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Helmed by master sommeliers Xavier Rousset and Gearoid Devaney, this new French has great pedigree thanks to Rousset's previous projects such as Texture and his other 2016 opening, Blandford Comptoir in Marylebone. Previously a Be At One, the site is now all whitewashed bricks, bare wood tables, and silky-smooth service. The menu is a carefully plotted journey through French classics with modern twists, devised by Ed Boarland (The Waterside Inn, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay). We were instantly smitten with his take on ouef en meurette, a golden-yolked duck egg in hearty red wine sauce packed with salty lardons. Delicate stone bass and crab tartare was laced with fresh yuzu dressing, shiso and tiny chunks of zingy apple. To follow, melting beef cheek Bourguignon was exemplary: richly satisfying and packed with flavour. Only the tarte Tatin was a slight disappointment, with unevenly cooked apples, but that's a fussy negative. The wine list is also inspired by Burgundy, with several of the region's producers backing Cabotte. The 600-strong list includes vintages such as La Tâche 1978, curated flights, by-the-glass choices and a helpful Short List if you don't know where to start.
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Fortunate in that my office is within easy reach of Cabotte, we finally found the opportunity to sneak in there for a relaxed pre-Christmas week lunch. First impressions were marred somewhat by the wafer thin space between the tables – certainly not a place to go to negotiate the next big deal or discuss the office gossip which was what we were planning to do. Menus, including the wine book, were brought immediately along with bread and some delicious gougeres – just a shame that we had to chase our wine order which still had not arrived by the time our food did! It may be a newly opened restaurant, but that really was a schoolboy error and not what you'd expect from a place where wine is clearly at the forefront of the offering. Our mains of pork and stone bass were exceptional and this we followed with a tarte tatin that was quite simply, outstanding. My personal preference would be for it to be accompanied by an ice cream rather than the somewhat cloying clotted cream, but I just left most of the cream and wolfed down more of the tatin instead. At the end of the meal we were asked for our opinion and whilst I will definitely return, I think it will be during the evening if only to do proper justice to that immense and extensive wine list….in the fervent hope that it will reach our table somewhat quicker than at lunch!
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Having recently opened Blandford Comptoir in Marylebone near the site of both Texture and one of the 28-50 chain that he helped to build up so successfully, Xavier Rousset, together with fellow Master Sommelier Gearoid Devaney, has now added Cabotte in the City, near another of the 28-50 bars. One might almost think that he was doing this deliberately.
Whilst neither Blandford Comptoir nor Cabotte could claim to be the culinary destination that Texture aspires to be, they are both certainly a step up from 28-50, both on the food and on the wine fronts.
Cabotte (named after a type of bothy, found amongst the vines in the Côtes- -Nuits, -Beaune and -d'Or) draws on an astonishing wine listed, garnered from some of the finest domaines in the most intriguing wine region in the world: Burgundy. Whether you're looking for a cheeky aligoté or splashing out on a Grand Cru, you will be hard pressed to find a finer wine list anywhere (there's a great touch in the list too, where wines from other regions of France outside of Burgundy come under the "Rest of the World" heading, as if the Dukes of Burgundy had turned back the clocks to pre-1477 when Burgundy was not part of France).
The food too is unashamedly French: the gorgeous slab of ham and parsley terrine comes with chewy sourdough bread; the poached duck egg in a slick of red wine and lardons; beef cheeks; ribeye marinated in rosemary and garlic - this is heady stuff, beautifully cooked by a chef with a fine touch. Not that said chef cannot but help to betray the fact that, whilst he can certainly cook a fine French dish, he doesn't hail from across Le Manche, so Cornish mackerel escabèche and swordfish & crab tartare, with a yuzu dressing and shiso find themselves nestling amongst the starters with the aforementioned terrine and poached duck egg.
A group of eight of us went on the first night of the soft opening, and it was fantastic - between us we tried every starter and every main. They are all terrific: from the crispy skinned "Poulet Gaston Gerard" (posh roast chicken), the samphire and burnt spring onion enhanced [grey] mullet with poached oyster, the rib-stickingly unctuous beef cheeks, through to the perfectly cooked steak (seared on the outside, blood red within), there was nothing but praise; nothing that did not hit the spot. Of course, the free flowing wine, served by not one, but two, Master Sommeliers may have helped, but that is the charm of this paean to the gastronomy of the heart of France.
There are now two private rooms on the upper floor two: one in a wine cellar with a view into the kitchen, and the other a bright, airy room overlooking Gresham Street. Perfect for post-deal or birthday celebrations, or even just to celebrate the fact that it's a Tuesday, and nobody really does a properly long lunch in the City any more (sigh).
Whilst I might not be going in for the 1978 La Tâche DRC (a mere £7,500 if you must ask), I will certainly be returning for a trip down the Côtes to Macon, taking in more manageable properties along the way.
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Interview: Bernard Lafayette, 'A More Unified Community'
CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST BERNARD LAFAYETTE played a key role in some of the most notable demonstrations in the 1960s. He, along with James Bevel, Diane Nash and John Lewis, was a leader of the 1960 Nashville Student Movement that conducted lunch counter sit-ins at segregated restaurants. Lafayette also took part in the 1961 interstate bus Freedom Rides and, working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, helped to organize voting rights demonstrations in Alabama, including the Selma to Montgomery march. Today, the 75-year-old Lafayette is the director of the Emory (University) Center for Advancing Nonviolence in Atlanta. Lafayette's memoir, In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma, was published in 2013 by the University Press of Kentucky.
Last March you joined a commemorative walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where 50 years earlier police attacked the demonstrators marching for voting rights—the infamous Bloody Sunday. What were your thoughts?
There was a real connection between what happened 50 years ago and the commemorative march. Fifty years ago there were only a dedicated few. This time there were 120,000 people in Selma. The president and congressional representatives were there…people representing different groups and communities. It was unimaginable to have so many people interested and identify with the original march and the Voting Rights Act passed 50 years ago. The week after the commemorative walk, college students from all over the country, at the invitation of the National Park Service, also reenacted the Selma to Montgomery march. It was called a walking classroom, and I was invited back to speak to the students—there were about 500 or 600. That was absolutely encouraging.
What obstacles did black voters face in the South?
It was very serious. There were people who were shot down and killed. Bombings took place. That's why it was very difficult for me to [organize] a mass meeting in Selma; people were afraid that they would get fired from their jobs or that churches would be bombed. It was very repressive, and the federal government didn't do anything. If people who were trying to register to vote got harassed or killed, it was a state offense. They had to take tests, which were very subjective; the applicants had to read a section of the Constitution and then interpret it for the registrar, and the registrar would say, "You didn't interpret it correctly." So they couldn't register.
Why was nonviolence such an important principle in the civil rights movement?
Because our goal was to create a much more unified community—to help people learn to work together and solve problems together. Nonviolence was the goal, and the method of reaching that goal was nonviolence. We weren't going to advocate harming people who disagreed with us. Our purpose was to make the nation aware of what we were protesting. The first right we needed was the right to march: As Martin Luther King said, we had "to fight for the right to fight for right." But we were aware that we would face violence, and at the Montgomery, Ala., bus station we were badly beaten—I got three cracked ribs. Fortunately, no one got killed on the Freedom Rides and we accomplished our goals. There are other alternatives. One is to do nothing and let violence take its course. Another is to combat violence with violence, which would increase the amount of violence. The third is to use nonviolence as an example of how to change a violent society. Your actions are what you advocate.
President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Did activists view him as a friend of the movement?
Some people did and some people didn't. Johnson certainly advocated passing the public accommodations act—the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But he also was interested in the war on poverty and got involved in the Vietnam War, and was preoccupied with that, and so was not, early on, an advocate for the Voting Rights Act. When Martin Luther King asked him about it, Johnson waved him off and said he'd done enough for civil rights. He initially was reluctant, but we were able to get the attention of masses of people. So Johnson was forced to [push for] passage of the voting rights bill. He was a friend of the movement, in a way, because he ultimately made it happen.
Was the Voting Rights Act the era's most effective piece of civil rights legislation?
I would say so. Our whole democratic process means people participate in governance. If we deny people the vote, then they have no say in our governance. That voting rights act did more to change our involvement and participation than any other piece of legislation, and that's why it was met with so much resistance.
Were there big changes in black registration and voter turnout in the South in the years immediately after the law was passed?
Yes, absolutely. We had more black elected officials in Mississippi than in any other state. There was a substantial increase in black voting participation—but not a majority. There was an observable change. Still, people have to be educated. We made one big mistake: After the Voting Rights Act was passed, we, including myself, assumed that people would just go out and register and exercise their right to vote. We should have established citizen education centers in every county where people could learn how to participate in government. It's not simply about voting; it's about going to city council and county commission meetings and having a voice in civic discussions—making people aware of issues and bills. We didn't do that, and many people did not participate, because it was not their habit.
What did you think of the recent Supreme Court decision that threw out a key provision in the Voting Rights Act?
When a new law is put in place, the assumption is that it's going to correct the problem. A condition for passing the act was that it had to be renewed periodically, and there was the assumption that it would not be renewed when the problem was solved. There is an assumption that schools are no longer segregated, OK? And there is an erroneous assumption that there are no more impediments to voter registration. When the federal government decreases its involvement and oversight, [discriminatory] things happen. We still have to make sure that the change is complete.
What's the most important idea that you want readers to take from your memoir In Peace and Freedom?
I want to see nonviolence and conflict management skills put in every educational institution in the country. You see so much violence in our society. We are too intelligent to be responding to each other with violence. It's not a matter of intelligence; it is a matter of skills. We need to have that component in schools, just like English and math.
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (R) receives Israeli Ambassador to Vietnam Meirav Eilon Shahar (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The upcoming visit to Vietnam by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will open many opportunities and prospect for stronger cooperation between the two countries, stated Israeli Ambassador to Vietnam Meirav Eilon Shahar.
The two countries boast a great potential for cooperation in many fields like health care, defence and IT, the diplomat said during a reception given by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi on February 13.
She said she hoped a business forum will be held on the occasion of the visit to boost trade links between the two countries' enterprises, adding that Israel is expanding investment in Vietnam, especially in training human resources and, receiving Vietnamese citizens to Israel to study agriculture and start-up.
While expressing her pleasure to witness the strong development in the Vietnam-Israel relations, the ambassador affirmed the early conclusion of negotiations and signing of a free trade agreement between the two nations will contribute to stepping up the bilateral ties.
For his part, PM Phuc expressed his hope that cooperation between the two sides will be stronger and flourished in the coming time.
Sharing the ambassador's opinion, the host suggested the Israeli embassy enhance coordination with the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry to expand cooperation activities.
Vietnam welcomes Israeli companies to invest in the country, he added.
He called on the Israeli side to soon recognise Vietnam's market economy, and support the Southeast Asian nation in developing the fields of cyber security, agriculture, labour and defence – the strengths of Israel - VNA


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If I Were Boss: The Early Business Stories of Sinclair LewisBy: Sinclair Lewis (author), Anthony Di Renzo (editor)Paperback
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DescriptionAnthony Di Renzo makes available for the first time since their original publication some eighty years ago a collection of fifteen of Sinclair Lewis's early business stories. Among Lewis's funniest satires, these stories introduce the characters, themes, and techniques that would evolve into Babbitt. Each selection reflects the commercial culture of Lewis's day, particularly Reason Why advertising, self-help manuals, and the business fiction of the Saturday Evening Post. The stories were published between October 1915 and May 1921 (nine in the Saturday Evening Post, four in Metropolitan Magazine, one in Harper's Magazine, and one in American Magazine). Because some things have not changed in the American workplace since Lewis's day, these highly entertaining and unflinchingly accurate office satires will appeal to the fans of Dilbert and The Drew Carey Show. In a sense, they provide lay readers with an archaeology of white-collar angst and regimentation. The horror and absurdities of contemporary corporate downsizing already existed in the office of the Progressive Era. For an audience contemplating the death of the American middle class, Lewis's stories provide an important retrospective on earlier times and a preliminary autopsy on the American dream. Appearing just in time to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of Babbitt, this collection rescues Lewis's best early short fiction from obscurity, provides extensive information about his formative years in advertising and public relations, and analyzes both his genius for marketing and his carefully cultivated persona as the Great Salesman of American letters.
About AuthorAnthony Di Renzo knows the business world far more intimately than most academics. A fugitive from advertising, he has worked as a copywriter, press agent, commercial artist, announcer, and corporate communications consultant. Currently he teaches professional writing and American business history at Ithaca College. His American Gargoyles: Flannery O'Connor and the Medieval Grotesque is available from Southern Illinois University Press.
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Peta Murgatroyd & Maksim Chmerkovskiy Shares Tons of Photos from Italian Honeymoon!
Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy have taken their love to Italy!
The Dancing with the Stars pros have been taking to Instagram to share tons of photos from their honeymoon at Lake Como.
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"Lake Como with my love. ❤🇮🇹We were blown away by the beauty! Missing our little Shai – this is our first trip away just the two of us," Peta captioned the below set of photos.
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We're getting married! The wedding is going to be on May 29th in Aiken, SC at Woodside Plantation at 5:00 p.m. with a reception following, conveniently, at the exact same location!
If you're planning on coming in town on Friday, we'd love to have you over for drinks and desserts after the Rehearsal Dinner at The Carriage House Inn at 8:00 p.m. The Carriage House's address is 139 Laurens Street Northwest, Aiken, SC. For more details/directions, check the Map section.
The pages and links below will give you all you need to know about the wedding but if you have any further questions, please don't hesistate to e-mail Kendall or Michael.
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Happy Fabulous Friday all! What's fabulous about today is friendship!
We arrived in the middle of free time which meant all the kids in the centre could play wherever they like. I was sitting on the floor with Sticky when 3 older girls came in. I love that 4 year olds have no fear and they just want to know everything! This little trio peppered me with questions about who I was, who Sticky was, how old she was, what we were doing there etc etc.
They told me there names were Amelia, London and Sophie and even spelt them for me! As they chattered and interacted with me, I saw the little nuances friends share. The giggle, the light pats and touches, the gentle teasing and the laughs. This threesome was a tight little group.
The dynamics of the relationship were already clear. London was the popular leader and the glue that held the group together. Amelia was the goofy clown that made the other two laugh. Sophie was the serious, quiet, reflective one that kept the other two on the straight and narrow. They all had their role to play and valued each other's role.
I wondered if they would remain friends through primary school, high school and beyond. I wondered if Sticky's new friends - Alice, Clara and Luca would be lifelong buddies with her. I was amazed to realise that Sticky will spend the next 5 years, and possibly 12, and maybe even 17 with this group of kids!
It was quite timely that I pondered all of this as I've been questioning some of my own friendships lately. I've been thinking of all the friends that have come and gone in my life, the ones that choose to left, the ones who simply vanished, the ones that have been there for a long time and the ones that have changed. I've been thinking of my current friends and how the role I play in the various groups has changed since becoming a Mum - partly because of choice and partly because Motherhood has taught me about what's really valuable to me now.
Most of all, I'm guided by what I want to teach Sticky about her friendships. I want to teach her about the true meaning of friendship, how to let other people treat you, how to be a good friend, not a fair weathered one and to know when it's time to let go.
I want to teach her what my Grandfather taught me - if you can count your good friends on one hand you're doing very well in life. I'm luckily enough that I can count that high so I'm going to focus on those friends as they are the ones who truly deserve my energy and time.
I have no doubt that Sticky will be one of those people who has many close friends. She's one of those truly specially people that others just can't help being naturally drawn to. I think she's going to need both hands to count her close friends, and after that they'll need to take a number! Who knows, today, she might have met one or two who will be counted on those hands for many years to come!


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Oil and Gas Authority aims to complete decommissioning for less than £39bn
Decommissioning the North Sea could cost an estimated £59.7bn but the UK Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has set the goal of completing the work for less than £39bn.
But operations director Gunther Newcombe said "significant change" would be needed in the industry if the target was to be met.
He spoke as the OGA published the new cost estimate for decommissioning work in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), with this total based on data from 34 operators and covering the cost of dismantling all current and proposed offshore facilities.
The OGA has set the target of reducing decommissioning costs by 35%, with the report saying there was a "shared desire" from both the industry and the UK government to achieve this.
The work has been carried out at a time when the number of fields in the North Sea that are approaching the end of their economic life is increasing.
Mr Newcombe said: "In our Decommissioning Strategy we said we needed to better understand the true cost of decommissioning and then work to reduce these costs by at least 35%.
"This report provides us with a starting point cost estimate of £59.7bn to decommission UK oil and gas infrastructure.
"The challenge now is to save industry and the taxpayer money and achieve safe decommissioning for £39bn or less."
He added: "To achieve this target there will be a need for significant change in the way decommissioning is approached and behavioural change will be a critical component.
"The OGA will continue to work closely with operators and the supply chain to ensure key information and lessons are shared and new approaches to contracting are developed.
"There is a clear and sizeable opportunity for the supply chain to develop an efficient, low cost and exportable industry capability."
Colette Cohen, chief executive of the Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) said: "Technology will be a key contributor to improving decommissioning costs in areas such as well-plugging and abandonment, which represents around 50% of decommissioning costs, and the ideas generated by our recent wells technology competition will help realise this goal."


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Don't Kick the Baby
We doglets feel like the kids from South Park - suddenly dumped with The Baby. Kato is the focus of all our lives whether it be to protect our stash, avoid the stampeding humans running with it peeing, held mid air, into the garden or remove the squeakers from all her goddamn annoying toys. Not allowed to Kick The Baby, its against Canine Lore, so we bicker and scrap amongst ourselves. Our lives have become a complexity of canine psychodynamic analysis. Humans even missed Stereo Chemistry with offer of lift back and to within acceptable puppy limits. We are all exhausted, though the Small One is still full of curious, energetic beans.
Humans took Kato to "Pets at Home" store today. Kato was fussed over by every customer and was tolerant, even pleased at the toddlers who pulled and prodded at her.More socialisation class than consumerism. Kato has a lot to learn, not just that Yellow Disc-O-Dog Frisbees are just so 70s.


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Hello everyone,
I started learning assembly yesterday. Yes maybe I chose a wrong guide but I have a little problem here. It's about getting some integers without a newline. That is probably very easy to solve but I was searching for a solution for a few hours and no results. Well, enough about that, let's get to the point.
I need to get an input cointaining some integers, but I need them to be without a newline. I wrote a small loop to do that for me, I think everything is OK, yet it gives me a "Segmentation fault".
CPU: i486
Assembler: NASM version 0.99.06-20071101
OS: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)
Linux kernel: 2.6.24-22-generic
nasm -f elf kalkulator.asm
ld -s -o kalkulator kalkulator.o
%define lf 10
bufor1: times 40 db 0
bufor2: times 40 db 0
xor esi, esi
mov esi, 0
push eax
push ebx
push ecx
push edx
mov eax, 3
mov ebx, 0
lea ecx, [bufor1]
mov edx, 1
mov al, [bufor1]
cmp al, lf
jne _wczytuj_zapisz
push esi
push eax
int 80h
pop eax
pop esi
pop edx
pop ecx
pop ebx
pop eax
cmp al, lf
jne petla
mov [bufor2+esi], al
inc esi
Note that I am a complete newbie in assembly, so please try to explain my mistakes as precisely and as easy to understand as possible. I'd be happy if you correct the whole code, but I'll accept any help.


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Program for Enlightened and Productive Creativity Illustrated with a Moire Patterns Lesson
Program for Enlightened and Productive Creativity Illustrated with a Moire Patterns Lesson - Descarga este documento en PDF. Documentación en PDF para descargar gratis. Disponible también para leer online.
Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, v17 n4 p272-283 Sum 2006
Combining both the Western perspective of creativity as productivity and the Eastern perspective of creativity as enlightenment, a Program for Enlightened and Productive Creativity (PEPC) for teaching inquiry was devised. The PEPC describes stages through which a student is guided to solve a problem using increasingly complex observation, inquiry, and experimentation. The use of this model in teaching is illustrated through a physics lesson of moire patterns using overlapping patterns found in our everyday life. A case is made that PEPC can be applied to teaching general students, as well as gifted students, and in different content areas. (Contains 20 figures.)
Descriptors: Creativity, Academically Gifted, Instructional Design, Western Civilization, Non Western Civilization, Science Process Skills, Physics, Models, Interdisciplinary Approach, Holistic Approach, Units of Study, Problem Solving, Intuition, Creative Thinking, Patternmaking
Prufrock Press Inc. P.O. Box 8813, Waco, TX 76714-8813. Tel: 800-998-2208; Tel: 254-756-3337; e-mail: info[at]prufrock.com; Web site: http://www.prufrock.com
Autor: Yuk, Keun Cheol; Cramond, Bonnie
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Sunday, 18 July 2010
Severe dodgem related injuries and an award!!
At Lovebox Festival on Saturday (see previous post), whose brilliant idea was it to site the dodgems within easy reach of a bunch of marauding 40 somethings (or in Mr J and P's case 50 something)? One abiding memory of the day was watching one friend on said dodgems driving around with one arm in the air whooping and yelping like a complete loon. I, for one, am currently suffering from severe dodgem related injuries: stiff neck and shoulder and achey knee and hip having been on the dodgems 5 times in total (how I had time to see any of the bands I do not know). And as for Mr J and P, well he virtually had to be stretchered home as he was feeling a little worse for wear (aaah bless).
Dear readers, this is what happens when a group of old timers, who don't get out much, are unleashed at a festival. They run amok.
Anyway, enough of this nonsense. The day was great. Paloma Faith was fab. We got a bit bored, dare I say, with Mark Ronson and it was at this point that we discovered the aforementioned dodgems. Rumours were abound that Duran Duran were joining him on stage, and one of our party did hear what sounded like "Planet Earth" in the distance but we were otherwise occupied. Roxy Music were, of course, fabulous. Love them!
Undoubtedly, the best news of the weekend was hearing that I've received an award!! Yes. Me!!! From the lovely Karen at Sitting Oh So Pretty. Here it is:
A "This Blog is Charming" award!! Thank you Karen. I now have to bore you all with a few things all about little old meeeeee. Here we go (this won't take long, promise..):
1. I suffer from mottephobia! A fear of moths. Attempting to leave the house one morning to take Little Miss J and P to school, I spied a rather large fat bodied moth on the inside of the front door. This meant, of course, that I couldn't leave the house! I had to send Miss J and P out to a neighbour who then had to come in and dispose of the moth before I could venture forth. How mad is that!
2. I don't know my right from my left. (Oh no, you're going to think I'm a right loon now).
3. My favourite near-death experience was many moons ago on a visit to Newcastle (north east England) to see friends. Five of us, crammed into a mini, decided to visit Lindisfarne (aka Holy Island) a tiny tidal island in the North Sea accessed by a causeway.
On arriving at the causeway, one of our party checked the safe crossing times and announced that high tide wasn't until 8 pm. So off we went, had a lovely day frolicking in and around the ruins of the priory and castle. Decided to leave at 3 pm as we had a coach to catch back to London.
On arriving at the causeway in the mini, the tide was (yes you guessed it )already coming in, rather fast, I might add (the aforementioned member of our party had mis-read the tide timetable). Foolishly, the male members of the party wanted to drive across the causeway regardless (coach to catch and Mr J and P was starting a new job the next day) so off we went with one member of the party jogging ahead (I kid you not) to guide us along because by this time, dear readers, the causeway was completely covered by the sea.
At some point, our good friend stopped and waved at us to go back. He climbed back in the car, having been knee-deep in water, and the driver had to reverse some distance back to the safety of land - bearing in mind, that you could see no road only sea. I remember all the while, my female friend saying her "Hail Marys" while I was convinced that we were all going to die!
We had to wait until 8 pm to cross the causeway safely at low tide and had to take the midnight coach back down to London (Mr J and P started his new job that morning with virtually zero sleep). Oh what fun we had....
4. I'm half Italian and half Polish but can speak neither language (nor any other language for that matter).
5. I've seen Madness (the band if you please) in concert 10 times. Impressive huh?
Now I have to pass the This Blog is Charming award to two other bloggers. Ooh this is hard as I love reading all my blog favourites, but I have to choose so here we go:
The Bounty Huntress. She's definitely worth a visit if you don't know her already. She's hilarious and always has an interesting story to tell about her thrifting adventures.
Pencils and Pins. Not only is she thrifting mad but she's creative and very talented as well.
Well, ttfn, early to bed for me (some people just can't take the pace can they?).
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Thanks for making me laugh out loud with this hilarious blog post!ReplyDelete
Glad you had a good time, thought of you when Roxy Music were on Jonathan Ross, they were amazing.
Sounds like you had a great time at the festival! Gosh, my heart beat faster just READING about your near death experience!!ReplyDelete
Thank you for passing along the award to me! It's my first ever and I'm so honored! I'll do my best to live up to your high praise. :) Now to come up with 5 interesting things to say about myself... this will be fun!
Hi, re the comment you left on my blog re glue for the cake stands, I used Pinflair, available from good old Ebay or Joanna Sheen. I used Ms Sheen's website and had next day delivery so well recommended, hope that helps xxReplyDelete
Glad you had a great time!!!Sounds like it was quite a night!!! Just to let you know the dentist would'nt give me a sedative this time..he just whipped the tooth out and I can tell you I did'nt feel like hugging him at all!!!He nearly got a knee in the groin I can tell you!!! Mr Darcy seemed relieved. Not much fun there then ha!xxxReplyDelete
Thank you for your kind words - happy to be part of such a warm, friendly bunch of "thrifting mad" people...ReplyDelete
Love your funny stories (well at least funny in hindsight!) and know a good few people who'd be quite jealous of your Madness concert tally!
Moths, who needs them? Seriously. Why are they always lurking around the front door? I too suffer from a fear of moths....as do my sisters. We thought we were alone! We're also not wild about butterflies, but that's another story!ReplyDelete


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These simple, 3-ingredients cookies are healthy enough for kids of all ages to feel good about eating for breakfast.
I don't know about you, but when we were kids we would have LOVED to have cookies for breakfast. This real food cookie recipe from Natalie at A Fit Philosophy makes cookies for breakfast a healthy reality.
We especially love these as a make-ahead recipe for busy mornings. Even the pickiest eater - the one that turns their nose up at "plain Jane" oatmeal - will get excited about oats in the form of a cookie!
Here's the ingredient list, but check out Natalie's full post for instructions and a how-to video!
3-Ingredient Breakfast Cookies
- 2 bananas
- 1 C quick oats
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Click here to read the full recipe and to check out Natalie's other healthy recipes!


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Oh the dangers of iPhones! You have to be SO careful what you're sending and to whom! On several occasions I've had people reply to my texts saying "I think this was supposed to go to someone else." Thankfully never like this. Can't help but wonder though, if Jesus really wanted to save him, he would have deleted that message before the kid's mamma saw it - LOL!
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Something Ive been giving some thought to recently is whether you should plot out your writing whether it be short stories or novels or whether you should just start and see where you end up.
When I first started writing, I had plenty of ideas. I would start and then get stuck and eventually abort. I still have files and files of half (or quarter) written stories. To help myself with this I set myself the challenge to write a piece of flash fiction every day for a year. I cant say that I wrote 365 finished pieces, but I certainly got much better at being able to reach an end. Ive heard some people say that even if you dont know how the story is going to go, you should at least have an ending in mind; something youre working towards.
For flash fiction its probably not even possible to plot out your story. But how about for longer pieces? Barbara Dynes in Masterclasses in Creative Writing says [t]he amount of obstacles and complications you add to your initial idea depends on the length and tone of your story. (p.11) This is her suggestion for a 2,000 word story: Problem, Obstacle 1, Obstacle 2, Obstacle 3, Crisis, Climax (pg.11). Ive tried plotting out stories like this, but dont find they flow particularly well when I write them. This may just be because 2,000 words is not a good length for me, or maybe its because plotting doesnt work for me.
Ive recently finished the first draft of my first novel. I didnt plot anything. I knew the beginning and I had a rough idea of the ending and I wrote a couple of pages per day until it was finished. It will take a lot of editing, but is that any different to a plotters first draft? The 90-day novel, written by Alan Watt, is based around there being a story structure for the novel, which can be applied to any story, from the most traditionally structured to the most esoteric piece of writing (pg. 285).
I know every writer needs to find his or her own way, but my question is: have you changed the way you write in the time that youve been writing? How? And why?
Why do we write short stories and who reads them?
The first question is easy to answer in my case anyway so Ill start there.
There are downsides. If the chances of success are there, the odds are high. And is it as satisfying to finish thirty or so short stories as it is to complete a full-length novel?
Although I write short fiction almost exclusively, 98% of my reading is novels, not short stories. I find the experience of full emotional engagement and immersion in the story, over several days or weeks, more satisfying. On the other hand, the high standard of writing required in a short story is hard to keep consistent in the longer form. Perhaps why I hesitate to go there myself.
So, who reads short stories?
The latter are the kind of books that build the sales figures and, as a recent Guardian article suggests, create the myth that the short story is having a renaissance.
But its not all doom and gloom.
In France a company called Short Édition is trying to engage the public, both adult and younger readers, by offering free short stories in paper format in over 100 dispensers throughout France, mostly in railway stations. You can choose between a 1, 3 or 5 minute-long story.
This brilliant idea has caught on elsewhere. Francis Ford Coppola, a short story fan himself, has installed a dispenser in his Café Zoetrope in San Francisco. Other places in the States have followed suit, hoping that the novelty of reading fiction from a piece of paper will inspire children, and keep them at least for a few minutes from their digital screens.
Like any character in a good story, Ive had a eureka moment. Writing this has inspired me to read more short stories and Ive just ordered another collection.
Do you ever feel fazed by the sheer volume of writing on your computer? If youre like me and never delete anything (even if tempted to do so at times following rejection), you have several different versions of the same story and it can be hard to work out which is the current one. Word shows you when the most recent alterations were made to a document, but that doesnt always help.
I have been writing short stories in earnest for a little over six years now. A quick trawl through my fiction files a few months ago revealed that I had over 300 documents some of them duplicates several times over. I was becoming thoroughly confused and even submitted the wrong version of a story to a competition on one occasion.
To impose some method on this madness, I decided to reorganise the lot. This took some time and I may not have come up with the best solutions, but its a lot better than my previous system (or non-system).
Now I have folders labelled:
Stories Monday Muse I have a lot of these and the nature of MM means that they nearly all need working on in some form before submission. So when I decide to do that I move the story to the next folder
Stories in Progress those Im working on, whether for competitions or for my own entertainment.
Stories Submitted when a story goes off to a competition, I move it to this folder, so I know exactly which version I sent off.
Stories Published those that have been published in anthologies or placed in competitions and cant be submitted anywhere else.
Stories Finished the final version of stories that I wont work on anymore.
I also have an Excel spreadsheet for short story competition entries (although I dont enter that many these days). This lists:
I try to update the spreadsheet regularly with details of future competitions. At the moment, it goes up to September. I also colour code each line: yellow = story submitted, awaiting result; green = some success (longlisting upwards); red = didnt get anywhere (rather more of those).
All this probably sounds a bit anal and its not infallible. Sometimes, for example, I forget to move a story into the relevant folder. But at least I feel I am getting on top of the mess that was my previous filing system.
How do you organise your work?


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iPad will "encroach" on consoles, says Darkness 2 dev
Digital Extremes' project director Sheldon Carter might be feverishly working on the console and PC versions of The Darkness II, mainly because there's a big audience for it on said platforms, but that doesn't mean he's not open to ideas and, furthermore, platforms such as the portable ones, like the iPad.
"As a thought experiment yeah, I think it'd be pretty awesome," expressed Carter. "Swiping with the demon arm and grabbing with the demon arm on an iPad, that'd be pretty cool." Infesting portables with darkness would be a wise thing to do indeed, especially considering Carter's words when he says the iPad will "encroach" on the console market, inevitably.
"Do I think that the iPad will encroach? Absolutely, it has to. You think about how many iPads are out there already, iPads and other mobile devices. But I don't think it'll be exclusive," he predicts. "There's always going to be a market for high-end, for people who just want to play the most cutting edge. I think there's always going to be a market for, 'I want to flop down on the couch and sit back.' I think the home console experience is going to be with us for a long time."
Thank goodness for amateur clairvoyants like Carter, because we definitely wouldn't want to miss out on a game like The Darkness II, set for an early-October release on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.


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Hello everyone!
Here's another review of what I got in my Memebox Cute Wishlist! Check my 1st review of an Cute Wishlist item, to see the box's contents!
This time it's a pencil sharpener by Etude House! ^^
It's a little plastic pencil sharpener, with a pink bottom part, a translucent upper part and of course the Etude House logo on it!
It looks very cute and Etude-House like! ^^
You can only use this pencil sharpener for thin pens! Also, it's not that sturdy, so don't use it for hard plastic pencils! It works really well for any wooden eyeliner pencils though!
A cute pencil sharpener, who does a good job at sharpening not so hard eyeliner pencils!
Great for travel, as it's small & handy! ^^


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Lisa Niner Chief Warrant Officer (CW4 Ret.), US Army
Lisa stayed at Rucker and worked as a helicopter mechanic for Sikorsky as a contractor. She stayed in the Reserves and volunteered to go to Panama for 6 months as a UH1-1 Huey crew chief. Lisa wanted to go home, so she packed everything up and moved back to Maryland (MD). The first thing she did was go to the MD Army National Guard and sign up! She was lucky enough to grab an Active Guard Reserve (AGR) position as a Recruiter. Lisa was successful, but missed aviation, so she applied and was selected as a full time Army Technician.
From 1990 to 2012, she was deployed to El Salvador, Bosnia, Kuwait, and Afghanistan 2x's (Bagram and Kandahar). She was enlisted for 13 years, and had the opportunity to go to Warrant Officer Candidate School in 1995. She retired a Chief Warrant (CW)4 in 2015 with 33 years of service as an Aviation Production Control Officer.
Military is in Lisa's blood! Her father is a Korean War Veteran (Purple Heart), her brother is a 31 year Veteran of the Navy, graduating from the US Naval Academy, her Uncle is a Vietnam Vet (CIB, Bronze Star) and two nephews are USMC and Army National Guard.
Lisa has owned or ridden a motorcycle for her entire life. She still races Flat Track at the local tracks and rides her Harley, BMW and numerous dirt bikes for fun! So much more to tell, so little time to ride!
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This is designed by Mr. Eric Gjerde.
It's called "Tiled Hexagons" since the design on the back is
well….some interlocking hexagons. The design when the light is behind it
though looks more of some "TOXIC: DO NOT TOUCH, SMELL, TASTE, OR EVEN
LOOK AT !" logo, or maybe the hidden mickey thing, although this time
MIckey looks like he's been about Crystal Meth lately.
For the image of the tessellation without light behind, here it is…
This is the sixth tessellation I made. Wow, I think I am addicted to Tessellations….o.0


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Friday, November 28, 2014
Day Twenty-Eight: Thankful for Traditions
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I know I did. It was so great having P-Momma, her son, and her granddaughter here with us. I was very proud of myself and how I managed to get all the food prepared and cooked, and I didn't stress about a single thing. I timed everything out perfectly, and was able to sit and chat in between prep and cooking.
The food was absolutely delicious. For the first time ever, I decided to put all of the food on the table and we did the whole "pass the _____" ordeal. What we usually do is set all the food up in the kitchen, and then people line up and fix their plates before heading to the table. But this year, I loved the idea of everyone sitting at the table and getting their food at the same time. While it was a good idea, my table just isn't big enough for eight people and all the food. It was a little awkward, but we made it work and I was happy with the fact that we all got to visit and chat during our dinner.
Once dinner was over, P-Momma helped me clean up the kitchen and my house was back to normal in no time. All the dishes, leftovers, and mess were cleaned up and Thanksgiving was over. P-Momma had to leave shortly after, so once they were gone, I decided it was nap time. I took a great nap, and when I woke up the kids were ready to get our Christmas tradition underway.
Which brings me to my thankfulness for today. Today, I am thankful for my family's traditions. The traditions I've carried with me my whole life, and the new ones that have been created in the past couple of years. Each year we try and change something up or add a new tradition, but for the most part we have a tradition system in place that just doesn't get messed with.
Thanksgiving Day is the gateway in to the Christmas season. Once the Thanksgiving feast is over, it's time to start preparing for Christmas. In our house, that consists of decorating the house and then sitting down and watching our first Christmas movie of the year. Each year, I've always been the one to put up the tree, and the kids help me decorate it. Last night, Peanut and Butter decided they wanted to put up the tree and then Jelly and I decorated it while Peanut and Butter strung up lights around the living room.
Our tree is a beautiful tree, and I love colorful lights and lots of colorful garland. Peanut has been trying to talk me in to giving up all of the different colors and going with a tree color theme, but I'm not budging. The color is just one thing I won't give up. Our tree is also decorated in all of the handmade ornaments the kids have made me over the years. I have tons of hand-print reindeer, picture ornaments, and hand-crafted goodies all over the tree. I refuse to let go of any of the little ornaments they've made, and I cherish the fact that I've been using them to decorate the tree for over ten years. My hope is that one day I'll add ornaments that my grandkids make me.
Once the tree and decorations were up, we sat down and watched one of our favorite Christmas movies: Elf. We all snuggled up under blankets in the living room and enjoyed the movie together. It's a rare treat in my house, but a sacred tradition. My kids don't spend much time with me in the living room, anymore, as they are too busy with their video games or laptops in their bedrooms. So, when I do get my Christmas miracle, I cherish each minute.
Now that the Christmas season is upon us, we'll spend each weekend between now and Christmas watching a Christmas movie together. One of those nights we'll make popcorn, another we'll bake some cookies, another we'll enjoy hot chocolate and marshmallows. Each movie night being a little different. Again, a tradition I enjoy very much.
On Monday, the kids will open the first window of their advent calendars. Advent calendars are a tradition I have grown up with. Not a Christmas went by without opening up a little door between the first of December and December 25th and getting out a little piece of chocolate. I have the same tradition for my children, and they enjoy it.
This Christmas, we're going to have plenty of opportunities to add some new traditions to our lineup. In years past, we've always gone to my parents' house on Christmas Day, but that won't be happening this year. We'll do Christmas Eve with P-Momma, like always, and then we'll be spending the day at our house for Christmas. My plan is to do a lot of baking and spending the day playing with the kids and their new toys.
As sad as it may seem that I'm no longer carrying on a tradition of spending time with my parents at Christmas time, I'm very excited to be enjoying the day with my children. With as many not-so-nice things I could say about my mother, I will say that my parents always made Christmas special in our house. I have always tried to do the same for my children. And this year, I just get to make it that much more special by being with them and making sure we have a fabulous day. We'll bake, we'll cook, we'll eat, we'll play, and we'll love every minute of it.
So, today, I'm thankful for all of the wonderful traditions I get to have with my family. I'm thankful that I feel so blessed and happy this time of year. I'm thankful that I can enjoy the happiness that my kids' bring me, and it's this time of year that I am reminded that no matter what happens, I will ALWAYS be there for my kids. NO. MATTER. WHAT.
My kids and the time we spend together mean everything to me, and I will do everything in my power to make sure that, at especially this time of year, I keep our traditions alive.
Have a wonderful day, everyone!
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From the Chief Diversity OfficerPosted: Monday, June 11, 2018
Pride without Borders Annual Conference: October 12, 13
Members of the Buffalo State community are invited to attend the sixth annual SUNY Pride Conference, "Pride without Borders: Sharing Our Stories Beyond the Rainbow," on Friday and Saturday, October 12 and 13, on the campus of SUNY Oneonta.
This conference is meant to highlight and celebrate LGBTQIA+ experiences through fostered dialogue across academic and practical experiences, disciplinary focuses, and institutional perspectives, as well as provide support and resources to those who attend. Today's students entering college come with new attitudes and understandings around gender and sexuality. Despite the progress made in different areas of policy, education, and popular culture, there's still a lot of work to be done in order to give the best support and education to students in a nation full of uncertainty. To this effect, this year's theme serves to provide an avenue for different voices to be heard and allow for greater representation of individuals who are so often silenced.
The SUNY Pride Conference Committee cordially invites students, community members, resource professionals, junior and senior faculty members, and administrators to submit proposals for the upcoming conference theme, "Pride without Borders: Sharing Our Stories Beyond the Rainbow."
The SUNY Pride Conference Committee is also excited to announce an addition to the presentations this year: a Professional Track for current professionals and educators who work with and serve the LGBTQIA+ community (e.g., K–12 teachers, faculty members, administrators, staff members, counselors, community leaders, advisers) to share research, trends, and best practices for supporting students in the community and beyond. Please note on the submission form if you would like your presentation to count toward the Professional Track. Students will not be able to attend presentations or workshops in the Professional Track.
Student presenters should seek guidance from a faculty or staff member at their home institutions. The faculty or staff member should mentor the student through the process of writing the conference proposal, organizing a presentation on a specific theme, and presenting his or her scholarship to an audience.
SUNY Pride Learning Outcomes
Conference participants will be able to
- identify multiple aspects of diversity, including the ongoing development of identity and creating an inclusive community;
- explore and analyze current trends and issues that LGBTQIA+ college students face;
- create a network of student leaders and professionals; and
- explore powerful approaches to diversity, inclusion, and wellness through a local and global lens.
Below are some areas of potential interest that fit in this year's theme and learning outcomes:
Invisibility of LGBTQIA+ Identities
Legacy of Intersectionality and/or Globalization
Marginalization and Resilience
Implications of Public Policy for LGBTQIA+ Communities
LGBTQIA+ Transnational and Translocal Activism
Post-Colonial and De-Colonial Narratives
LGBTQIA+ Mental Health and Wellness
Global LGBTQIA+ Experiences
Political Climate and Impacts
Social Justice Movements
Allyship and Intervention
Acts of Resistance and Healing
Embodied Research and Teaching
Cultural Queerness
Non-normative Genders and Sexualities
Violence against LGBTQIA+ Bodies
To submit a proposal, please complete the Presentation Proposal Form before 11:59 p.m. Monday, September 10.
Please visit the conference website over the summer for more information and updates. Please contact Emily Phelps, chair of the SUNY Pride Conference Committee, with questions.


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Wednesday, 9 July 2008
Ход коня
I am a grown woman. I do not make my own clothes, I buy them. I have a haidresser, not a piece of netting. I believe all religion is pernicious, not only Christianity. In short, I do not read The Guardian newspaper. I do, however, have colleagues with an interest in shamanism who examine its entrails.
They recently extracted a review of apocalytic film scenarios and the realistic expectation of surviving them from the ironically entitled Guide section. In part, it treated the modalities of coping with an invasion by aliens, concluding that they were negligible. I appreciated the endearing tautology, and brought the findings to the attention of No Good Boyo.
Boyo is an afficionado of science fiction, as veteran readers will know only too well. Last night, in his interregnum of relative lucidity between monkey-juice refill No.3 and sleep, I summarised the findings of the Guardian article.
My hope was that he would abandon his fascination with fantasy and apply his pulpy mind to philosophy, child-husbandry and the 'cello.
Boyo scanned the article from his perch on the space hopper, and delivered the following response. (I have it verbatim as I record all our conversations at the urging of my lawyers).
"Fair enough, if they was insects or them lizards. But what if they was all like Valerie Leon out of 'Blood From the Mummy's Tomb', 'Revenge of the Pink Panther' and the 'Carry Ons'? Millions of them, eh? So they enslaves us like this English says, but what if what they wants is to feed on our seed, orally? Don't worry, I'd cope love. Ffyc knows what you birds would do though but. Ha ha Polly Toynbee funnel [remainder indistinct]."
Boyo's operatic ability to see light at the end of the existential tunnel almost warms my heart, and reminds me that the mind of the male is best not understood but simply observed for its curio value.
5 comments:
- Gorilla Bananas said...
That's his Welsh lumpenprole act, Mrs Boyo. He gave up doing it on his blog ages ago. The fact that he's still pretending with you suggests he's trying to avoid intellectual discussions - or possibly it's because you like a bit of rough.
- 9 July 2008 at 09:41
- Gyppo Byard said...
Or possibly it's because the lumpenprolosity of Boyo's conversation is in direct proportion to alcohol consumption.
I once spent an evening in a bar with him which commenced with dazzlingly witty conversation about Ukrainian pronunciation and the perils of Balkan cafe culture and ended with ther red-faced close-perusal of the cleavage of what, in fact, turned out to be a bearded American named Ray. I was sober. I was driving...
- 9 July 2008 at 11:52
- Gadjo Dilo said...
It's a conspiracy: feeding the Lumpenproletariat stories about giant alien lizards etc to keep them getting up to any nonsense.
I confess that I'm woefully unconcerned about things appearing from the heavens bringing either destruction or salvation; this is a result of being both a non-appreciator of science fiction and a Primitive Methodist. In the first case I've always found the human race itself both fascinating and scary enough. In the second, our primitive joy is in The Method, which may in turn be in our madness, but it is its own reward.
- 9 July 2008 at 12:20
- M C Ward said...
Does your husband write / did he inspire the scripts for the Welsh one's dialogues in Coupling, perchance? Or has he just watched a few too many episodes a few too many times?
- 10 July 2008 at 05:34
- Mrs Boyo said...
Gadjo, I agree that the whole aliens/angels fulcrum is designed to deaden the popular mind.
Little did God, Jung and Chris Carter realise that they would instead spur slumbering suburbians to prowl the local woods in search of space pixies.
GB/Gyppo, Boyo's normally patrician urbanity dissolves in monkey juice like a tooth in soda. I emphatically do not like anything rough except justice and diamonds.
MC, the Welsh one on Coupling is like Boyo's long-lost twin. Watching the programme is for me not so much entertainment as an accurate horoscope.
- 10 July 2008 at 11:25