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Come along with me
to Rumi's garden where they
do not judge lovers
Come along with me
to Rumi's garden where they
do not judge lovers
Summer's still born love
was kept warm right upto a
winter burial
Memories of a
stolen kiss under a sky
of fireflies abound
Which would make for the sadder tale?
Being the only lover in a world of cynics
The only cynic in a world of lovers.
I deleted you.
I stared at the phone screen for hours and then days.
I thought about all the I Love Yous and I Miss Yous
I remembered all the coffee assignations
I recalled all the candle lit dinners and roses
I recollected all the dancing sunsets and grains of sand
I reminisced most of all about shared sated silence.
And then I remembered why I shouldn't remember.
And I almost thought I wouldn't have the courage.
Or the will.
Or the strength.
But I did.
It wasn't really as hard as I had imagined.
It was just a click of a button.
And you were gone.
I deleted you.


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Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Knitting and Crochet Blog Week 2013: Day 2 - A Mascot Project
6 comments:
- Anonymous23 April 2013 at 09:24
Amazing quilt ! Take your time, the good thing about knitting is that you can always take it back years after starting and it hasn't changed a bit (unless a cat played with it...). You must be so happy your husband is back !ReplyDelete
I am absolutely going bananas over this pattern and might learn how to knit just to make it! Every time I come across pics on the tinternet I salivate! How about making a puff a day . . . . tee heee!ReplyDelete
The Hexipox has you in its clutches; good luck with the mojo!ReplyDelete
I'm sure you'll get back to the hexipuffs:)ReplyDelete
Heck, I admire the fact that you even started! I love the quilt, but I know myself too well to think knitting endless hexipuffs would keep my interest. I've seen some people embellish them, or try new techniques, or basically use them as a swatch opportunity for new yarn--maybe one of those techniques would work for you?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous23 April 2013 at 17:47
Maybe that is why it is a good choice - it is always there for you should you ever need it :)ReplyDelete


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Report: 59M Uninsured Briefly in a Year
Associated Press Writer
As few as 21 million Americans lack health insurance year-round, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday, but up to 59 million are uninsured at least briefly in a given year.
The budget office's estimate for people without coverage all year is as little as half the Census Bureau's figure, which has long been used as a benchmark in the debate over the issue.
No "typical uninsured" emerged from the report, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the nonpartisan agency's director, said in an interview. "There are two problems, short spells and long-term uninsurance."
Demographic groups likeliest to face long periods without health care coverage include people with lower income, less education and Hispanics, the budget office report said.
Though there is no doubt that extending coverage to more people would be hugely expensive, defining the problem's magnitude is significant because it will affect which policies lawmakers might design to address it.
The battle over covering uninsured Americans is likely to be an important theme in the 2004 presidential campaign and has already emerged as a crucial issue among the Democratic contenders for their party's nomination.
The budget office said nearly half the 59 million are without insurance for less than four months, while an additional 30 percent are uncovered for more than a year. It based its analysis on data from the Census Bureau and other federal sources for 1998, which the report said is the most recent year for which there is reliable data.
Though people who are temporarily uncovered outnumber those without insurance for the entire year, four out of five uninsured people at any one time end up being without coverage for more than a year.
In September, the Census Bureau estimated that 41.2 million people, about 15 percent of U.S. residents who are not elderly, lacked health coverage for all of 2001.
Monday's budget office study said the Census figure overstates the number of people who are uninsured all year. It figured probably 21 million to 31 million Americans were without coverage for all of 1998, saying that number probably has not changed substantially.
Holtz-Eakin said the Census Bureau's data is overstated because survey respondents asked to report their circumstances during the previous year often end up describing their current situation.
He arrived at that conclusion by comparing the data to other Census reports in which people are repeatedly interviewed every few months, and using statistics gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Both are branches of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Census Bureau did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Almost all Americans age 65 and older are covered by Medicare, the health insurance program for the elderly and handicapped. The budget office study examined people too young to qualify for Medicare coverage.
Monday's congressional report could provide ammunition to members of both political parties as they prepare for battles over the issue in Congress and the campaign trail.
Republicans, who generally favor less costly approaches to the problem than Democrats, could cite the budget office's conclusion that there are fewer people without coverage all year than the Census figures indicate.
Democrats could use the 60 million estimate for Americans who lack insurance for at least some period to argue that the need is even more widespread.
Last month, presidential contender Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., announced a plan to repeal all the tax cuts Bush has pushed through Congress and use the money to cover nearly all uninsured Americans. The highlight of his proposal _ which overall would cost more than $200 billion a year _ would use refundable tax credits to subsidize companies' costs of insuring their workers.
Another candidate, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, is proposing a plan his aides say is half as costly as Gephardt's but would help more Americans. He would offer tax incentives to companies that provide coverage, and create a refundable tax credit for uninsured people who can't afford even reduced premiums.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., plans to offer his health care proposal on Thursday.
Bush has proposed spending $89 billion over the next decade for a tax credit that would subsidize up to 90 percent of the costs of health insurance for low- and middle-income people.


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Although there are 10 times as many children's books being published today than a decade ago, hundreds of children's bookstores and library usage has librarians smiling, none of it will add up to much without that significant other.


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This type оf wall decoration іѕ currently among thе existing trend оf home accents. Extra often, outdoor wood accent walls are repainted with dazzling shades аnd аrе typically emphasize with other fashionable home accents. One easy approach tо discover аn accent color іѕ select a color thаt іѕ some tones lighter оr darker оn thе color representation frоm thе color you painted your wall surfaces. Developing your accent wall a dynamic аnd dark color wіll boost thе entire walls while leaving great deals оf existing light thаt aids create a spacious feeling. And because your eyeballs wіll actually bе fascinated bу thе accent wall itself, thе wall surfaces wіll certainly end up sensation much larger eventually. If you have a wall framework that's currently something оf a centerpiece – put simply it's thе main point anyone sees when they walk іn thе door – thеn that's normally thе greatest place tо produce аn accent wall.
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The question of whether or not you need to use a food grade plastic pallet can be a complicated one.
A food grade plastic pallet is made from materials that can come into direct contact with food. If your process involves the direct contact of the pallet with food, and you are manufacturing in The United States, you will most likely be required to use a FDA approved food grade plastic pallet.
The FDA is a compliance agency that looks at the chemical composition of the plastic material in order to determine that there is nothing in the material that will be harmful to the food supply. The FDA will then look at how this material performs under conditions of use and how it reacts with alcohols, greases and other contaminants.
After the FDA approves the material for direct food contact, the material must be processed by a manufacturer that is ISO 9000 Certified. Once the material is manufactured in compliance with ISO regulations, the FDA will provide the manufacturer with a certification of compliance. This certification can be provided to the end user of the plastic pallet to confirm that the pallet is FDA approved. An FDA approved food grade plastic pallet is generally manufactured in a blue color to visually designate the pallet as FDA approved.
Even when a pallet is food grade FDA approved, it must be cleaned after each trip in order to avoid contamination. Bacteria such as E. coli and Listeria are commonly found on pallets when they are not cleaned properly. Single piece, hygienic pallet designs are the best type of food grade plastic pallet to use. Eliminating crevasses and other areas where debris and bacteria can collect makes the pallet much easier to keep clean.
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Google's DeepMind Team has hired two artificial intelligence companies that were founded by Oxford University, known as Dark Blue Labs and Vision Factory.
Dark Blue Labs focuses on work "learning deep structured and unstructured representations of data to make intelligent products, including natural language understanding, a reality" while Vision Factory narrows in on building object and text recognition technology.
With this acquisition, some members of the two companies will stay at Oxford University as guests lecturers. Google as part of the deal, has donated quite a sum to Oxford's engineering and comp-sci programs to provide new lectures, workshops and internship programs.
"Google DeepMind has hired all seven founders of these startups with the three professors holding joint appointments at Oxford University where they will continue to spend part of their time. These exciting partnerships underline how committed Google DeepMind is to supporting the development of UK academia and the growth of strong scientific research labs."
I'm left wondering how these companies will help Google in its workings. We might see some natural language technology researched by Dark Blue Labs will make its way into existing Google products. According to the Guardian, the Vision Factory team will "help Google improve its vision systems.
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text: It looks like Kassim Ouma, who was one of Floyd Mayweather's sparring partners, doesn't have nice things to say about the boxer. In this EsNewsReporting video, when asked what it's like to spar with Mayweather, Ouma tells us what's on his mind. "F%$# Mayweather. I want to fight him," he said.


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For the past year I have faithfully used my point and shoot Olympus 12 megapixel camera. It has worked just fine but I am not pleased with my photography recently. I think I need to bump it up a notch.
So I have decided that in addition to getting some pointers on how to take better pictures I would buy a new camera. I purchased an Olympus SP-800UZ (no, I didn't read Consumer Reports, just took the advice of a friend!). I have just started using it and am getting used to the bells and whistles. I'll let you know how I like it.
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I've never expected for Doha to be so friendly! When I returned from my trip to Asia, we had the best surprise ever: a 9-hour layover in the capital of Qatar. 9 hours of daylight! The travel agency applied for visas, so we had no worries! Just to catch the plane to Bucharest!
Koh Rong, a little bit of Paradise in your life
Not much to say, but so much to see and feel! Koh Rong is that kind of island you see only in movies. White sand, turquoise sea, deep green jungle and clear skies. What can you wish more?
20 things to do in Bangkok
Bangkok, one of the capital with the most tourists in the world, is a very crowded and chaotic city. Sincerely, it did not impressed me so much, because I had some very high expectations. This was due to its fame and its own advertising. Even so, I enjoyed a lot some particular things and activities.
DaNang, a fast growing city with stunning surroundings
DaNang, what a strange feeling! A resort that is both peaceful and noisy at the same time! So peaceful because you smell the salty air, you hear the restless waves of the sea and feel the wind that caresses the palms in your hair.


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HAMPTON — Ella G. Macdonald, 81, died unexpectedly Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at her home.
HAMPTON — Ella G. Macdonald, 81, died unexpectedly Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at her home.
She was born Dec. 15, 1930, in Lowell, Mass., a daughter of the late Leo and Marie (Bourgeault) DuCharme.
Mrs. Macdonald was raised in Somerville, Mass., and graduated from Somerville High School with the Class of 1949.
Ella and her husband of 54 years, the late Edward G. Macdonald, moved from Somerville to Hampton in 1976, and opened Macdonald Leathers.
She loved to golf and was a member of Abenaqui Country Club in Rye. She also enjoyed playing cards and bingo, watching sports on TV and doing puzzles. Above all else, Ella was a loving and caring wife, mother and grandmother, and she treasured the time spent with her family.
Family members include her sons, Edward M. Macdonald of New Boston, Scott P. Macdonald and his wife, Deborah, of Seabrook, and Barry G. Macdonald and his wife, Janet, of Hampton; her daughters, Debra A. Guarnotta and Tammy M. Macdonald, both of Reading, Mass., and Laura L. Fitzgerald and her husband, Ben, of Hampton; 14 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; her sisters, Pauline Downes and her husband, Donald, of North Andover, Mass., Doris Brussard of Somerville, Mass., Theresa Stevens of Andover, Mass., and Linda Langone and her husband, Anthony, of Tewksbury, Mass.; her brothers, Leo DuCharme and his wife, Rita, of Tewksbury, and Paul DuCharme and his wife, Jacqueline, of Wilmington, Mass.; and her many nieces and nephews.
In addition to her beloved husband, Edward, who died in 2008, Ella was predeceased by her brothers-in-law George Brussard and William Stevens, and her son-in-law Vincent Guarnotta.
SERVICES: Visiting hours will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, in the Remick and Gendron Funeral Home — Crematory, 811 Lafayette Road, Hampton. Services will be held at noon Friday, Feb. 3, in the funeral home. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited. Burial will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made mailed to Breathe New Hampshire, 9 Cedarwood Drive, Unit 12, Bedford, NH 03110; www.breathenh.org. An online guest book is available at www.RemickGendron.com.


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- djmgmtAsked on February 25, 2015 at 11:14 PM
Is it possible to require a user to enter information but hide the *?
- ShadaeAnswered on February 26, 2015 at 08:00 AM
Hi djmgmt,
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While you are planning to hire escort service in Beijing, the most common and important question will come in your mind is nothing but is escort service legal? No matter what, the answer will be always affirmative. The escort service is legal. There is a strong difference for escort service from roadside prostitution. The prostitution is not legal of course in Beijing while escort service is not something which is as cheap as prostitution. In the escort service, the escorts are being paid for their time not for sex. Selling sex is a crime of course but here the client is paying for the time.
During this paid time, if anything happens like sexual or physical with the will of both the parties will not fall under anyone's consideration or business. But only providing the name tag of escort service will not make the service different from prostitution. There are few responsibilities that the escort agency in Beijing, escorts and the clients need to take on their shoulder to keep it clean. As escort service is legal, the escort agency can advertise the service effectively for greater reach. They are capable enough to produce legal agreement for Beijing escort service in order to make the service more comfortable and effective.
In order to limit the escort service till escort legitimacy, the money receiving procedure should be different. The client should not exchange money directly with the escorts. Being the escort, one should not receive money directly from the clients as well. The client should keep the money on desk within an envelope. This is the proper procedure else direct hand on money exchange might appear as you are buying sex or selling sex which is illegal. A proper guideline is being provided by the escort agencies to make the escort service more effective and clean.
While you are hiring escort service in Beijing, you must make sure that the escort is not under age. Hiring an escort who is not 18 years yet is illegal and it might lead towards a huge trouble in future. The escort also give a routine check that the client is not under age as well. Anyone under 18 is not supposed to hire escort service. Before you hire escort service, you may consider giving a formal check to the rule book of the country in order to make sure that you are not doing anything wrong or illegal. The best escort agency Beijing takes a good care about all these so the client can get optimum pleasure.
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This is a guest post by Robyn Klingler Vidra, CIV senior research fellow, see team for more information.
Public policymakers around the world are implementing initiatives to support local venture activity. The over-arching aim for their venture policies is to create a local entrepreneurial cluster, ideally along the lines of the Silicon Valley high-technology cluster. Public strategies for promoting entrepreneurship range from headline grabbing programs, such as Startup Chile, to long-term investments in – and changes to – educational systems, including the British government's introduction of computer programming into national curriculum. The public venture policy menu consists of instruments across eight categories: (1) regulatory changes and incentives, (2) tax credits, (3) government funding (including funding for R&D, grants, equity investments, etc), (4) infrastructure investments (e.g. Korea's super high speed broadband), (5) building clusters, networks and institutes (e.g. Taiwan's Hsinchu Park), (6) attracting talent and investment (see Singapore's Global Investor Programme and Hong Kong's InvestHK), (7) extending stock market access for startup, and (8) improving the education and training environment.
There has been a decided shift in favour of governments creating, and even "picking," startup winners which has underlined this shift. In the United Kingdom, for example, a government initiative called Future Fifty selects the country's 50 most promising high-growth firms and provides them with "publicly funded schemes and incentives." Rather than the mantra that governments can't "pick winners" governments have been increasingly seen – and in some ways expected – to be facilitators of local (high-tech) venture activity. In this way, the expected role of governments around the world is more akin to the Japanese MITI and less like the laissez faire approach historically associated with the United States or Hong Kong. Evidence of this trend is manifest in the venture capital policy area, in which more than 40 countries have deployed public policies specifically aimed at developing local venture capital activity.
Despite the perceived necessity, and apparent ubiquity, of the public promotion of venture, many public policymakers have not effectively supported venture. In fact, many governments have failed to produce the desired results of the venture policies, programs and investments. Recent research suggests that there is a negative relationship between public subsidy and entrepreneurship. In this way, public investments in entrepreneurship have been found to stifle precisely the activities they aim to encourage. Also, VCs including Scott Kuport and Mark Suster have identified trends in the financing of entrepreneurship – such as the structural changes to the VC industry – which suggest that less capital is needed for today's start-ups given that startups now have less up-front capital expenditure. In effect, in part already due to public efforts, it seems easier (in regulatory terms) and cheaper (in financial terms) than ever to startup. But at the same time, populations expect more government support for entrepreneurs, innovation and early-stage investment activity. What do these trends mean for public policymakers in supporting venture activity?
In light of the disconnect between the expectations for and the outcomes of public venture policies, this post highlights the "do's and don'ts" of deploying agile, yet impactful, public policies for advancing local entrepreneurship. In doing so, this post provides policymakers with advice – in terms of 3 "do's" and 3 "don'ts" – on how they can best support local venture activity in today's context.
1) Build on local competitive advantages: localities should not simply strive to replicate Silicon Valley (as Silicon Valley can't be copied). Instead, it is essential that policymakers build on local competitive advantages – and address local weaknesses – when designing venture policies. This means designing policies that:
- harness the particular talents of the labor force (e.g. large numbers of graduates in media, biotech or fashion),
- focus on sectors where local firms are already strong (e.g. fintech in London),
- address the opportunities and challenges presented by local geography (e.g. key trade partner, mountain ranges or neighboring countries),
- formulating policies that fit with local risk-taking, fundraising and exit norms
2) Have a long time horizon: many public venture policies require long-term investment and long-term thinking. Investing in changes to primary school education, for example, will likely take at least a decade before bearing entrepreneurial fruit. But, these types of investments today can equip tomorrow's would-be entrepreneurs with the technical skills that can enable them to develop world-class companies. Maintaining a sufficient risk appetite over the course of the policy's tenure is essential, particularly when it comes to continuing public funding or conceding public revenue (e.g. tax breaks). For example, a government VC fund should be expected to not produce any financial return-on-investment for at least the first five years.
3) Co-invest with the private sector: Bringing private investors in as co-investors is an important way to test that the companies the government is investing in are, or could be, commercially viable. One of the reasons why Israel's Yozma Fund has received such acclaim (aside from its accomplishment in catapulting Israel's VC industry between 1993 and 1998) was its requirement that the VC funds it was investing in were able to raise capital from international private financial institutions. Private investors' willingness to co-invest acts as a litmus test for whether the investments could secure subsequent funding in private markets – and therefore be self-sustaining.
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Just bought a Beta-harp
Jun 10, 2009 9:44 PM GMT
Anybody else got one? What do you think? With the greatest respect for Ben Bouman's expertise and dedication, if that's the best a Seydel 1847 can get I'd rather have bought six Hohners and set them up myself. This isn't buyer's remorse - but I won't be playing it, if anybody wants to make an offer..!
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Maybe you should send it to Chris Michalek? He works on Seydel's, he could help you out. firstname.lastname@example.com There is his e-mail. I've heard LOTS of good about his harmonicas, and I know he's done stuff for Rupert Oysler.
Boris Plotnikov Replied:
1847 seems to me very close in feel with Big River MS (((: Wide reeds, overblow is hard, squeeze. Reeds need wax to avoid it. I have two 1847 (G and Bb) and dislike both although I customized both hard (embossing, arking, gaping, waxing). My custom Golden Melodys and Special 20s response and sounds much better.
My opinion is 1847 are good for hard blues playing with occasionally overblows, but not enough good for fast jazz/classical players.
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I'll probably wait until the shock of the cost of it has worn off and take it to bits for a look. He's managed to eliminate the usual Seydel reed squeak on overblow hole 6 and made overblow 5 on a descending scale reliable, but that's about it. No hole 1 overblow, no overdraws on 8, 9 or 10, which I can get on all my GMs no trouble. And to me, all the Seydels I've owned seem out of tune - it can't just be the difference between equal temperament and justified tuning - not chords, but single notes seem off. Whatever, the difference between the Seydel and a well set-up GM (by me) is not worth that much money. Twice the cost of an XB-40, for that matter. Rant ends.
Boris Plotnikov Replied:
I can overdraw my custom 1847s, but feel uncomfortable, and the sounds not half as good as my GMs.
Barbeque Bob M Replied:
Squeaking on overblows on all stock harps is not uncommon and takes a ton of work to eliminate and that's whysome customizers won't do overblow harps. Just tuned harps are going to have certain notes tuned either sharp or flat so that you get a good, smooth sounding chord, and it sounds like you're clearly used to playing equal tuned harps, which totally favors single notes.
Boris Plotnikov Replied:
Squeaking on overblows is easy to fix by proper arking. I rare have a squeezes at GM's and Sp20, sometimes overdrow, but waxing helps.
Allmost all reeds on hohner MS and 1847 need wax, to awoid sqeueeze.
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All the unmodded Seydels I ever bought invariably have a bad squeak on 6OB, and waxing isn't enough, they need varnish spots or whatever. A little bit of wax usually cures the GMs.
@BBQBob - I specifically told Ben that I wanted it tuned for single note playing; it still 'sounds' out to me. Anyway I've Paddy tuned it now:)
Bruce W Replied:
I've a Beta in D and have no problems. I play mainly 1847's however l have other harps I like to play as well. I played the old Blues Harp for years and the SP20. I have come to like the 1847. Have you spoken to Ben about your problem? I am sure he will repair any problems you have. Give him a shout.
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@Bruce - I wouldn't say the Beta-harp is problematic, just not as good as I can achieve with any Hohner myself, literally for a fraction of the cost. From the hype (I'm talking about you, Christelle and others:)), I thought it would be a revelation. It's OK, that's all, and still has the inherent Seydel weedy reed issues. The best I can say about it is that the top octave is very slightly more mellow and reliable than a Hohner, but by no means enough to make it a regular harp for me.


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UWI lecturers' union outfoxed in agreement to end lecturers industrial action in T&T
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jan 24, CMC – The West Indies Group of University Teachers (WIGUT) meets here on Monday in an emergency meeting after Tertiary Education and Skills Training Minister Fazal Karim said the government would provide an estimated TT$87 million (One TT dollar =US$0.16 cents) to the University of the West Indies (UWI) to end industrial action by lecturers.
Lecturers have refused to file the grades for students who sat examinations last semester in protest at the non-payment of the arrears owed to them.
WIGUT had maintained that the non-uploading of marks' is still in effect "until a satisfactory response from Campus Senior Management is received concerning the payment of arrears in salaries".
Students have been staging demonstrations, including blocking the gates to the university in a bid to get the lecturers to end their action.
Karim told Parliament Friday that the arrears will be made in tranches by May 31, this year. He later said he expects once the matter has been settled the students will get their grades.
"I expect there will be no more reason to strike."
WIGUT president Dr. Russel Ramsewak in a note to the membership said during a meeting with campus principal, Professor Clement Sankat and other officials, he was informed that Karim had made a statement in Parliament on the issue.
"The minister made that statement based on information fed to him by campus senior management. I reiterate that up to this point we only had a proposal on the way forward in this impasse, which we meant to discuss with you all at the previously arranged meeting for Monday 26th 2015.
"Given these critical circumstances in which the minister would find himself in an embarrassing position based on misinformation from senior management, the secretary and myself caucused and sought legal advice on the matter."
He said based on the discussion and advice received, "I had to make an executive decision as president. In addition, we were informed that if I did not agree with the accord it would have been retracted and campus management would insist on mediation as the only way forward".
The WIGUT president continued: "This would have led to longer delays and no guaranteed outcome through the Ministry of Labour. Furthermore, given the fact that the minister had made a public statement in Parliament based on instructions from senior management, WIGUT's non-acceptance of their proposal would have cast us as villains in the public view."
Ramsewak said he made it clear to the UWI officials "that I was very disappointed not to have been given the opportunity to discuss this proposal with my Executive and the Membership.
"However, given the constraints of the situation, I had no choice but to act in what I believed was your best interest," he said, adding that the details of the accord will be made known at the membership meeting on Monday.
Sankat told the Trinidad Express newspaper Saturday he was "very pleased" with the accord with WIGUT and "more than 85 per cent of our 12,000 undergraduate students have registered and are in classes".
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You would think that this would be the end of that little tale, but it is not. As I was getting ready to back out, I realized that the very rear window was down and I could not get it to go back up. This on one of the coldest days (we woke to snow this morning) was enough to, literally, bring tears to my eyes. I just sat there and put my hands over my eyes and wept for a few minutes before I pulled my shit together. I remembered that my super responsible husband had the vehicles manual in the glove box. I dug it out and found out that the rear window won't work if you have the child window locks engaged. Silly me. I pushed the child lock button, rolled the window up and headed home. Let me say that it was wonderful to be able to come home to a house that had been cleaned from top to bottom after that whole ordeal. The funny thing is that Baby J was completely oblivious to my suffering. This was the only store trip we've had together since he started walking where I wasn't trying to keep him in the cart or divert his attention from some calamity or other. I'm chalking this up to me just being at that place in my pregnancy where I'm just over being pregnant. I am ready to have Baby B on the outside. Please and thanks. 🙂 I can smile now.


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Conventional wisdom holds that telecommunications is a natural substitute for transportation. Digital traffic on the fiber optic and wireless networks of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) can replace vehicle traffic on the streets and highways of the national transportation infrastructure. For example, telephone calls and videoconferencing can replace travel to meetings, and electronic-mail transmission of documents substitutes for postal delivery.
A leading example of travel substitution is telecommuting, which means using telecommunications to replace commuting between home and work. Telecommuting accounts for 7.6 million U.S. workers as of early 1993, up 15% from 6.6 million in 1992. The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) estimates that telecommuting by the year 2002 will reduce the annual total vehicle miles traveled (VMT) by just 1% below the level expected to be seen if there were no telecommuting. A follow-up study by the U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) calculates that the reduction in mileage from telecommuting by 2002 is likely to be even less because of (1) commuters living further from work, and (2) other travelers taking the road space vacated by telecommuters. However, telecommuting is not the only way that telecommunications can act as a substitute for transportation. Other examples of telecommunications substituting for travel include:
* Sporting, entertainment, political, religious, and other live events broadcast to a dispersed audience, rather than requiring that the audience travel to the event.
* Observations from scattered sites collected via remote sensing and transmitted to a central point, rather than sending a human observer.
* People initiating travel to a needed destination only after using telecommunications to find that the trip will be necessary or productive.
* Service transactions carried out by electronic means that require less travel. Such transactions include payroll direct deposits instead of taking paychecks to the bank, and electronic income tax filings.
* Dedicated telecommunications applications that increase vehicle loads and save trips by consolidating freight loads and expanding traveler ridesharing.
* Interactive educational, shopping, and entertainment services, and more television channels with movies on demand, that may convince more consumers to stay home rather than traveling to the mall or theater.
Telecommuting is only a small part of a large and expanding set of processes that govern how the National Information Infrastructure makes an impact on transportation. Present and future NII applications in health care, public education, government, and manufacturing offer opportunities for general societal benefits that are more significant than travel savings.
* For example, an electronically-networked system of specialized national medical centers, regional hospitals, and smaller rural and neighborhood clinics can deliver appropriate levels of care (open-heart surgery, appendectomies, or immunizations) and personal attention at the appropriate location.
* In public education, local teaching and learning can be enhanced by telecommunications providing access to people and information in the next county or on the other side of the world. Telecommunications is also a key resource for extending learning environments into homes, offices, libraries, and community centers.
* Other government services from field inspections to forms processing are amenable to revision through applications of voice, data, and video telecommunications. These applications can be designed to improve quality and access, and reduce or avoid costs.
* Modern manufacturing processes increase the responsiveness of production to the immediate needs of purchasers. Raw materials and finished products are put into computer-coordinated shipments monitored by NII-enabled location tracking systems, reducing dependence on large inventories in warehouses and storerooms.
Because of the popularity and effectiveness of telecommuting as a work practice, telecommunications is becoming embedded primarily as a transportation substitute in the thought processes of transportation researchers and government planners. But a closer examination of the U.S. experience over the last few decades does not reveal a natural evolution of telecommunications substituting for travel. Both grow together, one feeding the other. Travel per household is rising, urban congestion is increasing, and latent demand for travel emerges clearly when new road capacity is opened up, even as the NII is expanding. This report provides additional, cautionary perspectives on the idea that telecommunications is a force for reducing the need to travel. As telecommunications volumes build independently of direct substitution for transportation, an opposite effect occurs, namely, travel stimulation. A number of distinct stimulation effects can be identified:
* Telecommunications causes economic growth, productivity improvement, and income growth at the individual, organizational, and societal level. More money means more travel.
* As the economy grows, the use of telecommunications expands the number and geographic scope of economic and social relationships in which people and organizations engage.
* Telecommunications permits geographic decentralization of residential settlement, and of organizational activity locations. Decentralization leads to higher travel consumption, because trip origins and destinations tend to be farther apart.
* Telecommunications enables rapid response systems that dispatch customized vehicle trips to meet personal and organizational needs. Examples of this are just-in-time logistics, home delivery of fast food, overnight package delivery, and temporary employment services.
* New telecommunications functionality resulting from digital switching and fiber optics supports population growth and a wider span of economic activity in rural communities, leading to growth in travel.
* Telecommunications makes travel time more productive and more feasible for travelers; use of wireless mobile phones while traveling is the leading example.
* Telecommunications makes the transportation system work more effectively and efficiently. Examples of this are air traffic control, computerized airline reservation systems, and Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS).
The deployment of interactive, more functional, higher bandwidth communications into homes and rural areas will allow more telecommuting and other travel substitution practices. But at the same time a better telecommunications infrastructure will probably reinforce the dynamics that make telecommunications a travel stimulator as well. More powerful telecommunications will feed all of the ways listed above in which telecommunications expands the motivations to travel.
Other benefits of the NII are more important to the nation than travel savings: support of health care reform, efficient government, better education for our children, and rising manufacturing competitiveness. Telecommuting, in particular, is a very useful practice for stronger reasons than travel savings. It provides a work environment where workers can be more productive and closer to their families at the same time.
Whether the widespread deployment of more powerful, higher bandwidth telecommunications will lead advanced economies to show growing telecommunications usage per unit of economic output relative to transportation intensity depends significantly on changes in the price-performance of transportation. In the United States, for example, the cost of driving automobiles, based on fuel prices, vehicle prices, and taxation, is declining. This cost trend tends to work against trip substitution even while continual improvements in the price-performance of the NII supports substitution. An analytical, econometric determination of how telecommunications and transportation have been substituting for each other or complementing each other as economic inputs during the past few decades of NII expansion is an important follow-up research need coming out of this study.
A dominant public policy paradigm today is that telecommunications yields telecommuting which yields travel savings. The wide impact of telecommunications on the economy and society in contrast to the limited travel impact of telecommuting suggests that a better paradigm is now needed: Telecommunications yields some travel savings through telecommuting and other travel substitution effects, but also sets up a countervailing mechanism of travel stimulation that needs to be more widely recognized and better understood.
Governments must learn to coordinate public policy on telecommunications, transportation, land use, and capital facilities investment in light of the interactions described here. The overall challenge is to allocate resources and attention reasonably across the entire spectrum of public facility systems that provide support for the transactions and relationships comprising economic and social life. Such systems include the cables, circuits, services, and computers of the National Information Infrastructure; the roads and airports of the transportation system; and physical locations like schools, libraries, clinics, and meeting halls where people interact directly with other people.
A more explicit and complete inclusion of telecommunications in planning processes for improving the overall transportation system is a government responsibility deserving higher visibility at the state and metropolitan-area level and the encouragement of USDOE. Telecommuting and other telecommunications applications cut across both the supply and the demand sides of transportation, and are part of both the problem and the solution of state and metropolitan regions meeting the air quality and mobility goals mandated by the Federal Clean Air Act Amendments and the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act.
Consideration of telecommunications would fit well into a least cost, integrated resource planning (IRP) framework that incorporates travel substitution, stimulation, and system management. IRP transfers ideas and methods that are now successfully used in electric energy planning to the transportation arena.
Also, government policy could focus on promoting and ensuring telecommunications-based alternatives to travel for the inevitable future periods when travel becomes difficult or expensive due to disruptions from special events, weather, disasters, or oil supply interruptions.
Although government policy intervention to accelerate the deployment of higher bandwidth and other more powerful telecommunications capabilities cannot be justified by the potential for travel savings alone, there are many other government roles in developing NII technology and applications that make productive use of tax dollars:
* Development and deployment of government processes that use the evolving NII to deliver more service for less money. Accessing government records from home and library computers is an example.
* Support of NII improvement in disadvantaged geographic areas and for socially-important applications that the market leaves behind despite the economic cost to society at large.
* Legislative and rule-making action to eliminate barriers to the deployment of NII-enabled services for health care, education, and government services generally.
In short, government leaders must take their vision for transportation changes in the information age beyond telecommuting to a much larger set of NII applications that comprehensively affect the movement and location patterns for both organizations and individuals. Basing public policy on a more complete understanding of the new information technologies and their patterns of use will reduce the costs and increase the benefits to our society and economy from the parallel infrastructures of transportation and information.
Monday, March 10, 2008
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Dad would have been a good poker player. He always played his hand close to his chest. As his sister Becky (Rebecca Mann) had observed, "Milt never expressed his feelings." Although this was certainly true, the way he played his hand clearly revealed his priorities-his overriding commitment to his wife and sons.
Although I did little to meet his approval, this never interfered with his commitment to me. In 1965, I chose to go to the riotous University of California at Berkeley against his wishes. However, after the first year, I dropped out in order to "find myself" in the midst of all the alternative lifestyles that the 60's served up. Troubled at the sight of my floundering around, Dad made haste to book a flight out to California. He stayed with me for more than a week, perplexed at my seemingly aimless behavior. Only later, I had discovered that he had wanted to put me back on the right track but didn't know what to say. He left sorrowfully, thinking he had lost his son to the perplexing spirit of the 60's.
However, Dad wasn't finished with his rescue efforts. In 1970, I informed him that I was going to Israel to find a new life, but I had one problem-no money. However, Dad decided to indulge my latest fancy and financed it by generously buying my coin collection.
A couple of years later, still in Israel, I informed my parents that I was getting married to my pregnant betrothed. However, this didn't deter my faithful father. In several months, he and Mom arrived in Israel, where they hosted a grand family reception for us.
However, Israel wasn't to work out for us. We relocated in the States on an Appalachian hill farm, which Dad purchased for us. It was the time of the "back to the land" movement and I was convinced that if I lived in harmony with nature, I would experience the peace of nature. However, instead of peace, I had a horrible chain saw injury that landed me in the hospital for four days.
Despite the distance, when I opened my eyes after surgery, Dad and Mom were at my bedside. Although they had a problem hearing what I had to say about an encounter I had had with God during my chainsaw debacle, this didn't deter them from paying my hospital bills.
Although I now had my Savior, Dad remained my earthly savior, even after I graduated from seminary. My back had gotten so bad that I didn't know if I could hold down a job. I was hired, however, by the NYC Department of Probation and had to find an apartment as close as possible to my new job. It was beyond my hopes that I would be able to find an affordable apartment close to the office so that I could come home from work at lunch and lay down. However, Dad stepped in again, without my even asking him and purchased an apartment one block from my office!
To Dad's great disappointment, after only 15 years, I took an early retirement from Probation so that I could write and teach theology on a full-time basis. It had been the financial assistance that he was extending to each one of his sons that had enabled me to do this-something for which I'm very grateful.
Surprisingly, Dad's generosity persisted until the end. My income was never too great and so I would ask to borrow Dad and Mom's car when I needed to take a trip. last year, Anita and I decided to take a road trip down to see our daughter Leora in Orlando, with many scheduled stops along the way. We brought the car in for servicing and were informed that it wasn't road-worthy and would require $3,500 for repairs. When I decided to go in to the service station to see if we could have the repairs done for less, Dad insisted on accompanying me. To my astonishment, he intervened by trading in our junker for a used car on their lot-all in a matter of a couple of hours.
Despite all of this, we both had a great deal of hesitation about expressing our feelings for each other. About two years ago, Anita hinted to Dad, "I know that Danny would appreciate it if you two were more intimate."
I was too embarrassed to speak, but Dad deftly changed the subject to our mutual relief. But I'm so glad that I was able to utter those key words-I love you-in a father's-day card. Dad never said anything about it-he never would-but I trust that it meant something to him.


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Its been like fucking forever since I blogged but life kinda ran away with me but now I feel ready to get back into it again, probably with a little more relaxed format.
What have I been doing since I last posted?
I almost became Charlie Sheen's intern
Until I realised they wouldn't hire me because I'm not a US resident.
I had my first really close death
I went to the Vogue Experience and met Franca Sozzani and Manolo Blahnik
I went on an English holiday to Cornwall
I published my first book
I got a new job at The Body Shop
I think that kind of takes us up to about now. So I want to leave you with a documentary that I found really inspiring, if you've got a spare half hour watch it. It teaches amazing confidence and to be healthy and happy, mentally and physically whatever your size. I think its a very important lesson for anyone, because if you can love yourself you can do anything you want really.


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Friday, March 2, 2007
For some definitions of "fun"
How many calories in a slice of pizza? I think this is a fun party game: tell your friends to think, but not say aloud, how many calories there are in an average, not ginormous, normal slice of cheese pizza, no special toppings. Insist that they think of an actual number before anyone says anything, because the fun part is the ridiculously wide variation in the numbers they'll come up with. The first time I tried this, the lowest guess was less than a fifth of the highest.
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Intro B y a man's fingernails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the calluses of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuffs, by his movements- by each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent enquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. SHERLOCK HOLMES, 1892 E very day people around you people are communicating their true thoughts and feelings without ever saying a word. The ability to work out what is really happening with a person is simple - not easy, but simple. It's about matching what you see and hear in the environment in which it all happens and drawing probable conclusions. Most people, however, only see the things they think they are seeing. This is contrary to the fact that non-verbal communication makes up 55% of what our words convey every day. The remaining percentages are 7% vocabulary and 38% vocal (tone of voice, inflection, and other sounds). This is why it is difficult to tell when non- familiar strangers are being dishonest with us when we cannot see their body language. The human body reveals what peoples real thoughts are even when their words say otherwise! Quit IntroMain MenuNextSite Map Back
Commercialization of Body Language S ilent movie actors like Charlie Chaplin were the pioneers of body language skills, as this was the only means of communication available on the screen. Each actor's skill was classed as good or bad by the extent to which he could use gestures and body signals to communicate to the audience. When talking films became popular and less emphasis was placed on the non-verbal aspects of acting, many silent movie actors faded into obscurity and only those with good verbal and non-verbal skills survived. A s far as the academic study of body language goes, perhaps the most influential pre-twentieth-century work was Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, published in 1872, but this work tended to be read mainly by academics. However, it spawned the modern studies of facial expressions and body language, and many of Darwin's ideas and observations have since been validated by researchers around the world. Since that time, researchers have noted and recorded almost a million non-verbal cues and signals. B y studying the language of the body, individuals are able to decipher what others are not telling them which could change the world! Quit IntroMain MenuSite MapNext Back
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Quit IntroMain Menu Site Map T itle Screen I ntro One I ntro Two U pper Limbs H ead G reetings M ain Menu L ower Limbs A rms E yes M outh K issing H ands L inks
Head S miling and laughing are universally considered to be signals that show a person is happy. We cry at birth, begin smiling at five weeks and laughing starts between the fourth and fifth months. Babies quickly learn that crying gets our attention -and that smiling keeps us there. In humans, smiling tells another person you are non-threatening and asks them to accept you on a personal level. Lack of smiling explains why many dominant individuals, such as Vladimir Putin, James Cagney, Clint Eastwood, Margaret Thatcher and Charles Bronson, always seem to look grumpy or aggressive and are rarely seen smiling - they simply don't want to appear in any way submissive. And research in courtrooms shows that an apology offered with a smile incurs a lesser penalty than an apology without one. Click below for more information on how others cannot fool you any longer. Quit IntroMain MenuSite Map The Eyes Have It Those Lips Drive Me WildA kiss is a lovely trick
Eyes Quit IntroMain MenuSite Map E xasperation: A familiar sign of exasperation, the eyes are turned heavenward, as though invoking divine assistance. A nxiety: Eyebrows raised and furrowed is an instinctive response to extreme anxiety. It is a natural expression, common to all cultures. W inking: A wink has various meanings, from sexual approval by a potential partner, to collusion between two people in the know. S kepticism: Raising just one eyebrow is a common gesture of disbelief. The two sides of the face are at odds, registering a state of confusion. Head Menu
Mouth R aspberry: Children the world over stick their tongue out as a rude gestureperhaps their first insult. I Dont Know: This gesture involves pulling down the corners of the mouth–a facial equivalent to shrugging the shoulders. B e Quiet: An easily recognized symbol of silence, the lips are sealed. A nger: Biting ones lower lip while shaking ones head from side to side shows barely contained anger. Quit IntroMain MenuSite Map Head Menu
Kissing C heek Kiss: This is a friendly gesture practiced in the West, in which both people kiss each other on both cheeks. F oot Kiss: A gesture symbolizing humility and respect, performed by the Pope during Holy Week. H and Kiss: This gesture is a symbol of respect, and was once commonly performed by a man when greeting a woman. B lowing A Kiss: A symbol of love, often from a mother to a child, or to a friend too distant to embrace. Quit IntroMain MenuSite Map Head Menu
Upper Limbs T he hands have been the most important tools in human evolution and there are more connections between the brain and the hands than between any other body parts. Few people ever consider how their hands behave or the way they shake hands when they meet someone. Yet those first five to seven pumps establish whether dominance, submission or power plays will take place. Throughout history, the open palm has been associated with truth, honesty, allegiance and submission. Many oaths are still taken with the palm of the hand over the heart, and the palm is held in the air when somebody is giving evidence in a court of law; the Bible is held in the left hand and the right palm held up for the members of the court to view. One of the most valuable clues to discovering whether someone is being open and honest - or not - is to watch for palm displays. Just as a dog will expose its throat to show submission or surrender to the victor, humans use their palms to display in a similar way to show that they are unarmed and therefore not a threat. Quit IntroMain MenuSite MapNext
Arms Quit IntroMain MenuSite MapNext Back R ejoicing: This gesture which combines jumping in the air with the slapping of hands, is a spontaneous display of joy. It is common in the field of sports. T riumph: Arms straight in the air are a sign of success: the person feels this big. P raise: in this gesture, palms and head are turned heavenwward. H ail: Depending on the stiffness of the arm, this is a friendly gesture or a Fascist salute. S urrender: A recognized gesture of submission, this arms-raised pose shows that the person is not reaching for a weapon.
Hands Quit IntroMain MenuSite Map Back J ealousy: This gesture has various meanings and is generally an insult. In Mediterranean countries, it represents the horns of a cuckold; in Japan, it means an angry or jealous wife. T hinking: People adopt this posture unconsciously. It is a modified prayer with a reassuring touch of the lips. Mockery: Thumbing ones nose is a playful insult, familiar to all ages and nationalities. Often the fingers are wiggled to emphasize mockery. S tupidity: Common in Saudi Arabia, this implies, I can see clearly that you are a fool. L oose screw: This gesture indicates that someone is crazy, that (s)he needs to tighten a loose screw in the head. T eeth flick: This gesture, flicking a thumb-nail against the teeth, is common in Mediterranean countries, where it denotes anger.
Greetings B owing: This form of greeting is practiced mainly in Asian and is a common sign of respect. Performers also bow to their audience to acknowledge applause. In the West bowing still sometimes accompanies the handshake, suggesting humility, the person bowing being symbolically smaller than the other. Quit IntroMain MenuSite Map W aving: This gesture is often made on meeting or parting. The hand raised with the palm upward is a classic way of drawing attention to oneself. N ose Rubbing: Although rare in the West, the rubbing of nose is still practiced in other cultures, notably among Polynesians. H andshake: The clasping of hands is a common gesture both on meeting and parting. It signifies a certain equality of status.
Lower Limbs Quit IntroMain MenuSite Map T he farther away from the brain a body part is positioned, the less awareness we have of what it is doing. This means that the legs and feet are an important source of information about someone's attitude because most people are unaware of what they are doing with them and never consider faking gestures with them in the way that they would with their face. A person can look composed and in control while their foot is repetitively tapping or making short jabs in the air, revealing their frustration at not being able to escape. These results were verified by psychologist Paul Ekman, who discovered that people also increase their lower body movements when they lie but observers also have greater success exposing a person's lies when they can see the liar's entire body. This explains why many business executives feel comfortable only when sitting behind a desk with a solid front, where their lower body is hidden.
Legs Links Quit IntroMain MenuSite Map L ee, Mark. (2006). Three elements of communicationand the so called 7%-38%-55% Rule. Retrieved on October 19, 2009, at http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=78144 http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=78144 P ease, B. and Allan Pease. (2006). The Definitive Book of Body Language. Bantam: New York. Available for purchase at http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Book- Body-Language/dp/0553804723 http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Book- Body-Language/dp/0553804723 M organ, N. (2002). The Truth Behind the Smile and Other Myths– When Body Language Lies. Retrieved on October 19, 2009 @ http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3123.htmlhttp://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3123.html
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Hello and welcome to Essays of a Young Philologist! I hope you find these writings insightful. Generally speaking, the essays on this blog will be concerned with theological, literary, and historical topics. Such topics are worthy of discussion and have been of great interest to me since I was young and I hope you find them of great interest as well. You will also find a great many of my published articles from my work with Evangelical Times, a British Christian newspaper.
The author is a native of Brunswick, Georgia and has a penchant for all things Southern, especially food and history. He often describes himself as being "one in Christ, American by birth, Southern by the grace of God, and Scottish and Irish by heritage". After studying the classics in high school, the author studied at Georgia College in Milledgeville where he received a bachelor's degree in English literature and a minor in history. Many of the essays on this blog are the product of those studies. After attending university, the author lived for ten months in Central Africa where he tutored the son of American missionaries. The adventures of that stint are recorded in his blog, "There and Back Again: Ben Wilkerson's Adventures to Africa and Sheffield". The following year, Ben worked as an intern at a Presbyterian Church in Sheffield, England. There he was challenged and stimulated in his writing abilities as well as his walk with his saviour, Jesus Christ. While living in the United Kingdom seperated him from his youthful loves of Southern food and history, he found great delight in the culture and historic haunts of merry old England.
After spending a year among such beautiful and historic locales, the author moved to the midlands of South Carolina, where his family had now relocated. While the culture and clime was fairly similar to the one he grew up in, one would think it would have taken him no time to find this place homely. However the effect of having lived in two very different foreign cultures had rendered his ancient sense of American belonging almost absent and it took him some months to feel at home in the US. By God's grace that lonely feeling of not belonging anywhere dissipated and he now loves his new home. However to this day, the author thinks daily of those adventures and longs to revisit the wild moors of Derbyshire, the historic walled city of York, or the peaceful bay of Portree.
The author hopes to continue to hone his writing skills and currently has a part-time job writing monthly articles for Evangelical Times, a British Christian newspaper based out of Darlington, UK.