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Connecting means creating hopeSeptember is Suicide Prevention Month in Snohomish County
Suicide leaves its mark on all age groups.
On June 16, a 33-year-old woman jumped in front of a BNSF train in Edmonds in an incident witnessed by many, including children.
And earlier this month – five days after a woman was found dead next to a suicide note in a Fifth Avenue North condo in Edmonds – an elderly man took his life after a recent cancer diagnosis.
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and the Snohomish Health District and a number of local nonprofits, municipal agencies, and media outlets, are conducting special campaigns to increase awareness.
The joint goal is to demonstrate how individuals can intervene and change the path for someone in crisis.
"Giving hope is what saves lives," said Wendy Burchill, Healthy Communities specialist with the Snohomish County Health District, of the County's approach to suicide prevention and awareness.
Burchill still sees opportunities for hope, despite suicide rate statistics that she describes as "alarming" and "unprecedented in our community."
The statistics are increasingly skewing younger.
Over four years, Snohomish County experienced a significant rise in suicide rate in the 15-24 age group. The county has also begun to track an age group it never had to in the past – those under 14.
"We are now seeing youth as young as 11 years old die by suicide," Burchill said. "We did not see statistics for middle-schoolers until 2014."
The Centers for Disease Control records statistics on suicide, and currently cites roughly 123 suicides each day in the U.S., with the highest rate among middle-aged white males (representing one in eight suicides in Washington).
Although the rate for men is much higher, the rate for women has been increasing faster. The suicide rate in Washington state increased 19 percent in the past 20 years.
There are more than 1,110 suicide deaths a year here, making it our state's eighth leading cause of death. Of that, in Snohomish County, 113 people died by suicide in 2016, and it is the leading cause of death among 10-14 year olds and second only to accidents for the 15-24 age group.
Also according to the CDC, for every death by suicide, there are 25 attempted and even more contemplated, and the ability to engage those people during critical points in their mental health crisis can make all the difference.
Increasing awareness can remove the stigma, shame or discomfort associated with talking about suicide and promote the belief that anyone can intervene to help. Intervention can come from multiple sources and can be understood as engaging, connecting and speaking with those thinking about taking their lives.
"It is connectedness that help them survive," Burchill said. "We know from talking to survivors that being offered small tokens of hope by someone else is enough to diffuse the crisis moment."
Honestly engaging and telling someone they are important to you or that you want to see them tomorrow can make an impact on a person in crisis mode.
"It doesn't mean they won't be there again," Burchill said, "but you will have probably saved a life in that moment."
There are many contributing factors and theories about why suicide rates are increasing in the United States. They include climate change, lack of adequate health care or mental health care, income inequality and substance use disorders.
Social media also is a factor.
As communities attempt to understand the conditions that contribute to increased suicide rates, individuals can engage with each other to recognize warning signs or changes in behavior. Getting to know a neighbor living alone or talking more with your children's friends can increase a sense of community and make it easier to have difficult conversations.
"Community connectedness ties in to hope," Burchill said. "Taking the time to speak with someone offers hope in and of itself."
Suicide does not discriminate, and statistics cross all socio-economic, geographic and demographic boundaries. Most Americans experience mental health concerns at some point in their lives.
One in 5 adults have a mental health condition, and 69 percent of Americans are impacted by a mental-health issue.
In Snohomish County, nearly 16 percent of sixth-graders and 23 percent of high school seniors have seriously considered attempting suicide. And just under 5 percent and 10 percent of sixth-graders and 12th-graders, respectively, actually attempted suicide.
Survivor testimony has shown that asking one question – Are you thinking of killing yourself? – is enough to lower anxiety. Burchill was clear to state that it is a myth that talking to those about suicide will plant the idea in their heads.
"That is simply not true," she said.
"Someone who has thought about suicide has thought about it a lot. They are not just having a bad day. You are not going to plant the seed. It's just the opposite. It will be met with relief. It will show that they matter because you care enough to ask."
Here is information about ways you can engage locally or to learn more about suicide prevention,
• "Words Matter: Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide" training by Snohomish County Health District for journalists, bloggers, reporters, schools newspaper staff and students, social media users and communications professionals.
• "Everett Out of the Darkness Walk," American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, 9 a.m. Sept. 29 at Port of Everett Boxcar Park (afsp.donordrive.com).
• Rooted In Love Yoga and Snap Fitness in Edmonds will be hosting a "Day of Yoga" Sept. 29 at Snap Fitness to promote awareness and make a donation (100 percent of the proceeds) to suicide prevention organizations.
• Communities of Color Coalition and KSER Radio are presenting five programs dedicated to suicide prevention and awareness in its weekly series, "Color Commentary."
• Homage Senior Services, Snohomish County Long Term and Aging and the Snohomish County Council on Aging Education all have awareness efforts.


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A blog that shows you Gaza through my eyes. I never claim to be a professional. My posts are the rantings of a CIVILIAN from Gaza. Let me tell you our story.....
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
War on Gaza: in the eyes of the beholder
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thanks for sharing this omar - i will forward as it needs to be seen - but what i cant understand is how we read of the horrific axe attack on the israeli kid yesterday -that brutality serves your cause no good surely - how can u as eduated perosn justify that. israeld incursion to gaza recently is actually condemnend ny most here in australia - but the hamas crap is really bad pr - -all the best keep head low and attached ..nickReplyDelete
thx aloot at first for ur interest in my blog i hope u emailme with ur blog so i can put it on the list of blogs i like. ( although i have 2 read it first ) lolReplyDelete
next ur soooo right and am trying my best to help spread the idea of apposing violence of both sides but again plz look at the bigger picture the whole world cries if a single israeli child got stabed when hundreds of children are killed, burnt. deformed, heavily injured and handicaped in Gaza during the vicious recent war but that doesnt mean i support violence am totally against it everywhere. i just want 2 c my country free and treated in a just way.
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Friday, May 27, 2011
Belgium: Natural NOT Artificial
Back to the point, Belgium is not "artificial" or "invented". How do people think this? I know, part is because of the quarreling between the French and Dutch speakers communities but do they really think these two were just put together in 1830? Do they think before that the space on the map was empty? The two regions had been together when we were part of the United Netherlands Kingdom, when we were the Austrian Netherlands before that, when we were in the larger Spanish Netherlands before that and when we were Burgundy before that. There had always been this area, not always an independent country, but always definitely not French, not German and not Dutch. Even in those days people still called the whole area "Belgium" and it was Belgium even all the way back in Roman times. So, why don't people understand? No one "invented" Belgium! Belgium has always been here, right where it is today! There has always been Belgium, there have always been Belgians. This is not disputable, this is a fact of history.
Look at the brief period between the first effort for independence (United States of Belgium we talked about) and the country being taken over by France and Napoleon. That was when we were, again, the Austrian Netherlands but war was already about to happen with France so military forces had to be ready and they formed a unit, part of the Austrian Imperial Army, with green and yellow uniforms with cool crested helmets that had the big letters "LB" on them. What did that stood for? "Legion Belge" or the BELGIAN Legion. This was going back before 1814, so how could there be a Belgian Legion when these people keep saying Belgium was just invented in 1830 by a bunch of countries? Why do I have maps from back to the Renaissance period and the Roman Empire with a big area labeled "Belgium" on them if the country was only "invented" in 1830? So why do they keep saying that? It is ridiculous and I do not understand them!
The people always had different languages and different customs, not just in the regions, but town to town. However, in the past most everyone also had a common language if it was Latin or later French and everyone always had the same religion. Today it is more rigid and one area is for speaking Dutch, the other French and a little bit German and no changing! That has hardened feelings I think, not like the way it was in the past. In the past there were language issues also, no denying that, but there were also more things that all Belgians had in common in those days and today there is less of that. But artificial or invented we are not. The area of the country has been a distinct unit since hundreds of years and the people living there knew they were not French or Dutch or Germans, but Belgians!
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Was this article written by that horrible Paul Belien? He wrote a whole book to this effect, trashing the Royal Family whenever possible. I've discussed him before, but now prefer to ignore him, for the sake of my blood pressure;-)ReplyDelete
Remember Exiled, "Of all the people of Gaule, the Belgians are the bravest"...(in 57 BC)...ReplyDelete
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgica for anyone interested and thank you Matterhorn for Mr. Belien's name! He obviously carries a chip on his shoulder!
Our genealogy tree goes back to 1637 (just good merchant stock and part of a Guild)...No one in our family ever thought themselves anything but Belgian!
Finally I agree with you Exiled, it must be truly "un petit pays de cocagne"...So many immigrate there for a reason!
Une chataigne, anyone???
I do not remember the name but I know he would be writing the same thing and it maybe was. I was only grateful a few people did defend Belgium in the comments section (not Belgians but other nations). It was the same in my house, in fact my parents became rather upset anytime the communities were brought up, we were all Belgians and that was enough. We like the Dutch we like the French but we are our own nation, no more and no less.ReplyDelete
I know things are bad at the moment and I complain also sometimes but I don't think we are bad people or worse than anyone else. Look how long we have been doing okay with no government at all!
- AnonymousJune 1, 2011 at 1:22 PM
I am of course sympathetic to this legitimacy plight. I do have of course, French nationalistic ideas about Wallonia, but I recognize Belgian sovereignty. My ideal solution would be an independent Belgian kingdom within a greater French Empire.ReplyDelete
Besides, one could use the same "artificial" argument for any country. After all, ultimately, most European states were part of the Roman Empire, weren't they? Why not just have everyone annexed by Italy?


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I believe in feeding the poor
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I believe in going after the one lamb gone astray
I believe in not using the name of God for gain
I believe in the prodigal Son
I believe Jesus was right when he taught:
- Seek your own salvation with fear and trembling
- Take the moot out of your own eye
- Love Thy neighbor
- Render unto Caesar what is Caesars
- Pride goeth before the fall
- Love of money is the root of all evil
- You will know a tree by the fruit it bears
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DEWT peer conference: A fact
On June 11th 2011 the first #DEWT peer conference was held. For passionate testers attended by passionate tester and challenged by the same testers. The intention of this day was to share information about topics we have chosen in a previous DEWT meeting with the understanding it interest us and might help us understanding better and become better testers.
Next to sharing information it was also an opportunity to practise some skills like presentation and teaching. Or what about sharing ideas to work on them.
The evening before
Actually, it started already the evening before. In an informal setting, more informal then on the 11th we sat down at the bar and immediately the spirit was already there. The spirit of supporting and challenging each other, tell about their experiences and how we might continue.
What I remember about the definition was Transpection: "An idea in head to explore which gives the person the opportunity to probe/play with the idea without influenced too much"
This was just at the beginning of the evening, there was much fun from sharing experience stories, judging the music, talking about artists and how lucky we are the have open minds able to learn what is testing all about.
The day it happened
At 9 o'clock sharp we started.....with waiting when the last persons would show up. And after 10 minutes the great happening was opened by Ruud Cox, appointed chairmen for the first part of the day. On a previous meeting of DEWT we decided to support this day with 2 chairmen (Also Jeanne Hofmans) to restrict our ideas and thoughts. Based on the same session we came up with the following program (except the lightning talks, those were defined during this day)
On todays program where the following topics:
§ Opening presentation on Artful Testing by Zeger van Hese
§ Transpection by Michael Bolton
§ Lightning talks by:
Jeroen Rosink: Testing Pyramid
Huib Schoots: The power of knowing nothing
Zeger van Hesse: Bader Meinhoff-phenomenon:
§ RST and SBTM in The Netherlands by Ray Oei
§ Credibility (the quality of being trusted and believed) introduction by Ruud Cox
Each performance had its own perspective and story, you had to be there if you had the chance.
I shall not recapitulate everything instead let me tell you some of the lessons I learned
Some Lessons Learned
When Zeger told about art and artist he made the relationship with testing. What I liked is that he sees testing as and art though we are not the artist. Testers can be seen more in the role of an art critic. And an art critic should know about all the variants of art.
Should he?
This triggered me thinking about the tester, should he also be aware about all the variants of testing? Perhaps at a certain moment. At least what he knows about testing must be told with confidence en compared to the truth.
I think if you keep shouting something is bad, that noise will no longer leave your room. If you tell the story and you are capable to make that story accepted then you gained reliability. This means you have to be able to explain in certain details what your test was all about....You have to be able to tell and explain the art of the software.
Another challenging topic was supported by Michael Bolton and was about transpection.
Valuable information about this topic can be found on:
Transpective Dialogs for Learning
by James Bach
Blog: Transpection and the Three Elements of Checking by Michel Bolton
Blog: Transpection and the Three Elements of Checking by Michael Bolton
He challenged us to use transpection to investigate the meaning of it. it made us think. Some investigated the internet to find more information, or examples. Together with Jean-Paul we did our own mind exploring to see how we would see the boundaries of transpection.
What I learned about transpection it is already done by persons like Plato...it is a good way to gain information or guide persons to learn/gain insights. Not everything is a transpection, pub talk can be rather not. It has a beginning and an ending although you never know which direction it goes. Though it starts with a main subject.
I think transpections can change over the time. With this I mean:
- you are the person who held the transpection and challenge the other
- you are the person who is challenged
- During the initial transpection, in which you are challenging your idea, you leave space for the other for a moment of transpection. perhaps you get it back later on?
Some questions I still have:
What is the option to step out of a transpection?
How can you step out without minimizing the result for the other?( Rude behaviour might distract and loose focus on the results)
Can the main subject be changed? How is this done/monitored?
When do you have a transpection and when did you loose the transpection?
These are some questions I have to look further and learn about myself.
The Lightning talks
The first talk was provided by Huib Schoots. He explained the idea of the power of knowing nothing. I think he is onto something. Though I know a bit about this :-)
It reminded me about the concept by general Rumsfeld: about known-knowns onto the unknown-unkowns.
If there is some power behind the information we don't know I think it can be worth to investigate what we don't know and always be aware of it.
I was also chalenged to held a talk. This gave me the opportunity to challenge an idea. While expressing the concept I was triggered to continue thinking about it. What was my idea? The main concept is that testers start as junior and grow up as senior. Only there is not much space for seniors so if you want to survive, you ahve to be good at what you are. This reminded my about a story by Adam Coucher: The most important stakeholder are you!
Or what Cem Kaner ask us: do we want to be commodity (a banana)Exploratory Test Automation: Investment Modeling as an Example by Cem kaner or do we challenge ourselves and learn?
In my opionion if you want to stay in business you have to create to ability to learn and not only to remember. You have to be aware that you can't rely on what you have done in the past or which certificates you collected. You have to be aware and think what you want to be.
During the lightning talk MB chalenged me: about the "You" and the "Why" he was right. Who am I to tell you what to do!!!
Zeger spoke about the Bader-meinhof-phenomenon. If I'm correct it is about the situation, when you noticed something strongly you suddently see it all around you. Imagine you have a new car, before you never noticed those beautifull cars, and now it is all around you. Imagine what this can do with bugs. You never were aware of this type of bugs and now: HELP!!!!
The thing I don't like is the title of this phenomenon, it has some negative feeling. Im certain there are other sources from psychology which explains more in detail from another perspective about it. I know that something similar is also explained by Oliver Sacks in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
In one of the chapters he explains about a situation where after learning about it he saw similar symtoms all over the city by people.
Somehow we made it to lunch and deserved also a great walk through the woods next to the hotel.
RST in The Netherlands
After getting back some final tutorials were given by Ray Oei who explained about the lessons he learned implementing RST at 3 companies. It was sometimes hard as we still live in "TMap-country" There was some sound who explained that if TMap is asked we might call it TMap.
This idea I reject. Why call it something which doesn't work in the essence because when we ask testers about it they too often exlpain that it is not done as written therefore intended. They made there own twist..When asking them about it it is far from TMap. They use some templates, they use some techniques, they use some something and at least: it is al planned and those planned are nto telling what you actually did.
What I believe is: if you found you own way to make testing happen, don't lean on a name to sell it. By selling it under a name like TMap or ISTQB you support the believe it actually works. So it is sold more often. Perhaps it works for you, what I believe in is in honesty. Borrowing good things or bad things from a concept which leads to your succes doesn't make the concept be a succes.
Ray remined me why I suport RST because it chalenge you to think out of the box, it helps you to guide your thoughts, it leaves space to make it work for you!
Are you credible?
After the RST the final presentation was provided by Ruud about credibility of a tester. he is onto something, we testers should be aware about our credibility more often. When it is gone it is hard to gain back. Perhaps we should copy his action and create our own card or "buy" it from Ruud
copyright about the photo: at Zeger van Hesse/ copyright of the actual object (style-card): at Ruud Cox
- Safety language
- Two ears one mouth
- Yes but
- Lighten up a little
- Empathy
With this final tutorial we closed the day in STYLE and went out for a dinner and reflect on the day and share some mysteries and parrots ;-)
Afteral it was a great day.
See also
Zeger van Hesse
Jean-Paul Varwijk


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At first Joe thought the job O.K. He was loading hay on the trucks, along with Albert, the corporal. The two men were pleasantly billeted in a cottage not far from the station: they were their own masters, for Joe never thought of Albert as a master. And the little sidings of the tiny village station was as pleasant a place as you could wish for. On one side, beyond the line, stretched the woods: on the other, the near side, across a green smooth field red houses were dotted among flowering apple trees. The weather being sunny, work being easy, Albert, a real good pal, what life could be better! After Flanders, it was heaven itself.
Albert, the corporal, was a clean-shaven, shrewd-looking fellow of about forty. He seemed to think his one aim in life was to be full of fun and nonsense. In repose, his face looked a little withered, old. He was a very good pal to Joe, steady, decent and grave under all his 'mischief'; for his mischief was only his laborious way of skirting his own ennui.
Joe was much younger than Albert — only twenty-three. He was a tallish, quiet youth, pleasant looking. He was of a slightly better class than his corporal, more personable. Careful about his appearance, he shaved every day. 'I haven't got much of a face,' said Albert. 'If I was to shave every day like you, Joe, I should have none.'
There was plenty of life in the little goods-yard: three porter youths, a continual come and go of farm wagons bringing hay, wagons with timber from the woods, coal carts loading at the trucks. The black coal seemed to make the place sleepier, hotter. Round the big white gate the station-master's children played and his white chickens walked, whilst the stationmaster himself, a young man getting too fat, helped his wife to peg out the washing on the clothes line in the meadow.
The great boat-shaped wagons came up from Playcross with the hay. At first the farm-men waggoned it. On the third day one of the land-girls appeared with the first load, drawing to a standstill easily at the head of her two great horses. She was a buxom girl, young, in linen overalls and gaiters. Her face was ruddy, she had large blue eyes.
'Now that's the waggoner for us, boys,' said the corporal loudly.
'Whoa!' she said to her horses; and then to the corporal: 'Which boys do you mean?'
'We are the pick of the bunch. That's Joe, my pal. Don't you let on that my name's Albert,' said the corporal to his private. 'I'm the corporal.'
'And I'm Miss Stokes,' said the land-girl coolly, 'if that's all the boys you are.'
'You know you couldn't want more, Miss Stokes,' said Albert politely. Joe, who was bare-headed, whose grey flannel sleeves were rolled up to the elbow, and whose shirt was open at the breast, looked modestly aside as if he had no part in the affair.
'Are you on this job regular, then?' said the corporal to Miss Stokes.
'I don't know for sure,' she said, pushing a piece of hair under her hat, and attending to her splendid horses.
'Oh, make it a certainty,' said Albert.
She did not reply. She turned and looked over the two men coolly. She was pretty, moderately blonde, with crisp hair, a good skin, and large blue eyes. She was strong, too, and the work went on leisurely and easily.
'Now!' said the corporal, stopping as usual to look round, 'pleasant company makes work a pleasure — don't hurry it, boys.' He stood on the truck surveying the world. That was one of his great and absorbing occupations: to stand and look out on things in general. Joe, also standing on the truck, also turned round to look what was to be seen. But he could not become blankly absorbed, as Albert could.
Miss Stokes watched the two men from under her broad felt hat. She had seen hundreds of Alberts, khaki soldiers standing in loose attitudes, absorbed in watching nothing in particular. She had seen also a good many Joes, quiet, good-looking young soldiers with half-averted faces. But there was something in the turn of Joe's head, and something in his quiet, tender-looking form, young and fresh — which attracted her eye. As she watched him closely from below, he turned as if he felt her, and his dark-blue eye met her straight, light-blue gaze. He faltered and turned aside again and looked as if he were going to fall off the truck. A slight flush mounted under the girl's full, ruddy face. She liked him.
Always, after this, when she came into the sidings with her team, it was Joe she looked for. She acknowledged to herself that she was sweet on him. But Albert did all the talking. He was so full of fun and nonsense. Joe was a very shy bird, very brief and remote in his answers. Miss Stokes was driven to indulge in repartee with Albert, but she fixed her magnetic attention on the younger fellow. Joe would talk with Albert, and laugh at his jokes. But Miss Stokes could get little out of him. She had to depend on her silent forces. They were more effective than might be imagined.
Suddenly, on Saturday afternoon, at about two o'clock, Joe received a bolt from the blue — a telegram: 'Meet me Belbury Station 6.00 p.m. today. M.S.' He knew at once who M.S. was. His heart melted, he felt weak as if he had had a blow.
'What's the trouble, boy?' asked Albert anxiously.
'No — no trouble — it's to meet somebody.' Joe lifted his dark-blue eyes in confusion towards his corporal.
'Meet somebody!' repeated the corporal, watching his young pal with keen blue eyes. 'It's all right, then; nothing wrong?'
'No — nothing wrong. I'm not going,' said Joe.
Albert was old and shrewd enough to see that nothing more should be said before the housewife. He also saw that Joe did not want to take him into confidence. So he held his peace, though he was piqued.
The two soldiers went into town, smartened up. Albert knew a fair number of the boys round about; there would be plenty of gossip in the market-place, plenty of lounging in groups on the Bath Road, watching the Saturday evening shoppers. Then a modest drink or two, and the movies. They passed an agreeable, casual, nothing-inparticular evening, with which Joe was quite satisfied. He thought of Belbury Station, and of M.S. waiting there. He had not the faintest intention of meeting her. And he had not the faintest intention of telling Albert.
And yet, when the two men were in their bedroom, half undressed, Joe suddenly held out the telegram to his corporal, saying: 'What d'you think of that?'
Albert was just unbuttoning his braces. He desisted, took the telegram form, and turned towards the candle to read it.
'Meet me Belbury Station 6.00 p.m. today. M.S.,' he read, sotto voce. His face took on its fun-and-nonsense look.
'Who's M.S.?' he asked, looking shrewdly at Joe.
'You know as well as I do,' said Joe, non-committal.
'M.S.,' repeated Albert. 'Blamed if I know, boy. Is it a woman?'
The conversation was carried on in tiny voices, for fear of disturbing the householders.
'I don't know,' said Joe, turning. He looked full at Albert, the two men looked straight into each other's eyes. There was a lurking grin in each of them.
'Well, I'm — blamed!' said Albert at last, throwing the telegram down emphatically on the bed.
'Wha-at?' said Joe, grinning rather sheepishly, his eyes clouded none the less.
Albert sat on the bed and proceeded to undress, nodding his head with mock gravity all the while. Joe watched him foolishly.
'What?' he repeated faintly.
Albert looked up at him with a knowing look.
'If that isn't coming it quick, boy!' he said. 'What the blazes! What ha' you bin doing?'
'Nothing!' said Joe.
Albert slowly shook his head as he sat on the side of the bed.
'Don't happen to me when I've bin doin' nothing,' he said. And he proceeded to pull off his stockings.
Joe turned away, looking at himself in the mirror as he unbuttoned his tunic.
'You didn't want to keep the appointment?' Albert asked, in a changed voice, from the bedside.
Joe did not answer for a moment. Then he said:
'I made no appointment.'
'I'm not saying you did, boy. Don't be nasty about it. I mean you didn't want to answer the — unknown person's summons — shall I put it that way?'
'No,' said Joe.
'What was the deterring motive?' asked Albert, who was now lying on his back in bed.
'Oh,' said Joe, suddenly looking round rather haughtily. 'I didn't want to.' He had a well-balanced head, and could take on a sudden distant bearing.
'Didn't want to — didn't cotton on, like. Well — they be artful, the women —' he mimicked his landlord. 'Come on into bed, boy. Don't loiter about as if you'd lost something.'
Albert turned over, to sleep.
On Monday Miss Stokes turned up as usual, striding beside her team. Her 'whoa!' was resonant and challenging, she looked up at the truck as her steeds came to a standstill. Joe had turned aside, and had his face averted from her. She glanced him over — save for his slender succulent tenderness she would have despised him. She sized him up in a steady look. Then she turned to Albert, who was looking down at her and smiling in his mischievous turn. She knew his aspects by now. She looked straight back at him, though her eyes were hot. He saluted her.
'Beautiful morning, Miss Stokes.'
'Very!' she replied.
'Handsome is as handsome looks,' said Albert.
Which produced no response.
'Now, Joe, come on here,' said the corporal. 'Don't keep the ladies waiting — it's the sign of a weak heart.'
Joe turned, and the work began. Nothing more was said for the time being. As the week went on all parties became more comfortable. Joe remained silent, averted, neutral, a little on his dignity. Miss Stokes was off-hand and masterful. Albert was full of mischief.
The great theme was a circus, which was coming to the market town on the following Saturday.
'You'll go to the circus, Miss Stokes?' said Albert.
'I may go. Are you going?'
'Certainly. Give us the pleasure of escorting you.'
'No, thanks.'
'That's what I call a flat refusal — what, Joe? You don't mean that you have no liking for our company, Miss Stokes?'
'Oh, I don't know,' said Miss Stokes. 'How many are there of you?'
'Only me and Joe.'
'Oh, is that all?' she said, satirically.
Albert was a little nonplussed.
'Isn't that enough for you?' he asked.
'Too many by half,' blurted out Joe, jeeringly, in a sudden fit of uncouth rudeness that made both the others stare.
'Oh, I'll stand out of the way, boy, if that's it,' said Albert to Joe. Then he turned mischievously to Miss Stokes. 'He wants to know what M. stands for,' he said, confidentially.
'Monkeys,' she replied, turning to her horses.
'What's M.S.?' said Albert.
'Monkey nuts,' she retorted, leading off her team.
Albert looked after her a little discomfited. Joe had flushed dark, and cursed Albert in his heart.
On the Saturday afternoon the two soldiers took the train into town. They would have to walk home. They had tea at six o'clock, and lounged about till half past seven. The circus was in a meadow near the river — a great red-and-white striped tent. Caravans stood at the side. A great crowd of people was gathered round the ticket-caravan.
Inside the tent the lamps were lighted, shining on a ring of faces, a great circular bank of faces round the green grassy centre. Along with some comrades, the two soldiers packed themselves on a thin plank seat, rather high. They were delighted with the flaring lights, the wild effect. But the circus performance did not affect them deeply. They admired the lady in black velvet with rose-purple legs who leapt so neatly on to the galloping horse; they watched the feats of strength and laughed at the clown. But they felt a little patronizing, they missed the sensational drama of the cinema.
Half-way through the performance Joe was electrified to see the face of Miss Stokes not very far from him. There she was, in her khaki and her felt hat, as usual; he pretended not to see her. She was laughing at the clown; she also pretended not to see him. It was a blow to him, and it made him angry. He would not even mention it to Albert. Least said, soonest mended. He liked to believe she had not seen him. But he knew, fatally, that she had.
When they came out it was nearly eleven o'clock; a lovely night, with a moon and tall, dark, noble trees: a magnificent May night. Joe and Albert laughed and chaffed with the boys. Joe looked round frequently to see if he were safe from Miss Stokes. It seemed so.
But there were six miles to walk home. At last the two soldiers set off, swinging their canes. The road was white between tall hedges, other stragglers were passing out of the town towards the villages; the air was full of pleased excitement.
They were drawing near to the village when they saw a dark figure ahead. Joe's heart sank with pure fear. It was a figure wheeling a bicycle; a land girl; Miss Stokes. Albert was ready with his nonsense. Miss Stokes had a puncture.
'Let me wheel the rattler,' said Albert.
'Thank you,' said Miss Stokes. 'You are kind.'
'Oh, I'd be kinder than that, if you'd show me how,' said Albert.
'Are you sure?' said Miss Stokes.
'Doubt my words?' said Albert. 'That's cruel of you, Miss Stokes.'
Miss Stokes walked between them, close to Joe.
'Have you been to the circus?' she asked him.
'Yes,' he replied, mildly.
'Have you been?' Albert asked her.
'Yes. I didn't see you,' she replied.
'What! — you say so! Didn't see us! Didn't think us worth looking at,' began Albert. 'Aren't I as handsome as the clown, now? And you didn't as much as glance in our direction? I call it a downright oversight.'
'I never saw you,' reiterated Miss Stokes. 'I didn't know you saw me.'
'That makes it worse,' said Albert.
The road passed through a belt of dark pine-wood. The village, and the branch road, was very near. Miss Stokes put out her fingers and felt for Joe's hand as it swung at his side. To say he was staggered is to put it mildly. Yet he allowed her softly to clasp his fingers for a few moments. But he was a mortified youth.
At the cross-road they stopped — Miss Stokes should turn off. She had another mile to go.
'You'll let us see you home,' said Albert.
'Do me a kindness,' she said. 'Put my bike in your shed, and take it to Baker's on Monday, will you?'
'I'll sit up all night and mend it for you, if you like.'
'No thanks. And Joe and I'll walk on.'
'Oh — ho! Oh — ho!' sang Albert. 'Joe! Joe! What do you say to that, now, boy? Aren't you in luck's way. And I get the bloomin' old bike for my pal. Consider it again, Miss Stokes.'
Joe turned aside his face, and did not speak.
'Oh, well! I wheel the grid, do I? I leave you, boy —'
'I'm not keen on going any further,' barked out Joe, in an uncouth voice. 'She hain't my choice.'
The girl stood silent, and watched the two men.
'There now!' said Albert. 'Think o' that! If it was me now —' But he was uncomfortable. 'Well, Miss Stokes, have me,' he added.
Miss Stokes stood quite still, neither moved nor spoke. And so the three remained for some time at the lane end. At last Joe began kicking the ground — then he suddenly lifted his face. At that moment Miss Stokes was at his side. She put her arm delicately round his waist.
'Seems I'm the one extra, don't you think?' Albert inquired of the high bland moon.
Joe had dropped his head and did not answer. Miss Stokes stood with her arm lightly round his waist. Albert bowed, saluted, and bade good-night. He walked away, leaving the two standing.
Miss Stokes put a light pressure on Joe's waist, and drew him down the road. They walked in silence. The night was full of scent — wild cherry, the first bluebells. Still they walked in silence. A nightingale was singing. They approached nearer and nearer, till they stood close by his dark bush. The powerful notes sounded from the cover, almost like flashes of light — then the interval of silence — then the moaning notes, almost like a dog faintly howling, followed by the long, rich trill, and flashing notes. Then a short silence again.
Miss Stokes turned at last to Joe. She looked up at him, and in the moonlight he saw her faintly smiling. He felt maddened, but helpless. Her arm was round his waist, she drew him closely to her with a soft pressure that made all his bones rotten.
Meanwhile Albert was waiting at home. He put on his overcoat, for the fire was out, and he had had malarial fever. He looked fitfully at the Daily Mirror and the Daily Sketch, but he saw nothing. It seemed a long time. He began to yawn widely, even to nod. At last Joe came in.
Albert looked at him keenly. The young man's brow was black, his face sullen.
'All right, boy?' asked Albert.
Joe merely grunted for a reply. There was nothing more to be got out of him. So they went to bed.
Next day Joe was silent, sullen. Albert could make nothing of him. He proposed a walk after tea.
'I'm going somewhere,' said Joe.
'Where — Monkey nuts?' asked the corporal. But Joe's brow only became darker.
So the days went by. Almost every evening Joe went off alone, returning late. He was sullen, taciturn and had a hang-dog look, a curious way of dropping his head and looking dangerously from under his brows. And he and Albert did not get on so well any more with one another. For all his fun and nonsense, Albert was really irritable, soon made angry. And Joe's stand-offish sulkiness and complete lack of confidence riled him, got on his nerves. His fun and nonsense took a biting, sarcastic turn, at which Joe's eyes glittered occasionally, though the young man turned unheeding aside. Then again Joe would be full of odd, whimsical fun, outshining Albert himself.
Miss Stokes still came to the station with the wain: Monkey-nuts, Albert called her, though not to her face. For she was very clear and good-looking, almost she seemed to gleam. And Albert was a tiny bit afraid of her. She very rarely addressed Joe whilst the hay-loading was going on, and that young man always turned his back to her. He seemed thinner, and his limber figure looked more slouching. But still it had the tender, attractive appearance, especially from behind. His tanned face, a little thinned and darkened, took a handsome, slightly sinister look.
'Come on, Joe!' the corporal urged sharply one day. 'What're you doing, boy? Looking for beetles on the bank?'
Joe turned round swiftly, almost menacing, to work.
'He's a different fellow these days, Miss Stokes,' said Albert to the young woman. 'What's got him? Is it Monkey nuts that don't suit him, do you think?'
'Choked with chaff, more like,' she retorted. 'It's as bad as feeding a threshing machine, to have to listen to some folks.'
'As bad as what?' said Albert. 'You don't mean me, do you, Miss Stokes?'
'No,' she cried. 'I don't mean you.'
Joe's face became dark red during these sallies, but he said nothing. He would eye the young woman curiously, as she swung so easily at the work, and he had some of the look of a dog which is going to bite.
Albert, with his nerves on edge, began to find the strain rather severe. The next Saturday evening, when Joe came in more black-browed than ever, he watched him, determined to have it out with him.
When the boy went upstairs to bed, the corporal followed him. He closed the door behind him carefully, sat on the bed and watched the younger man undressing. And for once he spoke in a natural voice, neither chaffing nor commanding.
'What's gone wrong, boy?'
Joe stopped a moment as if he had been shot. Then he went on unwinding his puttees, and did not answer or look up.
'You can hear, can't you?' said Albert, nettled.
'Yes, I can hear,' said Joe, stooping over his puttees till his face was purple.
'Then why don't you answer?'
Joe sat up. He gave a long, sideways look at the corporal. Then he lifted his eyes and stared at a crack in the ceiling.
The corporal watched these movements shrewdly.
'And then what?' he asked, ironically.
Again Joe turned and stared him in the face. The corporal smiled very slightly, but kindly.
'There'll be murder done one of these days,' said Joe, in a quiet, unimpassioned voice.
'So long as it's by daylight —' replied Albert. Then he went over, sat down by Joe, put his hand on his shoulder affectionately, and continued, 'What is it, boy? What's gone wrong? You can trust me, can't you?'
Joe turned and looked curiously at the face so near to his.
'It's nothing, that's all,' he said laconically.
Albert frowned.
'Then who's going to be murdered? — and who's going to do the murdering? — me or you — which is it, boy?' He smiled gently at the stupid youth, looking straight at him all the while, into his eyes. Gradually the stupid, hunted, glowering look died out of Joe's eyes. He turned his head aside, gently, as one rousing from a spell.
'I don't want her,' he said, with fierce resentment.
'Then you needn't have her,' said Albert. 'What do you go for, boy?'
But it wasn't as simple as all that. Joe made no remark.
'She's a smart-looking girl. What's wrong with her, my boy? I should have thought you were a lucky chap, myself.'
'I don't want 'er,' Joe barked, with ferocity and resentment.
'Then tell her so and have done,' said Albert. He waited awhile. There was no response. 'Why don't you?' he added.
'Because I don't,' confessed Joe, sulkily.
Albert pondered — rubbed his head.
'You're too soft-hearted, that's where it is, boy. You want your mettle dipping in cold water, to temper it. You're too soft-hearted —'
He laid his arm affectionately across the shoulders of the younger man. Joe seemed to yield a little towards him.
'When are you going to see her again?' Albert asked. For a long time there was no answer.
'When is it, boy?' persisted the softened voice of the corporal.
'Tomorrow,' confessed Joe.
'Then let me go,' said Albert. 'Let me go, will you?'
The morrow was Sunday, a sunny day, but a cold evening. The sky was grey, the new foliage very green, but the air was chill and depressing. Albert walked briskly down the white road towards Beeley. He crossed a larch plantation, and followed a narrow by-road, where blue speedwell flowers fell from the banks into the dust. He walked swinging his cane, with mixed sensations. Then having gone a certain length, he turned and began to walk in the opposite direction.
So he saw a young woman approaching him. She was wearing a wide hat of grey straw, and a loose, swinging dress of nigger-grey velvet. She walked with slow inevitability. Albert faltered a little as he approached her. Then he saluted her, and his roguish, slightly withered skin flushed. She was staring straight into his face.
He fell in by her side, saying impudently:
'Not so nice for a walk as it was, is it?'
She only stared at him. He looked back at her.
'You've seen me before, you know,' he said, grinning slightly. 'Perhaps you never noticed me. Oh, I'm quite nice looking, in a quiet way, you know. What —?'
But Miss Stokes did not speak: she only stared with large, icy blue eyes at him. He became self-conscious, lifted up his chin, walked with his nose in the air, and whistled at random. So they went down the quiet, deserted grey lane. He was whistling the air: 'I'm Gilbert, the filbert, the colonel of the nuts.'
At last she found her voice:
'Where's Joe?'
'He thought you'd like a change: they say variety's the salt of life — that's why I'm mostly in pickle.'
'Where is he?'
'Am I my brother's keeper? He's gone his own ways.'
'Nay, how am I to know? Not so far but he'll be back for supper.'
She stopped in the middle of the lane. He stopped facing her.
'Where's Joe?' she asked.
He struck a careless attitude, looked down the road this way and that, lifted his eyebrows, pushed his khaki cap on one side, and answered:
'He is not conducting the service tonight: he asked me if I'd officiate.'
'Why hasn't he come?'
'Didn't want to, I expect. I wanted to.'
She stared him up and down, and he felt uncomfortable in his spine, but maintained his air of nonchalance. Then she turned slowly on her heel, and started to walk back. The corporal went at her side.
'You're not going back, are you?' he pleaded. 'Why, me and you, we should get on like a house on fire.'
She took no heed, but walked on. He went uncomfortably at her side, making his funny remarks from time to time. But she was as if stone deaf. He glanced at her, and to his dismay saw the tears running down her cheeks. He stopped suddenly, and pushed back his cap.
'I say, you know —' he began.
But she was walking on like an automaton, and he had to hurry after her.
She never spoke to him. At the gate of her farm she walked straight in, as if he were not there. He watched her disappear. Then he turned on his heel, cursing silently, puzzled, lifting off his cap to scratch his head.
That night, when they were in bed, he remarked: 'Say, Joe, boy; strikes me you're well-off without Monkey nuts. Gord love us, beans ain't in it.'
So they slept in amity. But they waited with some anxiety for the morrow.
It was a cold morning, a grey sky shifting in a cold wind, and threatening rain. They watched the wagon come up the road and through the yard gates. Miss Stokes was with her team as usual; her 'Whoa!' rang out like a war-whoop.
She faced up at the truck where the two men stood.
'Joe!' she called, to the averted figure which stood up in the wind.
'What?' he turned unwillingly.
She made a queer movement, lifting her head slightly in a sipping, half-inviting, half-commanding gesture. And Joe was crouching already to jump off the truck to obey her, when Albert put his hand on his shoulder.
'Half a minute, boy! Where are you off? Work's work, and nuts is nuts. You stop here.'
Joe slowly straightened himself.
'Joe!' came the woman's clear call from below.
Again Joe looked at her. But Albert's hand was on his shoulder, detaining him. He stood half averted, with his tail between his legs.
'Take your hand off him, you!' said Miss Stokes.
'Yes, Major,' retorted Albert satirically.
She stood and watched.
'Joe!' Her voice rang for the third time.
Joe turned and looked at her, and a slow, jeering smile gathered on his face.
'Monkey nuts!' he replied, in a tone mocking her call.
She turned white — dead white. The men thought she would fall. Albert began yelling to the porters up the line to come and help with the load. He could yell like any non-commissioned officer upon occasion.
Some way or other the wagon was unloaded, the girl was gone. Joe and his corporal looked at one another and smiled slowly. But they had a weight on their minds, they were afraid.
They were reassured, however, when they found that Miss Stokes came no more with the hay. As far as they were concerned, she had vanished into oblivion. And Joe felt more relieved even than he had felt when he heard the firing cease, after the news had come that the armistice was signed.
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Famous Israeli chef Gil Hovav is currently leading a series of food tours through Tel Aviv. While Hovav is well known for hosting the cooking show 'Captain Cook,' now the famed foodie is lending his talents to a different part of the food industry.
The food tours led by Hovav and partner Jack Gottlieb are part of a series of e-guidebooks called 'Israel's Top 100 Ethnic Restaurants.' The tours take participants through Tel Aviv, stopping at different markets, mom-and-pop restaurants and other hidden gems along the way. In conjunction with the tours, the e-guidebooks help to introduce foodies to authentic Israeli culture and cuisine. In short, Hovav and Gottlieb aim to create a Jewish version of TripAdvisor for tourists.
With the endorsement of a famous Israeli chef, the tours have become a popular way for tourists to uncover some of the Tel Aviv's best kept secrets.
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What's This I See
Ladies and gentlemen, the ultimate pettiness of petty.
In case you missed it, while you were sleeping, or either participating in the overnight hilarious meme creation session, the hashtag #FreeMelania began trending on Facebook and Twitter.
Long story short, someone released a clip of First Lady Melania Trump seemingly troubled during her husband's inauguration.
In the clip, she was grinning from ear to ear until Donald turned around, said something to her and wiped the smile right off her face. She went from 100 to 0 real quick!
It didn't take long for social media to notice it and attempt to come to her rescue, insinuating that she appeared trapped in her current situation as the First Lady.
If you pay close attention, she hardly smiles in pubic. I mean c'mon, if my husband were the President, I'd be hyped!
All we're saying is, Melania, blink once if you're cool, blink twice if you need us to swing through.


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Indoor Growing System Earns Innovation Award
Indoor Growing System Earns Innovation Award
14 February 2017, by Gavin McEwan
West Midlands-based urban growing specialist Hydrogarden has taken the Innovation Award at the EEF Future Manufacturing Awards.
Judges noted the company's drive to achieve sustainability and its ambition to become carbon-neutral through its vertical farming solution, V-Farm, and praised its innovative approach to engaging with a variety of customers.
V-farm is a fully controllable vertical farming concept, bespoke to the needs of the end user, whether growing on an urban rooftop, warehouse or even in space.
HydroGarden managing director Jonathan Aldridge said: "Manufacturers are amongst the most prolific and successful innovators in the UK, so to win this award is a great accomplishment and compliment to our team."
The company reported last year that interest in urban and enclosed growing systems was growing "even among old-school growers, some of whom are already seeing huge savings."
The company has helped equip recent high-profile London urban agriculture ventures GrowUp, an aquaponics complex in a warehouse in Beckton; and Growing Underground, a subterranean hydroponic salad farm in Clapham.
The company has already equipped two farms in Singapore and one in Australia, growing micro-greens, herbs and salads and has developed growing protocols for around 20 crops including strawberries, pak choi and even rhubarb.
Key to this has been its own experimental Project Urban Grow facility at its base in Coventry. This trial version of the VydroFarm system occupies just 24sq m but has a growing area of 55sq m thanks to its five-storey NFT hydroponic growing system on three mobile racks, which can produce nearly 2,000 lettuces in 28 days.
It uses Valoya LED lighting including the Finnish manufacturer's full-spectrum model.
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The team competes at the Formula Michigan Competition which lasts 3 days around the middle of May. This gives the team ample time to ensure they meet the requirements to compete.
At the start of the competition, the race car has to pass certain inspections in order to join the actual competition, such as standard tests and having the race care weighed to make sure they make the requirements.
Students of all majors and experiences can join and learn as they go from the returning members.
According to the other team captain, Kyle Tanner, "Being an engineer you get to work with all the different aspects of the car, you get to engineer, design, build, fabricate which is all skills you are going to need to use throughout the field. You can also as a business major we have business reports and so it's not only limited to the engineering field.
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Most individual's think of bullying as something that begins in late elementary school and stretches through high school, however, believe it or not, bullying in preschool is much more prevalent than you would expect. You can get more information about preschool via http://www.lemanmanhattan.org/academics/early-childhood-program.
Since the behavior is typically associated with older children, it's often overlooked during the young years, when it's not easy to tell the difference between ordinary social experimentation and start bullying behavior. Some level of punching, pinching and being "mean" can be ordinary is preschool kids.
Bullying can cause an immense amount of stress, fear, and anxiety in young children. Other signs your child may be bullied are that they're suddenly reluctant to go to preschool, they complain of headaches or stomach aches for no reason, they are clingy and whiny, they speak about one specific kid doing mean things or they avoid eye contact when you speak to them about college.
1. Speak with your child – First of all, let your child know you love them and you'll manage them. Re-fill their psychological tank by covering them in words of hope and affirmation. If your child is on the receiving end of toddler bullying, their self-esteem can take a beating and you've got the capacity to build it back up again.
2. Work with the college – don't – try to resolve to bully in preschool all on your own. Be certain that you have the school involved. Everyone from your instructor to the manager should know what's happening and must be involved in the solution. Invite them as well to utilize loving, positive words with your child.


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and it's the 3rd of January. I had no internet access at home and that explains why.
It's actually good not having internet all the time. I have time to read and watch movies at home.
I'm so glad we started the year right. By starting it right means we prayed together on the first morning of 2011 and prayed together again on the first night of 2011 and I hope we can keep that up, praying together every night.
This year, hubby and I want to FOCUS on the LORD more, spent more time with the Lord. It's my first devotion for the year.
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I like Jamie Oliver.
Britain's most recognised chef has taken so much stick over the last few years amidst accusations that he is "lecturing people" (quote: Health Minister Andrew Lansley over Jamie's School Dinners) and meddling with their eating habits.
And yet, in a media world where celebrities, chefs included, seem to be earning fame and plaudits by virtue of shouting the F-word (literally) or the C-word louder than the next person, Jamie Oliver deserves praise for keeping away from cheap shots and loud-mouthed gimmicks.
More than anything, however, Oliver deserves credit for dishing out tons of advice on how to make your own food without ever coming across as inaccessible or over-complicated. Which is no easy feat.
At first glance, some of the dishes included in his latest series Jamie's 30-Minute Meals may look extremely elaborate and offputting. And yet they're not. It's amazing how much you can do in less than thirty minutes and with the simplest of ingredients.
More, Oliver's programme is based on extreme realism.
Pre-packed artificial microwaveable ready meals have become such a tempting option for most (this blog included) because, after a long day at work, the last thing most people fancy is a gruelling cooking session or a supermarket quest for exotic ingredients.
Which is why, far from lecturing and patronising, Jamie Oliver is actually on a mission to make simple yet good and healthy food accessible to everybody and not just the wealthy.
Most importantly, he doesn't think -shock horror- that everything has to be made from scratch. What matters, like Oliver himself writes: "this kind of cooking is all about using every minute wisely, having fun and reclaiming your kitchen for the job it was meant for".


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Hair Care Tips
Hair adds a charming look to your persona if you have lustrous, soft, silky, shiny and strong hair you are blessed with stunning beauty. Here i'm going to share with you Hair care tips.
Today is Sunday, a calming day so I desire to reveal to you the care I normally have with my hair. I believe you feel that it's useful. They're 7 easy tips which will surely help with keeping your hairs healthy.
Beauty Tips For Hairs:
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Brush your locks before washing it. This can help to not have tangles and also to prevent the dropping hair. It is very important have a great brush with soft bristles.
Hair Care Tips 2 :
If you are using dryer or iron you need to use a heat shield. This can help your hair in order to avoid suffering due to high temperatures.
Hair Care Tips 3 :
Switch the shampoo every 15 days. Your hair gets used to the shampoo.
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Use a nourishing treatment once every Two weeks and then leave it on overnight. Then you definitely don't have to be waiting a couple of minutes out there as well as the treatment solutions are more beneficial.
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If the hairs are wet, after washing, use a repairing serum around the tips .
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Modify the hair conditioner to get a nutritious mask for the tips that does not need very long time of application.
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Don't wash your locks every single day. This can help to have a more nourished and healthier hair. This really is feasible for me which have dry hair, however if you simply have oily hair you may use a dry shampoo. These are generally shampoos that don't need water, appear in spray and so are put on the roots.
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An article over at BoingBoing piqued my interest this week about Four Deadly Distasters Caused by Food.
The London Beer Flood in 1814 killed eight people and spilled 3,500 barrels of beer. That's an artists sketch to the left there of one of the vats before it ruptured.
I think it's pretty apt to remember this tragedy in the lead up to Father's Day this weekend in Australia – where a few too many 'barrels' of beer will no doubt be drunk!
Read about the other three foodie disasters at Smithsonian.com. Image source: Frogstorm.com.
Can you think of any other food-related disasters? Murbah Swamp Beer springs to mind, LOL.


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ThinkDigitalGroup (TDG), one of the leading Digital Marketing Groups in CE, SE Europe & MENA, is now ready to welcome its 4th generation of Digital Thinkers! It is an innovative and uniquely challenging program of paid internship, which was firstly initiated in the Group in 2012 and has offered the opportunity to 28 young professionals up until today, to develop their skills & abilities in digital marketing & communication and make their first successful career step in the digital industry.
Digital Thinkers will join our TDG teams at our Group's offices in Athens & Patras.
This exciting opportunity to be part of the TDG Digital Thinkers program is offered to young professionals & recent university graduates & post graduates. Applications must be submitted no later than Friday, 26 August 2016.
Selected candidates will be offered the opportunity to excel in the Digital Marketing industry, be trained from experienced TDG professionals, develop valuable knowledge & capabilities and at the same time, challenge a permanent job opportunity in the Group after the completion of their internship.
The new generation of Digital Thinkers is kicking off in October 2016!!
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Digital Thinkers are trained from experienced TDG professionals and work under the guidance of a TDG senior «mentor». Trainee interns have a regular daily relation & communication with Media Agencies, Direct Clients as well as Publishers, while, among others, will deep dive into the management & optimization of online campaigns and develop the necessary knowledge skills in Project Management, Product and Trade Marketing.
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Selected Digital Thinkers for our Athen's offices will, based on their skills & experience, be part of the Sales or Product Development teams within one of the 3 TDG companies (ThinkDigital, ForestView & TailWind).
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Milwaukee has traditionally been a blue-collar town, and the home of massive brewing companies. But the financial district is burgeoning as well. In the city's highest building, the commissioner of Major League Baseball keeps his office, which of course makes Milwaukee a landmark in the baseball world. Visually, the city is recognized by its Art Museum complex, a modern architectural feat. In downtown, City Hall's German architecture reminds inhabitants of the heavy influence that European country had on the city. Perhaps it was Germans that brought the idea of brewing. Once the world's greatest brewer, now the Pabst Brewery Complex stands as a memory of that title. But Milwaukee perseveres in other industries. The Harley-Davidson Museum describes a local company that remains strong, and the exhibits are of course stunning.
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Warhammer 40,000: Macragge's Thunder
#1 Posted 11 October 2017 - 01:50 PM
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#2 Posted 11 October 2017 - 07:35 PM
"Your courage and honor will be rewarded" with two tanks that don't even look like tanks, have stupidly OP stats, and are probably going to be impossible to get without spending money and ruin the atmosphere of the game.
For or those of you who would say "well 90% of the tanks in the game never existed" I don't care if a tank never existed, that's not my problem. My problem is if a tank never existed and is out in the game it should at least fit with the meta. the E-75 fits a lot more comfortably in the game than a Helsing. But even more than that these new "things" don't even look like tanks, strange armored transport vehicles maybe, but tanks? NO.
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You can take the red pill, the blue pill or the grey pill, whatever you choose, you're wrong, Stalin will force feed you vodka and Russian bias and there's nothing you can do about it.
#3 Posted 12 October 2017 - 07:27 PM
#4 Posted 13 October 2017 - 10:32 AM
Wang Bo,on 11 October 2017 - 01:50 PM, said:
Game is, history is the history, the game can be fully restore history is impossible, and this activity is a very good from my personal perspective, playing the world war ii tanks equipment, can really make me feel a little boring this activity can let everybody experience the two empty collide with each other together at the same time. Support WARHAMMER 40,000: MACRAGGE's THUNDER
Edited by Player_4439750497, 13 October 2017 - 10:49 AM.
#5 Posted 13 October 2017 - 02:44 PM
Please consider just putting these Fantasy tanks upon a lease of say 14 days, just like the T49A's... having fleets of them roaming around is just an instant Game-over turnoff for the game. And on the other hand, making it neigh on impossible to win one, would just likewise be a turnoff - hence the time-limited impact is probably best for the game as a whole...
PS. Would be Brilliant if you could do the same for all Fantasy tanks, and for those who've dished out $ for them, to return a Credit balance instead a compensation (or Gold...).
#6 Posted 20 October 2017 - 01:57 PM
Will play AW and WT more until the event finishes...
Edited by Ronnel_999, 20 October 2017 - 02:08 PM.
#7 Posted 30 October 2017 - 11:52 AM
"Your courage and honor will be rewarded"
It's garbage
Edited by JewCube, 30 October 2017 - 11:53 AM.
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bundle of joy needn't look like a bundle. The Maya Wrap baby carrier is
a stylish sling which can be worn in six different positions and comes
in 25 colors and patterns. It also distributes the baby's weight evenly
so that it does not hurt the spine of either mother or child. It makes
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Life section page 28-The Sunday Times
9th May 2004
what 500 litres of breast milk is worth. Since last May, Anette Lie has
sold more than 500 litres of expressed milk and she has bought a car
with her earnings.
Ms Lie was paid £11 ($33.80) per litre and has made a total of £5,275, reported Nettavisen quoting the Kanal 24 radio station.
She said: "I'm making some money on this. I bought a car, everything paid by breast milk."
Ms Lie claimed her ability to produce so much breast milk is genetic.
mother was the same way, and I've heard my grand mother nursed children
around town, so it's hereditary. It's my hormones. I apparently have
lots of them," she said.
Here is the response from Chris Mulford, IBCLC, with full permission:
me the notable thing about this story is the price that she got for
selling her milk to the milk bank: Almost US$20 per liter. The issue of
placing a value on human milk is a tough one. When Solveig Francis and
I researched the topic for "The Milk of Human Kindness," we found
values that had been assigned to human milk ranging from US$0.27 a
liter to US$600 a liter.
cents a liter was what a woman in Nepal would pay for cows' milk from a
dairy to replace her own milk if she did not breastfeed.
cents per liter was the value given in order to estimate the value of
human milk produced in the nation of Indonesia... and even at that low
rate, the value of human milk was larger than the national health
budget, larger than the national production of tin and coffee, and
approached the value of rubber.
dollar per liter was the value assigned to milk in the Hatloy &
Olshaug article from JHL, in which it was estimated that counting human
milk production in Mali would raise the the GDP by 5%.
a liter was the price one Danish hospital charged another hospital from
outside the country ($18.20 an ounce). This was reported in JHL.
Presumably, whoever set that price thought that other hospitals jolly
well ought to collect their own milk, and if they wouldn't take the
trouble, then they'd have to pay the Big Bucks.
US milk banks charge around $3.00 an ounce now, which is close to $100 a liter, and the donors are not paid.
my understanding is that the price to purchase banked milk in Norway is
about $48 a liter...and half of that price goes to pay the woman who
supplied the milk! Remember that Norway is the only country that
includes human milk production on its national economic balance sheet.
In other words, Norway is the only country where human milk is formally
recognized as having an economic value.
Gee, do you suppose this fact is related to the fact that Norway has the best breastfeeding rates in the developed world?
over these figures, do we think that that $20 a liter looks like a fair
price for the producer? And do we think that making milk for one's own
child should have a different "value" than making milk for other
people's children? I once calculated (conservatively) that I had
produced a ton of milk over the course of long-term nursing two
children. Do I think that experience was in any sense "worth" $20,000?
Of course, the experience was beyond price...
guess the intellectual exercise of assigning a value to something
priceless is just a tool to help us examine what we think about this
basic part of human life... human biology... women's role in
reproduction... women's economic life. Assigning a monetary value gives
us one way to compare apples and oranges.
Musing in Swarthmore...
Chris Mulford, RN, IBCLC
LLL Leader Reserve
working for WIC in South Jersey (Eastern USA)
Co-coordinator, Women & Work Task Force, WABA
Dry baby formula dangerous: Study
say a food-borne bacteria that causes rare but frequently fatal brain
disorders in babies is found in almost one in four samples of powdered
infant formula.
Donald Zink, a scientist at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
said it's not possible with current technologies to kill the pathogen
in the processing of infant food, reported Washington's Times Record
agency is alerting the public and neo-natal centers to recognize that
dried infant formula is not a sterile product, he said.
Four out of 10 UK babies were âaccidentsâ
A POLL of 3,000 mothers and mothers-to-be across the UK has found that 42 per cent had become pregnant by mistake.
half (46 per cent) of these blamed difficulties with contraception,
with 62 per cent saying they had problems with the Pill and 19 per cent
blaming a split condom, reported Femail.co
The survey was commissioned by online contraception information service evriwoman.co.uk.
found that nearly seven out of 10 forgot to take the Pill at least one
time a month. Dr Rosemary Leonard said women who missed one or more
Pill per cycle were more than twice as likely to have an unplanned
pregnancy than those who took it every day.
per cent of the âaccidentalâ mothers kept the baby, but one in five
wished they could have turned back the clock and not become pregnant.
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Incoming President's Address
LPC ORM EDA AGM Aug 12, 2012
Clayton RF Haluza, President
Good afternoon, thank you for giving me the opportunity to be your president for the coming year, it's one I don't take lightly. I wanted to take the opportunity today to outline to you my vision for the year ahead. It would be however impossible to speak of the year ahead, without first acknowledging the year that has just past. As without the accomplishments that we've had thus far my task would be significantly more difficult. To do this, I'm going to do something that Allan would never do; brag about Allan. Although our accomplishment s were the result of the collective effort of our riding's committed team of volunteers, and we cannot understate the committed part, his leadership over the last year stands out. The tone that was set by, and the environment that was created by Allan's leadership I believe was the spark that started the flame we now have in Oak Ridges Markham. As Allan and Winnie move on with the next stage of their lives together please accept our sincere thanks for what your leadership has helped us accomplish.
What we have accomplished was apparent to me when I was looking through the RSVP list before today's event. It was apparent throughout the year when at our regular meetings there would continuously be new faces, new people emerging, and most importantly new people coming back. Yes, this is measured by numbers, and yes the membership list and the victory fund numbers are up, but, the results are more then spreadsheet data to be reviewed by the board. They are the human quality that has lead to, and will continue to build, the renaissance of our party, especially in our community.
For those of you here today who have never been to one of these before, welcome to the big red tent. It's been a rough year for our tent, but, I am proud to say that in Oak Ridges Markham we have patched the holes, we have repaired her, and she's ready again to be the place where Canadians of all walks of life, races, genders and religions come together to work for a better tomorrow. You see that's what makes our party special. That is the defining quality of the Liberal Party of Canada, everybody is welcome, there is a place for all in our tent. What unites us in this party is our shared belief that tomorrow can be better then today, and it is our actions that will make it so. It is that belief that binds us together, not a rigid ideology, and our lack of rigidity allows us to entertain any and all ideas to make tomorrow better. We are guided by our values; our belief in government to empower the individual to succeed, that health care should be disturbed by need not Visa card limit, that we can make our country prosperous without making our country a wasteland and the list goes on. We may not always agree on how to accomplish these things, but, as Liberals we must always treat other's ideas with respect. That is a fundamental requirement should our big red tent welcome Canadians into it, as together we work to make things better.
It is through that paradigm that I set our two priorities going forward. The first is welcoming, and the second is ideas, and trust me my friends should we get these right, should we make them our creed and live them our biggest problem will be where to put people in Michael's backyard next year.
Welcoming maybe confused with "growth," but I believe there is a difference. Growth is merely something that is measured. The number of members signed up. The number of dollars raised. Welcoming ultimately will lead to both of those things, but, it is how we approach it that is fundamentally different. Welcoming is the act of reaching out to our community, being with them, them being with us, and us becoming a part of each other. Welcoming is not done with fear, it is not done with hate, it is not done by creating anxiety. It is done by sharing our message, our values, our belief in making things better. Think about it. If you were to attempt to invite a friend over to your home would you do so by telling them your neighbour's house was bad? That his home was full of reptilian kitten eaters and that's why he should come to yours and not the other guys? Of course you wouldn't, and the big red tent is no different. We will not build a sustainable party if the only argument we make is how bad the Tories or NDP are. We will only return ourselves to where we want to be by sharing our values, by sharing who we are, and by offering the people in our community the ability to be part of that. We can be proud to know that as we do this, thanks to the supporter initiative, the Liberal Party is now the most open and democratic political party in Canada. The party has given us the tools we need at the local level to succeed, we must seize them. My ask of all of our members and supports is that they help the board and I in this task. My ask is simple, go out and tell your friends, neighbours, relatives etc that you are a Liberal, share with them what and who we are. What to say in this regard is easy. Just think about why you're a Liberal, why are you here today? Why do you love this country? And the answers will come. You'll also find that most likely those answers have nothing to do with our opposition, but, all link back to the simple notion of making our country better. That is what we must share. That is how we will welcome people into our tent.
My second priority is ideas, also known as policy. My belief is that if you look back to history and reflect on what made this party great it wasn't luck, or divine right, or even at times the men who lead us. It was our ideas. In the 90's we put Canadians back to work. In the 70's and 80's we made Canada the most multicultural society on earth. In the 60's it was healthcare irrespective of the ability to pay for Canadians from coast to coast. In the 1950's it was taking the tools of war and making them the tools of peace. They were our ideas, be proud. They are our legacy to this country; they are why this country is great. It will be our ability to generate new ones that will make us great again. It is our ability to balance the desires of Canadians to free to be who and what they want to be, and the government's ability to be empower them to do so. Policy, is often considered to be some far off process that is decided in Ottawa, but, it is not. Each and every riding has the ability to submit policy resolutions and we must take advantage of this. We must speak up. I am extremely happy to have Jane as our Policy Chair this year as I believe that based on her unique experiences she is absolutely the person we want in this role. For those of you who don't know her, she is the chief of family medicine at Markham Stouffville hospital, a lecturer at the University of Toronto, and is on the committee that is presently establishing the first department of family medicine in Ethiopia. This list goes on, but, with health care consistently the top priority of Canadians I believe it's clear why we are fortunate to have her in this role. The task is not for her alone however, it is to all of us, as this community belongs to all of us. The need for good ideas only re-enforces the need to be welcoming. As when the people in our community feel welcome among us, they will share with us their hopes, fears and dreams for this country. With those we can make better ideas. And with better ideas we can go back to where we all want to be. Where Canadians need us to be.
The road ahead is long friends; I'm not saying it's going to be easy. We have a lot of work to accomplish in our community to get there. There will be days when the hill looks too tall to climb. There will be tasks we will need to complete that will be monotonous. But I won't give up, neither will our board, we make that commitment to you now. We are all here and very serious about sending Liberals to Ottawa so this community can have the better future we all want. My ask is that all of you join us, welcome those around us to join us, and together we will make it better. As we go out into our community there may be those who think we can't do it. You may see it on the news, or hear it at a coffee shop. They are wrong, we can, and we will. If this party can make Peter C Newman believe in re-incarnation, everybody else will be easy. When the time comes and somebody says to you "Steve you're crazy," or "Rosemary, you're not going to do it." My advice is simple. Turn and look them in the eye and say "just watch me."
Thank you, I look forward to working with you over the next year.


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Because February is the month of LOVE, we studied lettering so the girls could use some fun lettering techniques to make Valentine cards if they'd like.
We began by talking about how NOBODY loves their own handwriting, but they should. It's unique to them and it's part of them.
We talked about changing a few letters here and there to make things look more fancy. (Don't try this at school--teachers don't love this)
For instance, look at the a, t and g I just typed. Adding those old fashioned ways of writing those letters can make your writing look more fancy. We also talked about where you place part of the letters making differences. (see page 1 below). The bouncy writing is when you don't have all your letters level on a line, some are high and some are low--bouncy.
We practiced lots of fun types of writing (see both pages 1 and 2 below). I even let the girls in on how I do the lettering for my signs. (Steps 1-5 writing 'TiF' on page 2).
Pardon the wrinkles in the pages. My naughty dog walked on them in the car. :( But you get the idea.
The next thing we did was start a page like this one: (dog really got to this one...)
This is a fun page to put in your sketchbook or journal and add to it whenever you feel like practicing some writing. You can add anything you love--ice cream, sunshine, your family...anything! It's also a great way to remind you of all the things you love and help you be grateful for them!
Hard at work
This little sweetie is always so bold and fearless...I LOVE it!!
This one didn't want to be locked in to doing 100, so she just put "a lot of things I love" :)
We ended the class by playing Valentine Bingo that I found HERE. Notice the fun lettering on the bingo cards--lettering is everywhere! :)
The girls did so well and we had a lovely 2nd Friday afternoon! See you next month!


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25+ Signs That Point to Nuclear War
It's hard for most people to even think about the possibility of nuclear war. They have completely lost their fear of nuclear war. It can't happen! Unfortunately, that's not true, and I'm going to show you why.
How can one possibly know that nuclear war approaches? History provides the clues we're looking for. Just like history informs us when a forest is susceptible to a major forest fire. The exact timing might be impossible to figure out, but we can know the season.
Possible reasons for war:
1. The rise of a power rival in the presence of a declining superpower has led to war six out of the last seven times. Today it's China versus America.
2. When a rival finds that it is incapable of keeping up militarily, then it may launch a preemptive strike before it is too late. Russia is now in danger of falling behind. This is the reason why Germany started World War I.
The decline of a superpower is a very important historical sign of bad things to come. America is now in this situation.
Another important historical sign is that when most people from the last big crisis have died then society becomes susceptible to another big crisis. The last big crisis was the Depression plus World War II.
Here are three possible catalysts for war:
1. A conflict in the Middle East involving Israel.
2. A conflict on the Korean peninsula.
3. A conflict over Taiwan.
The use of nuclear weapons by any country could result in an an escalation.
Introduction to Nuclear War – Signs 1 to 5
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