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It has been over a week since I last posted, a fact of which I am very ashamed. Sort of. Actually, to be quite honest, I'm not ashamed at all. I have good reason, which I am about to explain.
Summer Rush, Draft Five, has been all typed up and printed! Yay! My darling project is now a grand total of 91,600 words, 28 chapters, and 285 pages. Characters have been disposed of. New characters have been added. The ending still makes me sigh with happiness (although I doubt it'll make anybody else do the same) and the urge to kill some of my cast has faded.
In short, I am completely prepared and super excited to start writing draft six! You can imagine how excited I am. If all goes according to plan, then Summer Rush will only need eight or nine drafts, so I'm getting close to the end!
Now that the grunt work of draft five is behind me, I've been taking a much needed and much enjoyed break from the SR project, and from blogging, too, apparently.
My mind has been wandering in circles, more or less, which led me to work on another project of mine – The Tidemaster. It's only going to be 15,000 words, so it won't take me long. Hopefully I'll be done with it before I pick up on SR's draft six, which I plan to start on or around September 5.
This is all relatively boring stuff, I know. So, on to something more interesting! My birthday is on Tuesday! Whoo! I'll be eighteen. I'll be… old (no offense to anyone who's eighteen already; this is just my version of old!). Gosh. Eighteen. The big 1-8. I'm excited.
My sophomore year of college starts tomorrow, which is more interesting news! Okay, not really. It's not even interesting to me.
A List of Things I Learned from Summer Rush Draft Five
(I bet you didn't see this list coming!)
1. If you find scenes with a certain character almost impossible to write, if you hate this character with all your might, if you skip writing whole chapters just because this character is in it, it may be time to get rid of this character.
2. When editing on paper, Pilot G2 pens rock the world. I ran out while I was working, and I almost cried. So today I bought a twelve pack, and I have purple, aqua, orange, red, dark blue, dark green, light green, and black. Look out, SR Draft Six! Hahaha!
3. Editing doesn't happen on its own. It's okay to sit on your butt if you have your work with you and YOU'RE ACTUALLY WORKING. NO, EATING COOKIES DOES NOT COUNT. BAD, GAB! BAD! PUT THOSE COOKIES DOWN!
4. Inspiring quotes are only helpful if you don't spend your whole writing hour looking for them. Don't laugh. This could happen to you.
5. The joy of finishing a draft, or even a chapter, is the most marvelous thing ever. It makes everything worth it.
Adios, peeps!


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James Cameron doesn't have much time for those who think Jack could have survived with Rose in Titanic.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, the director brought up an episode of the US TV series Mythbusters from 2012 that concluded the two lead characters, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, could have both lived.
On that show, Cameron accepted the results of their hypothermia experiment, but he's now changed his mind.
"Look, it's very, very simple: you read page 147 of the script and it says, 'Jack gets off the board and gives his place to her so that she can survive'. It's that simple. You can do all the post-analysis you want," he explained.
"Let's really play it out: you're Jack, you're in water that 28 degrees, you brain is starting to get hypothermia. Mythbusters asks you to now go take off your life vest, take hers off, swim underneath this thing, attach it in some way that it won't just wash out...
"That's going to take you five to ten minutes, so by the time you come back up you're already dead. So that wouldn't work. His best choice was to keep his upper body out of the water and hope to get pulled out by a boat or something before he died."
But despite this, he doesn't hold anything against the show, adding: "They're fun guys and I loved doing that show with them, but they're full of shit."
Sorry Jack.
Here's hoping there won't be any such debatable life-or-death scenarios in Cameron's Avatar sequels, which he confirmed will FINALLY be going into motion capture later this year.
Oh, and to make up for the wait, he's already got Avatar 3, 4 and 5 written.
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CCMP Fellowships to Attend the UN Climate Negotiations in Paris
The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) led by Internews' Earth Journalism Network has the pleasure to announce that we are opening Fellowship opportunities for journalists to attend the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) being held in Paris, France.
Ocean Reporting Workshop for Latin American Journalists
Journalists from South America are invited to apply to participate in a workshop on marine conservation, set to take place in Chile in early August.
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Internews' Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is commissioning a series of stories that capture the effects of climate change on increasingly vulnerable populations around the world, looking to highlight what is at stake for those most directly impacted by the consequences of our changing planet. These stories will be published ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in December of this year.
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The Cove star Ric O'Barry offers to help the Vancouver Aquarium free its dolphins from captivity
Dolphin trainer turned conservationist Ric O'Barry can take a lot of the credit for drawing the public's attention to Japan's annual dolphin hunt in Taiji.
The Cove, a 2009 documentary that follows O'Barry and his team's successful efforts to capture the slaughter on film, won an Academy Award and received a host of other accolades.
Now O'Barry wants people's attention turned to the Vancouver Aquarium.
In a July 21 letter addressed to Mayor Gregor Robertson, O'Barry and Earth Island Institute director David Phillips argue it's time whale and dolphin captivity came to an end.
"Captivity is hard on cetaceans for many reasons," they write. "Concrete pools are too small and too enervating for cetaceans to thrive, especially given that wild dolphin travel many miles each day in their natural environment. These social animals are often put in tanks with unfamiliar individuals, which can cause considerable stress and difficulties. It has been proven that many species of cetaceans die early in captivity compared to the wild."
The letter continues: "Captivity also does a disservice to people, especially children. Seeing these magnificent animals perform circus tricks for dead fish, with little context about how these animals live in the wild, is a form of bad education and should stop."
It comes as the Vancouver Aquarium prepares to go before the park board for a special meeting about whale and dolphin captivity scheduled for Saturday (July 26).
Included in the letter is an expression of gratitude to the mayor for publicly opposing cetacean captivity at the aquarium.
(On April 9, the Straight reported that Robertson believes the aquarium should no longer keep whales and dolphins in Stanley Park. "My personal view is that the Vancouver Aquarium should begin to phase out the holding of whales and dolphins in captivity," he said.)
The letter concludes with an offer of assistance.
"Both Ric O'Barry and Earth Island Institute have had extensive experience successfully releasing dolphins and whales to sea pens and/or to the wild," it states. "We know this can be done and offer our assistance in working for successful outcomes for dolphins and whales at the Vancouver Aquarium."
In an August 2009 interview with the Straight related to The Cove's theatrical release, aquarium CEO John Nightingale maintained that while the aquarium's two dolphins were obtained from Japan, they were not captured in a drive fishery like the one depicted in the film.
"If white-sided dolphins are not being taken in the drive fishery, there is no even indirect possible connection," he said.
That article notes that O'Barry, now a marine mammal specialist for the Earth Island Institute and director of the Dolphin Project, visited Vancouver in 2003 and urged the park board then to bring an end to dolphin captivity in Stanley Park.
O'Barry and Phillips are not the first conservationists with international followings to express concerns for cetaceans kept at the Vancouver Aquarium.
On May 26, the Straight reported that renowned primatologist Jane Goodall issued a letter calling for an end to whale and dolphin captivity in Vancouver.
"The current permission of Vancouver Aquarium cetacean breeding programs on-site, and at SeaWorld with belugas on loan, is no longer defensible by science," Goodall wrote. "This is demonstrated by the high mortality rates evident in these breeding programs and by the ongoing use of these animals in interactive shows as entertainment."
The July 26 park board meeting will include a presentation by aquarium management and the presentation of a staff report on best practices for aquariums around the world. Members of the public are also invited to speak. (Advance registration is required.)
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Jul 24, 2014 at 10:57am
Long overdue for baby boomers to take a stand against all imprisoned animals in zoos/aquariums. Flipper was a captive dolphin who was trained so you could have your Saturday afternoon laughs. Time to grow up and do the right thing.
Kris Jones
Jul 24, 2014 at 11:29am
Wait you mean the same Earth Island Institute that proved with it's attempt to rehabilitate and release Kieko that it didn't really work? Kieko died one year after being released from captivity. I have yet to see any independently substantiated proof that would lead me to believe that Ric would have the ability or knowledge to successfully rehabilitate injured animals and prepare them for release.
Trevor B.
Jul 24, 2014 at 3:41pm
Helen and Hana were recued and rehabilitated by the Vancouver Aquarium. Not obtained. They were injured and caught up in fixed fishing nets from a completely different area of Japan. After they were rehabilitated, they were assessed and deemed non-releasable.
Jul 24, 2014 at 4:23pm
Trevor, don't confuse the leftist rhetoric with facts. They don't know how to respond to facts.
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Jul 25, 2014 at 9:44am
In response to Trevor B. and bobo...
I'm confused. These dolphins weren't obtained? That's probably news to the Vancouver Aquarium, since the dolphins are there in their tanks right now.
Show me a definition of the word "obtained" where, ah, obtaining something is not a part of it.
These dolphins were obtained through rescue and rehabilitation. Therefore, they were obtained.


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Taichung (Taiwan), June 17 (IANS) Indian wrestler Pushpender Singh bagged bronze in the boys' 120 kilogram Freestyle category on the third day of the Junior Asian Championships here on Saturday.
Pushpender defeated Kim Ki Bum 3-2 in a tough play-off to finish on the podium.
This is the first medal for India in the boys' freestyle categories of the ongoing competition.
Khasanboy Rakhimov of Uzbekistan won the gold, defeating Lkhagvagerel Munkhtur of Mongolia by fault in the final. The Uzbek was leading 2-0 when he managed to pin his opponent.
Shayan Sadegh Jalilzadeh Kohnehgheshlagh of Iran defeated Benxin Duan of China 4-0 in the other bronze medal play-off.
However, Swapnil Bhimrao Shelar — the other Indian in action on Saturday — had to face disappointment as he crashed out in the qualification round of the boys' 50 kilogram category.
Swapnil was no match for Rustambek Juraev of Uzbekistan, going down by technical fault in his very first bout.
The Uzbek was too superior in terms of technique, racking up a 10-0 lead which prompted the referee to stop the contest.
With Pushpender's freestyle medal, the Indian contingent now has a total of 13 medals in this competition, including two gold, one silver and 10 bronze.
The Indian girls have clinched two gold medals through Pooja Gehlot (51kg) and Sonu (44kg) apart from three bronze.
The Indian boys have registered a tally of one silver and six bronze medals in the Greco-Roman competition.
This is the best performance by Indian boys in the Greco-Roman style as they have finished on the podium in every weight category except for the 60kg division.
Pushpender started the bronze medal play-off in the 120 kilogram freestyle division on the wrong foot as Kim produced an early takedown to take a 2-0 lead.
However the Indian managed to reduce the gap to a single point around 30 seconds before the end of the first round when the passivity rule was invoked against Kim for his defensive attitude.
The Indian was more aggressive after the break, forcing the Korean onto the back foot. Kim was no match for Pushpender's strength as the Indian soon took a 3-2 lead.
Kim tried hard to make a comeback. but Pushpender held on to ensure victory.
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Just few month after my own wedding I still have fresh memories of all the stress connected with preparations for the W day. If you just got engaged recently (my sincere Congratulations!) you probably already «looking forward» to all the stress which will most surely fall on you, no matter if it is be a small ceremony with a few close friends, or a celebration of the century with 500+ (we'll dive into ideal places for both types of ceremony in Budapest in our later posts).
In my case, frankly the preparation was quite stress free, except when it came to the dress choice. For some reason I had a strong feeling, that once I get my one and only (the dress we are talking about), all the rest will fall into places. Spoiler alert: that did not quite happen that way…
While the choice of the place happened spontaneously: one day I just ran into a hidden place in the middle of the city, and from that moment on knew that no matter what my wedding will happen there; with the dress pursuit story went for another 8 months, pretty much up until 1 month before the wedding itself. That was quite an emotional roller coaster, at one point I thought to give up and get a dress where the only requirement would be for it — not black, so any H&M peace would fit.
After a few months into a dress hunt, my husband-to-be was already an expert in shapes, styles, price range of dresses in Budapest and before entering into any wedding salon, we already had a plan B, of what to do after it, in case (most often that was actually the case) the dress again was not found. Not that I am too picky or was imagining my perfect dress since I was 7 years old, but I had very simple (well, so I thought) criteria for THE dress: it shouldn't be white, it shouldn't look like a ball gown, it should be comfortable to walk in as well as to dance, and it shouldn't cost the fortune, leaving me being a princess but forcing my wedding buffet to consist of white bread and tuna.
Going crazily through account of every wedding designer I could find, I was looking for options. One sunny afternoon, scrolling the Instagram feed and loosing hope little by little (I did buy the blush dress from HM just in case though), I came across one of the Ukrainian designers, who offered wonderful tailor-made dresses for very affordable price… Like with any true love, you know it when you see it. The dress got many compliments from random people on the streets, and I could not be more proud to wear the dress created by the Ukrainian designer on this very special day.
This was the first brick in the road to opening Skazka Bridal, the second one was laid by my partner, who had similar experience with finding her own wedding apparel in Budapest.
That is why, we started Skazka Bridal with the thought of easing bride's life, at least a little, at least with a dress…


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A little more about me…
I am married to my best friend. We met in college (go bucks!) and moved out to Arizona together shortly after graduating and getting engaged.
We are proud new parents of a beautiful baby girl, and every day we learn a little more bout being parents. We are taking each day as an opportunity to learn and try our best at creating a happy home for our little girl! You may also see our golden retriever, Eddie, hiding in the back of our photos. Along with my new title of "mom", I also very proudly refer to myself as a "dog mom" to our 4th furry family member!
My favorite forms of physical activity are running, hiking, HIIT, and pure barre. There is no rhyme or reason to what type of activity I choose to do daily. I do what sparks my interest and what my body craves at that time.
In 2017 we built our first home and have been making it "ours" ever since. While I'm definitely not a professional designer, I love decorating and personalizing our home. You can frequently find me at vintage markets or second-hand stores on the weekends looking for furniture or other items that make our house feel warm and welcoming.


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This happens to me every year about this time.
I want to quit.
Like, really, really, even though things are going fine, for some reason I'm not happy and I wanna quit.
I'm tired. I'm bored. Restless. Whiny. I hate everything. Everything seems meaningless. I don't care about the company incentives anymore. I don't care about promoting. I don't want to be a professional Pure Romance consultant when I grow up.
This is tooooo hard.
My husband tried to join me in my depression but I told him he would have to wait. It was my turn. We have an unspoken agreement that only one of us can be pessimistic at a time.
So, I'm sulking into my coffee yesterday morning and it dawns on me why I'm feeling so lost and unmotivated.
I had lost sight of my own goals.
I earned Cancun and that was really cool, but if you remember, that wasn't the goal. That was the gravy. The goal was to earn a profit and pay off some of my stinking debt. I had forgotten about that. It had gotten lost a list of nice, but not truly motivating company provided rewards that I couldn't talk myself into working at to achieve.
Work is a waste if you don't really want the goal
For weeks, I haven't been able to shake this feeling that I was wasting my life somehow. Like, do I really want to be a National Director? Is that thing alone something that I want? Would being able to say that I'm in President's Club really enough for me?
The answer, I realized, was a simple NO.
Those are nice things. And I would love to have them. But being Pure Romance everything isn't the goal for me. Pure Romance is the means of getting there.
Get back to what you really want
I want to pay off my debts so that my kids can start their own lives debt free. No student loans. None.
I'll do anything for that. I'll work hard. I'll make sacrifices. I'll go to parties when I'm not in the mood. Book parties when I'd rather have a day off. Cultivate my team even when my introvert self wants to hide under a rock and not deal with people anymore. I'll stick with it all even when it sort of kinda sucks.
I'll move heaven and earth for that. I get excited just thinking about it.
Only your own dreams will carry you through
When I think about my dreams, my personal ones. the ones that really matter, Pure Romance seems like an amazing, wonderful, empowering, meaningful FUN way to make that them happen. I can't think of a single thing on earth I would rather do more than do what I'm doing to get to those goals.
Paid in full
Don't get me wrong. Company incentives are great but they're brownie points. Pats on the back toward what really matters. At the end of the day, what I'm most proud of, what makes it all seem worthwhile, is not the dollars I earned that got me to Cancun, but the dollars I paid on debts that get me closer to my real dreams.


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Hospitality opportunities in Shetland
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A number of hospitality businesses have become available in Shetland recently so, at the time of writing, there are several opportunities that you might want to consider.
Visitor numbers: a healthy picture
Shetland is proving to be an increasingly attractive destination: The 2017 Visitor Survey found that visitor numbers have been increasing over recent years; the overall total rose from 64,655 in 2013 to 73,262 in 2017. Leisure visitors grew from 26,702 to 38,096 over the period, an increase of 43%.
Some of this growth is attributed to Shetland's growing profile in the media, for example the BBC1 Shetland detective series and a steady stream of other radio and television coverage, ranging from Island Medics (BBC1 Scotland), a series exploring the work of our emergency services, to Radio 4's Food Programme and Gardeners' Question Time.
However, just as they have always done, Shetland's natural attractions undoubtedly continue to draw people north. The islands offer some of the best wildlife watching in Europe, with exceptional seabird colonies and the chance of seeing otters, seals, porpoises and even, for those who are very lucky, creatures such as humpback whales or orcas. In the shoulder season, rare birds on migration draw ornithologists from far and wide.
Our festivals – such as the Shetland Folk Festival, Shetland Wool Week and the winter fire festivals, particularly Lerwick's Up Helly Aa – attract enthusiastic audiences and participants outside the main visitor season.
There's impressive archaeology, too, and endless opportunities for hill and coastal walking. Yet, notwithstanding increasing numbers of visitors, Shetland can still offer peace and space for those who seek quiet and solitude. These are qualities that have become rarer in some other islands around Scotland.
However, Shetland accommodation providers, particularly those in the central and north mainland, also benefit from year-round business custom, including a substantial number of contractors' staff. Those are the areas in which the current opportunities have arisen.
The opportunities
Two hotels and a guest house are currently available in Lerwick. Five miles to the west, in the ancient capital, the Scalloway Hotel is on the market and, roughly the same distance to the north, so is the Herrislea House Hotel. In the northern village of Brae, 23 miles from Lerwick, the Brae Hotel is also for sale.
The two hotels in Lerwick are the Queen's and the Grand, both long-established. They're very much part of a town centre that has been carefully conserved and is much admired by the many visitors who make their way to Shetland. Both are Listed Buildings.
Lerwick is the islands' capital and a wide range of services is available. There are very good sports and arts facilities, together with an impressive museum. The town's fishing, engineering and manufacturing industries, as well as employment in local and national government, generate business for local hotels and guest houses all year round.
The Queen's Hotel, Lerwick
The Queen's Hotel has a spectacular setting on the shore of Lerwick's harbour, with a sandy beach immediately to the south; waves wash the lower walls. It's towards the southern end of Commercial Street, the town's traditional shopping area. There are three main floors, together with an attic and a basement. The hotel has 26 bedrooms, all ensuite.
On the ground floor, there's a reception area, a dining room with sea views offering 38 covers, a public bar and a large commercial kitchen. There's scope to convert a rear storage area to provide additional dining space that would also enjoy great sea views.
In the basement, there is storage and laundry space, together with a snooker room that has access to the public bar above.
Offers over £500,000 are being invited for the property and you can find more information on the agent's website.
The Grand Hotel, Lerwick
Also on Commercial Street, the Grand Hotel is in the heart of the shopping area. In fact, a shoe shop and a photographic shop are at street level, below the hotel, with the business's three floors – and an impressive tower - rising above them.
The Grand has 23 letting bedrooms, all of them ensuite. A breakfast room provides 38 covers and a restaurant – with good views – offers 56 covers. There's a public bar, a lounge bar and, towards the rear, a well-equipped and popular nightclub, Posers.
The hotel has a commercial kitchen and there's also a staff wing which provides 6 bedrooms, a bathroom and laundry room.
Offers over £450,000 are being invited for the Grand Hotel and there are more details on the agent's website.
Breiview Guest House, Lerwick
Situated on the south side of Lerwick and within walking distance of all the town's facilities, Breiview Guest House enjoys excellent sea views. It has been owned by the present proprietors for more than 26 years and they now wish to retire. The business enjoys trade all year round.
There are nine letting bedrooms in the house; five on the ground floor (including two singles) and four on the upper floor. All are ensuite and have been recently redecorated. The owners live in an adjacent five-bedroom property and this is available for sale by separate negotiation. Alternatively, some of the letting rooms could be used for owner's accommodation, as was once the case.
In addition to the bedrooms, the guest house has a lounge with open fire; linked to it is a dining room with seating for 20. Both these rooms offer good views. There is also a fully equipped kitchen, staff toilet and walk-in store. Although the property is currently operated on a B&B basis, it has offered evening meals in the past and could do so again in the future.
Offers over £450,000 are being invited for the guest house and there are fuller details on the agent's website.
The Scalloway Hotel
Scalloway is especially noted for its castle and the adjacent museum tells the remarkable story of the Shetland Bus, the covert wartime operation which supported the resistance against Nazi occupation of Norway. Both draw many visitors.
Scalloway has a number of businesses, several of them connected with the fishing industry, and is home to the NAFC Marine Centre, a college that's part of the University of the Highlands and Islands. However, Scalloway is just ten minutes' drive from Lerwick, so is a convenient base for both business and leisure travellers.
The Scalloway Hotel has welcomed a number of famous faces in recent years, including Douglas Henshall, who stars in the Shetland detective series, and the then Prime Minister, David Cameron.
The three-storey, stone building is a prominent feature on the village's Main Street and there are views over the harbour. Plans exist for the redevelopment of the ground floor and for the addition of external seating and a retractable awning; at present, the lounge bar offers meals as well as drinks, with 40 covers.
The dining room, with a similar capacity, serves dinner every evening and lunch on Sundays; it's also the main breakfast room for guests. The quality of the hotel's food has been recognised in the award of two AA Rosettes; it's the only establishment in the northern isles to have gained such an accolade. The kitchen is to the rear of the dining room.
The first and second floors offer a total of 23 ensuite letting bedrooms, including six singles; all have recently been upgraded to a high standard. Six of the rooms have sea views.
The vendors are seeking offers over £900,000 and there's more information online.
Herrislea House Hotel, Tingwall
Five miles north of Lerwick, in Tingwall, the Herrislea House Hotel is on the market. Tingwall was the site of the ancient Norse parliament and the name has the same root as Dingwall and Tynwald, the Isle of Man parliament.
The area is convenient for Lerwick and for exploring more widely, particularly to the north and west. The hotel has benefitted from holiday and business custom. There are two golf courses nearby and opportunities for fishing and other outdoor activities.
Herrislea is currently operating as a successful guest house with nine letting rooms plus staff accommodation. On the ground floor, the public areas include a reception area, a large residents' lounge, dining room and toilets. The accommodation also includes an office, excellent commercial kitchen and laundry. Ample parking is available.
There are eight ensuite bedrooms on the first floor. The two further ensuite bedrooms on the second floor have potential for conversion into an apartment.
New owners could develop the business, for example by re-instating a full public restaurant service. However, a property of this size is adaptable and it could possibly offer a generous family home with a smaller bed and breakfast element.
The selling agents are inviting offers over £295,000 and there are further details on their website.
The Brae Hotel
Brae is the main service centre and largest village in Shetland's north mainland. There is a range of local facilities, including a primary and secondary school, a health centre and a swimming pool.
It was one of the settlements selected for development in the late 1970s in order to serve the needs of the Sullom Voe Oil Terminal and expansion has continued, albeit at a more modest rate, since then. The hotel is popular with contractors' staff working in the area as well as tourists.
On the ground floor, the public facilities include a reception lounge, a restaurant for 50 covers, a cocktail bar, a public bar, a function room seating 100 and a snooker room. Nine of the bedrooms, one of them an accessible ensuite, are located on the ground floor. Also on this level are a commercial kitchen, a cellar, a laundry room and two small rooms, one leased to a beauty therapy business and the other used by the post office each morning for mail sorting.
The first floor contains a further 26 ensuite bedrooms, including two singles. All the bedrooms have televisions and tea and coffee making facilities. There is car parking adjacent to the hotel
Staff accommodation is currently provided in five three-bedroom houses to the rear of the hotel. These aren't included in the sale but would be available by separate negotiation.
The selling agents are seeking offers over £995,000 for the hotel and further information is available from them
Other opportunities
If you're interested in moving to Shetland to operate a business in the hospitality sector, there are frequently other opportunities. Local solicitors – there's a list towards the bottom of our page on housing – usually offer a number of properties large enough to combine a family home with a small bed and breakfast business.
Other businesses come onto the market from time to time. For example, a bar in Scalloway and a fish and chip shop in Lerwick were for sale at the time of writing. Some Shetland properties appear on sites such as Rightmove.
Finding out more
To prepare this blog, we've used details provided on the various agents' websites, supplemented by background information about the Lerwick, Scalloway, Tingwall and Brae areas. We've used all the information in good faith, but we can't guarantee that it's accurate or complete. You shouldn't rely on it in making any decisions, nor should this article be read as offering any form of investment advice; any purchaser would need to carry out their own due diligence.
If you wish to make enquiries about any of the properties, please contact the agents concerned rather than Promote Shetland.
However, we do have lots of information about Shetland on our website, including essential facts, things for visitors to do, getting here, getting around and exploring, and practical guidance on living and working in the islands.
We're also very happy to offer further advice on all of these aspects of Shetland: contact details are here. If you're thinking about a move to this wonderful part of the world, please don't hesitate to get in touch!
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As a Nutritionist I can say I ate a well balanced diet during pregnancy, although I indulged in extra ice cream and treats, as you do... But when my daughter was 9 months old I suffered a very severe ankle break from an incredibly insignificant slip on a stair inside my home! We have carpet on our stairs and while carrying my baby downstairs my right heel slipped on one of the steps and I fell backward. It was a very slight fall (baby was 100% fine) but somehow three bones (two outer and the back bones) smashed and my leg was unable to stay in the ankle socket - so my leg was pointing left while my foot was pointing right...I knew it was very broken!
(scroll down for more photos post op- **Not for the squeamish)
I called 911, ended up in the ER at VGH to have my ankle set back into place with a splint until surgery the following morning. Surgery lasted 4 hours and included 2 plates and a bunch of screws to correct the structure of my ankle.
If you've broken an ankle you likely know how horrible it is! I was completely laid up for 6 weeks and only half functional for another 2 weeks. At about 8/9 weeks post surgery I was finally able to ditch the crutches and able to then carry baby again, along with clean up, cook etc.
Being unable to fully care for my kids and take care of my home was SO hard! I would call myself type A. I am constantly doing something and forever tidying up! So sitting in bed or on my couch staring at toys and messes all over my home was torture. I am forever grateful that my husband stepped up the way he did and worked from home to take care of our kids and me! This was likely the most challenging 9 weeks of my parental life.
Postnatal nutritional depletion is a thing and when we are pregnant and breastfeeding baby takes calcium from us, making our bones a little more fragile than usual. The National Institute of Arthritis and Muscoskeletal and Skin Diseases explains that " During pregnancy, the baby growing in its mother's womb needs plenty of calcium to develop its skeleton. This need is especially great during the last 3 months of pregnancy. If the mother doesn't get enough calcium, her baby will draw what it needs from the mother's bones. So, it is disconcerting that most women of childbearing years are not in the habit of getting enough calcium. Fortunately, pregnancy appears to help protect most women's calcium reserves in several ways:
- Pregnant women absorb calcium from food and supplements better than women who are not pregnant. This is especially true during the last half of pregnancy, when the baby is growing quickly and has the greatest need for calcium.
- During pregnancy, women produce more estrogen, a hormone that protects bones.
- Any bone mass lost during pregnancy is typically restored within several months after the baby's delivery (or several months after breastfeeding is stopped)"
Also that "Breastfeeding also affects a mother's bones. Studies have shown that women often lose 3 to 5 percent of their bone mass during breastfeeding, although they recover it rapidly after weaning. This bone loss may be caused by the growing baby's increased need for calcium, which is drawn from the mother's bones. The amount of calcium the mother needs depends on the amount of breast milk produced and how long breastfeeding continues. Women also may lose bone mass during breastfeeding because they're producing less estrogen, which is the hormone that protects bones. The good news is that, like bone lost during pregnancy, bone lost during breastfeeding is usually recovered within 6 months after breastfeeding ends"
Some foods high in calcium include:
- dark green, leafy vegetables, such as broccoli, collard greens, and bok choy
- canned sardines and salmon
- tofu, almonds
- good quality dairy products (ex. full fat Greek yogurt, feta cheese)
It is important to note that vitamin D3 is necessary for proper calcium absorption. Recommended intake for both are as follows
Foods that contain vitamin D3 include:
- egg yolk
- cheese
- fatty fish (tuna, salmon, mackerel)
- beef liver
Supplements are beneficial for therapeutic purposes to address deficiency but foods are incredibly effective at increasing nutrient stores. Think about it this way - foods are natural and will contain other things that will make it easier for our bodies to absorb and use said food, whereas a synthetic supplement may not be as easily used by our body. That being said vitamin D3 in our lovely, rainy Vancouver climate is a supplement I suggest most of us take between October and May when we don't see much sunlight. If you are a vegetarian/vegan vitamin D supplementation will be extra important.
VGH offers a free physio program which I found to be incredibly beneficial. The therapists were incredibly knowledgeable and kind. At 10 weeks post op they showed me my x-rays from the day I broke it, to current and I was able to see all of the hardware holding my ankle together (2 plates and about 15 screws) as well as the new bone forming! The physio therapist told me that I was healing much better than would be expected at the 10 week mark, which was SO GREAT to hear!! She said they find that moms who have to get back to good health seem to heal faster - makes sense!
My recovery diet included whole foods, a TON of bone broth (eaten alone and added to soups/sauces), very little sugars (honey/coconut sugar/maple syrup), and I added collagen peptides to my smoothies and some morning coffees.
I hope this helps any mama who may find themselves in this same position!


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Environmental group EcoWaste Coalition has appealed to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to initiate immediate measures that will totally ban the entry of plastic and other wastes into the country similar to the Canadian and South Korean garbage dumping incidents.
"We request DENR Secretary Roy Cimatu to impose tough measures that will prevent discarded plastics that could no longer enter China from being diverted into the Philippines due to loopholes in existing regulations," said Aileen Lucero, National Coordinator, EcoWaste Coalition.
With the ban on plastic waste imports in effect in China since 2018, Lucero said "we are seeing increased waste exports from South Korea to the Philippines."
Lucero cited data from the South Korea Customs Service published in November last year indicating that 2017 waste exports from South Korea to the Philippines rose from 4,398 tons to 11,588 tons after China closed the door to plastic waste and other waste imports.
Waste exports from South Korea to Indonesia, Thailand, and Taiwan also increased. On the other hand, South Korea's waste exports to China dropped from 119,575 tons in 2017 to 9,379 tons in 2018.
"Waste traders from industrialized countries are frantically looking for places with lenient regulations where their plastic waste can be shipped for so-called 'recycling' like what we have seen in the controversial plastic garbage shipments from Canada and South Korea. We need to take action now, like what Malaysia and Vietnam did before it's too late," Lucero added.
The Quezon City-based toxic watchdog noted that Vietnam stopped issuing plastic waste import licenses in July 2017 after their waste imports went from 2,000 – 5,000 tons per month to 300 – 400 tons per month.
The EcoWaste Coalition added that Malaysia made the same move reducing their plastic waste imports from 1,000 to 2,000 tons per month in 2017 to 56 tons in 2018.
In October 2018, Malaysia also announced its plan to phase out imports of all plastic wastes in three years.
At the ceremonial send-off rites last Sunday for the 51 containers of illegal garbage exports from South Korea, Rep. Juliette Uy (Second District, Misamis Oriental) conveyed her support for "stringent policies" to deter plastic waste dumping into the country.
"We need to adopt new stringent policies to prevent the importation of plastic and other types of waste since we do not want our province, and our whole country for that matter, to become a global garbage dump," she told the crowd assembled at the Mindanao International Container Terminal (MICT).
MICT Port Collector John Simon also said there is a need for "stringent policy measures" to protect the country from plastic wastes and pollutants.
"It's our shared responsibility to proactively prevent plastic wastes, which often come unsorted and contaminated with hazardous materials, from entering our ports. Stringent policy measures should be adopted, including banning the importation of waste plastics, which should be treated at source and not sent to developing counties like ours," he said.
Zero waste advocate Noli Abinales, founder of Buklod Tao, agreed with Simon: "We should send a clear message to waste traders and traffickers that our country is not a dumping ground for the world's trash. Disallowing plastic waste importation will compel governments and industries to think of innovative ways to prevent the creation of garbage and ensure their environmentally-sound management at the country of generation."
In July 2017, China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) of its intent to prohibit the importation of scrap plastics by the end of December 2017 "to protect China's environmental interests and people's health.
According to the notification sent by the MEP to the WTO, "large amounts of dirty wastes or even hazardous wastes are mixed in the solid waste that can be used as raw materials… polluting the environment seriously."
"To protect China's environmental interests and people's health, we urgently adjust the imported solid waste list, and forbid the import of solid wastes that are highly polluted," the MEP said.
The import ban applies to 24 waste categories, including eight types of post-consumer plastic scrap materials.
"We hope DENR will follow suit and ban plastic waste importation to safeguard human health and the environment," the EcoWaste Coalition said.


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The undeclared Yemeni-Saudi truce, which lasted for about 4 months, has practically ended and the next round of escalation remains, but where, how, and who is the loser if the military operations that will be completely different from its predecessors and its parties this time?
The UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths made a mistake and we do not know what he based on when he presented in his last briefing to the UN Security Council last Thursday, January 16. Griffiths stated that he had made progress during his recent moves and meetings with various parties, although we were waiting for the opposite to say completely. All field, political and media indicators warn of the collapse of the indirect understandings that came as a result of the secret consultations that have been taking place in the Omani capital of Muscat since the initiative of the President of the Supreme Political Council in the capital, Sanaa, president Mahdi Al-Mashat, on September 20. The escalation is coming, and Martin Griffiths may have had to ask the international community to help contain the fiercest war that will return soon.
Griffiths said by letter that 80% of the airstrikes and military operations stopped, but he did not mention that the reasons for this had ended and that their return was possible and very likely, and in conjunction with a regional, international escalation. The war in Yemen is a major part in the heart of the two axes. The strange thing is that he indicated an achievement related to what he called "neutralizing Yemen" of the regional and international conflict!
I am not here to discuss the last briefing of the UN Secretary-General's envoy, but it is important to point out that and stop with it because what will happen and move now is almost completely reversing the briefing. We must stop at three important points before seeing the most recent developments. What was launched by Sana'a is 'the great pain' in reference to the upcoming military operations by Yemen.
The first point is that Brigadier General Yahya Sari, a spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, threatened the end of last year 2019 with targeting 6 very accurate targets in Saudi Arabia and 3 targets in the Emirates with missile attacks and expanding the circle of targets to include vital and strategic centers, and perhaps similar to Aramco.
This warning language was reinforced by Sayyed. Abdulmalik Al-Houthi in his recent speech when he advised Saudi Arabia and the UAE to get out of the aggressive war on Yemen. This came in the context of his call to unify the axis of the resistance to respond to the American attacks targeting the axis countries, the most recent of which is the assassination of the two leaders, Soleimani and the engineer in Iraq, on the orders of US President Donald Trump and Israeli participation. The repercussions of this assassination remain.
The second point relates to Saudi Arabia's acceleration of the founding of the so-called riparian states of the Red Sea, which include Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia and Jordan, a group that Riyadh has been working on since 2017 and possibly before.
It is true that this step has to do with confronting other countries such as Turkey and Iran, but it cannot be ruled out that he pushed him to engage in any upcoming escalation process against Yemen under the title of protecting maritime and strategic security of this gathering especially that most of these countries are involved and within the Saudi-led coalition since 2015, and it is remarkable which is Perhaps a precedent in the history of the countries bordering the Red Sea is that the Israeli enemy entity is part of this gathering even if it is not invited to a meeting. The Saudi Arabia and the Israeli enemy have already talked about the official involvement of the entity, and there are detailed points announced by Saudi General Anwar Ashqi during his meeting in 2014 with prominent members of the Israeli intelligence that the role of the Zionist entity in the gathering was discussed at this meeting.
The third and final point in this part is the French and Saudi announcement of the recent deployment of French radars on Saudi soil to reinforce its air defenses, a move that was not surprising but its timing includes Saudi concerns about the repetition of Aramco's attacks that have not yet fully recovered. So that these fears are explained by two axes: the first in preparation for any future regional war between the United States of America and Iran and its allies, and the second is preparing for any escalation with Yemen in the open war five years ago.
Returning to the military and political moves that threaten a possible escalation and the end of the war and peace that prevailed during the past 4 months, heating up for the next round has already begun. The government of the capital, Sanaa, is in the process of announcing the end of the specified period for Riyadh to accept the President's initiative and completely stop military operations, air strikes, lifting the siege and engaging in serious Saudi-Yemeni negotiations. Saudi Arabia has practically refrained from responding to my photos, playing on time, carrying out raids from time to time and lifting the siege and relying more on economic warfare, while Yemen stopped targeting Saudi Arabia and reciprocity in order to preserve the continued survival of the president Al-Mashat's initiative.
This situation is not acceptable to Yemen and constitutes great harm. This stalemate must be broken by placing Saudi Arabia again in the circle of targeting with ballistic missiles, drones and moving military operations at the borders, and internally to push Saudi Arabia out of the war. Therefore, the escalation is a Yemeni need and is the only way to put Saudi Arabia in front of two options, either serious peace for the two countries, or continued war and instability in the two countries.
The most important thing is that there is an unmissable military and political strategic factor related to the confusion that Saudi Arabia is experiencing after it lost many local and regional allies, the UAE's military role has diminished, and more recently, the bulk of the Sudanese forces that were part of the alliance in the West Coast have withdrawn.
In the same context, Saudi Arabia is busy trying to implement the Riyadh agreement in the southern Yemeni provinces between the forces of Abd Rabbo Mansour and his allies. In one hand the transitional council, ally of the Emirates, on the other hand, the Muslims Brotherhood, ally of the Saudi regime. After this front was exposed to a major shakeup as a result of its entering into a bloody conflict in August last year. The capital Sana'a finds that Freezing military action in this case serves Riyadh and leaves it with an opportunity to emerge from more than one crisis.
The last point is the relationship between Yemen and the axis of resistance and the strategic battle to remove the American forces from the Middle East. A strategy that Yemen has fully responded to and Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi announced that the battle should not be separated according to the enemy's plan. All free forces who are affected by the American hegemony should unite.
This positioning, which is a semi-declared positioning, requires participation in undermining the American presence by targeting its allies and weakening the American role in the aggression against Yemen.
Focusing on this strategy for Sana'a gives it additional strength. Exit and close this war without conditions, so it is an opportunity for Yemen and a stalemate for Saudi Arabia.
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By Karen Clark
Nick Park's Oscar winning animation Wallace and Gromit returns to the BBC in a half hour episode titled A Matter of Loaf and Death.
The programme will be one of the major attractions in the BBC's schedule this Christmas and sees our heroes running a successful bakery called Top Bun. Unfortunately there is a "cereal killer" on the loose set on destroying all the local bakeries and Gromit fears that Wallaces' life is in danger.
However, Wallace may be preoccupied with a new lady character called Piella Bakewell who is voiced by ex Coronation Street star, Sally Lindsay. As always the voice for Wallace is veteran actor Peter Sallis.
The short film was recently screened in London and Park commented on what it's like to work with the BBC again, "In a way, it was like a homecoming really. It was nice to be back with the BBC."
Wallace and Gromit were first brought to our screens in 1993 on BBC2 with a short film entitled The Wrong Trousers and then again in 1995 viewers were treated to A Close Shave. Both shorts won Oscars for Best Animated Short.
Park has also made two feature films about the hapless inventor and his canine companion both of which were a huge success. However, after taking four years to complete each film, Park seems quite content to return to the half hour format. He said, "I have done two feature films back to back. Each one has taken at least four years to do. I felt I wanted to get ideas out quicker, and a half hour format seemed a lot more humane.


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Radiohead and prolific film composer Hans Zimmer have teamed up for a new version of one of the band's songs for the BBC's upcoming Blue Planet II nature documentary series. The song, called "(Ocean) Bloom," is an orchestral reworking of the skittering, percussive "Bloom" from the band's 2011 album The King Of Limbs. Zimmer and the band collaborated on this new take, which was performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra alongside new vocals from Thom Yorke. It's featured as the soundtrack to a five-minute Blue Planet II prequel video that is set to debut on September 27.
In a press release, Thom Yorke noted that "Bloom," which is full of ocean imagery, had ties to Blue Planet even before this new version was commissioned. "'Bloom' was inspired by the original Blue Planet series," he said, "so it's great to be able to come full circle with the song and reimagine it for this incredible landmark's sequel." He also talked up the experience of working with Zimmer, saying "Hans is a prodigious composer who effortlessly straddles several musical genres, so it was liberating for us all to work with such a talent and see how he wove the sound of the series and Bloom together."


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I received a lengthy email from someone last night. It has really 're-sobered' me, again, concerning the deep, deep responsiblity anyone in leadership has, as this person was 'spiritually abused' by a leader for a long time and is now realizing how vast the consequences have been.
Leaders, any leader, has been GIVEN authority, by God, to serve those under their leadership.We will be held accountable for the use, or misuse, of our authority.
This should be something that sobers us again and again.
Because my main roles are husband, dad, and pastor, I am thinking most in this line of reference. I am in a season of grieving the ways I failed over the years to be the spiritual covering I should have been. I took my responsibility seriously, without question, but still......
There were points of glaring failure. And I grieve as I realize how deep and wide the consequences are of not protecting the people God has given us to cover and care for. Parents, your children are a TRUST from God. Husbands, your wife is a TRUST from God. Pastors, your people are a TRUST from God. And when you wound or allow them to be wounded by others, God doesnt just wave a magic wand and make it all better. YOU, the authority he delegated to, were responsible and now must be responsible to make things right.
Again, as in the case of this young man, it can take many years to recover. He entrusted himself to unsound leadership and its influence. It was not SOUND, clean, clear, wholesome. Things got wierd. Then wierder. Great damage occured in future relationships. The consequences were tragic, but because we serve a great Redeemer, not beyond repair.
But a decade was lost, with great damage.
I know I am rambling, but I want to get this out of my heart, as I believe it is so important. Harvest may not be perfect, but from day one, one of our 7 Core Values has been "SOUNDNESS in life and doctrine". Its so important to be under sound, life-giving leadership. I tell people all the time who come to Harvest, wanting to know what they can expect, "There's alot I cant promise you. I cant promise you will like the music. I cant promise you will always like the preaching or the kids ministry or the youth ministry. But I can promise you ONE thing: You have found 'safe harbor' and your soul and your family will never be hurt here and will have the ability to grow in peace and security."
I want to be a better leader. To my wife. To my children. To my church. I want them all to be blessed and flourish under my leadership and to always feel secure. But it all starts with ME being sound myself. Indeed, everything starts from the top and flows down.
May God have mercy and may we who lead do some soberly, knowing we will give an account....


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Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. – Mordecai Siegal
It is difficult enough to acknowledge the aging process when it comes to myself, but when it comes to my dogs, I have steadfastly refused to even admit the possibility. In my mind, they have always been the same young animals we rescued from various abusive homes so many years ago.
In the last few months, though, reality has set in, and I have noticed the signs of aging, that they have lived life along with myself and my wife, but won't be along with us for the long haul.
We have had to put a number of dogs to sleep over the past few years, including my late mother-law's dogs, and my late sister-in-law's beautiful Labrador, who was felled by skin cancer.
But the original trio – the Three Stooges – we put together when we got together as a couple are now showing their age, even the fabled Action Dog, and sometimes you have to wonder how long it might be before . . .
They are all well over ten years old, but still in fairly good shape for their ages, but there is the gray hair, and the slower gait (even Action Dog is a little slower with the Frisbee these days) and they aren't quite so interested in attacking what they know in their hearts are dogs 12 feet tall on the other side of the wooden fence. A few barks, but they are all-too-willing to head to the house when I call them in.
They sleep a lot more than they used to.
It's quite possible that I m projecting here, given the minor health issues Tracy and I have had recently, but still, sometimes they want nothing more than to sit at our feet when we are watching TV, or working at the computer.
Which is emotionally satisfying all on its own, actually, for all concerned.
This doesn't mean that they are perpetually lethargic. If someone dares ring a doorbell on TV it can, as ever, bring out their watchdog instincts, and they are ready to let any of the contractors working on the house know that they might, if need be, turn into formidable forces to be reckoned with.
When I begin making dinner for them, you would think they hadn't been fed in months.
Just a few months ago Dublin, the terrier, brought a rabbit head in and left it on Tracy's pillow as a present for her. Watching Those Calloways last year – from the era when Disney still made movies adults could watch without turning off their brains – he seemed fascinated by the geese flying on the screen, as if thinking , "I've got your geese sanctuary right here, boys."
Shalaundra, our Labrador who as a puppy thought that chasing down a horse in Devil's Den State Park was the greatest idea in the world, has trouble getting up on the couch, but she can still run like mad across the yard.
Action Dog – she who answers to several names – is slower these days, but won't admit for the world.
Like dogs, our bodies age but in our minds we are still in our 20s and 30s, and the refusal of our bodies to perform as well as they once did is a minor annoyance at best. We'll do better the next time.
We just need a little more rest . . . maybe some vitamins.
And so I watch my dogs as they sleep and wonder when we won't enjoy each other's company any longer. Though I'll mourn that day, and for many days afterwards, I don't feel any particular sadness now.
We still have this journey to go on now, hobbling occasionally together as we go, and that sustains me.
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To study foreign affairs without putting ourselves into other's shoes is to deal in illusion and to prepare students for a lifelong misunderstanding of our place in the world. – Paul Gagnon


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When you have a TV producer who is also a writer, he or she understands the creative aspects of the product better rather than concentrating too much on commercial aspects which no doubt are very important.
In this scenario we caught up with successful Writer turned Producer Sonali Jaffar (Full House Media) who at the moment is producing Tujhse Hai Raabta ( Zee TV) and Mere Hanikarak Biwi (&TV).
Tujhse Hai Raabta your Zee TV show is doing well?
Yes I am glad that the story based on mother daughter equation is picking up; the current wedding track will give it further ballast.
You have set the show in Maharashtra, does regionalization work?
Being Maharashtrian myself, I always wanted to make a show rooted in my culture, but was always discouraged saying that Marathi folks are more tuned into regional content. But yet I went ahead and am glad, for we have found a strong audience up North as well. Guess the matriarchal family and power that women enjoy here appeals to them more. It is human nature to appreciate what you don't normally get.
You have mostly taken Marathi actors (Poorva Gokhale, Savita Prabhune) for the same show?
It was a conscious decision to suit the set up; the only non Marathi actors in our cast are leads Reem Shaikh and Sehban Azim. But they too have become like us not due to birth by the sheer numbers of years they have spent in Mumbai.
The concept of Meri Hanikarak Biwi (male impotency) is bold?
The writer in me always wants to push the envelope. This risk is cemented by my belief that audience too wants relief from saas -bahu crap. I wanted to explore what a male goes through when he can't father a child. For me a true man is someone who stands up for the truth. My protagonist unlike others of his ilk also will not shift the blame for his inadequacies on his better half. The motto is to show that that even small section of men too are victims of patriarchal society. The success of films like Shubh Mangal Savdhan is proof of the same. I am glad that &TV liked my above idea, for other channels were not comfortable with its differentiated concept. I have also not needed to change my story due to S P norms, what you see is my original thought. The fact that we are into our second year is indicative of our success.
What went wrong with your other recent STAR Bharat show, Papa By Chance?
Nothing, ideally we should have been given more time, two months was too less to achieve some huge results. Our decent enough numbers were more or less to what the slot was anyways garnering. But I don't question the channel for we have great equation going courtesy, Bahu Hamari Rajni Kant.
There is lot of chatter about web series, what do u feel about it viz viz TV
Both have completely different ideologies. With the latter being more personal in nature, you can go edgier. The tube on the other hand is more family friendly; hence its stories have to be universally acceptable. The youth is certainly shifting more to digital content. For the moment I am happy with my small screen space and don't want to put my hand in too many pies.
You first got noticed as a producer with Bahu Hamari Rajni Kant?
This property will always be closest to my heart for it changed the face of TV. People started to focus on content rather than just hook points. Here I will also give full credit to my husband Aamir for having put our money where our mouth is.
As a producer do ratings now concern you more than when you only wrote?
Having written a lot for Balaji, I would always make it a point back then as well to get ratings for a lot was riding on me. There always has to be a balance between creativity and what sells.


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The National Health Service at 50 presents historians with a daunting challenge. We are so close and involved - and who would want to kick a much-loved national institution when it is down? The dilemma, moreover, must be doubly difficult if, like Charles Webster, you happen also to have been its official historian. The scholarly monuments put out by HMSO always demanded bureaucratic blandness and tight-lipped prose. Released from that straitjacket, would a different Webster emerge, revealing himself in his true colours?
Readers hoping to encounter "Webster Unbound" will not be disappointed. The National Health Service: A Political History is, by any standards, contemporary history at its finest. Webster's mastery of technicalities is apparent from every page, as one would expect from a scholar steeped in the archives who has already researched much of this story in a brace of books ten times longer. Above all, secure in his sources, Webster does not hesitate to speak his historical mind.
So how does he take the pulse of the NHS? It is not for nothing that this volume is called a "political history". This is in part to signal that it is not polio and penicillin that are centre-stage: there are no familiar photos here of gleaming new hospitals or smiling kiddies getting their booster jabs. What Webster chiefly means to convey by his subtitle, however, is that the NHS has perennially been politically embroiled. While the "political football" cliche is mercifully avoided, it might not have been inappropriate.
The NHS, Webster insists, did not just spontaneously emerge out of the state's growing involvement in health care from Victorian times onwards. It was not the product of some mythic national "consensus". Nor was it forced into being by irresistible "necessity" after a devastating world war.
Rather the NHS was the creation of the Labour Party - specifically, Webster insists, the fruits of the incomparable vision, drive and charisma of Aneurin Bevan, arguably the only minister of health who has ever managed to drag all players into line. Some sort of health reform would doubtless have followed had Churchill won the 1945 election, but there is no reason to suppose that it would have included the key principles of the system inaugurated on the Appointed Day - a nationalised hospital network and universal access to primary care, free at point of service.
Thereafter, politics were rarely far from the surface. Matters of principle brought Bevan's resignation in 1951 over prescription charges - an episode obliquely echoed by Barbara Castle's later losing battle over pay-beds. Into the 1950s certain Conservatives, for their part, continued to hanker after a health service run on the insurance principle; and not till Iain Macleod, argues Webster, was there a Tory health spokesman who truly endorsed the NHS - as part of Disraelian one-nation Toryism.
There was, of course, the Butskellite interlude when the two main parties played Tweedledum and Tweedledee in undertakings for NHS expansion. But political infighting never ceased, and industrial action flared during the pay pauses of the 1970s, culminating in Callaghan's disastrous Winter of Discontent. And by then the new right was already hatching its plans to roll back the welfare state.
In 1979, for the first time since the war, there came to power a leader viewing welfarism as halfway to communism with devotees determined to go on the offensive against the "granny state". If, as we were soon being told, there was no such thing as society, what sort of future would there be for socialised medicine?
In addressing the Thatcher and Major era, Webster seems at times to be engaged in a dispute with himself. The "big picture" he paints is that Thatcherism launched a calculated and concerted attack on the NHS, in an "act of determined political will". "Each step preparing the way for further change", the prime minister proceeded "by means of progressively discrediting, destabilising and supplanting existing institutions until the process of radical transformation was complete," states Webster in a chapter significantly headed "Continuous revolution". Doubtless that is precisely what the "ideologues of the right" wanted, denouncing socialist "red tape" and "inefficiency" and urging the promotion, through tax incentives, of private medicine.
Yet Webster's year-by-year narrative does not exactly confirm this vision of the inexorable implementation of a master strategy. By this, I am not merely alluding to the fact that Tory manifestos and policy statements never ceased to voice stout support for the NHS, from Mrs Thatcher's famous pledge at the 1982 Party Conference that the NHS was "safe with us", through to her insistence, just before her fall, that "the National Health Service will continue to be available to all, regardless of income". After all, were not those 18 years times of stupendous deception and duplicity?
Rather, what the Thatcher and Major administrations actually undertook seems far less decisive. The early 1980s brought little reform beyond the removal of the "area" tier of administration emplaced in 1974 by none other than Sir Keith Joseph - even the Community Health Councils, an obvious target, escaped unscathed. The introduction of "Sainsbury managers" following the Griffiths report (1983) was not an especially doctrinaire response to management shortcomings that were widely acknowledged - and Griffiths himself was to prove no Tory yes-man. Then remarkably little was actually done during Thatcher's second term to transform the NHS. The Treasury, Webster observes, knew that the savings to be made from introducing the "hotel charges" or insurance schemes dear to free-market think-tanks would certainly be marginal, while the prime minister's political instincts taught her that an onslaught on the NHS, like that against the trade unions, would have been electoral suicide.
So what of trusts and fund-holding, broached in 1988, introduced while Thatcher was being toppled, and justly termed by Kenneth Clarke the biggest shake-up the NHS had seen? Webster candidly acknowledges that, far from being a deep-laid scheme, the internal market was a somewhat desperate throw, made faute de mieux in the face of traumatic cash crises. Policy was being made up on the hoof - expedients came first, the ideological rationalisations followed. "There is every indication," Webster is surely correct to write, "that Mrs Thatcher was a late and reluctant convert to the idea of radical interference with the health service. This was one of the few areas of policy where she judged that it was best to leave well alone."
And beyond installing the "unplanned" internal market, the Major years reveal virtually no serious intentions of further radical reform; tellingly, neither the hapless Virginia Bottomley nor Stephen Dorrell even makes it into Webster's index. The most conspicuous development in the 1990s was the mushroom growth of management, as the 1,000 senior managers of 1986 turned into 26,000 by 1995, the total outlay in needless administrative expenditure being reckoned at up to Pounds 1.5 billion a year. Eighteen years of Toryism thus ended not only with the NHS still dominating British health care - private medicine remains "minuscule in scale" - but even with the old administrative pyramids still essentially intact. Webster thus presents two images - Tory butchery and Tory bungling - that do not wholly harmonise.
If the record of events throws into question the former reading, it certainly reinforces Webster's most important insight. The Achilles heel of the service, he insists, has ironically been the fact that, during its entire 50-year span, it has commanded overwhelming public support, thanks to its "capacity to deliver great humanitarian benefits as a surprisingly low cost". The result has been a tragic national complacency - the tendency, in Sir George Godber's words, "to pride ourselves on having the finest health service in the world", which has thereafter excused spending less on health than any comparable nation.
From early days, the presence of the service meant that governments could get away with inattention to health. Ministers of health were not even granted a Cabinet place, thereby making expenditure pegging all the easier. The NHS's cheapness became a fact of life rather than a warning symptom of collective neglect - be it the failure in the 1950s to build new hospitals and health centres or, to this very day, to invest in prevention, education and public health. It is characteristic of this syndrome that, on taking office, Tony Blair (exuding what Webster calls his "fresh-faced version of conservatism") could pledge to cut waiting-lists, but then let them lengthen, safe in the knowledge that an ever-stoical nation would not be up in arms.
This is a powerful book, packed with facts yet fired with passion. Complexities are clarified, even if brevity means much has to be taken as read (will all readers know how Whitley Councils worked?). Nice personal touches abound - Richard Crossman, we are told, was "prone to acts of audacity" - though it seems slightly cruel to refer to "Normal Fowler". Webster's prose is crisp, his tone sardonic and the judgments now and then explosive. Battling against Bevan, the British Medical Association is said to have used "megaphone diplomacy imitative of totalitarian regimes", while, Webster asserts, the conditions of some long-stay patients in the pre-NHS days were "arguably little better than the concentration camp". The politics of health will be the next century's big issue. There is no better introduction to our present impasse than Webster's book.
Roy Porter is professor in the social history of medicine, Wellcome Institute.
The National Health Service: A Political History
Author - Charles Webster
Publisher - Oxford University Press
Price - £9.99
Pages - 241
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The ability to make someone feel absolutely miserable is an art form not everyone is able to conquer. The ones that do can it can take that dark magic and spread it all over the universe, distributing their brand of fury and depression for everyone to experience.
Brand new Seattle death grinders Theories already have that thing down pat on their debut album "Regression," their vicious, gnarly record that's found an unlikely home on Metal Blade. That's not a shot at Metal Blade, by the way. It's just that bands of this ilk generally end up at other noteworthy places such as Relapse, so it's cool to see the metal behemoth of a label giving these guys a proper thrust into the world. And having such a big label behind their debut should do wonders for Theories, because they are as vicious and explosive as they come. Now more people will be exposed to their thunderous vitriol that could give you a massive headache (uh … in a good way) once you're done with this 10-track monster.
The components that make up Theories have made their marks elsewhere with other devastating outfits including Samothrace, Book of Black Earth, and Skarp, and you can hear elements of all of those groups mixed into this poisonous concoction. Comprising the lineup are vocalist Rick Powell, guitarist Lee McGlothlen, bassist Kush Karimi, and drummer Joe Axler, who combined their destructive forces to make for a fiery, not-to-miss debut record. The songs are on the shorter end, but the guys make the best of their time here, spilling tons of chaos and madness into these cuts and, yes, making sure you feel as miserable and agitated as possible along the way.
"Burnt Concrete" is the first burst of hell from this band, as a vicious, sludgy stream of mucky grind pours forth like cement about to harden. The track crushes without mercy, with the vocals lurching and bruising and the drums being completely decimated. "Cycle of Decay" is smeared with soot and mauls hard. The pace picks up, as they push forward with surprising force, and some melodic guitar lines burn underneath the chaos, allowing the mud to glimmer. "Shame" has punishing riffs, vocals that trample you hard, and a strong, smashing tempo, where it feels like the music is splitting your guts open and spraying them everywhere. "Abortive Crescent" has a breathless pace as it begins its assault from the word go, and the package of thrashy noise and aggressive battery raises the threat level and keeps its focus on killing until it finally bleeds out. "Bathing in Pig's Blood" is as crazed and smearing as its title indicates, with the band rewarding your attention with menacing death and vocals that sound like they may have left Powell hoarse and raw when he was finished.
"First World's Last Breath" unleashes pummeling drums, a thrashy and toxic guitar display, and vocals that reach into the deeper end for visions of complete annihilation. The horrors here are evident and they stick to your side long after the cut subsides. "Swimming in Mud," despite its title, is one of the more adventurous, mind-altering of all of the songs included here. The guitars bend and sway, leaving a slurry feeling, and the vocals are massive and feel like they're delivering a lifetime's worth of pain. "Revenge/Rewild" rips apart immediately, with the guitars tearing a gaping hole in your chest and the other elements feeding off the carnage. The vocals, by the way, sound like they're spat out in disgust, like Powell is trying to relieve himself of the worst thing he's ever tasted. "Hell in Her Eyes" is the longest of the group at 4:59, and it starts in a bed of chilling guitars and eerie transmissions before they take a turn headlong into total devastation. The band adds some different colors on this track, like streaks of orange and purple across a dusk sky, while melody cuts through the smoke at the end, giving the track a thrilling finish. Closer "Landfill" then takes everything back into a raging fire, with hard riffs, vocals that are gruff and unforgiving, and a mangling last burst of terror that gets in some final gut punches.
If you are looking for something that's good and angry and bound to leave you feeling miserable and irritated when all is said and done, Theories could be your band. "Regression" is a fine debut for the band, a record you should give a serious shot, especially if you want something to align with your own blackness and inner turmoil. This band will reward you time and time again, even if they also leave you with skinned knees on the verge of infection.
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What's it like being a life Coach?
My family and I got in a car accident. We relied on that car for work, Dr appointments for my son who has special needs. My world stopped. What are we going to do now? We have been living off our savings while my husband recovered from surgery, we are barely scraping by as it is, now this?
At first, I wanted to curl up in a ball and give up. We were knocked down to what felt like our lowest point and the blows keep coming.
My anxiety took over and I screamed and cried, mad at the world! I picked myself up and told myself "Do not give up, do not let this break you." I can overcome this, this has not been the first time I have been at my lowest and might not be the last. These moments do not define us, they make us stronger.
I have learned so much from successful ladies in the business and coaching world. Their words saved me. When I started feeling sorry for myself, I thought what would these ladies that I look up to do in this situation? They would cry and then pick themselves up, they would not let this defeat them.
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Quit her job in Marketing to work for herself as a life coach. She had big scary Dreams and she followed them. She loves the beach and Travelling.
Kim: How did you find your calling to become a coach?
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Kim: Do you believe that everyone could benefit from having a coach?
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Kim: What is one piece of advice you give your clients that resonates with both of you?
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Kim: What advice would you give someone looking for a coach?
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1) are they embodying what they are teaching?
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Kim: How do we know what coach fits best with us and our goals?
Aly: Most coaches do discovery calls. You can ask these coaches all the questions before you hire them so that you feel confident they can support you in exactly what you are trying to create. This is a place you want to check in with your gut as well – for me, it's usually a hell yes or a hell no with someone I'm interviewing as a coach (putting all logic aside and relying on your intuition here).
Kim: What if someone wants to be a coach would it be best to have a coach of their own too?
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Kim: How did you find your calling to become a coach?
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I worked on that business for a year and then transitioned into becoming a life coach which felt like a better fit. I received my online coach training through Inner Glow Circle and afterward became certified through the International Coaching Federation.
Kim: Do you believe that everyone could benefit from having a coach?
Krista: Yes, I do believe that everyone would benefit from having a coach, but they have to be coachable and willing to put in the work. If they don't have these two mindsets, then working with a coach will not be beneficial and a waste of time for both parties.
Kim: What is one piece of advice you give your clients that resonates with both of you?
Krista: One piece of advice that I give to all my clients is: the way you show up in one area of life is how you show up in all areas of life… I highly encourage my clients to show up on time, ready to take notes, present, committed and focused. If you are showing up this way on coaching calls then you probably are showing up this way in other areas of your life too!
Kim: What advice would you give someone looking for a coach?
Krista: The advice I would give someone looking to work with a coach is to make sure they are credentialed through the International Coaching Federation. This is the top credentialing center for coaches worldwide and has a fantastic reputation. If you are going to be investing in a coach, then you want to make sure you have a coach that has good quality training and properly knows how to support someone around their goals.
Also, book a free discovery call with the coach and make sure that you are connecting with their energy and feel comfortable/trust them from that first conversation.
Kim: How do we know what coach fits best with us and our goals?
Krista: The way that we know a coach fits best with us and our goals is trusting our intuition. If after the discovery call you are feeling confident that you and the coach are on the same page around your goals and you are excited to partner with them over the course of the next 3, 6, 9 or 12 months then you know that's a good fit!
Kim: What if someone wants to be a coach would it be best to have a coach of their own too?
Krista: Yes, if someone has a coach then they absolutely need to have their own coach who can help guide them and move through limiting beliefs and roadblocks that can happen when stepping outside of your comfort zone. We can only go so far on our own… we need to let in support, so we can get to the next level of success.
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