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Summary: A Clojure tutorial building a spell checker. A step-by-step guide that invites the reader to participate. Aimed at Clojure beginners, gives just enough knowledge about the language to start developing.
- Requirements
- Why a spell checker?
- How does a spell checker work?
- Implementation in Clojure
- Improvements
- Thanks for reading
- Resources
I'd like to experiment with a slightly different type of tutorial. Programming is primarily learned by doing. I'm going to describe in a step-by-step manner how to build a spell checker, but instead of just showing the solutions, questions and exercises are offered that build up to a working example.
The solutions are hidden and can be revealed by clicking on the
... click here to reveal solution ... text. That way, the reader is invited to come up with an own solution first before seeing the tutorial's solution. I also try to not overwhelm the reader by giving just enough knowledge about Clojure to get started and answer the questions.
I'd appreciate any feedback, especially from Clojure beginners, to let me know if you found that approach useful or not.
Leiningen1 installed. Please follow the instructions on their website how to download and install it on your system.
A little bit of Clojure knowledge would be good. I recommend working through some of the Clojure tutorial2. It's quite dense, but I'd say spending an hour or so is sufficient for this tutorial.
Know how to start a Clojure REPL (well, just type
lein repl) and how it works. More information in the Clojure tutorial3.
Some programming knowledge. If you are an absolute beginner and don't know the difference between a map and a list then this might be too much to start with.
Preparations before we start
Create a new project
Let's first create our project. As we use Leiningen, this is going to be a snap.
Start-up a console and type
$lein new app clojure-spellchecker
This creates all necessary files. Change into
clojure-spellchecker. During this tutorial we are going to edit only two files:
src/clojure_spellchecker/core.cljis our main Clojure file. All our coding happens here
project.cljwill only require one change later on
We'll also need a list of words. A google search for "list of English words" gives us some choices, for example this long (109582) list of English words. Download and put it into the
resources folder. Then rename it to
core.clj into REPL
We can test our code directly in REPL. Whenever it says: "try in REPL" do following steps:
- In the
lein repl
- Load the program by entering
(load-file "src/clojure_spellchecker/core.clj"). Use cursor up/down keys for going through the command history. Every new change we do requires to load our file again (there's another way to accomplish that but for now, this is good enough)
Executing our app
The project is already executable, type in
lein run and you will be greeted with the beloved "Hello World" message. Later we are using this to run our program outside the repl.
If you don't want to follow step-by-step the final project can be found in Github.
That's all that is needed to get started!
Why a spell checker?
I chose to use a spell checker as an example because of several advantages:
- a (somewhat) working prototype can be developed very easily in a few lines of code.
- it is a practical application that everyone has seen before.
- the very basic solution offers a lot of room for improvement and can be extended into an almost infinitely complex piece of software.
How does a spell checker work?
I won't risk too much if I assume that you have already seen a spell-checker work. Open your text editor of choice and look for "spell check" or just start typing a (miss-spelled) word into Google and you'll receive a "did you mean xy" answer.
How can we implement a basic working solution? Our spell checker has to do two things:
- Check whether the typed-in word is correct.
- If not correct, offer a possible correction.
1. Check if a word is correct
The solution is simple: have a list of correct words and check whether the typed-in word can be found in that list. If yes: the word is correct, if not: it's incorrect. We use the list we have downloaded in the preparation step above.
2. Offer a correction
If a typed-in word is not found in our list of correct words, we want to suggest a correction. The world of correct words of our spell-checker is this list. Therefore, the possible correction must come from it. What we want to do then is to find the word in the list that is "most similar" to the one the users has entered. What "similar" means is still to be discussed, but for now, let's assume we can find that.
Taken together, our spell-checker can be depicted in this diagram:
Implementation in Clojure
1. Checking if a word is correct
First, we need to decide on the correct data structure to use. Clojure has following collections:
- List: an unordered list of items
- Vector: an ordered list of items
- Map: a collection of key/value pairs
- Set: an unordered list of unique items (no duplicates)
Question: where are going to use a set as our dictionary. Why?
We just need a list of unique words and we don't care about order.
Clojure set
A set is represented in Clojure with
The first thing to note is that in Clojure there are often two ways to express something. There is the "pure" form, that is called prefix notation4 and looks like this:
So we can define a set as:
set is the function name and
["a" "b" "c" "d"] is one argument (which itself is a vector or array of strings).
set function now does following: giving a collection (the vector), return a set of unique elements. In REPL:
As sets are used quite often, there is a second way to express it. It's called a reader macro and considered "syntactic sugar" as it helps the programmer to type less but is not strictly required. The REPL already uses it:
There are many other reader macros available in Clojure. For now, don't worry about this. I'll introduce more along this tutorial.
Exercise: Another interesting thing happens when typing
(set ["a", "b", "c", "c"]) into REPL. What is it?
In the REPL answer:
-> #{"a" "b" "c"} the duplicated
"c" has disappeared. As mentioned above, the items in a set are unique and duplicates are ignored.
Implement the dictionary
Let's start implementing. First, we need to read the word file into our program. Clojure has the
slurp function for this
We can read our words file into a String in Clojure. We name it "
words". In Clojure, we name things with
Note: the
? question mark means that it is optional (one or zero times in this case). It is possible to name something without giving it an initial value.
Exercise: Edit
src/clojure_spellchecker/core.clj. Load the words files that you have copied to "resources/wordsEn.txt" into our program using
slurp. Name the resulting String "words".
Print out the content in REPL:
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (load-file "src/clojure_spellchecker/core.clj")
clojure-spellchecker.core=> words
"a\r\naah\r\naahed\r\naahing\r\naahs\r\naardvark\r\naardvarks\r\naardwolf\r\nab\r\nabaci\r\naback\r\nabacus\r\nabacuses\r\nabaft\r\nabalone\r\nabalones\r\nabandon\r\nabandoned\r\nabandonedly\r\nabandonee\r\nabandoner\r\nabandoners\r\nabandoning\r\nabandonment\r\nabandonments\r\nabandons\r\ ......
We have now the correct word list combined in a huge String and separated by a newline symbol. Next, we need to transform that into a set of words. First, we split the lines. We look again into what Clojure has to offer and soon we find a function called
split-lines5. However, this function is not immediately available (as
set is for example). It lives in a different namespace6. In Clojure, libraries, functions, variables and so on are organized in namespaces.
We need to add the namespace of
split-lines. It resides in
clojure.string. We do this by using the
ns macro at the beginning of our program file. Leiningen has already added it to us. Change
core.clj to:
As you can see, we can also rename the reference to cloure.string to just
str. That saves typing.
We can use
split-lines as follows:
Let's try it in the REPL.
$ lein repl
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (load-file "src/clojure_spellchecker/core.clj")
Exercise: In the REPL, apply
split-lines to
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (str/split-lines words)
["a" "aah" "aahed" "aahing" "aahs" "aardvark" ....
Good. Now we have the words, but there are returned as a list as the square brackets show. But we can convert those easily into a set.
Exercise: convert the list of words that
split-lines returns into a set. Functions can be combined by using the result of a function directly as the input of the next, e.g (function-a (function-b parameter))
If we look at
words in REPL, we can see that it has been converted into a set:
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (load-file "src/clojure_spellchecker/core.clj")
clojure-spellchecker.core=> words
#{"ghoulishly" "refraining" "beachboys" "debuted" "protectiveness" "carnie" "overcharging" "flightier" "premiss" "undistilled" "isometrics" "embroiders" ....
However, there is still one problem. Try to find the word "spelling" in the set. It looks like this (assuming you have downloaded the same word list file above):
... "intelligently" "bootlicker" " spelling" "wobbliest" ...
The word starts with a space which can make searching for it difficult and is ugly. What we need is a "data cleaning" step of our word file.
What we are looking for is a way to apply a cleaning function to each element of our list of words. To clean, we can use another function of the
clojure.string namespace:
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (doc str/trim)
Removes whitespace from both ends of the string.
This will solve it. But how can we apply this function to each member of our words set?
This is a fundamental process in functional programming. If you come from an imperative programming language background, you'd choose a
for (....) loop. In a functional language, this can be solved much easier, with a
map function:
map will apply function
f to each element of the collection
Exercise: Extend words the same way you have extended it before: wrap it into another function call. This time add a "cleaning" step by applying the
str/trim function to each element of the
words array. Add the cleaning step before calling
We can implement now a function that tests if a word is correct. We need to check if our words list contains the typed-in word of a user.
Clojure functions
So far we have only used functions. Now we create one. That is done in Clojure with
For example, Leiningen has already created a function for you. It is the main function (which gets executed by running
lein run) and looks like this:
-mainis the function name. The minus sign indicates that this function is not visible outside of its namespace.
- [& args] are the parameter names.
&is a special sign that allows the function to accept a variable length of parameters
- "I don't do a whole lot … yet." is an optional doc string we ignore for now
(println "Hello, World!")is the body of the function.
There is (a lot) more to say about functions. The return value of a function is its last expression. In this case, it's nothing ->
nil in Clojure terms.
println is not the return value but a feared "side effect" of the function: it does something that changes the environment when executed (printing words on the console in this case). Let's rewrite "hello word" in a more simplified manner:
Type the whole function definition into REPL:
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (defn hello-world [name]
#_=> (println "Hello " name))
Exercise: In the REPL, execute
hello-world. What part of the REPL answer is the side effect and what the return value?
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (hello-world "Hans")
-> Hello, Hans <== side effect
-> nil <== return value
Now that we know how to define functions, let's implement our spell-check function.
Exercise: Go to http://java.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html#Collections and look at the functions that are available for sets to find one that checks if a set contains an item. Implement then a new function called
correct? that takes a word and returns true or false
In REPL we test the first step of our spell-checker
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (load-file "src/clojure_spellchecker/core.clj")
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (correct? "absolutely")
-> true
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (correct? "absolutly")
-> false
Let's continue with the second part
2. Offer a correction
Let's make our program first a real app by properly implementing the main method so we can execute it via
lein run.
What we want to accomplish is this: if the user typed in word is correct, print "correct" to the console and if not a correction like google: "Did you mean …. ?".
In Clojure, we have the
if special form. It is called "special form" because it behaves differently than the rest of Clojure. It has the following form:
In REPL
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (if (< 1 0)
#_=> (println "one is smaller than zero")
#_=> (println "one is not smaller than zero"))
one is not smaller than zero
We want to use our spell-checker with leiningen.
lein run word-to-check executes the main function handing over the arguments which are then available as args in
(defn -main [& args]).
args is a list of arguments. As we just give one word to check, we can read this word by using
(first args).
We want to give this argument a name. Clojure allows that with another special form:
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (let [variable1 1 variable 2](println "variable1 is" variable1))
variable1 is 1
The assignment we define with
let is valid inside the body of let.
Exercise: Edit the main function of
core.clj. Assign the typed-in word that the first argument of
args to a new variable named
word. Then, in the body of the let special form, add an if-clause that checks whether the word is correct. If it is correct, print "correct" to the console. If not, print "Did you mean xy"
With the main function in place, we can execute our app with leiningen:
$ lein run spelling
$ lein run spellling
Did you mean xy ?
We can now implement the last missing piece: provide a correction.
As explained above, we want to find a word that is "most similar" to the user typed-in word. However, deciding what word is "similar" can be very difficult, if not impossible, to answer. For example, if I write "leav" did I mean "leave" or "leaf"? We could derive that by looking at the whole sentence. We could also say that the word "leave" is much more common than the word "leaf" (unless the text is about trees). The similarity of words is a difficult subject and that is where we could later greatly improve our algorithm.
For this tutorial, we start with a simple solution. A common way to determine the similarity between words is the "edit distance" (also called Levenshtein distance7). It goes like this: count the steps I need to get from word A to word B. The words "spellling" and "spelling" have the distance 1, because I need to delete one "l" to get from A to B.
So for our correction, we want to choose words of our word list that have the smallest edit distance to the typed-in word.
Implement Levenshtein distance
We don't implement this. We re-use an external library. But looking at the Clojure libraries, we can't find an implementation. Or we may be Java developers and know already a good implementation, which indeed exists: Apache Commons
has a LevenshteinDistance` method. In Clojure, we can easily use Java libraries.
Using Java in Clojure
As we are using a library that is not part of the core Clojure, we need to add it in two places: in the dependencies of our project, so that Leiningen will download it, and in the namespace.
project.clj and change the dependencies part (you can find the whole file in Github):
[org.apache.commons/commons-lang3 "3.3.2"] tells Leiningen what to download next time we run it.
Now add it to the namespace. Java dependencies are included in the
ns macro with the
:import keyword.
Implement distance function
Finally, we can implement a function that gives us the distance of two words.
Exercise: Implement a function called
distance that takes two words and returns the Levenshtein distance of the two words. Use
Let's try it in the REPL
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (load-file "src/clojure_spellchecker/core.clj")
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (distance "spelling" "spellling")
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (distance "clojure" "closure")
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (distance "clojure" "java")
Final step
We need to find a word in the dictionary that has the smallest distance to the word the user has typed in.
How can we do that? We get now to the meat of our application!
A general rule for an aspiring Clojure-developer is to first check what Clojure is already offering. We go to the Clojure docs and search there. I like this Clojure cheatsheet8 that has a search box that automatically filters the results (there is also
(doc-search "search-term") to search in a similar way in REPL). We are looking to minimize something so I type in "min".
First, there is
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (doc min)
([x] [x y] [x y & more])
Returns the least of the nums.
It returns the minimum number of the supplied arguments. This does not yet do it for us. But then there is
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (doc min-key)
([k x] [k x y] [k x y & more])
Returns the x for which (k x), a number, is least.
This "smells" of a solution. This takes a function k, which returns a number, and returns the minimum of (k x), k applied to the rest of the arguments. For example, return the shortest string (we use
count as function k)
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (min-key count "this" "are" "some" "words")
We have still two things to figure out:
- How can we use our
distancefunction as function
- How can we apply
min-keyto our word list?
distance function inside
If we try this:
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (min-key distance "spellling" words)
ArityException Wrong number of args (1) passed to: core/distance clojure.lang.AFn.throwArity (AFn.java:429)
Clojure basically tells us: "distance needs two arguments, you supplied only one".
min-key takes
distance and applies it to "spelling" but not words. What we need is to have another distance function, that takes the typed-in word as a default and then
min-key can take it and apply it to the words in our list.
There is a solution in Clojure: the
partial function.
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (def distance-to-spelling (partial distance "spelling"))
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (distance-to-spelling "spellling")
(partial distance "spelling") transforms
(distance [word1 word2]) into something like "
(distance [word1 "spelling"])".
With the partial function of distance, we can implement a part of our solution.
Exercise: Implement a function called "min-distance" that takes a word and returns
min-key of a partial distance function and (for now) just two additional words from the dictionary: "spelling" and "spilling". In other words, fill in following:
(defn min-distance[word](min-key <partial distance> "spelling" "spilling"))
Let's test it using Leiningen:
$ lein run spelling
$ lein run spellling
Did you mean spelling ?
$ lein run clojure
Did you mean spilling ?
It works. But of course, as our dictionary contains only two words, the last correction is not satisfying.
Applying min-key with partial distance to our word list
We need a way to apply
min-key and the partial
distance successively to
words. The Clojure answer to this is a function called
apply works similar to
map on every item of a collection, but instead of mapping a function to each member of the collection separately,
apply unwraps a collection and applies it to each item.
Compare in REPL:
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (apply + [1 2 3 4 5])
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (map (partial + 1) [1 2 3 4 5])
(2 3 4 5 6)
Don't worry if you don't fully grasp this now. It's rather advanced. But we have now the right tool to finish our 'min-distance' function.
Exercise: Use
apply to make
(min-key (partial distance word) ...) work with words
Try in REPL:
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (load-file "src/clojure_spellchecker/core.clj")
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (min-distance "spellling")
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (min-distance "spelling")
clojure-spellchecker.core=> (min-distance "spillling")
It works.
In the very last step, we use
min-distance in our main function.
Exercise: Extend
-main to use
min-distance to suggest a correction. The solution shows the final app.
That's it, we have a working prototype:
$ lein run spelling
$ lein run spellling
Did you mean spelling ?
$ lein run clojure
Did you mean cloture ?
$ lein run absolutly
Did you mean absolutely ?
It required just a few lines. Don't you think that Clojure leads to rather compact and clean code??
Of course, we have only implemented a rudimentary solution that can be improved on. The quality of our spell-checker greatly depends on our internal list of correct words. Improving this list would improve the "knowledge" of our app. We could, for example, try to build this list on our own. We could consume the whole Wikipedia and build a new list. That way, our word list would likely improve it's quality.
Then there is the already discussed problem of "similarity". One better approach than applying plain edit distance is to take probability into account. Not all words are equally important. If our spell-checker finds words of the same distance, we could choose a word that has a higher probability of occurrence in the English language. Peter Norvig wrote a great introduction9 about this (he also describes a way to test the effectiveness of the algorithm - another point we'd need to tackle).
There are more things to improve on, as performance (our app is not "production ready" yet) and more sophisticated features like grammar and other advanced natural language processing features.
I hope you found this tutorial useful. The whole Leiningen project can be found in github10.
Thanks for reading
I hope you enjoyed reading this post. If you have comments, questions or found a bug please let me know, either in the comments below or contact me directly.
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Is Mad Maks, who is teamed with Amber Rose this season on "DWTS," ready to be a dad? He told AJ, "I feel great… you truly don't get it, no matter how many books you read and how much you know until [you are] in that experience. Peta is a rock star and is amazing."
AJ also caught up with Ryan Lochte, who is looking for a second chance following his robbery scandal at the Rio Olympics.
"I want people to see a different side of me than what they already perceive me as," said the athlete, who is partnered with Cheryl Burke.
Which is harder, swimming or dancing? Ryan was adamant, "Dancing by far. Oh my God, it is so hard."
"I'm a swimmer, I'm not a dancer. I should not be on land. I should be in the water," he joked.
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Every day my husband asks, "Is it ever going to stop raining?" It just keeps on raining, day after day, with thunder and lightning and torrential rains. This is the type of weather that causes lakes and rivers to flood, and I was looking out the window at the rain, which was pouring down in buckets full. Suddenly, Noah's Ark popped into my head. Is this what it was like for Noah once he built the ark? Was he sitting on the boat as the rain came down, watching the water slowly rise up around him until the boat could float?
Then I got thinking about the whole concept of trying to save the animals, trees, plants, and insects, on a ship. If someone plunked an already built ship in my back yard, told me that the world was going to flood and I had thirty days to populate that boat, what would I do? What if they told me to put two of every animal, and plant, and vegetable, and fruit, and insects to pollinate the fruit trees, on board my Noah's Ark?
The first thing I'd want to save would be dogs, and just that one species would be difficult. Think about it. There are countless breeds of dogs: german shepherds, huskies, beagles, catahoula leopard dogs, golden retrievers… you get the idea. Now I'm supposed to save them, but how? In thirty days time, how the heck am I supposed to round up a breeding pair of every species of dog? Our local pet stores only carry a handful of breeds, and always the smaller breeds. No Lassie dogs, or labrador retrievers there.
And what about fruit trees? We've got a self-pollinating peach tree, apple tree, and pear tree in the back yard. If I drove to the local nursery, I might find a cherry tree and a plum tree. But no way would I find lemons, oranges, coconuts, bananas, or grapefruits, because they don't grow in my region. This whole two-fer plan to stock the ship is starting to get really complicated.
Now I've got to figure out vegetables and ground fruits. That's a little easier. I can go buy packets of seeds and hope that my gardening skills are up to snuff. But oh wait, now I need to pack implements to plant and care for the seedlings because if they die, it's not like I can go to the store, buy more seeds, and try again. This is do or die.
So what's next on the list? Oh yeah, more animals. Lots more animals. Well you can forget giraffes, lions, tigers, and bears, because unless the zoo believes my wild story that The Big Man upstairs gave me a boat for the end of the world, I won't be able to get my hands on a breeding pair of exotic or wild animals.
The next thing on the list is to grab a phone book and see if there are any horse farms selling horses, or farmers selling cows or pigs or goats. We live out in the boonies, so I might get lucky there.
Now we need frogs, lizards, snakes and turtles. Well, the pet store might have about three species, but they probably wouldn't have breeding pairs. In all the years we've lived in this house, I've only caught one lizard, two turtles, and a few frogs, so stocking up on reptiles is not going to go well. It's easier to catch spiders than reptiles, but only in the fall and that's several months away.
Even if I had enough money to fly in plants, animals, and insects from around the world, they'd be delayed by customs and quarantine laws and all that, and they might not arrive by the deadline.
So Noah was supposed to stock the entire ark without phones, airplanes, trucking lines, pet stores, the internet, and all that. I mean seriously, how the heck did he do it? Saving every species on earth would be such a logistical nightmare. Even saving 10% of all the species would be darn near impossible. We'd better hope that somebody, somewhere, has a fully stocked lab full of clone cells, or we're sunk!
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Have you ever sat there and wondered "who am I and what am i doing with my life"? If you have you are not alone. There comes a time in everyone's life where they become unsure about their choices and desires in life. I also hit that point a year ago when I made a huge career change at age 30. I had no experience in anything but hairdressing. I was terrified and honestly… im still very nervous if I'm making the right choices. In this blog post I want to help you reveal to yourself where you are in life right now, where you want to be, and what you could do to make the changes.
Finding out all the sources that potentially trigger your mental health is vital. These are the things that constantly bring you down, make you nervous, bring you sadness, and even anger. It's best to either distance yourself from these factors or learn better ways to deal with them if you can't eliminate them.
I'm all about making list, I feel like it helps you see the whole picture when things are written down. I advise you to sit down and write out the things that are complicating your life, cross off the ones you can completely let go of, and write out different solutions for the ones you can't. Here are some examples of things that might be negatively effecting you:
• Hating your job. Being somewhere that makes you miserable is not worth the money, trust me. You're going to be spending more time with these people than your own family so make sure you find a job that brings you joy. Sometimes having to cut back financially is worth it, I will write a separate post on this topic in the future.
• Being in a toxic relationship. Whether it's with a partner, family member, or friend, this is one factor that you need to cut ties with. Have you ever heard the phrase that you become like the people whom you're around the most? If you're surrounded by negative people, that's all that is going to come from that relationship- negativity. Sometimes people can change, and I highly believe in forgiving people, but that doesn't mean you have to be around them if they bring you down.
• Cluttered or stressful surroundings. If you are in an environment that stresses you out then it's time to make some changes. Start by decluttering your home, clutter can trigger stress dramatically. Also make sure that any media watched or listened to in your home is positive and uplifting. "If you take in good, you radiate good."
What are the things that make you feel alive? What are the good things that you think about often? Especially the ones you think about right when you wake up or go to sleep. These are your passions, the things you really love.
Sit down and make a list of all the things that make you happy and things you want out of life- big or small. Here are a few inspirational examples:
• Family & friends- these are the people you need to surround yourself with. The people in your life who lift you up are the ones who really love you, make time for these people.
• Your dream job (dreams can become reality if you work hard enough!).
• Your hobbies. It's important to make time for yourself and do things that you enjoy. Hobbies can inspire and motivate you which will make you a more joyful person.
• Your Faith. Not all people are religious (and I totally respect that) but if you are, never forget to put God first. He loves you more than anyone and he knows the desires of your heart. Spend time in prayer, this will result in thankfulness.
• Your health. Making your health a priority is so important because every single thing you put in your body affects it. If you are eating poorly and not exercising it has the potential to throw your whole system out of whack and leave you feeling horrible. Having a clean diet and exercising will make a huge difference in your quality of life.
Your list contains the people you should surround yourself with and the things you should strive to accomplish. No dream is too big nor too small! what are your goals and dreams? Who do you aspire to be? It is hidden within you and you can make anything possible if you're willing to put in the work.
Disclaimer: I do not work in the medical field. My blog is all strictly my opinion and is based off my own struggles with mental illness; my posts are personal suggestions that i use for a happier life.


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May 26, 2018
Tetiana from Ukraine
Tetiana from Ukraine
First time my family was in Slovakia = Jasna in 2005. My first time to ski & relax. My family have been in Jasna, Demanowska Dolina (JASNÁ Nízke Tatry) around 12 times (even Slovakia gave us, the whole family, the Schengen visas for 5 years in 2013). We all love this place. It is a lot of fun and comfortable. However, this year (2018) an unpleasant situation happened with our family. We bought the ski-passes through GOPASS system for 3 people (it was middle of February 2018). Unfortunately, on the first day my daughter fell (when skiing downhill) and injured her arm. We had the sport-insurance and received support and medical assistance/help in time. But, for sure, she could not ski anymore. Next day, in the morning, I got the terrible headache when skiing downhill. It was unexpectedly and I have not had such experience before. I had to go back a hotel and take the rest (just go to bad and sleep). At the next day, the same incident was happened – or even worse (with nausea and vomiting). I was taken to the hospital from the mountain. So, my daughter and I could not ski. I was really sick and my daughter was injured. We both had medical report, etc. 4 days of skiing were paid, but could not be used. We decided to contact to GOPASS with a request to return money for those 4 days (it could be some amount of points in GOPASS Loyalty program). We also proposed several option to solve this question (without money transfer): to move these 4 days for the next season for same people (my daughter and me) or to visit Tetralandia Aquapark (GOPASS has such option in their program; it is even cheaper than to ski). But we got the answer that they can do only one thing: to give these 4 days 'til the end of season 2018 ('til the end of March 2018!). We were trying to explain them that there is no sense. We could not ski on physical abilities (till the end of March) and we could not come again to Jasna. It is increasable GOPAS service and focus on client! It is a pity that such bad service in GOPASS. By the way, we were in Austria, Mayrhofen, the same story have been. My daughter broken her arm at the first day. After hospital we came to ticket desk and ask "What should we do in such situation? It is the ski-pass (5 days left)". The usual cashier said "No problem! She reviewed medical report and returned money back in 2 min". And in the ski-rent point we got money back. I do not know – will my family come again to Jasna (JASNÁ Nízke Tatry), will we recommend Jasna?
January 02, 2017
Justin Garrett from Slovakia
Justin Garrett from Slovakia
Great conditions for this time of year and whilst there is still plenty of terrain yet to open up, the piste and south side off-piste was in good condition. I was skiing on 31 Dec, some two days after the latest fresh falls, but the snow was still light and dry. Packed powder off-piste on the south, giving a good work out, whilst the north face piste was great for edging for short turns or big carving. Late in the day, once much of the snow had been pushed around, it got a bit icy underneath in some places but wasn't that bad you couldn't hold an edge. The sun was out all day and no wind, so was very comfortable and enjoyable day. All bar one of the main lifts were running, so was plenty of access to the mountain. A very enjoyable day.
February 16, 2013
Martin Shimanski from United Kingdom
Martin Shimanski from United Kingdom
Bratislava. We had a hire car awaiting us at the airpot. Journey to Liptovsky Mikulas was nearly 3 hours. Stayed at 3 star Hotel Klar in Mikulas. It was cheap and clean. Hotel was situated in centre of town. Lots of places to eat, would recommend to have Halusky with sheep cheese! Yummy, although my wife preferred meat feast Horehonsky resen. It is 30 min drive to resort and after a few runs we had decided to use the bus shuttle service. I guess it worked out cheaper than a car. Service was reliable and on time. Info was provided at hotel we stayed in. I would reccomend to look at sites such as mikulas.sk and jasna.sk both in English. Snow conditions were near perfect with loads of snow and all pistes were taken care of. There is also a new cable car Funitell which was one of the reasons we chose this resort. There is plenty of things to do after you have spent your day on skis. I would recommend Tatralandia, in Mikulas, and Besenova spa resort. Outside hot spring is just fabulous. We have been told to go see mountain range High Tatras,but did not have enough time. Maybe next time. Oh, almost forgot to mention, when we woke up late there is local ski slope about 2min. from town - Opalisko, for those who had few drinks with locals night before :-) Overall, we had great fun, lots of skiing. We are already making plans to go next season! Many thanks, Martin and Charlotte.
January 03, 2013
Bart from Poland
Bart from Poland
Pretty shitty up there! Prices too high! Walk paths iced not topped with sand or salt. 3 o'clock you won't get on tram from Biel to Funitel with no reason! Too much Police around trying to catch you on speed camera. Food so so! Bus stops with no timetables (skibus). Bus driver when he sees ski/snow boarders says skibus is just right behind me which is lie of course. He just do not want to clean his bus after. This is my point of view!
December 12, 2011
Andy Carrol from United Kingdom
Andy Carrol from United Kingdom
My family and I had a great week in Jasna in March 2011. We stayed in a catered chalet directly opposite the Zahradky chairlift run by Ski and Snowboard Slovakia (skiandsnowboardslovakia.com) independent chalet holiday company run by an English couple who have 3 chalets in Jasna. The snow was not amazing for our stay but I think it was the same for everywhere in Europe this year but the chalet and the service was excellent. I would highly recommend Jasna resort as it is a little hidden gem with really modern facilities and for the price it is hard to beat.
March 25, 2009
Gill from United Kingdom
Gill from United Kingdom
We visited Jasná - Chopok for Feb half-term. Our third trip and it was superb. This year there were minimal lift queues but last year they were disastrous with endless waiting around. You need to try to figure out whether it is either Slovak or Polish school holidays at Jasná - Chopok and if it is, think about going somewhere else. This year there were few other kids and it was fine. This year saw the best snow I have had anywhere - even if the snow is poor, as it was last year, there are plenty of blowers and a reasonable coverage. It's a good family destination because lessons are reasonably priced. There is a good mix of blues, reds and blacks, although a couple of the blues are quite challenging. We always take our kids to one of the aquaparks - Besenova or Tatralandia half way through the week for a break - amazing hot thermal springs and great fun. We stay in Liptovsky Mikulas - the nearest large town to Jasná - Chopok. There is a mix of accomodation and you can catch the service bus up (takes about 30 min and costs £3 for 4) or drive. Lots of nice places to eat - the resorts itself can be like a ghost town after 5pm.
February 25, 2009
Guy Pocock from United Kingdom
Guy Pocock from United Kingdom
I have just returned with my family from an absolutely fabulous holiday in Jasna (Jasná - Chopok). We stayed in one of the houses right next to the Zahradky 6 man chair lift from 16th - 23rd February 09, booked through firstname.lastname@example.com (Anna was very helpful and speaks good English). The ski resort benefits from extensive pistes (34km) on the north side of Chopok mountain with 11km of pistes on the southern side. Whilst we were at Jasna (Jasná - Chopok) the snow conditions were powder on all pistes and the off-piste skiing was extensive & superb. With the fall in the value of the £, the ski passes were quite expensive, but the pistes were very well maintained, so I guess it was worth it. The main benefit for us of staying in the resort was immediate access to the 'modern' ski lifts, but at night the entertainment was limited. There are no food shops and only hotel restaurants in the resort. But there are plenty of shops in the nearby town (about a 20 minute taxi ride away). Most people appear to come to the resort in the morning by car/bus; there is a regular bus service from the town that picks up skiers along the route. All in all, I thoroughly recommend Jasna (Jasná - Chopok) - better than the 6 other resorts we have tried and before you ask, that does include 3 "posh" resorts in the Alps. Give Jasna a try - you won't be disappointed. Guy
September 04, 2008
Krzysztof from Poland
Krzysztof from Poland
Chopok is an exellent place to ski. Families shall enjoy it better when staying on the northern slopes. These are better equipped with restaurants and lifts, and generally less demanding (although also here, there are a few more difficult slopes and are plenty full of off-piste possibilities). Advanced skiers and profis should not miss the slopes on the south of Chopok. Only a few runs are being "prepared" here. All the rest depends on skiers and (really few) snowboarders. In Bystra (south) you will find less accommodation than in Mikulas (north), so you better do not come there without arranging a place to stay in advance. Have fun !
January 26, 2008
kevin from United Kingdom
kevin from United Kingdom
Just had a short 3 day break. We got 6 inches the first night so great skiing. Started to get a little thin on the last day lower down on busy pistes. Overall, Jasna is good value for money. With a good dump there is loads of good off-pisting to be had in both open areas and through the trees. Stayed in Liptov Apartments in Liptovsky Mikulas; clean and tidy and cheap. Would recommend Jasna.


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[Emma's Story] Busan Citizen's Park
This week, my friend and I took advantage of the only nice day and we went to explore Busan Citizen's Park. The park is one of Busan's largest public parks with 97 different species of trees and includes 2 streams. The park is located a 5-minute walk from Bujeon Station exit 7. The park itself is actually a lot bigger than it looks and took us a good few hours to see everything!
The park itself was a former Imperial Japanese Army base and United States Army camp which was given back to the city of Busan in 2006 and later redeveloped into the park we know today, and there is evidence of this all over the park. Lots of the buildings in the park are old Army buildings that have been repurposed into coffee shops, cultural experience halls and many other things. When walking round the park you will see signs outside each "area" written in both English and Korean so I suggest taking your time and reading up on the history!
At the back of the park there is a small café. We took shelter from the wind for a while and found out that not only does the café sell amazing coffee/food, it is also part library! Whilst most of the books here are written in Korean, I still suggest checking it out if you need a break from the weather.
Busan Citizen Park is also a great place for children, so don't be afraid to go if you have kids! Scattered around the park are various outdoor playgrounds (I think we walked past at least 3 and all of them looked suitable for all ages of children!) There is also a maze near the entrance (that admittedly took me and my friend longer than it should to solve.) Near the maze is the Pororo Centre – a hall dedicated to Korea's favourite penguin character. We also walked past something called the "Air Bounce", from the small conversation I had with the park ranger I understand it to be similar to an outdoor trampoline for kids.
Near the main entrance to the park you will find the cultural section. Here there are various buildings with different activities in each. There is a building for printmaking and various other arts that are available to try out! There are also a few art installations near this area made by local artists and some community projects based on the history of the city. In this area there is also a stage area which we were told hold local concerts, plays and other cultural events during the warmer months.
One of the main attractions of the park is the waterfall and fountain at the main entrance. Unfortunately, due to the weather or the time of year we were unable to see it. We were however, able to see the streams that run though the park. One of which was very reminiscent of the Cheonggyecheon stream that runs through Seoul – perfect for an Instagram photo.
After spending the day in the park I highly suggest looking round the area. The area itself is known for having some of the most authentic Korean food you can find! If you're feeling really adventurous, outside Bujeon station is the Bujeon market and it is an experience you won't want to miss! Full of vendors selling everything from household goods to live seafood, you can find absolutely everything here. The woman running the stalls are nothing but kind and will encourage you to try some of whatever food the happen to be selling. If street food isn't your thing, it's still and interesting place to explore!
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Sometimes, we all need a friend who can look at our situation and tell us the truth we really need to hear.
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We all need a friend like Moses in our lives, a friend that can forgive us and help restore us.
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It's an all-new volume of Apple, the breathtaking Korean anthology/art book series! Join dozens of Korea's best illustrators and animators as they present their wildest fantasies through original stories and illustrations.
From video games, to animation, to comics, Korean artists have touched all facets of modern media. Apple lets these artists shine as their creativity flows through eye-popping artwork and wondrous original tales. This volume also features a new story by artist Hyung Min-Woo, creator of the popular manga series Priest!
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Do you forget to take care of yourself during the holiday rush? Here are 10 tips to help you get through it.
Holidays are one of those times when we're expected to be super-human. Even if you don't do December celebrations, there's a good chance you'll be asked to take up for friends or co-workers who do, and the pressure to be a good sport can be intense. If you don't have children or if you're single, you plans are needs are often expected to be secondary to people who do. Or the "can you do me a favors" add up, or the "can you contribute to thises" keep coming.
If it's the first time you're in charge of a holiday or taking a leading role in the planning, whether it's for family, work, or community, it's easy to wonder when it will all be over, even if you're having a great time. Because you don't have to be miserable to be stressed. Sometimes the toughest times are when you are trying to do everything you and everyone around you loves.
With that in mind, here are 1o ways that you can try to reduce stress and get to January looking forward to next December. I say try because in the midst of everything, remembering how to not lose you head may not, unfortunately, be on the top of our list.
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The musical alias of director, writer and producer Jasper Warry; Jerro puts the summery moments of The Shins to an Eef Barzelay soundtrack, before imitating the electro pop noodles of peer Sweet Baboo.
Warry's debut EP starts off with a wallop of pop in the form of eponymous track "King Solomon" – a rambling tune with plodding bass and carefree vocal that epitomises Jerro's approach to music. Elsewhere "Very Sorry" has the singer songwriter turn in the direction of rock, while "Rabbit" offers a particular nougat highlight.
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"It's Your Life…Take a Day to be Well"
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The Island Online Free
David Warner leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes out there with his son to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats. He runs across Warner and his band of raiders and they decide to induct them into their tribe.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Actors: Angela Punch McGregor, Colin Jeavons, David Warner, Don Henderson, Dudley Sutton, Frank Middlemass, Michael Caine
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Duration: 109 min
Release: 1980
IMDb: 5.3
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October is upon us, Martians!
Thanks to all the Patrons who've pledged support already. We're 87% of the way to our second goal of $150/month in order to upgrade the Podcast's services and equipment. Click the link to the right if you'd like to join the growing number of Martians who help support the exploration of Mars.
- Off the Cuff – Faster, Better, Samplier – I spoke for about 20 minutes on the topic of the streamlined, more cost-effective Mars Sample Return architecture laid out by Thomas Zurbuchen of NASA in the review of the Decadal Survey which happened at the end of August.
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Vicki Belo shares how Scarlet Snow feels about fame
With over 2 million Instagram followers, Scarlet Snow is easily one of the most popular babies on the Internet.
At the age of three, Scarlet Snow has won the hearts of millions. But the daughter of celebrity doctors Vicki Belo and Hayden Kho has yet to grasp just how famous she truly is!
In a recent interview with PUSH, mum Vicki says her youngest daughter has "zero idea" about her giant fanbase.
For Scarlet Snow, fame is still a foreign concept…
For Scarlet Snow, fame may still be a foreign concept, but she does wonder about one thing.
"She wonders why everybody knows who she is. Whenever we go anywhere they know. She asks me, 'How come mommy everybody knows my name?'" shares Vicki.
"I know you all know her to be friendly from Instagram but it takes her a while to warm up to people so she is very friendly and happy kung kilala ka niya," clarifies the mum.
She might not understand her popularity, but Scarlet already knows what Instagram is!
Dad Hayden shares in an interview with PEP that Scarlet does have an inkling of what Instagram is after he explained it to her, knowing that she's smart enough to understand it.
"Scarlet sort of understands because I've showed her before. [I said,] 'Scarlet, this is Instagram.' Hindi namin ito bini-baby eh. We believe she can do anything," he proudly shares. "So, I explained to her before that this is Instagram, and whenever we post a video of you, people like it, people watch it.
Continuing, he recalls telling her, "There's so many people who care for you, so many people who love you. Yung level of exposure kung gaanong karaming followers, I don't think she understands. She can only count to a hundred maybe, but not yet two million."
While she has amassed a large following on social media, parents Vicki and Hayden make sure to limit her internet exposure, only allowing her to use the iPad one hour daily.
"That is really our way to reward her. They have studies that show that when she watches the iPad or phone she becomes impatient and irritable," Vicki continues in an interview with PUSH.
Because of this, the hands-on mum has made sure to allow her 30 minutes at lunch and 30 minutes at dinner.
But she admits it is a struggle to say "no" to her daughter, as any parent would agree.
The rest of her downtime is spent reading books.
"She loves books," shares Vicki.
Mum Vicki wants to raise Scarlet as 'normal' as possible
On the rare occasion that they do go out in public, Vicki confides that it can be overwhelming for Scarlet when fans enthusiastically approach them for photos.
"We think it's very hard. People also sometimes don't realize she's only a baby," explained Vicki during a Red Ribbon event launching Scarlet as their new brand ambassador.
"So of course I've been with stars all my life and I've seen how they take pictures into the face and they do that to Scarlet so parang it's medyo traumatic for her because she doesn't know what's going on," she continued, explaining why they prefer to take her to friends' houses for playtime.
"We go abroad a lot. In Japan, hardly anybody knew who she was. So she was able to run around like a normal child," adds Vicki.
In school, Scarlet's classmates are mostly foreigners — Koreans, Japanese, Russians — so Vicki says this helps her have a "normal" childhood.
"Hindi nila kilala kung sino si Scarlet so they treat her like anybody. Hindi niya talaga alam."
While it's amazing that Scarlet Snow manages to bring joy to many, it's reassuring that mum Vicki is determined to shield her from the pressures of fame, letting her enjoy her childhood by doing what she loves and letting her shine brightly even away from the spotlight.
Sources: PUSH ABS-CBN, PEP, Rappler
READ THIS ALSO: Scarlet Snow shares what she wants to be when she grows up!


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By Gracie Bonds Staples The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) Gracie Bonds Staples takes a look at the recent decision by the Berkeley City Council to replace the word "Manhole" with "Maintenance hole" (among a few other words).
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Since reading about the Berkeley City Council's vote to replace more than two dozen terms used in the city's municipal code with gender-neutral words, I've been trying to remember a time when I felt words like chairman or manpower or fireman made me feel less than or excluded.
I can't. That could be my way of dealing with the pain that one might feel, but I don't think so. I do think this California city council just made, excuse the cliche, a mountain out of a molehill.
If you haven't heard, the city's municipal code will no longer feature words like "manhole" and "manpower." It will use instead "maintenance hole" and "human effort" or "workforce." Gender-specific references to job titles, like "policeman" and "craftsmen," will also be changed in the code, to "police officer" and "craftspeople" or "artisans." "Sorority" and "fraternity" would change to "collegiate Greek system residence." And the use of gendered pronouns, like "he" and "she," would be replaced with specific titles, like "the attorney" or "the candidate."
The measure passed unanimously.
I was surprised but then I remembered similar stories out of New York, where the city has added a gender-neutral option to birth certificates, and the decision by the Boy Scouts to drop "Boy" from its flagship program.
I raised an eyebrow even then, but Elizabeth Markovits, a professor of political science who has worked to promote the use of gender-inclusive language at Mount Holyoke College, reminded me that my experiences aren't the only ones that count here. "I urge folks to look at the result on our society, rather than their own experience," she said.
Point taken but even knowing the power of words, I don't get how this matters when it comes to gender equity.
Markovits, on the other hand, believes gendered words help explain why gender inequality persists, why more of us think moms should stay home with young kids rather than dads and why Congress is composed overwhelmingly of men.
Can using gender-neutral words instead change the way we see each other?
Markovits doesn't think they are the answer, but she is convinced it plays a role.
"The language we use to describe the world also shapes it, helping to form our own ideas of what feels right and wrong, how the world should be, how it really is," she said. "If you only ever hear of 'Mommy and Me' baby yoga classes or first responders as 'firemen,' you get a certain picture of the world: A dad would seem absurd at Mommy and Me class, or at least a funny or praise-worthy addition. Definitely out-of-the-ordinary. And a woman in the firehouse is likewise remarkable and causes us to do a double take because this language is so embedded in us and shapes how we see the world."
Markovits said that gendered language helps create a world where women are seen as naturally suited ... to the task of parenting, and less fit for physically demanding jobs or political leadership. This leads to the division of all sorts of things from housework and child care to income inequality and glass ceilings. So tackling this where we can, in our local political life and everyday speech, is one tiny piece of moving us closer to equality.
A lot of people agree.
For sure, Berkeley isn't the first city to give its municipal codes a linguistic cleansing, said Fern Johnson, a senior research scholar of English at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Albuquerque, Detroit, Memphis, Minneapolis, New York and Seattle have all made language less gender-specific, but these changes are usually incremental and happen without much fanfare, she said.
Back in 1990, Johnson said, for instance, Sacramento officially changed "manhole" to "maintenance hole" (Berkeley's chosen term), and it's not uncommon today to see terms such as "service hole," "utility hole" and "access chamber."
There are also cities other than Berkeley where language changes have been adopted, but these haven't made the national headlines.
"Rarely are they voted on more widely, as when Philadelphia residents passed a ballot measure in May that made the term 'councilmember' official," Johnson said, adding the broader context for these changes is evident everywhere.
"It's hard to find a publishing house that does not have guidelines for gender-inclusive language, and journalistic style manuals have changed, too," Johnson said. "This is because language changes in tandem with changes in society. The words and phrases we use and the manner in which we express ourselves all take in what's happening in society. We've seen this in references to racial groups, ability differences, and gender more broadly. Terms such as 'Latinx,' 'differently abled' and 'transgender' were simply not part of the lexicon until recently, nor were the now infamous LOL-type expressions."
Are there naysayers?
Sure. Social change always draws detractors.
"Some object because they do not see language as important or they think it's somehow cemented in tradition," Johnson said.
"Even a short history of language usage shows contrasts from one time to another. My grandmother at my own age would have been termed 'an old lady' and 'elderly' but definitely not a 'senior citizen.' "Many of my own schoolmates in the early 1960s were 'Negroes.' Not today."
The only thing that seems for sure is the ways in which we use language are constantly evolving with social changes, and that includes vocabulary.
Johnson said gender-neutral language is quickly becoming the norm. So much so when a person or organization uses male-laden forms, it sticks out like a sore thumb as it screams of sexism.
That's news to me. ___ Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.


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Wow. The funny thing is that a few people probably saw what was wrong, but were too afraid of a potential sexual harrassment lawsuit or being dismissed for making a sexual comment (which could lead to a lawsuit).
The funny part is picturing the look on an employees face as s/he debates with himself or herself over whether they should say something.
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Stocks climbed globally this morning as the U.S and China were reported to be close on a trade deal. This deal would end American tariffs on Chinese goods in return for Chinese concessions. Specifically, the deal would end the US tariffs on $200bn in Chinese goods. In return, the Chinese will lower tariffs and other restrictions on American goods, buy U.S. products and protect intellectual property rights.
Bond prices are relatively flat, and the 10-year treasury is yielding 2.75%. The global growth outlook has diminished in the past year as manufacturing activity, consumer spending and business confidence have declined. The slowdown in the economy kept inflation past the Federal Reserve's 2% target for a seventh straight year in 2018. Many bond investors are questioning whether muted price increases are another sign that prospects for the economy and earnings are dimming. On Friday, investors will get another chance to see where inflation is heading when the Labor Department publishes its monthly jobs report.
New homes sales likely fell in December, unwinding from the previous month's jump. Due to the government shut down this data has been delayed. A recent deceleration in home-price growth below wage gains is notable and coupled with the Fed's pledge to hold interest rates will help improve housing affordability. Home affordability will help improve further deterioration in home sales.


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Yannic woke at his usual time and turned over to look at his sleeping wife. His sleeping second wife. Rensa always slept at least an hour later than he did but she never complained about waking up alone. He was sure she at least liked him and she did seem to enjoy his company but sometimes the report Tuluc had made Sevrin write worried him.
It had been just after their marriage, in the early days of Sevrin's rehabilitation. The dark haired girl had tried to be unkind to the newly fledged Empress. The report read:
I told her that her husband, Yannic, was still in love with his first wife, Kiriel.
Her reply was, "I know. He probably always will be. It's not like they argued and broke up. She died. There's no reason she wouldn't still be in his heart. He's nice and he's kind, but he's never going to feel about me the way he feels or felt about her."
I asked her why she hadn't been married before. She replied that her family had identified a suitable husband for her three times but on each occasion the rebellion had killed him before the betrothal could take place.
It wasn't that Rensa was unavailable or distant. She wasn't. She had made it clear that she wanted to build a relationship on what they did have and he thought that was respect and growing affection. She liked his mother and his cousin Mirren was now her best friend. She carried out the tasks that were asked of her and volunteered her ideas and experience. He thought she was an asset as Empress.
She was having his child, a baby they both wanted. She was just over three months pregnant now so an official announcement had been made and she'd almost been overwhelmed with the congratulations that had flooded into the palace.
Except sometimes, just sometimes, he thought he could still see the terrified young woman, her 'disfigured' face hidden by veils, hiding in a storeroom while all her family and friends died outside. He wanted, so much, to help her but the only assistance he could offer was his own blood-splattered hand.


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Samsung is not the only company that produces life-threatening smartphones. Apple gadgets can also pose a threat, and the recent incident in Las Vegas confirms it.
Recently, the network appeared the video, which captured fire iPhone 6S. It happened in one of the workshops. The video can be seen as one of the employees works without touching the smartphone, but he suddenly exploded. Of course, such establishments are usually the damaged or failed device. However, given the fact that burning gadget is not subjected to any influence, be it heat or physical deformation, the current situation seems especially unexpected and frightening.
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Your chance to photograph at Monet's legendary gardens - the inspiration behind his water lilies series of paintings - and enjoy tuition from Cheryl about how she creates her impressionist style of photography. You will have chance to photograph the gardens when the general public aren't allowed in. What could be better than 3 full days of photography in these inspiring surroundings with time, space, and expert tuition to really enable you to create your best work - photographic bliss!!
We will also have the chance to photograph at some other local locations such as the beautiful mediaevel town of Vernon with it's higgledy piggledy buildings, chateau, water mill, and stunning cathedral - the latter with gorgeous modern stained glass. Plus time to visit the Museum of Impressionism as well.
Join me for a wonderful 5 day photographic short break - and lots of lovely French food and wine as well :-)
28.06.21 – participants fly to Charles De Gaulle airport, Paris, to arrive no later than 14.30 – onward travel to Giverny in a mini bus/taxi
Drive to Giverny - approx 1 hour 30 mins and time to settle in to our quintessentially French hotel in Giverny 'La Musardiere'.
Cheryl will run a short session in the hotel grounds going through a range of in camera techniques for creating impressionist photographs; you will also receive some notes setting this
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29.06.21 – an early start to photograph at Monet's gardens before it gets too busy - N.B. this first session will essentially be a 'reconnaisance' for us to find out where the best water lillies are this year and what else is in flower..
N.B. this first session will include some more group tution time recapping on what you learnt yesterday.
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As I used to joke as a child, Ben-Hur was a him…take one look at that fabulous chariot race, and we'd all want to be him too!
Here is part of what I had to say in v. 3 of WHO Won?!? An Irreverent Look at the Oscars, 1953-1963:
"Ben-Hur set the record for most Oscar wins at a staggering eleven. Like The Ten Commandments, the central conflicts in Ben-Hur are between faith and secular pursuits, between freedom and enslavement. Those conflicts are surrounded by an explicitly Christian agenda, which the subtitle of the original novel makes clear: "A Tale of the Christ." The Jewish family clearly becomes Christian at the end, which is somewhat ironic, given that director William Wyler was Jewish (as were most of the founders of the studios, none of which seemed to matter when they realized there was money to be made from the goyim). Those parts of the movie remain the least inventive and most formulaic, and were I not a practicing Christian, I might find myself offended at the implications. Ben-Hur really is two movies: the religious picture, which often lies flat on the screen and fails to work in cinematic terms, and the revenge picture, which succeeds brilliantly. They come together in the end, when Charlton Heston finds peace in his reborn faith. That Ben-Hur works as well as it does is a credit to Wyler and Heston."
The other official nominees included what may be Otto Preminger's finest film, Anatomy of a Murder; the tender sadness of The Diary of Anne Frank; Audrey Hepburn in her best serious role in The Nun's Tale; and the British turning on the sexy and the social criticism in Room at the Top.
The Academy ignored Billy Wilder's greatest comedy, Some Like It Hot, Alfred Hitchcock's greatest entertainment, North by Northwest, Francois Truffaut's breakout French New Wave debut, The 400 Blows, and Howard Hawks' last truly great Western, Rio Bravo. Other potential Best Picture nominees include Doris Day and Rock Hudson tweaking the Code with clean sex jokes in Pillow Talk; Paul Muni in his last major film role in The Last Angry Man; Elizabeth Taylor, a white bathing suit, a nutty Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, and some fine young cannibals in Suddenly, Last Summer; Paul Newman lawyering in The Young Philadelphians; Lana Turner and Juanita Moore in Douglas Sirk's remake of Imitation of Life; Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, and the pink submarine in Operation Petticoat; Ingmar Bergman exploring old age and memory in Wild Strawberries; Ava Gardner meets Gregory Peck go post-apocalyptic On the Beach; Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge go Gershwin in Porgy and Bess; the musical goes hillbilly in L'il Abner; Disney goes back to the fairy tale in Sleeping Beauty; Danny Kaye goes Dixieland in The Five Pennies (which may have the finest color footage of late Louis Armstrong); Frank Sinatra goes Capra in A Hole in the Head; Gary Cooper goes Western in The Hanging Tree; Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, and Laurence Olivier go Shavian in The Devil's Disciple; John Ford makes another fine Western with The Horse Soldiers; Ed Wood makes the worst movie (?) ever in Plan 9 from Outer Space; Yul Brynner tries to go Faulkner in The Sound and the Fury; Donald Crisp puppies it up in A Dog of Flanders; James Mason going subterranean in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth; Howard Keel going biblical in The Big Fisherman; Glenn Ford in George Stevens' black comedy, The Gazebo; Satyajit Ray's second installment in the Apu Trilogy, Aparajito; John Cassavetes going independent with Shadows; Disney going canine in The Shaggy Dog; Peter Sellers in three separate roles in The Mouse that Roared; Carnival in Brazil with Black Orpheus; the British Kitchen Sink in Look Back in Anger; Ingmar Bergman and The Magician; heisting again in Odds Against Tomorrow; Bette Davis and Alec Guinness in The Scapegoat; Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, and Ernie Kovacs in It Happened to Jane; my favorite French gangster flick, Bob le flambeur; Max Ophuls' last completed picture, the lush Lola Montes; and Akira Kurosawa's 1948 Drunken Angel.
Feel free to add other choices, but for foreign films, please use the AMERICAN release date, as that is how the Academy runs things.
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SALLY SANTANA: We All Have Voices in Our Heads
I hear voices in my head.
"HA!" I can hear you say. "Finally, she admits it!"
Truth be told, so do you. A lot of them; they are legion.
You hear a voice reading this column to you, right? You hear a voice swearing at the ump that made the bad call, and remarking what a good job your daughter did in AP chemistry. These voices aren't taking you through a discernment process, though; helping you to make a decision. Those are other voices.
A more slippery slope comes when the voices in our heads direct how we guide others; especially if we claim the voice is God's. That carries a weight that ours doesn't. Whenever we say God directs our personal actions, that may very well be true. I know that's what I believe for me. But what I hear God saying to me more than likely isn't what you hear God saying to you. Just look at the different varieties of faiths and experiences this world contains. Does that make one right and all others wrong? Is there more than one way to know and understand God? Some say, "Of course." Others say "No." Who is right?
More than once or a dozen times in human history, we've had fights (on a battlefield, on paper, by loudspeaker) over the interpretation of God's voice. How can so many people, billions over the eons, hear a different one? We can't even get pastors in the same neighborhood to agree on the direction God is giving. We say we're being led by Spirit to do this or say that, but what if Spirit tells one pastor to support and promote civil rights and another to oppose it with every fiber of their being? Which one is hearing God's voice? The one you agree with?
How can people have such diametrically opposed understandings of God? It's not so bad when it's just for you, but when, for example, it instructs parents how to treat their children (to seek or not seek medical treatment), or guides a legislator on whether or not to support medical marijuana or death with dignity, then their interpretation becomes what you must deal with.
A lot of folks are happy to hear a president state that they pray and take instruction from God, but whose God are they listening to? The one from the right, the left, or the "on the one hand, on the other hand" center?
Many of us end up making decisions based on information coming through the filters or lenses we've created, which were made by what we've been taught by family and community, advice of trusted friends and leaders, and on guidance from God (whether we recognize the voice or not). They are all voices that influence our voting, our buying, who we marry, what church we attend (if any), and the employment we seek.
The wonderful thing is that most of us can change the voices in our heads if we want to.
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