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Jane Lynch: Divorce from Wife Lara Embry
Jane Lynch and her wife Lara Embry have decided to end their marriage and get a divorce.
"Lara and I have decided to end our marriage. This has been a difficult decision for us as we care very deeply about one another. We ask for privacy as we deal with this family matter," the 52-year-old Glee actress told People in a statement.
Jane and Lara met in 2009 and were married on Memorial Day in 2010 in Massachusetts, where gay marriage is recognized.
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John Burnet was born in Edinburgh on 9 December 1863 and died in St Andrews on 26 May 1928. The son of an advocate and the eldest of five children, he was educated at Edinburgh's Royal High School, the University of Edinburgh, and in 1883 went to Oxford (Balliol College), where he gained first classes in Classical Moderations and Literae Humaniores. The most profound scholarly influences on him in his early years were Richard Nettleship and Ingram Bywater; to Bywater he would later attribute his vocation to classical scholarship. He left Oxford in 1887 to take an appointment for a year as personal assistant to Lewis Campbell, the beginning of an association with the University of St Andrews that would last until his death. In 1892 he succeeded Campbell in the Greek Chair (he had been interim professor from 1891 to 1892). He held this post until retirement in 1926, though he was offered a chair at Harvard in 1909, and on Bywater's retirement had in 1908 sought his Regius Chair of Greek, which went to Gilbert Murray. In 1916 he was elected fellow of the British Academy.
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Three different flavours of salted caramel chocolates comprising that moreish combination of sweet with a hint of saltiness. It shouldn't make sense; we can't explain how or why, all we know is that it tastes oh so good! Ben Axford has chocolate running through his veins. He spent most of his childhood growing up in Brussels and raiding his parents' stash of luxury chocolate. But a law degree, headhunting, a cheese & wine business, and getting to the final of Masterchef all came before he finally decided to stop pinching other people's chocolate and make some of his own.


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I have had a very successful day op shopping today.
These are just a few of things I picked up.
A few things for the downstairs kitchen- $2 a piece from Vinnies.
These red place mats are made of flat beads and are perfect for outside. Also from Vinnies and only $2 each.
The playstation is from the Salvos and is for my middle grandson. It was $24 and I have no idea if it was a good price or not.
The chenille cushion was $4 and brightens up the outdoors. Will have to bring it in when it rains.
I was thrilled with this chair on a cane base. I am not sure what you call these but it is very comfy. The cover is cream but obviously the previous owners had cats so I threw this sarong over it. Chair from Vinnies $35 and sarong I bought from the Salvos a while ago for $4.00.
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This week the Universe has decided to teach me a few life lessons. You know the big ones: You never know what's going on with a person until you walk a mile in their shoes, life is too short, it will never give you more than you can handle, and just when you get comfortable it starts throwing curve-balls. I've also noticed it's around this time of year. Anyone else have a particular time of year the Universe starts messing with them, or is it just me?
If you're on the fence about kindrunner, check out their 48 Hours of Paying the Kindness Forward campaign. Anyone who registers for www.kindrunner.com will receive a $10 Kindness Cash Rewards Credit towards a future purchase of ANY brand and ANY item! Can't beat that. Don't wait, it ends once they leave the office on Friday. Need more information? I wrote this post about the site, and then this one once it launched (Disclaimer: I am an ambassador for kindrunner.com and will be doing ongoing campaigns with the site. I will be providing my 100% honest opinion, per usual. Even if I wasn't, I'd still be telling yall about this awesome company).
I'm excited about this weekend's Queens 10k. If you haven't already guessed, I'm absolutely in love with the branding. They even had women's cut in the tech tee! During packet pickup, NYRR was also having a blowout merch sale. I got 2 running jackets for $15 each; you can't beat that! Even if it is 105 degrees outside and the thought of putting it on is torturous (dude. The walk from the 6 train to NYRR HQ is a KILLER), but I digress. I haven't been to Flushing Meadows Corona Park since the 13.1 Marathon Series in 2012, but I remember loving the park. There is so much to see there! I wish I lived closer. According to the almighty schedule, I need to get 11 in, so let's all pray to baby Jesus that the trains are going to be running smoothly; getting from Brooklyn to Queens on a Sunday morning definitely warrants prayers. Hopefully, I'm going to get to run with a friend who wants to try out intervals. I really think it's a perfect gateway to get people to like running and every runners wants more running friends! Yea. I know: Total Runnerd.
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Sunday, March 10, 2013
College Night Making Buttons at the High
Raoul and I got to be a part of the Frida and Diego event for College Night at the High Museum of Art. We had so much fun, here are some pictures I took that night. I did not get to take too many cos we were so busy making button badges with everyone that came to the museum that night!
We arrived early and set up our gear to make the buttons. We were making buttons inspired by Frida and Diego, and we had blank circles to make custom art buttons and also magazines and art books to use for button making, too.
We had markers, colored pencils, scissors...
And tons of one inch button making supplies! Our friend Shannon set up this event for us, and she told us to expect 2000 visitors to the museum that night!
Soon after seven o'clock, we had a line of students who made buttons! It was nonstop until 11:30! Raoul helped everyone press the button badges, then I helped them pit the pin back on. It was a fun process and everyone was happy with the buttons they created!
Here are some of the badges that were made that night. I especially liked the baby chick! That one is my favorite.
We had a great time making one inch pinback buttons at the High! In fact, we were so very busy that we did not get to see the exhibit, so we have to go back another time. I look forward to seeing the Frida and Diego art in person for sure!
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YO-KAI WATCH, the Japanese cultural sensation, has finally hit North America. With a Nintendo 3DS game, Hasbro toys, and a Disney XD cartoon, it's hard to miss!
Whether you're new to YO-KAI WATCH or have already beaten the game, you'll find lots of valuable info in this new update to the YO-KAI WATCH website, including a free code for a Crank-a-kai coin, which gives you a chance to get valuable items or even a rare Yo-kai.
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unusual these days! He has tuned 5 songs for the film. How
has the live orchestration worked? Let us take a look.
Ada gada gada…
Vocals: Premji Amaran
Lyrics: P.Vijay
Well, Harris Jayaraj has still not shaken off the 'Dhikku
dhikku' song from his system, as we can see here.
The rhythms somewhat resemble the song. A lot of rhythmic
fillers like' Shaba raba raba rum bam bam' have
been sprinkled throughout the song which itself seems aimed
at teasing a girl! The sudden juxtaposition of 'Aayi
mahamayi mayi tirusooli' and all the verbal pyrotechnics
really makes you smile! There's an odd instrument
here which you hear both in the middle and the end. Is it
flute? It sounds quite plaintive.
Aaradi Kaatthey…
Vocals: Hariharan
Lyrics: P.Vijay
Quite a punchy song, this! Paints a picture of the'
tough cop' that Vishal plays in the movie. Very
thoughtfully conceived rhythm for the song which recalls
police parades and marches. Not many string instruments
have been used here. One does hear some Dilruba strains.
The phrases'Aaradi kaathey' and 'Kangalukkul
odum gandhagatthil aaru' are quite startling
in their effect. One fondly hopes Vishal has supplied
adequate emotions to set the song on fire! Good use
of Suddha dhanyasi raga.
Chellame Chellame…
Vocals: Balaram, Bombay Jayashree,
Sunitha Sarathy
Lyrics: Yugabharati
Harris-Jayashree combination has always struck gold in the
sense the songs have always come off very melodious. This
is no exception. Again a slight variation of the same S.Dhanyasi
raga. Apart from the bass flute and dilruba many soft instruments
have been carefully etched into the song to soothe the listener.
But one also gets to wonder if the 'Vaseegara'
effect still lingers in the song! Coming right on the heels
of the earlier song which portrays Vishal as 'tough
cop' the soft verses of the 'cop in love'
is rather refreshing!
Paal Pappaali…
Vocals: Naveen, Mahati
Lyrics: Kabilan
A song clearly aimed at the masses with lovely native rhythms,
very lively nagaswaram pieces and other instruments that
weave smoothly into one another. Harris Jayaraj seems to
specialize in this—delicate blending of instruments!
An imaginative handling of Madhyamavathi raga where the
'pa' swara is not used much. Sung with gusto
by Naveen (could do with better pronunciation) and great
deal of charm by Mahati. Could climb the charts.
Harris Jayaraj has not disappointed us here. But at the
same time there's nothing that sweeps us off our feet
too. One feels he could have used the live orchestra more
freely to add aesthetic richness to the album. This being
an important milestone for him ( 25th film) let us wish
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Semei Kakungulu
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Semei Kakungulu (1869 – 24 November 1928) was a Ugandan statesman who founded the Abayudaya (Luganda: Jews)[1] community in Uganda in 1917. He studied and meditated on the Old Testament, adopted the observance of all Moses' commandments, including circumcision, and suggested this observance for all his followers. The Abayudaya follow Jewish practices and consider themselves Jews despite the absence of Israelite ancestry.[citation needed]
He was also chosen to be the president of the Lukiiko of Busoga by the British colonists, and in effect, he became Busoga's first 'King', although the British refused to give him that title. However wrangles amongst the different chiefs and clans continued, and most Basoga still retained affiliation to their chief, clan or dialect. The Lukiiko structure collapsed, and Kakungulu was dismissed by the British.[citation needed]
Early life[edit]
Kakungulu was a warrior and statesman of the powerful Baganda tribe. During the 1880s he was converted to Christianity by a Protestant missionary who taught him how to read the Bible in Swahili. Because he commanded many warriors, because of his connections to the Bugandan court and because he was a Protestant, the British gave Kakungulu their support. He responded by conquering and bringing under the British sphere of influence two areas outside of the Bugandan Empire, Bukedi and Busoga. These areas were between the Nile River's source in Lake Victoria and Mt. Elgon on the Kenyan border.[citation needed]
Kakungulu believed that the British would allow him to become the king of Bukedi and Busoga, but the British preferred to rule these areas through civil servants in their pay and under their control. The British limited Kakungulu to a 20-square-mile (52 km2) area in and around what has now become Mbale, Uganda. The people who inhabited this area were of the Bagisu tribe rivals to Baganda. Nevertheless, Kakungulu, with the help of his Baganda followers, although much reduced in numbers, was able to maintain control so long as he received British support.[citation needed]
Beginning in about 1900, a slow but continuous mutual disenchantment arose between Kakungulu and the British. In 1913, Kakungulu became a Malakite Christian. This was a movement described by the British as a "cult" which was "a mixture of Judaism, Christianity and Christian Science." Many who joined the religion of Malaki where Kakungulu was in control were Baganda.[citation needed]
While still a Malakite, Kakungulu came to the conclusion that the Christian missionaries were not reading the Bible correctly. He pointed out that the Europeans disregarded the real Sabbath, which was Saturday, not Sunday. As proof, he cited the fact that Jesus was buried on Friday before the Sabbath, and that his mother and his disciples did not visit the tomb on the following day because it was the Sabbath, but waited until Sunday.[citation needed]
Under pressure from the British, who wished to limit his holdings, in 1917, Kakungulu moved his principal residence a short distance further from Mbale into the western foothills of Mt. Elgon to a place called Gangama. It was there that he started a separatist sect initially known as Kibiina Kya Bayudaya Absesiga Katonda (the Community of Jews who trust in the omnipotent God). Recruitment into this Bayudaya community came almost exclusively from what remained of Kakungulu's Baganda following.[citation needed]
The Bible, as a result of the teachings of the missionaries, was held in high regard among the Christians of Uganda. The missionaries had stressed the truth of the Bible by declaring that it came not from the Europeans but from an alien race, the Jews. The purpose of the missionaries was to impress upon the Africans that the Europeans too had found truth from a foreign race. But because of this emphasis, the customs and manners of the Jews became of great interest to Kakungulu's followers.[citation needed]
In 1922, at Gangama, Kakungulu published a 90-page book of rules and prayers as a guide for his Jewish community. The book set forth Jewish laws and practices as Kakungulu found them in the Old Testament, although it contained many verses and sections from the New Testament as well. Despite this interest in Jewish practices, there does not appear to have been any direct contact between Kakungulu and Jews before 1925.[citation needed]
Beginning in about 1925, several European Jews who were employed as mechanics and engineers by the British chanced upon the Christian-Jewish community near Mbale. Jews such as these, during what appear to have been chance encounters, told Kakungulu about Orthodox Judaism. As a result, many remaining Christian customs were dropped, including baptism. From these encounters, the community learned to keep the Sabbath, to recite Hebrew prayers and blessings, to slaughter animals for meat in a Kosher manner, and also to speak some Hebrew.[citation needed]
Kakungulu died on 24 November 1928 of tetanus.[1] After his death, the Abayudaya community divided into those wishing to retain a toehold within Christianity and those wanting to break those ties completely. The Bayudaya "remained a mixture of both Christianity and Judaism, with faith in Christ remaining prominent in Kakungulu's beliefs."[citation needed]
Kakungulu is buried a short distance from the main Abayudaya synagogue behind the unpretentious home in which he lived during the last years of his life. The grave has a stone which reads:[citation needed]
A Victorious General and
Sava Chief in Buganda
Administrator of Eastern Province 1899-1905
President of Busoga 1906-1913
Died 24th 11 1928"
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- ^ a b Ben Abraham, Enosh K.Mainah (3 May 2006). "The Abayudaya, The Jews of Uganda". KCholmim. Archived from the original on 10 August 2011. Retrieved 22 April 2011.


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Outgoing star Alan Lack admitted a spine-tingling farewell from the Peterborough Phantoms fans left him speechless last night (January 3).
The popular forward helped secure a 4-0 victory over English Premier League bottom side Bracknell in his final home appearance of a short but sweet stint in the city club's colours.
Summer recruit Lack is leaving due to a change of work circumstances and family commitments away from the sport.
He was given a terrific send-off by the Planet Ice faithful as chants of 'Lacky' rang round the arena ahead of face-off, throughout the last minute of play and following the final buzzer. Lack then completed a post-match lap of honour along with baby son Archie.
Lack said: "It isn't really possible to put it into words. I've never seen or heard anything like it before and probably never will again.
"The supporters here made it clear in the past that they never really liked me as an opposition player, but I leave now being called a fans' favourite.
"It blew me away and they have been amazing to me throughout my time at Peterborough.
"They get behind the team all night every night, no matter what the score is in a game."
Contrary to previous information released by Phantoms, the 22 year-old will now play in their trip to top-of-the-table Telford tonight (Sunday).
But he was pleased to contribute two assists during his final outing on home ice as Bracknell were seen off.
Lack, who is expected to continue playing at a lower level with the London Raiders club, added: "It was a great way to go out with a good win in my last home outing.
"I was trying my hardest to get a goal, but the main thing was the two points for the team and I'm happy enough with two assists."


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Dismas Hardy's daughter, Rebecca, the most junior associate at his law firm, gets her own first case, and it's a doozy.
The San Francisco legal system has made little progress lately on homicide cases involving African-American victims, and rabble-rousing city supervisor Liam Goodman, along with his rabble, is turning up the heat. So when Anlya Paulson, 17, takes a header from the Bush Street overpass to land on the hood of a Subaru passing through Stockton Street below, district attorney Wes Farrell sends mixed-race Inspector Abe Glitsky over from his own office to help Inspectors Eric Waverly and Ken Yamashiro. Soon enough, a gift falls in their laps: Greg Treadway, a schoolteacher who's serving as Court Appointed Special Advocate for Anlya's twin brother, Max. Greg had dinner with Anlya hours before she died, and his first statement to the cops fudges on several key details. That's good enough for the SFPD, who hustle him off to jail. Rebecca, who met Greg only a few minutes before he made that first statement, agrees to represent him, and the game is afoot. The circumstantial evidence against her client piles up, and The Beck, as Hardy calls her, makes several greenhorn mistakes in court. But she also pokes unexpected holes in several witnesses' testimonies. Meanwhile, events conspire to put three alternative suspects into play: Royce Utlee, the pimp who's partnered with Anlya's friend Honor Wilson to manage a stable of prostitutes; Leon Copes, the former live-in boyfriend of Anlya's and Max's mother, Sharla, who molested the girl before the twins were removed to foster care; and Ricardo Salazar, a killer who escaped trial in California only to kill again in Minnesota.
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Valero Texas Open, 2nd round incomplete @ TPC San Antonio April 20 2012
The Valero Texas Open at TPC San Antonio 2nd round was suspended due to darkness leaving the round incomplete. A Rain delay in the afternoon disrupted play for two hours, and after the resumption of play, darkness fell before the round could be completed.
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Ben Curtis
Ben Curtis, who won The Open in 2003,was top of the leaderboard at the suspension of play, with another -5 under par round 67, and a tournament total of -10 under par. He leads David Mathis by two shots, with Cameron Tringale and first round leader Matt Every another shot behind. Matt Every has still not completed his second round, he has completed 16 holes, but is finding life difficult after his first round 63. Matt is currently +2 over par for his round, and has two holes left in the 2nd round to try and reduce the deficit before his starts out on his third round.
Ben said of his second round;"Playing obviously really well. You know, the key around here is if you can drive it straight, keep it in the fairway, give yourself a chance to get at some of these pins, you know, with the slope of the greens and stuff like that, it makes it a lot easier from the fairway. I did that. Hit a lot of good iron shots. Left them, for the most part, on the right level and made a few putts and, you know, it was a pretty easy Round 2. You hate to say that but I mean I didn't ,even when I missed the green, there was no terribly difficult up and down. All pretty straightforward. Played well. Every part of the game was good. You know, you wish you could have something to say about it afterwards, didn't do this or that. I missed a couple short, maybe three, four birdie putts that I should have made inside ten feet but other than that, I'm not going to complain and, you know, the course is in great shape and greens are fantastic, rolling really good and there's a lot of slope to them. It doesn't mean they're bad. It just means they're tough. We'll see how it goes over the weekend. When you're not playing the schedule that you want, you don't have it all laid out in front of you before the year starts, you're kind of playing when you can. It's hard." Ben Curtis is playing TPC San Antonio for the first time, the Valero Texas Open is just his fourth PGA TOUR start because of his low status after a miserable 2011.


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One of the new blogs I follow has a free pattern for a very cute apron. The top part of the apron is gathered on the top and bottom, producing a very cute effect.
Be sure to go here for the free pattern: http://artgalleryfabrics.typepad.com/weblog/2011/02/time_to_spice_it_up.html#tpe-action-posted-6a00e553bbe52e88340147e24d2124970b
I printed mine out and cannot wait to make one!
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
Spring Birthday
It's that time of year again...my birthday and the first day of spring! Although, by the looks of it outside, winter isn't going to leave without a fight.
I thought I'd give you a special TBT photo. For those of you who are challenged by acronyms like I am, TBT stands for "Throw Back Thursday." Not to be confused with "Truth Be Told," like I initially thought it meant.
This is my class picture from 4th or 5th grade (for some reason, I can't quite remember, and if it's not written on the back of the photo, I have to guess). I'm pretty sure it was around 1991, so 9 or 10 years old. I'm wearing my FAVORITE pink and navy polkadot dress at the time - complete with a bow, front and center. Pearls I wore in my sister's wedding. This is pre-braces. My teeth needed some serious orthodontics (thanks Mom & Dad!). And, last but not least, my WORST. haircut. EVER. It's SO short. Slicked back, swooped on top, and all kinds of not-what-I-wanted. This is why I've never come close to cutting my hair that short ever again. But, it was in style at the time I guess, right? I wanted to try it. And now I can look back, remember and laugh.
My husband spoiled me this birthday week - dining out, shopping, a new watch. I am one lucky lady! I'm thankful for the thoughtful cards, sweet gifts and wishes from family and friends. My heart is blessed by all of you. You sure know how to make me feel special! I thank God for every one of you. Thank you for being in my life.
I'm looking forward to whatever God had in store for me this year!
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Aw-w-w-w-w-w, this is the little Sarah we remember! God bless you on your birthday and always. Love you.ReplyDelete
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|The attack on the Pentagon killed 125 people on the ground
|Exclusive: The Informant Who Lived With the Hijackers
|NEWSWEEK has learned that one of the bureaus informants had a close relationship with two of the hijackers
|Sept. 16 issue At first, FBI director Bob Mueller insisted there was nothing the bureau could have done to penetrate the 9-11 plot. That account has been modified over timeand now may change again. NEWSWEEK has learned that one of the bureaus informants had a close relationship with two of the hijackers: he was their roommate.
|THE CONNECTION, JUST discovered by congressional investigators, has stunned some top counterterrorism officials and raised new concerns about the information-sharing among U.S. law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. The two hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, were hardly unknown to the intelligence community. The CIA was first alerted to them in January 2000, when the two Saudi nationals showed up at a Qaeda summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. FBI officials have argued internally for months that if the CIA had more quickly passed along everything it knew about the two men, the bureau could have hunted them down more aggressively.
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the CIA was gathering more information about just how potentially
dangerous both men were. A few months after the October 2000 bombing of
the USS Cole in Yemen, CIA analysts discovered in their Malaysia file
that one of the chief suspects in the Cole attack Tawfiq bin Attashwas
present at the summit and had been photographed with Almihdhar and
Alhazmi. But it wasnt until Aug. 23, 2001, that the CIA sent out an
urgent cable to U.S. border and law-enforcement agencies identifying the
two men as possible terrorists. By then it was too late. The bureau did
not realize the San Diego connection until a few days after 9-11, when the
informant heard the names of the Pentagon hijackers and called his case
agent. I know those guys, the informant purportedly said, referring to
Almihdhar and Alhazmi. They were my roommates.
But the belated discovery has unsettled some members of the joint House and Senate intelligence committees investigating the 9-11 attacks. The panel is tentatively due to begin public hearings as early as Sept. 18, racing to its end-of-the-year deadline. But some members are now worried that they wont get to the bottom of what really happened by then. Support for legislation creating a special blue-ribbon investigative panel, similar to probes conducted after Pearl Harbor and the Kennedy assassination, is increasing. Only then, some members say, will the public learn whether more 9-11 secrets are buried in the governments files.
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that's looks overall pretty good. It would be good to know a bit more about what you're allowed to do with the shot and what the direction is.
Right now, I like how he sits and how he gets up. After that it does get a bit funky pose wise. For instance, x51, screen right leg gets overextended. The walk afterwards feels a bit funky because of how high he lifts his legs, like on x83.
I'm asking about the direction because the pose you have when he sits looks very relaxed, maybe even bored, but not excited or energetic. But once he gets up, his attitude changes. So without any shot knowledge I would say either change the sitting pose or change his get up and walk anim so it's more consistent. But that's up to your teacher, I don't want to interfere with the direction.
From a technical point of view, watch out that the hand is firmly planted on the armrest when he gets up, so that the feeling of weight is there. Around x50 I would keep the screen right arm angled back instead of forward, so that when he uses that arm to push himself off, you keep it back there to reinforce that visual point. So I would delay that forward swing a bit.
As mentioned before, don't overstretch the legs and once he starts walking, make sure that there are no sudden forward movements root wise, like from x64 to 65.


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Well I have officially lost the ability to make a decision. Two or three pairs of pants? Video camera or digital? Purse or drawstring bag? I spent all day yesterday trying on different pants and crossing out and rewriting items on my what-to-pack list. By the time dinner rolled around, my mom found me lying defeated on my bedroom floor, a different pair of pants on each leg, tearing up about which notebook to bring (or something just as ridiculous). She asked me to decide on a restaurant and I almost had a conniption.
I'm excited for this trip, I really am. But I am so glad I was able to read the Art of Travel, because De Botton untangled the ball of anxiety in my chest and reminded me exactly what I was afraid of. Traveling will not change who I am-I will still be the anxiety-ridden, sarcastically terrified, novice-German-speaker Molly, just on a different continent. And what this reading assured me was that that is ok. Being in Berlin will not change the fact that sometimes I get sad or scared or nervous, and yeah, Berlin is going to be amazing and wonderful and beautiful, but I can't go in expecting paradise. De Botton sums it up perfectly when he describes how no one ever thinks about "the journey through the afternoon." The one filled with plane tickets limp from the sweat of your palms, not entering the correct compartment and dragging your suitcase through the hallway of the now-moving train, not knowing if you're being ripped off by a taxi driver, staring out the window of a car and hoping to god this is not the neighborhood you'll be living in. It's almost-missed flights and miscommunications and awkward back sweat and sleep deprivation.
Have I got everyone excited yet??
But really, this is the reality of travel that I am nervous about it-just the traveling in between places. Once we set our bags down in our apartment, I will be stress free. But until then, the constipated look on my face is called anxiety, and I'd appreciate it if it didn't get caught on camera, thanks guys.
Now I feel like I should talk about something other than my fears (I'll pause a moment here to allow time for Kerry to psychoanalyze those first couple paragraphs)
All of that aside, I really am beyond excited. We've spent a whole semester reading and learning about these different facets of Berlin-Das Kunstseidene Mädchen, Traudl Junge, Micha Kuppisch-all these complex and amazingly different stories, all set in front of the same backdrop. Berlin is basically a confused teenager, just like us, still finding its identity (#salemberlin), and I can't wait to be immersed in it, seeing first-hand all of it's history and growth.
And of course, the theater. I keep telling people that I will be seeing theater almost every night on this trip, and they keep grimacing at me as if to say, "and you're happy about that?" But I really am, and I can't think of a better sherpa to german theater than our very own Janet Hegman-Shier. Reading these plays out loud in Theaterkreis was interesting, but I can't even imagine seeing some of them live. I've been practicing my clapping skills for those long German applauses and everything.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go empty my packed suitcase onto the floor of my room and just completely start over. I've still got, what, twenty five hours until I have to be at the airport? All the time in the world.
I'll see y'all in Deutschland!
Monday, May 6, 2013
Here, Have Some of My Pre-Trip Anxiety
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I recommend more skirts than pants and the string bag/backpack over the purse, if it's the kind I carry every day. You can stick some groceries in it that way. Don't be nervous. I predict that you wilL LOVE it here like I do. And don't worry about what you bring. Better not to have too much. And there are cheap options to buy here if you REALLY need to. : )ReplyDelete
I took some notes on my interpretation of your travel anxieties. We can talk about them on the plane.ReplyDelete
JOKES JOKES JOKES! Molly we are about to have a blast! Your post is great. Haha.
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Visionbox Pictures, X-42 Prods. Get Chosen
Los Angeles-based Visionbox Pictures and X-42 Prods. are teaming up to produce the 3D animated feature film The Chosen One. The film will combine comedy and comic book action to weave a tale about competitive gods and innocent bystanders in a world rapidly going to hell.
The Chosen One was written by and Chris Lackey (writer/director of the animated online series The Investigators, which won Atom Films Greenlight Award and was nominated for a 2002 DVD Premiere Award) and Chad Fifer. Lackey is also directing.
Among the actors signed on for the voice cast are Tim Curry (The Wild Thornberrys Movie, Rocky Horror Picture Show), Lance Henrikson (Aliens, Millennium), Traci Elizabeth Lords (Blade, Melrose Place), Chris Sarandon (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Dog Day Afternoon), Laura Prepon (That 70s Show), Debra Wilson (Mad TV) and Danielle Fishel (Boy Meets World).
The story centers on Lou Hanske, an average 25-year-old Iowan who one day gets dumped by his girlfriend (Prepon), is fired from his job and has his car totaled by a falling satellite. On top of it all, he is singled out by Reverend Akia May (Wilson) of the new age Church of Frank as The Chosen One. With coworker Donna (Fishel), the cantankerous Zeb (Sarandon) and a certain Prince of Hell known as Lucifer (Curry), Lou must overcome ninjas, thugs and femme fatales in order to find God, fulfill his destiny and temporarily bring everlasting peace to the world.
The film will be produced by John Manulis of Visionbox and Andreas Olavarria of X-42 Prods. Exec. producer duties go to Visionbox Media Group president Chris Miller and the company's managing producer, Lulu Zezza. Diana Tauder (English-dubbed versions of Il Postino, Princess Mononoke and Thats the Way I Like It) serves as associate producer.
The Chosen One will be created primarily on Lightwave systems, with all the animation being done in Los Angeles. Elliot Lorman (Babylon 5) will serve as director of animation.


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I have cocoa and flour on hand. And I have butter sitting in my fridge. Plus I discovered how to bake cupcakes without having to buy a muffin pan. First thought to come to mind was bake myself a chocolate cupcake. This particular chocolate cupcake recipe is simply easy, soft and beautiful. Even if this is your first time baking, you are sure to come out victorious. Really. Just follow the exact measurements.
I also have recently learned a little trick how to have a beautiful dome-shaped top or that bulge on top instead of having a flat or soggy-topped cupcake. Read this chocolate cupcake recipe further to know how.
I have learned that in order to have that nice dome-shape topped cupcake or that bulging top is to adjust the temperature of the oven. Increase the temperature then about midway, reduce to its original baking temperature. In this case here, I preheated the oven at 410F and baked the cupcakes using this temperature for about 10 minutes then reverted to the original baking temp of 375F during the remaining baking time.
There are times though the resulting cupcakes are still flat-topped even using this trick because there are other factors to consider like over mixing for example or probably there's something wrong with the ingredients like expired baking powder. But don't lose heart. The most important thing is the cupcakes should be soft and delicious.
cocoa icing over the chocolate cupcakes. Enjoy!
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- Cuimhneachain Inbhir Nis - latha glanaidh
- Inbhir Nis
- INBHIR NIS: Inbhir Nis 's Am Bànath
- 1970an
- Mrs Rollo
- Taigh-tasgaidh is Gaileiridh Ealan Inbhir Nis
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Aig deireadh nan 70an, dh'innis A' Bh-Uas Rollo, seann boireannach a bha a' fuireach air Friar Street, Inbhir Nis, a cuimhneachain air seann Inbhir Nis don Bh-Uas Sneddon. Bha A' Bh-Uas Rollo air a bhith a' fuireach na h-òige air Shore Street agus ghluais i gu Friar Street aig toiseach nan 1920an. Bha còigear chloinne aice; triùir bhalach agus dithis nighean. Bha an duine aice ag obair airson Rèile na Gàidhealtachd. Anns an earrann labhairt seo, tha A' Bh-Uas Rollo a' cuimhneachadh air an latha glanaidh.
Tha an dealbh seo a' sealltainn Sràid nam Manach, leis an stìoball aig An t-seann Àrd-eaglais aig a' chùl.
Interviewer: When it comes to washing?
Washing, well, we just heated a - pans. Ah'd a big pan that Ah used for boiling water, an used that - heated that up, an put it in a bath, an just worked it that way. Heated up the pan til Ah was finished o the washing.
Interviewer: An did ye have two b- Ye know, a bath for rinsing, a bath for washing?
We'd a bath for, for - make a lather first. We, well it's not fancy powders ye have nowadays, it was soft soap an - or A1 powder that was the only thing that was in it then - an we just made a lather first, wi the water, an then once ye've got it at the right heat we could just put in so many things at a time. It was - if it was flannels, we'd to do that special. If it was whites we kept that aside. An we did our towels separate, oor dishtowels separate, not everything all mixie-moxie like they do now, wi no washing machine. An then we just took them out o the lather an then we rinsed them, two or three waters, an when they were ready we just wrung them out an hung them up to dry. An when they were dry -
Interviewer: An ye just wrung them by hand?
Oh yes, nothing else but hand.
Interviewer: How did you manage sheets an blankets? How did you manage them by hand?
Well we'd - perhaps someone would give ye a hand wan way an the other an ye'd twist it round.
Interviewer: An if ye'd nobody to help you were ye winding it up yer arm?
Oh, yes, yes. Make a serpent round an round yer arm. 'Make a serpent, mammie' they used to say.
Interviewer: Uh-huh. An then ye didnae have the mangle in the 1920s?
No, that was later. Later on we got that.
Interviewer: Where did ye get it? Did ye buy it or - ?
No. Mrs Fraser - Ah told ye already, didn't Ah?
Interviewer: Oh, the lady who you got the clothes horse?
No, not that one. A neighbour down the street. They used to have a cabbie ho-, cabbie, a cab. They'd horses.
Interviewer: Did they?
An they kept hens an they'd a stable for the horse. An she had this mangle, an she wasn't using it an she said the children was spoiling it. So she said to me would I like it, that Ah could have it for ten shillings. So, I thought Ah was lucky.
Interviewer: Uh-huh.
An Ah've had all this, that years an there's been many a something wrung on it, Ah'm telling ye.
Interviewer: I'll bet. When I saw ye doing the sheets, I can't remember whether, after ye'd rinsed them and ye - what did ye do, after that?
Well, Ah swung it round an then took all the, the, the twirls out it, kept it flat, an then folded it an gied it a slap an then -
Interviewer: That's just to get the creases out, you slap it?
Yes. An the bairns would say, [Slapping noises] 'Oh mummy.' It used to frighten them. [Laughter]


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I was crushed and for the smallest moment, I felt very alone.
As time passed, I grew in my understanding of those very words the Lord spoke to me. There is a scripture that I want to share with you.
Jeremiah 17:5 & 6
For he shall be like a shrub or a person naked and destitute in the desert; and he shall not see any good come, but shall dwell in the parched places in the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
I was raised to look to my parents for every need, every decision, even direction from God. So this lesson was extremely difficult for me to grasp at first. I was used to seeking man for my every need. Now the Lord was trying to teach me a new way; and I understood the concept of leaning on Him, but I didn't have a clue as how to do it, not until God showed me.
When I look back on that day, I can hear the Lord directing my husband with the wisdom to say those words. Although they crushed me for the moment, they were words of life. As relationships came and left, as they always do, my relationship in the Lord has kept me unwavering and secure. For those who have abandoned me, left my life or just drifted off, I've been able to bear the loss in a healthy way.
And if that is not enough, this also gives the other person a power to control us, to make us miserable with their mind games.
Jeremiah 17:7 & 8
For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters that spreads out its roots by the river; and it shall not see and fear when heat comes; but its leaf shall be green. It shall not be anxious and full of care in the year of drought, nor shall it cease yielding fruit.
Man is frail and God says so!
There is no way they can possibly meet our deepest needs. Not even in marriage. This does not mean that having a relationship isn't fulfilling or that it doesn't bring joy. It certainly can! What it does mean is that if our identity is in Christ, if we seek Him first before all else, then what the relationship gives us is an added bonus; plus it allows us to live freely in that relationship, without unhealthy expectations.
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Catholic and Loving it blog (link) 20.9.2011
I don't know how many of you are new to events at the Birmingham Oratory in the run up to the Papal visit but it's been a while and it might help if I run through it all again.
It was back in May 2010 that The Tablet first carried the news that three Oratorians had been told to "spend time in prayer for an indefinite period by Fr Felix Selden, an apostolic visitor to the Oratory Congregation". If the Tablet had stopped there that might have been the end of it - such things are an internal matter and helps nobody to speculate on blogs.
Except in this case it wasn't an internal matter, it ceased to be an internal matter when the spokesman for the Birmingham Oratory picked up the phone to The Tablet and named names. However much he might bleat now about privacy, it was the Birmingham Oratory spokesman and not a blogger who made it a matter of pubic record that Fr Philip Cleevely, Fr Dermot Fenlon and Brother Lewis Berry had been "ordered to go on retreat" by Fr Felix Selden. This is the ecclesiastical equivalent of announcing that somebody has been permanently suspended from work - a very public stain on the reputation of these three men and one which they were entirely unable to defend themselves due to the gagging order placed on them by the Oratory.
As the weeks turned in to months some suggested that whatever the three had done to deserve their exile, it must have been pretty serious. Rumours of bullying and possible sexual misconduct began to surface. Friends of the three men were so distressed at the way in which their reputations were being "trashed" that they began to campaign publicly that the three were known to be good holy men a blog was started and an open letter was sent to Fr Felix Selden.
To suggest that these friends and wellwishers were guilty of gossip is outrageous. It was gossip and rumour that they were seeking to dispel.
It was about this time that BBC West Midlands became interested and Oratory spokesman Jack Valero was quick to play things down... "it's just a time away to cool down" he said "they can come back soon and we can continue as normal". Only a few weeks later Jack had changed his tune telling Radio Ulster that the three "are going to come back at some point, we don't know, it's not going to be soon". This is the sort of transparency most people would associate with a brick wall.
To their credit, the Oratory did defend the three men and Ruth Dudley Edwards reported that Jack Valero had "confirmed unequivocally that the Three are entirely guiltless of any wrong-doing whatsoever". Of course, this only begs the question – if they have done nothing wrong, why are they away? Why can they not come back? This soon became the central mystery of the Birmingham Three. Three men, declared innocent by an official spokesman for the Birmingham Oratory yet exiled from their home for months and looking increasingly likely to miss the beatification of their founder. Why had they been sent away in the first place?
More questions began to be asked, like why is the press officer for Opus Dei speaking for the Birmingham Oratory? Things did't get any less mysterious when it turned out that while Mr Valero is officially speaking for the Oratory he is actually being paid to do so by the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales and reports to Archbishop Nichol's press secretary. Yet more questions were raised about the role of the mysterious Fr Gareth/Sebastian Jones...
Pressure was mounting, blog entries about The Birmingham Three were getting hits from Rome, I had been on the Radio and Ruth Dudley Edwards was writing in Standpoint magazine and had even got the story on TV. The same questions were repeatedly asked: If the three have done nothing wrong, why can't they come home?
Something had to be done and something was, I can't say exactly how much pressure Brother Lewis Berry was under when he agreed to spend next year at an Oratory in South Africa but it's very hard imagine he did so of his own free will. The youngest of the three had the most to lose and with his ordination hanging in the balance the press release in his name had all the credibility of a forced confession. Fr Philip Cleevely issued a remarkably similar press release about how happy he is to be spending the next year in Toronto. It would not be long until the men who Jack Valero said would be "back soon" announced plans to remain abroad permanently.
Which leaves Fr Dermot Fenlon, the last of the three. There has been no press release from Fr Fenlon, no statement that he is happy about being sent away from his home of twenty years at a days notice despite being 68 years of age. So Fr Fenlon has been well and truly stamped on, according to a report in the Catholic Herald Fr Fenlon is being "forcibly exclaustrated" for a period of five years. In the article Simon Caldwell writes that "Under the Code of Canon Law, a priest cannot be exclaustrated for more than three years unless there is a "grave reason" yet Fr Fenlon has officially done nothing wrong. Such a prolonged period must have "either the direct approval of either the Holy See or the local bishop, who, in the case of Fr Fenlon, is Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham".
And so the questions remain: If there has been no injustice, why not let the three speak to journalists and tell everbody how happy they are with the situation? If the three have done nothing wrong, why couldn't they be present for the beatification?
More than a year later - why is Fr Dermot Fenlon still in exile?
3 Oratorians were ordered to "spend time in prayer" at 3 separate monasteries hundreds of miles apart and indefinitely. Of the 3, Fr. Dermot Fenlon (described by the Oratory's own spokesman as "entireley guiltless of any wrong doing whatsoever") remains silenced and in exile. This blog is an archive of publications about the scandal at Newman's Oratory. It aims to bring out the facts, of the great injustice suffered by the 3, particularly the cruel treatment of Fr. Dermot Fenlon.
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
Birmingham Three Recap...
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Giving and receiving...
My mother-in-law loves a good bargain which may explain why, several years ago, I received a half dozen pairs of thong underwear ranging in size from XS to XXL. My theory about thongs: 1) you either wear them or you don't, and 2) it's never OK for your mother-in-law to give them to you as a genuine birthday gift (no, not even if they're leopard print). I don't wear them and I don't particularly like to receive them as gifts. Nothing says 'you have a huge ass' like a pair of 2XL thong underwear from your mother-in-law, right? I'm only recounting this because my in-laws came to dinner this weekend. Not only is my mother-in-law a bargain shopper, she's also a birthday hounder. It typically starts about six months before your birthday, "What do you want for your birthday? What do you want for your birthday? You look like you're getting sick, hon! What do you want for your birthday?". My birthday is next month, so the hounding was in full effect, with the threat of underwear as a gift being a real possibility. I want to be left alone...but, barring that from happening, I do not want any thong underwear.
*hilarious card from up up creative
Posted by Aesthetic Outburst... at 3:00 PM
4 comments:
Is this a passive aggressive way of telling you MIL you hate her underware gift, or does she live someplace where the internet doesn't exist? :)
- February 1, 2010 at 5:37 PM
- Aesthetic Outburst... said...
She's not 'into the internet'. And, yes, I'm also being passive aggressive.
- February 1, 2010 at 5:45 PM
- kelly ♥ said...
Haha passive aggressive, minus the passive! I think that post was awesome. I've always loved giving gifts, and of course receiving them, and nothing says "I didn't really give a shit" like a weird random gift. It's kind of offensive, even. I would rather have NO gift!
- February 1, 2010 at 8:42 PM
- sMacThoughts said...
You'd better answer her lest history repeat itself!
- February 1, 2010 at 8:46 PM
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on diversity of cultural experience & ganesha's sweet tooth
One of the things I love about my country, Trinidad & Tobago, is how thoroughly and incredibly multicultural it is, on so many levels. Not only are most of us who are from there multiracial, the country celebrates its diversity on a national level: there are public holidays not just for Christian celebrations like Christmas and Easter, but also Muslim ones like Eid and Hindu ones like Divali. In fact, in recent years, I've noticed that many Trinidadians celebrate all of these holidays, including sharing in the food and wearing traditional clothing, regardless of whether they actually grew up in that particular religion or culture. It's one of the things I most miss about living in Trinidad; it's also one of the reasons that our daughter goes to the school that she does: she has friends from far more countries and cultures at her new school than she ever would at our neighbourhood public school.
In other words, diversity of cultural experience is very, very important to me and my family.
So when Chronicle Books asked me to take a look at one of their newest children's stories, Ganesha's Sweet Tooth, even though I don't usually write about kid products here on Chookooloonks, I honestly couldn't resist. I always love the idea of children's books making different cultures come alive -- and the fact that it is illustrated and told by Sanjay Patel, an animator and storyboard artist for Pixar (think A Bug's Life and Cars 2), makes all the more awesome.
(Besides, Divali was this week, and I'm missing seeing diyas all over my neighbourhood like we used to in Trinidad, so reviewing a book about Hindu culture seems like the perfect way to work though my homesickness, don't you think?)
Ganesha's Sweet Tooth is a book inspired by the Hindu story of how Ganesha, a Hindu deity who has the head of an elephant, broke his tusk. In this version, Ganesha is straight up adorable.
Ganesha's Sweet Tooth isn't a retelling of the Hindu legend, but more of a re-imagining, with the addition of various plot points to make for an incredibly vivid story. Like, how Ganesha has a magical mouse for a best friend, and a weakness for the Indian sweet, laddoo -- a weakness that leads to his downfall:
Ganesha is horrified and embarrassed by his broken tusk, but luckily meets the great poet Vyasa, who asks Ganesha to transcribe an epic poem, the Mahabharata (and this part actually is part of the Hindu legend). Ganesha agrees, and learns that what he thought was broken and flawed is actually beautiful.
(Huh. Sounds like the same lesson from another book I know.)
Unsurprisingly, I loved this book. It's beautifully illustrated (as you would expect from a Pixar animator!), and the story is really very sweet. I read it together with Alex, and while it's too young for her (despite the fact that it's marketed to 5-9 year olds), she loved the story too. I imagine that younger children -- say, 4, 5 or 6? -- would love having this read to them as they looked at the amazing pictures. And I've no doubt that it will whet their curiosity about Indian and Hindu culture -- and as is probably clear to you by now, I think curiosity about other cultures is always a good thing.
Because the book is too young for Alex, I'll be sending my copy with love to my brand new godson; however, I've got some good news: if you enter the promo code GANESHA on checkout at Chronicle Books, you'll get 20% off of the book at checkout! The offer is good until December 10th. (It would make a great kid's gift for the holidays, is what I'm saying.)
But that's not all!
Chronicle has also offered to do a giveaway of a copy to one lucky commenter! So let's make this a bit fun: leave a comment below telling me (a) where your family/ancestry is from, (b) where you live now, and (c) what culture you most self-identify with. I think it would be really cool to see the diversity of cultures who visit here at Chookooloonks, don't you think?
I'll go first: I was born in Trinidad (like my parents and their parents before them -- before that, my ancestry is predominantly West African, Indian and Chinese, although there's even some European in there, I'm told). I spent my early childhood and teenage years in Trinidad, but I've lived in the United States for the greater part of my life, and live here now. Even given this, and the fact that I love my adopted American home very much, I will always feel culturally Trinidadian, and self-identify as Trinidadian. (I even unknowningly slip into a Trini accent whenever I'm angry, as both Marcus and Alex will confirm.) I amTrini to de bone, as we say. :)
Now you. I can't wait to meet you. (And I'll announce the winner on Sunday. Good luck!)
According to Random.org, congratulations go to Peranting, who said, "My heritage is mostly German and Scottish - my mom's parents' names were Studebaker and McKuras, and my dad's heritage is mostly English I think. My husband is a mutt, with a Finnish name, a German mother (grandma was a war bride), and a father who grew up in Panama." -- Congrats, Peranting! Please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com, so I can get your snail mail information to send you your book!
After 3 weeks, I never heard from Peranting, so I'm afraid I'm having to choose a different winner. Thanks again to everyone for participating!
In the spirit of openness, this post was sponsored by Chronicle Books. That said, my opinions in my posts always are and remain my own.
Song: Don't stop by Shurwayne Winchester. This is a Trinidadian song, but it shows how strongly Indian culture affects even our music. I love this song with a white hot passion.


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Sunday, 21 December 2008
Sheep are cute and cozy looking animals.
Top photos by little birds and mav, bottom photos be me; Untitled and Untitled.
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The happy couple, who met and fell in love 10 years ago on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, decided to have a super-private ceremony in France using the Emmy's as a cover.
Brad and Angelina have been engaged since 2012 when Pitt presented his loving lady with a flawless diamond.
Many thought a wedding would be imminent, but the couple bucked the expectations of the public by displaying a distinct lack of interest in rushing to the altar.
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Sources say that all 6 of the couple's kids participated in the wedding in various roles. Whatever the case, Hollywood's royals have finally made it official. Here's to the happy couple!


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Hurricanes and hashtags: How the media and NGOs treat citizens' voices online in humanitarian emergenciespurchase PDF
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Twitter, Instagram and SMS messages have entered into the defining images and texts of humanitarian disasters, theoretically allowing survivors to play a role in the framing of such crises. Yet research suggests that both mainstream media and NGOs – whose symbiotic relationships traditionally framed such stories – have cloned and absorbed such content, potentially restricting whose voices are heard. Issues around privacy and copyright are yet to be resolved in the mainstream media, while NGOs have turned to western bloggers rather than beneficiaries to mediate their message. This article draws on around 50 semi-structured interviews with those whose content was used by UK mainstream media; journalists from the main broadcast and print outlets in the UK; and members of each of the thirteen UK Disaster Emergency Committee aid agencies who responded to recent crises including the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake. It aims to answer how voices of citizens in crises are being mediated and mediatized, and what issues the use of this content raise around contextual integrity of privacy. It concludes by examining whether NGOs' engagement online allows the voices of the marginalized to emerge.


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The Day We Open Mt Cinco Picos to the Mountaineering Community (2006)
With the help of my friends in mountaineering and Rotary Club we were able to introduce Mt Cinco Picos to other mountaineers and this is the start of making Zambales the next hiking destination. It was attended by around 100+ mountaineers from solo hikers, freelance, and mountaineers from the different known groups at that time such as Dong-In Mountaineers, All Terrain Mountaineering Club (ATMC), Sabit Mountaineers, YAPAK Mountaineers, YABAG Mountaineers and Guys for Mountains (G4M) to name some of them. After we introduced Mt Cinco Picos, other nearby mountains followed such as Mt Balingkilat (or as they call it Bahay ng mga Kidlat) and Mt Dayungan and nearby traverses.


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2014 Hilton Head International Piano Competition Winner Shen Lu to Play Carnegie Hall, 11/8
The Hilton Head International Piano Competition (HHIPC) will present its 2014 First Prize-winner, Shen Lu, at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, November 8, 2014, 2:30 p.m. Mr. Shen will perform works by Beethoven, Chopin, Tan Dun, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Scarlatti.
John O'Conor, the Jury Chair from the 2014 HHIPC, states, "Shen Lu is a young Chinese pianist with an exciting future. His interpretations have great depth, his technique seems effortless and he communicates wonderfully with his audience."
The HHIPC will present its 20th competition from March 9-14, 2015. Twenty promising young pianists, ages 13 to 17, compete in three rounds for $18,000 in cash prizes. In addition, the First Prize winner receives a scholarship to a summer festival or school, a return engagement as soloist with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, and other performance opportunities.
The HHIPC for ages 18 to 30 will return in March 7-14, 2016 when twenty pianists will compete in four rounds for $34,000 in cash prizes. The First Prize winner will also be awarded a solo recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2016, a CD recording on the Steinway & Sons label, a return performance with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, and other performance engagements.
Shen Lu will perform on Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 2:30 p.m. at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (57th Street and 7th Avenue), New York. Tickets: $35 ($15 students, at Box Office only), available October 9, 2014, at carnegiehall.org; by calling CarnegieCharge (212) 247-7800; or by visiting the Carnegie Hall box office: 57th Street and Seventh Avenue.
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Sonatas in D minor, K. 213; in E Major, K. 380
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
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Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
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Shen Lu, Pianist - At age 29, Shen Lu is already an accomplished international performer. In addition to concerts at Beijing's Central Conservatory Music Hall, Culture Center, and City Hall in his native China, he has appeared at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, Jordan Hall in Boston, Mixon Hall in Cleveland, Flagey Concert Hall in Brussels, and the Seymour Centre in Sydney. He participated in the China International Piano Festival in Beijing, and the Texas Piano Festival.
Mr. Shen played Liszt's Concerto No. 1 with the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, Brahms' Concerto No. 1 with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, and Chopin's Concerto No. 1 with the Ferrol Orchestra and the New England Conservatory Philharmonia. Additionally, he performed Saint-Saëns' Concerto No. 2 with the China Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Mozart's Concerto No. 21 with the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie.
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Enjoying collaborative as well as solo performance, he was an accompanist with the Central Conservatory's Students Chorus, and an official accompanist for both the New England Conservatory and Boston Conservatory.
Mr. Shen has won numerous international piano competitions, the 2014 Hilton Head International Piano Competition being the most recent. Others in which he has been a prize winner include the Hong Kong Piano Open Competition, New England Conservatory Whole School Concerto Competition, Jingzhong Competition, Asia Chopin Piano Competition, 59th Wideman International Piano Competition, 4th Campillos International Piano Competition, 2nd Florida International Competition, XXV Ferrol International Piano Competition, Iowa International Piano Competition, Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition, and the Sydney International Piano Competition.
Mr. Shen is currently pursuing his Artist Diploma at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Haesun Paik. He earned his bachelor's degree at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing under pianist Wu Ying, and his master's and graduate degrees from the New England Conservatory in Boston under pianist Alexander Korsantia. Shen Lu has taken master classes with Lee Kum Sing, Arie Vardi, Boris Berman, Tamás Ungár, Paul Badura-Skoda, Hung-Kuan Chen and Stephen Kovacevich.
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About The Hilton Head International Piano Competition - The mission of the Hilton Head International Piano Competition is to encourage and support excellence in the performance of classical piano music by showcasing the talents of young pianists on the threshold of their careers in a competition adjudicated by internationally acclaimed judges, and to offer additional performance opportunities.
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V v vegetable day:
First, we sorted some large pictures into vegetable or fruits or others. We gave each a thumbs up or down too depending on if we liked them. The big pages of fruits and vegetables are from old calendars. My mom sometimes gets old calendars at work and my sister and I fight over them.
Then I showed the kiddos this funny picture of a gerbil eating some vegetables. I let them tell about the picture. Some said he was going to eat the whole bowl, others decided that he had gotten into some people food. I just found this through Google images. I'm probably breaking some copyright rule by rephotographing it.
I had all the friends grab their pictures off our flannel board (that's how we take attendance among other things) and vote on a favorite vegetable. I hung up several choices on the flannel board, that I had cut out of seed catalogs. Two friends voted for cucumbers, one for carrots, and one for asparagus, all the others voted for corn. The kids are getting really good at answering questions from a graph.
Then we right into our first letter activity. We did some vegetable shopping. I gave each friend a paper shopping cart and a small set of stickers. The shopping cart is just a clipart image I found online. I cut some sheets of vegetable stickers in half to make them go farther (this is a full sheet). They are from Joanns, in their new 'teacher' section. I only needed 6 stickers per child.
I pulled some small picture cards from a basket. If the picture was a Vv word they added a sticker to their cart.
If it was not a Vv sound, we simply hung it on the flannel board (but they are photographed on my carpet) under the right letter. I only selected a few letters to work with this day.
These great pictures and letters are from Pre Kinders. I had to add a few extra v pictures.
Then I got to the book for the day. I was looking for a different book at the library, but could remember the name and my favorite librarian wasn't on duty. I read Eddie's Garden by Sarah Garland. It was pretty good and more detailed than the other book I was looking for. I had The Surprise Garden by Zoe Hall as an extra and didn't end up reading it.
Then we got to my second letter activity. I was just so excited that the class is now able to handle this. I had seen on Pinterest how you could use plastic plates as dry erase boards so I thought I'd try it out. Somewhere I have a class set of real dry erase boards... I lent them to a teacher friend and I think when she left she must have lent them to someone else. I may try to track them down this summer.
I gave the class a nice pep talk about using dry erase markers and NOT getting them on your clothes. I also discovered when trying this out with Bee and Lou, that you have to put your hand under them when erasing or the plate crunches down. We talked about all of my expectations for them before I handed them out.
These won't last as dry erase boards forever, but should finish us out this year. We used them to write some letters. I pulled out of a basket some ingredients to make vegetable soup. We sounded the words first letter and the kids wrote that letter on their plate. They could just hold up their plate for me to see, allowing me to quickly check everyone's work.
In the end we had some plastic vegetable soup. This could have been done with real vegetables, but the markers put me over budget for this lesson.
The craft was vines on a V. Vegetable stamping on the V would have been nice too.
At the end of the day, we got to this fun little song. It's to the tune of Down in the Valley or Over in the Meadow. I sang it once with the kids keeping beat with a soft clap. I used the words little and plants in the blanks. After that, we kept beat with slapping our knees and using different vegetables in the blanks. Once they had it down, we got out the rhythm sticks and kept beat by tapping the sticks, or marching the sticks or drumming the floor. We discovered 2 syllable vegetables worked out better in this to keep it with the beat; like carrot, pepper, or lettuce.
As with most days, we also squeezed in the phonics song from AJ Jenkins. My kiddos are really learning the letter sounds!


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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (PRWEB) April 16, 2015
Cubic Global Defense, a business of Cubic Corporation (NYSE: CUB) will show a range of technologies for increased aviation effectiveness and readiness at the World Aviation Training Conference and Trade Show (WATS) from April 21-23, at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Florida.
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Cabin Crew Door Operations: A demonstration featuring a personalized training avatar that provides cabin crew orientation and operational assessments for the main door on a commercial aircraft. Training includes interactive mini-games to evaluate the trainee's knowledge of key door components, and a four-phased approach to learn how to properly open the main door.
Ground Crew Tire Inspection: A virtual training environment demonstration where trainees learn from a personalized instructor avatar how to properly inspect tires for abnormal wear and tear on a commercial aircraft. The trainee is tasked to provide an emergency inspection on eight aircraft tires to evaluate proficiency in recognizing critical deficiencies and recommend next step remedial actions.
Operations Hazard Inspection: A demonstration that features an emergency inspection of a critical mechanical space. Trainees are tasked to identify potential safety hazards while appropriately categorizing risk level.
Attendees can experience the latest innovations at the Cubic booth #111, located directly across from the Cabin Crew conference room. For more information or to set-up a briefing, please contact Dan Ketchen at Dan(dot)Ketchen(at)cubic(dot)com. Follow Cubic at @CubicDefense #WhatsNext #wats2015 to join the conversation on social media.
About Cubic Corporation
Cubic Corporation is the parent company of two major businesses, Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Global Defense (CGD). CTS is a leading integrator of payment and information technology and services for intelligent travel solutions around the world. CGD is a trusted provider of realistic training systems, C4ISR solutions, and highly specialized support services for the U.S. and allied nations. For more information about Cubic, please visit the company's web site at http://www.cubic.com.


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New age approach to economic and political reform in the United States.
Ficalora borrows heavily from Jewish mysticism in this spiritual remedy for the dishonor and indecency plaguing the United States. Honor and morality are derived from a set of ten "Absolutes," similar to the Kabbalah. But unlike the Kabbalah, Ficalora suggests her guiding principles be applied not only to nations but individuals as well. She calls upon every American to attain messianic consciousness. This takes on especially great importance in the United States, a land ruled by the people, for the people. The author came of age in the 1970s, immersed in drug use and free love despite her strict Catholic upbringing. This youthful rebellion later turned into social activism, which she embraced even further after becoming a mother. While her progressive tendencies always informed her approach to life, Ficalora didn't become particularly inspired until the 2000 election of George W. Bush. She began studying American government and economics in earnest alongside her spiritual research. The fruits of her labor appear in this treatise. The author draws conclusions readers might expect from someone so long steeped in the political left: Bush lied, the war on terror is a farce and money rules the world. Her thinly veiled conspiracy theories about the "Money Power" behind all war and, as a result, all modern political power are nothing new. Ficalora might even be able to present a credible argument if her presentation were less dramatic and outrage not so overwrought. The author's economic views, however, are surprisingly conservative or libertarian in origin; she speaks of her high regard for Milton Friedman's concepts. The resulting call to action is unusual. Individuals are encouraged to accept their role as the nation's destined saviors: "You can be a Messiah." Add a heavy sprinkle of pop references from Mr. T to Pink Floyd to the mix and Ficalora's book is a curious and uninhibited take on modern politics.
An unpredictable tonic for what ails America.