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Props: none
Technology: Projector with scanned illustrations + music clips
Audience: Family Storytime (mostly age 3-7)
Presenters: one
Jerry Pinkney's version of The Lion and the Mouse has so much potential in storytime settings and we've used it with several variations. We scan the images to project so they can be seen in our large storytimes. We've done it with barebones narration and simple perscussion to give it rhythm. Another time we had a local string quartet provide live musical accompaniment. For our most recent version I went back to one of my favorites standbys: pop music of the 50s, 60s and 70s. I picked six intrumentals from that time period, and put short clips of each to capture, as well as I could, the mood of the story.
For the first part, where day is breaking and we see the lons on the savanah and the mouse waking up, I used 1976's Tomorrow" by the Brothers Johnson (they're best known for "Strawberry Letter #23," "I'll Be Good to You," and "Get the Funk Out Ma Face," but their album cuts were nice too). I skipped the intro bit (0:00 - 0:22) and went to about 1:11. It ends on the page where Mouse first hears the Owl.
Then Mouse gets chased by the owl, so you need something a little faster. The first 46 seconds of 1963's "Pipeline" by the Chantays fit nicely, even though a mouse running on a savanah is about as far as surfers as you can get. The clip has a nice little mini-fade that we timed to match when Mouse is on Lion's mane, but doesn't realize it.
To catch the big moment when Lion rises up and grabs Mouse, we went with "Out of Limits" by the Marketts, from 1963. It starts with a cool "Twilight Zone"-ish piece that's seems just right. (A little too just-right for Rod Serling, creator of "The Twillight Zone," who sued the Marketts for copying it). We had this one fade out at about the 0:55 mark. In the book, that's where Mouse has been released and Lion strides off triumphantly.
When the illustrations shift to the Hunters, we went with "Peter Gunn" by Duane Eddy from 1959. It was the theme from a detective show that ran from 1958-1961...the music on the show was done by Henry Mancini, but we went with Duane Eddy instead. It has a great guitar opening to announce the Hunters, then a saxophone that's just right for bad guys. The first 0:55 worked about right, starting with the Hunters' jeep and ending with Lion suspended in the net.
For the rescue, we played "Walk Don't Run" by the Ventures from 1960, (often considered the first major hit in the surf music genre). A nice drum opening transitions to the mouse neatly, then the guitar part runs through Mouse's chewing of the ropes, and has a nice break at 1:05 to match the final thread.
When Lion is finally free, we jump forward to 1972 for "Joy" by Apollo 100 (or you could say we're going back to the 1700's, since this was inspired by a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach). We skipped the first 0:24 and faded out at about the 1:09 point. This has a different sound than the early 60s stuff in the middle, but it seems appropriately triumphant, and it fades as the two families walk off across the endpages.
With a music/scan version like this, it can take some time to get it all together. Messing around with songs, downloading them into your PowerPoint file, and getting the timings and the fading to work pretty well takes some time. But after you get it right (or as close to right as I ever strive for), the actual presentation is just introducing the book and clicking on "run slide show." When we played it in Storytime, the music really did help pace the story, but it didn't interfere so much that the kids weren't following the visuals. So the book was still the main focus...but if a few families leave storytime with a bit of the Ventures or Bach rattling around in their head, I'm okay with that.


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The Los Angeles Public Library has now posted some highlights from its past exhibition, "Hollywood Movie Posters." Dates range from 1913 to 1943.
About the image: Murders in the Zoo (1933, dir. A. Edward Sutherland), part of the LAPL's "Hollywood Movie Poster" exhibition.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
LAPL online film poster exhibit.
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On Saturday, November 19th, Fannie Mae is hosting the Help the Homeless Walkathon at the National Mall in Washington DC.
Alina Cristea and Edge Professional Services will be participating in the walk and would appreciate your support.
The Help the Homeless Program, which culminates with a Walkathon on the National Mall, raises funds to support organizations working to prevent and end homelessness in the Washington, DC area. Since 1988, the Program has raised $85 million, impacting thousands of families and children in the community.
You can make a difference in the lives of these families and children by making a donation.
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Interview: Tavis Smiley
On Gulf oil tragedy: It's hard to find the language to describe what it's like when you see it in person. It is horrific, and there are a lot of questions we're going to have to address once we get on the other side of this crisis.
[Black Star News Interview]
From his celebrated conversations with world figures, to his work to inspire the next generation of leaders, as a broadcaster, author, advocate and philanthropist, Tavis Smiley continues to be an outstanding voice for change. He is currently the host of the late night television talk show Tavis Smiley on PBS and The Tavis Smiley Show on Public Radio International (PRI).
Time Magazine honored Mr. Smiley in 2009 as one of "The World's 100 Most Influential People." The Smiley Group, Inc. (TSG) is a communications corporation established in support of human rights and related empowerment issues. TSG serves as the holding company for various enterprises encompassing broadcast and print media, lectures, symposiums and the Internet.
Here, Tavis talks about Been in the Storm Too Long, a special report on the City of New Orleans airing on PBS on July 21st ET/PT. He also speaks about the On Your Side Tour with Tavis Smiley, a series of free financial empowerment workshops he's staging in various cities around the country between now and the end of 2010.
BSN: Since you were born in Gulfport, Mississippi, I have to first ask you what you think about the Gulf oil spill?
TS: I was just down there for about a week. We're working on the third installment of Tavis Smiley Reports.
BSN: "Been in the Storm Too Long."
TS: Yeah, exactly. In addition to my late night show, we're doing four primetime specials this year, one every quarter. And it seemed obvious that in the third quarter it needed to be about the fifth anniversary of Katrina. I'm doing this one in conjunction with Academy Award-winner Jonathan Demme who is actually directing it.
BSN: So, how're things down there?
TS: It's hard to find the language to describe what it's like when you see it in person. It is horrific, and there are a lot of questions we're going to have to address once we get on the other side of this crisis. I recently had the former President of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister, as a guest on my TV show. He has a powerful, new book out called, "Why We Hate the Oil Companies." We had a really, really serious dialogue navigating through the politics of what happened, what President Obama ought to be doing, what BP ought to be doing, and how we can insure that this never happens again. It was a fascinating conversation. Still, when you see it in person, it's horrific, for lack of a better term. It's a major, major crisis, and I'm just sorry that the White House was a little slow moving on this, initially. But now, it seems like they're fully engaged. So, I hope we can turn the corner on this disaster. We'll see.
BSN: There are some people who are secretly happy about the President's delayed response to the Gulf oil spill, given Bush's failure in the wake of Katrina. Let me read you part of an email I received recently from a brother from the South: "I say a pox on the racist whites of South Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida… Let the Gulf be a cesspool, a dead zone. Let the crackers and the rednecks be dispersed to find other places and other jobs." He goes on to point out that after Hurricane Katrina, "a quarter million blacks were dispersed across the country and not allowed to return to New Orleans and their homes, even though public housing was unaffected by the flooding. The white middle class racial oppression of the blacks was exposed, and the racial conspiracy was a foot with no substantial sympathy from them." So, he obviously feels that blacks were abandoned, uprooted and disenfranchised after Katrina, so whites deserve the same treatment now.
TS: I hear what he's saying. My response to that would be that two wrongs don't make a right. We ought to live in a country where we will not abide the contestation of anyone's humanity. That's what's wrong with America. Too many people's humanity is being contested. The humanity of black folk was contested during Hurricane Katrina. The humanity of these fishermen and others who live or make their living off the Gulf coast is being contested now. In Arizona, the humanity of our Hispanic brothers and sisters is being contested. Whether it's racism, ageism, sexism, homophobia or some other form of intolerance, I call all of these slights the contestation of humanity. The way forward is not playing tit for tat, and saying, "You killed my dog, so I'm gonna kill your cat." It's about celebrating, reveling in, and protecting the humanity of every American. I don't think any group should be allowed to suffer because another one did. We have to rise to the occasion by recognizing everyone's humanity. So, I hope that his opinion is rare.
BSN: I see that you're going around the country conducting these free financial literacy workshops. But with the real black unemployment numbers way over 20%, of what value is financial literacy to people if they can't even get a job?
TS: That's a challenge, and one of the things I'm going to be talking about. I'm not naïve about this. I recognize that unemployment is triple and, in some cities, quadruple the national average. We have to find jobs, and we have to pressure the powers that be. One thing's for certain: jobs won't become available to the unemployed unless people start screaming, jumping up and down, and demanding that the powers that be do more to get the economy jumpstarted. Politics is not a spectator sport. Election season tends to be a good time to get the attention of leaders. So, I think that makes this a good time, Kam, to be having this conversation because people have questions, they have concerns, they have fears, they have anxieties and they want information about how to navigate through this, including those persons who might still be employed but are just holding on. Some folks have a job, but their retirement is exhausted, or maybe the cash saved for their kids' college education has been shot or they've lost their home and had to downsize. So, there's a lot to address, even though I can't just show up and start handing out jobs. It's really about getting people the type of information that will help them navigate their way through this crisis so they can come out of these challenging times prepared to put themselves on sure financial footing.
BSN: Illness and lack of health insurance is hurting a lot of people, too.
TS: Healthcare is the number one reason for bankruptcy in this country. People will spend everything they have trying to hold onto their lives. In that regard, President Obama deserves credit for getting the healthcare bill passed, even though it was watered way down, and isn't nearly what I think it should have been.
BSN: You mentioned elections. What do you think of that unknown candidate Alvin Greene winning the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in South Carolina when he had no budget and never campaigned? That's a real head-scratcher.
TS: I can't figure it out, either. That's the most bizarre story I've ever seen. There's something going on down there. What, I do not know. I get the sense that the Democrats were asleep at the wheel. Who this guy is and how he got on the ballot, they're only raising all these questions now, when they should've been raised before the primary, if the Democrats had done their due diligence.
BSN: I wonder why nobody's talking about the possibility that there was vote fraud, since South Carolina uses paperless electronic voting.
TS: They are looking into the question of whether or not it might have had to do with the machines. If it turns out that he's a Republican plant, it's so unheard of and so very, very bizarre, that it deserves to have a book written about it. But I don't think either party is that well organized to pull something like that off. We'll get to the bottom of it eventually.
BSN: Larry Greenberg says, "I've seen you bring together forces that I could never imagine at the same table. Is it the power of love or diplomacy that you have harnessed?" I think he might be referring to the Black Agenda Summit you convened in Chicago this Spring.
TS: Yeah, I hope it's both. I love people, and I believe that diplomacy is a valuable tool in one's arsenal. But beyond me, it's about the people I invite. The people who are interested in engaging in discourse about making America better. In that regard, it's not like I did something magical, you ask the right people, and they tend to show up. So, it's about outreach. I can honestly say that while those forums are monumental and take a lot of work and energy to organize and pull off, I'd be lying if I said I had to twist anybody's arm to be there.
BSN: Children's book author Irene Smalls says, "Your career has taken many turns. What are your future goals?"
TS: That's a good question. For me, the answer has always been the same. It's about trying to love and serve people. I operate off of a very simple, but I think poignant definition of leadership. It's this: you can't lead people unless you love people. And you can't save people, if you don't serve people. Love to me means that everybody is worthy, just because all life has equal value, and everybody is worthy of a quality education, worthy of a good job, and worthy of living in a crime and pollution-free environment. Serving to me means trying to give people information that can help them live better lives. That's always been my goal. It's never changed, although it's taken on a variety of forms, whether TV, radio, print, philanthropy or any of the other things that I do. But the real substance is trying to love people, trying to serve people.
BSN: The bookworm Troy Johnson question: What was the last book you read?
TS: A book by Tim Wise called Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equality. It's a great book.
BSN: When you look in the mirror, what do you see?
TS: That's a powerful question, Kam. To be honest with you, I see someone who's struggling every day to get it right. What I mean by that is sometimes you work really hard, and you look at everything you're up against in the culture, in the society, in the economy, and in the body politic, and sometimes it feels like you're just spinning your wheels. So, I wake up every day, not depressed, but burdened by something, yet excited about making a contribution. It's a struggle.
I'm a very introspective person, but usually not this public about my introspection.
KW: If you could have one wish instantly granted, what would that be for?
TS: The end of poverty, because with that there are so many issues that we struggle with that would immediately disappear. If we could eradicate poverty, the world would be a whole lot better place to live.
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The couple in happier times.
Eva Longoria Parker is facing more woes following her split from husband Tony Parker – the basketball star has been accused of sending racy text messages to a British model behind the actress' back.
The "Desperate Housewives" star filed divorce papers last week citing "irreconcilable differences" amid allegations the sportsman cheated on her with another woman.
Parker filed his own papers in Texas on Friday "because of discord or conflict of personalities" within the marriage.
But the pair has been rocked by further controversy after 19-year-old Sophia Egeler alleged Parker pursued her with racy messages after they met at an Ultimate Fighting show at the O2 Arena in London.
Egeler tells Britain's The Sun, "From the minute he met me he was trying it on. I had no idea he was Eva Longoria's husband. He would not take no for an answer and was telling me how much he liked me."
She also claims the Frenchman once tried to get her to spend the night with him after they partied at a nightclub in the British capital, adding: "I decided at 1am I wanted to leave but Parker followed me into the street. He begged me to come back to a house he claimed was his. I said no… When I heard (about his marriage split) I couldn't believe it. How stupid is he to risk everything with her?"
Egeler also alleges Parker sent her steamy messages, including a photo of his bare chest.
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I'm a fan of biographies, but what I am not always a fan of are the 800-1000+ pages that go with it. It is clearly hard to condense someone's life in to a book, but what is most impressive is when an individual of prominence is both captured but also analyzed through a lens, a certain approach that allows for novel insight. If brevity comes as part of the deal the all the better. You won't get all of the key dates and places, or walk the chronological path of their life, but you may get some insight in to how that person thought, what motivated them, and how that played in to their actions. The splendid Benjamin Franklin biography by Edmund Morgan falls squarely in to that category.
Jefferson, like Franklin, is a prime candidate for this more nuanced approach to the biography due to the sheer volume of writing that already exists about the man. In Most Blessed Of The Patriarchs by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf "they add a fresh and layered analysis, one centered more on his interior life than his deeds for posterity", an attempt to dig in to and understand the contradictions of his character.
Much of this book is set not in New York or Washington or Philadelphia, the places from which Jefferson entered the American pantheon, but in Monticello, the place that most reflected him. It is "Monticello's ambiguous moral geography" — and Jefferson's own — that the authors set out to explore in a sort of scholarly Lewis and Clark journey through the mind and philosophy of the most enigmatic of the founders.
New York Times
Walton Muyumba, in a great review in the Chicago Tribune, also emphasizes how this book focuses on the internal machinations of this influential politician, writer and thinker:
Keeping the tension between the past and the present, foreign and familiar in play, Gordon-Reed and Onuf raise Jefferson in relief, against his times and ours, to examine his attitudes about home, family life, public service, slavery, politics, friendship and education. The Jefferson who emerges in these pages is a dynamic, complex and oftentimes contradictory human being.
Chicago Tribune
Of all the contradictions on display in an analysis of Jefferson's life, his approach to slavery garners the most interest.
The authors cogently remark that, by convincing himself that it was possible to be a slaveholder and still have enslaved people's best interests at heart, Jefferson was in fact promoting the "proslavery fantasies of happy relations between masters and slaves on southern plantations."
Of course, we know that Jefferson often referred to slavery as "evil," but the aging patriarch persuaded himself that its eradication was a task best left to future generations.
Harvard Magazine
One of the authors, Annette Gordon-Reed, also spoke about this in an interview with NPR on the books release:
SIMON: Yeah, he thought of himself as benevolent.
GORDON-REED: Yes, of course. I mean, he thought that he was doing this – he did think that slavery was evil and he thought that slavery was going to die away. He thought that along with the Enlightenment, as people became more enlightened, they would see that this was a retrograde system. But while slavery was continuing, he thought of himself as a benevolent slaveholder. That's a problematic category for us…
SIMON: Yeah.
GORDON-REED: …Because it just doesn't go together. But in his time and in his world, there were gradations of how people conducted themselves as slave owners.
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Jefferson's thoughts on government via the way he ran his home are also plucked from this more personal approach to the biography:
Jefferson's concept of a republican nation composed of self-governing states, counties, and "wards" which, in turn, were composed of family units, predated the groundbreaking discovery of fractals in 1975 by the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, an occasional visiting professor at Harvard. A form of geometric repetition, fractals are, as one writer described them, "smaller and smaller copies of a pattern successively nested inside each other, so that the same intricate shapes appear no matter how much you zoom in to the whole." Mandelbrot's favorite example was the cauliflower—"a single floret," he wrote, "looks like a small cauliflower. If you strip that floret of everything except one floret of a floret…it is again a cauliflower.
And so, as Gordon-Reed and Onuf demonstrate in their excellent book, Jefferson's self-fashioning as blessed family patriarch was inextricably and intimately tied to his vision of self-governing communities and a self-governing free nation. Monticello was what Jefferson wanted for himself—and, minus slavery, it was also a prescription for a free republican nation in which citizens could enjoy their inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In his imagination and in his mind, the mountaintop home over which he presided constituted an ideal model for the nation and the world."
Harvard Magazine
Book details:
MOST BLESSED OF THE PATRIARCHS: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
By Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf
Illustrated. 370 pp. Live right Publishing
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UPDATE: [American] What's Love Got to Do With It? Marriage in 20th C. American Lit. NeMLA, Buffalo, April 10-13
During the twentieth century in the United States, numerous factors, including feminism, late
capitalism, the increasing acceptance of interracial marriage and calls for legalizing gay
marriage, as well as conservative backlashes against these movements, have profoundly altered
the way we view marriage. While the range of topics affecting marriage as well as potential
authors studied are open, papers examining how changing ideas about ethnic, racial, religious,
and/or sexual identity affect the treatment of marriage in late twentieth-century and early
twenty-first-century American literature are especially welcome. Please email 250-500 word
proposals to Kim Freeman at kimberlyfreeman1_at_yahoo.com or k.freeman_at_neu.edu by Oct. 10,
2007. NeMLA, Buffalo, April 10-13.
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- "Slumming, uptown? Come down to visit the scum?"
- ―Frazznik, to Zayne Carrick
Frazznik was a male Zabrak who lived on the Outer Rim world of Taris during the era of the Mandalorian Wars. A member of the Lower City swoop gang known as the Black Vulkars, Frazznik worked under the Vulkar leader Benno along with his friend and constant companion, the hulking Drovian Wargo. In 3964 BBY, Frazznik and Wargo were two of the first to find wanted fugitives Zayne Carrick and Marn Hierogryph in the Lower City, but were convinced to let them go in exchange for a tip from Hierogryph on a place to find some hidden spice—a hint that turned out to be a lie and earned the two Vulkars a beating from some Wookiees. After the Mandalorians laid siege to Taris in one of the early campaigns of the Mandalorian Wars, Frazznik and Wargo abandoned Taris and signed up with the Mandalorian Neo-Crusader army. The pair were sent to a staging point on the ice world Jebble in advance of a planned Mandalorian invasion of Alderaan, but were eventually killed after an outbreak of the rakghoul plague destroyed the Mandalorians gathered on Jebble.
- "I see the colors—you're with the Vulkars. Benno's boys, maybe?"
"What's it to you, side dish?"
"Benno hates to wait. Cashing a bounty from the Constable's gonna mean bureaucracy, authorizations, delay—and they may make him come up-city to testify. Just picture Benno, up-city!"
"Hrrmm. Benno don't like to wear city clothes."
"And that'd be for weeks at a time! And all he's gonna be thinking about is the guys who got him there."
"Benno don't like thinking!"
- ―Marn Hierogryph and Frazznik
A male Zabrak, Frazznik was a member of the notorious swoop gang known as the Black Vulkars, who were active in the Lower City of the planet Taris during the era of the Mandalorian Wars. By 3964 BBY, Frazznik worked for the Vulkar leader known as Benno, and was often seen with his Drovian friend and fellow Vulkar Wargo. That year, the graduating class of the Jedi Tower in the Upper City was Padawan Massacre, and blame fell on surviving Padawan Zayne Carrick and Snivvian criminal Marn Hierogryph, who became highly wanted fugitives. The pair fled into the Lower City, where Frazznik and Wargo happened across the pair as they attempted to flee from justice. Frazznik initially targeted Carrick for a mugging because of his Upper City clothes, but Wargo recognized the two outsiders from their wanted holos, and the pair prepared to take the two to Benno to cash in on their lucrative bounties. However, playing off Frazznik's fear of Benno's anger at having to deal with Upper City bureaucracy in order to complete the process of turning in the fugitives, Hierogryph managed to convince Frazznik to let them go by promising Frazznik a different, more lucrative score.[2]
Hierogryph pointed Frazznik and Wargo to a group of Wookiees running a nearby trash cart, alleging that they had sewn stashes of illegal spice into their pack animal's harness. In truth, this was a lie made up by Hierogryph on the spot, but Frazznik and Wargo fell for the trick, and went off to steal the purported spice.[2] The shakedown didn't go well for Frazznik and Wargo, as the Wookiees beat them badly, costing Frazznik's Drovian friend several teeth.[3] Soon after the incident, the rampaging army known as the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders invaded and besieged Taris as one of the main early offensives of their nascent war with the Galactic Republic—unlike many of the swoop gangs on Taris,[4] Frazznik and Wargo elected to join the Mandalorians instead of fighting against them, and were sent to a staging point on the ice world of Jebble along with thousands of other new recruits from the Outer Rim. Frazznik thus became part of a rapidly expanding Mandalorian army that was aiming at greater conquests toward galaxy's Core.[3]
During their introduction to the Mandalorian ranks, Frazznik and Wargo were confronted with a pair of familiar faces: Carrick and Hierogryph, who had found their way to Jebble after stowing away on a Mandalorian ship coming from Taris. Wargo was beaten by a Mandalorian Rally Master after attempting to assault Hierogryph, and afterward, Frazznik and his friend learned their purpose for being on Jebble: to prepare for an assault on one of the Republic's crown jewels, the peaceful Core planet of Alderaan.[1] That invasion would never come to pass, as the ancient Sith artifact known as the Muur Talisman—which had been brought to Jebble from Taris on the same ship that transported Carrick and Hierogryph—began to wreak its dark influence on the Mandalorian world, turning many warriors into the diseased mutants known as rakghouls. Frazznik and Wargo, who were familiar with rakghouls from their presence on Taris, attempted to rally their new comrades-in-arms against the monsters. However, they were powerless to stop the mutants from sweeping through the remaining uninfected Mandalorians,[1] and soon afterward Mandalorian strategist Cassus Fett laid waste to Jebble with a round of nuclear bombs.[5]
Personality and traitsEdit
- "You're about to make my month, little cuss. The kick be comin' right to our turf."
- ―Frazznik, to Zayne Carrick
While his friend Wargo was the muscle of the pair, the comparatively lithe knife-wielding Zabrak Frazznik was the talker, and had a tendency to refer to targets like Zayne Carrick as "little cuss." Frazznik had a great deal of fear and respect for his boss in the Black Vulkars, Benno, and was willing to give up major paydays in order to avoid his ire. Although he was an active member of the Black Vulkars,[2] Frazznik held no special loyalty to the gang or the planet Taris, as he abandoned them to serve with the Mandalorians after the warriors invaded the planet.[3] Frazznik had red skin, white horns on his head and white eyes.[2]
Behind the scenesEdit
Frazznik first appeared in Knights of the Old Republic 3: Commencement, Part 3, the third installment of the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic comic book series, written by John Jackson Miller and released in 2006.[2] Frazznik later appeared in two issues in the 2008 story arc Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Vector.[3][1] In his comic appearances, Frazznik was illustrated by Brian Ching[2] and Scott Hepburn.[3] According to Miller, Frazznik was originally intended to appear in one of The Adjudicator in-universe news items that were featured in several Knights of the Old Republic issues, but had to be cut for space.[6]
- Knights of the Old Republic 3: Commencement, Part 3 (First appearance)
- Knights of the Old Republic 26: Vector, Part 2 (First identified as Frazznik)
- Knights of the Old Republic 27: Vector, Part 3
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Knights of the Old Republic 27: Vector, Part 3
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 Knights of the Old Republic 3: Commencement, Part 3
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Knights of the Old Republic 26: Vector, Part 2
- ↑ Knights of the Old Republic 22: Knights of Suffering, Part 1
- ↑ Knights of the Old Republic 28: Vector, Part 4
- ↑ John Jackson Miller (March 26, 2008). Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #26. Faraway Press. Retrieved on December 23, 2016.


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Don't you hate writer's block? You know you have brilliant ideas, but there's that damn blank screen staring at you when you sit down to blog. Nothing happens. The brain's in idle. Frustration begins to creep in. (Remember Jack Nicholson in The Shining?) Many people struggle with writing. But I believe anyone can write and blog with the right approach. It's not brain surgery, but it does take some work. First, get over the idea that you have to write a blockbuster blog every time. We find in our training that many corporate bloggers are by nature analytical and perfectionists, which creates a lot of extra agony. It's great to hit a home run, but mostly this is about hitting lots of singles and doubles…
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Is the rent too damn high after all?
The National Low Income Housing Coalition's annual report on housing affordability certainly makes it seem so.
For instance, look at the NLIHC's data for any recent year and you'll "learn" that there are no states where you can afford to pay gross rent (rent + utilities) on minimum wage without working over sixty hours a week.
Here's a 2012 version of the chart posted on clickbait "news" site Upworthy:
But then again, maybe not.
Note that only two bedroom apartments are being measured – so we're measuring what one earner would have to generate to pay for an apartment meant to house two people. The amount of hours needed to work to pay for the month's rent should be cut about in half.
Yet after diving deeper into the data the chart is even more misleading than it seems.
Let's isolate a state that I have some direct knowledge of and look at the data.
New Jersey's minimum wage is $8.25, but was $7.25 when this chart was released. If we really needed to work 138 hours at minimum wage to make rent, it would imply a weekly cost of $1,000.50 for rent, or $4,002 a month.
To put in perspective how absurd that is, a two-bedroom apartment in London will set you back roughly £1,605 pounds a month, or $2,577 a month in American dollars.
Rents are so expensive in London that it's actually cheaper to live in Barcelona and commute to work in the UK by plane on a daily basis than live in a London apartment.
I'm extremely skeptical that New Jersey is in the same situation. This is so, in part, because I pay a gross rent of $600 a month here. This requires 18 hours of work at our state's minimum wage of $8.25 an hour.
Now, the NLIHC was basing its statistic on the average cost of a two-bedroom apartment in NJ being $1,302 – but this would "only" require about 45 hours of labor a week to pay for (without a roommate buffering the cost). Forty-five hours is a lot, but it's nothing like the 138 hours the chart claims is needed.
So how did they arrive at these conclusions? It's conventional wisdom in personal finance that housing costs shouldn't exceed 30% of your income. What this chart is actually measuring isn't how many hours you would have to work at minimum wage to afford a two bedroom apartment, it's measuring how many hours an individual would have to work for an apartment meant to house two people – and have it only consume 30% of their income.
The chart thus doesn't measure how many hours of work it takes to pay for rent, it measures the amount of hours it takes to earn rent – times three!
This is a terribly important detail that very few reporting on the NLIHC's data saw fit to include, even though it was clearly in the fine print of the original chart released. Chalk up another one for damned lies and statistics.


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The doorman at the office I work usually doesn't get much past the weather as a topic of conversation until one day he gave me a menacing look and said…
"You've got nothing for celiacs on your blog!"
What surprised me though is when I came back down later in the day: he'd had a little note prepared with a list of the best gluten free restaurants in Barcelona.
And thus, another post is born.
Know what type of gluten free restaurants in Barcelona you're looking for? Click ahead:
1 – Spanish and Mediterranean
2 – Tapas
3 – Breakfast, sandwiches, and bakeries
4 – Ethnic food
5 – Tips for eating gluten free in Barcelona
6 – What gluten free Spanish food can I eat?
Gluten Free Restaurants in Barcelona
Restaurant Gut
€€-€€€ | Area: Gracia | Carrer Perill 13 | Metro: Diagonal (green L3, blue L5) | Website
With 90% of its Asian-influenced Mediterranean menu completely gluten free you'll be spoiled for choice at this charming and modern restaurant.
The grilled octopus on cod brandade or eggplant and quinoa burger are a good start. Great vegetarian options as well, though meat eaters also won't be disappointed.
El Mussol
€€€ | Area: Most neighbourhoods | Various Locations | Website
This super popular Catalan restaurant chain is famous for its local classics like croquettes, salt cod, and quality grilled meat dishes that stay true to local tradition.
These are true pioneers in the gluten free Barcelona scene having operated with a fully functioning gluten free menu since 2012, with over 30 items from starters to dessert.
L'Arrossería Xàtiva
€€-€€€ | Area: Gracia| Torrent d'en Vidalet, 26 | Metro: Fontana (green line L3) | Website
The allergen-sensitive menu here at one of Barcelona's best 'rice houses' will help you enjoy top notch Spanish food without the worry. I've even heard of them baking gluten free bread on the spot.
Some real authentic gluten free paella here including the famous squid ink variety.
La Lluna
€€-€€€ | Area: El Gotico | Calle Santa Anna 20 | Metro: Urquinaona (various) | Website
What's strange about this traditional Spanish joint is that it didn't become a gluten free restaurant until about 10 years ago. Why? The restaurant is near the Coeliac Association of Catalunya and the clientele pushed things that way.
Gluten free bread and gluten free beer are just the start. What you'll like here are the decent value 3 course specials full of gluten free items. The beef carpaccio is divine and the gluten free brownies are the cherry on top.
Il Piccolo Focone
€€ | Area: Hospital San Pau | Dos de Maig 268 | Metro: Encants (purple line L2) | Website
A classic pizzeria with a twist. Here you'll be able to enjoy gluten free pizza because the dough is made of rice flour and potato starch (for non-coeliacs they also have traditional dough).
Also great for gluten free pasta and some top notch gluten free dessert. A bonus to this restaurant is that it's near the famous Sagrada Familia.
Gluten Free Tapas
€€-€€€ | Area: Born | Carrer Montcada 29 | Metro: Jaume I (yellow line L4) | Website
Classic Spanish tapas to more modern elaborations. Barcelonians have gone wild over this tapas joint just a stone's throw from the Picasso museum.
The wait staff here are fully prepared to help you navigate a menu of gluten free tapas options. Get the beef cheeks or the Iberian pork ribs and honey.
€€-€€€ | Area: Gotico | Carrer del Palau 5 | Metro: Liceu (green line L4) | Website
This tapas restaurant ticks all the options boxes: vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, organic, 100 mile diet. Who says you can't have a real Spanish tapas night?
Here you'll find gluten free bread and two varieties of gluten free beer. They even write out the distance the products have to travel to get to your plate.
Breakfast, Sandwiches, Bakeries
Copasetic Barcelona
€€ | Area: Eixample | Carrer Diputació 55 | Metro: Rocafort (red line L1) | Website
Who better to trust than a restaurant owner that is coeliac herself? The gluten free pancakes, crepes, and burgers here just might be as good as any gluten filled counterparts.
The fruit and almond milk smoothies are also a highlight. A great place for gluten free in Barcelona but also the city's best option for hangover remedy cocktails.
€€ | Area: Raval | Marques de Barbera 24 | Metro: Drassanes (green line L4) | Website
Deliciousness is just a short walk from La Rambla. This trendy spot famous for a gluten free breakfast or brunch seeks to take eaters on a trip around the world using tropical ingredients.
Highlights include the acai bowl and the delicious, colourful dragonfruit smoothies.
Forn Boix
€€-€€€ | Area: El Raval | Carrer de l' Hospital 20 | Metro: Liceu (green line L4) | Website
If you're looking for a gluten free bakery in Barcelona you'll find the best one right off the famous La Rambla. In fact, there's a whole table of gluten-free items to choose from. So load up on your baked bread, cupcakes, and favourite pastries and go off sightseeing.
You'll also notice individually wrapped items to discourage cross-contamination.
Gluten Free Ethnic Restaurants
Monster Sushi
€€ | Area: Gracia | Plaça de Gal·la Placídia 25 | Metro: Fontana (green line L4) | Website
This modern sushi restaurant with a bit of a Latin twist is one of Barcelona's best restaurants before we even get to the 30 item gluten free menu. You'll find some of the freshest fish around here.
Get all your typical nigiri combos and some creative rolls as well as some delicious kitchen menu items such as the ceviche or the monster steak.
Out of China
€€ | Area: Eixample | Carrer Muntaner 100 | Metro: Hospital Clinic (blue line L5) | Website
Walk past the Xian warrior guarding the entrance of this restaurant and step into one of the best Chinese dining experiences in Barcelona – without gluten!
From dumpling starters to fried rice and sweet and sour pork entrees you'll hardly miss anything from traditional Chinese menus.
Tips for Eating Gluten Free in Barcelona
For starters I want to give you a very important phrase: solo puedo comer platos sin gluten.
This means 'I can only eat gluten free dishes'. Advising your waiter in advance will avoid any problems – it should also work in English in most places.
You'll be happy to know that Barcelona's biggest supermarket chain Mercadona has an entire line of gluten free products from pizza to chicken nuggets and beyond. If you've decided to get an apartment and cook this is your spot.
Most other supermarket chains will carry Dr. Schaer gluten free products as well.
Your best bet for an all around gluten free supermarket is the organic supermarket chain called Veritas (website in Spanish, use browser translate): there are around a dozen in Barcelona in virtually every neighbourhood from El Gotico to Raval and more.
Gluten Free Spanish Food
The good news is coeliacs have already got some natural culinary allies in the Spanish kitchen. You can find lots of dishes at Barcelona's best restaurants that are naturally gluten free.
- The paella (a rice dish with seafood or meat).
- Tortilla de patatas (a type of hearty omelette with potatoes and eggs).
- The legendary patatas bravas (fried potato wedges with a spicy sauce).
- Pulpo a la gallega (boiled octopus with potatoes, paprika, and sea salt).
- Escalivada (cod and roast vegetables).
- Boquerones (vinegar marinated anchovies).
- Jamon serrano (the classic Spanish cured ham).
Hit Me Up in the Comments Below
Not satisfied with any of these gluten free restaurants in Barcelona? Drop me a line for some custom advice.
And as always – any other question you have for your gluten free Barcelona holiday or anything else about the city I am here with an answer!


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Missouri Craft Brewers React to Anheuser Busch-In Bev's Legislative Proposal to Lease Retail Coolers
Craft breweries around the region are speaking out in Jefferson City against a bill proposed as SB 919 by Anheuser Busch-In Bev.
The bill will allow ABI to lease coolers to convenience stores and grocery stores throughout Missouri. The Missouri Small Brewers Guild has made efforts to defend the 4,300 people employed by smaller breweries across the state. With the way the distribution system currently works, larger companies like ABI have not been allowed to provide refrigeration to retailers.
"Allowing ABI to lease coolers creates an uneven playing field, and pushes us out of the market," said Jeff Schrag, president of the Missouri Small Brewers Guild and owner of Mother's Brewing Company in Springfield, Mo. "When was the last time you saw Pepsi products in a Coca-Cola cooler?"
Some are remaining confident even if the bill passes.
"I think the impact will be minimal," says James Rogalsky, head brewer of Alton's Old Bakery Beer Company. "Budweiser, Miller and Coors already dominate shelf space, yet sales are in decline. Craft brewers have seen fantastic growth in the last decade based on personal tastes changing on the grassroots level—not big budget advertising and market manipulation."
Since the legislative calendar is up on May 13, SB 919 was not scheduled to be heard on the House floor after passing in the Senate with one vote. ABI has since put forth an amendment with the same legislation (SB 994) and it's now passed in the House. The bill is heading back to the Senate, where it will be up for debate and put to a vote.
"While InBev has attempted to say otherwise, there can only be one reason why they want to do this and that is to make sure that their light lager and other brands are displayed prominently in grocery and convenience stores and the craft beers from Missouri craft brewers are not," said Schlafly co-founder Dan Kopman. "There is limited space available on retail shelves and they want to limit what is on offer, to limit the market share growth of craft brewers. This will limit the ability of Missouri craft brewers to grow and employ more Missourians."
Schrag also pressed his hopes that local craft breweries and all consumers of Missouri craft beer will contact their Senator and ask them to vote 'no' on SB 994.


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Case studies
The Scheme has published a number of Site, Company and Supplier Registration-related case studies which give a real insight into how considerate constructors are implementing and exceeding the requirements of the Code of Considerate Practice.
Site Registration
P J Carey (Contractors) Ltd's housing development awarded by the Scheme for its caring construction
The ongoing construction of a housing development in Portsmouth, Hampshire by P J Carey (Contractors) Ltd received a Bronze Considerate Constructors Scheme National Site Award 2016.
The Scheme sets a benchmark for Conlon Construction Ltd on its award-winning Southlands High School project
Conlon Construction Ltd's Southlands High School project in Chorley, Lancashire, received a Silver Considerate Constructors Scheme National Site Award 2017 for its exceptional practice.
Ultra Site Registration
Click here to read about Ultra Sites and other cases studies.
A road of discoveries – A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme
The improvement scheme is a £1.5 billion roadworks project including a major new bypass and upgrades to 21 miles of the A14. With over 250,000 artefacts found, it is one of the largest and most complex archaeological projects in the UK.
Company Registration
Going above and beyond the 'normal' industry standard – the goal for Munnelly Support Services
Scheme Contractor Partner, Munnelly Support Services, provide a UK-wide client base with an on-site construction solution package, including: logistics, traffic management, operative supply and waste management, which covers all construction stages..
Sheene Contract Solutions on board for luxury cruise ship's makeover
Spending the working day refurbishing a liner docked in picturesque Cadiz, southwestern Spain might sound like a dream job to many people.
Enjoying an award-winning and "healthy" partnership with the Scheme – Bob Black Construction Ltd
Cambridgeshire company Bob Black Construction Ltd has enjoyed awards successes over three consecutive years at the Scheme's National Company Awards.
Noble Structures Ltd enjoys award-winning success with the Considerate Constructors Scheme
Registered with the Scheme for over four years, the London-based construction company has demonstrated its considerate credentials by winning a Silver National Company Award 2014 and a Bronze in 2016.
Supplier Registration
Becoming a registered supplier with the Scheme was a natural step for Garic Ltd
Lancashire-based Garic Ltd prides itself on providing safe and eco-efficient plant and machinery to the construction industry and considered Supplier Registration as an appropriate way to enhance its industry image.
Registration with the Scheme "made sense" for supplier All About Bricks Ltd
All About Bricks (AAB) has been operating in the UK for over 20 years, stocking and selling over 400 types of Dutch, Danish and German clay-facing bricks UK-wide.
Why Partnership with the Scheme is the perfect fit for award-winning Collins Construction
Even before Tony Turner, Collins Construction Director of SHEQ, joined the company he was a keen advocate of the Considerate Constructors Scheme, having recognised that it is a force for change.
Award-winning, women-led Morgan Sindall project team praised for its Liverpool school build
A female-managed project team from Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure Ltd also scooped a CCS Bronze National Site Award 2016 for their considerate construction of St Hilda's CE High School.
The Scheme enables Partner McLaughlin & Harvey to showcase its considerate performance to the industry
Scheme Partner (formerly known as Associate Member) McLaughlin & Harvey is a building and civil engineering contractor of over 160 years, combining an innovative approach with traditional values and expertise.
Scheme Founding Partner – Mulalley – celebrates achieving carbon-neutral status
One of the Scheme's very first Partners – Mulalley – has been certified as carbon neutral, thanks to a rigorous sustainability management programme leading to company-wide energy savings and through helping communities in developing countries.
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The University of Warwick's first class aspirations as a Scheme ambassador
The world leading University of Warwick became a Scheme Client Partner in January 2016, pledging to register all of its construction projects with the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) and abide by the Code of Considerate Practice.
Being a Client Partner helps Great Places Housing Group to "safeguard" and "maintain" its high standards on site
Great Places Housing Group is one of the largest developing housing associations in the north of England with an extensive portfolio of over 19,000 homes and it took its partnership a step further in September 2015 by becoming a Client Partner.
Scheme Supporters
CRASH – enabling the construction industry to rebuild vulnerable lives
It was the sight of rough sleepers in London on a cold November day in 1991 that initially planted a seed in the mind of the late Tony Denison, then a well-known figure in the construction industry.
Supporting the Scheme to promote clear industry standards and best practice – Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM)
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) became a valued Scheme Supporter in July 2016, pledging to work closely with the Considerate Constructors Scheme to improve the image of the industry.


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LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwired - May 20, 2014) - Truli Media Group, Inc. (
Truli recently added Pastor Omar Cabrera, to the Truli family, from the international ministry, Visión de Futuro, and Pastor Ale Gomez from the renowned youth ministry, Jesus Warriors.
In the last months, Truli.com has expanded its market to include content from Spanish speakers in the United States and Latin America. It recognizes the importance of this huge and influential segment of the population, and through www.Truli-Español.com, has created the portal with the purpose of providing relevant and in demand content that is relevant to Spanish speaking Christians.
Michael Solomon, founder, chairman and CEO of Truli Media Group, recognized for his vision in the development of many successful media projects, stated: "It has been a little over a year that Truli has been in the English market and, in the last few months, we have also had the opportunity to offer the platform in Spanish. The Spanish speaking ministries and churches have more and more content to share each day, both here in the U.S. and in all of Latin America. Truli is offering this service completely free. Our objective is for Truli to be a giant platform designed for people searching for content that is safe for the family and encompasses Christian principles."
Judith Barbieri, Managing Director for Truli Español, also said: "We are honored to count on the involvement of ministries that are renowned and greatly influential on an international scale such as the Instituto Biblico Luis Palau, CVCLaVoz, yesHEis, Ekklesia New York, Minuto Final, and Método CC, among others. They are all recognized for their excellent work and dedication to share a message of faith and hope to the Spanish speaking community."
Truli recognizes the importance of providing relevant content for a Spanish speaking audience across the world. This is why Truli grows each day as new partners join its platform designed entirely in Spanish. Truli offers the content that people are searching for, ranging from Bible studies, sermons, conferences, entertainment, music, movies, etc.
About Truli.com
Truli.com offers a unique distribution platform focused on Christian and family-friendly content that is free for users to view, interact and engage with on any mobile apparatus such as tablets, phones, smart TV, etc. Truli is free for ministries as many additional sermons are delivered weekly, as well as music videos, film/television content, sports, comedy and educational material. Truli offers a single platform that is flexible and easy to access to connect users, enabling the delivery of relevant and family content to the Evangelical community market of 100+ million people in the U.S. (and 700+ million outside the U.S.) representing $4.3 billion of annual gross industry sales in the U.S. alone.
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Most people have a love-hate relationship with the CAPTCHA. We love them because they keep people from spamming our sites (for the most part), but sometimes the make our eyes hurt and frustrate us as we try to figure out what exactly the garbled words say. Sometimes, you can't even make them out and have try, time and again, to prove that you are human.
Today it might seem hard to remember what life was like before CAPTCHAs started being used by AltaVista and Yahoo in 2000. Back then, CAPTCHAs were designed to prevent automated chat bots and URL submissions. Despite their popularity today not many people know that CAPTCHA isn't just a something that sounds cool (and kind of like "gotcha"). It's actually is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turning test to tell Computer and Humans Apart".
Here is something even more interesting than acronyms (yes, such a thing exists). With the billions of CAPTCHAs being jumbled around the web, you're more than likely to come across one that's either inappropriate, laugh-out-loud hilarious, or just down right confusing. We've compiled a list of the craziest ones we could find. Read on, and be thankful that your email wasn't stuck behind one of these.
Facebook is always trying to assure us that it's tough about it's security, but maybe it's being a little too tough with this CAPTCHA. (via Sophos)
The other day I was trying to post something for sale on Craigslist but could not get past the CAPTCHA on the final page. I just couldn't unscramble it for the life of me. I had to click the refresh button three times before I stopped in my tracks to see a CAPTCHA in Hebrew. I suppose, not matching the alphabet of the site you are using is one way to thwart bots.
We move from religious profiling to the White House with the next CAPTCHA. The official White House website unfortunately pictured the above CAPTCHA which one Cisco engineer found while trying to send President Obama a message. A CAPTCHA creator explained that they do "heavy filtering to prevent offensive combinations," but sometimes "things slip through." This caption goes right from confusion to treason.
One BoingBoing reader's patience was put to the test when he tried to post using the site's DISQUS commenting system (the same one we use on Geek.com). The result was a slew of incredibly indecipherable CAPTCHAs. How many normal keyboards out there have a lambda key?
Beastie Boys fans may be wondering why exactly this CAPTCHA didn't work. The computer is telling the user that it's incorrect, but clearly, there is no better answer than the one provided. Perhaps Mix Master Mike can figure it out what went wrong?
Read on for more examples of CAPTCHA-based ill communication…
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A Gourmet breakfast of your choice can be served in our magnificent dining room, or outside on the pool terrace.
Simply request what you would like for your breakfast (the previous day) and we will endeavour to produce it the next morning!
Special candle-lit dining experience can be arranged by request (24 hours notice) or simply take a 10 min taxi ride to one of Noosa's many fine restaurants.
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If you require an alternative breakfast, just ask the day before and we will do our best to accommodate you
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Minerva Medical Clinic is recognised by most medical insurance companies to treat patients with medical insurance. Your treatment coverage will differ depending on your insurance company and so you will need to check the terms and conditions of your policy. If you intend to claim using your health insurance policy you should contact the insurance company prior to each appointment to determine that your level of cover is adequate to meet the costs that will be charged. This will need to be done for any consultation, procedure, test or imaging that your consultant says you need.
Please also be aware that the consultant you are coming to see will invoice the insurance company separately for their charges, Minerva Medical Clinic will invoice the insurance company for any procedure, test or imaging carried out at the clinic, including phlebotomy charges, pathology charges and any consumables used.
Please make us aware of any special conditions that may be applicable to your policy (e.g. 6 week clause, an excess) and pass on any pre-authorisation numbers they give you. Treatment cannot be booked without a pre-authorisation number. Our charges may lead to a shortfall in the payment made by an insurance company. Payment for any shortfall is the responsibility of the patient or their parent or guardian. Any shortfall will depend upon the insurance company and your own policy terms and conditions.
If your insurance company does not pay for all your treatment we will invoice you directly and you will need to claim this back from your insurance company. If you have any concerns about whether you will be covered for all costs please ask us for our fee so that you can consult the insurance company before beginning your treatment.
Invoices for insured patients can be forwarded direct to insurance companies, providing that the company name, policy number and pre-authorisation are given at the time of registration. If this information is not available, we ask that patients pay and reclaim from their insurance company. It is the patient's responsibility to ensure that their policy cover is adequate to cover treatment.
If a patient is sponsored by a company, employer, accredited embassy or third party, we require a letter of guarantee, which must be brought on the day of treatment. Letters of guarantee must be specific, naming the patient, treatment, Consultant (if known), a reference number, and contact name (if applicable).
If you want to pay for treatment yourself, you are able to come to Minerva Medical Clinic and it is totally your choice who you see. A list of the consultants practising here is available and examples of the costs involved are also available. If possible we will always try to give you a fixed price so you know what to expect when you arrive.
If you decide you would like to arrange an outpatient appointment, procedure, ultrasound or other imaging with a consultant at Minerva Medical Clinic, please contact us directly to discuss.
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Superb Ireland Debut for Scott!
Sat, 24th March 2018
Fantastic team Ireland debut for Scott Fagan who led home the Irish junior boys team finishing in 13th place overall in the SIAB cross country championships.
He completed the 4.5km course in the grounds of Wollaton Hall in Nottingham in a superb time of 16:16
Congratulations and well done to all of the team Ireland participants.
For full results visit - https://www.race-results.co.uk/results/2018/siab18.pdf


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Click here to download your summer challenge exercise log.
How do I get involved?
Starting on June 1 and continuing until August 31, keep track of all your exercise. Every activity earns you points. Accumulate 260 or more points during the summer, and you win a prize.
Can I earn points walking the dog?
Yes. You can pick up points riding your bike, playing soccer or doing almost any activity.
Do I get points walking from my room to the kitchen to eat breakfast?
Nope. But nice try.
Activities are separated into three levels. Level 1 exercise earns one point for every 30 minutes. For Level 2 activities, give yourself one point for every 15 minutes. Level 3 is the toughest, so tally one point for every 10 minutes. If you can't find your exercise on the list, ask a parent to decide how many points you should earn.
Level 1 (1 point per 30 minutes)
Miniature golf
Table tennis
Level 2 (1 point per 15 minutes)
Inline skating
Level 3 (1 point per 10 minutes)
Jumping rope
Can I earn 24 points by swimming for four hours in one day?
Sorry. Doing a lot one day and nothing the rest of the week isn't a great idea. So the maximum number of points you can earn in one day is eight.
To get 260 points by the end of summer, you need to average five points a day, four days a week.
Can I get bonus points?
Yes. If you exercise with a friend, a brother, a sister or a parent, you earn one extra point. So playing one hour of table tennis against your dad picks up three points (1 point per 30 minutes, plus 1 extra point for exercising together).
When do I get my prize?
Clubhouse will send prizes to everybody who completes an exercise log and mails it by September 10, 2012. Mark down on a piece of paper the date you exercised, what you did, how long you did it and how many points you earned (click here to download the exercise log). Send your completed log to: "Clubhouse Olympic Challenge," Colorado Springs, CO 80995-7460. In Canada, send it to Focus on the Family, 19946 80A Ave., Langley, BC V2Y 0J8. (Be sure to include your full name, birth date, address and a photo of you exercising.) Prizes will be sent in October.


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One of my parishioners has died. I knew he was very ill because people in church told me, and I met members of his family praying in church. He did not want me to call, was not a Christian, variously described by those around him as a humanist and an atheist. He wanted to be cremated – I have suggested that a humanist takes the service.
His family want to remember him with thanksgiving, and the village halls that are used by the school and by committees and rural cinema – they don't feel 'right' for a celebration of a life well lived. The most appropriate and worthy meeting place for a memorial service is the church. So I have offered the church for a thanksgiving, which I will lead, Christianity-lite.
The funeral director is surprised, and tells me that most clergy won't allow the church to be used for such a service. But we use the church for concerts – those who chose to find God in the music or the silences. Faith and God will be present at this memorial, not unnamed, not named often; present in the very stone of the building, the 1,200 years of prayer that seeps from the walls, and in the hearts and faces of those present for whom faith is important.
Which would be the better witness – to refuse a family the church which lies at the heart of the village, or to have faith that even without words, God will speak to those present?
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Dana – good for you. Entirely right x
St. Paul principle, all things to all people that I may win some. I see no conflict with your choice. The church is their to meet need and to offer loving support to all.


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My Grandma Synovec used to make "lamb cake" for Easter (keep reading for recipe). My Aunt Carolyn still has Grandma's lamb cake pans as shown above. The paper that came with them says "they are hard strong aluminum molds made by a special process so that they won't pit, stick or discolor. With ordinary care, they will last for years and years" which they have! I figured that you bake the two cake pans separately and put the two cakes together to create a 3-D "stand up" cake, but the original lamb cake recipe claims differently…
And you can still buy Lamb Cake Pans, but I don't promise that they contain my Grandma's vintage lamb cake recipe (thus why you need to keep reading).
My Aunt Squeak was super excited to find this old photo of her with the lamb cake, probably taken on her second Easter. Lamb Cake is Squeak's favorite cake. She swears that the Bunny Cake that the Canadian Honker Restaurant in Rochester, Minnesota tastes just like Grandma's lamb cake.
From Squeak's recommendation, I tested the Bunny Cake out when Mallory had tests at Mayo Clinic, and I can vouch that it is delicious!
Lamb cake from Easter 1983. I'm presuming by the off-centered photo that my mom took the photo. 🙂 Notice the jelly beans around the lamb. My grandma always had jelly beans or gum drops in her candy dish.
My aunt made the lamb cake for Easter 2009, shown here with her grand-daughter.
My aunt still has the original recipe for lamb cake with the lamb cake pans, although she said she cheats and usually uses a cake mix.
Lamb Cake Recipe
Lamb Cake Ingredients
- 1-1/8 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3/4 cup milk
- 2 cups sifted cake flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup butter
Lamb Cake Directions
- Heat oven to 375 degrees. Grease pans well.
- Mix flour (which has been sifted and then spooned into cup for measuring), baking powder (double action) and salt. Sift together three times.
- Cream butter, add sugar, a small amount of time, and continue creaming until mixture is light and fluffy.
- Add beaten eggs and extract. Add flour and milk alternatively. Be sure to mix lightly and keep the batter smooth.
- Pour batter into FACE HALF of the mold. Fill to the top being careful to get batter into nose and ears. Left over batter may be baked as cup cakes.
- Place BACK HALF of mold on the top–bake face down–place on tray and bake from 30 to 45 minutes.
- Remove from oven after 40 minutes and gently remove back half to test. If done, replace back half and allow to stand for 5 minutes before removing the cake. If not done, replace back half and return to the oven for 5 minutes.
- When removing cake from molds, remove back half first and then the front half, carefully. Allow cake to cool standing erect.
When the cake is cool, ice with a icing and cover with coconut. If desired, use 1/2 raisin for the eyes and a small piece of cherry for the mouth.
For a white cake, substitute 4 egg whites for the 2 eggs and use lemon or orange extract in place of vanilla extract.
You can find Lamb Cake Molds for the best price on Amazon.
Did your grandma ever make lamb cake for Easter?


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I'm taking bets on how many hours it will be before the Nigerian plane crash is blamed on the Mossad by a major newspaper or government.
I'm betting sometime Monday Morning.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Taking bets
Posted by Karl at 10/29/2006 09:15:00 PM
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ten bucks says noone important will blame the Mosad
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- Erica said...
...oh, Dude!... I wanted to say that, and was totally thinking that, but I wasn't sure how cool that would be for me to actually say that.
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January 02, 2016
THATS REAL CHEEKY | Benefit blushing beauty kit review
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I really regret not picking up one of these while they were available.ReplyDelete
I have the large sizes of both Coralista and Dandelion. I have been wearing dandelion a lot. I use either of these pretty much any time I apply make up and Dandelion has lasted me two years almost. They are very good value and a lot goes a long way. I whole heartedly agree that Coralista is a summer blush but I get away with Dandelion at this time of year. I am dying to try Hoola and Rockateur though.
I've noticed that with most Benefit products, they tend to last a very long time - saying this though, the foundation definitely doesn't! I use two pumps of it every other day (I don't wear makeup daily because I'm too lazy to leave the house haha) and its over halfway gone, and I got it in November! I'm definitely going to try wearing Coralista when the warmer months comes because its such a lovely shade and yes, you should definitely give both Hoola and Rockateur a try xDelete
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I'm currently using the Rockateur that I got in my Beneft calendar and I'm loving it! I'm desperate to try Hoola, everyone always raves about it!
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Wow this is a great bargain!! I used to buy a few pieces from Benefit, but I haven't recently. I think it's good to get a mini version of all the blushes before committing to one. Hoola looks awful on me, I borrowed a friends once and I just look like I'm covered in mud!ReplyDelete
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I am 100% in the Hoola fanclub! I am so obsessed with it, I wear it everyday!!ReplyDelete
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I love it so much, I wish I had got one of the personalised ones when Benefit was making them ahh xDelete
I have to admit, I haven't tried anything benefit except the They´re Real! Mascara which I didn't like that much.ReplyDelete
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That packaging, I love it! The blushes are gorgeous, I received a mini hoola and Rockateur for my Christmas and love them both. Such a good post xxReplyDelete
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That's amazing value! I love Hoola, it's such a nice shade and has no glitter in it. I bought my cousin Dandelion for Christmas and was gutted to give it away xReplyDelete
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I'm grateful Hoola has no glitter as well, I'm kinda fed up of seeing the stuff now Christmas is over. I wish I could get along more with Dandelion but I think its just too light for me:(xDelete
Fab post hun this set looks amazing and such a bargain! I'm a big fan of Benefit blushers especially Sugarbomb and Rockatuer :) I do love Hoola also I just need to reach for it more oftenReplyDelete
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I have a similar set from 2014 but have to say I'm guilty of not using it much! I did get one for my best friend though :) I am obsessed with hoola though - don't know what I'd do with out!ReplyDelete
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What a gorgeous little set - I absolutely love Benefit! Hoola is definitely my holy grail bronzer to give me a glowing contour, it's perfect especially in the summer! I've never tried any of the blushes included in the set, I have Hervana which is a gorgeous dusky pink. Watts Up is also one of my favourite highlighters, its golden glow compliments Hoola perfectly. Lovely post!ReplyDelete
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Its so fun to use! I'm still experimenting with all of the blushes in the set but Hoola is always a must for me now, I don't know how I managed without it. I saw Hervana on the website and I might go to the Benefit counter in Boots and give it a little test before I buy it and yes, Watts Up is so good with Hoola! I really like their Shy Beam highlighter too, so good for under brows xDelete
I was very nearly tempted by this palette, but I have Hoola already and only really wanted Rockateur. My favourite Benefit blush is Hervana, it's the perfect shade without being too OTT.ReplyDelete
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I'm really glad I got it, definitely worth the money. Rockateur is so lovely and I keep trying it a lot now! I need to try Hervana, it does look very nice xDelete
I got this for my birthday and I'm in love. I can't believe how much of a bargain it is either. Just totally obsessed with the whole thing!ReplyDelete
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- Length of placement: From 3 weeks
- Start dates: Flexible
Volunteer Teaching in Argentina is an ideal way to get involved and improve the English language skills of local children. You can gain invaluable work experience teaching overseas and no TEFL or previous experience is needed. Whether you want to volunteer during your gap year, career break or during an extended holiday, we will find a Teaching placement that suits your requirements.
Your role as an English teacher in Argentina
As the international language of business and commerce English is of vital importance, and secondary schools in Argentina are keen for pupils to learn. Many of the schools in Argentina have local staff who are good at making sure that the children write and read well.
However, the teachers don't always have the time to help students develop their conversational abilities, or lack the confidence of a native speaker. As a volunteer, you will help to bridge this gap, encouraging children to practise and working with them to improve their spoken English and listening skills.
Most of our Teaching placements (both public and private) are located in Córdoba, which is the second largest city in Argentina after Buenos Aires. Volunteers can also work at schools, universities and language institutes situated in surrounding areas, like Río Ceballos and La Calera. You may find yourself assisting local teachers, helping to organise fun educational activities, or taking a class of your own.
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It is also possible to teach French, German and Italian classes in Argentina. Please let us know if you're interested in this option when you apply.
Volunteering on a Teaching Project in Argentina
We do recommend that all Teaching volunteers in Argentina speak some Spanish. Volunteers who do not speak Spanish will work in private schools or in informal teaching settings. Those with some Spanish skills will work in public schools.
One of the reasons you don't need any previous teaching experience or qualifications is that we will help you prepare and structure lessons. Our Teaching project coordinators in Argentina organise regular workshops for our volunteers. These workshops will provide you with tools and tips on lesson planning and ideas for different classroom activities. They are also an opportunity for you to get help with any issues you might have, and receive or give feedback.
The schools in Argentina have their main holidays from the start of December to the end of February, with a shorter holiday in July. During these times volunteers can join our summer school programme.
Throughout your placement, you will be located near other volunteers and will live with a local host family. This is a brilliant way to become a part of the local community and will give you a real insight into Argentinean life.
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Home price fall eases but no rebound in sight
[SINGAPORE] Prices of private homes and HDB resale flats softened further in the third quarter, albeit at a slower rate for the private market. This, market players say, could be due to the holding power of private home owners and developers.
Consultants added that the resulting stalemate does not mean private home prices have bottomed out, but could instead lead to a protracted and slow price correction.
Flash estimates released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Wednesday showed that the overall Private Residential Property Price Index, comprising both landed and non-landed homes, fell 0.6 per cent over the third quarter - after slipping one per cent in the preceding quarter. Prices have fallen 3.8 per cent over four consecutive quarters.
Resale HDB prices also showed continued weakness under the weight of the mortgage servicing ratio (MSR) that has shrunk the pool of potential buyers, particularly for larger units, while a continual supply of BTO (build-to-order) flats has soaked up some demand for resale flats.
Flash estimates from the HDB showed the resale price index falling 1.6 per cent in the third quarter, after slipping 1.4 per cent in the second quarter. Resale prices have fallen by 6.8 per cent since the third quarter of last year.
"With the widening of the price gap between HDB resale flats and private homes, HDB residents will find it more difficult to upgrade into the private mass market," said Ong Teck Hui, JLL national research director. "The weakened support from the HDB resale market will exacerbate the softening of the private mass market."
While the price decline in private homes in the third quarter has been most moderate since prices turned south in the fourth quarter of 2013, Mr Ong said it is not a sign of prices bottoming out, but a result of thin sales volumes and sellers maintaining their asking prices.
Chia Siew Chuin, director of research and advisory at Colliers International, also noted that the impasse between buyers and sellers has lent support to private home prices.
She added that given their current financial muscle and the belief that it will be some time before interest rates rise, sellers are in no hurry to lower their price expectations.
"Developers too have enjoyed the gains in the residential property price run-up from 2005," she added. "With the amount of profits made during the boom years, some of them have the financial power to maintain current prices or else offer moderate discounts."
At the same time, potential buyers are holding back in anticipation of lower prices down the road, consultants noted.
While the price fall for non-landed residential homes has moderated, the URA flash estimates showed that prices of landed properties extended a 1.7 per cent fall in the third quarter.
Mr Ong felt that this is because the pool of buyers for the more pricey landed properties has shrunk much more than that for private condos due to borrowing constraints under the total debt servicing ratio (TDSR).
Private non-landed homes in the Core Central Region saw prices slipping 0.9 per cent in Q3, after a 1.5 per cent fall in Q2, while prices in the Rest of Central Region slid 0.1 per cent, after a 0.4 per cent dip in the previous quarter. Prices in the Outside Central Region dipped 0.2 per cent, after a 0.9 per cent fall in the previous quarter.
URA's flash estimates are based on transaction prices from caveats lodged during the first 10 weeks of the quarter, supplemented by survey data on new units sold by developers. The figures will be updated four weeks later when the URA releases the full real estate statistics for the third quarter.
CBRE research head Desmond Sim believed the flash estimates might not have included units sold from Highline Residences and Seventy St Patrick's, which were launched in the later half of September. Highline Residences reportedly sold 140 units at around $1,900 per square foot (psf) while Seventy St Patrick's sold 96 units at $1,630 psf.
"By the time these units are added in the computation, it is probable that the quarter-on-quarter fall in the URA price index for Q3 2014 might be less than 0.6 per cent," he said.
Given the lending restrictions and fewer new project launches, the number of new homes sold in Q3 could have fallen to 1,500-1,600 units, down from 2,665 in Q2, based on CBRE estimates.
Consultants' estimates for the full year generally fall within a total 5-6 per cent drop in private home prices and a 5-8 per cent fall in HDB resale prices.
ERA Realty key executive officer Eugene Lim noted that the moderate price declines reflect some market resilience, underpinned by stable economic and employment fundamentals.
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Like many ovens, the KitchenAid Superba comes with an interior oven light to make loading and monitoring food easier. The light bulb doesn't last forever, and after several years of use you will need to replace the oven light. The 12-volt, 5-watt-maximum bulb is simple to remove and replace. You will notice the bulb has burned out when you open the door or press the "Oven Light" button and the oven remains dark.
Step 1
Let the oven cool down if it was used recently. Disconnect the oven's power by unplugging the power cord or flipping the circuit breaker.
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Grip the bulb cover by the front edge and pull forward to remove. Place it to one side while you work on the bulb.
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Take out the dead bulb and discard. Keep the bulb and take it to a hardware store if you need help finding a replacement.
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Insert the new bulb, being careful not to touch the glass of the bulb. Oil from your skin can cause halogen bulbs to fail prematurely. Grasping the bulb with a tissue often helps.
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Snap the cover back over the bulb and reconnect the power. The light should come on again when you open the oven door or when you press the "Oven Light" button.