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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was another monotonous drive home from the cube farm when my cell phone's Darth Vader ringtone announced an incoming call from my oldest daughter. Mother's intuition kicked in and I knew something was up if Maricelle was calling me at that time since she works the graveyard shift.
Ten minutes into our conversation that familiar ache in my stomach settled in. She told me she was planning on moving to New York toward the end of next year. While my mouth expressed excitement for her decision my heart held the mixed emotions I needed to process after I hung up. I had to remind myself that she is 26 years old, an independent woman working as a R.N. in La Jolla VA Hospital and not the six-year-old child I once knew.
That conversation happened last year in December and Maricelle had no idea how much I struggled with it. Ray and my sister were the ones who bore the brunt of my unrest. I went so far as to plead with them to pray that she changed her mind.
It was during my prayer times a few months ago when God pretty much bitch slapped me with some knowledge. I sat there sending earnest pleas upwards truly believing God had my back on this. But in the stillness I heard a gentle She is not yours. She is mine. Is this about her or you?
Well. Damn.
It's never a warm or fuzzy feeling accepting my selfishness in these prayers for my child. It was totally about me, and how I was projecting my fear of the unknown onto her.
Who was I to hold her back from living her life of adventure just because it didn't fit in with MY vision for her? Wasn't I the one, who at 18 years old, dreamt of living in New York as a photojournalist but was shot down by my own fearful parents?
It wasn't until this past June when Maricelle was interviewing for jobs in New York that I finally confessed my internal struggle. The phone couldn't contain her excitement at being in the big city experiencing subways and taxis and all the cool things that make New York so enthralling. She started off with how much she appreciated my support all these months, how surprised she was at how well I've taken her decision, and grateful for everything I've taught her.
Ummm...well I have a confession to make, I said. And she laughed. But that's what I love about my relationship with her and how we could be transparent in our vulnerability.
I knew she'd be more than okay in New York. She has always gone after what she wanted and made it happen. Last year she traveled solo to Spain and trekked the Camino de Santiago.
When she was five years old I didn't want her to learn to ride a bike knowing she and her siblings would go off without my supervision. Imagine my shock when I looked out the window and saw her cruise by on her bike sans training wheels. The little stinker taught herself and I knew then the force was strong in this one.
I refused to be a typical Filipino parent pushing healthcare as a career down my kids' throats. But Maricelle knew in her heart that she was meant to be a nurse and I watched her make that dream a reality as soon as she graduated from high school. Ever since she recognized her gifts at a young age she's managed to use them in her nursing duties.
Although I had several months to prepare for Maricelle's move it wasn't until last month when we spent time in La Jolla helping her pack her things that the realization crystallized into razor sharp truths lacerating my insides. I cried intermittently during the hour and a half ride home. Ray's attempts at comfort were met with exasperation. Those who know me well know I HATE crying but I seem to do a lot of that in my
old middle age.
The last three weekends I had left with Maricelle taught me a lot about myself and of parenthood.
I learned no matter how many quotes we tweet on how short life is we still manage to take our loved ones for granted. Busy schedules, mundane routines, and obsessing over to-do lists are obstacles to living fully present with the people who matter.
I learned that letting go sucks hard. Yes, I could pretend that I'm a badass mom who is equipped at accepting my kids growing up but what for? I'm not fooling anyone. Letting go sucks and saying goodbye sucks.
I learned that children are not ours to keep but have been entrusted with us to help them navigate this world the best way we know how. Sure we'll F up many times but having faith and doing our best to help them grow into responsible adults can be rewarding.
I learned that my happiness shouldn't be projected onto my child. Genuine happiness comes from observing my daughter seek out her dreams and live the life she wants regardless of how it strays from society's norms. I don't want her living the "safe" life. Too many unhappy people paralyzed by fear, afraid to take a step out of their comfort zones, surround me.
I learned that my child possesses a true servant's heart that I strive for every day. She doesn't think about serving, she does it in a capacity we all should in the way we treat others. She serves not just her patients but also her coworkers and the personnel most people disregard. (I'll talk more about this in my next blog post.)
I learned that children do listen to your words of wisdom despite the eye rolls and long frustrated sighs. Maricelle's quest for perfectionism was sometimes her downfall. During her six years in college I received many phone calls when she had her meltdowns. In my own words that echoed Ralph Waldo Emerson's words above, I'd tell her, "Be yourself, it's okay if you screw up. You're not perfect. Accept your flaws and just be yourself."
Today is her third day in New York and judging by the texts and pictures she's sent me I know she's in the right place at the right time. Knowing Maricelle, she'll make this new journey of hers a story worth living. I cannot wait to visit her and New York once again!
|Maricelle's send off by her coworkers
at La Jolla VA
(excuse the blurry iPhone photo)
|Today's Throwback Thursday
|Maricelle enjoying Central Park today


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At my side we have installed and configured VYATTA firewall and at the other side there was a hardware based firewall (May be CISCO or JUNIPER). We have created many site to site VPNs with different companies and they all are running fine. This time we were facing the subjected matter.
At the other side the Firewall was configured to use a NATTED ip address. Means if someone connects with that firewall, it shows a Private IP instead of Public IP. So when we configured the site to site VPN at our side the VPN logs were showing the subjected message.
vyatta@vyatta:~$ show log vpn ipsec
we require peer to have ID 'PUBLIC_IP', but peer declares 'PRIVATE_IP'
vyatta@vyatta:~$ configure
vyatta@vyatta# edit vpn ipsec site-to-site peer 220.127.116.11 authentication
vyatta@vyatta# set remote-id NATTED_IP_OF_DESTINATION_SIDE
save and commit
Example Result
show vpn ipsec sa detail
Peer IP: PUBLIC_IP
Peer ID: PRIVATE_IP
Local IP: LOCAL_PUBLIC_IP
Local ID: LOCAL_PUBLIC_IP
NAT Traversal: yes
NAT Source Port: 4500
NAT Dest Port: 4500
You may also need to do the below (Not confirmed this step)
vyatta@vyatta# set vpn ipsec nat-traversal enable
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Today's Everyday Fashion: Sequins for Day/
Okay, the secret is out: I love sequins. But I really don't think they should be reserved for special occasions. Take today's tank top (a recent find at TJ Maxx!) - I paired it with some jeans and my army jacket for a casual look. No reason to not use your good china from time to time. :-)
Occasion: Church, errands (I also wore this to the FL Mall lunch last week - yes I repeat outfits and even sometimes in the same week, do you?)
Shirt: TJ Maxx/Chan Luu, $20
Jacket (left): Gap, $25
Jeans: True Religion, $145
Belt: H&M
Shoes: Chinese Laundry/DSW, $40
Earrings: Urban Outfitters, $5


text: Dr Niall Livingstone MA, DPhil Classics, Ancient History and ArchaeologySenior Lecturer in Classics Contact details View my research portal AddressDepartment of Classics, Ancient History & ArchaeologyUniversity of BirminghamEdgbastonBirmingham B15 2TTUnited KingdomUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK The academic community, his students and colleagues will be saddened to hear about the loss of Dr Niall Livingstone, a much-loved and respected friend and colleague. Qualifications 1985-89 Marjoribanks Open Scholarship in Classics, Christ Church, Oxford University 1987 Gaisford Prize for Greek Prose Composition, Oxford University 1989 BA (Honours) in Literae Humaniores (Ancient Greek & Latin Literature and Philosophy), Oxford University 1992 DPhil in Greek Literature, Oxford University 2002 PG Certificate in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education, University of Birmingham Teaching Languages: Ancient Greek and Latin at all levels, PG and UG, including ancient Greek of all periods (archaic to late Byzantine); Greek inscriptions; Greek dialects; Greek metre PG options: Greek myth: literary forms, cultural contexts, modern reception Herodotus' History Greek oratory and rhetorical theory UG options: Myth, wisdom and inquiry in early Greece Greek tragedy Greek and Roman comedy UG core modules: Athenian drama in practice History of Greek literature Postgraduate supervision I welcome proposals for research projects in any of the subjects described above or in related areas. I am particularly interested in supervising projects on myth, writing and cultural memory in ancient Greece; citizenship and performance in democratic Athens; and the various ways in which participants in modern politics of every hue have used, or been inspired by, ancient Greek models. Current research supervision: Deborah Kerr: PhD, 'Doorways, ideas of liminality and magic-working in ancient literature' James Nowell: PhD, 'Stoic ethics in the characterisation of women in Senecan tragedy' (co-supervision with Dr Diana Spencer) Maria Petropoulou: PhD, 'Aeschylus: a commentary on selected fragmentary plays' Victoria Schuppert: PhD, 'Animal fables and dystopian literature: Aesop, Aristophanes, Orwell' Nicholas Shiaxiate: PhD, 'Reinterpreting pseudo-Xenophon On the Constitution of the Athenians' Helen Tank: PhD, 'Women's speech in Herodotus' Histories' Sarah Bremner: PhD, 'Political invective ancient and modern: the Philippic model' Emmanouela-Maria Giamalaki: MPhil, 'Demosthenes and the rhetoric of the prooimion' Completed research degrees supervised: Dr Efthymia Karaouza: PhD, 'Cohesion and text structure in Attic Greek prose' (2007). Co-supervision with Prof. Michael Toolan (English) Dr Jacquelyn Austin: PhD, 'Writers and writing in the Roman army at Dura-Europos' (2010). Co-supervision with Dr Tom Davis (English). External examiner Prof. Alan Bowman Matthew Kears: PhD, 'Resident aliens and the concept of citizenship in democratic Athens' (2014). External examiner Prof. Stephen Todd Deborah Kerr: MPhil, 'Hags versus sorceresses: the figure of the witch in ancient literature' (2007). External examiner Prof. Daniel Ogden Annabel Heath: MPhil, 'Ancient Greek tragedy: a study in the nature of dystopianism' (2010). External examiner Dr Ian Ruffell Nick Silverman: MPhil, 'Reception of Plato's Republic in 20th-century utopian literature' (2013). External examiner Dr Katherine Harloe Find out more - our PhD Classics and Ancient History page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham. Research Niall works on ancient Greek literature and thought. His research focuses on the relationship between myth, philosophy, science and drama, and how these different ways of thinking and putting forward a view of the world paved the way for one of antiquity's most important – and most challenging – legacies to the modern world: democracy. Other interests include the cultural impact of widening use of alphabetic writing in Greece from the 8th century BC onwards – a technological revolution comparable with the modern internet revolution, from the Web itself to Twitter and beyond – and the development of distinctive styles of political action in democratic Athens, across a spectrum that would include modern ideas of spin, statecraft and political theory. The book I am writing at the moment, Athens: The City as University, looks to the first great democratic society we know for a better understanding of how we define our identity as members of a community, how we learn to succeed and play our full part in society, and how we can take control of the way our society is run: in other words, of the idea of citizenship. Citizenship is about three inseparable things: a sense of solidarity and belonging, willingness to contribute to the common good, and the right to have a say in how we live together. I argue that, for all its problems and complexities, the example of ancient Athens – a society in which individual citizens routinely voted on the most important decisions, on both policy and executive action; in which ordinary people were summoned by lot to fill top government jobs; and where there was a process for ejecting unpopular politicians not just from government, but from the country – can help us renew our understanding of citizenship, and get beyond some of the problems of political disengagement that face us today. Other activities Assorted more specific, and more miscellaneous, interests include: writing in early Greece, especially epigrams (poems written, originally, on objects like gravestones or gifts to the gods), graffiti, and the place of writing in symposia and other playful activities the historian Herodotus of Halikarnassos, especially his interests in myth, writing, memory and popular traditions learning, performance, and citizenship in ancient Greece and today (see below) magic and other marginalised or unofficial traditions of wisdom, philosophy or religion in ancient Greece Isocrates of Athens and Alcidamas of Elaia, 4th-century BC political writers less well known, but no less interesting, than their contemporaries Plato and Xenophon the 3rd-century BC epigrammatist Nossis of Locri modern performances of ancient Greek drama, especially when used to explore what it means to be a member of a community and how, against all odds, humans ancient and modern have striven to interpret and change the world ancient Greek language: rhetoric, style, grammar, and the application of modern linguistic techniques and theories to ancient Greek texts Publications K. Dowden and N. Livingstone (eds), A Companion to Greek Mythology (Malden MA, Oxford & Chichester: Blackwell, 2011). Includes K. Dowden and N. Livingstone, 'Thinking through Myth, Thinking Myth Through' and N. Livingstone, 'Instructing Myth: From Homer to the Sophists' N. Livingstone and G. Nisbet, Epigram. Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics 38 (Cambridge: CUP, 2010) 'Isocrates: Philosophia as Refined Civic Discourse', in F. Woerther (ed.), Literary and Philosophical Rhetoric in the Greek, Roman, Syriac and Arabic Worlds. Europaea Memoria: Studien und Texte zur Geschichte der europäischen Ideen 66 (Hildesheim, Zurich and New York: Olms, 2009) M. Fox and N. Livingstone, 'Rhetoric and Historiography', in I. Worthington (ed.), A Companion to Greek Rhetoric (Malden MA, Oxford & Chichester: Blackwell, 2007), 542-61 Isocrates' Busiris: a Commentary (Leiden: Brill, 2001) View all publications in research portal


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Tuesday night was awesome! We had the best guest speaker, Theresa. Some of you are more familar with her Etsy shop, HooksandEyes. If you want to buy awesome local yarn in the area, check her out. She has a lot of great yarn not listed so contact her directly if you're looking for something. While Theresa spins year round, her shop fills up mostly in the fall when people pick up knitting. She spins fun things like cotton, wool, and bamboo. She also sells at the local arts and crafts market. Honestly, it was one of the most fun talks for me in a while. I've have always secretly wanted to learn how to spin, and getting to make a drop spindle was the absolute best. We all took cut up dowel rods and old CDS to make our own drop spindles.
This set-up takes about 5 mins. The next 2 hrs. were spent trying and happily failing at learning to spin yarn. You can see Theresa's beautiful yarn on right (hint hint any yarn shops in the area that are interested in carrying local yarn give her a call). Mine looked like a lumpy mass of...well, it was supposed to be yarn for a scarf for Nash, but it really looks like rug yarn instead. There's definitely an art to this. So how do you spin?
First you take a fluffy pile of batting and you tear off roughly in a thin 1 ft. section. Next, you draft it by pulling the yarn (this really needs to be seen in person) according to the staple of the thread. You end up with this super fine puffy thread. After drafting, you apply twist. First you roll a section down your pant leg, then once you have a section of twisted yarn roughly 10-14 inches long, you tie it around the bottom of the spindle below the CD. It will look like the photo below if it is resting on your knees. I'm pretty uncoordinated, but Theresa could spin it in the air really fast which was amazing. Me?
Well, I wrapped it around the top of hook and proceeded to keep rolling the spindle away from me on my pant leg picking up twist as I went. Twist is apparently what makes thread in the first place. This is apparently close to a form of spinning that is done by Navaho Indians to make their thread. They have huge spindles they rest on their legs to spin, don't ask me how. When you twist up a section of thread, you unwrap the thread from around the top hook and feed the spindle below to build up the thread. Once you get done, you upwind the thread either onto a special device like the one Theresa is hold at the top which measures the length of the thread or use a partner's hands to wind a skein. I would show you that part, but mine is SUPER ugly. Instead I will show you the pretty one up top. Apparently, you can learn to spin in 3 weeks and I'm told 2nd graders successfully spin after a few hours. Me, I'm glad I know someone who can feed my yarn addiction.
Hope you enjoyed reading this and maybe you can try your hand at spinning too. It's a lot of fun for all my rumblings about being uncoordinated. Have a great day and check in tomorrow.


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Children Loving Children
Half of the world's poorest people are children and there are more babies born into poverty than ever before. Despite major advances in medicine, science and technology, one out of four babies is born into extreme poverty and adverse conditions.
In November of 2003, the children and youth of St. Charles Parish started the Children Loving Children fund. Collecting between $20 and $80 a week, to date they have collected a total of over $12,700.
The young parishioners of St. Charles Parish sponsor three children through the Christian Children's Fund - seventeen year old Tinebeb Tefera Ashenie from Ethiopia, thirteen year old Marlon Noel Matey Rivera from Nicaragua and twelve year old Ferdinand Yamkoulga from Burkina Faso.
Founded in 1938, by J. Calvitt Clarke, Christian Children's Fund is one of the world's most respected international child development organizations. Regardless of race, origin or creed, they serve more than 13.2 million of the world's neediest children and families in 31 countries round the world. Sponsorship sustains family-oriented programs such as: health care, day care, safe water, nutrition, education and training programs, and projects for handicapped children.
For the last three and a half years, University of Manitoba Science student Laura Nichol has been helping to count and deposit the money which is collected every week. Laura has been corresponding with the sponsored children and sharing the information with other parishioners. The Christian Children's Fund staff provides a yearly report that includes an updated photo of the sponsored child, and details the sponsored child's health, living circumstances and educational progress.
Laura Nichol says, "I think Children Loving Children really brings the church community together. People have told me that it brings them joy to see the children running up so enthusiastically to donate their money. Raising this money teaches the youth of our parish that we have a responsibility to help the less fortunate . I think the children coming forward to donate money reminds the older members of our parish that our youth are present and that they have unique talents and gifts that should be developed and used for the benefit of our community."
Every time the Children Loving Children fund sends a donation to the Christian Childrens's Fund, a donation of the same amount is sent to Canadian Food for Childern. CFFC was founded in 1985 in Toronto by Dr. Andrew Alexander Simone and his wife, Mrs. Joan Simone, both Members of the Order of Canada since 2001. CFFC, an independent Canadian charity, collects funds and food for distribution to starving children around the world. Thousands of volunteers from across Canada contribute to the work of CFFC, which each year sends out more than 300 containers of food and goods for children in the poorest parts of the world.
Cara Yost, her husband Ken and their daughters are St. Charles parishioners. Cara commented that, "It warms my heart to watch children donate money, especially to help other children in need. It reminds me of my youth, as my childhood church had a similar program and my sister and I saved a portion of our allowance to donate every week. It is a real and powerful way for families to come to the aid of the most helpless and to bring to reality the gift of charity."
St. Charles Catholic Parish
320 St. Charles Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3K 1T7
Tel: (204) 889-3248 Fax: (204) 885-1997 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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An overheated water heater can be very dangerous because it has the potential to explode. A common cause of explosion due to overheating is a malfunctioning pressure and temperature release valve.
The temperature and pressure release valve allows excess heat and pressure to be discharged from the tank. If the hot water heater is not correctly and regularly maintained, the valve and other components can malfunction and lead to temperatures high enough to cause explosion. It is when the temperature increases beyond 212 degrees F, the boiling point of water, that explosions result. It is recommended not to allow heater temperature to rise even above 180 degrees F. Water heater explosions are extremely rare.


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Encuentros 2015
Now in its 12th year, Miami Encuentros is presented through the Festival's VeoMiami industry program, which runs parallel to Miami Dade College's Miami International Film Festival. One winning project will receive a $10,000 cash prize generously presented by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The Apostate (El apóstata) (Spain / France / Uruguay, produced by Guadalupe Balaguer Trelles, Fernando Franco, and Federico Veiroj, directed by Federico Veiroj). Veiroj has had two previous films in Miami International Film Festival's Official Selection: Acné at the 2009 Festival and A Useful Life (La vida útil) at the 2011 Festival.
Lost North (Sin norte) (Chile, produced by Luis Cifuentes and Francisca Urrutia, directed by Fernando Lavanderos). Lavanderos has previously directed the feature film Things the Way They Are (Las cosas como son) (2012), an award winner at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Cifuentes also produced In the Grayscale (En las gamas de gris), which is world premiering in Miami International Film Festival's Official Selection this year as part of the Lexus Ibero-American Opera Prima Competition.
My Friend from the Park (Mi amiga del parque) (Argentina / Uruguay, produced by Nicolás Avruj, Diego Lerman and Ana Katz, directed by Ana Katz). Katz has previously directed three feature films, including A Stray Girlfriend (Una novia errante), which premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Avruj and Lerman have had one previous film in the Miami International Film Festival's Official Selection, Lerman's The Invisible Eye (La Mirada invisible) at the 2011 Festival.
Strange Days (Dias extraños) (Argentina / Colombia, produced by Juan Villegas, Rodrigo Moreno and Juan Sebastián Quebrada, directed by Juan Sebastián Quebrada). This is Quebrada's debut feature film. Villegas has had two previous films in Miami International Film Festival's Official Selection, as executive producer of Celina Murga's A Week Alone (Una semana solos) at the 2009 Festival and Gonzalo Tobal's Villegas at the 2013 Festival.
Wounded Man (Te prometo anarquía) (Mexico / Germany, produced by Sandra Gómez, Maximiliano Cruz and Julio Hernández Cordón and directed by Julio Hernández Cordón). Hernández Cordón has had three previous films in Miami International Film Festival's Official Selection, Gasoline (Gasolina) at the 2009 Festival, Dust (Polvo) at the 2013 Festival, and Marimbas from Hell (Marimbas del infierno) at the 2011 Festival, which also won that year's Knight Ibero-American Grand Jury Prize.
The program was curated by Diana Sanchez, one of the world's most influential experts on Latin American cinema, who created the program for Miami International Film Festival in 2003 with then-director Nicole Guillemet.
Virginie Devesa
Virginie Devesa studied Languages and Communications in Lyon, and Photography and Business Communications in the United States. Her first experience with cinema was in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she participated in organizing the Molodist Film Festival. After a three-year tenure at Celluloid Dreams she accepted a post at the French Embassy in Moscow. Upon her return, she studied film production at the CFPF in Paris and worked for Urban Distribution as Head of Sales. Recently she created her own sales agency Alpha Violet, which has represented such films as Tanta agua (2013), the Knight Ibero-American Competition Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2013 Miami International Film Festival.
Barbie Heusinger
Barbie Heusinger was trained in Germany, Northern Ireland and Spain in Anglo/American Studies, Film Studies and Economics and holds a Master's degree in Audiovisual Business Management specializing in International Film Production. From 2006 to 2014, she managed German Films' Distribution Support Fund. Prior to taking up her position at German Films, she worked in marketing at the National Theatre in Nuremberg, Germany, handling event organization and film production. In December 2014, Barbie joined the integrated world sales and production company Picture Tree International as a Sales and Acquisitions Manager for Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Since April 2014, Barbie is a member of the consulting team in the Film Marketing Coaching (FMC) program at FOCAL – Foundation for professional training in cinema and audiovisual media in Switzerland that supports producers and distributors with their film projects in development, marketing and promotion campaigns.
Paul Hudson
Paul Hudson is a graduate of the University of Bournemouth in England. He was Vice President of International Theatrical Distribution, Operations and Finance for MGM in Los Angeles where he was responsible for all of MGM and United Artists' theatrical distribution activities outside of the United States and Canada. He currently runs the independent US distribution, production, and sales company Outsider Pictures, which he co-founded. Since its launch in 2005, Outsider has released Adam's Apples (2005); Klimt (2006); London to Brighton (2006); The Unknown Woman (2006); Baarìa (2009); José and Pilar (2010), Las Acacias (2011); Juan of the Dead (2012), Miami International Film Festival's 2014 Knight Ibero-American Grand Jury Prize winner A Wolf at the Door; and two 2015 Festival Official Selections: Voice Over (La voz en off) (2014) and Beautiful Youth (Hermosa juventud) (2014).
The purpose of Miami Encuentros is to facilitate completion of feature films that are currently in post-production, produced partially or entirely by Ibero-American based production companies, or from U.S. Hispanic filmmakers. The program aims to propel these projects towards their eventual debuts on the international stage after completion, supporting the filmmakers through a blend of exposure at the Festival and awards to the most meritorious project as selected by a jury of international film professionals. In addition to the $10,000 cash prize, the winning project will also receive a DCP Mastering Service package from Madrid's Aracne Digital Cinema valued at USD $5,000.
Beyond Miami Encuentros, VeoMiami, the concurrently-running industry sidebar to the 32nd Edition of Miami International Film Festival, affords young Ibero-American film talents an unparalleled opportunity to discover, discuss, and develop the art and business of Ibero-American cinema among a top-notch group of industry players. Access to VeoMiami Encuentros screenings are restricted to registered Industry guests only.


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This past weekend, the Rutgers University Debate Union visited New York City and brought home great success. The team sent four teams, including Sean Leonard '16 and Nick Hansen '16, Elise Zhou '18 and Larry Feltz '17, and novices Pasha Temkin '18 and Max Albert '19, and Mohammad Arif'18 and Mahaksh Kotdawala '18.
Both novice teams performed extremely well as Temkin '18 and Albert '19 won the novice section of the tournament and Arif '18 and Kotdawala '18 made it to semifinals. Despite this being their first year on the circuit, Kotdawala '18 was top novice speaker, Arif '18 was 4th novice, and Albert '19 was 7th novice. Varsity team Leonard '16 and Hansen '16 placed as 9th team overall and Leonard '16 placed as 4th speaker. Congratulations to all the new and returning members on their success!
Next week RUDU will be attending a special tournament at Swarthmore College, where all the competing debaters will be novices.


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Fall is one of my absolute favorite seasons, and I love to add little touches of fall around the house. With the help of my mother in law who is an expert with plants, we put together a fall front porch that I am loving. Driving up to our decorated fall porch makes me so happy, and I thought I would share a look at it with you guys here.
Somehow most of the decor in our house incorporates pink (still have no idea how I've gotten Scofield to agree ;)), and so I wanted our decor to flow with the rest of my style. I've also never been a huge fan of the classic orange and yellow look for fall. I grabbed some white and pink mums, and pumpkins from trader joe's. I love the "fairytale" pumpkins, and that they come in gray, white, and light orange.
I don't have it pictured, but we also planted some pansies in the front flower bed and the yellow and purple blooms add a lot of color and flow into the front porch really well. It's been so fun to put it all together, and I love to drink my coffee on the pew and enjoy the front porch in the morning. Piper loves it too, every time we go outside she exclaims "pumpkin!"
What are your halloween plans tonight? We are taking Piper trick or treating for the first time and then coming home to make some chili. Happy halloween!


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Society 6 Pillow Quality
Yesterday I took some Society 6 pillows out to the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve to photograph. I am really quite impressed with the print quality. They must have improved their method because these new pillows look better than this one that I bought for a friend a few years ago.
Fun Fact: It is rumored that the poppy scene from Wizard of Oz was filmed at the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve.
If you decide to go out to Lancaster and have never been, also check out the road that plays music as you drive over it. If you drive through Palmdale, maybe get a seasonal Unicorn Poop cupcake at Nadia Cakes.
I bought this pillow for my mom because her husband buys her fresh flowers always, and always. Isn't that the sweetest?
I also ordered this pillow for a friend who is having a baby. Sometimes I make custom colors of the animal alphabet for friends to match their nurseries and this friend is creating a black, white and gray room for her baby. Love that!


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Almost Serious
Dri performance textured microfibre knit fabric wicks moisture away from your body. Super soft 100% polyester. Embroidered front logo and hand printed back.
Colors available: Red, Black, White. Royal & Grey.
Want this tee with a different one of our designs? Just tell us at checkout and we'll print that design instead.


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Project information
LYRC Mentoring
LYRC's mentoring scheme has been successfully working with vulnerable young people in the Borough of Enfield. The Scheme is run through the Youth Offending Services and 3 secondary schools, providing 1 to 1 support with a safe context in which to express their feelings and work through difficulties
April 2011 - March 2012
Charity information: Life Youth Resource Centre Ltd [LYRC]
LYRC is based in Edmonton, Enfield, which is ranked 104th most deprived area of 354 local authority areas in England. Crime rate is above the national average. Knife crime increased among young people from 85 in the previous year to 123. Many of these young people are from single parent homes of low income salaries and fathers do not participate in their lives. The risk of being recruited into gangs have increased with persistent absence or exclusion from school requiring intervention.
LYRC will recruit and train more mentors and youth workers as positive role models and to address some of the issues through personal development programs, workshops on 'Living Safely' - Drugs, Knives/Guns & Gang Culture. We also run other after school activities such as sports, drama, games, life experience days and life skills. The activities are to get the young people off the streets, tools to build confidence, self esteem take responsibility for their own lives and make positive choices.
Aim 1
Mentoring in school and out of school hours
Activities» Provide 1 to one mentoring support in school time Mondays - Wednesdays and out of school support on Thursdays and Fridays
» Run 10 Group sessions during holiday times
What success will look like
Success will be receiving 62 disadvantaged young people over 12 months from 3 secondary schools and youth offending service to mentor through our personal development program.
Aim 2
Run After School Youth Club on Tuesday evenings from 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Activities» Drama - Each month Young people work with a relevant theme, e.g. 'Cultivating Positive Relationships' through drama.
» Film Night - a film pertaining to the theme of that month. After watching encourage discussion sessions for young people to participate.
» Life Skills Trips - Worker co-ordinate and lead trips to theme parks, educational places and involve young people in the planning, and decision making
What success will look like
Success will be to have minimum of 20 young people in attendance each week participating in confidence building exercises.
Aim 3
Parent Support Network
Activities» Carry out frequent home visits and help and encourage parents to understand and access the local service providers for them and their children
» Encourage parents to participate in LYRC's monthly Parent Support Network workshops as they are specifically set up to empower parenting skills.
What success will look like
Success will be offering support to all mentees parents and receiving a minimum of 95% of parents attending Parent Evening workshops and being able to access other service provider
Vulnerable young people will be helped to build confidence and develop valuable skills; reduce the number of exclusion from schools; those who are at risk of being involved in drugs, knife and gun crime will be helped to take control over their lives and to bring good changes to family life.
We will demonstrate the success by monthly performance reports. and continue to work closely with YOS and schools to track mentees progress and we will measure success through student and teacher feedback.
There is a risk that Mentors might be unable to carry out duties, due to long term sickness. We have dealt with this by ensuring that our volunteers are adequately trained in multiple skills to go into the schools or support any other children from the Youth Offending Service [YOS]. We have ensured we are able to offer continuing support whatever the case might be.
Donors to this project will receive monthly email detailing Work Plan and activities of the project. They will also be informed of any changes and Program outcomes that have been achieved.
Budget - Project Cost: £12,650Loading graph....
Amount Heading Description £2,400 Personal Development Workshops Holding 10 workshops for 30 children from 3 secondary schools and 20 children from Youth Offending S £2,500 Parents Workshops Holding 10 parenting workshops for parents in the local community £2,750 Youth Club Activities Holding 14 sessions of dance and drama as part of youth club activities £2,500 Admin This include printing/stationery/internet/hall hire £2,500 Equipment/Resources Equipment and resources for games at Youth Club
Enfield has a population of 285,100 and have a large population of 0-15's and older people in comparison to the rest of London. Engaging more and more of the young people in positive activities and personal development program are crucial. The children who will benefit from this project live in one of the most deprived areas of Enfield with most parent are very low income earners. This area has been designated by key partners as an area for targeted intervention through Mentoring .
This aim of this project is that Young offenders and those vulnerable to offending will have more confidence and skills to help them gain employment. The project also aims to bring change to the lives of children, their families and the community as a whole, reducing fear and crime across Enfield. NEET young people will be encouraged into further education to raise their career chances. Young people will be given the opportunity to achieve and make progress and address issues of disaffection.
Why Us?
Why Us?
LYRC commenced its mentoring project in 2008 out of consultation with key organisations including the Police Youth & Partnership Team, Asst. Director of Education. To date LYRC has had positive measurable outcomes in the three schools and from the youth offending service where the Mentors are present. An example of target reached in 3 schools – Attendance 70% - 95%, Improved relationship with staff and peers – 80%. More focused lessons and participation - 80%
Read more about the Charity running this project.
Hillary Thompson
Hillary is the Founder and Co-ordinator of the organisation. Main role is liaising with key partners, supervising mentor's work and forward planning.
Ozzie Katircioglou
Ozzie is a trained mentor and is an excellent role model especially working and bridging cultural barriers and supporting the Turkish families.
Yvette Rudder
Yvette is a trained counsellor and is our Family Support Officer who support the parents by holding surgery and co-ordinate the workshop sessions.


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Here's the passage as it stands. It is taken from Jesus' "eschatological discourse" in Matthew 24:
As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man. 40 Then two men will be in the field; one is taken and one is left. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill; one is taken and one is left. 42 Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming (Matt 24:37-42).Now, according to the standard rapturist interpretation, when Jesus says, "one is taken and one is left," he is teaching that the righteous one will be "raptured" while the wicked, unbelieving heathens will be "left behind."
The problem with this view however is that it seems contradict what Jesus is actually saying.
The larger context of the passage is an analogy: Jesus is describing the time of the coming of the Son of man in terms of the flood judgment.
What is often missed is this: according to Jesus, in the days of Noah it was the wicked who were "swept away" (Matt 24:39). In other words, in the days of Noah, the wicked were the ones taken.
Hence, it would seem that in Jesus' analogy, it is desirable to be among those left behind--i.e., those not swept away as the wicked were in the days of Noah. A careful reading then would suggest that the righteous are those who are left behind, not those taken.
I realize that the view that Jesus here links salvation with those being "taken" is very much entrenched, no doubt in part due to the influence of the rapture interpretation. Yet such a reading does not seem to flow naturally from the text. In fact, such a reading in fact reverses the imagery so that the days of the Son of man are unlike the days of Noah, contrary to what Jesus himself seems to teach.
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Swim over and dip your head under here - it's incredibly refreshing.
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The pool is always clean and sparkling and we are well stocked with pool toys.
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Master Bedroom
Huge master bedroom with gorgeous ocean views.
Master Bath Oasis
Watch the sailboats fro your morning shower in the master bathroom sanctuary.
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Snooze underneath the coconut tree with your book and the view.
You can even see the ocean from our private, tropical front garden.
Plenty of room in our cool and breezy master bedroom with a walk-in closet and attached luxury master bath.
Relaxing Sun Room
Ocean, ocean everywhere. Relax with a book in the sunroom under the cooling fan but don't miss out on the views.
Formal Dining Room
Crowned by a lovely chandelier the formal dining room looks out onto the tropical garden and is the perfect place for the family to gather.
Guest Bedroom
A light and airy bedroom with tropical garden views
Casual Dining
Open the windows and let the breeze blow in while you enjoy the ocean views in this casual dining spot.
Surrounded By Ocean
It can feel like you are on a boat when you have the water view from everywhere you look.
Poolside Guest Room
With views across the pool and out to the ocean this room is cool and calming.
Luxury, Stocked Kitchen
Just like your kitchen at home, only better because it's on vacation :-)
Large & Airy Main Living Space
Water's Edge was built in the twenties as a luxury escape from the downtown heat to the prevailing breezes of the East. It was built to be cool yet bright.
Ships In The Night
This is the view from the One & Only Ocean Club - just a short drive away.
Thrill your kids and take a day trip to the water parks of the Atlantis - only a ten minute drive away.
Storm Arriving
Even the storms are beautiful at Water's Edge.
Patio Dining
We have outdoor dining options across the back patio, from shade to sun to bar casual.
All Day Lounging
You can spend an entire day gazing at the views, swimming in the pool, reading your book and drinking a cocktail or two.
Luxury Kitchen
Stcoked with everything you need - including margarite maker!
Outdoor Charcoal Grill
In the bar area in an outdoor charcoal grill to cook up the fish you just caught for dinner.
Shady Bar Lounge
Sip your drink in the shade and chat with your friends at the bar.
Ocean Viewing Shady Bench
Great a break from the sun but not from the view as you relax on our shade bench.
Tropical Garden
Enjoy the luscious colors of our Bahamian garden.
Pool Loungers
Lots of pool loungers available - these ones are in the shade of the upper patio.
Water Fun Galore
Snorkel sets, pool toys and more in our play trunk.
Outdoor Shower
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Sail Away In The Dinghy
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Donald was on the SS Scottish Heather on route to North America from Scotland when it was struck by a torpedo a week before Christmas in 1942, whilst refueling a Canadian destroyer.
"There was a violent explosion on the starboard side that blew everything off the upper deck. The ship listed heavily and Captain Blanch made the decision to abandon ship and lay off for the night."
Although the Scottish Heather did not sink, despite the large hole in her side, the same cannot be said of the tanker MV Athelsultan, that Donald was aboard three months earlier. It too was hit by a torpedo just after eight o' clock on 22 September 1942. Of the 60 people who were on board, only 10 were saved. Donald had been in the steward's pantry having a cup of coffee and dashed to his cabin for a lifejacket, then tried to join Mr. Sparshott, the Chief Officer:
"He was on top of, and struggling to release a large wooden raft just abaft of midships on the starboard side. This raft was responsible for saving seven of those ten lives, including his."
But before he could help, Donald was washed overboard by a large wave and well clear of the ship as it sank. Coming to the surface, he saw a glimmer of light and swam to what turned out to be a raft with nobody on it.
"I climbed on board and wrapped myself in a tarpaulin; I was so tired I shut my eyes. This time the sea came to my rescue, washing me off the raft before I succumbed to hypothermia. I saw a shape moving in the darkness. I shouted and whistled – it turned out to be a Canadian corvette: HMCS Weyburn."
Donald says "All in all, I crossed the Atlantic 20 times up to the end of the war. We experienced air attack in the Med, and later V2 rockets at Thames Haven, but I did not consider myself to have been brave."
Donald Staddon in 2014
"I will never forget those who were not lucky, and in particular the Athelsultan's senior apprentice, Peter Abbot, one of the four Athel Line apprentices who sadly lost their lives during the war."
Donald's remarkable story is a reminder of why it is so important that we pay tribute to courage of those who served and continue to serve in the Merchant Navy. Merchant Navy Day, on 3 September each year, celebrates the bravery of the Service men and women who protected our nation in both World Wars.


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It was standing room only as more than 500 people filled Lane's Ragozzino Performance Hall on May 10, but it was quiet enough to hear a pin drop. The speaker, Geshe Thupten Jinpa Langri, started his presentation by leading the audience through a brief, silent meditative breathing exercise.
The presentation was about his new book, "Fearless Heart," which focuses on the power of compassion. Jinpa said he feels that this book is especially important, because it is the first he has written for the general public, rather than for Buddhists or academics.
It is also the first book for which he has toured. Jinpa's background is truly a blend of Eastern and Western culture. He has travelled alongside the Dalai Lama for decades, and also studied at Stanford. He earned his Ph.D. at Cambridge. This book, he says, represents this blend.
Jinpa quoted famous Western scientists and philosophers, including Franz de Waal and Bill Harper. He said that Western culture is just now exploring compassion; not only in psychology and sociology, but in unexpected fields, such as economics.
As an example, he described a psychological study on infants as young as four months old performed by researchers at the University of British Columbia. Researchers had the children watch toys with faces on them interacting with each other, some being helped up an incline and others being knocked down and stopped by other toys. When the toys were given to the children to play with, the infants showed a statistically significant higher preference for the friendly, cooperative toys than for the violent ones.
"There is a natural sense of concern that we feel in the face of someone else's suffering or need," he said. "All of us know that we have this capacity." Until now, science has had trouble explaining compassion because, for years, the social story of Western culture has been based on selfishness and survival of the fittest. This underlying official story is supported by our institutions and repeated, he said.
"I think the ideas about compassion and courage are very important for the Western world," said Oshrit Livne, Lane student.
In addition to recognizing compassion, Jinpa wants us to embrace it, intentionally making it a more powerful and dominant force — an active part of our operating principle in life. He described this as both attention and intention: the observance of compassion with its underlying motivations and the purposeful use of compassion.
He said it is all about mindset, we can make compassion a part of daily life — not just situationally applicable when it presents itself. He quoted the Buddha saying, "we are what we think, with our mind we create our own world."
Jinpa said that we all hold the key to compassion within ourselves — our ability to feel connected; the trick is to embrace it and overcome our fears. "An element of courage is necessary," he said. "We have to open our heart." He went on to explain that allowing courage to be expressed in turn leads to more courage. "Compassion is innate," he said, "we just need an environment where we can express it."
Compassion is not just about caring for others, but caring about oneself. He explained how one can embrace compassion to understand the tough times within one's own life, and to learn and grow from it.
His message was well received by the audience. "He was a miracle to come and see today," said Ellie Markelle, while waiting in line for her book to be signed.
The event was hosted by the Palmo Center for Peace and Education and the LCC Peace Center.


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Official Release! Hear the story of Captain Hook from his own lips in this Audible version of "Hook's Little Mermaid."
"Hook wasn't always a villain. Discover what leads him on the path of destruction and how the love of a mermaid can change his heart." ~ Hook's Little Mermaid
Captain James Hook was once a good man trying to make a somewhat honest living. He is a pirate, after all. However, after getting word that a boy named Peter Pan played a part in the death of a dear loved one, Hook makes it his sole purpose to hunt down and destroy the fiend.
On his journey for vengeance, the captain encounters many new comrades, including a young girl named Red and a fairy called Tinker Bell, and both push him to reconsider his desire for justice.
The accidental rescue of a mermaid leads him on a whirlwind adventure in Neverland. The journey is not a simple one, considering Pan, the Lost Boys, mermaids, and magic all come into play. After several misadventures, Hook must choose between the possibility of a new life with love and his much-desired retaliation against Pan.
Once everything is said and done, will the captain be able to overcome his need for revenge? Will he let compassion steer him toward love? Or will Captain Hook live up to his villainous reputation?
Hook's Little Mermaid is the back story of Captain Jameson Shaw who most of us know him as Captain Hook. It is an amazing mashup of two great classics Peter Pan and The Little Mermaid. Suzanna Lynn did a flawless job of this. Meshing the stories so closely I could see them being in the same universe. The story takes you on Captain Jameson Shaw's quest to avenge his sons death caused by Pan. Yes Peter Pan!!!. Yes Captain Hook had a son!!! So if that doesn't interest you as much you also get the added bonus of the other part of the story and that is the Mermaids (as in the princess and sea witch) although they do not go by Arial and Ursula. I can honestly say this book was one of the best mash ups I have read in awhile. I love having classic story tales go in other directions but still follow some consistencies of the original story. (Captain Hook and Peter Pan Hated each other for example). Also their is a slight touch of romance . This story takes place completely in Captain Hook's POV which was really cool. Seeing he is a filthy pirate but also so much more. I have a little crush on his character now. Full of twist and turns and non stop roller coaster. Then the ending all I can say is wow and it definitely gave an awesome lead in to the next story and adventure for Captain Hook.
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The EPA estimates that at least 30 percent of food in the U.S. goes uneaten. Evanston alone produces an estimate 270 tons of food waste each week. All that uneaten food rots in landfills where it accounts for a major portion of greenhouse gas emissions.
Citizens' Greener Evanston invites you to a discussion at the Celtic Knot on Wednesday, September 28, 6:30 -8 p.m. to find out what some Evanston groups are doing to address this major issue in our own community. Please come with your questions! Panelists:
– Devon Reid, Plates Over Waste
– Erlene Howard, Collective Resource
– Tim Sonder, Edible Evanston
WHERE: The Celtic Knot, 626 Church St. (across from the library)
WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 28, 6:30 -8 p.m.


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In today's globalized world, individuals and organizations must come together to strengthen our ties to each other. The power of design for creative self-investment traces the path for successful change.Read More
To Push / To Care is a street intervention performance investigating urban landscapes, gentrification, and Asian American-ness at the intersection of Grand and Essex on Manhattan's Lower East Side.Read More
Model Applications uses familiar academic furniture, small actions, and video to answer questions of care. This piece is conceived in collaboration with Caroline Doherty.Read More
emmenagogue acknowledges the long history of women controlling their own reproduction and highlights the physical dangers to women when safe, legal reproductive access is restricted.Read More
Pronounce This is a performance conceived in collaboration with Caroline Doherty. Performers speak a score based on text appropriated from an English language learning website, focusing on pronunciation instructions and example sentences.Read More


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HELCOM RED LIST Biotope Expert Team
bottoms in the aphotic zone with at least 90 % coverage of rock, boulders
or stones of more than 63 mm in diameter. Epibenthic bivalves cover at least
10%of the seabed and more than other perennial attached erect groups. Out of
the epibenthic bivalves, Mytilidae constitute at least 50 % of the biomass.
is rock and/or boulders. Depth is typically from below 20 meters. Appears in
all wave exposure classes. Salinity >5 psu.
Mytilus spp. and Modiolus modiolus
of sediment. Diversity, abundance and biomass of fauna
Sea up to the Quark in the North
HELCOM 1998: 2.1 Rocky bottoms
2.1.1 Soft rock
220.127.116.11 Aphotic zone
2.1.2 Solid rock
126.96.36.199 Aphotic zone
2.2 Stony bottoms
2.2.1 Aphotic zone
OSPAR list of threathened biotopes:
Modiolus modiolus beds
Habitat occurs in the OSPAR Region II (including Kattegat) and is listed threatened and/or declining in this region
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Home > Blogs > The Laid Off IT Guy! Are You an IT Generalist or a Specialist?
I certainly remember starting my career where being in IT meant you knew everything about computers. You knew how to build one. You knew how to program one. Everyone came to you for advice on everything from writing software to creating a network. All of your family relied upon you for support. Okay, that part hasn't changed!
Technology has evolved substantially over the past 20 years. Instead of your IT knowledge making you either a programmer, network admin or consultant, today's IT offerings have been expanded to include managing the phone system, multi-function copiers/fax/printers/scanners, audio visual gear, smart phones, security systems, data centers, virtualization, co-location, and on and on. It's now a very high tech world we live in and the "IT Guy" of old was that of a generalist and knew a lot about a lot today has evolved to specialization.
Very few people that I know that are peers of mine could claim that they do all of this. Most are specialists. They just do security or they just manage email servers or they just write programs for smart phones. With the tremendous influx of technology in our lives in the past 20 years it's very hard to be a "jack of all trades" type of "IT Guy".
So how do you decide which area to specialize in? You are probably influenced by the company that hired you. You used to be the Network Administrator that managed the entire Infrastructure, but now they need someone to just manage the routers for the WAN. Do you want to get that specialized; cornered into a niche? Are you learning a transferable skill that is sought after by other employers, should the need come to make a change?
For many, they like the fact that they are the subject matter expert for what they do, and it gives them comfort for the perceived job security that the company "needs you" because no one else can do what you do. I may be a bit cynical after losing my job, but loyalty today is a one-way street. You may find yourself in the unemployment line due to no fault of your own. Does the skill set you have acquired make you a marketable commodity to future employers?
I see both sides of this coin. If you are a specialist and do something that is highly sought after, you may have no problem in connecting with another employer that values your skills in that area. On the other hand, being too specialized can limit the scope of what you can bring to your next employer.
I'll explain. This past week I met a man that is looking for work as an engineer on printed circuit boards. To me that sounds extremely specialized and very limiting as to the types and quantities of employers that need his specialty. But then again, his expertise may be highly sought after by the few companies that need that work, and he may be right back to work.
Evaluate your own situation to determine if you are a Generalist or a Specialist and how you would market yourself should you find yourself looking for your next gig.
Let me hear from you. I, sincerely, hope this is good advice for you that you can put to use right away! Please share your story with our readers by posting your comments!
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Kenyan rivals meet for talks following election strife
President Uhuru Kenyatta and ex-prime minister Raila Odinga say they both want to unify the nation.
Kenya's president and opposition leader have met for talks.
The initiative comes months after the presidential elections sparked turmoil as the opposition charged there was electoral fraud.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and former prime minister Raila Odinga said on Friday they had launched a new initiative to unify the country.
Kenya is largely divided between tribes that supported the rival leaders, raising fears of violence.
Had the pleasure of meeting my brother @UKenyatta for discussions on issues afflicting Kenya. We have resolved that the future our nation is more important than any sole individual pic.twitter.com/l9Knre4TBS— Raila Odinga (@RailaOdinga) March 9, 2018
Journalists were not allowed to put questions and it was not clear if demands by Mr Odinga for new elections were discussed.
Mr Odinga took court action challenging Mr Kenyatta's victory in last year's August election and the Supreme Court ordered a new election.
Mr Odinga boycotted the repeat election in October, saying adequate electoral reforms had not been made.
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Belize is one of my favorite countries, and remains one of my favorite adventures of all time. We traveled from the UNESCO barrier reef system to the border or Guatemala and all points in between. When you visit the ancient Maya sites, there are no guard rails or ropes to keep you from touching or climbing on EVERYthing.
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Beautiful Belize – Into the Tropical Rainforests We Go
We had two excursions into the tropical rainforest jungle of Belize, which offered windows into the world of the ancient Maya. Last year, when we were in Arizona, we visited the Tuzigoot National Monument, which lies in the Verde River floodplain in Cottonwood. Tuzigoot was built by the Sinagua people between 1125 and 1400 CE.; in Apache, it means "crooked water." But in Belize, we have visited structures thousands of years older. It's so hard to grasp.
On Easter Sunday, we traveled a short distance to the Mayflower Bocawina National Park. Arwyn once again was our driver, and our guide along the Southern Highway. In terms of parks, it's rather compact (11 square miles), but it packs a big wallop. We chose the mostly vertical 2.9K hike up to Antelope Falls, where we ditched our hiking gear and bags, changed in the middle of the forest into bathing suits (there's nothing as exhilarating as stripping to the skin under cover of giant palms and praying that nobody comes along), and swam in the cool swimming hole formed by the Antelope Falls waterfall. It would've been nicer had we had the swimming hole to ourselves, but we enjoyed ourselves all the same. Two small Maya pyramids and nine other structures that were occupied in the late 9th and early 10th centuries are located here. The whole park, for the most part, seemed to have only 10 or 15 people … beyond the swimming, we rarely ran across other humans. On the way home from Bocawina, Arwyn stopped along the Southern Highway, surrounded by Valencia Orange groves, to let us pick a couple of oranges (it's how we learned to select them). The groves, we learned, are owned by a man in Florida who most often just lets them fall to the ground. The crop from most of the groves is turned into concentrate and makes it way to Florida, where it's labelled "Florida orange juice." Tsk, tsk. But they were some pretty good damn oranges, however they're labelled.
Our next journey into the jungle was on Tuesday, when Santos took us up into the Maya Mountains, to the Maya archaeological site Xunantunich (pronounced shoo-nan-two-neesh). It's about a mile from the Guatemalan border, and Santos told us the neighboring countries didn't always have good relations. Santos, by the way, was remarkable. At one point in his life he leased farmland in the Maya Mountains, selling cacao beans to Hershey's in PA. Cool, right? We rode a hand-cranked ferry across the Mopan River to reach the ruins. Xunantunich is estimated to have been occupied as early as 1,000 BC, making it two millennia older than that of Tuzigoot. There are three main plazas at the site, with the dominant structure being El Castillo (there's a photo of my family there). El Castillo rises 130 feet high, with NO guard rails on the way up or down, and is the highest structure in Belize. From the top, on a clear day, you can see for about 11 miles; most days you can see the Guatemalan border, just a mile away. There are a couple of plaster friezes at the site. It's amazing that we got to (a) actually climb El Castillo and (b) got to touch the friezes. We told the mini me that once the Belizean government caught up with tourism, these things would likely be roped off and no longer accessible to visitors. We learned that the bedrock forms the foundation of many of the structures, but the variety of stones brought in were carried by hand, not cards, meaning the primitive/formative Maya were extremely strong (short) people. In the side-show, you'll see photos of the ruins, where mounds of earth and grass cover parts of the structures. Before they were excavated (and they're still in the process; it's very expensive and slow-going), all but the top levels of El Castillo were covered. Beneath the earth is perfectly formed and preserved stone. Cool, huh?
Simple things, like the way our Mayan guide, Edri, would refer to the people who built El Castillo as "the formative Maya" stick in my mind. Or the way our guide Santos, who took us along the Hummingbird Highway and up into the Mayan Mountains, talked about how "the primitive people followed the animals; when the animals ran, so did the people," in reference to the destruction incurred at the hands of Hurricane Hattie in 1961 and not standing on the shore watching the ocean, wondering what was happening.
Here are some great sites with information on Maya archaeological sites in Belize:
Beautiful Belize – the people and places of Belize
From North Carolina, it took us four plane hops and a taxi ride to finally arrive in our destination of Hopkins, Belize: Raleigh-Durham to National in DC; DC to Miami FL; Miami to Belize City; Belize City to Dangriga. That was an adventure in itself, not to mention our first bout of bravery: getting on the 14-seater Tropic Air Cessna in Belize City.
Unlike the big American Airlines birds that took 45 minutes to board, then wait in line to taxi down a long runway, the Tropic Air crew walked into the small Belize City airport and called out, "If you're on Tropic Air flight 541, come on." We followed them out onto the tarmac, walked up three tiny stairs, hooked our seatbelts and before we could put our sunglasses back on the pilot was going. No time to panic or worry about the gerbils running the engine or the plane being held together with chewing gum and rubber bands. We were airborne, and on our way to adventure. Our landing was nothing less than exciting. With the short double-driveway length runway, the wheels touched down and the pilot drifted us. The mini me thought it was as awesome as the drifting in The Fast and the Furious. In this case, I agree.
But it was spectacular. The small airplane flew low so we could see the countryside during our 15 minute flight that would've taken two hours by taxi. Belize has a tropical rainforest, and the jungle extends from the mountains in the west all the way to the Caribbean in the east. Sort of like here in North Carolina, if you follow the highways from Murphy to Manteo, you've gone from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the serene sands of the Crystal Coast of the Atlantic Ocean. There's a stretch of about three miles of natural savannah between Silk Grass and Hopkins, but the tropical jungle picks back up again on the coastline with the palm, coconut and mangrove trees.
Hopkins, our operations center
In the Lonely Planet's guide for Belize, Hopkins is listed as one of the Top 25 Experiences. I agree. It's a "low-key Garifuna town where life hasn't changed much in decades." Located in the Stann Creek District, Hopkins is a town we'd go back to again and again. It's small (about 1.5 mile stretch), rustic nature spoke to us, and over the eight days of our vacation, we were as familiar with many of the locals as they were with us. The beaches are beautiful, though the cove where we stayed (Parrot's Cove Lodge) had lots of sea grass washing up on the shoreline and dangling in the waist-high water.
We traveled on Holy Friday, which was very low-key. The streets of Hopkins were blocked for a time while the different church congregations congregated down the main street following a man carrying a cross. It was quite a lovely reenactment. Saturday morning we used the Lodge's bright yellow bicycles to ride two miles into town to have breakfast at Thongs Café. Since I'm not a dairy/cheese eater, I decided the bacon and eggs would be a great way to get protein during the day. The eggs were fresh, from the chickens we could see running around the yards in front of us. The bacon was uncured, and seemed more like a slice of ham. The mini me had French toast every day, and the mister had the Thongs French Toast (same as our son's, but with sliced bananas and toasted coconut). We all had the fruit salad everyday, which was thick slabs of fresh, local pineapple, papaya, Valencia oranges, and bananas.
We used Saturday to acclimate to the humidity (though it was no hotter than May in NC, it was still rather chilly when we left home) and to get used to the two time-change. Belize is in Central time, but they don't observe daylight savings time. We found a grocery store and bought a loaf of bread, oatmeal, Ovaltine biscuits, peanut butter, grape jelly, chips, Oreos, local Guatemalan coffee, and dry creamer. The eggs were in loose crates, so there was no way we could transport them, and the dairy was unpasteurized, which meant that lingering in town and riding the 35 minutes down the bumpiest road I have ever been on would spoil it. By the way, the local grocery stores are owned by Chinese residents, an interesting little bit of information. I was going to buy fruit at the local fruit stand, but everything looked different. I had to ask somebody at the Lodge how to select fruit. The Valencia oranges were green and bumpy, and covered in mold. Yet, that meant they were ready. The papayas were truly ugly, and the pineapple had a finer pattern than the broader Dole diamond shapes in our NC groceries.
Now we were armed with a way to reduce our meal costs. We only ate lunch out once, where I had the best grouper sandwich in the history of ever. Otherwise, we packed lunches of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, dried fruit and nabs (which we packed in from the states), water, chips, and Ovaltine biscuits. Four of our days, we had adventures that departed between 7:30 – 8:00 am, so we didn't have time to ride down to Thongs Café, so we had oatmeal.
We had dinner at four different restaurants: Chef Robs (always wonderful), Barracudas Bar and Grill (I do not recommend it … the boys enjoyed their meals, and my very expensive grouper was rubbery like calamari and just, bad), Jaguar Reef (the only restaurant open on Easter Sunday, and while very "Americanized," it was perfect for a nice Easter dinner when we were starving), and Love on the Rocks (the mister's favorite meal) our last evening. The concept of Love on the Rocks is not unlike The Melting Pot in the states, where you cook your meal at your table. LotR uses lava rocks cut into squares, and heated to 700 degrees F. The meat is seasoned wonderfully, and you cook it at your table in like 5 minutes. I had shrimp kabobs and the mister had red snapper and shrimp. But holy hell, the food is HOT. You know, like hot like lava.
Breakfast, as I mentioned earlier, was either in the kitchenette in our suite, or at Thongs. When I reflect back on our trip in the years to come, I will always smile when remembering Thongs Café. It was our grounding point; we could sit on the porch under the palm-thatched roof, with the mild breezes cooling us after our hot bike rides, talking and laughing and planning the day, synching our technology so we could touch base with home. It was our one luxury, and one I cannot recommend highly enough. Once we figured out how to buy the fruit, we added big chunks of fruit to our oatmeal.
Lunches were on the go and were mostly tried and true PBJs. You can't go wrong with that. Though, we ate at Thongs one day (grouper sandwich for me, papaya smoothie for the mister, French toast for our son), and at Benny's Kitchen another. Benny's kitchen was in San Jose Succotz, and we ate a late lunch there after visiting the Xunantunich Mayan ruins. That was actually my favorite meal, and it was a simple rice and beans (cooked together; beans and rice are cooked separately, we learned) and stewed chicken with fried plantains. I had a fruit punch Fanta and the mister had a Biliken Beer. Our mini me had water, and finished off my Fanta. OMG.
I'm posting photos with this post of the countryside in Belize, with images taken from our treks between Belize City to Dangriga; the city of Hopkins; along the Southern Highway from Dangriga to Hopkins; along the Hummingbird Highway on the way from Hopkins to San Jose Succotz; and points in between.
– – > Stay tuned for jaunts into the jungle and out to the Cayes.
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So, we just read that the areas where we stayed (Stann Creek District) are at high risk for malaria and Dengue fever … and river blindness for swimming in natural streams and ponds, according to the CDC. Shit. Our doctors said no, you don't need any special shots for Belize. Do we go now, after the fact, to get shots?
Just, shit.
Beautiful Belize
I could probably pinpoint my fascination with Central and South America to Arnold Schwarzenegger's glory days in the mid-80s, with Commando and Predator. Oh, I was hooked. The hot, humid temperatures … the thick jungles … the flaring muscles and tempers! Hell, it was pretty close to summertime in my native North Carolina. Well, minus the hopped up muscles. But it never occurred to me that I'd actually go there.
In January, I was able to accompany the mister to Grand Cayman on a business trip. This was no parasailing, pina colada-swigging, screaming children at the Nickelodeon hotel vacation. No, this was paradise all the way. What a grand way to experience the Caribbean Sea for the first time: no pressure, relaxing, beautiful weather, romantic. We loved the snorkeling and the clear water. The tradewinds in the tropics hold the temperatures at a comfortable level, and the steady breeze keeps your hair out of your eyes (or in it, depending on which way you're going). I've lived in North Carolina, and gone to those beaches, for thirty five years. Thanks to the Gulf Stream, the waters in North Carolina are warm, and the waves choppy and active (just as we like it). But the water is always green and murky. Plus, there are no coral reefs, no brightly colored tropical fish, and if there are sharks in the area, you're screwed because you don't see them coming. But in the Caribbean … sigh. There's no sneaking up there.
Last year we took our son adventuring in Arizona for his spring break. We'd been to Arizona before, to Tucson and Tombstone; but last year we went to Phoenix, Sedona and the Grand Canyon. Since we loved the snorkeling so much, we knew this year we wanted to take him to the Caribbean. Only, we're not interested in resort traveling. We like to get dirty and learn about a new culture; we like to break out the maps and follow the wind; we like, as our son calls it, to go adventuring. Costa Rica was our first choice, having been on my mind for nearly two decades after a colleague in advertising in the mid-90s raved about her eco-tour to Costa Rica. But our son was adamant: no Costa Rica. The things that fascinated me about Central America were the very things that worried him—namely, the "drug cartels and the kidnapping." Granted, these are concerns in a great portion of the world, but not in Costa Rica. So when he suggested Belize, one country north on the Yucatan Peninsula, we did our research. Aside from John MacAfee hiding out in Belize with his bizarre evasion, it was foreign to us. But we liked it immediately.
Here are some basics:
- The currency is the Belize dollar (BZ$), which translate roughly to two BZ$ = one $US.
- While you do need a passport to get into and out of Belize, you do not need a Visa as an American. That's because Belize was once under the British Empire (known at one time as British Honduras). Everyone, for the most part, speaks English (it's the official language).
- The population is 333,200, whereas the number of annual visitors is over one million. Since most folks work with tourists, they're pretty friendly and accepting of the industry.
- There are over 300 native orchid species and over 100 coral species. Even I could grow them in Belize.
- Belikin is the native (and only) beer of Belize. And it's the bomb. By the way, they have Pineapple, Grape and Fruit Punch Fanta in Belize. Wake up America! We need these things locally.
- The roads in the south of Belize, where we stayed, are terrible. Once we turned off of the Southern Highway on our taxi trip from Dangriga to Hopkins, we had 5.9 miles of sheer rutted torture. They tell us that it's roughly $1M for 1 mile of road. In 2010, 43% of the people lived below the poverty line and unemployment was around 13%. Do the math.
- There is an interesting mix of people living in Belize today. Officially, they can be broken down, roughly, into Mestizo (a blend of Spanish and Amerindian descent); Creoles (descendants of African slaves); Maya (many traditional Maya live in the south, where we traveled); Garifuna (descendants of shipwrecked African slaves from the 17th century); and Mennonites (yes, Mennonites, complete with their 16-th century clothing, bonnets, beards, blue eyes and blond hair). We also met a large number of ex-pats, which makes my imagination run rampant. Remember I mentioned my fascination with 80s-era Schwarzenegger?
- Talk to everyone. Our guides, taxi drivers, housekeepers, shopkeepers, waiters, and just folks we met while adventuring were proud of their country and their heritage. When I asked if they identified more as a Caribbean nation or a Central American one, they uniformly said: "we are Belizeans."
We loved Belize. Everything about it. It was affordable, safe, adventurous, educational, monumental, timely (with the new phase of the Mayan calendar) … and priceless. To travel to a developing nation with our 15 year old child; to witness his curiosity explode as he took in the tropical rainforest and jungles, the UNESCO World Heritage barrier reef, the ancient Mayan temples, the waterfalls and the ancient Mayan trails; to know that he engaged in conversation with people from the different cultures as easily as he does his friends at school, without judgment and with earnest curiosity about their days. Who knows how much longer we'll have access to these treasures? I am so thankful for a husband with an adventurous spirit and generous heart, and to a child who recognizes the differences … yet find common ground … with the people of Belize.
Stay tuned for more Beautiful Belize posts. I've got more planned. 🙂


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