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Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Well, it's all looking very festive around here now, as you can see. These next three weeks will be jam-packed with activities, performances and other events as we head toward Christmas. I'm not overwhelmed yet, and I'm going to do my best to stay that way. It happens most years, though. It's not any one thing, and I don't think I put undue pressure on myself, it's just all the stuff going on, the places to be, the things you must remember to do. I make a lot of lists. Do you make lists? Here's a list of things I feel like saying today...
12. Have you ever tried chopped herbs in a tube? I recently bought a basil tube (I was craving basil but the fresh packs were pitiful). It was surprisingly good! You just squirt out the amount you want to use and stir it in. I used it in a pasta sauce and it tasted just like I'd made it with fresh basil. I feel like apologizing to my tube for all the times I've looked askance at them in the grocery store.
11. I'm losing my grip on blogs and Instagram these days. I really want to be able to keep up with it all, but it's getting more difficult. I love to blog, though, and I'm not going anywhere. I was sad to learn that more blogs have been disappearing lately. I've also been seeing that old bugbear of mine again lately, where bloggers lament the lack of "good" blogs to read. I can't understand this. It makes me feel like blogging isn't for the blogger as much as it's for everyone else. And I know for a fact that there are still good blogs all over.
10. I crocheted a dress for the GB's doll, Nellie, this past weekend. We'd been discussing a Christmas dress for months, ever since I crocheted a summery dress for her around Easter time. I totally winged the design, but I think it came out pretty cute. It turns out that once you know the "formula" for making a crocheted yoke, you can make dresses, tops, cardigans - it's easy! I also winged the holly embellishment on the dress. It was trickier to make than the dress.
9. I'm finished with Christmas shopping, bar stocking-stuffers. Those I'll get in the next couple of weeks (they'll require some tooling around to different stores). I even finished shopping for myself (there are always a few surprises too, but this way I get exactly what I want).
8. My children have been playing checkers a lot lately. They each know about half the rules, so together it's like one knowledgeable person playing by himself.
7. We have bought our first jug of eggnog and have been busy mixing it with various spirits. I recommend amaretto, it's like eating a Good Humor Toasted Almond ice cream on a stick. Do you remember those? I wonder if you can still get them.
6. Why are cranberries so expensive? Are they difficult to harvest, maybe? Perhaps it's the short growing season. In any case, stock up now ("Buy two bags, freeze one!", say the good people at Ocean Spray).
5. This is one of my favorite times of the year, this stretch between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The bustle and anticipation are fun, yes, but I also just really like the weather. I love when it's cold and sunny. We've had two perfect days like that in a row and I've been enjoying it a lot. I like to be just a little cold, inside or outside. I like to wear scarves and hats, and I like to need a hot drink when I come inside.
4. Do you feel better about humanity after you've kept to yourself for a while? I do.
3. Netflix has provided handsomely for us lately. I've seen some documentaries I liked, including Happy Valley, about the Penn State sexual abuse scandal; My Brother's Bomber, about the terrorist bombing of a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland; Talhotblond, about why you should never believe people you meet in an internet chatroom; and The Flat, about potential Nazi involvement in one family's history. We also watched River, which was really good but kind of reminded me of The Sixth Sense, and what would happen if that little boy grew up and could still see dead people. Anyway, good TV around here lately, even if I did just make it look like all we do is watch TV.
2. I'm eating Ferrero Rocher chocolates daily since my birthday. The Bear gave me a huge plastic box of them. I think he found it at Costco. When I opened the package, the LB got a glimpse of them and shouted, "Mmm, I love Feral Roachers!" We asked him to repeat himself and sure enough, that's what he actually thought they were called. Yum. Hasn't stopped me from eating them, though.
1. It's December first and I'm already D-O-N-E with Christmas music. We have a radio station that plays nothing but starting in November. The children adore it. They get two hours per day right now, which I will consider increasing in a couple of weeks. I don't mind the songs themselves, it's the versions they play on this station. It's the torched kind of singing, for the most past, very overdone and shrieky. It's like Christmas on helium, or maybe speed.
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Your home looks so cosy and welcoming, and I love the first photo with its luminescent colours. Blogging is a funny old business, I definitely get the feeling that it is on the wain for many people, but I do wish that they would not vanish without so much as a 'goodbye'. My mind works overtime and I feel concerned as to what may have happened to them.ReplyDelete
Your house is looking very festive :). I love the wee dress how wonderful to make up your own pattern. I hear you on the Christmas music, I worked in shops over Christmas for a couple of years when I was in my early 20s listening to the same songs hour after hour, day after day for weeks was enough to make you never want to listen the music again, I still can't!ReplyDelete
Blogs, yep I have read that too. There are lots of great blogs there but I have to limit the number I read or I couldn't keep up, and if you have a few days off from reading it can be impossible to catch up. I know I wouldn't if I was trying to do Instagram too ;)
You did a beautiful job on the dolly dress!ReplyDelete
Oh gosh, you are so organised, I've not even started!ReplyDelete
I liked the picture of your husband and daughter playing together. I wish I'd learned an instrument as a child. You sound so prepared for Christmas, I'm still crocheting and hoping to get things done by this Christmas.ReplyDelete
It is looking very festive in your home, and I love it!!! Blogging is definitely changing, but I have no plans on going anywhere, I still enjoy blogging, and I enjoy popping into to visit with friends. Enjoy that Christmas music ;)ReplyDelete
Your house, as always, looks so cosy and inviting Jennifer, especially with the addition of a pretty Christmas tree. Your first photo is beautiful, and I love the father/daughter making music together. I too am disappointed when some special blogs disappear - I find blogging so rewarding and enjoyable. Like you, though, I have trouble keeping up at times, and have to drop out of the scene for a few days. You are so organised - I have scarcely begun the gift shopping, but I will get there in the end!ReplyDelete
Oh so festive. I am also falling behind on all things blogging... Such is the order of things.ReplyDelete
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I so enjoyed reading this blog today Jennifer. Your Christmas decorations are beautiful. The pictures of your family playing music together and playing games together with daddy righty here, part of it all. So precious. You did a great job on Nellies dress. I'm sure it will be a prized possession of the girl bear and her baby doll. I feel the same way you do about blogs. Some of my favorite ones have disappeared and I don't know what's happened. I'm so grateful for the ones that are here though. I truly feel that you have all becomemy friends here.ReplyDelete
I'm laughing out loud...figuring out how to pronounce words can lead to some comical exchanges. My youngest son when about 8 mis-heard the word "theses" which caused him to have an alarming visualization for what had been said and I laughed so hard I could barely explain to him what had actually been said. I have found the tube herbs to be very good...mainly used basil and garlic so far. This is my favorite time of the year for both weather and activities, also. I am trying to pace myself and make reasonable lists, although I went shopping today without a list. Horrors $$$. I hope I can crochet some doll clothes for the girls' dolls. You inspire me! While you are watching intellectually stimulating programs, I have been overdosing on HGTV and Hallmark movies. I am realizing my limits in following blogs I enjoy, but never lack for finding interesting reading! I have been enjoying listening to the Pandora channel Michael W. Smith Holiday. Happy December, Jennifer, and thanks for posting :) xxReplyDelete
I love all of your festive-ness in your home, it looks so cozy. This is the first year that I finished Christmas shopping (mostly) before December, and it feels sooo good. And I agree, time away makes humanity look a little better. Glad your month is off to a good start.ReplyDelete
Lovely festive scenes. I often use the tubes of crushed ginger & garlic purely for laziness & the need for a quick supper. I don't think I've tried the tubes of herbs yet perhaps I should. It's hard keeping up with everything though at times isn't it, oh for an extra hour or two each day xxReplyDelete
Your home is looking beautiful, a real festive buzz. Loved the photo playing musical instruments together, it reminded me of my girls when they were growing up. I have never come across the tubes of herbs I must look out for them when I go shopping. Take care.ReplyDelete
Pretty much organised here too. I wrapped most of the presents up yesterday leaving a few to do on Christmas Eve with carols and mince pie consumption :-). I like your point number 4. Made me ponder. XReplyDelete
Crumbs, Jennifer, you are well organised. I'm a list maker too and, at the top of today's list is "check what I've got to see what else I need to get ... and order it!!!!!". If I do that I'll be very pleased with myself!! (And surprised! LOL)ReplyDelete
I loved these glimpses Jennifer. I know I've said this a dozen times but your children remind me so much of mine at the same age. My daughter phoned yesterday to ask if I'd made any mince pies yet. No! I'm really missing my children but they are both coming home in just over two weeks and I can hardly wait. Now Advent is here I may break open the box of Christmas decorations and start my Christmas shopping although patchwork piecing while listening to Zola and Gloomsbury on the radio is much more appealing.ReplyDelete
How beautifully cosy is looks at yours. I love how you describe the chequers game, you made me laugh. My littlest boy likes to play games on his own if he can't find anyone to join in. I'm glad to hear your blog won't be going anywhere. I don't look at other things, just blogs really, so it's good that there are lots of excellent ones to read. I'm wishing you a lovely December. I know what you mean about how busy it will all get. I always have lots of lists here too, and loads of things squished on to the calendar. Enjoy those Feral Roachers. CJ xxReplyDelete
I can't believe you're just about done with the gift buying, I've barely even started. In fact, I've barely even started thinking about Christmas yet, I think it will get to the end of this week and then I'll start panicking. I'm sure everything will get done in the end though and what doesn't, doesn't. I love the little dress you've made for Nellie.ReplyDelete
Your tree is lovely and that little dress for the doll is adorable. Not sure what some people are looking for in blogs. I've made some really great friends over the years and enjoy keeping up with everyone. Instagram I love the for the ease of it. I figure you get out of the experience whatever you put into it, without comparison or expectations. Some people are so caught up in numbers and perfection and start to feel like they don't measure up. I don't quite get it. And I don't blame your boy for getting the name of the chocolates wrong. It's a tricky one. Ha! :) Happy holidays!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2015 at 7:40 AM
'Feral Roachers' - brilliant! Such lovely festive photos, Jennifer. I have done absolutely nothing towards Christmas other than buy the children advent calendars. This time of year wouldn't be the same without that little bit of adrenalin – will she pull it off ?? won't she?? One year I'll come a cropper! I am late to the party re blogging, so I'm just getting to my limit of blogs to follow. I love each one though and am amazed at the wealth of creativity, imagination, spirit and fun in blog-land. I try to keep up-to-date but also don't pressure myself to do so (or indeed to write posts). I would feel sad if one disappeared forever without saying goodbye, though. I'm glad you're sticking around. Sam xReplyDelete
It looks very inviting at yours Jennifer. It is so funny to read about the game playing in your house, it made me smile. Feral Roachers are in the top ten best chocolate list of mine :-) There are so many blogs I love that I don't have time to read them all... I wonder what makes a blog 'good' and what doesn't? I don't think of blogs in that way. I find so much enjoyment from other people's writing and for me that's the most important part. I am glad you are here to stay. Have a wonderful December. xxReplyDelete
It's always fun to visit your blog, Jennifer. You keep things so real and down-to-earth. It's so nice to see children doing things that aren't "electronic-related." Oh boy, don't even get me started on that subject! Your tree is beautiful, and I adore that cute little Christmas dress you made. I'm getting a better handle on crocheting.....still need lots of practice, but I've actually been making some chemo caps to donate to the cancer center.ReplyDelete
I agree with you, Jennifer, it's sad to see some bloggers completely drop out and others lament the lack of good blog content. I'm not quite sure how so many bloggers actually make money with their blogs, especially with so much competition. It really does look like it would be stressful to have one of those blogs and have to be constantly coming up with new ideas to blog about, or painting and repainting something so you have a new blog post. Sometimes it's just exhausting to read some of the posts. Well, more power to them if it actually works for them, and I wish them all the best.
I hope you can stay "stress-free" for the rest of the season and just enjoy each moment!
Warm hugs,
Loved your post today, such honest fun and wit. you are definitely on my good bloggers list.We used to tell our children that those chocolates (that I can't spell) were sprouts in chocolate so they never bugged us for them! Then they kind of grew up and realised we had been selfish chocolate scoffing parents. Hey ho! Don't get stressed Jen be your normal lovely self. Jo xReplyDelete
I'm a big fan of Feral Roachers too! I'm still holding out against the Christmas decorations, apart from the advent candle and calendar. Your tree looks lovely though and I love the photo of your family playing draughts; so cosy. Enjoy that Christmas music! xxReplyDelete
Christmas done by the 1st! Well done, wish I was. Beautiful photos and a lovely round up. I too am struggling to keep up with blogs but really want to keep going with it. XxxReplyDelete
What lovely photo's ... and yes, such a great Christmassy feel too.ReplyDelete
Enjoy this special time of year
All the best Jan
Feral Roacher reminds me of when my daughter came home from school all excited because she had won an award for "epidemic excellence" ......ReplyDelete
Okay, I started to type a comment and Blogger ate it. The main point was going to be that you should have issued a warning about the Feral Roachers. I was drinking my tea and almost choked on it I was laughing so hard. :-)ReplyDelete
I'm nearing the finish line with the shopping, too---allows more time to enjoy the season (and knit like a whirling dervish). About the only thing left to buy is the aquarium for a grandson. I'm not telling his mom. (am I going to get in trouble?) This kid LOVES animals so much, but mom and dad have said NO to another dog after their 16 yo lab had to be put down last year. He won a couple goldfish at the school carnival this fall and has transferred his animal-love to these fish. They live in a little bowl. I think we need to expand. That's what grandmas are for, right?ReplyDelete
I love this post, fee like I am chatting on the phone with you abut lots of little things. I feel bad that so many bloggers are not blogging, and I am not on Instagram, I just don't have the time to do it all. I am staying put, right here.ReplyDelete
Love your random thoughts - and yes, I'm list maker, too! I have not tried the herbs in a tube. Glad to hear a review and that it's a positive one. I just may try them sometime.ReplyDelete
Love the doll dress - so pretty.
Cranberries aren't expensive here - only $2/pkg!
Not familiar with any of the Netflix shows you mentioned, though I rarely watch TV. Recently saw an article on Facebook about the newest best upcoming shows on Netflix and I have to admit, some of them did peak my interest. I made a list (!) of the ones that sounded interesting to me.
Feral Roachers - too funny!
Oh, I'm always done with Christmas music. Not a big fan. Perhaps because the songs are overplayed. They're there every time you turn on the radio and in every store and restaurant you go into.
Hope you have a good weekend!
Nellie looks suitably festive and ready to enjoy Christmas in her new dress. It is really fantastic, I love it. Love the Feral Roachers too and won't mind getting a big box of those for Christmas. We haven't started on Christmas music yet. I still have to look for our Christmas CD' s. They do play them on Radio 2 but not very often which is fine with me. We also enjoyed 'River'. It was a great series.ReplyDelete
I wonder what a 'good blog' is and if mine is one. I think it all depends on what you like and what you're interested in. Anyway I always enjoy reading yours and I'm glad you're here to stay.
Ah, such a lovely, cosy, festive post! . I feel like I want to get our tree up and decorated now after seeing your photos. The dress is fantastic, good job. I think I am the only person not to like Feral Roachers so if you're ever with me for Christmas you can eat my share too. :-) xxReplyDelete
Holidays do that.. sometimes blogging has got to take a backseat.ReplyDelete
that little doll dress is so cute.
someone just gifted us a big box of FR and they turned out to be super old and stale.. it broke our chocolate loving heart to have to throw them away!
- AnonymousDecember 9, 2015 at 2:30 AM
christmas is everywhere now :) i see you've more documentaries and films on netflix than us... but i must admit i'm waiting for more christmas films :(ReplyDelete
love your 12 things of Christmas, I feel like it is hurtling towards me at speed and I am truly ill prepared....ReplyDelete
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Although we are at home, and going no further than my parents' for the long weekend, I have had a couple of very different and interesting days.
Yesterday, I had arranged to have my grandson, known to Blogland as The Boy, to spend the night as his parents wanted to go out to dinner and his bedroom is currently uninhabitable due to being re-plastered. So my daughter suggested we met at the Horniman museum in Forest Hill which, despite living in the area for over 30 years, I had never visited. I always thought it was awkward to get to, but in fact it is on a direct bus route from Brixton. For my daughter, it is a fairly direct journey on the Overground, although it takes quite a long time. In fact, it took longer than she thought, and I ended up drinking coffee in the café there and rather wishing I hadn't had lunch as the "Healthy Eating" dishes - mostly falafel, hummus and salad - sounded so delicious.
The Horniman Museum is very splendid. There are a couple of wonderfully old-fashioned nature galleries, full of stuffed animals and birds, and wonderful for small boys to run around in. Then there is a music gallery, and a room designed for "hands on" music-making, also lovely for small boys. The gardens, too, looked as if they would be glorious, but, alas, it was far too cold to want to walk around in them. So we came home on the bus.
Today was, if anything, even more interesting. My daughter had scored free tickets to the ArcelorMittal Orbit, the odd sculpture in the middle of the Olympic Park, so the Swan Whisperer, the Boy and I set out fairly early, braving the overcrowded northbound Northern Line and changing at Bank to the DLR, and then changing again at Poplar. I do like the DLR, and we were lucky enough to get front seats on both trains - the Boy loved this, needless to say. When we arrived at Pudding Mill Lane, it was only a short walk to the site office, where we picked up our tickets and waited for the Daughter to join us. She was a few minutes late as it was a longer walk from the centre of Stratford than she'd realised, but that didn't matter.
The tour was a preview of what the public will be able to pay quite a lot of money to see from tomorrow! A bus tour takes you around what will eventually be the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and then you go up the ArcelorMittal Orbit. You start off on the ground, and then a high-speed lift whisks you up to the top of it. Where there are splendid views all over London. Then you were supposed to go outside, but it was bitterly cold, and the floor was the kind I hate, with little holes in it so you could see the immense drop below. Thanks, but no thanks. So the Boy and I went down in the lift- we should really have stopped off on the floor below, where I gather there are fun things to do - and the other two WALKED all the way down. My knee would not have survived that.
The Boy and I caught a bus into Stratford, while the other two walked, and we were happily ensconced with our coffee and babycino in Costa when they arrived. After a couple of errands, my daughter and the Boy went off, the Swan Whisperer having already left, and I did a bit of shopping, and then treated myself to lunch in the Moroccan place in Westfield - falafel wrap, yum - and a kulfi ice-cream in the Indian sweetshop opposite. I then walked to Stratford International DLR station - I had some thought of treating myself to a ride on the Javelin to St Pancras, but I was just about to miss one and then next was not for another half an hour, so not worth it - and got the DLR to Canning Town, then the Jubilee Line to Canada Water, the Overground to Peckham Rye and the 37 bus home! Which took a long time, but was fun. What I ought to have done was to have stayed on the DLR one more stop, to Royal Victoria and then the Emirates to North Greenwich, but I didn't think of that in time!
Then home, and 30 minutes' work, and then out again in the early evening to a pamper evening at l'Occitane en Provence, where I was VERY strong-minded and managed not to buy anything, but had champagne, a hand massage (which would have been much nicer if she'd taken off her ring), chocolates and a facial, and came away with some free samples!
All in all, I shall be glad of a few days' break in Sussex over the Easter weekend.
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What this is all about
Yet another blog? Well, yes. The Swan Whisperer and I enjoy travelling, and I enjoy writing a travel journal while we are doing this, and, extraordinarily, it seems people sometimes enjoy reading what I write. So I decided to create this blog to enable a wider audience to read it, should they wish.
Of necessity, it will only be updated sporadically. We are planning a weekend in Paris for a skating competition 19-21 April, but our main holiday this year will be in June, when we are going Inter-Railing for just over two weeks to celebrate my 60th birthday.
Of necessity, it will only be updated sporadically. We are planning a weekend in Paris for a skating competition 19-21 April, but our main holiday this year will be in June, when we are going Inter-Railing for just over two weeks to celebrate my 60th birthday.
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Yoga's history in America is longer and richer than even its most devoted practitioners realize. It was present in Emerson's New England, and by the turn of the twentieth century it was fashionable among the leisure class. And yet when Americans first learned about yoga, what they learned was that it was a dangerous, alien practice that would corrupt body and soul.
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Nobody likes hoovering. It's an enormous chore, but sadly until they invent non-crumbling Hobnobs we're stuck with it. If running a vacuum cleaner round the place is doing your back and head in, you'll like the Foki shoe -- a concept that lets you shoe-ver your house.
Foki is a vacuum cleaner concept developed by designer Adika Titut Triyugo that definitely does not suck -- even though it does. Don your housecoat and pinafore, put your hair up in rollers and step into your Foki shoes to see what we mean.
Each shoe is a rechargeable rubber-lined plastic spring-cleaning slipper. There are two rotary cleaners in each shoe that pick up dust and bacteria. You simply slip on the Foki and either run round your house hoovering everywhere, or wear them as you do the rest of the cleaning. We can see them working well in hard-to-reach places, like the stairs.
An LED display on the top shows how much dust and grime you've picked up, as well as battery status. Ideally, we want to wander out into the garden and shake the collected dust out of our trouser legs, like in The Great Escape.
If prancing about your house in hoovering shoes is still too much like hard work, you can get yourself a robot to do it for you. We've pitted the iRobot Roomba and Samsung NaviBot against each other in an android housework battle to see which is the one for you. If robots aren't your bag, you could get your dog hoovering up after itself.


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Global Precipitation & Temperature Outlook for November 2016
November 3, 2016
The November 2016 Outlook calls attention to a vast expanse of exceptionally warmer temperatures forecast in the US Midwest and northward through Canada. Noteworthy in the precipitation forecast for the month: moderate to exceptional dry anomalies trace a wide path along South America's northern Pacific coast. (For data sources see "About This Blog Post" below.)
Temperature Outlook
There's no looking away from the big red blob that encompasses much of central North America in the temperature map below, indicating a forecast of exceptionally hotter temperatures for a vast expanse of the US Midwest and Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, Canada. An anomaly such as this is beyond what one would expect to see only once every 40 years. Radiating outward from the blob, moderate to extreme temperature anomalies - shown in orange and red - bleed across much of Canada and reach to the US East Coast and Gulf, leaving only Florida and parts of the West untouched.
Looking across the Atlantic to Africa, large pockets of exceptional warm temperature anomalies are forecast in coastal West Africa, around the Gulf of Guinea, and in Madagascar. Temperature anomalies may be especially severe or widespread in: southern Western Sahara, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo, Benin, southeast Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and northern Congo. Exceptionally cooler temperatures are expected in northeastern South Sudan.
Though normal temperatures are forecast for much of India, exceptionally warmer conditions are expected to dominate India's southern tip and Sri Lanka.
Moderate to exceptional warm anomalies are also forecast for: eastern Iran; western China including the Tibetan Plateau, and Yunnan in the south; Myanmar; Southeast Asia; and Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Precipitation Outlook
A wide swath of exceptional dry anomalies traces a path along South America's northern Pacific coast from Colombia, through Ecuador and Peru, becoming less severe in southern Peru and into western Bolivia. Moderate to severe wet anomalies are forecast for western Paraguay, northern Bolivia, central and northern Brazil, and Venezuela, with pockets of extreme anomalies in Venezuela. Exceptionally wetter than normal conditions - shown in dark blue - are forecast in Chilean Southern Patagonia.
In Africa, a dark red pocket in southern Ethiopia stands out, indicating a forecast of exceptional dry anomalies, with anomalies of lesser severity forecast for the rest of the country and scattered to the west.
Primarily moderate dry anomalies are expected in much of Saudi Arabia, in southern Iraq, and in Iran south and east of Tehran. Dry anomalies of varying severity are also evident stretching across eastern Russia.
Wetter than normal conditions are forecast in: northwestern Turkmenistan; western Uzbekistan; central and northern Kazakhstan into Russia; central Vietnam; the Malay Peninsula; Java; eastern Borneo; and northern Australia.
About This Blog Post
Each week, ISciences processes an ensemble of 28 seasonal temperature and precipitation forecasts issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2). We present our results in a proprietary weekly report titled Global Water Monitor and Forecast: Precipitation and Temperature Outlook. This blog post summarizes our Outlook released November 2, 2016 which includes forecasts for November 2016 through July 2017 based on NOAA CFSv2 forecasts issued October 25 through October 31, 2016.
Technical details:
- Each CFSv2 forecast is bias corrected by:
- Constructing probability density functions from CFSv2 hindcasts.
- Fitting the hindcast probability distribution functions to a generalized extreme value distribution.
- Using an inverse lookup to an extreme value distribution fitted to the observed temperature and precipitation record (Fan & van den Dool 2008, Chen et al. 2002).
- The map colors depict the return period of the median forecast anomaly.
- Regions where the interquartile range of the ensemble spans both above normal and below normal conditions are hashed as having uncertain direction.
- Regions where the interquartile range of the ensemble divided by the median forecast is large (>0.4) are hashed as having uncertain magnitude.
- Results are reported in terms of return period using a 1950-2009 baseline.


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Cristiano Ronaldo insists he wants to stay at Real Madrid amid speculation over his future with the Spanish and European champions.
Ronaldo inspired Madrid to glory at home and abroad last season, with the 32-year-old's efforts also leading to him scooping a host of individual awards, including a coveted fifth Ballon d'Or to bring him level with Barcelona rival Lionel Messi.
The Portugal icon picked up a less-celebrated gong – Best Player of the Year from Chinese football app Dongqiudi – this week, amid rapidly changed fortunes for Madrid.
Zinedine Zidane's men are 19 points shy of leaders Barca as they languish fourth in LaLiga and face a tough last-16 Champions League tie against Paris Saint-Germain after finishing second in their group to Tottenham.
Their biggest humiliation of a dispiriting 2017-18 arrived in midweek when Leganes won 2-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu to progress to the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey at Madrid's expense on away goals.
As such, reports of a lavish squad overhaul during the close-season have gathered pace, with Neymar identified as a prime target and Ronaldo linked to PSG and former club Manchester United – Madrid's all-time record goalscorer suddenly appearing expendable.
Rumours persists that Ronaldo is in dispute over an improved contract in the Spanish capital but, in quotes reported by AS, he told Dongqiudi he is not chasing a move.
"I've been in this city since 2009 and I love the climate and the people," he said.
"It's close to Portugal and you can get there by car. Spain is a great country, I love it. Of course, I want to stay here, I love this club."
Ronaldo reflected upon Madrid's disappointment with the season so far but insists winning a third consecutive Champions League remains a realistic target before his focus turns towards the World Cup with Portugal.
"Last season was incredible, but it was also the best," he said. "This year we didn't start so well, we're not going well in LaLiga, the team was knocked out of the Copa del Rey.
"We're not happy. Real Madrid the club isn't happy, we're not happy with it.
"But you also know football changes so much, so we need to keep motivated and work hard because we've still got the chance to win the Champions League and the World Cup starts after that.
"Our goal is to win the Champions League, because it's the biggest prize. However, we are somewhat disappointed, we haven't been at the required level."
He added: "This year will be tough, but we won't give up. Real Madrid never gives up, but it'll be so, so, so tough.
"As I said before, the start wasn't good and we lost a lot of points. The only way to cut the gap is hard work. It's the only solution."


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Biography of Verlaine Crawford, Artist
Verlaine Crawford is an impressionist artist who specializes in beautiful women in timeless settings, darling animals, portraits, still life and landscape/seascape oil paintings.
The evolution of Verlaine's art has been a journey of discovery. "I love learning, expanding and absorbing the beauty of nature and striving to create paintings that will speak to the heart," says Verlaine.
"My focus and intention is to share my passion and depict memorable scenes that will serve as a windows to another reality where you can experience the feeling of that time and place. Click here to see more paintings.
This process of creating a fine art oil painting can take several weeks or even a month before it is accomplished. It begins with a careful study of color and the geometry of the composition and how that flow of color and light will illuminate, define and project the character, form and emotion of the figures in the scene.
The initial phases include making many small sketches to discover the harmonic patterns of color and geometry to be used as well as the flow of light and shadow. And then the image is sketched on the canvas and the painting process begins.
"Blending the colors and watching them take form in a sensuous woman resting in a room or sitting in a garden transports me into a realm of beauty and harmony," explains Verlaine. "Layer upon layer of glazes and highlights add to the depth of color and luminosity, following the leadership of the great artists of the past."
"My focus and intention is to share her passion with you. I desire to create a window of a beautiful scene that will transport you to another reality where you can experience the feeling of that time and place." Click here to see more paintings.


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Design Assistant 8.25 has been released
We have released version 8.25 of the Lode Data Design Assistant. Please contact us to request the download link. This release has the following new features and maintenance fixes:
What's New in Design Assistant 8.25
Version 8.25 September, 2016
8.25 Maintenance notes:
- Opening most networks that were corrupted in older versions will now repair and open.
- Automatically loading the specs that were last saved with a network (Project Load Setting: Load Specs automatically from last save) will now load specs correctly in all cases.
- Switching from Powering Mode to Design Mode will no longer reset the cursor position to 1.1. The cursor will remain in its current position.
- Instances where bogus 30 value 2 ports taps were randomly populated when using Feedermaker functions have been resolved.
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At the 87th Geneva Motor Show held from March 9 to March 19, 2017, South Korea-based automaker, Hyundai, unveiled the next generation FE (Fuel Eco) Fuel Cell Concept, a sturdy-looking hydrogen-powered vehicle to be the successor to the Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell.
The idea of an SUV or CUV that runs with hydrogen power has long been heard from the auto manufacturer. A CUV or Crossover is a combination of a sports utility vehicle and a passenger vehicle. As opposed to light trucks that use the body-on-frame platform, CUVs are built on a auto platform.
The FE Fuel Cell Concept, the fourth generation of its kind, is the manufacturer's contribution to how vehicles will be powered in the future. It is included in the list of 14 new models to be introduced by the year 2020 while there will be 22 fuel alternative autos all-in-all. This new breed of vehicles is the company's next step to building a zero-emission Hydrogen Energy Society. These "eco autos" will include four plug-in hybrids, five hybrids, four electric autos and just recently launched FE fuel-cell vehicle.
There are three highlights to the FE Fuel Cell Concept:
- It is hydrogen-powered and can run up to 497 miles with just one fill.
- The design has been inspired by nature and water, thus the flowing and clean concept.
- The elements of the concept will be incorporated with the new model to be launched in 2018.
The Radical Design
As for the looks, the vehicle boasts clean and flowing lines that exude robustness and elegance. The wheels will be large and pushed to the corner and are aerodynamic for better handling. The new design has been inspired by water and coincidentally, the only element the FE Fuel Cell Concept will be emitting once it gets on the road. It will have headlamps and efficient LED tail lamps strategically located at the rear of the vehicle.
However, the hood looks a tad bulky and the design of the grille unique and clean, with just the typical logo in front and is devoid of the typical headlights found in other SUVs or CUVs, for that matter. Conversely, the interior will come with a screen with analogue dials as well as an infotainment screen. Moreover, a gear shifter screen will be added which can be connected to a smartphone.
The designers tried to achieve a minimalistic look and they did not disappoint. Apart from the lines and contours of the body that were aerodynamically built, a spoiler has been integrated on the liftgate and vents were also added strategically to cool down the heat.
The Interior
The cabin can seat four, with individual seats. This set-up offers more legroom. Meanwhile, there is a main dashboard, that is, of course, digital. It displays navigation information that reaches to the center of the panel while a secondary display is integrated in the console that serves as infotainment. Another interesting feature in the interior is the internal air humidifier that is capable of recycling water emissions present in the atmosphere inside the cabin. It also circulates fresh air inside the vehicle. The trunk is big enough to accommodate a mini electric scooter and has a built-in charger for the mobility device to ensure there is always an extra mile of distance in case hydrogen needs to be refilled and the next station is not in sight. The Hyundai Company has everything figured out, including battery packs designed for portability. This is why these accessories have been added to ensure passengers in the auto are continuously plugged-in and there is enough juice for smartphones and devices.
Fuel Cell
The Fuel Cell Concept's main feature is its hydrogen cell technology. This is in line with what Vice Chairman Woong Chul Yang of Hyundai Motor Company mentioned about the significant evolution of the auto manufacturer's pioneering leadership in terms of the new technology in terms of auto power. In fact, hydrogen fuel cell technology is not new to Hyundai since the FE concept is already the fourth generation model, with the Hyundai Tucson Fuel Cell as its predecessor. Also, as opposed to the Gen II system that is applied in Tucson ix30 Fuel Cell SUV, the fuel cell that comes with the concept is more efficient and lighter, at 10 percent and 20 percent, respectively. In terms of range, the power density of the fuel stack has been increased to 30 percent which makes it capable to cover more miles than the earlier Tucson.
Smart Sense Technology
Hyundai has introduced an intelligent safety technology brand known as "Smart Sense" and the FE Fuel Cell Concept will also have this feature. This includes several technologies to ensure safety such as, Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS), ABSD and AEB.
Pros and Cons
The Hyundai FE Fuel Cell Concept has numerous features that are appealing and promising. First, it can run longer distances as opposed to electric autos since it can cover around 500 miles with just a single hydrogen fill. The fuel cell is also more efficient and powerful compared to that of the Tucson ix30 Fuel Cell SUV. The body design is aerodynamic and has a fresh look. It is also safe for the environment since it will have zero-autobon emission with water being the only element it will emit.
While critics say that the construction of hydrogen fueling infrastructure can be a challenge and producing hydrogen can be expensive, the cost of production is coming down. Consequently, the price of hydrogen will be cheaper. Moreover, the costs of hydrogen-powered vehicles are also high and the average auto owner might not be able to afford it. However, savings will be enjoyed in the long run.
Final Thoughts
The Hyundai FE Fuel Cell Concept is more powerful and efficient than its predecessor when it comes to hardware and is environment friendly. It also keeps up with the trend in technology in terms of design and features. With Hyundai Motor Company being the first to come up with a mass-produced vehicle in 2013 and announcing the 14 new models by 2020, there is no doubt that the auto manufacturer is focused on maintaining its status as a pioneer in hydrogen fuel cell technology.


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I'm a firm believer that websites are a dynamic entity. Just as the technology behind the web is evolving, so do the aesthetics of how information is presented. The Graphic Post is now almost two years old and it's time to reconsider its online presence.
I've opted for a simpler, cleaner presentation. All the featured articles appear in a single stream, clearly identified as belonging to one of 18 Categories. Posts appear chronologically, marked by the month and year. All links lead to the original source from the main stream.
The Graphic Post has curated well over 5,000 articles from a myriad of sources. They've all been appropriately tagged and the easiest way to find what you need is obviously the Search field above. Alternatively, browsing the Categories presents the articles grouped within your field of interest.
As well as being a repository of useful and interesting links, The Graphic Post will serve as a platform for me to share items of relevance to designers (okay, call it a blog).
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Mitchells & Butlers is a leading operator of restaurants and pubs in the UK. It listed on the London Stock Exchange in April 2003 and is a member of the FTSE 250. Its restaurants and pubs have some of the highest average sales and profits per site in the industry and it operates the best portfolio of brands in the UK.
The business:
- has high sales and profitability per site
- has a well defined strategy for growth
- has funds to deliver this growth, but will only invest where returns can be achieved in excess of our hurdle rates
- has long term, fixed rate debt financing with secure asset backing
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At Focus Dental Clinic, we are proud to offer the latest in teeth straightening technology, "The Six Month Smile". This advanced method focuses on aligning the front teeth in a few short months for a great lasting smile.
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The discreet brace used to achieve the Six Month Smile is barely visible – even top Hollywood stars like Tom Cruise have chosen this treatment to correct their smiles! Our friendly and professional dentists will fully discuss if this is the correct treatment for you and honestly provide you with all the options that could help you achieve the smile of your dreams. An impression of your teeth is required and then your treatment is comprehensively planned and carried out.
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Looking For Work? Keep It Up Through the Holidays
Holiday spirits may be high, but December is no time to hit the pause button on a job search, experts say.
Many job seekers take a break from the hunt in late November and December, figuring that employers are distracted by holiday parties, vacation plans, and end-of-year assignments like closing out the books, says Jane Trnka, executive director of the career development center at Rollins College's Crummer Graduate School of Business. In addition, some unemployed people simply want a respite from the often-demoralizing work of looking for a job.
But Ms. Trnka and others say the period between Thanksgiving and New Year's can be a is perhaps the most productive time of the year for a job search precisely because the competition declines so much.
Rob Weiner, a New York market director for Glenview, Ill.-based Combined Insurance set up a table at a job fair last week in midtown Manhattan but said the turnout was disappointing because so many job seekers are taking the holidays off. He has about a dozen sales openings, he said. Fifty people had stopped by before the fair's end. "Normally we'd see triple that number," he said. Of the people he spoke with, he planned to set up interviews with two.
Job seeker Irina Rybitskaia, 52, an engineer who was hunting for a position at the same fair in Manhattan, said she wouldn't attend events like that one if she didn't think anyone was hiring. Ms. Rybitskaia, who was laid off from her $56,000-a-year government job in January, said she looks for work "every single day," including during the holiday season.
Another reason to look now: Large companies often have "use it or lose it" hiring budgets they need to spend by the end of their fiscal year, which for many firms coincides with the calendar year. "We've had facilities [such as hospitals] call us and say, 'We have $100,000 to spend for recruitment and if we don't use it this year, we don't get it next year,'" explains Sean Milius, CEO of Management Recruiters of Colorado, a health-care focused affiliate of MRINetwork. Money might go toward signing bonuses and relocation packages, Mr. Milius says.
Keep in mind, too, that companies sometimes start big projects in January and need to staff up in advance. Ms. Trnka herself was in that position three years ago, when she was hired in December by Right Management, a career transition firm, for an assignment that began early the next month.
And, by all means, say experts using use holiday parties to practice the golden rule of job-hunting: network, network, network. Whether at your neighbor's Kwanzaa party or your uncle's New Year's Day open house, try to get introductions to people who might know about relevant job openings.
But don't get carried away. "If I showed up at a cocktail party with three copies of my resume in my pocket, it probably wouldn't be received very well," Mr. Milius says. But a job-seeker can follow up appropriately; sending an email five to seven days later, he suggests, requesting a coffee or lunch meeting or saying you hope to inquire in the future about job opportunities.
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Trying to see if there is more interest in low refresh rate strobe support.
As many people already realize, strobing low refresh rates like 60hz, by double strobing, looks probably worse than having no blur reduction at all, because instead of having motion blur, you have a double image. Motion blur can be accepted by the brain, but a double image simply cannot.
The only monitors capable of "single strobing" low refresh rates are typical CRT panels, which are only limited by their max KHz values in their compatible refresh rates, and the *ORIGINAL* Benq Z series monitors via enabling the "Single Strobe" option on the XL2411Z, XL2420Z, XL2720Z and XL2430T. These are the ONLY monitors that can single strobe low refresh rates per frame without any strange hardware/software bugs to enable it.
This option is VERY nice to have on game consoles, as 60 FPS/60hz is VERY blurry with sample and hold motion blur with 16.7ms of screen persistence. With single strobe blur reduction, you can get a MUCH smoother more natural image, but at the cost of pretty intense flickering, just like a 60hz CRT monitor and maybe even more noticeable. Some people don't mind this flicker if the option is available, but some are very sensitive to it. But I want to know if people WANT this option to be available by choice if they want to enable a low refresh rate blur reduction (as no one likes double strobing as far as I know).
The Benq XL2730Z is very buggy, not only does Vertical Total changes not reduce strobe crosstalk at all even though you are extending the blanking interval, but any refresh rate lower than 120hz strobes at 8.3ms (120hz) timings, causing sync stuttering and an unusable display. And 60hz will double strobe (8.3ms timings).
The Benq XL2735 seems to fix the bugs in the XL2730Z, but at the cost of not having freesync. This may be a hardware limitation, but the XL2735 seems to function more like the old XL2720Z, but in 1440p format; VT tweaks work again, up to VT 1825, Strobe crosstalk is reduced considerably at 100hz and 120hz with it applied, but one thing is missing:
No Single Strobe override switch.
This means no blur reduction in 60hz locked games like Dark Souls, or with HDMI/console output at 60hz, unless you want that nasty double strobe again.
I believe having an option for Single Strobe should be implemented in a firmware update by Benq.
What do you guys think?
Remember---"if you don't want to use it, you don't have to" but what is the drawback of at least having the CHOICE of using it, like the XL2420Z/XL2720Z already give you?


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We regret not knowing a lot of important things when we were younger. Our parents didn't teach us what we should have been taught before the age of 10.
If you are now a parent and have girls in your family, there are 10 essential things your kids should learn before it's too late. In the future these simple yet effective facts will help your girls become more aware and informed and prepare them for future life.
1. Self-respect
Self-respect has nothing to do with being selfish. Girls must learn to respect others as well as themselves. It is not easy, but this is one of the most important life lessons to be taught. Your daughters will soon understand that if they respect themselves, they will always know that they deserve to have the best things in life. This includes good knowledge, good education, career and even choosing the right people who will surround them in the future. Encourage your girls to change their attitude towards themselves.


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In 1982, the ABC celebrated its 50th birthday by commissioning a number of works from Australian composers. I was delighted, therefore, to be included and asked to contribute a show-piece for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for the occassion.
My Paean, which is cast in rondo-form, was given a fine reading in the (then) recently re-furbished Sydney Town Hall by conductor Patrick Thomas in a performance which and was also televised nationally.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score (26p. -- B4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Medium — Suitable for professional or good student orchestras
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Phase 5. Snowflakes shaped like stars and a dream that became reality.
Latvia, you may think, was probably a bit of an off-the-cuff idea.
"Oh, those two just want to add another country to their list," you scoff. "Who even goes to Latvia?"
It's true. Not many people visit this tiny Balkan country, occupied throughout history alternately by the Russians and Germans. It's a culture that's known for its herring salad and… well…. not much else really… so I guess it was a bit of a random sounding choice.
But you're wrong about our motivations.
You see, my husband Tyson can be quite the strategist, and there was a bit of back and forth when it came time to decide how we would spend our last four days in Europe. It seemed too far to drive to visit more relatives. Should we finally check out East Germany instead? How about Finland's beautiful winter paradise, Lapland (I'd always had a dream to go on a dog sled through the forest)? Too expensive and probably booked out by now. Georgia? Nah – that was too far off the beaten track for aunty Christel, who was going to be accompanying us.
Tyson's main objective was to go somewhere with a high probability of snow. Thanks to global warming (?), it always seems to snow in Germany in January these days, not in December like it used to. Thus, it's incredibly rare and unlikely that we should have a white Christmas. Tyson, having grown up in tropical Queensland, still turns into a little boy every time he sees snow, and I get excited when I walk outside wrapped up in 10 layers and the cold air lovingly slaps me in the face. So, it had to be somewhere cold, and somewhere with snow.
Looking up a list of the top five European winter destinations likely to have snow in early January and swiftly eliminating Tallin (too many party-goers), Helsinki (for reasons stated above, plus the fact that we'd been there before), St Petersburg and Moscow (because you need a visa to get to Russia), Riga was left the last city standing – and hey, why not try a bit of that good old herring salad?
And so it was – we flew from Zurich to Frankfurt and then onto Riga, arriving in the wee hours of the morning (2am) due to ice-fuelled delays. To add to our sleepy joy (!), our luggage was last to be loaded off the plane, and so we were also the last ones left standing in the taxi queue outside Riga's tiny international airport.
As if God was trying to cheer us up, snowflakes shaped like beautiful, intricate stars began to fall as we stood outside waiting. Little did we know that they would be just a little taste of what was to come…
When we finally did get in a taxi, our proud Latvian driver decided that 2:30am was an appropriate time as any to give us a guided tour of his capital, proudly declaring that "our shops are open until 11pm, not like you Germans, who close everything early!" Clearly shopping was a big thing here. He also pointed out restaurants and no doubt interesting landmarks, most of which I couldn't see through my foggy, dark window.
We arrived safe and sound in our Air BnB apartment, where our host Elina (who had to work at 10am the next day) was waiting patiently. After quick chats and explanations, she left us to discover her beautiful home, which had on one windowsill a pile of beanies and socks hand-knitted by her boyfriend's grandma. "Handmade by Latvian grandmother," a note said. "In case you don't have souvenir yet."
Boy was I happy to buy one of those beanies!
The temperatures throughout our stay in Riga dropped dramatically, to a low of -21 on the day we left. To our delight, the snow levels did the opposite – on one day it even continued snowing for a whole day and at times was so heavy that you couldn't look straight ahead when you walked.
Despite the statistical analysis of snow probability and our resulting decision to visit Riga, we hadn't done much research (again!) beyond where we would stay, and so were happy to have Christel's previous visit's experience (she'd been there in summer a few years ago) and our Air BnB host's recommendations.
As it turns out, Riga is a magical place! Europe's capital of art deco architechture, about 60% of the city is said to be built in this decorative style. The old town, with its majestic churches and cathedrals, is made up of small, cobbled streets of shops, galleries and cafes, many of which served soup for lunch as this was clearly a hearty and delicious way to warm up in the winter. Elegant, proud-looking women in fur coats meandered through the little Christmas market stalls that were scattered throughout the town squares, drinking hot apple cider, talking to each other in Russian and admiring all the other Latvian grandmothers' handmade mittens and socks. In the huge indoor central market, dried herrings were stuffed into buckets like pens in a cup and ladies with grumpy faces sold rye bread so brown you wondered if they'd get a heart attack if they saw the white bread we ate in Australia.
The food and coffee of this unexpectedly varied little city surprised and impressed us, and the people we met – from the taxi driver to our Air BnB host to the elderly lady who gave us a private, guided tour of the city's pharmacy museum were warm, genuine and not at all the staunch, hard-faced type you sometimes imagine when you think of (former Russian) eastern Europe.
And as if lovely people, good food, beautiful surroundings and great coffee weren't enough, Latvia was to totally blow my mind when I discovered that we could go dog sledding just half an hour outside the city.
This was a dream I had had for many years, but never taken that seriously because I thought I had to go to Canada, Alaska or somewhere in the north of Finland to make it happen. When I made an enquiry with the tour company online, I tried not to get my hopes up as we were booking with only a few days' notice.
Yet it must have been meant to be because my dream came true the very next day as I found myself sitting on a bus driving out to a forest on the outskirts of Riga. When we arrived, the dogs were already waiting for us eagerly, barking and wagging their tails. I'd been worried about the ethics of dog sledding for tourism (a lot of animals used in tourism are mistreated) but had done my research and upon seeing the dogs was even more satisfied that these were animals that loved the snow, loved to run and were healthy and happy. We were allowed to play with them for a while and, well, what can I say – it was love at first sight.
Somehow I ended up being the one to be the 'musher' at the back of the sled, in charge of steering and putting the breaks on the dogs if I needed to (in case you're wondering, this "simple" manoever is done by jumping from the two narrow wooden planks at the back of the sled that you balance on onto the steel bar in the middle which clamps into the ground … This all sounded very technical to a dog sledding novice!) with Christel sitting in the front as my passenger. We had eight dogs in front of us and Tyson, with a sled to himself, only had four. Before we knew it, we were off, and the dogs, excited to be allowed to run, took off at full speed. As we came around the first corner, my feet detached from the wooden planks, but not in order to put the breaks on – somehow I had slipped and was suddenly hanging on for dear life as my legs raced behind the sled and my hands held on.
"This is it," I thought. "My dog sledding adventure ends here."
Knowing that Christel was not going to achieve a James Bond-style backflip onto the back of the sled if I let go and was more likely to disappear into the distance with no control of the eight adrenaline-driven huskies – and knowing that this may be the only time I would ever live this lifetime dream of mine, I managed to somehow do a few enormous running steps and land back on the wooden planks on the back of the sled.
Pfew! That was lucky.
The rest of the ride went by relatively smoothly, though Christel at times had to endure less than relaxing angles as the dogs scraped around the corners and one side of us went up onto the thicker snow. As we got into the forest and I was finally able to relax a little and take in the beauty around me, I cried a few tears of silent gratitude and excitement.
How lucky am I, I thought, to experience something as magical as this?
At the end of the 5km ride, our toes and hands were frozen numb and sore, but our hearts were glad and our faces were plastered with elated grins. Tyson had caught the whole thing (minus my almost-stack) on camera and managed to capture some amazing moments with the dogs after we got back to the car.
That night, though we spent a bit longer in the hot shower to defrost, the cold having seemingly crept into the innermost parts of our bodies after a day spent almost entirely outside in the -14 degree temperatures, we could not shake the immense joy we felt.
What an amazing, amazing, amazing day.
My Father in Heaven, how good you are to me.


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Welcome to Family Life.
If you are new here, we want to personally welcome you. Family Life is a place where you can meet new friends, discover your life's purpose, and learn how to live a life that has a lasting impact. This is a family, a place to call home. It's a place to get help, healing, and hope. Wherever you are in life, you are welcome here.
It's hard to get to know a church based on its website, but here are a few ways that will help you get to know us a little better.
We believe that church is about more than just attending a service every week. It's about growing spiritually, doing life with others, serving the needs around you, and building meaningful relationships. It's about GETTING CONNECTED!
We believe that God has a great plan for your life and we are honored to come alongside you in your journey.
Extraordinary Living week 4 - Pastor Todd Menard - November 3rd, 2019
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If you have a question about your copy of the electronic words edition, the first step you should take is: Consult the help files on the hymnview website. After that, if you still require help, please email the product publishers at email@example.com
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Reading web content can be very distracting. In Safari, you can eliminate ads and design elements that distract students. By using Reading View, students can read just the content of an article, blog post, etc..
1. Before Reading View
For example, this snapshot of my Safari window shows many ads and a scrolling bar of other articles at the top.
2. After Reading View
By turning on Reading View, I get the headline, main art and article in a clean screen view. Simply click on the Reading View button to the left of the address line to activate Reading View.


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I am a free-lance sports and event photographer in the Washington/Baltimore metro area specializing in youth sports game-time action and team portraits. Prior to this I've worked professionally shooting model portfolios, corporate portraits, product photography for catalogs, and client advertising campaigns.
My passion for photography is shared through my skill as a photography educator. I teach classes at Montgomery College on a variety of photographic topics from mobile photography to street photography. I also teach smartphone, street and action photography at Capital Photography Center.
I've led numerous seminars and workshops for local camera clubs, Ritz Camera, Calumet and the former Washington School of Photography with topics ranging from beginner photography to hands-on advanced level workshops and classes.
Currently I'm a Director of the Silver Spring Camera Club in Maryland and VP of the Maryland Photography Alliance.
As well as all the above, I still find time to organize two Meetup groups dedicated to photography. The first is all about mobile photography. I lead the iPhone Photography Meetup Group on outings around the metro area and offer instruction on best techniques and the latest apps for the mobile camera. Secondly, the Photographers of the Washington/Baltimore Metro Area creates a fun, supportive, light-hearted community of people who want to share their passion for photography through photo walks and informal gatherings.


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A principal flutist with the New York Philharmonic can take a luftpause after a thief swiped her prized instruments from a Upper West Side bar early today and cops later found them.
Musician Alexandra Sopp, 28, was out with friends at the Dive Bar on Amsterdam Avenue when she suddenly noticed that her purse — containing a prized flute and piccolo worth a combined $42,000 — was missing just before 3 a.m.
"Public Safety Announcement! Ladies and Gentlemen, WATCH YOUR FLUTES! " Sopp wrote on her Facebook page after the incident. "Turned my back, guy reaches through window and takes my bag."
According to Sopp, a "local crackhead" came to her rescue. Having witnessed the purse snatching, the man escorted authorities through a nearby housing project and to the thief's front door.
"Police go to the housing projects, find the guy, take him into the station, get him to confess, return my flutes — everything else lost," Sopp said. Security footage from the area showed the perp with the bag, police said. Suspect Gary Richards, 48, was arrested and charged with grand larceny and possession of stolen property.
Sopp, who appears often with the Philharmonic, has also performed with other musical notables including Bjork.


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Well, I guess the streak of me liking the posters for Tyler Perry's movies had to end at some point.
This new poster for Meet the Browns takes the very subtle first teaser poster and adds a bunch of things. A big title treatment. Tyler Perry (I'm guessing) in a fat suit. And for good measure a photo of Madea, so people can be absolutely sure that this movie includes that famous character. The humor is obvious and in your face. The subtly is completely gone.
I guess the marketing team thought they were risking too much with the sparse first poster and felt they would do better with something more obviously jokey. I can understand that. But they have had so much success by using much smarter posters for the Tyler Perry movies in the past that I'm forced to wonder why they thought that now was the time to stop that approach. I mean, look at this poster for the previous Madea movie, Madea's Family Reunion.
This was not the best poster for that film, by far. However, It does have a clean and pleasant design, and it still manages to pack a strong emotional punch AND to make it clear that this is a Madea movie, with all the kind of humor that that entails. And that, I think, has been a key to the appeal of Tyler Perry: the combination of a broad humor with a strong and frank emotional appeal.
Now, I'm very much not the audience for the Perry's movies, so perhaps my distaste at this poster means nothing. Perhaps the people who are actually like to come out for this movie as soon as it opens will love it. But I do think that it is a clear step in a different direction when that seems unnecessary, and I think it's a bigger risk than simply sticking with the winning formula of previous posters. Not a big risk because this is a movie that will have a big audience no matter what, but still a risk.
Kamikaze Kamel has a post on his blog about the poster campaigns for the Madea films that basically shows that they always start off well with very beautiful and smart posters, but always end with much more uninteresting choices. Now, I still think that the last poster for Madea's Family Reunion is miles better than this second one for Meet the Browns, but he is right that it is a lot worst than the teaser posters. So I'm revising my belief that there has been a change in the marketing strategy. Perhaps it's the same strategy they have been using all along, just very poorly executed in this case.


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Thanks to an extension for Thunderbird called Display Contact Photo, you can now view Gravatars within emails in Thunderbird. The Gravatar blog has a good explanation on how to setup and install the extension. I've installed the extension as Thunderbird is my email client of choice. So don't be surprised to see a beer mug accompanying replies from me although I'm not sure yet if both parties need to be running the extension to see the images.
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Community Events
- Eagle Saturday Market
- Eagle Fun Days
- Holiday/Seasonal Events
- Eagle Gazebo Concert Series
- Eagle Cyclocross
- Eagle Blues & Bones Festival
The Eagle Saturday Market is a local community market, managed by the City of Eagle - Parks and Recreation. The market is held every Saturday May through October in the heart of downtown Eagle, Heritage Park. At the market, one will find an array of arts and crafts along with local produce, herbs and flowers, woodwork, specialty food items and freshly prepared food. Every Saturday the park comes alive with the melodious sounds of local musicians and community members coming together to support local micro-producers. There will also be additional Special Events throughout the year in which market vendors will participate, including Eagle Fun Days, Harvest Fest, Eagle Country Christmas and Gazebo Concert Series.
Eagle Fun Days is an annual community event that starts on a Friday night with family fun night. It continues on Saturday with:
- Cornhole Tournament
- Custom Car Show
- Fair Food
- Fun Run
- Live Music
- Market Vendors
- Wet N' Wild Parade
The event ends in the evening with a firework show. The event is held the weekend after 4th of July each year.
Eagle Harvest Festival
Eagle Harvest Festival is an annual community event to celebrate fall. The event brings the community together for:
- Entertainment
- Free Kid's Activities
- Games
- Music
- Vendors
The event is held at Heritage Park in downtown Eagle.
Eagle Country Christmas
Eagle Country Christmas is an annual community event typically held in December at Heritage Park in downtown Eagle. The event features:
- A Christmas Market
- Entertainment
- Food and Drink
- Free Carriage Rides
- Kids Activities
- Pictures with Santa
- Tree Lighting
- And More
The Gazebo Concert Series is a free music concert at Heritage Park in downtown Eagle. The event is brought to you by the City Eagle's Parks and Recreation and the Eagle Art Commission and is held on the last Thursday of the month, May through September. Bring a chair, a blanket, a picnic or enjoy food from the local businesses.
The Eagle Island Cyclocross Series is the Treasure Valley's oldest ongoing Cyclocross event and is not to be missed! For more information, visit the Idaho Parks & Recreation website.
There's nothing like the raw sound of Blues music combined with barbecue that's been cooked low and slow to leave a lasting impression on your summer. The Blues and Bones Festival is an annual family friendly event in Eagle, Idaho at Eagle Island State Park featuring some of the country's best traveling Blues Bands with an award-winning barbecue.


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You may not have heard about Vanessa Elisha yet but you're likely to be hearing a whole lot more about her this year. The 21-year-old songstress hails from Queensland, Australia and her debut single 'Blur' has been causing a massive stir across numerous music blogs recently. The combination of her smooth, alluring R&B vocals and Jrdn Gxnius' production make the track sound reminiscent of the female R&B icons of the 90s and early 00s.
With her debut EP scheduled for release in February, big things are expected for Vanessa Elisha this year. We caught up with her to discuss the hype from the blogs, the music scene in Australia, her music career so far and her plans for the rest of the year.
Your debut single 'Blur' has generated a lot of excitement amongst the bloggers, who predict that you're going to be massive this year. Can you tell us a little bit about how your music career has unfolded so far - has it been quite gradual or pretty quick?
The blog support so far has been crazy and totally unexpected! I've wanted to do this for as long as I can remember and have been writing for years. I think it's all happened because I'm finally at a place where I feel like I'm ready for everything that comes your way after releasing your music, whether it's the praise or the criticism. I wouldn't say it's been a fast road to get here, I think everything I've done has led up to this and I think 2013 is my year.
Your vocals along with the production on the track reminded me a lot of the R&B slow jams from the 90s. How much did you think about what you wanted to sound like - did it just work out that way or did you make an effort to sort of revive that classic R&B sound?
I've never really "thought" about my sound. I think it's important to be organic. I'll listen to a beat or I'll hear a melody in my head and I'll go with it. It's never really planned out. But I also think that the 90s sound has influenced me heaps; Monica, SWV, Jon B, Jagged Edge, Lauryn Hill, these are the people that taught me how to sing.
Who would you say are your main musical influences and have they developed or changed much over the years?
Right now, I've gotta say Drake, 40, Jhene Aiko & the Weeknd are the artists that I'm crazy about. I love their sound and I think I've finally found a place where my music fits in. I've always loved simplicity in melodies and beats and these guys are bringing that back to life.
'Blur' was produced by Jrdn Gxnius, who's mainly known for his Hip-Hop production. How did that collaboration come about?
Haha ohh Gxnius. Well, we were introduced to Gxnius by a friend, he came over to the house said hi, sat down at the keyboard and started playing... He's basically lived with us ever since, can't get rid of him! But in all honesty, he's an amazing talent, that's where the name 'Gxnius' came from, we were shocked when we met him – he's something else.
Why did you make the decision to sign with Down With the In Crowd? And were you concerned at all about being an R&B artist and signing with a management team mainly associated with electronic acts?
Wow, you really did your research! My manager, Matt, has known me since I was a kid. He might manage a lot of electro artists but his heart has always been in R&B and Hip-Hop. It was kind of a natural progression, we have a little team; Me, Matt, Gxnius and Cviro – we all sort of just assumed that Matt would manage us. He used to always say to me when I was younger, I hope you're ready to be famous! I would just laugh it off and call him an idiot, but I feel like I'm in good hands on his team.
We don't often hear about many Australian R&B artists. What is the music scene like there and is there much of a market for R&B acts like yourself?
Well, there are a few Australian R&b artists, but they tend to be more pop than R&B. It's tough, because there's a strong local music scene, but it's dominated by electronic and rock acts. There's no real R&B radio format here - it's just pop and alternative. For better or worse, I think R&B music doesn't really fit in either. There's a few successful artists, but their music tends to be more of that "hands in the air" electro music, which is really the sound of pop music right now. And it's definitely not me!
Are there any Australian artists you love that you think more people should know about?
One word – CVIRO. I think everyone's going to recognise the name soon enough. His EP should drop in the next couple of months. He's a new artist but I think he'll find a name quite quickly for himself. Between writing my EP, I've co written every track on his project. I guess that makes me a little biased, but the music speaks for itself! I'm obsessed with every song!
Your EP is scheduled to be released in late February. Has it been completed yet and how is it sounding?
It's not 100% completed yet. We have a million things going on at the moment and we really want to perfect the sound. I think more than anything though it's about having a consistent feel throughout the EP. It might have been done unintentionally, but if you listen closely the lyrics are a story.
Have you made any plans for the year yet in terms of touring and promoting your music worldwide or are you just taking things one step at a time?
I think the plan is to take it one step at a time. I'm just focusing on getting my music out there, seeing what people think and hopefully pick up some fans along the way! As long as people are discovering and enjoying my music, I feel like I'm on the right path. If all goes well, a trip to the U.S. is looking good for the future.
You can visit Vanessa Elisha by heading to vanessaelisha.com


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This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of 3-AP and doxorubicin in
treating patients with metastatic or refractory solid tumors. Drugs used in chemotherapy,
such as doxorubicin, work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop
growing or die. 3-AP may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking the enzymes necessary
for tumor cell growth and may help doxorubicin kill more cancer cells by making them more
sensitive to the drug.
I. To find the maximal tolerated dose for the combination of doxorubicin and Triapine® in
patients with refractory solid tumors.
I. To find the severity and frequency of toxicity associated with this combination and to
observe for and record any antitumor activity.
I. To evaluate the effect of Triapine®/doxorubicin on the ribonucleotide reductase tyrosyl
radical in vivo by EPR spectroscopy in buccal mucosal cells, peripheral blood lymphocytes
and in tumor biopsies. Formation of low molecular weight iron-Triapine® chelates will also
be assessed by EPR.
II. To evaluate the effect of Triapine®/doxorubicin on cell cycle in vivo by measuring
S-phase arrest in buccal mucosal cells.
III. To evaluate the effect of Triapine®/doxorubicin on MDR gene expression and
polymorphisms in blood.
IV. To evaluate the effect of Triapine®/doxorubicin on ribonucleotide reductase R2 mRNA and
V. To evaluate the pharmacokinetic profile of the combination. VI. To measure the
formulation of circulating isoprostanes as an indicator of oxidative stress with this
OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study of 3-AP (Triapine^®).
Patients receive doxorubicin IV over 15 minutes on day 1 and 3-AP (Triapine®) IV over 2
hours on days 1-4. Courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or
unacceptable toxicity.
Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of 3-AP (Triapine®) until the maximum
tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2
of 3 or 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity. Once the MTD is determined, an
additional 6 patients are treated at that dose level.
Patients are followed until disease progression.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have histologically confirmed malignancy that is metastatic or
unresectable and for which standard curative or palliative chemotherapy measures do
not exist or are no longer effective
- Patients must not have previously received anthracyclines
- Patients must not have received radiation to > 25% of bone marrow
- ECOG performance status =< 2
- Life expectancy of greater than 12 weeks
- Leukocytes >= 3,000/μl
- Absolute neutrophil count >= 1,500/μl
- Platelets >= 100,000/μl
- Total bilirubin within normal institutional limits
- AST(SGOT)/ALT(SGPT) =< 2.5 X institutional upper limit of normal
- Creatinine =< 1.5 mg/dl OR creatinine clearance >= 60 mL/min/1.73 m^2 for patients
with creatinine levels above institutional normal
- Patients must have LVEF > 45%
- Patients must have baseline screening for G6PD (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase)
deficiency; G6PD must be no lower than the lower limit of normal prior to starting
study treatment; patients who are above the upper limit of normal may enroll in the
- Patients must have measurable or evaluable disease
- The effects of Triapine® on the developing human fetus are unknown; for this reason
and because heterocyclic carboxaldehyde thiosemicarbazones as well as other
therapeutic agents used in this trial are known to be teratogenic, women of
child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or
barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the
duration of study participation; should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is
pregnant while participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician
- Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 4 weeks (6 weeks for
nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study
- Patients who have not recovered from adverse events due to agents administered more
than 4 weeks earlier; patients with grade =< 1 adverse events from prior therapies
are eligible at the investigator's discretion
- Patients may not be receiving any other investigational agents
- Patients with known brain metastases should be excluded from this clinical trial
because of their poor prognosis and because they often develop progressive neurologic
dysfunction that would confound the evaluation of neurologic and other adverse events
- History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic
composition to Triapine® or other agents used in study
- Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active
infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac
arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with
study requirements
- Pregnant women are excluded from this study because Triapine® is a heterocyclic
carboxaldehyde thiosemicarbazone with the potential for teratogenic or abortifacient
effects; because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing
infants secondary to treatment of the mother with Triapine®, breastfeeding should be
discontinued if the mother is treated with Triapine®; these potential risks may also
apply to other agents used in this study
- Patients with immune deficiency are at increased risk of lethal infections when
treated with marrow-suppressive therapy; therefore, HIV-positive patients receiving
combination anti-retroviral therapy are excluded from the study because of possible
pharmacokinetic interactions with Triapine® or other agents administered during the
study; appropriate studies will be undertaken in patients receiving combination
anti-retroviral therapy when indicated
- Patients with known G6PD deficiency are excluded
- Patients with severe pulmonary disease requiring oxygen and patients with baseline
hypoxia (< 95% oxygen saturations) are excluded
Principal InvestigatorGeorge WildingUniversity of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
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