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Screening Pics
We're having great run. Compiling some pics now for the new site, but here are a few from the Harlem screening and some of the flyers.
Harlem International Film Fest Screening on 9-18-16 at 6pm
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Director PHILL BRANCH tackles name discrimination with SEARCHING FOR SHANIQUA
HBO Best Documentary winner at the 2016 Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Fest to make its N.Y.C. debut
Harlem, NY (September 10, 2016) – The Harlem International Film Festival will host the New York debut of SEARCHING FOR SHANIQUA at MIST Harlem on September 18th at 6pm. MIST Harlem is located at 46 W 116th St, New York, NY 10026.
Searching for Shaniqua examines the impact that unique, Afrocentric, Islamic and so-called "ghetto" names have on people's lives. The film focuses on personal stories of several women and their relationships with their names. Scholars, teachers, corporate professionals also weigh in on the implications on having a name deemed "too black."
Joining director PHILL BRANCH for the post-screening talkback will be cast members KHALIFAH SHABAZZ (City Attorney for East Orange, NJ) and SHANIQUA GOLDING (Writer, VIBE). Both have different and interesting perspectives on having names deemed to be "ghetto."
The winner of the HBO Best Documentary Award at the 2016 Martha's Vineyard Film Festival, Searching for Shaniqua wowed the packed house and the Q&A lasted almost as long as the film. The film has also screened at the Bronzelens Festival (Atlanta) and is set to screen at the North Carolina Black Film Festival (Wilmington) this month.
Branch, an alumnus of the American Film Institute, was a 2013 Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Writers Fellow. He is a Lecturer in the English Department at Howard University and is a storyteller for D.C's Story District. Prior to Howard, Phill served as an Assistant Professor of English at his undergraduate alma mater, Hampton University. A native of Newark, NJ, Phill currently lives in Baltimore.
Screening Date: September 18, 2016
Screening Time: 6pm
Screening Location: MIST Harlem
Admission: $13.50 or Festival Pass
This event is open to the public.
For additional information, please contact Michelle Gipson at (404) 755-4445 or DaRelle Rollins at (502) 594-0830
Website – www.searchingforshaniqua.com
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsWdcbBD2k&feature=youtu.be
Mic – http://mic.com/articles/109524/your-name-says-more-about-you-than-you-think#.dvYNn1dRl
The Root – http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2013/11/phill_branch_s_film_searching_for_shaniqua_looks_at_black_names.html
Baltimore Sun – http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-raven-symone-20151030-story.html
Centric TV – Shaniqua
Got a mention on Centric's site. Pretty cool. Centric would be a great partner for this film. Moving forward.
Shaniqua in Mic
As a gay black male writer who is the foster parent to two little girls, Branch, creator of the PuNanny Diaries, is personally invested in understanding this cultural phenomenon. Through dozens of interviews with people with culturally stigmatized names across America, Branch aims to make people think about how race and class in particular figure in the societal stigmas attached to them in Searching for Shaniqua.
A Shaniqua shout out from @HomeGirlBlog
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What's in a (black) name? Depends on who you ask. There is a new documentary in the works by writer Phill Branch… http://t.co/eqo1yVnqui
— Raquel (@HomeGirlBlog) November 22, 2013
Shaniqua Q&A with The Root
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Clearly the weekend can't see anything, it is a period of time and doesn't have eyes to speak of. My oldest friend isn't that old (in fact he's the same age as me give or take 10 days to be precise) and his wife is much older than 4 (although not as old as either of us yet). Grammer on the other hand is as old as the language itself.
A couple of other friends and workmates have recently started blogging, (namely: Scobi, Stretch & A Bad Man) so I think they need to be made aware of the potential pitfalls of bad grammer while writing wrongs.
There are some very basic rules which I can't take the credit for documenting, but I'm pretty sure that whoever originally put them together won't mind me sharing them here. They are easy to follow and I do my best to do so throughout my writing of my blog. And honestly, I do not, not do so..... without further ado:
1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. Winston Churchill, corrected on this error once, responded to the young man who corrected him by saying "Young man, that is the kind of impudence up with which I will not put!
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies endlessly over and over again
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Contractions aren't always necessary and shouldn't be used to excess so don't.
12. Foreign words and phrases are not always apropos.
13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous and can be excessive
14. All generalizations are bad.
15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
16. Don't use no double negatives.
17. Avoid excessive use of ampersands & abbrevs., etc.
18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake (Unless they are as good as gold).
20. The passive voice is to be ignored.
21. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words, however, should be enclosed in commas.
22. Never use a big word when substituting a diminutive one would suffice.
23. Don't overuse exclamation points!!!
24. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
25. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earth-shaking ideas
26. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed and use it correctly with words' that show possession.
27. Don't use too many quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations.. Tell me what you know."
28. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a billion times: Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly. Besides, hyperbole is always overdone, anyway.
29. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
30. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
31. Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
32. Who needs rhetorical questions? However, what if there were no rhetorical questions?
33. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
34. Avoid "buzz-words"; such integrated transitional scenarios complicate simplistic matters
35. People don't spell "a lot" correctly alot of the time.
36. Each person should use their possessive pronouns correctly
37. All grammar and spelling rules have exceptions (with a few exceptions)....Morgan's Law.
38. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
39. The dash – a sometimes useful punctuation mark – can often be overused – even though it's a helpful tool some of the time.
40. Proofread carefully to make sure you don't repeat repeat any words.
41. In writing, it's important to remember that dangling sentences.
41. When numbering in a written document, check your numbering system carefully.
There you have it. Stick with these and your righting won't be wrong. Or it might.
Back to where I started, and my oldest (not eldest friend) really is joining us for the weekend at some point on Saturday. We've been taking the p!ss out of eachother for about 25 years and I hope we'll continue to do so for another 25 (at least). I'm very much looking forward to the forthcoming mirth, but I know it will be accompanied by the consumption of quite a large quantity of alcohol. Age is catching up with me on that subject, so it will be a challenge, but I'm happy to report that since the birth of his daughter (about a year ago) he's started to slow up a little too - so I might just survive. Regardless, plenty of beer will be on ice and the hot tub will be all fired up and ready to go. If the weather holds out, might even fire up the reconditioned bar-b-q too.
Tonight is WTC night and the next round of PM debates and today I'm meeting up with my Commander for a review. This leaves me torn this evening. I'll be in need of a beverage after a stressful day - hence WTC, but I'll want to catch the debates which won't be on in the pub. Life's hard alot of the time. ;-) Have a grate day!

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By chance I went through the gate of the Kuriftu Resort and SPA, surely attracted by the beautiful sign staked in the street.
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The food is a good combination between international and local. Loved it! The waitresses are very nice, kind and always smiling.
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Anyone who loves to cruise will love this book. The Berlitz Cruising & Cruise Ships 2018 is one of the best "general" cruise guides you can buy. Author Douglas Ward provides an in-depth review of 300 cruise ships in this cruise guidebook, now in its 33rd year of publication. Mr. Ward is certainly a cruise expert--he has worked in the cruise industry for over 50 years and averages about 200 days a year on cruise ships. The guidebook has exceptional information on ships of all sizes and prices, from mainstream to ultra-luxury. Mr. Ward believes there is a cruise ship to suit everyone's taste and budget, and he's right.
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- Not all ships are updated each year
- Information on cruise destinations is excellent but limited; book focuses primarily on ships
- Different ships in the same cruise line sometimes have almost identical reviews
- Might be too much information and too many different ships for those who have not cruised much
- Alphabetical ratings for 300 cruise ships covering over 700 pages
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Because I haven't blogged for so long - I have a couple of layouts that have just been sitting here waiting and watching hoping to get some attention paid to them - so here we go.......
A photo shoot of Daniel man - taken August 4 at Lachlans birthday lunch - this kid hates to strike a pose I tell ya!!!!
Not sure if I like this one or not - but its done now - Hahahaha
But I do like this one- I think I did it for white with one in September after Wendy Smith came up - but as usual I forgot to photograph it and upload it - But I LOVE the photo and the colours worked well...I think so anyway!!!!!!
And a final photo of my gorgeous hubby and his beautiful daughter!! Love these two together and they are mad for eah other too- lucky Im not the jealous type!! Hahah
This was taken at Donnas place in Dalby on the motorbike!!
More old papers and bits and pieces !!!
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After nabbing the title of the 2004 Canadian Idol a mere month and a half ago, the release of Kalan Porter's debut album is just weeks away. Released through VIK.Recordings, the record has been titled '219 Days', and will be released on November 23rd. The '219 Days' cover-art, featuring a black-and-white shot of Porter, can be seen at his official site www.kalanporter.com.
The singer's first single 'Awake in a Dream' has dominated the top spot on the singles charts for quite some time. Still going strong, Porter's song has held down the likes of Usher, The Black Eyed Peas, and Green Day, to name a few. As of yet a track-listing for '219 Days' hasn't been released, but in addition to 'Awake in a Dream' fans can expect a few songs written by Porter himself.
To promote the impending release of '219 Days', Porter is set to travel Canada from coast to coast. The singer has upcoming appearances on talk shows, as well as performances and autograph sessions at malls across the nation. So far there have been two mall appearances scheduled for Alberta, and one for Ontario, but more are likely to pop up.
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November 3 Toronto, ON - Raptors Game at Air Canada Centre
November 3 Toronto, ON - Canada AM at Dundas Square
November 6 Toronto, ON - '2004 Legends Classic' Game at Air Canada Centre
November 8 Toronto, ON - Gilda's Club Variety at Princess of Wales Theatre
November 23 Edmonton, AB - West Edmonton Mall
November 24 Red Deer, AB - London Drugs
November 25 Calgary, AB - Southcentre Mall
November 28 Medicine Hat, AB - Future Shop
December 3 Toronto, ON - Glenn Gould Studio for CBC 'Sounds Of The Season' event
December 4 Vaughan, ON - Vaughan Mills Shopping Mall
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Congratulations Kalan! It's so cool that you're open about your faith, and sticking to it, not letting fame get in the way of what is really important...living your life for Jesus and being a witness to people! Stay strong and don't let anyone try to convince you to change who you are!
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Kalan, you have proved to be what Canada needs to see, a strong Christian who can reach out to the world! You are so admired! God bless you so much!
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My son is 7 years old. We adopted him after his mother dropped him on the pavement at one month old. He is AN OVERCOMER as far as I am concerned and you Kalan are such a rolemodel to him. I have tickets to your evening concert in Red Deer and since then he has been singing all your songs. Do you know what a difference you are making in young peoples lives?
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kalan i am your biggest fan. Keep rockin.... pheonix, massey hall, peterbourough festival of lights and more. CANADA LOVES YOU
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when r u making ur new album?
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What an incredible year of 2005! 8x platinum single "Awake In a Dream"; 2x platinum debut album "219Days"; MTV Fan Choice Award; 2 Juno nominations; all-sold-out tour (39 concerts within 2 months) and a summer tour with record-breaking turn-outs, especially at Peterborough. Congratulation, Kalan! Take care!!!
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Running Away, Jean Philippe Toussaint (trans. Matthew B. Smith). Dalkey Archive Press. 120pp, $12.95.
The narrators of Toussaint's early novels The Bathroom and Camera seek a state of inertia as a place where the noise of modern life falls away, letting them most clearly experience their own thoughts. By contrast, in Toussaint's latest novel, Running Away, the main character does not long for isolation and inertia. Rather, he flows in the current of experience without asking questions or demanding answers.
From the start, the unnamed narrator is subject to events: his Parisian girlfriend, Marie, sets him on a mission to deliver an envelope full of cash to a man named Zhang Xiangzhi somewhere in Asia. She further instructs him that he might as well hang around for a vacation, too. Thus he goes to an opening at an art gallery with Xiangzhi and meets an attractive young woman at a bar. Before long, he agrees to go to Beijing the next day with her, thinking he is ditching Xiangzhi, only to find him at the train station the following day with the young woman. This is only the beginning of the tangled world Toussaint's narrator has entered.
Running Away is constant motion, nothing remains fixed or still, and yet the book never arrives at a final destination. In addition to a land far from the narrator's home, the novel takes place in a series of "indistinct zones," like airports, train stations, hotel rooms, city streets, a train, a motorcycle. The narrator is always either waiting to go somewhere or on the way there, "stuck in the temporary in between-ness of the journey." Despite all the in-betweenness, there are some knowns: the opening lines of the novel declare that the narrator's relationship with Marie will end (and in fact already has, since the novel is narrated in reflection). But almost everything in between is foggy and open to (mis)interpretation:
I was perceiving the world as if in a state of perpetual jetlag, causing a slight distortion in the fabric of reality, a shift, a misalignment, giving rise to a miniscule yet fundamental incompatibility between the familiar world around me and the removed way, distant and hazy, in which I perceived it.
Toussaint's description and exposition aid this effect, stringing colors and objects so that the eyes eventually tend to skim, not catching every detail but getting "the gist of it." The city becomes every city, as when the narrator wanders alone, looking at buildings and people, "indifferent to the noise and constant activity." The sense is one of a mind sliding out of focus from fatigue, that "perpetual jetlag" warping its perception: "Understand? [Xiangzhi] asked. I said yes, more or less (maybe not all the details, but I got the gist of it)." In the heat and fatigue he resigns to the flow of events: "I no longer tried to understand what was happening, so many things had seemed obscure to me since my arrival in China."
To help him better befog his text, Toussaint employs the language barrier in contribution to the jetlag atmosphere: the narrator repeatedly misunderstands or misinterprets body language and broken English (another "indistinct zone," as neither the narrator nor his hosts are native speakers). For instance, when Xiangzhi tells him Don't forget, meaning his train ticket, the narrator thinks it sounds like Don't fuck it, referring to the narrator's romantic interest, Li Qi, of course. At another point Xiangzhi gives the narrator a phone as a present, imparting it with the words "Present for you." Although Toussaint is writing in French, he specifies that the phrase "present for you" is in English, even if broken. Xiangzhi of course means "present" in the sense of a gift, but the phrase comes to work in many senses as it morphs through different meanings as the novel progresses.
The narrative cuts and jumps back and forth in time and space, although more often by means of technology than flashback. On the night train to Beijing from Shanghai, the narrator and Li Qi lock themselves in a tiny bathroom where their passion flares. The narrator's cell phone rings in his bag outside, where Xiangzhi may be waiting for them to emerge. As the phone rings, "insisting that [he] take action, move, react," the narrator feels an "uncontestable confirmation that there is some secret alchemy connecting phones to death." The call is from Marie, and she tells him that her father has died. The phone becomes both a tether connected to death as well as a lifeline to Marie in her time of need.
As the narrator listens to the "frail and sensuous texture" of her voice, he accompanies Marie through the Louvre via cell phone.
Eyes closed and standing still, I was listening to Marie's voice coming from thousands of kilometers away, her voice which I could hear despite the countless lands that separated us, despite the steppes and immeasurable other plains, despite the expanse of the night and its gradation of colors spread across the surface of the earth. . . . I was listening to Marie speaking faintly in the early evening sunlight of Paris, her frail voice reaching me . . . in the late night of the train, literally transporting me, as thoughts, dreams, and books can do, when, releasing the mind from the body, the body remains still and the mind travels . . . and we feel ourselves shaken, as if a fissure had cracked the sea of tears frozen in each of us.
Right after this phone call the narrator embraces Li Qi, and she becomes a surrogate for Marie, but then the very next section finds the narrator still on the phone with Marie. The book's "distortion in the fabric of reality" fuses in these moments. As the narrator says, "I had closed my eyes again and everything was mixed together in my mind, life and death, day and night, pleasure and tears, I continued to hear Marie's voice in my head and I was gently squeezing Li Qi in my arms in an embrace both of mourning and compassion that wasn't meant for her." The foggy jetlag reality becomes the atmosphere in which Toussaint warps not only the narrator's perception of time and space but also his presence, the two being inextricable. He is both present and absent: physically present in Asia, but mentally and emotionally with Marie. But this absence is far from passivity; as the narrator notes, travel is a "state of suspension . . . in which the body, in motion, seems to be making steady progress from one geographical location toward another."
Eventually, the narrator leaves Beijing to attend Marie's father's funeral in Italy, and as he stands in the back of the church, he realizes (or imagines) the impact of his absence on Marie during her time of grief: "It probably didn't occur to her immediately, but the unassuageable pain . . . all her passiveness and dejection . . . began to transform into a diffuse fear provoked by my absence . . . I became the person responsible for her suffering, I was the one who was tormenting her, without my even doing anything—my presence alone was making her suffer, and my absence even more so."
Even when he is present, Toussaint's narrator inhabits what he imagines to be the specter of his own absence. This sensation, which Toussaint continually explores and renders throughout Running Away, is the mind-splitting, schizophrenic condition of living in the age of globalization, an age that has shrunk and connected the world, making it possible to be everywhere and nowhere at once. The book becomes like a fusion of the 20th century's existential crises with the 21st century crises of place and constant flux. The title itself carries in it this conflict of presence, of escape, of being neither here nor there, the –ing of simply being. The only way out, Toussaint's narrator implies, is death:
It was as though this trip were the quintessence of all the trips I'd ever taken in my life, the hundreds of hours spent in planes and trains, in cars and boats, moving from one piece of land to another, from one country to another . . . during which my body, motionless, moved through space, but also—inconspicuously, in an imperceptible and insidious manner, furtively, gradually, with distorting, destructive effects—through time . . . time, ample and fluid, carrying me along in spite of my immobility, with death . . . the measure of its dark progression.
Running Away is Jean-Philippe Toussaint at his most mature, tender, and complex. It is a book that, like most of Toussaint's other novels, is philosophically rich, but it is first and foremost entertaining as fiction, and it makes for a quick read, free from jargon and otherwise dense abstractions. Instead of those the book is full of mystery, the conflict of human desire, and even a motorcycle chase. I have admired all of Toussaint's work thus far, but Running Away is by far the most emotionally and intellectually complex and intriguing. We are fortunate to be able to enjoy it in English.
Josh Maday lives in Michigan. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New York Tyrant, Action Yes, Apostrophe Cast, Barrelhouse, elimae, Keyhole Magazine, Lamination Colony, Word Riot, and elsewhere. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and keeps a blog here.
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I am very pleased to share this lovely pic and recipe which Shobha Keshwani has sent me. This is the link to her interesting blog.
Thank you so much Shobha for sharing your lovely recipe with all of us.
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Once upon a time my fridge was stocked with bottles of baby milk, how about yours? You may still be in that state, but trust me that soon flies by…and then they get replaced by wine, or in my case yoghurt!
Have you tried Siggi's yoghurt before? I swear it tastes like Iceland! DUH. Read the label after trying it for the first time in Starbucks, and to my surprise it is Skyr yoghurt. This is the yoghurt the kids and I got addicted to while in Iceland.
The story goes...Siggi Hillmarsson moved to NYC from Iceland and was missing his homelands yoghurt. His mother sent him a skyr recipe which he used to start making his own yoghurt at home. That evolved into a creation of his own brand Siggi's, using skyr yoghurt. Now it's produced on a farm in Upstate New York and Wisconsin.
I understand now that skyr is not only a brand, but it is a type of yoghurt created in Iceland. A recipe for skyr yoghurt is on their website if you wish to give it a go. I'm happy to skip the homemade process, and just buy it from the supermarket! LAZY. I've found it in Starbucks, Target, Wholefoods and our local Stop N' Shop. Available in all shapes and sizes. I just cleaned out my grocery store of the strawberry drinkable yoghurt bottles, because my kids down a few a day, and to be honest I'm tired of spoons piling up in my sink at the end of the day! HA. Check the dairy aisle the next time your out grocery shopping. You got to try Siggi's! I love that it is not overly sweet, smooth, and creamy, but light. Tell me if you agree.
Now, can somebody please start making Icelandic hot dogs in New York? The kids and I have been spoilt. A regular NY ball park hot dog just doesn't cut it no more, and it was my lil' guy who blurted that out the other day! He knows his food. Raising food critics here!!


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Let It Be Me
Arianna Dubray is nothing like the girl she left in Baltimore. Once a Prada shoe wearing, Michael Kors bag carrying, on top of the world 17-year-old girl, Arianna knew that her life would never be the same when she got out of the car in middle-of-nowhere Montana.
Canyon Michaels is the keeper of his own dark secrets. Plagued by his family name, he's forced to prove the town wrong and make it on his own.
The last thing Arianna needs is a reason to stay, but with every passing day the decision to leave becomes harder. Once their paths cross nothing can tear them apart, other than the secrets that start to surface and the nightmares that soon become their reality.
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- Stefter (Teresa I.)
- 18-05-16
This book is more than it's sexy cover!
I really liked Arianna and Canyon. I can't imagine anyone not liking them. ESPECIALLY Canyon! The story grabbed me right from the beginning with a good amount of suspense. It was obvious that they both had a past to deal with that was affecting how they lived in the present. I couldn't wait to find out what had happened to them that got them to where they were.
I liked the narrator, Lauren Sweet. She did a good job reading the book. However, the voice that she used for Arianna's little sister Shelby was a bit grating at first but eventually I was ok with it, probably because Shelby was a super sweet and very smart girl.
Also, I do like to stare at this cover… I may have stared at it a couple times just while I was typing this. Two words: YES, PLEASE!
I am now looking forward to listening to the follow up book Let It Be Us to find out where Arianna and Canyon go next.
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- ILoveBooksSue
- 22-04-16
All the feelings! I laughed and cried throughout this book. Narrator did amazing at bringing all of the emotions to life. The teenage angst, mingled with adult situations and how the characters handled them had to have been a nightmare for the author but she handled it with such grace.
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- Valerie
- 20-07-18
Gut gripping emotional book.
This book is such an emo much moret loveional roller coaster that keeps you glued to the pages. You can't help but think how much more can they endure. Then the strength, the love and the pure joy at life that always wins makes you believe.
The narrater Lauren Sweet has become my favorite. She truly made me believe I was right there in the book with her. I will be looking for more books she has done.
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- 🎧Pam Audio-Fanatic🎧
- 21-04-16
5 Brilliant Star's
I really wasn't sure what to expect with this audio. When I see 17 year old, I always get a little apprehensive thinking the books going to be a little on the immature side and so I brace myself. NO need with this one if anything this girl/women Arianna is more mature then a lot of adults I know including me! :D
Ok so we meet Arianna and her family, I love her sister! Arianna is so so so good with her I loved that relationship throughout the whole book, these girls melt you heart I swear it.
Anyways they are new the town and right away you don't like the step-dad he is a grade A douche you want to push in to the lake. Her mother isn't any better. So already you have all these feels and then the girl has to start her last 2 months of her senior year of high school in a place she doesn't want to be and who doesn't want drama just to get through so she can get out.
Oh can't forget hunky dunky Canyon, ya with a name like that you so know he owns it. He is everything Arianna isn't looking for. He complicates everything in good and bad ways. She doesn't want to get attached to this place only she can't help it. Canyon helps her and becomes her friend and so so much more.
This is an emotional roller-coaster of a book I cried and even now thinking about it brings tears to my eyes I said to my husband who was giving me a hard time about being a softy, I told him 'look when an author can make me have to find the tissue it's one hell of a book… go back to our sports news and leave me be.' Lol
There are a lot of story lines going on in this book but they all just fit so well. I want more! Here is my favorite line.
"That one of you smiles beats down all of the bad in my day." - Arianna
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- Kherrrten
- 31-05-17
Love this book great read<br />Love this book
I love this book I loved how it pulled you in and brought you into it
- Amazon Customer
- 03-11-16
subliminal Rush of feelings.
loved this book from start to finish. Ari even though just a kid helself carried her life as an adult. This story hit all my emotions. Proud of how she wouldn't give up and put her sisters happiness ahead of her own. Sadness was knowing what HELL she endured by her stepdick and shell of a mom. sweet when Canyon starts bringing life back to her (smiles/laughs) heartbreaking tragedy of so much they loved lost. But back to me being Ari's biggest cheerleader for fighting to have her and Shelby protected at all costs so she could begin speaking out and finally ending the corruption that started all this.... Can't wait for part 2 of this story
- 20-05-16
Oh Canyon
What did you love best about Let It Be Me?
This is going to be very vague review because you just have to listen to this book....You need to experience it! I loved Arianna and Canyon...I was intrigued right from the start and kept wanting to know what was the cause of both of their troubles. It had the right amount intrigue to keep the reader engaged. I couldn't wait for everything to fall into place.
I liked that Arianna wasn't some stupid girl. She was interesting and I thought fairly mature for her age. I like how Canyon and Arianna start off as friends and things blossom from there. They just seemed to connect after that funny start or meeting I should say.
This was full of angst, twists and turns that I was not expecting!
I LOVED the cover...rawr it's hot!
What other book might you compare Let It Be Me to and why?
I am not sure...This is a hard question
What about Lauren Sweet's performance did you like?
I thought she did a good job. I am more a dual POV person and enjoy male voices added to the story, but she did a good job with his voice. I thought that her voice for Shelby was irritating though. I loved the character as she's a sweetie, but the voice annoyed me.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Together we can conquer everything....together
Any additional comments?
I hated her step-dick! I want to throat punch him and knee him in the balls quite a few times. And her mother..ugh! This is a must listen or read....Barbara did a fantastic job with the storyline, the characters....I can't wait for more!
I was given this audiobook for an honest review
- cyndi
- 15-05-16
Let it be me...
OK this book drove me a little bit crazy. I kept wanting to know about the past and I felt like every time I was getting close the characters revealed nothing but I kept going and glad I did. I liked the narrator but you know what I think her voicing Shelby is what drove me nuts too. received book in exchange for honest review
- cullen_cutie2
- 06-05-16
Country Livin'
Overall an entertaining story. I found myself trying to guess what the story was surrounding Ariana's sudden departure and relocation to Montana. Once reveled, it was truly a shock.
I thought the story was just a bit overdrawn and could have been tightened up a bit.
The narrator gave it a good try. I did find her portrayal of Shelby to be a bit annoying and somewhat stereotypical...that of a whiny adolescent. It grated at times.
- Janine
- 03-05-16
Misleading title to a great story.
I didn't quite understand the titles reference but I am glad I had the chance to listen to this book. Lauren Sweet did a fantastic job of narration and moved effortlessly between male and female characters. I have become a fan.
Barbara's writing is more sophisticated than I expected with this type of book and I really enjoyed the way she spun this tale. There were some unexpected turns in the story which added real depth to the overall appeal to the book.
Without giving away any spoilers, I was a bit taken a back by the 'attitude' of the main character about what she was into in the build up to the story reveal. I also found it quite amusing how many times the word 'shower' was used in this book. I mean it's great to be clean but it felt like the same line was used in every chapter.
I would gladly recommend the book, the author and the narrator. It's a book that I will listen to again.
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Wales v Portugal: Captain Williams sure team can cope without suspended stars
Wales captain Ashley Williams is confident that he and his team mates can do without Aaron Ramsey and Ben Davies in tonight's Euro 2016 semi-final against Portugal.
>>Wales v Portugal - live scores, results and fixtures <<
The Welsh must cope in Lyon without suspended pair Ramsey, one of the players of the tournament with a goal and four assists, and defender Davies, but Williams feels the squad is well covered in those areas, whoever manager Chris Coleman decides to calls up.
West Ham centre-half James Collins, whose only appearance at the finals came as a late substitute in Wales' 3-1 quarter-final success over Belgium, is expected to take over from Davies in defence.
Jonathan Williams is the favourite to fill in for Ramsey in midfield, but boss Coleman is also considering starting Leicester City's Andy King ahead of his Crystal Palace rival.
"The strength is in the squad, not just the team," said Williams.
"The 23 men who are there. Whoever the gaffer picks will do the job.
"We're disappointed for the players who are missing, but it gives two others a chance to experience the Euros.
"They'll fill the slots as good as the boys who went out."
Cristiano Ronaldo presents the greatest threat to Wales meeting either Germany or France in the Paris final on Sunday.
But Williams said of the Real Madrid star: "He's one of the greatest players in the world, but they have other weapons in their team.
"We are not obsessing over that. We'll try and nullify them as a team, as we have all tournament."
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Australia's high commissioner to India, Peter Varghese, is the first foreign ambassador of Indian origin posted in New Delhi. That the 54-year-old diplomat has done well in life after moving home from India and Kenya suggests that Australia is a great multicultural and democratic country.
So Varghese must be really embarrassed to hear his country being accused, all over India, of racism against Indian students in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide.
The hype in the Indian media over racial attacks on Indian students in Australia would suggest that thousands of Indian students have been victims of such attacks over the past two years. This is not true.
Presently, Indian students number 119,000 in Australia and account for 19 percent of its total international intake. In fact, Australia has overtaken Britain as the second most important destination for Indian students studying abroad. The number one destination is the United States. Also, India contributes the majority share of the US $14.33 billion revenue that Australia earns annually from foreign students.
With the Indian media hyping the attacks, Varghese openly admits that there could be a decline in the number of Indian students going to Australia. Although a decline is predicted, it may not be as high as 40 percent, as feared in some circles.
Is Australia really turning racist? Against the backdrop of increasing attacks on Indian students, a leading Indian tabloid has caricatured the Australian police as similar to the Ku Klux Klan. Quoting recent studies, some Left-oriented intellectuals have alleged that racism is a problem in Australia.
Apparently, a 10-year study undertaken in 1998 by Professor Kevin Dunn and Associate Professors Jim Forrest and Rogelia Pe-Pua found that one in 10 Australians believe that some races are superior to others. The study, titled "Challenging Racism: The Anti-Racism Research Project," interviewed 12,500 people over almost a decade. It says that 85 percent of Australians feel that racial discrimination is rampant in the country, with one in five being a victim of verbal abuse.
But then, such dastardly feelings are also found in many other countries. Stray racist attacks occur quite frequently in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia and many African and Gulf countries. Therefore, to call Australia a racist country, as is said in some quarters in India, may be a bit too harsh.
A dispassionate look at the recent attacks on Indian students reveals some distinct patterns that are not exactly racist. First, the attacks have been on students and not on long-term residents working as skilled professionals.
According to the 2006 census, the Indian community in Australia totalled about 234,000, of which 147,000 were born in India and the rest have Indian ancestry. This number is estimated to have gone up to about 300,000 presently. In addition, there are a sizeable number of people of Indian origin from countries such as Fiji, Malaysia, Kenya and South Africa.
Indians contribute significantly to the Australian economy, as teachers, doctors, accountants, engineers and information technology professionals. In fact, India is now the third-largest source of immigrants to Australia, after the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and the second-largest source of skilled professionals.
Secondly, as was revealed during attacks on Indian students last June, the attackers were a polyglot mix, reflecting the streets -- whites, Asian, Middle Eastern, Aboriginal and Pacific Islander. In one case, the alleged assailant was of Middle Eastern appearance. In another incident, a young offender described as Aboriginal committed the attack.
The ethnicity of the attackers thus varies from crime to crime. The Australian police are not far from truth when they describe the attacks as largely motivated by opportunity because Indian students work late at night, live in low-cost and usually crime-prone neighbourhoods, and are regarded as soft targets. Many students in Australia and their parents who are personally known to this writer share this point.
It is worth noting that many Indian students in Australia use their student visas as a foothold into the job market of a developed nation and their eventual settlement and citizenship in the country. While those doing higher courses in medicine, engineering, business management, post-graduate and higher research are easily absorbed, those pursuing so-called diplomas in seemingly academic courses -- actually semi-skilled areas -- draw the locals' ire.
The latter categories of students are actually migrants desirous of working as taxi drivers, carpenters and attendants in shops and hotels. Most do not mix with locals and live in virtual ghettoes, something that does not go well with the local population.
In fact, last fortnight India's Foreign Minister S M Krishna made a pertinent comment on Australia's moneymaking education industry. "One can understand students going there at the university level, at the IIT level or at the level of some other institution of excellence. When I went there, I was shocked to see so many students in courses they don't need to go to Australia for -- such as learning hair-styling or doing facials."
Obviously, all those who go for courses such as hair styling and facials have some other aim in Australia. They are prepared to work for much less pay in jobs that lower-educated and semiskilled Australians do, causing the latter loss of income and loss of job opportunities.
Naturally, in a bid to scare away existing and future students from India, locals target them. Here, the reputation of Indians as comparatively less aggressive, for fear that any complications will affect their visa status, makes them easy targets.
All this does not mean that Australian authorities have done enough to prevent the recurrence of such attacks. Why is it that one does not hear of similar incidents involving Chinese students, who number more than 120,000 in the country? Krishna has a point when he says, "We will not tolerate it anymore" and be forced "to look to other ways."
But what can India do? One option is to create hurdles for Indian students aspiring to study in Australia, something that will surely hurt Australia's booming education sector.
Unattended, the unfortunate development has the potential to strain the overall Indo-Australian ties, which, of late, have been in good shape. Thanks to Australian exports of minerals and other resources to India and China, a full-fledged recession was avoided last year.
As Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd revealed in New Delhi during his visit last November, India and Australia have decided to elevate their relationship to a formal strategic partnership with a new security agreement keeping in mind the larger Asia-Pacific picture.
Recurring attacks on Indian students could make a dent in that endeavour.
Prakash Nanda is a journalist and editorial consultant for Indian Defence Review. He is also the author of Rediscovering Asia: Evolution of India's Look-East Policy.


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I haven't seen any bagelen sold in Sydney, unless in some Indonesian grocery shops, so I guess it is one of Indonesian snack (do correct me if I am mistaken). Basically, bagelen is made up sweet bread bun, halved, spread with some butter cream icing, and baked until dry and crispy. The butter icing is what really makes this snack tasty, it is sweet and slight hint of salty and most of all is buttery. Combined with the crispy sweet bun, just makes it perfect snack to accompany coffee or tea. Some people dip the bagelen to their hot coffee or tea to soften it, but I prefer it crispy (っ˘ڡ˘ς)
To be honest, I am attempting this mainly because of leftovers from this bread. Because the bread texture is not soft and even more so the next day, so hopefully it will save them by turning to bagelen. And here is the ingredient for the butter cream icing (I only made half batch for 8 sweet buns):
- 50 grams sweetened condensed milk
- 125 grams icing sugar
- 250 grams margarine
- 250 grams butter (if unsalted, add a tiny pinch of salt)
Mix all the ingredients together until well combined.
To make bagelen, halve sweet buns and lay on baking pan. Preferably leave them overnight so that they are dry. Since I am doing it kind of at last minute, I refrigerate my halved buns for about 3 hours.
Spread the butter cream icing generously to surface of each sweet buns.
Bake them on 120C for 40-60 minutes until they are crispy. Make sure to use lower temperature to avoid burning the sweet butter cream.
Once cool to room temperature, store them in airtight container to keep the crisp for longer.
Unfortunately, I forgot to take photos after baking. Hubby went after them too quickly! No, actually I had some as well and kept thinking I will take picture the next day when lighting is better, and never ended up doing it


text: I'm always at a bit of a loss to know what to write in an artist's statement. They seem to be de rigeur for exhibits and publications but I also notice at the gallery that people are usually drawn first to the images and only occasionally to whatever that artist had to say about them. Some years ago now, I took a workshop with Kim Weston - son of Cole Weston and grandson of Edward. He said whenever his uncle Brett Weston was asked to interpret his work, he simply said, "The photograph speaks for itself." I do like that sentiment, but we always seem to want more. A visitor came to the gallery a week ago to look at my work. She had seen it online and had fallen in love with the Cocoon Series, she said. We spent probably two hours looking through prints of the series and she remarked how hearing me talk about them enriched the experience of the images for her. It was such a wonderful experience to have someone devote her time and thought to my work. And it made me realize that what we have to say as artists may make a difference. With that in mind, here is my artist's statement for the show I'll hang on Monday September 1 at Multiple Exposures Gallery. I was happy with this one and happy to pair it with an image from the series I'm showing . . . see what you think . . . click the image to have it open in a light box where it may be easier to read . . . .


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I just finished setting this bead by Harold Williams Cooney, American Trade Beads. His beads are amazing and I love the way this turned out. I used a tube to set the bead, threaded the tubing and then put rubber washers and screws to keep it in place. Fabricated with sterling silver. It is a stunning piece. They also have a Facebook page, and sell on Etsy.
I just restocked at Evergreen Gallery, in downtown Evergreen, of course, and tomorrow Baby Does in Golden will have a new grouping of my work. There are a few new pearls at Barbara & Co, on Old South Gaylord Street. And next week I'll have new work at Willow in Littleton.
And one last note, I will no longer have handmade jewelry in Creator Mundi. We had quite a tenure, I found records from 2002. It's a wonderful inspirational gallery in Cherry Creek North.


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Tower Hamlets deshis and lefties pulled it together to pull off a startling win in the Bethnal Green and Bow elections. George Galloway unseated the loyal prowar newlabour candidate, he was respectful in victory and praised her work for the community.
This was happy news to me for a few reasons, it was a triumphant display of functional unity between social forces of bangla, islamic and lefty flavour....it inspired the local people who got actively involved who now walk with an extra spring in their step....it was a good development for those who imagine and want to work out a way out from global and local injustice.....its a maturing opportunity for the 'Stop the War/End the Occupation group'....it is an inspiriation for justice movements worldwide from bangladesh to baghdad....it is scaring the hell out of corrupt council leaders in the area
Well wishers of east london should be pleased that creative politics is not dead.
This situation reminds me of the Sylhet refurendum held in british occupied assam ( part of india) when the muslims of sylhet (reduced in stature through purposeful colonial and quisling land and educational policies) chose to link their futures to the muslim peoples of india upon partition. The two nation idea hadn't garnered mass support before this time...this was significant watershed....and the rest followed suit....well thats my take on it. I cant get this stupid grin off my face!
The Respect Coalition polled well in birmingham(3 000 short!), 2 seats in newham and canning town (20%+)...next years council elections should see more triumphs, so long as this hard fought constituency serves its people well and promotes and contextualises the adab-ful vibe. Many people i have spoken to have only heard of Respect just now (duh!) after they won something...so i guess it takes time for positive experiences to emerge in the local social memory.
The establishment's revulsion at this free expression of public will was noted.
1 ex-labour mp tony bank's statement that bangladeshis/muslims are latently rascist
2 BBC newsman Paxman's hilarously loony 'do you feel proud to have displaced one of the only black women MPs'
3 blairite sellout mp david lammy's 'he's an exploitative carpet bagger' and 'those poor helpless and hapless people of the east end' statement
Labour corruption and skull duggery through the postal vote issue have also been noted, as have armchair political commentators annoyance/ignorance/prejudice of this community on the ground.
May local society be further emboldened and inspired to achieve its highest state! I think one of the keys is a cultural adaptation (or 'J'). politicians arent really the solvers of all our problems, their job is to create an enabling environment.
We have a 'bhaiya - apa' (older brother -sister) set of relationships that we maintain in deshi extended family networks. I think they become uneven and get truncated on migration to a new country (the uk) we can see this as parents can often get a bit desperate and lame in efforts to marry of their children.
Mentoring is ...... good, but reestablishing the caring-slightly-elder relationship, though overlapping of ...'aador networks' is much more promising in my experience. Why should i have to go to an outside agency to promte to them that i am not a paedophile so that i can help my own kids? Lets not wait for anyone, dignity, justice and freedom are not handed out on silver platters, they need to be taken...
but brother, sister , comrade....can you spare the time......?
Anyhow, now the people of bethnal green and bow have an MP who will represent their views in parliament. I hope many more constituencies disengage from the politics of hegemonic parties.
Something a little more nourishing for the soul to round this up. I found the web pages of Said Nursi's teachings , a reknowned Islamic thinker who was born into the late period of the Osmanli Caliphate and who died in a time of present day Turkey. His Risale-i-Noor Collection is illuminating. Remember the authors situation and read his biography on the web pages to better realise the spiritual audience and political strife of his time.
I asked a wise old turk (not aligned to his followers) in istanbul about this(Nursi's) personality, he rated him as a write and a thinker, but in retrospect wished he had not entered politics (for which he and others suffered).
There is a similar theme of value running throughout Islamic history, whereas the brit/european history i was taught at school is always about kings and queens and battles, islamic historical thinking tends to be about the scholars.
In the Late Shayk Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi's 'Saviours of the Islamic Spirit' most of the individuals (apart from Salahuddin Ayubi..who freed al quds from the crusaders) were people of learning.


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Posted on July 3, 2008
Flash Game Development Inter-web Mash-up: July 3, 2008
This one is more MASHY than usual. Along with the regular Flash only focused material, this week I decided to concentrate on the world of game creation as a whole, and especially retro game programming. I have mostly chosen only those sources that I feel will aid Flash game developers in some way. I can't completely leave my Flash brothers and sisters out in the cold, so here are a few choice links from some of my favorite sites:
Game Poetry has some free RPG tile sheets for you to use.
FUCKING IDIOTS ARE STILL OUT THERE STEALING FLASH GAMES and Gamingyourway has the proof.
nGFX also has a great new tutorial on basic enemy AI, and an AS3 Preloader in Flex.
Mochi ads a new ad type and payment features, and Mochiland has a more relevant than ever article on protecting your games.
Emanuele Feronato has an excellent new tutorial on making a Lumines style game.
Here are some sites, articles and blogs focused on retro game creation (most can be applied to Flash)
James Hague, curator of the incredible Halcyon Days Site, has a blog with some very great articles on retro game programming. This (so far) 4 part series on using purely function programming to create a retro game has been a favorite of mine for a couple weeks now. His purely function style necessitates passing all needed variables into functions in the game loop. So the draw method, for instance, would receive a list in some form of array of list of all objects to draw to the screen. It is a very interesting read on methods of using limited resources to create games without accessing global variables in functions. No events are utilized and most of his code is based on the time that has elapsed since a certain event. For instance, in a Pac Man game, when a ghost is eaten, its state is set to something that will return it to home. It would also have a time stamp for when the state changed. Another function would look at the list of ghosts and if any had a time stamp of the current frame and were in a state heading home, then the score would be updated, etc. It seems to me that this works really well in conjunction with a state machine design pattern, and an entity framework. He hasn't taken this as far as he wants yet, as much of it is still in the experimental stage, but it makes for interesting reading.
AtariArchives.org has an incredible collection of vintage books an magazines mostly covering Atari computers. Even if you have no interest in old Atari computers, these sources can be of use for Flash game developers: Basic Games and More Basic Games each include the source code for over 50 text based games. It helps to know a little about Atari basic when trying to figure out exactly what they are doing. For more advanced 8bit game programming, you can start with Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design, but you are going to want to dig much deeper into the internals of the machine with titles such as De Re Atari, Machine Language For Beginners, and Mapping the Atari. Stepping away form just Atari specific books, The Computer Graphics Primer has an wealth of great information for all kinds of early 8-bit systems. I could go on and on and on about this site. If you are at all interested in Retro Game creation, retro computing, etc you have a very valuable resource at your disposal.
Martin Fierz has a nice site full of his own games and some excellent tutorials. Most of his stuff is in C or C#, but he started out his game programming in GFA Basic on the Atari ST! I used to create games with that system and dev language also, so I feel a little kinship with Martin. He has a fascinating set of blogs and articles in on CAKE, one of the worlds most comprehensive checkers engines. Supposedly it can beat almost any human. Also, what got me to his site in the first place was a very nice set of tutorials on creating a strategy game.
If you like to make and play retro games, get on the boards at RetroRemakes.com
Here are some sites, articles and blogs on general game development (most can be applied to Flash)
The Toy Maker site has a comprehensive set of tutorials on Direct X game programming. It also contains a wealth of articles filled with theory that can be applied to any game development system, including Flash. His low level 2d information can mostly be applied to any 2d game: Colour Formats, and Blitting are two nice choices. Much of his information on 2d scrolling, sprite animation, and clipping will all prove useful to any 2d game developer. If you are getting started with 3d game development, his tutorials, while focused mainly on Direct X, can give you a nice set of theory that can to apply to any 3d development effort.
I like reading game programming books that target at all development languages. Usually, if the author explains a concept, algorithm or game engine well enough, it can easily be applied to Actionscript. Here are three freely available e-books on game programming.
Online Gaming Europe has an extensive list of sites and blogs for advanced game development.
As always, check out Flashgameblogs.com and freelanceflashgames.com for your daily dose.


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This has led me to start thinking more about what I do in terms of, does it have any tangible application in the real world? That's the external influences that have been shaping the sorts of questions I'm starting to ask now.
There's been a growing awareness that there have been a lot of problems with the way that psychological research has been going on in the past, very much lab-based type of work. There has been a general issue in the experimental method, what you typically do is you hone in on a question, and you try to refine that question by removing all the extraneous variables to try and make it as clean as possible. But then that does raise the question, to what extent? And does what you eventually find actually have real relevance or validity to the external world? Because in many senses, the complexity of the external world might be part of the problem that the brain is trying to solve.
A number of us have been getting increasingly concerned that the theories that have been derived by purely experimental methods may not necessarily translate into the real world as well. There's a combination of this external pressure to come up with research, which is seen to have application, but also a growing concern that maybe some of the findings would necessarily translate. That's the kind of major forces that have been changing the way that I do things.


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The Ingredients of Lunarcrete
Lunarcrete was first proposed in 1985, by the University of Pittsburgh's Larry Beyer. Sometimes called "mooncrete," its basic ingredients aren't much different from what we use in Earth-bound concrete: a solvent, the crushed-up aggregate and the sticky cement. The question, then, is what can be used for those three ingredients, since it's cost-prohibitive to transport them to the lunar surface?
The bulky part of concrete, the aggregate, can be made of the top layer of lunar soil, called "regolith." It's similar to what we use on Earth, although unlike our soil, it doesn't contain anything organic. The moon's regolith layer was created over billions of years by meteoroids of all sizes bombarding the surface, and sometimes crushing what was already there.
About 4 to 6 meters (13 to 20 feet) under the regolith, you find regular moon rock, similar to our bedrock layer [source: Wilcox, et al]. We can use high-calcium deposits here for the cementing part of the mix. But what about the solvent? The moon is a pretty dry place.