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According to FanRag Sports' Jon Heyman, Frazier's deal includes no incentives and is without a no-trade clause, though Frazier would get a $500,000 bonus if the Mets chose to move him.
Todd Frazier agreed to a two-year deal worth $17 million with the New York Mets, The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal reported Monday. The deal is pending a physical. He hit.213/.344/.428 (105 OPS+) with 27 homers and 76 RBI last season for the White Sox (81 games) and Yankees (66 games).
David Wright for everything he's done for the Mets should be allowed to openly talk about his situation
He hit.213 with 27 home runs and 76 RBI previous year, a season where he was traded near the deadline from the White Sox to the Yankees.
The move also means Asdrubal Cabrera could be the Mets' projected starter at second base this season, rather than third. The New Jersey native was said to be interested in remaining in NY. Over the last four seasons, he has averaged 33 home runs per season.
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At least they, unlike many other teams, made a deal happen. That speculation has included multiple teams throughout this offseason.
In an unusually depressed free agent market, the Mets have spent $72.5 million this winter on five players.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006
In praise of drawing
"Do not fail to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worth while, and it will do you a world of good." (Cennino Cennini, 1370-1440) "
"For those of us who would be fine artists, drawing is still the bottom line. Next to composition, it's the most neglected skill. A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away. One in the morning before coffee is a credible tonic for a day filled with above average work. Canvas or paper, it matters not. "Good drawing forms the bones on which a strong painting hangs." (Chris Bingle) (In praise of drawing)
The painters Keys archieve, August 1, 2006 http://www.painterskeys.com)
Sketching for years has led me to drawing world again. Drawing is skelton and infrastructure of all good paintings. No wonder the masters put so many times and efforts into drawing.many art classes advocate painting before grasping the roots and essense of drawing these days. Though the students will be happy not spending much time to draw and jump right away into painting, their teachers are in fact not leading them in the right trait.
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Sunday, September 24, 2006
Lugano, Switzerland
These images show Lugano the city in Swiss, close to Milano. The Mountain in the background is Sansalvadora' seen from all angles in the city. You can walk along the lake in less than an hour. I've done some paintings, sketches and photography from the scenes of the city and surroundings on different occasions.
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Saturday, September 23, 2006
Abstract image
As a flavour to sketches, I thought why not post some sketchy paintings once in a while between the real sketches .
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This sketch was done in a couple of minutes. While I was going to draw a bit more detail of this figure she changed her pose quickly and left the location where I spotted her. I had to stop .
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Friday, September 22, 2006
Sketch of old man in N.York Library
You can find people from all walks of life in main libraries in Toronto. Libraries, as in book stores, in North America are very alive and active. The first thing that impressed me in the time of my studies in the States back in the 70's was the different large libraries you could find everywhere at campus or in the city. I usually spent a few hours a week in North York library and my favourite book store Chapters. I sketched this old serious gentleman in the same library. He was so mean that I hesitated to sketch him right away. So, after I was sure that he was busy looking at the paper I made this quick sketch of him.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Sun flower is my favourit flower which you may see everywhere you go from mid summer up to mid Fall . The seeds spread around very easily. I have painted several live sunflowers that you may see in the still life gallery in my website : watercolorinweb.com . Recently, some friends of mine have become interested in this painting which appears on top of my website . Since the original is not in a larg size, if interested, I can reproduce it ias you want.
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Corner of Yonge & Church, North york. Toronto
this small size grave yard is on my way to everywhere. No matter where I go in the city, I have to pass by it. The night this pic was shot was a Sunday which luckilly the camara was in my pocket. Today I had a chance to take a more lighter one. I always envy the people who respect the culture and the past. According to the its profile, when there was no Yonge St, and more farm lands were around, this graveyard was part of the church right on the other side. It is good to have the dead not too far from us , isn't it ? There is a full moon and a reflection of the street lights on the standing tomb.
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Sunday, September 10, 2006
Testing the water
I'm testing the sketch papers I bought recently from the "Above the ground", art shop. The paper is good for sketches with dry and light washe . I changed the setting totally, From studio to a bright sea side. Also I tried the whole washes with no prior design. The shadows are emphezied by watercolor pencil. The hair is darkened with pen and ink for a better effects.
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Sunday Sep. 10 Old painting
This is one of the first watercolor paintings I made in mid 90's with not much of technic knowledge . FirstI I soaked the paper in water and did a wet in wet brush work for most parts. Roses are done with dried brush. To paint loosely with not much overworks, is kind of ideal for me now.The joys of Sketching almost every other day, has made me lasy to work on more datailed paintings. May be this is one reason that I would not be able to put a show in contemporary commercial galleries. But, I 'm looking for a place to put up mainly the sketches and small paintings with no frames. I will do.
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Saturday, September 09, 2006
July 08/0 North york Library, T.O.
Sketching in position of face to face is much harder than from behind or from the sides. In libraries, bookstores or the coffee shops, when in mood of sketching, first i choose the location carefully. The safest position is when the model is not aware of, and you can study them a bit and make a relaxed sketch. In libraries you may find sitters in relaxed positions and not much conscious. i found these two ladies in the reading room where they were sitting apart toward the windows. I made them closer to each other to have both in one shot.
Media : pen & ink, and washes of light watercolor.
Media : pen & ink, and washes of light watercolor.
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Thursday, September 07, 2006
09/07/06 Hippie time, Urbana Illinois
what a pic !!! I was browsing my photo albums that ran to this nostalgic pic. The time is 1971 . Yes, almost 35 years back and the location is in our back yard in Urbana, illinois, the city i did my M.S.studies in social work and privileged life studies in post Vietnam war. The chaps , besides me , are cool hippie yankees who all used to live together in a large house sort of commune kind of life. We shared the expences; rent, food and etc. that did not usually run more than 70-80 bucks in a month. The vegetables, like zuccinni, brucli, tomatoes and some sort of herbs was grown in the yard and had food enough to feed some uninviting quests who often walked to the house. The people lived togethernwere doing job in whatever they liked. Andy facing to us, worked in a bike repair shop. You can see the tiny mirror right in the corner of his left eye for not being hit by the cars. Ed. looking toward left was a math. instructor and boy friend of sue who is sitting in front side. There were three more in the house who used to do some other odd jobs. we all had a good time together and now i fell that I miss them all.
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|Publication Date: 1 Aug 2008
|Format: Paperback
|Publisher: SPCK Publishing
|Page Count: 160
|Author: Gordon Lamont
Primary School Assemblies for a Just World
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Assemblies provide an important element in the busy school day, a chance to be together, to celebrate achievement, and time for ethical and spiritual reflection on big issues and personal responsibility. But they can also be a headache for the busy teacher or assembly leader and sometimes those big questions can seem just too daunting to tackle in an appropriate way for the diverse young minds of the school community. Help is at hand in this book which provides a rich variety of assembly material exploring and explaining global development issues for primary school children. Using true stories and personal testimony to engage the children's interest, the assemblies include activities, games and drama to open up the issues in an age-appropriate way. They conclude with a reflection and a prayer to help children relate development issues to their own lives, bridging the gaps of distance and culture to unite the human family. Each of the 30 assemblies is accompanied by a range of possible classroom activities that tie in to National Curriculum subjects such as PSE, Citizenship, RE and Maths. This user friendly book includes clear, informal instructions and advice along with photocopiable worksheets as appropriate. The material is presented in a step by step fashion with an emphasis on 'pick-up-and-use' plus adaptability to personal style and circumstance. This is an ideal resource for teachers and all those who lead primary school assemblies and collective worship.


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The Diggers' Requiem
- Australian Premiere -
6 October 2018
7:30pm Llewellyn Hall
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The Diggers' Requiem is a major new Australian work and it premiered on October 6 2018 to a packed house at the Llewellyn Hall in Canberra in front of the Governor General, and the ambassadors for France and Germany. The Australian Premiere is a significant event to commemorate the end of World War One, 100 years on.
The Requiem was jointly commissioned by the Australian War Memorial (AWM) and the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA), produced and directed by Christopher Latham and will be performed at Llewellyn Hall by a large orchestra and choir. The concert was recorded for CD release and broadcast by ABC Classic FM.
In an astonishing piece of musical teamwork, The Requiem has been composed by seven contemporary Australian composers working with Chris on existing and new pieces. Composers Nigel Westlake, Elena Kats-Chernin, Richard Mills, Graeme Koehne, Ross Edwards, Andrew Schultz and Chris have all written movements.
The concert was performed by the newly formed Australian War Memorial Orchestra and Choir with the Band of the Royal Military College, Duntroon as well as 24 young artists selected from across Australia with French or German ancestry or WWI family connections. Seven Australian and international soloists will also perform.
The sad and cathartic March of the Death of Saul by Handel is traditionally performed at the military funeral of Commonwealth soldiers, and will open the work, followed by the Somme Lament, by Australian composer Frederick Septimus Kelly, who died at Beaumont-Hamel in 1916. This lament, which will represent the Battle of Pozières, was written nearby in a basement of a bombed out house in Menil-Martinsart, just two weeks before his death.
Elena Kats-Chernin's Lacrimosa evokes the grief of a mother who sings for her son who was lost in the battle of Bullecourt in the Pas-de-Calais. Alex Lithgow who wrote the stirring Victoria March, which was played by the Australian Army as it marched into Bapaume in 1917, has had his work incorporated into Nigel Westlake's The Glass Soldier, the iconic Australian work for trumpet and orchestra. A lone piper plays John Grant's Lament for the Pipers lost in the Great War in Ross Edwards' Lux Aeterna, with a peal of 62,000 bells, layered and patterned, to commemorate the 62,000 Australians who died in WWI.
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So I'm blogging. Or at least attempting to blog. To be completely honest, this will be my third attempt in the past 5 years to keep up a blog. But third times a charm right? And I figure what better time than the present. But before I dive in, here's a bit about me.
I'm currently a working mama of one (soon-to-be two) and a Mrs. to the love of my life. After perusing Match.com back in 2012, I stumbled across a guy high-fiving a bear statue and I knew I had to meet him. So I signed up for match, created an account and reached out. Five days later, I closed my account and the rest is history. Okay, so there's a bit more to that story, but that's a tale for another time. We got married in 2014, and welcomed our beautiful daughter, Finley Kate, into the world in 2016.
Finley celebrated her first birthday in January and wow what a whirlwind parenthood has been. But it's a beautiful whirlwind that my husband and I couldn't love more. In fact, we love it so much that we decided to have another. Baby number two will be joining our little clan come June.
While motherhood has been truly amazing, it doesn't come without it's difficulties. In fact, some days I feel like a flat out failure. I know I'm not alone, however, and it's one of the reasons I've decided to start this blog.
Like I said, this isn't my first go-round at blogging. Years ago, I used blogging to document my journeys as a newbie runner. Blogging about running kept me accountable and introduced me to one of the most amazing and inspiring communities I've ever encountered. In fact, I largely credit it to my going from running half marathon distances to running marathons and even completing two 50Ks. It wasn't only about running, however. I also used blogging to share my story about my mother's battle with cancer. A battle she eventually lost. After she passed, I lost the will to blog anymore. Every time I tried, it re-opened wounds that I wasn't ready to face.
But now I'm back, and hoping to use the blogging platform to navigate my new journey. And to talk candidly about life, love and motherhood – the joys and laughter, as well as the anxieties and tears. So what's up with my blog title? While partly a tribute to my obsession of unitards, life and motherhood, in many ways, is also like running in a unitard. It's weird, it's in your face and it doesn't always make sense. But when you learn to accept it for all that it is, it's also pretty damn beautiful.


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Overview of Esperanto
- Intro
- Verbs
- Nouns
- Letters
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Accusatives
- Participles
- Word Building
- Prepositions
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These pages give a concise overview of Esperanto grammar. They are not intended as a crash course for beginners or learners. There are many excellent online Esperanto courses, e.g. at Lernu.net Although Esperanto has an easy straightforward grammar with no irregularities, it still requires hard practice to achieve fluid thinking - a measure of mastery in any language.
As a language Esperanto sets out to 'do what it says on the tin'. It is designed to be clear, flexible, creative, a pleasure to speak and listen to. It has been demonstrated that learning Esperanto as your first 'foreign' language gives you the confidence you need to tackle another one! Here is a recent example of this finding.
Esperanto also carries its own unique philosophy or aspiration - to put everyone on as near equal footing as possible. It is nobody's sole language, nor does it aim to be. Rather its role is to protect other languages by enabling communication and friendship between people with different languages. At present all scientists who do not have English as their first tongue know they have to learn it, if they want to work in high-level scientific research. This means non-English speaking scientists have to spend years practising English. As a result their own languages become weaker and second-rank, culturally and commercially. Of course many people whose first language is English feel they do not need to make the effort to learn to speak another one.
In the following pages reference is made at times to English. This is not intended to criticise English or its speakers. It is just assumed that readers understand English and so may find the comparison helpful.
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Esperanto verbs (action words) are always in the active form and have one of only six possible endings:-
|Ending and role
|-as present
|Mi studas en Irlando
|I study in Ireland / I am studying in Ireland
|-is past
|Vi estis tre kontenta tiam
|You were very content then
|-os future
|Ni iros al lia domo
|We shall go to his house
| -i infinitive
|Ridi kaj vivi kune
|To laugh and (to) live together
|-u imperative
|Prenu mian manon, mi petas
|Take my hand please
|-us conditional
|Se vi vidus lin, vi amus lin
|If you saw / were to see him, you would love him
In Esperanto the emphasis is always on the second last vowel. In the first two examples above, the emphasised bits are shown in red:- Say: Eer-lan-do; Vee es-tis treh kon-ten-tah tee-am. There is more on the sound of letters under the Letters, Adjectives and Accusatives pages, and on pronunciation on the Adverbs and Word Building pages.
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All singular nouns (names for objects) in Esperanto end in the letter "o". All plural nouns add "j" (sounds like 'y') making their ending "-oj", pronounced "-oy" as in the word "boy".
Pronunciation note for column 3 above. Say:- 'daw-moy', 'ma-noy', 'vee-roj', 'fe-nes-troy', 'een-fa-noy', 'bo-voy', 'moo-soy'! In Esperanto the emphasis is always on the second last vowel, shown here in red.
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The Esperanto alphabet has 28 letters which give it 28 sounds:-
a b c ĉ d e f g ĝ h ĥ i j ĵ k l m n o p r s ŝ t u ŭ v z
Esperanto letters are pronounced the same way no matter where they occur in a word. Five letters have a 'hat' above them and a sixth a 'saucer'. These six (marked above in red ) are pronounced as follows:
|Esperanto Letter
|Closest English sound
|'ch' in church
|'g' in gentle, 'dg' in lodge, 'j' in job
|'ch' in Scots loch, or in Welsh bach
|'s' in pleasure, leisure, vision
|'sh' in shall, 's' in 'surely', 'ch' in chagrin
|'w' in now
Where 'hatted' letters are not available, ch, gh, hh, jh, sh and u can be used instead. Nowadays cx, gx, hx, jx, sx, and ux are used in informal communications such as email and instant messaging. This keeps words in alphabetical order! As 'hatted' letters become increasingly available, the preference is to use them. They look more elegant. The letter ĥ is very rare. The letter ŭ (a 'saucer' rather than a 'hat') comes most often with an 'a' in front - as in 'aŭ' in the table below. There is no need for English's q, w, x or y.
Remaining Letters
The remaining letters are pronounced much as they are in English, BUT
|Esperanto Letter(s)
|Closest English sound
|'ts' in tsunami, tsar, bits
|'e' in get
|'ee' in feet, 'ei' in receive, 'ie' in grief
|'y' in yellow
|'aw' in awl, 'ou' in bought
|'rr' in barred (rolled tongue)
|'oo' in boot
|'y' in my, 'ye' in dye, 'ie' in die, 'igh' in sigh
|'ow' in how, 'ough' in bough
|'ay' in day, 'eigh' in heigh
|'oy' in toy
|'ui' in ruin (said quickly)
If the English langauge represented its sounds as well as Esperanto does, it would need at least 43 letters! The Initial Teaching Alphabet of the 1960's showed how such an alphabet would work. The five Esperanto vowels are pronounced the way an Italian, Greek or Spaniard would. They are medium-length, open, pure and clear - as in singing: ah, eh, ee, awe, oo! If speakers want an accent to imitate, Italian is often recommended, but not necessarily spoken as fast as Italians do! Esperanto may aim at 28 sounds, but in practice its sounds vary both from individual to individual and according to mother languages just as the shape of written letters vary. However with only five distinct vowels variant accents in Esperanto matter less than in many languages.
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All singular adjectives (describing words) end in "a". Copying the nouns they describe, plural adjectives are built by adding "j" (sounds like 'y'). Adjectives can come in front or after their noun. Examples:-
|Singular Adjective(s)
|Plural Adjective(s)
|granda viro
|a big man
|grandaj viroj
|big men
|virino bela
|a beautiful woman
|belaj virinoj
|beautiful women
|blua ŝuo svedleda
|a blue suede shoe
|bluaj ŝuoj svedledaj
|blue suede shoes
|ĉielarko multkolora
|a multicoloured rainbow
|du ĉielarkoj multkoloraj
|two multicoloured rainbows
Esperanto does not have an equivalent for English 'a' or 'an'. For pronunciation see page 4 on letters. Hints: say 'gran-dye vee-roy', 'be-lie vee-ree-noy', chee-e-lar-koy, mult-ko-lo-rye etc.
In the examples above there are a number of longer words built from two shorter ones. Thus "sveda" means 'Swedish' and "ledo" means 'leather', so "svedledo" is 'suede leather' or just 'suede'. It is changed into an adjective by making the ending "-a". "Multa" means 'much' (or many) and "koloro" means 'colour', so "multkolora" means 'many-coloured'. Finally "ĉielo" means 'sky' or 'heaven' and "arko" means 'arc' or 'bow', so 'sky-arc' or 'skybow' is a 'rainbow'. Esperanto is constructed to encourage word-building like this. It is quite possible for a beginner to create a word that no-one has used before! Provided their newly minted word is built correctly they will be easily understood and congratulated.
The red portions are included only as a reminder that the emphasis is always on the second last vowel. In no way do they show how a word is built! The pages Word Building and Prepositions give many more details about word building as a very important feature of Esperanto.Top
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In Esperanto adverbs (words describing actions rather than objects) are most formed from adjectives (or other words) by changing the ending to "-e". They can come in front or after the verb, but not necessarily closely.
|la rapida aŭto
|the fast car
|La aŭto iras rapide
|The car goes quickly
|bela ĉielo
|a beautiful sky
|La ĉielo bele brilas
|The sky shines beautifully
|mola kuseno
|a soft cushion
|Mole li tuŝis ŝian vangon
|Softly he touched her cheek
|efika parolo
|an effective speech
|Ŝi parolis efike
|She spoke effectively
|forta biero
|strong beer
|La biero forte odoros de vinagro
|The beer will smell strongly of vinegar
|bona kantistino
|a good singer
|Ŝi povas tre bone kanti
|She can sing very well
Besides adverbs made from other words, Esperanto has some 'pure' adverbs, a few of which appear on the Participles page. Adverbs are used much more freely and widely in Esperanto than in English. An adverb can be used to pack into one word what may take two or more words in English. For example, "La malsata viro voris la bifstekon kiel hundo" means 'The hungry man devoured the steak like a dog', but "La malsata viro voris hunde la bifstekon " means the same thing but because it is unusual and more creative it is more expressive and surprising. In Esperanto you can say "Ŝi manĝetis la panon birde" but in English you would have to say 'She nibbled the bread like a bird' or something similar. You might experiment with 'bird-wise'!"
You may have noticed in the fourth example above that the word "parolo" (speech) was changed into a verb, "parolis" (spoke), by simply substituting the 'o' noun-ending for the 'is' past-ending of a verb. This is a very powerful feature of Esperanto - the ability to change a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb into any of the other three - and is thoroughly exploited by the speakers of the language.
The red portions are included only as a reminder that the emphasis is always on the second last vowel. In no way do they show how a word is built! All sounds and syllables need to be clearly spoken - not slurred as often in English. Fika parolo is a very rude expression. La biero fote odoros means the beer will 'smell like a photo' or 'as in a photo' - both unlikely.
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For English speakers probably the t r i c k i e s t aspect of Esperanto is adding the "n" ending, often called the accusative ending. A better name might be the 'clarity' ending but that term is unknown to grammarians! The "n" ending is added to a word following any other ending it might have (see footnote below). It can play three1 separate roles but this page deals with only one of them - the one used for clarifying who or what is directly affected by an action (the direct object of the verb) in contrast to who or what carries it out (the subject of the verb).
English makes the distinction between who or what acts (subject) and who or what is acted upon (object) by fixing the order of words. First the actor (subject of the action) is named, secondly comes the action (verb) and thirdly the direct object of the action. So in 'Man bites dog!' the 'man' is the actor (subject), 'bites' is the action (verb) and 'dog' (object) gets bitten! Change the word order for yourself to test different meanings.
Esperanto shows the distinction by the endings of the words. So in "Viro mordas hundon" the bare "o" shows who acts, the added "n" shows who suffers from the action. For sake of effect one could say "Hundon mordas viro" - probably with a special tone of voice to draw attention to this less than usual event!. The dog would still suffer.
Because 'endings' are not the way such distinctions are done in English, English speakers of Esperanto often experience initial difficulties. However Esperanto's method does appear in English personal pronouns. English says 'I helped him', not 'I helped he' - "Mi helpis lin" in Esperanto. So 'him' is the accusative form of 'he' in English.
The table below shows the changes in the pronouns in red:-
|English Pronouns - Subject / Object
|Esperanto Pronouns - Subject / Object
|I help Peter
|Peter helps me
|mi helpas Petron
|Petro helpas min
|You help Peter
|Peter helps you
|vi helpas Petron
|Petro helpas vin
|He helps Peter
|Peter helps him
|li helpas Petron
|Petro helpas lin
|She helps Peter
|Peter helps her
|ŝi helpas Petron
|Petro helpas ŝin
|It helps Peter
|Peter helps it
|ĝi helpas Petron
|Petro helpas ĝin
|We help Peter
|Peter helps us
|ni helpas Petron
|Petro helpas nin
|They help Peter
|Peter helps them
| ili helpas Petron
|Petro helpas ilin
Observe Esperanto's consistent system for nouns and pronouns.
Freedom of word order in Esperanto allows much flexibility - "Mi lin helpis", "Lin mi helpis", "Lin helpis mi", "Helpis mi lin". All these mean "I helped him" but with differences in rhythm and nuance. These 'twists' can be expressed in English by using special wording, such as "It was him I helped".- or maybe it should be "It was he I helped"? Similarly, 'It was me who helped him'.
Because of the insistent regularity of Esperanto the "n" ending is applied to all direct objects, whether pronouns, nouns or adjectives (see below). "Ŝi portis sakon" - "She carried a bag" - is unambigous Esperanto. Nevertheless "Ŝi portis sako", although possibly confusing in some contexts, would in practice be understood by most Esperanto speakers!
As stated on the page on Adjectives they copy noun endings: "Mi manĝis verdan pomon" - "I ate a green apple" and "Ni havas du ruĝajn pomojn" - "We have two red apples". These examples show what is called 'agreement' between adjectives and nouns. Once English speakers get the idea and remember their 'n's, this feature of Esperanto usually causes few difficulties. It adds considerably to the clarity, rhythm and musicality of Esperanto - essential qualities in a language designed to be spoken by people with different first languages. Compare Esperanto's use of only five clear musical vowels, all medium in length (see Letters page).
The red portions on this page are NOT used to show emphasis, just different endings.
Pronounce ruĝajn pomojn 'roo-jeye-n paw-moyn'. 1You can find out the other two roles where the -n ending gives Esperanto increased clarity in any good textbook.
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Esperanto can make participles or verbal adjectives from verbs (action words) which include both when the action happens and whether the person or thing described carries it out or is on the receiving end. English often uses a phrase for the same job or finds a totally different expression. In the example below the basic idea is 'manĝ' - eat. The participle idea is added first, then the adjective ending.
|Active - source of action
|English version
|Passive - receiving the action
|English version
|being eaten
|having eaten
|(having been) eaten
|going to eat
|going to be eaten
Grammarians call verbal adjectives 'participles' as these forms are part verb and part adjective. Here are some more examples:-
|Kantantaj birdoj sorĉas min
|Singing birds enchant me
|Mi vidis la brulintan arbon
|I saw the (having) burnt tree
|La irontaj birdoj malgajigis min
|The (about to be) departing bird saddened me.
|Manĝataj kukoj rapide malaperas
|Cakes (being) eaten quickly disappear
|La batitaj tamburoj estas nun silentaj
|The (have been) beaten drums are now silent
|Rigardu al la kuirotaj ingrediencoj!
|Look at the ingredients about to be cooked.
Esperanto, like English, has not got simple words for passive actions, i.e. where the person or thing is passively acted upon. So like in English, participles have been used for this purpose: for example "Li estas vidita de la knabino" - "He has (just) been seen by the girl" and "Li estos vidita de la knabino" - "He will be (just) seen by the girl". However Esperanto speakers generally prefer to avoid these "compound verbs" and say directly "La knabino ĵus vidis lin" or for special effect "Lin la knabino ĵus vidis" - 'The girl has / had just seen him'. Esperanto uses "oni" to avoid naming an actor, for example: "Oni ne rajtas sidi tie" - 'You may not (have no right to) sit there'. This is not considered rude, but clear and elegant.
Verbal adjectives are very often changed to adverbs, i.e. the ending "e" replacing the ending "a". Like all adverbs these forms describe the actions. They always relate to the subject of the action. Examples:-
|Vidinte la knabinon, li ekamis ŝin
|Having seen (on seeing) the girl, he fell in love with her
|Alveninte en la urbo, mi decidis viziti vin
|Having arrived in town, I decided to visit you
When a verbal adjective is changed into a noun, i.e. the ending "o" replacing the ending "e", it normally refers to a person. Examples:-
|La amanto
|The lover
|La amato
|The loved one
|Ŝia aminto
|Her past lover (the one who used to love her, i.e. her ex-lover
|Ŝia amito
|Her past loved one (the one she used to love)
|La prezidanto
|the presiding one, i.e. the president
|la prezidintoj
|the former presidents, the ex-presidents
Verbal adjectives are a very common type of word in Esperanto.
Unfortunately verbal adjectives have been often mis-used in Esperanto by English speakers - and speakers of some other languages. People try to mimic the compound tenses of English or their own first language. Some older text books recommended expressions such as "Mi estas leganta la novan libron" - 'I am reading the book, "Mi estas leginta la novan libron" - 'I have read (am having-ready) the new book' and many such like. However Esperanto speakers generally prefer to avoid compound verbs in favour of simple ones, adding where helpful an adverb like "jam" - 'already', "nun" - 'now', or "baldaŭ" - 'soon', to emphasise timing where necessary. For example "Mi nun legas la novan libron" - 'I am (now) reading the new book', "Mi jam legis la novan libron" - 'I have (already) read the new book' .
The red portions are included only as a reminder that the emphasis is always on the second last vowel. In no way do they show how a word is built!
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As has been shown on the Adjectives page Esperanto encourages joining words together to build new ones. However it also has a specially designed set of word builders known collectively as affixes. These can be attached to the front of a word (prefix) or added at its end (suffix) - before any grammatical ending is added. The placing of the hyphen in the list below shows whether the affix is added to the front or rear of the word. The spoken emphasis always stays on the second last vowel in the total word.
Examples of affixes:-
|precise opposite, contrary of
|to hate (ami - to love)
|empty (plena - full)
|again, once more, repeat, re-
|to return, come back (veni - to come)
|in a very poor state
|hovel (domo - house)
|object, stuff, material related to
|meal, food[stuff] (manĝi - to eat)
|heritage (heredi - to inherit)
|collective of, group of
|wood (arbo - tree)
|directory (adreso - address)
|possible, capable of, -ble
|portable (porti - to carry)
|fragile, breakable (rompi - to break)
|quality of, -ness, -ity, -ship
|friendship, friendliness (amiko - friend)
|augmentative of, super-sized
|excellent (bona - good)
|a mansion (domo - house)
|place for
|garage (aŭto - car)
|kitchen, cookhouse (kuiri - cook)
|tending to, inclined to
|talkative (paroli - to talk, speak)
|small part of, bit of
|breadcrumb (pano - bread)
|diminutive of
|booklet (libro - book)
|offspring of
|puppy (hundo - dog)
|cause to, render, -ify
|unify (unu - one)
|whiten (blanka - white)
|become, come to be
|turn yellow (flava - yellow)
|a tool, instrument for
|key (ŝlosi - to lock)
|female of
|ewe (ŝafo - sheep in general)
|worth of, -worthy
|worth seeing (vidi - to see)
|person (sometimes animal)
|a good fellow
The use of affixes in this regular and creative way is a very powerful feature of Esperanto, allowing a relatively small stock of words to express a great many ideas. You may observe some affixes express an emotional content. Like other modern languages Esperanto has also a special set of affixes for scientific and technical terminology, which you can find in any good dictionary.
The red portions are shown here only as a reminder that the emphasis is always on the second last vowel. In no way do they show how a word is built! Indeed compound words are not pronounced according to their substructure but according to their syllables, using open syllables where possible. So 'malami' is pronounced 'ma-la-mi' and 'vidinda' as 'vi-din-da'. The emphasis is on 'la' and 'din' even though these words are each built from three smaller units, 'mal' + 'am' + 'i' and 'vid' + 'ind' + 'a'.
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Esperanto defines prepositions precisely and narrowly, insisting that they are used logically wherever possible. It even possesses a special preposition for use when no clear logical relationship seems available.
|al - to, towards
|ekster - outside
|laŭ - according to, along
|sen - without
|anstataŭ - instead of
|el - out of
|malgraŭ - notwithstanding
|sub - under, beneath
|antaŭ - in front of, before, ago
|en - in
|per - by means of
|super - above
|apud - near, close by
|ĝis - until, as far as
|po - at the rate of
|sur - on, upon
|ĉe - at, next to
|inter - between
|por - for, in order to
|tra - through
|ĉirkaŭ - (a)round, about
|je - not defined
|post - after, behind
|trans - across
|da - quantity of
|kontraŭ - against, opposite
|preter - beyond, past
|de - of, by, from
|krom - except, apart from
|pri - concerning, about
|dum - during
|kun - with
|pro - because of, owing to
A preposition makes the role of its accompanying noun unmistakable. An additional ending is not needed in Esperanto - unlike in many languages (including sometimes English).
|La kato lekis la lakton per sia lango
|the cat licked the milk with its tongue
|La aglo flugis super la arbarego
|The eagle flew over the forest
|Mi sidis apud li
|I sat beside him
Note English changed from 'he' to him' in the third example.
More Word Building
The Word Building page shows how to build words using affixes. However affixes are also words in their own right. You can use them to make adjectives, nouns, adverbs, verbs and so on. Examples:-
|Eta birdo
|A tiny bird
|Ŝiaj idoj
|Her offspring
|Tiu ulo
|That fellow
|Ni manĝos kune
|We shall eat together (i.e. withly!)
|Por ili vino anstataŭas akvon
|For them wine replaces water
|La vento senigis lin de lia preferata ĉapelo
|The wind deprived him of his favourite hat
Prepositions can also be used in word building. Examples:-
|Come in!
|Surportu la ruĝan jakon
|Carry on (yourself) the red jacket, i.e. Wear the red jacket
|An extractor (see footnote)
In the tables of examples above 'sen+ig+as' and 'eligilo' are words built entirely out of prepositions, affixes and endings. There is not what you might have considered an 'ordinary' word among them. Everything in Esperanto is a potential building block. It is this power, flexibility, creativity and simplicity which make Esperanto such an endearing language to its speakers.
Esperanto indeed 'does what it says on the tin!' - "Ĝi plenumas la skatolan promeson!" (It fulfils the tin's promise). Why Esperanto has not been enthusiastically adopted by the world at large is probably not because of its intrinsic qualities (although some have argued so) but because of a multitude of other factors in the equation - economic and political power, international jealousies, fear of loss of influence, willingness to accept the status quo, (more recently) faith in technological solutions, etc. These are issues beyond the scope of this overview.
'Eligilo' is 'a device or tool (il) for causing (ig) something to be out of (el) something else'. While this may seem a bit contrived, it is in fact no worse than the English word 'extractor' itself. 'Ex-tract-or' is built from 'ex' ('out of' in Latin), 'tract' ('dragged' in Latin) and '-or' ('something which does something' in Old French). At times in English we might dare to say 'an outgetter' or ' a getter-outer'. No? We would probably be understood, but mocked. In Esperanto we would more likely be congratulated.
The red portions are included only as a reminder that the emphasis is always on the second last vowel. In no way do they show how a word is built!
This overview is indebted to the Scottish Esperanto Association.


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The moment the Great Kate Wait came to an end on Monday, some networks started scrambling on how to capitalize on the news for the best wall-to-wall coverage.
CNN has been getting the majority of the headlines from a report that aired earlier in the day Monday: As senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen reported a segment on the medical differences between giving birth in the United States versus London (apparently during UK births, it's common to use laughing gas to ease the pain), she interviewed a woman who was in labor:
ABC will air a "20/20" special on Tuesday night at 10. The hour-long segment, called "The Royal Baby: Heir to the Throne" is anchored by Barbara Walters, with Lara Spencer, Amy Robach and Lama Hasan reporting from London. According to the network, the special will answer all the questions you never knew you had, like how his late grandmother, Diana, will influence his life, and what qualifications a nanny needs to look after the royal baby.
NBC, on the other hand, had no time to waste, and immediately yanked an episode of "Siberia" off the schedule in place of a one-hour "Dateline" special called "The Little Price," hosted by Natalie Morales. A recap of sorts, the special looked back at the last couple of weeks waiting for the child to be born, and showed, step by step, how the public was notified.
Meanwhile, CBS, easily the most underwhelmed among all the news divisions by the royal birth, decided not to air a primetime special — and in some markets, didn't even break from its daytime programming for the baby announcement around 3:30 p.m. on Monday. Though in Washington, WUSA offered a special report about 10 minutes after the announcement.
Of course, on the cable side, Fox News, CNN and MSNBC had the news on air immediately, between wall-to-wall coverage — CNN also re-aired its primetime report from last week, called "Will and Kate Plus One."
More royal baby news:
The royal baby: A bouncing bundle of international obsession
Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to a boy
Royal baby FAQs answered as Duchess of Cambridge labor is announced


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Having fallen short twice in the last four seasons, Atletico Madrid defender Juanfran still believes they have what it takes to go all the way.
Beaten agonizingly by Real Madrid in both finals - the way that Atletico have fell short has made the chase for their first Champions League all the more painful.
A late equaliser from Sergio Ramos in 2014 broke Atleti hearts - with last year's penalty loss particularly frustrating for Juanfran, who hit the post with his spot-kick. Yet, the Spaniard remains convinced that Atletico can win Europe's greatest competition.
Speaking to Marca, Juanfran said: "Yes I remain convinced. I do not say this to be deceitful or create false hope in people's minds, but I am convinced that our captain will one day lift the trophy.
"We hope to have a good group stage, qualify to the knockout stages and from there we will gain belief with every round closer to the final." The Rojiblancos have struggled in the group so far; tasting defeat late on to Chelsea and settling for a point with Roma - an easier match against Qarabag awaits Diego Simeone's side on the 18th October.
Yet to lose in La Liga, Atletico have still lacked a cutting edge up front, with the attacking pieces of the puzzle not yet fitting. Demonstrated by three draws in seven league games - the arrival of Vitolo and Diego Costa will be a huge boost to Simeone's forward options.
However, Juanfran has urged both the fans and the players to not fixate their attention on January: "The goal today cannot be to think about Diego [Costa] and Vitolo. We have to think about the players we have at this moment, we will think about signings when the time comes.
"Together with the coach, we are the players who have to deliver right now and we have to get the fans excited, our goal has to be to win matches now and not be desperate for January."
Approaching 300 appearances in red and white, having arrived at the old Estadio Vicente Calderon in 2011 - Juanfran has a better platform than most on what it takes to succeed at Atletico as they pursue their maiden Champions League title.


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After a full day of traveling, however lovely the destination, it's always a bit of a wrench when you hear the alarm going off first thing. My alarm is set to sound like angels playing a harp, but it's still a sound I dread – awaking cursing those angels and their annoying twangy harps, regardless of the day, location or circumstance. Particularly having only had about 3 and a half hours sleep the night before, I really did want to stay in that supremely comfortable bed for a while longer. But we had promised ourselves to take our stay at Amchara very seriously and this meant attending the twice daily yoga classes as much as possible.
The first class of the day is at 8am. I can't even remember what my name is and where I live until about 11am and after I've had my porridge. Here in Gozo, porridge was but a distant memory and instead I awakened to a distant cockerel, familiar from my stay here last year in my sister's apartment, and the twittering of local birds in the palm trees. The pleasant hollow binky bonky sound of bamboo wind chimes near the pool reminded me that I was really back here, this time with my man by my side. I'd made that determined dream come true and I smiled.
Shaking André gently awake, we literally flollopped into some baggy clothes for class, and I led André round the resort to the tranquil gym above the spa. The light in the gym is always gorgeous, whatever time of day or night you come here. A gentle warm golden light that creeps in rather than blasts you from the very large windows overlooking fields and distant hills.
We were greeted by several other guests who were already performing stretches and yoga poses on the purple spongy mats. They informed us that Jana (pronounced Yarna), today's yoga teacher was feeling poorly (heat stroke – she's new to the island and not yet used to the heat) and so class was cancelled. Part of me was disappointed and the other lazy part of me secretly cheered at the idea of an extra hour in bed before our first breakfast juice. But then lazy me had to shut her face because a rather gorgeous, bendy looking guest remarked that she'd just qualified as a yoga teacher and would be happy to take the class if nobody objected. Her offer was very welcome, and André and I set about trying to copy the breathing, stretching and genuflecting that our pop-up teacher demonstrated.
I was rather impressed with how easily Andre could do most of the moves. At least all the ones where his T-Rex arms and bulging biceps don't get in the way. But even more than that, I was proud that he managed to hold in his farts. I won't go into my fear of yogic farting here as I've covered it extensively and comprehensively in past blogs, but anyone who has attended a yoga class regularly is lying if they say this is never an issue.
Truth be told, I have never encountered a single out of place fart at Amchara. There are reasons for this. The first, most sensible reason, is that farts are the gas produced by mostly 'bad' bacteria in our gut, after they have 'feasted' on the kind of food that they love – sugary things, rich meat, high protein stuff. So when you cut that kind of stuff out, you notice an enormous reduction in farts. The second reason, just my theory, is that the elegant people I've met here so far have toned their sphincter muscles in the same way they have toned their gorgeous arms and thighs – practising yoga, interpretive dance or sky diving or something on a daily basis since they were a foetus. I expect there is even a Sanskrit word for 'holding your farts in and then letting the farts out (at the right time of choice)'. It's probably called something like 'breath of life' if you translate it back to English. I really should get around to asking the various yoga teachers I know one day.
After yoga, we felt pleasantly and surprisingly refreshed, and very excited to get on with the day. So I showed André round to the dining area where our breakfast 'Green Goddess' juices were waiting for us on trays bearing our names. The juices here are always a real treat, especially to the very hungry, and the breakfast juice is sweet and creamy and frothy and the colour of pistachios but full of only good things, not rammed full of fructose like a lot of smoothies back home.
The dining area is a place of awe, adventure and envy. While some of us are choosing to juice fast, some people have opted for a healthy eating plan of expertly prepared and delicious vegan food. When you first start on your vegetable juice detox plan, it would be quite understandable for some people to feel like they fall into the camp of the 'have nots' and want to kneecap some poor blighter to steal their carrot salad or cucumber soup from them.
But those of us eyeing up the meals of those lucky sods on 3D food were soon put to shame by the arrival of Peter, a sweet-faced financey clever person who is undertaking the ultimate detox challenge – the Water Fast. After word spread of Pete's determined mission to deny himself any oral/gastronomic pleasure whatsoever, the whole resort felt a collective sense of protectiveness and nurturing towards him. I don't think many of us (possibly any of us) understood his reasoning for being quite that strict with himself. But I promise you it was a choice, and he says he does feel better afterwards. Maybe in the same way if you smack yourself in the eye with a sea urchin repeatedly and then don't, you feel a lot better after you stop.
André really liked his Green Goddess juice, and in general he was starting the adventure with a really positive frame of mind. He even downed his regular quota of psyllium husks which help fill you up and act as a 'Bowel Broom' (there should be a groovy little cartoon to go with this explanation but you'll just have to imagine it) to sweep detritus and crud through your intestines and out out out. At least that's what they do in other people, like André. In me they seem to get kinda stuck en route, cling to my insides and plug me up in the same way pine needles block my hoover pipe after Christmas, so I don't try to overdo it with the psyllium husks. Maybe I'm just not a husk kind of girl. I try to imagine my hunter/gatherer ancestors and what they might have eaten in the wild when food was short. Psyllium husks don't even look like food. They look like those annoying little bits of grassy shit we have to pick out of the dog's paws after Spring walks.
So I was merrily purring as I supped my juice in the dining area, just cherishing the moment – being back at Amchara, the lovely warmth of Gozo, the sounds and smells and sense of peace – when I heard a voice call out my name in surprised delight. I turned round to see Helena, one of the guests I had bonded with on my last trip out here in September. I'd had to leave without saying goodbye last time and therefore we didn't get to swap numbers or emails and I'd been so sad about that. I'd tried to track her down online but all I knew about her (apart from her eating habits and bowel movements and a collection of delightful personal stories and shared memories) was that she was called Helena (and I didn't even have the spelling right last year because the H is silent) and she edited a blog. Not much to go on at all, and yet I had tried to track both her and Glen the roofer/builder that we hung out with for some time with no luck at all.
I just couldn't believe that we'd both booked to come out again for the same week without knowing anything about it. Even my sister didn't know because Helena had booked at the last minute and my sister had been off work for a week on a break so hadn't seen her name on the list. Helena and I hugged the warmest of hugs. When you think about how hard it is to coordinate meeting a friend for even a half hour coffee or an evening out together, trying to pin down busy business women to compare diaries and find just any time at all that they could even begin to plan a trip away together, you realise that this coincidence was really quite something. Quite spooky really. Although spooky suggests a negativity when this was absolutely the most fabulous surprise I could have hoped for because I had genuinely thought I would never see her again. And for us to pick the one same week out of 52 possibles to come again was just magical. But I swear to you, the whole place has a magical vibe, and I had been day dreaming since I booked the trip that such a miracle might occur even though I never thought for a single moment that it would happen. Some of my friends would say I 'willed it to happen' or 'asked the Universe' and it delivered. Luck or fate or magic, I was just happy to see a friendly face I thought I'd lost forever.
But I wasn't the only one grinning. André took to Amchara like the proverbial duck to water (and I truly truly apologise for the lazy clichés in this blog but time is short for writing and I just want to get on with the story, not impress you with poetry). He has been walking about with a big toothy smile on his face since he woke up this morning. I myself am in turn grinning at his grinning so much. We are the grinny twins, the Grinsters. I am happy to be back here amongst the lovely palms, pool, sea walks, beautiful landscapes and incredible people; and André is experiencing it all for the first time just like I did 9 months ago. It's perfect. And something about the loveliness of the place and people here makes you feel so safe. And something about feeling that safe has already had a huge impact on one of Andre's sticking points:- sleep.
At home, sleep (or lack of it) and bed time (or lack of it) is one of our most recurrent arguments. I need sleep and André (thinks he) doesn't. Until it's morning and we need to get up for work, when suddenly André realises the bed is good, lovely and his friend and he wants (another) ten more minutes. At night time, sleep and bed are his enemy, there to cheat him out of precious minutes on his computer – 'researching' as he calls it. 'Facebooking'/'Youtubing' as I call it.
Just as Morning André wants 10, 20, 60 more minutes in bed, Night Time André wants 20, 40, 120 more minutes on Youtube. But here in Amchara, André is not resisting sleep. He fell fast asleep in the first yoga class at the end during the meditative relaxation cool down and snored loudly and unashamedly. And now between breakfast and his morning welcome consultation with the naturopath, he has fallen asleep again face down on the bed in his yoga pants, like a toddler in jammies. I do not wake him unless I have to. He has been working very hard lately and it is a joy to see him drift off completely relaxed and utterly trusting of his surroundings.
At our welcome consultations we talked through our medical forms/histories, were prescribed certain additional nutritional booster 'shots' (not the kind with needles but the kind you drink) on top of our juices, we were weighed (a lady never tells but let's just say I still have a way to go), had our blood pressure taken (mine a little bit high), offered a DIY enema kit each (which I made André accept), and given the chance to ask any questions. All very standard stuff, except perhaps for the enema kits, which had André wincing before he'd even opened the packet. He was fairly relieved when I explained he'd probably need at least an hour to do his first one and there wasn't time today. Especially since it was already time for our lunchtime juice, my absolute favourite of the day – the ginger, carrot and apple juice. Mmmmmm. If you've ever been to Wagamamas and had the raw juice, it's like that orange one there.
This time the additional nutritional 'shots' were ready for us on our trays. The shots are little shot glasses full of 'good' things. I use 'good' in the nutritional sense rather than the deliciousness sense. These are an optional extra but we had decided to have them based on my previous experience of appreciating just about anything you are allowed to eat the first few days to help you cope with the lack of food. Plus they are good for you. Our first shots of the day were wheatgrass, a black-coloured mineral blend of some sort and aloe verox. I already knew which ones to neck quickly and which ones to savour, but I was keen to see what André, with his lack of sense of smell, diminished taste buds and yet ultra-keen sense of texture would make of these little glasses of stuff and things. You can see a video of his experience HERE. But basically his upshot was:-
Wheatgrass – "A glass of dirt" (to be fair it was powdered and later in the week they resolved a supplier issue for some fresh wheatgrass which was a whole different and much better experience).
Mineral blend – "Looks like something out of 'Alien Covenant", Tastes like the '"bottom of the kettle."
Aloe verox – "Not to be sipped."
But bless his cotton socks, he did as he was asked and downed them all, knowing the lack of food would probably hit him hardest today.
Straight after lunch each day there is a talk or workshop on a particular subject to do with health. These were one of my favourite parts of my previous visit to Amchara and I was really looking forward to attending some with André during our week together. We both love to learn and question. I'm still the model pupil (girly swot) who takes all the notes, tries to answer all the questions, asks too many questions myself and is probably a bit of a pain in the arse like I was at school. I make no apologies. Learning is fun. Today's lecture is on the Benefits of Fasting.
It had never occurred to me before today when it was pointed out that all the major religions include some kind of fasting or deprivation as a means of increasing religious experience and deeper thinking/contemplation. Why? Because eating can actually influence how we think and feel. To remove this distraction allows you to channel your energy and thoughts to other things. Higher things perhaps. Not just thinking about how much you really want to eat all the things.
We learned that when we fast our bodies go into 'repair mode' which is why intermittent fasting is now believed to help fight disease, improve fertility issues, and all kinds of things, as well as helping with weight loss. Mice made to sporadically fast live longer than mice who just go on calorie-restricted diets (like Weight Watchers for Rodents I guess). Fasting balances your insulin levels. Fasting helps kill off the 'bad bacteria' in our guts which influence our food choices for the worse by driving food cravings, making normal eating and portion control so much easier. And when you find out that digestion takes about 70% of our daily energy you can understand how we can actually fare very well indeed on a lot less food than we are used to in the Western world.
Afternoon juice followed swiftly – and I actually found there wasn't much time to get truly hungry on day one with so much going on. This one was a beetroot based juice – the colour of which was an extraordinary bright pinky purple. It's so easy to forget how *beautiful* natural foods can be in terms of colour and smell until you shut out other distractions.
As my sister showed me once, now I showed André how to savour his juices more by eating the froth off the top with a spoon as if it were a pudding.
And after a bit of flooching about and chatting to people, we found that suddenly the second yoga class of the day had come around…along with a wonderful, wonderful surprise for me!
The replacement teacher for our class was the beautiful, wonderful, glorious Earth-angel of a person that is 'Ina' (pronounced eye-nuh) from Ireland. Ina was one of my favourite members of staff to work with and hang with on my last visit and I had been sad when months ago I was told she had left the resort to go off and do other things. I didn't think I could be more happy than when I was reunited with Helena earlier in the day, until I saw this wonderful bright spirit with her warm smile at the front of the yoga studio, in what have to be the world's most fantastic harem pants.
Ina is the kind of woman I wish I was, and aspire to 'grow up' to be like. She has a youthful spirit, even though I'm fairly sure she's older than me. She has the magic of a fairy and the wisdom of a white witch. You can totally believe that in secret she has either wings or a mermaid tail or possibly both. She oozes sensuality, cleverness, wit, kindness, love, strength and independent awesomeness. And I just *love* her. I'm going to show you a photo of her now so you can see how truly lovable this woman is, because it just radiates from her eccentric and gorgeous little frame.
I think having Ina back there for our visit probably magnified the happiness of my experience by at least tenfold. The world needs more Inas. If Amchara could distill, bottle and sell 'Essence of Ina' in liquid form they'd make a fortune. We could spray it on President Trump or any football hooligan or drunk brawler you came across and they would melt into peaceful four part harmony singing with whoever they were standing with.
Yoga was utterly fabulous – I like the afternoon sessions better because they are gentler and more about relaxing and breathing and of course because they aren't just after I have woken up. Ina has the most gorgeous creme caramel tone to her voice – soothing and melodic. She's the sort of person you'd want around if you were dying to talk you into the light. She could make even death seem like a nice holiday. If she told you to let go, you'd go – probably skipping and humming as you went. She just makes everyone feel *safe*. She has a lovely turn of phrase – regularly telling us that what we were doing in class was 'beaaaauuuuutiful' and when André fell asleep again during her guided meditation and snored really loudly, giving me the giggles, she commented on the 'beaaaauuutiful sound of humans letting go completely and relaxing'. She calls your buttocks your 'booootox' which makes me giggle. Ah, Ina. How I wish I could pop you in my pocket and take you home with me and get you out on days when my inner chimp is bat shit crazy with stress. Ina should be available on the NHS. I'll shut up now before you think I've developed a crush.
After yoga, our final 'meal' of the day was a savoury broth (aka a healthy vegetable stock) which sounds rather dull but is surprisingly tasty and welcome after a day of juice, water and more water. Every little variation in what you get to eat/drink here is savoured, cherished and appreciated. It makes you realise how little we need to be happy and how much we actually have that's wasted usually.
After broth, Ina led the group on an evening coastal walk, across fields, down swooping sandstone cliffs and back around again to home. Nothing can explain the beauty, stillness and peace and quiet of this place.
You can look out to sea on those cliffs and not see a single boat – like the sea was all brand new. You know the way a swimming pool looks when no one is in it and the sunlight just sparkles on the surface and it looks so pure and inviting, like a new jar of peanut butter before the knife goes in. (Mmmmm peanut butter, stop thinking about peanut butter).
Anyway….it's like looking at a new planet, a fresh start. You can just breathe and soak it in and feel like you too are being given a fresh start. You can be 15 minutes walk from the sea edge and still hear the waves because other than bird song there is no noise at all. And lovely Ina, with all her witchy wisdom, would stop at interesting plants and herbs and pluck a bit to rub in her palms for us to smell, or pick a posy to stick in our hair. She knew what everything was and how to use each of the plants to make them sound delicious in food. And who knew that caper berries grew wild and have such incredibly tarty flowers?!
By the end of the day, we were already so relaxed and happy, I genuinely didn't think it could get better than this. And then André remembered the infra red sauna and outdoor jacuzzi. The jacuzzi of my dreams pummelling my shoulders, the man of my dreams (when he behaves himself) by my side, at the place I'd dreamed of for the last nine months. Even the knowledge that tomorrow was enema day couldn't take the edge off how wonderful we felt. We were too happy to even remember that we were hungry.


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This is similar but different from a prior SQL xref I posted that ties RecievePorts to SendPorts.
I actually forgot about this, and did the same code again on another day: Xref BizTalk Receive Ports to Orchestrations.


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I am so loving the idea of mixing cottage and modern styles together. Does anyone else love the juxtaposition of those two particular styles?
We are in the process of putting up unfinished cedar plank paneling in our family room. So far I love the warm, cottage feel the paneling gives the room. I envision this room with elements similar to those pictured below.
The cedar plank paneling is from Lowe's. I like the cream slipcovered couch from Pottery Barn, although I'm not sure the light color would work for us, but in my idea of a perfect room, I would have to have one. A leather ottoman that would age beautifully and add a different texture to the room, like the one pictured from Emmanuel Georges is a must. All of the gorgeous pillows are from allmodern.com. Their pillows have the coolest graphic designs and colors. I already have two tray tables like the ones pictured above from BackyardCity.com. I am going to paint them an espresso color. I love abstract art, and the print above is by Lisa Kowalski and is called "Gold Swirls." The print can be found on art.com. Last, but not least, is the pharmacy lamp. I need this pharmacy lamp! It is a beautiful work of art in my eyes! My room has to have one! The one above is from The Lighting Shop.
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Here's the HP Oracle Database Machine talked about in Larry's keynote. On the way out, some audience members said they were drooling over it. I don't know if that's a good idea; didn't see anything about moisture resistance in the tech specs.
I noticed that the box was about the same height as Larry. In the same way we talk about pizza boxes, 5U vs. 10U servers, etc., will we one day measure the form factor of big servers in Larrys?
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HP Oracle Database Machine
Posted by John Russell at 1:00 PM
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- Francis Ouseph said...
I think it is too early for Larry to rejoice. Netzza is still significantly ahead of Oracle in terms of raw computing power and bandwidth.
Netezza has pooh-pooed Larry's claims.
Low costs for oracle machine might be a deciding factor though it doubtful if oracle will find many buyers when the economy itself is at its worst, and IT spendings are severely curtailed.
- September 30, 2008 at 11:56 PM
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The inactive email subscribers are hard to ignore, at least by their sheer numbers. We see brands having a significant part of email list, almost half to be precise, not responding to your emails. So how does one tackle this inactive subscriber base?
To do or not to do?
Do we give them a miss or are we missing out on something? Thatâs the big question companies are faced with.
Threat or treasure?
Do you simply dismiss these inactive subscribers as a threat to your reputation (MSPs rate your reputation based on subscriber engagement) or do you look beyond and seek to unfold the value of the hidden treasure? Emails to them may still have value and perhaps you havenât truly understood this base well enough.
Spending or saving?
Common sense dictates not to spend on these non-responders. However, inactive clients have potential and you would in fact be saving by spending on this base than to find new customers. It costs 6â7 times more to acquire a new customer than retain an existing one.
Getting started with this inactive base
Now that you see value beyond the challenge and want to manage the inactive base, the next logical question would be â How to get started?
Here is a step-by- step strategy plan to manage your inactive subscribers:
Step 1: What kind of inactive base do you have?
First define what do you mean by inactive. Not responding to emails doesn't necessarily mean your user is not engaged with your brand. Inactive are those users who have not responded to your emails or transacted with you for a set number of months. Normally brands define this time-frame for inactive as 6 months.
Step 2: Define segments based on their transaction behaviour
Classify your inactive base into 2 segments based on their transaction behaviour:
Segment 1: Transacted and inactive
Segment 2: Non-transacted and inactive
Both the segments defined here have different needs and brands should address each of their unique needs by separately targeting. By correctly segmenting, you clearly define what group is of top priority and concentrate your marketing efforts accordingly. Segment 1 is more critical to the company as they are the serious buyers who have transacted at least once with you. Also you know more about the user from segment 1 (purchase history and behavior) that helps you to direct a highly personalized mail at him.
Step 3: Decide what ideas work
We now have two groups with different buyer personas (one who wants the right offer and one who wants the right emotional connect) and the next step is to decide what to put across to them to attract them.
Some of the ways to re-engage customers:
» Discounts: Show them you care, offer them an additional discount.
» Survey/ Feedback: To get to the root of the problem why they have stopped responding
» Ask for preferences: Maybe itâs not you but the way you are doing. Sending too many or sending the wrong stuff.
» Emotional connect: A âmiss youâ goes a long way than your traditional run-of-the mill campaigns
» Innovation: Try something new to catch their attention. Get innovative with subject lines (ones that drive curiosity/ catch the reader by surprise), email content (perhaps a gif to make it engaging), anything thatâs new and gives the user a unique experience.
Use a combination of these to win back your customers.
Step 4: Wait
Even the best of the strategies takes time to show results. Patience is the keyword here. Donât be in a hurry to judge your inactive base or the success of your re-engagement strategy. A study by ReturnPath found that email marketers give up on inactive subscribers too soon 1. Re-engagement takes time, roughly 57 days. Donât expect immediate results. Set your expectations right, so you avoid unnecessary disappointments.
Being more strategic and less random is the secret to win back your inactive subscribers. With such thoughtfully planned re-engagement series, we have helped lot of brands reengage a good amount (as high as 10%) of their inactive base.
In our next blog we will share some innovative examples of reengaging the inactive subscribers.1: Email Win-Back Programs, Returnpath, 2014