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Le'Veon Bell Breaks Free
PITTSBURGH — Some Friday afternoons, after practice ends and the media clears out, a handful of players migrate toward Le'Veon Bell's end of the locker room. There's an unwritten rule that music generally isn't allowed in this space, but some Fridays exceptions are made. Someone brings out a boom box, puts on a beat, and they all form a circle.
The Steelers' cypher is in session.
Some days it's less of a rap battle and more of a performance; they watch as Bell raps over the beat for five minutes straight. Other days, they take turns going around, spitting lines back and forth. Then there are days when a challenger or two emerges, trying to start a fake beef. "I'm the rapper," Bell explains, with a grin. "They say they're going to take my title."
Bell raps and records his own songs and has gained enough traction that he's earned the right to call himself arapper. He may be the best rapper in the NFL. He released his first mixtape last year, and it caught Snoop Dogg's attention. Snoop recorded a song with him, became his mentor and began introducing him to people in the music industry, as Bell worked on his follow-up album. A few weeks ago, record labels started calling Bell's agent, asking to meet with him. These were industry big wigs calling, too, star-makers, Bell says, the kind of people "who work with big-time people like Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande."
"In my head," Bell says, sitting at his locker, "I was like, oh, I'll never sign with a label. That's what I was saying months ago. But then when they're actually calling you, it's different. It's like: Oh, man, can I actually do this? Do I really want to do this? Obviously it's something I have to put on the back burner, because I can't go meet with them right now."
Bell is somewhat busy. He gained 1,884 yards from scrimmage this season, made his second Pro Bowl in four years and established himself as one of the best backs in football. He got the entire league talking about his unique running style, the way he pauses at the line before picking his hole and taking off. Now in the playoffs, he'll continue to carry the load for the Steelers. In the blowout win over the Dolphins last week, he ran for 167 yards, a new franchise record for a playoff game. If Bell keeps this up, the Steelers have a real shot to beat the Chiefs and (likely) the Patriots and make their fourth Super Bowl in 12 years.
"But the fact that they're calling," Bell continues, "that they want to talk to me and meet me, it opened my eyes. Like, man, people really take my music seriously."
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Bell first started rapping when he was in grade school, growing up in the Columbus area. He'd be listening to 50 Cent all day; the 2003 album Get Rich or Die Tryin' was the first album Bell ever bought. Then Bell and his friends would get bored in class, at lunch, or on the bus ride to football games—and they'd pass the time by making a beat, hitting their hands and pencils against a hard surface, and freestyle rapping over it. "It just naturally came to me," Bell says. "I was good at it, freestylin'. Making words and coming up with topics off my head."
He recorded his first song on his phone, with a friend, when he was about 13. They titled it: "Eat a Booger." As Bell recently told Billboard's "Ballin' Out" podcast: "We'd freestyle like: 'I went to school, had to take a test, so I pulled out a booger and slapped it on my desk.' … I don't even know where it came from. We just thought of it, being clowns in class."
As Bell went on to high school and then Michigan State, his football career blossomed. But he spent his free time in studios, recording more songs. Staying true to his roots, he rarely wrote anything down. He just stepped to the mic and rapped whatever came to mind.
Bell found those sessions to be cathartic, a good way to relieve the stress of being a football star. If he spent too much time around the game, he felt, he'd start overthinking it. I can't fumble this football, I can't drop this catch. I can't miss this block. Getting away from the field and into the studio and letting the words flow allowed him to just … escape, for a little while.
"Don't get me wrong," Bell says, "I love football more than anything. But sometimes, it's good not even thinking about it."
Back then he never released his songs. He kept them on his phone and only played them for family and friends. Rap was just a hobby. Then the Steelers drafted Bell in the second round, in 2013, and he found he had the means to pursue his hobby further.
Soon after the draft, Bell connected with Mac Miller, a Pittsburgh rapper and diehard Steelers fan, and got his first glimpse into the rap world. Bell visited Miller's local studio, saw the way he worked on his music, and met up with him over the offseason in Los Angeles. They shared a bond: video games. "Anytime he's in the city, we always kick it," Bell says. "We're the same age. We like the same things. We like Madden, [NFL] Blitz. We ended up vibing, making music and hanging out." He came to consider Miller a close friend.
By Bell's second year in the league, he had moved into a new home and installed a makeshift recording studio of his own. Around this time, he also met Rico Music, a Columbus rapper who would become a good friend and also serve as his in-house audio engineer.
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During Bell's third year, he suffered his first major injury, tearing the medial collateral ligament in his right knee in November, thus ending his season two months early. By December he had holed himself up in his studio. At the urging of his friends, he decided to use the time making his first mixtape. He worked in there for about three months, making songs with Rico, deciding how Le'Veon Bell the rapper would introduce himself to the world.
Bell had to come up with a rap name, and he settled on something easy: Juice. It was the nickname his Mike Tomlin had given him. One day at practice, after Bell had made a particularly impressive run, the Steelers coach told Bell he ran like O.J. Simpson, and he had decided, in that case, that Bell should assume O.J. Simpson's nickname, too. "I thought it was kind of cool," Bell says. "The fact that coach compared me to O.J., the way he ran the ball."
Bell also had to name the mixtape, and he decided on The Interview. "It was like all these questions people have about me, I'm going to try to answer them," he says. The cover art would be a picture of him standing at his locker, shirtless, surrounded by reporters.
Bell rapped mostly about money, fame, women, disrespect, and motivation—general themes that many young rappers explore—but there was nothing overly inflammatory about his lyrics. He didn't curse or use the n-word. Many of his lyrics drew on his experiences as an athlete, like this verse on a song called "First Flight" where he raps about the combine.
It felt — fishy, as I was in my stance
Looking up at all the coaches, thinking is this my chance
To prove all the doubters wrong just to have me some fans
Do I see the finish line that the 40 yard ran
These are the questions that I ask myself
And not to be worried about the fame, the women, or the wealth
Well, as I look back and I look at the crowd
All those doubters that was lookin', they can look at me now
Bell released The Interview on SoundCloud on March 1, 2016, for anyone to listen to, for free. For once he wasn't the one in control, the one with the ball in his hands. All he could do then was sit back, wait and see how people responded.
Will anyone like this? he thought.
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About two months later a TMZ reporter caught up with Snoop Dogg, another diehard Steelers fan, and asked him about Bell. At the time, Snoop and Bell had never met. The reporter told Snoop that Bell wanted to collaborate with him; TMZ had asked Bell about Snoop about a month earlier and was apparently trying to play matchmaker.
"He's been dying to get in the studio with you," the reporter said. "He's dropping a lot of tracks."
"I'll make it happen," Snoop said. "Let me make sure his leg is back right first."
"Do you have to check his talent first? Or is it just like…"
"He's killer. He's killer—he can hit it out."
A photo posted by snoopdogg (@snoopdogg) on Jan 9, 2017 at 3:40am PST
Snoop had apparently listened to The Interview. (To date, the mixtape has been played more than 786,000 times; Bell's SoundCloud page has 16,500 followers.)
As soon as Bell saw the video, he reached out to Snoop on Twitter and Instagram. Bell had already started working on his first full album, and he wanted Snoop to appear on a track. They exchanged numbers, and one day out of the blue Snoop called on FaceTime, his preferred mode of communication. They spoke for a while. Then Bell sent Snoop a track with his verses already on it, Snoop sent it back with a hook, and voila, they had a song.
(Some Steelers fans have suggested that it may not be smart for Bell to be associating himself with Snoop Dogg, considering the league has already suspended Bell twice for drugs. The first time, in 2014, he was arrested for DUI and marijuana possession—he was sentenced to 15 months probation and served a two-game NFL suspension—and the second time, in 2015, he missed a drug test, for which the league suspended him three games at the start of this season. But Bell seems entirely unconcerned about the connection.)
A month after TMZ first met with Snoop Dogg, they tracked him down again.
"How does [the song] sound?" the reporter asked.
"Dope as f---" Snoop said.
"Where do you rate him as a rapper?"
"He's good," Snoop said. "I wouldn't have did it if he wasn't no good."
With that, Bell had all the validation he needed.
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Over the summer, after Bell finished the Snoop Dogg collaboration, he moved into another house in the Pittsburgh area, a place with more space. He turned a room in the basement into a recording studio, decking it out with state-of-the-art sound equipment, everything he'd need to make his album, everything a professional musician might have in his home. Except that his studio had a Terrible Towel on the mic stand.
Making the album was the next step in Bell's career as an artist, and, like any artist, he wanted to improve on his mixtape. This time he taught himself how to make his own beats using a computer program called Fruity Loops, and he constantly tinkered on it. He called his creations Night Rider music. "We make the type of beats that, say you're in your car, it's a late night, you're feeling good, and you just need that theme music," Rico says. "The only thing missing is the theme music. That's when our music comes on. That Night Rider music."
Rico technically lives in Columbus, but he visits Bell so often that it feels as if he'd moved in. Bell and Rico spent a lot of time in the studio this summer, making the album; some nights they didn't sleep. During the season Bell would get Mondays and some Tuesdays off, and he'd spend those days in the studio, too. He'd go as long as nine hours a day and make three new songs. "We're like your mood music artists, if you will," Rico says. "We're the type of artists that go into the studio with no sense of what we're about to do. We rap about our experiences that day, or something that may have occurred that week. Just relatable songs. Things people can feel, and really party to. Over all, it's like feel-good music, you know?"
In time, Bell started picking up traits of an artistic type. After making a song, he says, he puts it aside, wait a few days, and then massages it until it sounds just right. Sometimes, sitting in the locker room, listening to his teammates banter, he suddenly becomes inspired to write a lyric. At times he's played his songs for his teammates and asked for feedback.
Eventually Bell decided he wanted to expand his range, so he started listening to more pop music, more country, more eclectic genres. One of his favorite rappers now is Drake, and it has a lot to do with his versatility. "With Drake," Bell says, "you know how he makes songs with a pop style? Like 'One Dance' and stuff like that? Those are different. Those are, like, different songs. A lot of people can't make a song like that. I'm sure he listens to a lot of different music. I feel like the only way you can do that is to listen to other people and learn what they're doing good and what kind of beats they're on, so you don't have to necessarily limit yourself to a certain style of beat. You can get on any style of beat and make a song to it."
If Bell ever needs a one-on-one tutorial, he just asks Snoop. They speak about once a week. Snoop usually calls saying, "Good game, Nephew." That's what he calls Bell: Nephew. They talk about the Steelers game or a play Bell made, and sometimes they discuss music, too. Bell sends Snoop a song, and Snoop gives him constructive criticism. "If I'm making a song," Bell says, "I can have a hook or a verse, and [Snoop will] tell me, 'Oh, you don't have enough energy on this hook.' Or maybe: 'You have too much energy on this verse.' Whatever it may be. He's going to critique my songs kind of like how I critique my [game] film. It may not be a big thing. It may not be something major that a lot of people will notice. It may not even affect the song that much. But it's that little, minor detail that will make the song that much better."
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One criticism Bell has of himself is that he censored himself too much on The Interview, and that he didn't just let the words flow freely. He caught himself worrying about all the people who'd be listening: the Rooney family who own the Steelers, the companies that endorse him, his family. "At the time," Bell says, "I was thinking, I don't want to say too much to offend people. Because, I'm thinking, I'm an NFL guy, an NFL star, stuff like that.
"I was thinking about it too much."
Now that Bell is associated with Snoop Dogg, more people likely will be paying attention when his album drops. Steelers fans, music fans, music executives. They'll want to see if Bell is legitimate, or if he's another athlete who thinks he can rap. So on the album, Bell says, he's not been holding back. He steps to the mic and lets his alter ego Juice take over. He raps about his two drug-related suspensions, the media's criticism of him, and all the fans who think his rapping distracts from football. He's calling the album the ThePost Interview, because he raps about the type of things he says in private, after the interviews end.
The public first heard the new, grittier Juice in November, when he released a seven-track EP featuring songs that didn't make the cut for the album. On "Turn Da Club Up" he even makes a reference to his nickname and O.J. Simpson's sordid past:
And I know I am the truth
I know I only speak the truth
Cuz I be spazzin' in the booth
And people mad I'm in the booth
But that's not gon' stop the Juice
These people want to watch the Juice
Just cuz they know what Juice gon' do
My label's Juice is on the loose
That's because you know I kill
Don't act like you don't know the drill
That's why you better keep me chill
Because I'm the Juice, you know I kill
"Now my music's so different," Bell says. "I'm like, OK, if you take my music offensive… I only rap how I feel at the time. I rap genuinely off my emotion and how I feel at that time."
The rest of the locker room is empty. He's been talking about his music for 20 minutes, and he's lost track of time. He's in danger of being late for his next meeting. He takes off.
He says he plans to drop The Post Interview in February, after the season.
When he finally has some free time.
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Bubbling Witch's Cauldron Brownies
I have a serious love for halloween food.
It doesn't even have to be a dessert, I just love how creative themed food is – like this cheese ball cauldron!
Growing up halloween was always about food, class parties or neighborhood parties and decorations. I love the anticipation of halloween coming, and with halloween food or early fall parties it's like you can celebrate halloween for weeks!
That's why I think I like halloween themed food so much. Plus when else can you eat melted witch cake or pumpkin shaped quesadillas except for in the weeks leading up to halloween!
In particular, I like witch themed things. Not scary witch stuff, but the cute witch legs you can stick outside, or a fun witch wreath, so I channeled my love for witch things into these fun bubbling witch's cauldron brownies!
In terms of halloween treats, this one comes together pretty fast. You'll use a box of brownie mix for the base of the cauldrons. You can even opt to buy jarred frosting so you don't have to make buttercream.
If you're making these for an adult party, you could flavor the buttercream to be mint with some mint extract, because mint & chocolate are a perfect pair.
A quick overview of the supplies you'll need..
-brownie mix plus the ingredients listed on the back
-buttercream (recipe below)
-a mini muffin pan (or several) depending on how many cauldrons you want to make
-green food coloring (I used Leaf Green Wilton Gel Food Coloring – you can find it at Michaels)
-green round sprinkles. I found both the large and small ones at Michaels. They come in a small plastic rectangle shaped bag.
-pretzel sticks, if you're wanting to add a "stir spoon" to your cauldrons
For a step-by-step of how to make this bubbling witch's cauldron brownie recipe, watch this short video:
Bubbling Witch's Cauldron Brownies
We love making these bubbling witch's cauldron brownies for our halloween party each year! This is an easy halloween treat for kids to help with!
- 1 box of brownie mix plus the ingredients listed on the back
- 1 stick butter (1/2 cup), room temperature
- 1-2 cups powdered sugar
- green food coloring (I used Leaf Green Wilton gel food coloring)
- large green nonpareil sprinkles
- small green nonpareil sprinkles
- Preheat the oven and prepare the brownie mix as directed on the box.
- Spray a mini muffin pan with non-stick cooking spray. Fill each muffin well 2/3 full with brownie batter.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and use a 1/2 tablespoon to create indentations in each brownie. Allow the brownies to cool completely then remove from the pan.
- To make the buttercream, beat the butter with an electric mixer until smooth, 30 seconds. Gradually add in the powered sugar, beating until incorporated. Add in a small amount of green food coloring, beat until mixed.
- Use a spoon to put a dollop of buttercream in each brownie cauldron. Use the spoon to create wisps in the buttercream.
- Add large green nonpareils and small green nonpareils to the buttercream. If you want to create the look that the cauldron is bubbling over, have the buttercream go down the side of the brownie and add nonpareils there too.
- Add a broken pretzel stick to each cauldron as a stir spoon.
- Serve or store on the counter until ready to serve if serving the same day, otherwise store in tupperware container until ready to serve.


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I've been saving up for a gopro. This week was the paycheck. Today at night I got my paycheck and this morning the free battery and charger was available. Now after I got off work the deal disappeared and I have been looking at the deal all weeks long. Please help!
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How time files! Diwali is already around the corner and I hope you are in better shape than I am. Though my plan is to have a laid back diwali this year (the lazy me came up with the idea) I still want a sprinkling of lights in the festive season. The twinkle of lights and rangoli spell Diwali like nothing else does.
Over the past couple of years, I found some lovely ideas on Pinterest to add a few quick touches of warmth to the home. I had shared my finds here on SunnyNomad back in 2012. This time too, there is tons of inspiration to be found and I have been pinning away with glee.
If you'd like DIY festive decor but are hard pressed for time to search, fret not. I have pulled together many creative ideas in one place. These are easy to recreate while adding heaps of charm to your home. Yay!
You can find my Diwali decor idea board here Diwali Decor: Lights and more
Pick from crafts that are snappy five minute fixes to projects that can fill your entire weekend with happy moments of ungluing your fingers. No, you don't end up doing that? Just me then.
I'd love to know which ideas you like best. And do share with us your special way of celebrating the festival of lights.
Happy Diwali, may your year be filled with prosperity, love, good health, laughter and adventures!
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Life Updated (Quilted and Not so Quilted)
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Good and not so good news. If you've been keeping up with this blog than you know that Blima got engaged and I was busy with her dress and chupa[wedding canopy]. Blima has since broken off her engagement so now I have so much more time on my hands to reorganize my long suffering sewing room. I finally got all the shelves up and it is really starting to look good. I'll take a picture when it's finished. I'm soo proud.
I took a group of ladies; Cecelia, Alzaida, Claudia, and Chava to the Somerset Quilt Show on Friday. We were all tired out after the long day and I think everyone had a good time. For some of the ladies, this was there first show! I'm hoping to schedule another trip for May. If anyone is interested in joining us, please email the store.


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I had some posts all planned...deep thoughts on grace given through the holidays, the love-hate relationship some of us have with December, etc, etc,
but then the flu hit, and that's all she wrote.
So today, I'll just share a song that's been on repeat at my house even though it's not a Christmas song per se.
It is the message of Christmas, however;
because Christ came, there is grace enough for the Lord to cover my sin, call me daughter, wrap me in His endless wonder.
Grace enough to give up a throne for a manger.
Grace enough to die on a cross.
Grace enough to satisfy both righteous wrath and righteous love.
Merry Christmas.
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Tia Allen, viola
Herb Smith, trumpet
Five Outrageous Reasons to Attend
Music from The Gilded Age this Saturday
Music from The Gilded Age this Saturday
[Charles Koppitz's self portrait at the top of the oboe part to "Telegraph Polka."]
March 15, 2015
Portland, Maine
A busy copyist with pressing deadlines, Charles Koppitz
nonetheless took pride in his work, often leaving his
mark with distinctive scrolls, frills and other
Such is the case with the caricature sketch in ink of his
own good-natured, goateed face looking out from the
capital "O" of the word "Oboe" at the top of the oboe
part to Telegraph Polka.
And in copyist's ink, Koppitz has humorously labeled
"On the Alps, Ländler for Two Horns Obbligato and
Orchestra" (on today's program) his Opus Number
4,009—this, after being active for less than a decade
as a theater orchestra leader in Boston.
Enough said about the overburdened, unrecognized—
and in Charles Koppitz's case—brief life of a middle-
class Victorian-American theater music director.
[From the program notes to "Music from The Gilded
this coming Saturday, March 21, 4 pm, in John Ford
Theater at Portland High School, 284 Cumberland Ave.,
Portland, Maine -- Charles Kaufmann]
Here are five outrageous reasons to attend Music
Collection, 1869-1877 this Saturday at 4 pm, John
Ford Theater at Portland High School, 284 Cumberland
Ave, Portland, Maine.
[Tickets here, or at the door, $20 regular, $10 student/
senior; call 207-232-8920 for more information].
1. To see a half dozen kids from Woodside One
Wheelers (WOW) perform on regular unicycles, 5-foot
giraffe unicycles and 7-foot three-wheeled unicycles to
Charles Koppitz's Velocipede Galop for orchestra, written
in 1869 during "velocipede mania" in Boston -- the year
the bicycle was introduced to the United States.
2. To see and hear an antique telegraph machine from
19th Century Willowbrook Village used as a percussion
instrument in Charles Koppitz's Telegraph Polka (1870),
during which bassoonist-magician Wren Saunders will
turn herself into the dancing transatlantic telegraph cable
of 1866.
3. To witness up-close the talented members of the
Orchestra of The Longfellow Chorus -- placed in front of the
stage -- performing a series of never-ending circus leaps:
John Boden and Sophie Flood as horn soloists in On the Alps;
Betty Rines and Herb Smith as cornet soloists in Amazon
March; Melissa Mielens and Krysia Tripp as piccolo soloists,
diving through flaming hoops in In the Forest Polka;
percussionist Richard Kelly cranking his anchor chain device
in Yacht Nettie Waltz. This is virtuosic music; these are
outrageously good players.
4. To get to know two versatile, young singing actresses from
New York, Cree Carrico, soprano, and Kaitlyn Costello, mezzo,
who will recreate the roles of Evangeline and Gabriel in an
historic 21st-century reawakening of a lost 19th-century
orchestral medley, Selections from Evangeline, or, The Belle of
Acadia (1877) -- originally billed as "the first American comic
5. Because you will love this concert.


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And, the ever-on-point PM, over at Gooznews, has done a stellar job of synthesizing them — do go read that one, top-to-bottom, but here is one money quote:
. . . ."This drug [Vytorin] does not have sufficient evidence for it to be used as a front-line agent," [Dr. Harlan Krumholz, of Yale University Medical School] said. "Statins are the drugs of choice. The evidence is not even strong enough to say that people who cannot tolerate statins should go on it. It is an option. Right now using it is based on an assumption that you know what IMPROVE-IT will find. . . ."
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ICANN Resolutions » Appointment of Andrey Kolesnikov to the Security and Stability Advisory Committee
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Appointment of Andrey Kolesnikov to the Security and Stability Advisory Committee
Whereas, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) reviews its membership and makes adjustments from time-to-time.
Whereas, the SSAC Membership Committee, on behalf of the SSAC, requests that the Board appoint Andrey Kolesnikov to the SSAC for a term beginning immediately upon approval of the Board and ending on 31 December 2020.
Resolved (2018.05.13.02), the Board appoints Andrey Kolesnikov to the SSAC for a term beginning immediately upon approval of the Board and ending on 31 December 2020.
The SSAC is a diverse group of individuals whose expertise in specific subject matters enables the SSAC to fulfil its charter and execute its mission. Since its inception, the SSAC has invited individuals with deep knowledge and experience in technical and security areas that are critical to the security and stability of the Internet's naming and address allocation systems.
The SSAC's continued operation as a competent body is dependent on the accumulation of talented subject matter experts who have consented to volunteer their time and energies to the execution of the SSAC mission.
Andrey has been active in ICANN for some years and is known to a number of SSAC members through his work as CEO of the Coordination Centre for Russian Federation Top Level Domains and more recently his involvement in IoT technologies, standards and protocols. He brings expertise in ccTLD operations, Internationalized Domain Names and IoT and a well-developed ability to network in multicultural and multilingual environments.
The SSAC believes Andrey Kolesnikov would be a significant contributing member of the SSAC.
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This is an out-of-the-blue creation due to a huge salad craving I had yesterday. I wanted to create a salad I was excited about! I've had many salads during my life and most have not been that exciting; some tasty, some bland, some OK, but nothing that truly had everything I enjoy. This salad has all of the elements I enjoy, which are; fruit, cheese, plenty of greens and most importantly it's easy to make!
- 1 cup red oak lettuce
- 1 cup green coral
- 2 cups of spinach
- 1/2 butternut squash cut into 1 inch (2 cm) cubes
- 2 tablespoons of pomegranate molasses
- 3 tablespoons of goats curd or more to taste (can also use goats cheese)
- 1/2 a pink lady apple thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- 1/8 of a tablespoon of salt and pepper each or more to taste
For the dressing, I wanted something simple and tasty; bear with me because I know it is not your typical dressing – just believe me when I say it's delicious!
Dressing ingredients:
- 1/2 cup of pomegranate juice (try to make it 100% pomegranate with no sugar added – it's not needed 🙂 )
- 2 tablespoons of pomegranate molasses
- 1 tablespoon of red wine vinegar
- 1/2 tablespoon of honey
- Pinch of sea salt and pepper or more to taste
- Preheat oven to 225C. Toss butternut squash with olive oil and add pepper. Place butternut squash on baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes flip butternut squash and bake for another 10 minutes. Once done, add sea salt to taste.
- In a medium to large bowl add red oak lettuce, green coral, spinach, apple slices and pomegranate molasses; make sure to mix well.
- Add butternut squash to salad once done baking and then add the goats curd (or cheese).
- For dressing: Mix ingredients well; pomegranate juice with pomegranate molasses, red wine vinegar and sea salt and pepper.
- Side note on the dressing: some people really like their dressings to have a type of oil; please feel free to add 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil.
Tip: I also tried blood orange juice instead of pomegranate juice – and it tasted great too!
Tip 2: You may easily add chicken to this dish if you would like to make it for any carnivores you know.
Enjoy! And don't be afraid of experimenting; I truly just made this out of a desire to satisfy a craving and it turned out fantastic (in my humble opinion).


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"The album title, Moment de Bonheur, is rather trite, but the concert was marvelous and the recording preserves all of its intensity and charm. This was a first meeting between Jean Derome (flutes, alto sax) and Louis Sclavis (clarinets...
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"The album title, Moment de Bonheur, is rather trite, but the concert was marvelous and the recording preserves all of its intensity and charm. This was a first meeting between Jean Derome (flutes, alto sax) and Louis Sclavis (clarinets, soprano sax). Although different, their sound worlds are highly compatible. They have both dug their way out of the jazz realm and into new, largely unexplored music trenches while keeping ties to jazz. They both use other idioms to transform jazz and turn it into something completely new. They both favor an approach that combines clever writing, wild improvising, and a touch of humor and emotion. To put the project on firm ground, they agreed on a solid rhythm section of bassist Bruno Chevillon (Sclavis' most trusted sideman), and drummer Pierre Tanguay (a regular of Derome's bands for two decades). The quartet hit it off incredibly well. Derome penned five of the six pieces presented here. His tunes show his usual taste for elegance in odddesigns, and tenderness in comical gestures. The basic motif in "Tu Dis Tout de Travers" would fit nicely in the repertoire of his group Dangereux Zhoms, while his gripping bass flute solo in "Jonas" ranks among his best moments on record. Sclavis displays unusual levels of playfulness in "Le Baiser" and "Pas a Pas." He contributes the 21-minute "Suite pour un Bal," a cross-stylistic composition of epic proportions -- including a passage where Chevillon adds a distortion pedal to his double bass. Tanguay's lumbering rhythms (his sense of out-rhythm is unique) match Chevillon's power plays in a quasi-rock way. The enthusiasm of the crowd is well-deserved."-Francois Couture, All Music
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Oakley Community Council Meeting
Date: September 5, 2017, 7 PM Oakley Community Center
Trustees Present: Sean Fausto, Jason Wilcoxon, Jes Overley, Chris Mengel, Colleen Reynolds, Chris Mucha, Stacy Lehman, Kenny McNutt, Dave Schaff, Jon Bernier
Trustees Not Present: Evan Nolan, Tim Langmeyer
City Hotline-591-6000; Cincinnati District 2 Police Non-Emergency – 949-4400Fix it Cincy! Mobile App
Cincinnati Fire Department – Station 31 Lt. Jerome – 31 fire runs. 165 EMS runs.
Fire prevention week beginning of October. Theme is "Every second counts, has two ways out."
Cincinnati Police Department Report – District 2: Shawn Tarvin CPD - Phone 979-4480 –
Robbery at the UDF. But, almost all offenses down over the three-month average.
Cincinnati City Council Member – PG Sittenfeld – His dog is named Oakey. Spoke about seniors, and heroin epidemic. Focused on pedestrian safety – set aside $500,000 for pedestrian safety.
Candidate for Hamilton County Judge – Darlene Rogers – rogersforjudge.com Started at GM, and went back to school to become a teacher. Later went to law school and became a public defender. Concrete heroin solutions – jail is overcrowded.
Candidate for City of Cincinnati City Council – Seth Maney - Has served in OTR Community Council. Works in real estate. Running specifically to focus on budget. Sethmaney.com
Candidate for City of Cincinnati City Council – Derek Bauman – Lives in OTR. Started as a police officer. Public Safety is a key focus for Derek.
Candidate for City of Cincinnati City Council – Erica Black-Johnson – running as an independent. Wants to bring the focus of government back on the people, not the political parties. Core issues: budget, jobs, housing, transportation, crime and safety.
Candidate for City of Cincinnati City Council – Henry Frondorf – henryfrondorf.com - wants to focus on neighborhoods.
EastSide Candidates night on October 13th (tentative) at Crossroads.
OCC Election – Conducted at the December 5th meeting. Nominating committee: Jes Overley, Dave Schaff, and Kenny McNutt.
-Oakley Master Plan (OMP) Steering Committee – Jes Overley, Chris Mengel, Chris Mucha, Jason Wilcoxon - First meeting was 9/5. The kickoff meeting for the community is 11/14 at 6:30PM.
-Business – Kenny McNutt & Jon Bernier -no updates
-Oakley After Hours – Jon Bernier & Dave Schaff - doing a thank you for the OAH sponsors.
-City Hall Liaison – Chris Mengel, Evan Nolan, Colleen Reynolds, & Tim Langmeyer – Fortis is under contract to sell the 5/3 property to the developers of the townhomes on Markbriet off the square. Renovation on Alston, office and shop space, bar zoning was denied.
Great American Cleanup Recap- Wasson Way and the pedestrian bridge main focus. 27 bags of trash collected.
NYE Proposal – 7pm-9pm on NYE in the esplanade. Total budget request $3500. Motion to approve up to $3500 to fund NYE event. Motion by Colleen Reynolds and seconded by Dave Schaff. Approved unanimously.
City of Cincinnati Department of Transportation and Engineering -Bill Shefcik – Supervising Structural Engineer- Marburg Ave Bridge Project. Bridge to open September 16th. Railing design will have both Oakley and Hyde Park.
3977 Marburg Ave LTD – Bill Gruber – Potential Building Project – will be back in October for formal presentation and take questions at that time.
Cincinnati Water Works – Jon Hunseder - Will be attending OCC meetings to answer questions from residents.
Table approval of August 17th Meeting Minutes.
Approve August Financial Report: Motion to approve by Jes Overley, seconded by Jason Wilcoxon. Approved unanimously.
Neighborhood Support Program (NSP)/Neighborhood Business District Support
Fund (NBDSF) Community vote for both.
NBDSF – 31 for, 2 against.
NSP – 31 for, 2 against.
Speaker Cards:
Casey Gries - Visionary and Voices is moving into the old Blue Manatee space. It will be an educational space. Opening in mid-October.
New Business:
Motion to adjourn meeting at 8:59PM by Jes Overley and seconded by Colleen Reynolds. Meeting Ends.


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We raise our hands to ask a question, cast a vote, shield our eyes from the sun. As we block the sun with our hands, we also block the light from the earth. In A Circle Full of Ecstasy at Leipzig's Spinnerei, the artist Edgar Leciejewski shows 77 leaders with their hands raised to greet their citizens.
Sixteen years ago, Edgar started an archive of press photos. He put them in files labeled "with children," "laughing," "crying," etc.
The photos chosen were in a folder called "hello."
Besides the fact that they are all world leaders and waving, there was a need to connect the images in some way, since they were all from different photographers at various points in time. Edgar chose to do that in the printing process. He chose cyanotypes because that was the way flora and fauna were printed in early books.
When you look closer, you will realise that they are all waving with the same hand. From the beginning to the end of the series, the bodies of the leaders are revolving and the eye zooms in and out. You will also notice that the hand is in colour.
Edgar chose to use 77 images because of the significance of the number. It features in Christianity, Islam and Judaism. It is also to be found in numerology, science and history. He felt it the correct number in which to display leaders.
And then there's Chantal.
All alone and larger than life (245 cm x 182 cm) is the Cameroonian dictator's wife. During a famine, she graciously agreed to buy two fewer handbags that year. Instead, she would donate that money to feed the starving. If you or I were to do that, it wouldn't feed anyone for long, but her favourite designers are Dior and Chanel. The bags on their website start at €2000.
In the centre of all these leaders, we find the little people in the form of Edgar's Rocket sculpture series.
In 2014, he spent 6 months on the island of Newfoundland. He got there in winter and there was a bed of ice leading out to the ocean. When it started melting, he saw the beach was littered with debris.
Locals told him it was all from one house which had not been in the trash collection system until the 90s. Along side the glass and ceramic that had survived time, there was a large selection of teeth from various animals. This had also been the site where animals were slaughtered.
He collected what he could and started making "rockets." "At some point, we will send our trash into space, right?"
As a collection of sculptures, these pieces tell the story of the people who lived there.
There are old and newer bits of ceramic. Some even repeat the same pattern, showing how it stood the test of time and tastes. As a North American, I saw lots of things I recognised. As Edgar looked at the pieces and showed me special bits, I could tell he was longing to go back to Newfoundland.
The sculptures, like the waving world leaders, connect time and memory. They tell a story of human existence. Some things repeat. Some things are long forgotten. All are circular.
"The Sufis say every single man is a planet, turning in a circle full of ecstasy. But I say every single man is a sentence of different molecules, turning in a circle full of ecstasy. In the near future one will be able to make used things new again, reconfiguring their molecules."
Edgar Leciejewski
A Circle Full of Ecstasy
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text: Volume 10.40 | Oct 12 Cell Therapy News 10.40, October 12, 2009 In this issue: Science | Policy | Business | NIH | CBER | Regulatory Top Stories Liver Cells Grown From Patients' Skin Cells; Treatment of Liver Diseases Possible: Scientists have successfully produced liver cells from patients' skin cells opening the possibility of treating a wide range of diseases that affect liver function. [Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee] Article Science Webinar: Feeder-independent growth of hESCs & hiPSCs using TeSR(TM)2Link VIDEO: Introducing TeSR2 medium for feeder-free, animal protein-free culture of human ESCs and iPSCsLink Nanomagnet in "Star-Trek Style" Wand Could Cure CancerFor reasons scientists do not fully understand, stem cells have an affinity for cancer and are exploiting this property in bone marrow "mesenchymal" stem cells to deliver the iron oxide particles.Article How Hematopoietic Stem Cell Development Is RegulatedDuring cell division, whether hematopoietic stem cells will develop into new stem cells or differentiate into other blood cells depends on a chemical process called DNA methylation. [Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin]Article And the Beat Goes On: Scientists Jump-start the Heart by Gene TransferRecent research shows that gene therapy may be used to improve an ailing heart's ability to contract properly. [Universities of Michigan, Ann Arbor]Article Novel Polymer Delivers Genetic Medicine, Allows TrackingResearchers have developed a new molecule that can travel into cells, deliver genetic cargo, and packs a beacon so scientists can follow its movements in living systems. [Virginia Tech, Blacksburg]Article Research Reveals Unique Properties of Vitro's Fluorescent Stem CellsVitro Diagnostics, Inc. announced completion of a research report concerning its fluorescent stem cells involving transfer of fluorescent to differentiated cells. [Vitro Diagnostics, Inc., Golden]Article Major Improvements Made In Engineering Heart Repair Patches from Stem CellsResearchers have succeeded in engineering human tissue patches free of some problems that have stymied stem-cell repair for damaged hearts. [University of Washington, Seattle]Article Stem Cells Which "Fool Immune System" May Provide Vaccination for CancerBy immunizing the host with stem cells, the researchers are able to 'fool' the immune system to believe that cancer cells are present and thus to initiate a tumor-combating immune program. [UConn Stem Cell Institute, Farmington]Article Scientists Announce Potential Stem Cell Alternative to Live Animal Testing for Corneal DamageInitial results using non-animal or "in vitro" tests indicate an excellent correlation between the rates at which drugs pass through ISCO's lab-grown corneal tissue and rabbit corneal tissue. [International Stem Cell Corporation, Oceanside]Article Enhanced Stem Cells Promote Tissue RegenerationEngineers have boosted stem cells' ability to regenerate vascular tissue by equipping them with genes that produce extra growth factors (naturally occurring compounds that stimulate tissue growth). [Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge]Article Henry Ford Launches Gene Therapy Study for Parkinson's DiseaseThe clinical trial will test whether gene transfer therapy is able to restore better mobility in Parkinson's patients who have lost responsiveness to drug therapy. [Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, West Bloomfield]Article Living Cell Technology Reports Successful First Implant Of DIABECELL(R) In New ZealandThe first of eight implants of encapsulated porcine cells that produce insulin was carried out under LCT's clinical protocol for New Zealand. [Living Cell Technologies Limited, Auckland]Article ABSTRACTS, REVIEWS AND SPECIAL REPORTS A Wound-induced Wnt Expression Program Controls Planarian Regeneration PolarityThe Smed-wntP-1 gene is required for regeneration polarity and is expressed at the posterior pole of intact animals in head-versus-tail regeneration polarity. 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Malkin joined the University in 1986 as a visiting professor and was appointed a tenured full professor the following semester. As a teacher of graduate and undergraduate engineering courses, students have consistently rated him an outstanding educator. In 1987, he was named director of the College of Engineering's Manufacturing Engineering Program. He is also a co-founder of the University's Center for Manufacturing Productivity, a program which pairs faculty from the College of Engineering and the School of Management with small- to medium-sized manufacturing firms to improve productivity and competitiveness.
A native of Massachusetts, Malkin received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining the UMass faculty, he taught at the University of Texas, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.


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Thanks Emma.
You are very good teacher.
Awesome! I got 10/10 although I wasn´t very sure about the meaning of try every trick in the book I think the option ´He likes the smell of milk´could´ve worked! Io sono uno studente meraviglioso! Baci a tutti. Ciao!
hi Emma, your language is so fast that makes us challenging. anyway like this style.
Hi Ema,
You're the best teacher in my book.
Thank you indeed.
Thanks so much. For help you are a good teacher
it`s really a lovely expressions
Thanx emma you are very good teacher
this is useful lesson
Hi Emma you are wonderful please keep up I learned a lot from you and all other teachers from engvid .my best wishes
nice quiz,
Hi Emma,
You make your students comfortable.
You are born to teach.
Thank you
in my book you are the beast teacher
i got 10 of 10
bye, i love you ^_^
Emma, I have you in my books
Thank you so much , it was really good .
Thank's Emma
I got 9 out Of 10
In my book you're a good English teacher
I got 10 correct out of 10.
80 % credit goes to Emma because you have prepared a lot of material to understand us or pour into our mind at worldwide level and with lot of examples. We people just watch 10 minutes such type of vedio and judge ourselves while you might take 10 hours to make such a lesson.
In Muslim history, Forth Caliph HAZRAT ALI R.A said that "Who has taught me single word he is my teacher".
So how can i decline that you are not my teacher. You have an excellent accent.
Welldone! Keep on it.
I got 10 correct out of 10.
80 % credit goes to Emma because you have prepared a lot of material to understand us or pour into our mind at worldwide level and with lot of examples. We people just watch 10 minutes such type of vedio and judge ourselves while you might take 10 hours to make such a lesson.
In Muslim history, Forth Caliph HAZRAT ALI R.A said that "Who has taught me single word he is my teacher".
So how can i decline that you are not my teacher. You have an excellent accent.
Welldone! Keep on it.
you are great teacher, Emma!!!
Hi Emma,
Thank you so much for the great expressions and for your wonderful way of teaching.
In my book, you are very good teacher.Tks
In my book, this was an excellent video. Thanks a lot Emma. I hope we are all in your good books.
it was very good but to me icant understand when the american talk fast and i need it because i have to make a test of 100 listening pls can u help thanks emma
In my book, you are a nice and wonderful teacher. Thank you very much Kind regards Francis
Thank you Emma,
I got 100 in quiz but i couldn't download your lesson like past?
he!teacher i need your help how can i speaking improve my english please could you incrase english .online ..
Hello Emma,
i realy enjoyed at this lesson
Hi Emma:
In my book,your videos are really useful to me a lot at my job.Thanks alot
i recieved 10/10 i hope im in your books now emma
Thank you again, Ema. I LOVE and need this kind of lesson. The words change their meanings.Keep up with this kind of lesson, this is idiomatic expressions.
I'm not a bookworm but in my book, it was so usefull and intereting to catch those idioms.. I'll often try to keep hitting the books with you. Thanks!
thank you so much for every thing …
I'll really hit the book watching your enjoying videolessons))
I tried evrey trick in the book to understand this lesson. at last I get it.
I really enjoyed this lesson! congratulations you are very clear and simpatic!!!!
Don't judge a book by its cover but by its price :)
I'm not a bookworm, I have read one book in my freaking life but good 4 u Emma n' thanks a million 4 these expressions.
Hi Emma, tks for all you all from EngVid do for us.
In the 5th expression, I couldn´t understand what the policy needs to search a house. Could you write here?
Tks a lot
I love you ) It's very nice of you to help people … you're the best teacher i've ever had… To be honest i've had 6 teachers so far but they couldn't teach me as much information as you did
Horray!i got 90 on the test yay !!!
Dear Emma,
You are very kind in my book.
thanks emma for the lesson,in fact,the way you're explaining the lesson makes english easy and sweet,thanks teacher
Hi, i get 9 right answers out off 10. i love the teacher and the way to explan
I really enjoyed your video on expressions of book which enabled me to get 10 out of 10.
You've done a great job!!!
Nice lesson,also so useful
Thanks for the lesson. If you come to Spain any day I recommend you to taste snails, especially with garlic sauce.
After that I'll never go to Spain
Dear Emma,
You are a great teacher of English language, let me clear with you this, i have noticed while your lecture a word "OFTEN" , in this word we use T silent in our country. but i noticed you pronounced OFTEN with T . could you please make it cleat to me.
Thank u .. i am enjoying your teachings
thnx :)
thank you………you are great…….!!!!!!!!!!
Emma, you are a great teacher in my book! But how to remember all these idioms?
Thanks Emma.
In my book, you are an excellent teacher. Now I have to hit the books. By.
You are fantastic teacher in my book ^_^
I am really happy to do it again :> thanks you :>
i love you very much i understand you better than my teacher hahahhaha
congratulations Emma, in my book you are the best!
i hit the books
i loved it
thanks teacher
I think that it's great
Hi, Emma. In my book you are very good teacher. Thank you.
hi emma I would like to learn english very quckly, could you help me ?
hey Ms Emma, this lesson is interesting and very useful but i didnt understand what is the meaning of 'to throw the book at someone'. Please, explain it again.
thank you in advance.
can't wait see the next video ! i think u should go to hollywood!
In my book Emma is being loved by lots of students.
I'm glad i findout this webside, thank's Emma I will follow this program I love it,
I like this lesson so much and Emma's teaching style.
I love your website and the way you explain things. This lesson is very useful and i got 9 out of 10 for your quizz. Frankly you refresh my memory. Keep up the good work.
could you plz, give a lesson about: money. what's the meaning of, I owe you and you owe me?
what's the real meaning of balance?
Hiii Emma you are a good teacher i like the class.
hello emma, you are one of my wonderful teacher in my book and i'll hit the book of all engvid lessons ASAP. Thanks a lot :)
I just want to say thank you to all teachers, I really like this site
I just wander if there is french site like this will be great.
Nice lesson i enjoy a lot.Emma thank.
HiEmma,I like your lesson, the web site the university of Iowa it is very good. thank you
Hi Emma, Dou you live in Canada or US? I believed than you live in Canda, but in one lesson you coment the pronunciation in US
Thank so much!!!! In my book Engvid is the best!!!!!!!!


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Two "Rs" down, one to go.
For those unaware of what I'm talking about, let's review. I've been sharing my limited experience with writing, using a formula I made up:
Wrong. It's actually "research."
Okay, okay, we'll call it reading, because that's usually the way we conduct research. Not the only way, of course, but certainly a way.
There's an old adage that writers toss around from time to time: write what you know. Some of the best fiction comes when the author writes about a subject that they're uniquely qualified to know and understand. And there's certainly some truth to that. When an author puts together a proposal for an editor or agent, one of the things they want to know is if said author has any special qualifications to write his or her book. For example, if someone is writing a hard sci-fi book about time travel, an actual theoretical physicist will have a better chance at getting noticed than, say, a Lutheran minister.
Not that I've written a book on time travel.
. . . yet. Ahem.
Anyway, that adage is all well and good, but it can also be a bit limiting. If all we're supposed to do is write what we know, that could turn out to be rather confining. Should I only write about people who are Lutheran ministers, since that's what I know? Should my only setting be the sinking of the RMS Titanic or the USS Enterprise D since I used to research those things a lot when I was younger?
C'mon. Like you couldn't have guessed that second one.
The answer is "No." While "write what you know" is a good adage, the reverse is equally true: know what you write. If you want to write about time travel and you're not a theoretical physicist, do the research and find out what you need to know.
The reason for this is simple: no matter how obscure the subject you're writing about, someone, somewhere, will read your story and know you don't know what you're talking about. It'll either be a minor glitch that momentarily leaves the reader scratching his or her head. Or it could be so major that they'll stop reading and vow never to read your stuff again.
Let me give you an example of what I'm talking about, but not one from the literary world (exactly). Let's talk Castle.
How do I know? Because of Lee Lofland and his blog, The Graveyard Shift. Lofland is a retired police office and every week, he posts a "review" of the episodes, pointing out where the show got the police procedures and research wrong.
Now one might argue that this is a TV show, one designed for entertainment and not education. At the same time, though, every now and then, the writers make a doozy that really, they should have done better.
I'm not saying that these research errors make me love this show even less. But it illustrates my point. Lofland knows better. And at times, his frustration over the mistakes is very obvious. In spite of them, though, Lofland keeps watching.
So when do you do the research, before, during, or after? That's up to you. Like I said last week, writing is about finding a method that works best for you. Some folks have to do extensive research before they put one word on the page. Others wait until after the first draft is done. Figure out what works best for you and stick with that.
Just make sure you do it. You don't want to lose any readers because you didn't do your legwork.
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Another week has been and gone, and although I don't have much to show, I definitely feel as if I'm trying out new things and actually achieving something!
Tomorrow will be the first day of my knitting club. A lot more than I was expecting have shown an interest! I'm hoping to take my camera with me so I can share some snaps up on here.
I've been knitting a lot more lately. For some reason I'm really in the mood to knit. I love being able to create something that's unique and completely my own.
I also knitted the cabled hat above for the lovely Sophie!
As for my life in general, no updates at the moment! My birthday is coming up in a month's time, and I'm seriously panicking as I need to sort something out! I'm thinking of staying here for a night or two either before or after my birthday. Gorgeous aren't they?
I have a baking review coming up this week which I've been excited about. As well as a green smoothie challenge update!
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Angela Merkel, Charlie Hebdo, Dresden, Far Right, Islam, Muslim, Pakistan, Paris, Pegida, Peshawar, Terrorism
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does.
On the second day of my long-awaited trip to Pakistan in December last year, I woke up to the news of the horrible massacre of school children in Peshawar.
Like most people, I wept for the innocent lost lives, the bereaved families and a once honourable country which has lost its path, becoming mired in ever-more indecent violence and barbarism.
As I made my way home to Brussels a few days into 2015, I was preparing to write about Pegida, Germany's nascent and very toxic 'anti-Islamisation' movement which is making headlines across the globe.
But then tragedy struck again as terrorists, unfortunately and wrongly, described as Islamists gunned down 12 people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, the Paris-based satirical magazine.
As France and the world mourned the dead and worried about the freedom of expression, diversity and tolerance, I asked myself: how many tears can you shed? How long and often can you weep? Will the hatred, violence and extremism ever end?
I don't know the answers but I know that whether we recognise the link or not, Peshawar, Paris and Pegida are, tragically, connected.
I know that money, encouragement and support for the extremists whether in the Middle East, Pakistan, Asia or Europe can be traced to extremist Wahabi state and non-state actors in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.
I know that Far Right groups in Europe and the United States are spreading a hysterical and toxic anti-Islam message, gaining traction and popularity as the economic slowdown persists and unemployment continues to rise.
I know that politicians in Europe, the US and the Muslim world are unwilling and unable to rise to the challenge of building a strong counter-narrative of tolerance and discrimination.
I know that 2015 is going to be a defining, testing year for humanity's ability to live together in peace while accepting differences in religion, colour and culture.
I know that the violence-loving, gun-toting men and (some) women who kill, maim and torture are outside the boundaries of any religion. There is no "Islamic State", only murderers and criminals. There is no "good" Taliban, just blood-thirsty barbarians.
I know that just as is the case for freedom-loving people in Pakistan, life for Muslims in Europe is going to get tougher in the aftermath of the recent terrorist attacks.
But I also know that sanity and good sense will probably and hopefully prevail in both Pakistan and Europe.
In the end, it's not the politicians who will stop the rot. It is the people, the ordinary men, women and young people who say "enough is enough" to violence and intolerance.
I know it is possible. As we visited Lahore only hours before the massacre in Peshawar, girls and boys came up to us to talk and take pictures, giggling and chuckling, proud of Pakistan and their heritage.
The Badshahi Mosque and the Lahore Fort sparkled in the sun but it was the laughter and the cheeky jokes of the young men and women that warmed our souls.
This was Pakistan the way it really is, the way it should always be. Hours later as we tried to come to grips with the tragedy in Peshawar, I took solace in the hope I had seen in the eyes of the young people of Lahore.
In Europe too, it is the people who will stop the continent from descending into a dangerous downward spiral of anti-Muslim sentiment.
True, the Far Right is gaining momentum. Talk of a "clash of civilisations" is rife. But equally those who want a multicultural and tolerant Europe are speaking out.
Pegida gatherings have been dwarfed by massive counter-demonstrations in Dresden, Berlin and Cologne where people have spoken in support of immigrants and condemned intolerance.
The famous Cologne cathedral and Berlin's Brandenburg gate have switched off lighting as a sign of protest against xenophobic rallies. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned against hate and discrimination.
In the aftermath of the Paris killings, European governments will certainly clamp down hard on radicals and would-be terrorists. They are right to do so. But in the medium and long-term, European politicians must also focus on the compelling need to integrate and accept their Muslim citizens.
Retribution and revenge must not be allowed to take centre stage. If it does, it will play into the hands of the extremists.
This is a dangerous moment. Yes, it is war. But it not a conflict between Islam and the West. The battle being fought so cruelly is between people who believe in humanity and criminals and terrorists who, quite simply, want to kill.