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A big surprise on the Seat stand - OK, not a big surprise exactly, more a medium-sized surprise - in the shape of the new Exeo saloon.
Ok, it's possible that we got told about the Exeo before and, er, forgot a little bit, but now that we've seen it up close, it's a decent-enough looking effort from the Spanish manufacturer.
If you're struggling to get a sense of size, think Audi A4. Because that's what the Exeo is - the last-gen A4 with a Seat-ised body on top.
Which means you get a smart, understated interior, a big boot - 460 litres of bigness, to be exact - and a rather exciting-sounding 'solar roof', which provides enough electrical power to run the Exeo's ventilation system, even when the car is switched off.
It should be decent to drive, too - there's trapezoidal link suspension at the back and an independent multilink set-up at the front, along with modified suspension coils and shock absorbers.
The show car is fitted with the (MkV) Golf GTi-spec two-litre turbo petrol engine, putting out 197bhp, though expect common rail diesels to feature heavily when the Exeo reaches the UK early next year.
If you're finding the Exeo a bit VW-Group-lite, we sympathise. But just think - how are you going to pick up a last-gen Audi A4 for cheaper?
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(Sort of long) backstory: my MIL watches my DD (17 mo.) a few days a week while I work (the rest of the week she's with my mom) and has been for many months. Sometimes my MIL takes DD on a half-hour drive to visit GMIL (her own mother) and when they do they all go out to eat together. This is a really important ritual for MIL and GMIL. I thought having DD at the restaurant was going fine; I send snacks that she likes and she can always munch on a cucumber or tomato or something from MIL's salad. Then yesterday, out of the blue, MIL said, "Well, I do order her Kraft Mac-and-Cheese to keep her occupied. I hope you're not mad." I guess unless DD is really occupied by her food she wants MIL to walk around the restaurant with her, which I guess she doesn't want to do because then GMIL is left alone.
We are EXTREMELY strict about DD's food, and Kraft Mac-and-Cheese is NOT ok. MIL knows that, but I'm not (very) mad, because she's being so generous to take DD and going out to eat with her mom is so important to her. I just wish she had come to me first and let me come up with an acceptable solution.
So my actual question is this:
What vegetarian snacks keep your LOs SUPER occupied? It could be a whole meal (that can be served cold) but doesn't have to be--I send a lunch that MIL heats up at GMIL's house. I thought munching on veggies or some dry cereal or whatever was enough to keep DD busy but apparently I need something that has that exciting factor that Kraft Mac-and-Cheese is such a master of.
Thanks for reading this whole thing and thanks in advance for suggestions!
ETA: We do eat dairy, not not all the artificial/chemical stuff that's in Kraft products.
Breastfeeding, cloth diapering, vegetarian, working mama to DD (10/2010) and wife to a wonderful, opinionated DH . We love and our.
You don't mention what exactly you don't like about it....one can only assume it's the "Kraft" and all their artificial ingredients (as opposed to the cheese and noodles themselves). If so then could you make your own version to take with them? When I was vegan I made really good mac&cheese using nutritional yeast and soy milk. There are loads of vegan mac&cheese recipes out there. You can also use gluten-free noodles if that is your concern.
Otherwise could your MIL just give your DD little snacks at home and save the meal you leave with her for the restaurant?
My DS (2 years old) likes all sorts of things that change from day to day it seems! But he does love noodles of all sorts, or sliced fruit (apples, bananas, and most any other fruit or berries). He used to like veggies more and still does sometimes (steamed carrot or broccoli, potatoes or sweet potatoes, cukes, etc). He loves hummus (s.times on toast or sometimes with a dipper like spelt cracker strips), or beans (plain or in another dish like a casserole), and a new fave is peanut butter. Or try little sandwiches or pancakes cut into tiny fun shapes with cookie cutters. We are always experimenting with food and his tasted do change rapidly. I would say just give your MIL a few different little Tupperware containers with various tastes (one fruit, one veggie, one grain-based thing, etc) so she can try them.
Good luck!
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Multicultural living in Europe
Oh and BTW for keeping occupied at a meal we always always bring toys and books. Little ones obviously but that does buy a little time, especially if your MIL doesn't want to get up and walk around with her. I remember when DS was your LO's age he loved looking at little board books in restaurants.
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Does it have to be a food thing to occupy her? Honestly I don't like using food to occupy kids at all. I wouldn't be surprised if your dd now acts up in order to get the kd?
How about instead of food
-an etcha sketch or a megna doodle(of course the no name versions)
-beads and a string
-colouring books
-those markers that only show up on special paper
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Could mil bring her lunch into the restaurant? or on days that you know they're going to a restaurant pack her a "picnic" lunch so she can bring little snacks to the restaurant and if its called a picnic it'll be tons more fun...or even make a veggie healthy mac and cheese and bring it in a little container or tell dd that she'll have her macaroni and cheese when they get home?
Hi P.J. Thanks for the reply! I should have clarified, I guess: we definitely do noodles and cheese, we just don't do any artificial ingredients. I actually do send her mac-and-chese quite frequently--just all-natural, organic, and with whole grain pasta. If my MIL's going to bring the lunch meal to the restaurant (which is a good idea, you're right) I need to come up with some cold lunches. I mostly do just give her lots of different tupperware containers with different options, I'm just trying to get some really exciting ideas since what I send doesn't seem to be keeping DD's attention.
I LOVE these idea of sandwiches/pancakes in animal shapes! Thanks so much for the suggestions.
Breastfeeding, cloth diapering, vegetarian, working mama to DD (10/2010) and wife to a wonderful, opinionated DH . We love and our.
Both P. J. and Caiesmommy: I think you're definitely right--she needs more than food. She's finally got the hang of coloring, so that might help a lot. I love the idea of a picnic lunch, that's so cute! It's essentially what we do anyway, but I think framing it that way might up the fun factor. Thanks!
Breastfeeding, cloth diapering, vegetarian, working mama to DD (10/2010) and wife to a wonderful, opinionated DH . We love and our.
Don't know about your DD, but my boy actually likes his noodles cold! Or, you could warm them up before hand (or not) and then by the time they get there they'd be room temp.
Mama since 2010
Multicultural living in Europe
What worked for us when taking a toddler to a restaurant was ordering a bowl of ice cubes for her. Then she'd usually snack off of my plate.
That said, you've got a mess on your hands, because your LO is not going to understand why she can't have her yummy bowl of starch and chemicals. Seriously, breaking the restaurant mac-and-cheese habit has been the hardest thing for my daughter in going vegan (a change that was her own choice). The foods she misses are mostly the Kraft M&C from dinners out with Grandma, and strawberry-with-strawberries-sticking-out ice cream from a particular ice cream parlor - they have vegan ice creams, too, but not strawberry-with-strawberries-sticking-out. We make her vegan versions at home, and she and Grandma just stopped going to restaurants without me along. We mostly stick to Asian restaurants now, where we can get tofu and veggies for her. Sometimes Mexican for beans and rice.
Egg molds. My kids will eat twice as many eggs, plus spend 5 minutes talking about the shape they're in if we use them.
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Ugh, thank you Catnip. I'm really trying not to be all mad hippy DIL in this situation but it's so frustrating. Establishing DD's tastes and food preferences is such a huge deal to me--I'm not saying I'll never let her have treats but now, while she's young and doesn't know any better, I want to build her a foundation of healthy habits. Oh whoops, never mind, she's been eating Kraft Mac-and-Cheese for months. Not to mention that she's very picky, and my approved mac-and-cheese is kind of a staple for her. Luckily she hasn't started rejecting that yet in favor of the Kraft, but if it had gone on much longer? Who knows. Sorry to vent--I guess I'm a little intense when it comes to food. What a mature, dedicated daughter you have! Good for her. Asian and other ethnic restaurants have been my natural companions for my whole vegetarian life.
That said, thanks for the ice idea and Honey693, I definitely see some molds in our future!
Breastfeeding, cloth diapering, vegetarian, working mama to DD (10/2010) and wife to a wonderful, opinionated DH . We love and our.
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Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Tamba Hali is expecting some extracurricular activity on Sunday when his team takes on the division rival Oakland Raiders. Rivalry games — even ones between teams who have not been very good in recent history — have a tendency to be spirited, but Hali said the Raiders take it a step further. "It's a tradition," Hali told the Kansas City Star on Wednesday. "The Raiders, they come in, they cheapshot, they hit you. I'm not saying (any) names. It is what it is. We've got to be ready to play and keep our composure, stayed poised and be able to get this win. "The core guys that have been here, they understand what we've got going on Sunday. (The Raiders) are coming in and they're a good team and a fast team and they play dirty. We've got to come out swinging." The Raiders have been known as an aggressive team for years, and that is particularly evident when they step inside the Black Hole in Oakland. However, Richard Seymour said there is a difference between playing dirty and playing hard and insists his team focuses on the latter. "Any time you play the game, you should play with a chip on your shoulder," Seymour said. "You should play with an attitude. But in terms of being dirty, going out to hurt guys, I don't think I play that way or any of my teammates (play that way). I don't stand for it. But we do play tough and physical. I do believe that's the way the game is supposed to be played. I respect guys that play the same way." If the Raiders have been playing dirty on defense, it hasn't been effective as they are giving up over 28 points per game. Oakland has yet to find its identity, which was evident when they nearly lost to the Jaguars last weekend after hanging tough with the Falcons the week before. If the cheap shots Hali speaks of exist, they haven't exactly given Oakland an advantage. Photo credit: AP Photo/Paul Spinelli
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In researching Jamaica, I learned that it was it was originally called Santiago and was a former colony of Spain (no surprise, I guess-what territory in the New World wasn't?) It was seized by the British in 1655 and did not become an independent member of the Federation of the West Indies until 1958.
95% of the population is of African or partial African descent and nearly the whole population is Jamaican-born. They speak English and an English-Creole language derived from their African roots, called Patois. It's a very colorful language with some real fun sayings. Ya, mon!
Wha sweet nanny goat a go run him belly [meaning you can't have too much of a good thing. Come see the good thing I made for this stop on the tour.]
Most notably, Jamaicans are known for "jerking" meats, a process involving a seasoning of hot peppers, onions, garlic, thyme, allspice, ginger and cinnamon and slow cooking. They also eat a lot of fresh foods – seafood fished from the Caribbean, fruits and vegetables. That's definitely the direction I wanted to take. I looked at quite a few recipes but just wasn't finding 'the one' so, undaunted, I made up my own. I am a food blogger, after all.
Jerked Fish Fillet with Tropical Melange and Coconut Rice + PeasRed Snapper was encrusted in mix of ground almonds, garbanzo flour, FOODalogue seasoning plus some Jerk flavors of red chili flakes, allspice, nutmeg and cinnamon. Fish was fried skin side down till crisp and finished in oven.
Tropical Melange contained green plantain and sweet potato (Ipomoea batata), both boiled, then cooled off. Mixed with red onion, avocado, scallion, cilantro, olive oil, fresh lime juice, S+P, splash hot sauce.
Coconut Rice was supposed to be cooked in coconut cream but when I opened the can, I didn't like the way it looked (probably in the pantry too long) so I sauteed scallions and cooked the rice plain, adding peas toward the end and topping with toasted coconut.
Each component of this dish was DELISH…if I must say so myself, ya mon!
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We have a Jamaican restaurant here at farmer's market. She's my neighbor. She's AMAZING. We lover her food so much. Sundays it is PACKED OUT. She serves goat that is delicous, and has many many vegetarian items. Flavor is the key word and it's all made with much love and hard work.
We have many Jamaicans here in TO and beyond the jerk chicken and akee fish, there's alot of good eats from this beautiful island.
This DOES sound good!!! Definitely looks like something I'd like to eat, so there's still hope for Jamaica's cuisine to tickle my fancy ;-).
When I was young I had to do a report on Jamiaca. As part of the report I made a Jamaican Pineapple Flip for the whole class to eat. It was the first time I ever felt the joy of cooking for other people. It's funny I have not thought about that in years! GREG
Smiling Joan…..we're almost twins this week. I'll be done in a few minutes!
We really enjoyed travelling to Jamaica with you Joan. I am reminded of sun-warmed beaches, undulating waves, curried goat and Rastafarians.
This looks great! We travel to the Caribbean every year and Jamaica is by far our favorite island. I'm excited to be going back this year and we would love a vacation home there someday. There is nothing like real jerk chicken from a roadside stand or a jerk pattie with some Appleton rum. I didn't have time to participate this week, but I'm looking forward to the round up!
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I'll have a serving of Tropical Melange please.
i lovedjerked meats and seafood and have a variety of jerk seasonings i brought back form Jamaica. Thanks for the great recipe
I Posted my Jamaican dish today!!! All those dishes look delicious, Joan!
Loved the Melange…..
I love the flavors of Jamaica and these dishes you've highlighted look amazing Joan! Absolutely delicious!
The crust with almonds,garbanzo flour, & Jerk flavors sound excellent! And the tropical melange sounds great with the fish!
I love that tropical melange! Beautiful flavours Joan!
I learned something new about Jamaica today and your creation looks amazing and so… Caribbean! Hehe.
I am sorry I've been missing the lovely tour, my other project has kept me away from this part of the blogosphere…
Jamaican seasonings rock. The fish looks awesome Joan!


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SOURCE: "On Kundera," in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 9, No. 2, Summer, 1989, pp. 53-7.
In the essay below, originally published in the periodical La Repubblica on May 5, 1985, Calvino discusses the significance of digressive elements of Kundera's narrative style in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
When he was twelve, she suddenly found herself alone, abandoned by Franz's father. The boy suspected something serious had happened, but his mother muted the drama with mild, insipid words so as not to upset him. The day his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that she was wearing a different shoe on each foot. He was in a quandary: he wanted to point out her mistake, but was afraid he would hurt her. So during the two hours they spent walking through the city together he kept his eyes fixed on her feet. It was then that he had his first inkling of what it means to suffer.
This passage from The Unbearable Lightness of Being illustrates well Milan Kundera's art of storytelling—its concreteness, its finesse—and brings us closer to understanding the secret due to which, in his last novel, the pleasure of reading is continuously rekindled. Among so many writers of novels, Kundera is a true novelist in the sense that the characters' stories are his first interest: private stories, stories, above all, of couples, in their singularity and unpredictability. His manner of storytelling progresses by successive waves (most of the action develops within the first thirty pages; the conclusion is already announced halfway through; every story is completed and illuminated layer by layer) and by means of digressions and remarks that transform the private problem into a universal problem and, thereby, one that is ours. But this overall development, rather than increasing the seriousness of the situation, functions as an ironic filter lightening its pathos. Among Kundera's readers, there will be those taken more with the goings-on and those (I, for example) more with the digressions. But even these become the tale. Like his eighteenth-century masters Sterne and Diderot, Kundera makes of his extemporaneous reflections almost a diary of his thoughts and moods.
The universal-existential problematic also involves that which, given that we are dealing with Czechoslovakia, cannot be forgotten even for a minute: that ensemble of shame and folly that once was called history and that now can only be called the cursed misfortune of being born in one country rather than another. But Kundera, making of this not "the problem" but merely one more complication of life's inconveniences, eliminates that dutiful, distancing respect that every literature of the oppressed rouses within us, the undeserving privileged, thereby involving us in the daily despair of Communist regimes much more than if he were to appeal to pathos.
The nucleus of the book resides in a truth as simple as it is ineludible: It is impossible to act according to experience because every situation we face is unique and presents itself to us for the first time. "Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypotheses. But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not."
Kundera links this fundamental axiom with corollaries not as solid: the lightness of living for him resides in the fact that things only happen once, fleetingly, and it is therefore as if they had not happened. Weight, instead, is to be found in the "eternal recurrence" hypothesized by Nietzsche: every fact becomes dreadful if we know that it will repeat itself infinitely. But (I would object) if the "eternal recurrence"—the possible meaning of which has never been agreed upon—is the return of the same, a unique and unrepeatable life is precisely equal to a life infinitely repeated: every act is irrevocable, non-modifiable for eternity. If the "eternal recurrence" is, instead, a repetition of rhythms, patterns, structures, hieroglyphics of fate that leave room for infinite little variants in detail, then one could consider the possible as an ensemble of statistical fluctuations in which every event would not exclude better or worse alternatives and the finality of every gesture would end up lightened.
Lightness of living, for Kundera, is that which is opposed to irrevocability, to exclusive univocity: as much in love (the Prague doctor Tomas likes to practice only "erotic friendships" avoiding passionate involvements and conjugal cohabitation) as in politics (this is not explicitly said, but the tongue hits where the tooth hurts, and the tooth is, naturally, the impossibility of Eastern Europe's changing—or at least alleviating—a destiny it never dreamed of choosing).
But Tomas ends up taking in and marrying Tereza, a waitress in a country restaurant, out of "compassion." Not just that: after the Russian invasion of '68, Tomas succeeds in escaping from Prague and emigrating to Switzerland with Tereza who, after a few months, is overcome by a nostalgia that manifests itself as a vertigo of weakness over the weakness of her country without hope, and she returns. Here it is then that Tomas, who would have every reason, ideal and practical, to remain in Zurich, also decides to return to Prague, despite an awareness that he is entrapping himself, and to face persecutions and humiliations (he will no longer be able to practice medicine and will end up a window washer).
Why does he do it? Because, despite his professing the ideal of the lightness of living, and despite the practical example of his relationship with his friend, the painter Sabina, he has always suspected that truth lies in the opposing idea, in weight, in necessity. "Es muss sein!" / "It must be" says the last movement of Beethoven's last quartet. And Tereza, love nourished by compassion, love not chosen but imposed by fate, assumes in his eyes the meaning of this burden of the ineluctable, of the "Es muss sein!"
We come to know a little later (and here is how the digressions form almost a parallel novel) that the pretext that led Beethoven to write "Es muss sein!" was in no way sublime, but a banal story of loaned money to be repaid, just as the fate that had brought Tereza into Tomas's life was only a series of fortuitous coincidences.
In reality, this novel dedicated to lightness speaks to us above all of constraint: the web of public and private constraints that envelops people, that exercises its weight over every human relationship (and does not even spare those that Tomas would consider passing couchuges). Even the Don Juanism, on which Kundera gives us a page of original definitions, has entirely other than "light" motivations: whether it be when it answers to a "lyrical obsession," which is to say it seeks among many women the unique and ideal woman, or when it is motivated by an "epic obsession," which is to say it seeks a universal knowledge in diversity.
Among the parallel stories, the most notable is that of Sabina and Franz. Sabina, as the representative of lightness and the bearer of the meanings of the book, is more persuasive than the character with whom she is contrasted, that is, Tereza. (I would say that Tereza does not succeed in having the "weight" necessary to justify a decision as self-destructive as that of Tomas.) It is through Sabina that lightness is shown to be a "semantic river," that is to say, a web of associations and images and words on which is based her amorous agreement with Tomas, a complicity that Tomas cannot find again with Tereza, or Sabina with Franz. Franz, the Swiss scientist, is the Western progressive intellectual, as can be seen by he who, from Eastern Europe, considers him with the impassive objectivity of the ethnologist studying the customs of an inhabitant of the antipodes. The vertigo of indetermination that has sustained the leftist passions of the last twenty years is indicated by Kundera with the maximum of precision compatible with so elusive an object: "The dictatorship of the proletariat or democracy? Rejection of the consumer society or demands for increased productivity? The guillotine or an end to the death penalty? It is all beside the point." What characterizes the Western left, according to Kundera, is what he calls the Grand March, which develops with the same vagueness of purpose and emotion:
… yesterday against the American occupation of Vietnam, today against the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia; yesterday for Israel, today for the Palestinians; yesterday for Cuba, tomorrow against Cuba—and always against America; at times against massacres and at times in support of other massacres: Europe marches on, and to keep up with events, to leave none of them out, its pace grows faster and faster, until finally the Grand March is a procession of rushing, galloping people and the platform is shrinking and shrinking until one day it will be reduced to a mere dimensionless dot.
In accordance with the agonized imperatives of Franz's sense of duty, Kundera brings us to the threshold of the most monstrous hell generated by ideological abstractions become reality, Cambodia, and describes an international humanitarian march in pages that are a masterpiece of political satire.
At the opposite extreme of Franz, his temporary partner Sabina, by virtue of her lucid mind, acts as the author's mouthpiece, establishing comparisons and contrasts and parallels between the experience of the Communist society in which she grew up and the Western experience. One of the pivotal bases for these comparisons is the category of kitsch. Kundera explores kitsch in the sense of edulcorated, edifying, "Victorian" representation, and he thinks naturally of "socialist realism" and of political propaganda, the hypocritical mask of all horrors. Sabina, who, having established herself in the United States, loves New York for what there is there of "non-intentional beauty," "beauty by error," is upset when she sees American kitsch. Coca-Cola-like publicity, surface to remind her of the radiant images of virtue and health in which she grew up. But Kundera justly specifies:
Kitsch is the aesthetic idea of all politicians and all political parties and movements.
Those of us who live in a society where various political tendencies exist side by side and competing influences cancel or limit one another can manage more or less to escape the kitsch inquisition…. But whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch.
The step that remains to be taken is to free oneself of the fear of kitsch, once having saved oneself from its totalitarianism, and to be able to see it as an element among others, an image that quickly loses its own mystifying power to conserve only the color of passing time, evidence of mediocrity or of yesterday's naïveté. This is what seems to me to happen to Sabina, in whose story we can recognize a spiritual itinerary of reconciliation with the world. At the sight, typical of the American idyll, of windows lit in a white clapboard house on a lawn, Sabina is surprised by an emotional realization. And nothing remains but for her to conclude: "No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition."
A much sadder conclusion is that of the story of Tereza and Tomas; but here, through the death of a dog, and the obliteration of their own selves in a lost site in the country, there is almost an absorption into the cycle of nature, into an idea of the world that not only does not have man at its center, but that is absolutely not made for man.
My objections to Kundera are twofold: one terminological and one metaphysical. The terminological concerns the category of kitsch within which Kundera takes into consideration only one among many meanings. But the kitsch that claims to represent the most audacious and "cursed" broad-mindedness with facile and banal effects is also part of the bad taste of mass culture. Indeed, it is less dangerous than the other, but it must be taken into account to avoid our believing it an antidote. For example, to see the absolute contrast with kitsch in the image of a naked woman wearing a man's bowler hat does not seem to me totally convincing.
The metaphysical objection takes us farther. It regards the "categorical agreement with being," an attitude that, for Kundera, is the basis of kitsch as an aesthetic ideal. "The line separating those who doubt being as it is granted to man (no matter how or by whom) from those who accept it without reservation" resides in the fact that adherence imposes the illusion of a world in which defecation does not exist because, according to Kundera, shit is absolute metaphysical negativity. I would object that for pantheists and for the constipated (I belong to one of these two categories, though I will not specify which) defecation is one of the greatest proofs of the generosity of the universe (of nature or providence or necessity or what have you). That shit is to be considered of value and not worthless is for me a matter of principle.
From this some fundamental consequences derive. In order not to fall either into vague sentiments of a universal redemption that end up by producing monstrous police states or into generalized and temperamental pseudo-rebellions that are resolved in sheepish obedience, it is necessary to recognize how things are, whether we like them or not, both within the realm of the great, against which it is useless to struggle, and that of the small, which can be modified by our will. I believe then that a certain degree of agreement with the existent (shit included) is necessary precisely because it is incompatible with the kitsch that Kundera justly detests.
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New Fishinars continue to be added. Check out the Webinar Training page (www.REEF.org/fishinars) for the most up-to-date listing. These popular online training sessions provide fishie fun in the comfort of your own home. Fishinars are free, and open to all REEF members. You need to register for each session you want to attend. No special software is required, just a web browser. Upcoming sessions include:
Safety Stop Survey: the Top 12 Caribbean Fish You May See at 15 Feet in 3 Minutes - July 11
Perplexing Parrotfish of the Caribbean - September 10
Lesser Known Fish of Cozumel - October 17
You do WHAT for a living? Illustrating Fishes - with special guest Val Kells, Scientific Illustrator - November 13
Check out the Fishinar page for more details and to register for each session.
We are excited to welcome the newest member of the REEF Team - Elizabeth Underwood, who joined our staff this month as Lionfish Program Coordinator. Elizabeth has been an active REEF member, avid fish counter, dedicated lionfish hunter, and all-round marine science enthusiast for quite some time. Elizabeth was first introduced to REEF in the Spring 2011 when she studied abroad in the Turks and Caicos Islands and conducted her first of many REEF fish surveys and lionfish studies. After graduating from Davidson College in 2012 with a BS in Biology, Elizabeth joined Lad Akins and Peter Hughes on REEF's Belize Lionfish Survey. After a week full of lionfish spearing, dissecting, and filleting she was hooked. Becoming a REEF Marine Conservation Intern in the Fall of 2012 was a no-brainer for her!
After her internship with REEF, Elizabeth took a 5 month position at the Cape Eleuthera Institute in the Bahamas as their Lionfish Research and Education intern. But as great as the Bahamas were, Elizabeth was ready to move back to Key Largo to continue her work with REEF's Invasive Lionfish Program. Elizabeth's work at REEF will focus on coordinating REEF's various lionfish research projects, organizing derbies, conducting public talks and workshops, and developing teaching tools. She'll also be managing REEF's lionfish social media and working with other staff on ongoing organizational duties.
We are very happy to have Elizabeth on board. This month, we also want to extend our thanks and best of luck wishes to Keri Kenning, who will be starting dental school later this year. Keri served as REEF's Communications and Affiliate Program Coordinator for the last year. She was a valued member of our team and a great REEF ambassador.
With Jamie's arrival at REEF Headquarters, we have been busily working on an exciting lineup of Field Survey trip destinations for 2015. REEF Trips offer a great introduction to fish identification for novice fishwatchers, and are a fun way for experienced surveyors to build their life list while interacting with fellow fishwatchers. REEF staff, board members, and other REEF experts lead these trips, and each features daily classroom seminars and a full diving schedule.
We will be announcing the full 2015 REEF Trip Schedule soon. But today, we are excited to share a few of the trips that we have planned to the tropical Pacific Ocean.
Kona Coast Big Island Hawaii, aboard the Kona Aggressor Liveaboard! Feb 28 - Mar 7, 2015 (12 spaces left)
Fiji's Bligh Waters, aboard the NAI'A Liveaboard! Two trips: May 2-12, 2015 (1 space left) and May 12-19, 2015 (14 spaces left)
We hope you will join us! Contact Jamie at firstname.lastname@example.com or call her at 305-852-0030 to find out more, and to book your space. Full details are posted online at www.REEF.org/trips.
We are very excited to welcome two new members of the REEF Staff team - Jonathan Lavan and Heather George. Both have been involved as volunteers in the organization for many years and collectively bring a wealth of experience and passion for REEF's mission.
Jonathan will serve as the Volunteer Fish Survey Project Program Assistant, and will be based in San Diego. Jonathan has been a REEF member since 2004 and has submitted almost 500 REEF surveys in 5 of the Survey Project's 8 survey regions. He is a REEF Trip Leader and is a member of the Advanced Assessment Teams for both the Tropical Western Atlantic and Pacific Coast. He was REEF's 2012 Volunteer of the Year. Jonathan is also known to many as the voice of REEF's Fishinars, and he teaches several of these popular webinars each year. Jonathan will be assisting with many aspects of our corner-stone citizen science program.
Heather will serve as the Trips Program Manager. Heather has been an active member of the REEF community since 2002. In addition to serving as a REEF Trip Leader, Heather is an expert-level surveyor in the Tropical Western Atlantic and Hawaii regions, and has conducted over 200 surveys. She also assisted with REEF's expansion to the South Pacific, participated in the Grouper Moon project, and served on the REEF Board of Trustees from 2007 to 2010. In 2011, Heather was awarded the Volunteer of the Year award. Heather is based on the Garden Island of Kauai, where if you visit she welcomes the opportunity to survey with you!
Please help us extend a warm fishy welcome to Heather and Jonathan!
WASH Nearshore Symposium
REEF's Director of Science, Dr. Christy Pattengill-Semmens, was an
invited speaker at the Temperate Reef Resources Symposium held at the University of Washington in early June. Christy spoke on the role that volunteers play in generating needed data for managing temperate reefs, and used examples from REEF experiences and projects in three west coast National Marine Sanctuaries, the Olympic Coast, Monterey Bay, and
the Channel Islands. To date, over 10,000 REEF surveys have been conducted in coastal areas along the west coast of the US and Canada.
Channel Islands Shore to Sea Lecture Series
In early July, Christy was the featured speaker for the monthly Channel Islands Shore to Sea Lecture Series, which is sponsored by the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Park. Christy spoke on REEF surveying inside and outside of the marine reserve network that was
implemented around the Channel Islands in 2004. Much of these data are
collected using REEF's Pacific Advanced Assessment Team aboard the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary's Research Vessel Shearwater.
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Christy also presented information on the REEF
Volunteer Survey Program at a recent priority issues workshop on fishing impacts for the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. The workshop was used to discuss the possibility of Flower Gardens National Marine Sanctuary implementing experimental no-take zones within the Sanctuary. Christy presented information about REEF's volunteers 14 year long monitoring of reef fish at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, and how this data can provide a valuable baseline to be able to measure the effects of any future no-take zones that might be implemented in the Sanctuary.
REEF recently completed our AAT monitoring of Biscayne National Park (BNP). Over the last two years, we have monitored fish assemblages inside the marine park at 6 separate locations twice each year (March and September) to correlate our results with historical data that BNP has collected. REEF's future collaboration with BNP is yet to be determined but will likely involve assisting them with the potential establishment of a protected area somewhere within the Park's boundaries. REEF is excited to have this opportunity to continue working with BNP this upcoming spring so please stay tuned for more information once our future project is defined.
Meanwhile, I would like to personally thank the monitoring team from our last event for their "above and beyond the call" efforts to get the job done. We had weather issues that delayed the project by a full week, followed by a tragic death in the Key Largo diving community in losing Mike Smith. All of us at REEF especially acknowledge Lad Akins for his efforts as our boat captain, Rob Bleser (owner of Quiescence Dive Shop where Mike worked) for pushing this project through under very difficult circumstances, and Steve Campbell for acting as boat captain on our last day. And thank you to the diving team for juggling your schedules to make sure we had enough divers each day: Jesse Armacost, Dave Grenda, Brian Hufford, Lillian Kenney, Mike Phelan, and Joyce Schulke. Everyone pulled together through the above challenges and I was proud to dive with each of you.
The REEF 2008 Field Survey Schedule is in full swing. Many of the trips are already sold out, but we wanted to bring your attention to one that still has some space on it -- the Field Survey to Baja Mexico aboard the Don Jose in the Sea of Cortez this October. This is a great trip, with spectacular diving and lots of tropical fishes, warm and clear water, and beautiful topside scenery. Some of the highlights include giant hawkfish, jawfish the size of your leg, whale sharks and manta rays, and spectacular sunsets over unpopulated desert islands. This will be the 5th time that REEF has done this amazing trip, and there is a good reason we keep going back. Come see what it's all about. The trip begins and ends in La Paz Mexico aboard the Don Jose live-aboard. Dr. Brice Semmens, reef fish ecologist and expert in Baja fishes, will be leading this trip.
This Field Survey is only held every few years so don't miss your chance! To find out more, check out the trip flyer. To secure your space, contact Jeanne at Baja Expeditions, 800-843-6967, email@example.com.
October 5 - 12, 2008 -- $1,550 - $1,750 per person, depending on room type. Package Includes: Six nights shipboard accommodations and one night local hotel accommodations in La Paz. Meals are included, beginning with breakfast on Day 2 and end with lunch on Day 7, and includes beer, soda and wine while shipboard.
In January, 2008 the National Aquarium Institute organized and conducted a Bahamian conservation expedition on the Aqua Cat live-aboard dive vessel. Our mission was to conduct REEF surveys and work on the invasive lionfish project. On board this trip were Lad Akins (REEF Special Projects Director), Ned and Anna DeLoach, Chris Flook (Bermuda Aquarium), National Aquarium staff, and aquarium and REEF volunteers. In addition to meeting the lionfish research goals of the cruise, we were treated to not one but two exciting and rare finds - the Exuma goby and the lemon goby.
At a dive site in Eleuthera called Cave Rock Reef we geared up and readied ourselves for lionfish behavior monitoring. Just as I started getting my gear together Anna came to the surface to tell me she had found a school of Exuma gobies, Gobiosoma atronasum. What I had not realized was that the keen eye of Bruce Purdy, owner of the Aqua Cat and avid REEF surveyor and supporter had noticed them at this site before and he had directed Anna to the exact coral head. I have logged over 400 dives in the Bahamas and until this day the Exuma goby had always eluded me. To the casual observer this fish looks like a cleaning goby or sharknose goby until you notice its behavior. Unlike most other "neon-type" gobies, the Exuma Goby spends most of its time hovering in the water column, not perched on the coral. They act very similar to the masked and glass gobies. Excited to add a new species to my life list I leave the small cluster of these great fish and head down to my assigned duty of monitoring a lionfish.
Two days later, while on a dive at Blacktip Wall in the Exumas, I noticed a few fish mixed in with school bass. These fish looked out of place and very different from anything I had ever seen. I noted as much detail as possible on my REEF slate and swam on hoping that one of my fellow trip members would be able to help me identify it. As it turns out no one had any idea what it was, but luckily Ned had also seen this odd fish and had taken some great photos of it. After some research when we returned from the trip, we discovered this fish was a lemon goby, Vomerogobius flavus. The lemon goby is an exciting new fish to the REEF database. This species was identified and described in 1971 from 11 Bahamian specimens, but this sighting in the Exumas is a range extension for the species.
It was truly a rewarding experience to finally see and survey the Exuma goby that I have searched for on many trips. To document a fish that I did not even know existed was the icing on the cake. For a fish lover like me, getting to find a new species for the REEF database is an honor. REEF surveying truly keeps diving exciting and new. I am concerned about the effects that the invasive lionfish could have on these two species of gobies with such a narrow range in which they live, but the data from all of our great volunteers helps us track these changes. It would be a shame to lose such unique endemic species due to this foreign invader. We hope you enjoy seeing some of the first photos ever published of these two goby gems.
Processing and error checking the 1,000+ REEF surveys submitted each month by our members as part of the Volunteer Survey Project is one of REEF's highest priorities. With limited staff and resources, there are a few things that you can do to help us maintain the integrity of this incredible database. Most importantly - whenever possible, please submit your data through the Online Data Entry interface, http://www.REEF.org/dataentry. Turnaround time is typically 1-3 weeks, compared with 8-12 weeks for paper scansheets. Plus it saves postage and paper! The second most important way you can help -- if you are submitting data on scansheets, please have your REEF member number and complete 8-digit zone code filled in on the form before mailing it to REEF. Read on for more helpful hints.
Online Data Entry Tips
REEF is currently modifying our Online Data Entry program for surveys from the Tropical Eastern Pacific and the Northeast. We hope to have this available soon.
On April 25, 2009 we celebrated history in Key Largo. It was a beautiful tropical day with the REEF parking lot covered in tents, tables and chairs, fish balloons with cold drinks and appetizers island music being offered up. People came from near and far as we all helped celebrate the dedication of the James E Lockwood REEF Headquarters. The afternoon celebrated the merging of three paths - that of a dive industry pioneer, a historic building in the Florida Keys and a grass-roots environmental organization. The gift by James E. Lockwood will go a long way in helping REEF protect, educate and enable divers, snorkelers and armchair enthusiasts to make the world a better place.
Casey Wilder, REEF Program Assistant, designed a beautiful program that outlined how we all ended up in the parking lot on this day. Make sure you check out the online version of this little piece of history. The program provides an overview of the history of James E. Lockwood, a true diving pioneer, the 1913 Conch House that houses REEF and the history of REEF and how all three ended up moving forward together as of 4/25/09.
Special guests Mike Dorn and John Campbell provided the history of Mr. Lockwood, which is incredibly fascinating and diverse. Paul Humann and Ned De Loach spoke on behalf of REEF and talked about how REEF is Key Largo's very own home grown environmental 501(c)(3), making it very relevant that REEF's office are housed in the oldest building in Key Largo. Following the ribbon cutting ceremony, we unveiled the beautiful new plaque commemorating the James E. Lockwood REEF Headquarters and the date the house was built. The Conch house even received a spiffy new coat of paint so she was dressed for the occasion. Special thanks to Bill Corbett of Keys Home Improvement for doing such a superb job in record time!
The next time you are in the Keys be sure to stop by the James E Lockwood REEF Headquarters, MM 98.3 in the median and enjoy a little history, mingle with REEF staff and shop for the fish.


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Tan Cheng Bock uninvited from Istana Chinese New Year garden party
Published on Feb 7, 2014 11:38 AM
Dr Tan Cheng Bock, a former People's Action Party Member of Parliament and presidential candidate, has been uninvited from a Chinese New Year garden party at the Istana this Sunday.
In a Facebook post on Friday, he said that he received an invitation to the event from the People's Association on Dec 27 last year. Then on Jan 8, he was told by Labour Chief and deputy chairman of the PA Lim Swee Say, that there was a change of policy, and he would no longer be invited to attend.
"He conveyed to me by phone and email. There was a change in 'policy' to invite only those ex-advisers to grassroots organisations, from the immediate past GE (2011). I did not fit into this category as l stood down in 2006," wrote Dr Tan.
The garden party at the Istana is a yearly evening event for grassroots leaders past and present. Dr Tan, an MP from 1980 to 2006, said that since 1980, he has been invited to attend each year and "never failed to go".
"I get to meet grassroots leaders and old colleagues and we exchange warm New Year greetings," he wrote.
"The warm reception usually given me by those grassroots leaders at the function, were overwhelming, more so, after the Presidential election. At times it was very touching.
"Last year I had to be helped to get back into my car because the crowd kept me from moving forward. I shall miss meeting all these friends there again this Sunday."
When contacted by The Straits Times, Dr Tan, who narrowly lost the presidential election in 2011, said that he would "just accept it".
Asked why he decided to share it on Facebook, he said: "So many grassroots people were asking if I would be there. So that's why I wrote it on Facebook, to let them know that I won't."
His post was shared 360 times and liked by over 700 people within an hour of it going up.


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