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The crowbar protocol -- An environmental plea
Those of you who know me know that while I'm in favor of environmentalism, I'm not exactly a hardcore tree-hugging, bunny-coddling, Gaia-worshipping, vegan eco-guerrilla.
I admit that plastic and concrete have their roles to play in life's rich pageant and that if we want computers, flat screen tv and air travel, there will always be some industrial wastes and fossil fuel to deal with. I admit that I could do more, but I recycle, I take public transport almost everywhere (easy to do in Tokyo) and try to avoid excess packaging (very tough to do in Tokyo). I don't think eating meat or using disposable diapers or throwaway chopsticks made from farmed poplar make me an evil person.
I think that if women must wear cosmetics, which going by most of the women I see, they must, then I'd rather the stuff be tested on cute lil' fluffy bunnies than third world children. I think the Kyoto accord is good, but could go farther, and would love to have an electric or fuel cell car.
In short, I would consider myself a moderate environmentalist.
So it may shock you to know that I am very close to taking a crowbar to some windshields in this city on the basis of my environmental beliefs.
Tokyo is situated in a sort of coastal bowl that traps warm wet air in a thermal inversion. In summer temperatures in the mid 30s are the norm, with humidity around 80 to 95 percent. Smog builds up to the point that on bad days the sky can be a brownish yellow and the government advise old people and children to stay indoors. Obviously changing the geography and the weather patterns are not really options, so you would think cutting down on air pollution would be a priority. And for some it is.
But for the truck drivers, delivery people, tradesmen, salesmen and taxi drivers of Tokyo it clearly is not. Like many people in this country, they spend long hours at their jobs, not working, but sleeping. Obviously when you work 12 hours a day, every day, a little siesta at lunch or even on company time is a nice thing. People in my office (you know who you are) regularly nod off at their desks. But what about those who aren't in the office? What do those who spend their day out of the office do for a place to sleep and dodge work? Use a park? Go to a movie? Spend an hour getting coffee at Starbucks? Nope.
They get in their cars, vans and trucks, roll up the window, crank up the air conditioning and sit there with the engine running. For hours at a time, pumping filth into the air, driving up the temperature and making more smog.
Few things piss me off more than to walk along the sidestreet next to my home and find it nearly bumper to bumper with cars parked with their engines running, spewing exhaust into the air and radiating heat. What is worse is seeing the same vehicles there when I come home two and half hours later.
I'm thinking of getting a small notice printed up in Japanese to ask them not to run their engines, but I fear the response will be to dismiss me as another annoying foreigner who doesn't understand Japanese ways.
That's why I'm leaning more and more to the crowbar protocol idea. A notice that reads: "Turn off your engine you lazy, inconsiderate, selfish shithead or I'll smash your windshield with a crowbar. You are poisoning the air I breathe and I will consider it self-defense to smash the hell out of your car and even you if that is what it takes to get you to shut off the engine. If you need an air conditioned nap so badly, go home or to the mall or the donut shop -- because if I see your vehicle here ten minutes from now, with the tailpipe smoking and heat dissipation haze hanging over the hood and your white socked feet up on the dash and you snoring in the driver's seat, you will soon be picking windshield glass out of your hair."
Then all I have to do is walk along the row of parked cars, tapping tires and maybe windows, very gently with my three-foot tempered-steel crowbar and smiling a crooked smile.
Of course I could opt for the cyber vigilante method and email time-stamped digital photos of the snoozing employees to their companies head offices, since the company name is often on the door of the car or van. Sure, it would probably lead to fewer confrontations with drivers upset that their nap has been disturbed and far less police involvement, but there is something so satisfying about the crunch of a heavy iron bar on supposedly shatterproof glass that I just don't know if I can deny myself the pleasure of pursuing my own Buford Pusser/Steven Segal style of environmentalism.
"Where else would you go when you have an ax to grind?"
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
The crowbar protocol -- An environmental plea
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- Unknown said...
A number of other suggestions have since been made as an alternative to the crowbar, including making a stencil reading "shut off your engine while parked" that could be used along with spray paint to leave a lasting reminder on the hood, door or windscreen. A sticker bearing the same message plastered on the offending vehicle is also a possibility. As is knocking a sweet potato up the tail pipe....Not that I'm advocating vandalism, it's just nice to imagine the short term effect.
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End of February brings March Madness as high school basketball tournament games ultimately determine the state champion. It truly screams, "The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." Every team loses, at some point, except for one.
A loss ceases the opportunity for advancement and thus ends the season for some and an era for others. Juniors on down have next year to look forward to and work towards.
Seniors, on the other hand… well, this is the end of the road for most of you. I have a tender spot in my heart for those hard working seniors that would love these moments in life to just keep on going. It's tough to be done…
As a spectator, the excitement of a close game is nerve wracking, at best, but always adds a deeper layer of empathy, encouragement and community pride. You love 'em when they're up and you love 'em when they're down. This is the beauty of a small town high school…
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February brings thoughts of love
Why do we wear wedding rings?
The ring has no end or beginning ~ as does eternal love
The jewelry industry may be able to thank the Egyptians for the custom of exchanging rings to symbolize marriage as early as 3000 BC. Society viewed the circle as a symbol of endless love between a man and woman and exchanged rings braided from reeds and hemp.
Ancient Greeks and later Romans also wore wedding bands on the ring finger of their left hands as believed this finger held a special vein directly connected to the heart, later called the vein of love. So, if they had decided the vein of love was from our nose we would be exchanging nose rings today. Personally, I'm glad the vein of love is on a finger.
Greek Orthodox men started wearing wedding rings in the 1300's, but it didn't catch on, especially in the United States, until men started wearing wedding rings during WWII to remind them of their sweetheart. ~bhldn.com
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May 16, 2017
By Joanne Norell
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – A pair of University of Notre Dame women's tennis student-athletes were named Intercollegiate Tennis Association award winners for the Midwest regional Monday, and will now be considered for national level awards, which will be announced May 23.
Senior Monica Robinson added to her award haul, earning recognition as the region's Most Improved Player and the ITA/Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award winner. Meanwhile, freshman Zoe Spence was named the ITA Midwest Rookie of the Year after an impactful initial campaign.
Robinson was named the Most Improved Player, which is given to a senior each season, after posting a 19-13 overall record, including a 14-9 mark at No. 1 singles during the dual season. A captain this season, Robinson also became Notre Dame's first Midwest Region ITA/Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award winner since 2010 when Kali Krisik took home the award.
Already in 2017, Robinson was an All-ACC Second Team honoree and was named both a Francis Patrick O'Connor Award winner and Byron V. Kanaley Award winner at Notre Dame's annual O.S.C.A.R.S. ceremony. The O'Connor Award is given to the student-athletes who best display the total embodiment of the true spirit of Notre Dame as exemplified by their contributions and inspiration to their teams, while the Kanaley Award goes to the senior monogram athletes who have been most exemplary as students and leaders.
Spence became the first Irish ITA Midwest Region Rookie of the Year since Chrissie McGaffigan in 2010. The Chicago native led the Irish in wins for much of the season and finished the year with a 20-16 overall singles record, including a 15-12 mark in duals.
Joanne Norell, athletics communications assistant director at the University of Notre Dame, has been part of the Fighting Irish athletics communications team since 2014 and coordinates communications efforts for the Notre Dame women's soccer, men's tennis, women's tennis and fencing programs. Norell is a 2011 graduate of Purdue University and earned her master's degree from Georgetown University in 2013.


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Wanda tweets: 'I'm not the reason why Real Madrid didn't sign Icardi!'
17 February at 09:45The wife and agent of Inter Milan star Mauro Icardi has said that when he talked about interest from Juventus in his husband, she was labelled as a liar and has also said that she wasn't the reason why Real Madrid haven't signed the Argentine forward.
Icardi and Wanda have been kicking up a real storm at the club recently and have now gone into the bad books of the clubs fans- not for the first time.
Wanda added onto the list of antics by posting a tweet and then later deleting it. The tweet talked about the fact that Juventus indeed are keeping their eyes on the player and the fact that she isn't the reason why Real didn't sign Icardi.
The tweet said: "The reports published about the Spanish club (Real Madrid) are totally false. Maybe this time too will give me as the reason, as when they asked me about the great interest of Juventus and I was treated as a liar , but then all has been confirmed by their sporting director. "
The tweet was soon removed by Wanda, who later put out a collage of photos showing Icardi's greatest moments at Inter and him crying while donning the jersey of the nerazzurri.
Icardi had not played for the club against Rapid Wein and will also not play in the game against Sampdoria later today.


text: Africa-focused tech talent accelerator Andela will cut 400 junior engineers across Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria, Chief executive and co-founder Jeremy Johnson said the move will impact junior engineers as the company focuses on boosting its senior talent. "This shift in demand also means that we now have more junior talent than we are able to place," he said in a statement. "This is a challenge for the business, and for these junior engineers who want and deserve authentic work experiences that we are not able to provide." Approximately 250 junior…Read More


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Operation Morning Crest was an Imperial Intelligence operation overseen by Keeper in 3645 BBY, during the Cold War with the Galactic Republic. The events of the operation were considered an anomaly to Intelligence, and it was not until four years later that they discovered the involvement of the Star Cabal and understood the meaning of a recording that had been accidentally intercepted during the operation. The recording was a transmission by Hunter to her superiors in the Star Cabal, communicating her success in infiltrating the Republic Strategic Information Service.[1]
Behind the scenesEdit
Operation Starbender was first mentioned in Keeper's biography on the official site for Star Wars: The Old Republic, and it was further expanded on in the Imperial Agent mission "The Hidden Throne".
- Star Wars: The Old Republic (Mentioned only)
- Keeper on The Old Republic Holonet (backup link) (First mentioned)
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- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic—Imperial Agent Mission: "The Hidden Throne" on Isen Four


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'Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome' Combes et al. N Engl J Med 2018; 378:1965-1975
- ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) is associated with high mortality
- Oxygenation and carbon dioxide removal can be performed by VV-ECMO (veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation), however it is associated with significant complications. A previous RCT (CESAR trial – Conventional VentilatorySupport versus Extracorporeal MembraneOxygenation for Severe Adult Respiratory Failure), yielded promising results, however came under criticism for methodological issues and limited conclusions could be drawn.
- The question of whether ECMO improves outcomes in ARDS compared to standard lung-protective ventilation remains unanswered.
Aim:The ECMO to rescue lung injury in severe ARDS (EOLIA) trial was designed to determine the effect of early initiation of ECMO in patients with the most severe form of ARDS.
- Prospective, randomised controlled trial, 64 centres, mainly France
- Patient selection
- Ventilated for < 7 days
- American-European ARDS definition, 1994
- Randomization was stratified according to center and the duration of ventilation before randomization (<72 hours vs ≥72 hours)
- Target sample size was 331 patients
- Based an expected 60 day mortality rate of 60%, and an estimated 40% mortality in the ECMO group (absolute risk reduction 20%)
- For 80% power at an alpha level of 5% and with a group sequential analysis occurring after the randomization of every 60 participants
- Stopping rules, using the two sided triangular design methodology, were defined prior to the commencement of the trial. The trial could be stopped due to:
- Safety (due to excess mortality in the ECMO arm)
- Efficacy
- Futility
- Venovenous ECMO
- Percutaneous cannulas, with the access cannula inserted into the femoral vein and return cannula inserted into the SVC via the jugular vein
Volume-assist-controlled ventilation
- FIO2 (0.21–1) was adjusted to obtain sats between 88-95% and a PaO2 55-80 mmHg
- VT set at 6 ml per kg PBW
- PEEP set so as not to exceed a Pplat of 28–30 cmH2
- NMBAs and prone positioning encouraged for control patients
- Trial was stopped early at 249/331 (75% of recruitment) due to predefined futility rules.
- Primary outcome: No statistical difference in mortality at day 60
- ECMO group 44/124 (35%) vs Control group 57/125 (46%)
- Relative risk, 0.76; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.55 to 1.04; P=0.09
- Secondary outcomes:
- Compared to control group, the ECMO group had:
- Lower relative risk of treatment failure 0.62 (95% CI, 0.47 to 0.82; P<0.001)
- Treatment failure was defined as death by day 60 in patients in the ECMO group, and as crossover to ECMO or death in patients in the control group
- Lower risk of Renal replacement therapy (RRT) at day 60 (50 vs. 32 days; median difference, 18 days; 95% CI, 0 to 51)
- Lower relative risk of treatment failure 0.62 (95% CI, 0.47 to 0.82; P<0.001)
- Cross over to ECMO occurred in 35/125 (28%) of control patients
- Compared to control group, the ECMO group had:
- Largest multicenter ECMO RCT to date
- Standardised criteria for entry into the trial/ initiation of rescue ECMO
- Almost all patients who were randomized to ECMO received it (unlike the previous RCT, CESAR)
- Protocolized delivery of ECMO and MV àhence standardised treatments in intervention and control arms (patients were included from both ECMO and non-ECMO centres on the proviso ECMO could be initiated with 2 hours of randomisation).
- Underpowered to detect mortality -> trial stopped early! (75% recruitment)
- Implausible power calculation (mortality in the control group was 46%, not 60%)
- High cross over rate of controls
- Lack of blinding
- Slow recruitment of 249 patients over 6 years à trial fatigue and/or change of practice
ECMO for severe ARDS showed no significant mortality benefit at day 60 as compared with a strategy of conventional mechanical ventilation.
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|Star: I did not sleep with him but I am a whore.
— Star and Alex in The Devil You Know
Stalex (Sta/Alex) is the friendship between Star Davis and Alexandra Crane that started in Season One on the television show STAR on Fox.
They met sometime before Pilot.
In Pilot, Alex gives up her entire life to be in a group with Star.
In The Devil You Know, Star forgives Alex for lying about her parents, and Alex forgives Star for almost sleeping with her dad.
In Next of Kin, Star and Alex go clubbing together. They both wait at the hospital for Simone.
In Code of Silence, Star trusts Alex with Simone, and Alex keeps Star's secret of her attempt to murder Otis.
In Black Wherever I Go, Alex forgives Star for stealing her lead, and even asks her to sing at the rally with her.
In Mama's Boy, Star worries about Alex after finding out that she had been in prison.
In Alibi, Alex waits with Star for news about Simone.
In Boy Trouble, Alex, along with Simone, accept Star's opinion of letting Eva perform with them.
In Saving Face, Star worries about Alex being in the hospital. When Alex tells Star that she is pregnant, Star supports her.
In Showtime, Star and Alex, along with Simone rejoice when they found out that they won Atlanta Next Fest.
In The Winner Takes It All, Star worries about Alex moving in with Derek, because she knows what a big deal it is. She is also concerned because Alex won't talk about the "miscarriage" that she had. They latter go out clubbing that night.
In Insecure, Alex goes along with Star's plan to make a music video.
In FUA...Good Night!, Star is seen asking Alex how things are really going between her and Derek, and tries to focus her.
In It Ain't Over, Alex goes along with Star wanting to break in and perform at the Midtown Sound party.
In Ghetto Symphony, Star and Alex try to fix the tension between them caused by Noah.
In A House Divided, the tensions between Star and Alex rise as the showcase date nears.
- They are a major friendship on STAR.
- Star and Alex first met on Instagram sometime before Pilot.
- They are in the group Take Three together.


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Launch Participant Commits to Academic Achievement
It's not that Mohamed wants to attend pharmacy school—that would be understating his commitment to his goals.
"There is no debate. I have to do this," he said. "This is my life and it's for me to decide. It's MY future."
Mohamed is a participant in United Way of Greater Kansas City's LAUNCH program. The cost-sharing college and career program for students from low-income households, many of whom are first-generation college attendees who have a strong work ethic. The program's Education Account, which covers tuition, fees, books, and supplies, provides an 8-to-1 match: the participant saves up to $500 and receives up to $4,000 of matching funds. Mohamed has worked tirelessly to reach the maximum fund match.
"I'm thankful for United Way. It was a good thing that inspired me," he said. "They've told me I already succeeded, but I don't feel like I've succeeded yet. I'm still doing it."
When this 23-year-old with a big smile started ESL classes in 2016, the dream may have seemed impossible. But spend five minutes listening to him talk about his plans for the future, and you'll be a believer.
"We are all human and we have these big, beautiful minds. Everything we think about doing has to be big, too," he said. "I can be anything."
When Mohamed is struggling to keep up with his busy schedule—classes five days a week, driving for Uber on the weekends, and spending his limited free time with his mother and younger sisters—he thinks about the people who have achieved so much before him.
"When I think of what others have done to be successful, this is easy," Mohamed said. "I will be a pharmacist. It's no big deal."
For Mohamed to envision this kind of achievement at all is a big deal when you consider his past. A refugee from Ethiopia, he came to the United States with zero knowledge of American customs or even basic English. When the family arrived, they sat down and asked one collective question: "How are we going to succeed in America?"
Mohamed's mother made the decision. Theirs would be a family focused on education. And following Ethiopian tradition, Mohamed would inherit the responsibility of setting a positive example for his sisters to follow.
"The first thing I can remember in my life, I didn't have anything. So now I was working part time, going to classes, just paying bills," Mohamed recalled. "It was good. God gave me this life. Life is good when you do the right things."
Those rights things now include finishing up his pre-requisite courses for a pharmacy program at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley, where he earned a scholarship and completed his ESL coursework within a year. Paired with the LAUNCH program, Mohamed is now in the position to create a new tradition in his family.
"When you come from a poor family, you have to create change," Mohamed said. "For my children, things are going to be different. I don't need my family to live the way my life has been. My children are going to be different."
The LAUNCH savings are ready to be used for Mohamed's education—possibly to help with pharmacy school. When Mohamed describes the money saved and the program in general, his joy is palpable. He speaks with so much enthusiasm his hands shake.
"Everyone in this community needs something to go where they need to go," Mohamed said. "The LAUNCH program works with the people who need help to succeed. Now I can show them, you can do this too."
For a man who came across the world to live a better life, his plan is to stay in Kansas City and give back to the community that has given him so much opportunity.
"It's a good thing to know there are people who want this community to be successful. That motivates us to be students, educators and doctors," Mohamed said. "The LAUNCH program is part of me and part of my success."


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you have the opportunity to earn 1 Research Point by filling the following questionnaire. Please make a screenshot of the last page of the questionnaire and presented to Miss Fenz in order to earn your research point.
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In the News Magazines
by Bill Hayes
This week quite a few interesting stories are in the news magazines.
In Time:
All the print magazine articles are now behind a paywall.
In Newsweek:
In the cover story, The Maid's Tale, the maid in the DSK scandal tells her story.
A few stories and opinion pieces are on the News Corp hacking scandal: Citizen Rupert, The Empire Strikes Back, and Rupe's Hacks Dodge Flak.
When Dictators Shoot Back Gaddafi and Assad are unyielding and murderous. Has the Arab Spring turned into an Arab Hell?
In Bloomberg Businessweek:
In Cyber Weapons: The New Arms Race, the cover story looks at the hacking of the Pentagon, the IMF, Google, and others. It's war out there, and a cyber-weapons industry is exploding to arm the combatants.
Google+'s Circle Logic Will the search giant's easy way to organize one's life in "circles" allow it to catch archrival Facebook?
Foreign Money Invades Mongolia As its resources draw foreign miners like Rio Tinto—and billions of dollars—the country struggles to strike a balance between growth and exploitation
What's Killing Carbon Capture? CCS technology promised the best of all worlds: Abundant power from coal while cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Now pilot programs are pulling the plug.
How to Succeed in Business in Pakistan Karachi's National Foods does it by relying on convoys, body searches, and its own generators
Will the Scandal Tame Murdoch? The News Corp. chief's iron grip could finally be challenged.
Fear and Loathing in Boca Over Budget Cuts Possible Social Security changes put the elderly on edge—and members of Congress on notice.
The Cost of Credit Swaps When a Nation Defaults Sellers of credit swaps are on the hook if a nation defaults. Regulators have reined in risk, but some steps could make things worse.


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Four students from St John Bosco are members of the Liverpool Schools Parliament, with one of those being a Young Lord Mayor. They attended the Genocide Memorial event that was helpd as part of their half termly LSP meeting. The event purpose was to mark the 19th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. Liverpool's Deputy Lord Mayor, Councillor Gary Millar, and Rwanda's High Commissioner, His Excellency Mr Williams Nkurunziza, laid wreaths at a new memorial stone in St John's Gardens for those who lost their lives.
Deputy Lord Mayor, Councillor Gary Millar, said: "It's extremely important that we remember the victims of such atrocities and take the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of others to ensure such crimes do not take place in the future.
"This service is our way of honouring all those who suffered and keeping their memory alive."
His Excellency Mr Williams Nkurunziza, said: "Remembering honours and dignifies the memory of the innocent lives lost in the pogrom. We welcome the support of our friends in commemorating this very significant event in history."
During the ceremony, a candle was lit by survivor of the genocide, Philomene Uwamaliya, accompanied by the Deputy Lord Mayor and the Young Lord Mayor, Antonia Hamer. Antonia also delivered a moving speech on behalf of Liverpool Schools Parliament.
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May-June 2009
Leonard Cohen, however, is a bird of a different feather who hovers over both Canadian and American songwriting like a strange visitor from another planet, and I don't mean Krypton. To appreciate his connection to this one I suggest contrasting him to Bob Dylan, in the following sense: Dylan raised the level of what could be said in a song from all other songwriters that came before him to something one has to call poetry. There were great songwriters before him, but no one, including the great versifiers like Cole Porter and Lorenz Hart, and the great populist folk singer Woody Guthrie, who could be said to have written songs that qualified as literature. Dylan did, and as I have tried at some pains to show in earlier essays in FolkWorks, this impulse was there from the beginning, even on his first album in his Song to Woody.
Leonard Cohen turned that impulse around, and worked his way backwards from poetry to song. Before Judy Collins had recorded his first recognized classic Suzanne, Leonard Cohen was already anthologized in the Penguin Book of Canadian Poetry. He had also published a novel that was taught inky English classes at UCLA: Beautiful Losers.
In short, he needed Greenwich Village like a hole in the head. Before he was thirty he had already accomplished what some writers work their whole lives to achieve-recognition and acceptance in the Academy and in publishing houses that define what is likely to endure as modern literature.
But here he came, to the Chelsea Hotel, as all Cohen fans know, to receive an erotic benediction from the female voice of a century in rock music, soon to join the ranks of the legendary dead-at-twenty-seven musical icons that included Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Tim Hardin, Tim Buckley, Kurt Cobain, and the blues singer who sold his soul to the devil and paid for it with his life, Robert Johnson. Janis Joplin was the only woman who made the list-all of them dead from a heroin addiction, the musician's curse.
Leonard Cohen helped to immortalize her by later indiscreetly outing her as the subject of his most erotic song, Chelsea Hotel #2. (This is a family website, so you may go to Leonard Cohen's own web site for the lyrics, www.leonardcohen.com).
So if Dylan demonstrated that songwriting could aspire to the realm of poetry, where his lyrics are now routinely included in modern anthologies of verse, Cohen realized that poetry could be elevated too-off the page and into people's ears as well their eyes and minds. In short, if Dylan transformed song into poetry; Cohen transformed poetry into song. In so doing, they both redrew the map of contemporary song.
The wonder of Cohen's body of work is that he has continued to challenge himself and grow into a kind of philosopher-poet using songs to go where few songwriters have ventured to explore-an attitude that almost no other rock or folk songwriters have articulated as consistently-true pessimism, in terms of accepting the limits of what art can accomplish, much as one of the 20th century's great poets W.H. Auden did when he sadly proclaimed, "Poetry makes nothing happen; it survives in the valley of its saying," and yet that does not negate poetry, it simply frames the conditions of its existence. To put it in philosophic terms one must turn to the great existentialist Jean Paul Sartre, in his play, No Exit. We are all trapped, only some of us don't know it. Sartre knows it; Auden knows it; and, to his extraordinary credit, so does Leonard Cohen.
To fully appreciate how far removed Cohen's sensibility is from his musical contemporaries, as opposed to his literary and philosophical contemporaries, just think for a moment of what Pete Seeger would think of as an "anthem:" We Shall Overcome. Pete, Woody, and before them, Joe Hill and Paul Robeson (all individual subjects of my previous FolkWorks essays), they all believed passionately that a song could change the world.
Imagine John Lennon's Imagine without that belief; or Woody's This Land Is Your Land-that is the foundation belief of virtually every modern folk and rock songwriter. Imagine Bono and U2, or Bruce Springsteen, or Neil Young, or every song that SingOut! has ever published without it, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame starts to look pretty thin, and the Archives of American Folk Music could be housed in a trunk.
Now look at Leonard Cohen's idea of an anthem, called simply, Anthem:
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's where the light gets in.
You won't here Pete Seeger singing it; it carries no promise of a better world if we only work at it, no hopeful message that tomorrow will be better than today-indeed in a song called The Future, unlike Martin Luther King, who carried a folk singer's dream with him when he proclaimed that "I've been to the mountaintop, and I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land; I may not get there with you, but want you to know that we as a people will get to the Promised Land," Leonard Cohen's vision of the future is as dark as night: "I've seen it, and it's murder."
You might say that the one thing King did not see, was the first thing on Cohen's list: the assassination that was just hours away.
The world of Leonard Cohen offers no easy way out, no communal sermons that we can fundamentally change our lot if we practice what Joe Hill preached: Don't mourn; organize. For Cohen, organizing won't get us there; marching won't get us there; and singing certainly won't get us there. And yet, despite various perceptions of his work that he writes songs to commit suicide to, his is not a counsel of despair. The essence of his world view, and his clear and vibrant source of hope, is in the last line of his Anthem: "That's where the light gets in." He celebrates the imperfect world, in love and politics and even war and peace (see his brilliant Song of Isaac, to see the best modern retelling of this Biblical story that has inspired a number of classic antiwar poems): He can't bring Janis Joplin back, but he can do the next best thing, and that is to "remember her well." He can't convince himself that the world is perfectible, but he can do the next best thing, and that is to sing and celebrate the one we have; and he can't make a song that will inspire millions to march on Washington, but he can do the next best thing, and that is to indict "the killers in high places."
Nor, even though he has been selling out arenas for two and three night stands all over the country on his current World Tour 2009,convince himself that he ranks very high in The Tower of Song: "I asked Hank Williams, How lonesome does it get? Hank Williams hasn't answered yet; but I hear him coughing all night long-one hundred floors above me in the tower of song."
Cohen came to the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles this past weekend and delivered what has already been described (in Ben Weiner's outstanding review for The Orange County Register, available on-line) as an "epic performance," three hours and twenty-eight songs, three more songs than are included in his new release from the performance that kicked off the tour: Leonard Cohen: Live in London.
I bought tickets to go to the concert, and fully intended to go, and to write a review instead of this more personal essay, but when I got down there and came to the box office I saw somebody who changed my plans for the night-the woman who had been my late mother's pharmacist for the entire six years I took care of her, until she passed away last July 7, in my arms at the Santa Monica Hospital. The pharmacist's name was Helen, and she made my job of being a caregiver bearable and intelligible by helping me understand and acquire Mom's many different medication's year in and year out, month in and month out, week in and week out, and day in and day out.
If she couldn't fill a prescription, she never let me go home empty-handed; she always loaned me enough to cover the gap until they got a new shipment. If Mom had an untoward reaction, Helen gave me the information to know what was going on, and what alternatives there might be; and she never failed to ask me how my music was going, reminding me even when my life was consumed with care-giving that I had another life that meant something to her.
For six years Helen was my rock, and yet when Mom died in her 92nd year (see my previous FolkWorks essay Try To Remember for my account of her descent into Alzheimer's) I couldn't bring myself to go and see her; it was just too painful to walk up to her counter and tell her there was nothing more she could do. I told her co-workers so she knew of Mom's death, but foursome reason I had to leave it at that.
And then I saw her and her husband at the box office trying to get some last minute tickets to see Leonard Cohen, without much luck. Touched her arm and said, "Helen, is that you?" As soon as she looked into my eyes she grabbed me and I got the hug of my life.
And then I handed my small envelope with the two concert tickets to her and her husband and said, "Merry Christmas, or Happy Birthday, whichever comes first." I also told her husband that he had a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful wife; and he nodded and said, "I know."
So I hope Helen and Terry had as good a time watching Leonard Cohen's epic concert as I would have had. As hard as it was to miss, and as much as I treasure his music and his stance as an artist, I am confident that what happened was a true "Leonard Cohen moment." For what he has sacrificed in his refusal to succumb to false promises, false prophets and the Woodstock generation's belief in communal transformation, he has joyously supplanted with an appreciative eye on small gestures and quiet individual human connections that sustain us through many unavoidable dark valleys.


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A) Parenting Safe Children Resources
- Off Limits: A Parent's Guide to Keeping Kids Safe from Sexual Abuse – Sandy K. Wurtele & Feather Berkower, LCSW
- Behaviors to Watch Out for When Adults Are with Children – Feather Berkower, LCSW/Stop It Now!
- Sample: Camp Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Policies
- Family Online Safety Agreement (for children, tweens, and teens) – Feather Berkower, LCSW
- Back to School Screening Packet: Questions about Body-Safety Policies and Practices – Feather Berkower, LCSW
- Nanny Packet: Guidelines for Screening Nannies & Babysitters and Sample Agreement Form (with body-safety rules) – Feather Berkower, LCSW
- Signs & Symptoms of Sexually Assaulted Children
- Talking with Children and Teens about Pornography
B) Other Resources
Recommended Reading
- Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (And Parents Sane) – Gavin de Becker
Books for Children on Prevention
- Some Parts are Not for Sharing – Julie K. Federico (For ages 6 months+)
- My Body is Special and Private – Adrianne Simeone (For ages 2-7)
- I Said No! A Kid-to-kid Guide to Keeping Private Parts Private – Kimberly & Zack King (For ages 3-10)
- My Body! What I Say Goes! – Jayneen Sanders (For ages 3-7)
- It's MY Body – Lory Freeman (For ages 3-8)
- Loving Touches – Lory Freeman (For ages 3-8)
- My Body is Private – Linda Walvoord Girard (For ages 6-11)
- The Right Touch – Sandy Kleven (For ages 3-8)
- The Trouble with Secrets – Karen Johnsen (For ages 3-8)
- Your Body Belongs to You – Cornelia Spelman (For ages 3-6)
- My Body Belongs to Me – Jill Starishevsky (For ages 3-8)
- A Secret Safe to Tell – Naomi Hunter (For ages 3-8)
- Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept– Jayneen Sanders (For ages 3-8)
- Stand in My Shoes – Bob Sornson Ph.D. (A book about empathy for ages 8 -9)
- C is for Consent – Eleanor Morrison (For a wide range of ages)
- Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent and Respect: Teach children about body ownership, respect, feelings, choices and recognizing bullying behaviors – Jayneen Sanders (For ages 6-12)
Books for Parents on Talking with Kids About Sex
- The Sex-wise Parent: The Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Child, Strengthening Your Family, and Talking to Kids About Sex, Abuse, and Bullying – Dr. Janet Rosenzweig
- The Parent's Guide to Talking About Sex: A Complete Guide to Raising (Sexually) Safe, Smart and Healthy Children – Dr. Janet Rosenzweig
- Birds + Bees + Your Kids – Amy Lang
- Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex, but Were Afraid They'd Ask: The Secrets to Surviving Your Child's Sexual Development from Birth to the Teens – Justin Richardson & Mark Schuster
- Beyond the Big Talk: A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Teens – Debra W. Haffner
Books for Children & Teens on Sexuality Education
- What Makes a Baby – Cory Silverberg (For preschool through 7)
- Sex is a Funny Word – Cory Silverberg (For ages 7- 11)
- Who Has What? – Robbie H. Harris (For preschool ages+)
- It's Not the Stork – Robbie H. Harris (For ages 4+)
- It's So Amazing – Robbie H. Harris (For ages 7+)
- It's Perfectly Normal – Robbie H. Harris (For ages 11-15)
- DATING SMARTS: What EVERY teen needs to know to date, relate or wait – Amy Lang, MA
- Where Did I Come From? – Peter Mayle (For ages 4-8)
- Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: Expanded Third Edition: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships – Ruth Bell Alexander (For ages 12+)
Books for Children on Healing and Recovery
- Sarah's Waterfall: A Healing Story about Sexual Abuse – Ellery Akers (For ages 7-12)
- A Very Touching Book for Little People and for Big People – Jan Hindman & Tom Novak (For ages 6-12)
- I Can't Talk About It – Doris Sanford (For ages 4-8)
- Something Happened and I'm Scared to Tell – Patricia Kehoe, Ph.D. (For ages 3-7)
- Something Is Wrong at My House – Diane Davis (For ages 3-12)
Books for Children on Feelings
- I'm Happy-Sad Today – Lory Britain, PhD (For ages 3-8)
- MY Body MY Voice MY Power – A Coloring Journal for Girls – Lory Britain, PhD (For ages 4-9 depending on maturity level)
Books for Adults on Healing and Recovery
- Miss America by Day – Marilyn Van Derbur (A memoir about surviving incest)
- Parenting with PTSD: the impact of childhood abuse on parenting – Joyelle Brandt & Dawn Daum
- The Courage To Heal – Ellen Bass & Laura Davis
- Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child – Laura Davis
Internet Safety Web Sites for Kids, Teens and Parents
Sex Offender Information
- Family Watchdog (Free service to locate sex offenders)
Colorado Resources
- Wings Foundation (Resource for adult survivors)
- The Kempe Center (Training and education for the prevention of child sexual abuse)
- Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault
National Resources
- Stop it Now!
- The Mama Bear Effect
- The Safer Society Foundation
- The Rape Abuse and Incest National Network
- Darkness to Light
- Committee for Children
- Childhelp USA (24-Hour National Child Abuse Hotline 1-800-4-ACHILD)
- National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
- International Center for Assault Prevention (School based programs addressing bully, stranger, and sexual abuse by known people)
- 1 in 6 (Support for men who have been sexually abused)
- Male Survivor
Additional Parenting Resources
- AMAZE – Sexuality Education Online for Kids & Parents (For preschool through high school)
- REAL Parenting, Stephanie Bryan LCSW, CAC III
- From Trauma to Triumph; Facilitator, Selena Shelley
- Theravive – Therapist referral service
- Mindful Pediatrics, Dr. Roy Steinbock, MD
- Partners in Pediatrics
- Amy Lang's BIRDS+BEES+KIDS


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A Skin So Soft
Jean-François, Ronald, Alexis, Cédric, Benoit and Maxim are gladiators of modern times. From the strongman to the top-class bodybuilder, to the veteran who has become a trainer, they all share the same definition and obsession with overcoming their limitations. They are waiting for the next competition, working hard in the gym and following extreme diets.
Genre: Documentary, SportActor: Benoit Lapierre, Cédric Doyon, Jean-François Bouchard
Director: Denis Côté
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Easter Brunch
I usually throw an Easter brunch for my friends at my apt. each year. We ate too much food, drank many mimosas and watched hockey 🙂 I'll share the recipes for all the food below or at least a description of how to make the food.
Carrot Cake
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup buttermilk (or regular milk with 1 tsp lemon juice)
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 cups white sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 cups shredded carrots
- 1 cup flaked coconut
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple with juice
- 1 cup raisins
- cream cheese frosting
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour an 8×12 inch pan.
- In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine eggs, buttermilk, oil, sugar and vanilla. Mix well. Add flour mixture and mix well.
- In a medium bowl, combine shredded carrots, coconut, walnuts, pineapple and raisins.
- Using a large wooden spoon or a very heavy whisk, add carrot mixture to batter and fold in well.
- Pour into prepared 8×12 inch pan, and bake at 350 degrees F for 1 hour. Check with toothpick.
- Allow to cool for at least 20 minutes before serving
- For these carrot-shaped ones I first cut the cake in half lengthwise and then cut the strips into triangles. I dyed the cream cheese frosting with gel food coloring and piped onto the cakes with a piping tip.
Cooked using oven method. Lay bacon strips onto foil lined baking sheet. Put into cold oven. Set oven temp to 400 F and start timer. After 17-20 min, remove bacon and put on paper towels to soak up grease. The timing will depend on the thickness of the bacon and how fast your oven heats up.
Peppered Pear Goat Cheese Scones
These are my absolute favorite scones. The salty cheese with the pear is amazing and I love black pepper as a strong flavor in things.
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 2 Tbs granulated sugar
- 1 1/4 tsp kosher salt
- 1 tsp freshly cracked black pepper, plus extra for sprinkling
- 1 stick butter, grated and frozen for 10-15 minutes
- 1 medium pear, peeled, cored, and roughly chopped
- 4 ounces goat cheese, crumbled into walnut-sized pieces
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt
- 2 Tablespoons whole milk
- 1 Tablespoon butter, melted
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Stir together the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and 1 tsp of the pepper in a medium bowl. Add the butter, pears, and goat cheese, and stir to incorporate.
- Pour the yogurt and whole milk over the flour mixture and lightly blend with a spatula. The dough may look dry, but it will come together in the oven.
- Using a 1/3 cup measuring cup, scoop the dough into mounds evenly spaced on the baking sheet. Brush the scones with the melted butter and a little milk, and sprinkle with extra pepper. Bake until lightly browned, about 25 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Chocolate chip, blueberry, raspberry, and banana pancakes
I just made a basic pancake mix and added in some fun additions to make them more exciting for brunch.
Mushroom cheddar crustless quiche
- 1 tbs vegetable oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 tbs butter
- 2 small packs (~4 cups) sliced mushrooms
- 5 eggs, beaten
- 3-4 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a 9 inch pie pan.
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until onions are soft.
- At the same time, in a separate skillet, cook the mushrooms in the butter on medium low heat until mushrooms soften. Add a generous amount of salt to your flavor preference. Drain the excess liquid.
- In a large bowl, combine eggs, cheese, salt and pepper. Add onion mixture and mushrooms, stir to blend. Scoop into prepared pie pan.
- Bake in preheated oven until eggs have set, about 30-40 min. Let cool for 10 min. before serving.
Spinach swiss muenster crustless quiche
- 1 tbs vegetable oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 10 oz package frozen spinach
- 5 eggs, beaten
- 1.5-2 cups shredded swiss cheese
- 1.5-2 cups shredded muenster cheese
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a 9 inch pie pan.
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until onions are soft. Stir in spinach and continue cooking until excess moisture has evaporated.
- In a large bowl, combine eggs, cheese, salt and pepper. Add spinach mixture and stir to blend. Scoop into prepared pie pan.
- Bake in preheated oven until eggs have set, about 30-40 min. Let cool for 10 min. before serving.
Peeps sunflower cake
Bake any sort of cake you want in a round pan. Frost with chocolate icing and decorate with yellow peeps and chocolate chips. I made a white cake dyed with Easter colors for the different layers.
Easter basket cookies
- sugar cookie dough (premade or from scratch)
- colored sugar sprinkles
- white frosting
- shredded coconut
- green food dye
- jelly beans
- licorice
- Roll sugar cookie dough in sprinkles. Place in mini muffin tin and push down in center.
- Bake for recommended time (by cookie recipe)
- Push down in the center again when cookies come out of oven. Cool
- Fill centers with white icing. Stir coconut in a bowl with a few drops of green food coloring to dye. Sprinkle on top of the icing.
- Use jelly beans and licorice to decorate
Prosciutto wrapped arugula bites
Wrap small bunches of arugula with a tin strip of prosciutto to make a tasty and relatively healthy appetizer
just cooked according to package directions
placed in an easter basket lined with foil and parchment paper for a cute presentation
Lemon poppy seed muffins
- 2/3 cup sugar
- grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup sour cream or plain Greek yogurt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 stick unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Butter or spray the 12 molds in a regular-size muffin pan or fit the molds with paper muffin cups.
- n a large bowl, rub the sugar and the lemon zest together with your fingertips until the sugar is moist and the fragrance of the lemon is strong. Whisk in the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a small bowl, whisk the sour cream or Greek yogurt, eggs, vanilla, lemon juice and melted butter together until well blended.
- Pour the liquid ingredients over the dry ingredients and gently stir to blend. Don't overmix. Stir in the poppy seeds. Divide the batter evenly among the muffin cups.
- Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, or until the tops are golden and a thin knife inserted into the center of the muffins comes out clean. Transfer the pan to a rack and cool for 5 minutes before carefully removing each muffin from its mold.
Carrot cake fudge with cream cheese fudge topping
- 4 Tablespoons butter
- 3 cups white chocolate chips
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk (14 oz.)
- 1 cup dry carrot cake mix
- 1/2 cup marshmallow cream
Cream cheese fudge
3/4 cup canned cream cheese frosting
1 cup white chocolate chips
2 Tablespoons marshmallow cream
Jordan almonds or other candy to decorate
- Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper and set aside. In a large sauce pan combine the butter, 3 cups white chips, and can of sweetened condensed milk. Stir over low heat until melted and smooth.
- Stir in the dry cake mix 1/4 cup at a time until thoroughly combined. Stir in the marshmallow cream. Keep stirring to keep the fudge from sticking on the bottom. Pour into prepared pan. Refrigerate at least 1 hour.
- In another saucepan, melt the 1 cup of white chips over low heat. Stir in the cream cheese frosting and marshmallow cream when the chips are melted. Pour over the carrot cake layer and smooth out. Press the Jordan almonds into the top. Chill 1 hour before cutting. Cut into approximately 40-50 squares.
- Baguette
- Olive oil
- Gorgonzola cheese
- Honey
- Preheat oven to 400 F. Cut baguette into thin pieces. Brush with olive oil and bake in oven until toasted (~10 min)
- Sprinkle cheese onto pieces and return to oven for 3 min to melt.
- Drizzle with honey before serving
- 1 (8 oz.) package refrigerated crescent rolls
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
For the Vanilla Glaze:
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon milk
- 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray cups of a 12-cup mini muffin pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- On a lightly floured surface, unroll dough and separate into 2 rectangles. Gently pinch any open seams together with your fingers.
- Stir together sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl; sprinkle evenly over rectangles. Roll up jellyroll style into 2 logs. Cut each log into 6 slices and place slices into muffin pan cups.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until rolls are risen and lightly golden.
- Stir together powdered sugar, milk and vanilla in a small bowl until smooth. Drizzle glaze over warm rolls.
- 4 red potatoes
- 1 tbs olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 tbs olive oil
- 1.5 tsp salt
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp cumin
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes and cook until tender but still firm, about 15 minutes. Drain, cool cut into 1/2 inch cubes.
- In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil over medium high heat. Add onion. Cook, stirring often, until soft; about 5 minutes.
- Pour remaining 2 tablespoons of oil into the skillet and turn heat to medium-high. Add potato cubes, salt, paprika, black pepper, and cumin. Cook, stirring occasionally, until potatoes are browned; about 10 minutes. Serve hot.


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Join us on board Magellan as she cruises from Newcastle to Norway via the historic Scottish port of Dundee. Discover a landscape marked by crashing waterfalls and ancient villages like Hellesylt and Geiranger as Magellan sails into Geirangerfjord, and cruises along the vast length of Sognefjord, past deep forests and towering mountains, to the tiny village of Flam.
Opportunities to head deep into the astonishing fjordland landscape on optional shore excursions, lazy days at sea, and a relaxed day exploring Bergen's lively fish market and Bryggen, its lovingly regenerated warehouse district now full of unusual shops and stylish restaurants and bars, round off this unforgettable spring cruise.
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Board Magellan in Newcastle, today, settle in to your cabin and relax as your cruise begins.
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Today Magellan calls at the historic Tayside port-city of Dundee, where some Scottish passengers will come aboard. Explore this engaging city, home to Captain Scott's Royal Research Ship Discovery, a beautifully restored example of the days when maritime adventures were less luxurious affairs.
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This character is a commercial airline pilot in his early forties who has not been true to his Christian faith. Prior to the disappearances, he is contemplating an affair. He is left behind, while his wife and son are raptured.
Nicolae Carpathia
This character is a Romanian bent on taking over the world. He has had an illustrious career, and charms everyone who hears him speak. Those who are left behind that believe in Jesus believe this character to be the Antichrist.
Chloe Steele
This character is the main character's college-aged daughter. She is away at school in California at the time of the disappearances and makes her way home to Chicago. She has difficulty accepting the faith her father preaches, but does convert.
Cameron Buck Williams
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For all those parents who have an old android phone sat in the corner gathering dust, there is now an answer for you – Kyte Phone!
Aimed at younger users (under 10 I'd say) Kytephone is controlled online by the parents. A login is created and Kyte installed which creates a playful, child based user interface that once opened the child cannot come out of.
From the online account the parent can control everything via the "dashboard". This gives access to the app store so you can see and approve what apps are on the device, can keep an eye on calls made along with an approved list of contacts, which can be edited online and can even cheek the phone's latest location.
This is currently free to use and seems to be a brilliant idea to introduce your child into the android/technology world with the guaranteed safety net that they aren't going to access anything they shouldn't.
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Guide to wedding florists in North Yorkshire: find the nearest florist, with pricing information and all its services, from centrepieces, church flowers, bridal bouquets, bridesmaids' bouquets, buttonholes, corsages to all kinds of flower arrangements for weddings and celebrations in North Yorkshire. Start searching among all florists to decorate a perfect wedding.
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Established in 1989, Hutton Flowers has had ample experience in crafting beautiful arrangements for your big day. They aim to create arrangements that reflect your personality and will add a special touch to your wedding. They understand that your wedding is totally unique, and are happy to work... (Wedding florist North Yorkshire)
bake&blossom are wedding florists, operating out of Whixley, England, who can also provide wedding cakes. This team understand that saying 'I do' is a momentous occasion, and they enjoy working closely with each couple to help craft their dream wedding. Though based in York, their experience and... (Wedding florist North Yorkshire)
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The Tattooist
China 2018
produced by Michael Wong for Scream Zone, E&T Films
directed by Michael Wong
starring Wang Yanhu, Lu Li, Myra Mala, Chase Lichtenberg, Simon Shiyamba, Mayela Magrou, Dan Litza
written by Michael Wong, music by Panagiotis E. Tsafos/Found in the Attic
review byMike Haberfelner
At first sight, the scene doesn't look troubling at all, a tattooist
(Want Yanhu) tattoos a beautiful artwork on the back of a platinum-haired
girl (Lu Li). He does so with great skill, and his studio looks like that
of a consummate professional. But if you take a trip into the man's mind,
you see another picture, there's people held in cages in a wet basement,
where they are tortured, mutilated alive and killed by the very same
tattoo artist. And the troubling part is, one can't be sure if that's
actually part of his imagination (which would be troubling enough) or a
look at what's actually going on in his basement ...
in at under two minutes and being devoid of dialogue, The Tattooist
is actually more of an experience than a film as with short sequences that
actually suggest more than they show it manages to capture the audience's
very primal fears. And likewise, with giving very little (if any) of the
film's backstory away it forces the viewers to interpret the on-screen
goings-in themselves - to rather fascinating and disturbing results. And
also thanks to a clever directorial effort and great camerawork, this is a
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love and death and everything in between,
Tales to ChillYour Bones tois all of that.
Tales to ChillYour Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-playsranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
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tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up bythe twisted mind ofscreenwriter and film reviewerMichael Haberfelner.
Tales to ChillYour Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now fromAmazon!!!
On the same daya Burglar wants to kill youand your Ex wantsto make up ...
... and for the life of it, you can't decideWHICH IS WORSE!!!
A Killer Conversation
produced by and starringMelanie Denholme
directed byDavid V.G. Davies
written byMichael Haberfelner
starring Ryan Hunter
andRudy Barrow
out now on DVD


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Candy cane ornament is sewn from off-white flannel and measures about 8-inches tall.
The stripes are sculpted with burgundy floss and it's decorated with a few sprigs of fake pine, red pip berries and a homespun bow. The edges of the ornament are lightly brushed with walnut ink stain to give it a bit of a vintage look and it's finished off with a waxed linen loop and a light coating of iridescent glitter.
Hang on the tree or on a peg or add to a basket of pine cones.
This candy cane ornament was handmade by us here at Little Coon Creek from all new materials. The item shown in the photo is the very same item which you will receive when ordering.


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Automation, the Opportunity of Better, and the AU 2018 General Session
An interplanetary lander to explore the moons of Saturn and Jupiter? AI-generated architectural designs for unusual land parcels in urban Japan? An app that takes design ideas from napkin sketch to BIM in minutes?
These projects show what the future of making looks like today. And they were all presented as part of the opening General Session at AU 2018.
Featuring Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost and industry leaders from across the worlds of architecture, design, and manufacturing, this year's General Session provided a transformative view of what's possible for what we make and how we make it in a world of increasing automation.
"Automation is changing what we're capable of making. It's changing how we work and what we work on. It's helping us to create more meaningful things, and also create more meaningful work." —Andrew Anagnost, CEO, Autodesk
Learn more, watch the recording on demand, and join the conversation on the new AU website.


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The Mud-Terrain T/A KM3 tires from BFGoodrich are engineered to maximize the performance of off-road vehicles in extreme conditions. Whether you want to power through thick mud or climb over rocky surfaces, this off-road tire will help you confidently move forward with all your adventures. Innovative construction materials and massive tread blocks offer maximum grip and durability in all driving situations. Coregard Max Technology prevents sidewall damage while driving over and around jagged stones, branches and other sharp objects.
With their optimized tread design and tough construction, BFGoodrich Mud-Terrain T/A KM3 tires promise to boost the crawling and climbing abilities of your off-road vehicle. These tires can help you achieve your off-road activity goals or simply take you on all your outdoor adventures. Durable construction materials and innovative technological advancements protect your tires from excessive wear and damage, no matter what obstacles stand in your way. The huge tread blocks not only maximize grip on all driving surfaces, but also help perfect the aggressive appearance and stance of your off-road vehicle design.
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You will find the BFGoodrich Mud-Terrain T/A KM3 tires in sizes ranging from 15 to 22-inches in diameter. You can choose from widths of 6 to 12 inches to select the correct fitment for your off-road vehicle. With 54 unique sizes available, you are certain to find the right one for your vehicle with help from your trusted tire retailer.
If you want to dominate at off-road competitions or traverse any obstacle that stands in your way, consider fitting your vehicle with Mud-Terrain T/A KM3 tires from BFGoodrich. Practically nothing stands in your way with these maximum traction off-road tires equipped on your vehicle.


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Durham 5k 2019
Durham 5k
Sunday 30 Jun 2019
£14.99 Adults
This is a 5k for everyone. This is thousands of people uniting with one purpose - to raise valuable funds for life-saving research.
Key Information
Date: Sunday 30 Jun 2019
Time: 11:00
Children: £10.00
Young Adults: £14.99
Adults: £14.99
Under 6 entry (Girls and boys): free and no registration needed
Venue: St Leonards Sports Fields, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL View map
Distance: 5k
The Durham course starts in St Leonard's Playing fields before passing by County Hall. The route then loops around Aykley Heads Woods where you will get stunning views of the city. If you're lucky you may even see some of the resident deer when you pass through the Aykley Woods nature reserve.
The meeting point and start line is in the St Leonard's School Playing Fields, on Framwellgate Peth.
There is parking available at County Hall. However, to look after our environment, we encourage you to car share or take public transport where possible. Durham train station is approximately a 10 minute walk from the start line and there are a number of bus services that stop at County Hall. The Traveline North East website can help you plan your journey.
Unfortunately, due to the steep hills and the course running on muddy and grassy paths, this event is unsuitable for wheelchair users.
Don't forget to bring your friends and family along to support you. Go and cheer on your loved ones from the many accessible points around the course.