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Tuesday, 8 April 2014
It felt good to be out of the rain
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I love the fact you're so honest about parenthood!!! You look fabulous Lucy, I wouldn't know,you were sleep-deprived but take care of yourself and try and get some nutrients when you can xReplyDelete
Lucy, you look wonderful! How you manage to do that on so little sleep, I don't know, but you really look well. Green suits you.ReplyDelete
Yep, those early days are tough, aren't they? Sure, we love the little buggers but they take their toll. I'm all for keeping it real!
The bag is cute, but if I bought a new bag and the strap broke immediately, I would be less than impressed.
Give little L a snuggle from me. I can't remember the last time I held a tiny baby, I think I've forgotten the drill! xxx
You look lovely Lucy! I like how honest you are about parenthood and I hope you manage to get a bit more sleep soon xReplyDelete
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You look gorgeous....I'm in love with that cardigan. And that bag is so cute. I was asked to review something from that site too, but I was worried it wasn't legit. Now I'm wishing I had after seeing the shoes! XxReplyDelete
Pretty lady! I can't believe you just had a baby! I think you look hot MAMA! I am one of those girls with no kids who used to think being a Mom was all sunshine and rainbows, I know better now and have a lot of respect for the Moms I know. It's a hard ass job and I bet you rock at it!ReplyDelete
The bag is cute but I bet it's cheap made in China crap. China you can keep that crap I'll only buy you second hand:)
First of all, congrats on the new babyyyyy :D So glad you both are ok! Second, you just had your baby and your body is to die for. Great shape! Wonderful outfit and i love the brooch so very much.ReplyDelete
Congratulations. Netflix is a very good thing after the birth of a baby. We only had the video store, where I sent my husband to rent "anything you want" after three weeks of round the clock feedings with a baby suffering colic from hell. I looked up at the screen after a minute or two, only to realise I was watching Eraserhead. We *ahem* laugh about it now.ReplyDelete
You will sleep again, I promise it is the truth. I don't know about all the perfect images of parenthood-I was too busy cleaning up puke to notice, but you sure do seem to have it together (better than I did by FAR). Congratulations again.
you soooooooooo don't look like you just had a baby. where is your bump????? 15 weeks later I still look post baby.........you look fab x x x x xReplyDelete
I just found your Blog and can't wait to read through your archives! Congratulations on your baby, and oh my, you look fabulous!ReplyDelete
I had to re-check the date on this post coz I immediately thought "Wha'? Hang on, where's the tum? Wha'?" Well my dear, you HAVE snapped back, goodness gracious you look amazing in your beautiful green cardi with all of your utterly stunning jewellery and new bag! It's good to hear that you have some wonderful family in the background to entertain your wee girl while you adjust (do we really adjust?). It's wonderful to see you here Lucy, so happy to hear you're keeping it honest and real :) Hugs, xoxoxoxoxoxoReplyDelete
I'm so happy to have found your lovely blog! I'm now following it too! You look AMAZING! Congratulations with your little baby! Hugs DebbieReplyDelete
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The Albini Group – Shirt Fabric at Its Best
Whenever you have a high quality shirt made by a bespoke shirtmaker or MTM manufacturer, chances are you will choose between fabrics from the Albini Group, which consists of Cotonificio Albini, Thomas Mason, David & John Anderson and Albiate 1830.
Albini History
Originally, the company was founded in Desenzano sul Serio near Bergamo, Italy in 1876 by Zaffiro Borgomanero. Initially, the company was named Z. Borgomanero & C, and after just a year of operations, Zaffiro had already acquired 40 mechanical looms which were operated by 44 employees. Eight years later, they received the bronze medal at the Industrial Exhibition in Turin. In 1890, the childless owner decides to pass on the company to his nephew Giovanni Albini. By then, the weaving operation had grown to include 107 looms and 90 staff. As the head of the Bergamo Chamber of Commerce, Giovanni Albini became increasingly important in the area. Shortly after WWI, the company was broken up and passed on to Giovanni's children Riccardo and Silvio. The latter changed his portion of the business to the name to Società Dr Silvio Albini & C.It is unknown what happened to the other half of the company. Throughout the economic crisis of the 30's and WWII, Albini managed to stay afloat and remained in family control. By 1968, the fourth generation of Albinis – Gianni, Giancarlo, and Marino – are in charge of the company. In 1984, Silvio Albini became responsible for the business and under his leadership, the company quickly expanded into foreign markets. Silvio's
new ventures proved to be very successful, and in 1991 Albini considered a take over of the British shirt fabric producers Thomas Mason and David & John Anderson. The deal went through in 1992, and the two brands are added to the Albini Group portfolio. In 2000, Albini continued its acquisition spree by taking over Albiate 1830 Milano. Over the next few years, finishing plants outside of the company grounds become part of the group, like Manifattura di Albiate that has two plants in the Czech Republic and one in Italy. Recently, a logistics center was added, which enables the company to offer more than 20,000 fabrics!
Albini Today
With such an impressive array of shirt fabrics, Albini has become a major player for shirting fabrics in all three major markets: high end bespoke, made to measure and ready to wear. Zegna and J.Crew have some of their shirt fabrics made there, alongside numerous other businesses of varying size and quality. The current line of products incorporates a large quality range starting with sporty, casual and denim fabrics, to British inspired high quality fabrics of the Thomas Mason, Silverline, Goldine and seasonal lines, all the way up to the most expensive fabrics which are produced under the David & John Anderson Label. Moreover, they also offer RTW, MTM and bespoke shirt services in house.
One of the things that makes Albini so successful is their well-managed vertical integration strategy. They eliminated the middlemen by controlling all the important elements of the business, including everything from the growing the cotton to creating the yarn, weaving, dying, shrinking, distributing and now even shirt manufacturing. In addition, they were able to acquire more than 700 historic swatch books from Thomas Mason and D&JA, enabling them to create new but historically influenced designs. Paired with state of the art machinery, there is probably nothing in the world of shirting fabric Albini would be incapable of producing.
Personally, I own a number of Albini winter and summer fabrics and so far they have all performed very well.
In the following,you can watch an interesting video showing how Albini fabric is sourced, made and sold:
How Shirt Fabric Is Made
Video Recap:
First, it starts with the production of a yarn, introducing the machinery and emphasizing the importance raw materials and testing facilities, because every yarn is different. Only after it is ensured that the yarn is consistent enough, it is tested for strength, twist and stretch, to guarantee a smooth weaving process. Next in line is color and color testing. Subsequently, it is explained how the the weaving process is prepared and executed.
Next up is the finishing process: first the fabric undergoes gassing, also known as singeing, which is a process producing an even surface by burning off excess fibers, and fuzz. This result is achieved by running the fabric at high speed over a gas flame allowing the unwanted material to burn off without burning or scorching the fabric.
For the next 36 h, the fabric is emerged and kept in a cold bleach. The subsequent hot bleaching removes impurities and restores the colors to their original tone.
Once this step is completed, the fabrics are mercerized. Mercerization is named after its inventor John Mercer and it gives the fabric a beautiful luster as well as more strength by altering the chemical structure of cotton. Basically, this treatment causes the cell wall of the cotton fibre to swell, creating a larger surface area and hence better reflectance and softer feel. In order to improve this effect, the cotton fabric is often immersed into a sodium hydroxide solution and subsequently neutralized in an acid bath. This process increases the reflections and luster even more, especially on long staple cotton.
Once dyed for 48h hours, the fabric is ready for the final finishing processes. Here, the fabric is soften and brightened in a special machine before it is subject to calendaring, a mechanical application of pressure which makes the fabric softer.
During sanforization, the weft is compacted and the warp is stabilized. Sanforized fabrics are desirable because ideally, they prevent any shrinkage from washing afterwards.
In order to obtain special effects such as peach skin washed out effects, some fabrics are then sanded, softened or treated in different ways.
Finally, the fabric undergoes quality control once more – visually and at the lab. Once if passed all the steps, the fabrics is packed and stored in Albini's logistics center from where it is delivered all around the globe.
The following three videos are a little more detailed than the one before but they contain many of the same sequences.

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Protect Yourself from the FluSubmitted by Floyd Brown on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 2:43pm
It's flu season again but this time we have two flu types to worry about. Each fall and winter we can expect a seasonal flu (influenza) but this year there is a new variety, H1N1 influenza, commonly called Swine Flu.
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Manage Your Weight While Taking Your MedicationSubmitted by Floyd Brown on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 10:36am
Many people taking psychiatric medications express concerns about weight gain. In fact, I am spending an increased amount of time talking about weight gain and providing counseling, support, and education about weight management. Despite the fact that weight gain is a common side effect of many drugs used to treatment illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and other conditions it is possible to manage your weight and continue taking medication.
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When I opened the box the first thing I noticed was the knitted cup cozie. OH MY GOD! I've wanted one for so long! I wanted to show you guys what it would look like on a cup but my mom took my special starbucks cup to work (grrr...)
My favorite things in the box were: The handmade pear lip balm, The candle, the hair chalk, and of course the cozie!
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How cute is this candle? If you've followed me for a while, you know I love candles so this is perfect, and since its handmade it makes it 100% better
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Nemesis has caught up with a 36 year old cosmetic seller, Daniel Obasi, who also is a serial facebook account hacker after he posed as the Deputy governor of two states in the South West. Before the long hands of the law caught up with him, five influential Nigerians had fallen prey to his cock and bull stories and were handsomely duped.
Vanguard gathered that Obasi who hails from Imo State and resides in Port Harcourt, River State hacked into the Facebook accounts of the Ondo and Lagos state deputy governors Alhaji Lasisi Oluboyo and Alhaja Oluranti Idiat Adebule respectively and made good money from their unsuspecting friends and acquaintances.
The suspect who was paraded alongside other criminals at the state police headquarters confirmed to Vanguard during an interview that he specialises in hacking to the face book account of prominent Nigerians in a bid to dupe their unsuspecting friends.
Obasi said frustration drove him into the illicit business after his cosmetics business nosedived due to paucity of funds and in a bid to survive he ventured into the Internet business. According to him, he succeeded in hacking into the account of the two deputy governors and was working on another deputy governor's facebook account when detectives traced him to his residence in River state where he was arrested and subsequently detained.
Speaking on his arrest, Obasi who did not deny the crime said frustration forced him into a life of cyber crime. He said he resorted to using the Facebook accounts of the notable personalities because he was sure his victims will easily fall for his tricks.
"I am Daniel from Imo State but live in Port Harcourt. I opened a separate account of Deputy Governors and I used it to chat with people on the net. I did not hack into their accounts; I only opened new accounts on their behalf. I use it to communicate with people. I have never hacked into their accounts.
"I was doing cosmetic business before. But when my money was stolen inside my shop and there was no money to re-stock my shop, I have no choice than to look for a way to survive that was why I went into cyber crime. I have not been long in this business. I have only clone accounts of Ondo and Lagos States Deputy Governors and they have blocked the accounts now," he explained.
But Police sources said Obasi did not only clone accounts but would hack into the accounts of the deputy governors using a particular software. The police said large sums of money were paid into his bank accounts. Vanguard gathered from Police detectives that Obasi has been using the cloned accounts to chat with friends, siblings and political associates of the Deputy Governors telling them of contracts to be given out by their state governments.
"According to him, he would usually ask the unsuspecting friends of his victim to pay money into a specific account to help them facilitate contracts in the offices of the two Deputy governors. Obasi said that he was arrested by detectives from the state command, who pretended to be interested in a contract to be awarded from the office of the deputy governor.
"The detectives presented themselves as representatives of a tailors' union and they said they are interested in a contract that would soon be awarded by the office of the Deputy governor of Ondo state. " They however insisted that they want to pay directly into my account to help facilitate the contract. I did not know that they are police detectives that was how I was arrested "
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A cold snap sweeping across East Asia has killed at least 85 people in Taiwan and stranded 60,000 tourists in South Korea. Taiwanese media reported deaths from hypothermia and cardiac disease following a sudden drop in temperature over the weekend. Meanwhile heavy snow forced the closure of the airport on the Korean holiday island of Jeju, cancelling flights. The cold spell has also hit Hong Kong, southern China and Japan.
Many of those who died in Taiwan were elderly people living in northern regions such as Taipei and Taoyuan. Those areas accounted for 66 of the deaths. Another 16 were confirmed dead in the southern city of Kaohsiung. The temperature in Taipei city fell to a 44-year low of 4C (39F) on Sunday, and many homes in Taiwan lack central heating. Many victims reportedly had heart trouble and shortness of breath. CONTINUE


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Rezko, Wright, and Ayers –Not A Law Firm
If you are looking for the audio and transcripts of Pastor Wright's two sermons, they are here.
In an effort to provide "context" I will try and obtain and play the entire audio of his NAACP speech from yesterday on today's program. (Michelle Malkin has a round-up on this astonishing speech.) If time permits, I'll replay the sermons as well, even though I played all the audio out there from both on Friday's program. They are the "primary documents" of the controversy, and deserve a wide audience.
I suspect the pastor will make more news at the National Press Club, and I'll play that audio as well.
The decision of Pastor Wright to make his defense of his political views of America at this juncture in the campaign is puzzling, but my strong guess is that new media will oblige him with the "context" he has asked for. Moyers did not, of course, nor have most of the MSM in that they have refused to play the sermons in full.
I argued at a panel at yesterday's Los Angeles Festival of Books and afterwards on BookTV that Obama is unelectable because the combination of Rezko, Wright and Ayers destroy Obama's appeal as a non-ideological reformer from the center of the American mainstream, especially in states like Pennsylvania and Ohio. Hillary would be crazy to drop out as the damage done to the Obama campaign is immense, but his fan base is so passionate about him that they are making enough noise to obscure the facts about Reagan Democrats' rejection of his candidacy.
If Rush plays all or most of the audio from Pastor Wright's sermons of 9/16/01 and 4/13/03, he may give Hillary the nomination by forcing the pastor's extremism into the cars of millions of Americans who will be stunned by what they hear.
Obama's supporters have mounted the classic three part defense of trial lawyers everywhere: It's not my dog. It didn't bite you. And besides, you kicked it first.
First they have argued that Pastor Wright was quoted out of context. That defense is demolished via the playing of the entire sermons which are far more controversial heard whole than in snippets.
Second, they have argued that these are Pastor Wright's words, not Obama's. As a caller to Friday's show wondered: "How could Obama have stayed in that church for 20 years?"
Finally, they assert that Pastor Hagee's endorsement of John McCain nullifies the issue as both men have ties to controversial pastors. This is ludicrous as I noted on C-SPAN's BookTV last night. Obama is a close friend of Pastor Wright's, his mentee, and as Obama has written, Wright has been a huge influence on Obama. McCain appears to have met Hagee once.
The changing defenses and the desperate quality to them underscores the fragility of the Obama campaign. Yesterday's Los Angeles Times story on Obama's questionable backing of a grant for a former employer is another major problem that has yet to generate follow-up because fo the enormous attention being paid to Wright and Ayers, but it will. (Team Obama's defense, essentially that $50,000 isn't big enough to count as graft, is the worst defense ever mounted by the team, demonstrating perhaps that the very bad, horrible month Obama has endured has taken its toll on the brain-trust.)
With a week of wall-to-wall Wright ahead, it is hard to see how Obama wins Indiana, a near home-field loss which would be yet another hammer blow to the collective consciousness of the super-delegates. As I said to the audience of Obama supporters yesterday ( a huge number of whom indicated by a show of hands that they were very angry with Hillary and wouldn't vote for her if she was the nominee), the Dems look more and more like Thelma and Louise headed for the cliff.


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It does not confirm who ordered the case to be turned over to the State Attorney's Office.
And I do think that there are a lot of pressures placed upon all the witnesses, and all the parties in this case. Certainly, all of the Sanford Police Department witnesses, who have gone from being reviled, as racists, to having their, you know, their, their, their chief fired, not fired, fired again, case taken from them, Serino.
Bill Lee, the police chief who lost his job following the investigation, told the Sentinel police never believed they had enough evidence to charge Zimmerman, but had Serino fill out the probable cause affidavit because without the document, the State Attorney's Office would not take over the investigation.
Two weeks ago, during an exclusive interview with the Sentinel, Lee disclosed certain details of the investigation and during that session, attended by Serino and others, Serino said his investigation turned up no reliable evidence that cast doubt on Zimmerman's account that he had acted in self-defense."The best evidence we have is the testimony of George Zimmerman, and he says the decedent was the primary aggressor in the whole event," Serino told the Sentinel March 16. "Everything I have is adding up to what he says."
Did Lee make that statement to the Sentinel today or during a previous exclusive interview, like back in March?
not to be nitpicky...but Norm Wolfinger is the State Attorney Office rep in Seminole County. It was taken from him and given to Corey after that. Jacksonville is in Duval County.
It would be nice if the Sentinel quoted Lee's exact words and mentioned when that statement was made. Did Lee make that statement to the Sentinel today or during a previous exclusive interview, like back in March? I'm surprised Lee does not have an attorney telling him to not make statements to the media.http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-04-02/news/os-trayvon-martin-federal-review-justice-letter-20120402_1_chief-bill-lee-federal-review-federal-agency
I don't know if TalkLeft want's links to Leatherman's site
I'll just cut and paste a few.
Leatherman is discredited in my eyes.
Chris Serino, a former Sanford, Fla., police major crimes investigator, ignited controversy when he filed an arrest affidavit weeks after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, despite insufficient evidence to make a case.
Serino can't prosecute anyone but he can recommend/request. It's up to the prosecutor to decided if the request has merit. If Serino made the request in "bad faith" I think the most that would happen is he would be disciplined internally. The prosecutor is the one ultimately responsible for reviewing the evidence and making the decision. IMO and IANAL.
So is he wasting money hiring Baez? Or maybe Baez is doing it pro bono. What else could Serino have done to make him engage the services of a lawyer besides filing the Capias?
Leatherman is discredited in my eyes. Jeralyn worked with him way back when, IIRC. Let me look....1998-Link to NACDLIf I get in big trouble, please call her...immediately! LOL!


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Several alleged UFO sightings have recently come to my attention from the Keystone state. The following is a brief summary of some of those reports.
03/26/00 - Ross Township (Pittsburgh, PA suburb) At about 10:45 P.M., two witnesses were standing outside when one of the them noticed an odd object moving across the sky at a high altitude. The object which was shaped like a triangle, "had to be huge" according to one of the observers, since it was very high up, but could clearly be seen as it blocked out a portion of the clear sky as it moved. The triangular shape was defined by a number of grayish-white lights that were non-blinking, and which all moved together. The object moved fast across the sky towards the northeast, and was observed for around 10 seconds. No sound was heard as the object passed overhead.
03/30/00 - Shadyside section of Pittsburgh. A man reported seeing a bright white light in the sky at about 8:23 P.M. The object which appeared to be possibly circular or semi-circular in shape appeared stationary. Suddenly the light moved straight up into the sky and "winked out." The sighting lasted only 5-10 seconds, and no sound was apparent.
03/30/00 - Gans, PA (Fayette County) The following report has been received from UFO researcher Jim Brown in Fayette County. Jim's website can be found at : http://www.hhs.net/jbrown
"Two seperate reports were received of a bright light very low over the Chestnut Ridge visible from the Gans area. Witnesses were interviewed, both put the time at around 10:30 P.M. They described a bright white light, stationary, very close to or possibly on the ground near the top of the ridge. One witness has an interest in astronomy and described it as much brighter than the planet Venus. Maps show no road in that area. Due to the distance from their vantage point (approx 2 mi.) no details were observed. The light was present for about 10 minutes then simply vanished. No movement was reported. No sounds heard."
"Investigator comments. Given the limited information from witnesses, it is impossible to rule out conventional sources such as someone in the woods with a light, off road vehicle, etc. Due to distances involved however, such a light source would have to be very strong. A flashlight would not be sufficient to account for the intensity."
Anyone with additional information on these reports, or other Pennsylvania UFO reports are asked to contact me.
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I first met Jim, and his wife Adrina, on a the GR4 trail in the Alpe Maritime in France. It was 15th April 2004. I'd camped just outside the village of Greolieres that day and as I was climbing up and over the Barre de Cheiron it started to drizzle. As I got higher the rain turned to sleet and then finally to softly falling snow. On the plateau it was very pleasant walking through a pine forest and I started to follow a pair of footsteps. They appeared to have a dog too. After descending past the ruined village of Vergay I finally caught up with them. they didn;t have a dog though and it transpired that we were probably following in the trail of a fox. Adriana gave me a handful of dried apricots and I recall she nearly slipped over a precipice when putting her rucksack on! We then travelled together for five days along the GR4 until we reached the other side of the Verddon Gorge. They were diverging here onto the GR9 whilst I was continuing on the GR4.
The following year Jim asked me if I was interested in a trekking trip to the Himalayas and we've travelling together, usually just once a year, every year since then.
Jim likes to hike, to climb and to cycle and goes a bit mental if he can't get out to do something.
I met Adriana obviously when I met Jim. Adriana is from the Netherlands. My partner Kristine is from Flanders so they can speak Dutch and take the rise out of me and Jim for being able to do so. I know I should make more effort to do so On the trail Adriana is famed for giving stuff away; gloves, hats, sweets, medicines, sunglasses and most famously a cake. On this last trip she'd squirrelled away a cake for Jim's birthday. When the day finally arrived after two weeks on the trail she passed the cake onto Surosh, our cook, with the idea that he would present the cake as a surprise at dinner. Imagine our surprise when it transpired that Surosh had misinterpreted the cake as a gift for him and he and a number of the porters had subsequently eaten it. You have to see the funny side.
Adriana always joins us on our hiking trips and is a pleasant calming travelling companion. However she does use hiking poles which I find irritating. Click clack click clack. But that's just me. She hikes and cycles with Jim several times during the year. Last year she persuaded Jim to come on a five day canoe trip down the Dordogne river in France. He thought it was a bit tame; a bit "Wind in the Willows" without the reckless Toad.
I first met James when I joined Jim and Adriana on our first Himalayan trip in 2005. he's renowned for running around like a 'blue-arsed fly' (as my Father used to say). James main activity when not hiking is Orienteering at which he is very good. He was National Champion at his age range last year. As you can imagine James is the one who strides off into the distance when on the trail. That's not quite always the case though as he does also like to meander and bird-watch along the way.
James is also a pyrotechnic. he re-introduced me to the pleasures of campfires and is always the first to go off hunting for firewood after we get sorted out at the campsite. He even collects tinder when out on the trail during the day. his speciality is building a small pyramid of kindling and sticks at the base of the fire and also re-starting the fire, without using matches, in the morning. Huffing and puffing.
This trip to the Himalayas was the first time that Jan has joined us. He's Adriana's brother. This trip was marred for him as he injured his knee about a week into the trip and had to have four rest days to recover. He took a taxi from Ghuttu to Gaurikund and waited for us there. Even after that he was not fully fit and probably didn't enjoy the trek as much as he would have. Let's hope that that doesn't put him off joining us on a subsequent trip.
My brother Keith. I'd better not say much. This is the first time he's joined us on one of these treks.He suffered a little bit on this trip after being bled by a leech on the second,day, after falling sick at Kedarnath and also suffering snow blindness the day after we went over the 5000m pass in the snow. Apart from that I think he enjoyed it and will possibly join us again in the future. He too was part of the fire-starter crew and would also race James out on the trail. On the penultimate day he did a double day (as Maneesh did) in order to get down to Ghuttu a day before us and organise our transport to Delhi.
Ajay - our Guide
Ajay was a bit too self-effacing as a leader and didn't seem to be as in control as much as our last leader in the Himalayas, Heera. On the trail he wasn't out in front enough and we often had to wait when decisions were required. Even then he wasn't decisive enough. He's a pleasant character but too shy to be an effective leader and I think the porters took advantage of that. Perhaps the main problem was that he was reluctant to speak english to us and would rather wait for us to come to him rather than vice-versa.
He had a difficult time dealing with the new porters from Gaurikund and had to organise some of the porters to do double days by going back and carrying another load. he did this himself too. Apparently we had some desertions at Kedarnath and at Vasuki Tal the day after that. This must have been a difficult time but he was reluctant to share the details with us.
At Maggu he was indecisive about where we should camp when we were huddled in the cow-shed in the pouring rain. This problem was exacerbated by him not being there when our porters were bullied by the guides of the French group at the place we were originally intended to camp. In addition I don't think he was aware that we could have moved on down the track to a place we passed the next day.
On the day we were going to cross the 5000m pass and go down to Masar Tal from Vasuki Tal he was not at the front to lead the way when it became apparent that the porters were unsure and divided on the issue. It meant that we had to wait in the snow for him to catch up. In the end he decided that we'd have to camp the night, in the snow, below the pass. It was just as well because the next days hike to Masar Tal was a full day and it would have been impossible to do it the day before. This showed that he was unfamiliar with the ground and didn't know himself what distances were involved. This is contrary to what we had been told by Himalayan Run and Trek who had assured us that he had been sent up to the pass prior to our arrival to ensure that it was safe. It's possible that he did this but didn't go over the pass but returned to Kedarnath the way he had come.
On the days after Kedarnath the new porters complained at every turn. They'd abandoned us at Kedernath and walked the 14km home down the mountain to Gaurikund. Ajay had to get up at 4am and follow them down the hill to retrieve them and then return the same 14km up the mountain and back to Kedarnath. They then had to walk the trail to catch up with us. A Trek that took 4 and a half hours itself. This was an inauspicious start for them and must have been demoralising. We were never sure whether the porters he got from Gaurikund that time were the same ones that had abandoned the day before. It's no wonder that some of them wanted to leave us at Vasuki Tal the following morning. Ajay did well to persuade them not to. But the following morning after we'd camped on the snow he wasn't so lucky and I think we had a couple of porters leave us then.
The next several at least six of the porters were suffering from snow-blindness. We did what we could for them but they were still angling for a rest day instead of continuing down the mountain. This was the day we thought the party would split in two and some of us carried our own gear to ensure we had tents and sleeping-bags with us. Ajay did well in the end to persuade them not to stay and in the end we were all together at Chauki. It surely should have been Ajay's responsibility though to ensure that the porters were properly equipped with sunglasses.
Even at Chauki though the mutterings were not finished and Ajay was unable to persuade all the porters to finish the trek by taking the high route over another pass (at 4700m) and down to Malla where we had begun. Ostensibly Ajay felt that the recent snow falls would make the pass dangerous but it seems fair to say that this new crop of porters from Gaurikund, rather than our original porters from Malla, are not up to it. This is a major disappointment all round. From our point of view I might add that we were also concerned with the welfare of Jan who was still carrying his injury and this contributed to our acquiescence. Nonetheless I still believe that with a stronger leader it would have been possible.
This sounds like a lot of criticism for Ajay but overall for a three week trek he did reasonably well as was dogged and hobbled by the behaviour of the young men from Gaurikund.
I might add that Ajay was exemplary when it came to organising that Jan would be ferried by Taxi to Gaurikund after his accident and for ensuring that he had a room there. he also insisted that a porter would accompany Jan in the taxi and be available during those days to help Jan get whatever he needed. he also ensured that after our change of plans that the office in Delhi was informed and that the re-arrangements for our pick-up was properly done.
Surosh - our Cook.
No complaints about the food. Surosh did well to keep us nourished during the whole trip. We were never hungry. Inevitably the style of food that can be prepared on the trail can become a bit dull after three weeks. That's to be expected. Going without meat for all that time was probably good for us too. Perhaps the only complaint would be that the packed lunches didn't have much variety. But that's a trivial complaint really.
Our only real cause for concern was that some of our party were inflicted with stomach problems at the beginning of the trip. We noticed that we weren't getting a bowl of hot water with Dettol added before every meal as we had on the last trip. This time I think they expected us to provide our cleansing wipes. Also we had to push him to ensure that all drinking water was properly boiled beforehand. We certainly did have to do that on the last trip with Heera who was a stickler for cleanliness throughout.
As with Ajay, Surosh was also a quiet character and not given to any interaction with us at all. That said he did invite Keith and I into the kitchen tent the night we were camped under the pass and share the heat by the cooking stove.
From time to time Surosh prepared a little treat for us by cooking some chips or some pakoras to go with our afternoon tea, This is the way to our hearts.
Maneesh - our Liaison
Maneesh tells us at the start of the trip that this is his first time in the field only ever having worked in the office before at Himalayan Run and Trek. For all that I think he enjoys the experience and we enjoy his company the whole time. It is Maneesh;s job, clearly, to interact with us and act as the go-between. He does this very well and without complaint for the whole trip. We know that he misses his wife and child back in Delhi and it's a pleasure to get to know him a little bit whilst on the trail.
It's Maneesh who brings us our tea in the mornings and afternoons and it's Maneesh who conveys to us the trials and tribulations going on in the camp between Ajay and the porters. I think even he gets a little fed up with Ajay's reticence.
At the time that Jan had his accident Maneesh is there to help and assist and on the penultimate day he does a double-day down to Ghuttu to get ahead of us and ensure the arrangements for our pick-up are done correctly.
I can't think of any occasion when I would have complained about Maneesh. He did everything he was supposed to do on the trip and on top of that was never discouraged or disheartened by anything. On the contrary he always seemed to smiling and in a good mood. I think he did a great job for his first time in the field. We;d never have known if he hadn't of told us.
On the first leg of our trip we have a team of seven mules looked after by three muleteers. They are no trouble at all and seem to enjoy the trip. after our two nights at Pawali Kanta however two of the mules go missing. Every night the mules are unloaded and left free to graze. Sometimes they come a bit close to the tents and sometimes at night it can be a bit disconcerting to hear them wandering about outside. Usually however they just wander off. We didn't hear about the missing mule, one was found, until the evening and it explained why some of the porters were very late in arriving at the campsite in Maggu that day. This also contributed to the indecision when we were sheltering from the rain and why Ajay was late. The muleteers and several of the porters had spent a long time scouring the hillsides for the missing beast.
The Muleteers travelled with us for ten days to Kedarnath and then turned back to return home to Malla. They were confident that they would retrieve the lost animal on the return leg. They would also return in half the time it took to get to Kedarnath. On our last trip to the Himalayas we had seen muleteers riding through the night (or at least starting early and finishing late in the dark) in order to get home. It sounds like a stampede is going through the campsite.
I've noted before that when we were playing cricket at Pawali Kanta the porters and the muleteers would not play at the same time. When we were playing with the muleteers and the porters appeared and joined in we noticed that the muleteers would slowly drift away and stop playing. We only really became aware of this afterwards and could only assume that it was a social (caste) thing. Maneesh could shed no light on it.
The Porters from Malla
These porters did the whole trip with us and it was our original intention that over a period of three weeks we would do a circular trek and start and end our trek from their home village. In the end our trek finished at Ghuttu. It had taken us five to reach Ghuttu so they had to walk home from there. I imagine they did it in less than five days. It was a disappointment to us not to do the complete circle.
No complaints about these porters at all. They seemed to do the job and enjoy themselves along the way all through the trip. Our oldest porter Padam was a lot of fun and will be remembered for scaring the daylights out of me and Keith by appearing over a rock laughing like a banshee and dangling a headless bird when we were huddled around a fire in the dusk. very funny. In retrospect.
Some of these porters were from Nepal. Maneesh told us that they come over the border during the summer months looking for work and go back home for the winter.
Travelling Companionsrun
Most of what can be said about this lot I've already said above. Frankly these young boys weren't up for it and more concerned about whether they could get reception on their mobile phones. We hadn't seen mobiles on our previous trip to the HImalayas and these boys seem enamoured of them, even to the extent of not having appropriate footwear or sunglasses. This is perhaps a foretaste of the future. It will become harder and harder to get and use porters in the future as technology reaches into this far -off paces and the lure of the cities continues to denude the mountain villages of their youth. It's hard to imagine how things will be in five years time. We will find out if we ever return to the Indian Himalayas.
It's fair to say that these boys complained every day as we came out of Kedarnath. I think the only time they were happy were on those last three days as we came down the valley to Ghuttu from Chauki and they knew they were finished.
I think Ajay has to take some responsibility for this as he had to hire them in Gaurikund. On the other hand I think the residents of Gaurikund are used to making a good living from helping pilgrims on the trail up to Kedarnath and from that point of view perhaps a portering job just doesn't look that enticing. We shall have to be aware of this if and when we next plan a trek in the mountains.
In the end young men will be young men and it's difficult to blame them for that.
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Happy Monday!
My head and heart are both still spinning from an absolutely magical time at zenAgain in Newport, Rhode Island. In the good company of over 225 other CZTs from around the world, guided by Rick and Maria themselves, new products, new tangles...Oh what tangled bliss!
Pictures and details to follow, but for now we have some catching up to do.
Here are the incredible tiles for IAST #170 ~
The first arrived from Lori Byerly (Washington State) and here on her blog ~
I love working with leaves (or any patterns that are leaf-ish) so I particularly enjoyed this week's challenge.
*large sparkled center of Oke
*shaded points of Jelly Legs
A very warm welcome AmberRainDavis (California) whose Jelly Legs pattern we are using this week. How exciting is that?!
I'm new to your challenge and this is my first submission. Jody Genovese let me know that my jelly legs pattern was featured this week...
I enjoyed participating in my first challenge. Thanks so much for featuring my pattern!!
*waterfall of Jelly Legs 'S' curve lines
*C curve detail lines in Oke
Amber's pin and name are added to our map :)
From Joan Delony, CZT (Florida) ~
*Jelly Legs filled Oke
*shaded overlaps and borderlines
From Julie (North Carolina) ~
Hello! Missed last week but enjoyed this week. I really LOVE your map..it's gorgeous, and a great idea! You are so talented.
A big Thank you to all the veterans out there.
www.greenlightavet.com.....I have my green light glowing!Thank you
Thank you, Julie.
*aura and dot details for Jelly Legs
*dots repeat in Oke
From Lisa Preston (Georgia) ~
From late to early. Finding myself with a bit of extra time this week. :) I enjoyed both tangles very much!
*Jelly Legs varies in size, shaded on one side
*weighted outlines of Oke
From Hilary (Chicago) ~
I did this yesterday and I can attest to zentangling 's calming effects. I love all the variations of Oke and plan to use it a lot.
*doubled lines, perfs, detail lines, and shading for Oke
*Jelly Legs tipped in curls
From Ilse (The Netherlands) and here on her blog -
Thank you, Adele, for this lovely simplicity theme :-)
Tangled Tidbits -
*shaded aura
*Jelly Legs and Oke intertwine
From Juul (France) ~
Tangled Tidbits -
*fanciful lines fill Oke
*wonderful aura
...I can't believe it's November already and we're heading into holiday season. This made me think of Christmas and poinsettias.
*perf lined Jelly Legs
*deep shading and black spaces make Oke leaves pop
From Jody Genovese, CZT (New York) ~
I was excited to see Jelly Legs as one of your featured tangles. I am very active on the Zentangle Mosaic app and Amber Davis is one of the ladies in my 'circle of friends'. I sent her a note to let her know she was featured and she was very excited. I believe she even sent you her first tile!
Both of these tangles were firsts for me again..love that. I and I really liked drawing them both.
Tangled Tidbits -
*wispy detail lines of layered Oke
*doubled Jelly Legs along the string line
From Lily Moon (Hungary) ~
Dear Adele, here is my tile for your weekly challenge.
*shadowed Oke
*weighted lines and Jelly Legs veins of Oke
From Karen (Canberra, Australia) ~
Here's my tile for this week. Jelly Legs looks like being a useful tangle to know.
*curls repeat in Oke and in aura
*shaded Oke centers and veins
From Anita A Westin (Dalarna, Sweden) and here on her blog ~
Here comes my entry for no 170. Those Jelly Legs are fun and easy to draw. Thank´s for a nice challenge. I like the simplicity of the string you made for us.
*Jelly Legs border and lager ones along the string lines
*striped and sparkled centers of Oke and lovely aura
From Kate Ahrens, CZT (Minnesota) and here on her blog ~
I had some extra time this week and decided to tackle your challenge. I had fun using these two tangles together, and making my tile. I needed a bit of me time, and this just fit the bill. I seem to be in a fall type of mood, and the weather here in Minnesota has been great so far, so I just added a bit of pastel in fall colors, to my Oke. Even though I don't always tackle your challenge, I always stop by to look at all the wonderful work.
*fine aura with an added bit of sparkle and shading
*Jelly Legs centers of Oke
From Lin H (Florida) ~
My tile this week is definitely clean and simple. I love the tangle Oke but I got a little Jelly Legs in there, too. Thanks, as always, for your challenge.
*Jelly Legs in Oke center veins
*green shading and gem center
From Simone Menzel, CZT (Dresden, Germany) and here on her blog ~
First, I must admit something:
This week`s theme of the IAST challenge is "simplicity", I read it only after finishing my tile.... too late BUT: I used the very simple string...
The two beautiful tangles which I did not use before : "Oke" by Michele Beauchamp and "Jelly Legs" by Amber Davis
I had a lot of fun with them. Thank you, Adele, and sorry, if you miss the simplicity ;-))
Yes, it is simply beautiful :)
*aura in Jelly Legs
*layering in Hollibaugh fashion of the tangles
From Gaby Garcia (Alberta, Canada) ~
...first of all congratulations on you wonderful map, not only it looks amazing, but also it filled my heart with joy to see the huge community of tanglers all over the world brought all together meditating, relaxing and filling our lives with a little bit of joy and peace with your challenges. A deep deep thank you Adele for all the work you do for us week after week with the challenge and your other blog posts..And it felt so good to be able to see my name in the map ;-)
Finally, here is my entry for this challenge, It was an easy one as I found both tangles very beautiful and relaxing.
Cheers from Canada
You are very welcome, thank you, too.
*Jelly Roll along two border lines, tipped with curls
*sparkled curls and perfs in Oke
From Lisette (Switzerland) ~
Thank you Adele, for this new challenge. As I fount my tile kind of "bold" without background I simply had to add Indy Rella.
Oke and Jelly Leg were new to me.
*Jelly Legs flow from Oke's center
*bold shading accents Jelly Legs
From Jutta Gladnigg (Germany) ~
This was once again a wonderful challenge... Thank you so much, Adele, for your ingenious selection of string and suitable patterns❣In this tile I tried to connect the two patterns into one ... And the background is dedicated to you and your history of 170(!!!) challenges in sequence. If you count the single panes in this stairway of lighted windows to the world you will count 170... And this is what you and your challenges and your marvellous blog do - connect people from all over the world ! Your latest idea to create a map is so great and the outcome breathtaking! Thank you for that! It's such an honour for each of us to be included. What you did is so, so special...❣
That is incredible! Thank you, Jutta.
*Jelly Legs lines create the leaves of Oke
*shading add wonderful depth
From Sharyn Penna (Massachusetts) ~
A complimentary pair of tangles for this week's prompt. And simplicity was the perfect theme for such a rocky week in US history. Honestly, if the prompt had been more complicated, I don't think I would have had the mental energy for it.
I encircled my tile with a quote from Hillary Clinton's final speech ... political, yet seasonal and hopeful. It calls to the community minded ... and reminds me of the alliances we have when we visit your blog each week. "Let us have faith in each other. Let us not grow weary. Let is not lose heart, for there are more seasons to come, and there is more work to do."Cheers to all who stand strong to create a positive change in our world.
*Jelly Legs covered string lines
*Oke flows from Jelly Legs
(Nice frame :)
From Talia Maynard (London, United kingdom) ~
I haven't had much free time for tangling recently but a challenge featuring the words 'Jelly Legs' was just too tempting!!
*Oke veins follow the string lines and vary in size
*wispy Jelly Legs with free floating 'beans'
From Trudi (Woodview, Ontario, Canada) ~
I lost last week! Have so much going on completely missed IAST and Diva. A little late but I finally got to do some tangling this week. Two more Tangles I had never used thanks so much for expanding my repertoire :)
Tangled Tidbits -
*variety of sizes and concentrations of Oke
*Jelly Legs string line
A very warm welcome to Martina (Austria) ~
Hi Adele, Hi everybody!
I am admire since some weeks to this nice creations of all of you.
This is my first try to fulfill the weekly challenge and hope to be able to participate more often.
Thanks Adele for this great blog!
*vine line Oke springs from Jelly Legs
*shading give Jelly Legs weight
This is really exciting because Martina is the first participant from Austria. Now we have a flag, a pin, and her name added to the map ~
From sra (India) ~
Here's my entry for IAST this week!
*Jelly Legs border
*Oke shaded inside and outside adds depth
From Susie (St. Louis, Missouri) ~
This is the first time I used either of these tangles. I don't know if I'll ever use them again, but trying something new is a part of the learning process.
*weighted lines distinguish Oke
*Jelly Legs flows from one curl tipped point
From Tina Kirchhübel (Germany) ~
The last weeks were so full of work and other projects that I couldn't take part in your challenge.
But this saturday evening I found the time for it and I am so glad about it.
The tangles Oke and Jelly Legs were both new to me but I immediately had an idea what to do with it. I drew what I thought but than added more and more details to the tile and at the end it was so chaotic and absolutely not simple. I was not satisfied with it and that's why I began another tile and drew the tangles in their pure and original version and only one big instead of three Okes. And I thought this tile is perfectly in the sense of this week's theme "Simplicity".
I send you both tiles so you can see what I mean.
*perf filled Oak veins
*aura of Jelly Legs arcs
*Jelly Legs curves along the border
*weighted lines
From Pam (Heidelberg, Germany) ~
Oh, I needed the peace today...to get away from my social media and try some new tangles. Didn't care for my first effort, kept looking and tweaking all day, finally gave it another go this evening. Saw "Eaxy" on Tangle Patterns earlier this week and enjoyed figuring it out and incorporating it on this tile.
*an acorn for Oke
*large orb of Jelly Legs
From Aloyna Pakhomova (Toronto, Canada) ~
I am sorry to skip your last couple challenges and glad to be back. I am sending tiles (my son and mine) for the last challenge...
*Oke arua lines tipped to mirror Oke
*two variations of Oke
*rounded Oke stands out on square grid
From Sue Agnew (Tucson, Arizona) ~
I absolutely adore the way Michele Beauchamp draws! But I can't draw like she does, so I experimented with simplifying Oke. Plus I wanted a grid, so Oke morphed into kind of a version of Fife.
Jelly Legs on the Tanglepatterns page looks to me like seaweed, but when I was drawing it it kept reminding me of summer hats, so finally I just let it be summer hats.
Again I'm in my comfort zone of a regular grid with a string in front (rather than morphing the grid tangle to fit a wonky shape). But then, is being comfortable so terribly wrong?
Thanks for all you do for us!
Being comfortable is terribly good!
*Jelly Leg bonnets complete with sparkle
*grid based Oke - fabulous
From Michele Wynne (California) and here on her blog ~
Taking it down to the wire. Again;-P Thank you for creating such a simple and pleasurable challenge this week. I've been quite scattered and really needed simple. I was happy to see such simpatico patterns that seemed quite at home within this string. I enjoy Oke and don't use it often enough and Jellylegs caught my eye as soon as it popped up on my blog roll recently.
I still had a couple of orange and black tiles I'd created for various October challenges and it seemed like a good fit here. I really enjoyed doing this.
*dots and perfs and and highlights galore
*weighted lines and shading add depth
From Vicki Mitchell, CZT (Moscow, Idaho) ~
Here is my tile for this week's challenge. It was interesting because I haven't used Oke at all since I copied down the step-out. Thank goodness Jelly Legs is easy since it's so new. Fitting both to the string while listening to the election returns was not easy. I'm still in shock, and it's a good thing I didn't check my local returns until just now. (It's not that I expect to control the government, but I would like a voice at the table. Ugh, Idaho.)
*layers of Jelly Legs
*each string section uniquely filled
From Karin (Germany) ~
this is my entry to challenge no. 170.
Both patterns were new to me and I enjoyed tangling them very much.
Greetings from Germany!
*shaded inner sections of Jelly Legs
*large Oke features weighted lines, shading
From Jennifer (Switzerland) ~
I loved learning these two tangles - the result is very bountiful! Perfect for an acorn harvest.
Tangled Tidbits -
*Jelly Legs border lines end in multiple curls
*aura and black background emphasize the pretty Oke
From Patricia (Switzerland) ~
Thank you for sharing your beautiful and inspiring Fractal trees tile..I love it!I also thank Michele Beauchamp for the tangle OKE and Amber Davis for Jelly Legs.Two tangles which are fun and intriguing..
*elongated Jelly Legs
*two variations of Oke, complete with aura and shading
From Susan Theron (Velddrif, South Africa) ~
My tile. Nothing to write home about, but I enjoyed the experience. The wind is blowing and blowing....
*single sections of Jelly Legs
*Oke with aura and weighted lines
From Danita (Tucson, Arizona) ~
I so enjoy doing your tangles but frequently miss the deadline to send them in!... Thank you again for all the way time and effort you put into this weekly challenge!
Thank you, so glad you joined in.
*Oke leaves overlap and add dimension
*perfs and dots, shading and weighted lines
From Adri van Wyk (South Africa) ~
*delightful details - Tipple, aura, line weight variation, sparkle, shading
*multiple sizes of Oke
And now...
the tile for honors this week...
was sent in by...
Felicity Strohfeldt from South Africa and here on her blog ~
...Great challenge. I love Oke by Michelle Beauchamp lovely versatile pattern. Jelly legs by amber Davis, a bit of a challenge with, where will it fit in. Then I remembered, I grew up in Paarl, a town near Stellenbosch and both towns have proud old oak avenues down their main streets. In Spring in South Africa the oaks put on their green, shady jackets for the Summer and they "flower"; strange tendrils of miniscule, non-descript brown flowers, from this the acorns appear as if by magic. So, Jelly legs made me think of these tiny tendrils of flowers that produce shiny, nut-brown acorns. For the rest, I had a blast with the "leaves" and even manage to use a micron brush to accentuated the edges. Auras were a must. I was tempted to put a gem in the centre of the design, but I resisted and kept to a black and white drawing and enjoyed adding the shading.
Have a great week, everyone.
*thick outer Oke lines, shaded and aura-ed
*aura and Oke lines end in multiple loops (bottom left)
*sparkled and striped Oke veins
*sparkled Jelly Legs centers
*Printemps repeats in Oak leaves and center
*shading adds wonderful dimension to the tangles and spaces
Congratulations Felicity!
I have a little some thing coming in the mail for you.
Please know that I appreciate and treasure your kindnesses and encouragements as well.
Many thanks to the creative minds behind the tangles we used this week along with my string:
Oke by Michele Beauchamp, CZT
Jelly Legs by Amber Davis (soon-to-be CZT)
Check back later this evening (or morning in some parts of this wonderful world) for the results of IAST #171.
Check back Tuesday afternoon for "It's a String Thing" #172!


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You'll Be Glad to Hear That 'Gentlemen' Still Exist – This Definition Is What Society Needs
Kind, humble, courageous, loving: These are some of the words that women used to describe a true "gentleman" after Glenn did a survey at TheBlaze.
"I asked the women to tell me what a 'real man' was," Glenn explained. "Do you notice that every single one of them talked about humility?"
RELATED: Seven Virtues of Manhood to Become the Man and Father You Were Meant to Be
Do you agree with these definitions of a good man? Listen to the full clip (above) for more.
"The most important quality of being a man is integrity," one respondent wrote.
"Someone who protects the helpless," another added.
"A gentleman puts his family first and himself second," a third described.
This article was originally published on GlennBeck.com.


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After last nights wildly bullish API report that had all products showing healthy draws, we were expecting the worse this morning. As DOE's broke and showed builds across the board, the very bearish report did little to curb the enthusiasm of players. Initial reaction had all the pits shed early gains and prior to the lunch hour most were trading in the red. It was truly an odd day as investors appear to be looking at gasoline demand and how that will affect summer pricing. Psychologically, with MAY Crude falling off the board today, it firmly puts in our heads that summer is here. How much of todays move on HEAT was attributed to European flights resuming remains to be seen. At the Close, JUN Crude fell .17 to $83.68, RBOB added .0018 to $2.2827 and HEAT showed the most strength adding .0256 to $2.2058. However bizarre today was, I would have to think that if there was a little more time in the day all products would have closed negative. Outside influences have overtaken fundamentals currently and when that happens, we usually see a breakout in one direction or the other.
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Posts Tagged: Pet Surgeries
A New Approach to an Old Problem: CBLO Knee Surgery for Dogs
Disease of the cranial cruciate ligament in dogs is perhaps one of the most common orthopedic issues we see. This painful and debilitating problem can really sideline a pet, especially one who is larger or particularly athletic.
Several surgical approaches exist that attempt to create stabilization and relieve pain in the diseased joint, but none are perfect. In the quest to get better at helping dogs suffering from cruciate disease, Poulsbo Animal Clinic's own Dr. Craig Adams was trained to perform the CBLO knee surgery. This technique puts us one step closer to getting affected pets back on their feet again.


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Assetworld 2007 PresentationsNovember 13, 2007
As promised here are the slide decks from last week's conference. Use them as you see fit (note license below) and feel free to send me a note if you have any questions at treydrake<at>yahoo.com.
Licensing disclosures: Please note that the content above is covered under the Creative Commons License. Some content was provided by unknown sources at http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=Presentations and Pat Patterson (thanks Pat!).
Off to Assetworld 2007November 6, 2007
I'm off to Assetworld to present open source application servers, WAM/FAM (web/federated access management) and enterprise directory services (OpenDS). I can't believe the progress OpenSSO has made w.r.t. installation and configuration. Drop it in Glassfish, set a password, and you're ready to go. The RESTy web services APIs work like a charm too! Slide decks and audience feedback on OpenSSO and OpenDS to follow.
Fishing TripNovember 6, 2007
Introducing OpenDS on developers.sun.comSeptember 27, 2007
Finally, after much ado, the OpenDS project is introduced on developers.sun.com! Thanks Marina!


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Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area administers several programs that are designed to assist eligible participants in gaining and retaining employment. Dedicated Career Specialists work closely with program participants to provide career counseling and supportive services throughout the job search process and in many cases provide follow-up assistance after employment has been gained.
Child Care Services (CCS)
Child Care Services (CCS) assists parents who are striving to become self-sufficient by providing them with more choices of child care arrangements and also by helping them find qualified caregivers. If you meet certain income guidelines, CCS can reimburse some or all of your child care costs.
For more information about child care assistance available in the Rural Capital Area, visit the Child Care section of our website.
The Choices program provides job search assistance and support services to persons receiving cash assistance benefits through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. The Choices program features a Work First policy that focuses on helping families transition to self-sufficiency through a quick connection to the workforce. Any parent, including a minor parent, in a household receiving TANF assistance may be required to engage in work activities in order to continue receiving TANF. Choices provides funding for child care assistance, transportation, work-related expenses and more.
Noncustodial Parent (NCP) Choices
The Noncustodial Parent (NCP) Choices Program targets low-income unemployed or underemployed noncustodial parents who are behind on their child support payments and whose children are current or former recipients of public assistance.
The goal of the program is to help noncustodial parents overcome substantial barriers to employment and career advancement while becoming economically self-sufficient and making consistent child support payments.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment & Training
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Employment & Training (SNAP E&T) program requires persons age 16 – 59 receiving food stamp benefits to participate in employment, training or work-related activities unless they are exempt under the law. SNAP E&T provides funding for employment and job search activities, educational and/or vocational training activities, transportation and more.
Trade Adjustment Act (TAA)
If you lost your job because of increased foreign imports or shifts in production to foreign countries, you may be eligible for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA). You should ask your local Workforce Solutions office staff about eligibility for TAA as soon as possible because there are time limits on eligibility, training, and benefits.
To receive benefits under the TAA program, you must have been laid off from a job covered under a TAA certification issued by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). A petition for that TAA certification may be submitted to DOL by your former employer, a group of at least three affected workers, or Workforce Solutions office staff.
Veterans Services
The operations of the Texas Workforce Solutions network are, by law, intended to direct special attention to veterans' problems and to afford an individualized and intensive service to veterans. The success in meeting the special needs of so large a segment of the population can only be achieved through the combined efforts of all activities. All Workforce Solutions staff members are available to serve veterans.
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014 created a framework for a system that provides activities to increase the employment, retention and earnings of participants. WIOA provides funding for job search, career counseling and training services to three groups: Adults, Dislocated Workers and Youth.


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Well here it is! This has been something that I have been considering for several months. While I have always enjoyed collecting nail polish and trying fun new ways to paint my nails -I never turned to the web to tips, tricks, and MORE nail polish until the last year. Since, I have started following many other blogs, and found so many fun ideas that I couldn't imagine! Not to mention a complete nail wardrobe overhaul!
So like many, who set goals for themselves at the beginning of a new year, this is mine. To start a blog sharing what I enjoy about the world of nail polish, and all the new finds along the way. Feel free to comment and share your experiences as well! There will be Facebook and Google+ pages to follow. Stay tuned!
Please be patient while things may change over the next month or so until I have things to my liking.
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The ArabNet conference kick off is rapidly approaching!
At the conference you'll be able to connect with over 300 decision makers, investors, and entrepreneurs from across the MENA, Europe, and Silicon Valley who will be gathered discuss emerging opportunities in Arab web business.
Some of 40 speakers will include Samih Toukan, founder of Maktoob.com, acquired by Yahoo for over $150M; Russell Buckley, VP of Global Alliances at AdMob and Global Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association and Ghassan Haddad, Director of Internationalization at Facebook,
Participants will also be able to participate in 8 comprehensive panels each featuring 6 experts from the Arab World, Europe, and Silicon Valley, to discuss topics including Social Media, Content, Online Advertising, E-commerce, Startup Financing,.
Two competitions will take place on the first day of the conference. The first, sponsored by Aramex, will feature the regions most promising startups while the Ideathon, sponsored by Google, will star ten of the region's most innovative business ideas.
If you anyway involved in the emerging Qatar net, this should be a great chance to network, rub shoulders with the giants, and hopefully come away with some great contacts and ideas!
Visit http://www.ArabNet.me for the Full Program & List of Speakers or to register.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Arab Net Conference Getting Closer
The ArabNet conference kick off is rapidly approaching!
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The new version offers a range of data duplication and reliability features including volume snapshots, mirroring, and support for RADIUS authentication for secure iSCSI connection. The StoragePro GUI management software can handle a cluster or multiple clusters of V-Switch SANs.
According to the San Francisco company, users can copy data between volumes, devices or storage systems at speeds up to 1TB per hour with its FastCopy routines.


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Lately, I have been feeling super guilty about Katie's lack of friends her own age. There is a little girl whose older sister is in Ellie's class who seems to want to be friends with Katie. But every time she approaches, Katie begins screaming. This poor little girl has only ever hugged her, but apparently Katie took that as a physical attack. There is also a little boy whose older sister is in Ellie's gymnastics class. Katie takes his toys and then cries when he wants them back. He started bringing toys just for her to play with (we bring our own, but those are no fun), but she won't play with those. So, no friends.
I thought I'd join a moms' group so she could meet other toddlers. Even though I have made my best friends since college via a moms' group, I was really dreading doing it again. I also met people that I really wish I had not known existed. Whatever. It's for the children. So, I sucked it up and joined a group for mothers of children born in 2012 or later. I realized that I might be the oldest in this group and I wasn't excited about that either. Again, I just had to accept it because this is about Katie.
The first meet-up we RSVPed to was on Monday morning. It was at an indoor play area. We dropped Ellie off and headed over. We got there 45 minutes early. I thought it was farther away and would take us longer to get there. It's not in a great neighborhood and there isn't much around there. So we decided to just go home. We got all cute for nothing.
We decided we'd go to the next one. It was this morning at 9:30 at a park 30 minutes from Ellie's school. So the timing would not be an issue. After Ellie was dropped off, we headed off to meet new friends. I asked Katie if she was excited to make new friends. This was our exchange:
"Do you want to go to the park?"
"You want to go home and watch a show instead of going to the park and meeting friends?"
"Mickey! Blankie! Milk! No FRIENDS!"
Okay. So, we came home. She is currently watching her show (Mickey Mouse) with her blankie and her stuffies (two puppies, Minnie Mouse, and baby Pinkie Pie). She seems much happier than she did in the car discussing joining a new play group. Of course, if I were more into it, I would have forced her to go. As I'm not to hot on the idea either, I agreed that home was the better of the two options. I guess we are going to wait a while to join a new play group.


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We invite you to join us this Sunday
at the Center for Spiritual Living
9:00 am – Inward Journey Service
11:00 am – Celebration Service (& Youth Church)
Talk Title – "Brave and Brokenhearted"
Rev. Larry King
Featuring Brené Brown's "Rising Strong"
True bravery is keeping our hearts open—in the midst of great love and also great loss.
Inspirational Music
(at the Celebration Service)
Lauri Jones
"[her voice is] rich and sensuous with amazing clarity and presence… it melts the heart."
Affirmation of the Week:
"Today I'm willing to accept joy, to play and to love with all my heart. My life is blessed!"


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FLINT, Mich. -- Michigan State Police trooper was treated for non-life threatening injuries after getting hit by a vehicle assisting the Drug Enforcement Agency.
MSP Spokesman Lt. David Kaiser said shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13 troopers stopped a vehicle in the 4100 block of Marvin Street.
A DEA agent recognized the driver and asked MSP to pull the car over.
Lt. Kaiser says the driver of the vehicle pulled in to a private driveway, as troopers approached, the suspect intentionally put the car in reverse as troopers went to advance on the car.
One of the troopers slipped as they were approaching the vehicle and was backed over, according to Lt. Kaiser. The trooper was taken to an area hospital where they were treated and released. The second trooper wasn't hurt.
The driver was taken into custody by MSP without incident and is also a person of interest of a homicide investigation in Flint, according to Lt. Kaiser.


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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Trance – Danny Boyle loses the plot – literally – tedious & tiresome film
Before the film even started there was a short video introduction by Danny Boyle. Where did that come from? "Hi I'm Danny Boyle….Olympics…thanks for coming…" I'm eher to watch a movie not a tribute.
The lead then narrates the opening scenes. This is always a bad sign showing that the writer has to 'tell' and not 'show' you things. Then there's a massive continuity error, showing lazy filming (rifle is in his hands then it disappears). What follows is barely worth following. If it was a meditation on memory or the unconscious, it fails. If it was a thriller, it fails. As a film on any level, it fails. Someone really should have told him that this script should have been binned as trash. The plot is ridiculous, overwrought and forced resulting in a confusing mess.
That's not all, as every single performance is flat, especially Rosario Dawson but also Vincent Cassel. James McAvoy is a half decent actor but even he struggles to get any inner, psychological states across. To be fair they have no real script or dialogue to work with, Nevertheless, what they do deliver has no impact. You feel nothing for any of the characters. In the fire and brimstone at the end you just wish they would burn faster so that the film would end.
Finally, if there were awards for worst sex scene in a film, Trance would win the top three spots. The excuse for showing Rosario Dawson's bits, in detail, is a half-baked piece of fine art theory, I kid you not.
Is this what happens when you become a so-celled National Treasure? If so, let's bury him deep so that he doesn't waste any more valuable film money.
In the House: What a smart movie - all about narratives....
Family narratives
Family narratives lie at the heart of the matter, Claude dealing with his disabled father, the supposedly happy (but decidedly miserable, nuclear family) and the professional, childless couple. They create their own little narratives as well as stories about others but they're all playing narrative games. Genuinely funny moments arise when the middle-class obsession with crap or misunderstood art surfaces or when they can't help but want to know the gossip behind the story. They're shallow, bored and keep themselves interested by making up little narratives or poking into the business of others.
Authored narratives
Claude makes up little stories to keep his own story going, then uses the reactions of the reader to create the next episode of the narrative. All along we don't know how much of the story is the result of the author's imagination or observed episodes. Everyone is trading fictions.
Educational narratives
The 'student – teacher' narrative is reversed and school is full of false narratives, such as the crass uniformity of uniforms and lessons that are simply regurgitated tropes. Schools teach fixed fictions. This is damn clever as it provides the story arc for the whole film – the narrator is the outsider but also the creator. Teacher-learner is reversed as is reader-writer, cricic-writer, character-person, fiction-non-fiction. You lose yourself in the reversals.
Art narratives
The teacher's wife has opened up a truly awful gallery in town brimming with bad art, appalling brochures with those over-blown narratives that only the 'art' industry can produce, full of abstractions and overblown claims.
Narrative endings
We end on a park bench with a tramp looking in at an array of apartment windows. This solitary figure has no social narratives, he's simply alone on the bench. He's more objective than all of the urban fantasists. Smart. I was amused to read several reviews that decry the films lack of an ending. This is the problem with film critics, they have their own narratives and one is that of the 'resolved ending'. The whole point, Bradshaw and Quinn, is that this is the downside of forced narratives or narrative enslavement. It is deliberately open ended. Life goes on and on and on.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Litchenstein doesn't subvert, he inverts
Manet for Money?
This show is more than a disappointment it's financial fraud. By fraud, I mean that pictures that should be here are not and pictures that shouldn't be here are. Eva Gonzalez and many others are quite simply, second division. The fact that some have never been shown in galleries is no accident – they didn't deserve to be shown.
The Luncheon is a high spot with its shadowy father and arrogant youth. Music in the Tuileries Gardens breaks all the rules but where's the Bar at the Folies Berger? At the Courtauld in London. Olympia? Dejeuner sur I'herbe? Without any of these it's a crown without jewels. In the end, it's a fairly mundane meander through league division two and three paintings. Manet for money. Rather than one of those perspex bozes for donations, I think the RA should offer refunds.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
European Debate - not really - paying audience had to provide the debate!
Sussex University held a debate on Europe last night that had unexpected consequences. First the panel of four people, all supported the EU, were keen on European Citizenship and pretty much toed the orthodox line. This was a shame, as this is a political issue that deserves more actual 'debate' and more 'innovative' thinking. Across all four there was not a single innovative idea the whole evening, only statements of what IS the case, in terms of laws, economic constraints and so on. We expect more from people who are supposed to be on the leading edge of European research and thought.
In the absence of dissent from the panel, what happened on the night was fascinating - an 'audience' versus the 'panel' debate. Curiously, this seems to reflect what's happening on the ground. We have a political and academic class that has a 'groupthink' approach to Europe and a populace who are deeply suspicious about this class and its pronouncements.
All of the important issues came from the audience:
1. Suspicion about the idea of European Citizenship
2. Suspicion about the army of politicians, academics and officials who are driving policy through self-interest and not the interests of the people
3. Opacity of bailouts – where does the money come from?
4. Why not allow orderly devaluation?
There were some excellent questions from the floor that cut to the quick and led to more interesting debate. This was way more interesting than the rather banal introductions by the speakers. On the very night when Cyprus is going through fiscal convulsions, these people seemed surprisingly aloof and distant from the real world and real issues.
Institutions start with good intentions but often end up serving themselves and fighting for survival. I didn't go into the room in a particularly anti-EU (or Eurozone) state of mind but witnessing the output from the Sussex European Institute, I walked out a sceptic, not only about the EU but also about the worth and independence of so-called research institutes where people get paid to praise their funders. You can't get people to pay for a 'debate' then simply present one side of the argument and expect the people who paid to provide the other!
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Beyond the Hills: First ever depiction of Christ as a lesbian?
Asceticism, as Nietzsche claimed, is life turned in upon itself. It is the denial of life and that denial requires the exercise of immense power. A young girl, full of life and love, is slowly crushed, chained and crucified by a community that mistakes love for control. It is religion gone wrong - isolated, dogmatic and self-serving.
What is remarkable is that this latter-day Christ is a woman and lesbian. Is this the first ever depiction of Christ as a lesbian? Her all-consuming love for one of the nuns brings conflicts and behaviour that the Priest and nuns find hard to deal with. In the end her love is seen by the church and society as an illness.
Now it's not often you see a film that tries to deal with a big theological issue.
What is remarkable is that this latter-day Christ is a woman and lesbian. Is this the first ever depiction of Christ as a lesbian? Her all-consuming love for one of the nuns brings conflicts and behaviour that the Priest and nuns find hard to deal with. In the end her love is seen by the church and society as an illness.
Now it's not often you see a film that tries to deal with a big theological issue.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Shell: beautiful & brave film - less is more
Like an Edward Hopper painting come to life, Shell is a beautiful and brave film. It takes guts to make a film that slows time down so that it becomes almost unbearable. The characters barely speak and their actions are painful to watch. The claustrophobia is intensified by the big country landscapes but it's as spare as twig. At no point does the Director stray from his vision. Abandonment, love, fear, confusion, pain, sacrifice, hope – it has it all.
Scotland has an inglorious history in cinema from Brigaodoon to Brave, it's a catastrophic trail of romaticised nonsense, so I.m delighted to see that the much maligned Creative Scotland are coming up with the goods, Rather than listening to the so-called creative catcalls of Liz Lochhead and Ian Rankin, I applaud those that want to take Scotland beyond its past. Scotland should be a place about which films are made not simply a location for making films and that Scotland, needs to be more than a cartoon Scotland. Let's have more of this.
Scotland has an inglorious history in cinema from Brigaodoon to Brave, it's a catastrophic trail of romaticised nonsense, so I.m delighted to see that the much maligned Creative Scotland are coming up with the goods, Rather than listening to the so-called creative catcalls of Liz Lochhead and Ian Rankin, I applaud those that want to take Scotland beyond its past. Scotland should be a place about which films are made not simply a location for making films and that Scotland, needs to be more than a cartoon Scotland. Let's have more of this.


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No. 53
In his legendary torture-chamber staff meetings, Abe Rosenthal, executive editor of the New York Times during the seventies and eighties, liked to say that he couldn't imagine a world without the Times. On one level, the mantra was a perfect expression of a Timesman's overweening moral vanity, that cloying certainty that West 43rd Street was the center of the universe. And at that point, the statement was more or less true. What could possibly bring low the Times, with its benevolent dictators, the Sulzbergers, its ancient religion of truth-telling, and its bushy-haired armies of Ivy grads fanning out over the globe? For all its arrogance, the Times supplied a picture of the world that wasand still isindispensible.
Lately, however, the empire has seemed to teeter. Watching the various scandals at the Times is like seeing your dad on a psychotherapist's couch. It's a riveting spectacle, seeing those imperfect and even sociopathic personages emerge from the gray pages to strut their hour. And the paper's Hamlet-like hand-wringing over its own ethics (something that doesn't seem to have gone on in many other quarters lately) is a definitionally neurotic dramaThe Front Page as if scripted by Larry David. But watching the Times struggle can't help but make one queasy.
Meanwhile, there's an administration that has boasted of its ability to create its own reality, letting the facts follow. In the face of this, the Times has become the most important institution of the reality-based community. Frank Rich's passionate, bitter Sunday sermons come to mindessential, connect-the-dots counter-narratives, putting Bush-administration fictions in their factual context. Whatever its lacunae, its occasional clumsiness in pursuit of its goals, the Times does a better job of seeing the world in three dimensions than any other news organization. At a moment when it's more difficult than ever to believe that West 43rd is the hub around which the world turns, the paper's work has never been more necessary. As another former Timesman said, it's the only New York Times we have.
John Homans
No. 54
In this city, The Villager uncovers what really matters: an endless series of devious secret plans by the city and developers to undermine . . . well, pretty much everything. We broke open the story about the backroom plans to change Washington Square Park, says the weekly's publisher and editor, John Sutter, 56. The renovations, which include moving the fountain to align it with the arch, is a Pandora's box, he adds. There are people who want to throw themselves in front of the bulldozers. And his paper is right in the middle of it: Keeping the fountain where it's always been is to The Villager what exposing Iraqi prisoner abuse is to the Times. It's already helped get the city to roll back a nightly park curfew, and led the successful crusade to retain the asphalt play-mounds. People grew up skiing on them, he says. In a city that's been flattened, it's the hills! The Villager is the paper of record for such energetic crankitude (after all, Sutter hired Ed Koch to review movies). There's a version of Page Six, Scoopy's Notebook, and a letters page that gives every nut job his moment in the sun. But its letters also reveal the paper's real importance as a forum for microdemocracy, with rants about the landlord class and worries about the safety of smaller pups if the dog run stopped being grouped by size. For all these reasons, The Villager does a good job on its beat: It breaks news. There are hundreds of block associations downtown that are constantly feeding us information, Sutter says. If The Village Voice does a local story, it's hit and run. The Times might cover it a couple of times in the City' section. We follow it week after week. Someone came up to him at a meeting the other night wondering why The Villager hadn't been writing about the oversized pizza sign on Bleecker and whatever, and threatening to give the exclusive to the Times. Like the Times is going to write about that, Sutter says. People depend on us for redress.
Carl Swanson