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Goodwin, A-Rod, and an 8 year-old GM
Vote NOW for president of Red Sox Nation at www.redsoxnation.com/president.
This photo (left) depicts exactly how I felt at the moment Doris Kearns Goodwin said in her taped address at the presidential debate on Thursday, "I hereby announce that I am withdrawing my candidacy and endorsing Rob Crawford for president."
It was a stunning moment. I don't remember what I said when Tim Russert asked me for my reaction, but I now know how Clay Buchholz felt right after his no-hitter when Tina Cervasio asked him for his reaction. "Um, did that really just happen?" (By the way, someone should have asked me, What's your reaction to having Tim Russert look you in the eye and say in a searing way, "What's your reaction, Rob?")
I have met Doris Kearns Goodwin once, and it was a brief handshake at the candidates' event last Wednesday at The Baseball Tavern, near Fenway Park. What she did at the debate was extraordinarily gracious. What a
remarkable person she is! Thank you, Doris! And of course if I am elected I will champion your wonderful idea of memorial bricks on Yawkey Way and Lansdowne Street. It's such a good idea, I think the Sox would pursue it anyway.
Regardless of the outcome
of this election, Doris's gesture to withdraw and subsequently endorse a "regular fan" whom she hardly knows makes her the biggest winner of us
Click here to read Doris Kearns Goodwin's endorsement of my candidacy at her Red Sox blog.
Click here to read the speech I gave at the Baseball Tavern last week that Doris refers to in her endorsement.
A funny debate postscript: When I came home and talked with my 8 year-old son about how it had gone, he asked me, "Daddy, what was the hardest question they asked you?" I told him that the hardest question was, "If you had the chance to bring Alex Rodriguez to the Red Sox, would you?"
I told my son that my response was, "Well, my number-one priority is to win another World Series, and A-Rod would certainly help the Red Sox do that. But you know, my 8 year-old son is watching tonight, and he and I attended that game in 2004 when A-Rod and Varitek fought and Bill Mueller hit a walk-off homer to beat Mariano Rivera, and my son would kill me if I ever let A-Rod be a member of the Sox." You sound like a democratic presidential candidate, Rob," said Russert. "Which is it, yes or no?" "I defer to my son," I replied. "No A-Rod."
When I told my son I had said this, he said, "What?! Daddy, of course I would want A-Rod on the Red Sox! What are you, crazy?"
Regular Rob's son for Red Sox assistant GM!
It was a pleasure getting to know the other five candidates who participated in the debate – Cindy Brown, Cheryl Boyd, Jared Carrabis, Jerry Remy, and Sam Horn. They're all classy people who would be outstanding RSN presidents.
Thank you for your votes at http://www.redsoxnation.com/president from Friday night through Tuesday at 5pm.
YES! The Sox clinch the AL East thanks to a Mariano Rivera meltdown!
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Rob – you'll get my vote.
Can't believe I saw you on this site. I've been hearing RemDawg talk about this thing for 2 weeks straight.
I've got the DirecTV Extra Innings package so I can follow the BoSox from here in chicago.
good luck!
robert kim, section 2
I meant every word of it Rob, I really hope to keep in touch with all of you. We should definitely catch a game together next year!
Every time I read your blog, I smile. Your entire life captures what Red Sox Nation is. It doesn't come across as a gimmic, or trying to be trendy, or being a fan only in the good times. For you, and all generations of your family, it is a way of life. And it is a remarkably wonderful thing. The fans will be blessed to have you as the first RSN president as your ideas and enthusiasm will affect us all!
– Megan.
Being part of Red Sox Nation is a blending of unequal parts of the head (as in logical thinking), the heart (as in "we love our Sox") and unbridled passion.
You've got terrific ideas and I hope we all dig down deep and use our heads a little more, which will tell us the best, and logical choice, is to vote for you!
Good luck!
Vote Regular Rob!
If you missed the debate on NESN tonight, you can watch it again Sunday night at 10PM (assuming NESN doesn't switch up the programming schedule again…!). For a sneak preview, check out http://search.buzzhunt.com/results.jsp?q=debate&s=&mc=en-vid-pod_nesn-ep.
Rob, I've voted for you 30 times (I have 3 email accounts) and I hope everyone else will do the same. No one deserves this presidency more…
Good luck!
Rob–For some reason, I got last-minute tickets to yesterday's (Sunday) game, and my son (he's a big 'un–all 6'5″ and countless pounds of him) and I went to Fenway. Then I went to the Hotel Becky (my daughter's condo) and was able to see the debate. NOOOOOO, WE DON'T WANT A-ROD!!! But you handled yourself very well. I am so happy that I was able to catch the debate. Maybe that's why it was postponed so many times–so that I could see it! I am working on a new song that you will need to hear. And you can come on my show sometime after the election. I have two favorites in this election, and you are one, the other is young and was next to RemDawg at the debate. I am so happy that I had the chance to meet you all at the Baseball Tavern. What a special season this has been. I will remember it for the rest of my life because I have been able to meet so many great new Red Sox Nation fans–REAL fans–and keep in touch with them because of this little election.
Dear Rob,
I sent kudos to Doris Kearns Goodwin for throwing her support over to you, and said that fervent foes have more in common than indifferent unfans, because we love baseball and we love our teams. Being a Yankee Mom of an Orioles son and a Red Sox daughter is great, even though my son doesn't understand how I can "like" any other team than mine. (Except when they play us. Of course I hate the Mets all the time .} When you become Red Sox Nation President you will do good things for your beloved team and for all of baseball.
Hey Rob,
It?s been about ten years now since my Derby days and I still have not forgotten being in the classroom or on the basketball court with you. You?ve always remained a real inspiration. You have my vote. I love the song and all your ideas. I just posted to my Red Sox Nation group composed of a thousand faithful Red Sox fans at Boston University. Hope all is well. Keep up the great work.
– Scott Goldin


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Q: Saab! Make a regular vlog please! :D Hehe! I love ya!
A: I really want to!!!😭
Q: hi saab, how to deal with people asking you why are you still not pregnant? in an ethical manner? ;-)
A: You can smile, show a little bit of discomfort and say, "I really think it's a personal matter between me and *name of husband* so if you don't mind, let's talk about something else? How are YOU?" — you don't have to be aggressive when you say this. But if it's still too "confrontational" for you, you can just make a joke like, "If you sponsor their schooling, I'll get pregnant na!" then just laugh it off. Something I've said in the past was, "Wow, ikaw ba magpapalaki?" Hahaha grabe kasi mang-pressure.😅 Good luck!!
Q: Saab, nakakapagod, gusto ko huminto muna, paano kaya?
A: Take a break, stay in bed all day. Listen to your body and mind!! I hope you feel well soon.
Q: Do you already have options of names for your kids?
A: We've shortlisted some names but I know we'll decide once we hold them in our arms!
Q: Hi Saab! How's your pregnancy going? Have any weird cravings? Hope all is well for the three of you ☺
A: I seem to want anything my friends post online. Ramen, milk tea, etc. Nothing weird cos I'm also inggitera even when not pregnant hahaha
Q: Hi ate Saab! Nakapunta na po ang Magalona fam sa Zambales? 😅
A: Not all together but I've been to Crystal Beach a couple of times for Summer Siren!
Q: Hi ate Saab :(( I have a huge crush on your brother Arkin and I just want to know if he's starting to like somebody in showbiz or outside sa showbiz? 😃
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Q: Hi saab, thank you for noticing! How would you feel if your bf's ex girlfriend still friends with your bf's family like super close (kinukuhang ninang si ex gf nung ate ni bf levels) thanks!!! ❤
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A few days after I got here, I recorded a juvenile male capito (~38 mm snout-vent length; see above). After I captured him by noose and grabbed him with my hand, he regurgitated his last meal … and it was still alive! As you can see below, the larva was relatively large. I should note that after 24 hours it had "shrunk" back down to a length of 28 mm, but that's still not too shabby for such a small lizard!P.S. Always check your camera case for bullet ants before picking it up.


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New year review 11/01/2019, Info
5 years have passed by since I registered a company at Companies House and kicked off the work to launch fresh-range. Back in November 2013 we put in place a 6 month software development project to reach the point where we could actually deliver some local food to a customer. We've never stopped innovating the technology platform behind fresh-range since. 2018 was no different with a whole host of new features enabling fresh-range to go further to delight more customers more often whilst adding more and more local producers into the supply chain.
When we formed the company, we put in place a company purpose; to deliver exceptional food experiences with fresher, local seasonal food and develop food security for generations to come. We wanted to change food supply for good; creating a network of happy customers, producers, partners and team members. I'm proud to say we've stayed true to this purpose with greater and greater focus on how to achieve its aims.
This year, the UK's substantial food insecurity may well be exposed more than we ever thought possible as a result of the Brexit referendum result in 2016. Since we started working closely with Defra (read on to find out more) this year I took the opportunity to meet with my contacts at The Home Office in Westminster and argue the case for what the UK government should be doing - from a food procurement standpoint - to plan for a "No Deal Brexit". It really is not scare-mongering to suggest the country may face fresh food shortages across a range of categories if the UK were to crash out of the EU without a deal in a couple of months' time. I wonder whether a single government minister considered that the timing could be any worse from a food insecurity perspective of triggering Article 50's 2-year countdown at end of March – slap bang in the middle of the hungry gap - where we have little or no fresh vegetables ready to harvest at all in this country. Couple Brexit risks with the summer drought conditions of 2018 and future weather predictions of more of the same in the future; a picture of food insecurity risk emerges in UK. Significant action really is needed.
So, what are we doing about it? The fresh-range team is working hard to shape a more positive future of UK food security. Indeed, at times this year it has felt like we are punching significantly above our weight. We have held conferences for West of England public sector food procurers to learn how to procure food more sustainably. We also founded the UK's National Advisory Board for Dynamic Food Procurement which brought together policy makers and practitioners of food procurement with producers and food suppliers with the aim of diverting public sector food and drink spend to fresh, local produce from sustainable SME producers. The progress of the board in 2018 has exceeded all expectations. Chaired by The Soil Association's Food For Life Program Director and with membership that includes senior procurement officers from Defra and procurers from Crown Commercial Services (the government procurement agency that buys >£700Billion of stuff a year for central government departments), the board has professors of food procurement talking to procurement professionals, farmers and SME food suppliers about how to act progressively to enable public sector to lead the way on sustainable food procurement. I am delighted that we understand Crown Commercial Services will go public imminently about their intention to form dynamic purchasing systems that enable small, independent growers to supply local and central government buyers - right across the UK. These are customers that small, independent, local food producers have rarely previously been able to reach. This innovative approach to food procurement was inspired by the work of Bath and North East Somerset Council's procurement team using fresh-range as a technology and management agent right here in the West of England. By changing from conventional single-supplier lot based procurement approaches to a dynamic procurement approach managed via the fresh-range platform has meant short, fast and light supply chains have been formed for food. This enables local, organic vegetables to be harvested to order for school children to eat and higher welfare meat with farm provenance being served. It's a big, important shift that's occurred whilst still delivering against (ridiculously) tight ingredient spend budgets.
In addition to our work in procurement for catering customers, we plan some exciting innovation in the fresh-range home delivery store this coming year. Just over 18 months ago, a fresh-range customer – Tim Martin, who lives just outside Bristol - approached us with an idea that we loved. Having worked in TV for many years as a BBC wildlife Executive Producer on many of the wildlife programs so many of us enjoy, Tim decided to take his passion for wildlife to a new level. Devastating declines among so many of Britain's native species - due, in part, to industrial farming practices - have resulted in tree sparrows, cuckoos and hedgehogs being virtually wiped out in the past 30 years or so. Tim plans to launch a new brand of food called Farm Wilder on the fresh-range platform this Spring. Farm Wilder will give consumers the choice to buy beef, lamb or beer (and more products in the future) from farms that have successfully restored populations of rare native species through interventions to create nurturing environments on their farm. I will communicate later this year about the crowd funding campaign Tim is launching which will enable all of us to enjoy consuming such food and drink in the future.
As ever, we remain open to ideas and questions from our customers. Many of the new products and producers we added to the fresh-range store last year were in response to customer requests. Please do not hesitate to contact us with your own suggestions.
Have a wonderful 2019. I wish you health, happiness and fantastically fresh produce all year.
Rich Osborn
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North London Hospice's biggest fundraiser of the year benefitted from the sunny weekend weather with a record 1400 walkers and is expected to raise in excess of £130,000 for patient care.
As temperatures topped 28C degrees the 8.5 mile Big Fun Walk on Sunday 6th May took walkers through nine London parks starting at Cherry Tree Woods in East Finchley right through to St James's Park.
Walkers received their medals when they reached the end point at Storey's Gate Green opposite Big Ben.
Supporters young and old joined the event and the youngest participant to complete the 8.5 mile walk on foot was just five years old!
"We are delighted with how the walk went this year. It was record-breaking all round. We had the most walkers we have ever had, we hit record temperatures on the day and we anticipate it will raise an incredible amount of money which will go towards funding vital patient care in Barnet, Enfield and Haringey," said North London Hospice Director of Fundraising Robin Langrishe.
He added: "We wish to thank every participant who took part in the event, all our wonderful volunteers who helped out on the day and all our corporate supporters for their generosity."
Thank you to the following companies:
The Soho Sandwich Company – Donated all the sandwiches and fruit for our walkers' lunch
Rogers Removals – Provided transport, logistical and man power at the event (thank you Paul)
HW Fisher – Who donated towards the running cost of the event
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Hanging in golden splendour underneath vast vine like leaves, like little summer baubles, the prettiest of pearls, lives the lesser spotted white currant.
We had a very small crop in one corner of the garden in early summer and I had a tiny, tantalising taste of what the little jewel had to offer.
Then the birds got stuck in.
Thus, heeding the sound advice of England Head Gardener Monty the Don, I netted the rest of the currant bushes, and was rewarded with a yield so glorious it took me a good couple of gleeful hours to collect the bounty.
But now what? White currants don't have the cold-meat-friendly tartness of the red current nor does it pack the unmistakable punch of the blackcurrant. It is a subtle thing the white currant; a thing not steeped in childhood nostalgia; it conjures no memories from infancy and therefore no magic family recipe in the far flung regions of my mind to re-create. I only received one piece of advice on what to do with the white currant and that was that they looked and tasted good in a gin and tonic.
The white currant is an awkward guest; the blonde at the table who's all mystery, novelty and allure, but who refuses to join in on the conversations. But perhaps one just needs to be more accommodating; offer up the conditions in which it can sing and dance, charm and dazzle, to become the star and transform from Norma Jean to Marilyn.
The currant is naturally high in pectin, and therefore makes a perfect candidate for jam. I'm not an accomplished jam maker, my Granny Sea (who lived by the Sea) was excellent at it. She had a larder so full, so well stocked that any fruit you can imagine had been jammed in a jar by her. Recollections of dusty, peeling labels, and finding jars in the deepest darkest corners that were older than us. And so, channeling her, I got my biggest saucepan at the ready.
It was a fairly manageable affair. 1 cup of sugar to 1 cup of currants to 1 cup of water (I used a high pectin sugar for reassurance) I heaved everything in and let it boil. I did the measuring by sight, mainly because I was channeling Granny and she was more for enthusiasm than perfection.
The magic moment is when the jam reaches 105 degrees, you can tell by using a thermometer or, do as Granny and I do and put a saucer in the freezer, and after about 15 minutes of rolling boil or when the patience begins to wane, get the cold saucer and plop a bit of your jam on the side. If after 30 seconds it's not exactly liquid then it's probably done.
Sieve your beautiful jam into a large bowl and then into sterilised jars and pop into the fridge to cool. I did my jam in three batches, the second did not set, I poured it back in and boiled it again and now it's just fine. Enthusiasm, not perfection.
It came out the most glorious throwback Victoriana peach colour, think apricot bathroom tiles in a faded beach resort with brass taps. Im most pleased with it, even if it tastes a bit like strawberry jam, a bit like apricot jam and a bit like nothing. Next year I will take the gin and tonic advice and build on it by steeping the currants in gin before we jam. I think this could elevate it to icon status.
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Japanese Garden, Van Nuys, California.
It was a big bird day at the Japanese Garden: Canadian geese, Egyptian geese, various kinds of ducks, cormorants, and a number of snowy egrets.
As we were leaving I was able to take a number of shots of this snowy egret as he/she was fishing.
I enjoyed using the Canon G7X quite a bit: the tilting LCD made this shot easy, the longer zoom range (than the Sony RX100) allowed me to get closer to the bird, and the front control wheel's clicks made zooming faster and easier than with the Sony. The white bird was a bit blown out but I'm not sure the Sony's similar sensor wouldn't have done the same thing. The Canon is a much sturdier camera with better ergonomics and even if it's not as popular, I like it better than the Sony, which I found tough to use both in winter with gloves and all the time because it's so slow to respond.


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Body scrubs are becoming a popular trend, but what exactly are the sugar scrub benefits? As a matter of fact, what exactly is a sugar scrub? We don't know exactly who the first person was that decided to take such a common household ingredient and rub it all over their body. What we do know is that they were truly genius! Such simplicity in one's beauty regime to get beautiful, glowing skin couldn't have been better timed in our hurting economy.
So, what is it? A sugar body scrub in a combination of sugars and oils to create an exfoliating paste or "scrub." Sugar crystals are small yet gentle enough to scrape away dead skill cells, while the oils are used to moisturize the skin. The outcome is glowing smooth skin.
Most people do not realize that sugar contains what is called humectants which do not clog one's pores, making it gentle enough to use every day if needed. It helps to keep those pesky unsightly blemishes far away because of the non-clogging pore effect. However, most scrubs only need to be used once a week on average. It is also not recommended to use on your face, so please keep that in mind when starting this beauty regime. Following instructions is important, even if it is the best body scrub.
These scrubs can definitely be used in the shower to help with problem areas on your body. It will help to keep those places silky and soft. It is such a simple combination of ingredients that will save you so much money. Can you imagine spending mere dollars on ingredients that you probably already have laying around as opposed to hundreds of dollars on spa ingredients that will give you the exact same effect? How can one deny the benefits of sugar scrub love?
So now you know the basic benefits, let's break it down even further. We know that you can mix either brown or white sugar in with an oil of your choice to make a simply scrub. But you can also add other ingredients that will benefit your skin. For example, did you know that avocado oil is full of different vitamins that are all good for you skin? It's definitely great for sun damaged skin and replenishing Vitamin A and E. It's also an excellent anti-aging ingredient.
Mixing a little bit of lemon zest or even lemon juice can brighten and smooth your skin. Just make sure you do not step out into direct sunlight for a couple of hours after use. A few drops of lavender oil mixed in with the basic sugar scrub can not only be used to scrape those skin cells off, but can also bring a calming relaxing effect to your muscles. Coconut oil is an awesome moisturizer. It's also a great way to delay some aging and wrinkles. Try adding spearmint essential oil for an uplifting scent that can also help with headaches.
Adding a few drops of Vitamin E Oil is definitely beneficial for healing skin. Jojoba oil is a natural acne preventative. Aloe Vera is mostly used for skin rejuvenation and soothing inflamed skin. All of these ingredients and many more can make up a beautiful and helpful organic sugar scrub. Feel free to research the different elements of your personal scrub to see what works the best with whatever your skin type is. It is easy to track down ingredients that will enhance your skin.
As you can see there, are plenty of sugar scrub benefits. But what will always remain the biggest ones, besides the beautiful skin that you will receive for using them, is saving that money. It is so important during our times that we find ways to keep us healthy, and save some money. And it is just as important to keep our skin healthy as our heart. And this is definitely a low cost efficient way to do it.


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Campo e Cidade. Undated and unsigned mural depicting the divisions between city, favela, and countryside.A theme common across cultural genres in the MST is the opposition and option between the countryside and the city. In an undated and unsigned mural (likely by Sister Elda Broilo), the grouping of tarp-covered houses built by the Landless at the edge of a fenced-off countryside represents a movement away from the shanties that ring the city. The sacrifices of this precarious existence, symbolized by the drops of blood drawn by cut barbed wire, fertilize the land and become a source of beauty and hope.
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Why you should use a "Cloud" hosted SPAM filter
With SPAM filtering build into the latest version of Exchange and all sorts of firewalls now available to scan for viruses, malware and other internet-borne undesirables, it may seem like a bit of a backward step to use an external (or "cloud" hosted) SPAM and malware filter for your incoming and outgoing emails so is it really worth it? What advantages do they provide? What are the downsides?
What is an external SPAM filter?
An external SPAM filter is, as its name suggests, an email filter which is hosted outside of your organisation. Typically it will process emails (in and out) for hundreds, if not thousands, of clients monitoring all emails for signs of SPAM or malicious content and then sending only the "clean" emails on to their destinations. It is a cheap and efficient way of making sure (as sure as you can be) that SPAM and/or malicious emails don't get delivered to your users.
What are the advantages of an external filter?
Potentially malicious emails do not get anywhere near your network
Because the filter is hosted outside of your organisation (most often in a different country entirely), the emails which have malicious or other undesirable content do not come anywhere near your servers. If you use an on-premise filter (IE. one installed on a server in your organisation) any undesirable emails will, in some form, be on your equipment. You have no way of knowing if, by some unknown process, any (or all) of these potentially dangerous emails could be released and cause havoc on your servers. Furthermore, you are responsible for making sure the filters are kept up to date and the hardware is sufficiently powerful to keep things moving.
Less chance of your public IP address being "black listed"
At any time, the IP address assigned to your internet connection can be put onto what is known as a blacklist. When this happens, some email servers will refuse to send emails to your server or accept emails from your server until your address is de-listed. This can take time. Using an external filtering service gets around this potential problem. Since email coming from your servers appears to come from the filtering server, your IP address shouldn't be blacklisted. Furthermore, emails destined for your server will go to the filtering service's IP address which should never be blacklisted so everyone's happy!
Provides an email queue should your internet connection or email server (or both) go down
Without an external filtering service, any emails sent to your email server while the internet connection is down (or the email server itself is down) will be returned to the sender as undeliverable. This can be quite an annoying situation, particularly if the non-delivery report itself goes missing on its way back to the sender (this can, and often does, happen). To overcome this, most email filtering services provide a queue which will hold emails for 3 to 5 days (some up to 10 days!) in the event that emails cannot get to their destinations. This gives you (or your IT provider) ample opportunity to fix the problem without losing any emails. This feature also comes into play when changing internet service providers.
Potential downsides
Performance, Availability and Features
Like all "cloud" services, you are at the mercy or the provider in terms of performance, availability and features offered. If their servers or internet connection go slow, so too does your email delivery! If their servers or internet connection go down, your email delivery stops altogether! If they decide to change or remove a feature that you have come to rely on then there is nothing you can do.
All of your external email goes through their servers and could, potentially, be scanned for more than SPAM or malware (think words or phrases like "bomb" or "terrorism"). If your company deals in sensitive information then you may want to think twice about using an external filtering service, despite the advantages. Furthermore, because these services are often hosted overseas, you may be bound by their laws which could be radically different from those in your country.
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Elim's Eliza Katongan celebrated a big milestone last week: she's officially been alive for a century, and she says it feels good.
On Thursday, Jan. 8, friends and family travelled from all over, including Shaktoolik, Unalakleet, Koyuk, and Montana, to celebrate Eliza's 100th birthday.
Eliza's niece, Grace Morris of Koyuk, said of her aunt, "she's a real blessing to me and my family, and I praise God that she lived 100 years old!"
Pink and purple streamers hung in the Elim School gymnasium as more than 100 people were welcomed for the birthday celebration and potluck, featuring the Native food Eliza most enjoys.
In her 100 years, Eliza has touched countless lives. Born in 1915 at the original site of Shaktoolik, six miles up the Shaktoolik River, Eliza later settled in Elim, where she has lived most of her life. She had 14 children, and has dozens of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and even great-great grandchildren.
Family members and friends know Eliza as a loving caretaker and a fountain of cultural and subsistence knowledge, and they were eager to share stories of how Eliza has impacted their lives.
Morris, who lost her mother at a young age, described Eliza as her "mentor." She said, "As I was remembering this morning, I said, man, she saw a lot of changes in her lifetime, from using dog team, to snow machine and now probably truck every now and then. She's one of the first I know of who lived this long within our area."
Others shared stories of Eliza's love and skill for berry picking, fishing, and sewing.
"When she was 93 years old, she used to come get me," said Michelle Saccheus, Eliza's great-granddaughter. "She'd go knock on the door, and she'd say, 'Go get my Honda! Let's go pick berries,' or, 'Let's go pick greens.'"
Paul Nakaruk grew up in Elim and has known Eliza his whole life. "She has done a lot for the community," he said. "I have some things that she made over the years, even a pair of dog mittens that she gave me from years back. She's a real active lady, still moving around and shopping and getting around."
Several people noted that it is Eliza's generous, loving spirit and life philosophy of forgiveness that have helped her to live so long.
"I never in my life saw her go a day in want," said Violet La Forge, Eliza's daughter, during an opening prayer. "I saw she gave what she had—all the food that she put away, she gave to people in need. Because of that, she is blessed."
Eliza's niece, Teresa Sockpealuk-Perry, shared one piece of wisdom that Eliza has repeated throughout her life. "One of things she said was 'Forgiveness is a great thing to live by. We need to continue to forgive people who do us wrong.' She has had a lot of sorrow in her life and if she carried all that sorrow inside her, she wouldn't have been this healthy."
The celebration lasted about five hours, with live performances of some of Eliza's favorite songs and, of course, a joyful rendition of the "Happy Birthday" song in honor of Eliza's special day.


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Thanks for asking about my treatments and for praying for us! We are taking a little break right now but hope to start back up in the next little bit! Just needed a sanity break! ha! Hope you are having a good week!!ReplyDelete
I stopped by from Jenna's Journey and just finished reading your bio. I am from Canton, Ohio and moved down to North Myrtle Beach about 3 years ago. I thought that was a neat connection...ReplyDelete
What a cute family you have! :)
I am here from Jenna's Journey. Your blog looks great, it may have to become on my "regular read list". =)ReplyDelete
I used to be soooo good about leaving comments until I became pregnant (toooo tired) and then when I had Westin it went further down hill. Hahaha This is a great idea.ReplyDelete
I'm here from Jenna's link up. We're building our dream home, so I've really enjoyed looking at your progression pictures. I can only dream of having our home finished - someday.ReplyDelete


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How Do You Mothers Do It???
I'm temporarily holding down the fort here at the ranch, it's giving me a small taste of what it's like to be a mother.
And I just have one question for all you mothers out there; how on earth do you do it all?? I don't even have any toddlers to keep up with, yet I can't seem to stay caught up. Just taking care of the animals is a full time job in itself, forget about the dishes, bills, laundry, housework, cooking, gardening, outside projects and a billion other things that also need to be done! And free time? Sheesh. I'm beginning to think there is no such thing!
There might be a couple days during the week that I am mostly caught up, and I can relax a bit. Than there are other days that I forget to eat. And I'm not even kidding!
A friend called me the other afternoon and asked how I was.
Me: "Well, apart from being physically exhausted, a pounding headache, and feeling like I might faint any moment...GREAT!"
Friend: "Have you drank any water today?"
Me: "Umm..nope..I don't believe I have....I forgot!"
Friend: "Do I need to start texting you, reminding you to eat and drink?"
Me: "Yes please!!"
That's the sad truth of it! I'm too busy running circles around myself trying to get my To-Do list for that day knocked out and I totally forget important stuff like you know eating. *sigh*
I have small celebrations..like when I finish the laundry! Only to go in the laundry room 15 minutes later and find a pile of clothes at my feet. Some jobs just never cease.
I've come to the conclusion that all my clocks (including the one on my phone) must be seriously messed up. No sooner do I look up and it's four oclock! Wha??? It was just 9:00 in the morning! Your lying!!
Sleep has become a sacred thing. And no matter how much I get of it, it just isn't enough. The days of being able to "Night-Owl" staying up into the wee hours of the morning are over. I mean seriously, I cannot even stay awake past 9:30 P.M. without turning into a pumpkin.
What's really fun is on the weekends when all the kids (okay...maybe they are actually my older siblings and their girls...) come down and hang out. I not only have mothering duties, but also chaperone duties. And did I mention my siblings are not early birds? But rather full blown night owls? Well they are. And on weekends I just run off of adrenaline. Nights of staying up past 2:00 A.M. and getting up at 6:00 A.M. get old real quick! I mean honestly, these kids have no compassion on my poor nerves!
Mondays..Mondays, I am worth exactly 0%. As soon as everyone leaves for work I jump back in bed until the sun comes out and I hear the animals screaming for breakfast.
I've had women ask me before, "What exactly do you do?" What's funny is they are totally serious. Being out-of-the-house moms, running hither and there in town and or working jobs, they seriously have no clue what stay at home mothers do. When I get asked that question, I just smile and reply: "Oh, you'd be surprised!"
So yeah..you mothers out there, pat yourself on the back; 'cause your a special kind of awesome and my hat's off to you!
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Change is coming, but are we ready?
EUPRIO's President Denis Ancion tells NIC MITCHELL about a meeting of Dutch members which focused on the vital role of internal communications – a key theme for our forthcoming annual conference in Canterbury this June. The image shows international students at a "Mix & Mingle" event in Maastricht, a key audience for university branding worldwide.
Creating more visibility for EUPRIO. This is one of the most important ambitions for the association in the years to come.
To help this process, we introduced the idea last year of inviting our members in different countries to meet together to discuss the theme of the next conference. And it seems to be working, at least in The Netherlands.
For last month nearly 50 Dutch EUPRIO members met in Utrecht to discuss the issue of internal branding and the importance of activating of own internal audiences for branding purposes – the theme for our annual conference being held at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, from June 27-30, 2013.
The Dutch meeting showed what a 'hot' issue activating internal audiences has become – and that it is not only a puzzle to do this effectively, but also sometimes threatening for the communication departments themselves.
For a strategy aiming at activating students, staff and alumni also implies bringing them into a position to do the job previously done by communication departments. This means that the role of communication professionals in the organisation has to change. And that this change has to take place while traditional work still needs to be done: an extra challenge!
New role
Will we have enough time to take up our new role? Does the organisation understand that transition doesn't mean that communication professionals are no longer needed?
I don't have the answers, but the afternoon in Utrecht made one thing very clear: the coming years are going to be really exciting and the theme we have chosen to focus in Canterbury is highly relevant.
Our Dutch EUPRIO meeting heard from two external consultants, Ronald Schepers and Huib Koeleman, who confronted the participants with their observations.
Recognisible brand claims
Schepers, who has experience of working on branding and communications projects at various higher education institutions in the Netherlands, got some stick for claiming that our current branding efforts concentrated too much on sending a message towards external audiences. "We forget that a strong brand has to be oriented at our own students and staff (and that we need to become a employer brand) as well", he said. "Internal audiences need to recognise themselves in our messages, have a feeling that what we claim in our branding propositions is recognisible for them or challenges them to live up to the claim."
That we forget to involve our own people, he claimed, is proved by the fact that only one Dutch university is in top 100 of the best companies in the Netherlands.
Is he right or wrong?
Perhaps, the answer is less important than realising what we think about branding is changing and that in world today there is no difference between external and internal communications. With all the actions we take, we have to be aware of this fact.
Activating internal audiences
Huib Koeleman, a well-known expert on internal communications in the Netherlands, stepped over to another interesting angle in the discussion. How to activate internal audiences knowing that there is not one recipe for this. Every organisation has its own characteristics.
To be effective in communication one has to understand how communication and decision-making works in the organisation. Managers and communicators have to adapt to this to be successful.
The audience didn't feel his message was completely new, but accepted that we rarely approach internal communication projects with this awareness or make it part of our strategic planning.
Did our meeting in Utrecht lead to answers or spectacular new insights?
No, I don't think so. But if you ask me was it worthwhile to exchange ideas and thoughts my answer is, without any hesitation, yes!
Agenda for Kent
Just by meeting and discussing the theme we are now all aware that this issue will dominate our agendas in the coming years, that we can learn from each other, and that an important step is taken to have interesting and good discussions to cope with this major challenge when we meet again at our annual conference in Kent this June.
We know that we can help each other in this period of dramatic change and that the choices of new roles and activities we undertake will be of great value for the organisations we represent in the increasingly competitive global higher education environment.
What about other countries in Europe? Is this issue also high on your agenda and are people aware of the big changes that lie ahead? I am curious know. So please, give me your thoughts, and tell us of experiences when we meet again in Canterbury in June.
Also see: https://www.euprio.eu/2013/01/28/euprio-2013-all-set-for-june-take-off-at-the-university-of-kent/


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Bio: Pietro has been a research scientist at Julia since February 2016. He is currently working on the application of Julia to the analysis of CIL (.Net bytecode) programs obtained from the compilation of C# code. Pietro's main research interests are:
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Pietro was a Research Staff Member in the group of Mobile Enterprise Software led by Marco Pistoia from July 2013 to December 2015.
Before joining IBM Research, Pietro was a lecturer at ETH of Zurich in the Programming methodology group under the supervision of Peter Mueller from April 2009 to July 2013.
Previously, he obtained the PhD degree in Computer Science from the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris and the Universita' Ca' Foscari of Venice on May, 22nd 2009. His PhD thesis directors were Radhia Cousot and Agostino Cortesi. I defended my PhD thesis on May 22nd, 2009 at the Ecole Normale Superiore. In addition, he was an intern at Microsoft Research in Redmond in the PLA group from August 20th 2007 to November 9th 2007 under the supervision of Francesco Logozzo.
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We have a few new systems in place at the Ronne house that I thought I'd share a bit about. I've discovered that to run a large family there needs to be structure, so much more structure than a "normal" size family of 2 or 3 children would require because without the boundaries in place, the monkeys would run wild, the house would be a disaster, mom would be a stressed out zombie, and we would never have any food in the house, and I'm just not going to be a slave to that kind of craziness.
I've posted about our bin system, here's a link Numero Uno System at our house THE BIN – (my siblings can start groaning now…), a system that I stole from my own childhood which is an easy way to keep the kids accountable for their own stuff left out around the house. This has been effective, until recently when the older children have been extremely unmotivated by a promise of a visit to the family store and instead they have been gripping about "how come we can't get real money for our allowance?" Ryan and I discussed this complaint and agreed, they could start receiving real money instead of store bucks but if they got real money there were going to tithe, save, and have 40% left over to spend. They agreed. Perfect, problem solved.
I also decided that it was exhausting coming up with new chore lists for each child every Saturday morning determined by how many items they had accumulated in the bin over the week so instead I typed up a master chore list, gave each of the four oldest children a copy, and had them list in the order of 1-4 their "favorite chores" They each did this task one night during our family meeting time, and we were able to give most of them what they wanted thereby creating one master Saturday list where each one does the same chores every week in addition to their nightly dinner chores of washing dishes, sweeping, or taking the trash out. Perfect. That was done.
Next, we had some consequences in place for bad behavior such as hitting was early bedtime, being mean equaled writing an apology letter to that person, disrespect was grounding from something important and these were no longer having a single bit of effect on our kids anymore. They just didn't care. So instead….
They each have one hour of computer time of Saturdays and Sundays. Ryan came up with the smiley face chart where if they do something unkind to someone else they automatically lose 5 minutes of their computer time for the weekend. This has been effective because our children seem to live and die for these two hours of zombie time over the weekend.
Finally, the littlest ones, Josh and Jada. Each has struggled mightily in certain areas. Jada tends to have a serious attitude problem about her chores which drives me CRAZY. Josh tends to bawl his eyes out every single night when we tell him it's bedtime and it GRATES my nerves. Neither one is fantastic about staying in their own bed and instead they enjoy visiting with one another throughout the night, causing mayhem and sleepy older kids the next day. Here's the solution we made just for them.
Jada needs to wash the table (her chore) with a smile on her face, eat her meals, and stay in her bed.
Josh needs to wash the chairs, not bawl his eyes out a bedtime, and stay in bed.
For each of these tasks accomplished they earn one sticker. 15 stickers in a week equals a trip to the family store. They have done a 180 turn around in their little lives. It has worked like a charm, or maybe it's their older siblings informing them about Santa's naughty or nice list but whatever is behind their motivation, we'll take it.
Just keep livin!!


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Dehydration of the human body, the symptoms and signs of dehydration, prevention of dehydration in
Water is a biological need of the human body at the cellular level. It is difficult to give a simple and universal answer regarding how much water a person should drink per day. It all depends on the time of year and natural areas, but firmly can say one thing – without water a person can survive from 3 to 10 days.
This variation in time is asociated with the ambient air and physical activity, and psychological state of the person. The lack of water dramatically increases the feeling of thirst, but even worse immoderate consumption, which can lead to sudden swelling and death.
In a deserted area of water for human paramount importance. Even the food is not so important for the preservation of life. Dehydration is deadly
both in hot and in cold weather. The view that the proces of dehydration can occur only at high temperatures, when the body is struggling with overheating, is erroneous and dangerous.
At negative temperatures, the water loses are being reduced are very significant not only due to the excesive sweating during intense physical activity, but also because of the warm, constraining movement of the clothing have to do the work.
Water based digestion, water lubricates joints and helps to remove waste products of vital activity, it is required for the exercise of breathing, as the lungs need constant moisture to saturate the blood with oxygen and remove exces carbon dioxide.
Dehydration occurs as a result of low temperature and drynes of air entering the lungs, to which he responds, primarily, by increased excretion of urine (cold diuresis). Increase urination, in addition to the los of fluid even increases in the body los of sodium chloride and caused violations of water-salt metabolism.
The table clearly demonstrates the development of symptoms of dehydration depending on the percentage of los of water to body weight.
Symptoms of dehydration
Dehydration to the body weight (%)


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4000 - Advisory Opinions
Insurance Coverage of Identical Husband and Wife Revocable Trusts Containing a Defeating Contingency
October 15, 1990
Adrienne George, Attorney
This letter is in response to your July 11, 1990 letter to Gail Padgett and will confirm our telephone conversation of September 18, 1990.
In your letter, you describe two revocable trusts. Your wife is the settlor of one trust, and you are the settlor of the other. The accounts for both trusts are held by the same bank, and you ask how these accounts would be insured if the balance in each account was $55,000.
The short answer to this question is that, because you have no individually-owned accounts in the same bank with these two trust accounts, and because each trust has a different settlor, your trust (the trust of which you are settlor) would be insured for up to $100,000 and you wife's trust would be insured for up to $100,000. For this reason, each $55,000 trust account would be fully insured, for a total of $110,000 of insurance.
In order to see how I arrived at this result, we must look to the exact terms of the trusts. It is my understanding from our phone conversation that the *** Revocable Living Trust is simply the mirror image of the *** Trust, so I will deal only with the *** Trust.
As you described that trust to me over the phone, after your death, your wife will receive the income of the trust for her life, and she can receive principal from the trust at the discretion of the trustees for certain named purposes (e.g., to maintain her standard of living and for health reasons). Upon her death, the trust funds will be distributed outright to your two sons.
In order to understand how your trust's funds would be insured, you must first know a bit about the FDIC's insurance rules in general. Under the FDIC's rules, deposits in a bank or savings and loan association are insured according to the "right" or "capacity" in which they are held. The terms "right" and "capacity" refer to the manner in which the accounts are held, such as jointly-owned accounts, trust accounts or individually-owned accounts. All accounts (including savings or checking accounts and certificates of deposit) owned by a depositor in the same right and capacity within the same insured institution will be added together and insured up to $100,000. Deposits maintained in different rights and capacities are separately insured up to $100,000.
However, the rule which applies to trust accounts says that sometimes, if the beneficiary of a revocable trust is the spouse, child or grandchild of the trust settlor, that may entitle the settlor to even more insurance coverage than he would otherwise get--up to $100,000 times the number of trust settlors living when the insured depository institution goes into default times the number of qualifying beneficiaries (spouse, child or grandchild) who have a vested interest in the trust upon the death of the last settlor to die. (Of course, if the depository institution goes into default before the death of the last settlor to die, the only qualifying beneficiaries who might have a vested interest are those who are alive at the time of the institution's default.)
In determining the insurance coverage of revocable trusts, the important moment to look at in the life of the trust is the death of the last settlor, and the important question to ask is, at the death of the last settlor, which if any of the beneficiaries have a vested interest in the trust. The definition of a "vested interest" for a revocable trust is a highly complicated one, but I need not go into the whole definition in order to analyze your trust. All I need to ask is, upon your death, who is a qualifying beneficiary who has an immediate interest in your trust (your wife is), and does your wife have a vested interest in the trust so as to trigger the special insurance coverage described in the paragraph above (as we shall see, she does not).
In order for your wife's interest to receive such special insurance coverage, her interest, among other requirements, must be one in which the beneficiary either receives an outright distribution of her share of the trust principal upon the death of the last settlor (your wife does not receive such an interest upon your death) OR where the beneficiary can invade the principal of her share to an unlimited extent at her sole demand upon the settlor's death (your wife cannot do this because she must depend upon the other trustees' discretion to coincide with her wishes) OR where the beneficiary will eventually take her share outright, provided that she survives for a given number of years or to a certain age (your wife cannot meet this requirement either because the funds are held in trust until she dies, at which time they are distributed outright to your sons).
Because your trust cannot meet any of the three requirements listed above, the trust's funds will be insured as if they were the individually-owned funds of the settlor (***); that is, these funds will be added to any other funds which you hold in your name in the same depository institution and the entire amount will be insured for up to $100,000.
Because your wife's trust is simply the mirror image of yours, her trust also fails to meet any one of the three requirements listed above. For this reason, her trust's funds will be added to any funds which she holds in her own name in the same depository institution, and that entire amount will be insured for up to $100,000.
Where the funds in your trust come to $55,000, and you hold no individually-owned funds in the same institution, your trust's funds will be fully insured for $55,000. Where the funds in your wife's trust come to $55,000, and she holds no individually-owned funds in the same institution, her trust's funds will also be fully insured for $55,000.
I hope that this information will be useful to you. If I can be of any further help, I can be reached at (202) 898-3859.


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