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A holiday in Johannesburg is a once-in-a-lifetime visit to a sprawling metropolis famous as a mining town of gold and diamonds. As soon as you set foot in O.R. Tambo International Airport, the most modern on the continent, the city welcomes you to its lively atmosphere and its young and hip population, expressing their moods and spirit in the numerous festivals and cultural events taking place throughout the year. Visit Nelson Mandela Square and be sure not to miss a guided tour of Soweto with its colourful and artistically decorated Orlando Towers. The many attractions of Gold Reef City are also a must for any visitor. Johannesburg is also famous for its shopping in the trendy contemporary malls of Sandton, Braamfontein, Randburg, Fourways and Rosebank. In the evenings, enjoy the blends and flavours offered by the many restaurants or call in at one of the local jazz clubs.


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NEWPORT BEACH — Two aging commercial properties in Lido Village will soon be transformed into contemporary waterfront residential homes and commercial space, project officials said this week.
The first property on 3388 Via Lido, a 1960s-era building that began as Newport Balboa Savings Bank, will be stripped and rebuilt as two luxurious penthouse, single-family homes and multiple office spaces, with demolition beginning this month, said project architect Robin Donaldson.
"The original building was very contemporary for it's time," Donaldson said. "It had a very fun, cool design that sort of was destroyed over the years. Now, it's going to have a whole new life."
The upper three levels of the five-story building will be divided into two, roughly 5,000 square-foot penthouses, with the uppermost penthouse being the larger.
The bottom two levels will be transformed into about 10,000 square-feet of office space and expected to house up to three tenants, said development partner Matt Montgomery of Marshall Property & Development, who is overseeing the project for Bayfront Holdings L.P.

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The popular trade magazine Sleep Review: The Journal for Sleep Specialists recentlypublished a story on the symposium last year in Bologna, Italy at the European Sleep Research Society meeting where Christian Guilleminault, Erla Björnsdóttir, Leon Lack and I each presented on the topic of comorbid insomnia and sleep-disordered breathing (aka "complex insomnia" or COMISA). The story was written by Alexander Sweetman, a graduate student working with Dr. Lack, and covers pragmatic issues regarding not only the connection between the two disorders, but also raises important questions on the ordering of treatment for these conditions.
Two key themes throughout Sweetman's piece involved the extent to which PAP therapy might favorably influence different types of insomnia, and as a corollary, at what point in treatment should CBT-I (cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia) be offered to patients with co-morbid OSA/UARS. Some of the interesting points put forward in the presentations as well as during the Q & A following each speaker strongly indicated that CBT-I could almost always be offered early on in the treatment of a complex insomnia patient, the effects of which might actually improve the insomniac's subsequent motivation to attempt PAP therapy. The research on this point was evident in showing that patients with severe OSA will experience clinically meaningful treatment gains for insomnia severity by applying CBT-I strategies prior to attempting treatment for sleep-disordered breathing. On the other side of the equation, the question was also raised as to how much more insomnia treatment (e.g. CBT-I, hypnotics) would be required for residual insomnia symptoms after successful application of PAP therapy.
Reading Sweetman's article reminded me of several cases in the past few years where the timing of CBT-I implementation arose in complex insomnia patients and how circumstances and patient preferences often dictated the ordering of steps. To highlight the complexity of this issue, I will use a composite patient case description (i.e. merging details of several patients) to paint a comprehensive picture.
The patient is a middle-aged perimenopausal woman, who initially presented to us three years ago with complaints of severe insomnia, which manifested in classic ways with prolonged time in bed not sleeping, racing thoughts at bedtime, anxieties and fears about her sleep, hypnotic dependency, and excessive time monitoring behavior, the latter of which resulting in intense frustrations when lying awake in the middle of the night. She had been struggling with insomnia for nearly twenty years and once visited a sleep center that offered no CBT-I resources; instead, she was told to follow sleep hygiene instructions and was informed a sleep study would serve no purpose. For much of these 20 years, the patient was largely convinced her insomnia was a secondary effect of her anxiety and depressive disorders for which she used antidepressants and anxiolytic medications on a regular basis. Yet, neither these medications nor her benzodiazepine hypnotics solved the chronic bouts of sleeplessness often leading to more than 2 hours of wake time after initially going to sleep. In addition, the patient saw multiple therapists during this lengthy period, but while mental health gains were achieved, insomnia persisted and mild suicidal ideation was reported sporadically.
With some desperation the patient presented to our center, because her psychiatrist recently became aware of our work with severe insomnia cases and how we often found underlying pathophysiological problems that sometimes fueled the unwanted sleeplessness. The patient presented using two different benzodiazepines (Lorazepam, Clonazepam), both at low dosages at bedtime and reported being unable to fall asleep without the meds. She reported no symptoms of restless legs syndrome at bedtime or leg jerks during the night. Mild snoring was the only overt breathing symptom reported, but she occasionally to frequently complained of dry mouth in the morning and multiple episodes of nocturia each night.
With this background, we knew her risks were high for OSA/UARS, a finding we described in two papers published in 2010, both of which dealt with samples of insomniacs failing hypnotic meds at presentation to our center. The first paper appeared in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease and the second appeared in Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Both articles demonstrated between 80 to 90% of these types of patients suffered underlying OSA/UARS, a condition that surprised nearly every patient in the samples studied. Moreover, one study specifically examined how insomnia was evaluated prior to referral to the sleep center. Again, the evidence was overwhelming that primary care physicians were not addressing insomnia problems with anything more than pharmacotherapy and rarely were discussions held regarding how to locate a CBT-I therapist or the necessity for polysomnography to assess for physical causes for insomnia.
We discussed our approach to insomnia with this patient and pointed out two pathways: the value in starting with CBT-I to overcome psychophysiological conditioning or PAP therapy to address the underlying nonrestorative component of her potential sleep-disordered breathing. Not only was the choice a slam dunk to rapidly target PAP, but the patient insisted she was not willing to stop her anxiolytic/hypnotics no matter what treatment she was provided. In her mind, PAP therapy sounded very expedient if in fact it was proven she suffered from a sleep breathing problem.
At this point the patient articulated a recurrent theme we had been noticing among COMISA patients dating back to the late 1990s. The perspective involved the strong belief that despite all the talk about psychological aspects of insomnia, many patients "felt" or "sensed" something physical was wrong with their bodies. In other words, in contrast to the obvious waking stress-related factors of anxiety or racing thoughts that plagued her along with nearly every other insomniac we encountered, a different insight was in play, though not readily accessible, indicating a belief in some other factor(s) as the destroyer of sleep quality. Now, this perspective is not necessarily a surprise in that virtually all these patients present with nonrestorative sleep or what we refer to as "bad and broken" sleep. And, therefore, it is also not a surprise when these patients express a strong feeling of resonance when they hear a sleep-breathing disorder might underlie their insomnia and an even stronger expression of relief once formally diagnosed.
As an aside, we ask a specific question on our online intake as to whether or not a person believes his or her sleep is broken, and among these types of patients greater than 90% respond affirmatively. It is true the wording of the question could simply indicate a patient's perception of "sleep is broken up" during the night as an indicator of insomnia, but in our discussions we find the term also extends in some individuals to this concept of something feeling wrong or unhealthy with sleep itself.
The patient completed her overnight PSG and was diagnosed with a combination of moderate OSA and UARS events with only occasional oxygen desaturations during the minimal REM sleep she generated, probably due to her benzodiazepines or perhaps REM suppressant effects of her antidepressant. The study also showed a great deal of sleep fragmentation involving frequent bouts of wake time lasting 5 to 10 min or more, during which the patient showed some limb movements, perhaps suggestive of RLS since she was not sleeping at the time. The patient then returned for a retitration study, after which she was initiated on PAP therapy and was a regular user of the device for 3 years, during which she reported some benefits in both her insomnia and quality of sleep, but she was persuaded her results were not optimal.
The lack of optimal results led to subsequent follow-up clinic appointments and two additional retitration studies. At each encounter, the patient was encouraged to consider whether her continued use of benzodiazepines was interfering with the depth of her sleep and possibly decreasing the amount of time she spent in REM sleep. She was informed again that CBT-I might be a useful strategy if she elected to decrease or eliminate these hypnotic drugs. Instead, she focused on the retitrations, and with each tweak of her pressure settings coupled with aggressive attempts to manage persistent mask leak and mouth breathing issues further gains for insomnia and sleep quality were achieved, yet the patient continued to believe the response should have been better.
Two additional key observations manifested in this patient's case. First, in her follow-up retitrations she continued to show scattered leg movements, but again only while awake, and still the patient continued to deny RLS or PLMD; her husband also reported no awareness of unusual leg activity during the night. Second, as noted, at no time during this three year interval was the patient motivated to consider CBT-I or the possibility of tapering off her bedtime benzodiazepines.
A change of circumstances serendipitously led to a change in the patient's perspective about these bedtime medications. A change of jobs and a new psychotherapist apparently were critical factors in the patient developing a less rigid attitude about her meds, and in discussing things with her primary care physician (the current prescribing doctor), they developed a plan for tapering, which she completed during a two month period, all without her ever attempting CBT-I.
Due to the change in circumstances and the patient's report of mild deterioration of sleep quality since successfully tapering off the benzodiazepines, the patient was eager return for a retitration to determine whether or not she could in fact obtain a deeper quality of sleep in the form of longer REM periods and more total REM sleep. Instead, the next study in fact revealed what we had been missing all along. The patient showed marked problems with periodic limb movements, now for the first time showing up frequently while asleep and clearly with disruption to sleep quality in the form of both arousals and frank awakenings.
While more REM sleep emerged due to the absence of the benzos, the findings also helped us understand the greater complexity of her case. All this time, including before she visited any sleep center and during her visits with us, everyone had missed the diagnosis of RLS/PLMD. Instead, somewhere at the outset, a prescribing doctor diagnosed anxiety and insomnia and placed the patient on benzodiazepines. Because they were marginally effective for insomnia and leg jerks, the patient maintained use for 3 years. Once the medications were removed from the treatment regimen, the leg jerks were unmasked, and the patient experienced more REM sleep.
Clinically, the patient reported sleeping better on this study, perhaps due to greater REM sleep, but she was not persuaded things were suddenly optimal. When she learned about the leg jerks, she was very interested in proceeding with treatment to clarify whether or not this movement problem was indeed the missing link.
In similar cases, a patient starts a leg jerk med and finally achieves the near optimal to fully optimal response he or she had so long had hoped for. One clinical take home message here is that if we had been able to persuade the patient to go directly into CBT-I as her first treatment, there's a possibility she would have tapered off the medications sooner, which then would have unmasked the leg jerk problem much sooner. We anticipate that future research studies will be heavily focused on these complex insomnia cases, because it is so apparent these individuals have an assortment of pathways to choose from in starting their care. Hopefully, research will guides on predicting the paths to match each type of complex patient.
- Start with SR review of ESRS to segue into the complexities of starting with CBT I or PAP and describe the hegemony case as extending over 2 to 3 years.


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Bob Kulick, American guitarist and Grammy Award-winning record producer. Worked with Kiss, W.A.S.P., Meat Loaf, Michael Bolton, Lou Reed, Doro Pesch, Alice Cooper.
In this interview…
- Playing Rockoctoberfest fest along with Bruce Kulick, Eric Singer and Gene Simmons.
- Talks about playing with Paul Stanley back in his solo album days of KISS.
- How often does Bob and Bruce Kulick play together on stage?
- Producing bands in Los Angeles.
- Metal Michael Jackson tribute album. Featuring legendary musicians.
- What type of amplifiers is being used now in the studio Wizard Amps.
- The guitar approach on Kiss Killers and Alive II for the unique solo styles.
- Dick Wagner from Alice Cooper being one of his main influences in developing his style.
- Playing with Alice Cooper in the 1970's.
- KISS Forever: Kiss Instructional DVD for guitarist.


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There's supposed to be plenty of good news to go around in the "2003 IT Workforce Survey" released recently by the Information Technology Association of America.
If you're a CIO or corporate IT manager, the good news is that IT labour costs are stabilising and IT shops are mostly able to hire the people they need.
For IT workers in the trenches, the good news is that layoffs are slowing, actual pay cuts are largely a thing of the past, and only 4% of corporate IT departments are considering moving jobs offshore in the next year.
Yeah -- that's what qualifies as good news these days.
Trouble is, the survey doesn't show what lies just beneath that feeble good news: Corporate IT morale is in the toilet. And the number one reason is the one thing you can't do much about: the long, long hours.
You can't do much about the hours your people work because the work has to get done and there's no budget for hiring more people to do it. So more and more of our best people are coming to the conclusion that there's a better life to be had than grinding away in an IT shop.
And who will you lose at the first opportunity? Your smartest, sharpest people, that's who. Your IT shop leaders. The ones who best understand the connection between IT and business. The ones you'll need the most, once you get the green light to start building new projects again.
They're the ones who don't have to stay -- who can take their corporate IT experience and parlay it into a new career, whether that means conventional IT consulting or a new specialist gig combining law and IT, medicine and IT or some other profession and IT.
And why should they stay? They're smart enough to understand that this crunch isn't a one-time thing. We've been through it before. First there's an IT skills shortage: IT shops go crazy looking for ways to fill critical jobs, and IT becomes the hot place to work. Then a few years later the business tightens up, layoffs mount, salaries fall, hours get long and college students switch their majors to anything but computer science.
Which, a few years later, results in another shortage -- and the cycle begins again. No wonder your best people want to leave. They love their work, but what sane person would want to build a career on that sort of manic-depressive boom-and-bust cycle?
Can you keep them? Maybe. Your best shot to do that may be to get your IT shop out of the boom-and-bust business. You can't stop economic cycles or change the laws of supply and demand. But you can change the way you organise your shop.
You've heard about cross-functional teams for years. Build a few. Bulldoze some of the walls between different IT functions. You've got programmers and database analysts and network administrators and help desk specialists. Start cross-training. Your programmers don't have to become database experts or network gurus, but the more they know about those other jobs, the better they can create systems that save grief for the whole business.
Afraid they'll take the training and run off to a better job? They won't if you invest in educating them for what your organisation needs. Forget generic IT training -- put them to work studying your company's business processes, learning techniques to pry requirements out of your users and understanding the realities of your corporate culture.
That will make them much more valuable to you -- but not especially more attractive to another employer who's just looking for someone fresh out of XML class.
You'll get better, smarter work. You'll get more flexibility and efficiency in your IT shop, and greater focus on real business value.
You may even find that your cross-functional IT people don't have to put in such long hours to get the work done.
And for your employees, that would be really good news.
Hayes, Computerworld US' senior news columnist, has covered IT for more than 20 years.


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Welcome New Drivers
About this page
On this page, you will find information about our race format which is different than most derby
drivers are used to, Parking, and contacts to help make your visit and participation as
smooth as possible.
Race Format
- The night starts with Tech which begins about 2 pm.
- At 4:30 we start time trials this is you get one lap for your time.
- At approx 5:00 we have a drivers meeting. It will be announced.
- 5:15 racing starts with "Dash Races". The first car to complete 8 laps wins.
- Then comes our rollover competition. You get 2 attempts at the ramp.
- We pull the ramp and have our special event for the night. Check the schedule to see what they are.
- We then alternate "heat races" and "figure 8's". (3 of each for each car class)
- At Approx 8pm we have a 10 min break to get ready for finales.
- Finales Mini Cars do theirs first, after the track is cleared the Big cars do theirs. Pays 1st through 4th.
Some Notes On Our Races
- After you pay your pit pass you may participate in any of the events for the night
with the exception of some of the special events. (they may have a special team or sign up).
- We line up cars for the heats and figure 8's. We take the cars in the order that they are lined up in.
If you do not want to participate in that particular race then you must go to the back of the line
and take your chances with getting the race type that you want. Typically a well-built car can get in
3 races a night depending on car count.
- If all you want to do is the finale park your car and enjoy the show when finale time rolls around jump in your
car and smash something (on the track).
- All of our races are full contact; provided that the contact is done in a good "sportsmanlike manner".
Car Classes
We have three classes of cars. They are Big cars, Mini cars, and Rollover Cars. Please check our
rules for specific build requirements.
|To the right, you will see an ariel view of the fairgrounds.
The fairgrounds are situated between Bremerton and Silverdale Washington. This map can help you with directions.
Nearby places of interest (Kitsap Mall, auto-parts stores, motels, and restaurants) can all be found within 10 minutes
driving time from the fairgrounds.
The arena is approximately 320 feet long and 100 feet wide. The fans sit in grandstands just outside the arena walls
(one covered grandstand and one uncovered). The pit area is mostly gravel. There is water available and hopefully, power
will be available for the 2006 season. You may use torches (provided you have a fire extinguisher on hand) in the pits.
There are several people that have winches. If you ask nicely they will usually give you a hand pulling out your
crumpled sheet metal. If you need help with your car ask someone they will usually give you a hand or point you to
someone that can help you out; whether it be tools or parts. The object is to go out and smash cars not spend all night
working on them. Just be courteous and return the favor or part.
Other information
Please use the links at the top of the page. Meeting information has what is/was talked about
at the last general meeting, dates, rules and some other info. Schedules will have our yearly race schedule
when finalized
If you have questions or need help planning your trip to us feel free to ask one of the Board members. Please see
the Contact us page for more information. We all hope that your experience with us will be a good one.


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Monday, April 02, 2007
I'm back! If only for a little while.
Still out of sorts from all the travelling, I awoke at 4:30am today. My mind is totally spinning. I should have posted sooner, but I just needed to get my brain together after such a lovely, thrilling, relaxing, enlightening and overall fantastic vacation in Barcelona, Spain. Here is a link to my pictures worth more words than I have the energy to write. Does anyone else feel a minor meltdown when coming off vacation? It's such a let down! And I love my family to death. They're the funniest people I know. I think it's a Cosby kids syndrome thing: I had such a great family and childhood, I don't want to leave it. I want to stay at home with them. It's a great life!! But no, I have to live 400 miles away and be a grown up. It's just a shock to come back to home ownership, a throroughly trashed house (thanks to my studio upheaval last week) and a thousand projects in the works. I'm getting what I asked for!
I'll be writing this week about various experiences from the trip--crafty shopping, excursions, man vs. the machine, art and architecture, and more. Since I'm traveling again tomorrow, be patient. Let me just say that I now have more ideas than I have time for and I'm a little stressed about it.
I'm leaving again tomorrow afternoon for a training trip to NYC, although I'll be staying through the weekend and tooling around the city (Purl Patchwork, here I come!!) If anyone has ideas for me as to what I can cram into Saturday and Sunday, send them my way.
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The Economist | N.B. | Obese flyers: How should airlines treat larger passengers?
Traveling while obese can be stressful and humiliating. Many American airlines ask overweight passengers to buy extra seats or wait for the next flight if they can't be accommodated. Requesting a seat-belt extender can draw stares. And sitting next to someone who doesn't really fit in their seat can be uncomfortable for all concerned. So I was interested to note, via US News & World Report, Air Canada's fascinating policy with regards to obese flyers:
International airlines such as Air Canada address this issue more amicably: Because the airline considers obesity a medical condition, it provides overweight passengers with a free extra seat as long as they present a doctor's note.This is remarkable, and appears to demonstrate a fascinating difference between American and international attitudes towards obese people
We could have endless debates about how much of obesity is your responsibility and how much is luck of the genetic/social draw, but I think we can agree that tall people are not at fault for being tall.
So why is it that everyone should chip in to make sure people with one form of bad luck don't have to suffer the consequences, but people with another type of bad luck when flying are expected to deal with it on their own?
Is there a consistent moral rationale for why an airline ought to give away seats to the obese but not the tall?
Air Canada and other airlines with policies that say obesity is a medical condition are taking a financial hit for every extra seat they give to overweight passengers. That cost is probably being passed on to other passengers.Probably?
Perhaps this is only fair. We all subsidise the costs of providing on-board defibrillators for patients who suffer cardiac events on planes. We all subsidise the added medical costs of obese people. Why not airline tickets, too?Oh, you want to play this game? Okay. Let's begin.
We don't pool the costs of everyone who bought books to read during the flight, so why pool the costs of extra obese passengers? People who buy over-priced meals in the airport concourse aren't subsidized by those who don't. Some people order a car service to get from the airport, some people take cabs, others take buses; they don't all chip in and evenly split the costs of ground transportation. Now (thankfully!) the people who pack light aren't responsible for paying to transport someone else's XL suitcases, duffle bags, golf clubs, baby strollers and skis.
I guarantee I can list more things we don't collectively buy than things we do. "Buy Your Own Stuff" is the baseline, default way things are done in a free society. The burden is on the collectivists to argue that something like extra-wide airline seats shouldn't obey that rule.
The entire social safety net boils down to protecting people from the consequences of bad luck.* What's always bugged me is how selective we are about which forms of bad luck we must Do Something about.
(* Well, also their own bad decisions, since we try so hard not to draw a distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor, but that's another matter. For simplicity and generosity's sake, let's confine ourselves to bad luck.)
You got diabetes and need $20,000 of medical services and you don't have an insurance policy that will cover it? No problem; it's now apparently a moral imperative that everyone else pitch in to pay for that. You had a tree fall on your home and need to spend $20,000 putting a new roof on it, but don't have an insurance policy that will cover it? Tough shit; you're on your own.
I wish someone could give me an a priori theory about which forms of bad luck we are supposed to insulate people against and which we aren't.


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Anadama Bread
As one story goes, this yeast bread was named by a man whose wife didn't bake, but served him gruel every day. In desperation, he baked the bread while mumbling about his wife, Anna. He must have been a good baker because his cornmeal-molasses bread remains a favorite. Slice the bread and serve with jam or use it to make sandwiches.
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- In a large bowl, stir together 1 cup of the flour and the yeast. In a medium saucepan, combine water and cornmeal. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Remove from heat. Stir in molasses, shortening, and salt. Cool just until warm (115 degree F to 120 degree F).
- Add molasses mixture to flour mixture; add eggs. Beat with an electric mixer on low to medium speed for 30 seconds, scraping side of bowl constantly. Beat on high speed for 3 minutes. Using a wooden spoon, stir in as much of the remaining flour as you can.
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead in enough of the remaining flour to make a moderately stiff dough that is smooth and elastic (6 to 8 minutes total). Shape into a ball. Place in a lightly greased bowl; turn once. Cover and let rise in a warm place until double (about 1 hour).
- Punch dough down. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Divide dough in half. Cover and let rest for 10 minutes.
- Lightly grease two 8x4x2-inch loaf pans. Shape each dough portion into a loaf. Place in pans. Cover; let rise in a warm place until nearly double in size (about 30 minutes).
- Brush with butter. Bake in a 375 degree F oven about 40 minutes or until bread sounds hollow when lightly tapped, covering loosely with foil for the last 20 minutes of baking. Immediately remove from pans. Cool on wire racks. Makes 2 loaves.


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While my students were enjoying a nice break before summer classes started, me and four other teachers, from the studio, decided to try to become ABT National Training Curriculum Certified Teachers. For nine days, from 9am-4pm, we lived and breathed ballet, ballet, ballet! We listened to lectures, created combinations, critiqued, discussed theory, read, took class, and studied our butts off! Now after a month of waiting, I'm happy to announce that I passed!!! I'm an ABT National Training Curriculum Certified Teacher for Pre-Primary-Level 3!
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Book summary:
Her short life was devoted to love and to hate. Love of the man who stole her heart, hate for the man who stole the world. Murdered by the government she swore to destroy, she's been given another chance to make it right. But to save the planet, she needs the help of the most powerful mystic the world has ever seen—unfortunately he hasn't been born yet.
In a world where fear is the only currency, Dephon has committed the ultimate crime: inspiring hope.
His only goal is to make it safely through ninth grade, but on a post-apocalyptic Earth run by the Treptonian government, it isn't that simple. Heir to a legendary power, Dephon Johnson is the only threat to the government's rule. And on Trepton, all threats must be eliminated. When hundreds of assassins are dispatched to neutralize him, Dephon is forced to fight back. His only chance of survival is to enlist the aid of the greatest warrior the world has ever known. The only problem is, she's been dead for 13 years.
This book is divided into two stories basically and they're intertwined. We have a story about a young boy Dephon who lives in a future world. The world as we know it has been destroyed and now the Treptonian government runs what's left of it. Only he doesn't know that he has a power, a power he inherited from his mother and father, but father is ready to face the truth and help him. Until one day one person from the past shows up and gives him The Exemeus. His mother's Exemeus to help him figure things out and what's more important to meet her better as he never had a chance to. As soon as he opened the book he meets someone who is there to lead him through it and become a friend he never had. With a little time left he must learn all there is about his magic and the way to save the world.
While reading his mother's Exemeus we travel into the past and other world - Haylee's world. Where we get to know how did it started and what happened. I can say that Dephon was a sweet boy and was a good narrator, but Haylee was easier for me to connect with. It was easy to flow from one story to another and to connect the dots. While meeting Haylee and Singelton and their love story and then comparing that to the past in which Dephon lives you can see the changes that happened not only in the world but in people.
It's really hard to balance while writing this review. It is confusing when you start the book but the magic starts when you become able to connect the stories and to see the bigger picture, or better said the whole picture. All in all, I can say that I enjoyed in this story that has a wonderful magic in it, with coming of age and a bit of romance. With this I can't wait to see more and hopefully I'll get to see more of outside world (which is probably the only thing I missed here).
Rating: 4.5 stars.
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Geometry by Maud Vantours, a designer and artist based in Paris, France, is an aptly titled series. It embraces geometric shapes and patterns to create scenes that are full of abstract dynamism and bold colors. As impressive as his previous work, this series revolves around her signature style: layered paper sculptures. This transfixing technique gives each piece a three dimensional effect that is hard not to appreciate.
Since her work has been used for set designs, fashion accessories and editorial treatments in the past, it wouldn't be surprising if Geometry by Maud Vantours popped up in other scenarios as well. They would make eye-catching backdrops. As written on her website, "Maud's work transcending a simple material and transforming it into a work of art. Her design creations are original graphics of multicolored and dreamlike landscapes."
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Dhaka: Bangladesh on Sunday termed as "surprising" Myanmar`s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi`s comments questioning the state of origin of her country`s Muslim Rohingya community.
"Historic evidence shows that people of Rohingya ethnicity have been living in the Rakhine state of Myanmar for centuries, whereas Bangladesh came into existence only in 1971," a foreign office statement said.
Dhaka`s reaction came three days after Suu Kyi, in New Delhi, said there were quarrels about if the Rohingyas were "true citizens under law" or came over to Myanmar as migrants later from Bangladesh.
"Bangladesh will say all these people have come from Burma (Myanmar) and the Burmese say all these people have come over from Bangladesh," Suu Kyi had told the media, visibly disappointing Dhaka.
"The (foreign) ministry wishes to express surprise at such comments since these are clearly at variance from the position of the Myanmar Government and the action taken by them to resolve the issue over the last several years," said the statement issued by the foreign office.
The foreign office recalled that since Bangladesh`s emergence as an independent state on December 16, 1971, there had been occasional influxes of "Myanmar nationals of Rohingya ethnicity" from Myanmar to Bangladesh "due to internal situations in their homeland".
It said the last such major influx took place in 1991-92 when 250,877 Rohingyas took refuge in Bangladesh and of them Myanmar took back 236,599 refugees through a tripartite agreement between Bangladesh, Myanmar and UNHCR "after verification of their antecedents as people of Myanmar origin".
"The remaining Myanmar refugees, along with their offspring, are staying in two refugee camps in Bangladesh. A quarter of these residual refugees were verified and confirmed by the Myanmar Government as their nationals," the statement said.
The refugees fled their country to take refuge in
Bangladesh amid reported repression by the then Myanmar junta in 1991 while the exodus also took place on a massive scale in two subsequent phases while Dhaka estimated their number to be ranged between 400,000 and 500,000.
"In numerous interactions at various levels, including during the visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Myanmar in December 2011... Myanmar has assured Bangladesh to take back these undocumented (400,000 to 500,000) Myanmar nationals after verification of their origin," the statement said.
The Rohingyas at the home in Buddhist majority Rakhine sate in western Myanmar were exposed to fresh difficulties with the outbreak of sectarian or communal violence that has left at least 180 people dead.
Dhaka, however, appreciated a recent Myanmar decision to review the citizenship laws to ensure inclusive nationality for all members of Myanmar society.
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What To Do Next
Jesus in the Middle East is reported to have said the whole of the Law is summed up in whole hearted love for God and for all people in specific one on one. I understand this to not mean some form of overarching love for mankind but instead for each woman as lover/mother/sister/daughter/friend and each man as lover/father/brother/son/friend. This is no less than a demand, love of God because He commands it, and of men and women because they are in some way each by each perfect images of God and so deserve it.
In Asia Buddhism became the dominant cross cultural spirituality. In Buddhism it is claimed that it is possible to become truly free of illusion and distress, only that at some point along the Way Out one reaches a viewpoint that may stop one from going the rest of the way because if we all don't go to freedom then the few who go are incomplete anyway. So some stop and turn back as Bodhisattvas to assist the rest, first to alleviate suffering so far as is possible and second to help leverage the whole world beyond suffering, which can only be done one by one just the same as Jesus would have us love one another, one by one.
To put a finer point on it, not all Buddhists agree that this is the path but all Buddhist do agree that it can be the path. Theravada adherents say that this whole process can't really be affected that much so it is better to just tend your own garden. Mahayana Buddhists believe that it gives one merit to yearn for the Bodhisattva path or to support it in some way. These Buddhists are far in the majority. Mahayana translates as the Greater Way.
So the Christians devote to loving and embracing each by each and the Buddhists hold the world each by each in a compassionate embrace. That's the start of it. There is much more in both the paths. And both paths require a radical form of discipline in the purest manifestations of this starting point.
In both cases the person who does the loving is no longer an ordinary person but is instead transformed by disciplines of love or compassion. The early Christians referred to each other by the term "Saint" referring to just this change of state. They believed (and most Christians still believe at least by church creed) that this change of state is not possible without the assistance of the Christ. And as already mentioned, the Buddhist version is the Bodhisattva. Otherwise this task of loving completely is not possible. The process by which such a transformation can occur can be called "Opening".
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Just in case some mainstream Buddhists are watching, the Dalai Lama while the most prominent Buddhist in the world today is actually the head of a rather small segment of the Buddhist world - the trouble being that this segment of Buddhism is a religion in exile and suppression. That he is so well known is because he is a consummate politician, or... possibly because he gets spiritual aid from Bodhisattvas. The Dalai Lama is a Bodhisattva, by the way.ReplyDelete
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Whenever you come you Thessaloniki / Greece you have to pay a visit to the White Tower.
It´s a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, which is the capital of the region of Macedonia and the second biggest city in Greece. This tower has seen a lot over the years. Build around 1430 by Sultan Murad II and his Ottomans was used as a fort, garrison and a prison. In 1826 there was a big massacre of the prisoners in the tower and his name changed from the White Tower in "The Tower of Blood".
In 1912, the tower was whitewashed as a symbol of cleansing and acquired his present name again. During the Worldwar 2, the tower was used to store food for the German soldiers. As I said, these walls saw a lot of things in the past but now it becomes one of the most famous sightseeing spots in Thessaloniki. It also houses a Byzantine museum and is one of the Antiquities of the Greek Ministry of Culture.
Around the tower there is a lot of stuff going on. A lot of tourists and teenagers use it as a hangout spot…..you can see skateboarders doing their Kick flips and Heelies under the statue of Alexander the Great and you can start trips into the Aegean Sea from there…. It´s definitely worth to check it, get some ice cream or one of the famous Greek coffee specialties and enjoy the sun…
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One of the more intriguing features of the LG G Pad 8.3 is its ability to pair up with the LG G2 for more than just tethering. In fact, the "Q Pair" feature is supposed to eventually work with phones made by manufacturers other than LG. That's for another day though. Today, we're taking a brief look at what it looks like when a call comes in on a phone and is then shared with the G Pad tablet.
The idea is that the two devices are tethered, with the call coming in to the phone. But as the phone rings, you also get a pop-up on the tablet, allowing you to take the call, decline it outright, or decline it with an automated response. It looks good, it's dead simple to use — and it's really something we've not seen anyone else do before.
Again, what really makes this interesting is that Q Pair will eventually be a standalone app, and so you should be able to pair the tablet with any number of phones. We just have to wait a little bit for that still. (In fact, we still have to wait on the tablet, for that matter.)
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Hear the Harley Rumble – hear them as they should sound! – Sydney Harbour Bridge & Sydney Harbour Tunnel, Kirribilli
Hear the roar of the Chopper 4 trike or the Harley Davidson motorbike engines with a trip under the Sydney Harbour Tunnel. Not for the faint hearted.
The ride takes you for a close up look at Luna Park. There is over 75 years of history to Sydney's Luna Park.The whole Sydney site was constructed in just over 3 months and involved the employment of 800 structural workers, 70 electricians and 35 artists as well and many others. The original rides were from Glenelg, Adelaide, SA.
When the doors opened at 8.00pm on 4 October, 1935 it cost 6d to enter (3d for children) and 6d for most rides. The Big Dipper and Coney Island cost 9d. The Park was an instant success. After the first year, the admission charge was removed and Luna Park proudly advertised "Admission Free". Unfortunately some good things don't last, over the years Luna Park has changed a lot and it is not free. It is still worth a look.
We return via the Sydney Harbour Bridge & its superb view.
Summary: From your pick up point, travel through the Sydney Harbour Tunnel, hearing the roar of the engines. Drop in for a close up view of Luna Park's famous 8th face. We stop at Kirribilli to enjoy the views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge from underneath and across the water to the Sydney Opera House. Return via the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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These are peppers I made a few days ago after this popped up on my daily reader list: homemade pickled peppers.
I used green bell peppers with one jalapeno- and they are delicious! Next time I think I will use more jalapeno though.
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Drought Conditions To Continue For Area Farmers
Summer has officially arrived and with the lack of recent heavy and widespread rain, drought conditions are worsening for a good portion of our area.
The latest drought monitor places most of Arkansas in a severe drought. Recent rains in have helped to temporary relieve the severe drought conditions in Benton and Washington county.
Below average rain in May and so far in June have helped accelerate the drought. So where do we go from here? The 6-10 day outlook from the Climate Prediction Center shows a good chance of below average rain chances in the short-term.
The 6-10 day temperature outlook shows temperatures well above average. A summer heat ridge will build through the end of June leading to very warm conditions. There is an 80% chance of temperatures above normal through the end of the month. .
Looking long-term at the month of July, which is usually one of the hotter and drier months, the outlook from the Climate Prediction Center calls for a good chance of above average temperatures.
An equal chance of near average rain exists for July according to the outlook.
Current soil moisture indices are running about 3 inches below normal for a good portion of northwest and western Arkansas.
The lack of substantial rain in May and so far in June has, not surprisingly, put a strain on crops and pasture lands. 56% percent of Arkansas pasture and range lands are considered to be in poor or very poor condition.
The bottom line as we finish up June and head into July is the drought will likely worsen as we get into the hotter months. During the summer there is always a "wild-card" for rain in the form of a tropical system that could develop in the Gulf of Mexico and track north into our area giving us much-needed rain. Chances look good that a tropical storm will develop during the last week of June. But a stubborn high pressure over the central US will force this system to the west into Mexico.


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Last Rights: A Catholic Perspective on End-of-Life DecisionsBy: Dolores L. Christie (author)Hardback
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DescriptionLast Rights examines end-of-life decisions in the context of the Roman Catholic tradition, a heritage rich in its teaching about the human person, the value of life, and the moral rights and responsibilities inherent to every human being. Written for Catholics seeking a better understanding of their own tradition, ministers who deal with Catholic patients, those who wish to learn more about the Catholic perspective, and ordinary decision-makers who must face these complex issues, Last Rights includes cross-references, a glossary, and an appendix and bibliography that provide resources for further study and helpful tools for end-of-life decision-making.
About AuthorDr. Dolores L. Christie is executive director of the Catholic Theological Society of America with national offices at John Carroll University. An experienced clinical ethicist, she serves on the ethics committees of a tertiary care hospital, a long-term care facility, and on the Ohio Solid Organ Transplant Consortium ethics and patient selection committees. She is the author of Adequately Considered: An American Approach to Louis Janssens' Personalist Morals (Peeters, 1990) as well as several book chapters and articles and many reviews. Her article, 'This Is My Body: A Good Friday Reflection,' (Emmanuel Magazine) won the 1997 Catholic Press Journalism Award for Best Magazine Article. She lives in Cleveland with her physician husband of 43 years, Richard Christie.
ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 A Catholic View of the Human Person Chapter 3 The Catholic Moral Tradition: Objective Elements Chapter 4 The Decision Maker and the Tradition Chapter 5 Making Plans before Dying Chapter 6 When They Say Treatment Is Futile Chapter 7 When the Patient Cannot Respond: Coma or Persistent Vegetative State Chapter 8 When the Patient Cannot Eat: Artificial Nutrition and Hydration Chapter 9 When the Patient Is Ready to Die: Suicide and Its Companions Chapter 10 Final Gifts: Interpersonal Dimensions of Dying Chapter 11 The Final Blessing: Religious and Pastoral Dimensions of Dying
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We've had some customers this week who have run into issues with multiple processes consuming large amounts of memory at startup. One extreme case had every process using anywhere from 500MB to over 1GB per process! Think about Notepad.exe taking up 500MB of memory after a restart … scary, isn't it? Obviously there are issues with having this type of situation in place – slow server performance, high pagefile usage and you could also experience blank desktop issues with trying to log in – to name just a few of the symptoms you might experience. Although it's not the most common troubleshooting scenario that we run into, it can result in major server stability problems.
The obvious question is, "How do I fix it?" Check the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControlSession Manager. If the HeapDecommitFreeBlockThreshold value exists, set the value to 0 for Non-Exchange servers and 0x00040000 (hexadecimal) for Exchange servers. Once you make that change, you will need to reboot the server.
So what does the HeapDecommitFreeBlockThreshold value actually do? It provides better control of memory handling as it is freed to mitigate virtual memory fragmentation. Virtual memory fragmentation occurs where there is available virtual memory for a process, but they are not of a significant size. Over time, due to the varying sizes and lifetimes of memory allocations, memory fragmentation may occur. As you scale a server to handle more users and larger loads, you may see this. The most common scenario for this issue is with clustered Exchange servers used to host a large number of users or messaging databases – look for Event ID 9582 in the Application Event Log.
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As of this morning, Arkansas Blood Institute (ABI) is again adequately prepared with blood supply for the 15 hospitals it serves in western and central Arkansas. Since Thursday, Dec. 5, ABI had faced a blood emergency with less than a one-day supply available.
"We have seen a strong response from patient and kind-hearted blood donors who have lined up in our donor centers and at blood drives this week," said John Armitage, M.D., President and CEO. "Our community spirit has shown bright once again, helping us restore a sufficient supply. We thank all who have made giving a priority."
Due to its limited time for use, maintaining a three-to-five day blood supply is deemed appropriate by Arkansas Blood Institute and other blood centers across the nation. More would result in the personal gift of blood donors going unused before expiration.
Even with today's optimistic report, however, Arkansas Blood Institute officials are concerned about the blood supply in the coming weeks. Extended weather forecasts suggest more winter storms around December 21. On Christmas Eve, the Fort Smith donor center will be open, but no blood will be donated on Christmas Day.
According to ABI, this leaves the blood supply particularly vulnerable should inclement weather occur next weekend. Arkansas Blood Institute urges everyone 16 years* and older who is healthy and has not already donated in the past 56 days to visit the donor center or a blood drive before Friday.
"We believe that donating blood, especially when a storm is predicted, should go hand-in-hand with filling up the car's gas tank, taking care of pipes that might freeze and loading up on bags of ice melt," said Armitage. "As we have just seen, it only takes a day or two of inclement weather for us to see significant reductions in our blood supply. Donors can't come to our centers, and many blood drives are cancelled, but the needs of patients - young and old - continue in our hospitals."
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We all had a blast at the Reno Rodeo this week. The whole family went on Thursday and Friday. Becki (Scott's mom) and Christopher (Scott's brother) came down from Susanville and spent a couple days with us. We took some family pictures but I'm still learning to use my new camera and they didn't turn out.
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TUI AG shares tumbled in early trading after the German travel and tourism giant said it would not make an offer to takeover FTSE 100-listed firm TUI Travel, in which it already holds a majority stake.
TUI Travel, Europe's largest tour operator which was formed by the merger of First Choice Holidays PLC and the travel division of TUI AG, had said that it was approached by its largest shareholder with the possibility of merging the two firms.
"This decision is based on the assessment that a share-based transaction at current exchange ratios is not in the interest of TUI shareholders," said a statement on TUI AG's website.
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PLATTSBURGH - "Bullying: A Community Conversation," part of the CVPH Community Lecture Series sponsored by the Foundation of CVPH, will be held Wednesday, Jan. 19, at West Side Ballroom, 253 New York Road, beginning at 6 p.m.
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AT the moment, Yale University Art Gallery has not one but two graphic art exhibitions going for it - ''From Mannerism to Classicism: Printmaking in France, 1600 to 1660'' and ''Prints by Contemporary American Women.'' Both come with substantial catalogues and both, curiously enough, are dedicated to the parents of their respective organizers. Otherwise the two are poles apart and not just for historical reasons either.
The French show is a student production, the work of a Harvard graduate named Alvin L. Clark, who is a National Endowment for the Arts intern at the gallery. Inevitably, therefore, it is aimed more at the academic community than at the public.
The American display, a celebration of Mount Holyoke College's 150th anniversary, was assembled for that college's museum by Richard S. Field and Ruth E. Fine. Mr. Field is Yale's curator of prints, drawings and photographs, and Ms. Fine the curator of graphic art at Washington's National Gallery, and the prints chosen are generally large, sometimes enormous and more often than not brightly colored.
Mr. Clark focuses on the period in which Baroque began to infiltrate French art, superseding Mannerism. Each movement, of course, was a byproduct of Renaissance art, but Mannerism stylized and attenuated the achievements of its parent, frequently with overtones of agitation, even pessimism, while Baroque, with its greater rotundity and Bach-like rhythms represented a new optimistic beginning. France, however, was reluctant to let go of its glorious Gothic past and did not really embrace the Renaissance style until it had metamorphosed into Mannerism.
The curator attributes this in part to a social system that kept the artist below the salt. Still, there's reason to suspect that a residual trace of the Germanic in the French makeup, coupled with a sense of the pagan past were also factors in the delay. A recent survey of Brueghel and his era at the Morgan Library made obvious that the more northern a culture the more resistant it was to classicism of any kind. Perhaps Mannerism succeeded where its predecessor failed because it seemed to have something of the Gothic spirit if not its forms.Continue reading the main story
One of the several prints in the Yale selection that encourages such speculation is ''Two Tramps Fighting,'' by Jacques Bellange, who worked for the court of Lorraine. Despite a background that's nothing but finely ruled horizontal lines, the technique of this etching and engraving has a touch of Italianate sophistication. But the spaniel rampant in the foreground, the gargoyle-like face of the foremost man and a general air of violence come from Gaul, not Latium.
A contemporary of Bellange's in the Lorraine school, Jacques Callot is worth noting for his small etching of a slave auction held on the outskirts of a medieval town. It's a linear scene involving three groups of figures standing in the middle distance with the merchandise barely discernible in the group at the right and it's placid to the point of being lackadaisical. But when the artist is aroused by the phantasmal tribulations of St. Antony, he produces something worthy of Hieronymous Bosch.
The way the prints are grouped according to school indicates that by the second decade of the 17th century all roads, political as well as esthetic, were leading to Paris. Unfortunately, Mr. Clark, like most fledgling museum curators (and not a few who are fully formed) suffers from information anxiety, which causes him to bog down in minutiae and footnotes. This, together with the occasional discrepancy between show and catalogue, makes his thread hard to follow. Visually, however, the speed with which the French printmakers achieved virtuosity and sophisitication is unmistakable.
The climax begins as early as 1629, in Claude Mellan's engraving of a winsome-looking John the Baptist seated beside a waterfall - a shepherd fit for the bucolic charades staged by the 18th-century Bourbons. Gabrielle Perelle's tondo etchings of landscapes are among the tonal and textural tours de force, but it is Robert Nanteuil's large engraving of a plump, periwigged Louis IV that ushers in France's golden age and marks the chronological end of the show, which remains through Jan. 9.
It doesn't hurt to bear in mind that the forces responsible for the death of the ancien regime are the very same that brought forth individualism. For the shows, though floors apart, are a staggering contrast. The American images are to the French what posters are to bank notes. Though Mr. Field in his catalogue confines himself to printmaking since 1960, he in effect explains the contrast by noting how much recent art owes to the ''image industry.''
An essay that establishes as never before how symbiotic painting and printmaking have become, it is replete with connections, such as that between the decline of Formalism and the corresponding increase in the number of women artists. Mr. Field's contention that Neo-Expressionism has ''diminished the luster'' of these artists is disputable but not his view of it as a macho movement and of women as less addicted than men to ''a strategy of public confrontation.'' In art, as in life, female aggression tends to be of the passive kind.
Mr. Field sets the 24 contributors in context; Ms. Fine covers them individually. Most are well known but some, like Jennifer Bartlett, Nancy Graves and Susan Rothenberg, have had more critical attention than others.
The reviewer's list of standouts begins with Helen Franthenthaler for her woodcuts of landscape-like images printed in colors as delicate as those of her early automatist canvases. It continues with Jane Freilicher whose three-foot square etching and aquatint of white peonies and red poppies set against low-lying fields is the best work in any medium by this artist that the reviewer has seen to date.
The same goes for Sylvia Plimack Mangold and her beautiful screenprint-cum-lithograph of Schumnemunk Mountain at night and also for Susan Crile, whose olive-drab and white woodcut, ''Buskirk Junction,'' works equally well as an abstraction and as an aerial landscape. Finally, Dorothea Rockburne's two ''locus'' prints show traces of etching and aquatint, but most of their seductive geometry is the result of folding and creasing the paper that they are printed on.
A show numbering 61 works, it remains through Jan. 20. The gallery is at Chapel and York Streets in New Haven, and its hours are from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Tuesday through Saturday; from 10 A.M. to 8 P.M. Thursday, and from 2 to 5 P.M. Sundays.Continue reading the main story


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text: Good knives, as any professional chef will tell you, are the cornerstone of a proper kitchen. And quality knives will last longer, cut better and be safer if they are used, cleaned and stored properly. Nancy Pollard, owner of La Cuisine, a specialty cookware store in Alexandria, Va., has been selling and sharpening knives for 25 years. She has good advice about making good knives well worth the investment. Cleaning: It's OK to put knives made of stainless steel in the dishwasher, but not those made of carbon steel. (Unsure of the type you own? Stainless blades will be shiny; carbon becomes dark gray and spotted.) Repeated exposure to extreme temperatures can shorten the lifespan of the handle, and therefore the knife. To extend the life of a quality knife, wash by hand. Dry thoroughly. Storage: Protect the blade. Knives kept in a drawer should, at the very least, have the blade covered with a sleeve or guard. A guard prevents the blade from being chipped or chipping something else. Wooden knife blocks, in drawers or on the counter, are another option, as long as they are kept clean. Pollard prefers wall-mounted magnetic storage bars. Surface area: Wooden cutting boards are easier on knives than plastic surfaces, Pollard says. Plastic doesn't have as much give and will dull the edge more quickly. Maintenance: All knives need to be sharpened regularly, (Pollard recommends professional sharpening; she has seen much damage done by electric sharpeners used in the home.)


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With spring behind us and our eye on summer, thoughts often turn to vacation. For some, vacations are routine and/or are based in tradition. This could include weekends at the cottage or a nearby campsite. Vacations sometimes revolve around a week or two at the same time every year to the same place. Or, perhaps vacations are novel experiences each year. Unfortunately, it appears that many North Americans do not take vacation and that portable technology has made it more difficult for us to be fully engaged during our vacation.
Growing up, I had the privilege of experiencing two weeks of vacation at a rental in Nova Scotia near where my maternal grandparents lived. Our first trip there was around my sister's first birthday (I was 4 and a half). My father, a lawyer, had a fairly stressful job and the idea was that getting away would be a chance for us to have focused time together as a family. Over the years since those summers away, our family has fondly reflected on our time at "Harbour View". Our rented cottage did not have a phone (and in the 1970s and 1980s, there were no cell phones). My father used to say that one of the reasons we went to Harbour View was because if we did not leave town and get away from the phone, he would never be able to leave work behind.
As I reflect back on my family's vacation practices, I see the wisdom. It was an opportunity to detach. It was a time for rest, a time to relax, and a time to focus on family. I remember my father reading lots of books, playing tennis with my sister and I (once we were a little older), taking us to the on-site pool a couple of times a day, and playing catch and baseball with us in the field behind the cottage. He was noticeably more relaxed and humorous. Getting away was smart and the outcomes for him (and us as a family) were clear and significant enough that I remember them 35+ years later.
In stark contrast to my father taking all his vacation each year, a number of studies have demonstrated that vacation time is not being used. Project: Time Off (2017), an American study, found that Americans used a half-day more vacation (16.8 days) in 2016 compared with 2015 (16.2 days). However, because more vacation time was earned, more vacation days were left on the table than the previous year. In Canada, the story is fairly similar. In 2015, on average, Canadians accrued 17 days vacation and took, on average, 15.5 days (Montgomery, 2015b). The 2010 Statistics Canada General Social Survey found that one third of Canadians took less than 10 days vacation and 19.3% took no paid vacation days at all (Hilbrecht & Smale, 2016) which is slightly better than the 23% who took no vacation days in the U.S. (Ray, Sanes, & Schmitt, 2013).
In North America, "letting go" while on vacation and disconnecting is also a problem. For example, 57% of Canadians respond immediately to work-related email while on vacation (Montgomery, 2015a). One U.S. study of those working more than 50 hours a week found that 30% did a significant amount of work while on vacation.
Personally, I struggle with taking big blocks of time for vacation and with using all my vacation days. At times I have wondered if it is, in part, a result of not having children. I've thought that maybe I'd be more inclined to recreate the kind of vacation experience I had as a kid for my own children or I would crave more intense, uninterrupted quality time that a vacation could provide. However, it seems that perhaps there is more in play that my lack of offspring, and it also seems that I'm not alone in leaving vacation days on the table.
Workplace Telepressure
One of the reasons people struggle with taking vacation is the work norms that produce pressure to respond right away messages they receive through message-based technologies such as e-mail or text messages (Barber & Santuzzi, 2015). These pressures make it difficult to set physical and temporal boundaries that support the separation of work and leisure (Park, Fritz, & Jex, 2011). While personality characteristics (e.g., conscientiousness, extroversion) can contribute to this impulse to check and respond to work-related email, norms in the work environment are also to blame (Barber & Santuzzi, 2015). These norms are created in response to the demands of the job (and job overload). It can be created by employers who email their employees during non-work hours and by employees who respond to work messages during non-work hours (who may be keen to demonstrate their work ethic or present themselves as work martyrs; Ammar, Santuzzi, & Barber, 2016). When responding to messages during non-work hours becomes the norm, it makes it more difficult for employees to set boundaries that support detaching from work including during vacation.
Vacation Shame
Feeling guilty or experiencing shame from co-workers when using the vacation time to which one is entitled is referred to as "vacation shame". It seems that a younger generation of workers and women are more likely to experience this guilt or shame. A 2016 Alamo Family Vacation Survey found that 59 percent of Millennials and 41 percent of older employees feel a sense of shame when they take time off. And 25% of all women, compared with 20% of all men, reported that feelings of guilt about taking vacation held them back from using vacation time.
These feelings may be a result, in part, of a lack of clear messaging about time off. In the Project: Time Off (2017) study, 66% of those surveyed felt their organization culture was ambivalent about, discouraged, or sent mixed messages about taking time off. When employee vacation time and the benefits that result are not valued, it may not be promoted or encouraged.
Why Vacation and "Unplugging" on Vacation are Important
Detaching from work is critical to the psychological and physical recovery process that allows us to go back to work and perform well (Fritz, Yankelevich, Zarubin, & Barger, 2010). Workplace telepressure and vacation shame make detaching more difficult and lead to employees not using all of their vacation time or not getting the optimal results from the vacation time they do take. The consequences are broad ranging.
Workplace telepressure has been found to contribute to higher levels of physical and cognitive burnout, health-related absenteeism (Barber & Santuzzi, 2015), poor sleep quality (Sonnetag & Fritz, 2015). And, when workplace telepressure violates boundaries between work and family life, it can lead to less satisfaction with the investment in family and greater work-family conflict (Hunter, Clark, Carlson, 2017). Vacation shame means that employees often take fewer vacation days which can contribute to lower productivity and burnout (Project: Time Off, 2017). And perhaps it might be useful to keep this quote in mind when thinking about checking and responding to messages while on vacation: "Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master" – Christian Lous Lange (1921)
It is important to understand that there is a relationship between the amount of paid vacation taken and life satisfaction and also self-assessed health (Hilbrecht & Smale, 2016). More specifically, longer vacations were associated with "greater satisfaction with work–life balance, better mental health and reduced time pressure" (p. 49).
One final point. Arguably, one of the reasons we take vacations is because they offer opportunities to create memories with friends or family. If you want to increase the chance that you can fondly reflect back and remember aspects of your vacation, paying attention to how long you are connected while you are on vacation is important. Vozza (2017) reported on one 2016 study that found using your smartphone to take pictures and finding things to do can help with remembering your vacation. However, those who are on their phones for two hours or more a day are 26% more likely to have trouble remembering the experiences you had while on your vacation. Using your device for work-related activities – even for an hour – can have an impact. Only 43% of people who were on their devices for work one hour or more per day remembered all the events on their vacation while 60% those who used them less than one hour were able to do so. And those who worked on their laptops recalled significantly fewer aspects of their vacation.
Final Thoughts
If you have paid vacation, you are entitled to it. If you do not take it, you are essentially donating money back to your organization (Project: Time Off, 2017). You may also be placing your mental and physical health at greater risk and compromising your own productivity on the job. Not detaching from work while on vacation produces similar consequences, but can also have an impact on your family relationships. One has to wonder whether being a work martyr by not taking vacation or all your vacation and working/responding to messages while on vacation is worth these costs.
Ammar, J., Santuzzi, A. M., & Barber, L. K. (2015). Are you suffering from telepressure? Time for a cure. Psychology Today. Retrieved from: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-wide-wide-world-psychology/201504/are-you-suffering-telepressure-time-the-cure
Barber, L. K., & Santuzzi, A. M. (2015). Please respond ASAP: Workplace telepressure and employee recovery. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 20(2), 172-190.
Fritz, C., Yankelevich, M., Zarubin, A., & Barger, P. (2010). Happy, healthy, and productive: the role of detachment from work during nonwork time. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(5), 977-983.
Hilbrecht, M., & Smale, B. (2016) The contribution of paid vacation time to wellbeing among employed Canadians. Leisure/Loisir, 40(1), 31-54.
Hunter, E. M., Clark, M. A., & Carlson, D. S. (ahead of print, 2017). Violating Work-Family Boundaries: Reactions to Interruptions at Work and Home. Journal of Management, Doi: 0149206317702221.
Montgomery, M. (2015a, July16). Vacations? Canadians need to let go but don't. Radio Canada International.
Montgomery, M. (2015b, October ). Canadians and their vacations. Radio Canada International.
Park, Y., Fritz, C., & Jex, S. M. (2011). Relationships between work-home segmentation and psychological detachment from work: the role of communication technology use at home. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 16(4), 457-467.
Ray, R., Sanes, M., & Schmitt, J. (2013). No-vacation nation revisited. Washington, DC:
Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Sonnentag, S., & Fritz, C. (2015). Recovery from job stress: The stressor-detachment model as
an integrative framework. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 36(1 ), 72-103.
Vozza, S. (2017, June 2). What happens to your brain when you work on vacation. Fast Company.


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Simple and sheer elegance in one picture. If I was a kid again, I can imagine how much I would want to hide away in this corner and dream BBC Period Film type things. I still want to hide there and dream BBC Period Film type things.
I would love this in a girl's teenage room, even though it is darker than usual. It goes with the sweet melancholy of subtly distressed teenagers.
Greige is a newly discovered blog. The name says it all. Grey and Beige = Greige. My favorite color which until now I could not name.


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- Juan GonzálezDemocracy Now! co-host and New York Daily News columnist.
At least three Puerto Ricans in New York City have been subpoenaed to appear before a Brooklyn federal grand jury investigating local links to the Macheteros, the three-decade-old violent Puerto Rican independence group. Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez, who writes about the case in his latest column in the Daily News, discusses the story. [includes rush transcript]
AMY GOODMAN: Juan, before we move on with our first story, you did a piece in the New York Daily News yesterday about the FBI. Can you talk about it?
JUAN GONZALEZ: Yes. Well, I reported that there are now subpoenas that have been issued by the US attorney in the Eastern District of Brooklyn for a grand jury hearing that begins — a grand jury hearing tomorrow to three young Puerto Ricans here in New York City. And supposedly, the reports out of Puerto Rico, out of the press in Puerto Rico, is that these subpoenas are connected to an ongoing investigation having to do with the Macheteros, the Puerto Rican guerrilla organization that has been operating for more than twenty years. And there is apparently a new investigation going on.
But many of these young people and young professionals, most of them have no connection — well, a couple have been connected to the Vieques movement to get the Navy out of Vieques.
AMY GOODMAN: To stop bombing Vieques.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Right, to stop the bombing of Vieques. But at least one of them has no connection to any kind of political involvement.
And there are great fears. I talked to Congressman Jose Serrano this week, who actually was the one who got all the FBI documents from the thirty-year campaign of the FBI's suppression of the independence movement. There's fears that the grand juries are being used once again to intimidate the independence movement and to try to extract information from activists or dissidents, really, not people who are engaged in illegal activity.
But there's been very little coverage. I know we've mentioned it on Democracy Now!, but there's been very little coverage of these — of this grand jury investigation. And I talked to both the FBI and the US attorney's office, but, of course, they are now refusing to comment or even confirm that an investigation is going on.
AMY GOODMAN: You begin your piece, "FBI on Fishy Fishing Expedition," by saying, "A few days before Christmas, two men walked into Julio Pabon's sports memorabilia store." Who's Julio?
JUAN GONZALEZ: Yeah. Well, Julio Pabon is a businessman in the Bronx. Many years ago, more than three decades ago, he was an activist in the Puerto Rican independence movement. But his son — they weren't looking for Julio, the father, who is now basically a business; they were looking for his son, who's a Wesleyan University graduate and an aspiring filmmaker, and it was the son who they wanted to bring before — to actually slap with a subpoena. The son didn't know what it was about. But when he went to meet with two FBI agents and a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, he then was slapped with a subpoena and told to appear tomorrow in Brooklyn federal court.
AMY GOODMAN: How powerful is the independence movement? And the Macheteros, can you explain who they are?
JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, the Macheteros have been the group that has been around for more than twenty years. They were most famous for the 1983 Wells Fargo robbery that occurred in West Hartford, Connecticut. And, of course, their leader, the seventy-year-old Filiberto Ojeda Rios, was killed by the FBI two years ago. When they surrounded his farmhouse in Puerto Rico, there was shootout. He was wounded initially, but then, for more than eighteen hours, federal agents did not move in on the farmhouse, and he bled to death.
And that has been a continuing controversy in Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico government, which was not aware of this attack by the FBI, has now in a lawsuit against the FBI, trying to get information on what happened, who were the agents involved. And this lawsuit is now actually — it's before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has to decide whether it will hear the lawsuit, a direct conflict between the government of Puerto Rico, the Justice Department of Puerto Rico, and the FBI that is continuing to escalate. And even those people who are not supporters of independence in Puerto Rico feel that this is another example of how the US government totally ignores the needs and the wishes of the people of Puerto Rico or their government.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, we will certainly continue to follow this story.


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Top 10: Signs NASCAR in Charge of Royal Wedding
Each week, SceneDaily's Kenny Bruce takes a look at the lighter side of racing with his popular Top 10 list.
Top 10 signs NASCAR is in charge of the Royal Wedding:
10. Westminster Abbey renamed Westminster International Speedway.
9. Guests without hot passes or hard cards required to exit Abbey before start of program.
8. Only top 35 members of Royal Family guaranteed invitations.
7. Ceremony officially begins with the Royal Flyover.
6. Wedding march replaced with Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A."
5. Bridesmaids, groomsmen not allowed to improve position by going below double yellow line on left side of the aisle.
4. During lulls in the ceremony, debris cautions may be used to tighten up the program.
3. Prince William's family seated atop the Royal Pitbox.
2. Bridal gown is fireproof and covered in sponsor logos.
1. The best man? Larry the Cable Guy.