in the 1930s.)
Not that the tragic consequence of Nationalism are very likely to prevail in Canada – except in Quebec, perhaps, where Francophone Nationalists regularly try to drum up this sentiment to rally the "pure laine" of Quebec to secede from "the rest of Canada".
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EML1/402: An Electronic Mailing List for Radiologists: First year's experience
Introduction: Radiologists can use the Internet to seek medical information, but also to distribute messages and images. The EUFORA mailing list was founded in July 1998 with the purpose to create an international electronic forum for radiologists. It was intended to be a list for discussion and collaboration as well as to be an information platform. An international team of 'co-owners' including several academics was established for continuous evaluation of the list, to ensure the quality of the postings. The Listbot list server has been used for running EUFORA. All messages were automatically archived and searchable per date, title and author. Subscriptions were made via the supporting web site (http://www.devolder.be/eufora). Every new candidate would get a voluntary sign-up form for registration. Access was restricted to medical doctors. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the activity on the mailing list, the types of subjects that are being discussed, and the participation degree of its members.
Methods: Eleven consecutive calendar months from July 1998 to May 1999 were chosen for the evaluation. All messages were counted and classified into four categories. Messages concerning the handling of the list were put in the "administrative" category. The "case studies" group contained case quizzes and all mailings about radiology cases. Messages with an informative purpose, mainly announcements off congresses, were classified as "informative". The "general radiology" group consisted of all messages related to various aspects of radiology, and that could not be categorised otherwise. The number of contributors and the total number of replies was recorded in every month. Information from the voluntary sign-up form was used to obtain information about nationality, gender and age.
Results: Over this eleven-month period the number of subscribers grew from 28 to 186, coming from 33 countries. A total of 260 messages has been sent to the list. Most of the messages could be categorised under "general radiology" (32%). 22% were case studies and 12% were purely informative. In total 76 replies were counted, 29% of all the messages that have been sent. Only 7% of all the subscribers made contributions to the list.
Discussion: The increasing number of subscribers to EUFORA suggests that there is a growing interest for mailing lists, although one cannot exclude the increasing availability of the Internet as a cause for this expansion. The high percentage of replies shows that there is a good interaction, although the majority of participants is not contributing actively. It was impossible however to count the replies that had only been sent to the original authors, making it difficult to evaluate the real participation degree of all the subscribers. In conclusion we think that all the members experience this forum positively.
J Med Internet Res 1999;1(suppl1):e31
Edited by G Eysenbach; This is a non–peer-reviewed article. published 19.09.99
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A first generation Chinese-Canadian woman who campaigns against shark fin soup is nominated for a 2012 GLOBE Foundation award.
Claudia Li, 25, grew up in a traditional family that ate shark fin soup on many special occasions, as it was seen as both a status symbol and a show of generosity.
In 2009, Li founded the Vancouver non-profit organization Shark Truth to stop the hunting of sharks for shark fin soup, and because she wanted to keep the legacy of her heritage alive, she said.
"Because our parents were immigrants, we saw how hard they worked for us," Li said. "Now that we're adults we have the responsibility to carry on that legacy for our children, so that they have a safe and healthy planet to live on."
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Unresolved tensions, hard realities and conflicting agendas: a review of the BAAL/Routledge Applied Linguistics workshop
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The BAAL/Routledge Applied Linguistics workshop held on 16 September 2016 at Manchester Metropolitan University focused on the theme of 'mismatched and destabilised epistemologies and ontologies' throughout the day, but perhaps not always in quite the way the organisers had envisioned. Rather than explicitly investigate, explore and identify contrasting epistemologies and ontologies, these differences were apparent through the various frameworks that presenters used in their papers which focused on international students, English language assessment and, more broadly, UK HE. What transpired was that both the reality and construct of the international student served as a crucible where various interpretations and agendas met, clashed and, perhaps too often, passed each other by.
Although the organisers (Khawla Badwan and Lou Harvey) did an excellent job in attempting to focus the discussion, there appeared to be several notable and crucial unresolved tensions throughout the proceedings. The morning session was dedicated to the theme of 'International students negotiating intercultural discourses' and began with Professor Adrian Holliday drawing on his notions of cultural threads versus cultural blocks and his 'grammar of culture' (see Holliday 2016). This represented a very promising and nuanced start and was followed by four papers which were loosely held together by the morning's first theme. These papers reflected both different contexts and approaches to understanding and/or working with international students from problematising the label of the international student (Collins), to global citizenship (Leslie), superdiversity (Jablonkai and Du) and employability skills (Herrero). However, as one of the participants noted, while the conference began with a critical and nuanced approach from Holliday, it was then followed by participants frequently invoking categories such as the 'international student' in ways that at times may have lacked a degree of criticality. This is in part due to the inescapability of the label international student where it has become naturalised within the discourse and vested interests of UK HE, particularly in connection with student recruitment and the reliance on higher fees for students who are classified as international. Moreover, behind the label of international student also rest some of the 'hard realities' which these students face during their study in the UK including the increasingly difficult processes for obtaining visas (see Travis and Weale 2016).
Another of these hard realities which international students face is the need to take a UKVI recognised secure English language test (SELT) most often in the form of an IELTS to meet an English language requirement prior to gaining entry onto a degree programme and this was recognised in the second theme of the workshop (language assessment and international student recruitment). These four papers were the most cohesive in terms of their relevance to the session's theme and they included the tensions between the use of pre-sessionals versus the overreliance on IELTS (Bentley), the predictive validity of IELTS (Drybrough), the need to rethink entry requirements and assessment for PG programmes (Ottewell) and expectations of language needs from students on a Master's level TESOL programme (Moran). In this session there was a palpable sense of agreement amongst the 80 participants that IELTS is not entirely fit for purpose, but that IELTS was also not necessarily designed as predictive assessment of a student's capability to succeed on a degree programme.
The discussant Vincenzo Raimo concluded the second session in polemical fashion stating that those working in HE as applied linguists and EAP practitioners had, in his words, 'failed.' While this assessment certainly captured the attention of the audience, he was unclear in his criticism about what exactly the failure was. Was the failure a reference to the decline in the popularity of language study in UK HE, the lack of influence which practitioners exert over language policy rules and regulations at governmental and HE levels, or perhaps even the lack of influence over the recent Brexit vote? Certainly, these are areas which need further clarification, consideration and debate. However, without clear identification of the problems, it remains difficult to seek solutions or to have a productive discussion. To add to this, Raimo also stated that continued failure will see language provision in UK HEIs taken over by private language providers. Given that this is a growing trend (see Chakrabortty: 2016), this threat carried some weight and after the conclusion of Raimo's assessment, the participants in the workshop continued with the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads.
The afternoon session focused on the day's final theme (the International Student Experience) and again there was a significant degree of coherence in the 5 afternoon papers. However, where discontinuity was somewhat apparent was in relation to the morning statement by Holliday regarding his decision to not ask or state where research participants are from, instead leaving this to the research participants to make reference to if they felt it was important. This cautiousness against imposing a national or ethnic identity on research participants contrasted with the series of afternoon papers which dealt with the ISE from the perspective of Arab students (Hajar), Russian students (Ryazanova) Thai students (Cleary) and Chinese students (Ni). While all papers were well-researched and had interesting findings, there is a danger that studies from the perspective of a particular nationality/ethnicity might imbue the category with greater significance than it may actually warrant. This approach also raises questions about when these categories are appropriate and relevant particularly in light of Holliday's earlier distinctions between cultural blocks and threads. Where the afternoon session worked very well was when research students themselves (e.g. Candarli and González) talked about their own experiences in a way which reflected the cultural threads approach. While both researchers drew on their own nationality, their primary focus was on their transformation and integration into the group of fellow students and the small culture of their programme. This paper also felt less like a report of research done on a particular category of student and the kind of nuanced approach that the morning had promised (see Harvey 2016 for another example of a similarly nuanced approach).
It should be no great surprise that there were, in the words of the organisers, competing epistemologies and ontologies which emerged in an event such as this. However, the workshop may have served as a catalyst for starting to identify what exactly these mismatches are (possible examples include neoliberalism versus humanism, critical cosmopolitanism versus essentialism, postmodernism versus positivism and the many discourses in between these problematic binaries). This starting point can lead to further consideration of the implications for competing approaches to EAP, culture, interculturality and UK HE in general. While some of the workshop's participants may have left with a feeling that this process had barely begun and too many questions remained unanswered, fortunately, the promise of a second workshop in Leeds in 2017 offers hope that some of the issues raised on the day will be considered in the near future. Further information about this event will appear in the Leeds Language Scholarship Journal.
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Chakrabortty, A. 'Think only low-paid workers gt the Sports Direct Treatment? You're wrong', The Guardian, September 27, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/27/low-paid-workers-sports-direct-university-staff-rights-mike-ashley [Accessed 28 September 2016]
Harvey, L. 'I am Italian in the world': a mobile student's story of language learning and ideological becoming', Language & Intercultural Communication, 16:3 (2016) 368-383
Holliday, A. 'Difference and awareness in cultural travel: negotiating blocks and threads', Language & Intercultural Communication, 16:3 (2016) 318 -331
Travis, A. and Weale, S. 'Amber Rudd announces crackdown on overseas students and work visas', The Guardian, October 4, 2016. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/04/rudd-announces-crackdown-on-overseas-students-and-new-work-visas [Accessed 4 October 2016]


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