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—Jacqui to Ferra in Mortal Kombat X
Jacqueline Sonya "Jacqui" Briggs is a character in the Mortal Kombat universe, who made her first appearance in the Mortal Kombat X comic series and her playable debut in Mortal Kombat X.
About Jacqui
A close friend to Cassie Cage, Jacqui Briggs is the daughter of Jackson Briggs and Vera Briggs. After Jax was resurrected from being one of Quan Chi's slaves during the Netherrealm War, he became overly protective of Jacqui and wanted her to live a normal life. At some point, Jacqui became a professional kickboxer and eventually competed in the Junior Olympics and enlisted in a training camp. Despite her father not approving her decision to join the Special Forces, Jacqui sees it as her duty to protect Earthrealm and to avenge her father from the suffering he endured from Quan Chi and Ermac (who ripped off Jax's arms during the Outworld tournament).
Jacqui enjoys the time she spends with Cassie, but was often annoyed by her friend's lack of hindsight in their youth and is often the voice of reason when the two get into predicaments. During missions, Jacqui becomes very serious and supports Cassie's leadership. Jacqui is very protective of her family, but is easily annoyed whenever her father's history of being Quan Chi's slave is brought up, as shown when Kung Jin continues to do so. Most recently, she has become romantically involved with Takeda Takahashi, Kenshi's son and Scorpion's apprentice.
Jacqui is a slender woman of African American descent. She has brown eyes and shoulder length brown hair which she keeps in cornrows in a small ponytail. Her civilian attire as depicted in the comic consist of a white t-shirt with black pants or purple shorts.
In the game, Jacqui wears full military camouflage under standard body armor with the Special Forces insignia on it, and a utility belt around her waist. Knee pads line her knees and she wears mechanical powered gauntlets on both her arms, reminiscent of her father's mechanical arms.
Combat characteristics
Jacqui is a trained Junior grade Olympic boxer, able to go toe-to-toe with Cassie and knock a grown man unconscious with her bare hands. Her fighting skills were further developed through Special Forces training.
She uses a pair of electronic gauntlets that greatly enhance her physical strength and can fire plasma energy, shotgun rounds, or machine gun rounds and rockets, depending on her variation.
Signature Moves
- Air Ground Smash: Jacqui jumps in the air and comes back down with a double-fisted ground pound that shakes the arena. Can be cancelled into Air Fake Out. In the High Tech variation, performing this with the Gauntlet Spark buff active will also power up the Smash, turning it into a plasma explosion. (MKX)
- The enhanced version is called Air Ground Tremor and does more damage.
- Forces Rush: Jacqui charges at her opponent, punches them, then whirls on passing them and blasting them with her gauntlets. (MKX)
- The enhanced version is called Forces Charge, which does more damage and has armor.
- Bionic Dash: Jacqui dashes forward and uppercuts her opponent. (MKX)
- The enhanced version is called Bionic Blast and has Jacqui grab her opponent and turn them around, then grabs the back of their head and fires her gauntlets into the back of their skull. It also has armor.
- Gauntlet Strike: Jacqui punches her opponent in the stomach then follows up with a four-hit combo that ends with her kicking them away. (MKX)
- The enhanced version is called Gauntlet Flurry and has the same start-up but ends with Jacqui firing both of her gauntlets at her opponent, also having armor.
- Tech Shield: Jacqui clashes her gauntlets to absorb a projectile attack. Unlike other projectile absorbing specials in the game, this won't replenish some of her health. (MKX)
- The enhanced version is called Advance Tech and has Jacqui reflect the projectile back at the opponent.
- Single Barrel: Jacqui fires off a single shotgun round from her gauntlet at her opponent. (MKX - Shotgun Variation)
- The enhanced version is called Double Barrel and has Jacqui follow up with a crouching low shot after the first.
- Low Blow: Jacqui fires a single shotgun blast at a low angle at her opponent's feet. This also creates a dust cloud that stuns them if they're too far to be directly hit by the shot. (MKX - Shotgun Variation)
- The enhanced version is called Low Blast and does increased damage with wider range.
- Hand Cannon: Jacqui unleashes a short burst of rapid fire machine gun rounds from her gauntlet. (MKX - Full Auto Variation)
- This attack can be enhanced if it hits, which has her fire off two rockets at the end of the barrage.
- Low Rocket: Jacqui fires a rocket at a low angle at her opponent's feet. (MKX - Full Auto Variation)
- The enhanced version is called Rocket Crater and does more damage while knocking her opponent into the air. After the rocket hits the ground, its explosion can also be delayed.
- Up Rocket: Jacqui fires two spinning rockets at a high angle. (MKX - Full Auto Variation)
- The enhanced version is called Rocket Power and has the second rocket explode after the first one for additional damage.
- Gauntlet Spark: Jacqui slams her gauntlets together, igniting them in an electrical current for additional damage to her punches. Whenever the gauntlets are ignited, Gauntlet Spark can be performed once again for a second level charge. (MKX - High Tech Variation)
- The enhanced version is called Gauntlet Ignite and instantly covers the gauntlets in the increased charge.
- Quick Burst: Jacqui holds her hands forward and open while charging her gauntlets with electricity before releasing a short ranged electrical charge at her opponent. Can be charged up to two additional levels. (MKX - High Tech Variation)
- The enhanced version is called Plasma Burst and while losing the ability to charge, the attack now has an increased range.
- X-Ray Move - Chest Kavity: Jacqui uppercuts her opponent, stunning them. First, she delivers a barrage of punches to their ribs and chest, breaking them one by one. Second, she delivers an uppercut to the jaw, smashing it and launching them upwards. Finally, she leaps towards her falling opponent and lands a final punch to their spine, breaking it. (MKX)
Other Throw
- Throw: Jacqui knees her opponent's head then fires two shotgun/plasma/rocket rounds (depending on the variation) into their face. (MKX)
- Blown Out: Jacqui rips off the sides of the waist of the opponent. She then burrows her powered gauntlets into their sides and fires the weapons, blowing off the back of the victim's body and head. (MKX)
- Fist Pump: Jacqui violently grabs her opponent by the throat and breaks their neck, bringing them to their knees. She then reels her arm back and punches the victim's face with tremendous, rocket-powered force from her gauntlet. This leaves a huge hole through the opponent's head, and she slowly pulls her arm back out, leaving the victim/opponent to collapse. (MKX)
Other Finishers
- Brutality #1 - Mind Blown: Jacqui does a Bionic Blast, punching the opponent's jaw and turning them around, and forwarding with a blast to the head from her gauntlets that leaves a hole in it. (MKX)
- Brutality #2 - Gun Show: Jacqui delivers a Gauntlet Flurry at the opponent and ends it with a gauntlet blast that leaves a gigantic hole in their torso. (MKX)
- Brutality #3 - Shrapnel: Jacqui fires a Low Blow into the opponent's shins, which obliterates them. (MKX - Shotgun Variation)
- Brutality #4 - Heavy Artillery: Jacqui fires her Hand Cannon and then enhances it with her rocket launcher. The rocket then explodes on contact with her opponent, leaving them in pieces. (MKX - Full Auto Variation)
- Brutality #5 - Aftershock: With Gauntlet Spark active, Jacqui performs an Air Ground Smash, creating a shockwave that destroys the opponent's shins. (MKX - High Tech Variation)
- Brutality #6 (Secret) - Root Kanal: Jacqui cuts her X-Ray short by uppercutting the opponent's head off after shattering their rib cage with multiple punches. Added in Version Update 1.07. (MKX - Secret - Full Auto Variation)
- Brutality #7 (Secret): Jacqui reflects any projectiles thrown at her with Advanced Tech. The projectile will then hit the opponent and mimic one of their brutalities. Added in Version Update 1.07. (For example: Cassie's "Between the Eyes" and Kung Jin's "A Little Heart") (MKX - Secret - Any variation)
Mortal Kombat X
- "Asshole..."(To Kung Jin while he's talking about revenant Jax)
- "I see plenty of frozen bootprints on your ass, too." (To Kung Jin, after the team is beaten by Sub-Zero in a training exercise)
- "You hurt him, you answer to me." (to Reptile before fighting him)
- "Go crawl back under your rock, Reptile." (after defeating Reptile)
- "That was for you, Dad." (after defeating Ermac)
- "No more tricks... Just a straight-up beat down. "(To Ferra/Torr)
- "Two for one. I'll take it." (after defeating Ferra & Torr)
- "You need to help us, Kotal Kahn!" (Trying to gain Outworld assistance)
- "Don't know about you guys, but I'm living the dream." (surrounded by Kotal Kahn's army)
- "He was smart enough to have Mr. Cage put this team together." (Talking with Kung Jin, Cassie, and Takeda.)
- Jacqui is the only member of her team not to possess any supernatural abilities or items.
- Jacqui is one of the few characters to have a brutality that derives from her X-Ray, and not only from special moves, combos or throws. The other characters are Jason, Sonya, Tremor, Erron Black, the Predator, Leatherface, and Triborg.
- She's also one of the only characters who can interrupt her X-Ray to perform a different move, since the decapitation replaces the last hit of her X-Ray. The other characters are Jason and the Predator.
- Jacqui is the first Mortal Kombat X character to have more than six Brutalities. In her case, she has seven.


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Chao left her village to get the help of the Tiger Thief, only to be nearly killed by him, and then saved by Goku. Chao asked Goku to save her village because of his great strength. She brought Goku back to her village and they arrived right when the Terror was about to seal a baby called Chenshi in the Gourd of Mist, because he was two weeks old, and he could not say his name when called.
Although Goku, to disgusted by what they were planning to do to Chenshi, he confronted Terror and Plague, only to be absorbed by he gourd before he could damage them. However, he managed to jump out and defeated Terror and Plague, saving the village.
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- Kick on your back (holding the kickboard straight out overhead) 4 x 25 yards (15 sec. rest) **this really works your core
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How is it that two people can have opposite opinions on the same book? Myself and a girl named 'Joyce' read a book called 'Talented'. She rated it 5/5 and I rated it 1/5. Be warned: I have bitter feelings about this book and so this post will be rather negative.
She says that the protagonist, Natalia, 'kicks ass'. In the book Natalia goes on three missions that are detailed. In the first her only contribution is a distraction and she has to be carried out by her teammates. She points out that she failed everyone's expectations. In the second mission she doesn't fight anyone and chokes at her opportunity to finish an assassination. In the third she doesn't kick ass, presay, but mind-control a guy (which, I will admit, is kinda cool). There are only two times she 'kicks ass'; the first is a fight with her teammate that is played more for sexual tension than 'the ability to kick ass' and the second is a simulation.
She says the book is 'readable' when it frequently misses words, and that's its a 'non-stop page turner'. That I can only chalk up to a romantic drama addict because that is what's on most of the pages. The very thing that repealed me might attract someone else. Yet I still have my objection: wish fulfilment. Just on the romance side a hot guy (the book will tell you so many times) is head over heels for the protagonist despite being a lady killer (which book also tells you many times) and the protagonist gets to beat up her cheating boyfriend without consequences of any sort.
She says 'It has an equal portion of adventure, romance, drama, & paranormal attribute'. Before the climax there are only two missions that have any depth to them and even those are brief. Other than that there is a simulation that accomplishes nothing; filler to convince the adventure seekers not to throw the book away. The other 200 some pages are about the pitfalls in the protagonist's love life. There is no 'paranormal' but science fiction and even that receives little attention after the first few chapters.
Finally, the 'exuberant' cliff hanger. Personally, it felt more like a commercial break than a cliff hanger. The protagonist is carted away, again disabled by injury, and her ex-boyfriend reads a note from her new boyfriend that endangers the new boyfriend's family. He decides to give it to the leader out of a sense of family loyalty. Then it ends. There's no resolution to anything. Its not 'exuberant' because it lacks enthusiasm. To me it came of as 'depressing'. I feel Joyce was going for the 'extrememly good' definition.
Our reviews could not be more different. Mine was significantly longer and more in depth than Joyce's; it consisted of little more than a paragraph and mine an essay. A simple matter of taste can not explain the inaccuracies in her review, so what happened?
In the end, I suppose all that matters is that there is an audience that enjoys the book and is willing to pay for that enjoyment. I would still like to know why our reviews are opposites so I thought about it for a while. Then it hit me.
Paranormal Romance; instead of a science fiction plot with a romantic subplot this book is a romantic plot with a science fiction subplot. When I thought about 'Talented' in those terms then the number of postive reviews (including Joyce's) suddenly made made sense. They were reading for the romance while the occasional 'ass kicking' was a nice side dish. I was the opposite; reading for the scant science fiction and annoyed by the vast streches of romance.
This still doesn't explain why Joyce said 'equal portions' or why Miss. Davis described the central conflict as revenge against a political figure but I suppose one can't sell a book on a trite love triangle anymore. It has to be spiced up with other elements, or maybe its a sign of the times. 'Girl gets the guy and kicks ass'. That's their taste I guess.


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A little quilt for baby Wyatt whose mama wants him to grow up to be a cowboy. And with 3 older sisters in the house let's hope a horse is in his future real soon! :)
This blanket represents a small triumph in my quilting progression. I have been hand sewing ALL my bindings since day one. And while I love the look of hand sewn bindings, they take a lot of time. When I quilt for other people 99% of the time they could care less if the binding is hand sewn or machine sewn.
So in an effort to save myself more time I was determined to figure out this machine binding bit. I've made several attempts, all of which were less than stellar in my eyes. Not to be dissuaded I carried on. I talked to Renae a bunch. She only does machine bindings so she helped me work through my hang ups/misfortunes. Wyatt's blanket represents my first successful (in my mind!) machine sewn binding. For that can I get a hallelujah? It's a happy day indeed. I still plan on hand sewing the bindings on my own quilts but for other people's I have now overcome a major obstacle.
(Somewhere I had taken a picture of the binding, but as I post it is nowhere to be found. Sorry. You'll just have to imagine my success. :)
What about you? What are your quilt binding obstacles/hang ups?
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Headdress: Handmade with rose fabric
Blouse: Baby, the Stars Shine Bright
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Socks: Baby, the Stars Shine Bright
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Seemingly I haven't worn it much lately, as I've fallen into the habit of just slinging on a pair of jeans and a T-Shirt. Yet you can see here, shirring is magical for plus-sized lolitas! And you probably can't tell, but I'm wearing two off-brand petticoats. I went to Liverpool for the afternoon and had tea in a café and looked in vintage shops, whilst my brother was buying HarleyQuin merchandise. My sister said that when we were walking past this bus, a little girl said to her mother "look, mummy, a princess!"! Wow, it feels nice to get compliments like that! *blushing*


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I suppose everyone can Smile / Laugh, and Cry....so I would add that you can speak Cantonese, Mandarin and English (no, not everyone can speak English), and you can make people laugh (not just laugh)! Connie
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Or I could call it Good Sex: As Featured by Focus on the Family.
I'm having a little dustup with a group called Focus on the Family about Good Sex, a learning design I wrote with my friend, Kara Powell at Fuller Youth Institute. Their critical review covered quite a bit of ground that I'll post later on the www, along with the relevant pages from the book. For now, I'll just take a lift from the concluding section, which was titled 'Lack of True Teaching.'
But first, a little context.
A century ago John D. Rockefeller founded the General Education Board to reform education, especially in the American South. "We will organize children and teach them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way," the Board promised. To their credit, they pledged to operate "without distinction of race, sex or creed." "In our dreams," they said, not so much to their credit as far as I'm concerned; "people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands." Our molding hands…
OK, can I just say, YIKES! Am the only one who thinks docility is not an asset in learning?
Half a century ago, the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, edited by Benjamin Bloom and a host of others, was devised as "a tool to classify the ways individuals are to act, think, or feel as the result of some unit of instruction."
OK, again: YIKES! I don't think evaluating a student's performance on whether she acts, thinks or feels according to plan is a particularly useful or reliable measure of learning. I'm not saying teachers shouldn't engage students purposefully, I'm just saying My gosh! I'm not sure I trust teachers who believe they know how students are to act, think, or feel as the result of a unit of instruction. In fact, I'm pretty sure I don't.
You probably know what a taxonomy is but just in case you forgot, a taxonomy is a classification of things (doesn't matter what) into some sort of order. In biology, taxonomies are useful for sorting the beasties by type. So when we observe something soaring in the sky, the taxonomy of animals tells us it's not a pig because we know pigs don't fly. Major League Baseball employs taxonomies to sort players and teams from best to worst in categories that couldn't possibly matter to any balanced person; things like:
"You know, Buzz, Oscar Campos has more base-on-balls versus left-handed pitchers than any Western Division player since Virgil 'Walker' Troy batted third for Milwaukee."
"That's right Scooter; and, of course you mean the Braves of Milwaukee, not the Milwaukee Brewers, who were not yet a twinkle in their daddy's eye when Virgil Troy earned the nickname, 'Walker.'"
My personal taxonomies include a class of friends who actually know and care whether Milwaukee was ever a Western Division club and who will bust my chops if I get it wrong. I can only say the people in that class prove my point about balanced persons.
The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, on the other hand, suggests six categories of learning, beginning with simple knowledge and peaking with complex evaluation.
1. knowledge (e.g. remembering lists, definitions, facts and directions)
2. comprehension (e.g. interpreting what a list, fact or direction means)
3. application (e.g. using a list or fact to solve a problem)
4. analysis (e.g. finding patterns between lists, definitions or directions)
5. synthesis (e.g. making a list of lists, translating a definition in different words)
6. evaluation (e.g. judging whether a list was worth remembering in the first place).
Truth be told, when it comes to delivering "a tool to classify the ways individuals are to act, think, or feel as the result of some unit of instruction," I'm not convinced Bloom's Taxonomy delivers, except maybe on the bottom end. If all that's required is reporting back to the teacher what she said about who, what, when, where and why then, as long as the lesson was clear and correct, there's not a lot of range in the actions, thoughts and emotions that are appropriate outcomes for that instruction. At that level of learning a thing is what it is and isn't what it isn't and that's that.
But farther along in Bloom's Taxonomy lots of personal factors come into play that make predicting outcomes difficult and in some matters impossible.
On one hand, there's no explaining my friend Bob, who is fairly reliable in every way but one. Bob, you see—and understand I'm not saying he's a bad person—but Bob does math at home, at night, on his own time, with no application in mind; for fun. He's not a teacher and, other than indirectly in his work as a programmer, nobody pays Bob to solve math problems. Bob is as good an example as I know of what we call a mathematician. I feel safe in saying nobody taught him through a unit of instruction to think, behave and feel like a mathematician. That came from inside; it's one of the things Bob is.
For the record, past a point of basic competence, Bob did not push his daughters to pursue his passion for math. Mathematician is not one of the things either of them is.
So that's Bob. On the other hand are any number of friends in commerce to whom, apparently, it is irrelevant that one of every four working Americans is employed in a business owned by a woman (Tom Peters, Re-Imagine!, DK, 2003, page 174). Those businesses, more than ten million of them, provide more jobs in the U.S. than Fortune 500 companies provide on the whole planet. …Re-read that and let it sink in for a moment just how much economic power that represents, just how big a market I'm talking about for women who own their own companies. But, honestly, by the way most businesses run you'd think the only thing women bring to the table is dinner.
Now, having delivered that little instructional unit, I confess I have no idea how you're likely to behave, think or feel. I can conceive of a great range of possibilities from seeing green in the form of an underserved market to seeing red at this brazen example of cultural decline to feeling blue because you are not one of those business owners or in the pink because you are. I could go on but I only have these four crayons so I'm pretty much out of ideas.
People think what they think, feel what they feel, learn what they learn and behave as they behave. And the farther up the learning ladder we go the more possible it is that even people who reach the same conclusion may reach it by different routes.
I have a friend whose responsibilities included training members of a national religious organization in how to communicate about their faith to others. For decades he labored under the unexamined assumption that people who put their trust in God all do so for the same reason (which, oddly enough, happened to be the reason he put his faith in God). In a grand display of one old dog learning new tricks, my friend did an anecdotal study of reasons for belief—by which I mean he started asking believers all over the globe what it was that convinced them to believe. After a few weeks he had a taxonomy of nine different reasons for believing. I suppose it goes without saying but I'm being paid by the word here so, what the heck: Finding eight more reasons to believe caused my friend's mission to absolutely blow up! For all my white readers, blowing up is a good thing in this context. It means my friend was able to help people learn to talk compellingly about their faith instead of his.
If you're a person of faith who's read the alarming reports of college-bound kids forgetting to pack their beliefs when they head off to school, this may be very important to you. If a child grows up not believing for the reasons his family or church give him, then of course he'll forget to pack those beliefs when he moves out of the house; if he doesn't expect to use it, why take it? If, on the other hand, if he believes for a reason that's persuasive to him, he won't have to carry that his belief as baggage; he'll be wearing it.
Now, about that fracas with Focus.
Here's the concluding section from the review (which, by the way has not, as far as I know, been published).
Lack of True Teaching
…Webster defines a curriculum as "a fixed series of studies required for…qualification in a field of study." Good Sex does not fit that definition: It neither teaches nor instructs. Directive teaching clearly states facts; it differentiates between right and wrong. Although directive lessons include thought-provoking questions and encourage teachers and students to reflect on issues, they are merely tools used to complement all of the other program components.
Non-directive teaching is based on individual autonomy: "Let's discuss the issue so that you can decide what's right for you?' Good Sex is non-directive teaching.
Young students need facts about sexual issues. They need to know that the Bible is very clear on most human sexuality issues They need to see examples demonstrating the benefits of obeying God in our sexual behavior, Good Sex fails to fulfill those needs. Authors Jim Hancock and Kara Powell should have spent less time watching MTV reruns and studying Hugh Hefner and given more time and energy to researching the issues they included in their curriculum. Reading Good Sex will leave youth leaders and students confused and frustrated. Focus on the family cannot recommend the Good Sex curriculum to churches, parents, or youth groups. This is not a recommended Christian sexuality curriculum.
In a letter to our publisher, the manager of Focus on the Family's Abstinence Department wrote, "I am offended for Christian families and youth who will be exposed to this nondirective and, I believe, non-Christian curriculum." And "there is clearly no expression of right and wrong in the content…"
If you're old enough, picture Jack Benny, right hand lightly touching his cheek, right elbow cupped in his left hand, in a display of mock indignation: "Well!" he's saying. If you don't remember Jack Benny, try a young Steve Martin in that great white suit of his; knees together, feet spread, upper arms hugging his sides and forearms wildly askew; bellowing, "Well EXCUSE ME!" My attitude about this huffy critique of Good Sex falls somewhere in that range—someplace between mock indignation and mock outrage. Because, really, do they actually think the best way (and apparently the only way) to teach kids about sexual choices is to work the lowest levels of Bloom's Taxonomy?
I don't. I think the elementary levels of learning are insufficient for teaching adolescents about sex. For children, sure—children are not yet equipped to make complex judgements—but sexually maturing adolescents require a more thorough engagement of mind and heart than simply taking our word for it. Since Good Sex is a biblically informed curriculum, that means asking students to address the biblical text directly rather than on the basis of hearsay. Somehow I don't think, "Because my teacher said it's in the Bible" is a very resilient argument should an adolescent ever encounter a serious challenge to her beliefs about sexuality. Not that that would ever happen…but it could.
The day after I saw the letter and review from Focus on the Family, my friend Jay directed me to a very different review by Tim Stafford in Christianity Today (June 2004, Vol. 48, No. 6, Page 36):
Hancock and Powell's Good Sex aims to bring the church into this struggle. It offers a packet of materials for youth groups—a leader's guide, a student journal, and a video of discussion starters. The material would enable a novice volunteer to lead a meeting, but Good Sex really aims at veteran youth leaders who want to cobble together their own approach from a variety of resources.
Hancock and Powell explain that they aim for a process, not a confrontation. In seven lessons they cover a lot of biblical ground. The Bible studies are bracketed by open-ended discussion, in which kids think for themselves and speak freely. The intent is to create a church context in which sexuality gets explored thoughtfully and biblically, and kids reach their own conclusions.
E.B. White is supposed to have said something like, "Who we think our audience is, is how we write" (this is one of those unsubstantiated quotations I usually avoid but this sounds like something he might and perhaps even should have said and I'm going with it). I have the distinct impression that a lot—maybe most—adults think kids are not merely young but a bit dumb. This is why they talk and write down to them; why they pander and then preach instead of inviting youngsters to stretch and grow. I'm here to tell you, if kids don't get respect from their teachers, they will turn to—and learn from—those who give respect.
And that, for now, is that.
UPDATE | 07 July 2008: Kara Powell and I have delivered a thorough update and revision of Good Sex, including a new DVD. Street Date: January, 2009.


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Furtick Prepares His Church for News Report About His 16,000 SF "Not That Great of a House" Mansion
In the middle of his sermon on "suffering" last week, Furtick told his church how HE is suffering for the Lord: by having to endure an investigative reporter ask questions about the financing of his mansion. Wow, the pain and suffering of mega church pastors - how DO they endure such hardships? They must really love Jesus to suffer so much.
Watch the excerpt below from this sermon:
Furtick is Suffering for Jesus: Enduring the Questions of a Reporter About His Mansion from FBCJax Watchdog on Vimeo.
It will be interesting if the investigative reporter gets anyone at Elevation to talk - since Furtick's church requires members and volunteers to sign a "Confidentiality Agreement", that prohibits anyone from disclosing:
"...the Church's finances, including personal financial/salary information related to the staff, the Church's financial statements, balance sheets, offerings information, cash flow, forecasts, and cost analyses."
And I'll leave you from a quote from Steven's Emmy-worthy performance on his "Hey Hater's" video, that I think accurately depicts the disdain that Furtick must have for a pesky reporter who wants answers to his questions about a local pastor building a mansion:
"Fall back! It's a new day! 'Cause we're not looking for approval from you, who give no respect and never neglect the chance to complain. Are you going to criticize, or create? Waste your time, casting stones, breaking bones, belittling everyone you consider opposed?...A new light has dawned to still the tongue of the cynic..."
Yes, a new light has dawned at Elevation Church, all right. It is the light of the free press, and the light of the inquisitive mind of an investigative reporter who has questions, and who wants answers.
Let your light shine, Mr. Investigative Reporter. Don't hide it under a bushel, let it shine, let is shine.


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All things being equal, it's easier for the distant (adult) relative to travel to your town to meet the baby--since they don;t have to travel with a stroller, car seat, or a poopy infant.
However, all things are not equal; one of your parents may be too unwell to travel; your brother may have three small kids of his own, and can't afford the time, money, and hassle to bring them; or a loved one is getting married ten days after the baby arrives.
Therefore, in the first few weeks or months of your child's life, you may face the challenge of taking an infant on an airplane. This is usually stressful, especially the first time. However, there are simple and good ways to prepare, including:
- Use social media to "borrow in advance" a car seat, stroller, crib, or other gear from someone who lives in/near where you're going. This saves you having to haul as much on your journey.
- Ask the people you'll visit to lay in a supply of diapers, bottles, formula, pacifiers, and baby toys.
- Contact your airline ahead of time to ask how they can accommodate you for the flight.
- If at all possible, fly nonstop. It's best to only get on and off the plane once.
- Have a friend or relative take you to the airport and help you check the luggage.
- Make sure the driver who picks you up at the destination airport has the right kind and size of car seat already installed.
- Look for family-friendly resources in the airport itself, such as family bathrooms and dedicated security lines for families. If there's not a special line, ask a TSA agent to let you skip ahead in line.
- Avoid wearing a belt, shoes with shoelaces, a heavy jacket, or anything else you have to take off to pass through security (and put back on later). Same goes for the baby (sometimes, TSA really does make you remove an infant's shoes).
- Spread out in the waiting area. New parentage gives you social permission to use more than one chair, lay the baby on the floor, and the like.
Bonus point: The Transportation Security Agency (TSA) allows parents to carry on more than 3.4 ounces (100ml) of "medically necessary" liquids and gels for a baby. This includes medications, baby formula, baby food, and breast milk. In addition, these items are not required to be in a zip-top bag.
Adapted from Idiot's Guides: Pregnancy for Dads by Joe Kelly, copyright 2014 Alpha Books and used by permission.


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About 20 years after?
(a photo is uploaded. please check her official site)
Look she's grown up a lot~.
I took this one in the best-lighted area of my home since people always point out that my images are very dark.
It does look quite well-lit. Maybe too bright? Aww I have no idea. What's the standard~. But at least now I realized how dark my past own pictures looked !! I'll be more careful from now on !
Well then. Please draw your attention to this DVD~!! It's Disney-san's The Little Mermaid!
It was released in 1989 in America, and it seems like the 6-year-old me thought "This is it ! ! !" and got hooked on the little mermaid in sleep or wake for a while. As I have this habit of keeping drawing exactly the same thing for a couple of months when I go nuts over something, and at this time I drew heaps of pictures of Ariel sitting on a rock~. (Before that one I drew Nippontsuru. Maybe I loved its having a red part only on the top of its head.)
What thrilled me much was the sense of color rather than the story, and on top of that, I really really really really loved the title tune "A Part Of Your World" more than anything else ! !
When I hum a tune this is the song that comes up even now. I had a huge huge crush on its melody, lyrics and everything. So this is what's called "yearning" - I don't if I thought that way, but anyway it was such an eureka moment to me.
A while ago I found this DVD at a convenience store, which brought back my memories, so I bought it, went back home and watched it while taking a bath. I dropped tears into the bathtub at the scene that Ariel sang the title tune ! I was in the state of "OMG my eyes are watering so I can't see the tiny screen of my waterproof DVD player well !".
And you know, after that, no matter how many times I watch the DVD I always start crying in that scene. I guess her way of singing would be pretty good. Her skill to control waves of vocal inflection is just amazing. I mimicked and practiced her singing thousand times. Oh, I just remembered I have the sheet music also.
I watched the Japanese-dubbed version for the first time and got shocked to find that the singing was fairly plain. I have no idea if it is because of the interpretation of either voice actor san or staff people, but anyways I'm disappointed with it a bit since I cannot feel the vibe of building up excitement which the original version has ! I'd say it is quite rare I review someone else's song, but please allow me to comment on this single one ! I'm just an another snappy fan !
It's the song of my soul . . . I thought back to the lyrics of this song when I became famous and unable to go out casually. The part of the lyrics that Ariel shows longing for walking on the ground. Ooohh! Ariel - ! ! ! (T 0 T )
I'm not good with seawater, by the way . . .


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Training and Mayhem
Zigelen, 4th – 23rd (May 17th – June 2nd)
Avery, Garrick, Lozen and Ivanova made the trek to the elven town of Rifllian. Traveling on the Western Krysivor River from Türos Tem to Türos Drav they made several important discoveries. They found a weathered elven landmark that denotes several locations in the region, including a lost elven tower and a shrine.
In was late afternoon, when the group arrived at Türos Drav, so the group decided to stay the night. While they were in town, they were being watched by a stranger. Garrick quietly dispatched the spy who turned out to be a member of a strange cult who wore black hare masks and worshipped Duvan'ku.
The party members eventually made it to the elven town where the elven brothers immediately dive into their training. Garrick found the local Nightblade Trainer, a elven woman named Maya, who promptly gave Garrick his first lesson by ripping him off. Avery began his training under the eye of Othar Longbranch, a renowed Spellblade.
Lozen and Ivanova, who had never seen an elven town before where quick to sample it's many delights, especially the Nightingale Market. After several weeks, the elves were almost done with their training, however Lozen and Ivanova had engaged in drunken debauchery.
They caused a massive uproar and soon the four of them had to flee the town due to an issue with cocks and an angry elven nobleman. The four of them eventually headed south, uniting with Vilhelmus and Atticus at the Hastinov Estate.


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So by the time you read this I shall be in that London town. I should have arrived mid-morning but two weeks after booking my rather cheap Flybe flight to City airport I received an email from the company. The joyous news that it carried was that the 9.30am flight was now going to be a couple of hours earlier. Which in turn meant that I would have to get out of my scratcher at about 5.30 in the flaming morning.
Now I am sick of these "economy" airlines treating us like a piece of rubbish. I book a ticket and then am hostage to their whims. Of course I could have asked for a refund but a fortnight on prices had risen quite a bit.
Frankly, it's like Fascinating Aida's hilarious Cheap Flights song which has had millions of views on Facebook. Google it – you'll have a feckin' laugh.
However, in other ways I am more than prepared for my trip. The first thing is to get one's hands on a wad of bank notes with the Queen's head on them. Shopkeepers are extremely wary of Scottish currency and do not always take kindly to my accusations of them being racist.
As well as that I have found my Oyster card for tube and bus trips (take note Lothian Buses – it is a much loved thing in the UK capital) as well as signing up for Uber. Black taxis in London have meters that spin round like a Catherine Wheel on speed and as we are going to a party in the centre of the city I shall need some sort of transport.
The underground system might be great but negotiating the escalators whilst wearing high heels can be hazardous.
The shoes will also come in very handy if I happen to meet an executive from Flybe. I shall be looking for something handy with which to batter them for making me interrupt my slumber in the middle of the night.


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Thursday, September 17, 2009
17th of September 1991: Estonia joins UNO
Presented by France, Estonia joins the United Nations the 17th of September 1991, less than one month after declaring its independence the 20th of August.
The same day are also integrated into the UNO: North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia.
Link to the official document
Illustration: Plantu
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Ex-president of Google China says Apple Tablet is like a big iPhone with front facing camera
reports that we have heard about the tablet indicate that the UI is something unique and incredible. According to Lee, the tablet is expected to be priced at less than $1,000 U.S. Dollars and will be introduced to the public by Steve Jobs at an event later this month. Our earlier reports indicated that Apple has rented the Yerba Buena Center of the Arts in San Francisco for late January (26th?). This news could very well be legit since Lee's connection with the Apple tablet might be through contract manufacturer Foxconn. The latter company builds the Apple iPhone and is expected to put together the tablet as well as provide the glass and strengthening for it through two subsidiaries, as we have reported. Foxconn is an investor in Innovation Workshop, a company that Kai-fu Lee founded and is the current CEO of. Lee has denied getting info on the tablet from Foxconn, but says the info came from an informed friend. This friend also reports that the tablet will feature a front facing camera for video chat, a function that has always been rumored for the iPhone but has never been put into place on the handset.A Chinese blog reports that former Google China president Kai-fu Lee is saying that Apple this month will introduce a tablet with a 10.1 inch touchscreen with multi-touch capabilities. The UI is said to be amazing and there will be 3D graphics, a virtual QWERTY keyboard, video conferencing, e-book functions and, of course, web browsing. The device looks like a giant iPhone and the Cupertino based company expects 10 million to sell in the first year. All the
source: sina.com (translated) via GadgetMix, electronista, Barrons
source: sina.com (translated) via GadgetMix, electronista, Barrons
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posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:44 0
1. avengedfo7ld (Posts: 14; Member since: 25 Sep 2009)
While I admire Apple for their success in creating easy to use functions, I also cringe every time I see a price tag for anything apple related. "priced at less than $1,000 U.S. Dollars" wow with the economy in a recessive state, you would think that Apple could make their product more easily affordable. This thing better have Macbook capabilities at that price.
posted on 02 Jan 2010, 19:13 0
3. endokun83 (Posts: 13; Member since: 09 Aug 2009)
LOL, less than $1000 U.S. dollars. By that they mean it'll be $999.99....apple tax, gotta love it
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2. Iphoneisthesuck (Posts: 59; Member since: 13 Oct 2009)
Im thinking Macbook Air hardware and a giant touchscreen. That would be an AWESOME wifi remote connected to an Airport Express running AirTunes. It may be expensive, but I love Apple stuff.
Ex-president of Google China says Apple Tablet is like a big iPhone with front facing camera


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Two days after my dad went on ahead, my siblings and I, our spouses, and our children all spent the night with my mom. My brother-in-law Peter sat at the dining room table to work on creating a slideshow of photos of my dad to play at the memorial service the next day; with the rest of us taking turns handing him pictures to scan and giving input about what music to use, he worked on the project for hours into the night. In other areas of the house, there was talking, comforting, and some crying going on; mostly I think we were all just trying to absorb what had happened and to keep ourselves together any way we could so that we could make it to and then through the memorial celebration we were hosting the next afternoon in my dad's honor.
Just before midnight, we set up pallets on the floor of my parents' bedroom to the side of their bed, and then Mom and I went to bed in that room with the kids. Exhausted, we fell asleep just minutes after we had closed the door to the room.
At some point in the night, I woke up and went upstairs to get in bed with my husband; the problem with that plan, though, was that when I'd gone to sleep downstairs it had not yet been determined where the other adults besides Mom and I were sleeping that night. It was chilly upstairs, and I was anxious to get into a warm bed and go back to sleep. I peeked into one bedroom and then into the other and saw two bodies in each bed, and so I looked in the TV room and saw a single person whom I deduced was my husband lying on an air mattress completely covered up with a sleeping bag. I tucked in beside him, and he stirred a little in his sleep, causing the sleeping bag to shift and giving me a little bit of a view in the mostly dark room of his face and his head.
In that moment, my heart skipped a beat. It was my husband's face, but it didn't look like his head: every bit of his hair was gone.
Without even thinking, I reached out a touched his head; he woke up and said, "I got my head shaved."
"What???" I said, in disbelief.
"This way your mom can just look around for a bald guy at the memorial service if she needs anything," he explained, still half asleep.
I was touched. Shocked, because I'd had no idea that head-shaving was even being considered, but touched. My dad was bald, as are my brother and both of my brother-in-laws; Kevin was the only adult male in the family with hair.
We went back to sleep for a few more hours, and then we got up and got ready for the gathering for the memorial. All day I kept looking at Kevin's bald head and doing a double-take; he looked so different than he did with hair. It somehow fit, though, in that place and time, as an act of tribute to my dad and as an act of protection and support for my mom and, by extension, for my sisters and me. His newly bald head and even the grouping of the quartet of bald guys at the memorial were quite the topic of conversation, and thankfully it made getting through one of the hardest days of our lives a little bit easier.


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FARGO — As part of an ongoing drug investigation, the Fargo Police Department on Thursday, Jan. 26, seized nearly 13 pounds methamphetamine and more than $17,000 in cash.
According to information provided by the Fargo Police Department:
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Of Sharks and Hearts
Here are my thoughts on a couple of movies I've just seen.
KILLER SHARK (1950) is a hokey melodrama from director Budd Boetticher, who would make some great, gritty, noirish westerns with Randolph Scott a few years after this (Seven Men from Now, Buchanan Rides Alone) and who was still getting his feet wet (quite literally) in this Monogram cheapie. Still going by the name of Oscar Boetticher, the director seems to bring little to this tale of a young snob (Roddy McDowall, later Cornelius in Planet of the Apes) who joins his father on a shark fishing expedition and nearly gets the old man killed. Needless to say, he learns his lesson and saves his father's failing fishing business as well. Roland Winters, who was Charlie Chan just three years before, plays the dad and he is as forgettable as the rest of the cast. Not to be confused with the much-better Tiger Shark.
THE SECRET HEART, opened on Christmas day, 1946, and is a good melodrama for the holiday season. Compelling in a soap-operaish kind of way, the movie stars the great Claudette Colbert as the stepmom to two more-or-less adult stepchildren: the male is just out of the army (and is played by Robert Sterling, who played ghost George Kirby in the 1950s TV series Topper) and seems to have a good head on his shoulders. The female stepchild (June Allyson) is more problematic: she just likes to sit at home annd play the haunting piano melodies her late father played for her as a small child. She won't finish school, date boys, or do anything productive because she can't forget her father, the only man she ever loved. Even though he died when she was four years old, she won't – can't – let go of his memory. Like many movies from the '40s (the shrinks as heroes era of psychiatry era in films; see also Spellbound), The Secret Heart is textbook pop Freud on parade. Even as the worshipful daughter falls in love with her father's best friend and her mother's current lover (Walter Pidgeon), old Dr. Gillespie himself (Lionel Barrymore in a brief cameo) is warning stepmom Claudette that the child most re-experience the locales of her youth in order to cure herself. The truth will set her free, never mind that she might not be able to handle the truth: that her loving dad was an embezzling alcoholic who did himself in. Never mind, too, that this film is a lot of nonsense; it is an engrossing bit of nonsense, predictable but entertaining nonetheless, thanks to the charm of its leads.
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DAVID AND LISA (1962) Director: Frank Perry. Cast: Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard Da Silva. Shrink as friend – Howard da Silva plays the easy-going, fatherly therapist who runs a home for mentally disturbed teenagers. David (Dullea), an intelligent, angry young man who hates to be touched, and his cure begins when he starts to reach out to Lisa, a pretty schizophrenic (Margolin) who talks in rhyme. The movie posits the idea that care and understanding – and respect for an individual's rights – is key to a cure, with the avuncular, unscientific Da Silva a pefect foil for that. The talking cure is briefly depicted ("Tell me about it," is Da Silva's most common response), but the cure comes more from love than anything else.


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I saw that my beady friend Jill Wiseman doesn't do New Year's resolutions, and I think that's smart. What she does instead, which I think is even smarter, is to pick a word for the year. She chose the word "Joy".
So on New Year's Eve, as I was closing my eyes and getting ready for sleep, I thought about what word I wanted to choose for this coming year. As I relaxed, the word "Grace" immediately popped into my head, so I looked it up to get a clearer definition. This is what I found:
"Grace: noun, \'gras\
1. unmerited divine assistance given humans for their regeneration and sanctification
2. a virtue coming from God
3. a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine Grace"
After reading that very first definition, I knew this was my word for 2012. In 2011, my life changed in many wonderful ways, and I was utterly humbled and grateful for all of it. For 2012, I feel as though I'm ready to start exploring a more spiritual path as an artist, and this is going to be how I do it...
So many more things I want to write about today! But, I don't want to blow them all at once. For starters, I don't want to cram it all in to one blog post. One day at a time...


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Monday, August 9, 2010
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8/9/10 How is summer going for you? Hopefully you're kicking back a bit and enjoying summer's weather. Most of Morocco is cookin with temperatures 110+. Lucky for me (I can say this now since it's not winter), I live in the mountains and the temperature has been pleasant and we usually have a breeze blowing. But, I bet you are remembering my whining from the winter months -- I don't even want to think about January and February now!! Let's enjoy the moment.
I thought I might stay put for a while, but once again I boarded the bus in July - twice. It was for good reason though – a wedding to attend and to celebrate a friend's birthday. First the wedding – I traveled to Goulmima for the wedding (near Errachidia). I visited there last May with one of the girls (Hafida) that lived below me and it was her sister's wedding. Getting there was a challenge – I had great plans to just catch the 1:30p local bus (le-kar) since it was direct to Errachidia and I could just get off a stop or two earlier. Well so much for that idea – it was full and didn't stop. Okay then, plan two. I caught a taxi to Ouarzazate (1.5 hrs). Then a local bus to Tinghir (3 hrs), taxi to Tingdad (1 hr) and then another taxi to Guilmima (.5 hrs). Of course there was a bit of waiting between each and I arrived a bit later than planned, but I made it. I didn't stay at the house where the wedding celebration was taking place, but instead stayed at Nadia's house (the other girl that lived downstairs). Goulmima was hot and we slept on the veranda, which was quite nice actually. We had the sound of frogs and ??? to lull us to sleep. Although I learned on the day I left for home that Nadia's sister had been stung by a scorpion the day before and had had to go to the hospital for treatment. Hmmm, maybe the veranda isn't that nice? Nadia's family was welcoming and the wedding celebration was good too. I am personally not a fan of big weddings (yes certainly I have enjoyed some), so personal taste plays into this. Weddings consist of loud music, singing and dancing (mostly this shoulder dance, but they can move their hips too). Tea, cookies and nuts are served around 10p and then around 11:30p-12a they brought out the couscous, chick peas and beef. Followed by the second course of chicken, olives and bread, then followed by the third course of watermelon and cantaloupe (only it is green in color). It all concludes around 2a. The wedding takes place over a three day span, with much of this same menu being served each day. Let me back up a bit -- on the first day of the wedding celebration the bride isn't seen. She is put in a room, alone, to rest. People visit her in this room from time to time. If she comes out, her face is covered so she cannot be seen. On the second day (which is the day I primarily attended) , she does come out to join the festivities. Family and friends are staying at the wedding house, so the wedding is always happening, but more people come to join the party around 8-9p. Latifa (the tizlit, bride) changed her dress four times (pictures attached) during the evening's festivities. During the last dress, she had henna applied to her hands and feet. Anwar (the isli, groom) also attended part of the evening, but left before the henna was applied. I am told that the groom and his family were having their own party at their house. I was there for part of day one and two, but I did not attend day three, much to the family's dismay. It is the day the bride is delivered to the groom around 5p and they are "married". There is not an actual ceremony, but money has been given to the bride and paperwork has been filed with the local government official. The bride will now live with the groom and his family. In some cases, they might move and live on their own, but that would happen primarily in the cities, not in the villages. Luckily, when I board the bus for home, it is direct to my town (actually heading to Marrakech), so I didn't have the hassle of changing transports so many times.
We headed to Essaouria (on the Atlantic coast, north of Agadir) to celebrate my friend's birthday. All travel is on the CTM and it is relatively easy. Buses are close to being on time, tickets are sold for seats (so no standing) and they are usually air conditioned and comfortable. Essaouria is a nice beach town (picture attached), with a great medina area, and a wonderful beach, but it was soooo windy! You really couldn't enjoy the beach, because you would be sandblasted if you did so. We were told that the wind was exceptionally bad, and not the norm, but the kite boarders and wind surfers were certainly enjoying it, so maybe we were just in the wrong place at this time! Since it was a town for tourists, there were beach bars to enjoy and we found one that offered great lettuce salads for lunch (first lettuce (don't even think spinach) salad I've had since leaving the states), great music was playing and the beer was cold. We took advantage of these amenities and spent some time in this establishment. Camel & horse rides and quad rentals (picture attached) were offered next door to the restaurant (just like home) had we wanted to do this. We elected to be lazy!
I attempted to attend one more wedding. It was in Ouarzazate (so only 1.5 hours away) and I said I would come and spend just one day/night. The bride is the sister of one of the women that works at the baby's center here in town. I know the bride because we have met on several occasions. I had my landlord's daughter call (since she speaks English and Tashlheet) the bride's sister to confirm that they would meet me at the taxi stand (taxiyat). I have no idea where their house is located in Ouarzazate ? It was agreed that someone would meet me between 4-5p. I was there, they were not. I texted and called, but our communication was challenging since Layla (sister of the bride) does not speak English and my Tashlheet truthfully stinks. I waited until 6p and still no one so I boarded the bus for home. Layla did call me while I was on the bus and asked if I could come back the next day. "No, sorry". I tried this once, not in the mood for a second try. Gotta give me credit for the attempt!
Most Moroccans have a very different concept of time. It is likely someone showed up at the taxiyat at 7p and thought nothing of it. When a time is set to do something, I continually ask "American time" or "Moroccan time". They laugh, but I'm quite serious. We also have this timing thing now with daylight savings time. Morocco also does it, started in May, but not all people do it, so we have "old time" and "new time" to consider also. It's crazy!!!
It's lonely sometimes and I've considered a pet, but I'm gone so much and I will leave in 1.5 years – what happens then? Well think that's been taken care of for me. I would have picked something a big more cuddly, but I have a salamander /gecko living in my house. He moves fast and I only catch glimpses of him, but he seems to like my kitchen (l'kuzina). Not sure how he got in and up here since I live on the second floor, but looks like he's found a home. I don't know much about salamanders/gecko's, but I've named him Geek – hope it's okay he's living here?
Speaking of living on the second floor -- I now have new neighbors living below me since Hafida and Nadia have moved home to Goulmina. Ummmm, at least eight people, maybe more, living there now – ugh!. It's not a large apartment – consists of a turn-around bathroom (bit-l'ma), small kitchen and a decent-sized room where they eat, sleep and sit. They are probably not that noisy, but just eight people in and of itself make noise. A couple of the young people speak a little English and on the whole they seem nice enough. One aunt is quite bold though. She came upstairs, knocked on the door and made herself at home, after looking around my sween (nice) apartment. The next day she appears at my door with two pails in her hands and wants hot water to take a bath with. She has seen my hot water heater – so why not? I tell her no, that I have to buy the gas to heat the water, etc. My thinking is that if I do this for one, the next seven will be knocking at my door when they want to bathe. She is not particularly happy with me, but she does go away eventually – without hot water. They also use "my" roof. Yes, I say "my" roof. Nadia and Hafida didn't use it except for drying laundry and I've gotten spoiled. They are making it a bit hard to sun bathe now, although I usually do it when they take their afternoon naps, so it sometimes works out. I'm told that they are only here until after Ramadan ends (mid-September) and that they came from Zagora to escape the heat. I'm looking forward to mid-September and hope the next tenants are less in number.
I'm told that we have one poisonous snake in the area, but I haven't seen any snakes, so no freaking me out there. We supposedly have a few scorpions, so I should be on the lookout, but this mountainous area is not one they particularly like, so not a big worry. My friends Donna and Hannah have both found scorpions in their apartments, but they live in different areas that I do. As a pre-caution, I now have my shoes standing on-end against the wall, since scorpions like to hide in the dark/seclusion and like the toes of shoes, I also check between the sheets before I crawl into bed at night. Better to be safe than sorry. Since I have screens on my windows now, I am not bothered by flying pests – thank goodness.
I think because of the heat, lots of people are on holiday in the summer months. We have far more people living here in my village (because I am in the mountains and cooler) now than at other times of the year. Transportation is crowded and lots of businesses are closed. Somehow this doesn't make sense – more people, more business – but what do I know? The association I work with is closed. The baby's center is open since babies are still being born, the restaurant is open and still waiting for a customer and obviously cheese is still being made, but not much happening. Kids stop by my house and we play dominoes, Uno and Blink. They usually ask for popcorn when they are here. I bake and take plates of goodies to houses and usually I am invited for tea. I visit my host family. Somehow the days are filled? I recently had my host family here for an American summer lunch. I fixed hamburgers (kefta) and bread (no buns available), potato salad and baked beans (well as best as I could replicate them) with fruit salad for dessert. They liked the hamburgs and fruit. The potato salad and beans challenged their taste buds, although they were gracious and kind and tried to eat some. Wonder if they realize that many of their flavors challenge my taste buds too? Doubt it……
Remember I had a group of volunteers doing their training in a nearby town in the spring. Well they have since been sworn in and sent to their own sites. But, they are back in the area and they came for a weekend visit a week ago. Only four remain, one elected to terminate early and has returned home. It was great fun to hear about their sites and their homes. They said that it felt like they were "coming home" when they came to my apartment since I met them early on, they visited me several times when they were near and I probably "spoil" them a bit. It was great fun catching up.
I've been asked a number of times – what work do you do? Seems like you are always traveling? I hope you all understand that a lot of this travel is work – cultural exchanges/community relations are also PC goals, as well as the meetings and trainings we have. Yes, my primary assignment is to work with the cheese and saffron association. I have attempted to show them how to make their cheese unique and different by the addition of herbs and spices, and there was some initial excitement about this, but nothing is happening now. Perhaps in the fall, when people can again think about working, we can address this again? But, this association has been up and running for twelve years already. Not sure what I am really supposed to do with them? The person I work with is difficult to say the least and quite honestly, I am uncertain if I will make the recommendation that PC replace me. The PCV before me was young, just out of college and my counterpart ran her in circles and ruled. She made the recommendation that an "older" volunteer be sent to the site -- they sent me. I've had to stand firm and hold my ground. Best thing I have going for me is that I'm 61 (OMG, how did that happen?) and older than she is.
This is and has been quite an adventure and I am so grateful to have this opportunity. Will I make a difference that really lives on after I leave? That remains to be seen. I am curious to see if I will have much of an affect (effect, I can never seem to remember which?) on the business part of this assignment. Can I have an impact on some of the children I cross paths with -- I hope so. If nothing else, perhaps a child or two will wash their hands with soap, cough into their sleeve or will brush their teeth as a result of me being a clown and instructing them how to do it. Regardless, I think I am giving them a good impression of the "American" and hopefully they will think a bit more favorably of us.
Enough already – wake up – it's over. Til next time – live well, love much and laugh often – Be Happy!!! Hugs to you all, Linda
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