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Welcome to Grenada!
We arrived in Grenada on Saturday, January 7th, and spent the first week sightseeing and doing some touristy things. What I love most about traveling, though, is getting to know the local people and learning about the different ways that they live and work and play. One of my favorite things to do when I travel to a new place is to find a local grocery store/market and just walk down the aisles and marvel at the different food items and products that they have. I remember during our time in France, I was just in awe when I walked down an entire aisle devoted to cheese. I felt like I had died and gone to heaven (It was seriously that awesome. They even subdivided the aisle into different cheese types, like bries, appetizer cheeses, cooking cheeses, etc.) Anyway, I thought it'd be fun to give you a few observations that I've made thus far about this beautiful island that we now call home.
Surprisingly, we've found that most of the food here is quite expensive. In fact, we've found that most things are at least as expensive as home, and sometimes are 3-4 times as much. A large part of this is because most things need to be imported into the island, so everything is marked up quite a bit. For example, a friend of ours recently purchased a single bell pepper from the grocery store the other day. Guess how much she paid? It cost $15EC, which comes out to about $6USD! Crazy ridiculous.
So local food must be much cheaper, right? Yes and no. We've found a few items - things like bananas, mangoes, papayas, and eggplants that are relatively inexpensive (less than $1/lb), but I honestly still pay less for them in the US (maybe not the papayas). I know we've been spoiled the past few years having super fresh, plentiful, affordable produce in California, so I'm slowly adjusting to the price differences. I do appreciate the farm-fresh eggs that are available every Tuesday on campus! They come out to about $3 for a dozen, but hey, it's local and organic. :P
The most commonly found meat item here is chicken, but even that is hard to find fresh. Most grocery stores carry only frozen meats, and it usually consists of about 70% chicken, 15% pork, 10% beef, and about 5% seafood. We did visit the fish market in town this weekend and were able to buy some super fresh fish that we hope will last a few meals!
If you're interested in hearing more about the food in Grenada, and well as some recipes that I'll be sharing in the future, make sure to stay up to date on the food blog that my sis and I have.
Since we moved to the island, we've discovered that everything seems to move much slower here. Everything, that is, except the buses. These mini-buses or "reggae" buses, as some people call them (because of the reggae music that the drivers listen to, although we've heard everything from Adele to hip hop), fit anywhere from 14-20 people, depending on how many people you can cram into a row. Each row technically has 3 seats (2 stationery and 1 fold-down), but I've seen them cram 5 people into a row before. Oh, and don't worry about seat-belts for each passenger; none of the buses here have them in the back.
So the way these buses work is that each bus has a driver and a second helper whose job it is to look out for potential passengers, open/close the sliding bus door, adjust seating arrangements to maximize bus space, collect bus fares, and exchange greetings/insults with other bus drivers/helpers. As the buses wind their way through narrow, curvy roads at dangerously high speeds, they honk their horns sporadically at seemingly random times. In fact, as I've been told, a honk in Grenada can mean many things: I have space! Do you need a ride? Watch out, I'm coming around the corner! You're too slow - I'm passing you. Hello! And of course, Get out of my way!
The weather here is a balmy 80°F pretty much year-round. There are basically two seasons: wet and dry. Apparently, we're in the dry season right now, but things have been pretty wet around here. We've gotten showers almost everyday, but they mostly last between 5-15 minutes, and then get sunny again. As such, we try to keep an umbrella in our bags when we go out, and even some emergency ponchos that we were told to bring. It can be pretty warm on sunny days, but it's still quite comfortable in the shade. Particularly if that shade happens to be under a palm tree by the beach. :D The water really is incredible, as all of our friends have told us. It is this beautiful shade of turquoise, and the temperature is just warm enough that it's comfortable, but just cool enough that it's still refreshing.
We've been told that Grenadians are some of the friendliest people you'll ever meet. When you pass people in the streets, it's customary to offer a greeting. It's considered rude if you ignore someone. When we get on the buses, we try to remember to say hello and thank you to our bus drivers, and the same goes for our grocery store clerks too. When I was at the grocery store the other day, one of the workers passed by and checked if I was doing okay. I asked him about some of the local foods, and he started explaining some recipes to me. An elderly lady passed by and joined our conversation, adding in her version of the recipe. I was surprised by their friendliness and eagerness to help. Tourism is the #1 industry in Grenada, so I guess the locals are all usually very friendly and happy to meet foreigners.
As I've mentioned before, life moves at a very slow pace in Grenada. Everybody seems to be very relaxed all the time, nobody's in a hurry, and life is just super chill. Most stores and business are closed on Sunday, and banks are closed the entire weekend. Many businesses close shop quite early on the weekdays too, some even at 2 o'clock. This can get frustrating sometimes, especially with the med students who don't seem to have very many minutes to spare in their days. For me, it's been a welcome change of pace. I'm finding unusual joy and satisfaction in doing mundane tasks these days. Tasks like taking a trip to the grocery store or cooking a meal seem to take twice as long here, but I've been learning to enjoy the process.
We miss home and all our friends and family dearly, but I think we're excited for what God has in store for us these next two years.
I'll try to update frequently about our life here on this island, but I do hope to get back into craft and DIY posts too. Resources are scarce and different here, so we'll see how I can make do!
I'll leave you with a few glimpses of our life here. :)
in St. George's
hiking through the rainforest
fresh fish from the market
and Grenadian cheese!


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Brora 1981-2000 (Signatory)
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It's funny how these things come about, but a discussion on twitter about not having previously tried a Brora turned up a shop in the Netherlands who had a bottle of Brora 1981-2000 19 Year Old (Signatory Bottling) which they had opened and were selling samples of. So i just couldn't resist.
Stefan at Passievoovwhisky was really helpful and the sample arrived very quickly.
A whisky like this needed a special occasion though and so it was Christmas Day that i opened, nosed and enjoyed this lovely dram.
I really have missed out by not trying Brora before and will need to try to save up for a bottle of this for my collection. With Brora, Rosebank and Linlithgow all closed and all very very good they are all on my list of whiskies to have available.
light smoke, like brown bread left in the toaster a minute or two too long, some acetone, lemon and citrus notes underlying with light oak and sweetness.
more of the slightly burnt toast along with the citrus freshness. Pine freshness and oak influences.
very smooth, with a slight hint of pine fresh citrus.
Bottle Name: Brora 1981-2000 (Signatory)
Age: 19
Distiller: Brora (Closed)
Bottler: Signatory
Type: Single Cask Single Malt
From: Scotland, Highland
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Posted on 06 July 2017
Source: SEAISI
- Almost all the countries in ASEAN-6 enjoyed double digit growth rates in steel demand in 2016, except Malaysia and Singapore. Vietnam registered the highest growth rate of 22.3% y-o-y to 22.3 million tonnes in 2016, followed by Thailand, at 15.1% y-o-y to 19.2 million tonnes. Indonesia and Philippines experienced similar growth rates of 11.4% y-o-y and 11% y-o-y to 12.7 million tonnes and 9.7 million tonnes, respectively.
- Malaysia maintained its single digit moderate growth rate of 2.6% y-o-y to 10.3 million tonnes in 2016. Singapore was the only country in the region that experienced a negative growth rate, a sharp drop of 29.5% y-o-y. The volume of the steel demand in 2016, at 2.8 million tonnes, was the second lowest in the last decade, only slightly higher than the lowest level of 2.7 million tonnes in 2010.
- Indonesia's significant growth rate of 11.4% y-o-y in steel demand in 2016 was mainly due to the robust increase in flat steel consumption of 24% y-o-y to nearly 8 million tonnes, while long steel demand experienced a decline of 4.7% y-o-y to 4.7 million tonnes. Flat steel production rose significantly, by 19.5% y-o-y, to 3.6 million tonnes. Import rose by 9.5% y-o-y to 5 million tonnes. Export declined by half to 611,292 tonnes in 2016. As for long steel, domestic production dropped by 5% y-o-y to 3 million tonnes. Import declined moderately, by 3.3% y-o-y to 1.9 million tonnes. Export rose slightly to nearly 180,000 tonnes.
- Malaysia's flat steel demand in 2016 grew strongly by 17.9% y-o-y to 4.2 million tonnes. On the other hand, long steel demand dropped by 6% y-o-y to 6 million tonnes. Hot rolled flat steel production in the country was less than 300,000 tonnes a year in 2016, resulting in a huge increase in flat steel import from 3.9 million tonnes in 2015 to 4.7 million tonnes in 2016. Export dropped significantly, by 33% y-o-y, to 808,258 tonnes in the same year. Despite the drop in consumption, domestic production for long steel registered a positive growth rate of 4.3% y-o-y in 2016. Import, on the other hand, declined significantly, by 15% y-o-y to 2.8 million tonnes. Export rose by 12% y-o-y to 255,192 tonnes in 2016.
- Steel demand in the Philippines continued its momentum of growth with both flat and long steel consumption increasing significantly. Flat steel demand increased by 15.62% y-o-y to 3.4 million tonnes while long steel demand surged by 8% y-o-y to 6.3 million tonnes. Flat steel demand was fully supplied by imports, except for coated sheet. Domestic production for long steel rose by 8.3% y-o-y to 4.3 million tonnes. Import rose by 7% y-o-y to 1.9 million tonnes.
- Singapore's steel demand declined significantly for both flat steel and long steel. Flat steel demand dropped by 16.5% y-o-y to 907,141 tonnes in 2016. Long steel demand declined by a million tonnes, or 34% y-o-y to 1.9 million tonnes in the same year. Flat steel demand was fully served by imports. Domestic long steel output increased moderately, by 5.4% y-o-y to 528,453 tonnes while import dropped significantly, by 24.6% y-o-y to 2.6 million tonnes in 2016.
- Thailand's flat and long steel demand both registered double digit growth rate in 2016. Flat steel demand increased by 10.3% y-o-y to 11.7 million tonnes. Domestic output surged by 8.7% y-o-y to 2.7 million tonnes. Import, at 9.5 million tonnes, was an increase of a million tonnes from 2015. Export rose significantly, by 29% y-o-y to 474,791 tonnes. Domestic production of long steel jumped by 31.7% y-o-y to 5.3 million tonnes. Import rose moderately, by 5.6% y-o-y to 2.8 million tonnes while export declined slightly, by 2.2% y-o-y to 606,865 tonnes in 2016.
- Vietnam's steel consumption registered the highest growth rate in the region in 2016, owing to the significant expansion in demand for both flat and steel products. Flat steel demand jumped by 25.6% y-o-y. Import rose by 27.4% y-o-y in 2016. Export continued its significant growth momentum, at 35% y-o-y to 2.9 million tonnes in the same year. Long steel demand surged by 19% y-o-y to 10.8 million tonnes in 2016. Domestic production expanded by 20% y-o-y to 8.7 million tonnes. Import rose by half a million tonnes to 3 million tonnes in the same year. Export volume registered 901,000 tonnes, an increase of nearly 30% y-o-y in 2016.
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You've heard of Karl Ove Knausgaard, the Norwegian writing sensation? I've read several reviews of his six-part memoir, My Struggle (Min Kamp, in Norwegian, which itself caused great controversy, sounding so much like Hitler's Mein Kampf), and have finally got round to start reading his work.
It's mesmerizing, really, his day-by-day, sometimes hour-by-hour account of his youth in rural Norway, his erotic coming of age, his marriage and vocation as writer in Stockholm, Sweden.
It's hard to account for the pull and power of this work in some ways, as it's not (quite) fiction and not (quite) narrative. Rather, it's a memoir comprising meditation and narrative, a melange of forms that seems to derive power from the minute details of the day and how the author reacts to these stimuli. Things that most of us would not notice, or bother reporting, Knausgaard dwells on and develops. His father's tics and temper, for example. The details of the rocky, wooded topography near his boyhood home. The subterfuges he and his best friend employed, at age 16, to get out of the house and drink beer.
Things that we would repress, too, he hauls up and examines. Indeed, the first volume begins with a macabre meditation on death, the physiology and anatomy of death, the pooling of blood in the nether regions, the "dark, soft patch on ever whitening skin," the smuggling of the corpse into the morgue, the hiding away of this dark, dirty secret, "the collective act of repression symbolized by the concealment of our dead."
After the account of his youth in rural Norway, Knausgaard tells of his struggles as an emerging writer. How he gets up, sleepless, in the middle of the night, in Stockholm, while his wife Linda is pregnant and about to have their first child, and sees the police raid the porno store below him. Knausgaard describes how furtive men, attempting to appear normal both coming and going, file into the basement store and then file out. He thinks of the strange communal ritual, though the men don't seem to acknowledge each other, of plunging down into this underground, selecting a film and a booth, watching the porno, jerking off, using Kleenex to mop up. This too, it seems, is part of the ritual of repression, of avoiding mentioning or publicizing our drives — and our drives' end(s).
And all the while he's recounting his struggle to become a writer, Knausgaard is using details of struggles, others' and his own, as part of his material. There's some sort of odd parallel between these struggles, in fact. Perhaps he's saying masturbation for most men is some kind of equivalent of writing for him, or vice versa? Or, more accurately, the longings and dissatisfactions that most of us may take out on our penis, he takes out on, or with, his pen.
Knausgaard has an office 20 minutes from home and, even when Linda is expecting any time, reports dutifully to his office, unpacks his laptop, keeps chugging along on the novel he's been writing for five years without success.
Is this novel something that he finally abandoned? Did it give way at last to this dreamy, fiction-like memoir we're reading now? Is that K's struggle? While others are pounding their puds or their dismal, vain, unpublishable novels, Knausgaard is pounding his head against the wall trying to find the subject that will make him? And discovers only after years of futility that his subject is, after all, immediately at hand? Is himself, the details of his own life?
Of course, all of us have these details at hand. But how many of us make anything of them? We're not all gifted writers, or painters, or thinkers. We can't grasp these fleeting moments, before the blood pools, and make sense of them. We're ordinary mortals, that's all, with ordinary lives. If only we knew how to tell these lives, not just dart into porno stores, not just scribble nonsense that who would want to read? Who in his right mind? In his busy, dismal, unpublishable life? Who? Who?


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Theo is better now.Mmm. Mmm mmm mmm. Yes. Just... all over yes. I've had this book on my TBR list ever since I first read the synopsis (back in DECEMBER), but this cover clinches it. The light and shadow, the sparse colors, her skirt, it's all too perfect and wonderful. If the book inside is half as amazing as its cover, I'll be one happy girl.
She's eating again, dating guys who are almost appropriate, and well on her way to becoming an elite ballet dancer. But when her oldest friend, Donovan, returns home after spending four long years with his kidnapper, Theo starts reliving memories about his abduction—and his abductor.
Donovan isn't talking about what happened, and even though Theo knows she didn't do anything wrong, telling the truth would put everything she's been living for at risk. But keeping quiet might be worse.
What do you think of this cover? And what cover are you loving this week?


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Part of the fun of doing this is being surprised by the experiments in form and design. Especially when I first started learning pen turning, what I intend and what came out in the end are at times very different things. I confidently make a cut or series of cuts, "knowing" how they'll turn out, only to stand at the end thinking, "How in the ... ?"
One of my favorite examples of this was "Crazy Spider." The idea was a wave design in purple heart and canary wood with an offset inlay line. After the fairly simple cut and glue of the purple heart and canary, I turned the blank 90 degrees and cut another wave, inserting a padauk inlay and then just gluing the two pieces back together. The surprise came when I turned it on the lathe. The width of the pen just happened to coincide with the peak of the inlay wave. Sanding to that point created the red padauk "X" that came out in the final pen. It may not be pretty, but it sure is unique! I've been able to duplicate this a few times, but it's not easy.
Another fun thing is to just cut and assemble, with no idea what's going to happen. Most of the Sanitarium Line are like this, at least in specific shapes and patterns. They're designed to be abstract, so if they make a discernable shape it really is a surprise. I thought this one looked like some kind of Picasso-style eye when it turned out. That silver dot, by the way, is a piece of aluminum I had no idea was in there.
I used to make fun of abstract art!
I want to know! What surprises do you get at your work or hobby?


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At First Impressions, we recognize that no two children are alike. We approach each patient individually, identifying and addressing your child's specific needs, fears, and personalities.
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Making dental care fun and comfortable can create a lifetime of good oral health habits. Our office atmosphere is inspired by children and filled with bright colors, a play yard, video games, their favorite TV programs, and kid-sized equipment.
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In most cases, the initial appointment will be for examination only. Depending on the age of your child, a cleaning, fluoride treatment, and x-rays may also be done. If dental treatment is necessary, a treatment plan will be discussed with you. No Restorative Work Will Be Done At The First Appointment.
Upon your arrival, you will see that our offices are child-centered, child-focused, and you will notice the attention to detail we have put forth to ensure that your child will have a positive experience. We work to create a trusting environment focused on children to build the foundation necessary for a child to confidently grow and develop so as to prevent the stigma and anxiety so prevalent in many adults about dental appointments. Our practice culture and philosophy allows us to work directly with your child and allow them to develop a great sense of accomplishment and pride towards their individual growth. Although we do not have parents back during the child's dental appointment, all parents are welcome to visit, tour, and observe the approach we take in delivering your child's dental care. We ask that during your child's dental visit you respect our principle tenant of care with your child and remain in the reception area. You are always welcome to visit prior to or after your child's visit to learn more about our approach. You will observe that our team will explain all procedures and answer any questions your child may have during their appointments. We are specially trained to give children our attention at their appropriate level of development. As a result, most children are more calm, comfortable, and develop a great deal of confidence during examinations and procedures.
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Are we very adventurous or not very adventurous? Yes, we are.
One of my favorite things about travel is the jarring perspective changes I have when I realize how other people live. When we traveled to Thailand (by plane) for a month, at that time, we felt quite adventurous. Very few people we knew had traveled to that area of the world. When we arrived we met people who had been traveling in SE Asia for years and were disappointed with how commercial and on-the-beaten-path Thailand had become. Our trip, which felt quite extraordinary when discussed with our friends back home, felt quite ordinary in conversation with these vagabonds.
When surrounded by other people sailing around the South Pacific, it is easy to feel as if our journey is an ordinary mainstream one. We are constantly in the company of people who have crossed from the Americas to the South Pacific just like us, who left home and country just like us, and often those people have another ocean under their belt (i.e., the Atlantic). These are our comparison group, our "average", our peers. Remember, we're just a bunch of wahoos out here.
In this group of wahoos, even some of our slightly more adventurous than average decisions turn out to be more average than we realize. At the time that we made the decision to turn around at the Cook Islands and return to French Polynesia, it felt scary. We didn't know anyone who had done it. We didn't know how our boat would perform upwind in the trades, bucking currents and swell. We didn't know how our bodies would do living while hammering upwind and perhaps most importantly, how our minds would deal with sailing two miles to make one mile toward goal. Afterwards we met other boats who have done the same route, had friends make the same passage, and have met other people who have sailed much, much more difficult long passages. And what felt extraordinary initially to us started to feel quite ordinary.
When we meet someone on land, they usually think we are incredibly adventurous, if not nuts. Seeing our lives through their eyes reminds us that we are doing something many people dream of doing, that we are having years of travel experiences when most N Americans get weeks if they are lucky. I'll admit, we begin to feel pretty cool and pretty "out there".
Then we meet people who are truly hard core. Our life may feel a little wild to us, until we meet someone who says something like "I normally wouldn't sail a cored fiberglass hull to Antarctica but because it was my second time there I felt comfortable with it.", and we feel quite ordinary again.
If it sounds like I'm complaining, I'm definitely not. I love this feeling of perspective shift. I feel so inspired knowing that I could reach for more adventure if I wanted to. It's always there.
I don't mind being average in a pack full of crazy people. It means we are keeping good company.


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Did that scare you? No? Great! Because my nails won't, either!
This year I chsoe to go with something classy for Halloween, but still in the ghoul-ish spirit. (see what I did there?) I reinterpreted a Candy Corn and this is what I came up with:
My right hand's middle finger had an accident, so you will only be seeing the left hand for a while...
I started with a yellow base and sponged a gradient over it. The colors I used were yellow, orange and grafit black, to replace the original white. I thought it cold be like a smoked Candy Corn. On top I added a glitter topper and finished it off with a matting top coat.
I couldn't decide if the manicure looked better in natural or artifficial light so I tried both. What do you think?
Here are the nail polishes I used:
- No-name Yellow from Auchan
- Farmec - Honey, I'm home
- Oriflame The One - Steel
- Essence Metal Glam - gold topper
Let's go see what the other girls did!
Mădălina - http://misshappyandhernails.blogspot.ro
Raluca Denise - https://www.instagram.com/babyralukutza
Iulia Maria - http://iuliafairynails.blogspot.be
Andra Kat - http://andrakat.com
Claudia - http://www.claudiaschoice.ro
Madalina - http://frumusetelapretmic.blogspot.ro
Mihaela - http://elasdreams.blogspot.ro
Deyutza - http://deyutza87.blogspot.ro
Gabi - http://paginidezisinoapte.ro
Cristina - http://nailsartconcristina.blogspot.com.es
Have a fun weekend and enjoy Halloween!


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text: Ladies Investing for Eternity Thank you for your interest in LIFE! You can access more detailed information about LIFE and current projects here. LIFE is the missions arm of the Women's Ministries Department of the Arkansas District Assemblies of God. LIFE stands for "Ladies Investing For Eternity."LIFE exists to raise funds to equip the homes of our Arkansas missionaries with household items and appliances. The women of Arkansas want to partner with our missionaries to expedite their process of setting up their homes so they can focus on the work God has called them to do. LIFE equips missionary families in 2 ways: WHEN THEY GO We help equip our missionaries' homes when they first arrive on the field.WHEN THEY RETURN We equip our missionaries' temporary homes while they itinerate.We have a big dream! We dream that each of our Arkansas AG missionary families will have every household item they need supplied. We would love for you to partner with us as we dare to raise $100,000 for our missionaries in 2017! We look forward to meeting with you and sharing the needs of our missionaries and ways you can help us equip their homes in their mission field!We have a video that helps communicate the need of LIFE. Please watch it here.May you live life abundantly!Dorinda Blann


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September 30, 2009
The Prizren fortress Kaljaja (Каљаја)
Kaljaja (Каљаја) or Prizren Fortress
Kaljaja is the medieval fortress in Prizren dating from 11th century, in which once the capital of Serbian Empire was located. It was built on a hill above the Bistrica River, around which the modern city developed. The first fort, erected on this location by the Byzantines, was further expanded by Tsar Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia. The fort then came under the Ottomans, who controlled it for four and a half centuries, giving it its modern shape.
The fort is now in ruins, but still can be see its monumentality, although it is difficult to discern the outlines of the original medieval town and the number of Towers due to later expansion.
It's sure worth to climb up the Podkaljaja quarter to reach the fortress as it pays back with a wonderful panoramic view of the city of Prizren, the Bistrica Valley and the surroundings.
Podkaljaja the eyesore of Prizren
As beatuful and charming the city of Prizren might be...there is however a black sopt that disturbs the eye of the tourist: the former Serbian district of Podkaljaja.
In March 17th of 2004 some rioting albanian terrorist destroyed and devastated the serbian district of Podkaljaja (lit. the district under the Kaljaja). Moderate Albanian leader condemmend the actions of those extremistes.
What you see in these pictures happened in "peace" time when KFOR was controlling the territory.
Saint Saviour Church (Sveti Spas)
Walking up to the fortress you walk by a Churche controlled by German KFOR and warning signs everywhere.
The endowment of landowner Mladen Vladojevic with his parents, at the time of Tsar Dusan's rule, was built around 1330 and in 1348 given as a gift to the nearby monastery of Holy Archangels. The Vlach community in Prizren, which had the right to use this little church from the second half of the 18th century, built, in 1836, high walls of a future shrine which was never completed and the church of St. Spasa thus became only a part of its northern nave.
The medieval church is of small dimensions, with the foundation in the shape of the shortened cross with octangular dome and the apse three-sided from outside. It was decoratively built with neat alternate layers of limestone and brick and with ceramoplastic ornaments.
The paintings were painted in two phases: firstly in the altar around 1335 and the paintings are of poorer quality and then in the rest of the church until 1348 when a part of the altar area was repainted. The original paintings on the altar were painted by one painter, a member of the workshop which also painted the church of St. Nikola, endowment of Dragoslav Tutic. Small dimensioned frescoes from the second phase were painted by local painters educated by the good traditions of the Byzantine art who had a sure and prominent drawing. A third painter painted Christ and the Virgin Paraklisa in priprata most probably after 1348. The paintings were greatly damaged and a fire in the 19th century changed their palette.
Conservation works on architecture and frescoes were carried out in the 1953-1963 period.
After the Kosovo war 1998-1999 St. Savior church is under constant guard by German KFOR troops. It's not possible for now to visit the ruins.
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Friday, October 10, 2014
Canadian Satanists on the rampage: Morse Code Transmission –Satan's Song vs. Merriday Park -Witchcraft
Morse Code Transmission –Cold Society/Satan's Song-RCA SPCS-45-116 (1972 Canada)
Merriday Park –Witchcraft/My Shady Friend –Columbia C4-2942 (1970 Canada)
Two major label Canadian outings screaming to be untied from the stake…Quebec's Morse Code Transmission were more from the Proggy side of the spectrum, but on this non-album B side they let all hell loose with some near Proto Metal machinations and silly vocals. Ontario's Merriday Park released 3 Heavy Psych singles with prominent organ, but here on their second single they added a fun line in exploitation groovy-ness to their brew (Evil's black, hairy black… )!
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Yes, the correct lyrics are "Evil's back, hair is black..." GKD
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October 29, 2016
Field Notes
Autumn means a second spring here in Phoenix. After the long, dry summer (when plants are in survival-only mode), cooler temps give them an opportunity for another growth spurt before winter sets in.
Trees don't turn colors or lose their leaves but seed pods, so common among many desert-adapted trees, have dried out and begin to fall.
So, when this week's theme at Simon's Monday Challenge Blog was Autumn, I thought to pick up an empty pod on an evening stroll and made a paint box out of it. Crazy? Yes, but you have to admit it's original!
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Cleverly designed card! Awesome!ReplyDelete
OMG, soooo cool and definitely original! I absolutely love this. So many details... my eyes are devouring this. Cheers!ReplyDelete
I'm speechless for your original way to create fabulous project! this is outstanding and unusual! I love all that is outside the box and your work is always outside the box!! BarbaraReplyDelete
Very very original and different I love it!!!!!!. Hugs.ReplyDelete
Your pod palette is the coolest thing ever! This is such a wonderful tag, I love it to pieces. Hugs, AutumnReplyDelete
Wow, this is so fabulous!! What an awesome idea to turn a seed pod into a paint palette. I love it! The background is beautiful too, and that paint brush with the script pattern. Thank you so much for sharing with us at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge!!ReplyDelete
The imagination you have...such a beautiful interpretation of the challenge! Absolutely fantastic!!!ReplyDelete


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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
noah. (soon 17). left last night for dallas. he'll spend a month doing an internship in austin. eatting well. & being loved on by family. time to test the waters & see what the future holds. what an opportunity. so happy for him.
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Thursday, October 20, 2005
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The Muhlenberg mens tennis team fell at home to East Stroudsburg, 7-2, in its only dual match of the fall season.
Both of the Mules points came from sophomores in singles play. At No. 3, David Yaron won a tiebreaker to close out his first set, then breezed in the second, 6-1. James Goldman, playing at No. 5, came back after dropping the first set to win a third-set supertiebreaker.
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There is plenty to love about September, not least of which is the arrival of fall fashion—from faux fur coats to sweater dresses to chunky ankle boots. That said, prepping for the new season can be tricky when you have a budget that doesn't quite meet your needs. Happily, Mama's A Rolling Stone is here to help! We have teamed up with ASOS on an absolutely fabulous giveaway! We have five—yes, five!—ASOS gift codes, each one worth $50, to give away to our readers. Of course, if you know anything about ASOS, you know that this is a big deal—not only do ASOS offer free shipping and returns, but they are currently offering 20% off all fall trends! Want to know more? Click inside to find out how you can enter this major giveaway and shop until you drop!
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The John Schmaltz family of Emmons County: from Ukrainian Steppes to Dakota Prairies
Schmaltz, Eric. "The John Schmaltz family of Emmons County: from Ukrainian Steppes to Dakota Prairies." Emmons County Record, 7 August 2008, 10.
(Editor's Note: This is part five of Eric Schmaltz's history of the John Schmaltz family.)
Early Schmaltzes from Kapsweyer and Steinfeld
At least dating back to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the Roman Catholic Schmaltzes heralded from the villages of Kapsweyer and Steinfeld in the Bergzabern District in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate. They also spoke a local German dialect called Rhenish (or Rhine) Franconian, which to outsiders might sound coarse, uneducated and rather direct, but it also contains many colorful and insightful expressions and proverbs. At times the dialect is rather difficult to understand, especially for those more familiar with standard German, as I discovered during my travels there.
The family name is distinctly German in origin. Until the family's arrival in North America in the 1890s, however, the surname was spelled "Schmalz," without the "t." In German, the "z" has a "ts" sound, but in English the "tz" better captures this pronunciation. One prominent variation of the name includes "Schmals." For generations, Central and East European Jewish families adopted variations of German names, including "Schmaltz," a Jewish name often found in New York, but that does not necessarily make them relatives. People commonly assume today that the surname comes from the musical term "schmaltz," meaning "very emotional" and "sentimental." The word's true meaning, however, is "goose fat," "chicken fat," "butter," "grease," "lard," and the like—indeed, farm goods or products often associated with familiar trades of the time. This local cuisine also appeared in Alsace-Lorraine as a kosher food among Jews during the Middle Ages. Kosher foods are those that conform to or are prepared according to Jewish dietary laws.
There are two different versions of the clan's earliest known common ancestor. In either case, all of the Schmalzes came from the same communities and were indeed related. Such are the pitfalls of investigating the details of old local church records.
The first account cites as its earliest common ancestor Johann Caspar Schmalz, the first in a long line of John Schmaltzes. He was born around 1690 in the village of Kapsweyer. Kapsweyer no longer exists, unlike the neighboring community of Steinfeld, which literally lies on the French-German border. During this period, other families like the Flick, Mage, Matz, Roehrich and Starck (Stark) married into the Schmalzes.
Johann Caspar's second wife Maria Margaretha (Mage) Schmalz gave birth to a son, Nikolaus, born in 1737 in the nearby small German community of Steinfeld. According to this version of the family story, Nikolaus' son, Josef, was born in 1780 in Kapsweyer. Josef's mother was Maria Margaretha (Starck) Schmalz of Kapsweyer, born in 1735. Josef proved to be the pivotal figure, because he decided that his young family would make the long journey to Russia during the first part of 1808.
Eric Schmaltz. The author is immigrant Johann Schmalz's great-grandson. Born in Minot, North Dakota, in 1971, he is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, where he teaches Modern European and World History. He expresses his eternal gratitude to old issues of the Emmons County Record as well as various extended relatives by blood or marriage who have assisted him with family history research over the past two decades, in particular Bro. Placid Gross, Mrs. Mary Lynn Axtman, Mrs. Nicole (French) Bailey, Prof. Amy Deibert, and Prof. Michael M. Miller.
The second family account, however, reports that the earliest known forefather was Franz Michael Schmalz, born in 1725 in Kapsweyer. His son was Johann Georg, born in 1752 in the same village. According to the alternative version, Johann Georg's son was Josef, born in 1780 in Kapsweyer, the same who migrated to Russia in 1808. The first family version has incorporated additional archival details, and thus it might be the more accurate of the two. After this point, though, both genealogical studies basically agree with each other. Josef married Marie-Ursula Maire, who was two years his junior. Unless a misspelling in the records, her surname is probably a variation of Maier, Mayer, Meyer or Meier, whose origins are Latin meaning "manager of an estate."
It is important to emphasize that Josef and Ursula left for Russia with new hopes following the tumultuous era of the French Revolution (1789-1799) and the devastating European-wide Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815). They responded to Tsar Alexander I's manifesto, with all its promises, to settle in Russia, but the decision to travel such a distance under primitive conditions was a radical departure from long-held tradition and what was most familiar to them. In their estimate, the benefits of immigrating must have outweighed the risks.
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Kenneth Brown, 79, of Hackett passed away Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, in his home. He retired from Dixie Cup and was a veteran of the U.S. Navy.
Funeral service will be 10 a.m. Thursday at McConnell Funeral Home Chapel in Greenwood with burial at Oak Valley Cemetery.
Viewing will be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home, where the family will visit with friends from 5-7 p.m.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Norma Brown of the home; four daughters, Debbie Jordan and husband Jon of Greenwood, Toby Lloyd and husband Danny of Greenwood, Sha-Marie Collins of Hackett and Sarah Thompson of Hackett; one brother, Ray Brown of Tennessee; one sister, Frances Lawson of Tennessee; 11 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two children, Sheri Lynn Brown and Kevin Douglas Brown.
Pallbearers will be Kolton Lloyd, Kenny Lloyd, Joseph Lloyd, Eric Rackers, Austin Lloyd and Kyle Rackers.
Honorary pallbearers will be his great-grandchildren.
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Chicken: delicious, tender, dramatic . . . wait, what?
Maple Leaf's "Dinnertime Is Prime Time" commercial shows that not only can chicken satisfy your hunger—it can move you. Depicting scenes of close relationships combined with a poetic voice-over and topped off with a poignant piano melody, they've created the most moving ad for chicken that you'll ever see. Don't believe me?
The clincher in this ad is really the music, so naturally, I went looking for the artist. First stop: YouTube. Apparently I'm not the only one enamored with the tune—something I realized after watching several videos of people performing their renditions of it on piano.
After finally locating Maple Leaf's channel on YouTube (that's right, Maple Leaf has its own YouTube channel) I read that the music was composed specifically for the ad. Kind of a bummer, as I would have liked to hear more of the same.
During my search, though, I had looked into someone's claim that the music was a trance song called "Make a Miracle", so I made another quick visit to YouTube. The arpeggios in "Make a Miracle" are played in a different order, but the melodies of the two songs sound oddly similar. And strangely enough, the artist is called Prime Time! Coincidence? Probably.
In fact, if you listen to a lot of trance, you'll find similar arrangements all over the place. Most likely because the note pattern in question produces that familiar "moving" feeling.
First video: Maple Leaf Foods via the Maple Leaf Foods YouTube Channel
Second video: Primetime via YouTube
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
How thick-skinned is hydration?
More on the 'glass transition' at around 220 K, seemingly shown now (Chen et al., PNAS 103, 901; 2006) to be a fragile-to-strong crossover. This applies also to DNA (Chen et al., J. Chem. Phys. 125, 171103; 2006), and now Sow-Hsin Chen at MIT and coworkers have found similar behaviour for RNA, again at 220 K (http://xxx.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0703166). So this seems to be pretty universal behaviour for biomacromolecules, reinforcing the idea that the change in dynamics is imposed by the hydration water.
Masahiro Kinoshita has sent me a couple of his papers from Chem. Phys. Lett. (see them here and here) which explore his idea that "the major driving force in protein folding is a gain in water entropy". In a nutshell, they say that "a protein is designed to fold into the structure that maximizes the entropy of water under the requirement that sufficiently many intramolecular hydrogen bonds be formed to compensate the dehydration penalty." In other words, as I understand it, the enthalpies balance and what's left (governing stability) is the water entropy change. That's intriguing; I'm still struggling to see how this ties up with Jack Dunitz's suggestion (Science 264, 670; 1994; Chem. Biol. 2, 709-712; 1995) that transferring a water molecule from an ordered binding site where it is bound by an 'average' hydrogen bond to the bulk involves an overall free-energy change that is close to zero, and with ideas about the importance of interactions at specific residues – the 'hotspots' discussed in the last post, and Ariel Fernandez's notion of dehydrons, for instance. One day, perhaps, it will all make sense to me.
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So does that mean that the dynamics of water and the protein are always coupled? Or does the protein have some "independent" dynamics of its own at the 'critical' temp (220 K in this case) too?
A little off the topic (or perhaps not...): what is the most stable ring structure for water molecules in bulk water? Because in Richard Friesner's PNAS paper (Jan 16, 2007, p. 808), Friesner says that "five membered rings are only fleetingly observed in bulk water". But on p. 166 of your excellent book 'H20: A biography of water', you say that the most common ring structure in liquid water contains five molecules. So what's the exact stable ring structure made from these five molecules?
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- Philip Ball said...
In answer to your second question, I'm frankly puzzled. Friesner et al. cite Rahman and Stillinger (1973) in support of the idea that five-membered rings are uncommon in liquid water (because of unfavourable entropy). I used Rahman and Stillinger as the basis for suggesting in my book that 5-rings are rather common. That is what their (admittedly rather old) simulations seemed to show. I don't see where in the paper there is any claim to the effect indicated by Friesner et al.
Moreover, the notion that 5-rings are common in hydration shells is also widespread: there's a suggestion that hydrophobic groups are hydrated in a manner similar to clathrates. I'm not sure if that is actually well-established. But I don't know that there's any reason to doubt that 5-rings could form. To take an example that springs easily to hand, Loren Williams et al. have indicated that there are plenty of 5-rings hydrating DNA (Biochemistry 33, 3649; 1994 - though that paper was pointing out that 5-rings are not especially favoured). So I don't really understand why Friesner et al. make a big deal of the 5-rings they see. Perhaps I'm missing something.
As to your first point - I think the idea is that the coupling is especially strong around 220 K (I think it's clear that proteins have independent dynamics at room temp, say). Quite how tightly the coupling is supposed to be at 220 K I'm not sure - I suspect we don't quite know this yet.
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- Ashutosh said...
Thanks for the clarification!
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CMS students participate in poetry reading
April 12, 2013
Craig — Casandra Cruz stood with her family at Downtown Books on Thursday evening preparing to read a poem she wrote about casinos to the packed room.
Cruz was one of ten Craig Middle School eighth-graders who were chosen to share their poems at the annual poetry reading.
The students were winners of the Carol Jacobson Memorial Poetry Contest, which required a theme of the celebration of life.
The competition was held in memory of Mayor Terry Carwile's wife, whom he described as a lover of the arts. He said she supported the arts for young children and especially young women.
"Poetry allows them to break out of the traditional essay and think outside the box," middle school teacher Trisha McGee said.
McGee and teacher Janie Wilson had their classes participate in the contest, which was judged by Derek Maiolo, Shirly Simpson, Dave Morris and Janet Sheridan.
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Students read poems on life, including sheep, the beauty of water and relationships.
Pearl Wymann's poem was voted the best. Cruz placed second, John T. Peroulis was third, Jamie Ferre was fourth, Elizabeth Weis was fifth, and Rae Kohpay was sixth. Honorable mentions included Matt Moscheti, Kaylee Durnham, Morgan Flanders and Dommeniqc Bell.
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"Really, there is no substitute for salt," says pikawicca. "Nothing else performs like it in cooking." But if you have to give up salt for medical reasons, is there any hope for you as a Chowhound?
There is such a thing as "salt substitute." It's sold in supermarkets and it's mostly potassium chloride, says MikeG. He can't stand the stuff, but if you can tolerate stevia as a sugar substitute, then you might be able to choke down fake salt. If you can have some of the real thing, great-tasting sea salt has a lot less sodium than regular table salt, says Sean.
Another approach is to eliminate your need for salt by going cold-turkey on salt for a few weeks. It took greygarious about two weeks to flush out the craving for salt, "but after that most commercially-prepared food seems unpleasantly salty. A canister of salt lasts me at least a decade," says greygarious. Jeff Smith (the late Frugal Gourmet) minimized salt in his cooking after having heart problems: "He always said that increasing other seasonings, particularly pepper and lemon, compensated well for the absence of salt," says greygarious.
Normandie has found that there's something about vinegar that satisfies some salt cravings, even though it has no sodium. "I don't know if in some way it interacts with the same taste receptors that salt does, but I know it works to a pretty good degree for me," says Normandie.
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So, get to sewing!
Materials Needed:
*cotton fabric
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My tag is a rectangle that measures 5 x 3-1/2. But, you can make it whatever shape you want. You want to cut out a window for the name tag to show through. Make sure you leave some sewing room along all the edges. I set mine towards the bottom of the tag to make sure I had room for a slit and an eyelet.
1. Trace the tag pattern onto cotton fabric. You don't have to trace the window.
2. Trace the tag pattern onto felt. Trace the window!
3. Cut out both pieces of fabric. Cut out the window on the felt piece.
4. Cut a piece of vinyl a little larger than your window. Handsew the vinyl piece around the window. Be careful, this can be a bit tricky to get started, especially for younger sewers. (At camp, I precut the vinyl pieces for the kids)
5. Now, fold the felt piece in half and cut a slit right above the window stitches. This will make a pocket to slide the name tag into.
6. Put the cotton and felt piece together. Good sides facing out.
7. Sew all around the edges of the luggage tag.
8. Add an eyelet to the top of the tag. We used a setter like this one and the kids loved to hammer in the eyelet!
You can slide a cute note into the luggage tag too! I found that an index card cut in half was a perfect fit.
These would also be super for a kids' bag or a gift for someone else. I know we'll be making them in Sewing Club next year for sure!
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Putting Something Away for a Rainy Day: New Seed and Gene Banks in Turkey
The Anatolian Grey (or Boz Irk) cattle breed, found in Turkey's Thrace, South Marmara, and North Aegean regions, is one of the species that will be preserved in the country's new gene bank. These animals are valued for their ability to survive sudden changes in food and climate. Photo: TÜRKHAYGEN-I
Some people believe that Noah's Ark came to rest on eastern Turkey's Mt. Ararat. Today, the threat of a global catastrophe to rival the Biblical flood is prompting Turkish government officials to play Noah themselves, gathering up representatives of important species to be used to repopulate the country should worse come to worse.
The Agriculture and Rural Affairs Ministry is taking a slightly more high-tech approach than marching animals onto a wooden boat two by two, setting up banks for plant seeds and animal genes in response to concern about how droughts and other effects of global warming will affect agriculture and livestock.
first new seed bank, reportedly dubbed "Noah's Bin," will be set up in the capital city of Ankara this year and will be the fourth largest in the world. It will be followed by a gene bank representing wild and domesticated animals that are either unique to Turkey--such as the famed Ankara and Van cats and Kangal dogs from Sivas--endangered, or important farm animals. The ministry is also developing drought-resistant types of wheat and other fruit and vegetable species. Via: "Agriculture Ministry to set up seed, animal gene bank," Today's Zaman
More on saving seeds and genes:
The World's Largest Seed Bank: Next Bank to Fail?
Global Crop Diversity Trust: the Search for 'Climate-Proof' Food
More Than Pretty Heirloom Tomatoes: Saving Seeds Critical to Combatting Climate Change
Native Seeds Fight Food Shortage and Global Warming
African Seed Bank Deposits Arrive In Norway
Quote of the Day: Jonathan Porritt on Saving Our Seeds
First Frogs, Now Our Wheat?
Seed Sense: I See Vanished Vegetables
Norway to Build Doomsday Seed Vault
Norway Seed Bank: A Hedge Against Food Loss


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Source: VOA
Hundreds of journalists in Iran have received an anonymous text message warning them not to have contact with "hostile" organizations outside the country.
cartoon by Amin Montazeri, Iranian daily Ghanoon
Iranian media say some 700 journalists and public figures received the text message Friday. The message said "all contact and collaboration with hostile elements based abroad, by mail or other methods of communication, is a crime and will be brought to justice." It also said the message would be the recipient's "last warning."
Iran bans citizens from having any contact with Persian language media from overseas, including Voice of America's Persian service and the BBC Persian service.
Iran has a recent history of arresting journalists accused of cooperating with foreign outlets.
In April, four journalists arrested in November were sentenced to between five and 10 years in prison, convicted of colluding with foreign governments and threatening "national security."
The Committee to Protect Journalists protested the sentences, categorizing three of the four as "reformist journalists." Sherif Mansour of the Committee to Protect Journalists said such convictions underline the need to "change the overbroad laws that lead to the harassment and jailing of the media."
On June 20, 2016, the Iranian reformist newspaper Ghanoon announced that an Iranian criminal prosecutor had suspended its license after a complaint from Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. The newspaper's website said the paper had been accused of "publishing falsehood with the intent to cause disrupt in public opinion."
In April, Iran jailed a female employee of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, which supports international journalists. Tehran accused Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who holds joint Iranian-British citizenship, of seeking to overthrow the Iranian government through her membership in "foreign companies and institutions."
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Soaring vaulted ceilings add to the brightness of this spacious Top floor 2 Bdrm southeast corner unit in Westwater Views. Absolutely gorgeous with new carpets and fresh paint, huge Bdrms on opposite sides of suite, each with their own baths. Oversized kitchen and eating area is bigger than most house and perfect for buyers wanting the space of a home but the convenience of condo living. Overlooking open space towards Mt.Baker and Brittania Shipyard. Very impressive unit. Quick walk to Steveston Village and surrounding Dyke.


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This is a great article for those who take photos of small and close up items…I've got to try this!
Photographing my jewelry is one of my greatest ongoing challenges. Like many Etsy sellers, photography is not really my thing, but it's a critical part of my selling process.
My house is dark inside and surrounded by a jungle of tropical plants so 'shoot near a window' doesn't work for me. I struggle to get crisp colours and a clean background.
But after months of trial and error, and hundreds of grey, gloomy photos, I came up with a solution that's working pretty well for me—and it's really simple.
Here's a bracelet I photographed using my new system:
Not too shabby is it? There are loads of websites that show you how to make light boxes from cardboard boxes and tracing paper. And then there are those wrinkly-looking photography 'cubes' – but none of them do it for me, so I created my own one.
Drumroll….here it is:
Like I said, it's really simple.
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I was trying out a middle part today, but after looking at these photos I have realised that is the WORST IDEA EVER and I have promptly returned my hair to its usual state. So sorry. But yeah, I got this beautiful NZ-made cotton sundress on Trade Me recently and have worn it like five days in a row. In the picture it looked black and white, which I was a little nervous about as I don't often wear those colours, but it turns out it's got a beautiful pale pinky lilac wash to it. The label makes me titter a bit too - 'Another Beejay Garment', ha. I suspect today is one of the last sunny days we'll have in Wellington for a while, so I was trying to make the most of wearing cotton without a layer of wool.
I've had these black velvetty flatforms since high school and recently got the straps fixed for a tenner and now they have many more years of life left in them, I hope. They are so comfy and practical for work. Also I am wearing lipstick - Revlon Colorstay Muse. Mum was up for the weekend last week and we both decided to become lipstick people. I always forget I have it on and then smear it on my face. Fun.


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Concluding Conference: "Democratic Governance in the Security Sector: Lessons of the STARLINK Programme in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine"
Where and when
13 December 2007, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Hague
On 13 December 2007 CESS organised the conference called Democratic Governance in the Security Sector: Lessons of the STARLINK Programme in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. This was the climax of a programme which for two years provided transitional countries with training programmes for democratic reform in their security sector. About 100 CESS partners and other SSR experts gathered at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague. They came from the five Starlink beneficiary countries, neighbouring countries like Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, international organisations like NATO and the OSCE, and government departments and research institutes in the Netherlands. The morning sessions focussed on the Starlink programme, its contents and its achievements. Our partner organisations used the opportunity to explain how Starlink operated in their respective countries, and how cooperation between their institutes and CESS developed. In the afternoon three working groups dealt with specific obstacles to democratic governance in the security sector. After these sessions three Rapporteurs highlighted in the findings of the working groups. During the final session the floor was again given to Starlink partners and the sponsors of the programme, namely the Netherlands Foreign Ministry and the OSCE offices in Armenia and Azerbaijan. They reflected on the potential for further development and wider use of the Starlink modules and training courses. The message of our partners was constructive and hopeful: Starlink was received well in the beneficiary countries and there is a need for the programme to be continued in the 'old' Starlink countries, and extended to new ones.
STARLINK: Security, Transparency, Accountability and Reform: Linking the Security Sectors of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to the European Mainstream
If you have any questions regarding this event please contact CESS.


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Monday, April 26, 2010
Titanium heat exchanger for DIY aquarium chiller
Since the weather is starting to heat up, I decided to build a titanium replacement for the chiller heat exchanger. I bought some 1" dia x 0.025" wall titanium tubes on eBay after fruitlessly searching for a coil or something that I could bend into a coil. The surface area is about 16 in^2. The stainless coil had a surface area of about 20 in^2, so the heat transfer should be comparable.
The heat exchanger is built so that the metal tube is pinched between the plastic end caps when they are threaded onto the internal aluminum shaft. There are rubber washers to seal the metal to the end caps.
The device fits into my hang-on filter in the same position as the stainless coil did. I'll let everyone know how it works.
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- NikolasJuly 13, 2010 at 6:34 AM
Hi Ben,ReplyDelete
I was thinking about the same usage of a water cooler and titanium coil for cooling my aquarium.
But in your case you are cooling a nano reef, where I have a 75 gallon tank.
Will this work or will the low btu on the cooler make it work continuously and eventually burn?
Nikolas, cooling a 75 gallon tank with presumably more lighting, bigger pumps, and more surface area will take more cooling power. However, water coolers are so cheap (get a used one on craigslist), it's probably worth a try. Maybe you could even running two coolers. Even if the water cooler needs replacing every other year, it is still cheaper than a commercial chiller. Good luckReplyDelete
- NikolasJuly 14, 2010 at 1:00 AM
I recently read that suing fans on the surface of the water you can achieve up to 8000 BTUs of cooling. I will try and find a stainless steel tubing to make a coil that doesn't cost as much as a titanium coil and just try to see if it works. If it does I will replace with a titanium coil.ReplyDelete
For a titanium heat exchanger you can try this guy(or alibaba website for more sellers)
The heat exchanger shown in the link is air to water, but he also sells water to water.
Nikolas, have you ever ordered anything through alibaba? I was under the impression that the vendors only sell large quantities to distributors on that site.ReplyDelete
- NikolasJuly 15, 2010 at 1:44 AM
It depends on the vendor. Some will sell by 1, other will require a minimum quantity.ReplyDelete
You can always ask those that require minimum quantity for a sample. They will always provide a sample for a little bit extra than the FOB price.
For example FOB price for a salinity refractometer is $17 per unit when you order 500.
But the sample price is 25+ shipping cost. For US this is close to market price, but when I asked to buy one here in Cyprus they asked for 95 euros($120). So sometimes shopping in Alibaba and asking for "samples" has its benefits :)
Hi Ben, im happy that can see you still active on your blog. :) Actually now i planing order some peltier device from Alibaba and DIY a chiller for myself using 2 12V 5A peltier device and after reading your blog know that you have do peltier chiller before and need collect some data from you. :)ReplyDelete
My concept is like this:
-get 2 peltier device 12V 5A and the hot side stick to heat sink with fan.
-get a ~10L rectangular ice box. At the cover of ice box cut a shape which will match with the 2 peltier device. After that drill 2 hole at the cover on left and right for IN/OUT pipe.
-put the stainless steal coil with piping for IN/OUT (like what you did) inside the ice box and connect the the piping to IN/OUT on the cover.
-after that fill cool water into the ice box.
-then cut the output of aquarium pump pipe one head join to ice box IN and another side join to OUT.
Do you think this work? Have you done this before? It was like mini refrigerator.
Cheok, as I noted in my original blog post (http://benkrasnow.blogspot.com/2009/03/diy-aquarium-chiller.html), I think that Peltier junctions are not well suited to moving appreciable amounts of heat. They have applications for spot cooling, but a refrigerant-cycle cooling device will be much more efficient for cooling an aquarium. If your tank is very small, you might have some success with Peltier junctions.ReplyDelete
I agree that using a separate tank of water for chilling the heat exchanger is a good idea. This way, the chilled water does not mix with the aquarium water, and it is nearly impossible for the system to overflow. Good luck, let me know how it turns out. -Ben
My tank is 110L. After try let you know the result. But wont so fast.... havent import the peltier parts yet... my country hard find peltier.... :)ReplyDelete
Cheok, I'm afraid it is very unlikely that two 12V 5A peltier devices will have enough power to make any helpful change in your 110L tank's temperature. Try searching locally for a water cooler, air conditioner or refrigerator and use a refrigerant-based cooling solution. You will be much happier.ReplyDelete
Oh really? Is it the peltier device is equal to the market mini chiller? Then i take your advice... try find water cooler.... :)ReplyDelete
You can move a lot more heat by compressing and expanding a refrigerant than you can by using the Peltier effect. I would definitely recommend a refrigerant-based cooler device, not a Peltier device.ReplyDelete
hello everyoneReplyDelete
i want to build the devices that can feed the fishes on time , control the light for fishes, control the temprature and this device also have LCD for display situation of aquarium.
everything is ok but I dun know how to cool or heat the water automatically
ofcurs im using temp sensor, bt dun know how to make the water cold or heat the water automatically
is anyone have idea?
Erfan, I've written articles on this blog about aquarium temperature control:ReplyDelete
- R. ReaudryMarch 12, 2011 at 8:54 AM
I wanted to mention an alternative to your plug-in cooler with the recirculating pump. It may have an application for those trying to reduce their electrical power footprint. I tapped into my cold water line and ran that through a valve actuated by a temperature sensor in the aquarium. Using a common thermostat, I was able to set the target tank temperature. WHen the temperature of the tank exceeded the setpoint, the valve would open and cold water would run through the coil in the aquarium then to a sink in the basement. Worked well, didn't use too much water, but was a bit of a pain running water lines up through my floor from the basement.
R. Reaudry, I guess it depends where you live. Here in California, letting water run down the drain is often a bigger problem than using electricity. It sounds like the plan would work pretty well, though.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 25, 2011 at 6:55 AM
This is so great.ReplyDelete
Your post is quite entertaining. I am interested in building pool chiller (600 gallons). I want to achieve a temp drop of 10 degrees. I was thinking that I could surround the cooling coils on a window air conditioner with a water proof box. Then recyculate the pool water past the coils. With your background in cooling, does this seem like a feasable construction?
Peter, a window air conditioner would require an extremely long time to lower the temperature of 600 gallons of water by 10 degrees -- assuming no heat load. I would say it is not feasible.ReplyDelete
I would suggest a titanium rod instead of aluminum, or eliminate the aluminum rod if you can. At the minimum the aluminum should touch the aquarium water.ReplyDelete


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By now some of the food waste stats are seared into my brain. I could probably recite in my sleep that Americans waste about 40% of our food, and I've told dozens of people that we throw away enough food every single day to fill the Rose Bowl to the brim (Bloom, 2010). Having grown up in State College – a big football town – I know how big those stadiums are. But, for some reason I was still surprised last Wednesday night.
In preparation for our big event to raise awareness about the issue of food waste, our entire class solicited donations of food that supermarkets, caterers, and restaurants normally would have thrown away.
That night, I got my granny cart and rolled over to a local bakery that was supportive of our cause. This particular business is conscientious about food waste, and one of their other branches regularly donates food to a local homeless shelter at the end of the night. But, this location still had food they would have had to throw away and they were happy to give it to the cause.
I guess I was expecting a couple of rolls and a few loaves of bread. This was just one store, right? Instead they sent me home with a full trash bag full of baguettes, bagels, rolls, and baked goods and a second bag of pizzas, pastries and croissants. On top of that, they apologized for not having more stuff. Apparently, I had caught them on a light night since sales had gone well that day. A light night!!
The next day, when I arrived at our booth I found that the rest of our team had recovered even more food. We had boxes of bananas, cartons of strawberries, bunches of asparagus, piles of sandwiches, bags and bags of bread…. In total, we had only gone to eight locations, and we had enough food to entice over 150 hungry college students, community members, and faculty to sign pledges committing to reduce their own food waste.
We fed people good meals for over two hours, and some of those students walked away with plates filled with food so they could share with their buddies and have food for dinner too.
This event got me thinking about the next phase of our efforts. Although our class is coming to an end, I'm committed to reducing my own food waste and continuing to encourage others to change their behaviors. Over the past few weeks I've focused on changing my own behaviors and encouraging friends, family members, and co-workers to do the same. Actually seeing all the food that would have been thrown away by just a few places in just one night inspired me to do more to encourage businesses to change their practices.
When we interviewed Tristram Stuart, author of Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, he reminded us that businesses will listen to consumers. This has inspired me to question and challenge the entire food service industry from farm to fork. We can start to make a greater difference by letting managers of supermarkets know that we'll buy their ugly produce or day old bread (especially if they discount it). We can shop at farmers markets. We can ask restaurants to serve smaller portions and take home all of our left-overs. We can explore composting and encourage those in the food industry to do the same. Beyond changing our own behaviors, we can continue to take steps to change the systems that are creating excess amounts of food waste. So, although I won't be blogging about it anymore, I'll continue in my efforts to respect food and reduce waste and take it to the next level by raising my voice and asking questions to encourage others to lead real systems change.


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College grads hoping to make it to Wall Street as consultants are facing the realities of the current economy:
Several large firms are not recruiting new entry-level analysts for their investment banking divisions this fall, having filled their entire incoming class with last summer's interns. At the University of Pennsylvania, whose Wharton School is the closest thing that exists to a Wall Street farm team, Goldman Sachs canceled its informational session.
Having done MBA recruiting in my career, filling annual college recruitment needs usually involved a two prong (and expensive) approach: Summer interns and on-campus recruiting. On campus recruitment usually included a lot of activities during the year prior to setting foot on-campus: lunches, case study competitions, dinners, career fairs, etc. A big investment of time and company resources which did not guarantee results. The fact that companies are cancelling activities such as information sessions and focusing on internships is a true shift in strategy.


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Creation Festival Founder Harry Thomas Arrested and Charged With Multiple Counts of Child Molestation
Harry L. Thomas is the pastor of Come Alive New Testament Church in Medford, New Jersey, and founder of the Creation Festival, one of the most popular Christian music festivals in America.
And tonight, he's under arrest for sexually assaulting four children over the course of 16 years.
Come Alive Church, which "believe[s] in the entire teachings of the inspired Word of God as recorded in the Old and New Testament of the Holy Bible," according to its website, released a statement Thursday night:
"It is with deep regret and saddened hearts that the board of Come Alive International and Creation Festivals along with the Elders and Trustees of Come Alive New Testament Church have indefinitely suspended Pastor Harry Thomas from all leadership positions with the church, festival and all associated ministries. While the allegations are unrelated to his roles in these ministries, leadership has determined this to be the proper course of action at this time until there can be a full investigation. It is requested that all pray for the parties involved and refrain from speculation regarding the circumstances."
The church has responded to this news by putting their entire website under password protection tonight.


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Volunteer Opportunities in DC
:. Volunteer Opportunities
Have you been wondering where to go to help others and improve the community we live in? Here are some places where you can help:
- Miriam's Kitchen
2401 Virginia Avenue NW
Helps homeless people in the Washington area through breakfast programs to case management programs.
- Capital Area Food Bank
645 Taylor St. NE
The largest public, non-profit food and nutrition education resource in the D.C. Metro Area.
- Greater DC Cares
1725 I Street, NW, Suite 200
Bridges community resident's skills, time, and goods with community needs to improve lives and strengthen D.C. region.
- American Hospice Foundation
2120 L Street, NW, Suite 200
Supports programs that serve the needs of the terminally ill and grieving individuals of all ages.
- National Alliance to End Homelessness
1518 K Street NW, Suite 206
Its mission is to mobilize the nonprofit, public and private sectors of society in an alliance to end homelessness.
- The National Park Foundation
11 Dupont Circle NW, Suite 600
Chartered by Congress in 1967, NPF's mission is to raise private support for National Parks, and to build a broad community of people who care about their parks.
- American Red Cross
2025 E Street, NW
:. Donation and Support
Consider a donation of support through one of these sites:
- Center for Community Change
1000 Wisconsin Ave. NW
CCC is committed to reducing poverty and rebuilding low income communities.
- Resources for the Future
1616 P Street, NW
An independent institute analyzing environmental, energy, and natural resource policies.
- Goodwill of Greater Washington
It's mission is to educate, train, employ and place people with disadvantages and disabilities, creating a stronger workforce and a more vital community while building dignity for the people we serve through the removal of barriers to personal success.
- Cars4Charities
An overview of the benefits of donating a car in DC, including links to DC charities represented by cars4charities.
:. Other Volunteering and Charity Resources
More information about volunteer activities and charity organizations in Washington D.C.:
- dosomething.org
– a volunteer network. Type in your zipcode and find many ways you can help in the DC area.
- KSD Partners
An international fundraising and management consulting firm committed to helping non-profit organizations achieve their development goals.
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Norwalk Mayor Harry W. Rilling announced that the Norwalk Community Health Center and Under One Roof /The Marvin will receive proceeds from the 2018 Mayor's Ball.
The Norwalk Community Health Center, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, has been delivering quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our community for more than 17 years, regardless of their ability to pay. As a federally qualified health center, the Community Health facility relies on patient fees, grants and contributions to serve the residents. The Community Health Center has added affordable pediatric and adult dental health to their roster of health services such as: adult medicine, pediatrics, women's health, and behavioral health. In 2018, NCHC will be expanding to a second facility in Norwalk to accommodate the growing number of residents.
Under One Roof/The Marvin, a 501(c)3 nonprofit housing and day care facility, has been providing services to the elderly since 1997. The Marvin has become a national model for successfully providing affordable housing for the elderly in need of supportive services which incorporate and promote a strong intergenerational program. The Marvin also provides senior housing with optional assisted living services along with an accredited school readiness and childcare program. The community activities dispel stereotypes and build relationships, educational experiences for all age groups, exercise programs, gardening, holiday activities and more. In 2009, the Marvin was awarded the MetLife Foundation Award for Excellence in Affordable Housing. The Marvin Children's center is owned and sponsored by Under One Roof, Inc. and is managed by Bright Horizons Family Solutions.
The Mayor's Ball, established as a non-profit charitable institution is held each January to benefit local charities. The 2018 Mayor's Ball will be held on Friday, January 26, 2018, at 6:30 pm, at the Waters Edge at Giovanni's in Darien. The well attended event has traditionally been held in larger venues like the Italian Center that is currently under renovations. Due to the smaller seating capacity, guests are encouraged to send in reservations early.
Reservations with payment will be accepted until January 17, 2018 or until the venue sells out, whichever comes first. Tickets are available at $125.00 per person. Tables of ten can also be reserved. Please make check(s) payable to the "Norwalk Community Benefit Fund." For more information about reservations, please Call Maritza Alvarado at 203-854-7950. To donate a silent auction item, please call Sally Johnson, Executive Assistant to the Mayor, at 203-854-7707. Silent auction donations produce the major portion of the Mayor's Ball proceeds. Tax-deductible contributions to the Mayor's Ball can be made at any time.


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Curriculum Vitae
Vico's Uncanny Humanism
Professor of Humanities
San Francisco State University
Professor Sandra R. Luft received her M.A. in both Philosophy and English
from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from the History
of Ideas Program at Brandeis Her teaching and research interests center
on the modern European (sixteenth to twentieth centuries) history of ideas,
with an emphasis on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of
the interdisciplinary study of ideas and culture. For many years the focus
of her research has been the eighteenth century Neapolitan philosopher
Giambattista Vico, who, reacting against the modern rationalist-scientific
conception of knowledge, delimited knowledge to what humans had made,
their own historical-cultural world. Her book, Vico's Uncanny Humanism:
Reading the "New Science" between Modern and Postmodern, was published
by Cornell University Press, 2003. Recently, her teaching has focused
on contemporary postmodern literature, particularly the works of Nietzsche,
Heidegger, and Derrida, as well as the writings of Hannah Arendt.