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I invented rap in 1979. I was a slightly dishevelled underachiever at Shipston-on-Stour Comprehensive school, and I invented rap having found myself embroiled in beef with Gordon Everett who had slandered me in a poem read out before the entire class during the English lesson. Gordon's poem suggested that I farted quite a lot and might consequently be considered a somewhat pungent child, and it cleverly made these suggestions whilst eschewing the sort of language which would have prevented it being read out loud and therefore validated by Mrs. Jones, our English teacher. The poem was pretty funny. I recall the hysterical laughter of my class mates as Gordon painted a picture of my supposedly persistent trumping in awkward situations, and despite the humiliation, I myself laughed because it was funny.
To be fair, Gordon's poem may have been composed in retaliation to some earlier character assassination fired from my own cannon, figuratively speaking, but if so then I don't remember what it could have been. Perhaps the memory of some previous victory was eclipsed in that moment when an entire class of kids were driven to clutch their sides and roll around on the floor by the hilarity of the suggested scale of my energetic flatus.
If Gordon wanted a war, I decided, then I was down for whatever, if not by those precise terms. I wrote Gordon Everett and His Hand, which followed the same basic rhyme scheme as Captain Beaky by Keith Michell but carried a cruder, more confrontational message:
The biggest benders in this land,
Are Gordon Everett and his hand,
That's his hand, his balls and dick,
A-doing things that make you sick.
His hand it then goes up and down,
And Gordon makes the people frown.
I had just turned fourteen and had been given a tape recorder for my birthday, a mono portable with a built-in condenser microphone by which I made hissy recordings of my fluting, pre-pubescent voice. My first act with this fantastic new bit of technology had been to invent the mixtape - as they have become posthumously identified by fedora wearing tosspots. I borrowed Paul Moorman's extremely well played copy of K-Tel's Loony Tunes album and compiled two volumes of what I named Songs for the Hard of Thinking in order to have a whole ton of novelty records in one convenient and hilarious place - My Boomerang Won't Come Back, Susan Christie's I Love Onions, Transfusion by Nervus Norvus and others supplemented by the Goodies, Toast by Streetband, and some Sex Pistols - whom I considered to be pretty much cut from the same cloth because they said rude words; and naturally I drew my own cover for Songs for the Hard of Thinking. I wasn't really into music as such at that age, but I loved novelty records, and inevitably it occurred to me that I could make my own.
Soon after inventing the mixtape, I invented rapping and then sampling. I pressed play and record and flowed with the maniac lyrical of Gordon Everett and His Hand directly onto the tape, punctuating my verses with the trumpet break from the original Captain Beaky 7" by my boy Keith Michell - just pausing, then unpausing and dropping that wax right into the cut. That shit was dope.
I took the tape to school, and although that shit was perhaps a little too dope for the classroom, I made sure everyone got to hear it. I recall Gordon's face, a mixture of amusement and horror as he listened to me drop science, implicating him in acts of enthusiastic masturbation - something I myself would certainly never have done - and possibly also homosexuality, bestiality and cross-dressing. I don't remember the lyrics in their entirety and I don't have the tape to hand, but I don't recall pulling any punches. I'm pretty sure that was where 2Pac got the idea for Hit 'Em Up.
With hindsight, I find it all a bit regrettable, not so much because of the juvenile homophobia - which, in case it isn't fucking obvious, might be blamed on it being 1979 and my being fourteen years of age - but because I liked Gordon; and even though I haven't seen him since the early eighties, I still theoretically like Gordon and have no bad memories of him as a kid. Anyway, I suppose what matters is that from conflict was born innovation and enterprise, in this case my inventing both rap music and sampling - or at least scratching given how I was cutting Keith Michell's beats on a wheel of steel. Many sources will credit my developments to that guy out of the Fatback Band, or to the Sugarhill Gang, or Kool DJ Herc and his Bronx pals, but they're all lying.
Anyway, the point is that I was messing around with tape recorders at an early age. The machine upon which I'd recorded my damning indictment of Gordon's alleged love of wanking conked out after about a year and had to be replaced. Specifically the pinch roller wore down meaning that tapes were eaten as often as they were played, but the tape head still worked so I yanked it out of the casing, reattached it on a length of wire, and drew sections of magnetic tape across it by hand in order to create sound. Laurie Anderson did the same thing, mounting her tape head upon a violin body with which she would play lengths of tape suspended in a violin bow in place of the traditional strings. Emboldened by the success of my experiment I also made clunky cassette sized tape loops, and larger ones played on a 1960s reel-to-reel tape player donated by a friend of my mother. By the time I first came to hear a Throbbing Gristle record, I was already acclimatised to the notion of raw noise as music, of blocks of sound jammed together as part of a larger composition.
Around the same time I had joined the Pre-War Busconductors, roughly speaking a punk group with three of my friends from school. We improvised and recorded songs through a combination of ham-fisted instrumentation, cardboard box percussion, noises and shouting. Thematically we explored areas not dissimilar from those investigated in Gordon Everett and His Hand - songs about people we knew and whom we suspected of engaging in amusing sexual practices. At least a few of the songs featured rapping mainly because Graham had worked out how to play the bassline from Good Times. Unfortunately, although we were all familiar with Rapper's Delight, our rapping was very much the rapping of clueless white people who don't really understand rapping - the singy-songy bollocks heard on twee, light-hearted news features about rural schools who record their own charity rap single.
Mr. Thompson is always in class,
Unless he's shouting 'keep off the grass!'
Still, pitiful though our efforts were, we all liked the general idea of the form, and before I left home much of my final summer in Shipston was spent cruising around the tiny market town in Anders Longthorne's car blasting his tapes of Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa and various Street Sounds label compilations whilst pretending to be American. We had outgrown the Pre-War Busconductors - just about - but I was still recording my own music as Do Easy - a name taken from a William Burroughs novel on the grounds that I'd seen some bigger boys do it and I wanted to be like them. By now I had a double cassette deck with a fancy microphone input and was able to layer sounds to create complex if slightly hissy pieces of experimental music. I made covers for my tapes and sold them mail order through the posthumously eulogised network of DIY tape folks. I didn't sell enough to make a living out of it, but enough for the operation to at least pay for itself.
Years passed and I drifted in and out of making my own music, just as I drifted in and out of bands formed with other people. By the mid-nineties I had reached a sort of crisis point. I was done with bands and with being helping hand to someone else's vision of a band. The Dovers had sort of fizzled out for no particularly good reason that I can recall. I hadn't really liked the single compact disc I'd helped record as a member of Konstruktivists, and whilst I'd enjoyed playing with UNIT - or Academy 23 as they had been when I joined - the task of remembering how to play someone else's increasingly baroque chord changes and time signatures was becoming more chore than fun, and Andy - our main man - had proposed a number of Doctor Who themed tracks, one of which was to be called Travels in the TARDIS. Deciding I would rather repeatedly slam my penis in a fridge door than be involved with such tomfoolery, I brought my guitar home and elected to concentrate on War Drum.
War Drum was the name for whatever it was I was doing during the nineties, rhythmic but mostly instrumental music produced by unorthodox means, sometimes harsh and noisy, but not industrial because I still had some measure of self-respect. War Drum was thematically fixated on Mesoamerican culture because that was my absorbing passion and it seemed like an area I could explore through the medium and at least come up with something a bit more interesting than David Tibet's milkman grunting Aleister Crowley's favourite limericks through a digital reverb with the decay set to fifteen minutes.
I was trying to make the music which I wanted to hear simply because no-one else was. I felt I had learned a great deal from the process of putting out my earlier tapes, and this time I was going to do it right. So I borrowed as much equipment as I could, and took my time playing and recording, refusing to regard anything as finished until I was absolutely confident of it being the best that could be achieved within the limitations of what technology was at my disposal. Over and over I revised that which could have been better until it was better, and if I couldn't get it working it was scrapped. I spent time on the design of the covers, and the printing of those covers, and had copies of my tapes professionally duplicated onto high quality TDK chrome cassettes at Gold Dust Studios in Bromley - which was a good and somewhat hilly hour away by Royal Mail bicycle. A great deal of work went into producing those cassettes as a quality product, as something aspiring to represent the tape cassette as a vital, democratic, and accessible medium.
Sadly not everyone took the same view. I received the occasional enthusiastic fanzine review, and shelled out for advertising in the pages of The Sound Projector, but cassettes were apparently over, and no-one cared. I could barely pay people to listen to my music. Scat Feed Fever fanzine - which seemed to loom relatively large in weirdy music circles of the time - had denounced cassettes as the unworthy fruit of those who were merely mucking about on the grounds that the true artist would blow sailors for five dollars a pop if that's what it took to press a compact disc. The editor of Scat Feed Fever - just one of many Gira-felating industrial music autograph hunters busily turning himself into Phil Collins - seemed to typify the process of an underground becoming its own orthodoxy, which was depressing.
This didn't really make much difference to my recording habits because while an audience numbered in double figures would have been nice, the music was its own reward. By the end of the century, the composition of that music had changed considerably in reflection of my own evolving tastes. I'd more or less given up on listening to rock music, bands of four blokes with guitars or grunting industrial wankers programming their way back to 1988. From where I stood, the music I had known was half-lifing into a jangly sludge of undifferentiated corporate toss. Meanwhile all I heard at work was hip-hop, rap and R&B, and that's what the people whom I liked at work generally listened to. With Oasis and the Kaiser Chiefs as the alternative, it was probably inevitable that my ear should drift in that direction.
Whilst I'd never been what you might call a hip-hop head, not by any definition, I had kept tabs on the form at least up until the advent of LL Cool J, whose career had struck me as largely pointless. I didn't mind putting my hands in the air, but it took more than was on offer to induce me to wave them in the manner of someone who just didn't care, and I was fucked if I was going to listen to some bloke reading out his bank statements over a tinny drum machine just because the record had turned up in the same section as Whodini and Public Enemy. By the time I'd taken my fingers out of my ears, rap had become huge and confusing, and it was difficult to know quite where to start so I didn't bother; but gradually and inevitably I did bother, because for the most part it was sounding pretty good on the radio at work. I picked up a couple of CDs - having finally caved in and allowed my friend Eddy to furnish me with his old compact disc player - and I liked what I heard. The music had thankfully evolved beyond whatever that tinkling sound had been on those LL Cool J records, and no-one seemed to give a shit about what all the ladies in the house were saying; and as music built from sources which themselves weren't always conventionally musical, it suddenly began to make a lot of sense. Having served the first quarter of a twenty plus year sentence in Royal Mail, I could at least appreciate the mood of the shirtier rap numbers, so I bought more and more of it, immersing myself in the form until it became obvious why it had taken me so long to get it.
Rap, I realised, is more or less its own self-contained world. It draws references from all over, but there's no point in expecting a rap record to provide a variation on that which is done by other musical forms. It is something which can only be truly appreciated on its own terms, not some pool into which toes may be dipped between Killing Joke albums. Rap is, amongst other things, about being shat upon from a great height whilst maintaining a sense of humour, or at least venting screw-faced wrath in entertaining terms. My job was my life, and it was often hellish, and MC Ren rapping about shooting as many white people as possible before the cops took him down made more sense than it probably should have done given that I myself am white. The anger was universal, and it it made Motorhead sound like flies buzzing around in a jar. This, I would suggest, is because rap speaks mostly to the individual, usually specifically to three or four mates of the bloke holding the microphone. It tends to take a personal rather than a general view, and is as such the opposite of Sting telling us all to behave. The bottom line is that if you don't get rap, then it probably wasn't speaking to you in the first place; and yet for some reason it was speaking to me.
Inevitably its influence began to emerge in my own music, although initially as a shift of emphasis rather than any radical revision of what I was already doing; at least until I went back to rapping. I had to try it, just as I'd kicked off twenty years before with Gordon Everett and His Hand - my own version of the novelty records which constituted everything in my collection not featuring Ringo Starr. My first efforts weren't much better than charity raps about Mr. Thompson telling us to stay off the grass, but they were fun to write and record, and failure only inspired me to try harder. On the twentieth anniversary of the formation of the Pre-War Busconductors I commemorated the occasion with a CD single released in a limited edition of two copies, one for myself, one for Pete, the only other former Pre-War Busconductor with whom I was still in touch. I built the track from samples of our tapes and the sort of unlistenable crap that usually emerges when white people decide that it's funny to pretend to be a gangsta. In my defence, it wasn't actually much worse than most of Kid Rock's oeuvre, but that's hardly a recommendation.
The song was called 2 Deadly 4 Fame.
Of course it was.
The thrust of 2 Deadly 4 Fame was that the Pre-War Busconductors had been such a potentially revolutionary force that the authorities had found themselves obliged to ensure that we remained just a bunch of potty-mouthed school kids whom no fucker had heard of making a racket in Graham's bedroom whenever his mum and dad went to Stratford. I played the track to Nadim from work, seeing as how we spent most mornings comparing notes and he had become, by default, my rap sensei. He listened in silence, and then regarded me with genial pity, somehow finding it in himself to concede some points for my at least having a go.
'Your beat is nice,' he observed generously, and in that moment I heard the lyrics through his ears as borne of Peter Glaze wearing a backwards baseball cap on Crackerjack whilst complaining about Bernie Clifton's comedy ostrich to Don Maclean in rhyming couplets. I threw myself into the task of becoming less shite, writing and rewriting over and over until the smell was at least not quite so bad as it had been. This music was rooted in honesty, so I was fucked if I was going to let myself turn into Tim chuffing Westwood keeping it hot to death for the yoo-kay. I had a ready-made angle in that it was difficult to miss the parallels between your rap basics and the punky DIY tape aesthetic which had informed my earlier efforts; so I emphasised this with samples from old Sex Pistols or Adam & the Ants records. I had recorded 2 Deadly 4 Fame as Loc Dogg B in a general spirit of piss-poor satire, which I abbreviated to the more pragmatic LDB, roughly a variant of my initials suggesting decibels.
I bought a CD burner and began to work just that little bit harder, bouncing between four-track portastudio master tape and a CDR, playing samples by hand on my tinny Casio SK1 keyboard or a borrowed Alesis Quadraverb, cueing and dropping in tapes with the sort of split second timing I hadn't realised was possible. The music began to take shape, and my vocal began to improve to the point of becoming something I could listen to without wincing.
'You've gotta let me jump on one of your tracks, Lawrence,' Nadim told me after the latest tape I'd sent his way. I was keen. By this point I had thrown my efforts entirely behind rap, reasoning that if people preferred Current 93 and Lustmord to my previous, more abstract and atmospheric work, then that was their tough shit and they got what they deserved. The weakest aspect of my new music was my own voice. Lyrically I felt that I was okay, or not too much worse than the average, but my delivery lacked force. It wasn't convincing. If I could just get more able tonsils to talk shit over my beats...
I'd given a tape of one of my instrumentals to Bert, another guy from work who already had a successful day job producing R&B flavoured garage at his own studio. One of his tunes had received heavy rotation on Kiss FM back before the station turned into the audio equivalent of Nuts magazine. He had an incredible voice and would wander around the office singing about his own penis with the lungs of Alexander O'Neal or one of those guys. My head is small but my seed is large, he crooned in surreal fashion, then why is my top lip so big? suffixed with the bewildering locative Brixton, yeah!!! running up and down the scale with the kind of flourishes which made the aforementioned O'Neal sound like Mark E. Smith. Bert seemed impressed with my tape, having apparently assumed my musical endeavours would probably be a bit of a tuneless racket. He said he would work something out and already had a few ideas. I said I was quite keen on the big, big seed in Brixton theme and he seemed to lose interest. With hindsight, I suspect he didn't like the idea of being a performing seal on my track.
Eventually I settled on the idea of pulling together an album length CDR, simply as something on which to focus. I recorded and re-recorded the tracks over and over until they sounded right, and I even managed to get in some guest vocals from Andy Martin and members of the Ceramic Hobs with whom I shared common ground in the DIY tape thing, and who at least understood what I was trying to do. Eventually I finished a thirteen track album called May Contain Sexual Swearwords but found myself unable to burn a definitive CD master copy for numerous tedious technical reasons which inevitably arise when reliant upon faulty or borrowed equipment because, despite working a back-breaking forty hour week, I still couldn't afford decent gear; or I could have done had I been prepared to live on bread and jam for a few months so as to prove my worth to the editor of Scat Feed Fever, but I'd been down that particular aisle of Morrisons in my twenties and had no desire to return. Additionally, my day job was so physically and psychologically demanding as to require a certain degree of post-toil luxury in order to keep me from spazzing out and doing a Hungerford - real milk rather than a big weekly can of powdered, that sort of thing.
Unable to mix May Contain Sexual Swearwords, I kept on recording, honing my craft, then going back and reworking the aforementioned May Contain Sexual Swearwords as soon as it began to sound a bit rudimentary. I continued writing, working on my rhyme schemes, getting metaphors to perform double or even triple duty, how to build secondary internal rhythms into each line, and so on. The more I wrote, the more I began to appreciate just what you can do with rap. It isn't just about making stuff rhyme, because any wanker can do that. The skill of rap is in saying whatever the hell you want to say, regardless of the limitations of the most obvious available terms, bullying the language into doing exactly what you want it to do. Whatever you want to say, there is always a way to say it even when every other word has to rhyme with bicycle.
Anyway, as I waited for equipment repairs, the tracks kept coming. I put tapes together for the sake of keeping tabs on my own progress, and Nadim seemed to think I was getting somewhere. He particularly seemed to enjoy a number called Fuck the Boss.
You fucked up good. Top marks. Well done.
When you started this job we all thought you might be the one
guy we could rely on to not be a cunt,
But now you're hated by almost everyone.
Almost? Yeah okay, Joe still thinks your cool,
But the poor fucker never really was the sharpest tool
in the box. You cock! You pain in the neck!
No-one fucking likes you and you look like Shrek.
'I've got to get on one of your tracks,' Nadim told me with renewed enthusiasm.
Either I'd been asking him to drop by and record some vocals after work for most of the previous six months, or I'd only imagined myself doing so and had in reality said nothing.
'Okay,' I told him. 'Have you got any tapes?'
He had sent plenty of cassettes and CDRs my way, but mostly mixes of the Dogg Pound, Xzibit, C-Bo and others; nothing of himself. I'd begun to doubt that he had amassed much actual time on the microphone, and the claims that would suggest otherwise had been made so long ago as to make it difficult for me to recall the details.
'Come over this afternoon. We'll sort something out, yeah?'
He lived in one of the Bredinghurst flats, a peculiar architectural jumble resembling a Cubist ocean liner just off Overhill Road, the road in which Bon Scott, the singer of AC/DC, was found dead back in February, 1980. Bredinghurst was on the top of a hill and could be seen from all over East Dulwich and beyond. The story ran that the architect had committed suicide, and the flats certainly looked as though they had been conceived by someone busily in the process of losing their shit. I chained my Royal Mail bicycle to the fence at the back, overlooking Dunstans Road, and entered the labyrinth. After ten minutes of walkways leading to nowhere, I found the place by following my ears. I banged on the door for about five minutes until the music dropped a few decibels and Nadim emerged.
'Come in, man. I was listening to some music.'
'Yes. I can tell.'
I went in. He had one of those CD turntables, the first I'd ever seen. It seemed weird and futuristic and had been set up at the centre of the main room. Deafening bass rumbled through the red tiled floor, rattling large glass windows overlooking the road of much sorrow and pilgrimage for AC/DC fans all across the world - deafening bass like a truck passing and with something electronic pinging away. It sounded familiar.
'What's this?' I had to shout, mime and point.
Nadim had already slipped his headphones back on and was cueing up the next track. I had kind of expected come in, my brother followed by cups of tea and maybe even a few biccies, but that scenario was looking increasingly unlikely.
He picked up a CD case and waved it in illustration - the Goodfellas album by the 504 Boyz. I had it at home and now I realised why I hadn't played it much, because it was supposed to sound like this, not the bass-free twanging with which I was loosely familiar. I knew Goodfellas as mainly a pinging noise over which Master P suggests his listeners might like to Wobble Wobble.
A secondary, clearly unrelated noise intruded. I looked around and saw the rubberised tip of a walking cane banging against the window. We were on the fourth or maybe fifth floor, and the windows of these flats each surmounted a thin balcony with walls dividing each section from that of its neighbour. Some person living next door was out there, leaning over and reaching around to bang their walking stick against the window.
The music stopped dead.
I could hear just the tip of the cane bouncing off the glass and some tinnitus from the music. 'Maybe he wants you to turn it down a little,' I suggested helpfully.
'That fucker!' Nadim slid back the window frame and leaned out but the walking cane had already been withdrawn. He cursed and shut the window. 'One time I pulled it out of his hand and threw it.' He gestured in illustration and I imagined a walking sticking spinning into the sky, high above the grass towards Overhill Road.
'He probably thinks the music is a little bit loud.'
'Every time I play, that old cunt always starts up.' Nadim sucked at his teeth and shook his head. He hit a button on the deck and the 504 Boyz came back, still inviting us to Wobble Wobble.
I thought of my own upstairs neighbour who would stamp or drop heavy furniture in protest to the volume of a television set turned down so low that I could only follow half of the dialogue. Nadim was a funny guy, but I was glad I wasn't his neighbour.
After about an hour I left. There had been neither tea nor biccies, just myself stood watching Nadim cue up tunes on his CD turntable until it was obvious that I've got to get on one of your tracks had been meant as a sort of figurative suggestion, a measure of approval rather than preface to anything which was going to happen in the real world.
I soldiered on, eventually accruing the material for a double CD - my second album, I suppose - and my best work, I thought. Equipment came back from being repaired and I was at last able to capture the definitive mixes and burn copies of both albums. I wasn't sure how to go about promoting any of this, but I'd paid for eighteen minutes on Godspunk, a compilation CD released by Pumf Records; and on the 21st of June, 2003 I jumped on stage with the Ceramic Hobs and performed a three minute rap at a Mad Pride event held at the Garage in Islington. I did okay. I'd rehearsed my lines over and over for weeks, and I remembered most of them, and I drew a polite round of applause as Jim MacDougall called out very swanky just in case anyone had stopped thinking about him for a minute and because he'd seen it all before.
Then nothing happened.
I had vaguely intended to build up a decent back catalogue before attempting to promote any of it, and LDB now sort of had a decent back catalogue, but nevertheless nothing happened. No-one was interested in the Pumf Records compilation, or the two that came after, and I eventually ended up leaving a huge box of my contributor copies outside Oxfam. I'd had a single enquiry as a result of my paying to put tracks on those discs, and that had been from one of the other bands. More depressing still, I didn't even particularly like the compilations. They sounded disjointed, as I suppose is inevitable given that the selection process was based on who felt like paying to be included; and the sound of my own tracks had been compressed into something I wasn't sure I really appreciated.
Equipment continued to fail, and a number of the discs I had burned degraded, becoming unplayable after about a year, a problem which I've never had with cassettes but have often found with CDRs; and I simply became fed up of paying for the repair of equipment which should have been better made in the first place, of catering to a seemingly unanimous lack of interest whilst Andy of my previous band referred to me as a gangsta rapper in the manner of an indulgent elderly uncle. I was nearly forty, and suddenly none of the effort I had put in over the years seemed to matter, or to have amounted to anything in the real world. Even had I managed to fool someone into buying my LDB tapes or compact discs or whatever, it's not like I was ever going to take to the stage with this stuff, or do anything to push it any further. That one night at the Garage had been fun, but not the sort of thing I cared to repeat.
My rap ambitions had never really been any more substantial than those of Nadim, and in 2005, faced with the prospect of having to get my borrowed portastudio - already an obsolete piece of equipment - repaired yet again, I stopped caring. I'd given up on band membership, and now I was dropping music entirely. I'd sold a few tapes over the years, but no-one had ever really cared, and I'd spent most of the time banging my head against a wall. People don't really want anything they haven't heard before, whether it be rock or rap or yet another dolt who once met David Tibet in a betting shop releasing another droning album with Crowley on the cover. People want product, something they recognise, something with a logo serving to guarantee certain expectations. Novelising, writing and publishing aren't even significantly better, but I find myself able to take more satisfaction from the finished work.
So I suppose LDB - or whatever the hell that was - has left the building. It was fun while it lasted.


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Deceived Through "Politics"-Today's Black Pearls For Parents
Every weekday morning at 10am, I bring you a daily affirmation from Black Pearls for Parents the book by author Eric V. Copage. They are inspirational thoughts, practical advice, and pearls of wisdom specifically designed for African-American parents.
This morning's entry was "Politics". On this day, take five minutes to encourage your child to discuss political candidates, officeholders, and issues at home.
You can listen to my reading of today's Black Pearls For Parents by clicking the player below and thanks for listening to the People's Station 93.7 WBLK.
Today's BLK MVP Black Pearls for Parents entry is: POLITICS

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Upon arrival in Turkey, you can find a mobile phone shop, decide on a short-term mobile plan, purchase a SIM, have it installed, and use it for up to 120 days while you travel in Turkey. The local rates, almost always cheaper than international roaming, may save you money. But you probably won't be able to use the SIM on a future trip to Turkey, nor in other countries.
Take your mobile device and your passport to a shop of any of the three mobile telephone operators in Turkey. There are even mobile phone shops in the largest airports, so you may be able to do it as soon as you arrive in Turkey.
The clerk will photocopy two pages from your passport: the personal information and photograph page, and the page with the Immigration stamp showing the date of your entry into Turkey.
The clerk will insert a newTurkish SIM in your device and pair the SIM's unique identification number (MSISDN) with the identification number (IMEI) of your mobile device, meaning that the SIM can only be used with that device (at least in Turkey).
There is a charge for the SIM and account set-up.
You then select the mobile service you want, often offered as a paket (package) with a defined maximum number of telephone minutes, SMS messages and, if you wish, Internet data (in Megabytes or Gigabytes), for a certain price.
Within a few days after you begin using your Turkish SIM, you may receive an official government message (in Turkish) on your device informing you that, because your device is not registered with the government (and the tax paid), your device will be blocked from Turkey's mobile networks after 120 days. The message will contain an end date for your service, and will look like this:
123456789XXXXXX IMEI no'lu cihaz kayit disi listesinde oldugu icin 26.08.2015 da kullanim disi birakilacaktir. Hattiniz acik kalacaktir. Bilgi icin 4440532.
Here's a translation:
Because the device with the IMEI 123456789XXXXXX is on the list of unregistered devices, it will be blocked from service on 26.08.2018 [26 August 2018]. Your mobile line will remain open. For information, call 4440532.
"Your mobile line will remain open," but it will do you no good, as your device will be blocked, and the SIM, paired with your device, cannot be used in any other device.
A SIM (Subscriber
Identity Module) is a small electronic
chip and memory card that stores
information on a mobile device customer, the device's
account, and country of usage. It may also store data such as SMS (Short
Message Service) messages, phone numbers of your contacts, etc.
When you turn on your mobile device, the
SIM tells the device which network to connect to, who
you are (so people can call you), and your phone usage
SIMs come in three forms: Standard, Micro, and Nano. Older phones may use the largest (Standard) SIM, many newer models take the Micro SIM, and the newest Apple iPhones and iPads require a Nano SIM, the smallest.
With an adapter, you may be able to use a smaller SIM in a phone designed to use a larger SIM, but you cannot use a larger SIM in a phone that requires a smaller SIM. For example, you may be able to snap a Micro or Nano SIM into an adapter for your phone that accepts only a Standard (large) SIM, but you cannot use any SIM but a Nano SIM in the iPhone 6.
phones are either "locked" (you
can't change your SIM card), or "unlocked" (you
can remove your SIM card and replace
it with a different one).
If you phone is unlocked,
you will be able to remove (and save)
your current card, buy a new
Turkish SIM card, insert it
in your mobile phone, and use your
phone paying
local Turkish rates for calls.
This is usually much cheaper than international
In Turkey, a mobile
phone shop—they seem
to be everywhere in the cities—may
be able to "unlock" or
"jailbreak" (SİM
kiliti kırmak) your "locked"
GSM phone so that you can put in
a different SIM. There will be a fee
for this service.
Important note: unlocking your phone will void its warranty, and may cause problems with your home mobile phone company. Both of these are good reasons not to unlock your phone.
In Istanbul, the beating heart of
the mobile phone market—white, grey
and black—is the Doğu
Bank İş Hanı building, Hamidiye
Caddesi 10 [map].
Go here to buy, sell, crack/jailbreak, repair
or accessorize your phone. Not a lot
of English spoken, but they'll figure
out what you want.
If you access the Internet by public Wifi while traveling, you should consider using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to prevent hackers from stealing your sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, credit card and bank account details, etc. VPNs are easy to set up, and basic service may be free. More...
Another way to assure security of your communications is to rent your own Mobile Wifi Hotspot, which uses the same secure network as mobile phones to connect your computer—even several computers—to the Internet. More...
—Tom Brosnahan
Mobile Phone Networks
Roaming in Turkey
Mobile Phones for International Travel
Wifi Voice & Messaging Apps
Calling to & from Turkey
Theft: Protect
Communications in Turkey
Details FAQ
SIMs (left to right): Standard, Micro & Nano.
Older phones may use the Standard size.
The newest smartphones use Nano SIMs.
A Turkcell SIM that
you snap out of its holder
and insert in your mobile phone.


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I am a sick man... I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. - Notes from Underground, F. Dostoevsky
I'm a recent graduate of St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary, and I'm currently studying Arabic at the St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology, which is part of the University of Balamand in Lebanon.
In the meantime, here's my weblog. Don't expect too much in the way of commentary here. However, I intend to post some photos that I've been taking. Let me show you my world, rather than just write about it. I've been trying to take at least one picture each day, and I've come up with some images that I really like. Click here to see my current favourites. Also worth looking at are my collections of pictures from my trip to Thessaloniki and Mount Athos and Finland and Russia. Unless, of course, you're just not interested in Orthodox pilgrimages.


text: Hello all, I just got my Droid last weekend and am loving it, but I had a quick question. I live in an area where I dont get cell coverage. I was wondering if google voice would allow me to send an receive text messages over wifi. I know that it isnt a VOIP, but I was just wondering about texts. Thanks


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Chicago White Sox pitcher Philip Humber threw the 21st perfect game in Major League Baseball history April 21.
That was two months ago. There's been another perfect game since. If Humber still had an aura by the time he took the mound against the Dodgers on Saturday, it had mostly vanished via an abyss of abysmal outings.
In 10 starts since his historic day, Humber is 1-4 with a 7.47 ERA, the highest in the majors during that span.
Humber was far from perfect Saturday but was one better than his counterpart, Chad Billingsley. The Dodgers could not rally against the White Sox bullpen and lost 5-4 in front of an announced crowd of 45,210 at Dodger Stadium.
"Honestly, I felt the same (as I did last week)," said Billingsley, who was tagged for five runs – four earned – in six innings. "My fastball command wasn't there. I wasn't as consistent as I'd like to have been.
"It's just one of those things."
The rash of recent perfect and near-perfect games in MLB is nothing short of pandemic.
San Francisco's Matt Cain threw a perfect game four days ago. Thirty miles south, the Angels' Ervin Santana took a perfect game into the seventh inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks. He finished with a one-hitter.
Besides Cain and Humber's perfect games, there have been four other no-hitters in the majors this season, which is not yet halfway through. Asked about the phenomenon, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly downplayed its significance.
"It's pretty much always been that way. Good pitching stops good hitting," he said. "Pitching's getting better and better."
As far as both starters were concerned, that wasn't the case Saturday.
On the heels of a pair of outstanding starts last week, Billingsley (4-5) reverted to his May form, a month during which the right-hander went 0-3 with three no-decisions and a 5.52 ERA.
He allowed eight hits in six innings, walked one and struck out four. Billingsley's most crucial mistake came not on a ball the White Sox hit, but a ball that hit a member of the White Sox. Alexei Ramirez led off the fifth inning by absorbing a Billingsley curveball in his lower back, then came around to score the winning run that broke a 4-4 tie.
"We kind of let the momentum get back on the other side of the field," Mattingly said.
The Dodgers fell behind early for the second night in a row and spotted the White Sox four runs before scoring their first run in the third inning.
In the second inning, Ramirez started the scoring with a two-run single. Humber's first major-league hit was a single down the first-base line that scored Ramirez for a 3-0 lead.
Alex Rios, who homered twice Friday, hit a two-out triple off the center-field wall that scored Gordon Beckham in the top of the third inning.
The Dodgers, down 4-0, batted around in the bottom of the inning. Six singles and a sacrifice fly tied the score; all four runs scored with two outs.
Billingsley began the rally with the first of his two hits, followed by singles from Dee Gordon and Andre Ethier. Jerry Hairston Jr., batting cleanup for the fourth time this season, drove in Billingsley with a fly ball to deep center. Bobby Abreu, A.J. Ellis and James Loney followed with RBI singles, the latter tying the score at 4-4.
Billingsley, back on the mound to start the fourth inning, hit the first batter he faced, Ramirez, after brushing him back with his first pitch – a two-seam fastball that got away from him, Billingsley said.
"I know we're not trying to hit Ramirez," Mattingly said. "You'd never try to hit a guy with a curveball."
Ramirez stole second, advanced to third on an error and scored on a groundout by Alejandro De Aza.
Humber (3-4) allowed nine hits and four runs, all earned, in five innings. He walked two and struck out four. ———


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Well hasn't it been ages? Due to work commitments and other related stuff (like moving job and doing the 3-hour commute to work thing) I haven't been posting much online. However, this is all about to change as I am determined to get back to my gardening and corset-making ASAP. Am renting a little house for work-times so have a brand-new garden to play with and a huge pile of boxes full of fabric staring at me accusingly.
Just to whet my appetite I purchased two new books: "Sew Serendipity" by Kay Whitt of Serendipity Studio and a new book on "Vintage Lingerie" by Jill Salen. For those of you not familiar with Serendipity Studio, they are an independent pattern company based in Grand Prairie, Texas in the US. Kay Whitt designs gorgeous patterns with a pinch of retro-chic that she makes up in mouth-wateringly lovely quilting fabrics. Normally colour-phobic, I am desperate to try out some of these outfits in something other than black. Check out her modelling some of her designs on her blog.
My other purchase also has me waiting behind the front-door for it to arrive. I love vintage, lingerie and sewing and already own Jill's corset book and have been attempting to draft up some new (old) corset patterns based on the examples in that. Can't wait to give them a try to see how they make up and doubly can't wait to try the patterns in this new one. Bullet bra anyone?
Have a good weekend!


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I just read this from Phil Johnson's blog:
The new plan is to assimilate the church to the world, and so include a larger area within its bounds. By semi-dramatic performances they make houses of prayer to approximate to the theatre; they turn their services into musical displays, and their sermons into political harangues or philosophical essays—in fact, they exchange the temple for the theatre, and turn the ministers of God into actors, whose business it is to amuse men.
This was quoted from C.H. Spurgeon who preached it on Oct 7, 1888. Is there nothing new under the sun? Is this how God is to be worshiped? I don't know what gods others may serve but my God is so much more worthy.


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Gastrointestinal issues are productive in today's general public, and this is to a great extent because of the way that the way the vast majority eat and the nourishment things we purchase are incredibly lacking in the nutrients needed for solid assimilation. On top of that actuality, we are over-burden with poisons from immunizations, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides.
The uplifting news is that ceaseless digestive surprise does not need to control your life, as basic dietary changes can help altogether enhance and even cure most digestive issues.
Colon purifying is an EXCELLENT WAY to help enhance your body's general wellbeing and health, and can even diminish your dangers for colon malignancy. Freeing the colon of waste and poisons by discharging layers of colon development can prompt sentiments of softness, quality and general great wellbeing.
This charts show where your suppers follow you eat them, and how they move down in the colon when fiber is not used.
Kick-Start Weight Loss
The normal human colon weighs around four pounds exhaust and can hold up to eight dinners of sustenance before assimilation happens at last. A colon cleaning can bring critical weight reduction and kick-start your digestion system, and refocus your consideration on better nourishment decisions and entire body wellbeing.
The foods that have small amount of fiber travel through the digestive tract considerably more gradually, around one-quarter of the pace that high-fiber foods do. Suppers lacking fiber go down in the gut and this moderate moving sustenance produces overabundance mucous that adheres to the intestinal dividers, and measures the intestinal tract down with POUNDS of TOXIC rotting fecal matter.
Colon purging can possibly support weight reduction colossally, and a few individuals have possessed the capacity to lose up to 20 pounds for a month.
Improve Digestion
As the colon is rinsed, it pushes undigested waste through your framework, making room for good supplement, and increasing weight reduction massively. On the off chance that waste stays in the body for a really long time, it turns into a reproducing ground for microbes and disease. A clean colon from a colon detox permits undigested waste to go effortlessly through your framework.
A purged colon just tolerates water, vitamins and supplements to be retained into the circulation system, instead of discharging poisons and microbes through the colon dividers. At the point when the colon is detoxified, it makes room for vital supplements to channel into your body unhindered.
It closes constipation, particularly when its interminable, which is the thing that causes a drowsy digestive reaction, and leaves squander in the system longer than it ought to be. This is the reason of gaining weight and numerous different issues, for example, the expanded poisons discharged into the circulatory system. It is additionally a reason for different diseases and disturbances, for example, hemorrhoids and varicose veins.
Maintains pH Balance
Sustenance that cause colon obstructions are acid-forming, particularly high-protein diets with no enough fiber. This prompts distress in the body, and reasons the tissue of the colon to end up aggravated & infected, diminishing the colon's capacity to carry out its occupation. In the event that yeasts, molds, growth, microscopic organisms, parasites or fecal material enter the circulatory system and associated tissue, the body's pH will be tossed totally out of equalization. Traditional prescription overlooks pH parity, while comprehensive specialists perceive that our bodies are ceaselessly taking a stab at this offset, and that unending irregularity abandons us defenseless to illness. Acid-alkaline parity is not difficult to control, and by rolling out extremely straightforward improvements to your eating regimen, you can enhance your body's pH adjust inside of hours.
The body's pH adjust powerfully impacts the danger for some genuine wellbeing issues like osteoporosis, sarcopenia (muscle misfortune), cracks and kidney stone, diabetes, hypertension, coronary illness, thyroid issues, tumor and different treacherous conditions,
At the point when the body turns out to be excessively acidic, minerals are hauled out of the bones and tissues to adjust, which prompts to more slender bones and minor muscle mass. Excessively acidic tissues likewise make one powerless to irritation which is a known danger for some ceaseless infections, impeded enzymatic responses in cells and over-burdening the lymphatic system, hence blocking the body's regular detoxification process.
Decreases Risk of Colon Cancer
We need to comprehend that all the poisons we you eat, consume, take in and assimilate through our skin wind up being handled by our gastrointestinal system and liver. On the off chance that they are not constrained out of the colon and liver as fast as would be prudent, they can wreak devastation on your body's system. By discharging body squander quickly, you lessen the reasons and the danger of polyps, growths and malignant developments in your colon and gastrointestinal tract.
Increases Energy
Discharging the poisons from your body is restoring on the grounds that it refocuses the vitality typically utilized for constraining waste through your insides to different parts of your body. Individuals who have experienced colon detoxification say they have better blood course, more tranquil rest and a support in vitality.
Improved Concentration
Bad eating routine and insufficient vitamin ingestion can make you get to be occupied and lose your concentration. The development of mucous and poisons in your colon can keep your body from getting what it needs to capacity, regardless of the possibility that you eat a reliably healthy eating regimen. Cleaning the colon with a detox eating regimen can be the distinction between feeling caution and not having the capacity to pay attention. This has extensive repercussions for work, your connections and your general wellbeing.
Increases Fertility
Cleaning of the colon, and in addition expanded fiber consumption and healthy nourishment decisions, enhances normality and helps hold your weight under control. Fat is estrogen-based, and if an excessive amount is available, getting to be pregnant turns out to be more troublesome. A colon that is weighed around years of development can likewise push on the uterus and encompassing regenerative organs in ladies, bringing on strain. Colon cleaning frees the body of numerous chemicals and poisons that influence the egg and sperm. Numerous naturopaths suggest that both accomplices experience colon cleaning before endeavoring pregnancy.
Foods That Help to Cleanse the Colon
A Colon Cleansing Diet is basically a good adjusted and nutritious dinner arrangement that incorporates sustenance that cleans colon. With consuming more natural leafy foods in your eating regimen, you include loads of fiber, and a decent amount of fiber serves to regularize defecations, and it serves to make the stool delicate so it is much simpler to pass.
Fruits, vegetables and a lot of water likewise help to keep the digestive system and body hydrated during the day, which additionally serves to evacuate all the squanders that stick to the dividers of the digestive system. Staying away from greasy, refined, prepared and seared nourishments, is also authoritative, as these sustenance accelerate the gathering of poisons inside of the body and clean the colon. Reliably devouring a greater amount of the nourishments beneath into your day by day suppers will wash down your colon rapidly and effortlessly while helping you detox, battle ceaseless conditions, help weight reduction and considerably upset the maturing procedure.
Fermented Foods
The human digestive system is made out of an immeasurable system of valuable microbes that are in charge of processing sustenance, retaining supplements, fighting unsafe microscopic organisms, and dispensing with poisons. At the point when these microscopic organisms get tossed out of parity, digestive wellbeing can endure and the more extended this bacterial offset is askew, the more serious the harm that can be.
To help counterbalance the harm to your gut greenery brought about by ecological and sustenance chemicals, anti-microbial medications, prepared nourishments, and different components, it is essential to supplement with probiotic microscopic organisms and eat a lot of aged, probiotic-rich sustenance. These incorporate refined vegetables like kimchi, tempeh, Greek yogurt, sauerkraut and aged drinks like kombucha tea and kefir.
Dark Leafy Greens
Consuming green leafy vegetables like spinach and kale will help to clean the colon and protect the digestive tract from different ailments. Green fruits and vegetables are rich in chlorophyll to promote healthy digestion and daily colon cleansing. Fat-soluble chlorophyll adheres to the lining of the intestinal wall and retards bacterial growth, removes putrefied bacteria from the colon, and helps heal the mucus lining of the gastrointestinal tract.
Expending green leafy vegetables like spinach and kale will help to clean the colon and shield the digestive tract from distinctive sicknesses. Green foods grown from the ground are rich in chlorophyll to advance sound assimilation and every day colon cleaning. Fat-dissolvable chlorophyll holds fast to the covering of the intestinal divider and retards bacterial development, expels festered microbes from the colon, and aides mend the bodily fluid coating of the gastrointestinal tract
Alongside spinach & kale good things are also green olives, asparagus, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, celery, collard greens, ocean vegetables like kelp, leeks, peas, and Swiss chard are all high in chlorophyll, which implies they can help rinse your digestive tract and purify your liver.
Cruciferous Vegetables
These things are known as good for helping processing alongside purifying the colon and the liver. So as to have a sound body, and a wonderful build, we require a solid digestive system, and a standout amongst the most fundamental approaches to do that is by eating more fiber. The uplifting news is that cruciferous vegetables contain 25-40% of your everyday fiber necessity in just around 100 calories. That is sufficient to delete any mischievous sustenance choices you happen to make. Eating your cruciferous vegetables every day advances detoxification notwithstanding when you are not on an authority scrub!
Then, with more than 600 examination studies and numbering, the decision is clear that cruciferous vegetables are the absolute most capable malignancy battling operators you can discover. They help with fighting colon, bladder, bosom, ovarian and prostate growths, and sincerely, there a lot of things that these vegetables can do. Their movement is not just ascribed to their high cancer prevention agent and fiber content, yet all the more essentially to their glucosinolates (phytonutrient) content, which is inaccessible to the same degree in whatever other known nutritional category. To really sweeten the deal, in light of the fact that these things contain amazingly abnormal amounts of cancer prevention agents, they likewise help to keep you youthful
This flavor is really tasty, and its strong element is gainful for cleaning the colon. This plant has antiviral, antibacterial and anti- parasitic properties that is helping to uproot poisons, pathogens and parasites from the digestive tract, especially from the colon. Garlic additionally goes as antioxidant and helping to diminish irritation for enhanced processing, retention of nourishment supplements and disposal of squanders and poisons.
Aloe Vera
Juice from aloe vera can be utilized to treat a horde of conditions, counting enhancing absorption, detoxing the body, and treating skin conditions. It can be a vital all-normal supplement to a sound way of life when utilized effectively. Aloe vera juice has calming properties, it can help with a large group of conditions and sicknesses, mitigating indications brought on by unnecessary aggravation in the body.
Numerous side effects are brought on or declined by aggravation, counting arthritis and tumor. In the event that you need to hold your irritation under wraps, aloe vera can help, it comes in various mixed bags, and every maker makes it somewhat diverse. Search for natural brands of aloe vera juice that are in concentrated structure.
Apples & Apple Cider Vinegar
Numerous colon-cleaning methods incorporate either entire apples, apple purée, squeezed apple, or apple juice vinegar (ACV) in light of the fact that this organic product is an effective purging sustenance. Ritch with fiber to promote sound assimilation, apples are also full with pectin, a starch intensify that goes about as a thickening operators inside the gut. At the point when taken in restorative measurements, pectin can bail find fabricated up poisons in the colon and fortify the intestinal covering. Pectin, which is additionally found in bananas and in the skins of citrus, helps evacuate substantial metals and different poisons from the bod
Flax & Chia Seeds
Exceptional in their nutritious profiles, flax and chia seeds have fats and fiber that help advance solid absorption and a clean colon. They are rich in omega-3 unsaturated fats, for occurrence, which have been indicated to balance out cell dividers and lessen aggravation. Flax and chia additionally contain own remarkable mixes of solvent fiber, which tie with nourishment streamlining the digestive procedure.
Whole Grains
Entire grain sustenance things like bread, pasta and flour are full with fiber, low in calories and cholesterol. They clean the colon and help in better processing.
Beans & Lentils
Lentils, legumes and beans can help digestion and rinse the colon, but at the same time are a wellspring of youth calming nourishment in light of the fact that they are overflowing with cell reinforcements and phytonutrients and in addition being one of the wealthiest wellsprings of fiber on the planet. Including just ½ measure of beans or legumes to your eating routine every day will drastically help your fiber consumption for at least 8 to 11 grams. Beans and legumes are likewise inconceivably supplement thick and a wholesome storage facility of vitamins and minerals including B vitamins, calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, potassium and protein! Not like customary animal nourishment full of protein, for example, meat or drain, beans and legumes are filled with or without hormone, steroid-free and antibiotic-free ultra "clean" herbal protein.
Diets rich in safe starch help expel poisons from the body, and in light of the fact that this safe starch is a prebiotic fiber, it advances "great" microorganisms and smothers "bad" microbes. It likewise aides standardize bowel capacity and supports a solid digestive system generally. Having additional good-for-you bacteria your digestive system will enhance your resistant capacity and make it simpler for your body to battle ailment and advance colon wellbeing
Green Tea
On the off chance that you wish to detox, cleans and lose weight, you have to devour green tea. Green tea contain bunches of cancer prevention agents and are awesome for cleaning the colon and enhancing inside capacities. Green tea is particularly prominent as it is high in cancer prevention agents and in addition vitamin C, which serves to expel poisons from the body. Additionally, peppermint tea, senna leaf, flaxseed or other sort of natural tea will work pretty much and in addition a colon chemical.
Everyone have to make fruit a piece of their day by day routine because it helps purifying the colon with their rich substance of fiber and cancer prevention agents.
Citrus natural products like lemon are useful for purging the system in light of the fact that lemons can free the internal organ of waste matter develop and go about as a germ-free, which thwarts the development of microorganisms. A straightforward glass of lemon & water each morning will help to detoxify and rinse the system.
This advantageous natural product is rich in omega-3 unsaturated fat and oils that assistance to grease up the dividers of the entrails. That thus keeps the poisons from adhering to the walls and they get pulled out.
Source: thescienceofeating.com


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Fri, 18 July 2008 at 9:57 pm
Claire Danes & Hugh Dancy Soak In The Sun
Claire Danes and British actor boyfriend Hugh Dancy continue working on their tan on Friday in Ischia, an Italian island in the bay of Naples. (Claire's teeny weensy red bikini caused quite the stir earlier this week.)
Danes, 29, and Dancy, 33, are in town for the Ischia Global Film and Music Fest just like Terrence Howard, Rosario Dawson and her boyfriend Mathieu Schreyer.
15+ pictures inside of Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy soaking in the sun…
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text: <RANT> Don't try this at home, boys and girls Omnipilot, the company who sells Lasso middleware for Filemaker and Mac web servers, sends out a press release to a mail group. So far so good. One fellow in England has closed his account, so that server politely replies "Very sorry, that account doesn't exist". Then the mail sender sofware, which is apparently a listserv-like program, takes that input and sends it right back out again to the group of several thousand users -- including the English guy, whose server replies "very sorry, that account doesn't exist", whereupon the mail sender sends that out to the whole group again, including the English guy.... Soon we have people in various languages replying "What the ^&#% is going on" (to the mail sender program, wheich then sends THAT out to everyone) This dumped over 500 emails into my inbox in less than 15 minutes, before I could get onto my ISP's web interface and blackhole the sending address. Called the company: "We are happy to help you, Our office hours are 9 - 5 Eastern Time please call back tomorrow bzzt" -- so I tracked down the president of the company and called him at home in Florida For #$#*& sakes, this is a company that sells Web software and they can't manage a simple mail out without wreaking email carnage and destruction. It'll be interesting to see how they do damage control on this -- except I won't see it because their addy is in my bozo filter now and goes straight to the bit bucket at the server. Hell of a thing when mail comes in faster than your mail program can download, and the progress meter goes BACKWARDS... </RANT> Thanks Trevor CanadaRAM.com "C'mon give me someone else to butt heads with, I'm da RAM!"


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How was your weekend, everyone? Our weekend was busy, but fun. If you follow me on Snapchat { fabuloustorture }, you had a little glance into our weekend. We went to Monster Jam Friday night. Anayan loved it, so much that on Saturday he built the entire Monster Jam show from his trucks, sand and boxes at home.
Sunday was a gorgeous day, and we ended up by the pool.
This outfit is head to toe suede and if you watched my latest styling suede for spring video, then you've seen it. I love suede because it's comfortable and a huge hit for spring 2016. The boots and jacket are old, but I linked similar options I like down below.
Have a fabulous week everyone!
Outfit details:
Dress: BOOHOO/ Bag: REBECCA MINKOFF/ Boots: ALDO, similar in black here/ Suede Jacket: also like this one here and here/ Ring: CHARMING CHARLIE
Watch how I styled this outfit on YouTube!
Thank you for stopping by
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ICAAP > Projects > Medical Home Initiatives… > Coordinating Care
Coordinating Care
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About Medical Home | For Providers | For Youth & Families
A medical home is an approach to providing primary care that is accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective. In a medical home, the primary care team develops a trusting relationship with the family and works as a partner to assure that all of the child's needs are met.
Through its medical home initiatives, ICAAP works with individual physicians, primary care practices, and community and state agencies to support the dissemination and implementation of the medical home model, with a focus on improving services for children with special health care needs.
Coordinating Care Between Early Intervention and the Primary Care Medical Home: About the Program
Screening young children for developmental delay is of limited value when families lack ready access to EI services. When such services are available, information about them must be incorporated into the child's health care plan if the services are to be effective and supported during regular doctor visits. In many communities, collaboration between medical practices and Early Intervention (EI) programs is in need of improvement.
Coordinating Care Between Early Intervention and the Primary Care Medical Home aims to overcome barriers to referral and care coordination for children eligible for EI services by improving communication among primary care practices, Child and Family Connections staff, and families. This training program addresses barriers and obstacles on both the primary care and EI sides of the referral process that contribute to poor care coordination for children with developmental problems. The program includes two trainings: one for primary care providers and one for EI staff. By participating in the trainings, health care providers and EI staff will save time and share information to provide higher quality care; parents will be more satisfied with the care they receive through their primary care medical homes; and children will receive more timely and coordinated services that will help improve health and developmental outcomes. You can access training resources by clicking here.
The Coordinating Care program is funded by The Commonwealth Fund (2008 to 2011) in collaboration with Advocate Health Care's Healthy Steps for Young Children Program and the EI Bureau and is part of the larger Enhancing Developmentally Oriented Primary Care (EDOPC) project. EDOPC is a statewide, comprehensive effort to increase primary care providers' use of validated tools for developmental, social-emotional, and maternal depression screening. More information on EDOPC is available at www.edopc.org.
The primary care training is available as a one-hour CME in-service or as a webinar version accessible here www.edopc.org. If you are interested in participating in the Coordinating Care training, please contact Jodie Bargeron (email@example.com or 312/733-1026).
Featured Resources
The Illinois Provider Directory for Children, Youth and Young Adults with Special Health Care Needs is a free online resource that connects individuals with special health care needs with skilled health care providers. Search for providers or sign up to be listed in the directory by visiting www.illinoisproviderdirectory.com.
Coordinating Care Trainings for National and Statewide Audiences
The Coordinating Care Project recently launched a series of four trainings for Early Interventionists, Part C Coordinators, and other early childhood providers. There are separate trainings for Illinois EI staff and for national Part C staff. The Illinois trainings are approved for EI credit. To learn more about the trainings, including which are best for you, click here.
Practice Resources
Follow the links below to view an annotated list of resources.
Implementation and Referral Resources
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Faith in Sai will enables us to overcome the world . Everything that Sai does for us is accessed through faith.Without faith it's impossible to please Sai, so our relationship with Sai is dependent on Faith ,so if we have faith in HIS powers ,no matter whatever problems may come your way very smoothly you can swim across.
God's faith goes beyond sight. God's faith operates supernaturally, beyond the limitations of our natural faith.So have faith in Sai it will fill your life peace and happiness.
I am publishing Meena ji's experience with faith in Sai Satcharitra ( miracoulas book ), I am thankful to Meena ji for sharing her short and sweet experience with all of us.
Attaching her mail below:-
Dear Priyanka, You have a very nice blog which I just recently started reading. I hope you will publish my experience below of reading the Sai Satcharitra in 7 days.
I live in the US with my husband. Only recently have I come to experience the greatness of Baba. My husband and I work together and we were going through a sudden rough patch in our work which caused us a great deal of tension.
We did not have much control over the matter and our only resort was prayer. Two years ago I was introduced to Satcharitra by my mother when I lost my job and even though I did not complete the reading in 1 week, I did experience good benefits after I finished it.
Now as I prayed to God to help us through this rough patch, I could only remember the Satcharitra. I did not realize how powerful the Parayanam was. I gave candy to a homeless shelter after I completed the reading like I prayed I would.
I finished the reading on Tuesday and that very Friday we got an email resolving the situation. The email number was 1008 which I know is very auspicious for Hindus. I was so pleased and my heart was filled with joy and I know it is His leela. If we have Faith and Patience he will bring us joy and accept us as his devotees. Bow to Shri Sai. Peace be to all. Sincerely, Meena
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"Majestic" site updated07 Dec 2001
The Grocer and Krista sent word that "The Majestic" website has been updated. There's more of Ernie Malik's Production Journal and the whole website is now in its final version. Definitely very much worth checking it.
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Girls' hockey: Wolfpack win twice in conference play
The Park girls' hockey team did not have any problem generating offense in two wins last week.
The Wolfpack picked up a 7-0 win at home against Woodbury on Tuesday, Dec. 12 before also winning on the road at Roseville 8-3 on Saturday.
Tina Press scored three goals in the 7-0 win against Woodbury on Dec. 12. Goaltender Jocelyn Veary made 21 saves.
Eight different Wolfpack skaters scored in the win at Roseville.
East Ridge
The East Ridge girls' hockey team lost twice last week, including a 4-1 game against a Suburban East Conference opponent.
The Raptors lost 4-1 at home against Cretin-Derham Hall on Tuesday, Dec. 12, with Erin Glancey scoring the lone goal. East Ridge also lost a 3-2 game against Hudson on Saturday, Dec. 16.
The Woodbury girls' hockey team dropped two games against Suburban East Conference teams last week.
Park defeated Woodbury 7-0 on Tuesday, Dec. 12, and Forest Lake also lost 8-1 on Saturday, Dec. 16. Victoria Sweeny scored Woodbury's lone goal against the Royals.


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Sci-fi TV pilot.
When timid Emily learns that her blackouts are caused by being "jumped" into by the consciousness of her future self she finds herself a reluctant member of a mission to save humanity…
Emily is 12 years old.
Welcome To Last Chance
Black comedy TV pilot.
Welcome to Last Chance: A town populated entirely by members of the Witness Protection Program. The only person who knows their true identities is the town sheriff, who is also a hitman for the mob.
Currently in the quarter-finals of the Tracking Board Launch Pad Pilots competition.
Horror feature.
Paul and Kate rent a remote Scottish hideaway hoping to salvage their ailing relationship. When they rescue an apparently neglected infant they find themselves terrorized by the locals and fighting to save more than just their marriage.
Co-written with Richard Higson. Currently under option to Park Road Pictures.
The W@nking Dead
Sitcom pilot.
Ian and Gordon used to spend their days alone in their flat playing video games, eating Pot Noodle, never going outside.
Then came the Zombie Apocalypse.
Now they spend their days alone in their flat playing video games, eating Pot Noodle, never going outside. They are the perfect survivors.
Until Karen turned up at their door.
Tales of the Unpleasant
Comedy TV pilot.
An anthology of comedy horror stories with a Scottish twist.
Duncan and Jamie run the Loch Middy visitor centre – one of Scotland's less well known monster-inhabited lochs. Business is bad. But when locals start disappearing and the monster is blamed, the tourists start flocking in. Only hot-shot D.I. Kaye has her suspicions as to the real culprit.
"The comic voice is confident, original and demonstrates a good knowledge of the genre…" – BBC Writersroom.
The Weird World of M.R. James
Drama TV pilot.
Meet M.R. James: scholar, author, and the hardest working paranormal investigator in Victorian Britain.
Montague Rhodes James: Born 1861. Father of the modern ghost story. But where did he draw his inspiration? From the supernatural phenomena that plagued his life: from murderous marionettes to bloodsucking politicians; from a platoon of undead Tommies to a rescue mission into Purgatory – James tackled them all (with a little help from ballsy con-woman, Denver Colorado).
All the while, his exploits are manipulated by a Machiavellian cabal, The Overseers, whose motives are as yet unclear.
Made the second round of the Red Planet Prize. Made the semi-finals of the Screenwriting Goldmine competition. Winner of Circalit's Nick Santora screenwriting competition. Longlisted for Little Brother Productions Big Opportunity II award. Made the semi-finals of the LA based Fresh Voices screenplay competition.
"The intriguing premise, vividly drawn world and imaginative, entertaining story make this stand out." – BBC Writersroom
"…a sign of veteran storytelling ability. I am not sure if Mr. Storrier is a veteran television writer in England, but his script belies a great knowledge of the medium." – Nick Santora (Prison Break, The Sopranos, Law & Order)
The Sleeper
Comedy feature.
When a 70 year old KGB sleeper agent loses the will to kill, he decides to become his target's guardian against assassination instead.
Ronnie MacPherson is a crack KGB sleeper agent living undercover in Glasgow since the 70's. When he is finally activated he discovers he has lost the will to kill and decides to protect his target and her young daughter from from the clutches of both his elderly Russian handler and a slick young assassin.
Made the third round of Cascade Pictures Writer's Couch initiative. Shortlisted for EIFF's Network development programme. Finalist in Karel Seger's First Draft script contest. Made the quarter-finals of the Screenwriting Goldmine competition. Shortlisted for the lo-fi film development programme.
"Part spoof of an old-school Russian spy movie, part road trip and part family drama, it brings together different genres in a fresh and interesting way." – BBC Writersroom.
William McGonagall: The Life and Rhymes
Comedy feature.
In 1877, Dundee weaver William McGonagall discovered his discordant muse. He spent the next 25 years as the worst poet to ever disgrace the English language.
This is his story…sort of.
Made the semi-finals of the Screenwriting Goldmine competition.
"…an engaging introduction to this unlikely hero and the script succeeds in its intention to reveal the human figure behind his unlikely verses." – BBC Writersroom.
"…admirably written" – The Salt Company.
"A sweet, gentle comedy with modest aspirations which boasts some wonderfully eccentric characters and great dialogue…" – Industrial Scripts
Oliver's Army
Sitcom pilot.
As P.R. consultant to the stars, Oliver Chisholm has it all – executive salary, designer lifestyle, and now a drink driving conviction that earns him Community Service with a dysfunctional Salvation Army corps.
Oliver's Army is a six episode sitcom about a superficial egotist forced from his life of excess into an unfamiliar world of charity where he must assist an inept Salvation Army corps in their altruistic endeavours.
Office Romance 2.0
Comedy short. Trailer.
A secretary embarks on a very modern office romance with an unexpected co-worker.
But is it love or is her admirer just after one thing?
Produced by Third Light Films, starring Polly Kemp (The Thick Of It). Winner of Best Narrative Short at the Prescott Film Festival, Winner of Best Short at the San Francisco United Film Festival, Runner-up in the comedy category at the Dam Short Film Festival, official selection for the L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival, Los Angeles United Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Bootleg Film Festival, New York United Film Festival, Manlleu Film Festival, London United Film Festival, Short Shorts & Asia Film Festival, Edinburgh Short Film Festival, East End Film Festival.
In the Bleak Midsummer
Meet David Royal, the man who loves Christmas so much he celebrates it every day of the year. If there's anyone who knows what Christmas is all about, it's David. The gifts, the turkey dinner, the Quality Street.
It's just a shame that tolerance, goodwill to others, and enjoying the company of family appear to be lost on him.
Official selection of Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Edinburgh Short Film Festival.
Produced by Curve Films.
Love is a Four Letter Word (Worth Seven Points)
A couple's quiet Saturday night in with a bottle of wine descends into a post-mortem on their relationship, a break-up, a slanging match, and hints of infidelity…with both of them not actually saying anything.
Directed by John Schwab, starring Gemma Chan (Fresh Meat) and Ed Stoppard (Upstairs Downstairs).
A father noses around his young son's bedroom. He finds a gun under the bed. It's a toy water pistol.
A young boy noses around his parent's bedroom. He finds a gun under the bed. It's real…and loaded.
Produced by Pav Films.
Our Life in Stuff
A young couple meet, fall in love, marry, have children, grow old, grow apart, split up, then move on with their lives.
This is their story – told without actors or dialogue, just using momentoes, keepsakes, and detritus from their life together.
Produced by Gordon Warnecke and A Tad Too Far productions.


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As you may not know it's school time and lots of things have to take a backseat to art and money. Namely the time and energy it takes to record, edit and promote an episode. I thought long and hard about this and found a solution that is easier to work on little by little and hone a skill I'd like to have.
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We've nothing to fear, says Reynolds
Robert Bailey, Gleaner Writer
Sunshine Girls head coach, Minneth Reynolds, said while it is going to take an all-round effort from the national team to beat England, they are fearless heading into the three-Test series.
England, which will enter the series on high following their 2-0 victory over World number five Malawi last month, have assembled a powerful and experienced team with Pamela Cookey, Geva Mentor, Eboni Beckford-Chambers, Jo Harten, Rachel Dunn and Sam Cook.
The opening match is set for Saturday, January 10, the second game a day later and the final match on Tuesday, January 13.
"We have nothing to fear," said Reynolds in an interview with The Gleaner yesterday. "They are a very experienced team and so I think it will be a very good test for us.
"We are just hoping that these girls are ready mentally and physically to give a good account of themselves.
"I know that we can find the combination to matchup with the English team because these girls believe in themselves, but it is not just belief alone," she said.
"I think once they get on court it's about executing and executing in all areas of the court because we are not really depending on any particular player, we are depending on a team effort to get a series victory," she said.
Reynolds not surprised
Reynolds is not surprised that England selected their top players for the series.
"They are preparing for the World Championships like us and so they want to send a strong signal to the rest of the other teams that they will not be any pushover or walkover, hence they have selected their best players for this series," observed Reynolds.
The Sunshine Girls will welcome back top shooter Jhaniele Fowler, who missed last year's Fast5 Championships due to personal reasons, and the vastly experienced Paula Thompson, who was rested for the tournament held in Auckland, New Zealand.
The England series will be Jamaica's only warmup against a country ranked higher than them heading into next year's World Championship. The Sunshine Girls are ranked fourth in the world, one place below their English counterparts.
"It is the ideal preparation for us even though it is a bit early because we would prefer to play them later on in the year about April or May to see exactly where we are in terms of our preparations for the World Champs," Reynolds noted. "But it is upon us and so we just have to go out there and do our best."


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