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CoPilot GPS App almost for free
Feb 28, 2012 android, gps navigation, gps software, iphone
CoPilot GPS is now a FREE route planning and on-board mapping app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. CoPilot GPS App now offers detailed street maps of an entire country or any part of the country and lets you store them on your mobile device - even when there's no data connection. It comes with multi-stop trip planning too. What's not free is voice guided turn by turn navigation with 3D maps, etc. You can buy these features from within the app for $20 which gets you lifetime update.
Some of the other features include:
- maps store on your device for offline use
- million of points of interest
- multi-stop trip optimizer
- walking mode
Tags: android, gps navigation, gps software, iphone
Dynavix GPS navigation for iPhone and iPad
Jan 4, 2012 gps navigation, gps software, iphone
Czech company Dynavix just came out with a GPS navigation app for iPhone and iPad. It includes voice instructions and comes with maps which are stored on your device's internal storage.
It offers some traffic avoidance features giving you the best option for time of the day, day of the week, etc. Unlike most other GPS navigation apps out there Dynavix lets you customize your app a great deal. For example you can choose a black or white style to match the colour of your iPad, as well as map colour, what information is displayed in the info panel, a theme, or one of the 3D cars. There is also a wide range of background options, which also allows you to select a photo stored on your iPhone to use as a backdrop.
Another cool feature is that you can import POIs from iTunes to expand your database to include radars or other landmarks.
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Navigon 2.0 for iPhone update
Nov 30, 2011 gps navigation, gps software, iphone, navigon
Navigon's newest MobileNavigator is out for Apple's iPhone. It is called the Navigon MobileNavigator 2.0 and will be a free upgrade for those fans who already owned it. One of the biggest change in this version is that you have the ability to load the states you select so Navigon's not a huge space hog on your precious phone.
Other improvements include a newly designed user interface and the ability to update maps from within the app.
- Navigon North America: $40 (iTunes)
- Navigon U.S. East: $20 (iTunes)
- Navigon U.S. West: $20 (iTunes)
- Navigon U.S.A: $30 (iTunes)
Tags: gps navigation, gps software, iphone, navigon
TomTom app updated for iPhone and optimized for iPad
Oct 21, 2011 gps navigation, ipad, iphone, tomtom
TomTom app was just updated. It is now higher resolution and is accompanied by an improved user interface for the iPad. This is the first release where TomTom is taking advantage of the capabilities iPad's larger screen size. This marks version 1.9 and is a free update. It of course works with the new iOS5.
The maps and POIs are also updated and available off line with no data connection. The app costs $50 but like we said it is free to upgrade if you already own it. Some other features include the HD Traffic, IQ Routes for reliable ETA's, integration with contacts, photos, music, email on your phone and ability to make receive calls while on your iPhone.
Tags: gps navigation, ipad, iphone, tomtom
Garmin StreetPilot App for iPhone
Aug 14, 2011 garmin, gps navigation, iphone
Garmin earlier this month announced Garmin StreetPilot Onboard App for iPhone. The app offers onboard mapping and navigation, preloaded database and the easy to use interface that we're used to from Garmin. The maps and the app are completely onboard meaning you'll never have to tap into using your data plan. You don't have to worry about coverage, how much data you're using, etc, etc. This will specially be handy for high data users as the U.S. networks are starting to use data caps for most plans.
However you still have the option to use data - say for example when you want to do a local Google Search for more POIs. You can even subscribe to traffic data and fuel-price information.
Here is pricing:
- U.S.A. - Lower 49 United States for $40
- North America - $50
- UK & Ireland - £44.99
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TeleNav GPS Plus for iPhone gets update, price cut in half for limited time
Jun 26, 2011 gps navigation, gps software, iphone, telenav
TeleNav released a new version of the TeleNav GPS Plus turn-by-turn navigation application for the iPhone 4G and 3GS. The price is cut in halft to $10 for a whole year of service. You still got the initial .99 cent 30-day trial though before committing or you can just pay $3 per month. Even if you choose not to continue after the 30-day trial, you will still have access to free basic maps and non-voice guided directions.
Some of the new features include:
- "My Mileage" for mileage tracking - exports to Excel easily
- Traffic Flow Indicator on the navigation screen
- Maps have been upgraded and are now cleaner and easier to read
Other features include:
- Spoken directions with street names
- More than 22 million POIs
- Gas station searches sorted by price
- Multi-tasking support
- Automatic rerouting
Tags: gps navigation, gps software, iphone, telenav
Fujitsu Ten AVN-F01i with an iPhone app helps find your car
Jun 16, 2011 fujitsu, gps navigation, in-dash gps, iphone
Fujitsu Ten of Japan is releasing an in-dash GPS navigation system that works together with the iPhone. The sat nav system itself is called "AVN-F01i," and with the help of an iPhone lets drivers find their cars' location in a parking lot with ease.
AVN-F01i will be out early next month and will sell for about ¥90,000 (appx $1,121). The apps however are free. The app we're talking about here is called "Doco Car (Where Car)," which uses augmented reality on iPhone's camera to guide the back to his/her car. When the car is parked and iPhone is disconnected from the car navigation system, the application is automatically launched.
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Pioneer AppRadio
May 28, 2011 gps navigation, iphone, pioneer
The idea behind Pioneer's AppRadio is a bit different - we believe no one hads done this before. Pioneer has just introduced its new product range for 2011 and it includes the new SPH-DA01. At first sight the SPH-DA01 does not seem special. It incorporates the usual connections and a large screen similar to most 2-DIN in-dash units. The interesting thing however is the app developed by Pioneer which can be found free on the iTunes Store. And basically it brings your iPhone display to the main screen.
With this simple trick, Pioneer allows you to access the iPhone menus and other features such as GPS. At the moment there are not many details on whether the iPhone interface will be completely integrated but the main idea behind AppRadio is pretty solid. The system will work by connecting the iPhone cable - which will activate AppRadio. This is good since it means your batteries will be charged as you go but a wireless option would've been good too.
It seems that AppRadio is not the only thing that Pioneer has prepared. The company has already hinted at other applications for the SPH-DA01. Software update for the device will be through the microSD card. Expect it to see out late June this year. That's all we know so far.
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Honda in Japan offers free iPhone based navigation service
Mar 10, 2011 gps navigation, iphone
Honda is now offering "Internavi Linc" service to all Honda drivers for free. This gets you traffic and maintenance information, history for fuel cost, and more on your smartphone are any computer. There's also new iPhone app for the Internavi Linc called "Drive Locator" which can show a route calculated at Honda's information center on Google Maps. It doesn't provide turn by turn navigation directions but you can update directions and see your location on the map as many times as you want. Drive Locator is not meant to be a full pledged navigation system and is intended actually for a person on the passenger seat.
Currently it is only available for iPhone but support for Android devices will be available within this year.
If you bought a Honda this month you can get the app starting March 18th. If you already have a Honda you'll have to wait until June to start using the service.
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giveaway: 60beat heart rate monitor for iPhone
Jan 16, 2011 apple, GPS giveaways, gps navigation, gps software, iphone, sports gps
Hi again everyone. Yet another giveaway. We continue to giveaway items we mentioned here and this time a lucky reader gets the 60beat Receiver (RX) which also comes with chest strap.
You can read all about it at 60beat site but are some highlights:
- turns your iPhone into a heart rate monitor
- works with iPhone 3GS and 4G, iPad and newer
- works with 60beat, Polar, and other 5Khz chest straps
- standard 3.5mm audio connector
- compatible with many apps
How to enter? Really easy. 1) Follow our RSS feed and then 2) leave a comment below. That is all. Do make sure you enter a valid email so we can contact you back.
We will ship this out to a U.S. address only. Sorry rest of the world. Also duplicate entries, emails, IP addresses will be disqualified.
One week from now we'll announce the winner.
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ULPL10020 - Elementary Polish
- Level: 1
- Pre-requisite: Familiarity with Russian or any other Slavic language
- Co-requisite: Open to students with no previous knowledge of the language
- Taught during: Both semesters (September until May)
- Timetable: Timetable for the course
This course is designed for students who are already familiar with Russian or any other Slavic languages. It aims to teach a range of basic grammatical and lexical items and to develop elementary skills in reading, listening, speaking and writing skills in a dynamic and communicative way, through individual, pair and group work, and via studio-recorded and authentic texts. The course is also designed to meet the need of students who have completed a Beginners' course in Polish but who do not feel confident enough to proceed directly to Intermediate Level.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
- Understand short, simple messages and announcements;
- read short simple texts and find specific information;
- communicate in simple, routine situations;
- write simple notes, messages and short personal letters.
By the end of the course, students should be able to perform at Level A2/A2+ of the Common European Framework.
Transferable skills
Pair and team work, focused listening, informal presentations, language awareness, cultural appreciation.
Teaching and learning methods
Seminars, three hours per week.
Four pieces of assessed work as follows:
- Semester one: Written (Reading, Grammar, Writing) 30%. Assessment will normally take place during week 12.
- Semester two: Oral 20%; Listening 20%; Written (Reading, Grammar, Writing) 30%. Listening assessment will take place in the week before the Easter break (week 7 or 8); oral and written assessments will normally be scheduled during weeks 11 and 12.
Nature and timing of feedback
Feedback will include a combination of: informal ongoing oral and written feedback resulting from homework and class based learning activities; formal written feedback will be given following every assessment.
Justyna Drobnik-Rogers
Taught by
Justyna Drobnik-Rogers
Maximum entry
20 per group
Set texts
Iwona Stempek, Anna Stelmach, Sylwia Dawidek, Aneta Szymkiewicz, Krok po kroku. Polski. Seria podręczników do nauki języka polskiegl dla obcokrajowców. Poziom A1/ A2, Kraków 2013, ISBN: 978-83-930731-0-8
Recommended texts: Students are encouraged to use the Language Centre for material for beginners in Polish.
ULP20110, Pre-intermediate Polish
Successful completion of this course unit will enhance your curriculum vitae and your employability by showing that you have a capacity to learn other languages and the desire engage with other cultures.

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Do you like to knit or crochet? Are you interested in learning? The Austin Humanists at Work's Gettin' Knotty Knitting Guild is here to give a little bit of our homes to people experiencing homelessness. If you want to knit or crochet washcloths, hats, scarves, gloves…, you're in the right place. A washcloth can speak volumes to someone who has limited access to necessities and even more limited access to luxuries. The best way to stay in the know is to join the ATXHAW Gettin' Knotty FaceBook group.
Gettin' Knotty meets at the Arboretum Barnes and Noble Cafe on the 3rd Thursday of each month*. People start gathering around 7pm and stay until the last knitter leaves. Come when you can, stay as long as you'd like. Let's get knotty!
*Note: The date is subject to change so it's best to consult the FaceBook group before heading to Barnes and Noble. You don't have to live in the Greater Austin area to participate. You're always welcome to mail your completed pieces to our Austin coordinator and they will be distributed at the next giveaway. Email for address: email@example.com


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Venus, Jupiter will 'shine' on Monday night
Slendor, crescent moon will illumninate two brightest planets
It's "slender," and they didn't need to separate slender and crescent with a comma because the two adjectives aren't interchangeable. In other words, you wouldn't say it's a crescent slender moon. You only need the comma if you have two equivalent adjectives (the lumpy, bumpy moon... the cold, distant object).
Also, illumninate? Sigh. It's illuminate. We've had days like that, though, so we're just going to offer the editor a hug.
That said, Slendor would make an excellent name for a man from a distant planet. Let's say Uranus. Really. Say it out loud. Yes, that gives us the giggles, every time.
SPOGG hereby apologizes for this post. We woke up at 4:30 and couldn't go back to sleep. Our natural state before the caffeine has set in is, as the professionals say, 12-year-old boy. Boobs! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!


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For most employers, doing something as outrageous as exploiting your position to advocate for politics would be a fireable offense. But this is government we're talking about.
More specifically, this is Obama's unionized IRS we're talking about.
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The Washington Times reports:
An IRS employee was suspended for 100 days for using his job at the agency's help line to try to convince callers to vote for President Obama, a government watchdog agency announced Thursday.
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The employee, whose name wasn't mentioned in the announcement from the Office of Special Counsel, admitted to using his job for political purposes and agreed to the settlement that involved a 100-day suspension.
"OSC's complaint alleged that, when fielding taxpayers' questions on an IRS customer service help line, the employee repeatedly urged taxpayers to re-elect President Obama in 2012 by delivering a chant based on the spelling of the employee's last name," the investigative office said.
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IRS employees are represented by the National Treasury Employees Union, a group that endorsed Obama for re-election in 2012.


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Kabir came to the UK in the spring, via the notorious "Jungle" camp in Calais, to escape the horrors of war-torn Syria, and he hoped to attend school as soon as he arrived.
But the 17-year-old had to wait six months to achieve his goal of returning to full-time education. He eventually managed to enrol at a college in north London.
"The main problem, other than the language barrier, when I came here was that there were a lot of regulations which were not explained to me," he told journalists this morning.
Kabir was one of three Syrian refugees who shared their experiences in adjusting to life in Britain at a roundtable event in London organised by the Varkey Foundation and Safe Passage UK charities.
'I have got to know death very well'
But the difficulties he has faced here are very different to Kabir's recent experience of Syria, where many members of his family were killed.
"My cousins died, my brother was mutilated, my parents died. I have now got to know death very well," he said.
When asked whether, in coming to the UK, he had been a victim of racism, he said the only prejudice he had suffered was in Calais.
"I have not seen hatred like the hatred from the French. When we used to leave the camp at night we used to get beaten for no reason," he said.
Mohammed, 17, started at college three months ago, and also identified language as a barrier to his integration into the education system.
"I found many difficulties to start with because I didn't have the language. But I'm very strong and I got here, so I started to tackle things slowly," he said.
"The main problem that I have had is that I wasn't in education for over four years due to the bombing in Syria."
Omar, 16, who is due to start at college on Monday, said that, in settling in the UK, the only source of information for him had been the lawyer arranged by Safe Passage UK.
The charity, which helps refugee children who have a legal right to be reunited with family who are already living in Britain, supported all three boys in leaving Calais.
'Profound psychological harm'
The roundtable event also featured figures from education and politics, including Hanan Al Hroub, the winner of this year's Global Teacher Prize for her work educating Palestinian children traumatised by violence.
Ms Al Hroub said: "As I have experienced in my conflict-riven homeland, children who see conflict around them on a daily basis experience profound and deep-rooted psychological harm.
"It is therefore crucial that the government puts in place measures that ensure unaccompanied children who arrive in the UK have a safe, secure and loving environment.
"Local authorities need to be given the budgets to deal with this. They should not have to choose between providing social care for frail adults and supporting vulnerable refugee children.
"The role of education for refugee children is not only to teach them to read and write in English, it is also to give them the resilience and persistence they need to deal with what they have experienced, and to avoid repeating the violence they have witnessed."
Gareth Thomas, the MP for Harrow West, where a number of Syrian refugees have been resettled, said he was disappointed that the government made no announcement about extra support for refugee children's education in yesterday's autumn statement.
"There was no recognition of Britain's responsibility towards children from Syria and the pressures on schools, such as those in my constituency, who want to do the right thing but who need additional resources," he said.
The names of the young Syrians taking part in the event have been changed to protect their anonymity
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The South Carolina Department of Revenue has issued a temporary revenue procedure to assist personal and corporate income taxpayers in complying with the relevant code sections concerning withholding on South Carolina income of nonresident shareholders and partners. The concerned code sections require S corporations and partnerships to withhold income tax at the rate of 5% on nonresident S corporation shareholders' and nonresident partners' share of South Carolina taxable income, and further provide for the filing of a composite individual income tax return on behalf of certain nonresident shareholders or partners by the S corporation or partnership. The temporary revenue procedure discusses general withholding requirements, procedure, and exceptions; specific questions concerning Form I 309, Nonresident Shareholder or Partner Affidavit and Agreement Income Tax Withholding; and specific questions concerning Form SC I-338, Composite Return Affidavit. (Temporary Revenue Procedure #17-2, South Carolina Department of Revenue, February.)
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dtmf.exe - (970k) Version 126.96.36.199, (screen shot) A quick way to format and send DTMF's to the controller,
added CAT controller time format, current time comes from your computer clock, to send DTMF's
enter 0-9, a-d, * or #, hold mic near speaker, click Play. Adjust volume as necessary.
DTMF has expired 12/31/2012, download again for an extended expiration version.
DTMF will expire again on 12/31/17, it has been another 5 years, why do I do this?
This way I have some kind of control over the program so changes can remain consistent.
Version 1.13, ID2000 Suite (screen shot) is a ten minute timer that displays your call sign and alerts the operator when it's time to ID, New beacon function - ID can be set to user specified interval, New Look Now includes utc.exe (universal time clock), erp.exe (effective radiated power output), bandplan.exe (band plan covering amateur radio bands) and just added - SWR Calculator (calculates the SWR ratio from forward and reverse power) and Radio Horizon Calculator (calculates your station's distance to the VHF/UHF radio horizon). New just added programs - Ohms Law and Harmonics Calc (Calculate harmonics from a given frequency). Program has limitations prior to registration see the file idinfo.txt for limitations before registration. email@example.com
- ID2000 Suite - Version 1.13, Now includes Ohms Law and Harmonics Calc, See a screen shot of ID2000 Suite. 2.2KB - 01/17/2013 updated Bandplan
You must have an Amateur Radio call sign to register, I will email your reg # to you. After registering run the program downloaded from my page and enter the reg #.
Paypal 5.00 US to email@example.com- remember to include the call sign that ID2000 Suite will be registered to.
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My programs were originally designed and programmed for Windows XP, I and currently using Windows 7 and have no issues
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According to GSK's PR/marketing earned media machine: "Adults have historically low vaccination rates. For Tdap, the combined diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine for grown-ups, only 17% of adults over age 19 are up-to-date, according to recent CDC [Centers for Disease Control] data. GSK said grandparent vaccination rates are even lower, coming in at below 10%. Adults are the most common carriers or "spreaders" of pertussis to infants, according to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases" (see here).
The takeaway message is that grandparents are that danger. But, there's something you should know.
Firstly, GSK's approved pertussis vaccine -- BOOSTRIX -- is approved for use in adults 65 years of age and older. Thus, GSK must market only for that use even though the CDC says that expectant mothers can provide "the most protection to your baby by getting the whooping cough vaccine during pregnancy and making sure your baby gets her whooping cough vaccines on time."
Data from the CDC show that the number of whooping cough cases is increasing, but the incidence in people over 20 years of age is very low.
According to the Well health blog (here), 83 percent of healthcare workers (nurses and doctors) had come to work while sick at least once in the past year, even though almost all believed that working while ill can endanger patients.
So, why doesn't GSK show a nurse in wolf's clothing in its Big Bad Cough multimedia campaign? Like this:
In a study of health care workers, unrecognized pertussis infections (diagnosed by serology) were common, with an average annual rate of infection of 33% (here).
"GSK research with grandparents found that they have a very low awareness that whooping cough was a serious danger to infants, said Brian Gartside, marketing director, integrated customer experience at GSK. While grandparents understood their own risks with whooping cough, he said, GSK found only 2% were aware of possible consequences to infant grandchildren" (see here).
Obviously, it's not a good idea for pharma to vilify its healthcare clients, but quite OK to portray consumers as villains AND instill in new grandparents feelings of guilt!
Fear tactics seem to be the choice marketing strategy for all vaccines. When the consumer/patient is portrayed as the victim, it's no wonder so many people are turned off to vaccines!
GSK should advise expectant mothers to ask their doctors and nurses, "Have you been vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, influenza and whooping cough?" Instead, new moms are going to focus their angst on their parents!
In any case, pharma marketers should not vilify any stakeholder group be it patients, grannies, or nurses.
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
GSK's Whooping Cough Vaccination Campaign Needlessly Vilifies Grannies!
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- Anonymous11:05 PM
This campaign also needlessly villifies wolves...it is totally depressing for people who have worked for years to bring this endangered species back to ecological health to find the same stupid and antieducational stereotypes being employed again...as though no progress had been made whatsoever. Just reinforce a Grimm's Fairy Tale mentality...wolves are "bad", " dangerous", a threat to children...the perfect symbol for disease. Makes me sick. They really couldn't come up with some viable contemporary campaign to educate about pertussis without resorting to an outmoded antiscientific depiction of wildlife?ReplyDelete
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In August 2013, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published its final rule to define the term "gluten-free" for voluntary use in the labeling of foods.
The rule allows manufacturers to label a food "gluten-free" if the food does NOT contain any of the following:
"Gluten-free" will remain a voluntary claim that can be used at the manufacturer's discretion and is not required information.
Therefore, this claim should not appear in the ingredient statement on the Nutrition Facts label and can be included on the front of the package.


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Everybody knows, even those of us who have lived most unadventurously, what it is to plod on for miles, it seems, eagerly straining your eyes toward the lights that, somehow, mean home. How difficult it is, when you are doing that to judge distances! In pitch darkness, it might be a couple of miles to your destination, it might be a few hundred yards. So it was, I think, with the Hebrew prophets, as they looked forward to the redemption of their people. They could not have told you, within a hundred years, within five hundred years, when it was the deliverance would come. They only knew that, some time, the stock of David would burgeon anew; some time, a key would be found to fit the door of their prison house; some time, the light that only shows, now, like a will-o'-the-wisp on the horizon would broaden out, at last into the perfect day.With Advent the liturgical year begins in the Western churches. We switch to a new book of the gospels for Mass reading. In this year (Year A) it will be Matthew who will instruct us every week.
This attitude of expectation is one which the Church wants to encourage in us, her children, permanently. She sees it as an essential part of our Christian drill that we should still be looking forward; getting on for two thousand years, now, since the first Christmas Day came and went, and we must still be looking forward. So she encourages us, during advent, t take the shepherd-folk for our guides, and imagine ourselves traveling with them at dead of night, straining our eyes towards that chink of light which streams out, we know, from the cave at Bethlehem.
R.A. Knox, Sermon on Advent 1947
quoted in In Conversation with God, Vol. 1, Francis Fernandez
Before Christmas we spend time in contemplation and preparation for the coming of Christ on three levels: as memorial of his incarnation as the babe in Bethlehem, to his coming with grace in our souls, and in looking forward to when he comes as the Judge at the end of time.
Those who celebrate Advent do so with various private devotions during this time. Some read a specific book to think about, some go to regular adoration, some try to avoid excessive focus on Christmas preparations, and such things.
I like this Advent Litany which may be helpful as we school ourselves to wait in patience to wait for Our Lord and contemplate what that means.
Advent Litany
Lord Jesus, you are the light of the world.
Come, Lord Jesus.
You are light in our darkness.
Come, Lord Jesus.
Son of God, save us from our sins.
Come, Lord Jesus.
Son of Mary, deepen our love.
Come, Lord Jesus.
Bring hope into the lives of all people.
Come, Lord Jesus.
Give your peace to all nations.
Come, Lord Jesus.
Be the joy of all who love you.
Come, Lord Jesus.
Bring unity among all who believe in you.
Come, Lord Jesus.
Bless us as we gather here in your name.
Come, Lord Jesus.
Lord Jesus, stay with us always.
Come, Lord Jesus.
Let us pray:
May Christ give us his peace and joy,
and let us share them with others.
All peace and glory are his for ever.


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Awakening Centre Sacred Sweatlodge ceremonies are based on ancient Lakota rituals with added elements coming from a variety of Shamanic and meditation traditions. The lodge itself symbolises the womb. We enter in sacred silence and then experience the power of heated volcanic stones, blessed water, sacred herbs, guided meditations and group chants, before being re-born cleansed, purified and spiritually re-connected.
Andy and Laurel co-facilitate Sacred Sweatlodge ceremonies for both men and women on a Saturday evening.
Check our Events Page for coming Sweatlodge dates.
Our lodges are followed by a shared meal.
It is important to follow some guidelines in preparation to attend a Sweatlodge ceremony – a detailed email will be sent to you on confirmation of your attendance (see below for an overview of preparation required)
Contact us on 07 5494 2101 or via email for bookings and enquiries.
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This video shows Laurel preparing the lodge and setting the fire for one of her New Moon Womb women's lodges:
The Sacred Sweatlodge has a long and wonderful history, spanning several continents, names and traditions. The current revival in Sweatlodge comes to us courtesy of a number of Native American and meso-American traditions, where fortunately this amazing practice has been carried on into modern times.
In other cultures, particularly in northern Europe and the British Isles, there are remnants of evidence that ceremonial sweating was part of general spiritual traditions. The Irish and other British Isles Celtic peoples have recently revived their teach an alais, which was a purification ritual using a space dug into the side of a hill and covered with turf. And of course the modern Scandinavian and Finnish sauna is a remnant of an age-old tradition which is nowadays preserved as a social and physical cleansing experience. Unfortunately the dominance of patriarchal religion over the past couple of millennia has seen the spiritual aspects of these traditions and many others all but wiped out.
Our lodge ceremonies are very much based on the Lakota tradition from the mid-western USA, but we have incorporated elements of other traditions: Celtic, Sufi, Yogic, indigenous Australian among others.
The ceremony takes place in an inipi, a specially-built dome-shaped structure covered in canvas and containing a central pit for heated stones. We gather outside the Inipi where everyone is smudged with sacred white sage before entering the lodge and in this traditional all participants will be given a small piece of tobacco as an offering of gratitude to the Fire.
During the ceremony several rounds of red-hot volcanic rocks are brought into the inipi, placed in the central pit, blessed with sacred herbs and words and then sprinkled with blessed water. This is enhanced by guided meditations, chants and drumming.
The whole ceremony lasts between 90 and 120 minutes, we ask that you allow 2-3 hrs for these events.
You will need to fast before the ceremony for at least 4 hours. So for the morning New Moon Womb lodges it's OK to have a light breakfast at around 6, and for the evening mixed lodges it's good to have a nice healthy light lunch. After that it's best just to drink plenty of water and maybe have a juice or a small amount of fruit if you get really hungry.
Hydration is vital as you are bound to lose a lot of fluid in the form of sweat during the ceremony, and we don't actually drink in the inipi until we share blessed water at the end of the ceremony. We recommend that you keep a water bottle with you for several hours before the lodge and sip often.
Please note that if you are taking any medication or have any medical concerns we need to know (discretely) beforehand to make sure that you have a safe and effective journey. Even if we or you determine that it may not be in your best interest to actually sweat inside the lodge, it is still possible to participate actively in the vital and responsible role of Fire Keeper.
If any women are in their bleeding time it's absolutely fine for them to take part in the ceremony. It is a good idea, however, for you to tell Laurel or Andy discretely beforehand as the present of a menstruating woman in the circle has been known to increase the power of the lodge in a wonderful way.
Leaving the lodge
It's OK for you to leave the lodge at any time if you find that the process is too intense or that you are too uncomfortable. However, once you leave the lodge we ask that you don't come back in, as it disturbs the process for the group. So it's a good idea to push yourself a bit if you are feeling a bit challenged. The door is opened and some fresh air brought in when each round of stones comes in, and the general energy of the group is strictly monitored by Andy and Laurel to make sure everyone is safe and has a good experience. If you do leave the lodge, it's a good idea to sit or lie down next to the inipi so you can still join in the chants and meditations.
Like any deep experience, your intention is very important, and worth having a good think about before you arrive.
If you like you can wear shorts or swim wear in the lodge and we do ask that women cover bikinis with a sarong, as you enter the lodge and in the areas around the lodge.
What to bring:
- Two towels (one to sit on in the lodge, the other for when you rinse off in the shower or swimming pool afterwards), a sarong or similar to preserve your modesty outside of the lodge.
- A water bottle to make sure you're hydrated before the ceremony
- A plate of vegetarian or vegan food to share afterwards
Some words you might hear in the lodge ceremony:
"Aho" … means "I have spoken", said at the end of an intention statement or when you have finished a sharing. Often echoed by the rest of the group, accompanied by the namaste gesture (praying hands at the heart).
"Mitakuye Oyasin" … means "all my relations", an expression of the interconnectedness of all beings in the universe. We use this as a blessing for the stones as they are brought into the lodge.
"Senna" … means simply "thank-you"
"Tunkashila" … Great Spirit


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Winthrop still eyeing Shelter Island medical services
Winthrop-University Hospital is still weighing options to expand its services here.
But that's not threatening to Dr. Anthonette Desire, who just leased the Medical Center space originally promised to Winthrop.
No one is threatening to toss Dr. Desire out of the Medical Center space she has just opened in the rear of the building.
But Winthrop-University Hospital remains interested in expanding its presence on Shelter Island, according to Winthrop's director of real estate, John Mather.
In January, Winthrop signed an agreement with Shelter Island Town to occupy the same space Dr. Desire just leased, but was delayed arranging for the installation of medical technology and telecommunications equipment in the space.
That left Dr. Peter Kelt, who has long served Islanders, first as an independent doctor and later as a Winthrop employee, to handle the patient load here with his new associate, Dr. Barbara Philips-Cole.
They moved to the front of the Medical Center building, occupying the space that had been staffed by Island Urgent doctors until that relationship broke down last year. Because Island Urgent was failing to staff the office regularly, leaving patients complaining about their inability to schedule appointments, the town began exploring other options.
Then in early June, with Winthrop still not moving on staffing the back office space, Dr. Desire stepped into the breach and signed an agreement for NAD Medical Services, a company she owns with her husband, Dr. Nathanael Desire, to lease the space on an initial four-month contract.
Plans called for a more permanent and long-term contract to be signed if both the doctor and town found the arrangement to their liking.
But it left the Winthrop deal in limbo.
"Winthrop continues to explore ways to expand its services on Shelter Island," Mr. Rather said. "While the space remains an attractive option, we'll be guided by whatever decision the town makes and look for the best way to continue to serve the Shelter Island community," he said. "We'll stay in discussions and make the appropriate decision when the time comes.
Meanwhile, Dr. Desire, who opened her practice here June 16, has given every indication she plans to extend her lease before it expires in October, while her husband continues to staff their Bellport office.
The couple also has a physician's assistant, Dave Conway, working with the practice so they can ensure staffing at both offices on a regular basis, Dr. Desire said.


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Over the past few months now Mother's continued to send scrappy packets of childhood memorabilia and rediscovered photographs hewn from old family albums. And each time I respond with a simple "thank you" token of appreciation for the gifted materials. But sometimes I'm tempted to write a longer letter.Continue reading Fear & Perfection in Las Narcisistas
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Remember When You Smiled For Us
This is a photograph of me, "you're so selfish" Sister, "you're too sensitive" Brother and Mother's adopted daughter obediently smiling for posterity. It's one of a cache of similar nostalgia Mother stuffed into a Happy Birthday card that she appears to have begun mailing directly with a stamp and return address sticker before tearing off the return address, marking a black "X" over the tear where it was and, I assume, instead sent it through Father who dutifully left it on my doorstep to find. Pretty standard procedure as these things go.Continue reading Remember When You Smiled For Us
Sons of Narcissistic Mothers
This video resonated with me in many respects: the mother who remains a victim of her own childhood, who emasculates her son's father in front of him, who hates her son's girlfriends, her son's fear of abandonment fostering dependency, his confusion, anger, etc. and how to take responsibility and begin healing in a way the mother never did.Continue reading Sons of Narcissistic Mothers
Mum's The Word
I used to send her Mothers Day acknowledgments. Obligatory cards, phone calls, that sort of thing. I used to.
Three Strategies By Children Coping With A Narcissistic Parent
Sam Vaknin, in an interview for Exist Real in Narcissistic Abuse Victim Syndrome Online Support (NAVSOS), briefly touched on three strategies children use to cope with a narcissistically abusive parent. I found it interesting to consider how my siblings and I match each of these strategies in our own family.
1 / Isolating
The first strategy Sam mentions is the child isolating themselves from the narcissistic parent, reaching away for and adopting other, more suitable parental figures. This has become my strategy by consequence as much as by choice.
I've always said that my siblings and I essentially raised ourselves, Mother being more like an absent roommate than a parent and us, mere meal tickets used to wine and dine her boyfriends on the child support garnished from our father she unceremoniously discarded. Brother went to school wearing shorts and rubber boots, whatever he could find. I, myself, duct taped my shoes and tried to modify old clothes. Sister was excellent at scrounging for edible things not deemed off limits to create inventive food items from. All while we were berated as ungrateful, spoiled brats that didn't do enough for Mother if we were paid any attention to.
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Flying Monkey Autopsy / Patient Zero
One of the final exchanges Mother and I had from several years ago, illustrating a narcissistic response to boundary-setting and probably drawing to a close this series of blood-letting.
At this point in my recovery, the anger that fueled my interest in understanding narcissism in order to heal from and move beyond the destructive role it's played in my life seems to have been more or less exhausted. Oddly enough, EMDR therapy seems to have helped diminish the bad feelings and ruminations or maybe that happened to be coincidence. Perhaps the shared experience of Donald J. Trump exemplifying to a staggering degree textbook traits of a severely malignant narcissist as he stumbles about on the world stage to everyone's horror has led to demystification of the disorder through sheer burnout. In any case, the dull ache of loss and emptiness I once felt has become a quiet space.
As such, this entry has been collecting dust with my waning motivation to develop it but I feel that it's important to complete this dysfunctional family portrait in their own words if only to see it all laid bare, ending properly with the source from whence this transgenerational madness flows and revolves around.
Flying Monkey Autopsy: The Hatchet Man
When I was first introduced to Mother's boy-husband, Motherfucker, in my early teens, he was a chill dude. Pulled up in a Volkswagon van, followed The Grateful Dead. Earlier same day her and a co-worker of theirs – I think his name was Bernie or something, had a lazy eye – were tonguing their goodbyes as she had apparently settled on this one of many suitors. That's how chill Motherfucker was. And, when he was stoned, he returned to that chill, half-decent state of human-beingness. It was almost nice.
But as the years with Mother progressed, he became an increasingly neurotic, insecure, extremely passive-aggressive rageaholic. Even when Mother visited with female friends, this guy would take a day off work to monitor her behavior. Her friends hated him. My friends hated him. In the mornings, he would just silently glare at me with this angry eye I could see through the crack between my partly opened bedroom door and the frame, clenching his jaw. Weird. My siblings and I would make ourselves scarce when he arrived home from work because we didn't know what kind of mood he would be in but a bad mood was a safe bet. He didn't like us and moved out once because he couldn't stand us.
Forgiveness and the Doormat Effect
To err is human. To forgive is divine, but to repeat is stupid.
For those of us estranged from our families during the family fetishized holidays shoring up the end of the year, the pressure to forgive and forget can be especially pronounced. Society at large tells us that – to borrow a turn of phrase from the poet, Alexander Pope – to err is human; to forgive, divine. And that the victim is the perpetrator, the betrayer, the pariah should forgiveness be withheld — to be pitied, subjected to public scorn and, ironically, unforgiven for being unwilling to forgive. Rather than emphasis on understanding and compassion, this is institutionalized blaming of the victim that I think most of us were raised to believe, wrongly.
Flying Monkey Autopsy
Like many (if not everyone) recovering from narcissistic abuse, I deal with my share of flying monkeys: enablers manipulated into serving the narcissist as their minions who seek to restore the status quo. And I find few things more validating than reading, hearing or seeing the recordings from other survivors of exchanges with the narcissistic abusers and flying monkeys that they're dealing with. So this Flying Monkey Autopsy segment is for sharing and deconstructing my own contributions with a dash of reflective analysis for good measure.
The first flying monkey cooling on the slab is from my final email exchange with Sister.
Re: So Much For An Easy Morning
This is the email subject under which Sister begins her message to me.
Translation: You've inconvenienced me.
I had removed Sister and several dozen others from my list of so-called Facebook friends that I felt I didn't have meaningful relationships with or were professional contacts that I felt didn't belong connected to a personal account of mine.
Translation: I don't give you permission to leave me.
Never mind what precipitated my decision to unfriend her. She's telling me from the get go that my reasons aren't important to her. Only the results.
I'll Huff! And I'll Puff! And I'll Blow Your Boundaries Down!
"Oh god! Oh god! Oh god!" Mother is crying out, punctuated by her boy-husband, Motherfucker's grunts. The window's open so that the entire neighborhood can receive each explosive thrust of this howling tryst, especially Father well within earshot just next door. Wheels on the metal bed frame are catching air, slam slam slamming against the floor. The second floor. Beneath ground zero, my friend, Steve, gives up, gets up from the couch he was trying to sleep on in the living room and goes to my room where I'm laying in a fetal position with a pillow wrapped around my head, also trying to ignore the punishing humpfest upstairs.
"Are they ever gonna stop?" He asks, exasperated.
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I's writing to express deep disappointment in Rep. Dykema. Last October Marty Lamb criticized Dykema for voting against putting committee votes online. Even the moderator challenged her about voting against this common sense transparency reform. At that point in the debate, she said she would now support putting these votes online. That promise was very short lived.
In the third vote to happen this year, she voted against it again. This is a prime example of a politician saying anything to get elected and then doing the opposite on Beacon Hill.
Rep. Dykema has proven she is the ultimate Boston politician with no respect for the voters.
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I Saw a Cool Font Online. How Do I Find Out What It Is?
Fonts can make or break a publication, whether it's online or in print. And while there are a lot of fonts available, it can sometimes be hard to tell what a font is just by looking at it. Fortunately, there's a solution to that problem in the form of a service called WhatTheFont.
There are a couple of ways that you can use this tool to identify the font. One is through the use of a URL; the other is to upload a file. I prefer the latter because it gives you the ability isolate the font. To capture the font, I make use of Snagit, for screen captures.
For this tutorial, I've used a standard font that comes with Microsoft Word 2010. I used Snagit to make a tight cropping of the text which I saved as a high contrast black and white GIF image. I then uploaded it to Whatthefont.com
What you now see is the second step of the process, where the software attempts to identify the font that was used. You'll notice how the software breaks down the process by each individual letter then places the letter in a box below the captured text. If it's correct, leave it alone. If not, you'll want to make the appropriate correction. Once you're satisfied, click on the Continue button at the bottom of the page.
On this page, WhatTheFont gives you the best matches of what it thinks the font will be. You'll note a piece of floating text on the right that will move as you scroll down the page, allowing you to compare your font to the available options and choose the best match.
If the result isn't what you want, you can send it to the forums or ask the experts at WhatTheFont to help identify it for you.
For Best Results
- An ideal letter height is approximately 100 pixels. Make sure to capture upper or lowercase letters - not numbers or special characters. The text must be horizontal and must have spacing between each character.
- If you're using a font that is similar to other types, use up to 23 characters to help the software identify it.
- Make sure the letters aren't touching, otherwise WhatTheFont will treat them as a single letter.
- Try to keep it simple.
- If you scan text, scan it at 300 dpi, and save it as a grayscale TIFF.
- The ideal maximum size of of an image with no decenders is 102x1666 pixels. If you do use descenders, use a maximum size of 160x1250 pixels.
- For fonts within graphics (such as those obtained on the Web), you can isolate the font by converting it to a 1 bit image and inverting it if necessary to create the necessary separation between the font and the background.
As for finding the font online, there are many paid fonts, but it's not always necessary to buy them. Simply add the words "free" or "download" to your searches. You'll be amazed by what you can find.


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A Texas county commissioner has apologized for saying that the Latina heading the state's most populous county should "speak English" after she spoke in English and Spanish at a news conference about a massive chemical fire, NBC News reported.
The commissioner, Mark Tice, of Chambers County, posted a comment saying "English this is not Mexico," after Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo — the first Latina and first woman elected as the county's top executive — addressed constituents and reporters from English and Spanish language media outlets on a briefing Monday that was streamed on CBS affiliate KHOU's Facebook page.
In the same comment, Tice said Hidalgo was "a joke."
U.S. & World
Tice confirmed to The Houston Chronicle that he had posted the comments, saying: "It's real simple. This is the United States. Speak English."
The immediate backlash following Tice's comments pushed him to issue a response.


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Paintings Now on View at:
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Concord, MA
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Gallery Seven
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Maynard MA
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Massachusetts painter, Michelle Garro works in oil, watercolor, and pastel. Her primary subject matter includes landscapes, portraits, the figure, and still life. Her work is in private collections in the U.S. and Europe as well as corporate/institutional collections including New England Financial, and Josiah Haynes School.
She has studied at the Decordova Museum School, The Museum of Fine Arts Museum School, and with Spanish painter Francisco Castillo. The artist has continued to explore new painting approaches with Boston School painter Mary Minifie, Todd Casey, and renowned New England painters Joseph McGurl, Robert Cormier, and Cynthia Packard.
In 2004 she opened Garro Studios at Artspace Maynard which provides private and group drawing and painting instruction for all ages and levels of experience. Click on the Classes and Workshops link to learn more about the studio and classes.


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April 22 - ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The State of New Mexico will hold its primary election on June 3. If you are a New Mexico resident and want to vote in the primary, you must be registered by May 6. If you live outside New Mexico and need to register to vote absentee, you can do so using the Federal Post Card Application (FPCA) available at FVAP.gov. If you complete and return this form, you will be registered to vote and will receive an absentee ballot for all elections held through the next regularly scheduled general election.
If you are already registered in New Mexico, you must request your ballot by May 30 if you want to vote in the primary. You can request an absentee ballot using the FPCA available at FVAP.gov.
Detailed information is available at fvap.gov/new-mexico. If you are registered and do not receive your absentee ballot by May 4, use the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (FWAB) to vote. The form is also available at fvap.gov/new-mexico.
If you experience any issues or have questions, FVAP's call center is available at 1-800-438-VOTE (8683), DSN 425-1584 or at email@example.com. Toll-free phone numbers from 67 countries are listed at FVAP.gov. Find us on Facebook at /DoDFVAP and follow @FVAP on Twitter.


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A few weeks ago I took on a commercial project to shoot shoes for a brochure. How many shoes? I lost count of it by the end of the first day, but suffice to say that it was somewhere between 100 to 200 pair of shoes. Now that I think about it, there might have been more than 200 pairs of shoes!
It was a quite taxing shoot as budget did not allow for hiring an assistant, and I had to lug my lighting equipment along with the camera bag with me. So this called for a portable light setup which consisted of one Yongnuo 568EXII flash, a small Manfrotto light stand and a Phottix Easy-Up Octa Umbrella Softbox.
The flash was triggered by a YongNuo YN-622C-TX which allows me control over the flash power output on the transmitter itself without having to manually adjust any settings on the flash. This was the go-to setup for my shoot throughout the entire day. The only difference was when I shot in the hotel room later in the evening that I changed to a two light setup which was bounced to the white ceiling of the room.
#1 This picture was shot outdoors with the one light setup using a 50mm lens.
#2 This was set up and shot in the client's store room. The white backdrop was just 2 white foam boards joined at 90 degree angle. A studio strobe was pointed at the ceiling to light from the back left of the picture while another strobe was to the camera right attached with a Phottix Octabox.
#3 Same setup as the center picture but instead of using foam boards we used some wooden crates instead. In hindsight I could have done things differently but there wasn't much I can do on a tight budget and on limited space.
The picture that you see on the left (or on top, if you are on a mobile device) was shot in the hotel room with a 50mm lens to give it a bit of the blurred effect (bokeh) look.
Should I have done things differently under these working circumstances?
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text: Team Jay Rohlfing Executive Chef As a child, Chef Jay Rohlfing watched his grandfather make Angel Food cake and was immediately hooked by the culinary arts. He attended culinary school at the Pennsylvania Institute of Culinary Arts and after graduation went on to work at the Boca Raton Resort, Harbor Court Hotel, and Linwoods in Owings Mills. Working under Linwood Dame was the most influential experience of his career. Linwood pushed Dutch to reach great heights and to pay attention to all aspects of the kitchen. Chef's favorite pastime is growing his and his wife's small farm. The couple raises chicken, ducks, rabbits, and a bounty of vegetables each season. Chef Rohlfing joined the Cunningham's in 2016. He describes his approach to cooking as "rustic American," and enjoys creating approachable dishes and ensuring guests have a great experience. He is excited to have the ability to source products from Cunningham Farms – and believes that knowing where a product comes from only multiplies the respect culinary staff has for their craft. Jason Lear Executive Chef Another Baltimore native, Jason has spent time in kitchens all over Maryland. After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, Jason began his career on the Eastern Shore at the Tilghman Island Inn. After a stint in Plainfield, New Hampshire at the Home Hill Inn – a Relais & Chateaux property – he returned to Baltimore plying his trade at several notable restaurants including Peerce's Plantation, Bistro RX and The Wine Market. It was at the latter that he first worked with Chef Chris Becker and the two quickly became friends and collaborators. In 2012 Jason rejoined Chef Becker at Fleet Street Kitchen, and in 2013 helped him open Cunningham's and Cunningham's Cafe & Bakery. Chef Lear leads the kitchens at Cunningham's overseeing everything from the restaurant to private dining to catering and offsite events. An avid believer in farm to table cuisine, Chef Lear's cooking is at once seasonal and complex yet approachable and inviting in style. Angie Law Executive Pastry Chef Chef Angie Law's passion for food began in the kitchen of her mother's small family-run restaurant, where she would help whenever she could after school. Following her love of cooking, she decided to attend Penn State, where she graduated with a degree in food science, and then went on to perfect her culinary skills at L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, MD. After her culinary training, Angie worked at several restaurants in the Baltimore/DC area including Atwater's Bakery, Cinghiale, and Restaurant Sabor. These experiences pushed her desire to continue learning from great chefs and eventually led to her working at New York City's Nougatine at Jean Georges. Her time at Nougatine taught her how to work on a grander, sophisticated scale and defined her style as a pastry chef. Chef Law joined the Bagby Restaurant Group and Cunningham's in 2013 and is especially excited to work with the bounty of locally sourced ingredients from Cunningham Farms and other local farms to craft her elegant and innovative desserts. John Aversa Head Baker A native of Columbia, Maryland, John has been baking bread since his childhood. Growing up with a father who was an avid baker, he became accustomed to baking each and every weekend, drawn to the rigor and precision of the process. Thus, when he decided to attend Baltimore International College, it was only natural that he he gravitated toward their baking program, where he excelled, graduating in 2000. After graduation, John began his career as an intern at Patisserie Poupon, learning the art of classic French pastries. Since then, he's baked at numerous ovens around Baltimore, including Atwater's, Annapolis' Main Ingredient, and most recently Catonsville's The Breadery. He jumped at the opportunity to join the growing Bagby Restaurant Group in the fall of 2012 and his bread has already become a staple throughout the Group's restaurants. You can find his work proudly presented at Fleet Street Kitchen and Cunningham's and in the sandwiches at TEN TEN American Bistro, Bagby Pizza Co and Cunningham's Café & Bakery. Jen Walton Executive Pastry Chef Jen Walton has her mother to thank for her interest in baking. From birthday cakes to Thanksgiving pies, delicious desserts were abundant during her childhood. At 16, she began her culinary career at the Elkridge Furnace Inn in Elkridge, Maryland. After graduating high school, Jen attended the French Pastry School in Chicago, IL, where she learned about the importance of quality over quantity and to "respect your ingredients." Jen then went on to do an externship with Pasticceria Bruno in Staten Island, NY. From there, she was offered a position as Executive Pastry Chef with Iron Bridge Wine Company in Columbia, MD where she worked for a short time and was then given the opportunity to open a new restaurant in Columbia, Victoria Gastro Pub, where she worked for 7 years as the Executive Pastry Chef. In 2015, Jen joined Bagby Restaurant Group. She was promoted to Executive Pastry Chef in 2016 where she leads the pastry team and is excited to create a fun working environment and exciting products.


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Par Garagedoorrepair2 dans Accueil le 16 Janvier 2017 à 08:42
Garage door repair San Fernando Valley
Has your garage doors begun to rebel and you're worried that a mere garage doors repair job is not going to be sufficient? Well, the good thing is, you don't have to totally replace your garage doors openers. All you have to do would be to perform a few garage doors repairs that are going to look after your problem.
fix garage doors San Fernando CA
You are able to execute a few repairs without the help of any professional. However, some repairs tend to be more complicated and should not be attempted by the nonprofessional. If you do so, you may end up injuring yourself. Plus, you could also cause more harm to the garage gate than repair!
So why do you'll need the repair?
First, you need to note what problems you have with your garage gate. May be the door simply not responding? Or is it closing and opening partially? Do you find that the garage opener is running, but not opening? You will find that the repair work for each of these cases is different.
What work does garage gate repair involve?
Light repair works usually involve cleaning, lubricating and tightening the tracks, springs and also the loose parts of the system. You should first see if the ability supply to the opener is intact. Sometimes, if the power is not reaching the opener for some reason, your garage doors will be stuck, and you will be left wondering what went wrong!
What kind of garage opener do you have?
When you plan to perform some garage door repair, you should first discover what type of opener you use. If it is a standard extension garage gate, you can easily perform repair works, when you are able to find out what's going wrong using the machine.
However, if your garage doors is making use of a torsion spring, you will have to call in a professional to help you using the repair works. The torsion spring door is under tremendous pressure, and therefore, one wrong move may even grow to be fatal for you personally.
Other garage door repair works
If you are looking for a temporary fix for your garage gate, you can disconnect the opener from the door, by pulling on the red string that you can see on the side of the door. By doing this you are able to operate the doorway manually. However, be careful, because if the issue is based on before summer the doorway, it could fall suddenly for you.
Check all of the loose hardware to make certain that nothing is unnatural. Also check the springs and find out if they're totally hooked on to the right place. If, while carrying out the garage door repair you face any difficulty due to the tension in the springs, attempt to adjust them by hooking them to the next notch. This makes it simpler for you to work.
Finally, never forget that the best way to keep the garage doors in good shape is as simple as regularly carrying out maintenance focus on your door. This can ensure that you don't have to spend buckets on repair and replacement works.
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Media, Trust and Diversity – A Lot More to Do
After a year of everything from fake news to equal pay and #MeToo, is it too late to restore trust in the media? That was the topic up for discussion at the Media Trust panel event, a communications charity championing the power of the media to change lives for the better, held to mark International Women's Day. The debate looked at how the media can … Continue reading Media, Trust and Diversity – A Lot More to Do


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Meet the Characters
The Electric Company
Your child is invited to join the fun with the quirky, diverse and fun-loving kids that make up The Electric Company. Members have the wordball power, which allows them to think of a word or phrase that then becomes a wordball in their hand. They can put the word or phrase anywhere they want – larger than life on a billboard or shrunk down small to fit on the side of a notebook. Members also have an additional superpower, allowing them to overcome the Prankster's mischief and restore order to the neighborhood.
Jessica Ruiz is a natural leader and problem solver. Even though she's just a teen, she doesn't take any guff from the Pranksters. Her brother, Hector, is seven years older but Jessica likes to act like the big sister - this drives Hector nuts! A gifted dancer and rapper, her superpower is the ability to replay anything she hears and show it as text.
Hector Ruiz, whohas recently finished college, runs The Electric Diner, the de facto headquarters for The Electric Company. Hector is cool and smooth and goofy which makes him the person everyone wants to be around. Hector's superpower is a photographic memory, which allows him to zoom in on details that can lead to important information to help solve problems.
Marcus Barnes is the youngest member of the Electric Company. A natural comedian and a self-described math nerd, Marcus' superpower is centered around numbers.
Lisa Heffenbacher is quirky, funny and full of life. Her superpower is the ability to solve any word problem at super-human speed: an anagram, a rebus, you name it! Lisa loves science and recently fulfilled her dream of going to Space Camp.
Shock has a wide-open sweetness and a relentless imagination. He's a vocal percussionist with the ability to add a beat or soundtrack to any moment. Shock works in the Electric Diner and occasionally helps in the decoding of words there.
Keith Watson is a 15-year-old upbeat, cool kid who is confident, optimistic, open and charming. He's a natural negotiator too! His superpower is the ability to create pictures from words!
Leo Watson, Keith's dad,runs The Electric Diner, which serves as headquarters for The Electric Company. He is a hands-on father and is cool but firm.
The Pranksters
Like our heroes, the Pranksters have individualized powers with unique ways of altering words and creating mayhem in the neighborhood. These mischief-makers are motivated by the sheer joy of creating chaos in hopes of defeating The Electric Company…at least once!
Francine Carruthers is obsessed with popularity and, if she were allowed to be the president of The Electric Company, she would be a member. She is the only Prankster who can throw wordballs. She leaves clues in the form of rhyming poems and secretly has a crush on Hector.
Manuel "Manny" Spamboni is a tech whiz that hacks and builds gizmos to thwart our heroes. What he lacks in social skills and gym sock etiquette, Manny makes up for with his desire to triumph over The Electric Company. Any change in The Electric Company's reputation is a cause for pure delight.
Gilda Flip is a Prankster-in-training who lives in Francine's building. She secretly wants to take over the Pranksters. For now, she is content to learn under Francine, who has agreed to teach her about Pranksterism and life in general. She is very well organized and eager to please, as well as being brilliantly devious.
Danny Rebus is a softy inside who is very touchy and easily offended by the smallest wrongdoing. He also has a steel-trap memory for every time he's been slighted over the years. Hector and Danny share some great times but Danny blows it by insisting Hector only be his friend. Poor Danny. His favorite pastime is leaving riddles in rebus form, creating havoc in the neighborhood.
Annie Scrambler creates mischief by scrambling text in the neighborhood. She is an impish time bomb who will lull you into a false sense of security and then throw your world into chaos.


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The problem arises when you put said modem in a smallish room with about 800w of computing equipment and two people. On a warm day the room hit's between 25 and 27°C and the modem gets a little flakey.
Enter: the big fan!
|From modem
I chose this one because it runs quite happily on 5v and is nice and quiet, screwed it onto the lid of a spare modem and swapped the lids over this morning. (hopefully) problem solved!


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The Income Tax Cocktail
A tribute to the Constitution's 16th Amendment from Harry Craddock, this cocktail should make whatever you owe the taxman a little easier to bear. -DARYNA TOBEY
- 1 1/2 ounces Beefeater gin
- 3/4 ounce sweet vermouth
- 3/4 ounce dry vermouth
- 1/2 ounce orange juice
- 1 dash of Angostura bitters
Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Strain into a chilled lowball glass and garnish with an orange wedge.


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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An appeals court will say on Tuesday whether it will revisit the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 gay marriage ban or clear the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the issue.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in February that the ban discriminated against gays and lesbians. It rejected the key argument by ban supporters that Proposition 8 furthered "responsible procreation."
Ban proponents appealed the ruling to the full 9th Circuit, which could hear it with a larger panel of judges or decline to review it, opening the way for an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in the session that begins in October.
President Barack Obama last month turned gay marriage into a 2012 campaign issue, saying he believed same-sex couples should be able to marry. Republican Mitt Romney disagrees.
The vast majority of U.S. states limit marriage to opposite-sex couples, and popular votes have consistently approved bans on widening those rights.
But polls show growing acceptance of same-sex nuptials, which have been legalized in eight states and the District of Columbia, thanks to votes by legislators and court decisions.
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston last week ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutionally denied benefits to same-sex couples in a state where gay marriage was legal.
The U.S. Supreme Court would set national precedent if it decided to take the case. Appeals courts have so far declined to rule broadly on whether marriage is a fundamental human right for same-sex couples as well as heterosexuals.
The recent Boston ruling focuses on whether the federal government should follow states' definitions of marriage when determining benefits, and the California ruling in February limited itself to Prop 8.
"Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California," the California ruling read. A 9th Circuit spokesman on Monday said the decision on whether to revisit the case would be published on Tuesday about 10 a.m.(1:00 p.m. EDT/1700 GMT).
The most populous U.S. state is the home of Hollywood and hippies, but it has a socially conservative side as well. That leaning was clear in the 2008 ballot that enacted Prop 8 by 52.24 percent to 47.76 percent, or some 600,000 votes, ending a summer of legal same-sex marriage.
A federal judge struck down Proposition 8 in 2010, although existing same-sex marriages are on hold pending appeals.
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There are plenty of benefits to having a multi-cat household—but having more than one cat can also bring its fair share of challenges. Check out our 5 tips for keeping your multi-cat household running smoothly.
SLURP! Get Your Cat To Drink More Water
Caroline Golon writes several blogs: cat humor site www.romeothecat.com, litter box advice blog, www.thehappylitterbox.com, and www.crayonsandcollars.com, a site all about kids and pets!
From writing articles for leading pet outlets like Vetstreet, Catster and Petfinder, to blogging on her own websites and advocating for pets in need, Caroline Golon seems to have her paws in everything pet! She spends her days working on pet stuff and her evenings and weekends corralling a crazy houseful of kids and cats. And one husband. But, Caroline says, at least he can feed himself.
By Romeo the Cat, with help from staff assistant Caroline Golon
Did you know that most of us cats don't drink enough water? And, just like with you humans, getting enough water in our little bodies is critical to our urinary and overall health. But we're cats, so we do as we please. If drinking water doesn't please us, well you've got a big ole challenge now, don't you?
Fortunately there are a few ways you humans can make drinking water more attractive to us kitties and today is your lucky day….I'm going to share some insider secrets with you. Listen up, people!
1. Clean and Fresh.
For goodness sake, make sure the bowls are clean with fresh water. My staff changes our water every time they feed us. They also swap out the bowl for a clean one every few days. Slimy, gross, stale water or bowls are blech.
2. Wet food.
Feed your cats a mostly canned food diet. According to my vet, this is a super duper easy way to get more moisture in your cat's life. If your cat isn'tcrazy about canned, try adding some water to his dry food to see if he likes it. He just might!
3. Ice, ice baby.
Ice cold water is yummy…and fun. Shake things up and try throwing a cube of ice in your cat's water bowl. My staff sometimes adds ice to our wet food. It's fun to lick and give us a little extra H20 in the process.
4. Plenty of water sources.
Think about it…would you like to haul your behind all the way downstairs to the kitchen each time you want a drink of water? Make it easy on us! Place water bowls or cups throughout the house so we can get some water when we're thirsty. Remember to keep these auxiliary watering holes fresh. I personally love big cups of water better than anything else.
5. Running water.
You know, sometimes things can get boring for a cat. But one way to spice up our lives? Running water! If your cat likes to drink out of the faucet, let him! Turn that sucker on a few times a day and let your kitty have a little fun. Along those lines, how about some fancy cat fountains? Now those are super fun, capture our interest and they keep the water fresh as well. Win-win!
As I always like to remind readers, the best way to solve any cat related issue is to think like a cat. What would entice you to drink more water? Then apply those ideas to your kitty's world!
Now, what are your best ideas for getting your cats to drink their water? Please share below!


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6 Marketing Tips for Consumer Technology Retailers
In recent years, annual revenues for consumer electronics have exploded to more than $200 billion. This has been fueled by the overwhelming popularity of tablets, smartphones, and mobile devices, in addition to standbys such as TVs, cameras, and desktop computers. With so much money streaming in, there's no shortage of retailers eager to capitalize on this booming industry that seems to have no ceiling in sight. Yet, while there is still ample room to turn a healthy profit, it's those who take an active, thoughtful, and progressive approach to marketing that stand the best chance to succeed.
If you have designs on staking your claim in the industry or are searching for ways to increase revenues for your store, consider these six rock-solid marketing tips for consumer technology retailers.


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Jury to start deliberating today on whether Virginia Tech officials were negligent in response to shootings
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. -- A jury will begin deciding Wednesday if Virginia Tech officials were negligent in their response to the first shootings in a 2007 massacre that left 33 dead, or if they made a reasonable decision the shootings were no threat to the wider campus.
Attorneys for the state, the defendant in the wrongful death civil trial, and the parents of two students killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history will present their closing arguments to jurors before deliberations begin.
Jurors will also consider damages for the families but do not know the award is capped at $100,000 for each family under state law.
Attorneys for the parents of Julia K. Pryde and Erin N. Peterson portrayed campus police as leaping to the conclusion that the first two people shot at West Ambler Johnston Hall were killed by a jealous boyfriend, and that the gunman was not a threat to others on campus.
They presented evidence that campus leaders, including President Charles W. Steger, heeded the police conclusion without question, then waited 2½hours before they informed the campus of the shootings. The warning, however, said only that a "shooting incident" had occurred and did not say the gunman remained at large.
Police were pursuing the boyfriend of one of the dorm shooting victims as a "person of interest" at the expense of a campus-wide alert, the plaintiffs' attorneys said.
Police stopped the boyfriend as he approached the Blacksburg campus and were questioning him as shots rang out at Norris Hall, the classroom building where student Seung-Hui Cho chained shut the doors to the building and killed 30 students and faculty. He then killed himself.
Tech officials issued a specific warning that a "gunman is loose on campus" through emails to 37,000 at 9:50 a.m. April 16, nearly 10 minutes after Cho began the Norris slaughter.
The parents' attorneys also accused Steger and other university administrators of trying to cover up their missteps by building official timelines that suggested they reacted more aggressively to the first shootings. Tech administrators said those mistakes were made in the fog of a horrific campus tragedy.
The state presented witnesses, including experts in campus security, who said Tech police and administrators acted properly when they concluded the dorm shootings were domestic. The shootings occurred in an isolated area of the dorm, and the victims were a man and a woman clad in their undergarments and sleepwear.
Steger testified that he delayed sending a specific warning to avoid a panic and to allow the university to notify the victims' parents. He said he heeded the advice of a member of his leadership team, called the Policy Group, who has since died.
Steger said university officials were working with the best information available to them.
Attorneys for the state also presented testimony that Steger, as well as other university officials, did not warn their own family members who were on campus of the first shootings. The suggestion was they believed the shootings were not a prelude to more shootings.
The parents of Pryde and Peterson, who have attended every day of the Circuit Court trial that began March 5, said they persisted in their lawsuit because they wanted accountability for the university's actions and an apology from Steger.
Their attorney presented a deposition from a crisis manager hired by Tech who said Steger believed he did not owe parents an apology for his actions because it would imply errors on his part.
The Prydes and the Petersons were the only eligible families who didn't accept their share of an $11 million state settlement.
A state panel that investigated the shootings concluded that officials erred in not sending an alert earlier. The lag in issuing a campus warning also brought Virginia Tech a $55,000 fine from the U.S. Education Department. The school is appealing.


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This post was inspired by the blog Fantasy Casting, which is a really great blog. So, if I could choose any character, who would I be?
I'd love to be Eowyn from The Lord of the Rings. I think she is an incredible woman that has endured so much pain and is yet able to give love and help to those that need it. And a woman that is willing to fight for her life instead of letting other people do it for her is always amazing. And also, she seems so free. Not of burden, but of spirit. She probably has to conform to society's rules, but she has an independent spirit that will not bow down to anyone. Writing this even makes me yearn for being her. It sounds kind of freakish, but I would give up a lot (not everything) to be her. And yes, I fully realise she is not real and that living in the situation she would have if she had been real wouldn't have been very glamorous and/or nice.
Another character I'd love to be is Leslie Burke as played by AnnaSophia Robb in the movie 'A Bridge to Terabithia'. I just love her. I'd like to believe I have the same ability to create fantasy around me as she has. But I think everyone has that ability, people just forget or are ashamed of the fact. I actually cried when I saw the movie last time and when I say cry I don't mean one single tear. It started somewhere around the end of the film when leslie dies. Those couple of scenes just break me. If it wasn't for the fact that I wasn't alone I would have been crying my soul out. It actually physically hurt trying to hold back the tears.So how about you?


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Linda & The Punch – Obsession (2014, Escape Music)
- What A Shame
- Cold Cold World
- Welcome To London
- Wake Up Dreaming Of You
- Nothing Of Anything
- Bite
- Looking Out For Number One
- Kill The Lights
- Lost For Words
- Love Kills Me
- Because The Night
Band Lineup:
Linda – vocals
Torsten Asemann – bass & vocals
Tim Edler – keys & vocals
Ralf Heyne – guitars & vocals
Oliver Ross – drums & percussion
Producer: Michael Voss
Country: United Kingdom
Total Time = 39:50
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When Obsession, the debut album from Linda & The Punch, crossed my desk I wasn't really sure what to make of it. I read the press release and it described Linda's singing as a cross between current Pop superstar Pink and Rock icon Pat Benetar…..reading that made me unsure if this hardened Metal heart would enjoy that type of combination. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised.
Just a quick rundown of some of the major players here: Linda is a fresh faced 21 year old that has a serious voice, the kind of Rock singing that you wished was on today's radio, she is definitely the focal point. The rest of the band, The Punch, provide a solid musical foundation that blends early '80s Rock, Pop, Melodic Rock and a slight Punk edge. I definitely hear that early '80s Rock sound from having grown up listening to the radio back then so I can understand the Pat Benetar comparison. The producer here is Michael Voss, who you can hear on Michael Schenker's Temple Of Rock album, and he also adds in his writing skills along with ex-Scorpions drummer Herman Rarebell, Tommy Denander, and the talents of songwriters Jeff Franzel and Steve McEwan. That's a pretty solid team.
As I mentioned, this is straight up melodic Hard Rock with a Power Pop and Punk feel to it. I can hear contemporaries like the Hard Rock band Halestorm, Pink, Kelly Clarkson and some of the other Pop princesses out there but Linda has a Rock 'n' Roll grit and power to her voice that channels Pat Benatar or even Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders. The band plays a great contemporary style of guitar driven Rock and the melodies and grooves just stay stuck in your head! The opening track 'What A Shame' has that Pop-Punk sound to it with an infectious chorus that reminds me of a musically superior alternative to The Donnas crossed with Pink. My favorite tracks are the melodic 'Welcome To London' and 'Looking Out For Number One', two songs that had that instant sing-a-long quality to them and I really haven't been able to stop repeating those songs on my iPod. I just like that melodic '80s Rock sound both tracks have but they are complete rockers. I also really like the ballad 'Wake Up Dreaming Of You', a song that could easily be a hit on any Billboard chart, a real showcase for Linda's vocals. I'm not really sure I like the addition of a cover song at the end, especially Patti Smith's 'Because The Night', a song that everyone seems to do. Everytime I hear the original song, the Natalie Merchant version, this version, any version…..all I think about is Keel doing a cover, and a video, for this track. At least the song was left to the end so it can be skipped but I will say that the band does a slower powerful version that's not too bad.
Bottom Line:
Linda & The Punch are definitely a new band that will be on the rise. Out of the ten original songs on the album, I really like eight of them and would pull them up in my daily music playlist for months to come. Strong band musically, solid beautiful vocals and catchy well written songs…..what's not to like? This album is definitely one of the biggest surprises of 2014 for me!
Favorite Songs:
'Welcome To London', 'Looking Out For Number One', 'What A Shame', 'Wake Up Dreaming Of You', 'Nothing Of Anything'


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ACTION-Housing, Inc. Development
ACTION-Housing, Inc. has a long-standing history of real estate development designed to address emerging community needs, and serve the community's most vulnerable populations. Since 1985, ACTION-Housing has developed or assisted in the development of over 4,500 units of housing, both single family and multifamily, for the elderly, persons with disabilities, homeless, veterans, and working families. Most of these units were created in collaboration with community-based partners, such as local development corporations and supportive service providers.
ACTION-Housing's real estate development work begins by understanding the needs of our communities to ensure that our projects contribute to neighborhood stabilization and/or revitalization. Concurrently, communities are often looking for opportunities to attract new residents, both renters and homeowners, and re-use existing buildings or empty lots to ensure the vitality of their neighborhoods.
It is at this juncture—blending the needs of the individual households with those of the community—where ACTION-Housing works best. By leveraging financial resources, working with neighborhood-based organizations, engaging public and municipal authorities, working with leading architects, engineers and contractors to utilize cutting edge energy conservation measures, and designing for long-term affordability, ACTION-Housing is helping to create a region with vibrant communities that value diversity in all its dimensions.


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Official Site: http://www.nailaandtheuprising.com
On Twitter: JustVisionMedia
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JustVision
Director: Julia Bacha
Producer: Rula Salameh, Rebekah Wingert-Jabi, JUST VISION
Cinematographer: Talal Jabari
Editor: Rebekah Wingert-Jabi, Flávia de Souza
Music: Tristan Cappacione
Running Time: 75
Language: Arabic, Hebrew, English
Country: USA
Year: 2018
2017 Alumni
Expected to Attend: Director Julia Bacha; producers Rebekah Wingert-Jabi, Rula Salameh; executive producer Suhad Babaa; editor Flávia de Souza; film subject Naila Ayesh
WORLD PREMIERE Award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha (Budrus) chronicles the remarkable journey of Naila Ayesh, who played a key role in the nonviolent Palestinian uprising known as the First Intifada. When the uprising broke out in the late 1980s, Naila was living in Gaza. Faced with a choice between love, family and freedom, she embraced all three, joining a clandestine network of Palestinian women who led a movement that put Palestinians on the map. The film inventively combines animation with archival images to explore this hidden history. During production, the film won the DOC NYC Pitch Perfect competition and now makes its debut.


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