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This page came about for me after a family visit to the zoo I noticed my son taking pictures of Pokemon in the pens, so I asked him to share them with me. When I saw this sketch from Simple Scrapper, I knew I wanted to use it to tell the story of our Como Zoo visit where were saw animals and Pokemon.
This side of the layout I filled with photos of us, the animals, and my son's Pokemon photos.
The right side I selected my favorite family photos to put alongside the title and journaling.
Next was a page about my son and his newfound interest in school clubs. He found four he was interested in and narrowed it to two, choosing one because some of his friends were taking it. That gave me an avenue into the story about his growth. Making friends has been a challenge because he is on the spectrum, so I wanted to celebrate the casual acknowledgment of his social circle.
It's been a while since I've subscribed to a kit. Recently I've subscribed to Ali Edwards' story kit, and I used some of the cards and embellishments on this page. How perfect are those wooden phrases?
I used a lot of yellow since this was such a happy story.
Thank you for visiting today! I've enjoyed finding time to get my daily scrap on. Keep an eye on Simple Scrapper this month. We're starting another Photo Crush to help organize your photo stash.


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Hi everybody! I hope the new year has been treating you well. Like a lot of people, I'm sure you came up with a few resolutions to better yourself, and I'm guessing there's a good chance that one of those resolutions is to eat healthier, as it should be. Well, if you did indeed make such a resolution, then I'm sure that included pretty much cutting out sweets such as chocolate, which I know can't be easy for all of you chocolate lovers.
Well, never fear because I'm here today to tell you some great news. Raw chocolate, known as raw cacao, is a superfood! Yes, you read right, a superfood. That means that consuming it is super good for you and your overall health and well being. Raw Cacao is chocolate in its raw, original form before all the processing and sweetening has been done to it.
You can easily find it in powder form or nib form, both of which we offer at The Urban Juicer as organic superfood add-ins to our smoothies. Add either one to your smoothie to turn it into a delicious, guilt free chocolate treat. For example, have you tried the chocolate version of the Liquid Lunch, our PB and banana smoothie? It's to die for!
Now let's talk about why raw cacao is so good for you. Raw cacao is the highest natural source of multiple necessary, very important nutrients. It's truly amazing how much Raw Cacao is a one stop powerhouse of nutrients. It is the top natural source of antioxidants, magnesium, iron, zinc, manganese, serotonin, tryptophan, copper, vitamin C, and many many other great things, in case those I listed aren't enough for you.
I was actually shocked to learn that raw cacao powder has a higher concentration of antioxidants than any other food in the world. According to superfood expert David Wolfe, raw cacao even has a higher concentration of antioxidants than red wine, blueberries, acai, pomegranates, and goji berries combined! Wow, that's amazing! Raw cacao covered goji berries anyone?
Magnesium is a great alkaline mineral that supports the cardiovascular system and brain. It also relaxes muscles, including menstrual cramping. Ladies of the world feel free to rejoice now that you know that eating raw cacao (not your typical chocolate bar) when mother nature is getting you down is actually really good for you and will make you feel better. Magnesium also increases flexibility, helps build strong bones, and, being an alkaline mineral, increases your body's alkalinity.
Raw cacao contains 314 percent of the recommended daily dose of iron, a critical mineral to our nutrition. It keeps our blood healthy and fights against anemia. Iron is essential to both sexes, but getting extra iron in our diet is especially important to us women, again thanks to that "gift" mother nature brings us each month. During menstruation, we lose a lot of our body's iron, so during that time especially we need to get extra iron in our diet. What better (and more fun) way than by eating some raw chocolate?
Tryptophan is found in significant quantities in raw cacao. Tryptophan is a powerful mood enhancing nutrient that is critical for the production of the also mood enhancing serotonin, which is abundant in raw cacao as well. When tryptophan is cooked it is damaged or destroyed, explaining why most people are deficient. Serotonin is our primary neurotransmitter. It diminishes anxiety and improves our ability to handle both physical and mental stress. A lot less people would be depressed if serotonin levels were higher in the average person. So in other words, a lot less people would be depressed if they ate some raw cacao. A much cheaper and yummier solution to depression than some dangerous pill huh?
So yeah, raw cacao is awesome, and I didn't even break the surface on its vast number of health benefits. I don't know about you, but I think this is some of the best news I've gotten in a long time. Not only is chocolate not bad for you, but it's amazingly good for you! Let me reiterate though, that that rule only applies to raw cacao/raw chocolate (same thing). That does not mean it's good for you to run down to the closest gas station and buy a typical chocolate bar. That is still bad, sorry. Just wait until you try a raw cacao bar though. You'll never even want a gas station chocolate bar ever again. Trust me. Now excuse me while I go celebrate with a delicious, guilt free organic raw cacao bar….

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Palestinian Authority Interior Ministry - 2005 complete sheet of 10 revenue stamps (similar format with left tabs as the Israeli 1960s - 1980s Agra revenue stamps). Due to size sheet is folded horizontaly in center perforations, otherwise mint never hinged and VF. Scarce in this format.
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Muliple Choice and Michelle Wie
A) Shawn Kemp
B) Serena Williams
C) Tiger Woods
D) Jennifer Capriati
E) John Daly
F) Jeong Jang
G) Anna Kournikova
H) Harold Minor
I) Rob Deer
8 comments:
- Musa D said...
I want to change my vote to Vin Baker.
Rob Deer always wore short sleeves. Always. Even when it was 35 degrees and windy in Tiger Stadium in late September. Why hide those guns? They went with the mustache.
On a related note, Pete Incaviglia is now a hitting coach. Yikes.
- Wed Nov 22, 10:07:00 AM 2006
- Anson Mountain said...
J) Manon Rheaume
On a related note, Rob Deer is a minor-league hitting coordinator for the San Diego Padres.
- Wed Nov 22, 10:16:00 AM 2006
- DrGravitee said...
"On a related note, Rob Deer is a minor-league hitting coordinator for the San Diego Padres."
- Wed Nov 22, 10:52:00 AM 2006
- Musa D said...
I imagine Inky and Deer leaning on the batting cage and just telling their pupils after every pitch, "Swing harder, kid. Swing harder."
And thank you, Anson, for reminding me to run my monthly Google Image Search on Manon Rheaume.
- Wed Nov 22, 11:04:00 AM 2006
- Musa D said...
Harold Miner should be a jumping coach somewhere.
- Wed Nov 22, 11:06:00 AM 2006
- DrGravitee said...
If Don Beebe can train individuals of all ages and skill to perform better by "enhancing their speed" with his "House of Speed" program, Minor can teach jumping.
Maybe he can be one of the professional jumpers in the new hit show, Jumping with the Stars.
- Wed Nov 22, 11:33:00 AM 2006
- Anson Mountain said...
OnMilwaukee.Com: We've got to ask... how does a guy known for home runs, strikeouts and towering popups become a hitting coach?
Rob Deer: I answer that a lot. I don't teach the way I hit. I understand how to hit .300. I know what it takes. We tell the guys to be selectively aggressive. We want that to be their approach. We tell them 'Be patiently aggressive.' That's our motto. What does it mean? If you get a good pitch to hit and you take it, that's your fault. We don't ever want to take aggressiveness away. But, we don't want to swing at bad pitches, either.
- Wed Nov 22, 11:33:00 AM 2006
- Musa D said...
In other words, "Swing harder!"
Rob Deer thinks Tom Izzo should be the MSU football coach.
- Wed Nov 22, 11:58:00 AM 2006


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In Oracle Takes Over JavaOne Conference, Paul Krill discusses several themes, both advertised and unadvertised, that are likely to prevail at JavaOne. He alludes to the recent announcement that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison would join Executive Vice President Thomas Kurian for the JavaOne 2010 opening keynote ("Java Strategy and Directions"). James Sugrue highlights this keynote in One Keynote You Won't Want to Miss and there are numerous interesting comments on that post's feedback. Krill also references the later JavaOne keynote that boats Mark Reinhold as a contributor. I definitely plan to attend both of these keynotes while at JavaOne.
In Krill's post, he also alludes to the now well-known Oracle lawsuit against Google and Java market fragmentation as well as covering briefly on other topics likely to be covered significantly at this year's JavaOne: Groovy, Hudson, Project Jigaw, JDK 7, etc.
Another interesting JavaOne-related announcement came in the form of Follow JavaOne and Oracle Develop As It Happens: Oracle Technology Network Live. Those attending JavaOne can attend these interviews of various individuals within the software development community (many of them Java-focused). The full schedule for these Monday-Wednesday (September 20-22) live interviews is available at Oracle Technology Network Live.
Paul Krill wrote another JavaOne-related post this past week called JavaOne Conference May Get a Rival. In this post, he talks about the possibility of another Java-focused conference in San Francisco in spring 2011:
Media company Software & Support Media (S&S) plans to offer a U.S.-based version of its JAX (Java Apache XML) conference, which the company has been conducting in Germany for several years.As I blogged on previously, there are advantages to technical sessions at a software development conference and potential advantages to keynote sessions at a software development conference. In this case, JavaOne 2010 with Oracle at the helm for the first time and with the state of the Java development market and community, I suspect that the keynote sessions have heightened interest for many of us and may be what we're looking forward to most. The title of the opening JavaOne keynote, Java Strategy and Directions, further stokes my interest in what may be learned at JavaOne about the future of Java.
We are all guessing at this point, but the Java.net poll reflects the community interest and asks, "Which area will receive the most attention in the 'Java Strategy and Directions' Keynote?" The current leading selections are Enterprise Java (not surprising given Oracle's historical interests) and Java on Mobile Platforms (not surprising either given the recent Oracle lawsuit related to Android). I'm looking forward to finding out what is the focus of that keynote.


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On July 24th, one month from now, I will be removing the store card system from my mainstore. To those of you who still have store cards, please be sure to use them before this date. I haven't sold the cards in-store since mid February, over 4 months ago, so I hope this won't affect too many people.
After July 24th I will not redeem any cards unless you can provide me with the transaction info.
Again, hopefully this won't affect too many people. I won't go into details as to why, but I feel I need to retire the system in order to protect my store.
xoxo, Antonia :)


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This past Thursday, I had a great opportunity to host an Ozobot party! Courtesy of Tryazon, a product marketing company, I was given an Ozobot to keep and a starter set (of 2!) to give away! I knew my teacher friends would love it, so I thought an after school party would be perfect. It just so happened that my good friend, and tech coach at my school, Brian, also needed to host an Ozobot party! We figured two heads were better than one and we decided to collaborate to make one awesome party.
I was in charge of the giveaway, and I knew I wanted to try and get more teachers on Twitter. So, I added some social media bonus entries. Between Brian and I, we had 2 starter packs to give away. The lucky winners won because of those tweets! :)
We hosted the party in the school's library (thanks Eve!) and got things set up with markers, white paper, iPads loaded with the awesome Ozobot Apps! and the coding cheat sheets.
We had teachers from multiple grade levels, all eager to play with the Ozobots! Everyone was excited to try out the markers and pre-made games.
The teachers also seemed to enjoy the many different ways you can program the Ozobots, too fun!
In the end, two teachers went home with a starter pack with plans to play with them over the holidays and then use them in their classrooms. We also had 4 teachers join twitter - that is a big win in my book!!
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Have you ever struggled with the summary view for Links, Announcements, Events, Documents, Discussions or any other major type of SharePoint 2010 list or library on publishing pages? Well if so I hope this post will help with the identification/resolution of this bug. Hopefully Microsoft will supply a fix for this someday...
Here is a common scenario:
- You create a SharePoint Publishing Site or you create a blank site and then enable the publishing feature.
- From that publishing site you create a simple links list. You add in a few links and want to then display it on your publishing page.
- You edit the publishing page and then click on a webpart zone and add the newly created links list on the page.
- From here instead of configuring the webpart to display in summary view you simply keep the current view and check the page in.
- You then edit/check out the page again and decide to modify the links list to show in "Summary View" to get it to display like a bulleted list of links.
- You edit the page and then modify the shared links list webpart. In the tool pane you change the view to "Summary View".
- You click on Apply or Ok and it seems to look correct, however as soon as you check the page in or publish the page the view that you set on the webpart is back to the default.
- At this point you are frustrated and have no idea what when wrong. You spend about 2 hours banging your head against the wall… Finally you resort to removing the webpart, add it back in, change the view to summary and then publish the page hoping that it will be fixed.
- And then to your surprise it worked and your link lists displays as normal… Now you are completely confused and just happy that it is working…
- Sound familiar?
The key part of this bug is that the webpart was not set to summary view before it was checked in/published. If the page was just saved and not checked in there would not be an issue. It has something to do with the versioning of pages and the publishing feature with pages. This is not an issue with sites that do not have publishing pages where you simply save and close the page (Blank/team sites).
To quickly fix a webpart that will not go into summary view you will have to remove the webpart from the page and then add it back in. Once it is back on the page change it to summary view, it will then take the updates. This happens for all lists and library summary views. It is very confusing as a user that is building a page in stages that if they save the page and check it in for later editing the views are cached or saved in that state and cannot be changed.
The summary views are actually really helpful as they transform a basic looking list view into something that is more graphical and usable.
Hopefully this will be addressed in some future hotfix so that we do not have to remove our webparts from publishing pages to get them to display differently.
Write a comment if you found this to be useful or found yourself in this same situation.


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Gioey works for GEAR UP, which is a statewide education program focusing on getting high school students early awareness and readiness for undergraduate programs.
Gioey usually meets with students at their high school, and collaborates with the counseling staff at each school to coordinate services. Parents can contact Gioey at 801-863-6851 to request appointments; Gioey can meet them at their student's high school, at her GEAR UP office in Orem, or she can make home visits.
Master of Public Administration
Emphases: Non-Profit Organization Management, Human Resource Management
Romney Institute of Public Management
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Bachelor of Arts
International Cultural Studies/Humanities
Brigham Young University, Laie, Hawaii
graduated cum laude
· Counselor, Utah's Statewide GEAR UP Education Program
· Multicultural Counselor/Program Coordinator, BYU Multicultural Student Services
· Academic Advisor, UVU School of General Academics
· Senior Recruitment Coordinator, UVSC Prospective Student Services
· Volunteer Coordinator, Salt Lake County Aging Services
I was raised in Northern California and am one of six children. I grew up playing a lot of different sports and still enjoy participating in them. I earned my Bachelor of Arts degree from BYU-Hawaii and lived and worked there for a few years after graduating. I moved to Utah for graduate school and have lived in Utah County since. After earning my graduate degree I have mainly worked in higher education.
Working with students and seeing them achieve goals they have set for themselves is a great reward for me. I believe advising is a collaborative process that requires research and effort by both the advisor and the student. I will guide and support students as they work towards their educational goals, but I will not make decisions for them. Learning to take responsibility for their academic progress is an important step in a student's development and will motivate them to more fully participate in and feel ownership of their educational pursuits.


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With the end of UFC 140, that means it is time to prepare for UFC 141. The UFC recently released a video promo for UFC 141, a highly-anticipated event featuring Brock Lesnar taking on Alistair Overeem.
UFC 141 goes down December 30 from Las Vegas, Nevada. Lesnar-Overeem will serve as a No. 1 contender match for the UFC heavyweight title, meaning the winner will face current UFC champ Junior dos Santos in 2012.
Lesnar is an ex-UFC champ and former WWE Superstar, who is returning from a serious bout with diverticulitis. He has not competed since losing the title to Cain Velasquez in 2010
Overeem was the Strikeforce heavyweight champ before signing with the UFC. Rumors of him possibly being forced out of the fight seem to be just rumors, as UFC president Dana White confirmed the fight is still a go.
Other fights for UFC 141 include Nate Diaz vs. Donald Cerrone and Johny Hendricks against Jon Fitch.
Check out the video below:
MMATraining Take: This bout is going to be epic! I can hardly wait to see how Lesnar's superior wrestling matches up against Overeem's powerful, precise stand-up. If forced to pick I'd go with the Dutchman by a hair given Brock's past struggles with striking.


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SUDBURY — The summer storm that downed trees and power lines in New Sudbury and left thousands without power Monday evening was a downburst, according to Environment Canada.
"Our meteorologists, they were looking at the archive radar today, checking back at what happened, and it seemed like from the radar echoes that it was a downburst," said meteorologist Gerald Cheng.
"A downburst is basically a very strong wind that comes down from the thunderstorm and hits the ground and spreads out … That is why we are seeing some of the damage that we are seeing right now."
This downburst was "very localized," he said, with much of the damage reported in the New Sudbury area.
According to Weather.com, downbursts and microbursts are in essence the same thing, the only difference between them is the size of the area of effect.
Both feature strong, downward moving air "associated with a downdraft from a thunderstorm," Weather.com writes. When that downward moving air hits the ground, it's forced outward in all directions and curls back on itself, resulting "in incredible wind damage."
A downburst can produce "straight-line wind damage" over an area slightly bigger than a kilometre to an area as large as 400 kilometres.
A downburst is considered a microburst when the distance of effect is less than four kilometres in diametre.
At the weather stations at the Sudbury Airport and the North Bay Airport, wind speeds were under 40 km/h during the storm.
"But that's not indicative of the damage that the storm caused, because obviously to have damage like that, you really need a wind of at least 100 km/h," Cheng said.
Over the Canada Day long weekend, a couple of tornado warnings were actually issued in the Greater Sudbury region, but those storms turned out to be relatively minor.
Cheng said people can "breathe easier" today and tomorrow, as there's unlikely to be any storms. However, with hot, humid weather in the extended forecast, there's definitely the possibility of more thunderstorms.
"Certainly with the heat and with the humidity, those are the necessary ingredients for thunderstorms to develop," he said.
— Sudbury.com


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Temple Lodge Club
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Homestay Norwich
Homestay Norwich is an eco-friendly accommodation located 15 minutes' walk to Norwich city centre.more
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Ambleside Manor
Set in over two acres of private grounds, Ambleside Manor is a lovely Victorian Country Guest House offering comfortable rooms on a vegetarian bed and breakfast basis.more
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The Essence of Dharma-8.
(Spoken on February 11th, 1973)
How do we know what action is justifiable and what is not? There are some people who have laid down a principle. If a particular character, attitude or conduct of ours can be imitated by everybody else in the world with impunity, well, we can regard it as a justifiable action. Suppose you tell a lie. Would you like everybody in the world to tell lies? If you yourself would not like it, then it is not justifiable.
Suppose everybody in the world is a thief, without exception. Would it be all right? We will naturally say it is not all right; therefore, theft is not justifiable. Incontinence universally practised is not justifiable. So anything that is universally applicable with impunity to everyone is often regarded as a test of dharma or justifiable action. The principle, however, ultimately is that it should be universally applicable and the law operating in the cosmos should determine action.
There is also a principle of dharma laid down by certain other moralists that things should be regarded as ends rather than as means because the universe does not contain only means. It contains ends. Every part of our body is an end in itself and not a means to some other; it has a justifiable existence of its own. Therefore, every individual in the universe should be regarded as justifiably existing on his own or her own status. Every person has a status of his own or her own. We do not exist because of somebody else.
Now, the attitude of connecting one person with another person is not samanya dharma, or an ultimately justifiable attitude. I am not an instrument of your pleasure in any manner whatsoever; therefore, you cannot regard yourself as a purpose, and myself as an instrument towards the fulfilment of that purpose.
So the moralist's canon is that an attitude which can be regarded as justifiable, good and moral or ethical regards a thing as an end in itself, and not as a means to something else. It is true that we use things as a means, but towards a higher end. When you use a particular person or a thing as a means to a certain fulfilment, even that is towards the fulfilment of an end which is in view, and not merely for the fulfilment of the character of one's being the means.
The third principle of morality is that the urge for doing good is a categorical imperative. A categorical imperative is a philosophical jargon which simply means a 'must' or an 'ought' that urges itself forward from within ourselves without anyone telling us. We need not be told what is good. Our conscience will tell us what is good. That inward urge towards the rectitude of a particular action, the pricking of the conscience, as they generally say, is a good test of morality and ethical conduct.
Swami Krishnananda
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Tips for Shopping for Summer Dresses
Dress wrong for summer, and you will be left to curse the hot weather. That is why you must always shop for your summer clothes in good time. It is not even early to start thinking about shopping for summer dresses. We thought you would use a few tips on how to go about making the right choice for summer dresses.
Go for Pattern Camouflage
With plain dresses, sweat stains will easily show. To care of that, you should opt for dresses with patterns and decorations. They will take care of the stains and keep you looking bright for under the heat and sunlight.
Vibrant and Bold Colors are Good for the Heat
White and black will be a good choice for spring but not good with the swooning summer heat. It is time you go bold with your color choices. You will be able to beat the heat and effortlessly hide any sweat spots. This is a trick you could always use to look fabulous when the summer sun decides to descend upon the earth.
Have the Beach in Mind
The sun means you will be spending more time on the beach. If you are not the bikini type, you would be home with beach dresses. Include a few pieces of these versatile dresses in your wardrobe, and you will always look forward to that cold breeze on the beach. These dresses are comfortable and go well with the hot weather.
Lace Dresses are Great for Summer Parties
Summer comes with loads of parties and cocktails. You do not want to miss these just because you do not have something to go with the mood. You can get ready for them by buying bright colored lace dresses. They are comfortable, will give you an easy time if you decide to dance and they will not show sweat stains. It will always be a summer to remember if you could have the best dresses for every occasion.
Shirt dresses are Trending
It is time you get it from down to the top with something you can be comfortable with. As you shop for your summer dresses, you should leave some room to throw in surprise pieces. Shirtdresses are going to be a turn on the coming summer and every other summer. You should leave room for them as you go out to shop in readiness for summer.
Go for Both divide of Casual and Formal
You should not only be shopping for casual events but also for formal dresses. You should have your choices for both divides. Pick a few casual dresses as well as some for the formal occasions. It would be embarrassing to miss a big formal event only because you do not have a great dress to go with the summer sun.
Summer will not be forgiving you if you do not get ready for it. Summer dresses should be among your priorities in your wardrobe. Now that you have a few ideas on how to make your choices right, you should not have trouble shopping for summer dresses.…


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Papua New Guinea's opposition is taking more legal action against the government of the Prime Minister Peter O'Neill.
The opposition leader Belden Namah has filed a Supreme Court Reference challenging the constitutionality of legislation being considered by parliament to extend the grace period for motions of no-confidence.
Mr Namah recently withdrew the opposition's earlier commitment of support for the proposed Vote of No Confidence Bill which would stretch the grace period from 18 to 30 months after a government is elected.
This follows another Supreme Court Reference filed last month by Mr Namah challenging the legality of Australia's asylum seeker processing centre on Manus Island.
The opposition is also seeking the reopening of an official Inquiry into dealings within the National Provident Fund based on new evidence it claims to have.
Mr O'Neill was investigated as part of the inquiry more than ten years ago.


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Death by Ferraro Rocher Trifle (or should I call it Nutella Trifle?)Posted: September 28, 2011 Filed under: Cake, Recipe | Tags: Chocolate, Hazelnut, Trifle 6 Comments
I have two friends that I bake for regularly that are frequently mentioned in this blog, not by name of course! They, like me, love food and frequently talk about it. I think that this recipe may have been a favourite for one of them – and that is saying A LOT. Every time I have seen them lately, he mentions this dessert and has a new comment about it. He has asked if he can pay me to make it for him so he can take it to potluck dinners – and of course claim that he made it! And really I didn't even make it as well as I could have – I would have used Frangelico if there weren't kids eating it!
Anyways, it is based on a chocolate trifle like dessert known as Death by Chocolate (I often just call it "Chocolate Mess" as it ends up looking like that once served) but it is a Chocolate-Hazelnut Trifle rather than just straight up chocolate. Basically I had a layer of my favourite chocolate cake in the freezer and wanted to use it without making anything that would take a ton of time. Also, I had Ferraro Rocher's that someone had given me but I was afraid to open them as I have a fear that I will eat them all! So put that together with some Nutella and you have "Death by Ferraro Rocher"! Here are the layers:
Chocolate Hazelnut Trifle
Chocolate Cake or Brownies, cut up in 1inch cubes
Use your favourite recipe or just buy a cake mix if you are being lazy! Although you do want a good cake, it isn't as important to make sure it is moist since everything else in the dessert ensures lots of moisture!
1/2 cup Frangelico, Kahlua, Chocolate Hazelnut Tea (for the kid friendly version!), or any liquid that has a little sweetness/flavour to add
Nutella Mousse
3/4 cup Nutella
1 8 oz pkg cream cheese, softened
4-8 Tb milk/cream
Beat all together until smooth. Add enough milk to ensure a pudding like consistency.
Whipped Cream
1 cup whipping cream
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Whip cream until soft peaks form. Add sugar and vanilla and beat a little more but not too much!
6 Ferraro Rocher's, chopped roughly
- Arrange half of the chocolate cake pieces in the bottom of your bowl (I like using my trifle bowl but any deep bowl will do – it is nice to use a clear one so you can see the pretty layers!).
- Drizzle 4 Tb of Frangelico/whatever you are using over the top of the cake pieces.
- Spread half of the Nutella mousse over the cake evenly. I tend to put it in 'glops' and then spread it out evenly.
- Spread half of the whipped cream over the mousse.
- Sprinkle half of the chopped Ferraro Rocher's over the whipped cream.
- Repeat all layers.
- Refrigerate at least 1 hour before serving. You can make it ahead of time and refrigerate overnight too.
Vanilla Bean Strawberry Filled CakePosted: September 4, 2011 Filed under: Cake | Tags: Berry, Buttercream, Cake, Vanilla 1 Comment
I was paid for my first cake recently! It was very exciting really. A friend from my gym was going to buy her daughter's cake from the grocery store or something but realized instead she could buy it from me! I think she was almost as excited about the idea as I was! Her only real request was to decorate with strawberries – although not necessarily real. But it didn't have to be strawberry flavoured. Well to me, it did have to have some strawberry flavour because I couldn't just put strawberries on the outside and then make a chocolate cake or something! Anyways, I decided on trying one of the vanilla cakes from Sweetapolita that she keeps raving on about, pair it with a strawberry curd filling and cover it with fluffy vanilla buttercream.
Unfortunately I couldn't actually take a picture of the inside of the cake so I made a mini one for me! (I needed to taste test it too!) I ran out of vanilla icing so I iced it with chocolate fudge icing that I had left from something else. It is one layer short of the real one but the picture still shows the inside. It was pretty tasty although next time I would make thicker cake layers rather than such thin ones as I did this time. I think this is an excellent vanilla cake but I don't know if it is THE best as has been posted on Sweetapolita… I think I need to try a few others!
Fluffy Vanilla Cake (adapted from Sweetapolita) with Strawberry Curd and Whipped Vanilla Frosting
makes one 2-layer, 8 inch round cake
- 6 large egg whites, room temp
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 vanilla bean scraped (or increase vanilla to 2 1/4tsp)
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 Tb + 1tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup butter, room temp & cut into cubes
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease & line with parchment paper two 8″ cake pans
- In a measuring cup or small bowl, stir together the egg whites, 1/4 cup milk, and the vanilla.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer (or regular & use a hand mixer), combine the dry ingredients and mix on low speed for about 30 seconds.
- Add the butter and remaining 3/4 cup of milk and mix on low speed until moistened. Increase the speed to medium and mix for 90 seconds.
- Scrape down the bowl if needed. Add the egg mixture in 3 batches and beat on medium speed for 20 seconds after each.
- Divide the batter between the two prepared cake pans. Bake 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
- Let cool in the pans for 10 minutes and then remove to cooling rack to cool completely.
Strawberry Curd (this works perfect for Raspberry Curd as well)
- ~15oz fresh strawberries, stems removed (or ~12oz raspberries)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 4 TB lime juice
- 5 tsp cornstarch
- In a small bowl, mix together the lime juice and cornstarch until mostly smooth.
- In a food processor or magic bullet, puree the berries with the sugar. Add the cornstarch/lime juice and puree again.
- Strain into a medium saucepan through a mesh seive.
- Cook over medium until it comes to a boil. Stir constantly and cook for another minute until somewhat thickened.
- Strain again into a heatproof contained and allow to cool to room temperature. Chill slightly to make sure it is thick before using in the cake.
Whipped Vanilla Frosting
- 1 1/2 cup butter, room temp
- 6 cups icing sugar
- 2tsp clear vanilla
- 3-5 Tb cream/milk
- In the bowl of a mixer, beat the butter for 8 minutes on medium speed. The butter will become pale and creamy.
- Add the sugar, 1/2 cup at a time while the mixer is on low. Add vanilla and cream until desired consistency is reached.
- Beat on medium for 6 minutes.
- I actually made this a 6 layer cake and made 3 9″ layers (I did an extra 'half' recipe on top of what is written. I think if I did it again, I would actually double the recipe for 3 thicker 9″ layers) and sliced each of the layers in half. I also used 2 cups of butter & 8 cups of sugar for this size of cake.
- I layered it as such: cake, vanilla frosting, cake, strawberry curd, cake, vanilla frosting, cake, strawberry curd, cake, vanilla frosting, cake. Cover the entire cake with frosting.
- When it comes to the layers with the curd, pipe a good "dam" around the outside of the cake prior to adding the curd. This will ensure that the curd doesn't leak out.


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I've never attempted something like this before. I've no idea if I'll be able to stick with it or not. But here goes.
I don't read much manga. It's not that I don't like it. Far from it! It's just that I've grown lazy over the past few years and haven't taken the time to dive into books for pleasure like I used to. That goes for fiction, nonfiction, comics, pretty much everything. I guess I could take this opportunity to investigate why that is but I think my time would be better spent actually reading. And lo and behold, I just found a manga that, for the first time in a while, I'm feeling very motivated to read and also talk about. If you haven't figured it out already, that manga is Yowamushi Pedal.
This is one of those stories that, judging from the cover and the opening pages, is quick to give away certain plot details that, ideally, shouldn't be spoiled for the reader up front. I guess it's almost unheard of for any kind of story, whether it's a book or a film or a TV series, to shroud itself in mystery and not foreshadow anything at all about the the turns it might take after the opening chapters. After all, if you want an audience, you have to give them something to look forward to. Lately, though, I've wondered how often this ruins the experience of the story. Here's yet another case in which I'd really like to just "fall in" to a story with no idea where it's headed. Not necessarily because there's a big twist on the way (maybe there is, maybe there isn't), but simply because I'd like to truly share in, and not simply observe, the sense of surprise and discovery that the protagonist is about to experience with no prior expectations on my part. Alas…
Sakamichi Onoda is a new high school student. I guess that makes him 15 years old? Maybe 16? Most summaries of the series describe him as an "otaku," which is certainly an accurate statement. I'm hesitant to label him as such, given the all the baggage that the term carries. I do appreciate how readers are given a window into his mind concerning the matter, though, giving us a chance to understand how being an otaku has shaped his personality and affected him socially. There's a sequence very early in this chapter in which he discovers the existence of an anime club at his new school. I don't want to get in the habit of uploading complete pages from the scanlated manga, but I'll make an exception for now, since this was what got me hooked on the story and I don't believe for a second that I could adequately describe what's going on here in such a way that captures the emotion in each panel.
The revelation of these pages is not the depth of his otaku-dom, which would be easier to convey (and reading slightly ahead, is made obvious on many other occasions), but rather the sense of alienation that he feels because of it. This was hinted at early on, as introductory pages show Onoda riding his bicycle to school, passing by classmates in mid-conversation, making plans for afternoon get-togethers. Unlike Tomoko from Watamote (which I've been watching and enjoying immensely, lately), he doesn't resent their social success or violently brood over his own shortcomings in that department (after all, he has plans of his own for the afternoon). He's endured loneliness long enough to accept and live with it, but also realizes that he's now at a critical juncture. Starting at a new school has given him a fresh start and a chance to meet people that share his interests. The moment of excitement that he allows himself to feel after spotting an advertisement for the school anime club shows the depth of his eagerness to find a connection with others. On the other hand, the possibility of such an opportunity not panning out as planned seems to leave him without anything resembling a feasible plan b for finding his place in high school life. It's very apparent early on that Onoda needs such an outlet for his passions, which are a non-negotiable dealbreaker when it comes to making friends.
This is a common experience that isn't explored in fiction very often. Often, the niche interests or hobbies of characters are nothing more than character traits used to cast them as eccentric or weird. Sometimes this is done for comedic effect. Other times, it's a trope used to illustrate how "broken" they are. We don't often find otaku characters — "otaku" in the sense of being unusually obsessed with any subject whatsoever — cast in such a sympathetic light. So far, we have no reason to believe that Onoda is anything other than the person we're shown: shy, timid, lonely, but also enthusiastic about the subjects that excite him and truly hopeful that he's about to find a place in which he can be comfortable in his own skin. These are feelings that I've felt very deeply, which is probably why this story is resonating with me in such a poignant way.
I'm trying not to praise this manga simply because it tells a story that I can relate to. Maybe I'm a little too eager to invest myself in it? After all, this is just the first chapter and it would be foolish to assume that we're getting anything resembling a complete picture of the characters and their motivations. For now, I'd like to use this as practice, for lack of a better term, for observing not just how a story of such length is told, but also what criteria I use to judge it. Am I filling in the blanks so that it better fits my needs? Is that okay? Just a few thoughts to keep in mind as I get ready to blog this story chapter by chapter…
I've hated Tumblr since the start, "typical" Tumblr pages are not something I ever want to look at. What came over me this week, I'm not sure.
Oh my god I HATE this AMV.
It's hard for me to sit through and the visceral reaction I feel when I try to do so is complicated to explain but includes uncontrollable rage and physical nausea and doesn't stop there.
The initial draft of this post was longer than this and much nastier but for the sake of my own mental health (or what's left of it) I've decided to remove it and leave it like this.


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Here's a Catholic version of environmental stewardship.
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, One Baby At A Time
Spring 2010 – Faith & Family Magazine of Catholic Living
Got a big family? Then you already know that you're crazy, a traitor to feminism, and a slave to the pope; you're neglecting most of your kids and robbing the rest of their childhood; you're a burden on the system in general, and you probably don't own a television set.
But wait, there's more! Don't forget, you're also destroying the earth.
Lately, it's become fashionable for radical environmentalists to denounce large families as irresponsible, even selfish. Maybe you heard the remarks of the chairman of the U.K.'s Sustainable Development Commission, who said that, out of respect for the earth, couples should be legally limited to bearing two "replacement" children.
And yet, if we can get beyond the inflammatory rhetoric, do radical environmentalists have a point? Should we slow down a little? It almost seems like common sense, especially when you're having one of those days when you do feel a little crowded by the swarms of ravening locusts — uh, I mean, treasured offspring who share your last name.
Click here for full story — Faith & Family Magazine: Big Families Are the New Green.


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Hello guys, I'm receiving an error every time I want to get a location from the device (GPS is on, High Accuracy enabled as well).
Error code is -1 and the error message is:
Cannot assign a JavaScript object with value null to an output parameter of type Integer Check the JavaScript node 'GetLocationJS' of the action 'GetLocation'.
Hello, José,
Thanks for sharing this: turns out we need to extra safe on our success callbacks. We'll fix it on our next version.
To anyone wordering: the GetLocation action uses callback based logic for success and failure scenarios, but we assumed that in a success scenario, all values would be properly filled-in by the plugin. In this case, this device returned 'null' for Heading, Altitude and couple of other properties, which in turn resulted in a runtime cast error.
Best regards,
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
Voyage of the Beagle Finger Puppets
If you want to make your own (maybe in anticipation of the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of the Species this November?) please feel free to use my template, below.
7 comments:
- The Shopkeepers Journal said...
Hi there,
I am writing from the UK - I would like to invite you to take part in an exhibition - do you have an email address I can send the information to?
Sorry if I'm being blind I just can't find your email address - please reply to email@example.com
I really look forward to hearing from you soon,
Best wishes,
Samantha Allan
- May 29, 2009 at 9:26 AM
- Christine said...
Loovely :)
- July 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM
- Snag Breac said...
I just stumbled upon your beautiful blog, that made me smile enormously this morning. I love your sense of fascination with things. The crochet wunderkammer is gorgeous. My home is one big wunderkammer too, its nice to see others out there!
Best wishes!
- August 24, 2009 at 6:19 AM
(here from boingboing)
your work is truly lovely, all of it. take care & keep creating!
- October 19, 2009 at 4:19 AM
- Owlfarmer said...
Because of your interest in handcraft and the natural world, I wanted to alert you to Margaret Wertheim's talk for TED, and her crocheted coral reef project. I imagine that you already know about it and might even be involved, but just in case: http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/crocheting_in_h.php
I'm going to be posting on Darwin-related projects this week in the Cabinet of Wonders, and hope you don't mind if I link the puppets. They're wonderful.
- October 26, 2009 at 1:40 PM
- Alice said...
Looks like you're in great demand over here in the UK! I write for Inside Crochet magazine, we'd really really love to feature your blog, etsy shop and the feature on SuperNaturale in our "Crochet on the net" page...
Could you drop me an email back (firstname.lastname@example.com) it would be great to hear from you.
- November 2, 2009 at 6:17 AM
- Sara Marco said...
I really love your stuff and your stile!
thanks for that,
just great!
- October 28, 2010 at 5:10 PM


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PD.Com: Pretention in a can.
Don't fucking judge me, I've got tentacles for a face.
Username checks out, at least?
I don't know if you think that people are actually going to click a Youtube link posted by a complete stranger without introduction of explanation, but I can't tell you for sure that I'm not.
I clicked it, it was disappointing and unsurprising.
QuoteI clicked it, it was disappointing and unsurprising. Sorry, you're right. I should have added a spoiler warning before posting the binary code. I'm bad at this.
All I got was 100 101 99 50...
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As a neuroscientist I have to disagree with the perception that anyone is doing mathematical modeling of cognitive intelligence, yet; intelligence as an economist defines it, yes, but economists are worlds away from actual cognition.


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Wolverine (2009) Review
August 27, 2009
While this movie came out months ago, I still can't resist commenting on this summer action flick. After Three X-Men flicks with varying reception. The first two of course were part of the great comicbook movie revival. The third one seemed to miss the mark, and suggest that the franchise was running dry. Well, a great deal of time has passed, and Wolverine (2009) has been released. Did Hugh Jackman's uber-masculine alter ego cure the X-Men movie slump?
Oh Heavens, no.
At least, it didn't bring it back to the level of Bryan Singer's installments. That much is clear. But it doesn't seem like it was ever meant to do that either. It was just made into a standard, blockbuster action movie to provide a summer special effects extravaganza. And it did just that, although it unfortunately didn't even do that all that well.
Anyone familiar to the X-Men plot so far can easily guess what Wolverine deals with. The prequel deals with Wolverine's past life, especially leading up to the mysterious Weapon X program that the mutant has been having trouble remembering for the whole trilogy. At last, the answer that so many fanboys dreamed of seeing on the big screen. Unfortunately, this flick has little bearing on the original Weapon X plot. You can definitely count this as one of those superhero flicks where the filmmakers took an awful lot of creative license with source material. For all of you fans of Deadpool….I'm sorry. Better luck with the hopeful Deadpool movie.
One thing that was disappointing that alot of people don't seem to bring up is the claws themselves. Sometimes they looked okay, but much of the time the blades were rendered with bad CGI. It was a disappointing departure from previous X-Men movies, where so much of every character was so well done. Now, the main character's namesake is reduced to bad graphical effects.
The really great effects in the movie are often handled oddly too. Gambit comes to mind. See, Gambit is a mutant whose powers is that he can charge objects with kinetic energy, causing them to explode after a few seconds or if they are thrown at something. He can do this to the point that he can flick a card and make it soar like a rocket, and explode spectacularly. This is obviously a reason for why he calls himself Gambit (the other is his rogue-ish nature). Well, apparently the makers of this film decided they didn't like the card throwing thing that much. He often uses his powers in a variety of ways, which is good in theory. It would be good in practice had his debut fight sequence not been so abysmally goofy. I almost never mention little continuity errors or trivial screw-ups, because 90 % of the time I hardly notice and I doubt the average person would care. But one of the scenes invovled the biggest continuity error I think I've ever seen in a blockbuster style movie. In a fight between Wolverine, Gambit, and Sabertooth, Sabertooth manages to knock out Gambit or something at close range. Then all of a sudden Gambits leaping over rooftops from way in the distance. How did that happen? Seriously, it was confusing.
The good news is that the foul ups and silly moments are funny as Hell. This thing could almost qualify as a comedy in some points. Sometimes I even wonder if the director wasn't flat out having fun with the movie's most ridiculous moments. Such as seeing little kid Logan doing the murderous rage schtick in a red night gown, or the infamous "memories growing back" line. You've probably seen the best example in the trailer itself. Wolverine is clinging desperately to some military style hummer, and an attack helicopter fires a rocket, destroying the car and catapulting ole Wolvie into the Helicopter. Not into the air, where he can catch the chopper, mind you. No he makes a direct bee line into the offending aircraft. And of course, thats how he disposes of it. By accident. Trust me, when my friend and I saw it in the theater, we laughed for several minutes straight. It looks incredibly ridiculous.
At least Hugh Jackman seemed to really be into his role. The performance might not have been perfect, but physically speaking he sure did look the part. Out of all the superhero movie stars, I'd say Hugh Jackman looked most like the musclebound comicbook stud. He put in some serious time in a gym and you can most certainly tell in the movie.
I imagine Canadians beemed with tremendous pride watching this movie, too. Not only did Canada get some quality time in an American movie- but the biggest badass in the Marvel universe points out the land of his birth with dramatic flair. Best of all, the gritty do-gooder serves as definitive proof that Canucks don't say "aboot" after all. Of course, the movie doesn't portray any of the conspirators as being Canadian, just the badass hero. As usual, the American federal government is out to get everyone.
If you haven't seen any of the films of this franchise, do yourself a favor and see the first two before you decide whether or not to see this one. Really, this is something you might want to save if you are a true die-hard X-Men fan or if you want to watch something relatively light.
4.5 out of 10.


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#109 – I'll Prove to You I'm Bad.September 29, 2017 at 10:02 am | Posted in adoption books, Adoption differences, adoption information, adoption insight, adoption issues, adoption loss, Adoptive parenting do's, Differences - adoptive parenting and biological parenting, Differences -adopted child and biological child | Leave a comment
Parents normally try to raise their children
to be good children and good citizens. Most people were
raised this way and can remember the feeling of wanting to
please their parents. For one thing, life was simpler at home
if there was a minimum of problems. It's hard, therefore,
when adoptive parents are dealing with a child who seems
determined to be as bad as he can. This can be baffling.
Again, we must understand the adopted child's thinking.
Fortunately, only a small percentage of adopted children
fall into this behavior category. However, if parents have to
deal with this syndrome for years, it is extremely taxing and
A child may test his parents for a long time. The child
may do something bad and find his parents deal with it, but
don't throw him out. He feels he has passed that level and
will then move onto the next. The child's behavior can get
incrementally worse as if he is testing on one level and then
another and another.
When this happens, parents must focus on loving the
child and hating the behavior. The child wants to know, "How
bad does my behavior need to be before my adoptive parents
give me away?" As exasperating as this is, unconditional love
will eventually bring the child home again. The child is always
lovable although the behavior can be detestable. It seems it
can take forever for some adopted children to believe this.
If the child actually does leave home, he often ends up in a much
lower socioeconomic situation than he had at home. He lives with
people who may not have the education or advantages he has been given.
Soon, he may realize he doesn't fit in the new environment because he
is accustomed to more than what he sees around him. The child
may take on a part-time job, or take a class to improve himself.
He will continue to advance himself to a point where he does
feel comfortable, where he does feel he belongs. This may be
right back on the level he was when he was living at home.
However, he discovered it himself. His present place
in the world was not decided by an adoption worker or a
lawyer. At this point, he has gained confidence in himself. He
finally has some self-determination. Many adopted children
feel powerless because when they were young and helpless,
adults were making decisions for them. This difficult exercise
of climbing up the socioeconomic ladder all by oneself
overcomes some of this helplessness.
If all goes well, the child will eventually outgrow the
unwholesome world he has chosen to embrace. He rises to
the top of it and gets back into the main stream of society.
There can be many bad experiences along the way and these
can take a toll.
Having an accepting, loving home waiting surely helps
the child to accelerate his journey. Even though he has made
some bad decisions and used bad judgment resulting in his
temporarily becoming "that bad person he always thought he
was," if he is later accepted back at home, this proves to him
that he is lovable after all. Hopefully, he will realize he was
not given away because he was bad. After all, his adoptive
parents still love and accept him. If he can see this, then he
can start to work on finding the good and positive that his
adoptive parents have seen all along.
One mother who went through this experience used to
express it as, "It's like Todd is a tall shiny metal cylinder. All
the good things we taught him are inside where we can't see
them. All we can see now is the garbage he is displaying on
the top. We know all that goodness is still there. He can't
destroy it. He just needs to work through his garbage in order
to find himself." Indeed, Todd eventually did.
Excerpt from "Insight Into Adoption", 3rd edition
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The commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code Arena-flow is used to simulate the transient, three-dimensional flow in a gas-solid riser at Sandia National Laboratories. Arena-flow uses a multiphase particle-in-cell (MP-PIC) numerical method. The gas flow is treated in an Eulerian manner, and the particle flow is represented in a Lagrangian manner by large numbers of discrete particle clouds with distributions of particle properties. Simulations are performed using the experimental values of the gas superficial velocity and the solids mass flux in the riser. Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) particles are investigated. The experimental and computed pressure and solid-volume-fraction distributions are compared and found to be in reasonable agreement although the experimental results exhibit more variation along the height of the riser than the computational results do. An extensive study is performed to assess the sensitivity of the computational results to a wide range of physical and numerical parameters. The computational results are seen to be robust. Thus, the uncertainties in these parameters cannot account for the differences between the experimental and computational results.
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An article from the Derry Journal regarding a peculiar incident that took place in the current UK City of Culture some years ago.
It's doubtful that the mindless morons who burned a portrait of 18th century Earl Bishop of Derry, Frederick Hervey, knew anything of his radical support for Catholic rights in a time of persecution.
An ardent supporter of Catholic emancipation - a stance which invoked the ire of many of his contemporaries - Dr Hervey was honoured after his death by the people of his diocese, including a Dissenting minister and a Catholic Bishop.
At his family home in Ickworth in Surrey an obelisk was inscribed with a tribute which includes the following excerpt: "Sacred to the memory of Frederick, Earl of Bristol, Bishop of Derry, who during 35 years that he presided over that See, eandeared himself to all denominations of Christians resident in his extensive diocese. He was a friend and protector of them all."
According to various sources, the man whose family is well known for many reasons - including the famous sherry, Harvey's Bristol Cream - was extremely popular in Derry and is said to have brought the age of enlightenment to the city with his liberalism and tolerance.
In his book, 'Irish Eccentrics' Peter Somerville-Large says of Bishop Hervey: "He underwent that fierce metamorphosis that turns some English men into Irish patriots. In a time savage religious discrimination he openly supported the cause of Catholic emancipation."
He was well travelled, cultured, an art connoisseur, multi-lingual and an enthusiastic amateur geologist.
But Dr Hervey, was also bit of an oddball, packed full with peculiarities. He was widely regarded as an eccentric character and a host of bizarre tales infuse his lifestory.
On one occasion, according to Somerville-Large, the Earl-Bishop was enjoying a meal in Siena while on his travels and, as a procession of the Host passed under the window of his hotel, "he leaned out and threw a tureen of spaghetti at it".
On hearing of his appointment to the See of Derry, according to tradition, Dr Hervey was playing leapfrog with clergymen in the grounds of his palace at Cloyne. He's reported to have said: "Gentlemen, I will jump no more. I have surpassed you all! I have jumped from Cloyne to Derry."
The philosopher and utilitarian thinker Jeremy Bentham was impressed with Dr Hervey but also noted his failings.. "He is a most excellent companion, pleaseant, intelligent, well read, well bred and liberal minded to the last degree. He has been everywhere and knows everybody." However, Bentham also described the Earl Bishop as being "touched" and having a tendency to exaggerate.
The Bishop also had a habit dressing like Catholic Bishop, something which irritated the Vatican authorities on his frequent visits to Rome - a home from home for much of his life.
One aspect of his behaviour is described by Somerville-Large as "inexcusable". He spent nearly half of his 36 year tenure as Bishop of Derry out of the country. For the last 13 years he did not set foot in his diocese.
But his tenure, from 1768-1803, was notable for the way he used church collections to transform the Derry diocese, earning him the nickname 'The Edifying Bishop'.
Originally from Ickworth in Surrey, Hervey was appointed Bishop of Derry - regarded as the richest episcopal prize in the coutry - at the age of 39 through the favour of his brother George, Lord Bristol and a former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
During his term in the diocese, he mined stone, built roads and developed ecclesiastical buildings but "perhaps the Bishop's greatest contribution to his adopted city", according to Brian Lacey in 'Siege City', was Dr Hervey's plans for the first bridge across the River Foyle.
He oversaw the plans and donated 1,000 to the initial project in 1769, although the wooden bridge did not come to fruition until 1790.
The Bishop even promoted new farming methods, introducing a "very neat kind of gate, the bars of which are oak rounded", according to one contemporary. He also built great mansions at Downhill and nearby Ballyscullion. The Downhill houses contained, among many other artefacts, galleries with paintings attributed to famous artists such as Rubens, Raphael, Murillo, Correggio, Tintoretto, Perugino, Van Dyke and Durer.
He enjoyed entertaining guests at Downhill, "rich and poor, Catholics and dissenters were all welcome", says Somerville- Large.
Dr Hervey also built Mussenden Temple on the cliffs above Magilligan Strand - which he dedicated to 22 year-old Mrs Frideswide Mussenden, whose beauty he "admired". The temple included an underground room intended for priests to say Mass, safe from religious persecution.
In 1778, Dr Hervey inherited an Earldom with the death of his brother Augustus and he became the first Earl-Bishop since Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent, seven hundred years earlier.
Having, thrown himself into the radical political agitation of the period, Dr Hervey also had military aspirations. He was appointed Colonel of the Londonderry Corps of the Volunteers and made his military debut at the Volunteer meeting at Dungannon in September 8, 1783 which demanded a Grand General Convention of the Volunteers to lobby for greater legislative freedom for the Dublin Parliament.
At the convention in Dublin 1783, Dr Hervey mounted a leadership challenge against his long-term enemy James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont - the commander of the movement. However, when his challenge failed Hervey was unable to influence any reform. One contemporary wrote: "The volunteer of Derry is of no consequence."
Nonetheless, liberals and Catholics were grateful. Somerville-Large quotes one tribute: "We trust that heavens' providence points you to us as one enobled instrument to raise our injured kingdom from infamy to glory, from misery to felicity."
But Dr Hervey's political enthusiasm waned as did his liberal views and by the time he died in July, 1803 - five years after the United Irishmen's failed rebellion - he had become "utterly reactionary".
In 1798 he was imprisoned by the Napoleon's force at Milan as a suspected spy, remaining in custody for 18 months. He died outdoors at Albano from "gout of the stomach", according to one contemporary and was buried in Ickworth Church.
However, despite all his oddities, he was remembered by Catholics, dissenters and his Anglican flock in Derry as a great patron, liberal agitator "friend and protector".
Those who saw fit to burn his portrait in a bonfire placed on a main city artery would do well to take note.


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Kim (kd) has had an eclectic career working for the NPS as well as other outdoor organizations. From building trails in New England, counting and monitoring cactus in the desert, capturing and tagging Sandhill cranes by the ocean, leading children through the swamps of Florida, and locating archeological sites in northern Arizona. She is happy to call Canyonlands home for now and to share the magic of the park with in-person and virtual visitors.
Adrianna (aw) hails from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas where she began her outdoor career underground as a cave guide for the Forest Service; she then volunteered with AmeriCorps completing trail building and forest and stream restoration projects in northern New Mexico, later returning to Arkansas co-founding a nonprofit equine therapeutic riding program, and eventually meandering to west Texas park ranger-ing at the Franklin Mountains State Park for five years. She now spends her summer breaks from graduate school working in national parks, first with Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska in 2017, and now sharing in the magic of The Needles district in Canyonlands National Park. She looks forward to interacting virtually, and hopefully in person, with the visitors to our parks!
Chris (cw) spent many years working at national parks around the country, leading hikes, climbing lighthouses, exploring caves, and helping visitors experience America's most iconic places. Now he manages the websites and social media sites for parks in southeast Utah. "Virtual visitors should be able to experience these special places I get to see outside my office window every day." Of course, nothing compares to being there in person, touching the slickrock, listening for birds, or smelling the desert after a rain. So when you visit, you'll probably see Chris in the field tweeting with his smartphone, shooting with his camera, or just taking it all in.
A connoisseur of remoteness and isolation, Gary (gc) has worked at The Maze district for 26 years. Now an archeological technician, his job combines cultural resource investigation and monitoring, long term amphibian research as well as backcountry ranger work. He joined the web team in the hope that social media will help spark in the public's imagination an awareness of the supreme importance of preserving what is best in America through its national parks.
Shannan (sm) was born and spent much of her youth in Texas. She was a member of her high school drum corps, studied concert piano, attended the University of Texas, and didn't discover national parks until after she graduated from college. She started out working in hotels in Yellowstone before becoming a park ranger in 2000. Since then, she has worked in Yellowstone, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Carlsbad Caverns, Grand Canyon, and is now the Needles district interpreter in Canyonlands. She loves hiking, camping, stargazing, caving, and every other means she can find of exploring the world around her.
Though she spends a fair amount of time both in front of and behind a camera lens, Karen (kg, formerly kh) feels most at home when engaged in conversations with visitors. "Whether it happens on a trail, in the visitor center, or on our Facebook page, each dialogue is an opportunity to learn more about why national parks are important to people. Plus, it's a ton of fun." If you have the opportunity to chat with Karen during a visit to Arches or Canyonlands, make sure to allow ample room. "I don't know how to talk without gestures, and my descriptions of rocks can get pretty animated. I once accidentally whacked a coworker who was standing too close." Perhaps an online forum is safer.
The following people have moved on to other parks but their contributions remain a valuable part of Canyonlands' social media history.
Before finally plucking up her courage and plunging into a career with the National Park Service, Gretchen (gw) lived and worked in major metropolitan areas, far from the wilds of the parks she loves. In between her far-too-infrequent trips to the national parks, she would visit her favorite places by means of the internet and dream of her next adventure. Today, as a member of the media team for Canyonlands, she gets to help others do the same thing. And, even though she has Canyonlands at her back door, her browser history still shows evidence of digital adventuring.
As a capstone project for her master's degree, Melanie (ma) lugged a 12-pound laptop through a national park to analyze how interactive media might improve people's park experience. Ten years later, she carries a smartphone in her pocket and tweets from the Island in the Sky, still marveling that she can get cell phone service out here (that is, if she holds the phone just so….) The best days at work, however, happen when she drops out of cell phone range to play in the canyons.
Sierra (sc) first discovered Canyonlands on a geology field-trip in 2000 and never really left. Even when she lived in other places and worked at other parks, Canyonlands was always calling. Eventually, the red rocks, deep canyons, and blue skies became home. Sierra enjoys being a member of the park's web team because she knows what it is like to pine for Canyonlands from afar. When she's not cooking up Facebook posts, you can find her helping in-person visitors to the Island in the Sky District discover its many wonders.
When Sarah (sb) first moved to Southeast Utah, she was unaware that Canyonlands had such an extensive backcountry . This happy discovery has lead to years of exploration and adventure. Though Sarah has worked for different units of the Southeast Utah Group, she now has the pleasure of assisting visitors at the Needles District. She never picks favorites and guarantees there's no bad hike in the Needles.
Winds scented with sage brought Rachel (rh) to the red rock desert. Born and raised on the east coast, Rachel presented inquiry-based science education programs in California, New York and Massachusetts, and now works with the Canyon Country Outdoor Education program in San Juan County, UT. When she's not trekking across sandstone in search of pothole dwellers with elementary students, Rachel is scouring cliffs with her newly acquired binoculars in search of birds. She is delighted to call 'home' the place that inspired writers like Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams. Her interests include experiential science-based education, youth empowerment, ecological restoration and applying ecological understanding in K-12 education.
When Kait (kt) was 12 years old, she visited canyon country for the first time and discovered that rocks make fantastic companions. "They're great listeners, they never talk back, and they do an excellent job keeping the secrets of Earth's past." While her love for all things geologic only grew as she got older, she never forgot the whimsical swoops, towering spires, and Swiss-cheese holes of southern Utah. The day she started work at Arches National Park, she felt like she was rejoining her long-lost friends. Sometimes, she pops up to Canyonlands for a change of scenery -- and a chance to get to know all new rocky landscapes.
A healthy dose of Looney Tunes during childhood might have predisposed Neal (nh) to a life in the desert southwest. His first visit to Canyonlands in 1994 felt more like coming home, even when the wind blew his borrowed field camera off a cliff. For many years, he was the park's Visual Information Specialist, which means he wrote, designed and photographed for all four National Park Service sites in southeast Utah. Neal now works at Yellowstone National Park. Since he founded this social media program, he will always be an honorary member of our team.
And he will always weight his tripods.
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New research analyzed data from 16 separate studies. People who habitually slept for less than six hours a night were 12 percent more likely to experience premature death.
While people who consistently sleep more than nine hours a night can also be more likely to die early, the oversleeping may be an indicator of underlying ailments rather than a cause.
According to The Guardian:
"The study noted that previous research into lack of sleep had shown it was associated with ailments including heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes."
However, reaching for a sleeping pill in order to get a good night's sleep is pointless.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has had data for 15 years which shows that over-the-counter sleep products such as Tylenol PM and Excedrin PM don't offer any significant benefit to patients.
It is currently unclear why the FDA took 15 years to evaluate the data.
According to CBC News:
"An analysis of the data suggests the combination products are statistically better than a placebo but not by much."
One-third of U.S. adults say they get less sleep than they need to function at their best, and many sleep-deprived individuals, desperate for some uninterrupted shut-eye, are resorting to sleeping pills as a solution.
In 2008, Americans filled more than 56 million prescriptions for sleeping pills and spent more than $600 million on over-the-counter sleep aids.
You would be far better off putting your money toward authentic solutions to help you sleep, like installing black-out drapes in your bedroom, than on sleeping pills, as it's now clear that they do next to nothing to help you sleep and may actually make it more difficult for you to get a good night's rest naturally.
FDA Finally Gets Around to Evaluating 15-Year-Old Sleeping Pill Study
The latest news on the sleeping meds front comes from a study that should have come out more than a decade ago. The industry-sponsored study, which was submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1995, evaluated the effectiveness of over-the-counter sleep aids, such as Tylenol PM and Excedrin PM.
The drugs, which are a combination of acetaminophen (a painkiller) and diphenhydramine citrate (a sleep aid), were found to work only slightly better than a placebo -- a finding the FDA has now ruled insufficient.
Dr. Charles Ganley, director of the Office of Nonprescription Products at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research at the FDA, said in a letter to the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, reported by CBC News:
"FDA has reviewed the submission and concluded the study results do not demonstrate a contribution of both ingredients to the efficacy of the combination for OTC relief of occasional sleeplessness when associated with minor aches and pains."
There is no explanation for why this news is coming out so late, years after the products have been on the market, but really it is far from surprising.
In 2007, an analysis of sleeping pill studies financed by the National Institutes of Health found that sleeping pills like Ambien, Lunesta, and Sonata reduced the average time to go to sleep by just under 13 minutes compared with fake pills -- hardly a major improvement.
Yet, the participants believed they had slept longer, by up to one hour, when taking the pills. This may actually be a sign of a condition called anterograde amnesia, which causes trouble with forming memories. When people wake up after taking sleeping pills, they may, in fact, simply forget that they had been unable to sleep!
Sleeping pills, of course, do nothing to help the underlying reasons why you're having trouble sleeping in the first place. This is likely why studies have shown that cognitive behavioral therapy can treat insomnia better than drugs.
In one study, those who suffered from insomnia and received behavioral therapy not only spent less time awake at night but also spent more time in the deepest stages of sleep compared to those given drugs.
OTC Sleeping Pills May Increase Your Risk of Liver Failure
Many OTC sleep aids contain acetaminophen (Tylenol type products), especially if they advertise pain relief as well.
The NUMBER ONE cause of acute liver failure in the United States is taking too much acetaminophen, which is incredibly easy to do considering just how many over-the-counter and prescription products contain this drug.
So if you have a headache, cold or achy back that's making it difficult for you to sleep, you may have already taken one or more acetaminophen-containing products to relieve your pain and other symptoms, and then take another dose to help you sleep, not realizing that compounding doses of acetaminophen can be extremely dangerous, even deadly.
It's very easy to overdose on acetaminophen, and thereby cause serious liver damage or liver failure. This risk is important to be aware of, especially if you take Tylenol PM, Excedrin PM or other acetaminophen-containing sleep aids on a regular basis.
Sleeping Pills are Not a Safe Solution for Sleepless Nights
When you're desperate for sleep, the idea of popping a pill and falling blissfully fast asleep is a tempting one, but resorting to sleep medications is risky business. There are serious, not to mention bizarre, risks involved.
For starters, these pills are notorious for being addictive, which means that once you want to stop taking them, you'll likely suffer withdrawal symptoms that could be worse than your initial insomnia. Some, such as Ambien, may also become less effective when taken for longer than two weeks, which means you may find yourself needing ever higher dosages.
Ambien may also make you want to eat while you're asleep -- and I don't mean sneaking down to grab a piece of fruit. The sleep eating can include bizarre foods such as buttered cigarettes, salt sandwiches, and raw bacon.
It can also cause you to gain weight; one woman gained over 100 pounds while on Ambien -- and others have cut themselves while trying to chop up food in their sleep.
Sleeping pills, and again Ambien in particular, are also known to increase your risk of getting into a traffic accident. Ambien actually ranks among the top 10 drugs found in the bloodstreams of impaired drivers, according to some state toxicology labs.
Among the elderly, using sleeping pills may increase the risk of nighttime falls and injuries, and anyone who takes them may find they wake up feeling drowsy if the effects of the drug have not worn off yet.
Really, if you're going to wake up feeling like you're in a daze, and go through your day in a state of fatigue, what's the point?
You're far better of finding safe and natural solutions that will actually address the underlying causes of your sleepless nights instead of just cover up the resulting symptoms.
Getting Adequate Rest is Essential
The new issue of Sleep contains a poignant reminder of why getting enough sleep is so important. People who make a habit of sleeping less than six hours a night were 12 percent more likely to experience premature death.
Too much sleep -- more than nine hours a night -- also increased the risk of dying early, although likely because oversleeping is a sign that there could be some underlying health issues present.
This suggests that the ideal hours of sleep every night would be more than six and less than nine … but this is dependent on your age, activity and stress levels, health and other factors. There really is no magic number of hours that's right for everyone, and you may require more or less sleep than someone of the same age, gender and activity level.
The important gauge to go by is how you feel. If you wake up feeling tired or feel you could fall asleep at 3 o' clock in the afternoon, you're probably not well-rested.
Studies suggest that healthy adults have a basal sleep need of seven to eight hours each night. However, if you haven't been sleeping well and have accumulated a sleep debt, you may still feel tired even if you've slept a full seven or eight hours one night. If you have a sleep debt, you may be especially tired at the times when your circadian rhythm naturally dips -- such as overnight or in the mid-afternoon.
The important point is to make sure you're devoting enough time to high-quality sleep, as otherwise your health will inevitably suffer. Too little sleep impacts your levels of thyroid and stress hormones, which in turn can affect your memory and immune system, your heart and metabolism, and much more.
So please always listen to your body. If you feel like climbing into bed at 9 p.m., don't stay up later watching TV or surfing the Net. Your body needs its sleep.
How to Get a Good Night's Sleep
If you are having trouble sleeping, please do not ignore the problem or simply wait for it to go away. Quality sleep just as important as your need for food, water, and pure air -- and there are very simple methods to help you get yours.
Please read my comprehensive sleep guide 33 Secret's to a Good Night's Sleep for my full set of recommendations, but to start, make certain you are exercising regularly.
A Stanford University Medical School study found that after 16 weeks in a moderate-intensity exercise program, subjects were able to fall asleep about 15 minutes earlier and sleep about 45 minutes longer at night. However, don't exercise too close to bedtime or it may keep you awake.
Stress is another major reason why people have trouble sleeping, which is why I suggest you start to wind down from your day at least an hour before your bedtime (but preferably two or more).
You may want to spend time journaling, meditating, sipping herbal tea, washing your face, using Meridian Tapping/Emotional Freedom Techniques (MTT/EFT) or reading a calming or spiritual book to help soothe your mind. Be sure your phone, email, and television are all off during this time.
Your sleeping environment is also important in your ability to rest, and yours should be comfortable and conducive to sleep. This includes keeping the temperature cool, adding in some white noise if you need it and making sure your room is pitch-black.
If there is even the tiniest bit of light in the room it can disrupt your circadian rhythm and your pineal gland's production of melatonin and serotonin. For this reason, I highly recommend adding room-darkening drapes to your bedroom, or if this is not possible wearing an eye mask to block out any stray light.
Again, by following my 33 Secrets for a Good Night's Sleep, the majority of people will be able to fall asleep and stay asleep. However, for times when sleep is especially difficult, these eight natural remedies may also help and are far safer than sleeping pills of any kind.


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"I want to be short the U.S. bond market," he said on CNBC's "Fast Money."
While Gartman said that he had taken off his short position on Monday, he added, "You give me a point and a half rally on the long end, I'm selling the long end of the market."
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