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Saudi Arabia probing several hospital MERS clusters in Riyadh
Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News
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Saudi Arabia is battling several small unrelated clusters of hospital-related MERS-CoV infections in the capital city of Riyadh, an official with the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed today, as the country's health ministry reported five new cases in the city.
Maria Van Kerkhove, PhD, an epidemiologist who is the WHO's technical lead for MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus), the cases are from different Riyadh hospitals. She added that Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) is conducting extensive contact tracing, which includes testing high-risk contacts, even if they don't have symptoms.
Riyadh 1 of 3 cities experiencing clusters
In the month of June, the Saudi MOH has reported 25 MERS cases in Riyadh, 21 with clear links to healthcare settings. The group includes healthcare workers and patients, most of whom have asymptomatic infections. Sources of the clusters are still under investigation. Reports this month also include a case involving primary exposure and another with camel exposure.
A clearer picture of the situation in Riyadh follows an announcement 2 days ago from the WHO about three small hospital clusters in Saudi Arabia with cases reported between Apr 21 and May 29, including one in Riyadh. The WHO alluded to five cases in the Riyadh cluster: four noted in its latest statement plus the index case-patient, whose illness was described in an earlier report.
Two other hospital clusters—one in Bisha and the other in Wadi ad-Dawasir—aren't connected to each other or to the Riyadh cluster, the WHO said.
Though MERS-CoV doesn't spread easily from person to person, in hospital settings the virus can lead to multiple secondary cases and can fuel large outbreaks, such as one at a hospital in Riyadh in 2015 that sickened more than 100 people. An outbreak in South Korea in 2015 led to 186 infections in 17 different health facilities.
MERS total likely to grow
Van Kerkhove, who was part of several joint WHO missions to Saudi Arabia and South Korea to probe hospital outbreaks and other issues related to MERS-CoV, said the high number of asymptomatic cases reflects the country's policy of testing high-risk contacts.
Another policy is to place asymptomatic health workers and household contacts with lab-confirmed infections in home isolation to limit onward transmission, she said, adding that symptomatic patients are isolated in the hospital.
Saudi health officials are currently investigating the extent of infection among contacts, the source of infection for each cluster, and any potential links between hospitals, according to Van Kerkhove.
"These investigations are ongoing, and I do expect more cases will be identified, but we have no indication of a change in the epidemiology or virus or any sustained human-to-human transmission," she said. Also, she added that affected hospitals have enhanced their infection prevention and control measures.
Saudi Arabian officials have been open and transparent regarding their actions and interim findings, Van Kerkhove added.
Five new cases today
The five new Riyadh cases reported by the Saudi MOH today include three healthcare workers and two hospital patients. All are healthcare-related infections. Four, however, are asymptomatic.
All the patients are foreigners living in Riyadh, and all are in stable condition.
The health workers are two women, ages 30 and 31, and a man, age 25. He is the only patient exhibiting symptoms. The patients are 58-year-old and 48-year-old men.
The new MERS cases raise the country's total since the outbreak began in 2012 to 1,628, including 671 deaths. Ten patients are still receiving treatment.
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i kept waiting for one message. a message that will never come. i know it won't come. i won't receive anything so i'm not gonna send anything to him either. i think its the right thing to do. coz only i get to do the things that men should do. so i wonder whether he's really the man or i am. maybe i am, that's why he doesn't like me. coz i dont wear skirt or sexy tops or make up. i'm no dyke. if i was dyke, i'd like girls. i don't. i'm tough and bitchy and i do what i want to do and the things i do always shock people and shut them up. like the way he shut up when i said i love you.
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Guide to Future-Present Archetypes Part 1: The Spark
This is the first in a series of six essays, drawing on interviews with speculative thinkers finding and defining the technologies of the Future-Present.
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It is the 21st Century, and history has delivered us into a time when aerial swarms of hypertextual futurist essays sling bombshell proclamations down upon us, guided down the invisible path of a laser beam. With each new detonation our grounding worldview shakes with tectonic intensity, as what we have always known as "the future" is driven to critical fission when hitting the present. Behold, this new technology: the "Future-Present": where our dreams collide with reality. There is no fantastical World of Tomorrow, and there is no reality in which we know the real from the imagined. There is only the waking dream of the categories' simultaneous coexistence. In this world, cities explode, the network sings like razor wire, a caustic, aerosolized powder rises up from pavement beneath our feet, people wearing masks shout instructions over our heads. The dream is still going on, a double exposure of ideas over impact weapons. It is difficult to say whether we are excited, or terrified, or bored, or confused. But we understand this, don't we? We must say we understand this. There is no one else that could understand this, other than us. What would it mean, if no one understood the future?
Electronic Countermeasures GPS enabled quadcopter, Tomorrow's Thoughts Today (video)
On the Natural History of Surveillance
Still from The Conversation (1974)
Upon hearing the phrase, we may not know exactly what a "cephalic sniffer" is, nor whether it is a real piece of technology. However, as to what such a nefarious device might be able to do, we could surely begin to imagine from the name alone. And as for whether it is technological reality (it is not, being invented by Philip K. Dick in his story Clans of the Alphane Moon), from its "sci-fi" sounding alliteration we might guess correctly that it is purely fantasy.
At least it was fantasy when PKD invented it in 1964. Today, advances in biometric identification mean that while a device that can search out an individual by his or her brainwaves is not yet on the market (at least publicly), searching out a person by face or speech pattern is decidedly real. Furthermore, brain-computer interface devices (BCI) have been commercially available since at least 1999. So how far are we from the technological reality of a biometric tracking system hacking BCIs and tracking individuals? If we change the name to "brainwave keylogger", it suddenly is less fantastic, and frighteningly plausible.
Submitted for your consideration: an entire list of surveillance concepts, proposed by science-fiction stories. Note the technologically real items: Augmented Reality, ubiquitous surveillance, drones, eavesdropping rays, and tracking systems. These are all things that we might call "cutting edge tech", but indeed, certainly real tech. Surprise, shock, uncanniness, paranoia— yes, it is repeated enough to be cliche--the future is here.
But what is truly uncanny about our present "not-so-distant future", is that we continue to refer to it as the future. There is no need to speculate. We have a fully evolved culture of surveillance technology in the United States. Here is another list: this time of non-fictional surveillance concepts. They range from the slightly-troubling to the fully-horrifying, but they all are now employed by the government of the United States for the purposes of so-called "National Security":
Palantir, No-Fly List, Full Body Scanners, "If you see something, say something", Border Searches are Exempt from the 4th Amendment, Stop and Frisk, NYPD spying on Muslims,TSA harassment of children, the elderly, DHS spying on activists, That DHS exists, FBI terrorism entrapment, Domestic Drone Surveillance, Private Prisons, Over 1% of US Citizens in Jail, National Security Letters, FISC Courts, Immigration Policy, Abu-Ghraib Prison Abuse, Guantanamo Prison Camp, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Codifying Indefinite Detention, FBI seeking backdoors in electronic communications, ICE raids on websites, Iris scans of civil disobedience protesters, Warrantless Wiretaps, Recorded Future, The Domestic Communications Assistance Center
Nevertheless, the primary means by which we engage with surveillance culture outside of the news media is still speculative art and fiction. Speculation allows us, as both creators and readers, to play design-fiction with reality. It is rapid prototyping in emerging psychological patterns. But these thought experiments do not exist in a vacuum.
The Shape of Shaping Things to Come
A weird commotion outside wakes you up. You peer out the window to see the source of the music and revelry. A group of college kids from the engineering school are smashing all of their furniture in the street. The next day while walking the dog, you see them again. They're sweeping up the pieces of broken housewares, and shoveling it into bags. The next day, it looks like they're moving in again as they carry brand new designer furniture into their house. They do this every month or so.
You are shopping in Ikea, looking for a new end table, and perhaps a rug. Suddenly, uniformed security guards appear, and surround a young woman. She is escorted from the store, uneventfully. "Pocket scanner", you hear an employee tell an inquiring couple.
With delighted expectation, your son unwraps his birthday gift. Awe is quickly replaced by disappointment. "Isn't that the one you wanted?" you ask confused, certain that it was the new action figure, ordered directly from the TV show web site. "Yeah, it's the one," he says cautiously, not looking you in the eyes. "I just forgot that all the accessories would be un-modded on the store version."
3D printed objects, or "physibles" are an incredible example of the mundane aspects of future-weird. They are glitchy-as-fuck, but their shapeshifting effect on our cultural space will inhabit the same metaphysics of street graffiti--appreciated by only a few, truly understood by even less.
A physible is simple. Download a file with information about the shape of an object, or components parts of an object. Use a 3D printing machine that squirts molten plastic, metal or other material to pour you that object, without needing a mold. Or, send the file to a company who will do that for you. These machines simplify the process of fabbing an object, by using a single machine to create parts of nearly anything. Previously, specific injection molds had to be created for each piece, or a welder had to attach pieces by reading a diagram. Now the machine can build the entire piece in one run, with basically zero set-up investment. The investment to produce a single object is nearly nothing--all it takes is the design, and one of these universal printing machines.
This technical evolution is interesting, but the real revolution will be in the changing distribution of fabrication shops that this production shift will create. Fabrication has been sourced wherever the set-up requirements are cheapest, with the run production runs made as large as possible. But the technology behind physibles will make short-run fabrication, anywhere, much more preferable. It will eventually be cheaper for a person to fab one object at home, than to buy one of five hundred thousand made in one place and shipped across the world. Physibles will decentralize the Pearl River, and bring China home.
But the technology of physibles doesn't mean much to the consumer. Not any more than the encoding of a MP3 file, or the precise stitch pattern of a handbag. It means something to the person who actually fabs the object, but as a consumer, you'll get your things wherever is cheapest and easiest, just like always. You'll still order things online. Rather than coming from China, perhaps a Chinese company will outsource the design to a fab shop down the street that will hand deliver it to your door. The means of production continue to mean nothing to the end-user: commodity cost is king. Most people want their stuff to just be stuff, and don't care about how it works. Consider the frustration people experience trying to get a PDF to print correctly on a flat sheet of paper. These folks will be filling their cabinets, entertaining their children, and brushing their teeth with physibles every day of their lives without knowing how the object came into existence, or what that means for global distribution networks.
Most people. On the other hand, there will be a new set of object hackers, who will be spending all their free time online, discussing the precise interior dimension ratios of the new set of Target glassware ....
City of QR Codes
I examine bar codes, wondering what it would be like to have only laser sight. I stare at handwriting until the loops and whorls stop being words, syllables, and even letters, and become no more than manic pulses brain wave transformed into muscle twitch, traced in the seismograph of our ink-hemorrhaging prosthetic appendages. I gaze at my city streets, running my eyes over the scars on its knees, feeling a refracted rainbow of urban skin interring a personal history of human frailty. I have a polymorphously perverted sense of physical praxis with objects. It's not that I'm more object-curious or infrastructurally dirty-minded than most; it's just that once you start to think about what things are wearing underneath their exterior semiotic reality, it's pretty hard to calm down. Thankfully, the city invites my oddly tactile greeting, smiling and warming to my touch. Scars are so much sexier than tattoos.
This street, this entire block, this city —its beautifully exposed skin now appears in my imagination as a square of white and black squares, each structure and topological feature raising or lowering itself against a field of contrasting color. This city is a QR code. A QR code may not be a sex symbol to you, but stretching anywhere from 21 units by 21 units in dimension to a maximum of 177 by 177, (define these imagined units as you like) my metropolis is a pixelated, hemaphroditic Vitruvian pin-up drawing, a mandala of Kama Sutra-esque data positions. I walk down the street and I decode a pattern esoteric enough to be invented by gods, ancient shamans, or extraterrestrials. Invented by us. Within these folds and plateaus we have embedded the sort of information that arouses our attentions--the kind of public-knowledge secrets we think about just behind the ...
Drone Ethnography
Trevor Paglan, The Other Night Sky
Suppose you wanted to build your own drone—well, hold on a minute—why do you want to build your own drone?
What do you mean, "why?" The answer is, you'd go to Dronepedia first, and then to DIY Drones , where you'd find out where to get started with a simple kit or pre-made drone.
But suppose you just wanted to find out some of the latest info on the US government's top secret drone projects. Don't even ask me why, it should be obvious. You'd want to do like artist Trevor Paglen , and travel to remote testing locations to snap photographs of strange shapes taking off from military bases, along with the planespotters. Either that, or travel to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, and now Somalia with a good pair of binoculars.
And then if you want a little bit a speculation about drones, you pick up the paranoid defense blogging of Danger Room or the design-fiction of sousveillance and cyborg specialists like Tim Maly . And then you—
Okay. I thought it was clear, but if you want me to spell it out for you, I will. You are obsessed with drones. We all are. We live in a drone culture, just as we once lived in a car culture. The Northrop-Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk is your '55 Chevorlet. You just might not know it yet.
I have thirty-five browser tabs open, and each contains a fragment of the drone-mythos. Each is a glimpse at a situation, a bird's eye view of the terrain. So many channels, showing me the same thing: near-infinite data collection. With the help of Google, I'm drone-spotting—I'm turning a new critical perspective that I'm calling Drone Ethnography, back on itself.
All of us that use the internet are already practicing Drone Ethnography. Look at the features of drone technology: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Surveillance, Sousveillance. Networks of collected information, over land and in the sky. Now consider the "consumer" side of tech: mapping programs, location-aware pocket tech, public-sourced media databases, and the apps and algorithms by which we navigate these tools. We already study the world the way a drone sees it: from above, with a dozen unblinking eyes, recording everything with the cold indecision of algorithmic commands honed over time, affecting nothing—except, perhaps, a single, momentary touch, the momentary awareness and synchronicity of a piece of information discovered at precisely the right time. An arc connecting two points like the kiss from an air-to-surface missile. Our technological capacity for watching, recording, collecting, and archiving has never been wider, and has never been more automated. The way we look at the world—our basic ethnographic approach—is mimicking the technology of the drone.
Epistemological change in inevitable, but there is more going on here than a revolution in research tools. There is a feeling I can only describe as the presence of "The Swarm", a fundamental aesthetic of the drone-mythos. It's an unexpected mythological evolution that has come about along with the technological evolution. There's nothing groundbreaking about myths accompanying new technology. But this mythos is different. The industrial revolution didn't see a burgeoning number of DIY textile mills. This is more along the lines of the birth of the automobile—a seemingly simple invention that not only revolutionized its particular task, but also changed society.


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Hero Zee Saregamapa Final 15 Contestants And Their Mentors
After the final audition finally mentors selected top 15 contestants for Hero Zee Saregamapa 2012. Here is the detail list of those contestants along with their mentors who will be a guide, a guru throughout the show till we get a winner.
It was nearly 1.23 lakhs contestants from 21 cities coming for audition of the biggest singing reality show Zee Saregamapa which gave singing sensations like Kunal Ganjawala, Shreya Ghosal etc in bollywood. Out of 1.23 lakhs top 100 were selected for mega auditions.
In mega audition which was held in Mumbai, Maharashtra it was tough to select best 15 as almost all were outstanding singers. Few directly got selected and few were rejected and majority were kept in hold to get best 15 out of 100. Still in the first shot mentors selected 24 contestants for final round and then seeing the videos again and again the best 15 according to them were selected. Singers like Jaspreet Sharma who is National gold medalist in Thumri and ghazal were kept in hold and Barbie Rajput who did extremely well in Little champs was rejected. In total 9 male contestants and 6 female contestants were selected for premiere and final round.
The three team of mentors are of Shankar, Rahul Ram of Indian Ocean fame and Sajid Wajid. Here is the list of selected contestant in the respective teams of mentors.
Contestants of Zee saregamapa 2012 in Sajid Wajid team
1. Shehnaz Akhtar - 21 years old from Ludhiana.
2. Renu Nagar - 18 years girl from Alwar, Rajashthan. Named as Pocket Rocket by mentors.
3. Zain Ali - Lone contestant from abroad, Zain is from Lahore Pakistan and is 27 years old.
4. Arshpreet Kaur - 24 years old from Ludhiana, Punjab.
5. Arsh Mohammad - 21 years old from Mumbai, Maharashtra, son of a violinist.
Contestants of Zee saregamapa 2012 in Rahul Ram team
1. Vishwajeet Borwankar - 27 years old from Mumbai, Maharashtra and winner of Zee saregamapa Marathi in 2012.
2. Parul Mishra - 23 years old from Gorakhpur, UP.
3. Kunal Pandit - 18 years old from Mumbai, Maharashtra with a greta voice.
4. Mrunmayee Tirodkar - 21 years old from Goa having sweet and playback singing quality voice.
5. Padmanabh Bhordole - 25 years old singer from Guwahati, Assam who had performed many stage shows.
Contestants of Zee saregamapa 2012 in Shankar team
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2. Subhrima Bhaduri - 20 years old from Mumbai, Maharashtra having command in western zonar of music.
3. Jaspreet Sharma - 22 years old from Bhatinda, Punjab popularly known as Jazim and is National gold medalist in Thumri and ghazals.
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5 Mohammad Aman - 20 years old from Jaipur, Rajasthan a perfect classical singer.


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An extremely rare "left-handed" garden snail dubbed Jeremy has managed to find his soul- er, shell-mate... with a little help from his human friends.
It's a match made in gastropod heaven! Jeremy (named after British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbin) is a snail whose shell spirals to the left. Not only is this a one-in-a-million happenstance, it's also a huge impediment to Jeremy's love life. "Essentially," states Angus Davison, professor of evolutionary genetics at the University of Nottingham, "their bits are in the wrong position."
Word of Jeremy's plight (as seen above) soon spread virally, as such things tend to do these days, and the lovelorn slimer soon found himself in the limelight for all the wrong reasons. Fortuitously, however, a member of a local conchological society (conchology is the study of shells) mentioned Jeremy to amateur snail scientist Jade Melton, whose pet snail "Lefty" had – you guessed it – a left-spiraling shell as well.
"I found him crawling up a tree in my partner's garden," explained Melton to Carol Off, host of the radio program As It Happens. "I found Lefty before Jeremy was found so I've had Lefty for quite a long time," added Melton (above right). "I got into contact with Professor Davison (above left) straight away."
The next step involved Lefty getting in touch with Jeremy... literally. At press time their courtship appeared to be moving forward though not by leaps and bounds. "They just touch each other gently with their tentacles, their eye stocks," states Melton, "and they will kind of caress each other for a while. It is very sweet, but with snails it's always a slow process." You don't say!


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Does facebook tax and erode the mystery and benevolent hallucinations of separation and the awaiting of the message from the concealed friend, the sexual weed or familiar error-wanderer navel? Does facebook allow for distance to end like a wadi can end–or does it maintain separation till numb death, by manufacturing the illusion of a semblance of the other's presence, of the warm foreign shadow? Does facebook make false pitch, and make visible, separation's song?
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I mention the drawings first because of the recent exhibition in Mezrab, Amsterdam's cultural nightclub. I want from there to go to other galleries and venues, but these drawings are mainly intended as companions to poetry and literary texts, prose, arguably in the fashion of Bruno Schulz. The emphasis in my life is writing, the drawings are the blood hemogoblin siblings of stories and poems. So far have a few poetry publications, a prize in an Amsterdam-based literary contest for my stageplay-script, written in the English language, and freelance journalism publications.


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At different points over the past few years, several friends have asked about (or expressed frustration with) hiring teens or working with teens in various dimensions. In this post, I hope to offer Creative Solutions for adults who want to work more effectively with teens. I hope to offer suggestions in a way that respects the growing, developing teen, so please read these less as "solutions for teens" and more like helping adults with their "stance" or "approach" to the situation.
Let me explain: I spent nine years teaching high school; the last five of those years were spent directing a high school service learning program and teaching morality to 16 year old girls (and I loved it!). My own kids are 7 1/2 and 6; I offer these insights more as an educator than as a parent.
It Takes A Village
Think of yourself more as an educator working with a student than as an adult that wants to hire an employee; an apprentice, if you will. That kid's parents and (paid professional) teachers are doing the best they can. The rest of us need to help. It takes a village to raise a child? It takes a village to teach teens how to be the kind of responsible, proactive workers we would all like to hire.
Teens are still learning and growing. When you hire them for a job, understand that you are teaching them how to be an employee. We need to both inform them as well as form them:
- Inform them – on what you need to have done
- Form them – into the kind of person you want to employ
I'll talk more about "informing" teens in a moment, but first a word about "forming." It's this second piece–forming character–that kids need the whole community of adults to take seriously. Form them, mold them, mentor them, and you will do the world a service. Bonus: you'll get the employee you seek!
Formation with Mutual Respect
Yes, form and mold them, but do it respectfully. Although they might not always be able to cognitively express it, teens are very emotionally intuitive. They know when they are being patronized. Or used. There's a thousand clichés that encourage kindness and love over judgment.
I often encounter adults who get annoyed with a teen who is not performing a given job as expected. But rather than talking to the teen, they'll just opt to not hire them again. I encourage you to talk with the kid. Sometimes they need more information. Sometimes they need more formation.
In reality, teens (like all kids… and all of us, honestly) make mistakes. Some of them careless or negligent (where they should have known better), other mistakes are honest and innocent. Work from the presumption that the teen you're working with really wants to do the right thing. They need you to teach them. And remember it's not just about you: the whole world will benefit if you can help in the formation of this kid.
I find that Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (as well as Sean Covey's Seven Habits for Highly Effective Teens) offers some great guiding insights here.
- Habit 1: Be Proactive – Take "being responsible" to the next level. Instead of responding to problems, think ahead and prevent a situation from becoming a problem.
- Explicitly tell teens that you value this characteristic.
- Habit 4: Think Win-Win – Rather than thinking about a situation having a winner and a loser pitted against each other, think of the situation in a way that is mutually beneficial for all.
- Try to approach every conversation with teens with this mindset.
- Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood – First listen. Don't presume you know why something did (or didn't) happen.
- Ask (non-threatening) questions with the honest intention of understanding. Once the teen is assured that you understand his/her position, then they will be more likely to listen and understand you.
I won't say that I practice these insights perfectly every time, but they make a huge difference.
For example: I currently use a 14 year old neighbor "Gary" as my babysitter. Last summer I hired Gary to watch my boys while I worked at home in my office for a few days here and there. He had watched the kids several times before, but just for an hour or two before bedtime. This was for a 4-5 hour mid-day block. I needed him to feed them lunch and watch them all afternoon, while I worked. His first summer-sitting day was on a Friday. He was a little on the "passive" side and my kids got bored. After five hours, it bordered on disaster for everyone.
I took the weekend to think it through and asked him to come by the following Tuesday evening (before I needed him to babysit again). It helped that several days had passed; we were able to talk more objectively about the situation and less emotionally. I suspected that he was babysitting because his mom thought it was a good idea, and I wanted to give him an out. But rather than accuse or assume, I asked:
Do you really want this job?
To my surprise, he said "Yes." So I continued: "I'm glad to hear you say that, but as I'm sure you know, the way things ended on Friday did not work for anyone. Let's talk about what we can do differently." For starters, I explained that I need a proactive sitter so that my kids don't get bored. He didn't need to be an entertainer, but he did need to direct, oversee, and suggest (as well as supervise cleanup). I gave him a list of all the games and activities they could do. The next summer-sitting-session was a thousand times better.
Information: Be Clear On Expectations
When hiring a teen, one of the first things adults want to know is how much to pay. Regional costs of babysitting, for example, will vary greatly. Most kids have a hard time discussing pay. They will say "I don't know; whatever."
In reality, the teen needs a chance to size up the scope of the job. For instance, with babysitting, teens want to know :
- How many kids?
- How well-behaved are the kids?
- What does the teen actually need to do while they are there?
Still, teens often have a hard time figuring out a number. In addition to always asking the teen what their rate is, I would suggest:
- Know the regional going rate for babysitting. As with any job, the more inexperienced teens will be paid less (and will need you to form and inform them a little more). Be able to suggest a fair rate if the teen waivers.
- Clearly articulate your priorities
When it comes to priorities, be explicit. In babysitting, the safety of the kids is the #1 priority. Be overt; say it aloud. That way if you ask the teen to do anything else, they can be assured that nothing matters as much as your kid's safety, and are encouraged to make decisions accordingly.
Then consider what else you'd like to see happen: Would you like the teen to feed them dinner? Would you like them to clean up afterwards? Consider whether or not you would be willing to pay a sitter an extra $1 or $2 an hour to come home to a clean house. Explicitly tell the teen this.
If you can clean up after dinner and make sure the kids' toys are picked up, I'd be happy to pay you ___ (more). If you'd rather not, we can keep the rate at ___.
If you expect certain things to be done, the teen needs to know it. If you are willing to pay more money for more work, the teen needs to know it. If you would be open to the teen suggesting "extra" jobs that he/she could do, the teen needs to know it.
Part of forming teens means helping them make informed decisions (even if the informed decision involves the realization that a certain job isn't working out).
I welcome your comments and questions. Let's help each other form and inform teens. The whole world will benefit.


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Vinegar is a traditional folk remedy long valued for its many health benefits. Recent research shows at least three ways in which the traditional healers were on the right track at least when it comes to weight loss. A 2006 review article in the "Medscape Journal of Medicine" concludes vinegar may have a role in blood sugar control and appetite suppression. Other studies show vinegar may also promote weight loss by preventing fat accumulation through its impact on insulin secretion.
If you want to cut down on nibbling between meals try vinegar. In a 2005 study in the "European Journal of Clinical Nutrition," scientists fed bread plus low, medium or high amounts of vinegar to twelve healthy subjects, while the control group ate plain bread. Those who received the vinegar felt fuller than the control group, and the effect increased with the amount of vinegar ingested. While vinegar soaked bread may not be your favorite dish, you might try sipping vinegar in water along with your meal or having a salad dressed with vinegar and oil. Be sure to brush your teeth after sipping vinegar as it can be hard on tooth enamel.
Individuals with type 2 diabetes or who are pre-diabetic may benefit from vinegar's apparent ability to stabilize glucose. A 2007 study reported in "Diabetes Care" followed 11 people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, but who were not taking insulin. Every night for 3 nights they ingested either 2 tablespoons of either apple cider vinegar or water plus some cheese. The results showed drinking vinegar at bedtime had a significant and favorable impact on waking, or fasting, glucose concentrations even among the subjects who were taking hypoglycemic medications during the study.
By promoting stable blood sugar vinegar may help prevent the sugar crashes that encourage you to wolf down the nearest source of carbohydrates, shooting your blood sugar back up and starting the cycle all over again. In the 2005 study of vinegar and satiety, the scientists also evaluated blood samples to determine vinegar's impact on glucose and insulin levels. The low and intermediate vinegar groups had significantly lower blood glucose levels at 15 and 30 minutes, which continued to be measurable at 90 minutes for the high vinegar group. Similarly, the intermediate group enjoyed lower insulin levels at 15 minutes, the high group at 30 minutes.
In a 2004 study in "Diabetes Care," insulin-resistant individuals who drank vinegar and water followed by a meal enjoyed significantly improved insulin sensitivity compared to a control group. The study authors concluded that vinegar's effects may be similar to those of some popular diabetes drugs. Of course given the connection between insulin levels and fat storage, these results support vinegar's use as a fat burning food.
Animal studies offer further proof of the value of drinking vinegar to lose weight. Scientists in Pakistan mixed apple cider vinegar with food given to diabetic and non-diabetic rats. The result was significantly lower LDL and higher HDL cholesterol in the non-diabetic rats. Similarly, the diabetic rats enjoyed significantly lower triglyceride levels and raised levels of HDL cholesterol. In a 2009 study which used mice as subjects, acetic acid (the main ingredient in vinegar) was associated with reduced liver lipids and less fat accumulation.
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Despite energy turmoil, gas pipe work proceeds
Two competing groups working on a $30 billion-plus Alaska natural gas pipeline planning aren't fazed by current economic problems and plummeting energy prices, at least not yet.
U.S. spot market prices for gas reached $6 per thousand cubic feet on Oct. 27. That's less than half what they were in recent weeks.
Major energy projects that will span decades aren't influenced by short-term market prices, but there are critical times when attitudes and perceptions in financial markets can have an impact. For the Alaska pipeline that could come in 2010, when both TransCanada Corp. and the Denali pipeline group, owned by BP and ConocoPhillips, plan open seasons to solicit customers.
Gas shippers, either producers or downstream buyers of gas, will be asked to sign take-or-pay shipping commitments worth in excess of $100 billion. If economic conditions are still sour, executives of even these major companies may blink before signing the checks. That could delay the project or kill it - again.
The U.S. gas price volatility reminds many in Alaska of what happened to the last proposed gas pipeline project, called the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, which was moving at full steam in the early 1980s until the North American gas market dropped out from under it.
Memories of that are still fresh at TransCanada because Foothills Pipe Lines, now a part of TransCanada, was part of the ANGTS consortium that spent about $1 billion in environmental, engineering and permitting work before the plug was pulled on the project.
Denali and TransCanada will have spent almost $750 million by the time the companies have their open seasons in 2010.
For now, however, it's full steam ahead for both projects. TransCanada Corp. and the competing Denali pipeline group, which is owned by two North Slope producers, are moving ahead with engineering and cost studies, and both still plan open seasons in 2010 to solicit customers for their projects.
TransCanada has yet to formally receive its state license under the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, but the company is doing work even though it won't be partly reimbursed by the state under the AGIA license, company Vice President Tony Palmer said.
The license is awarded 90 days after its signing by Gov. Sarah Palin, which will put the date at about Nov. 25, Palmer said.
Meanwhile, the Denali pipeline company is analyzing data gathered during field work this summer and is doing a limited field program this winter to gather geotechnical data by drilling, company spokesman Dave MacDowell said. The geotechnical program means Denali will now be keeping its Tok field office open year-round. A major summer program is planned for 2009.
Palmer said TransCanada has completed aerial photography along the pipeline route from the North Slope to the Canada border and from Delta to Valdez. The company is also doing aerial surveys of the pipeline route through Canada, he said.
"We have mobilized our project team and plan to solicit comments on a proposed engineering planning contract for the gas treatment plant soon, which will be followed by a formal request for proposals later this year," Palmer said.
The gas plant, to be in Prudhoe Bay, is a major project on its own, and is expected to cost about $2 billion. The plant will condition the raw gas that is produced for the pipeline, mainly by removing carbon dioxide, water and impurities.
An engineering planning contract for the pipeline itself will be let early next year.
"The pipeline is much more straightforward for us," Palmer said, because of TransCanada's experience in pipeline building.
The pipeline company is also close to making an announcement of where it will locate its Alaska office, Palmer said. It will be either in Anchorage or Fairbanks. Palmer couldn't say how big the office will be or how many people it will support.
MacDowell said Denali's staff is still supported by two temporary offices in Anchorage, but that the company will be announcing the location of a larger, centralized office soon.
Denali is also beginning work on studies of infrastructure needed to support pipeline construction, in-state gas needs and workforce development, MacDowell said.
As for the current clouded economic outlook, Palmer said TransCanada doesn't think a recession would affect his project if the economy downturn is relatively short, say a year or a two.
"There could even be a window of opportunity," he said, if it cools recently overheated oil equipment and materials markets and creates a more level headed environment in which to conduct cost estimates.
Still, any lock-in on prices won't occur for years until after a project has been sanctioned by the company and U.S. and Canadian agencies, Palmer said.
But if the slowdown lasts several years, Palmer acknowledged it could affect TransCanada's hopes to nail down customers for capacity for its project.
Meanwhile, TransCanada's competitor, the Denali gas consortium owned by BP and ConocoPhillips, says it is too busy with preliminary engineering and cost estimates and to worry about a recession.
"We're focusing on the things we can control, like the work necessary to conduct an open season in 2010," MacDowell said. "That remains our objective and we can't be distracted by volatile market conditions playing out at present."
TransCanada hopes to begin its open season in March 2010 and to conclude it by July 2010, Palmer said. Denali will have its open season later that same year, according to its president, Bud Fackrell.
The Denali group is budgeting its preparations for the open season at $600 million, of which $40 million has been already spent on the 2008 summer program.
TransCanada has estimated its work to prepare for the open season at about $184 million. Half of that will be reimbursed by the state under the AGIA license agreement.
There is no question that ultimately only one pipeline will be built, and that a consortium of pipeline companies and producers will build it. The disagreement is over who will control the project, the producers or TransCanada.
Most Alaskans believe Denali has a leg up over TransCanada because BP and ConocoPhillips have gas reserves on the Slope that total about half what is needed for the project, and which the two companies would presumably ship through a pipeline they own.
However, a third major owner of North Slope gas reserves, ExxonMobil Corp., has yet to decide how it will market its gas. Another major gas owner, Chevron Corp., also has made no decision.
TransCanada owns no gas but it has been in the gas pipeline business a long time and hopes to convince the gas owners, or potential downstream purchasers of gas, to purchase capacity in its system. The pipeline company says it can build a pipeline for less than the producers' group would spend.
The state of Alaska is pushing for TransCanada, believing that a pipeline controlled by an independent company would prevent a gas monopoly on the North Slope, since the producers already own most of the producing fields and existing infrastructure.
TransCanada hopes the state's support will ultimately give it an advantage in attracting gas shipping commitments from the producing companies. AGIA carries with it the state's promise to make an agreement on tax terms for any producers that commit gas to TransCanada.
Alaska state officials, such as Revenue Commissioner Pat Galvin, have said that if the producers want a deal with the state on taxes the way to it is through TransCanada.
The producers argue that the deal TransCanada struck, an agreement under the state's Alaska Gasline Inducement Act to abide by special pipeline terms, may ultimately become an albatross for the pipeline company.
BP and ConocoPhillips say they can't accept some of the terms under AGIA, and that this will prevent TransCanada from being brought into the Denali consortium or prevent the producers from joining TransCanada.
To resolve this, the state Legislature may have to soften AGIA's terms and also make a tax deal available for gas to any pipeline, not just TransCanada's.


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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer
Across the Universe (Across the Universe #1) by Beth Revis
A Million Suns (Across the Universe #2) by Beth Revis
Shades of Earth (Across the Universe #3) by Beth Revis
Prodigy (Legend #2) by Marie Lu
Fuse (Pure #2) by Julianna Baggott
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A Beltsville hotel found out the hard way that space heater safety is not just for the home. At around 4:00 pm, Tuesday, October 20, 2015 a 911 was received reporting an odor of smoke on the 5th floor of a hotel in the 4000 block of Powder Mill Road.
Firefighters from the nearby Calverton Fire/EMS Station responded and quickly confirmed smoke on the 5th floor with a sprinkler activation. Upon further investigation firefighters found curtains had been ignited by an improperly placed electric space heater. Fortunately the buildings sprinkler system activated and doused the flames limiting the amount of fire loss to an estimated $1,000.
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Fall Break in the MSD of Lawrence Township is October 21st through the 25th. Classes resume Monday, October 28th.
Lawrence Education and Community Center and Welcome Center
The Lawrence Education and Community Center and the Welcome Center will be CLOSED on Friday, October 25th. We will resume regular hours on Monday, October 28th.
If you need to meet with someone at LECC over Fall Break you are advised to call ahead, as many people will be taking vacation during this time.


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Project Manager and Executive Assistant
Alizarin Menninga-Fong is the Project Manager and Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director at Chinese Progressive Association. In this role, Alizarin supports Operations at CPA. Prior to moving to the Bay Area, Alizarin studied Mandarin in Taiwan after living and working in Minneapolis, MN. There, she worked as a Community Health Worker and used her free time to activate arts-based organizing. Since 2014, she co-administered the Million Artist Movement using art as an agent to coalesce people, art, and power into change; coordinated the Twin Cities People of Color and Indigenous Peoples' Figure Drawing and Painting Group; and created graphic design content for the Yarn Mission for Black Liberation. She identifies as a queer mixed race Chinese-American woman who grew up in Oak Park, IL.


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On Sunday morning we:
- Worship together
- Run a Sunday Morning Programfor children and teenagers
- Catch up with friends and get to know new people over morning tea in the hall, with a themed cafe style gathering once a term
- Provide fun activities for children after worship (e.g. chalk drawing, table tennis, hulahoops)
- Share lunch together once a quarter (although groups of us go out to a local café to continue our conversation after worship most weeks!).
- Hold occasional working bees to maintain our beautiful property


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Are you ready to grow your own successful estate planning practice or looking for a practical refresher? This guide will become your go-to guide. From client intake through will, trust and tax planning, you will receive tips, sample forms and answers to your most pressing questions to help you excel. Gain insight on everyday issues estate planning attorneys face - order today!
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This seminar meets the requirements of the Certifying Board for Legal Assistants of the National Association of Legal Assistants, Inc., for 6.0 hours, including 1.0 ethics, of continuing legal assistant education self-study credit required to maintain the CLA (Certified Legal Assistant) credential.
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T. JAMES LEE is a shareholder and director in the Phoenix office of Fennemore Craig, P.C., and chairs the firm's private wealth preservation (trusts and estates) practice group. He is certified as a trust and estate specialist by the State Bar of Arizona, and practices in the areas of estate planning, trust and estate administration, charitable giving, business design and structuring, international taxation, and commercial transactions. Mr. Lee serves on Arizona's Estate and Trust Advisory Commission and is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Utah State Bar, the ABA's Committee on Estate and Gift Taxes (Taxation Section), and is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). In addition to his professional activities, Mr. Lee is actively engaged with local and international charitable organizations. He earned a B.A. degree in business management from Brigham Young University, with distinction, as the top business school graduate in the area of entrepreneurship. He graduated, with honors, in 1996 from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at BYU, and served on the Editorial Board of the BYU Law Review. Mr. Lee is listed in Best Lawyers in America under Tax Law and Trusts & Estates, Southwest Super Lawyers in Estate Planning and Probate, and is ranked in Chambers and Partners under Private Wealth Law.
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The Kentville Home Show is back at the Centennial Arena; Apr 12-14th! With over 80 vendors on site, there's something for everyone as we get ready for spring 2019! Plus, the Home Show giveaway is worth over $7500. Come check it out! Hours: Friday (Apr 12th) 5-9pm Saturday (Apr 13th)...Find out more »


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Gwyneth Paltrow Ignores the Criticism Over Her Health Advice: 'People Can Get Really Reactive'
Gwyneth Paltrow stopped listening to the criticism over her health advice about treatments like cupping and vaginal steaming
Go ahead and judge Gwyneth Paltrow all you want for her health advice — she's confident people will come around in a few years.
The actress and GOOP founder says many of her ideas initially considered crazy, such as vaginal steaming, eventually became popular.
"When you're at the forefront of something that's new, people can get really reactive: 'This is crazy! Why are you doing this?' Then, five years later, everyone's fine with it. So I have a bit of pattern recognition in hand at this point — which is helpful," Paltrow, 44, tells Women's Health for their April issue.
But she's also learned not to take that criticism personally.
"When someone doesn't like something you do, or doesn't share your interest in something, that doesn't have anything to do with you," she says. "It's a blessing to be liberated from the chains of other people's perceptions of you. It's part of wellness, working at that. I've gotten to a point where I like myself. I do my best as a person. I also have nothing to hide."
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Paltrow, who was just coming off an eight-day, goat-milk cleanse at the time of the interview, says she's currently looking for ways to aid digestion.
"I'm really interested in the impact of heavy metals and parasites on our bodies," she says. "I think they're two of the biggest culprits in terms of why we feel bad. I'm knee-deep in figuring out ways to clear them from the body, looking at all sorts of potentially weird modalities."
Paltrow says her fascination with health care all stems from her family.
"When my father was diagnosed with cancer in 1998, I really started to think about the link between environmental toxins and cancer," she explains. "What's the impetus behind the way our bodies are no longer able to overcome all these skyrocketing diseases, from immune disorders to autism to diabetes and cancer? What is going on? That exploration definitely started me down the path. I want to be healthy, to feel as good as I can."


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As Chief Digital Officer (job share) at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Harriet and Myra are working to ensure both a smooth exit from the EU and that digital is in the forefront of Defra's activity to improve our environment and strengthen food and farming in the UK. Previously as joint Director Digital at the British Council, Harriet and Myra led a global, award-winning digital transformation of this £1bn organisation, which works in 120 countries. As Director of Ecommerce they rolled out a global ecommerce platform for the British Council's online learning offer. Previously Harriet and Myra both worked at the BBC: Harriet as a Commissioning Editor and Myra as Head of New Media, both at the BBC World Service, leading the transformation of an analogue broadcaster to digital content production. Harriet also works as a NED in the arts sector, Myra has served as a NED in the NHS and academia.
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Kauai, Hawaii Landscape and Seascape Photographs
Kauai is known as the Garden isle due to the abundance of rainfall in parts of the island, but it is usually partly cloudy with lots of sunshine for landscape photography. This island is usually included in top-10 island lists when it comes to scenery. It is a photographic paradise, with rainbows, happening when the sun and rain happen at the same time. The beaches are spectacular and are older than on the other islands. The sand is perfect and the water is cool for a tropical island, which make that air temperature just perfect. It is rarely too hot or cold here.
The Jacuzzi – Lumahai Beach, Kauai, Hawaii
This is yet another location where there are grave markers warning people to stay off the lava. Even though I did not heed the warning, I watched the waves for quite a while before venturing out to see this marvel of the power of the sea.
Fortunately it was summer and the waves are not as big, but every so often, a big one would come in and I'd have to make a hasty retreat via a rather slippery escape route I had planned earlier. My heart was racing as I thought of the people who were thrown into this Jacuzzi-like maelstrom.
45 Seconds at Hanalei – Hanalei Pier Kauai
I got up in the dark to get there early in order to show how the trade winds sweep the clouds past the rainiest mountains in the world. Sometimes the clouds open up a bit and during this time of year, the sculpted cliffs are etched perfectly in relief by the low sun angle. The long exposure also reduces distractions so that the pier and mountains stand out better.
Another nice thing the long exposure does is to eliminate people from the scene. There were paddleboarders, surfers and some boats moving through this scene but as long as they keep moving, all is well! And it was. Hanalei, is a warm Yosemite with an ocean! These mountains are as high as El-Capitan and almost as steep.
Lumihai Light – Lumahai Beach, Kauai, Hawaii
Lumahai Beach was made famous in the movie "South Pacific" and it is a beautiful place to be. The lava rock in front is difficult to photograph bacuse you have to stand on a rocky outcrop that gets hit by large waves and you have nowhere to escape. But capturing this dramatic scene is worth the risk.
There are grave markers all over this beach so please be careful, especially in the winter! In the distance are the needle-like formations of eroded lava that you see on the Kalalau trail on the Na Pali coast.
Valley of Mist – Kalalau Valley, Kauai, Hawaii
There I was standing in the rain for 3 hours staring at nothing but clouds and rain. There was no indication that there was even a valley in front of me. Then suddenly… there it was!
I will admit that I had extra reason to hope because I had my trusty laptop and was looking at weather satellite movies and there was a gap in the clouds moving in. If it were 20 minutes later, it would have been too late because the sun was setting, and this was my only trip to this side of the island. I lucked out again. Luck is very important in photography. Try to make your own!
Light at the End of the Pier – Hanalei, Kauai
The Hanalei Pier points directly towards the mountains often referred to as Bali Hai. It refers to a song written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II from the musical South Pacific. This area resembles the island of Tioman, which is the original Bali Hai.
With the sun rising behind the camera, openings in the clouds allowed the light to filter into the clouds and illuminate the mountains on the opposite side of Hanalei Bay. Within 10 minutes the rain came in and this low warm light was gone for the day, replaced later by the bright light of mid-day. I used a long exposure to show the motion in the clouds.
Hanalei Bonfire – Hanalei Pier, Kauai, Hawaii
Hanalei is a small town on the north shore of the island of Kauai. It has a 3-mile wide perfect crescent of sandy shoreline with the rainiest mountains in the world right behind them. While it rains about 100 inches per year in Hanalei, it rains about 600 inches per year on Mt. Waialeale, about 5 miles behind the peak on the left.
Even with all of the rain, days are usually sunny in Hanalei with maybe 1-2 hours of rain mostly at night. The mountains in this image range from 3,000 to 5,000 feet in height. This shot can only be done with a medium tide and this effect only lasts for a few minutes before another wave moves in. Here, I attempted to show one of the waterfalls in the reflection.
Maelstrom 3 – Mokolea Lava Pools, Kauai, Hawaii
To get this photo: Get up 2 hours before sunrise…. on your vacation, Put on your old shoes and shorts that are destined to become stained with red mud. Drive to the trail head (Right turn before the Kilauea Lighthouse.) Make sure there are decent clouds before committing to the hike down. Get out your flashlight. Navigate the extremely slippery trail, in the dark, often on all-fours, for 1/2 mile. Ignore the strange noises in the dense steamy jungle… if you can. Watch the surf for at least 20 minutes to determine a safe place to be. Set up the tripod and composition just before the next wave hits.
Make the exposure and run! As you run, make sure to avoid spilling too much blood extracted by the sharp lava rock! WARNING! You can die here so be careful!
Clear skies would have been nice to walk under, but the mood would have been gone and the light would have been harsh. Hanalei Bay is a 3-mile long perfect crescent of sand surrounded by the world's rainiest mountains. Over 500 inches of rain drench nearby Mt. Waialeale every year and about 100 inches fall on this beach. 5 of the 7 famous waterfalls can be seen here.
Despite all that rain, days are mostly clear so it still took me several return trips to this beach in order to be here at the right time. Up to seven waterfalls are often seen in the mountains after a good rain shower.
Golden Falls – Queen's Bath, Kauai, Hawaii
From a trail near the Princeville hotel, you gain access to some incredible coastal scenery including a large lava swimming pool called "Queen's Bath" but on this evening I wanted to capture these falls as they enter the ocean as they are lit by the last rays of the sun.
The falls do not show up well in photographs unless the last rays of golden sun is striking them during the summer. I had to get into a small area under a lava ledge and stand on extramely slippery rounded rock at low tide to get this view. The best time to shoot this (because of the angle of the sun hitting the water) is probably the summer.
View to Kilauea, Princeville Cliffs near Queen's Bath, Kauai, Hawaii
This dangerous lava cove is near Queens Bath and the waterfall that is also in my gallery from this area. The sun is rising behind the Kilauea Lighthouse and the first light of the day is spreading through the clouds and onto the sea. In the winter, this place is downright frightening with huge waves striking with great force. On a summer morning shown here, it is still a dangerous place but you can get a little closer to the action is you respect the power of the sea. It is thrilling to experience this place close up! This is yet another place where your life can end quickly and violently, but yet it is so beautiful that I can not resist it!
Haena Reflections, Tunnels Beach, North Shore, Kauai, Hawaii
In the summer, the sun rises in the northeast, allowing the mountains to be lit with the first light of the day. In the winter, they are silhouetted and dark. I used a very dark filter to extend the exposure time to a full 60 seconds to show the movement in the clouds and trees and the stillness of the water.
This is a great snorkeling beach with lots of turtles and fish in tunnel-like coral formations. It is a great place to spend an entire day under the False Kamani trees to the left. Bring an umbrella for the occasional but sometimes intense rain shower!
Tunnels Gold – Haena Tunnels Beach, Kauai
It was pouring rain at Haena-Tunnels beach in Kauai as the sun rose. Things were looking dismal and hopeless for good warm first-light. But these intense showers can last for a minute or an hour so you have to stay prepared if you wish to capture a grand moment. A guy walked past me and asked me why I was standing there in the rain with my camera on the tripod under an umbrella and a towel. I pointed behind the camera towards the horizon (where the clouds were coming from) and told him that the opening in the clouds over there looks like it is going to pass overhead and light up the scene and possibly make a strong rainbow.
Sure enough, about 10 minutes later the sun broke through and the rainbow was incredible!
Double Happiness – Hanalei Pier, Kauai
A double rainbow formed at sunrise as soft warm rain fell on Hanalei Bay. It was there just briefly though. As it rained, I waited at the end of the Hanalai Puer under the tin roof waiting for a hole in the clouds to develop behind me.
Finally it happened and as the rain subsided, it moved towards the mountains and the sun fell on the rain and here is the view! I am glad that I have this photograph to remember this moment.
A New Day at Hanalei – Hanalei Beach Park, Kauai, Hawaii
The clouds were heavy before sunrise but they cleared out just enough to allow the sun to light up the 4,000 ft. mountain range behind the beach. Without that light, the scene did not have the punch and depth that is does in this photo. Summer is when the light strikes across the mountains at the best angle.
When photographing Hawaii, don't give up on seeing good light. The conditions change rapidly. Look in the direction of the clouds to see if there is an opening that will head your way or allow light to strike something interesting.
Sharing the Sunset #1 – Kauai, Hawaii
This was the view as the sun set spectacularly in Hanalei. This happens often here, though this was a particularly exceptional sunset that seemed to last forever due to the rare high clouds in the sky.
You can not see it in this photo but there was an opening in the clouds beyond the horizon that let in this light. As I mentioned before, be ready for anything when you see high clouds. The sunset faded and then the high clouds lit up about 5 minutes after sunset! It was like when you are long-distance running and you get that 'second-wind', which is like an extra burst of energy. If there is no opening, the light just fades into a grey mist.